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And Gone Girl author Gillian Flynn is the first to acknowledge it.

In a Huffington Post interview, Flynn counts among her top three ‘must-see thriller movies’ “Ooh…Leave Her to Heaven. It’s sort of an old femme noir with Gene Tierney. It is one of the all-time best, a domestic thriller.”

Consider the plot of Leave Her to Heaven (so much a forerunner of Gone Girl the English newspaper The Guardian brings it up in a review): “When the film shifts to Amy’s perspective in the second act, the film gestures toward turning her into a juicy femme fatale à la Gene Tierney from John Stahl’s Leave Her to Heaven—a nasty Technicolor noir in which a gorgeous and gingham-dressed, if more-thanslightly sociopathic housewife kills herself and frames her husband for it…”

The Leave Her to Heaven inspiration appears in the October 6 New Yorker review, too. So am I saying everything cool comes from Maine? Well, this is Portland Monthly Magazine.

Leave Her to Heaven was years ahead of its time in charting the emotional arc of a darkhearted babe.

Bangor, Maine novelist Ben Ames Williams (1889-1954) wrote Leave Her to Heaven in 1944. What’s great about Williams is, he dared to create complicated female lead characters with rich, dark dimensions when the American pop culture was still 15 years away from launching Barbie dolls. I’d have to write SPOILER ALERT if I even started to tell you the plot of Leave Her to Heaven. Instead, do for Maine writer Williams what you did for Flynn. Download this novel with Maine settings (lakeside, at a camp called Back of the Moon, and Bar Harbor) on your Kindle. All I’ll say is, Ellen makes a hell of a lousy lifeguard.

Or, if you’re a film buff like Flynn (her dad’s a film professor), watch the 1945 movie, which stars Gene Tierney as evil Ellen, Cornel Wilde, and Vincent Price.

Even darker is Williams’s delicious novel The Strange Woman, set in Bangor. Here’s the elevator pitch: The Redcoats overrun Bangor, humiliating the men defending the town. As the invaders formally march in, a beautiful little sprite breaks away from the Yankee line, runs across the field, and starts flirting with the British soldiers. And this little girl is just getting started…

Which renders her yet another devilishly powerful female lead character decades ahead of the 21st century, and like Flynn’s Amy, more than just a complicated woman.

“Everyone knows that ‘complicated’ is a code word for bitch,” Flynn jokes in Gone Girl. But an ocean away, Flynn the writer takes things a little deeper in The Guardian. “I don’t write psycho bitches,” Flynn says in her interview. “The psycho bitch is just crazy–she has no motive, and so she’s a dismissible person because of her psycho-bitchiness.”

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Mainers will no doubt recognize “woods primeval” from the first line of Longfellow’s epic poem Evangeline. Speaking of which, is the name Evangeline coming back to join the 21st century of ranks of Damian and Scarlet? Oui! It rose to become 300 th most favored baby name of 2013, above the original record of circa 400 th place in 1880-1929 and far above its most wretchedly low position of 2,300 th favorite in 1990-1994.

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Its incredible zoom beginning in 2004 is likely because of Canada-born Evangeline Lily, star of the TV show Lost.

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I’ve come to meet up with a college friend for chocolates and cocktails. It’s the start of happy hour, and drinks and desserts are all six dollars. She orders a cosmo, and I take a risk with a key lime pie.

Before we get into ‘Olivia and Emily: A College Memoir,’ our drinks arrive and we’re ready to order sweets–chocolate berry torte and raspberry cheesecake. Stop, I know. Did I fall on the cobblestones and end up in heaven?

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“Looks too good to be true…”

From the crisp exterior, Lolita has the glow of your own mama’s kitchen if she had a fully stocked bar. Yes, please! The four of us shuffle in, our cheeks rosy from the chill, and take the remaining seats at the bar. It’s about 7 p.m. and all tables are reserved, but the bartender welcomes us with the wine and cocktail menus.

“What’s your favorite red?” He suggests the Lagrein; it’s Italian, dark, but subtle and light.

My companions order Old Fashioneds that arrive on icebergs rather than rocks.

The boys are quite impressed and decide they need to invest in an ice maker and pick.

Lolita is a tight squeeze with little standing room, so if you find seats you’re lucky, but if there is a wait, it’s worth it. After two rounds, we head back into the chill with warmed, flushed faces knowing Lolita will always offer a cozy seat in the East.

The Play’s The Thing We’re 10 minutes late, parked three blocks away, and my pumps were a really bad idea.

“Why didn’t you just park at the apartment?

I could have changed my shoes.”

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We climb the stairs, which by this point might as well be Katahdin, and make our way to the back of the theater. There are few empty seats, but the theater is small enough that even from the back row you can see the entire stage perfectly.

By intermission, all is well between us again. Leave it to Neil Simon to bring about hugs and apologies. Something about sharing a laugh with over 200 people keeps the tension at bay.

The line for coffee and cakes is long, but we’re headed out afterward, so we enjoy the people watching instead. It’s a well-dressed audience; one woman even wears an evening gown. Portland’s theater scene may be small compared to the lights of Broadway, but no one can claim we don’t have city class.

The show warrants a standing ovation from some; audiences more and more often feel this is expected of them, but it isn’t.

Though this performance was very good, unless you are entirely moved and literally swept to your feet, a standing ovation is not required. We notice several older couples who know this and once everyone has been re-seated, we rise and leave behind them.

The walk back to the car is much less painful, and with the promise of a foot rub and a “You were right,” the drama ends and the curtain drops on that argument.

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For a minute we’re strangers, but we approach the couple with friendly hellos. Colleen recognizes Fil and me and she introduces us to Jared. She’s performing tonight as part of MJ’s weekly event, “88 Keys and a Lady In Red.” Each Wednesday, she and two other female vocalists trade off singing jazz favorites.

Colleen’s pianist, Kyle Friday, arrives and she saunters to the piano. As we sip Malbec and snack on cheeses, Colleen swoons us with renditions of Billie Holiday and Etta James.

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ow far would you go for your favorite charity? For Dr. Deborah Walters, 63, it’s over 2,000 miles as she navigates the dangerous coast from Portland to Guatemala, raising funds for Safe Passage, which provides education and health programs for children living in and around the vast Guatemala City dumps.

(Visit Safepassage.org.) We caught up with Walters early in her trip (at press time she’s still out there, off Rock Hall, Maryland, southeast of Baltimore, north of Annapolis.)

Dr. Walters has a Ph.D. in Neurocommunications. According to her official bio, “a cognitive scientist and professor, she’s served as dean, provost, and senior vice president at University of North Carolina; University at Buffalo, and Unity College in Maine.” She lives in Troy, Maine.

As we ask you this question, you’re gliding off the coast of New Jersey, having just passed Manhattan.

What was it like paddling a tiny kayak in front of the skyscrapers, and where did you pull up your kayak?

Pier 40. What was different was seeing New York City on the horizon for days before I

got there. The bridges make great landmarks to make the navigation easy. The best views of the city are from the water, which makes a little kayak the best way to arrive.

The challenge is the big ships!

Did you bump into Derek Jeter? Did you consider a Broadway show? Which show would you have chosen had you stayed longer?

I was seven nights in NYC. I gave talks about Safe Passage and the expedition on five nights. One night I was invited to a VIP reception at the Lincoln Center as part of world peace day. No time for a show or sight seeing! With more time I’d have attended the Paul Winter concert.

Tell us three surprises so far:

First, I’ve been fed so well [by Rotarian hosts who’ve stepped up along the way] that despite paddling 500-plus miles, I’ve gained weight! I am enjoying this gypsy life where ‘I rely on the kindness of strangers.’

Second surprise is how generous yacht clubs and marinas have been in looking after my kayak.

The third surprise is how generous people are in donating money for the Safe Passage school. With just 20 percent of the distance covered, over 40 percent of the funds have already been raised to convert 3rd and 4th grades from after-school programs to day-long school. [The school is near the dump in Guatemala City and serves students from 2 to 21]. Maybe I can raise money for 5th and 6th grades as well!

Please describe five pieces of disturbing trash that you’ve slipped past, along with marine life sightings.

Trash: The worst is large beams traveling five knots with the current and able to take out a kayak! Funniest trash: golf ball. Most welcome: the identical brand, model, color, and size hat I lost during a kayak expedition years ago in Nova Scotia. So happy [to have pulled it out of the water], as they haven’t made that canvas and leather model for years! Worst comment I’ve heard: Someone compared all the items tucked on the deck of my kayak to the huge garbage gyres of the Pacific Ocean. Garbage dumps: I’ve passed lots of landfills that have been turned into november 2014 33

What was it like to paddle around Sandy Hook and then go along the Jersey Shore? It would be hard not to think about Hurricane Sandy.

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I went inside Sandy Hook and tomorrow will head out along the Jersey Shore. I’m not looking forward to the big surf! This may be my dumping day. Stay tuned. Sandy has been a constant companion since entering Long Island sound. Everyone along the shore tells me their Sandy stories (and 9/11 stories). I still see lots of visible damage as I paddle past.

The expensive vacation homes have all been raised and repaired. The ones left damaged are the small homes. Immense sums have been spent on private seawalls trying to protect homes.

Has a swell or wave flipped your kayak yet?

I’ve never been flipped on any of my many kayak expeditions. Yet. I am a very cautious paddler, but accidents can always happen. I hear some folks have a betting pool on the first day I will flip.

What are your most dangerous 30 seconds so far?

It’s a toss-up up between accidentally surfing on a wave–almost being turned sideways and flipping but correcting it with a strong low brace–9.1-knot top speed! Or, hearing “I am authorized to shoot you” from a military guy all dressed in black.

I could have sworn I’d passed the last security zone buoy before I heading across the shipping channel. Or, thinking it was a large ship [looming] far away, coming at me when I crossed the shipping channel at Newport [only to realize] it was a fast medium-sized ship much closer. I paddled for all I was worth and managed to get out of the way, setting a new speed record (without current) for this slow kayak of over seven knots.

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he champaign parties in the clubhouse are something else!” says Ryan Flaherty of his post-season adventure trying to help Baltimore reach the World Series. “For me to be here in my third year is pretty special. Some players never get this far.” [Kansas City subsequently kept the Orioles from advancing to the World Series.]

