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Leaning in is just how Penobscot Nation Tribal Ambassador Maulian Dana stands.

ou wrote an article for Portland Magazine in 2018 called “I’m Not Your Mascot.” Tell us about your role in getting LD 944 “An Act To Ban Native American Mascots in All Public Schools” through the state legislature.

My mascot-removal activism started way back in my teenage years, and my tribalambassador appointment has been a great opportunity to bring that into my current policy-making role at the government level.

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I collaborated with Representative Benjamin Collings (D-Portland) to submit legislation that was signed by Governor Mills in 2019. This law sends a really clear message that Maine has set a standard in education that we’re not going to allow institutional racism in our schools. Maine was the first state to accomplish this, and this is one bright spot in a long, complicated past history between the tribes and the state of Maine. Getting Columbus Day changed to

Indigenous People’s Day in Maine is another high point I’ve personally been working on for quite some time around the state. Is “Indian summer” next on your list?

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PEOP L E or “native.” The term “Indian” came about with Columbus, although some indigenous people have reclaimed that word and feel empowered by using it. If you ask a hundred of us, you’ll get a hundred different responses. Maybe I’ll come up with a good new name if I think about it. Second summer? How did your position as the Penobscot Nation’s first Tribal Ambassador come about?

I was first appointed by Chief Francis in 2017 when the position was created. Before that, we had a representative to the state legislature, but we removed that position in 2015 due to our relationship with the state having gotten to such a tense place, we didn’t feel having a non-voting seat made a lot of sense. So the Tribal Council came up with the Tribal Ambassador role to fill that void of having a presence in state politics combined with diplomatic relations with federal and local governments too.

It’s a rough starting point when you want to be a sovereign nation and you’re treated like just another town like Portland or Bangor.” has been at the root of the contentious relationship between the tribes and the state for the past forty years. It’s a rough starting point when you want to be a sovereign nation and you’re treated like just another town like Portland or Bangor. Whenever tribes take a stand for sovereignty they’ve never ceded, it can feel threatening or hostile to state or federal governments who fear that tribes are looking for revenge or reparations, when all we really want is for the treaties to be honored and to be sovereign nations. The title of Ambassador is an assertion of sovereignty.

to in Augusta! A Councilor gave me a key to the city of Portland, and my younger daughter—she was nine at the time— thought it meant we could just go and stay in Portland whenever we wanted for free. Representing your tribe with federal, state, and local government sounds like a lot for one person to do!

It’s absolutely all-consuming. Even though I attend meetings virtually now, I’m probably busier during the pandemic than I was before. I never leave my computer. Before COVID I was in Augusta three or four times a week in committees or lobbying in halls, and I have two teenage daughters who’ve gone with me to the state house, met

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ing to get into politics. There’s a tendency to be made to feel invisible as a woman of color in the whitest state in the country, so I’ve always had to speak up louder to be seen and heard. My dad [Barry L. Dana] was tribal chief when I was a teenager and instrumental in making sure I knew what was going on, and that if I had something to say, people listened. The bug definitely bit me early, and I credit him with that.

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the governor, and came to the mascot bill signing. I’m hoping it rubs off and interests them. I’ve seen them in their circles speak up for people’s rights and take a stand when things don’t seem right, so they’re good little advocates already. They’re my best work, so it’s a very busy life. Did you ever consider pursuing a different path?

Not for a second! I always wanted to do this. I did work in human resources in survival mode while I was raising my kids, because I’m a very clear communicator, but I never felt fulfilled and was always itch-

What’s the biggest misconception about Maine’s indigenous people?

eople either don’t know tribes exist at all, or they think we’re all alcoholics and drug addicts. Part of the mascot conversation was “Don’t you have bigger things to worry about with all your people on drugs?” And there’s a stereotype that Indians live off tax dollars and get all these handouts and wake up every day and get a check from the government and that’s all we do. Or people want us to be mythical and magical, because they think we’re very connected to the earth. It’s true, but there’s also that Land O’Lakes butter and Disney’s

Pocahontas that we’re grappling with. Seeing sexy Indian woman costumes is a huge punch in the gut every Halloween. There’s a horrible statistic that one in three indigenous women will be abused or the victim of a violent crime in her lifetime. I’m a mom with two daughters: that means every day I have to pray that it’s me. What surprises you about non-indigenous people?

When I have relationships or friendships with people outside the tribe, what strikes me most is that our notion of what it means to be wealthy is very different from what this means to mainstream society. I don’t think I could ever acquire a million dollars, because I would want to give money to my family and use it to help my people. You don’t really see huge houses or displays of wealth here. Seeing real wealth and real greed in the wider world was a huge culture shock for me. What was it like growing up on the reservation?

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PEOPLE with him sometimes, so they get a taste of it. I think they’re very centered in the values, but I don’t know about the practice. We go camping once a year, but we’re not really roughing it. My dad likes to say, if it was easy, everyone would do it. How has your community been affected by the pandemic?

here’s not that many of us, so if we lose five elders, that’s a really big deal to our culture and our language—they’re such a huge resource to us. We’ve vaccinated most tribal employees and elders, but we’re only 35% vaccinated here, still trying to figure out how to convince people my age and younger to get on board. I think there’s a distrust of the government that’s never been on our side, so why would we trust them now? So we’re trying to convince them it’s safe and we’ve taken it and the government’s not trying to kill them with it.

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Do you think it’s possible to bridge the culture gap?

As human beings we all get scared, we all get hungry, we all want to provide for our families, we all want to be fulfilled. The more you can connect with people on that shared humanity, the better. Even playing on some of those stereotypes can be beneficial: We are very connected to the earth, so let’s work on climate change together. I think there are ways for us to be at the table and also order off the menu. For a long time we were just struggling to get a seat. n NOVEMBER 2021 27

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…The role of fake news and the fake newsreel part of our film… is suddenly a little bit more relevant…” than we initially thought, and I think that that is a particularly important conversation. And it is true that MGM did participate in the production of fake newsreels to promote Frank Merriman…It’s kind of the inception of the media’s participation in the political process. So I think that’s particularly rel-

