Maine Mag August 2017 by Maine Magazine

August 2017

THE BOATING ISSUE SEAWORTHY ELEGANCE

Decades of handcrafted luxury at Hinckley Yachts

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True stories of journey creativity & triumph.

Told by the people who are shaping Maine.

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contents Swim, Run, Repeat 094

Athletes test their skills and endurance in the Casco Bay Islands SwimRun. by Susan Axelrod | Photography by Nicole Wolf

Somes Boats 108

Acadia Mountain rises up from Somes Sound behind us, and we’re aboard a Hinckley. These coveted yachts are still built by hand a few miles away, known for their iconic curves, polish, and posture.

Singing Out to Sea 126

Year after year, musicians and sailors return to Swan’s Island for the Sweet Chariot Music Festival. by Susan Axelrod | Photography by Ted Axelrod

Starring Role 142

Camden International Film Festival makes Maine’s midcoast a destination for documentary filmmakers and fans. by Susan Axelrod | Photography by Nicole Wolf

by Sandy Lang | Photography by Peter Frank Edwards

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on the cover

Somes Sound sailing is in sight from this Hinckley yacht at the Hinckley Company service yard in Southwest Harbor. Photography by Peter Frank Edwards

on this page

Cruising by Acadia National Park in a Hinckley motoryacht that was built just a few miles away. Photography by Peter Frank Edwards

THERE + THEN 030 Going out, giving back: supporting nonprofits + local businesses in the vital work they do year-round SOCIAL MEDIA 043 Sharing memories of the state sparked by social media NEW + NOTEWORTHY

045 What’s happening around the state

48 HOURS

048 Mount Desert Island + Blue Hill, Brooklin, and Brooksville

by Jen DeRose and Emma Wilson

A-LIST 080 Destination Moorings & Anchorages by Brittany Cost Photography by Nicole Wolf

WELLNESS 082 All Saints-by-the-Sea by Dr. Lisa Belisle Photography by Matt Cosby

LOVE MAINE RADIO

with Dr. Lisa Belisle Linda Greenlaw

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Photography by Dave Dostie

EAT 154 Cook’s Lobster and Ale House by Karen Watterson Photography by Nicole Wolf

EAT BLOGS

164 Eve’s at the Garden + LB Kitchen

by Karen Watterson Photography by Liz Caron and Lauren Lear

CAPTURE

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Jared Lank

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EDITOR’S NOTE 021 STAFF NOTE 023 CONTRIBUTORS 025 WORDS FROM OUR READERS 035 EVENTS 040

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July 8–November 12, 2017 Colby College Museum of Art, Waterville, Maine

Marsden Hartley’s Maine is organized by the Colby College Museum of Art and The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

It is made possible by the Henry Luce Foundation, Bank of America, Betsy Cohen and Edward Cohen/Aretê Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Everett P. and Florence H. Turner Exhibition Fund.

A grant from the Wyeth Foundation for American Art has supported the Colby College Museum of Art’s scholarly contributions to the exhibition catalogue published by The Metropolitan Museum of Art. The catalogue is made possible by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Charles Butt, and Laura and Robert W. Stone.

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Marsden Hartley, Canuck Yankee Lumberjack at Old Orchard Beach, Maine (detail), 1940–41. Oil on Masonite-type hardboard, 40 1/8 x 30 in. (101.9 x 76.2 cm). Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution

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Opinions expressed in articles or advertisements, unless otherwise noted, do not necessarily reflect the opinions of the publisher, staff, or advisory board. Every effort has been made to ensure that all information presented in this issue is accurate, and neither Maine nor any of its staff is responsible for omissions or information that has been misrepresented to the magazine. Copyright © 2017, Maine Media Collective LLC. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopy, recording, or any information storage and retrieval system, without permission, in writing, from the publisher. Printed in the U.S.A. themainemag.com

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EDITOR’S NOTE Photography by Heidi Kirn

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Trenton Bar Harbor Northeast Harbor, Southwest Harbor Swan’s Island

Southport Bailey Island Portland

August in Maine—

Stories from around the state

For many people in Maine, summer means escaping dry land for open waters. Whether on a sailboat, party barge, kayak, or any other watercraft, being out on the water allows for unmatched exploration. And with Maine’s thousands of miles of shoreline, boating has long been an integral part of the state’s economy and identity. In our annual Boating Issue, we share stories of that culture and history, along with experiences unique to Maine’s boating world. Writer Sandy Lang and photographer Peter Frank Edwards visit the Hinckley Company’s boatbuilding headquarters in Trenton and see firsthand the care and craftsmanship that goes into the downeast institution’s coveted, highend yachts (“Somes Boats,” p. 108). The

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company pioneered the use of fiberglass in boatbuilding in the 1950s, and today it produces marvels of yacht design that can be found gliding out of coves and across oceans around the world. Also in this issue, Susan and Ted Axelrod document the Sweet Chariot Music Festival, a three-day affair that brings musicians and music lovers, year after year, to Swan’s Island, six miles off the mainland (“Singing Out to Sea,” p. 126). One aspect of the festival involves the singing of sea shanties from a sailboat as onlookers—and participants—follow the vessel around Burnt Cove Harbor on a variety of watercraft. Another story integrally tied to the coast is Dr. Lisa Belisle and Matt Cosby’s feature on All Saints-by-the-Sea, an Episcopal chapel in Southport that parishioners can visit by boat (Wellness, p. 082). “During services, you can hear the waves slapping on the shore,” says

Al Moses, All Saints’ longtime caretaker. Although many visitors to the chapel arrive by car or foot, All Saints’ connection to the sea is a vital part of its identity; it was established after an Episcopal priest from Gardiner spotted the land while picnicking on nearby Pig Island. While you’re not likely to find new places to establish churches on your boating travels, there are plenty of coves and harbors, islands and inlets, and stretches of open water to explore in Maine. I hope this issue inspires you to create your own stories on the water. And when you return, let us know what you discovered.

Paul Koenig Managing Editor pkoenig@themainemag.com

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WE LOVE MAINE. We fill our work days creating Maine-centric media products—publishing magazines and guides, producing radio shows, managing social media sites, developing websites, filming videos, producing events—because of this simple tenet. Our staff stayed here, came back here, or moved here because they love Maine’s rich history, its unique character, and the people who live here, and most importantly we believe in Maine’s potential. We simultaneously love the Maine we grew up in, while fully embracing the reality that things change and evolve. And we bear witness to that happening here. We are cheerleaders for Maine as a place for people to live, stay, and thrive—a place for people from away to move to, as a place for second homeowners to buy into, a place to raise children, a place to start and operate a business, as a place to visit and explore, as a place to escape and heal. And, as a place to be inspired. We cover Maine in a positive light. We very intentionally leave the negativity and snark to other media outlets. There is a place for everything, and we honor that. But that place is not here. So if you love Maine, please turn to us with your reading eyes, your listening ears, your follows and your likes, your attendance, and your advertising and sponsorships. Explore what we believe is the best Maine has to offer on the pages of our magazines, guides, through the airwaves, at events, and via social media.

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STAFF NOTE Photography by Sean Thomas Photography

Maine is known for its rich maritime history. Fine boatbuilding is in our state’s DNA, and some of the best workboats and pleasure yachts are built here. Our coastline also attracts sailors; we have some of the most sought-after cruising waters in the world with plentiful harbors and over thousands of offshore islands to discover. With experience in yacht design myself, I have had the good fortune to interact with some of Maine’s top builders and naval architects, including Hinckley Yachts, Morris Yachts, Stephens Waring Yacht Design, LymanMorse, and others. I have met clients from all over the world who seek out the high-quality craftsmanship of these Maine builders. In this issue, we deliver an up-close and personal

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look behind the scenes at Hinckley Yachts and Morris Yachts. These two companies, who were previously neighbors on Mount Desert Island, have united under the umbrella of the Hinckley Company. In another feature, we transport you to Swan’s Island for the jovial spirit of the Sweet Chariot Music Festival and to celebrate the heritage and wonder of cruising along Maine’s coastline. It is undeniable that to know the true spirit of Maine you must know its deep blue sea. It is a huge part of Maine’s personality and allure. I enjoy nothing more in this state than sailing or cruising with my family in Casco Bay and discovering new places to explore. Many of our friends with young families enjoy rafting up at the Goslings or dropping anchor at Cocktail Cove or the back side of Long Island and letting our kids play while we kick back and soak up the sun. To be able to cruise home and grab lobster

from your own traps for dinner … it’s almost surreal. Maine truly does have it all, and every day I feel privileged to have inherited this as my home state. My husband and I are elated that we have the privilege of raising our boys on the water here as well. I hope that you immerse yourself in our annual boating issue and that it motivates you to get out on your boat, your friend’s boat, or even the mail boat—and take in this gorgeous coastal scenery we are so lucky to have in our own backyard. Cheers,

Kate Seremeth Art Director kseremeth@themainemag.com

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Our mission is to make a substantial and unique commitment to supporting Maine’s nonprofit community both statewide, regionally, and at the town level. We believe that the work Maine’s nonprofit organizations do, individually and collectively, makes our lives better and Maine a better place to live. With limited budgets, Maine’s nonprofits need help boosting awareness of their specific causes and help to raise the funds they need. We have established long-term relationships with over 120 nonprofits and community-based organizations. We give to these organizations by providing, free of charge, services ranging from advertising, graphic design, brand development, marketing advice, online announcements, and social media engagement. We often include nonprofit organizations in our editorial coverage through feature articles and/or recaps of their events. You’ll find the latter in our “There + Then,” “Turnout,” and “Gather” sections. Over the past year, we have made cash and inkind donations and services of more than:

