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The Beautiful & Tanned

Carson Kressley takes Ogunquit by storm to kick off a fantastic summer theater season that is sure to wow audiences statewide. By

Meagan S. Riedmann

Good Eye

The Art of the Steal’s Albert C. Barnes wasn’t the only collector to see the beauty in what others dismissed as a little ‘sketchy.’ Our own Joan Whitney Payson, too, put on a world-class show. By

Colin W. Sargent

Gold Port

Remember the 80s? Investing in business is sexy again in Portland.

Jared Thurber

Jill McGowan & “The Great White Shirt” How do you keep a classic fresh? From Staff & Wire Reports

See Breezes

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New Façade in Town

In the case of One Monument Way, beauty is intentionally skin deep.

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Ship Shape

America’s Cup veteran Cam Lewis on meeting the physical demands of ocean racing.

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Forget last summer. “I know what you did this summer.”

Remember this summer? The one that hasn’t happened yet? We do, thanks to the new Zoltar fortune-telling machine we’ve just purchased (wishful thinking) for our Portland Magazine headquarters at 165 State Street. With the help of a roll of quarters and the serene and amiable prescience of our scryerin-a-box, we already know what you did this summer! Consider.

This summer: You returned to the Lobster Shack in Cape Elizabeth, stood at the edge of the Atlantic, felt an incredibly cool breeze, and once again ate the best lobster roll you’ve ever had in your life. All around you, the air was so fresh and young it took you by surprise. Travelers from all around the globe began to gather here, too, as if they’d discovered the Eighth Wonder of the World. And they had. Squeamish about lobster? Come here for the gulls alone. They’re a wonderful floor show, as skillful and crafty as Fagan’s pickpockets.

This summer: As though under a spell, you drove to The Goldenrod in York Beach. Standing outside the plate-glass window, you found yourself hypnotized by the taffy machine, which sensuously stretched the saltwater taffy and then chopped and spun it, twisting off the magic finished product in delicious kisses that fell into a box. Plunging indoors from the sidewalk, you entered the timeless knotty pine dining room and ordered the lobster club, finishing with a lime rickey in an icy glass holder in polished nickel. Standing up, you saw your reflection in the deep, luscious coats of new varnish on your table. In mid-departure, you promised yourself you’d only buy the small box of candy kisses, but at the last minute you bought the large. You promised yourself and all your friends back home that you wouldn’t eat all the peanut-butter ones ahead of them–before you even left the parking lot–and then you did.

This summer: You booked a two-hour windjammer ride across Casco Bay on the Wendameen (in Long Island Sound, her former passengers included Eugene O’Neill and Katherine Anne Porter) or the Bagheera (so “yar” she’s sailed to the Galapagos Islands!), both designed by legendary naval architect John Alden. Ducking between shadows and sunshine, you darted between Fort Gorges and Portland Head Light. As evening set the skyline on fire, for just a second, you felt a part of the beauty.

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Wild about the Wild child

Loved the article about Dan Fogelberg [“Wild Child,” April 2010]. Your interview with [his wife] Jean exposes the side of Dan most people did not know.

Beyond being “a talented portrait painter, illustrator, and photographer, as well as an amazing chef. Oh, and he did a James Mason impression that would slay me every time,” Dan was a real Mensch with a lot of tolerance and compassion–I never heard him saying anything negative about anyone. I really miss him and his kindhearted spirit. Franz Weber, Olympian & 6x world speed skiing champion, current North American speed skiing recordholder, Reno, Nevada

What an amazing and well written tribute to Dan Fogelberg. His love of Maine and his philosophy of how to live a life fulfilled during the challenge of cancer treatment and facing the end of life gives inspiration to us all. Thanks to Jean for sharing your stories and keeping Dan’s memory alive for all who continue to love his music and legacy. After reading this article, I want my husband to take me to Maine for our next vacation.

Sally Niles, Phoenix, Arizona

What a wonderful interview with Jean Fogelberg. I’ve been a huge Dan Fogelberg fan for years and have had a hole in my musical heart since his passing. I read this piece and listened to his music in the background with a lump in my throat. Jean’s intimate conversation made me feel like I knew him a little

better and missed him much more. He sounds like he was a wonderful person behind the music, and we are all blessed that he shared his many gifts with us. Thank you for giving us this peek into his life.

Tom Fisch,

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If there is one famous person [I wish] I could have met, it’s Dan Fogelberg. As a fan who has followed his career for as long as he’s been in the music business, I’ve marveled at everything he’s recorded. His music has meant so much to me, and the article in your magazine truly did put a picture in my mind of all that Dan really was to everyone–unique, private, personal, real, and deep. His music really told it all, with nothing to hide or pretend.

Dan’s appreciation for–and multi-talents with–many different styles of music are brilliant. I’ve been a classical dancer for over 30 years, and it’s not difficult to pick up on the classical twist he gives to his musical arrangements. One could really choreograph a dance to most of his music. For those who never took the time to listen, they missed one of the most gifted artists of our time.

I feel that Jean has been relentlessly generous in sharing the many questions that have remained a mystery to most ‘Dan fans.’ At the same time, I commend her for remaining true and respectful of the solitude and privacy that was important to Dan. Resa Mahoney, Boxborough, Massachusetts.

That was a great article–very insightful, with very specific questions to give us a window into his personal life, which was always so guarded. He truly was an incredible man in so many different aspects. Thank you! I thoroughly enjoyed reading it.

Jackie Doorbar, East Sussex, England

Past the first hurdle

Thank you for your informative, insightful, and accurate article [“Dream Boat,” February/March 2010] as well as the responses by the gubernatorial candidates. In the upcoming year of our Phase II effort, we will address all the concerns of bringing the Queen of all the ship museums to Portland Harbor in hopes that the community will understand the historic and economic value of this great ship to Maine and all of New England. Richard Fitzgerald, member, board of directors, USS John F Kennedy Museum

The Beautiful Tanned

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the audience is sure to go wild when Carson Kressley takes ogunquit Playhouse by storm June 9-26 to kick off a fantastic summer theater season across the state.

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he stage at Ogunquit Playhouse is about to be taken hostage and made over in true star fashion. Carson Kressley, Emmy-winning television personality from Queer Eye for the Straight Guy and transformational self-esteem booster on How to Look Good Naked, will be starring as ‘Man in Chair’ in The Drowsy Chaperone.

Ogunquit Playhouse is famous for enticing notables to grace their stage, most recently Lorenzo Lamas the last two summers. It was a natural progression to seek out another big name this year. “Everyone here thinks Carson’s going to be an amazing asset to our summer theater; he has tons of fans, and people really love him,” says Cheryl Farley, director of marketing at Ogunquit Playhouse.

Carson waxes poetic about big martinis in our small-town taverns.

Have you done theater before?

I did theater in college but no role as major as this one. When they called me and asked me to play Man in Chair, I was like, oh my, this is going to be easy. All I have to do is just sit there. Then I read through the part, and this character is juicy, saucy, and snarky–he is not like me at all! The work I usually do is reality television, so it’s just me being me. It’s going to be really fun to play a character! It’s going to be very different, more theatrical. It’s going to be all about entertaining people so they can come out and have fun.

What drew you to the Ogunquit Playhouse team for summer theater in Maine?

First of all, just the idea of spending part of my summer in Maine. Summer in Maine is just heaven. I’m also looking for a small-town experience. I’ve always spent time in either big cities like New York or rural areas. I just want to walk around Ogunquit and pretend I live there. I can’t wait to go shopping and be part of the community.

What was the biggest fashion faux pas of the Jazz Age, the setting for The Drowsy Chaperone? I just love the clothes, the flapper girl showing some leg, and fitted three-piece men’s suits, which are very in style right now. I think the worst thing they did was put actual grease in their hair. I mean, today we have all these amazing styling products. It was just horrible.

What if they make you put grease in your hair as part of your costume?

I’d do it if I had to for my art.

If you were to give Ogunquit a makeover, what would you do?

Nothing! I think it’s perfect, classic New England, but if I had to do anything I would add a Neiman Marcus.

What are you most excited about experiencing here during your stay?

Everything. If it was good enough for Bette Davis, it’s good enough for me. There are just so many things: lobster rolls, Maine beaches, outlet shopping in Kittery. There are so many great antique shops, too. It’s just world class shopping.

You came to Maine in 2007 to see a friend in the opening of La Cage Aux Folles in Ogunquit. Was that the first time you were here?

No, I was in Ogunquit in the early 1990s. It’s a huge gay destination, and I was there for Halloween.

Cheryl Farley at the Playhouse says when you came to the opening of La Cage Aux Folles you became an “instant friend” with many people at the theater. What is your fondest memory of that opening?

There’s a little bed and breakfast called Beach Street. The owners, Dick and Linda, invited us. We went to breakfast there, and it was so sweet–homemade muffins, friendly, warm and inviting. I can’t wait to go back there.

That was my absolute favorite thing about my last trip.

Did you visit Marginal Way, the ocean walk in Ogunquit? Yes. And I don’t think it’s marginal at all! That’s a terrible name for it. It’s got such gorgeous views of the ocean. If I had to rename it, I‘d rename it “Spectacular Way.”

What were your impressions of the white bridge over Perkins Cove? Did it remind you of anything?

I didn’t see it…but that’s a great name for a novel, White Bridge over Perkin’s Cove, by Carson Kressley. In fact, I will write that in my downtime.

Could you write a novel in a month? Honey, I can barely read a novel in a month!

From your experience, what does the entertainment industry think of Maine?

I think everyone loves Maine. In fact, it wasn’t long ago that I was on a plane, sitting next to Stockard Channing (who played Rizzo in the screen version of Grease). She lives most of the

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know the feeling: a song embeds itself in your mental soundtrack and you’ve just gotta belt it out! It’s cathartic. Maine State Music Theatre has some seriously singable tunes to tempt you with this

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Aug. 18—Sep. 11 Sep. 15—Oct. 24 Featuring Sally Struthers as Matron “Mama” Morton

year in Maine, and we were talking about it. I think people are realizing the beauty and tranquility of it. I can’t wait to experience that.

What was the most beautiful thing you saw on your last visit? A guy named Luis and the beach, in that order.

What is the first thing you’re going to do when you get into Ogunquit at the end of May?

As soon as I get into town, I’m going to go have a big, fat martini and meet some of the locals. n

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Theater

A Company of Girls, Breakwater School, Portland. The Magic Finger May 2-3 and 9-10; Elsewhere and Back May 2-3 and 9-10. 874-2107 or acompanyofgirls.org

Acorn Productions, Dana Warp Mill, 90 Bridge Street, Westbrook. Naked Shakespeare presents Sonnet and Soliloquies May 3 and June 7, Wine Bar on Wharf Street, Portland; Naked Shakespeare presents The Westbrook Shakespeare Festival featuring As You Like It and Romeo and Juliet May 14-16 and 21-23, Riverbank Park, Westbrook; Naked Shakespeare presents Midsummer Madness TBA, Inn at Peaks Island. 854-0065 or acorn-productions.org

Arundel Barn Playhouse, 53 Old Post Road, Arundel. The East Coast Premier of Nunset Boulevard June 8-26; The Producers June 29-July 17; Annie July 20-31; Shout! The Mod Musical August 3-14; Forbidden Broadway August 17-28. 985-5552 or arundelbarnplayhouse.com

Belfast Maskers, 43 Front Street, Belfast. Harvey through May 9; To the Moon May 15; One Night with Janis June 18 at the American Legion Hall on Church Street; Picnic July 1-3 and 8-11; Cinderella July 22-31 weather permitting at Steamboat Landing Park; Deathtrap September 30-October 3 and 7-10. 3389668 or belfastmaskerstheater.com

Camden Opera House, 29 Elm Street, Camden. Inferno Bar and Grill May 14-15, 21, and 23; A Streetcar Named Desire June 24-27; Lighthouse: The Musical July 15-17 and 22-24; Godspell August 13-15 and 20-22. 236-7963 or camdenoperahouse.com

Children’s Museum and Theater of Maine, 142 Free Street, Portland. Pinocchio July 22-25 and July 29-August 1. 828-1234 or kitetails.org

Community Little Theater of Lewiston- Auburn, Great Falls Performing Arts Center, 30 Academy Street, Auburn. Deathtrap June18-27; Peter Pan August 6-15 at the Lewiston Middle School Auditorium on 75 Central Avenue. 783-0958 or laclt.com/public Criterion Theater, 35 Cottage Street, Bar Harbor.

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Opened in 1932, the Criterion is a beautifully preserved Art Deco theater listed on the National Registry of Historic Places featuring live music, movies, and theater. Watch them from the ‘floating balcony.’ 288-3441 or criteriontheater.com

deertrees theater and Cultural Center, 162 Deertrees Road, Harrison. Hello Dolly June 18-20 and 25-27; Theater Festival August 4-6, 11-14, and 18-21; Two for the Seasaw August 25-28; Alfred Hitchcock’s The 39 Steps September 1-4. 583-6747 or deertreestheatre.org

Fenix theatre Company, 81 Spruce Street, Portland. William Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night July 22-24, July 29-31, August 5-7, and 12-14 at Deering Oaks Park. Portland. 400-6223 or fenixtheatre.org

Freeport Community players, Freeport Performing Arts Center, 30 Holbrook Street, Freeport. I Hate Hamlet July15-August 1. 865-2220 or fcponline.org

Gaslight theater, City Hall, 1 Winthrop, Hallowell. Bells are Ringing June 18-20 and 24-27; Born Yesterday September 3-5 and 9-11; My Three Angels November 12-14 and 18-20. 626-3698 or gaslighttheater.org

Good theater, at the St. lawrence art Center, 76 Congress Street, Portland. Theater resumes production in October with August-Osage County October 14-November 7. 885-5883 or goodtheater.com

Hackmatack playhouse, 538 Route 9, Berwick. Cinderella June 24-July 10; Leading Ladies July 14-July 24; Carousel July 28-Aug 14; Hello Dolly Aug 18-Aug 28. 698-1807 or hackmatack.org

Harbor light Stage, various locations. Lamplight Dialogues: A Nighttime Journey into the Ghost Lives of Puddle Dock through May 23 at the History Theater in Strawbery Banke 14 Hancock Street, Portsmouth, New Hampshire; Shooting Star May 13-23 at the York Harbor Reading Room at 491 York Street, York Harbor. 439-5769 or harborlightstage.org

lakewood theater, 76 Theater Road, Madison. Suds: The Musical May 20-23 and 26-29; Drop Dead June 3-6 and 9-12; Little Women June 17-20 and 2326; Cash: Ring of Fire July 1-4 and July 7-10; Shakespeare in Hollywood July 15-18 and 21-24; Gypsy July 29-August 1 and August 4-7; Looking August 12-14 and 19-21; Dracula August 26-29 and September 1-4; Who’s Under Where September 9-12 and 15-18. 4747176 or lakewoodtheater.org

lyric Music theater, 176 Sawyer Street, South Portland. Guys and Dolls through May 8. 799-1421 or lyricmusictheater.org

Mad Horse theatre Company, 955 Forest Avenue, Portland. The Normal Heart June 3-20. 730-2389 or madhorse.com

