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Features

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Fresh Catch

New museum purchases, new trends.

By David Svenson

The Return of Leafer Madness

Prepare for the prism known as fall.

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Am I dreaming, or is this a Spanish real?

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’Yoshi’s Choice

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UNE Gallery’s next exhibit.

By Colin W. Sargent

Departments 8 From the Editor 11 Letters 12 Imperatífs 15 Arts Guide First Friday Art Walk

28 Goings On 35 Chowder focus on…

56 2012 Fall Style Guide 71 Hungry Eye

Well, We Have Foie Gras

76 Dining Guide 77 Restaurant Review

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Alex Katz on his show in China.

Interview by Colin W. Sargent

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I’m driving on Route 1 in Falmouth behind a silver SUV with the vanity plate FUGAWE. Hello, 1920s vaudeville (look it up–that’s what the Internet is for).

The “Church Lady,” the functionary at the Department of Motor Vehicles who decides whether our license plate requests are too risqué, must have dozed off in the back of the theater.

Then it hits me. “Everyone is an artist,” the German installation artist Joseph Beuys (1921-1986) is famous for saying.

Certainly in Maine. I don’t have to tell you, every day we spend here is a creative, if subversive, adventure.

Look, here’s another plate up ahead: WIKDPSA. Must be another performance RTST, with fellow commuters as the target ODDYNTS. Because we choose to live here instead of simply existing somewhere else, we’re all performance artists and participating audience members.

Have you ever been mesmerized by the dance, the graceful blur of hands, of an expert Mainer folding an Italian sandwich into wax paper? Or been certain you heard a soaring musical score as you watched a lobsterman drop his traps in the early morning mist?

Picture a young couple in the lobster business working deep into the night over an oilcloth table. He and she, their heads together, sketch out design schemes and ponder colors for just that perfect, fantastically coded, polka-dotted lobster buoy all their own to dot our seas. “Eureka!” she says. “KILLAH!” he replies. This is not slap-dash. It’s no accident. It’s love.

Then there’s the black humor. We all participate in, “Cold enough for you?” And Mainers all know that tourist season is a hunting term.

Responding to our psychic geography, we have no choice but to be artistic. It doesn’t diminish us to be picturesque; we earn it the hard way. Think of the creative extremes we go through just not to use a parking garage. “Hey, I’m not going in there, Mistah Man. I like fresh air, and I’ll be darned if I’m going to pay perfectly good money to suffocate.”

Is it not an artistic endeavor to root for the Red Sox? Here’s the ticket: Take the Maine Eastern Railroad foliage tour this fall and watch the art unfold in front of your eyes. To the right side of the frame, watch a hobo sneak a smoke. Or was he just a plywood silhouette?

Each of us has a role to play.

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ImperatÍfs Milling About smartly What did Mainers do before Cinemagic?

Saco Museum’s 800-foot exhibit “Moving Panorama of Pilgrim’s Progress” rewinds us to an early screening of a book’s film adaptation. The 1851 canvas scroll depicts John Bunyan’s The Pilgrim’s Progress in reel life. The dusty projection was discovered in the basement of the former York Institute (now Saco Museum). “No one had laid eyes on it for 100 years,” says Saco Museum director Jessica Routhier. After a $50K grant and a $170K restoration, 200 feet are showing at the museum and 600 feet at Pepperell Mill Campus in Biddeford. The event continues through Nov. 10. $5, sacomuseum.org/panorama

What’s a cocktail named Camden Hike, with “ingredients one finds during a country walk in mid-coast Maine,” doing with fresh lemon juice in it? “You wouldn’t find a lemon in Camden,” says creator Tom Laslavic, of Natalie’s Restaurant at Camden Harbour Inn. “But people are nice. Knock on someone’s door, and they might lend you one.” With blueberry and blackberry purée, crème de cassis, and honey syrup, “people think it’s something to put on pancakes. But it’s not too sweet. It’s a rich flavor.” $12, nataliesrestaurant.com

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Michael Fleming, of Phippsburg, turns what washes ashore into creative timber.

Fleming selects driftwood for furniture and accessories like the Linekin lamp ($3,400), pictured below. He resurrects ”on a bigger scale” than amateur beachcombers, Fleming says. Is business rolling in? The tide’s reached San Diego, with celebrity chef Brian Malarkey having recently purchased a Fleming for himself. designsadrift.com

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Old trips for new. “Ancora!” the popular cry for “another round” in Italy, is a nifty retail marker in Kingfield . Cynthia Orcutt’s totes, called Ancora Bags, come from her trips to Pienza, Italy, and her grandmother’s linens. ” They were such a big part of my life,” Orcutt says. “And on my trip to Pienza I saw a woman making what looked like ammo bags out of linen. The design wouldn’t have blended well here. Instead, they’re very western Maine.” Shop at Schoolhouse Gallery in Kingfield, Yo Mamma’s Home in Belfast, and at ancorabags.com. $72-$116

“Ask four Pagans to define who they are, and you’ll get 32 different answers,” says Sarah Campbell of Irish Daisy Bakery in Hermon.

As a vendor at Pagan Pride Day in Old Town, she plans to confuse the Pagans with cross-cultural “Zombie Whoopie Pies.

They’re raspberry cake with vanilla or chocolate frosting. The buckwheat flour we use mixes with the raspberries and the reaction turns the cake layer green.” Take that, living dead! October 13, emppa.org

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Shoe Music At Portland’s First Fridays, the art’s inside and out.

“After sunset, our fire artists take the stage outside. They have burning hoops, iron fans, staffs, and long chains called poi with wicks of coiled Kevlar. When our sword juggler performs, I throw in different things to keep it changing, like a baseball bat. I’d love someday to see a crossmedium collaboration where what we do is brought inside a gallery–maybe a Victorian panorama depicting Portland’s [1866] fire with a vaudeville troupe trapped and entertaining those taking refuge from the fire.”

–Joie Grandbois, executive director Dark Follies Variety Show ADDISON WOOLLEY GALLERY, 132 Washington Ave. Sept: Jim Kelly, “a mixed-media artist whose work explores the edges and intersections of painting and photography” and Andrea van Voorst van Beest “fine art prints of lasting interest and impact”. 450-8499, addisonwoolley.org

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THE ALPACA SHED, 23 Temple St. Come see the acrylic paint creations by Leslie Harmen. 797-5565 ART HOUSE PICTURE FRAMES, 61 Pleasant St., Bakery Studio Building #110. Matthew Fritze presents Assemblages featuring found objects and mixed media. Inspired by physics and space, his work is “playful, mysterious, and open for exploration.”

221-3443, arthousepictureframes.com THE ATELIER STITCH, 142 High St., Ste. 217. Evi, Emily, and Harriet showcase their fabric works in a Summer Fashion Camp

Show. See what these young ladies have learned at the Atelier Stitch Fashion Camp led by Giselle LeFrance. 775-7773, atelierstitch.wordpress.com AUCOCISCO GALLERIES, 89 Exchange St. Meet artists Will Barnet and Ellie Porta-Barnet and witness the closing reception of their show. Kevin Fahrman of Old Port Photography will also be taking free b+w portraits, and watch choral group Profundis perform. Wine and light refreshments will be served. 775-2222, aucocisco.com AWEAR, 19 Exchange St. Local artists exhibit arts that “come to life.” Come check out pyrex glass borosilicate, organic cotton, hemp, and bamboo art. 253-1655, beawearnow.com AWEAR 2, 150 Preble St. Enjoy local artists as well as our enticing world of flamework glass.

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221-2933, beawearnow.com BARD COFFEE, 185 Middle St. Sept-Dec: Sip locally roasted java and munch local treats while admiring the wall art and people-watching from a window-side table. Art cycles every 45 days. Also: “live, local music.” 899-4788, bardcoffee.com BRIDGE GALLERY, 568 Congress St. Rhonda Pearle and Gary Perlmutter present Color and Light, a coordination effort of their contrasting works of expressive color and classical realism. 712-9499, bridgegalleryportland.com CHILDREN’S MUSEUM AND THEATRE, 142 Free St. Extended hours for “open playtime” to 8pm, $1 admission. 828-1234, childrensmuseumofme.org CHRIS DINGWELL STUDIOS, Suite 401, State Theatre Building. ‘Tattooed’ canvases showcasing tattoo artist Dingwell’s “ever-growing painting career.” 5-8pm, occasional guest artists. 773-1911, chrisdingwell.com CLOSET FACTORY OF MAINE, 647A Congress St. Maria Castellano-Usery showcases “whimsical, colorful, and spiritual acrylic paintings and mixed media/collage pieces,” $50-500.

Enjoy wine, food, and discounted Tarot readings by Jennifer Moscone of Interactive Tarot ($40 readings available for $20).

699-2600, brushstrokesbymaria.com COAST CITY COMICS, 634 Congress St. Works from various artists of various media all inspired by Jim Henson.

899-1505, coastcitycomics.com CONSTELLATION ART GALLERY, 511 Congress St. Maine Artists Collective present Urban Scene. Do you think that “urban means street or graffiti?” These artists will show you something different. 409-6617, constellationart.com CURTAIN UP! Congress Sq. Sept.: It’s ‘theatre en plein air’ with several local theater companies performing sneak peek scenes and primers of their upcoming shows. Come and “celebrate theatre in Portland.” Free, 5-7pm. 899-3993, lucidstage.com

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Winslow Homer, Weatherbeaten (detail), 1894. Bequest of Charles Shipman Payson. Photo by meyersphoto.com.

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DARK FOLLIES VARIETY SHOW, Monument Sq. Sept. & Jun. through Aug. Fire-breathing, sword-swallowing, bellydancing, knife-juggling, live music, classic vaudeville and various side shows. Every performance is unique and varies, 8-9pm. 671-4292, darkfollies.com DAUNIS FINE JEWELRY, 616 Congress St. Featuring pieces from local artists. “artists of Daunis will be on hand to show people around the showroom and workshop.”

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DOBRA TEA, 151 Middle St. Sept.: Deb Barth’s memorizing mosaic-style paintings, complemented by tea tastings and light snacks. New artists are featured every two months.

210-6566, dobrateame.com DOCK FORE, 336 Fore St. Sept.: Susan Roux. Oct: John Kimble. Nov.: Mike Allister. Dec.: Lenora Leibowitz. Free hors d’oeuvres and pizza, beer pints for $1.95 and $1 off glasses of wine until 7pm. 772-8619 DOGFISH BAR AND GRILLE, 128 Free St. Sept.-Oct.: Margaret Leonard, mixed media. Nov./Dec.: Lauren Sheffield, photographer. May/June: Christopher Baby. July/Aug.: Andrew Cook, “fanciful lobster artist.” 772-5483, thedogfishbarandgrille.com DOGFISH CAFE, 953 Congress St. Sept.-Oct.: Catherine Worthington who “creates original pieces of art on fabric using textile paint.” 253-5400, dogfishcafe.com ECOHOME STUDIO, 334 Forest Ave. Enjoy new artists such as Jesse Butler, Acrylics; Gail Wartell, Acrylics; Joselyn Welsh, 3D canvas and acrylic. 899-0390, ecohomestudio.com 15 EXCHANGE GRILLE BAR, 15 Exchange St. Two floors of wall to wall paintings, all for sale. Free wine tasting.

774-1595, 15exchange.com 3FISH GALLERY, 377 Cumberland Ave. Sept.-Oct.: Featuring artists: Jeanne Titherington, working in graphite and collage and Kimberly Curry working in encaustic and collage.

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FIT TO EAT, 164 Middle St. Enjoy photography by Jake Ripley, mixed media by Rachael Nimon, watercolor artist Eric Sorenson and live music! 761-4441 FLAT IRON GALLERY, 594 Congress St. Peter Dransfield presents Horses and Harbors, new bronze castings of his.

