Portland Monthly Magazine April 2016

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PerSPectIveS 8 From the editor 10 Letters 89 L’esprit de l’escalier “Dépaysement”

By Rhea Côté Robbins MaIne LIFe 12 Maine classics 15 experience 20 chowder 23 Portland after Dark:

“Let’s Dance” Release the dancers! Dance class as a transition to nights on the town.

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Shelter&DeSIGn 27 redefining Getaways

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90 Dining Guide 91 restaurant review

71 Kings row Meet a real urban legend.

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75 two For the ages Fort Gorges, meet your twin sister, Fort Sumter.

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93 House of the Month A West End town house with plenty of pedigree.

94 new england Homes & Living

Cover: Time for a midnight swim at the Spruce Point Inn–see page 27 for more. photo by Vincent lawrence, Acadia images.

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et’s set the perfect mood for the summer ahead by understanding sand.

You may wonder if sand really needs an “update.” But if dazzling, windswept beaches are important to you, if you dare to let your friends know Forethat Street 14x11 oil on canvas inShadows, your private moments (while dipping

by Madeleine Hopkins your imagination into a great book, while summoning the image of your footprints across countless summers, while re-watching any Nicholas Sparks movie) you may be an arenophile, read on.

The quick answer to “what is sand” is “silicon dioxide in the form of quartz,” according to Live Science. Wind and violent storms across eons grind quartz crystals and mica into sparkling grains of sand. It’s finer, and surely more romantic, than gravel.

Imagine a Studio 54 of geology. A piece of grit shows up; the bouncer looks at his list.

“Are you .0625 mm (or 1⁄16 mm) to 2 mm?”

“Well, I was this morning.”

“That’s good. Because if you were smaller, you’d be silt. If you were larger, you’d be gravel. Are you familiar at all with the Krumbein phi scale? Beyond this, do you have the requisite sparkle?”

Which is not to say that you can’t be sand if you’re a tiny pink fragment of coral, limestone, or shell. You might be a garnet or a gem. Quartz does not make a beach alone. I had no idea there was such a thing as star sand (see photo). Amusing Planet takes us closer to reveal that these stars are really “the exoskeletons of tiny, one-celled organisms barely a millimeter across called Baculogypsina sphaerulata that live among the sea grass.” Their home base is a celebrated “star-sand beach… located on the northern tip of the remote Iriomote Island in Okinawa Prefecture, in Japan.”

Writing for The Economist, Rebecca Willis feels “sand doesn’t just stick to our toes; it has a way of getting inside our heads. People who love sand are called arenophiles, from the Latin harena for sand, which was spread over the floor of the Colosseum in Rome to soak up the blood of combat, and which also gives us the word arena.” Not quite so romantic. “What that leaves arena-lovers to call themselves, I don’t know.” Sand has properties which even the nonarenophile may be able to appreciate. “It is self-sorting: grains of the same size group together, as the different ingredients in a box of muesli do; that is why, when the grains are different colours, you can find exquisite, painterly patterns left by the tide on a beach. When sand is poured into a pile, the slant of the slope made by the edge of the pile is called the angle of repose.”

Lovely. Let this summer be graceful and unhurried. Maine’s timeless beaches can afford to take the long view.

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The reference to the “shabby interior” during my grandparents ownership could not be further from the truth. In fact, the house was immaculate and was decorated with rare and local antiques that dated all the way back to Revolutionary War times.

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back to the late 1600s and many irreplaceable family heirlooms adorned that home, including an original Norman Rockwell painting of my grandfather’s Exeter roommate, a huge (and still mint) 1800s Kashan rug, a grandfather clock from the late 1700s that has passed through nine generations of our family, and countless pieces of premium antique furniture. My mother still has a incredible oil painting of this house which was completed in the 1930s or ’40s.

My late father spent his adolescent years living in the uber-cool attic space before leaving for Exeter. I recall, as a boy, being awed by this home, its history, and the almost museum like interior spaces. I always wanted to live in that attic but, my father’s career as a carrier-based naval aviator meant that we never lived full time in Maine.

My mother still owns a home in Fortunes Rocks that has been in the family since the late 1800s. In any event, I am not in the least bit upset about the story that was told to you by the current owners, as I know time tends to erode memories, but I thought you might like to know some of the actual history.

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Sure, we have food trucks & photo booths, but how about a photo camper? Siobhan Bogle, owner of Maine Tinker Photography, has fine-tuned the selfie into high camp. “our wedding clients love it. We’ve brought it to corporate parties, downtown pubs, graduations, batch parties, concerts, and children’s parties.” Step right in, put on a few props, say cheese–and leave with a digital or print memento of that special day. themainetinker.com

Sinking Feeling It’s finally over for the presidential yacht Williamsburg. The 243-foot ship was built at BIW in 1930 for paper baron Hugh Chisholm. Following conversion to a World War II gunboat, she saw further service for presidents Harry Truman and Dwight D. Eisenhower.

Languishing at the Navalmare Shipyard in La Spezia, Italy, since 1994 as fund-raising efforts failed, excessive rust eventually allowed water through her hull, sinking her bow at the first of the year. Deemed unsalvageable, Williamsburg’s dismantling is now underway.

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Greenhut Galleries unveils its eighth invitational “Portland Show” show with an artists’ reception April 9, 1-3 p.m. The biennial showcases artists’ interpretation of the city; this year’s line-up includes works by Marsha Donahue (above) and Thomas Connolly (below); plus Tom Hall, Jessica Stammen Ives, Daniel Anselmi, and Crystal Cawley, and more. It’s a show that never fails to reveal unexpected facets of our city. Check it out through April 30. greenhutgalleriesme.com.

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A Fast 1,000 Miles to Portland Theater

Children’s Museum & Theater of Maine, 142 Free St., Portland. Stage stories, daily; The Circus Ship, April 15-24. 828-1234 kitetails.org

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City Theater in Biddeford, 205 Main St. Murder at the Howard Johnson’s, May 13-22. 282-0849 citytheater.org Good Theater at St. Lawrence Arts, 76 Congress St., Portland. Act One, Apr. 6-May 1. 885-5883 goodtheater.com Maine State Ballet

Theater, 348 U.S. Rte. 1, Falmouth. Sleeping Beauty, Apr. 1-17; Spring Recital, May 20-21. 781-7672 mainestateballet.org Merrill Auditorium, 20 Myrtle St., Portland. The Illusionists Broadway National Tour, Apr. 15-16; Jerry Seinfeld, May 6; Jeff Foxworthy and Larry the Cable Guy, May 7; The Lightning Thief, May 21.

842-0800 porttix.com Portland Ballet, at Westbrook Performing Arts Center. Flat Stanley, Apr. 30. 772-9671 portlandballet.org

The Atlantic Cup ocean/inshore sailboat racing event–called the longest and toughest along the U.S. East Coast–will cross the finish line in Portland in the first week of June.

