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Find inspiration in New England’s home & garden shows.

39 Lake & Lodge

Wake up and smell the coffee. By Colin W. Sargent

47 Rustic for a night

Now these are naughty pines. From Staff & Wire Reports

Cover: Meaghan MauriCe Keith Carver

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Kennebunkport–on the rocks.

86 new england Homes & Living

159 Maine Life 33 Portland after Dark:

80 Dining guide 81 Restaurant Review

93 Words “Horneteers” By Lewis Turco

PeRsonaLiTies 70 Call Me Kurt

PeRsPeCTives 8 from the editor 10 Letters

Ladies’ night Girls gone wild. By Olivia Gunn

The Merry Table crêperie

55 Baby on Board Loons as chick magnets. Interview by Claire Z. Cramer

A USM music professor’s unexpected collaboration with a celebrated novelist. By Thomas A. Power

fooD&Drink 67 The 50-foot Journey

Home cooking-to-go comes to the West End. By Claire Z. Cramer

art&sTyLe 13 Maine Classics 23 goings on 31 Chowder

75 Delicious Risks Maine Restaurant Week is an opportunity to experiment. By Claire Z. Cramer

73 Totem soul Bridge construction reveals unexpected sculpture. From Staff & Wire Reports

56 Back To The future An urban plan reconsidered. By Patrick Venne 61 What Were We Thinking? i’ll Tell you A former city manager rolls back the clock. By John Menario 96 flash

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he Portland Observatory was built amid great fanfare at the top of Munjoy Hill in 1807. Like the Time & Temperature building, it flashed messages. Flags and pennants in coded patterns alerted locals to the identity of new ships arriving in port. Think fabric-tweet. In a smuggling and rum-loving town, it was especially handy so we could scramble when a revenue cutter was darting in. Today, globals–not just locals–can learn what ships are in our port, too, with astonishing if disconcerting intimacy. For instance, I’m in line for coffee at the drive-thru at the Falmouth Starbucks. What can I get started for you? While I’m waiting for Bunny Berrigan (look it up on your smart phone) there to finish my order, I tap mine to visit www.marinetraffic.com. In a heartbeat, I can tell you there are 17 world-recognized ships in Portland Harbor right now, including the mega-tanker Nordic Freedom, built in 2005 and flying the flag of the Bahamas. Looks like this slinky gal has been Nordic Freedom around. Site users have caught her sliding into Brisbane, Australia; St. Maarten; Gibraltar; Pachi Megaron, Greece; Istanbul. See? They’ve uploaded pictures. Now, with the frisson of internet immediacy, Nordic Freedom is here. With me in line for a macchiato. Isn’t the internet awesome? Whatever did we do before Al Gore invented it? Concerns about secret sharing or national security aside, I can either confirm or deny the whereabouts of USNS Arctic–pictured left–the site makes no bones about it). With spies like us, we can check out ports all over the world. But before you get too excited, my s/hipsters, consider. That porthole you’ve just opened goes both ways when you experience the manic currency of knowing the whereabouts of the world’s simultaneously visiting and departing ships. How do you like them cookies? Then you, too, will be caught in the net. Surely you won’t mind when a site USNS Arctic with a name like creeptraffic.com appears one day. A beautiful stranger sitting beside you in a bar tells you, “It says here that you were never a philosophy major at Brown; in 1991, you did take a six-day summer course. That research paper you just mentioned doesn’t appear on JSTOR.org–were you using a nom de plume because I don’t see your name? What was that thing about divinity school? As far as your Greenpeace adventure goes, my screen is black. And I find no trace that you were on that chopper with Brian Williams. More importantly, why exactly did you travel to Cronstadt?

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Chef Shannon Bard’s new book, The Gourmet Mexican Kitchen (Page Street, $19.99), had us at Hola: “Once you take a bite of these flaky empanadas you won’t be able to stop…” How does one become a famous gourmet Mexican chef and tastemaker? If you’re Bard, first you open two hugely popular restaurants, Zapoteca and Mixteca (Durham, New Hampshire); then you jet to New York to serve a “Mexico in Maine” feast at the James Beard House. Next take star turns as both chef and judge at high-ticket Harvest-on-theHarbor events. It doesn’t hurt if you Beat Bobby Flay on TV and win the top prize on Kitchen Inferno. While you’re at it, start writing a cookbook just before you head to Spain for a month of training–since you’ll be opening a Spanish restaurant in Portland soon. Meanwhile, raise four kids in Kennebunk. The colorful paperback packs a lot into 200 pages. “The abundance of fresh seafood in New England is…like heaven for the ceviche lover,” she writes before rolling out pages of Veracruzano, scallop, tuna, and octopus ceviche recipes.

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Bachatera “We made the video in New york, where I’ve spent most of my life, but we actually recorded the song and mastered it at Gateway in Portland,” says Portlander Rebecca Kingsley, 26, of her bachata cover of roberta flack’s 1973 hit, “Killing Me Softly.” [Watch: rebeccakingsley.com.] The former children’s Theater of Maine star and New School alumna is back in Maine finishing the mix on a jazz album–her third cD–with jazz/blues great Mark Whitfield.

Rebecca Kingsley , in the video of he r bachata cover of “Killing Me Softly .” Wyclef Jean of the Fugees (above) also appears in the video.

Million Dollar Flaherty

What can you say about a 28-year-old utility outfielder and Deering high School graduate who’ll be making $1.075M this season–his fourth–for the baltimore Orioles? That it’s a tidy raise from $512,500 last year? That he was red-hot in the aLcS championship series against Kansas city in the fall? No wonder Ryan Flaherty was one of Portland Magazine’s 10 Most Intriguing People in Maine 2014.

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Spring Swing Smash winter by taking in New England’s home & Garden Shows Rhode Island spRIng FloweR & gaRden show, Rhode Island Convention Center, Providence, Feb. 19-22, flowershow.com

ConneCtICut FloweR & gaRden show, Connecticut Convention Center, 100 Columbia Blvd., Hartford, Feb. 19-23, ctflowershow.com the CentRal MassaChusetts FloweR show, DCU Center, Worcester, MA, Feb. 27-Mar. 1, centralmaflowershow.com

VeRMont FloweR show, Spring Reflections, Champlain Valley Expo, Essex Junction, Feb 27-Mar. 1, greenworksvermont.org

poRtland FloweR show, 58 Fore St., Portland, Mar. 4-8, 775-4403 portlandcompany. com/flower

Bath antIque show & sale, Bath Middle School, Congress Ave., Bath, Mar. 8, Apr. 12, 582-5908 bathan-

westeRn MassaChusetts hoMe & gaRden show, Eastern States Expo, West Springfield, westernmasshomeshow.com

poRtland hoMe show, Portland Expo, Apr. 17-18, homeshows.com

BangoR hoMe show, Cross Insurance Center, Mar. 27-28,

VeRMont hoMe & gaRden show, Champlain Valley Expo, Essex Junction, Apr. 18-19,

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35th annual noRtheRn MaIne agRI-BusIness tRade FaIR, 84 Mechanic St., Presque Isle, Mar. 28-29, 4723802, fortcc.org

Bdn MaIne gaRden show, Cross Insurance Center, Ban-

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ooB swap and shop, Radley’s Shop N Save Plaza, Old Orchard Beach, Apr. 25, 5904201, oob365.com

phY show, 1 Townsend Ave., Boothbay Harbor, Apr. 11-May 1, 633-2703, mainephotographyshow.com/2013

