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199 Under exposed

89 star Map of north Haven island Your ticket to this offshore celebrity colony.

By Deana Lorenzo

97 Zom rom Com Filmmaker Kyle Rankin returns to Maine, with zombies.

Interview by Colin W. Sargent

256 Flash

155 a tale of

185 ¡Papa’s three aMegos!

Who knew Papa had so many connections to Mainers?

By Colin W. Sargent

Chansonetta Stanley’s remarkable photographic chronicle of her era was nearly lost.

By Claire Z. Cramer

Art&style 39 Maine Classics

two Paintings Adventures in the auctionhouse trade.

By Colin W. Sargent

164 Camp tacky Stylish decorating ideas.

From Staff & Wire Reports 175 Maine. Photo. Bombs.

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248 Fiction

“House of Dreams”

By Christina Baker Kline

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67 Portland after dark:

The life and times of Maine’s prickly sea urchin industry.

By Claire Z. Cramer

204 Restaurant Guide 205 Restaurant Review

Central Provisions, where small plates score big hits.

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36 Letters 62 casco Bay experience 169 Portland Pentimento Ethnic enclaves enrich our layered present.

By Colin S. Sargent

Let’s take this outside

Nights in the Old Port.

By Olivia Gunn

103 dream islands

Just offshore, you can buy a place where you can hear yourself think.

By Michael Barry

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Flying saucers in the North Woods? Happens all the time.

By Colin S. Sargent

134 stalking Beyond

Take a walk on the sublime side.

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145 Return of the Bookshop Around the Corner

179 A Streetcar Named Narcissus

159 Petit Provence in The West end

Friendly bookstores are essential to Maine’s mise en scène.

By Jim Baumer

Theodore Roosevelt’s whistlestop in Maine is big box office.

By Patricia Erikson

Portland’s Orchard Street has a Mediterranean charmer.

By Colin W. Sargent

151 Cage Fight

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222 House of the Month

The gull vs. the chickadee for Maine state bird.

From Staff & Wire Reports

115 New Harmony in K Port

Grand-scale rusticating in Cape Arundel.

By Colin W. Sargent

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“It’s remote. Some people will be excited by its wildness,” says Patrick Sclafani of the GSA’s Boston Office.

“Our goal is preservation.

We will take prospects out this summer to do an inspection.”

From top: rhonda Farnham; Courtesy oF the Gsa, Jeremy d’entremont

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o the General Services Administration (GSA) is selling Boon Island Light this summer. Bids start at $5,000 for this stick on a pile of rocks that’s always belonged to all of us, and to no one.

At the Black Pearl, our family’s cottage on Gooch’s Beach, it’s the first thing I check in with when I scan the horizon in the morning and the last thing I look for before I go up to bed. It isn’t just part of my psychic geography. Catching sight of it, I feel my father right beside me, telling stories in the authoritative way he could pull off without sounding stuffy. Our family happily navigated with this lonely nautical landmark many times in our lapstrake outboard boat, White Cap, across a thousand magnetic summers.

As a literary lodestone, it inspired Kenneth Roberts to write Boon Island, his novelization of the wrecking of the British merchantman Nottingham. During the icy winter of 1710, crewmembers engaged in cringeworthy episodes of cannibalism in order to survive.

What’s the price of loneliness? During a pensive interlude years ago, I took a too-small boat out here by myself, six miles off the coast. The spire is so far beyond the pale it isn’t even painted white for tourists. It’s natural granite, the color of shadow. Mad with gulls, this inhospitable gun site was so lost in space I found no graffiti. Someone left the brass lock open, so I headed upstairs inside the swirling red brick interior. Each window landing was covered with dead songbirds in blues and greens. Had they all just got tired of migrating, unable make it home?

At the top, there’s a final door. When I opened it, a blast of air knocked me over. I didn’t dare go outside to risk a view from the decrepit iron railing that circles the light. Then vertigo set in and the lighthouse seemed to move. I flattened to my chest and grabbed for the deck to keep from being thrown off. It was my mind moving, of course, but believe me, the sensation is more real than IMAX. Slowly I pulled myself up to the rusty eye of Boon.

As a seven-year-old, I was thrilled by the gnarly part Boon’s in horror story. At 27, I took my bride to Boon in the tradition of Grand Guignol, thrilling her into my arms with its desolate vastness. Now, I’m haunted by the irony that the castaways were close enough to see the shore without being able to make contact. Think Gravity at sea level.

Some lighthouses are turned into B&Bs. If Boon entered the hospitality industry, I’d give it zero stars. Or all the stars in the world.

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Brad Emerson’s “Athens in the Wilderness” [April 2014] was a well-researched and skillfully written retrospective on Bar Harbor’s celebrated performing arts center. As the author acknowledged, one of its incorporators was George B. Dorr, the subject of my forthcoming biography, The Making of Acadia National Park (Friends of Acadia, 2016).

Mr. Emerson might be intrigued to know that architect Guy Lowell was fresh from designing Harvard’s newest addition to the Yard: Emerson Hall. Dorr was responsible for raising funds to ensure that philosophers of the stature of William James and Josiah Royce would have distinguished campus accommodations when they were not hiking the trails on Mount Desert Island.

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[In the House of the Month story, “A View With a View,” May 2014] it was the City of Portland Planning Division that brought Michele Reeves to do consultant work in India Street through the technical assistance grant we have with the Portland State University, with additional financial sponsorship from the Portland Society for Architecture (not the India Street Neighborhood Association).

Caitlin Cameron, Portland

Portland after dark The beautiful photo of the State Theatre is my favorite part of your “Portland After Dark” series in the May issue! The re-opening of the State has been a huge change in my life and has brought me ‘out late’ to Portland month

after month because of the wonderful musicians they bring to town. With Port City Music Hall, the music in Portland is better than ever! We’re always looking for that perfect place to go after the show, so [“Portland After Dark”] opened my eyes to many late-night eateries I’d never have known about. Great job, Portland Magazine–love this feature!

Bonnye Sensenig, Brunswick [As a former Portlander] I love that such a great magazine is choosing to highlight an important part of Portland life–its nightlife.

Portland is certainly known for its gorgeous daytime scenery, like the wharf, harbor, and cobblestone streets, but it has a different character at night. Portland nightlife offers delicious cocktails, cool bars, great live music, and an energy entirely different than the day. Thanks for highlighting this.

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On the eve of a recent auction at Barridoff Galleries, Gulls at Monhegan (1936), by Maine artist Andrew Winter, was withdrawn from the line-up amid murmurs of speculation that it’s rightfully the property of the USA. Commissioned by the New Deal’s Works Progress Administration (WPA) during the Great Depression, it hung for years at the U.S. Embassy in Costa Rica until a retiring ambassador took it home as a souvenir. As National Public Radio reported, when his granddaughter attempted to sell it at auction in Portland, GSA Inspector General Brian Miller reclaimed it for the Smithsonian.

Fast & 50!

Crazy but true: The ultimate datebait car is now officially old enough to…take naps. There are now only 15 1964 mustangs registered in maine; 190 from 1965; and 168 from 1966.

So long hot, hello vintage.

Délicieux it’s just your basic poutine burger: “French fries, gravy, and cheese curds nestled into a sesame-seed bun,” as Tiffany Sun of bangormaine.gov puts it. This zesty Franco-American sensation earned its alliterative sobriquet– ”Penobscot Poundah”–in a naming contest held by Bangor’s Cross insurance Center, which features it at the arena’s Blue Ox grill concession.

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When Charles Lindbergh landed Spirit of St. Louis on Old Orchard Beach in 1927, another plane was there first. This one. In sparkling flying shape, it’s part of the permanent collection at the Owls Head Transportation Museum. An airshow Aug. 9 & 10 will showcase aerobatics.

Stretch Your Summer Hypnotize yourself by watching taffy stretched and twisted through the plate glass windows of The Goldenrod at York Beach.

Then step through time and enjoy a lobster roll and a lime rickey in the luncheonette. 2 Railroad Ave., 363-2621, thegoldenrod.com

Century Note Three Thousand Yachts Later

Happy birthday, Kate! Moosehead Lake’s steamship Katahdin, built at Bath Iron Works and delivered in pieces via train in 1914, kicks off her summer cruise season June 27. Nothing quite like staring straight up the 800-foot cliff of Mt. Kineo from the deck of a century-old ship on a 250-ft.-deep lake to restore your perspective. katahdincruises.com

It was 1971 when Sabre’s first vessel, the 28-foot Patience, slid down the ways at Handy Boat in Falmouth. Sabre Yachts of Raymond has gone on to design and build sail and power yachts that now range from 38 to 54 feet. The 3,000th, a Sabre 48 Salon Express power yacht, was just delivered to Boston Yacht Sales.

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21, 22; Eight Is Not Enough Improv, Aug. 7, 8; Alex the Jester, Aug. 14. 675-4000 theaterofawesome.com

Acadia Repertory Theatre, 1154 Bridge St., Mt. Desert. Red, Jun. 30-Jul. 13; The School for Wives, Jul. 15-27; The 39 Steps, Jul. 29-Aug. 10; Agatha Christie’s The Unexpected Guest, Aug. 12-30; Children’s Theater: Puss In Boots, Jul. 2-Aug. 30. 2447260 acadiarep.com

Gaslight Theater, 1 Winthrop St., Hallowell. The Bat, through Jun. 22; Venus in Fur, Jul. 31-Aug. 9. See website for updates. 626-3698 gaslighttheater.org

Arundel Barn Playhouse, 53 Old Post Rd., Arundel. 8 Track, through Jun. 28; A Chorus Line, Jul.1-12; My Fair Lady, Jul. 15-Aug. 2; Legally Blonde, Aug. 5-16; The Marvelous Wonderettes, Aug. 19-30. 985-5552 arundelbarnplayhouse.com

Hackmatack Playhouse, 538 School St., Berwick.

Good Theater, St. Lawrence Arts Ctr., 76 Congress St., Portland. The Rainmaker, Oct. 1-19.

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Aug 9. 285-3848 mainestageshakespeare.com Maine State Ballet Theater, 348 U.S. Rte. 1, Falmouth. A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Aug. 8-16.

799-7337 mainestateballet.org Maine State Music Theater, 1 Bath Rd., Brunswick. Chamberlin, A Civil War Romance, through Jul. 12; Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, Jul. 16 -Aug. 2; Godspell in Concert, Jul 28; Footloose, Aug. 6-23; Footlight Follies, Aug. 11; The Little Mermaid, Aug. 18. 725-8729 msmt.org

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Belfast Maskers/Cold Comfort Theater, USO Show, Children’s Theater Camp, Once Upon a Mattress, Jul.; Wind in the Willows, August; call for specific venues and dates.

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Carousel Music Theater, 196 Townsend Ave., Boothbay Harbor. Bye Bye Love, through Jul. 20; Once Upon A Time, Jul. 22Aug. 10; Home Town USA, Aug. 12-Sept. 27.

633-5297 carouselmusictheater.org Celebration Barn, 190 Stock Farm Rd., South Paris. Ain’t True and Uncle False, Jun. 28; Basquette Quese, Jul. 4; Exceptions to Gravity, Jul. 5; Nearly Lear, Jul. 12; Richard 3, Jul. 19; Mike Miclon’s Early Evening Show, Aug. 2; The Soiree, Aug. 9; Pinot & Augustine, Aug. 16; Egadz, Aug. 23; Celebration Summer Finale, Aug. 30. 743-8425 celebrationbarn.com Children’s Museum & Theater of Maine,142 Free Street, Portland. Stage stories, daily; Teensy Weensy Acting Classes, weekly; Out of This World Acting Camp, Jun. 23-27; What Does The Cat Say? puppet show, Jun. 27; Invent a Fairy Tale Camp, Aug. 4-8.

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Portland Players, 420 Cottage Rd., South Portland.. Les Miserables, opens Sept. 26.

781-3587 portlandplayers.org Portland Stage Company, 25A Forest Ave. Brighton Beach Memoirs, Sep. 23-Oct. 19. portlandstage.org

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in the Forest City, 1924 is the year the earth stood still. every single dwelling on every single street was photographed for tax records. think google maps “Street View” today. a new show at maine historical Society sparkles across a busy century as then struggles to occupy the same space as now. enter the address of your favorite house, restaurant, or club today onto mainememory.net/search/ptr.

Presto! you’re in 1924, touring a shadow city, the necropolis of who we used to be. “it’s just a fascinating, yeasty kind of era,” says curator William David Barry. “Portland was going up. earle Shettleworth’s mother told him the feeling was ‘it’s all going to be vertical.’ immigration was transforming the city. People were taking americanization classes.” accidental art surprised Barry as he was selecting images for the show, with beautiful strangers–now ghosts–demanding attention. “one guy is hoisting himself and peeking into a garage.” Forever. you can almost hear the streets, the iron clanging, and smell their collected fragrance. “Slums, summer people, fish markets, coal packets and coal dust blowing around. it was a different world. that, world is right here.” n

Snowlion Repertory Company, at Portland Stage Studio Theater, 25A Forest Ave. Fall schedule TBA. 782-3200 snowlionrep.org St. Lawrence Arts Center, 76 Congress St., Portland. My Mother’s Clothes Are Not My Mother, Jun. 19. 347-3075 stlawrencearts.org Stonington Opera House, 1 Opera House Lane, Stonington. Romeo and Juliet, Jul. 3, 5, 6, 17, 19; Romeo & Juliet & Zombies, Jul. 10-13, 18, 20; Live for $5!: Frogtown Mountain Puppeteers, Jul. 16; Alison Chase Performance: Work in Development, Jul. 23; The Last Ferryman, an original musical, Aug. 14-22.

367-2788 operahousearts.org The Theater Project, 14 School St., Brunswick. Alice in Wonderland, Jul. 18-20; 10 Ways to Survive the Zombie Apocalypse, Aug. 1-17.

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Theater at Monmouth, 796 Main St., Monmouth. As You Like It, Jul. 10-Aug. 22; A Woman of No Importance, Jul. Above: 165 State Street in 1924, next to State Street Church, where actress 17-Aug. 23; Romeo and Juliet, Jul. 24Helen Hunt’s family once lived. Today it is the office of Portland Magazine.

Aug. 24; What the Butler Saw, Jul. 31Deertrees Theatre, 156 Deertrees Rd., Harrison.

Aug. 23; Tales from the Blue Fairy Book, Jun. Arsenic and Old Lace, Jun. 20-Jul. 5; The Music Man, Jul. The Selfish Shellfish, Jul. 11, 19, 26, 31; Heroes, Jul. 17, 28-Aug. 21; Legends: The Music of Judy Garland, 9-26; Monty Python’s Spamalot, Jul. 9-26; The Trip to 25, Aug. 2, 8; The Grand O’Neal, Jul. 26, Aug. 2, 9, 15.

Aug. 21. 933-9999 theateratmonmouth.org Bountiful, Aug. 20-30. 698-1807 hackmatack.org 583-6747 deertrees-theatre.org Heartwood Regional Theater Company, 420 Fenix Theatre, Deering Oaks Park, Portland. As You Biscay Rd., Damariscotta. The Legend of Jim Cullen, Jul. Like It, Jul. 17-Aug. 9. fenixtheatre.com 24-26, 31 & Aug. 1-2. heartwoodtheater.org Art Gallery at UNE, 716 Stevens Ave., Portland. ReFreeport Community Players, Freeport PerLakewood Theater, 75 Theater Rd., Madison. cent Acquisitions & Selections From the Collection, forming Arts Center, 30 Holbrook Rd., Freeport.

Noises Off, Jun. 19-28; Bye, Bye Birdie, Jul. 3-12; through Jun. 15; Annual Sculpture Garden InvitationThe Wizard of Oz, Jul.; Almost, Maine, Sep. 17-27.

Skin Flick, Jul. 17-26; Big, the Musical, Jul. 31-Aug. al, Jun. 13-Oct. 31; Making a New Whole: The Art of 865-5505 fcponline.org 9; Figaro, Aug. 14-23; The Fall of the House of Collage, Jun. 26-Sep. 28. 221-4499 une.edu/artgallery Usher, Aug. 28-Sep. 6; Don’t Dress for Dinner, Sep. Freeport Theater of Awesome, 5 Depot St., Bates College Museum of Art, Olin Arts Center, 11-20. 474-7176 lakewoodtheater.org Freeport. Boston’s Best Comics, Jun. 21, Jul. 12, 19, 26; 75 Russell St., Lewiston. Encountering Maine, from Mainestage Shakespeare, Lafayette Park, KenAug. 2, 9, 16, 23, 30; Double or Nothing Juggling, Jun. the museum’s permanent collection of Maine artists, nebunk. The Taming of the Shrew & Macbeth, Jul. 326, 27; Down East Hysterical Society, Jul. 17,18, Aug. through Oct. 12; Convergence: Jazz, Films, and the

City Theater in Biddeford, 205 Main St. The Full Monty, Jul. 11, 20; Bingo! The Winning Musical, Aug. 22. 642-7840 citytheater.org

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Boothbay Playhouse, 275 Wiscasset Rd., Boothbay. South Pacific, Jun. 26-Jul. 12; Into the Woods, Jul. 17-Aug. 1; Children of Eden, Aug. 7-23; The Sunshine Boys, Oct. 3-11. 6333379 boothbayplayhouse.com

Ogunquit Playhouse , 10 Main St. Ogunquit. Billy Elliot, the Musical, Jun. 25-Jul. 26; Mary Poppins, Jul. 20-Aug. 30; The Witches of Eastwick, A Musical Comedy, Sept. 3-27; The Addams Family, Oct. 1-26. 646-5511 ogunquitplayhouse.org

Visual Arts, through Dec. 7. 786-6158 bates.edu Biddeford Art Walk, downtown Biddeford. Visit local galleries, studios, and museums, Jun. 27, Jul. 25, Aug. 29, Sep. 26. biddefordsacoartwalk.com Bowdoin College Museum of Art, 1 Bath Rd., Brunswick. Selections from the Dorothy and Herbert Vogel Collection, opens Jun. 27; Richard Tuttle: Print Retrospective, opens Jun. 28; The Jazz Photography of William P. Gottlieb, Jul. 10-Sep. 14; Hendrik Goltzius: Mythology and Truth, opens Sep. 27. 725-3275 bowdoin.edu/art-museum

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Center for Maine Contemporary Art, 162 Russell Ave., Rockport. Jon Imber, Mary Armstrong, Shoshannah White, through Jul. 6; Four Painters: Hannah Bureau, Elizabeth Hoy, Robin Reynolds, Jay Wu, through Jul. 6; Annual Auction Exhibition, Jul. 12-26; CMCA Biennial, opens Sept. 27. 236-2875 cmcanow.org Colby College Museum of Art, 5600 Mayflower Hill Dr., Waterville. Lois Dodd: Cultivating Vision, opens Jun. 7; Bernard Langlais, opens Jul. 19; Highlights from the Permanent Collection, opens Jul. 19.

859-5600 colby.edu Farnsworth Art Museum, 16 Museum St., Rockland. The Wyeths, Maine & the Sea, through Dec.; The Shakers: From Mount Lebanon to the World, opens Jun. 14. 596-6457 farnsworthmuseum.org First Friday Art Walk, downtown Portland. Visit local galleries, studios, and museums, Jun. 6, Jul. 4, Aug. 1, Sep. 5. firstfridayartwalk.com Maine Historical Society, 489 Congress St., Portland. Historical walking tours of Portland daily through Sep. 30; Home: The Longfellow House and the Emergence of Portland, Jun. 27; The Taxman Cometh, a Snapshot of Portland–1924 Tax Record photographs, opens Jun. 27; A Public Reading of the Declaration of Independence by historian Herb Adams, an annual tradition outside the Longfellow House, Jul. 4. 774-1822 mainehistory.org

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Ogunquit Museum of American Art, 543 Shore Rd., Ogunquit. Henry Strater: Arizona Winters, 1933-1938, through Oct. 31; Tradition & Excellence: The Permanent Collection, through Oct. 31; Andrew Wyeth: The Linda Bean Collection, through Oct. 31; Richard Brown Lethem, Alexandra de Steiguer, through Aug. 31. 646-4909 ogunquitmuseum.org Portland Museum of Art, 7 Congress Sq., Portland. George Daniell: Picturing Monhegan Island, through Aug. 3; Andrea Sulzer: Throughoutsideways, through Aug. 24; Richard Estes’ Realism, through Sep. 7; Aaron T. Stephan: To Borrow, Cut, Copy and Steal, opens Sep. 6. 775-6148 portlandmuseum.org Victoria Mansion, 109 Danforth St., Portland.

Allagash Victoria Ale Premiere, Jun. 20; open 7 days for guided tours. 772-4841 victoriamansion.org

music Alive at Five, Monument Square, Portland. Weekly free outdoor concert series, Thursdays through Jul. and Aug. portlandmaine.com Asylum, 121 Center St., Portland. Karaoke, every W; Retro Night, every Th; Saliva, Jun. 26; Trapt, Jun.

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28; Grandmaster Flash, Jul. 11; The Tubes, Jul. 18; Cracker Unplugged, Jul. 19; Quiet Riot, Jul. 22; Josh Thompson, Aug. 9; Gaelic Storm, Aug. 22; Taj Mahal, Aug. 23. portlandasylum.com Bar Harbor Music Festival, 59 Cottage St., Bar Harbor. The 48th season, Jun. 29-Jul. 27, promises the variety of excellent music and high-quality venues for which this festival has become known and loved.

Highlights include Brass Venture, Jul. 1; All-Beethoven & Chopin with Christopher Johnson, pianist, Jul. 5; Giacomo Puccini’s opera La Bohème, Jul. 11; Wolverine Jazz Band, Jul. 20; and the Bar Harbor Festival String Orchestra for three concerts in three venues including one in Acadia National Park. See the entire schedule and details at barharbormusicfestival.org

La Bohème: Tenor Scott Scully stars in a return performance as Rodolfo.

Bar HarBor Music Festival “This show is a monster!” says Bar Harbor Music Festival artistic director Francis Fortier of the July 11 production of La Bohème. “Bohème was our first opera 10 years ago. Scott Scully, who starred for us the first time around, is now a major tenor at the Metropolitan Opera–and he’s back this summer. Among our talented associates, stage director Fenlon Lamb put together the best local talent here for the chorus, and the Criterion is a fantastic vaudeville house. This opera strikes on all levels.”

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Boothbay Opera House, 86 Townsend Ave., Boothbay Harbor. Tim Sample, Jun. 26; Mallett Brothers, Jun. 27; Cave Dogs, Jul. 2; Eileen Ivers & Immigrant Soul, Jul. 12; Paula Poundstone, Jul. 18; Kathy Mattea, Jul. 19; Maine Pro Musica, Jul. 23; Randy Kaplan, Jul. 25; Noel Paul Stookey, Jul. 26; Juston McKinney, Jul. 30, Robin Speilberg, Jul. 31.