These Atlantic 40 monohull rockets sail double-handed from Charleston to New York (640 miles) beginning May 28, and from New York to the Forest City (360 miles) on June 4. While here, they’ll power up to six-person crews for inshore racing June 10 &11, viewable from Fort Allen Park on the East End. The fleet of 10 boats and crews welcome visitors at their berths at Maine Wharf from June 6 to 11. It’s all free. atlanticcup.org Portland Stage, 25 Forest Ave. Longfellow’s Shorts: Megan Grumbling’s Booker’s Point, Apr. 11; Little Festival of the Unexpected, May 11-14. 774-0645 portlandstage.org Public Theatre, 31 Maple St., Lewiston. Crossing Delancey, May 6-15; African Adventure Tales, May 22. 782-3200 thepublictheatre.org Schoolhouse Arts Center, Rte. 114, Sebago Lake Village. Truly Talented Kids, Mar. 18-19; The Mennonite & The Bartender, Apr. 2-3; Brighton Beach Memoirs, Apr. 10-26; James and the Giant Peach Jr., May 20-22. 642-3743 schoolhousearts.org

Galleries

Art Gallery at UNE, 716 Stevens Ave. The Art of Mildred G. Burrage, through Jun. 26. 221-4499 une.edu/artgallery Bates College Museum of Art, Olin Arts Center, 75 Russell St., Lewiston. Senior Thesis Exhibitions, Apr. 8-May 28; David C. Driskell: The Doorway Portfolio, Apr. 8-Aug. 27. 786-6158 bates.edu/museum David C. Driskell: The Doorway Portfolio, April 8-August 27 at Bates College Museum of Art.

Bowdoin College Museum of Art, 1 Bath Rd., Brunswick. To Count Art an

Intimate Friend: Highlights from the Bowdoin Collections 1794 to Present, through June 5; Elise Ansel: Studies in Beauty, through Apr. 17; R. Luke DuBois-Now. Mar. 3-Sep. 4; Beautiful Monstrosities, Elegant Distortions: The Artifice of Sixteenth-Century Mannerism, Apr. 12-June 5; Renaissance Rivalries: Painting and its Sister Arts, opens Apr. 26. 725-3275 bowdoin.edu/art-museum Colby College Museum of Art, 5600 Mayflower Hill Dr., Waterville. Alex Katz: A Singular Vision, thru May; Alec Sloth: Summer Nights at the Dollar Tree, Feb. 2-Jun. 5; A Usable Past: American Folk Art at the Colby College Museum of Art, opens July 11. 8595600 colby.edu Farnsworth Art Museum, 16 Museum St., Rockland.

Worth a Thousand Words: Prints from the Farnsworth Collection, through May 1; From the Smallest Leaf, Photographs of Koichiro Kurita, through Sept. 11; Unseen Treasures: Wyeth Archival Material, May 21-Oct. 30; N.C. Wyeth: Painter, May 21-Dec. 31.

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First Friday Art Walk, downtown Portland. Visit local galleries, studios, and museums, Apr. 1; May 6; June 3. firstfridayartwalk.com Maine Historical Society, 489 Congress St., Portland.

Pigeon’s Mainer Project, through May 1; 400 Years of New Mainers, through May 30; see website for upcoming exhibitions.

774-1822 mainehistory.org Maine Jewish Museum, 267 Congress St., Portland. Henry Isaacs, through May 8; Jamie Johnston & Sandra Bogdonoff, opens May 12. mainejewishmuseum.org Portland Museum of Art, 7 Congress Square, Portland. Masterworks on Paper: Highlights from the Portland Museum of Art, thru Jun. 5; Duncan Hewitt: Turning Strange, through Sept. 4; Edward Curtis, through May 29. 775-6148 portlandmuseum.org

Music

Asylum, 121 Center St., Portland. Rap and Karaoke, every Wed.; Retro Night, every Thur.; Plague, every F.; See website for upcoming concert dates. 7728274 portlandasylum.com A pr i l 2 0 1 6 1 5

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Blue, 650 Congress St., Portland. acoustic Jam, every tues.; irish music night, every Wed.; See website for more listings. 774-4111. portcityblue.com

See Judy Collins April 10 at Jonathan’s in Ogunquint.

Cross Insurance arena, 1 Center St., Portland. hillsong United, apr. 30; Phish, Jul. 6. 775-3458 crossarenaportland.com

travis James humphrey & guests, every Fri.; live music Wed.-Sat. every week.

See website for more listings. 772-5483 thedogfishcompany.com Empire, 575 Congress St., Portland. the Couch: open mic, comedy and game nights, every Sun.; Clash of the titans, every Wed.; tribute 2 Whitney houston, apr. 8; Snooze & Friends, apr. 14; tRiBUte 2 Bob marley, apr. 20; tribute 2 elton John, may 13. 7475063 portlandempire.com

Waka Flocka Flame performs April 9 at the State Theatre.

dogfish Bar & Grille, 128 Free St., Portland. acoustic open mic, every Wed.; Jazz happy hour with

Jonathan’s, 92 Bournes ln., ogunquit. Jorma Kaukonen, apr. 1; Crystal Bowersox, apr. 2; Vicki monroe, apr. 8; Judy Collins, apr. 10; howie Day, apr. 15; Cheryl Wheeler,

apr. 29; Ronnie earl & the Broadcasters, may 13; Slaid Cleaves, may 15; Karla Bonoff, may 18; ellis Paul, Jun. 12; Rita Coolidge, Jun. 19.

646-4526 jonathansogunquit.com Merrill auditorium, 20 myrtle St., Portland. the Capitol Steps, apr. 1; Puscifer, apr. 8; grand opera meets the mighty Kotszchmar!, apr. 9; tchaikovsky’s Fifth, apr. 12; John mellencamp, apr. 20; music of John Williams, apr. 20, 23, 24. 842-0800 porttix.com one longfellow Square, 181 State St., Portland. goldenoak, apr. 1; Basia Bulat, apr. 3; lucy Dacus, apr. 5; aoife o’Donovan, apr. 12; Willy Porter, apr.

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Portland writer Monica Wood’s new novel, The One-in-a-Million Boy (houghton-mifflin, $25), tells the tale of children lost and found, and hearts broken and repaired. lithuanian-born ona Vitkus is a salty-tongued, 104-year-old Portland resident in need of a hand around the house. Quinn Porter is a down-on-his-luck musician. his 11-year-old son, a smart and handy boy scout–and a list-making devotee of wacky guinness World Records, becomes the friend ona never realized she was missing. meet Wood at nonesuch Books in South Portland april 6, and check monicawood. com for more appearances. may we expect another play from Wood after her acclaimed first effort, Papermaker, broke attendance records at Portland Stage last year? “i’m working on one now, but don’t hold your breath,” she says. “i’m the world’s slowest writer. there’s a record for you.”

Friedberger, may 5; Julian lage, may 8. 761-1757 onelongfellowsquare.com port City Music Hall, 504 Congress St., Portland.

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Gogol Bordello, Apr. 2; Welcome to Night Vale, Apr. 3; Waka Flocka Flame, Apr. 9; Between the Buried & Me, August Burns red, Apr. 13; SoMo, Apr. 29; lamb of God, May 9; X Ambassadors, May 10; The Milk Carton Kids, May 18. 956-6000 statetheatreportland.com Stone Mountain Arts Center, 695 Dug Way rd., Brownfield. Humming House, Apr. 8; NH fiddle Ensemble, Apr. 10; Jimmie Vaughan and the Tilt-a-Whirl Band, Apr. 22; Time Jumpers, Apr. 23; Fryeburg Academy Award Winning Jazz Ensembles, Apr. 29; Kathy Mattea Acoustic living room Songs & Stories, Apr. 30; Quebec Sisters Band, May 5; Alasdair Fraser and Natalie Haas, May 6; Marc Cohn. May 7; Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, May 13; Keb’ Mo’ and Band, May 16; John Jorgenson Quintet, May 20; lonely Heartstring Band, May 21; Jonathan Edwards, May 27; le Vent du Nord, May 29. 935-7292 stonemountainartscenter.com

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Browne trading Company, 262 Commercial St., Portland. Wine tastings, one or more Sat. every month, 1-5 pm. 775-7560 brownetrading.com Chocolate lovers’ Fling, marriott at Sable oaks, South Portland. Seated service, chocolate tastings, competitions and silent auction to benefit Sexual assault Response Services of Southern maine, apr. 3. chocolateloversfling.org