Maine State Music theatre, Bowdoin College, Brunswick. Always…Patsy Cline June 9-26; My Fair Lady June 30-July 17; Chicago July 21-August 7; Monty Python’s Spamalot August 11-28. 725-8769 or msmt.org

ogunquit playhouse, 10 Maine Street, Ogunquit. The Drowsy Chaperone June 9-26; The Sound of Music June 30-July 24; Sunset Boulevard July28-August 14; Monty Python’s Spamalot August 18-September 11; Chicago September 15-October 24. 646-5511 or ogunquitplayhouse.org

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Old Port Playhouse, 19 Temple Street, Portland. Little Shop of Horrors May 7-23; The Property Known as Garland June 3-27; Mid-Life! The Crisis Musical July 8-August 1; My First Time August 12-29. 773-0333 or oldportplayhouse.com

Opera House at Boothbay Harbor, 86 Townsend Avenue, Boothbay Harbor. Muse of Fire June 11; The Best of Broadway July 9. 633-5159 or boothbayoperahouse.com

Penobscot Theatre Company, 131 Main Street, Bangor. Hedwig and the Angry Inch through May 2; The Underpants May 26-June 13; Northern Writes: 4th Annual New Play Festival June 24-July 3; Thoroughly Modern Millie July 30-August 1; Alfred Hitchcock’s The 39 Steps September 8-26. 942-3333 or penobscottheatre.org

Player’s Ring, 105 Marcy Street, Portsmouth. Libertine through May 9; Hedwig and the Angry Inch May 14-30; Hamlet/Rozencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead June 4-20. 603-436-8123 or playersring.org

Portland Opera Repertory Theater, Merrill Auditorium, Portland. PORTopera’s Annual Gala Event Into the (Enchanted) Woods June 4; Hansel and Gretel July 29 and 31. 879-7678 or portopera.org

Portland Players, 420 Cottage Road, South Portland. West Side Story May 14-30. 799-7337 or portlandplayers.org

Portland Stage Company, 25 Forest Avenue, Portland. Bach at Leipzig May 4-23. Alfred Hitchcock’s The 39 Steps September 28-October 24; Last Gas November 2-21. 774-0465 or portlandstage.com

The Public Theatre, 31 Maple Street, Lewiston. Southern Comforts May 7-16. 782-3200 or thepublictheatre.org

St. Lawrence Arts Center, 76 Congress Street, Portland. Juno and the Paycock May 6-23; Jesus and the Pirates May 26-June 6; 775-5568 or stlawrencearts.org

Schoolhouse Arts Center, Route 114, Sebago Lake Village. Grease May 13-23; Fiddler on the Roof July 8-25; Aladdin (Student Performance) July 30-August 1; Teen Summer Shakespeare Performance August 13-15. 642-3743 or schoolhousearts.org

Studio Theatre of Bath, 880 Washington Street, Bath. The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee May 28- 30 and June 4-6. 442-8455 or studiotheatreofbath.com

Theater at Monmouth, 795 Main Street, Monmouth. Shakespeare’s Clownes: A Foole’s Guide to Shakespeare June 26; The Comedy of Errors July 8-August 21; Is He Dead? July 15-August 21; Misalliance July 23-August 20; Pericles, Prince of Tyre July 30-August 19; The Canterville Ghost August 3-20; The Pirates of Penzance September 23-October 3. 933-9999 or theateratmonmouth.org

The Theater Project, 14 School Street, Brunswick. Oliver Twist May 7-23; Voices in the Mirror June 11-13; The Neverending Story July 30-August 1; The Tempest August 6-15; Matilda August 20-22. 7298584 or theaterproject.com

–Compiled by Meagan S. Riedmann

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Bay Chamber Concerts, Rockland, Rockport, and Camden. Barrage, May 2; and Odeon Chamber Orchestra and Spring Concert, May 16 and 25. 2362823, or baychamberconcerts.org

Franco american Heritage Center, 46 Cedar Street, Lewiston. Androscoggin Valley Community Orchestra Concert, May 2; Igor Lovchinsky, May 7; “Remembering Tom Rowe,” May 8; Celtic Tuesdays with Duane Andrews and Dwayne Cote, May 19; and Maine Music Society, May 23. 689-2000 or francoamericanheritage.org

Maine Center for the arts, 5746 Collins Center for the Arts, Orono. ”Armida,” Gioachino Rossini, May 1; and “Rachmaninoff Goes Green,” May 16 581-1755 or collinscenterforthearts.com

one longfellow Square, 181 State Street, Portland. Rachel Efron and Audrey Ryan, May 1; Wepecket Island Rolling Roots Revue, May 3; Cheryl Wheeler, May 7; Martin Hayes & Dennis Cahill, May 8; The Portland Jazz Orchestra, May 13; Cindy Bullens CD Release Party, May 14; Michelle Shocked: Arkansas Traveler Tour, May 15; Decompression Chamber Music Series, May 17; The Toughcats, May 20; Pete Miller CD Release, May 21; Scott Nygaard & Crow Molly and Annalivia, May 22; Primo Cubano, May 27; Tommy Emmanuel, May 28; DudeFest 2010, May 29; and Tom Russell, June 1. 761-1757 or onelongfellowsquare.com

port City Music Hall, 504 Congress Street, Portland. Halestorm with Janus, Burn Halo and Madam Adam, May 6; Bebe Buell, Twisted Roots, and Loverless, May 8; Enterprise Records: Vintage Vinyl Show, May 9; Dr. Dog, May 10; Dierks Bentley, The Travelin McCourys, and Hayes Carll, May 11; Railroad Earth, May 13; Sage Francis, May 14; “We Push Buttons,” a monthly electronic dance party, May 15; and Mighty Mystic with Fear Nuttin Band and Mystic Vibes, May 28. 899-4990 or portcitymusichall.com

portland Symphony orchestra, Merrill Auditorium, 20 Myrtle Street, Portland. “Mighty Mahler,” with the Choral Art Society’s Masterworks Chorus, May 2 and 4 and “Percussion: The Beat Goes On!,” May 13 to 25. 842-0800, 842-0812 TTY, or portlandsymphony.com

Stone Mountain arts Center, 695 Dug Way

road, brownfield. Greg brown, May 7; Gordon bok, May 8; “a Mother of a craft Fair,” May 9; Kevin barry and consuelo candelaria barry, May 14; Darol anger and his republic of strings, May 15; Fryeburg academy Jazz ensembles, May 16; rooster revue, May 18 and 19; crooked still, May 21; rose cousins, May 22; and “stone Mountain liVe!,” June 5. 935-7292 or stonemountainartscenter.com

abbe Museum, 26 Mount Desert street, bar harbor. ongoing: “layers of time;” “sieur de Mont;”

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Addison Woolley Gallery at Studio 203A, 61 Pleasant Street, Portland. “Photographs by David Wade and Fran Vita-Taylor,” May 7 to 14. 450-8499 or addisonwoolley.com

A Fine Thing: Edward T. Pollack Fine Arts, 29 Forest Avenue, Portland. German Expressionist Prints, to May 15. 699-2919 or edpollackfinearts.com

Art Gallery at UNE, Westbrook College Campus, University of New England, 716 Stevens Avenue, Portland. “Celebrating Women,” seven international festivals honoring women photographed by Paola Gianturco, to May 20; and “The Art of Drawing,” May 26 to August 29. 221-4490 or une.edu/artgallery

Atrium Arts Gallery, University of Southern Maine, Lewiston-Auburn College, Lewiston. “Vernal Pools,” to June 30. 753-6500 or usm.maine.edu/lac/art

Aucocisco Gallery, 89 Exchange Street, Portland. “Works by Katherine Bradford,” in May, opening with First Friday reception. 775-2222 or aucocisco.com

Bates College Museum of Art, Lewiston. Senior Thesis Show 2010, to May 30. 786-6158 or bates. edu/acad/museum

Dyer Library/Saco Museum, 371 Main Street, Saco. “Making Her Way: Mill Girls of Saco and Biddeford,”

ongoing; “The 2012 Mill-ennial: Celebrating the Art and Artists of the Cities on the Saco,” to June 13; “Making History: Art and Industry in The Saco River Valley,” opening May 29; and “In a Place by Himself: The Graphic World of Winslow Homer,” June 26 to November 14. 283-3861 or dyerlibrarysacomuseum.org

Farnsworth Museum of Art, 16 Museum Street, Rockland. “Real and Abstract: Contemporary Art at the Farnsworth,” to May 16; Arnold Newman, to August 8; “Four in Maine: Site Specific,” “Rug Hooking in Maine and Beyond,” and Louise Nevelson, to December 31. 596-6457 or farnsworthmuseum.org

Fore Street Gallery, 372 Fore Street, Portland. Gallery group show includes Paul Black, Sylvia Dyer, Claudette Gamache, and Stan Moeller. 874-8084 or forestreetgallery.com

Galeyrie Fine Art, 190 U.S. Route 1, Falmouth. Gallery artists show, new offerings from the Osher Map Collection and Falmouth Historical Society. Presentation of the 1932 Illustrated Map of Maine by Berta and Elmer Hader. 781-3555 or galeyrie.com

Greenhut Galleries, 146 Middle Street, Portland. “Paintings by Kathleen Galligan,” with Side Gallery featured artist Nancy Morgan Barnes, to May 29. 772-2693 or greenhutgalleries.com

Institute of Contemporary Art at Maine College of Art, 522 Congress Street, Portland. “BFA

Thesis Exhibition,” May 7 to 23;” and “Mecamorphosis,” 2010 spring fundraising party, May 13. 775-3052, (800) 639-4808, or meca.edu

June Fitzpatrick Gallery, 122 High Street and 522 Congress Street, Portland. At Congress Street, “Maine College of Art Senior Thesis Exhibit,” and at High Street, “Works on Paper,” group exhibit, through May 31. 772-1961 (High Street), 699-5083 (Congress Street), or junefitzpatrickgallery.com

Maine Maritime Museum, 243 Washington Street, Bath. Current exhibits include ten acres of galleries and exhibits on 25 acres of waterfront, and “Some Burdensome: Big Ships, Big Cargoes,” to June 14. 443-1316 or mainemaritimemuseum.org

Maine State Museum, 83 State House Station, Augusta. “Maine Bounty: The People and Resources That Shaped Maine,” “12,000 Years in Maine,” “Made in Maine,” “Struggle for Identity,” and “Maine Gems.” 287-2301 or maine.gov/museum

Portland Museum of Art, 7 Congress Square, Portland. “Division and Discovery: Recent Work by Frederick Lynch,” to May 16; “Modernism and Masquerade: Max Beckmann,” to May 23; and “Objects of Wonder: Four Centuries of Still Life from the Norton Museum of Art,” to June 6. Movies at the Museum, ongoing, Fridays, Saturdays, and Sundays. 775-6148, portlandmuseum.com, or moviesatthemuseum.org

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University of Maine Museum of Art, 40 Harlow Street, Bangor. “I-95 Triennial Invitational Exhibition,” to June 12. 561-3350 or umma.umaine.edu

Whitney Art Works, 492 Congress Street, Portland. Randy Regier, “Paradox Lost” and “Hecho en Maine,” May 5 to 29. 780-0700 or whitneyartworks.com

Wiscasset Bay Gallery, 67 Main Street, Wiscasset. “Recent Acquisitions and New Works,” to May 28, and “Emergence: New Paintings of Maine,” May 29 to July 2, opening reception, May 29. 882-7682 or wiscassetbaygallery.com

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NShe had incredible resources and graceful race horses. But young Joan Whitney Payson’s true talent was unearthing overlooked masterworks by the likes of Picasso, monet, and Cézanne. travel with her as she crisscrosses the globe in search of fulfillment of her passion.

by colin w. sargent

ow that the controversial documentary The Art of the Steal has the NPR set abuzz by shining the spotlight on art aficionado Albert C. Barnes and what’s happened to his collection since his death, it may well be time to revisit the colorful life and times of our own flapper/collector, Joan Whitney Payson (1903-1975).

Dr. Barnes acquired his first Picasso in Paris for less than $100, but Joan received her first painting as a gift.

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At her 16th birthday party at the Whitney family’s estate, earned with banking and railroad money, Joan untied the twine on a parcel wrapped in brown paper. The debutante, known for her bouncy disposition and short curls the color of champagne, was enchanted. As the celebration raged on , she couldn’t take her eyes off Degas’s Children and Ponies in a Park, 1868 She was hooked.

“She and her mother, Helen Hay Whitney, had seen it…” says Carrie Haslett, director of exhi-

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The SiSTerhood of The Traveling PainTing

1889–painted by Vincent van Gogh (Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, France)

1889-1892–Julien Tanguy (Paris, France), Vincent’s “color merchant” and friend who attended his funeral.* 1892-1905–sold to Octave Mirbeau (Paris, France), for “600 francs”* [Various other sources place the price between 250 and 600 francs, which we translate to a figure roughly between $2,000 and $12,000 in today’s US dollars.]

Vincent van Gogh’s Les Iris stuns as no other painting can. According to Wikipedia, Theo van Gogh wrote to his brother Vincent: “‘[It] strikes the eye from afar. The Irises are a beauty study full of air and life.’” While painting it, Vincent (1853-1890) called it “‘the lightning conductor for my illness.’’’ While Wikipedia reports the first owner to be novelist, “French art critic, and anarchist Octave Mirbeau, who was also one of van Gogh’s first supporters,” Scott Allan of the J. Paul Getty Museum has generously provided us with documents to support the following provenance for the masterpiece that “represents a patch of garden in the asylum at Saint-Rémy, where van Gogh took refuge from May 1889 until May 1890 following his breakdown at Arles.”*

1905–sold to Auguste Pellerin (Paris, France) at Galerie Bernheim Jeune (Paris, France)

bitions and academic programs of the Terra Foundation for American Art in Chicago, “…at a New York auction house,” another source familiar with the matter tells us. “She fell in love with it. Her mother, as an absentee bidder,” planned that surprise.

Dark and dreamlike, the painting charms with mystical woods that provide an almost supernatural background for three young girls frolicking with two ponies and a burro among what appear to be irises. Most satisfyingly, the animals are in eternal balance: one coming, one going, the burro demonstrating his unpredictability and freedom by defiantly lying down, catching the viewer’s eye. At the run, a white lamb rushes in to join the fun.

It’s the ne plus ultra answer to the question, “What do you give a horse-loving girl who already has a horse?”

This study by Degas, never intended for public viewing, was the launch of Joan’s evolving passion to collect not simply paint-

1925-1929–sold to Jacques Doucet (Paris, France; Neuilly sur Seine, France) at Galerie Bernheim Jeune (Paris, France)

1929-1938/1939–by inheritance to Mme. Jacques Doucet (Neuilly-sur-Seine, France)

1938/1939-1945/1946–Jacques Seligmann et Fils (Paris, France; New York, New York)

1945/1946-1947–purchased by M. Knoedler & Co. (New York, New York)

1947-1975–sold to Joan Whitney Payson (New York, New York) for $80,000 1975-1987–by inheritance to John Whitney Payson, who made it the centerpiece of the new Joan Whitney Payson Gallery of Art at Westbrook College in Portland, Maine, a most appropriate tribute to his mother.

