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By Colin W. Sargent

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MAINE LIFE 11 Chowder

A tasty blend of the Fabulous, the Eyebrow-Raising, and the Just Plain Wrong.

13 Next Resorts Vacationland invented the concept of rusticating in separate cabins. With social distancing comes renewed appreciation for this classic Maine experience— and some fresh twists.

13 19 Maine Your Way

For the mindful. For the sports lover. For the gourmand. For the spirits enthusiast. For the beer guzzler. For the conservationist.

For the nautical. For gamers. For music lovers. For romantics.

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31 Farms Flip the Script Bold moves by family farms making paradigm shifts to survive.

By Gwen Thompson

43 Now Playing

Maine arts spring into action.

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47 Something^Blue

A silk wedding dress cut from a World War II parachute connects brides across three generations.

By Colin W. Sargent

48 Wedding Guide

ARTS & STYLE 25 Interview: Matt Salinger

Reminiscences of performances future, and of his father, a celebrated Maine summer person.

By Colin W. Sargent

HOMES & DESIGN 61 Talking Walls

“Islesboro Fairy Tale” Unwind like a movie star at this island retreat for you and your 50 nearest and dearest.

By Colin W. Sargent

64 Maine Real Estate

FOOD & DRINK 37 Hungry Eye

“Shellfish, Shell Dish” Here’s a shell game you can win.

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LAST WORDS 72 “Small Fry”

New fiction by Edmondson Cole Cover: Belon Rockefeller with sambal sofrito and nori bread Cover: Credit crumbs from The Shop.

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uring World War II, when silk for wedding gowns was virtually unobtainable, determined brides recycled their grooms’ silk parachutes. Writing for The Vintage News website in “Dresses from the Sky,” Goran Blazeski says “people had to do without many things for the sake of victory.” Inventive wartime gowns designed from chutes are so prized they’re on display at the Smithsonian, the Victoria and Albert Museum, and the Imperial War Museum.

What’s next—the Maine Military Museum in South Portland?

Surprise! Maine veteran Betsy Walters tops all comers by having brought back her own parachute from the war. Not only did she have it made into her wedding dress, she lived to see her granddaughter adapt it as her own wedding gown for the 21st century. See our story about something old, something new, “Something Out of the Blue,” p. 47. Maine Military Museum curator Lee Humiston says, “We’d love to display the dress here. We’re getting ready to feature a whole new section [on women’s military contributions], so it’s perfect timing.”

This year we’re going to craft a wonderful summer from parachute silk. Our Maine Summer Planning Guide is dedicated to the small businesses finding unique ways to keep things humming in hard times. Thinking outside the box, the Westin Portland Harborview has expanded its famous Top of the East lounge onto the roof, embracing it with gardens and tables in the quickening breeze, allowing you to step to the sheer edge of beauty.

At Portland Magazine, we’re proud of all the Maine businesses—along with all of our readers—who know what it takes, and what it means, to come through at a time like this.

Look for examples of “silk parachutes” repurposed to rescue summer in stories throughout this issue. A tiny parachute icon marks this leitmotif.

You all are lifesavers.

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MUSICAL CHAIRS Loved seeing the “Brubeck Chairs” in [“Just You, Just Maine,” Winterguide 2021]. He [Dave Brubeck] paid me the best compliment of my musical career when I was in junior high. I was in a band with his son Chris that practiced at his house in Wilton, Connecticut, where the family lived for decades. When I met Chris, I didn’t figure he was one of those Brubecks until I got to his Japanese-style house built into a small hill. In the main room was a grand piano and a two-story tree. I was the lead singer, and one day Dave knocked on the door of the practice room and said, “Turn the amps down. You have a good singer—let him be heard.”

Been really digging the fiction this year—helps me believe the art is still alive.

Bruce Pratt, Swanville HEADS UP, HUNGARY! My husband and I were in Budapest in September 2018.

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Our Own Good Ship “Hope” The Maine Seacoast Mission’s 74-foot floating health clinic, Sunbeam, has put her medical-grade refrigerator to heroic use delivering Covid-19 vaccines to 75 residents of Great Cranberry Island, Islesford, Frenchboro, and Isle au Haut. “This isn’t even our first pandemic,” says MSM President John Zavodny. “We were here for Maine’s most isolated communities for the 1918 pandemic.”

Born to Be Wild

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Being cooped up indoors all the time takes a psychological toll on turtles too. Portland-based filmmakers Kaitlyn Schwalje and Alex Wolf Lewis made a splash at Sundance this year with Snowy, their short documentary chronicling how they lured a 25-year-old pet turtle out of its shell with the help of a cold-blooded cognition scientist and a pet psychic.

Excuse Moo!

Twenty-two dairy cows in the Bovine Burp Buster project at Wolfe’s Neck Center in Freeport chew, ruminate, and belch Maine-harvested rockweed in a $3 million study of whether a seaweed diet reduces their methane emissions. According to Leah Puro of B3, 44 percent of global livestock methane emissions comes from “cow burps.”

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t’s 2021. We’ve all got cabin fever, and Maine’s got cabins! Ready for an escapist’s road trip through time?

Let’s start in Kittery, the first stop after you cross the Piscataqua River and the Maine border. The year: 1947, when

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The Cottages at Cabot Cove in Kennebunkport “cater to couples mostly,” says manager Karin Wittet.

young Portsmouth Naval Yard worker Jim Chenell buys a square of land at 59 Old Post Road and starts banging together his Blue Roof Cabins. Chenell rents to transient shipyard workers seeking privacy and their own four walls to call, however briefly, home.

Japandi is a portmanteau of Japanese and Scandinavian.

These Hytte cabins give the classic motor court a new twist.

those who take the concept of quarantine bubbles literally, there’s the seethrough Stargazer Oasis Dome, or you can feed your pioneer fantasies in a Conestoga wagon, dreaming of bygone escapades in wild country. “Tim [Harrington, the owner] is always looking for newer, bigger, bet-

Reinventing Whimsy

Further up the coast, in Kennebunkport, two hostelries aim for a more up-to-date nostalgia. At the eminently Instagrammable Sandy Pines Campground, you can kip out in a 1960s VW Bus dubbed Sunny Daze or hole up in one of two classic silver Airstream trailers, Zephyr and Wayfarer, decked out with awning and picnic table. For astronomers, exhibitionists, and 14 p o r t l a n d magazine

Todd Snyder x L. L. Bean’s Fall 2020 “From Away” Runway Collection is part of the very fabric of the new From Away Lodge at Hidden Pond Resort in Kennebunkport.

ter,” says manager Jessica Wears. The newest addition to nearby Hidden Pond Resort is “The From Away Lodge,” inspired by Todd Snyder x L. L. Bean’s Fall 2020 “From Away” Runway Collection in a “first-of-itskind” collaboration with a calculated appeal to urbanites’ idyllic notions of getting away from it all to Maine and getting back to nature via signature scented candles, a specially curated cocktail cart, upholstery based on L. L. Bean clothing fabrics, and framed vintage L. L. Bean catalog covers.

