Portland Monthly Magazine November 2012

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She spent her seafaring days cruising among Antarctica’s icebergs, but now she’s slipping between the world’s temporal cracks.

By David Svenson They’re new, noteworthy, and changing the way you live: Michelle Gass, Laurence Pope, Katie Aselton, Manny Caulk, Bill Burke, Elle Logan, Daniel G. Lilley, Lisa DeSisto, Rick Barton, and Michele Sturgeon.

All the City’s a Stage

Portland Ballet Co. stretches around town to make us part of the cast.

By David Svenson

A Real Cliffhanger

There’s a secret mission behind this $4.5M home bordered by sea roses and the Atlantic on Bald Head Cliff.

By Colin W. Sargent

Departments 10 From the Editor 12 Letters 14 Imperatífs 16 Goings On 22 Chowder 49 Hungry Eye

Dining Like a Flash Mob

54 Dining Guide 55 Restaurant Review Figa

56 2012 Gift Guide 88 New England

Homes & Living

93 Fiction

“The Falling Man”

By Duncan Whitmire

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Cover: “Bald Head Cliff,” by Cynthia Farr-Weinfeld.

See “A Real Cliffhanger,”page 82.

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Strange Duet I don’t know this house, but I know this house.

We love bringing you “extraordinary perspective” at Portland Magazine. Sometimes, it catches us by surprise, too.

I was touring our House of the Month on the windswept edge of Bald Head Cliff when I felt it, like hearing a faraway melody or remembering something I’d never seen before.

But I had seen this house before–a stunning, Zen-like modern structure–in Japan. At least its soul mate. In unconscious parallel with our Rocky House in Maine by Lisa DeStefano Architects (see our cover story, complete with cornerless window wall, p.

82), Sou Fujimoto Architects has created “A weekend house for a couple located on a rocky coast two hours drive from Tokyo…with approaches sloping down to the water. The characteristic of its plan, imagined like the branches of a tree, is a continuous one room.” There’s a somewhere and a somewhen else to everything, a melodious variation on The Butterfly Effect. When you close your eyes, the continuous rooms touch. One moment you’re in Cape Neddick, another you’re in Japan, an astral harmony.

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I heard this morning the wonderful news about Portland Magazine’s Graphic Design awards [From Graphic Design USA of New York; the print announcement will be in their December 2012 edition]. I saw it on TV, then I saw it on Facebook. I was so tickled for you. Glad you’re recognized for it. What a terrific honor.

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Hey, We’re for Horses

Thank you very much for your continued support of this wonderful ambassador mustang Reno. [See portlandmonthly.com/portmag/2011/03/maine’s-misfits/.]

I thought you should know how busy he has been this summer representing his breed, the rescue, and Portland Magazine (wearing his dress sheet). Reno has appeared at local pet shops, grain stores, and brought much pleasure to young people at Biddeford’s Bacon Street Festival and Chalk on the Walk day. He continues to visit nursing homes and retirement villages.

He also competed at our Benefit Horse Show at Hollis Equestrian Park in Hollis.

Thank you, again, for all you do for Reno and us.

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Get ready to move like a Rockefeller for a night at Victoria Mansion’s annual Christmas Gala on Nov. 28. This year’s theme is the extravagance of The Gilded Age. “The Mansion is a symbol of 19th century opulence,” says Timothy Brosnihan, assistant director. Tour, eat, drink, be merry, and donate funds to education programs. $60, victoriamansion.org

Ride the Downeaster to new stops Freeport & Brunswick and shop till you drop. Includes two daily round-trips between Freeport to Boston and three to Portland. “It’s so exciting to hear the whistle,” Wilsons Leather manager Sandra Perkins says. “It’s a fantastic turn for the future of Freeport.” Freeport to Portland round-trip, $16; Boston $49.

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It’s nice to see local businesses like Amato’s and the newly opened Kamasouptra in the food court at the Maine Mall. Their new Captain Eli’s Beef Chili adds jolt of “healthy food,” Kendal Anderson says. $3.95 cup, $5.75 bowl; kamasouptra.com/chalkboard.php

Savor the richness of Artist and Visionary: William Matthew Prior Revealed at the Fenimore Art Museum in Cooperstown, N.Y. Long the pet poodle of the folk art set, Maine-born Prior (1806-1873) painted over 1,500 portraits, ranging from “flat paintings” to academic in style. His firstever exhibition, organized

by Jacqueline Oak of Vermont’s Shelburne Museum, presents the painter in context. In my four decades of organizing and reviewing 19th century American art exhibitions, I cannot recall anything more enjoyable, substantive, or better selected. Prior can be no longer be classed as primitive or a “Wandering Thug of Art,” but as a delightful, practical master. The show ends Dec. 3 and moves to New York’s Folk Art Museum in January. –William David Barry 14 portland monthly magazine

On Nov. 28, State Theatre hosts the Portland Business of the Year Awards ceremony, and guess who’s up for the Economic Development Award? The theater itself, and everyone is invited! “The State put Portland on the international map with entertainment,” says city economic development director Greg Mitchell. “EnviroLogics (Business of the Year) is redefining the city for the biotech industry, and Rosemont Market (Small Business of the Year) continues to enhance the city’s reputation as a destination for fine food.” portlandmaine.gov

It’s a slam dunk. The Maine Red Claws is an exclusive farm team for the Celtics. This can mean some bucks for Portland as more Bostonians check out the talent by riding up here on the Downeaster–including multiple visits

by Celtics GM Danny Ainge.

Claws exec Jana Spaulding says, “we love it!” nba.com/ dleague/maine

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September 22 - December 30, 2012 Reserve your tickets today to see legendary works by Winslow Homer in this once-in-a-lifetime exhibition.

Bring Home a Little Homer for the HolidaysVisit the PMA Store, or: store.portlandmuseum.org 207-775-6148 portlandmuseum.org

Winslow Homer, Eight Bells—Mid-Day Observation from Harper’s Weekly (detail), 1888, wood engraving on wove paper, 5 7/8 in. x 7 9/16 in., Portland Museum of Art, Maine. Gift of Peggy and Harold Osher, 1991.70.165. Photo by meyersphoto.com

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Weatherbeaten: Winslow Homer and Maine Portland Museum of Art features Winslow Homer’s vision of Maine with his iconic paintings.

Through Dec. 30, 7 Congress Sq., $17, portlandmuseum.org

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Seriously Funny Standup Laugh with the funniest comedians of Forest City upstairs at Empire Dine and Dance. 7pm, 575 Congress St., $8-$10, 939-6429

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Maine Harvest Festival Celebrate farmfresh food and area wine and beer. Nov. 10-11.

Bangor Auditorium & Civic Center, $5, maineharvestfestival.com

18 UMA Basketball Watch the UMA Moose take on Saint Joseph’s Fighting Saints (Vermont), 2pm, Augusta Civic Center, umamoose.com

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Trivia Night Grab a drink, order dinner, and challenge yourself and teammates to classic and contemporary trivia from various subjects every Monday. 7pm, Sebago Brewing Co., 211 Fore St., Portland, sebagobrewing.com

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Pints for Paws Humane Society of Knox County teams with at Trackside Station to support man’s best friend, where $1 of every pint sold goes to HSKC. 5-8pm, 4 Union St., Rockland, 939-6429

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Tom Perrotta–The Telling Room’s Super Famous Writers Series presents novelist, screenwriter, and NYT bestseller Tom Perrotta reading from his new book The Leftovers.

The film version of Perrotta’s Election (1999) starred Matthew Broderick and Reese Witherspoon. 6:30pm, SPACE, 538 Congress St., Portland. tellingroom.org

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Portland Pirates Hockey Portland Pirates vs. Manchester Monarchs, 7pm, Cumberland County Civic Center Win a subscription to Portland Magazine at home games! $10-$14, portlandpirates.com

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27 Shaolin Warriors Zen, Kung Fu, and the art of theater combine as the Shaolin Warriors perform at Collins Center for the Performing Arts, 7pm, $38, collinscenterforthearts.com

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28 “Apple of My Eye” Explore artistic visions of apples through this mixed media exhibit at Fryeburg Academy’s Pace Galleries of Art. Through Dec. 21, 75 Main St., Fryeburg, fryeburgacademy.org

ImproVox World and Americana music improvisation workshop and concert by the members of ImproVox. Jazz and new folk with edgy improvisations. 7:30pm, The Opening Heart, 227 Congress St. Portland, $12/$15/$20 improvox.com

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West Side Story Leonard Bernstein and Stephen Sondheim’s classic 1957 musical delights audiences on its 2012 national tour.

November 9-10, Merrill Auditorium, Portland, $41-$70

Homestead Crossing William Donnelly’s latest play finds two couples in the midst of questioning everything they know. Nov. 1-18 Portland Stage, 25A Forest Ave., $20-$44, portlandstage.org

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First Friday Art Walk Browse and purchase the latest in local art showcasing in galleries, bookshops, cafés, and boutiques through downtown Portland. 5-8pm firstfridayartwalk.com

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29 Dinosaur Jr. The famed rock band from Amherst, MA comes to Portland to perform from their 2012 album I Bet on Sky. 7pm, State Theatre, $25-$28, statetheatreportland.com

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The Incarnation of Earthly Creations Haitian art, from paintings and sculptors to beaded works and metal works. Through January 2013, Museum of African Culture, 13 Brown St. Portland, museumafricanculture.org

23 Moonlight Madness Holiday shopping begins this year at 12:01am, as shoppers descend upon Freeport. freeportusa.com/ events/532

30 Enter the Haggis Celtic folk rockers Enter the Haggis rock the house at Empire Dine and Dance. 8pm $18, 575 Congress St., Portland, $18, portlandempire.com

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Theater Gaslight Theater, 1 Winthrop St., Hallowell. Murder on the Nile, Nov. 9-18. 626-3698 gaslighttheater.org Lyric Music Theater, 176 Sawyer St., South Portland. Nine, Nov. 16-Dec. 1; Once Upon a Mattress, Feb. 15-Mar. 2. 799-1421 lyricmusictheater.org Merrill Auditorium, 20 Myrtle St., Portland. Shaolin Warriors, Nov. 17; The Nutcracker, Nov. 24-Dec. 2; Beauty and the Beast, Jan. 4-5; The Joffrey Ballet, Mar. 21. 842-0800 porttix.com Penobscot Theatre Company, 131 Main St., Bangor. Annie, Dec. 5-29; The Sugar Bean Sisters, Jan. 30-Feb. 17; Wit, Mar. 13-31.

947-6618 penobscottheatre.org Portland Players, 420 Cottage Rd., South Portland. Miracle on 34th Street, The Musical, Nov. 30-Dec. 16; Arsenic and Old Lace, Jan. 25-Feb. 10; Noises Off, Mar. 22-Apr. 7. 799-7337 portlandplayers.org Portland Stage, 25A Forest Ave., Portland. Homestead Crossing, through Nov. 18; Santaland Diaries, Nov. 23-Dec. 16; A Christmas Carol, Nov. 30-Dec. 23; Greater Tuna, Jan. 22-Feb. 17; A Song at Twilight, Feb. 28-Mar. 18. 780-5151 portlandstage.org The Public Theatre, 31 Maple St., Lewiston.

