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Maine’s celebrated artist and scholar takes us into his new work.

By Daniel Kany

65 Around the World in Maine

Habalyo! What happens when couples blend cultures and traditions on their big day?

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Anita Shreve lights up our bookshelves with her latest literary offering, inspired by the deadly Fire of 1947 that ravaged Maine.

Interview by Sarah Moore

perspeCtives 8 From the Editor 10 Letters “Germinal” An apple trees spreads its branches across the generations.

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We check in with chefs who dance to more than one muse.

By Claire Z. Cramer

57 Everyday Sommelier “Effervescence” Sparkling wines to awaken your taste buds.

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60 Dining Guide 61 Restaurant Review

Washington Avenue’s new-kidon-the-block, Izakaya Minato delights and surprises with casual Japanese fare.

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Millstone Manor, on the Atlantic’s edge, can be your family’s idyll in the Ogunquit Art Colony.

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Bricolage ust because the late, great Barbara F. Lefcowitz (1935-2015) has gone to the Great Beyond doesn’t mean she doesn’t keep in touch with me. In fact, she’s started something today. I happened upon a list of some of our magazine’s friends on Facebook and felt a pang when I saw her name. I double-clicked on that bait. She’d described herself as “poet and bricoleur.”

Now, that was something.

Okay, Barbara. Let’s do this.

Merriam-Webster defines a bricoleur as “one who engages in bricolage.” Very naughty.

The old French usage of engaging “anything to hand” was refined by French philosopher Claude Levi-Strauss in The Savage Mind (University of Chicago Press, 1966) when he suggested that the work of the bricoleur [and, really, mon cher, are we not all bricoleurs?] also takes place on “the plane of speculation. This is what is commonly called ‘bricolage’ in French. In its old sense, the verb ‘bricoler’ applied to ball games and billiards, to hunting, shooting, and riding. It was however always used with reference to some extraneous movement: a ball rebounding, a dog straying, or a horse swerving from its direct course to avoid an obstacle.”

A bricoleur is a master, or mistress, of extraneous movements, then. There’s a sense of the ad hoc, the willy-nilly, the graceful catching of random on the rebound, to the bricoleur.

Not to mention, the word has Starbucks* appeal. [*Uncompensated product-placement alert.]

‘A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away,’ Levi-Strauss continues: “And in our own time the ‘bricoleur’ is still someone who works with his hands and uses devious means compared to those of a craftsman. The characteristic feature of mythical thought is that it expresses itself by means of a heterogeneous repertoire which, even if extensive, is nevertheless limited. It has to use this repertoire, however, whatever the task in hand because it has nothing else at its disposal. Mythical thought is therefore a kind of intellectual ‘bricolage.’”

Here at Portland Monthly, we champion the bricolage. Each of our stories is imagined individually. But in their mystical collective, something wonderful happens to our stories. They take over entire issues and give them a life of their own. Stars can become constellations.

As for you, Barbara–“that’s Barbara with three a’s”–one more question. More properly, shouldn’t you lay claim to being a “bricoleuse.” Or is that sexist? Dear readers, please weigh in on this. I sure as heck know our Barbara from Brooklyn would have.

We are honored to have featured Barbara’s fiction, including the very timely “The Pink Suit,” across four decades. She loved to walk the beaches of Maine, collecting sea shells and stories. Anything to hand. She loved her objects on one level but loved them even more for the shadows they cast into infinity. Barbara has just gotten started on her bricolage. Haven’t we all?

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This month, “Andrew Wyeth at 100” will go on show at the Farnsworth Museum, celebrating the centennial of the American master’s birth with a year-long exhibition of over 100 of his works.

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Christina’s World

Travelers’ tip: Take the Orphan Train to Christina’s World. Christina Baker Kline’s new bestseller A Piece of the World (William Morrow, 2017) lets us eavesdrop on the private life of one of Maine’s greatest icons and the painter who dared to brush against her. “The figure at the center of Andrew Wyeth’s celebrated painting Christina’s World has her back to the viewer, but Kline (Orphan Train, 2013) turns her to face the reader, simultaneously equipping her with a back story and a lyrical voice,” says Kirkus Reviews.

Kline’s new effort is “painterly, sensuous, and sympathetic.”

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Despite Bowdoin College’s eight-year restoration of the Harriet Beecher Stowe House, the historic Brunswick home (right) has a challenger. Arline Lay claims Beecher Stowe actually penned Uncle Tom’s Cabin at her property on 28 College Street in Brunswick (listed for $1.6M, currently pending sale). Professor Tess Chakkalakal, who worked on the restoration of the official Stowe House, doesn’t buy it. “People often claim ties to famous names or events to boost a property’s market price.” The property listing for 28 College Street also declares, “Other famous people such as President and Eleanor Roosevelt, Robert Frost, Carl Sandburg, Chris Wallace, and William Cohen” slept there.

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L.L. Bean has teamed with historic French knife manufacturer Opinel to make a limited-edition pocket knife with a certain je ne sais quoi. The Franco-American couteau features a hilt made of Maine maple reclaimed from the bottom of Moosehead Lake. During the logging days of the early 1900s, timber would sink into the mud. There, “the oxygenfree environment preserved the wood,” says Opinel’s Kathryn Flagg. Pictured: The Moosehead No. 8 ($39.95).

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Atlantic Puffins fly back to Maine’s rocky islands this month, their only nesting spots in the U.S., after spending eight months on the open ocean. The problem is, rising water temperatures are forcing certain fish species further north, displacing a vital food source for the young pufflings (yes, that’s the name for the little ones). Sadly, the “chicks aren’t fledging as quickly,” says Maine Audubon’s Doug Hitchcox. Book a tour of the five nesting islands through the mainebirdingtrail.com.

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ExpEriEncE Ragamala Dance Company transports audiences to India with ‘Sacred Earth,’ a dance performance featuring traditional live Hindu music at Westbrook Performing Arts Center, April 13.

Concierge: April Attractions ThEaTEr

City Theater, 205 Main st., Biddeford. Steel Magnolias, May 12-21; Wizard of Oz, Jul. 21-Aug. 6. 2820849 citytheater.org Good Theater, st. lawrence Arts Center 76 Congress st. The Trip to Bountiful, through Apr. 30.

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Spring awakening, through Apr. 2; catch Me if You can, Jun 2-18. 7991421 lyricmusictheater.org Mad Horse Theater, 24 Mosher st., south portland.

The Last Days of Judas iscariot, through Apr. 9; Mr. Burns, a post-Electric play, May 4-21. 747-4148 madhorse.com Maine State Ballet Theater, 348 U.s. rte.

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Portland Ballet, at Westbrook performing Arts Center, 471 stroudwater st., Westbrook. swan Lake act ii, Apr. 28-29. 772-9671 portlandballet.org

Public Theater, 31 Maple st., lewiston. ripcord by norm Foster, May 5-24. 782-3200 thepublictheatre.org

Portland Ovations, 50 Monument sq. annie Broadway national tour, Apr. 20; pippin Broadway national tour, May 13. 8420800 porttix.com Portland Players, 420 Cottage rd., south portland. The prime of Miss Jean Brodie, through Apr. 9; rock of ages, May 19Jun. 4. 799-7337 portlandplayers.org Portland Stage Company, 25 Forest Ave. play Me A story, every saturday; String around My Finger by Brenda Withers, through Apr. 24; Disgraced by Ayad Akhtar,

Schoolhouse Arts Center, 16 richville rd., standish. plaza Suite by neil simon, Apr. 7-23; Disney’s Mulan Jr., May 19-21; peter pan, Jul. 13-30. 642-3743 schoolhousearts.org Waterville Opera House, 93 Main st. 3rd Flr., Waterville. Disney’s The Little Mermaid, through Apr. 9.

