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Mainers making change: Dinah Minot, Lady Lamb, Paul Greene, Anthony Doerr, Sherri Mitchell, Lucas St. Clair, Ashley Bryan, Elle Logan, and Dr. Rich Silkman Interviews by Michael Schoch, Sarah Moore, Olivia Gunn, and Benjamin Rybeck
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Sculptor Patrick Plourde creates the menagerie of his imagination from his warehouse studio in New Gloucester. By Diane Hudson
11 Maine Classics 13 Experience 21 Chowder “Hedonism on a Budget” How to get the most bang from every buck during happy hour. By Sarah Moore
60 Holiday Gifts & Events Guide
Goings-on and gift ideas for a shimmering holiday season.
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ometimes the best part of a Maine fall is wintering in. Sheltered from the storms, I grew up cherishing the time-battered book collection of ‘reader copies’ in the living room of “The Black Pearl,” our cottage built in the early 1920s on Gooch’s Beach in Kennebunk. What a place to hunker down and devote some time with old friends. These are not pristine, uncracked volumes on our shelves tucked lovingly to the left of the crackling fireplace. Few of our books have their dust jackets, further reducing their monetary worth. But look what’s in there. The Guest of Quesnay by Booth Tarkington, Northwest Passage by Kenneth Roberts, and The Vehement Flame by Margaret Deland, not to mention Deland’s daring The Awakening of Helena Richie. They’re lovely, beloved wrecks, all dog-eared pages, light foxing, yellowed pages. You name it, these books have been ‘devalued’ by human touch. Or have they? As C.S. Lewis writes, “It is a good rule after reading a new book, never to allow yourself another new one till you have read an old one in between.” In The Devlin Diary, Christi Phillips writes, “Although she was a logical, practical person, she believed that in books there existed a kind of magic. Between the aging covers on these shelves, contained in tiny, abstract black marks on sheets of paper, were voices from the past. Voices that reached into the future, into Claire’s own heart and mind, to tell her what they knew, what they’d learned, what they’d seen, what they’d felt. Wasn’t that magic?” One of my favorites in The Black Pearl’s seashore library is The Dancing Floor, by John Buchan. When I was a child, I asked my mother, Elsie Headlee Sargent, what it was about. She said, “Ghosts.” I finally read it decades after losing her to cancer in 1976. She was with me on every page as I explored this wonderful ‘reader’ copy. I felt her hand turning every page. Disintegration, mildew–who knew the gracious slow destruction of books could be so seductive? Everywhere I turn, I see texture is making an astonishing comeback. As I write this, I feel all the books in The Black Pearl trying to force their way past me to get to you. Mirthful Haven, Mary’s Neck, The Lively Lady. They have a life of their own. They are not quiet or retiring. In fact, they love to be touched and lingered over.
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Gaslight Theater, Winthrop St., Hallowell. The Man Who Came to Dinner, Nov. 11-20. 626-3698 gaslighttheater.org
Gauge Railroad Co. & Museum Polar Express, Nov. 25 The Victorian Nutcracker, Dec. 17-18. 842-0800 porttix.com Ogunquit Playhouse, 10 Main St., Ogunquit. Beauty and the Beast, Nov. 30 - Dec. 18. 656-5511 ogunquitplayhouse.org Portland Stage Company, 25 Forest Ave. Sotto Voce by Nilo Cruz, Nov. 1-20; A Christmas Carol, Dec. 3-24. 774-0645 portlandstage.org
Schoolhouse Arts Center, 16 Richville Rd., Standish. Disney’s Cinderella KIDS, Nov. 4-6; A Charlie Brown Christmas, Dec. 2-18. 642-3743 schoolhousearts.org
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Center for Maine Contemporary Arts, 21 Winter Street, Rockland. 2016 Biennial, through Feb. 5. 701-5005 mcanow.org UNE Art Gallery, Bid-
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A 1920s Soirée at Portland Monthly Headquarters will celebrate the U.S. publication of Colin W. Sargent’s The Boston Castrato at 165 State Street in Portland on Nov. 17 at 7 p.m. visit our Facebook page The Boston Castrato to learn more.
Hannaford Hall, USM, 88 Bedford St., Portland. Mike Daisy, Nov. 18. porttix.com Maine State Ballet Theater, 348 U.S. Rte. 1, Falmouth. The Nutcracker, Nov. 25 - Dec. 4. 781-7672 mainestateballet.org Merrill Auditorium, 20 Myrtle St., Portland. Mike Daisey, Nov. 18; Sibelius’ Fifth, Nov. 20; Maine State Ballet: The Nutcracker, Nov. 25-27, Dec. 2-4; Maine Narrow November 2016 13
Experience Usable Past: American Folk Art at the Colby College Museum of Art, through Jan. 8; Teresa Margolles: We Have a Common Thread, through Dec. 11. 859-5600 colby.edu Farnsworth Art Museum, 16 Museum St., Rockland. Andrew Wyeth: Maine Temperas and Watercolors, through Nov. 20; Andrew Wyeth: The Dory, through Nov. 20; The Spirit of Christmas Past: Four Centuries of Christmas in New England, Nov. 30; About Buildings, through Jan. 2017; American Treasures From the Farnsworth, through Oct. 2017; Celebrating Maine, through Oct. 2017. 596-6457 farnsworthmuseum.org First Friday Art Walk, downtown Portland. Visit local galleries, studios, and museums, Nov. 4, Dec. 2. artwalkmaine.org
Greenhut Galleries, 146 Middle St, Portland. Margaret Lawrence: “New Work,” Nov. 2-26 greenhutgalleries.me Maine College of Art,522 Congress St., Portland. Anguish curated by Cynthia Norse, Oct. 28-Jan. 14; Artist lecture by Saya Woolfalk, Nov. 3. meca.edu/events Maine Historical Society, 489 Congress St., Portland. Nov. 15; Curator Tour: Left Undone, Nov. 15; Designing Acadia: Maine’s National Park Experience, through Jan. 14, 2017; 774-1822 mainehistory.org Maine Maritime Museum, 243 Washington St., Bath. Open Shop, Nov. 14,21,&28; Over East, an Artist’s Journal: Paintings by Robert Beck of the Contemporary Maritime Community, through Jan. 2017; Sea Change: Portland on the Edge of the New North, through Jan.
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Gulf of Maine Books, 134 Maine Street, Brunswick. Maine’s famous alternative independent bookstore. Reading, book discussion, and signing of The Boston Castrato, Nov. 16, 7 p.m. gulfofmainebooks. blogspot.com
Evening w/ songwriters MGC, Griffin Sherry, & Rattlesnake Arm, Nov. 22; Ghosts of Johnson City, Lexi Weege, Sassquatch, Nov. 25; David Newsam, The Middle Eastern Jazz Project, Nov. 26. 7744111. portcityblue.com
Portland Magazine Headquarters, Hosted by BookSpeak 165 State Street, Portland. Bill Roorbach will give a talk from his writers’ guidebook, Writing Life Stories, Dec. 08, 7 p.m. 775 4339. facebook.com/BookSpeak
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Dogfish Bar & Grille, 128 Free St., Portland. Trivia Night, every Tues.; Acoustic Open Mic, every Wed.; Jazz Happy Hour with Travis James Humphrey and guests, every Fri.; Live music Wed.-Sat. every week. 772-5483 thedogfishcompany.com Jonathan’s, 92 Bournes Ln., Ogunquit. Martin Sexton, Nov. 18; James Montgomery Band, Nov. 19; Bob
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Flanagan Farm, 668 Narragansett Trail (Rt. 202), Buxton. Benefit dinners prepared by local chefs to benefit Maine Farmland Trust. 2016 is “Word Play: The Color Series.” Fabulous Femmes to benefit The Barbara Bush Children’s Hospital: White: Larry Matthews of Back Bay Grill and Jason Williams of The Well at Jordan’s Farm, Dec. 10. flanaganstable.com Maine Harvest Festival, Cross Insurance Ctr., Bangor. A delicious celebration of Maine’s small farms and their bounty, Nov. 19-20. maineharvestfestival.com
Comedy
Jonathan’s, 92 Bournes Ln., Ogunquit. Bob Marley, Nov. 25; Paula Poundstone, Nov. 26. 646-4526 jonathansogunquit.com Lincolns, 36 Market St., Portland. Laugh Shack comedy every Thursday. facebook.com/THlaughshack
Film
Portland Museum of Art, 7 Congress Sq., Portland. Uncle Howard, Dec. 01 775-6148 portlandmuseum.org
Don’t Miss
Annual Made in Maine Christmas Craft Show, 73 Eagles Way, Topsham. 23rd annual craft show, Nov. 19-20 societyofsouthernmaine craftsmen.org Andrew WK: The Power of Partying, Space Gallery, 538 Congress St., Portland. Musician, party guru and motivational speaker, Andrew WK, presents The Party Party, a worldwide movement of positivity, community and the search for universal truth through partying, Nov. 26. space538.org Cross Insurance Arena, 1 Center St., Portland. UMaine vs. Brown Men’s Ice Hockey, Nov. 26; Five Finger Death Punch and Shinedown, Nov. 27. 775-3458 crossarenaportland.com One Longfellow Square, 181 State St, Portland. The Adulting School, Nov. 13; SheSpeaks: An evening of women’s storytelling, Dec. 8. onelongfellowsquare.com Sunday River, 15 South Ridge Rd., Newry. Tin Mountain Roundup, Nov. 19 & 20; Thanksgiving Weekend, Nov. 24-27; Demo Days, Nov. 26 & 27. 800-543-2754 sundayriver.com
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Since we first reported on it back in April [See “Kitchen Collaboration,” May 2016], Fork Food Labs on Parris Street has slowly transformed from an empty former bakery/boxing gym into the city’s first food industry co-working space. Owners Neil Spillane and Eric Holstein recently hosted a launch event to unveil the sleek new community kitchen and tasting room. “An epic party indeed!” exclaimed guest Nichole Cullen via Facebook. We’re hungry to see what they can cook up in the future.
