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April 2015 | Vol. 30, No. 2

67 Shelter&Design 31 extremes The charms to be found in hotels great and small.

By Kelsey Harrison 83 House of the Month

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The Capt. Ichabod Goodwin House in South Berwick.

88 new england Homes & Living

PersonaLities 67 Down to earth Moonlighting with the dancers of Portland Ballet Company.

By Kelsey Harrison

29 77 Fire & nice I have news for you– Tony Hoagland’s in Portland this month.

Interview by Colin W. Sargent 96 Flash Art&styLe 37 Fractured Fairy tales Custom-tailored weddings– start your own tradition.

From Staff & Wire Reports 95 Fiction “The Weekend” by Allison New

FooD&Drink 63 Hotel Bar safari Get out of town without ever leaving town.

By Claire Z. Cramer

78 L’esprit de L’escalier Franco-American souvenirs.

By Rhea Côté Robbins Maine LiFe

80 Dining guide 81 restaurant review

16 Maine classics 18 goings on 25 chowder

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27 Portland after Dark: Feel the Beat Can’t stop the music in this town.

By Olivia Gunn

TIqA lights up the new Marriott.

12 From the editor 14 Letters

75 Forest city Remember the 20th Century?

Cover: Jenny Johnson dances on Wharf Street. photograph by Jonathan reece April 2015 11

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We at Portland Magazine would like to jump onto the wagon and welcome thinkers to the area. Snippets from members online, below head shots: “I construct nightlife experiences, then I relax.” “I make radio.” “I connect people to art.”

The event itself, “Portlyn,” was conducted at artist Jung Hur’s 173 Neal Street Art Studio from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. As the 2 Degrees Facebook announces, “We have so many members that have moved here from Brooklyn/NYC and we’d like them all to have a place to connect with other Brooklyners and Portland.” Sounds like the usual mixer. Then, here’s where the wheels fall off–a Facebook posting, since vanished, along the lines of, So many people from Brooklyn are moving here, maybe Portland should change its name to Portlyn.

Okay, now what? You mean like in the Viceroy Club in The Second Best Marigold Hotel, where the British expats have dinner with each other to revel in their Britishness? Or in A Passage to India, where there’s an insulated neighborhood of colonials who are terrified of the locals? Really, we natives aren’t going to bite.

One of the questions posed in the Portlyn prospectus for the partiers to dish about was: “What is your Brooklyn haven in Portland?” Well, we’ve already got the Old Port. We successfully shot down the Hooters opening downtown because we didn’t want to look like somewhere else. So would it really be different if we celebrated how we looked like Brooklyn? We should be careful to observe the distinction between a creative economy and a derivative economy.

News flash: There were always creative types here in plaids and Bean boots–long before the New York invasion. We’re here because there’s a here here–something real. That’s what we celebrate here in Portland. We’re so bespoke we don’t even need to bespeak of it.

Maybe Brooklyn should change its name to Brookland.

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A Pen with Maine Roots Find pens from home for thoughts from away. Jason Cohn has the write stuff at Swiss Time on exchange Street. For those times when email just won’t do, these instruments are carved from maine cherry burl, spruce burl, and cedar driftwood and trimmed with assorted metals. and the real piece of history you can sign checks with? Jason offers pens carved from “herbie,” yarmouth’s famous 110-foot tree that succumbed to Dutch elm disease five years ago but lives on as furniture and art objets. $70-$280; swisstime.com

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Chef larry matthews of Back Bay grill, apr. 26; Pocket Brunch, may 10. flanaganstable.com local Sprouts, 649 Congress St., Portland. music Brunch with Sean mencher and friends, every Su.; local Foods networking Breakfast, apr. 21. localsproutscooperative.com old port Wine Merchants, 223 Commercial St., Portland. Wine tasting every third W. 7729463 oldportwine.com restaurant Week, Portsmouth, new hampshire. Portsmouth highlights culinary talent with special lunches, dinners and prix fixe menus, apr. 9-18. portsmouthchamber.com Sweetgrass Farm old port tasting room, 324 Fore St., Portland. maine-made wine, bitters, and spirit tastings all the time. 761-8446 sweetgrasswinery.com the West End deli & Catering, 545 Congress St., Portland. Wine tastings every first F, 6-8pm.

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Dogs and their people raise funds for the american Cancer Society, may 3. relayforlife. org/barkgreaterportlandme Boothbay annual Fisherman’s Festival, Boothbay harbor. a celebration of the working waterfront, featuring trap hauling, codfish relay, miss Shrimp Princess pageant, lobster crate racing and local seafood, apr. 24-26. boothbayharbor.com

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Book launching: mary lawrence, author of the alchemist’s Daughter, reads, discusses, and signs copies, may 1, 6:30 p.m. shermans.com Sugarloaf, 5092 access Rd., Carrabassett Valley. Bud light Reggae Fest, apr. 9-12; east Coast Pond Skimming Championships, apr.