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irst you create sets and visual effects for drama club shows at Cape Elizabeth High. Next you’re a gaffer for Gone Girl. Now, you’re the Oscar-winning cinematographer for Mank and in huge demand. We caught up with Erik Messerschmidt, 41, in New Orleans while packing for Europe: “Nice to hear from you. I’m very busy prepping a movie and am currently under a press embargo re: Devotion until they decide on a release date.” Whew, boy. Now it’s a press embargo. His magic may look easy, but he’s worked his way to the top. As a gaffer he was camera-side on everything from Mad Men to Bones to Everybody Hates Chris. As cinematographer, he’s in post-production for Devotion, a story about two U. S. Navy pilots in the Korean War, and pre-production for The Killer (2022), developed from a graphic novel by Alexis Nolent and directed by David Fincher (Gone Girl, Mank). It is the exquisite Mank that catapulted him to the world stage. The edgy biopic follows high-pitched moments in the life of screenwriter Herman Mankiewicz (18971953), portrayed in the film by Gary Oldman, who was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actor. Messerschmidt’s black-and-white imagery in Mank captures the shadow world caught between reality, illusion, and fake news during the golden age of film. His tribute to the motion and texture of films like Citizen Kane and the work of Alfred Hitchcock dares to cut with a postmodern edge. Here, he talks shop about Mank during the AFI (American Film Institute) Awards: “The political climate we’re in now is certainly relevant, and I think almost unexpectedly the role of fake news and the fake newsreel part of our film—the Upton Sinclair election—is suddenly a little bit more relevant

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The first woman to graduate from the Naval Test Pilot School, Captain Colleen Nevius, finally catches up on her reading in her new home on the shores of Little Sebago Lake.

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hat can you see from your screened porch?

You mentioned Thanksgiving. Do you have many wild turkeys out there?

Oh, yes. They’ve come out of the woods and into the road, which is evidence of the brightness of the birds. We also have hummingbirds.

It’s a breezy day on the lake. The American flag and the Maine flag are waving on my island.

Do you feed the hummingbirds?

Yes. We’ve increased their nectar because we know they’re about to make their big annual flight to Mexico. They go there just like the monarchs. In the spring, they’ll be back in Maine.

What’s your island called?

My kids called it Ghost Island. We first saw it when my kids went with us to Aimhi Lodge from 2001 to 2005. But it’s really Moon Island. From the sky it must once have been crescent-shaped.

We think it was a man-made island when the lodge property was being created originally. All the extra dirt and rocks were put there. I’ve got a little footbridge that connects us to the island. With the world, sky, and stars to choose from, how did Maine win the lottery?

For years we’ve visited friends in Brunswick around Labor Day for an annual lobster feed. We knew that Aimhi had gone out of business back in the mid-2000s, and I knew they’d sold it to a developer and subdivided it. Back then in our careers we weren’t in a position to do anything about it. But we tucked it away in our minds. In 2018 we wondered again, whatever happened to Aimhi Lodge? It was such a magical place. We drove down from Brunswick and saw the island, the footbridge, the view—and the for-sale sign. We knocked 30 P O R T L A N D MAGAZINE

I’ve flown probably 30 or 40 different aircraft types.” on the door of the old lodge. The guy who ran the lodge back in the day, he and his wife were the sellers. We decided to make a run at it. Because lake restrictions didn’t allow us to build a summer-only place, we ended up building something a bit more grand than we’d planned. By Thanksgiving it was ours! This year is our first winter here.

Two über-pilots. Where are you going to keep your seaplane?

The little cove that’s formed by the island and parking place is the perfect place for a float plane. But it’s usually better to have a friend with the plane than to own one yourself. Where do you and your husband (Astronaut William Readdy) go in Maine for a night out?

We don’t do dinner out much. We’d rather have dinner here with friends. But we like Harraseeket Lunch, Petite Jacqueline in the Old Port, the Front Room in the East End. We’ve had snacks at a Sea Dogs game. I love the stadium. I just have a hard time turning into a Red Sox fan since I’ve been rooting for the Nationals.

Where were you living just before?

A couple blocks from the Pentagon.

What’s the farthest away from Maine you’ve ever been?

No wonder you’re here. The Pentagon doesn’t have a screened porch. (Though there’s a nice helipad.)

When I was testing, I flew Marine H-46 helicopters in Hawaii for a week. I’ve flown H-46s and H-53s in Norway, Puerto Rico, South America. In the reserves I got to fly a King Air in the UK a little bit. I was aircraft commander in 46, 53, and King Air. I’ve flown probably thirty or forty different aircraft types.

This screened porch is where we spend eighty percent of our waking hours. How have you furnished it?

With a hickory table and chairs that used to reside at the lodge.

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I saw online that while they haven’t yet made an action figure of you as the first woman Navy test pilot, there is a great painting of you in your flight suit in a museum. How’d that happen?

I had artists reach out to me and ask if they could do that piece because the Women in Aviation group was having an art contest. I thought he did a pretty neat job. I think it’s going to the Patuxent River Naval Air Museum, at least on loan, for their show: “Women in Aviation: Exploring Their Diverse Contributions to NAS Patuxent River and Beyond.” Then there’s that picture of you in the National Air and Space Museum at the Smithsonian. I remember walking right up to it and looking eye-to-eye at you.

It’s probably in the attic. The Smithsonian has so many pieces and shows that rotate. I was there when they did an exhibit of the many women in helicopter aviation. Do your children fly?

Our oldest son is an MH-53E minesweeper pilot. Right now he’s training students in fixed wing. H-53s! I can feel the vibration from here.

On the inside they feel like a Cadillac. I won’t name names, but [I was the co-pilot when] it happened while nearly running out of gas as we flew an H-46 back and forth between two carriers [who’d started to steam away from each other]. We had to switch to one [of two] jet engines. I almost thought I was going swimming that day. When I became a helicopter test pilot, I remembered that day when we studied and implemented a new flotation system on the stub wings of the H-46. The Marine versions had them. I made sure it was on the Navy version. 32 P O R T L A N D MAGAZINE

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Not everybody liked that. It meant more work to make the transition [across the fleet]. Has the measure saved any lives yet? A thrashing H-46 used to sink in as little as eleven seconds.

The couple of guys who got the extra minutes probably liked it. How has a life of flying changed you?

viation still plays a big part in my dream life. I was only on active duty for eleven years flying helicopters, but it’s very much with me. I go flying a lot in my dreams. Your father was a naval officer too, correct?

My dad was a Navy pilot. He flew electronic-warfare aircraft; also the “Spad”—he was an A-1 pilot. In Vietnam he worked on developing electronic warfare, so he commanded a squadron that included E-1s and the A-3—the “Whale.” But he always thought of himself as a Spad pilot. What’s the strangest question that’s ever been asked of you as a pilot?

Once I was asked, “Are you nervous that your husband’s up in space?” Nervous? I’m jealous! How about a zinger from someone who was jealous of you?

The one that shocked me: “You only graduated because you dated an instructor.” This from a person who should have known better. He should have known better in front of a crowd that was happy to believe him. Tom Wolfe has fun with understated pilot talk in The Right Stuff. You guys are “blocks of ice.” Can you give us an example?