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seaCoast hoMe & gaRden show, Whittemore Center Arena, Durham, NH, Mar. 28-29, newenglandexpos.com

daFFodIl daYs BegIn, Blithewold Mansion & Arboretum, Bristol, Rhode Island., Mar. 31, blithewold.org/exhibits

BRIdge oF FloweRs openIng, Shelburne Falls, Mass., Apr. 1, bridgeofflowersmass.org

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townsquaRe MedIa MaIne log hoMe & tIMBeR FRaMe show, Augusta Armory, 179 Western Ave., Augusta, Mar. 22, 92moose.fm/events

Boston FloweR & gaRden show, Seaport World Trade Center, 200 Seaport Blvd., Boston, MA, Mar. 11-15, bostonflowershow.com

20th annual hoMe & leIsuRe show, Mount Blue High School, Farmington, Mar. 21, 778-4215 the MaIne hoMe show, The Androscoggin Bank Colisee, 190 Birch St., Lewiston, Mar. 21-22, mainehomeshow.com

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Nasturtiums were Isabella Stewart Gardner’s favorite flower. At Fenway Court in Boston they celebrate this with a spectacular nasturtium fete on April 1, 6:30 p.m. Fenway Court, Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, 25 Evans Way, Boston. Cocktails, hors d’oeuvres and a concert of classical spring-themed music. Reservations: 617-264-6045, gardnermuseum.org. FEBRuARy/MARCh 2015 15

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Bath Citywide yard Sale & Mayfair, Bath, May 2, 442-7291, visitbath.com falMouth KitChen tour, May 9, mainekitchentours.com lilaC Sunday at arnold arBoretuM, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass., May 10, arboretum.harvard.edu Mayfair: northern new england hoMe, garden, & flower Show, Fryeburg Fairgrounds,, May 15-17; 300 booths plus beer, wine & cheese tasting, homegardenflowershow.com

yard Sale to Benefit aniMal welfare SoCiety, 6 Hearthstone Dr., Kennebunk, May 16, 985-3244, animalwelfaresociety.org

lilaC feStival, McLaughlin Garden & Homestead, 97 Main St. (Hwy. 26) South Paris, May 22-25, 7438820, mclaughlingarden.org annual Plant Sale, Perennials plus some vegetable seedlings & annuals, Wolfe’s Neck Farm, 184 Burnett Rd., Freeport, May 16, 865-4469, wolfesneckfarm.org CeleBration of luPine, throughout the New Hampshire communities of Franconia, Easton, Sugar Hill, Bethlehem, Bretton Woods, Littleton, Lisbon, Lincoln, North Woodstock, and Whitefield, Jun. 1-30, franconianotch.org

annual iriS Show, Auburn Middle School, 38 Falcon Dr., Auburn, Jun. 12, irisgarden.org newPort flower Show, 20th Anniversary: American Beauty - Timeless Style. Rosecliff, Jun. 19-21, newportmansions.org deer iSle luPine feStival, Deer Isle, Jun. 19-21, deerisle.com annual wellS antiqueS Show and Sale, 342 Laudholm Farm Rd., Wells, Jun. 28, 800-641-6908, goosefareantiques.com

hidden gardenS of Munjoy hill, Portland’s land’s East End, Jul. 12; the annual opportunity to behold the Hill’s flowers, waterfordworldsfair.org waterford world’S fair, North Waterford, Jul. 17-19; “The simple traditional essence of agricultural Maine,” waterfordworldsfair.org CaMden-roCKPort hiStoriCal SoCiety antiqueS Show, Camden-Rockport High School, July.18-19, goosefareantiques.com BoothBay harBor antiqueS Show, Boothbay Commons, Boothbay, Jul. 25, goosefareantiques.com KenneBunK antiqueS Show & Sale, Kennebunk High School, Aug. 1-2, goosefareantiques.com annual Maine antiqueS feStival, Fairground Rd., Union, Aug. 7-9, 221-3108 maineantiquefest.com 13th annual Maine BoatS, hoMeS & harBorS Show, HarborPark,Rockland,Aug.14-16,maineboats.com/boatshow 1 6 p o r t l a n d m o n t h ly m a g a z i n e

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Gardens to Visit

Black House Drive , Ellsworth, woodlawnmuseum.com

A. STURGIS WILDFLOWER SANCTUARY, Holman Day Rd., Vassalboro, vassalboro.org

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ALEXANDER ART TRAIL, 38 Blueberry Ln., Alexander, visitmaine.com

BLAINE HOUSE GARDENS AT THE GOVERNOR’S MANSION , 192 State St., Augusta, blainehouse.org

BOK AMPITHEATER GARDEN, Atlantic Ave., Camden, librarycamden.org

AMEN FARM GARDENS, Naskeag Point Road, Brooklin,

BREWSTER INN GARDENS, 37 Zion’s Hill Rd., Dexter,

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ASTICOU AZALEA GARDEN, Rt. 198 & 3, Northeast Harbor,

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BAXTER MUSEUM GARDENS, 71 South St., Gorham, baxter-

CAMDEN HILLS STATE PARK, Rt. 3, Camden, maine.gov

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CASTINE INN GARDENS, 33 Main St., Castine, castineinn.com

CELIA THAXTER’S GARDEN, Appledore Island, Isle of Shoals, celiathaxtergarden.com

Gardens in bloom at the Asticou Inn in Northeast Harbor.

Boothbay, mainegardens.org

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Portland Players, 420 Cottage Rd., South Portland. Calendar Girls, thru Feb. 15; The Boys Next Door, Mar. 27-Apr. 12. 15. 781-3587 portlandplayers.org Portland Stage Company, 25A Forest Ave. The Whipping Man, Feb. 24-Mar. 15; Red, Mar. 24 -Apr. 11; Papermaker, Apr. 21May 7. portlandstage.org The Public Theatre, 31 Maple St., Lewiston. Outside Mullingar, Mar. 13-22. thepublictheatre.org Snowlion Repertory Company, at Portland Ballet Studio, 517 Forest Ave., Portland. The Maine Dish: A Feast of Plays About Food, Mar. 5-8. 518-9305 snowlionrep.org Theater at Monmouth, 796 Main St. The True Story of Little Red, Apr. 27-May 22. 933-9999 theateratmonmouth.org

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Merrill Auditorium, 20 Myrtle St., Portland. Million Dollar Quartet, Feb. 21; Memphis, Mar. 14; Moscow City Ballet: Swan Lake, Mar. 18; Skippyjon Jones, Mar. 29; TruTV Practical Jokers, Apr. 2; Price is Right Live!, Apr. 4; The Nile Project, Apr. 12. 8420800 porttix.com

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Galleries Art Gallery at UNE, 716 Stevens Ave., Portland. A Gateless Garden: Photographer Kerry Michaels & Writer Liza Bakewell, thru Apr. 12. 2214499 une.edu/artgallery

Peasants and Patricians: Landscapes and Portraits of the 19th Century, opens Mar. 26. 725-3275 bowdoin.edu/ art-museum Colby College Museum of Art, 5600 Mayflower Hill Dr., Waterville. Currents7: Elizabeth Atterbury, thru May 10; Highlights from the Permanent Collection, thru mid-2015. 859-5600 colby.edu

Maine Historical Society, 489 Congress St., Portland. Home: The Longfellow House and the Emergence of Portland, thru May; Wholesome Habitations: Architectural Collections of the Maine Historical Society, thru mid-2015. 774-1822 mainehistory.org

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Maine Jewish Museum, 267 Congress St., Portland. Vic Goldsmith, opens Mar. 12. Andy Grammer performs at Port City Music Hall March 18 with Alex and Sierra.

