Summer drinking

Sailor from USS Nitze competes in the cod race during Fourth of July celebration in Eastport, Maine in 2011.

Sailor from USS Nitze competes in the cod race during Fourth of July celebration in Eastport, Maine in 2011.

'"O high New England summer, warm

 

and fortified against the storm

 

by nightly nips you once adored,

 

though never going overboard....''

 

-- From "Fourth of July in Maine,'' by Robert Lowell