A former Deering High School phenom, this utility infielder landed on third base replacing Manny Machado in July. He immediately impressed the Camden Yards faithful with a go-ahead home run over the flags in right field. From there, the 28-year-old secured his (half-million dollar) position in the Orioles roster, called out by CBS sports as “a bright spot offensively” for his key plays and clutch RBIs in the ALCS battle for a World Series spot against Kansas City.

Ryan’s father, Ed Flaherty, Jr., credits his son’s work ethic. “He won’t leave the Yards– he’s the first one there and last to leave.” A USM Hall-of-Fame baseball coach of 30 years, dad notes, “Ryan’s not as talented as some of the others, so he works hard to be there.”

But Ryan’s drive comes from within. “My dad was never my coach, but he taught me the game,” Ryan says. “He was never the one to ask me to play; he’d wait for me to ask. He told me to have fun playing. It’s a valuable lesson–even more so

Ryan enjoys a family reunion at Fenway: From left, brother-in-law Scott Booth, sister Regina Booth, mom Debbie, Ryan, brother Regan, and dad Ed Flaherty, Jr.

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lovely parks after millions of dollars of remediation. I compare these to the huge garbage dump in Guatemala City where the Safe Passage children and families live on the landfill after very little remediation.

Animals: In Maine north of Portland, I see seals and porpoises and whales a lot.

South of Portland I have not had a single sighting, despite paddling through the same waters where a great white shark attacked two kayakers a few days after I left. My best animals so far have been a four-foot sturgeon and tons of menhaden. Worst marine life: some really crazy jet skiers!

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Statistically his best post-season game was the first one at home against KC: Batted .600 with 3 hits and 2 RBIs. during this postseason!.”

They agree it’s the most valuable lesson passed from father to son. “It’s a game; it’s fun,” Coach Flaherty confirms, an approach instilled in him by legendary coach John Winkin when Ed went to UMaine. “He never over-coached me, and I didn’t push Ryan.”

He never needed to. “When I was nine years old I‘d tell teachers and my parents I was going to play baseball. They’d laugh,” Ryan says, but only at first. Ed remembers, “He’d get all the kids in the neighborhood playing. He’d play all day long–any position.

He didn’t care.”

Ryan says winning the Dr. John W. Winkin Award for Maine Player of the Year as a senior at Deering was “the most personal achievement” of his life. “He meant a lot to me and my family.”

Ryan met a big challenge at Vanderbilt University in Nashville. Going from Deering to playing in the Southeastern Conference was the hardest jump on his way to the majors. “It was a lot of competition at a higher level, being away from home–everything.

But at every level I’d remember to keep tell-

ing myself, ‘this should be easy for me’ [until it was].”

“Sophomore year was when I first knew I could do something with this,” Ryan says.

“And I didn’t want a 9-to-5 job.”

Although the Flahertys had already dominated Deering’s diamond for three generations–grandfather Edward J. Flaherty, Sr. (class of ’42); father (’72); and Ryan (’05)–baseball wasn’t always Ryan’s obvious choice. “I love the adrenaline of football, loved the fall season.” Ryan was a triple threat. Beyond lettering in baseball (capturing two state championships and a Nova World Series) and basketball, he also captained the football team as quarterback. “He could’ve been a Division I quarterback,” his father says.

Like a lot of players, Ryan Flaherty has his own formula to win. “I have rituals to get in the zone. Get to the park at the same time, what time I eat–but I’m not superstitious at all, actually. A lot of guys are! If they don’t wear the same socks or something, they don’t feel right.”

But his rituals don’t stop on the field.

“I like to do the same things whenever I’m home. I go to Doughboy’s Deli–it’s my favorite place in the world! I’m at Bruno’s almost every night and have to go to L.L. Bean one of the first days I’m home.”

Thankfully, Baltimore crabs haven’t turned his head. “I am still a lobster fan– DiMillo’s, absolutely! I joke that crabs are a poor man’s lobster.”

His rituals also include “hanging out with high-school friends” when he returns home. “They keep me grounded. [I] can be myself. My brother Regan has been part of the most epic battles I’ve ever had. I’m extremely close to him, but I still can’t beat him at video games.”

South Portland High School’s southpaw ace Charlie Furbush is now a relief pitcher for the Seattle Mariners. “He throws lefty, which is hard for me because I’m a left-handed hitter,” Flaherty says about their majorleague reunion. “He struck me out both times I faced him…he threw at my head!”

A good-natured laugh belies any real acrimony. “He texted me after to apologize. It’s great to play with someone who also comes from Maine–especially Portland. It’d be cool if we were on the same team someday.”

Who is Ryan’s idol?

“If you don’t like Derek Jeter, you don’t value baseball,” says Ryan who played against Jeter in the shortstop’s historic last game in Yankee Stadium. “I admire the way he went about his business and the game.

After meeting him and getting to know him a little, you know he’s genuine.” on’t let the admiration fool you. “I grew up a Red Sox fan pretending to hit home runs over the Green Monster, so Fenway has a distinct meaning in my heart.” He respects his adopted home field as well. “Camden Yards is something special–the field Cal Ripkin, Jr., played on, the Babe Ruth museum is just over left field, and the crowds are back. A lot of opposing team players love the Yards.”

His parent’s defection from Red Sox Nation is also forgivable. “We had to pinch ourselves to be sitting at the first playoff game against Detroit at the Yards with 47,000 cheering,” says Ed Flaherty.

Ryan’s desire is to return to Portland some day, raise a family as he was raised, and even coach Portland North Little League some day. “I miss seeing the love the kids have for the game, out there having fun.

The higher you go, it’s easy to lose that.”

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Administrator Sheila Hill-Christian, Portland City Manager

She brings a wealth of experience and enthusiasm from her home state of Virginia.

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he most striking thing is how much more time we have to address quality-of-life issues,” says Sheila Hill-Christian when asked to compare her nearly two-year tenure in Portland–first as a deputy to City Manager Mark Rees and now as acting City Manager in the wake of Rees’s departure in September–to her many years in city management in Richmond, Virginia.

“I often wonder if everyone realizes what a blessing it is that here we enjoy the luxury of delving into philosophical differences on issues such as Congress Square, Deering Oaks pond, and polystyrene. When I first started working in local government in Richmond we were dealing with one of the highest murder rates in the country, driveby shootings, and other challenges. Fortunately, things [there] have improved drastically since then.”

Most recently before the move to Portland, Hill-Christian, 54, led the Hill-Christian Consulting Group in Richmond, after stints as chief administrative officer to Richmond Mayor Douglas Wilder and assistant

to his successor Dwight C. Jones. She has also been director of the Virginia lottery and executive director of the Richmond Redevelopment and Housing Authority.

Portland’s human resources director told the Richmond Times-Dispatch that he received more than 150 applications from across the country when Maine’s largest city looked to fill the $125,000-per-year deputy city manager position. Hill-Christian “popped up on everybody’s screen…I did further research and people were raving about what a…capable administrator she is.” She received her undergraduate degree in English and History from Virginia Commonwealth University and holds an MBA from Averett University.

Congress Street was just named to the American Planning Association’s list of 10 top city streets in America, a list that includes Broadway in New York and Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington. The APA designation was well deserved recognition for city employees “who take such ownership and great care of our streets,” Hill-Christian says.

Her own favorite landmark on Congress

Street? “City Hall is still my favorite…and was from the very first moment. My first visit was right around the holidays, a great first impression–Monument Square was just beautiful! The Pandora lights are such a lovely addition.”

As she prepared to depart Richmond for Portland in February of 2013, Richmond reporter Randy Hallman pointed out to her that she was facing a 12-degree forecast–with snow–in Portland. She laughed. “‘That’s part of the deal. They’re prepared for snow in Portland.’”

Nearly two years later, she says, “I think I’m still fearless and game in the winter. I haven’t been stuck once.” No oh no moment?

“The closest…was when I realized that my Virginia method of snow removal from my car, which usually involved a broom, was not going to work here.” Hill-Christian’s more about the oh yes moments. “Every time I visit Fort Allen Park or walk or ride my bike around Back Cove.”

Portlanders are notorious for not doing things tourists come here and pay money to do. Sheila Hill-Christian is not that kind of Portlander.

“I’ve visited Peaks Island about six times and the other islands twice. The Lighthouse Boat [tour] is great! I’ve had many Lobster Shack crab rolls, although the Old Port Tavern does a decent one as well. I watched the Sea Dogs trounce the Richmond Squirrels, and that’s all I should say about that!”

Hill-Christian also finds Portland’s restaurants easy to love. “I’ve had to increase my exercise. Most often, I visit the Green Elephant, Nosh, Zapoteca, Margaritas, and the Corner Room. Anthony’s subs are great at lunch.” Any Southern treats she misses here? “Southernstyle potato salad and sweet tea!” er secret to success in city management seems to be her sincere enthusiasm for meetings. She’s a meetings freak “because communication is critical. Some are with department heads to get project updates…Topics range from personnel matters… to parking, to…trash, to zoning amendments to traffic studies…evening council meetings, meetings in the community.”

And then there’s the other secret. “I really wanted to be an art major, but my parents wouldn’t pay for it because they thought I’d starve. Now to compensate, you’ll see me doodling in meetings. Being creative helps me to think, and I think being creative makes me better at my job.”

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Clockwise from top left: Olgivanna Lloyd Wright, holding court; the disciples of Taliesin; the young James Schildroth at far left on a sofa at Taliesin; Schildroth’s “House for Betta” on Round Pound near Damariscotta; James Walter Schildroth at work. Opposite: his Freeport creation.

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veryone’s life is a movie. For Wiscasset’s James Walter Schildroth, 74, the Maine architect with the closest ties to the legacy of Frank Lloyd Wright, it’s just a little more so.

Schildroth was just 19 when he joined the Taliesin Fellowship at the famous designer’s fortress of solitude in Wisconsin.

“Wright died in April of 1959, and I landed at Taliesin in September. I was sorry not to have the chance to meet him in person.

One of my first jobs was to dust everything in Frank Lloyd Wright’s office and put everything exactly where it was. I walked in.