Bates College Museum of Art, Olin Arts Center, 75 Russell St., Lewiston. Photographs by Women: Recent Additions to the Permanent Collection, thru Mar. 21; Back and Forth: The Collaborative Works of Dawn Clements and Marc Leuthold, thru Mar. 21; Senior Thesis Exhibition, Apr. 10-May 30. 786-6158 bates.edu/ museum/ Bowdoin College Museum of Art, 1 Bath Rd., Brunswick. Hendrik Goltzius: Mythology and Truth, thru Mar. 1; Weaving the Myth of Psyche: Baroque: Tapestries from the Wadsworth Atheneum, thru Mar. 8; Imago to Persona: Portraits from Antiquity, thru Apr. 5; Past Futures: Science Fiction, Space Travel, and Postwar Art of the Americas, Mar. 5-Jun. 7;

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up dance floor, but I hate to get my hopes up. Upon arrival, we’re all checked for ’80s gear–I’d settled on faded black jeans and a jean jacket–before being allowed to pass. Those who don’t do throwback have to pay to enter Friday’s ’80s Night.

Shake it I’m quite aware that not everyone would jump at the chance to take a belly dance class because, quite honestly, I wouldn’t have, either. But my neighbor Audrey, who’d been taking ballet classes with local dance instructor Rosa Noreen, has invited me to a free belly dance class with Rosa. Work up a thirst on the light-up dance floor at Bubba’s.

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I‘m hesitant at first, envisioning a room full of hard abs shimmying about as I try desperately to keep up. But, after some convincing and the promise of wine afterward, I decide. Why not? Along with several other women, we arrive at Wildwood Medicine on India Street just in time for the evening class. It seems as if we’ve all just finished work for the day, and from the vibe of the room, I sense everyone is slightly nervous, not knowing what to expect. Rosa, our warm, smiling leader, immedi-

ately introduces herself and offers dolmades as we wait. She sets up the music, and when it seems as if everyone has arrived, she instructs us to grab a hip scarf from her bag.

nce in our belly-dancing uniforms, we form a large circle, all admiring one another’s wrap choice. Rosa starts us off with stretches before the basics and explaining to us that all of our bodies are beautiful and that we should never feel obligated to hide them. It’s not long before we’re all in time, shimmying and popping. At one point Rosa has us write our names using our hips, and even though I really don’t

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nside, Bubba’s could pass as a flea market. Antiques, music memorabilia, and Elvis surround the never-ending bar. If there is a theme, they lost it years ago. We order a round of cheap beers before heading to the– Oh, my God, it’s a light-up dance floor! Marcus gasps before pulling me into the crowd and taking over the floor. He really makes quite the scene, and soon he has a circle of fans watching him. It was bound to happen. Marcus is a trained dancer/actor, and bringing him to Bubba’s might as well have been giving him a starring role in a Broadway play. He’s on fire, and soon I’ve lost him to another. No hard feelings, because I’m drenched in sweat and could use a breather. I’ve had many full nights in Portland, but I must say, Bubba’s has been the hottest by far.

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We arrive a half hour before the show and make our way to the bar, ordering beers before taking our seats in front of the black box theater. The show tonight is a Caryl Churchill play, and Shannen and I can’t help talking college, as we both studied theater. Soon, we’re both inspired and planning our own productions. Good friends and theater will do that to you. After the show we’re left with plenty to discuss: money, power, and love. It’s all out on the floor, and we’re devouring it. Before we head our separate ways on State Street, we’ve planned out next outing, even though we both know the best nights can never be planned. Set ‘em up and knock ‘em down “We used to be a reading club,” admits Debby Olken, a member of the Casco Bay Bowling League. “We decided to do this

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HAT IF “Lake & Lodge” coffee, the dark, earthy brew by Green Mountain Coffee Roasters, were not inspired by lakes and lodges? Instead, what if a magic sip of the deep, rich java is inspiring a new demographic to create getaways on Maine’s lakes and lodges? After all, aren’t we the general contractors of our fantasies? Who could have imagined back in September that L.L. Bean boots would make such a splash during the holidays, with demand so high the classic footwear was scalped at a 300-percent markup by Christmas Eve? Was this exclamation point in demand just a new group of latecomers ‘plagiarizing the authentic,’ or has a reappreciation for rustic truly touched down as a genuine need to get real (or at least sample reality)? Whatever it is, real-estate brokers are sensing and stalking ‘the new rustic.’ A fresh crowd of buyers is rifling through the Maine Multiple Listings in search of the dreamiest lodges in which to put their Bean Boots and perhaps a faux moosehead. Here are three to consider.

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usticators and adventurers have fallen in love with the Libby Camps for 125 years. Savvy from the first, the yankee marketeers up here tapped into the luxury travel market as early as the 1920s with adverts like “Only a four night trip from New York City.” Socialites and plutocrats like J.P. Morgan took heed. Tell us about JP Morgan’s visits.

One of the outpost camps on Clear Lake was built for JP Morgan. Back then a lot of wealthy people had a sporting camp build them a camp somewhere so they could get out of the city for the summer. Many of the names of our camps at the main lodge reflect that. They are named for the people who stayed in them for the entire summer. Who are some of the famous visitors?

Jonathan Bush (George Sr.’s brother) was here a few years ago. Teddy Roosevelt and Jack Dempsey… 4 8 p o r t l a n d m o n t h ly m a g a z i n e

What do guests do here?

Our motto is catch and relax. We cater to a lot of “hardcore” fishermen who want to

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be on the water from dawn to dusk, but we mostly have people who want to relax, and the fishing is a bonus. We’ll see them just sitting on their cabin porch, watching the lake. We’ll ask, “Didn’t you want to go fishing?” Most respond, “What’s the rush?” They’re here to get away from the hustle and bustle.

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stablished in 1916, Migis Lodge was called National Camps until 1924, when Charlotte Gulick, founder of the Campfire Girls, renamed it, according to the resort’s website, which translates Migis as “place to steal away to rest” in Abenaki. Beyond the view, the library, and the great porch for cocktails, Migis has the singular advantage of offering the only knotty-pine dining room open to the public on Sebago Lake. The central lodge has six rooms, but the handsome 125-acre campus has innumerable cottages with names like Raven, Birch, Loon, Driftwood, and Skylark, most

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if not all with romantic fireplaces. Think of Migis as a luxury camp for whole families. Because the experience is ten full Jstrokes into the Maine mystique, it’s a bit set in its ways. Paddle in: “Migis Lodge is a Full American Plan destination resort, and all rates listed are per person per night. These include three meals each day plus the use of resort facilities. Adult rates vary throughout the season and range from: $199 - $415 per person per night. 207-655-4524.” February/March 2015 51

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Sprucewold Lodge, Boothbay

uilt in 1921, the legendary Sprucewold lodge was once considered “the largest log in the world.” The site was discovered in 1915, when “a New Yorker came up to do some logging on Spruce Point, which separates Linekin Bay from Boothbay Harbor,” says Richard Poor, who owns and operates classic Sprucewold Lodge with his wife, Dana. “But once the logs came tumbling down, it was as if a curtain opened. He had real vistas of the harbor.” Now you can have those vistas, because Sprucewold is for sale, for $1.075M. If you buy it as a single-family house, you’ll have 26 rooms with en suites and a whopper of a dining room. n 5 2 p o r t l a n d m o n t h ly m a g a z i n e

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hat is it about loons? The splendidly feathered, graceful fish divers have a call that’s so haunting and enchanting it might as well be a soundtrack for Maine. We asked naturalist Doug Hitchcox at Maine Audubon to unravel some of gavia immer’s mysteries.