Flanagan Farm, 668 narragansett trail (Rt. 202), Buxton. Benefit dinners prepared by local chefs to benefit maine Farmland trust. 2016 is “Word Play: the Color Series.” yellow: Krista Kern Desjarlais of Bresca & the honey Bee and the Purple house

local Sprouts, 649 Congress St., Portland. music Brunch with Sean mencher and friends, every Sun. localsproutscooperative.com

Wiscasset novelist douglas Kennedy’s compelling new noir thriller, The Blue Hour, is a fast-paced ride from upstate new york into the heart of hot, exotic morocco. the story unfolds like an extended chase scene wrapped in a vivid travelog as the desert sun exposes cracks in the marriage of sensible CPa Robin and rakish artist Paul. Kennedy’s territory has long been the shadowy side of love’s illusions, and in this, his 12th novel, he cautions that “We only see what we want to see.” See for yourself may 12 when he comes to longfellow Books in Portland. douglaskennedynovelist.com.

lolita Vinoteca + asador, 90 Congress St., Portland. tapas mondays, every mon. 3-11 p.m.; selected wines & small plates pairings. 775-5652 lolita-portland.com

old port Wine Merchants, 223 Commercial St., Portland. Wine tastings every third Wed. 772-9463 oldportwine.com

Gulf of Maine Seafood Celebration, gulf of maine Research institute. maine seafood prepared by local chefs, live entertainment, and support for advancing local partnerships for sustainability in the food system, apr. 7.

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Craft Beer Cellar, 111 Commercial St., Portland.

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The colorful buoys hanging along the fence in front of the Wadsworth Longfellow House on Congress Street spring from the imagination of Portland artist Natasha Mayers. During her semester as artist-in-residence at USM, she invited students to paint lobster buoys as the flags of more than 70 nations from which Mainers have emigrated. As part of Maine Historical Society’s larger “400 Years of New Mainers” exhibit, they have proved so popular that MHS has no immediate plans to remove them. The Jetport is soon to install a set.

“Eventually, we’d like to put them in the water,” says Mayers, “maybe Back Cove, to photograph them, and then they may tour the state.”

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…It isn’t just calling, it’s also crawling with actors including our own USM theater alum Tony Shalhoub, who is being directed by his old friend Stanley Tucci (in sert) and is co-starring with Geoffrey Rush and Clémence Poésy in Final Portrait, about t he life of Sw iss painter and sculptor Alberto Giacometti.

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marine biologist and University of maine graduate student Jesica Waller has won a “science visualization” award from Popular Science magazine for “information made beautiful”–her dazzling photograph of a tiny, feathery maine lobster larva. “it was three weeks old and five millimeters in length,” says Waller, “i mounted a nikon camera on a dissecting microscope.” her research on the effects of climate change on lobster life spans “has made me appreciate the fishery more than ever. But i still eat lobster regularly! my favorite place is muscongus By lobster in Round Pond–the view is incredible.”

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Michael Salwitz, MD, acquired a near-derelict 1949 Pullman Standard rail car in the 1990s and restored it into the gleaming Louis Sockalexis in honor of the Penobscot Native American baseball player from Old Town for whom the Cleveland Indians were named, simply because, he says, “I have been a baseball fan since I was five years old–OK, a Cleveland Indians fan.”

Now fully Amtrak-certified, the Louis is for sale for $310,000 plus shipping.

John Suscheck, CEO of Ozark Mountain Railcar, who is brokering the sale, notes that “The interior of the Louis has been done in an art-deco style with a nod toward the southwestern.” Dr. Salwitz and his wife have traveled Amtrak lines across the country for 15 years, and he says “the Sockalexis name engenders questions wherever we go, and we’re happy to relate the story of the Penobscot whose feats on the diamond have rarely been equaled.” ozarkmountainrailcar.com

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ummer, with its sun dresses and short-sleeve T-shirts, is just around the bend. For most of us, this means it’s time to tone those winter-white limbs.

But if sweating it out on the treadmill like a hamster on a wheel is as appealing as an iceberg-lettuce diet, dread not. It’s possible to get a sizzling workout as tantalizing as a spicy chicken curry (sans calories). Best of all, it doesn’t require spandex or sacrificing your lunch hour. This miraculous remedy? Dancing.

If you’re conjuring thoughts of nervejostling techno beats, epileptic lighting, and sticky neon blue shots and thinking No thanks, then relax. This is not the dancing of your teenage youth (although it can be

just as sweaty and exhilarating). A multitude of studios, venues, and groups around Portland offers opportunities to swing, tango, and fox-trot an evening away, with contagious music and adult libations. Two left feet? No problem–

Salsa dancing storms into Congress Square Park in May with lessons by PM Salsa. Below: Salsa meets metropole at Pearl on Fore Street.

Footloose, 1788 In Portland, dancing has always been a guilty pleasure. We’ve even punished people for it. On May 1, 1788, after a mass spinning bee (attended by over 100 ladies in finest attire), “an agreeable variety of excellent pieces in psalmody” was performed at Parson Deane’s house. Gentlemen were about, taking in the musical performance and more. There certainly should have been dancing. The floor vibrated. Looks were exchanged, and blushes. There was a rumor of tapping toes.

But “Dancing was not allowed, as we may learn from the indictment, on record in 1766, against Nathaniel Deering and his wife, John Walte and his wife, and others of the first families, for dancing in a private apartment of Freeman’s tavern. The King’s attorney, David Wyer, argued the case. They were acquitted on the grounds that it was a very private hop, and not a public dance or ball,” according to A History of New England, 1881.

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old skool early mainers knew how to strut their stuff. to eavesdrop on the exquisite Penobscot Pine needle Dance, visit https://www. youtube.com/watch?v=xoBqgKe9bl8. many evenings include a pre-social lesson.

Single? Not to worry–partners are not required. Not sure it counts as a real workout?

Think again–faster dances like swing and salsa can burn up to 500 calories an hour.

Beginners will feel particularly welcome at the Social Dance Parties hosted by Ballroom Dance Portland (Avant Dance and Event Center, 865 Spring Street, Westbrook, 756-5427. They meet on the second and last Fridays of the month, with lessons at 7:15 p.m. before dancing from 8-10:30 p.m.; visit ballroomdanceportland.com). Owner Polina Kirillova and Kristin Sutton of Avant Dance and Event Center make certain everyone feels comfortable and has fun.

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partner,” says Kirillova. “Our teachers are happy to dance with everyone and teach basic steps if someone is completely new to dancing. We do mixers and line dances throughout the evening, which creates a nice, friendly atmosphere, and we play a variety of music, from current hits to oldies and everything in between.

This means people get to try out many different dance styles.”

The adjacent lounge is the perfect place to catch your breath and refresh with a cold cocktail. Don’t miss the springthemed party April 29th. “We’ll wear flowery dresses and play some spring tunes. It makes for a perfect date night!” or those looking for some kick-upyour-heels, high-energy fun (superswingy skirts and tailored vests welcome), Portland Swing Project’s STOMP nights (Wednesday lessons at 7 p.m. are followed by dance 7:30-9 p.m. at Acoustic Artisans, 594 Congress Street, Portland; Friday lessons are at 7:30 p.m., with dance 8-10 p.m. at Maine Ballroom, 614 Congress Street,

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Portland. See portlandswingproject.com for schedule) guarantee to get the heart racing with toe-tapping live and DJ music from the Roaring Twenties to today.

