Portland Monthly Magazine February/March 2013

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February/March 2013 Home & Garden

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A sleek, chic modernist home by Walter Gropius shocks a shingled cottage coastline.

By Brad Emerson A few famous Mainers reveal their signature blooms.

By Colin W. Sargent

One Thousand and One Bites You’ve made it to March, now make yourself a reservation.

By Claire Z. Cramer

Old Soul

A great and gracious waterfront palace in Kennebunk whispers to the waves.

By Colin W. Sargent

Rock Star

Landscape architect Bruce John Riddell channels the spirits of the gardens he creates–for clients from Oprah to Pepsi.

Interview by Colin W. Sargent

The Man Behind the Mask Actor and writer Gunnar Hansen has two faces.

By Claire Z. Cramer

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66 Dining Guide 67 Restaurant Review Fuel in Lewiston

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Homes & Living

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“Islands Aloft “

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Cover: “Restaurant Week 2013.” Photo by Catherine Yeulet. See “One Thousand and One Bites,” page 41.

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Who are you going to believe, me or your own eyes? Who knew the baseball that dribbled past Red Sox star Bill Buckner in Game 6 of the ‘86 World Series vs. the Mets was picked up by sweet, shy Charlie Sheen, pre-tiger blood, in 1992 for $93,000? In May 2012, it sold for $418,250.

Maybe you’ve met this ball. It’s mentioned in Good Will Hunting, Fever Pitch, and Celtic Pride. What isn’t mentioned so often is, after the Series, Buckner came to the woods of Maine to lick his wounds, at the Isaac Randall Inn in Freeport. Here’s a moment for a long look in the mirror. Maybe he went to Wolfe’s Neck Woods State Park and watched the gulls drop mussels on the rocks. What would you do? You find yourself and move on.

It’s so ditzy, the way Super Bowl winners say into the TV cameras, “I’m going to Disney World!” Maine’s role as the nadir of this phony effervescence makes our culture darker–Stephen-King dark–and certainly more fascinating when you think of the people who come here to brood.

But, seriously, Groucho Marx? Though time remembers Duck Soup as a triumph for the Marx Bros., audiences of 1933 hated it (ahead of Woody Allen’s loving reference to it in Annie Hall).

One New York Times review sniped that far from being intoxicating, Duck Soup employed “the bludgeon…more often than the gimlet.” The whole show was “extremely noisy,” not “nearly as mirthful…” as fans had hoped.

“Groucho needed to lick his wounds,” says film professor Wes Gehring of Ball State University. So he set out for Maine to duck the brickbats and get his groove back.

The Marxes rented a cabin on the shores of Wesserunsett Lake (Room service? Send up a larger room), according to a 1996 story in Yankee by Tom Field. Here, Groucho and son Arthur played tennis, foreshadowing the younger Marx’s brilliant career as one of the greatest tennis stars in the country and a rival of Bobby Riggs.

Can you imagine Groucho staring into the lake between sets, counting fish?

What a surprise for Lakewood Playhouse when, in the dark of summer, Groucho slipped in for a look. Naturally, they snapped him up “to star as Oscar Jaffe in a summer run of Twentieth Century,” Field writes. Missing Manhattan, Groucho “kept tabs on the world via a six-party telephone that…rang just once,” Arthur (later a writer for My Three Sons and All in the Family) recalled to Field, “‘when our landlady called up to say that if our dachshund didn’t stop eating her chickens,’” she’d give their family pet a two-barreled tour of metropolitan Skowhegan with her shotgun.

You bet your life Groucho could have lit her up with a comeback (I never forget a face, but in your case I’d be glad to make an exception). But did he suppress it?

Inspired, he rushed back to Manhattan and shot A Night at the Opera, grossing $3M ($50.4M today). His Maine adventure? Up in smoke.

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bygone Beach

The interesting article by Colin Sargent on the Hazzard/Snow estate (“Lindbergh Slept Here,”Winterguide 2013) at Grand Beach, Old Orchard, describes only that portion of the property surrounding the Spanish villa.

The total estate included property adjacent directly south and also land across the road–East Grand Avenue–where the tennis court, caretaker’s house, and another bungalow were located.

That portion of the estate was purchased by my father, A.H. Plavin, in 1947 or 1948. We occupied the house that Mr. Hazzard had erected for his daughter, Mrs. Schaffer. It actually was a very modern prefabricated U-shaped structure that had been a model at the Century of Progress–Chicago World’s Fair in 1933–a very efficient three-bedroom building.

At the southwest corner of the lot, bordering Parcher Ave, was another building housing a garage, laundry, and a large family type room with kitchen and bath. The property across East Grand Avenue was sold, except for the tennis court, in the 1950s. The site of the house we occupied summers until the mid-1970s [is] the current location of Danton Towers.

The property was then sold to a Canadian doctor. He never had the opportunity to move in, due to his unanticipated death. Subsequently, the next owner sold the property for the construction of Danton Towers. During our occupancy, we found the Snows to be wonderful neighbors.

Manuel Plavin, West Palm Beach, FL

EXILE ON SOUTH STREET

I worked on the R/V Hero [see “Working 1 2 p o r t l a n d m o n t h ly m a g a z i n e

Class Hero,” November 2012] in Antarctica from 1983 to 1984 when she was decommissioned in Port Hueneme, California.

She’s since spent her ‘retired’ years at various ports on the West Coast. I always felt that the vessel should have ended up on the East Coast at South Street Seaport or in Stonington, Conn., where the original Hero, captained by Nathaniel B. Palmer [seal hunter and early Antarctic explorer in 1820, aboard a 47-foot sloop also named Hero– Antarctica’s Palmer Archipelago is named for him], hailed from. In any event, I still work in Antarctica, and the Antarctica grapevine has it that the vessel is about to be scrapped. A sad loss to history if that is the case…Perhaps with some community support the ship can be preserved in some form to celebrate some of the last wooden shipbuilding in Maine.

Harold Owen, Mariaville

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Great article on Sam [“AR(to)GO,” Winterguide 2013] who just returned from Thailand and was thrilled with the piece.

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I spent the morning after my book launch party easing blissfully down off that high by curling up on my window seat with a pot of tea and Winterguide–what a treat! Even though I now live in Brooklyn, which seems to have become the hub of the literary universe, Portland Magazine is still the only magazine I read cover to cover, as it’s far more interesting, wide-ranging, and down-toearth than anything else out there.

Gwen Thompson, Brooklyn, NY, author of Men Beware Women

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Thanks so much for featuring Stonewall Kitchen in the Learn to Cook section [“A Foodie’s Guide to Planet Maine,” Winterguide 2013]! It’s great for readers to know our Portland store offers classes. However, we noticed that Stonewall Kitchen is listed with an “s” instead of singular Kitchen.

Can you please ensure this is noted for future postings?

Sheri Tripp, Stonewall Kitchen, York & Portland Correction: The price of 27 Mechanic Street in Rockport is $3.875 million.

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Bag It Think of it. You could be the only one in line waiting to see electronic dubstep disc jockey Excision (March 20 at the State Theatre) carrying a floral handbag.

“I’ve been told I have a knack for putting colors together,” says Kim Pauley who runs JustKim, a boutique steps from the box office. “We have shelves of fabric.” Any with grinning skulls on them? $30-$69, 615A Congress St., justkimaccessories.com

The Harlem Globetrotters return March 19 & 24 with happy feet, tricky feats, and a love for Maine’s eccentricities. Says guard Sco­oter Christensen: “One of the coolest things [is] the Paul Bunyan statue–I had to take a picture!” As for the snow, “I went to Univ. of Montana, so it’s not so bad.” Bangor Auditorium Mar. 19, and Cumberland County Civic Center Mar. 24, $16-$49. Photos from top: Bunyan, 35’ tall; Scottish terriers Cameron & Dido Sargent, 8" tall; Christensen, 6'1".

Impera ra Buddha’s Delight

“Finding the Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Garden is like being on a treasure hunt,” says visitor Liz Ward. Inspired by the Rockefellers’ visits to China and Japan, this idyll is tucked away in Seal Harbor, protected from tacky tourism and an ever-changing world outside its Buddha-guarded gates, which arrived here amid stares in the 1920s.

Visits Thursdays by reservation only July through September; submit an online request beginning May 15, rockgardenmaine.wordpress.com, or call 276-3330 Tue. and Wed. 12–3pm beginning June 12.

Simply Red

Darling, there’s a lobster on your dress–and I think it’s from away! New York clothier Tibi’s trim little red shift is inciting praise and indignation on the internet.

“Mainahs would have a green dress–live lobster!” tweets Lois Charles. “[Perfect…] for well-heeled New Yorkers spending summers in Maine!” –Steve Lindsay.

“I think I want one and I don’t know why.”–Mara Kane Pennell.

Lobster Silhouette Easy Dress, $375, tibi.com

Super Bowl

Plotting a new burger for the menu one night, Bayside Bowl’s Charlie Mitchell and a few of his closest bartenders envisioned the beef with fries, cheddar, bacon, red onion, lettuce, tomato, and a fried egg…on a brioche roll. “It’s the perfect hangover meal for the ‘Drunk On Lane Nine,’” says kitchen manager Jared Radding. As we understand it, a diet version may be rolling into production soon. $12, 58 Alder St., baysidebowl.com 14 portland monthly magazine

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Etienne Perret’s glittering Rainbow Channel rings feature diamonds in pine green, ice blue, and chocolate set in 18k gold or platinum. Work directly with Perret at his Camden studio as it takes shape. “Everyone deserves to dream in color!” says son Michael Perret. $3K–$16K,14 Sea St., Camden, 236-9696, etienneperret.com

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Be Kind, Rewind Ripely Pine is the new album from Lady Lamb the Beekeeper. Not so long ago, singer Aly Spaltro, 23, was working the 3-11pm shift at Bart & Greg’s DVD Explosion in Brunswick. Night after night, she’d pull out her music gear after closing to write and record songs in the empty store. This led to jams in Portland, a move to New York, and sessions in a Brooklyn recording studio. Ripely Pine– driving, confident, ever-shifting–is full of gutsy artistry and is a great find on any new-release shelf.

Out Feb. 19 on BadaBing! Records, $11 CD, $18 LP, badabingrecords.com. Record release party at Space Gallery March 2, 8 pm, $10/$12, 538 Congress St., 828-5600, space538.org.