Tell us about loon family values.

Chicks ride on adults’ backs for their first week, less in their second week. This is more often on the male’s back than female’s. I imagine chicks have no trouble climbing on an adult’s back at any time, onshore or off. but this is typically just done in the water. On shore, chicks are more likely to rest under the wings of an adult. Most chicks won’t try using their wings until eight weeks. They don’t usually fly until they’re 12 weeks old. Parents stay with the chicks for up to 12 weeks. One usually forages while the other babysits. Adults cannot fly with the chicks on the back. Oth-

er species that swim with chicks on their backs include grebes and muted swans. How about habitat and home life?

In summer, loons move inland to open fresh water, preferably lakes of roughly 60 acres with lots of fish. Lakes with small islands are preferred because they offer a safe place to build a nest. In winter, loons head toward the ocean but generally stay close to shore. Loons typically sleep away from shore, with their heads against their backs and bills tucked in.

What are their hunting habits?

They primarily eat live fish, which they can find in lakes in summer and the ocean in winter. They will supplement crustaceans. I’ve seen loons eating green crabs in Maine. They also catch things like dragonfly larvae and leeches to feed their chicks. Describe a loon’s worst nightmare.

Adults have very few predators to worry about, though bald eagles have been seen eating adults. Eggs are another story: 40 to 80 percent of nest failures are due to raccoon predation. Other predators include mink, fisher, striped skunks, and sometimes foxes. There is always the risk of opportunistic predators: If adults are scared off eggs by humans, gulls and crows will take advantage and try for a quick meal. Chicks are very vulnerable to predators: eagles, gulls (great black-backed gulls especially), crows, and even aquatic predators like snapping turtles and predatory fish. n February/March 2015 55

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rterial roads were all the rage as renewal strategies in the latter half of the 20th century. Now, as a demographic shift leads to a craving for intimacy in our public spaces, prior assumptions about the defining role of automobile traffic in the urban context are being questioned. Franklin Street sharply divides the peninsula from Interstate

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295 to the waterfront–neither efficiently nor with Old Port shoppers in mind. Acres of Class A retail and business opportunity in one of the toniest real estate markets in Maine sits unused between wide travel lanes promoting fast and inhospitable traffic, while pedestrians are marginalized: Cross at your own risk. Not only that, our great divide obliterated an historic neighborhood and sectioned off the East End from its bustling downtown–the haves from the have-nots. To give it its due, Franklin Street enables lots of cars to access downtown directly, if slowly. The road has both pros and cons, but as the emphasis on sustainability from within replaces reliance on traffic from away, the street’s present design appears– like rush hour traffic–to be on its way out. ast Bayside’s Jed Rathband, a developer and former candidate for mayor, insists it’s time for a change. “The street is universally recognized as a failure.” City councilor Kevin Donoghue, representing the East End, agrees: “It fails to fit into its urban context. The low-quality urban design serves only to repel people.” Cultural-

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Archival photos and map at left show a bygone Portland. The graphic below shows the existing width of Franklin Street’s lanes and sidewalks along the Back Cove stretch. The small graphic (opposite page) shows the road narrowed, with bike lanes and sidewalks on both sides to free space for development. The largest graphic (opposite) depicts Franklin Street near Commercial Street with added bike lanes and broader sidewalks.

c i ty beat ly, the area is still licking its wounds. The arterial “destroyed everything in its path,” says Christian MilNeil, chair of the Portland Housing Authority Board. “They bulldozed…houses that today would go for a half million dollars. The city’s most acute problem is a housing shortage, and Franklin Arterial destroyed hundreds of units in the most walkable part of the city.” For a destination city on dozens of national Top-10 lists, Franklin Street seems sorely out of place, but we’re not the only victim of car-centric thinking. “I remember living in the North End of Boston when the Central Artery (Interstate 93) came down,” says Portland Planning Board chairman Stuart “Tuck” O’Brien. “The community was transformed in so many ways I didn’t even think were possible.” It doesn’t take a crystal ball to see that Portland is in for a big makeover. But before we launch into it, we should remember–the future will judge us by the assumptions we make in changing it.

ctivists and city staff, among others, have been working on plans that will alter Franklin Street in a way that could redefine the neighborhood. Markos Miller, chair of the study process underlying this work, says he envisions Franklin Street becoming more like other downtown Portland streets, with lanes close together, better sidewalks, and lined by human-scaled buildings. The intent, he says, is not to advocate for any particular design but rather to lead “a process of inclusive discovery based on data analysis.” Formed in 2006, just as a peninsula traffic study was unfolding, the Franklin Reclamation Authority grew out of a community workshop involving the Munjoy Hill and Bayside Neighborhood organizations in an effort to articulate a more holistic description of what’s wrong with the street. Somewhat ironically, Markos Miller says, then-city manager Joe Gray–who began his tenure with the city in part by working on the creation of Franklin Arterial–was en-

thusiastic about the process and helped secure funding to support it. City support continues for the work today. Portland Mayor Michael Brennan says, “My hope is that with a redesigned Franklin Street we can re-knit the neighborhoods with a pedestrian-friendly streetscape and end up with some parcels of land for housing development–while not adversely impacting vehicle access.” The challenge facing the Authority now lies in funding the infrastructural surgery necessary to implement the desired changes. And that could take time. The first leg of the study, which looked at alternative designs, was funded largely by a federal earmark; but after final recommendations regarding feasibility are forwarded for approval to the city council, Miller notes, the project will likely become one element of a larger capital investment plan. Budgeting for projects like this always involves real “strategic trade-offs,” according to Donoghue. He envisions a “flexible implementation schedule whereby [the City] can make incremental improvements according to [its] means.” n

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Portland’s former city manager on the original vision for Franklin Arterial.

f I could rewind a video showing various scenes of the community in the early 1960s, people today would have difficulty recognizing them as Portland. There was no Franklin Street Arterial, no Spring Street Arterial, no public parking garages, no Cumberland County Civic Center, no new Portland Museum of Art, no pedestrian plaza in Monument Square, and no beautifully designed Portland Pub-

lic Library. The Old Port was mostly vacant and dilapidated buildings. No new major office building had been built in downtown Portland since the early 1900s. On the waterfront, there was no International Ferry Terminal (now the International Marine Terminal), no Gulf of Maine Research Institute, no Fish Pier or Fish Exchange, no DiMillo’s Floating Restaurant, and no modern Casco Bay Lines Terminal. Most residential areas were blighted with junk cars plus an abundance of run-down buildings–some vacant, and some occupied. The

city dumped 15 million gallons of raw sewage into Back Cove and along Commercial Street every single day. A giant step in arresting neighborhood blight came from the implementation of projects that would improve Portland’s image by those who traveled in and out of the region by air. But of all the positive changes going on throughout the city, none matched the massive economic development that took place on the peninsula, especially in the central business district, the Old Port, and the February/March 2015 61

p e rspective waterfront. It was made possible primarily from the construction of the Franklin Street Arterial, the Spring Street Arterial, and the policy decision to provide public parking. Those three decisions unleashed a positive economic chain reaction that continues to this day. For example, it was the existence of the Franklin Street Arterial, the Spring Street Arterial, and the Free Street Parking Garage that resulted in the city winning the voter-approved Cumberland County Civic Center, [bringing] approximately 500,000 annual event-goers to downtown Portland.