1987-1990–sold at Sotheby’s, New York, November 11, 1987, lot 25, to Alan Bond (Perth, Australia), for $53.9 million, “with the controversial assistance of a $27 million loan from Sotheby’s finance department. Bond’s subsequent financial downfall and default led Sotheby’s to repossess the picture just two years later in 1989.”*

1990-Present–sold “for an undisclosed sum”* by Sotheby’s to J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles. “Today at auction, it would probably be worth $75-$80 million,” says Mark Winter of Art Experts, Inc.

ings as objets d’art or investments, but to capture and preserve the very intimate feelings she had for them as talismans able to conjure up adventures and memories in her own life. From the beginning, Haslett says, “her collections were very personal.”

But was she truly ahead of her time in buying up Impressionist and Post-Impressionist works for a song?

“Her whole family was amazing in terms of its support of the arts,” Haslett says. And while Joan’s collecting “wasn’t singularly avant-garde among the upper classes, it is distinguished in its quality.”

Certainly, Joan risked offending the stodgy tastes of those who championed the sentiments of Royal Cortissoz, the popular critic who dismissed modernism as a “PostImpressionist illusion.” Many a bejeweled hand in Newport’s seaside castles still clung to renderings of sailboats, horses, and murky Grand Tour subjects by masters like Titian,

Tintoretto, or, more likely, works done “after the manner of” those giants.

not our Joan!

And yes, young Joan traveled in those circles, spending summer visits at The Breakers, the pharaonic summer “cottage” built on the Newport oceanfront for railroad plutocrat Cornelius Vanderbilt.

More specifically, if you tour The Breakers, the guide might allude to one of the upstairs bedrooms as the place where “little Joanie Whitney used to stay when she visited here.”

“I’m surprised they tossed that in there,” Joan’s son John Whitney Payson has told us [Summerguide 1996]. “Of course, her aunt was Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, so she might very well have visited there as a young girl.”

Clearly, this was a far different ingenue than the dowager empress local Falmouth Foreside residents would claim to remem-

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*For provenance in greater depth, our source is Jennifer Helvey’s Irises: Vincent van Gogh in the Garden, The J. Paul Getty Museum, 2009

ber decades later from various interludes at her place here on Mussel Cove on Route 88, the summer Mainer entombed inside the sports-trivia chestnut that she single-handedly founded a little baseball team we like to call the New York Mets (her husband, Maine native Charles Shipman Payson, apparently didn’t remotely share her interest in, and involvement with, the team).

No. This Joan was a tiara-wearing extrovert who was eminently capable of traveling in fast company that included (see our opening photo) Clark Gable, Marion Davies, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Carole Lombard, Countess Di Frasso (didn’t they all lust for the royal titles), and Prince Serge Obelenski.

the right dealer at the right time

And young Joan was not at all shy about practicing the art of the deal, especially during her many trips to Europe.

As John Whitney Payson has told us, “Le Favre was one of my mom’s favorite galleries. Francois Dolt told me that Carman Messmore [the famous New York art dealer and chairman of Knoedler & Co.] took her to see Madame Marquet, widow of Albert Marquet, whose paintings she collected. It was five floors up, but if my mother wanted to get somewhere, she’d get there. After a while, she used the powder room and saw that Albert Marquet had hand painted many of the tiles. She came out of there and tried to buy the powder room!”

How influential was Carman Messmore on Joan’s evolving taste? As Messmore’s granddaughter, Madelaine MessmoreNetter, says, “He didn’t impose his own taste on his clients. He helped them discover their own. Here’s an example of how he worked. I was in my early twenties when I was invited to attend a cocktail party with my grandparents in New York. My grandfather, who was in his nineties, took me aside and drew my attention to a woman in her mid-seventies. ‘I want you to sit beside her at dinner,’ he said. ‘See how beautiful she is. Look at how her eyes are set back. Look at the lines on her face. Look at her jaw line and her lovely neck.’

“It was about learning to look at things.”Up close, Messmore-Netter felt swept away.

“He had a great way of making you see through to the truth.” Just as mesmerizing was his gift for making his clients feel an intense excitement for being alive.

artistic sibling rivalry

As the seasons passed, Joan began an informal acquisition competition with her younger brother, John Hay “Jock” Whitney (who would go on to amass a collection of over 70 paintings by 19th- and 20th-century European and American masters and serve as a National Gallery trustee from 1961 to 1979), though the way brother and sister went about it was as different as night and day:

“Jock is highly recognized as a collector, and he sought that,” Haslett says. “Of course, it’s not bad for visibility when you’re publisher of the New York Herald Tribune and U.S. Ambassador to England. I think the best man at his wedding was [Robert C. Benchley, with one of the groomsmen] Fred Astaire.”

In contrast, “hers was this personal collection, quietly assembled.”

Just as Albert Barnes’s treasure trove (rarely viewed until the late 1960s) bloomed, so did Joan Whitney Payson’s private collection grow–in the shade.

souvenirs of her travels

•Which leads us to Irises. When Joan purchased this painting, she was 44 years old. Visualize Salma Hayak, Cindy Crawford, Helena Bonham Carter, Janet Jackson .

Irises was purchased “at an auction in 1947 through the guidance of a private dealer, Carman Messmore. She paid $80,000,” John Whitney Payson told Limelight:

“Legend has it that Mrs. Payson thought the price tag was too high. It was Messmore who encouraged her to make the purchase by teasing, ‘Now Joan, don’t be so stingy!’”

“My mother hung it over the fireplace in our living room in New York,” John told the Associated Press in 1987, “and it decorated the room with its red earth colors. It was her favorite painting.”

The resulting auction price for Irises at Sotheby’s New York in 1987 fetched a worldrecord for an individual painting of any kind–$53.9 million.

•On May 2, 1951, she bought Woman in the Garden of Monsieur Forest, painted in 1889 by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (1864-1901), from Hector Brame of Paris for $42,000. According to records at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, which features The Joan Whitney Payson bequest, Brame had acquired it from the estate of Eugéne-Guillaume Boch of Paris, who’d bought it directly “from the artist.” Today,

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her investment is worth roughly $3-5 million, based on comparable ToulouseLautrec works recently sold at auction at Sotheby’s London.

•After 40 minutes on the telephone, from her home on East 87th Street in New York, Madelaine Messmore-Netter pauses and says, “There’s a wonderful [1952] story about Picasso’s Au Lapin Agile [a self-portrait of the artist in harlequin costume, standing for an absinthe at the bar for which the painting, created in 1905, is named]. The family probably wouldn’t tell you about this.

“John and Lucinda Payson had a brother who died in uniform in France in World War II. After the war, my grandparents invited Joanie and Charlie [Payson] to see them where they were staying–they were great friends–on the top of a huge hill in the medieval village of Eze, in southern France.

“My grandfather had Au Lapin Agile with him at the time and felt, ‘This would be a wonderful painting for Joanie.’ They planned a party at the top of the hill, but then decided the hill would be too hard a climb for Joan, so they wrapped it up in brown butcher paper and set up the dinner party in a bistro at the bottom of the hill. He had a great time putting the painting on the wall before Joan arrived. Here they were at the party, and when she looked up and saw it, she said, ‘Oh, you can’t do this! I can’t buy another painting right now.’ Even wealthy people felt they didn’t have any money after the war–everybody was being careful. So my grandparents wrapped it up and took it home.

“Later, they received a cable from Joan: ‘Don’t you dare sell that to anyone else. It’s the only thing [we saw during the trip] that reminds me of my son.’ She bought it as a memori morti.”

The painting’s most recent auction price was for $40.7 million on November 15 in 1989.

•In 1952, from Millicent Rogers of Taos, New Mexico, she bought Peonies by Manet. Today, this desert flower is worth, “I presume, over $10 million,” says Mark Winter of Art Experts, Inc., of Daytona Beach, Florida.

•In 1963, she acquired Bathers by Paul Cézanne (1839-1906) from her confidential dealer Carman Messmore, New York, and De Hauke, New York. The second own-

Joan Whitney Payson

> What could be more ‘eccentric’ in the old-boy rewards system than to be a woman? Recalling the occasions she did exercise her power, the New York Times has said she showed “no trace of shame about the way she threw around her half of the nation’s third-largest private fortune.”

> 23 paintings as part of the Joan Whitney Payson bequest at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.

> Dismissed and disproportionately reduced by history as “the woman who owned the New York Mets.” While her brother, U.S. Ambassador to England John Hay “Jock” Whitney–publisher of the New York Herald Tribune and chairman of Selznick International [Pictures], Inc.–earned worldwide acclaim as a collector, she kept her paintings in a private setting–in the comparative dark–and was dismissed as a “mom” or hobbyist lady who bred KentuckyDerby-winning horses (Twenty Grand in 1931, Shut Out in 1942). Why has time made her so shadowy? For instance, did you know that she and Jock financed the Hollywood epic Gone With the Wind? That she produced New York theater performances?

> Ahead of her time in collecting Impressionist and Post-Impressionist objects of desire which others would fight over after her death.

> No auctioned painting of Barnes has ever topped the $53.9 million earned by Irises at Sotheby’s in 1987.

> Stingy negotiator who never blinked at a risk. Dared to buy only paintings she loved.

> Kept Irises above the fireplace at her place in New York; kept a fabulous collection at Manhasset which she reportedly never insured–no alarm system.

> Died: Stroke, 1975. Buried in Falmouth Foreside.

> Movie: The Thomas Crown Affair (1999), where her collection stars.

ers had been Charles and Olga Loesler of Florence, Italy, who’d purchased the 1875 masterpiece from Ambroise Vollard, Paris, “by exchange with three other Cézannes for cash and ‘un tableau de Lautrec de chez Boussod (femme à la toilette),’ January 25, 1897.”

And on and on. Like Albert Barnes’s hoard, Joan’s private collection remained clouded in obscurity until–just like Barnes–all of a sudden, post-Starbucks, it’s starting to become something terribly important

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Albert C. bArnes

> Dismissed and snubbed by the Philadelphia art establishment as an eccentric curmudgeon who earned his fortune by inventing Argyrol, the silver-nitrate-based treatment for gonorrhea. How could you step around that during a dinner party for museum benefactors?

> Ahead of his time, putting together a $25 billion art collection of edgy, modernist brushmen like Matisse, Picasso, and Cézanne before those ‘furriners’ received international acceptance. He even paid Henri Matisse to cross the Atlantic to paint a 42-foot mural for him in his woodsy 12-acre villa/gallery/arboretum in Merion, Pennsylvania, vowing that the snooty Philadelphia museums who’d turned up their noses at him would never get their hands on his daring collection, even after death. To seal the deal, he released his Barnes Foundation, which includes his house, gallery, and paintings, to the benefit and control of Lincoln University, a prestigious African-American college which counts among its presidents the father of famous civil-rights activist Julian Bond. Enter a crack team of Philadelphia lawyers trying to crack the will open to redirect his paintings to a new Philadelphia museum spawned by the very museums he must have abhorred…

> Stingy negotiator who never blinked at a risk. Dared to buy paintings he loved and to prove the efficacy of his selftaught art expertise.

> Didn’t get the credit he deserved during his lifetime.

> Died: Car crash in 1951. “Nobody knows where he’s buried,” says Andrew Stewart of the Barnes Foundation.

> Movie: The Art of the Steal (2009), where his collection stars.

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Affair , he’s sitting in the European Art Wing of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, dreaming of his next heist while drooling over artworks that are part of Joan’s Impressionist bequest.

Later, in the dark, he steals them in white gloves, a pretty larceny that speaks to many of our private fantasies.

Meanwhile, like pieces of a shimmering comet, Joan’s collection is still breaking up and being sold at auction as awareness of her exquisite taste grows.

Consider Sotheby’s characterization, in October 2007, of her beloved 1945 acquisition Te Poipoi (The Morning), 1892, by Paul Gauguin (gavel price on November 7, 2007, was $39 million): “[This is] one of the greatest Tahitian scenes by the artist remaining in private hands [and] part of one of the most illustrious collections ever formed in America–that of Joan Whitney Payson.”

“There should be a book about this!” curator Haslett exclaims while fielding questions about the devastating sparkle in Joan’s collecting eye.

So how do we compare Joan Whitney Payson with Albert C. Barnes? “She was famous for being fun,” says Madelaine Messmore-Netter. “Barnes was famous for not being fun. At her home in Manhasset, her kids ran around Irises and she was just lucky they didn’t shoot it full of arrows playing cowboys and Indians. I mean, she was a mother. She lived with the art. Barnes lived for the art.”

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With a new summer making fast to the wharves, what can we expect this year in the Old Port? Fun, for one thing, with a refreshing, canny community of just-launched businesses eager to deliver it. How about variety and energy? What does it take to make it big here? After depleted descriptions like “vibrant” fall short, the magic we’re sensing at summer’s edge comes down to people who dare to feel lucky and the raw power of their ideas. During a walk down Exchange Street, you can almost hear the cries of “New dreams for old! New dreams for old!”

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“Motifs is a compendium of housewares, home accents, cards, clothing, and jewelry, but with a French flavor,” says Paula Jalbert, of her boutique on upper Exchange Street. “I’m French Canadian, and I grew up in Fort Kent, hence the Fleur de lis on our flag.”

Although her shop’s been open just six months, 55-year-old Jalbert is not a new face here. “Back in 1981, I opened Communiqués at the tender age of 25. I had that store for nine years before selling it. I think it’s on its fourth owner now. It was a funky, wild store back then, edgy. I think I was only paying $400 in rent.” Nine years ago, Jalbert experimented with her first incarnation of Motifs on Fore Street but closed soon afterward in order to focus on selling real estate.

“All the while, I was waiting for the right location to open up,” she says. “I missed retail, I missed the creative part of it, the visual merchandising and buying. Then this place became available. I felt there was a niche in the marketplace that wasn’t being covered. Right now, that niche is for comfy stuff. People have been spending more time at home, so it’s the soaps, candles, clothing, pajamas, and aprons that have been really big sellers. I’ve been selling three to five pairs of pajamas per week.”

THe OLD PORT PLAYHOuse

“We’re just finishing up our sixth production, going into our seventh,” says Michael Tobin.

“Since we’ve opened our doors it’s been unbelievable; we’ve had really great support,” says Jeffrey Caron.

Before opening the 70-seat playhouse just to the left of Nickelodeon Theater, both men worked professionally in the performing arts for more than 25 years. Caron has sung and acted in many theaters throughout

Maine. He’s best known for his comedic roles in various Gilbert and Sullivan operettas for the Portland Players and the Lyric Music Theatre. Tobin has worked as a professional actor, director, choreographer, and educator in theaters around the country, including directing and acting stints off-Broadway.

“I recently went on hiatus into nursing, but I couldn’t find any work up at Maine Medical Center with the economy the way it was, so I went back to my first passion,” Tobin says. “Jeffrey and I spent a lot of time

sHiMA & MuRA

“This is big-eye tuna,” Chef Dave Shimamura says as he sinks his 12-inch sushi knife into a 65-pound slab of shiny red meat, then carves the fish into strips and stacks them smartly on a tray. “Most of this will be used for sushi.”

