Stonington has just a few restaurants, galleries, small inns, and a wonderful Opera House. It is over one hundred years old and was restored in 2000, after being left for ruin.
I had the great fortune to see a documentary about the painter John Marin while I was there. Maine, especially Stonington, was one of John Marin's favorite places. I was surprised to see that he went to the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (where I was heading before losing everything I owned, and nearly my life, in a fire), spent time in Taos, New Mexico, and went out of his way to travel through Vermont, on his way from Maine to New York, at the end of the summer. All places I've lived and loved.
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