bring foward recommendations on how the highway can be redesigned to accommodate pedestrian traffic, walking trails, bicycle lanes, and side space for development. Pedestrian safety should always be a concern, walking trails and bicycle lanes have been a great addition to the quality of life, and I applaud those who continue to support their expansion. If there is a need for a walking trail, hopefully it can be placed along the side of Franklin Street as it is along Baxter Boulevard. I would resist the narrowing of the street for a bicycle lane. At times there’s a limit to a good thing, and not allowing a bicycle lane on Franklin Street may be one of them.

s popular as trails and bicycle lanes are, the city should resist allowing them to hinder or reduce the flow of vehicular traffic heading to activities that support the city’s economic base. Every community leader knows that the more property tax revenue that can be produced from commercial property, the less the financial bur-

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ranklin Street Arterial also played a pivotal role when Lion Ferry Company of Halmstad, Sweden selected Portland as its U.S. terminal for a new ferry service to Yarmouth, Nova Scotia. Direct vehicle access from the Interstate to the proposed ferry terminal site helped win the day. Perhaps the Franklin Street Arterial’s greatest contribution to the city’s economic health was its capacity to deliver volumes of traffic from the Interstate to Portland’s central business district, making possi-

ble the largest construction of commercial buildings in the city’s history. Casco Bank & Trust announced the building of a new high rise in Monument Square to house its branch bank, corporate offices, and commercial office space for rent. Canal Bank followed with three new commercial buildings at the intersection of the new Spring Street Arterial and Union Street. Maine Savings Bank built a new facility at 511 Congress Street. A few years later, a surface parking lot became the site for Two Monument Square; still later, a major mixed-use commercial development was built at One City Center. These new buildings added 832,000 square feet of commercial space downtown, housing thousands of employees, attracting customers and clients, and today producing $1.8 million of annual property tax revenue for the city. It’s almost impossible to overstate the economic value of being able to siphon traffic from a major Interstate by way of a direct, convenient, and attractive innercity highway. Recently a consultant firm [was] hired to

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den on homeowners. If I owned the City of Portland, I wouldn’t let anyone touch the Franklin Street Arterial–not because of its past contributions but because of its capacity to support new economic development that could match or exceed the positive developments that occurred over the last many years. Some development is already underway, some is on the drawing boards, and some requires the ability to imagine the future. You don’t need to be a traffic engineer to understand the added traffic impact on Franklin Street from current developments in the Old Port. Add to that the similar developments taking place in the India Street neighborhood and Munjoy Hill, plus an increasing number of events at Ocean Gateway, along with the added trailer-truck traffic that soon will be coming to the expanded Marine Terminal. Aproposal to renovate and redevelop the Portland Company property on the waterfront could nearly double the size of the Old Port; the current vehicle capacity on Franklin Street could well be tested. At some point, the city may want to consider tunnel-

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That’s how close chef Natalie DiBenedetto–who owns the late Fran Peabody’s mansard on Walker Street–is to the new gourmet takeout venue she’ll unveil in May behind 722 Congress Street–which she also owns.

’ve always cooked,” says Natalie DiBenedetto, sipping green tea at Portland’s Yordprom Coffee Shop. By May she plans to be cooking at Figgy’s, her forthcoming take-out restaurant, now under construction in back of Yordprom’s building, which she owns. Fig-

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gy’s will offer skillet-fried chicken and classic sides like mashed potatoes and macaroni and cheese, plus seasonal healthy vegetable choices and a daily dinner salad. Her other signature item will be Korean fried chicken wings. “I’ve got the skillet-fried chicken down.

It’s just like I grew up with in Missouri–salt, pepper, dredged in flour, that’s it. It’s taken me a while to get the Korean deep-fried wings as super-crispy as I want, though. Nobody wants any more chicken for supper at my house.” Her house is–literally–just out back February/March 2015 67

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Jim Jennings, who was a Texan; he’d worked with Melissa Kelly. She was still in the Hudson Valley back then, and that’s how he got started, and later how I got started, in locally sourced everything.” Melissa Kelly is the two-time James Beard Best Chef Northeast award-winner who adopted Maine in 2000 when she opened Primo restaurant in Rockland. met my husband John at CIA,” says DiBenedetto. “We were in the same class. In 2000, we opened a little restaurant called Mina in Red Hook. Very small, maybe 30 seats, a few barstools. If you remember Bresca, it was that sort of restaurant. I cooked, and John was up front. He put together a fantastic wine selection. We got mentions in Gourmet, Wine Spectator, Travel & Leisure. The New York Times gave us a

mention. There are a lot of really rich people with second homes in the Hudson Valley. One time, Annie Leibovitz came in with Susan Sontag. Red Hook didn’t look like much back then, but if you drove around you’d see

these amazing houses. I went back to Red Hook and Rhinebeck for a visit last fall. People were shopping at the farmers’ market in high heels with Hermès bags! “We ran Mina for five years. In those days, being locally sourced was a lot of work. There was only one place to get my chickens, one place with cows. I’d have to drive around to one guy for my potatoes and another for my squash blossoms. It was exhausting.” Mina closed in 2005. The DiBenedettos moved on to Milan [locally pronounced ‘my-lin’], another tiny upstate town. “We took over a little diner that had been there forever called Another Roadside Attraction, and we renamed it Another Fork in the Road. The menu was ‘locally sourced diner,’ we made everything from scratch. It was mobbed on weekends. We were a diner, but Philip Seymour Hoffman ate there.” By then the pair lived on a farm with acreage, garden, and critters–dogs, cats, chickens–the whole homestead. Their son Basil was born. “Then my husband died.” Natalie’s voice is quiet. Life as it had been was overturned. Then she rallied and made the decision to find a fresh start. “It was time to downsize. I sold the farm.” She laughs. “To one of those fancy city people! And I turned the diner over to my business partner.” How did this lead to the next leg of her journey, 282 miles to Portland?

y husband and I had visited Portland back around ’98 or ’99. We ate at Fore Street and at a place called Gabriel’s [on Middle Street, now the site of East Ender]. We thought it was kind of