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CONTRIBUTORS

An editorial and commercial photographer, TED AXELROD’s favorite assignment is one that tells a

story, and interacting with musicians, boat captains, and artists at the Sweet Chariot Music Festival on Swan’s Island is a perfect example. When he’s not traveling, his happy place is an old farmhouse in Yarmouth, which he shares with his wife, Susan, and two crazy dogs. “Singing out to Sea,” p. 126

PETER FRANK EDWARDS photographed a story for

this issue while barefoot on a Hinckley Yacht as it cruised Somes Sound. From canoes to motorboats to sailboats of all sizes, he’s spent summers on boats since he was a teenager growing up along South Carolina salt creeks. His photography also appears in recent issues of Travel + Leisure and Bon Appetit magazines, and a highlight of his Maine summer is boating on Belfast Bay. “Somes Boats,” p. 108

Writer SANDY LANG will get on boats any way she can. A longtime contributor to Maine, she writes from the decks of yachts in Southwest Harbor for a story about the Hinckley Company. Sandy’s 2017 travel research has spanned from the Oregon coast to Maine mountains and Georgia islands, and she’s also the travel editor for Charleston magazine. “Somes Boats,” p. 108

Originally from Atlanta, LAURA DOUGLAS has made her way up the East Coast and landed in Portland as Maine Media Collective’s design intern. While her design work usually requires a sketchbook or paintbrush one minute and a computer the next, Laura enjoys finding an intuitive and creative balance between all approaches. She is ready to embrace all the adventures Maine has to offer. August 2017 25

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MAKE-A-WISH MAINE 25TH ANNIVERSARY GALA

A fundraiser to grant wishes for Maine’s children Make-A-Wish Maine celebrated its 25th anniversary with a black-tie gala at Ocean Gateway in Portland. Over 215 guests committed to more than $429,000 in donations, enabling the organization to grant 60 wishes to children with lifethreatening medical conditions. Emceed by Cindy Williams of WCSH 6, the event also honored the chapter’s founders and volunteers. 01

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01 Brian Fournier, president of Portland Tugboat and member of board of directors at Make-A-Wish Maine; Carole Hardison; Alicia Fournier; Julie Fournier; and Tom Hardison, president of Portland Pipe Line Corporation 02 Travis Lindsey 03 Guests listen to wish stories. 04 Dr. Kyla Scarponi, member of board of directors at Make-A-Wish Maine, and Evan Scarponi 05 Liza Morong and Caroline Morong, cofounder of Make-A-Wish Maine 06 Adam Dunbar, first vice president of investments at Wells Fargo Advisors and member of board of directors at Make-A-Wish Maine; Erin Dunbar; Amy Tardiff, vice president and general counsel at J.S. McCarthy Printers; and Dr. Sam Pakraftar, MaineGeneral Health 07 Andrea King, COO of Maine Media Collective, and Hugh Wilkinson, founder and principal of Coral Hill 08 Chris Anania, lead VMware operations engineer at Nike, and Beth Shissler, president and COO of Sea Bags

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MAINE RESTAURANT ASSOCIATION ANNUAL AWARDS BANQUET A dinner celebrating Maine’s restaurant industry leaders The Maine Restaurant Association recently celebrated the achievements of individuals and businesses in Maine’s restaurant industry at its annual dinner. Award winners included Josh Berry of Union Restaurant at the Press Hotel, who was recognized as Chef of the Year; Jonathan West of Jonathan’s Ogunquit, Restaurateur of the Year; Cheryl Lee Rust of Le Garage, Lifetime Achievement Award; and Performance Foodservice-NorthCenter, Allied Member of the Year. 01

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Raising money for HIV/AIDS services and prevention for Frannie Peabody Center Last May, Frannie Peabody Center hosted its ninth annual Southern Maine AIDS Walk/5K Run, raising more than $100,000 to support direct services for people living with and the prevention of HIV/AIDS. This year more than 230 participants, 1,000 donors, and 25 sponsors contributed to the Ogunquit Beach event.

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I grew up in New Hampshire and Maine. My parents have had a camp on Sebago Lake since 1974. Growing up, I always thought most lakes must be like Sebago, with clear, clean water. When I was in my 20s, I worked at Point Sebago and have fond memories from there. Later when I got married, we had our rehearsal dinner at Stage Neck Inn. We have lived in Williamsburg, Virginia, for ten years now, but we still try to get to Maine every summer for a few weeks. We have deep connections to this state. —Liz Riley, Williamsburg, VA

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10.21 | HARVEST MARKET The ultimate sampling of Maine-made food and drinks, featuring over 80 vendors.

10.20 | LOBSTER CHEF OF THE YEAR Celebrity judges and attendees will taste, sip and vote to name this year's winner.

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FIRST THURSDAY ART OPENING FEATURING ARTWORKS BY JILL HOY 5 p.m.–7 p.m. Portland Art Gallery 154 Middle St. | Portland artcollectormaine.com

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FREE CONCERT FEATURING THE PORTLAND SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA Music on Main 6 p.m. Waterhouse Center 51 Main St. | Kennebunk kennebunkmaine.us

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University of Maine Gardens at Tidewater Farm 5:30 p.m.–8 p.m. Parish House of the Episcopal Church of Saint Mary 43 Foreside Rd. | Falmouth extension.umaine.edu

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LIFE HAPPENS OUTSIDE FESTIVAL Teens to Trails Thompson’s Point | Portland lifehappensoutside.org

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The MEMIC Group, a company that specializes in workers’ compensation, has named Michael P. Bourque as its next president and CEO, replacing John. T. Leonard, who will retire later this year. Bourque currently serves as senior vice president and has worked with the company since 1995.

Thomas College has received a $5.3 million commitment from the Harold Alfond Foundation. The largest in the college’s history, the grant will help fund the Harold Alfond Institute for Business Innovation at Thomas College, which will expand opportunities for paid internships, as well as enhance professional development trainings, certificates, and academic programming.

Dr. Jeanne Donlevy Arnold has donated $2 million to help fund the Center for Nursing Innovation at Saint Joseph’s College in Standish. Arnold is serving as chair on the center’s campaign and is leading efforts to raise $3.5 million to match an initial grant of $1.5 million from the Harold Alfond Foundation. Her donation is the largest individual gift in the institution’s history.

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Acadia National Park is one of the most visited national parks in the United States and MDI’s biggest draw, but the island’s communities each offer a unique experience worth exploring.

FRIDAY

AFTERNOON: Settling in

Almost as soon as we’re on the long, flat stretch of road that bridges the mainland to Mount Desert Island, my husband, Sam, pulls over for a quick photo of Oldhouse Cove. Although it’s raining, the weather doesn’t stop the island from being beautiful. We pass foggy marshes, a centuries-old stone barn, and verdant fields before arriving at Bar Harbor’s West Street Hotel. The cozy smell of the fireplace greets us in the nauticalchic lobby, which is decorated with a classic blue-and-red color theme. Our room features maritime signal flags artwork and has a balcony with an

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ocean view—today, it’s dramatic clouds and puffs of fog. When we realize that we forgot our baby’s Pack ‘n Play, the front desk immediately sends one to our room and also explains that each floor has a shared pantry with a washer and dryer, board games, fruit, coffee, tea, and bottles of water.

EVENING:

Shopping till we drop We pick up maps (which will come in handy when we lose cell service in Acadia National Park) from the Bar Harbor Chamber of Commerce’s visitor center, where you can also buy park passes. We sample half a dozen olive oils and vinegars at Fiore Artisan Olive Oils and Vinegars—flavors

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01 Oldhouse Cove at the head of the island. 02 A majestic vista in Acadia National Park. 03 Packing the essentials for our trip: Bean boots, baby boots, blue-and-white stripes, and the latest issue. 04 Hiking near Jordan Pond in Acadia. 05 The nautical-chic lobby of the West Street Hotel in Bar Harbor. 06 A tea towel at Window Panes Home and Garden. range from basil to blood orange, harissa to herbes de Provence— and pop into Sherman’s Books and Stationery (the original of the local, family-run bookstore’s now six locations), and we browse its selection of books, toys, and gifts. We also visit Stone Soup, a children’s store that sells toys and clothes for babies on up, where we find a handmade yellow fisherman’s hat lined in flannel that, given the weather, we can’t resist. We pass Geddy’s, a local institution (you’ll know it from the moose on the roof) that serves up pub fare, on our walk down to the Bar Harbor Town Pier, where we watch lobster boats bob in the foggy harbor. Then we head back to the hotel to order room service—crab cakes, a Guinness, and a lemon ricotta cheesecake dessert with an artfully applied brushstroke of raspberry sauce— from Paddy’s, a modern Irish

pub just downstairs.

SATURDAY MORNING:

Brunch and a garden stroll We start Satuday off right with breakfast at 2 Cats Restaurant. Located in a federal-style house with lace curtains, this mom-and-pop brunch spot churns out more than 300 diners a day while elevating the breakfast classics: the fresh orange juice is squeezed on-site, biscuits are baked daily, there’s ample espresso options, and we even overhear one diner raving to their server about how good the hash is, thanks to fresh corned beef. It’s sunny out, so after breakfast we head to the College of the Atlantic’s Turrets Sea Side Garden, which is on the

grounds of the 1895 Turrets cottage and overlooking Frenchman Bay. Head gardener Barbara Meyers tells me that the formal ornamental garden was hidden and overgrown for decades until it was restored in 2005 by then-student Eamonn Hutton (who’s now a landscape architect in Cambridge, Massachusetts) as a senior project.