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Dr. Sundance Kid Actor, director, and two-time Academy Award winner Robert Redford is scheduled to deliver the commencement address at Colby College’s commencement May 24. The “godfather of independent film”–and grandfather of Colby ’15 graduate Conor Schlosser–was The Natural choice for Colby, which owns the indie Railroad Square Cinema in Waterville.

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Lovely Monster Thompson’s point is the terra nova of the first grove of “Trees of 40 Fruits,” developed and grafted by Syracuse University professor Sam Van Aken. When mature, each tree will bloom in shades of pink and white and produce 40 varieties of stone fruits, including peaches, plums, nectarines, cherries, and almonds from late summer into early fall. He’s preserving antique and heirloom varieties from an historic stone fruit orchard in Geneva, New York, and giving them a new destiny.

Molto Maestros Portland Symphony Orchestra celebrates its 90th anniversary on May 2 at Merrill Auditorium. Talk about passing the baton: All living past music directors will join present director Robert Moody in a gala concert. Experience Beethoven’s Egmont Overture via Paul Vermel; Respighi’s Fountains of Rome via Bruce Hangen; Hindemith’s Symphonic Metamorphosis via Toshiyuki Shimada, and Strauss’s Also Sprach Zarathustra via Maestro Moody.

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Subterranean bluegraSS fter a week of overtime and not enough metime, I’m breaking my own rules and going out on a weeknight. Jerks of Grass is playing at Bramhall, and it’s just in time. All work, no play, and just the thought of snow in April makes anyone a dull Mainer.

It’s Thursday night and the house is packed.

While there’s still a chill outside, everyone’s ready to warm up here with some good pickin’.

Jerks is a local bluegrass band comprised of Jason Phelps, Melissa Bragdon, Carter Logan, and Kris Day. They are a Portland favorite, obvious by tonight’s crowd.

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her as she and my uncles played old favorites. This night is another sweet reminder that Portland has more going on than just foodie tours.

Around midnight I’ve had my fill, even though the band is just getting hot. I work my way up to the bar and pay the tab. Heading up the stone steps into a warming spring night, I can still hear the fiddle and it follows me all the way home.

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Eventually our group orders drinks, and it’s not long before friends are nudging me to dance, but all I want to do is sit back and listen. I grew up with bluegrass. My grandmother’s entire family played regularly at mountain reunions and family holidays.

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don’t think Every Wednesday, Empire hosts a Clash of the Titans, when local musicians have the opportunity to play the hits of famous artists and bands in a face-off between two icons per week. This is now a weekly celebration of pop culture and the talent of Portland that’s covered everyone from Tom Petty vs. Creedence Clearwater to Etta James vs. Aretha Franklin, but it wasn’t until recently that I was inspired to attend. I just couldn’t resist Bob Dylan battling Neil

Young in a city that loves them both and at a time when their music rings too true.

It’s 9:30. The dim venue is nearly packed with a crowd of all ages–from baby boomers who know The Freewheelin’ by heart to fresh-faced college students who found their way to Dylan after discovering the Black Keys. They’re all here and easily distinguished, but it doesn’t matter at all.

First up is Neil Young played by Bob Ray, and he opens with “Powderfinger,” a treat for the seasoned crowd. Ray’s band comes naturally to Young’s music and has me picturing these grown men playing Neil Young in a garage after school long ago, long-haired and just stoned enough.

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Shayfer James (left) sits in with the Dark Follies at Bull Feeney’s. we’re all in a rhythmic hypnosis. Several generations, each all too familiar with the concept of war. Maybe it’s not the average millennial’s hump-day celebration, but I’ve got to say, protest songs need a comeback.

After two favorites–“Heart of Gold” and “Subterranean Homesick Blues”–I head home, back to 2015, where the songs from 40 years ago matter more than ever. edgy Variety “Gypsies, Tramps, and Thieves” plays in my head as I enter the second-floor back room at Bull Feeney’s following a parade of jingling belly dancers. On stage sit three members of the vaudeville group who call themselves the Dark Follies–Lady Selcouth, Solange, and Stephen Carpenter, among others. Known for their street performances, the Dark Follies celebrate storytelling, music, side-show acts, and really anything else you can shape into a performance piece. Also on stage are special guests Shayfer James, a Harlem-based performer who happens to be passing through Portland, and local spoken-word artist Samuel Hunter Mercer.

All the performances intertwine. At times James plays along as Selcouth or another performer does a solo dance or the audience joins in a song praising beer led by Madame Sinclair. Each act feels strange, imperfect, but exciting. It’s almost as if I’m at the Kit Kat Club awaiting Sally Bowles.

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Bar Harbor Regency

With 278 guest rooms, the Holiday Inn Resort Bar Harbor, Acadia National Park, also known as the Bar Harbor Regency, is the largest hotel in the Pine Tree state.

