Portland Monthly Magazine May 2012

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43 Features

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The Devil Wears Gucci

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Carmen Electric

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Carson Kressley brings his joie de vivre to Ogunquit Playhouse for a Red-Sox revamping of Damn Yankees.

Now that’s bringing some heat!

Interview by Colin W. Sargent Things are sizzling at The Danforth’s hot new restaurant.

By Colin W. Sargent

Lawyers in Love

Get your mind out of the harbor. Pierce Atwood is living large on Merrill’s Wharf.

By David Svenson

Singular First Person

Lights on, you princes of Maine.

John Irving dishes on his new novel, In One Person.

Interview by Colin W. Sargent

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Unconventional Conventions

Look who’s coming to Maine: not the usual suspects.

By Mike Macisso & Jarrett Melendez

60 Dream Boat

The USS Williamsburg is the pride of Bath Iron Works. So what’s she doing in Italy?

By Steven W. Lindsey

Cover: Author John Irving, photo by Jane Sobel Klonsky.

“Singular First Person,” page 54.

32 Departments 16 From the Editor 18 Letters 21 Imperatífs 26 Summer Theater Guide

32 Goings On 41 Chowder 67 Performance

Rick McPhail from Tocotronic

73 Dollars and Sense

Cracking the Lobster Code

76 Dining Guide 77 Restaurant Review

Tavern at Brunswick Station

87 House of the Month 193 Concord Street

91 New England

Homes & Living

103 Fiction

“Sea Squirt”

By Joseph Guglielmetti Jr.

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editorial Colin W. Sargent, Editor & Publisher

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Featuring original works of fine art, photography, and limited edition prints by regional and local artists.

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Oscar-winning actress Helen Hunt’s greatgreat grandparents owned and lived in the landmark brick townhouse that’s our magazine’s headquarters at 165 State Street.

This came to light when Hunt appeared in the television show Who Do You Think You Are? and traced her roots here. There’s a dramatic pause as she opens a moldy journal in Maine Historical Society and the camera traces her finger to her forebears’ address.

Augusta Merrill Hunt (1842-1932) was a pioneering Prohibitionist and a courageous women’s rights advocate. George S. Hunt (1829-1896), her husband, owned a fleet of ships in the West Indies trade, many of them in the sugar trade with Cuba. I’m not saying their relationship was like Helen’s and Paul Reiser’s in the sitcom Mad About You, but consider: He’s making a killing bringing the crucial ingredient for rum into town (I’ve once heard novelist William H. White call sugar cane “rum on the hoof”), while she’s busy abolishing it. Far be it from me to suggest the Hunts’ passionate pursuits went to different ends.

George S. Hunt even had a beautiful barque named for him, a rakish craft which slipped unknown past the TV coverage but appears here. The show didn’t discover or mention any of his ships’ names, either, which are music to the ear: Minerva, Henry P. Lord, Meriwa, S.W. Holbrok, Winslow, Charlena, Frank E. Allen, Ortolan, Sarah B. Crosby, Stella, Ada Gray, Arthur Kinsman, Blanche How, Eliza White, N.M. Haven, Rachel, Frank E. Allen, Minnie Traub, Pilot Fish, J. Polledo, and Manzanilla.

Barque George S. Hunt Passing the Highlands, 1860, unknown artist, oil on canvas Now that’s good Helen hunting.

Helen Hunt at Maine Historical Society

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The days when you stand in awe before the power and majesty of the sea, to hear the thunder of the waves, to smell the salt of the sea’s wind and watch gulls wing against leaden gray skies. These are the days of Maine’s great waves.

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I enjoyed your story on the best hotel rooms in Maine with a view [“Suite Surrender,” April 2012]. My favorite, which wasn’t mentioned, is the Hollywood Casino Hotel & Raceway, Room 702. It’s on the top floor and is an end unit with windows in two directions. It provides a great view of the Penobscot River flowing through Bangor.

Nancy Neely, Cape Elizabeth

Bright lights, big city

“Graphic Designs?” Are you kidding me?

Do you know Times Square is far from a safe place to visit? Your article [“Sign Language,” April 2012] suggests one of the most stupid ideas I’ve ever heard. Using the angle that they’d be somehow historical is dubious. I’m all for advertising, but not like that.

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I didn’t read much of this article [“When Your Name Is Mailer You Can’t Phone It In,” December 2010]. It was boring to me.

Mailer ’s son? #%@& that noise. And #%@& you, too.

Jesse Kaellis, New Westminster, BC, Canada

Catching up

As usual, your editorial hit me in the chest [“Chasing Whitney,” April 2012].

To end with “Sadly, she was,” is so on. Thank you.

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What do FDR, Lauren Bacall, Humphrey Bogart, Gregory Peck, Curious George, and Olivia de Havilland have in common?

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These Swarovski Crystal Blue Turquoise Kingfishers are “cut the same way a diamond’s cut,” Day’s Jewelers gift buyer Lynn Frank says. They’re romanced “in Austria, and nobody is allowed to see the entire process.

It’s proprietary.” That doesn’t mean you can’t buy them! $950, daysjewelers.com

Olivia de Havilland with her pond yacht. To see other famous enthusiasts, visit portlandmonthly.com/portmag/2012/04/pond-yachts.

came an organized sport in New York, London, and Paris where special ponds were built for them,” says Ben Fuller, curator of the Penobscot Marine Museum. Catch his breezy exhibit through October. $8, penobscotmarinemuseum.org

Melissa Rivera of Lalo Boutique wants to sell you a candle the smells “like a gin and tonic.” Wouldn’t Edna St. Vincent Millay have loved that one! Then there’s “Evening by the Fire and Beneath the Pines.” Reach her shop before spring tapers off. 142 High Street, Portland. $25. Candles created by Seawicks Candle Company in Edgecomb. laloboutique.com; seawicks.com

Oh, My! “Something wonderful happens when you fry a donut long enough to melt the cheddar,” Alan Kellis of The Holy Donut says of their Bacon & Cheddar. “It becomes soft like a dinner roll.” Try their ice cream donuts, too. 194 Park Ave. $1.50; $3 for Bacon & Cheddar. theholydonutmaine.com

Discover the life of a lighthouse keeper at Spring Point Ledge Lighthouse. The tower is the only harbor light open to visitors every weekend, June 23- September 1. Half the fun is reaching it across a 50,000-ton granite breakwater installed in 1951. SMCC’s Bill Berman says this is the perfect time–imagine crossing the “900-foot breakwater in February for a quart of milk!” 11 a.m.3 p.m., $5, springpointledgelight.com

It doesn’t have to be “hard to say goodbye.” In fact, say hello to Boyz II Men June 28 at Cellardoor Winery’s Pop the Cork party in Rockport. Proceeds benefit Midcoast Habitat for Humanity. $75, mainewine.com

You’re going to love the cut of Flowfold’s jib. They’ll sleeve your iPad in a tiny slice of a racing yacht’s former carbon fiber, Kevlar, Pentax, or polyester sail. “We’re carried in stores throughout the East Coast,” says Nick Power, including Nomads, Lisa-Marie’s Made in Maine, and Bull Moose. “Online, we’ve sold to every continent but Antarctica.”

This sail of the century also has your wallets and tarjeteros covered. $8-$35, flowfold.com

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the arts

The Devil Wears Gucci Carson Kressley takes the stage July 25-August 18 in Ogunquit Playhouse’s Damn Yankees. i n t e r v i e w b y c o l i n w. sargent

I think for a summer in Maine it would have to be “The Devil Wears L.L. Bean”! Even though I love European designers, I have a great appreciation for classic American sportswear. I love the preppy Americana of New England, so don’t be surprised if you see me around town in seersucker shorts, patchwork shirts, and boat shoes. When I come to Maine, I’m living the dream!

Are you a Red Sox or a Yankees fan?

Would you believe I’m not that much of a sports fan? I know, it’s hard to believe! I guess I’d have to say I’m more of a Red Sox fan since I made several of them over on an episode of Queer Eye for the Straight Guy. I even took to the ball field with some of them for a charity game and threw out 2 2 p o r t l a n d m o n t h ly m a g a z i n e

the first pitch at Fenway Park. I still have that ball…somewhere!

show he loves so much. I tried to tap into that same feeling.

What do you think of their changing the Washington Senators to the Red Sox to fan the flames of the rivalry?

Did you stay at 16 Beach Street last time you were here?

Where will you stay this time around?

I think it’s great. I play “The Devil” in the show, so I’d better get into character and encourage all flame fanning.

You did such a fantastic job starring in The Drowsy Chaperone at Ogunquit Playhouse. Did that start something for you?

I am so grateful for that part. I adore that show and I had an absolutely wonderful time playing “Man in Chair.” I just did the best I could to bring him to life in a believable way. The show was so well-written and directed–and the cast was so talented–it made my job easy. I really felt for the character and his love for Broadway, so that part was easy. Even though he could be quite lonely at times, he ultimately finds joy in the

I love 16 Beach Street and its lovely owners, Dick and Linda Wickert. They were the first friendly locals I met when I first visited Ogunquit, so Beach Street will always feel like home.

What were some of the haunts you visited in Ogunquit two summers ago?

After the busy weeks of rehearsal, days become free and I can really enjoy all that Ogunquit has to offer! I love to go antiquing in Wells, hit L.L. Bean in Freeport (they have a great refreshment stand that serves a killer lobster roll), or just hit the gorgeous beach in town! Of course a star’s gotta eat, so I love Barnacle Billy’s and Cape Neddick Lobster Pound!

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Sonnets and Soliloquies, Jun. 4 at The Wine Bar, 38 Wharf St., Portland. acorn-productions.org Arundel Barn Playhouse, 53 Old Post Rd., Arundel. Forever Plaid, Jun. 5-23; Irving Berlin’s White Christmas, Jun. 25-Jul. 14; Cinderella, Jul. 17-Aug. 4; The Rocky Horror Show, Aug. 7-18; Beyond the Rainbow, Aug. 21-Sept. 1.

985-5222 arundelbarnplayhouse.com Belfast Maskers, Brigadoon, Jul. 26-29, Steamboat Landing Park, Belfast; Aug. 2-5, Mosman Park, Searsport.