The once-familiar frontage of Pierre’s [computer store] on Exchange has transformed into an eye-popping yellow eatery. It’s time to swap modems for meatballs. The Portland Meatball Company, owned by Noah Talmatch (Timber Steakhouse and The North Point), has opened its doors to the public. However, some Portland residents are already nostalgic for the former gadget store and its mercurial owner. “Pierre’s was here forever–it was true Old Port. And we already have enough restaurants,” a local complains.
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The Love Locks fence on Commercial Street, long weighted down by declarations of devotion, is gone, baby, gone. In its place is a new, blue replacement (right). You’ll need a bike lock if you want to adorn this one.
Toy Empire
Husband-and-wife team Bin & Jon Harrison from Hebron, Maine, have become minor YouTube celebrities since they began creating instructional vlogs on bargain hunting the toy aisles in 2012 under the moniker Bin’s Toy Bin. The couple, who left full-time jobs to pursue this project, now boast over 225,000 video subscribers, 198 million cumulative video views, and even a merchandise range. “Toys are our passion,” says Bin. “We went to a My Little Pony convention this summer and had over 100 kids approach us! The only downside is the unfiltered comment section on YouTube, that can be unpleasant.” youtube.com/user/ BinsToyBin
Annie’s Got a Gun An action rifle owned by legendary sharpshooter Annie Oakley recently went under the hammer at the James D. Julia auction house in Fairfield, fetching $207,000, far beyond the $125,000-$175,000 presale estimate. “I’m a huge Annie Oakley fan,” says auctioneer Jim Julia. “I love finding her guns and ephemera. We actually sold Annie’s gold-plated Marlin rifle for almost $400,000 in 2007.” November 2016 21
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s we wind our way toward winter, the temptation to retreat indoors and hibernate can seem irresistible. However, Portland’s many bars and restaurants, beacons of warmth and energy in the blue velvet dark, can invigorate you with actual human interaction and hard liquor. Here is our guide to socializing on a shoestring. The Monday Antidote Everyone knows Mondays are hard. The appropriate way to celebrate the death of the worst day of the week is with glass in hand. Luckily, there’s help. East End dwellers can grab a stool at Roustabout’s expansive bar in
the former Nissen Bakery Building on Washington Avenue for off-price libations. The Italian-American restaurant recently introduced a list of enticing wines for under $25 per bottle, available from 4 p.m. to close every Monday. Sip on a bottle of Petit Verdot from Chile for only $16 as you watch the daylight fade through the enormous plate-glass windows. “We like to keep the list seasonal, so the selection will change. But you can expect around eight wines to choose from, all for under $25. It’s a great way to liven up a Monday evening,” says owner Kit Paschal. On the West End, Bonobo also champions the Monday night out. “We’ve had our half-price Mondays for several years now,” says owner Denise. November 2016 23
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he was live from New York. Now she’s live in Maine. Creative Portland’s new executive director Dinah Minot has a big-city resume, having spent much of her time in the entertainment world as a producer of 73 episodes of Saturday Night Live, and before that as a talent coordinator for 18 episodes, working with the likes of Oprah Winfrey, Angelica November 2016 27
Peop le Hutson, and Alec Baldwin, as well as producing Wayne’s World 2. The New England native has clearly proven that her business gears churn and turn, but it’s her creative heart that’s beating fast and loud. One of seven Minot siblings who seem to share a unique DNA strand of storytelling, Dinah grew up summering on North Haven Island, an enclave of luminous entertainers. Is it something in the water?
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ur first interview seems rushed, even unlucky, so I ask her for another. When we meet again in her office in the State Theatre building, she turns to me in bright blue glasses. “Don’t write about this place. It’s just where I am for the time being.” She goes on to describe Creative Portland’s plans on opening a new space in the new year and how everyone will be invited. “I’m sorry about our first interview,” I say and take a seat. “Yeah, it felt like a panel discussion.” “Right. Well, I went home and complained to my boyfriend enough that he said I should email you.” “Hah! Sounds like my husband (actor Whip Hubley, Val Kilmer’s sidekick in Top Gun).” Propping her feet up, Minot opens a crate of blueberries and pops them in one by one with a smile. Showtime. For many years, your family has spent summers on North Haven, and you continue that tradition today. What about the island inspires you creatively?
North Haven is an idyllic location. It’s the creaking of the docks, we don’t have TV, we are cooking and eating and singing together. It’s really the whole feeling of sharing and tra-
Rooted in Portland
Left: Dinah Minot’s great grandmother, Ellen Sears Amory Anderson Curtis (Mrs. Charles Pelham Curtis) of Boston, 1868-1952, painted by John Singer Sargent in 1903. She was 35. This painting now hangs at the Portland Museum of Art. Ellen’s father, John F. Anderson, was a Brigadier General for the Union Army in the Civil War, and her grandfather, Hugh J. Anderson, was Maine Governor from 1844-1847.
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Talk about a creative pedigree. The Minot clan is a Boston Brahmin family of writers and artists tinged by tragedy. Carrie Minot, mother to the seven Minot children, passed away in a car crash in 1979. Father George Minot followed in 1999 from cancer.
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dition that’s been so deep in my heart. I love it. When I’d land in Boston, it was like a bird coming home. You return to your roots. I’ve discovered deep ancestral roots in Maine. There’s a portrait of my great grandmother hanging in the Portland Museum of Art by John Singer Sargent.
“I’m from a family of artists and writers and musicians and songwriters.” How did you end up in Portland?
“My husband and I moved here almost a year ago last November. We came cross-country with our English Labrador, sold our house, put our stuff in storage, and drove straight back East to see family and friends in New York, Massachusetts, and Maine. We started talking about where we were going to land. We really wanted to give Portland a try, and we know enough people here. I’m just a Mainer at heart. I love it here.
The seven Minot kids have all pursued careers in the fields of writing and the arts. Perhaps best known is the second oldest daughter, Susan Minot, whose 1986 debut novel–a minimalist semi-autobiographical account of their childhood entitled Monkeys–propelled her into literary circles and won her the Prix Femina Étranger. Minot also wrote Stealing Beauty starring Maine’s Liv Tyler.
immigrant integration. I want to embrace and promote cultural acceptance. What is Creative Portland’s role in the city?
We’re offering a voice of solidarity, and in that process, we’ll find out if everybody wants to have concerts in the streets. If so, we’ll do that programming. If everybody just wants to play bocce ball on Tuesday morning, then I guess we will be the bocce capital. What would you do if it were only up to you?
What would I do if I were a dictator? (She laughs and turns to look out the window overseeing Congress Square Park). I’d try to encourage more sharing so that there is a more fluid artistic scene. When I worked at SNL, I remember regrouping on Mondays after the show before the host meeting with all the writers and cast. We’d talk about what the water cooler conversations were that morning. You want them talking about First Friday Art Walk with excitement, not just talking about a First Friday Art Walk that’s become such a generic thing.
Did you ever feel “from away?”
I initially thought I’d miss the diversity and culture in my hometown of Santa Monica, but when I got here, I was pleasantly surprised to see there was certainly more diversity than some of my friends had told me about. I’m really excited by the fact that Portland is a destination for refugee settlement and there is a high immigration influx. That’s something that makes me really excited in terms of arts and culture and world scene here. This town is going to change a lot in the next ten years, and I want to be a part of that
Everywhere, simultaneously, people in cities across the country are discovering their craft brews and other distinctive things. How will you come up with an exclusive language that only says Portland, Maine?