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Blue, 650 Congress St., Portland. Acoustic Jam, Every Tues.; Irish Music Night, Every Wed.; Truth or Dare with Heather Styka, Nick Farago, Jun. 19; Shanna in the Round, Welterweight, Gunther Brown, Jun. 20; Sean Mencher & His Rhythm Kings, Jun. 21; Samuel James and Dana Gross, Jun. 26; Mick and Jay, Jun. 27; Hardy Brothers Jazz Jam, Jun. 28; Max Garcia Conover Swaps Songs, Jul. 3; Big Fancy, OKBARI, Evan King Group, Jul. 4; Cumberland Crossing, Bluegrass Jam, Jul. 10; Acadian Aces, Jul. 11. 774-4111 portcityblue.com

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mian Trio, Jul. 15; Cello Monologue Project with Vasily Popov, Jul. 29; Trio Nuevo, Aug. 12; Baroque Orchestra of Maine, Aug. 26. 367-2788 operahousearts.org Cross Insurance Center, 515 Main St., Bangor. Queens of the Stone Age, Jul. 12; James Taylor, Jul. 13; John Fogerty, Aug. 2. 745-3000 crossinsurancecenter.com Darling’s Waterfront Pavilion, Bangor. Willie Nelson with Alison Krauss & Union Station, Jun. 19; Boston with Cheap Trick, Jul. 2; Styx with Foreigner and Don Felder, Jul. 5; Sarah McLachlan, Jul. 18; Arcade Fire, Aug. 20; Steely Dan, Aug. 29; Lady Antebellum, Aug. 30; Jason Aldean, Aug. 31. waterfrontconcerts.com

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Steely Dan–Jamalot Ever After tour, August 29, Darling’s Waterfront Pavilion, Bangor, $29-$103

Deertrees Theatre, 156 Deertrees Rd., Harrison. Mixology, Jul. 5; Gothard Sisters, Jul. 8; Anni Clark in Concert, Jul. 10; Beatles for Sale, Jul. 12; Emilia Dahlin Quartet, Jul. 18; Encore-Coda, Jul. 21; Tartan Terrors, Jul. 24; Mick Conneely & Dave Munelly, Aug. 7; Don Campell Band, Aug. 14; The New Black Jazz Eagle Band, Aug. 16. Sebago-Long Lake Music Festival, Jul. 15-Aug. 12. 442-8455 deertrees-theatre.org and sllmf.org Dogfish Bar & Grille, 128 Free St., Portland. Acoustic Open Mic, every W; Jazz every F; Larsen, Jul. 3; Happy Hour with Isaiha Bennett, Jun. 27; Matt Meyer & Gumption Junction, Jul. 5; Tombstone PD, Jul. 10; Travis James Humphrey, Jun. 20, Jul. 4, Jul. 18; Dapper Gents, Jun. 19; The Potato Pickers, Jun. 21; The Renovators, Jun. 28. 772-5483 thedogfishcompany.com

Jonathan’s, 92 Bournes Ln., Ogunquit. Tret Fure, Jun. 20; Seth Glier, Jul. 11; Maggie Rose, Jul. 12; Paula Poundstone, Jul. 19-20; Buckwheat Zydeco, Jul. 23; Noel Paul Stookey, Jul. 24; Jonathan Edwards, Jul. 25; Kate Taylor, Jul. 26; Blue Sky Riders with Kenny Loggins, Jul. 27. 646-4526 jonathansogunquit.com Kenny Loggins in Concert, 25 Dallas Hill Rd., Rangeley. With the Blue Sky Riders and Mallett Brothers Band, benefit concert for the Rangeley 4 6 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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An American in Paris, Jun. 17; Gordon Lightfoot, Jul. 14; Giuseppe Verdi’s Rigoletto, Jul. 23-25; Jackson Browne, Aug. 17; The Bus Stop Atheist, Sep. 19, 21. 842-0800 porttix.com Mt. Desert Festival of Chamber Music, 1 Kimball Rd., Northeast Harbor. Now in its 51st season, an annual series of 5 concerts, Jul. 22-Aug. 19. 288-4144 mountdesertfestival.org

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Dustbowl Revival, Jun. 17; Portland Jazz Orchestra, Jun. 27; Devon Sproule, Jul. 3; Tumbling Bones, Jul. 26. Visit website for more listings. 761-1757 onelongfellowsquare.com Port City Music Hall, 504 Congress St., Portland. Sister Sparrow & the Dirty Birds, Jun. 20; The English Beat, Jun.

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Annual Native American Powwow, Harbor Park, Wells. Traditional music, dance, crafts, demonstrations, Jul. 19-20. 646-2451 wellschamber.org Bates Dance Festival, Bates College campus, Lewiston. A tradition for more than 30 years. Prometheus Dance Company, Jul. 11, 12; Camille A. Brown & Dancers, Jul. 17, 19; David Dorfman Dance, Jul. 25, 26; Vincent Sekwatie Mansoe and Yin Mei, Aug. 1, 2. More events, exhibits, concerts, performances, Jun. 30-Aug. 9. batesdancefestival.org Boothbay Harbor Fest,. Celebration of music, food, races, restaurants, art, yard sale and local tradition, Aug. 29-Sept. 7. boothbayharborfestcom Casco Bay Boat Parade of Lights, to benefit Toys For Tots. Starting at 9 p.m., best viewing from the Casco Bay Bridge, Eastern Prom, Spring Point Light, Bug Light Park, Mackworth Island. toysfortotsspringvale.org Castine Plein Air Festival. At public spots around the town of Castine, 40 juried artists create landscape paintings. Watch them paint outdoors for 3 days, Jul. 24-26, then attend the reception and sale at Maine Maritime Academy on the 26th at 6pm. castinearts.org Full Moon Ghost Tour, Bell Buoy Park, Commercial St., Portland. Evening historic tours including actors and comedians (888) 718-4253. wickedwalkingtours.com Gala & Auction for the Penobscot Marine Museum, Point Lookout, Rt. 1, Northport. Dinner & dance, silent & live auction, Jul. 19. 548-2529 penobscotmarinemuseum.org Kennebunk’s 17th Edition Library Race, 112 Main St., Kennebunk. Annual walk/run/wheelchair through historic downtown to benefit the library’s many programs, Jul. 11. 985-2173 kennebunklibrary.org Kennebunk Old Home Week, Parsons Field, Park Street–music, cookouts, parade, family fun, fireworks, Jun. 28-Jul.4. 985-2102 kennebunkmaine.us Lakes Region House Tour, 940 Roosevelt Trail, Naples. Historic and contemporary homes in and around Naples, to benefit the Naples Public Library, Aug. 7. 693-6841 naples.lib.me.us Maine Boats, Homes & Harbors Show, Rockland waterfront. A celebration of boatbuild-

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Museums The African Center for the Sacred Arts at The Museum of African Culture, 13 Brown St., Portland. Tu-Sat year-round. 871-7188 museumafricanculture.org Baxter Museum, 67 South St., Gorham. The 1831 birthplace of James Phinney Baxter, former mayor of Portland and governor of Maine. Open Tu and Th, through Aug. 839-3878 baxterlibrary.org Castle Tucker, 2 Lee St., Wicasset. Federal-style mansion built by Judge Silas Lee in 1807. “Closed Doors Tour,” Jul. 25, Aug. 22, Sept. 19; Culinary History lecture, Aug. 29. Open W-Su, to Oct. 15. 882-7169 historicnewengland.org Dead River Area Historical Society, 172 Main St., Stratton. Memorabilia from native families, old carpentry and logging tools, china, glass, a complete schoolroom & a memorial room to the lost towns of Dead River and Flagstaff. Weekends, Jul & Aug. 246-2271 Deer Isle-Stonington Historical Society, 416 Sunset Rd., Deer Isle. Extensive collection of historical objects and documents housed in the 1830 Sellers House. Mid-Jun. to mid-Sept., W, F, Sat, 348-6400, dis-historicalsociety.org Fire House Museum 157 Spring St., Portland.

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True-to-life wood carvings of birds made by Wendell Gilley and others, as well as educational biology programs and woodcarving workshops. Jun., Tu-Sa 10am-4pm; Jul.-Aug., Tu-Sa 10am-5pm. wendellgilleymuseum.org Hamilton House, 40 Vaughn’s Ln., South Berwick. 1785 Georgian mansion on the Salmon Falls River purchased by Mrs. Emily Tyson in 1989, and restored to its former glory through the influence of the writings of Sarah Orne Jewett. W-Su, to Oct. 15. 384-2454 historicnewengland.org

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354-8062 knoxmuseum.org Musical Wonder House, 16-18 High St., Wiscasset. Antique music boxes, phonographs, pump organs, and player pianos from all over Europe and the United States, including the German automaton that inspired Walt Disney’s It’s A Small World ride, all collected in an 1852 house with unusual antique furnishings. 882-7163 musicalwonderhouse.com Neal Dow Memorial, 714 Congress St., Portland.

Federal-style, 1829 home of General Neal Dow, twotime Mayor of Portland and active Prohibitionist, abolitionist & advocate of women’s rights and prison reform, M-Sat. 773-7773 Nickels-Sortwell House, 121 Main St., Wiscasset.

Federal-style mansion, built in 1807 by ship owner and trader William Nickels with Colonial Revival furnishings and three-story elliptical stairway. Lectures: The Last of the Doughboys, Jul. 13; Beatrix Potter and the Power of Place, Aug. 17. Open Fri-Sun, to Oct 15.

882-7169 historicnewengland.org Northeast Historic Film Museum, 85 Main St., Bucksport. The Society is dedicated to preserving regional film, and its Alamo Theater displays antique film and movie theater paraphernalia, as well as the Kattelle Collection, over 800 pieces of historic amateur filmmaking equipment. 469-0924 oldfilm.org Owls Head Transportation Museum, 117 Museum St., Owls Head. Glory Days: vintage ‘50s, ‘60, ‘70s autos, Jul. 5-6; Antique Truck & Tractor Show, Jul. 19-20; Airshow: Wings & Wheels, Aug. 9-10; 37th Annual New England Auto Auction, Aug. 16; Barnstormers Ball, Aug. 23; Vintage Motorcycle Meet, Aug. 30-31; Foreign Auto Festival, Sept. 1314. 594-4418 owlshead.org Peary’s Eagle Island, Casco Bay, Harpswell. Admiral Robert E. Peary, claimed the first man at the North Pole, kept his summer home and library here. Jun. 15-Labor Day. 624-6080 pearyeagleisland.org Penobscot Marine Museum, 5 Church St., Searsport.

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827-4153 penobscotnation.org Portland Observatory Museum, 138 Congress St., Portland. Daily tours of America’s only remaining historic marine signal tower. 774-5561 portlandlandmarks.org Project Puffin Visitor Center, 311 Main St., Rockland. Documenting the Audubon Society’s conservation efforts with interactive educational exhibits, including live camera feeds of the puffins and seabirds 20 miles south at the Seal Island National Wildlife Refuge. Jun.-Oct., 10am-5pm. 596-5566 projectpuffin.audubon.org Roosevelt Campobello International Museum, 459 Rte. 774, Welshpool, New Brunswick, Canada. Franklin D. Roosevelt’s summer island retreat. Seven days a week to Columbus Day. (506) 752-2922 fdr.net

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Over 80 carriages and sleighs from the late 18th century to the 1920s, as well as walking and riding trails, farm-related demonstrations, and riding classes. Carriage Museum Exhibit, Sun., 1-4pm, through Aug. 17. 829-9203 skylinefarm.org Stanley Museum, 40 School St., Kingfield. Dedicated to the genius of the Stanley family, inventors of the Stanley Steamer, a steam-powered car that held the record for fastest automobile in the world from 1906 to 1911. Original cars and engines, as well as photography, airbrush paintings, and violins. Photographs by Chansonetta Stanley Emmons, paintings

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265-2729 stanleymuseum.org Stanwood Wildlife Sanctuary at Birdsacre, 289 High St., Ellsworth. Former home of Cordelia J. Stanwood, Victorian-era ornithologist and wildlife photographer, now housing a sanctuary for unreleasable birds and a library of her extensive notes and photographs. Sanctuary, all daylight hours. Homestead Museum and Nature Center, Jun-Sept, 10am4pm. 667-8460 birdsacre.com Tate House, 1267 Westbrook St., Portland. Capt.

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Tu-Sun, to Labor Day. 939-0301, umbrellacovermuseum.org Victoria Mansion, 109 Danforth St., Portland.

Historic house with collections from the High Victorian period. Built 1858-1860 for New Orleans hotelier Ruggles Morse, the mansion’s interiors boast original furniture and décor. Daily, group tours by reservation.

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Door Services Inc. is a flexible purveyor of every imaginable kind of sliding, swinging, and rolling door. But the genius doesn’t end here. DSI President Bill Feder recently created Maine’s first kosher barbecue smoker for his alma mater’s– Portland’s Levey Day School’s–60th birthday celebration.

Blessed by Rabbi Herzfeld of Shaarey Tphiloh Synagogue, the smoker was launched with batches of kosher brisket and chicken and is now available for loan to future kosher barbecues.

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How fast can you run around Baxter Boulevard? For Ben True, it’s 13 minutes. North Yarmouth’s True, 28, surprised the crowd by running an as-

tonishing 13:02.74 in the 5,000-meter race in Palo Alto, California, on May 4. Consider: It means the Greely and Dartmouth alum can “eat Steve Prefontaine for breakfast,” as a wag says (not necessarily in good taste since the legendary Pre tragically died in a 1975 car crash). Prefontaine’s best 5,000m time was 13:21.87, in Helsinki in 1974, setting an American record. This gives True an inside track to making the U.S. team for the 2016 Olympics in Rio de Janeiro. Track his progress at trackandfieldnews.com.

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’m walking down Congress, taking in the excitement of a sunny First Friday Art Walk. My destination? Aucocisco Galleries on Exchange Street to see Denis Boudreau’s opening reception of his work, “Vision.” The city hums the melody of my happy tune and I’m feeling like Dorothy, off to see the wizard with hundreds of munchkins (MECA students in this case) sending me off with bouquets. Following the yellow brick road, I pass by many Portland artisans selling their finely craft-

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Vinland, Portland’s completely local food destination, is now serving tasty small dishes such as mussels, polenta, and their own version of poutine until midnight on Fridays and Saturdays. 593 Congress St., 6538617, vinland.me.

ed earrings, necklaces, beaded bracelets. I zone in on the accessories, but there is art.

A lot of beautiful art. In fact, Art Walk attracts artists of all ages: an artist who’s been painting so long that his hands have become his greatest works, young artists who’ve put a creative use to Grandma’s old tchotchkes, even art-school child prodigies testing the retail waters with their first masterpieces. I see one young entrepreneur among the finger paints–a good old-fashioned lemonade stand. Way to go–capitalizing on cuteness and a town full of Buy Locals. A man begrudgingly hands the young’un cash for a solo cup of what could very well be Min-

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ute Maid, mumbling about Maine taxes and inflation. Farther down Congress Street, I come across a young man dressed as a zombie; a magician wowing a crowd of young families; street dancers; bikers; and then, of course, someone has to do it, a man with a giant boa constrictor. Ugh, why? I cross the street before having to get a closer look because I can’t avert my eyes. First Friday Art Walk: the good, the bad, and the scaly! he music echoes through Exchange Street, making it hard to find where it’s actually coming from until I reach the Thirsty Pig, where Tigerman Woah, a band of gritty, self-proclaimed “…pinkocommie rednecks,” is playing covers like I’ve never heard them played before–on banjo, drums, guitar, and a stand-up bass. I’m up for anything tonight, so I enter, passing two giant hotdogs who I come to find out are the bar owner, Allison, and a friend dancing in wiener costumes. I ask the bartender why. “We sell lots of sausages. Want one?”

I order the classic hotdog with slaw and a Shipyard. Past the bar is an open deck lit by a layer of string lights and a lot more people. With the door wide open, the deck is more a part of the bar than most. People move in and out freely, choosing seats at

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the iron tables or inside at a booth. I wait for my meal and listen as a group of guys discusses Maine’s beer. “This area has some of the greatest beers in the world.” He clinks his glass with friends. Everyone should be proud of their local brews, even if it could possibly be a drunken overstatement.

My hotdog arrives and the band takes time before their second set. I notice I’m not the only loner at the bar. The Thirsty Pig seems like one of the few spots in town that gets a steady flow of newcomers, and tonight the anonymity of the crowd makes me feel welcome.

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Connect Four, Beer Pong with soccer balls, and giant Jenga. This is an adult’s playground. Tonight, Oasis has opened its veranda and nobody wants to be left out. The band, Sparks the Rescue, is treating the 20/30-something crowd to all of our favorites from the Gin Blossoms to Tom Petty. If these guys are feeling nervous at all, they should see the crowd gathering behind them on Wharf Street. Everyone is rather lax, standing against the wall with a drink and a smoke. That is, until a bachelorette party bursts through the door, bras, heels,

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and hair flying. “We wanna dance,” screams a short brunette, drunkenly balancing on her stilts of heels.

Oh, dear. You can only imagine the toys they’ve brought along, smacking one another’s rears and nearly taking over the stage. The girls are having a blast and causing no harm until one crashes down in front of me while trying to seduce the wooden post separating her from the stage. We help her up, keeping her steady. “More shots,” another girl yells, and they all file in, the rest of us knowing what the outcome will be when they try to walk the cobblestones a little later. Oasis is in the perfect location for anyone wanting to hop the bars and clubs on Wharf Street. As we leave, we pass recent college grads performing an interpretive dance as a bouncer looks on; a daughter and her parents–the dad quite intrigued by the bachelorettes; and a couple named Barbara and Bob looking entirely out of place in evening wear. It’s obvious the night is only growing stranger, so we leave while we’re ahead and hope the soon-to-be-bride makes it home before the wedding bells ring.

Six o’clock’S spaghetti dinner has long been forgotten. It’s midnight and I’m starving. Benkay on Congress? Eh, I don’t think I can deal with Backstreet Boys throwbacks tonight, so Boda it is. In my excitement I walk right past the “Wait to be Seated” sign, only to walk back, embarrassed at my overzealous pad Thai craving. The server laughs and grants me the honor of picking our table–a spot beside the bar, in front of the window so we can watch Portland pass by. We agree on the Thai wings for a starter, two orders of pad Thai, and one Kee Mao (drunken noodles), which arrive before we even figure out our drinks. few patrons sit at the bar, discussing the weekend’s events with the bartender as he pours the last of the rounds. The lights are low, inviting a spark between a pair at the bar.

Longfellow Square is bustling with young couples huddled close, headed home for the night. “Last call,” we’re informed. Our guest can’t finish his old fashioned, too strong. We decide to split it, and I, with my first sip, admit defeat. Soon the tables are cleared and we bid the drink farewell as it’s

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swept up and away with the rest. Our appetites addressed, it’s time to walk home, take in air, and each secretly thank the bartender for calling it a night.

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Square waitress spots him and proceeds to tell us Steve Harvey’s film crew stopped by earlier that day as part of a lobster-roll competition. “We’re gonna be on TV.” ith all the attention J’s gets from visitors and folks who’ve seen it via Anthony Bourdain’s No Reservations, I came expecting burly lobstermen treating their hardened sea wives to date night, but instead see families, friends, and a snazzy couple, he in a sport coat and fedora, she in a beautiful sun hat circa the days of Dynasty and Dallas. “We just wanted to dress up,” he informs Fil,

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who asks to take their portraits. We introduce ourselves, and the woman takes my hand after I comment on how openly loving they are. “We’ve been together 28 years,” she says, and bats her lashes. The man looks to Fil: “Twenty-eight years of love and tolerance.” On that advice, we leave hand-in-hand, hoping we’d just seen our own aged reflection.

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he readings start at 9 p.m., so I arrive at LFK for Word Portland around 8:30, hoping to get a seat at the bar. Word Portland–selected writers reading from their work–takes place once a month at LFK. The place is busy with what seems like friends and fans of tonight’s readers.

“Does that taste good?” a guy asks, referring to the chewing of my wallet as I decide on a drink. Gross, nervous habit, I know.

“Uh, not particularly.” His girlfriend laughs and we discuss Jonathan Woodman, local craftsman of said wallet. Eventually, it gets awkward as any discussion inspired by a leather wallet will and they slip away as I take a seat. The drink special is the Wrong Way: Maine Mead Works, rum ration, and a sprig of rosemary. One bartender in particular catches my attention with his booming, at times startling, voice. “You taken care of?” I nod, hoping his shift ends before I order again. A young woman approaches the counter and announces, “I’m on painkillers.” He nods. “I’m on painkillers, so could you make it look like a cocktail so nobody harasses me for not drinking?” It seems as if he’s ignored this request, but I watch as he concocts a faux-tail and hands it over. Another girl asks if I’ll watch her purse if she leaves, and I agree. She returns and I figure she owes me a quote.

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“Have you been here before?”

“Yeah. Last time, though, I was too drunk to notice, so this time I decided to sober up and pay attention. They’re usually really good.” Her name is Catharine. At first she is hesitant, in case her folks read this in print.

We spur off a few alias options: Barb, Vicki, Tina, before deciding she can’t be the only Catharine in the Portland area.

At nine, the readings start and I’m reminded of the Greenwich Village bar scenes I’ve seen so often on album covers and old posters. With a rubbing of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s gravestone mounted high overhead, the writers stand before a room of peers and bare their hearts. What I thought could be uncomfortable proves inspiring, making me feel a slight cowardice as I hide behind glossy covers and a byline. The readings end at 10 and the crowd thins. I’m left alone, staring at a vintage typewriter. When contemplation has done its worst, I’m comforted by the looming Longfellow monument just outside, guardian of Portland writers.

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The two-story bar is empty and feels more like a corporate office than a “Chinese bistro” with black leather cushions and dark hardwood everything else. I climb up to Zen’s bar and order Harpoon’s new UFO Big Squeeze Shandy. “This is very new. It has very good flavor,” says the bartender in a thick Eastern European accent.

I order the wonton soup just to keep busy.

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A family upstairs laughs and carries on, making me wonder if the upstairs is part of the same place.

“You’re from Portland?”

“Yeah. Well, no. I moved here from New York.”

“Ah, I love New York. But only to visit.”

“Yeah, so does everyone else.” Being the only guest downstairs, I’m treated almost too well and when the napkin I’m given reveals a blob of chewed gum hidden in the folds, I’m too embarrassed to complain.

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key. He asks if I have any family near there.