His hat, his cape, his personal things were all over that place. He even had a little place he actually slept in. Five months after his death, his things were still in shock, frozen in time. They thought he’d live forever.

“I apprenticed at the Wright Foundation there until age 21,” Schildroth, a Detroit native, says. And just because Taliesin was absent one mystic didn’t mean another wasn’t at the height of her powers. “Olgivan-

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na Lloyd Wright [1898-1985]”–the great architect’s third wife–“interviewed me.” She is now better known as the bewitching main character on T.C. Boyle’s novel The Women.

“Mrs. Wright didn’t know if everyone was going to stay in the fellowship. There were 90 people at Taliesin when Frank Lloyd Wright was there. After he died, 30 immediately got in their cars and left. One of my friends, a fellow apprentice, was assigned to serve meals to Mrs. Wright. She said to him, ‘Roy, what am I going to do?’”

What to do but come up with some magic of your own? “Some of the apprentices who are there when I was are still there, in their 80s or 90s.

There are stories about how they did it and why they did it.” Schildroth produces a black and white photo that looks like an outtake from Mad Men. Half a dozen of the people in this picture are still alive and still there.”

Which makes Taliesin sound a bit like Shaker Village in Maine, though the comparison seems to make Schildroth uneasy: “I stayed nearly two years and left. I was pressured, but not influenced, to stay on the rest of my life. When you left Taliesin, you were kind of ostracized.” Like Shangri La? “You get 60 people together [as an ensemble cast], it would make quite a novel. I wanted to learn Wright’s principles and see if I could actually do it myself. After two years

I felt I could learn that. I was getting a lot of pressure from my family to get a job and make a living. I wanted to see if I could design something away from that influence, all Mr. Wright’s drawings.” lgivanna (a former Serbian dancer born in Montenegro–across the Adriatic Sea from Italy) is known for having one foot in the occult and possibly making Wright loopy years earlier than he might have been.

A devotee and student of spiritualist George Gurdjieff (and former nurse to writer Katherine Mansfield before her death at Gurdjieff’s institute in France), “Olgivanna was my second mother,” Schildroth says.

“There I was, 19, full of beans. I regularly got into trouble–I wasn’t evil, I was just trying stuff–and she’d call me in and straighten me out and I’d get back on track. I had one focused goal: to learn to be an architect or learn that I couldn’t be one.” Schildroth pauses. “Others got into Gurdjieff,” who taught that most of us mill about in a state of ‘wakeful sleep,’ veiled from transcendent

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have reached these goals and more. Google her name and you’ll find a dozen articles and listings under Forbes, Bloomberg Businessweek (who listed her total 2013 compensation at $1.6M), and so on. Smith can explain what her career entails all day long, but it isn’t until we get to her travels and adventures that she breaks from pleasant but stock interview answers.

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“I’m very well traveled,” she says. “We have offices in Brazil, Australia, and New Zealand…so I’ve been across the world many times.” And that’s just for work. On her own time, Smith and her husband have safaried in Africa. “That’s the kind of place that gets in your blood,” she says. “It’s amazing. You’re exposed to these animals and it’s like something on a movie set.” Smith describes flying coach around the world to Singapore, then reflects, “Some of the nicest places I’ve stayed at aren’t necessarily my favorite places. I like places with character and a local element.” er love of simplicity and home comfort must stem from growing up in the small town of Winn before studying at University of Maine. Perhaps because of her world travels, Smith is even more resolutely a proud Mainer. Her own son, born this past September, is named Baxter after Maine’s state park. Smith lists the best spots in Maine from Katahdin’s summit to the coastal towns before deciding on Bar Harbor and Acadia as her favorites.

“I love Acadia National Park. I have a soft spot in my heart for it because you can get outside and be able to have such great views of the ocean.”

For a woman leading over 1,700 employees and a company to globalization, it’s good to hear her express a humble love for her home state. “I love Maine. The more I travel, the more I grow to appreciate where I live.

There’s no place like home.”

With two new titles to juggle, CEO and mom, Smith must fly around the world with a cape, but ask her how she feels about being considered one of the “Ten Most Intriguing” and she’ll look over her shoulder for the woman you’re really talking to.

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have three goals when I think about what I want to do professionally,” says Melissa Smith. “I want to make sure I feel like I’m continuously learning. I want to work with people I like, and I want to feel like the work I’m doing makes a difference.”

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Strategizer Ashok Nalamalapu, I.T. solutions pioneer In less than 20 years, he’s helped change high-tech in Maine. i n t e r v i e w b y C o l i n S. Sargent

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ince Ashok Nalamalapu founded iCST, in his words “a global information technology staffing and software testing company,” in 1996, it’s grown steadily and has a 95 percent customer renewal rate. Nalamalapu, 55, received Maine’s Minority Small Business Person award in 1999 and 2005; he’s on the board of TechMaine and United Way of Greater Portland. Still another dimension: He was an honored speaker this July at Maine Yogafest 2014.

How would you say your spiritual journey affects your business? Your leadership?

I founded iCST from a room in my attic. It was able to fund more than $100,000 to Sadhana, a spiritual center I founded in 2010.

Volunteering most of my time for Sadhana created challenges at iCST in 2012. Since then, I’ve been striving to balance my time and energy. Since 2013, iCST has grown by 78 percent…

My spiritual journey has helped me

maintain equanimity in different situations, reflect more, trust more and delegate more.

By practicing yoga and meditation, I’m able to pause, reflect, and not react hastily to situations. It helps me to make requests and not demands.

Recently there’s been a movement to allow yoga classes as alternative physical education in some public schools. Good idea?

I’ve been practicing yoga (Asanas or postures) since 2000. It’s helped me tremendously while going through the peaks and valleys of life, including regaining my voice after losing it completely for one year in 2000–a stress-related vocal-cord paralysis.

In her second year of college, my daughter Denali is taking yoga classes for which she gets Physical Education credit. This helps her rejuvenate after hours spent studying or in the classroom. By practicing yoga, young students gain many benefits in addition to being physically fit. With their improved concentration, they can study better, learn better. My younger daughter, Vishva, has been meditating for few years in middle and high school. Introducing meditation at a young age would be beneficial for other young students as well.

You were a very strong supporter of the initiative to get laptops to every school child in Maine. How important is early access to technology?

I’m glad I testified in front of the legislature and supported the laptop initiative.

Senator King and Maine took the leadership by providing laptops. Access to technology at a young age prepares students to be more successful in high school, college, and later on in life. It helps those who can’t afford to buy technology be at the same level as students who can. It’s also opening a big window–an innovative approach to ‘learning outside the classroom.’

What’s so enchanting about Sadhana?

Sadhana’s mission is serving all in realizing happiness and cultivating compassion through spiritual practices. I love Sadhana (sadhaname.com) because it brings people together irrespective of beliefs or economic status. Currently we’re offering devotional chanting by our band and guest artists from around the U.S. and meditation workshops.

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ing the harmonium. Our band, Swan Kirtan, has talented musicians and plays every other week. I love spending time with my daughters. I enjoy public speaking. I was trained by Dale Carnegie Maine and Toast Master in public speaking. I speak at schools, churches, and festivals on various topics. I’ve served as master of ceremonies at large yoga and chanting festivals in the U.S., including the largest such festival in the world, Bhakti Fest of Joshua Tree, California; Omega Ecstatic Chant Fest of New York; Denver Chant Fest; and Boston Yoga and Chant Fest.

When I lost my voice for a year, I started writing for newspapers and magazines, which I enjoy. Traveling to a new country every year is also one of my hobbies. I practice yoga four times a week, meditate daily for an hour.

Who are your role models?

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Lamey Wellehan opening this month, Day’s Jeweler’s in February, and more!

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Swami Vivekananda for his spiritual leadership; Senator Angus King for his people skills; Gandhi and Mother Theresa for their selfless service; presidents Clinton and Reagan for their public-speaking skills; and Ben Franklin and my late father, Seetha Reddy, for their hard work. Through what I learned from my father about hard work and dedication, I’ve settled into a comfortable life– after coming here to the U.S. with only $100 in my pocket. Another role model is Sri Ramakrishna because of his simplicity and message that all religions are good.

What’s one trait you like about yourself?

I strive for compassion–to consider others’ feelings and needs. This helps me to be more empathetic.

How has your personality changed across the years?

I used to be Type-A, aggressive in achieving what I wanted. Now I’m more relaxed and let things take their own course without interfering. I used to work more from my mind. Now I give importance to my heart as well.

Who and what changed your personality?

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Swami Vivekananda and his master Sri Rama Krishna made a big impact on me.

Losing my voice, having difficult times at iCST, and developing Sadhana have taught me various lessons. Having children and raising them has helped me to be a more loving person.

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Ogunquit Impresario Bradford Kenney, Creative Director He sets a high standard in Maine’s musical theater scene.

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hen I got here in 2005, we had a 10-week season,” says Bradford Kenney, Ogunquit Playhouse’s executive creative director. “This year it’s 23 weeks. For 75 years, Ogunquit wasn’t even open in September, and now it’s our biggest month by far–we consistently hit it out of the park. The playhouse once welcomed “40,000 people through the doors per season. We finished over 100,000 this year. We’re the largest arts organization in the state.”

What Kenney, 50, calls the “shoulder” seasons have grown for York County, too.

“The audiences are different. In high summer, the town is mobbed”–meaning many ages and tastes. “The fall audience tends to be more sophisticated, empty nesters with money for a nice hotel and a first-class meal– there are excellent restaurants still open–and they want theater.”

Kenney’s canny selection of musicals addresses this. This summer, he brought back Grease, “the musical that first brought Sally Struthers back into musical theater years ago.” But he strategically saved Struthers for September’s run of The Witches of Eastwick instead. Ogunquit’s production was the per-

people fect combination of funny, sexy, and Sally.

Even in the off season, he keeps in touch with his audiences. Right now on ogunquitplayhouse.org, you can take a survey of new and classic shows you’d be interested in seeing, and you can render an opinion on some of the shows taking shape for the 2015 season.

“I just saw a great new musical production of Ragtime in California,” says Kenney. “I think we’ll definitely produce Ragtime.”

