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The Most Important of All Early American Tin Toys, the Althof Bergmann Santa Sleigh with Goats (Est. $100,000-200,000)

SOLD: $161,000

SOLD: $1.15 Million

World record for the most expensive map ever sold at auction. Record for most expensive antique sold at auction in Maine.

World Record for the Most Expensive Single Toy Ever Sold at Auction at that time

Division One: Our Rare Toy, Doll and Antique Advertising Division is one of the top three in North America.

Division Two: Our Fine Arts & Antiques Division is currently one of the leaders in its field.

Next Auction: June 21, 2013

Next Auction: August 21, 22 & 23, 2013

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Rare Historic Colt Walker A Company #210 At the time a World Record for most expensive single firearm ever sold at auction

Tiffany Bouquet Hanger (Est. $50,00-75,000)

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Division Three: Our Rare Lamp & Glass Division is one of the top three in the world.

Division Four: Our Firearms Division is tops in the world. We offer select auctions of quality arms which attract the most affluent and competitive cadre of buyers in the world. Over the last 6 years our average auction gross per sale has exceeded $10 Million!! No one in the world has ever attained this level.

Next Auction: June 19 & 20, 2013

Next Auction: October 14 & 15, 2013

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Features 36 Hot Blue Steel

Rockland’s North Atlantic Blues Festival turns 20. Interview by Claire Z. Cramer

151

Glamping, Thoreau Style

Chef Salad

Wabi Sabi Maine

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Navigate your way to creature comforts on Moosehead Lake. By Robert Witkowski

Innovative chefs come to us with fascinating backstories. By Claire Z. Cramer

113 Small World

Cocktail hour, with benefits. By Claire Z. Cramer

123 West Wing Man

From Maranacook High to HBO’s hit comedy Veep–what a trip! Interview by Colin W. Sargent

129 Coyote Gorgeous

Prowling at the edge of civilization, our restless friends are smart, resilient, and misunderstood. By Claire Z. Cramer

Perfection’s imperfection is right at home in Vacationland. From Staff & Wire reports

Dream Islands

There are 30 islands for sale right now in Maine, all with tales to tell. By Adam D. Purple

Cover: Aerial view of Johns Island, where World Heavyweight Boxing Champion Gene Tunney (1926-1928) announced his engagement to Carnegie heiress Polly Lauder. Photo by Chris Pinchbeck. See “Dream Islands,” page 98.

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32 Features

132 Cinematic Natives

162 Music Man

141 What Lies Beneath

166 Big Fish

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Do these on-screen Mainers really get here from there? From Staff & Wire reports

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“Lemon Tree” went global, but the songwriter’s a local. By Colin W. Sargent

Maine’s underwater shipwrecks are windows into a lost world. By Zach Whalen

147 Douglas Kennedy in Transit

This writer is all over the place. Interview by Claire Z. Cramer

151 Moveable Beasts

Why own a piece of the rock when you can buy all 24 acres of House Island in Portland Harbor? By Colin S. Sargent

190 Lady of the Lake

An $11.85M luxury lodge on Sebago tops the Maine Multiple Listings. By Colin W. Sargent

Be a guest at your own lobsterbake and leave it all to the pros. By Claire Z. Cramer

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Departments 28 From the Editor 30 Letters 32 Imperatífs 39 Goings On Special advertising sections

58 Explore the Midcoast 64 Explore the Kennebunks 68 Explore Freeport 71 Chowder Special advertising sections

120 Spirits of Maine 170 Casco Bay Experience 174 Retail Therapy

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172 Dining Guide 173 Restaurant Review Rosemont charmer JP’s

Special advertising sections

210 New England

Homes & Living

233 Fiction

“Echo Lake” By John Cariani

239 Flash

clockwise from bottom left: Moosehead Hills Cabins; courtesy mavis staples; corey templeton; staff photo illustration; Yarmouth Clam Festival

editorial Colin W. Sargent, Editor & Publisher

Dock Shadows by Bruce Habowski 5"x4" oil on panel

Featuring original works of fine art, photography and limited-edition prints by regional and local artists. 372 Fore Street Portland, Maine 04101 (207) 874-8084 www.forestreetgallery.com

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It’s funny, but because Pluto has been unceremoniously dumped from the planet roster and become the Nicollette Sheridan of our Solar System, we have to update an old story (“Planet Highway,” by Tricia Summers, October 2005): This summer, don’t miss the University of Maine at Presque Isle’s exhibit “The Maine Solar System Model,” the largest scale replica of the sun and its orbiting planets in the universe. The centerpiece is the sun, 50 feet in diameter, on brilliant display in the Northern Maine Museum of Science. Then, outside the box, the other planets have been rolled into the Aroostook darkness along U.S. Route 1 like beautiful dice. Venus stands winsomely in the parking lot of the Budget Traveler Inn in Presque Isle, perfectly positioned in 1:93 million scale. “It’s just down the road from Percy’s Auto Sales [where Earth hangs out]. You can’t really see Venus from any of the rooms or anything,” Rick Archer of the Budget Traveler confided to us in 2005. “I weed-whack around it.” Mercury shimmers “above the garden of Burrelle’s Information Services” in Presque Isle. Uranus enjoys life as it should be “on the edge of a parking lot off Bridgewater Town Hall.” Looking for Mars? It’s up there, glowing beside the Welcome to Presque Isle sign on mile 1.5. Jupiter, a serious sphere weighing over 1,000 pounds, is “stationed on the edge of Westfield,” adorned with her moons Io, Europa, Ganymede, and Callisto. Neptune leaps out of the darkness in Littleton, west of highway mile 36. It’s a lot to think about when you’re tunneling through the darkness with your high beams on this summer. By now you’ll have noticed I haven’t mentioned Pluto. “It’s probably in somebody’s desk drawer” since its declassification as a planet, joked our associate publisher, Jesse Stenbak. “Or maybe in a coffee can.” Not a bad guess. Since the scale model’s just one inch in diameter, it’s pretty Pluto’s Actual Size portable. But something’s kept me up at night, wondering what’s happened (1:93 million scale) to Pluto (woodchipper, like in Fargo?). I felt sorry for it when out of nowhere the International Astronomical Union declared it was no longer a planet in 2006–did they think planets, however “trans-Neptunian,” had no feelings? No one likes to be marginalized. Pluto has an astonishing society backstory. Did you know it was discovered by a group led by Percy Lowell (1855-1916), astronomer, author of Occult Japan, and brother to the marginalized poet Amy Lowell? The very name of Pluto was selected because it begins with the PL from Percy Lowell. How very New England. Think of the champagne cocktails. They probably announced Pluto’s debut in Boston’s Parker House hotel. And now, poor Pluto–locked in a dark drawer with no air holes, unremembered and unloved… We called to find out. “Don’t worry,” says Jennet Nelson of the Houlton Information Center. “We’re keeping Pluto. We grandfathered him in. He’s ours.” That’s so Maine! Even science takes a vacation here. If we like you, you’re in. Because you’re one of us, baby. Meanwhile, “the students of UMPI have added two more dwarf planets, Ceres and Eris.” Try not to run them over if you see them flashing across the road. Ditto for Nicollette Sheridan, who was dismissed by opposing counsel in her suit against Desperate Housewives as never having been a main character either.

from top: Rhonda Farnham; file. “North of ordinary” is a UMPI sobriquet

North of Ordinary

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Thank you for the excellent article about aquaculture salmon in the current PM [“Search for the Alpha Salmon,” by Claire Z. Cramer, May 2013]. You have intelligently written a clear, objective, and accurate piece about farm-raised salmon that should be submitted to a national publication. As one of the co-founders of Sullivan Harbor Farm Smokehouse in Hancock, we’ve fought the aquaculture misinformation battle for over 20 years. Yes, back in the “good old days” during the 1980s and 1990s, [the] aquaculture [community] here in Maine (and elsewhere) did not necessarily do their due diligence by being the responsible stewards of the ocean that the harvesters are today. Strict guidelines, fanatic attention to detail, responsible feeding, harvesting, and maintenance are now in place and accepted by all the aquaculture companies, both here in Maine and New Brunswick. As to “wild salmon” and fish imported from Norway, Scotland or Chile... we wouldn’t even consider it. Fresh and local is our credo. Sadly, so much of the information from many years past still fills the airwaves with alarmist consumers who haven’t been able to accept the current health, environmental, and cultural benefits of farm-raised salmon. You’ve done a great job dispelling those myths by interviewing our friend Sebastian

Bell throughout the piece, which, in my mind, brings credibility to your well researched article. Leslie Harlow, Co-Founder, Sullivan Harbor Farm, Sullivan

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I just read your story “Search for the Alpha Salmon” in the May issue. Kudos to Claire Z. Cramer for writing a thoughtful, fact-based piece on salmon. Don Perkins, President, Gulf of Maine Research Institute, Portland

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[I recently filmed Harry Truman’s derelict presidential yacht, USS Williamsburg, moored here in Liguria.] Oddly enough, we met NBC people [doing the same thing], and I found out we’d [both] been inspired by the same article by Steve Lindsey in Portland Magazine. [See “Dream Boat,” May 2012.] It was fun dealing with the Old Lady. Let’s hope that “the proof of the pudding is in the eating!” Giovanni F. Oddone, La Spezia, Italy

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City Theater, 205 Main St. Biddeford. 9 to 5, Jul. 19-Aug. 4; Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, Aug., 23-Sep. 1. 282-0849 citytheater.org Fenix Theatre Company, 17 Spear Ave., S. Portland. Romeo and Juliet, Jul. 18-Aug. 10. 865-6355 fenixtheatre.com Figures of Speech, 77 Durham Rd., Freeport. Puppetry workshop, Jul. 3; Call for summer schedule. 865-6355 figures.org Freeport Community Players, Freeport Performing Arts Center, 30 Holbrook Rd., Freeport. The 39 Steps, Jul. 18-Aug. 4; Indoor Outdoor, Sep. 12-29. 865-5505 fcponline.org Freeport Theater of Awesome, 1 Depot St., Freeport. The Tardy Brothers, Jun. 30, Jul. 14 & 28, Aug. 4, 11 & 18; Audiobody, Fri. & Sat. during July & Aug. awesometheater.com Frontier, Fort Andross, Brunswick. Call for summer schedule. 725-5222 explorefrontier.com Gaslight Theater, 1 Winthrop St. Hallowell. Picnic, Aug. 23-31; Promises Promises, Nov. 14-23. 626-3698 gaslighttheater.org Hackmatack Playhouse, 538 School St., Berwick.Â Sound of Music, Jul. 10-27; Les Miserables, Jul. 31-Aug. 17; Driving Miss Daisy, Aug. 21-30. 698-1807 hackmatack.org

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With Special Guest Three Day Outdoor Country & Bluegrass Music Festival

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Heartwood Regional Theater Company, 420 Biscay Rd. Damariscotta. The Legend of Jim Cullen, Jul. 19-Aug. 3. 563-1373 heartwoodtheater.org Lakewood Theatre, 76 Theater Rd., Madison. The Pajama Game, Jul. 4-13; In-Laws, Outlaws and Other People That Should Be Shot, Jul. 18-27; Footloose: The Musical, Aug. 1-10; Mama Won’t Fly, Aug. 1524, Sherlock Holmes and The Adventure of the Suicide Club Aug. 29-Sept. 7; Too Many Cooks, Sept. 12-21. 474-7228 lakewoodtheater.org LA Arts, 221 Lisbon St., Lewiston. Call for summer schedule.782-7228. laarts.org Maine State Music Theatre, Pickard Theater, 1 Bath Rd., 1 Bath Rd., Brunswick. Deathtrap, Jun. 21-30; Les Miserables, Jun. 26-Jul. 13; Gypsy, Jul. 12-Aug 13; Suzanne Nance & Friends, Ju. 29; Mary Poppins, Aug. 7-24; Footlight Follies, Aug. 12; Cinderella, Aug. 19; msmt.org

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Ogunquit Playhouse, 10 Main St. Ogunquit. Thoroughly Modern Millie, Jun. 1-Jul. 6; Mel Brooks’ Musical: Young Frankenstein, Jul. 10-27; Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, Jul. 31-Aug. 25; Ballroom with a Twist (non-season tickets), Aug. 27-31; West Side Story, Sept. 4-Sept. 28; Buddy, The Buddy Holly Story (non-season tickets), Oct. 2-20. 646-5511 ogunquitplayhouse.org

Questions? Call us: (207) 409-1321 email us: info@countryfestmaine.com visit our website: www .countryfestmaine.com

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Portland Players, 420 Cottage Rd., South Portland. Jesus Christ Superstar, Sept. 13-29; The Sound of Music, Nov. 22-Dec. 8. 799-7337 portlandplayers.org

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Portland Stage Company, 25A Forest Ave. Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, Sept. 24-Oct. 20. 774-0465 portlandstage.org Schoolhouse Arts Center, 16 Richville Rd., Sebago Lake Village. 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, Jun. 21-Jul. 7; Music Man, Jul. 18-Aug. 4; Comedy of Errors, Aug. 16-18; Little Mermaid Junior, Aug. 23-25; Barefoot in the Park, Sept. 13-22; Arsenic and Old Lace, Oct. 11-27. 642-3743 schoolhousearts.org Stonington Opera House, 1 School St., Stonington. The Millay Sisters: A Cabaret, July 14; Shakespeare in Stonington: Cymbeline, Jul. 19-28; Live for $5!-Top Hat Toy Theater, Jul. 25; Live for $5!-Fred Garbo Inflatable Theater Company, August 1. 367-2788 operahousearts.org Theater at Monmouth, 796 Main St., Monmouth. The Knight of the Burning Pestle, Jul. 5-Aug. 16; The Year of Magical Thinking, Jul. 26-Aug. 18; The Taming of the Shrew, Jul. 12-Aug. 18; Our Town, Jul. 19-Aug. 17; The Velveteen Rabbit; Jun. 21-Aug. 15; Patience, Sep. 19-30. 933-9999 theateratmonmouth.org The Theater Project, 14 School St., Brunswick. Tales Of A Fourth Grade Nothing, Jul. 19-21; Boxers, A Collection of Shorts, Jul. 26-27; Treasure Island, Aug. 16-18. 729-8584 theaterproject.com Waterville Opera House, 1 Common St., Waterville. The Race, Jul.5-7; Equus, TBD. 873-7000 operahouse.org

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Asylum, 121 Center St., Portland. Karaoke, every W; Retro Night, every Th; Plague: Goth/Industrial Night, Every F.; Tesla, Jul. 1; Marshall Tucker Band, Jul. 11; Southside Johnny & The Ashbury Jukes, Jul. 18; Naughty By Nature, Jul. 20; The Outlaws, Jul. 27; Ted Nugent, Aug. 12; Donovan Frankenreiter, Aug. 17; Ed Roland & The Sweet Tea Project, Oct. 11. 772-8274 portlandasylum.com Blue, 650 Congress St., Portland. Open Rounds at Blue, every Tu.; Traditional Irish Session, every W; Jazz at the Blue, every F.; Potato Pickers, OKBARI, Evan King Group, Jul. 5; Abram Taylor, Domino Jazz, Jul. 6; Barn Swallows, Bluegrass Jam, Jul. 11; James Gilmore, Sarah Bracker, Jul. 12; Marc Chillemi Quartet, Wurlibird Jazz, Forbes Quartet, Jul. 13; In the Round with Shanna, Brendan Hogan, The Bloomers, Jul. 19; Three Point Jazz, Sean Mencher & His Rhythm Kings, Jul. 20; Bob Rasero, Maina Evans, Jul. 26; Steve Wark Jazz Ensemble, Hardy Brothers Trio, Jazz Jam, Jul. 27; Jennie Backstrom, OKBARI, Evan King Group, Aug. 2; Mike Beling Trio, Aug. 3; Darlin’ Corey, Aug. 7; Barn Swallows, Bluegrass Jam, Aug. 8; Britt Connors & Bourbon Revival, Aug. 9; Lincoln Allen Jazz, John Funkhouser Trio, Roving Soul, Aug. 10; Night with SORCHA & Friends, Aug. 15; Shanna in the Round, Matt Meyer & the Gumption Junction, Aug. 16; Hee Hawk, Sean Mencher & His Rhythm Kings, Mark Tipton’s Duo Improv, Aug. 17; Samuel James & Dana Gross, Aug. 22; Bob Rasero, Martin England, LQH, Aug. 23; Hardy Brothers Trio, Jazz Jam, Aug. 24; Gunther Brown, Eric Ott, Builder of the House, Aug. 30; Hattie Simon Trio, Wurlibird Jazz, Amory Raymond Trio, Aug. 31; Evening with the Bloomers, Sept. 5; Jon Aasastad, OKBARI, Evan King Group, Sept. 6; Abram Taylor, Domino Jazz, Sept. 7; Barn Swallows, Bluegrass Jam, Sept. 12; Martin England, The Burners, Welterweight, Sept. 13. 774-4111 portcityblue.com Chocolate Church Arts Center, 804 Washington St. Carper Family Band, Jun. 29; Call for summer schedule, tickets on sale by July 1. Bath. 442-8455 chocolatechurchcharts.org Darling’s Waterfront Pavilion, Waterfront Park, Bangor. Phish, Jul. 3; Daughtry & 3 Doors Down, Jul. 10; Canadian Invasion, Jul. 12; Mayhem Fest, Jul. 17; Barenaked Ladies, Jul. 21; Big Time Rush, Jul. 24; MPBN presents A Prairie Home Companion, Jul. 27; Miranda Lambert, Aug. 2; Kenny Chesney, Aug. 7; Larry the Cable Guy, Aug. 17; Ke$ha, Aug. 30; Luke Bryan–Dirt Road Diaries, Aug. 31;Toby Keith & the Mallett Brothers, Sept. 2; SoulQuest, Sept. 14. 1-800745-3000 waterfrontconcerts.com Dogfish Bar and Grille, 128 Free St., Portland. Acoustic Open Mic, every W; Happy Hour with Travis James Humphrey, live jazz every F; Matt Meyer and the Gumption Junction, Jul. 6; Sean Mencher and his Rhythm Kings, Jul. 13; Dapper Gents Acoustic Trio, Jul. 18; The Silent Sams and Evan, Jul. 20; Griffin Sherry and the Ghost of Paul Revere, Jul. 25; Brudge Walkers, Jul. 27; Shanna Underwood, Aug. 1; Matt Meyer and the Gumption Junction, Aug. 3; Sean Mencher and his

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5; Ricky Skaggs & Thunder Up Close & Personal, Jul. 6; Waltzings for Dreamers with Grand Slambovians, Jul. 7; Corey Harris, Guy Davis & Alvin Youngblood Hart, Jul 12; Mavis Staples Up Close & Personal, Jul. 13; Lyle Lovett, Jul. 18; Barn Burner with Lake Street Dive, Jul. 19; Mary Chapin Carpenter and Marc Cohn, Jul. 23; Ruthie Foster, Jul. 25; Marty Stuart & Fabulous Superlatives, Jul. 26; Tim Gearan Band, Jul. 27; Stone Mountain Live Anniversary with Teada, Aug. 3; Roy Sludge Trio, Aug. 9; John Hiatt and the Combo, Aug. 11; The Mavericks, Aug. 15; Lori McKenna, Aug. 16; Nick Lowe, Aug. 18; Tricky Britches, Aug. 23; Susan Werner, Aug. 25; Tennessee Mafia Jug Band, Aug. 28; Steep Canyon Rangers, Sept. 1; Slaid Cleaves, Sept. 8; Suzy Bogguss, Sept. 13; Robbie Fulks, Sept. 26. 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 Bates College Museum of Art, 75 Russell St., Lewiston. Redefining the Multiple: 13 Japanese Printmakers, Sep. 13 – Dec. 14. 786-6259 bates.edu/museum