I smile, having thought my Norwegian heritage was more obvious. “No, but my boyfriend is Azerbaijani, but from Russia.” This makes him smile, so I go on, “and I love the food.” He laughs and tells me of his favorite dishes. Ah, Portland. Here I am, sitting in a Chinese bistro talking Russian cuisine with a Turkish man. Maybe we’re both a little homesick, but before I leave it’s agreed that Portland is where it’s at.

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Sangria, you say? I’m there. I’ve passed The North Point several times heading to work,

shopping, and exploring, and each time I’ve said, “Look, they have little chairs outside.

Look, it reminds me of a café in Europe.

Look, it’s so cute.” Well, I finally stop looking and step inside, this time because a giant sign promises Sangria. It’s the middle of happy hour, around six, and I feel like I’m starring in a Godard film–beautiful lighting, beautiful cast, beautiful location. The tables outside are taken, so I take a corner seat at the bar. I’m greeted by Zach and asked if it’s my first time.

“Yes, it is,” I say in my best Brigitte Bardot. The lone woman beside me has caught on and snatches Zach’s attention. “These

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aren’t wasabi peas,” she says of the courtesy snacks. “Shake these up, Zach. They’re not wasabi.” Does she own the place, I wonder.

No, but she certainly owns that spot at the bar. “You’re hiding in the corner,” she points out. “Just observing.” And with that she orders another fancy wine in French from my co-star, Zach. The sangria arrives, piled with fruit, ice, and whatever feel-good juice. Jazz is playing softly, and the regulars watch as I get lost in the paintings hung on the walls.

“Some of these people look like they’re fourteen.” I smile politely at the woman, who has by this point succeeded in stealing my spotlight. Regardless, The North Point is one of those rare bars that takes you from your troubles rather than drowning them. You’re transported to Paris or Lisbon or Rome with one sip and a smile from Zach. Finishing my sangria, I realize the lone woman was simply playing Ingrid Bergman and I’ve trespassed into her Casablanca.

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hew. My nostrils burn walking through the haze of buffalo sauce. Here’s one way to cure congestion this season–Trivia/Wing Night at Brian Boru. Thankfully, the door leading to the deck is wide open, allowing for some circulation of the tear gas. My friend Shannen and I lean against the back bar, having arrived too late to play trivia. A giant screen hangs over the banister, presenting each question. “Name all of the characters of the popular show Gossip Girl.”

Shannen starts, “Blair, Serena, Jenny–”

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Groups of friends stand in line for the Rising Tide IPA, fill their mason jars, and move to the next line, hoping to reach the tap before their glass is empty. I get in line for the bathroom, which after an hour of drinking beer is now longer than any line for beer. A woman climbs the steps above us and pulls out a megaphone. She informs everyone that the beer is gone and thanks us for coming to support SailMaine. Just like that the place is empty and the food truck waiting outside is bombarded with tipsy customers, no one really caring whether the truck is serving tacos, hotdogs, or taco-dogs.

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with a glass of red wine, which, yes, they carry. It’s not the best, but no one claimed it would be. A man, as far from a creeper as one could be, asks if I mind if he sits beside me. I pull the stool out for him, and we review the weather. He is French, pronounces my name with flair, and tells me after his drink he will need a cab home. The bartender makes the call. Just then my own ride arrives, and I wish the gentleman home safely with a hug.

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“We’re supposed to be networking.”

“We are?” Looking around the giant warehouse, I’m doubting anyone else got that memo. This month’s Green Drinks event is at Portland Yacht Services for SailMaine. Apparently, I’m here due to my vigorous interest in the environment and “sustainability issues,” though I just sent a text that read, “Hey, come to this beer thing.”

Several local breweries are set up, and for $5 you can drink until the beer is gone. By the looks of it, everyone is planning exactly that.

I run into several friends, none of whom are business owners or environmentalists. In fact, one of my girlfriends has just described using half a can of hair spray for a sleeker look. “The beer over there has ten percent.”

I look to see the longest line stretching across the garage. The crowd is a real mix; a lot of people have substituted their usual happy hour for a different scene, even if it is in this empty garage across town. I like that about Portlanders–always up for something new and local, so long as it involves beer.

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“I don’t think you’re supposed to shout them out.”

“Georgina, Lily–” The team in front of us glares back, but Shannen continues, catching the attention of a lone player. He approaches.

“I think I pretty much won this game.”

“Okay.”

“I win every time.”

“You win every trivia at Brian Boru?”

“Yeah. Pretty much.”

Shannen makes a face. We try to block the guy out, but he proceeds, boldly stating what no man has stated before because it simply isn’t true: “You look like Jodie Foster.

Not now. When she was young.”

Though Shannen is umm…flattered, we head downstairs where she orders a whiskey and I a Coke, which at Boru is always on the house. Trivia ends, and some of the upstairs crowd move to the deck overlooking Rivalries. It’s spacious and has bench seating that wraps around. When local bands play upstairs, it’s the perfect spot to get away from the crowd and noise while still taking part or even dancing.

“He’s watching us,” says Shannen as we’re seated downstairs. Lo and behold, our admirer lurks behind one of the columns. Code Red creeper, my friends, but in a bar like Boru, if I truly felt uncomfortable or threatened it would be taken care of fairly quickly as neither the bartenders nor bouncers have much patience for it. Shannen finishes her first, and what was supposed to be a quick drink after dinner turns into a round or two as more and more regulars pass through. I wrap up my evening

t’s the warmest night we’ve had, and there’s absolutely no excuse to be eating inside. Unless the smell of ocean and port life sicken you? Yeah, I didn’t think so. I’m in the mood for a burger, and there’s no better spot than the Porthole Restaurant & Pub. We take a seat on the back deck, though the old-school-diner look inside is tempting. We ask if there’s smoking even while sitting next to a sign clearly forbidding it. You never know; sometimes you get lucky. “We don’t, it’s against the law, but if you wanna smoke I’d go to Amigos.” Our server brings our drinks, and my boyfriend and I order loaded Porthole Burgers. Bacon, cheese, avocado, the works. This is our date night.

Forget the candles, wine, and silver. Bring on the beer, beef, and fries. We ask for more napkins as the ketchup and mustard smears are getting us nowhere on the romance spectrum, but it’s really just one of those nights and when you’re eating on the water, anything can be dreamy. Seagulls, whose call is often mistaken for one of agony, tonight recall “Kiss the Girl” from The Little Mermaid, and I’m charmed by their swoops and subtle plots to steal my meal.

Other couples giggle around us, and even some of the seasoned couples are playing “first date.” The Porthole is a spot that may not grab a tourist’s attention immediately, nestled on Custom House Wharf with no flashy lights or catchy motto, but it’s got personality, and nothing gets a girl like a great personality. This burger has just won me over, and my oxytocin levels must be a little high because I’m ready to sit here and cuddle the Porthole all night.

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We’ve walked all the way from State Street, and seeing Silly’s in the distance on Washington Avenue, I pray it isn’t a mirage.

There’s no server outside, so we take a seat at the bar for food. “How big is the burrito?”

“Big.” “How big?”

“It’s pretty big.”

“I’m pretty hungry.”

The waitress steps back, eyeing me up and down. “It’ll fill ya up.”

I finally have a minute to look around and realize what a strange little world we’ve just entered. Silly’s is colorful, eccentric, and goofy. (Writing this, I vow not to describe Silly’s as silly.) It reminds me very much of my Great-Grandma Dot’s house. All that’s missing is a stair lift and a baby grand, but I wouldn’t put it past them now that I’ve mentioned it. Trinkets and beaded lamps crowd the shelves and counters, and as we wait for our meals, we’re busied by worn Trivial Pursuit cards. “Which Little Pig of The Three Little Pigs played the flute in the 1932 Dis-

ney animation?”

“The one that used straw.”

“How did you know that?” The burrito doesn’t quite satisfy, but why go to Silly’s for Mexican in the first place? You don’t. What I know now is that you go to Silly’s for the liveliness and The Elvis Shake, a peanut butter and banana milkshake that will make you weep at the last slurp. We finish up and take our drinks out to the deck that gets the perfect amount of sun and overlooks a yard that will be packed shortly. Though we’re technically only a few miles from our West End apartment, it feels like we joined Pee Wee on his big adventure and wound up here. All we need now is “Tequila” to start playing and we’ll all be on the bar.

There it sits. Nestled under the neighboring building’s abandoned deck. “It has outside seating?”

“Uh, no. I don’t know what that is.”

Since i started my after-dark exploits, Sangillo’s has been something of a Narnia.

A mystic fortress where beast and man are one, happy hour is eternal, and Jell-O shots are a buck-fifty. My friend Meaghan and I approach slowly from across the street, she snapping epic shots of the Sangillo’s sign, an emblazoned insignia offering us, weary photog and writer, a refuge from reality.

Meaghan snaps a photo of the vintage cigarette dispenser as a man buys another pack of Reds. “You dropped a dollar,” we inform him. He turns, revealing a haggard grin. “I’ll be droppin’ plenty more if you stick around.”

Wow. We mosey on up to the bar, ignoring the minor detail of us sticking out like sore thumbs.

“He really wasn’t joking,” Mishell, the bartender, tells us. She rocks a beautiful mohawk, and it’s very clear she takes no crap from these boys.

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“What’ll it be? Red, green, orange?”

“Oh, uh, what’s in them?”

“Red is rum. Green is tequila–” “Tequila.” Meaghan hands over the bounty, and we make the trade. Mishell offers the emerald shots ceremoniously as the onlookers (the entire bar of six) watch.

I thank the gods before swiping my finger around the cup and slurping down the– “Holy smokes. That’s a Jell-O shot.”

Mishell and the others laugh as my eyes cross and nose twitches. Meaghan finishes hers, and I must say, the bar is rather impressed by the two of us. “Where are you from?” I ask one of the women sitting close.

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“Wow, what are you here for?”

“The Jell-O shots.”

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ho lives on North Haven Island? “Anne Morrow Lind­ bergh’s summer home is located at Deacon Brown’s Point at the northwest tip of the island,” says Emily Greenlaw of the North Haven Island Historical Society. Which means, yes, Charles A. Lind­ bergh, famous for being the first solo pilot to fly from New York to Paris (in 1927) was a

summer fixture here, too. His family members still touch down on North Haven. “Ol­ iver Platt [Indecent Proposal, Benny & Joon, Lake Placid, and most recently with Scarlett Johansson and Dustin Hoffman, Chef (2014)] has a home on Dole Road,” Greenlaw says. “Elise “ & Pierre DuPont live on Kents Hill overlooking the downtown village.”

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sentatives (1971-77) and as Delaware’s governor (1977-85). Companies owned by the DuPont family (who arrived from France in 1800 and quickly cornered America’s gunpowder manufacturing market–today they’re best known for DuPont Chemical) employ between five and 10 percent of Delaware’s population.

Former IBM president “Thomas Watson (1874-1956) lived on Oak Hill on the North Shore.” His family still logs in here every summer.

Artist F.W. Benson (1862-1951) found inspiration on “Wooster Farm. [The house is] currently owned by Peter Allen and is located on Crabtree Point Road near Wooster Cove.”

How about some old Hollywood? Leading man “Robert Montgomery (1904-1981) resided at Indian Point at the southeast end of the island.” Among his credits: Rage in Heaven (1941), with Ingrid Bergman; Here Comes Mr. Jordan (1941), with Claude Rains; and the noir classic Lady in the Lake (1947), which he directed. His daughter Elizabeth Montgomery (1933-1995) stayed here, too, in the same house. “My father, a realtor, sold him the property,” says artist Eric Hopkins. “I used to see Robert all the time. Their place was an old fishing/ farming cape with white cedar shingles on it.” As for glimpses of his bewitching daughter, Hopkins, 63, says, “I didn’t watch a lot of TV back then.” ut he was watching the summer that Jimmy Cagney came to visit Robert Montgomery. “Robert owned a Huckins [custom power yacht] named Cygnet. Every two weeks or so, he’d take his wife Elizabeth (not Bewitched’s mom) up to Northeast Harbor to get her hair done at her favorite [salon].

Cagney tagged along for this junket “and was putting out the fenders when some people on shore starting jumping up and down and shouting, ‘Jimmy Cagney! Jimmy Cagney!’ Then they said, ‘You look much younger than you do on film!’”

They were looking at Montgomery, who had a similar build.

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Speaking of architects, when he’s not in New York, I. M. Pei & Partners founding architect Henry N. Cobb heads to North Haven, where he has homes “downtown and on Indian Point.” If you’ve ever wandered through the Payson Wing of the Portland Museum of Art, you’ve already been inside one of his many world-famous designs. or Boston Brahmins, how about the Cabots, one of the “first families” of Boston who can trace their lineage back to John Cabot (b. 1680). If the Cabots get lonely, they can swap stories with the Saltonstalls out here. We didn’t know S.S. Pierce delivered this far north.

Speaking of the Saltonstalls, let’s not forget the Welds of Massachusetts and their ties to the island.

In 1885, summer rusticator William Weld commissioned John Alden to design him a fast sailing yacht tender. The result was the North Haven dinghy, and soon everyone in the summer colony had to have one. The graceful, plumb-stemmed, 14-foot gaffers are still raced off North Haven today.

In 1960, Philip Saltonstall Weld, at age 65, won the London Observer-sponsored, singlehanded transatlantic sailboat race (OSTAR) from Plymouth, England, to Newport, Rhode Island, beating scores of younger competitors in his 50-foot trimaran Moxie. William Floyd Weld, bow-tied lawyer

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and resolute Harvard-man, served as Republican governor of Massachusetts from 1991 to 1997.

Actor Oliver Platt’s father is Nicholas Platt, a career U.S. diplomat with high-level service in China, Hong Kong, Japan, and Canada (where Oliver was born in 1960), and served as ambassador in Pakistan, Zambia, and the Philippines. Oliver’s brother Adam Platt is New York Magazine’s restaurant critic.

Novelist Susan Minot lives on Main Street. Among her spectacular accomplishments: writing the screenplay for Stealing Beauty with Bernardo Bertolucci. Her first novel, Monkeys, put her on the map. (Although it didn’t hurt to have palled around with ambassador to Japan Caroline Kennedy at Concord Academy). Minot’s new novel, Thirty Girls, enraptured the critics at the New York Times Book Review this spring.

Pulitzer Prize and National Book Awardwinning poet Elizabeth Bishop visited here summer after summer to see friends, so much that she’s a part of the place. Want to read a good poem? Read Bishop’s “The Fish.”

Just sayin’.

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Remember Elton John? He doesn’t live here. But when he toured singing “Don’t Go Breaking my Heart,” North Haven’s Cindy Bullens sang the Kiki Dee part of the duet with him on three major tours.

The talented singer-songwriter, who came out as Cidny Bullens in 2012, was also the driving force behind the 2001 Broadway debut for the musical Islands, which put North Haven into the stratosphere, as a sort of seaswept Our Town. To see Bullens being interviewed by Dick Clark, visit youtube.com/watch?v=PVxTUIB9HTU. Who lives on North Haven Island? Who doesn’t? n

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by Project Greenlight winner Kyle Rankin. All over town, there’s an atmosphere of grizzled excitement. Who doesn’t love zombies (apart from people running from them)?

Think of the slogan reverberating through the bars of the Old Port: “Portland. Yes. The undead are good here.”

What’s the elevator pitch?

It’s a zom rom com. A romantic comedy set against the backdrop of a zombie outbreak in Portland.

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At its core, it’s a love story. They have to collect “friends and family before they’re eaten. Portland is a foodie city, after all. ”

Lead actor Michael Cassidy visits the Longfellow statue in Portland.

As the producer, how’d you convince yourself to take this on?

As in, it’s more three dimensional–the audience climbing onstage to shoot the ultimate selfie?

I just had to get the gumption to try crowd funding. The Kickstarter of it all. It can be exciting, getting your investment from fans, but it’s also a very public way to fail.

It’s certainly a nice way to remove the gatekeepers in the film industry. The wrap party is going to be in Portland, and people have paid to be part of that. We’re looking for a venue. Two people have paid substantial sums to have roles in the movie. There’s a man and a woman who each have paid a premium to have a part. She says, “I’ve paid all this money to go to acting school, then there’s joining the Screen Actors Guild. This is more of a direct way inside.” She’ll actually become SAG by virtue of acting in the film, acting with Ray Wise, David Krumholtz, dare I say it, myself. She’ll be with us seven days. After adding up all the effort to get into this crazy business, it makes sense.

Separately, a husband and wife came in at the $10,000 mark to executive produce the movie. My wife and I had dinner with them last night.

And now you’re Kickstarter-complete. How does that feel?

This movie is the perfect thing to bring back home. It’s small and large, and it showcases the city. At its core, it’s a love story between two people. They have to collect friends and family before they’re eaten. Portland is a foodie city, after all.

What do people get for investing?

Everything from a copy of the soundtrack, DVD of the movie, Blu-Ray of the movie.

There’s another tier of people who can pay to be zombies, be a feature zombie. Some of their faces will be pretty close up at times.

I’m driving right now as we’re talking, on my way to the table read. Two folks have paid to be part of that via Skype. We all have enough stuff, but what’s great about these reward levels is it’s making it more experiential.

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f l i c ks GoBerry. We need a yogurt shop. I need a Christmas shop, so there’s Country Noel on Exchange Street. What’s fascinating about this is [as a University of Maine grad and former Portland habitué], I’m more going from a memory from where I think I can be. Ray Wise’s character is in a very nice house at 155 Western Prom. Shooting began June 10 and ends in July.

Are you trucking in your zombies, or will you find them among us?

We’ll be looking for zombies in Portland.

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But what if it could be more? What if those two weeks of summer escape from the daily grind could be more than just a rental on the coast?

As you start searching for a relaxing vacation spot this summer, try taking a detour from the usual beachfront cottages to search for a more exclusive hangout: your own.

For as little as $39,999 you could be lounging on your own private island, forever separated from the rest of the world by water.

There are as many as 29 island oases for sale this year, just awaiting your arrival.

Buy one, hold it, cherish it, rename it if you like. From that five-figure bargain option to a family compound for $6.5 million, all of these island getaways call Maine home, sparkling with beaches, greenery, and wildlife galore. With so many to choose from, which will be yours? harbOr island bucks harbor, brooksville, $3.85M This heart-shaped gem doesn’t just sound lovely–nature marked it as such. Heart-

stoppingly, these 25 acres in Brooksville at the entrance to Bucks Harbor just bounced back on the market–after a lightning strike last summer smote the rustic cottage on this island into a black hole.

“It was biblical,” says Richard Knox of Maine Coast Heritage Trust. “The house was a large structure, and it attracted the lightning strike during the huge storm. The local fire department responded. When our crews got there and saw what happened, we were shocked. Really? This can’t be true.

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“Watch the sun rise with a coffee in the morning and watch it set with a gin and tonic in the evening.” and add further setback from the shore.”

With a deepwater dock and float already in place on the harbor side, you have the option of setting off on a seaward adventure or staying home to lounge in the sun on one of the island’s pebble beaches. Where better to live the New England fairytale?

electricity to be turned on, and there are two building sites and septic systems in place.

Two thousand, five hundred feet of lake frontage are spectacular in their own right.

Add in the solar power and freshwater well and you’ve got yourself a high-class, personal Camp David. Just tell Mr. President where to dock his yacht.

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JOhN’S ISlaNd Bristol, $3.75M hen roughing it isn’t your objective, John’s Island could be the perfect answer to your island inquiries. After all, according to Vladi Private Islands, “Once the home to boxing heavyweight champion Gene Tunney, this stunning residence was also visited by John F. Kennedy. With its classic setting and its coveted location close to the quaint Christmas Cove community, it’s no wonder this property has such pulling power.” With such a pedigree, this sanctuary could let history speak for itself. Then again, why do that when the present can say as much? That present includes a six-bedroom residence, guesthouse, even a bunkhouse for the kids.

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OutEr GOOSE & GOOSE NuBBlE Wohoa Bay, addison, $499,000 For seafood or bird watching, Outer Goose and Goose Nubble Islands at the western end of Moosabec Reach in Wohoa Bay may be screeching your name. “From our wharf, we look directly at an eagle’s nest,” says owner Gary Chard. “With a cocktail, we watch baby eagles take their first flight.”

The 36-foot Beal lobster boat and mooring that come with the property will be handy as you work your five recreational traps, too.

“Watch the sun rise with coffee in the morning and watch it set with a gin and tonic in the evening.” The islands form a cove and gravel beach on the western shore. Dig some clams and take your haul up to your recently renovated two-bedroom cottage for din-

BlakE ISlaNd Messalonskee lake, Oakland, $295,000 This serene island of seven acres would be hidden in Messalonskee Lake if it weren’t for its highly visible owner, former State Treasurer Bruce Poliquin. Poliquin, who recently secured the Republican nomination to Maine’s 2nd Congressional District seat, spent his childhood here. Deeper in the past, “The rumor from old guys around here is that not only was there a boys’ camp on the island back in the early 1900s, but a hotel, too,” says realtor Shawn Marquis. These are long gone, but the island is ready for the

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Taxes $2,390; 2.9 acres

Great Island Brooksville, $985,000 “It’s just a short hop over to Castine Harbor from here,” says Joseph Sortwell at LandVest’s Camden office. “Here we have lots of hardwood trees and a lovely main building. Maine Maritime Academy’s campus is right here, so there’s always activity on the water and all kinds of boats.” Great Island offers 2,300 square feet of living space between a main house with fieldstone fireplace and wraparound deck and a second small cabin. A dock house and floating docks are ready for your boat. “The current owner calls Castine and orders a pizza.

ChanCe Island Machiasport, $975,000 In the middle of Machias Bay, these 44 acres of Chance tranquility feel like Maine’s answer to Winnie-thePooh’s Hundred Acre Wood. Twothirds of the island is woodland, with the remainder occupied by rolling meadows. That unique terrain is echoed

by Steve Shelton of The Island Agency.

“Beautiful sand beaches on the north side and then a huge, ledgy hillside mountain on the southern side.” Hike up to unbelievable views. Side-by-side houses along the beach impress with floor-to-ceiling windows that carry the natural beauty inside with you.

Taxes $4,955; 44 acres

sCaBBy Island ChaIn Machiasport, $499,000 here aren’t many places left to unplug and completely disconnect from society. The Scabby Island Chain in Starboard Cove is one of them, an ode to a simpler time. Even the name, gruff and uninviting to some, was given to the chain

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by sailors long ago. Those men of the sea camped on the larger island, preferring it to the mainland. Today, the three islands in the Scabby Chain offer the same pristine views, completely uninhabited. While all three are connected during low tide, should you choose to develop, it’s the main island, Petrel, that’s ready and waiting for the challenge. Jeff Allen of Downeast Properties says, “A number of years ago the seller had a permit to build a certain size structure. So, yes, you can get a permit. And with its proximity to the point of Maine, the views are incredible.” Developed or not, the Scabby Island Chain offers remoteness, privacy, and exceptional wilderness.