For a sultry, steamy evening of hipswinging and attitude, check out the Latin dances also held at Avant Dance and Event Center in Westbrook (avantmaine. com, third Saturday of the month, 8 p.m.midnight) with a one-hour pre-dance lesson and cash bar.

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evening of anything from tango to zydeco rhythms and a side of outrageously good barbecue (919 Congress Street, Portland, April 8, 8:30-11:30 p.m.–see emmaholder. com for schedule). If you find yourself getting hooked on “Havana nights� (a very real possibility), there’s more to be found at Port Tango’s Milonga dances (see porttango. com for monthly calendar).

The next Port Tango dance is April 16 at Mayo Street Arts (10 Mayo Street, Portland; mayostreetarts.org). Take a lesson at 8:15 p.m., and then dance until midnight. n Other spots around Portland offering social dances include Maplewood Dance Center (383 Warren Avenue, Portland, 878-0584, Saturday evenings, www. maplewooddancecenter.com for details); Aquarius Ballroom Dance Studios (62B Forest Avenue, Portland, 671-7644, Saturday dance parties; www.aquariusballroomdance.com); Bright Star World Dance (108 High St., Portland, 370-5830; brightstarworlddance.com); Hustle and Flow Studio (155 Brackett St., Portland, 632-4789; hustleflow.com); and the Maine page of the online listing called HaveToDance.com/danceme.

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“Charlie was a bit of a drinker, and he frequented the bar at the inn,” says Prentice. “This was about 100 years ago. One night, his wife got fed up with him and kicked him out. He went to the inn, drowned his sorrows, and stumbled upstairs to a room. Before doing so, he carelessly tossed a lit cigarette under the porch. The inn caught fire and burned to the ground. In his drunken stupor, Charlie never woke up. He died in his room.” He’s said to haunt the inn, which was rebuilt in 1924.

York Harbor Inn Talk about historic. It was around 1637 when what would become–and still is–the York Harbor Inn’s post-and-beam “Cabin Room” with fireplace was dismantled and transported by barge to York Harbor from the Isles of Shoals, where it had been used as a sail loft. The stables were converted into a lounge in the 1870s, which endures today as the Ship’s Cellar Lounge.

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Guests across the ages include Vice President Mr. and Mrs. Hubert Humphrey; Senator and Mrs. Edmund Muskie; Governor and Mrs. Kenneth Curtis; Maine Congressmen William Hathaway and Peter Kyros; Senator and Mrs. Robert F. Kennedy; Senator Edward Kennedy and family; and Col. and Mrs. John Glenn. Conde Naste ranks the Spruce Point Inn in the top 25 resorts in the Northeast.

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140 Ocean Avenue, Kennebunkport colonymaine.com Built in 1914 and originally called The Breakwater Court, this unmistakable Kennebunkport waterfront landmark was designed by John Calvin Stevens. Today, the hotel has 125 guest rooms and is environmentally conscientious, pet-friendly, and still undeniably grand.

The Asticou Inn 15 Peabody Drive, Northeast Harbor cliffhousemaine.com Here’s a gracious escape to Acadia. You have the Asticou Azalea and Thuya gardens to explore, with Bar Harbor shopping and Acadia National Park just up the road. But why leave your room at this charming, rambling, shingled inn or adja-

cent cottages–if not for the tea and popovers they’ll serve you this afternoon on the deck overlooking Northeast Harbor? So relax.

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e’re New England’s only all-inclusive sailing resort during the months of July and August,” says Linekin Bay Resort’s Cherie Scott. “We’ve got a fleet of Rhodes 19 sailboats–guests love our annual regatta to Cabbage Island–plus paddleboarding, kayaking, and a full waterfront staff. It’s a passion.”

In the shoulder months of May, June, September, and October, the lodges and cabins operate as a B&B. “We have a lot of dockand-dine guests who cruise over for dinner at The Deck restaurant and use our guest moorings. We’re the place the locals eat.”

After more than 100 years of ownership by the Branch family, Linekin was recently purchased by Steve Malcolm and Scott Larson, who owns the nearby Newagen Seaside Inn .

Located on Boothbay’s Cape Newagen and “surrounded on three sides by the sea,” the Newagen Inn has offered guest accommodations since 1816. In 1943, it burned to the ground–legend has it the fire was intended to signal German U-boats offshore–and was subsequently rebuilt in an elegantly rambling Colonial style. Environmental activist Rachel Carson, a frequent visitor, wrote of “the hollow boom of the sea, striking against the rocks,” and at her request her ashes were “returned to the sea” off the point.

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The hotel was built in 1884 by Capt. Jesse Pease, who found the view of Somes Sound and Acadia National Park beyond to be the most beautiful he’d ever seen. It’s hard to argue. Best-selling novelist and Southwest Harbor resident Christina Baker Kline declares her favorite summer treat to be “blueberry martinis at the Boathouse Bar at the Claremont.” Past guests at the hotel include Robert Kennedy and writer Calvin Trillin.

More recently, President Obama and the first family came for lunch in 2011 during their whirlwind tour of Acadia.

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en miles from offshore, the Island Inn (original parts of which are 200 years old) is your escape from 2016. No telephones, televisions, or electronic appliances disturb your peace–although there is some limited wireless internet. Instead, plan to hike the nine scenic miles of trails and find a lovely spot to read. Or pick up an Art Monhegan map and visit nearly 20 artists’ studios that dot the island. Monhegan has been a magnet for talents from Rockwell Kent to Jamie Wyeth to Zero Mostel to Alice Swett.

Lucerne Inn In 1814, the Lucerne Inn was the only stop between Ellsworth and Bangor offering food, drink, and lodging. It was built on land granted to John Phillips for fighting in the Revolutionary War, and is now listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Travelers are always impressed by the scenic views of Phillips Lake and mountains beyond.

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Getaway in Casco Bay Quintessential Maine

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The Bethel area has the views to make your guests’ jaws drop and the facilities to make your day perfect and personal. Whether you choose a village inn, a stunning mountain vacation home, a grand ballroom, or a field with a hillside backdrop, your guests will be talking about your big day for years to come.

All the services you need are available locally – venues, caterers, florists, tent and supply rentals, officiants, spas, and salons – staffed with friendly, helpful folks who want to make your wedding just right.

Your guests will be able to enjoy a wide variety of lodging options, from small B&Bs to fine hotels.

They’ll stay entertained with all there is to do in the area – hiking, fishing, golfing, cycling, skiing, paddling, perusing downtown shops, or getting pampered at a spa.

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ORACE MORSE, resident, enlightened landlord, and handson restorer of three of Park Row’s 14 townhouse units during the late 1960s through the early 1980s, always dreamed of writing an operetta about this brick and brownstone structure (planned in 1835, built 1837) and its colorful residents. Few would have been better suited to such a task that the gregarious, contagiously optimistic antiquarian, entrepreneur, and conversationalist. In those heroic early days of architectural preservation, concerned citizens rallied around Greater Portland Landmarks (GPL), and its first director, Pamela Plumb, had begun to restore the Row. Located in

what was then considered a ‘blighted area,’ it was difficult to arrange home loans for units, but in 1970 they were able to place Maine’s largest and finest row-house on the National Register of Historic Places.

Since World War II, when the bottom fell out of the local economy, the prevailing dream of Portland’s civic leaders centered on urban renewal (slum clearance), which brought in big federal dollars and construction jobs and made run-down houses disappear. At the dawn of the 1970s, dreams of urban renewal and architectural preservation collided on the virtual doorstep of Park Row. Greater Portland Landmarks was organized in response to earlier losses

such as Union Station, St. Stephen’s Church, Munjoy South, and the ongoing destruction and depopulation of the Spring and Pleasant streets neighborhoods. GPL looked to protect buildings for creative reuse and destination tourism. From High Street to the Old Port to Franklin Street, a two-lane arterial was created, splitting the city. Activist Vincent O’Malley noted, “Money talks and everybody walks. The majority of those forced from their homes (on Spring and Pleasant) went into worse housing and higher rent.”