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on Walker Street, overlooking the job site now turning into Figgy’s. She has reduced her daily commute to walking next door. DiBenedetto purchased the pert mansard Victorian known to Portlanders as the Frannie Peabody House when she moved here in 2010. How do you get from the Show Me state to 21st-century Portland’s red-hot food scene? You turn up the burners. “I cooked all through college”–she has a degree in Speech Communications from the University of Missouri–“and by the time I’d graduated I knew I wanted to do it professionally.” o it was off to the Culinary Institute of America (CIA) in Hyde Park, New York, from which she graduated in 1998. Afterward, she went to work farther upstate in Woodstock. “I worked with a man named

a cool city. So in the summer of 2009, after everything had hit the fan, I drove up here. Arlin [Smith] had just started working at Hugo’s. Thanks to his recommendations, I had a great dinner, a great stay, and I started considering the possibility of living here. I started bringing my son up for visits and checking out real estate. I got really lucky on finding my house. “My mother took one look inside and she said, ‘You’re going to have get rid of all your furniture.’ I have all modern stuff. But you know what? It all works.” n the four years since she moved into the Frannie Peabody House, Natalie DiBenedetto, who is now 40, has set about becoming a Portlander. She’s restored the perennial garden in her yard. “I love this house, but my only regret is there’s too much shade for vegetables.” She acquired 722 Congress Street with Yordprom Coffee Shop as her tenant and go-to java joint. Her son Basil (“He’s named for Basil Fawlty, really!”) is now a third-grader at Waynflete. “We do this thing where we hit the road and adopt a town. We’ve done Camden, Rockland. Ellsworth turned out to be surprisingly fun. Damariscotta–what a great place. I could live there. We spent a week last summer in Skowhegan. But I think if I drag my son up Bradbury Mountain one more time…” Like countless West-Enders, she’s become provincial about dining out. “There are so many great places right in the neighborhood! We love Pai Men, Boda, Congress Bar, Ruski’s. We go to Empire. But you know where we go all the time? Hot Suppa–I love that place! Basil always wants the burger, and I’ll have oysters while he eats. Dollar oysters! “One of the first things I did when I started in on my place was talk to those guys [Moses and Alec Sabina, owners of Hot Suppa] and to Leslie [Oster] at Aurora, to reassure them I’m absolutely not competing with them. My food’s not going to be fancy. No fridge cases, no prepared and packaged. You’ll just walk up to the counter and there’ll be the soup of the day to ladle, side dishes scooped from the pots, chicken. That’s it. “It’s going to be a lot of work. Opening a restaurant is work. We’ll see how it goes. One of the things I liked about having a diner was the line. I can work the line for hours. I hate prep, ordering. But set up a row of tickets in front of me and I can go all day.” n

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n he early 1980s I was directing a production of Happy, Birthday Wanda June by Kurt Vonnegut Jr. at åçUSM for a December performance and discovered that Vonnegut’s ending didn’t work very well. I learned that one of the cast members, Mark Rogers, had a family connection with the author and provided me with a mailing address so I wrote to Mr. Vonnegut asking if he would consider making any changes to the ending of his play. It’s worth noting that Happy Birthday, Wanda June had already had a run on Broadway and been made into a movie but undaunted, I suggested a small change might help my production if Vonnegut was willing. I included my phone num-

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ber but truthfully didn’t expect a response. This was before computer email or cell phones so it took three days for my letter to arrive at the author’s home in New York but on the fourth day, my telephone rang. My oldest son, Matthew was a high school senior and coincidentally a devotee of Vonnegut’s novels. He answered the phone and turned to me as I finished my morning prep for leaving to teach. “Dad, it’s Kurt Vonnegut for you.” I’m not sure who was more surprised but I will never forget Matt’s voice as he delivered that simple phrase. You would have to imagine your own literary idol calling to chat without warning or preparation to envision that moment before I took the phone and said, “Good morning, Mr. Vonnegut.” “Kurt,” he said. “Just Kurt.” “I see you don’t like the ending of my play. I never could get that right. What do you want to do about it?” Caught in the moment and feeling a bit light-headed, I told “Kurt” what I had in mind and we threw some ideas back and forth. We spoke for another minute or two until he said “I’ll work on this and get back to you.” We disconnected and I headed to class. Two days later a large manila envelope with my address hand written and Vonnegut’s return address Playwright, director, and in the proper corner aractor Thomas A. Power is a professor in the Theater rived at my door. OverDepartment at USM. night Mail, I think they

called it then. Inside were ten typewritten pages and a brief note from Vonnegut with his phone number and the request that I call with my reaction to the new scene. I read the new scene once, twice and a third time. I didn’t think it would work or solve the problem with the ending of the play. How does one say that to Kurt Vonnegut? So, I gave it a day. On the second day the phone rang and Kurt asked if I got the draft and I assured him that I did have it and then a brief pause until he said, “You didn’t like it.” I beat around that bush a moment and then admitted that it didn’t address the problem. Vonnegut then surprised me by saying “Okay, you write it and send it to me.” o I did. I rewrote the end of the play, sent it by overnight mail to Vonnegut and he called back saying “I like it. Use your ending.” And so we dumped the original ending and rehearsed the new and performed the play at USM and then at a regional festival at Brandeis University. The relationship with Kurt Vonnegut continued for another decade as we met in NYC for lunch and exchanged ideas for plays via snail mail. He sent me his script, Make Up Your Mind, and with the help of actors like Tony Shalhoub, we produced a staged reading of the play which was televised in Maine and later almost opened off Broadway but Vonnegut was not happy with the script and mentioned to me at the time that “writing a novel was much easier and that there was nothing quite as bad as a flawed play ending.” n

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hen the old pilings for the Martin’s Point Bridge were pulled out of the tidal muck beside the new span, cars started slowing down–without the benefit of flaggers. Because it was stunning in a splintery way. Every now and then, life doesn’t just imitate art–it creates it, as though it were a fully funded project with a celebrity talent such as Robert Indiana as a consultant. If we lived in Seattle or Marin County near San Francisco, these talkative poles would still be here–not only tolerated but prized.

ture adds Wendy Klemperer’s nesting osprey sculp . to the feeling that it’s all an art installation

Objet trOuvé Painter and activist-artist Natasha Mayers agrees. “What a lost opportunity! They are wonderfully evocative, the Maine version of totem poles and Australian aboriginal decorated memorial poles. Too bad that nobody spoke up for keeping them. Shame on us.”

Maybe what we need is just one person at the state level, however underpaid, to interrupt public projects when artistic opportunities present themselves. Someone who might have said, “Hold on a second,” as the poles were being taken away. This isn’t the first time Martin’s Point Bridge has become a pop-up gallery. When the Je Sui Charlie signs and French flags as a protest began appearing all over the world, it reminded us that after 9/11, American flags spontaneously sprouted out of the water here on an even older set of pilings. As for where these most recent posts disappeared, “I can’t tell you specifically because they are the property of CPM of Freeport’s subcontractor, who gets salvage rights as part of their contract,” says Carol Morris, the public outreach and information liaison for the $23.5M bridge replacement job overseen by the Maine DOT. “They’re being sold to a third-party who will do whatever he wants with them,” says Peter Krakoff of CPM. “There’s a marine contractor who’s bought them” and plans to refurbish them… “They’ll be reused as pilings…in Maine.” It’s hard not to believe these more recent ones aren’t being whisked away to the Hamptons to decorate a fancy marina/restaurant. Our only consolation is that they’ve got to be stinky. Take that, art world. We have a sinking suspicion we haven’t heard the end of this.n february/March 2015 73

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eekends are absolutely when you see more customers coming out,” says Shanna O’Hea of Academe Restaurant in the Kennebunk Inn, where she’s co-owner and co-chef with her husband Brian. “So the two-week Maine Restaurant Week [MRW] this year is great–because we can package attractions together. The town of Kennebunk has built an ice rink next door; why not a dine, skate, and stay package?” Inspirations like this are labors of love on the eve of Restaurant Week. “Brian and I open a bottle of wine, sit in front of our fireplace, and menu-plan together.” Such brainstorming yields tasty little masterpieces like “Brian’s lobster, corn, and

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cheese empanadas” paired with “chipotle braised beef stew over smoked celeriac puree” as a surf-and turf-entree. “We’ve been flirting with a Chicken Waldorf ravioli, with a Gorgonzola cream sauce, raisin jam, toasted walnuts, and fresh petite grapes and pickled celery. After our trip to Greece, we returned with an idea for Lobster Gyros on homemade pita, with tomato, shallots, avocado tzatziki, and spiced fried potatoes.” hich is not to say they neglect their greatest hits, like their award-winning Maine Lobster Pot Pie. “We offer it as a mini during Restaurant Week, so you can try our signature dish but also try new items we’re excited about.” Such as something daringly sophisti-

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H u n gry EyE cated Brian is playing with: ‘savory cotton candy’ informed by Worcestershire sauce, paired with a smoked strip steak. “Dining out should be fun–revisit your childhood memories” but more thoughtfully, “with adult tastebuds.”

