Portland Monthly Magazine February/March 2019

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76 Perspectives

Shelter&Design

8 From the Editor

17 Garden & Home Shows

“Cage Match: Portland v. San Francisco”

By Colin W. Sargent

10 Letters 29 Portland After Dark “Planet Hopping” Zagat won’t take you here!

By Evelyn Waugh

73 Voices

“Vivid Volumes”

By Rhea Côté Robbins

Art&Style 60 Maine Accents

36 A Savage Crescendo

A concert pianist was inspired to create “Fermata” to match Northeast Harbor’s grand views.

By Colin W. Sargent

38 Charmed Lives

Guy Lowell designed this mansion for a world-class tennis star.

By Colin W. Sargent

41 Stonescape

83 House of the Month

“Magnificent Absence” Kennebunkport’s Wandby Cove crashes on the shores of 2019.

By Colin W. Sargent

86 Hot Properties & Cool Services

Exciting properties to make your fantasy of a home in Maine come true.

Maine Life 13 Chowder

Some dreams are move-in ready.

By Colin W. Sargent

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

43 A Shore Bet

15 Concierge

Discover just the right touch to transform a room “from away.”

From Staff & Wire Reports

These waterfront fixer-uppers below $225K have priceless water views.

By Ashley Brindamour

95 Fiction

65 Wellness Check

“Maybe”

By Joan Connor

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Is Kennebunk’s Wedding Cake House slipping off the radar?

By Evelyn Waugh

Cover: Stonescape, Deer Isle. Photo by Brian Vanden Brink

Your backstage tickets to entertainment.

20 Experience 49 Into the Woods

Food&Drink 33 Hungry Eye

“Contributing Writers” Return of the potluck.

By Kate Christensen

71 Cheers

“Sonnets from the Portuguese” What to drink with your Bacalhau à Gomes de Sá.

By Ralph Hersom

74 Dining Guide

Twenty-five select area restaurants strut their stuff.

75 Restaurant Review

Bold flavors emerge from the kitchen at No Coward Soul.

By Diane Hudson

People 96 Flash

These Maine summer campers kindled our national campfire.

By Colin W. Sargent

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So here we go: You’re Frisco. We’re Casco.

You have postcards of the Golden Gate Bridge enveloped in mist. We invented postcards.

[See “Postcards from the Edge, October 2016.]

We also invented fog.

You’re the No. 10 foodie city in the world. We’re the No. 1 foodie city in America.

You have the Top of the Mark, 1926. We have the Top of the East, 1927. It glitters atop a hotel so high in the clouds Charles Lindbergh flew up here to dedicate it. (He visited us in July, 1927, during his transatlantic celebration tour–see “fog,” paragraph 3. He got around to you in September.)

Crooner Rudy Vallee performed his “Maine Stein Song” at your Mark Hopkins Hotel. We invented Rudy Vallee–he grew up in Westbrook.

You have City Lights Books. We have Longfellow Books.

Jack London wrote White Fang. Portland native Stephen King, born at the Maine Eye and Ear Infirmary (as did so many of us), wrote Cujo.

You have Dungeness Crabs. We have King Lobster. You have Tony Bennett. We have Tony Boffa and Tony Bourassa.

Your tourist attraction, the Liberty Ship Jeremiah O’Brien, draws thousands. We built the Jeremiah O’Brien.

Cost of a condo on Nob Hill: $900K to $12M. Cost of a condo on the West End or Munjoy Hill: $275K to $775K. San Francisco magazine shares ‘content’ with sister magazines directed by Modern Luxury of Atlanta. For better or worse, we’re an independent voice, owned in Maine by a Maine native.

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Family Tradition It’s not that often that I find a little piece of our Italian Christmas Eve holiday tradition on the cover of a magazine published in Maine [see “The Ultimate Frutti di Mare,” December 2018]. Well done, Portland Monthly!

Andrea Chechile Knowles, Eliot Boisterous Bivalves [See “Lucky Shucks,” December 2018] Why would someone pick [Maine Oyster Company] over The Shop? Sounds like the same stuff, just more expensive.

Brett [via portlandmonthly.com] The Write Stuff I just wanted to reach out to you and thank you for the wonderful article you wrote on the Tarkington property [see “Mirthful Haven,” Winterguide 2019]. It was genuine, sincere, informative, and spoke volumes about Booth and his home. Well done, good sir.

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Her song, “Without Me,” performed by the artist Halsey, reached No. 1 on Billboard's Hot100. Allen, who’s cowritten songs for Selena Gomez and Shawn Mendes, has roots in Portland’s music scene. She performed acoustic bluegrass/folk gigs around the city before moving to Los Angeles, where her career took off.

Slink into Portland Museum of Art March 29 to April 3 for Cat Video Fest 2019.

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Go with the Flow

Up in The Air

Two venerable venues face uncertain futures. Now that Children’s Museum and Theatre is leaving downtown to break ground at Thompson’s Point, their 142 Free Street site is listed for $3.15M. Built as the Free Street Baptist church in 1836, 142 Free was renovated by Portland architect John Calvin Stevens in the 20th century. In recent years, it hosted the Chamber of Commerce before the Children’s Museum of Maine in 1993. In 2005, the Children’s Theatre merged with the museum. While there are ideas for creative spaces or a boutique hotel, listing agent Chris Craig of The Dunham Group says conceptual drawings are in order. “It has a lot of possibilities, but interested buyers want to see open floor plans.”

Over 100 sugarhouses celebrate Maple Sunday on March 24. Though climate change has created earlier, shorter seasons, “Innovations in technology allow us to still extract a good amount of sap,” Lyle Merrifield of the Maine Maple Producers Association says. According to Anne Trenholm of MMPA, today’s “tubing and vacuum systems can increase sap yield 50 to 100 percent.”

State Street is missing some angels…

After 84 years as The Monastery of the Precious Blood, 166 State Street is listed for $1.8M. The cloistered Catholic order was first founded in 1934 and was home to 14 sisters.

In November, the last two relocated to the Precious Blood Monastery in Manchester, New Hampshire. (In 2009, when we moved our Portland Monthly offices to 165 State Street building, one of the sisters welcomed us the only way a sister living in a contemplative cloister can—she sent a note via the gardener: “We like your sign.”)

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hicago’s Queen of Blues returns to Waterville Opera House on March 9. The daughter of blues legend Johnny Copeland fell hard for Maine on music tours with her father.

Today, Shemekia’s drawing her own crowd. Her most recent album, America’s Child, lofted to No. 3 on the Billboard Top Blues Albums charts last summer. We caught up with the awardwinning artist soon after the announcement of her five Blues Music Awards nominations, including Album of the Year.

them. A lot of great bands come out of there. They have their own sounds. It’s a mix of blues and funk and soul.

What lullabies does a blues singer sing to her child?

Well, on my latest record I include “Go to Sleepy Little Baby.” I sing that. But, mostly, I sing Sam Cooke songs to him.

PM: What keeps you coming back?

SC: I’ve been coming to Maine ever since I was a young girl, with my dad. It’s kind of a tradition—the New England tour, you know. I love it.

Did you travel with your father a lot?

Oh my God, my dad would hit all the clubs up there. From Connecticut, Rhode Island, Boston and all over Massachusetts, all over Maine. We were always up there.

What’s the most important musical advice your father gave you?

It has to be a part of you. You have to love it. And you have to be original.

When will you tell that to your son?

What’s the longest time you went without singing a note—and why?

Oh, gosh, I don’t know if I’ve done that. Actually, last year I got sick. That was a time when I really rested my voice.

As soon as he can understand it.

I loved your cover of the Kinks.

Where’d you find the inspiration to blend so many genres?

You know, I just feel like we’re all one big melting pot of music.

Gosh, years ago when you went to a record store, the music wasn’t broken up into sections. It was all mixed in together. That’s the way it should be.

Harlem, New Orleans, Texas—these places all have a sound. What’s Maine’s sound?

There are a lot of great musicians up there. I’m friends with a lot of

What are your 30 most embarrassing seconds onstage? Take us there.

One time I was in Europe with Taj Mahal, and his band was doing a song called “I Need Your Lovin’ Everyday.” All I had to say was “I need your lovin’ everyday.”

I was so nervous that I couldn’t do it. It got to that part, and I was just like, oh my God—what am I supposed to say?

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Now’s the time to take advantage of the Old Port.

The wind is still a bit too biting for tourists, leaving plenty of room for Portlanders to get from A to B to C. Start your night at Tiqa on Commercial Street with the Santa Maria cocktail ($12).

This tequila concoction has a kick of ancho chili liquor, pomegranate, and lime.

The Hummus and House Pita ($8) and an order of the saucy Mussels ($12) will get you warmed up for your reservation at Street & Co. Here you’ll devour the Lobster Diavolo for two ($68.95). What Portlander doesn’t dream of pasta and lobster?

Close the night with one more extravagance at Gross Confection Bar. The Brown Butter Yogurt Panna Cotta ($24) is made for two. And while there’s a fabulous selection of signature cocktails, at this point of the night the Just a Little Less ($6) might be appropriate.

This chamomile mocktail will soothe any evening of overindulgence.

What about your 30 best?

Probably singing background for Mick Jagger. But anytime I’ve ever performed with the greats, you know? Ruth Brown, Koko Taylor, Buddy Guy, Solomon Burke.

Second Act

Monica Wood is back at Portland Stage with The Half-Light. The drama centers around “a college secretary who believes she might have a gift for seeing the dead.”

“I’ve got a stellar cast and the brilliant Sally Wood as director—we worked on Papermaker together,” Wood says. “What I love about playwriting is the collaboration throughout the whole process, which is so different from prose writing… We can reduce human nature to two types: dogs or cats.

Cats write prose; dogs write plays. I’m now a hybrid animal, and it suits me just fine!” The play opens February 26 and runs through March 24.