Portland is on the edge of being an extremely culturally rich and diverse city. That’s something that’s new to Mainers and fairly new to Portland in the last two decades. Having that exposure is going to trigger all sorts of perspectives and attitudes. The more we share, the more creative and productive we’ll be, and the more we’ll be invested in one another. –Olivia Gunn
from left: John Singer Sargent (United States (born (Italy), 1856–1925), Ellen Sears Amory Anderson Curtis (1868-1952) (Mrs. Charles Pelham Curtis), 1903, oil on canvas, 59 7/8 x 35 1/4 inches. Portland Museum of Art, Maine. Gift of Sally Cary Curtis Iselin in memory of Charles Pelham Curtis, 1982.275; courtesy photo; Shervin Lainez
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aughing, laughing, that night in Maine I met my best friend, talking ’til 7 a.m., realizing we were both afraid of the notion of having our brains be in the body of a whale in the ocean deep where the light don’t reach…” These lyrics (from the 2015 studio album After) are typical of the unusual musical sensibilities that have made Lady Lamb, real name Aly Spaltro, so well-loved among her avid fan base. The 27-year-old musician plays with a stream-of-consciousness narrative and surreal imagery to create music that Rolling Stone has described as “heavy psychedelic tales that blur the borders between reality, dream, and nightmare.” “I’m a musician by profession, but first and foremost I’m a writer,” says Spaltro as she wanders through Prospect Park, New York. [“I’m walking away from the traffic and into the woods. The leaves are turning.”] “I wrote poetry and screenplays throughout high school. It wasn’t until my gap year, when I began working at Bart and Greg’s DVD Explosion in Brunswick, that I started channeling my creativity into music. I’d planned to work abroad on a program in Guatemala, but it fell through at the last minute. All my friends were leaving and I felt stuck, so I resolved to teach myself to play music. I’d work the closing shift at the DVD store and then spend eight or nine hours a night in the
basement, experimenting with music. It was a formative experience for me, ” she says. Within a couple of years, Spaltro was playing regular shows around Portland, gathering a loyal following of fans. She eventually moved to Brooklyn in 2014, citing the need to escape her comfort zone, but she still claims a fierce loyalty to Maine (she even has its outline tattooed on her right arm). Ironically, Spaltro has spent more time outside of her home state than within it. “Growing up, my dad was in the Air Force, so we moved around a lot. I lived mostly in the Southwest–Arizona and Nevada–as well as Germany for several years. It was a nomadic childhood. Both my parents were Mainers, so
“I’m a musician by profession, but first and foremost I’m a writer.” the idea of Maine was something comforting that I clung to during that time. I was fascinated with our family history, our mythology, so it was always a part of my narrative.” The family eventually settled in Brunswick when Spaltro was 14. “Everywhere we lived felt like I was just passing through until I got to Maine.” Following a six-week tour over the summer
with The Tallest Man on Earth that took her across the country, including a packed show at State Theatre, Spaltro has spent the past few months between Europe and New York, creating new material. “Kristian [The Tallest Man on Earth] lent me the keys to his home in Sweden. It’s miles from anywhere, and it has this tiny studio. I ended up in there for ten hours a day, writing and recording alone.” The solitary process seems reminiscent of the long, lonely hours Spaltro spent practicing in her Brunswick basement. “I’d intended to write my third studio album, but the songs I was making were all solo acoustic tracks.” Following her creative instinct, Spaltro pursued this new direction, creating an EP entitled The Tender Warriors Club. She plans to release the new material in December before going on tour. “I want to play some smaller shows, like clubs and ticketed house parties,” she says. “The kinds of places I started playing in Portland in the beginning.” And the EP title? “It just came out one day. I was talking to a friend whose marriage had recently ended. She was going to Paris alone to process it, and I told her, ‘You’re a tender warrior.’ I realized it’s a good way to describe most of the people I love. Powerful yet vulnerable. –Sarah Moore November 2016 29
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t Monument Square, all kinds of goods and services are for sale: smoothies, books, real estate. But if you happen to be an Olympic athlete wrongfully accused of taking steroids, you can also find a lawyer to represent you before the world Court of Arbitration for Sport. Nestled above Longfellow Books, Global Sports Advocates is an international law firm that represents Olympians and other world-class athletes in a range of case types from anti-doping to intellectual property to contract and salary disputes. The firm is founded and run by Paul Greene–track athlete turned sportscaster turned lawyer–who has worked with Michael Phelps; NHL player Nicholas Baxter; and more recently, Russian Olympic long jumper Darya Klishina. Originally from Long Island, New York,
After clearing Klishina (above) to compete, Greene (top) catches a soccer game in Rio. Former captain of his college track and cross country team, Greene still runs–his marathon best is two hours and 57 minutes. 3 0 p o r t l a n d m o n t h ly m a g a z i n e
Greene, 45, did his undergrad at Brandeis University in Waltham, Massachusetts, before studying broadcasting at Syracuse University, where he learned volumes about speaking off the cuff. “The very first day of grad school, they pulled me and some woman from Iowa out of the crowd, and we had to ad lib an entire breakup in front of 2,000 people.” Greene’s early training in sports broadcasting prepared him for his career in law. “It was such a fun way to learn to use my voice. Truthfully, it helps me today. When you’re in front of a panel of arbitrators, it’s all about your oral presentation–how fast you can think on your feet.” Sports broadcasting also brought Greene to Portland at age 24, where he found a job with Fox 52 News as a sports director. Greene loved his work, but the station closed after six years. “The parent company was hemorrhaging money. The internet boom was over. I was thirty years old with a wife and kids. I had to figure out what else I was going to do.” A close friend suggested he go to law school, and so in 2004, Greene enrolled at University of Maine School of Law. Following graduation, he began sowing the seeds of what would later become Global Sports Advocates by taking on sports arbitration cases for little to no money. By 2013, demand for his skills started to rise. So had his fees. “I hit a breaking point.
It was now or never.” Greene founded Global Sports Advocates in 2014. Unlike a criminal case, sports arbitration cases are not judged by civilian juries but by lawyers and former judges. Another difference: athletes aren’t protected by the Fifth Amendment: “You have to ask [the athlete] if they did it because they have to testify,” says Greene. “If they don’t, the panel will hold it against them.” Greene’s world is one of sudden deadlines, shifting time zones, and bloodthirsty reporters. This summer, Greene represented Russian long jumper Darya Klishina, who was on track to compete in the Rio Olympics. The International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) had banned her and the rest of her track-and-field team after an investigation found that the Russian government had tampered with athletes’ urine samples. Klishina
“I’m in Brazil in gridlocked traffic. Just before my phone dies, I get an urgent message that says the story [about Darya Klishina] had leaked.”
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P e o pl e sought an exemption from the ban because she’d been living in the United States full time since March 2014 and had participated in antidoping programs outside of Russia. Negotiations heated up, with Greene on point. Then, devastatingly, after going back and forth regarding the 25-year-old long jumper’s eligibility, the association ended up reversing the decision to give Klishina exemption from the ban just days before the competition. “We found out on Thursday morning,” says Greene. “I got in my car and drove to Boston. Three hours later I was on a plane to Atlanta, where I met Darya. We flew down [to Rio de Janeiro] together overnight. Friday morning she went to the Olympic Village, and I went to my hotel. Then it was game on.” Greene says everything about the case was done, quite literally, on the fly. “I had this moment. I’m in Brazil, trying to get to the Olympic Village from the hotel. It’s gridlocked traffic. Just before my phone dies, I get an urgent message that says the story has leaked.” A tumultuous horde of reporters pressed outside of the courtroom during the hearing. some of them tried to sneak nearer to the door to listen in on the case. After making his argument that Klishina had been training and undergoing testing for two years outside of the corrupt Russian system, Greene had nothing else to do save wait for the panel to make its decision. Greene remembers waking up at 5 a.m. the next morning to the sound of his phone buzzing. “I had five hundred texts and multiple missed calls from reporters. Clearly I’d missed the message. They’d put out a press release that we won.” One hundred nineteen members of the Russian Olympic team were banned from competing in Rio, including all but one track-and-field athlete, Greene’s client. ‘No pressure.’ Competing absolutely alone for her country in the eye of the world’s cameras, she finished ninth, jumping 21 feet, 8 inches. How strange is it that a thriving global law firm catering to elite athletes is headquartered right above Longfellow Books rather than the business district of a metropolis like New York or Los Angeles? Greene thinks it’s a sign of the times. “Geography is kind of an artificial barrier in today’s world when your free communication services can reach anywhere in the world,” he says. As long as you talk the talk. –Michael Schoch
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the New York Times bestseller list, and has sold an estimated two million copies. A native Clevelander who currently lives in Boise, Idaho, Doerr moved to Maine at 18 to attend Bowdoin College, but recalls more vividly the scenery around its campus rather than within the ivy-covered walls where Nathaniel Hawthorne and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow once studied. “One of my older brothers went to Bates. I assumed that’s what you do–you get older, you go to college in Maine. I was lucky enough to go to Bowdoin, where I made friends with kids from South Paris and Rumford. I started spending as much time as I could in the state’s mountains and rivers and on the coasts with those guys, fishing for stripers, skiing, climbing, things like that.” This rough-and-tumble college experience sounds fitting of a man who last year told The Guardian, “I grew up where to call yourself a writer would be precocious. Or pretentious.” However, the writer’s relationship with the state began much earlier. “As a snail-obsessed 11-year-old–or may-
be 12?–I went to oceanography camp on Mount Desert Island: tidal pooling, clambering over rocks, hunting horseshoe crabs and anemones. Was I ever happier? Later that same summer I discovered Stephen King, and Maine was in my blood ever since.” Which has led to deeper investigations. “I was discovering Maine writers like Lawrence Sargent Hall and Sarah Orne Jewett and Edna St. Vincent Millay, writers who paid attention to birds and fish and the colors of the sky at night, the sound of the snow in winter–these things all spilled into my notebooks, my head, my soul.” Doerr’s most vividly rendered memory of Maine, however, isn’t so halcyon. After graduating from Bowdoin, he went on a fishing trip to Rapid River between Rangeley and the New Hampshire border. After stumbling and smashing his knee against a rock, Doerr sat down to recover and eat lunch, only to pass out and slump, head first, into the water: “How long was I gone? A few seconds? A year? At some point I was jerked back into this world. My father’s fist had seized the
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Bowdoin grad Anthony Doerr cuts through the darkness in his breakout novel All the Light We Cannot See.
