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n a clear day, you can see forever.” Not just from the top of Mt. Katahdin but from the bottom of the riprap at Goose Rocks Beach during low tide.

What I’m looking for, and surely see, is a fantastic summer, full of unexpected moments. There are at least two kinds of time, you know. Real time and “great time.”

Literary theorist Mikhail Bakhtin writes, “[Stories] break through the boundaries of their own time. They live in centuries, that is, in great time, and frequently (with great works always) their lives are more intense and fuller than are their lives within their own time.” Hamlet, he says, lives in great time.

The Maine mystique lives in great time, too. I close my eyes when I think of my first Italian sandwich with oil (all memories are better with oil) in Portland or my first bowl of lobster stew at Le Garage in Wiscasset.

In great time, the hulks Hesper and Luther Little are still outside the window, wowing diners. Remember the first time you gazed into the L.L. Bean trout pond or found your first sand dollar? A book like One Morning in Maine can’t be pigeonholed into the summer of 1953. We experience it in all summers. The cheery part of this coming summer is our hope to experience it together. It can be a statement summer that shows who we are. Maine has always been a destination haven for healing and recovery.

Everyone around me, and at this magazine, has the abundant heart to wish this. This summer could be our finest hour.

Dare to look forward. Give this summer a chance. If you do, how it will astound you.

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I’ve long been a devotee of Longfellow and have a lovely quote of his posted in my kitchen that sums up my feelings about my hometown and sustains me until my next trip to Maine. “Often I think of the beautiful town that is seated by the sea; often in thought go up and down the pleasant streets of that dear old town, and my youth comes back to me.”

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Maine, Music, and a Touch of Magic

Situated on stunning Lake Kezar in Lovell, Maine, Quisisana Resort is equal parts summer camp, music festival and gourmand’s fantasy. Your stay will be filled with exquisite meals, the scent of pine, and music from Bach to Broadway.

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“You never go wrong by getting a room full of Red Sox Fans pumping their fists in the air and shouting ‘So good, so good, so good!’ during ‘Sweet Caroline.’ I know

any of Maine’s idyllic resorts have the moxie to double as live entertainment venues.

These performances light up your evening.

This isn’t just background music. It’s unexpected and unique to your hotel, resort, or camp’s setting. And it’s certainly something to look forward to after “The Spring of Social Distancing.”

was born,” Doiron says. “The Ledges Pub is a wonderful seaside pub that hosts guests from all over the world. We do a weekly Happy Hour on Sundays during the offseason. A big local crowd is joined by yacht captains, lobstermen, hedge fund guys, clam diggers, European tourists, families— all singing along and laughing. Performing

take Me HoMe Sebasco Harbor Resort’s summer entertainment lineup is planned to begin May 24. The Saltwater Hillbilly Dennis Doiron has been a regular player at the Phippsburg resort since 2012.

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“During July and August I move from the pub to the main dining room for the large weekly family event, Sunday Suppah!

There you might hear ‘Harbor Lights’ by Boz Scaggs or ‘Here Comes the Sun’ by The Beatles. A little of the pub feel often sneaks in by the end of the event.”

You know summer’s in full swing at Sebasco Harbor Resort when the weekly Thursday evening Lobster Bakes kick off. They are expected to start June 25. “A quiet day is around 125 people, but it’s frequently closer to 200,” says managing director Michael Lynch. “The majority are resort guests, but it’s open to the public and a lot of boaters come. We have 30 moorings available to rent for $40 a day.”

The bakes serve “a lobster or steak option and adjust for people who are vegetarian. Eighty-five to 90 percent of people have lobster, so we’re usually cooking at least 110 lobsters.” The steamed lobsters come with a feast of trimmings: “Clam chowder, corn on the cob, andouille sausage, mussels or steamers, red potatoes, salad, and watermelon or blueberry pie for dessert. We include beer and wine for adults.” Tickets are $38 per person for resort guests, $50 for the public, with adjusted prices for children. “We’ve never had to cap the guests. We’ll bring out an extra tent if we have to.”