A Christmas Carol, Dec. 7-9; The Hound of the Baskervilles, Jan. 25-27, 27 & Feb. 1-3.

782-3200 thepublictheatre.org Schoolhouse Arts Center, Rte. 114, Sebago Lake Village. Miracle on 34th Street, Nov. 30-Dec. 16.

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Acoustic Open Mic, every W; Happy Hour with Travis James Humphrey, live jazz every F; Pitch Black Ribbons, Nov. 15; LQH, Nov. 16; The GotRythmBand, Nov. 17; Christina Sterling Trio, Nov. 23; The Wetsuits, Nov. 24; The GotRythmBand, Nov. 29; Trickle Down, Nov. 30; Matt Meyer & the Gumption Junction, Dec. 1; Local Circus, Dec. 6; Bernie Bouthot & Ali Stauble, Dec. 7; Sean Mencher & His Rhythm Kings, Dec. 8; Southboun Outlaws, Dec. 13; Hot Lunch BeBop, Dec. 14; The GotRythmBand, Dec. 15.

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ETHEL: Present Beauty, Jan. 30; The Bad Plus, Feb. 17; Voices of Afghanistan, Mar. 16. 842-0800 porttix.com Jonathan’s, 92 Bournes Ln., Ogunquit. Jay Ungar & Molly Mason, Nov. 16; Judy Collins, Nov. 24; Stephen Kellogg Solo, Dec. 30; All Together Now Beatles Tribute, Feb. 14. 646-4526 jonathansrestaurant.com Merrill Auditorium, 20 Myrtle St., Portland. Straus & Stravinsky, Nov. 18; Natalie MacMaster, Dec. 4; Magic of Christmas, Dec. 14-23; .Wynton Marsalis, Jan. 25; Happy Birthday, Mozart!; Jan. 27; Beethoven’s Fifth, Feb. 5; Midtown Men, Feb. 14; Marc-Andre Hamelin, Feb. 16; A Night at the Movies, Feb. 23-24; Celtic Woman, Mar. 2; Haydn’s Creation, Mar. 5. 842-0800 porttix.com One Longfellow Square, 181 State St., Portland.

Portland Jazz Orchestra, Nov. 15; John Hammond, Nov. 17; Rory Block, Nov. 23; Joe Walsh & Friends, Nov. 24; Anais Mitchell, Nov. 30; The Bob Band, Dec. 1; Tom Rush, Dec. 7; Elizabeth Mitchell; Lucy Kaplansky, Dec. 8; Rock my Soul Rockin’ Holiday Concert, Dec. 9; Sweetback Sisters Country Christmas Sing-Along, Dec. 12; Winterbloom, Dec. 13; Yulegrass, Dec. 15; Portland Jazz Orchestra, Dec. 20; Innana Winter Solstice; Dec. 21; Alexis P. Suter Band, Dec. 22; Ellis Paul; Dec. 29; Garnet Rogers, Jan. 11; Ronnie Earl & the Broadcasters, Jan. 26; Jonathan Edwards, Feb. 15.

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Space Gallery, 538 Congress St., Portland. Other Lives; Indians, Nov. 26; Pearl and the Beard, with Lucius and You Won’t, Dec. 2; Patrick Watson, Dec. 9.

828-5600 space538.org State Theatre, 609 Congress St., Portland. Eli Young Band, Nov. 15; Taking Back Sunday, Nov. 18; Beatles Night, Nov. 24; Dinosaur Jr., Nov. 11; Trampled by Turtles, Dec. 2; Dark Star Orchestra, Dec. 6; Big Band Syndrome, Dec. 7; Killswitch Engage with Shadows Fall and Acaro, Dec. 20; Badfish, Dec. 28; Deil Makes Three, Dec. 29; moe,

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Galleries Addison Woolley Gallery, 132 Washington Ave., Portland. Guest Exhibit (curated by Jon Edwards), Nov. 2-24; Dave Wade, Alan Sockloff, Dec. 7-22; Dan Dow; Diane Hudson, Jan. 4-TBA. 450-8499 addisonwoolley.com

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221-4499 une.edu/artgallery Bates College Museum of Art, 75 Russell St., Lewiston. Starstruck: The Fine Art of Astrophotography, through Dec. 15; Robert S. Neuman’s Ship to Paradise Jan. 18-Mar. 22; Fransje Killaars: Color at the Center, Jan. 25-Mar. 22. 786-6259 bates.edu/museum

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Bowdoin College Museum of Art, 1 Bath Rd., Brunswick. We Never See Anything Clearly: John Ruskin and Landscape Painting; Making a Presence: F. Holland Dai in Artistic Photography, through Dec. 23; A Printmaking ABC: In Memoriam David P. Becker, Nov. 9Mar. 10. 725-3275 bowdoin.edu/art-museum First Friday Art Walk, downtown Portland. Visit local galleries, studios, and museums, Dec. 7, Jan. 4, Feb. 1 & Mar. 1. firstfridayartwalk.com Maine Historical Society Museum, 489 Congress St., Portland. Wired: How Electricity Came to Maine, through May 26. 774-1822 mainehistory.org Portland Museum of Art, 7 Congress Sq., Portland. Weatherbeaten: Winslow Homer and Maine, through Dec. 30; Maine Sublime: Portland Society of Client: Art: Winslow Homer’s LegacyHPHC in Maine, through Jan. 13; LoisDescription: Dodd: Catching the2012 Light,Fall opens Jan. 17. - DUO - Lucy Campaign 775-6148 portlandmuseum.org and Ethel Publication: Portland Magazine Scale: 1:1 Print Scale: None262 Commercial St., Browne Trading Company,

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Don’t Miss 8th Annual Festival of Trees, Dyer Library/Saco Museum, 371 Main St., Saco. Themed Holiday Event to benefit library and museum programs, Nov. 23Dec. 30. 283-3861 sacomuseum.org 19th Annual Made in Maine Christmas Craft Show, 73 Eagle’s Way, Topsham.

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Annual Portland Christmas Tree Lighting, Monument Square, Portland. Live music, carols, and tree lighting, 5:30pm-6:30pm, Nov. 23.

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883-1031 societyofsouthernmainecraftsmen.org Language Arts Live Reading Series, Muskie Archives, Bates College, Lewiston. Poet Richard Blanco, Nov. 8; Poet Brian Brouder, Jan. 17; Novelist Deb Olin Unferth, Feb. 11; Novelist Ron Currie Jr., Mar. 27.

753-6963 bates.edu/english/academics/ language-arts-live Maine Indian Basketmakers, 5746 Collins Center for the Arts, Orono. Largest gathering of Maine Indian artists in New England. Demonstrations, storytelling, traditional music, drumming & dancing, Dec. 8. 581-1904 umaine.edu/hudsonmuseum/events.html Portland on Ice, Portland. Live music, outdoor sporting demonstrations & family activities, begins Jan. 25. 772-6828 portlandmaine.com The Polar Express, Portland. Holiday treat with train rides, cocoa & more, departing from Ocean Gateway. Nov. 23-Dec. 23.

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Research a Great Retirement Former Washington DC area residents who own a summer farmhouse in Waldoboro, Carolyn Bryant and Don Sarles bought a cottage at Thornton Oaks in early 2010 as their winter home.

Carolyn says “Bowdoin College provides a fine library that I can use for musicological research (though officially retired, I’ve continued editing and writing for Oxford University Press). The local public library has also been extremely helpful in finding abstruse journals and scholarly books for me.” Don, a long-time choral singer, has joined an excellent choir.

“We especially appreciate the strong sense of community at Thornton Oaks. We have formed close friendships and feel very much at home.”

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University of New England, Morocco Campus

Morocco, where Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman famously tussled with Nazis in Casablanca, is about to be infiltrated by a far friendlier group: Mainers. The University of New England is set to open its first independent institution abroad in Tangier for the 2014 spring semester, even as tensions

Slip on those skinny jeans, Portland. Once again, Forbes has glossed us as trendy, (“Most Livable City,” 2009), this time including us among the twenty-five “America’s Best Hipster Neighborhoods.” In the write-up, Coffee By Design was the only local business to get a mainstream mention.

“My seven-year-old would say we’re the least hip people he knows!” says Mary Allen Lindermann of the unexpected honor. In that case, he must have been hanging in one of the top ten cities listed: Los Angeles; San Francisco; Brooklyn; Chicago; Portland (OR); Washington, D.C.; Austin; Seattle; Oakland; or New Orleans.

Just Add Partridge Sometimes you have to see it to believe it. A real pear tree, so vivid it seems to come straight from “The First Day of Christmas,” is showing its wares at the intersection of Chapel and Main streets in Freeport, in front of the former white church to the left of Harraseeket Inn. Don’t worry about the cold. “Early frost means succulent fruit come spring.”

Only the Lonely

Edward Hopper’s October on Cape Cod (1946), ready for auction Nov. 28 at Christie’s in New York (with a pre-sale estimate of $8-$12 million), has a “stark…loneliness” that rings with silence. The painting’s title aside, its inspiration may have derived from this neck of the woods. “It wasn’t until 1930 he came to Cape Cod,” says Christy’s head of American art Elizabeth Sterling. “Before that, Hopper was in Maine,” haunting raw locales from Ogunquit to Monhegan.

“He did sketches from his car window. His work has a sense of a suspended narrative; it reads like a film still. You see that in [his Maine paintings] Coast Guard Station and 22 portland monthly magazine The Lighthouse at Two Lights.”

Night Ops Dreamworks founder David Geffen’s 454-foot Rising Sun really did glide into town last month. But he certainly didn’t stop at the Comedy Connection.

Charles Phippen, harbormaster of Bar Harbor, saw the Rising Sun up his way. “Mr. Geffen had a scheduled visit, for about five days.” Please email any Geffen sightings to us at staff@portlandmonthly.com.

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Artistic Science The Oasis Café at The Jackson Laboratory in Bar Harbor bridges the gap between art and science with a series of four double helix sculptures, “Desert DNA.” Formed from steel and finished with a copper patina and gold leaf, these arresting structures are more interpretative than accurate, which might account for the stares by the molecular biologists sipping coffee below them (think Amy Farrah-Fowler in The Big Bang Theory).

“I enjoy the piece, irrelevant of the accuracy of its molecular structure,” says Jackson Lab’s VP of research Robert Braun.

build in neighboring nations. “The school now stands as a symbol for our commitment to bridging the gap between the United States and the Muslim world,” says Anouar Majid, Director of Global Studies. To borrow from Bogart, “This is the beginning of a beautiful friendship.”