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Bates College Museum of Art, olin Arts Center, 75 russell st., lewiston. senior thesis exhibition, Apr. 7-May 27; Kate gilmore: in Your Way, Jun. 9-oct. 7.

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Bowdoin College Museum of Art, 1 Bath rd., Brunswick. sosakuhanga: twentieth Century Japanese Creative prints, through Apr. 16; Modern Medieval: Materiality and spirituality in german expressionism, through Jun. 4. 725-3275 bowdoin.edu/art-museum Center for Maine Contemporary Arts, 21 Winter street, rockland.

David Driskell, renewal and Form, through May 11; Mark Wethli, piper Club, through May 14; sam Cady, parts of the Whole, through May 21.

701-5005 cmcanow.org Colby College Museum of Art, 5600 Mayflower hill Dr., Waterville. no limits: Zao Wou-Ki, through Jun. 4; Marsden hartley’s Maine, through Jun. 18; Brand-new & terrific: Alex Katz in the 1950s, Apr. 30-

Aug. 6; graphic Matters: george Bellows & World War i, through sept. 3. 8595600 colby.edu/museum Farnsworth Art Museum, 16 Museum st., rockland.

Art of Disaster, through Apr. 23; American treasures From the Farnsworth, Apr. 4-oct. 29; Celebrating Maine, Apr. 5-oct. 29. 5966457 farnsworthmuseum.org First Friday Art Walk, downtown portland. visit local galleries, studios, and museums, Apr. 7, May 5. artwalkmaine.org Greenhut Galleries, 146 Middle st., portland. Maine: the Way life is, Apr. 6-29; William irvine and nancy Morgan Barnes exhibition, May 4-27. 772-2693 greenhutgalleries.me Maine College of Art, 522 Congress st. Artist lecture: ian lynam Design, Apr. 6; MeCAmorphosis, May 4.

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Portland Ovations, Merrill Auditorium 20 Myrtle St. Emanuel Ax, Apr. 15.

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A group of sixth graders at Mechanics Falls middle school in Auburn is driving a campaign to ease restrictions on hedgehog ownership in Maine. Mainers currently need two licenses to keep the prickly pets–the same as for lions or tigers, according to the Associated Press. Abigail Armistead says she wanted to keep a hedgehog while she lived in Maine, but knew “the chances of owning one there would be next to impossible due to the permit applications and lengthy administrative process.” She now lives in Colorado. Still, you can’t be too careful: “Hedgehogs are an invasive species, and we all know what happened with Wessie the Westbrook Python.”

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Portland Jazz Orchestra plays One Longfellow Square on April 20. Pairs well with dumplings from nearby Bao Bao (left) for a night of delight.

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Bao Bao Dumpling House has everything you need to set the scene. Sample steaming plates of hearty Asian fare (shrimp and bacon dumplings, anyone?); cocktails by the bowl (you’ll see Scorpions aren’t just for college kids); and, as Bao Bao’s Chris Peterson puts it, a selection of “wonderful but often overlooked” desserts. If you’re in a preshow rush, “there are quite a few menu options [Somen noodles arrive in a hurry] that can get you in and out in enough time to catch the curtain.” Post-show, Bao Bao (open till 11 p.m.) is a “super fun way” to stretch your evening. But if you’re still not convinced, just ask the hard-working and heavy-lifting stage crews who stop by Bao Bao to fuel up for the long night and wind down afterward.

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ily,” says co-owner Ray Marcotte. (Actors from Portland Stage frequently stop by pre-performance to get “into the zone.”)

Over 100 tea varieties mean everyone will find something to soothe or energize, from chocolate-laced comfort teas (try the “Memories of Prague” made with Black Assam tea mixed with semi-sweet chocolate) to heady and invigorating blends (the “Taste of Kashmir,” a mix of green, black, and oolong teas with orange peel, cloves, ginger, and cinnamon). And since no one wants to provoke disapproving sidelong glances with a rumbling tummy, don’t leave without a bite of something decadent like a matcha cheesecake, currant scone, or chocolate-drizzled macaroons. set the stage If the tickets in your hand are for a performance at Portland Stage, the Little Tap House is less than a four-minute stroll (six minutes with heels) through the colorful Arts District. With white stucco and exposed brick walls, the rustic-modern locale combines a neighborhood-pub feel with an upscale aesthetic–perfectly suited for an evening of artistic and intellectual stimulation. (It even lured in Bernie Sanders for a post-rally indulgence of fish and chips.)

“The Little Tap House is a cozy nook to hang your hat before or after an event. Feel the warmth of the wood interior and comfort of friends around you while listening to some jamming tunes,”

says Robin Landry. “The beer connoisseur is bound to find a favorite local brew or special one-off style to sip on. If the concert falls on ‘date night,’ sharing a local beer flight is a romantic way to have an enjoyable tasting experience together.” More than just a beer haven, Little Tap House’s cocktail creations like the Maple Manhattan (Knob Creek whiskey, Aztec chocolate bitters, Maine maple, sea salt rim) are encore-worthy. don’t Miss Over on the East End, the St. Lawrence Arts Theater isn’t the only place with a flair for the dramatic. Petite, crimson Lolita is a beloved spot for local theater-goers. The small plates menu lends itself to a quick bite pre-performance, and the kitchen is open until 10:30 p.m. for a postshow feast. Stella Hernandez, co-owner and wine director, describes the selfstyled “Vinoteca and Asador” as “warm and urban, but decidedly low-key.” Cocktails sipped at the zinc bar are a must.

Hernandez recommends the Bijou cocktail (gin, green Chartreuse, sweet vermouth, orange bitters)–“complex and herbaceous with a lovely, opulent color that is very much about drama.”

Not to be outdone, South Portland’s Portland Players is surrounded by great pre-show spots, including the laid-back Elsmere BBQ, with its fascinating auto-garage-chic interior; David’s 388, with its warm hues and urbancottage feel; and the bright and airy Italian spot, Enio’s Eatery. n

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Culture & CoCktails eading uptown, just a skip across Congress Street from Merrill Auditorium, you’ll find the tweedy Inkwell Bar within The Press Hotel. According to Derek Hunt, the “lively but relaxed lounge-style atmosphere and cozy seating by the fireplace” make the old-school mediathemed bar the perfect mise-en-scène. Beyond the artistic small plates, patrons will find cocktails to match the evening’s theme. For example, “a dramatic and fancy evening calls for a twist on the classic Manhattan, which describes our Just North Of drink (rye whiskey, B&B, Luxardo, dry vermouth/bitters)– a reference to our location 312 miles north of Broadway and 42nd.” Ahead of a show, don’t miss Inkwell’s “Off the Record” happy hour (Su.-Th. 4-6 p.m. and 10 p.m.-1 a.m.), with $5 select local craft beers on draft and wines.

Only a three-minute stroll from Merrill, a leisurely stop at Dobra Tea is the perfect way to extend an afternoon matinee or start an evening on a zen note. Swathed in rich hues of burgundy and turquoise with Persian-style rugs and floor-pillow seating, it’s “a great space to relax and unwind and the perfect space for conversation with friends or relaxing with the whole fam-

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If Maine’s rugged industrial history piques your interest, certain campsites provide a unique glimpse into the Allagash’s logging past. “At the Cunliffe Depot campsite, we’ll see two relics out in the woods: gas- and steam-powered logging machines.”

Depending on the duration of the trip, guests will paddle between 34 and 83 miles of the river. Immersion like this makes you hungry. “We provide locally-raised rib eye steaks from Hodgdon and red deer filets raised in Linneus,” says Conley. If you have a sweet tooth, you’ll enjoy the biscuits and desserts baked in Dutch cookware. “All the cooking is done over an open fire.” By nightfall, sit back and “enjoy the stars, the moon sitting on the lake, and the crackling fire.”