338-9668 belfastmaskers.com Boothbay Playhouse, 275 Wiscasset Rd., Boothbay. Urinetown, Jun. 28-30, Jul. 5-7 and 11-14; Thank You For the Music, Jul. 20-21, 26-28; Once Upon a Mattress, Aug. 1-4, 9-11, and 15-18.

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Chocolate Church Arts Center, 804 Washington St., Bath. The Studio Theatre of Bath presents Rumors, Jun. 8-10 and 15-17.

442-8455 chocolatechurcharts.org Fenix Theatre Company, 17 Spear Ave., S. Portland. MacBeth, Th, F & Sa, Jul. 19-Aug. 11, at Deering Oaks Park. 400-6223 fenixtheatre.com Figures of Speech, 77 Durham Rd., Freeport.

Jester Kings of Java, Jun. 29, at Mayo Street Arts, Portland. 865-6355 figures.org Freeport Community Players, Freeport Performing Arts Center, 30 Holbrook Rd., Freeport. The Mikado, Jul .19-Aug. 5; One-Act Showcase, Sept.

13-30. 865-2220 fcponline.org Freeport Factory Stage, 5 Depot St., Freeport. Our Town, Jun. 7-10, 14-17, 21-23 & Jul. 4.

865-5505 freeportfactory.com Frontier, Fort Andross, Brunswick. Film, Ballet: The Bright Stream, May 15; La Fille Mal Gardee, May 29; Don Quixote, Jun. 12. 725-5222 explorefrontier.com Gaslight Theater, 1 Winthrop St., Hallowell. The 39 Steps, May 18-20, 24-26; Fox on the Fairway, Aug. 30-Sept. 2, 8, 9. 626-3698 gaslighttheater.org Hackmatack Playhouse, 538 School St. (Rte. 9), Berwick. Burt and Me, Jun. 20-23, 27-30; Oklahoma!, Jul. 4-7, 11-14, 18-21; Hairspray, Jul. 25-28, Aug. 1-4, 8-11; Boeing Boeing, Aug. 15-18, 22-25, Aug. 29-Sept.

1. 698-1807 hackmatack.org Heartwood Regional Theatre Company, 420 Biscay Rd., Damariscotta.

The Legend of Jim Cullen, Jul. 27-29, Aug. 1-4.

563-1373 heartwoodtheater.org Lakewood Theatre, 76 Theatre Rd., Madison.

Pageant Play, May 24-Jun. 2; Enchanted April, Jun. 7-16; 9 to 5: The Musical, Jun. 21-24 and 27-30; And the Winner Is, Jul. 5-8 and 11-14; The Fox on the Fairway, Jul. 19-22 and 25-28; The Music Man, Aug. 2-5 and 8-11; Murdered to Death, Aug. 16-19 and 22-25; The House of Blue Leaves, Aug. 30-Sept.

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474-7176 lakewoodtheater.org LA Arts, 46 Cedar St., Lewiston. Schaeffer Auditorium at Bates College. The Emancipation of LaLa, May 19. 782-7228 laarts.org Lewiston/Auburn Community Little Theater, 30 Academy St., Auburn. Rabbit Hole, Jun. 1-10; Monty Python’s Spamalot, Aug. 10-19. 783-0958 laclt.com Lucid Stage, 29 Baxter Blvd., Portland. Mad Horse Theatre Presents Circle Mirror Transformation, through May 20; Beau Jest Moving Theatre Presents Ten Blocks on the Camino Real, May 2426; Rising Sun Dance & Theater Presents The Fredom Stories of Lala, pt. 1: The Imagine-a-nation of Lalachild; The Education of Lala Girl, pt 2:, May 30-Jun 2; Defining Marriage, Jun. 9; Boys Will Be Boys, Jun. 14-17; Dark Follies, Jun. 21-24; PortFringe 2012, Jun. 25-Jul. 1; In My Head I’m Thin, Jul. 5-8; Boston Babydolls, Jul. 13-14; Moon Dance, Jul. 20-22; Ida’s Brand New Show, Jul. 27-29; Theatre Tasting, Aug. 4; Tess of the D’Urbervilles, Sept. 1323. 899-3993 lucidstage.com Lyric Music Theater, 176 Sawyer St., South Portland.

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Maine State Music Theatre, Pickard Theater, 1 Bath Rd., Brunswick. A Chorus Line, Jun. 6-23; Legally Blonde, Jun. 27-Jul. 24; Sunset Boulevard, Jul. 18-Aug. 4; 42nd Street, Aug. 8-25. 725-8769 msmt.org Merrill Auditorium, 20 Myrtle St., Portland. PORTopera presents Madama Butterfly, Jul. 25-27. 8420800 porttix.com Ogunquit Playhouse, 10 Main St., Ogunquit.

Always, Patsy Cline (with Sally Struthers), May 23-Jun. 16; Damn Yankees, Jun. 20-Jul. 21, South Pacific, Jul. 25-Aug. 18; 9 to 5: The Musical, Aug. 22-Sept. 15; The Buddy Holly Story, Sept.19-Oct. 21.

646-5511 ogunquitplayhouse.org Opera House at Boothbay Harbor, 86 Townsend Ave., Boothbay Harbor. In The Blood, Jun. 22. 633-5159 boothbayoperahouse.com Penobscot Theatre Company, 131 Main St., Bangor. I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change, May 30-Jun. 17. 947-6618 penobscottheatre.org

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stood on stage as “The Tree” in my first production of Butterfingers Angel, Mary and Joseph, Herod the Nut, and the Slaughter of 12 Hit Carols in a Pear Tree with Al Miller at The Theater Project in 1994. With arms stretched wide and feet planted firmly, I performed my few, important lines feeling proud and safe in the small, unassuming space on School Street in Brunswick. Like many of the 7,000 young people who’ve participated since its founding in 1971, I discovered myself as an independent, confident young adult both on and backstage.

My first play was also executive director Wendy Poole’s first show. Wendy is to the kids now what Al Miller was to me: director, mentor, teacher, and inspiration to “be comfortable in my own skin,” reflects Molly Haley. “I was cast as ‘Head Servant,’ a character without a name or personality in the script.” Poole encouraged Haley to give her a story, “so I created a character who was in love with Dr. Frankenstein.” Using facial expressions and small intonations, she discovered her character. “I was willing to try anything on stage,” Haley says. “The Theater Project offers a safe place for that kind of creative exploration.”

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–Al Miller “I love the room to play around,” says actor Jesse Leighton. “Al gets so much out of everyone.” Actor Craig Ela remarks, “There’s a sense of comfort and trust working with Al and the company.” Sometimes maybe too comfortable. Miller remembers a performance when a “bowl of green-bean salad that was glued down dropped and rolled on the floor. All the actors, including myself, turned downstage and the audience saw all these shaking, giggling backs.”

Or, there’s the time “in the early years of traveling with the theater, we forgot one of the kids at a school we performed in.” Once, “we staged a workshop production and the school janitor came on stage to get a box of food for the cafeteria. And there was a bomb that never exploded during a key scene in a tense play.”

Poole says, “theater changes lives.” It has mine. Not only did I discover my adult self during my first play as “The Tree,” I met the boy who I married six years later. We’ve been together since our first rehearsal.

The Theater Project’s roots spread far, and I tell one story among thousands. Please visit theaterproject.com to read more as we celebrate our 40th anniversary summer season: Voices in the Mirror, The Diary of a Wimpy Kid, and Boxers, A Collection of Shorts. 14 School Street, Brunswick, 729-8584 –Corrie Calderwood M ay

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782-3200 thepublictheater.org Schoolhouse Arts Center, Rte. 114, Sebago Lake Village. Annie Junior, May 18-20. Sound of Music, Jul. 5-22. 642-3743 schoolhousearts.org Stonington Opera House, 1 School St., Stonington. Antony and Cleopatra, Jul. 12-15 & 19-22.

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Tartuffe, Jul. 5-31, and Aug. 3-19; Little Prince, Jul. 7, 14, 31 and Aug. 2-17; Two Gents, Jul. 12-15, 21-22, and Aug. 1-17; Glass, Jul. 19-21, 29, and Aug. 1-18; Henry IV, Jul. 26, 27, 29, and Aug. 2-18; Of Thee I Sing, Sept. 2023 and 27-30. 933-9999 theateratmonmouth.org The Theater Project, 14 School St., Brunswick.

Voices in the Mirror, Jun. 1-3; The Diary of a Wimpy Kid, Jul. 20-22; Boxers, A Collection of Shorts, Jul. 27-29.

729-8584 theaterproject.com Waterville Opera House, Studio Theater, 93 Main St., Waterville. Aqua City Actors Theatre presents I Hate Hamlet, Jun. 1-3 & 8-10; The Race, Jun. 29-30 & Jul. 1, 6-8. 873-7000 operahouse.org Windham Center Stage Theater, 41 Carriage Hill Dr., Windham. Footloose, Aug. 3-5 & 10-12. windhamtheater.org –Compiled by Mike Macisso & Jarrett Melendez

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646-4526 jonathansrestaurant.com Leura Hill Eastman Performing Arts Center, 18 Bradley St., Fryeburg. Fryeburg Academy Spring Concert, May 17; Seacoast Wind Ensemble, May 27; Royal Southern Brotherhood, Jun. 22.

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Jeffrey Foucault, May 17; Tish Hinojosa, May 19; Chris Smither, May 20; Decompression Chamber Music, May 21; Portland Jazz Orchestra, May 24; The Duke Robillard Band, May 25; John Gorka, Jun. 1; Dar Williams, Jun. 2. 761-1757 onelongfellowsquare.com Port City Music Hall, 504 Congress St., Portland. The Wood Brothers, May 23; Trombone Shorty & Orleans Avenue, Jun. 6. 899-4990 portcitymusichall.com Space Gallery, 538 Congress St., Portland. Ty Segall, White Fence, The Strange Boys, May 14.

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Flogging Molly, Devil Makes Three, May 12; Whitechapel, May 17; The Wood Brothers, May 23; Gogol Bordello, May 31; Michael Franti & Spearhead, Jun. 16. 956-6000 statetheatreportland.com Stone Mountain Arts Center, 695 Dug Way Rd., Brownfield. A Mother of a Music Fest and Fair, May 13; Tom Rush, May 19, Terrance Simien & The Zydeco Experience, May 26; Bela Fleck & The Marcus Roberts Trio, May 28; Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, May 31; Stone Mountain Live, Jun. 2; Don McLean, Jun. 7; John Lennon Imagined feat. The Nutonians, Jun. 8; Pine Leaf Boys, Jun. 9; Robert Cray Band, Jun. 11; Enter the Haggis, Jun. 15; David Bromberg Quartet, Jun. 16; The Flatlanders, Jun. 23; Billy Bragg, Jun. 29.