front of my waders and he was squinting at me as if to say, ‘Did you just do that?’ After the trip, Doerr reflected on mortality despite his then tender age. “People die for ideas and countries and each other. I would have died for what? A few brook trout. Some corn chips and a sandwich. I went to the bathroom and looked at myself in the mirror and thought: You aren’t much.” The jarring experience may have left a lasting impression on the man who went on to so deftly give voice to his young protagonist, Marie-Laure LeBlanc, a blind 14-yearold French girl. He writes in All the Light
“People die for ideas and countries and each other. I would have died for what? A few brook trout. Some corn chips and a sandwich. I went to the bathroom and looked at myself in the mirror and thought: You aren’t much.” We Cannot See, “To shut your eyes is to guess nothing of blindness. Beneath your world of skies and faces and buildings exists a rawer and older world, a place where surface planes disintegrate and sounds ribbon in shoals through the air.” Perhaps that momentary descent into oblivion and darkness was the key to understanding his central character. Over the span of a decade of writing, Doerr’s narrative grew organically alongside his research into the period and his developing fascination with radio. “Along the way it became a book about radio: How did the Reich use radio to hammer a warped nationalism into the minds of Germany’s poor?” And how did brave souls use radio to resist German occupation, not just in Vichy France but throughout Europe? I also wanted to conjure a time when it was a miracle to hear the voice of a distant stranger in our homes, in our ears.” Following the news that 20th Century Fox has acquired exclusive film rights, Doerr’s star sees no sign of fading. –Michael Schoch
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Penobscot lawyer Sherri Mitchell flies the flag for indigenous rights.
herri Mitchell, 47, makes news as a lawyer, teacher, activist, writer. To the people of the Penobscot Tribe on Indian Island, she is more simply Wena’gamu’gwasit or “She who brings the light,” the tribal name given to her by the elders of the community. Three years ago, she moved back to Indian Island, where she grew up with her parents, fours sisters, and “our one poor brother.” Back then, things were very insular. “I only figured out fairly late in childhood the differences between my community and that of other Americans. Junior high was my first real experience outside of Indian Island, and the differences between my community and the larger population were startling. I seemed ‘strange’ to my classmates because I’d approach someone at school who seemed distressed, even if I didn’t know them.” Mitchell graduated from the University of Maine magna cum laude and went on to study law at the University of Arizona on the Indigenous Peoples Law and Policy Program. Her primary focus is the protection of indigenous people and lands. “Day-to-day I work as an attorney, primarily for tribal members. On a broader level, I work as an executive director for the Land Peace Trust, where I consult on issues like land usage, the protection of sacred spaces, and the rights to freedom of religious practice for indigenous people.” Mitchell’s focus is not confined to Native American cases. She recently returned from consulting with a Maori community in New Zealand. She’s also worked with indigenous groups in Canada, Columbia, and across Central America. “My aim is to educate and raise awareness on issues that affect indigenous people,
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such as the Dakota Access Pipeline. I also want to raise awareness of Native American culture, particularly here in Maine. A lot of people don’t even know Maine has an indigenous population!” Mitchell is an expert at the twisting chains of deception between the Maine state government and the Wabanaki Confederacy. “When Maine seceded from Massachusetts in 1820, the obligations of the government to tribal people was memorialized in the Maine Constitution to ensure our protection. But in 1876, an amendment was passed to prohibit those laws from being published. So a hundred years later, if you’re a lawyer of indigenous land rights, for example, you can’t even get a copy of those constitutional agreements! It’s a relationship of neglect from the very beginning.” Mitchell also works closely with the Sunlight Media Collective, a group of tribal members, journalists, and filmmakers campaigning to raise awareness of the ongoing appeal to deny the Penobscot Nation territorial rights to the waters of the Penobscot River. “In August 2012, then-Attorney General William Schneider released a statement claiming the Penobscot Nation had no claim to the waters along the stem of the Penobscot River, and that our protected space did not extend beyond the shoreline of our some 200 islands. This is our ancestral river, our namesake river. The government’s claim that our territory does not include this water is ridiculous,” Mitchell says. The conflict reached such a tenor that in 2013, the federal government sought to intervene to lend their support to the Penobscot Nation. While much of the dispute was centered around the tribe’s sustenance fishing
rights, Mitchell believes the state government’s interests are more threatening. “It’s a preemptive attempt to open up those territories to industry. They want to nullify our claim to the area in order to support projects like the East-West industrial corridor, which would run from mid-coast Maine to Montreal. It would have a huge impact, not just on the Wabanaki, but the ecology of the entire area.” On the one hand, Mitchell is a fiercely driven lawyer, all fact and reason. On the other, she speaks fluently on the topics of spirituality, philosophy, and poetry. This duality is evident in her current book project, Sacred Instruction. “It’s a guide to spiritual activism containing guidance on how to engage change within yourself to effect change in the outside world, alongside actual hard fact and legal advice on activism and protest. The two aspects of my personality are intertwined. Law is what I do, but my life is driv-
“A lot of people don’t even know that Maine has an indigenous population!” en by the Wabanaki principal of Skejinawebamousawakonis–the idea that we are all tied to each other and to the earth . “Wabanaki teaching tells us that our ancestors ‘dream up into the future.’ They’ve sacrificed in order to allow us to exist, so it’s our duty to do the same for our descendants. That entails more than just giving life. We need to take responsibility to preserve the world for the generations to come. That’s my life’s work.” –Sarah Moore
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or Lucas St. Clair, 38, initiation into the family business began early. “I was about six when my mother [Roxanne Quimby] started Burt’s Bees in 1984. I grew up hand-rolling candles and making lotions,” he says. St. Clair continued to help with the burgeoning Burt’s Bees brand throughout his school years until the business began to really take off in the early 2000s. The sudden upturn in the family’s fi-
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nancial fortunes was at odds with the thenhigh schooler’s upbringing, growing up in a hand-built cabin in Dover-Foxcroft. “My parents were real back-to-the-land types. They had a combined income of abut $4,000 a year. My sister [his twin Hannah] and I became aware of our mother’s growing success, but our own lives didn’t change dramatically. By that point, I was already on my own path.” St. Clair’s trajectory has included over 10 years in the culinary arts and wine world. “I started working in restaurants in my teens. I moved to London to study at Le Cordon Bleu Cooking School, followed by jobs at Eleven Madison Park in New York and at Wild Ginger in Seattle. While I was out West, I studied and sat for my sommelier exams with the Court of Master Sommeliers in 2009.” How does one make the leap from master sommelier to executive director of the fam-
ily land conservation trust, Elliotsville Plantation, Inc.? “I moved back to Maine in 2011, when the Katahdin Woods project was gaining momentum. At some point, I realized that being a sommelier wasn’t really doing good in the world. The Elliotsville Plantation needed a campaign manager, so I asked my mother if I could take the job. I’m under no illusion that I’d have [landed the job] had she posted the position online. I had no background in campaign management or public land policy. I just felt I could make a positive impact.” Roxanne Quimby had begun buying up parcels of the land in the Katahdin region from 1998, eventually amassing an estate of over 150,000 acres. The land trust was formed to manage this expanse of forestland east of Baxter State Park and ultimately transform it into a National Park. Over the years, these efforts have sparked a bitter and highly publicized dispute between
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From culinary arts to conservation, Lucas St. Clair stalks the Quimby family legacy while blazing his own path.