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If a ‘hut’ conjures images of intimate cabins, think again. Grand Falls sleeps 32 guests, 28 in shared accommodation and 4 in private double rooms. The interior is modern yet simple. What you may lack in seclusion in the bunk rooms you can find in the sprawling trail system, expansive woodlands, and winding waterways. A short day hike leads you to the hut’s namesake, the Grand Falls waterfall, to watch the water surge and tumble over the drop. Trout and salmon are abundant in the Dead River, so pack your rod and lures.

Between late June and early September, you’ll be joined by live-in staff who prepare three meals daily and lead paddling groups.

In the off-season you can rent out the entire hut for half the normal price–only $300 per night.

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Kate Gilmore, Sudden as a Massacre, 2011, video, Time Based Art Festival, Portland Museum of Art, Portland, Oregon

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October 28, 2016 – 18, 2017 October 27, 2017 - March March 23, 2018 Rona Pondick and Robert Feintuch: Head, Hands, Feet; Sleeping, Holding,PUNCH: Dreaming, Dying PHANTOM Robert Feintuch, Legs ART CONTEMPORARY Rona Pondick, Wallaby, Up, 2013, 28 x 36 2007-12, stainless steel, FROM SAUDI inches, polymerARABIA emuledition 2/3, 24 x 44 sion on honeycomb 3/8 x 10 7/8 inches.

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rtist, scholar, and curator David C. Driskell (born in 1931 in Eatonton, Georgia) is such a fascinating

and accomplished person that we’re more likely to read about him than about his art.

What brought Driskell to Maine in 1953, however, was his painting, not his celebrity. And it’s been his art which has connected him to Maine ever since. Driskell has a well-earned international reputation as the

leading scholar of American art of the African diaspora. But, at his core, Driskell is an artist whose works overflow with painterly energy, intelligent forms, spiritual presence, and effervescent content.

After visiting his exhibition “Renewal and Form” at the Center for Maine Contemporary Art (CMCA) in Rockland, I talked with Driskell–not about him, but about his art.

What’s the role of diasporic content in your work?

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and it represents the broader picture of American culture in general–how do we navigate something made of so many different parts and currents? We’re informed by so many different things and places rolled together. It’s what makes us Americans. It’s like we have lived many different lives. This sense of perspective helps us grow–positive change–but it creates conflict as well.

Your print of Jacob Wrestling the Angel (in the CMCA show) is a clear image of conflict, but it directly references Delacroix’s version of the subject in the Saint-Sulpice in Paris. What is the balance, at least in this case, of your content between theme, subject, and art history?

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his is based on my own fundamentalist upbringing–my father was a Baptist minister–which is why I have always been drawn to Jonah and The Whale, Gabriel, and so on. The Delacroix is really a landscape, an old forest–the struggle is earthly. It’s a story from Genesis, which is important across many cultures. I don’t make work to try to define my identity. Instead, I use imagery to which I have cultural connections.

Delacroix’s landscape dominates that painting: Why didn’t you include it?

That’s how I saw it, too. When I was in Paris with my wife, I made a little sketch of the figures struggling in the corner of the forest scene, but I was more interested in the landscape and the trees. I didn’t include that, but it’s what drew me to the mural.

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CloCkwise from top left: “JaCob wrestling the angel”, print on show at Center for maine Contemporary art; “pines” - greenhut galleries; “Distant past” - D.C. moore gallery; roDney D. moore

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This goes back to my love of nature. It goes back to my practice and my connection to Maine since the 1950s. I believe it’s part of our romantic narrative: We’re still out in the forest–still in the jungle. Those two struggling, they’re still in the forest. That’s a part of our complex situation in life. How do we do it–with other people, alone?

So, your dense imagery of African jungle, and, say, Maine forest, are related?

Absolutely. Even now, I’m still in the wilderness, trying to find my way.

How do these come together through an Old Testament scene?

I’m trying to make sense of the world around me and trying to see how I fit in. I have accepted the precepts of Christianity as part of my sense of self as an American. In the forest, there’s always a danger out there. There’s no obvious path. You have free will to make choices. That is the struggle.

You bring up identities here, but in a fluid way. How does identity relate to your art?

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I am not trying to make Black art. I am trying to make my art. I make cultural connections in my work through imagery that is meaningful to me, but it’s not about my identity.

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T h e A rT s when I work. It’s a free-flowing presence that’s not always bound by convention and laws. Of course, it’s always informed by what I’ve done and seen in the past, but I want it to be spiritual. I know the physical part of it–skill and technique–but there’s something beyond that. Everybody’s sensibility is so different. That’s what gives us our individuality.

Suzette McAvoy (Director of the CMCA) saw my prints at Greenhut Galleries and asked me to do a show.

You have single, carved wood matrices on display in a case at CMCA, but your works use many colors. Can you tell us about your process?

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work with Curlee Holton of the Experimental Print Center. He’s head of the Driskell Center and a master printer. I’ll carve the block by hand and then hand-color it so that I make a single-pull print. I send that to Curlee with notes, and we’ll begin a conversation. It’s a process because we have to work out what I want and how to achieve it. Our conversations are no less about content than technical issues. The Dancing Angel (at the Smithsonian American Art Museum), for example, had 52 screens. Typically it’s closer to 12, and I supervise the overlay.

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I am drawn to saturated colors and gestures that suit them. For me, technique and boldness go hand-in-hand. I studied painting at the Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture in the 1950s. Maybe it’s a Maine thing.

It has always suited me.

Do you have any advice for Maine painters?

I like the advice my old friend Will Barnet gave me when he turned 101: “Take care of yourself–I want you to be around as long as I am.” n Driskell features in “Maine: The Way Life Is” at Greenhut Galleries through April 29. His print exhibition “Renewal and Form” will be on show at the CMCA through June 4. David and his wife, Thelma, have homes in New York City, Maryland, and Falmouth, Maine.

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veryone makes big moves in the spring. U-Haul trucks block side streets on Munjoy Hill. “FREE” signs are taped to forlorn futon frames left curbside. Facebook posts promise ‘a clean, responsible roommate who works mostly nights.’ In the four years we’ve lived in Portland, my fiancé and I have moved twice. Our frantic search usually ends in less space for more rent. Each time, our parents ask, “Have you talked about buying?” Well, if you mean pointing out dream houses while headed to Higgins Beach or coveting cabins on Instagram, then, yeah, we’ve thought about buying.

“I have two daughters, both in their late twenties,” says Bruce Ocko, 56, Senior Vice President of Mortgage Lending at Bangor Savings Bank. “When I was their age, the biggest goal was to own my own house. That was the first step into adulthood. That’s not necessarily the driving factor for younger generations. They’re more concerned with cultural and societal issues and being in an area that’s culturally thriving. It’s less important for them to have the white picket fence.”

On top of this, many of Generation Y, myself included–I’m 27–are still trying to figure out the next steps of our five-year plans. Budgeting for next month’s rent is enough of a challenge. But as Maine already has the oldest residents of any state in the country, Ocko believes it’s important that the ‘youth’ know there are options for buying a home should we consider settling down here. Because, for all the cul-

tural camouflage, there really still is an inside track.

DOllaRs & sense Since the formation of MaineHousing in 1969, the program has offered a First Home Loan for “individuals and families who cannot afford decent, safe, sanitary housing without financial assistance.” For first-time homebuyers in Portland and surrounding areas, there’s an income limit of $76,800 for a household of one to two members and a limit of $88,320 for three or more. Com-

bined with a Federal Housing Authority Loan and private mortgage insurance through United Guaranty, a homebuyer could potentially get a first mortgage with no down payment after meeting the criteria.