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Visit local galleries, studios & museums, Jun. 1. firstfridayartwalk.com Haley Art Gallery, 178 Haley Rd., Kittery. Transformations, work of Suzie Goodwin, through Jun. 28; Secret Garden, works by Gene Galipeau, Carolyn Latanision & Anthony Montanino, through Aug. 30.

439-7612. haleygallery.com Institute of Contemporary Art, 522 Congress St., Portland. MFA Thesis Exhibition, May 12-Jun. 3.

699-5029 meca.edu Maine Historical Society Museum, 489 Congress St., Portland. Dressing Up, Standing Out, Fitting In: Adornment and Identity in Maine, 1750-1950, through May 27. 774-1822 mainehistory.org One Longfellow Square, 181 State St., Portland. Music Movie Mondays: Woodstock Diary, Jun 4. 761-1757 onelongfellowsquare.com Portland Museum of Art, 7 Congress Sq., Portland. Edgar Degas, through May 28; Portland to Paris: Mildred Burrage’s Years in France, through Jun. 15.

775-6148 portlandmuseum.org Portland Public Library, Lewis Gallery, 5 Monument Sq., Portland. Port of Portland: A Ship-Shaped History, through May 13; Jan Pieter van Voorst van Beest & Alonzo Harris, TBA. 871-1700 Portlandlibrary.com; maine.aiga.org Space Gallery, 538 Congress St., Portland. Marley, May 13-15; Low & Clear, May 20; Blind Spots, Meggan Gould & Billie Mandle, through May 25. The Color Wheel, May 31. 828-5600 space538.org

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Blue Sky, 2 Beach St., York Beach. Latin Night.

Food & dance. DJ Angel, May 18. 363-0050 blueskyonyorkbeach.com

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Browne Trading Company, 262 Commercial St., Portland. Wine tasting every third Th, 5-7pm.

775-7560 brownetrading.com Jonathan’s, 92 Bournes Ln., Ogunquit.

Mother’s Day Brunch Buffet, May 13. 646-4526 jonathansrestaurant.com Maine Lobster Festival, 1 Harbor Park, Rockland. Food, crafts & more. Aug. 1-5.

596-0376 mainelobsterfestival.com Old Port Wine Merchants, 223 Commercial St., Portland. Wine tasting every third W, 47:30pm. 772-9463 oldportwine.com RSVP, 887 Forest Ave., Portland. Wine tasting every second W, 4-7pm. 773-8808 Salt Exchange, 245 Commercial St., Portland. Spirit tastings, last W of every month. 347-5687 thesaltexchange.net The West End Deli & Catering, 133 Spring St., Portland. Wine tastings every first F, 6-8pm.

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874-6426 thewestenddeli.com Wine Wise Tastings, Portland. Mothers Day Wine Dinner at the Farmer’s Table, 205 Commercial St., May 13; A Wine Walk in the Old Port: Sparkling Wines of the World, May 19. winewiseevents.com

Don’t Miss Architectural Gems & Hidden Gardens of Bath, 880 Washington St., Bath. Tours of 6 architectural style homes with distinctive gardens & porches, plus 4 unique front space gardens, Jun. 16. 443-2174 sagadahocpreservation.org Brunswick Station, 16 Station Ave., Brunswick. Celebrate National Train Day with model trains, Operation Lifesaver safety display, putt-putt rail cars & Maine train information. 729-0166 brunswick-station.com Conference on the Great Mother & New Father, 42 Kieve Rd., Nobleboro. Created by poet Robert Bly in 1975. “Keys for the Rowdy Prisoners,” poetry, discussion, storytelling, astrology, time outdoors, music, movement & private reflection, Jun. 2-10. 802-592-3062 greatmotherconference.com CS Boutique, 424 Fore St., Portland. Love.

Laugh. Learn: Embracing Your Sexual Self, Jun. 11 & 25. 871-0356 csboutique.com Freeport Historical Society Benefit, 45 Main St., Freeport. Celebrate maritime heritage with sailing and tours aboard the schooner Bowdoin, seaside auction & gala with The Jason Spooner Band, Jun. 23.

865-3170 freeporthistoricalsociety.org Maine Comic Arts Festival, Ocean Gateway, 46 Commercial St., Portland. Featuring writers, artists & publishers of comic art, May 19-20. 780-1676 mecaf.blogspot.com MEREDA, 363 Maine Mall Rd., South Portland. New Urbanism: Creative Models for Innovation and Economic Growth, May 17. 874-0801 mereda.org Old Port Festival, Portland. Music, arts, crafts, food & more. Jun. 10. 772-6828 portlandmaine.com Seventy-Five State Street, 75 State St., Portland.

Fund-raising regular & silent auction for transportation van. Sept. 13. 775-7775 75state.org Southworth Planetarium, 96 Falmouth St., Portland. 100th Annual Portland Time Convention Tick Tock Literature of Time Reading, Jun. 30. Submit work through Jun. 1. mjcheung@maine.rr.com

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Space Gallery, 538 Congress St., Portland. Pecha Kucha Night, design share, May 17. 828-5600 space538.org Summer Reading Series, 165 State St., Portland.

First Friday poetry reading hosted by Portland Magazine, 7pm, May 4. 775-4339 portlandmagazine.com UNE Biddeford, 11 Hills beach Rd., Biddeford.

Summer Early College Creative Writing Program for junior and senior high school students, Jul. 8-20.

602-2050 une.edu/oce/writing/index.cfm Wolfe’s Neck Farm, 184 Burnett Rd., Freeport. Annual Spring Festival and Plant Sale, May 19. 865-4469 wolfesneckfarm.org –Compiled by Jeanee Dudley

“A lake...is the earth’s eye.”

Henry David Thoreau

See it aboard the Katahdin.

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In their golden years, age 12 and 18, two mountain lions at Maine Wildlife Park in Gray have taken a strikingly personal approach to enjoying life in their new 3,500-square-foot facility, one of the largest in New England. “We have to keep them separated,” Lisa Kane, park supervisor, says. Viewers hoping to catch them together when the park opens midMay will likely be disappointed. How does the song go? “There’s only you and me, and we just disagree.” 56 Game Farm Road, Gray.

TransAtlantic Vamping Though Tim Burton’s 2012 reanimation of Dark Shadows takes place in fictional Collinsport, Maine (a bizarro Bucks-

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port), the movie was filmed in Cornwall and Buckinghamshire, England. “It’s amazing they had to travel that far for it to look like Maine!” says Kathy Zeman of the Bucksport Chamber of Commerce. Maybe they should’ve filmed Sweeney Todd in Lewiston. Johnny Depp’s costar Michelle Pfeiffer is a summer resident of East Pond in Waterville, with producer/husband David E. Kelley.

When’s a regatta not a regatta?

When it’s a cook-off! On July 3 Steve Tofield of Lyman-Morse Boatbuilding will host the firstever Coal Pot Regatta in Thomaston. The handmade clay pots must be from “Antigua, where I started this with a friend,” Tofield says. Otherwise, it’s an open competition.

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“I took over for my parents,” says Rhona Laskoff Vosmus, owner of Central Yarn Shop. Celebrating the Laskoff family’s 62 years in business as Congress Street’s most colorful retail destination for luscious yarn (not to mention a staggeringly complete button collection), they’re relocating to South Portland, “sharing space with Drapery Trading.”

Be sure and keep in touch. 868 Broadway, 799-7789 centralyarn.com

Freudian Slip

“Why does everything in Maine have to look like a lobster? Now, it’s the banana peels,” local artist Mike Smisek says. This unique crustacean was flattened at the intersection of Spring and High Streets. Why did the banana-lobster cross the road? Send us your best response! portlandmonthly. com/portmag/about/contact-us

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“The women here are incredible because, you know, they’re tough,” says Portland native Judd Nelson in a video for the History Channel. “They don’t cry if it gets cold, they don’t worry about their hair getting messed up in the wind. They’ve got boots on, you know?”

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en Electric Carmen When the Roma Café went dark, a black hole settled over the West End. Now, Carmen at The Danforth brings back the experience of dining in a neighborhood mansion.

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f singer Ricky Martin comes to town to dine at “Carmen at the Danforth,” what will he order?

Chef Carmen González smiles. “Right now, he’s in New York doing Evita, so he’s homesick. I’d offer him something with a touch of Puerto Rico in it. I’d go with fish and roasted plantains!”

If you dine with González at her new restaurant, opening May 15 at The Danforth bed and breakfast, you can go international, too, devouring sizzling snacks as part of a culinary “journey through most of Latin America and the Caribbean,” where lobster will be served as few up here have seen it before.

“One of my signature dishes is a lobster and avocado terrine with key lime mayo and aranitas (grated green plantain and garlic fritters), which I plan to have on the menu, along with lobster fritters.”

Restaurant patrons will enter through the front door at 163 Danforth Street and be greeted by a hostess in the center hallway beside a free-form sculptural bar by artist Al Kronk of Rusted Puffin Metal Works. A lounge to the left invites with the “pasabocas” experience– hors d’oeuvres dancing in martini glasses and dreamy drinks. Live music from a baby grand will breeze in with “romantic Spanish” themes. It’s the ultimate relaxation area (“natural canvas with splashes of color to make the architectural details pop”) where both diners and the inn’s guests can test the delicious waters with something small.

Then they’ll float across the hall to the formal dining room–with its massive fireplace, high Federal crown molding, dentils, and paneling–which opens up to a separate Chef’s Table room with al fresco brightness and “a tasting menu only.” Think “wine flights and tastings.”

Here, foodies will get to chat with

The new restaurant at 163 Danforth Street opens May 15.

At Long Last!