939-5854, facebook.com/flatirongallery FORE RIVER GALLERY/9 HANDS GALLERY, 613 Congress St. Enjoy the works of four local artists: TJ McDermott, Elizabeth Prior, and Elizabeth and Mike Marks. 791-2723, forerivergallery.com

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There’s “always new work being hung.” You can enjoy the visual splendor of George’s acrylic paintings as well as Scott Tubby’s oils and pottery. Silver jewelry from central

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the cards. His work is laced with labyrinthine lines and colored with delicate simplicity. Oct.: Michael Connor returns to the Green Hand with a new series of work which he promises will be fabulous. Those familiar with the plethora of ink drawings from his prior Fuzzy Allotrope shows and those in his long-running zine, Coelacanthus, will have no doubt that he is telling the truth! Look forward to Eric Hou in Nov. and Jada Fitch in Dec./Jan. 253-6808, greenhandbooks.blogspot.com GREETA RAMANI WATERCOLOURS, 6 Eastern Prom., Apt. #1. Geeta Ramani presents her new watercolor Summer Series! 317-0145, geeta.me Mexico will also be on sale. 329-2586, rockportartist.com

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GLEASON FINE ART, 545 Congress St. Joellyn Duesberry presents 40 Years Celebrating Maine, an oil painting and monotype work of her summers in Maine. 699-5599, gleasonfineart.com GOOD CAUSE, 16 Forest Ave. Sept: Leather coats and jackets. Oct: Framed prints and original art. Dec: Dolls, 772-4903, mcauleyhs.org/alumnae/fundraising/good_ cause_thrift_shop THE GREEN HAND, 661 Congress St. Sept.: Brandon Kawashima presents a series of ink & watercolor drawings based on the Tarot, incorporating Asian parallels into the European imagery traditionally associated with

HARDCORE HOOPS, 7 Congress Sq. Join the fun in front of Portland Museum of Art for lots of hoops! “Everybody is successful. People who enjoy the arts have the most fun with these.” 5-8pm, 831-1059, hardcorehoop.com HERON POINT GALLERY, 63 Market St. Randall Harris presents Life Drawing, focusing on his latest life drawings using colored pencils and rapidograph pens. 773-0822, heronpointgallery.com

lage enthusiast and encaustic painter incorporates “found and natural materials to create dream-like landscapes of color and texture.” 780-0025, hilltopcoffeeshop.com HOLLY READY STUDIO/GALLERY, 609 Congress St. Holly Ready, Oil and Gouache Paintings. New works every month. 632-1027, hollyready.com HOPE.GATE.WAY., 185 High St. Chase Delaney presents Glancing at Grace, pen & ink, photography, pastels, and watercolor inspired by God. Come see “images that are reflections of grace, love and benevolence in action through the beauty of nature and reflections of light.”

899-2435, hopegateway.com INFINITEE’S, Congress Sq. Street vendor and screenprinter Timothy Goldkin will sell you the shirt off his back–or customize the tee on your back with “feathers, nets, grass, dirt…” Off-the-rack, 100-percent-recycled garments (shirts, sweatshirts, dresses, unitards, etc.), $10-$15. 4-9:30pm. 897-8358, infinitees.wordpress.com

THE HEART OPENING, 227 Congress St. Above Otto Pizza’s East End location, visitors can expect light snacks and drinks. “We’re devoted to community teaching and this sacred space.” 5-8pm, 228-1139, theheartopening.com

INSTITUTE OF CONTEMPORARY ART, 522 Congress St. Sept.-Oct.: Megawords, an ongoing narrative that examines daily life in cities through the documentation of our surroundings and experience, with a voice free from commercialization and competing novelties. Open to 8pm.

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stract, figure, and landscape paintings and drawings with new work always on exhibit. 5-8. 781-3323, janterweele.com JET VIDEO, 199 Pleasant Ave. Join Amy Welch and Dan Olsen of Capshore Photography in a digital photography exhibit in addition to wine, cheese, munchies! 615-3181 JOEL ECKHAUS, Congress St., near the Maine college of art.

Hear this famous local craftsman jangle his homemade ukuleles on the sidewalk with his group, the Dos Eckies.

Look for him in empty storefronts and if you like the “ukeabilly,” buy one of his unique instruments and play along!

838-6281, earnestinstruments.com JUNE FITZPATRICK GALLERY AT MECA, 522 Congress St. at Maine College of Art. Come see a group exhibit featuring sculptures and paintings “by established artists and selected newcomers.” 879-5742, junefitzpatrickgallery.com KEYBANK MONUMENT SQUARE, One Monument Sq. Come

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LALO BOUTIQUE, State Theatre Building, 142A High St. Leon G presents 1820, a Summer Swank clothing design with “live models, live music, a meet’n greet with local designer and a cocktail party.” 423-0764, laloboutique.com LUCID STAGE, 29 Baxter Blvd. Sept: Martha Fournier presents mixed media artwork portraying interpretations of energies “colorful and full of movement.” Oct: Ed King retrospective presents cartoons and illustrations in ink, pen and watercolor. Nov: Tanya Zivkovic Photography presents collages of Ukrainian Eggs. Dec: Andrew LaFlamme presents paintings, paper mache, and drawings of “caricature, cartoon, and fantasy images.” 899-3993, lucidstage.com MAINE CHARITABLE MECHANIC ASSOCIATION LIBRARY, 519 Congress St. Anastasia Weigle presents Anastasia’s Art, collage and mixed media. 773-8396 mainecharitablemechanicassociation.com

MAINE COLLEGE OF ART, 522 Congress St. MFA students put their works on display in open studios from 5-7pm. 775-3052, meca.edu MAINE HISTORICAL SOCIETY, 489 Congress St. Wired!

How Electricity Came to Maine Wired! How Electricity Came to Maine “explores the electrification of Maine during the 20th century, and how a rural state became modern.” Told through photos, video, and artifacts.

774-1822, mainehistory.org MAINE POTTERS MARKET, 376 Fore St. Jacqueline Hickey presents City by the Sea featuring “clay pottery inspired by the sea.” 774-1633, mainepottersmarket.com MAINELY LABS STUDIO, 164 Market St. #4. Jim Williams presents his Lab Art through acrylic on canvas featuring images of labrador retrievers. 756-3264, mainelylabs.com MAYO STREET ARTS, 10 Mayo St. Sept: Edwige Charlot and

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MESA VERDE MEXICAN RESTAURANT, 618 Congress St. Enjoy classic, fun, and light-weight quilts made by Taffy Pulls and artwork by the restaurant’s own Katie Ramirez. 774-6089, mesaverdeportlandmaine.com MIKE’S ROCK DELI, 437 Congress St. Home of the “Rock and Roll Sandwich,” stays open late for Artwalkers, with their signature sandwich deals and live music as loud as city ordinances will allow. “We like to keep it rockin’” to 7pm. 358-7222, mikesrockdeli.com

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OAK STREET LOFTS GALLERY, 72 Oak St. Zach Lipman presents Life in the Wild, oil on canvas. His works serves as “whimsical and unique reminders of how many interesting things there are to look at in this wonderful world.” 553-7780 PINECONE + CHICKADEE, 6 Free St. Come celebrate the shop’s 1 year anniversary! Featuring music, food, drink, and festivities 5-9pm. 272-4800 pineconeandchickadee.com PORTLAND FIRE MUSEUM, 157 Spring St. Looking for art that’ll really light your fire? “We have…generalized firefighting art, a little of everything from 150-year-old fire helmets to inscribed leather buckets dating back to 1768.”

Open at 6 pm. 772-2040, portlandfiremuseum.com PORTLAND MUSEUM of ART, 7 Congress Sq. Sept: Maine Sublime: Frederic Edwin Church’s Landscapes of Mount Desert and Mount Katahdin. See “sensational sunsets, robust waves crashing on rocky shores, and an abundance of wilderness arousing the dramatic vitality of nature.” Open to 9pm. 775-6148, portlandmuseum.org PORTLAND PHOTO WORKS, 142 High St. Resident artists hanging C.C. Church, Eliot Teal, Sergei Chaparin.

Church’s work “dates back to the nineteen sixties and seventies…more modern and there’s a lot of landscape work, cityscapes and abstracts.” Wine and chips. 228-5829, portlandphotoworks.com PORTMANTEAU, 3 Wharf St. Sept/Oct: The pop-up gallery at this treasured shop features Mitch Eagan’s photography of Maine seascapes. Check out Portmanteau’s revamped Casco Bay Chart bags. Enjoy wine and homemade goodies, 5-8pm. 774-7276, portmanteauonline.com QUEEN OF HATS, 560 Congress St. While out art-walking, strut your stuff in a new hat–this haberdashery’s open late (call ahead for hours). 772-2379, queenofhats.com REGENCY MORTGAGE CORPORATION, 94 Commercial St. Jae-eun Pilsbury & Sharyn Peavey present ENLIGHTENMENT/ILLUMINATION. Both will be concentrating on movement, water, and surreal imagery though canvasses and photographs. 221-5454, regencymtg.com RICHARD BOYD ART GALLERY, 15 Epps St. Jeanne O’Toole Hayman presents “Spectrum 2012: From the Ocean to Cornfields to Flowers,” a series of oil paintings “depicting scenes from the ocean to cornfields to flowers.” 712-1097, richardboydpottery.com ROSE CONTEMPORARY, 492 Congress St. Sept. & Oct.: “Not the Usual Politics”, a mixed-media group show featuring Annie Bissett, Amze Emmons, Adriane Herman, Dan Mills, Greg Murr and others. 5-7pm. 780-0700, rosecontemporary.com ROSEMONT PRODUCE COMPANY, 5 Commercial St. Sam Cohen exhibits his photography. Having served in countless military operations, trained as a ninja with an old military colleague, and being code named Storm Shadow, you’ll have to stop by to see what his photography has in store.

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SANCTUARY TATTOO, 31 Forest Ave. Sept./Oct.: Exhibition featuring three local Wilhelm Sherer, Max Leon and Marco.

“Most of the paintings are on a much larger scale, very bold, vibrant, hard-to-describe-but-guaranteed-to-pique-yourinterest pieces. 828-8866, sanctuarytattoo.com SCARPA’S, 15 Exchange St., Featuring the latest works of David Marshall. 774-1595 SERENDIPITY, 34 Exchange St. Walk on in, fashionistas, ‘cause this boutique stays open until 9pm.

772-0219, serendipityportland.com SMITH IRON WORKS, 589 Congress St. Sam H. Smith presents Tradition Blacksmith, made from iron and steel forged in a coal fire. All items are made using 19th century or earlier techniques and or course made in Maine! 290-7228 SPACE Gallery, 538 Congress St. Sept: Beautiful Possibility

by Alison Pebworth is a traveling exhibition and research project that takes the prototype of the 19th century American Traveling show as inspiration for engaging others about what it means to be American.” All shows 5-9pm, cash bar w/ beer, wine, and spirits. 828-5600, space538.org SPUN, 543 Congress St. Besides selling urban apparel and local art, owner Zack Broda is all about supporting underground artists on the Art Walk, with live street art murals, break-dancing circles, and local DJs spinning on turntables. 5-9pm. 518-9720 STATE STREET CHURCH CHAPEL HALL, 159 State St. Chamber ME presents free chamber music with a performance from the string quartet Jon Poupore, Bob Enman, Susanna Adams, and Michael Bachem, performing Dvorak and Hayden, along with soprano Andrea Graichen performing music of Schubert. 5-pm, 251-1953, tinyurl.com/chamberme THE STATE THEATRE BUILDING, 142 High St. and 615 Congress St. Rainy First Friday? Walk around indoors and catch more than 40 artists under one roof! Wine, cheese, and snacks abound in the galleries and open studio spaces of jewelers, body artists, and craftsmen, 5-8pm. 772-1540, stonecoastproperties.com

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STRANGE MAINE, 578 Congress St. The eclectic usedeverything shoppe/venue “decorates the place like a museum so people…see something they’ve never seen before… Standing room only, very active,” says head honcho Yo Yo Everywhere. 771-9997, kraag.org/strange 604 THRIFT, 604 Congress St. Enjoy new works by Katie Wallace and refreshments from 5-8pm. 899-0365 TIME GALLERY PORTLAND and CTN (Community Television Network), 516 Congress St. This co-op gallery exSeptember

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hibits the work of rising Southern Maine artists. Sept/Oct shows feature the art of Heather Denkmire and in October, watercolor of Donna Beveridge. Refreshments, live entertainment, improv comedy in CTN’s studios, 58:30pm. 590-9695, timegalleryportland.com TREEHOUSE TOYS, 47 Exchange St. Tickle your tots pink with toys! Call for extended hours. 775-6133, treehousetoys.us TWO PATHS GALLERY, 613A Congress St. Jive to the “contemporary slash rock ‘n’ roll vibe� inspired by Jim William’s pop art Labrador Retriever and “the concert images of Jeff Swanson’s photography,� or just hang out on the in-studio couch flipping through rock ‘n’ roll books. Look out for collaborative events with the State Theatre Neighborhood Gallery. 756-3264, twopathsgallery.com WALTER’S, 2 Portland Sq. Sample some art, then sample the world. This multicultural taste-fest is open “for dinner until 9:30� while the bar is open ‘til midnight.

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ust how dark is Acadia? “The Bortle Scale is a oneto-nine point scale, where one is absolutely pristine and nine is the middle of a bright city,” says Tyler Nordgren, an associate professor of physics at University of Redlands. “Acadia [National Park] would measure in the three-four range.” For nine, imagine Times Square on New Year’s Eve. A rating of four’s dark enough to pull the veil off the night sky and see the shimmering star clusters in Pegasus, Scorpius, Serpens, and Sagittarius constellations. It’s also the perfect host for the Acadia Night Sky Festival.