Why the urge to update the classic Maine motor court?

“Why do we buy a certain car, wear a certain brand of jeans or watch?” says Nathan Aylott, co-founder of Hytte (Norwegian for cabin), a bespoke line of prefab trapezoidal modular hotels with a high-end minimalist aesthetic. “It’s because it’s a reflection of our own ideals and our own personal brand statement. Where we stay is

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even decades later, Maine road trips are experiencing a renaissance, and stir-crazy wanderers still draw their first sweet breaths of Maine air as they drop off to sleep in Chenell’s cabins. Anticipating today’s tiny-house fad, these classic motorcourt cabins, now revived as Kittery Inn & Suites, are well suited to social distancing, offering travelers their own petite homes complete with front door, kitchenette, and starchy sheets. Of Chenell’s original handiwork, manager Robin Finn says, “Nothing can be seen. The structures are here, but we’ve reshingled, repainted, and put in new appliances.” Across the way, however, on Kittery’s Jamaica Island, the oldest continuously operating shipyard in the United States clangs on with the grit and grind of industry that sustains the summer season.

“ My Day”

By Eleanor Roosevelt, July 22, 1936

We spent last night in the Danish Village, a little place that I had often noticed in Scarborough’s Danish Village was an early motel. When the coming through, about six miles before Eastland Hotel brought up its no-p ets policy, Eleanor Roosevelt and you reach Portland. It looked attractive, Scottish terrier Fala (below) stopped here on the way to Campobello. and I thought it would be fun to try it. We had a vague hope that we might get by without being recognized and causing much excitement, so I sent Mrs. Scheider in to find out if we could get a room…She returned triumphant with the key to one of the little houses…

We got out our bags, locked the car, and took possession of our abode.

After walking around to stretch our legs—for we had come over 300 miles—we went in and ate a perfectly good Maine lobster dinner, for there is no attempt to give one Danish food…

On [our] leaving this morning at seven-thirty, the man at the desk said with joy: “We made the front page of the Portland paper, which was good advertising!” So someone was happy…

I enjoy going through these Maine towns and villages.

one hundred percent rolled into that, especially with the immediacy of social media. Do we travel somewhere to experience it, or to tell/show our friends and network where we’ve been?”

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Motoring up Maine’s Ocean Highway

Either way, we’ve got miles to go before we sleep. Pack the car. Let’s head on, head east, head backwards in time to the mid-century heyday of those clusters of teensy, drive-up cabins spanning Route 1 like hopscotch islands. When tourists were motorists with weekender bags in the trunk, a road atlas on the dash, and an eye out for Vacancy signs, motor courts were necessities. “It could take my mom two days to drive to Houlton to visit her aunt,” one Mainer remembers. “All you had was Route 1.” Today, the Maine Idyll Motor Court, where the Marstaller family has “had thousands of repeat customers over the years,” boasts the last twenty cabins still standing on Route 1 in Freeport.

A spin down Route 209 lands you at Popham Beach, a stone’s throw from forts Popham and Baldwin. (Bring bug spray for the climb to moss-covered artillery mounts.) Nestled in the beachy forests of

the Kennebec estuary, T. Percy Cottages quietly reminds guests that “a true vacation is puzzles and books,” according to manager Leila Percy. Especially offseason, as two newlyweds discovered after wintering over at Deacon’s Haunt cottage. When the summer tourists finally returned, “We’d go out on the porch and watch traffic for kicks.”

Some B&Bs have always been that “second home, without the worry,” as Hannah Campbell puts it in History of the Driftwood Inn. Campbell has been driving “eight hours through the night with four kids and a dog for 34 years” to vacation at this quintessential Maine outpost on the basalt bluffs of Bailey Island. From the porches of the Driftwood Inn’s main house and cabins, guests can watch Mackerel Cove and Cundy’s Harbor lobstermen haul traps as harbor seals shimmy on Pond Island and Charity Ledge. A quaint ringing

Smells like a mix of pinewood and vintage furniture as classic lakefront camps should.”

–Sunset Cabins guest

bell signals breakfast and dinner: blueberry pancakes, Maine lobster, scallops harvested from Casco Bay. To Campbell and other summer folk, the shingled cottages, weather-worn by a hundred years of seasonal shift, are as timeless as the granitic coast. “I cry when I leave.”

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or those seeking good old-fashioned peace and quiet, at Sunset Cabins on the eastern shore of Damariscotta Lake in Jefferson, “Nothing has changed since the twenties,” says owner Aloisa Pollock. “People like the clawfoot tubs. And no wifi!” Pollock remembers one young boy, stripped of cell phone and service, learned to shoot craps with his grandfather. In these time capsules that, according to one guest, “smell like a mix of pinewood and vintage furniture as classic lakefront camps should,” generations overlap as guests unplug, take a step back, and feel better.

The Lincolnville Motel is a 2015 revitalization of the 1950s original. The teeny, aesthetically spare cabins evoke seaside nostalgia with white-washed walls, ceilings open to peaked roofs, and doors that pop in retro blue. No bells, no whistles, no flat screens.

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If you want plush and fancy, this might not scratch that itch.”

–Ocean Spray Cottages guest

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he main house of Betsy Wakefield’s Edgewater Cabins in Sullivan on Frenchman Bay started life as a 1906 wedding gift for Betsy’s grandmother, Alice Dunbar. After the Great Depression necessitated the transition from

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The Half Moon Motor Court opened in Freeport in 1920 with 14 cabins. Its neon sign became a local landmark, but Route 1 businesses declined after the interstate was built, and in 1986, the Yarmouth, Pownal, and Freeport Fire Departments set the then-dilapidated cabins ablaze for fire-extinguishing practice.

stately home to B&B, the outlying cabins were added as demand rose, and the former Sullivan ferry ticket office was eventually transformed into today’s Green Cabin.

Betsy remembers her own mother, Lydia, greeting guests: “She was a grandmother or mother to everybody!” During the past pandemic year, guests have come to call the cabins their office-away-from-home.

“I had a lot of people working from here,” Betsy says. “‘I’m tired of my own four walls,’ they’d say.”

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inally. You’ve made it way Downeast. Is that road map coffeestained yet? Originally known only as “Plantation Number 5,” Harrington was once home to 18 shipbuilders, with a hospitality business that served steamboat crews, loggers, and carpenters. It wasn’t grandeur people sought here, and the Ocean Spray Cottages maintain that utilitarian ideal, well-situated for birding on Sunset Point, each named after a different bird just like the cabins at sleepaway camp.