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ring your dancing shoes, because the lobster dinner is followed by contra dancing with music by T-Acadie.

“This band has been a part of the resort since 2007. They’re a trio that play francophone folk music, with some New Orleans style, too. They start playing during dinner, and afterwards the contra dancing starts at 6:30 p.m.” Contra dancing has mixed origins from English and Scottish country dances and French dances from the 17th century. “The band gets as many couples up as want to participate and directs them through the moves. Once the first two or three couples have gone down the line everyone picks up the motions easily. The dancing goes on all the way until 8 p.m.”

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Ma i n e My stiq ue a LittLe night Music usic runs deep at Quisisana Resort in Lovell.

The attraction has been a musical refuge for summer vacationers for over a century, first offering campers music lessons in 1915. After loving her experience here, Jan Orans purchased the 47-acre establishment in 1984. She passed away on Valentine’s Day 2020, but her son Sam Orans is carrying the torch.

“My mother always thought she wanted to open a summer camp but quickly realized that came with hundreds of children. She decided buying this resort was a better solution—a camp for adults!

“Guests stay from Saturday to Saturday. They arrive together and leave together.” Every day sparkles with a new performance. Classical music concerts, musical theater shows, and operas vibrate in the

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window-lined music hall with the backdrop of Kezar Lake and the Presidential Mountain Range beyond. It’s innovative, stagey, exciting enough to scare the deer.

“We hire 40 performers every year,” Orans says. “By day they’re busboys, waiters, chambermaids, or working on the beach. Then at night they’re putting on these performances.”

Dirty Dancing, anyone?

For this summer, “we’ve already auditioned around 150 people, with 140 more auditioning by video across the country,” artistic director Marshall Taylor says. These aren’t just waiters masquerading as performers. “We have former staff who are now performing in Hamilton and Jersey Boys on Broadway,” Orans says. “Andrea Ross” is from this top tier, “and we’re really

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Ma i n e My st i q ue excited she’s coming back this year.” you Can Go HoMe aGain oss, 28, was discovered by Andrew Lloyd Webber at 14. “He mentored me for a number of years and produced my first album, Moon River. Next, I was on the national tour of Sound of Music with NETworks for two years. Most recently, I’ve been doing more symphony work around the country.

“My first year at Quisisana in 2012, I played Éponine in Les Misérables.” Marshall deftly selects his shows, “so each week has a nice arc to it. Everyone gets to showcase what they can bring to the table, so the guests get a lot of variety.”

What’s exceptional is, “guests really get to know the performers,” Orans says. “You may be served 18 of your 21 meals by the same person you see in a concert. Then, after the show, you’re standing with them, chatting in a way you’d never be able to in other theaters. Our music is live and sudden—very up-close and accessible.”n

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Grand Theater, 165 Main St., ellsworth. The Sound of Music, apr. 3–19; dancing with the ellsworth Stars!, apr. 25. 667-9500.

John Ford Auditorium, Portland High School, 284 Cumberland ave., requiem for an Electric Chair, apr. 16.

Mad Horse Theater, 24 Mosher St., South Portland.

You got older, apr. 16–May 3. 747-4148.

Nasson Community Center, 457 Main St., Springvale. Spring Fling, apr. 11. 324-5657.

Penobscot Theatre Company, Bangor Opera House, 131 Main St. Becoming dr. ruth, apr. 23–May 10. 942-3333.

Portland Stage, 25a Forest ave., The Children, apr. 13–25. 774-0465.

The Public Theater, 31 Maple St., Lewiston. Middletown, May 1-10. 782-3200.

Westbrook Performing Arts Center, 471 Stroudwater St. Portland Ballet: Midsummer night’s dream, apr.

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aura, 121 Center St., Trevor Hall, apr. 16; mighty mystic & Roots of Creation, apr. 17; martin Sexton, apr. 18; The Cadillac Three, apr. 23; The Front Bottoms, apr. 24. 772-8274.