What do people really do in the dark? “Go to a star party,” says Jacob Gerritsen of Star Shadows Observatory in Lincolnville. Before the party, take a night climb up Otter Cliff, or hop on a night sky cruise ($25, barharborwhales.com), complete with the Star Wars theme song.

“Only about three percent of Americans look at a dark night sky,” Edward Gleason, of USM’s Southworth Planetarium, says. Luckily, at Acadia National Park, the enlightened prefer the darkness. Park ranger Sonya Berger glows: “Bass Harbor Head Lighthouse uses red light. Our eyes are less sensitive to the red wavelengths.” n –Zoe Colton

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Music Asylum, 121 Center St., Portland. Street Dogs, Sept. 18; The Melvins Lite, Sept. 30.

772-8274 portlandasylum.com Bayside Bowl, 58 Alder St., Portland. Jerks of Grass, every Th; MAMM Jams, Oct. 5; Lounge Night with Hobgoblin, Oct. 6. 791-2695 baysidebowl.com Blue, 650 Congress St., Portland. Sean Mencher & His Rhythm Kings; Tip O’ the Hat Series, Sept. 15; Jason Myles Goss; Groove Ruckus, Sept. 20; Pitch Black Ribbons; Matt Meyer & The Gumption Junction, Sept.

21; In the Round with Shanna; The Potato Pickers, Sept. 22; The Barn Swallows; The Big Dipper String Band; Samuel James & Dana Gross, Sept. 27; Bob Rasero; LQH, Sept. 28; Annalise Emerick; Sandy Bailey, Sept. 29; Miss Shevaughn & Yuma Wray; Joel Cage, Oct. 4; Poor Old Shine; OKBARI, Oct. 5; Jenee Halstead; Mike Beling, Oct. 6. 774-4111 portcityblue.com Dogfish Bar and Grille, 128 Free St., Portland. Happy Hour with Travis James Humphrey, live jazz every F; The Wetsuits, Sept. 22; Griffan Sherry & The Ghost of Paul Revere, Sept. 27; Acoustic Blues Jam, Oct. 2; Tricky Britches, Oct. 4; Matt Meyer & The Gumption Junction, Oct. 6; Hot Lunch BeBop, Oct. 12; LQH, Oct. 19; Ryan Flaherty & The Hungry Moon Band; Griffan Sherry & The Ghost of Paul Revere, Oct. 25.; The Wetsuits, Oct. 27. 772-5483 thedogfishbarandgrille.com Empire Dine and Dance, 575 Congress St., Portland. The Couch, open mic, every Su; Bluegrass, every M; Chaz Lester Trio, jazz, every Tu; Clash of the Titans, every W; Milk Carton Kids, Sept. 25.

879-8988 portlandempire.com Jonathan’s, 92 Bournes Ln., Ogunquit. Tom Rush, Sept. 16. 646-4526 jonathansrestaurant.com Merrill Auditorium, 20 Myrtle St., Portland. Fanfare for a New Season, Oct. 7-9; La Vie Boheme, Oct. 13-14; Glen Campbell, Oct. 16; Royal Drummers of Burundi, Oct. 18; Cello-bration!, Oct. 30; Soyeon Lee & Ran Dank, Nov. 1; Swingin’ the American Songbook, Nov 3-4; Straus & Stravinsky, Nov. 18; Natalie MacMaster, Dec. 4; Magic of Christmas, Dec. 14-23. 842-0800 porttix.com One Longfellow Square, 181 State St., Portland. Joy Kills Sorrow, Sept. 20; Julian Lage, Sept. 21; The Fishtank Ensemble, Sept. 29; Voices United, Sept. 30; Portland Jazz Orchestra, Oct. 4; Lori McKenna, Oct. 5; Honey Dewdrops, Oct. 10; Frank Solivan & Dirty Kitchen, Oct. 11; Tinariwen Quitar Masters, Oct. 11; Cheryl Wheeler, Oct. 19; Spose Unplugged, Oct. 20; Session Americana, Oct. 26; Liz Longley & Barnaby Bright, Nov. 13; Portland Jazz Orchestra, Nov. 15; John Hammond, Nov. 17; Tom Rush, Dec. 7; Lucy Kaplansky, Dec. 8; Winterbloom, Dec. 13; Portland Jazz Orchestra, Dec. 20; Ellis Paul, Dec. 29. 761-1757 onelongfellowsquare.com Space Gallery, 538 Congress St., Portland. Debo Band, Sept. 18; Julia Holter with Hundred Waters, Sept. 20; Next Atlantis, Oct. 11; Dan Deacon, Height With Friends, Chester Endersby Gwazda, Alan Resnick, Nov. 12. 828-5600 space538.org State Theatre, 609 Congress St., Portland. Dr. Dog, Sept. 18; Stars, Sept. 20; Soulive, Sept. 21; Anthrax with Testament, Oct. 3; Ben Harper, Oct. 6; Morrissey, Oct. 15; Citizen Cope, Oct. 29; Umphrey’s McGee, Nov. 3; Justin Townes Earle, Nov. 7; Dark Star Orchestra, Dec. 6. 956-6000 statetheatreportland.com

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19; Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, Sept. 20; A Barn Burner with Session Americana, Sept. 21; Recession Session with Kenny White, Sept. 27; Old Barn Series with Cahalen Morrison and Eli West, Sept. 28; Glen & Grant-Lee Phillips, Sept. 30; John Hiatt and the Combo, Oct. 1; Steep Canyon Rangers, Oct. 21; Keb ‘Mo’, Oct. 23; Alasdair Fraser & Natalie Haas, Nov. 2; Red Horse, Nov. 3; Mary Blask, Nov. 8; Nanci Griffith, Nov. 9; Capitol Steps, Nov. 10; Unger Games, Nov. 17; Dana Cunningham & Carol Noonan, Dec. 8; Stone Mountain Live for Christmas, Dec. 15-22; Dar Williams, Dec. 29.

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Thumbs Up, Sept. 21-23. 743-8432 celebrationbarn.com Gaslight Theater, 1 Winthrop St., Hallowell. Murder on the Nile, Nov. 9-18. 626-3698 gaslighttheater.org Lakewood Theatre, 76 Theatre Rd., Madison.

Who Goes Bare, through Sept. 22. 474-7176 lakewoodtheater.org Lucid Stage, 29 Baxter Blvd., Portland. Tess of the D’Urbervilles, through Sept. 23. lucidstage.com Lyric Music Theater, 176 Sawyer St., South Portland. Anything Goes!, Sept. 2-Oct. 6.

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Schoolhouse Arts Center, Rte. 114, Sebago Lake Village. Now I Lay Me Down to Sleep, Sept. 21-30; Miracle on 34th Street, Nov. 30Dec. 16. 642-3743 schoolhousearts.org Joy Kills Sorrow One Longfellow Square September 20

sured Stories by Eric Carle, Oct. 20 ; West Side Story, Nov. 9-10; Shaolin Warriors, Nov. 17; Beauty and the Beast, Jan. 4-5. 842-0800 porttix.com Ogunquit Playhouse, 10 Main St., Ogunquit.

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Penobscot Theatre Company, 131 Main St., Bangor. Always, Patsy Cline, through Sept. 23; Becky’s New Car, Oct. 17-Nov. 4; Annie, Dec. 5-29; The Sugar Bean Sisters, Jan. 30-Feb. 17.

947-6618 penobscottheatre.org Portland Players, 420 Cottage Rd., South Portland. Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, through Sept. 30; Miracle on 34th Street, The Musical, Nov. 30-Dec. 16; Arsenic and Old Lace, Jan. 25-Feb. 10.

799-7337 portlandplayers.org Portland Stage, 25A Forest Ave., Portland. The Sisters Rosenweig, Sept. 25-Oct. 21; Homestead Crossing, Oct. 30-Nov. 18; Greater Tuna, Jan. 22-Feb. 17.

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Theater at Monmouth, 796 Main Street, Monmouth. Of Thee I Sing, Sept. 20-30. 933-9999 theateratmonmouth.org

Waterville Opera House, 1 Common St., Waterville. Office Hours, Sept. 21-30; Jekyll & Hyde, Nov. 2-11; Welfarewell, Nov. 9-18; Scrooge!, Nov. 30-Dec. 9. 873-7000 operahouse.org

Bowdoin College Museum of Art, 1 Bath Rd., Brunswick. William Wegman: Hello Nature, through Oct. 21; Making a Presence: F. Holland Dai in Artistic Photography, through Dec. 23; A Printmaking ABC: In Memoriam David P. Becker, Nov. 9-Mar. 10. 7253275 bowdoin.edu/art-museum First Friday Art Walk, downtown Portland. Visit local galleries, studios & museums, Oct. 5, Nov. 2 & Dec. 7. firstfridayartwalk.com Portland Museum of Art, 7 Congress Sq., Portland. Maine Sublime: Frederic Edwin Church’s Landscapes of Mount Desert and Mount Katahdin, through Sept. 30; Portland Society of Art: Winslow Homer’s Legacy in Maine, through Jan. 13; Weatherbeaten: Winslow Homer and Maine, Sept. 22-Dec. 30. 775-6148 portlandmuseum.org Space Gallery, 538 Congress St., Portland. Beautiful Possibility, through Oct. 12. 828-5600 space538.org

Galleries Addison Woolley Gallery, 132 Washington Ave., Portland. Andrea van Voorst van Beest, Dan Dow, through Sept. 29; Ronnie Wilson, Ruth Sylmor, Oct. 5-27; Guest Exhibit, Nov. 2-24; Dave Wade, Alan Sockloff, Dec. 7-22. 450-8499 addisonwoolley.com Art Gallery at UNE, 716 Stevens Ave., Portland.

Upon Reflection: Judith Ellis Glickman Retrospective, through Sept. 30; Annual Sculpture Garden Invitational, through Oct. 31; Maine Women Pioneers III, Oct. 12-Jul. 21. 221-4499 une.edu/artgallery

Tasty Events Boothbay Resort and Brewery, 301 Adams Pond Rd., Boothbay. Oktoberfest, Sept. 29-Oct. 8.

633-3411 boothbayresort.com Browne Trading Company, 262 Commercial St., Portland. Wine tasting every third Th, 5-7pm.

775-7560 brownetrading.com Harvest on the Harbor, Portland Waterfront, Portland. Maine’s premier food and wine experience, Oct. 24-25. visitportland.com

Bates College Museum of Art, 75 Russell St., Lewiston. Starstruck: The Fine Art of Astrophotography, Portland Expo, 239 Park Ave., Portland. Maine PortlandMagzineSeptTavernad:Layout 1 Nov. 8/8/12 PM Page 1 through Dec. 15. 786-6259 bates.edu/museum Brewers Festival, 2-3. 12:41 learnyourbeer.com

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Acadia Night Sky Festival, Bar Harbor.

Protecting natural resources though education and celebration, Sept. 13-17.

404-2921 acadianightskyfestival.com Common Ground Country Fair, 294 Crosby Brook Rd., Unity. Rural life and agricultural fair, Sept.

21-23. 568-4142 mofga.org/theFair Cornish Apple Festival, Thompson Park, Cornish.

Local apples, baked goods, cider & history, Sept. 29.

625-4993 cornish-maine.org Christmas at Victoria Mansion, 109 Danforth St., Portland. The Mansion celebrates “The Gilded Age,” with each room decorated by a professional designer from Greater Portland region, Nov. 23-Jan. 6.

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Fryeburg Fair, Ballard Rd., Fryeburg. Maine’s largest agricultural fair, Sept. 30-Oct. 7. 935-3268 fryeburgfair.com

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Maine Condo Forum and Expo, 363 Maine Mall Rd., South Portland. Presentations and networking opportunities, Sept. 22. 781-237-9020 caine.org

Celebrating Maine’s role in American art

Maine Poets Society, 80 Union St., Rockland.

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Sail of the Century

Talk about a dream deferred. “We didn’t really want to own it,” Cabot Lyman says of his newly acquired 70-foot sloop. But when the portfolio of international real estate baron Richard Lee, the original client, struck a reef, the Lyman-Morse Boatbuilding Co. in Thomaston had no choice but to place the winning $50,000 bid at auction–for their own nearly-finished vessel. This frees them to court other buyers.

“Somebody’s going to get a fantastic deal.”

Breakfast Beacon

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A 1961 Kellogg’s ad features a jailbird Portland Head Light “to make it look like West Quoddy Head Light,” says Richard Cheek, editor of From Guiding Lights to Beacons of Business: The Many Lives of Maine’s Lighthouses (Tilbury, $34.95). Why? “A lot of people take artistic license with Portland Head Light,” says Timothy Harrison, editor of Lighthouse Digest. “They think it’s cute, but it shouldn’t be done.”