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Flamenco Vivo– La Pasion Flamenca: 30th Anniversary Tour L/A Arts MaineStage Series. 7:30pm, Lewiston Middle School, $15-$27, laarts.org

RECENT AcQUISITIONS Many works never before exhibited by Georgia O’Keeffe, Rockwell Kent, Marguerite & William Zorach, Elaine de Kooning, Andrew Wyeth, and Harrison Bird Brown.

Through March 10, Farnsworth Art Museum, Rockland, $10-$12, farnsworthmuseum.org

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maine restaurant week Special menus and great prices at dozens of diners, cafes, and fancy bistros statewide. March 1-10.

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4 north of nashville Outlaw Country–an array of instruments with strong vocals combine to make Maine Bluegrass–with a heaping side of Waylon.

8pm every Monday through March 4, Empire Dine & Dance, Portland, no cover, portlandempire.com

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Haydn’s Creation Portland Symphony Orchestra with the Masterworks Chorus.

7:30pm, Merrill Auditorium, $31-$76, tickets.porttix.com

Portland Flower Show This year’s theme is Timeless Gardens. Opening night March 6, 6-9pm, $30/$45; March 7-10, show opens 10am; Portland Company Complex, 58 Fore Street; $12/$15, 775-4403, portlandcompany.com/flower

12 Jewel–The Greatest Hits Tour 7:30 pm, $41-$108, Merrill Auditorium, 842-0800, tickets.porttix.com

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Harlem Globetrotters Undefeated traveling basketball showmen turn heads with madcap parquet antics, trick shots, and family fun on the You Write The Rules World Tour.7pm, Bangor Auditorium,$20-$54, bangorciviccenter.com, and March 24 at 2 pm, at the Cumberland County Civic Center, from $16, theciviccenter.com

23rd Annual beat the heat chili cookoff & firefighter race To benefit Maine Adaptive Sports & Recreation.

Cooks and fire companies compete for bragging rights.

Noon, Sunday River, Newry, $1/sample, sundayriver.com

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public skating Every Tuesday Noon-1:30pm, every Saturday 1-3pm. $5 Adult, $3 under 12, Lewiston Colisee, thecolisee.com

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Love/sick World premier by Maine playwright John Cariani.

Wed-Fri 7:30pm, Sat 4&8pm, Sun 2pm, through April 21. $34-$44, Portland Stage Co., portlandstage.org

2 Celtic Woman 4 amazing vocalists.

3 pm & 8 pm, Merrill Auditorium, $47.50-$67.50, tickets.porttix.com

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George Thorogood & The Destroyers Bad to the bone rocker invades Portland again; read our Winterguide 2013 interview. 7:30pm, State Theatre, $35/$40, statetheaterportland.com

midcoast half marathon Spring is in the air for a 13.1-mile run to benefit the Hope Elephants and Sweet Tree Arts in Hope.

9am; 42 Hatchet Mt. Rd., Hope; $55 midcoasthalfmarathon.com

16 Celtic Nights A spectacle of story, music & choreography showcases the traditional vocals, instruments, & hypnotic fury of dancing feet.

7pm, Collins Center, Orono, $33-$43, collinscenterforthearts.org Collins Center, Orono $33-$43, collinscenterforthearts.org

Maine’s Favorite Birds Brown Bag Lecture Series– authors Jeff & Allison Wells discuss their illustrated book.

Noon, Rines Auditorium, Portland Public Library, Free, portlandlibrary.com/ programs/brownbagnew.htm

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Matchbox 20 pop rock, with Matt Hires.

7:30pm, Augusta Civic Center, $55-$75, augustaciviccenter.org

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Go red for women luncheon and women’s heart health educational forum.

10am-2pm, Holiday Inn By The Bay, $100, heart.org/ mainegoredluncheon

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snowmobile club meeting & steak and lobster dinner

5:30pm, Church of the Good Shepherd, Rangeley Lake, $25/$30, 864-2775, rangeleysnowmobile.com

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Rock of Ages Portland Ovations brings the Tony Award winning smash Broadway show to Portland’s premier stage–keep on believing!

8pm, Merrill Auditorium, $51-$76, portlandovations.com

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Theater Children’s Museum & Theater of Maine, 142 Free St., Portland. Peter Pan, Feb. 15-Mar.2.

828-1234 kitetails.org Lyric Music Theater, 176 Sawyer St., South Portland. Once Upon a Mattress, Feb. 15-Mar. 2; The Drowsy Chaperone, Apr. 12-27; Deathtrap, Jun. 21-30.

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Merrill Auditorium, 20 Myrtle St., Portland. The Joffrey Ballet, Mar. 21; Rock of Ages, Mar. 30; HAIR, Apr. 19; The True Story of the Three Little Pigs, Apr. 21; MOMIX: Botanica, May 9; Alice in Wonderland, May 11-12.

842-0800 porttix.com Penobscot Theatre Company, 131 Main St., Bangor. Wit, Mar. 13-31; Around the World in 80 Days, May 15-Jun. 2. 947-6618 penobscottheatre.org Portland Players, 420 Cottage Rd., South Portland.

Noises Off, Mar. 22-Apr. 7; All Shook Up, May 17-Jun. 2.

799-7337 portlandplayers.org Portland Stage, 25A Forest Ave., Portland.

A Song at Twilight, Feb. 28-Mar. 18; Love/Sick, Mar. 26-Apr. 21; Wittenburg, Apr. 30-May 19.

780-5151 portlandstage.org Snowlion Repertory, Ludcke Auditorium, University of New England, 716 Stevens Ave., Portland. A Child’s Guide to Innocence, Mar. 15-24.

518-9305 snowlionrep.org

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Westbrook Performing Arts Center, 471 Stroudwater St., Westbrook. Spellbound Dance Company, Apr. 9; Groove National Dance Competition, Apr. 12-14; Portland Community Chorus, May 3-4; Step Up 2 Dance Competition, May 5.

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Music Asylum, 121 Center St., Portland. Karaoke, every W; 80s Dance Party, every Th; Joanna Smith, Feb. 16; Tom Kieffer, Feb. 17; Soulfly, Mar. 10; Eddie Money Unplugged, Mar. 21. 772-8274 portlandasylum.com Bayside Bowl, 58 Alder St., Portland. Jerks of Grass, every Th; MAMM Jams, Mar. 1; Apr. 5; May 3; The Toughcats, Feb. 16. 791-2695 baysidebowl.com Blue, 650 Congress St., Portland. Traditional Irish Session, every Wed.; Four Legged Faithful, Feb. 15; Sean Mencher & His Rhythm Kings, Feb. 16; Groove Ruckus, Feb. 21; Bob Rasero, Feb. 22; Samuel James & Dana Gross, Feb. 28; OKBARI, Nick Young, Evan King Group, Mar. 1; Abram Taylor, Domino Jazz, Mar. 2; Vince Nez & Friends, Mar. 7; Cariad Harmon, Chris Trapper, Welterweight, Mar. 8; Lissa Schneckenberger, Mar. 13; The Barn Swallows, Mar. 14; Shanna, Brendan Hogan, Mar. 15; Sean Mencher & His Rhythm Kings, The Burners, Mar. 16; Boghat, Mar. 20; Bob Rasero, Britt Sawdon, Trapparatus, Mar. 22; John Funkhouser Trio, Wurlibird Jazz, Mar. 23; Danielle Langord, Mar. 20; Potato Pickers, Samuel James & Dana Gross, Mar. 28; Sarah Blacker, Builder of the House, Mar. 29; Hardy Brothers Trio, Mar. 30. 774-4111 portcityblue.com

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Merrill Auditorium, 20 Myrtle St., Portland. Midtown Men, Feb. 14; Marc-Andre Hamelin, Feb. 16; A Night at the Movies, Feb. 23-24; A Night at the Movies, Feb. 23-24; Celtic Woman, Mar. 2; Haydn’s Creation, Mar. 5; Marc-Andre Hamelin, Mar. 16;Young@ Heart Chorus, Mar. 24; Ricky Nelson Remembered, Apr. 5; Tony Trischka, Apr. 6; Enigma Variations, Apr. 9; Mathis der Maler, Apr. 14; Totally Awesome ‘80s, Apr. 27-28; 842-0800 porttix.com

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Empire Dine and Dance, 575 Congress St., Portland. Bluegrass, every Mon.; Pete Witham & Cozmik Zombies, every Thurs.; Whitehorse, Feb. 22; Milo Greene, Mar. 2. 879-8988 portlandempire.com Gingko Blue, 455 Fore St., Portland. Travis James Humphrey Blue Review, Feb. 15; Rick Miller, Feb. 16; Downeast Soul Coalition, Feb. 20; Birdland Jazz, Feb. 21; Poke Chop & The Other White Meats, Feb. 22; Blind Albert, Feb. 23; Lorraine Bohland with Terry Foster, Feb. 27; Mike James’ Blue Lions, Feb 28; Gary Richardson, Mar. 1; David Mellow Trio, Mar. 2; Standard Issue, Mar. 6; Tony Boffa Quartet, Mar. 7; David Mellow, Blind Albert, Mar. 8; Tommy O’Connell & the Juke Joint Devils, Mar. 9; Laurence Kelly & Flash Allen, Mar. 13; Hot Club du Monde, Mar. 14; Poke Chop & the Other White Meats, Mar. 15; Rick Miller, Mar. 16; Birdland Jazz, Mar. 21; Blue Steel Express, Mar. 22; Travis James Humphrey, Mar. 23; Lorraine Bohland with Terry Foster, Mar.

27; Mike Stockbridge, Mar. 28; Tommy O’Connell & the Juke Joint Devils, Mar. 29; Mama’s Boomshack, Mar. 30. 541-9190 gingkoblue.com Hannaford Hall, USM, 88 Bedford St., Portland.

The Bad Plus, Feb. 17; Voices of Afghanistan, Mar. 16; Pablo Ziegler Trio, Mar. 28; Jonathan Bliss & Elias String Quartet, Apr. 11; Imani Winds, May 2.