Bayside Bowl, 58 alder St., 4/20 Speakeasy with Hambone + Viva & The Reinforcements, apr. 20.

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Blue, 650a Congress St., Hambone, apr. 7; Cumberland Crossing & the Bluegrass Jam, apr.

9; el malo, apr. 10; Savoir Faire, nicholas Kozak, apr. 11; Casco Bay Tummlers, Women’s musician Showcase, apr. 12; Forêt endormie, apr. 14; matt meyer, andrea Re, apr. 16; Tracy & Tony Jazz Duo, Samuel James & D. gross, apr. 17; Sherrie Phair Trio, Taylor O’Donnell, apr. 18; Teg glendon Band, apr. 19; BLUefest, apr. 24–29, Dirty mae, apr. 26; Frank Fotusky, apr. 30. 774-4111. the Chocolate Church arts Center, 804 Washington St., Bath. goldenOak, apr. 17; Runnin’ Down a Vision, apr. 18; Peter gallway & The Real Band, apr. 24; Joan Osborne, apr. 25. 442-8455.

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Gendron Franco Center, 46 Cedar St., Lewiston.

Sophia’s House with Carrie newcomer, apr. 26.

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Halo at the point, 4 Thompson’s Point Suite 101. international Contemporary ensemble, apr. 30.

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Frog & turtle, 3 Bridge St., Westbrook. moore Wild & Lynch, apr. 9; Capt. Ray & the Castaways, apr. 10; Seth Warner & Friends, apr. 17; The Jimmy macisso Trio, apr. 23; Juke Joint Devil Band, apr. 24. 591-4185.

Frontier, 14 maine St., Brunswick. Darlin’ Corey, apr. 8; micromassé, apr. 15; native isles, apr. 22; The Henleys, apr. 29. 725-5222.

Johnson Hall theater, 280 Water St., gardiner.

Steven Jones, apr. 25. 582-7144.

Jonathan’s ogunquit, 92 Bourne Ln., ellis Paul, apr. 10; Dueling Pianos, apr. 18. 646-4777.

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Merrill auditorium, 20 myrtle St., PSO: Classic Broadway, apr. 18–19, PSO: Verdi’s Requiem, may 3, 5. 842-0800. one longfellow Square, 181 State St., Horse Feathers, apr. 23; John Craigie, apr. 24; Peter Yarrow, apr. 25; griffin House, apr. 30. 761-1757. opera House at Boothbay Harbor, 86 Townsend ave., The Boneheads: music of 1972,

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Port City Music Hall, 504 Congress St., adam ezra Group, apr. 10; GaRZa, apr. 15; Sebadoh, apr. 16; The Steeldrivers, apr. 18; Willie Watson, apr. 22; Stephen Lynch, apr. 25. 956-6000.

The Porthole, 20 Custom House Wharf. Fog ave, apr. 10; Ragged Jack, apr. 11; Christie Ray duo, apr. 17; Sugarbox, apr. 18; Vinyl Tap, apr.

24. 773-4653.

Portland House of Music, 25 Temple St., Flannel & devil Horns, apr. 10; Kat Wright, apr. 11; The new Motif & Skyfoot, apr. 16; The awesome, apr. 17; 420 Smoke Out, apr. 20; Magic Beans, apr. 22; evanoff & Hambone, apr. 23; Strange Machines & lespecial, apr. 29; The Furious Bongos, apr. 30. 805-0134.

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Stone Mountain Arts Center, 695 dugway Rd., Brownfield. Fryeburg academy Jazz ensembles, apr. 10; Song Stage, apr. 17; Mike Farris, apr.

18; Junco, apr. 23; Tricky Britches, apr. 24; Judith Owen, apr. 25. 935-7292.

Mike Farris has shows scheduled at The Strand Theatre on April 17, and Stone Mountain Arts on April 18.