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Talk about pulp fiction. Rock Center with Brian Williams recently trucked a film crew up to East Millinocket to chat with Great Northern Paper Co. execs and millworkers about how the town has found new life specifically because of the worldwide popularity of the 50 Shades of Grey trilogy by E.L. James. “Ten thousand tons of paper has been ordered from us alone since over two months by Random House to satisfy the demand for this series,” says Great Northern’s CEO Richard Cyr. “We hired 37 new people. Random House is keeping the town working.” Has he read 50 Shades? “My wife has, and that’s good enough for me.” Thumbs down to “Washington Post and New York Times,” who buy their paper from Canada. “Buying from us saves an American town. Where’s their patriotism?” Cyr wants to know. –Robert Witkowski

Twain in Maine It will be recalled that not long ago the Omaha Public Library barred out Mark Twain’s Huckleberry Finn on the ground that its influence upon the youthful mind was pernicious. The Omaha World-Herald sent him a telegram, which called forth the following characteristic letter: York Beach, Me., Aug. 23–Dear Sir: Your telegram has arrived, but as I have already said all I want to say concerning Huck Finn’s new adventures, there is no need to say it over again. I am making this remark by mail instead of telegram in order to secure speed; your courtesy requires this promptness of me. Lately it has twice taken a telegraphic dispatch four hours and a quarter to reach me here from Boston, a distance of forty or fifty miles; therefore, if I should answer you by that vehicle I estimate that it would be upward of eight days on the wire, whereas I can get it to you by mail in two.

I am tearfully afraid this noise is doing much harm. It has started a number of hitherto spotless people to reading Huck Finn, out of a natural human curiosity to learn what this is all about–people who had not heard of him before; people whose morals will go to wreck and ruin now.

The publishers are glad, but it makes me want to borrow a handkerchief and cry. I should be sorry to think it was the publishers themselves that got up to this entire little flutter to enable them to unload a book that was taking too much room in their cellars, but you never can tell what a publisher will do. I have been one myself.

Mark Twain –Published September 6, 1902, The New York Times

Frequent Portland Magazine feature writer & novelist Gwen Thompson (Men Beware Women) recently discovered this letter from Mark Twain and directed it to us. Today, the return address, The Pines in York Beach, is owned by Paula Hoy. “Twain and [novelist and Atlantic Monthly editor William Dean Howells of Kittery Point] often sat on the veranda and shared their work.” In 1902, The New York Times ran the missive as follows:

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n 1968, as the 125-foot research vessel Hero slipped into the waters off South Bristol, the shakedown crew had no idea that after two decades of polar exploration, Hero would be left to the ebb and flow of a mucky Washington-state inlet.

“She’s just moored there at the dock in Bay Center, sitting in the mud,” says Charles Lagerbom, Northport, Maine, resident and president of the Antarctican Society.

The Pacific Northwest winds are a far cry from Gamage Shipyard, though the distance from Maine to Washington pales in comparison to where she’s been. The 760-horsepower, diesel-powered, two-masted modified trawler, ketch-rigged, had “her ports of call in the Falkland Islands and Cape Horn,” Lagerbom says. “She resupplied Palmer Station [the American research center in Antarctica] and hauled scientists around. A lot of the marine biology studies conducted onboard were cutting-edge. The late University of Maine professor John Dearborn made a name for marine biology from the Hero, and he sailed with the shakedown crew to Baffin Island.”

Hero was the ideal trawler to navigate ice-strewn, frigid waters, with sharp lines that the current owner, Sun Feather LightDancer, the half Blackfoot Indian concrete handler/musician who’s owned her since 2008, was first attracted to. “I saw her 15 years ago when she was a floating museum in Newport, Oregon,” LightDancer says. “I let her go about November

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four times before I bought her. I’m trying to sell her for $50,000–that’s how deep in the hole I am.”

LightDancer has always felt drawn to strays. “I spent my childhood in Alaska, where everyone has a junk yard. One day I came across an abandoned, white Indian Chief. It was left by a Hell’s Angel. That same winter I saw a white moose and buffalo. I can’t help but think there’s significance in all that. My father built power plants around the world; when we were in Pakistan, I fell in love with 1960s Rolls-Royces.” Saving the ruins of the future “has been a dream I’ve been chasing since.”

After 44 years and 13,896 nautical miles, from Maine to the Antarctica Peninsula, through the Straits of Magellan and the Beagle Channel, to its current dock in Bay Center, the Hero’s accumulated her share of sea spray. “It took me a year to clean the trash off,” says LightDancer. “She’s simply in a Band-Aid state right now. The body has a few bad spots on the deck, noticeable from underneath, but her bones are in really good shape. Her power train went to crap from neglect. Harvey Gamage was one of the best boat builders.” Built from greenheart wood, “She’s like a Sherman tank.”

Perhaps this is why she’s lasted since she began swapping owners in 1984.

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ice,” Lagerbom says. “Ice slices steel. Sure, wood can splinter, but the greenheart of Hero takes compression much better than steel.

Another wooden schooner, Donald MacMillan’s Bowdoin, made similar trips, and she’s still around at Maine Maritime Museum.

“In the ’80s, there was talk of replacing Hero with newer icebreakers and science supply ships–like the Polar Star, Polar Sea, and Polar Duke.”

But, of course, once you’ve experienced (l to r): David Mitchell, Christopher Rogers, Lauren Schaefer-Bove, Zara Machatine, Steve Guthrie, Dana Ricker Hero, there’s no going back. “I remember a comic strip where Superman is asked, (l to r): David Mitchell, Christopher Rogers, Lauren Schaefer-Bove, Zara Machatine, Steve Guthrie, Dana Ricker ‘What makes you so super?’ He says, ‘A he(l to r): David Mitchell, Christopher Rogers, Lauren Schaefer-Bove, Zara Machatine, Steve Guthrie, Dana Ricker (l to r): David Mitchell, Christopher Rogers, Lauren Schaefer-Bove, Zara Machatine, Steve Guthrie, Dana Ricker (l to r): David Mitchell, Christopher Rogers, Lauren Schaefer-Bove, Zara Machatine, Steve Guthrie, ro brings out the best in people,’” LightDancer says. “I was at a Santana show a few years ago, and he was saying the same (l to r): David Mitchell, Christopher Rogers, Lauren Schaefer-Bove, Zara Machatine, Steve Guthrie, Dana Ricker thing about 9/11. That’s what this boat’s done. She brought the best out of the people Providing Strategies designed to assist you with Wealth Creation, who journeyed aboard her.”

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Ten Most Intriguing Everything about this year’s list of Mainers shows just how captivating we can be–from concepts embraced around the world to shaking up the city’ status quo.

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Welcome to Starbucks United Arab Emirates.

What can I get started for you?

Michelle Gass President, Starbucks Europe, Middle East & Africa by colin S. Sargent

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hen you walk into a Starbucks there should be a spring in your step, because we should all take pride in the secret knowledge that not only is a Mainer the straw that stirs the drink at Starbucks, Michelle Gass, 44, invented the straw that stirs the drink.

Who hasn’t seen her signature bright green straws?

She also introduced the bubbletop at Starbucks, which in turn was copied by McDonald’s.

Gass is the gifted marketing executive behind Seattle’s Best, the Starbucks subsidiary “for folks who wouldn’t be caught dead in a Starbucks,” according to Forbes, now on its way to cresting $1 billion annually on its own. Think of it, Starbucks “snubbers.” Even when you don’t think she has you, you’re a customer!

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Michelle Gass leads Starbucks Europe, Middle East, and Africa locations as the division’s president. The Lewiston-native is a brand identity genius, credited with the iconic design of the Frappuccino.

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Clockwise, from top: Between Europe, Africa, and the Middle East, Michelle Gass oversees more than 1,550 Starbucks locations. The United Arab Emirates alone has 100 cafés; Start at the Arc de Triomphe and fan outward to find the more than 50 Starbucks locations in Paris; In Doha, Qatar, Starbucks shares the same shopping center as Johnny Rockets; Starbucks’ Red brand coffee beans come from Africa, and a portion of the proceeds travel back to fund HIV/AIDS medication.

In a feature story devoted entirely to Gass and her creative influence on the coffee chain, Forbes magazine has called the former Lewiston High School valedictorian “Starbucks’ Secret Weapon.”

“She loves shaking things up,” the mag­ azine reports. “She led Starbucks in a new direction in 1996 by making a huge success of Frappuccino, now a $2 billion brand. She ran the company’s big turnaround for Chief Executive Howard Schultz after he returned to the top job in 2008. She led Starbucks to triumph in the usually reviled world of instant coffee with the introduction of VIA in 2009. Now she’s going to run Europe, the Middle East, and Africa for the company.”

With offices in London, this Mainer surveys an incomprehensible Starbucks universe. It’s amazing enough that Starbucks 3 2 p o r t l a n d m o n t h ly m a g a z i n e

has the nerve to try to sell latté at 50 or more locations in Paris. But who knew Gass had the verve to locate 87 Starbucks cafés (of a total 100 in the UAE) in a 506-square-mile stretch along the Persian Gulf between Abu Dhabi and Dubai? In Kuwait there are 75, Egypt has 18, Lebanon 16, Saudi Arabia 15, Bahrain 14, Qatar 12, Jordan 10, Oman 6, and Morocco 3.

The globe-trotting head of the EMEA (Europe, Middle East, Africa) sector of Starbucks’ business grew up as Michelle Petkers in Lewiston. She graduated from Worcester Polytechnic Institute with a degree in chemical engineering and was hired by Procter & Gamble in product research, “launching products such as Baking Soda Crest and Crest for Kids toothpaste varieties,” according to Lewiston-Auburn Sun Journal–before being recruited by Starbucks. In 1996, Gass was given the opportunity to develop the marketing plan for the Frappuccino and, according to Forbes, is credited with the familiar notes that make frozen coffee a luxury–such as the green straw, drizzled flavors on top, and the round half-sphere plastic top.

The brand that had been introduced as just another side product has grown to be

worth over $2 billion, thanks to Gass. “Michelle has driven many innovations across categories,” per a Starbucks release, “introducing Starbucks customers to such favorites as the Pumpkin Spiced Latte (which recently hit headlines when eager Starbucks customers caused national stocks of the pumpkin flavor to run low), Tazo tea beverages, and many other seasonal favorites.” These have translated into a significant bottom-line impact for the global brand. “At Seattle’s Best Coffee, a Starbucks subsidiary, she has led significant growth– from 3,000 to 50,000 points of distribution.”

Next, Gass took the opportunity to develop the Seattle’s Best Coffee brand, raising it from unknown to ubiquitous, especially in the market for more affordable coffee.

Here’s Gass speaking to Fox Business: “There are over 60 billion cups of coffee consumed every year in the U.S. alone…Starbucks has less than a tenth share of that.”

According to Gass, customers abroad are 25 percent of Starbucks’ total market–and she plans to double the number of foreign customers, making it half of Starbucks’ business.

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Personalities Who knew a veteran Portland diplomat who lives across Forest Avenue from The Great Lost Bear would be named the interim U.S. charge d’affaires to Libya during the heat of the Presidential runoff?