People the organization and its supporters and an opposition party that feels local life will be compromised by the strict laws that surround National Park territory. “I knew I was entering into a very public debate,” says St. Clair. “The people in opposition felt threatened by the change to the local area. It was my goal to overcome the perception that we were trying to block the public from that land. It’s about protecting the land for ourselves and future generations.” St. Clair admits he lacks his mother’s business instincts, but he believes this is exactly what makes him for suitable for the position on the Elliotsville Plantation board. “We have a different approach. My mother is extremely forthright and decisive. The opposition to the project frustrated her because she was so assured of its importance, whereas I’m more of a diplomat.” The Quimby family name is well known in these parts, a connection that often proves burdensome for St. Clair. “I’m sure a lot of people thought I was just this spoiled kid. I had to work hard to overcome that perception and to make it clear I have no ulterior motives.” At first, “There was this misconception that I have my mother’s re-
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“There was this misconception that I have my mother’s resources...” sources. A lot of people thought I wanted to use the park for my own financial gain. The best moments were when some [people] from the opposition changed their mind and gave us their support. It felt so good to see that kind of tangible progress.” The land in question, over 87,000 acres of prime Maine woodland, was officially awarded monument status by President Obama on the 100-year anniversary of the National Park Service this year. For St. Clair and the Elliotsville organization, the result was a culmination of five years of hard work. “I’ve put around 60,000 miles on my car [a diesel Jeep Grand Cherokee] in the past two years, driving between Portland, Patten, and Washington D.C.,” says St. Clair. “I’m looking forward to spending a little more time with my family in Portland.” –Sarah Moore
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At 93, Ashley Bryan is just getting started.
ould it chill you to the bone to discover a bill of sale for 11 human beings at an auction in Northeast Harbor, along with their names and prices? For Ashley Bryan, stumbling onto this horrific single sheet of paper among the collection of 20 documents he acquired was the point of departure for his latest book, Freedom Over Me. How did the documents find their way up here? Were they among the lost ephemera of the summer rusticators of Bar Harbor, many of whose families had earned their fortunes with ties to the slave trade generations before? Maine is a state whose history with slavery often goes unacknowledged. While the Little Cranberry Island resident has penned numerous award-winning children’s books–he’s the first ever African American to ever write and illustrate a book in that genre, this story is something else again. It is fearlessly poignant, gentle, and evoking deep feeling where that is required, because Bryan feels young readers deserve the chance to understand an imperfect world along with the rest of us. “I want to continue to strive to create worthy work that gives the best to children,” he says during a telephone interview, his voice so strong it sails across the line.
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Because of Bryan’s gift for storytelling, there’s a sweetness here, too. In Freedom Over, Me Bryan explores the legacy of slavery through the 11 striking voices he developed from the names on the bill of sale he found, all members of a family sold from their estate. The single document that drew him in particular–the Fairchilds Appraisement of the Estate–is a list of “goods” and their prices, including animals, cottons, and, yes, those enslaved. In its searing incompleteness, the nightmare document contains only names and prices. The discovery prompted a ten-year-long “heart and soul project,” during which time Bryan immersed himself in further research into slavery, as well as imagining himself in the shoes of these 11 enslaved individuals. “In doing a book like Freedom Over Me,” he says, “I was reading every day deeper and deeper into what I knew [of slavery], but I did not truly know the depth of the segregation and horror, the extremes of cruelty. The details are overwhelming. I spent most of the time crying as I wrote it.” Originally planned as a book for young adults, Freedom Over Me shifted when Bryan’s editor suggested he rethink its trajectory: “‘Ashley,’ she said, ‘this is a book for children.’” More specifically, Freedom Over Me
“prepares [children] for the history of their country in a loving manner.” As parents and children read Freedom Over Me together, children can ask their parents about the images, the themes, the history. They can ask their parents, in short, about slavery. “My first instinct was to set the story in Virginia,” says Bryan, “but my editor pointed out that the document gave no indication of location. Instead we chose to let the reader set the story wherever he or she imagines, because slavery happened all over the country–north to south. Nowhere in this country was innocent of any involvement in slavery. Our entire industry was built on slave labor. “If those documents had been in New York, Chicago, or San Francisco,” Bryan says, “all the institutions would’ve been after them.” But here in these northern latitudes, “I took that document because it had nothing in it.” His passion and responsibility was, “I could make it up: who [the slaves] are, their work, where they come from.” From there, Bryan began making portraits of each character, purposely hitting close to home by using the features of his friends and family to create the images. Then he began to ask questions about the people, now fully visualized. “If you were free, what would your dream of life be?” This
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ings away and never looked at them for 40 years–not until he participated in a seminar on “war and peace.” He converted them into slides, spoke on his experiences, and tried to move on. But, like the characters he writes about in Freedom Over Me, he cannot escape the pull of the past. His next project will be a memoir about his World War II experiences. These drawings will play an integral part. “I converted one of the drawings into a painting of black troops in a segregated army playing cards.” It’s a painful memory for him, but now? He pauses. “When you look at that painting, you’d think I was painting in my neighbor’s garden.” But he was there. “[Perspective like this] never could’ve happened in the forties. I wouldn’t have seen it with that sense of release.” –Benjamin Rybeck
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From Boothbay to Rio, Olympic rower Elle Logan gets the gold.
ately I’ve been thinking about why I got into rowing. I used to think it was because I did well at it,” says 28-year-old Elle Logan. In the case of Logan, “doing well” means winning her third consecutive Olympic gold medal in as many games, becoming the first American rower to ever accomplish such a feat. Her most recent victory was in Rio De Janeiro in August. But her reason for rowing, before she ever dipped a competitive oar into the water, was to glide back to her very outdoorsy past, “where I grew up bird hunting in Jackman and swimming with my dad in Boothbay Harbor.” She remembers, “I’d drive my little 13-foot Boston Whaler by myself to go to 4 0 p o r t l a n d m o n t h ly m a g a z i n e
sailing lessons. Then I’d go to my friend’s house after. That boat was like my freedom. I spent all summer outside.” Though Logan has competed successfully in smaller boats and singles competition, her Olympic victories have all been in the women’s coxed eight. Amid this harmony of motion, she fills the position known as the “engine room”–a fitting spot for someone who
“I have a big heart and huge lung capacity. Most of the time when people are getting tired, I’m just getting warmed up.”
never gets winded. “I have a big heart and huge lung capacity,” Logan says. “Most of the time when people are getting tired, I’m just getting warmed up.” Logan believes she inherits her endurance from her “barrel-chested” dad, and “my long frame from my mom.” At 6’2”, Logan also has “long arms and legs, even for my height,” which gives her added leverage when rowing. While she acknowledges she has some inherited physical advantages, she points out that those advantages only become so with practice.“If you’re longer and taller, it’s harder to coordinate your movements. It can help you if you get it right, but you have to get it right. ” Lost to some observers is the intellectu-
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al end of rowing. “There’s a lot of skill and technique required,” she says. “There’s artistry because you have a rhythm behind it.” She’s spent her entire adult life refining this art. She started rowing during her freshman year at The Brooks School in Andover, Massachusetts. Logan’s mom, Jennifer Kierstead, believes it was a critical moment. “If she hadn’t gone to that school, she might never have been an Olympic rower,” she says. “Opportunity is so critical in rowing and any sport. You need the facilities, equipment and support.” After graduating, Logan attended and rowed for Stanford, earning All-American status. She won a spot on the Olympic team and her first gold medal during her junior year. Since then it’s been an unending cycle of training and competing. In 2016, she was honored as the Pac-12s “rower of the century.” Logan married fellow rower Carlos Dinares last summer. Dinares rowed for the Spanish national team and is now a principal in a company that sells cutting-edge rowing machines in Seattle, where she joined him after swinging through Maine to celebrate post-Rio. What does life after the Olympics hold for the girl who’s been so deeply into the zen of rowing her entire professional life? “I’m so excited,” Logan says. “I’d love to go into some business and just create something. I’m not sure exactly what that is. I know there’s a lot happening in Seattle, and I’m happy to reach out and start exploring.” Sounds like a brilliant stroke. –Michael Schoch
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r. Sarah Parcak strides confidently to the center of the auditorium. It’s familiar ground to her. After all, she’s the 2016 winner of the TED (Technology, Entertainment, Design) Project’s vision award for $1M. The crowd drops to a hush as she considers their shapes in the darkness. She begins: “When I was a child growing up in Maine, one of my favorite things to do was to look for sand dollars on the sea shores of Maine because my parents told me it would bring me luck. But you know these shells– they’re hard to find. They’re covered in sand. They’re difficult to see. However, over time I got used to looking for them. I started seeing shapes and patterns that helped me to collect them. This grew into a passion for finding things, a love for the past and archaeology, and eventually, when I started studying Egyptology, I realized that seeing with my naked eyes alone wasn’t enough because all of a sudden in Egypt my beach had grown from a tiny beach in Maine to one 800 miles long next to the Nile, and my sand dollars had grown to the size of cities. This is really 4 2 p o r t l a n d m o n t h ly m a g a z i n e
what brought me to using satellite imagery.” With a degree in Egyptology and Archaeological Studies from Yale University in 2001, and her Ph.D. from the University of Cambridge (and a varsity soccer champ at both schools), the Bangor High School alumna’s academic and professional ascent has been quite literally ionospheric. Specifically, the Professor of Anthropology at the University of Alabama at Birmingham employs satellite images from 450 miles above Earth and complex algorithms to analyze slight variations in landscape that could indicate human activity. Parcak’s recent discoveries include a 2,150-year-old monument
Parcak’s recent discoveries include 17 pyramids, 1,000 tombs, and 3,000 ancient settlements along the Nile.
in Petra, Jordan; a potential Norse Settlement in Newfoundland (only the second suggestion of Viking settlers discovered in the New World); and 17 pyramids, 1,000 tombs, and 3,000 ancient settlements along the Nile. Because of her exceptional achievements, she’s reaching an international audience through appearances on Nova, The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, Egypt’s Lost Cities, and Rome: What Lies Beneath. Now, she’s trying to get you involved. Parcak recently launched GlobalXplorer, an online platform where users scour satellite images for traces for unknown archaeological sites. Think of it as crowdsourcing for the unknown. Did you find ways to exercise your passion for archaeology while growing up in the Maine? How?