Inside Stats

“It was the greatest game ever pitched,” says Phillip Hoose, author of Perfect, Once Removed: When Baseball Was All The World To Me. Hoose’s “cousin-once-removed,” former Yankees ace Don Larsen, is auctioning the jersey he wore in the 1956 World Series against the Brooklyn Dodgers, pitching the only perfect game in World Series history. The 56-day Steiner Sports online auction begins October 3, with proceeds going toward Larsen’s grandchildren’s college tuition. “I think he’ll be able to finance the education of many grandsons!” Hoose says. “I’ve seen it in its climate-controlled case in the middle of Don’s basement.” A Red Sox fan today, Hoose probably won’t bid.

Wish You Were Here

Hanging Loose

Independence and American Glory are local faves because they bring in more money per passenger than larger cruise ships. “We give week-long tours of the Maine coast through September,” says crewmember Dion Hill. These types of cruises are best for our local economy: “Passengers enjoy downtown hotels and restaurants before and after the sightseeing trips,” says Sandra Needham-Blackwood of Discover Portland & Beyond.

An aerial shot of Nubble Light is cinemagoers are seeing of Maine in Hope Springs, starring Tommy Lee Jones and Meryl Streep. The film takes place here but was actually shot in Connecticut. With a 30-percent tax credit on film production and in-state expenditures, Connecticut beats our 10-12 percent on wages and 5 percent on in-state spending.

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he members of the Maine Art Museum Trail are like the Seven Sisters, pursuing acquisitions across the night sky.

Inside Bates, Bowdoin, Colby, Farnsworth, Ogunquit, Portland, and University of Maine, curators are filling wall space with eyepopping masterpieces and shiny dark horses, establishing trends that private collectors eager follow.

Colby College Museum of Art spent nearly $3 million for the metallic sculpture Voltri-Bolton II

by David Smith (1906-1965) at a Sotheby’s auction. “We pinpointed Smith as an artist that would strengthen our holding on post-war American art,” curator Beth Finch says. “We have work by Richard Serra and Sol LeWitt, but Smith came before those two. He fills in an area we saw a need for.

“We’d been planning [to obtain a Smith]. The right opportunity came, and we were able to make it happen,” Finch says.

Who decides what to spend $3 million on? Smith says, “There’s always a group of artists we’re thinking about. The purchase was a progression of thinking by the curatorial staff and a board of directors. It was a group effort.”

Sometimes buying art isn’t about creating a distinctively new exhibit. “We already owned work by Sherrie Levine (b. 1947),” Finch says, “but by purchasing her Barcham Green Portfolio (1986) we bring more depth to the way we can represent her work.”

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Bates College Museum of Art in Lewiston takes a similar approach by matching works against the college’s curriculum as well as current events. “One of our strengths is to exhibit work on a level that’s meaningful,” museum director Dan Mills says, “to the college, community, and beyond. We’ve managed to do that with this year’s additions.”

One of Bates’s recent purchases reflects a 20-year goal of Mills’s. “I’ve been paying a

bates college museum of art/ Luc Demers, Alexandra Clotfelter, The Beginning is Near [from the Occuprint Portfolio, Brooklyn Artist’s Alliance], 2012, offset print, ed 160

rective, Colby’s purchase of Enrique Chagoya’s (b. 1953) Escape from Fantasylandia: An Illegal Alien’s Survival Guide (2011) is a tool to further their collection and facilitate the curriculum of the college. “Chagoya’s work is provocative.

This piece deals with his experience with illegal immigration,” Finch says. “It has great interest with our students, for printmakers and those in political science, history, American studies, and Latin American studies–it represents what we do as a teaching museum.”

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Maine WoMen Pioneers iii This major Art Exhibition Program, curated by Andres A. Verzosa, Gael May McGibben and Anne B. Zill, and extending over a ten-month period will feature works by 48 living women artists in four different clusters: Vanguard, October 12–December 16, 2012 Homage, January 2–March 3, 2013 Worldview, March 12–May 12, 2013 Dirigo, May 22–July 21, 2013

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lot of attention to Joseph Delaney since the mid-90s. I mounted an exhibition on him in the past, and when the opportunity to acquire something of his for the collection came up, it seemed like a great addition.”

The June 30 purchase of Woman in Yellow Dress from Case Antiques in Knoxville, Tennessee, which sold for $3,944 according to their website, helps “expand the narrative of the collection,” Mills says.

“It’s uncharacteristic to acquire a oneof-a-kind work sight unseen, but this case merited going ahead with the purchase,” Mills says. “I had a friend look at it for me [in Tennessee]. I’ve not personally seen it.”

Delaney’s painting brings a whole narrative of American art history to the museum.

“Delaney studied at the Art Students League with Thomas Hart Benton, and he was a friend of Jackson Pollock before he was known at all, frankly.

“Delaney lived a Spartan life in New York. It was Alex Haley (author of Roots) at University of Tennessee who really encouraged Delaney to return and be an artist in residence in Knoxville, which he did for the last 10 years of his life.”

The addition of Delaney to Bates came at an opportune time. “There’s a paradox here,” Mills says of the purchase. “We can

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“When we set up photo expeditions to Maine, people carry visions of the coast in their heads,” says James Corwin Johnson, who will host a Maine Fall Color Photography Trip September 28-30 for shutterbugs with an Ansel Adams eye and a Walt Disney thirst for wild colors.

“But we turn away from the sea and surprise with foliage and mountain scenery,” grabbing the eye from stunning points of vantage “such as Eustis Ridge,” pictured here.

Johnson, Yosemite National Park’s official photographer from 1981 to 1995, travels here from Sarasota, Florida, to chase after fleeting moments like these. To join his corps in September ($1,395), call 941-922-1800.

“There’s certainly peeper fascination” with Rangeley Lake, says Touch the Wild’s Nick Leadley. To cover demand, his Maine Street gallery offers four-hour workshops for up to six people by appointment. “We 4 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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Rule No. 2 The presence of the hand of Man, in this case the chondola, adds tension and contrast to make the leaves pop.

Even if you’re 30 over par, it’s possible to shoot a great round of photos looking down on Sugarloaf Golf Club. “The views are astounding. It’s one postcard view after the other, and the 10th hole is completely surreal.”

Rule No. 3 Dare to mix the sublime with the near and dear.

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Clockwise from top left: This photo of chondolas at Sunday River excites us a viewers because we feel the ground has been pulled out beneath us and we’re standing on air; the dramatic vistas of Sugarloaf’s Robert Trent Jones-designed golf course catch fire against the green fairways; colorful landscapes of three states and Canada reward Appalachian Trail through-hikers from mile-high Baxter Peak when they complete their 2,184-mile trek on the summit of Baxter State Park’s Mount Katahdin; the world’s highest bridge observatory offers views of Katahdin and Cadillac mountains high above the Penobscot Narrows.

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Working on your Long Game

A four-mile hike through the mountains, surrounded by brilliant foliage, with panoramas opening at every turn can leave you breathless. Now try hitting a ball along the way. There’s spectacular leaf peeping from Sugarloaf Mountain Resort’s golf course.

“Even if it’s the worst round of your life, you couldn’t help but be happy on this course. The views are astounding,” says Nick Maloney, a golf peeper from Brighton, Massachusetts. “It is, by far, my favorite.

“Our foursome plays the third week of October, with the leaves kicking up rackets of color. On the first tee, one of us always says, ‘We don’t deserve to be playing here.’

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Rule No. 5–Reflection doubles the pleasure, doubles the fun. Not again the hand of Man, adding contrast to put the leaves in sharp relief.

appear,” Maloney says. Assuming you don’t smack orange balls into the leaf-strewn rough.

Views for the birds

Sugarloaf and Sunday River make a point of keeping their chairlifts active year-round.

Scenic fall rides take visitors through photogenic hallucinations, with a Technicolor palette glazing the landscape before the first snowfall knocks you silly with a monochromatic field of white. In particular, Sugarloaf’s open-air chairlift keeps gawkers in awe, rising through the changing leaves.

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M ount K atahdin takes you higher and higher into sacred territory for Native Americans. At 5,268 feet, Baxter Peak makes this granite outlook in Baxter State Park outside Millinocket the highest vantage point in Maine, rewarding through-hikers with a 106-mile patchwork quilt of colors laid out before them as they reach the northern terminus of the Appalachian Trail.

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hen 25 year-old Whitney Parrish spent her last nickel to dig for artifacts at the 17th century archeological site of a garrison and tavern in South Berwick, she had no idea she was going to be.

“It was my first dig ever, near the end of the day,” the Riverside Street resident says. “I’m lying on my stomach, covered in dirt, scrapping–that’s what you do–and I found something. My guess was that maybe it was a pipe steam. I got up and gave it to Dr. Neill De Paoli, our field director.”

De Paoli, a Southern Maine Community College adjunct, accepted the find from Parrish, who “cradled it in her hands,” he says. As he rinsed it, the 332-year-old silver coin glimmered through the stream. The discovery of the Spanish real roused everyone from their holes.

“I’ve seen other exotic finds like this in Maine,” De Paoli says, “but never this. We couldn’t help but pass it around, and as I held it I could almost see a guy stumbling out of a tavern one dark night and losing it.”

One person’s tipsy drop is Whitney’s raison d’être.

“I enrolled in an archeology class to fulfill my Classics degree, and I simply found a flyer for this dig project,” she says. “Now, seriously, archeology’s what I want to do.”

After 25 years of dirty fingernails, does De Paoli admit to any jealousy? “I got my start after sending letters to historic sites from Williamsburg, Virginia, to Maine. It was a total crapshoot until I found work in Pemaquid–the most formative site for me. I found a blacksmith shop, gun parts, and charred timbers. It was everyday items they ate and drank out of.”

Fascinating, but not exactly The Precious.

“Did I buy a lottery ticket? No,” Whitney says of her beginner’s luck. “I could have been anywhere. It could have been bones or brick. It’s a right place, right time thing.” n

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The Arts

’Yoshi’s Choice

Imagine being a Japanese painter in the Ogunquit Art Colony, learning Pearl Harbor’s been attacked.

from top: wikimedia commons/Peter A. Juley & Son; The Blanton Museum of Art at The University of Texas at Austin, Waitress from the Sparhawk, 1924-25

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“Waitresses from the Sparhawk is an early work by Yasuo Kuniyoshi, painted just two years after his first solo gallery show in New York. Set in a popular resort in Ogunquit, Maine, where the artist spent his summers for many years, the work presents a seemingly delightful vignette about female friendship–except for that brooding sky and the slightly sinister tone of the surroundings.

“This odd but intriguing combination of stylized figures, abstracted landscape forms, and narrative references reflects the distinctive synthetic approach taken by Kuniyoshi and many American artists during this period following World War I.” –Blanton Museum of Art, University of Texas

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he summers Yasuo Kuniyoshi (1893-1953) spent in Ogunquit in the late 1910s and ’20s were crucial to his rise to success, as he became one of the most celebrated artists in the United States between the two World Wars.

Kuniyoshi’s artistic career was an improbable one, as he came to the United States from Japan alone in 1906, barely 17-years old. He had no intention of becoming an artist, but a high school teacher encouraged him to travel to the East Coast to study painting in the 1910s. In 1917 he showed his art for the first time, entering two paintings in the huge, open exhibition of the Society of Independent Artists.

At this show he met Hamilton Easter Field, critic, artist, publisher, and patron of the arts, who founded Ogunquit’s Thurnscoe School of Art in 1911 after many visits to the site starting in 1902. Field, who’d learned to appreciate Japanese art in Paris in the late 19th century, was quick to invite the promising Kuniyoshi and his lady friend, fellow art student Katherine Schmidt, to live and work in the fishermen’s shacks in Perkins Cove that he turned over to artists during summers. The arrangement worked in many ways: Kuniyoshi and Schmidt were married in Ogunquit in 1919, with Field presiding over the ceremony.

The period in Ogunquit coincided with Kuniyoshi’s transition from student to star, as he solidified his mature style in paintings like Maine

from top: courtesy PMA, After the b ath; Yasuo Kuniyoshi exhibition by the Fukutake collection; Columbus Museum of Art, The Swimmer (1924)

In his article “Japan against Japan: U.S. Propaganda and Yasuo Kuniyoshi’s Identity Crisis,” ShiPu Wang uncovers a New Yorker story (28 March 1942) detailing Kuniyoshi’s personal nightmare: “’At least one Japanese we’ve heard of is doing his damnedest to help us win the war.’” Noting the New Yorker’s opinion that Kuniyoshi was “’one of this country’s best artists,’” Wang recounts Kuniyoshi’s penning “radio scripts...broadcast via shortwave radio to Japan in February and March 1942, [seeking] to persuade Japanese artists and intelligentsia to renounce their militaristic leaders.”