Built in 1904, Pope’s house at 41 Belmont Street is between Back Cove and the same block of Forest Avenue that is home to The Great Lost Bear.

September 11, 2012, Benghazi, Libya – Flames lick out of broken headlights. Burning tires illuminate blackened doorways. Hundreds of demonstrators, rioters, assailants, or terrorists (depending on what we want to see) climb the compound walls of the U.S. consulate.

Bottles and gun shots crack in the air. Amid the insanity there’s humanity. Unforgettably, there’s the image of crowds pulling U.S. Ambassador John Christopher Stevens from the inferno still searing. Three other staffers are lost in the attack. In the totally destructive conflagration, in the ashen living room and entryways littered with broken pottery, what’s left is a vacuum in a very important position, and that empty role is in the middle of a firestorm of controversy in the current political shouting match. In the interim, the new envoy is Portland resident Laurence Pope, 67.

Even so far away in his offices in Tripoli [the State Department reports there are no present plans to rebuild the Benghazi consulate], Pope keeps one foot locally. “He graduated from Bowdoin College,” in 1967, says Pope’s wife Elizabeth, and later attended Princeton University.

“He likes going to The Bayou Kitchen,” a short four blocks from their home on shady, tree-lined Belmont 3 4 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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Laurence Pope U.S. Envoy to Libya

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by David Svenson

“Laurence Pope, the United State’s new charge d’affaires in Libya, exits the Libyan foreign ministry building after his meeting with Libya’s Deputy Foreign Minister Mohammed Abdulaziz in Tripoli on October 15. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said she takes the blame for any shortcomings in the handling of an attack last month on the US mission in the Libyan city of Benghazi.”

–Yahoo News

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atie Aselton, 34, Miss Maine Teen USA 1995, rose to fame in FX’s largely-unscripted sitcom The League as the funny and skillful behind-the-scenes manager of her on-screen husband’s fantasy football team. Long before putting the boys to shame with her improvisation skills, Aselton had been acting in and producing independent films with husband Mark Duplass.

This year, the couple wrapped Black Rock, a cerebral indie thriller based here in Maine. She grew up in Milbridge, a small town in Washington County, population 1,353. Scenery aside, Milbridge doesn’t have a lot going on.

Black Rock was filmed along the rocky shores of her home town and the small islands strewn about the coastal North Atlantic. “We shot on Flint Island, right off Milbridge,” the perfect

photos Courtesy Sundance Film Festival, Submarine Entertainment/Mark McCall

Street. It’s so close to Back Cove you can smell the salt air from their front porch.

Pope represents two generations of grace under pressure. His father, Major Everett Pope (1919-2009), a WWII jungle combatant on Peleliu Island, “received the Medal of Honor for his conspicuous gallantry on Peleliu in September 1944 while leading his men in an assault on a strategic hill, and for holding it, with rocks and bare fists when ammunition ran low, against Japanese suicide attacks,” according to Wikipedia.

As Charge d’Affairs, Pope brings 31 years of Foreign Service in his bags to Tripoli. “He was one of the top Arabists in the State Department. He’s tremendously sensitive, understands other cultures, and loves people,” Elizabeth says.

“We met after my time in the Peace Corps in Morocco through a mutual friend.

He’d been posted to the embassy there. And then we were in Tunisia; Chad, when he was the U.S. Ambassador; and Bahrain. I tell you, Portland’s the best place we’ve ever lived. I do miss meeting people from all over the world. I’m sure he’s enjoying helping [Libya] put itself back together again.”

At a press conference in Tripoli, Pope, as reported by AFP, said “…Ambassador Stevens worked tirelessly to support the struggle of the Libyan people for liberation from dictatorship, and to build a democratic state of institutions and the rule of law. …We will continue on the path that Ambassador Stevens traced for us.”

Despite retiring from Foreign Service in 2000, his transition back to Libya was far from outside the norm. “He was picked up right away when he volunteered,” Elizabeth says. “The morning of September 12, I ran into the living room and told Larry what I heard about the attack on NPR. A little later he said, ‘You know, I’d go out there if I could help.’

“Our kids are” 28 and 31. “I told Larry ‘I’m fine. You should volunteer. Send them an email.’ In Washington they’re not going to think of Larry Pope in Portland, Maine.

You’ve got to tell them you want to go.”

Back in Portland, “we’ve kept a low profile,” Elizabeth says. “Larry’s big passion is writing scholarly books. He wrote François de Callières: A Political Life (2010). That’s where his heart is.

“I’d like to do some work with the Sudanese community,” she says. At home, “I’m a master gardener. Gardening is my Zen.”

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Good Day at Black Rock

Katie Aselton

This Milbridge native roots her indie thriller here.

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backdrop for an action-packed, all-girl, asskicking suspense story.

Black Rock follows three women on a girls’ getaway in Maine. Portrayed by Aselton, Lake Bell, and Kate Bosworth, the three lifelong friends maintain strained relationships with each other as they face adult disappointments. Their camping trip is intended as an opportunity to reconnect but quickly goes south after they discover they’re not alone on the island they have chosen to occupy.

The story quickly turns into a combination of Death Proof and Deliverance. It frequently borders on B-movie territory, but Aselton and Duplass manage to pull the plot back into intellectual indie mode just in time.

“It’s a reality-based thriller, a realistic survival tale,” Aselton says. “These girls have no experience. They’ve never fought. They’re not packing guns. It’s messy and raw–we want it to make the audience question what they would do in that scenario.” Film buffs caught an early version of the film as a feature at the 2012 Sundance Film Festival.

Aselton and her hubby financed the film through the online fundraising program

Black Rock, Film Director & Actress

Kickstarter. The couple’s Kickstarter goal was set at $20,000, but by the fundraiser’s deadline, they raised over $33,000. The donated cash was used to rent better equipment, allowing the filmmakers to deliver high-tech material without a big budget.

Delving into the horror genre was a big step for Aselton, who described her first film The Freebie to CinemaBlend.com as “A very simple, relationship-centered, talking movie.” With Black Rock, she says she wanted to take the action outside and make it physical.

“I love classic thrillers that are natural and terrifying in a way that I feel it could happen to me. I’m less interested in contemporary horror movies as they are now because, for me, I don’t like cheap scares.” And what’s classic? “Three childhood friends go to an island for fun and try to get off the island alive,” Aselton says.

Black Rock delivers realistic thrills in a setting that to New Englanders is eerily familiar. Without a doubt, these chills are not from away. Aselton’s understanding of the Maine Coast offers a dark, exciting perspective of Vacationland. The movie is

From left, the reunion of lifelong friends Lou (Lake Bell), Abby (Katie Aselton), and Sarah (Kate Bosworth) becomes a struggle for survival after they discover they aren’t the only ones inhabiting a remote Maine island in Aselton’s new film Black Rock.

scheduled for wide release in spring 2013 through LD Distribution.

For Aselton, the road from Maine is still open when she comes back. “When I’m home I have to go to Joshy’s Place. I go to 44º North for everything else,” she says. “I can go to a nice restaurant in L.A., but when I’m home, I want to go to a clam shack. I can’t find a fried clam in L.A. to save my life.”

People find different ways to the film industry; for Aselton it all begins at Narraguagus High School in Harrington, class of 1996. “In high school, I spontaneously entered myself into the Miss Maine Teen Pageant on a whim, and I won. I didn’t realize it, but that was the qualifier for nationals. I ended up taking second place, and that opened up a lot of doors, a whole world of opportunities. I convinced my parents since I could make it there, I could keep going. And here I am.”

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How are you quieting cynics who suggest your move here from Philadelphia is just a stepping stone to bigger things?

Even though my license plate is still Delaware, and I voted absentee for this election, I plan to start looking to buy a house next summer. I live in the Parkside neighborhood–I love it! The only thing is, I keep getting parking tickets! I never seem to read the signs correctly.

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North To The Future New Opportunities, New Leadership in Portland Schools

manny Caulk Portland Public Schools Superintendent interview by robert Witkowski

What appealed to you about the job here that was worth a pay cut from $145,333 to $137K ? At 40, you were Philadel­ phia’s 25th highest-paid school employee district-wide.

I’m an introvert and a bit of a workaholic. I love outdoor activities. When Maine came up, I thought, hey, it’s Vacationland, right?

You’re coming to us from a city school system on the brink of insolvency, closing more than half the schools and advocat­ ing for privatization. What happened?

Three years ago, Philly had full funding and was in a different position. A lot of it’s confidential. Michael Nutter is a great mayor, but he had a different view of the school district than an array of stakeholders did.

How does our local school system compare with Philadelphia’s?

My swath of schools in Philadelphia was very similar demographically and culturally. Portland’s size allows us to be more agile and solution-oriented.

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I’ve never seen anything like Portland’s adult education focus on literacy.

There’s a waitlist! People need to understand how English proficiency creates opportunity and impacts the local economy.

What encourages me here is seeing all partners– local companies, the Boys & Girls Clubs, PTO, nonprofits–sitting together, working to improve the students’ education. It’s that involvement along with parent outreach that lets us extend learning beyond the school day, and that [bridges] the gap to excellence.

What is Portland public schools’ great­ est challenge?

Biliteracy is an imperative.

It’s not emphasized here, but we need to embrace it.

Most students in developing countries speak more than one language, and in this global marketplace our students need to know three languages, or more.

What’s your plan to keep Portland’s upper-middle income families from jumping ship for beckoning public schools in suburbs like Cape Elizabeth and Falmouth?

Caulk’s education includes a undergraduate and masters from University of Delaware, as well as a juris doctor’s from Widener Univer­ sity School of Law. He is close to his PhD from National Louis University.

I represent one special interest group: students. My goal is to have families choose Portland because of the school system, not just for the great city. We have a dual moral imperative: Get students at or above proficiency to accelerate faster, and for those below to reach a level of proficiency much faster.

And it’s happening.

[Our recently acquired] $5 million Nellie Mae Grant will ratchet up our resources, investing in all students to be college- and career-ready. They need to be life-long learners, equipped with 21stcentury skills. Looking at the skills needed 50 years ago for the leading industries of that era and the skills required today, you

see the need for non-routine, expert work.

Thinking critically, analyzing data and information, interfacing digitally, and a deep appreciation of math and science will drive students to compete globally.

It used to be cool to be average. Average is over.

When you were principal at Newark High School in Delaware in 2005, did the national media frenzy you experienced af­ ter visiting NFL players Tra Thomas and Thomas Tapeh ex­ pressed their faith in God during an assembly sour you on bringing high-profile role models to inspire students?

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“It used to be cool to be average.

Average is over.”

–Emmanuel Caulk

That did not deter me in the least. That had more to do with an unrelated group passing out religious flyers to the stu­ dents. I told them, “Whoa, you can’t do that here!” But it was too late. Parents were very supportive.

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What five role models would wish would stop by and inspire students here in Portland?

President Obama; Joan Benoit Samuelson; Deering High grad and [Baltimore Oriole star] Ryan Flaherty; IDEXX founder & CEO Dave Shaw; and Condoleezza Rice.