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End. In that spring, City Manager John E. Menario told local businessmen that GPL was rushing in to have condemned structures marked historic “not so much for historic interest…but to block renewal.”

GPL’s president, Charlton S. Smith, emphatically denied any plans to block progress. “We simply wish to have a voice in the redevelopment process at a time when there is still a chance to explore alternatives to the demolishment of historically valuable buildings.” Here was a firm statement of creative reuse, preserving an irreplaceable destination spot rather than give way to a group of bland new buildings to drive around or through. After years of wrangling, this would subsequently lead to more cooperation of citizens, business, historic preservation, and government.

Today, a dreary intersection between the Little Tap House restaurant and a greenspace parking lot marks the end of the crosspeninsula arterial dream and the start of architectural preservation and livability in the West End, the future washing up on the doorstep of Park Row. But dreams are curious things. Sometimes they end up deferred.

In the mid-1830s, art critic John Neal brought the notion of townhouses built in rows to Portland. Neal built a duplex on State Street intending to include more units but was preempted by the Ann Street Company (Park Street Proprietary), who snagged his potential investors.

The investors paid $15,000 for Billy Gray’s Rope Walk between Congress and Gray streets and lofted an elegant row of townhouses on newly named Park Street.

However, the national panic of 1837 bankrupted the investors and the units were sold at auction. Though interiors and trim were left to individual owners and all were sold by 1838, some were used for storage of hay and other material. The vertical four- and five-story complex never appealed to the

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Here again is a curious deferral of dreams.

As Patricia Anderson observes in the book Portland (1972), “It is safe to say that today’s renascence of this handsome row is much closer to the vision of the Park Street Proprietors in 1835 than actuality in 1838.”

Today, overarching trees line the thoroughfare, which was virtually without shade in the 1970s. nd what of the people in Horace’s operetta? Certainly they would include Dr. Alfred Brinkler, music teacher and organist at St. Luke’s, who was the second owner of his unit from 1906 to the 1970s. It was he who installed a massive Hope & James pipe organ in the townhouse he sold to Peter and Pam Plumb. The latter was Mayor and saw the city adopt its first historic preservation ordinance. Or renter Bill Frost, who was playing his guitar when Horace knocked on the door saying, “I’ve come to complain about the music.”

“I’ll play softer,” said the musician. “No, louder,” said the landlord. “Either you keep the door open or come down. We can hardly hear you.”

In the 1990s, John Preston, author of Winters’ Light, chosen as one of 100 books that best revealed the history of the State, took up residence. The New York Times Book Review noted: “The first hero in the fine collection of essays is Portland, a small city where John Preston finally found a community quirky enough to encompass himself.”

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n the Endangered List: the crown jewel of Portland Harbor, Fort Gorges, “modeled after Fort Sumter in Charleston, South Carolina,” according to Greater Portland Landmarks.

What a difference a little geography makes.

Consider the resumes of the two look-a-like forts. The Civil War actually started at Fort Sumter. In Charleston Harbor, the Union was coming apart at the seams. On December 20, 1860, Union army major Robert Anderson had no choice but to relocate his command of 85 soldiers from Fort Moultrie on Sullivan’s Island to Fort Sumter in the center of the harbor to guarantee their safety. The view was extraordinary, but they were stuck out there for months, with dwindling supplies. According to Civilwar.org, “Just after the inauguration of President Abraham Lincoln on March 4, 1861, Anderson reported that he had only a six-week supply of food left in the fort and Confederate patience for a foreign force in its territory was wearing thin.”

Something had to give.

“On Thursday, April 11, 1861, Confederate Brig. Gen. P.G.T. Beauregard dispatched aides to Maj. Anderson to demand the fort’s surrender. Anderson [who had once taught Beauregard at West Point] refused. The next morning, at 4:30 a.m., Confederate batteries opened fire on Fort Sumter and continued for 34 hours. The Civil War had begun!”

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(Would the selfie he likely snapped while doing this have undone the effect?)

Which makes the strikingly silent career of Fort Gorges, Fort Sumter’s northern counterpart, all the more extraordinary.

Built of granite (Sumter is brick) from 1859 to 1865 and attacked only by gulls, Fort Gorges is “the still center of the spinning world.” After World War II, Navy submarine cables were stored inside without fanfare. Spectacularly, nothing continued to happen after that. In 1960, the government gave up the ghost and deeded it to the City of Portland, which continues to own it today. ith time its only enemy, here’s the assessment as Landmarks sees it: “Threat: Rapid Property Deterioration Fort Gorges has become overgrown with vegetation and shows signs of masonry deterioration. Lack of maintenance and investment in masonry repair, lack of a long-term preservation plan, and its location in a harsh marine environment battered by wind and weather, will continue to compromise the structural integrity of the brick and granite masonry and overall preservation of the structure. While citizens have shown some initial interest in forming a Friends of Fort Gorges group, the scale, lack of access, and large financial needs of the fort create tremendous challenges to its preservation.”

Earlier this year, the City of Portland announced a “public/private partnership” with the Army Corps of Engineers and the non-profit Friends of Fort Gorges. The Army Corps will begin “hazard mitigation” on the site this year, using federal funds available for the purpose of restoring former defense sites. And the Maine Historic Preservation Commission has given the city a $20,000 grant to fund a master plan for future work.

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hen Ralph Hersom was named Wine Director of Le Cirque 2000 in 1997 at age 26, Amanda Hesser wrote in the New York Times that although he didn’t “look or act the part–he doesn’t wear a tastevin around his neck or a scowl on his face–he is in charge of one of the largest and most prestigious wine lists in the world.” He was the exception among many of New York’s sommeliers who suddenly seemed to be young hotshots. “Their spontaneity in making us discover new things is more interesting than their knowledge,” chef Daniel Boulud told Hesser.

But Hersom had come to Le Cirque after a hitch as Cellarmaster at Windows On The World at New York’s World Trade Center, where he trained under wine maven and educator Kevin Zraly, so he was bringing youthful

setts, back in the early ’90s. I’m from South Grafton, and I’d been studying electrical engineering. Legal has a great training program for their wait staff, part of which is a wine course. After that, there was no turning back. I was bitten by the wine bug! I sold my possessions and bought a one-way ticket to San Francisco with the hopes and dream of becoming a sommelier.

enthusiasm and the chops.

By 2005, Hersom was finished with the fabulous New York restaurant scene. For the next 11 years, Ralph and his wife Kim Hersom ran Ralph’s Wine & Spirits in Hingham, Massachusetts, which has just been sold. It was there they developed their instore Corks & Forks wine and food pairing classes, which they’ll take to new venues.

Hersom likes to keep busy. He’s just taken the newly created position of Category Manager of Beer, Wine, and Spirits for the Hannaford supermarket chain throughout the Northeast. From his office at corporate headquarters, he plans to refresh those familiar aisles.

Where did you do your journeyman work before Windows on the World and Le Cirque?

How did you get your start in restaurants and wine?

She was extremely nice! I had no idea who she was, as I was fresh off the plane from San Francisco, and even the maitre d’ failed to

I first got involved in restaurants working at Legal Sea Foods in Worcester, Massachu-

My first sommelier job was at Moose’s Restaurant in San Francisco circa 1994-1996, after which I headed back east for the reopening of Windows on the World, which had been closed since the first terrorist bombing in 1993, working under the great wine guru Kevin Zraly.