Soon afterward, per Wang, Time magazine jumped in to print a photo where “Kuniyoshi and two other immigrant artists had created giant caricatures of Axis leaders for the Art Students League’s United Nations Ball in Manhattan.” Kuniyoshi is pictured below his unflattering caricature of Emperor Hirohito.

Family. The peculiar, up-tilted space in this painting is found in much of the work that made him famous, as is his palette of warm, earth colors. The simplified treatment of the buildings as flat-color rectangles reflects Cubist modernism while also inspired by the block-like architecture of the buildings at Perkins Cove.

The crawling baby at the left, gravely looking toward his toy horse on the other side of the painting, exemplifies Kuniyoshi’s concerns with infants in many of his works of this period, where the theme of family is a recurrent one–perhaps a reflection that he’d left his own family back in Japan. (He would return to see them only once, in 1931.)

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he relaxed, productive environment around Perkins Cove provided Kuniyoshi with another sort of family: artist friends such as Robert Laurent and wife Mimi, and Niles Spencer and his wife Betty. Kuniyoshi also enjoyed the company of the fishermen. His tribute Al Perkins Drying Fish unfortunately is lost, as are several of Kuniyoshi’s important works from the ’20s, but studies of the work survive.

The Swimmer exemplifies the style for which he became celebrated: quirky, fanciful, and slightly suggestive. Ogunquit’s environment gave him the image of the lighthouse, erect above the prone swimmer, whose lumpy proportions and diminutive hands and feet (perhaps derived from women in Japanese prints) make her both slightly humorous and sexy.

The complex mix of naiveté and sophistication, humor, and eroticism in The Swimmer typifies Kuniyoshi’s work from the 1920s. In the ’30s his style evolved into greater realism and enhanced sensuality, and then became increasingly anguished as his adopted country went to war against Japan. During the war he worked for the Office of War Information, making pro-democratic propaganda against Japanese militarism. At that point Ogunquit was far away, except for occasional visits to his friends there. From the late-1920s and on his summer residence was at the art colony of Woodstock, New York. But his formative years as an artist were spent summering in Maine, and the people, landscape, and atmosphere of Ogunquit were the inspiration for his breakthrough early paintings. n Tom Wolf is an art history professor at Bard College, an active curator, and has written extensively on Yasuo Kuniyoshi.

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he last six months have been very intense,” says Anne B. Zill, director of the University of New England Art Gallery and co-curator, with Gael May McKibben and Andres Verzosa, of Maine Women Pioneers III, a highly anticipated invitational October 12 to July 21, 2013 at the UNE Art Gallery. “As I tell you this, nobody else knows who else is in the show.”

Four categories of living artists will engage with crowds. “Our ten ‘Vanguard’ representatives are largely younger artists who are totally out of the ordinary, with major conceptual originality. They’re avant-garde, experimental, and innovative.” These talents don’t mind reaching out to grab you. Literally outside the box, Lihua Lei, from Solon, Maine, crashes through the fourth wall and confounds a visitor’s sense of formality by upstaging their expectations before they can enter the gallery. “Her human figures in

To the Northamptonshire wag who quipped, “A whistling woman and crowing hen are neither fit for God nor men”: These startling artists have always dared to whistle.

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clay, slightly amorphous, appear inside a 15x 15-foot diameter space with a low railing ahead of the entrance.” As weather differentiates this performance against time, “the clay melts to show a Plexiglas inner human spirit animated by solar light panels emerging as the flesh decays.” Lauren Fensterstock’s A Selection of Ground and Surface is “a triptych with paper and charcoal framed behind glass. Each of the three elements is a foot tall, 15 feet wide.” Unafraid to be malevolent, black paper grass rushes through your senses as you consider its length.

The “Homage” level “celebrates the lifelong creative accomplishment of veteran artists who refuse to rest on their laurels.

Dahlov Ipcar, Katarina Weslien (MECA), Rose Marasco, and Lissa Hunter are examples. Each dares to dare.

“Our ‘Worldview’ participants are visionaries, activists, and healers inspired by existential and holistic themes, as well as ethics and emotions.” Think “Alice Spencer,

Clockwise from top: Kate Cheney Chappell’s (Worldview) Persephone Rising; Frances Kornbluth’s (Homage) Eventide #2; Grace DeGennaro’s (Dirigo) Weaving; detail from Lihua Lei’s (Vangard) installation.

Abby Shahn, Natasha Mayers, and Rebecca Goodale. A perfect example is Marlene Ekola Gerberick, from Bath [with roots in Finland]. Along with her found objects– bones, skulls, twig–there’s a sensual/sexual series of drawings of trees–with their animus. Some artists are fabulous marketers and less-than-stellar artists. The reverse is true of this artist. She uses old books to create an intertextual narrative.”

“Dirigo” artists navigate via Maine’s motto, I lead. “They’re breaking the norm and moving into pioneering terrain. Noriko Sakanishi is an abstract conceptual artist working in wood.” Her pieces vibrate with “enormous depth and power while exuding serenity.”

Inspiration and guts, four layers deep.

These trailblazers aren’t just whistling in the dark. n

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traits. Was it the surface ‘luminousness’ everyone admires that played so well in the PRC?

Well, [the stereotype of the Chinese is] they’re very mysterious, elegant, and they have a sense of decoration. They tend to be negotiable. My work seems to travel. It sells well in Turkey, Poland, Finland, so I wasn’t really surprised [things took off in Shanghai]. Besides, Shanghai isn’t exactly China…

You’ve said [to Phong Bui on The Brooklyn Rail] that when you visited an influential Matisse show early in your career [with your instructor recommending, ‘“He’s 80 years old, but he’s very good’”], you “‘nearly fainted…. It took about three years for me to fully appreciate those Matisses.’”

That was in 1949, at Pierre Matisse Gallery [in

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The Mandarin world was changing to the Mao/Proletarian world. The Chinese government didn’t create a lot of art museums for the people, though they did better with [rescuing, developing, and commemorating] language. They released a lot of political propaganda. There must have been some submerged art there. It was an odd economic time for China with Mao. It was still basically agrarian during the rush toward industrialization. No time for leisure…

How does the New York part of you reconcile itself with the Maine part of you that went to Skowhegan School of Art and stays with us every summer?

You have more privacy in New York.

In Maine, since everyone knows you, your life is more public. I think the two places balance each other very nicely.

There’s more going on culturally in New

Ada with Green, 2009

ast spring, international art star Alex Katz, 85, had his first show in the Peoples Republic of China amid celebrations hosted by the James Cohan Gallery. We caught up with Katz at his Lincolnville home just before breakfast for an update.

Can you describe the whole experience of selling art to a Chinese audience? As Art Daily bills it, it was “James Cohan Gallery Presents the First Solo Exhibition of Alex Katz’s Work in Mainland China.” How did you choose what to show?

It was the gallery, James Cohan, at work in Shanghai. It was a great success. All five of my paintings sold. I had no part in picking them.

Though I had no experience showing in China, I’ve had three or four shows in Japan.

I’ve also made prints there.

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an art-deco building that still stands on the corner of East 57th Street and Madison Avenue].

The year China went dark. How would the very Matisses have gone over in Shanghai then, at the dawn of The Great Awakening, if the show had been allowed to travel there?

After the Revolution, his stuff would be incomprehensible. I don’t know what kind of [art-appreciating] public was in China then.

Camp, 1990

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艾利克斯• 油 新作 上海James Cohan 廊 地 幕酒：3月18日，周五，晚6-8 上 斯•（Alex Katz）首 中大的展。 五件肖像 艾利克斯•（1927年生于布克林 具有代表性和影力的家。1949年 因州的Skowhegan雕塑院的金。 其所的意到了“（段）助我洲的

Sunset 3, courtesy Alex Katz/ Pace Wildenstein Gallery, 2008 ; Anika, courtesy Alex Katz, 2008, Oil on linen, 48 x 66 inches, Photo by Paul Takeuchi; Vivien, courtesy Alex Katz, 1994, Aquatint in three colors, 25 3/8 x 25 3/8 inches, Edition: 50, Artist’s Proofs: 12, Somerset Satin paper, Printed by Chris Sukimoto, Doris Simmelink, and Debra Salopek, Simmelink-Sukimoto Editions, Published by Simmelink-Sukimoto Editions

作和版 精 2011年3月18日至5月15日 地址：徐 岳 路170弄1 1，近永嘉路 上海James Cohan廊很幸地家艾利克 展。展的重是家于2008至2010年作的 肖像以及表了其景期趣的精版作品。 克林）已是去的五十多年里杰出的、 9年于曼哈的Cooper Union 院，得了 。在院了外光派（plein air），并如 洲的里分离出，找到我自己的眼睛” 。1954年，在市了他第一展...... 更多信息，系

Surprise York. It’s a livelier place than Maine, but Maine’s a place where you get into yourself. For the first seven years here I didn’t have a telephone or electricity. It was like being at sea. In the ocean, you were free.

With communications the way it is today, I have the same amounts of information now between here and New York.

Village] on, I was always working. This was the one period in my life when I was free from myself.

The sea… Can you tell us about the year you spent in the Navy?

Many American artists, when they try to tap into a sense of the Universal, really mean universal in Western Culture. Why do you think your sense of the universal travels so well beyond that?

It was my only time of true freedom. The work was mindless. I was on a troop trans-

What painting am I interrupting you from right now?

I’m about to have breakfast. I’ve been working very hard all summer. I woke up today and said, “What the heck!”

Universal is perceived by the eyes of the culture. African sculpture–we perceive it completely different than people who make it.

They don’t think of it as ‘scary’ or ‘primitive.’

Here we see it as beautiful forms. I imagine it would be realistic to the people in Africa. An unconscious part of that travels with it [across the seas]. You can

interview

Vivien, 1994

only see ‘beyond’ through the eyes of your culture.

I painted a camp of Maine at night, grayish green, with three orange squares and a little light at the top. I called it Camp (pictured left), which might have had too specific a Maine meaning.

Daniel Kany, reviewing my show at Colby College, mentioned that someone from Seattle, looking at Camp, described it as tents. [Because he’s from Maine, Kany] understood it was what you see when you come across the lake [and see cottage windows]. Paintings mean different things to different people.

‘Cool,’ ‘breezy,’ ‘psychological,’ ‘luminous,’ ‘part of the Postwar pop narrative extending from Abstract Expressionism.’

If you could replace all those strip-mined adjectives with one that best describes your work, what would it be?

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port. It was fascinating to see different types of people. I came from a middle class neighborhood in Queens. Every day you can get out and the water is another color. That was really fantastic.

The freedom…On liberty, you could drift around.

Before my time in the Navy, my life had been very hard driving from 14 on. Afterward, from my time as an student at Cooper Union [art school in East Greenwich

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1934, was years ahead of the expansive spa market. While Manhattanites visited her Red Door salon on Fifth Avenue, calls for Judy Garland and Ava Gardner to begin their wax treatments echoed across the northern tip of Long Lake.

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Literary agent “Elisabeth Marbury was there first,” Smith says. “She talked Arden into coming up from New York City.”

Back in the 1930s, Arden’s 32 acres of rolling hillside had facilities for “facials and a steam cabinet, tennis courts, a bowling alley

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they used as an exercise room, and a wax room–I worked in there,” Smith says. “They covered you all over, except your head. It was incredible–$1,000 for a week, and that was the regular treatment.”

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“She brought in the staff from everywhere,” Smith says. “The masseuses were from Sweden. If she found someone she liked during her travels, she brought them back. Except for the grounds staff, no one was local. There was a Florida hairdresser who told Arden she’d done hair for the Kennedys. This impressed her, so she brought her to Maine.

“Everyone had to exercise and wear these god-awful, ugly, blue bathing suits with white robes during the day. But Edna Ferber [author of Personality Plus, Dinner at Eight, Stage Door, Saratoga Trunk, Show Boat, and Giant] was an exception. She typed. She’d come for a month and stay in her room. She’d go 24/7 like that,” while her friends got beautiful around her. n

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Isn’t it charming Maine is still so full of wonder you can pick up a telephone and chat with the eponymous Sal from Blueberries for Sal (1948)?

Today, Robert McCloskey’s (1914-2003) daughter is 67 years old. A title attorney, Sarah “Sal” McCloskey is softly aware that because she’s also a fictional character, part of her will always live outside of time. She still lives in her childhood home–with the feeling her father’s just about to open the door.

“We bought [Inner Scott] Island [near Deer Isle in Stonington] in 1946, when I was barely a year old. The boathouse also houses my dad’s studio,” Sal says. “The view of the sunset looks to the Camden Hills from the front beach.”

When her dad died, the house was already in midrenovation. “The architect was Elliott & Elliott in Blue Hill,” Sal says.

“Mom’s gardens fell into disrepair during the renovation. I plan to renovate them next year in different form, less labor-intensive.”