Although there is a sushi bar here, Shimamura would never call Shima, his fourstar eatery on Fore Street, a Japanese restaurant. “Shima is a fusion restaurant. Japanese, French, southern, we make what ever we feel like. We even have a fish taco! One very popular specialty is our salmon and

looking at spaces; Jeff actually found this place, which incidentally housed the original Portland Stage Company, known as the Profile Theater back in the 1970s. So it’s got good energy and history as far as theatre goes,” Tobin says.

“With such a small space, you’re right in the middle of the action,” Caron promises. “People enter from behind and from the side of the audience–it’s like stepping into a television and being able to watch it from inside. And let me tell you, being that close to the audience, you can’t get away with leaning over to your partner and whispering, ‘what is my next line?’

“In May, we’re doing the cult musical Little Shop of Horrors, which is what everyone is waiting for. It’s a huge, huge show, the biggest we’re doing this season. We have an unbelievable cast, and it’s really going to knock people for a loop!”

scallop carpaccio topped with truffle oil and Maine sea salt.”

Many of the desserts offered at Shima are made from scratch by Shimamura’s French wife, Isabelle Julian, who owns Mornings in Paris. “She makes beautiful desserts,” says Shimamura. “There’s chocolate mousse, chocolate cake, crème brûlée, and chocolate fondue.”

Chef Shimamura draws on a lifetime of culinary experience when creating his unique entrees. “I was born in Hawaii, raised in Tokyo and London, and spent seven years in Paris studying under famed French chef Paul Bocus.

“I also worked as a private caterer for Atlantic Records. In fact, I used to work for those guys behind you!” He points to a framed and autographed RUSH poster hanging above his kitchen entrance. “I was close, personal friends with lots of musicians back then, including Jimmy Buffett, Steely Dan, Bob Seger, and Stevie Nicks.”

Clockwise from top left: Havana South; Coastal Maine Popcorn Co., Motifs, Sonny’s

Clockwise from top left: Havana South; Coastal Maine Popcorn Co., Motifs, Sonny’s

“By the way, we’re also expanding into the space next door,” he says of Mura, his soon-to-be-opened tapas restaurant. “We’ll have a full cocktail bar serving mojitos, martinis, and margaritas, all made with freshsqueezed juice. When you’re going out and you want a little something to munch on with your beer, you can come to Mura. It’s going to be more affordable; we’re going to have a happy hour and serve appetizers all day. We’ll serve french-fries, crispy wontons, lobster ravioli, and macaroni & cheese with alligator, sea urchin, or crab.”

COaSTaL MaINE POPCORN CO.

“We’re a gourmet popcorn company with anywhere from 30 to 50 flavors, depending on the time of year,” says Paul Roberts, 40, founder of Coastal Maine Popcorn Co. on lower Exchange Street. “We have two different categories, the sweets and the savories. In the sweet category we have flavors like toffee, cotton candy, black licorice, Maine maple, and New England berries, which is a mix of blueberry, strawberry, and raspberry popcorn. In the savory category, you have parmesan, garlic, white cheddar, Southwest cheddar, and salt & vinegar. Up-and-coming flavors we’re working on are cilantro lime, Tuscan herb, and wasabi-soy-ranch, which is incredible,” says Roberts, who gets many of his flavor faves from favorite foods.

Before taking the plunge here, he lived in Florida, where he was on the fast track to be-

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Timely TV appearance for timeless fashion

Timely TV appearance for timeless fashion

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from staff & wire reports

What would you do if Martha Stewart came calling? Maine designer Jill McGowan shares her enthusiasm about her recent appearance on The Martha Stewart Show.

Because everyone’s life is now a reality show, tell us about your excellent adventure taping a segment on The Martha Stewart Show a few weeks ago.

We found out less than a week before the show was to be aired live that we were invited, so I rallied my husband, David Hembre, and son, Theo, to join me and my sister and business partner, Jolene, for a 24-hour road trip to NYC.

We drove south on a Wednesday morning, stopped at Rein’s Deli (Exit 65 off Route 84) for lunch, and arrived in New York around 6 p.m. We checked into our favorite hotel in Chelsea, went out for pizza at Co. on 24th St. & 9th Avenue, and then went to bed around 10 p.m. Jolene and I woke up early, had coffee and

breakfast (I am really grumpy if I don’t have breakfast first thing in the morning), and walked three blocks to Martha’s television studio in Chelsea. We were greeted with open arms and coffee, granola, fruit, yogurt, and fresh boiled eggs in the green room (more breakfast–all good).

We ran through our segment of the show with Mary, the producer, and from that point on, things moved along so smoothly and quickly I barely had time to think about being nervous. I barely remember what I said or did during my segment, but after it ended, we watched the rest of the show in the green room and then packed everything up and said our goodbyes. Theo wanted to do some shopping, so we parked at Times Square, walked to the M & M store, and he bought a present for his teacher, Mr. R. We then drove north, had dinner at Rein’s Deli, and got home around 9 p.m. We’d taped the show, so

[we] watched it again that night.

Martha Stewart said she’s just come back from a trip, where she’d worn a set of your camisole undershirts every day. How did she get these?

I think Martha said she’d taken some of my shirts on her trip to South Africa and also liked the camisoles I make. She ordered them from my catalog, and they are really popular. I use a Swiss cotton/lycra, and this fabric is so soft and wears well. I wear them every day.

The Stewart show promoted your appearance with the phrase “the great white shirt.” Is it really a Zen-like thing like that? Have you spent your creative life hunting “the great white shirt”?

My mission, from the get-go, was to improve the standard and quality of women’s apparel. It’s a constant challenge and goal. The zen moments are fleeting.

Can a classic like a white shirt really be improved upon? What are your goals in creating new classics?

I want my clothes to be pulled from a trunk in an attic or a thrift store in 20 years and hope someone says “they just don’t make things the way they used to.”

I find great inspiration from vintage clothing but believe the designs from history don’t always work for women in today’s world. And the waistline is always too tight!

Then, do you believe the little black dress can be improved on?

Funny you should ask; I designed a little black dress (available in sizes XS-XL) named “Audrey” last season, and I wanted to show it during the fashion segment on Martha, but we had to cut some of our looks because of time constraints. It is my interpretation of a comfortable, flattering black dress and travels well.

Tell us about your translucent shirts.

The sheer white fabrics are new designs. The fabric comes from mills in Switzerland and Italy. Textile designers inspire me and help move my looks and designs forward. The textured white shirts can be worn anytime, over a camisole with a treasured piece of jewelry or under a sweater or jacket.

We’re looking for an aha! moment. Tell us about old movies you’ve watched where you’ve jumped up and pointed at a white shirt and said “There!”

On the opposite side of the color wheel, the ‘Maria’ is a camisole with satin straps made of Swiss cotton/ lycra knit.

Audrey Hepburn’s interpretive beat dance in Funny Face was a riot, and any movie she was in is inspiring and worth seeing at least once. My big aha moment came from design school, when I discovered one of my favorite designers, Claire McCardell. She was one of the first designers in the late 1930s to break out of the back room of department stores and make a name for herself. Chanel was first in France to break the mold in apparel design, but McCardell was a true original American designer and made her mark in women’s ready to wear.

There was a moment of self-awareness on The Martha Stewart Show when you laughed and acknowledged some people just don’t want to wear a white shirt, and a model came out wearing a beautiful patterned blue alternative. But then you said, truly, anyone can wear a white shirt. When shouldn’t someone wear a white shirt?

In January, on Congress Street without a coat. Brrrrrr….

Across the decades, which influences do you channel?

•1800s: Levi Strauss & C. F. Hathaway

•1920s: Chanel

•1930-60: Claire McCardell, Bonnie Cashin & Chanel

•1960-2000s: Geoffrey Beene, Anne Klein, •Perry Ellis & Alber Elbaz

Tell us about running into one of your shirts. Jolene and I were eating breakfast in New York, and a woman nearby was wearing one of my shirts. After finishing breakfast…I walked over and introduced myself and thanked her for wearing my product. She was very nice and thanked me back for making it and said she had a dozen more in her closet and my shirts helped her get through the work week (she’s an attorney in New York).

Tell us about three dream fashion-shoot locations in Maine. Places where the land perfectly complements your crisp, breezy designs.

Top of Katahdin–it would be quite a haul, but the views are breathtaking. Who would schlep the shirts, though?

Schoodic Point–my husband and I were married there. You really feel like you’re on the edge of a continent at Schoodic.

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Yfrom staff & wire reports here are four spectacular investment properties that will sweep you off your feet.

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84 eastern prom, $2.4 million

ou know this house. It’s the crown of the Eastern Promenade–the dazzling Victorian that leans toward the harbor as though it’s listening to the freighters slipping through the ship channel in the fog. Yes, that house, steps from the gazebo at Fort Allen Park, the one that’s most recently served as a B & B for lucky others to visit. Now, in your mind’s eye, you’ve climbed to the top of the roof deck here. Surprised? Well, it’s new, cutting open a never-before-seen view that’s…let’s put it this way: It’s 10:30 on a warm, foggy Saturday morning, with the bay fragrant but invisible nearby. To your right, you can barely sense the veiled outline of the Portland House, though you can reach out and touch the turret that puts an exclamation point on this aerie with multi-

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level, theatrical seating.

Then, as though stirred by a gusset from Mount Olympus, a light breeze lifts the blue curtain and it all stands out with stunning clarity–the slope of the Prom kissing East End Beach, Mackworth Island, Little Diamond. A queenly tanker slowly makes her grand entrance on the harbor stage amid shafts of sunlight.

You mean, nobody’s ever seen this incredible view before?

“There was only a window in the attic three years ago,” says Wally Geyer. “Just a hatch in the roof when Tony Salem and I bought it. This wasn’t here,” he says of the heavenly deck, gesturing at the sweep of the view. Imagine watching the fireworks from this perch on July 4. Talk about front-row seats.

This is presently known as the Victorian Terrace on the Prom, a bed-and-breakfast inn?

“We bought this one and the two Victorians beside it [102 & 108 Eastern Prom] from [former Jotul North America owner] Eva Horton [for a total of $2.75 million, on July 30, 2004], who’d been running them as B & Bs. Today, this house could be run as a B & B, converted to a single-family home, or we could sell either one or both of two condos here for $825,000 each.

“Eva picked us to buy this trio of houses, even though some people from New York had

offered $1 million more for them. They were going to tear all three down and put up a huge tower complex here, but we promised to keep it Victorian. Can you imagine someone tearing this down? That would have changed the character of the Eastern Prom forever.”

Show me the magic.

“If you think ‘Portland, iconic location,’ this is the crowning jewel,” says listing agent Tom Landry of Benchmark Residential & Investment Realty, who says the East End has not been affected as much as the West End in terms of values for properties like this. “And it’s still not ‘historic’ up here, either,” he says, meaning requirements for restoration review are less time-consuming.

spindRift, $1,495,000

Location, location, location:

This gorgeous Shingle Style contemporary is located “near the small coastal villages of Port Clyde and Tenants Harbor in the township of St. George, a peninsula nestled between the Mussel Ridge Channel and the Atlantic. It’s at the end of a private drive which winds through three wooded acres and contains 220 feet of deepwater frontage on Deep Cove,” says broker Vicki Doudera of Camden Real Estate Co.

What’s the situation here?

“It was designed by renowned Maine architect Stephen G. Smith in 1991. In 2000, owner John Galley, an Illinois attorney and world-class sailor, purchased the residence and added an attractive carriage house with four garage bays and an expansive second floor suite with a private entrance, kitchen with fir cupboards, three bedrooms, and a full bath. Plans for an of-

Prom’s merry widow’s walk high above Portland Harbor offers stunning sea breezes amid a panorama of the lighthouses, islands, and Fort Gorges .

With its dramatic gables and porches, Spindrift keeps an eye on Tenants Harbor above a private screen of evergreens.

What can you see from here across the water?

“There are fabulous views of–as well as sunsets over–the islands of Muscongus Bay, including Caldwell Island, Gay Island, and Morse Island.”

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Sometimes, beauty really is skin deep. in this, case, the envelope updating one monument Square is alucobond, the same panels of aluminum bonded to a polyethylene core that give Spaceship earth at epcot Center its futuristic edge.

New Façade in Town

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For years, one hasn’t been able to approach Monument Square without nearly tripping over scaffolding. First, Maine Bank and Trust renewed their early 20th-century facade. Next, Portland Public Library transformed its 1980s exterior into one fit for a new century. Now, at One Monument Square, another scaffolding story is unfolding to reveal a bright new skin and a bold entrance that’s transforming downtown.

Finard Properties has been involved in this office building since the early 1970s.

“My grandfather, Murray Finard, was good friends with Jack Daigle, Casco Bank’s president,” Todd Finard says. Though he’d created One Monument Square, Daigle wanted to get out of the business of owning it and get back to running his bank. “So my grandfather and father agreed to buy it from Casco Bank and rent them back their space.”

After 40 years, Finard Properties contacted SMRT Architects for repairs and new look.

Principal Janet Hansen explains, “We’d worked with Finard Properties for years on other projects. They were initially using a Boston architect but felt they needed someone local to take the project through City of Portland regulations.”

It wasn’t a moment too soon. The building leaked heat through both its single-pane windows and walls. Wind-driven rain seeped into the brickwork and ran down inside the walls of the building.

On top of that, “they could no longer even match the brick for repairs,” Hansen says. What to do but cover the building with an envelope? The material is Alucobond, the same panels of aluminum bonded to a polyethylene core that give Spaceship Earth at Epcot Center its futuristic edge.

Aluminum channels (that provide for better water flow) attach the Alucobond to the brick. Sandwiched between them are layers of rigid insulation that, according to Hansen, will improve the building’s efficiency. “The whole exterior skin, plus the windows, will be a big energy boost for them.”

Architectural Doors and Windows of Westbrook is handling the installation of the Alucobond panels, as well as the change in windows. Jonathan Cohen of AD&W notes that there are more than just energy-saving advantages to new windows: “The noise reduction is pretty amazing.” He praises the Finards for having the character to complete the renovations even as the economy worsened. “It’s nice when you have someone who wants to tap into the Maine work force. We’ve kept 20 people working on this project,” he says.

Another change is the way the building relates to Monument Square. “It was critical for us to relocate the entrance to its more natural location,” Finard says. “The building is One Monument Square, yet in effect it has always turned its back on Monument Square [because its old entrance was on Congress Street].”

Now, panels of Deer Isle granite outline the new entrance on the Square, cut whisper-thin and mounted on honeycomb aluminum panels to avoid adding weight to the facade.

This spring, look for planters, gingko trees, and possibly a small terrace to allow building occupants to gather outside in nice weather.

KeyBank will continue to occupy space on the ground floor, and Finard Properties hopes to see a restaurant tenant join them in the near future, perhaps taking advantage of the terrace space for outdoor seating. And yet, with all these improvements, One Monument Square may soon lose one of its flagship tenants, Pierce Atwood. Pierce Atwood was one of the first tenants here, along with Casco Bank, yet Finard recently received notice from them that they’re exploring finding larger housing elsewhere downtown. Christopher Batio of Pierce Atwood says, “[We’re] actively reviewing several options in the Portland area.”

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Gastropub Gastropub

Not just a marketing tag or the act of pouring truffle oil on beans & franks, the gastropub phenomenon, which has spread internationally from England, is taking hold of Maine as restaurants see the value of presenting tastier, healthier, and more imaginative versions of our favorite foods in a relaxed atmosphere.