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Bowdoin College Museum of Art, 1 Bath Rd., Brunswick. Per Kirkeby, through Jul.14; Maurice Prendergats, Jun. 29-Oct. 13; Imago and Persona, opens Aug. 8. 725-3275 bowdoin.edu/art-museum Colby College Museum of Art, 5600 Mayflower Hill Dr., Waterville. The Lunder Collection, opens Jul. 13. colby.edu Farnsworth Art Museum, 16 Museum St., Rockland. Every Picture Tells a Story–N.C. Wyeth Illustrations, thru Dec. 29; Andrew Wyeth–Her Room, thru Nov. 14; American Treasures, thru Feb. 2, 2014; A Wondrous Journey, thru Jan. 5, 2014. farnsworthmuseum.org First Friday Art Walk, downtown Portland. Visit local galleries, studios, and museums, Jul. 5; Aug. 2; Sept. 6. firstfridayartwalk.com Maine Historical Society Museum, 489 Congress St., Portland. See website for upcoming exhibits. 774-1822 mainehistory.org Portland Museum of Art, 7 Congress Sq., Portland. William S. Paley Collection: A Taste for Modernism, opens May 2; Shangaa: Art of Tanzania, opens Jun. 8; Ahmed Alsoudani, opens Sept. 7; Winslow Homer’s Civil War, opens Sep. 7. 775-6148 portlandmuseum.org

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Flanagan Farm, 302 Range Rd., Buxton. Hugo’s Farm Land Trust Dinner: Benefit dinner prepared by local chefs to benefit Maine Farmland Trust, Jul. 14; Sept. 23. Flanaganstable.com Old Port Wine Merchants, 223 Commercial St., Portland. Wine tasting every third W, 4-7:30pm. 7729463 oldportwine.com

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Baxter Museum, 67 South St., Gorham. The 1831 birthplace of James Phinney Baxter, former mayor of Portland and gov. of Maine. Open Tu and Th, through Aug. 222-1190 baxterlibrary.org Castle Tucker, 2 Lee St., Wiscasset. Federal-style mansion built by Judge Silas Lee in 1807. W-Su, to Oct. 15. 882-7169 historicnewengland.org

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Tate House, 1267 Westbrook St., Portland. Capt. George Tate’s 1755 house with an unusual clerestory in the gambrel roof and and herb garden overlooking Stroudwater River. 774-6177 tatehouse.org Victoria Mansion, 109 Danforth St., Portland. Historic house with collections of the High Victorian period. Built 1858-1860 for New Orleans hotelier Ruggles Morse, the mansion’s interiors boast original furniture and decor. Daily, group tours by reservation. 772-4841 victoriamansion.org Wadsworth-Longfellow House, 489 Congress St., Portland. Childhood home of poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, open daily to Oct. 31. 774-1822 mainehistory.org –Compiled by Jeanee Dudley

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Clay Hill Farm Restaurant

The Barrel Stave, Retail Gift Shop

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Dragonfly Guest House

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The Dunes on the Waterfront

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COME JOIN US! June 29 ~ Ogunquit Lifeguard Dash July ~ July 4th Fireworks August 22 ~ 40th Annual Sidewalk Art Show & Sale September ~ Capriccio September 14 ~ Annual Lobster Dash October 25-27 ~ 10th Annual OgunquitFest

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The Show Bollywoodland Don’t miss Futures at Fenway Day in Boston July 27, where Portland Sea Dogs players get to try on the big stadium in a game against the Harrisburg Senators. Among the 87 former Sea Dogs who’ve also played as Red Sox: Jackie Bradley, Jr. (pictured), Josh Beckett, Jacoby Ellsbury, Alex and Adrian Gonzalez, Mark Kotsay, Jon Lester, Jed Lowrie, Daisuke Matsuzaka, Kevin Millar, David Ortiz, Dustin Pedroia, Jonathan Pabelbon, John Smoltz, and Kevin Youkilis (now in hideous pinstripes).

Acclaimed film-score composer and Bollywood music innovator A.R. Rahman (Slumdog Millionaire, Trance) recently shared a video on his Facebook page of USM’s Composers Ensemble performing his “Elay Keechan,” praising the group for “so much passion, learning four of my pieces in three days.” Thanks to USM visiting artist and Rahman-collaborator Srinivasa Krishnan and USM’s resident composer Daniel Sonenberg, the Ensemble nailed the music–the online video has had 50,000 hits and netted more than $4,000 for the school program. “Give them a year, and I feel they will be a red-hot team,” says Rahman.

Martha Stewart’s Inner Circle In The Great Gatsby, Jay Gatsby’s mansion sports a faerie circle from the Roaring Twenties. So why not Martha Stewart’s Skylands (1925)? “As a consultant for Stewart, I discovered the original Jens Jensen’s 1925 plans for Skylands at the University of Michigan, and they contained a council ring that was never built,” says Patrick Chasse, the landscape architect who restored the ghost of Jensen’s forgotten gardens for Stewart 10 years ago. “Martha got excited,” and the mystical ring was added. [See photo left.] “Just don’t call it a faerie ring,” Chasse chastens. “Jensen called them council rings,” channeling Native American spirit structures.

Geodesic Revival Maine resident Buckminster Fuller (1865-1983) –“Bucky” to his neighbors on Bear Island in Penobscot Bay–brought the geodesic dome to the world’s attention (among many examples, he designed “Spaceship Earth” at Disney World’s Epcot Center). Fuller also created futuristic designs for University of Maine at Machias, but they were unrealized. He even built a geodesic dome (above) as a winter home which conservation groups are trying to rescue and repair. To view his plans for UMM, visitportlandmonthly.com/portmag/2013/06/ fuller-umaine. Dome Sweet Dome? Give it a try this summer and rent the Donnelly family’s 5-bedroom lakefront dome on Great Pond in Franklin for $1,500/week.

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outdoors When Henry David Thoreau explored Moosehead Lake in 1853 and 1857, his campsites created a bright path we can follow in luxury today.

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ew breakthroughs including Google Earth and archival documents have helped us create a pinpoint-accurate narrative of where Henry David Thoreau camped on Moosehead Lake. What an inspiration for soft adventure pairings this summer, where in the hightech shadow of Thoreau, we can luxuriate in five-star wilderness retreats heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d have only dreamed of when passing by in 1853 and 1857.

From top: the Lodge at Moosehead Lake; Allagash Suite, $495 per night.

July 23, 1857

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outdoors From top left: The Lodge at Moosehead Lake would have provided naturalist Henry David Thoreau a relaxing place to “live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life” between journeys; modern-day hikers can still scale Mount Kineo using Thoreau’s route up Indian Trail; charting Moosehead Lake timetravels: Thoreau’s 1857 trek with today’s amenities.

he really tucked his knapsack, the mosquitoridden flophouse of Joshua Fogg on July 23, 1857, after his steamship journey from Boston and 70-mile carriage ride from Bangor. Today, Fogg’s inn is the site of an empty brick building at 6 Lily Bay Road, formerly “the Northeast Bank of Guilford,” according to J. Parker Huber’s The Wildest Country, Exploring Thoreau’s Maine (Appalachian Mountain Club Books, 2nd ed., 2008).

Thoreau’s 1857 Campsites

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Kineo Peninsula

Shore Path/camp site

Mount Kineo via Indian Trail

Northeast Carry

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“A sophisticated Penobscot Indian who was literate in white culture as well as an expert in his own culture’s ways of being at home in nature. Polis lived on Indian Island in the Penobscot River, across from Oldtown. Thoreau remarks with some surprise that ‘his house was a two-story white one, with blinds, the best looking that I noticed there, and as good as an average one on a New England village street.’ Polis had served his tribe as a representative to Augusta and Washington D.C., and when in Boston had called upon Daniel Webster.”

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If only Henry David had been born 100 years later and $100,000 richer, don’t you suppose he’d have guiltlessly preferred the Allagash Suite, the premier rusticating haven at the Lodge at Moosehead Lake ($465 per night)? Or might he instead have gravitated to the Greenville Inn to unwind with cabernet sauvignon and one of Chef Curtis “Bear” Hillard’s culinary inventions? This elegant mansion, constructed by lumber baron William Shaw in 1885, is appointed with gleaming hand-carved embellishments and paneling as a reflection of its surrounding landscape. We can only wonder if the famed naturalist would’ve chosen the grand Shaw Room for fireside dining or slid into the intimate Victorian burgundy and sage decor of the smaller Parlor Room. With a commanding view of the lake below, Thoreau might finally have settled on smoked duck confit followed by fresh seafood “panache” with shrimp, mussels, scallops, green onions, ginger, lemongrass, rice wine, basil, and shiitake mushrooms before ambling to The Lodge. Inside the Allagash Suite, Thoreau would have marveled at the sight of his bags waiting next to the preserved birch-tree trunks soaring through the room beside a queensized bed suspended from the ceiling by chains, all a nod to the wilderness waterway’s timber history. After soaking in the double-Jacuzzi tub, he throws open the French doors and steps onto the private deck to absorb Moosehead’s unobstructed sunset panorama. He falls asleep to the dancing light from the stone-faced gas fireplace. There’s a big lake to wake up to.

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In real life, he rose on July 24 at 4 a.m. and launched a birch-bark canoe to explore the west bank of Moosehead, trending toward Kineo. Starting his morning right, Thoreau (unstuck in time) would stop for the complimentary breakfast on the deck directly outside the lakeside dining room in the main lodge building, choosing German apple pancakes with cider reduction and raspberries along with his coffee and fresh juice. Trading in his canoe of 1857, Thoreau could relax from his speedy, slicing J-stroke and today employ the services of Wilsons on Moosehead Lake, skimming the lake’s 17.5 miles to Kineo in comfort aboard a cushy

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Robalo Center Console outboard. Thoreau meandered through Harfords Point, hugging the eastern shore of New England’s largest lake, and passing on the lee side of Deer Island. Not far from Wilsons’ current lakeside resort, he stopped at the former Squaw Point–thankfully, the name’s since changed to Moose Point for political sensibilities that didn’t exist in his day–and stumbled into “the only hazel which I saw this journey.” Actually, Thoreau’s first brush with Kineo was in 1853 aboard the steamship Moosehead. In modern times, he could return to Greenville aboard the Katahdin, built as a steamship by Bath Iron Works in 1914 and converted to diesel in 1922. A National Historic Landmark, Katahdin continues a century-long tradition of ferrying visitors across the southern body of Maine’s inland ocean. Paddling the lake today, the writer would no doubt wish to tie up and explore The Birches Resort’s 11,000 acres of hiking and biking trails. After communing with nature and exploring the trails around an array of cabins, homes, cottages, campsites, and yurts, Thoreau might embark upon the

Thoreau’s first visit to Mount Katahdin was aboard the steamship Moosehead in 1853. Today’s visitors are able to travel across Moosehead Lake on the converted steamship Katahdin, built at BIW in 1914.

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4 p.m. Moose Cruise & Safari to observe North America’s largest land mammal in its natural habitat. He’d certainly appreciate cows and calves feeding in Moosehead’s streams–and wait! There’s the broad rack of a protective bull. As the pontoon boat’s two-hour cruise provides a glimpse of Mount Kineo on the way back, he might opt to linger lakeside in The Birches’ Cabin 5, the better to view Kineo’s grandeur from the deck’s hot tub, rather than camp along the Shore Path on the peninsula and dine on mildewed bacon. The scent of the resort’s Black Angus prime rib roast might tempt the explorer to enjoy lakeside dining at a table by the walkin fireplace, surrounded by hand-hewn red spruce walls. While he scaled Mount Kineo upon arrival, today Thoreau might instead have been seduced into a nightcap on The Birches Lounge & Lakeside Pub’s deck, watching the full moon climb above the jutting peak to illuminate the silhouettes of Big and Little Spencer mountains, casting its glowing moontrail on the water before bed.

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From top: Chef Amy Oliver’s pork chop with parsnips would satisfy Thoreau’s taste buds as he surveyed Moosehead Lake’s stunning sunset from his lofty perch in the Blair Hill Inn’s dining room; Thoreau reached Mount Kineo by canoe, but you can drive or take the hourly water shuttle from Rockwood to explore the peninsula, stay at Mount Kineo Cottage, and play golf.

Kineo’s summit. Vexed, he might chuck it all and decide to hike the nine holes of Mt. Kineo Golf Course, the eighth green being former site of Joshua Fogg’s other hostelry, the famed Kineo House Hotel. His choice would be rewarded at the 138-yard, par-3 fourth hole’s green, dramatically nestled at the base of the mountain near Cliff Beach.

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Thoreau’s base camp near Hardscrabble Point allowed him to explore the peninsula’s interior, though he lacked the convenience of catching the first hourly water shuttle to Mount Kineo at 9 a.m. from Rockwood Landing. Had he insisted on sleeping below the 750-foot hornstone cliffs in modern times, he’d no doubt stay at Mount Kineo Cottage, affording him access to the lake and trails up to the summit. 7 8 p o r t l a n d m o n t h ly m a g a z i n e

Thoreau is believed to have reached the 1,789-foot summit via short-but-scenic Indian Trail, whose .9-mile climbs steeply along open ledge, where he scribbled, “one can reach the top by a path along the edge of the precipice.” But today a difficult choice would confront him: Walk the easy 1.1-mile Bridle Trail, or follow the Carriage Trail 2.2-miles to Hardscrabble Point, connecting with North Trail that winds another 1.9 miles through the forest before to Mount

For his 1857 adventure, Thoreau would probably have tandem paddled around Hardscrabble Point ahead of the strong stroke of Penobscot guide Joe Polis along the lake’s western shore to Northeast Carry. To experience the indigenous wildlife hidden in Big Duck Cove and along Norcross Point today, the naturalist would likely rely on the skills of Bob Lawrence of Lawrence’s Cabins and Guide Services in Rockwood, who could dazzle and amuse Thoreau with wilderness insights for the final 14-mile leg.

t journey’s end, Thoreau might have craved one final decompression evening as he eased back into civilization at Blair Hill Inn, soaking in the unspoiled panorama from Sugarloaf to the Canadian border high above Greenville. At his window table in the dining room, Thoreau could drink in the last rays of the setting sun over Moosehead Lake and Big and Little

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At Midcoast Farmers Markets or Moose mountains while sipping an apéritif. Ahhhh, the exotic aromas wafting from chef Amy Oliver’s kitchen! Thoreau would not have encountered these seasonings from faraway lands she’s brought from her sojourns to the Bahamas, Cuba, Morocco, and France. But he would appreciate how this native Mainer felt the call to return to the natural beauty of her childhood when she became executive chef for Blair Hill Inn. Whether the meal is pan-seared Maine halibut with jasmine rice and kale in coconut-lemongrass broth or wood-grilled tenderloin of beef topped with roasted garlic butter, crispy potato stacks set on a pool of garden carrot puree, how would Thoreau not savor every morsel before his journey home? To be sure, gentle reader, the idea that Thoreau might covet 21st-century glamping is based on a teleological fallacy. But at the same time, we should acknowledge that up here in the Maine Woods, social mores dictated it was improper for him even to carry his own canoe. That was left to his Penobscot guide, Joe Polis, an intuitive naturalist himself (see sidebar). As a Boston intellectual contemplating endless Nature, Thoreau was not unacquainted with physical luxury. Let’s toast both him and Polis across the centuries. n

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Get to know some of the culinary stars whose hard work and talent have put Maine on the map for discerning diners. by c l a i r e z . c r a m e r

or such a small population, we have more than our share of big-league cooking award winners in Maine. Four James Beard Foundation Best Chef in the Northeast awards for five chefs within nine years? Add in a couple of Food & Wine Best New Chefs of the Year awards. Portland itself was named “America’s Foodiest Small Town” by Bon Appe tit magazine in 2009. But we’re not snooty about it. These chefs and restaurants are accessible and down to earth, and, if you like to eat out, you’ve probably been to at least one of them. What follows are some of Maine’s food scene shapers.

Primo

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Melissa Kelly is that rare overachiever who’s stayed unaffected and personable. This year’s James Beard Foundation Best Chef in the Northeast winner flashed a big smile for the cameras when she picked up the award in New York on May 6, but she was right back in Rockland the next day, hard at work in Primo’s kitchen, butchering pigs. Actually, wild boars. “They’re raised in northern Maine on about 500 acres. It’s beautiful meat,” she says. In 1988, Kelly graduated first in her class at the Culinary Institute of America in Hyde Park, New York. Straight out the gate, she had stints summerguide

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personalities cooking at the Greenbrier Hotel resort in West Virginia and Bluebeard’s Castle in St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands, before heading west to cook for, among others, Alice Waters at Chez Panisse in Berkeley, California. Later, at the Old Chatham Sheepherding Company in upstate New York, Kelly captured her first James Beard Best Chef in the Northeast award in 1999. She left Old Chatham shortly thereafter to purchase a rambling Victorian mansion on four acres on Rockland’s South Main Street, in which she and her pastry-chef husband Price Kushner opened Primo. “We had always planned to have our own place, with our own garden.” Today the garden is a farm, with herbs, vegetables, fruit trees, and berries, as well as chickens, ducks, and pigs. Primo’s menu has an Italian slant, including pizza, handmade pasta, and boar sausages and ragu, honoring Kelly’s Italian roots. Although the name Primo may sound like a boast, it was in fact Kelly’s grandfather’s first name. Primo closes from early January until spring reopening on Mother’s Day. In the four-month break,

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Fore Street’s chef Sam Hayward is arguably the most low-key food superstar in Maine. Hayward has been quietly committed to the best fresh, local, and seasonal food for decades. His ingredients are sourced from farmers, foragers, fishermen, and cheese makers. The sight of Fore Street’s wood-fired oven, grill, and turning spit–and the open kitchen with its busy choreography of cooks in crisp whites–are part of the dining experience. The Ohio native and trained classical musician (bass guitar) bought the Brunswick restaurant 22 Lincoln in 1981 and ran it for 10 years, then did a stint at the Harraseeket Inn. Fore Street opened in 1996, and Hayward won

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C lark F rasier and M ark G aier met in 1985 in San Francisco when they both worked for chef Jeremiah Tower at Stars restaurant. In 1988, they decided to buy a farmhouse in Ogunquit, and A rrows became one of Maine’s first and, later, most famous restaurants with farms. Today they make their own cheese, cure their own meat and fish, and grow their own vegetables, including three dozen kinds of lettuce. Arrows has an orchard and more than 300 different herbs, flowers, fruits, and vegetables. In 2010, the pair was awarded the Best Chef in the Northeast award by the James Beard Foundation. Frasier and Gaier have opened a second, more casual Ogunquit waterfront spot, MC Perkins Cove. There are now two Arrows cookbooks, sauces, vinaigrette, and T-shirts available for purchase.

says Kelly, “I go work in my two other restaurants in Orlando and Tucson.” No stranger to hard work, she seems unfazed by her two Beard awards, or by having been named an upand-coming hot chef of the ‘90s by Food & Wine, or by Primo being called one of the 20 most important restaurants in America by Bon Appetit in 2012. “I might sound calm now, but I’ve been doing this for 25 years. I haven’t always been so calm! The very first night Primo opened [in 2000], my Ansul malfunctioned. That’s the firesuppression system in the hood of the stove. It was about three in the afternoon, and the Ansul let go and sprayed fire retardant chemicals all over the stove and the prepped food and into our fryolator. We had to throw everything away, clean everything, and then prep all the food all over again. But we did it!” She’s able to laugh about it now. “It’s like being on stage. You have to perform no matter what. The show has to go on.”

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Some of chef Harding Smith’s creations include (above, from left) a juicy chop at the Front Room on Munjoy Hill; the Corner Room’s prosciutto and arugula pizza; a platter of oysters to savor while your steak’s on the fire at the Grill Room.