Taxes $3,890; 18 Acres

thruMCap Island John’s Bay, south Bristol, $1M On nearly 15 acres in John’s Bay sits the remote, oddly named Thrumcap, or wool cap, as French sailors in the 1600s decided.

“Thrumcap is one of the few islands that’s out in open ocean yet accessible.” says Kathy Leeman of Legacy Properties. The French sailors are long departed, but the island offers many options to put your feet up or get them wet. At different points in the tide you can swim in secluded, sheltered spots, Summerguide 2014 105

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and there are ledges that make great snorkeling launches. After daytime excursions, the five-bedroom, 2,500-square-foot house is more than enough for entertaining or unwinding, whether on the deck or in front of the large fireplace. “Whether you’re enjoying a climb over the rocks or tucked into the house, you can’t help but bask in the beauty of the ocean, the birds, the surrounding islands, and the boats going by,” says Leeman.

“You are surrounded by the power and immensity of nature. What better place could there be to replenish your energy?” One thing Thrumcap has in spades: options.

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ScOtt ISlaNd Stonington, $595,000 “There’s a nice granite pier–it’s an old granite quarry,” says Joseph Sortwell of LandVest. “It’s definitely cute. An adventurous type would be all set to build a cottage because there’s a building site, and the soil’s been tested.” Gaze off to Vinalhaven and North Haven to the west and Jericho Bay to the east. There’s a sheltered anchorage on

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Oak Island north Haven, $1.795M imple beauty is what comes up when Oak Island comes into conversation.

At first glance, the unassuming oneroom cabin and accompanying deck looking out onto Penobscot Bay seem small in comparison to some of the oceanside monstrosities popping up along the coast. Look deeper, though–perhaps through the cabin, with as many windows as a home twice its size–and you’ll see it’s got 360-degree views. According to Vladi Private Islands, “Stunning scenery and natural beauty lurk around every corner on this incredible island–a rural escape.”

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narrOws Island & Bar Island Harrington, $827,000 If Maine had a time machine, it would likely transport people to present day Narrows and Bar islands. These two islands–a package deal that comes with a floating dock on .79 acres at nearby Ripley Point–are a throwback to a simpler time. The main cottage, with its open floor plan and brick fireplace, is instantly inviting, while the two smaller cottages are nestled above one of the island’s three protected sand beaches. All of this living comfort is sans electricity. Inland, an extensive trail system winds through 14 acres of spruce trees. At low tide, walk across to neighboring Bar Island for three more secluded acres of scenery and unhindered views of the Atlantic. “It’s sitting on the end of the point. It’s a beautiful spot. What else can I tell you?” says Ron Gallant of Drop Anchor Realty. That might just be enough.

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MuMfOrd & Bull Island aroostook river, Presque Isle, $525,000 There is a moment when you say you need to escape and really mean it. For that time, one place in particular has been waiting for you just outside the city of Presque Isle–far enough away from the hustle and bustle that Canada is only a seven-mile shout from your shores. On 167 acres of wildlife roam all the business partners that can’t schedule

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your day away in boardrooms. These new colleagues are moose, deer, and bear. They roam free with red and silver foxes. Hawks and eagles fly over their land-loving counterparts, duck and turkey. Even an indigenous butterfly flutters through the collection of trees from spruce and fir to birch and aspen. According to Private Islands Online, “the Appalachian trail passes at the tip of the northern part of the island, which is an area that has groomed snow trails throughout winter… If you like snowmobiling, this is the place.”

Taxes $1,300; 167 acres

BrOwN ISlaNd Nicatous lake, $749,000 Only 60 miles to the north and east of Bangor on a stretch of Nicatous Lake lies Brown Island–five acres of wildlife plus a nearly 3,000-square-foot family compound. Says John Colannino of ERA Dawson-Bradford, “It’s serene. It’s private, a get-away-fromit-all, and yet you do have modern conveniences. It’s rustic, but it’s not totally off the grid.” The collection of small cottages and main house offer fully furnished, modern 1 0 8 p o r t l a n d m o n t h ly m a g a z i n e

comfort, complete with a fieldstone fireplace, a wraparound deck, and many toys.

These include an 18-foot speedboat, an antique canoe, and a paddleboat. Dangle your feet off one of two docks or take a swim on the mile-long private beach. For lazy days and rainy afternoons, a 5,000-book library might take you on a different adventure. On Nicatous Lake there are plenty of those.

Taxes $900; 5 acres

whItE’S ISlaNd Big lake, washington County, $2.195M With nearly 350,000 acres of forest in conservation, the land around White’s is destined to stay as pristine as it has ever been.

The island’s 143 acres come with over 12,000 feet of water frontage that includes both sand and gravel beaches. Delve deeper into the island and you’ll find miles of hiking to tire you out before a beachside nap.

On the shores of Big Lake a year-round cottage is home. On the island, according to Vladi Private Islands, “is an ‘ice shack’ that will accommodate frequent getaways yearround… There is also a diesel-powered

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Taxes $1,509; 143 acres

Lower Birch isLands addison, 1.595M ne of the most beautiful buy-oneget-one-free deals on the East Coast is ready for you this summer. The Lower Birch Islands offer 28 acres of beauty between them, with another three on the mainland. “The island was featured on HGTV’s Island Hunters,” Glenn Jackson of Glenn Jackson Realty says. “When they put the house on it they set it properly so it looks south upon the open ocean. There are quite a few islands for sale on the coast, but this has about the nicest setting of any of them.” About 20 minutes from the town dock in Milbridge, Lower Birch offers seclusion in the way of spruce, fir, pine, and white birch trees that extend down to rocky shores and deep water. There’s even a small beach on the larger island. A sand dune connects larger and smaller Birch when the tide dips down, and a permit is in place to build a four-bedroom house on those 4.4 smaller island acres. Back on the larger Birch there is an 1,872-square-foot, two-story structure, built 30 years ago. Both the deck, and–hopefully–you, are positioned facing south to enjoy sunshine from morning till dusk. Just tell the office you’re working from home.

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Pond cove isLand Great cove, $1.275M About 1,400 feet west of the boat ramp in Roque Bluff State Park, the rocky frontage and beaches of Pond Cove Island are waiting. As far as beaches go, you have your choice of sand or gravel. A little farther inland sits a 960-square-foot cottage with southwesterly views. The two-story home offers island living complete with the sounds of the surf. The bedrooms are upstairs, and an open-concept, woodstoveheated living area is below. Two smaller outbuildings offer additional lodging or storage depending on whom or what you bring with you. Either way, you’ll have other friends on the island, according to Glenn Jackson of Glenn Jackson Realty. “The deer come over and have their babies and then

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Taxes $1,802; 58 acres

Ram ISlaNd mouth of machias Bay, $425,000 am Island is 16 acres of wildlife, on island and off. An hour and a half from Bar Harbor, Ram’s big selling point is seclusion. According to SuiteHome Properties & Investment Holdings, “Even though you can see other islands and the mainland, you are alone. There are no other dwellings visible in any direction.” Whether you spend the day on any of the long stone beaches or dream of building a cottage to escape to, you are alone on Ram. Even the lighthouse on nearby Libby Island is unmanned as it brushes a light across Ram at night. Aside from a tent platform, everything around you is all-natural. Whole Foods has nothing on Ram Island.

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PINE ISlaNd meddybemps lake, alexander Township, $250,000 In the midst of vast Meddybemps Lake in northeastern Maine sits Pine Island. Like the name says, Pine’s 12 acres are stocked with trees: pine, spruce, birch, even a few blueberry bushes are in the mix. Lucky for you, for all the greenery the view isn’t affected. Neither are the amenities, according to Lesley Tranchel of Legacy Properties.

“It’s got everything, all the conveniences of living on the mainland. Reverse osmosis. You name it, it has it. It’s the quintessential Maine cottage that’s been completely updated.”

Add in deep blue water and the absence of ambient night light and you’ve found a stargazing experience for the ages. Only 15 miles from the Canadian border, Pine enjoys its remote existence. Fast food is at least 20 miles away, but fresh fish are right out-

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FOStEr ISlaNd Narraguagus Bay, Harrington, $1.65M t isn’t exactly Rockefeller Center, or maybe it’s just a different type. Over 300 acres of nearly untouched wilderness were purchased by the Rockefeller family in the ’60s.

You could join the family, so to speak, in Narraguagus Bay. Foster Island is zoned for up to five houses, though you’ll currently be spending your time indoors in the comfort of a small homestead. Once outside, though, the options are endless. Fields, trails, and forests of pine and birch cover the landscape. Closer to shore you’ll have your pick

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of shorefront locales from rocky and pebble to a sandy beach. From Private Islands Online, “Just off the eastern side of the Island as the tide recedes, one can see the seals rest upon exposed ledge and warm themselves in the sun as osprey and eagle fly overhead.”

Take off from the southeast pier, pass those lounging seals, and make your way back to the mainland in Harrington to change your last name.

Taxes $7,518; 300 acres

GrEEr ISlaNd Penobscot Bay, Vinalhaven, $550,000 Some islands offer the best of both worlds.

Greer happens to be one of those. High tide creates the private island you’ve been dreaming about. But let the tide recede and you have the option to stroll across a sand-

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bar back to Vinalhaven’s sand beach. “It’s wonderful for picnics and things like that, and there’s a quaint fisherman’s cottage,” says Lesley Tranchel of Legacy Properties.

“It’s a great place for fishing and swimming.

Great views.” While the fisherman’s cottage is ready to be renovated into whatever studio space you desire, the island is zoned for a vacation home and has deep-water anchorage. In the meantime, take in the view of Penobscot Bay to the east while you walk past balsam trees to pick wild strawberries.

Wilderness just doesn’t taste this sweet anywhere else.

Taxes $1,900; 5 acres

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hil McCabe, 67, a Naples, Florida, hotelier and restaurateur, is a former CIA employee turned brilliant entrepreneur with a reputation for deft timing.

Because he already owned 21 acres adjacent to the Warren property, and because he’s also just picked up another 10 acres from a failed development plan on his north side, his new summer home combines 60 acres, a mammoth presence in Cape Arundel.

“Yes, but the Kenneth Roberts (the novelist who wrote Arundel, Rabble in Arms, Northwest Passage) estate is 95 acres,” he says. “And that’s for sale, abutting my property. Seventy-five percent of the Roberts estate is contiguous to my own land.” Is he considering buying it? Time will tell.

After seeing the world via the Air Force and CIA, he saved $25,000 and risked everything to buy a cottage colony called The Mornings By The Sea, in Scarborough. “I was just 28. It was in foreclosure. It was a wonderful opportunity. Wonderful cash flow. It gave me the opportunity to reinvest.”

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L.L.BEAN SUMMER CAMPS wood, the Kennebunkport mansion of Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Booth Tarkington (The Gentleman from Indiana, The Magnificent Ambersons, Alice Adams, Penrod, Mirthful Haven), Kenneth Roberts’s best friend.

“I bought 26 acres of the Tarkington estate when it went into bankruptcy while they were turning it into four condo units” in the 1980s, he says. “Back then, I was working a lot with the RTC (Resolution Trust Corporation) in Portland” to discover such investments. “I was going to buy three of the four units the bank owned, as well as the land behind the house. I didn’t end up getting the condos, but I did buy all the land.”

Asked what the purchase price was for 26 prime acres in Kennebunkport, he says, “It was nothing. Nothing. Like $200,000.” He’s kept it for a rainy day, and this summer, after he’s made a fortune developing half of Naples, Florida, it’s pouring.

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there. Why? Our survival was likely betone we saw, dateline June 3, 2014, in Philter enhanced by false positives than false lips. “Red then green flashing object, saw it for about 60 seconds; then it disappeared.” NUFORC has curated a glowing report of Bridgton, Maine November 26, 2013– past UFO sightings as well, allowing you to see a history I was walking my dog when I looked at of Maine’s glimpses into the the sky and saw a bright fireball with a Unknown. Over 75 percent tail falling to earth…It was pink, yellow, of the reported sightings are and orange. My dog and I ran all the from 2000 or more recently, as Internet access has beway home. I told my husband, I called a come widespread. friend, and I even emailed a sort of exOur brains are evolved pert. It was falling towards New Hampand trained to recognize patshire… –MUFONcms.com terns–so well that we often see them when they aren’t Summerguide 2014 125

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negatives when spotting food or a predator was a life-or-death issue. It doesn’t matter if you occasionally spot something odd in the stars, so long as you manage to get all the blueberries. But missing the berries might mean you go hungry later, even if you’re secure in your cold, hard appraisal of the night sky. Fast-forward to today, we’ve been reinforced to see UFOs in arrangements of light. If we didn’t see patterns that weren’t there, Rorschach tests would just look like inkblots to everyone. hat UFO spotters resolve these false positives into, however, might feed into a world view that would allow for something as world-changing as alien contact to be kept secret by some com-

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People have always seen UFOs–perhaps we called them auguries or gods in an earlier age, but now that Jules Verne, Sputnik, and Apollo have flown within our orbit, now we see the aliens in the sky instead of the signals of Roman numina.

But why are we seeing so many of these patterns in Maine per capita? Maine suffers less from light pollution than many other states–there are more patterns to see. In addition to that, Mainers share a healthy skepticism that leads to the suspicion that we’re not getting the full story from those who claim to lead us from far away (that is, the Military Industrial Complex). That was reinforced by American government propaganda efforts to explicitly not debunk UFO

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Fuji on Exchange Street has a similar uni presentation; Eventide Oyster frequently offers urchin specials served in the shell. King of the Roll on Congress has a “sake

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There’s much to love about this lowcalorie source of protein and omega-3s that’s low in fat and cholesterol–the silken texture, the sweet, faintly briny, ethereal flavor.

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My father-in-law used to fish for them back in the 1940s using a long-handled rake with a bag attached from the back of a skiff in the Boothbay area. He could get a couple of bushels on a low tide, earning $3 per bushel, pretty big money back then.

“Things took off in 1987, shipping urchins whole to Japan and then shucked shortly after, when urchin processors opened up on the East Coast for the market in Japan.” Why Maine? “It had to do with a combination of the decline of stocks in other parts of the world, an overabundance of them in Maine, and very importantly, an improved yen/dollar rate that suddenly made shipping them to Japan profitable.”

In the early 1990s, media coverage of the Maine urchin industry marveled at the ‘gold rush’–an unbelievable Japanese market for what was considered a useless, spiny nuisance full of squishy, unappealing roe here.

Urchins harmed kelp beds and snagged fishing nets. Until 1992, a commercial license to harvest urchins with essentially no restrictions was just $20.

“The depletion began almost immediately,” says Hunter. “Landings peaked in the 19921993 winter season. Casco Bay was probably…depleted by then. This was masked as harvesters moved to other areas.”

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harvesting grounds into zones; increasingly restricting the season every year; and requiring surcharges on harvesters, buyers, and processors. “But the horse was out of the barn.” By 1994, “1,725 divers and 1,000 draggers were already licensed.” In 2013, this dropped to 114 licensed divers and 83 draggers. From annual harvests spiking to 40 million pounds in the early ’90s, the take in 2010 was less than three million.

In the intervening years, “American chefs discovered urchins as a delicacy,” says Hunter. “Maine’s green urchins are smaller than the West Coast reds and purples, and much better tasting.” Maine urchin shells must be no smaller than two inches and no larger than three before they can be snapped up and sold.

“Prime time for urchins pretty much matches day-boat winter scallop season– the coldest winter months. We are so lucky here to have access to these delicacies,” says Chris Miller at Browne Trading. “As the water warms in spring, urchins are harvested farther north in Canada. In summer they’re harvested in Chile.” Browne sells fourounce packs of urchin roe for $16.99. They carry whole, live, prickly urchins, but most demand is for the cleaned roe, since neatly removing the meat from the delicate shells takes skill.

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In a big gray warehouse behind Becky’s Diner on Portland’s waterfront, Atchan Tamaki’s ISF Trading is where urchins and their shells part ways. The roe is cleaned, processed, and packaged for travel. Tamaki became Maine’s first urchin processor “28 years ago,” he says. ISF was the biggest U.S. exporter of sea urchins to Japan. “I still ship to Japan when they order it, but now most of my business is domestic.”

Plastic totes full of dark, diver-caught, spiny urchins are everywhere in the processing work room within the brightly lit ISF facility. These are from Canada because Maine’s season has just closed.

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“Sea urchin pasta is so popular now it will probably turn up on the menu at the Olive Garden by the end of the year,” wrote New York Times restaurant critic Pete Wells in a recent review of a new Italian spot in Greenwich Village. He’s joking, in a snide, New York way. Sure, urchin’s trendy, delicious, and no longer just for sushi, but it’s hardly to everyone’s taste.

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These days, Portland’s all about independent booksellers. n Portland, books and bookstores are deeply embedded in our city’s cultural history and fabric. The city of Longfellow has had a local bookstore dating back to 1829, when Samuel Colesworthy opened his store devoted to the printed word at 92 Exchange Street.

The space remained a bookstore well into the 20th century, when it was the A.J. Huston Book Store, Maine’s oldest bookstore at the time and the second-oldest one in New England. Bookstores serve as a barometer for places valuing art and culture. In a city like Portland–possessing the positive qualities that make it a popular destination for visitors and a place for creative types to put down roots–losing bookstores served as a red flag.

Portland once had multiple bookstores, but these bookselling mainstays have been

disappearing. Bookland–a chain that had stores all over the state including a location in the city–went out of business in 2002. The Old Port lost Books, Etc. on Exchange Street in 2009.

When news began leaking out in January that Sherman’s Books & Stationery was considering locating a new store in the Old Port, it created a buzz. That a new bookstore would be anticipated and become a topic of conversation was a positive sign; Portland is still a place that cares about books and values bookstores.

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ling hub. It’s the place where any writer with a new book out wants to read.

Chris Bowe, Longfellow’s co-owner, sums up the city and the store’s approach to books and bookselling that has won over the hearts of writers and fans of books.

“Portland is still the kind of place–an intimate place–where you feel like you can make a difference in a writer’s life as a bookstore owner,” says Bowe. “It’s a nurturing, reciprocal kind of relationship you don’t find in a lot of other places.”

Even though Portland is a city, it often feels like one big small town, especially to its community of writers.

“Portland is a very supportive place for writers,” says Monica Wood. “I think it’s in large part because of places like Longfellow Books and Nonesuch in South Portland.”

Wood has lived in Portland since 1976 and is the author of six books, including her latest, When We Were the Kennedys: A Memoir from Mexico, Maine. She has read numerous times in and around Portland, as well as across the country.

“Those stores are so good about keeping my books in front of readers,” she says. “As you know, I take a while between books, and they always have my books out there and are recommending them to readers; I especially love Chris and Stuart at Longfellow,” says Wood. “They are terrific and always make me (and every writer) feel special.” n an age of corporate takeovers and big-box retailing, it might be forgiven if some view local bookstores as a quaint nod to nostalgia, or even a cultural anachronism. However, for writers and independent book publishers, buying books from a locally owned bookseller matters. Economically speaking, every dollar spent on a book from a local retailer, while supporting the writer and publishing in general, also allows a greater percentage to ripple through and multiply its effect in a community that cares about its local economy. This is one solid reason why Portland has managed to weather economic downturns.

Susan Conley, the author of the 2013 novel Paris Was the Place and one of the founding writers of The Telling Room, a nonprofit writing center focused on supporting young writers ages 6 to 18, recognizes how important bookstores are and why Portland is a great place to be a writer.

“Because the city has had a dearth of independent, local stores, Longfellow has be-

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Mystic Connection: Chris Bowe grew up with pal Dennis Lehane in Dorchester, MA. Lehane frequently reads from his bestsellers at Longfellow Books in Monument Square, where Bowe is a co-owner.

come the place to read in the city. I think it’s much more than just there being only one place, too,” says Conley.

“Both Chris and Stuart–it’s in their tagline, ‘fiercely independent’–foster a populist approach to books and how they treat writers. It doesn’t matter if you’re a cookbook author from Lubec or a bestselling author like Richard Russo. Longfellow is committed to promoting their author events and making the writer feel appreciated. I think writers also really appreciate them back.” riding the tide Sherman’s Books & Stationery is Maine’s largest bookselling chain, with branches in Bar Harbor, Camden, Boothbay Harbor, Freeport, and now Portland. At the same time, it remains committed to the values that independent booksellers espouse. Like Longfellow, Sherman’s is a member of the New England Independent Booksellers Association (NEIBA), a nonprofit trade group.

While chains have been closing in Maine, with Mr. Paperback shuttering its 11 stores in 2011, Sherman’s owner, Jeff Curtis, doesn’t buy all the doom and gloom about bookstores.

“We haven’t experienced a decreased trend in selling books,” says Curtis. “While we’ve had some years that were down, overall we’ve remained steady. There are still a lot of people who love books and read them– our challenge as bookstore owners is connecting with readers.”

Knowing that Portland is Maine’s literary hub, and prompted by his daughter, Tori, pictured on page 145, Curtis felt Portland

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From 1951 to 2011, Maine expat George Whitman ran the world famous Shakespeare & Co. Bookstore on the left bank in Paris (see our interview, Summerguide 2005). In his footsteps, poet Gary Lawless and his wife Beth run Gulf of Maine Books, central to Brunswick’s cultural landscape. In Damariscotta, don’t miss Maine Coast Bookshop for the same friendly feeling. The Children’s Book Cellar in Waterville recently received a $5,000 grant for support of youth reading from thriller writer James Patterson’s Saving Bookstores, Saving Lives $1-million fund.

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was under-served in relation to bookstores.

The model for Sherman’s differs slightly from that at Longfellow Books: “It’s not a zero-sum game (in relation to e-books and other developments with books) for booksellers,” says Curtis. “We are committed to books and supporting writers–we also carry other items besides books.”

Sherman’s opened its doors on Exchange Street in April. The response from the community seems to validate what Curtis believed in expanding into Portland–that the city, especially the Old Port–benefited from another independent bookstore.

“People have been coming in” with warm welcomes and appreciation for their venture, says Curtis.

While the Sherman’s opening has gotten the lion’s share of attention, another small, independent bookseller set up shop last year, serving North Deering, on Portland’s outskirts.

Letterpress Books opened its doors at Portland’s Northgate Plaza in October. It’s a family-run enterprise, with owners John Paul and Karen Bakshoian, along with daughter Katherine Osborne, usually in the store. Their passion for books is obvious, and they’ve created a space that makes visitors feel at home. Letterpress is also the first bookstore this neighborhood’s had since Bookland closed in 2002.