“We have a heated outdoor pool and jacuzzi, putting green, lighted tennis courts, fitness room, and free local transportation on the Island Explorer,” says general manager Eben Salvatore. There’s a gated marina in Frenchman’s Bay. On-site restaurants are La Bella Vita with fancy Italian and a Stewman’s Lobster Pound for the shore dinner experience.

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Anchorage Inn, York Beach

“Our outdoor pool is located directly on Long Sands Beach with a view of Nubble Lighthouse,” says Caitlynn Ramsey. “We’re family oriented,” and quite near York’s Wild Kingdom and Kittery Premium Outlets. “Room prices depend on the date range, but in-season August rates range from $207 to $605 per night plus tax.” There are 202 rooms, suites, and lofts here; two indoor pools, a whirlpool spa; a children’s pool; and a fitness center.

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“We’ve got a marina connected to the property. You can have brick-oven flatbread pizza delivered hot to your yacht, where you overlook the Porcupine Islands in Mt. Desert Narrows.” There are 193 guest rooms here, a heated pool, hot tub, lighted tennis courts, fitness center, and full-service spa. he historic Bar Harbor Club is part of Harborside, where all the events and weddings are held, overlooking Frenchman’s Bay. We have our own shopping village–quaint little shops. They lead to our pound, Stewman’s Lobster Pound.” And if you want to be out on the bay: “We’re also partners with the Bar Harbor Whale Watch company, a few steps from the hotel.”

La Bella Vita serves a rustic stew of Maine lobster and seafood with grilled ciabatta and saffron rouille. “My favorites are the two-pound, butter-poached jumbo Maine lobster and the brick oven pizzettes,” says Torrey.

“We’ve got a rustic Italian hand-cut pasta dish, Pappardelle Farnese,” says executive chef Ryan Phillips. “We braise short ribs with Barolo wine, wild mushrooms, and veal stock to make a ragu for the pasta, and we finish the dish with unfiltered olive oil and shaved pecorino.”

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“Our resort overlooks Rockland Lighthouse on Penobscot Bay and the 18-hole golf course is championship level,” says Cornelius “Connie” Russell, general manager. The links attract celebrity athletes. “We’ve had Bobby Orr, K.C. Jones, Pat Riley, Tommy Lasorda, and Ted Williams as guests. Also John Travolta, Mel Gibson, Stephen King, Joan Benoit Samuelson, and Joe Biden.”

Here you’ll find 178 guest rooms, indoor and outdoor pools; a full-service spa; and an ‘Ultimate Back Yard’ with on-site Samoset Kids Club, offering morning and evening hours of child superviThe Samoset’s golf course is one of its star attractions. sion. There are tennis and volleyThere’s also a separate ‘disc-golf’ course. ball courts and a nine-hole disc 3 2 p o r t l a n d M o N T H ly M A G A z i N E

golf course. The resort is in the same OPAL Collection of hotels as the Harborside.

La Bella Vita is the on-site restaurant headed by executive chef Tim Pierce; there’s also an Enoteca Lounge, and a Clubhouse Grille.

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The rooms appear to have the most fanciful wallpaper. But in fact, “the walls are all hand-painted by various artists,” says Steve. “There’s so much art here.”

“We’re open year-round, so we see repeat guests. We get a surprising number of guests from Texas, and from England, for some reason. But the majority of our people come from Massachusetts.”

Eight guest rooms (including 1 suite). rates, depending on timing, range from $149 to $399.

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Cliff House Resort & Spa, Ogunquit

“The views are fantastic,” says general manager Gerard Kiladjian. “Every room [there are 166] has an ocean view–our guests leave their balcony doors open at night so they can hear the waves crashing

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“it’s worth the trip,” says innkeeper ruth Mclaughlin, who with husband Dan has owned and operated Blair Hill inn for 18 years. “The sun’s out today, and i can see from Canada to Sugarloaf.”

The hotel overlooks Moosehead lake; amenities include complimentary breakfast and in-room spa services. There are gardens, a greenhouse; and a catch-andrelease trout pond on the grounds.

Blair Hill is open from mid-May to the end of october. “our guests come for the beauty, and they come from all over–England, France, Norway, Australia, israel. We had two women walk in once– as soon as you walk into the inn the lake is right there in front of you–and one of them said, ‘oh! i feel so ashamed!’ i ask her what on Earth for, and she said, ‘We live in southern Maine and we had no idea how beautiful it is here.” “our guests like to hike; kayak; canoe; and take seaplane tours, pontoon boat cruises, and cruises on the historic Katahdin steamboat. Moosehead is the largest lake east of the Mississippi that’s contained within one state.” The inn contains a fine-dining restaurant that opens in mid-June and welcomes the public Thursday, Friday, and Saturday nights.

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on the rocks. And the views get even better in bad weather!”

You’re perched on the edge of Bald Head Cliff on 70 oceanfront acres with two indoor and two outdoor pools; two hot tubs; fitness center; tennis courts; full-service spa; and a 150-seat amphitheater. Rates range from $150 in the off-season to $415 in peak season for a Spa room.