Before he came to Portland, Rob Evans worked at two of the country’s most famous restaurants, The French Laundry in Yountville, California, and The Inn at Little Washington in Washington, Virginia, as well as many other spots all over the country. He came to Portland in 2001, and before he knew it, he and Nancy Pugh–now his wife– had purchased Hugo’s Restaurant from Johnny Robinson. They kept the name (Hugo is Robinson’s son). The pair transformed their corner of Middle and Franklin streets into a sleek, chic restaurant doing innovative things with food as simple Maine potatoes. Evans received a Best New Chef award from Food & Wine in 2004 and the James Beard Best Chef in the Northeast award in 2009 for his work at Hugo’s. He has since sold Hugo’s to a couple of his chefs and is now happily cooking three or four nights a week at Duckfat, enjoying being “hands-on [but] with more time to be healthier and in touch with all aspects of my life.” Like many of Maine’s top chefs, Evans donates his time and talent to local organizations that feed the hungry. He recently helped launch the Good Shepherd Food Bank’s mobile food truck. “They had an old UPS truck that I helped with the layout of the inside to make into a full-blown food truck.”

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Masa Miyake’s contribution to the food scene cannot be underestimated. Beginning in a dollhouse storefront on Spring Street in 2006, his skill with sushi and immense creativity with every detail and garnish made him the ultimate wordof-mouth success story in town. Just seven years ago, Miyake and his family lived in a 1-bedroom apartment in Queens; today his empire has grown to a superchic space on Fore Street, a rustic-cool noodles-and-sake spot in Longfellow Square, and an organic farm in Freeport where he raises vegetables and chickens, ducks, quail, and pigs for his menus. 8 4 p o r t l a n d m o n t h ly m a g a z i n e

Two-Part Harmony Caiola’s opened its doors on Pine Street in 2005, a collaboration between Lisa Vaccaro and chef Abby Harmon. Harmon brought experience and a reputation as a chef who knew her way around seafood, after years at Street & Company on Wharf Street in the Old Port. Caiola’s–the name honors Vaccaro’s Neapolitan great-grandfather, Augustino Caiola–has been a neighborhood cafe extraordinaire from the beginning. The decor is simple and rustic; the small bar attracts after-work dropins by singles and pairs; the menu is Mediterranean/American with hard-to-resist pasta, seafood, vegetarian, steak, and a perfectly executed burger on toast. There’s a charming fixation on sardines, which seem always to be on the menu, whether grilled on a nest of slaw as a starter or atop pasta in the agrodolce Sicilian style, with pine nuts and raisins.

Clockwise from top left: courtesy Harding lee smith (3); cynthia farr-weinfeld; cvb

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The 2000s decade has been a watershed for Portland’s food scene. Consider Harding Lee Smith, a graduate of the Harraseeket Inn’s kitchen, who opened the Front Room on Munjoy Hill in 2005 as an upscale diner/inexpensive neighborhood joint that became hot as a go-to Sunday brunch spot. He started a gnocchi revival. The Grill Room steak house and the Italian Corner Room followed on Exchange Street. Smith maintains high standards with the food, but at reasonable prices. The city’s foodies await the imminent debut of his fourth spot, Boone’s Fish House & Oyster Room on Custom House Wharf.

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If you’ve dined out on the Blue Hill peninsula any time in the past 30 years, you probably know Jonathan Chase’s food. Jonathan’s, his restaurant on Main Street in Blue Hill, was the casual meeting place for perfectly prepared seafood and other local ingredients in the 1980s and 1990s, when good restaurants were scarce in those parts. In the fall, his Oktoberfest dish of exotic sausages, Morse’s sauerkraut, and other bits of magic were wildly popular. Chase, a Harvard graduate with no formal cooking training, sold Jonathan’s in 1998 and stayed on there until 2000. Hitches at Deer Isle’s Pilgrim Inn and Brooklin’s Inn at Flye Point followed. Since 2007, Chase has been the chef at Buck’s Restaurant in Bucks Harbor in Brooksville. He also manages the Buck’s Harbor Market, a busy provisioning spot for boaters. “I still make

the Oktoberfest in the fall, and some of the other specials from the Blue Hill days. People still ask for them. There’s just so much more availability nowadays for good ingredients. I use local whenever I can–that’s my spin.” Rich Hanson of Cleonice Bistro in Ellsworth got his start in Jonathan’s kitchen in Blue Hill in 1995 when he moved to Maine. Cleonice has been the destination Mediterranean cafe on the road to downeast for more than a decade. Hanson’s “Mediterranean/local” cuisine is wide-reaching, with North African accents as well as Spanish tapas, Italian meatballs and pizza, and Greek and Middle Eastern meze. Hanson is equally conversant with chickpeas, anchovies, fillo pastry, grape leaves, and octopus, and his wines follow the geography. “We’re really getting nose-to-tail,” butchering whole lambs and cows and pigs here, because they’re available. “We’ve gotten into sausages and all sorts of charcuterie.” Cleonice recently moved a few doors up Ellsworth’s Main Street to share space with Hanson’s other enterprise, the Maine Grind. Now he serves three meals a day.

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In 1999, the artists Jay and Allison Villani and friends opened the original Local 188 on State Street (where Pai Men Miyake is today). Although only 14 years ago, this was a very different era in the Portland food scene. Cafe Uffa was next door, in the space now occupied by Petite Jacqueline. There was no Cinque Terre; no Front, Grill, or Corner Rooms, no Nosh, no Blue Spoon. Hipster hangouts were few. The Villanis used their brick walls as an art gallery; painter/illustrator Patrick Corrigan illustrated the bar with his fanciful birds; one of Jay’s large metal sculptures could usually be found out front on the brick sidewalk. Local 188’s menus were slipped inside old hardcover book covers; the food they served was a unique hybrid of upscale peasant/gourmet starving-artist specialties made by Jay. He turned out spicy bowls of mussels, absolutely delicious paella, and Spanish tortilla, and he put chicken livers back on the map, all to order, at a hulking stove using a towering stack of battered 10-inch skillets. Villani brought what he’d learned from the Caribbean and Central American cooks he’d worked with in New York City kitchens. Local 188’s dishware was quirky, mismatched yard-sale stuff, and the waitstaff wore vintage housewife aprons. Young artists ate beans and rice alongside graying bohemians and well-heeled West Enders. The place was a novelty, and it was a hit.

from top left: corey templeton; courtesy cleonice/Cary Hanson ; courtesy Local 188/ Matt Robbins

Steve Corry started out as a brew master before getting serious about food. The 2001 graduate of the New England Culinary Institute in Burlington, Vermont, spent time cooking out west–including at Domaine Chandon in Napa–and as sous-chef at Grissini in Kennebunk before opening 555. Michelle Corry’s front-of-the-house experience includes the French Laundry in Yountville, California, and Arrows and the White Barn Inn in Maine. The pair is notoriously friendly and hospitable. Steve was named a Best New Chef by Food & Wine in 2007, and was the Maine Restaurant Association Chef of the Year in 2011, the same year he and Michelle and business partner Liz Koenigsberg opened Petite Jacqueline in Longfellow Square. The bistro, named for Michelle’s French grandmother, turns out expert pâté, steak frites, and salad Lyonnaise. Corry is Jacqueline’s executive chef; the chef is Ian Hayward, who is the son of Sam (“Trendsetting, Softly,” above).

When Warren native Brian Hill, chef and owner of Camden’s Francine Bistro and Seabright and Rockport’s Shepherd’s Pie, was 17, his rock band was signed with Island Records, the legendary label of Bob Marley and U2. For 10 years, the Heretics were a fixture in the Boston music scene. “We played everywhere–the Paradise, the Middle East. I wrote a lot of songs,” says Hill, 47. “I met Todd English–he used to come to see the band. I asked him for a job. My first restaurant job was baking bread at the original Olives location in Boston. Then I got moved over to Figs to make pizza. At Figs, I worked with Sara Jenkins [Camden native, owner of Porchetta and two other Manhattan restaurants, and daughter of food writer and cookbook powerhouse Nancy Harmon Jen-

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kins]. Barbara Lynch [see our interview in Summerguide 2012] was just leaving Figs when I started.” Hill headed west to cook for a few years and eventually returned to Maine to open Francine Bistro in 2003. “I had no chef training. I quit the music business because there were just too many other interesting things I wanted to do.” He’s a past nominee for the James Beard award. Hill’s newest restaurant, Seabright, opened on Camden Harbor in April. “It’s a pizza place with a wood oven, 37 seats. There’s no stove, so everything that goes on the pizzas is fresh or raw. We have two salads–one’s a squid, snail, and mussel salad that’s really good–and the other one is a green salad with olives, anchovies, and a bit of local cheese, really simple. I work there every Sunday.”

“Working with local farmers and growers just makes sense,” Villani tells us. “We didn’t need a movement to prod us. It makes us feel better about what we do. The key is surrounding yourself with talented, creative, and downright awesome people.” He doesn’t see himself as any sort of shaper of the local food scene. But look at the evidence. Local 188 outgrew its space and moved around the corner to a bigger storefront on Congress. Villani opened Sonny’s on Exchange Street when O’Natural’s departed. Caribbean food and a huge bar area overlooking Post Office Park have made his choice location a hang-out. Salvage BBQ will open this summer on Congress Street a home-run’s distance from Hadlock Field. There is a naming contest underway for the bakery he will open later this year in the old drive-in-like former Bubble Room laundromat he’s renovating on Congress a few blocks west of Longfellow Square and Local 188. The bakery’s primary purpose will be to produce the daily bread he needs for the restaurants, but there will be retail as well. “I approach our restaurants like sculptures. Transfer of motion, flow, composition is so important. Sensory exploration. I don’t know any other way to do it.”

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His first restaurant job was washing dishes at age 13, and from there Lee Skawinski was going places. After high school, he went to California to cook in restaurants including Michel Richard’s Citronelle in Santa Barbara. He entered a culinary course at Newbury College in Boston. At age 20, he made his first trip to Italy; this was followed by three years cooking at the Four Seasons in Boston before his first job in Maine, at the Harraseeket Inn. Cinque Terre opened in 2001 on Wharf Street, in an enviable brick-walled space that has been made to look rustic but sleek and contemporary at the same time. Vignola, a more casual sister restaurant, opened in 2006 in the adjacent storefront of the same brick building, fronting on Dana Street. Today, the restaurants and their menus have been combined into one that offers terrific wines by the glass and gorgeous small pizzas as well as full multi-course Italian feasts including bespoke charcuterie, house-made pasta, and grilled steak and seafood. Skawinski has been to Italy nearly two dozen times, and he regularly brings restaurant staff with him. His affiliation with the organic Grand View Farm in Greene, in Androscoggin County, are why Vignola Cinque Terre’s salads and vegetables are so distinctive. An annual harvest dinner is held at the farm in September, and the restaurant serves the traditional Italian Feast of the Seven Fishes on Christmas Eve. Epicurious magazine named Cinque Terre one of the 10 most important farm-totable restaurants in America. n

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om Waits’s husky voice. The crack in the Liberty Bell. Marilyn Monroe’s beauty mark. The entire crazy, mythological state of Maine. “Wabi sabi? Oh yes. The house provides a spiritual pilgrimage for people who visit,”says the Farnsworth Museum’s assistant curator Jane Bianco, of the Olson House in Cushing, famously depicted in Andrew Wyeth’s signature dry brush and egg tempera paintings. “After the Olsons died, Betsy Wyeth helped repair the house a bit around the late ’60s, early ’70s. She had autumn leaves stenciled on the floorboards in one of the doorways, to echo the leaves the wind would blow in, and now they’ve developed their own patina from being walked on.” You can feel time slipping through Andrew Wyeth’s paintings that document the house. “The watermarks, peeling ceilings, loose floorboards, and creaky voices when it’s windy–I can’t imagine interfering with this.” Japanese in origin, the term wabi sabi is an aesthetic that sees beauty in imperfection. Wabi is an object made lovably eccentric through use, and sabi is patina, the beauty that comes with age. In Portland, we have a leg up on wabi sabi because we’re so close to the sea. Unforgettably, the rustic imperfection and silvery, weather-beaten patina of the boardwalk and colorful facade of Harbor Fish Market charm customers and seagulls alike. “You have to ask? We look this way because we’ve been here a long time,” says owner Nick Alfiero. “We’ve been here a long time because of what we do–our staff and our great seafood.” But is Harbor Fish’s wabi sabi unique, or could a place like Disney World duplicate it? “Disney World can not replicate this,” Alfiero says. “Come on!”

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Clockwise from top, previous page: The Olson House may be the Maine capital of wabi sabi: in the barn; at the front door; looking through the pantry to the kitchen; a burnished Windsor chair in the window. From top, this page: The Olson House is plain and dignified; a skiff is stored in the barn’s loft; pylons at Portland Yacht Services hold the memory of many tides.

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It’s in perfect balance between everything that’s right and everything’s that wistful about our city. “I first heard about the tunnel several years ago,” says photographer Corey Templeton, who explores a variant–call it hobo wabi sabi–in an abandoned train tunnel few Portlanders have ever seen, even though it’s in our own backyard. “It’s located under Beach Street, which is that oneway on-ramp to Casco Bay Bridge from Commercial Street. You can see the tunnel if you’re on Commercial Street and standing directly beneath the bridge. I was excited to discover it in person and share photos of it, because most people don’t know it exists,” he says. The forgotten access was built to “allow trains to travel under the old Million Dollar Bridge.” Not just granite, but dark, damp granite. Not just railroad tracks, but rusty rails that seem to jump time to a point in the past. 9 4 p o r t l a n d m o n t h ly m a g a z i n e

Then there’s Portland’s bridge to nowhere, swung in classic wabi-sabi style away from connecting two points of land. In a sense, it’s perfectly useless. At one time it carried trains filled with fragrant B&M baked beans “reaching out” to the world. Now it’s in perfect balance between everything that’s right and everything’s that wistful about our city.

n the Longfellow House at 489 Congress Street, visitors are conducted to a worn back room that looks out onto the gardens. It’s where Henry Wadsworth Longfellow wrote his famous rainy-day poem that includes the line, “Into each life some rain must fall.” You can feel the poet writing it when you stand there, and even though he doesn’t mention wabi sabi by name (at last check, Japanese wasn’t one of the Romance languages he taught at Harvard), the senti-

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ment is there. So put on your second-best shirt, or that scarf with just the faintest of stains on it but too beautiful to throw away. Put on the faded Red Sox cap that Tony Conigliaro gave you during the summer of whenever. Head out to a time-worn attraction like the Desert of Maine or The Goldenrod in York Beach. Especially The Goldenrod. Each year they put five coats of polyurethane varnish on the tables so that when a new set of patrons comes to dine at this famous luncheonette across a million summers, we can see our own reflections. n

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e all have our moments. We want to dunk our cell phones in the drink, jump in a waiting skiff, and speed out to our own private island, where it’s so perfectly quiet we can finally hear ourselves think. Like we’re Sir Richard freaking Branson. This year, there are no fewer than 30 islands we can buy and make so profoundly our own, we can actually rename them and throw the entire staff at DeLorme map publishing into a nervous frenzy. Haven’t you ever craved a sense of privacy that’s off the charts? The island dreamers among us know who we are. For one thing, we like to use a superaddressee for our complaints: Can you believe how hot it is? This traffic is crazy! There must be a parking space somewhere in the Old Port! Your boat awaits. As you’re a reader, no lifejacket is required. We’re just going to push gently off from the shore. summerguide

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According to the deed, it’s “an acre more or less,” depending on the tides. But the small size didn’t faze owner Carla Majuntke. “Owning my own island had been my dream ever since I read The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, but it always seemed out of my reach. It had never occurred to me that people like us could own their own island. When I saw the island, I had to have it!” Nestled in the shelter of Wohoa Bay, but with a direct line of sight to the open ocean, this unspoiled island is a perfect base for camping, kayaking, and watching the world go by. “To sit there and watch the moon rise over the bay is simply magic. You can believe all those stories of sirens and mermaids. Our daughter especially loves to be there on Fourth of July. You get to watch two fireworks shows at the same time, and they get reflected in the water. It’s amazing to watch. For someone in love with the outdoors, this could be their dream.” Taxes $15; circa 1 acre. 1 0 0 p o r t l a n d m o n t h ly m a g a z i n e

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Nestled between the much larger Cranberry and Otter islands in Muscongus Bay, Joe’s Island, at 2.4 acres, is unnamed on the charts. “It’s sometimes called Joe’s Little Island,” says owner Cam Marshall. It may be small, but its colorful history is not. It’s been said that back around 1900, locals would harvest the berries and burn the island for a better yield next year. “We still have blueberries, blackberries, and raspberries growing wild.” In the 1940s, the local Wotton family purchased the island. “At the time, meat was being rationed because of World War II. But one of the Wottons was a butcher who had access to meat. The legend is that he purchased the island in a trade for a bunch of beef.” A cruising yachtsman, Marshall has been coming to Maine since childhood. “We were here so often my wife said we should buy a piece of property. When I saw the island, I gave it to her as a birthday present.” That was in 1990, when the island had just one small building and was covered with shrubs and bushes. Since then, Marshall has built and maintained a summer house, guest house, deep-water dock, and several out-

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“One hundred and two years ago,” says owner Charles Milmine, “my great-uncle drove his Model A along the Maine coast, looking for islands. When he came upon Narrows, he bought it for himself and his bride. She picked the location for the house, which he finished in 1913.” Since then, five generations of family have enjoyed the forests, open fields, and beaches on the 14-acre main is-

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buildings, complete with solar power and rainwater collection. A protected mooring provides shelter for boats as large as 70 feet, and the sandy beach makes good digging for clams and mussels. And despite the proximity to the large islands, you can count on privacy. Though there are views to Monhegan Island and three lighthouses–Monhegan, Pemaquid Point, and Franklin–“you can’t easily see another house.”

land, and the three acres of spruce that is Bar Island, a short walk away at low tide. They have been good stewards and caretakers as well. The island is surrounded by land trusts, some of them in the care of the Nature Conservancy. “Pleasant Bay is now protected, and that’s kind of unique. My family started that movement.” The northern end of the island has two small guest cottages–once used by lobstermen who would stay and work through the summer–that overlook one of the three sandy beaches. The main cottage sits high on a bluff looking south, with sweeping views of the Atlantic and nearby islands. “The term rusticator applies to this island. Water from the roof is collected into a cistern and is pumped by hand. We have a gas fridge and stove, but no electricity. We do have an outhouse, which we call a pubby, not a privy, since it has an open view to the woods.” The area surrounding the main cottage is lawn and pasture, which “if you don’t pay attention, it will be total spruce. I’ve tried to keep it clear over the years.” The work has paid off, with spectacular, unobstructed views to the south and west of sunsets out of a Rockwell Kent painting.

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Taxes $1,662; circa 6 acres.

DAVIS ISLAND Saint George, $3.95M

“You’re in a great neighborhood,” says LandVest’s Terry Sortwell of the island, which was included on Bloomberg BusinessWeek’s list of “Most Expensive Summer Homes” in 2010. “Three miles off Port Clyde, you have spectacular, unobstructed views of Muscongus Bay, the Wyeth-owned Allen and Benner Islands lying nearby, and the wide-open ocean.” Walk the meandering trails on this 48-acre island to discover the raspberries and blackberries growing wild, and find the pocket beaches hidden along the craggy shore. Then climb the gentle slope from either of two docks to the elegant main house, “surrounded by manicured lawns and incredibly beautiful, classic Maine cottage gardens, professionally designed and expertly maintained.” Colorful lilies, anemones, yarrow, astilbe, and catmint abound. In addition to the three-bedroom main house with its rooftop observatory, widow’s walk, and 360-degree views, this turnkey estate includes a guest cottage, caretaker’s apartment, boat barn, outbuildings, docks with skiffs and boats, and dock rights and parking space in Port Clyde. Power is provided from the mainland. Taxes $17,007; 48 acres.

