Kennebunk Portraits
You can read the story of a Maine town in the faces of its people.
By Virginia Wright, photography by Benjamin Magro
People all over the world have heard of Kennebunkport, the lifelong summer retreat of President George H.W. Bush and his wife, Barbara. The media attention given this seaside town of 3,720 is less intense now that the Bushes are retired, but images of Kennebunkport still flash around the globe with some regularity owing to the Bushes' fondness for hosting guests like President Bill Clinton and Saudi Prince Bandar, not to mention their son, the president of the United States of America.But those images are narrowly focused on a very short, very fabulous stretch of Ocean Avenue, where most of the homes rival the grandeur of the Bushes' estate at Walker's Point.