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“We headed off to Goose Rocks on the trolley for family and bridal-party photos. We saw this group of fishermen walking by, and they were happy to oblige.”

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“Meg and Nate’s perfect bea ch wedding took a slight turn due to weather,” says Kehn. Plan B was bare feet for everyon e and the biggest umbrella for the bride (in pale pink).

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Maine adventure,” says photographer Kate McElw nd torrential rain! , a campfire party with s’mores and fireworks–a in the distance. There was whitewater rafting ! paddle mptu impro an voilà– and ” Finally the sun came out…

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Is there something every single bride asks for without fail?

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What do you dread hearing when the planning process begins?

That the couple hasn’t given the ceremony a lot of thought. The marriage part of a wedding is immensely important!

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Many of the couples I work with don’t live in Maine. They may have ties to Maine–they went to summer camp here or they grew up here–but they’re planning a wedding from out of state and want a destination wedding weekend for their friends and families. Venues that can accommodate guests or multiple weekend events are definitely popular– think summer camps and private homes available for week-long rentals.

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1) The bride’s favorite spot in a park she visited when she was a little kid.

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How did you get into the wedding planning business?

I have a BFA–I studied art, painting, and art education in college. I’ve always had a strong interest in design and fashion, and I love entertaining. It wasn’t until my sister got engaged and I helped her plan a destination wedding that I realized wedding planning and design brought most of my interests together.

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What’s the best band experience you’ve seen?

One of the best bands was Search Party out of Boston. They had a male and female vocalist with amazing voices. Every single person at that wedding danced the entire night.

Another great one is The High Spirits, a husband and wife duo with really great energy who are perfect for ceremonies, cocktail receptions, and smaller spaces. They describe themselves as country soul, but they play everything from Prince to Jay Z, mixed in with some of their own original songs. n

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That’s easy. First, there’s the thrilling illusion that you’re a sophisticated traveler visiting the super-hot dining destination city of Portland. This is followed by the smug knowledge that you live here, and all these other people don’t.

(That is, until you start bumping into people you know, fellow escapists seeking the same illusion…)

A ‘Tini AT The Top Spring arriving a little too late for your liking? Here’s a tip. Push away

from your desk at 5 p.m. one night this week and head for High Street. Let the all-glass doors whoosh open and sweep you into the lobby of the Westin Portland Harborview.

Stride across the polished, twinkling lobby like you own the joint, punch the elevator button, and select ‘15’ once you’re inside.

You’re going all the way up.

The Top of the East is a guaranteed attitude adjustment, no matter how many times you’ve been there. Seeing Portland from way up is a thrill. The Channel 6 signal tower is right there, along with Back Cove, Portland Harbor, the bridge. A platoon of bartenders in black shirts & ties and cocktail waitApril 2015 63

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It’s a mezcal-based concoction involving cranberry tea and Gran Marnier. “The most popular is probably the Portland Sour.

It’s really good, too–Double Cross vodka, lemon, brown sugar, and port.” The menu of intricate specialty cocktails ranges in price from $10 to $15. But we’ve come for happy hour, so we choose unbranded drinks. Alexandra strains one vodka martini and one cosmo into martini glasses of the size Joan Collins used to wave around on Dynasty.

The glasses are frozen, the first sips bracing, and the happy hour price for each is just $6.

A small dish of spicy, salty, crunchy things appears before us.

Within minutes of our arrival, groups of friends, travelers, and clusters of business folk have touched down in droves, nearly filling the vast space.

“You can’t rent the entire room, but we have lots of smaller parties here, pretty much every night,” says Alexandra. One flock of about 30 near us is perched on bar stools around a long, high island; they’re snacking on fresh, house-made potato chips and dips.

Alexandra’s name tag includes the information that her passion is dance. Her posture and movements are graceful, so we inquire.

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under Milk STreeT “We make a lot of espresso martinis,” says Ben Bragdon, a bartender at the Armory Lounge. The wood-paneled cave is tucked downstairs at the Portland Regency; if you’ve been there, you know what a valued hideaway it is to Portlanders.

“That’s our most popular cocktail right now. On Fridays and Saturdays at cocktail hour, groups of friends come in and we just line up the glasses and make batches of them.” The Armory has a martini menu,

The Hyatt’s glittery Glass Lounge is a good spot to pause for reflection.

but most of the drinks on it are the antithesis of the lean, dry cocktails of Turner Classic Movies. It’s all about the sugar nowadays. Flavored vodkas, dashes of Frangelico, Cointreau, infused simple syrups–even maple syrup–dominate. The espresso martini consists of Stoli Vanil, Kahlua, Bailey’s, and chilled espresso. “The Almond Joy’s been a favorite for ages, too,” says Bragdon. “And the Apple Crisp and Chocolate Cake Martini. People who don’t want it too sweet like the Blood l’Orange–it’s tart, and finished with a little champagne.”

Whatever happened to the craft beer craze or a decent glass of pinot noir?