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Hiking in Acadia and Northeast Harbor We pick up our Acadia National Park pass ($25 and good for a week) at Hulls Cove Visitor Center and drive the Park Loop Road, making a stop at Sand Beach—a stretch of beach nestled by surrounding cliffs—before arriving at Jordan Pond. There, we take a short hike along a wide path that borders Jordan Stream, which is gushing from the spring thaw. We exit the park and drive over to Northeast Harbor, with its small stretch of quaint shops and restaurants, check out the delicious-looking menu posted in the window of the Fork and Table, and wander around the picturesque waterside park at the Northeast Harbor visitor center. Then we head back to Bar Harbor for a late lunch at Side Street Cafe, which has recently undergone an expansion. It happens to be packed with locals celebrating the Kentucky Derby in over-the-top hats, and it always serves up favorite dishes with lots of local ingredients: lobster mac and cheese, Maine crab cakes, thick pub fries cut from Maine potatoes, and beers from local Atlantic Brewing Company.

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01 01 Downtown Bar Harbor in the mist. 02 Turrets Sea Side Garden on the College of the Atlantic campus. 03 A breakfast bowl from Thrive Juice Bar and Kitchen.

EVENING:

MORNING:

We pop in at the Naked Blueberry, a new shop that sells organic blueberries from a farm that’s been in the owner’s family since 1868. At Window Panes Home and Garden, which caters to home cooks and gardeners (and sells all manner of kitchen gadgets, tools, home goods, and accessories), I pick up some beeswax food-saving wrap. Then we walk over for dinner at Blaze, where the wood-fired brick oven churns out pizzas in addition to entree offerings, such as wood-grilled lobster and steak. Upon returning to the hotel, we grab chocolatechip cookies from the pantry and enjoy a bottle of chilled white wine.

Around the corner from the hotel, we stop in at Coffee Hound Coffee Bar for our caffeine fix. The galley-like space features azure walls and reclaimed barn wood from Barn Boards and More in Gardiner, as well as an array of Maine-themed espresso drinks with names such as the Acadia Turtle mocha, Lumberjack mocha, and Maple Leaf latte. We head over to Thrive Juice Bar and Kitchen, where we both get the Local Breakfast Bowl, which comes with wild Maine blueberries, strawberries, banana, hemp seeds, and a honey drizzle over granola with coconut yogurt—a delicious, healthy start to the day. Before we hit the road, I stop in to get an early look at the Atlantic Brewing Company’s Cottage Street pilot brewery, which opens this summer in a new building

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BLUE HILL, BROOKLIN + BROOKSVILLE in 48 Hours EMMA WILSON MANAGING DIRECTOR, ART COLLECTOR MAINE WHERE WE STAYED BLUE HILL INN WHERE WE ATE PETIT BISTRO AT BLUE HILL INN THE HARBOR HOUSE BLUE HILL COOP ARBORVINE WHAT WE DID WINTER FARMERS’ MARKET EXPLORED BOATYARDS LIFE INHANCING PATHWAYS FAIRWINDS FLORIST BLACK DINAH CHOCOLATIERS THE BLUE HILL WINE SHOP BLUE HILL BOOKS NEW SURRY THEATRE HIKED BLUE HILL HERITAGE TRUST LANDS BLUE HILL FAIRGROUNDS

The Blue Hill Peninsula, just west of Mount Desert Island, has a long heritage of boatbuilding, fishing, and farming, and although the towns are popular summer destinations, they also offer year-round community and culture.

FRIDAY EVENING:

Settling in before dinner

We arrive at Blue Hill Inn, and innkeeper Duncan Hamilton shows us to our elegant yet comfortable room with a tall four-poster king bed and woodburning fireplace. The room features original pine flooring and is perfectly appointed. Once we settle in, we go for a walk about town before our dinner reservation at the inn.

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Throughout the winter, Hamilton and chef La Mason offer a Friday night menu at the inn’s Petit Bistro, featuring a different cuisine from around

the world. This week is one of my favorites: Vietnamese. We start with goi chay, a cabbage and carrot salad with tofu, bean sprouts, herbs, toasted peanuts, and nuoc mam dressing. We then share ginger and scallion beef meatballs with a chile and mango salad with lettuce wraps and herbs. Starting to feel satiated, we share ca tim xao tom, a delicious dish of shrimp and eggplant with soy garlic sauce and served with steamed rice. The dining room still buzzing with locals and guests, we linger in conversation over a glass of port.

SATURDAY MORNING:

Hulls and harbors

We walk down to the heart of the village and have a quick breakfast at the Harbor House. After the daily eggs specials, local Bucklyn Coffee, and baked goods, we are then off to meet Lori Sitzabee from the Blue Hill Chamber of Commerce and Chrissy Allen from the Blue Hill Heritage Trust for travel advice from a local perspective. Next we stop by the Winter Farmers’ Market, held inside the greenhouse at Mainescape from October through May. Fiber artist Susan Barrett Merrill tells me about her handmade woolen masks, and I buy a pair of earrings from her. We grab cups

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05 01 Lamb from our dinner at Arborvine. 02 Delectables from Tinder Hearth set up at the Winter Market. 03 Waiting to set sail at Brooklin Boatyard. 04 Resting moorings at the WoodenBoat School. 05 Goi chay salad prepared by chef La Mason at Petit Bistro. 06 Breathtaking view from the top of Blue Hill Mountain, overlooking the Blue Hill Peninsula. of freshly brewed coffee from David Dillon, owner of Bucklyn Coffee. Knowing we have a full day of exploring Brooklin and Brooksville, we grab a variety of items from bakery Tinder Hearth: the savory croissants filled with spinach and feta and a delectable blueberry tart seem like a perfect combination.

on Route 175. The difference between person-harvested and machine-harvested farms is clear by the large boulders that either scatter the fields or sit in large piles. We arrive at the Bucks Harbor Yacht Club and breathe in the salty air and spy an eagle with a giant wingspan flying through the air.

Our first stop in Brooklin, which is known for its boatbuilding, is at the Brooklin Boatyard. We gaze off the yard’s dock at several small islands in Eggemoggin Reach. Next we visit the WoodenBoat School, with a campus that spans 64 acres. While exploring the facilities we meet school director Rich Hilsinger, who first arrived at the school as a student in 1983 and is working to get ready for the summer session of classes.

AFTERNOON:

We set off for Brooksville, driving past acres of blueberry barrens

Indulgences or necessities? Wanting to try something new, we schedule a mini myofascialrelease therapy session with Suzie Milkowich at Life INhancing Pathways. We leave feeling relaxed and ready to take on some shopping. Our afternoon lineup includes books, wine, and chocolate, with a few surprises. First stop is to Fairwinds Florist. Serving the local communities for 60

years, Fairwinds offers vibrant springtime bouquets, rustic garden boxes, homemade candles, and a cigarette machine converted into an “Art Box” where you can purchase a small work for $10. Cullen Schneider is the fifth owner of this treasured Blue Hill business. Sharing the space at 5 Main Street is Black Dinah Chocolatiers, offering handmade truffles, sea salt caramels, exquisitely molded chocolates, and homemade ice cream. With chocolates and a small piece of work by artist Axel Stohlberg, we head to our next stop. Filled with anticipation, we enter a gorgeous Maine farmhouse that is home to one of the best wine stores in the state, the Blue Hill Wine Shop. Owner Max Treitler offers us helpful advice with our selection of a Macon SolutrePouilly.

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Excited to head back to the inn to share our bottle of wine, we make one more stop at the legendary Blue Hill Books. We notice the list of best sellers on a chalkboard on the porch as we meet new owner Samantha Haskell. Haskell, a longtime employee at the store, bought the business earlier this year. She’s enthusiastic as she helps us find a book, The Stranger in the Woods by Michael Finkel, for my avid-book-reader daughter.

EVENING:

Dinner and theater

Innkeeper Duncan Hamilton made reservations for us at Arborvine, a short walk from the Blue Hill Inn. The owners of the fine dining restaurant operate a solar-powered brewpub, Deep Water Brewing Co., in a renovated barn at the back of the

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01 A perfect place to stop for Sunday picnic fixings before the hike up Blue Hill Mountain. 02 A quiet walk in the woods on Peter’s Brook Trail ends with refreshing sounds of a waterfall. 03 Samantha Haskell offers a smile and book recommendations at Blue Hill Books. Maine magazine food editor Karen Watterson and detail of her tasting at Salt Pine Social, Bath.

property, but we opt for dinner in the 1823 double-chimney Cape. For appetizers we order pate maison with pistachio and pear and a warm salad of Four Season Farm spinach and arugula with applewood-smoked bacon, houseroasted tomato, cipollinis, and sunflower seeds. Our entrees are also delicious—grilled wild jumbo shrimp scampi with house-made pappardelle and a roasted rack of lamb coated with a basil and pine nut crust. Although we could have lingered for hours, we jet to the much-anticipated New Surry Theatre production of Fiddler on the Roof. To mark the retirement of its longtime director, Bill Raiten, the theater is closing its season with this musical, which was the first show Raiten and the theater produced in 1972.

SUNDAY 03

MORNING:

Hikes and fairgrounds

After breakfast at the inn, we meet Chrissy Allen from the Blue Hill Heritage Trust a second time to walk the land trust’s Peter’s Brook Trail. Winding through the grounds of an old sawmill, we arrive at a waterfall that is rushing with the springtime thaw. We then head to the Blue Hill Coop to get provisions for our hike up Blue Hill Mountain. As the clouds disperse, expansive vistas of Acadia National Park and Blue Hill Harbor are breathtaking. No trip to Blue Hill is complete for me without a trip to the Blue Hill Fairgrounds, the setting of my favorite children’s book, Charlotte’s Web. I traverse the stalls, hoping I will feel a sense of Wilbur and Charlotte, and then I realize that so much of our visit to Blue Hill could be summarized by

some of Charlotte’s own musings: “Terrific,” “Humble,” “Radiant,” and most important, “You have been my friend. That in itself is a tremendous thing.”