In a funky old building on Portland’s Custom House Wharf, The PorThole was beloved for decades for its waterfront ambience, and its breakfasts had many fans. But otherwise, as its name suggests, it was mainly a watering hole “with a reputation as a bar more than a dining destination,” says its new executive chef, Paul Dyer, 32. When he took over the kitchen last November, he and owner Oliver Keithley decided “to change the face of the place and redo the menu” to feature more sophisticated and imaginative cuisine.

Voilà! The Porthole is a gastropub.

The days when having a pub meal meant downing some nachos or wings with a few beers are fleeing fast. Says Elena Drew, who manages The Union BlUff Grill and PUB in York Beach,

“People want more than just a burger on a plate. They want more interesting food, dishes that have some flare.”

As Maine latches onto a trend that began several years ago in London (a city formerly famous for forgettable fare), more pubs are offering distinctive, higher-quality cuisine. They call themselves gastropubs–pubs still, but places where the gastronomy is as important as the brew. In fact, these are eateries where you might go even if you don’t like beer, and still come away satisfied.

The SUnday river BrewinG Co. in Bethel “still looks like everything you’d expect a brew pub to be,” says chef and owner Grant Wilson, 41. There’s a brewery on site, a huge fireplace, an area with a pool table and other bar games, and it still feels friendly and casual. “But about a year ago, we began taking traditional

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food and making it fresher, with more twists,” he says.

The menu now includes baby back ribs, short ribs, and rosemary chicken–all cooked sous vide, a lengthy process designed to keep them especially juicy. As a gastropub, it still serves burgers, fries, and chowder, but the burgers are made from prime Angus sirloin, the fries are hand-cut, and the clam chowder “is like a Caribbean conch chowder,” Wilson says. When it won a recent chowder cook-off in Bethel, staff knew they were onto something.

casual bouillabaisse

The approach to The edge, a combination restaurant and gastropub in Northport, is nothing like you’d expect for a traditional bar. After parking your car in what seems like a remote lot, you walk down a beautifully manicured path through woods with trees lit by ground lights. The bar at the end of the path sits in a modern building with a fieldstone patio overlooking West Penobscot Bay. When executive chef Bryan Dame “upped the ante on the bar menu about three or four years ago, the bar business really picked up,” he says. “Calling it a gastropub can sound pretentious, but we’re trying to show that there’s more focus on the food.”

Now the bar food “is a more casual take on what we’re doing for the restaurant–the same quality ingredients, same care and attention to technique, but for less-costly items,” says Dame, 34. Among the favorites are Maine mussels in a bouillabaisse with saffron, tomatoes, and white wine; homemade pork rinds; and crab cakes roasted in a wood-fired oven with a malt vinegar aioli. Interestingly, the pub sells more wine and cocktails than beer.

Wine also is the best-selling beverage at McKay’s Public house, a gastropub in Bar Harbor. Here, the idea for a pub “from the get-go had mainly to do with the social function of the place,” says owner Brian Smith, 37. “We wanted it to be a gathering place for the hodge-podge of people who live here–teachers, boat builders, and plumbers, as well as people like Martha Stewart and David Rockefeller.”

So here you can have a lemon truffle seafood risotto with a glass of sancerre or a lamb shepherd’s pie with a pint of local beer. The pub features organically grown produce, fresh local seafood, and the chef makes fresh pasta for dishes like pasta purses with porcini

mushrooms in a sherry cream sauce. It also offers wine dinners every other month or so.

When Tina Oddleifson and her husband, Tony Lawless, bought The Whale’s Rib TaveRn in the Pilgrim Inn on Deer Isle, “It was a quieter place, featuring fine dining,” she says. “We decided to make it more lively and open, with a menu that would appeal to a wider range” of eaters. Their gastropub sits in an historic barn with rough wood walls and farm equipment scattered about–an effort to create an atmosphere that’s cozy and intimate without being stuffy. “A lot of people come to Maine for good food and a bottle of good wine,” she says. “But they don’t want to have to dress up to get a great meal.”

Favorite dishes at the tavern include beef tenderloin with a wild mushroom fondue; lobster risotto with white truffle oil; panseared halibut with prosciutto over sautéed spinach and baked potato cakes; and Maine smoked trout over fresh spinach and arugula with local chèvre, red onion rings, and seared sliced pears.

As in, A lAtent gAstropub?

David Carlson, co-owner with his wife, Sarah, of The ThRee Tides in Belfast, says he doesn’t know quite what to call his eatery. But if patrons want to call it a gastropub, he’s happy to embrace the term. When he started the business about six years ago, it was clearly a bar serving several hand-crafted beers made on site, with free hard-boiled eggs and not much more. “But after a while, we realized that food was really important,” he says.

So they started serving an eclectic array of tapas, lots of Pemaquid oysters, local diver scallops, pizettes, hardy quesadillas, and more. “Our kitchen still could fit in the back of a pick-up truck. We don’t have a microwave or a deep fryer,” he says. “But we’re designing our menu around local shellfish and local produce. We shop daily for ingredients.”

The menu has been well-received, and customers love the playful ambience with outside tables on an upper deck and on a bocce court overlooking Belfast Harbor. Although the place now features many improvements, Carlson says he’ll never eliminate the wildly popular hard-boiled eggs. That would be a gastroflub. n

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Fresh from Europe, Crooked Still, a Boston band that’s a favorite with Maine audiences, is on the eve of a major tour and album release. Some Strange Country will take them to both coasts and in between over the next 4 months. Bassist Corey Di Mario, along with Brittany Haas, discuss innovative arrangements, a cousin to the north, and the interpretive vibes that keep Crooked Still on the straight and narrow.

You’re young innovators working in music with baggage: bluegrass. Do you see this as part of a trend? There’s a real resurgence of young people playing traditional music of all kinds. From bluegrass to old-time Irish, Scottish, and klezmer, a real rootsmusic thing started right around the time we first formed in Boston, in 2001. It can be a conservative place that’s resistant to change, but we feel like we’re really gotten a great response. There’s something really respectful about the way we transform some of this old music, always with the heart and soul in mind. [Traditional players] hear a deep understanding of it.

Is it your interpretation or the music speaking?

We didn’t set out to create this weird band with a cello and all these different sounds, we just did what felt natural.

We have all these amazing virtuosic players in their own right, but we’re not about the virtuosity. For some bands, that’s the point. For us, the song and the arrangement is the focus. So, the technical playing is there to support the piece.

When Rushad Eggleston left you, was there ever a serious moment when you looked at each other and wondered if you’d continue?

Absolutely. When Aoife O’Donovan, Greg Liszt, Rushad, and I started out, we’d been friends for a long time. When Rushad decided he wanted to explore something else, we got together with Tristan Clarridge and Brittany Haas, played some music, and found it felt natural, so we went forward with it.

And that transition looked natural, as well.

Well, anything that is effortless never is. Adding Tristan and Brittany has sparked new life and spurred a new level of creativity from Greg and Aoife and myself, as well.

What can we expect from Some Strange Country? It almost evokes the film title No Country for Old Men.

We wanted to explore what we could do using the studio as a tool. So, it was basically about all playing live and shooting for the best take. For example, there are a bunch of extra string parts that we subtly mixed in to enhance sounds. We co-produced Some Strange Country with Gary Paczosa, a multi-Grammy winning producer and engineer. He had all these ideas–not about the songs and arrangements but how to capture them sonically and bring them out. There’s this soundscape that captures the band in a really cool way.

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Crooked Still, from left: Corey DiMario, Dr. Gregory Liszt, Tristan Clarridge, Brittany Haas, and Aoife O’Donovan

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Treen Spotting herbie,

Headlines rang across the world in February when “Herbie,” the famous 217-year-old elm tree in Yarmouth, came down. We have been assured, however, that Herbie will live on, immortalized in the form of salad bowls and other decorative objects by area craftsmen.

The sentiment attached to Herbie probably would have amazed settlers of the 18th and 19th centuries, when the recycling of wood in any way, shape, or form was a necessity. Decorative pieces created from downed trees were called “treenware,” or “turned wood” after being turned on a lathe into very decorative pieces.

Treenware was, in essence, early plastic. It was cheap, made of local wood, and it could be dropped, scalded, scrubbed, and used for everything from pickling to breadmaking. Most famous are Peaseware and the more colorful, painted Lehnware, developed early in the 19th century by the Pease family of Ohio and the Lehn family of Pennsylvania, respectively. Burled wood pieces were not uncommon and have an intrinsic beauty in their patina that appeals to collectors.

The range of treenware products is great–from bowls, trenchers, and kitchen utensils (that often fall under the folk-art umbrella) to elegant humidors and urns. Prices vary but can vault into the thousands of dollars. “If they are large pieces, or if they have old paint, decoration, or a very rare design, those would be the kingpins,” says Kaja Veilleux, owner of Thomaston Place Galleries in Thomaston, where a rare pair of painted, treenware apples made in 19th-century Thomaston sold for $475 in 2007. In 2009, a carved Victorian boxwood inkwell, in the form of a boxer dog, sold for $550. n

Sarah Cumming Cecil, a principal in the interior design firm Rose Cumming (www.rosecummingdesign.com), writes frequently on art, antiques, and interior design. Her work has appeared in ARTnews, Architectural Digest, House Beautiful, Connoisseur, and The New York Times. >> For more images, visit portlandmonthly.com.

SMOOTH OPERATORS Top: This fine 9-inch (diameter) center bowl, set on an intricately carved pedestal with fine carved ridges and carved lotus petal, sold for $285 at Thomaston Place Auction Galleries.

Bottom: This trencher , two feet in diameter, sold for $994.50 in 2009 at Northeast Auctions.

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2 dine In is a specialized culinary courier service delivering over 15 restaurants to Portland, South Portland, Westbrook, Scarborough, and Cape Elizabeth. Order by telephone or the user-friendly website, and experience how easy and quick it is to dine at home or the office! Lunch MondayFriday 11 a.m.-1:30 p.m., dinner Sunday-Thursday 5-9 p.m., Friday-Saturday 5-10 p.m. 2dinein.com, 779-DINE (3463)

51 Wharf Indulge in Chef Tom Johnson’s avant-garde cuisine, featuring exceptionally creative courses, local ingredients in a from-scratch kitchen, the freshest seafood including local Maine lobster, and a menu with savory chicken, steak, and pasta. Available for private parties and events. 51 Wharf Street in Portland’s Old Port. 51wharf.com, 774-1151 *

anthony’s Italian Kitchen, 151 Middle Street, lower level, Portland. Voted “Best in Portland” three years in a row. Pizza, pasta, and sandwiches. All homemade recipes, including lasagna, chicken parmesan, eggplant parmesan, meatballs, and Italian sausages. Variety of hot and cold sandwiches. Beer and wine. Catering available. 774-8668 *

Barnacle Billy’s, known for luxury lobster, steamed clams, large lusty drinks, barbecued chicken, homemade clam chowder, and of course, the lobster roll and lobster stew. Features an extensive indoor and sundeck seating where guests can enjoy both the beauty of the harbor and the ocean beyond. Perkins Cove. barnbilly.com, 646-5575.

Beale Street Barbeque continues a tradition of eclectic American cuisine at their new location in South Portland. Still serving the best hardwood-smoked and grilled meats, poultry, fish, and seafood, as well as tasty appetizers, specialty sandwiches, salads, and creative daily lunch and dinner specials. Full bar featuring Maine microbrews on tap. No reservations needed, children welcome. Open all day, every day at 725 Broadway in South Portland. mainebbq.com, or 767-0130

desserts. Visit buffleheadsrestaurant.com or call 284-6000. Cape arundel Inn is Kennebunkport’s only oceanfront Inn & Restaurant with spell-binding views of the Atlantic and the presidential estate. Luxury lodging, most with fireplace, and fine linen dining with a creative menu in a full service dining room. A great chef, a wonderful staff and an unbelievable location on the gold coast of K’port. 967-2125 208 Ocean Avenue CapeArundelinn.com

Clementine restaurant located at 44 Maine Street in Brunswick. Chef-Owner Dana Robicheaw offers the culinary expertise that he acquired at Johnson and Wales and other Portland fine dining establishments. Clementine offers exquisite food and fine wine in a relaxed atmosphere. Join us for a multicourse tasting menu for parties of two: $45 /person or $60/person with paired wines. Open Tuesday-Sunday 5-9 p.m. 721-9800, clementinemaine.com

Cleonice Chef Richard Hanson presents the cuisine of the Mediterranean prepared from the finest local ingredients. Cleonice offers both delicious cuisine and affordable selections for lunch and dinner in the casually sophisticated atmosphere of the landmark Lucini Building. Nominated for the James Beard Award two years in a row. 112 Main Street in Ellsworth. Visit cleonice.com or call 664-7554.

diMillo’s Floating restaurant offers the freshest lobster, seafood, Black Angus cuts of beef, Italian fare, and more. Located on Commercial Street in the Old Port, DiMillo’s offers fabulous water views of Portland Harbor from every table. Try our famous clam or haddock chowder, lobster stew, or one of our delicious salads. Serving from 11 a.m. Enjoy our famous Lobster Roll. Visit us at dimillos.com or call 772-2216.