The Strand Theatre, 345 Main St., Rockland. Mike Farris, apr. 17; Judith Owen, apr. 24. 701-5053.

Union Hall, 24 Central St., Rockport. derek Gripper, apr. 24. 706-7990.

Waterville Opera House, 93 Main St. Rustic Overtones, apr. 24; Leann Rimes, apr. 25. 873-7000.

Comedy

Blue, 650a Congress St., The BLT Comedy Show, apr. 28. 774-4111.

Empire Comedy Club, 575 Congress St., Jamie Wolf, apr. 11; The Hard Times Live, apr. 14; Weeding Out The Stones, apr. 15; Ben Moore, apr. 18; Luke Touma, apr. 25. 558-2279.

Johnson Hall Theater, 280 Water St., Gardiner.

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Jonathan’s ogunquit, 92 Bourne Ln., Bob marley, apr. 19. 646-4777.

Merrill auditorium, 20 myrtle St., Lewis Black, apr. 30. 842-0800.

Art

Cove Street arts, 71 Cove St. gardenship: First Voyage, through apr. 25. 808-8911.

Curtis Memorial library, 23 Pleasant St., Brunswick. The Stronewall Uprising, through apr. 22.

725-5242.

Greenhut Galleries, 146 middle St., The 10th Biennial Portland Show, apr. 2–may 30. 772-2693.

Haley art Gallery, 178 Haley Rd., Kittery. one Planet irreplaceable, apr. 25–aug. 31. 617-584-2580.

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Dog-friendly Beach Guide Saco Beaches: Bay View, Camp Ellis, & Kinney Shores. apr. 1–Sep. 30, leashed dogs allowed.

York Beaches: Cape neddick, York Harbor, long Sands, Short Sands, Steadman Woods. may 20–Sep. 20, dogs allowed off-leash sunrise to 8 a.m. Leashed dogs only 6 p.m. to sunset.

Crescent Beach, & Seapoint Beach, Kittery. may 15–Sep. 30, dogs licensed to Kittery residents only. Jun. 15–Sep. 10, no dogs 10 a.m.–5 p.m. drake’s Island, Wells. Jun. 15 to Sep. 15, leashed dogs allowed before 8 a.m. and after 6 p.m.

East End Beach, eastern Promenade. memorial Day to Labor Day, dogs allowed off-leash before 9 a.m. and after 5 p.m.

Fort Foster park, Kittery Point. Leashed dogs allowed on the beach at all times.

Gooch’s, Middle & Mother’s Beaches, Kennebunk. Jun. 15 to Labor Day, dogs allowed before 9 a.m. and after 5 p.m.

Goose rocks & Colony Beaches, Kennebunkport. apr. 1–Jun. 14, dogs allowed off-leash 6–7:30 a.m. must be leashed after 7:30 a.m. Jun. 15–Sep. 30, dogs allowed off-leash 6–7:30 a.m., leashed 7:30–8:30 a.m., and after 6 p.m.

Hadley point Beach, Bar Harbor. Leashed dogs allowed at all times.

Hendrick’s Beach, Southport island. Off-leash dogs allowed. must be under voice control. laite Beach park, Camden. may 1 to Sep. 30, dogs allowed 6 a.m.–8 a.m., and 6 p.m.–10 p.m.

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Kittery Art Association, 8 Coleman ave., Splash of Color, through apr. 12; Dappled, apr. 16–May 17. 451-9384.

Maine Jewish Museum, 267 Congress St. Marty Kremer, Lynn Karlin, nancy davidson, nanci Kahn, Stu nudelman, through apr. 30. 773-2339.

Mayo Street Arts, 10 Mayo St. Paul Brahms, through May 2. 879-4629.

MECA, 522 Congress St., artist Lecture: Yevgeniya Kaganovich, apr. 16; Some Things We Can Do Together, through apr. 24. 699-5025.

Messler Gallery, 25 Mill St., Rockport. Maine Wood 2020, through apr. 8; Current Student Exhibition, apr. 17–May 27. 594-5611.