“I mean, we sell wine and beer,” says Bragdon. “But we’re making cocktails here.”

by library-like shelves lined with bottles and glassware. The hotel’s prime location on the corner of Fore and Union streets seems ideal for visitors to city food events.

“It’s not really about restaurant week or things like that. People just really want to eat in Portland. We make reservations all the time. But when they ask, can I get them into Fore Street tonight?” She laughs and shakes her head. “That’s like a two-months-ago situation.”

James, a waiter, pauses at the bar. “We have a really nice woman who lives here, in the West End. She stays with us for a night every month or so.” He smiles conspiratorially. “She likes to get away.”

FiShbowl on Fore STreeT By comparison, Glass–the bar at the new Hyatt Place–feels the most like a traveler’s super-modern way station. If not for the reassuring sight of Gorgeous Gelato across the street you might be sipping that Smoking Glass Manhattan in the VIP lounge at Any Airport USA. It’s all straight edges, cold surfaces, and a solid wall of windows. Three rectangular columns of marbled blue plastic arranged behind the bar between mirrors–all of which climb to a very high ceiling–make the room look like a giant aquarium at night when the columns are illuminated. The underwater sensation is reinforced with a spectacular ceiling fixture in shades of gold and orange that resembles a mass of floating kelp ribbons overhead.

“We show movies from the ’60s and ’70s on the flat screen,” says the beverage manager, Josh Miranda. “Things like American Graffitti–it’s a lot of fun. We definitely get a local crowd in here. This is the Old Port, right on Fore Street. This is Broadway.” n

TeMpTATion A walk up a steep, carpeted staircase delivers you into Portland Harbor Hotel’s plush reception area, which flows seamlessly into the restaurant and bar. ve’s at the Garden overlooks the hotel’s inner courtyard through a wall of glass, one of the city’s best views from a restaurant table. The restaurant, bar, and lobby are a pleasing mix of wood, leather, brown corduroy, and muted terracotta and orange upholstery. Loveseats flank a fireplace where flames dance above a zenlike pile of oval beach rocks. A dowager sits in a wing-back armchair at a window table, flanked by what appear to be her son and daughter-in-law; they’re having prosecco. Guests are coming, going, dining, drinking–it’s a movie set for a travel story.

Eve’s bar has a happy hour from 4 to 7 p.m., Sunday through Thursday, during which time Sugar & Spice White Russians and Passion Fruit Martinis go for $5 and the Bar Bites menu offers such treats as Merguez Sausage Empanadas for $13.

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Anytime, anywhere. In an arts town like Portland, look over your shoulder and we’ll be there.

A professional ballet dancer explains.

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Jonathan Reece

T Amelia Bielen takes a jewelry-box ballerina pose-en-pointe on Park Street.

hey’re always surprised they hadn’t caught it before. Afterward, they’re apt to say they recognized a certain grace in our movements or poise in our posture–or even the slightly turned-out feet that is a ‘tell’ for a ballerina, but initially we’re viewed only through the context in which we’re encountered. ‘We’ are the professional company dancers of Portland Ballet Company, and ‘they’ are our coworkers, clients, coeds, and the general public we meet–stardust optional–on a daily basis at our conventional jobs.

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Kaitlyn Hayes arches over Back Cove at sunrise before heading off to make smoothies at Maine Squeeze in the Public Market House in Monument Square. Colleen stops traffic on Exchange Street when she isn’t mixing a mean mocktail (below) at Vena’s Fizz House around the corner on Fore Street.

Derek Clifford flies through the air, below left.

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toward this change of heart. “When one of my students got her first A of the year on a geometry exam, her mother cooked her a celebration dinner and brought me a helping. Watching my students gain confidence and succeed is the ultimate reward.” daIly ConCoCtIonS Whether she’s painting, choreographing, or mixing drinks, the outcome is always intended a work of art for Colleen Edwards.

“As a dancer, that’s what we do every day– create something from nothing–and I try to bring that experience to other branches of my life.” Here at ground level, Edwards works at Vena’s Fizz House, the Old Port soda bar and shop, where she’s developed a close relationship with the shop’s owner, Johanna Corman. Corman’s enthusiasm for Colleen’s ballet training has led her to seek her unique input on beverages. To promote Vena’s and Portland Ballet Company’s annual production of The Victorian Nutcracker at the holidays, Colleen organized a successful fundraiser called Tonics and Tutus, creating drinks like Sugar Plum Fizz Fairy, Spanish Hot Chocolate, Arabian Coffee, and White Chocolate Peppermint Russian Fizz. Why not give their palates a twirl?

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thE arEa undEr thE CurvE “Math is undeniably linked to dance,” says Erica Diesl. A stretch? After eight years tutoring students in all levels of math, Erica logically defends her hypothesis: “Dancers are constantly using geometry. We make shapes–both with our bodies and in relation to the other dancers on stage.