Daring to take on a mortgage is the first step, according to Debbie King-Johnson, Consumer Education and Outreach Officer at MaineHousing. “Some lenders will qualify you,” but beyond that, in the comfort of your own financial privacy, “you need to do your own housing budget.” That is, even if someone else qualifies you, you April 2017 43

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The First Home Loan combined with a Federal Housing Authority Loan or a Rural Development Loan is a great trifecta for firsthome buyers to consider in Maine. To qualify for a $3,500 bonus towards a down payment, prospective first-time buyers will have to take a homebuyer education course online through MaineHousing’s website or at hoMEworks, a Maine non-profit established in 1998 that offers homebuyer/owner education. taking tHe plunge aige Button and fiancé Jeff Hochmuth, both 26, confess that missing out on a crash course in home buying “is one of our biggest regrets. Being able to understand the market and the process really changes the way you approach the entire thing and the level of stress involved,” The couple just closed on a first home in Waterboro after renting in Maine for several years.

This first purchase was prompted when their most recent lease came to an end and the landlord decided to sell the property. What to do? “We were used to paying around $1,300 a month for a two bedroom rental in Lyman,” says Button, a vet technician. But try and find that at the exact moment you, your fiancé, and two Siberian huskies need it. “Finding places to rent that were geographically suitable was a challenge, so we did a little research and concluded that the market is only supposed to become harder for buyers in the future. It seemed like the ideal time to jump in with both feet.”

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HoMe Buying 101 If you’re getting the urge to take the plunge and start hunting for homes online, be prepared. You’re likely not going to see many single-family homes under $300K in the Portland area. “The market has a lot to do with affordability,” King-Johnson says.

“The Portland market has property prices increasing at a rapid rate. There are multi-

“if you’re set on buying in portland, don’t count yourself out.” ple buyers, bidding wars, and people making offers on homes greater than the asking price. You have every reason to be nervous because it feels like what we saw happening before the housing crisis.”

In realistic terms, you may want to look beyond Portland’s pricey neighborhoods.

Gena and Matt Lamontagne, of the The Matt and Gena Team of The Maine Real Estate Network, say buyers are sometimes astonished to learn that areas as close to Portland as Westbrook, Gorham, and Windham are all eligible for the USDA’s Rural Development Single Family Housing Loan Program. “They’re also the most popular areas I’m seeing for first-time home buyers,” Gena says. The couple offers regular Home Buying 101 events in order to

warm the waters for prospective first-time buyers who “just don’t know where to start.”

If you’re set on buying in Portland, don’t count yourself out. Why not consider investing in a multi-unit property? Yes, that means you’d be a landlord, but it also means you’d have a paying lodger. A two-unit property at 204 Auburn Street in Portland is listed on Zillow for $329,900. Seeing as this price falls below the Maine Housing Authority’s twounit listing price maximum, I got in touch with Debra Abbondanza at Bangor Savings Bank for advice. Assuming a combined income of $76,109 (below the MHA’s First Home Buyer Loan limit of $76,300 for a twoperson household), Abbonanza explains how a first-time home buyer can go about purchasing this property. Check out the graphic above to see how.

She made it look easy, didn’t she? So why aren’t more of us investing in multiunit properties? The answer might be as simple as a lack of financial education. Katie Brunelle, co-founder of the Adulting School in Portland, tells us, “One of the most requested courses is simply money management. Millennials don’t even know where to begin. We start off with budgeting and move onto advice on how to pay off debt (credit cards and student loans) while still saving money.”

John Hatcher of The Hatcher Group of Keller Williams Realty laments the lack of financial guidance available to young people. “In this country, we don’t teach people these skills. It’s not engrained into us. When did you learn to balance a checkbook?”

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According to the Washington Post, homeownership rates among those of us under 35 are at an all time low–a mere 34.1%, half the national average. While baby boomers are anxious to offer their theories on so-called ‘lazy, entitled millennials,’ the figure has more to do with the aftermath of boomer home buying habits through the early 2000s and eye-watering student debts than a lack of ambition or “buying too much avocado toast” as Australian columnist Bernard Salt recently claimed.

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After all this, you’ll likely be left asking, “When is a good time to buy?” According to Gena, the time is now. “Interest rates are low, and prices are staying steady. No one can predict if there will be another housing crisis.” On the other hand,“lenders are being more strict, which is good for buyers’ protection.”

While I’m still trying to convince my fiancé to get pre-approved, Button and Hochmuth are in the final stages of buying their first home–and they couldn’t be more excited. After getting outbid on a place earlier this year, the two weren’t about to let it happen again when they found a gambrel-style house that was just right. To ensure they’d come out first in the bidding war, “We had to think outside of the box,” says Button.

“We wrote a very sincere letter to the sellers with photos (including the huskies) and links to videos to show them how we’d appreciate the home they’d spent 15 years in.

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Bright Spark anita shreve returns to Maine in her latest novel, The Stars Are Fire, hitting shelves this month. Ahead of her new England book tour, the bestselling author takes us deep into her creative process, her rise to success, and her enduring love of Maine.

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Where are you right now?

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I’m at my home in Newfield, New Hampshire. I wrote most of my latest novel right here at my desk.

You also have ties to Maine, specifically Biddeford Pool.

We used to have a place in Biddeford Pool.

I had a writing desk that looked out right

across to the Wood Island Light. Then we sold it and bought two tiny cottages on Basket Island. It’s beautiful, but we have five kids, and now they have kids. The island is connected by a sandbar when the tide is low, so it’s not the most practical place to live. You’re too subject to the tide. You get invited to someone’s home for dinner and

you have to ask if you can stay overnight!

So now we’re building a place in Biddeford Pool again.

Set amid the wildfires that ravaged southern Maine in 1947, The Stars Are Fire tells the story of a young mother [Grace] attempting to rebuild her life and find her independence in the aftermath of disaster. How April 2017 47

Isn’t th at… did you arrive at this idea?

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You’ve said that you often have an idea or two tucked away to ’ferment’ over time. Did you hold this story back specifically to coincide with the 70th anniversary of the fire?

Is it really the anniversary? [Laughs] I actually never realized. No, that wasn’t intentional. When an idea like that teases you it’s best not to wait. It needs to be written when it wants to be written.

Tell us more about the title, ‘The Stars Are Fire.’ What does the Hamlet reference tell us about the story?

The idea behind the title was in part to do with Hamlet and in greater part to do with the story itself. It’s the idea of destiny. For the main character Grace, the fire literally is her destiny. It’s written in her stars.

The U.S. cover and the UK cover are very different [inset].

What was the creative decision behind them?

The original UK cover showed Grace in a red car, but the publishers wanted to change it to show a woman in a 1930s bathing suit. When they first suggested it, I was like “Over my dead body!” Well, you can see how that turned out.

The Oprah Book Club recommendation for The Pilot’s Wife launched you into the literary stratosphere. In the years following you put out about a book a year–an incredible creative output. Did you feel the pressure live up to the hype?

I’m lucky in that I never felt pressured by the success I gained from the Oprah recommendation, neither from my editor nor internally. That was just a really fertile creative period in my life.

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Despite Shreve’s protests, the original UK cover (right) was replaced by a more daring image (left).

The praise we most often hear from your legions of fans and fellow writers is for your “deft storytelling” (Richard Russo) and your wholly believable characters. How do you take us so convincingly close to the action?

I always seek to create a tangible sense of presence in my stories. What I tried to do was put myself in Grace’s position day-byday–trying to feel what it would be like to be a young mother in that house, in that weather, looking after two young children alone. Her sense of desperation. This story was also largely dictated by the time period. The things she’s struggling to cope with–mental illness, what goes on in the marital bed–no one was talking about those things at that time. I tried to imagine that sense of isolation.