California? “I’m co-directing a new moviemusical there for public television, and that’s all I’ll say for now.” But speaking of Struthers, “While I was there, I escorted Sally to a private screening of a documentary on Elaine Stritch.

Many musical theater stars were there–Lily Tomlin, Michelle Lee, Joanne Worley, Robert Morse–they all wanted to talk about Ogunquit. It was so gratifying.”

In December, watch for Ogunquit Playhouse at the Music Hall. “We’re moving our Mary Poppins to Portsmouth and ticket sales are already strong.” And there’s talk about possibly stretching into November in Ogunquit next year.

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Trailblazer Carol Leone, Outdoors Advocate The Teens to Trails founder believes teens find life lessons by taking to the woods. in t e r v i e w b y M i c h e l l e Tw om e y

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eens To Trails®–also known as “T3”–is a nonprofit organization based in Brunswick founded by Carol, 63, and Bob Leone, 61. T3 brings excitement to Maine teens through a variety of programs that promote high school Outing Clubs across the state. In 2011, the Leones were honored with an L.L. Bean Outdoor Heroes Award.

watching a meteor shower, swimming with sea turtles, catching snowflakes on our tongues, camping alone on an island, scuba diving in total darkness. If we can help someone else to find even one such special moment in their life, it will have been worth it.

Teens to Trails was inspired by your daughter Sara.

Is she the driving force behind your work?

Teens are often ignored by, or have out-

Why teenagers? Why not elementary school children who can be influenced before bad habits have become natural?

Our younger daughter, Sara, was lost in a car accident in July 2005. She is the spark behind Teens To Trails. In her brief 15 years, Sara developed a passion for life kindled by her connection with the outdoors. She was the perfect combination of self-confidence and humility, passion and compassion. Sara personified all that can be learned from nature–if we just look and listen.

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grown, other programs that give them outdoor time. At that age, Outing Clubs can be student-driven. Our goal is to see an Outing Club established in every high school in Maine; then high school students can mentor middle school students.

Was there research you looked into to confirm your personal thoughts?

Research directly links the absence of na-

ture in the lives of today’s youth to some of the disturbing trends in childhood obesity, attention disorders, and depression. [The writer] Richard Louv coined the phrase “nature-deficit disorder” to describe the growing disconnect between our youth and their natural world–no other age group suffers more than teens.

Can you describe your first experience with nature that will always stick with you?

My first job with the National Park Service was as a park ranger on Assateague Island–a barrier island in Maryland and Virginia. That’s the first place I ever experienced being alone with nature. I remember being on the beach all by myself. It was really flat and quiet.

All these crabs live there, and they dig a hole like ghost crabs. When they’re scared, they hide in their holes. After I’d been sitting on the beach for quite a while, it was only then the crabs started to come out one at a time. It was so cool. That was the time in my life that I realized it was important to preserve wild places.

What’s the most important message you want to pass along to teens who get involved with our outing clubs and other aspects of T3?

Getting outside helps you find your place in the world. It gives you roots upon which to build your life. At T3, we believe life happens outside! Get involved with your high school’s Outing Club. If there is no Outing Club, get in touch with us and we will help you start one!

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Pulitzer-Prize Professor Alan Taylor, Historian He’s reshaped the way scholars look at Early American history. i n t e r v i e w b y C o l i n s. sargent

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inner of two Pulitzer Prizes (1996 and 2014) and the Bancroft Prize (1996) for his work in Colonial American and early United States history, Portland native Alan Taylor, 59, has contributed greatly to our understanding of the early years of the United States in general and Maine in particular. He published his first work in 1990 after receiving his Ph.D. from Brandeis 1986: Liberty Men and Great Proprietors: the Revolutionary Settlement on the Maine Frontier 1760-1820. Next came teaching at Boston University and University of California, Davis. Just this year, he joined the Corcoran Department of History at University of Virginia. In addition to Liberty Men and Great Proprietors, Taylor has published seven books, including the first volume of the Penguin History of the United States, American Colonies: The Settling of North America.

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How does microhistory help keep our understanding of broader trends on track?

Microhistory attempts to get to the experiences of common people, who generally are neglected in the histories of leaders and great public events. By focusing on lesser known people and local places, microhistory enables us to see how societies and cultures worked in the past. But I also need to correct the Wikipedia bio of me which casts me as an exclusive practitioner of microhistory to the exclusion of quantitative or cultural approaches. In fact, I greatly value those other approaches and often include them in my research. And some of my books are not microhistories. For example, American Colonies examines the entire continent of North America over a period of hundreds of years.

How could the contributions of your work best be brought to public schools, and the way history is taught? We’ve heard your Colonial America: A Very Short Introduction is often used in AP classes, but that’s still a small slice of the student population.

AP history teachers sometimes have leeway in choosing texts that most teachers do not have. They have to teach from a textbook chosen by the local school board and then they have to “teach to the test” because of the current mania for testing in this country. That approach works against encouraging deeper thinking beyond mere memorizing of facts.

Your book, The Civil War of 1812: American Citizens, British Subjects, Irish Rebels, & Indian Allies, sure has an eye-catching title. Can you offer an example that might suggest how these categories affected the future Maine at the time?

The War of 1812 was deeply divisive in New England with the nation’s then opposition party, the Federalists, deeply alienated and often willing to undermine the war effort and to trade with the British in the nearby Maritimes. The dominant Republican Party (not the same R.P. as today) supported the war and hoped to discredit the Federalists by winning that conflict. When the British occupied eastern Maine in 1814, the Federalists cooperated with the occupiers while the Repub-

licans tried but failed to mount a military expedition to reclaim the region. Fortunately American negotiators recovered eastern Maine in the peace treaty.

What was Maine referred to as, most often, before the Missouri Compromise? Were we ever (gasp) Northern Massachusetts?

No one ever called it “northern Massachusetts.”

Instead it was “the District of Maine” or “the Eastern Country” or the “Eastern Counties.”

Why couldn’t it have been the Maine Compromise?

Maine’s entry into the union was not controversial once Massachusetts’s state government consented. But northern congressmen made a big issue of Missouri entering the union as a slave state. They sought to require a program of gradual emancipation in Missouri. That enraged southerners. To resolve the crisis a complex compromise had to be crafted of which the admission of Maine was a part, but only a part.

We heard you were committed to wearing historically themed neckties–do you have a favorite?

I wear a historically themed tie that matches the topic of my lecture on a given day or event. So my favorite is whatever offers the best match on that day. Today at the University of Virginia, I am lecturing on American politics during the 1790s, so I am wearing my Alexander Hamilton tie. november 2014 45

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The Northeastern University School of Law graduate has been the Civil Rights Project Director at the Boston law offices of Gay & Lesbian Advocates & Defenders (GLAD) since 1990. According to her GLAD bio, she was co-counsel in the 1999 ruling in Baker v. State of Vermont that led to the first civil union law in the country. She went on to be lead counsel in a 2004 Massachusetts case that resulted in that state being the first in which same-sex couples could legally marry. She worked on both of Maine’s ballot campaigns in 2009 and 2012. Slate online magazine called her “the legal architect of the DOMA [Defense of Marriage] repeal”

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Mary Bonauto first moved to Portland in 1987 for a position at the law firm MittelAsen, but she relocated to Boston in 1990 when she joined GLAD. She and her partner Jennifer Wriggins were married in Massachusetts and they returned permanently to Portland in 2002 when Wriggins took a teaching job at University of Maine Law. They in the Oakdale neighborhood and are raising twin daughters. Among the family’s favorite city haunts are “the farmer’s market at Deering Oaks, Back Cove, the Portland Ice Arena, and the main and Burbank branches of the Portland Public Library.” Beyond Portland, “We like swimming or skating on any pond, Little Cranberry Island, and Gilsland Farm.” n

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hat we needed was a little competition,” says Steve Wolgin, Managing Director of U.S. Real Estate Advisors of New Jersey and spokesperson for its development project, Dream Port 3 LLC. “I selected three top local firms–PDT, Archetype, and Canal 5–to present ideas” on how to renovate a square of buildings from the corner of Fore and Union streets east to the Klaman Bottle building, and the corresponding stretch on both sides of Wharf Street behind them. Dream Port 3 purchased this major block of the Old Port– 432, 434, 436, and 446 Fore Street and 42 and 50 Wharf Street–at a foreclosure auction last year for $5.6 million.

Representatives from all three firms convened recently at Hyatt Place across from the block in question to present electronic and printed versions of their ideas to an assortment of interested Portlanders. It turned out their ideas were so good that Dream Port 3 extended the decision date.

“We have to study the feasibility of each one carefully. With this project, we’re hoping to stimulate even more of the renaissance that’s already going on in the Old Port. This neighborhood is so rich in history. We hope to have a decision in a few weeks,” says Wolgin.

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It’s not just about where your holiday gift purchases are going– it’s about where they come from. by cody e. marcroft

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ver think about how giant chain retailers and some smaller shops can offer huge quantities of steeply discounted Far Eastern, African, and Latin American tchotchkes–dishware, gifts, homewares, clothing, handbags, wallets, and other colorful trinkets? Or do you try not to think about what wages and working conditions are like for what may be children who make them?

Here are some retailers in Portland who make it their business to think about it.

Consumer karma “Producers get Fair Trade certification, shops don’t,” says Karen Burnell, whose two-year-old shop, Karma Fair Trade, is on Brighton Avenue in Portland next to Rosemont Market. “I work with the U.S.-based Fair Trade Federation. Their mission is to bring producers and retailers together. That way, I can select merchandise from their list of Fair Trade producers.” Among the wares in her shop are baskets from Bangladesh, pottery from Nicaragua, and paper products from Sri Lanka.

“Another organization monitors just food, and there’s also a European coalition, Fair Trade International…I use the Federation where I need them…making sure people I’m working with are on the up-and-up.”

For Burnell, it’s a mission against global human trafficking and slave trade. “Three quarters of [the abuse] is in labor, and onequarter is in the sex trade. It’s not legal anywhere, but it exists everywhere. If we can battle poverty, we can take away one of the major vulnerabilities to being trafficked.”