“If you want plush and fancy this might not scratch that itch,” says one guest. Perhaps no-frills fits the atmosphere downriver, at the working waterfront of centuries past, where boats fuel up and fishermen offload catch.

Just a few miles more on that odometer will get you to West Quoddy Station in Lubec, the easternmost point of the United States Get out of the car, stretch your legs.

Canada’s just over there, across the Bay of Fundy. You’ll be staying in a revamped 19th-century U.S. Coast Guard lifesaving station. White-washed, red-roofed, West Quoddy sits stalwart among spruce groves at the edge of the Atlantic. The trees are, like the locals, a gutsy bunch. “You know what? You like Lubec or you don’t,” laughs one transplant. “There’s not a lot here. Scares some people off. Which is why I stay.”

Take your drive. Stay here and there.

There’s freedom found behind the wheel if you dare to brave the tourist traffic and head out sans GPS. They still print the Gazetteer, you know. n

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No phones either. Besides Penobscot Bay breezes, the essentials supplied run the gamut from classic (resident golden retriever) to chic (Malin+Goetz toiletries). With bookshelves arranged by color and a vinyl record collection inside, a firepit and panoramic sauna outside, guests say it’s “a hipster’s paradise.”

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Musical Sometimes you don’t know what you’ve got until it’s gone: no superabundance of recorded music can take the place of the live music we’ve all longed for this past year. Fogg’s Water Taxi & Charters take the stage to the seas with music cruises every Wednesday evening June through Labor Day, featuring live bluegrass, sea shanties, blues, and more performed by favorite local bands like Seagrass, Miguel Perez, and the Don Pride Band. Grab your mask and come aboard!

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P ER F O RM A N CE Matt Salinger was born on February 13, 1960 in Windsor, Vermont, USA as Matthew Salinger.

He is an actor and producer, known for Revenge of the Nerds (1984), Captain America (1990) and Under the Tuscan Sun (2003). He has been married to Betsy Salinger since May 19, 1985.

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Matt Salinger Movie producer and actor Matt Salinger is also literary co-executor for his father, novelist J. D. Salinger (1919-2010). Matt’s most recent acting gig is The Ice Road, shot in Canada with a 2021 release and starring Liam Neeson and Laurence Fishburne. We reached Matt by telephone post-production to discuss his work and his dad’s attachment to Maine.

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hat was it like working with Liam Neeson in the icy wastes of Canada during COVID?

I had a small part. In The Ice Road I’m in three small scenes. Very much a supporting part. I hadn’t been in an action mov-

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ie in twenty years, but then it’s not an action part. I play a suit. Well, I come pretty close to some action in the end. I have one scene with Liam. He’s out on the ice doing what Liam does, for pretty much the whole movie. Liam has really carved a niche for himself.

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Performan c e Young J. D. Salinger in Central Park. His summer-camp craft: a hand-beaten copper bowl (right).

In The Ice Road, you play CEO Thomason, who runs a Canadian mining company. How did you get into character?

advising on casting. I can’t be on set for months anymore. I do it for fun when the passion goes up. I’m pretty happy doing it that way. I can experience the joy without the heartache and drudgery.

He did not come up through the ranks. He was not a rough-and-tumble miner, but rather a business-school guy.

A Ray Wise part?

He’s not a Ray Wise part. There’s more of a sense of regret: Something was going on in the ranks of my mining company that I should have known about. I said to the director [Jonathan Hensleigh (The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles, Die Hard with a Vengeance)], I must feel that sense. We talked it through.

According to IMDb, the logline for The Ice Road is: “After a remote diamond mine collapses in the far northern regions of Canada, an ice driver leads an impossible rescue mission over a frozen ocean to save the lives of trapped miners despite thawing waters and a threat they never see coming.” Now there’s a time lock. I remember Liam Neeson’s fantastic role in The Grey, with the wolves.

Yes, he’s great there. I like that film.

Liam Neeson in The Ice Road.

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hat attracted you to the storyline in The Ice Road?

It was a really cool script.

When friends call, I like to help out, and it’s fun doing something cool. In the early 1990s, Al Corley, one of the producers of The Ice Road, had offices next to me at what we called the insane asylum in L.A. That’s when we both made the transition from acting to producing. His partner Bart Rosenblatt had offices in the place too. It

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was a storied mental hospital. As the story went, in the 1940s a tycoon came into Hollywood and was making movies and having an affair with an actress. He put her up in this place—built it right next to where the film was being created. In Hollywood, it’s always abandoned houses, abandoned factories. Noir. The second film I produced, Mojave Moon, I did out of that place.

When will the movie come out?

“If there’s one thing I hate, it’s the movies,” Holden Caulfield says in The Catcher in the Rye. So naturally you’re a movie actor and producer.

My father loved movies too! He had a 16-millimeter movie collection. But he hated the idea of anything he wrote becoming a movie.

As a kid he went to movies all the time. His characters went to movies all the time. There was no hatred for films with him. Holden did—or said he did. I guess that’s a good example of an unreliable narrator.

What are some movies you’ve been watching recently that you recommend to our readers?

There really isn’t a way to know when it comes out. I got up there in March of 2020.

Then COVID hits. We barely finish. I was on one of the last planes going out. There were two of us on an Airbus from Montreal to Newark. Other people had to rent cars and drive. Thankfully nobody [on the film crew] got COVID. They’re finished with post-production now. They’ll be looking at a fall or winter release. So much has changed. Now everything just goes to Netflix or Amazon. I’m going to be as curious as you.

The three best films I’ve seen during the pandemic: 1) I just saw Is Love Enough? Sir. It’s an Indian movie. It’s absolutely breathtaking. Completely unexpected. I didn’t know anything about it before I saw it. 2) My Octopus Teacher. 3) Intimate Strangers, an old one I was unfamiliar with, directed

by Patrice Leconte.

What’s next for you as an actor or producer?

Well, you know my father didn’t feel the same way.

I don’t know. There’s not much filming right now. I don’t even have an agent right now. I’ve moved onto other things, in an executive-producer role—financing and

labor of love

Totally by accident, I saw the movie My Foolish Heart about a month ago. I know it’s the movie that infuriated your dad and made him refuse to have his work used for future movies. But it isn’t completely without merit. I enjoyed a lot about it. There are some great lines.

Was camp in Maine a positive experience for your father? He went to Camp Wigwam when he was nine.

Matt Salinger told The Guardian in 2019 that he and J. D. Salinger’s widow, Colleen O’Neill, have been working “as fast as we freaking can” to prepare his father’s literary estate for eventual publication. “He wanted me to pull it together, and because of the scope of the job, he knew it would take a long time. This was somebody who was writing for 50 years without publishing, so that’s a lot of material.”

