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Maine Life

13 Maine Classics 15 Concierge 16 Experience 25 Chowder 27 Portland After Dark

37 Coyote in the City

Meet your wild neighbors. Not the college kids upstairs–the coyotes who jostle for territory in our cities and suburbs.

By Sarah Moore

“The Low/High Life” Every starry flight of fancy gets more fun when you come down to earth. Like evening dresses with sneakers and french fries with champagne, Portland’s opposites attract.

By Madison Andrews

51 Maine Summer Camps 64 Maine Wedding Guide

31 Resorting… to Extremes

Plus: A Union of Souls

You want the moon? Just say the word… Maine’s hotels and resorts show there’s no length they won’t go to to give their guests an incomparable Vacationland experience.

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65 Adventurous Vows

Ring? Check. Bouquet? Check.

Zip line…The ultimate Maine wedding experiences for adventurous souls.

By Olivia Gunn Kotsishevskaya A glimpse inside the Wabanaki wedding ceremony.

By Maulian Dana

Perspectives 8 From the Editor 10 Letters

57 L’Esprit de l’Escalier

“La Femme Franco-Américaine” A secret message to immigrants in America.

By Rhea Côté Robbins

112 Flash

Food&Drink 41 Hungry Eye

“Devil’s Brew” Mainers are among the least religious skeptics in the nation, according to the Pew Research Center. The truth? We worship daily–at the altar of coffee.

By Claire Z. Cramer

55 Everyday Sommelier “Vineyard Vacation” Plan your great escape to the world’s finest vineyards.

By Ralph Hersom

58 Dining Guide

59 Restaurant Review

Drifters Wife, Washington Avenue’s stylish bistro, expands into shining new digs, with no flavor lost.

By Claire Z. Cramer

Shelter&Design 49 Front Page

Yours for the night: a rustic lakeside Guy Gannett Publishing getaway near Saddleback Mountain. Open the door to luxury at Loon Lodge.

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99 House of the Month

For Sale: A Boat with a House

By Colin W. Sargent

105 New England Home & Living

Art&Style 111 Fiction

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The Readers’ Menu I

f you’re an actor, you know you’ve made it when the waiter hands you the “actors’ menu” at Sardi’s in New York. The legendary bar and bistro delights with its caricatures of Broadway performers who started out as unknowns but became regulars over the years. Some have become powerhouses. “Look who’s sitting in the corner booth!” The sweet thing about it is, the rest of the world is unaware there’s an actors’ menu, with “special” lower prices. Except for those who care terribly about this, no one has time to care. Sardi’s maintains the actors’ menu not only to honor Actors’ Equity members, but also to stay in touch with who they are and to reward the source of their existence in the first place.

When I heard about this friendly practice, I thought of Maine and our own magazine, Portland Monthly. Think of us as a readers’ exclusive resource, conducting you to the friendly depths of discovering an extraordinary way to live in Maine.

We give you the essential backstory that, say, the Guy Gannett family (former publishers of the Portland Press Herald and Maine Sunday Telegram) used to own all of Saddleback Mountain and nearby Loon Lodge in Rangeley, where you can stay today in rustic, renovated luxury and even throw quite the wedding. Now you know you can book the hunting and ski lodge that was once short on insulation but was always long on charm.

Readers’ Equity. What a great concept–work created for the joy of it. We keep a fiction section for our readers, because we believe it’s the right thing to do. And that makes you, the readers, into the celebrities. For going on 33 years, we’ve been lucky enough to live a dream that we’ve shared with you. Mediabistro gives us a shout-out for going “beyond the usual.”

We knock ourselves out to uncover and reveal the fantastic and endearing–the heart of a story. With that said, it’s so nice to see you back again at your favorite table. How have you been?

Take a look at our Table of Contents. That’s our readers’ menu.

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obster News L n I “Great news for Maine–we’re getting a lobster emoji!” Sen. Angus King announced to his 184,000 Twitter followers recently. A 2017 petition entitled “Let’s Make The Lobster Emoji Happen” garnered over 5,000 signatures and a place in the Unicode Consortium emoji dictionary. However, keen-eyed Twitter-users were quick to point the cartoon crustacean possesses only six walking legs–a mistake hastily rectified by red-faced Unicode designers. Nonetheless, King thanked the organization for “recognizing the impact of this critical crustacean in Maine and across the country” before signing off in savvy social media style: “Yours truly, Senator

A small shingled home on Monhegan Island was just added to the National Trust for Historic Preservation. Why? The house was built in 1906 by a 23-year-old Rockwell Kent. The young artist visited Monhegan a year earlier and became entranced by its savage beauty and coastline, sparking a lifelong inspiration. Winter, Monhegan Island hangs in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Painter James Fitzgerald bought the property in 1952, continuing its legacy as a source of artistic exploration. Kent’s is the second Maine property to be added to The Historic Artists’ Homes and Studios program after Winslow Homer’s studio in Prouts Neck.

Pine State of Mind

Bethany Field, owner of Maine Flag Company, has been busy since she brought a Maine classic back into view. Field began stitching and selling Maine’s original state flag, in use from 1901-1909, from her studio on India Street. “We came across the 1901 flag in 2013 and immediately saw it as a better representation of our state than the current blue ‘seal on a bedsheet,’” Field says. “We’ve received a surprising number of orders from out of state. We just got an order from Mainers stationed on an aircraft carrier in Virginia. Very cool.”

Her Maine

Belle Bocal, René Johnson, Abigail Barrows, and Julie Eaton are the voices for Maine in Lifetime’s Her America: 50 Women, 50 States, a “digital content series.” The project involves multiple forms of storytelling, from essays to videos to podcasts. Editor-in-Chief Lea Goldman says the campaign was inspired by the events of the last year.

“There was so much talk about women–how many assumptions we made about them. And we thought, there are so many stories […] that deserve to be told.” Barrows, who hand-harvests oysters at Long Cove Sea Farm in Deer Isle, believes sharing stories unites us. “I’ve never had that many people out on the water with me. It was really fun to share the farm with them, especially since many of them were clearly not country folk. They were really into my ‘outfit’ and asked, ‘Who are you wearing?’ ‘Where did you get your clothing?’ I thought they were joking.” Watch the stories at HerAmerica.com.

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Experience the thrills and glamour of figure skating at the Cross Insurance Arena on April 15.

Olympic skaters, fresh from the Winter Games in South Korea, will demonstrate their pirouetting prowess in Stars on Ice. The line-up includes Meryl Davis & Charlie White, 2014 medallist Ashley Wagner, and Nathan Chen, the first skater to land five different quadruple jumps in a single competition.

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Rockabilly Soul Prep your air guitar, JD McPherson will light up Port City Music Hall on April 16.

The Oklahoma-born musician is touring with his latest album, Undivided Heart and Soul, recorded at the legendary RCA Studio B studio in Nashville that has hosted the likes of Elvis and Dolly Parton. “At first, we felt we needed to do a big, orchestral production. The creative process was a nightmare. I wanted to crawl into a hole. After a while, the louder, more ragged, more distorted the sound naturally became, the better everything felt.

It was like The Shining, where the hotel makes Jack Nicholson write crazy stuff!” McPherson already dreaming of his second visit to the Forest City. “I ate the best lobster roll of my life at Eventide last time. We went round the corner and discovered [Californian rock band] Los Lobos eating lobster rolls, too.” Talk about serendipitous Maine. In the spirit of “The way life should be,” what is McPherson’s life mantra? “Take time to think about your choices instead of being driven by instinct. And give yourself the gift of free time.” No arguments here.

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‘ME’Time

Take your lunch break outside on May 3. Portland Downtown and Portland Buy Local celebrate Downtown Worker Appreciation Day by offering Portland’s busy workers with gift bags and refreshments in Monument Square, Tommy’s Park, and the Portland Museum of Art.