Scottish salmon crowned with a pumpkin seed crust sits on a throne of butternut squash dressed with maple creme at the Good Table in Cape Elizabeth; and fried Maine smelts are served with sauce gribiche (inset).

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By popular demand “We’ll be sure to include are our beloved shaved Brussels sprouts salad [with] dried cranberries, toasted pecans, bacon, and shaved manchego cheese with a champagne mustard vinaigrette,” says Lisa Kostopoulos, who’s owned The Good Table in Cape Elizabeth with her father Tony since 1986. Deeper and darker, there’s “our chef Ryan Weeks’s Pork Schnitzel and Spaetlze–he makes the best–a pounded thin pork chop with a grain mustard and mushroom sauce topped with a roasted apple, bacon, and arugula salad and served with grain-mustard spaetzle. For dessert, we could never leave out the Eskimo Pie–house-made brownie crusts and vanilla ice cream with caramel dipping sauce.

Make this SUMMER count. “You know what? Restaurant Week is a lot of work,” where the Good Table has excelled for years. “And we love it.”

hat about the legendary “Incredible Breakfast” competition, which the Good Table dominated for years with their crème brulée Belgian waffles until Eve’s at the Garden unseated them last year with a pork-belly waffle? “We’ll be there,” says Kostopoulos. Uptown down-home “Last year, bacon-wrapped meatloaf went over big,” says Alec Sabina, co-owner with his brother Moses at Hot Suppa. “And a pork chop with grits.” So why not dare to change? “This year, we’re working on butter-poached wolf fish on lentils with a fennel salad. And a cherry and chestnut stuffed quail.” “It’s a great opportunity to welcome new guests and possibly make it onto their short list of favorite places. In the past we’ve chosen the $25 price point. Most of our [regular menu] entrees are $13 to $21, so we try to stay true to the Hot Suppa dining experience…encouraging the value of our RW menu.” While he loved the “urgency” of the one-week format, there’ll still be $1 oysters at Happy Hour during the two-week stretch, Alec says. “While they last.”

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First time’s a charm When you’re new in town, like sleek Sur Lie on Free Street, all your dishes are creative and new. “The sweet pea hummus, the Chicken Biscuit, and the Brussels sprouts with lardons and marcona almonds are shoe-ins,” says chef Emil Rivera, who learned and earned his restaurant kitchen chops in Puerto Rico and Naples, Florida. “We try to keep it seasonally relevant.”n

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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, 967-8500, 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

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gnon ($19.95) is another success. A carafe of Nicolas Potel Bourgogne Pinot Noir ($20) arrives, and it stands up well to the rich flavors of the most tender beef imaginable in an intense and smoky gravy with hints of bacon and colorful carrots. There’s a good crusty half-baguette to help sop up the juices. We can’t imagine a better choice on a cold blustery night. Other classics on the menu include cassoulet–a duck stew with canelllini beans, sausage, and bacon ($21.95); and the Cordon Bleu crêpe–chicken, Black Forest ham, blue cheese, Swiss cheese, and bechamel ($13.95). We shift to a dessert crêpe of sweet Mascarpone cheese with pear and apple in spiced red wine ($6.95). A reduction of the fruit in the wine poured over the dish is attractive and tasty, and a dollop of whipped cream adds a nice balance. n The Merry Table, 43 Wharf St, Portland. Lunch 11:302:30, Tues-Sat; Dinner 5:15-9pm Tues-Sat; Sunday brunch 11-3pm. 899-4494, themerrytable.com Visit Restaurant Reviews at portlandmonthly.com/ portmag/category/reviews.

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Storm shutters can be opened or closed remotely. as 2013 dawned. Large windows with sweeping water views made visitors feel as if they were standing inside an Eric Hopkins painting. What could have possibly kept them from moving in here? “We haven’t spent a night in this house,” Leo, who is friendly and easy to talk to, marvels. “My wife wouldn’t move in here because we had our place in Biddeford and had also purchased a beautiful Tudor “I didn’t need the money,” Leo says. “I owned Economy Spring and Stamping Co.,” a successful business in Southington, Connecticut, he retired from in 2011. In 1995, he and Irene purchased the incomparable oceanfront lot in Kennebunkport. “A tiny log cabin on stilts” was on the site. “I paid to have it moved.” In May, 2012, the Charettes commissioned the construction of the new 18 Skipper Joe’s Point with a team that included architect “David Graham of Kennebunkport, Jeff Bowley of Bowley Builders of Kennebunk, and interior decorator Nicki Bongiorno of Spaces.” Longtime lovers of the Maine coast (“We’ve had a cottage in Biddeford since 1986”), they watched the house take shape 8 4 p o r t l a n d m o n t h ly m a g a z i n e

home in York.” All the pristine furnishings at 18 Skipper Joe’s Point are included. The Charettes’ decision not to stay here after all is a new buyer’s gain. Does this mean even the dog throne, upholstered in the same fabric as the sofa, has never been occupied? Eighteen Skipper Joe’s Point invites with four spacious bedroom suites, an “octagonal dining room,” a first-floor master suite, and

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e got that chandelier from Antiques on Nine; we rewired it,” says Nicki Bongiorno. “The French antique chandelier in the foyer is crystal.” “It’s 5,481 square feet,” says realtor Denise Hodsdon during a tour of the house. “There’s central vac and air, as well as systems governed by Smart Home Solutions, Inc., of Kennebunk, which means you can control everything from away.” Amid the symphony of blues, teals, and aquamarines, when she hears us wonder out loud, “why leave such a stunning place,” she replies, “Obviously you have other things that are equally as beautiful, I guess.” “The owners have very specific tastes,” says Bongiorno. “It’s a shame [the Charettes didn’t end up staying here] because it’s really her taste. The palette is her colors–colors of the sea but really turned up a notch. She loves turquoise, hot pink, and lime green.” Tiles in the baths are unique to the spaces and artistically deployed (particularly one in a repeating ribbon pattern atop a Pompeii-like mosaic). “All the marble and tile comes from Old Port Specialty Tile. In the master, the tile is Thassos [marble], and the blue Celeste marble is a little more rare–little tiny pieces of cut marble. The owners did not spare anything.” Hodsdon notes the flooring “is oiled rather than varnished–some of it is reclaimed.” The ultra kitchen brings together a “Viking range, Sub-Zero refrigerator…[and] self-closing drawers,” according to the listing. The sixpanel security system has a seventh panel to enable the driveway to sense the arrival of guests, or perhaps the passage of a chipmunk across the impeccable surface. Storm shutters can be opened or closed remotely. Live life on the big screen. Glide into the “two-story foyer, gracious columns, ocean and island views.” Four-hundred amp service. If you’re looking for your car, you’ll have to check behind door number one, two, three, or four. Talk about move-in ready. This time we mean it. Asking price is $3.7M. Taxes are $24,450. n