How has the Forest City surprised you?

I quickly learned that mountain biking in Maine doesn’t mean the same thing as it does in Philly. It’s a workout here!

When I first heard about the ‘headlight,’ I was, like, what’s that exactly? But now I know Portland Head Light. I enjoyed find­ ing out that The Preacher’s Wife ice-skating scene with Whitney Houston and Denzel Washington was filmed in Deering Oaks Park. Then I learned that Deering Oaks was designed by the Olmsted Company that did Central Park. I’ve loved discov­

ering Commercial Street and Portland Lobster Co. I like live music at The Big Easy on Market Street, and councilor Ed Suslovic took me to Siano’s by Deering High the other day–that was really good. I like Hot Suppa and Pom’s Thai Taste on Congress Street–she does a really great job. And I enjoy Asmara Restaurant on Oak Street.

For breakfast, you’ll find me at Marcy’s– the food’s great, and the price is more than reasonable–I love Marcy’s.

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Bill Burke Turner Broadcasting System, Former President TheWeather Channel Account Manager Call MeTed,Co-Author Portland Sea Dogs,Chairman interview by colin s. sargent

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ill Burke, 45, of Cape Elizabeth, could boast, although he won’t, of three successful careers already.

And counting. After knocking it out of the park as a media executive, where he was CEO of Turner Broadcasting System at 29, Burke participated in two of the biggest media deals of the ’90s–the mergers of Turner Broadcasting with Time Warner and AOL. Next, Burke tried his hand at writing. By the time he was coauthoring Ted Turner’s 2008 memoir Call Me Ted, Burke had already begun to take over a large role in the Portland Sea Dogs from his father, founder Dan Burke, after 2006. Today, Bill is proud to be the Sea Dogs’ chairman and biggest fan.

You’ve run media operations on a national scale, yet up here you’re best known as chairman of the Sea Dogs! What are your thoughts on this perspective?

That’s fine with me. One of the great things

ABC president Dan Burke’s passing was national news. Diane Sawyer presented a memorable tribute to the man many Mainers knew best as the owner of the Sea Dogs.

about Maine is that most people here aren’t impressed by things like running cable networks. My bigger concern is people thinking I have more to do with the Sea Dogs’ success than I actually do. My father was the founder; I’ve only been involved for

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The dancers of Portland Ballet Co. show how our city sets the barre for their corps de ballet.

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verything is beautiful at the ballet,” and so are we. Mary Stride’s photo collection Who’s Your Dancer, new to the walls of Portland Ballet Co.’s 517 Forest Avenue studio, shows how the dancers transcend the dark wall at the edge of the stage and enter our everyday lives. These masters of the pirouette and plié are the keepers of rapt audiences, children’s music box imaginations, and tease the unexpected by dancing gracefully through local radio studios, schooners for hire, even airplane hangars amid the fins and airfoils.

“I’d seen similar projects before,” says Stride, who’s been with Portland Ballet since 1987. “There’s The Ballerina Project and Oregon Ballet Theatre, but they didn’t have the people component. They were landscape pictures, but my idea finds the dancer’s street partner.

“In my 20-plus years dancing in Portland, there’d been no progress in letting the city know there were even dancers here–like how we recognize PSO and Portland Stage.

The ballet is still a hidden thing.”

Enter these pictures, which carry the surprise of a deer crashing through the plateglass window of an auto dealership.

Stride’s exhibit lifts the stage curtain on

Previous Page: Jennifer Jones has worked at Rosie’s for almost two years. (Inset) Morgan Brown Sanborn and Canal 5 Studio’s Patrick Costin share a horizontal exactitude with his T-square.

This page, clockwise from top left: Mary Stride, Who’s Your Dancer’s photographer, collects flowers from her Bowdoinham neighbor Chas Gill at Portland’s Farmer’s Market; MPBN’s Suzanne Nance gets her wish when Derek Clifford appears in the station’s studio; With Portland Ballet’s 20-year partnership with OA Centers for Orthopaedics, the company’s “most injured dancer” Meghan McCoy is a regular at the office of Dr. William Heinz.

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our city and introduces everyone to these artists. And there’s a familiar sense of the artist’s life among the prints: many cobble out an income outside of their lives on stage.

They haven’t quit their day jobs, and it’s not like they need to.

“They enjoy this balance of having two jobs,” says Portland Ballet’s Leslie Gibbons.

“For some people, a smaller company is a stepping stone to a bigger one; others want that balance in their lives because they’re not wearing out their bodies so quickly.”

This double life “is typical for the regional companies,” Gibbons says. “If you’re a member of a big one, like American Ballet Theatre or Pacific Northwest Ballet, you have a full contract and that’s your only job. For the smaller companies, you’re definitely going to hold down another job in addition to being a dancer.”

As the photo exhibit crosses genres, from stage to frame, the dancers mingle with our daily world. Gibbons says, “Almost all the dancers teach ballet, and some also teach pilates, Zumba, and yoga.” But the art of the images also reveal how they reach into the fabric of everything we’re familiar with. For example, dancer “Jennifer Jones (see page 43) has worked at Rosie’s for about two

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Clockwise from top left: Daniela Malta teaches at Portland School of Ballet and loves the view from the Frances ; Yosaku’s chef Tak Sato and Megan Buckley share similar levels of tuned expertise in their professions; “I used this photo of Deborah Grammatic and Ted Hissong in a presentation for [Artspace from Minnesota], thinking people would be wowed,” Gibbons says. “There was no reaction. They said it’d be better if you used something that was real, not Photoshopped. But it is real. That’s Grammatic dancing straight up from a cement floor.”

A Ballerina Travel Log: Portland Ballet Co. toured these businesses: OA Centers for Orthopaedics, Rosie’s Restaurant & Pub, Canal 5 Studio, Maine Sailing Adventures’s windjammer Frances, Maine Public Broadcasting Network, Kennebec Flower Farm stand at Portland Farmers’ Market, Yosaku Japanese Restaurant, Portland Pirates, Wild Olive Multimedia, VIA Agency, and Couleur Collection.

years,” Gibbons says.

Outside of the ballet, Stride is the seamstress of her own company, Cottage Threads. She’s always touching up or reinventing objects, and that’s why this exhibit practically chose her to be the artist. “Ballet absolutely is underappreciated. But Portland’s waking up. We’re beginning to ‘own’ our things, whether it’s food, culture, or our front porch. This project feeds into that.” n

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ere’s a new buzz word for your urban lexicon: P ocket B runch , a monthly experimental meal/experience, is the brainchild of four local foodies.

Katie Schier-Potocki, husband Josh Potocki, Joel Beauchamp, and Nathaniel Meiklejohn have so far pulled off three flash soirées and plan to continue into the spring.

Want to join in? Diners eager to join the spontaneous event buy tickets from their website, pocketbrunch.com, for $30-$50.

The drive here, Katie says, “is celebrating this very cool creative community. We live and work among some very talented chefs.”

Each event, vibrant and intimate, showcases a guest chef. “The July Brunch was at Joel’s house,” Katie says. “We went with a twist on a classic brunch. We worked with Rocco Salvatore Talarico to come up with some classics that pushed the limits a bit.

“The one at Nosh in September was really great. We decked it out with all sorts of ‘curiosities’ to fit the theme. Jason Loring was our feature chef, and he created an ‘edible ocean-in-a-jar’ dish, with sea bass, periwinkles, mussels, and crispy seaweed.”

The October event surprises guests with the artistry of Karl Deuben of Miyake, conducted in the borrowed venue of Broadturn Farm in Scarborough. Anticipation ran high.

So many diners love his contemporary Japanese fusion cusine at Miyake (and before that Hugo’s, the former Aubergine Bistro, and in Chicago, Alinea). In another setting, what will he surprise them with?

Immediately upon arrival, it’s apparent to guests that Pocket Brunch is not a typical late Sunday breakfast. October’s adventure brings foodies to Broadturn Farm in Scarborough, the home of hosts John Bliss and Stacy Brenner, who graciously offer the grounds and assist in preparation. Matching the backdrop, the month’s theme is “Farmhands.”

Guests mingle around the property, sipping cocktails masterfully implemented by Nathaniel in a rustic farm stand bar.

The cocktail menu offers “The Green Fist,” a Bloody Mary-inspired mix of ginger-infused Hendrick’s, cucumber-wasabi purée, lime juice, and ginger beer kept cool with a Sriracha ice cube. The “Farm Hand’s Mimosa” blends scotch, cherry heering, Carpano Antica, and fresh orange juice, made fizzy with a sparkling white.

In between snacking on tasty pre-meal bites, which includes hand-pressed cider, fresh doughnuts, beet-red velvet muffins topped with goat cheese frosting and walnuts, and fire-smoked bacon, diners pick bouquets from the farm’s flower fields. On the lawn, teams of guests face off at kubb, a Swedish game in which players attempt to knock down wooden blocks by tossing thick dowels across the field.

At the end of a championship round of this enthralling combination of lawn darts and bowling, Katie emerges from the barn to invite guests in to feast. The doors roll open to expose two long tables, set with fresh cabbage leaves, dainty flowers, and a spread of pickled vegetables fresh from the farm, accompanied by smoked onion dip and a dish of anchovy dust.

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The following courses offer a ham and toasted hay soup with three flavoring pastes comprised of acorn, roasted garlic, and parsley. Far from the typical omelet buffet, an egg course presents a potato stick nest, breakfast mayo and tamago (a Japanese grilled egg), enveloped by edible nasturtium leaves and topped with homemade ketchup. The meat course introduced a pig-buck sausage corn dog, complemented by maple syrup, sweet potato dipping sauce, and a Broadturn berry sauce.

Dessert has been sitting on the table throughout the meal. Servers bend over the long tables, pulling tiny wildflowers from suspicious-looking “dirt,” which is actually gingerbread with rum-caramel pear butter, and offering delicate scoops of buttermilk ice cream. If that isn’t cute enough, each attendee is given not a spoon but a tiny plastic shovel to enjoy the final treat.

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It’s like watching someone sit in on a jazz session.

“Our guest chefs are all people we’ve worked with for years,” Josh explains. “We have a great network. They’re our friends

These are guerrilla events.

Like Internet pop-ups, guest chefs hack into the status quo. who also happen to be amazing cooks.”

Collaboration, the group agrees, is the secret to producing these unique culinary experiences. “That’s the exciting part,” Katie says. “Everybody creates these events together.” For starters, they agree on a

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theme, a chef, and a venue, but not necessarily in that order. “One tends to dictate the other two,” Joel says. “The theme helps us define a structure for an open-ended five-course meal.”

Katie sums up the planning process perfectly. “It’s like mad-lib dining.”

As for future events, mum’s the word. Imagine a flash mob inked into a calendar for 2013. “There are several tiers of mystery we’re maintaining with these events,” Katie explains. “Nobody knows what’s on the menu until they show up. We don’t make substitutions.