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Renee Garland, right, travels the world to select merchandise in person for her Waterlily, on Milk Street. She collects fabrics everywhere she goes and designs some of the pillows and garments herself.

ing international goods in the Portland area and you have no assurance they have Fair Trade merchandise, Burnell says.

“And then there’s a litmus test I use called “Free 2 work” (free2work.org), a database that grades products A through F based on whether slavery was used” in the production of that item. You can have lovely madein-the-USA t-shirts, but what if the cotton is slave-produced? Uzbekistan is a huge cotton exporter using slave labor.”

Everything in Karma Fair Trade is “either Fair Trade or it has a cause,” says Burnell. There are leather-handled baskets from 5 4 p o r t l a n d m o n t h ly m a g a z i n e

Ghana, scarves from Nepal, and other baskets from Uganda in the $20 to $42 range. A soft, elegant woven cotton scarf from Guatemala is $27. There are carved Kenyan animals starting at $4. The shop refutes the misperception that retailing ethically has to be expensive.

“These Cambodian mermaid bags are $18; they’re made by women rescued from the sex trade.” She sells a lot of natural lavender lip balms and body creams ($5 to $17) made in Nashville at a residential program for women who have been incarcerated, which provides them counseling, training, and employment. “Not Fair Trade, but

because I know where it came from and the cause attached to it, I’m good with it.”

570 Brighton Ave. 831-4531 karmafairtrade.com

Personal belief “I heard an interview on NPR back in 2000 about Fair Trade,” says Renee Garland, owner of Waterlily, a handcraft store on Milk Street in the Old Port. “When somebody said ‘conscious trade’ in the interview, I thought, ‘that’s what I’m doing,” trading with a conscience.

Garland’s shop, which opened in 2005, evolves from such thinking. She spends nearly half of each year in Asia gathering an array of handmade goods from local artisans.

Garland grew up in Maine, moving to Alaska after college to provide care for sled dogs. Living in a cabin without running water or electricity and depressed by the cold and shortage of sunlight, she took the suggestion of a friend to visit Thailand.

“When I arrived in Bangkok, my life completely changed,” says Garland. “I felt like I belonged. I relate to the gentleness of Thai culture.”

At the end of her second trip to Thailand, she found herself with just $200 left to spend. “So I bought handmade chopsticks because I could buy a lot for $200!” This peculiar, spontaneous decision was deliberate. Back in Maine, she hit the crafts-fair circuit to sell her chopsticks, paying the small fee for a table.

“That’s how I got started. It was more of a project to see if I liked the buyingand-selling aspect.”

From the first, Waterlily has offered Asian handicrafts and creations from artisans Garland befriended in Maine. “I always wanted it to be a combination of handmade things here, there, everywhere. If it’s handmade with love, it doesn’t matter if it’s made in Maine, or Thailand, or Timbuktu.” ately, she’s been integrating her own designs. Once she’s finished collecting materials and fabrics from various parts of Asia, Garland meets with her tailor–a woman in India who works out of her home.

“I’ll have this hotel room full of fabrics from floor to ceiling, and I sit down and sketch out jackets, pillows, handbags, scarves.” Then the tailor goes to work.

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Edward Murigi carves wooden animals and toys at an artisan collective in Nairobi; the sale of his crafts at Ten Thousand Villages shops provides him and his family with a stable income.

Despite strides to track the origins of the merchandise she purchases, Garland recognizes her limitations. In Waterlily’s formative years she considered, but ultimately opted out of, carrying strictly Fair Trade products in her line of goods.

“I work with hundreds of people, and they’re not producing every aspect of what they’re making by themselves,” she explains. “Even hill tribes may go to a store and buy buttons for a jacket. [To label them Fair Trade], all the aspects of every item would have to be approved, and how much [money] that person made [would have to be traced].”

Instead, she follows her own moral compass about ‘conscious trade. “It just means being aware of where things come from, who makes it, and sharing that information with the buyer. I’d rather give the money to a person directly making it.”

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Fairly Large-Scale “The first challenge is confusion between free trade and Fair Trade,” says Kevin Hudson, manager of Ten Thousand Villages on Exchange Street. “Free trade is the antithesis of Fair Trade, and it’s very misleading. Fair Trade is people getting paid fairly for work done.” Hudson’s shop is filled with jewelry, clothing, gifts, and accessories from around the world. “It’s buying their items at a fair price–not gouging at their end so we can get a better profit margin on our end.”

Sterling necklaces from Nepal, capiz shell wind chimes from the Philippines, and colorful woven baskets from Uganda are among the items that decorate the store.

These imports, and all others, are 100-percent Fair Trade approved.

Hudson’s is one of 80 Ten Thousand Villages shops. The umbrella organization also wholesales products to another 120 likeminded retailers. He mentions Fair Trade Winds in Bar Harbor as an example.

The organization, founded in 1946 by Edna Ruth Byler, is one of the longest tenured fair traders. Byler was inspired by impoverished craftswomen whom she encountered in her travels to Puerto Rico. She carried items back to the States where she’d sell them and then return the money to the women. This idea has turned into a global effort over the past 70 years, with Ten Thousand Villages leading the charge; the com-

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“Some Fair Trade products tend to be more expensive, and that’s a market problem,” Hudson says. “We’re working to be more dynamic instead of making it one price where you can either afford it or you can’t. The more expensive item might be made out of silk, whereas another is made out of cotton or rayon.” en Thousand Villages is nonprofit, with surpluses in revenue returned to artisans across the globe. The organization doesn’t wave that flag, though. Hudson describes it as a, “happy accident” people learn about when browsing in the store.

“It’s the best part of what we do, and we don’t talk about it enough, in my opinion,” Hudson says. “Our stores are very basic as far as retail goes–no ostentation.

“Not everybody can commit to 100-percent-Fair-Trade lifestyle. I don’t ever expect anybody to,” Hudson says. “Whether or not they’re committed to our cause is not the biggest draw for us. If you’re just buying [a Fair Trade item] because you like it, that’s still all right. That’s still a success for us.”

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Or keep it close to home There’s an obvious way to avoid perpetuating the exploitation of foreign labor: Invest your shopping dollars in Maine-made goods. Lisa-Marie’s Made in Maine is next door to Ten Thousand Villages on Exchange Street, and she can help with that.

Lisa-Marie Stewart’s first store opened in Bath in 2003; the shop on Exchange Street followed in 2010. The shops are full of jewelry, pottery, glassware, home wares, accessories, edibles like Maine sea salt and maple syrup, and quirky things like birdhouses made from old license plates and wind chimes made from old silverware.

“I have artisans and craftsmen from Fort Kent to Kittery” says Stewart. “Being an artist and having done shows for over 20 years, I found it very important to promote what our state has…and support small, family-owned businesses.” She likes knowing her suppliers and being able to tell their stories to her customers. “Prices range from $2 to $600.”

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f you’re feeling less and less like wrestling with a 20-pound turkey as T-Day approaches, you’re part of an emerging trend. Maine chefs are tapping into the growing interest in celebrating the holiday with family and friends in innovative, sparkling ways–without the KP duty.

Skip the bother, stay out of the kitchen, forget baking the pies, and head for a restaurant. Feasts await, with prices starting well under $20 per person.

Uptown Bird “We go with an à la carte menu, not a buffet,” says Alan Cook, chef at the Portland Regency Hotel’s Twenty Milk Street restaurant for 25 years. “The hotel’s always full because it’s a long holiday weekend.” Dinner is served to hundreds between noon and 8 p.m.

“I like to do about six entrees. A rack of pork, a pumpkin risotto for vegetarians, maybe a strip steak. A squash or pumpkin soup to start, a green vegetable. I try to make everything as ‘fall’ as possible.”

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turkey’s really good. We raise our own on our farm.”

The Regency Hotel’s restaurant has a farm? And here we thought Masa Miyake was the only savvy city restaurateur raising livestock in the ’burbs. As it turns out, the Regency’s turkeys are ranging free in a mighty nice zipcode.

“The farm’s in Cumberland,” says Cook.

We raise Piedmontese cattle out there. We’re getting known for our Piedmontese beef. It’s why the burger tastes so good downstairs [in the Armory Lounge]. We raise turkeys for Thanksgiving, and we’ve also got chickens to provide us with eggs. Our bees let us harvest our own honey every year.” Which figures handily into pastry chef Amy Acheson’s dessert creations. “She does an assortment of pies–apple, pumpkin, chocolate, whatever strikes her fancy.”

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Just Add Lobster & Truffles “This year is our third serving Thanksgiving,” says Michelle Corry at chic 555, which

she and her husband Steve opened in Portland in 2003. “It’s been huge. We do a fixedprice four-course, with choices. We’ve done traditional side dishes like oyster stuffing and green bean casserole; we’ve even done turducken. And lobster mac and cheese will always be on our Thanksgiving menu!”

The latter being 555’s signature creation, involving butter-poached lobster and shavings of black truffle. Thanksgiving at 555 is nothing if not a delicious splurge, with wine pairings are an option. “We haven’t set the exact menu and price yet, but last year it was $75 per person. We have a kids’ menu, too.”

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The Portland Harbor Hotel’s new chef, Anthony St. Peter, is planning “quite the spread” for his first Thanksgiving at Eve’s at the Garden.

“We set up a huge buffet table with seatings from noon until six. Starters include a raw bar as well as tapas and spreads. We’ll have carving stations of slow-roasted turkey with sage-butter stuffing, prime rib, a baked ham with chutney, a pork loin roulade with november 2014 59

h u n g ry e y e prosciutto and smoked gouda, a shepherd’s pie, pistachio-crusted salmon, and a winter vegetable cassoulet.”

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early & often Some of us start craving turkey dinners the moment the air turns crisp and the leaves turn orange, so why restrict ourselves to a single Thursday in November? Two Portland dining landmarks help us jump the gun.

Thanksgiving is one of two days all year that Becky’s Diner is not actually open, but the kitchen roasts a bird there every other day except Christmas. Imagine turkey dinner near the sparkle of the sea and the rough-and-tumble docks, with mashed potatoes, stuffing, squash, and cranberry sauce for $11.95.

