Category: Maine

Bean Me Up, Scotty!

The giant boot at LL Bean flagship store in Freeport, Maine.

The giant boot at LL Bean flagship store in Freeport, Maine.

Being a semi-delicate urban girl whose Brownie troop appeared in a local paper with the headline, “City Girls See Cow,” I never thought I’d be taken over by a desire to take up fly-fishing, wear rubber boots or sleep in a folding hammock.

But that I did when I visited the campus-sized flagship store of LL Bean in Freeport, Maine last week. My tote-bag and my kid’s years of backpacks proved I was no stranger to the world of Bean, but I was clueless about the vastness of its empire. Read the full post »