If people have a food allergy, we can figure out how to work with that, but the entire point is for our guests to open themselves up to an experience and relinquish a little control.

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51 Wharf Restaurant & Ultra Lounge Indulge in the chef’s avant-garde cuisine, w/exceptionally creative courses, local ingredients done from-scratch in our kitchen & the freshest seafood. We serve local Maine lobster, a menu w/savory chicken, steak & pasta. Available for private parties & events. 51 Wharf St., Portland’s Old Port, 774-1151, 51wharf.com * Boda is a “Very Thai” kitchen & lounge. Delicious selections of Thai home-style entrees, street-vendor inspired grilled skewers, tapas, & a full bar. Vegetarian options available. Come experience an eating culture of Thailand! No reservations & parking available. Late-night menu served until 1am. Open Tu-Su from 5pm-1am. 671 Congress St., Portland, 347-7557 Brea Lu Cafe has been serving up breakfast & lunch for 23 years! Favorite menu choices include 12 specialty omelets, build-your-own breakfast burritos, Belgian waffles w/ fruit, eggs Benedict & homemade corned beef hash. Lunch features homemade chili, fresh made-to-order sandwiches, burgers & wraps. Open daily, 7am-2pm. 428 Forest Ave., Portland, 772-9202

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

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Eve’s at the Garden takes a fresh and local approach to food.

We use ingredients from Maine’s coastal waters and farms: jumbo scallops, naturally raised pork and beef, sustainably raised fish and shellfish, and Maine lobster. Outdoor dining in our serene garden all summer long. Free valet parking with dinner. Lunch 11:30-2, dinner 5-9:30. 468 Fore St., Portland, 775-9090, Evesatthegarden.com Fish Bones American Grill A casual upscale restaurant offering creative American cuisine. Specialties include grilled wheat crust crostones, unique entrée salads & creative dinner offerings. Located in the heart of Lewiston in the historic Bates Mill Complex with off-street parking. Come get hooked! Lunch & dinner M-F; dinner only Sa; closed Sunday.

333-3663, fishbonesmaine.com * The Good Table “Good, honest food,” made-from-scratch brunch, lunch, & dinner. A well-rounded menu w/choices to please every palate. With inspired blackboard specials, the kitchen always takes advantage of locally-grown produce & seafood. Full bar w/seasonal cocktails. Seasonal hours. 527 Ocean House Rd., Rte. 77, Cape Elizabeth, 799-4663, thegoodtablerestaurant.net The Great Impasta, a long-standing restaurant located on Maine St., serves Mediterranean-inspired food w/ a concentration on Italian dishes. This restaurant is a favorite of both locals & those from away. Incredible, fragrant aromas from the open kitchen hit you the moment you walk through the door. Vegan & gluten-free menus available. 2 Maine St., historic Brunswick, 729-5858, thegreatimpasta.com Great Lost Bear A full bar w/70 beer taps of Maine & American Craft breweries & a large Belgian selection.

Menu features salads, burgers, a large vegetarian selection & the best nachos & buffalo wings in town. Discover where the natives go when they’re restless! Every day 11:30am-11:30pm. 540 Forest Ave., in the Woodfords area of Portland, 772-0300, greatlostbear.com Hurricane Restaurant’s lunch and dinner menus feature the finest seafood on Maine’s coast seven days a week.

Enjoy $10 off every bottle of wine on Wednesdays. Sunday Brunch ‘til 3:30 p.m. and Buck-a-Shuck oysters every Sunday night. 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

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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

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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 fullservice bar and lounge area, sushi bar, Chinese traditional food not available outside of Boston, friendly atmosphere and courteous service. 251 U.S. Rte. 1, Falmouth (Falmouth Shopping Plaza), 781-3453 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 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 hard-to-beat prices. 967-8500, pier77restaurant.com * 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

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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

Dining here whisks you breathlessly around the world.

L

ike the iconic good luck talisman the figa, with origins traced from Brazil to Africa, Greece, and even Rome, Figa chef/owner Lee Farrington’s culinary sortilège gains its strength from multiple sources.

For example, there’s the Indian-inspired Sev Crusted Scallop with jícama, apple, pear slaw, and curried vinaigrette ($10); Indonesian-styled Wild Boar Rendang ($7/$24); and Asian Spicy Tofu with an orange soy glaze and house-made kimchee ($8).

Returning home between flights is Sautéed Wild Foraged Mushrooms ($12); Seafood Risotto featuring Maine Shrimp and Scallops ($19/$28); and every locally sourced farm-fresh green, veggie, meat, and cheese imaginable.

The charcuterie ($18) is irresistible, housemade. The foot-and-a-half-long wondrous wooden platter displays a dreamy assortment of meats (duck pastrami, pork-andpistachio terrine, beef bresaola, apricot-cased pork lomo, pork terrine), pickled fennel and red onion, cornichons, and a delectable house-made mustard. We go after each tempting, savory substance with gusto.

The robust flavors are well matched with beverages selected from a thoughtful list, mine being the bourbon-based Basil Julep ($9), my partner’s Oxbow on draught ($7).

The chilly evening is also warmed by a terrific grilled hanger steak ($18/$26), ordered rare and served precisely right. Ten-

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518-9400 , figarestaurant.com der and flavorful, the steak is accompanied by some of the best braised greens we’e ever had. Chef Randy Cruse tells us they consist of mustard greens, arugula, and tatsoi, sourced from Stonecipher, Laughing Stock, and other local farms, as is the tangy Molho Rita Sauce (a Brazilian influence from Farrington’s heritage) and home-style potato gratin.

Next up is the Pan Seared Duck Breast ($26). Tender slices are gorgeously arrayed with a comforting mixture of corn, leeks, the sweetest little, local mushrooms, duck prosciutto hash, and, the taste trump of the evening, cherry gastrique.

For dessert there’s Chocolate Pots De Crème with Chantilly Cream Sauce, an elegant choice as well as a dashing ginger crème brûlée ($8).

Tradition holds that, in order to bring good luck, a figa must be a gift. Farrington has given Figa to us, and we are indeed blessed by the offering. n

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December 14-23 Merrill Auditorium

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the past few years, and my work today is very part-time. Charlie Eshbach, Geoff Iacuessa, and their incredible staff deserve all the credit.

Do you think their perspective would change if they knew it was you who acquired Seinfeld for TBS? I believe that’s still the most successful syndicated show ever –in sixth place as of 2011, 13 years after its last new episode.

I suppose it might for some people. Not that there’s anything wrong with that….

I think every cable customer in the United States has stopped for at least one Seinfeld rerun. What made you so sure it would pay off like it did?

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It was such an incredibly well-written and well-acted show that most people in the industry knew it would do great in syndication for at least a few years. At TBS, we thought it had a chance to run for a long time, partly because it made so few topical references that make re-runs look dated (like Archie Bunker referring to Richard Nixon.)

Other than George Steinbrenner and John F. Kennedy Jr., there really aren’t many. Plus, Ted really wanted it so it didn’t matter much what we thought!

Your father, Dan Burke, was a below-the-radar man too, right? I think very few Sea Dogs fans would know that the franchise had been founded by the former president of ABC.

He really was a humble guy who never wore his success on his sleeve. And if he were here now I know he’d be rolling his eyes and teasing me about this article.

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The first thing I’d say is get as much hands-on experience as possible before you graduate. Most colleges have radio stations, and many these days have TV operations. Working at these is a great way to develop skills, gain experience, and build a résumé that stands out from the crowd. When they approach graduation, they should have realistic expectations about the entry-level jobs they can expect. It’s a very competitive industry, and the jobs for people right out of school usually aren’t very glamorous.

The acrimony between Ted Turner and Rupert Murdoch is legendary. Did you personally witness evidence of it?

I was fortunate enough to see a lot of it! I

was at the company in the 1990s during the height of their feud, including the time when Ted publicly challenged Rupert to a boxing match. We owned World Championship Wrestling back then and aired their matches on our networks. We told Ted that instead of boxing Murdoch he should wrestle him and we could play it on pay-perview and make a fortune. He said, “You don’t understand. I don’t want to wrestle him, I want to hit him!”

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There are many, but one thing Ted did repeatedly was take chances on people. He was famous for risky behavior on ocean racers and new businesses, but part of what made him unique was giving responsibility to people who hadn’t earned it on paper. He did that with me, both at the company and when he asked me to write his book, and I’ve tried to do the same with my own hiring and promotion decisions. It’s amazing to see what people are capable of when you show that much faith in them.

Sea Dogs games also give local fans the chance to see Red Sox superstars play here in Portland. Who has come down that you most wished you could have kept on the Dogs?

The most exciting rehab assignment I’ve witnessed was when David Ortiz came to town. He’s such a larger-than-life character that it was really fun to see him on our field and in a Sea Dogs uniform. Our fans really enjoyed it.

Do you get free Sea Dogs Biscuits?

I can’t lie–I don’t pay for Sea Dogs Biscuits.

But they’re so good, and I go to so many games, I have to show some discipline or I’d be built like the Trash Monsters by the end of the season!

What’s next?

On the Sea Dogs front, we’re very excited to celebrate our 20th season next year and have a lot of fun promotions in the works for that. Personally, I’m consulting and sitting on the boards of a couple of smaller media companies that are showing a lot of promise and working with a business partner to produce a feature-length documentary film that we hope to release late next year. All the while, my family and I feel very fortunate to live and raise our family in Maine.

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Elle Logan 2008 & 2012 Olympic Gold Medalist, 24 Women’s Rowing, Eights interview by Robert Witkowski

Taking Off With Elle Logan A Golden Odyssey for the Boothbay Harbor Native

When did you discover rowing?

In the seventh grade, my dad took me to Head of the Charles in Boston.

We saw the boats and a [crew] team feathering their blades. It was so beautiful and mesmerizing, but then I saw their faces and they were hurting. I thought that was weird and wondered why they would do it if it hurt. Now I know.

When did you first come out of your shell, or go into it?

When I hit 6'2"during my freshman year at Brooks School [in Andover, MA]–I was not petite!–my teacher pulled me over and asked me to talk to his wife, who coached crew. I was completely out of shape, and she guided me in the right direction.

USRowing asked me to train with them in Princeton, New Jersey. I took the year off school, with no guarantee I’d even make the team until the year was over. I was younger than a lot of the other rowers.

Did your height help or hurt your rowing?

Height is a definite advantage. The larger you are, the longer the arc, and the longer your stroke, applying more power over a longer period. There are some feisty people much shorter, with packed-in power, but they’re working against science.

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Since you’re so wonderfully tall…flats or high heels?

My teammates got me into wearing high heels. I don’t wear them very often, but it’s fun for all of us to go out in heels in New York or to special events. In Maine I wear Bean Boots or moccasins.

Tell us something personal. Some insights about your secret life.

My best friend in college was also over six-feet tall, and we couldn’t figure out why the men weren’t flowing.

We’re awesome. We concluded we might be too imposing. Actually, my boyfriend Jon Pottle isn’t as tall as I am.

He’s confident and secure.