Built in 1823 for merchant prince Joseph Holt

Ingraham, The Danforth has been home to Waynflete School, Canal Bank owner Elias Thomas, and the Roman Catholic Diocese of Maine (purchased in 1941, for $10K). Barbara Hathaway bought it in 1996 for $350,000 and revamped it as a high-end bed and breakfast (guest Drew Barrymore couldn’t find her motivation to obey the no-smoking policy). While Hathaway wasn’t allowed to expand the inn, the subject of a lawsuit with the city, a 34-seat restaurant was approved circa 2002. In April, 2009, present owner Kim Swan bought The Danforth–all 15 fireplaces of it–for $1.25 million. “I can’t take any credit for getting a restaurant here,” Swan says. “That was all the previous owner’s heavy lifting.”

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hungry Eye Clockwise from top: Chef Carmen González at the restaurant entrance shows where Al Kronk’s custom-made bar will serve guests; restaurant guests will relax in the lounge to live music from the inn’s baby grand piano; González’s red snapper and clams with fingerling potatoes and leeks in chorizo broth will be in demand at Carmen at The Danforth; Chef Carmen’s signature lobster and avocado terrine, with key lime mayonnaise and plantain fritters, is one of many knockout dishes.

•“Crispy plantains topped with pickled shrimp and green papaya, pulled pork, crispy fried shallots, and house gravlax-fried capers and mustardy vinaigrette” •“Bacon-wrapped diver scallops, malanga mash, warm bacon vinaigrette” •“Crispy fried oysters, warm corn and pea relish, scotch bonnet-mango dipping sauce” •“Roasted monkfish a la criolla, yuca mash” •“Maine cod, yautia purée, green olives, and piquillo relish” •“Arroz con mariscos, drunken sweet plantains” •“Rum-barbecued ahi tuna, three-tomato confit, a stack of beer batter sweet onion rings” •“Pork ragu, farmer’s cheese and sweet plantain lasagna, charred tomato sauce” •“Adobo-rubbed pork tenderloin, roasted root vegetables, scotch-bonnet and mango jam, pork demi” •“Lola duck two ways, corn flan, late vintage port sauce.”

Bigger Fish To Fry

Like any celebrity chef, beyond her wizardry in the kitchen, González is a high-energy business executive, too.

Intermezzo magazine calls her a sensation, tracing her influences to growing up on the west coast of Puerto Rico, where she went with “her mother on Saturday mornings to the Crash Boat, a well-known beach. A local woman would wait for her fisherman husband to haul in his fresh catch of snappers and groupers. ‘She would clean the fish right there. She’d take the fish, cut it, and she had a big cast-iron pot on the sand, over wood.

She’d throw the fish into the pot and fry it right there, then serve it with a few tostones (fried plantains) on a purple plate.’”

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González, gain insight into her famous Nuevo Rico cuisine, and sample her peripatetic personality. What a blast.

“I’ve heard there’s a ghost here,” she laughs, taking in the luxurious appointments.

“Coming from Puerto Rico, that scares me! So far, it’s been very good to me.”

González is going to be very good to you, too. Among the creations she’s planning:

Left: The dining and lounge areas will impress with exquisite architectural details. Below: The Danforth’s owner Kim Swan (left) with Carmen González, who’s been featured on Top Chef and Top Chef Masters.

González who’ll dazzle Maine this summer is charming enough to make a story sparkle and deft enough to make it work for her.

Plus, the artist in the chef can’t resist tweaking the cuisine. She experiments, challenges herself. “I couldn’t get to sleep last night, I was thinking so much about the menu!” Though food writer John Mariani, in a 2007 story for Food Arts, credits González with “reinventing the street food of Puerto Rico,” she can’t help but transmit this tidbit with, “I like to go deep into Latin roots, but not so deep that it’s limiting.”

That’s because, as a member of the NutriSystem Culinary Council advisory board of celebrity chefs (her NutriSystem creations will be released this year), she has bigger fish to fry, including reaching out to a huge audience in a place “where Latin and American and French cuisine touch,” a subliminal Caribbean.

A long-distance runner (10Ks, half marathons), the health-conscious González says, “In Puerto Rico, we have street shacks where people are literally frying with lard.

The sides are very large and they’re greasy– so heavenly.” And so deadly.

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The Perfect Pairing

“Which makes it all the more amazing when you try the 230-calorie dishes she’s just designed for Nutrisystem!” says her friend and business partner Kim Swan, who purchased The Danforth from Barbara Hathaway in 2009 (two years after buying the nearby Pomegranate Inn).

González and Swan met through a mutual friend from Bar Harbor who was in New York as a marketing exec with Hiram Walker liqueurs. “I did a dinner for Ivana Trump and worked with her,” the chef says.

“The chefs are the celebrities now,” Swan says. “I saw her in Perry St.,” the French bistro in the West Village, “beside chef JeanGeorges [Vongerichten]. You should have seen how she was treated, with people crowding around her. ‘Oh, chef!’”

“When Kim bought The Danforth, I visited her the same week she got the keys,” the MGM Latin America TV star says.

“She walked in and said, ‘You are having a restaurant, right?’” Swan says.

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The legal eagles at 254 Commercial Street really dig their new digs.

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From left: Pierce Atwood’s Tara Jenkins, Barbara Wheaton, Colleen Ippolito, Nolan Reichl, and Jessica Grondin soak in the sun from the law firm’s 5th floor deck overlooking the Old Port from Merrill’s Wharf. “Being here is invigorating,” Wheaton, a tax attorney, says. “ We feel like a part of historic Portland– we just didn’t at Monument Square. It’s one thing to walk around Commercial Street, but to see what’s behind the wharves really gives a new perspective.”

o one loves a lawyer joke more than a lawyer, and the love affair Pierce Atwood–Portland’s largest law firm–has for its new location at Merrill’s Wharf has given rise to this one: “Looks like the top four floors of the (formerly) dark and scary Cumberland Cold Storage building M ay

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“The table, chairs, and credenza here are pieces created by Thomas Moser many years ago. We had [them] refinished prior to our move to Merrill’s Wharf,” says Maggie Callicrate, chief operating officer at Pierce Atwood. “I love walking up to the building in the morning when the light reflects off the water.”

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MERILL’S WHARF FROM WATER: KURT ROSCILLO

are going to be marine-use after all. Did somebody say, ‘Shark Tank’?”

Depending on which side of waterfront politics you stand on, Pierce Atwood’s tenancy here is the last chapter of a restoration story that adds $12 million to the value of the building, according to community development meeting minutes.

Anyone who’s strolled across the Old Port knows the “before” pictures of this former wreck of a warehouse were unnerving at the least. “There’s no doubt in my mind there were animals in there,” Dennis Keeler of Pierce Atwood says. “I didn’t see any personally–I sort of let that part be.”

Built in 1900 to house the Twitchell-Champlin Company, the 117,600-square-foot brick structure worked well as a spice mill and can-

nery in its earliest years.

In 1962, George Lewis bought the building and converted it to Cumberland Cold Storage– a staging area for frozen food, particularly seafood, on its way to grocery stores.

In 1986, Coleman Burke purchased the warehouse from Lewis for his Waterfront Maine development company.

“George probably wondered why Burke bought it at that point,” Anthony Gatti, partner at Waterfront Maine, says. “It was pretty run down.

“We started the self-storage concept in 1986,” says Gatti of their changing the name to Cumberland Self Storage for residential and commercial items. “It was very rustic, very industrial.” Gatti says.

“When it was a freezer, it hurt the bricks inside, and they started falling out.

“For Pierce Atwood, we did a lot of cleaning. Trash was all on the floor, and insulation covered the walls. It was clean, just not in the best of shape.”

The use of the building today by Pierce Atwood heralds a new function of waterfront real estate on Merrill’s Wharf. In 2010, the city council altered the conditions of the original, 1992 “Waterfront Alliance Report.” Previous stipulations for the Waterfront Central Zone (from Maine M ay

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Though completely modernized for Pierce Atwood, the building maintains much of its original character. “It’s always easy to raze something and building something new, and don’t we all love it,” Robert Caulfield says. “But it’s nice when you blend the old with the new. You have to remember history and pay homage to it.”

Wharf to Deake’s Wharf) encouraged properties to be used for maritime purposes. The updated requirements now demand only 55 percent of the first floor to remain dedicated to marine businesses.

As a result of this reshuffling, Pierce Atwood shares the waterfront property with a handful of non-marine companies. On the first floor, there’s Federle Mahoney Law Firm and Stillwater Yoga, while Onpoint Health Data, Selkirk Partners, and Compass Health Analytics fill out the second floor. Thanks to the new ruling, all these companies are well above the water line.

Architect Robert Caulfield, a partner at designers Visnick & Caulfield, says the interior was far from being Class A office space. “Floors sloped, ramped, and had rotted away. There were no passenger elevators–just one for freight–and no restrooms. No egress stairs. The power supply was inadequate, and there was no air conditioning.”

Its cinder-blocked windows and crumbling bricks were punched out and refinished. Throughout the years, the only thing 5 0 p o r t l a n d m o n t h ly m a g a z i n e

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“This is probably the most challenging project I’ve been involved in,” Caulfield says, “because the structure was essentially a series of little cabins throughout, like metal closets.”

Similes for the nearly cornerless space– 336-feet long, 60-feet-wide–include Caulfield’s: “like a football field.” Design associate Sherry Niazmand, says, “Gloria Pinza, a managing partner at Pierce Atwood, asked me, ‘Can something be done with a building shaped like a bowling alley?’ Absolutely!”

To break-free from the linear confines of right angles, curves are used all over.

Circular light fixtures glow in bending hallways, somehow still suffused with a sense of the building’s history. “We had to use ladders to move up and down floors,” Niazmand says. “But we mixed the old with the new. Timber beams are exposed along with the brick. And to work with the Historical Society, we even had to fake some of the windows. The whole design is revolutionary.”

Is this a revitalization of the Old Port?

“No,” city councilor Kevin Donoghue says.

Commercial Street “does not want for vitality… The re-use of the upper floors for office space has long been permitted by zoning and is an exceptional phenomenon, in that it was a reuse of an historic building.

Nobody disputes this is valuable land. We dispute for what it is most valuable: maritime uses or others.”

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f you had a pulse in 1999, you were bombarded by “Good night you princes of Maine, you kings of New England.”

The catch phrase comes from the movie The Cider House Rules, based on John Irving’s 1985 bestseller. It starred Tobey Maguire, Charlize Theron, and Sir Michael Caine.

And who doesn’t smile upon hearing “Garp bit Bonkie” from Irving’s 1978 bestseller The World According to Garp?