BROWN ISLAND Nicatous Lake, East Hancock, $749,000

A century ago, Jerome Butterfield owned several townships in Maine, one of them being Township 40, encompassing pristine Nicatous Lake. He later deeded Brown Island to his son, a local doctor, who built the several camps that remain today. “Dr. Butterfield loved the island so because its terrain is relatively flat, offering water views from any 1 0 4 p o r t l a n d m o n t h ly m a g a z i n e

name. “Over a hundred years ago,” says owner Bill Stanhope, “this was one in a series of islands where the trees were cut and burned for charcoal, which was tremendously profitable then for production of coke and steel. After the islands were burned off, they put sheep on them. There were sheep here when I bought it 43 years ago, and there are sheep here now.” The island boasts a mile of varied coastline that includes cliffs, a protected cove, and four stone beaches. The terrain rises gradually across green meadows to a height of 60 feet. “I’m an artist, and this is a breathtaking island to look at. This giant rock forms one side of the island, a quarter-mile long, with great crevices and cracks, rounded by the sea and wind. When the sun is shining on it, it glows with the colors of lichen–orange, yellow, blue, white, and green. It’s a wonderful rock just to walk around and climb.” Stanhope and his family, including children and grandchildren, camped on the island every summer. “We would have a lobsterman drop us off, and we would camp there like the Swiss Family Robinson, cooking in a rock circle on the beach.” For several years they slept on the ground, until they built a tent platform, “which was a great step forward in luxury.” With the exception of the platform, the island’s 16 acres remain wild and untouched, an ideal natural sanctuary of seclusion and privacy. Yet almost out of view, some seven miles to the north, is Machiasport, just a halfhour boat ride away. Taxes $3,300; 16 acres.

From top: from the sky, Davis Island is in the foreground; Davis Island’s cottage is landscaped with hardy perennials.

brary cottage devoted to nearly 5,000 titles. What would you read on an island? The Strange Woman? Fancy an N.C. Wyeth-illustrated reader’s copy of Ivanhoe? Robinson Crusoe? Gone Girl? For water sports, there’s a beach and swim float, and two docks complete with an 18-foot boat, paddleboat, and canoes. Mainland easements make the island property almost completely surrounded by forever-wild lands, protecting the nearby shoreline from development. Taxes $697; circa 5 acres.

RAM ISLAND Mouth of Machias Bay, $425,000

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RAM ISLAND Saco Bay, $495,000

A mile offshore and just north of the mouth of the Saco River, this one-acre grassy oval sits like the green on a golf course. Certainly the owners think so. “This island was used every summer by a fun couple for over 45 years,” says Charlene Farley of Maine Coast Properties. “At one time they even had a nine-hole putting green for exercise and pleasure.” And whether you putt or paint, you’re sure to enjoy how every spot on the island affords spectacular 360-degree views of Saco Bay, including the Wood Island Lighthouse, Camp Ellis, Biddeford Pool, and, on a clear day, Prouts Neck. Surrounded by 900 feet of shoreline, the three-room summer cottage has a stone fireplace and gas-powered stove and refrigera-

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PYNE ISLAND Bremen, $3.2M

Never before on the market, this 6-acre island is a family treasure. “It’s been in my husband’s family over four generations, since

That first summer, my husband dropped our infant daughter and me off here knowing no one, with nothing to do. So I started gardening. There I was in my Burberry jacket, with a baby, not knowing what I was doing. The neighbors were laughing at us. But now we’ve got several varieties of lavender, seven kinds of mint–and the neighbors have garden envy!” A passionate advocate of organic food and cooking, Tina’s extensive stone-walled flower gardens, fruit tree orchard, and 15 sixfoot-square vegetable beds are all organic and form a beautiful addition to the natural landscape of this stunning island.

ice fishing in winter–the islands boast plentiful wildlife, including deer, moose, bear, fox, turkey, ducks, and countless other birds. The islands were once used as a camp for hunters, “but I hunt with a camera, not a gun.” In addition to fishing, hunting, and camping, the islands are a year-round recreation getaway. Groomed snowmobile trails run adjacent to the islands in winter; summertime hikers and bikers can use the gentle Aroostook Valley Trail, which passes Mumford’s northern tip. And after a busy day in the fresh air, the comforts of Presque Isle are just five minutes away.

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OAK ISLAND North Haven, $1.795M

Tucked up in Penobscot Bay, this lightly wooded gem of open meadows and beaches is a naturalist’s delight, where “bald eagles are daily visitors, and ospreys are very common,” according to owner Fred Dodd. “I’m

I’m simply the caretaker of this absolutely magical island. My sign says, “Take only pictures; leave only footprints.”

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MUMFORD AND BULL ISLANDS Aroostook River, Presque Isle, $525,000

When a business trip took him to nearby Caribou, owner Joseph Sadowski flew over the Aroostook River in Presque Isle. “From the air, the two islands look like a striped bass.” An avid fisherman, Sadowski bought the two adjoining islands, Mumford and Bull, a short time later. Just a short drive from downtown Presque Isle, the islands are reached via a causeway that is drivable in all but the deepest of spring floods. The island once bustled with prospectors, due to a gold strike in the late 1800s. “Small gold nuggets and flecks can still be found in the waters today.” But outdoor sports are the real attraction here. In addition to great fishing–including

simply the caretaker of this absolutely magical island. My sign says, ‘Take only pictures; leave only footprints.’” Dodd’s own footprint has been light, respectful of the island’s natural beauty, and its role as a habitat for wildlife. A single, homey cottage sits atop a 60-foot knoll. Windows on all sides offer spectacular 360-degree views of Penobscot Bay, with sunrises over Deer Isle and sunsets over the Camden Hills. A deep wraparound deck is perfect “for cooking, eating, relaxing, or sleeping out under the stars.” Dodd maintains a network of walking paths which meander over the island’s 17 acres, rolling over gentle slopes past juniper, birch, gooseberry, spruce, and wild cherry trees. The open meadows are blanketed with extravagant shows of blooming

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1936, when the main house was built,” says owner Tina Pyne. Nearly 80 years later, the island compound with its six-bedroom main house, dock, and numerous outbuildings has been completely renovated and updated with all the modern amenities, including electricity, laundry, master bedroom suites, a cook’s kitchen, and internet and telephone service. Sheltered in Muscongus Bay, near the mouth of Waldoboro River, the Bremen town landing is just a five-minute boat ride away. An eight-acre property on the mainland includes a large boathouse. Although a relative newcomer to the island, Pyne herself has left a lasting mark on this historical property. “I’m a city girl from Houston, and I married a New England guy.

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scarlet, pink, and white beach roses and wild strawberries and raspberries. Along the shore, nesting birds dot the ledges, while harbor seals rest and sun themselves nearby. The shorefront itself is a wonderful mix of granite outcroppings and five separate beaches, one of which “we call Skip Rock Beach, as it is covered with thousands of flat, round stones perfect for skipping.”

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GREAT ISLAND Brooksville, $1.25M

“This island gives you a front-row seat to all the action,” according to LandVest’s Terry Sortwell. “You’ve got the students from the Maine Maritime Academy training at their waterfront campus; lobstermen in their boats coming and going; and little boys and girls learning to sail, all within easy view.” This 11.5-acre wooded island is nestled in the protective shelter of Castine Harbor and can be reached in any kind of weather from the landings in Castine, just over a half-mile away. “Here you have the privacy of an island, overlooking the beautiful and quaint harbor but located very close to the mainland.” The house is in a lovely setting, surrounded by lawns and woods. Wraparound windows and deck provide lovely views of Smith Cove and Castine Harbor. Easy-to-walk trails pass through well-tended woods and meadows and along the beautiful shoreline, which has several small beaches and a sheltered, private deepwater dock.

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JOHNS ISLAND Bristol, $3.75M

Centered in John’s Bay off Bristol, this 28-acre estate offers seclusion, comfort, and a storied past. “Here you will find history,” says Terry Sortwell of LandVest. “The island was owned for many years by boxing champ Gene Tunney.” In the late 1920s, Tunney had an unlikely romance with socialite Polly Lauder, an heiress to the Carnegie fortune. In 1928, just a month after the last fight of Tunney’s career, the couple’s engagement was announced from the Lauder family’s summer home: Johns Island. In August 1962, “Tunney had a famous guest of his own, when President Kennedy visited the island for a long weekend.” Though beautifully appointed, the character of the island is that of a traditional family summer compound. The six-bedroom main house and guest cottages are surrounded by

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Thrumcap ISLAND South Bristol, $1.45M

“The island was given its name by early

beam home built in the 1940s by shipwrights. And this home was clearly built with family gatherings in mind. “The island has been owned and cared for by my family for over a half-century. The large dining area can accommodate 20, and is the perfect place to share a meal with family and friends while watching the sunset.” The family has lovingly maintained the beauty of their treasure over the years, while also investing in modern amenities and updates, including a generator for electricity, a new dock and roof, and a new septic system. From a broad expanse of windows, panoramic views of Johns Bay draw family members outside to explore the natural

PINE ISLAND Meddybemps Lake, Alexander Township, $250,000

“It spoils you for fishing anywhere else,” says island owner Ronald Dilks. “Meddybemps Lake is seven miles long and four miles wide, and I’ve fished every inch of it.” The lake is pristine and teeming with bass, perch, trout, and pickerel. “On a good day–a few hours in the morning, a few in the afternoon–I can easily catch and release 150 bass. And my biggest catch ever, a five-pound smallmouth, I caught just last summer, right from our boat dock.” Dilks and his partners bought the island nearly 30 years ago and built its two-bed-

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French sailors exploring the area in the 1600s,”according to owner Richard Wesley. “The island and the attached Thread of Life ledge reminded them of a wool cap with an attached tassel, called a thrum cap.” This 15-acre island boasts an architect-designed post-and1 1 0 p o r t l a n d m o n t h ly m a g a z i n e

Lovebirds holed up on romantic isle in Maine beauty of the island. “A beach, accessible at low tide, provides a sheltered spot on the leeward side of the island for swimming. The sandy ocean floor and nearby ledges create a great place to snorkel or scuba dive. To the south is Little Thrumcap Island, a national wildlife refuge. To the north is the Thread of Life ledge, a series of three small islands that provide a wonderful setting for fishing, kayaking, and viewing wildlife, including osprey, eagles, ducks, and seals.” Taxes $3,912; circa 15 acres.

room camp, which is nestled at the water’s edge amidst 10 acres of pine, spruce, birch, and the occasional blueberry bush. “We sited the camp to face west for the beautiful sunsets. Quite by accident, we also take advantage of the prevailing winds, which helps with the bugs.” Peace and privacy abound in this ideal spot for relaxation, whether it’s with a fishing rod or reading (or writing) a good book. “Even at the peak of summer, you might not see another person for days at a time.” There are no other homes visible from the island, and there is no ambient light, allowing for incredible stargazing. “We are reluctant to sell, but are hoping for new owners who will continue to enjoy the wonderful beauty of the forest, waters, and nature of Pine Island and Meddybemps Lake.” Taxes $1,871; 10 acres.

GREER ISLAND Vinalhaven, $550,000

“Time the tide just right, and you can occa-

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lawns and meadows. A bunkhouse provides an enormous gathering and sleeping room for grandchildren. Walking trails lead through the wooded southern portion of the island to a tent platform with views over the craggy shore to the open ocean. To facilitate travel to and from the island, the properly also includes a mainland base in South Bristol which has storage, a small apartment, and a dock with parking.

sionally walk to Greer Island,” says Ed Mitchell of Legacy Properties Sotheby’s International. Situated just two tenths of a mile off Vinalhaven’s eastern shore, this sheltered island boasts stunning views of Rockland, Camden, and Isle au Haut. Held by the local Arey family for well over a century, the island is undeveloped, save for a small weathered shack once used by commercial fishermen. The five acres are dotted with berries, wildflowers, and a lush copse of spruce trees that were planted by the Areys themselves. Permits are in place for construction of a dock and small vacation home. This is an ideal spot to take in “one of the world’s most scenic sailing venues, or to watch one of the largest lobster fleets on the coast” at work. And with the island’s deep-water anchorage, you might be tempted to join them.

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Eagles, loons, and privacy abound on this seven-acre wooded getaway on Pemaquid Pond. Known for its trout, bass, perch, and pickerel, “Pemaquid isn’t terribly developed,” says George Feus of Drum & Drum Real Estate. Though “you can see a few other camps along the shore,” the island itself is part of a conservation easement, ensuring that it will remain forever in its pristine state. Nestled in the evergreens, the cozy two-bedroom camp, built in 1950, has a kitchen, living room with woodstove, bathroom, and large screened-in porch. Just 400 feet offshore, the island includes a deeded right-ofway from the mainland, with vehicle parking and boat access. Taxes $1,456; 7 acres.

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Not the prettiest name, but the chain “was named long ago by sailors, for its rocky outcroppings that show amidst the meadows and scattered trees,” says owner Bruce Bandurski. The three unspoiled islands total 18 acres, each unique in character, despite being connected at low tide. There is a freshwater pool on one that serves as a water source. On the earliest maps the largest in the chain was known as “Camp Island,” sonamed by fishermen who preferred to camp there rather than row back to the mainland each day–a journey that Bandurski can make

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ortland’s downtown charms are many: walkability, a remarkable mix of ethnic cuisines, independently owned shops, local food, coffeeshop culture, beautifully wrought croissants and bagels, First Fridays, pizza with hipster toppings, movies you can walk to, and a billion art galleries. Add Happy Hour to the list. Happy hours are nothing new, but for Portland’s working classes, they are a quiet gift to be opened and enjoyed at the end of a long day, a way to catch up with a friend, break up the routine and not break the budget, a way to be out, even in the Old Port, before it gets nighttime crazy. The style may vary, but the rules are simple: Happy hour is not about the weekend; it’s about finding a brief oasis Monday through Friday. There should be free food,

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“We’ve got a pinot grigio, a prosecco, and this montepulciano for $3 a glass,” says Adam, our bartender at the Corner Room on Exchange Street, pointing to them on the wine list. There are many $3 draft beers as well. He waves a hand to indicate a tidy array of complimentary treats on a counter separating patrons from the open kitchen. Slim glass cylinders of spiced nuts stand along the bar. It’s five-ish on a Thursday and the place is already a beehive. We each order a glass of wine and graze on silver-dollarsized coins of crisp eggplant parm and dainty wedges of spinach mini-quiche with delicate, buttery pastry. Pillow-soft squares of focaccia dusted with herbs and cheese are the work of bakers who “come in every morning at the crack of dawn and do their thing.” Every rich bite here is homemade and bright. When we leave at six-ish, the bill for two of us, including tax, is $6.42. This is such a frugal foodie score that it’s easy to play big tipper. “Hey, this is the best happy hour in town,” says Adam. He is singlehandedly serving the crowd along the bar and making cocktails for the dinner patrons starting to fill the tables. It’s worth noting that the Corner Room’s sister establishment a few doors down, the Grill Room, observes a similar happy hour. Eve’s at the Garden in the Portland Harbor Hotel has glasses of excellent pinot grigio and cabernet sauvignon priced at $5 from 4 to 7 p.m. on weeknights. No free snacks, but a menu of “bar bites” a bit more fancy and substantial, like a plate of housesmoked salmon and a chickpea spread served with Previous page: Savor fresh air and a happy hour outdoors at the Grill Room on Exchange Street. This page: $3 prosecco and a spread of complimentary antipasti are among the happy hour specials at The Corner Room, 4 to 6 p.m.

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A tasty macaroni-and-cheese fritter and a glass of stout are the nightly $6 beer-and-appetizer combo special on a recent visit to the Little Tap House.

Hot Suppa on Congress Street offers $1 oysters and $1 off beer, wine, and cocktails from 4 to 6 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday. Just walking into this cheerful little bandbox café can brighten your mood. Parking it at the bar or in the big front window nets you a ringside seat overlooking the Congress Street Irregulars forever strolling to and from Longfellow Square. Mellow out on half a dozen oysters and a head-clearing Sazerac before the show at the State Theatre for $12.50 plus tax and tip. It’s $5 margaritas and $2 Mexican beers from 4 to 6 p.m. Monday through Friday at El Rayo on York Street, and $4 wine and $3 beer specials, including half-priced drafts, Thursday and Friday next door at the Cantina. The other enticement is all that freshair seating on a warm summer evening. There’s more Mexican mixin’ at Margarita’s on Brown Street, with drink specials from 4 to 7 p.m., as well as “baby chimis” for $1 and taquitos for $3 to graze on. A neat treat for $5: a cold Dos Equis and a baby chimi.

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“From four to seven, Monday through Friday, we have a $2.50 special on all Shipyard drafts. And $2.50 pints are pretty popular,” says Thirsty Pig owner Allison Stevens. This Exchange Street spot is all about the sausages: 10 varieties made in-house, and one of them is vegan. “The most popular by far is

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the Lithuanian kielbasa,” served with slaw or chips as a sandwich for $8. “But my favorite? Hot and spicy Italian, no contest. “ “We pair a beer with a little taster app every day for $6. Today it’s Maine Beer Company’s Peeper–one of their summer beers–and a haddock slider,” says Little Tap House’s bartender Christy, “plus another beer special for $3. We’re adding a daily wine special, too. It’s four to six every day.” At Sebago Brewing on Fore Street, the $6 appetizers from 4 to 6 p.m. ($5 after 10 p.m.) are popular, notably the “haddock bites.” Slip into the cozy niche called the North Point on Silver Street and make your selection from among 22 wines available by the glass. During the 4 to 6 p.m. happy hour these are $4, and beers are $3. Perfect with one of the pâtés: smoked salmon, duck, pork, or pheasant. On Monday nights, bottles of wine are half price after 6:00. Local 188 on Congress Street has a daily vegetable dip served with crostini ($4) Monday to Thursday, along with $4 Allagash White pints and wine for $4 a glass or $16 per bottle. Over the years, Local has proven itself a fearless innovator of unusually tasty schmears to apply to house-made breads of all sorts. Neighborhood bar Downtown Lounge on Congress at High Street attracts the cocktail-hour crowd easily with wine and beer specials from 5 to 7 p.m., $3 well drinks, and half-priced appetizers. At the Blue Spoon they call it Wine Time (4:30 to 6 p.m., Monday through Saturday) and they make it an oasis of flavor. There are daily wine specials and small-bite treats, most for $5, that include fried fingerlings with harissa mayo, polenta fritters, and a Turkish feta dip spiced with za’atar. Credit DiMillo’s as a founding member of the free-food happy hour. One of Portland’s best cocktail-hour venues anyway, with a huge bar and tables and sofas inside, plus fair-weather deck seating outside overlooking the marina’s yachts and the harbor, DiMillo’s complimentary spread can be epic. At happy hours, observed from 4 to 7 p.m. weeknights from September through May, you might find a hot crock of chowder flanked by cheese and crackers, crudités and dips, guacamole and chips, fried button mushrooms, wings–and drinks are 50 cents off. Ahoy! n

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ho doesn’t love…the Veep creep! Tim Simons, 33, sparkles as annoying White House liaison Jonah Ryan on Season Two of the HBO series featuring Julia Louis-Dreyfus as vice president of the United States. Best of all, he’s the guy who rented you the DVDs in Winthrop, Maine.

When you descend on a beautiful colleague in Veep with a line like, “Let me know if you have an opening I can slide into

this afternoon,” is your mother watching?

She is. She has a very good sense of humor, and she’s had to use it from the earliest days of my acting career. My first play, Unidentified Human Remains and the True Nature of Love, had sex, nudity, swearing, and drug use. That was at the theater department at UMaine, directed by a grad student named Claude Giroux. My mom’s always done very well separating me from what I do. summerguide

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“You know, I can see right through your shirt. Is it designed that way?” “I come from a broken home too. I found that the turmoil made me more focused, more passionate, more determined to get the things I want–I’m Jonah, by the way. I work at the West Wing…of the White House.”

Your family still lives up here?

My sister runs the bookstore called Hello Hello Books on Main Street in Rockland. My little brother and their kids move around a lot–they live near Readfield. My father’s semi-retired as a professional photographer; my mom ran the business side for him. Now she’s an adult-ed coordinator at Maranacook.

In Draft Day [director/producer Ivan Reitman’s credits include Hitchcock (2012), Chloe (2009), and Up in the Air (2009) featuring fellow Mainer Kendrick], you play a Cleveland Browns scout–but you’re a New England Patriots fan, right?

“I work hard, I work fast, and I’ve got hot legs. I say let the whale hang loose. Who’m I offending?” “Show of hands?” (All go up)

Not to say you play a flying monkey on the show, but who is your most inspirational flying monkey, go-between, or liaison you’ve seen on film or TV?