Karen [Thornton, a fellow trailblazing H-46 pilot] and I were flying in the fog in Norway. We had some press aboard who thought it would be cute if we posed for a picture. In-flight. But at first they didn’t realize we were both flying. They sent up a message: “We understand there’s a woman pilot onboard.” Karen sent back: “Which one would you like to talk to?” What are you doing this second?

I’ve just finished my second cup of coffee, which is my limit. I’m reading a legal thriller on my Kindle. People are raving about it, but for me the jury is still out. n

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Musician Zach Hurd is back in Maine, by way of Brooklyn, L. A., and a hit on Spotify (“Safe”) with 18 million plays.

our music is so breezy. I’ve just listened to “Changing,” “I Wonder,” and “Like a Bird.”It could be the best pop music ever created by a Mainer.

Thank you! What part of Maine do you come from?

I was born in Brunswick and raised in Bath, on Hyde Street. My parents taught at the Hyde School, and I went there. I played soccer, basketball, and lacrosse. I didn’t have a band yet, but the whole school does performing arts. I did a senior thesis project with two classmates where we wrote some songs, recorded in a local studio, and did a show at the end of the year. Your background on fan sites for Bay Ledges appears as “Maine/NYC/LA.” How do you reconcile these divergent cultural forces in your music?

I kind of tried not to move to New York. I played in New England cafes and other venues up here. Then in the mid-2000s I decided, “I need to do this.” My best friend from Bath’s older brother was living in Brooklyn. He wasn’t into music. He had a corporate job. But he said, “I have this spare room with a mattress on the floor.” So I made the leap and went to open mikes every night. You try to just get experience performing so you can book a club on the Lower East Side or in Brooklyn. Meanwhile, I was working at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, in human resources. I knew all the security guards and engineers but also the curator. One year in Brooklyn turned to seven. By then I’d made some EPs and worked with a producer. I have to laugh. My orig34 P O R T L A N D MAGAZINE

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inal plan was: “I’ll give myself one year in New York, get a record deal, and then I’ll move away from New York.” But it was like, “I’m playing in a bunch of clubs around here, I’ve got some recordings—now what?” Then my dad passed away. He was killed in a car accident in Bath in 2013. No one else was injured. We’re not totally sure what happened. He probably had a heart attack while driving and ended up hitting a tree. Killed on impact. That played into my deciding to move from New York.

That must have changed everything.

He was a huge supporter of my music from the beginning—to an annoying degree. He’d want to play the stuff all the time. All right, dad—chill! I moved back to Phippsburg, where our family had a house. I played some open mikes in Portland and tried to meet people. But I was struggling, pretty depressed in 2014. And both my sisters were in L.A. They said, “Come out, book a ticket, stay with us! Bounce between our two places— see what you think!” A gutsy move?

Then when ‘Safe’ got put on New Music Friday, it exploded and hit No. 3 on the Global Top 100.”

I’d hit a wall as an independent artist. There’s no real road map. Some things work, some don’t. While in Maine, I opened up the Ableton software a friend had given me in New York. I already had some recording knowledge after working fifteen years in studios, but this was just for fun. I’d only do it for the music, not monetize it. Best of all, I refused to worry about it. The Bay Ledges thing started then. My grandparents had some land that slopes down to the bay in Phippsburg. There really is a Bay Ledges there! I started putting one of my songs up on Soundcloud under the name Bay Ledges. For free. Over time it started to get some traction. One of my friends ran a Monthly Mix. “Can I use some of your songs?” Yes. In 2016 I put my song “Safe” on Spotify. The next morning, a friend said, “Your song is on Fresh Finds.” Then when “Safe” got put on New Music Friday, it exploded and hit No. 3 on the Global Top 100. Labels like Columbia, Capitol, and Warner

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P EO P LE Brothers approached me. It happened just in time. I was thinking, I love this Bay Ledges thing, but I can’t do it as a full-time job. I ended up getting a record deal with SCurve Records. They were the one label at the time that actually offered me money. Now it was, “Hey, you don’t have to get another job!” Having that financial support from a label was exciting. I made an EP and did a national tour. My sister Georgia was in the band on backup vocals on a couple of the first tours. I worked with them up until the beginning of COVID in 2020. Then I parted ways with the label. What are the metrics of other songs of yours on Spotify?

“Straight Jacket” has twelve million plays. “Like a Bird” has two million.

My grandparents had land that slopes down to the bay in Phippsburg. There really is a Bay Ledges!” Please describe your house in Brunswick.

It’s white, very small, with three bedrooms, built in the 1800s. We’re renting. It’s close to the Androscoggin River. My fiancée— she’s from L.A.—and I moved back to Maine in January 2021. We actually moved to Portland for nine months, working for a friend, the fine furniture maker Kyle Kidwell. I met him in Brooklyn. He’s a super talented guitar player who played in a couple bands. He’d always loved carpentry and design, and he built his own shop here. I’d left my label, was working on recordings, told him I was coming back to Maine, and he said, “Hey man, if you moved here, I would totally hire you.” During that time I was approached by, and signed with, Nettwerk Music Group of Vancouver. They also have offices in L.A. and New York. It’s been great so far. I knew I couldn’t juggle music with working in the shop. What was your Portland experience like?

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and by February still hadn’t found a place. We thought it was going to be so easy. We bounced around with month-long rentals—it was like being on this continuous road trip, but staying in Portland. We stayed with Kyle a couple months, in the Rosemont area.

learning guitar. I like “Up” as a love song. It would be good in a film. What painting would you pair with your work? I was thinking Alex Katz.

Mark Rothko. What’s the “inward eye” in your Bay Ledges logo?

What instrument do you compose with?

I start by writing on guitar. Then I’ll switch over to the computer. What sounds are you descended from? Sometimes the breezy commentary reminds me of the Talking Heads.

I love that you think of it that way. I drew as a kid but kind of stopped when I was

What would you say to a critic who called your music avocado spread?

[Pause] That’s fair.

Who is your audience?

I love the quirkiness of their approach. I really got into hip hop in junior high and high school. Producers who were sampling. Wu-Tang Clan. I don’t sample records, but I sample myself and my friends. Your music is very visual. Which of your songs would make the best soundtrack for a movie that hasn’t been imagined yet?

That’s a cloud with an eye. I have a song called “Cloud Vision” that speaks to a psychedelic experience I had a few years ago.

son. But I worked with some talented kids from Portland who did the music video for “Changing.” I found them on Spotify, then went down a rabbit hole on YouTube watching their videos. It’s exciting to see young talent so present in Maine. These kids are local. They’re eighteen and they’re doing everything.

h man, I don’t really know. Spotify earlier on seemed like it was a younger fan base, but I don’t think that’s necessarily true anymore. My grandfather is ninety-four, and he asked me to set up Spotify the other day. Everybody’s on Spotify now.