On Your Bike

Get a taste for adventure with the Yeo brothers’ epic bike packing journey along the Arizona 750 Trail. Bill Yeo will introduce his inspiring documentary film, whisking you away on a journey over passes, across deserts, and along breathtaking trails to the Grand Canyon. Best of all? The film is free to watch at L.L. Bean in Freeport, April 26.

Wallace Stevens’s concept of “The incessant conjunction between things as they are and things imagined,” is caught on canvas at John Moore’s first solo Maine exhibition “Resonance.” The Belfast artist’s paintings and drawings span industrial Pennsylvanian to urbanized locations along mid-coast Maine. Let your own imagination wander with him.

Through June 17 at the Center for Maine Contemporary Art.

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Portland Stage, 25 Forest Ave. The Niceties, Apr. 3-22; Sex and Other Disturbances, May 1-20. 774-0465

Good Theater, 76 Congress St. A Comedy of Tenors, through Apr. 29.

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Public Theater, 31 Maple St., Lewiston. The Midvale High School 50th Reunion, May 4-13.

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City Theater, 205 Main St., Biddeford. Enchanted April, May 4-20. 282-0849

Lyric Music Theater, 176 Sawyer St., South Portland.

The Foreigner, Apr. 13-29.

799-1421 Mad Horse Theatre, 24 Mosher St., South Portland.

The Explorer’s Club, May 3-20. 747-4148 Portland Ballet, at Westbrook Performing Arts Center, 471 Stroudwater St., Westbrook. Firebird, Apr. 27-28. 772-9671 Penobscot Theatre Company, 131 Main St., Bangor. The Spitfire Grill, Apr. 26-May 13. 942-3333 The Portland Players, 420 Cottage Rd., South Portland. Titanic, May 18 - June

Schoolhouse Arts Center, 16 Richville Rd., Standish. Harvey, Apr. 13-22; Sammy’s, Apr. 27-29; Once Upon a Matt and Kim deliver Mattress, May 18-20. sweet nostalgia and 642-3743 electronic beats at Thompson’s Point on Waterville Opera April 24.

House, 93 Main St. 3rd Flr., Waterville. The Bowdoin College Producers, Apr. 13-15; Museum of Art, 245 The Bolshoi Ballet: Gisele, Maine St., Brunswick. Art Apr. 22. 873-7000 from the Northern Plains, through July 8; AEGYPTUS: Egypt in the GrecoArt Roman World, through Bates College Museum July 15. 725-3275 of Art, Olin Arts Center, 75 Russell St., Lewiston. Senior Center for Maine ConThesis Exhibition 2018, temporary Art, 21 Winter Apr. 6- May 27; 786-6158 St., Rockland. Jacob

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Hessler + Richard Blanco: Boundaries, through May 27; Screen: Adam Lampton: Museums, through May 27; KJ Shows: Portrait of an Artist, through June 3; John Moore: Resonance, through June 17.

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Andrew Wyeth: Temperas and Studies from the Wyeth Collection, Mar. 17 - Oct. 21; Ai Weiwei: Circle of Animals/Zodiac Heads, Mar. 24 - Dec. 30; Andrew Wyeth in Rockland, Apr. 7 - Nov. 4; Maine: The Farnsworth Collection, opens May 12. 596-6457 Greenhut Galleries, 146 Middle St. March Group Exhibition, Mar. 1-31; The Portland Show, Apr. 5-28; Two Person Exhibition: Matt Blackwell and Kathi Smith, May 3 - June 2.

772-2693 Maine Maritime Museum, 234 Washington St., Bath. Pull Together: Maritime Maine in the 1914-1918 Great War, through May 5. 443-1416 MECA, 522 Congress St., Portland. You Never Know How You Look Through Other People’s Eyes, through Apr. 20; MECAmorphosis Runway Fashion Show 2018, May 4; 2018 MFA Thesis

Exhibition, May 11-Jun. 8, 775-3052 Maine Jewish Museum, 267 Congress Street.

Karen Brooks, Dr. Norm Rosenbaum, Om Devi Reynolds and Linda Gerson: Black and White; Paula Gerstenblatt: Full Circle; and Nanci Kahn: Just a Moment in Time, through May 4; First Friday Art Walk, April 6. 2394774.

Portland Museum of Art, 7 Congress Sq. The 2018 Portland Museum of Art Biennial, through June 3; The Robbers: German Art in a Time of Crisis, through July 15. 775-6148 Richard Boyd Art Gallery, 15 Epps Street.

Paintings in Oil, through Apr. 29; A Walk in the Woods: American Landscapes, May 5-29.

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Aura, 121 Center St. Riptide, Apr. 14; Stars, Apr. 15; ROCK 106.3 Presents: Ministry, Apr. 18; Get the Led Out, Apr. 19; Quinn Sullivan, Apr. 20; One: The Only Tribute to Metallica, Apr. 21; George Thorogood and the Destroyers, Apr. 22; Badfish: A Tribute to Sublime, Apr. 26; Drew Holcomb and Josh Garrels, Apr. 27; Blackberry Smoke, May 3; Jonathan Davis, May 11; 1964: The Tribute, May 17. 772-8274

Bottling Company, Apr. 15; Annalise Emerick, Apr. 18; Chris Klaxton, Apr. 21; Sassquatch, Apr. 27; Britt Connors and Bourbon Renewal, Apr. 28. 774-4111 Empire, 575 Congress St. Colly, Apr. 13; Waker, Apr. 14; Marbin with Five of the Eyes, May 2; Sloan ‘12’ Tour, May 5; Rich Vos, May 18. 747-5063

Hannaford Hall, USM Campus. Ariel String Quartet with Navah Perlman, April 18.747-5063 Jonathan’s Ogunquit, 92 Bournes Ln., Ogunquit.

Ronnie Earl & The Broadcasters, Apr. 20; Suede, May 26. 646-4526 Merrill Auditorium, 20 Myrtle St. Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain, Apr. 12;

Blue, 650 Congress St. Irish Nights, every Wed.; The Happy Hour, every Thurs.; Jazz at Blue, every Sat.; Cumberland Crossing’s BLUEGRASS JAM!, Apr. Firebird takes flight 12; Fat Knuckle at Portland Ballet, Freddy, Apr. 13; April 27-28. el malo, Apr. 13; Dark Hollow

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Jessica Lang Dance, Apr. 14; Ariel String Quartet, Apr. 18; Brit Floyd, Apr. 20; Rodgers & Hammerstein on Broadway, Apr. 21-22; Mahler: Resurrection Symphony, Apr. 29 and May 1; Swan Lake, May 13; STOMP, May 17-18.

842-0800 One Longfellow Square, 181 State St. Robyn Hitchcock, Apr. 11; The Gibson Brothers, Apr. 13; Mary Gauthier, Apr. 18; The Mammals, Apr. 21; Anna & Elizabeth, Apr. 22; John Gorka, Apr. 27; Caitlin Canty, May 1; Eilen Jewell, May 2; Vishtèn, May 3; Decompression Chamber Music, May 7; Matthew Logan Vasquez, May 15; THE BAND Band, May 18.

761-1757 Port City Music Hall, 504 Congress St. Buckethead, Apr. 10; Pigeons Playing Ping Pong, Apr. 14-15; JD McPherson, Apr. 16; Mak-

ing of the Maine Business Mind, Apr. 18; Cut Chemist, Apr. 21; Unknown Mortal Orchestra, Apr. 23; Margo Price, Apr. 24; The Suffers, Apr. 26; Andrea Gibson, May 2; PVRIS, May 4; Fleetmac Wood Presents Rumours Rave, May 11. 956-6000 Portland House of Music and Events, 57 Temple St. Maddogs and Mainers, a Tribute to Joe Cocker, Apr. 14; An Evening of the Music of Fleetwood Mac, Apr. 21; Music from the Films of Quentin Tarantino, Apr. 28.