What quip from Irving’s new book will be the meme that will define 2012?

First Sister, Vermont, and Favorite River Academy are not based on an actual town and a real school; they are entirely fictional.

St. Cloud’s, Maine–that lonely orphanage–is based on an amalgam of actual orphanages in northern New England.

But there is a comparison to be made between The Cider House Rules and In One Person. The similarity between opposition to abortion and opposition to gays and lesbians is growingly obvious. The righteous condemning of women with an unwanted pregnancy, and the condemning of gays and lesbians wanting to be treated the way straight people are treated, is borne of sexual disapproval; the social conservatives want pregnant women to “pay the price” for their presumed-to-be promiscuous sexual activity, and they want gays and lesbians to suffer accordingly. The sexual backwardness of our country has always fueled my writing–we are a sexually repressive country, a sexually punitive country.

How far is St. Cloud’s from Castle Rock?

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How would you compare First Sister, Vermont, to St. Cloud’s, Maine (in The Cider House Rules)?

First Person John Irving as he prepares to release his new novel, In One Person. i n t e r v i e w by co l i n W. S a r g e n t

Castle Rock is a multi-purpose place–all kinds of supernatural stuff happens there.

(Witness Leland Gaunt’s shop of innocentseeming horrors in Needful Things.) Only one thing happens at St. Cloud’s. “I gave them what they want,” Dr. Larch says. A baby or an abortion; it’s all the Lord’s work to Larch. There’s nothing supernatural about St. Cloud’s.

closeted homosexual, he’ll never come out.

The closest Johnny can come to saying that he loves Owen is when he says, “I wrote to him, just casually–since when would a twenty-yearold actually come

Who’d have thought Pease Air Force Base, New England’s former capital of the hush-hush, would figure into all of this? What inspired you to work that in?

No inspiration beyond the belief that men in all-male groups often behave worse than individual men.

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How close were you to titling this fantastic new novel A Sexual Suspect?

Not close at all. The “in one person” line, from Shakespeare’s Richard II, was always the title. In a novel from the point of view of a bisexual man, I could play on the “in one person” phrase–as I do near the end of the novel when Billy says, “I knew that no one person could rescue me from wanting to have sex with men and women.”

The “sexual suspect” line, from The World According to Garp, is from a more radical novel–I mean politically. Garp is killed by a woman who hates men; his mother is murdered by a man who hates women. Yes, In One Person and Garp are both novels on the subject of intolerance of our sexual differences, but because Billy is a first-person narrator, In One Person has as much in common with A Prayer for Owen Meany as it does with Garp. Johnny Wheelwright, the first-person narrator of Owen Meany, is called (behind his back) a “nonpracticing homosexual”; Johnny is such a deeply

young would-be writer’s attraction to the superficial. Billy hasn’t lived enough–or survived anything–when he passes judgment on that epilogue in The Tempest.

AIDS is the collision-in-waiting in In One Person, and the reader knows it’s coming.

My novels are predetermined collision courses; the reader always anticipates what’s coming–you just don’t know the how and the when, and the small details.

It’s clear in Last Night in Twisted River–from the moment the cook and his son run away–that the cowboy will find them. It’s clear in Cider House that Homer Wells knows how to perform an abortion; it doesn’t matter that he doesn’t want to do that procedure– we know he’s been trained. Of course the occasion will present itself. You can’t conceive of an epilogue if you don’t know what’s going to happen.

When Billy writes almost longingly about amateur players going “off script,” it seems like a state of grace, like lighting a forbidden cigarette. When do you as a writer get to go “off script”?

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out and say he missed his best friend?”

But Billy is out–very out!

At first, Billy questions the epilogue in The Tempest because he believes “We are such stuff as dreams are made on” would have made a fantastic last line. Then he reverses course. Is that because epilogues are for the survivors?

I like epilogues. Billy is drawn to an end line that he likes because of the line itself–a

I write toward an ending that I have already written before I begin; I am “off script” (in the sense that I know my lines, and what’s going to happen) from the moment I begin Chapter 1. There is no “winging it” with me; being off script simply means you have confidence in everything ahead of you–it means you know the material.

In One Person flirts with taboos, including indulgent grandfatherly cross-dressing. Is there something in you that can’t resist teasing the cultural prompter?

We are an awfully uptight country, sexually.

Two transgender women are the heroes of In One Person, in the sense that they are the

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Everyone in a Mustache Pageant seems to be hiding behind something. In Nick Callanan’s case, it’s a funny handle. “Mine is Bean Sprouts,” he laments. “I can’t grow a very good mustache, so someone with a better one gave me that label.”

Ridiculous? “During our recent ‘Stache Pag’ at Port City Music Hall and film festival at Deering Grange Hall, there were easily 500 people in the room, between media and contestants,” event organizer Callanan says.

“More than 400 people paid, spending between $100 and $300 across the weekend.”

All told, “The event itself–between ticket prices, sponsorships, and bar sales– brings in over $15,000.”

Drinks were flowing during “the bar event–a couple of hours with just the mustaches hanging out,” Callanan says. “Then there are the panels and toasts,” where everyone has a brush with fame. “This year’s winners are ‘Jungle Boogie,’ in the Thigh Tickler Category; ‘Biggie Shackleton,’ in the 1899 Maine Legislature Category; ‘Dirty Dangle,’ dressed as a cop in short-shorts, in the Uncle Rico category; and ‘Mario,’ Luigi’s pal from Super Mario Brothers, in the Magnum P.I. category.”

Behind all the fuzz, this convention and show is actually a dynamic fund raiser. This year, they supported MeNSK, My Stache Fights Cancer, and Northeast Historic Film.

Make like Hercule Poirot and attend 2013’s gala. Port City Music Hall, Portland, March 29-30, $10-$20, stachepag.com

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“We have a registration limit of 300,” Chris

Mustaches of all kinds–real and fake–are celebrated at the Stache Pag and Stache Film Fest in Portland.

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Clockwise from top left: At Coast City Comicon, visitors animate their favorite comic book characters, like this impersonator of Green Arrow; the mass of the international prototype of the kilogram, a platinum-iridium standard, is appreciated at the National Conference on Weights and Measures; creations from Artisan Bread Fair aren’t just loafing–they’re works of art.

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Single Action Shooting Society Maine Championships, Sept. 7-9, North Berwick Range, ssfga.com Maine Trapper’s Association Fall Rendezvous, Sept. 14-16, Sidney, Silver Spur Riding Club, mta.homestead.com Northeast Regional Model A Ford Club Convention Sept. 19-23, Point Lookout, mafca.com Cosmos & Consciousness X, Sept. 21-23, Rangeley Inn, mindshiftinstitute.org Leica Historical Society of America Annual Meeting Oct. 3-7, Portland Regency Hotel, lhsa.org Coast City Comicon Nov. 9-11, South Portland, DoubleTree, coastcitycomicon.com

Perry, chief of staff & vice-chairman of ANIMAINE, says. At South Portland’s Merry Manor Inn, from August 31 to September 1, “It’s not unusual for someone to spend $100$200 with our artists and vendors, and another $150 on dining and outside attractions like bowling and movies.

“By policy, our guest resources coordinator, Molly Derrig, is required to recommend local restaurants, as well.” With a full crowd, at $15 to $40 a ticket, the figures are eyeopeners–it’s $75,000-$105,000 in revenue brought into the area.

How deep is Maine’s love for anime?

Commun­ications director Michael Churchill and Colin Harvie, chairman of ANIMAINE, both natives of the state, “have contacts here 5 8 p o r t l a n d m o n t h ly m a g a z i n e

to help run things,” Harvie says.” And Perry says, “A lot of our staff are students at New England School of Communications. That’s the kind of thing Maine offers us.”

At ANIMAINE, conventioneers demonstrate there’s more than one way to showcase “big eyes, small mouths.” While visiting booths and events, look for participants in “cosplay”–vivid, custom costumes modeled after characters from anime, manga, comic books, and video games. animaine.com

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Homeschoolers of Maine Annual Convention Apr. 14-16, 2013, Rockport, Samoset Resort, homeschoolersofmaine.org

tration fee alone ($300) drawing in $75,000, there’s reason to keep this show from getting moldy.

“The event’s increased tremendously in size,” Cory King, executive director of the Skowhegan Chamber of Commerce, says. “They’ve gone from being in a parking lot near the Chamber to Skowhegan Fair Grounds. We know there’s a lot of overflow business from the conference and fair. Every gallon of gas or bottle of water they buy benefits the business community.”

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USS Williamsburg sits moored in La Spezia, Italy, in 1994, on the Ligurian Sea.

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If you weren’t sure about the JFK as a mascot ship for the city of Portland, how about the Williamsburg?

Rusting in Italy, Harry S. Truman’s presidential yacht–built at BIW in 1930–is hungry for a new home.

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But today, Truman’s ship is forgotten, lying forlorn and leaking in a port in Italy, not far from where the cruise ship Costa Concordia came to grief.

With her tall stack, two masts, and fantail stern, Williamsburg is beautiful, with the look of a classic steamer. Her silhouette is that of a small White Star liner, though she was actually an early diesel-powered yacht, built in 1930 for Maine industrialist Hugh J. Chisholm, co-founder of International Paper Company.

Sadly, no one’s thought of bringing this storied yacht back home to Maine. Imagine such a prize gracing Portland’s waterfront, with incandescent holiday lights strung from her masts, fore and aft. American cities compete for such ships as tourist draws and focal points for their downtown waterfront districts.

But for many observers, Maine seems to take its maritime culture for granted. Perhaps retired sailors and commercial fishermen are not much for celebrating nostalgia.

Few others seem inclined to value maritime heritage, either.

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From top: The decommissioned USS Williamsburg rusts in La Spezia, Italy, in January, 2012; President Harry S. Truman and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill met aboard the Williamsburg for a conference on January 5, 1952; David Harrison Wright’s painting depicts the presidential yacht (AGC 369) in Key West, postWWII, where Truman lived during the winter.

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John F. Kennedy. Critics said landing “Big John” was too ambitious for the modest port city. This isn’t New York or Corpus Christi, but others chalk it up to Maine’s long-standing indifference to its maritime heritage.

Yes, Maine has the celebrated “dude” schooner fleet operating out of Camden, and Maine towns host colorful lobster boat races in the summer.