Portland Museum of Art, 7 Congress Sq., Professor Judy Walsh talk, “Winslow Homer: The Houghton Farm Watercolors,” apr. 18. Taberna-

Old Orchard Beach. Memorial day to Labor day, dogs allowed on the beach before 10 a.m. and after 5 p.m.

Scarborough Beaches: Pine Point, Ferry, & Higgins Beaches. apr. 1 to Labor day, dogs allowed within designated areas. May 15 to Labor day, leashed dogs allowed 5 p.m. to dusk.

Seapoint Beach, Kittery Point. Jun. 15–Sep. 10, dogs allowed before 10 a.m. and after 5 p.m.

Stover’s Point Preserve, Harpswell. Memorial day to Labor day, leashed dogs allowed 10 a.m.–5 p.m. Off-leash allowed before 10 a.m. and after 5 p.m. Must be under the voice control.

Wells Beach. Sep. 16 to Jun. 15, dogs allowed any time. Jun. 16–Sep. 15, dogs allowed before 6 a.m. and after 6 p.m.

Willard Beach, South Portland. Oct. 1–apr. 30, dogs allowed off-leash 6 a.m.–9 p.m. dogs must be kept within 100 feet of owner. May 1 to Sep. 30, dogs allowed 7 a.m.–9 a.m. and 7 p.m.–9 p.m.

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Curtis Memorial library, 23 Pleasant St., Brunswick. 10 Tips cooking class, apr. 9, 12. 725-5242.

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Portland Public Library, 5 Monument Sq. Film and discussion: Beyond the Wall, apr. 23.

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Curtis Memorial Library, 23 Pleasant St., Brunswick. Tea With Harriet, talk with Cathi Belcher, apr.

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Longfellow Books, 1 Monument Way. Book Launch: Dwellers in the House of the Lord by Wesley Mcnair, apr. 7; Wake, Siren: Ovid Resung by nina Maclaughlin, apr. 9; Doors Out of the Underworld by Scott Withiam, apr. 16; Book Launch: The Perfect Daughter by Joseph Souza, apr. 28.

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Mayo Street Arts, 10 Mayo St., Four Quartets: a ecitation of T.S. eliot’s Poetic Masterwork, apr. 25.

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Portland Public Library, 5 Monument Sq. Literary Lunch: Jessica anthony discusses Enter the Aardvark with Kate Christensen, apr. 15. 774-0465.

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Curtis Memorial Library, 23 Pleasant St., Brunswick. Scott Mingus, Sr. on “The Battle of Second Winchester,” apr. 9; Sustainable Me: Without Waste, apr. 21. 725-5242.

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Family members who have this home in their DNA include the founder of Standard & Poor, the Grand Trunk Railway owner who convinced Montreal to run a direct rail line to Portland instead of Boston, and the artist who founded the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture.

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Architect Stanford White stayed here before he was shot in Ragtime, offering design consulting during an extended visit while fellow guest Frederick Law Olmsted kicked in with drawings and inspirations for luscious grounds. Imagine being at that dinner table. Actress Julianne Moore fell in love with this house, where she met her director husband Bart Freundlich while they were shooting The Myth of Fingerprints in these rooms.

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amily member Nick Chandler, a software executive, chats with me about this house and its practical magic.

“There’s a ghost story here,” he says.

“There was a woman who was in a bad mood at a social gathering. She was being particularly crabby. Dust whooshed up from the fireplace and swirled around her for a few seconds,” like four little tornados.

“And then just as suddenly they collapsed right beside her in piles of dust. Everyone at the table was speechless.”

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In the Forest City, he jumped in his sleigh and started traveling in a blizzard in February. He stopped here, at the place of his birth, at the house he loved. Then he continued through Rumford, where townspeople helped him carry his urban sleigh over drifts ‘higher than his horse’s back,’ then through the White Mountains (amid shrieking winds and temperatures plunging below -27 degrees) and across the icedover St. Lawrence River to astonish the bigwigs in Montreal. Jaws dropped when the 6-foot, 2-inch, 18-stone Poor stalked into their boardroom and dusted off the snow.