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Spring Plotting Home & Garden Shows Connecticut Flower & Garden Show, Connecticut Convention Center, Hartford, Connecticut, Feb. 21-24. 860-844-8461 Rhode Island Home, Flower & Garden Show, Rhode Island Convention Center, Providence, Rhode Island, April 4-7.

401-438-7400 Pioneer Valley Home Expo, Smith Vocational High School, Northampton, Massachusetts, Mar. 9-10. 413-585-5000 Bath Antique Sale, Bath Middle School, Bath, Mar. 10, Apr.14. 832-7798

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Seacoast Home & Garden Show, Whittemore Center Arena, Durham, New Hampshire, April 6-7. 603-862-4057

Cape Elizabeth Garden Club is held periodically at Thomas Memorial Library, Scott Dyer Rd., Cape Elizabeth. Upcoming event topics include differentiating between native species and weeds.

Bridge of Flowers Opening, Shelburne Falls, Massachusetts, Apr. 1. bridgeofflowersmass.org.

Gorham Garden Club meets on the last Tuesday of the month, at 7 p.m., at the First Parish Church, 1 Church Street, Gorham. Upcoming event themes include “Art and Whimsy in the Garden.”

The Maine Flower Show, Thompson’s Point, Mar. 27-31. 623-6430

49th Annual Bangor Home Show, Cross Insurance Center, Bangor, March 29-31.

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Western Massachusetts Home & Garden Show, Eastern States Expo, West

The Maine Photography Show, Boothbay Region Art Foundation, Boothbay

Longfellow Garden Club, the second Tuesday of each month, from 10 a.m. to noon, at Woodfords Congregational Church, 202 Woodford St. Upcoming meeting topics include floral designs inspired by the poetry of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and gardening indigenous species.

The Maine Home Show, Androscoggin Bank Colisee, Lewiston, April 27-28.

577-2721 17th Annual Southern Rhode Island Home Show, Ryan Center, Kingston, Rhode Island, Mar. 23-24. 401-788-3200

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Daffodil Days Begin, citywide, Newport, Rhode Island, Apr. 13-21. newportdaffydays.com Vintage Bazaar, Brick South, Thompson’s Point, Apr. 12-14. 204-0300 Vermont Home & Garden Show, Champlain Valley Expo, Essex Junction, Vermont, Apr. 6-7.

802-876-6200 Mayfair: Northern New England Home, Garden, & Flower Show, Fryeburg Fairgrounds, Fryeburg. 300 booths plus beer, wine, & cheese tasting, May 17-19. 935-2845

June 8-9. 603-823-8000 Newport Flower Show, Rosecliff, Bellevue Ave., Newport, Rhode Island Jun. 2123. 401-847-1000

Scarborough Garden Club meets on the third Thursday of the month, at 12:30 p.m., at The Hillcrest Retirement Community Recreation Center.

Annual Wells Outdoor Antiques Show and Sale, Laudholm Farm, Wells, Jun. 30. 800-641-6908 Camden House & Garden Tour, Camden. See a variety of diverse properties, from small town cottages to magnificent estates, Jul. 18. camdengardenclub.org

For more information on Maine’s garden clubs, visit MaineGardenClubs.org.

Laudholm Nature Crafts Festival, Laudholm Reserve, Wells. More than 100 artisans, music, and food. Sept. 7-8. 646-1555

Camden-Rockport Historical Society Antiques Show, Camden-Rockport High School, Camden, Jul. 20-21. (800) 641-6908

Maine Antiques Exposition, Thompson’s Point, Sept. 14-15. (800) 6416908

Kennebunk Antiques Show & Sale, Kennebunk Middle School, 60 Thompson Road. Aug. 10-

Celebration of Lupine, Sugar Hill, New Hampshire,

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Bowdoin College Museum of Art, 245 Maine St., Brunswick. In the Round: Ancient Art from All Sides, through Oct. 13; Let’s Get Lost and Listening Glass, through Sept. 29; Among Women: Portraits from the Permanent Collection, through Apr. 7; Fashion Modernity: Art and Independence among Yorubas in Nigeria, through March 17; Bowdoin Collects: Chinese Ceramics, Jades, and Paintings, through Jan. 5, 2020. 725-3275.

Center for Maine Contemporary Art, 21 Winter St., Rockland. CMCA Biennial 2018, through March 3. 701-5005.

Colby College Museum of Art, 5600 Mayflower Hill Dr., Waterville. Zanele Muholi: Somnyama Ngonyama, Hail the Dark Lioness, through June 9; A Vision for Composition: Nineteenth-Century Prints from the Collection, through June 9. 859-5600.

Creative Portland, 84 Free Street. Music events and a rotating gallery. 370-4784.

Farnsworth Art Museum, 16 Museum St., Rockland. The Screen Show, through Sept. 22; Maine: The Farnsworth Collection, through March 14, 2021. 596-6457.

Greenhut Galleries, 146 Middle St. ManMade: A State of Nature, through March 2; Maine, the Painted State, April 4-27. 772-2693.

Maine Farmland Trust Gallery, 97 Main St., Belfast. Homeland: A multimedia exhibit exploring our collective and diverse relationship to home/land, through March 1. 338-6576 Maine Jewish Museum, 267 Congress St. Marty Kremer: Fused Glass, through April; Lynn Karlin: Photographs, through April; Nancy Davidson & Nancy Kahn, Stu Nudelman: Abstract Photography, through April.

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Richard Boyd Art Gallery, 15 Epps St., Peaks Island. Wildlife and Animal Theme Art 2019: A Benefit Exhibit for MSSPA, through Feb. 24; A Walk in the Woods, March 1-30. 712-1097.

River Arts, 241 US-1, Damariscotta. Artist’s Choice Theme, through Feb. 28; Figures, Photos, Forms, March 8-April 4. 563-1507.

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Union of Maine Visual Artists Gallery, 516 Congress Street. The Way Life Is: Maine Working Families and Communities, through Feb. 22. umvaonline.org.

University of Maine Museum of Art, 40 Harlow St., Bangor. Meghan Brady, Richard Keen, Zach Horn, through May 4. 581-3300.

University of New England Museum of Art, 2693, 716 Stevens Ave. Partners in Art, Partners in Life: John David Ellis & Joan Beauregard, through March 10. 221-4449

University of New England Biddeford Art Gallery, Ketchum Library, 11 Hills Beach Rd., Biddeford. Mackworth Island Transformed: Rocks Reimagined, through April 15. 283-0171.

Theater

City Theater, 205 Main St., Biddeford. The Light in the Piazza, March 8-24. 282-0849.

Good Theater, 76 Congress St. The Irish Curse, Feb. 23-March 16; A Doll’s House, Feb. 20-March 17. 835-0895.

The Metropolitan Opera HD at The Grand, 165 Maine St., La Fille du Régiment, March 2; Die Walküre, March 30.

Lyric Music Theater, 176 Sawyer St., South Portland. The Bridges of Madison County, March 29-April 14. 799-142.

Mad Horse Theater, 23 Mosher St., South Portland. The Tomb of King Tot, March 9-26; Life Sucks, March 14-31. 747-4148.

Maine State Ballet Theater, 348 U.S. Rte. 1, Falmouth. Cinderella, March 22-April 7. 7817672.

Merrill Auditorium, 20 Myrtle St. The Sound of Music, March 1-2; Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo, March 28. 842-0800.

Penobscot Theatre Company, Bangor Opera House, 131 Main St. Honky Tonk Laundry, through Feb. 24; Ripcord, March 14-31.

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Portland Stage, 25 Forest Ave. The Half-Light, Feb. 26-March 24. 774-0465.

Public Theatre, 31 Maple St., Lewiston. A Doll’s House, Part 2, March 15-24. 782-3200.

Space Gallery, 538 Congress St. Pericles, presented by Naked Shakespeare, March 28-31. 828-5600 Waterville Opera House, 93 Main St. 3rd Flr., Waterville. Missoula Children’s Theatre: The Snow Queen, Feb. 23. 873-7000.

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Frog & Turtle, 3 Bridge St., Westbrook. Matt Brunner and Friends, every second Weds.; Don Campbell, every third Weds.; Seth Warner with Susanne Gerry, every fourth Weds; Dave Good and Jeff Willis, every first Thurs.

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Merrill Auditorium, 20 Myrtle St. Portland Symphony Orchestra’s Solar System Symphony, March 3; PSO Presents Jamie Loredo, March 10; The Hot Sardines, March 16-17; The Schumann Circle, March 26. 842-0800.

One Longfellow Square, 181 State St. William Tyler, Feb. 20; Duke Robillard, Feb. 22; Dwight & Nicole, Feb. 23; The Jacob Jolliff Band, Feb. 28; Honeysuckle & Dead Horses, March 6; Sierra Hull, March 7; The Portland Jazz Orchestra, March 21; Damian McGinty, March 21. 761-1757.

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Portland Public Library’s Rines Auditorium, 5 Monument Way. The Kids are Alright, March 2.

Salvage BBQ, 919 Congress St. Live music every Fri. and Sat. 553-2100.

State Theatre, 609 Congress St. Cat Power, March 1; Dropkick Murphys, March 12; Nils Frahm, March 31. 956-6000.

Stone Mountain Arts Center, 695 Dugway Rd., Brownfield. Juanito Pascual, Feb. 22; Rachael and Vilray, March 1; Adam Ezra Group, March 2; Sierra Hull, March 9; Kat Edmonson, March 15; Dom Flemons, March 22; Los Lobos, March 27. 935-7292.

The Thirsty Pig, 37 Exchange St. Prime the Pump, live music every Sat. 773-2469 Waterville Opera House, 93 Main St. 3rd Flr., Waterville. Shemekia Copeland, March 9.

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Comedy

Blue, 650A Congress St. Comedy Night: Worst Day of the Week, every Mon. 774-4111.

Bull Feeney’s, 375 Fore St. Open Mic Comedy, every Wed. 773-7210.

Sugarloaf Shipyard Brew Haus, 5000 Commons Circle, Carrabassett Valley. Bob Marley, Feb. 20-21. 824-5138.