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n chilly autumn weekends around noontime, nearly every seat at the Miss Portland Diner–including the old wooden booths and counter stools in the original 1949 diner car–is taken. The mob loves the genuine treat of real roast turkey dinner here–sliced breast meat arranged over herby bread stuffing studded with bits of sausage. The potatoes are delicious–hand-mashed, with flecks of red skin and tender lumps remaining in the silky, flavorful mass. The gravy is rich, the cranberry sauce includes whole berries, and a side of fresh carrots is hand-cut and sweet. This feast is $10.25. And it’s available every day!

Even with tax and a generous tip, your periThanksgiving moment is $15 tops.

“We’ll doll it up with peas and squash on Thanksgiving Day,” says server Allyssa Vitalone, “with special pies and desserts. We’re super-busy, and it’s fun, with single people, lots of families, travelers.”

Both diners serve wine and beer.

140 Marginal Way, Portland. 210-6673 missportlandiner.com

Destinations elsewhere “It’s my single busiest day, people-wise, of the year,” says executive chef Lynn Pressey at York Harbor’s Stage Neck Inn. And he should know. Pressey’s worked at this exclusive resort since 1978, and served as chef for 30 years. “We have roast turkey, of course. But I also like to offer a stuffed fish, and there’s roast pork loin, prime rib, a Ca6 0 p o r t l a n d m o n t h ly m a g a z i n e

jun oyster stuffing, and another stuffing with apples. We always have chowder, plus another soup.”

This lavish buffet is $37.95 per person.

“We’ve figured out over the years that it’s just a great way to bring your whole family together without all the work. It’s a good mix, local Mainers and those from out of state. We have seatings about every half hour of up to 150 people.”

The buffet is open from noon to five.

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“We’ll serve 250,” says Mitchell Kaldrovich, executive chef at Sea Glass Restaurant in Cape Elizabeth’s Inn By The Sea. “Oh yes.

Many of them are local people who come every year.”

Kaldrovich’s menu is ambitious, a multicourse prix fixe for $62 per person. Starters include “lobster bisque or a vegan squash soup,” and a choice of five salads.

“Our turkey is done a different way. I make a roulade of the boned dark meat and we roast it slowly. There’s a filet mignon, grilled salmon, and a vegan quinoa dish.” The desserts are house-made and very Maine–white chocolate cheesecake with blueberries, pumpkin pie, apple cake, and chocolate mousse cake.

The Inn is a destination for the long weekend. “Some packages include the Thanksgiving dinner. We also make it available as room service,” if you’d like a private holiday.

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Road Trip “They come for the pies,” says Dan Beck at Moody’s Diner. “The dinner’s just for their conscience.” The grandson of founders Percy and Bertha Moody is kidding, even if the house-made pies are widely renowned.

“We do the whole nine yards for one price, probably $16.95, from beverage to dessert. There’ll be starters like soup or a fruit cup, the turkey, stuffing, mashed potatoes, local squash, boiled onions, cranberry sauce, and our homemade biscuits. It’s more locals, something of a community service for people who need a place to go, but we get a lot of families.”

And when you’re a legendary roadside attraction with a reputation for hospitality, you can boast a bit. “I don’t think we’ve ever been closed on Thanksgiving in 87 years.”

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Dining Guide Abbondante Enjoy traditional Italian family favorites steps from downtown Kennebunkport.

Bistro seating, casual atmosphere, fresh handmade pastas–classics like spaghetti & meatballs, ravioli with ricotta filling, tagliatelle fra diavolo with clams, shrimp, lobster, and tomato sauce, and bucatini alla lobster carbonara.

Perfect for your rustic Italian cravings. Open year round and full menu available for takeout. 27 Western Avenue, Kennebunk, 967-2211, abbondanteme.com Brea Lu Cafe has been serving up breakfast & lunch for 23 years! Favorite menu choices include 12 specialty omelets, build-your-own breakfast burritos, Belgian waffles with fruit, eggs Benedict & homemade corned beef hash. Lunch features homemade chili, fresh made-to-order sandwiches, burgers & wraps. Open daily, 7am-2pm. 428 Forest Ave., Portland, 772-9202 Bull Feeney’s Authentic Irish pub & restaurant, serving delicious from-scratch sandwiches, steaks, seafood & hearty Irish fare, pouring local craft & premium imported brews, as well as Maine’s most extensive selection of single malt Scotch & Irish whiskeys. Live music five nights. Open 7 days 11:30am-1am. Kitchen closes at 10pm. 375 Fore St., Old Port, 773-7210, bullfeeneys.com Bruno’s Voted Portland’s Best Italian Restaurant by Market Surveys of America, Bruno’s offers a delicious variety of classic Italian, American, and seafood dishes–and they make all of their pasta in-house.

Great sandwiches, pizza, calzones, soups, chowders, and salads. Enjoy lunch or dinner in the dining room or the Tavern. Casual dining at its best. 33 Allen Avenue, 878-9511.

David’s KPT Portland Chef David Turin’s restaurant in The Boathouse Waterfront Hotel has panoramic windows on the harbor and al fresco dining in summer. Upscale twists on classics include steak and lobster white pizza with garlic butter, steak, lobster, roasted tomato, caramelized onion, goat cheese; and a lobster roll in a house-made focaccia roll.

Popular happy hour and Sunday brunch. Open year round. 21 Ocean Ave., Kennebunkport, 967-8225, boathouseme.com/dining DiMillo’s On the Water serves the freshest lobster, seafood, Black Angus cuts of beef, Italian fare & more. DiMillo’s offers fabulous views of the water in Portland Harbor from every table, Famous Lobster Rolls, clam chowder, haddock chowder, lobster stew & delicious salads. Serving from 11am. Commercial St., Old Port, 772-2216, dimillos.com 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 Fish Bones American Grill A casual upscale restaurant offering creative American cuisine.

Specialties include grilled wheat crust crostones,

Restaurant Review Diane Hudson unique entrée salads & creative dinner offerings.

Located in the heart of Lewiston in the historic Bates Mill Complex with off-street parking. Come get hooked! Lunch & dinner M-F; dinner only Sa; closed Sunday. 70 Lincoln St., Lewiston, 333-3663, fishbonesmaine.com * Great Lost Bear A full bar with 70 beer taps of Maine & American craft breweries & a large Belgian selection. Menu features salads, burgers, a large vegetarian selection & the best nachos & Buffalo wings in town. Discover where the natives go when they’re restless! Every day 11:30am-11:30pm. 540 Forest Ave., in the Woodfords area of Portland, 7720300, greatlostbear.com Hurricane Restaurant features the finest seafood and New England cooking on Maine’s coast. Serving lunch and dinner seven days a week, Sunday Brunch ‘til 3:30 p.m. Discover our award-winning wine list, enjoy $10 off every bottle of wine on Wednesdays.

Find house-made pastries, signature cocktails, and extraordinary five-star New England cuisine.

Reservations suggested. Dock Square, Kennebunkport, 967-9111, hurricanerestaurant.com Miss Portland Diner, Portland’s only landmark diner serving classic, homemade comfort food. Open daily at 7:00 am serving breakfast, lunch and dinner. Beer, wine and liquor. Located at 140 Marginal Way, Portland, 210-6673, missportlanddiner.com.

Ocean at Cape Arundel Inn & Resort has 180-degree water views; Ocean is perfect for a memorable meal or bites at the bar.

Executive Chef Pierre Gignac offers fine cuisine inspired by southern French and Mediterranean flavors, such as Fisherman’s Bourride, a seafood stew with leeks, fennel, fingerling potato, creamy broth and lemon aioli. Open year round. 208 Ocean Ave., Kennebunkport, 967-4015, capearundelinn.com/dining One Dock Award-winning One Dock in the Kennebunkport Inn serves native Maine classics with a cosmopolitan twist, plus a selection of small plates.

Signatures include lobster with homemade saffron fettuccine, white wine cream, and truffle oil. Guests can enjoy live music on weekends, nightly during summer months; daily Happy Hour specials and outdoor dining on the patio and terrace throughout summer. Open year round. One Dock Square, Kennebunkport, 967-2621, onedock.com Pedro’s focuses on simple yet full-flavored Mexican and Latino food. Offering tacos, burritos and an impressive array of margaritas, sangria, beer and wine. Especiales de la semana (specials of the week) keep the menu varied and fresh and showcase different Latino cultures. Seasonal outdoor dining available. Open daily, 12-10. 181 Port Rd., Kennebunk, 967-5544, pedrosmaine.com

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Pier 77 & The Ramp Bar & Grill are owned & managed by Kate & Chef Peter Morency. Pier 77 has a formal dining room with stunning views of Cape Porpoise Harbor & live music each weekend, while the Ramp is more casual, with its own bar menu at hard-to-beat prices. Open year-round. 77 Pier Rd., Kennebunkport, 9678500, pier77restaurant.com * The Tides Beach Club Coastal chic ambiance overlooking Goose Rocks Beach. Local seafood is the focal point: Maine lobster roll with drawn butter or herbed mayo; crispy fried clams with house tartar; marinated grilled tuna with house-made kimchee, soba noodles, and wasabi. Specialty cocktails with fresh local juices and herbs, artisanal beers, and an extensive wine list. Open May-Oct. 254 Goose Rocks Rd., Kennebunkport, 967-3757, tidesbeachclubmaine.com *reservations recommended

Hitting the Spot Freeport’s cozy Broad Arrow Tavern refreshes the classics with the best local ingredients.

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e’ve worked up an appetite shopping among the “Bean sprouts” boutiques around the L.L. Bean Retail Store, and we’re starving.

We settle in, happy to be off our feet at the rustic tavern hidden within the Harraseeket Inn. Flames crackling in the big central fireplace warm us, as does the cheerful crowd. And I do mean crowd. Be sure to arrive early because they don’t take reservations–at 6 p.m., we’re given the last available table directly under an enormous moose head. Surrounded by vintage artifacts–old canoe paddles, snowshoes, photographs, maps, memorabilia, and soothing antique lighting–we’re ready to dive in to a first course of fried calamari ($10).