So now, with two spectacular gold medals, the world is your oyster, right?

Clothes have always been a nightmare. I actually have an abnormally short torso, but my arms and legs should be on someone 6'6". I have a 37" inseam and a size 15 shoe. I remember having to go to a special store in Boston, but it’s a bit easier with online shopping. I dream of having a special shoemaker take my mold in Europe and ordering it whenever I need some…I’m working on the financing for that.

Have you grown accustomed to winning?

In Beijing I was the young one. There was definitely a little more pressure to defend the gold in London. It was always in the back of our minds. I took a larger role in the rhythm and personality of the boat. Every day there was something to distract us. The trick is to have it roll off your shoulders, and I tried to help with that.

Maine public high schools don’t exactly offer crew. There’s an element of privilege to it. Did you get ribbed about it?

It’s not elitist on purpose. Getting equipment is a challenge–it’s so expensive–but once you have it, anyone can row. On the East Coast, it’s school-driven, done at boarding schools. Coming from Maine, I didn’t even know about it. On the West Coast, it’s community-driven at clubs.

There’d be so many great rowers from Maine! All you need is a protected lake four-kilometers long, and there’s a lot of them in Maine.

Where is quintessential Maine for you?

Sitting at Dysart’s Truck Stop in Bangor with my sister Jessie and cinnamon roll French toast for breakfast–that’s when I know I’m home!

After years of world travel, where do you want to live?

I want to find the perfect lake for rowing close to downtown Portland and live there.

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I met him when he retained me When we wrote a story on “River Place” in 2008, we heard you were in the hospital, fighting for your life. I saw someone pick up a newspaper and say, “Dan Lilley–I thought he was dead!”

In any case, you know something that many of our readers don’t know–about what a serious illness feels like. Can you tell us some of the particulars? You’re a fighter. Tell us about coming back from the brink, and what it’s like being in another high-profile defense. Is your personal regimen any different?

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I quoted Mark Twain that the reports of my death had been highly exaggerated. I was very ill four years ago from a failed surgery.

I am fully recovered and working harder than ever. It actually made me strong–I still have the burn in the belly–what’s left of it. I specialize in David and Goliath cases. I represent David.

How are you different now than when you defended Tony DiMillo, Jackie Bevins, and Gordon Hurtubise?

Thank you for citing my best winning cases and great clients. I am older and hopefully wiser.

How have Mark Strong’s rights to a fair trial been violated, and what would it take to restore them?

Adverse publicity. The police wrote up titillating public affidavits and my client was vilified in the media as a result. No one else was even charged for three months. Their real motivation will be explored at trial. We are trying

to balance the playing field now by citing evidence in the case we know about. But we hope to try the case in a courtroom where all cases are supposed to be resolved.

Outside of your case and just in general, there’s something ghostly about ‘markers’ on a hard drive that is insubstantial and very open to interpretation, especially if others had access to it beyond your client. In what way has evidence become less solid when computer data is included?

There is no shortage of prosecutors or resources being used in this case for some reason (my client is only charged with misdemeanors). One of the prosecutors wrote to the court and said explicitly that there is no evidence of child pornography in this case. Then in court she recklessly suggested by innuendo that the police were still investigating that issue–for a year? That irresponsible and fact-free remark became the headlines the next day.

If you win, how will you celebrate?

I am sure I can find a way.

Do you still own Defender? When was your last time out in her, and where did you go?

The Defender is my escape from the rigors of my business. Great boat. I am lucky that it’s docked in front of my office and I can hop in it and be out at sea in a flash. It can be only 45 minutes to Boothbay Harbor.

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Deep down, why do you think this case has vaulted up to national news? (We were on the phone with someone in Florida yesterday, talking about something different entirely, and when we said we were calling from Maine, their impulsive reply was Zumba!) Does this help or hurt your client?

Please name two things people misunderstand about Mark Strong.

He is a fine man and has a fine family. He is being portrayed to be guilty by association. He has made mistakes but has broken no laws.

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Sex cases always get attention, particularly in a small town in Maine with all the intrigue and publicity that the Kennebunk police have generated, and the drip, drip, drip, of newly charged defendants.

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t’s hard to imagine a dreamier scenario for Portland arts & nightlife: Bring Lisa DeSisto, 49, the charismatic Boston Globe Media executive behind Boston.com, one of the most successful web sites in the world, and have her work her wonders on the coast of Maine as the new Publisher & CEO of MaineToday Media, including its newspapers and websites the Portland Press Herald, Maine Sunday Telegram, MaineToday.com, Kennebec Journal, Morning Sentinel, and Coastal Journal.

Her rise is the stuff of Beantown legend. After “sweat[ing] out the launch of Boston.com in 1995,” by May, 2003 she was listed as one of “The 100 Women Who Run This Town” by Boston Magazine, which cited Online Journalism Review’s praise of her as “‘one of the 50 names to know in New Media. Number One? Bill Gates.’”

Then, in 2008, the Boston Globe’s vice president, chief advertising officer, and GM of Boston. com was awarded the Newspaper Association of America’s title of “Online Innovator of the Year.”

So influential is her Boston.com, it’s “one of the 10 most-viewed newspaper websites in the country,” according to the Press Herald’s announcement. The free site so dynamically focuses energy into regional arts and entertainment attractions that it literally creates excitement.

We caught up with DeSisto by phone in Boston as she wraps up her final details before coming here. Did we mention she’s been coming to Maine every summer for years and is part of Red Sox Nation? That she loves restaurants, sports, culture, and reader engagement at all levels?

From her excitement about joining us in Maine full-time, it looks like Boston’s loss is our gain.

Lisa DeSisto’s facebook Page shows she’s a true member of Red Sox Nation.

Why is this move good for you and your family personally?

Oh, gosh, I’m so excited about this. We love Maine. We have a son in kindergarten, and my husband comes from Tennessee. He’s longed for more space to pursue his interests like hunting and freshwater fly fishing, so this is his chance.

How long has your summer tradition been going on at Belgrade Lakes?

My brother, Joe, and his family have seven acres at Hoyt Island on Great Pond in Belgrade. They built a camp on it. In 2005, the rest of my family started renting nearby, on the mainland. So now, between my mom, sisters, nieces and nephews, it’s a big party there every summer.

From what I understand, you and Tim (Padgett, WCVB digi-

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Can we be Portland.com again?

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est, I’ve been approached before [by a number of firms]. “Oh, we’re revolutionizing ecommerce technology! Come up here!”

I thought, “Oh, this is dreadful.” But Portland. We had a bunch of conversations, and before I met with Donald Sussman I met with others in the organization, and I loved this great, strong, quality product, its newspapers and websites.

How would you adjust a site like Boston.com to make it work for Portland, Maine?

I won’t have all the answers when I arrive.

I’ll be listening and learning…It’s interesting. Each newspaper has its own web site and MaineToday.com. Before I make any

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Lisa DeSisto, as Boston.com’s GM, oversaw the launch of their online radio station RadioBDC. The AP reports the station received listeners for “51,502 combined hours its first week.”

tal sales manager) have been looking for a house in Portland.

My husband and I definitely want something with a lot of space. It’s like Green Acres.

I’d like some funky loft space in Portland.

He wants to cast off the back door.

So we’ve been looking in North Yarmouth and in Cumberland. We’ve looked at a place on the Royal River.

What’s your son looking for?

He just wants to know when his friends can come over for a sleepover.

Where and when did you meet with Donald Sussman to set this all up?

I was contacted by a recruiter, and I met with Donald Sussman over the summer. It was just after I was back from my vacation in Maine; we met in his office in Portland.

Since 1986, all the places I’ve worked have had the word Boston in them. Boston magazine, Boston Phoenix, Boston.com, Boston Globe, and bostonglobe.com. To be hon-

dramatic announcements, [I’ll just say] it all starts with quality. From print to desktop, iPad and/or mobile phone, MaineToday wants to connect with subscribers [on their terms].

What did you do at Boston magazine?

I was marketing manager. I put programs together for advertisers, like “Best of Boston property.”

What were your duties at the Boston Phoenix?

I was marketing manager there, responsible for sales programs and special events, like the Boston Phoenix Best Music Poll.

You’re celebrated for developing Boston.com into the fantastic site it is today. What do you think about print?

Wherever people want to get the information [we’ll provide it]. We adapt to the consumer.

Print is going to have a long healthy life.

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Personalities all the way to the back page. I’ve been delighted by people going to the replica edition, because people appreciate the layout.

They want that perspective and analysis.

They like the sense of seeing things like ‘below the fold’ or ‘above the fold.”

The announcement that you’re the incoming publisher was printed below the fold. In contrast, a few years ago, some of Richard Connor’s announcements came above the fold. Had you overseen your own announcement, would you have put yourself below the fold or above the fold?

That’s interesting. Below the fold or above the fold? I think right where it was. Page one below the fold. Especially since I certainly intend to play an active role in the Portland and greater Portland business community as well…It really started in high school when I was elected class clown. My parents wanted me to be most likely to succeed. [So in Maine] I hope an extroverted personality is well received.

On your Facebook page, there’s a lot of joy about coming here. Not to mention, from your picture, you’re part of Red Sox Nation. That’ll play well here.

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Even after last season?! When I was hired, I said, “At least I won’t have to change sports teams.” I love the Bruins and the Red Sox. [Don’t even bring up the Patriots vs. Seattle game.] I’m also looking forward to watching Pirates and Sea Dogs games.

The Press Herald used to own Portland.com, and then, around May 20, 2004, they sold it for an undisclosed amount to, well, Portland.com, in Oregon: “Your No. 1 Source of Travel & Relocation Information for Portland, Oregon. For Advertising Info, click here.” MaineToday. com is great, but Portland.com is so elemental, so subliminally desirable like Boston.com…Is there any chance you might look into reacquiring it?

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In 1998, Boston magazine credited you with “sweating out the launch of Boston.com.” In 2003, Boston magazine said Boston.com was bringing in over three million views per day. What is it now?

Six million discrete visitors [per month]. A million of the 6 million are in the Boston market; another 5 million are outside the market. The million are the hard-core, inmarket audience that spends 75 percent [of the dollars spent via that venue].

Boston.com is free. In September 2011, under your direction, the for-pay BostonGlobe.com with a prizewinning design was created to assure a full array of content-driven Globe ar-

ticles reached subscribers online. How do these readers differ from Boston Globe print readers?

This allowed for digital only subscribers.

With any version of home delivery, seven day or home delivery, you get the digital version [as part of the print price]. The average digital-market person is more educated, with a higher household income. Print-only folks tend to be older. Print and digital access together is mid-age. [To reach these readers with advertising, you can select from these audiences individually or reach them together.]

The Boston Globe, per a former editorial page editor Renee Loth, is “progressive…on social issues…pro-choice… against the death penalty…for gay rights.” What do you perceive the Press Herald’s and Maine Sunday Telegram’s politics to be, and what direction will you take it?