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Annual May Day Festival, Downtown Kennebunk. Craft markets, live music, climbing wall, and a parade to celebrate spring, May 5. 604-1341 Bug Light Kite Festival, 55 Bug Light Park, South Portland. Presented by the South Portland Historical Society, this annual festival features live music, a fundraising barbeque, demonstrations, and an impressive kite-flying spectacle, May 19. 767-7299 Cross Insurance Arena, 1 Civic Center Sq. Traxxs Monster Trucks Destruction Tour, Apr. 20-21. 775-3458 Hard Cider Run, “Dash through the Eastern Promenade in pursuit of hard cider,” a 5K presented by Urban Farm Fermentory, May 12. 773-8331 Kensington Cozy Mystery Authorpalooza!

Rising Tide Brewery, Fox Street. Join Print: A Bookstore and Kensington Publishing “Cozy Mystery” Authors for night of fun, beer, and well, murder, Apr.10. 536-4778 Mother’s Day Garden & Tea Open House, Neziscot Farm, Turner. Enjoy tea, explore the greenhouses and gardens, and indulge in brunch and lunch specials, May 12-13. 225-3231 Portland 10 Miler, Payson Park. This running road race features 10 coastal road and bike path miles around Back Cove and the Eastern Promenade. After you pass the finish line, enjoy craft beer and food trucks, April 22.

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Watch the checkered flag drop at the corner of Cumberland and High streets on May 5 at the start of the Kyle Petty Charity Ride. Over 250 motorcycles and support crew will depart Portland on a seven-day journey to North Carolina. Former NASCAR driver Kyle, the son of NASCAR legend Richard Petty, is the founder of the ride and its beneficiary charity, Victory Junction. Why Portland? “My wife and I were in New England for the New Hampshire Motor Speedway NASCAR races,” Kyle says. “We decided to drive up to Maine and explore. We stopped in Portland, and I knew it should be the start line for the 24th charity ride.” The tour will have a distinctly Americana feel, “inspired by the lighthouses of Maine,” Petty says. Spectators can watch the proceedings from alongside the Westin Hotel. “Warn Portland drivers to expect traffic jams for me!”

Herregud! Belfast will soon be the site of one of the world’s largest land-based salmon farms, following a six-month location search through Japan, Spain, China, and the UK, according to Bangor Daily News. “Maine has been chosen for its pristine location, cold water conditions, seafood profile, and proximity to major consumer markets in the Northeastern USA,” says a press release from Nordic Aquafarms. The Norwegian company picked a 40-acre plot outside Belfast for the $150M facility, which will create 60 high-skilled jobs. The company aims eventually to produce over 66 million pounds of salmon each year–8-percent of U.S. consumption. That’s a lot of lox.

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eople do end up in their underwear,” Brian Allen says. Allen is the artistic director for Good Theater on Munjoy Hill. The theater’s upcoming play, A Comedy of Tenors, runs through April 29. “It’s a madcap comedy, with mistaken identity and door-slamming and lunacy. Written by Ken Ludwig, the story is set in Paris in the 1930s. Performed by a modest cast of seven, A Comedy of Tenors explores the explosive dynamic between “a producer, an aging Italian superstar, and his hot-blooded wife.”

I dress for the show with Paris in mind.

A mid-length, deep blue number does the trick. April in Maine is fickle, so I throw on

a dusty, cinched trench coat. This cosmopolitan occasion calls for heels, too.

Now in its sixteenth year, Good Theater is a cozy playhouse in the St. Lawrence Arts Center at 76 Congress Street. “It’s a terrific venue, very comfortable,” says Allen. “And our prices are moderate.” A Saturday evening show of A Comedy of Tenors runs $32.

A friend and I meet up in front of the theater and decide to skip dinner in favor of a drink during the performance. “People get to drink while they watch our shows,” Allen says. “We have a really good time.

We’re really funny! And we all need to laugh these days.”

Once the stage empties and the lights

flicker back on, the customary post-show nightcap is next on our agenda. No need to call a cab if Munjoy Hill Tavern is the destination. A six-minute walk southwest on Congress Street takes us straight to the watering hole.

If Good Theater had us strolling through Paris, Munjoy Hill Tavern steers us back to American soil. A glance at the decor reveals a glowing Pabst Blue Ribbon clock and a large whiteboard advertising Jell-O shots.

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P ortland a f t e r da r k they come back up the hill,” Kate, the bartender, says. “We’re open until 1 a.m., later than most places up here.”

The real game-changer at this joint proves to be the myriad of late-night snacks. It’s tough to settle for just one, so we order mozzarella sticks, jalapeno poppers, and onion rings, Paris now a fond but faint memory.

Opera and Darts in the Old Port fter another Saturday night spent drinking cheap beer at my regular dive, I’m craving something more refined, Portland Symphony Orchestra.

Imagining myself among the soft red seats and arching golden ceiling at Merrill Auditorium, I dress to the nines. Tonight, we travel to The Blue Danube.

A glass of champagne keeps us warm as we make the two-minute walk from Petite Jacqueline to the auditorium. With longtime music director Robert Moody stepping down at the end of the 201718 season, attending Portland Symphony Orchestra concerts is very much an interactive spectator sport, as audience members have the opportunity to help name his successor.

“We’ve had a lot of people asking who it’s going to be,” says Elle Sleeper of PSO. “As of now, there’s no clear front runner.”

Tonight’s director, Eckard Preu, is a finalist. Another, Daniel Meyer, will direct the highly-anticipated “Rodgers & Hammerstein on Broadway” on April 21, which features showstoppers from The Sound of Music, My Fair Lady, and Oklahoma! The demand for Broadway music in Portland is high. “It’s so popular that we have another Broadway-themed concert scheduled” for next season, Sleeper says.

After the show, we buzz with energy.

With my heels wedging between cobblestones, I’m relieved when we stumble upon a familiar favorite. At Rosie’s, a tall Miller High Life is $1.50, popcorn is flowing and free, and–at least tonight–there’s no wait to play darts. Music to my ears.

“We should get tickets for the Broadway thing,” I say, dart in hand, aiming for the bullseye. I throw and miss.

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ditorium, but this–the sticky bar, sound of darts, popcorn-littered floor–feels like coming home.

Cocktails and Cash Bars on the West End We’re at Top of the East, standing by the floor-to-ceiling windows and gazing over our glittering city. Someone at the table near to us receives an order of lobster sliders (with lemon herb aioli, $17), and we immediately follow suit.

“This is amazing,” my friend says of his Mexican Stand-Off, an expert mix of tequila, agave, lime, and pineapple juice ($14). He takes another sip and makes a pained expression–it’s so good it hurts.

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I ignore him and concentrate on my

drink, a Ye Olde Fashioned ($14). I knew I’d made the right call when I watched our “mixologist” add a flamed orange peel to the glass.

A hot-spot for celebrations of any kind, Top of the East offers us panoramas of the shimmering skyline from the apex of the Eastland Hotel, built in 1927. The legendary bar and lounge pairs showstopper views with Instagram-approved cocktails and small plates.

The higher you are, the greater the fall.

Slightly buzzed and tremendously broke, we saunter off the elevator and into the street.

