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Katie Drake is the writer and creative director behind Gather, an online destination for travel-inspired living. A former print and web magazine editor, her work has been featured on Domaine Home, Byrdie and The Huffington Post.
Gather has collaborated with brands including kai, Rewined, Calypso St. Barth, Lungarno Collection hotels, Rifle Paper, ACME Fine Wines, Relais Borgo Santo Pietro and Ojai Valley Inn to name a few.
Katie lives in Los Angeles with her husband (and de facto travel photographer) Bo and their snuggly wirehaired dachshund Louis Armstrong.
INSPIRED STORIES AT HOME AND AWAY • Postcard No. 005
Postcard From Portland
“In Maine, there is a deeply ingrained sense that you can always get a little more use out of something.”- Tim Sample
To touch down in the historic port city by the sea is to tap into a low hum of energy, to feel some kind of buzzing excitement in the salty air. Not the electricity of a big city nor the castaway elation of an island escape, this is a subtler, meatier kind of attraction; the kind that comes from spending time in a community of people who, not to put too fine a point on it, are carving their own way. There is, as the humorist Tim Sample puts it, an endearing practicality underscoring the day-to-day, a simplicity that is as much the reason for the Maine aesthetic as the result.
At every turn down Portland’s cobblestones, another study in self-determination seemed to greet us. It was not the absence of an appreciation for the beautiful or delightful. To the contrary, Angela Adams’ nature-inspired homegoods, Portland Trading Co.’s curated corners, The Press Hotel’s typewritten nooks and Eventide Oyster Co.’s restorative flavors are just a few examples of a sweeping reverence for the good life. It felt like a collective belief in a sort of manifest destiny, the ability to drive a new way forward in a place that feeds and accepts and encourages and is proud of its creative class. Not a puritanical stripping down, but rather an understanding that internal fortitude is strong enough to serve as a foundation. Portland is not merely a destination en route, but a partner in living out the journey, duck boots tied tight, lungs filled with mountain air.
With love from Maine land, Katie
PORTLAND, MAINE
GATHER’S GUIDE
STAY
DINE + DRINK
SHOP
UNWIND
EXPLORE
STORIES AWAY
JAUNT
LOCAL GEM
GET TO KNOW
WHAT TO PACK
ESSENTIAL MOMENT
STORIES at HOME
HOME DECOR
FOOD RECIPES
DRINK RECIPES
LOCAL FINDS
THE GATHERING
A Postcard From Portland, Maine + The Gather Guide