Now that summers are flying by without the author of Make Way for Ducklings (1941), One Morning in Maine (1952), and Time of Wonder (1957), Sal finds herself halfway across the pier from then to now. How to make sense of it all?

“No name for the boat. No name for the house,” she marvels. “My parents thought that kind of thing was a bit over the top.

“Two paths cross the island from the float, an upper path and a lower path. This [photo above] is the house from the upper path.

“I’ve been looking all weekend for pictures of the house from before, but I haven’t found what I remember.”

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even an occasional bald eagle. It does distract me from my writing, but I’d never give it up.

I just have to look out to remind myself how very lucky I am to be in Maine.”

Gerritsen considers Maine’s spellbound offseason a thoughtful writing partner.

“I attribute it partly to our long, cold winters. When it gets dark so early, when the world turns white with snow, I find that I can create imaginary colors and stories.”

To the Rescue

This year marks the 50th anniversary of Silent Spring’s publication. Rachel Carson’s best-selling book denounces the “senseless destruction” of Maine’s natural beauty. Rare is the environmentalist or ecologist who doesn’t say it inspired his or her career.

Mesmerized by local wildlife, Carson (1907-1964) spent summers in this 1953 cottage on Southport Island off the tip of Boothbay peninsula, windows blue with the Gulf of Maine.

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“The whole interior is pine board,” says Margaret Sisson, Carson’s daughter-in-law, who owns the house with Rachel’s son, Roger Christie.

“Rachel chose this site for its access to tide pools. She’d collect specimens, look at them under her microscope, and return them to where she found them.”

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International best-selling thriller author Tess Gerritsen (b. 1953) says, “My home in Camden is right on the water. It was built around 2002 by a couple who designed it as their dream house, and that it certainly is, with a deck overlooking Penobscot Bay, large windows, and a living room with a cathedral ceiling. The couple had to leave Maine because of his job, and we were lucky enough to be its next owners.

“My writing space is a large room over the garage, and the window by my desk looks out over the bay. I see sea birds, seals, dolphins,

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No woman is an Island

Alix Kates Shulman (b. 1932) stood America on end with her 1972 best-selling Memoirs of an Ex-Prom Queen, one of the first novels to come out of the Women’s Liberation Movement. At 50, Shulman cast aside her life of politics, family, and the literati of New York City to live in this Long Island cottage off Portland with no plumbing, electricity, or telephone.

In Shulman’s 1995 memoir Drinking the Rain, she writes about spending 10 summers alone here and how she began to discover the delights of meditative solitude as she foraged for seafood and native plants. Says a reviewer for Houston Chronicle: “[Shulman] reveals how she routed her fears, came to terms with aging, and eventually integrated her expanded awareness into a mainland life of renewed commitment.”

Burning the Candle at both ends

Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892-1950) was born in Rockland and grew up in half-a-dozen homes in Camden, including this Victorian at 82 Washington Street, across from the former high school, now the site of Camden-Rockland Middle School. As a high schooler, Millay wrote Renascence, a major poem so astonishing that it was published in Atlantic Monthly and so durable it appears today in the Maine Mall rotunda. Shoppers surely remember reading it on the way to the GAP and Abercrombie & Fitch: “…The world stands out on either side, no wider than the heart is wide…”

Fox Bewitched

Soon after writing 1928’s The Outermost House, naturalist and journalist Henry Beston (1888-1968) visited his friend, the painter Jake Day, on his houseboat, the Ark, at Damariscotta Lake. It was there he learned about Chimney Farm in Nobleboro.

Beston and his wife, poet and novelist Elizabeth Coatsworth (1893-1986), purchased the Queen Anne Victorian and wrote here for decades. Their daughter, Kate Beston Barnes (Maine’s first poet laureate and author of Where the Deer Were), recalls on henrybeston.com: “[My father] had fallen in love with the landscape and Damariscotta Lake. My mother had never seen it, but when he told her about it, she trusted him, and they bought it.”

Still another literary connection: Maine poet Gary Lawless (Gulf of Maine Books) and his wife, Beth Leonard, are caretakers here.

Now That’s a swordboat captain

When she isn’t at sea, Linda Greenlaw (The Hungry Ocean) drops anchor at her 1997 centerchimney Cape on Isle au Haut. Her studio boasts westerly views of Kimball and Vinalhaven.

After growing up in Topsham and graduating from Colby in 1983, Greenlaw, 52, skipped law school and pursued fishing. Starting as a cook, she worked her way to captaining her own swordfish boat.

The world would know her as the real-life model for the role played by Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio in the film The Perfect Storm, based on the book by Sebastian Junger.

In 1997, Greenlaw started proving she could throw out a line herself. The result? Bestsellers like The Hungry Ocean, The Lobster Chronicles, and All Fishermen are Liars. To read fiction Greenlaw wrote for Portland Magazine, visit portlandmonthly.com/portmag/2012/08/greenlaw. To read fiction by Junger for Portland Magazine, visit portlandmonthly.com/portmag/2012/08/junger. n

The little lady who started the Civil war

Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811-1896) is widely known as an abolitionist and author of Uncle Tom’s Cabin, but she also penned a novel about life in a small fishing community called The Pearl of Orr’s Island: A Story of the Coast of Maine, published in 1862. The book captures a young girl’s life on the rough New England coast inhabited by brawny women, ill-tempered fishermen, sea captains, and gossipy neighbors. Her 1807 Federal Street mansion in Brunswick, now gutted and the property of Bowdoin College, was, for decades, the site of The Stowe House, a legendary steak & deep-fired seafood restaurant.

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What they do behind closed doors in California, we do brazenly, out in the open, in Maine.

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ou’ve heard the hype in one version or another: Portland is second only to San Francisco as America’s Foodiest City. For decades, we’ve heard about the West Coast’s innovations, its smug estate wineries, its smarmy valet parking, its nouvelle-fusion-comfort cuisine.

Don’t even think of measuring up, Clam Diggers, the message seems to be. You Yankees should know your place.

Now that foie gras has been banned in California, the tables seem to have turned. As this issue hits the newsstands, the ban that shook the gourmet world is 45 days and counting. And Maine’s premier restaurants are feeling the lift as fans flock to taste the forbidden.

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Pan-seared New England quail breast and foie gras with apricots, cashew butter, and cognac thyme reduction from The White Barn Inn

How about a Mushroom Foie Gras Napoleon at On The Marsh on Kennebunk’s Route 9? Not only has executive chef Jeffrey Savage devoted a great deal of care in creating this appetizer, he’s taken the trouble to visit the foie gras production site behind it to understand the process himself.

“The two sources in the United States are Hudson Valley Foie Gras and La Belle Farms, a spring-off from Hudson Valley. I flew down to New York, talked with the owner at Hudson Valley, and toured their entire facility because there was Maine state legislation to prohibit foie gras farming even though there are no foie gras production sites here. The anti-foie-gras people were going state to state so they could build up momentum to ban it in New York.

I was very happy to see how Hudson Valley functioned. I went to Rep. Alan Casavant (D-Biddeford), the state legislator who’d brought the motion forward to ban it at the recommendation of his constituents. Nancy Sullivan (whom I’ve known from childhood) had Alan Casavant’s position before. They were very open to learning about the whole process. The other side basically had nothing to go on. It was shut down immediately.”

According to the Artisan Farmers Alliance blog, Casavant’s legislation died in committee March 11, 2009, when the Joint Standing Committee on Agriculture, Conservation and Forestry “voted unanimously ‘Not to Pass.’”

“We don’t serve it every night,” Savage says of the Napoleons, “because our menus change twice a week. But the option to have foie is a positive thing, because if you see how the ducks are raised, they are more humanely cared for than most other animals raised for production. The ducks are fed every eight hours. To reduce the stress they undergo, the same person feeds the same ducks from the time they’re born.

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Foie is something that’s been culturally accepted for so long, in France & Canada.

–Owner/Chef Krista Kern Desjarlais, Bresca From top: Bresca’s Bittersweet Chocolate Financier with Sauteed Apricot & Foie Gras Ice-Cream is a savory end to dinner; Petite Jacqueline patrons enjoy foie gras al fresco in Longfellow Square.

an urban New York- or California-style fish, just with Maine’s fresher fish and shellfish, our bluefin tuna, oysters, lobsters, clams.”

If the world’s in search of freshness, you know they’re coming our way.

“Our mushroom foie gras Napoleon is very earthy. It has the sense of herbs with fresh thyme. We roast local mushrooms from forager Rick Tibbetts, then create four layers with sheets of phyllo dough, salt, butter, thyme, and seared foie gras.”

The crown is a “foam with eggs, cream, and foie gras, whipping it in a charger to aerate it. In a wine flight, I might pair it with a really nice Sauterne, Chateau d’Yquem. It’s sweet but very well balanced; d’Yquem is high-end, but some of the very highest-end Sauternes can go for as much as $1,000 a half bottle. They’re a great companion for desserts and foie gras.”

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Maine, the Old California

“Maine cuisine is becoming more and more what California used to be,” Savage says.

“Without a doubt, there are phenomenal restaurants in California. But I think their political scene has changed that a lot. In Maine, we stay pretty true to what we do. I grew up in Biddeford with an Irish/French heritage–you know, where everything was cooked to death.

What can we do with that in today’s market?

We respond to it creatively by doing a mini pot roast, stewed carrots, then switch it up with sashimi ingredients from Browne Trading– fresh local Gulf of Maine fluke, fresh lime yuzu juice from Japan, chives, a little salt. You can do

We’re not saying Maine’s trendy restaurants are spiking the ball, but Bresca serves a foie gras ice-cream sandwich [$10]. Says chef Krista Kern Desjarlais, 2012 James Beard award nominee for Best Chef Northeast: “Our variation is foie gras ice-cream with a toasted almond chocolate torte and pan-seared apricots with warm caramel sauce.”

Until the ban, Petrossian in West Holly­ wood loved to serve a foie gras ice-cream sandwich, too. According to complex.com’s “25 Craziest Ice-Cream Concoctions in the Nation,” this lost delicacy consisted of “two pieces of thinly sliced brioche, topped with raspberry jam and a hint of sea salt and honey.”

What’s it like to have that ripped out of your menu?

When I call Petrossian, a legendary stop dating to the 1920s, a man who goes by “Billy” is either a good sport about it or he’s tip-toed into the sixth stage of grief: resigna-

from top: sara tarbox; cynthia farr-weinfeld

Shut the front door! I can’t believe you guys get to serve that!

clockwise from top left: sara tarbox; katie j. johnson (3)

Clockwise from right: Petite Jacqueline’s seared Hudson Valley foie gras, toasted pistachio butter, cherry compote, and pain de mie; Nosh’s Apocalypse Burger; The White Barn Inn’s rohan duck and foie gras torchon with strawberry balsamic gastrique; 555’s foie gras terrine, New England peaches, crispy house-baked brioche, and mache.

tion. “No one in California can serve that now. It’s a statewide ban.”

Yeah, bummer.

As to how she’d react to the ban if she were a California chef, Desjarlais appears already to have imagined what she’d do: “It’s twofold because there are some loopholes in the law. Some places are doing it gratis, and there’s no law against that. If I were presented with this problem, I’d simply look toward other ways to use offal. I mean, for luxury items, other kinds of offal have not been seen as that…luxurious. You can’t substitute it. Chicken liver’s not going to take its place. Maybe basting with smoked duck fat can get a beautiful thing to fruit…

We’re for animal rights, but foie is something that’s been culturally accepted for so long, in France and Canada and other places, part of the farming” philosophy.

She likes comparing gastronomic 21st century Maine to old California. “I grew up just outside of San Francisco, so I agree with that. It definitely has that kind of Marin County spirit: old, dirty-cool, not hip cool.

Really nice people. Kind of like the spirit of the 1970s when I was there.”

Just because we’re keeping score, dudes,

that’s two big losses: No foie gras, and in an alternate universe, Bresca might have been located in your state.

Bresca has been listed among the “Top 105 Best New Restaurants in the World”

by Condé Nast Traveler in 2008, followed by enthusiasms in the New York Times, Bon Appétit, Food & Wine, and Travel & Leisure’s “The New American Sophistication.”

Presuming, of course, there was an old American sophistication.

Foie at ‘The fives’ & Petite Jacqueline

“Right now we’re serving foie at 555 with fresh local peaches from Snell Farm,” says Steve Corry, winner of Food & Wine’s Best New Chef award and co-owner/chef of 555.

“We just slice the peaches with a little foie, which we clean, pass through a sieve, and cure for 24 hours. Then we poach it for 60 seconds in 180-degree water. That breaks and separates the foie. After using an ice bag, we whisk it into a delicious, creamy texture.