I can’t fathom swiping my credit card again for the foreseeable future, so a cashonly place hits the spot. Pizza Villa near the Greyhound bus station is designed to give you the bang for your buck. We elude

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The Resort: At the mouth of the East Coast’s only fjord, The Claremont Hotel stands outside of time, a moment caught in amber. The green sweep of lawn rises up from a boathouse on the lip of Somes Sound, sloping up to the main hotel, punctuated by white Adirondack chairs. The main hotel with gabled roof and wraparound porch was built in 1884 by Captain Jesse Pease, who fell for the stunning views across the fjord to what would later become Acadia National Park. In the dazzle of a summer’s day, you may have stepped back in time. If you glance over your shoulder and spot the Obama family sitting down to lunch, you’ve sped back to 2011.

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At a loss, Erskine called the animal wardens who service South Portland and the Cape Elizabeth area, which includes “Cape Elizabeth Land Trust and a lot of wildlife,” she says. “They told me to leave the pup outside.” Erskine, reluctant to forsake her to the cold night, “brought her indoors, wrapped her in a blanket, and placed her in a box on the kitchen table.” The next day, animal control officer Corey Hamilton and local game wardens transferred her to a rehabilitation clinic. Hamilton believes the

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foundling was either a baby coyote or gray fox. And while it came as no shock to Erskine that she shares her yard with a host of non-human residents–“There are coyotes all around here. I see them lounging on the picnic tables at Kettle Cove Take Out & Dairy opposite my house”– the experience illuminates how closely she truly cohabits with her wild neighbors. “​While most of us are familiar with squirrels, raccoons, and the odd opossum, few know that the Portland area–especially the urban fringe–also plays home to critters like striped skunks, foxes, minks, otters, fishers, and larger carnivores such as bobcats and the eastern coyote,” says Dan Gardoqui, founder of White Pines Program, an organization that aims to increase education and engagement with the natural world.

“We’ve had coyotes, bear, and moose all spotted within half a mile of the Casco Bay Bridge,” Hamilton adds. “I get a large number of calls simply because someone’s spot-

ted something they think shouldn’t be living around humans. This is Maine; we have lots of wildlife. These animals were living here long before houses were built in their habitat.”

While we might thrill at the sight of bears and bobcats, the common coyote is derided as a more prosaic and verminous type of hunter. Have we simply been programmed to mistrust the canny canine?

“The coyote is an American original,” says Dan Flores, author of Coyote America, in which he explores how the creature became the victim of a negative PR campaign in the early 19th century. Flores calls out government agencies and even Mark Twain, for his 1870 travel book Roughing It, as culprits in the anti-coyote regime. Despite this, the coyote has proven to be one of the nation’s most enduring and adaptable icons, now inhabiting every state except Hawaii. “[Its howl] is our original national anthem.”

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God’s Dog imilarly to tigers living in cities in India, coyotes in urban areas find small green spaces to live and reproduce, coming out at night when we’re in bed,” says conservation biologist Geri Vistein, founder of coyotelivesinmaine.com. But Vistein is quick to point out the canis latrans is no urban interloper. Coyoti is an ancient creature, named by the Aztecs and revered as a trickster god in Native American mythology. “The coyote has been here since the first people crossed the Bering Sea into the Americas,” she says.

“In fact, archaeologists have found coyote bones in New England from 30,000 years ago–predating the Ice Age.” Until the early 19th century, Maine’s mountains and dense forests were the kingdom of the gray wolf, while coyote territory mainly stretched west from Illinois to the Rocky Mountains. When human predation decimated the two million-strong national gray wolf population, there left a gap for the infinitely adaptable coyote to make its return to New England, bringing with it a whisker of its lupine cousin. “Canada didn’t destroy its wolf population to the same extent we did,” Vistein says. “As a result, some of the few remaining males wolves in the Ontario region mated with coyotes. You can see this in the larger jaw muscles that allow them to take down larger prey. Our coyotes carry a mix of wolf genes, but they are coyote, coyote, coyote. The wonder and

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wisdom of nature saw a space to fill, allowing the species to adapt and survive.” This innate knack for survival in a changing world has seen the coyote flourish where others like the gray wolf have fallen. Vistein emphasizes the animal’s intelligence, too. “Coyotes used to have relatively harmonious relationship with Native American tribes. They knew where people were, rodents would be. I work with a farmer in Maine who, during the summer haying season, will start up his tractor at night and see the coyotes appear like clockwork in his headlights, waiting for the machine to flush animals out of the dry grass.”

“We’ve had coyotes, bear, and moose all spotted within half a mile of the Casco Bay Bridge.”

–Corey Hamilton In the Neighborhood For those of us living in the comfortable cushion of urban and suburban communities, stepping out at night in our slippers, perhaps, to put out the garbage or sneak a surreptitious smoke, the flash of a pair of wild eyes can send a jolting moment of primitive fear through our bodies–a quick blast

of Freud’s Uncanny. National organizations like Project Coyote and Urban Coyote Initiative aim to redress the hostility felt toward the beasts living in the margins of our cities.

“By eliminating natural predators and natural barriers of habitat, humans have literally paved the way for coyotes to explore new territories, including the prairies of suburban lawns and the forests of skyscrapers in cities,” reads the mission statement on Urban Coyote Initiative’s webpage.

The reasons for wildlife residing and reproducing in places like Portland are “complex,” according to Gardoqui. “Chances are, the abundant food resources are a big draw.

Cities have a lot of ‘live’ foods like squirrels, mice, birds, and rats as well as a some ‘non-live’ food sources wasted by humans,“ he says. These appear particularly delicious to coyotes in April, when male and female pairs are raising litters of pups. However, they’re a lot less likely to grab a quick takeout from your garbage than a raccoon. An Urban Coyote Initiative study of over 1,400 subjects showed coyotes supplement their diet with only 1.3 percent of our discarded lettuce heads and diet shakes.

As for any threat to us and our beloved Fido and Felix, “The risk of humans or their pets being harmed by wild coyotes is very, very slim,” Gardoqui assures.

There has only been one reported human fatality caused by a coyote attack, in 1981.

When it comes to our fluffy family members, awareness is key. “I’ve seen how pet owners have become a lot more responsible in the 27 years I’ve lived in Maine,” Vis-

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A rare white coyote walked out of the woods in Kennebunk in 2013. She later died under a porch on Balsam Lane. Wildlife biologist Scott Lindsay later told us the body had been “claimed for taxidermy” by a resident in Biddeford.

Cape Elizabeth Police issued a warning to residents last summer, when a pair of coyotes were repeatedly spotted along Robinson Wood trails near Shore Road. Roadrunner was not seen in the vicinity.

“I’ve seen packs of seven of them running across the yard, not scared of people,” Biddeford resident John Dumoulin told NECN in 2014. A city meeting was head to address increased coyote sightings around the city.

tein says. “But we need to remember, if you leave your little five-pound toy dog in the yard at night time…Well, to a coyote, that’s no dog, that’s dinner! The same goes with cats. We tend to let our feline pets roam in urban areas, but that’s a potential dinner for a coyote.” During pup season, dogs are as likely to threaten coyotes by interfering with their dens and stressing the mother and babies. “Keep your dog on a leash or in sight of you,” Vistein urges. As for those bird feeders you lovingly hang in hopes of the scarlet glimpse of a cardinal? “Take them down,” she says. “It goes against what we’ve been taught, but more seeds on the ground means more rodents. You’re inviting coyotes right into your yard.” Though our kinder nature may tempt us to leave out snacks for furry and feathered friends, “It’s not a natural part of the ecosystem.”

The same goes for intentionally leaving out food for coyotes themselves. “Those species have survived the winter without us for millennia.”

When left to their own devices, coyotes control rodent populations–a boon in our litter-strewn urban areas. They’ll also deter felines, allowing bird populations to flourish. ​And while these adaptable and fiercely intelligent creatures have learned to live among humans, we’re still learning how to coexist with them. “They don’t want to interact with humans in the vast majority of instances,” says Dan Gardoqui, “mostly because when wild animals and humans tangle, it usually doesn’t end up well for the animal.” n

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ing the same cup every day. By sipping around town, you can fall in love with coffee all over again.