They were just about to award the line to Boston rail executives, who were present.

Grand Trunk won the line. Now here was a dreamer who backed up his dreams,” I say of John. “It was John’s younger brother, the attorney Henry Varnum Poor, who cofounded Standard and Poor.”

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Great hanging-out times. There’s beautiful tiling in the fireplace. Then there’s the dining room, of course. You can’t have a house without a dining room. Our table seats 25, with a big fireplace. There’s a family legend that the future board of Chrysler met here to decide to start a car company.”

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Ceremony to Celebration “Eighteenth to 19th-century New England weddings were more of an economic engagement than anything else,” says Elizabeth DeWolfe, professor of history and cofounder of the Women’s and Gender Studies Program at the University of New England. Bridal showers began as an alternative to the dowry practice when a bride was too poor to afford a dowry. Friends and family pitched in with gifts and favors.

“Women from the neighborhood helped the bride prepare household goods like quilts and linens. They told stories, shared memories, and showered the bride with luck, hope, and assistance. It’s the impetus for what eventually became the more commercialized bridal shower we know today.”

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“Before 1840, even though brides did wear white on occasion, it was more common to wear blue, black, or whatever color their best dress happened to be.” [See “The Bride Wore Red,” December 2019] DeWolfe says, “You see these white, romantic wedding gowns in museum collections, but the truth is that was the exception, not the norm. Especially in Colonial New England, people were too pragmatic to spend that much money even if they could find those kinds of materials.”

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The Passamaquoddy wedding dance tradition is still present at marriage ceremonies today, and every August there’s a ceremonial Wedding Dance performance at Sipayik, Pleasant Point Passamaquoddy Reservation. “Both mothers take a blanket and wrap the groom and bride into one bundle to represent unity,” says Soctomah.

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sanctuary in the woods with a white birch arbor and wedding benches, parking across More information and photos can be the street, and Day of Coordination. Additional found on our Facebook page and services include a neighboring Gambrel style website coolidgefamilyfarm.com.

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Barnacle Billy’s Luxury lobster, steamed clams, lusty drinks, BBQ chicken, homemade clam chowder, lobster rolls & stew. indoor & sundeck seating to enjoy both the beautiful harbor & ocean beyond. Perkins Cove, Ogunquit, 646-5575, barnbilly.com Becky’s diner has been serving comfort food at a reasonable price on Portland’s historic waterfront since 1991. Located at 390 Commercial Street, we offer all-day breakfast, locally sourced seafood, and diner classics such as our Roast Turkey Dinner. Featured on the Food network’s “Diners, Drive-ins & Dives,” come see what all the fuss is about.

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Boone’s Fish House & oyster room native seafood—fresh maine lobster steamed over rockweed, a variety of oysters & wood-grilled fish, steaks & chops. Baked Stuffed Lobster invented here by alexander Boone right on the Portland Waterfront in 1898. 86 Commercial St. 774-5725, boonesfishhouse.com.

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375 Fore St. 773-7210, bullfeeneys.com. 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!

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El Corazon mexican food from the heart. authentic family recipes passed down through generations & “oversized tequila selection.” Try our “marisco”—a mexican seafood cocktail of shrimp, bay scallops, clams, octopus & maine lobster. Lun. & din., mon.–Thurs. 11–10. Fri.Sat. till 11. Sun. 9–9. 190 State St. 536-1354, elcorazonportland.com.

Fish Bones Grill Creative american Cuisine beside the historic Bates mill canal in the heart of downtown Lewiston. Lun. & din.

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“an August 1858 dinner hosted by Brunswick sorority delta Kappa epsilon included: frogs fried in crumbs, oyster soup, wild atlantic salmon with oyster sauce, eel with Ravigoté sauce, and boiled turkey with oyster sauce.”