“…Mental illness, what goes on in the marital bed–no one was talking about those things at that time. I tried to imagine that sense of isolation.”

You have described writing as ‘a kind of daydreaming.’ Do you find immersing yourself in the often troubling and tragic situation of your characters difficult?

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ften I’m driving in the car and I’m daydreaming about part of a story, like the fire, and I stop and say to myself, “What is wrong with me?! Why don’t you find something delightful to daydream about?” I’m not sure why my brain goes there. And it’s funny–as a person, I’m very happy and cheerful. But when I go to that well, that place of deep imagination, those neural pathways open up and out come these ideas. So it’s very easy for me to fantasize and make it real in my writing.

You’ve written novels set in Kenya and London, but you’re an iconically New England author. Is that a case of writing what you know, or is there something about New England that ignites your creativity?

It was while writing The Weight of Water (set on the Isles of Shoals off the coast of Maine and New Hampshire) that I initially became fascinated with the area. The cragginess, the backbone. There’s something about the character of the landscape and the nature of the people who live here that attracted me. And, of course, many of my novels take place beside the sea. I used to say the sea was an inexhaustible metaphor, but really that’s not true. I think I may have exhausted it by now!

How has Maine changed in your eyes over the years? Does it still hold a magic for you?

The magic hasn’t changed, but I’ve been amazed by the changes in Portland and

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first learned about the fire after I read a pamphlet on the subject some time ago. Then we had that really hot, dry summer last year and the idea of a story inspired by the 1947 disaster began to catch. I got very excited about the subject. A lot of Mainers have only a passing knowledge of the fire. They’ll say, “My dad used to talk about that when I was young.” I came to Maine to do research, and I got access to the archives of the Portland Press Herald. Everything was on microfiche, of course! It was fascinating. They had every fact you can imagine, first-person accounts, and a lot of wonderful photos. The description of the post-fire landscape where only the mill’s brick chimneys remain is inspired by one of those pictures.

Anita Shreve will give a reading and discussion of The Stars Are Fire at Maine Historical Society on April 23 and at Camden Public Library on May 2.

Portsmouth. When I was young, Portland wasn’t somewhere I would think of to visit, but now I love escaping up there for a day to look around the PMA and get lunch. My husband John and I like Petite Jacqueline, Grace, Fore Street. I love that little place with the milkshakes…Duckfat. I don’t go too much, though. You walk through the door and that’s a thousand calories right there.

The Weight of Water and The Pilot’s Wife have all been turned into movies. How did it feel to see your novels realized on the big screen?

I had very different experiences with each movie. The Weight of Water [2000] was my first time on set, and I found it thrilling. Everything was new, and everything was exciting. Kathryn Bigelow was directing, and it had some heavy-hitter actors (Sean Penn, Elizabeth Hurley) in the lead roles. I wrote the screenplay for The Pilot’s Wife [2002] myself, so that was a different kind of experience. It was a tutorial in screenwriting for me. I would write something, and the producers would tell me how to re-write it– we’d do this about 20 times. It was a steep learning curve!

The Stars are Fire is cinematic. Can you imagine it as a motion picture? Who would play Grace?

Oh yes, I certainly can. I think this particular novel would look great on screen.

I’ve never thought about an actress to play Grace, though. I think it would have to be a new actress, someone young.

You’re notoriously private about future novels, but tell us: What’s next?

I took a little time out between the last few books, but think the pace is going to pick up for me again. Yes, I’ve got an idea for a story underway. No, I’m not going to tell you what it is! n APriL 2017 49

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he dark legend of the restaurant world–according to Anthony Bourdain–has it that once the grueling dinner service is over, herds of hard-working chefs seek oblivion in hipster bars, tossing back high-octane booze long into the night. This cliché doesn’t seem to hold up here. Turns out, our thoughtful, talented chefs recharge their batteries chasing other challenges beyond the kitchen, not shots of Patron.

SCrEaming guiTar For Brian Hill, chef/owner of Camden’s Francine Bistro, the “violin” is a guitar. His theory about why serious cooks pursue serious passions outside the kitchen is simple: “We kind of have to. We can’t all just sit around discussing foie gras all night.”

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After high school–he grew up on a dairy and goat farm in Warren–he headed to Boston in the mid-’80s and started up a rock band, the Heretix. Hill was lead guitar. “I was 19. We were just kids, but somehow the band took off. We won the Boston Rock & Roll Rumble in 1988. We got signed

by Island Records. We got to extend our ad-

olescence into extra years, into the ’90s—I was so lucky.”

Boston star-chef Todd English of Olives and Figs fame was a Heretix fan. Hill asked him for a job. “I started at Figs as a baker in 1993. I moved to sauté and pizza, and later I was head chef.” Hill eventually returned to Maine to open his much-acclaimed Fran-

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the french call it le violon d’Ingres, meaning possessing another skill beyond what one is famous for. it refers to portrait painter Jean-auguste-Dominique ingres (1780-1867) whose passion was playing the violin when away from his easel. Avant-garde artist man ray (1890-1976) paid homage to ingres’s 1808 portrait of a turbaned, nude bather, La Grande Baigneuse, with his own famous 1924 photograph titled Ingres’s Violin, showing the back of the nude, turbaned model kiki de montparnasse as a violin.

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cine Bistro in 2003. In the ensuing 14 years he’s received eight James Beard Award nominations for Best Chef /Northeast, including this year.

The Heretix endure. “We had a 30-year reunion in 2015. The Dropkick Murphys invited us to open for them at the House of Blues in Boston on St. Patrick’s Day.” These days, Hill plays an acoustic 12-string to relax. “It’s a good late-night challenge. It takes my mind off the burns on my hands.”

He’s a top chef with cherished rock memories.“I got to tour with the Clash, with Aerosmith!” green thumb onsider Melissa Bouchard, executive chef at DiMillo’s On the Water. The Eastport native’s “first career goal was to become a registered nurse.

I received a degree in Medical Assisting from Andover College in 2004.” She was paying the bills meantime working in restaurants. “The DiMillos really took a chance on me. I wanted to know more and perform better.” Eventually, “I was given creative freedom, and I found joy in that.

Staying current in this extremely competitive culinary scene keeps me busy. I’m competitive by nature. That being said, I

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love to garden. It’s just me, the plants, and my thoughts. There’s nothing more satisfying than nurturing something from seed– it’s a quiet you can’t experience in a busy kitchen. Depending on my schedule I grow what I can when I can. My vegetable garden is still in the making, but I grow tomatoes and peppers every year.”

And how about Portland restaurateur/ chef Jay Villani? He was a metal sculptor moonlighting in New York restaurant kitchens before moving to Maine to found four of Portland’s enduring hotspots: Local 188, Sonny’s, Salvage BBQ, and Bunker Brewing. His original credo was “eat, drink, art,” and he sticks with it. Look for his wrought iron work in Local 188 and fine art in all his establishments.

“i came back to maine in 2012 for a graduate degree in social work at une,” says Birch hincks. “But i couldn’t find the job i really wanted in the social work field.” she’s behind the counter at her Flying Fox Juice bar on washington avenue, feeding kale and other vegetables into a daunting-looking steel juice machine. it’s a sunny little storefront with a hardwood floor, colorful stools, and charming light fixtures she made herself from wire fruit-pickers. “so i quit and waited tables for two years at eventide oyster. if you can wait tables there, there’s pretty much nothing you can’t do.” eventide’s staff is a notoriously tireless, cheerful bunch of nonstop, lightning-speed multi-taskers. “i opened flying fox last July,” she says, and she’s been happily whizzing up juices and smoothies of unusual and tasty combinations using ingredients like pineapples, parsley, ginger, apples, lemons, carrots, and, natch, kale. and to recharge her own juices? “my fiance and i love mountain biking. it’s my outlet. i got my first bike here at the usm bike swap, and that was it.” favorite trails? “around portland we like Blackstrap, Bradbury mountain, and winnick woods. gould academy in Bethel has awesome trails.”

drIVen to abStraCtIon How about a chef who paints? Stephen Lanzalotta, owner and executive chef of Slab and creator of the legendary Sicilian Slab pizza that has seduced the Forest City for years, had an epiphany at the Nickelodeon Cinema in the year 2000.

