DOES ANY IMAGE evoke summer more than a canoe drifting across a crystalline lake edged with pines? Just the smell of bristlecone brings back memories of splintery wooden docks, mint cool waters and the endearingly gloppy porridge served at sleep-away camp. At the Migis Lodge on the northwestern banks of Maine’s Sebago Lake, the Porta family has been re-creating that footloose feeling for adults and their own children—with make-your-own ice cream sundae socials and Bingo nights—since 1968.
Migis [pronounced M-eye-Gus] is...