BRE W R EV I EW
A Toast to Munjoy Hill BETHANY PALMER
A tasting tour of Oxbow Blending and Bottling.
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ore than 200 years ago off the coast of Maine, a bloody sea battle marked by thundering cannon fire took the lives of two rival
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naval commanders: America’s William Ward Burrows II, 27, and England’s Samuel Blyth, 28. The two—immortalized in the Longfellow poem “My Lost Youth” and
honored by the Portland cocktail bar Blyth & Burrows—are buried side by side in Portland’s Eastern Cemetery in a pairing as uneasy as some of the couples we meet APRIL 2022 35
