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See how we’re getting down to business as a big-league hotel destination.

By Patrick Venne After the disaster comes the inquiry.

By Colin W. Sargent The ebb and flow of John Marin’s renown is as varied as the view from Cape Split.

By Colin W. Sargent

Clone Zones

Portland sports bars are another planet, but the aliens are friendly.

By Christopher Riccardo

Français où Franco?

Maine loves ethnic restaurants–so where is the Franco-American food scene?

By Claire Z. Cramer

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Cover: Prenuptial Tailgate by Bethany & Dan Cox. See “Unbridled Brides,” page 60.

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I love the phrase in film noir, “He turned up missing.” Or “She turned up missing.” It’s phenomenologically impossible.

And yet the Beatles turned up missing on American Idol recently. Challenged to cover famous Lennon/McCartney hits, contestants shrugged and said they’d never heard the songs before. Never? Not one tune from the entire Beatles catalog? Never in an elevator, or covered by a band in a bar, even in a garage? I won’t forget the look of fear in Idol judge Randy Jackson’s eyes. This whole vanishing sense of being here and (not) here. So strange, the beautiful things that get covered by the sands washed in by culture’s tide.

Here in Maine, I keep bumping into evidence there was a world before Star Wars, even as I walk along the waves. One of my favorite talismans is the fragments of brain and star coral I discover while walking on beaches here. Often they’re covered by sand, near breakwaters. If brain and star coral are not native to Maine, and do not naturally appear in latitudes north of Bermuda, how on earth did they get here? By Death Star?

Actually, the coral turns up (missing) here from a world far, far away, carried by curious spaceships that traveled exclusively on the surface of the sea. They navigated by the stars, these arcane craft, and when they sailed to our frigid ports they bore fragrant spices from the Caribbean that could not be transported below the water line because the brackish water in the bilges would ruin what was being carried.

Because the coffee and spice cargoes, including nutmeg, allspice, mace, cloves, cinnamon, tamarind, bay leaves, and dried chilies, needed to be stowed above the water line, the spaceship captains compensated by adding ballast along the keel to keep their ships upright. So while they were docked in exotic planets like Antigua and Nevis, they cut and threw live and dead brain and star coral into the bilges of their ships, tossing it overboard near the breakwaters of Maine ports upon arrival. I’ve found pieces of brain coral on Gooch’s Beach in Kennebunk, near the breakwater. I’ve also found coral at the mouth of the Saco River.

From phenomenological impossibility to devastating bookend or conversation piece (it sure beats a bleached starfish in your window). Or better still, look at it and marvel if you find a piece among the rocks and seaweed. What’s that Brian McKnight song again? Now I remember. Let It Be.

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The USS JFK Museum is pleased to announce we were the successful bidder for what may be the oldest artifact concerning the USS Hornet–a bronze medallion awarded to Captain Biddle for his capture of the HMS Penguin during the War of 1812. We will present the medal to the USS Hornet Museum in Alameda, California, this November, in a ceremony aboard the carrier museum.

Donations to sponsor the event may be sent to the USS John F. Kennedy Museum, P.O. Box 683, Portland, ME 04104. Names of donors of $500 or more will be displayed with the medallion. The USS JFK Museum is diligently working to find a permanent home for the JFK in New England.

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Impera Lobster Gumbo Cirque du Cinema The Portland Children’s Film Festival April 4-7 lights up kid-centric independent films from across the globe. Includes seminars & screenings for local film prodigies from elementary to high school age in venues across the city. “The Gulf of Maine Research Institute will feature the animal-rescue documentary Otter 501, followed by a Skype with the filmmaker,” says festival organizer Leah Coplon. Also showing: the TED Talks film World Peace & Other Fourth Grade Achievements and the animated quest tale A Letter to Momo. $5, portlandchildrensfilmfestival.com–Roux Lobozzo

Lost your edge? Auburn’s New England School of Metalwork will help you find your inner bladesmith. “Now that the American Bladesmithing Society has ranked us in the top three in the country,” says Nicolas Rossi, “enrollment has skyrocketed.”

Beginners sharpen their skills in Japanese kitchen cutlery, folded Damascus steel, swordsmithing, and leather sheathing. “Student trends drive our instruction,” says Rossi. This spring, look for world-renowned blacksmith Kevin Cashen, star of PBS’s Secrets of the Viking Sword, to bring you a slice of life. Classes from $450, newenglandschoolofmetalwork.com/bladesmithing

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“Maine is really close to New Orleans,” says Gina Platt of Victoria Mansion. “Several Maine regiments were in the assault on New Orleans during the Civil War, and in the late 1850s, more displaced Mainers were living in Louisiana than any other Confederate state.” Then there’s Maine-born Ruggles Sylvester Morse, who created the Victoria Mansion in 1860 from “the fortune he made in luxury New Orleans hotels.” Through May 21, the Mansion hosts “New Orleans & the Civil War,” a book discussion series celebrating antebellum NOLA (April 23, A Separate Country by Robert Hicks) building toward a photo exhibit opening May 1. Best of all, bring “homemade regional dishes” from the Crescent City. Or simmer down and stop at Po’ Boys & Pickles on your way over. victoriamansion.org

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Run for the Roses

Maine Historical Society’s 16th Annual Mad Hatter Affair blows into town May 4. Show off your moves with the Tony Boffa Band, cool off with a mint julep, and watch the Kentucky Derby live on a 60” screen at The Woodlands in Falmouth.

Auctioneer Kaja Veilleux of Thomaston Place Auction Galleries presides over the live and silent auctions of such treasures as tours of the State House, a historic map of Casco Bay, and vacations at donors’ cottages throughout the state. And of course there’s the Hat Contest. “The wackiest I’ve seen? I can’t choose between the duct tape, lobster, or tropical bird hats!” says MHS’s Elizabeth Nash. Prizes include a bottle of Woodford Reserve Kentucky bourbon with this year’s signature label.

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Carrie Underwood ‘Blown Away’ Tour with special guest Hunter Hayes, 7:30 pm, Cumberland County Civic Center, $43.50-$63.50, thecivicenter.com

27th Annual Chocolate Lovers’ Fling Enjoy a decadent multi-course chocolate tasting and silent auction to benefit SARSSM. 1 pm, seating at 12:30, $50, Holiday Inn By the Bay, sarsonline.org

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Maine Wildlife Park Opens April 13 Visit and learn about the state’s native critters– from moose to lynx to fox to coyote.

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Portland Symphony Orchestra POPS! April 27-28, Sat. 7:30pm, Sun. 2:30 pm; Merrill Auditorium, $26-$71, tickets.porttix.com

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Great Big Sea Doors 6:30 pm, show 7:30 pm; State Theater, $32.50-$46.50, reserved seating, thestatetheater.com

Bear Management Cathance River Education Alliance Community Nature Program–Wildlife Ecologist John Wood describes his research and close encounters with our Maine black bears working on “The Bear Crew,” important research both dangerous and inspiring. 6:30 pm, Topsham Public Library, Topsham, creamaine.org

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Kentucky Derby Live simulcast from Churchill Downs at Downs Club, Scarborough Downs

Caribbean Night With The Pan Fried Steel Drum Band Doors 7 pm, Show 7:30 pm; advance tickets $10, day of show $15; the Opera House at Boothbay Harbor,www.boothbayoperahouse.com

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Galleries Art Gallery at UNE, 716 Stevens Ave., Portland. Maine Women Pioneers III, through Jul. 21.

221-4499 une.edu/artgallery Bates College Museum of Art, 75 Russell St., Lewiston. Senior Exhibition, Apr. 5-May 25; Recent Acquisitions, Apr. 6-May 25.

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Bowdoin College Museum of Art, 1 Bath Road, Brunswick. Simply Devine: Gods & Demigode in the Ancient Mediterranean, Mar. 8-Jun. 2; Per Kirkeby, Mar 30-Jun 16; Sense of Scale, Measure of Color, Apr. 4- Jun. 2; Unity and Fragmentation, Apr. 4-Jun. 2. 725-3275 bowdoin.edu/art-museum First Friday Art Walk, downtown Portland. Visit local galleries, studios, and museums, Apr. 5, May 3, Jun. 7. firstfridayartwalk.com

USM is everywhere — with faculty, students, alumni, organizations, and businesses all connecting to help pave your way.

USM: The road is open.

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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Theater City Theater, 205 Main St., Biddeford. Legends: The Music of Judy Garland, May 17-26; 9 to 5: The Musical, Jul. 19 – Aug. 4. 282-0849 citytheater.org Hackmatack Playhouse, 538 School St., Berwick.

