The sampler
Rachel Hardage Barrett EDITOR-IN-CHIEF @RACHELHARDAGEBARRETT A A Welcome from the Editor If one image captures the spirit of this issue, it would be the bookshelf on pg. 79, which holds what I imagine to be decades’ worth of dog-eared reads—Nancy Drew! The Hardy Boys!—enjoyed by generations of sun-bronzed bookworms. There’s just something about getting lost in a physical book that epitomizes the spirit of summer escapism. It should come as no surprise that those page-turner-packed bookshelves belong to a beautifully crusty cabin in Maine, because no state better evokes the carefree, feet-dangling-in-the-water, gone-fishin’ feeling of the season than one nicknamed Vacationland (pg. 58). Even if you don’t have a road trip to the Northeast in your future, I hope this issue devoted to downtime leaves you with that feeling of heading to a hammock…