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You know what the creative act is like.

You’re like a magpie.

You take things from wherever you see and hear them.”

What a camp! Rodgers and Hart went there. Your dad went there. If they’d drowned in swim class, the world wouldn’t have the song “My Funny Valentine.” Or The Sound of Music. Or Franny and Zooey, let alone The Catcher in the Rye. Stephen Sondheim went to Wigwam, the philosopher Mortimer Adler…

I know he had a good time there. He kept his yearbook from the end of camp. In my [2019] show at the New York Public Library, I put in some stills. And a beautifully crafted little copper bowl where you can see every hammer strike. I didn’t know he was nine—I thought he was more like eleven.

It’s pretty remarkable. I know he loved the camp, and I think he kept up by sending letters to the camp owner for a while.

Where did you go to summer camp?

I grew up in New Hampshire. When you’re in New Hampshire, you’re already in camp.

From Andover you went to Princeton and Columbia.

You studied art history and drama. What attracted you to those two areas?

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rt history, I suppose because of the beauty. I had some family in the art business, and I thought if I were to go down a more traditional path, that might be the one. I met my wife at Sotheby’s. Didn’t meet my career there. But there were parallels between art auctions and the movies. There were darkened halls where objects were up on the screen— beautiful things. It had the conviviality of a shared experience. I was drawn to 1960s environmental art, to happenings. Offthe-wall stuff.

Kennebunk, Maine, is one of three places where Lithuania chose to have a cultural and intellectual foothold after World War II. The other two places are New York and Chicago. You have Lithuanian heritage—are you aware of that about Maine?

We haven’t had that much time in Maine.

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Perfo r m a n c e Well, there’s this: when my father died, somewhere in Lithuania they put up a statue in his honor.

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Tell us a Maine writer you admire.

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ne Mainer that I love is E. B. White. In particular, his book with the black-and-white cover where he’s sitting in an old barn. Damn, what’s the name of it? [One Man’s Meat.] He writes about being a city slicker who moves to Maine with his dachshund. I love it.

Tom Hanks has been called Jimmy Stewart’s creative descendant. Life even pictured the two together on the cover. When I read The Ice Storm, Rick Moody’s talent reminded me of your dad’s.

The Ice Storm is great. Rick Moody? I feel fine about it. But my father never wanted to be twinned with anybody. He wouldn’t even want to be twinned with himself. He thinks every work of art deserves to be approached alone.

You’ve mentioned that the writer/reader relationship was sacred to your father. What books would he have brought in his trunk to Camp Wigwam?

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I’m not going to tell you what was in my father’s trunk. But even when very young, he was a voracious reader. An adventurous reader.

The world begins and ends with Camp Wigwam.

Your dad’s last published work in The New Yorker, “Hapworth 16, 1924,” is presented as a long letter written by Seymour Glass from the infirmary at his summer camp. In Maine. It’s got to be Camp Wigwam!

It’s not my place to say. It’s a terrific story. You know what the creative act is like.

You’re like a magpie. You take things from wherever you see and hear them. n

The New Yorker, June 19, 1965 and Camp Wigwam’s Bear Pond.

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ne of the hallmarks of farming as a career is that you have to be nimble and adaptable, especially with the pandemic and so many farms transitioning across generations as farmers are aging nationwide,” says outreach director Ellen Sabina of Maine Farmland Trust.

“Farmers are more like general practitioners than specialists—not really good at anything,” says Erik Johnson, who owns and manages Sandy River Farms, a fifthgeneration family farm in Farmington.

“When something begins to fail, we have to diversify. We’d been organic dairy farmers for twenty-plus years, until organic milk stalled and we got a Dear John letter from the dairy terminating our contract.

We had thirty days to come up with a new plan, so we sold off half our herd to buy our

own milk processing equipment and sell our milk directly. Then we got into biofuel when the market price for feed corn was so depressed it didn’t cover our costs, but when oil prices go down again, people lose interest in biofuel.”

Farmers are getting cold calls from solar companies all over the world trying to lock down land close to power lines.”

-Ellen Sabina, Maine Farmland Trust

HERE COMES THE SUN Now the hottest fuel crop is what normally fuels crops: the sun. “It’s a solar energy boom,” Sabina says. “Farmers are getting cold calls from solar companies all over the world trying to lock down land close to power lines.” For power companies it’s a no-brainer: “Farmland is perfect for solar development because it’s open, flat, and sunny.”

For farmers it can be a lifeline. “Our primary reason for solar development was survival,” says Johnson. “I’m a believer in environmental stewardship, and this was an opportunity to rent land not being used for agriculture at a decent rate. We signed a twenty-year lease with NextEra, and they’ve already asked us for another twenty.

They originally wanted to use river-bottom crop land, but we didn’t want to take good agricultural land out of use feeding the world. They’d already over-sold in this area, so they needed land here and were willing to negotiate. We cleared the land ourselves to recoup the money from wood they would’ve just chipped.”

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People love green energy until it interferes with their property values or their hunting and snowmobiling.”

-Erik Johnson, Sandy River Farms array generates won’t cover their own electric bills. Although it will feed into the local grid, it has been sold elsewhere to offset the carbon footprints of several hospitals and colleges in Maine and Massachusetts.

“People love green energy until it interferes with their property values or their hunting and snowmobiling,” Johnson says.

While he has never enforced a No Trespassing policy in his former woodlands, the 450 acres NextEra is now responsible for developing and maintaining to generate 85 megawatts will require perimeter fencing to keep people and wildlife from wandering into high-voltage areas. According to Johnson, the 7-year process of engineering and permitting involved is not atypical of modern farming. “I spend more time on paperwork to meet regulations than I do on food production, but I can’t afford to hire someone else to do it. Whether you’re organic or conventional, you have to track every bale of hay nowadays.”

Nevertheless, “If I had to do it all over, I’d do the same. I’ll be happy to make it

It’s easier to roll with the punches if you don’t have a concrete goal that gets thrown off course.”

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through another fifteen years. After that it’ll become my children’s problems.”

FROM SIDELINE TO MAIN LINE his was supposed to be a winter job for me, but it’s full time now,” says Emily Chelate of Doles Orchards Box Shop in Limington. “Instead of me helping out my husband and parents on the farm in summer, they help me out in the box shop in the winter.” Blame it on beer. “We started working with Allagash Brewing Company when they contacted us through the agricultural extension to source tart cherries that we delivered to them in bushel boxes my father built to replace the 80-yearold apple boxes we’d been using in the

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orchard. We needed the boxes back, but they wanted to keep them to use in their Portland tasting room.”