TO DRIP, PERCHANCE TO BREW or a cool, clean vibe with sleek furnishings, it’s easy to like Bard Coffee at 185 Middle Street. Wicked Joe Coffee, the Topsham-based company that sells wholesale organic and fair-trade beans nationally, owns this Old Port shop and roasts its custom beans.

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over” hot coffee drinks. An 8-ounce cup of brewed dark roast is $2.50 (I stuck to plain black coffee everywhere, for the sake of comparison). It’s utterly delicious with a deep, black espresso-like tang but no burnt bitterness. There are pastries from the Baker’s Bench in Westbrook and Kamasouptra soups at lunchtime.

Poured-over is serious here, and it’s not cheap. A 12-ounce cup is $3.50. What’s the appeal? “You’re going to really taste the bean,” says a barista at the pour-over sta-

tion. She recommends a Guatemalan bean called Antonio Domingo. “That’s the farmer who grew the beans.”

Poured-over is also slow. She scoops Antonio’s beans, grinds them, and puts them into a cone filter over a glass Chemex beaker on a tiny warming plate. She pours hot water in gradual increments over the beans. A good five or six minutes have elapsed since we started talking. Anyone in a hurry would have to plan ahead.

“People who like coffee this way think it’s the only way,” she says.

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You don’t have to look far for a good cup of coffee. In the West End, Aurora Provisions offers tasty, organic Carpe Diem coffee blends. At 722 Congress Street, Yordprom coffee, roasted in Topsham, is delicious. Belleville, the French bakery on Munjoy Hill with various and glorious croissants, serves Tandem’s Time & Temperature roast.

Off the peninsula, The Proper Cup just opened in February at 500 Forest Avenue. With industrial black walls and salvaged-wood counters lined with metal stools, it’s poised for neighborhood and student hoards. “Our coffees are from Flight Coffee Company in Bedford, New Hampshire,” says Proper Cup co-owner Rachel Kriei. “They try to bring out the natural flavor of the beans, so no super-dark roasts.” Sip a 12-ounce cup of rich Brazilian medium roast ($2.41) and a HiFi donut and check out the crazy chandelier light sculpture fashioned from plumbing pipes and filament bulbs. A motorcycle is mounted on a table in the middle of the huge room. “It’s spending its retirement here,” says Kriei.

A few blocks up Forest at 643, Little Woodfords is serving Vivid Coffee from Winooski, Vermont. “We’ve got single-origin drips, and espresso,” says Andrew Zarro, one of the owners. “Mill Cove Baking at FORK Food Lab makes us great scones and cakes and amazing pop-tarts.”

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What if you don’t feel the magic? Where the brewed cup was rich and full-bodied, this slow-pour tastes weaker, a bit sour and fruity. But it tastes quite good when it’s come to room temperature. Caitlin Sackville, who’s been making coffee at Bard for more than four years, explains.

“Coffee’s like wine or food. Your palate can discern more nuance when it’s closer to room temperature. When we introduce people to the pour-over style, we emphasize that it’s not any better, it’s just a different method. We use medium and lighter roasts, and the bean batches are often small–too small to use for the [higher volume] brewed method.”

“The extra labor, and the fact that small batches can cost more, is reflected in the higher price. Back when I was just a customer, I always drank brewed dark roasts.

Once I got interested in the characteristics of say, Costa Rican beans, I got to really appreciate the pour-over,” But, that said, “I like either one, and I drink them both.”

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Nice to know. The double-o’s of good are the wheels of the shop’s signature tandem bike logo. The coffee’s good, if a bit weak– but that’s just me–and the flavor improves as it cools. The scone is a masterpiece.

“It’s not the brew method, it’s the roasting,” says Tandem co-owner Will Pratt later on the phone from his roastery on Anderson Street. That subtly fruity quality of the coffee? “Coffee should taste fruity. It’s a fruit. If you’re just roasting darker, you’re just tasting carbon. I love talking about this–we do tastings at the shop on Anderson Street,” which he recommends to discover the variety and nuance among lighter-roasted beans.

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“All our coffee is brewed in a drip machine,” the barista says. My 12-ounce cup of French roast is $2.45. No pour-over here.

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ORIGINAL GOOD GUYS offee By Design can take credit for turning Portland into a serious coffee town. They showed up on Congress Street in 1994 before there even was an Arts District. From the outset, CBD committed to ethically grown beans at a shop that developed into a little empire with a reputation for coffee, responsible business practices, and supporting local artists and local causes.

CBD is known for its consistency and for such popular house blends as Midnight Jazz, Black & Tan, and Alonzo Double Dark. Baker’s Bench pastries and Holy Donuts are among the many treats offered. A 12-ounce cup of drip-brewed is $2.54.

“I feel like a lot of people don’t realize we also offer single-cup drip,” says Rosie Borden at CBD’s café/roastery at 1 Diamond Street in East Bayside. (Not all the smaller CBD shops have the option yet.) The 12-ounce single-cup is $3.51. “It’s worth it– it’s a good, clean cup. I like light and medium roasts for this. They have more flavor notes–fruitiness, nuttiness, citrus– than dark roasts. But really, it’s a preference thing, a taste thing.”

At CBD on Congress Street, a barista notes that “even Starbucks has pour-over now. First it was cold-brew [the now-standard method for cold coffee drinks], and now it’s pour-over. I guess it’s the ‘in’ thing.”

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WOOD-FIRED Matt Bolinger opened the Speckled Ax coffee shop at 567 Congress Street (pictured left) six years ago. He roasts his beans in South Portland in a wood-fueled roaster.

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hat a blast–to rusticate or host a wedding at the mythic Loon Lodge Inn, created in Rangeley in 1909. Your guests will love tucking into craft cocktails at the Inn’s intimate Pickford Pub: “appetizers include calamari, mussels, crisp pork belly, flatbreads, and more.” Or maybe they’ll dream of tearing into ribeye, pan-roasted rack of lamb, or Atlantic salmon in the post-and-beam dining room, with everything made from scratch. This resort is classic Maine in the 21st century.

Every blast has a past. Gannett Publishing Co., the legendary former owners of the Portland newspapers, used to own this glamour retreat, along with the 4,116-foot Saddleback Mountain ski resort, so near the lodge the mountain is reflected in the same lake Loon Lodge faces.

Today, as vacationers, we can all channel the Guy Gannett empire by booking a room at the Loon Lodge, updated to rustic splendor and more exciting than the newspaper gals and guys ever imagined it.

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ry hunting and flying camps in “Moosehead Lake and Ross Lake,” says his grandson, Guy Gannett Williams, the son of Jean Gannett Hawley–Guy Gannett’s daughter, who herself was the longtime publisher of the Press Herald, Sunday Telegram, and Evening Express. “Guy Gannett built Forest Park on Moosehead Lake. He also had a smaller fishing camp on Ross Lake.”

Let your imagination run wild. Up north, Gannett’s camps likely included famous Red Sox players like Babe Ruth and Ted Williams.

“Guy loved flying. He founded the Maine Civil Air Patrol and had two planes of his own,” Williams, an artist, says.

When Guy Gannett died in 1954, his

daughter Jean took control of the work and fun of running Guy Gannett Publishing. Outside of the boardroom, “My mother wasn’t a hunter,” Williams says. “You’d find her in the kitchen.” But her tastes did include ski resorts and Rangeley. “My stepfather, Richard “Dick” Arnzen, bought Saddleback Mountain.” Guy Gannett Publishing then became owners of the mountain and the lodge, an exciting prospect for young Guy Gannett Williams, who was just a teenager then, because it put a thrilling life of skiing at his doorstep.