I spent a lot of time outside, and since my grandfather was a retired forestry professor from UMO, any time outside was a teachable moment. I still remember all my trees. I didn’t practice archaeology growing up, but I loved exploring and learning about the natural world around me.
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Space Archaeologist Dr. Sarah Parcak reveals the hidden world beneath our feet using satellite technology.
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Will you see all of these sites you’ve discovered fully excavated in your lifetime?
It is never our goal in archaeology to excavate everything–or even a large part of what we discover. That’s for future generations. It would be impossible and unethical. I am the director of the el Lisht site near Cairo (one of the discovery sites in Egypt) dating back to 1700 BC. That’s enough for a lifetime of work. What’s the timeline for GlobalXplorer? Will you market it as a game, a scientific tool, or both?
It will launch in early 2017, with the beta version going online in December. We want it to be a tool for everyone to engage with exploration. It’s been carefully designed for anyone aged five to 95–from archaeologists to interested members of the public–to get involved. I can’t wait to see what happens when we do launch. It is literally the coolest thing ever–I can’t wait to play!
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Take that, CMP!
Dr. Rich Silkman slips a tiny piece of Maine off the grid.
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in turn stressing the grid. Ahead of this, it wanted to build extra high voltage wires as a back up system in case of a power outage. “Summertime in New England is when the [electricity] load peaks–it’s all air-conditioner driven. Summertime is also when the electric grid has the least capacity because electric systems function better in cold weather than in warm weather…That’s your choke point.” However, back in 2009 when CMP was proposing the massive construction project, Silkman and his colleagues were investigating cheaper, cleaner alternatives. After forming Grid Solar, Silkman and his business partners presented their own plan for meeting Maine’s expected energy demands to the Public Utilities Commission. Instead of building more transmission lines to increase the supply of electricity flowing into the state, Grid Solar wanted to install a series of smaller, less expensive technologies to conserve energy and prevent the existing electrical grid from getting overloaded.
“This was brand new. Nobody had ever proposed doing something like this before,” Silkman says. An agreement was reached that CMP would “build the backbone of their system for $1.3 billion, give or take,” in most of the state, but Greater Portland and the Midcoast region would be left aside for Silkman and his colleagues to try alternatives. They chose Boothbay Harbor as their first test site, calling it the Boothbay Pilot Project. As a small, rural town with a slew of businesses that open exclusively for the summertime, Boothbay is a prime location
Silkman’s Boothbay Pilot Project totaled $6M compared to the $18M CMP would have spent running transmission lines along the Boothbay Peninsula.
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People for power outages. Grid Solar installed solar panels, energy-efficient light bulbs, and air-conditioning units that create ice during off-peak hours and then use it to cool buildings when the sun is at its highest point. As a backup to these technologies, they also installed a bank of industrial batteries and a diesel generator. The combined cost of the alternatives totaled $6 million dollars compared to the $18 million CMP would have spent running transmission lines along the Boothbay Peninsula. “The project has been performing flawlessly,” Silkman says. “And as an aside, it turns out we were 100 percent correct in our prediction that the cost of solar panels would plummet and that CMP’s load wouldn’t expand. CMP’s load has actually shrunk since 2009.” He adds, “if this forecast had been made back in 2008, [the state] probably would not have built the Maine Power Reliability Project and spent a billion and a half dollars…but that’s water under the bridge.” Silkman is currently drafting a report for the Public Utilities Commission detailing how well his non-transmission alternatives have worked and arguing to use them more extensively throughout the Midcoast. But at the same time he’s been working with the PUC, Silkman has been fending off a lawsuit from another energy agency, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC). Filed in 2013, the suit claims that Competitive Energy services helped two paper mills commit fraud. In the ongoing case, FERC alleges the paper mills, acting under Silkman’s advice, selectively used their in-house generators to make it seem like they were reducing their electricity consumption in order to receive state-sponsored incentives. “We are convinced we didn’t do anything wrong,” Silkman says. “Halfway through the project we talked to ISO New England, and they told us to keep doing what we were doing, that that was the appropriate way to operate. At some point we’ll get to go to court and prove it.” Silkman, who lives in Scarborough with his wife, says the lawsuit doesn’t faze or upset him–it’s all part of the same battle he’s been fighting for most of his career. “We have minor victories, but most of the time it’s an enormous effort to move the ball forward.” n –Michael Schoch November 2016 45
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ou’ll be surprised,” promises sculptor Patrick Plourde when we visit him at his studio/home in New Gloucester. And we are. If he hadn’t mentioned the tall sunflowers out front, we’d have sped right past his huge, hangar-like building, smothered on all sides with what looks like debris. Dozens of rusted shovel heads, placed neatly in pyramid-shaped piles, cluster around the building entrance. “Pinecones,” Plourde says. “I take these shovel heads and make them into giant pinecone sculptures. I’ve got five Pinecones on order right now from an outdoor sculpture committee in Longview, Texas.” He relaxes into silence. “They go for upwards of $4,000 each.” Each cone is made of 80 shovel heads. Plourde cuts the tips off the corners and fixes them on a shaft connected to a base, insisting on just the right tilt. “I used to do my own salvaging. Now I rely on scrap dealers. I’ve got a guy up in Stockton Springs. When I got this Texas order, I gave him a call. He delivered 150 shovels to me in ten minutes!” As a boy, “I was sure I’d be an archaeologist. I grew up in Brunswick and had unlimited access to the Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum and the Walker Art Building at Bowdoin College. I spent hours and hours there, thirsty for the origin of things. The materials in my pieces all have a history. Every pinecone is different,” as though it’s whispering its story to him. “Putting each one together holds an unending fascination for me. Does that make me a hoarder?”
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Finding Inspiration oving parents sent him to Portland School of Art (now MECA), where he completed his BFA in 1976. John Ventimiglia, professor emeritus, recalls the day he brought Bernard Langlais in to work with his students. “I remember Pat’s eyes lighting up,” says Ventimiglia. “He was very excited to meet Blackie.” Remember when role models were role models? “Langlais comes into the classroom with a briefcase. Says nothing. Opens it up. There are a few papers and a big bottle of bourbon.” “Blackie was so happy, so carefree. Several years November 2016 47
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later I visited him at his home and studio in Cushing. He taught me that you don’t have to be a Henry Moore. You can work from reclaimed stuff. His work was fresh, wildly eclectic. I felt a rush of learning it was OK to be crude, expressive, not overly pristine. Langlais was living in a farmhouse and having so much fun just being creative, being free.” As we speak, a huge bird structure motionlessly swoops over my head. “An eagle,” Plourde says. “The body is made of a large grain shovel cut in half, folded into itself. The tail wing is a lawn edger. The wings are made of nine steel rakes. I forged the talons myself.” And the big driftwood over there? “That’s new–a wild boar skull with antler pieces for tusks and vintage nails as teeth. I found the driftwood at Brassua Lake near Greenville. This piece is for Dana Street (restaurateur and co-owner of Fore Street, Street & Co., and Scales). “Dana likes my jawbone structures. He uses them in his restaurants.” Plourde and Street “met in 1989, when I was opening Street & Co.,” Street says. “I was looking for an artist who understood that form isn’t just about the utility but involves capturing what the mind’s eye sees and creating something universal. Pat made us a collection of structures to hold veggies that bring to mind hay feeders. “He’s done many projects for us,” 4 8 p o r t l a n d m o n t h ly m a g a z i n e
“The pain gets worse once you start killing it. I’m one of the lucky ones.” Street says. He creates these objects for the space because we need them, but they are essentially art. Like the Boston Bar at Fore Street,” says Street. “For Scales, we wanted to create an environment with a maritime ideal that doesn’t hit you in the face. There’s a subtlety to what he does.” He points out the driftwood “with an edge” that Plourde has integrated into the booths and the sail cloth neatly fitted into wrought-iron posts bordering the seating by the bar. Then it hits us like a rush. Plourde is at the heart of the signature ‘look’ of Street’s popular restaurants. While we Portland diners have been collecting memories at Fore Street, Scales, and Street & Co., we’ve already become collectors of Patrick Plourde. Highs & Lows Plourde battled the debilitating Lyme disease from 2008 to 2012. “I napped away
all of 2008,” he says. “I thought I was depressed. Then, in 2009, vertigo set in, along with unbearable knee pain, anger, rage, fatigue, and depression.” Plourde eventually tested positive at St. Mary’s in Lewiston in 2010. “It stole my life completely. I got standard six-week CDC-approved treatment, but the symptoms persisted.” Later in 2010 he met Dr. Patrick Mulcahey, “a Lyme literate” physician in Kennebunk who introduced him to new treatments. These led to even greater pain, “which he told me is good. I received massive doses of antibiotics. The pain gets worse once you start killing it. It means the infection is leaching out of your body. At one point I couldn’t walk. Finally, by October 2012, I felt okay. I’m one of the lucky ones,” In April 2013, Plourde enjoyed a complete sell-out of his 14-piece show at the Aucocisco Gallery in Portland, further lifting his attitude and energy. Although he’d had much success in earlier shows at this gallery, selling 40 of 50 small works for between $100 to $400 over two days in 2011, this was different. “I made every piece specifically for this show.” The most ambitious was Circus Wagon, eight paired animals riding in their wagons ($10,000)–an idea Plourde has been developing for a larger project ever since. “Circus Wagon was kind of a prelude
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Giraffes from the Circus Wagon series. If you’ve dined at Fore Street, you may have spotted some of Plourde’s handiwork hidden in plain sight such as the sculpture on the service station (top right) and the dramatic curved counter in the waiting area (below right).