We merge with symmetry, lines, and angles. We memorize movement patterns and count music.” Working at The Study Hall in Scarborough, Erica is often asked, ‘Why do I have to learn this?’ While she admits that graphing sine curves rarely resurfaces in adulthood, “Math has a sneaky way of showing up in unexpected places, from the rhythm and patterns in music to the formations and lines on stage.” It’s this ability to relate subject matter on a personal level that resonates with the students she tutors; in turn, they align their excitement with their work. Few moments are more gratifying for Erica than leaping

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ShakE It up aitlyn Hayes loves to break the fourth wall and meet with audience members face-to-face. An assistant manager at Maine Squeeze Juice Café in the Public Market House, she can sometimes be seen sporting Portland Ballet attire on the job.

When another Market House vendor realized he’d beheld her on stage at Merrill Auditorium in The Victorian Nutcracker, “he thought it was nice to see me out of my element.” Or is she in her element? She’s absolutely in performance mode at the smoothie café, too, recognizing regulars and memorizing their orders the way she remembers choreography months after it’s rehearsed.

“People are intrigued when they discover I dance. Customers who know always ask me how my ‘dance life’ is going.”

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GraCEful CoaCh “I grew up in a family of talented field hockey players,” says Morgan Sanborn with a shrug. “My mother, her three sisters, and two of my cousins all played and coached.”

At Bonnie Eagle High in Standish–mystical field-hockey terrain–she balanced training in Portland School of Ballet’s pre-professional CORPS program with playing on the varsity squad. After college, she joined Portland Ballet while keeping a leg in her sport by coaching for her alma mater. “In addition to helping players with flexibility and conditioning, my dancing has increased my ability to understand field positioning, angles, and strength in body positioning.” More recently, her aunt, USM’s head coach Bonny Brown-Denico, hired Morgan as an assistant coach for the women’s team there, where she’s been for two seasons. Last year, on a hiatus from Portland Ballet to dance with Teatrul Balet de Sibiu in Romania, Morgan was unfazed when a choreographer derisively remarked on her arm mus-

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culature. “I took it as a compliment,” she says. “My cross training in sports has always helped me with dance and vice versa.” thE polymath approaCh “In the creative process, you must be open to following the path that reveals itself,” says Derek Clifford. Having danced on stages at the Lincoln Center and Kennedy Center; having toured in Scotland, Germany, and Belgium; and having once held a job as a fishing guide in Alaska to support his artistic endeavors, Derek has embraced the road less traveled. Currently, the married father of four works in the operating room at Maine Medical Center as an orthopedic medical device manufacturer’s sales rep. This position frequently places him in front of audiences for training and sales presentations as well as directly into hospital operatories mid-procedure, and that’s when his performance experience kicks in.

“Being in surgery is similar to performing.

You need to be calm under pressure, and able to adapt instantly to the unexpected.

You must have very keen awareness of your physical movements in the O.R. I find it akin to learning choreography.” He’s one of the few male dancers in the company: “People with any connection to the arts are often interested and understand it is a legitimate, if difficult, profession.”

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Erica Diesl dances along the city’s favorite graffito on Free Street. In her civilian life, she’s a math whiz and tutor.

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So how is it she ended up tending bar at Rosie’s Restaurant & Pub in the Old Port on Friday nights? In short, because much of dance involves acting. In the title role in Giselle, for example, Jennifer segued from passionate love to maddening grief to gentle despair in a way that was both conceivable and compelling. Early in her career, she met a cook who taught her to parlay that skill in front of an audience into her work at the bar.

From that moment on, “Every shift became a performance, and Jen-the-Sassy-Cocktail-Waitress became a character I could slip into with increasing ease. Years later, I still get sweaty palms [greeting strangers], but I slip into performance mode and off I go.

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Per form an c e strength and creativity ballet has taught us to any workplace without losing our composure may be our greatest asset.

Recognizing this, other organizations have approached Portland Ballet to hire professional dancers. River Arts Center in Damariscotta has organized a gathering for artists to paint members of the company in a Degas-inspired modeling session. Maine State Music Theatre has run a series of commercials to advertise their past season featuring three PBC members. The environmental Bloom Association has produced an anti-deep-sea-trawling video that features our CORPS director.

One day, ballet fan Guila Fakhoury approached the company with a unusual request, which is how I found myself at the Sheraton Portsmouth Harborside Hotel one July, performing at her wedding reception… ellow PBC members Amelia Bielen, Colleen Edwards, and Deborah Grammatic, and I needed to reassure the bride-to-be as much as ourselves about the wedding at which we’d soon be entertaining. The bride had dreamed of a “white tutus, classical music” piece, as well as something “more upbeat and salsa-esque” for the reception. None of us had ballroom training, as we explained at the meeting, but being a ballet dancer is a process of becoming– and knowing your audience. We found red dresses in PBC’s costume room, put on Michael Buble’s “Save The Last Dance For Me,” and emulated the Spanish flair that crackles in ballet classics such as Paquita and Don Quixote–to much laughter and applause.