“Kath’s managed bookstores for nearly 25 years,” says her mother. “We felt it was time she had her own store.”

The Bakshoians report that not only are shoppers coming in from Portland but from Windham, Falmouth, Cumberland, and Yarmouth. culture club While food, art, and music are important, so are books and the literary aspirations of a place. Maybe the writing life illustrates this best and encapsulates the qualities of place that Portland has in abundance.

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Rogers, who now spends part of her year in South Dakota, wrote her book while living in the city’s East Bayside section.

“I loved writing all day and then getting up and taking a walk with my dog and walking down to the beach,” says Rogers. “Maybe what attracts writers to the city is that mix of grittiness Portland still has, with the beauty of the ocean and Casco Bay–I think it’s what attracts writerly minds to the place,” she says. “There’s that quality of the history of writers and then, walking around and sensing you’re surrounded by people who love writing and support writing–it’s a wonderful place for writers to be.” on Currie, Jr., is a writer who grew up in Waterville, 90 minutes north. He still maintains an apartment there while also spending considerable time at his residence in Portland.

Currie’s latest novel, Flimsy Little Plastic Miracles, came out in 2013.

Portland is a unique city in many ways, not just around books and bookstores. People don’t have the same attachment to businesses they did 50 years ago,” says Currie.

“But with a place like Longfellow Books, you see people who connect with the store in a way that’s really special. What’s really cool is that when they had the flooding of the store, the community demonstrated how much their store means to the city.” [A window blown in by the February blizzard of 2013 caused pipes to freeze and burst in the building, flooding the store. Community help drying, cleaning, repairing, and reopening the store was overwhelming.]

The city’s culture and the emphasis on local commerce and supporting businesses all play an important part in fostering a unique literary environment. Size also matters when it comes to Portland, which is something Monica Wood recognizes.

“I think part of it [the city’s charm] is that Portland is small enough and intimate enough that all the writers know one another,” Wood says. “In fact, Portland’s a very warm community of writers–there’s no ‘writer’s hierarchy’ in Portland.” n Jim Baumer is a Maine-based free-lance writer and the author of books about town team baseball and Moxie. His book, The Perfect Number: Essays & Stories, Vol. I, is due out this summer.

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• Chickadees eat insects, seeds, and berries…while gulls eat sea creatures, refuse, anything they can surround. Baby puffins.

Baby ducks. Okay, chickadees. In New Zealand, they’ve been spotted attacking sheep and lambs. Once a black-back gull was observed snacking on a live chipmunk, according to a post at birdwatchersgeneralstore.com. Who hasn’t seen gulls snap up a french fry or two? ah, But they’re Cute Our little chickadees are so sweet and small.

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In a 2011 story, the Bangor Daily News reported a 45-percent drop in gull population in Maine since 1996. This is because eagles have made a magnificent return to the state, and they prey on gulls. The newspaper estimated our statewide gull population at just 35,000. Another bummer for gulls: the closing of “municipal landfills.”

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the half-ruined fields. All day long they gorged themselves, and when full, disgorged and feasted again, the white gulls upon the black crickets, like hosts of heaven and hell contending, until the pests were vanquished and the people were saved.” After devouring the crickets, the gulls returned to the lake islands whence they came.

Lightning Round It’s not just the gulls’ ingenuity in swooping up and dropping mussels onto the rocks for lunch. Gulls sing better scat than Ella Fitzgerald, with “a complex and highly developed repertoire for communication which includes a range of vocalizations and body movements,” according to OneKind.org’s Amazing Facts About Seagulls.

Another amazing fact: Gulls are also every bit as nurturing as the chickadee. After they steal your lunch, gulls spend quality time with their chicks. “Seagulls are attentive and caring parents. The male and female…take turns incubating the eggs, and feeding and protecting the chicks.” the CLinCheR Best of all, “Seagulls can drink both fresh and salt water,” according to Amazing Facts.

“Most animals are unable to do this, but seagulls have a special pair of glands right above their eyes which is specifically designed to flush the salt from their systems through openings in the bill.”

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A rt i n v e s t ment “This was a total surprise. We had no idea it had existed all these years,” says Rob Elowitch of Barridoff Galleries in Portland.

Out of nowhere, a collector in New Jersey named Janis Kurz had consigned The Pink Settee, a lush portrait by William Wallace Gilchrist Jr. (1879-1926), to the fine arts auction firm.

Excitement took hold because “we handled the estate for Gilchrist,” says Elowitch. He immediately recognized the large tapestry of dragons behind the figure and knew this could be no other place than the interior of Gilchrist’s studio, “Roadside,” in East Harpswell.

“I remember several paintings with the dragon motif,” from the wave of Gilchrists that created a sensation in the 1980s, “but no nudes.”

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land model? More stirring–was it possible she was seated in the audience at the auction? As the gavel slammed, Lot 114 brought murmurs along with the handsome price of $20,400.

According to William David Barry, the early modernist Gilchrist, son of renowned Philadelphia composer William W. Gilchrist, Sr., grew up “summering on Prouts Neck.” The boy became “a friend and the only known student of Winslow Homer (John Lefarge aside). Later, the young Gilchrist went on the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts and finished off with four years study in…Madrid, Vienna, Munich, Paris, and London.”

It was no surprise, then, to learn The Pink Settee had disappeared in Philadelphia. But for 98 years? When a painting goes dark, where does it go?

“It was given to my husband about 20 years ago by a Philadelphia Quaker friend of ours,” says Janis Kurz, who consigned the painting to Barridoff Galleries. “My husband died last year. It wasn’t even framed.

He hung it in his study, and it was very special for all of us.”

Her son, Jeffery Kurz, Jr., an editor/columnist for Connecticut’s Record Journal, tells us, “It was given to these friends of my family who then gave it to my dad. How it went from the show in 1916 to these private hands is a mystery to me.”

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once part of The Hannah Woodman Estate.

A mid-century auction at F.O. Bailey directed it to Donald Penta of Windham. Some flowered doorways by Graves have fetched over $100,000, one floral landscape $313,750. The Harbor, St. Ives was comparatively under the radar but still a fabulous bargain at the preauction estimate of $1,200-$1,800. Actual price paid at auction was $5,280, still a smart buy. n

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he second painting in our tale is by Kennebunkport impressionist Abbott Graves. Signed “Abbott Graves, The Harbor, St. Ives,” this 18 x 12 in. oil was

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hat is it, exactly, that gives Portland big-city cred and feel with a population that matches Green Bay, Wisconsin? We’re 177th on the list of the biggest urban areas in the United States, just one spot behind that cheese capital, thieves of our rightful 1996 Super Bowl. Perhaps what separates us from the dozens of other similarly sized micro-metros across the universe is our tradition of hosting diverse neighborhoods, just like the hubs, big apples, or cities of angels.

MACHIGONNE Welcome to Portland before it was Portland.

Machigonne, as the Abenaki called it, means Great Neck. Their name survived into English as a section of the original, pre-Britishburnt Falmouth called The Neck–the hilly peninsula that would later become Portland.

Falmouth would be rebuilt slightly to the north in its present position.

EAST END, MUNJOY, THE OLD PORT Building houses over a matrix of Native American footpaths, the new locals were an immigrant population. Anglo-Protestants lived in much of the city, while the city’s first ethnic neighborhood leapt to life near the base of Munjoy Hill. There lived much of Portland’s black American population as ships crowded the wharves, many of whom worked on the waterfront. As attitudes about free blacks hardened in the American South, fewer slaves were freed and fewer free black workers could move freely to take jobs in Portland. Jobs over time increasingly were filled by immigrants fleeing lack of opportunity for Catholics in Ireland.

Portland’s rowdy waterfront tavern culture sprang up in these days, when pubs dotted the waterfront and up India Street.

Portland also saw a relatively large influx of Chinese immigrants to the same area, although never quite large enough to form a distinct Chinatown. Some of the Chinese laborers

moved into the Munjoy Hill area, while others set up small businesses and shops around Middle Street. Maine was a popular destination for many Chinese after the passage of the Chinese Exclusion Act in 1882. The enforcement of the act in Maine was often predicated on whether or not the Chinese had made friends with a Christian family, instead of more aggressively enforced, as in Boston.

THE FIRE AND BAYSIDE: LITTLE ITALY AND ARMENIA In the wake of the deadly 1866 fire that charred and leveled much of Portland–started by errant fireworks–much rubble was deposited on the Back Cove side of the city, filling in the land and greatly expanding what is now Bayside. Bayside proved to be the entryway for the next major phase of immigration, as Irish immigrants continued to populate the areas around Munjoy Hill and what is today Kennedy Park.

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As Italy industrialized, many small farms were incorporated into mechanized agriculture. Some of the dispossessed followed their dreams here. Today, although the neighborhood has a smaller proportion of Italian residents, you can still find traditional businesses such as Micucci Wholesale Foods. Many Italians, being the first group of immigrants who did not speak English as a first language, were willing to accept jobs at lower wages than second-generation Irish immigrants, many of whom by this time were able to move out of the city to smaller towns, often establishing small farms or, having had the chance to go to school (Portland High school opened in 1821–only Boston Latin has a longer history–moving to its present Cumberland Avenue location in 1863), seek better-paying jobs.

According to Gerard Kaladjian, cofounder of the Armenian Cultural Association of Maine, Portland was a place that welcomed Armenians fleeing murder on a mass scale during the Ottoman Empire. “I understand there was a small group of Temperance women here who had an organization that funded Armenians who wanted to come to Maine. Most Armenian families have been here since the turn of the century, so they came before the Genocide in 1915.” Many of these families moved into the area around today’s Lancaster Street, below Portland High School. A memorial dedicated by the association in 2003 stands at the intersection of Cumberland Avenue and Franklin Arterial.

UrBan rEnEWal The Great Migration, in which literally millions of black Americans moved to Northern cities during the 20th century, contributed to a backlash as many black Americans originally from the South took up the jobs and social positions opened up by Irish and ItalianAmerican families who in turn were moving to the suburbs. It was this migration of black Americans into poorer northern neighborhoods that helped fuel a national panic over “urban blight” at the time.

Lower-income neighborhoods became more visible as a “problem” to white-dominated city councils across the country once more non-white people lived with them.

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THE WEST END Once Brackett’s Farm, where locals gathered to watch Captain Mowatt’s ships burn the Old Port and Downtown in 1775–and later the site of wealthy merchant J.B. Brown’s “Bramhall” mansion, the western part of the West End was a comparatively new neighborhood in the late 19th century. After Bramhall was razed, the place where new, statelier houses were built for increasingly wealthy managerial and business-owning Portlanders (back when the ‘middle class’ referred to the wealthiest 5 to 10 percent of the population, minus the ‘bluebloods’). The legacy of that time can be seen in the West End’s Victorian and Colonial Revival architecture. As many of the houses on the eastern side of the West End aged, those residents moved into the suburbs. The mansioned western edge, particularly around the Waynflete School, remained the home of Portland’s privileged just as, to a lesser extent, the heights of the East End had been the elite neighborhood in earlier decades.

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Though indeed it provided a feeder from the new interstate highway system, it also served as a wall that kept the “renewed” downtown from Munjoy Hill, ensuring cultural separation and a sharp jump in land values on one side of the arterial. Previously, people going out to carouse in the Old Port–before its own revival–might end up as easily at a tavern on India Street as Exchange Street. This became less likely, thanks to the arterial. Even today, while Maine’s population is 97 percent white, Kennedy Park is only 71 percent white. It’s that area, the bulldozed former Irish and Italian neighborhoods, that saw the greatest inflows of Cambodian and other Southeast Asian immigrants following the Vietnam War, and Somali immigrants following the collapse of the government of that country and American intervention in the early 1990s. The bright side? Because of the wealth of cosmopolitan cultures invigorating this area due to economic segregation, it has becoming Portland’s brightest hope. Look to the future here.

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HIpStErS and BroS? The era of bulldozing is past, and increasingly throughout American culture, ethnic identities associated with specific places have become more a matter of nostalgia as first-generation immigrants are a far smaller share of our population today than 100 years ago. An example: the statue of John Ford stands in the former rough-and-tumble Irish neighborhood called Gorham’s Corner that’s now home to Hi Bombay and Yosaku restaurants and a small, popular cluster of clothing and accessory shops.

Today, participation in a chosen subculture can be as important to sense of self as ethnic origin. Does this mean taste is the new identity? This trend began in the 1950s as self-chosen groups became recognizable across the country–greasers, beatniks, hippies. Our Old Port correspondent tells us that hipsters and bros do friendly battle for control of the drinking establishments on Commercial Street, retiring to their present day Longfellow Square and USM-area or Deering headquarters to work off their hangovers.

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And you may ask yourself, how on earth did Byrne wind up here? After performing at State Theatre, he wandered into the attraction Time magazine has since named “one of the 10 weirdest museums in the world.”

As Byrne himself would blog about the encounter, his venture into our local strangeness was the perfect offbeat prelude to a bike ride around Back Cove. “And there is good food in Portland!” he says. “I stopped for a lobster roll and oysters at Eventide and then joined some of the others down the street at Duckfat–a taste of poutine!”

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But who is this little boy? And where were his parents as he idly strolled by with the bone-crushing collapse of the train station tower happening right beside him? Because it’s the poster photo for Greater Portland Landmarks, hasn’t anyone over there wondered about it? We’ll send a free Summerguide beach towel to the first person who can tell us where this boy is today and how to get in touch with him.

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hat’s it take to be one of Papa’s pals? It doesn’t hurt if you’re from Maine. Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961), Waldo Peirce (1884-1970), and Henry Strater (18961987) knew how to drink and get crazy together. For Pulitzer-prizewinning biographer Carlos Baker (1909-1987), craziness was a different country.

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ning of the bulls at Pamplona that would inspire The Sun Also Rises, Peirce was there, too, capturing the event with a smashing oil that is now in the collection of Portland Museum of Art. The burly, bearded Peirce and mustached Hemingway appear in the crowd (circled in painting, left)–just a couple of expats during the dawn of the Lost Generation. Laughing and pointing, the friends seem truly happy in the maelstrom.

Hemingway so admired Peirce’s work and lust for life he lavishly praised him in extended quotes to Esquire contributor Harry Salpeter in a 1936 story, “Rabelais in a Smock.”

Peirce seconded that emotion. According to Gallagher, “When Hemingway’s face graced the cover of Time in 1937–he had just published To Have and Have Not–the magazine used a Peirce portrait of his friend holding a fishing pole, eyes focused on the line.”

Another adventure Peirce and Hemingway shared was catching a green sea turtle together. Not only do turtles surface in The Old Man and the Sea, Hemingway also commemorated the event in “On Being Shot Again: A Gulf Stream Letter” in Esquire. “…

Hemingway (left) and buddy Waldo Peirce (right) compare catches off Key West.

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This wealthy free spirit came from a lumbering family in Bangor. After graduating from Harvard, he and fellow Crimson alum John Reed (played by Warren Beatty in Reds) hopped a steamer to England, “but Peirce changed his mind…he jumped from the vessel as it was leaving Boston harbor and swam [according to legend, several miles] ashore,” writes Dr. William Gallagher, of Bangor, a Hemingway Society member, in Harvard Magazine. Stealing aboard another ship, Peirce reached London “just

in time to appear in court and save Reed from being charged with his murder.”

After earning his chops in Paris at Académie Julian, Peirce slipped into a 1915 show in “New York City…displaying his work alongside that of George Bellows, John Sloan, and Edward Hopper.”

Like Hemingway, Peirce became an ambulance driver during World War I. “He was awarded the Croix de guerre for conspicuous bravery at Verdun.”

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it was a pretty day. We had sighted a green turtle scudding under the surface and were rigging a harpoon to strike him…”

The camaraderie between the two amigos spanned decades and continents, from Europe to the Caribbean. Gallagher, who’s embarked on a study of Peirce and Hemingway, writes, “Hemingway once asked his young son Jack, ‘Who is the greatest man you know?’–expecting to hear ‘Papa.’ Jack quickly responded, ‘It’s Waldo.’”

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I believe that while Hemingway had not seen Carlos Baker, he had seen his work.

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widow–told me that Hemingway, who did not care for literary criticism, thought Baker’s was the best that had been written about him. But, indeed, they never met.

Did Baker’s native Maine ever come up during your chats with him?

Maine didn’t come up often…[but] it did come up. He periodically talked about the beauty of the place, and it was definitely part of his DNA. I once asked him about his first name, if he had some Portuguese or Spanish fishermen or something in his ancestry; and he said no–that it was common practice in New England, where there were so many common surnames, for parents to give their children uncommon first names.

“All good boys love their sisters, But so good have I grown That I love other boys’ sisters As well as my own.”

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that are completely unexplained.”

Maybe somebody tossing one back with Hemingway’s ghost?

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“I just bought the house because my lease was up and I wanted to be closer to the beach,” says attorney Gary Prolman. “I fell in love with it the first time I saw it. I think the house was built in 1913. After I bought it, locals started contacting me and told me it was Carlos Baker’s House. I love Hemingway, so that’s just a bonus for me. People have told me Hemingway did come here to visit Baker. One was a bartender when I was over at the [Hannaford] Plaza who has first-hand knowledge of it. A brew pub, Barreled Souls, is opening up on the first floor of my house, and it fits in with the Hemingway connection.”

Speaking of souls, “For the last year or so, there’s just been funny things happening here. When you think of ghosts, you think of scary stuff. But this has been funny. Happenings

I never took a class with Carlos Baker. He was my thesis adviser–starting unofficially with me my sophomore year, then supervising my junior papers, and, finally, overseeing my senior thesis on Max Perkins, which became my first book. In that capacity, most of our time was spent “after school”–always one on one–sometime between four in the afternoon and five-thirty or six, at which time he would walk home. We always met in his completely book-lined office, which had the wonderful smell of sweet pipe tobacco. I often went to his office five times a week, especially when he was giving me Hemingway letters to read on the sly, which he did–the Perkins/Hemingway correspondence, which he kept under lock and key in his office. y favorite anecdote isn’t anything humorous, but it was lifechanging. I had spent much of my junior year writing and performing in the Princeton Triangle Club, which produces an original musical comedy every year and tours the country with it. After playing Lincoln Center in New York City, I had several agents come backstage

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offering me work. But, they said, I would have to leave school right away. I discussed that with my parents (who were not exactly thrilled to hear all this), and they suggested I discuss my situation with Professor Baker. I did, and he told me he thought it would be a huge mistake for me to leave school, especially when I had such a promising idea for a thesis–and book. “You were the star of the Triangle show this year,” he said to me.

“Why don’t you become the star of the English Department next year?” He urged me to quit the club and devote myself to the thesis/book. Had I not followed his advice, I think I might very well have had an acting career…and this week, I would probably be performing in a dinner theater in Canton, Ohio, playing in Man of La Mancha.

Do you think digital data is changing things for biographers?

I think Baker would welcome information in any form, but I don’t think he would trust it. As I don’t either. It’s one of the reasons we both work without assistants. We both had/ have the need to find and process all the in-

formation ourselves–and, as a rule, that means primary sources. Very often it’s not enough just to glean the words from a document: one must actually feel the paper.

Did you and Baker ever discuss fellow Princetonian Booth Tarkington’s influence on Fitzgerald? (Our Maine audience is connected to Tarkington because he spent decades of summers in Kennebunkport.)

What do you think Fitzgerald meant, in his notes at the end of The Last Tycoon, when he wrote “Don’t wake the Tarkington ghosts”?

I know Tarkington’s name came up, but neither of us ever said much about him.

He certainly had an influence on Fitzgerald, if only because he was such a passionate Princetonian–the founder, in fact, of the Triangle Club, for which Fitzgerald also wrote and performed. And I have long admired Tarkington. I think Fitzgerald was cautioning himself against getting too sentimental, as Tarkington occasionally did.

Baker doesn’t appear to have favored Freudian interpretations of Hemingway’s sexuality as expressed in his novels. What do you think Baker would have said

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M o v e a b l e F eas t to Tom Jenks after his edit of The Garden of Eden [an unfinished novel in Hemingway’s notes from 1946, published posthumously and controversially in 1986]?

I think he might have said that the book should not be published–which is something Baker had said to me in the early ’70s.

He said that if Hemingway had wanted to publish it, he would have.

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Baker’s Emerson Among The Eccentrics was published, completed by James R. Mellow.

The book was pretty far along when Baker died. The beginning appears to be somewhat truncated, suggesting that he might have added more at the front; and, as I recall (I haven’t looked at it in a while), it wasn’t fully realized in the end. But it’s still a wonderful book, giving a rather complete picture of Emersovn and his world.

If you were to write Carlos Baker’s biography, how would you open the narrative? And how would you rate his novels and poetry?

I would probably open in a classroom…or in a one-on-one conference with a student in his sweet-smelling office–for teaching was both his passion and his strength. I think literary criticism and biography were his métiers more than fiction or prose, which seemed–to me, anyway–to lack the passion he brought to his other writings.

If you were given the Hemingway assignment today, and his authorized bio had never been published before, what different path would you take?

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I would completely immerse myself in Hemingway’s writings, study every primary-source document I could get my hands on, and talk to every living person who knew Hemingway that I could. In other words, I’d do exactly what Carlos Baker did.

Being a friend and disciple of Carlos Baker remains one of the great pleasures and honors of my life–which he changed.

Shortly after Carlos retired, I asked if he might send me a picture of himself. He was somewhat reluctant, but his wife, Dorothy, complied–sending a wonderful shot of him at his last graduation, in full academic regalia, acknowledging the crowd. It has hung over my desk–wherever I have lived–for the last thirty-five years.

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Both Strater and Hemingway loved to cast a line (the Times mentions a “record 14foot four-inch black marlin [Strater] caught during a fishing trip to Bimini in 1935”).

“It was my fish,” Strater claimed, “but when the photographer came by to take the picture at the dock, Hemingway sidled up close to fish, stuck out his chest and got his picture taken as if he had caught it.”

Little wonder these two guys threw some haymakers now and then. “I had boxed in school, and I think I impressed Hemingway with my punch…that was the only way you could impress him.”

Fun fact: Strater’s grandson, Ogunquit attorney Nicholas S. Strater of Strater and Strater, has told us, “I was introduced to Hemingway here in Maine as a baby during one of his visits just after the war to see my grandfather.” Though the Princeton Library can’t confirm it, this tale, like the fish of fame itself for Strater, may be the one that got away. n

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“I thought one or two may be lucky accidents,” writes Abbott, “but no–on looking further, they were not. Here was consistency– the sensitive, restless eye.”