“I’m using 16-17 scythe blades for my vulture. It seems fitting.”
to my Noah’s Ark project. In my mind is a vivid memory, like a colorful kids’ book, of fancy decorative cages with the animals looking through it.”
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e shows me the scoop rake he uses to create the penguins. “When they used horses to haul logs out of the woods, they’d attach this to the end of the load to slow it while going downhill. The way it curves–suggesting a little inquisitive head–I can’t see anything else but a penguin. Hold on a second.” He pulls out a sketchbook and draws a canister–a small, jar-like vessel that came off an expansion tank. “An elephant! See, here’s the body and trunk. I have to add legs, ears, and tusks, but it’s an elephant, no doubt about it.” He then picks up a lopper (an axe handle used for lopping branches off a felled tree). “I turn it upside down. It’s a rhinoceros! How about that blue heron standing on a turtle? “Silage fork; chain link for the neck; a sickle bar point for the head; pitchfork tines; lug wrench legs; vintage steel spikes for the feet.” Plourde is currently making a huge vulture for his upcoming show at the June LaCombe Sculpture Garden in Pownal. “I’m using 16-17 scythe blades. It seems fitting to me that these blades lend themselves to forming the vulture, as they come from a very sharp and scary implement. “The parts tell me what they want and have to be!” As his sculptures keenly watch him, Plourde conducts his daily routine of eating breakfast at the village store, swimming in warmer weather at nearby Rang Pond, and at night, “watching the loons grow. “You gotta live life. Plant sunflowers. Be with your family, your friends. I love it. I love being here. It’s enough, you know.” n
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Roberts’s son Ben Boonseng, which opened in February. Roberts steams and slices chicken and serves it over rice with the magical ginger sauce alongside for pouring or dipping. “I make it with sweet soy, white vinegar, garlic, ginger, and hot sauce,” she says. But this sauce is so much more than the sum of its parts, and this dish is an extraordinary cold-weather comfort. We can’t stop dipping at Cara Stadler’s Bao Bao Dumpling House on Park Street, either. The day’s special is crispy chicken-cashew dumplings served with “a hoisin sauce we make,” says server Hannah
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use their gin in our cocktails. And their bitters.” A jolt of Sweetgrass’s Maine cranberry bitters adds unexpected dimensions to even plain seltzer water. “We’re trying out some new quick health shots—kind of the opposite of a cigarette break. They’re full of herbs and bitters. There’s an antioxidant shot, a digestive, and a ‘simmer down’ shot with lavender.” He strains pale green liquid into a stemmed sherry glass. “This is a Joy Tonic, with basil, rosemary, sage bitters, and lemongrass bitters.” You’ll be smiling when you leave. TEA TIME “Would you like to try my Fall Tonic?” asks Sarah Richards. She’s behind the bar at her Homegrown Herb and Tea shop on Munjoy Hill, which can best be described as a tiny oasis behind a brightly painted store-
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come and go, great restaurants get better and better. Open 7 days. 29 Dock Sq., Kennebunkport, 207-967-9111, hurricanerestaurant.com J’s Oyster is a premier seafood destination and locals’ favorite with indoor and outdoor waterfront seating on one of Portland’s scenic piers. Established in 1977, J’s offers classic favorites and friendly service. Coastal Living claimed J’s one of “America’s Best Seafood Dives 2016.” Find us on Facebook. 772-4828
Kon Asian Bistro Steakhouse & Sushi Bar serves Asian cuisine with modern flair. Japanese, Sushi, Thai, Chinese, or hibachi tables. Private party rooms accommodates groups from business meetings to birthday parties. Choose fresh, delicious items prepared before your table. Family friendly; open Mon.-Thurs. 11:30 a.m.-10 p.m., Fri. to 11 p.m., Sat. 1 p.m-11 p.m., Sun. 11:30 a.m.-9:30 p.m. 874-0000, konasianbistrome.com.
Maria’s Ristorante is Portland’s original classic Italian Restaurant. Greg and Tony Napolitano are always in house preparing classics like Zuppa de Pesce, Eggplant Parmigian, Grilled Veal Sausages, Veal Chop Milanese, homemade cavatelli pastas, Pistachio Gelato, Limoncello Cake, and Maine’s Best Meatballs. Prices $11.95 - $22.95. Tue.-Sat. starting at 5 p.m. Catering always available. 337 Cumberland Ave. 772-9232, mariasrestaurant.com. Pedro’s focuses on simple yet full-flavored Mexican and Latino food. Offering tacos, burritos and an impressive array of margaritas, sangria, beer, and wine. Especiales de la semana (specials of the week) keep the menu varied and fresh and showcase different Latino cultures. Seasonal outdoor dining available. Open daily, 12 p.m. - 10 p.m. 181 Port Rd., Kennebunk, 967-5544, pedrosmaine.com.
Pier 77 & The Ramp Bar & Grill Pier 77 has a formal dining room with stunning views of Cape Porpoise Harbor & live music each weekend, while the Ramp is more casual, with its own bar menu at hard-to-beat prices. Open year-round. 77 Pier Rd., Kennebunkport, 967-8500, pier77restaurant.com * Rivalries Sports Pub & Grill An upscale sports bar serving creative pub food in a fun and comfortable atmosphere. Known for some of Portland’s best casual food, Rivalries’ menu has something for everyone. And with 30+ HD TVs and every major pro and college sports package, you won’t miss a game! Located in Portland’s historic Old Port. 774-6044, rivalriesmaine.com
Solo Italiano Traditional northern Italian cuisine mixes Maine freshness with Genovese flavor frm international chef Paolo Laboa. Enjoy the crudo bar or the daily changing menu. Included in Food & Wine Magazine’s 2016 “What to Do in Portland, ME.” Open daily 5 p.m–10 p.m. 100 Commercial Street Portland, 780-0227, soloitalianorestaurant.com
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[Dining] Room with a View M.C. Perkins pairs tableside Atlantic vistas with gourmet excitement at Perkins Cove.
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drizzled with basil pesto and fresh gazpacho. The meat is cooked to a melt-in-themouth tenderness that is perfectly complemented by the zesty sauce. We linger over the array of wickedly indulgent sides entitled “Evil Carbos,” lusting after the onion rings, corn custard, French fries, jasmine rice, and Cheddar cheese
mashed potato. Instead, we opt for sautéed spinach and garlic from the “Virtuous Vegetables” list ($8.50 each). We finish by plunging our spoons into a raspberry trifle ($9.50) with crème de cassis and raspberry whipped cream as darkness deepens over the sea. A fitting finale to a memorable dining experience. n M.C. Perkins, 111 Perkins Cove Road, Ogunquit. Mon. to Sun. 11:30 a.m.-9 p.m. 646-6263. markandclarkrestaurants.com November 2016 59
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This helpful chap will keep your wine upright even when you no longer are, $38. Maxwell’s Pottery, 384 Fore St. maxwellspottery.com
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A holiday crate that you can customize. Fill with beer, chalices, and T-shirts, $44-$69. Allagash, One Industrial Way. allagash.com
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A handbag woven from a single thread. Proceeds go to the Wayuu tribeswomen of the Andes, $270. Peyote Moon, 33 Exchange St. peyotemoon.com
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See Main Street in Freeport come alive with holiday cheer during the festive Parade of Lights!
Start your own holiday tradition with the Amtrak Downeaster onboard the Sparkle Express!
Enjoy the timeless tradition of a free old-fashioned horse drawn wagon rides!
Activities for the whole family, including visits with Santa all weekend. Make it a part of your tradition!
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An elegant and beautiful hat for any special occasion or celebration. This fun maroon cloch hat has fine detailing and rich fabrics, you’ll never want to take it off! Queen of Hats 560 Congress Street Portland, Maine 207-772-2379 QueenofHats.com
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Fresh balsam decoratives for your home and office and they make a perfect gift! 1 - 888 - 448 - 7752 Email: theoffice@wreathsfrommaine.com US RT. 1 Weston, Maine 04424 www. wreathsfrommaine.com
81 Ocean St. #1 South Portland, ME 04106 in Knightville “the SoHo of SoPo”
This sculpted carving board guides liquids to a collection tray and also serves as a nEAT prep station for fruits and vegetables. Designed to eliminate messy grooves, this board is a snap to clean and maintain. Check out one artisan’s solution to cutting board frustrations. By Josh Manahan TheNeatKitchen.com | info@theneatkitchen.com November 2016 67
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Tri-County Literacy’s
Candy Cane Train With our Platinum Sponser
Portland Dine Around Club™
The Amtrak Downeaster Take a scenic holiday ride while supporting local literacy.
December 10 and 11, 2016 8:30 a.m. and 3:30 p.m.
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Two 75-minute daily trips from the Brunswick train station - Portland and back.