“I want Amy to go on a date with me tonight. Don’t worry about it. We’re not going to have sex, ’cause she hates me. But Amy’s an eight. And if all the other eights that I do want to have sex with see that I am eight-capable, then I’m going to be having sex with an eight very soon. It is intern season, Gary!”

Philip Seymour Hoffman in The Big Lebowski. He’s such a perfect suck-up yes-man.

This might make me some enemies. I had a Tony Eason [Patriots quarterback] poster in my bedroom as a kid. But living in Chicago, there’s something about the community of fans who love the Bears. Being in Chicago with a team like the Bears, it’s impossible to not be a Bears fan. The Bears just creep up on you. Basketball is different. I’ll cheer for the Bulls only if it has nothing to do with the Celtics.

You’re presidential timber–exactly how tall are you, and did that define you growing up?

When you were working at a video store in Winthrop, which store was it?

“Hey, this rapist face gets eights. Consensually, I might throw in.” “Hey, it’s the flunkies. And people say you’re bad at your jobs.” “You need a V.P.V.P…a Vice President Visual Presence.” “You can’t just make up acronyms, Jonah.” “Somebody has to, Mike.” “No. We don’t.” “Give me a ‘J’…!” (silence) “I don’t have time to ignore you, Jonah. Gary, can you please ignore Jonah for me?” “Sue’s pretty wasted, and arguably a nine. Sue, you have any openings I can slide my way into?” “There’s not enough alcohol in the world, Jonah.” “You didn’t say no.” “NO!” “I’m not here to spy. I work at the White House, so I can just walk in and say, ‘I’m from the White House. What the f--- are you doing?’” “I’ve got a cock like a cappuccino frother. A big one, an industrial one. Not one of the little ones.” “Yeah, I’ll talk about upstate New York. You guys think you’re f---ing New York, but you’re not.” “I know you’re under a lot of pressure, so if you ever need a shoulder to cry on, or a booty to call on…” –As heard on Veep 1 2 4 p o r t l a n d m o n t h ly m a g a z i n e

I’m 6'5". When you’re tall, everybody assumes you’re older than you are. I was always looked upon to make even better decisions than I was capable of. Even while I was six. When people bring it up that I’m tall today, I’m as surprised as they are. Being tall doesn’t mean you can play basketball either. I played basketball through high school, and what I learned is, I’m good at is watching basketball. Who’s your favorite actor from Maine?

Anna Kendrick. I just recently saw Pitch Perfect. It’s one of the funniest movies I’ve seen. It’s hilarious, and everyone should watch it.

Home Vision Video, across the street from Mr. Market. It’s since closed. Did David E. Kelley and Michelle Pfeiffer float in?

No celebrities, unless it’s the woman we loved who had a lot of cats. Whenever she came in, she’d ask me to read to her the description of a movie with a cat in it, and if she liked it she rented it: Bell, Book and Candle, Breakfast at Tiffany’s… She was our celebrity. You’ve watched 30 live performances by Rustic Overtones. That’s kind of scary. How did that get started?

There’s a sort of Maine home-grown thing there, and you can’t imagine it otherwise. For my friends and me, it was “here’s just a few of us Mainers, making a wave across the nation.” We loved Captain Beautiful; we loved how stupid and funny it was. This band is going to make it. It’s a Maine band, and we’re going to be part of that. We drove to Boston to see them. We drove two hours to Colby in a blinding, really shitty snowstorm. We loved them then. The comedic timing on Veep is earning praise. How do you work with it?

Jonah’s rhythms are close to my own. He says things I wouldn’t say, but they’re rhythms I have. Do you play Jonah Ryan as though he’s from Maine?

I play him more as Connecticut or wealthy parts of Vermont. His parents are wealthy donors–a silver-spoon kid. Parents with the kind of money that would have been noticeable as a campaign contribution.

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Do any of your cast members know you’re from Maine? How can they tell?

Every once in a while I’ll have a few drinks and accidentally drop into a Maine accent. Not that I ever got credit from my friends for being from Maine, because my parents were from the Midwest. I can still hear it: “Just because a cat had kittens in the oven don’t make ‘em biscuits.”

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I did some Shakespeare. Oh, damn it, I can’t remember…Henry V. The idea of an ensemble and the sort of group-based work in a theater like that prepares you for working long hours in conditions that aren’t optimal. It takes away your preconceptions about acting. I built a lot of sets. It dawned on me: you’re going to have to get your hands dirty and work. It’s not all pretty and people handing you bottles of water all the time.

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It’s just a scale payment. You never how something like that will go–it depends on how long it runs. It can run just a short time or something like four years. It was pretty good, though. I was able to use it to pay my rent for a few months. And then Spielberg taps Daniel Day-Lewis for the role?!

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swimmers. Coyotes jumped across ice floes and swam to get to Newfoundland around the year 2000, where they established a population. There are coyotes on Isle au Haut. They swam from Stonington.” Originally, coyote territory stretched roughly from what is now Illinois west to the Rockies. As “human predation killed off the wolf population,” beginning in the late 19th century, coyotes took over their territory. “Carnivores adapt. The alpha male and female have pups, and they grow up and disperse into new territory. Coyotes moved north and east, first into Ontario and then down into Maine, just as human carnivores came to America and kept going west until they got to California.” Coyotes are now established in all the lower 48 states. summerguide

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It was on Newfoundland in 2002 that a pet dog–a yellow Labrador retriever– took off with a coyote pack and was never seen again. A few years later, wildlife biologists studying thousands of coyote carcasses on Newfoundland found six white coyote carcasses among them. They determined that these leucistic (blonde rather than albino) coyotes confirmed cross-breeding with the runaway dog. The Lab’s recessive gene that causes its pale ivory color was passed to some of its coyote descendents. In rare instances, one of these coyotes breeds with another carrying the recessive gene, and a white “snow coyote” results. In recent years, a “blonde” coyote was reported in New Hampshire. A white coyote was trapped in Patten, near Baxter State Park. “We can’t know for sure if white coyotes all descend from the yellow Lab on Newfoundland,” says Vistein.

n March, a young female white coyote walked out of the woods in Kennebunk. Sadly and mysteriously, she crawled under a house porch on Balsam Lane and died. “She was described as walking with her mouth open–indicating intense pain– and may have been bleeding internally after being hit by a car. Coyotes are very tough and can endure immense suffering,” Vistein says. “No visible signs of trauma,“ said Scott Lindsay, wildlife biologist at the Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife office in Gray, where the 37-pound carcass was taken and frozen at the time. “We won’t do a necropsy. There is generally no need to on wild animals. It had no human interaction, so rabies is not an issue.” Lindsay later confirmed that the white carcass had been “claimed for taxidermy” by a Biddeford citizen and would become someone’s specimen or pelt. IFW would bury the remaining carcass in the woods. “I have great respect for these animals,” says Vistein, “and I personally think we should honor them in death and not stuff them. It doesn’t teach us anything. It’s more honorable to return them to the wild.”

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“I can give you a number, but I guarantee it won’t be accurate,” says Scott Lindsay when

asked the size of Maine’s coyote population. “But it’s somewhere between 15,000 and 20,000.” It varies any given year depending on winter and weather. Litter survival rates are higher after a mild winter.

oyotes may be hunted year-round in daylight, and night-hunted from mid-December through August, Sundays excepted, per IFW rules. Trapping season is October to December. According to Lindsay, this culls Maine’s coyote population by about 3,000 to 4,000 per year. “The wanderers without a real territory can occupy an area where you’ve removed predators. In the housing boom in the ’90s, you’d see coyotes around new housing developments where they’d cleared and built in former woodlands. It’s beneficial for these animals to be in civilization. They’re not going to be shot at or trapped. In places like Portland, everything short of swatting flies is against the law.” Geri Vistein’s educational website, coyotelivesinmaine.com, stresses that humans and coyotes can coexist. Coyotes’ diet consists of small mammals and rodents and disabled deer. Coyotes should never be fed. Pet food should not be set outside. Even bird feeders should be reconsidered, because they attract the coyote’s favorite prey to your yard. “Hey, everything out there has got to eat,”says Mike Windsor, a naturalist at Maine Audubon’s Gilsland Farm in Falmouth. “This is a bird sanctuary, but there are raptors who eat other raptors. The coyote is a little bit of a scapegoat. Foxes and ferrets can be a threat to pets too, and cars. I know coyotes come to the sanctuary, because I see their tracks in the snow, but I’ve never actually seen one–they’re shy and elusive. Their scat’s full of apples–we have fallen apples under the trees, and they love fruit.” It’s the “unrestricted killing [of coyotes that] causes chaos in the lives of these socially complex carnivores,” according to Vistein. A “stable coyote family” with established territory does not need your backyard chickens, but when a pack loses adult members, territory and hunting tactics are upset and may cause desperation and threats to domestic livestock. “Our behavior affects these intelligent carnivores’ behavior and destiny, ” says Vistein. “Conservation biologists use the term carnivore culture–their connection to the land and to us.”n summerguide

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Cinematic Natives These film & screen actors will forever be residents of Maine–as a “meta-semiotic vehicle.” F r o m s ta ff & W i r e r e p o r t s

Dark Shadows (2012) Name: Barnabas Collins (Johnny Depp) Hometown: Collinsport Age: 175 Profession: Cannery & lumber robber baron Hobbies: Trying to reunite with soul mate Victoria Winters, hosting gala balls, and sucking the life out of people. Last Book Read: Love Story by Erich Segal. Latest Accomplishment: Destroying immortal evil temptresses while restoring the family honor. Why I do what I do: Madly in love but cursed by Josette.

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Profile: Wealthy vampire, looking for love, needing to feed off the townsfolk, trying to catch up on the last 145 years. Quote: “Show yourself, tiny songstress!” Favorite magazine: Portland Magazine

ohnny Depp doesn’t just go “upta camp” as Barnabas Collins in Dark Shadows, he goes upta vamp. While his surreal Maine isn’t part of the real Vacationland, it defines us, like it or not, in the world’s imagination. Where exactly is this Maine that isn’t Maine, and can we get there from here? Nobody gets a bigger kick out of watching a fake Mainer than a real Mainer, and maybe that’s because, as philosopher Julia Kristeva says, we’re all seduced by our “forfeited existences.” Those cool people on the other side of the glass might have been us, doing things we might have done! Like Troy Donahue sparking with Sandra Dee in her rented Frank Lloyd Wrightdesigned house cantilevered over the surf in A Summer Place. Wright never designed a house in Maine, and yet more people have visited this Maine

on the silver screen than dipped their toes in the real thing.

hen there’s The Cider House Rules. The IMDb movie website features a slice of dialogue from the screenplay, which takes place in fictional St. Cloud’s, Maine: Homer Wells: I’ve never actually seen a lobster. Candy Kendall: Are you serious? Homer Wells: I’ve never seen the ocean either. Wally Worthington: You’ve never seen the ocean? That’s not funny, that’s serious. Homer Wells is played by Tobey Maguire and Charlize Theron plays Candy. And yes, we all understand this is make believe. But when Maguire and Theron romp on the beach, we as Mainers lean into the scene

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The Shawshank Redemption (1994) Name: Andy Dufresne Hobbies: Small boat repairs, Dewey Decimal System Dream resort: The azure seashore of Zihuatanejo, Mexico

Name: Ellis Boyd ‘Red’ Redding Occupation: Whiskey importer, card sharp Hobbies: Gardening, particularly around a tree at the center of a field in Buxton, Maine Weakness: In Jeopardy, current events from 1927-1967 Presently summers in : Zihuatanejo, Mexico

–John Irving, Portland Magazine interview, May 2012

ohn Irving, author of both the book and screenplay, recently described to us the difference between his St. Cloud’s and Stephen King’s imaginary Castle Rock, “St. Cloud’s, Maine–that lonely orphanage–is based on an amalgam of actual orphanages in northern New England. I like Stephen King a lot, but his fictional Castle Rock is a multi-purpose place–all kinds of supernatural stuff happens there. (Witness Leland Gaunt’s shop of innocent-seeming horrors in Needful Things.)

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Only one thing happens at St. Cloud’s. ‘I gave them what they want,’ Dr. Larch says. A baby or an abortion; it’s all the Lord’s work to Larch. There’s nothing supernatural about St. Cloud’s.

because of our investment in it. It may be their story, but it’s our shore and our beach, and these shoreless characters must earn our trust. Is this our Maine? According to IMDb, the tagline for The Cider House Rules is “a story about how far we must travel to find the place where we belong.” St. Cloud’s, Maine, however unreal, provides the coordinates for a Maine audience to search for, and ultimately find, our private geography. Even though we’re confident we belong here, we travel with the characters toward a deeper sense of self.

Stars Only one thing happens at St. Cloud’s. ‘I gave them what they want,’ Dr. Larch says. A baby or an abortion; it’s all the Lord’s work to Larch. There’s nothing supernatural about St. Cloud’s.”

n The Shawshank Redemption, the inmates are Mainers. Tim Robbins plays a Portland banker serving two life sentences (he’s wrongly convicted for the murder of his wife and her lover, a golf pro), while Morgan Freeman plays Ellis Boyd ‘Red’ Redding, also in the slammer for murder. Who cares whether Freeman masters the Maine accent–he’s such a fabulous actor he steals the screen whatever the geography. IMDb notes that in the Stephen King short story that inspired the film, Freeman’s character is Irish, thrown down the hole (with nightmare parole denials) in 1927. In a strange coda, the real-life Tim Robbins shape-shifted into Maine so completely he spent a number of summers on Mount Desert Island when he was with Susan Sarandon, from 1988 to 2009. Now that’s staying in character.

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ovelist Ben Ames Williams (18891953) was a trailblazer in the world of proto-noir, particularly femme noir. In the film version of his dark masterpiece Leave Her to Heaven (1945), a bewitching bride played by Gene Tierney moves to Maine to join her newlywed husband, a bestselling author played by Cornel Wilde, at his rustic lakefront cabin, “Back of the Moon.” At first, there are just hints of Tierney’s pathological narcissism. But then we realize she’s dangerously jealous of every second her husband spends with visiting family, particularly his teenage brother. This beauty doesn’t just talk about three being a crowd, she does something about it. We particularly don’t recommend her as a swimming instructor (see photo of her in the boat, pulling blithely away from the drowning splashes of the younger brother), not to mention her throwing herself down a set of stairs in her mother-in-law’s Bar Harbor mansion, breezily miscarrying. Vincent Price (in Maine!) is priceless as the amused, and later simply amazed, exfiancé. This story all but wrote the script for Gillian Flynn’s 2012 novel Gone Girl.

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leave her to heaven Name: Ellen Berent (Gene Tierney) Hobbies: Teaching Darryl Hickman how to swim (just one lesson). Getting her husband’s attention is as easy as falling down stairs (miscarriage). Dabbles in chemistry and letter-writing.

Name: Richard Harland (Cornel Wilde) Hobbies: Writing novels, tinkering at his Maine fishing camp with the beautiful name “Back of the Moon,” his mom’s house in Bar Harbor, and finally getting to hear himself think (in jail). Also, Shakespeare (“leave her to heaven” is from Hamlet, when the Ghost observes that Queen Gertrude will have a lot of explaining to do when she arrives in the ultimate Vacationland).

A Summer Place (1959)

Clockwise from top left: twentieth century fox (2); Warner Bros.

Name: Molly Jorgenson (Sandra Dee) Hobbies: Christmas break, loving fictional Pine Island, Maine; not repeating her mother’s mistakes from 20 lost summers before at the same location; stargazing (Troy Donahue was 6'3"); getting pregnant. Staring at her mother in disbelief. Name: Johnny Hunter (Troy Donahue) Background: Kicked out of Boston for being too handsome (like the male model from Saudi Arabia recently). Likes: Christmas break, helping to run his family’s crumbling former mansion as an inn, peeling off his shirt, ignoring his father’s alcoholism, girls from away. Staring at his father in disbelief. Profession: Entry-level hospitality (as the movie poster proclaims, “The Inn…the guests…the sensations) Hobbies: Hunting (per his name) Molly Jorgenson. summerguide

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When her mother asks her, “You must have boyfriends, beautiful girl like you, smart and out in the world…You tellin’ me there’s nobody?” Selena replies, “I’m telling you there’s a lot of nobodies.” Judgment at Nuremberg Name: Chief Judge Dan Haywood (Spencer Tracy) Hobbies: Justice at the Nuremberg Trials, wearing floppy fedoras tilted just so, driving around a city bombed to the Stone Age, cringing when Montgomery Clift is overacting. Quote: “Captain, I have no doubt that the entire state of Maine would be comfortable in this room.” Love interest: Mrs. Bertholt (Marlene Dietrich), an executed German general’s widow, makes a low pass at him. Quirk: Rock-solid principled, he can’t be bribed. He’s 61 but looks 81. He never does anything the way the Army officers expect. He’s lost in his own little world. Your typical Mainer.

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Dolores Claiborne (1995) Name: Selena St. George (Jennifer Jason Leigh) Hobbies: Smoking, mumbling, popping pills, wearing a black beret to signify she’s seen the wide, wide world (New York)– the jittery dystopia of “from away.” Catch phrase: “In ten minutes, I’m going to be fine.” Name: Dolores Claiborne (Kathy Bates) Profession: Diplomacy (“I didn’t murder that bitch any more than I’m wearing a diamond tiara,” “I’m just about half-past give a shit with your fun and games,” “Vera, are ya gonna sit there and marinate in it? Come on!”) Hobbies: Gardening, digging up the past, welcoming newcomers to Vacationland. “I’m not makin’ an enemy, I’m keepin’ one.”

transcript.html). When Haywood is shown his quarters, formerly occupied by an executed German general, William Shatner, playing a U.S. Army liaison, asks if he’ll be comfortable in the opulent surroundings. Haywood replies: “Captain, I think the whole state of Maine would be comfortable here.” It’s what we’re known for. Independence, objectivity, the refusal to pander. Stanley Kramer also directed Spencer Tracy in Guess Who’s Coming To Dinner, his final role. Fun fact: According to IMDb, Tracy was offered the role of the Penguin ahead of Burgess Meredith in TV’s Batman. Tracy, scowling: “I’ll do it if you’ll let me kill Batman.” Once a “Mainer,” always a “Mainer.” n

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What’s below the surface of your summer? Underwater imagery summons Maine shipwrecks from the deep. by z ac h w h a l e n

Chris Whalen (2)

rom the time I was old enough to take the camera from my parents on family trips and wait for the right shot, I’ve been a photographer. My deep love for the ocean and underwater exploration began when I was 13. I was with my godmother at a beach in La Jolla, California, when a four-foot leopard shark came up to me and tried to hide behind my legs as I was getting geared up to go snorkeling. Leopard sharks are harmless and can only open their mouths less than an inch; it was scared, not trying to attack. The ocean is a different world, and many common perceptions are not true. At College of the Atlantic, in addition to learning more about the ocean and photography, I had the opportunity to work on several archaeological digs. It was amazing to uncover the mystery of sites that had been reclaimed by nature. For my senior project, I combined several interests by searching for shipwrecks and photographing them in their final resting places. Documenting wrecks while leaving them undisturbed is important, for some are graves, and even the smallest piece of a wreck can hold archaeological clues. I am often on the move. My most recent job was working at the Boston Museum of Science in the shipwreck exhibit. This summer I’m calling Bar Harbor home as I work as a free-lance photographer and continue to search for more wrecks.

The ghostly wreck of the scalloper Northern Miner stands upright as if still underway; the ship’s valve wheel, below, is completely colonized by marine life. summerguide

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Where do ships go after they’ve burned to the waterline?