Is there a Maine sound?

I feel like a bit of an imposter, because I haven’t been in the Maine scene until literally this year. COVID was going on, so I wasn’t able to see much music in per-

What’s strange about returning to Maine?

It’s the place I grew up in. I never thought I’d live here as an adult. You smell the smell of fall, and there are all these memories of youth soccer, going out in the woods and building forts with friends. Then coming back from so far away with all these different memories, I see this through a different lens. But there’s so much to explore, not just in a landscape way. Having a new awareness of this place you know and don’t know. n

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Undaunted by the pandemic, Kindling Fund grant recipient Asata Radcliffe takes the sequel to her 2020 Maine Historical Society exhibit “A Convenient Soldier: The Black Guards of Maine” outdoors this winter. hat brought you to Maine from California?

I’d just got an MFA in Fiction, and I wanted to go to a neutral place that wasn’t home to figure out what to do next. I didn’t want to go to New York, because I’m not a big city person, so I chose Maine because I had friends in Freeport. I just thought, “I’m going to have a Maine adventure! I’m going to see some lighthouses.” What was hardest to adjust to?

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and a couple pairs of fashion boots. I had to go buy real boots. I lived in Freeport and I had friends who worked at L. L. Bean, so I had an in there. How did you make the leap from creative writing to art installations?

I did a B.A. in Sociology and Native American Studies at the University of California at Davis, where George Longfish, a worldrenowned Native American artist, was my mentor. A lot of his work was wall-sized paintings. This was my first introduction to visual art as an undergrad, and it’s the reason I feel comfortable experimenting with large-scale installations. But I didn’t even know he’d retired to Maine until I ran into

him at a restaurant in Freeport! I got commissioned by the University of Southern Maine to make a film about his life in conjunction with his 2016 Indian on Indian exhibit at the Gorham campus. I’d worked on a lot of community film-making projects in Davis based on indigenouscentered issues. So I was actually looking for the history of indigenous people in Monson when I stumbled upon a two-page story of the Black Guards at the Monson Historical Society. Because a lot of men in my family served in World War II, it just captured me.

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During World War I there was a failed attempt by a German spy to blow up a railroad bridge near the Maine-Canadian border, so with the segregated military in World War II, black soldiers were sent to protect the railway in Maine in many different towns: Old Town, Brownville Junction, North Yarmouth. When I was at the Monson Arts Residency, I interviewed some people in their late 80s or 90s who still remember seeing some of the soldiers living in a boxcar there. I wanted to talk about the racism of soldiers being segregated to serve their country, then coming home and dealing with the Ku Klux Klan in the South—and in the North too. I didn’t know the Klan was in the North until I moved to Maine and learned the term “the Deep North.”

ut I came as a writer, so what was I going to do for open studio day? I’d never done an installation before. I went and got all these antique pieces from folks in town and converted my studio into what I imagined my grandmother’s living room might’ve looked like in the 1940s, and I had World War II music playing with objects in the studio that told the story with some photos of the Black Guards. When elders from Monson came in, they were getting emotional being in that space from the past and seeing the juxtaposition of the Klan showing up in Freeport to leave flyers. I had one on my grandmother’s 1942 kitchen table so you wouldn’t know when it was from until you got up close enough to see it was from 2017. I had people coming in a couple days later wanting to talk to me and crying because they didn’t know the Klan had come to Freeport and other parts of Maine, and they were crying and apologizing to me that I had to experience that. I wasn’t expecting so many people to come into my studio, or prepared for them to want to sit down and have a conversation with me, because as an artist, you’re just doing the artwork for other people to experience. And I thought, “Wow, I want to do this again!” There’s something visceral about putting objects together in a scene. Writing is integral to the research process, but the work itself should speak, and if it’s not speaking, there’s something I’ve missed. I feel people should be able to walk right into it.

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boxcar in the winter. I want to do it when it’s cold, so people can experience that. I researched the railroad history of Maine at Mechanics’ Hall in Portland. Steel boxcars weren’t introduced until after the War had started, so the soldiers stayed in old wooden boxcars. I looked at boxcars at different train museums, and Maine Narrow Gauge Railroad Co. & Museum had a boxcar from that time period in Wiscasset, but it was the middle of the pandemic, so we’ve been waiting for the right time, and they just opened up during the summer.

out to me last year, and I met with her to try to put the pieces of the story together, and out of nowhere someone submitted raw black-andwhite footage of these soldiers from the 1940s to the Maine Historical Society. I’ve also been able to acquire a few World War II objects like a pair of the exact boots the men wore, and some personal grooming items. That’s the fun part for me. I love going to antique shops or digging online for authentic set-dressing. I like using sound and lighting. I’ve got a song from 1942 about the soldiers coming home sung by a black singer to put you in that space. I think it’s going to be a lot of fun even though it’s a serious piece.

How else has the pandemic affected your work as an artist?

When and where can we see your Black Guards Boxcar Installation?

I couldn’t access a lot of non-digitized army records, like morning reports, that you can only see by getting on a plane and going there in person. I had three exhibits during the pandemic, all in one year, but it was bittersweet because a lot of people didn’t get to see them. But a daughter of one of the soldiers reached

Probably early January 2022, after all the Polar Express holiday train rides. Maine Narrow Gauge will bring the boxcar down from Wiscasset to be displayed in the Old Port at a location to be determined. I took measurements and photos of the inside last week. Most of the pre-planning I’ll be do-

Hence your inspiration to use a boxcar to tell the soldiers’ story?

ing at home ahead of time, then just going in and staging things. It’ll probably take a couple days to set up. Won’t that get a bit chilly?

Yeah, I’m gonna be out there and it’s going to be cold! Thank you for reminding me. I’m hiding when it’s a snowstorm, but if you drive on Main Street, Freeport in a blizzard, people are out shopping. This’ll be my biggest piece, and a lot of people are going to see it, because Mainers aren’t afraid to go out in weather and do what they’re going to do. Is that the kind of intrepidity it takes to emerge mid-life as an artist?