But not one of the famed Maine clipper ships survives, although an enterprising professor, Dr. David Switzer, did retrieve a section of the clipper Snow Squall from the Falkland Islands.

The destruction of the schooners Hesper and Luther Little in Wiscasset is symbolic. Promoter Frank W. Winter beached the freight carriers in the mud as an early tourist draw.

His death ended this dream, but the rotting hulls lasted as icons until others with different values asserted themselves. The hulks were seen as attractive nuisances and as potential liabilities. A construction barge was moored over these relics, and a crane clam-bucketed out the remains.

The proud Seguin of Bath, the last wooden steam-tug in New England, was broken up.

The expense of maintaining the large vessel was prohibitive.

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December 1930–The private yacht Aras II (Sara spelled backwards) launches from Bath Iron Works; January 1931–Aras II is delivered to International Paper Co. owner Hugh J. Chisholm, founder of Rumford Falls.

From top right: USS Williamsburg stateroom, then and now; 1950 Christmas menu for First Family festivities.

April 1941–Acquired by the Navy; October 1941–Commissioned as a gunboat, USS Williamsburg (PG 56) sticks to her guns on the eve of America’s involvement in World War II.

November 1945-June 1953–After World War II, USS Williamsburg receives another makeover to become Harry S. Truman’s presidential yacht (AGC 369).

August 1962–Renamed Anton Bruun (for the famous Danish oceanographer), the decommissioned Navy yacht is sold to Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. After she suffers damage in a dry dock disaster in 1971, restoration is deemed prohibitively costly.

1971–Sold to Pennsville Township, NJ, as a floating eatery. “I ate at the restaurant in 1975 on my 11th birthday with my grandparents,” says Tammy Donaldson, 48, who works in the area chamber of commerce. “I remember going down a long narrow road and seeing the boat in the distance. She was large. I walked up the steps that brought you into the dining room. I actually remember what I ate that day: fried shrimp.”

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The Bath Iron Works-built steel steamer Nobska was dismantled in the Charlestown Navy Yard per National Park Service orders in Boston. The Nobska was broken up to freeup the dry-dock it rested in.

Not all Maine’s maritime heritage has been lost. Some ships live on, but in other states.

The Liberty Ship SS Jeremiah O’Brien, built in South Portland for WWII service, serves as a museum in San Francisco, California, and makes occasional forays into San Francisco Bay. The excursion steamer Sabino, which once plied the Damariscotta and Kennebec Rivers as well as Casco Bay, resides at Mystic Seaport, Connecticut. The Portland-based Coast Guard cutter Duane was sunk as an artificial reef in Florida.

A few Bath Iron Works historic ships also survive. The WWII destroyer USS Laffey in South Carolina comes to mind.

Is a Williamsburg rescue possible?

Yes. An earlier preservation effort, after a highly televised sendoff from Washington D.C. during the Clinton Administration, saw her transported to La Spezia, Italy,

aboard a transport ship. Hopes were high before a shipyard bankruptcy sank that effort, according to former project manager Kim Nielsen. The cost of the Atlantic crossing was $400,000. Fuel costs could increase this to $500,000.

The Navalmare shipyard, a creditor, was awarded Williamsburg, and at the urgings of senators and congressmen, stored rather than scrapped her. “They’ve been extremely sensitive to the history of the ship,” Niel­sen says, who adds that she’s been rusting away for 16 years in a saltwater environment, and something needs to be done soon. The shipyard will be looking to recoup costs that include storage, pumping out, some preservation, and prepping Williamsburg for her trip home.

“It still has potential,” Nielsen says, noting that other similar vintage yachts have been successfully restored, including Aristotle Onassis’ Christina O, a converted WWII Royal Canadian Navy frigate, and Delfino, John Alden’s 1939 classic ketch.

Williamsburg is the last unrestored, large American presidential yacht, according to Nielsen. The other two, successful restoration stories are the USS Sequoia of the District of Columbia and the USS Potomac of California. Of Williamsburg, the grandest, “She’s left languishing in an Italian backwater,” says Nielsen. n

>>For more, visit portlandmonthly. com/portmag/2012/04/ williamsburg-extras.

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e swears he’s not a Sprocket, but bewitching lead guitarist Rick McPhail, 41, is a central figure in the indie-rock band Tocotronic, which keeps pumping out hits in Germany to a rapt audience.

How many black turtlenecks do you own?

Quite a few, but I haven’t worn them much lately. Guess I’m not feeling very existentialist.

Can you go grocery shopping in Germany without being mobbed by fans?

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Sometimes I think people recognize me, but that just might be paranoia.

The best was when we took the train a lot for interviews a few records back and were in Deutsche Bahn magazine; you could tell people had just read the article and would look at us and think, “Is that them? No, can’t be, can it?”

How many number-one hits do you have, exactly?

One. You don’t have to sell a lot of records to do that nowadays.

What do your German friends think of Maine?

The one who’s visited says Portland is ugly.

A mutual friend from Portsmouth heard this, and we both said, “You must be thinking about South Portland.”

Tell us about the moment you stepped through a mirror in Old Orchard Beach and woke up in Germany.

I’d been dating a German woman in San

Francisco, but she moved back home to finish studying. When she came back on vacation, she said, “Come to Germany for a year.” So I did and immediately started a band in 1993, because I couldn’t find anyone making decent music.

I moved to Hamburg in 1999 and was offered to go on tour with Tocotronic selling T-shirts. Then they needed someone who could play synthesizer for their new record at the time, so they asked me to start playing live with them.

If you were to bring your Freunde to Maine, where would you take them?

I’d take the bandmates up to Rangeley.

A Freud protégé named Wilhelm Reich fled there just before World War II; he had some weird concepts and experiments that the band found interesting and funny for a time. Supposedly his old house is now a museum.

Definitely Peaks Island, Portland Head Light, and L.L. Bean, too.

Are Germans closet Mainers?

When I tell people I’m from Maine, they either say, “Ah, John Irving,” or “Ah, Ste-

McPhail, left, and Tocotronic electrify Dortmund’s 2010 Juicy Beats Festival.

phen King.” Both of those writers are very distinctive and have created two completely different mystiques; it’s quite funny how people see Maine because of those writers’ extreme descriptions of it.

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Has your off-lander status affected the style of the music?

I think the last few records have gotten noisier and rockier mainly because we kind of influenced ourselves by playing live and tapped into that energy more and more.

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So, RIP the 1980s. Still, if you guys were magically whisked to this side of the pond in the ’80s, who’d you be?

The nihilist band Autobahn, based on Kraftwerk, in The Big Lebowski.

What’s the oddest thing fans give you?

Stuffed animals, which is quite funny to be this highly regarded intellectual indie-rock band who gets toys thrown on stage. We usually collect them all throughout the tour and, at the last show we play, we give them all back to the audience–except for a few good ones I sort out for my son.

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Does Maine follow you?

Yes, I get homesick, and I’d like to move back some day. Tocotronic and I are quite political–our opinions lean towards the Left.

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Do you know there’s a fragment of the Berlin Wall in front of DiMillo’s?

I’ve been to Checkpoint Charlie twice, and what they did was horrible. I have nothing against Socialism, but you can’t force people to stay and shoot them if they try to leave. The crimes of the Stasi [Staatssicherheit, State Security] and the whole surveillance society is a piece of history that everyone should learn from, especially Americans nowadays.

As far as the Wall goes, the only bummer is that it fell under Reagan’s watch. I just can’t see the guy as a hero. When I think of him I think of Iran Contra, lying to Congress, and Oliver North; not, “Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall.” I prefer Kennedy’s “Ich bin ein Berliner.” Reagan’s line is the bad cover version.

Are you a future politician?

Maybe when I move back someday I can start my political career with a speech in front of that piece of the Wall. n

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Why wouldn’t lobsters perform well in this murky business? As our graph illustrates, our CPAs of the sea (in red and green) called the bust of the dot-com bubble ahead of the stock market. Specifically, lobster prices steeply declined before the Dow Jones Industrial Average settled to 9,796 in March of 2000 from 11,722 as the year opened.

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Boda is a “Very Thai” kitchen & lounge. Delicious selections of Thai home-style entrees, street-vendor inspired grilled skewers, tapas, & a full bar. Vegetarian options available. Come experience an eating culture of Thailand! No reservations & parking available. Late-night menu served until 1am. Open Tu-Su from 5pm-1am. 671 Congress St., Portland, 347-7557.

The Good Table “Good, honest food,” made-fromscratch brunch, lunch, & dinner. A well-rounded menu w/ choices to please every palate. With inspired blackboard specials, the kitchen always takes advantage of locallygrown produce & seafood. Full bar w/seasonal cocktails.

Seasonal hours. 527 Ocean House Rd., Rte. 77, Cape Elizabeth, 799-4663, thegoodtablerestaurant.net.

Brea Lu Cafe has been serving up breakfast & lunch for 23 years! Favorite menu choices include 12 specialty omelets, build-your-own breakfast burritos, Belgian waffles w/ fruit, eggs Benedict & homemade corned beef hash. Lunch features homemade chili, fresh made-to-order sandwiches, burgers & wraps. Open daily, 7am-2pm. 428 Forest Ave., Portland, 772-9202.

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

Buck’s Naked BBQ is a genuine roadhouse. It smells like a wood-fired smoker, the beer is frosty, and we encourage everyone to enjoy BBQ the way Buck enjoys life itself… SLOW, LOW & NAKED… put the sauce on the side.

568 Rt. 1, Freeport, 865-0600; 4 Turning Leaf Dr., Windham, 893-0600.bucksnaked-bbq.com

Great Lost Bear A full bar w/70 beer taps of Maine & American Craft breweries & a large Belgian selection.

Menu features salads, burgers, a large vegetarian selection & the best nachos & buffalo wings in town. Discover where the natives go when they’re restless! Every day 11:30am-11:30pm. 540 Forest Ave., in the Woodfords area of Portland, 772-0300, greatlostbear.com.

hosting wine tastings! 756-6230, theblacktieco.com.