—nancy Harmon Jenkins

Surf & Turf enkins says, “People came out of the winter eating only salted fish (mostly cod), old beets, and some potatoes, so they treasured smelting at the end of the season. Smelts have the most extraordinary flavor—like violets and cucumbers.”

“We liked alewives and shad because they were easy pickings and in abundance,” Oliver says. “It was a great breakfast food. People smoked alewives bonein and salted them lightly. Some cooked them in milk.

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Hu ngry E yE “It was a symbol of abundance and status if you could buy your food. There was even a slight stigma to hunting or foraging.

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“Even though it was abundant,” Jenkins says, “it was still difficult to get. We had to go out, haul the trap, catch the lobster, and not get our fingers pinched off.”

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obster ends up with a funky reputation. If fishermen couldn’t sell their haul, they’d have to eat it. This eventually led to the canning of lobster,” Oliver says. “There are stories of big-city reporters writing stories about the Maine coast, saying things like ‘they’re using lobster as fertilizer!’ What they didn’t see was that lobster canneries were selling lobster refuse to farmers as cheap, efficient fertilizer. The fields were speckled with little red shells of lobster. It was easy to make assumptions.

“When researching for my book, Saltwater Foodways, I couldn’t find any reports of poor folk or prisoners refusing to eat lobster three to four days a week. I found that exact story but told with salmon. It’s a folktale.”

“Mussels and periwinkles were the real poverty food,” Jenkins says.

SHarEd SEcrEtS “People who came here learned about beans from Native Americans,” Jenkins says. “By the time Martha Ballard (1735–1812) wrote in her journal, they already knew a lot about beans.”

“Bean-hole beans started out as a work Art camp tradition as a way to feed logging Artfully s des workers,” Oliver says. “The camp cook designed off would dig a hole, build a fire in it, and offersbre be get a good deep bed of coals. They would breastma an take a huge kettle, add pork and beans, mastecto rec and bury it.” People are still doing it as reconstru Cal an expression of Maine cultural identicon ty or for fundraisers. “Mainers prefer big Call toda beans, like Jacob’s Cattle, Yellow, or Sol- consulta dier beans. The larger beans are more like the heirloom varieties similar to the ones available in 1820.”

All About EEls Although Maine’s elver fishery gained traction in the 1970s, we’ve been dining on eels since our earliest days. “People who came here were fully aware of the deliciousness of eels and of ways to capture and prepare them. So were the native Wabanaki,” Jenkins says. The American Plate: A Culinary History in 100 Bites dates a recipe for Old Eel Pie to a popular English cookbook from 1615.

Antiquarian bookseller Don Lindgren, president of Rabelais Inc., says, “John Josselyn, the first chronicler of Maine food and useful plants and animals, includes eels in his New England Rarities Discovered (1672): ‘In New England, the Indians have in greatest request [the] bass, the sturgeon, the salmon, the lamprey, the eel, the frost-fish, the lobster, and the clam.’

“Maria Eliza Rundell’s A New System of Domestic Cookery (1807) was one of the most widely available cookbooks in New England. Recipes two through eight are all about eel: ‘Eel Pye, Spitchcock Eels, Fried Eels, Boiled Eels, Eel Broth, and Collared Eels.’” The pièce de résistance is “a fancy pie with Soal, Cod, or Turbot, which uses eels as a base.”

Good Maine Food (1939) by Marjorie Mosser, with notes from novelist Kenneth Robert, slides in with three eel recipes: Eel Jelly, Baked Eels, and Matelote of Eels. The Matelote of Eels simmers the fish in red wine, garlic, onion, and spices like thyme, cloves, and parsley. The eels are served over croutons and topped with a brandy sauce.

“For a 21st century Maine taste of eel,” Jenkins says, “my daughter Sara Jenkins serves them at her restaurant Nina June in Rockport. She gets the eels from Sara Rademaker, who raises them in aquaculture ponds in Waldoboro.” n

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Maybe some old blackout window shades from the world wars. Kennebunkport will keep its secrets long after the world stops trying to redecorate itself as a 1994 issue of Coastal Living.