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CARVER COVE | VINALHAVEN

On the northern edge of Vinalhaven, Carver Cove is a large, eastern-facing inlet. Stay the night and wake up in time to catch the sunrise over the Atlantic.

DAMARISCOVE ISLAND | BOOTHBAY HARBOR

Originally discovered by the Abenaki and later settled by European commercial fishermen in the early 1600s, Damariscove Island is rich in history. Now mostly uninhabited, the cove offers moorings where you can leave your boat for the day.

CLIFF ISLAND | PORTLAND

Although the Casco Bay Lines ferry runs from Portland to Cliff Island, it’s most convenient to arrive by private boat. The island’s roads are unpaved, and residents often use golf carts as transportation.

THE GOSLINGS | HARPSWELL

West Gosling, East Gosling, and Irony make up the three islands of the Goslings. For the fastest trip, depart from Mere Point Public Launch in Brunswick and land on the northwestern shores of West or East Gosling, the larger of the islands.

SOMES SOUND | MOUNT DESERT ISLAND

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ALL SAINTS-BY-THE-SEA A CENTURY OF RESPITE AND CELEBRATION AT A SUMMER ISLAND CHAPEL

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Opposite page: The pier and dock at All Saints-by-the-Sea on Southport Island allows worshippers to arrive at the chapel by boat. This page: The chapel was built in 1905. The deck, where coffee hour is now held after services, is a more recent addition.

here are places in Maine where road signs are few, and travelers must depend upon the kind instructions of strangers—and a bit of intuition. Southport Island is one of these. Just past a marker for Pig Cove Road, an unassuming drive disappears off Route 238, leading into the woods of the eastern shore. At the end of this drive is a clearing where cars may park (not large enough to be called a parking lot) that leads to a tree-canopied path. As we pass beneath a square cross atop a wooden pergola, the sounds of traffic begin to recede, eclipsed by waves crashing on granite. The chapel of All Saints-by-the-Sea lies ahead, its shingled exterior embracing the intonations of a thousand past homilies, its wooden beams soaring above the notes of a thousand past hymns. This sacred outcropping has provided a place of rest and reflection for generations of residents and visitors alike. Al Moses, who lives in one of two houses on Pig Cove Road, has been the caretaker of All Saints-by-the-Sea for more than two decades. His great-grandfather, the Reverend John Thomas Magrath, an 1862 graduate of Bowdoin College, began the tradition of worship at this location. Magrath became the rector of Christ Episcopal Church in Gardiner in 1866. Picnicking with his parishioners on Pig Island (now called Capitol Island), he noticed a green hayfield on the east shore of Southport. His family acquired the small saltwater farm and built a cottage on the land in the early 1870s. “They would have services whenever he said, ‘We’re going to have a service,’” says Moses. “If it was sunny weather, they had the services under the oak trees in the field. If it was a rainy day, they came into the house that he built and had the services in the house. They were having services there for a lot longer than the church existed.”

some of it for the building of a church. Charles Gray, a neighbor who came from a family of boat builders, led the construction of the chapel in 1905; the Right Reverend Robert Codman, Episcopal Bishop of Maine, consecrated All Saints-by-the-Sea in July 1906.

One of the original Gardiner parishioners, Mary Williamson, purchased land to the south of the Magrath farm and donated

Moses, who previously worked in the insurance industry and lived out of state, returned to his family’s homestead on Pig

Cove Road in 1995. His mother and father were married at All Saints-by-the-Sea in 1930. Born in the Andean Mountains of Peru, where his father was working as a copper geologist, Moses was the youngest of three. He and his brother and his sister (who would go on to become a minister herself after graduating from Mount Holyoke College in South Hadley, Massachusetts) came back from South America to be baptized at All Saints-by-the-Sea in 1944. August 2017 83

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From left: The Reverend Christopher “Kit” Sherrill, now 82, led his first service at All Saints-by-the-Sea in the summer of 1968. He has since performed hundreds of services at the chapel, including baptisms, weddings, funerals, and since he and his wife retired to Southport Island, an annual candlelit Christmas Eve service. The interior of the chapel looks much the same as it did when Sherrill attended services there with his grandmother in the 1950s.

With its view of Monhegan Island (weather permitting) and coastal location, All Saintsby-the-Sea is a unique venue. “During services, you can hear the waves slapping on the shore,” Moses says. “You can hear all the birds. At a high tide, we’re 10 or 15 feet from the water. We’ve got a bunch of woods around us that we try and keep natural. It’s a little spot that people just enjoy coming to.” All Saints-by-the-Sea offers Sunday services from mid-June to mid-September. Administered by a committee of parish 84

volunteers, this year the chapel will bring visiting ministers and organists from as far away as Denver, Colorado, and as close as Boothbay Harbor. “Some summer chapels in Maine that have been in existence for 100 or more years had to quit, because they just ran out of people to support it,” says Moses. “We have been very, very lucky.” The chapel, which seats 110, welcomes people of any religious or spiritual denomination. Those who don’t walk down to the chapel from Route 238 or park in the

small lot, which serves as unofficial handicap parking, can arrive by sea. Visible from its all-weather porch, the All Saints-by-theSea pier juts out like an elbow into the dark waters of the Atlantic, marked by a simple cross. The tour boat Novelty, which also serves as the mail boat for Squirrel Island, provides transportation for people who want to come from Boothbay Harbor by boat; a few more come on private boats. All Saints-by-the-Sea is a popular place for special events, such as baptisms, weddings,

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and funerals. One summer the chapel hosted 26 weddings. “We had people who were having to get out of the church quick to let the next group in,” says Moses. Visitors are encouraged to experience the chapel on their own terms. There are benches in the woods nearby and a garden dedicated to the memory of those who have passed. Many use the chapel’s attached porch as a place for quiet meditation. “In the wintertime, I’ll even go over there—sometimes in January with two feet of snow on the ground—and there’s a trail left by somebody,” says Moses.

“They’re sitting down on the front porch with blankets over them and a thermos full of hot coffee.” When the snow allows, Moses helps reopen the church on December 24. For the past 16 years, the Reverend Christopher “Kit” Sherrill, a retired Episcopal minister, has presided over a Christmas Eve service. Although the church is unheated, that doesn’t seem to be a problem. “When you get 75 people in there, within 20, 25 minutes people are starting to take their coats off,”

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says Sherrill. “You go down that path in the woods on a winter’s night and it’s cold and the wind may be blowing, and you step into this little quiet room,” adds Sherrill. “You can hear the ocean outside. It’s a little too cold for the organ to play, so it’s silent. All the hymns are sung a cappella.... It’s a holy night.” Sherrill has been professionally associated with All Saints-by-the-Sea for almost half a century—and personally, even longer. Sherrill was born in Warm Springs, Georgia. Just after he turned two, his mother died, August 2017 85

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Opposite page: Homes on the southern tip of Capitol Island can be seen from the chapel’s deck. This page: All Saints’ caretaker Al Moses looks through the worship record book, which holds information about every service held at the chapel.

wife, Leigh, in 1960, and was ordained in 1965. “The years in which I worked full time in the ministry, we lived in 18 different homes,” says Sherrill. At his grandmother’s suggestion, he was invited back to All Saints-by-the-Sea as a summer rector. “When you’re a clergyman, you don’t earn much money,” says Sherrill, who went on to have three children (including Old Port magazine managing editor Susan Axelrod). “We could not have afforded to come to Maine…so having this opportunity to take our whole family up there for a whole month in a nice little cottage by the ocean was just so special.” Sherrill retired to Southport 17 years ago. “I’ve bounced around a lot,” he says. “But All Saints and Southport have provided me with a rooted place. Going back every year I felt this was home.” Although he has seen attendance drop off in the recent past, he still feels there is a need for church. “The people who come there on Sundays, most of them have been coming there for years or have children that are now coming,” says Sherrill. “It does give a real sense of community.”

and he and his four-year-old brother were sent to England to live with her family in London. When World War II broke out, his mother’s family returned them to the United States for their safety. “We got shipped back to this country on our own, put on a train in New York City, and back down to Georgia,” says Sherrill. When his father remarried, the family moved to western Pennsylvania. Sherrill became involved in the church through his stepmother, an Anglican Episcopalian. His

grandmother introduced him to All Saintsby-the-Sea in 1950. Although Sherrill joined the choir and became an acolyte in his local church, he had no intention of going into the ministry. When he was 14, his minister took him aside. “He said, ‘You know, I think you might be called to be in the church, to be an ordained person,’” said Sherrill. “I looked at him and I thought, ‘You’re nuts.’”

Like the rocky coast upon which it was settled, All Saints-by-the-Sea has been a reassuring stalwart for Sherrill, Moses, and generations of parishioners who have sought respite on the shore of Southport Island. The ever-changing surf that swirls by its foundation serves as a reminder of life’s transitory nature and the possibility of a greater spirit. “It really just has a sense of a larger presence to it,” says Sherrill. “It is a rejuvenating place for a lot of people.”