842-0800 porttix.com Jonathan’s, 92 Bournes Ln., Ogunquit. Straight Lace Valentines Dance, Feb. 16; J. Geils; Jeff Pitchell; Gerry Beaudoin; Texas Flood, Mar. 1; April Verch, Apr. 26; Judy Collins, May 25. 646-4526 jonathansrestaurant.com

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Jonathan Edwards, Feb. 15; Naftule’s Dream, Feb. 20; The Barra MacNeils, Feb. 22; Steve Forbert, Feb. 23; Shawn Mullins, Feb. 26; Pierre Bensusan, Mar. 1; Johnny A., Mar. 2; Mary Gauthier, Mar. 7; Willie Nile, Mar. 8; Cherish the Ladies, Mar. 9; Mike Doughty, Mar. 15; Portland Jazz Orchestra, Mar. 21; Decompression Chamber Music, Mar. 25; Paula Poundstone, Apr 4; Rani Arbo & Daisy Mayhem, Apr 6; Daisy Castro’s Gypsy Moth Quartet, Apr. 12; Willie Porter Apr. 13; Decompression Chamber Music, Apr. 15; Portland Jazz Orchestra, Apr. 18; Laura Cortese Acoustic Project, Apr. 25; Rosa Noreen’s Annual Springtime Spectacular, Apr. 27; James McCartney, May 16; Heritage Blues Quartet, May 17. 761-1757 onelongfellowsquare.com Space Gallery, 538 Congress St., Portland. 48 Hour Music Festival #5, Feb. 23; Lady Lamb the Beekeeper Record Release Show, Mar. 2. 828-5600, space538.org

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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Acoustic Open Mic, every W; Happy Hour with Travis James Humphrey, Happy Hour with Travis James Humphrey; live jazz every F; Southbound Outlaws, Feb. 14; The Wetsuits, Feb. 23; Griffin Sherry; Ghost of Paul Revere, Feb. 28; Matt Meyer & The Gumption Junction, Mar. 2; .Sean Mencher & His Rhythm Kings, Mar. 9; Southbound Outlaws, Mar. 14; The Wetsuits, Mar. 23; Griffin Sherry & The Ghost of Paul Revere, Mar. 28. 772-5483 thedogfishbarandgrille.com

State Theatre, 609 Congress St., Portland. Passion Pit, Feb. 12-13; Big Gigantic, Feb. 14; The Dunwells, Feb. 16; Punch Brothers, Feb. 17; Whitehorse, Feb. 22; They Might Be Giants, Feb. 27; Milo Grace, Mar. 3; George Thorogood and the Destroyers, Mar. 8; Circa Survive, Mar. 16; Excision, Mar. 20; Great Big Sea, Apr. 24; Josh Ritter & the Royal City Band, May 8. 956-6000 statetheatreportland.com

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Stone Mountain Arts Center, 695 Dug Way Road, Brownfield. Time Jumpers, Feb. 14; Tim Gearan, Feb. 16; Sweet Honey in the Rock, Feb. 17; Blues Barn Burner with Monkey Junk, Feb. 22; Indigo Girls, Feb. 25; Session Americana, Mar. 8; Stray Birds, Mar. 15; Rose Cousins, Mar. 16; Shemekia Copeland, Mar. 22; Paula Pountstone, Mar. 23; Gaelic Storm, Mar. 24; Alejandro Escovedo & the Sensitive Boys, Apr. 5; Tim O’Brien, Apr. 6; Carolina Chocolate Drops, Apr. 14 -15; Leo Kottke, Apr. 18; April Verch, Apr. 27; Jonathan Edwards, May 4; Steep Canyon Rangers, May 5; Asleep at the Wheel, May 11; Blind Boys of Alabama, May 22. 935-7292 carolnoonanmusic.com

Galleries Art Gallery at UNE, 716 Stevens Ave., Portland. Maine Women Pioneers III, through Jul. 21. 221-4499 une.edu/artgallery

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ton. Max Klinger Intermezzi Portfolio, through Mar. 22; Robert S. Neuman’s Ship to Paradise, through Mar. 22; Fransje Killaars: Color at the Center, through Mar. 22. 786-6259 bates.edu/museum Bowdoin College Museum of Art, 1 Bath Rd., Brunswick. Fantastic Stories: The Supernatural in Nineteenth-Century Japanese Prints; A Printmaking ABC: In Memoriam David P. Becker, through Mar. 10; Per Kirkeby, Mar. 30-Jun. 16.

725-3275 bowdoin.edu/art-museum First Friday Art Walk, downtown Portland. Visit local galleries, studios, and museums, Mar. 1, Apr. 5, May 3, Jun. 7. 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.

Blueberry Rakers: Photos by David Brooks Stess, opens Apr. 6. 775-6148 portlandmuseum.org

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

775-7560 brownetrading.com Chadwick Bed & Breakfast, 140 Chadwick St., Portland. Simply Southern Italian, Feb. 24-26; Tapas Party, Apr. 27 – 29. 774-5141 thechadwick.com EqualityMaine’s Celebration and Recognition Dinner, Holiday Inn by the Bay, 88 Spring St., Portland. Dinner and dance, Mar. 23, 5:30pm.

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Downeast Country Dance Festival, Mount Ararat Middle School, Topsham. Annual celebration of traditional music and dance, Mar. 22-23. Deffa.org Maine Jewish Film Festival, several locations, Portland. A celebration of Jewish cinema from around the world, Mar. 9-16. 831-7495 mjff.org Portland Children’s Film Festival, Films and workshops at various venues throughout Portland, for all ages, Apr. 3-7, 653-1815 portlandchildrensfilmfestival.com –Compiled by Jeanee Dudley

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Georgetown Historical Society, 20 Bay Point Rd., Georgetown Jun. 22, 371-9200 georgetownhistoricalsociety.org

Bangor Garden Show Bangor Auditorium & Civic Center, Bangor, Apr. 5-7, 947-5555 bangorgardenshow.com/

11th Annual Piper Shores Resident Art Show 15 Piper Rd., Scarborough, Jun. 22, 883-8700

Bangor Home Show Bangor Auditorium & Civic Center, Apr. 12-14, 990-4444 homeshows.com OOB Swap and Shop Radley’s Shop N Save Plaza, Old Orchard Beach, Apr. 13, 590-4201 oob365.com The Boothbay Region Art Foundation (BRAF) presents The Maine Photography Show 1 Townsend Ave., Boothbay Harbor, Apr. 13-May 3, 633-2703 mainephotographyshow.com/2013 Southern Aroostook Home & garden trade Show Houlton, Apr. 13-14, 532-4216 greaterhoulton.com The Maine Home Show The Androscoggin Bank Colisee, 190 Birch St., Lewiston Apr. 27-28, mainehomeshow.com

Annual Wells Antiques Show and Sale 342 Laudholm Farm Rd., Wells, Jun. 23, 800-641-6908 Annual Cornish Strawberry Festival Thompson Park, Cornish, Jun. 29, 625-7725 cornish-maine.org Annual New Gloucester Strawberry Festival 19 Gloucester Hill Rd., New Gloucester, Jun. 27, 926-3188 South Berwick Strawberry Festival 197 Main St., South Berwick, Jun. 29, 384-2882 southberwickstrawberryfestival.com MHD Show 2013 Rockport, Jun. 29-30, 772-3373 mhdshow.com 61st Annual Strawberry Festival St. Philip’s Episcopal Church, 12 Hodge St., Wiscasset, Jun. 29, 882-7184

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AWS Yardsale 6 Hearthstone Dr., Kennebunk, May 4, 985-3244 Annual AWS Art Auction Nonantum Resort, 95 Ocean Ave., Kennebunkport, May 4, 985-3244 Bath Citywide Yard Sale Bath, May 4, 442-7291 Wildflower Celebration & Early Lilac Bloom McLaughlin Garden, 97 Main St., South Paris, May 10-12, 743-8820 Portland Kitchen Tour Portland’s East End, May 10-11, 229-3866 portlandkitchentour.com Annual Maine Iris Society Spring Perennial Plant Auction Auburn United Methodist Church, 439 Park Ave., Auburn May 14, 346-3031 Home, garden, flower show Fryeburg Fairgrounds, Fryeburg, May 17-19, 800-359-2033 homegardenflowershow.com Monmouth May Faire 796 Main St., Monmouth, May 18, 441-7071 Caribou City Wide Yard Sale Caribou, May 18-19, 498-6156

Lilac Festival McLaughlin Garden, 97 Main St., South Paris, May 25-27, 743-8820 Lupine Festival Deer Isle, June, 348-6124 deerisle.com

Maine Crafts Guild Show Central Lincoln County YMCA, Damariscotta, Jul. 6-7, 510-595-3733 mainecraftsguild.com/fine-craft-shows

Wells Rotary Strawberry Festival Spriller Farm, 1054 Branch Rd., Wells, June, 646-2451

Oquossoc Strawberry Festival Oquossoc, Jul. 11, 864-5364

Kezar Falls Lilac Festival Kezar Falls, Jun. 1, 625-3082

Maine Potato Blossom Festival Fort Fairfield, Jul. 13-21, 472-3800 fortfairfield.org

Annual Spring Festival & Plant Sale Wolfe’s Neck Farm, 184 Burnett Rd., Freeport, Jun. 1, 865-4469

23rd Annual Museums of Old York Decorator Show House - Secret cove 2 Lawrence Ln., Kittery Point, Jul. 13-Aug 15, 363-4974

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Monmouth Apple Fest 748 Main St., Monmouth, Sept. 28, 577-4919 Cornish Apple Festival Thompson Park, Cornish, Sept. 28, 625-4993 cornish-maine.org Houlton Harvest Festival Houlton, Sept. 28, 532-4216 Fryeburg Fair Ballard Rd., Fryeburg, Sept. 29-Oct. 6, 935-3268 fryeburgfair.com Manchester Apple Festival 318 Readfield Rd., Manchester, Oct. 5, 215-7487 Annual Harvest Festival Savage Oakes Vineyard & Winery, 174 Barrett Hill Rd., Union Oct. 5, 785-2828 Damariscotta Pumpkinfest & Regatta Main St., Damariscotta, Oct. 5-14, 563-2820 Waterville Harvest Fest Downtown Falls Park, Waterville, Oct. 19, 680-2055, watervillemainstreet.org Martinis and Art Fundraiser Gulf of Maine Research Institute, 350 Commercial St., Portland, Oct. 24, 373-3742 Great Maine Apple Day 294 Crosby Brook Rd., Unity, Oct. 27, 568-4142 mofga.org The Maine Crafts Guild Show Maine State Museum Cultural Building, Augusta, Nov. 2-3, mainecraftsguild.com/fine-craft-shows/ –Compiled by Margaret Leahy

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“After two years of [funding] refusals, we went back to the drawing board to design a building with a much smaller budget,” says Dierdre Nice, St. Lawrence Arts Center’s executive director. The new concept will have “a 411-seat auditorium, and a glass promenade room at the top of the building offering panoramic views of Casco Bay.” Any echoes of the 1897 Romanesque church bulldozed in 2008? “We saved some of the pink granite pieces, which will be incorporated into the base and sides of the new structure.” Look for the $7 million project to start in early 2014.