Melissa Bouchard and her sizzling Lobster Pot Pie at DiMillo’s.

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“I was inspired after seeing Ed Harris as [abstract painter Jackson] Pollock. I went out the next day and bought tube colors and cheap Masonite to paint on.”

Go ahead and call him an abstract expressionist. “The broad, easy sense of that classification spurred my painterly motivation and best sums up the simple, no-nonsense, gestural approach I take by painting with a carpenter’s drywall knife. Abstraction is as pure an expression of nature as any act–a handprint colored onto a cave wall, or its ephemeral predecessor, a footprint in the sand.”

Portlanders may remember seeing Lanzalotta’s work at The Clown, the spacious art gallery/imported home wares/ wine cellar on Middle Street. He also used his bakery/café, Sophia’s, on Market Street as his own gallery, by hanging his paintings on the walls. “Pollock gave me inspiration on how to save Sophia’s during the lowcarb, Atkins Diet years by creating a gallery space with eats.

“Creatively, painting provides an outlet that cooking cannot. While the exact same drives and parameters exist for me whether I have a skillet or a tube of oilcolor in my hand, I’m always quite conscious of the difference.”

These days, he thinks of Slab’s distinctive interior as his art. He plastered and painted the earth-tone walls himself, “with the same dry-wall knife.”

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owner of Ramen Suzukiya, of his hobbyturned-profession. He spent 30 years as a New York City-based news producer for Japan’s Fuji TV network. It was a fast-paced job involving travel and crazy hours. In his precious leisure time at home with his family, Suzuki cooked the comfort foods of his childhood in Japan. “I cooked to relax.”

Then one day he chucked the TV biz, moved to Maine to be near his now-adult children, and opened the sleek little ramen café overlooking the Eastern Cemetery on Congress Street in 2015. Since Suzuki and his team make fresh stock and noodles every day, cooking no longer qualified as a pastime.

So he found a new creative fulfillment in traditional Japanese calligraphy. “Whenever I have time, I take out my black ink.

It makes me calm. You have this piece of white paper. You can draw a large or small character, leave a space. There’s balance.”

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Kei Suzuki’s traditional Japanese calligraphy embellishes ceiling tiles at Ramen Suzikaya .

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The Otherside Deli’s Daniel Bushman fulfills his carpenter’s soul.

Look for his work overhead in the restaurant. The white ceiling is a grid of wooden tiles, and some of the squares contain Japanese characters in bold black brush strokes. Suzuki points and translates–“That’s ‘hope,’ and ‘friend,’ and ‘soul.’” He explains, “It’s not just the words, but how you write, sometimes with just a soft touch.”

WOOD WhISPerer innesota native Daniel Bushman came to Portland in search of a new place to call home. Trained at the Cordon Bleu cooking school in Mitchell, South Dakota, where he learned to prepare game birds like pheasant and big-game caribou and elk, Bushman landed a job at Central Provisions. Chef/ owner Chris Gould eventually introduced him to his friend, the chef Pete Sueltenfuss. Today, Bushman now runs the second of Sueltenfuss’s two Otherside Delis on Vaughn Street. The pair share a passion and skill for butchery and charcuterie.

The story doesn’t end there. Bushman’s “violin” is carpentry, learned in the Midwest. “I made the seven-foot pine bookcase and cherry lamp in my apartment. I felled the trees and milled the wood myself.”

Now that he’s a city-dweller no longer stalking the forests for lumber, “I’m joining the Open Bench Project on Thompson’s Point,” where members share work space and tools. Bushman’s latest frontier: “A series of coffee tables.” n

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After supper, eating an apple in the front yard, I recall my father telling me about his father, pépère, who would use his knife to dig a hole in the ground near his chair and bury his apple core. From those buried seeds grew an apple tree. In my lifetime, this same tree was “visited” by neighborhood kids carrying paper bags to fill, sent by their mothers to gather green apples to satisfy cravings or for baking. The tree, grown tall for an apple tree, had limbs that were perfect for climbing and picking.

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slow climate change, ease poverty and hunger, prevent species loss, and feed the human soul.”

Trees plant their roots deep into our lives and without them, our hopes diminish. Seventy-nine percent of Americans feel trees define their neighborhoods and fiftynine percent say they have a particular favorite species of tree.

I wonder if Charlie Côté– pépère– knew his legacy of an apple tree and its effect on an urban neighborhood, or was he just a man burying his apple core? Either way, why not plant a tree for your own legacy? n Rhea Côté Robbins is the author of ‘down the Plains,’ and editor of Heliotrope-French Heritage Women Create.

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ashington Avenue’s star continues to rise with the arrival of casual-yet-cool, Japan-inspired Izakaya Minato. Like many of the latest hot spots on The Hill, Izakaya Minato fills up quickly, so go early if you want to get in at all. Seating is varied and can accommodate any mood or group. We sit at the bar just in front of the open kitchen, where the magic happens. And magic it is. Our server explains that an izakaya (“i” meaning to stay; “sakaya,” sake shop; “minato” meaning harbor) is the Japanese equivalent of the gastropub.

The menu surprises by heading in four directions–Starting Off, From the Port, From the Farm,

and To Finish. Conspiratorially, our server whispers, “It’s whatever you want here, however you want it.” We pick a bowl of miso soup ($3). Aromatic and soothing, the broth simmers with dashi (dried seaweed) and daily-changing vegetables. Velvety shredded daikon lends a fresh bite to the umami flavor. It’s particularly delicious sipped directly from the bowl.

Equally good for sipping are innovative cocktails like Plum Vesper ($11), made with plum sake, gin, vodka, and ume boshi (Japanese pickled plum). Or try the wines, local draft, or a dizzying array of sakes. For

those of us who aren’t sake sommeliers, try the Sake Sampler ($14), three 1.5-oz. pours served on a wooden board. We’re happy to discover our favorite, the Blue Current Junmai Ginjo, is made right here in Maine.

Starting Off, we choose the Kinoko Salad ($8). Tender sauteed mushrooms and roasted vegetables rest on a bed of spinach, artfully drizzled with a creamy ponzu dressing. Next up is Okonomiyaki ($10), a cabbage pancake that comes with either mushroom or bacon, depending on your conscience. Filling and rich, this is exotic comfort food. Equally irresistible is the Sakana Misoyaki ($7), broiled seasonal fish marinated in miso.

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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 5 p.m. 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, 12 p.m. - 10 p.m. 181 Port Rd., Kennebunk, 967-5544, pedrosmaine.com.

rivalries Sports pub & Grill now with two fun and comfortable upscale sports bar locations. Known for great casual pub 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! located at 11 Cotton Street in Portland’s old Port (7746044) and 2 hat trick Drive, Falmouth (747-4020), rivalriesmaine.com

Solo Italiano traditional northern italian cuisine mixes maine freshness with genovese flavor frm international chef Paolo laboa. enjoy the crudo bar or the daily changing menu. included in Food & Wine Magazine’s 2016 “What to Do in Portland, me.” open daily 5 p.m–10 p.m.