Buoyed by our joyful reception at Guila’s wedding reception–when PORTpera contacted Portland Ballet a few months later, looking for a high-stepping, chorus line dance piece to set the tone at their fundraiser gala–I signed on without hesitation.

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Prize-winning poet Tony Hoagland kicks off the Words Matter visiting poets series at USM’s Hannaford Hall this month.

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ou’re clearly “from away.” Your poetry makes universal connections. But which of your poems comes closest to addressing a Maine state of mind?

I lived in Waterville for quite a number of years and taught some classes at the University of Maine in Farmington; I remember making the drive from Waterville to Farmington on back roads in the dead of winter, without snow tires.

Sometimes my old Honda would spin out three times, and I was still trying to get to class on time. That was an amazing car. But I learned a lot about sentence structure from the trees.

My poems don’t really have a region attached to them. They are more about human nature and trying to stay alive in general, and about the merchandized environments of American culture. But “Migration” is a poem I wrote while I was living in Maine, and it says something about just carrying on. My friend Marie was waiting to hear from an adoption agency at the time.

first place. But Robinson embodies a tough American pragmatism in the way he uses language, as well as in his choice of subject matters. I respect him. If he were alive, I’m sure he would be wearing plaid flannel, and duck boots from L.L. Bean.

Do you like to live dangerously? Will there be a poem you perform here that’s less than a week old?

Life is always dangerous; we just stop noticing it. When I was young I bungey-jumped from bridges and rode motorcycles. Now, my

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Please tell us, as only you can tell us, about your first visit to Maine. When did it happen, and what happened?

I was about twenty two. I was in love with a woman whose family lived up here, but I didn’t want to admit that I was following her.

It was summer time, so I moved outside of Rockport and got a job in the sardine canning factory there. I rented a room in a house with a bunch of other oddballs. At the end of the day, I would come home covered in fish scales of course. I would take off every piece of clothing, stiff with fish-juice, by the back door and hose myself off in the back yard.

Then I would go into the house and take a serious shower. The funny thing was that you can never really get the fish smell from under your fingernails, so every time I raised my hand to my face I could smell the sardines. That was when I realized that if you worked at a fish canning factory, you pretty much had to marry someone else who worked there. The dating pool was small.

How might a different person sum up your first visit to Maine?

A brilliantly conceived and executed debacle.

Edna St. Vincent Millay, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Edwin Arlington Robinson, Robert Lowell (summers at Damariscotta Mills–“Skunk Hour” is set here), Amy Clampitt, William Carpenter, Heather McHugh, Richard Blanco.

Beyond Maine as a collective, what do you think these poets have in common?

I don’t think these poets have very much in common. Maybe substance abuse? Bipolarity? Seasonal Affective Disorder? The only one to whom I would grant full Maine status would have to be E.A. Robinson, truly.

His poems are about real people struggling to stay alive, and he grants a poignancy and dignity and vividness to what most would consider “little” lives. As a poet he is a romantic existentialist; dark, but with a sense of humor, too–that seems like a Maine sensibility. Robert Lowell would never have noticed E.A. Robinson at a cocktail party, and Robinson would not have attended it in the

idea of adventure is to open my mouth and say what I think, using as many metaphors as possible. You’d be surprised how much trouble you can get into in this way. And in an era when most public speech is cagey, castrated, and ironic, or trying to manipulate you, poetry should embody a kind of recklessness, frankness, and mirth.

Maine is beyond the Pale. When do you know your writing is venturing beyond the Pale?

This year Marie drives back and forth from the hospital room of her dying friend to the office of the adoption agency.

I bet sometimes she doesn’t know what threshold she is waiting at– The hand of her sick friend, hot with fever; the theoretical baby just a lot of paperwork so far.

But next year she might be standing by a grave, wearing black with a little splash of banana vomit on it, –the little girl just starting to say Sesame Street and Cappucino latte grande, Mommy.

The future ours for awhile to hold, with its heaviness– and hope moving from one location to another like the holy ghost that it is.

For me, I suppose that happens when I find myself writing some true thing that no one wants to hear–maybe not even me. There’s a kind of clean violence that is like breaking through bramble in the woods. And there is so much about human life, and about America, that is never spoken of–such an abundance of subject matter–to be that kind of poet is like being a flea on a big, fat dog, and saying “Bad Dog! Bad Dog!” Then you laugh, and take another bite. n Words Matter: Poetry and Conversation with Tony Hoagland, Colby College professor Peter Harris, and Portland poets Marcia F. Brown and Bruce Spang, is April 16 at USM’s Hannaford Hall in Portland; $25 includes an author’s cocktail reception at 6 p.m. and program at 7; mainepoetrycentral.com April 2015 77

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The Golden Ticket Maïeutique: The birthing of words on a page as a way

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y brother was moving and asked if I wanted the two boxes of documents from my parents’ home.