The Fresnel Theater, 17 Free St. Comedy Sportz Maine, every Fri.-Sat. 619-1418.

Lincoln’s, 36 Market St. Laugh Shack Comedy, every Thurs.

Quill Books & Beverage, 1 Westbrook Common, Unit #5, Westbrook. We’re Here: A Night of Queer and Feminist Comedy, every second Fri.

Tasty Events

Portland Club, 165 State St. The Black Tie Company presents Bangers and Mash Cooking Class: St. Patricks edition. Intimate class size, advanced registration required. March 6.

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The Kennebunkport Inn, 1 Dock Square, Kennebunkport. Banded Brewing Co. Beer Dinner at The Burleigh, Feb. 23.

(800) 573-7186 Byrnes’ Irish Pub, 16 Station Ave., Brunswick.

Martini Mondays, March 4 and 11. 729-9400.

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Tasting events on Fri. Call for dates. 774-8129.

Rising Tide Brewing Company, 103 Fox St. Food trucks on Fri., Sat. and Sun., BYOF (Bring Your Own Food) to enjoy while drinking locally crafted beer, wine, and cider, or visit the Tasting Room for Maine Made Pub Snacks and Leavvit & Son’s Soup. 370-2337.

Wine and Food Walks, Portland. Join Sommelier Erica Archer for a themed walk through a Portland neighborhood with wine and spirit tastings paired with delicious foods, every Sat. 619-4630.

Sholl: Book Launch, House of Sparrows: New and Selected Poems, Feb. 28.

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Film

Quill Books and Beverage, 1 Westbrook Common, Unit #5, Westbrook. Writing workshop with Maya Williams at 10:30am. 591-0056.

Frontier, 14 Main St. Mill 3 Fort Andross, Brunswick.

2019 Oscar Nominated Short Films: Live Action, Feb. 8-14; 2019 Oscar Nominated Short Films: Animated, through Feb. 21.725-5222.

Sichuan Kitchen, 612 Congress St. Hot Pot Wednesdays, every Weds.

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Sweetgrass Farm Old Port Tasting Room, 324 Fore St. Tasting bar is open year-round for Mainemade wines and spirits.

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Portland Museum of Art, 7 Congress Square.

New German Film Series: In the Aisles, Feb. 21; Mountain Miracle, Feb. 28; Jacqueline and Jilly: Presented by PMA Films and Portland Magazine, Feb. 27. 775-6148.

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Cinemagic Grand at Clarks Pond, 333 Clarks Pond Pkwy., South Portland. Cult Classics: The Iron Giant, March 14.

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Cinemagic in Westbrook,183 County Rd, Westbrook. The Princess Bride, Feb. 21; The Terminator, March 21. 774-3456.

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Bard Coffee, 185 Middle St. “Silent” Book Club, ev-

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Glickman Library, 314 Forest Ave. Spirits Alive Lecture Series: Augustus King, the Pimp of Portland, a talk by Tim Gillis. March 30. spiritsalive.org.

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Foulmouthed Brewing, 15 Ocean St., South Portland. Geeks Who Drink Trivia Night, every Tues. through March 26. 618-6977.

Local Press, 276 Woodford St. Trivia with Sherry, every Weds. 773-0039.

Local 188, 685 Congress St. The Spanish Inquisition with Krister Rollins trivia night, every Mon. 761-7909.

Quill Books and Beverage, 1 Westbrook Common, Unit #5, Westbrook. Board Game night, every Weds. 591-0056.

Rí Rá Irish Pub and Restaurant, 72 Commercial St. Pub Quiz with $5 pints sponsored by a brewery of the month, every Tues. 761-446.

Run of the Mill Public House and Brewery, 100 Main St., Saco. Trivia every Mon., Oct.May; Washout Washers Tournament drinking game, every Tues. 571-9648.

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12th Annual Flavors of Freeport, The Hilton Garden Inn, 5 Park St. A weekend of foodie events throughout Freeport. Feb. 15-17. 865-1212.

Maine Restaurant Week, Specially priced multi-course menus and events like breakfast cook-offs, wandering bakery tastings, and cocktail tours at restaurants throughout Maine.

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Trans Talent Takeover, Mayo Street Arts, 10 Mayo St. MaineTransNet presents their second Trans Talent Takeover: Variety Show and Silent Auction featuring transgender artists and performers from Maine. March 16.

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A Dream Within A Dream Inside we’re greeted by a parade of corsets and full-body leather jumpsuits. Masks— black, glittery, and feathered—hide the faces of regulars. A pair of elf ears pass. It’s as if I’ve walked into Oz. We’re not in New England anymore. I spy a girl wearing a tail and another in a ball gown. Tonight’s the annual goth ball, and I’m horribly underdressed.

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I’m swallowed by twirls and stomps. “Is this Tool?”

Afternoon—heavy on absinthe, light on Champagne. We mingle with two women wearing cat ears and corsets. The men in kilts and tuxedos linger by the bar.

Someone’s dressed in white from the tuxedo to the boots and giant feather fan—like an angel swimming in a sea of black. I’m in awe.

“We try to offer a place for those who don’t feel comfortable being themselves normally. They come out and get to be themselves, whatever that may be,” Black says. “Is Halloween your favorite holiday? Do you enjoy Poe and Beetlejuice? Are you into comics, sci-fi? Plague is all of these things.”

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lask, the brick staple of Spring Street and one of the most welcoming bars you’ll find in town, is home to Monday of the Minds. Zachary Mullin, better known as rapper Stay on Mars, started the weekly “community hip hop showcase” in 2015. “People need interaction,” Mullin says. “Minds isn’t just going out to a concert to see an artist. It’s going out to hang with friends and see hip hop.”

Boho Shows There’s underground beauty in the bohemian Apohadion Theater on Hanover Street. Think Sally Bowles belting out subterranean sorrows from the small stage, framed by the patchwork curtains. The venue, run by artists Patrick Corrigan, Greg Jamie, Dave Noyes, and Jeremy Robinson, doubles as art studios. “It’s all of our passions rolled into one space,” Jamie says.

“An outlet for things we think are exciting and worth sharing.” This spring, expect locals Classy on Occasion, Baltimore’s Viking Moses, and Boston’s Cilla Bonnie.

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Amanda asks, bewildered that the 1990s alternative band would be playing. “It’s like Tool but sexy!” A woman in full leather and high platform boots with blunt bangs and winged eyeliner dances by herself. She’s killing it. The music is eclectic—Joy Division, Florence and the Machine, White Stripes, Echo and the Bunnymen.

We find ourselves dancing well past midnight. Turns out, sober or not, I’m a natural. Because after all, the real secret to dancing like a goth is to go to the club and dance. And you can. Every Friday at Aura.

There’s no stage at Minds.

We stand in the “pit” with the artists, the bar and tables behind us. I’m sipping a gin and ginger as Viva of Viva and the Reinforcements beckons us in.

“Closer, closer,” she says. The boldest squeeze to the front. I’m eye-to-eye with open-mic performers, who signed up only hours before. They rap about their lives—the losses, the wins, economic oppression, drug abuse, mental illness. The pursuit of their dreams.

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fter the open mic, Christina Richardson, local community organizer, leads us in a universal clap. She counts, “one, two, three,” and the bar claps in unison. It thuds somewhere deep in your chest—that place where bass reverberates, where feeling happens.

“First with power,” she says.

“One, two, three, power.”

“Now with equity.

“One, two, three, equity.”

The DJ puts on a “throwback beat” I don’t recognize, but the whole bar starts moving.

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Over a beer, I talk with a fashionable woman in blue eyeshadow with a pierced cupid’s bow. She’s here to support her “maybe boyfriend.” Ah, the maybe. Dating lim-

bo. I don’t miss it. “Tonight’s awkward,” she tells me. “I can’t dance as well as him.”

He happens to be one of the rappers and kicks off a freestyle cypher, on-the-spot rhymes that come straight “from the top of the dome,” as Mullin says.

“The good old days are long gone, they say,” starts the rap.

He’s critical of our culture’s tendency to retreat into nostalgia, but I’m struck by the clarity of his optimism. “He seems nice,” I tell his date before heading out.

It’s nearly midnight, and the beat is still strong. I carry it with me up Spring Street, brimming with energy. Portland’s beat is one fueled by the people that can hear it and feel it, the people keeping the collective tempo while adding notes of their own. Different looks, tastes, scenes, and cultures merge each day into the city’s cypher. n

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Contributing Writers A West End dinner party signals the return of the literary potluck supper.

(Next month: Vicars and Tarts?)

by Kat e christ e ns en

Not Your Mother’s Potluck…

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y the time late February rolls around, I’m visited by a sinking suspicion that the past months of bonedeep chill, rock-hard snow, calcified ice, and knifelike winds will actually never go away and that Maine has somehow slipped into a brutal, permanent glacial micro-climate, a mini Ice Age of its own, while the rest of the world heats up.

Summer was so long ago, it feels like years, decades even, since I’ve gone barefoot in beach sand or picnicked in sunlight. Was that actually me dancing under the stars at that wedding last July? Who was that carefree, lucky person who did those things?

Not this hunched, pale, blinking hermit swathed in a thick wool scarf and down coat, my hat’s earflaps frozen to my cheeks, feet insulated in snow boots.

Feeling thoroughly sick of the isolation, hunger, and cold, and itching for some social fun—enough hunkering down in paja-

mas with my warm dog and husband in the glow of Netflix—there’s only one thing to do: throw a dinner party, fire up the stove, and fill my kitchen with warm bodies to cheer the place up.

But dinner parties are expensive and a lot of work, and I owe people payback invites for meals at their houses over the past year—how to narrow the guest list down to the six or eight people who will fit around our dining table?

Then I hit on the perfect solution, the Tom Sawyer of dinner parties: a potluck.