Ten years later, “We’ve made over 10,000 boxes for them. It’s the only way they sell their house beer.” But after upgrading their woodworking equipment to meet Allagash’s standing order for 300 boxes a month, Doles Orchards was left with a new laser machine to amortize after box orders subsided to an as-needed basis.

Fortunately “Woodworking and the orchard feed off each other. We’ve sold lots of fruit to other breweries through working with Allagash, and we use lots of the same woodworking equipment on the farm for repairs.” With the laser machine they invested in to engrave different-sized logos more efficiently for Allagash, Chelate can now engrave any design or logo clients come up with onto tote boxes for local breweries and wineries, custom gift boxes for weddings or corporate events, and the “curated gift boxes” she says have gone wild during the pandemic.

Now the box shop employs 7-8 people at busier times, with distribution all across

We used to end the goat hikes with a goat-milking lesson, but that’s not socially distant, so now we just serve goat’s milk and cookies.”

-Margaret Hathaway, Ten Apple Farm

from left: courtesy doles orchard; Courtesy ten apple farm

the country and up into Alaska. But “I miss being outside,” Chelate says. “I’m in front of a computer much more than I used to be, between virtual trade shows and launching a new website to up our online presence during the pandemic.” On the plus side, “I’ve gotten more confident advising clients and more comfortable sharing creative ideas and winging it.

“But that’s just farming in general. We used to sell lots of field-grown and greenhouse vegetables to twenty-five different restaurants. That was never in the plan, but it worked to get by till we could focus on pick-your-own fruit as my parents intended when they bought the place 25 years ago.

You’re constantly adapting, because diversity allows you to balance out individual crop failures so that you only lose 10 percent of your income, not 50-75 percent.

“When my parents retire, my husband and I may buy the farm jointly with my sister and her husband, so that my husband runs the farm, I run the box shop, and my sister and her husband can run an event space for weddings in the barn, along with the bakery and gift shop.” Time will tell.

“It’s easier to roll with the punches if you don’t have a concrete goal that gets thrown off course.”

Goats Galore “We spent twelve years building up our farm to be sustainable,” says Margaret Hathaway of Ten Apple Farm in Gray. “In 2019 my husband quit his job to farm fulltime, so 2020 should have been our first big season. It was the absolute worst timing possible. We had to cancel all our summer reservations. We don’t really have a product. Our business is offering experiences outdoors,” from cheese-making to jammaking, pickling, and preserving to backyard poultry processing.

Plus their new mainstay: goat hiking.

“We lead guided hikes with seven goats and Philip, our one black sheep. They’re herd animals, so they want to follow along and be together. From May to July, while we were shut down because of the pandemic, we still hiked with them so they’d remember the trail.”

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ings? “One line of our goats are all hams,” Hathaway says. “They can tell when a camera’s on them. They go right to it and intuitively know their best angles.

“Before the pandemic, we had a pretty even split between goat hikes and cooking classes, but now it’s really shifted more towards goat hikes. I do some cook-along classes via Zoom, but there are online resources for that already. There’s been a lot more interest in poultry processing, with all the meat shortages. It’s a logical progression from laying hens to meat birds, if you’re raising chickens anyway.

“We used to end the goat hikes with a goat-milking lesson, but that’s not socially distant, so now we just serve goat’s milk and cookies. We built an outdoor washing station so people can be 100-percent socially distanced outdoors.”

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andemic or no pandemic, “The money piece is challenging for farmers all the time,” Hathaway says. “It always goes back into animals or something you need to build. But when the schools shut down, it didn’t really affect our daily life that much. We still had to do farm chores, and we had 18 acres of land where we could go outside without running into people.

One of our daughters set up a farm stand at the end of the driveway selling 50-pound bags of goat manure.”

All just part of the friluftsliv. Come again? “People keep tagging us #friluftsliv,” Hathaway explains. “I gather it’s kind of like hygge, only outdoors. We seem to have stumbled into the Norwegian custom of living life in the fresh air to combat wintertime sadness.”

And in doing so struck a chord. “People really have a need for cheerful distraction.

They want to be immersed in the bigger, natural world.” In addition to their regular goat hikes, Ten Apple Farm offers monthly Solace Hikes for people who are grieving.

“You don’t have to talk if you don’t want to.

We’re just providing a safe space for people going through the same feelings to be united in the experience. Just being in nature and around animals feels really healing.

“I never expected as an English major to end up milking goats. Never in a million years while I was doing my thesis on 18thcentury English writers did I think I’d be paring hooves and helping people seeking something to do safely outdoors.” n

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The Big Kahuna If John Hancock had a signature dish, it would be Baked Stuffed Lobster. “It’s like eating two lobsters!” says Chris O’Neil, who co-owns Boone’s with his wife, Darcy Smith-O’Neil. “You have one whole lobster that customers get to pick live from our display tank, plus the seafood stuffing with scallops, shrimp, more lobster, and just enough bread crumbs to hold it all together, plus our secret blend of seasonings.”

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Bandaloop has moved into a restored 1700s barn on Route 1 in Arundel. Since 2004 we have offered locally sourced, globally inspired, organic cuisine. Our new home has plenty of space, parking, outdoor seating, takeout, and an event space in the loft. We continue to offer something for every palate—from vegans to carnivores and everything in between. bandalooprestaurant.com

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Bull Feeney’s Authentic hearty Irish fare: from-scratch sandwiches, steaks, & seafood. Local craft & premium imported brews. Maine’s most extensive selection of single malt Scotch & Irish whiskeys. Live music 5 nights. Open 7 days, 11:301. Kitchen till 10. 375 Fore St. 7737210, bullfeeneys.com.

DiMillo’s On the Water Now’s the time to enjoy everything DiMillo’s has to offer: fabulous dishes prepared by Head Chef, Melissa Bouchard, voted one of Maine’s Chefs of the Year, plus Certified Angus Beef, Italian and the best lobster around. Our outside dining is unparalleled. Open Monday thru Saturday at noon, Commercial St., Old Port 772-2216. Always FREE PARKING while aboard.

Eighteen95 A warm and intimate restaurant w/ a lovely fireplace in the historic Portland Regency Hotel and Spa. Offering Breakfast, Dinner, and Sunday brunch. Specializing in modern American dishes w/ a New England influence. Local seafood, pork, chicken, turkey, with beef & produce from our farm! 774-4200.

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Hurricane Restaurant New England cuisine with an international twist.

Lobster & blueberry pie! Local produce and seafood, full bar, award-winning wine list, in-house dessert chef. Sunday brunch. Live music Wednesday nights. Lunch and dinner seven days a week.

Bar menu always available. Good restaurants come and go. Great restaurants get better and better.

Reservations suggested. 29 Dock Square, Kennebunkport. 967-9111, hurricanerestaurant.com.