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“Growing up in Maine, there was always that question of ‘Okay, there’s meat in this part, right?’”says Ben Greeley, the master­ mind behind iLobster. With this, iPhone users become instant experts at cooking, cracking, and eating a lobster. Better still, navigate your way to the ‘best lobster restaurants’ in your area, and even order lobster shipped to your door. Get the Lite version free or tie on the full bib for 99¢.

Butter not included. –Margaret Leahy

Lost your moorings? Foy and Louisa Brown are taking waterfront property to a new level–sea level. It’s “not exactly perfect, because I built a lot of it after dark,” Foy says of their 12'x20' cabin on Vinalhaven’s Perry Creek.

Using driftwood, salvage, and windows from the dump, Foy let his imagination run wild on the roof, where he’s designed a rain catchment system to keep his plants watered. Property taxes? “Nope, that’s the beauty of it. If they make us register it, we throw a dead motor on it and call it a boat!” Louisa says. “Think of it,” Foy says, “It’s another world… away from everything, no phone, no internet, no TV.” Love the blue lawn. –Aaron Rauth

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As Maine goes, so goes the living room. It’s hard not to love this decorative silhouette with a heart near Sebago Lake. Says cre­ ator Nick Heredia: “Once you peel it and stick it, it’s stuck.” Like all of us on Maine. $30, nhvinyls.com.

We’ll Always Have Sanford…and Palm Beach Many a great Bogart picture features a Ger­ man. The Goodall Mills once employed a third of Sanford, specializing in textiles, military uniforms, and the legendary light­ weight Palm Beach™ suits worn by Hol­ly­ wood film stars, Newport millionaires, and Miami gangsters.

Overseeing mill operations was the “Jewel of Sanford”–the 18-room Goodall

Mansion on Main St., built by Thomas Goodall in 1871 and reacquired via foreclo­ sure auction Jan. 17 by Deutsche Bank as agent for JP Morgan Chase for $282K. Will the Goodall Mansion Society turn it into a cultural center and museum?

“It’s looking good,” says Society spokesman Joe Doiron. With any luck, it’s the start of a beautiful friendship.

Bogart works a Palm Beach jacket in 1942’sCasablanca.

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n 1947, world-famous architect Walter Gropius and his subsidiary group, The Architect’s Collective (TAC), were commissioned to build a simple summer house for his friends Arnold Wolfers, a noted political scientist, and his wife, Doris, whose father was president of the Swiss Parliament. A decade younger than Gropius, Wolfers had come to

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The Wolfers’ site was a wild bluff on the end of Naskeag Point in Brooklin, with broad views of Blue Hill Bay and Eggemoggin Reach. Cosmopolitan and artistic, they did not want the usual shingled bungalow but something new that would take advanFebruary/march

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Clockwise, from top left: Naskeag Harbor off Naskeag Point in Brooklin; Bauhaus architect Walter Gropius (1883-1969) in a pensive moment; spruce up your Maine summer camp with innovative Bauhaus furnishings that are still in production, including the Gropius Office Chair F51, available online from bauhaustoyourhouse. com for $2,813, and the Rosenthal TAC Teapot from thefind.com for $335; the unusual and handsome mahogany-sheathed newspaper shelf, however, is out of retail reach–you can find it at the Bauhaus-Archive Museum of Design in Berlin; the Brooklin kitchen reflects the designer’s same sleek, clean style; Naskeag skyline– the home’s unusual gull-wing roof feature.

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Walter Gropius couldn’t draw. But he stunned the design world by transforming the Grand Ducal Saxon School of Arts & Crafts into the Bauhaus School. As a Harvard School of Architecture professor, Gropius and Bauhaus protégé Marcel Breuer envisioned The Architects’ Collaborative. Launched in 1945, TAC was further energized by seven younger architects and former students, redefining creative collaboration. Under Gropius’s direction, TAC explored the social responsibilities of architecture. Each project had a partner-in-charge, but all partners met on Thursdays to brainstorm.

tage of the views, be expansive for summer activities yet cozy for winter visits, and be easily run.

As originally built, the house comprised a self-contained main block with large living room, kitchen, laundry, service hall, and bath, and ample and logically placed storage. A breezeway connected the house to a wing of three bedrooms along a long corridor. Additionally, there was a carport with storage. The living room was, and is, a beautiful space. At each end, the walls are of veneered plywood with one window in each wall.

The low rear wall is sheathed with vertical clapboard, an old vernacular material used in a new and decorative way. Along this wall are concealed closets for coats and storage. The sheathing continues up the ceiling, meeting the sky atop the wall of glass facing Blue Hill Bay. In the bedroom wing, the corridor was designed with alternating high and low windows for views and privacy.

Of his own house in Lincoln, Massachusetts, Gropius wrote, “I made it a point to absorb into my own conception those features of the New England architectural tradition that I found still alive and adequate,” and so it was with the design for the Wolfers house–although many of the local

Although modern architecture was all but unheard of in Maine in the first half of the 20th century, Gropius’s vision is expressed in other projects beyond the Wolfers house in Brooklin. For example, in 1947, Lynn Thompson, mother of TAC partner Ben Thompson, had TAC remodel her 1928 French provincial cottage on the East Blue Hill shore, to the dismay of the summer colony. Then there’s the X factor. Where does influence begin and end? Of the 1952 Payson House at Thornhurst in Falmouth, designed by another Gropius protégé, Serge Chermayeff, Earle Shettleworth writes, “I suspect that Gropius and TAC may have provided some technical backup, but the design was by Chermayeff.”

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Clockwise from top: Gropius House (1937) in Lincoln, Massachusetts, was the architect’s own residence; the Pan Am Building (1953-1968, with Pietro Belluschi and project architects Emery Roth & Sons), now the Metlife Building, is a Manhattan landmark; the Brooklin house nestles in the trees on Naskeag Point, .

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carpenters disagreed at the time. When first shown the design for the gull-wing roof and wide overhangs, so unlike anything built before in that part of Maine, the contractor told Mrs. Wolfers she might want to reconsider, as “the damn thing will either leak or it’ll blow off in the first nor’easter.” But Gropius knew what he was doing, and so did the builder. Sixty-five years later, the roof is still in place, dry and tight, shedding snow and rain in winter and providing shade from the sun in summer.

In 1958, the Wolfers retired to Maine year round and made a few modifications and an addition. Windows in the end walls were modified. The breezeway was glassed in to make an entrance foyer, the original natural vertical siding left intact. The former master bedroom was converted to a study, in turn opening to a new wing containing a large library with fireplace and new master bedroom and bath, duplicating the original design and materials. To the original midcentury furnishings, which included examples by Alvar Aalto and Marcel Breuer, were added 18th-century French furniture, painted Swiss armoires, and 16th-century Persian ceramics, all at home against the modernist backdrop. A notable hostess, Doris Wolfers entertained often, 18th-century candelabra on her Matthiessen table illuminating discussions that twinkled deep into the night.

Writer Farnham Blair remembers her as “an equal-opportunity hostess,” reveling in mixing conservatives and liberals, politicians and artists.

After Doris Wolfers’s death in 1987, the house was purchased by an investment banker and his wife, who, after a lifetime in more traditional houses, fell in love with the elegant modernist spaces and ventured few changes beyond repainting and a sympathetic upgrade of the kitchen.

On the market for only the second time in 65 years, the house remains, in the opinion of state historian Earle Shettleworth, “The purest surviving example of Gropius and TAC’s design philosophy in Maine.”

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hen Eleanor Roosevelt squared off against Maine’s Sen. Margaret Chase Smith on Face The Nation on November 11, 1956, it wasn’t just Democrat against Republican, it was rose against rose.

In the National Archives photograph commemorating the occasion, neither Roosevelt nor Smith is smiling. Smith’s signature lapel rose is poised for attack.

The first women ever to grace the show, they bare their teeth with thinly A deep yellow hybrid tea rose with the official name veiled scorn over the “war in the Middle of Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt was registered in 1933; East” and whether the “inactivity of the Sen. Margaret Chase Smith was known for the sin- Eisenhower Administration” has weakgle red rose she wore every day. It wasn’t until 1986 that a dark red sub-zero hybrid tea rose was named ened NATO and softened up Europe for the Soviet Union’s incursion into Hungary. in her honor.

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Clockwise from top, this page: The pink hybrid Liv Tyler tea rose was introduced in 2006 in France to coincide with the debut of Givenchy’s Very Irresistible perfume, for which Tyler served as pitchperson. Said Liv when she first inhaled the scent of her rose, “ I’ve never in my life smelled a smell like this.” In 2007, a spicy-scented, deepcoral floribunda rose was named for first lady Laura Bush; former first lady Barbara Bush worked with the Antique Rose Emporium of Brenham, Texas, to help design the rose garden in her name at the George H. W. Bush presidential library at Texas A&M, leading to a large hybrid tea rose with blooms ranging from ivory pink to bright salmon being named for her in 1991; in Stephen King’s unfinished serial novel The Plant (eBook / Limited Edition, First Edition Release 2000), a rejected novelist gets even with a demon publisher by sending a “thoughtful” thank-you gift after a soul-shattering rejection letter–an ivy climber that eats publishers’ souls alive; no wonder blogger Brooklyn Garden Girl thinks of Stephen King when confronted with the ceropegia woodii orchid.

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Fast-forward to 2012, and it’s “Brooklyn Garden Girl” making the human situation scenic. While she doesn’t volunteer a Stephen King rose, she claims a particularly malevolent orchid brings him to mind. It’s “ceropegia woodii,” the blogger tells her fans.

Green and snarly, its sleepless tendrils entwine like an engaging plot and then close in for the kill. Surely “they look like something out of a Stephen King book.”

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Hungry? Tear into the Julia Child rose. Julia was so thoroughly an honorary Mainer she spent 50 summers in a log cabin near the tip of Old Point on the shores of Blue Hill Bay [see our story “Maine Itself is a Binge!” by Judith Gaines, September 2009]: “‘A tall, willowy creature with dark tendrils,’” as Charles Child, her brother-in-law, describes Julia, her namesake rose would certainly have been an exclamation point at the center of her red-checkered tablecloth in the rough cabin as she served her “Bouillabaisse à la mode de Blue Hill Bay...fish, potatoes, fennel, and saffron...At low tide, they gathered fat purple mussels for her to make Moules Marinières.”