After going through what he calls “a rough patch,” and dropping out of college, Sherrill revisited the possibility. He married his

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“Fishing is my first love,” says Linda Greenlaw, who has written five bestselling nonfiction books, two cookbooks, and three mysteries. “I still pinch myself if someone introduces me as an author. Now I feel like I’m writing to support my fishing habit.” Greenlaw, who released her third mystery, Shiver Hitch, in June, first gained recognition in 1997 after being featured in Sebastian Junger’s The Perfect Storm. “I started getting phone calls from publishers saying, ‘Hey, we’ve read The Perfect Storm. We’re intrigued with this female fisherman thing you have going on. Do you want to write a book?’” says 56-year-old Greenlaw, a graduate of Colby College who majored in government and English. She initially resisted. “Then I realized what an opportunity I was being handed,” Greenlaw says. She published her first book, The Hungry Ocean: A Swordboat Captain’s Journey, in 1999. Greenlaw, who divides her time between Surry and her hometown of Isle au Haut, is fond of what she calls “the cozier mystery.” “Not super scary, because I don’t like things that stay with me when I go to sleep at night,” she says. The length of a mystery novel like Sue Grafton’s “A” Is for Alibi also fit well with her work. “I could read it on the way to the fishing grounds,” says Greenlaw. “Then maybe have a second one to read on the way home.” Married to boatbuilder and Wesmac Custom Boats co-owner Steve Wessel, Greenlaw has a 26-year-old daughter whom she adopted a decade ago. Last year Greenlaw and Wessel hosted a 14-year-old student from Isle au Haut in their Surry home. Greenlaw does most of her writing during the winter months, or early in the day during lobster season, so that she still has time to pull traps. “Everyone’s story is worthy of being told,” says Greenlaw. “But, boy, getting from there to having it in a book, it’s sheer work. That’s all it is. It’s just work.”

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ATHLETES TEST THEIR SKILLS AND ENDURANCE IN THE CASCO BAY ISLANDS SWIMRUN. BY SUSAN AXELROD PHOTOGRAPHY BY NICOLE WOLF

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Opening spread: Brother and sister team Nick and Nora Daly strike a playful pose after finishing the 2016 Casco Bay Islands SwimRun. This page: Two-person teams reenter the water for a swimming leg of the race after running a three-mile leg on Peaks Island. Opposite page: Sara Madigan, who raced with her husband, Sean, as the “MAD-again” team, navigates a Peaks Island trail.

ON AN OVERCAST AUGUST MORNING IN 2016, a cluster of people stands on a rocky outcropping at Evergreen Landing on Peaks Island, scanning the water. Leigh Small of Portland and her three children are watching for their dad and her husband, Jeff, who is swimming the 1,700-yard distance from Long Island, tethered to his teammate, Zack Priest. The two men are among 242 endurance athletes competing in the first-ever Casco Bay Islands SwimRun, which kicked off just after 7 a.m. with a 1.8-mile running leg on Chebeague Island. Volunteers are ready with water and packets of energy gel as the first group of wetsuit-wearing swimmers comes in to the pebbly beach on Peaks, pulling clumps of seaweed from their tethers and being careful not to slip as they clamber up the rocks to the road for a three-mile run. It will be the longest running leg of the challenge, which traverses six islands for a total of 16 miles—12 on land and four in Casco Bay. Kennebunk resident Jeff Cole conceived the Casco Bay Islands SwimRun after he saw a YouTube video of Sweden’s ÖTILLÖ SwimRun in the fall of 2014. Founded in 2006 and now the SwimRun World Championship for partner races in ten countries, the ÖTILLÖ (ö till ö means island to island) SwimRun covers 36 grueling overland miles and six miles of open-water swimming over 26 islands in the Baltic Sea off the coast of Sweden. “I thought, ‘Wow, that is unbelievable. No one does that in the U.S.’” Cole says. “I knew immediately that we had the venue for it in Casco Bay.” Together with fellow triathlete Lars Finanger, now a Casco Bay Islands SwimRun co-race director, it took Cole two years to organize the inaugural event. “We were fortunate to be able to affiliate ourselves and were the first North American qualifier to the World Championship,” he says. The Maine race benefits the Travis Mills Foundation, which is creating a national retreat center in the Belgrade Lakes region for combat veteran families.

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UNLIKE IN A TRIATHLON, THERE ARE NO SIGNS TO INDICATE THE ROUTE.

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COLE DESCRIBES THE SWIMRUN AS “A FREESTYLING EXPERIENCE IN NATURE AND THE ENVIRONMENT.”

John Stevens comes ashore following a swimming leg. Stevens and his teammate, Matthew Hurley, were the men’s first-place finishers.

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Cole describes the SwimRun as “a freestyling experience in nature and the environment.” Athletes receive a map of the course, but unlike in a triathlon, there are no signs to indicate the route. “We want as few encumbrances as possible,” he says. A compass is essential, especially for the swim legs. “From where you get into the water, you may not see where you are supposed to get out, and you have to take the tidal current into account.” Perched on beach chairs in the back of a pickup truck driven by island resident Paul Castle, photographer Nicole Wolf and I are following Nick and Nora Daly, a brother-andsister team from Cape Elizabeth. Peaks is our vantage point because the athletes will finish here. After the on- and off-road run they will reenter the water at Torrington Point, swim 800 yards across to Cushing Island, then 900 yards to House Island, before coming ashore at the beach next to the Peaks ferry terminal and running up a small hill to the finish line. As we trail them along scenic Seashore Avenue, we pass islanders walking their dogs and pushing babies in strollers—leaving the race route open to the public is all part of the SwimRun experience, says Cole. 100

The Daly siblings are Maine swimming royalty. Both racked up local titles before going on to swim at Middlebury College in Vermont. Nick Daly, 27, is now in his fifth season as a swimming and diving coach at the University of Chicago, while Nora, 25, is studying to be a physician assistant in New York City. “We’ve been lucky enough that I’ve been around for the summer, and that I got to go out with all the gear on and do a little island-hopping,” Nora says in a conversation before the race. “We’re not really land athletes, so that was good in telling just how I was going to feel climbing up on the rocks, running around on the islands, and then jumping back in the water.” The Dalys are wearing short wetsuits, compression socks, and running shoes. They have hand paddles to aid them in the water, and a floating buoy is attached to Nora’s thigh. SwimRun participants are allowed to use swim fins, but like all the gear the athletes use, they have to be carried for the duration of the race. Plus, changing in and out of running shoes is time-consuming, so the Dalys have opted to skip the fins. “Running in a wetsuit is a little bit different, but we’ll see,” says Nora. “They’re nice,

because instead of having a rear zip, which would be a typical triathlon wetsuit, it’s a front zip, so you can zip it off, and get a little bit of air circulation,” says Nick. “Regardless of what the water temperature is, you heat up pretty quickly once you start running.” Twins Anna and Grace Senko have the SwimRun course map, including the distances between each point, written on their hand paddles. “The navigation part will be particularly challenging because we haven’t figured out how to use a compass,” says Grace as the sisters prepare for a training swim a few days before the race off of Harpswell, where their family has a summer home. Like the Dalys, the 25-yearolds both swam in college—Anna at UCLA, Grace at Columbia University—and consider the running segments more challenging than the swimming legs. They began training seriously—and separately—on Memorial Day. “If she runs before work I wake up to a text three hours later saying, ‘I ran five miles,’” says Anna, who lives in San Francisco while her sister is in New York City. They like the idea of being tethered on the swimming legs, “so you always know where your partner is,” she says.

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Opposite page: Mary Kay Krause’s team, “Rodale SwimRun,” came in third in the women’s division. This page: Competitors relax with a view of Casco Bay after finishing the race.

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“I DON’T THINK IT’S ANY MISTAKE THAT PEOPLE WANT TO COME TO PORTLAND, MAINE.”

access this couldn’t happen,” he says. “I was surprised with the buy-in that the island residents had to it. [WGME-13 anchor] Kim Block has a house on Cushings and just happened to go for a walk that morning when she saw all these people running in wetsuits. She pitched into an aid station and started to help. That was a pretty universal reaction.”

Tethering is just one aspect of keeping the athletes safe in the water. Close to the course, a flotilla of boats from the U.S. Coast Guard, the Portland Harbormaster, the Long Island Fire and Rescue Department, and the Yarmouth and Falmouth Fire Departments are all standing by, prepared to pull out anyone in distress. Race organizers took the Casco Bay Lines ferry schedule into consideration in planning the SwimRun route, and thanks to morning fog that delayed the start for 20 minutes, the only potential ferry-swimmers contact point—between Little Chebeague and Long Islands—was eliminated. “Nick Mavodones and Caity Gildart [of Casco Bay Lines] were great to work with in making sure that we weren’t going to impose any hardships on people traveling to the islands, or put the athletes at risk,” says Cole.

The sun is beginning to break through as the first teams splash out of the water onto the Peaks Island beach. They face a final challenge, a steep, yet short, uphill climb to the finish line in a field next to the Lions Club, where a crowd and a lobster bake are waiting. The Dalys are the fifth coed team to finish and the fifteenth overall with a time of 3:59, while the Senko twins are the fourteenth female team and forty-second overall. “The toughest part was the Peaks Island run; it got really warm and I was running low on fluids,” says Nick. “We never needed to use the compass,” says Anna Senko, beaming. “I would totally do it again,” her sister chimes in. And indeed they will. On Sunday, August 13, the “In It to Twin It” team will be among the athletes setting off from the Long Island Wharf on the new short course, challenging themselves on land and sea in Casco Bay.

For 2017, a shorter course has been added to the SwimRun, while the full-length course has been extended to offer more time on land. Both races will start at 7 a.m.—the short course on Long Island and the longer course on Cliff Island. Cole estimates that between 350 and 400 teams applied for the 90 slots in each race; merit teams were selected by the race committee based on their past performance in other endurance competitions and guaranteed a slot, while the remainder went into a lottery. “The interest in our race has grown substantially,” he says. “I don’t think it’s any mistake that people want to come to Portland, Maine, because Casco Bay’s so beautiful.” Cole credits island property owners for allowing unfettered access to SwimRun athletes. “Without their permission and

Twin sisters Anna and Grace Senko splash ashore on Peaks Island. Their team, “In It to Twin It,” came in fourteenth in the women’s division.

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Acadia Mountain rises up from Somes Sound behind us, and we’re aboard a Hinckley. These coveted yachts are still built by hand a few miles away, known for their iconic curves, polish, and posture.