Hound of the Baskervilles, Jun. 21-Jul. 26; Sound of Music, Jul. 10-27. 698-1807 hackmatack.org Lakewood Theatre, 76 Theatre Rd., Madison.

Bingo: The Winning Musical, May 23-Jun. 1; SelfHelp, Jun. 6-15; The Game’s Afoot, Jun. 20-29; The Pajama Game, Jul. 4-13; In-Laws, Outlaws and Other People (That Should Be Shot), Jul 18-27.

474-7176 lakewoodtheater.org Lyric Music Theater, 176 Sawyer Street, South Portland. The Drowsy Chaperone, Apr. 12-27; Deathtrap, Jun. 21-30. 799-1421 lyricmusictheater.org Merrill Auditorium, 20 Myrtle St., Portland.

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 Ogunquit Playhouse, 10 Main St., Ogunquit. The Rat Pack is Back, May 22-Jun. 8; Thoroughly Modern Millie, Jun. 12-Jul. 6; Mel Brooks’ Musical, Young Frankenstein, Jul. 10-27.

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Penobscot Theatre Company, 131 Main St., Bangor. Around the World in 80 Days, May 15-Jun. 2.

947-6618 penobscottheatre.org Portland Players, 420 Cottage Rd., South Portland. All Shook Up, May 17-Jun. 2.

799-7337 portlandplayers.org Portland Stage, 25A Forest Ave., Portland. Love/ Sick, Mar. 26-Apr. 21; Wittenburg, Apr. 30-May 19.

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In the heart of downtown Camden, two blocks from the harbor, shops & restaurants Schoolhouse Arts Center, Rt. 114, Sebago Lake Village. Hold on Molly, Apr. 12-21; MOMonologues 2: Off to School, May 10-19. 642-3743 schoolhousearts.org Snowlion Repertory Company, Ludcke Auditorium, UNE Portland, 716 Stevens Ave, Portland. The Freaks Club, June 13-23. 598-9305 snowlionrep.org Theater at Monmouth, 796 Main Street, Monmouth. The Legend of Finn MacCool, May 20-24; The Knight of the Burning Pestle, Jul. 5-Aug. 16.

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Waterville Opera House, 1 Common St., Waterville. Monty Python’s Spamalot, Apr. 7-14; Playtime, Apr. 22; Let it Shine, May 4. 873-7000 operahouse.org Westbrook Performing Arts Center, 471 Stroudwater St., Westbrook. Groove National Dance Competition, Apr. 12-14; Portland Community Chorus, May 3-4; Step Up 2 Dance Competition, May 5.

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Asylum, 121 Center St., Portland. Karaoke, every W; 80s Dance Party, every Th.; Living Color 25th Anniversary Tour, April 21; Mason Jennings, May 10. 772-8274 portlandasylum.com Bayside Bowl, 58 Alder St., Portland. Jerks of Grass, every Th; MAMM Jams, Apr. 5; May 3; Jun. 7.

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791-2695 baysidebowl.com Blue, 650 Congress St., Portland. Traditional Irish Session, every W; Night with Seth Warner & Friends, Apr. 4; Jason Myles Goss, OKBARI, Evan King Group, Apr. 5; Wurlibird Jazz, Mike Beling Trio, Apr. 6; Barn Swallows, Bluegrass Jam, Apr. 11; Day for Night, Leo DiSanto, Ed Desjardins & Friends, Apr. 12; Lincoln Allen Jazz, Forbes Quartet, Apr. 13; Night with SORCHA & Friends, Apr. 18; In the Round with Shanna, Matt Meyer, Big Lonesome, Apr. 19; Sean Mencher, Mark Tipton Duo, Apr. 20; Samuel James & Dana Gross, Apr. 25; Bob Rasero, Robert Sarazin Blake, Meghan Yates, Apr. 26; Three Point Jazz, Hardy Bros.

Trio, Apr. 27; Potato Pickers, Teg Glandon, May 2; Jennie Backstrom, OKBARI, Evan King Group, May 3; Abram Taylor, Domino Jazz, May 4; Barn Swallows, Bluegrass Jam, May 9; Carte Blanche, Rocky & the Pressers, May 10, Sarah Fard, May 11; In the Round with Shanna, Acheson Gown, May 17; Sean Mencher, May 18; Samuel James & Dana Gross, May 23; Bob Rasero, Trapparatus, May 24; Hattie Simon, Hardy Bros. Trio, May 25; Joyce Anderson, Lay-Z-Gait, May 30; New English Band, Conor Mulroy, Builder of the House, May 31. 774-4111 portcityblue.com

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646-4526 jonathansrestaurant.com Merrill Auditorium, 20 Myrtle St., Portland. Enigma Variations, Apr. 9; Mathis der Maler, Apr. 14; Totally Awesome ‘80s, Apr. 27-28; Mahler’s Fifth Symphony, May 5-7; MOMIX: Botanica, May 9; STOMP, May 15; Carnival of the Animals, May 19. 842-0800 porttix.com One Longfellow Square, 181 State St., Portland.

Daisy Castro’s Gypsy Moth Quartet, Apr. 12; Willie Porter, Apr. 13; Decompression Chamber Music, Apr. 15; Portland Jazz Orchestra, Apr. 18; Junior Brown, Apr. 19; Brown Bird, Apr. 20; Laura Cortese Acoustic Project, Apr. 25; Rosa Noreen’s Annual Springtime Spectacular, Apr. 27; Maya Sharp, May 3; Big Sandy and his Fly Rite Boys, May 9; Eliza Gilkyson, May 10; Tricky Britches, May 11; James McCartney, May 16; Heritage Blues Quartet, May 17; Putnam Smith, May 19; Decompression Chamber Orchestra, May 20; Portland Jazz Orchestra, May 23; Gibson Brothers, Jun. 1. 761-1757 onelongfellowsquare.com State Theatre, 609 Congress St., Portland. Family of the Year, Apr. 7; Three Days Grace, Apr. 17; Chris Young, Apr. 18; STS9, Apr. 18; One More Time, Apr. 22; Great Big Sea, Apr. 24; Generationals, Apr. 27; MGMT, Apr. 30; Rebelution, May 2; Keller Williams, May 4; Clutch, May 4; Silversun Pickups, May 7; Josh Ritter & the Royal City Band, May 8; Iron & Wine, May 18; Bloc

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Stone Mountain Arts Center, 695 Dug Way Road, Brownfield. Alejandro Escovedo & the Sensitive Boys, Apr. 5; Tim O’Brien, Apr. 6; Barn Burner with Christian McNeill & Sea Monsters, Apr. 12; 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; Recession Session with Thomas Snow, May 25; Aaron Neville, May 26; Toots & the Maytals, May 26-27; Waltzing for Dreamers, May 30; Rustic Overtones, Jun. 14. 935-7292 carolnoonanmusic.com

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Tasty Events Toast on the Coast, charity gala benefits Easter Seals of Maine, Ocean Gateway Pier, Portland. Fine food and wine by participating local restaurants, $50, 6-9 pm, Apr. 11. 828-0754, eastersealsme.org Browne Trading Company, 262 Commercial St., Portland. Wine tasting every third Th, 5-7pm. 7757560 brownetrading.com Chadwick Bed & Breakfast, 140 Chadwick St., Portland. Simply Southern Italian, Tapas Party, Apr. 27 -29. 774-5141 thechadwick.com Old Port Wine Merchants, 223 Commercial St., Portland. Wine tasting every third W, 4-7:30pm.

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Don’t Miss Architalx, Portland Museum of Art, 7 Congress Square. 25th annual Voices of Design Lecture Series.

Florian Idenburg, Apr. 11; Janna Leavitt, Apr. 18; Matthias Hollwich, Apr. 25. architalx.org Maine Comic Arts Festival, 46 Commercial St., Portland. Writers, artists, and publishers with featured guest, Jeff Smith, May 19. mecaf.blogspot.com Mud Fest: Food, ATVs, games, music, beer, and mud wrestling. Presque Isle Fairgrounds, 84 Mechanic St., Presque Isle, May 25. 249-9936.

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The Monument Square clock is so broke, “it’s only right twice a day,”says Cyrus Hagge of the Portland Rotary. So why not let MECA students and faculty jazz it up with “urban illustrations”designed to give passers-by a double take? In turn, an April charity auction of the art will help fund the whopping $25,000 repair and maintenance.