Back in the 1970s, when I was a kid growing up in Arizona, potlucks were the cool, festive thing to do in my mother’s hippie/boho friend circle. I have visceral memories of tables draped in Indian bedspreads, groaning with pottery bowls filled with turgid lentils and rubbery tofu casseroles next to platters of zucchini, banana, and carrot bread. Think Seals and Croft on the stereo, wind chimes, incense and pot smoke, plenty of facial hair (men), chunky

necklaces (women), and unleashed dogs (and kids). Potlucks always made me a little queasy. I hid in a corner with a book, picking at a greasy slab of banana bread, anxious to go home.

But this is 21st century Maine, a place of scrappy practicality, community-mindedness, and respect for tradition. A potluck dinner happens to fulfill all of those regional mandates. I decide it’s time to get rid of the cobwebs/wind chimes and reinvent the whole concept.

So I send out emails, inviting about 20 of my favorite people over on a Saturday night, and telling them to bring food.

(Full disclosure: our friends are all good cooks. If you’re going to throw a potluck, this is a huge and indispensable plus. In other words, I wasn’t worried.) “The theme is ‘surprise me,’” I tell them. “The magic of potlucks is that it all works out.”

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nce the kitchen is warm and steamy from the pots bubbling on the stovetop, my husband, Brendan, and I set up two long, cloth-draped tables in the dining room and plenty of chairs in a circle in the living room. We clear counter space in the kitchen for prep assembly and a bar. On the tables, we arrange stacked paper plates and bowls, plastic cutlery and cups, napkins, tea candles, and snacks for the centerpieces—potato chips, pistachios, clementines, and chocolates. On the side countertop, we assemble an array of beer, wine, sparkling water, cider, kombucha, ice, along with bottles of rum and whiskey for anyone who can’t even with winter anymore.

By seven, the couch is heaped with coats, and the whole downstairs is full of warmth and conversation. The tables look like a gourmet buffet, an intentional balanced meal of starters, soups, and salads and plenty of hearty main dishes.

There’s an element of competitive derring-do. No one wants to look bad.

You want your dish to be popular.

Olivia Gunn and Meaghan Maurice bring cheese, bread, and flowers, the classic “there was a Rosemont on the way” offering. Mary Pols plunks a heap of fresh wild Snow Island Oysters on the counter, some as big as a fist, grown by Quahog Bay Conservancy in Harpswell, purchased at Gurnet Trading in Brunswick. She starts shucking them into a plate of ice, with a mignonette alongside, as Dan Abbott flourishes his wife Monica Wood’s signature Deviled Eggs with an air of marital pride.

Two beautiful soups arrive, a Creole Callaloo Soup that Rick and Barb Russo have made (“The recipe calls for crab, but I always substitute shrimp,” Rick says, “and warning, it’s got a kick,” so I dive right in), and an equally piquant Orzo and Andouille Soup courtesy of Ari and Breana Gersen. There are two complementary salads, a Shrimp and Artichoke Vinaigrette from Allison and Lincoln Paine, and a Citrus Kate’s Hoppin’ John

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Salad with Cardamom Honey from Desi van Til and Sean Mewshaw. As Desi puts it, “It’s vaguely Moroccan, full of the vitamin C we need in winter, and oh so pretty.”

Yes indeed.

“Why is it always the same damn people at these writer parties?” my friend Bill Lundgren mock-grouses as he arrives.

“They’re called our friends, Bill,” I tell him, and we both laugh.

I’m sensing a theme here (besides local literati), and it’s Southern/Mediterranean, full of spice, citrus, sausage, and seafood.

For the mains, besides my Braised Cabbage and Hoppin’ John (which I set out with a few bottles of Frank’s hot sauce), there’s Bill’s pot of rich, fragrant lentils, decidedly not the 1970s hippie mush of my youth.

I’m happy to see Ron Currie and Lisa Prosienski’s classic Tamale Pie, which warms my Arizona-bred heart. Ron confesses that he researched the perfect potluck dish, and this is what he came up with. One bite and

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ing potlucks—namely, that you should provide a protein and a green—I go to the South Portland Hannaford to stock up on ingredients. I’ve decided to make a big pot of Hoppin’ John, that traditional good luck Southern New Year’s dish, with black-eyed peas, golden Carolina rice, and Andouille sausage. It feels appropriate—the year is still fairly new, after all—and it confers a literal meaning on the “luck” in the party’s name. Also, it’s a hearty, nourishing, savory one-pot meal that feeds a crowd and is delicious for days afterward.

For the greens, I make Braised Savoy Cabbage, which tastes like sophisticatedbut-homey haute cuisine. It’s an addictive alchemy of sauce-coated, velvety leaves but has only five ingredients besides cabbage, salt, and pepper: Dijon mustard, apple cider vinegar, chicken broth, olive oil, and onion.

I’m transported back to the Southwest. And Rachael and Seth Harkness have made a luscious chicken dish with oranges and fennel from an Ottolenghi cookbook. “You can actually eat the oranges,” Rachael says proudly. And I do—more vitamin C.

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A couple of hours in, I find myself on a chair in my own living room with my second plateful of food, talking to a few friends between bites. Our dog, Angus, circulates among the crowd, trolling for freebies and dropped bits. Brendan’s in the kitchen, wrestling to open the last oyster, a gigantic Pandora’s Box of a monster, and talking to another group of friends. Over the animated discussion of recipes and decision making, I get the sense that we’re all satisfied, except for the usual heartfelt complaints about parking on the West End. The thing about a potluck, I realize as I fork another delicious bite into my mouth, is that people tend to bring their A-game. There’s an element of competitive derring-do. No one wants to look bad. You want your dish to be popular.

As the night winds down, Desi turns on the oven and puts her dessert in to warm— a Panettone Eggnog Bread Pudding. Portions are distributed. Bites are taken. Eyelids flutter and groans of joy are heard. It’s that good.

Another rule of thumb for throwing a potluck is that everyone takes home what they brought. After the last guest departs around midnight, all we have to do is stack the disposable dishes in the recycling bin, shake out the tablecloths, put away our own leftovers, and move all the furniture back to the proper spots.

We awaken the next morning to a clean house and a full fridge, with the happy glow of a successful party, along with the conviction that it’s time for potlucks to enjoy a new heyday. We’re going to throw another one this summer, we decide over leftover Hoppin’ John with a fried egg on top and a hearty sprinkling of Frank’s. We’re already wondering what everyone will bring. n Kate Christensen is the author seven novels, including The Great Man, which won the 2008 PEN/Faulkner Award for fiction, and The Last Cruise. She’s written two food-centric memoirs, Blue Plate Special and How to Cook a Moose, which won the 2016 Maine Literary Award for Memoir. She lives with her husband in Portland.

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A Savage Crescendo This 1890 Northeast Harbor cottage stuns with the art of cloak and reveal.

aves carry music and memory. Harold Randolph was just 29 years old when he commissioned architect Fred Savage to design Northeast Harbor’s “Fermata,” which denotes a break in a piece of music. Virtuoso pianist Randolph was a master of such dramatic silences. On December 20, 1902, he swept the audience away at Boston Symphony with his rendition of Tschaikowsky’s Pianoforte Concerto No. 1, in B-flat minor.

Imagine being there: “Have you seen his ‘Fermata’ in Maine?” a concertgoer whispers.

“I haven’t just seen it,” her friend replies behind her fan. “I’ve had the tour.”

CONTEMPLATE, CELEBRATE Now you can, too. Fermata is on the market for $4.3M. The mansion is quiet as you approach it from the street. But when visitors enter 65 Harborside Road for a social

gathering, the music gathers and booms on the shore.

“The understated exterior presentation doesn’t ‘tip the hat’ to what lies beyond the front door,” says local architect Gregory Scott. “The use of the jerkin-head dormer further diminishes the apparent height and pretense of a large cottage beyond.” It also keeps the house neatly tucked in, safe from the harbor’s high winds.

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alk about prelude to a thrill. “The strategy of ‘cover and reveal’ is what we refer to as ‘compression and expansion.’ It’s an old design technique–the ceiling height expands by either stepping down several risers or raising the ceiling several feet,” Scott says. “Fermata does the former very successfully—stepping down into the space… providing clarity and unobstructed views to the harbor beyond”

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First a tennis star, then a yacht designer.

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erched on 21 soaring acres with 1,110 feet of jaw-dropping views of Gilkey Harbor Bay, the Sears Cottage on Islesboro was designed in 1908 by society architect Guy Lowell for tennis star Richard D. Sears, a Harvard grad who won seven consecutive national singles championships from 1881-1887 and was in the first wave of Americans to play at Wimbledon, in 1884. When Sears passed away, another celebrity sportsman sailed in: Frank Cabot Paine of America’s Cup fame. through windows and vertical echelons of porches: “A perfect and powerful setting for any and all human emotion; from contemplation to celebration and everything in-between.”

Two kitchens, seven bedrooms, and seven baths spell luxury. A treetop bald eagles’ nest at window level puts wildlife theater on stage. A soaring granite fireplace enchants, while the salon engages the sea with such immediacy it leaves you breathless.

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HOLDING COURT In Maine, the Sears Cottage was the talk of the island as it took shape with a carriage house and stable, billiard house, reading room, staff quarters, private pond, walls of roses, and long deepwater dock—amenities still present today, according to LandVest, the listing firm asking $8.975M. Sears must have specified a pantheon in the wilderness, because that’s what Guy Lowell served up at 135 West Shore Drive. Pillars, terraces, pergolas, awnings,

and a stucco façade completed the illusion fitting for a Mayflower descendant and grandson of U.S. Senator David Sears, who personally developed the lion’s share of Brookline, Massachusetts.

LAUNCHING A NEW LEGACY In April, 1943, Richard died. In 1944, his wife, Eleanor Cochrane Sears, sold the ninebedroom, 9,896-square-foot Renaissance Revival mansion to another proper Bostonian—yachtsman Paine, who owned and designed many America’s Cup defenders.