Then we put it in an aspic with a little tiny bit of duck reduction. I like Hudson Valley’s product because it’s consistent, always clean,

fresh. In Napa, I got accustomed to using Sonoma foie, but now that that’s gone I’ve come to like Hudson Valley better because it’s more versatile for searing.” A former northern California chef himself, “I think the whole thing is ridiculous,” he says of the California ban. “Traditional French and Italian cuisines have deep roots.”

Corry and his wife, Michelle, also own Petite Jacqueline, the popular Longfellow Square bistro where Chef Ian Hayward tweaks our taste buds with a seared foie gras with toasted pistachio butter and cherry compote with pain de mie. “The pain de mie is French bread, with a little milk,” Hayward tells us. “We sear the foie and score it. We take dried cherries, cook them down with a little bit of wine to make a compote, and drizzle some rendered foie fat on the pain de mie until it gets absorbed. We smear the pistachio butter on the plate and add chives for color. And that is that. Very simple. Foie has such a bold, rich flavor, and I like to play off that.”

Once again, California’s loss is our gain.

Petite Jacqueline is a 2012 semi-finalist for Best New Restaurant in America by the James Beard Awards.

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up in Sheffield.” He worked at The Savoy hotel in London. Since becoming Grand Chef, Relais & Châteaux at The White Barn Inn in Kennebunk, he’s been an oracle to the elegant-

Notes From The Underground

So where has banning serving foie gras gotten California? Roughly where banning gypsy superstitions got the Ceausescu regime in Romania.

It’s gone underground.

As midnight June 30 approached before California Senate Bill No. 1520 took effect July 1, they were serving foie gras ice-cream cones, just the way people got crazy drunk the night before Prohibition.

Oddly, the ban seems to have ushered in darker pleasures.

In an article for Bloomberg, Alison Vekshin and James Nash describe post-ban “private-events” dubbed “Duckeasies,” where people slink in “to savor foie gras, California’s newest forbidden fruit.”

Vekshin and Nash discovered a newly codified language has sprung up in secret, where, “at Café Mimosa in San Clemente… those in the know ask for the ‘fancy bread.’”

Another euphemism the writers ran into: “complimentary side.”

At “the Presidio Social Club,” they found Californians gobbling foie after dark because “the restaurant, once a barracks in the Presidio of San Francisco, a former Army post near the Golden Gate Bridge that is now a national park, is on federal land and immune from state law.”

Only (not) in America! They close their story with a telling insight from a restaurateur worthy of Bob Marley: “It’s just like Prohibition. The more you say it’s not allowed, the more people are going to want it.”

When we contacted Nash, he replied via email, “Well, our research indicated that California is the only U.S. state to ban foie gras, so Maine is really in the mainstream while California is the exception.

Time will tell…”

ly hungry. Consider his signature New England Quail Foie Gras.

“Inside the apricots there is foie gras that we cook as we warm the apricot. We sit the seared quail breast on cashew butter, then season and sear a beautiful piece of foie gras for the center of the dish which sits on a parsley purée & confit quail leg meat.”

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The Inn gets its foie gras “from Quebec, where A number of Maine restaurants also they do a very good job raising animals. I like to use Les Trois Petits Cochons as a connecthink of Quebec as a neighboring state.” tion. This international wholesaler, nesIn their Carpaccio, “we use cured foie gras, tled among the piers of Brooklyn, New salt, pepper, brandy, Madeira, and port-cure York, has views of the Statue of Liberty. for 24 hours, then freeze so we can shave it for Which brings up a good point. 1) How the top of the chicken terrine. It adds that rich much is all of this about freedom? 2) Does decadent finish to a great dish. unmetered freedom differ from responsi“Our Duck/Foie Gras Torchon is cured foie ble freedom? And 3) when does freedom gras, and we roll it into a log, wrap it in a fig collide with ethics? purée, then roll it in pistachio. We serve it with a couple of slices of duck balsamic macerated Freedom of Expression strawberries and strawberry gastrique. This is a Ashley Byrne of PETA (People for the Ethivery rich foie gras dish that we often adapt for cal Treatment of Animals) is happy to open use at cocktail parties. Guests love it.” door number three: “If I were to speak to the Regarding the controversy, “I think it’s a person preparing to eat a foie gras ice-cream shame. I don’t want to sound barbaric about sandwich, or any form of foie gras, I would things, but you can take everything to an urge them to watch PETA’s foie gras exposé extreme. If someone has a conscience where (follow the links from peta.org) so they could they don’t want foie gras, he or she doesn’t have see what investigators of every foie gras proto order it, and as a duction facility in the result, demand will go United States or down. Should we stop throughout Europe serving Maine lobster? have seen. I would ask In New England we’re them to consider much more straightwhether any of this forward and down to –Chef Jonathan Cartwright, outrageous cruelty is The White Barn Inn earth than in California, justified when we but yes, I do feel sorry know there’s such a for my colleagues out there. I think it takes a lot thing as faux foie gras as an alternative to sick, away from creative chefs and guests who enjoy dead and dying animals that are littered foie gras; also, my heart really bleeds for Sonoma around these farms, very often with bloody Foie Gras company as it is a small [firm] that has wounds in their necks from pipe injuries. I’d worked hard and made a great name for itself urge them to consider the fact that they’re with a fantastic product.” eating an animal who has purposely been given a disease, intentionally sickened by the people charged with looking after them.”

Nothing marginal Has she taken the trouble to tour one of about Marginal Way the production facilities? After all, she’s calling On Shore Road in Ogunquit, at 98 Provence, from New York.

Chef Pierre Gignac says, “I like Hudson Val“No, but I’ve seen the films. And they all ley’s products. We do several different prepalook the same.” rations of foie gras. Seared is the favorite with the tourist clientele. We do some homemade brioche that’s toasted and served with an The final course: California Dreamin’ apricot and fennel compote and a crisp fennel No matter your feelings about foie gras, salad. For a pairing, Banyuls is a wine from isn’t it refreshing to think of Californians the south of France. It’s almost a dessert wine, as being desperate? (Sfist.com calls them a noble grape. It’s lightly nutty, reminiscent of the “foie-deprived.”) Relax, guys. Have a a very good sherry with a darker tint to it.” spritzer. Memo to Clint Eastwood: Not only are you not Spike Lee’s daddy, you’re going to have to head east if you want us Source coding to make your day. n For local retail customers interested in creating foie gras dishes, “We offer foie gras from Hudson Valley,” says Nick Grenier of >> For more, visit portlandmonthly.

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540 Forest Ave., in the Woodfords area of Portland, 772-0300, greatlostbear.com Harraseeket Inn Start your day with our full breakfast buffet in our Maine Dining Room, hearty enough to satisfy a Maine lumberjack. The Broad Arrow Tavern serves lunch and dinner with its open kitchen and wood-fired oven and grill.

Dinner’s also served nightly in our Maine Dining Room, featuring classic dining, tableside preparations, and flaming desserts. 152 Main St., Freeport, 800-342-6423, harraseeketinn.com Hurricane Restaurant’s menus–lunch and dinner, seven days a week–feature the finest seafood on Maine’s coast. Enjoy $10 off every bottle of wine on Wednesdays, a Tasting Menu (three courses/$30 from 5 to 6:30 pm, seven days a week). Discover our award-winning wine list, house-made pastries, signature cocktails, and extraordinary five-star New England Cuisine. Dock Square, Kennebunkport, 967-9111, hurricanerestaurant.com Jameson Tavern, one of the oldest historic taverns in Maine, is said to be the site of the signing of the papers separating Maine from Massachusetts. The Tavern has a bar, dining room and serves Maine lobster, steaks, pasta, and 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 The Lobster Dock treats you to the pleasures of casual dining with a panoramic view of Boothbay Harbor’s east-side waterfront. Our seafood is fresh and the atmosphere’s friendly. “The only thing better than the view is the food.” Featured on Food Network’s Throwdown with Bobby Flay. Daily, 11:29 to 8:31pm.

633-7120, thelobsterdock.com Lotus Chinese and Japanese Restaurant We feature full-service bar and lounge area, sushi bar, Chinese traditional food not available outside of Boston, friendly atmosphere and courteous service.

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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 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 hardto-beat prices. 967-8500, pier77restaurant.com *

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The Salt Exchange features Contemporary American cuisine in moderate portions using local, sustainable, and heirloom ingredients. Fresh local fish & produce daily. Full bar, Happy Hour, Sidewalk Seating. Open for Lunch M-Sa 11:30am & Dinner 5:30pm. Free parking in the evening. 245 Commercial St., Portland, 207.347.5687, thesaltexchange.net Silly’s & Silly’s with a Twist, chosen “Best Bargain”

by Yankee Magazine now features something for everyone, including weekend brunch along with vegan & gluten-free options. Silly’s staff, voted “Best Service” by Phoenix readers, presents all-scratch kitchen food in a whimsical setting either inside or in the garden patio. Open Tu-F, 11am, and Sa-Su, 9am.

40 Washington Ave., 772-0360, sillys.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-F 11:30am-2:30pm. Dinner M-Sa, 5pm-CL. Bar menu M-F 2:30pm-CL, Sa 5pm-CL. Two Portland Square on Union St., 871-9258, waltersportland.com *reservations recommended

Eventide Oyster Company ups the ante for the rest of the bed.

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e talk of many things: shoes, ships, sealing wax, cabbages, and kings.

But when at Eventide Oyster Company, oysters are the thing. That, and some of the best fried fish I’ve tasted since my college days in London.

Of course, the best way to start any dining excursion is with oysters (just ask Casanova).

And since this delicacy greets you the moment you enter Eventide, chilling on ice inside a life-size boat of carved granite, each marked with a wooden stick bearing its name and origin, how can you not?

Deciding which to savor proves a daunting task. With excellent guidance we choose a dozen ($27; $15 per ½ dozen) from an attractive list featuring nine varieties from Maine and 10 “From Away.”

Co-owner Arlin Smith says, “We only buy cold water oysters from the West Coast, New England, and Canada.” He can even tell origins by scent. “The West Coast species have a cucumber, melon fragrance, whereas the East Coast has that briny ocean, deep sea allure.”

We learn that Winter Point Selects from West Bath are the most popular and order three, along with three Gliddens from Damariscotta, two Shallow Bays from Newcastle, two Ayock Salts from Washington State, and two Blackberry Points from Prince Edward Island. Hands down, these are the best oysters we’ve had. Accoutrements (red wine mignonette, kimchee, and angelica ice) are fanciful and fine, but we find the oysters need no enhancement.

My local albacore tuna ($8), with ginger-scallion relish, sweet soy sauce marinade, and thinly sliced radish is mind-boggling good. The fact that Smith was front of the house, and

Eventide Oyster Company 86 Middle St., Portland 11 a.m.-Midnight, 774-8538 eventideoysterco.com co-owners Andrew Taylor and Michael Wiley were an intimate part of Rob Evans’s kitchen at Hugo’s for five years–before purchasing Hugo’s and creating Eventide–is apparent in this elegant presentation.

Following a palate-pleasing fluke tartare ($7), I indulge in a Dirty Dirty Martini ($9)–a great hit combining gin with oyster juice and a splash of Tabasco. My partner enjoys a pint of Murphy’s Irish Stout ($5).

The fried oyster bun ($7) is bursting with flavor and pretty to look at, but the showstopper is battered Gulf of Maine hake ($8).

Do not miss this!

Changing each day are “Dinner Only” options. Tonight we are blessed to devour a whole-roasted Mediterranean branzino ($24).

Similar to sea bass, this fish offers lots of tender white meat, few bones, and is exquisitely prepared with an herb stuffing, chewy wheat berries, and broccoli. A Celery Gimlet ($9) (celery juice, gin, Chartreuse, and lime) goes down quite well with this.

Raspberry pie ($7) and a bowlful of French Fried Toast ($6) with house-made cinnamon ice-cream do us in. Walrus, you can stop crying and saunter on in to Eventide. Your prey awaits. n

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only acquire the painting because the market hasn’t caught up with the recognition of an artist like Delaney yet, who’s considered a fine artist but may not have traction in the secondary market.”

At the intersection of market awareness and a collection’s desires is a fresh purchase at Farnsworth Art Museum in Rockland.

“John Adams Jackson’s (1825-1879) Eve, after 1862 is a type of work that was common in (l to r): David Mitchell, Christopher Rogers, Lauren Schaefer-Bove, Zara Machatine, Steve Guthrie, Dana Ricker the mid-nineteenth century,” chief curator Michael Komanecky says. “It was very fash(l to r): David Mitchell, Christopher Rogers, Lauren Schaefer-Bove, Zara Machatine, Steve Guthrie, Dana Ricker ionable among the collecting elite in the U.S. (l to r): David Mitchell, Christopher Rogers, Lauren Schaefer-Bove, Zara Machatine, Steve Guthrie, Dana Ricker ogers, Lauren Schaefer-Bove, Zara Machatine, Steve Guthrie, Dana Ricker (l to r): David Mitchell, Christopher Rogers, Lauren Schaefer-Bove, Zara Machatine, Steve Guthrie, Ricker ThereDana were very few sculptors from Maine, however, who handled marble like this.