Becky’s at 390 Commercial Street, featured in Esquire and recommended by Rachael Ray, is “a slice of diner heaven,” according to Gourmet. Serving classic diner fare within the call of gulls, it’s Maine’s best family-friendly place to keep it real. Open 4 a.m.-9 p.m., 7 days a week. 773-7070

BiBo’s Madd apple Café is located at 23 Forest Avenue, Portland, in the heart of the Arts District. Focusing on creative, affordable cuisine with an eclectic wine list to match, served in a bright casual atmosphere. Lunch Wednesday-Friday 11:30-2, brunch Saturday and Sunday 11-2 and dinner Wednesday-Saturday 5:30close. Menus change with the local growing season. bibosportland.com, 774-9698 *

the dogfish Bar & Grille, 128 Free Street, Portland, 772-5483, and the dogfish Cafe, 953 Congress Street, Portland, 253-5400. “Great food, drink, and service in a casual and unpretentious atmosphere.” The Cafe (MondaySaturday lunch and dinner, and Sunday Brunch) offers a more intimate setting while the Bar & Grille (open daily at 11:30 a.m.) offers live music Wednesday-Saturday nights. For a real local feel, reasonable prices, and great food, check out either one or both! thedogfishcompany.com

Billy’s Chowder House makes seafood dreams come true, serving the freshest seafood around, whether you like it fried, grilled, broiled, stuffed, or over pasta. The chowders are all homemade and the lobster rolls have been featured in Bon Appétit. Located at 216 Mile Road in Wells, and surrounded by the Rachel Carson Wildlife Refuge. billyschowderhouse.com, 646-7558

the Black tie Market and Bistro will satisfy anyone’s craving for great food served with flair and fun. Now serving light breakfasts and lunches, and everything you need to entertain at home. Made-to-order paninis and wraps, soups, home-baked desserts and fresh salads. Try our candy bar, gelato, or a great bottle of wine. Now hosting wine tastings! theblacktieco.com, 756-6230

Espo’s trattoria has been owned by the same family for over thirty years and will become your first choice for fine Italian dining. Menu items include homemade sauces, lasagna, fresh local seafood, and tender steaks. Generous portion sizes are served by personable, professional staff in a family-friendly atmosphere. Lunch specials served daily from 11a.m. to 3p.m. Takeout and catering are available. espostrattoria.com

Fish Bones american Grill is a casual upscale restaurant offering American cuisine with a multi-national flair. Techniques include light grilling, sautéing, and use of homemade food paints to further enhance our plated creations. Located in the heart of Lewiston in the historic Bates Mill complex, Fish Bones offers dinner Tuesday through Saturday, and Sunday brunch. Come get hooked! fishbonesmaine.com, 333-3663 *

G & r diMillo’s Bayside 118 Preble Street, Portland. You’ll find a comfortable sports bar with excellent food! Catch the season’s most exciting games on multiple wide screen flat panel TVs. Featuring homemade pasta and bread, classic appetizers, soups, sandwiches, burgers; and homemade, hand-tossed dough for fantastic pizza. Monday–Saturday 11 a.m.-11.p.m., Sunday noon-8 p.m. grdimillos.com, 699-5959

Boda is a “very Thai” kitchen and lounge offering delicious selections of Thai home-style entrees, streetvendor inspired grilled skewers and tapas, and a full bar. Late-night menu served until 1 a.m. Open TuesdaySunday from 5 p.m.-1 a.m. Located at 671 Congress St. in Portland, parking available, vegetarian options available, no reservations. Come experience an eating culture of Thailand! 347-7557

Buffleheads at Hills Beach, Biddeford’s only seaside dining, serves lunch and dinner, offering a wide variety of selections from pizza and great burgers to delicious pastas, the freshest seafood, and specialties such as roast turkey, baked chicken with prosciutto in puff pastry and hazelnutcrusted rack of lamb, along with excellent homemade

Grace has found its home in a 160-year-old Methodist church. Engulfed by huge cathedral ceilings & beautiful stained-glass windows, our eclectic menu and houseinfused cocktails provide a perfect atmosphere for any occasion. Located at 15 Chestnut Street, Portland, we are open Tuesday–Saturday evenings at 5 p.m. Reservations are recommended with ample seating at our circular 30-seat bar or in our comfortable cocktail lounge. 828-4422 the Good table lives by its motto, “honest food, honest

Raising the Bar Raising the Bar

On

551 congress Street,

nosh becomes posh at the new “Kitchen Bar.”

Walking into Nosh, on the corner of Congress and Oak streets in Portland, my partner whispered “beer and skittles” upon seeing the dozen or so copper tables on the left and 20-seat bar opposite. No fewer than three flat-screen sports television screens above the bar did nothing to alleviate our initial apprehension about what we’d looked forward to as a gastronomically adventurous evening (for a related story see page 53).

Consider our joy, then, to discover (beyond some exotic, inventive varieties of burgers) charcuterie among the delicacies: artisan cheeses, raw oysters, white anchovies, cured arctic char, an engaging assortment of vegetables, and hand-rolled African cous cous? The tantalizing plate also whetted our appetites with Piedmont-style salami, rich roast Porchetta, and a most robust pork lardo garnished with just the right herbs, extra virgin olive oil, pickled beets and onions, delicious apricot mustarda, and moderately hot red and green peppers. Superb, and only $10.

Enjoying the rich flavors, we treated ourselves to the fois gras next and found it a tender and succulent treat, prepared to perfection ($12).

Next up, we tacked into the tuna carpaccio ($7), zesty with a brilliant accompaniment of fennel citrus salad. The tuna was sliced so it emboldened us into adding an order of Nosh’s famous fries ($5). The tuna and fennel were palate great. But the fries–the kind of food we’d so studiously avoided since arriving, did us in, especially dipped into the accompanying rich and delectable blue cheese sauce.

There was no room for the duck leg confit ($5) we desired, nor for the herbed gnocci baked in tomato sauce with ricotta cheese ($7) we desperately wanted to try. My partner had to have something sweet and small to complete his evening and ordered the coconut-chocolate caramel bar, topped with a huge dollop of good whipped cream.

My countdown to ecstasy involved an amazing mound of duck prosciutto, its briny flavors complemented with a sprinkling of balsamic vinegar and juniper berries. I am so happy I didn’t quit while I was ahead!

“Beer and skittles?” Well, perusing the bill might still conjure up that thought, if you didn’t look closely at the ingredients. This extraordinary experience was also very affordable: $80 including tip and a $26 bottle of Sonoma Junction Cabernet Sauvignon. n

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Nosh KitcheN Bar

551 congress street, Portland

Lunch Monday-Friday, 11:30 a.m. to 2 p.m.

Dinner Monday-saturday, 4 p.m. to 1 a.m. 553-2227, noshkitchenbar.com

Tools for the Earth . . . Gifts for the Heart

prices” offering made-from-scratch meals with brunch, lunch, and dinner. A well-rounded menu with choices to please every palate. Featuring inspired blackboard specials, the kitchen always takes advantage of locally-grown produce and seafood. Full bar with seasonal cocktails. 527 Ocean House Road on Route 77 in Cape Elizabeth. [Check for seasonal hours] thegoodtablerestaurant.net, 799-4663

the Great Impasta, a long-standing restaurant located on Maine Street in historic Brunswick, serves Mediterranean-inspired food with a concentration on Italian dishes. This restaurant is a favorite of both locals and those from away. Incredible, fragrant aromas from the open kitchen hit you the moment you walk through the door. Vegan and gluten-free menus available. 42 Maine Street, Brunswick. 729-5858, thegreatimpasta.com

Great lost Bear, 540 Forest Avenue in the Woodfords area of Portland. A full bar with 70 beer taps featuring Maine & American Craft breweries as well as a large Belgian selection. Our menu features salads, burgers, a large vegetarian selection, and the best nachos & buffalo wings in town. Discover where the natives go when they’re restless! Every day 11:30 a.m.-11:30 p.m. greatlostbear.com, 772-0300

In Good Company offers an Old World atmosphere of unhurried dining, coupled with a compelling wine selection and limited bar. The ever-changing menu of light tapas to full entrees utilizes locally-produced cheeses, sausages, meats, wild-harvested seafood, mushrooms, and greens. The daily dessert offerings are decadent yet sublime. Open Tuesday-Sunday at 4:30 p.m. 415 Main Street, Rockland. ingoodcompanymaine.com, 593-9110

Jacqueline’s tea room and Gift Shop Experience authentic afternoon tea in an exquisite English setting. Select from over 70 of the finest quality loose-leaf teas to accompany your four-course luncheon of scones, finger sandwiches of all kinds, and desserts. Great for intimate conversations and parties. 10:30 a.m.-3 p.m. Tuesday-Friday and alternating weekends. 201 Main Street, Freeport. Reservations only. No reservations required for shopping. jacquelinestearoom.com, 865-2123

Jameson tavern, with a casual bar, lounge & dining room. The building is the site of the signing of the Constitution for the state of Maine when it broke away from Massachusetts. Classic preparations served in a graceful & elegant setting make this a fine retreat from frenzied outlet shopping. 115 Main Street, Freeport. 865-4196 *

Kon asian Bistro and Hibachi Bar is inspired by the senses. Décor and music will invigorate the international essence of taking you to a different land. Thursday–Sunday evening a DJ will transform the bar into an Asian night club. Experience the world-class New York chefs prepare you a fresh, succulent dish. 1140 Brighton Avenue, Portland. konasianbistro.com, 874-0000

linda Bean’s perfect Maine lobster roll is coming to Portland! The new location on Exchange Street will include the sweetest Maine lobster with the company of a full-service bar. Using a ¼ pound of Maine lobster fresh from her own wharves and adding her special mix of herbs earns it the right to be called “Perfect.” lindabeansperfectmaine.com

lotus Chinese and Japanese restaurant, 251 U.S. Route 1, Falmouth, Maine (Falmouth Shopping Plaza). We feature full-service bar and lounge area, sushi bar, Chinese traditional food not available outside of Boston, friendly atmosphere and courteous service. 781-3453

Margaritas Mexican restaurants & Watering Hole! Two locations in Portland, others in Lewiston, Augusta, Orono, and Portsmouth. Always free hot chips & salsa, legendary margaritas, & the house specialty, the sizzling fajita. Happy hour Monday-Friday, 4-7 p.m., free hot appetizers. In Portland at 242 St. John Street, Union Station Plaza, 874-6444, and 11 Brown Street near the Civic Center, 774-9398.

Maria’s ristorante, est. 1960, 337 Cumberland Avenue, Portland, one street down from Congress Street.

Portland’s finest Italian cuisine. Maine Sunday Telegram’s four-star restaurant. Homemade sausages and finest meatballs around, thick Veal Chops a la Maria, Zuppa De Pesce Fradiavolo, homemade gelato, and Italian-style cakes. Lunch and dinner Tuesday-Saturday, $13-$25. “Preserving the authentic Italian dining experience.” mariasrestaurant.com, 772-9232

Miss Portland Diner Visit the famous 1949 Worcester diner car #818, an architectural landmark in Portland. Back in operation and serving all the diner classics, Miss Portland is open for breakfast and lunch Sunday 7 a.m. to 3 p.m. and Monday-Tuesday from 6 a.m. to 3 p.m., and breakfast, lunch and dinner on Wednesday-Friday from 6 a.m. to 9 p.m. and Saturday 7 a.m. to 9 p.m. Located at 140 Marginal Way in Portland. missportlanddiner.com, 210-6673

Moussé Cafe & Bakeshop located in Monument Square serves breakfast and lunch all day and features a weekend brunch. Casual atmosphere with a full bakery, homemade ice cream, and outside dining on the patio. Favorites include huevos rancheros, eggs benedict, scones, herb focaccia paninis, and awardwinning turkey meatloaf sandwich. Open MondayFriday 7 a.m. to 5 p.m.; Saturday 8 a.m. to 3 p.m.; and Sunday 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. One Monument Way, Portland, 822-9955 or moussecafebakeshop.com.

One Dock offers creative, contemporary, New England Cuisine and traditional Maine favorites in a relaxed setting overlooking the Kennebunk River. The menu offers “small plates” such as duck spring rolls, flatbread signature pizzas, pan-seared scallops in a maple glaze, and the lobster and chipotle cheddar macaroni & cheese, which are proving to be fan favorites. WednesdaySaturday 6-9 p.m. 967-2621 or onedock.com

The Pepperclub is a prize-winning restaurant (“Best Vegetarian” & “Best Value” in Frommer’s Guide to New England) with creative world cuisine. Blackboard menu lists five vegetarian, three fish, & three meat entrées, including an organic beef burger. Relaxed, affordable dining on the edge of the Old Port w/ free parking. Open nightly at 5 p.m. 78 Middle Street. pepperclubrestaurant.com, 772-0531

Pier 77 and The Ramp Bar and Grill are owned and managed by Kate and Chef Peter Morency. Pier 77 has a formal dining room with stunning views of Cape Porpoise Harbor and live music each weekend, while The Ramp is more casual, with its own bar menu at hard-to-beat prices. pier77restaurant.com has all the details. 967-8500 *

Pom’s Thai Taste Restaurant, Noodle House, and Sushi Bar at 571 Congress Street in Portland, 772-7999, voted “The Best of Portland ‘09” by Phoenix readers. Featuring vegetarian, wheat-free, kid’s menu, made-toorder noodle soup, and $1 sushi every Monday & Tuesday. Other locations in South Portland: Pom’s Thai Restaurant at 209 Western Avenue, 347-3000 and Thai Taste Restaurant at 435 Cottage Road, 767-3599. thaitastemaine.com

The Run of the Mill brewpub is in a restored mill building on Saco Island, offering quality food at reasonable prices; 24 beers brewed in-house throughout the year are rotated through seven taps. Sample 3 oz. of all beers on tap for just $5. Wine list and full bar. Trivia Mondays, Open Mic Tuesdays, and live music Thursdays. 571-9648, therunofthemill.net

Saeng Thai House serves authentic Thai food at two locations in Portland. With an upbeat tempo and tantalizing dishes, zesty flavor awaits you. Entrees include house specialty seafood choo chee, pad Thai, ginger fish, and much more. Eat in, take out or delivery available. 267 St. John Street in Portland, 773-8988, or Saeng Thai House 2 at 921 Congress Street, 780-0900.

The Salt Exchange American-style tapas using local, organic, and sustainable ingredients. Extensive beer and wine list. Wine tastings Wednesdays from 5-6:30 p.m. include complimentary canapés. Open for lunch 12-2:30 p.m., and dinner Monday–Thursday, 5:30-9 p.m., and Friday-Saturday, 5:30-10 p.m. Lounge open for “The Hours” Monday-Saturday 5-7 p.m. Includes heavily discounted beers, martinis, and sangria with discounted

appetizers. 245 Commercial Street, Portland. thesaltexchange.net, 347-5687

SeaGrass Bistro, 30 Forest Falls Drive, Yarmouth, an intimate 40-seat dining room with an open kitchen. Chef Stephanie’s style of American bistro cuisine, with Asian, French, and Tuscan influences, uses fresh local ingredients. Music while you dine Thursdays in October & December. Open Wednesday-Saturday for dinner, reservations starting at 6 p.m. For cooking class information: seagrassbistro.com, 846-3885 *

Stockhouse Restaurant and Sports Pub is the best place to catch all of your favorite games. This fun, family-friendly atmosphere offers a game room, 21 TVs, 16 beers on tap, and large party accommodations. Daily food and drink specials and a menu featuring everything from pub-style appetizers to homemade entrees. Open daily at 11 a.m. 506 Main Street, Westbrook. 854-5600 or thestockhouserestaurant.com

Stonyfield Cafe (formerly O’Naturals) serves natural and organic flatbread sandwiches, tossed salads, rice & noodle bowls, soups, kids’ meals, organic tart frozen yogurt and Sunday Brunch. We offer quick service for people on the go...but our leather couches, wireless internet, and comfortable atmosphere will entice you to stay. Chicken, roast beef, wild bison meatloaf, wild Alaskan salmon, and many vegetarian items—there’s something for everyone. Falmouth 781-8889, stonyfieldcafe.com

Thornton’s Bar and Grille at 740 Broadway, South Portland, offers upscale, fresh cuisine in a casual pub setting. Known in the Portland area for having a “Cheerslike” atmosphere, locals and those that stumble across this hidden jewel of Foodie favorites can enjoy hand-cut grilled steaks, fresh seafood, and house appetizers with a great selection of microbrews and specialty cocktails. 799-3100

Twenty Milk Street, in the Portland Regency Hotel, serves U.S.D.A. prime and choice steaks and the freshest seafood, combining award-winning classic American cuisine with fine wines in a warm and inviting atmosphere. Featuring crab cakes with lemon shallot mayonnaise, baked escargot, charbroiled chili-lime scallops, and sumptuous desserts. Dinner seven nights a week; also serving breakfast, lunch and brunch. Complimentary valet parking. theregency.com, 774-4200

Varano’s Italian Restaurant–food so good, you may never cook again. Featuring stunning views of the coast and the Rachel Carson Wildlife Refuge, Varano’s serves the best Italian food north of Boston. The menu offers signature Italian dishes and special family recipes, and the comprehensive all-Italian wine list is a Wine Spectator award recipient since 2002. 60 Mile Road, Wells. varanos.com, 641-8550

Walter’s eclectic menu changes seasonally with popular blackboard specials. The best in casual fine dining, featuring cuisine with international influences. Bar manager Steve Lovenguth’s wine list complements chef Jeff Buerhaus’s menu selections. Open Monday-Saturday 11:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. for lunch; dinner from 5 p.m. 2 Portland Square. waltersportland.com, 871-9258

Wells Beach Steakhouse and T-Bone Lounge serves prime and all-natural steaks, fresh seafood, and delicious salads, featuring Kobe sirloin steaks, set in a plush atmosphere. Enjoy a selection from the highly allocated new world wine list, or a signature Wells Beach martini under the starry ‘sky’ of the lounge. 73 Mile Road, Wells. wellsbeachsteakhouse.com, 646-2252 *

Yosaku, at 1 Danforth Street, is an authentic Japanese culinary experience, designed by owner Sato Takahiro and lead chef Matsuyama Masahiro. Premium sushi, sashimi, and rolls, including Yosaku roll, Portland Pirates roll, and traditional cooked Japanese cuisine for the sushishy. Enjoy a bento box beside a tranquil Japanese waterfall. Lunch Monday-Friday 11:30 a.m.-2 p.m., Saturday-Sunday noon-3 p.m. Dinner 5-9:30 p.m., FridaySaturday 5-10:30 p.m., 780-0880

*reservations recommended

Ship Shape

shifting our rudder, we ask Cam Lewis about the physical demands of world-class ocean racing.

interview by jared thurber

Everybody gets seasick, right? Even Lord Nelson got seasick sometimes. Confidentially, Captain Team Adventure, have you ever had to “talk on the big white telephone”–or simply hurl over the side?