“I taught skiing at Saddleback when I was a junior in high school, in 1967,” he says. This led to a skiing career that has landed Williams in the Maine Skiing Hall of Fame. “I’ve instructed at Telluride and Silver Mountain.”

When the Gannetts moved in, “Loon Lodge was called Davis Lodge.

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uy Gannett Publishing bought Saddleback.” As for the lodge, “My stepbrother had to sell it for next to nothing.”

“I sold the lodge the year after Dick died, around 1973,” says Williams’s stepbrother and Dick’s son, Breck Arnzen. “I was 19 at the time. I sold it for $50,000.”

“My dad worked for Guy Gannett Publishing from the summer of 1964 through 1974,” says Bob Myers of Rangeley. “We moved to Maine for the position. He came in as controller and then treasurer. It was right around then that Jean Gannett Hawley bought Saddleback Mountain.” Bob remembers being a guest in the Gannett Lodge in Rangeley. “Of course I was only 11 or 12 back then, but it was beautiful–

a gorgeous log building right on the lake, with pine trees all around it. The lodge has fantastic views across the lake. It sits down from the road and is close to the lake, so it’s kind of back-to the Saddleback. In Rangeley, there aren’t many places where you can see Saddleback until it kind of sneaks up to you while you’re driving.”

Was it a wind tunnel back then? “My mother said it had icicles from the room and snow on the roof, ‘like Dr. Zhivago.’ It had a big stone fireplace, which is still there.

There was a real bear rug” in the Gannett lodge. “I’d never seen anything like that.

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The Champagne region in the northeast of France. A short jaunt from Paris, this region is the perfect first spot to visit and make a toast to a fantastic journey. Dive into the celebrated caves of the region’s oldest and most established Champagne houses such as Louis Roederer, Moet et Chandon, and Veuve Clicquot.

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Go East On the northeastern corner of France that borders Germany and Switzerland lies the rich cultural region of Alsace in the Rhine River basin. The area has a complicated history as a disputed area between Germany and France. As a result, Alsatian culture is unique–a fact that is reflected in the region’s gastronomy and wine–plus the Alsace hosts no less than 30 Michelin star restaurants!

The Germanic influences of the area are evident in the winery’s production methods–and even their names: Domaine Schlumberger, Domaine Weinbach, and Maison Trimbach are the exemplary vineyards worth planning your trip around. Most produce a white wine made from many of the same grape varietals found in German wines. Especially notable are the dry Rieslings and aromatic Gewürztraminer wines.

Vin et Vélos Head on down to Burgundy to show your love for the Chardonnay and Pinot Noir grape varietals that are grown exclusive-

ly in this region. Bicycling in Burgundy is particularly popular, and a great way to work off those cheese and wine calories.

Rent a vélo and pedal-power your way to Louis Jadot, Olivier Leflaive, and Maison Joseph Drouhin.

Simply Red Last but not least, travel westward to Bordeaux, where Cabernet Sauvignon is king.

Love red blends? This must be the place.

Producers in this region use up to five different varietals, including Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot, Cabernet Franc, Malbec and Petit Verdot, to make that special Bordeaux blend. With over 120,000 of vineyards, you’re spoiled for choice on touring and tasting opportunities. My favorites include Château Leoville-Las Cases in St. Julien, Château La Mission Haut-Brion in Pessac-Léognan, and Vieux Château Certan in Pomerol. n Ralph Hersom is a sommelier and owner of RRH Cellars Wine Consultancy. He was formerly the Cellarmaster at Windows On The World and Wine Director of Le Cirque 2000 in NYC. April 2018 55

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La Femme Franco-Américaine A national icon speaks to generations of immigrants on the move.

Her mother tongue? French.

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ost statues are planted stationary, on their two feet, but not Ms. Liberty on Liberty Island in New York Harbor. She’s in motion!

In David Eggers’s enlightening new book, Her Right Foot, Eggers suggests the advancement depicted in Lady Liberty’s right foot and leg is a symbol for all immigrants on the move. Her eternal mouvement is a metaphor for coming to America.

The Statue of Liberty (official name: Liberty Enlightening the World or La Liberté éclairant le monde) was a gift from France to the U.S. for the 100th anniversary of Independence. The statue was the brainchild of Édouard René de Laboulaye. The design was by Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi, with the interior by Alexandre Gustave Eiffel. Fashioned in the style of Libertas, a Roman liberty goddess, the statue represents one of the most iconic images of the U.S. She’s a first: a

By Rhea Côté Robbins

Franco-American femme role model for all who come seeking the freedoms and sanctuary–real or fantastical–on the borrowed lands, a symbol for multiple generations of immigrants. I have to ask, is this what Bartholdi had in mind with his design?

Beautifully illustrated by Shawn Harris,

Fun Fact: Maine summer resident William Russell Grace was mayor of New York when Lady Liberty arrived. To see his house up here, visit portlandmonthly.com/portmag/2014/12/high-society.

Her Right Foot tells the origin story of the statue in France: the fundraising, land purchasing, building, transporting, and rebuilding of the statue that became a beacon of hope for generations of hopeful immigrants searching for a new life. Revel in the amazing fact of the statue, fashioned in motion.

Notice the overlooked stepping foot–a previously hidden-in-plain-sight feature of the divine Ms. Liberty. She calls out “Give me your tired, your poor/Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free.” She is on the move, coming home to where we all want to be: with those we love. As a FrancoAmerican woman, I am proud she is on the move, torch aloft, leading the way. n Rhea Côté Robbins is the author of ‘down the Plains,’ and editor of Heliotrope–French Heritage Women Create.

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Dining Guide Anthony’s Italian Kitchen, offers homemade Italian cooking using the freshest ingredients, featuring favorites such as pizza, pasta,and sandwiches. Voted “Best in Portland” for three years. Dine-in and catering services on offer. Beer and wine available.

Open 11-8 Mon. through Sat. 151 Middle St #5, Portland; and new location Cumberland County Courthouse, 205 Newbury St. anthonysitaliankitchen.com, 774-8668.

Barnacle Billy’s, known for luxury lobster, steamed clams, large lusty drinks, barbecued chicken, homemade clam chowder & of course, the lobster roll & lobster stew.

Features extensive indoor & sundeck seating where guests can enjoy both the beauty of the harbor & the ocean beyond. Perkins Cove, Ogunquit, 646-5575, barnbilly.com Bayside American Café (formerly Bintliff’s) owned and run by Joe & Diane Catoggio since 2003. The menu includes delicious items like house-made smoked salmon, corned beef hash, crab cakes, sandwiches, salads, Benedicts, and more. Come and discover why customers love Bayside American Café. Breakfast, brunch, and lunch are served daily starting at 7 a.m. 98 Portland St., Portland, 774-0005 baysideamericancafe.com.

Benkay sushi bar and Japanese restaurant is back! At our new location on 16 Middle Street in Downtown Portland, chef Ando has designed an authentic Japanese culinary experience close to Portland’s waterfront.

Full bar and menu including premium sushi, sashimi, and rolls. Monday-Friday: Lunch, 11:30 a.m. - 2 p.m.; Dinner: 5 p.m. - close.

Saturday - Sunday: 11:30 a.m. - close, 7735555, www.sushiman.com BlueFin North Atlantic Seafood restaurant in the Old Port harnesses all that Maine is, and positions it into a delicious dish. Executive Chef Tim Labonte creates new and unexpected meals using fresh, locally-caught seafood and seasonal ingredients at their peak.