Loveliest of these vessels was perhaps the J-Class Yankee, shown right during her launch in 1930.

YOUR TURN AT THE WHEEL Today, eleven fireplaces still warm this yare home. The kitchen with slate fireplace is in museum-quality condition. The tall cabinets in the butler’s pantry whisk visitors back to another time.

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ne can do worse than be a sweeper of sea stairs.” It’s hardly work when Margaret Smith takes visitors to see 48 Wild Bay Lane on Deer Isle, built in 2010. [See our front cover.] Giants must have arranged the enormous granite stones just-so to seduce visitors in a descent to the sea.

gENIUS LOCI Materially and sensually, the entire inspiration behind this $4.995M estate seems to grow from Stonescape’s staggering resource of natural Deer Isle granite. “The lower part of the house [designed by Elliott and Elliot] is clad in Deer Island granite,” Smith says.

Also providing wow factor is “landscape architecture by Bruce John Riddell.”

In a retreat with storybook beauty, you’ve got to have a library. This one’s detailed with outstanding craftsmanship. “The dining room has striking views of islands and endless ocean waves. The outside patio has a custom stone pizza oven, as well as an

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$4.995M in-ground stone jacuzzi, all overlooking Penobscot Bay.” The main house has “three bedrooms, three full baths, and two powder rooms.

The interior is finished with extensive wainscoting and custom molding in fir.” Standout features: “a custom-built stone fireplace, an elevator, built-ins, and audio and lighting systems.” The guest house boasts its own fireplace and two more bedrooms.

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145 Eden Street, Bar Harbor; $15.5M This Mediterranean mansion—stucco walls, Ionic columns, and a red tile roof—dazzles against a Yankee seascape. East of Eden is a waterfront Italian villa designed by architect Guy Lowell in 1910 for Walter Ladd, an insurance broker who’d married into money. His father-in-law, Josiah Macy, was New York’s first oil refiner. One side faces the woods lining Acadia National Park, shielding the estate. The other three expose the bay, offering dramatic views of Mount Desert Narrows. Watch boats pass from the terrace overlooking the ocean.

The estate’s interior rivals its exterior in opulence—enormous columns, polished marble floors, and a 14-foot vaulted ceiling. Not to miss: the T.R. Mantey mural painted across from an enormous, arched window, mirroring the window’s framed ocean vista.

The seller, William B. Ruger Jr., former CEO of Sturm, Ruger & Co., passed away in September 2018. His father, William B. Ruger, founded the firearms company with Alexander McCormick Sturm in 1949. [See “East of Eden,” October 2017.] Status: No price change.

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$129,900, Robbinston his part of the world has that coastal Route 1 feel,” agent Jessie Howard says of this 1930 seaside home. It’s so safe a haven that Robbinston, population: 504, is one of the Maine towns listed in Victor H. Green’s 1956 edition of The Negro Travelers’ Green Book [see “Pier Review,” November 2013]. The now-shuttered Brooks Bluff Cottages, recommended in the Green Book, is a mere two-minute drive from this stunning bargain cottage with open views of St. Andrews. So close to the border with Canada, the only traffic up here comes from traveling boats. “There are a lot of lobster fishermen, mostly going downstream,” Howard says. “They dock right at Robbinston Public Boat Landing.

The selling couple would often walk the beach to buy lobsters off the boat.”

their grandchildren,” Howard says, “they’d likely stay.”

If you’re a fan of friendly people, jawdropping beauty, and getting first pick of the world’s fresh seafood supply, this coastal gem could be your forever seaside vacation. Taxes: $1,453; 607 US Route 1, Robbinston.

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The sellers spent much of their time renovating the property, bringing their coastal inspirations indoors. Painted white walls with wood accents make for what Howard calls a very “cottage” interior. A rustic arched opening connects the kitchen and living area, and slanted wooden ceilings add a warmth to the upstairs bedrooms.

“If it weren’t for the distance this location poses between the current owners and

$209,000, Deer Isle Twenty-four Fife Drive in Deer Isle sits on the water’s edge of Greenlaw Cove, a legendary canoe route used as a “superhighway” for the People of the Dawn, according to anthropologist William Haviland.

“Greenlaw Cove was a branch of the Deer Isle canoe route that connected with the Walker’s Pond-Bagaduce route to Castine,” Haviland says. “It was in use for about 3,000 years by the Etchemin Indians and their ancestors, not to mention their deFebruary/march 2019 43

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scendants, who with their Abenaki allies became known as Penobscots. They continued to use this canoe route well into the 20th century.” What better place to put your paddle in the water?

“Greenlaw Cove was in use for about 3,000 years by the Etchemin Indians and their ancestors…”

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love the location of this sweet cottage,” agent Cindi Eaton says, “It’s truly a rustic Maine getaway and a dream spot for families and kids to explore.”

The coast is reflected in what Eaton calls a “rustic and eclectic interior”—with rope spools for tables and driftwood logs for seating.

Peter and Valerie Fife have owned the property for over 30 years, decorating it along the way with personal beach treasures. The family spent many summer days clamming, swimming, and paddling— memories they cherish.

The property is a short distance away from Nervous Nellie’s Jams and Jellies, Haystack Mountain School of Crafts, and Deer Isle Village. Island Heritage Trust’s Tennis Preserve is within four miles and offers even more outdoor adventure. With 7.8 acres of land, the possibilities are endless. Taxes: $1,770; 24 Fife Drive, Deer Isle.

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sun spills into the windows. Current sellers called this their “waterfront gem.”

“The house is elevated with a significant drop, which makes the view exceptional,” Nicole Ball at Better Homes and Garden Real Estate says. “Lots of sunlight, moonlight, and 155 feet of waterfront.”

Built in 1977, the property has held more

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$210,000, Whiting In Maine we don’t have to choose between sprawling fields, wooded trails, or cliffbound coves. We’ve got the best of all three, and the ranch-style home at 1029 Cutler Road in East Machias is a testament to that. The home is listed at $210K and nestled in the coastal community of Holme’s Bay. Views of the bay glow as the morning

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than one family and works as a year-round or summer rental home. The current seller acquired the property in 2007 and claims that the view is what grabbed her. “The lighthouse, the island, and the red slow blink of the tower lights at night, as well as the tide changes, shorebirds, and the wild blueberries all speak for themselves.”

Imagine yourself eating breakfast cozied in your dining nook. Better yet, bask in the sunlight on the deck, gin and tonic in hand as you gaze across the bay at

Sprague’s Neck. Take a walk to a nearby blueberry field or down the bay to the boat launch, where clammers are hard at work. Gardner Lake boasts some great salmon fishing, but you’ll need to work the locals for those spots.

Taxes: $2,099; 1029 Cutler Road, Whiting

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$225,000, Cutler “It’s a light, bright, pretty home with terrific views of the ocean,” Nicole Ball says of 105 Ackley Road in Cutler. This four-acre property, cradled by sloped pastures and crowned with crisp green pines, has a lawn that could host two houses. But who wants to share?

The seller—whose last name was Ackler before marriage—had the house built by the late Victor Berry in 2001 on inherited land that has been in her family since before the Revolutionary War. Berry was a highly sought-after builder who supervised the construction of Washington County Jail and Courthouse and the library at the University of Maine.

The home boasts 412 feet of waterfront, a public paved road, and easy access to town–the perfect mix of quiet solitude and happy locals. The best company? Deer, turkey, and foxes are regular visitors.

The potential for the interior is even better—it’s a blank canvas. “The second floor isn’t shown, because it isn’t finished,” Ball says. “But it’s insulated and ready to be completed.” With a little bit of elbow grease and an eye for design, this steps-from-the-water home is just a step away from being yours.

Taxes: $4,938; 105 Ackley Road, Cutler.

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$187,500, Perry our tires rumble up the road as you pull into a long, wooded driveway. Up ahead, bundled in 3.9 acres of Perry woodlands on the shore of Half Moon Cove in Cobscook Bay, sits a gambrel-style cottage.

“Sandra Pottle had the house built in 1990,” agent Kevin Raye says. “It was built by her brother-in-law Roy Pottle, a respected local builder.” The gambrel roof is a signature Pottle touch. “He used rugged lumber cut at his own sawmill in the neighboring town of Pembroke. Roy’s son, Tommy Pottle, runs that sawmill today.”

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Mostly used as a summer home, this threebedroom, two-bath cottage is fully winterized. With a detached two-car garage, you don’t even have to hassle with winter morning snow scraping. Talk about bougie.

Wait until you see the cottage interior. “Cedar and pine, including beautiful wide pine board floors, lend a rustic feel throughout the house,” Raye says. “The kitchen and dining area open to the main living area, while an all-season insulated porch [boasts] views of the water. It serves as a second living room.”

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O u t There Lauren Bacall went to summer camp on Lake Sebago. We cannot confirm if that’s where she was taught to whistle.

As she says to Humphrey Bogart in the movie To Have and Have Not, “You know how to whistle, don’t you, Steve? Just put your lips together and blow.”

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Be amazed by who got their start among the whispering pines of Maine’s Summer Camps.

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For a touch of Camelot, think of JFK Jr., who discovered himself when he went to Outward Bound in 1977.

We’re sure your camp was cool, but did it have a real prince at it? Thai Prince Mom Tri Devakul went to Camp Chewonki in Wiscasset in 1954—on his way to becoming a world-class architect.

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Camp Wigwam for boys est. 1910

courtesy photos; sources and resources include: maine camp experience and summercampculture.com

A traditional summer camp in Southwestern Maine. 4, 5, and 7 week sessions Emphasis on sports, creative arts, camping in the foothills of the White Mts.

Bacall as she remembers her childhood at Highland Nature Camp in Naples, on Sebago Lake. Now called Mataponi, this camp still exists! “I loved to swim,” she says in her autobiography By Myself and Then Some. “There was a rule that in order to swim from the dock out to the raft, one had to pass a test. I can see the test morning now. A group of small girls waiting their turns. I didn’t know how I was going to do it, but after two years of swimming near the dock I was ready to move on. The girl before me was taking her test. She had a lovely stroke, and there was no question that she would pass. I watched her very carefully to see when she breathed—how she turned her head—kicked her feet. I was next.