I don’t bother getting seasick. It’s a waste of time.

Really? Not once?

No, I’ve never been seasick…But I have felt queasy a few times. Years ago, on one of my first sailing circuits, we were dashing up the Gulf Stream when we found a diesel fuel leak. I was the nipper on the boat–a nipper is a New Zealand term for the young guy on the boat–so I had to go down in the engine room. I was upside down, just covered in diesel fuel, the wind was probably blowing 25-30 knots from the north, and the British navigator was cooking liver and onions, so it was a bit on! I had to look to ‘the Himalayas,’ as my friend Peter Montgomery calls them [that is, try to get some air on deck during the high sea state, even though the waves have enormous peaks].

How do you cross-train to stay in shape here in Maine?

I live on Lake Megunticook in Lincolnville. It’s 5.5 miles from Cam-

den, and we have a summerhouse out on Vinalhaven Island. For cross-training, I ride my bike to meetings in Camden, which is about a six-mile ride one way. I’m not interested in going inside the local YMCA and working out. I didn’t get to play as much hockey this year as I’d have liked to, but I do a lot of mountain biking, road biking, cross-country skiing, snowboarding, kayaking, and rowing.

As a world-record-setting ocean racer and former Olympian, what rigorous tasks are not as easy to do now as they were 10 years ago?

Hauling the wet and heavy sails around on deck or down below and grinding the winches has not gotten any easier!

Do you have any food cravings at sea?

If you’re crossing the ocean, it’s always the fresh fruit. You never look forward to the moment when you’re down to your last apple (and you’ve already blown through your bananas). Apples are one of the better fruits that can cruise along with you before you have to start eating dried fruits. And if you’re on a high-performance racing boat, you probably don’t have much more than freeze-dried food these

days. Fresh bread is another big one. You can go down to Standard Baking Co. here in Portland and tune up some custom-ordered, double-baked loaves with an extra-thick crust. That way, you can still get a decent piece of bread three weeks down the line. If you’re in the flying-fish zone, they are good eating. A lot of people don’t think they would be, but they are tasty!

Custom-built Runabouts

Do you use a hook and line to catch them? No. They usually just show up on the deck, especially on a catamaran. One hull scares them out of the water, and they smack into the other one. You’ll be down below in the carbon-fiber hull and it sounds like you’re getting pelted by machine-gun fire!

Eight years ago, you told us about the trash you saw in the ocean when you circumnavigated the globe. Is the trash out there the same as before or different?

First of all you have to ask the one question, have you ever seen a commercial fishing boat bring garbage ashore? A lobsterman goes out for the day with his Styrofoam cup of coffee and you’ve got to wonder if that comes back to shore. Go to any Maine beach and you can bring back three or four garbage bags full of fishing gear or trash associated with fishing boats. Other than that, I’ve seen all kinds of junk out there. I’ve had car and truck tires wrapped around dagger boards and rudders. I’ve caught onto fishnets, long lines, and garbage cans. I’ve seen huge sea turtles dead, wrapped in fish nets, floating on the surface. Out in the Pacific, you have a huge gelatin mass of plastic that is UV-degrading, and it just turns in to this massive gunk.

Do you dream differently at sea than you do on land?

A lot of times at sea, you’re only getting two, maybe three, hours of sleep at the most, so you have different dreams. It’s more of an aware sleep, especially if you’re going fast.

What’s the strangest natural phenomenon you’ve ever seen on the water?

During the Newport-Bermuda Race a couple years ago, I was driving along in the middle of the night and there was this electric feel in the air. We’d just crossed the Gulf Stream when this waterspout went down the side of the boat and sucked all our sails from one side to the other! It was dark with no moon, just really bizarre.

Have you ever raced past a mesmerizing island or cove that calls to you afterward, years later, in reflection?

I’ve sailed by a lot of places in a hurry that I’d like to visit. Especially in the south, where there’s been much less human impact on nature, there are a lot more birds and such. I’m hoping to get down to South Georgia Island when the elephant seals and albatross are procreating and do some ski touring there and in the Antarctic Peninsula.

Across the last five years, what were your 30 most beautiful seconds at sea?

There have been quite a few…There have been some great victories, but some of the better ones were not too far out to sea. One of my favorites was just sailing around Fox Island with my kids in a North Haven dingy. I think those are really the best moments–spending time with my family, my wife Gretchen and my kids, just messing around with boats.

You were on the team that won the America’s Cup in 1988. You’re the original holder of the Jules Verne Trophy for fastest crew to circumnavigate the globe unassisted, nonstop, in 1998. Five years ago, you broke the L.A.-toHonolulu sail record. But like everything else, doesn’t sailing come down to, “What have you done lately”? Last September, I was part of the five-man crew of the Sophie II who were victorious in the six-meter world-cup championship in Newport, Rhode Island. In Valencia, Spain, last year, at the 33rd America’s Cup, I was a TV commentator [with worldwide network coverage].

What race is your 110-foot Team Adventure catamaran pointing to next?

Bruno Peyron, who I sailed around the world with in 1993, and who also organized “The Race” around the world in 2001 where we finished third, has recently announced another addition to “The Race” for 2013-2014. There’s also a class of 40-foot catamarans called “Extreme 40s” which have had great success over the last 4 or 5 years. It’s pretty much Europeanbased, so we’re looking to partner with some people in Europe on an Extreme 40 racing program. n

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coming a regional manager for Kinkos, but there was just one problem. “I was burned out,” he says. “If you’re miserable, it doesn’t matter how much money you’re making. I was up here on vacation at my parent’s summer home in Boothbay, having a beer on the end of the dock, and I was thinking about how I’m always so relaxed up here. And that’s when I got it in my head to quit and move up here.”

The kernel concept for the start-up was “my wife’s idea,” he says. “She worked at a popcorn store in Boothbay Harbor when she was in high school.”

Roberts is already selling “an average of 300 bags of popcorn a day. Customers choose from three sizes, small, large, and crazy large.” His secret? “Everyone has to leave here happy,” says Roberts, who invites people to try as many free samples as they like. “Myself included.”

The MAD house

“When people come in here, I want them to be wowed, feel inspired. I want them to see something they’ve never seen before!” says Meredith (“madgirl”) Alex of her working fashion studio/art gallery/clothing and accessories boutique, The Madhouse.

Before going “mad” in the Old Port, Alex worked as the director of programming at Waterfall Arts, a non-profit art center in Belfast, while pursuing her passion for fashion part-time. “About seven years ago, I started making funked-out clothing, doing fashion shows and sculptural installations, and getting hired to make these giant dresses, but I always did it on the side.”

After her madgirl persona grew into a full time job, she moved into the Commercial Street space that was previously home to Old Port Tile.

“I fell in love with it here right away. With the high ceilings and the different tile mosaics, it’s just perfect. I’m an eco fashion designer, so everything I work with is recycled, up cycled, or reworked,” she says.

From the moment she arrived, she’s made a big splash here. “I made 13 dresses for Harvest on the Harbor, including a table dress created from about 200 pounds of grapes,” she says.

Alex’s sense of invention sparkles with four other lines available at the madhouse and through madgirlworld.com. “My madgear line is comfy street wear for every-

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day people who have sustainable philosophies and are really into sporting their super-hero greenness. Madbride is my line of custom wedding dresses, and I just launched madboards, a line of snowboards. They’re made locally by Team Eight, and I worked with them to use reclaimed materials, so it’s a green option.

“Madfashion is my custom, one-of-a-kind, art-to-wear pieces. They definitely have a party, rock & roll element to them. It’s like you put your madness on! I think everybody should have at least one mad blazer for that special event. Maybe its grandma’s 80th birthday party, and you show up in a double breasted blazer with a fun snakeskin collar and surprise her!”

TIL’ DEATH TATTOOS

“I’ve been tattooing for three and a half years. It’s mostly black and gray work, but I want to get more into portraits,” says Ryan Wilson, 33, proprietor of Til’ Death tattoos on Fore Street. “This is my apprentice,” he laughs as he introduces his three-year-old daughter, Emily, who’s busy with her coloring book.

Before opening here, the Belfast native was part owner of Purple Caterpillar, a hookah lounge on Exchange Street. “We’re all still good friends,” says Wilson of his old partners. “I just really wanted to focus on tattooing.” Besides, the timing was right.

“There’s a lot of people looking for tenants right now, and they’re going to give you a better deal. We actually got this place for fairly cheap,” he says. “Now that word of mouth is going around, more people are defiantly trickling down here. We’re doing anywhere from three to five tattoos a day.”

HAVANA SOUTH

“We can best be described as ‘American fine dining with a Latin flair,’” says Michael Boland, of his soon-to-be-opened restaurant on Wharf Street. “I believe we’ll be unique in combining a great wine list, superior fine dining service, and fantastic fine dining fare under one roof.”

Havana South will occupy the building that once housed The Iguana, The Industry nightclub, and the restaurant Cake. The entire structure is being renovated to show off Boland’s substantial new enterprise.

“There’ll be a bar extending from that rubbish pile 35 feet down,” he says, looking up from a set of blueprints. “We are going to add 28 more feet of windows that will really open the space up and let in more light. We

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looked at quite a few vacant spaces in the city but kept being drawn back to the Old Port because of the character of the place. The buildings, the history, the general vibe of the entire Old Port has of course been recognized nationally as something that you can’t replicate. It is real, and we will hopefully become a part of that authenticity.

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“All the tables and bar tops will be made out of old Maine barn boards,” he says. “We’re aiming to ‘green’ the building, and our operation, as much as possible. On two of our restaurants in Bar Harbor, we have solar panels for hot water on the roof, and we’re hoping to do the same here.”

The slated opening date for Havana South [so named because one of his northern restaurants is called, simply, Havana] is June 1. They’ll be open for dinner every night of the week, adding lunch in summertime. There’s also a room that will cater to private parties of 50 people or more.

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“Live Vital Physical Therapy & Performance is a newly built, state-of-the-art physical therapy and performance facility,” says David Knop, 38, owner and sole practitioner of the Maple Street business. “So many of us go through our lives tired, stressed, unhealthy. We eat poor-quality foods out of convenience, our waistlines grow, and we suffer from insomnia or lack of energy. I strive to help my clients live pain-free, reach their weight loss and fitness goals and optimize their health and vitality. My philosophy is ‘Get Strong. Be Well. Live Vital.’”

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“We bake specialty Maine desserts, many of

which are three-dimensional icons of the Maine coast like scrumptious shortbread cookies shaped like lobsters and sand dollars, mussel- and scallop-shaped gourmet whoopie pies, a buttermilk cake in the shape of a clam, and don’t forget our full-size whoopie pie cakes!” says Carol Ford of her newly opened dessert shop–on a different side of the same building that houses Live Vital. “All our desserts are made right here on Danforth Street the old-fashioned way, from only the finest all-natural ingredients such as Kate’s Butter and organic vanilla.

“Martha Stewart loves our whoopie pies,” says Ford, who bumped into Stewart in Northeast Harbor. “A couple of months later, we baked our whoopie pies on The Martha Stewart Show, where she said, ‘These are the best whoopie pies I have ever tasted.’”

LISA MARIE’S MADE IN MAINE

“We carry unique, handmade items that I pick from throughout the state,” says Lisa Marie Stewart, 49. “Ninety percent of the work I sell in my shop is from artists I know personally. It gives local artists a place where they can sell their work year-round.

“Every month, those artists get a check from me, so instead of going overseas, the money stays right here in Maine.”

Stewart had a shop in Bath for more than seven years before expanding her business here. “My daughter Marie graduated from college and wanted a Portland job. When she couldn’t find one, I decided to open it, and she is going to manage it!” says Stewart.

Look for photographs by Kevin White, birdhouses by Tony DiPietro, and hand- thrown mugs and bowls by Unity Pond Pottery.

“This is my number-one seller. We sell at least two or three of these per day,” says Stewart of a pen in a woodsy shade. “It’s made out of moose droppings! The first reaction people have is, they drop it!” These “allnatural” writing instruments are made by Stewart King, a fifth-grade teacher in New Town. Since variety is the spice of life, they come in many other flavors beyond the classic moose, including deer droppings, pine cone, and lobster shell.

“I just happened to catch your window as I walked by,” customer Jennifer Jacobson says of the pen. “My daughter is in Copenhagen, and I’m meeting her in Paris. I need to bring gifts for her family there, and this is just perfect!” n

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Our collections include beautiful reclaimed boards salvaged from old barns, as well as doors tested and approved for high wind and coastal areas. You will also find a full complement of Carriage House Door products that include entry and garden gates, swing doors, and shutters — all designed and constructed with the same attention to craftsmanship, architectural integrity, and period detail. No matter what the project is, Door Services Inc. has the experience and expertise to complete your door project efficiently and in a timely manner. Call us for a free consulatation, or visit us on the web at dsidoors.com.

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Show me the magic.

From the soaring cathedral ceiling to the many windows overlooking the shore, there’s an extraordinary feeling of being one with the incredible view. Hardwood floors, stone fireplaces, and whitewashed exposed beams create a casually elegant environment that invites the outside in. In any season, Spindrift is magnificent.”

What is your favorite place in the house?

“The luxurious first-floor master bedroom suite has stunning shoreline views. A perfect little granite fireplace is there to take off the morning chill.”

Cameron Point, $2.75 million

Location, location , location:

“It’s on the northernmost point of Southport Island–Townsend Gut [the narrow inlet from Boothbay Harbor to the Sheepscot River], the gateway to Boothbay Harbor,” says listing agent John Scribner of LandVest. “There’s a protective cove with deepwater dock.”