Maria’s Ristorante Portland’s original classic Italian restaurant.

Greg & Tony Napolitano prepare classics: Zuppa di Pesce, Eggplant Parmigiana, Grilled Veal Sausages, Veal Chop Milanese, homemade cavatelli pastas, Pistachio Gelato & Maine’s Best Meatballs. See our own sauce in local stores. $11.95-$22.95.

Open at 5 Wed.-Sat. Catering always avail. 1335 Congress Street 7729232, mariasrestaurant.com.

Saltwater Grille Portland’s premier waterfront dining experience.

Enjoy sweeping skyline & marina views, fresh oacean air & watch boats enter the harbor while you indulge in fresh lobster, oysters, & other seafood selections. Our menu is carefully crafted by our talented & distinguished chefs, bringing you the highest quality seafood that Portland has to offer. 231 Front St, South Portland, SaltwaterGrille. com, 799-5400 Sea Glass at Inn by the Sea Chef Chadwick’s seasonally sourced, innovative taste of Maine.

Spectacular ocean views inside the intimate restaurant or on the decks.

Creative vegan dishes w/produce & seafood from local farms & sea.

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Shay’s Pub & Grill Heart of Portland. Local favorite since 2005. Pub fare specialties: sweet & spicy chicken sandwich, fish & chips, seasonal salads. Famous $5 martini menu & daily specials.

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“We made the Belon Rockefeller for a popup at Oxbow last fall,” says Kit Paschal, The Shop’s general manager. “We like to crosspromote, because it’s good for both businesses.” And for oyster aficionados! According to oysterguide.com, French Belon oysters have been feral in Maine since scientists transplanted them to Boothbay Harbor in the 1950s, and with only 5,000 hand-harvested yearly by divers are one of the rarest oysters in the world.

Diving deeper than the Paitan Ramen and pork buns on Pai Men Miyake’s menu rewards you with the Hamayaki: crab and scallop broiled over sushi rice in a scallop shell and topped with Kewpie mayo, truffle oil, eel sauce, and sansho pepper. “Hama means broiled and yaki means beach,” says general manager Courtney Packer.

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Theater

Belfast Maskers, 17 Court St. As You Like It, May 20-23 (outdoors). 619-3256.

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Heartwood Regional Theater Company, Parker B. Poe Theater, 81 Academy Hill Rd., Newcastle. Rosmersholm, Apr. 30–May 8.

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Jack S. Ketchum Library, 11 Hills Beach Rd., Biddeford. Persephone in the Late Anthropocene, through May 15. 602-3000.

Arts Institute of Western Maine, 224 Main St., Farmington. Keyboard Festival virtual performances: Rebecca Pechefsky on harpsichord, Apr. 10; David Kim on fortepiano, Apr. 17; George Lopez on piano, Apr. 24. artsfarmington.org.

City Theater, 205 Main St., Biddeford. MisCast Concert: Virtual, Apr. 9–11. 282-0849.

Jonathan’s Ogunquit, 92 Bourne Ln. The Elton John Experience, Apr. 16; Don Campbell Band, May 9.

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Opera House at Boothbay Harbor, 86 Townsend Ave. All That Matters, Apr. 9; The Boneheads, Apr. 16; Oshima Brothers, Apr. 23; Junction 27, May 1; Portland Symphony Ensemble Brass Quintet, May 6; Cattle Call, May 8. 633-5159.

Penobscot Theatre Company, Bangor Opera House, 131 Main St. Bee Parks and Dianne Smith is artist in residence April 14-May 21 at Indigo Arts Alliance.

321-9748.

Dowling Walsh Gallery, 365 Main St., Rockland.

Hilary Irons: Orb Weaver, through Apr. 24. 596-0084.

Greenhut Galleries, 146 Middle St. Maine, The Painted State II, Apr. 1–May 29.

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Music

Camden Opera House, 29 Elm St. Facebook live streams: The Mark Tipton Trio, Apr. 9; Natále, Apr. 16; Gordon Bok, Apr. 23; Dave Gutter, Apr. 30. 236-3154.

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Farnsworth Art Museum, 16 Museum St., Rockland.

Women of Vision, Apr. 17– Jan. 2, 2022; Eliot Porter: All the Wild Places, through May 2. 596-6457.

New Surry Theatre, 18 Union St., Blue Hill. Red Hot Patriot (livestream,) April 9-10. 200-4720.

Aura, 121 Center St. The Pettybreakers, Apr. 10; Dark Desert Eagles, Apr. 16; One Night of Queen, Apr. 28; Lotus Land, May 1. 772-8274.

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Kittery Art Association, 8 Coleman Ave. Dappled, Apr. 15–May 16. 451-9384.

Women of Vision opens at the Farnsworth Art Museum in Rockland April 17, honoring 2021 Maine in America Award winners: photographer Berenice Abbott, businesswoman Linda Bean, painter Katherine Bradford, philanthropist Edith Dixon, photographer Cig Harvey, poet Edna St. Vincent Millay, sculptor Louise Nevelson, philanthropist Elizabeth Noyce, basket maker and Passamaquoddy civic leader Molly Neptune Parker, women’s advocate and philanthropist Maurine Rothschild, arts and education champion Phyllis Wyeth, and artist Marguerite Zorach. the Hornets streamed, Apr. 11–May 2. 942-3333.

Portland Conservatory of Music, 202 Woodford St. Noonday Concert Series Online: Lydia Forbes & Chiharu Naruse, through Apr. 14; Ed Pearlman, Apr. 15–28; Titus Abbott, May 6–19. 775-3356.

Portland Public Library, 5 Monument Sq. Noonday Concert Series Online: Ed Pearlman, Apr. 15–Apr. 28.

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Portland Symphony Orchestra, Merrill Auditorium, 20 Myrtle St. On-demand digital concerts: Schooner Fare, through Apr. 16; Charles Dimmick Plays Mozart, through Apr. 23.

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Saint Lawrence Arts, 76 Congress St. Gold Rush: The

Ultimate Neil Young Celebration, May 1; Deep Blue C Studio Orchestra, May 2.

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State Theatre, 609 Congress St. Lost Dog Street Band, Apr. 11; Dave Mason, May 10. 956-6000.

Art

Stone Mountain Arts Center, 695 Dugway Rd., Brownfield. Ward Hayden & the Outliers, Apr. 23.

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The Strand Theatre, 345 Main St., Rockland. Castle of Our Skins stream, May 1– May 16. 594-0070.

Thomas Point Beach, 29 Meadow Rd., Brunswick.

Summer Jam Camp Out, Jul. 2-5; Maine Folk: a Gathering of Kindred Spirits, Jul. 16-18. 725-6009.