I went down the ladder and proceeded to do exactly what she had done. Miraculously, it worked—I had won and it was the raft from then on. One step away from childhood.”

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n the great indoors, “there were weekly dramatic programs—sometimes plays, sometimes musical recitals, dances. I clearly remember doing a scarf dance my last year at Highland Nature. I felt as though I were really performing—I was so grownup. Had the stage all to myself. I really felt good—the music was romantic, and I loved to dance.

“And I was in plays—in one I pulled my long hair back in a bun to look like Ann Harding. There were campfires—roasting marshmallows—overnight canoe trips— sleeping under the stars—skinny-dips before

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Star Trek’s Leonard Nimoy steeled his icy reserve by having to jump into the frigid waters of Long Pond in Parsonsfield at West End House Camp. Years later, Red Sox guru Theo Epstein would test the same waters.

You’d think that J.D. Salinger would be hard to get to know at summer camp. Nothing of the kind! Nobody can get away with being a recluse at Camp Wigwam, on Bear Pond in Waterford. We all know him as the author of The Catcher in the Rye and Franny and Zoey, but Hapworth 16 is an awesome rant by the narrator Seymour Glass, just seven years old, written from his summer camp in you-know-where.

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We were driving the coast, so to speak, I think maybe in a station wagon. He fell in love with wherever we went, and now he’d fallen in love with Maine. We talked excitedly in the car. We were looking for a house on the water. We did examine the place! We kept driving north along the water until I don’t really remember the name of the town.

We went quite a ways up, actually, because it was so beautiful. To John, each place was more beautiful than the last."

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breakfast in the cold, clean lake. I suppose those years were as close to carefree as I had known or ever would again.”

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A Calculated Blend of STEM Learning and Traditional Summer Camp Fun Join us for our 22nd year of hands-on interactive classes exploring science, technology, engineering, and mathematics.

Learn STEM topics in classes such as Rubik’s Cube, LEGO® Robotics, Rocketry, 3D Printing, Building Catapults, and Calculus in a Week.

Then have fun while meeting like-minded new friends and doing afternoon activities like rock climbing, S’mores by the campfire, Monster Night, and our classic 100-foot MEGA waterslide.

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• 2 or 4 week sessions in July.

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• Limited enrollment of 100 campers- lots of personal attention.

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Maine—fountain of deception and switched identities! Thank heaven for little girls. No, that’s a different Maine camper, Alan Jay Lerner (Gigi) Do you think “If Ever I Would Leave You” started writing itself as a result of a broken Maine camp romance?

The reason Charlotte in Sex and the City went to summer camp in Maine is entirely due to executive producer Jenny Bicks, who grew up spending summers in Castine. “We landed in Castine when I was around two.

• 1-Week Sessions throughout the summer!

• Full-day camp for ages 9–16 year olds • Half-day camp for 7–13 year olds (9:00 A.M.–12:30 P.M.) • Starting June 20th!

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We have something for almost every junior whether they are 5 or 18…

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Maine Arts Camp is a small, inclusive camp community, led by experienced, professional instructors and mature dorm counselors, with a 3:1 camper/staff ratio. Outstanding facilities at beautiful Colby College include several art studios, a theater, two dance studios, a full commercial kitchen for cooking programs, tennis courts, a photography studio, and much more!

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Experience all Nashoba North and Crescent Lake have to offer.

Traditional Sleepaway and Day Programs.

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Sailing · Windsurfing · Waterskiing · Wakeboarding Experience all Nashoba North and Crescent have to offer.

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Climbing is just the beginning.

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My aunt’s mother had a house on the harbor, and we’ve been there ever since. I got to spend every summer there, which was magical. I was the city kid–grew up in Manhattan–who got a chance to spend three months in this magical town. I had all my formative experiences there.”

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Waterville cameos in David Wain’s Wet Hot American Summer starring Amy Poehler, Paul Rudd, and Janeane Garofalo.

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itto for Claire Danes, Si Newhouse, Lena Dunham, and Ben Stiller, who has fond memories of Freedom’s Hidden Valley Camp. He tells W Magazine, it’s there he had his first kiss. “It was under a tree. I remember thinking it was very romantic and cool and just like charged, which most first kisses I would imagine are. I was at camp, and I was kind of homesick. And I actually remember my father had come up to the camp because I was saying I wanted to go. And then I met the girl, and then I was like, ‘Dad, get out of here. Get out of here.’” There’s something about Maine.

Thoughtful W. E. B. DuBois spent summers up here too; at the Cambridge Gun and Rod Club on the shores of Lake Cobbosseecontee [see “The W.E.B. DuBois Files,” Summerguide 2001 at portlandmonthly.com].

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The University of Maine offers a wide variety of courses and youth programs in the summer. More information is online:

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aggie Rogers was so influenced by her summer camp experience here that she used her old camp, Wohelo, as the setting for the music video of her song “Dog Years.” Visit YouTube to see the video shot on site, or see her IRL at the State Theatre, March 23.

It’s wonderful waking up in the place of someone else’s childhood dreams. On the other hand, exoticizing anything or anybody is the first step toward dismissing them. Want a reality check? More than a few Native Americans grew up way ahead of this trend. We’re not just sylvan lakes and pine trees baby. News flash to wistful former campers: Maine’s grown up, too. But still: tell us about your celebrity campers. n

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Closer to Nature

One can do worse than be a sleeper in birches. Diane Cole-Ross ships her Adirondack creations “to designers to install for others. I’ve been climbing around in trees since I was a little kid. It’s like sleeping in your own personal treehouse. Maine is beautiful–I’m from Montana, [but] I’ve been to Portland. I think there’s a resurgence of looking at things a little rougher. It is rustic–it still has an element of the wild of it.”

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Say you live in a minimalist modern glass entertaining space—clean lines, cool angles, vast windows. A blank slate. What single touch can you add to show your love for the Pine Tree State?

When you see a pair of Maine hunting shoes on a boot rack in the mud room, it’s a sure sign you’re in Brooklyn. Or Tokyo. Not necessarily Maine, because L.L. Bean is universal. L.L. Bean has reached the stars. But down here, on the decorating front, you’re looking for something sensational but different to ground your living spaces. (Naturally, you’d start by snapping up a copy PortlandDesign Monthly and putting it on your coffee taVintageofAndersen piece ble. When Murder Shethe Wrote started, they did exavailable from collectors all over actlyThis thatone to add that certain fragrance of pine United States. came to shore Cabot sets.) from eBaytoastheir a bargain forCove $20.40 inWe’ve asked six decorators to venture a cluding shipping single contemporary accent that’s available for purchase that will bring your design home to Maine. The assumption is, everything else in your space is 21st century, open concept. What single object of art, furniture, cuisine, landscape, or technology might you choose as the ultimate statement/ conversation piece?

“I think something as small as a throw from Brahms Mount,” Penelope Daborn, owner of Penelope Daborn Interiors says. “The colors are saturated, and the weave is soft, so it’s a

$324 tactile and visual boost to the room.”

Intimate distances “Definitely, it would be a beautiful piece of art by a Maine artist,” says Laura Gall of Spaces by LLG. “Artwork can be the finishing touch to our work or become the launching pad to our whole house designs. Art can provide a space with depth, texture, and color, as well as evoke emotion.”

At the high end, you can guarantee impact with a statement piece by Robert Indiana. The thing is, a bauble like Orb might run you $250K. But what a way to channel the waterfront—with Orb’s rough textures and celestial undertones.

“As a designer, my job Phoebe Porteous is to create a space that $1,200 speaks to my clients Metal print and tells their story,” Gall says. “A beautiful painting is certainly one of my tools to help transform a house into a home. Personally, two of my favorite Maine artists are Phoebe Porteous and Lea Peterson.”

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id proof that the Roosevelts engaged with the local culture—a perfect touch.

er rock fireplace, just because it feels right.”

Outside in At Campobello, the Roosevelts decorated with classical restraint. But visitors love the handmade sweetgrass First Nation baskets in some of the powder rooms. Says Kate Johnston of this extraordinary touch: “Every single item in the cottage is there for a reason.” The bewitching baskets were viv-

From Land to sea “I think that Alison Evans’s pottery is quintessentially Maine,” says Celia St. Onge of Celia Bedilia Designs. “The Oyster Series coffee table bowl would be my must-have Maine touch. It retails for $410.

It serves as a sculptural centerpiece on any table.”

But let’s remember, there’s more to Maine than meets the Route 1 voyeur’s eye.

Designer Jeanne Handy agrees. “I understand that for some folks the rocky coast

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Kennebunk’s Wedding Cake House has fallen on difficult times.

As this local celebrity free falls into a state of emergency, who are the stakeholders?

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or over a century, the Wedding Cake House was touted as “the most photographed house in Maine,” according to New York’s Compass American Guide. But the distinctive hand-carved frosting gilding this homage to the Duomo di Milano appears on the verge of collapse.

She is welcoming no admirers now. The mansion at 104 Summer Street discourages visitors with a “No Trespassing” sign and appears vacant. talk of the town “It’s been completely unoccupied for a year and a half, in a terrible state of disrepair,” says Hana Pevny, owner of the Waldo Emerson Inn next door.

“It certainly needs some love,” says Julie Larry of Greater Portland Landmarks.

Sarah Hansen of Maine Preservation says members are concerned for the beloved attraction’s future. “Its complex estate ownership issues seem to have led to its current state.”

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Hollywoodland “It was 1954,” and Jimmy Barker “was a

young man just back from the Korean War,” wrote Laura Dolce for Seacoast Online in 2010. “A Kentucky native, [he] had traveled to spend a week that August with artist Channing Hare. At a cocktail party given by Hare and attended by film actress Claudette Colbert [Oscar winner for It Happened One Night, with Clark Gable], the artist talked about a house he had been trying to buy for five years. So the next day, Hare brought Colbert and Barker to ‘the Wedding Cake House.’”