I’ve never in my seventeen years been involved in any of the editorial policy, because my role had been on the business side. I’ll have more conversations with [executive editor] Cliff Schechtman before I [venture in policy].

On foursquare.com, you checked into The Black Point Inn earlier this month. Does The Black Point Inn say Maine to you?

We were with a realtor, Julie Sheehan of Coldwell Banker Cape Elizabeth. We’d been looking for properties north of the city, and after showing us a place in Scarborough, she proposed a drink at Black Point Inn to discuss our search. She said, “you’ve got to see this place. Quintessential Maine, incredible views.” It was such a lovely place to sit on the porch, just looking out…I found myself wondering how we can get them to do more advertising with us! …I can’t wait to get started. I definitely bring a lot of energy and love how passionate Portlanders feel about subjects like politics, sports, food.

Which is not to leave out the Kennebec Journal and Morning Sentinel, because the part of me that connects with the Belgrade Lakes includes all my memories of setting out from Belgrade, reading the morning paper as we set out for our trips to Waterville.

Your start date is November 19. Emotionally, is that “Be­ fore Thanksgiving?”

It’s just to give me time to transition out of Boston. Our life will be in boxes. I don’t know where we’ll be having Thanksgiving.

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n January 26, 2012, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton unveiled the new Bureau of Conflict and Stabilization Operations (CSO). The mission? To identify problems in fragile states, help people solve them on terms they value, and–with singular insight–even prevent them before they really happen. “I’m very proud to be the first Assistant Secretary,” says Rick Barton, 63. “We think this is a new way to address problems around the world. What we’re trying to do is to improve the likelihood of peace.”

Which is nothing less than Mainers would expect from Barton, the former Ambassador to the U.N. Economic and Social Council. After graduating from Harvard in 1971, Barton worked for Bill Hathaway’s successful campaign, then for his Senate office in Washington until his own run for the Maine District 1 Congressional seat in 1976. His challenge to David Emery was much closer than his Democratic Party colleague that year against William Cohen in District 2. After, Barton earned his MBA at BU and served as New England Director of Public Affairs for the Department of Health & Human Services before settling in Portland to establish the PR firm Barton & Gin-

gold, as well as co-found the World Affairs Council of Maine. In 1994 he settled in D.C. as founding Director of Transition Initiatives before taking the role as United Nations Deputy High Commissioner for Refugees in Geneva.

With offices in Washington, the CSO is designed to solve problems on the local scale, before they become bigger. “We have a group of 165 that we supplement when we take up an issue. Our preference is to hire local people in order to both work with us and so that we know there will still be the capability to address that local problem after we leave. So we have to do a thorough needs analysis before we focus resources onto a problem, and then we intensely put everything we can into solving that one problem so that it has a cascade effect and makes it easier for the other problems to be more easily solved.

You could say we’re trying to define the concept of a ‘civilian surge.’”

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mediately combat Taliban influence in Afghanistan and also to train the Afghan security forces so they’d be able to protect the local population.

The same idea invigorates the CSO: “It’s a new concept of giving foreign aid, more like local investment. If we can identify the biggest problems in a fragile state, and focus our efforts on those, we can often do more good than if we were to try to take care of any problem. It’s sort of like if you go to the fair, where there are all these balloons on the dartboard. It looks like you could go for all the balloons, but you end up just sticking your dart between them.

“International aid is a difficult business. We’ve lost people, and we’ve lost money,” Barton says. “How can we develop new ways to advance American interests? The American people don’t have any stomach for airlifting pallets of money. We hope this project can live up to Secretary Clinton’s promises and make this challenging innovation work.

We’re redefining foreign aid–making it less about the governments and more about identifying a problem and hiring local businesses and people to help fix it.”

Whenever he can make it back to Maine, Barton devotes every single free moment he can to his second home in Boothbay Harbor with his wife Kit Lunney, whose humanitarian accomplishments include the mass delivery of donated books to replenish school and local libraries devastated by Hurricane Katrina, and daughter Kacy. “I grew up all around the world, you could say,” Barton says. “My dad was in the Foreign Service–growing up, I got to live in Argentina, Spain, the Dominican Republic, and Mexico. But my mom was from Boothbay Harbor, so whenever we’d get a vacation in the summertime, we’d come up here. So ‘home’ was always a different place, but the one constant was Maine. I go back every chance I get.”

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Meet Michele Sturgeon, 47. Before coming on board in Portland in 2011, according to South Portland annual reports, Sturgeon succeeded Matt LeConte as South Portland’s health inspector from 2007 until 2011.

Since then, Sturgeon’s taken on the task of being the sole inspector of Portland’s restaurants, and she’s doing so with gusto.

Just look at her impact on the Old Port. A result of the inspections’ publicity is the closure of three long-standing restaurants.

She saw a “rat running out from behind the walk-in cooler,” in the Porthole’s kitchen, according to a Portland Press Herald article.

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“I can’t speak directly to reporters [without city approval],” Sturgeon says over the phone.

“We’d really like her to focus on her work,” says Doug Gardner, director of Health and Human Services.

At an August 14 Health and Human Services education event, Sturgeon said what would become one of the few quotes attributed to her floating out on the Internet at press time. The Munjoy Hill News reports Sturgeon carries herself with “competence and professionalism,” perhaps derived by the writer from Sturgeon’s declaration: “‘My priority is to educate those with food service establishments, not to whack them.’”

And is that the case?

“Being an inspector of anything is a difficult task,” Maine Restaurant Association’s CEO Richard Grotton says. “Many restaurants are of the Ozzie and Harriet variety…. They should interact with Sturgeon, invite her into their restaurants, [and] participate in information sessions. We need cooperative partners.”

Surely it takes courage to say there’s anything that needs to be improved with any of our vibrant destination attractions.

The ripple effect of Sturgeon’s ethos as a health inspector breached the barrier of I295, leaving Portland on the AP wire, and landed in print and on the breath of radio hosts from Vermont, New York, Ohio, Georgia, and Florida.

Maybe Sturgeon’s shown us a weak link in our popular dining culture. What can we learn from this? Do the inspection reports reveal shoddy work on the part of restaurateurs, or an overzealous crumb duster? Were there lapses in the work of the previous inspectors?

No matter the case, Sturgeon’s singlehandedly put the entire pot of Portland public relations on the burner. She’s made the public as equally aware of the potential concerns for retail vendors as they are about who their municipal inspector is–even if she’s made her Facebook page private. n

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f you were a former Special Forces operative who’d founded a geothermal firm that made you well, let’s just say, comfortable, where on the Maine coast would you choose to locate your ultra-high-tech hideaway?

So often the most defendable positions–perched on cliffs, facing the sea–have been snapped up by forts.

This private residence is nothing less than “a stunning architectural composition of wood, copper, stone, glass, and steel, with soaring window walls framing awe-inspiring panoramic oceanfront vistas,” according to Sotheby’s listing agent Linda Briggs. Here, above the boom of the surf, when you take a deep breath of the salt air, prepare to be shaken and stirred.

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ndy Livingston’s oceanside panorama of Bald Head Cliff on Shore Road at the tip of Seal Point in Cape Neddick is more dramatic than the Cliff House’s dining room views. Because, in a Zen-like way, you are one with the view.

Deployed on a precipice facing the sunrise, his house’s trajectory is nothing less than astonishing; he touches a button and a glassy corner of the barrel-roofed living room disappears. Suddenly you’re standing on the deck of a concrete yacht, where the indoors flows outdoors and back in again. This is the ultimate entertaining space in Maine. Even the custom-designed furnishings effortlessly accommodate 14 guests for dinner, yet the compact spaces retain a romantic coziness perfect for just two.

“That’s Nubble Light to your right,” the soft-spoken Livingston says as we stand above the water’s edge, with his 16-weekold retriever puppy, Seal, bounding about 8 4 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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“Lisa DeStefano of Portsmouth is the architectural firm, with Carla Goodknight the architect,” Livingston says, with interior decoration by Machado Blake of Somerville, Massachusetts, and bespoke metalwork (tables, lights, curved railing) by the

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“We didn’t want to make it too large,” Livingston says, “because Donna and I wanted to use the whole house. We agreed we didn’t want a house where almost no one goes to the formal dining room.”

This fits the genius engineer/entrepreneur in Livingston, who has a hand in at least three businesses: a geothermal energy licensing firm; a development company creating a mixed-use high rise in Portsmouth; and, with his wife Donna, he’s a restaurateur. Naturally, “AJ’s Wood Grill Pizza” in Kittery is run with geothermal.

Looking at Livingston’s Seal Point home, a visitor realizes Livingston is simply good at what he does. Only when asked does he reveal his black operations/Special Forces background, “when I was in the Army, from 1961 to 1965.”

Before that, “I grew up in Vermont, in a 1790 house.” He smiles. “I was the black sheep of the family.” In-between then and now is dazzling success in Washington, D.C. and Boston, where his unique geothermal licensing concept took off. “I dreamed up the idea that what makes geothermal technology exportable is outside the loop field.”

In a way, the innovator in Livingston, 75, has made this kestrel’s love nest his Monticello, with the innovator in him participating in key designs like Jefferson.

“I designed the hood” for the stove, that’s like a piece of abstract expressionist art in itself.

“You do love the cantilever,” we tell him.

“What else could I do here?

“What I am is lucky,” he says. “I like to bring people together.” Then he redirects the conversation by saying, “Tom Schulz did the walls here. He’s a former professor at Boston School of Fine Arts. He’s used thirteen coats of various coats of paint and wax to create a sense of Tuscany in the depth of layering.”

Not twelve coats. Not fourteen coats.

If you stare into the walls, you can almost taste the ancient evenings. Understated and magnificent, this house, listed for $4.5 million, is exactly perfect. Taxes are $26,159. n

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the trail, wondering– not believing, you see, just wondering–if something were chasing him. He carried no backpack, no water bottle, no map, no fanny pack full of sunscreen and bug spray. His hair, longish, a little past his ears, was plastered across his forehead and cheeks. He wore khaki shorts and a gray vneck, soaked from shoulders down.

You’d think a man moving at such velocity might scream, if not a warning, an outta-my-way! But no, the only sound from his mouth was his own ragged breath, the occasional grunt when he landed hard on the packed trail. It was a miracle his feet hadn’t entangled in a tree root, hadn’t slipped on the mosaic of orange and red leaves scattered across the ground. An easy enough mountain to hike, it was still, after all, a mountain. He zigzagged across the trail, between people, over rocks. There were branches everywhere, there were dogs, there were families sitting on logs eating PB and J’s.

“What’s up with that guy?” a son asked from the side of the trail he and his father had retreated to when they’d heard the footfalls a moment earlier. The dad shook his head as if to say, “some people…” He looked up at all they had left to climb. Hefting his backpack, full of sandwiches and mixed nuts, he nudged the son forward.

They all thought about him later. When settling down to sleep they recounted to their spouses, siblings, prayers, or imaginations what they’d seen. As their eyelids closed a feeling of weightlessness, followed by a jolt, woke them.

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