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Opposite page: Founded in Southwest Harbor in 1928, the Hinckley Company uses a winged talaria as its logo. This page: A Hinckley motoryacht in Somes Soundâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Valley Cove.

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hat I know when I start driving toward Mount Desert Island on a sunny day earlier this summer is that Hinckley Yachts are beautiful, and prized. A boat captain friend back in South Carolina happens to call while I’m on the way, and he actually gasps when I mention that I’ll be visiting the Hinckley boatyard. “Wow, wow, wow,” he repeats. “To have one of those beauties would be my dream.” I can remember hearing the buzz about Hinckley when Martha Stewart commissioned the Southwest Harborfounded company to build one of its famous “picnic boats” for her, and she had them paint the hull an exclusive-to-her color that’s a heathery soft green. (The yacht’s name is Skylands II, after her cottage, up high in Seal Harbor.) But I’ve never gotten nearer to a Hinckley than to see the gleaming, milliondollar yachts in pictures or when passing through harbors. I’m ready.

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HARBORSIDE START Steam’s rising from the lobster pots at Lunt’s, and there’s a lineup of private planes at the Bar Harbor airport when I turn into the industrial park just across from the runways. Phil Bennett, one of the Hinckley Company’s vice presidents, is meeting me here, at the hangar-sized warehouses that make up Hinckley’s boatbuilding headquarters. The Hinckley Company got its start nearly 90 years ago on the shores of Southwest Harbor when engineer Henry Hinckley’s father bought a small boatyard facing directly into the mouth of Somes Sound. In the 1930s Hinckley built luxury pleasure boats with the swooping, curved features of the grand automobiles of the day, and by the 1950s the company was pioneering the use of fiberglass in boatbuilding for its powerboats and sailing yachts. Bennett compares Hinckley boatbuilding acumen to “something like watchmaking in Switzerland.”

On MDI, the Hinckley Company still operates a service yard at the original site of its founding in Southwest Harbor. (With the Hinckley Company’s acquisition of Morris Yachts in 2016, it added the sailboat builder’s service yard in Northeast Harbor, too.) But it’s the Trenton facility that’s home to the real “toy shop” now, Bennett explains as he shows me around the former woodland property near the bridge to MDI. “This is where every Hinckley begins.” A dapper dresser in yachtsman style, Bennett is a longtimer at Hinckley and in the boat world generally. His grandfather was a boat maker, and Bennett himself decided to move to Maine and join Hinckley after first getting to know the company while visiting to sell Hood sails back in the 1970s. “Most people know that a Hinckley is expensive and shiny, but they may not fully know why,” Bennett says of the yachts that typically take a year or more to build and customize for each owner. “They haven’t yet seen what goes into making them.”

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Opposite page, from left: In a fiberglass workroom with Phil Bennett, who began with Hinckley nearly 30 years ago and is vice president of sales. The “birth” of a Hinckley hull as the mold is pulled away. This page: The iconic fit, finish, and wooden detail of a Hinckley yacht.

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Each Hinckley yacht can take a year or more to complete. Here, craftspeople in the wood shop build interiors that will be dropped into the hulls when complete.

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THEY EVEN ONCE DESIGNED A COMPARTMENT LINED WITH A MINK PELT, CREATING A NEW USE FOR THE VINTAGE MINK FROM A CLIENT’S FUR COAT. IN THE WORKSHOP The smell of wet epoxy resin is like a wasabi jolt. We’ve entered the fiberglass shop, a garagestyle building arrayed with elephant-sized boat hulls inside even larger molds. Vacuum fans whir and rumble, and at least a dozen men are working among the raw boat shapes and spools of silken-looking fiberglass cloth. From a lobstering family, Barry Archilles started at Hinckley about 40 years ago and figures he’s helped build about 1,000 boats. He’s seen the fiberglass processes develop and improve to be lighter, thinner, and stronger, he says. “It’s a lot more technical now.” “Years ago, all you would do is build layers of fiberglass,” he says, and the result was rugged, heavy construction that was about 65 percent resin. Now Hinckley uses techniques similar to those used to build airplanes, Archilles says, so that a hull is about 65 percent fiber and only 35 percent resin. That’s where the technical know-how comes in—this is composite construction that makes use of super-strong materials like Kevlar and carbon fiber, lightweight core and resin infusion processes, and engineered laminates. Archilles is explaining all of this in his downeast accent and with the fervor of August 2017 113

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Opposite page: At the start of 2016, the Hinckley Company bought MDI sailboat builder Morris Yachts, which was founded by Tom Morris in the 1970s. Ian Ashley in the Morris Yachts facility near the runways of the Hancock County-Bar Harbor Airport. This page: Both Hinckley and Morris are known for wow-worthy, elegant details.

telling great sea stories. When an owner bumped a rock ledge recently while out on his new yacht, Archilles hurried down to the boatyard to take a look. “That boat was in the water for about two weeks afterward, because the man didn’t want to tell anyone at first.” Since Archilles had helped to build the yacht, he was curious to see how it had fared after the accident. “I was excited to see for myself and make the repair,” he says, “and do you know what? It never leaked in all that time. The rock had punctured all the way into the core, but the water didn’t migrate.” That means the high-level finishes in the cabins and on deck were just fine. Hinckleys are known for well-varnished wood cabinetry and trim: teak with a

swirling grain, rich-toned mahogany, and American cherry, tulip, and red cedar. Bow-front drawers and other curved details are throughout, and even the toe rails are shaped into a tapered curve. We soon meet Ronnie Nelson, another Hinckley longtimer who started in the yard about four decades ago. Bennett says Nelson is known as a magician when it comes to carpentry. Quiet and busy, Nelson is sanding long, serpentine cherry rails when I stop by his workbench. Barry Buchanan is nearby, inspecting the woodwork of a finished console. He says he came to Mount Desert Island specifically to build wooden boats, and notes that a Hinckley has so many wooden features, it’s often thought of as a wooden boat inside of fiberglass. “It’s one thing to build a table,” he says. “But it’s another to build a boat that goes somewhere. I like that movement.”

THE WOW FACTOR To see more, we continue walking through the hive-like action and industry in all corners at Hinckley on this early summer’s

day when many of the tall bay doors are open. On an upper level above the carpentry floor, Carlando Grant is focused on one thing: carefully brushing on coats of varnish by hand—10 to 15 coats onto cabinet doors and other wooden pieces of each yacht’s interior. Born in Jamaica, Grant moved to Maine to go to college to study engineering and to work. But first, he took a job with FedEx. One day he brought a delivery to Hinckley and saw the Talaria 55 Motoryacht being built here (the largest of Hinckley yachts), and he applied for a job immediately. That was over three years ago. He still daydreams about a Hinckley of his own, but for now he and his wife own a 21-foot Bayliner to which he’s been adding wooden touches. “I’m a perfectionist,” he says. “I want you to look at a piece that I’ve varnished and say, ‘Wow!’” Close to 300 men and women work in the Hinckley Company’s boatbuilding yards here in Trenton and another 85 or so work at the service yards on MDI; that includes the crew at the sailboat-focused Morris Yachts across Route 3, another formidable yacht builder on MDI that was begun in the 1970s August 2017 115

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Yacht broker Wythe Ingebritson demonstrates how easy it is to maneuver a Hinckley motoryacht in Somes Sound with one hand on the Jetstick control.

and that Hinckley acquired in 2016. Since the purchase by Hinckley, Morris Yachts is still operating much as it has, with its name on new boats and the boatyard at Northeast Harbor. It’s Friday afternoon, and some of the Morris Yachts crew have left by the time we call out a “hello” to someone on a narrow, deck-style platform built around a 42-foot sailing yacht that’s underway. Up there is Ian Ashley, a former residential carpenter who invites us to climb the temporary stairs and take a look at the deck up close. Once up on the scaffolding, Ashley tells me he came to work at Morris about four years ago and “fell in love with building boats.” This one he’s finishing has an extra-long keel for racing, and it almost looks like the yacht’s in graceful motion, even as it’s securely parked upright and steady in a wooden frame. Throughout the day of taking in all the sights and sounds, I keep noticing that the carpenters and craftspeople are working on different parts of the same boat at the same time—the hull might still be in the mold in the fiberglass shop, while carpenters are already constructing the bunks and galley spaces. Bennett explains that’s possible because everyone’s following precise design and engineering plans that were generated for each boat. In a small office of computers with big screens he introduces me to nautical engineer Peter Smith, who has also been with Hinckley for decades. Smith is part of the team that works out each boat’s design and engineering particulars, including figuring out how and where to incorporate features that a boat buyer dreams up. Those options have included pull-down cabinets for wine storage, retractable deck awnings, bait wells, Italian espresso makers, and disappearing television screens. He says they even once

designed a compartment lined with a mink pelt, creating a new use for the vintage mink from a client’s fur coat.

A YACHT’S DAY Finally, we’ll get out on the water. At the shop earlier in the day, we’d seen a gorgeous blue-painted motor yacht with a Swedish homeport painted on the stern. A Talaria 43, the boat will be shipped to its owner soon, so it’s going through another sea trial first to check its systems and performance. In mirrored sunglasses and a t-shirt, Shane Dowsland is the man for the job. He must have the coolest gig in the harbor. Dowsland is a licensed captain who was a deckhand on a schooner based in Bar Harbor and then worked in the boatyard for Morris Yachts before landing the sea trial job. Now he tests the new boats before delivery. Shoes off and on-deck, we join him for a couple of sea trials departing from Southwest Harbor. It’s my first time on a boat that moves by water-jet propulsion, and immediately I feel the airplane-like stability—even at 30 knots and higher. We’re in a smooth glide as we cruise past Beal’s Lobster Pier and the Coast Guard field office in Southwest Harbor. The docks and moorings at the Hinckley yard are flotillas of Hinckley and Morris yachts this time of year. In a quick glance, I count more than a dozen picnic boats that I’m finding easily recognizable since seeing them crafted up close—the highly varnished, teaktrimmed, well-upholstered takes on classic lobster boats, often with million-dollar-plus prices. We thread through the moorings and pass several lobster boats, too. It’s like an informal

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I COUNT MORE THAN A DOZEN PICNIC BOATS— THE HIGHLY VARNISHED, TEAK-TRIMMED, WELLUPHOLSTERED TAKES ON CLASSIC LOBSTER BOATS, OFTEN WITH MILLION-DOLLAR-PLUS PRICES.

