Somewhere in Maine it is 4th of July year round.
Once you enter Maine, there is something in the air and water that make the state feel distinctly Maine. The painter Marsden Hartley felt very strongly about his home state, and for decades he tried to define Maine in his paintings, probably more successfully than any other painter before him.

Hurricane Island, Vinalhaven, Maine at the Philadelphia Museum of Art is one of Hartley's late paintings that capture the essence of Maine so beautifully.