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HOMES

Standing Grand

Maine Home+Design

Stone Gables is the name of an English Tudor-style home perched on a granite ledge in Cape Elizabeth. As perhaps befits a windswept, ocean-side property with such a name, the house has a bit of the feel of the manor and comes complete with, if not a sweeping saga, an interesting history.

Seaside Sophistication

Maine Home+Design

Ken Schiano remembers Mary Ann Carey first approaching QA13 Architects, the Bangor firm that he and his wife Paula Beall run, with a peculiar request.

Bright Built Barn

Maine Home+Design

How green can you go?

Wrestling with Style

Maine Home+Design

The fast-talking, gravelly voiced art broker might have, on any given day, a Sir Joshua Reynolds painting in the foyer of his home while a duffel bag packed with a black-and-gold bikini and knee-high boots waits upstairs for his next match.


FOOD

Digging Up Maine's Best Recipes

Food and Wine

Linda Greenlaw isn't exactly the sort of person you'd expect to write a cookbook.

The Maine Event

Food and Wine

... a last-chance-this-year picnic on an island just off the coast.

Soul Survivor

Food and Wine

Christel didn't think she'd ordered fried chicken and biscuits, but that's what the waiter brought.

Azure Café

Down East

The difference between restaurants that fail and those that succeed are the ones that fail close.

Ribollita, Portland

Downeast

The chef's culinary roots are ... well, honey-glazed doughnuts.


TRAVEL

A Summer in the Swiss Hills

New York Times

Thomas Mann’s directive in “The Magic Mountain” couldn’t be clearer: The heady pleasures of the high mountains are all well and good, but sooner or later, you have to descend to the flat lands and begin your real life.

The Water Runs Even in Winter

New York Times

My first day in Saratoga Springs was characteristically grand: I was led up the stairs of a 55-room mansion and told to make myself at home in a tower studio, complete with a prayer closet and bust of the Madonna.

Finding Their Own Way on Christmas

New York Times

Nothing gives you the No Chair in the Great Musical Chairs Game of Life quite like being a Jew on Christmas Day.

Where It Snowed in July

Yankee

When I drive from my home in mid-Maine to the coast, I pass a dilapidated chicken barn that never fails to affect me.


BOOK REVIEWS

The Piano Teacher

by Janice Y.K. Lee
San Francisco Chronicle

The World to Come

by Dara Horn
San Francisco Chronicle

Horse Heaven

by Jane Smiley
San Francisco Chronicle

Heir to the Glimmering World

by Cynthia Ozick
Ms.

Beautiful as the Moon, Radiant as the Stars: Jewish Women in Yiddish Stories,

edited by Sandra Bark
Women’s Review of Books

For a comprehensive list of Debra Spark’s journalism publications, please see her curriculum vitae.

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