The Stanley Museum, established in Kingfield in 1981 to “preserve the heritage of the Stanley family genius,” has most of Chansonetta’s surviving photographic legacy.

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At age 18, Chansonetta was sent to the Western State Normal School in Farmington (what is now UMF), which the twins had attended before her, to study to become a teacher. Instead, she discovered fine art, left school, and willfully went her own way, first teaching drawing in the Kingfield area. By her 20s, she was teaching art in Boston schools and studying painting. In 1887, she married James Emmons, an apparently unsuccessful shoe salesman. Bankrolled by her brothers, who were by this time wealthy from their inventions, the Emmonses lived in a Victorian mansion in Dorchester, Massachusetts, and had one child, Dorothy, in 1891. Chansonetta took up photography seriously, extensively chronicling her domestic life and, on a trip south to the Carolinas with Dorothy in 1897, produced images of the people and scenes she encountered en route, which she turned into a photo album.

James Emmons died suddenly of blood poisoning in 1899; his widow and daughter downsized to a duplex in Newton. In the ensuing years, they spent time in Kingfield.

With Dorothy driving, the two of them toured New England in cars supplied by F.O. These were “Fords, not Stanleys,” says archivist Jim Merrick at the Stanley Mu-

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seum. Which “would seem to be a strange choice for a steam-car manufacturer, but they were fairly solid, utilitarian vehicles– and more modestly priced. A Stanley would have cost five times as much.”

The mother and daughter’s auto travels resulted in supernaturally ravishing images of people and the rural countryside as we upshifted from life in the 19th century to the 20th. Chansonetta’s photographs were carefully staged–due to the long exposures required–and painterly, but not sentimental. She meticulously colorized some of these glass plates; her artistic training is evident in black-and-white images that seem transformed into paintings. Biographer Péladeau writes that she “captured on film a rapidly changing America,” and compares her to her contemporary, novelist Sarah Orne Jewett, for her laser insights into the soul of “the undaunted Yankee.”

Like Alice James and ‘Judith Shakespeare,’ Chansonetta Stanley Emmons was a sharp kid sister to bigshot brothers.

Berenice Abbott: “Here is living proof of a true photographer whose eye and brain react naturally to the old familiar, the now, the importance of life under our very noses. It is inherent in the medium that photographers see significance in ordinary happenings.”

Chansonetta earned a bit of income from her photography, from painting col-

ored miniatures, and giving slide lectures.

A few photographs were published in Country Life and included in an exhibit at Boston Museum of Fine Arts in 1927. She produced a book, The Old Table Chair, which was reprinted in 2009 by the Stanley Museum. A woman photographer in those days was unusual but not unheard of. But in Chansonetta’s case, her brothers continued to provide support, which freed her for the rest of her life to explore photography without needing to seek commissions like a commercial photographer, or working much at all. Archivist Merrick says, “As far as we can tell, Chansonetta and Dorothy lived rather comfortably.” lthough F.O. and F.E. (until his death) were in effect patrons of her art, Chansonetta’s circumstances may have been modest, according to research by Shawn Michelle Smith,

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After Chansonetta’s death in 1937, Dorothy’s trove of her mother’s photographic negatives and glass plates was nearly lost.

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“The story I heard is that he called a younger Stanley descendent [Raymond W. Stanley, Chansonetta’s nephew] and said, ‘If you want any of this stuff, come and get it or it’s going to the dump,’” says Cally Gurley, Director of Special Collections at the University of New England in Portland. “We think probably all of it was rescued because the boxes of glass plates, each with its own paper sleeve, that they transported to their slide shows were saved.” im Merrick says, “Whitchurch also sold numerous prints and donated a group of 50 prints to the Colby College Museum of Art. Another substantial collection of Chansonetta’s work was discovered in the Farmington Public Library where they were apparently transferred for safekeeping.”

It was in 1977 that Chansonetta’s work was brought to light, which led to the Péladeau biography and the attention of Berenice Abbott and others.

In 2000, the Portland Museum of Art held a spring exhibition of “Recollected Images– Chansonetta Stanley Emmons.”

Hundreds of Chansonetta Stanley Emmons’s prints and glass slides have been on long-term loan from the Stanley Museum to the University of New England since 2007.

“We offer a setting for scholars to be able to study them here,” says Cally Gurley.

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sychics work with energy.

That energy is light, frequency, sound and resonance. it is interpreted through the senses and heightened through psychic ability. When i view these photographs, what i sense is that the photographer had the ability to see not just with her physical eyes, but with her third eye.

Photo of Herself by Herself: Looking at the first photo, what i see is

the photographer’s ability to capture something more than appears to the naked eye. There is a feeling, a sense, that there is something more in this photo. That something more will be interpreted by each viewer in his or her own way. What intrigues me is she has captured something of herself, revealing that psychic nature i mentioned.

Grist Mill: in the second photograph, she has captured a moment out of time–at least in how we currently measure time. Looking at this begs the question of who is really ‘there’ in the photo and who is outside of time, perhaps visiting from the past or the future.

Old Blacksmith Shop (Horse): The third photograph speaks to me of ancestry. Without needing to point to a specific area in order to interpret what is being seen, there is an overall sense or feeling of ‘more’–as if all who came before are there to continue the traditions of family.

Old Mystic Stable Chair: Psychics and photographers learn to work with light and dark (or shadow). The fourth photograph is a stunning look at that concept. even though the subjects are children, you can feel the burden of responsibility and the sense of the consequences of the light/dark struggle.–Sue Yarmey

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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 Earth At Hidden Pond James Beard award-winner Chef Ken Oringer opened this “farm-to-fork” restaurant in 2011 featuring the bounty of Hidden Pond Resort’s organic farm in a menu that includes house-made pastas and charcuterie, wood-grilled pizzas, and signatures like peekytoe crab toast with French cocktail sauce. Craft cocktails and an extensive wine list. Open May-Oct. 354 Goose Rocks Road, Kennebunkport, 967-6550, earthathiddenpond.com Eve’s at the Garden, an oasis of calm and great food in the middle of the Old Port. The perfect spot for meetings, special occasions, and a cocktail.

Ingredients from Maine’s waters and farms: jumbo scallops, natural, sustainable pork, beef, fish, and shellfish, and Maine lobster. Home to the annual Ice Bar, Eve’s garden is perfect for outdoor dining in season. Happy Hour Monday - Friday; free valet parking. Lunch 11:30-2, Dinner 5-9:30. 468 Fore St., Portland, 775-9090, evesatthegarden.com

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But first, the drinks. Generally, we gravitate to the wine, and the list here has diversity and strength. Our server, however, persuades us to try a libation from a cocktail menu based on pre-Prohibition recipes.

My Absinthe Frappe ($10) more than meets the mark–the gomme syrup, and probably also the “effort” listed as an ingredient, make it velvety smooth. Haven’t had a drink this good since the pink squirrel.

A Manhattan ($10), made with rye whiskey, Boker’s bitters, and Cocchi Vermouth di Torina that lends a subtle smokiness to the mix, pleases my partner. Yeah, we are in.

Our charming server, Tara, wisely suggests we order two items at a time (as they come out quickly) to avoid being overwhelmed. She also dazzles us with suggestions for pairings. Her first is beet salad ($9) and sea-bass ceviche ($9).

The beets–red, golden, and candy cane–are roasted to perfection and served over a bed of Swiss chard, with lemon vinaigrette and droplets of avocado purée. Delicate, slender slices of fish garnished with cilantro and a piri piri sauce appear almost translucent and disappear all too quickly.

Next, we match fried Maine oysters ($9) with the spicy fried Maine potatoes ($5).

The spuds, a heap of thinly sliced rounds with a helping of Heinz, are, as promised, spicy. Very. The three oysters, lovely to behold, placed in their shells on a delicious cilantro aioli, get some kick from a garnish of house-made kimchee. We order a ramekin of the aioli to temper the potatoes’ heat, and it works wonderfully.

The “fried” course is nicely complemented

by Old Rasputin ($5), a rich chocolate-like stout.

I can’t resist the foie gras ($15/22). The intense flavors of the rich, delicate liver are brilliantly balanced with a rose-hip purée, a sprinkling of millet granola, and candied buddha’s hand–a lemony fruit. Ecstasy. Six grilled shrimp a la plancha ($12) with herb olive oil sing backup to yet another meaty, spicy tapa.

We savor aperitifs–Lillet Blanc and Campari on the rocks with a splash of soda (each $7)–with our final dish. Salted caramel mousse ($6) with hints of coffee and cocoa is creamy but has a graininess deriving from goat whey, a by-product of the house-made goat cheese.

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But, if you’re looking for a waterfront escape closer to home, follow Walter B. Gibson’s footsteps a mile offshore into Saco Bay. It was on Ram that the prolific author penned Crime Over Casco. Gibson’s work was inspired by his fondness for Maine. Find your own voice on Ram. In the meantime, pick up one of Gibson’s books to read by the stone fireplace in your three-room summer cottage. You’ll find him under the pen name

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That isn’t such a bad thing with the quality of fishing and sailing on Wadleigh. If a place to settle down is still on your to-do list, Chasse has that covered; the island is permitted and can accommodate a three-season home. The next item on that list should be finding three seasons off to enjoy it.

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Venture into the island and you’ll find two houses, both offering seclusion from not just the mainland but from each other.

Electricity runs to each house from a hidden power shed, solar panels, and backup generator. In addition to on-island amenities, according to Private Islands Online, “The island is sold with a 5-acre shore lot that has 300-foot frontage and a mooring at Eastern Harbor –about 15 minutes from the island.” Back on the island, the main house has all the amenities you’d expect at

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ChaNdlEr ISlaNd Wohoa Bay, $39,999 o some, owning your own island is for the elite, part of the lifestyle that comes with a private Gulfstream. At least one island takes the exclusivity out of the equation. Chandler Island, in Wohoa Bay, 30 miles east of Acadia National Park, is quaint. It’s supposed to be. The compound, if you call it that, is a gazebo at the highest part of the island. At just over an acre– or just under when the tide is high–Chandler offers everything you need for a private camping excursion of your own doing, complete with scenic views and a clear sightline to open waters all for a relatively blue-lightspecial price.

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you could just as easily spend the day picking blueberries, blackberries, or raspberries. They all grow wild in your private natural garden.

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“We call it the upside-down house,” says architect James Schildroth of Wiscasset. “My clients, Rick and Maryanne Starbird, were from Dover-Foxcroft and

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nearby Corinna. They went to UMO together, fell in love. Rick studied geology and worked for Exxon selling jet-fuel contracts to airports. Maryanne was a noted watercolorist.”

When the couple first bought the lot, “they went alone to the top of a ladder” to catch the incredible views.

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“Views from the site and solar considerations gave us direction. We turned our back to the north and opened up the south side with all the windows for the panoramic vistas. In the north end, I designed an art studio with north light to Maryanne’s specifications.”

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I’m at my wife’s desk right now, in the kitchen,” says Rick on the phone. “When I was just four years old, my sister had a string of paper dolls. For some reason, I kept remembering one of them. I was two years ahead of my wife at UMO. When a blind date was set up for me to meet her, the door swung open and I was looking at that doll.”

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This family compund is nestled in the flower gardens along the shore of Damariscotta Lake with 20+/- acres and 125’ +/- of waterfront. Main home is a 2 bedroom, 2 1/2 bath year round home with loft. There is a bunk house with screen porch sitting on the water’s edge, another bunkhouse surrounded by flower gardens and a 3 bedroom cottage that provides privacy.

$775,000 www.BlackDuckRealty.com email: info@blackduckrealty.com

Chebeague Island Noddle Head

6 BR C. 1900 classic Dutch Colonial shingled summer cottage on Casco Bay with 7+ acres of fields and 570’ of waterfront. Estate-like setting with fabulous views, tramway to dock, 2 car garage/workshop. Owned by same family for 110 years.

$750,000

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PORTLAND | $395,000 One-of-a-kind downtown Loft Condo offering a fabulous open concept. The flexible floor plan with 14’ ceilings, stainless/granite kitchen and bamboo flooring has tons of light. Two walk-in showers and huge finished basement space, and storage make this a unique home.

PORTLAND | $629,000 Exciting top floor Loft Condo in the heart of the Arts District!

Unique space offers an open floor plan with granite & stainless kitchen, exposed brick & beams w/ vaulted ceilings & skylights, good light & views, along w/ beautiful appointment to details!

PORTLAND | $384,500 UNDER CONTRACT

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Ed Gardner | Broker This gracious Colonial includes four bedrooms, 3.5 baths & heatedwww.ed-gardner.com 2 car garage. Living room accented with Juliet balcony, lovely sit151 Newbury St., Portland, ME 04101 ting room features Oriels windows, 3 fireplaces, greenhouse, and(207) 773-1919 water views. Enjoy summer in the secluded backyard oasis with Federal bluestone patio and custom Gunite pool. $700,000.

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PORTLAND | $395,000 One-of-a-kind downtown Loft Condo offering a fabulous open

Beautiful, classic, well cared for home with charm galore! Updated

concept. The flexible floor plan with 14’ ceilings, stainless/granite kitchen with granite, gas range, stainless steel & glass tile. Large PORTLAND | $345,000 & $349,000 PORTLAND | $485,500 and bamboo flooring has tons of light. Two walk-in Living room with fireplace, Dining room with built-in, largekitchen views of Back Cove, city & mountains!

Meticulously maintained 3 unit building in andPanoramic finished basement space, and storage make this master Bedroom, beautiful wood floors throughout, finishedshowers 3rd PORTLAND | huge $797,500 These two open concept CHESTNUT STREET Portland Historic Neighborhood. Currently a unique home. floor, and large fenced yard! Fabulous! used as mixed use w/ 1st floor office w/cen- LOFTS offer stained concrete floors, stainless applitral air + recently renovated 2nd & 3rd floor ances & flexible floor plans w/ variations of styles residential units. Updates galore including & set-up! One w/covered parking & deck, the other w/original open concept loft design. Location is historically correct exterior. walkable to everywhere!

PORTLAND | $629,000 Exciting top floor Loft Condo in the heart of the Arts District!

Unique space offers an open floor plan with granite & stainless PORTLAND | $94,500 kitchen, exposed brick & beams w/ vaulted ceilings & skylights, Historic Arts District condo within walking distance to everygood light & views, along w/ beautiful appointment to details!

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SOUTH | $307,500

PORTLAND | $443,100 Wonderful country setting just minutes to town & shops! This “almost new” home features hardwood floors, front to back livingroom w/wood burning fireplace, and 3 car garage. 3 bedrooms & 3 baths plus unfinished bonus area offer lots of space & flexibility.

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FALMOUTH | $475,000 Picture-perfect beautifully maintained Private Country Home & 3 stall Barn with flexible use on 6.5 ac. 2/10 mile driveway to 4 Bedrooms, 3 fireplaces + woodstove, gorgeous oak moldings & floors plus in-law apt. Fabulous gardens & landscaping show pride of ownership!

PORTLAND | $384 Beautiful, classic, well kitchen with granite, g Living room with firep master Bedroom, beau floor, and large fenced

SOUTH PORTLAND | $349,000 Renovated top to bottom 3 bedroom, 2 bath New EngNewer three bedroom 1.5 bath home with Views • City lots of charm! Great floor plan with finished lander is just steps away from the ocean and PrivateWillard Yard Square! Features include kitchen with basement space, hardwood & tile fl•ooring. stainless appliances, stone counters, high Fenced in back yard with large fabulous deck Garage • Private effi ciency heat system, new 2 car garage and and westerly exposure really showcase this • Private Elevator more. This home is ready for a new owner! home. Must See!

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PORTLAND | $443,100 Ed Gardner Gardner Broker Wonderful country setting just minutes to town & shops! This Ed || Broker “almost new” home featuresME hardwood floors, front to back living151 Newbury Newbury St., St., Portland, 151 Portland, MEand04101 04101 room w/wood burning fireplace, 3 car garage. 3 bedrooms & 3 baths plus unfinished bonus773-1919 area offer lots of space & flexibility. www.Ed-Gardner.com | (207) www.Ed-Gardner.com | (207) 773-1919

SOUTH PORTLAND | $ 697,000 Waterfront - Expansive 2nd floor waterfront condominium with an open floor plan, is perfect for entertaining! Wonderful views from the unit and expansive private deck, this 2 bedroom 2 bath unit is full of customized extras, making this a fabulous place to call home. New in 2009, this light and airy Mill Cove Landing home, offers 2 car covered parking, lots of windows and a strong and healthy association.

FALMOUTH | $475,000 Picture-perfect beautifully maintained Private Country Home & 3 stall Barn with flexible use on 6.5 ac. 2/10 mile driveway to 4 Bedrooms, 3 fireplaces + woodstove, gorgeous oak moldings & floors plus in-law apt. Fabulous gardens & landscaping show pride of ownership!

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SHEEPSCOT RIVER

Historic Circa 1790 Head Tide Village home known as the Tibbbett House is beautifully sited on 270’ river frontage. Three bedrooms, 2.5 baths, lovely sunroom, living room has handsome pine encased fireplace. Open kitchen and dining room. Move in condition. $339,000

Newcastle Square Realty 87 Main Street Damariscotta, ME 04543 207-563-1003 www.mainecoastproperties.com Email: nsrealty@cheneycompanies.com

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Boothbay 3BR, 3BA waterfront home with 240 +/- feet on the Back River has its own dock & float. $599,000

FOR LEASE 10,000 - 52,380 Square Feet • Community Mixed Use Zone Year Built 1981 • 2 Loading Docks • 200 Parking Spaces

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Southport Island 3 BR, 2 1⁄2 BA waterfront Cape farmhouse has southerly views and boathouse w/deep water dock & float on Ebenecook Harbor. $725,000

This property is located in a prime central location at Brunswick Landing and is well positioned next to the retail and service center at Cooks Corner. With over 52,000 sq. ft. of available space, the property lends itself well to office, warehouse and manufacturing customers as well as retail space or a technology center. The building offers significant fiber optic connectivity, warehouse space, 2 loading docks and receiving area.

The property also offers 200 parking spaces, 3 phase power, natural gas and 18'-22' ceilings.

Easy highway access to Rt.1 N-S, I-295 N-S, Rt. 196 E-W

Southport Island 3 BR, 2 BA home with breathtaking views of the Sheepscot River and has access to Hendrick’s Head Beach. $895,000

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SAWYER’S ISLAND WATERFRONT

Quality construction in this ageless 4BR cottage w/150’ of shoreline. Custom Kennebec kitchen w/ granite counters & center island, pine floors, river stone fireplace & Ipe decking. $825,000

IN-TOWN NEW ENGLANDER

Classic 3BR, 2.5BAs. New chef’s kitchen open to sunny dining area, living room FP, hardwood flooring, library/den, master w/updated bath.

Open & covered porches. $379,000

WATERFRONT CAPE + ISLAND

Saltwater farm setting on 6+acres with 451’ on Back River + private island. Large open rooms with separate master wing. Guest wing with 3+BRs. 2-bay garage. $1,250,000

EAST BOOTHBAY WATERFRONT

Enjoy this great family compound on 1+ ac w/440’ on Glen Cove. 2 cottages attached by a screened porch & walkway, each w/kitchen, dining & living. Assoc. dock. $575,000

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Custom 1,757sf home overlooks the river from a sheltered tidal cove.

Fabulous kitchen, open floor plan, central vacuum, 1 bedroom on each of 3 levels, automatic generator. $549,000

BOOTHBAY HARBOR CAPE

Classic 4BR, 3.5BA on beautiful landscaped.

60 acre in-town lot. Hardwood floors, brick fireplace, 2-car garage, deck, master suite & detached studio. $395,000

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Greenlawn Bar Harbor, Maine

12 bedrooms 8 bathrooms 9 fireplaces Original details 130 +/- feet of shore

Built in 1885, Greenlawn is a magnificent example of shinglestyle architecture from the Gilded Age. Elegantly situated with lawn sloping to Frenchmans Bay. $2,100,000

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Sweden, ME Dive into an Ocean of VIEWS! Set on 20 acres in a “Park-like” setting is this picture perfect property. Dramatic decagon design w/ apex ceiling, massive stone fireplaces & quality features to take advantage of nature both inside and out. Incredible stonewalls & landscaping with Lakes & Skiing within 5 miles to enhance your year-round enjoyment of this beautiful Mountain Retreat. $699,900 (mls # 1090102)

Lovell, ME

Walk to Kezar Lake! A unique setting for a spacious, well cared for farmhouse in Lovell w/ 5 acres (or more). Views, fields, woods, stonewalls, fruit trees & gardens, plus attached barn for animals, vehicles, workshop & storage. Fryeburg Academy district, nearby golf & skiing. Excellent condition w/ obvious pride of ownership and a true Gentleman’s Farm feel. $299,900 (mls # 1136328)

Fryeburg, ME

A Perfect Fit! Circa 1909 farmhouse plus successful & reputable greenhouse business. Excellent condition antique home w/ upgrades galore including a custom designed “Chef ’s Kitchen”.

Great layout w/ loads of charm & character, deck, hot tub, perennial gardens, greenhouses & a 5 acre mix of fields & woods. Nearby Fryeburg Academy & Saco River. $389,900 (mls # 1138760)

Fryeburg, Maine

Beautiful Quality Cape w/ farmer’s porch in EXCELLENT condition. Open & spacious design w/ hardwood, tiled, fireplace, stunning kitchen, 3 bedrooms, den, 1st floor laundry, 2 car garage & full basement.

Families will enjoy Fryeburg Academy benefits & convenience. 3 miles to village, off quiet country road w/ filtered Mt views and set on almost 1 acre. $265,000 (mls #1121746)

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Lovell, ME Living the Dream! Quality log home on Kezar Lake w/ 200’ on Lower Bay. Double lot of 1.87acres w/ views of Lake & Mts. Gentle path to natural rocks & dock provide deep water access and miles of water fun for every age. 3 finished levels, decks, screen porch & garage.

Attention to detail allows you to experience the beauty of nature both inside & out. $699,900 (mls # 1136888)

Stow, ME

Bridgton, ME

Picturesque Home & Setting 7 acres of level fields & waterfrontage along the Langdon Brook. Spacious antique home w/ warmth, style & charm both inside and out. 3 stories of spacious living renovated for today with care for yesteryear in mind. Enjoy your “fields of green”while listening to the soothing sounds of the the rushing brook. $375,000 (mls # 1138891)

Lakefront Living & Summertime Fun! Beautiful 3 story townhouse on the shores of Moose Pond. Enjoy the many watersport activities then dock your boat on-site and walk home to this delightful end unit, fully furnished w/ everything you need for year-round vacations. Direct waterfront location w/ lovely mountain views and walking distance to downhill skiing at Shawnee Peak. $269,900 (mls # 1138995)

Directly across from Jackson Falls, lovingly cared for Jackson home w/ 2 acres & loads of warmth, privacy & FUN! X- country ski, golf, river and walk to town. Renovations & quality workmanship will leave you with little to do but relax & enjoy after a day’s work, hike, bike or ski. Ideal vacation or year-round home w/ comfort & quality throughout. $455,000 (mls #4349110)

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As Featured in the 2014 Portland Kitchen Tour

OCEANFRONT CONDOS

OLD ORCHARD PINE POINT Seascape at Grand Beach- Beautiful condos right on the sands of the 7 mile beach. 1 & 2 BR condos for sale from$294-$405,000. Building has indoor, heated pool overlooking the sea.

