Whoopie Pies

My father was from an old New England family in Maine—we are descendants of Roger Conant, who founded Salem, Massachusetts—and several times a year we would go there to visit my grandfather and my step-grandmother Marion. My recollections of our Thanksgiving trips are tainted by memories of freezing in the car on the drive up, but my summer memories are still vivid and fond: fresh lobster, boiled new potatoes—grown by my grandfather and cooked with plenty of butter—and whoo