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From left: Wherever the owners take them, the yachts all have Maine DNA. About 300 craftspeople, many with decades of experience at the yards around Mount Desert Island, work to build the motoryachts and sailboats of the Hinckley Company, which now also includes Morris Yachts.

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SINGING Out to Sea

Year after year, musicians and sailors return to Swan’s Island for the Sweet Chariot Music Festival. by SUSAN AXELROD Photography by TED AXELROD

Opposite page: A beloved element of the Sweet Chariot Music Festival is “Shanties on Shipboard,” led by folksinger and captain Daisy Nell (standing), aboard her 32-foot brigantine, Redbird, as it travels through Burnt Coat Harbor on Swan’s Island. This page: One of several schooners to visit Swan’s for the festival, Serenity is owned by Maine art consultant June LaCombe and her husband, Bill Ginn, global initiatives director for the Nature Conservancy.

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FROM IN AND AROUND THE OLD WHITE FARMHOUSE ON SWAN’S ISLAND, A MELODIC HUM FLOATS ON THE WARM AUGUST BREEZE. A fiddle player lounges in the grass, picking out a tune, while someone naps in a hammock on the porch. Inside, the remains of a cold buffet lunch are on the kitchen island, and a group of singers is clustered around an upright piano in the front parlor. In the barn, two young men perch on milk crates—one strumming a dobro, the other a standard guitar—jamming with banjo player Bob Lucas as he sings the refrain of what I later learn is a North Carolina bootlegger’s song: “And the lamb will lay down with the lion, after drinking that old moonshine.” I finally locate the owner of the house, host of

the afternoon’s rehearsal and the reason for our visit to the island: Douglas Day, founder of the annual Sweet Chariot Music Festival. For 25 years, Day has done the heavy lifting to put on the three-day event, which draws musicians from across the country to this remote island off Bar Harbor. “Come into my office,” Day says with a grin, ushering me into a plastic chair under an apple tree while he sprawls in a wooden wheelbarrow. In our email exchanges, he nearly tried to discourage us from coming to the festival, warning us that there was no

guarantee that we’d get our car on the ferry from Bass Harbor (we did), and that overnight accommodations are scarce (we were lucky enough to secure a room on the third floor of the Griffin House, which offers a spectacular view of Burnt Coat Harbor). For its relatively large size and proximity to the mainland—six miles—Swan’s is short on amenities. There are no hotels, restaurants, or even places to camp, just a handful of rooms at bed and breakfasts and one small but well-stocked general store (which does not sell alcohol), with an adjacent snack shack. Working with a $25,000 budget, about

Opposite page: The ferry landing on Swan’s Island, which is six miles off the coast of Mount Desert Island. This page: Sweet Chariot founder Douglas Day on the porch of the Odd Fellows Hall, where festival musicians perform to sold-out crowds.

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“The best audiences for musicians are other musicians.”

members of Maine’s schooner fleet, which include Swan’s Island on their schedule of overnight stops during festival week. At $20 per ticket, three nights of performances at the island’s 225-seat Odd Fellows Hall always sell out. The other, especially charming festival event—sea shanties sung from a square-rigger sailboat as it wanders around Burnt Coat Harbor—requires some way of getting out on the water, even if it’s in a kayak.

half from subsidized ticket sales and half from modest gifts, Day makes arrangements for the 30-plus performers to be housed in private homes. Many of them have been part of the festival for years and see their annual visit as more of a vacation and a chance to play together than a working gig. “The best audiences for musicians are other musicians,” Day says. Less a promoter than a facilitator, he admits that keeping the festival

“The remoteness contributes to the soulfulness and the magic of it,” says Mike Wilson, joining us under the apple tree. “It wouldn’t be the same if you did it over in Southwest Harbor.” Wilson, a Connecticut resident who hosts one of Sweet Chariot’s famous afterparties with his wife, Gina, owns a house on Swan’s because of the festival. “We came here as renters and went to the festival and were smitten,” he says. “After the first show, my friend who introduced me to it all said, ‘You like the show? Well, I hate to tell you, but the best

going is a challenge, even though every year he has to turn away dozens of performers who want to participate. “Most festivals that really have legs last 20 or 25 years,” Day says. “It’s difficult for Sweet Chariot to grow given the limits that the remote location impresses upon us.” The majority of festival attendees are island residents, and the rest arrive by boat, notably

Opposite page: Sea shanty master Geoff Kaufman with his squeezebox onboard the Redbird. This page: Festival musicians rehearse in the front parlor of Douglas Day’s home on Swan’s Island.

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Lobstering is the primary occupation on Swan’s Island.

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“The remoteness contributes to the soulfulness and magic of it.” music is really at the afterparties, but they’re private.’ I said, ‘Do you think you can get me in?’ We went to an afterparty and were blown away by what we experienced.” The Wilsons ended up buying the house where the party was hosted, and they continue the cherished tradition, with one noteworthy addition. “My wife’s a piano player, so now we have a piano on the island,” Wilson says. “Then we have the acoustic stage outside on the back deck with the banjo players and the fiddlers and the mandolin players; they can carry on up to two or three o’clock in the morning. It’s absolutely wonderful.” Day calls out to Lucas, strolling out of the barn with his banjo, to contribute to the conversation. “Every year we draw from each other’s collective juice, because it takes a lot to get here—time, money, energy, organization,” says Lucas, who lives in Ohio and has traveled to the island with his wife, daughter, and baby grandson. “Others, like Bob [Lucas], have put serious currency in the soul bank to make this happen,” says Day. “Because soul matters so much to us artistes,” Lucas replies, chuckling. “If you ain’t got soul, you ain’t got nothing. Now we got to go sing on a boat.” The rehearsal gradually breaks up, and we meet an eager group on a dock in Burnt Coat Harbor, where the 32-foot brigantine Redbird

is tied up. The ship’s owner and captain, Daisy Nell, and her partner, Stan Collinson, known as Captain Stan, invite us aboard. Both are musicians from Massachusetts, where Nell founded the Gloucester Schooner Festival. I recognize the two guitarists who were playing with Lucas in the barn, Magnus Ferguson and Cody Gibson; together with fiddler Reid Jenkins they make up the Morningsiders, one of the newer groups to join the festival. (Jenkins, however, is a second-generation participant; along with his parents, Richard and Sandy, and sisters, Stephanie and Cassandra, he has performed at Sweet Chariot since he was a child.) As soon as we pull away from the dock, Nell leads the group into their first shanty, “I thought I heard the old man say, John Kanaka-naka-tu-lai-e,” accompanied by a drum and tambourine. We glide past the crew and passengers of two schooners, the American Eagle and the Lewis R. French, and weave through other boats at anchor, including the schooner Serenity, owned by Maine art consultant June LaCombe and her husband, Bill Ginn, the global initiatives director for the Nature Conservancy. All the while a band of smaller craft—kayaks, paddleboards, and a little gaff rig dinghy— trails us like a flock of ducklings. Standing amidships on the Redbird, Geoff Kaufman, who runs the annual Sea Music Festival at Mystic Seaport in Connecticut, pulls out

a squeezebox and launches into a rousing version of “Strike the Bell,” with everyone chiming in mightily on the chorus. We wrap up the magical experience with Harry Belafonte’s “Day-O” as Nell steers the Redbird back to shore. A short while later, we arrive at the Swan’s Island Odd Fellows Hall, which is festooned with hand-lettered banners announcing the festival. We’ve been invited to join the musicians for a pre-performance dinner, prepared by a brigade of volunteers. It seems as if everyone on the island contributes to the festival in some way, by housing performers, cooking, or driving the school bus that brings schooner passengers and island residents to the hall for the evening shows. Dinner is a colorful buffet of baked cod, red beans and rice, coleslaw, corn, and mango and black bean salsa, followed by one more rehearsal before ticket holders arrive. In the second-floor performance space, local artist Buckley Smith has started painting a mural on a piece of canvas stretched across the back wall of the stage; he will continue to add to the piece, which depicts this year’s festival theme—gypsies and mermaids—as part of the evening’s performance. The hair stands up on the back of my neck as the concert opens with a Mardi Gras-esque procession, led by Richard Jenkins on the

Opposite page, clockwise from top left: The sea shanty singers were accompanied by drums, tambourines, and a squeezebox. Schooners at anchor in Burnt Coat Harbor. Rigging on the Redbird is old school. Cody Gibson of the Morningsiders plays the dobro. June LaCombe relaxes with her pups in the stern of her schooner, Serenity. Afterparty hosts Mike and Gina Wilson are among the kayakers following the sea shanty singers.

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Following the evening’s concert, musicians jam on the deck of Mike and Gina Wilson’s home until the wee hours of the morning. From left: Stan Collinson on guitar, Daisy Nell, Julia Bailen, Eric Kilburn on mandolin, Stephanie Jenkins on banjo, Bob Lucas on fiddle, and Ellen Gawler on fiddle.