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A Stranger in Tangier

Who knew the pride of Virginia’s Tangier Island ferry fleet is a lobster boat from Maine? “I paid $16,800 for the hull,” says Mark Crockett of the 36-foot Joyce Marie II, built at Brooklin’s Atlantic Boat Company in 1988. Yes, but what stopped him from featuring a Chesapeake Bay deadrise for the tourists instead? “At first I used it as my commercial crabber,” he confides. “It’s built for the Atlantic; the deadrise is only good on the bay. Then, four summers ago, I changed it all over myself when we started the ferry service.”

An Anchor to Foolward WGME-13 anchor Adrienne Stein is in the money, thanks to “quarterly visits (royalty checks) from Uncle Borat.” In 2005, Sasha Baron Cohen invaded her Jackson, Mississippi TV station to inflict his schtick on her news crew.

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Maine McNuggets “Taxation Without Recreation!”

The IRS will keep you running this year, even if the Boston Marathon doesn’t. “Patriot’s Day no longer has a tax-day exemption,” says IRS’s Peggy Riley. Blame it on “more and more e-filing, which has shut down the paper processing center in Andover’s IRS office.” Because of its Massachusetts location, Andover always observed the holiday. Instead, the geeks in Hartford now receive most of the payments. Ouch. Talk about a shot heard ’round the pocket book.

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In the heart of the Arts District, investors are steadily working toward upgrading the 12-story landmark formerly known as the Eastland Park Hotel into the Westin Portland Harborview.

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Grand Hotels bold all-glass first floor will have a rhythm which, according to Soley, is meant to be a “playful counterpoint to the structures across the street,” connecting residents and visitors alike to “both current reality and past history.” The 24-hour activity generated

by Hyatt Place will bring a big shot of new energy to the Old Port, and capitalize upon the “intangibles” that draw so many visitors to its one-of-a-kind establishments every year. We all know that downtown Portland has, as Soley describes it, “a bit of magic,” but the Hyatt Place will let a younger international set feel they’re rediscovering this for the first time.

The city’s enchantments are also being expanded by Vin Veroneau, president of Portland-based J.B. Brown & Sons, who cut his teeth on the Boston market.

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Outside Portland, the epiphenomenon of new hotels is echoed by the nearly completed Alouette Suites, designed by Portland architect Mark Mueller to bring a luxury client base to a memorable sweep of Old Orchard Beach. “We think our story is exciting as part of the Portland scene and also as part of the revitalization of Old Orchard Beach on its own,” says Fred Kennedy of the ripple effect. Yes, but why exactly now, in 2013? “We’re a small, family-run business, and we’re beginning our 14th year in Old Orchard. Old Orchard Beach has perhaps lagged a bit behind other vacation destinations in Maine for keeping pace with the newest and best guest accommodations—the new Alouette Suites signals a changed attitude and a desire to move Old Orchard Beach back to the top echelon of vacation spots in New England.”

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A second mutiny erupts during the Bounty hearings over why Capt.

Robin Walbridge sailed the MGM replica into Hurricane Sandy.

Mutiny on the Bounty

The final glimpse of the HMS Bounty on October 29, 2012; and below, handling the truth–Lt. Commander Andrew Grant, left; Commander Kevin Carroll, center; and US Coast Guard Lt. Charles Mellor on February 12, 2013, in Portsmouth, Virginia, the first day of the joint Coast Guard and National Transportation Safety Board hearing into the Bounty’s sinking during Hurricane Sandy.

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PORTSMOUTH, VIRGINIA. The sign outside the conference room with the tall white doors whispers, “Coast Guard

Investigation, HMS Bounty, General Session, Salon 6, Portsmouth Ballroom.” A jostle of TV vans with minicams waits in the dazzling sunshine outside the Renaissance Hotel for a thunderbolt of truth (suitable for editing into a 15-second spot).

Some of the most stunning testimony here is coming from Mainers.

Todd Kosakowski of Boothbay Harbor Shipyard has just revealed 29 photos showing the Bounty just before she finished her last round of repairs, pre-Hurricane Sandy. As the website gCaptain describes it, “Kosakowski told NTSB investigator Captain Rob Jones that he believes 75 percent of the framing above the waterline on Bounty may have been rotten, but that the ship’s representative in the yard, Captain Robin

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Controversy Walbridge, declined any further search for rotted wood. He convinced Kosakowski that they would make the repairs before their next Coast Guard hull inspection.”

In all, “At least four people with ties to Maine [have given] key testimony–two yard workers and two Maine Maritime Academy graduates for the crew,” according to report­ er Matthew White, who has emailed Portland Magazine background insights on the affair.

They are: Jessica Hewitt, an MMA grad­ uate; Bounty second mate Matt Sanders, an MMA alum; and shipyard employees Kosakowski and Joe Jakomovicz, now retired from the yard.

American’s waterfront editor Stephen Rappaport: “In 2006, after serving as the set of Disney’s 2005 Pirates of the Caribbean II, [the Bounty] underwent a massive res­ toration at Samples [Boothbay Harbor] Shipyard... Since that time, Bounty has sailed all over the world, visiting Tahiti and the Galapagos Islands among other distant ports, under the aegis of the nonprofit HMS Bounty Organization in Greenport of New York’s Long Island.”

Which is not to say Bounty wasn’t over 50 years old and on borrowed time by then (there had to be some reason Ted Turner unloaded her after picking her up with

in mock sea battles).

Who had the heart to tell Bounty her best days were behind her?

As I write this, third mate Daniel Cleve­ land is testifying, answering a panel mem­ ber’s question, “How long were you taking rolls of 45 degrees?”

“Honestly, it’s very hard to gauge.”

Who can vouchsafe a better answer, given the 90-knot winds Bounty was facing during the teeth of the storm?

Here, in retrospect, out of the wind, panel members need to hear themselves think: “Please silence all communication devices.

Please refrain from departing or entering the

“...The Bounty operated on the fringe of the tall-ship world, a kind of counterculture in which vessels try to eke out a profit...”

Clockwise from above: Bounty calls at Star Island in the Isles of Shoals; chief mate John Svendsen at the February hearing on the sinking; third mate Daniel Cleveland takes his turn; Boothbay Harbor Boatyard worker Todd Kosakowski, who provided testimony and photos; boatswain Laura Groves is sworn in.

Faces in the Crowd

White, a former Navy man and Virginian-Pilot staff writer, is among those present here as the author of a Los Angeles Magazine story with a West Coast angle featuring deckhand Claudene Christian, 42, the other Bounty crewmember who drowned beyond Capt.

Walbridge, 63, lost when the Bounty sank 90 miles off Cape Hatteras on October 30, 2012.

When she joined Bounty’s crew, Christian, a former USC “Song Girl,” claimed descent from Fletcher Christian, master’s mate of the original 40-man crew who mutinied on HMS Bounty in 1789.

Here in Maine, Bounty was making port visits as late as September 2012, including a celebrated stop in Castine Harbor (tours for Maine Maritime Academy), looking apparently seaworthy. Wrote The Ellsworth 3 4 p o r t l a n d m o n t h ly m a g a z i n e

MGM film rights in 1986). In an April 2013 story for Outside Magazine, Kathryn Miles ticks off no fewer than three of her over­ hauls in Boothbay–2001, 2006, and 2012– while acknowledging the work “never fully addressed persistent leaking.” If Bounty was a wreck, she was our wreck.

Given the kiss of death as a “fringe” dockside attraction, the replica, rescued from burning in 1961 by Marlon Brando af­ ter Mutiny on the Bounty wrapped, had be­ come a floating heartbreak, unlicensed to transport passengers, limping from repair to expensive repair even while the crowds cheered (though not as loudly as they do for younger, sexier tall ships such as the rakish Pride of Baltimore II, which gives rides to in-port visitors, fires cannon while enter­ ing and leaving port, and even participates

room except during periods of recess. Do not enter while testimony is in progress.”

Reef Points

In spite of overwhelming sentiment (crew members excepted) that Capt. Walbridge took an unacceptably grave risk by racing around the hurricane, or even “‘over the top’” of the storm, as the Los Angeles Times has reported, these hearings have now clari­ fied that on the other hand, Bounty had re­ cently handled herself well in extremely rough weather. In fact, she’d sailed success­ fully through “a typhoon in the Pacific” in 2010, according to third mate Dan Cleveland and boatswain Laura Groves.

As for the madness of riding out a hur­ ricane in the first place, this isn’t a new ‘crazy’ idea. In fact, the U.S. Navy ordered

Clockwise from left: courtesy Star Island Corporation; WAVY10 NEWS (2); Boothbay Harbor Shipyard; WAVY10

–Capt. Daniel Parrott, quoted in Outside Magazine.