In her memoir Garlic and Sapphires, former New York Times restaurant critic Ruth Reichl describes the night she visited Windows on the World to review it. She raves about you as “affable and enthusiastic, the kind of person who could make a wine lover out of anyone.” Was she nice–or was she demanding? Was she in one of her disguises?

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H ungry Ey E recognize her, even though she was not in a disguise! Needless to say, one of the managers noticed her on her way out after having finished dinner. I didn’t sleep for weeks until that review came out.

A humorous piece in the British magazine Punch decries the current frat-boy competitive style of the American sommelier, or “somm,” with “next-gen swagger [and] tattoos on display.” Your thoughts?

Sommeliers these days are definitely different than the buttoned-up suit-and-tie type of yesteryear, due in large part to the more relaxed dining atmosphere that we now have. As long as they’re making wine accessible to the masses in a user friendly, non-intimidating kind of way, I have no problem.

“The masses” doesn’t exactly describe diners at Windows on the World or Le Cirque.

Robert de Niro was a regular at Le Cirque 2000. He was very low key, would dine early, around 6 p.m., and we’d always put him at table 39 in the corner, out of the public’s view.

He really loves wine. We chatted often about the possibility of planting grapes at his week-

end home in New Paltz. He held his birthday party at the restaurant, and what a party! Robin Williams, Bruce Springsteen, Tom Hanks, to name a few of the guests. It was held on a Sunday night, and the restaurant was closed. Sirio Maccioni [Le Cirque’s owner] had been on vacation in Italy and flew in especially that day for the celebration.

Hannaford shoppers have benefited from the updated and more sophisticated food selections available there in recent years. Is your job to do the same for beverages?

Exactly. I’ve been hired by Hannaford to help improve upon the selection of wine, beer, and spirits they currently carry. I’m fortunate that past [decisions] have established a great foundation for me to build upon. I’ll use my fine-wine, craft beer, and specialty spirits background to bring some excitement to the center-store aisles, helping to elevate it to the next level.

Had you spent time in Portland before moving here?

My wife and I visited Portland seven times in the last year and a half–it’s definitely one

of the best foodie cities in the USA. We’re amazed at the new spots opening up and just how many great places there are to choose from that seem to have it all dialed in.

On our first visit, we met some friends for a delicious brunch at Petite Jacqueline, which is ironic since the chef was Fred Eliot– a Le Cirque alumni–and we’re now living in Longfellow Square.

One of the “top 10 try before you die foods” has to be Eventide’s Brown Butter Lobster Roll. The kids love Duckfat’s Tahitian Vanilla Bean shake with a side of fries as well as pizza at Flatbread Company, and of course there’s the Omakase at Miyake, a Japanese restaurant that can at times rival New York City’s.

Piccolo for brunch is a truly wonderful experience. And one of the most comfortable bars to dine at and try some fun wines is Fore Street. The bartender/sommelier Adam Beckwith is fantastic. We’ve had fabulous cocktails at Portland Hunt + Alpine Club, can’t wait to settle in and visit chef Matt Ginn and his team at EVO. Chef David Levi of Vinland has to be cooking some of the most creative and flavorful dish-

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es in all of Portland. Our most recent dinner there was outstanding. Then there’s the monthly Sunday dim sum at Honey Paw– the Fry Bread with Uni Butter and the Lobster Wontons are ridiculous!

I’m looking forward to developing a tasting group in Portland as well as monthly BYOB wine-themed dinners at a restaurant(s) to be determined. It’s a great way to learn about wine by sharing great bottles I’ve collected in my cellar, which currently holds about 1,000 bottles. If people are interested, we’ll do Corks & Forks events in Maine.

What’s your perfect wine for a lobster roll?

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For the classic Maine lobster roll, I love to drink a white wine made from the Viognier grape. On the import side, either Yves Cuilleron or Pierre Gaillard’s Condrieu from France–which was one of Robert DeNiro’s favorites, coincidentally–or Illahe Vineyards Viognier from Oregon.

What inspired you to get out of restaurants and into retail stores? Are restaurants increasingly no place for the affable and enthusiastic?

I’d worked for Le Cirque 2000 the entire seven years it was located at the New York Palace Hotel, and the last dinner there was December 31, 2004. (HBO has a great documentary titled Le Cirque–A Table in Heaven.) I woke up on New Year’s Day 2005 and decided it was best to go out on a high note, leave the restaurant biz, and take my talents to the retail side of things.

Were you burned out on rich wine snobs?

I must say, during my seven years at Le Cirque I found the clientele to be very knowledgeable about wine and encountered very little to no wine snobbery despite dealing with the top one percent of the one percent. Certainly it was very stressful operating at that level for seven years, but I’m organized and I’d look at the reservation book before service and organize the wines and stemware for the various VIPs. Very rarely did they look at the wine list, as I knew what their favorites were and prepared them in advance.

So your real skill is guiding people to discover what

they really like.

I figured these individuals have to make hundreds of decisions daily, so I would make one for them! I’m still in contact with my former colleagues at Le Cirque as well as some of the clientele.

And with my other passion–music–I still consult on the wine side of things for various musicians and bands for their private collections. Le Cirque was just down the street from Sony BMG, so all the music executives would come in and bring their artists in. Mike D. (loves white Burgundy) of the Beastie Boys would celebrate his birthday with us. Rush is one of my all-time favorites; I showed up at their final show in Boston last year with some Grand Cru Burgundy for Geddy and Alex, who were happy to reciprocate with backstage passes. Wine has opened so many doors for me…

Right now, what I’m listening to is jazz heavy, with Bill Evans always in rotation, as well as Miles Davis and Chet Baker. But also Everything But The Girl, Bon Iver, and Ray Lamontagne. My taste in music is as diverse as my taste in wine. It’s all mood dependent! n

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The Dartmouth-trained physician began practicing medicine in Maine in 1981; she co-founded Women to Women, a practice based on both holistic and Western medicine, in Yarmouth in 1985; and she was an assistant clinical professor of OB/GYN at Maine Medical Center for 20 years.

Dr. Northrup left Women to Women in 1997, and conventional medical practice, to focus on writing, teaching, and speaking. Through her books, e-newsletter, radio show, television specials, and appearances on such TV programs as the Today Show and Oprah, she has been a leader in the discussion about what it means to grow older.

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es banishing the terms “aging” and “senior moment,” urging us instead to dance with life rather than take it sitting down, to “take pleasure in ageless living.”

How can you tell an ageless Maine goddess from an ageless goddess from away?

Ageless goddesses in Maine don’t wear highheeled fashion boots in the snow or in airports. We have our feet on the ground. And we love having a good stack of firewood at our disposal.

“Finally, I danced around the fire. I didn’t hold back…I suspended all concern about ‘what others would think.’”

–Dr. Christiane Northrup, from 12 Examples of Things I Am Too Wise For

We love your list of 12 things you’re too wise for.

Can you make adjustments to it with some specific Maine examples?

I’m too wise to worry about keeping up with the latest fashion. But I also know that function needn’t be ugly. Example: the Aristelle lingerie store on Exchange Street.

I’m too wise to allow my chronological age to be a cage. I don’t think about it. Or use it as an excuse. When asked how old I am, I tell them the truth: my biological age is 33. My wisdom age is 300.

I’m too wise to believe that the best years of my life are behind me. I keep getting better and better at dancing Argentine tango with my Portland community. We dance close, embrace with all ages and walks of life. Check us out at porttango.com I’m too wise to think it’s normal to get stiff and achy as I get older. I’ve prevented this by regular workouts with Hope Matthews at Sparhawk Pilates in Yarmouth, and I started [Pilates]with Nancy Etnier in Portland.