Clockwise from top left: Chris Whalen (2); courtesy Chris Whalen

Let’s dive into some of the discoveries I’ve made in Maine’s lower depths, and I’ll show you what I mean.

diving into the wreck

I take a boat from Bar Harbor out into Frenchman Bay to Egg Rock Island where I dive down several dozen feet to find an old kedgetype anchor. The crossbar has long since vanished; the rest of the anchor is intact, but so encrusted with sponges, barnacles, algae, and other marine life that it is hard to see the metal. It is amazing to find that the anchor had even more life growing on it than the rocks around it. I photograph it using natural light with my Olympus Pen2 with underwater housing and 14-42mm lens.

lost to the lake

Eagle Lake in Acadia National Park is the

only lake on Mount Desert Island that contains a shipwreck. The wreck is of the steamship Wauwinnet, a ferry boat for the Green Mountain Railway that was intentionally sunk in 1893 when the railroad was discontinued. Because she was set on fire and burned to the waterline before she sank, only the bottom of the hull, with its piles of coal once used to fire the steam engine, still remains. I photograph this with natural light as I imagine the glory days of the ferry as it steamed across the lake to link up with the railway that carried visitors up Cadillac Mountain until 1893.

scuttled scalloper

The Northern Miner was scalloping off the island of Frenchboro when it ran aground while the crew was cleaning their catch one night in 1994. The ship started taking on wa-

Clockwise from left: Author Zach Whalen prepares to take the plunge; the remains of the ferry Wauwinnet, burned to the waterline and sunk in Acadia National Park’s Eagle Lake in 1893; a plate from one of the Eastern Steamship Line’s vessels off Bar Harbor.

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ter. The entire crew made it off the ship safely, but the Northern Miner went down. It now sits lodged upright in the sand in sixty feet of water, still sailing. Salvage divers were sent to recover the fishing gear on board.

Burnt Porcupine

eerily visible in Seal Cove

Seal Cove is on the far side of Mount Desert Island and has one of the more intact wooden wrecks in the region. The wreck lies on the intertidal line and is sheltered from most storms. For a short while at low tide the wreck is out of the water and can be explored and photographed. The hull collapsed long ago, but the keel and ribs lie in place. The shape of the ship is clearly distinguishable. An archeologist has been working on mapping this site to get a better idea of the ship. It is easier to get clear shots of wrecks that are out of the water at low tide and not obscured by murky water.

schooner skeleton in somes

In the mud of the intertidal zone at the top of Somes Sound–a five-mile embayment that cuts deep into Mount Desert Island–lie the remains of an old ship. Part of the hull is still intact, and pieces of framing are scattered around the site. These seem to be the skeletal 1 4 4 p o r t l a n d m o n t h ly m a g a z i n e

The remains of the once elegant 281-foot steamship Portland, blown off course and sunk by a ferocious gale in 1898 on the way back to Portland from Boston in 1898; all 192 souls aboard perished.

remains of an old schooner, the type of boat that once carried cargo and passengers up and down the Maine coast. The ship’s location in the mud flats suggests that it is a derelict that was abandoned when it was no longer needed.

Sunken Seal

Bar Island, which is connected to Bar Harbor by a sandbar that is visible at low tide, is a hot spot for wrecks. Many a boat has been washed up on the rocks in an early winter storm. Finding any remains in this exposed place is rare, because storm waves carry off most of the wreckage. The most recent wreck on the island was the MV Seal, which broke free from its mooring in November 2007. The Seal was local underwater superhero Diver Ed’s boat, which he used to take people out on the water for his one-of-a-kind Dive-In Theater. Ed dives with an underwater camera that gives a live feed to a 60-inch TV on board. Kids love it, and it’s the best way to explore the underwater world without getting wet. I

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Off Bar Harbor are four islands called the Porcupines. I dive off Burnt Porcupine to investigate a possible anchor on the ocean floor. I find what appears to be a boat’s propeller shaft with part of the bulkhead and transmission on it. A local diver says he’s heard of a barge going down in the area in the 1980s, but he thinks it happened in deeper water; however, in my opinion this could very well be a part of the sunken barge. Because the water is dark and murky, I use an underwater Sea and Sea YS-17 strobe light, which means I have to take my shots much closer in.

“Maritime museums, if they adhere to the CAMM code of ethics, do not collect objects that have been pulled up from wrecks unless these items were part of an underwater archaeological dig. And in fact, in this state it is illegal to take objects off wrecks. Hence museums are thin in this area.”

Clockwise from top left: maine state museum/ Matthew Stone; file; chris whalen; file;

–Ben Fuller, Curator, Penobscot Marine Museum

worked on this boat as a deckhand for several summers, which made this wreck more emotional for me, as well as for many other residents of Bar Harbor.

Busy shipping lanes

Top: In the 1990s, divers and archaeologists removed cannon and artifacts believed to be from the Nottingham Galley. Center: An archival account and illustration of the British merchant ship Nottingham Galley’s wrecking at Boon Island, six miles off York, in 1710. In the 24 cold winter days before their rescue, 10 survivors resorted to cannibalism on deceased shipmates. Bottom: An anchor off Egg Rock in Frenchman Bay enjoys a second career as a barnacle farm.

Bar Harbor has been a busy port since colonial times, and, inevitably, with a high level of boat and ship traffic come wrecks. Most of the wrecks have been removed to keep the waterways open, but a few signs of the wrecks remain. This piece of broken plate came off one of the Eastern Steam Ship Line’s boats that came up from Boston. The water in the harbor is quite murky; on a good day you can barely see your hand in front of your face. I use a strobe to light up the plate fragments lying on the ocean bottom. n

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This Wiscasset novelist really gets around.

Douglas Kennedy

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I n t e r v i e w by c l a i r e Z . c r a m e r

There’s no such thing as ‘emotional truth,’ but as a writer, it does have to be emotionally real.

n his latest novel, Five Days (Simon & Schuster, $26.99), Douglas Kennedy places Laura, a radiographic technologist at Miles Memorial Hospital in Damariscotta, and Richard, a Bath insurance man, at the same Boston hotel for concurrent weekend trade conventions in their respective fields. Their worlds intersect, and their lives are, as they say, forever changed. Kennedy is the best-selling author of 10 novels, including The Woman in the Fifth; the film version (2011) starred Kristin Scott Thomas and Ethan Hawke. We caught up with him by phone with the sounds of a café in the background. summerguide

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Beach read You’re in Montreal?

My wife is Canadian; I’m back and forth to Canada a lot. We have a pied-à-terre here. How long have you lived in Wiscasset?

Every Picture Tells a Story

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Since 2007. I’d been living in Europe for years, and I finally realized I didn’t really want to be a permanent expatriate, so I came back. As a child, I was sent to summer camp in Maine– an awful place in Otisfield. Years later I came back because I went to Bowdoin in the ‘70s, and that was so much better. I really like to move around a lot. But now Maine is my base. Where did you live?

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I still have pieds-à-terre in London, Paris, and Berlin. All of this came from the writing, incidentally. There’s no family money there. On page 94 of Five Days, Richard mentions that he’s published a story in Portland Magazine. How do you know the magazine, and do you know Portland?

I know Portland Magazine because I’ve read it. That’s how! And I love Portland. I think it’s a great city. And I am not going to say a ‘great little city.’ I think it is a great city. When I ‘m in Maine, I probably go to Port-

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land once a week. I like Longfellow Books. I like the coffee shops. I can write in them. Richard Russo has said he likes to write in coffee shops, too.

I ran into Rick Russo the last time I was in Arabica! [An interruption ensues during which Kennedy can be heard speaking French.] Sorry, the waiter came over.

The book’s ending is a complete surprise. It snatches away the reader’s expectations for the characters.

Good. Everyone has the life they think they have to live. There are many ways people find to limit themselves. Let me first say there’s no such thing as ‘emotional truth,’ but as a writer, it does have to be emotionally real. Are you working on your next novel?

I’m already well into it.

So, let’s see. You’re sitting in a café in Montreal, where you have a home. You write in Wiscasset, and you have homes in the capitals of Europe. Sounds like you’ve got it figured out.

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Enjoy a shore dinner with a view at Cook’s Lobster House on Bailey Island; at left, Courtney MacIsaac of Portland’s Maine Lobster Bake Co. sets up on a South Portland beach with the Portland skyline behind her.

from top: cook’s lobster house; randy hazelton

At Wolfe’s Neck Saturday nights, “we put on a lobster bake [under a tent at picnic tables] anyone can attend. Call by noon that day and reserve spots for two or 25 or however many people you want to bring.”

convenience and made it work. And two, they are very good at making it a good time. These are people with a sense of humor. Prices don’t vary much among these caterers. Final per-person cost depends on total number of guests plus your precise menu choices–one lobster or two, surf and turf, clams or mussels, chicken or steak for the seafood-averse, and the extent of add-ons beyond the slaw, corn, and dessert (chowder, appetizers). Just about any lobster meal, with fixings, is under $40 per person.

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“If the ground’s not available, we have metal plates we put up on cinderblocks. We build the fire, lay on seaweed, spread the food, put more seaweed on top, and then we light the fire. We won’t hurt your lawn.” Virginia Anderson, owner of Finest Kind Caterers of North Yarmouth, has been catering lobster bakes for 28 years. Do you come back the next day, after the fire’s cold, to break down the fire site?

most popular spots for weddings. We do a lot of them there. But we can go anywhere from mountain tops to parking lots. You must go through a lot of seaweed. Where do you get it?

We pick it by hand and put it in bags. We have a license. You never used to have to have a license, but they started that about 10 years ago, if you’re picking more than 50 pounds.

No. It only takes about 40 minutes to cook the food, and by the time we serve, people eat, and then we clean up, it’s cooled off and we break it down and pack it up. I can do five of these a day. I don’t have time to come back the next day!

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I make it all, with prep help to do the chopping. I bake the desserts, too. It’s hard to find people who know how to cook anymore. I

Most public places have designated cooking areas we use. Fort Williams is one of the

No, but it goes right into the garden. Some clients like to keep it for their own gardens, but if not, we just bag it up and take it back and put it in the compost. What about all the side dishes, salads, and slaws?

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We did a lobster bake for 2,600 about 20 years ago. The Guy Gannett family had a party to celebrate a new printing press for the paper. Do you have a Finest Kind truck to transport all the food and gear?

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Lurie Palino has owned and operated Seacoast Catering & Lobster Bakes in Nobleboro for 30 years. Her husband Paul is a lobsterman. Lurie explains that he supplies the lobsters and joined the catering business full time 10 years ago. What’s your cooking method?

We have a big cooker on a trailer. We don’t build fires. We layer seaweed on the bottom shelf and then put the different items on shelves–a shelf for the lobsters, one for the corn, one for the potatoes. Then we light the burner. The clams go in a separate kettle. Do you do mostly weddings?

Oh no, all kinds of parties and celebrations, plus dinner parties. I have a regular clientele, but we go anywhere if they pay us to travel. We’ve been to Vermont and Massachusetts. We put on an event for one of the cruise ships in Portland at Ocean Gateway. What do you do in the off-season?

We go to Florida!

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Ric Dodge and his son Sam use big cook pots on gas burners for Sam’s Great Northern Lobster Bakes of Portland. “We can also use the lobster cooker– stacked shelves of lobsters.” When does your season start?

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“We have the capability to do the lobster bake by building a fire, or, if this isn’t feasible, we can do an old-fashioned lobster boil. But we always use seaweed either way,” says caterer Laura Cabot of Waldoboro. “I love seaweed. I do hijiki salads, and I crum-

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ble a little kelp in the chowder–it looks like flecks of black pepper. “We can go as upscale as you like with starters and appetizers, from a chowder bar to a raw bar” on up to clever canapes, smoked salmon, antipasti, stuffed vine leaves, and charcuterie platters. Desserts may include lemon curd and blueberry tartlets. Cabot owned Waldoboro’s Pine Cone Café on the Medomak River for many years. These days, she and her crew do the prep work and dessert baking in a village building converted to a cookhouse. “We cater a lot of weddings, but I actually don’t recommend lobster bakes for weddings because they’re more fun in jeans than in formal wear. For rehearsal dinners, though, lobster bakes definitely.”

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“I took over my Uncle Jim Lumsden’s business three years ago, but Maine Shore Lobster Bakes has been around for 55 years,” says Sonya Voutour. “He was actually a history teacher too, so he really got into the Native American tradition of the lobster bake.

Back in the ’60s, he’d take people out to islands like Jewell Island in Casco Bay, and build a fire and gather seaweed the way it’s been done for hundreds of years. “This summer, we are doing 95 percent of our business at Wolfe’s Neck Farm, but we can go anywhere. We cook the traditional way: build a fire and steam the lobsters and corn on seaweed above it. But now, rather than dig a hole and heat up rocks, we light the fire under a steel plate on cinderblocks and pile the seaweed on the plate.” At Wolfe’s Neck, “we can hold your event at several different spots on the grounds. And every Saturday night, we put on a lobster bake [under a tent at picnic tables] that anyone can attend. You just call by noon that day and reserve spots for two of you or 25 or however many people you want to bring. The slaw, bread, desserts–everything’s homemade. Some people try us out this way, to see if they’d like to hire us to do their wedding or event later. “We use Garbage to Garden to recycle and compost everything from the paper to the shells. It’s a great set-up.” n

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Music Man Lemon Tree, very pretty, and the story behind it’s sweet.

e know “The Maine Stein Song” hails from this neck of the woods. But “Lemon Tree”? “I was in Chicago with my wife, Dolly Jonah (1930-1983),” says composer/lyricist Will Holt, a Portland native. “We needed a song for the opening. It was a nightclub, so we said, ‘We should do something kind of nightclubby!’ With a swizzle stick and a glass, I started tapping out the melody. It was just the opening to the song. It had no words. I’d heard it first from Gene and Francesca, a folksinging duo. ‘This seems kind of fun,’ they told me. I said, ‘Yeah, there ought to be words to it.’ That was it. It just hit.” The tune Portland native Will Holt is talking about is what the world celebrates as “Lemon Tree.” It’s the same haunting melody that Peter, Paul and Mary sang in their first album, that

Chad and Jeremy sang, and The Seekers, the Kingston Trio, even Bob Marley and the Wailers. Trini Lopez put it over the top in 1965, when “Lemon Tree” rose to No. 2 on the Hot Adult Contemporary list. The central lick hearkened back to strains of a Brazilian folk song (Meu limão, meu limoeiro), which Jose Carlos Burle had experimented with musically as early as 1937. But this was in the late 1950s, and performer Holt was in the right place at the right time. As Wikipedia trumpets, Holt is the person who brought us the English lyrics and the enchanting musical structure which lights up “Lemon Tree.” “I wrote the words and the verse,” he says. “I

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wish I’d kept the swizzle stick!” Musicians agree that it is Holt’s genius intro, complete with a dead-perfect key change, that magically sets off the refrain. “It put my kid through college!” Holt clearly embraces the irony that someone from icy Maine could pen the words to such a warm song. “I was born in Maine General Hospital (now Maine Medical Center),” he says. During the summer of 1929, “when I was three months old, my family and I came to North Bridgton. I still spend summers in the same cottage on Bell’s Point at the top of Long Lake,” on a green lollipop peninsula that dangles off the end of Holt Road. “My father bought the cottage from Professor Edward Spooner. It was white and green, with a porch,” as it is today. “The narrow-gauge railroad came right by my door. It was wonderful. Do you know where the Academy Beach is? I’m right across from the Beach. I grew up there, learned to swim there, and snuck out to dances at Freelove’s Pavilion. The owner’s name was Alvin Freelove. People had difficulty saying it without snickering.” Before Holt headed off to Exeter Academy, “I worked as a boy/slave at Long Lake Lodge in 1944. I pared the vegetables, did everything that one can do.” Among those things was to “get everybody into the Cadillac, I remember the green interior, and we’d all go to the Mayfair theater in Bridgton, driving fast as I could down the hill. All the work boys and staff. I can’t believe we weren’t killed.” Meanwhile, Holt was making a name for himself as a singer and guitarist, in places so cold they still come back to him. “One of them was in Portland, singing at the Columbia Hotel, which had a nightclub and dinner and so forth.” Performing late, “I had no place

to go other than to sleep in the rain.” In Maine, one of his arch rivals was “Mark Stimson. He was a very good singer with very good high notes. I was never quite as good as Mark. He really was a soprano. He stayed in Portland and went into real estate.” Restless, Holt kept performing and tuned his skills as he went from Exeter to Williams College to the Richard Dyer Bennett School of Minstrelsy. He married actress Dolly Jonah (who played Elaine in 1974’s Harry and Tonto–sadly, she died in North Bridgton during the summer of 1983 at just 53), and together they

What makes a song memorable? “Usage.” –Will Holt, 2013 launched a sophisticated act grounded by Holt’s lyrics and enriched by the German cabaret works made famous by Kurt Weil and Bertolt Brecht in 1926. A string of influential songs and albums culminated in a 1971 Tony nomination for Holt, for Best Lyrics (Musical) in Broadway’s for “The Me Nobody Knows.” On the way to all of this, Holt and Jonah found themselves in venues like Greenwich Village and San Francisco where famous people knew each other before they were famous. As for “Lemon Tree,” “Peter, Paul and Mary had heard me playing it at the Hungry Eye and the Purple Onion [in San Francisco],” Holt recalls. “The two clubs were across the square from each other.” Holt had first come across the trio in New York. “I remember Al Grossman said, ‘I’ve got this group. Peter, Paul and Mary. Give them a listen. See if they’re any good.’ We went to Al’s flat in the Village. They started to sing–two songs. He said to them, ‘Okay, you can go now.’ I said, ‘Get them out of here. They’re terrific!’” It was a different world then. When Holt heard Peter, Paul and Mary singing “Lemon Tree” around 1959 or 1960, he thought nothing of it. “Everybody swapped. It was the thing to do. “I remember meeting Trini Lopez,” Holt says. “He was a sweet guy, really charming. I heard his version of ‘Lemon Tree,’ and I thought, that’s another take of the song. Trini was unique.” Holt, 84, who is still in good voice, sings a

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few bars of “Lemon Tree” the way he performed it, where the lemon flower is sweet. Then he shifts and starts singing the song in Trini Lopez’s voice, in his jazzy, percussive style. “But the fruit of the poor lemon is impossible to eat.” Asked what makes a song memorable, Holt says very unromantically, but very thoughtfully, “Usage.” It’s why he must have loved the Lemon Pledge commercial, so famous in the 1960s, lilting to the Brazilian stylings of “Lemon Tree.” It’s at the base of his fascination with novelist Tim O’Brien having used the song as a motif in one of the most famous short stories in his book The Things They Carried. Remember “Lemon Tree” in the soundtrack for Apollo 13? With an ear for music like Holt’s, what goes around, comes around.

rini Lopez, a Holt fan, agrees. Reached in California, the years peel away when he remembers “Lemon Tree.” Asked about the background of the song, he says, “Oh, my gosh. I know Will Holt wrote it,” speaking as though Holt is a near-mystical presence. “I think I might have met him once, somewhere in L.A., just in passing. I remember it was very personable. I remember that. Is he still alive? That’s nice to hear. People ask about ‘Lemon Tree’ all the time. It’s one of my most favorite requested songs. It’s a very catchy tune. I just happen to like the chorus. My father always used to tell me as a kid to be careful with women. As you well know. Everyone should be careful with the ladies.” Does Lopez ever get sick of performing “Lemon Tree”? Does the haunting melody keep him up at night like the theme song that stalked Harry Lime in The Third Man? “Oh, no! I’m always in the mood. I wouldn’t get onstage otherwise. I remember one time I was performing at Disney World, in the beautiful nightclub where the monorail goes through. David Cassidy was in the audience. He wanted to see me afterward–he seemed to have something urgent to ask me. ‘Trini,’ he said, ‘don’t you get tired of doing all those songs over and over again? I just have two or three hits, and I’m already tired.’” Lopez was astonished. “I didn’t know what to say. I never sing a song I don’t want to sing.” Sure. But remember, Trini, he wasn’t singing “Lemon Tree.” Try making a furniture spray out of “I Think I Love You.” n

