November – December 2010

The Science of Art

The owner of Mount Desert Island’s most compelling new vacation home wrote to his architect soon after moving in. “He…

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An Affair to Remember

Chemistry or chance—does it matter? Whatever the reason, a good relationship is gold. In romance or otherwise, when it clicks…

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Modern Love

America in the mid-twentieth-century was a heady time. World War II was over, the economy was booming and the American…

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Motion Studies

When Toots Zynsky was a girl, there was nothing she wanted more than to be a dancer. Well-meaning friends and…

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Paws and Reflect

In the old days you know what pitted one neighbor against another? Pigs. Here in post-Colonial New England there were…

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