Comedy

Craft Brew Underground, 34 Court St., Auburn. COVID Comedy Series: Al Christakis with Sean Duffy and Theo Konstantino, Apr. 10.

State Theatre, 609 Congress St. Cat & Nat Off The Rails Live!, May 9. 956-6000.

Able Baker Contemporary, 29 Forest Ave. Undercurrents, through Apr. 24.

545-6235.

Brick Store Museum, 117 Main St., Kennebunk. Cape Porpoise: Archaeology in the Archipelago, through Apr. 30. 985-4802.

Caldbeck Gallery, 12 Elm St., Rockland. Magnificent Obsession: A Virtual Exhibition, through May 11.

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Center for Maine Contemporary Art, 21 Winter St., Rockland. Shelter (Earth, House, Body, Spirit), 2020 Biennial, through May 2.

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Cove Street Arts, 71 Cove St. Ode to a Transcendent Mind, through Apr. 17; Abstract Nature, through Apr.

KW Contemporary Art, 184 Port Rd., Kennebunk.

Into the Unknown, through Apr. 30. 204-0480.

Maine Maritime Museum, 243 Washington St., Bath. A Sailor’s Treasure: Sea Chests & Curiosities, through Jun. 14. 443-1316.

Maine College of Art, 522 Congress St. 2020 MFA Thesis, through Apr. 16.

699-5025.

Messler Gallery, 25 Mill St., Rockport. Current student work, Apr. 16–May 26.

594-5611.

Portland Museum of Art, 7 Congress Sq. Conversations with Maine Artists in a _ _ _ _ _ _ Time Zoom webinar, Apr. 15. Untitled, 2020: Art From Maine in A _ _ _ _ _ _ Time, through May 31. 775-6148.

Richard Boyd Art Gallery, 15 Epps St., Peaks Island.

Works on Paper, through Apr. 29. 712-1097.

River Arts, 241 US-1, Damariscotta. New Works, through Apr. 17; Wild Things, Apr. 21–May 22.

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University of New England Gallery, Portland Campus, 716 Stevens Ave. Speculative Histories & Material Culture, through Jun. 13. 221-4499.

Zillman Art Museum University of Maine, 40 Harlow St., Bangor. Domesticated: Amy Stein; A Vision Accomplished: Thomas Cornell; Living Windows: Gene A. Felice II & Kimathi Moore, through May 1. 581-3300.

Film

Curtis Memorial Library, 23 Pleasant St., Brunswick. Virtual Film Discussions: Fire + Flood: Queer Resilience in the Era of Climate Change, Apr. 13; The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind, Apr. 27. 725-5242.

Penobscot Theatre Company, Bangor Opera House, 131 Main St. Je Ne Suis Pas Evangeline, Apr. 22–May 9. 942-3333.

Portland Museum of Art, 7 Congress Sq. PMA Films virtual cinema: Stray, Keep an Eye Out, Our Right to Gaze: Black Film Identities, new films added weekly. 775-6148.

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Auburn Public Library, 49 Spring St. Dead Dog Poems: A Poetry Reading with Lynne Schmidt (virtual event), Apr. 29. 333-6640.

Curtis Memorial Library, 23 Pleasant St., Brunswick. Virtual Poetry Event: Meghan Sterling, Katherine Hagopian-Berry & Suzanne Langlois, Apr. 21. 725-5242.

Flight Deck Brewing, 11 Atlantic Ave., Brunswick Landing. Books & Brews: Roughhouse Friday by Jaed Coffin, Apr. 7; Having Our Say: The Delaney Sisters’ First 100 Years by Sarah and A. Elizabeth Delaney, May 5. 725-5242.

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Maine Historical Society, 489 Congress St. Fighting Time, talk with Isaac Knapper & Amy Banks via Zoom, Apr. 12. 774-1822.

Portland Public Library, 5 Monument Sq. Literary Lunch: Arisa White talks about Who’s Your Daddy? with Adrian Blevins via Zoom, Apr. 21. 774-0465.

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Historic New England, historicnewengland. org. The Somali Experience in Maine: Twenty Years of Community Building, virtual panel, Apr. 15. (617) 994-6678.

Portland Museum of Art, 7 Congress Sq. Online presentation and discussion with Icelandic author, filmmaker, and activist Andri Snaer Magnason, Apr. 14. 775-6148.

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y mom was just a hot ticket,” says her son, Richard Walters of Wells. “When World War II broke out, she was the only child in the family. She wanted to contribute. Since she didn’t have a brother in the service, she went and signed up herself– without her parents knowing.”

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second decision-making, she and her team flew in ahead of invasions and attacks, scrambling amid the fighting in these contested islands. “They had to dig their own foxholes,” Richard says. “In the morning she would count the planes going out and count the planes coming in” to see how she and her friends were doing as the battles raged. To know where she’d be the next morning. And when she was in the air, she carried her own U. S. Army-issue silk parachute.

In this frenetic setting, she met and fell in love with her future husband, Robert J. Walters. And when the war was over and this hero returned to New England, she still carried her good-luck parachute.

“She stuck it in her duffel bag,” Richard says. “She didn’t know if they’d allow it, but she brought it anyway. She was so proud of her time in the service.” Something old became, so sweetly, something new. “She brought it home and had a dressmaker fashion it for her.”

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ast forward to the 21st century. “A couple of years ago, my mother’s parachute dress was used by our daughter at her wedding, which was held at McDougal’s Farm in Acton. My mother got to see her granddaughter—my daughter Julie—married in it.” Naturally there were some updates in a post-Vera Wang world.

“It was remodeled by a seamstress who has done a lot of custom work for plays, like at Portland Stage,” Richard’s wife, Jean Walters, says. “ She lives up near Freeport.

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“Julie’s wedding dress was adapted from her grandmother’s. It was a parachute.

Parachute silk is very, very thin. The original dress didn’t have a lining. The original wearer had to have been wearing a big slip, because it was so transparent. I put in a lining and a band on the top that was a beaded version of what the parachute [packing strip] would have been like.”

Speaking about her show-business connections, Whitney says, “After I moved to Maine from New York in 1993, I was the costumer at Portland Stage for a couple of years. While I made costumes for just one show, I was the person who built, rented, borrowed, bought, fitted, and finished Portland Stage from 1994 to 1995.”

Whitney was born in Amherst, Massachusetts. “I went to graduate school in Wisconsin and got a teaching job.” Then came the big leap to New York. “I started out in costume design, and I worked at the Muppets for two and a half years.

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We’re all each other’s parachutes.” dancers I’d done all the costumes for.”

There’s a pause, and on the phone you can hear her smile. “Some say it was the worst movie ever made: Can’t Stop the Music [1980], which introduced the Village People.” The disco fantasy world is now a cult favorite and was the film debut of Caitlin Jenner, then Bruce Jenner. The movie is simply astonishing.