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eter Ross Perkins and I met in 1953 in New York to serve aboard the U.S.S. Hornet, the eighth ship to bear that name. She’d been launched 10 months after the seventh Hornet was sunk in World War II, but she, too, had seen much action in the war. Now, recalled from retirement, she was ready to serve during and after the Korean War. She was to be launched in all her renewed glory from Brooklyn Naval Shipyard. Peter, three years older and a native Mainer, had attended Deering High School in Portland, where he played for three years in the school band. He’d started at Bowdoin College but after three years had joined the Service the same year I did. I was a yeoman clerk in the Hornet’s Gunnery Division. Peter was a member of the Division as well, but a Fire Control specialist (“fire” as in “ready, aim”). I don’t recall the particular day we got to know one another, but we were soon fast friends. What we saw as fellow crewmembers is still vivid, in flashes. During a port stop in Cuba, we swarmed onto Guantanamo for liberty. I stared at the fish swimming off the pier: a thousand brilliant colors. It was as though I were gazing into a more brilliant version of the aquaria I used to maintain in the sun porch of my father’s parsonage on Windsor Avenue in Meriden, Connecticut. In February, 1954, we visited Haiti, steaming into the harbor between vast, eroded hills and verdurous shoreside farmlands. In Port au Prince, I spent the day on Shore Patrol duty with Peter. Neither of us had any training for it, but our job was to wear SP armbands and wander around town checking into bars and other establishments frequented by sailors, to make sure there were no untoward incidents. Peter’s facility with French came in handy. The marketplace seemed like a page out of a pirate story. We were offered trinkets made of mahogany, teak, and alligator skin. Much of Port au Prince had not changed a whole lot from the days of Henry Morgan– squalid and unspeakably filthy. This merely emphasized the gulf between the truly modern portion of the town where the foreign population lived and did business: tall build-

ings of progressive architecture, exotic nightclubs and hotels, and spic-and-span living districts. Peter and I spent another day wandering around Ciudad Trujillo on the other side of the island, in the Dominican Republic. It seemed a bit more civilized. he Hornet’s Showcase World Cruise took us to Lisbon, Portugal. On liberty, a number of us, Peter included, walked down narrow cobblestoned alleys where lovers were making out in ancient doorways. We went into several fado houses, listened to fado songs, ate olives, and drank wine– the fado was the national music of Portugal, rather like our blues, but quite different rhythmically. It was a beautiful evening. We all swore to keep in touch with one another, exchanging addresses. In May, we put into Naples harbor. We trained to Rome to see St. Peter’s Basilica, the Coliseum, and the Forum, buying gifts for the folks back home–I picked up a pipe carved in the shape of Romulus and Remus suckling the wolf; carved underneath was the legend “R-Roma.” I was surprised by the English pun. Peter and I tried to walk to Mount Vesuvius, with small luck, for it never seemed to get closer. We finally managed to get to Pompeii by train. Unfortunately, by the time we arrived the exhibits were closed, so we dropped into a trattoria and had a big spaghetti meal and half a gallon of chianti. By the time we got back to the ship we–especially I–were in rather rough shape. Aboard the Hornet we passed Stromboli, Sicily, and Italy through the Straits of Messina, pressing on through the Suez. We saw the Pyramids in the distance, sand spreading to

the horizon, and paused at Port Said before sailing to Colombo in what was then called Ceylon and now Sri Lanka. In the Red Sea, Peter and I saw an immense fish sunning beside our ship. The whale shark looked big even beside our carrier. Touring Kandy, our bus stopped at a waterhole where a mahout was giving his charge a drink and letting it cool off by spraying water over its back. He offered us rides, but we were wearing whites, so Peter and I demurred. Other sailors accepted. With its trunk the elephant grasped them in a coil and lifted them to its back. Our friends continued the tour looking something like black-and-white barber poles. The sun was bright when we dropped anchor in Singapore, the city a crescent off our port beam. This was the first time we’d seen junks. Their weather-beaten hulls and matt sails wove between Chinese freighters, Dutch liners, South American and island trading ships, and Yankee tankers. Peter and I took the tour to Johore Bahru on the Malayan mainland. We passed native market places and modern department stores, mosques and a tremendous Church of England; blonde and auburn-haired Englishwomen and swarthy Asiatic girls, all of whom looked perfect to the eyes of sailors. Johore Bahru connects to Singapore by a causeway. Passing from Singapore into its sister city, we left the Occident and entered the Orient. The Sultan’s palace looked huge and golden on our way to the Sultan’s Mosque. Small elephants and chickens seemed the sole inhabitants of its extensive gardens and woods. ack in Singapore, we again sallied out into the streets and alleys. Night was falling. Around us the stone buildings and monuments took on the grey tinge of evening. In the harbor, lights were lit aboard the ships and varicolored flags were furled. The water grew dusky, and the ripples stirred up the ever-moving junks; bumboats glinted in the sunlight reflected from the clouds. Ship silhouettes became black and then indistinct, fading at last into the darkness. We heard the bells of our liberty launch. Crossing the Pacific we ran into an immense typhoon. I don’t know about Peter, but I got seasick riding out this monster blow. When General Quarters sounded, I raced up the tower to my station at Gunnery Control.

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Words As I did so, the escalator stairs beneath my feet fell away and I was floating in mid-air. I kept my balance somehow and came out on the Gunnery Bridge. The great ship was poised on the lip of a simply gargantuan wave, heading down. Our carrier’s hangar-deck doors were a wreck by the time we hit port in Oakland, California. Peter and I decided to build, with permission, a large hi-fidelity set in the ship’s carpentry shop; several of us went ashore to a lumber yard. Returning, we saluted the Officerof-the-Deck with a 4-x-8-foot plywood rectangle balanced on our heads–all four of our sailor caps placed directly over our heads on the plywood… We’d barely tuned our hi-fi in when I received orders to transfer to the Bureau of Naval Personnel in Arlington, VA, while Peter stayed on for a year with the Hornet. The next fall, he returned to Brunswick to finish his BA at Bowdoin. In 1966, he received an MA in French from Middlebury College where he was organist and carillonneur as a graduate student. Later he taught French for more than a decade at several New England schools. I found my way to Maine because my wife’s family is from Dresden Mills, where we stay every summer. We saw Peter a number of times. At one point he opened a home decorations business in, as I recall, Yarmouth, which Jean and I visited one day. Peter and Margaret had two children, Christina and Douglas. Jean and I had a daughter, Melora Ann, and a son, Christopher Cameron, but the two families never got together as a group. Peter dropped out of sight over the years, and not many moons ago a mutual friend, former Deering High alum Priscilla Riley Smith, and I talked about him and we tried to find him, but I couldn’t get him by phone, and we began to assume the worst. At last, Priscilla wrote me the second week of January, 2015: “Although I could not make the picture in today’s paper look like Peter, I know it is he and I am saddened that I was never able to be in touch with him. I was also surprised that he was at Village Crossings in the Cape, where I regularly visit my sister-in-law. I expect you will be inspired to remember him in verse. May he rest in peace with lots of beautiful organ music. –Priscilla.” n

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