Personal Best: Place to Be Photographed in the Nude
Swimming suit-less in Sargent Pond can be liberating, as one writer discovered.
Edgar Allen Beem
Given the array of biting insects, the prevalence of cold waters, and the unpredictability of the weather, not to mention the natural modesty of the natives, Maine is not a great place for nudity. Oh, you might from time to time see some skinny-dippers in the flooded quarries on Vinalhaven or a few artists au naturel sunning themselves on the rocks at Haystack Mountain School of Crafts on Deer Isle, but, other than that, Maine is pretty much a clothing-mandatory kind of place.If for some reason, however, you ever find it necessary or desirable to be photographed in the buff al fresco, the very best place to do so is Sargent Pond in Acadia National Park.[For the rest of this story, see the January 2008 issue of Down East]
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