Linwood Arms- Enjoy views of pier & walk to town from oceanfront 2BR corner unit. Beachfront deck & hear the surf from 2nd floor location.

Pool, central air $382,500

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836 EastErn road, Warren $995,000

1148-150 WEEks road owls Head, $780,000

Large 3 bedroom cape on 39 acres with premium custom mechanicals and surfaces. Huge bonus room over garage. Three level post and beam barn.

Two farm ponds. 300 feet on the St. George River.

Unique ocean front property features 1.6 acre lot & 250 feet of ocean frontage on protected Broad Cove.

Ideal for deep water mooring or dock. Also includes two year round 1 bedroom, 1 bath cottages.

147 Park Street, Rockland, ME 04841•(207) 596-6095 www.soundvest.com • wedosell@soundvest.com Each office independently owned and operated

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Islesboro Island Select Properties

Starr Cottage. Classic 1790’s greek revival post & beam cape idylically nestled between glorious sunrise and sunset water views over Dark Harbor and Gilkey Harbor and outer islands. Meticulously landscaped grounds. $975,000

Sunrise. A three-bedroom cape at the narrows. Oceanfront cedar-shingled, quaint and cozy wooded location. Wonderful views, beach, deck. Private but convenient. $625,000

Sabbath Day Harbor Look-Out. Beautifully eclectic three-bedroom post & beam perched among lush spruce forest.

Winding path to sandy beach and harbor.

Breathtaking views of eastern Islesboro coast. Attractive and consistent rental. $875,000

Hermit’s Point. Splendid parcel offers wonderful open woods & cleared building site.

Private drive meanders through the property to an open hillside meadow and enchanting cove.

Protective restrictions and covenants assure the quality of your estate. $695,000

Quintessential 1894. Grand six-bedroom cottage & dock with guest cabin. Steps to beach, lovely landscaping. Delightful summer enclave. Outstanding ocean views from the covered porch. $775,000

John Oldham, Broker (207) 734-8809 • oldhamip@midcoast.com

East Shore Drive. Dramatic deepwater shoreline & beach. Exceptional ocean views and building sites across road.

Quiet, private location near Dark Harbor Village. Some selective clearing. $399,000

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BELFAST: Lovely New England Colonial, 2 miles to waterfront. 11 Rooms include Granite kitchen, dining room w/slider (leads to rear deck & pool), den or 1st floor bedroom, full bath each floor, attached 3 room studio ideal for home based business. Basmnt w/workshop, storage over garage. You can’t build this house for equitable price of $299,900!

SEARSPORT: Quintessential Maine Cottage with

ocean access at the end of street. Charming inside and out, this year round home is in the Sea Captains Village of Searsport, overlooking Penobscot Bay and the islands. Southern exposure, enclosed front, heated porch expands your living space to over 1300 sq.ft. Living rm, dining area, kitchen, 2-3 bdrm, 1 ½ baths,& more.

An additional 1.23 Acres with 213’ shorefront available! VIEWS ARE BREATHTAKING! $259,900.

SEARSPORT: Merithew Block building in Historic Sea Captain’s Village of Searsport. Offering an ideal combination of space, including architecturally renovated 1st floor with exposed brick walls, tin ceilings & wood floors. Located in the heart of this growing community, across from Marine Museum, art gallery, shops: sidewalk entrance unit would make a superb art/sculptures gallery or office unit. 2nd & 3rd flrs. for owner/ occupied or income unit. Views of the water, corner lot, end building, walk to the ocean, park, & all amenities. $139,900.

BELFAST: Charming home only a stroll away to downtown & waterfront, walk to everything.

Sunny kitchen w/breakfast bar, overlooks spacious back yard. Dining room w/hearth & stove, living room w/beautiful Pumpkin Pine floors.

Well Landscaped. In town for ONLY $139,900.

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STOCKTON: Elegant Circa 1904 Victorian boasts period details. Modernized for efficiency & convenience, home was lovingly renovated in 2006. Front parlor off dining room, kitchen opens to side and rear decks, fenced for spacious paddock area for pets. Charming wrap-around covered porch invites entertaining! Lovely gardens abound spacious lot. Walk to Stockton Harbor where perhaps your boat awaits you. Separate guest quarters or apartment. $199,900.

BUCKSPORT: Classic 1960’s New England Cape sits atop the Coastal Town of Bucksport, at Mount Olive Heights! Enjoy views of the spectacular Penobscot Narrows Bridge and Fort Knox State Park. Home features hardwood floors, fireplace in living room, 1st floor den/office or bdrm & 3 add’l bdrms up. Nice shop and rec room in heated bsmnt, deck overlooking spacious back yard.

Attached garage, 1+acre on dead-end street. $159,900.

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Portland $525,000 Sandy Johnson 523-8110 #1114483

Yarmouth $1,495,000 Tim Kennedy 523-8123 #1137066

56 Deans Way, CumberlanD ForesiDe $3,395,000

Cape Elizabeth $679,000 Dianne Maskewitz 523-8112 #1137120

Cape Elizabeth $875,000 Steve Parkhurst 523-8102 #1110635

Yarmouth $499,000 Bob Knecht 523-8114 #1136740

15 lighthouse Pt., CaPe elizabeth $1,175,000

Cape Elizabeth $745,000 Gail Landry 523-8115 #1100610

1168 shore rD., CaPe elizabeth $1,050,000

2 oak knoll, CaPe elizabeth $1,475,000

4 olD ProPrietor, CaPe elizabeth $1,785,000

84 Flying Point, FreePort $995,000

Scarborough $1,980,000 Mark Fortier 523-8108 #1074727

84 talbot, yarmouth $945,000

ding pen Falmouth $395,000 Cindy Landrigan 523-8106 #1137022

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Cape Elizabeth $749,000 Susan Lamb 523-8105 #1129014

4 Chimney roCk, CaPe elizabeth $1,930,000

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Falmouth $259,000 Rowan Morse 523-8107 #1131053

Cumberland $395,000 Edie Boothby 523-8111 #1137105

Scarborough $1,210,000 Jeff Davis 523-8118 #1127784

Freeport $630,000 William Davisson 523-8116 #1104734

ding pen Portland $365,000 Tish Whipple 523-8104 #1138022

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BRUNSWICK

This is a rare opportunity to own an historic John Calvin Stevens designed home close to downtown and Bowdoin College. Elegant original features such as wood flooring, tin ceilings, wide moldings and four fireplaces are balanced with stunning upgraded features including a custom kitchen with Viking appliances, butler’s pantry, library with gas fireplace and surround sound within this four bedroom and two and a half bathroom home.

Also included are a large fenced yard and one car garage. $471,000.

BOWDOINHAM

Naturalist Delight! This post and beam, Saltbox style home is situated on a pristine 2.2 acre lot with eagles, osprey and duck sightings daily over the protected sanctuary on Merrymeeting Bay. The 2,100 square foot home features an open kitchen/dining/living area all with hardwood floors, a bright and warm sunroom with tiled floors, skylights and fireplace, office, three bedrooms, and two and a half bathrooms. Exquisite gardens, pristine lawn, gazebo and 450’ of frontage on the bay complete the picture. $579,000.

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Nestled within a private 5.4 acre, natural landscape complete with babbling brook, waterfall, and 800 feet of water frontage is this year-round, Victorian style cottage containing 2,100 square feet. Special features include an open concept floor plan, cathedral ceilings, stone fireplace, hardwood floors, first floor master suite, built-in book shelves and an abundance of charm. The wrap around deck provides amazing westerly views. Common deep water access is nearby. $639,750.

Looking out the great room windows of this home is like you are sitting on the bow of a boat looking south down Woodward Cove. The contemporary floor plan features a kitchen/dining/ living great room with stone fireplace, first floor master suite, half bathroom, office, den/ bedroom with an abundance of sunshine, tiled sunroom with cathedral ceilings and skylights, third bedroom and full bath, family room with fireplace, laundry room and workshop. The private 7.4 acre lot is nicely landscaped all the way to the shore. $670,000.

HARPSWELL

Next stop Spain! This fabulous year-round cottage lies on the edge of Quahog Bay with endless south-easterly views over Casco Bay. The 1,742 square foot home has a great room with a wall of windows overlooking the bay and providing an abundance of sunshine. Two bedrooms and two full baths are available on the first floor while the second floor features a bright, open bunk room and half bath. Across the road is additional water frontage with a dock/float, plus a garage with storage above. A gem! $695,000.

HARPSWELL

Watch the sunset over Middle Bay from the deck of this classic Maine contemporary home.

Situated on 10.8 wooded acres, this private home with 435 feet of waterfront is located only 5 miles from Bowdoin College and the amenities of historic downtown Brunswick. Features include an open floor plan, sunroom, two first floor bedrooms, plus two more bedrooms on the lower level, American chestnut paneling, pine floors, large deck, and three outbuildings for multiple uses. $749,000.

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FALMOUTH- This lovely property, known affectionately as ‘Longshadows’, sits back from the road & offers a graceful home that is embraced by meadows, lawn, gardens & trees. Many windows, a 3 season garden room & patio connect the interior to its bucolic setting. $449,000 MLS 1128843 GEORGIA BREYER

BRUNSWICK- Quality construction and easy care living offering a little cosmopolitan flair in desirable Botany Place. This unit offers many custom upgrades to the original construction package including a screened in sun porch & finished family room or craft center. $360,000 MLS 1132809 GEORGIA BREYER

BATH- Historic and stunning 1843 Greek Revival with long sweeping driveway and winner of Sagadahoc Preservation Society Award of Excellence. Walking distance to Library park, waterfront park.7 BR’s, 6 baths, charming courtyard, two story garage house. $575,000 MLS 1128400 VICKI SPRAGUE

BOWDOINHAM- Beautifully restored Victorian in the village of Bowdoinham—one of only 6 towns named “Best Places to Live in Maine” by Down East Mag. Gorgeous architectural detail—it is in very rare original/authentic condition & listed on the Nat’l Historic Register. $399,900 MLS 1131789 KATHY GALLANT

BATH- The Galen Moses House is one of Bath’s most spectacular Victorian homes. Built in 1874 in the heart of Bath’s historic district, the mansion retains the grace & elegance of its 19th c. beginnings. Currently a B&B with over 6500 sq ft includes 6 BRs. $449,000 MLS 1127447 DIANE MOYER

ARROWSIC- Imagine yourself in a serene waterfront setting, where all you here is the sound of lapping water 14’ from shore, birds fishing , boats going by. Totally gutted and redone in 2011, dock permit, all top of the line materials, panoramic views, outside fireplace. $395,000 MLS 1133193 JOAN MALONEY CHRANE

WEST BATH- 33 Acres on a private point, surrounded by water!

Structure is an oak post & beam contemporary home, beautifully landscaped with dock and a 3 car garage. 4 BR’S, 3.5 baths, windows galore, many private sitting ares inside and out. With walking trails along the shore this is a piece of Maine heaven! $1,300,000 MLS 000000 JANE MALONEY CHRANE

BRUNSWICK- In the spirit of Frank Lloyd Wright’s Usonian homes, this J. Stewart Roberts design is exquisite! Outstanding opportunities for entertaining or relaxing. Passive solar,huge stone FP,cherry kitchen, naturalized pool/waterfall and lush landscape. $699,900 MLS 1132713 JANE MILLETT

BRUNSWICK Easy-living ME Cottage-style 3-4 BR home, backs to preservation for protection yet just a short walk to town/college. 2,700+ SQ.FT.,LR w/gas FP, cathedral ceilings & sunlight, cherry kit., crown mouldings, 1st floor MBR suite, HW floors,screened porch, deck. $549,900 MLS 1131040 JANE MILLETT

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Machiasport “Sea Winds” A luxurious oceanfront home with private sand beach and stellar views of Howard Head & Jasper Cove. Storybook roofline precedes the lavish interior of surround sound, sauna, observatory turret, library, solarium, spacious deck and much more!

MLS#1100613 $1,350,000

Little Deer Isle One of a Kind Oceanfront Opportunity Quintessential shingled oceanfront cottage lovingly renovated with modern amenities yet maintaining its original charm & woodwork. This amazing property boasts of 460’ of deep water shore frontage on protected Blastow Cove and includes a building with a footprint over the water, dock, pier & mooring.

MLS#1126177 $1,100,000

Deer Isle Oak Point Family Compound A wonderful combination of sandy beach & pink grate outcroppings with level entry to deep water frontage & a mooring in place. South and westerly exposure provide cool ocean breezes and fabulous sunsets! 7.8 acres of woods and open sunlit clearings, a totally private setting.

MLS#1104533 $745,000

Brooklin Naskeag Point Nicely updated classic Maine Farmhouse with some of the most treasured views on the Coast of Maine! 4.9 Acres stretch to south westerly views of the mountains of Isle Au Haut and beyond. An additional recently built large barn is perfect for boat and equipment storage.

MLS#1055393 $619,000

Harborside Oceanside Cottage & Guest Quarters Quaint Oceanside Cottage privately nestled on Penobscot Bay. Enjoy ever changing ocean vistas overlooking Castine Head Lighthouse to the Camden Hills. Gorgeous sunsets! An additional building w/vehicle storage at ground level & a 2nd story 2 bedroom apart. & deck for guests.

MLS#1136138 $575,000

Little Deer Isle Blastow Cove Cottage Recently built, year-round cottage. Enjoy distant ocean views from the 1st floor and deck. Easy ocean access to Blastow Cove which leads to East Penobscot Bay. Protected cove for boat mooring. Dock access & deep water mooring included in sale.

MLS#1125498 $445,000

Deer Isle Sunshine Oceanfront Homestead Circa 1970 Center Chimney Cape surrounded by lawn and gardens that lead to gentle entry of the 425’ of shoreline with a sandy/gravel beach. Enjoy nearly 360° ocean views of marine life and bold Atlantic Ocean! A little slice of heaven at the end of the Reach.

MLS#1105406 $445,000

Deer Isle Current Island Lovely wooded island with deep water access at all tides! Located not far from shore in Long Cove. Nice long and short views in all directions. Great for camping and picnics.

MLS#1112432 $89,000

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Brooklin “Gropius House” Extraordinary chance to own a Walter Gropius House on the 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 year round enjoyment.

MLS# 1065613 $1,990,000

Deer Isle “High Cliff” Enjoy sweeping views over East Penobscot Bay to the Camden Hills from the windows and decks of a well-planned and finely crafted home with a superb artist studio. Set high above the sea, surrounded by spruce woods, imaginative landscaping, an orchard and organic vegetable garden.

MLS#1100072 $1,275,000

Brooklin Blue Hill Bay Architect designed oceanfront cottage on five private acres overlooking the bay to the mountains of Acadia. Enjoy ocean views from the many windows and decks of this 3 season seaside cottage. Lawns slope gently to the 230’+ of deep water frontage to a nice sandy/gravel beach.

MLS#1091912 $775,000

Blue Hill “Heritage Oaks” Exceptional home with many desirable features such as a gourmet kitchen w/ granite counter tops, sun room, great room granite fireplace, built in cabinetry, 1st floor master bedroom suite and 2nd floor guest suite. Nicely positioned at the end of a private cul de sac yet near the village.

MLS#1132545 $585,000

Brooksville “The Point at Cape Rosier” The Point at Cape Rosier was carefully created and the private enclave is protected by deeded covenants. The parcels offer a rare opportunity to own substantial oceanfront in a classic Downeast Maine setting. Two adjoining lots of 8.1 acres & 6.2 acres, both with deep water frontage.

MLS#1022021 $525,000/$595,000

Sedgwick “The Salt Pond” Waterfront Saltbox nicely positioned in a private setting of nearly 9 acres overlooking the Salt Pond, a 4 mile long estuary offering an abundance or bird and sea life. Would make a lovely summer home but it’s well insulated and suitable for year round living.

MLS#1133530 $395,000

Surry Oceanfront Home Site Beautiful oceanfront home site on 1.91 acres w/ 242’+ of frontage overlooking Union River Bay w/ a small gravel beach for recreation. Gorgeous southerly and SW views provide a stunning landscape over spruce clad islands with a dramatic backdrop of the striking mountains of Acadia National Park.

MLS#1054580 $349,900

Roque Bluffs Little Kennebec Bay Home Sites “Duck Cove Subdivision” Four handsome contiguous lots comprising two acres rimmed with 400’ of beautiful white sand beach frontage. All lots are forested and elevated and all share the same spectacular sweeping views from northeast to Johnson’s Point then southerly to Hope Island.

MLS# 1101833 $125,000

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“Your Real Estate Source for The Rangeley Region” TOOTHAKER ISLAND 18 Acre Compound w/2000' WF on Mooselookmeguntic Lake offers 3-BR Main House, 2-BR Cottage, Solar/Generator Power. Sold Fully Equipped. $289,000

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caryn@citycoverealty.com DODGE POND Fully Renovated 4-Season Cottage w/3-BR, Open LIV/KIT Layout, Super-Sized Deck, Attached 26x32 Garage, Exc. WF w/Gradual Entry & Dock. $369,000

RANGELEY LAKE

Classic RL Cottage w/Permanent Dock on Sunny Oquossoc Cove. 3-BR w/Loft, Open Views, Deck, Level Lawn to The Water. $450,000

RANGELEY LAKE Fully Renovated Compound on Greenvale Cove w/4-BR Home, 3-BR Guest Cabin, Drive-in Boat House. Views/Sunsets, Close to All Activities. $589,000

RANGELEY LAKE

Enjoy Lakeside Living at This 2-BR Cottage w/Open Floor Plan, Large Covered Porch on 2 Private Acres w/Deep Frontage & Dock. $425,000

KENNEBAGO LAKE

Incredibly Rare Opportunity, the “Old Timers” Cottage at KL Camps! Shared Beach, Marina, Tennis Court. Largest Fly Fishing Only Body of Water in the State. $398,000

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Belgrade: 2 Cottage at water’s edge. 7Date BRs total, frplc, screened porch, 2 car det garage, 200’ l LAKEPOINTGreat REALPond, ESTATE Submission kitchen, living room w/fieldstone 1.07 acres. #1137247 $769,000 with 200 feet of extraordinary lakefront on G 495-3700 6/5/2014

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LAKEPOINT REAL ESTATE 495-3700

fireplace, sun room, office room,

Pond.

Living room with brick hearth and Cathedral ceilings, Eastern shore, Pat Donahue 207-730-2331 stove.

Enjoy sunsets from 30 feet Deck at water’s edge w/outstand- of wate ing sunsets formaster summersuite events, Screened porch, on first floo pldcamp@msn.com Submission Date levelsuite 2+/- over acre lot, 6/5/2014 guest 2-carone-of-a-kind garage. Well-lands waterfront home on Great Pond. grounds.

Open and sunny. $949,000 $1,675,000

Position 12 PARKER GREAT POND, BELGRADE: 3BR/2BA at water's edge, cust kit, LR, deck, 1BR bunk house w/full bath, LR, laundry room.

4-bedroom, 150'frontage. #11080647 $459,000

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POND – Year-round GREAT POND–Cottage features 3 bedro 1.5-bath open-concept REAL ESTATE 2 home baths,w/wraparound living room, family room, cath deck overlookceilings, open porch, big views, deck at w Position 1 ing Parker Pond.

1.5 +/acres and Position 2 Great Pond, Belgrade: 2 Cottage at water’s edge. 7GREAT BRs total, frplc, screened porch, 2 plus car det garage, 200’ eastern-shore lakefront.

300'+/frontage onon thedistan POND SHARED, ROME: 2 BR loft, kit,liv,dining area,garage 2BA, screened porch, sitting water in edge, 2-car plus walking 1.07 acres. #1137247 $769,000 LAKEPOINT REAL ESTATE Submission community Date Parker Pond, beach area, very pri#1071959 $299,500 Belgrade Lakes village amenities.

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Great Pond, Belgrade: Two cottages each w/1BR, bath, screened porches, living rooms, country kitchens, 2 boat houses, nice swimming are. #1057136 $795,000

Portland Monthly Magazine LAKEPOINT REAL E GREAT POND–Charming cottage locat LONG POND – New, 4 bedrooms, 495-3700 water’s edge.

Multiple level decks, scre 3.5 baths w/215 feet of frontage on Long Pond and sunsets!

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BRs total, frplc, screened porch, 2 plus car det 200’ lakefront. scaped, sunrise views.

Portland Monthly Magazine REAL7ESTATE Submission Date 495-3700 2 Cottages at water’s edge.

2 Br plus loft, kit,liv,dining 4Br/1.5Ba, Famrm w/gas fire- two cottages each w/1Br, Portland Monthly Magazine

1.07 acres. #1137247 $769,000

LAKEPOINT REAL ESTATE 495-3700

Submission Date 6/5/2014

495-3700community #1071959 $299,500

GREAT POND–Spacious 4BR home w/ 20 of extraordinary lakefront. Living room w/ br sunsets at their best, sunny open loc hearth and woodstove.patio, Enjoy sunsets from 30 $1,200,000 Screened porch, master suite on 1st floor, gu suite over 2 car garage. Well landscaped groun open & sunny, sandy swim area. $895,000 6/5/2014

updated/reno 2005. #1069806 $439,000

nice swimming are. #1057136 $795,000

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1.07 acres. #1137247 front community #1071959 sunsets, updated/reno 2005.