Julia’s rose has strength as well as beauty, like its inspiration. According to Gaines, when the famous chef and author wasn’t sewing curtains for the cabin, she de-barked the logs her husband Paul and his identical twin Charles had roughed out to make additions to their woodsy getaway.

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The Evangeline rose is named for the heroine of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s epic poem of the same name. There isn’t a dry eye in the house when we watch this new bride face separation from her beloved Gabriel by forced exile in 1755 (after the British banished French colonials from Nova Scotia). Though others have played Evangeline in films, they

Stone in Love With You–Dolores del Rio so seductively channeled Evangeline on the silver screen that sculptor Marcel Rebecchini designed the famed statue in St. Martinville, LA, after the actress, who posed in person for the honor in 1931.

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Examining Evangeline’s rose in greater depth, the Rainy Rose Society reports this “pink-blend hybrid Wichurana was developed as a climber in 1906 by English gardener Michael H. Walsh.” It’s hard to imagine Walsh as anything but a Longfellow fan; as caretaker of Joseph Story Fay’s romantic oceanfront mansion in Woods Hole, Massachusetts, his Evangeline was preceded by his Hiawatha and Minehaha roses, also climbers.

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Southern TREE, Northern Girl–“It’s certainly a magnolia,” says Rodney Eason, director of horticulture and plant curator at Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens, of the famous photo of Rockland’s Edna St. Vincent Millay. “It appears to me Magnolia x soulangiana or saucer magnolia.” In verse, Millay preferred figs, thistles, and the blooming dogwood–all considered ironically.

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he first thing to know about the fifth annual Maine Restaurant Week is that it isn’t actually a week. It’s a 10-day opportunity to sample irresistible multi-course menus dreamed up by clever chefs who are just as sick of winter as you are. At very attractive prices. At restaurants all over the state.

From March 1 through 10, most participating restaurants offer 3-course dinners–your choice of appetizer, main course, and dessert–for $22 or $32. This sort of value can make you believe in spring again.

And don’t discount the fun of being out in restaurants full of people having a good time after a winter of hibernation. Restaurant Week works, and that’s why more places participate every year. Restaurants cook up some special flash, and we show up. Adding to the buzz, our week is now well-known outside of Maine.

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local flavor Previous page, from left: From the top: Cocktail hour at El Rayo Cantina, the perfect spot for a fresh, fruity margarita; outside, a flaming brazier warms our way to spring; Cantina treats include a fiesta salad, the pizza-like tlayuda (garnished with avocado slices), and hibiscus-pickled deviled eggs.

This page, clockwise from top: juicy little bites at Sea Glass Restaurant in Cape Elizabeth; making the scene at Sonny’s; cilantro-marinated grilled shrimp at El Rayo Cantina; salad goes sunny-side up at Bar Lola; El Rayo Taqueria by night; butter-poached lobster enthroned upon a risotto cake at David’s Opus Ten.

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“It definitely increases business, and people definitely come in from out of state,” says Carolyn Ferraro, manager of Twenty Milk

It’s all about blasting customers “out of their comfort zone with something new and different.”

-Kelly Nelson, Sonny’s Street at the Portland Regency Hotel. “I think it helps everyone.” She offers a few tempting examples from her Restaurant Week menu.“Well, we’ve got an appetizer of duck confit gougères, and there’s a hanger steak, and sole with avocado and Jonah crab.” 20 Milk St., 774-4200.

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chef-owner of glowing and intimate Francine Bistro in Camden and the more casual Shepherd’s Pie in Rockport. So what is fresh and available in March? “Smelts! We serve fried smelts a lot at this time of year, and I offer pickled smelts at Francine, and maybe a brussels sprout salad with bottarga and fried cheese curds from our cheese makers down the road. Or a smoked haddock and pomelo salad with fried shallots and smoked peanuts.” At Shepherd’s Pie, the main courses might include a “really good burger, woodgrilled, roasted mussels with lime butter and sea salt, or fried clam tacos with avocado.”

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The Azure Cafe in Freeport finds inspiration bringing out “lighter dishes, less braised,” when the week in March arrives, says chef Christopher Bassett. “We try to brighten up the plate with color–I’ve done a pea puree, a carrot sauce–and we use whatever fresh little greenhouse things we can get from our farmers, and maybe even lamb for spring. We always feature local, sustainable white fish–a lot of pollock, hake, and whiting.

Their textures are great, each a little different, and they’ve been going over really well with our customers in everything, even things like fish and chips. Whiting is definitely one of my favorites–little filets up to 8 ounces–it’s so fresh, available, and delicious.” 123 Main St., Freeport, 865-1237.

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In the Old Port at Sonny’s, Restaurant Week is about participation and camaraderie in the restaurant community, and getting customers “out of their comfort zone with something new and different,” says manager Kelly Nelson. Sonny’s regular menu is already outside any ordinary zone, with zingy choices like the Cuban pork sandwich, oysters with ginger lemongrass mignonette, and salt cod fritters with piquillo pepper relish. 83 Exchange St., 772-7774.

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At El Rayo, both the Taqueria and more upscale Cantina next door have Restaurant Week specials, and the Taqueria has a special lunch as well. “It’s a chance for the kitchens to try out new dishes,”says general manager Noreen Kotts, such as the cornmeal and coconut fish cake with spicy aioli and the turkey mole that debuted on the brand-new Cantina’s first Restaurant Week menu last

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t’s easy to forget how stylish it was to use architectural salvage as creative accents and statement pieces–even before everybody started putting bleached white starfish on their windowsills.

As early as 1920, resonant, dark paneling and wainscoting from bygone days transformed new construction at 12 Lord’s Point in Kennebunk Beach with personality and charm.

Recently listed for $2.3 million and originally created for a “Mrs. Violet Stiles,” its original plans provided for Colonial-era woodwork and ancient hinges “rescued from a 19th-century farmhouse that was dismantled in New Hampshire,” says owner and Legacy/Sotheby’s International listing agent Betsy Coughlan of the retreat she purchased in 1992, which she calls “Windward.”

“It’s funny–I do run into people who think ‘enlightened salvage’ is strictly a modern phenomenon. But when I look at our older doors with metal latches, our wide-board, pumpkin-pine floors, and the other really lovely wood paneling and accents in this house, I have to smile.”

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Clockwise, from top left: The dining room owes its burnished Colonial character to wood paneling, wainscoting, and wide pine floor planks salvaged from a dismantled 19th century New Hampshire farmhouse; the kitchen is a showcase for the exposed ceiling beams (also salvaged) and the mellow patina of Portuguese floor tiles installed during a 1994 kitchen renovation; Kennebunk’s remarkable Lord’s Point from the air.

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as Arundel and Rabble in Arms, is funny, rambling, wonderful.

The modern kitchen is still framed by the time-silvered, exposed beams, hand-adzed, that qualify this property to be Colonial Revival as well as Colonial at the same time.

Deep, hand-carved pine paneling decorates entire walls, particularly memorably in the dining room and library above the fireplaces.

The ancient pine wainscoting in the dining room is authentic enough to make the Tate House twinge with envy.

Not that the 1920s-era materials are anything to sneeze at. This house is built of the finest materials, thanks to a stipulation from the original Lord who envisioned, designed, and sold these Lord’s Point house lots against the wind and waves to buyers with the provision that all houses “cost at least $500” to build.

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The viewing area that was built on the roof was created in the early 1990s. “Hartley Lord, grandson of the Lord who divided up the peninsula, nicknamed it The Crow’s Nest” for its enviable views of Nubble Light, Boone Island Light, Webhannet Golf Course, and the delicate curve of Mother’s Beach.

Still more architectural treasures have been embedded in more recent years, resulting in a feeling of warmth, family, soaring privilege, and evolution: “Sue Hall, a former owner, has told me the hand-painted panels in the library were brought by her father” after a trip to Europe in the 1960s.

“There’s only wallpaper in one room, a bathroom, but the extraordinary thing is, it’s original to 1920.”

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From top: The library’s decorative panels, brought from Europe in the 1960s, were hand-painted on fabric and mounted directly onto the walls; Windward’s secret room (a perfect stashing place for wayward spirits during Prohibition) is hidden behind the back wall in a kitchen closet.

place behind a removable wooden panel at the back of the kitchen closet” below the curve of the chimney. So that’s where they kept the Canadian Club during Prohibition!

All of which fathoms to deeper interrogations: What did we do before architectural salvage, whatever its starting date–before 1920 and surely before Isabella Stewart Gardner’s Fenway Court (1903)? Was there even a name for it?

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Coastal Maine Botanical opp rose story

Rock Star Move over, celebrity chefs; now it’s celebrity gardeners. Boothbay’s Bruce John Riddell, 53, has designed gardens for everyone from Oprah Winfrey to George Mitchell to the crown princes of Nabisco and Pepsi. i n t e r v i e w by co l i n w. s a rg e n t

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What’s the most challenging project you’ve ever locked horns with?

The Lenoci Garden in Deer Isle. We had an extraordi­ nary cliffside view of the islands and ocean, but clearcutting 20 years earlier had resulted in thin soils and a monoculture of evergreens that toppled as soon as the site was cleared enough to pour the foundation. The domino effect by winds kept tipping over trees.

Where once a beautiful forest stood, now stood a bar­ ren hillside.

A haunted precipice, something out of Once Upon A Time. What did you do?

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Riddell in his three elements (water, stone, and flora) on Mt. Desert Island; on Deer Isle, a private spa surrounded by puzzle pieces of Deer Isle granite evokes a tidal pool.

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Interview to replant and regenerate this lost cause. We used so many tons of blasted ledge and stone to re-sculpt the site that June Lenoci, the client, decided to name the garden “Stone­ scape.” That’s when I really started to push the limits on how many different ways I could utilize stone to make something from nothing, to make it feel like it belonged.

Please describe your favorite garden in Maine.

“The Farm,” the McCormick Gardens in Bar Harbor. Originally designed by Beatrix Farrand, Edith Wharton’s niece, they decorate Mizzentop, the Mildred Day McCormick estate (today, it’s Betsy Mills and the Collier family) that my grandfather John “Jock” Riddell cared for as gardener and caretaker back in the 1960s. It’s where I learned about gardening, horticulture, and the rich cottage garden history and traditions rooted along the Maine coast.

Somebody has to be Number 2.