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I’m too wise to think that “the grass is greener” somewhere else. Maine is special.

It’s the way life should be. I feel blessed to live here.

You have a busy 2016, including your “I Can Do It” North American speaking tour. How do you find room for a balanced life?

I decline over 90 percent of the invitations I get to travel and teach. And I look at my schedule a year in advance and make sure there is plenty of downtime.

Do you have any upcoming speaking engagements scheduled in Maine?

I will be meeting with a holistic study group at USM sometime this spring.

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The cliff walk around Prout’s Neck, Scarborough Beach, Portland Head Light, The Royal River, Casco Bay, the Kennebec River, and Penobscot Bay. In which restaurants here might we find you?

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Instead, I just write my way across the geography–a book tour of the landscape of the fantastical French. Starting with my book, ‘down the Plains,’ in Waterville visiting the monuments to the bravery of being bilingual in a monolingual landscape. Next, Canuck by Camille Lessard Bissonnette, the woman’s immigration tale of coming to the mills and moguls of Lewiston, Maine.

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Bull Feeney’s Authentic Irish pub & restaurant, serving delicious from-scratch sandwiches, steaks, seafood & hearty Irish fare, pouring local craft & premium imported brews, as well as Maine’s most extensive selection of single malt Scotch & Irish whiskeys. Live music five nights. Open 7 days, 11:30am-1am. Kitchen closes at 10pm. 375 Fore St., Old Port, 773-7210, bullfeeneys.com Crooners & Cocktails Dine in style surrounded by the sounds of Frank Sinatra and Dean Martin at Portland’s only supper club throwback. Enjoy a high energy atmosphere with traditional American cuisine, classic cocktails, and great music celebrating a classic era. We are open 6 days a week for dinner Tues.-Sat. 4pm-1am and Sunday brunch 10am-4pm. 90 Exchange St., Portland. 536-0469, croonersandcocktails.com

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location. Open 7 days a week for lunch and dinner. Tableside guacamole, sizzling fajitas, delicious margaritas, and live Latin music are to be enjoyed. See Facebook for daily specials. 147 Western Ave., South Portland, 773-8851 Eve’s at the Garden, an oasis of calm and great food in the middle of the Old Port. The perfect spot for meetings, special occasions, and a cocktail. Ingredients from Maine’s waters and farms: jumbo scallops, natural, sustainable pork, beef, fish, and shellfish, and Maine lobster.

Home to the annual Ice Bar, Eve’s garden is perfect for outdoor dining in season. Happy Hour Mon. - Fri.; free valet parking. Lunch 11:30am-2pm, Dinner 5-9:30 pm. 468 Fore St., Portland, 775-9090, evesatthegarden.com Hurricane Restaurant is now open for the season. Celebrating our 25th year of “Nurturing the seacoast palate.” Dinner seven nights a week and lunch weekends and Mondays through Memorial Day. Sunday brunch. Wine specials all day Wednesdays. Buck-a-Shuck oysters on Sunday nights. 29 Dock Square, Kennebunkport.

967-9111, www.hurricanerestaurant.com Kon Asian Bistro Steakhouse & Sushi Bar is upscale Asian with modern flair. Japanese, Sushi, Thai, Chinese–or try our hibachi tables.

Our private party room accommodates groups from business meetings to birthday parties.

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Maria’s Ristorante is Portland’s original classic Italian Restaurant. Greg and Tony Napolitano are always in house preparing classics like Zuppa de Pesce, Eggplant Parmigian, Grilled Veal Sausages, Veal Chop Milanese, homemade cavatelli pastas, Pistachio Gelato, Limoncello Cake, and Maine’s Best Meatballs. Prices $11.95 - $22.95. Tue.-Sat. starting at 5pm. Catering always available. 337 Cumberland Ave. 772-9232, mariasrestaurant.com Pedro’s focuses on simple yet full-flavored Mexican and Latino food. Offering tacos, burritos and an impressive array of margaritas, sangria, beer, and wine. Especiales de la semana (specials of the week) keep the menu varied and fresh and showcase different Latino cultures. Seasonal outdoor dining available. Open daily, 12pm-10pm. 181 Port Rd., Kennebunk, 967-5544, pedrosmaine.com Pier 77 & The Ramp Bar & Grill are owned & managed by Kate & Chef Peter Morency.

Pier 77 has a formal dining room 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 * Rivalries Sports Pub & Grill An upscale sports bar serving creative pub food in a fun and comfortable atmosphere. Known for some of Portland’s best casual food, Rivalries’ menu has something for everyone. And with 30+ HD TVs and every major pro and college sports package, you won’t miss a game! Conveniently located in Portland’s Historic Old Port District.

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All Good in the Woodford ’Hood Delicious food and a friendly neighborhood vibe transform a landmark intersection.

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aving long been nonplussed by the mid-century-mod “chalet” smack dab in the middle of Woodford’s Corner, we are amazed to be driving toward a beautifully lit jewel box inside which graceful figures appear to be dancing.

Inside Woodford Food & Beverage, the magic continues. Streetlights and headlights flicker through semi-closed Venetian blinds, creating an ecstasy of colors as cars float silently by, while vinyl records spin joyfully on a turntable at the hostess station–this place rocks!

Roasted beet salad ($9)–with the freshest tangy mixed greens and tender, juicy beets–is garnished with goat cheese mousse, a divinely frothy affair. It’s all enhanced by the textures and tastes of pistachios and dried cherries.

Although one could easily order some splendid smaller dishes to make up a meal– roasted oysters (market), mussels and fries ($11), stuffed clams ($6), classic deviled eggs ($8)–we go full monty. Braised Pork Shank ($21) is falling-off-the-bone wonderful, set on top of a brilliantly crafted white bean stew with luscious baby carrots, rosemary, thyme, caramelized onions, bacon, and braised greens. Plenty to takeaway home.

The star of the evening, though, is the Stuffed Lobster ($24)! This classic, prepared by chef Courtney Loreg (Fore Street, Bresca, Aurora Provisions) is a charming nod to bygone Portland restaurateur Donald Valle, whose Valle’s steak-and-lobster chain got its start at this very spot in 1933. But Loreg’s rendition–poached whole lobster accompanied by celery root puree, roasted tomatoes, toasted challah, and a stunning dollop of duchess potatoes–brings a new level of sophistication. It’s a dream dish, presently available only on Wednesdays as the plat du jour.

Desserts, too, are a cut above ($8). Memories are made of such things as a bowlful of creamy vanilla panna cotta sporting cranberry coulis and white-pepper shortbread cookies–or a piping hot brownie topped with local Little Bee’s ice cream, caramel, and praline pecans.

This crossroads destination is truly a bright new gem. n Woodford Food & Beverage, 660 Forest Ave., Portland.

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27 West Street Designed by John Calvin Stevens This single family row house has it all. Charm, class and elegance is what defines this special home in the West End of Portland. 5 bedrooms, formal living room, family room, 2 fireplaces, beautiful kitchen with a large pantry, large dining room, private outdoor space and much more. All within walking distance to everything Portland has to offer. www.27WestStreet04102.com $699,900

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his landmark townhouse on 27 West Street in Portland is a canary in the coal shaft of local real-estate desire.

Designed by John Calvin Stevens in 1910, it’s an end unit of a handsome brick row of J.B. Brown properties that leased to tenants for nearly seven decades. A background email forwarded from the sellers identifies art professor Brooks Stoddard and his wife, a Waynflete instructor, as the first to buy it as a single-family home in 1978, but she passed away before they could move in. Her sister–followed by others, including a series of “Maine Med nurses”–rented it until 2005, when it sold for $500,000 to the present sellers, William M. Nelligan and Deborah E. Boyajian. “Technically, we are the first owner-occupants,” Boyajian notes.

