Night Hauling was painted by the twenty-seven-year-old Andrew Wyeth at
the height of World War Two. Set against the Maine coast in Port Clyde,
where Wyeth’s family summered, it depicts a shadowy lobsterman hauling
in a trap under cover of darkness, the scene lit only by the figure’s
concealed lamp and the water’s startling nocturnal phosphorescence.
What I would give to eat lunch with my friends in school and peel the sticker off my fruit and put it on their clothes and say “you cost 60 cents” or “you’re a pear.” I miss that.