21 ships out to sea from their berths in Hampton Roads a few days before Sandy struck (with the internet and cell phones at his disposal, Walbridge was aware of this), then reversed its decision a day later. By then, Bounty had already started to make a run for it, starting south in ideal weather from New London in a race toward her winter quarters in St. Petersburg, Florida, where lucrative tours awaited.

Still, a Navy combatant is hardly an historic vessel. “No,” testified Capt. Bert Rogers of Tall Ships America, as reported by the web site gCaptain: “I would have sought safer berth upriver”–snug as a bug in New London.

Complicating this is the unfathomable news cycle that seems to christen every storm the Storm of the Century, with accompanying music and graphics. More and more, the viewer-hungry media cries wolf. With this in mind, fringe-attraction theorists might venture that Bounty simply couldn’t afford to stay up north and let the waves and wind beat her senseless near land, resulting in further expensive repairs. Follow the money.

More inside skinny: Before Capt.

Walbridge left dock in New London and set out for Florida, he called his crew together, told them his plan, and said anyone could leave if he or she questioned his judgment.

No one left his side.

When Bounty started taking on water, it was from a multitude of sources above and below decks. “The only thing that was clear is that there was an open seam in the engine room above the waterline in the port side,” testified boatswain Laura Groves testified. “You could hear water coming in when we rolled.”

The bilge pumps couldn’t keep up with it, the engine went dead, the lights went dark for the last time, and Bounty rolled in a nightmare of screams and bright orange survival suits.

Capt. Walbridge was last seen on deck in his survival suit–shades of George Clooney in The Perfect Storm?

What keeps me up at night: As proof against the icy loneliness, the surviving crewmembers sang sea chanteys in the liferafts as the helicopters closed in the pre-dawn darkness. What song would you choose to sing if you knew it might be your last? n There are many sides to this mystery, impossible to tell in one story. Do you have any inside information about the Bounty or fond recollections? We welcome your comments. Email editor@portlandmonthly.com.

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Unforgettable Who says, “‘John Who?’”

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ou may not be surprised to learn that Maine’s (and Manhattan’s) fantastic 20th century watercolorist John Marin (1870-1953) is dead.

But if you admire his work as I do, you’ll be shocked to learn he’s dead as a painter, too.

In his wistful Wall Street Journal story “How a Great American Artist Vanished From the Critical Scope,” writer Terry Teachout begins, “Sooner or later, everyone who writes about John Marin gets around to mentioning the 1948 Look magazine poll of 68

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critics, curators, and museum directors who, when asked to name America’s greatest living painters, put him at the top of the list. Five years later, the headline of Mr. Marin’s New York Times obituary described him as “Artist Considered by Many as ‘America’s No. 1 Master.’” No less a highbrow than the art critic Clement Greenberg concurred, predicting that Mr. Marin and Jackson Pollock would “compete for recognition as the greatest American painter of the 20th century.”

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is. He’s Ed Harris, the Oscar-winning actor.

But now we’re waiting for the other shoe to drop. If Marin’s work is so wonderful, then why is the world forgetting about him?

“Well, Jackson Pollock certainly jumped ahead,” laughs Bruce Brown, art collector, independent curator, and curator emeritus at the Center for Maine Contemporary Art. “But 3 8 p o r t l a n d m o n t h ly m a g a z i n e

John Marin doesn’t take a back seat to just a­ bout anyone.” (As a measure of this, Brown has selected seven important Marins he feels will stand the test of time–they appear throughout this story.)

Actually, it’s New York that’s forgetting Marin (the fish rots first from the head). Teachout makes the sad point that “it’s been 21 years since a major

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U.S. museum last put together a full-scale retrospective of his work,” then drives the nail in the coffin: “New York’s Museum of Modern Art owns 25 Marins—but not a single one of them is currently on view.”

Portland Museum of Art’s 2011 show, he reflects without rancor (Teachout is a frequent visitor here, and loves it), is “medium size.” He attended the show, and notes that even the Portland catalog laments that Marin is now “the missing man among the pantheon of great American modernists.”

Again, why?

“The standard explanation,” Teachout writes, “is that even though he marched to the edge of abstraction, it seems never to have occurred to [Marin] to turn his back on the visible world. ‘The sea that I paint may not be the sea,’ he wrote, ‘but it is a sea–not an abstraction.’ After the rise of Abstract Expressionism in the 1940s, his deeprooted belief in representation came to be seen as…quaint.”

Marin’s contemporary stylings were too “homegrown” at precisely the worst time.

“Postwar connoisseurs were increasingly suspicious of distinctively American artists who failed to partake of the ‘international style’ of art, be it in architecture, abstract painting, classical music or anything else.”

Aha! It’s America’s “nagging sense of cultural inferiority.” For the moment, at least, the Marin we love is just not Euro-cool enough. Où sont les neiges d’antan? n

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Rivalries, 10 Cotton Street “I like to come here because my groundfish trawler is docked right down the street,” says Rob Tetreault sitting at Rivalries’ bar doing a crossword puzzle with the staff. “I went to Deering High with most of the people who work here.”

Bartender Jen Meader is the resident “Meter Maid” who warns all in earshot that city parking employees are ticketing outside.“We need a light to turn on a signal,” she laughs.“This is how we look out for each other–and our regulars.”

“We’re the only sports bar in town that gets all of the TV sports entertainment packages,” 30 screens on two floors, says owner Lance Meader.“But here, football is king.”

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Asylum Sports Bar Grab two tickets to paradise and you might just find yourself sitting with Eddie Money on one side and Goth kids on the other.A few tables away, a scrum of Celtics jerseys, black togas, and cowboy hats has gathered–surprise–to curse theYankees. Here, the bar, concert hall, and dance club all blend together, and you’re invited to carry your beverage between these

Pat’s Pizza, As the short hockey season heads to playoffs, Bruins fans head to the 20-ounce mug club in front of Pat’s 16 hi-def TVs.“When the Bruins score, the whole place cheers,” says bar manager David Gerrish. “It’s their social networking.” Gerrish is always ready to serve “Kyle, Alex, two different Bills, Leslie, Dave, Caleb, Darren, Charlie, Steve, Patrick,” among many other regulars.Waitress Abby Kestner adds,“We created a

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& Grill, 121 Center St. three worlds.“Head office staff for both the Pirates and the Red Claws are regulars here for lunch,” says Bill Kaspert, bartender for 13 of the Asylum’s 15 years.“Fab Melo came in the other night.” The 7-foot-tall, Brazlianborn Red Claws center is hard to miss. Eight satellite dishes vibrate into 16 high-def screens,the largest at 110 inches.“We crank the game sound,” Kaspert shouts.

30 Market St. drink and put it on our menu based on Kyle. The “Mug 12 Margarita” has a splash of cranberry juice–Kyle’s mug is No. 12, and he’s been drinking margaritas this way ever since we opened 3 years ago.”

“You can get a group of your buddies and watch the Bruins game on our 10-foot, pull-down projection TV upstairs,” Gerrish says, adding a secret:“What people don’t know is that the space is reserved at no fee. ”

Binga’s Stadium, 77 Free St. “We’ve got the biggest smoker in the state,” says floor manager Elena Senore.“It’s 10 feet long with 10 separate racks inside.We can smoke whole pigs.” Thirty two sauces dreamed up by Binga’s guru Heather Gibson flavor their namesake chicken wings and can be paired with 26 draft beers.

To catch a view of most of the 20 screens,“the upper

deck is great,” says Alec Altman. If you’re there for just one game, enjoy “individual TVs in the booths.” When things get elbow to elbow, slip downstairs to luxuriate “in 12 first-class United Airlines seats,” says Altman.

“Regulars love them and tend to take that space over” to play skee ball or pool while watching nine 54-inch screens.“You can reserve them, but you don’t have to.”

Pizza Villa, 940 Congress St. “Pizza-Villains,” as the insiders style them­selves, love the guy in the Hawaiian shirt (he has 4 dozen),” bartender Doug Johnson. “The shirts I pick up in the Caribbean every year made in St. Lucia get the best reaction.”

To act like a regular, you’re going to have to order the garlic chicken pizza.As for what to drink with it “Although most people order draft beer, our whiskey

sales are right up there.” (Did we mention this place is right by the Greyhound Bus Station?) Better bring your Benjamins, too because although you can pay for your pies with plastic,it’s cash-only up front at the bar– and there’s a $2 service fee the ATM. n

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We’re a food-crazy border state, so where are the starry Franco-American restaurants?

