Issue 94 Table of Contents

Table of Contents

Departments

AWANADJO ALMANACK
The warmer weather draws us away from our desks.
By Rob McCall

A POSTCARD IN TIME
The best French fries in all the world, if not the universe.
By Peter Spectre

LETTER FROM AWAY
A Fine Day on Great Blasket Island
By Kathleen Brandes

SALTWATER FOODWAYS
Whence the Doughnut Hole?
By Sandra L. Oliver

MY BOAT, MY HARBOR
A Boat Named Freedom
By Richard Dudman

OFF OFF THE DRAWING BOARD
Thinking outside the hull: a lobsterman, a designer, and a boatbuilder look to revolutionize the lobsterboat and the fishery.
By Peter Bass

GUNKHOLING WITH GIZMO
Bunker's Wharf
By Ben Ellison

Features

Special Section: Maritime Portland
We explore Maine’s busiest port city.

Harry Brown’s Maine
Verisimilitude—the appearance of truth—is the hallmark of this nineteenth-century Maine artist’s work now on exhibit at the Portland Museum of Art.
By Carl Little

Two Families, Two Wharves
Two of Portland’s principal family owned and operated wharves— Union and Long—have maintained their success into a new century by adapting to the times.
BY Dave Cheever Photographs by Jeff Scher

Searching for Ferry Village
South Portland is a city of neighborhoods, many of which were originally established as small towns. Central to all was Ferry Village.
By Iver E. Lofving

The Gulf of Maine Research Institute
Bringing together scientists, students, and fishermen in a practical forum to examine the past, present, and future of our fisheries.
By Melissa Waterman

David Moulton’s Everlasting Flowers
The wild peonies rooted in the fields and woods of Gilsland Farm have a long past and a serendipitous present.
By Regina Cole | Photographs by Sandy Agrafiotis

Other Features

Jerry Stelmok: A Builder, His Student, and Their Craft
If you want to build a wood and canvas canoe, you go to the source.
By Donnie Mullen

Encore, Once Again

By Bret Gillam