Now for the canary: Beginning in 2009 after thoughtful restorations, Nelligan and Boyajian have offered it for sale, with the listing zigzagging from $619,000 in Aug. 2009 to $599,000 (Sept. 2009, removed from sale Nov. 2009); $569,000 (Jan. 2011); $539,900 (Aug. 2011); $539,500 (Oct. 2011); $519,900 (Oct. 2011, removed Jan. 2012); $519,900 (Apr. 2012, removed Nov. 2012); $498,500 (Dec. 17, 2012, removed from sale a day later); $735,000 (Jun. 2015); $719,000 (Oct. 2015); and the present $699,900.

Improvements to this 10-room, six-bedroom single-family home include “new roof (St. Hilaire Roofers); custom side walkway

(Krista Butterfield); garden by James McCain; new brick walkways and granite step; all wood floors restored; gutted, redesigned kitchen”; and more. The dumbfounding soundness of the construction is pure Stevens. So is the polyhedral “Harry Potter door” below the formal stairway. The butler’s and kitchen pantries are luscious with original cabinetry. Everything’s in good nick and in pleasing proportion, the deft and balanced legacy of a master architect.

Of interest: It’s an end unit among the townhouses. The 3x3 terra-cotta tiles atop the granite stoop match the hearths of the two fireplaces (one in the salon, one directly upstairs in a bedroom). The full pantry with Carrara marble counter has an “L” of deep shelves stacked four tiers high to nearly 11-foot ceilings. The two staircases meet on the second floor like morning and evening.

There are service annunciator bells (from

the not-so-good old days, as well as a service toilet and slate-double sink in the fieldstone basement, which seems big and dry); bulletglass third-floor transom with access to the roof; and sunshine everywhere (a ghostly sense of the song “Chelsea Morning” flooded into my mind during the tour, before I learned about the Stoddards).

Drawbacks: The furnace works but isn’t new. A plus: Two other end-units on this same row of townhouses are for sale at higher prices: “17 West is listed for $829,000 and is under contract; 21 West is listed at $825,000 and is still available,” according to the listing agent, but there is no off-street parking with this unit. So it could be construed that a parking spot in this immediate neighborhood is worth $100,000. But only the buyers can tell us that.

When a future buyer decides to buy this lovely home, the agent feels he or she’ll be standing “near one of the two original fireplaces or in the kitchen,” which features two tall windows looking out on a remarkable private garden overhung by branches from an immense oak tree out back. The west walkway off West Street might be wide enough for a Smart Car, but that would require permission and a curb cut, and we’re told the city has already turned down this request.

Meanwhile, there’s a sense of anticipation about this house, even suspense: Whoever buys it this spring will define the market. Taxes are $8,162. n A pr i l 2016 93

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E DOCKED that frigid morning as a fog bank settled along the eastern reaches of Casco Bay. She’d slept restlessly during the nor’easter two nights before. She couldn’t recall her dreams, but his presence in the dank morning air was unmistakable. Wary but not anxious, she could sense the tide was turning.

She’d banished him from her consciousness for five years, keeping him submerged like the shipwreck he was, but she’d never doubted he’d resurface. One day, a tempest would draw him from the deep like other flotsam from her past and she’d have to face him and force him back down.

Yesterday caught her channel surfing. Despite deliberately avoiding old TV shows, she felt closed in by the storm and began exploring. And there he was: young and handsome, strong and honorable, as perfect as she’d first seen him fifteen years before.

In another life, she’d watched that series faithfully and had developed a juvenile crush on the character he portrayed. It was a safe crush, separated from real life by fantasy, anonymity, and the distance between the East and West coasts. She could laugh about it over beer with her friends at Dewey’s.

Five years later, Fate relocated her to Los Angeles and introduced them through a mutual friend.

She found the man embodied the fictional character, and for a few years, it seemed they were meant for

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each other. But eventually, reality deviated from the script. He chose to change course; she chose to change coasts.

Her departure from California had been tumultuous; her return to Maine convinced her that the years in L.A. were simply an extension of her childish fantasy. Her childhood home offered safe harbor.

But the dreams and the old TV show had piqued her curiosity, and this morning, social media served as harbor master to guide him to her slip. How stupid of her to Google his name! How self-destructive to explore the website he’d created for his philanthropic project.

Hollywood had made his life comfortable, and he’d poured his resources into her dearest social cause. How dare he–the documentary had been her idea. She had shared her vision with him at their introduction, and they’d spent hours in passionate altruistic conversation. She had the intimate knowledge of the issues, he the connections and experience to create a film to educate the world.

Impetuously, she signed up to follow the site. Fate set its hook without hesitation or mercy.

“How are you?” His tenuous testing of frozen waters.

Her mind raced as adrenaline dumped, and she yanked her hands from the keyboard as if from the mouth of a shark.

The answer to that simple question was not simple. I’m fine without you would beg a dissertation of her achievements and salvaged life. I feel cheated that you did this without me would be closer to the truth because she once believed they’d be partners in this venture. He was making a difference without the slightest nod to their scuttled relationship.

She stared at the question for a moment, then retreated for a cup of tea and some fresh air.

“How are you?” The question trailed in her wake like a hungry seagull.

I’m just fine, damn it.

She sipped her tea, relishing its earthy Portland Magazine cares about writing and readers. That’s why we maintain a fiction section. Writers we have published in these pages include: Jason Brown, Kate Christensen, Joan Connor, Jack Driscoll, Sebastian Junger, Christina Baker Kline, Andrew McCarthy, Mameve Medwed, Rick Moody, Morgan Callan Rogers, and Lewis Turco.

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aroma, and stepped onto her balcony overlooking Casco Bay. She watched the ice-encrusted fishing boats emerging from beyond the Calendar Islands and chugging into Portland Harbor with their bounty. She drank in the bay’s heady saltiness and set her mind adrift to the cacophony of marine traffic, bell buoys, and water birds. Hot tea and smoke from the still-icy harbor mingled into misty tendrils, adding visual poetry to the diversion.

“How are you?” The Spring Point Ledge fog horn moaned its misgivings, shattering her reverie.

Why the hell should you care? You were so wrapped up in yourself and your fans.

“How are you?” A Coast Guard cutter blasted a warning as it broke up the ice choking the main shipping channel.

You scourged my soul, and you embarrassed the hell out of me in the tabloids. I hated that life. I’m glad to be free of it and you.

“How are you?” The question hovered precariously above her balcony.

Shit…

Succumbing to the bitterness, she slipped back inside but left the slider open a smidge, hoping the onshore breeze would purge him away. The question was waiting on the laptop screen but was hidden behind a slide show of book signings, vacations, and family and friends. She smiled back at her smiling image kayaking near Peaks Island.

I’m okay. I have a great life.

She took down the screen saver. As the kayak faded from view, a second question surfaced.

“Are you there?” As she read the words, she could hear his gentle voice as if he were standing at her shoulder.

You know I am…you can see I’m still signed on.

She finished her tea and set the delicate cup on its saucer, concentrating on the chickadee-and-pine motif to delay looking back at the screen. Finding no respite there, her eyes sought out and caressed his words.

“Are you there?” She felt his hand softly on hers.

I guess I owe you a reply. I started this.

“Raven?” His warm breath upon her neck…

She inhaled sharply and eased her hands toward the shark’s mouth. n Portland native Karen Lessard is in the U.S. Forest Service. She’s presently posted in northern Minnesota.

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