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Fiction Creature Feature:

The Fortean Forest H

ow it began: at dusk it came. It came from the forest, slinking ghostly with its planchette-shaped head, with its scare-quote eyes, its following rat’s tail. I had been tossing peanuts on the deck for the chippies, for the squirrels. It, with its star-shaped hands, apparently liked them too, cracking the shells, gobbling the legumes. At first, I was frightened. But then gradually, slowly, incrementally, as is so often in life, I became accustomed to it, him, her, them. Perhaps even fond? Soon five of them, six, appeared feeding at dusk, sometimes later. Some nights they squabbled, squirmed for position, but their skirmishes were histrionic—a turned back, palmed peanuts. A half-hearted hiss or growl. And, yes, they played possum. They played possum while Little Dog, my terrier, sniffed or scampered before the French door.

Enter the skunk. It came from the forest, trundling along, sans souci, smug in its funk, and stunning in its stripes. It shepherded the peanuts. And, yes, it stomped and, yes, it sprayed. It sprayed, backing up into possum kissers. But, chowing down, the marsupials missed nary a nibble. Apparently, opossums have high tolerance for pong. The opossums partook. And the skunk munched along.

Then came the raccoon. It came from the forest. It tumbled like a bear cub onto the deck with its shaded eyes and its bandit heart. It had hands like an opossum. It scrambled, and scavenged, and scooped,

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and scarfed. It butted and nudged and shoved, but the opossums held their own.

White as fog, the opossums crept over the deck, plucking peanuts while the skunk spewed its fumes.

Behind the glass, Little Dog and I applauded the frantic antics. We named the raccoon Rocky, the opossums, Awesome and Blossom. We pretended that we could differentiate them, that we recognized them. And night after night, they came.

They came from the forest. To which they returned. To which all return. All return to the forest. LePew was the first to go. Back, we assumed, to where skunks come from.

Back, we assumed, to the forest.

But the opossums continued to come, and Rocky, and then his friends, Rascal, and Bandit, and Rigby, and Ranger Rick, and Scootch. Why, soon by the light of the moon all the raccoons were combing their auburn hair. And with the Awesome(s) and Blossom(s), Little Dog and I were running out of names. But still they came. They came cavorting, and frolicking and rollicking, and frisking, and gamboling. They came and came and still, they came.

And then things began to turn ugly.

First, Rocky and Rick jumped Awesome and Blossom who started drooling before they keeled over. Then the raccoons began to turn on each other. Chittering and chuckling, wheezing and growling, they lunged and plunged into each other. The large ones pig-piling on the smaller.

Inside, Little Dog whimpered. I stopped throwing peanuts onto the deck. But still they came. Humping and hunching for peanuts like gibbous shadows before the moon. Sparring with each other. Scratching and biting. One drew blood. Drastic and sarcastic raccoons confronted me at the French door, eyes aglint and hands on hips. The opossums spooked back to where opossums come from. But the raccoons…

They came to stay. They gazed from their gaze, considering their options as the full moon rounded their shadows.

The boar looked like a foreman on jury duty. The kits skittered behind him. But he of the striped tail, he of the ski mask and glittery dark eyes, was calculating, deliberate.

Something was off. I grabbed Little Dog and clutched her to my chest, our breaths chorded. The dark fur-shadows flumped and thumped over my deck. Then they began to assemble, clustering around their leader.

MORE PEANUTS, their eyes screamed.

Not good. So not good.

A cloud scudded before the moon.

Opossums screamed in the forest.

Little Dog squirmed against my chest as he in the Domino mask leaped toward the door.

We watched as the handle twisted. Waiting, barely breathing, as the moon shivered.

It came from the forest. n Joan Connor is a professor at Ohio University and recipient of the AWP Award for her short story collection History Lessons.

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