It was love at first sight. The 1815 structure on the Kennebunk River had been “given to George Washington Bourne by his parents, as a wedding present.” That’s how [it came] to be known as the Wedding Cake House.” Dolce, now the executive director of the Kennebunk, Kennebunkport, Arundel Chamber of Commerce, described a photo she saw in the library: “…A young Barker stands with Hare and Colbert, not knowing that while Hare would never own the home, someday it would be his.”

It was meant to be In 1998, the house was listed for $699K. Barker

purchased it for $650,000 that November, according to town records.

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oo much,” some observers murmured. “Its upkeep will be its downfall.” But Barker, who had owned successful galleries in Palm Beach, Nantucket, and Manhattan, was a match made in heaven. He filled the Wedding Cake House with hundreds of antiques and pieces of art, many signed Channing Hare.

The End of an Era After a sunny, joyful decade of memorable summers where Barker flung open the doors to welcome visitors, tragedy struck.

In 2008, Barker survived a deadly fire that gutted his $2.5M Palm Beach mansion and took the life of his friend and caretaker, James Heyman. “In the moments after the fire was out, the home’s 80-year-old owner tried to rush into the house despite being ordered to stay in a safe area,” according to South Florida’s Sun Sentinel.

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The ruins were torn down. New owners built a mansion on the site and sold it for $7.5M. Barker later moved into Juno Mobile Home Park in Palm Beach. We have been unable to reach him.

Crossroads o what’s next for the Wedding Cake House?

“That’s what we’re trying to figure out,” Barker’s nephew, Hunt Edwards, says by telephone. “Uncle Jimmy’s partner died a year or so ago, might be a little more, and they’re finishing all the estate stuff. When they do, Uncle Jimmy will be the sole owner of the house.”

Will it stay in the family or open to the public?

“It won’t be open for tours this summer, I can tell you that. We’re certainly discussing all that stuff.”

“To be preserved, the way it is, it would most likely have to turn into some kind of public landmark or a business like a bed and breakfast or a wedding venue,” Cynthia Walker of Kennebunk’s Brick Store Museum says. “Simply because of the cost of upkeep of a place like that.”

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Someone left the cake out in the rain hatever its future, there are matters of alarming deferred maintenance. The back veranda overlooking the river is buckled and sagging, and an outbuilding has collapsed. The magnificent gothic exterior trim around the entire house has all but dissolved. Tom Joyal, architectural salvage expert and former owner of The Old House Parts Co., muses about the cost of repairing the gingerbread trim. “Oh my gosh. I’ve thought about it, believe me. [The carvings are] probably just a template now. I don’t think there’s much there worth saving. I haven’t touched it, but it just looks a bit rough. It would be just a guess. I could easily see $1M being spent there. When you drive by, you see signs of algae, telltale signs of serious rot going on.”

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vanishin g m a i n e [as she knew it, was] filled with interesting pieces with their own stories—a sketch of Jimmy as a young man, done by an artist one summer in Ogunquit; a piece by [Norman] Rockwell, with a tale about visiting the artist’s studio.” Jimmy has such a generous spirit. “After Hurricane Katrina, Jimmy held a fundraiser, and they raised around $40K by offering tours.” It was a huge success. Everyone cherished the landmark and gave directions by it, as in ‘Go half a mile past the Wedding Cake House.’ “Rarely a day [went] by without visitors posing for photos out front.”

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ut nobody’s posing out front now.

Recently, “We offered to organize and do tours for him with the idea that the money would go back into the house,” Dolce says. “We weren’t able to get everyone involved to agree.”

Residents, historians, and visitors are in agreement that something must be done quickly. We hope our children and children’s children will see what love can inspire. n

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Vinho Verde is the perfect pairing with cod dishes.

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ot long ago, when one mentioned Vinho Verde, images of a slightly frizzante glass of white wine came to mind. There are still many examples of this type produced, but over the last few years, wineries have upped their game.

Today we’re seeing (and drinking) some top quality, non-spritzy Vinho Verde.

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Made for Each Other Vinho Verde is great sipping on its own, but if you’re looking for an affordable white wine (under $20) that complements most any seafood dish, it’s a perfect pairing. The surging popularity of cod dishes in New England cuisine celebrates the Portuguese seafaring tradition. Close your eyes and dream of Bacalhau à Gomes de Sá: salt cod, potatoes, and onions. Vinho Verde is a magic companion on such a voyage.

In fact, these wines have been described as “a breeze.” Transform your dining experiences with the Muralhas de Monção and the Las Lilas Vinho Verde. With touches of green apples and lemons, the Muralhas is medium-bodied with a lingering finish. Las Lilas offers aromas of white peaches and flowers. It’s lightbodied with crisp acidity. n

P o rt u g u e s e You might be familiar with Albarino (different spelling but essentially the same grape) from northern Spain. It produces a white wine that’s a bit richer in style than its Portuguese counterpart. Alvarinho displays tropical aromas and a lemony character high in acidity. Loureiro is more floral but also acidic.

Tudo Bem The Vinho Verde wine region in northern Portugal starts right below the Spanish border. It extends all the way to the Atlantic Ocean, where it meets with the city of Porto.

Most Vinho Verde is a blend of white grapes native to Portugal, but there are two predominant grapes that winemakers love to focus on— Alvarinho and Loureiro.

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V ivi d vo l u m e s Among its mystery and mystique, French is part of Maine’s DNA.

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see myself as a citizen of the state of Maine. I was born and grew up in Waterville. I did a tour of duty when the family moved to a small-operation chicken farm—broilers, 16,700 chicks—for a year in Detroit, Maine. It’s an experience I count among many that had a deep formation influence on my adult self. Then I lived in Bangor, Portland, Presque Isle, and now Brewer. I have a camp in Rome, Maine…the Belgrade Lakes. Sigh. Golden Pond territory. Taking it deeper, my maman, was from Wallagrass, in the Fort Kent area, where half of my family is buried. The homestead is still in the family’s possession.

Lost in Translation So where’s my special section in the bookstore? Where’s my Maine? I live in French Maine, not the Yankee “Downeast,” “Ayuh, can’t get there from heah,” Maine. For me,

Voices and I speak from experience, the state of Maine is French heritage territory.

Over the last few months, the Portland Museum of Art has been hunting for objects that tell Maine’s stories. Some will be showcased in an exhibit celebrating Maine’s bicentennial. This call got me to thinking: which objects tell the story of the French heritage culture of Maine?

Traces French Maine is like a sub-floor or basement existence. It doesn’t always come up on the radar, but trust me, it’s a defining force in the landscape and population. In any bookstore in Maine, I should be able to find a section dedicated to the French heritage, authors, and history—much like other Maine-centric sections exist. The legend or folklore of Maine should include the French presence. But when one thinks of Maine— lobsters, lighthouses, and Longfellow come to mind. We can provisionally credit Longfellow with Evangeline. But where’s the section that reflects the French heritage?

Consider why there’s an absence of the French, and you’ll discover it’s an era-

sure. Of course, there are French heritage mondes in the state of Maine where it all happens in French. In so many locales, even if it’s in English, it’s still in French. I hear it in the accents of the speech patterns when I travel the state.

Outside the Lines It’s silly discussing a Maine mystique that isn’t inclusive. It’s important to recognize the French, not as a gentrified market force, but for themselves as residents for generations of this state.

There’s danger in “redefining” the French.

It occurs when the mainstream appropriates the French heritage into its world view. It happens when a rotating dozen or so topics assumed to be ‘representative’ of French culture are repeated again and again. Some topics are so worn out they speak for themselves and need no further interpretation.

Stop that. Stop trying to squeeze the definition of what it means to be French in Maine into the size of a tourtière pie.

Be alive and modern in the world. Know the diversity that is here—French and from Maine—for generations past and to come. n

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Dining Guide Benkay sushi bar and Japanese restaurant is back! At our new location on 16 Middle Street, 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.

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No more arguing about food style when you come to Bistro 233—we have it all! Fun, laid-back environment. 233 U.S. 1 Yarmouth. 846-3633, bistro233.com.

BlueFin North Atlantic Seafood in the heart of the Old Port offers the quintessential Maine dining experience. Executive Chef Gil Plaster creates classic, contemporary dishes using fresh, locally-caught seafood and seasonal ingredients. Enjoy breakfast, lunch, dinner or your favorite cocktail in comfortable elegance or find a table out on the patio by the fire pit. 468 Fore Street 775-9090. bluefinportland.com Boone’s Fish House & Oyster Room menu teems with native seafood like fresh Maine lobster steamed over rockweed, a variety of oysters and woodgrilled fish, as well as steaks and chops.

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Poetic Tastes Portuguese “glories shine” at a bold new venture anchored in Bath.

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ike kids in a candy store, we explore the nooks and crannies at No Coward Soul. We spy a dozen comfy corners where we might alight to savor our friendship and a fine meal.

Johnny Lomba, a former owner of The Skinny and LFK in Portland, pilots us through his new digs in Bath, his hometown. “This building housed Front Street Deli, where us kids would come and hang out and have sodas after school.”

“No Coward Soul” is an Emily Brontë poem, but it’s Dickinson’s “Tell all the truth but tell it slant” that’s inlaid with typewriter keys on the lacquered bar, a Lomba touch.

It brings to mind a similar design at LFK, which showcases Dickinson’s “After great pain, a formal feeling comes.” Though he’d originally planned to name the restaurant after a Dickinson poem, Lomba discovered the Brontë was actually read at Dickinson’s funeral. “It has a stirring feel to it,” Lomba says. “There’s strength in it.”