The Camden Library Gardens are designed

by Fletcher Steele, another landscape architect who created many beautiful gardens throughout New England. Steele’s site sensitivity and command of geometry, grading, stonework, and plantings create a truly iconic landscape.

They say three’s the charm.

Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens in Boothbay are, collectively, 248 acres of dramatic granite ledge outcrops amid steeply sloping topography. They create an incomparable garden framework of rustic beauty. Fern heaths, vernal pools, shaded woodland moss gardens, natural wetlands, and manmade ponds with natural and created waterfalls add to the drama.

Is this a proud father talking?

It’s a living laboratory that showcases plants and stone, and it’s one of the reasons my family and I decided to move to Boothbay Harbor a year ago. I’m fortunate to have been part of the original design team responsible for many of the attractions at CMBC, including the Rose Garden, Entry Garden, Hillside Garden, Meditation Garden, and Rhododendron Garden, and much of the creative stonework, benches, and waterfalls.

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Clockwise, from top: Riddell’s take on a “Maxfield Parrish garden” in Northeast Harbor employs combinations of cottage-style perennials and annuals inspired by Beatrix Farrand; a stand of astilbe “Pink Visions” adds drama to the foreground at a Bar Harbor residence; a “stone DNA spiral” of granite in the Meditation Garden at Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens lures visitors to further revelations.

with Terry DeWan & Associates and the Arboretum committee on the first phase, Cliffside, where we reclaimed an overgrown, invasive-species-ridden site, sculpting out a terrace, amphitheater, and path system surrounded by native plantings.

Beautiful. Gorgeous. Serene.

You turned my overgrown perennial “wetland” into a showplace, a beautiful, serene yard that I thoroughly enjoy. The stonework and beautifully placed gardens make my yards look like a gorgeous little park. Thank you for everything, Jack!

— Cynthia Densmore Portland

You’ve mentioned Beatrix Farrand. A forsythia was named for her. In a perfect world, what plant would they name after you?

Something tenacious. Maybe a beech standing strong throughout the seasons, or an apple tree that generates year-round interest from blossoms to leaves to fruit–the gnarlier, the more artistic. Something as simple as lichen or moss growing on rocks, clinging and defying even the most challenging of sites. On the other hand, I love lavender and blueberries.

You mean they haven’t named anything after her yet? Something precious–a fragile or endangered trillium or a ram’s head lady’s slipper? Or a fruiting tree or shrub that provides food and habitat for songbirds–maybe a chokeberry or sparkleberry.

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How can one of your landscapes outclass a fast-talking, Yankees fan of a garden–someplace on the Hudson?

A successful Maine garden has soul. The design soul must match the spirit or loci of the site. I use indigenous stone, native and naturalized plants, and site-specific, bespoke furnishings such as benches, lights, gates, fences, or water features to create one-of-akind experiences, ideally where you turn and catch your breath.

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How’d your commission with Oprah come about?

After graduating from Penn (in 1986), I landed a job with Oehme van Sweden and Associates in D.C., the cutting edge of the “New American Garden Style”–native plants, ornamental grasses, and perennials [thriving] in sustainable design solutions. Their work flourishes in Battery Park City in Manhattan, the National Zoo, International Chancery Center, the National Arboretum, and residential projects, including one for Oprah. My team designed her horse farm in Rolling Prairie, Indiana. A pond, swimming pool, extensive perennial plantings, and elaborate stone terraces surround her main and guest houses.

My other clients include Senator George Mitchell, owners or CEOs for Pepsi, Merck, RJR Nabisco, Red Hat Linux, Colgate-Palmolive, Cummings International, and software, banking/investment, and oil companies.

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When I set natural stone, it’s with an eye toward nature inspired by an intrinsic Japanese garden ethic. I work to create an unwritten balance by combining unequal massings of stone.

This is called wabi-sabi, a middle ground between Nature’s nature and idealized nature... without sacrificing the soul of the stone to a machined or architectural exactness. My best gardens are bridged to create a rustic elegance [that conjures] an aura of instant age and integrity–a timelessness.

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Just add water? Do you landscape in blue?

yond. The only garden I’ve worked with that didn’t have water was a land-locked garden I built in Bangor, where I brought water in by means of a small waterfall that became the heart of the garden.

The beauty, of privacy.

Has a favorite story or song ever inspired you…botanically?

I’ve never really designed a Shakespeare garden for a library. If architecture is “frozen music,” then gardens and nature are music that’s come alive. I make rock music mixed with classical, with a hint of blues and a lot of soul.

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I S N ’ T T H AT. . .

The Man Behind The Mask The Texas Chain Saw Massacre’s legendary Leatherface sails among us.

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unnar Hansen’s life might have been forever changed in 1973 when, just out of graduate school at the University of Texas in Austin, he was signed to play the killer in a horror movie being filmed nearby. When it was released in 1974, The Texas Chain Saw Massacre became a runaway success, an instant cult classic, thoroughly controversial, critically decried for its terrifying horror, and of course box-office gold. Hansen’s character Leatherface and Chain Saw pioneered what are now familiar and gruesome conventions of the horror genre: the use of power tools as murder weapons, skin masks, and what Hansen calls “friends in a van going somewhere with one annoying fifthwheel guy who always gets killed first.”

Instead of going Hollywood, though, Hansen moved to Mt. Desert Island to pursue his plan to be a writer. Although he grew up mostly in Texas, his family had lived in Maine when he was age 5 to 11, and he’d returned in the summers during college to work at restaurants and a boatyard. He’d learned to sail.

The island seemed a bit quiet in 1975 after colGunnar Hansen in action as Leatherface in the 1974 lege life in Austin and a hit movie. “I told myself cult horror classic Texas Chain Saw Massacre, and I’d just make a trip to Boston every month or six wiping out the competition, above, racing Friendship sloops on Muscongus Bay in 1980. weeks so I wouldn’t feel so isolated.”

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And? “I never did it,” he laughs. “I didn’t need to.”

Initially, he wrote free-lance for periodicals, among them the Maine Times, WoodenBoat, Maine Sunday Telegram, Yankee, and Texas Monthly. In 1986, he moved south to fill in as a temporary managing editor at The Yacht, a now-defunct magazine in Newport, Rhode Island. “After five or six months, I told them ‘I’m done,’ and I left and came back here. My interest was freelance writing.”

The free-lancing has included documentary and feature film scripts and books.

Hansen’s latest book, Chain Saw Con­fi­den­ tial: How We Made America’s Most Notorious Horror Movie, will be published this year by Chronicle Books. “It’s not just for Chain Saw fans or horror fans–it’s about the history and place of horror in film.”

In the decades since Chain Saw, Hansen has regularly made appearances with fellow stars at horror conventions all over the country, conventions called things like Monster Mania Reunion and The Days of the Dead.

He is featured in a cameo role in the new 3D Texas Chainsaw, which was released nationwide in January. But in the beginning, he

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was a reluctant horror star.

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Why? “Hollywood film people! I knew if I started doing this I’d become one of them.”

Eventually, though, he found his way back.

“For a while I didn’t. I turned down a role in Wes Craven’s The Hills Have Eyes in ‘76. But years went by and then in 1987 someone I knew called me from L.A. and asked if I wanted to come shoot a horror movie, and I thought it would be silly not to. I didn’t realize Chain Saw was big until I (Continued on page 74)

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Wonder Bread. Campbell’s Tomato Soup. Tang. Kraft macaroni and cheese. The good old days.

But kids don’t eat like that anymore.

We’re better-informed about health and nutrition. More families are now making good food a priority.

This is not a fad but a deep cultural shift.

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HungryEYE Petite Jacqueline shows films to children, such as Ratatouille, then serves the dish to deepen understanding.

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hile they are serving more young diners, fewer fine restaurants have children’s menus.

“We see that kids and families have a better understanding because they’ve been

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land, dividing its time between Deering Oaks and Monument Square. Portland was also recently named the “Foodiest Small Town in America” by Bon Appétit. Many of our 200+ restaurants are extraordinary.

But do children and fine dining mix?

Apparently, around here they do.

Local restaurants are experiencing a groundswell of kid customers. Much of this undoubtedly is the result of Portland’s skyrocketing reputation as a foodie-friendly tourist destination. But the food culture of kids has generally become much more sophisticated. Families are leaning away from processed industrial foods to embrace fresh, high-quality ingredients presented in tasty and healthful preparations.

shopping at farmers’ markets,” notes Nathan Nadeau, Fore Street’s chef de cuisine.

“Their involvement is constantly growing.

For example, kids love looking into our big vegetable cooler.”

From the moment it opened in 1996, Fore Street presciently featured a farm-to-fork approach. Such dedication to local farms and suppliers is now a point of pride among all the top regional restaurants.

“We grow produce and everything for the yakitori grill on our own organic farm in Freeport,” notes Patrick Hyland, manager of Pai Men Miyake at Longfellow Square. “Certain dishes like the black tsuke (pork in squid ink with egg) are more challenging, but we don’t need a children’s menu. We have noodles, soup, and yakitori–grilled chicken on a stick.

Kids love that.”

Jessica Sueltenfuss, Hyland’s counterpart at Miyake’s sushi restaurant on Fore Street, is seeing significantly more families dining together. “We have approachable dishes like cucumber and tuna rolls or crab cakes. But more kids are eating sushi.”

Longfellow Square’s neighborhoodfriendly Petite Jacqueline promotes bringing children to the restaurant. “The bistro atmosphere is relaxed and comfortable, so it’s easier for families to enjoy our fine French food,” explains proprietor Liz Koenigsberg. “After summer, we sometimes show movies during Sunday dinner service. It’s been a big hit with the kids. During the movie Ratatouille, for example, we served ratatouille.”

Bresca on Middle Street has switched from four nights a week to two nights and four days, which has everything to do with accommodating families. Chef/owner Krista Kern Desjarlais, who has extensive experience as a pastry chef, sees this as a chance to expand: “We’ll still have an ambitious menu in the evenings, but day service will feature pastries and lighter, healthy fare. This will be a great place to introduce families to creative cuisine.”

Because of tourism, even Maine’s most respected restaurants tend toward casual atmospheres. This lowers the barrier to fine

family dining. Rockland’s Primo divides itself to accommodate different crowds. “The non-reservation open seating is well away from the reservation side,” explains owner Price Kushner. “It’s more laid back and louder. Younger diners particularly like the counter, where they can watch the cooks.

Open seating is busy even at 5 p.m.–no one wants to make kids wait for a table.”