Going through them, I find my maman’s and her twin–jumelle’s–official birth registry with the name of the sagefemme who’d assisted in the birth of my mémère’s 15th and 16th children coming into this life. Venue au monde = née. [Come into the world = born.] Mémère would later birth her 17th child following the twins. The twins were Rita and Rhea St. Germain; a generation later, the twins named their daughters after their twin…I am the only one living of the four of us.

In those boxes are many family documents, but the birth registry certificate stands out as the golden ticket. Proof of a past that somehow got waylaid. Untransmitted. The reasons for the silences, silencing of the family stories, are profuse–but real and very hollowing. A life without a story middle. All loose ends and no center, and here I hold one proof of the verity of the story birthed. The Franco-American Story now told.

One birth registry revealing the name of the sage-femme electrifies the dead circuits, alleviating the mystery long latent. I feel story-blessed. One piece of paper with rituals revealed, an entire cadre of life stories attached. n

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Traveling first to Lebanon, we’re dazzled by a puree of red lentils ($6) gorgeously garnished with a crunchy celery root salad.

Complimentary house-made pita, served with bowls of olive oil and za’atar spice mixture, could not be a better accompaniment to this satisfying dish.

Next is Portugal, for the beautiful Bacalao ($12), luscious cream-braised salt cod whipped with potatoes and olive oil, and topped with the most tender calamari we have ever, ever encountered.

A friendly debate ensues over our next destination: Africa or Palestine? The latter wins, although the Chicharrón ($12)–chorizo cured pork belly with fried jalapenos and raisin vinaigrette–is hard to forgo. Ah, but the Kibbeh Nayyeh ($12), a round mound of richly seasoned ground raw beef and lamb, served with toasted za’atar crisps, is the stuff dreams are

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Tunisia follows with Harissa Lamb ($16), a skewer of five good chunks of char-grilled meat. The tender lamb’s flavors are enhanced by perfectly seared squares of marinated eggplant, tomatoes, and green onions.

We land at our next haven, Sicily. Here we discover Coda Brasto Del Libano ($22), a heavenly mixture of sumac-braised beef with pappardelle seasoned with turmeric and topped with dukkah, a crumbly nut and spice mix. The pasta is divine–the dish works like a charm.

Our voyage finishes on a bright note with Knafeh ($7), a savory Palestinian cheese custard wrapped in crispy kataifi– perfect with our last sips of a full-bodied Whiplash Zinfandel from Lodi, ($26).

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“This weekend we’ll be spit roasting an 18-pound turkey for friends, says seller Matthew Bennett of Matthew Bennett International, a world expert on stamps, paper ephemera, and rare books. So deeply do he and his wife, Paula Bennett, love this house, she’s written a book about it that’s on the eve of publication, A Memoir of My Eighteenth Century House and its Inhabitants.

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ies baked in the oven and soup made in a cast-iron pot suspended from what Matthew likes to call “Ichabod’s Crane.”

Novelist Sarah Orne Jewett (The Country of the Pointed Firs), who was a close neighbor, “was over here all the time, visiting her very good friend Elizabeth Hayes Goodwin [1895-1992], who was one of Ichabod’s descendants.”

Another Goodwin family member, also Ichabod, was the 27th governor of New Hampshire, from 1859-1861. t’s not just the five generations of Goodwins who made history here that is magical. Because the 1742 house was joined by a handsome 1795-97 addition with facade and still later by “what we call the Railroad House,” Matthew says, “built sometime in the 1960s,” a visitor gets the astonishing sensation of stepping between centuries. Upstairs in the four-bedroom house, a single step takes you from 1997 to 1866; downstairs, you can step from 1742 to the 21st century in the form of a dreamy Parisian kitchen featuring marble counters, a Lacanche French stove, and Christopher Peacock cabinetry.

“When Captain Ichabod Goodwin built the 1742 house, we believe the Spencer Tavern was on the site as well,” Paula says. “Ichabod Goodwin earned his rank by raising a militia for the French & Indian War. He was in shipping, a blacksmith, a gentleman farmer. When he took over the Spencer Tavern, it had Tudor windows with diamondshaped mullions. We know this because archaeological digs have unearthed melted window hardware and lead from the glass from both the old Spencer Tavern and different evidence of burned Georgian sash windows–both from a fire of 1794.”

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“When we were conducting renovations, we opened a wall and found this,” Matthew says of a fragment of ancient crockery in a pumpkin color. “Do you see the curve on it? That means it was about [he spreads his arms to a diameter of three feet] and shallow, probably a milk setting pan where the butterfat rises to the top to be skimmed off as cream.”

Following this discovery, the first dig for relics began, circa 2012.

Among the finds around the tavern base was a 332-year-old Spanish real (a fragment of a piece of eight–see our story “Lucky Strike,” September 2012). Twenty-five-yearold Whitney Parrish, the volunteer who happened on the coin, marveled of her first dig, “I could have been anywhere,” but she was here. “It’s a right place, right time thing.”

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A light breeze lifted her hair.

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The kayak jerked with violent motion.

Panicked she began paddling to shore.

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Something was under the boat. She was about to flip.

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