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tIQa’s pan-mediterranean menu features dishes inspired by the cultures and cuisines of north africa, Southern europe, and the middle east. executive chef/co-owner Bo Byrne partners with purveyors to procure hand-selected, sustainably-raised and sourced meats, seafood, cheeses, and produce. tiQa is open 7 days a week for lunch and dinner with brunch on Sunday. 327 Commercial Street, 808-8840 . *reservations recommended

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As the night unspools, we agree we have just enough room for dessert. Fresh icecream or sorbet flavors change daily. Luckily, a zesty bowl of Yuzu orange sorbet ($4) from local artisan Little Bee hits the spot.

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hen we fall in love, two hearts meet as one. Two worlds, too. Today, couples embrace the excitement of cross-cultural connections. Weddings can present the perfect stage for two families to explore the merging of new love with ancient customs.

Wedding designer Sarah Goodwin of Daisies and Pearls in Portland regularly works with couples to honor the history and heritage of both sets of families involved.

This trend will only increase, since “Maine is going to see a lot more people moving into the state,” says Goodwin. “People from bigger cities see Maine as a place to get more bang for their buck.” Because Maine is so affordable, and since such cultural mergers deserve to feel unrushed, graceful, and appreciated by all, “an event in Maine allows for a weekend celebration rather than just one night.”

Why a whole weekend? Understandings deepen as they grow. In China, for example, to see if a couple is a perfect wedding

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match, the in-laws inscribe “their eight characters on a paper and put it on the family altar.” Translating this to Vacationland, this ritual might happen at a rehearsal dinner or even beforehand at a destination wedding.

“If within three days no disaster [befalls], this [means] the couple [is] well matched,” according to the Chinese Idioms and Sayings Blog. Aha! Just enough time to include a lighthouse expedition and a lobster bake.

The collateral benefit is to enjoy Maine with relaxing excursions while we discover each other’s families as fellow travelers.

Last July, Adrea Lee and Raghu Chivukula celebrated their wedding day with two ceremonies. The first, a traditional tea ceremony, honored Lee’s Chinese roots, while the second followed the rituals of a Hindu wedding. How to pull off the miracle of bringing it all here? For Lee and Chivukula, a makeshift mandap was designed for the wedding at Marianmade Farm in Wiscasset. A mandap is an exquisite, intricate frame or four-pillared structure, similar to the Jew-

ish chuppah, under which the couple is married. Jasmine flowers, symbolizing everlasting love, also played a central role in Lee and Chivukula’s ceremony.

“We gathered friends and family for a shortened Hindu ceremony on our mandap,” Andrea says. “Each ritual had deep spiritual and philosophical meaning. The ceremony is performed in Sanskrit by a priest and symbolizes a bond not only between two people but also two families. We owe so much to our parents, so it was important for us to have both Chinese and Indian ceremonies as a way of showing our gratitude and respect.”

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Peel back a success like this, and you’ll often find considerate questions early in the process. “I always begin by asking which traditions the couple would like to observe,” Goodwin says. “I ask the parents as well.” At the center of it all, “the ceremony is the most important part of the day for my clients, so creating that true reflection of themselves is really special.” the language of dance f you’re not particularly interested in a long ceremony and would rather skip to the celebration, the reception makes for a perfect stage to express cultural customs. Rosa Noreen, ballet and belly dance teacher at Bright Star World Dance in Portland, says Middle Eastern Dance–or raqs sharqi, meaning dance of the East–is traditionally performed in three different areas of an Arab wedding.

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Sounds like the perfect way to shake up the reception with your bridesmaids.

Luck of the IrIsh or some, like James McClay and his wife Meghan, the world is their backdrop. In 2014, the Portland residents celebrated their wedding in Ireland, where James grew up. “Meghan grew up in Bridgewater, Massachusetts. Her father has English heritage, and her mother’s side of the family is originally from Ireland. Meghan only really celebrated her Irish side,” James says. “I use celebrate loosely–she has a shamrock tattoo on her ankle. She’s very embarrassed about it since meeting me!”

The Emerald Isle may be out of reach for many of us, but for those who wear a shamrock on their hearts (or ankles), The Maine Irish Heritage Center, formerly St. Dominic’s Church, is one of the most beautiful landmarks in the city for a wedding.

The cathedral boasts stained-glass windows, a historic bell, and an aisle that could make any bride swoon. Music from the old country is another surefire way to transport your guests to County Cork. The McClays hired a traditional Irish group to play the harp, violin, and whistle during their Catholic ceremony. The McClays also honored their Irish heritage through small, traditional gestures. In an Irish wedding, a groom offers his bride a coin that represents all he possesses. James gave Meghan the same coin his own father gave his mother, plus a new one he’d bought just for her. Sometimes, a small but symbolic cultural nod can be the most significant.

As with any good fairy tale, love will cross mountains, rivers, seas, and even cultures.

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ooking for the Ogunquit Art Colony? You’ve just found it.

For sale for $6M, Millstone Manor is beloved to generations of local artists who turned this town into a national cultural mecca. Robert Laurent and his son, John Laurent, were friends of the owners and regular visitors here. Henry Strater, who lived next door and founded the Ogunquit Museum of American Art steps away, loved this place.

“It’s a magical spot,” says seller Abby Weiner Taylor, who’s spent all but one of her endless summers here (“in 1976, after my freshman year in college, I was working in Sun Valley, Idaho...”).

A shingle-style landmark with its own private beach, Millstone Manor charms with its tower, porches, and oceanfront swim-

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ming pool. In the entertaining areas, the walls luxuriate in deep-cut pine paneling and beams. The vaulted dining room echoes with the whispers, tall tales, and laughter of four generations. The parade of visiting artists still lives in the stunning original paintings on the walls.

What drew so much talent here? They felt at home because they were beloved and understood by two successive families of dreamers themselves who lived at this 2.38-acre woodsy compound nestled on a quite cove.

The first was Norman Brazer, Sr., “a Harvard-educated architect,” according to his daughter-in-law, Marcia Beal Brazer.

In the 1920s, Norman Sr., “with his father, Ralph, purchased a small cottage with land from the Weare Family [owners of the

Cliff House] up the meadow from Jack’s Cove and Pulpit Rock.”

Norman Sr. took a fancy to the weatherbeaten cottage and decided to make some improvements. He was well qualified, having “joined the prestigious Guy Lowell Architectural firm in Boston,” according to Marcia. Among many projects, Norman Sr. “was instrumental in designing the East Wing of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston.”

Step one was to make his larger place resonate with motifs he’d encountered in faraway places. A “world traveler,” Norman Sr. “spent many winters in Austria. At one time, he was engaged to the Norwegian Olympic champion figure skater and film star Sonja Henie.” Other ski pals were “the legendary Hannes Schneider and actress Claudette Colbert.”

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By 1936, Norman had “married Muriel Price,” and their dreams evolved into the grander sense of Millstone Manor. Soon the design was 1890 meets 1920 meets 1937.

This included five bedrooms and a penchant for Colonial Revival, featuring massive fireplaces and 18-inch pine floorboards: “Like many artists in the day, he collected Early American furniture and had a keen interest in Millstones…”

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bout these millstones. According to family lore, Norman collected them from all over New England, and “his right-hand man, Everett Currier, erected them.” As the years rolled by, “between 68 and 70” granite millstones were deftly designed around the house, meadow, and gardens like statuary, hiding beneath ferns and shadows, peeking out from secret places in the rocky ledge–a faerie enchantment.

Millstones also serve as steps and stepstones. “Everett also built the expansive rounded ‘dry wall’ that holds up the beautiful stone terraces on the ocean side of the manor.”

The Brazers’ talent, warmth, and convivial architecture were so magnetic that fellow artists just started turning up. “Norman was good friends with Henry Strater,” Marcia writes. “They tuna fished together.”