2 boat houses, nice swimming Great Pond Stream, Rome: 5BR/5BA, LR w/fieldstone fireplace, country kit, 2BR/1BA guest house all on 2.40 acres, 410’ East Pond, Smithfield: 3BR/2.5BA, , 332’ +/lakefront, yea Great Pond, Belgrade: Two cottages each w/1BR, bath, screened porches, living rooms, country kitchens, 2 boat houses, round home on Great Pond, day light waterfront. #1119716 $990,000 acres. #1057136 #1132083 $639,000 nice swimming are. #1057136 $795,000 $769,000 $299,500 #1069806 $439,000 are. $795,000 out with finished family room, 2-car ga Portland Monthly Magazine

Position 7 East Pond, Smithfield: 3BR/2.5BA, , 332’ +/- lakefront, year-round, covered porch, screened porch, all on 4.98 private acres. #1132083 $639,000 Portland Monthly Magazine

LAKEPOINT REAL ESTATE 495-3700

Submission Date 6/5/2014

Position 10 Crystal Spring Camps, Rome: 3BR/1BA. LR w/cathedral ceiling, lake. #1113897 $300,000 Submission Date LAKEPOINT REAL the ESTATE

Position 3 Position 2 495-3700 Position 5 6/5/2014 Great Pond, Rome: FamRm w/gas and covered porche, pvt sandy swim area, sunsets, GREAT POND SHARED, ROME: 2 BR plus loft, kit,liv,dining area, 2BA, 4BR/1.5BA, screened porch, sitting on fireplace, the waterscreened in waterfront Great Pond Stream, Rome: 5BR/5BA, LR w/fieldstone fir updated/reno 2005. #1069806 $439,000 waterfront. #1119716 $990,000 community #1071959 $299,500 Position 6

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Crystal Spring Camps, Rome: 3BR/1BA. LR w/cathedral ceiling, master Position 11 BR facing lake. Enjoy views from your deck next to the lake. #1113897 $300,000 FLYING POND, MT VERNON 4BR/4BA Custom Cape w/ lake vie LAKEPOINT REAL ESTATE Submission Date of towering Position 6 pines. #1127602 $649,000 495-3700 6/5/2014 GREAT POND, ROME: Classic 3BR/2BA, cust. kit, LR, DR,

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w/220' frontage. #1089191 $1,150,000

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Position 12 Position 11 GREAT POND, BELGRADE: 3BR/2BA at water's edge, cust kit, LR, deck, 1BR bunk house w/full bath, LR, laundry room.

FLYING POND, MT VERNON 4BR/4BA Custom Cape w/ lake views from every room. Open concept built to fit landscape 150'frontage. #11080647 $459,000 of towering pines. #1127602 $649,000

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3BR 2 BR,3.53 BA BA $495,000 $549,000

Cape Elizabeth- Exceptional value for this Casco – Picturesque setting for this beautifully Casco – Great waterfront property. Enjoy elegant home in Stonegate. Quality finishes, crafted Cape with distant mountain views. This swimming, boating and relaxing on one of impeccable home boasts beautiful hardwood the best spots on Thompson Lake. Cottage is 5 bedroom, 4.5 bath, large kitchen with granCasco – Great waterfront property. Enjoy Cape Elizabeth- Exceptional value for this Casco – Picturesque setting for this beautifully floors, trim, 2 fireplaces, spacious floor in mint condition.

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Enjoy Cape Elizabeth- Exceptional value fifor this quality plan, and quiet setting/ stone walls.

Acreage counters, butcher block island, upgraded baths, basement. Lovely grounds with irrigation. Temimpeccable home boasts beautiful hardwood 5 bedroom, 4.5 bath, large kitchen with granswimming, boating and relaxing on one of elegant home in Stonegate. Quality finishes, crafted Cape with distant mountain views. This the best spots on Thompson Lake. Cottage is can be set up for a small farm. MLS #1135694 new in carpet.

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Maine stone kitchen ite island, 3 fi4.5 replaces, walk-in pantry, finished impeccable beautiful hardwood the best spots on Thompson Lake. Cottage is 5 bedroom, bath, large kitchen with gran- fl $348,500. #1130419 - $565,000. $589,900. basement. Lovely grounds with irrigation. Templan, quiet setting/ stone walls.

Acreage counters, butcher block island, upgraded baths, floors,and quality trim, 2 fireplaces, spacious floor in mint condition. Maine soap stone kitchen ite island, 3 fireplaces, walk-in pantry, finished can be set up for a small farm. MLS #1135694 new carpet. Bunk room on lower level. MLS perature controlled wine cellar. MLS #1134512 Mike LePage x121, Beth Franklin x126 Chris Cormier 207-671-9342 Cynthia Maxsimic x103 plan, and quiet setting/ stone walls. Acreage counters, butcher block island, upgraded baths, basement. Lovely grounds with irrigation. Tem-

Cumberland – Light explodes into this architecturally designed home perched on a private site with picturesque views. High ceilings and Cumberland – Light explodes into this archiwindows make this home shine. Very private tecturally designed home perched on a private Cumberland – Light explodes into this archisetting. SAUNA! MLS #1127505 site with picturesque views. High ceilings and tecturally designed home perched on a private $537,000. windows this home private site with make picturesque views. shine. Very High ceilings and

Cumberland – Bob Walker Cape style Falmouth – Amazing setting in the Fal- Falmouth – Premier Falmouth Foreside Falmouth – condition.

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Ellie & Carter dreamed of the perfect house on the coast of Maine. Just not the same house.

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llie Hammond is good at many things, but keeping a secret isn’t one of them. She’s known about the surprise party since yesterday afternoon, and it’s killing her not to let on. It’s her son Theo’s fault–he never realizes how loudly he talks on his cell phone. Speaking into a mouthpiece is such a foreign experience that it makes him acutely uncomfortable; on the rare occasion that he answers a call it sounds like he’s trying to communicate with someone in a windstorm.

So yesterday when she staggered into the kitchen through the back door under a load of groceries, Theo, around the corner in the hall, didn’t hear her. “Oh, hey Grandma,” he bellowed. (It still amazes Ellie how deep his voice has become.) “Yeah, tomorrow. We’re supposed to be at the house by five. Dad’s telling Mom to come at 5:30 to meet a surveyor or something. She’s clueless, so don’t give it away, okay?”

Several things surprised Ellie about this exchange. First, that Theo picked up the call at all. (The unusual sight of his grandmother’s number must’ve provoked him: Why is she calling me? Did someone die?) Second, how polite and sociable he sounded. Lately Theo seems to communicate mainly in grunts; he sequesters himself in his room, emerging mainly for mealtimes and snacks like a hibernating animal on a time-lapse video.

And–of course–that her family, these people she takes care of, the ones who haven’t sorted their own socks or washed a window in years, or is it ever?–are planning a surprise party. For her. Without her input. Ellie is turning 40, a birthday she has dreaded since stumbling over the hump of 36, the last time she could honestly say she was in her mid-thirties. (“Nope. Thirty-seven is late thirties, no question,” her husband Carter said smugly, though she tried to argue. Carter is a year and three months younger than Ellie, which usually feels like nothing but every now and then becomes significant–on her 30th birthday, when he was 28, for example, and now.)

Truthfully, Ellie doesn’t have much to complain about. At 39 and counting she has a solid marriage to a successful husband and has spawned two healthy teenagers, Theo and Lily; she belongs to a book club, a country club, a cooking group, and serves on the board of the Spruce Harbor library and several other local nonprofits. She does yoga three or four times a week with her best friend Susannah. And she is overseeing construction of the house she’s always dreamed of on a rocky spit of coastline a short bike ride from the Spruce Harbor marina.

Now, at a little past 7:30 on the morning of her birthday, as they’re getting dressed, Carter casually–too casually–asks about her plans for the day.

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Over the years Ellie has learned to marshal the facts to answer this seemingly innocuous question. She always feels that she needs to prove something about her industriousness, to Carter but also to herself. If she doesn’t consciously map out her day the hours just pass, one after another, morning into afternoon into evening, random appointments and obligations expanding to fill the time like those foam sound-blocking plugs that squish down to nothing and swell to fill your ears. ell, let’s see,” she says, going through the day in her head.

“After I drop the kids at the bus I’m meeting Jim”–the contractor–“at the new house. Then I need to take the Acura for an oil change–the light went on a few days ago–and bring those swatches back to the furniture store…”

How does any woman, Ellie often wonders, have time for a full-time job and a family? (You can do it if you have to, she supposes, but why would you want to?)

Carter works long and erratic hours in the family real-estate business his father handed over to him eight years ago, and since then the running of the household has been largely Ellie’s responsibility. If it were possible to cross-cut her brain and examine its contents, it would look like the world’s longest to-do list, cluttered with mundane and yet crucially important details: pick up Carter’s suit at the drycleaner, take a picture to be framed, schedule a sports physical for Lily, stop by the farmer’s market to get inspired for dinner, pick out bathroom tiles, get paint samples, research bathroom fans, make a haircut appointment… There are workers to oversee: the plumber, the electrician, the weekly housekeeper, Trevor the handyman. Family dinners to prepare, lunches to pack. Theo is a junior and Lily’s in 9th grade, and they’re always needing rides–Theo to band practice, Lily to one activity after another. (Theo has his permit, but it’ll be months before he can drive on his own.) Once a week Ellie makes a sheet pan of granola–a holdover from her hippie childhood, now in vogue. In the summer she plants a small vegetable garden, and of course flowers. And then there’s Edna, their good-natured, mud-loving, dumb-as-a-post golden retriever, whose incessant need for exercise propels Ellie onto a hiking trail at least once a day.

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Carter likes the fact that Ellie stays home. “She runs the whole shindig,” he butts in, speaking for her, when people ask what she “does” at parties. “Honestly, don’t know how I’d do it without her.”

Frankly, this response always strikes her as a little odd. Something about the language.

What is “it,” exactly, and why would Carter even be thinking about doing whatever “it” is without her? Maybe she’s oversensitive. He has accused her of this on more than one occasion.

Lately, though, the new house has consumed every bit of Ellie’s spare time and brain space. Dreaming it into existence has required endless meetings and research and shopping trips, continual punch lists and appointments. From poring over the architect’s plans to hiring the contractor to breaking ground, Ellie has overseen every detail. She’s been as obsessed with the house as she might’ve been with a lover, with the accompanying buzz of adrenaline and hyper-vigilant alertness.

As the house has progressed from a wooden skeleton to a structure with walls, she’s been so involved that she can walk in and immediately tell what work, if any, has been done on a given morning. She’s so intimately acquainted with the Swedish architect, Steig, and the contractor, Jim, that she knows how they take their coffee, what time of day their energy flags, and when their birthdays are.

They, in turn, notice things about her that Carter is either oblivious to or chooses to ignore. One time, for instance, when Jim was consulting her about one of ten million decisions–in this case, whether to have a coffered ceiling in the family room or two large walnut beams–he stopped and tapped his bottom lip, then shook his head.

“What?” she said.

“Your lip. You’re chewing it.”

“Really?”

“Yeah. You do that when you’re anxious.”

She chews it once to check. Does she?

“Nasty habit,” he says. “It’s getting chapped.”

He was right. She’d never realized it, and neither had Carter.

Steig, for his part, tends toward more global pronouncements. “I know your type.

You profess to be modern, but you’re really quite traditional.” Of course, he says things like this when he’s trying to nudge her toward one of his more avant-garde ideas, like a glass staircase with coiled wire railings to the second floor. But Steig has forced her to admit that though she likes to think of herself as more Dwell than Country Living, she is a quilt-loving, casserole-baking, floralcomforter-using hypocrite.

Has Carter ever pointed this out? He has not. Has he even noticed?

“So listen,” Carter is saying. “I need you to meet me at the house at 5:30. That land surveyor I told you about, Mike Norsworthy–it’s the only time he can come by.” Ellie dimly recalls the conversation from a few days ago: a neighbor raised a question about the property line–not a big deal, Carter said; it happens all the time, but it’s probably smart to get a surveyor in to put the issue to rest.

She can’t resist saying, “Maybe I’ll go over earlier and take a look at the deed before he comes.”

Carter clears his throat (which is what he does when he’s anxious). “Totally unnecessary. I’ll deal with the deed.”

“You sure? I could–” “It’s your birthday, El. I want you to take it easy today. Aren’t you having lunch with Susannah and Joanne?”

She nods.

“Well, you might want to leave the afternoon open.” He riffles through his shirts, mostly button-downs from J.Crew and Bean, choosing a yellow one and tossing it on the bed, which she is in the process of making.

She stands there patiently for a moment, holding the sheet out like a parachute in gym class, to see if he’ll notice. Nope. “Uh, do you mind–?” she says, undulating the sheet.

“Oops, sorry.” He grabs the shirt and pulls it on, buttoning it up in a fluid motion, a move he perfected in prep school eons ago. “I think your friends might have something more in mind.”

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“Are you spilling secrets?” she teases.

He looks at her curiously. Wondering if she knows something.

Fastidiously, she tucks the sheet around the mattress.

“I’m not spilling anything,” he says. “Just a heads up in case you wanted to make other plans. And you are expressly forbidden from going over to the house ’til five thirty.” “‘Expressly forbidden’? My.” “Expressly forbidden. That’s an order.”

“Okay, boss.”

“I have a dinner reservation for the two of us at The Burning Tree right after. So you might want to wear something… y’know.

Dress up a little.”

“No yoga pants?”

He smiles. Reaching over, he runs a finger down her nose, an old, familiar gesture that makes her feel like a pony. “I like your yoga pants.”

“Oh yeah?”

“Yeah.”

Stepping closer, he puts his hands on her hips and slides them down her haunches, under the waistband of her yoga pants, tugging her toward him. “I haven’t really wished you a happy birthday yet, have I?” “No, you haven’t.”

He squeezes her with both hands. “You don’t feel a day over 39.”

“Carter!” She pulls away, but he tugs her back, pinching her waist to show that he’s kidding.

“Sorry. Couldn’t resist.”

“Mean.”

He slides his hands lower. “I’ll make it up to you. Let’s lock the door…”

But her head is still back there at the sensitive place, the turning-40 place. “No, no.”

She turns her head away. “Later. Tonight.”

“I said I’m sorry,” he protests.

“It’s not that. Just–so much going on. The kids–” “Come on, I’ll be quick.”

“I’m sure.”

He laughs. “I guess I deserved that.”

She kisses him. “After dinner,” she says, meaning it now. “When we can take it slow.”

She watches him tuck his yellow shirt into his khakis, pull his old favorite belt with the embroidered blue anchors on white ribbon through the loops, slip on his beat-up boat shoes. He shakes his dampfrom-the-shower head like a dog and his longish wavy hair falls into place, and there

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he is: the loose-limbed, tousle-headed boy she married.

He catches her gazing at him. “What?”

“Nothing.” She smiles.

“Later? I’m holding you to it.”

“Later,” she says, scooping up the pillows and tossing them on the bed.

They talk briefly about his day, their conversation freighted in her mind with the subtext of the secret, his small obfuscations and elisions, her willingness to play along, threaded through with the truth: his plans to view several new properties, his desire to fit in a quick sail, if possible, in the afternoon. It is a beautiful early June day–per-

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Carter grew up learning to sail on the small white skiffs at the local marina, in the Spruce Harbor sailing-school program.

He was captain of the sailing team at prep school and again at college. His family has always owned boats–a 45-foot sailboat, a catamaran, a powerboat, several kayaks, a small fleet of canoes. Ellie had never been on a sailboat in her life when she met him, and at first found sailing thrilling. The things they got up to on that boat! It was a perfect private oasis at a time in their lives when it was hard to find privacy anywhere else. But

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Christina Baker Kline’s World

More than a million copies of Christina Baker Kline’s novel Orphan Train have been sold. After more than a year on the New York Times bestseller hardcover list, the book jumped easily to the paperback bestseller list, where it remains. It’s the story of a lucky friendship that develops between a wealthy, reticent, Irish immigrant widow, Vivian, and hard-luck, teenage Molly, who’s of native Penobscot descent, in the fictional Maine town of Spruce Harbor. The novel reveals a painful slice of American history: Beginning in 1854, the government sanctioned the shuttling of East-Coast orphans and street children out to the Midwest to be “adopted”–in fact, contracted as unpaid farm, factory, and domestic labor. Oversight was all but non-existent. Orphan trains eventually transported about 200,000 children. The practice did not end until 1929.

How did you first learn about these orphan trains?

My husband’s family is from the Minnesota/North Dakota/Fargo area. His grandfather was an orphan-train child. I wound up doing lots of research and read hundreds of first-person accounts. There are about 145 orphan-train “children” still living.

Where have you lived in Maine?

I grew up in Bangor. I have a house now in Southwest Harbor. My whole family is all

she never really learned the mechanics– which pulleys and ropes need to be shifted when, the difference between starboard and port; how, as you tack into the wind, you have to release the jib line from one side and pull it in on the other. Was she too dreamy, too forgetful, or was it just that she didn’t care enough? More than once she’s been knocked in the head by the swinging mainsail, with Carter barking in exasperation, “Jesus, El, I said to watch out starboard side; didn’t you hear me?”

One day, after they’d been married for a few years and had two small children, getting ready to go out on the ocean with Cart-

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★★★★★ 732 carrie–Stephen King within a few miles of each other. We moved my parents to Bass Harbor when they retired.

My mother had been a teacher and served in the legislature. One of my sisters is the Bass Harbor librarian. Now that my kids are growing up, I’m able to spend more time here.

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Why invent a fictional town of Spruce Harbor when you know the Mt. Desert area so well?

I chose to invent a place within a real island to have the freedom to move the coffee shop and the general store as I liked.

Your next novel, Christina’s World, is about Andrew Wyeth’s painting of the same name?

The book is Christina’s story. My grandmother, my mother, and I are all Christinas.

When I was a teenager, my father gave me a poster of the painting. After all the research I did for Orphan Train, I ended up learning a lot about the years 1929 to 1945, when Vivian’s story takes place, which coincided with important years in Christina Olson’s life. So I started digging. The book starts back in the Salem witch trials, though, because Christina’s great-great-great-grandfather was one of the judges, who moved to Maine afterward.

She’s also related to Nathaniel Hawthorne.

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er, Ellie felt the telltale signs of seasickness–queasy stomach, slight headache–as she stood at the kitchen counter. With sudden clarity, she realized: I hate sailing. The cold, the heat, the gritty sand, the salt water, the choppy motion of the boat, the fact that there’s always something to do. Bringing young children on the boat was a nervewracking experience; she was terrified that they’d slip and fall. She alone bore the burden of that worry, while Carter did the actual work of sailing.

Well, it’s all right. She and Carter accepted long ago that there are things each of them like, even love, that the other will never fully embrace or understand. He has his sailboat; she takes pleasure in other forms of escape. For example, she’s attracted to bleak, dark novels and films, twisted stories about secret double lives and shocking betrayals that Carter finds, as he puts it, suicidally depressing.

But this is exactly what she likes about them: their dagger-like thrust of emotion.

Sometimes Ellie feels as if she moves

through her days in a semi-anaesthetized state, with no great highs and lows, just petty annoyances and vexations and a vague sense of gratitude for what are clearly a multitude of blessings. Oh–it’s all so predictable.

Turning 40, settled, content, seeking excitement in small controlled ways…

Though Ellie is ordinarily a good, safe driver–she’s never gotten a ticket–sometimes, alone on the back roads of the island in the off-season, she pushes her foot down on the accelerator and watches the electronic numbers flip toward 80, 90, 100. She goes over a bump and, for a few moments, soars through the air. The Acura is heavy enough, with sturdy anodized wheels, that she never quite feels in danger. But in that moment of takeoff, when she’s airborne, she feels an ecstatic thrill, a rush of adrenaline as strong as a cocaine high (one of the many things she tried in college and never did again).

So she understands why Carter likes to sail, even if she doesn’t want to do it with him. It’s a little act of wildness in their de-

cidedly domesticated life.

“Hey, I was thinking I might take Theo out on the boat with me this afternoon,” Carter says.

Theo is always game to go sailing. Carter likes having him; it’s good to have an extra pair of hands, he says, though Ellie knows it’s more than that. Theo is looser and friendlier on the boat than he is at home. (Like toddlers, teens are often at their best at parallel play.) But lately Theo’s grades have been slipping, and he has a big geometry test tomorrow.

“He really needs to study, honey,” she says.

“It would only be an hour or so. I don’t think–” “He’s getting a C in that class. I called a tutor to meet with him this afternoon.

You’re the one who’s all gung-ho about Dartmouth,” she says. “Forget Dartmouth; he won’t get into Maine with these grades.”

Carter winces, and she knows she’s struck a chord.

Carter went to boarding school in Massachusetts, at Deerfield Academy,

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the legacy of a legacy, before attending Dartmouth. He and his parents always assumed that naturally his son would go away to school as well. When Theo turned 13, Ellie was as frantic as Mia Farrow in Rosemary’s Baby, desperate to keep her infant from the clutches of the Satanic cult.

Carter and his parents countered her objections with a barrage of propaganda: local schools are mediocre, Deerfield is the “family” school, a place Theo will flourish, with a world-class music program. Ellie, it was implied, was the only thing standing in the way of a life for Theo of intellectual stimulation, professional success, and social ease. It would be downright cruel to consign him to the narrow fate she so capriciously insisted on. Eventually she relented–and was secretly proud of herself for refraining from jabbing her finger at each of them when, a year later, Theo was tossed out of Deerfield for cheating and then lying about it.

“It was too hard. I couldn’t catch up.

I felt stupid,” Theo mumbled miserably

from the back seat on the interminable ride home on I-95.

Ellie looked over at Carter, who only said, “Well, you won’t feel stupid anymore.”

So they had Theo back. And it was true– he didn’t feel stupid anymore. But he didn’t exactly thrive, either. The whole experience seemed to have put a damper on him. He halfheartedly joined a few clubs at school and started a fake little rock band, as Carter called it, with a motley collection of boys who play a seemingly random assortment of instruments: a few guitars, trumpet, keyboard, tambourine, ukelele. (“Ukelele?!”

Carter scoffed.) Or at least that’s Theo’s excuse for slinking away–to “practice.”

Theo is lazy. Of course he’d rather sail than study. Carter, who isn’t lazy, feels deprived when Theo can’t do something fun because he hasn’t planned ahead.

Should she relent? Carter looks so disappointed. But she knows he won’t be happy if Theo doesn’t get in somewhere respectable. Carter says he doesn’t care, but this is a guy who owns at least a doz-

en Dartmouth-branded pieces of clothing, meets up with a group of his college buddies at Winter Carnival every February, and loyally attends every reunion.

Theo’s probably already blown his chances at Dartmouth, if he even wants to go there (and who knows if he does?). But Ellie has hired a tutor, he’s coming at three, and she has to pay him regardless. If Theo gets an A on the midterm tomorrow he just might get a B for the marking period. It doesn’t make sense for him to go sailing–especially with the party tonight.

Ellie almost blurts this out, but then she remembers: it’s a surprise! God, she sucks at keeping secrets. She’ll have to work incredibly hard over the next ten hours not to let on that she knows. n “House of Dreams” is an excerpt from an upcoming novel by Christina Baker Kline. At present, she’s finishing her novel Christina’s World, soon to be published by HarperCollins. She and her family divide time between their homes in New Jersey and Southwest Harbor.

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