Cloaked in a terrific light batter (I would order anything fried here–there are also fried Maine clams and oysters), the squid rings and tentacles jump with a unique, sweet sauce with just the right heat and local baby spinach. Chef Eric Flynn describes his food as “refined, contemporary New England cuisine” to which he adds “classical French cooking techniques with a nuevo twist” (this sauce is definitely that). Fresh organic ingredients rule here. A list of 36 local purveyors appears in the margins of the menu.

“Never had squid this tasty,” raves my friend. We toast our good fortune with a sip of reliable Kenwood Cabernet Sauvi-

gnon ($24) and head on into the next richly satisfying dish: wood-oven-roasted Maine mussels ($12). They’re a cut above, featuring a delicately balanced broth created with roasted hazelnut and garlic butter, and a thick slice of bread lightly blackened on the grill–perfect for dipping.

Salads ($8 to $10) here are splendid, from the classic Caesar to a seasonal salad (bibb lettuce, arugula, goat cheese, shaved almonds, pomegranate vinaigrette). Demi orders are available ($5).

Torn between the chicken pot pie ($17) and duck breast ($22) we finally opt for the duck. Oven-roasted in a wood fire and then thickly sliced, it’s cooked perfectly to order and enjoys the dramatic tension of an accompanying blueberry/fig compote. A huge, show-stopper prime rib ($26) from Pineland Farms is set in front of me. Delicious it is, served with mashed potatoes, a bevy of roasted vegetables, and horseradish cream.

We can’t forgo the Indian pudding à la mode ($6.50), and this rich molasses concoction just might be the best version we’ve had. Wow. n Broad Arrow Tavern,162 Main St., Freeport. 11:30 a.m.

- 10:30 p.m. daily. 865-9377, harraseeketinn.com.

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Nov. 29 The Nutcracker

Maine State Ballet Nov. 29 & 30; Dec. 5, 6, 7 Merrill Auditorium, Portland. mainestateballet.org

Bright Moment Friday, Nov. 28, 5:30 pm. Let the joyous season begin! The annual Lighting of the Tree in Monument Square. portlandmaine.com

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Gingerbread Decorating Workshops: Dec. 6, 7, 12 & 13; theatre presentation of Beatrix Potter’s Christmas: Dec. 12-21. Children’s Museum & Theatre of Maine, 142 Free St., Portland.

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Bossov Ballet, Dec. 12-14 Waterville Opera House bossovballet@mci-school.org

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Ballet, Dec. 13 & 14, Westbrook Performing Arts Ctr. Dec. 17, Merrill Auditorium, Portland 772-9671, portlandballet.org

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Friday, Dec. 5, 6:30 pm. Lighting of the copper beech tree festivities at the Portland Museum of Art, Congress Square. portlandmuseum.org

Dec. 11

Merry Me! Thursday, Dec. 11, 5-10 pm. Merry Madness invades Downtown Portland with food, drink, and shopping, starting at the Portland Regency Hotel. portlandmaine.com

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Vivid Motion Dance Company Dec. 12-20, St. Lawrence Arts Ctr., Portland vividmotion.org

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Dec. 31 Fireworks!

Dec. 31, 8 pm at Saddleback Mountain, Rangeley. Ring in 2015 with a day of skiing followed by festivities and fireworks. saddlebackmaine.com

Happy Feet The lovely leather Rancourt Olive Battery Steele Boot is handmade in Lewiston, $395. Portland Dry Goods Co., 237 Commercial St., Portlanddrygoods.com

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One and All Sneak upstairs at 24 Exchange Street in Portland and discover an art gallery for Maine artists, talented crafts people, and jewellers. Items from $10 to $245 for the necklace, and rings by Martin Key, $5,600 (below). As1 Gallery, as1gallery.com

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Original L.L.Bean boots in bold new colors are still made in Maine from the highestquality materials. Premium leather sheds snow and rain; steel shank and rubber chain-tread bottom provide comfort and traction. Limited edition, $109; llbean.com

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Gentleman’s Choice Count on Joseph’s to find fine things for the discerning fellow: Gitman Brothers 100% cotton flannel shirts, $145-$175, and leather and stainless Filson Flask, $75. Found at 410 Fore St., josephsofportland.com

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Shown the Ropes Jewelry designer Shana Aldrich Ready’s bracelets are working-waterfront fashionable; $70 at Springer’s, 580 Congress St., Portland. springersjewelers.com

Meowww Dahlov Ipcar’s enchanting cat illustrations are the theme of her 2015 Poster Calendar from Islandport Press of Yarmouth, a colorful assortment of 12 images from her children’s books. Available in bookstores, 11"x14", $24.95, and from islandportpress.com

Crimson Gin Maine cranberries distilled into fruity gin at Sweetgrass Distillery in Union are perfect for a pink G&T or a holiday crantini.

Visit the showroom to sample all the spirits, $27.49. 324 Fore St., Portland. sweetgrasswinery.com

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Wheat “sweethearts” and Devonshire hearts are traditional folk patterns from the British Isles, but these are woven right here in Brooksville, $8.50-$25 plus shipping. 326-4621, basketsofmaine.com

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Wrap up Stonewall’s Farmhouse Breakfast kit–pancake & waffle mix, wild blueberry jam, maple syrup, and a tea towel–for a perfect hostess gift, $44.95.

Stonewall Kitchen,182 Middle St., Portland, or 2 Stonewall Ln., York. stonewallkitchen.com Lucy Benjamin makes granola for the food-conscious gourmet–full of oats, seeds, whole grains, fruits, and Maine maple syrup and honey. Flavors include Extra Seedy, Really Nutty, Practically Gluten Free, Pecan, and Naughty Chocolate Cherry. Find it at shops like Bow Street Market, Royal River Foods, and Legion Square Market, or from lucysgranola. com in East Blue Hill. $1.50-$9 plus shipping.

The Land of Maple Sweet things from Spring Break Maple & Honey, a family farm in Smyrna.

Box of maple candies, $17.50; quart of syrup, $20. mainemapleandhoney.com

Merry Me! Thursday, Dec. 11, 5-10 pm.

Merry Madness invades Downtown Portland with food, drink, and shopping, starting at the Portland Regency Hotel. portlandmaine.com

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Organic linen napkins for those times when paper just won’t do; four for $40 at Lisa Marie’s Made in Maine, 35 Exchange St., Portland and 170 Front St., Bath, and from madderroot.com.

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visions. “Olgivanna had spent 14 years getting into his organization. He was a mystic, and she kind of brought that understanding to the Fellowship. As an example, once a year the Fellowship put together this thing called ‘The Performances’; they were mostly done at Taliesin West. [The apprentices and architecture fellows regularly traveled back and forth from Taliesin, in Wisconsin, to Taliesin West in Arizona.]

“Mrs. Wright and her daughter and Bruce Pfeiffer got together to compose the performances and the music, which were wonderful. The whole Fellowship got involved as actors, but I said, ‘No. I’m here to be an architect.’ Mrs. Wright called me in.

‘Somebody has to do the kitchen work,’ I told her, ‘take the garbage out. You all do the other things.’ I could think about my design work while I was doing the dishes; I couldn’t while I was trying to memorize a part. But that was her interest–philosophy. Dancing was sort of part of the Movement. It was part of Gurdjieff’s way of getting the mind focused. I was not interested in it at all, and they couldn’t force me to do it. I don’t think there was anything sinister about any of it.

It was just that Olgivanna was very different from a normal woman you’d run into. She’s from Montenegro–her father was a supreme court justice there. She was in high society.

“But I’m grateful to Taliesin, because it was there I learned to conceive architecture using the principles of Organic Architecture and by living in, rebuilding, and repairing Mr. Wright’s architecture.”

Schildroth’s escape to Maine came by degrees. “After working for Glenn Tsutomu Arai, Architect, of Suttons Bay, Michigan, he was graduated from the University of Oklahoma’s School of Architecture in 1966.

Afterword, he evolved his architectural style with stints in San Francisco, Vermont, Boston, and Cambridge, Massachusetts...I married in 1967 and was divorced in 1977 with no children,” he says in his online bio. “I have lived solo since–or you could say, I am married to architecture.”

He moved to Whitefield, Maine in 1970.

In 1972 he hung up a shingle on Water Street in Wiscasset. Now he’s at 6 Tyler Road in Wiscasset, designing modernist homes that have landed all over the state like shiny spaceships. His compensation is “typically 10 percent of the cost of the project,” though satisfaction on both sides of the equation is

what keeps him going.

His closest project to downtown Portland is in Freeport, on the ocean: “The owners are two doctors, Pete Bauman and Carrine Burns. They like Wright’s work, and the work of several other colleagues of mine from the University of Oklahoma, and there’s really no other choice in Maine if you’re looking for that!

“The lot was a field with no trees except on the waterfront. It was narrow. The setbacks were quite severe, only 50 feet. To fit what they were dreaming in that space was quite tricky.” Like all of his work, the result is “very natural-solar oriented.”

Asked where his favorite spot is in the house– where he’d want a guest to be guided naturally–Schildroth says, “Well, I like it all.

“The master bedroom opens onto that great deck that shoots out onto the west, east, and south. That came about because the clients asked for a terrace that was partially shaded so they could sit outside and not always into the sun. The interior is all cherry wood cabinets, wallboarding, even flooring. Some of the floors are granite, as are the countertops.”

Asked what’s next, if highway rest areas now look like watered-down drawings he made in his twenties, Schildroth says, “The majority of architects, in my opinion, are historians. They find something and make something new of it. They don’t get how to understand the site and the clients’ desires and come up with a design. To me, a building ought to respect a client and the economic considerations. Right now, the Chinese and the Arabs are showing off [with fantastic designs not based on their clients’ needs], and in London Zaha Hadid makes a sketch of an artistic concept–just squiggles–then hands it to her staff to design. A design should be the way it is because of function or human needs. And organic will never go out of style because it’s based on need. I could do organic style for Martians. I’d asked the Martians, ‘What are you looking for? Where is your lot?

What will you do with the house?’ Organic design is not whimsy.”