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“David was interested in placing a major painting in the museum,” Danly says. “The pine tree is so iconic. It’s painterly and romantic.” n

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pect to bring 64,531 passengers to Portland after Labor Day, over 13 times more than the 5,038 docking during summer vacation.

“The leaves are what draw people to Maine,” says Sandra Needham-Blackwood of Discover Portland & Beyond. “Fall foliage is the staple of the cruise ship season [here], and it’s been a building block for us as a destination. We’re still a driving destination, but what better way to see the coast of Maine than by boat? We are Vacationland, after all.”

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“Fall’s extra special,” Maine Eastern Railroad’s Gordon Page says. “The middle of September into the end of October is steady, especially with Trains & Trees’s motor coach promotions.”

Stationed in Brunswick, Eastern Maine Railroad’s vintage 1957 EMD FL9 locomotive leads up to six stainless steel Art Deco railcars, including a semi-private parlor observation car, on a meandering excursion between Brunswick and Rockland, allowing passengers to take their eyes off the road and enjoy the dazzling leaves.

“A 57-mile foliage run through four counties with forest on both sides is quite unlike being on the road–it’s a whole new perspective. There’s scenery you can’t get from Route 1,” Page says. ”When you cross the long trestle in Wiscasset over Sheepscot River, with water on both sides along with dozens of inlets and bays, it’s a different world.” n

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Park Place The Great Portland Fire barely missed charring the Daniel How House at 40 Pleasant Street. It’s perfect for a young urban family.

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an Sawyer reads our minds as we turn slowly around, imagining flames. “The fire missed it!” she says of 1866 conflagration that must have surrounded 40 Pleasant Street when J.B. Brown’s sugar refinery went up in smoke.

Which makes it all the sweeter that this brick Federal residence, built in 1817, has survived into the 21st century as a fantasy dwelling for a young family who wants to live in a verdant intown park surrounded by trendy restaurants.

“It’s in wonderful condition, which speaks to its quality,” says Sawyer, an agent for Ocean Gate Realty, LLC. “Landmarks has a whole folder on this house, and [restoration expert] Rick Romano has done a great job opening up the third floor to the harbor.”

She takes in One City Center as gulls careen overhead. “It’s a bit of an island,” with four bedrooms, an office, and two and a half bathrooms.

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McCarthy, a psychiatrist at Mercy Hospital, shows us the seven original wood-burning fireplaces, “Indian shutters,” and the massive double doors–on unique reductionscrew hinges–separating the front and park-view (back) parlors.

Robin McCarthy produces an original letter from Elizabeth Ring, where the late historian renders the opinion that the bricks were imported from England.

From the original cast-iron baking oven in the cherry kitchen with marble counters to the lovely small spiral stair with original bannister that greets you upon entering through the front door below a gorgeous fan and sidelights, this is the real deal.

As striking as the façade is, the harbor side will sweep you away. “We purchased the house and lot behind this one,” McCarthy says. Long story short, it’s been cleared and turned into the lower half of a telescoping garden that enchants the eye as you park in your private driveway or sip a rum swizzle from the sensational decks facing the water and the picturesque

warehouse that not so long ago was the site of Stone Coast Brewery.

Surveying his plantings below his private patio, McCarthy points out “Lilacs, Korean lilacs, a pear tree, and a magnolia tree,” all deftly landscaped on descending steppes to Danforth Street.

“This house and lot is $794,000,” Sawyer explains. To purchase the lot behind the house, it’s an additional $260,000.

The cathedral-ceilinged third floor with window seats and massive beams makes the city and harbor come alive around you. Among the innovations by Romano is a glass-walled master bath “that lets you see out,” but you’d have to be a gull for the reverse effect.

Per Landmarks, this is a honeymoon house, “built by Daniel How for his son John, who was married December 25, 1817.” With a gazebo added, wouldn’t it be a great venue for yours? Taxes are $9,284. n –Colin W. Sargent

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2005 Energy efficient Post & Beam with deep water mooring on the Jordan inlet. Watch all the seals, eagles and wildlife from your living room window on this gently sloping east-facing 5.9-acre private lot. Assorted fruit trees, perennials, berries & barn. $450,000

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Stunning 3+ bdrm home at the heart of the resort. Wrap around deck and great views!

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Quintessential Coastal Cape with old charm & modern updates. Separate Garden Cottage with screened porch. All on 10 private acres. Beautifully lanscaped & well maintained. ROW to Muscongus Sound. $499,000 MLS # 1046525

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NORRIDGEWOCK–Absolutely stunning! Over 7300 sq.ft. of incredible living space! Indoor pool w/slate tile, 3-4 BRs, cathedral living w/fireplace, massive barn, 3 car under, 4 car detached, 60+ acres of manicured grounds, pond. Just unbelievable! $1,400,750–Call Chris, 242-2041

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BELGRADE–Absolutely spectacular reproduction Colonial!

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Turn-Key Yr-Rd 2-BR Cottage Offers Shared WF & Boat Harbor on Rangeley Lake. Good Rental Potential. $259,500

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This exceptional, custom built, contemporary home is perched on a 10.4 acre, elevated site with an unobstructed view of Mt. Washington on clear days. The open concept floor plan offers everything you need on the first level including a gourmet, eat-in kitchen, dining room, living room, home office, master suite with stunning bathroom, two additional bedrooms and bath. The second floor in-law apartment, also with great views offers an open kitchen/dining area, living room, bedroom and bath. Some of the very special features in this home include: A Kennebec Kitchen with granite counters and brick floors, 9'ceilings, crown molding, custom trim and arches, radiant heat, central air, and an attached, heated, three car garage. $575,000

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Experience the Arts in Downeast Maine Experience the Arts in Downeast Maine Stonington Moose Island A rare opportunity to own a “Piece of the Rock” in a private setting on Moose Island, minutes away from Stonington Village. Charming three season Cape style home on 2.4 acres w/735' of ocean frontage surrounded by beach, granite outcroppings and a dock to launch your boat.

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Isle Au Haut Horseman’s Point Bold, beautiful and dramatic! Nearly 80 spruce clad acres with over 2,500' shorefront encompasses the island landmark of Horseman’s Point. Over 60% of this island paradise is held in preserve by Acadia National Park.

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Brooklin Landmark Naskeag Point Homestead Set in the picture perfect town of Brooklin where EB White and any others have found great inspiration. Wooden Boat school attracts those eager to learn the art of boat building from far and wide. Here we have a nicely updated classic Maine Farmhouse enjoying some of the most treasured views on the Coast of Maine!

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Sargentville “The Field” Unique opportunity to purchase a fantastic piece of shore front where the water meets Eggemoggin Reach. Views down the Reach with 6.2 acres and 1,130 expansive feet of shore front on Billings Cove. Open fields, apple trees and lupine lead to a beach and a potential spot to moor a boat.

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Gouldsboro “East of Schoodic” Architecturally striking custom built home strategically sited at the tip of Jetteau Point to capture breathtaking ocean views. Quite private on nearly 3 acres with 510'of dramatic ocean frontage. Additional studio/guest quarters over a 2-car garage.

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Little Deer Isle “Harbor Farm” Waterfront Commercial Building Perfectly set at the scenic gateway to the art rich communities of Deer Isle and Stonington. The widely recognized, restored Historic 1850 school house offers nearly 4,000 sq. ft. on the 1st floor and over 2,000 sq. ft. on the 2nd floor.

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Beals Island “Frost Farm” Enchanting saltwater farm circa 1870 on western shore of Beals Island with jaw-dropping ocean views & sunsets over Hannah’s Cove. Retains many original, distinctive architectural features. New roof, windows & furnace. Conveys w/Conservation Easement.

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Deer Isle Art Inspired Farmhouse w/Studio Conveniently located near Deer Isle village amenities, yet private on 9 acres.

Perfect for an artist with large studio spaces and abundant light. Artistic touches combine old and new.

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A Wonderful Place to Create, Work & Play Experience the Arts in Downeast Maine HIGH CLIff Deer Isle~”Sunset” The remarkable house and thoughtfully landscaped cliff side property includes a spacious “all seasons” residence sited on 5 acres with 600'frontage on East Penobscot Bay. A 600-square-foot, well-equipped studio space rises 24' to the roof peak, at the top of which are 6 panels of double-glazed fixed skylights, catching sun from the south.

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tHe GropIuS HouSe Brooklin~“Naskeag Point” Walter Gropius, a founder of the “Bauhaus” School of Design in Germany, designed many well-known homes including the Gropius House on Naskeag Point. A contemporary shorefront home created to take full advantage of natural light. The airy and open floor plan with high ceilings and window walls offer south facing harbor views for year round enjoyment.

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HeAD of tHe CApe Brooksville~Cape Rosier Incredible 16 acres on sought after Cape Rosier, close to Historic Castine, one of the loveliest villages on the coast of Maine. The shingled Maine Cottage is overlooking an expansive 1,280’ of deep water shore frontage with unobstructed ocean views over island dotted coastal waters.

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Spacious cottage w/ sunporch ideal vacation/rental for snowmobilers,ATVers, plus lake & marina rights. $289,900

Exceptional end unit condo, 3 levels, w/great views just steps from Rangeley Lake andVillage. $239,000

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ed ly List e v i s u l Exc Remodelled in 1875 in the second-empire style by Gov. Joseph R. Bodwell, the home is a dramatic and richly ornamented example of Victorian style.This extraordinary home sits high above the Kennebec River with three full floors of living space. Currently under renovation, the outside has been completed with reappointed ornate finishing. Major cornice is bracketed with large consoles, dentil band runs through interspaces, Mansard roof, full story in height, facade tower. New slate tiles cover all areas of roof edge appointed with copper. This property is currently approved for a four-six bedroom bed and breakfast in addition to large owner’s quarters or single family residence. Many possibilities exist with this one of a kind property, $427,000.

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arie and Harvey drove home in silence. The heavy heat of summer was beginning to subside. In Maine, the moments between seasons are static. As each season passed, Marie was still surprised at how alive those moments in-between could be, even after fifty-five years of living on this same island.

Harvey gripped the wheel, his knuckles white, his hands creased with wrinkles. The skin around his eyes had become loose, like draped satin. He pursed his lips tightly, the way he did when he was mad.

“You shouldn’t have told them,” Harvey said. “They’ll just worry.”

She regretted her loose-lipped confession to their children that Harvey’s construction business had folded. He’d owned the company for twenty years but hadn’t found work in months. When he did find it, he was underbid by contractors half his age.

“I’m sorry,” Marie said. “It just slipped out.”

She looked out her window watching the jagged coast sprawl out like a grin. In the distance, a Coast Guard vessel blasted its horn.

Dozens of sailboats dotted the sea, breaking against the waves, venturing further into the fading afternoon horizon. Sprigs of seaweed floated limply atop a bed of green and white.

Seagulls hovered in swarms, scrounging for food. On the shoreline, tourists searched the beach for prey of their own; the last minutes of summer to swallow and digest.

Inside the car, the air was stagnant.

“If I didn’t find work in the summer, I’m sure as hell not going to find it now.”

As they rounded the corner ahead, Harvey pulled off of the road into a small parking spot that looked directly into the Atlantic. For nearly thirty-five years, they’d stopped here almost every Sunday to

watch the sun set. A couples’ habit. Marie remembered when they’d come here in their youth, when Harvey cupped her hands in his and pressed her open palms against his chest.

Now, as they sat there, the world on dry land seemed to give way to the water in front of them. Marie felt as if they could drive into the sea. She pictured them traversing the ocean floor, rumbling past the lobsters and crabs and piles of seaweed, driving over the rocky terrain. She pictured them looking at each other, smiling at the schools of fish engulfing their car. Harvey would turn on the windshield wipers and they’d smile more.

Ahead of them, a porpoise would stop midswim. As she looked out the sunroof, Marie would see the underbellies of sailboats and the bodies of adventurous swimmers flailing in the white-capped surf.

They’d drive until the water blackened and they could hear the songs of whales around them. They’d park, their headlights on, fingers entwined. He’d pull her hand against his chest and let her feel his heartbeat quicken. They’d watch as the world around them moved, liquid and certain.

And they wouldn’t speak, they’d just sit and listen to the rhythmic sound of the waves above their heads. They’d feel light, even with all of that water around them.

“I might be able to find work inland.”

At once, the water around them began to recede. They pulled back and back–the whales, fish, and crustaceans all staring at them as the water gave way to land and the water poured off of the car in pools. In front of the car, a family walked, arms entwined, and stood in front of them, blocking Marie’s view of the sunset.

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