What can you see across the water?

“You’re looking east across the entrance of Townsend Gut to Oak Point. The 180-degree water view extending to Moffat and Hodgdon Coves includes several classic yachts at their moorings and an antique farmhouse with boat house.”

Show me the magic.

“You’re just a few hundred yards from open water, with easy boat access into Boothbay Harbor. Owners can jump into a small inflatable and zoom into town to get groceries or dinner.”

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What’s the situation here, including taxes?

“The current owners are year-round residence from Camden,” Scribner says. “One is a real-estate broker; the other is an architect. They completely redid this house three years ago. The house was designed by noted architect William Magill Thompson.

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What’s your favorite place in the house?

“ Through the living-room windows, you’re watching activity on Townsend Gut, including boats of all sizes heading to the swing bridge.”

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What can you see from here across the water?

“Twelve hundred acres of forest owned by the state,” with no houses to block the view.

Show me the magic.

“The moment you drive across that bridge and pass the gates, a peaceful feeling comes over you. The pristine lake sparkling among the tall pines and lush perennial gardens creates a haven for relaxation. The privacy of over 5 acres and 1,000 feet of shore frontage on an island makes it feel like you’ve entered your own kingdom with only the loons serenading you. The craftsmanship is incredible, as no expense were spared in design or construction.”

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president and CEO of a group of insurance companies based in Massachusetts. He bought the land, cleared the house site, built the bridge and house. All the gardening and landscaping is his, though he currently doesn’t live here. Architect was Bill McHenry of Blue Hill. The builder was Classical Endeavors, Ellsworth (the owner of Classical Endeavors is also a neighbor at the head of the main road). Taxes last year were $14,122.”

What’s your favorite place here?

“The in-ground pool with imported tiles overlooking the lake is by far the best spot at the house. Now, for in the house, my favorite is the study/library off the master bedroom–the rich mahogany paneling, built-in bookshelves, and fireplace are the perfect spot to sit, read, and enjoy a glass of wine.”

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Style means a lot of things. In a house it can mean shingle, arts and crafts, bungalow, modernist, contemporary. As architects, we aren’t married to a particular style. What we aim for is a style that learns from the past but doesn’t mimic it, fits its context, and above all, works for the people who live and work in it.

Extremes in style can become dated, boring or unlivable. On the one hand, buildings built today that mimic historical trends usually say little about

contemporary materials, technology, lifestyles, or the people who use them. They respond weakly to their site and their environment; they say little about their own times. On the other hand, the trend in contemporary architecture to ignore familiar styles for the sake of being free of decoration, new and different, has produced expensive, hard to maintain exteriors and spare, edgy interiors that are eye-catching in a few photographs but coldly totalitarian to live in. People don’t fit in those photographs, nor do

the messy trappings of life. We aim for a style that accommodates life, wears well and doesn’t go out of fashion in a few years. “What style is this house?” is a good question. If it’s not clearly one style or another, and it still has character, then the style is a unique response to the situation. At its best, it is a combination of all that the owner and the architect bring to the project. A good answer: appropriate, useful, interesting, handsome, and timely.

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on route 88, it’s not just the sunny location on a sparkling cove–it’s the footprint, footprint, footprint.

Ican’t take any of the credit” for transforming the coveside house at 301 Foreside Road in Cumberland, says Stefan Willimann. “It’s all my wife. We bought it in 1999, loved the lot and view. I remember standing at a bay view window, looking at her, and thinking, Oh, oh, we’re in trouble. There was no turning back at that point.

“We did our first renovation in 2000 to remove some walls, open up the floor plan, and focus on the kitchen. Now there’s so much light in there! Most people would have knocked this house down and built a McMansion

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• Beautifully decorated, with soft colors and white, recreated trim punctuated by a restrained use of high-end wallpaper

• There’s potential to build vertically up to 30 percent on existing footprint

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• Some buyers might still miss the garage

• Vinyl siding

• Unclear what’s happening with the lot next door

to capture the views, but we’d fallen in love with the character of the house, too. We learned it was originally built as a summer cottage in 1910. In the 1940s, they put a rocksolid foundation on it. Overall, we’ve spent just over half a million following this dream.

“In 2003, we wondered, why did the cars have the best view in the whole space? So we turned the flat-roofed garage into a second master suite, adding a family room on the second floor above it.”

It’s a brilliant stroke, adding a wonderful second sanctuary for family or guests.

The ticket for “Tidalview” is $1.5 million. Taxes are $18,216. n

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Jefferson - This beautiful brick home has many features. First-floor bedroom with bath, open kitchen, living and dining area, a formal living and dining room, 2-car garage and a fabulous view of Damariscotta Lake! $250,000

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Windsor - This 44+/acre parcel includes 20 acres of open field. Sitting on this parcel of land is a privately located 16'x60' Maple Leaf single-wide home for you to live in while building your rural

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Somerville - Corner lot with frontage on the Sheepscot River. Fish and kayak from your back doorstep, while being minutes from Augusta, Rockland and Camden. Home has many renovations, kitchen, pantry, metal roof and 2 bedrooms currently being renovated. $129,800

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Two Geese

The gander was a gander alone. His longtime mate had been lost to sickness many seasons ago, and–true to his nature–he’d never looked for another to take her place.

It wasn’t that the gander lived a miserable existence; quite the contrary, in fact. He enjoyed his routines, and places to spend his days that were safe, familiar, and interesting, all at the same time.

The gander just knew that a part of his life was gone. And although he didn’t have the inclination or the ability to ponder matters of the soul, he was expecting someday to be reunited with his mate ... to find her or be found by her.

The harbor was a grand spot for a gander to hang out. The fishermen had adopted him as a mascot years ago, and each of them had his own way of interacting with him: a certain tone of voice or a name; a particular treat carried in a pocket or stowed in a lunchpail; maybe just a nod or wave as they passed by.

The gander had spent enough time in the harbor to be familiar with the changing pace of the seasons.

Now it was spring, and springtime waterfront activity meant the setting of lobster gear, which was a lot livelier than the taking up of it in the fall.

But there was one piece of the springtime cycle the gander knew was yet to happen. And the odd-shaped silhouette on the horizon with the noise that accompanied it told him that today was the day.

The sound of a droning engine grew in volume as the approaching visitor grew in size and took shape. Waterfront newbies would be inclined to squint into the morning sun and say, “Sure sounds like an airplane, but an airplane has wings,” and they’d be right on both accounts.

It was an airplane–a seaplane, to be exact.

And it had no wings.

It had wings at one time, but they’d been amputated a while ago, leaving just stubs affixed to the top of the plane’s fuselage and pontoons below it. So now the airplane was a true plane no longer, but more of a boat than anything else.

At the controls was a man the locals knew as “the Chief.” His brown skin, noble features, and jet-black, pony-tailed hair were clues to his heritage but not his age.

A guess might have pegged him at maybe 60, but it was more than 60 years ago that the Chief was a young man flying the wartime skies over Europe. Twenty-five years ago, he was the best fish spotter on the coast of Maine, a free agent sought after by every herring chaser there was in the seining fleet. Now he was the sole inhabitant of a little island off the coast, seldom seen by the folks on the mainland except when he came to town in his now-flightless old seaplane for grub and supplies.

The Chief had flown over many parts of the world, but he’d never owned a driver’s license for an automobile. A car would do him little good these days, anyway–there were no roads to his island; he could only reach the mainland by water; and once he

got there, he needed only to walk uptown to conduct his business.

So the gander knew the noisy machine coming into the harbor as an expected visitor to his world. If he’d been a gander who could read, he’d have smiled at the name painted on the nose of the wingless plane in faded red letters: Tin Goose

The gander didn’t have to read to know why the Chief was idling up to the town landing. The smell of apple blossoms and lilacs told him the motivation for the Chief’s visit.

For as long as the gander had been patrolling the harbor, he’d seen the woman come each year at this time—and had watched as the Chief came across the bay to meet her. They’d make the crossing to his island and remain there for several days. Then he’d bring her back to the mainland, and she would go.

The storekeeper in the village knew that just before the woman’s arrival each year, the Chief would be in to order a funny assortment of rare cheeses, tinned meats, and nice wines (the names of which the Chief kept on a well-worn square of paper in his wallet).

Several of the local lobstermen over the years had caught glimpses of the Chief and his lady friend walking the shore of his island. Some reported them as walking handin-hand. One swore he’d seen the Chief and the woman slow-dancing on the sand in the light of the setting sun one evening.

Only the gander, paddling off the Chief’s island under a star-filled sky, had heard the late-night laughter through the years and John Coltrane tooling through “My Favorite Things.”

For some reason he didn’t understand, this made the lone gander feel happy and sad at the same time.

He watched as the Chief climbed down from the cockpit of his plane and walked up the gangway to meet the woman. They embraced briefly, then trotted back down to the waiting seaplane, moving as if decades had been erased from their pasts.

Maybe they had.

Within minutes, the wingless Tin Goose was headed back across the bay, its occupants chock full of life and each other.

And the real gander treaded the waters of the harbor, enjoying the blessings of the day.

For he was a gander alone. n

Photo by Darren Setlow

Photo Illustration by Karen Lybrand

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AD&W Architectural Doors & Windows, is a one-stop shop for owners and general contractors seeking Storefront, Custom Entrances, Curtainwall, Windows, Skylights and Alucobond products. AD&W stands today as the largest commercial glazing contractor in Maine. AD&W is also a leading custom entrance, storefront and curtainwall fabricator with decades of experience. AD&W was originally the commercial division of Portland Glass, started by Sam Cohen in 1946. Portland Glass was built by Gene Cohen, and eventually sold in 1997. AD&W Architectural Doors & Windows is the last piece of the original Portland Glass that is still a Maine family owned business. It is operated today by Jonathan Cohen, grandson of the founder, and many of the former Portland Glass employees.

AD&W Architectural Doors & Windows, is a one-stop shop for owners and general contractors seeking Storefront, Custom Entrances, Curtainwall, Windows, Skylights and Alucobond products. AD&W stands today as the largest commercial glazing contractor in Maine. AD&W is also a leading custom entrance, storefront and curtainwall fabricator with decades of experience. AD&W was originally the commercial division of Portland Glass, started by Sam Cohen in 1946. Portland Glass was built by Gene Cohen, and eventually sold in 1997. AD&W Architectural Doors & Windows is the last piece of the original Portland Glass that is still a Maine family owned business. It is operated today by Jonathan Cohen, grandson of the founder, and many of the former Portland Glass employees.

AD&W Architectural Doors & Windows, is a one-stop shop for owners and general contractors seeking Storefront, Custom Entrances, Curtainwall, Windows, Skylights and Alucobond products. AD&W stands today as the largest commercial glazing contractor in Maine. AD&W is also a leading custom entrance, storefront and curtainwall fabricator with decades of experience. AD&W was originally the commercial division of Portland Glass, started by Sam Cohen in 1946. Portland Glass was built by Gene Cohen, and eventually sold in 1997. AD&W Architectural Doors & Windows is the last piece of the original Portland Glass that is still a Maine family owned business. It is operated today by Jonathan Cohen, grandson of the founder, and many of the former Portland Glass employees.

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In 2009–2010 AD&W performed the window replacement and installation of a new exterior Alucobond skin on the One Monument Square Building in Portland, Maine for the Finard company. The objective was to freshen up the appearance and create a modern looking building façade.

In 2009–2010 AD&W performed the window replacement and installation of a new exterior Alucobond skin on the One Monument Square Building in Portland, Maine for the Finard company. The objective was to freshen up the appearance and create a modern looking building façade.

In 2009–2010 AD&W performed the window replacement and installation of a new exterior Alucobond skin on the One Monument Square Building in Portland, Maine for the Finard company. The objective was to freshen up the appearance and create a modern looking building façade.

State of the Art products and technology coupled with “Old-school” values reflected in customer service and quality—that’s what you’d expect from a company that’s been in business since 1946, and that’s exactly what you get with Architectural Doors and Windows.

State of the Art products and technology coupled with “Old-school” values reflected in customer service and quality—that’s what you’d expect from a company that’s been in business since 1946, and that’s exactly what you get with Architectural Doors and Windows.

State of the Art products and technology coupled with “Old-school” values reflected in customer service and quality—that’s what you’d expect from a company that’s been in business since 1946, and that’s exactly what you get with Architectural Doors and Windows.

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In 2009–2010 AD&W performed the window replacement and installation of a new exterior Alucobond skin on the One Monument Square Building in Portland, Maine for the Finard company. The objective was to freshen up the appearance and create a modern looking building façade.

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In 2007, AD&W took part in what would become one of its signature projects at the Harold Alfond Center for Cancer Care, in Augusta, Maine, where the company installed a Vistawall curtain wall system, custom entrances and Sobotec Alucobond panels.

In 2007, AD&W took part in what would become one of its signature projects at the Harold Alfond Center for Cancer Care, in Augusta, Maine, where the company installed a Vistawall curtain wall system, custom entrances and Sobotec Alucobond panels.

In 2007, AD&W took part in what would become one of its signature projects at the Harold Alfond Center for Cancer Care, in Augusta, Maine, where the company installed a Vistawall curtain wall system, custom entrances and Sobotec Alucobond panels.

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In 2005, AD&W performed similar work at the Central Maine Medical Center, in Lewiston, again utilizing Vistawall curtainwalls, custom entrances and Sobotec Alucobond panels.

In 2005, AD&W performed similar work at the Central Maine Medical Center, in Lewiston, again utilizing Vistawall curtainwalls, custom entrances and Sobotec Alucobond panels.

In the 64 years since my grandfather, Sam Cohen started the business, our approach to jobs has been, old-school. We are there throughout the process, provide exemplary service and quality specified products. We always deliver. We always complete. After 64 years, we’re still here to service our customers and continue to add new ones every day. We treat customers like we want to be treated, a philosophy my grandfather Sam, my father Gene, myself and our employees are still operating under today. Jonathan Cohen, President of AD&W.

In the 64 years since my grandfather, Sam Cohen started the business, our approach to jobs has been, old-school. We are there throughout the process, provide exemplary service and quality specified products. We always deliver. We always complete. After 64 years, we’re still here to service our customers and continue to add new ones every day. We treat customers like we want to be treated, a philosophy my grandfather Sam, my father Gene, myself and our employees are still operating under today. Jonathan Cohen, President of AD&W.

In the 64 years since my grandfather, Sam Cohen started the business, our approach to jobs has been, old-school. We are there throughout the process, provide exemplary service and quality specified products. We always deliver. We always complete. After 64 years, we’re still here to service our customers and continue to add new ones every day. We treat customers like we want to be treated, a philosophy my grandfather Sam, my father Gene, myself and our employees are still operating under today. Jonathan Cohen, President of AD&W.

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AD&W performed the first two LEED® (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) projects in the state of Maine, The University of Southern Maine’s John Mitchell Center, in Gorham, with Wright Ryan Construction and Bowdoin College’s Coffin Street Dormitory, in Brunswick.

AD&W performed the first two LEED® (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) projects in the state of Maine, The University of Southern Maine’s John Mitchell Center, in Gorham, with Wright Ryan Construction and Bowdoin College’s Coffin Street Dormitory, in Brunswick.