Independently, Norman Sr. hunted for larger prey. “During the war he was in the Navy reserves and would patrol the waters in [his tuna boat] Noma off the coast of

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Ogunquit for German submarines.”

Across time, an exquisite two- to threebedroom guest cottage sprang up on the property, as well as a dark room/garden shed, two-car garage, and pool house.

As Norman Sr. got older, he got to know young Mel and Nancy Brooks (her father was editor of the Boston Herald) Weiner as friends. Mel was a perennial summer resident who early on, like Bette Davis years before, had served as “head lifeguard at the Ogunquit Beaches in 1940-1941,” according to daughter, Abby Weiner Taylor.

Mel earned Norman Sr.’s respect because he flew B-25s and B-26s during World War II. On his business resume: Mel successfully ran Weiner’s Furs in Lawrence, Massachusetts, for four decades; owned Service Chemical Corp.; and founded Northeast Solvents Corp. in North Andover. Best of all, Mel was a noted bluefin tuna fisherman during the summers. Mel’s boat, with its flying bridge, was a landmark in nearby Perkins Cove.

Mel grew up with John Laurent and Bill Tower (founder of Barnacle Billy’s), so he knew Ogunquit like the back of his hand.

Also in his favor: Mel’s popularity in the neighborhood grew deep because “he was known for taking all the ‘cove rats’–kids– out on his boat, the Elsam, for a day of fishing and sightseeing,” his daughter says.

After Norman Sr. died, his wife Muriel decided no one else ought to own Millstone Manor but Mel and Nancy, so she worked to convince them until they took the plunge and bought it from her in 1969.

The Wonderbread generation, featuring Mel and Nancy’s daughter Abby and her two brothers, Steve and Brooks, began to discover old friends here, among them

Tim Tower, Bill’s son, who manages popular Barnacle Billy’s with his siblings.

Next, the Nintendo generation joined the party. Some became tuna fishermen; others came just for the view.

Then Nancy passed away, followed by Mel on May 8, 2013.

Any friendly ghosts? we ask Abby.

“Not that I know of,” she says. “Though I remember my dad would hear a noise and say, ‘It’s Norman.’”

“Oh, so your father was a sensitive?”

“No, he was a joker.”

“What was the joker’s drink?”

“Dewar’s. On the rocks.”

We climb the tower, with stairs steep enough to discourage grown-ups from prying. It’s like being in a lighthouse. Abby pauses at an elevated cupboard trundle bed and smiles, remembering something. What happened here? we ask. “As kids, this was our sacred space. We used to climb up here, tell secrets, and smoke cigarettes out the open porthole,” she says. “My mother had a silver cup on the mantel filled with Tareytons.” ‘The one worth fighting for.’ “It’s a wonder she didn’t notice her supply slipping away!”

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ichard had never broken the law, not even a speeding ticket, but opening the door to his home–still mine, he told himself–felt like a burglary.

Sliding into the darkened mud room, he tripped over a doormat the realtor had apparently brought, to scrape the feet of strangers. “Fuck,” he muttered, wondering if anyone heard him. And then, realizing how absurd that was, louder: “Fuck!”

The buyers’ walk-through would happen the next morning, the realtor said, so tonight was the last opportunity to retrieve anything that remained. Floors should be broom-clean. Bedroom and bath doors left open. Leave the keys on the kitchen counter.

Twenty-seven years ago, was the house so pristine? He tried to recall the day he brought Annie here, the two of them barely married, infatuated with each other and with the idea of owning a home. At first, she hesitated to disturb the order of the threebedroom Victorian. The dining room chandelier was too formal. “Let’s live with it for now,” she said. She sighed at the inconvenient placement of a closet rod until one day Richard sawed the thing out.

Now he wandered the first floor, looking for evidence of damage that might be noticed in the morning. Signs of former life. The empty space magnified the squeak of a kitchen drawer he’d never been able to quiet.

A certain amount of wear and tear was to be expected. Houses, like people, eventually reveal their age. When he renovated the living room three years ago, Richard justified it as a cost that would be necessary over time. Deferred maintenance catches up with you, he told Annie. Which seemed darkly ironic after she became ill. The organicfood fanatic, who popped nutritional supplements like candy, the woman who never, ever smoked a cigarette, he was sure of it, who ran a marathon before anyone heard of Joan Benoit, had concealed a tumor behind an innocuous lobe of her left lung. The chances, right?

The discovery was confirmed in the office of a Boston oncologist. Richard could still picture the desk, almost feel the brushed steel edges he’d gripped as if to steady himself. Now, touching familiar brass doorknobs in Maine, Richard thought of that afternoon as a possession, one of a

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trove, his to guard.

He was glad to see the house had fared well in the months since his departure. The chair rails and built-in china cabinet had been refinished last year and still looked fresh. The fireplace and flue looked clean.

In the cellar, Richard examined the water level of the furnace, then peered in dark corners for mouse droppings. Last winter, he discovered a family of field mice down here, squatters come in from the cold. But the concrete floor was bare, its only occupant Richard’s workbench, which the buyers had agreed to keep. Too big for his condominium, and his two daughters had husbands and workbenches of their own.

Upstairs, the house was colder. Richard tapped the thermostat and then began checking the windows.

In their bedroom, the pocket door had been a find, overlooked when Richard and Annie first toured the house. The listing agent had pointed out the unexpected feature. Hidden within the wall of what had been a dressing area, the door hung from a track and slid to seal off the space. The privacy was only partial, but sometimes, in the last, terrible weeks before hospice, when Annie moaned in pain as she slept, Richard would take a quilt and escape to the love seat here. He never confessed his absence, just waited the next morning for her to ask, but if she knew, Annie had said nothing.

Tonight, his retreat was exposed as he had left it. Still, by habit, Richard grasped the flush-mounted metal pull and slid the pocket door shut. The heavy oak panel moved as smoothly as ever on its track. The sensation was like a fingerprint. Then, as he was about to push the door back into the

wall, there was rustling, a friction. A scrap of paper somehow protruded from the narrow space beneath the door.

Richard picked up the scrap as if it were dangerous. He recognized the bluish tint: a receipt, imprinted at a time when every American Express card was inserted in a cumbersome, sliding, manual device. Annie’s name, in full. Even “Hildred,” which she disliked and always abbreviated. How strange to see her name this way again, as it appeared in the obituary.

The name of the restaurant was familiar, a landmark on the local waterfront. But the date was indecipherable, the tendered amount mysterious. $55.21? What kind of a meal had that purchased? Not one he had shared–he would have paid.

Richard tried to recall his wife’s friends.

He was not the gregarious sort; he knew this. As a couple, they’d socialized little. A few neighbors, moved away long ago. A colleague at the college where he taught. But Annie had been different, collecting friendships the way other people collected frequent-flyer miles. Sometimes, he’d found himself resenting the attention she attracted. Sometimes he’d envied her. It had worn on them both.

The receipt was nothing. Debris, swept under the door during the move. But still.

And there was nowhere to discard it now, no waste baskets in the empty house, no trash cans in the garage. Furtively, as if he were littering, Richard kicked the scrap under a radiator.

The house was filled with similar hiding spots, too many recesses and nooks to account for. How long had he already spent on his walk-through? It would have to be enough. Richard headed downstairs, clicking off light switches as he went. At the front door, he instinctively patted his pockets–car keys, condo keys. Check. House keys on the counter. For a moment, he wondered if he should take another look.

Retrieve the receipt.

Doubt was unavoidable. But too late. The door was already locked behind him. n William Hall is a Portland native who has worked as a local newspaper reporter and as a PR consultant in New York City and Boston. He holds an A.B. in creative writing from Princeton University.

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