Place and a state of mind

“Maine Coast,’’ by Winslow Homer (1896). The site is Prout’s Neck.

“My New England is both a place and state of mind, sometimes hard to fathom, but rarely boring; it is a rugged symphony of rocky pastures and choppy birch-clad hills where partridges sun and deer flaunt white flags; it is a cold, immortal sea crashing against a coast steeped in tradition.’’

— Frank Woolner, in My New England