51 Wharf Restaurant & Ultra Lounge Indulge in the chef’s avant-garde cuisine, w/exceptionally creative courses, local ingredients done from-scratch in our kitchen & the freshest seafood. We serve local Maine lobster, a menu w/savory chicken, steak & pasta. Available for private parties & events. 51 Wharf St., Portland’s Old Port, 774-1151, 51wharf.com. * Barnacle Billy’s, known for luxury lobster, steamed clams, large lusty drinks, barbecued chicken, homemade clam chowder & of course, the lobster roll & lobster stew. Features an extensive indoor & sundeck seating where guests can enjoy both the beauty of the harbor & the ocean beyond. Perkins Cove. barnbilly.com, 646-5575 The Black Tie Market & Bistro will satisfy anyone’s craving for great food served w/flair & fun. Now serving light breakfasts & lunches & everything you need to entertain at home. Madeto-order paninis & wraps, soups, home-baked desserts, & fresh salads. Try our candy bar, gelato, or a great bottle of wine. Now

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Bull Feeney’s Authentic Irish pub & restaurant, serving delicious scratch-made sandwiches, steaks, seafood & hearty Irish fare, pouring local craft & premium imported brews, as well as Maine’s most extensive selection of single malt Scotch & Irish whiskies. Live music five nights. Open 7 days 11:30am-1am. Kitchen closes at 10pm weekdays, 11pm weekends. 375 Fore St., Old Port, 773-7210, bullfeeneys.com.

DiMillo’s On the Water serves the freshest lobster, seafood, Black Angus cuts of beef, Italian fare & more. DiMillo’s offers fabulous views of the water in Portland Harbor from every table, Famous Lobster Rolls, clam chowder, haddock chowder, lobster stew & delicious salads. Serving from 11am.

Commercial St., Old Port, 772-2216, dimillos.com.

Fish Bones American Grill A casual upscale restaurant offering creative American cuisine. Specialties include grilled thin crust flatbreads, unique entrée salads, & creative dinner portland’s pub offerings. Located in the heart of Lewiston in the historic Bates

Mill Complex with off-street parking. Come get hooked! Lunch 773.7210 375 FORE STREET IN THE LD PORT 5:30 PM Page & dinner PortlandMagazineMay:Layout 1 O4/6/12 1 M-F; dinner only Sa; closed Sunday. 333-3663, fishbonesmaine.com. * WWW.BULLFEENEYS.COM FIND US ON FACEBOOK

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award-winning clam chowder. Our lobster stew was featured on FoodNation with Bobby Flay. 115 Main St., Freeport, 865-4196, jamesontavern.com. * LFK features New American cuisine, beer, wine & full spirits in the heart of Longfellow Square with a literary theme. Stop in for a drink, bite to eat, or relax with your favorite book. 188A State St., Portland, lfkportland.com Lotus Chinese and Japanese Restaurant We feature fullservice bar and lounge area, sushi bar, Chinese traditional food not available outside of Boston, friendly atmosphere and courteous service. 251 U.S. Rte. 1, Falmouth (Falmouth Shopping Plaza), 781-3453.

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When you pull into Brunswick Station, prepare for the coast’s freshest seafood.

Maria’s Restaurant and Catering Neapolitan Italian cooking at its finest. Maine Sunday Telegram four-star restaurant. Homemade Cavitelli Pasta, Zuppa Di Pesce Fradiavolo, New England’s best Eggplant Parmigiana, Pistachio Gelato, Italian-Style cakes, Neapolitan five-star wines.

Come see Tony and Gregorio; they’ll take excellent care of you.

Entrées start at $10. Open Tu–Sa. 337 Cumberland Ave, Portland, 772-9232, 233-9232, mariasrestaurant.com.

The Muddy Rudder has been serving guests since 1976 and has evolved into one of the most popular destinations for fresh seafood in Maine. In the spirit of the tugboat Portland, we continue to provide our guests with great food, drink and, sometimes at low tide, a glimpse of the hearty old tugboat cabin itself. 1335 Rte. 1, Yarmouth, 846-3082, muddyrudder.com One Dock Creative, contemporary New England Cuisine & traditional Maine favorites in a relaxed setting overlooking the Kennebunk River. The menu offers “small plates,” such as Duck Confit Empanada, Grilled Flatbread, Pan-Seared Sea Scallop & Mac and Cheese with Andouille Sausage, proving to be fan favorites. W-Sa 5:30-9pm. Kennebunkport Inn, Kennebunkport, 967-2621, onedock.com.

Pat’s Pizza offers a full bar & family dining experience in the heart of Portland’s Historic District. Pat’s offers a full menu of appetizers, entrees, desserts & of course, pizza! We also have a large selection of salads & sandwiches for lunch. Large parties welcome, please call ahead. Located at 30 Market St., Old Port, 699-4455, patspizzaoldport.com.

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Pedro’s focuses on simple yet full-flavored Mexican and Latino food. Offering tacos, burritos and an impressive array of margaritas, sangria, beer and wine. Especiales de la semana (specials of the week) keep the menu varied and fresh and showcase different Latino cultures. Seasonal outdoor dining available. Open daily, 12-10. 181 Port Rd., Kennebunk. 967-5544, pedrosmaine.com.

The Pepperclub/Good Egg Café Two favorites, same location! Pepperclub’s (see Frommer’s Guide to N.E.) 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. Free parking. Pepperclub, daily from 5pm; Good Egg Café, Tu-F 7-11am, Sa-Su 8am-1pm. 78 Middle St., 772-0531, pepperclubrestaurant.com.

Pier 77 & The Ramp Bar & Grill are owned & managed by Kate & Chef Peter Morency. Pier 77 has a formal dining room w/ stunning views of Cape Porpoise Harbor & live music each weekend, while the Ramp is more casual, w/its own bar menu at hard-to-beat prices. 967-8500, pier77restaurant.com. * The Salt Exchange Contemporary “small plate” cuisine using local, organic, & sustainable ingredients. Fresh local fish daily. Full bar with Happy Hour weekdays 5:30-7pm. Open for lunch Tu-Sa 11:30am-3pm & dinner 5:30-9pm, (10pm Fri & Sat). Free Parking in the evening. 245 Commercial St., Portland, 347-5687, thesaltexchange.net. * Twenty Milk Street serves Piedmontese beef from our farm in Cumberland. Fresh, local seafood, and produce, prepared in classic American style. Enjoy a glass of wine by the fireplace in our remodeled dining room. Daily breakfast, lunch, Sunday brunch, and dinner. Join us in the summer in our European El Fresco Café. Complimentary valet parking. Portland Regency Hotel, 774-4200, theregency.com Walter’s Chef Owner Jeff Buerhaus is inspired by global influences. Seasonal menus are accented by creative daily specials. Bar Manager Steven Lovenguths’ extensive wine list and inventive cocktail creations complement menu offerings. Lunch M-Sa 11:30am-2:30pm. Dinner seven days a week, 5pm-CL (except Jan-April, closed Sundays).

Bar menu 2:30pm-CL. Two Portland Square on Union St., 871-9258, waltersportland.com. *reservations recommended

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Take the fresh crab cakes, for example (market, $16-18). They’re not your usual super-breaded concoctions (“Where’s the crab?”). These treasures are made with the finest meat available, a smidgen of mayo, and dusting of bread crumbs. A zingy Cajun Remoulade and crisp greens with balsamic glaze hit the spot.

Vegetarian and vegan friendly soups thrive here. Our grilled zucchini and summer squash is full-bodied, as is Cunningham’s delightfully light clam chowder ($4/$7).

Next up, a charcuterie and cheese board ($9). The house-made pâté wows, as does savory smoked gouda and a startlingly good fruit compote. Our Australian Billi Billi shiraz ($28), selected from a competitively priced wine list, complements well.

Pan-seared to perfection, the scallops ($27), nicely tweaked with a vanilla citrus aioli, are served on carrot parsnip fritters. Accompanied by delectable sweet potato purée, these nuggets of pure sea goodness please deep down.

The fish and chips ($18) put an exclamation point on Cunningham’s love for

seafood. The locally caught hake is heartbreakingly tender, grease-free in the lightest beer (PBR) batter ever.

Richly flavored with lots of pan juices, his braised beef short ribs ($25) sport garlicmashed red bliss potatoes and garlic-sautéed haricots verts. There’s so much taste and texture here, you’ll want to go right out and try to cook it, because you’ll want it again and soon.

A menu staple, risotto ($15) changes daily and can be prepared vegan. Today it’s puréed pea and mint. Exquisite flavors come through the fine, soft texture.

For dessert, what says summer better than cheese cake with puréed strawberries and fresh whipped cream ($7)?

Whether your Brunswick visit includes a mid-coast train excursion on the Maine Eastern Railroad, a visit to Bowdoin College, Maine State Music Theatre, or a shopping spree, be sure to enjoy the fine flavors at the Tavern. With its go-to status, it’s bound to please contemporary rusticators and natives alike. n

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sual endeavor, though dining will be dressy casual and they hope to make a dramatic statement in casual dining.

As we shoot photos of the two pals, González, who isn’t awfully tall, jokes to Swan, “Not in stilettos. Make sure you wear flats.”

Of her show La Chispa de Chef Carmen (The Spark of Chef Carmen), seen in 20 countries, González says, “I’ll have some cameras follow-

The Plans:

•“The original safe in the house will be the wine cellar,” González says.

•“Our overnight guests will park in back and enter from the back door, while diners will come in the front door,” Swan says, with González nodding. “We’ve arranged for additional evening parking with the Irish Heritage Center right beside us.”

•“Our overnight guests have common rooms upstairs,” Swan says, “so they’ll have their own sense of luxury and privacy even if there are 34 more people here downstairs at the restaurant. They can stop by at the lounge and get something light with a drink on their way out or go into the restaurant if they like,” an inspiration to have guests and diners sharing the privilege and ambience.

•“I’m looking for an apartment in the West End,” González says, for herself and “my eightpound toy poodle, Jeeter.” (Yankees fan?) ing me up here in June. The angle is, ‘what’s it like to be a chef going through all the excitement of starting a new restaurant?’”

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While González and Swan haven’t covered all the angles yet (there’s a flurry of redecoration in an already strikingly beautiful setting), the ones they’ve made look easy were once deemed impossible.

Hours will be Tuesday through Saturday, 5:30 to 9 p.m., and Sunday brunch.

“The last seating is at 8:30 p.m., with things quieting before 10,” says Swan in deference to neighborhood residents.