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veryone knows poutine, the retro pile-up of french fries, gravy, and cheese curds. The hearty Canadian treat has rocketed into the wider foodie-sphere and can be found all around Portland, including in a few fancy iterations like the East Ender’s lobster poutine and Duckfat’s silken version with local cheese curds and duck gravy.

But where is the rest of traditional Franco-American or Acadian cuisine? Not the fancy dishes from France that everyone knows, such as escargots and boeuf bourguignon, but the hearty, filling home cooking based in French and French Canadian traditional recipes, later invigorated with seasonal ingredients available in Acadian settlements in Aroostook and Hancock County–pork, salmon, and potatoes. Ployes, the pancakes or griddle bread, spring from milled Aroostook buckwheat. Tourtière, a holiday meat pie made of ground pork and onions in a pastry crust, was once the traditional meal after midnight mass on Christmas Eve, and tarte au saumon (salmon pie) also baked in pastry, can be wrapped and taken into the woods for a day of logging, hunting, or fishing. Cretons, the lightly spiced coarse pâté of minced pork, make a sturdy breakfast when spread on bread.

The legendary E. W. Mailhot Sausage Co. in Lewiston produces pork sausages, blood sausages, cretons, salmon pies, and pork pies and distributes them to markets large and small, from mom and pop shops to Hannaford supermarkets, all over Maine and into New Hampshire and Massachusetts. So why does the wholesale business

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Franco? extend to just a few restaurants? Is there no way to recast these savory specialties as upscale offal in the manner of sweetbreads and brains?

Remember when everyone was mad for bone marrow?

“You got me there. I just don’t know,” says Marc Mailhot. “I’m doing what my father and grandfather did, and this is my market.

People cook at home. They tell me new things they do with our products. Someone told me they put cretons into crab rangoon shells and fried them up for appetizers. People put it on crackers with cream cheese to have with drinks.” Alive and well in home kitchens, must Franco food remain on the fringe, the stuff of ethnic fairs and festivals?

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“You can find Franco-American food at restaurants and diners in Aroostook,” says Lisa Michaud of the Franco-American Centre at the University of Maine in Orono. Two Rivers Lunch in Allagash serves a few Franco dishes, such as pea soup, chicken and dumplings, raisin pie, and sugar pie. At Crystal Lynn’s in Madawaska, The cretons chronicles, from top: Pork cretons on toast with a dab of mustard make a classic FrancoAmerican breakfast; Sunday brunch at the Frog & Turtle in Westbrook includes subtly spiced, house-made cretons in their signature Franco-American eggs benedict; country pâté at Petite Jacqueline is very French and very likely the inspiration for the New-World cretons that followed in Acadian Canada and Maine. april

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you can order cretons with your ployes, as well as chicken stew and patates fricassées.

Then there’s Robin’s Restaurant in Van Buren: “Oh sure, we have the poutine, and ployes with butter and syrup for breakfast. And stew on Saturdays,” says server Velma Ouellette. “It’s kind of a thick soup, with chicken, potatoes, and dumplings, and that’s pretty much it, but the big thing is the dumplings.

They’re really good.”

In Auburn, Rolly’s Diner is a cheerful outpost of Franco tradition and assimilation, owned by Ken and Rolande (Rolly) Blais for the past 19 years. “We serve salmon pies from Grant’s Bakery in Lewiston on Fridays. A wedge of pie with a choice of potato and egg sauce–real simple, but traditional–it’s a bechamel sauce with hardboiled eggs chopped up in it,” says Ken. He acknowledges the difference between French and Franco-American food.

French restaurants “are really fine French dining.” Deep down, “Franco food is comfort food.” He calls patates fricassées thrifty reuse: “They’d take cold leftover potatoes and fry them like home fries with pieces of salt pork.

We don’t make them here, but we serve cretons–people spread it on toast or make it into a sandwich. Then there’s our creton-and-cheese omelet. And ployes, sure. A lot of the traditional Franco things make great breakfast.” Call Rolly’s a full participant in the local FrancoAmerican food economy, serving Grant’s pies, Mailhot’s sausages, and using ploye mix from Bouchard Family Farms in Fort Kent.

Bags of Bouchard’s mixes, like Mailhot’s sausages, can be found in markets all over Maine. The company grows and mills its own buckwheat and has been packaging and selling it for 30 years. As a fat- and gluten-free vegan product, ployes, the humble breakfast companion to maple syrup and dipper for chicken stew, is poised for stardom.

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Delicately spiced house-made cretons headline the Franco-American eggs benedict offered for brunch at the Frog & Turtle pub in Westbrook. Owner/chef James Tranchemontagne says the story of Franco cuisine is “complicated…it doesn’t translate to com-

mercial success…a lot of it is filler food–turnips, apples, carrots, head cheese, sugar pie.

I do a lot of stuff here [at the pub] that stems from my upbringing, but…French-Canadian is more of the culture of the people than a style of their food. I come from a large family. There was no money to go out and the meals at home were way better.”

Rhea Côté Robbins, author of the memoir Wednesday’s Child, echoes Tranchemontagne’s sentiments. “Atmosphere provides the flavor in which the dishes are served…

You can go to places in Maine and get the full-fledged real-deal atmosphere of the culture at some of the festivals in the French heritage towns, [where] you can find the traditional foods for sale. [But] class is assigned to those foods, and that is an invisible barrier.” Regarding the concept of a four-star Franco-centric restaurant: “Given the climate in which the Franco-American culture exists, a parallel or underground universe, it will take some time. We need some type of youthful creativity that takes the ordinary to places such as the [Frog &Turtle does] in

Westbrook. But I bet it will happen.”

And maybe we ought to just appreciate the similarities between French and Franco food and not over-think the issue. You can order crèpes at Rolly’s, made with Memère Blais’s recipe, and you can find French crèpes in Portland at the Merry Table crèperie and at Petite Jacqueline, after all.

Steve Corry, executive chef and owner of Petite Jacqueline with his wife Michelle, insists, “We stick to classic French bistro dishes here.” But when Jacqueline’s chef Ian Hayward presents a wooden board on which neat triangles of pâté de campagne with baguette toasts and grainy mustard are prettily arranged, who can argue that this is not the city cousin to country cretons?

None of which will put Justin Timberlake in a booth at Rolly’s Diner in Auburn, as was claimed in a TripAdvisor posting that spread elsewhere on the internet. “Just a prank, but we got a kick out of it,” says Ken Blais. Hey, it sounded plausible. Maybe that’s all it takes. For anything exciting to happen, it has to begin with wishful thinking. n

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WE ARE SPEEDING through the woods in a white van. A baby-faced freedom fighter, WHITE SUNGLASSES, is at the wheel. He yells to his comrades, “Weapons hot–eliminate all hostilities!”

The bay doors slide open. TWO SOLDIERS swing out with automatic weapons as the camera VIBRATES. POV WHITE SUNGLASSES. Now we’re zooming toward two young SENTRIES blocking our way. Clearly visible behind

them is a “Welcome Golfers!”sign. In spite of its otherness, the setting looks suspiciously like…the former Brunswick Naval Air Station.

The laser soundtrack bumps with a glitchy, industrial beat like a first-personshooter video game, except this is real movie footage.

After a less-than-polite exchange of GUNFIRE, the sentries’ upper torsos EXPLODE into red mist as we careen past.

We call it art when Oliver Stone and Katherine Bigelow fictionalize warfare and violence on screen, so why do we slap their wrists when Brunswick teen filmmakers do the same thing? A closer look at the controversy reveals that, in fact, the kids are all right.

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Seventeen B Two more armed GUARDS in BLACK HOODIES flank a large stenciled GATE CLOSED sign. Good luck to them!

The driver’s-side shooter, bandoliered and one-handing a Kalashnikov-like AIRSOFT gun, add two more to the body count as we swing right around the concrete barrier.

ANOTHER DEFENDER, looking a bit like the honor student you saw stacking books at Curtis Memorial Library, menac-

es in black hoodie until he, too, falls victim to SPECIAL FX and–“Remember to Like and Favorite for awesomeness!”–CGI (computer-generated images).

TIGHT SHOT on a SNIPER IN BLACK, his scope locked on the approaching van.

A CLOSER LOOK reveals his ski goggles.