All Shook Up Paintings, photographs, tintypes, and a velvet Elvis wake up the walls—all from Lomba’s collection. A colorful piece draws us in. “Oh, that’s my uncle’s,” Lomba says. “He traded in antiques but decided he needed more money, so he took up painting. Sold a bunch.” Next,

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a unique portrait directs diners to the restrooms. “Right there, by Burl Ives.”

We sit beneath a sumptuous Patrick Corrigan likeness of Captain Blythe of Longfellow’s “My Lost Youth” fame. How appropriate for “Ship City.”

Inspired by Lomba’s Portuguese side— his Aunt Djica’s cooking reigns supreme in his memories—the menu is straightforward and simple, much like the cuisine itself. We begin with Beggars Soup ($8), a gorgeous, translucent green from collards and cilantro. This hearty fare’s robust, so take heed if you wish to explore further.

The Mexilhao ($16) offers a great mound of mussels (PEI or Bangs Island) steamed in roasted garlic, tomatoes, and linguica. Endless quantities of sliced baguettes arrive for dipping into the benevolent broth.

Bons Sonhos Beer includes Banded, Oxbow, Rising Tide, Maine Beer Company, Bunker, and Northcoast. From an exclusively Portuguese wine list, Lomba recommends Locations #4 ($13/42). My friend finds her white— the Esporao, 2016 ($8/26). It’s particularly suited to her entree, the Piri Piri Chicken ($21). The quarter chicken satisfies–crispy skin, moist throughout. The smoky pepper rub punches with the right amount of heat, tempered by the creamy Faro. Dark green, locally-raised kale provides the finishing touch. My Garlic Nailed Steak ($26) is no less successful, cooked exactly to my “rare but not walking off my plate” request. Caramelized onions, tasty “smashed” potatoes (roasted red potatoes sprinkled with Romano cheese), and crispy kale complete the experience.

No coward souls are we, so don’t hesitate to order dessert. How can one say no to the Pastel De Nata ($6), a delightful egg custard tart? The Chocolate Salami ($6) is a celebration of chocolate, dried cranberries, shortbread cookies, pistachios, and Cointreau. A resounding “yes” to all, and we leave resolving to return very soon. n No Coward Soul, 128 Front St, Bath. Tues.-Thurs., 5-10 p.m.; Fri. 5-11 p.m., Sun. 4-8 p.m. 389-4567. ncsbath.com.

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Homage Restaurant dazzles with scratchmade, hand-crafted food and cocktails. Tuck into our mushroom tarts, Mom’s Fried Chicken, Steak “Wellington,” Steak and Scallops, Squash and Beans, Gingersnap Creme Brulee, or Blondie Sundae. 9 Mechanic St. Freeport, ME. 869-5139 homagetherestaurant.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 as one of “America’s Best Seafood Dives 2016.” 722-4828.

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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.

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Magnificent Absence Two different times struggle for the same space in “the Lake of the Woods.”

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t’s March 9, 1921. The British steamship Wandby has a date with destiny. She’s bound for Portland through a white fog, but she hasn’t sighted land since Algiers. Suddenly, the bridge watch echoes with, “Breakers ahead!” Blind to fortune, the freighter crashes into a lovely cove in Kennebunkport right beside Walker’s Point. At 11 knots.

Immediately across the street, in the same time/space continuum, another collision is happening 98 years later. A “modern” dwelling straight out of the Brady Bunch has made the mistake of crashing into 2019’s real estate market. Usually, it’s a good idea to consider saving a building. But this one, like the Wandby, is sadly a total loss.

Diving into the wreck

It’s so out of true “its doors are flapping,” the listing company says. Its porches are rotten and dangerous. Few will weep when

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the 1,700-square-foot structure is torn apart board by board and taken away. No one is presently living up here in this elevated lot with its unforgettable views of Wandby Cove. A side window is open, inviting intruders. Lonely but defiant, the chirp of a single neglected smoke alarm calls to the curious as they approach the front door.

“It used to be owned by a retired doctor in his nineties,” says builder Kevin Lord of Dr. Robert F. X. Gilday, 89, who bought the property in 1981. With partner Tim Harrington, Lord purchased the outmoded wreck with its dreamy lot “in July” of 2018 for $1.2M. Now, having discovered this site—”the house was invisible from the street”—Lord & Harrington LLC have had a new design created [chirp]

by Fiorentino Group Architects of Portsmouth, New Hampshire.

Dare to dream

Because the new design is a Shingle Style

marvel with a turret that is “nearly 5,000 square feet,” the proposal must “go before the Planning Board on February 20,” Lord says.

We step gingerly across the front porch and look at the magnificent absence of the Wandby. When the ship crashed, the sickening sound of metal gnashing against rock carried a reported three or four miles. Kennebunk schools closed so students could run to see history in the waves. [Chirp.]

What a spot for you and your loved one to eavesdrop on the world. Hearts’ memory summons a picture of Dr. Gilday and his wife, Judith, up here, toasting their good fortune. To the right is Walker’s Point. Further to the right are views of the beaches as they rush toward Mt. Agamenticus. It’s this singular lot, and not the house, that makes this location our “House of the Month.” Behind it is the old swampland known as “the Lake of the Woods.” You could “probably ice skate there because I believe it’s fresh water,” Lord says.

“It’s a gem of a site,” Lord says. “We’re calling it Sanctuary. The purchaser will get an approved house design. Central Maine Power is working on the engineering drawings to bury the telephone wires underground” to guarantee an even better view.

“The $2.5M price also includes a tie into town water. The price includes the house being demolished and taken away”— (roughly a $25K value). “I’ve gone fishing right out there,” he says of Wandby Cove, a difficult place to anchor. “I throw in a mackerel, and the stripers come!”

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House of the Month So what value has Lord added himself? “People don’t understand what you can do with a property like this if you abide by the proper channels,” he says. “The drive-under garage will be designed for three cars.” Meanwhile, the ghost of the Wandby may be part of the star-maker machine. “The brewery and distillery we have, Batson River, already has a Wandby beer… It’s a pale ale.”

Parts of the Wandby remain on the ocean floor, including rusted debris from the hull and a boiler, not far from Walker’s Point.

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s for who will buy the new house, “I was talking with President Bush 43 a couple of weeks ago about some repairs at Walker’s Point. Forty-three (former President George W. Bush) got the

Fiorentino Group Architects’ blueprint of the proposed house.

main house at Walker’s Point. Neil Bush owns the little ranch house nearest the cove [and nicknamed Wandby]. Jeb built a new house on the Point a few years ago. Doro has one, too.”

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Bush’s daughters, Jenna Bush Hager and her sister Barbara, homeless. [Chirp.] “Tim is close to the Bushes,” Lord says of his business partner. “There’s been some discussion about that! All they’d have to do is cross the street.” Taxes are $7,813. n

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aybe wrinkles crimp the corners of her eyes, starshaped like the feet of an opossum, and maybe she has crinkly hair like ramen noodles without the broth, eyes like empty lockets. Maybe she walks with the grace of a clawfooted bathtub, as obsolete as a phone booth or a mailbox, as she works the breakfast counter of the Eggery in this little ski town, the Eggery which used to be Walter Pierre’s where she worked the morning hours beginning at five a.m. as the graveyard shift men used to stumble in from the G.E. plant across the street and where once a drunk jumped the counter and chased her down its length until Walter grabbed him.

But she was younger then, still beautiful. Once a couple of college boys came in. As she poured their coffee, they discussed her plight as if she were deaf, not even minimum wage, working for tips, criminal really—as if there were tips at Walter Pierre’s before this little ski town became a ski town. The only tip she recalls ever coming from the car salesman who always ordered an English with peanut butter and left her a dime. Always the same—an English muffin and coffee.

Back when coffee was still coffee and not aspiring to be a milkshake.

The college boys drank cup after cup, discussing her as if she were a homework assignment in their Economics class somewhere at one of those haughty colleges nearby.

Economics. Back then a dime bought something. Not much but something, a phone call at least. And those college boys presuming to know her, assuming about her–they didn’t know this was just a summer job among other summer jobs as she worked her way through Economics class (the actual version, the

prerequisite for life) to pay for college. Which maybe made it more humiliating. Her first summer job at the Big N, she waited tables in the cafeteria in a college town far from this little ski town, where the manager taught her how to water the catsup, how to scoop hollow balls of ice cream. How much money could that really save? Pennies? Surely not dimes, even when dimes meant something. That was part of her education too—how to cheat people. But you cannot cheat time. Now there were no Big N’s or Ameses, or Caldors. It was all Walmart. If she stood still for just a flicker, the universe would be Walmart and even then not for long. That was how time worked.

You are no longer what you will become or you are what you will become, time arrested or not, just an inky fluid moving with or without you.

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Cannot predict now When she was younger, she believed in future tense, she believed in her daily horoscope, fortune tellers, card readers, dice throwers. So much to look forward to. This will happen. But no one ever went to a psychic to foresee she would marry a sheet-rocker (the best French Canadian sheet-rocker in the state, as he used to say), have two kids—which brought its own sort of joy maybe. But still. Her husband, gone now, but who for years would happily read his blood tests like he had achieved something, like he had crammed for his HDL, his LDL. Nonetheless, heart attack. And, yes, she loved him.

She loved him like she loved her kids.

Her kids, scattered now—like her thoughts, like her hair. Scattershot like the days eventually comprising a life, a life a scatteration of minutes. When you are running out of future, a fortune teller doesn’t pertain. And looking back, she knows the Magic 8 Ball never really tells you anything useful, even something time-worn like “Don’t put all your eggs in one basket.” Like “Don’t count your chickens before they’re hatched.” Once, when she still had a future, she kept a Magic 8 Ball on her desk, back when she was still teaching, back when she had questions like: will we buy a house, will my son make the team, will my daughter make honor roll.

Maybe she always knew the Magic 8 Ball was useless, that it could never warn her you will end your days working at the Eggery which once was Walter Pierre’s, that even randomness might have a pattern, that maybe twenty answers on twenty faces floating in inky alcohol are all the answers you really need as you bump up spang against the edge of time.

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