Along Wharf Street, Vignola Cinque Terre chef Lee Skawinski says, “Children now eat what their parents eat. Our regular menu includes kid-friendly fare like pasta, but often they want to try new things, and dining out gives them that chance.” His observation is echoed by his colleagues.

Plenty of ink has been spilled debating whether parents should bring kids to upscale restaurants, but in Maine there’s a general consensus that if children have sufficient manners to be good restaurant citizens, they’ll be welcome most anywhere. n Living in Cumberland with his wife and two young sons, freelance writer and art critic Daniel Kany does all the cooking.

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The Great Impasta, a long-standing restaurant located on Maine St., serves Mediterraneaninspired food with 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 with 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 Lotus Chinese and Japanese Restaurant We

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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 Cavatelli Pasta, Zuppa Di Pesce Fra Diavolo, 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 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 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-tobeat prices. 967-8500, pier77restaurant.com *

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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 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, 347-5687, thesaltexchange.net Silly’s & Silly’s with a Twist, chosen “Best Bargain”

by Yankee Magazine now features something for everyone, including weekend brunch along with vegan & gluten-free options. Silly’s staff, voted “Best Service” by Phoenix readers, presents all-scratch kitchen food in a whimsical setting either inside or in the garden patio. Open Tu-F, 11am, and Sa-Su, 9am. 40 Washington Ave., 772-0360, sillys.com Walter’s Chef Owner Jeff Buerhaus is inspired by global influences. Seasonal menus, accented by creative daily specials, are complemented by Walter’s extensive wine list and inventive cocktail creations. The comfortable dining room and vibrant bar create a casually upscale atmosphere. 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

Haute Octane Fuel glows brightly with gourmet French cuisine in Lewiston’s historic Lyceum Hall

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e’re fired up over Fuel.

The Lewiston landmark is overwhelmingly popular–even at 5:45 on a Saturday, it’s packed.

One of our quartet orders a birdbath-sized martini while the others opt for a carafe of the house rouge–Parducci pinot noir from California ($14)–to sip as we peruse Fuel’s dinner menu. The adventuresome French country theme includes daily specials such as braised rabbit on Thursdays and sole meunière on Fridays. Frites come in a paper cone, with salt and vinegar or bacon dust.

Fondue ($9) is a fun way to start. The Alsatian classic features hot melted gruyère cheese in a colorful pot; fire keeps it hot as we dip toasted garlic baguette chunks. Roasted oysters ($10) topped with creamed bacon, leeks, and breadcrumbs are a hit, as is the Caesar salad ($6), crunchy greens with just the right amount of dressing. Pork belly rillettes ($8) is a rich pâté in a crock with toast points, mixed greens and pickled grapes.

The coq au vin ($19) transports us from our first bite (actually, inhaling the aroma is enough)–pure French heaven. The Free Bird Farms chicken, braised in red wine with cipollini onions, mushrooms, bacon, and fingerling potatoes, is moist,

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memorable, and smoky.

Braising is big here, so I opt for beef short ribs ($26), though it’s hard to resist the balsamic braised pork shank ($21). The beef is fork tender, nicely accented with wild mushrooms, wilted spinach, and fine whipped parsnips that are incredible with deeply flavorful pan juices .

Steak au poivre ($28) is Angus NY strip with a brilliant cognac and veal reduction, perfect with peppery arugula greens and rosemary-roasted red potatoes. Scallops ($24), huge little beasties, are nicely browned while retaining full taste and moisture, served with a delicious pumpkin risotto.

Desserts are too good to miss, especially perfectly crusted pistachio crème brulée ($6).

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Temptation at Eve’s at the Garden: Boneless lamb loin dressed with tomato blood orange chutney luxuriates on a bed of herbed bulgur risotto.

can “bring in crowds who otherwise wouldn’t be here in the off-season.” His special menu? “Maybe Maine shrimp, since they’re in season. Or a trio–trios of anything do well. We’ve done a lobster trio–a bisque, fritter, and a grilled half-tail–and it was a real hit.” 2 Portland Square, 871-9258.

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Bar Lola rolls out a 5-course Restaurant Week tasting menu for $42. “Since our regular menu is set up so that dinner can be more than three courses, for Restaurant Week we like to give new people a chance to see what we usually do [with the extra courses],” says Stella Hernandez, who owns the comfortable and chic hot spot on Munjoy Hill with her chef husband Guy. Bar Lola’s ever-changing menu is known and loved for its new spins on familiar ingredients. Guy

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The Italian Heritage Center is pleased to announce its inaugural Wedding Showcase.

Located on outer Congress Street with ample free parking, the IHC is the perfect setting for a pre-spring event for couples planning a Fall 2013 or Winter 2014 wedding.

Exhibitors include: 3 Sisters Cookies, Double-Take Photography, Annemarie’s Italian Cookies, Dean’s Sweets, Edible Delights, European Bakery, Affinity Limousine, Musicman DJ Services, Focus Photography, Music by DJ Roger Grenier, and many more.

Complimentary beverages and appetizers throughout the show

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“We love Restaurant Week,” says Harding Lee Smith of his three restaurants in Portland, the Front Room, Grill Room, and Corner Room, all of which join in the fun.

“The Corner Room’s [Italian] menu works especially well for the three-course format.

The appetizer choices are easy–antipasti or cheeses, and then a choice of pasta–the fettuccine bolognese was the big hit last year.

And sorbetto or gelato for dessert–all for $20.”

Sounds like temptation impossible to resist.

Corner Room, 110 Exchange St., 879-4747; Front Room, 73 Congress St., 773-3366; Grill Room, 84 Exchange St., 774-2333.

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good value,” says chef Mitchell Kaldrovich at Sea Glass Restaurant at the Inn by the Sea. “For a first course, there’s a choice of oysters from Pine Point, a nice salad, or a vegan-but- creamy soup. I make my own gnocchi or pasta as a main-course choice, along with a chicken dish and meatloaf.

Comfort for the season. One of our specialty desserts is a gluten-free carrot cake–it’s very, very good.” 40 Bowery Beach Rd., Cape Elizabeth, 799-3134.

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her boundless joy about everything from fresh hot cinnamon buns just pulled from the oven to “braised, Asian-glazed short ribs served on pan-fried ginger and scallion rice cakes ” to specialty cocktails: “I’ve got one that has bourbon with bacon– doesn’t that sound great?” 527 Ocean House Rd., 799-4663.

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sels as one of the appetizer choices, and it’s always our mussels with Madeira and butter sauce. Anyone who knows it wants it. There’s a beet Napoleon that does well, too, and then steak, seafood, and vegetarian choices for the main course. We usually pick things from our regular menu and tweak them a bit. Wait till you see what our pastry chef is dreaming up.” Also dreamy: the view from every window at this pretty spot. Lower Falls Landing, Yarmouth, 846-1226.

Restaurant Week the State Hot Suppa!, Portland Hug’s Italian Restaurant, Falmouth Le Garage, Wiscasset Local 188, Portland The Lucerne Inn, Dedham Mac’s Grill, Auburn Natalie’s Restaurant, Camden Nautilus Seafood & Grill, Belfast Old Port Sea Grill, Portland One Dock at the Kennebunkport Inn Pepperclub/Good Egg Cafe, Portland Petite Jacqueline, Portland Ribollita, Portland RîRa Irish Pub, Portland Royal River Grillhouse, Yarmouth The Salt Exchange, Portland Saltwater Grill, South Portland Sea Dog Brewing Company– South Portland/Topsham/ Bangor Sea Glass Restaurant, Cape Elizabeth Shepherd’s Pie, Rockport Shipyard Brew Pub, Eliot Slate’s, Hallowell Solo Bistro, Bath Sonny’s, Portland Tavern at Brunswick Station The Thirsty Mule, Oakland Thornton’s Bar and Grille, South Portland Twenty Milk Street, Portland Vignola Cinque Terre, Portland Walter’s, Portland White Cap Grille, Portand Zapoteca Restaurante Y Tequileria, Portland

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Academe, in Kennebunk, has also matriculated for year number four. “We love the philosophy behind MRW, encouraging people to get out and try new places. Offering seasonal items makes sense from a quality and price perspective, and we’ve also offered special pricing on cocktails or wine” to jazz things up,”says Shanna O’Hea, co-chef with husband Brian at this bistro in the Kennebunk Inn. 45 Main St., Kennebunk, 985-3351.

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At Fishbones American Grill, which opened seven years ago in Lewiston, chef/ owner Paul Landry shoots for excitement on a plate. “We’ll have lobster rangoons or mussels margarita in the appetizer choices.”

Main courses include a “steak served with Maine shrimp risotto and a garlic sauce, panko-crusted haddock with native fingerlings, and pork medallions in a schnitzel style, with breading made from crumbs of toasted grains from Baxter Brewing–we’ve toasted these grains before and they’re a unique, nutty, crispy, unusually flavorful thing.”

And here’s a sinful dessert you won’t find elsewhere: “Maine apple fritter with maple

Signature Events The Breakfast Cook-off March 1, 7-9 a.m.

This wildly popular kick-off event has drawn throngs to Sea Dog Brewing for the past 3 years. The Good Table Restaurant’s Creme Brulée French Toast has dominated first place all three years. $20, Sea Dog Brewing Co., 125 Western Ave., South Portland, seadogbrewing.com ”Signature Event” Bartender & Pastry Chef Competion March 10, 4:30–7:30 p.m.

Restaurant Week’s finale somehow makes the collision of cocktails and fancy desserts at a single event make perfect sense. Fancy hors d’oeuvres are paired with the drinks. $40, Prime Mercedes-Benz, 137 U.S. Route 1, Scarborough, primemotorcars.com

Simple pleasures seduce: prosciutto and arugula pizza and a glass of rosso at the Corner Room.

applewood bacon ice cream that we make here specially for restaurant week.” Landry’s enthusiasm for MRW is catchy. “It’s a nice introduction to Fishbones. There’s something about that Lewiston/Gray line–people think we’re far away, but we’re not. We keep gaining new people from the Portland area.” This is truly a bone to pick. 60 Lincoln St. in No. 6 Bates Mill, 333-3663.

Chef Justin Oliver’s Fuel, in Lewiston’s Lyceum Hall on Lisbon Street, is a Restaurant Week star. The menu’s full of country French bistro hits like escargots, cassoulet, coq au vin and filet mignon, but he also offers an off-the-cuff “feed me” menu to interested whole tables upon request.

“They tell me what they like,”Oliver laughs, “and what they don’t like, and I make them something for dinner. We can do this any night.” As in, ‘Try me. I dare you.’ 49 Lisbon St., Lewiston, 333-3835.