(Sugarloaf USA?) WE FOLLOW the sniper’s bullet from his gun until it smashes the driver’s-side window into another red explosion… BRAVO THREE is down!

efore you dismiss this as a film club movie created in Brunswick by a group of high-school students, fully as sweet as it is scary, consider: Along with a suite of other YouTube clips by the talented USN Films, this three-minute, fifty-seven-second independent film entitled The Extraction has earned no fewer than 9,308,000 internet views and is still clicking.

When you select it, a POP-UP ad for Blackberry shimmers onscreen.

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USN Films, led by Brunswick High senior Paul Kousky, produces short, violent, stylized movies involving hostage situations, guerilla warfare, and zombies. Kousky and his team film all over Brunswick, on public and private property.

Kousky started making films several years ago, encouraged by a teacher in middle school, and has learned editing techniques from a filmmaker he follows on YouTube. “FreddyW makes movies like this, and he also produces tutorials,” says Kousky. “We use Airsoft guns on our films. They aren’t loaded. It’s all acting, and then things like gunfire and blood are edited in afterwards.”

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Once Kousky and his crew punched up their efforts with sophisticated special effects, people started paying attention. The crew’s first YouTube channel gained thousands of views, and Kousky saw the opportunity to turn a profit. Today, USN sells space to advertisers like the University of Phoenix and Microsoft Office 365 and reinvests the money into props and costumes to add touches of realism.

The cash also provides on-set snacks and drinks for crewmembers, who spend full days acting out dramatic scenes inspired by video games, real events, and classic films.

“As of today, we have over 31 thousand subscribers and over 9 million video views for

says. “So far, we’ve made three episodes, and we hope to continue with more. The series is about a post-apocalyptic world plagued by a disease that turns people into zombies or ‘walkers’–dead people who feed on humans and can transmit the disease through their bite.

“Most of our videos feature two teams battling it out against each other. One is what we call the ‘U.S.’ team–they wear the same uniforms and camouflage as U.S. soldiers, and are the ‘good guys.’ The other ‘terrorist’ team ‘bad guys’ wear dark clothes and camouflage similar to what video games portray ‘bad guys’ as looking like. The plots for most of our videos involve the U.S. team rescuing a prisoner, as in

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our USN Films,” Kousky notes. “Our other channel, PDK Films, has 45 thousand subscribers and over 44 million video views. My contract with YouTube prevents me from revealing how much I make, but it is quite substantial. I recently bought a new 2013 Honda Accord Sport [MSRP: $24,180] and paid for it all at once. I’m partnered with YouTube, so they find me advertisers with relevant ads, and they get a cut of the profits. It’s done through Google AdSense, and I get paid each month.”

The action-packed films add energy and impact to common film and video game themes. “Our video series called The Biohazard has more plot,” Kousky

The Extraction; stopping an execution, like our most recent video, uploaded yesterday, titled The Execution; or infiltrating a base to hack a computer, as in Amphibious Assault.”

A January 2013 story about the teens in the Portland Press Herald mentioned a video on their YouTube channel that had been filmed at the former Brunswick Naval Air Station and at Curtis Memorial Library. This caught the attention of the Regional Development Authority. The agency contacted local police, who then issued a trespass warning to the teens.

“Access to the base was through two different ways,” Kousky explains. “The first couple times we filmed there, we just drove through the front gate since it’s open to the public. No fences were hopped, no slipping under barbed wire or anything like that. The last time we filmed there, we filmed at the back gate near the golf course. There was a sign that said the area was open to pedestrian and bicycle traffic, so we walked back and filmed there. People would bike or walk through and stand on the side and watch.”

It should be noted that Paul Kousky (the son of LCDR Todd Kousky, a former Navy P-3 Orion pilot and 1989 Naval Academy graduate who flew with Patrol Squadron 92 out of Brunswick Naval Air Station) is not exactly a stranger to the Navy base, and naming his film company USN is a subtle homage.

“That Friday,”continues Kousky, “we all got called into the office, individually, to meet with our assistant principal and the school resource officer. We all had to sign the trespass warnings.” He acknowledges that much of the community has been supportive, and he understands local concerns surrounding filming in public with wardrobe and props like face masks and Airsoft guns.

“An article in the Bangor Daily News came out on Sunday, then on Monday we had individual meetings with our school principal,” he reports. “They basically said this can’t happen at school, that we couldn’t bring the Airsoft guns onto school property. That’s never been something we’d do. The entire thing has gone on with a weird tone, and it feels accusatory, but people don’t know that we’re not just running around with guns.

“We put a lot of thought into our videos,” Kousky explains. “Planning, between the script and logistics, can take a week or two before we can even start filming. The editing is contingent upon how much time I have. Everyone on the crew is involved in sports and extracurricular activities. A lot of us are Boy Scouts. I’m a Life april

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Scout. I’ve completed all of the requirements for Eagle Scout except my project. This summer I’ll be doing that, making trail signs.”

Kousky is also a lector at his church and volunteered as a student tutor last spring with the Riverview Foundation. (His instructive nature is also seen on USN’s YouTube channel, in tutorial films that demonstrate and explain with his voiceovers how to insert stock video explosions and muzzle flashes into original footage.)

“I’ve been involved in student government all through high school,” he continues. “I’m class president, and I’m involved with fundraising and senior activities like prom. I play a sport every season. In fall, it’s soccer. I swim in the winter, and this spring I’m playing tennis.”

In a twist of irony, Paul Kousky and a member of his film crew, Nate Hassett, volunteer together at Curtis Memorial Library.

While the group was initially banned from the library altogether as a result of the newspaper coverage, the library’s director has since met with some of the students and parents to open the doors for conversation. “A week ago, my mom and I went in for a meeting,” Kousky says. “The director wanted to make it clear that the reason everyone freaked out was because the guns looked real and were displayed in a public place. We all worked it out, so I can go shelf books again.” The library director did not return phone calls about reversing the decision to banish the students.

Kousky and Hassett have been making films together for years. “The first video we made was for a middle school physics project,” Hassett says. “We showed the physics of sledding by building different ramps and showing how it all works with speed, momentum, and friction. After that, Paul bought his own camera online, and he was filming everything.” Today, Kousky shoots with a Canon Rebel T3i and a Glidecam HD2000 for stabilization and has learned the editing process with programs like Adobe Premier Pro CS5, and After Effects CS5.

Hassett mostly acts in the films, saying that most of the production is left up to Kousky.

Hassett attends North Yarmouth Academy and was spared the trespass warnings and meetings with principals. Still, he says, people talk, and he feels the media has portrayed USN Films unfairly. “The Times Record ran an article on us and called it ‘Kids Shooting Kids.’

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be someone would think we were using real guns and call the police. What’s offensive is relating that to recent events, making a connection to the Newtown incident.

“There’s a double standard,” he continues.

“We’re kids. There’s no parental supervision.

When kids are making movies like this, people find the negatives quickly.”

“I think adults question our First Amendment rights because they think that the way we express ourselves artistically is reflective of how we are as humans, which isn’t true,” Kousky says. “Action and violence is part of being a teenage boy. What kind of videos do they expect us to make? A romance? A drama? A science-fiction? Adults need to realize that not only does action and violence interest us, but it also interests other teenage boys across the nation, and those teenage boys are our audience. We supply the demand.”

Kousky sees a deeper message in the graphic films he creates and those that have inspired him. “I watch a lot of classic action movies. Some of my favorites are Red Dawn, Rocky, and Rambo. Zero Dark Thirty is one of the current Oscar movies that I find most similar to what I do. I admire action videos with lots of shooting and explosions because I find it entertaining and exciting. Some adults were appalled at our work, but a lot more seemed supportive and encouraging.”

Kousky and his team of 20 or so high school students are well aware of the sensitivity surrounding youths and violence. “People are jumping to conclusions about us. It’s not fair to say that people who watch or make violent movies are more prone to partake in violent acts. Some people would say violence is being glamorized, that we’re trying to make it look good. But with many violent films, like Saving Private Ryan, filmmakers are showing the bad side of war and how awful it is.”