From breakfast through dinner and anything in-between, your next adventure may just be your next dish. 468 Fore Street Portland’s Old Port 775-9090 portlandharborhotel.com/ portland-harbor-hotel-dining.php Bolster, Snow & Co., is located on the firstfloor of the spectacularly reincarnated brick mansion, The Francis (formerly the Mellen E. Bolster House). With executive Chef Nicolas Verdisco at the helm, Bolster Snow provides guests with warm and genuine hospitality, gracious service, and fiercely seasonal food and drink that are representative of the Northeast Region. 747 Congress St. Portland, 772-7485, thefrancismaine.com

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Bruno’s Voted Portland’s Best Italian Restaurant by Market Surveys of America, Bruno’s offers a delicious variety of classic Italian, American, and seafood dishes–and they make all of their pasta in-house. Great sandwiches, pizza, calzones, soups, chowders, and salads. Enjoy lunch or dinner in the dining room or the Tavern. Casual

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Dreaming Big Portland’s tiniest wine bar/café blooms into an enchanting restaurant and bar on Washington Avenue.

By Claire Z. Cramer

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hen Peter and Orenda Hale opened the pocket-sized Drifters Wife wine bar inside their natural-wine shop Maine & Loire in 2016, Portlanders–and the national food press– were intrigued with the excellent wines and chef Ben Jackson’s imaginative food. In no time, it became hard to get a seat. A move in recent weeks to a larger space next door is great news for the shop, the Drifter, and for lucky diners.

The new space retains the intimate atmosphere of the old, thanks to the Hales’ fine-tuned design sense. Walls are graphitegray, and the attractive abstract prints and sculptural potted plants have come along from next door. There’s a full bar now, with plenty of stools.

The wine list is concise, with six whites, six reds, three sparklers, and a rose. Everything is available by glass or bottle, a real bonus. To start, we choose a glass from France, the A. Chatenoud Sauvignon Blanc from Bordeaux ($10) and the A. Knauss Kerner/Silvaner blend from Germany ($11). Both have bright, clean citrus and

floral notes that pair gloriously with a tasty nibble called simply “Egg” on the menu.

A split, soft-cooked egg set on a swoosh of house-made mayo is topped with dabs of bright orange trout roe and garnished with house-made potato chips ($9). The egg, briney roe, creamy mayo, and white wine all sing together, with the chips adding crunchy punctuation.

The sourdough loaf served here, from Night Moves Bread + Pie of South Port-

land, is a tender brown bread of Maine grains ($4). It’s perfect for chasing the last bits of dressings and sauces throughout dinner. It’s served with “dulse butter,” a creamy spread containing dried, powdered–and non-fishy–dulse seaweed from Maine waters.

When our server tells us the cardoons here are greenhouse-grown locally for the restaurant, we pounce on a serving dressed with parmesan cheese, toasted bread crumbs, and boquerones ($14). The Mediterranean thistle artichoke, which has a hint of celery-like flavor, is served poached until tender and cut into slim stalks. Sharp cheese, toasty crunch, and the tang of the white anchovies nicely dress up the mild vegetable.

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nother surprise is Maine-raised beef tongue ($15). Here it’s braised until tender like a tiny pot roast. Chef Jackson dazzles with contrasting flavors, from crazy but successful accompaniments to the slices of meat. There are sweet, silken pickled mussels, grilled toast spears, and a swirl of “barnacle butter.”

We go on to sample red wines. There’s a slightly smoky but very smooth Bodegas Ponce Spanish Tempranillo ($10), a dreamy Le Champ d’Orphee Braucol from Cotes du Tarn ($10), and a gorgeous Punta Crena Crovino from Liguria ($12). If the Hales put a bottle on their list, it’s a safe bet it’s a fine one. And house policy calls for diners to be offered a taste before committing to the glass.

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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, 11:30 a.m.-1 a.m. Kitchen closes at 10 p.m. 375 Fore St., Old Port, 7737210, bullfeeneys.com.

Congress Bar and Grill has been serving Portlanders delicious lunch, dinner, and late night eats for years! Fully embracing Portland’s laid back, no frills attitude, try the Thai chili wings and the best fries in the city while vintage game shows play silently in the background. Happy hour specials on cocktails and rotating local beers 4 PM-6 PM everyday & 10 PM-12 AM (Friday & Saturday only). Open 7 days, 11:30 AM to 1 AM, 617 Congress St., Portland 828-9944, congressbarandgrill.com The Corner Room features bright, wideopen space with towering ceilings complemented by handcrafted woodwork. Patrons can expect a warm, comfortable atmosphere, marked by the rich aromas of housemade pastas, pizzas, antipasti and artisanal breads. Come and enjoy the taste of Venice in the heart of Portland, ME! 879-4747, 110 Exchange Street. Visit thecornerroomkitchenandbar.com for more information.

Fish Bones American Grill is a casual restaurant offering creatively prepared American cuisine along the canal in the historic Bates Mill complex in the heart of downtown Lewiston. Open seven days, offering dinner Monday through Sunday, lunch Monday through Friday, and brunch on Sundays.

Come get hooked at 70 Lincoln Street, Bates Mill No. 6! fishbonesmaine.com, 333-3663.

Hurricane Restaurant is open season for the season! Experience New England cuisine with an international twist, including local produce and seafood, full bar, awardwinning wine list, and in-house dessert chef.

We’ve been nurturing the seacoast palate for over 25 years. Good restaurants come and go; great restaurants get better and better. Reservations suggested. 29 Dock Square, Kennebunkport, Maine. 207-9679111, hurricanerestaurant.com J’s Oyster is a premier seafood destination and locals’ favorite with indoor and outdoor waterfront seating on one of Portland’s scenic piers. Established in 1977, J’s offers classic favorites and friendly service. Coastal Living claimed J’s one of “America’s Best Seafood Dives 2016.” Find us on Facebook. 772-4828 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 Parmigiana, Grilled Veal Sausages, Veal Chop Milanese, homemade cavatelli pastas, Pistachio Gelato, Limoncello Cake, and Maine’s Best Meatballs. Prices $11.95 (Continued on page 62)

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braised chicken leg quarter ($26) is a rustic masterpiece. The sauce on the tender bird is rich with red wine and just a jot of red-wine vinegar.

It’s the perfect foil for the accompanying pieces of roasted carrot and the sweet, smooth turnip purée beneath. Never have Maine’s humble winter-storage vegetables been this irresistible.

The entire dinner is a testament to Jackson’s imagination and skill, with mostly locally grown and raised ingredients. We dab bread in the last of the sauce and leave nothing behind but the bones.

To conclude, we share a fragrant, moist slice of Date Cake garnished with Meyer lemon mascarpone ($8) with a glass of Domaine St. Pierre dessert wine called Larmes du Paradis ($14).

Drifters Wife achieves a truly extraordinary synthesis of hospitality, kitchen magic, and service. n

Drifters Wife, serving dinner Tues. through Sat. from 5-10 p.m. Bar opens at 4 p.m. 59 Washington Ave., Portland; 805-1336; drifterswife.com

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Ricetta’s Brick Oven Ristorante, a Maine Italian favorite since 1989, boasts a modern and family-friendly atmosphere with a versatile menu filled with delectable pizza, pasta, grill, and Italian entrees. Enjoy awardwinning brick oven pizzas from hand-built ovens, grilled proteins and vegetables or gluten-free options. Using as many locally sourced ingredients as possible, there are fresh and delicious dishes for every kind of food lover! Sunday - Thursday: 11:30 am to 9 pm, Friday & Saturday: 11:30 am to 10 pm. 240 U.S Route 1, Falmouth. 781-3100.