These two seem to have all the right moves. “It’s going to be brilliant.”n

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characters my bisexual Billy most looks up to. While the transgender characters in In One Person are more developed than the transsexuals in Garp and A Son of the Circus, they are not new characters for me. And don’t forget the gay brother, Frank, in The Hotel New Hampshire, or the gay twins in A Son of the Circus. I like sexual outsiders; they attract me, I find them brave, and I fear for their safety–I worry about the intolerant people who want to harm them. Our society may be a little more tolerant of sexual differences than we were in the ’50s and ’60s, but this doesn’t mean that the sexual outsider or misfit is “safe.”

I write toward an ending that I have already written before I begin…

There is no ‘winging it’ with me…It means you know the material.

Larry hits Billy where he lives when he says, you’re not just a bystander, you’re “bi-everything.” As the story’s narrator, could Billy have been anything else?

The only part of “bisexual” that most straight men get is the gay part. Many gay men distrust bisexual men. Gay guys of my generation often believed that bisexuals didn’t really exist; they were usually presumed to be gay guys with one foot in the closet. And straight women trust bi guys even less than they trust straight guys. (A bi guy could leave you for another woman or for a guy.)

Tell us about Kittredge, the “boy with the balls to play Juliet.”

Kittredge is the most important secret in In One Person; I’m not giving him away!

There’s a most poignant sense of the disappeared ones in In One Person: Billy’s father, the cryptographic cipher. Elaine, Atkins, Kittredge, Miss Frost, and most powerfully the victims of AIDS. Billy feels their absences with differing grades of intimacy. Is this how you connect the story’s dark matter?

People–important people–are missing, or missed, in most of my novels. My characters

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lose people dear to them. …They say grief has stages–so does ab­sence, so does missing people.

Missing people take the stage across vast distances and time.

How did you come to this?

In my novels, something has always been withheld; there’s a part of a young person’s life that is unknown to him (or her). I got that from Great Expectations: a boy believes that a horrid, manipulative woman–a man-hater– is his benefactor. The boy becomes a perfect snob, only to discover that his benefactor is a convict–and more of a human being than the vengeful Miss Havisham.

The big lacuna is A Sexual Suspect. What was it like, penning a variation on a fictional book within a book you wrote over thirty years ago?

When I finished Garp, I thought I was done with the subject of sexual intolerance, but that subject wasn’t done with me. I am not bisexual. When I was a boy, I was confusingly attracted to just about everyone. It turned out that I liked girls, but the memory of my attractions to the “wrong” people never left me. What I’m saying is that the impulse to bisexuality was very strong; my earliest sexual experiences–more important, my earliest sexual imaginings–taught me that sexual desire is mutable. In fact, in my case–at a most formative age–sexual mutability was the norm.

Women of First Sister, in polished nails and open-toed sandals, present bloody, stiffened deer to the game warden as their kills so their husbands and sons can beat the lottery and shoot again–classic Maine amateur theater! Are you a hunter?

I used to hunt deer. I grew up in New Hampshire–it seemed that everyone I knew was a deer-hunter. When I lived in Iowa, I shot some pheasants. When I came to Vermont from Iowa, in ’67, I just stopped hunting. I didn’t like it anymore. I still have a gun, but it’s just for varmints.

Have you ever lived in Maine for any length of time? Did you first drive up here when you were at Exeter?

I spent some summer vacation time on Georgetown Island–in the summer house of my best boyhood friend.

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Clockwise from top left: Riders cruise around Moosehead Lake at the Maine State H.O.G. Rally; bakers of all kinds convene in Skowhegan to share their baked creations; collectible transit tokens are celebrated at the American Vecturist Association Convention at the Colony Hotel; The Seashore Trolley Museum in Kennebunkport is a must-see for vecturists this year–their first time in Maine.

Unconventional Conventions (continued from page 58)

This celebration of all things bread is limited to 250 people–including presenters and volunteers–“only philo­sophically,” program director Wendy Hebb says.

There’s a shared “sense of community. Everyone has the same level of interest and excitement. But with more than 250 people, you start to lose that.”

The Artisan Bread Fair “is the total opposite–it’s a festival. We had 2,500 visitors last year–from those who don’t know what to expect and are curious about Skowhegan to those who come because they know they can get great, hand-crafted bread.” kneadingconference.com

Motorcycle diaries

This year’s Maine State H.O.G. Rally, July 19-21, is a surge of economic impact on wheels. “Three years ago, we had 950 participants at our rally in Millinocket, and they’ve been begging us to come back ever since,” coordinator Missy Geaumont says.

Held in Greenville this year, with a $40 entrance fee, the area’s officials are already listing for the rumbling arrival of chrome pipes. Bob Hamer, executive director of Moosehead Lake Region Chamber of Commerce, says, “Five-hundred thousand dollars” will zoom into town “if 600 members participate, but the long-term return is far more important here. The

Chamber is actually spending money to bring the Rally to Moosehead.” This “great investment” brings new meaning to ‘leaders of the pack.’

The sales aren’t all leather vests and saddlebags. “Between food, gas, and lodging, a participant typically spends $100 each day,” Geaumont says.

Don’t have a Harley? Don’t feel excluded. “Just because it’s a Harley Owner’s Group event doesn’t mean you need one to attend,” Geaumont says. “People think of bikers as rough and tough–that’s not it at all. Many of our riders come from the upper echelon, like lawyers and doctors.”

The rally includes Biker Bingo, a “Wall of Ink” tattoo contest, and guided and unguided tours (some including wild game lunches). mestatehogrally.com

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business ny Hotel July 13-15–at $85 a head, says Barbara Whitten of Portland’s Convention and Visitor Bureau–“the economic impact [of the American Vecturists Association Convention] will be $40,000. This includes transportation, meals, hotel, visiting attractions, and shopping.”

As for origins, “The word vecturist derives from the Latin vectura, which means ‘passage-money’ or ‘fare,’” Joel Reznick, convention chairman, says.

“We collect tokens from all kinds of public transportation.” Although the tokens are no longer exchanged as fares, members come together to trade with each other.

“This year marks our 62nd annual meeting,” Reznick says. “We never meet in the same city. Many of our members have never been to Maine, and neither has the convention. I remember visiting Seashore Trolley Museum 40 years ago, and I can’t wait to return.” vecturist.com

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From July 15-19 at Portland’s Holiday Inn

By The Bay, the National Conference on Weights and Measures will bring in “between 200 and 300 people, many from industry retailers and manufacturers like Walmart and Pier 1 Imports,” executive director Dan Onwiler says. That’s a lot of people watching their weights. And at $25 for registration,who’ll keep track of how they tip our economic scales?

“The average cruise-ship passenger spends around $150 a day in town, but they’re usually only here a couple hours and have most of their meals on the ship,” Godfrey Wood, CEO of Portland’s Regional Chamber of Commerce, says. “If 200 or more people from the conference explore Portland, $150 per person is probably a low estimate.” That means $30,000 a day is a number we can count on.

The conference is concerned with far more than just the scales at the grocery store and price tags. Onwiler says, “One thing we’ll look at this year is the creation of a permanent code for electronic carcass weighing modules for the food industry… We can get some pretty strange stuff.” ncwm.net n

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So bewitching is the chi here that the seller, feng shui expert Werner Brandmaier pauses to let the vistas flow over us (visible and in harmony: the salon, library, elegant stairway, and approach to the kitchen, all magnificently paneled) as we enter the center hallway through the front door.

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Any way you look at it, Stevens has a magic all his own, especially the elegant set of stairs from the east that glides into view instead of spilling its guts out right in front of you.“If you walk into a house and you see a staircase like that, it destroys the energy,” Werner says.

Buyers will also love what Stevens has done with the half-bath directly in the center hall–because, zen-like, it isn’t there. The stained glass looks so striking above the inglenook-style settee you’d never guess it’s hiding a necessary.

As for built-ins, there isn’t a room without luscious paneling. More standout details: encaustic linoleum tiles, butler’s pantry with slate counters, laundry chute, kitchen with breakfast nook, leaded-glass cabinets, and the original garage with gherkin roof. “It’s Southern pine wainscoting, everywhere,” Brandmaier says. “Even in the garage.”

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Stunning Ocean Views - Brilliant Sunrises - Desirable Foreside Location - Lovely Period Details. Home is well maintained with many updates!

New: boiler, windows and roof. Rare garage, landscaped lot and expansion possibilities. A rare opportunity - don’t wait... $524,900

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Glenna Irvine

“Tom and Glenna put together a very specific list of items we needed to address in order to sell our home. They also put us in touch with the professionals who could do the work for us. The day after the open house we received a great offer. All through the process they were amazingly responsive and made our life easier during this huge transition.”

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A mile or so away, a bell buoy clangs in a call from Casco Bay. Its rusty, metallic melody meanders right up the side of Laura’s house and in over her windowsill. The bell’s beckoning and the television’s flat flickering juxtaposes, and the moment directs Laura’s decision to move herself over the water.

Days later, a classified ad summons Laura to a stranger’s home and she leaves with enough warm cash in her pocket to provide hope–potential for the start of a new hobby, or, if she wants to embellish the sound of it a bit, a new outdoor passion.

Laura arrives at the stranger’s driveway.

A roof rack firmly grips her car’s roof with anticipatory foam pads in place, ready to cradle an adopted vessel’s chime.

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Laura’s olive eyes brighten as they follow the boat’s lines.

“Sea Squirt!” she christens it, grinning. It’s the first name to leap into her brain.

The old man standing next to her, the seller of the abandoned boat, is drawn into Laura’s joy. He smiles for the first time in, well, months, upon seeing a craft so small given a name.

The three of them silently stand together for a moment. The man breathes with an audible wheeze. Laura imagines the Calendar Islands’ secrets, their coves and rocky fingers replete with sea roses.

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Perhaps because of the absence of price bickering, or maybe because of his rare smile, the man generously rummages through the garage for some potentially useful extras to accompany Sea Squirt.

From a cluttered corner, he produces a paddle, moments later a spray skirt, and finally a life vest. All of these accessories are tacky aqua, purple, and yellow patterns, but vanity is of no concern to Laura. She’s far too excited to judge fashion over function, and plus, the stuff is free.

Laura dips her paddle into Casco Bay’s salty marine soup. The bell buoys chime and clang in a rough orchestra. The bay’s sounds are vivid as they slide into Laura’s ears, so near to the undulating sea’s surface.

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