Paul Kousky has a promising future. “On October 10, I received a letter of assurance at the U.S. Naval Academy as long as they got a nomination for me. A week later, they received a presidential nomination, so there’s a place for me there. I’m waiting to hear back from Boston University with a Navy ROTC scholarship. My goal is to become a Navy pilot,” he says, a position he can reach through either program. And if the Navy doesn’t work out, he has already established an open door to a career in filmmaking. n

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Late-night menu served until 1am. Open Tu-Su from 5pm-1am. 671 Congress St., Portland, 347-7557 Brea Lu Cafe has been serving up breakfast & lunch for 23 years! Favorite menu choices include 12 specialty omelets, build-your-own breakfast burritos, Belgian waffles with fruit, eggs Benedict & homemade corned beef hash. Lunch features homemade chili, fresh made-to-order sandwiches, burgers & wraps. Open daily, 7am-2pm. 428 Forest Ave., Portland, 772-9202 Bull Feeney’s Authentic Irish pub & restaurant, serving delicious scratch-made sandwiches, steaks, seafood & hearty Irish fare, pouring local craft & premium imported brews, as well as Maine’s most extensive selection of single malt Scotch & Irish whiskies. Live music five nights. Open 7 days 11:30am-1am. Kitchen closes at 10pm. 375 Fore St., Old Port, 773-7210, bullfeeneys.com DiMillo’s On the Water serves the freshest lobster, seafood, Black Angus cuts of beef, Italian fare & more.

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did our very best to order just what Sam might have cooked the nights he helped hide six American diplomats in Tehran 34 years ago after their escape from the besieged embassy. (These days, Sam owns and operates Thai Blossom restaurant in Rangeley.)

Ice-cold bottled Singha beer from Thailand provides the perfect way for our party of three to cool down a basil kick. Fusion reigns as we jump into the Equator Combo ($15.95), chicken satay, golden bags, spring rolls, crab shumai, winter shrimp, and vege-

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 * 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

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The Salt Exchange features Contemporary American cuisine in moderate portions using local, sustainable, and heirloom ingredients. Fresh local fish & produce daily. Full bar, Happy Hour, sidewalk seating. Open for Lunch M-Sa 11:30am & Dinner 5:30pm. Free parking in the evening. 245 Commercial St., Portland, 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

Previous page: Equator inside and out; Tamarind Duck. This page, from top: Tom Yum soup; chef Sam Sriweawnetr shares his sentiment to “make it right before it goes out the kitchen door”; shrimp salad flaunts an orchid-blossom garnish.

table tempura. We add a second order of spring rolls ($6.95) to prevent any unfair division. All of the appetizers are perfectly cooked, crispy without being crunchy. The spring rolls in particular burst with the original flavors of the vegetables, just spicy enough on the inside to taste.

When Sarah tells us the sauce on the pad thai ($10.95) is made with her father’s special recipe, developed while working culinary assignments for diplomats around the world (which was how he was in a position to be our man in Tehran in 1979 in the first place), how can we prevent ourselves from taking part? For a second entree, we enjoy the Spicy Combo ($12.95), a stir fry with vegetables, beef, chicken, and pork, and for something cooler, the Yum Nua ($13.95)–beef salad with a delicious hint of lime.

“My father had a hand in designing Equator’s entire menu,” says Sarah.

“There’s a deep sense of his talent in the Avocado Shrimp, that’s made with red curry sauce on jumbo shrimp and grilled avocado. I can’t look at it without thinking of him.” Though Sarah’s eclectic panAsian theme is the secret to her success, reaching all the way to Korean cuisine and original specialties such as Sam’s Avocado Shrimp and Tamarind Duck, “the Thai cuisine and the prime South End location” are at the heart of this family business.

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It’s all about the story. “Our bride Gabrielle Stevens is wearing a retro dress that goes back in time–it has a very ‘40s or ‘50s feel,” says photographer Alexandra C. Daley-Clark. “We chose Wharf Street because it has that old European feel. We could be just off the Champs-Elysées with the street lamps, the cobblestones, the creperie, and the bicycles. When people outside Maine see this shot, they always assume Europe.” Just look at the groom. “Ron Schmidt looks like he just floated up from the Boulevard! Sometimes you see an image and it just has that certain feel that lends itself to be seen in a sepia tone or black & white.” La Tour Eiffel? “That would’ve been extra.”

“I paired a vintage dress with modern purple patent pumps….so there was a bit of ‘something old’ and ‘something new,’” Gabrielle says.

Just like the Forest City. “We wanted to show how beautiful, romantic, and worldly Portland can be.”

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For starters, how about an authentic Left Bank engagement picture, staged on Wharf Street (above)? Who said Portland isn’t the Paris of the Northeast?

If you have family members working in regional arts venues, why not go up on stage yourselves? That’s right, be the show. Lyndsey and Ben Russell’s wedding was so over-the-top, it vibrated across town from prenuptial toasts at Gritty McDuff’s (see front cover) to a heart-pounding reception for 170 in Port City Music Hall.

“The most outlandish thing we did was tap the kegs ourselves to kick off the reception,” Lyndsey says. “It really offered a unique and fun atmosphere.

It felt like a big party the moment you stepped in the door. People raved.”

Other examples of jouissance: “We didn’t really follow traditions.

Bridesmaids didn’t wear matching dresses, we didn’t do a bouquet or garter toss, we served gourmet finger foods and passed apps only (mini sliders, fries, fondu).” Sorry, limo drivers: “We used a school bus as our mode of transportation.”

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From left: A 44-room hotel is now under construction on Great Diamond Island; the Courtyard Marriott planned for Commercial Street at Maple Street will contribute to the Old Port’s expansion to the west.

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in the Gorham’s Corner district, Veroneau’s commercial and industrial real estate management and development firm (founded in 1828 by John Bundy Brown, the merchant prince and hotelier who helped invent and market Portland the first time around) is actively developing a shimmering $17.5-million, mixed-use palace encompassing 131 hotel rooms of a Courtyard by Marriott to open in June 2014. The sweeping project will also house first-floor retail or restaurant space and 14 high-end apartments on the sixth floor.

According to Veroneau, “This property

extends the Old Port west” and will offer the “best of both worlds” by providing a relaxed atmosphere of relative quiet while affording patrons and guests a location easily walkable to the social activities of nearby blocks. The hotel may also, at some point, serve as the anchor to a larger block of residential and commercial developments on sites to its north and west. And if the success of this project is any indication of the likelihood of longer-term plans coming to fruition, a thriving neighborhood is sure to emerge here. “Interest has been robust,” Veroneau says, in future high-end “market-

rate” apartments with considerable amenities and likely rental rates of $2,500 to $3,000 per month.

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Whatever the weather, our star is rising.

Portland’s explosion of new development is being fueled in large part by its status as a destination city. Even during a global economic downturn, the city has successfully added rooms to its downtown sub-market and continues to see major hotels proposed even outside of the downtown core, including one at the heart of the multi-million dollar multi-venue attraction known as

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“People have been looking out this way for a long time,” says Windham’s economic development director Tom Bartell. “There’s been a need for recognized, branded hotel space for business travel as well as for tourism. I keep hearing about business travelers calling in this area having to take hotel rooms in Portland because they can’t find anything out here.” He confirms that Heyland Development of York had their plan approved in January to build a 74-room MainStay Suites and 9,000 square feet of retail space in three phases on Route 302 in Windham. MainStay Suites is part of the Choice­­Hotels network, focused on extended stays and rooms with kitchenettes.

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the Forefront at Thompson’s Point. As proposed, the 30-acre site adjacent to the Downeaster train and Concord Trailways bus stations will house the Maine Red Claws basketball team, a hotel, a mixed-use event center, parking garage, restaurant, and office buildings. Success breeds success–of a yearround nature.

“But of course, a lot can go wrong,”says Charles Colgan, professor of public policy and management at USM’s Muskie School of Public Service. “I think the economy is poised to improve, and my forecasts show this. The hotel development reflects the increase in business travel to Portland” on top of its ever-increasing reputation as a tourist destination. But? “Markets have a way of building things until they are over-supplied, “ he continues.

“If they do all build these hotels and they all do open within a year or so of each other, rooms will be cheap. And this will be a great for the consumer.

“Hotels are like vegetable sellers–they have a perishable commodity. A room unsold tonight can’t be sold tomorrow. They have

The Forefront at Thompson’s Point, viewed from Interstate 295 in this rendering, is ambitiously planned to include a number of attractions beyond the hotel and restaurant.

to be competitive. An oversupply is not a bad thing for Portland.” The great thing is, “someone out there is making some big bets on Portland, and each of these builders has its own strategy. They’ve calculated expected, acceptable vacancy rate numbers, but they won’t share them.”

“I’ll be amazed if they’re all going to pull it off,” says Cape Elizabeth investment guru Evan Livada. “Obviously, interest rates are at the lowest in the history of the world, so it’s a great time to borrow, and Portland is getting a tremendous reputation as the best little city in the country, but who knows?

“I wish them all the luck. In the summer they’ll do very well, but I don’t see how they won’t be fighting for market share in the winter…But they said we’d have too many

high-end restaurants, too, didn’t they?”