Asked what he thinks of Wilhelm Reich’s self-designed laboratory Orgonon in Rangeley, Schildroth says, “Reich needed a laboratory. So his Orgonon responds to that in a way that’s more organic than other structures might have been. Bucky Fuller was like that. A genius. His buildings were designed out of need. Their beauty flows from that.” n

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“I recently had a prospect tour the house from New York,” says Sotheby’s listing agent Lynn Hallett. “Gosh,” she said. “Where am I going to put my grand piano? There’s no garage...but look at the view.” It’s as though this cleverly restored 1934 cottage watches November 2014 83

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over the perfectly curved beach at the foot of Underwood Road. Neighborhood tradition holds that the Native Americans loved this cove, too, and that part of the hillside is an old shell midden. An archaeologist we sent out there once found a “projectile point” (trans. arrowhead) among the discarded shells from a centuries-old clambake.

“This is a Peter Wellin-restored house.,” Hallett says. “His company owns the property, and it’s been used as a rental.”

Sun-bright, cottagy “Wellin touches” include a Shaw & Tenney crew blade used as a blonde railing going down a flight of stairs; a striking dining room built above the old boathouse; a master bedroom with piazza over the beach; closet built-ins, heated towel rack, and a kitchen with drawer pulls in a seashell motif. “You can come right into the kitch with your groceries.” Everything is planned for comfort and ease of use: “Peter Wellin is a thoughtful perfectionist.

Downstairs, Hallet says, “A writer rented this space last winter” of the seashore-level bedroom looking over the sea stairs that

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curve graciously to sand amid lovely gardens. Nice work if you can get it.

Utilities are updated. Particularly attractive is a toasty Runtal heat system in white that makes you feel as though you’re walking through a dreamy private yacht.

As for comparables (there’s been a reduction since the original listing in June), Hallett says, “The house next door sold for $1.4M, and a house at the end of Casco Terrace sold at $1.2M.” “But look at the view.” Lot is .2 acres. Falmouth taxes are $14,256. n

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arie found Tom outside on his break.

“What are you doing out here?”

“Waiting for the dishwasher.

Sink’s overflowing, it’s nuts in there. I’ve got about…” He checked his phone. “Three minutes and seventeen seconds.”

“Wanna have a quickie?” She waited until he gave her a startled glance. “Just kidding. Can I bum a smoke?”

“Glad to see you’re quitting again.” He handed her one from his pack, flicked his lighter for her.

She exhaled happily. “They don’t give you cancer if you smoke someone else’s, did you know that?”

“I did not know that. That’s good to know.”

They leaned side by side against the brick wall, both of them with one foot flatbraced against it, like a pair of sweaty, greasy seagulls briefly at rest.

People milled around the restaurant’s front door, waiting for tables.

“So what are you doing out here?”

“I quit.”

“Come on.”

“It was so weird. This drunk lady from Texas had a meltdown.”

“What happened?”

“She was upset from the minute she sat down. First she sends back her cocktail, like, ‘Bring me one with some flippin’ alcohol in it,’ so I’m like, ooookay. Then she starts complaining about how the burrata is too run9 2 p o r t l a n d m o n t h ly m a g a z i n e

ny, and I’m like, ‘That’s what it is, it’s soft, buttery cheese.’ All of a sudden she’s crying about how she doesn’t want to die alone with no one to love her. Then she got mad and called me a privileged little rich girl! That’s funny. I tried to say, ‘Excuse me, but I don’t know where you get that idea about me,’ and she interrupts me and demands to see the manager. So Jimmy came over and that was it. I said, ‘I’m outtie.’ And I walked out.”

“Nooo. Are you serious?”

“Of course not.” They both laughed.

“So what really happened?”

“Nothing. I said I was sorry, and Jimmy told me to go outside and wait until they got her out the door and then come back.”

“Damn.” He checked his iPhone again.

“How much time you got?”

“None.”

Marie and Tom leaned into each other at the same instant. It was chilly out, and they’d been out here long enough to feel it after the heat inside; their shoulders and arms were warm where they touched. Clumps of people flowed around them, walking slowly: women with shawls around their shoulders, men in khaki trousers, half-grown kids looking uncomfortable and sullen.

She was eight years older than he was, and he was just a busboy, but there had been a growing sense of something like possibility between them in the weeks they’d worked

together. Both of them had moved here because they didn’t want to be like their parents, but neither of them was sure what that meant yet except that she wasn’t going to run a motel outside Waterville and he wasn’t going to be an alcoholic lobsterman in Rockport who sold Shaklee products in the off-season.

So far, Tom played banjo and mandolin in a local bluegrass group that sometimes opened for visiting bands at the Empire.

Marie wrote monologues for a women’s performance-art group and showed up every time Portland Stage held auditions. They were both still young.

“So what is Columbus Day?” Tom said.

“His birthday? His discovery of America day? What?”

“More like Cruise Ship Passengers and Leaf Peepers Day.” “Or Masshole Day.” She laughed. “Did you know ‘Masshole’ means ‘from away’ in Wabanaki?”

“I did not.”

They stared at the ugly hotel across the street that had been built the year before. It stood out, in a bad way, from the “quaint, picturesque” (as the cruise-ship brochures proclaimed it) brick-and-cobblestone and mansard-roofed Old Port, the crooked little streets that led up from Commercial Street, where seagulls wheeled and shrieked and shat at will and tourists me-

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andered through the Ye Olde Maine gift shops and ice-cream parlors and the other, authentic places hidden where you least expected them. ut in the harbor was the cruise ship, vast, lit-up, bigger by a factor of at least three than almost any building in town: a floating pleasure dome hotel. It was stark and white and glowing like an alien starship, hovering there in port, brighter than anything else for many miles around.

“Someone asked me tonight where to find the ‘real’ Maine,” Tom said.

“I hope you sent him to that ‘antique’ place where everything is a thousand dollars. Like an old bathtub from someone’s yard.”

“No seriously, he said, I want to go someplace like where the beans would live. And I’m like, what beans?”

“The Beans of Egypt, Maine,” she said.

Tom looked blank.

“The novel. By Carolyn Chute.”

“Uh, right,” he said.

“God, you’re young. Or else illiterate.”

“I cop to young. So… but the answer has to be Egypt, Maine. Right? So why did he ask?”

They both laughed.

“Back to the rat race,” she said.

He looked sideways at her. “What are you doing after we get off? Want to go somewhere?”

“Like where?”

“You’ll need a jacket.”

She smiled sideways back at him.

At the little jetty on the eastern prom, they got into Tom’s two-person kayak and slid out into Casco Bay through low, lapping waves. A half-moon splashed pale tracks of light on the water. Their paddles and the water made the only sound; there was no traffic, the seagulls slept.

The cruise ship was gone. Its berth was empty. In its place was an enormous dark absence, as if an invisible ghost ship rocked there, filled with the souls of lost passengers.

At the mouth of the harbor, squat little Bug Light glowed and winked.

“Oh man,” she ssaid. “It’s nice out here.”

They bobbed on the waves, then paddled again, keeping close to shore, sliding along the outlines of the city, observers, unseen. n

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Global Telecom Executive Michael Liberty is a philanthropist now and is soon to be much more active in giving back to his home town of Gray, his home state of Maine as a whole, and beyond.

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t’s Michael Liberty’s vision that’s embedded in the successful company he founded and personally funded– Mozido Inc. Today Mozido is flourishing. In the past 12 months alone, Mozido has raised $265 million, more than any other private mobile payments company in the world.

Michael is majority shareholder of Mozido. Michael not only founded Mozido but he developed and authored the numerous cloud-based mobile financial transaction patents that are the underpinnings of the company. Mozido is backed by some if the most sophisticated institutional funding sources and partners in the world. And here is what they have to say about it: According to senior portfolio manager Nick Adams at Mozido’s lead institutional investor, Wellington Management Company, one of the world’s leading investment companies.

“The race for long term leadership in mobile payments will be won with interoperable services on a global scale. We are proud to be part of the investment Mozido is using to maintain a leadership position.”

H.R.H. Sheikh Nahyan bin Mubarak Al Nahyan and Michael Liberty

Gary Flood, president of global products and solutions at MasterCard says, “Investing and partnering to innovate and accelerate the adoption of mobile payments and services globally is part of MasterCard’s DNA. Mozido’s strength in building versatile mobile financial and retail solutions that can be used around the globe and across borders makes them a perfect partner for MasterCard’s prepaid card, payment, and security services.”

His Royal Highness, Sheikh Nahyan of the United Arab Emirates, states: “The UAE is a progressive country that sees the promising future in mobile payments. My investment in Mozido supports my faith in mobile payments as a growth market, and Mozido and its founder Michael Liberty as an emerging winner in this market.”

In the past 12 months alone, Mozido has raised $265 million, more than any other private mobile payments company in the world.

George Denney, a Freeport resident and founder of Cole Haan, says, “I met Michael in 1985 and have been a partner and dear friend ever since. I’ve been an unwavering supporter of his Mozido vision and am honored to be a part of Michael’s enormous success. I’ve always been 100 percent behind Michael and am proud of it.”

Jack B. Grubman, of Magee Group LLC says, “Mozido represents one of the most exciting and innovative companies I have encountered in my 36-year career…Mozido is best in class…Mozido’s cloud-based, fully secure, regulatory compliant, and global solution is vastly superior…Mozido’s global ecosystem of partners allows it to provide truly worldwide mobile financial services.”

George Marcus of the law firm Marcus Clegg & Mistretta in Portland congratulates its long-term client, Michael Liberty, on his global achievements and successes. “Michael has withstood all the economic peaks and valleys and has persisted beyond the imaginable. His vision of cloud-based mobile financial, life style, health, loyalty rewards, and analytic services has been way ahead of the crowd. “

In keeping with Michael Liberty’s philosophy behind his Liberty Family Foundation of servant leadership, his is one of the handful of companies that truly does good while doing well financially.

Michael’s leadership and incredible staying power has allowed Mozido to provide hope, opportunity, and financial inclusion to vast numbers of people globally who would otherwise lack bank accounts or ability to climb out of poverty.

In addition to providing financial fairness opportunity and inclusion for billions of people around the world, Mozido and its partners will provide numerous life changing mobile services and convenience.

“My heart will always be with Maine people and the struggles we face and overcome together as a team.

Together we achieve more.”– Michael Liberty

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