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trumpet. Kaufman swaps boisterous sea shanties for a melodic ballad, accompanied by Eric Kilburn (who is also the festival’s sound engineer) on mandolin. Day sings Leonard Cohen’s poignant “So Long, Marianne” with a gaggle of his children and their friends. After intermission, David Dodson comes out on stage as Frank Sinatra for a hilarious version of “I’m Glad I’m Not Young Anymore,” followed by an ensemble performance of the Beach Boys’ “Surfer Girl” with singers dressed as mermaids. Sweet Chariot first-timers Bailen—a New York band comprised of three siblings, Daniel, Julia, and David Bailen, plus their friend Pierre Piscitelli—join the Morningsiders and Stephanie Jenkins for Amy Winehouse’s “Valerie,” and the soulful yet rock-the-house

rendition gives me chills. All the performers gather on stage to finish with what Day calls a “final hippie hymn,” led by Dean Stevens and inspired by the words of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.: “Oh children, don’t you weary. Walk together; believe in the dream. When the way gets rough, we’ll make a new way. Let justice roll down like a mighty stream.” By the end, I’m one of many in the crowd clapping, swaying, and singing along at the top of my lungs. Afterward, the musicians chat with guests as they browse a small art show on the first floor of the hall. “Wasn’t that a hell of a party? There were fiddles and banjos and way too many guitars,” says Dodson, laughing. “The word I keep thinking of is heartwarming,”

says LaCombe. “When Doug brought his kids out—I’ve seen those kids since they were little.” The night air is soft, but it’s dark on the island, so we’re grateful for the trail of candlelit luminaries lining the Wilsons’ driveway to guide us to the afterparty. Just as Wilson described earlier that afternoon, there are musicians around Gina’s piano and on the back deck jamming, smiling, connecting, and relishing the time together. The hum we heard earlier at Day’s home has risen to a river of sound, sweet and precious. We know, hearing it, that we’ll figure out a way to return.

Guitarist Dean Stevens, center, leads the performers in a “final hippie hymn” to close out the evening’s concert at the Odd Fellows Hall.

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an old barn in Rockland outfitted with screens, swivel chairs, and high-tech equipment, Sam Mateosian helps me adjust a virtual-reality viewer on my head. I see an artistic rendition of a classic Maine scene: island, lighthouse, lobster boat, kayak. Each element has a white circle I can point to, bringing me into the scene. I’m on the lobster boat as fisherman Richard Nelson pulls up his traps; then by aiming at another white circle I’m in the trap with the lobsters, looking up at Nelson’s hand as he reaches in. Called Island Land and produced by Mateosian’s Portland company, Big Room Studios, in partnership with the Island Institute, the virtual-reality application is one of several interactive experiences featured at Storyforms, one of the newest elements of the Camden International Film Festival (CIFF). It’s an example of how the four-day event in September has grown in 13 years—from a showcase for documentary films to a key player in the art and craft of nonfiction storytelling. Camden native Ben Fowlie founded CIFF in 2005, when he was just 23. Unlike many of his Emerson College classmates with film degrees, Fowlie did not head to the West Coast after graduation. “I knew I had a passion for documentaries and for Maine,” he says. “It was logical to go back to a place that was so supportive of the arts.” Fowlie cites the established presence of arts organizations, such as Maine Media Workshops, the Farnsworth Art Museum, and the Center for Maine Contemporary Art, as support for his decision to locate CIFF in and around Camden. “What was missing was the appreciation for the cinematic arts. I saw it as a unique opportunity to develop something that was more personalized in terms of my 144

Instead of heading for the West Coast like most of his classmates, after graduating from film school CIFF founder Ben Fowlie launched the festival in 2005 in his hometown of Camden.

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Liam Sullivan, chief business development officer at Yarn Corporation and Big Room Studios, which produced virtual reality projects for CIFF’s Storyforms program. Opposite page, clockwise from top left: CIFF venue manager Eileen Level is a film festival fan from California. The Strand Theatre in Rockland, built in 1923 and restored in 2005, is one of the primary venues for the film festival. Documentary filmmaker and Maine summer resident Luke Lorentzen was a Points North Fellow in 2016. Even documentary films are more fun with popcorn.

help in completing the project. While most film pitch sessions are done behind closed doors, these are free community events, held in front of packed crowds at the Camden Opera House. “We put filmmakers with creative energy together with an interested, excited audience wanting to know more about the creative process of making a documentary,” says Fowlie. “When we launched the Points North Pitch, it was our first opportunity to curate new voices, artists that should be recognized but hadn’t been. At that point we were hooked; we found the formula for the festival’s future.”

relationship to the industry,” Fowlie says. “I wanted to build something that the community could benefit from as well.” For the first four years, CIFF focused on presenting documentary films. In 2009, the festival organized the first Points North Forum, a one-day seminar involving the film industry, which was “the seed for what we have now developed as the umbrella organization for the festival,” says Fowlie. “Since the beginning, we have been lucky to have the opportunity to exhibit great content, but we realized after just one year 146

of the forum that our greater vision was in developing filmmakers’ artistic voices.” In 2010, CIFF added the Points North Pitch—a component of the larger Points North Fellowship Program, which quickly became one of the most anticipated events on the festival schedule. Points North Fellows are six teams of filmmakers selected each year, who have an opportunity to work with industry mentors on their documentary projects. At the festival, each team makes a public pitch for its in-progress film to a panel of industry experts, who offer feedback and award one prize that includes professional

From the mezzanine of the opera house, I’m watching the 2016 class of Points North Fellows make their presentations to the panel on stage. Each pitch is exactly seven minutes long, followed by a clip of the film in progress. Luke Lorentzen is pitching his film Midnight Family, about a Mexico City family who run a for-profit ambulance, which they also live in. “CIFF is unique in that it makes a point of championing, supporting films that are quite aggressive with form, films that may not be the most entertaining, but that need to be seen,” Lorentzen says. “I’m pitching to 12 to 15 industry people offering every sort of structural support you could possibly need, and they’re the best of

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the best. It’s the same panel you would find at the IDFA—International Documentary Filmfestival Amsterdam—which is a 300,000-person festival and would have 30 projects pitching.” Lorentzen, whose family has a summer home in Maine, says he’s watched the development of CIFF over time, and is pleased that the festival has stayed accessible, while attracting people young filmmakers like him need to meet. “They get literally everyone you would want up here, throw these beautiful parties, play wonderful films, and it’s really, really unpretentious.”

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Last July, Fowlie, program director Sean Flynn, and former managing director Caroline von Kuhn announced the creation of the Points North Institute. Conceived as an umbrella arts organization with the festival as its core program, it also incorporates a growing roster of year-round artist-support programming. In June, the institute hosted the third-annual Camden/ TFI Retreat, a weeklong residency for filmmakers with projects in development. Sponsored by CNN Films and organized in partnership with the Tribeca Film Institute, the retreat focuses on documentaries that tell American stories. Five projects are

selected, with an emphasis on diversity, and the filmmakers are coached by a group of industry mentors. “The goal of the program is to build a catalogue of work that reflects the shifting landscape of this country,” says Fowlie. Seven films on the film festival circuit this year have gone through either the Camden/ TFI Retreat or the Points North Fellowship. “It’s incredible that our brand is on these films that are premiering at Sundance and Tribeca,” Fowlie says. Among the seven is The Reagan Show, a look at the 40th president’s impact on the country through

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From left: Fowlie introduces a program at the Camden Opera House. A projectionist gears up at Rockland’s Strand Theatre.

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archival footage, which will air on CNN in August. Another, No Man’s Land, about the Bundy family’s nationalist stand in Oregon, has been picked up by First Look Media and is being coproduced by Morgan Spurlock, a 2016 CIFF guest. “It’s the full-circle kind of thing that’s finally starting to happen for us after six to seven years of developing these programs,” says Fowlie. “With everything that we do we’re trying to be the launching pad for the next generation of storytellers.” New for 2017 is a program developed with Kickstarter, the North Star Scholarship, 150

which Fowlie describes as “an opportunity for filmmakers of color to come and experience the festival, and to create a platform to develop their work.” The team also plans to include a discussion with journalists to explore the changing landscape of their work and how it intersects with documentary storytelling. The Points North Institute and CIFF have received a special events grant from the Maine Office of Tourism to help expand its marketing strategy. “It’s about getting the word out that we’re more than a film festival,” Fowlie says. “Just bringing this collective

engagement together over four days in Camden, Rockland, and Rockport is the most exciting and engaging thing that we have. It’s a full-immersion weekend.” Especially in Camden, the whole town seems to be focused on the festival, headquartered for the long weekend at the new, chic 16 Bay View hotel. Merchants welcome the post-summer, pre-leaf-peeping boost of foot traffic and the energy CIFF attendees bring. “It’s infused with creative, out-of-the-box thinking,” says Janet Kooyenga, owner of the boutique Josephine.

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“My first concern would have been, how much recognition can we get in a town of 5,000 people,” says Fowlie. “Now, our location is our biggest asset.” Maine itself is a draw, and Camden, with its picturesque harbor at the foot of Mount Battie, is one of the most attractive communities in the state. Adding to the folksy appeal are some 200 volunteers who work as ushers, ticket agents, and at the festival’s impressive afterparties, where filmmakers, fans, and locals dance, drink, and schmooze in hip art-house settings staged in old Rockland factory buildings. “It’s so important when

you get people from outside that it feel like a community event,” he says. “It’s the best documentary film festival in the world in a small town. We may not have the population of a large city, but what we do have is this unique, original spirit that everyone wants to experience.” That includes a growing number of filmmakers who can say they launched their careers from a coastal village in Maine.

From left: Dowling Walsh Gallery owner Jake Dowling outside the gallery in Rockland. A couple looks out over Camden Harbor and Penobscot Bay from atop Mount Battie.

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