Pearl Kennebunk & Spat Oyster Cellar is Chef Rebecca Charles’s (of Pearl Oyster Bar in Greenwich Village New York fame) newest restaurant. Enjoy an elevated beach food menu, including Charles’s famous reinvention of Maine’s classic lobster roll. Join us for Happy Hour Wednesday, Thursday, and Sunday from 5 p.m. - 6 p.m. for $1 oysters, $5 wines, and well cocktails! 27 Western Ave. Kennebunk 04043. pearloysterbar. com/pearl-maine/. 204-0860 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, pedrosmaine.com. 967-5544 Restaurante El Corazon Mexican food from the heart. Authentic family recipes passed down through generations. We serve large and small plates and an “oversized tequila selection.” Try Portland’s own “Marisco”– a Mexican seafood cocktail of shrimp, bay scallops, clams, octopus, and, of course, Maine lobster. Open lunch and dinner, Tues.-Sat.

Sea Salt Lobster Restaurant delivers an authentic Maine dining experience using fresh, locally harvested seafood to create delicious dishes that will leave you wanting more. Visit us on Route 1 in Saco and try our fresh Maine lobster rolls, renowned Angus beefburgers, clams, haddock, or fish tacos.

Open from 11 a.m.-10 p.m., 365 days a year. 660 Main St, Saco, seasaltlobsterrestaurant.com, 494-1178.

Twenty Milk Street welcomes diners with warm, intimate décor punctuated by soft lighting and a lovely brick fireplace. Located in the Historic Portland Regency Hotel, the restaurant offers Sunday brunch, breakfast, lunch, and dinner, specializing in modern American dishes with a New England flourish. We’re proud to serve local produce, seafood and even beef, pork, chicken, and turkey from our own farm! 774-4200.

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hen most brides are undergoing primp and care with three or four bridesmaids and an anxious mother pulling, plucking, and combing, Tera Holtz slips into her wedding dress inside a Baxter State Park outhouse. Luckily, “it’s pretty clean and doesn’t smell too bad.”

Clearly, this is no blushing bride. She and her groom, Andy, have just hiked the three miles to Chimney Pond with a minister they’ve

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era and Andy personify the newlyweds who are out to collect experiences, not just wedding gifts. The Wisconsin couple started their adventure with a cross-country trip with Maine and marriage as the destination. They’d visited here a year before with friends and “always dreamed of making it back,” Tera says.

“Neither of us wanted to do the standard wedding. Who needs the frustrations?” Instead, it was time for some fresh air. “We decided that an elopement was best for us.”

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Wabanaki people of Maine–the Penobscot Nation, Passamaquoddy Tribe, Maliseet and Micmac Bands–have distinct and long-held wedding customs. Over time, many Indigenous people converted to Christian religions. These weddings are often held in churches but combine elements of authentic customs. Some of us have completely traditional ceremonies held outside or at sacred places, led by spiritual leaders.

An ancient ceremony involves laying a blanket across the shoulders of the couple, who then performs a dance with other members of the tribe to a specific song written for the occasion. The dance is less commonly seen these days, but we still often celebrate the blanket ceremony, along with Indigenous songs, language, prayer, and smudging to bless the union. Weddings are another instance in which Indigenous people walk a line between two worlds. It’s a special day for celebrating with loved ones and nurturing our heritage.

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Cradled by Mt. Katahdin, Maine’s highest mountain, Tera and Andy read their vows in the warm, high winds. Reflections of the mountain range and greenery provide the backdrop a wedding photographer dreams of. The moment is captured by Keith Tharp and Kate Harris, an adventure photography team from Kittery. “These adventurous couples are often very aware of why they’re getting married and having a wedding” in a geographically astonishing setting, says Keith. “It’s about coming together with friends and family to celebrate their love very specifically, rather than the idea of a giant party to broadcast their status. They’re in line with the very principle reasons for getting married.” Imagine your reception conducted at the edge of the Universe.

Such Great Heights aybe granola on your wedding day isn’t your idea of an adventure and you’ve got your sights set higher. Damn Yankee Balloons in Lewiston hosts hot-air balloon rides for ceremonies, wedding receptions, and engagements.

In the 40 years Derald and Joy Young have been in business, they’ve dealt with a fair share of “very nervous young men.” Though couples have chosen to conduct ceremonies at 3,000 feet, Joy says engagements are more popular. “There’s so much pressure to come up with a unique proposal,” she says. “We offer private romantic flights, but shared flights are usually better. You’re with other people– witnesses–and they celebrate with you.” Because hot-air balloon rides schedule around the gusts and caprices of the weather, another option is to have tethered flights. Often couples will take a private flight after the ceremony, then make the balloon available to guests. Now that’s a party favor.

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Here’s a pairing to float your boat. On the crest of Fort Hill, a gull’s glide from Biddeford Pool, a teak and mahogany beauty named Little Reynard has for sixty years been linked with “Tidewinds,” a $4.95M year-round getaway. With luck and a little negotiating, you might bag them both. before the Wolf, the Fox Think of Little Reynard as the perfect olive

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Seller Douglas Kay’s grandfather, a Lewiston doctor, bought Little Reynard first. After searching the Maine coast for a dreamy fit, he snapped up Tidewinds because its boathouse was so ideal.

Kay, a retired IBM executive, says, “My grandfather purchased this home in June, 1958. The only reason he purchased this location was because of the boat facilities.”

Designed in 1947 by naval architect Philip L. Rhodes, the 40-foot Little Reynard

was “built at Henry B. Nevins yard at City Island, New York.”

Little Reynard was created for Dr. Austin Lamont, the son of Thomas William Lamont, a partner at J.P. Morgan so shrewd in his investments he appeared on the cover of Time Magazine. The yacht was named Little Reynard as a wink to the elder Lamont’s reputation as ‘The Fox of Wall Street.’

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Privacy, Privacy, Privacy he [Greek Revival] house dates to 1850,” listing agent Christine Stone says. “This area was originally a little fishing community. I’ve got some old postcards that show there was a little dock where the tugboat A.G. Prentiss used to land. Some of the buildings were moved to Hills Beach Road,” leaving Tidewinds the lord and master at the tip of this unforgettable peninsula.

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The yacht designer was Philip L. Rhodes of 11 Broadway, New York: “With her rakish, streamlined look, Little Reynard is typical of post-World War II styling. She is 40 feet overall.”–The Rudder, September, 1948

been. There used to be a monument right on the edge of his property line that talked about Fort Mary.”

“My father was dean of the pharmacology school at Duquesne University,” Kay says. “When he retired and moved here, he was contacted by the University of New England. They wanted to start a pharmacology school in Biddeford.” Kay’s father was the first dean.

“Today, Little Reynard’s name is Ku Chu,” Stone says. “It’s not named for a sneeze! Doug’s grandfather renamed the boat after his little dog. Doug cruises it all over Saco Bay, the Kennebunks, and up to Portland on occasion.”

The main house has “four bedrooms, with a lovely attached barn.” Included in the decor: “a ship’s-wheel chandelier that used to be the wheel on the Lightship Nan-

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ago, I moved here permanently.” Each year, he spends “40 hours alone in the boathouse,” getting Little Reynard prepared for the summer. “Once I’m finished, I have plenty of company.”

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You’re safe from storms. You have incredible views.”

So exclusive is this retreat, “If you drive down Hills Beach Road, you can’t see it. My for-sale sign faces Biddeford Pool and the Yacht Club. It faces water,” the true front door for Tidewinds.

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He said how about a bet? If he’s right he gets to kiss me on the lips and if he’s wrong I get to kiss him.

I wasn’t sure. I had never kissed a boy.

He sang to me softly, “‘Don’t be cruel…’”

I said, “Okay.”

We walked to the corner of the block, around and into the alley. I kept wishing he would take my hand, like we were going for a stroll.

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“No. We have to do it now.”

“How come?”

He stuck his face up close, locked me in his eyes and sang, “‘It’s now or never…’”

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I marched over to the line he drew and told him to count down from three.

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