With emerging artists you typically think of 20-year-olds, but it’s just as important to emerge at any age. The pandemic really shook people to their core looking at their lives and what they were doing prior to it. I met an artist at MECA who decided to do an MFA in her 70s, and I worked part-time as an editor with a first-time author in her 80s writing her memoir. If you feel it, do it. There’s no other deep message. n

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s the inaugural Climate Center Director at the Gulf of Maine Research Institute (GMRI), Dr. Dave Reidmiller, 41, helps people, communities, and businesses understand and anticipate how climate change affects them. An atmospheric chemist by training, his dissertation research at the University of Washington involved taking precise measurements of pollutants from the summit of Mt. Bachelor, a 9000-foot ski mountain just outside Bend, Oregon, to study how pollution from Asia affects air quality in the western U. S. “While the work was exciting,” Reidmiller says, “the societal implications drew me to the realm of science policy” and a position in the U. S. Senate working with Mark Udall (D-Colorado) on energy issues. “This was the time of the Fukushima nuclear disaster and the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. There was no lack of pressing policy issues demanding technical understanding. But it was also just after the landmark Waxman-Markey climate legislation failed in Congress.” After working on domestic energy and climate issues 2010-2011, Reidmiller joined the State Department to focus on the international climate landscape. “I spent the next five years ascending to the position of Chief Climate Scientist. In that capacity, I led U. S. engagement in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and served as the lead science and technology negotiator for the U. S. to the Paris Agreement of 2015.” In September 2016, Reidmiller was recruited into the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) to lead a team of more than 300 volunteer experts from across the country in producing the Fourth National Climate Assessment

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This was the time of the Fukushima nuclear disaster and the Deepwater Horizon oil spill.” (NCA), a 1500-page, thirty-chapter report on how climate change is affecting the lives of everyday Americans and what we can do about it: nca2018.globalchange.gov. “In the wake of the 2016 election, there was a sea change in terms of how climate change was viewed within the White House. Still, because the NCA is mandated by law, the work persisted and culmi-

nated in the Black Friday release of a report that upheld the highest standards of scientific integrity, having navigated the clearance process of an Administration that at times took an overtly hostile approach to climate science. That multi-year process deepened my experience working with folks who hold different perspectives and values to identify compromise and forge consensus—something that started during my tenure working with a ‘purple state’ Senator and continued through my years working on environmental matters in a variety of U.N. forums.” How did all of these roads lead to Maine? “It was in that capacity of the NCA that I met Andy Pershing and Kathy Mills, two scientists here at the Gulf of Maine Research Institute. I had half-jokingly said to them back in 2018 that if anything ever opens up at GMRI, they better let NOVEMBER 2021 43

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P EO P LE me know, because my partner and I have been wanting to move to Maine for years. Two years later, an email lands in my inbox from Andy alerting me to the fact that GMRI is launching a new Climate Center and that I should consider applying to be its founding Director.” So in August 2020, Reidmiller and his fiancé, Katie, left D.C. and settled into their new home in South Portland to begin the journey of addressing climate change in this region as it relates to the marine environment. He did not, however, disengage from the national science-policy scene, serving in the OSTP again for the BidenHarris Presidential Transition from November 2020 through January 2021. “It was a wild ride, conducting that during the pandemic in a virtual environment and having an outgoing administration that did not accept the election results.”

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hen the Biden-Harris team asked him to stay on, “That was a difficult position to turn down,” but he is thrilled to be in Maine. “We have really strong leaders in politics and industry, and enough momentum behind us now to capitalize on the opportunities that will manifest themselves. We have the State Climate Action Plan with an exceedingly ambitious agenda. The nature of the problem demands that everyone get involved. What is our state motto? Dirigo, to lead. We are taking the lead. “The Gulf of Maine is the canary in the coal mine. When you see the ocean warming very rapidly here, we are seeing ecosystem changes occurring. What we learn here in Maine, we can bring to the world stage.” When asked what are the chances that global governments will be able to avert the worst-case scenario, Reidmiller says, “I think you have to be optimistic. We have the science, we have the solutions, and we have the technical ability to avert it. But now we have to educate our youth about the fact that the issue is not going away. And we have to harness the political will.” As for what we as individuals can do? “The easiest thing to do is to vote. The other thing is to talk about it to your neighbors, at the store, everywhere. Getting the idea of climate change mainstreamed into our everyday life is what’s going to effect change.” n

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You may know her as the famed “Fascination” torch singer or recall her as a regular showstopper in the glory days of the Kennebunkport Playhouse. Forever glamorous Jane Morgan takes us on a backstage tour of her glittering gowns.

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hat inspired you to weed through your wardrobe now?

Since my husband [film producer and concert promoter Jerry Weintraub] passed away in 2015, I’ve been coming up to Kennebunkport much more, so I’ve had time to work on some projects I’ve been wanting to do. One of them was to find a good purpose for all of my dresses I wore on the stage, because they were packed away in boxes for such a long time and no one was getting to see all these fabulous pieces by famous designers like Kathryn Kuhn, Donald Brooks, Stephen Yearick, Ben Reig, Ruben Panis, Oleg Cassini, Monte Streitfield, 46 P O R T L A N D MAGAZINE

They’re so magnificent it’s hard to believe I even wore these things. Some of them are so intricate and complicated you’d have to have a road map to get into one of them.”

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pounds of dress. But I don’t recall that I had pain or discomfort. I was focused on doing a good performance, so if I looked great in it, then I was happy. Sorting through them must be a mammoth undertaking!

My old friend Bonnie Bien, who assisted me during my appearances at the Kennebunkport Playhouse when she was an apprentice there, traveled around with me as my dresser from the time she was a kid and knew these clothes for fifty years. Now she’s the owner of La Presse, a fashion-industry PR firm in New York, and she came up here and unpacked all the boxes and sorted the gowns and identified the designers. My goal was to find a way to exhibit them, because I don’t need them anymore and I like to take the things that I’ve accumulated in my career and use them to benefit somebody. We started with museums, because these designers are wellenough known to be in a museum. Kathryn Kuhn and Ben Reig have pieces in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. in four-inch heels. My feet are OK, thank God, and I never had to have any work done on my legs, because I guess I got enough exercise doing that kind of a job for years. That’s probably why I’ve stayed healthy for so long. I didn’t just sit and sing—I moved around a lot, so I had to have clothes that would hold up to going up and down the aisle in a theater in the round. When other people pick them up, they say, “How did you ever wear something so heavy?” Because I was carting around thirty or forty

I was carting around thirty or forty pounds of dress.” 48 P O R T L A N D MAGAZINE

he Brick Store Museum in Kennebunk has given us four rooms to display them in from February 1 through May 21, 2022. At first I thought that’s not the best time of year for the largest numbers of people, but then I thought about how many people have moved up to Maine in the past year from all the cities. It’ll give them something to do when the weather’s not so good and they can’t go swimming. The idea was to create a trav-

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ost people in show business are either in a show where they get the costumes given to them or they’re in a movie where the movie company provides the clothing they wear in the movie, but there wasn’t anybody who was going to give me clothes to do my act. I had to have all these clothes made myself, and I had to pay for them, and the dresses were many thousands of dollars each, because I always had unique gowns you couldn’t see anywhere else. In the 1950s I did a lot of stage shows and a lot of television, and I had to have gorgeous gowns every time I appeared anywhere. When I did my one-woman show, I’d change several times during the evening so people could see three or four wonderful gowns. I’d wear one in Chicago and then I’d wear it again in Detroit or San Francisco or Houston or wherever I was appearing. I now have over sixty outfits I’d been using in my shows that are in perfect condition because they were packed away in special boxes made for them. They’re so magnificent it’s hard to believe I even wore these things. Some of them are so intricate and complicated you’d have to have a road map to get into one of them. They weren’t just made, they were built. The inside of the dress was constructed with a lot of support so it wouldn’t fall down while I was walking around for two or three hours on the stage

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eling show we can ship to different museums, so we’re submitting gown images to the Museum at FIT [Fashion Institute of Technology] in New York and to the new Museum of Broadway that’s set to open in Times Square in summer 2022.