Three Generations and Counting Whitney loved working with Julie, the bride who dreamed of wearing her grandmother’s parachute dress. “She was lovely. She was very committed to reinventing this garment. It’s funny, because I still have some of the parachute left over. I never got to give it back. If I understand the story correctly, because of the transport issues out there, they all had to carry parachutes in case they had to bail out over water while flying.”

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ut where is the dress exactly this second? “I have my daughter’s dress,” says Jean Walters, “right here in Wells.

I also have what’s left of the parachute.”

As for Betsy’s life with us in Maine after her husband died in 2001, son Richard says, “She had a condo in Wells. She loved to go on rides and have me drive along the ocean to see the seals. She’d feed the seagulls. She wanted to see Wells Beach, Drakes Island.

She had toured the Bush compound, so she liked to drive there too.”

Richard and Jean loved helping Betsy until she passed away last February at age 97 at the Maine Veterans Home in Scarborough. We’re all each other’s parachutes.

Asked for a joke he remembers from his mom, Richard says, “She told me, ‘I don’t know why my mother named me Elvira!

I hate the name Elvira Elizabeth!’ So she went by Betsy and gave me an out for my name of Richard by calling me Skip.”

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or $5M, it’s yours: the Drexel Mansion, a 42-room, 20-bedroom, 48-acre oceanfront retreat built on The Bluffs in 1903 for industrialist George William Childs Drexel of Philadelphia.

But this is no mere Philadelphia story.

It’s a love story starring John Travolta, Kelly Preston (1962-2020), and their family. Travolta bought the Peabody & Stearns

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During a 2003 interview with our writer Louis B. Hobson, Preston told us her favorite views from this Tudor Revival dream house overlooked Sabbathday Harbor.

“You reach our island by ferry…It’s so private and pristine…Our time in Maine is special because it is a very Norman Rock-

well existence. It’s our retreat in the summers. I arrive and become inspired to bake pies and make jam.”

“You can bet a lot of those pies and jams are made from blueberries,” Hobson noted. “Travolta’s 80-acre estate is part of a far more sprawling estate that at one time encompassed nearly 200 acres. Neighbors recall that in its glory that estate used to harvest more than 20,000 pounds of blueberries each summer.”

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Alley’s then-husband Parker Stevenson, who had a home on the island of Islesboro in Maine’s Penobscot Bay.” According to Hobson, Travolta purchased the estate “as an engagement and wedding present for Kelly just a few coves over from the house Kirstie Alley and Parker Stevenson occupied.”

Back then, Kelly was starring in the movie Run with Mainer Patrick Dempsey.

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They were used to him flying overhead in his small planes but not in a jet. Until a petition stopped him, Travolta would even land his Gulf Stream Jet II on the runway of his home.

“Preston says the incidents were blown out of proportion and should never have become headlines in papers around the nation. ‘Johnny just wanted to show Jett [their late son (1992-2009)] and me that he was at the controls of a real jet. He meant no harm to anyone.’ She talked to many people on the island and insists ‘most people were thrilled by the experience. They certainly didn’t tell us they were terrified as it was reported. Johnny and I were always under the impression that it was only one or two people who complained. [Isn’t it always just one or two?–Ed.]’ “No charges were ever laid against Travolta for his impromptu air shows.”

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FOR SALE: East Orland Shorefront Cottage

42 +/- acres and 1,300 feet of shorefront on this highlydesirable, crystal clear, one mile by half mile spring-fed pond.

Minimally populated summer cottages on Craig Pond in East Orland.

Craigmere, a 1904 shingle-style cottage has a wrap-around porch with a great view of Craig Pond, including loons and the afternoon sun. Craigmere comes fully furnished and has 4 BR, 1.5 BR, and a large LR with a brick fireplace.

The DR also has a fireplace. Propane powers the kitchen stove, hot water heater, and refrigerator. An “on demand” propane Generac generator lights this off the grid cottage. There’s a fabulous swimming rock and large storage building. Craigmere sits on 9.7 acres with a private drive shared with two neighbors.

The abutting lot—with 32.8 acres, 400 feet of frontage, and a rustic guest cabin sitting 7 feet from the water—is also for sale. No power (solar panels have been used in the recent past). Accessible by boat or foot.

FOR SALE: East Orland Log Cabin

FOR SALE: Retired boys’ camp with 64 acres of nearly undisturbed pristine forest and 3,500 feet of shore frontage. Private driveway.

A restored 1885 log cabin lodge with impressive fireplace and a relaxing summer porch overlooking the pond. Includes a large workshop, kitchen, dining hall, and a (propane) refrigerator building, 4-bay garage (perfect for solar panels), a 2-bed infirmary, 6 Adirondack lean-tos, and a few small buildings.

There are two cottages down a pathway with 3 and 2 bedrooms, propane kitchens, and composting toilets. No electricity. (One mile to nearest electric service). Sale includes a remote log cabin style lean-to.

Two miles off U.S. Route 1. 35 minutes to the nearest airports.

Would make a great family summer compound or a college or corporate retreat on Craig Pond, East Orland.

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OFFICE SPACE FOR LEASE State Street Near Longfellow Square in Portland

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Previously the Magalloway Plantation Town Hall and Fire House, this property is nestled in the mountains of Western Maine. The Fire House has 2 apartments and large garage, and the Town Hall offers generous square footage for another apartment building, event space or business. The possibilities are endless! This property is worth taking a look, just 40 minutes to Rangeley, ME and 15 minutes to Errol, NH. Schedule a showing today!

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Still, something about this severed head makes him consider the little lake, its shallow water muddy from all the swimmers today, Vincent’s wife and daughter among them. What else is floating in this lake?

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But when his daughter’s shrill voice calls him from a short way down the beach, his first impulse is to hide the fish. Annabelle doesn’t need to see this. She’s too young.

But maybe this is a teachable moment. Animals die, sweetie. Everything dies. Even Mommy and Daddy—no. She’s only three.

He was nearly five when his father showed him the squirrel crushed beneath the tractor wheel. Even five was too soon.

How best to move the fish without touching it? God forbid there be but one

stick in sight.

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Nutritional Information: Amount per serving: Calories 220;Information: Total Fat 9 g;Amount Saturated 1 g; Nutritional perFat serving: Cholesterol 0 Total mg; Sodium mg; Carbohydrate 30 g; Calories 220; Fat 9 g;250 Saturated Fat 1 g; Fiber 6 g; Protein g; Sugar 13 g Cholesterol 0 mg;8Sodium 250 mg; Carbohydrate 30 g; Fiber 6 g; Protein 8 g; Sugar 13 g

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