On my first day here, I kayaked from Portland to Fort Gorges, an imposing Civil War-era granite citadel perched on Hog Island Ledge in the middle of the bay. The fort, which was constructed during the ...

Those boat trips out to Fort Gorges, a historic former U.S. military fort on Casco Bay, proved dark and dangerous. "I'm sure he fell. He probably fell in the water at least once going out to the ...