When was the last time you wore any of these gowns?

n 2009 I did a show for my husband when he was honored in L. A. with an award at the UNICEF Ball. Tony Bennett was in the show, and Paul Anka, and a lot of celeb-

rities. Muhammad Ali came as a surprise. He wasn’t in very good health by then, but he made the effort because we were very close with him. The plan was for me to appear and sing, and when I came out in this dress that was solid embroidery covered with all

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a Chat with Jane Morgan on Blueberry Hill “Fascination” was the song that put me over the top as a recording artist. I got paid for every performance of it that was ever played—if it was in a movie, if it was in a TV show, even if it was in a commercial for a TV show. Let’s say I was going to do Ed Sullivan, and he might want to put a clip of me singing “Fascination” in an ad for the Ed Sullivan Show—I got paid for that. Now you don’t get paid for anything, because it all became black market and there were no more royalties paid to the artists. I used to get checks twice a year from MCA, who owned all the masters of all my music, but after people started stealing the music, there was no way to collect it anymore and the lawyers just gave up on it.

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My mother was a very fine coloratura opera singer, and she taught me to sing at a very early age. She spoke French and German fluently, so when I got to Europe I absorbed French right away and I had some familiarity with German, so it was normal for me to sing in all those languages. Wherever I went to work, I took voice lessons with European maestros in Italy and in France and even in England and Spain. How many Americans know how to sing in French fluently, and Spanish? I also sang in German and in Japanese. Because I spent so many hours training and performing for so many years, I was a good live performer, and I knew how to handle an audience: how to win them, how to hold them, how to keep them interested.

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The Brick Store Museum did a show some years ago about my brother [Robert Currier]’s theater, the Kennebunkport Playhouse, that was very successful from the 1930s to the 1970s. I worked there every sum50 P O R T L A N D MAGAZINE

mer as a child to help out however I could, but then when I got old enough and became well-known, I went back and starred in a lot of his productions with a great many movie stars who did live shows in summer theaters when they weren’t busy doing movies. I did a number of musicals there, and then I started doing my own one-woman show with my songs from all the shows I had appeared in, which gave me another opportunity to wear all those clothes I had collected over the years.

I was not a country singer. I sang what were called pop songs in those days. In the late 60s, early 70s I was working with this A&R man who said, “Your voice is well-suited to singing country songs, so why don’t you make an album of them, and then you can come to the Grand Ole Opry and sing?” So I did, and when I went to Nashville, I did a show with Johnny Cash on television where he sang “A Boy Named Sue” and I sang “A Girl Named Johnny Cash” as a duet.

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It was promoted as a way for people to see the performers they liked in their own homes, like a jukebox with a video of the person performing. It never became an item a lot of people purchased, because there were so many permissions to be obtained and that was very expensive. But if you look me up on YouTube today, you can still see the Scopitone version of me singing “C’est si bon.”

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When I went to the Grand Ole Opry to sing,

There’s only a few thousand stars on the Walk of Fame, so you’re lucky to get one. My husband [Jerry Weintraub] is on one side of the street and I’m on the other—we’re virtually opposite each other. Jerry made all the Karate Kid movies, all the Ocean’s 11, Ocean’s 12 movies. When I got my star in 2011, he introduced me, and Johnny Mathis came as my sponsor, because you had to have another person in the business to sponsor you as someone who deserved to get the star.

ALL THE PRESIDENTS

The most enjoyment I got out of singing was the times I sang for President George H. W. Bush. The Bushes lived in Kennebunkport, so they were great friends of ours. We went to the White House a lot, and I always performed for the President. When I had parties with the Bushes, all the celebrities showed up, because we had invited the president to our home. I sang for President John F. Kennedy too, and I sang for Princess Diana in England, and I sang for the Queen. I sang for a lot of famous people we entertained in our homes, because first I was on the stage myself with Ethel Merman, Mary Martin, Jimmy Durante, and then I got married to a man who knew all the movie stars, so I got to meet the whole gamut of everyone in show business.

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THEY’RE PLAYING HER SONG

PE OPL E kinds of beading and sequins, people literally gasped because they couldn’t imagine me appearing in one of these dresses at my age that I wore when I was twenty-five years old, and they were pretty impressed that I was able to do that. I had three standing ovations in the twenty minutes that I was performing. You mentioned projects, plural. What other irons have you got in the fire?

I was invited by Michael Feinstein’s Great American Songbook Foundation to be in a documentary about my life and career for their Songbook Sessions series, but I couldn’t leave Kennebunkport because of the pandemic, so last March I did a live video interview with Rene Reyes from the Paley Center for Media via Zoom. It hasn’t been released yet, so stay tuned to Michael Feinstein’s Great American Songbook YouTube channel! Tell us about your plans for Blueberry Hill Farm?

I’ve owned Blueberry Hill Farm since 1957. I bought it with my brother years ago when he was running the Kennebunkport Playhouse and I was working there. I kept it all

these years because I didn’t want it to turn into just one more development where nobody derived any benefit from the land. I have almost forty acres with everything on it: streams, meadows, woods, and 500 tall blueberry bushes. We raise blueberries, and we grow raspberries and strawberries, and we have maple trees to make our own maple syrup to sell. My caretaker and his wife are very good at farming, and we would like to expand into more crops. Since Patten’s Berry Farm closed last year, we don’t have a farm stand anymore in Kennebunkport, so we’d love to be able to open one to replace it. I’m also creating the Jane Morgan Nature School at my farm. What’s a nature school?

he children start as early as three years old in pre-school, and instead of sitting inside learning how to use a computer, the teaching is all conducted outdoors. You’re out in nature all day exploring and finding the tools you need to help you learn. We want to avoid monotony and give children a chance to learn in a different way.

Our method is to let them figure out how to do things themselves. This gives them more initiative and builds up confidence in being able to make decisions instead of sitting in a classroom being told everything to do. When kids are introduced to nature, they get so excited about it, because that’s where kids should be—in nature—learning a great many things that aren’t touched on in school. Is nature also the main ingredient in your love of Maine?