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he State of Maine turned it down for a dollar. The City of Portland turned it down for a dollar. Now you can have it for $4.35 million.” Harold Cushing chuckles as he reveals the secret of perhaps the greatest real-estate coup in the history of Casco Bay. Right after World War II, House Island sold in a skeevy-sounding deal before auction to the port captain of Portland, so that he in turn could resell the granite that makes up (the island’s) Fort Scammell’s walls to create a breakwater. But before this could happen, in a stroke of good timing and oldschool preservationism, Harold’s mother Hilda

Cushing swept in and saved House Island from destruction. If she hadn’t, well, those of you with a spare $4.35 million could only dream of having your very own fortified island. House Island is in the shape of a figure eight just south of the route from Portland to Peaks. So if you’re taking the Casco Lines, just stay on the starboard rail if you want to see your very own future domain. So desirable is this real estate that it’s truly the premier property in Portland: Christopher Levett, the first European to get a royal grant to settle the Casco Bay area, selected the island on which to build a house in 1623 when settling the first colony where Portland summerguide

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Vistas not unlike these greeted detainees when House Island served as an immigration quarantine station, with only the harbor for walls. For more, see Maine’s Casco Bay Islands: A Guide, our source, along with Harold Cushing, for the island’s oftenoverlooked immigration history.

now stands. (Back then, you didn’t need a master suite to achieve ‘wow factor.’) Only the house made it through the winter, abandoned, though cod fishermen drifting by later noted the lonely structure when drying their catches on the rocks. Since this was a distinguishing element in the seventeenth century, the island quickly earned the name of ‘that island with the house on it,’ which creatively was shorthanded to House Island. Its citadel, which guards the northeast half of the island, was constructed in 1808 and is the site of one of the ‘feats’ of American arms best forgotten: In the summer of 1813, the British privateer Broke managed to steal 1 6 8 p o r t l a n d m o n t h ly m a g a z i n e

the sloop USS Freeport right from under the guns of the fort, catching the crew napping. By the time we Yankee Doodles rubbed our eyes, the Brits were cheerfully signalling their victory, escaping all but our last desultory, out-of-range shots at their new prize. House Island served more practical duty for the United States after it was converted to an immigration quarantine (in the old sense,

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to go out under guard with only few patches of green grass upon which they might set foot, as at some other places.” If you’re the island’s new owner, laird, or whatever you choose to style yourself, you don’t get the since-demolished 600-person brick barracks built in 1920 to expand the station, but you do get three cottages, which were the doctor’s house; the former clinic and nurse’s quarters; and the original, small barracks. These have all been converted by the Cushings to livable space or dining space for their lobsterbake tours (207-632-8842) . John Scribner, listing agent for the house, has reduced the price from last year, from $4.85M to $4.35M. But can you really put a price on this? Like Harold says, “There are plenty of people who’ve got their own island. But their own fort? Now that’s an exclusive club.” Taxes $37,121; 24 acres. n

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Barnacle Billy’s, known for luxury lobster, steamed clams, large lusty drinks, barbecued chicken, homemade clam chowder & of course, the lobster roll & lobster stew. Features extensive indoor & sundeck seating where guests can enjoy both the beauty of the harbor & the ocean beyond. Perkins Cove. barnbilly.com, 646-5575 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 whiskeys. 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. DiMillo’s offers fabulous views of the water in Portland Harbor from every table, Famous Lobster Rolls, clam chowder, haddock chowder, lobster stew & delicious salads. Serving from 11am. Commercial St., Old Port, 772-2216, dimillos.com Eve’s at the Garden offers an oasis of calm and great food in the middle of the bustling Old Port. Serving three meals a day, it’s the perfect spot for meetings, special occasions, and a cocktail. The restaurant uses ingredients from Maine’s waters and farms: jumbo scallops, naturally raised pork and beef, sustainably raised fish and shellfish, and Maine lobster. Home to the annual Ice Bar, the garden at Eve’s is also perfect for outdoor dining in the warmer months. Happy Hour Monday - Friday; free valet parking with meals. Lunch 11:30-2, Dinner 5-9:30. 468 Fore St., Portland, 775-9090, Evesatthegarden.com Fish Bones American Grill A casual upscale restaurant offering creative American cuisine. Specialties include grilled wheat crust crostones, unique entrée salads & creative dinner offerings. Located in the heart of Lewiston in the historic Bates Mill Complex with off-street parking. Come get hooked! Lunch & dinner M-F; dinner only Sa; closed Sunday. 333-3663, fishbonesmaine.com * Great Lost Bear A full bar with 70 beer taps of Maine & American craft breweries & a large Belgian selection. Menu features salads,

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burgers, a large vegetarian selection & the best nachos & Buffalo wings in town. Discover where the natives go when they’re restless! Every day 11:30am-11:30pm. 540 Forest Ave., in the Woodfords area of Portland, 772-0300, greatlostbear.com Hurricane Restaurant’s lunch and dinner menus feature the finest seafood on Maine’s coast seven days a week. Enjoy $10 off every bottle of wine on Wednesdays. Sunday Brunch ‘til 3:30 pm and Buck-aShuck oysters every Sunday night. Discover our award-winning wine list, house-made pastries, signature cocktails, and extraordinary five-star New England cuisine. Dock Square, Kennebunkport, 967-9111, hurricanerestaurant.com Lotus Chinese and Japanese Restaurant We feature full-service bar and lounge area, sushi bar, traditional Chinese food not available outside of Boston, friendly atmosphere, and courteous service. 251 U.S. Rte. 1, Falmouth (Falmouth Shopping Plaza), 781-3453 Pedro’s focuses on simple yet fullflavored 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-to-beat 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 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 *reservations recommended

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eating 46, including six at the bar and 16 alfresco, JP’s lights up a warm summer night with the intimate neighborhood Italian specialties that are mostly northern-Italian, but with a nod to chef John Paul Gagnon’s own French heritage. We begin with Caesar salad ($5.50/$8), crunchy green with delicious anchovies. Our Kenwood Cabernet Sauvignon is a steal at $22. Another starter is a real showstopper. Four ricotta-stuffed ravioli, pan-fried and topped with braised short ribs and Gorgonzola, arrive swimming in a broth of piquant rib juice ($10). We find the texture of the pasta to be sturdy and the dish substantial. We proceed to our main course, a tough decision given 10 attractive entrees on the regular menu and at least a dozen more on the nightly specials board. Diehard regulars assert that JP’s rib-eye ($22) is spot on, so my choice is obvious. The steak, thick and huge, has a perfectly char-grilled crust. The first, easy cut displays a bright red-pink center, evidencing the chef’s attention to my specification of rare. Add to that grilled portabella mushrooms, Gorgonzola, red potato mash, grilled summer squash, zucchini, carrots, sweet red pepper, and crisp green beans. Heaven on earth. My partner’s chicken and eggplant parmigiana, with layers of gently fried chicken filet and eggplant slices baked with rich

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sauce and mozzarella, is a well-prepared casserole dish that comes with a side of pasta topped with tasty marinara and earns audible plaudits all around ($17). Rigatoni Tuscany, eggplant rollatini (each $17), shrimp Gorgonzola ($21), and veal cordon bleu ($20) are among other enticing entrees that beckon for a return visit. Given our rich repast, we must forgo tempting homemade desserts ($7 to $8) that include Key lime pie, lemon coconut cake, crème caramel bread pudding, Kahlua mud pie, and tiramisu. Altogether, we enjoyed an evening of affordable food and beverage, with a bonus of lively interactions with fellow diners seated near us. JP, now I know why the neighbors are talking. n

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r e a l e s tat e Dream Islands (continued from page 111) Experience Monhegan from the comfort of our 1870s inn. We offer 28 rooms in a variety of configurations to accommodate most any traveler. Our inviting lobby and parlor encourage relaxation as well as friendly chats with other guests or the innkeepers themselves. Customer reviews of our dinner menu compare it to the best restaurants of Portland and beyond. As an added bonus, the island’s best breakfast menu is included in the price of your room. Visit the Monhegan House…you will be glad you did.

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“in an hour or so” rowing his Marblehead gunning dory. Still a camping spot for friends and family, it’s now named Petrel Island, for the long-winged seabirds that nest there. “At nighttime in the nesting season, the little storm petrels return to their burrows; their warbling conversations with their nestlings punctuate the early hours of darkness. Later at night, the lights of Nova Scotia twinkle afar on the eastern horizon.” Reaching a height of 93 feet, Petrel also boasts the best views of the mainland, Little Kennebec Bay, Machias Bay, and the Libby Island Lighthouse. The varied shoreline provides harbor seals a place to haul out and sun themselves on the northernmost in the chain, Haul Out Island, while Laridae Island has a south-facing bluff for whale watching. “Low tide reveals tidal pools, a gravel bar between Petrel and Laridae, and even a hidden beach. If conditions are right, you can hear the thunder hole on Petrel.” The islands are a 20-minute boat ride from Starboard Cove in Machiasport, or just a 10-minute boat ride from the owner’s 10-acre mainland property at Point of Main (also available for sale), providing a perfect base for this island getaway. Taxes $3,890; 18 acres.

CHASSE ISLAND Wadleigh Pond, Lyman, $449,000

Wooded and unspoiled, this two-acre island boasts some of the best fishing found on Wadleigh Pond, according to owner Russell Chasse. The pond is a perfect spot for family recreation, but it’s also a natural haven for birds and wildlife. Herons and osprey, otters and moose share waters known for excellent fishing and boating. “One would never know that Portland, Biddeford, and Sanford are only 30 minutes away.” Skiers and boaters use the waterway around the island, and the Wadleigh Pond Association has an annual boat parade in which numerous landowners participate and then have a picnic. In addition to being a perfect spot for fishing, with some 1,200 feet of water frontage, the island has also been the home for many Chasse family adventures like treasure hunts. “I remember when I was a child my siblings and I would swim back and forth to the island. Sometimes we would play in the old one-room cabin on the island that had an old stove and bunks in it. We would pretend we were pirates.” 1 8 2 p o r t l a n d m o n t h ly m a g a z i n e

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r e a l e s tat e The old cabin is now gone, but the island is ready for new memories. “The family has enjoyed Chasse Island and the decision to sell was very difficult. However, we would love to see another family enjoy it as well.” Taxes $950; circa 2 acres.

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Owned for nearly 50 years by the Rockefeller family, the 300-plus acres of this dramatic and expansive island cover a wide range of varying terrain and shoreline. Grassy meadows at the southern end offer spectacular views of the bay and its islands. The craggy shore transitions to sandy beaches and then back again. Osprey and eagles fly overhead. Seals rest and sun themselves on ledge exposed by the ebb tide. Dense woods are criss-crossed with mossy, meandering pathways. Once home to a working farmstead, only a few traces of the original fields and cabins remain. A rustic one-bedroom camp and outhouse, situated on a quiet cove with a small pier, are the only other signs of development. A conservation easement placed by the Rockefellers would allow the construction of no more than five homes on the island, thereby preserving the quiet and unspoiled nature of this unique refuge. NB: The seller is David Rockefeller, and Foster Island is three-quarters the size of Monaco. Taxes $7,518; 314 acres.

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“Once you leave the harbor, it’s a world apart,” according to owner Dean Bryfogle. Historically known as Chauncey Island, this quiet island has been a family treasure for over 40 years. Even teenagers can learn to unplug in this idyllic refuge, with its open space and two comfortable and homey cabins. “My kids have grown up there, spending every summer. They would never play board games at home, but once we get out there, Monopoly, Risk, and the playing cards come out.” Situated in the middle of Machias Bay, the 44-acre island is roughly one-third wooded, with the remainder covered by open meadow. A rocky dome reaches a height of 120 feet and offers spectacular 360-degree views of the bay. Beaches and crags make this a perfect place to walk and explore nature and wildlife. At one time,

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“Back in the early 1900s, this island was a summer camp for kids,” says Shawn Marquis, of Century 21 Land & Lakes Realty. “It had two tennis courts and a hotel that was used by visiting parents.” The camp and hotel were later lost to fire. The island is also rumored to have been the site of a 1920s speakeasy complete with its own grinding stone used to mill grain for distilling. The remnants are gone, and the seven-

Walter B. Gibson, famous for his 1930s radio serial The Shadow, also wrote “Crime Over Casco” during his summer on Ram Island. acre island is now wild but ready to become a great family compound. The island is fed electricity from the mainland and has two building sites complete with septic systems in place. The 2,500 feet of shore frontage has a protected cove for mooring boats, and the southern exposure offers great views of sunsets and the expanse of the lake. Taxes $4,200; circa 7 acres.

WHITE’S ISLAND Big Lake, Washington County, $1.795M

Once a farming homestead, this unspoiled island sanctuary has had only two owners in the last 95 years. It is believed to be one of the largest lake islands in Maine and is still covered by stands of virgin timber. The island’s large size, with over two miles of water frontage, encompasses varying topography of gentle slopes, steep climbs, and mixes of sandy and pebble beaches. Thousands of acres and miles of shoreline in the immediate vicinity have been placed into conservation by the Downeast Lakes Land Forestry Partnership, so this pristine environment will be forever protected. The island itself can be divided

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Rumored to have once been a secret retreat for Red Sox Hall of Famer Ted Williams, this island sits in pristine Big Lake, a 10,000-acre fisherman’s paradise of crystal clear water. The unspoiled, 12.5-acre island retreat has a hand-built, four-bedroom log cabin dating from 1946. Built along the waterfront, the rustic cottage enjoys a warm southern exposure shielded from the winds. The island has abundant wildlife and is home to moose, deer, loons, and bald eagles. Several walking trails take you along the sandy beaches and through the old-growth forest. Taxes $1,012; 12.5 acres.

PHOEBE ISLAND Sebec Lake, Bowerbank, $549,900

The island itself is small, but it comes with a big brother on the mainland. Just an eighth of an acre situated on Sebec Lake, this island is easily accessed by walkway from the shore or by a short boat ride. The rocky shoreline offers great swimming, and the one-bedroom island cottage makes a perfect retreat, with a wooden spiral staircase that leads to lovely lake views from the second floor. The mainland site, just 100 yards away, boasts over 20 acres of sub-dividable wooded land with trout ponds and road frontage. Taxes $789; 21 acres.

NORTON ISLAND Pleasant Bay, Addison, $3.25M

The owners have held this 60-acre paradise in their family for over 30 years and are looking for the next good stewards for this dramatic island, which offers the best of the natural and man-made worlds. “The weather you see is awe-inspiring,” says Steve Shelton, of Acadia Realty Group. Waves crash against the rocky southern cliffs that face the open ocean. Along the shore, sandy and rocky beaches afford access to the water and the 12-foot tides. Golden meadows dotted with cranberries, blueberries, and raspberries roll northward to stands of spruce, fir, and birch. Nestled at the northern end of the island, a magnificent post-and-beam house with a terraced deck offers all the comforts of home. Windows on the second floor provide 360-degree views. A comfortable guest house is nearby, but tucked out of view. Both enjoy so-

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OUTER GOOSE & GOOSE NUBBLE ISLANDS Wohoa Bay, Addison, $499,000 This was once a camp for lobstermen in the summer, and a stopping point along the flyway for migrating birds in the spring and fall. The current owner is a builder by trade, but he has his own lobster boat (included in the sale), and the birds still come. “The area’s lousy with eagles; they nest over on Inner Goose, which is state-owned and a designated eagle habitat,” according to owner Gary Chard. “We get the arctic birds when they come south, and the southern birds when they migrate north. Great blue herons, plovers, and loons are frequent visitors, and pelagic birds, including puffins, aren’t far away.” A timber framer, Chard built the island’s house himself. “When I got here, there was a henhouse, wharf, and outhouse.” Now it boasts a beautiful, three-

bedroom post-and-beam home that has a strong local connection to both land and sea. “I used a reclaimed 1840s barn, recut the frame, and used ships’ knees to support the timbers.” Still, Chard refers to life there as “deluxe camping.” The water supply is from rainwater, and a generator is used for power. Other needs are taken care of with an outhouse and a separate composting toilet. Taxes $2,390; 2.9 acres.

BRAMBLE ISLAND Mooselookmeguntic Lake, Rangeley, $1.399M

The island [pictured on page 98] is small, but it promises a perfect getaway from your own perfect getaway. Nestled amidst a stand of trees on the one-fifth acre island sits a cottage with gorgeous lake views. Recently renovated to include two cozy bedrooms and a covered porch, it had much simpler beginnings. “I believe it once was an old boathouse or shed,” says Jamie Eastlack of the Morton and Furbish Agency. On the mainland shore is its

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big brother, a modern, year-round, fourbedroom house with all the comforts of home, sitting on three acres of shorefront. Both the mainland house and its little island cottage amuse-bouche are filled with natural light from warm southern exposures and offer sunset views. The island escape sits in a protected cove, just a short row from shore. The seasonal cottage has a wood stove, chemical toilet, and outdoor shower. Power is fed from the main house, and hot water is available via a propane heater. If you tire of “roughing it” on the island, you can retreat to shore to enjoy the amenities of the main house with its permanent dock, sandy beach, stone fireplace, tiled bathrooms, and custom kitchen. Taxes $10,473; 3 acres.

GOOSEBERRY ISLAND Kittery, $2.95M

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Jim Austin. “Our family has owned it for nearly 90 years.” A classic saltbox cottage, originally built by Austin to entertain business guests, is now a year-round home with a beautifully appointed kitchen. Surrounded by lush lawns and fragrant lilacs, the cottage has a broad porch that offers rocking-chair views of the nearby historic forts, Whaleback Light, and the Isles of Shoals, with the open ocean beyond. Though secluded and private, the island is

just a stone’s throw from the mainland. A large dock accommodates boats up to 50 feet and provides easy access to the popular shops and restaurants of Kittery and Portsmouth. And if you want to build up an appetite first, waterfront dining is just a short kayak trip away. Taxes $4,317; 1.4 acres.