(See our review of Fuel, page 67.)

Which somehow captures the spirit of Restaurant Week: surprise, camaraderie, and originality, with a dash of devil-may-care experimentation. If there are rush tickets to theater, why shouldn’t there be rush tickets to cuisine? Join the madding crowd, because this is the week that is. n

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“They’re fun. Most people just want to talk about Chain Saw. You have to get up and talk to the audience for a few minutes at these things. After doing the first few, I asked the promoters if I could talk about something besides Chain Saw, and they said, you can talk about anything you want. So at the next one, I started talking about what I was working on then. In less than three minutes, I lost 800 people. So I said, ‘…and that reminds me of something in Chain Saw...’ and I heard 800 heads snap back.”

Where do a horror film star and his sweetheart go to see a movie on Mt. Desert?

“Bar Harbor has a movie house where you can have pizza for dinner while you watch, but the selection is limited with just two screens. We see most movies and horror films on Netflix. We’ve got The Devil’s Rejects tomorrow night–the sequel to House of 1,000 Corpses. I have to watch some of this stuff just to keep up! Horror almost never reaches Bar Harbor.“ The 3D Texas Chainsaw had yet to come to town, so Hansen hadn’t seen it. “I may go up to Bangor, at some point, if it’s there, if I have time…Right now, I’m working on a rewrite of a script I already sold. They’re talking about maybe shooting in the spring.

It’s called Death House.”

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sides. “But then...” He waves his arms as the compression-and-release effect from front to back sends us to the windows like a slingshot. “I’ve seen storms uncover the bones of a schooner out there.”

He indicates a cool sweep of sand near the Ogunquit line. “This view is different every time you look at it,” from dramatic white spume to the cool colors of the sea...the Moody blues. “I’ve also seen a right whale wash up on the shore, moose on the beach, deer, and, of course, seals.”

“The original home was very small–a beach camp” on one of the fairly generous but identically sized (.16-acre, 7,100-squarefoot) oceanfront lots for which this neighborhood is famous, LaRue says.

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“It has been private at least since 1888,” Weigel says of the enclave, “when Charles Tibbetts, a Portsmouth lawyer, bought three miles of beach from the state of Maine, paying $100 for each 50-foot wide lot, the story goes. Over the next few decades, he sold the lots for $500 apiece, including the one-mile stretch bought in 1924 by the town of Ogunquit, who wanted to preserve the beach in its natural state. The farmers of Wells wanted nothing to do with that worthless land. In the 1980s, [one of these lots] with a home on it would sell for under $300K (No. 425 sold for $249,500 in 1987). A February/march

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beach house sold for $300K to $500K in the 1990s–with the first to exceed $500K in 1997–then $800K in 2001, $1 million in 2003, $2 million in 2005.

The highest so far is $2.2 million (by the way, Moody Beach is a private beach, while Wells Beach is public.

Here, you literally own the sand to the low water line). Some new mega homes here would sell for $3 million if one came on the market.”

“When we opened this house up, you could see the camp’s old roofline and how, over the years, the earlier structure had porches,” LaRue says.

But it isn’t just the genius loci of the place that inspired LaRue into keeping the original footprint.

“We really didn’t want to touch the outside front” for code regulations and permissions reasons.

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surf, with a sense of safety and warmth enveloping you.

Climbing those glass stairs, you become aware that modernist etches across their surfaces provide traction and modesty while inviting light to fly all through the house. As you hit the top floor, you realize it’s totally devoted to a fantasy master suite where the ocean is closer to you than it was for Burt Lancaster and Deborah Kerr in the surf scene in From Here to Eternity.

This commanding perspective doesn’t mean there aren’t three more bedrooms and three full baths in this house, thanks to lovely contemporary accommodations in the concrete foundation level below the main entertaining floor, all painted in shades of the ocean’s ever-changing personality.

The town of Wells assesses the total parcel at $1,511,930; taxes are $13,040.

“This house has actually had two phases of updating. Before Dr. Michael J. O’Connell, the present seller, the previous owners were the very prominent Tamposi family from New Hampshire;

Leslie R. Gass, D.O. the father lived here. He’s the one who ran this I-beam through the house,” Weigel says, with LaRue adding more steel, much more glass, and more edges.

The Tamposi family saga, including litigation, would probably make better TV than Downton Abbey or Dallas. According to The New York Times, Samuel A. Tamposi (August 31, 1924-May 25, 1995) was “New Hampshire’s largest commercial real estate developer” who started out as an Electrolux vacuum cleaner salesman. “Mr. Tamposi made his fortune buying and selling land and persuading Fortune 500 companies like Anheuser-Busch, Digital Equipment, and Raytheon to build plants in New Hampshire.

[Former New Hampshire Sen. Warren] Rudman said...Mr. Tamposi ‘brought more jobs to New Hampshire than all of the economic authorities in all of the state’s cities and townships put together.’”

According to Wikipedia, Sam Tamposi, Sr., was also known for “his friendship with Ted Williams [a financial partner in the multimillion-dollar Citrus Hills development in Florida, which, according to the New York Times includes two Arnold Palmer-designed golf courses], and association with the Boston Red Sox.“ Sam Jr. still has a “limited partnership” with the baseball team, according to the site.

The Nashua Telegraph has reported (September 26, 2010) that battles between Sam Sr.’s survivors focused on “some 400 properties in New Hampshire and Florida, worth roughly $70 million. Their debts totaled roughly $50 million, however.”

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24 Longmeadow Rd. • Scarborough • 885-9993 • Fax: 885-9168

Portland New in 2006, this fabulous intown townhome offers the most on Portland’s peninsula! Chinese mahogany wood floors, gas fireplace, central air & vac, and designer master bath w/bubble jet tub. 2 private decks,private garage and water views from every room! $ 449,000

Portland Enjoy the convenience of intown living; 1st floor in the Arts District! This neat and clean 2 bedroom condo has hardwood floors throughout w/direct access to common garden at your back door! Many building improvements make this a sound investment. Pets okay. $178,500.

151 Newbury Street, Portland, ME 04101 www.Ed-Gardner.com 207-773-1919

237 Waldoboro Road, Jefferson, ME 04348 • 207-549-5657 • FAX 207-549-5647

Somerville A horse lover’s dream–field, pond and privacy. Home has radiant heat, 3 bedrooms, 2 baths, sunroom, 2 car garage, lovely patio and gardens $ 299,000

Jefferson Beautiful home with deeded access to Damariscotta Lake. Home has 3 bedrooms with cathedral ceilings, 2 bathrooms, sunroom, screen porch, full basement and open concept living on the first floor.

Enjoy evenings on the front porch overlooking the lake. $ 249,900

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Beautifully Updated w/4-BR, 4 Bath, Roomy & Bright, RL Views. $349,000

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Custom Built 4-BR Log Home on 3+ Private Acres Spacious 4-BR Condo w/Spectacular Rangeley w/Stunning CupsupticLake/Sunset Views. Chef’s Lake Views & Sunsets. Many Upgrades, Kitchen, Screened Porch, Workshop. $379,000 Comfortable Layout, Sold Furnished. $339,000

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Well Maintained 3-BR Chalet w/Pine Interior, Stone FP, Mt Views, 2-CarGarage on 2 Wooded Acres. Just Minutes to Saddleback. $212,500

2455 Main Street • P.O. Box 1234 • Rangeley, ME 04970

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$325,000 To schedule a showing, call John Hatcher

Keller Williams Realty • The Hatcher Group www.JohnHatcher.us • 775-2121

• 2 bedrooms, sleeps 5 • Right on the lake with 2 decks • 2 Bathrooms • Private dock included • Washer & dryer • Granite countertops • Fieldstone gas fireplace • All-stainless kitchen • Also a perfect income rental property for investors.

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n the beach, in March, the horizon is splintered, jagged. The air feels crisp and harsh, biting mercilessly at any uncovered skin but so clear the islands stand out vibrantly against the endless blue. The islands float above the water, suspended on warm air coming off a frigid sea. How often is the air this clear, this cold, this tense and taut? A single breath will shatter this heat-wave illusion and send the islands plunging into the sea.

Peter stands frozen in place, nose peeking from his scarf, raw and red in the wind.

“Why does it look like this?” he says. “It’s like broken glass.”

“I guess the water’s warmer than the air,” I say. “It really is that cold–I’ve never seen it like this before.”

He exhales, an event. The steam escaping from the woolen folds of scarf hiding

his mouth looks like it wants to freeze in midair and drop to earth. What drove us here today? It doesn’t seem like 20 years ago that we were towed on boogieboards through tide pools by our parents.

This beach is designed for summer–miles of fine sand, tide pools and waves and warm breezes.

Peter shivers and draws deeper into his puffy down jacket. Breakers pound on the sandbar, the sound deadened by the cold.

When we return in a few months, we’ll plunge into the cool water and try to remember what we saw and shivered through on this empty winter day.

Now wait a minute. If the water truly is warmer than the air, shouldn’t we walk the walk? Peter shakes his head as I take the final few steps to the water’s edge. The tide is going out fast; I can’t see the sandy

bottom clearly through the ripples caused by wind and current. I poke a finger into the brine: ice. That’s not enough, though; I must dip in a toe. I unlace my left boot and peel off my thick wool sock. Placing my foot onto the damp sand is an electric shock. Peter steps toward me, watching, gauging. Having lost most of the feeling in my toes already, I smash them below the surface. The water is warmer than the air, yes, but by how much? Everything’s a matter of degrees. My foot is wooden. Stuffed clumsily back into sock and boot, it hobbles along with me toward June.

On the rock steps up to the car, a surfer pushes past, fully wetsuited, smearing Vaseline on his face to keep the wind off.

Without a thought, he plunges boldly in.

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Preti Flaherty’s Inauguration Celebration at the New Zealand Embassy in Washington, DC., from left: 1. Former Senator & Congressman William Hathaway, Sen. Angus King, Severin Beliveau 2. Rep. Chellie Pingree, Scott Maker, Andrea Cianchette-Maker 3. Sen. King’s chief of staff Kay Rand, President Obama’s director of advance team Emmett Beliveau, former Maine Gov. & present national Director of Military Health Reform John Baldacci 4. The New Zealand Embassy party crowd celebrates 5. New Zealand Ambassador Mike Moore, Honorary Consul to New England Simon Leeming 6. Rep. Mike Michaud 7. US trade rep.

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