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Additional demand for the city’s unique attributes is sure to be generated through the enormous supply of newcomers destined to explore our city streets in the very near future.

“It’s kind of a ‘back to the future’ trend in the way people travel,” says Charles Colgan.

“The car vacation, where you just keep driving, is fading because of the cost of gas.

People are going back to destination vacations. You go somewhere, stay a week, and you want a place with a lot going on. Which is why you go to Portland.”

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Colgan, who studies coastal cities and their economies, suggests, “If you look at similar-sized East Coast cities, you’ll see more hotel development. Charleston, South Carolina is a good example.”

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The next three floors will be given over to 40 rooms. Building No. 20, vacant since the days of West Point Pepperell, will include 10,000 square feet of conference/event space. The venture will receive a reported $5 million from its owner, the Mills at Pepperell. Joslin’s target market is “UNE alums & clientele, SMMC clients, business and Amtrak travelers, and summer travelers looking for off-the-beaten-path attractions.”

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Tourism today is a quality-of-life issue. You want to live here because it’s the sort of place you’d want to visit if you didn’t.”

Portland’s appeal is no longer limited to warmer months. No longer are we a stopover for those venturing to summer destinations downeast or elsewhere, a drab cluster of motor hotels with lackluster twinlobster specials à la Vallee’s at the former Exit 8. There’s something singular about the heart of Portland (consider the new, redefining energy, for example, at Boone’s restaurant on the waterfront), and it’s entirely unrelated to Maine’s status as a popular summertime getaway. Is it appropriate, then, to say Portland has “arrived?”

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April 12-14 ~ 23rd Annual Patriots Day Celebration

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Join us as we go back to our roots, with historical characters walking the streets, musterings, and fife & drum concerts.

Re-enactments, cookout, taste-tests, and craft fair round out the weekend.

Moon Over Maine

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May 11 ~ Aids Walk May 25-27 ~ NAMES Project AIDS Memorial Quilt Display June 7-8 ~ Annual Chamber Music Festival June 29 ~ Ogunquit Lifeguard Dash - All are welcome.

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Benefits Ogunquit Lifeguard Rescue equipment. 5K beach run.

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July ~ July 4th Fireworks August 22 ~ 40th Annual Sidewalk Art Show & Sale More than 70 artists showcase and sell their work on the

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sidewalks and parking lots of downtown Ogunquit. (Raindate: August 23rd)

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September ~ Capriccio - A two-week long celebration of

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the arts. September 7th Capriccio Festival of Kites-Sponsored

by Ogunquit Rotary Club and Ogunquit Performing Arts. 207646-2261. (Rain date: September 8th)

Raspberri’s Restaurant

September 14 ~ Annual Lobster Dash - 5 mile beach

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run. FMI visit www.lobsterdash.com.

October 25-27 ~ 10th Annual OgunquitFest A fun-

filled weekend of fall-themed events including pumpkin and cookie decorating, costume parade, classic car show, craft show, fun house, high heel race, bed race, wagon rides, storytelling, and a scarecrow contest and more!

Rockmere Lodge 207-646-2985 www.rockmere.com

November 10 ~ 5th Annual Celebrations by the Sea Wedding Expo brings together a variety of experienced

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December 7-8 & 13-15 ~ 27th Annual Christmas by the Sea Celebration. Concerts, caroling, tastings, visit

Swamp John’s Fine Art Jewelry

with Santa, parades, tree lightings, Santa’s Village, ornament making, storytelling, bonfire, hay rides, craft shows.

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All Event dates and times are subject to change.

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Tanger Outlet Centers

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Terrace by the Sea

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Village Food Market

Wells-Ogunquit Resort Motel & Cottages 207-646-8588 www.wells-ogunquit.com

The Wild Blueberry Restaurant 207-646-0990 www.thewildblueberryrestaurant.com

Photo by Robert Joyner

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Lovely Bones John Calvin Stevens designed a whimsical enclave on Craigie Street. Number 160 was for a favorite aunt.

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orld War I, the war to end all wars, had changed everything. With his uncanny ear for architectural trends, John Calvin Stevens removed from the West End to experiment with “country living” just off Brighton Avenue, designing six suburban cottages for his extended family on Craigie Street.

“He moved out here because they wanted to

get out of Bowdoin Street,” says Tom Ranello of Keller Williams Realty, who is offering the house and lot at 160 Craigie Street for $449,900.

“From the September 1, 1921, blueprints, we know that Stevens and his son, John Howard Stevens, designed this particular house for his aunt, Mrs. Lillian Spring.”

Mrs. Spring’s husband, Arthur T. Spring,

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Features include top-notch carpentry, classic center hallways with vistas (a Stephens signature), a library with built-ins, a second-floor sunroom with 1920s paneling and strapping (we love the early picture window), master

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PINE CoNE oN HIGH LAKESIDE LIVING,WHISPERING PINES

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Escape to the most romantic retreat you could ever imagine. Only six minutes from Exit 53 off the turnpike and 10 minutes from Portland, this year-round getaway on Highland Lake in Falyear-round mouth makes you feel you’re in Shangri-La. As you take the Blackstrap Road in Falmouth and turn onto Mast Road, you can almost feel the silent lake moving closer as you turn right on Huston Road and approach below whispering pines.

When you reach the lake, you’ve made it.

No. 66 is a classic cedar-shingled cottage with red metal roof and storage building. Inside the vaulted knotty-pine threshold, the door opens to a dramatic stone gas fireplace for intimate nights as you look beyond to enormous blue views of the

lake through a wall of windows that opens to a spectacular second-floor deck. At night, the stars.

It’s impossible to walk out here without catching your breath. To your left is the kitchen, in stainless and Deer Isle granite. Off the kitchen is a bath with shower, and tucked in a corner against the water like the bow of a ship is a romantic dining room below the sweep of spruce trees. You will see eagles from here as they glide and fish across the lake, as well as deer, foxes, pheasants, and loons. You’ll find yourself, too. It’s such a fantastic getaway that no fewer than three novels have been written from the writer’s desk that looks across the water, by three differ-

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ent residents. In winter, there’s legendary ice fishing, cross-country skiing, and snowmobiling.

A spiral staircase descends to the lake-level bedroom with gas heater, all in knotty pine (you’ll love morning coffee on your private lakeside deck), while a stairway to the second floor opens up to the master suite, with full bath, windows on the water, and walk-in closet.

This idyll is ideal for young families who love Falmouth schools and desire an easy commute to downtown Portland, or dreamers who crave the most private lot on this three-and-one-half-mile lake–the closest experience of this kind to Portland and the Old Port. Visit Pine Cone for a tour. You’ll never forget your time here. Not just great for making family memories, Pine Cone can also pay for itself with its great potential and history of weekly rentals. Priced to sell at $325,000.

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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

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Crosby Manor Estates A distinctive condominium community on Penobscot Bay in Belfast, Maine.

Convenient in-city location. Short walking distance to downtown waterfront.

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Starting price $350,000

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Coplin Plantation, Maine–Just 6 miles north of Sugarloaf is this year-round camp with 3 bedrooms, 1 bath, and large open living area. Minutes from skiing, snowmobiling, hiking…Outdoor recreation in 4 seasons. $105,000

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But hidden is a relative term. The shower walls, loosely spaced planks of driftwoodgrey, extend from knee to just overhead.

Above is the brilliant summer sky, with scolding gulls peeking down; below is sandy ground, where strangers’ feet walk by, almost close enough to touch. From outside, where boys might casually linger on their way up the shore path, one can see the bathers’ bare legs–the same legs that were seen, in greater exposure, not moments ago on the beach. Yet the vision at the shower is somehow all the more tantalizing; out in the open air, behind the cracks and knotholes of that divider, someone stands wet, tan, and possibly naked. As a teenager, having graduated to bikinis and solitary showers, Helen would have it no other way.

That is how Tom first saw her, if only her tan legs, the summer of her junior year at Bowdoin. By the next summer they were married, and Helen would share the stall with him, terrified that her grandmother, napping on the porch just a few feet away, might hear (she did). The following summer, there was a baby. Subsequent summers, subsequent children, meant that her showers were once again shared, but only with little feet, everyone in suits or diapers. When her children became teenagers themselves, their showers grew frequent and long, exhausting the hot water, leaving her thankful that her grandfather had long since passed.

What they did in there, she pretended not to know–but was wistful just the same.

To this day, she still thinks of the place as her grandmother’s. But the cottage is hers now, a treasure handed down. Her own children are grown and gone. They returned only this July, the first since Helen’s divorce.

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