I always loved Maine. I loved it when I was a kid, I loved it when I could come here with my husband and my children, and I still love it. I think it’s a wonderful place to live because the lifestyle hasn’t grown that complicated. It’s still very much the way it was when I was a child. Nobody bothers you and you can just live your life. I go swimming every day in the pool and I look at the trees and I look at the sun and I look at the moon and I have a chance to enjoy my life without having fourteen things going on every minute. I’m still trying to do too many things at once, but at least I’m doing it in a place where it’s quiet. n

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Big Star on Littlejohn Former White House Press Secretary Joe Lockhart lives in understated splendor in his oceanfront fortress on Littlejohn Island in Yarmouth.

any of us remember Joe Lockhart as White House Press Secretary for President Bill Clinton (October 1998 to October 2000) during the Monica Lewinsky scandal. A publicist’s worst nightmare. How do you remain so warm and approachable (he succeeded) while refusing to reveal things you’re “not at liberty to say”? Before Clinton, he worked for Walter Mondale, Paul Simon, and Michael Dukakis. After Clinton, he was on the election campaign staff for John Kerry’s presidential bid. Football fans enjoyed it when 52 P O R T L A N D MAGAZINE

he surfaced as chief spokesman for the NFL from 2016 to 2018. In 2017, Lockhart sold his Washington D. C. house to pals Barack and Michelle Obama. Today the Bronx-born, Georgetown-educated (History) journalist, commentator, and CNN political analyst is keeping the volume down about his waterfront mansion on Littlejohn Island. Mainers first became aware of his private digs at 350 Pemasong Lane when Lockhart was talking with Michael Smerconish on CNN in the months leading up to the last Presidential election as the words “Yarmouth, Maine”

flickered on the screen above him. He’d just written an op-ed advising Biden not to debate with Trump. You could almost hear thousands of Mainers Googling “Lockhart” and “Yarmouth.” He’s been married since 2013 to Giovanna Gray Lockhart (CNN op-ed writer, former Washington D.C. editor of Glamour, former senior aide to Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, founder of the New York Women’s Collective, and board member of Republic Restoratives Distillery in D.C.), who movingly recounted her COVID experience in Maine in March of 2020 on social media. n

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Inner Beauty Queen Portland’s own Zehra Abukar brings home the crown as Miss Muslimah USA.

ehra Abukar, 24, a Somali refugee, lived in Turkey for seven years before moving to Portland, Maine, in 2014. In September of 2020 she traveled to Detroit, Michigan, to represent Maine in the fourth annual Miss Muslimah USA beauty pageant, founded by Muslim designer Maghrib Shahid. How did you find out about this pageant ?

I was volunteering in a fashion show at South Portland High School, guiding the models and showing them the catwalk. I

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love helping people, but I was working full time so couldn’t walk. As I was telling the girls what to do, a friend told me about the Miss Muslimah pageant and said I should be in it. What made you decide to apply?

I have always been fascinated with beauty pageants. I never pictured myself in a pageant, though. I mainly watched for the dresses. I remember the first one I watched: Miss Universe in 2003. They didn’t look like me, not fully covered as I am. Then I realized, with the Miss Muslimah pageant, I am not going to have to look like them. I will look like me. I am going to be covered up and be me, and that’s beautiful! How did this go over with your family and community?

Mom was supportive. I showed her what they do, and she understood. I had to educate the community. They said, “Beauty pageants are all about the more skin you show, the more beautiful you are,” and I said, “No, no! I will be fully covered and will compete as a Muslim woman. It is outside the norm, but I will make you proud of me being a Muslim woman.”

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Absolutely the sisterhood. Being in a roomful of Muslim women was so powerful. We were all leaders in our own communities, and we all experienced the same things, no matter where we lived. All of us have been asked about our hijab (the head covering we wear), “Do you shower in that?” When I was asked that question, I asked the woman back, “Do you shower in your clothes?” And she laughed. We talked about how to answer these questions in a way that will help the person asking understand and see us as being not so separate from themselves.

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I was the only person who made most of my own clothes. First there was the abaya, the everyday wear. It is usually black, but I found this wonderful colorful fabric at Joann’s. I kept it modest, being fully covered, but with a design that was suited to my style. Next was the burkini, the long, two-piece swimsuit—that one I purchased. And lastly the special occasion dress. I was going to design my own, in bright yellow, because I love colors and I wanted that to symbolize being Muslim but a proud African. Then while out shopping, I found the perfect dress. It was sleeveless and blue, and when I put it on, I knew this was the one. So I got matching fabric and stitched in the sleeves. How did you compete in the talent show?

wanted to share my culture, so I did the Dhaanto, a traditional dance. We left Somalia in 2005, when I was nine. Dance meant a lot to my family. My mom is cultured, and we listened to lots of music. The whole dance means freedom—what you can do with freedom and how freely you should feel. And for the story I talked about my strong family support. My father was the youngest of ten, and when he had two daughters, he did not feel he was missing something. He loved us and said if a man can do it, you can. When mom lost him, she was told she cannot raise two children on her own. She did. And then they asked, “What will you do if you are crowned?” I want to show Muslim women we can be beautiful in a way where we don’t have to leave our beliefs. I am glad for what I have done, and I want people to understand that you don’t have to do a lot, but if you see someone going through something, be there for them.

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he first Maine-connected woman to earn a pilot’s license in the U. S. was Mary Marvin Breckinridge Patterson (1905-2020). But flying an Immelmann or shooting a deadstick landing were the least of her accomplishments. York residents remember “Marvin” as the lofty owner of River House, the biggest mansion on the York River. Oh, that lady! The one with better family connections than an Auchincloss. She was pretty good with a camera too. Dismissed as a rich kid, she became a world-class news and art photographer who caught the 20th century with her high-speed shutter–sometimes when it wasn’t looking.

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“Traveling to Europe in 1939 on photojournalism assignments, Breckinridge was in Switzerland when the Nazis invaded Poland, starting World War II,” According to the Association for Diplomatic Studies and Training. “She traveled to London to photograph the evacuation of English children, one of only four American photographers in England for the first months of the war. In November, Edward R. Murrow invited Breckinridge to join him in a CBS radio broadcast about the changes the war had brought to English villages, and then others. At his suggestion she took on a sonorous tone while at the mike, and he hired her as the first female news broadcaster for the CBS World News Roundup to report from Europe. “She ended up broadcasting 50 reports from seven countries and became part of The Murrow Boys, a group of scholarly cor-

respondents that Murrow assembled before and during the war. Only eleven were in the group, including legendary reporters Charles Collingwood, Richard C. Hottelet, Eric Sevareid, William L. Shirer, and Howard K. Smith, as well as Breckinridge.” What’s the takeaway? Marvin, the Maine summer person with social connections to the moon, had an exquisite talent for being in the right place at the right time.