Sheltered by Beal’s Head Island and located close to the Great Wass Island Preserve, Middle Hardwood offers magnificent views from its rocky shore and pink granite bluffs. “You look out towards Great Wass,” says owner Alan Pederson, “and there’s no civilization in sight.” Despite its name, the woods are small stands of spruce that dot a blanket of natural vegetation. “The island is eight acres, and six of those are covered by blueberries.” Wildlife is abundant on and around this kayaker’s paradise. “We see tons of seals and dolphins.” With three beautifully detailed cottages and a sandy beach, this island makes a perfect getaway spot for extended family. A deep-water wharf provides ready access, while heat, well water, and solar electric power make for comfortable and carefree living. “The kids play on the beach, and we get lobsters delivered right to our dock for dinner.” Taxes $6,410; 8 acres. n

House ISLAND Portland, $4.35M

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The sellers’ love for the area has a great deal to do with nearby Camp Wawenock, a Sebago legend since 1910 where Kay McDonald and her two daughters spent summers, and Migis Lodge–dear to both Tim and Kay and their family. Migis Lodge is the portal through which New Yorkers and Philadelphians have been introduced to Sebago Lake since 1916. “So many people from Manhattan,” Tufts says. “There’s Katie Couric and her family…” Designed by the late Richard M. Monahon Architects of Peterborough, New Hampshire, Sand Hill Hideaway’s great room is anchored by two majestic Rumford fireplaces, resplendent with stones rescued directly from the lake. Every consideration has been made to match the design inside to what’s outside; in fact, as we go through the warm rooms, many of them in exqui-

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Cumberland Foreside $649,000 Edie Boothby 523-8111 #1086393

Cape Elizabeth $725,000 Dianne Maskewitz 523-8112 #1082491

South Freeport $639,000 Bob Knecht 523-8114 #1078791

Portland $515,000 Gail Landry 523-8115 #1081234

Gray $399,000 Chris Jackson 523-8116 #990983

Cumberland $1,335,000 Steve Parkhurst 523-8102 #1090624

Phippsburg $200,000 Tish Whipple 523-8104 #1065264

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Cape Elizabeth $1,375,000 Susan Lamb 523-8105 #1087960

Cape Elizabeth $950,000 Cindy Landrigan 523-8106 #1087439

Cape Elizabeth $799,000 Rowan Morse 523-8107 #1090514

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WEST BATH- Quintessential Maine! An opportunity to build your dream home with pristine water views on a saltwater river. Wooded, easy access to shore from building site, surveyed, soils tested and a shared roadbed in place. $230,000 MLS 1077488 JANE MILLETT 729-2446

RICHMOND- A high-quality, yr-round home on Pleasant Pond with artful character, great structures & systems & sunset views over the gentle pond frontage! The long drive holds the rest of the world at bay while you relax! $329,900 MLS 1045613 DOT OLLIER 751- 4919

PHIPPSBURG- Captivating cape on the 9th fairway at Sebasco resort. Open concept design, 3 BRs, 3 baths, cook’s kitchen plus walls of glass overlooking Round Cove. Invite friends & family for a day of golf, boating. $579,000 MLS 1088259 DIANE MOYER 720- 0139

PHIPPSBURG- ON A HILL WITH PANORAMIC VIEWS OF DROMORE BAY, sets this like new contemporary style home new cherry kitchen w/ granite counters, HW floors, views from nearly every room. $575,000 MLS 1081865 ANDREA GALUZA 751- 9701

BATH- Stately brick colonial renovated. Gourmet kitchen that leads to large deck, perfect for entertaining! Large LR w/FP, Mstr BR w/FP, refinished floors, + garage, studio, & a B&B would be great! $469,000 MLS 1086723 JOAN CHRANE 837- 3866

WISCASSET- Oceanfront property w/deep water dock & float. Beautiful home, hardwood floors, Open concept kitchen, dining, living area w/gas stove. Rear deck facing waterfront spans the length of the home. $459,000 MLS 1085272 LISA BUTHLAY 522- 1637

FREEPORT- Energy efficient home w/radiant flr & lrg mass masonry fireplace. Beautiful cherry cabinets w/center island. Exposed beam ceiling, deck, dining room, wood flrs, & bonus room over garage. $359,900 MLS 1083080 ROB WHISENANT 751- 7231

WEST BATH- Very well maintained home on 2.3 acres in West Bath. At the end of a private road. 3 BR’S /master suite, 2 baths, deck, full basement w/finished space, oversized 2 car garage w/storage above, out building and MORE! $219,000 MLS 1091761 SUZI ATER 650- 4203

WOOLWICH- The Greenfield House: Looking for the ultimate in tasteful design by McKey Wing Roth, superb privacy, energy efficiency & high end finishes? Its all here on nearly 8 private ac. in desirable location, newer ICF const. $449,000 MLS 1067142 VICKI SPRAGUE 841- 2130

BATH- Centered at Front & Grove for almost 200 yrs. This Historic Home has seen the vessels change on the Kennebec River. Walk from town to see it. Great garden space and privacy. Call for a Viewing. Sam Lambert 207 522-7728

HARPSWELL- Classic New Englander located w/in one of the best private waterfront neighborhoods. Countryside living w/deeded access to deep waterfront, mooring, dock & picnic area. A boater’s dream! $279,000 MLS 1089185 GEORGIA BREYER 522-7916

BOWDOIN- Chase Tavern Farm is a beautiful antique home on 135 acres in a picturesque rural setting. This private estate offers fields & pastures; barns; Established trails; & myriad opportunities! $649,900 MLS 1077572 KATHY GALLANT 841-7569

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Doc’s Harbor–Prime oceanfront cottage with panoramic sunrise views of Penobscot Bay, easy beach access and deep water. Includes roadfront lot suitable for development. $625,000

Starr Cottage–Classic 1790’s Greek Revival postand-beam Cape idylically nestled between glorious sunrise and sunset water views over Dark Harbor and Gilkey Harbor and outer islands. Meticulously landscaped grounds. $1,200,000

Solsidan Sunnyside Beachfront Cottage– On one of the island’s best sandy beaches, between two coves on a quiet peninsula, . Four bedrooms, graceful covered porch and magnificent views. $645,000

Dramatic Deepwater Shoreline, Beach– Exceptional ocean views and building sites across road. Quiet, private location near Dark Harbor Village. Some selective clearing. $425,000

Broad Cove Four-Acre Shore Lot–200 feet of shore line, pleasant gravel beach, sweeping southerly harbor views. Near ferry and town, driveway and underground power, ready to build. $475,000

East & West Classic Shingle-Style Cottage, Dark Harbor–Magnificent waterviews over meadow and bold oceanfrontage. Nine bedrooms, three fireplaces, four full baths. A wonderful family home! $1,150,000

55 Acres–Splendid sunset views from this lovely contemporary cape amidst lawn and open shorefront, ideal for family compound. $1,000,000

Turtle Head–Sunsets from this three-bedroom year round home on 4.47 acres with 313 feet of bold shore line and beach on the quiet end of the island. $585,000

20 Acre Sprague’s Cove Ocean Front Lot–Lush evergreens, soft fern glades, old woods road to 610 feet of beach and ledge. Well elevated private home sites to enjoy sunset views. $595,000

Quintessential 1894 Grand 6-BR Cottage & Dock Guest cabin, steps to beach,lovely landscaping. Delightful summer enclave. Outstanding ocean views. $895,000.

Dark Harbor–Year round Four-bedroom Post & Beam in summer colony area on large sunny landscaped lot. Comfort and efficiency, open floor plan, cathedral ceiling, palladian windows. Great garden spot. $495,000.

Sunrise Three-bedroom Cape At The Narrows–Oceanfront cedar-shingled, quaint and cozy wooded location. Wonderful views, beach, deck. Private but convenient. $625,000

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BRUNSWICK–BOTANY PLACE New construction is booming! This planned residential community of architecturally unique condominium homes is located off Maine Street and just a mile from downtown, Bowdoin College and the train station. The extensive common gardens, pond and walking trails make this a very special place in which to live. All homes have spacious open floor plans, ground floor master suites and multiple options for customization. Reservations are being taken. Prices starting at $379,900.

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This craftsman style abode is set on a 2.5 AC lot, at Otter Trace, just three miles from town, abuts conservation land and nature trails. The open design creates an elegant first floor living opportunity, offering hardwood and tile flooring, a great room with tray ceilings and gas fireplace, custom eat-in kitchen, master suite, two spare bedrooms with full bath, half bath and utility room plus a flex space for an office or formal dining. This lovely living space is augmented with front and back covered porches, a two car attached garage and unfinished bonus space. $425,000.

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Located near the top of Headland peninsula is this 1.84 acre, elevated, wooded lot. It is shown in the aerial photo above, positioned between the private dock and the property at the end of the point. This site offers lovely deep water frontage, spectacular south-easterly views across and down Harpswell Sound and includes protective covenants and the private yacht club privileges of High Head. $495,000.

This exceptional, custom built contemporary home is perched on a 10.4 acre, elevated site with an unobstructed view of Mt. Washington. The open concept plan offers everything you need on the first floor including a master suite and two additional bedrooms and bath. Also included is a second floor in-law apartment. Some special features are: a Kennebec Kitchen with granite counters and brick floors, 9’ ceilings, crown molding, custom trim and arches, radiant heat, central air, and an attached, heated, three car garage. This property is being offered below appraised value at $549,999.

HARPSWELL Location, location, location…very privately located off the Headland Road on High Head, on a large lot with 224’ of water frontage, long southerly views out to open water and access to a small beach. A sunny, open floor plan includes a front-to-back living room with fireplace, built-in bookcases, hardwood floors and access to the new sundeck perched over the water’s edge. Also on the first floor is a den with fireplace, spacious kitchen and master suite. Upstairs are two large guest rooms and bath. Also included are a full, walk-out basement, attached garage and private yacht club. $695,000.

HARPSWELL

Nestled in the heart of Cundy’s Harbor you will find this one of a kind property. Constructed with the finest materials and attention to detail, you will find many unusual and special features such as the slate counters in the kitchen, wet bar, see-through, double -sided, stone fireplace with adjacent woodstove, sunken living room, crown molding, tray ceiling, good morning staircase, three bedroom suites, central air conditioning, and fifty-year wood shingled roof. The stone patio, manicured lawn and perennial gardens create a private, waterfront oasis with south-easterly views over the Harbor. The dock and float have over 15’ of deep water at low tide and provide outstanding boating possibilities. $1,250,000.

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Custom log home, cathedral ceilings, sunroom, furniture included. Close to Flagstaff Lake, Sugarloaf and ITS trail access. $219,000

Unbelievable mountain-top retreat at Day Mountain Pond! New construction, 15 acres, views of pond and mountains. Gated privacy. Recreational Dream! $229,000

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The Bay House is the first contemporary condominium residence to anchor Portland’s’ waterfront district in over 30 years. With 20 different floor plans and 86 singlelevel units (over 50% under contract) residents at The Bay House will enjoy a combination of sophisticated amenities and options unavailable anywhere else on Portland’s peninsula. Open floor plans feature custom kitchens with granite, hardPrices range from $200,000 for a studio up to $795,000 for a spacious 3-bedroom unit. wood floors, luxurious baths, state -of-theart systems, central air conditioning, gas fireplaces, underground parking and priSandy Johnson & Gail Landry | 207-415-2128 & 207-650-8893 vate outdoor space.

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eUSTIS waTeRFRoNT–Once in a lifetime chance! Former famous “Lindbergh” compound on Shaw Pond. 13 miles in the woods is this 4 bedroom, 3 bath log lodge. 3 stone fireplaces, Douglas fir floors, beams, 560 acres, barn, 2 guest cottages. The best in Maine right here! $2,475,000

BelGRaDe waTeRFRoNT– Own the whole point! Stunning 3 bedroom, 2 bath contemporary ranch on Long Pond. Gorgeous kitchen w/granite, 26’ ceilings in living rm, master suite, lots of glass, decks, gym, office. Quality built & one of a kind spot! $850,000

MoNMoUTh waTeRFRoNT–A stunning Cobbossee Lake cottage! Large lot, 250’ of prime water frontage, boat house, 2 new bathrooms, new kitchen, farmer’s porch, 4 bedrooms, workshop, bunkhouse. Home sits on a frost wall & has well & septic. $425,000

GaRDINeR–Over 4,800 sq.ft. of incredible living space! 5 bedrooms, 2.5 baths, stunning kitchen with island and stainless appliances, 2 slate fireplaces, 45x55 heated garage, family room, 77’ deck, views, 2 hole golf course, private. Just awesome! $475,000

FaRMINGDale–Stunning Hayford Heights Cape with over 2 acres of land. 3 bedrooms, custom hickory kitchen w/ island, formal dining & living, family room with hearth & stove, open concept, master suite, deck & screened porch, 3 car attached, 2.5 baths. $395,000

PITTSToN–Absolutely spectacular! One of a kind! Newer post & beam with over 5000 sq. ft. of incredible living space. 4 bedrooms, 4.5 baths, 30 acres, Douglas fir doors, chef’s kitchen, stone fireplace, 8 stall horse barn. Pastures, views, in-ground pool! $1,500,000

MoNMoUTh waTeRFRoNT– Impeccable home on Cochnewagon Lake. 2 bedrooms, 2-1/4 baths, huge living, waterside porch, wrap around deck, spectacular views, separate garage with guest quarters, master suite. Efficient & maintenance free! $350,000

aUGUSTa–Stunning views and setting with this like-new contemporary Cape. Maple kitchen with granite and bar area, fireplaced living, formal dining, 3 bedrooms, 2 baths, huge family room, 2 car garage, deck, pool, cul-de-sac. Upper Ganneston. $395,000

MaNCheSTeR waTeRFRoNT– Spectacular Contemporary w/5000 s.f. of living space! 4-5 bedrooms, 4.5 baths, marble fireplace, huge foyer w/floating staircase, family room, custom features, patio, landscaped. Cobbossee Lake & Stream frontage. $750,000

wINThRoP–What a business, what a spot! Extremely visible property with parking for over 50 and 2.5 + acres of land. 2 story building with 4380 sq. ft. per floor. Currently an antique mall with over 43 tenants in place. Large income, little overhead. $500,000

hallowell–Over 3000 sq. ft. of living space in this historic Federal circa 1810. Features 3 bedrooms, 2 baths, massive family room, pine floors, 2-car attached garage, deck, 12.5 acres of land. Stunning curb appeal. $335,000

hallowell–This 7 year old quality Cape features a huge maple kitchen w/island & black granite counters, formal dining, 1st floor master suite, cathedral living w/beams & v-match, 3 bedrooms, 2 full baths, 2nd floor loft family room, incredible setting. $300,000

e. BooThBaY–Rich in history & character galore. Beautiful year around 3 bedroom, 1.5 bath home. Sweeping ocean views from new 3rd floor family room, porch, deck, separate general store or guest house. Incredible opportunity to own this rare property. $695,000

w. GaRDINeR–Spectacular setting with views for miles. Impressive log home with slate fireplace, lots of glass, soaring ceilings, 3 bedrooms, 2.5 baths, loft, family room, open concept, 2 car garage, privacy. Just incredible! $400,000 (FLAGG)

hallowell–Absolutely stunning! 2 bedrooms, 2.5 custom baths, incredible kitchen with granite & Viking appliances, wood floors, double fireplace, beautiful master suite, patio, 2 decks, 2 car garage, fully updated. Spectacular views and total quality! $325,000

wINThRoP waTeRFRoNT– Cobbossee Lake. 2 for the price of 1! Main house with 2 bedrooms, wood floors, enclosed porch, fireplaced living, 3/4 bath, full daylight basement.Also includes a yearround A-frame at water’s edge with enclosed screen porch. $225,000

For more information on the above listings, please call Chris Vallee at 207-622-2220 or 207-242-2041

Brooksville Cape Rosier “Ocean Garden” Delightful oceanfront home with remarkable views to Camden Hills and beyond. “Ocean Garden” is privately positioned with lush landscaping on 12.3 acres with 440 feet of shorefront. The six bedrooms and 5 and one half baths are a convenience for a delightful year round enjoyment. MLS#1054262 $2,888,000

Blue Hill Parker Point Classic year round Victorian Colonial in a private waterfront setting next to the Blue Hill Country Club and surrounded by Blue Hill Harbor. Inviting open and airy floor plan with level entry, gourmet kitchen, new baths, 3 fireplaces, 1 gas fireplace, 2 wood stoves, and separate guest quarters on the second floor. Sweeping decks to the Blue Hill Harbor waterfront and dock. MLS# 1072117 $3,200,000

Brooklin Naskeag Point “Gropius House” Extraordinary chance to own a Walter Gropius designed house on the beautiful Coast of Maine. South facing harbor views with 438' of shorefront, set on 6.6 acres of rolling ﬁelds leading to a dock. A light and open ﬂoor plan includes high ceilings and window walls for spectacular ocean views. MLS# 1065613 $2,200,000

Beals Fisherman’s Island A 50-acre “Jewel of the Sea” in its entirety. Wonderful meadows running to interspersed beaches. 360-degree views of sea and mountains. Located near the beloved Archipelagos of Great Wass Island–most of which is under the guidance of the Nature Conservatory. Over a mile of your very own coastline. MLS#979744 $599,000

Castine Perkins Street Lovely in town home site on prestigious Perkins Street. Artfully designed garden of perennials and herbs lead to an expansive gravel/sandy beach and deep water ocean frontage. Daylight ocean side lower level guest quarters with a large studio, kitchen, exercise room, full bath, and family room with a stone gas ﬁreplace. MLS#1002864 $2,495,000

Little Deer Isle Saltwater Farm “Harbor Farm.” A genuine Saltwater Farm designed to perfection. The sprawling 68 acres of mixed growth woods are a backdrop to open meadows that gradually embrace the 1,200 feet of glorious south facing shorefrontage. A family retreat with magical gardens and sandy beaches. MLS#1052640 $4,200,000

Isle au Haut Entire Oceanfront Peninsula Bold, beautiful and dramatic shorefront including the entire Isle Au Haut landmark “Horseman’s Point.” Nearly 50 spruce clad acres with over 2,700' of deep water frontage including beaches, ledges and fantastic views. The adjoining lot is also available for sale. The best the coast of Maine has to offer. MLS#1092282 $525,000

Machiasport Scabby Island Chain & Point of Main Three islands which consist of 18 acres, known as the Scabby Island Chain. All with breathtaking 360° views. Offered for sale at $499,000. In addition, available for sale is a mainland parcel known as “Point of Main” for $399,000. This nicely elevated 10.5 acres has 300' of ocean frontage and has an existing 32' x 44' building, perfect for storing a boat. MLS#849488 Offered in entirety for $880,000

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$797,000 | Payson Park Neighborhood, Portland This gorgeous 4 bedroom, 2-1/2 bath home has been completely reborn with painstaking attention to detail. Breathtaking kitchen by Maine Coast Kitchens with 28’ ceiling, private master suite, forced hot water heated driveway and walkways are but a few of the many features.

Price $450,000

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Intown waterfront property!! Features 4 BR, sunroom, livingroom w/ fireplace, garage, and deck. $299,000

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Waterfront family compound with boathouse, dock and protected cove for swimming.

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Rare offering–4-BR, Open Floor Plan, Rustic Stone FP, 2 Screen Porches, Views. Private, Deep Frontage, Abutting Conservation Lands. $459,000

Exceptionally Private Lakeside Home w/Guest Cottage sited on 3+ Acres with 320’ WF and Permanent Dock w/Covered Boat Slip. $990,000

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Classic RL Cottage w/Permanent Dock on Charm-Filled Turn-of-the-Century Log Cottage Oquossoc Cove. 3-BR w/Loft, Open Views, 5-BR, Massive Granite Fireplace, 174' of Shorefront, Deck, Level Lawn to Water’s Edge. $425,000 14x18 Bunk house, Furnishings Included. $278,900

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Waldoboro, ME. - Ultimate conversation starter; The Reed Mansion’s key role in the founding of our state, it’s “Bowed Room” was the birthplace of our Maine State Seal! The Mansion enjoys a seasonal river view from it’s hillside setting, with terraced lawn and gardens. Recently set up as a luxury B & B, elegantly restored with period details, it has 4 bedrooms in the main house, modern “cooks” kitchen and 2 bedroom caretakers quarters. A move-in ready dream, a hidden gem in the Mid Coast. $399,000

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“Hi.” “Hi.” “Really sorry about your mom.” “Thanks.” Mrs. Legassie moved to Bangor the summer after Nat and Lurene finished high school because she’d met a man there who wanted to take care of her. Guess he didn’t do a very good job, because she died unexpectedly in January. She wasn’t even fifty. “What happened?” “Heart.” “Oh. Sorry.” “She was fat, so…” She was. Which required an oversized casket. Which had to be shipped to Presque Isle, because Mrs. Legassie wanted to be buried in the family plot. She was just getting laid to rest now because you can’t get buried in northern Maine until mid-May when the snow is mostly melted and the ground is thawed enough. Unfortunately, a lot of Catholics had died over the winter, so Mrs. Legassie had to wait longer than usual. Till July 22. That’s a long wait. “God, what do they do with you when you die in January and your committal’s not till friggin’ July? Do they store you somewhere?” “I don’t know, Nat.” Why did he ask that? “Can we talk about something else?” “Yeah. Sorry.” Nat didn’t know what else to talk about,

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Playwright and actor John Cariani’s most recent play is Love/ Sick (world premiere at Portland Stage, March 2013). His first, Almost, Maine, premiered at Portland Stage and enjoyed an off-Broadway run in New York. He’s appeared 26 times on TV’s Law & Order, and he received a Tony nomination for his work in the 2004 Broadway revival of Fiddler on the Roof. He wrote the first draft of“Echo Lake”just before beginning his play Last Gas:“One of the first things I do when I begin writing a new play is to write a short story to flesh out the characters and the plot.”

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She opened the door to her car. “I love you and I’m sorry, Lurene.” She stopped. She wanted to say, “You’re too late.” But she didn’t. She wanted to accept his apology. But she wouldn’t. She wanted to tell him that she loved him, too, still. But she couldn’t. So she just got in her car and drove away. And Nat realized right then and there that he would probably never see her again. He also realized we all pay for what we’ve done and for what we haven’t done and for what we become with the lives we lead. And his life would be led without her. n

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