Everybody loves SAVINGS! The Perfect Gift for every one on your list. Family Night. Date Night. Week Days. Weekends. Anytime. Portland Dine Around Club has given Mainers huge savings for 28 years. Members receive special deals for over 300 Southern Maine restaurants, local attractions, sporting events and more. Just join the club to start saving!
On the Train: Meet Santa and his Elves Enjoy Cookies, Stories, and Songs Inside the Station: Meet Mrs. Claus See Model Trains, Enjoy Hot Chocolate & Souvenirs
Tickets Available Starting November 1, 2016 $20 per person
Antiques & Vintage Gifts Maine Made Crafts & Art
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Purchase at our Maine Mall Kiosk or our company store: Maine Wicked Goods Mercantile in Freeport. Call 207.775.4711 or Order a Gift Membership Online. MWGM 304 US Route 1, Freeport •
Limited “lap” seat tickets available: $10 for children ages 2-5: on the lap of an adult Free for children under 2: on the lap of an adult
(reserved lap ticket required) www.CandyCaneTrain.org or call 443-6384 for info
All proceeds benefit Tri-County Literacy, improving lives through literacy in mid coast Maine.
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Christmas at the Cathedral Sat, Dec 3, 2016
Noon (Preview) and 8 pm
The Village Framer Quality Custom Picture Framing
Sun, Dec 4, 2016
2:30 pm and 7:30 pm
Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception TICKETS: CHORALART.ORG 207-828-0043
A Kotzschmar Christmas with Ray Cornils Tues, Dec 20, 2016 7:30 pm Merrill Auditorium TICKETS: PORTTIX.COM 207-842-0800
An Epiphany Celebration Sun, Jan 8, 2017
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Opening Reception Thursday, November 3rd from 5-7pm
GREENHUT GALLERIES Since 1977
146 Middle Street, Portland, Maine 04101 • 207-772-2693 • info@greenhutgalleries.com • www.greenhutgalleries.com November 2016 71
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Mother of Purl Yarn Shop
Pam’s Wreaths
Hand crafting Holiday traditions since 1984
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Pam’s Wreaths Is proud to offer our new Product the Moose Head Wreath for the 2015 Holiday season. We also offer a variety of classic Holiday wreaths and swags. Look us up on the web or call for more Information.
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Kayaks, Bikes, Paddleboards,
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Shipyard Mall 8 Western Ave, Kennebunk ME 207-967-6065 Friday, Saturday, Sunday 11 a.m. -6 p.m.
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POE: Tales of Fear & Suspense Nov. 4-5 & 11-12|$18 plus A La Carte Menu A Christmas Carol: A New Musical Tale December 11, 16, 17, 20, 21, 26 $20 Plus A La Carte Menu Robert Frost: Fire and Ice “Simpson holds by June August everyone’s attention January 6-7, 13-14 CAPTIVE!” –York Weekly $18 Plus A La Carte Menu Serving Dinner Wed. – Mon. from 5pm. Closed Tues. Reserve now 207.361.2272 More info clayhillfarm.com Open Thanksgiving, Christmas Eve & Day.
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34 York St (Route 1) Kennebunk Across from Wallingford Farm
BAGUETTES • BATARDS • BOULES CROISSANTS • COOKIES • COFFEE • ESPRESSO
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A Princess Among Queen Annes Little wonder The Elizabeth McDonald Cottage, 1882, charms the West End.
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“The Deanery,” and updated it with brilliant restraint. City of Portland assessor data indicates the house sold on January 1, 2003, for $460,000. Fast-forward to the fall of 2016. The cottage is for sale again, listed for $679,000 by John Hatcher of The Hatcher Group. Considering current demand for all things ‘tiny and adorable’ on the West End, it’s an even more rare find today. When we enter for a tour, the seller, Margaret Lyons-Zelterman, greets us at the front door with her King Charles spaniel. “When you have all the money in the
world, as Elizabeth McDonald did, and you want a little cottage [immediately beside your pharaonic mansion on the corner of Vaughan and Carroll streets], and you have the young John Calvin Stevens as your architect, you’re in a position to say, ‘Do it.’” At the time, Stevens, just 27, was in the employ of Francis Fassett. The jewel box Stevens added to the West End takes beauty to a diminutive extreme. The cottage’s dimensions are so ‘toy’ I’ve heard it called Portland’s ‘Triannon,’ after Marie Antoinette’s tiny farmhouse retreat near Paris. Though diminutive homes are getting a November 2016 83
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unlight fills every corner of the McDonald Cottage. The period-perfect salon and dining room with builtin Gothic-mullioned cupboards are perfect for entertaining. The kitchen is deftly outfitted with a combination of vintage metal cabinetry, beadboard paneling, and updates such as a Viking stove with a cleverly installed hood. There are also two full baths and one half-bath with a mirror installed in the window sash to save space and privacy. Lyons-Zelterman loves the private pa-
tio and city garden. The plantings are just as exquisite as the indoors, to include “a copper beech, a silver leaf acacia, a Virginia creeper, wisteria, laurel, rhododendron, dogwood, and a fall-blooming clematis curling around an arch,” as Dean Foote has told us [See “Little Wonder, Summerguide 2002]. Lyons-Zelterman knows and loves a John Calvin Stevens design and for many endearing years was a caretaker for an enormous Stevens cottage on Great Diamond Island. While she’s moving back to
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Chebeague, she’ll never forget this house, so beloved and extraordinary that strangers send her “letters, letters, some slipped under my door,” asking about her little cottage. “So many people taking pictures! They’ll stop me and say, ‘Do you live here?’” We say, go small and go home to this West End sweet spot. The full basement is high and dry, with enormous potential. The lot size is 0.087 acres, the living space 1,768 square feet. Taxes are $8,577. N.B.: A real sign of the times–taxes were listed at $4,439 in 2002. n
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he floor drain between my legs was underneath a layer of ice. Craig and I had broken into an abandoned building on the darker edge of what may have been Skowhegan, and we decided to rest a while instead of continuing on in darkness. We had walked down the banks of the Kennebec River for a long time before I started losing feeling in my left leg. Craig wanted to keep going, but my capacity for pain had never been fantastic. The building was either a factory or an old slaughterhouse, but no one had been in there for a long time. The ideas of machines were still there in pieces, picked apart by scrappers and folks looking for copper to sell. These could have been presses or something else. I don’t know. There was metal everywhere. Cold metal under frost and snow blowing in from broken windows became our bed and blanket. The wind was low and howling lightly when Craig asked me for the bottle. “We don’t have much left,” I said. “Well, we are about to have less.” He took a good pull from the vodka and held
the bottle against his chest. He held it like it was his child. He looked at it like a 750ml prayer and closed his eyes tight like he was thinking. I don’t know if Craig had ever had a thought that lasted longer than the time it took a pretty girl to walk past him. If he had, then I’d never noticed. He was my older brother, but I often felt like the older one. “Give it here,” I said. Craig sneered at me and gave me the bottle resentfully. I took a pull and put it back in my bag. “How much money have we got?” he asked. “Same as yesterday,” I said. “Eighteen dollars and forty-eight cents.” “Let me count it.” He started to stand but fell back down. “Why count it?” I asked. “I haven’t touched it.” “Just let me count the damn money.” He rose again in earnest, this time steadying himself against the wall. I dug the money out of my bag. We kept all our earnings in a plastic zip bag to keep
it dry in the rain, but the bag was old and developing tears. He ripped the bag open, and coins bounced off the floor. “You stupid ass!” I said, picking up the coins. “Oh, who gives a shit?” He pawed at the cash and dropped a few dollars in his haste. I brushed the snow off them and held them up while he swayed lightly. “You always have to be right, eh?” he asked me. “Little Billy always gets his way? Well you don’t matter much to me anyway.” He shuffled through the bills twice. “There’s fifteen dollars here! Where’s the rest of it?” “You dropped three dollars,” I said, still holding up the bills. “You’re a drunk and an idiot, Craig.” “Well you’re a wimp and a fink,” he said, snatching the money from me. “How’s your stupid leg?” I rubbed it and still couldn’t feel much more than slight pressure. “It’s bad,” I said. “I may have to go to the clinic tomorrow.” “We can’t go to the clinic tomorrow,” he said. “Not tomorrow or ever again. Those pigs aren’t doctors. They’re fucking November 2016 93
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pigs, Bill.” He motioned for the bottle again, and I gave it to him. He emptied the last of the vodka into his mouth and threw the bottle across the room. It exploded against metal, and the echo rang out for a good while. With that, he lay down and covered his head with his coat. His pants had begun to drop slightly, and his bare ass was just peeking out. After a few minutes he started snoring. I watched him for a while with my back against the wall. I wasn’t sure when I’d drifted off to sleep, but when I startled myself awake, the sun had begun to rise. Craig wasn’t snoring anymore, but my leg was throbbing with pain and I wanted to go see a doctor. I shuffled over to where Craig was, and I knew he was dead before I touched him. His skin had gone a metallic pale. He was the color of the floor. I sat next to him for a while and rubbed his arm. There was a moment where I heard some birds and the snow was falling again. I thought the snow was making the bird sounds, and I cried for a while. n
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