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Issue 194 Table of Contents

May/June 2025

The Maine I Love—Kate Holden
A visit to Center Harbor and environs

A Grand Camp
By chance, on a stop en route to a Canadian fishing trip, a New York angler discovers what will become his “magnificent” camp on a lake the in the North Woods.

Boats For Golden Pond
With a yearning for a classic mahogany runabout, an intrepid boat guy ponders an affordable and doable kit boat.

Boatyard Dog - Griffin - Issue 194

Camden’s Mother’s Day Perennial Swap
Camden’s Mother’s Day perennial exchange has become a spring tradition.

Caught at Maynard’s Camps, Moose River, Rockwood, Maine

Discovering Maine’s Rivers, Lakes, and Ponds on the Fly
A sailor gets a whole new look at outdoor life in Maine when he learns to flyfish.

Flagstaff Lake: What Lies Below
Flagstaff Lake is a northern Maine destination with a history as interesting as it is haunting.

Funds, Marinas, Lobsters, & Vikings

Keepsakes from the Phillips Brothers’ Maine
Photographers and cartologists, the Phillips Brothers spent decades in the 1900s creating maps and postcards that were both artful and useful wayfinding tools and keepsakes for visitors to Maine.

Lise Bécu’s Benevolent Hand
Tenants Harbor-based sculptor Lise Bécu brings life to stone.

Loving and Conserving the North Woods
From 1990 to 2015, a wide array of individuals and organizations cooperatively pitched in to preserve the wilderness they found in Maine’s North Woods.

Maine Attraction Water Ski Show is Broadway on Water
Flips, jumps, twirls, pyramids—they’re all part of the Maine Attraction Water Ski Show on summer evenings in Sanford.

Talking ’Toons

When Canoes Ruled the Kennebunk
When it opened in the late 1800s, the Kennebunk River Club relied on canoe races to attract new members from the Cape Arundel summer colony.

Where a Classic Boat Finds New Life
Classic canoes and wood boats find new life at the Kimball Pond Boat Barn in Vienna, Maine.

Maine Boats, Homes & Harbors, Issue 194
Issue 194 | May/June 2025
Volume 38 | Number 3
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On the cover: For nearly four decades the Maine Attraction Waterski Show Team has been dazzling summer audiences with its colorful costumes, acrobatic moves, and intricate scripted routines.