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“It was on assignment for Town and Country to cover the Lucerne Music Festival, to be followed by the Nazi rally in Nuremberg for Life, that the Germans marched into Poland and all plans were changed,” she told a 1986 audience filled with fellow members of the Society of Women Geographers. “The music festival was cancelled. The Nazi rally was cancelled…It was 1939…I traveled to London with an English girl

who luckily had an uncle on the board [of directors] of the Savoy Hotel, so we stayed there at the minimum rate. “It was already blacked out when we arrived late on the eve of the declaration of war. The following night there were enemy planes over England and we feared a damaging raid. The hall porter came along the corridor, knocked on our doors, and said politely, “Excuse me, miss, there’s an air raid on. Will you please come down to the shelter?” “It was in the basement in the Abraham Lincoln room, neatly protected with piled sand bags. I made a photograph of the hotel guests in their night clothes, which appeared in Life. It was the first picture taken in an air raid shelter [see photo next page].

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y agent, Black Star, had its original office in Fleet Street and were glad to see me turn up, as their English photographers, all men, had been mobilized and the German and Austrian refugees were considered aliens and therefore not allowed to carry cameras. After I’d done several picture stories, I was dining one night with my friends, Ed and Janet Murrow. “Ed was interested in stories I had done on ‘An English Village Prepares for War’ and on children from the slums who were NOVEMBER 2021 57

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orld travels as the wife of Foreign Service officer Jefferson Patterson (First Secretary of the United States Embassy in Berlin), whom she met while covering the city, sharpened her focus for irony, disjuncture, design, and detail. This striking art photo with the snake and the riot of shadows is in the collection at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African Art. On the other side of the looking glass was her life in Maine. According to documents at Vassar, “Jefferson Patterson retired from the Foreign Service in 1958, and Marvin devoted herself to philanthropy, working for many community organizations and boards, including the Board of Directors of the National Symphony Orchestra, the Women’s Committee on the Corcoran Gallery of Art, the Women’s Committee of the Smithsonian Institution Associates and the International Council of the Folger Shakespeare Library. In 1973, the Pattersons donated 23 acres of family land in Maine to Bowdoin College, which became the site of the college’s Breckinridge Public Affairs Center.” Marvin was one of Maine’s most overprivileged and underrated talents. It wasn’t fair how much money she had, or how famous the Breckinridges were: vice presidents, senators, generals, Olympic fencers, Confederate generals, and on her mother’s side, the B.F. Goodrich fortune. Gore Vidal winked at the Breckinridge pedigree (and cousin Bunny Breckinridge) with Myra Breckinridge. When you stand at the shore of River House, you see the world as your reflection.

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She had an exquisite talent for being in the right place at the right time. Citizen of t he World, Citizen of Maine Marvin was born the same year her grandmother had River House built for her on seventy acres of the York River. Guy Lowell was the architect. He’s known for designing the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston and the New York courthouse familiar to movie lovers as the one with the huge stairway that Charlie Sheen climbs in the final frames of Wall Street. In a way, Marvin was one and the same as her summer house here. “By the time I arrived it was here to shelter me during my first summer,” she told Bowdoin College professor David Lee Simmons. The puckish Marvin didn’t mind at all that the mansion

I never thought then that that chance conversation at dinner would lead me into a new career, broadcasting.” was riverside, three miles off the Atlantic shore. “You can play tennis in bright sunshine here while our friends on the ocean are in a damp fog.” Growing up, “even as a little girl, she traveled extensively with her family, mostly to Europe, and to China and Japan during World War I.” In a world of devastation and

beauty, her only constant was Maine. Then misfortune charred her world. “On October 1, 1925, one day before Marvin’s twentieth birthday, River House was destroyed by fire. Marvin received a telegram with the news at Vassar. ‘I thought it was for my birthday,’ she tells Simmons in Mary Marvin Breckinridge Patterson and River House. “‘I got right up there by the next night. The house was still smoldering at 9 p.m.’” According to Simmons, River House was rebuilt while the family traveled in Europe. But the experience had unalterably changed Marvin, who adjusted her horizons to international issues, including cofounding the National Student Federation of America, with chapters from London to Budapest. She may have missed staying at River House in the summer of 1926, but she touched down here memorably in 1927 to enjoy some of the Jazz Age upgrades— deluxe bathrooms and a “slightly adjusted roofline.” The first design’s hipped roof sacrificed storage space and had no love for Maine’s deep snow drifts. Marvin had grown up with her own darkroom, printing her own snapshots. Now that her borderless life was her darkroom, she kept snapping. In 1932, she traveled the African continent, shooting astonishing images in dozens of countries—her portfolio is a permanent part of the Smithsonian’s collection. Closer to home, she traveled through impoverished areas of the U.S. to document rural struggle and courage. Kentucky was the inspiration for her silent film The Forgotten Frontier (1930). n

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evacuated to the country. He asked if I would come on the air with him Saturday night to talk about them, and I said, yes, thinking that my parents, then in California, would be relieved to hear their daughter’s voice. “I never thought then that that chance conversation at dinner would lead me into a new career, broadcasting. I have two bracelets, really dog tags, to show: one with Black Star address and one with CBS. I spoke from seven European countries on the World News Roundup program for CBS, a program which is still going on. I believe I’m the only person to have broadcast from all three great capitals, London, Paris and Berlin, during the war.”

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mas Carol, with Will Rhys, Dec. 11. 452-2412. Footlights Theatre, 190 US-1, Falmouth. HUMBUG! A Spirited Christmas Carol, Dec. 1–22. 747-5434. Good Theater, St. Lawrence Arts Center, 76 Congress St., Who’s Holiday, Nov. 24–Dec. 5, & Dec. 21–Jan. 2. 835-0895. Jonathan’s Ogunquit, 92 Bourne Ln. Chris Collins & Boulder Canyon: A John Denver Christmas, Nov. 27; Don Campbell Christmas Show, Dec. 4. 646-4777. Lyric Music Theater, 176 Sawyer St., South Portland. A Christmas Survival Guide, Dec. 2–12. 799-1421. Merrill Auditorium, 20 Myrtle St. The Kotzschmar Organ: Christmas with Kennerley, Dec. 20. 842-0800. Maine Narrow Gauge Railroad Co. & Museum, 49 Thames St. The Polar Express holiday train ride, every Thu. –Sun, Nov. 26–Dec. 23. 842-0800. Maine State Ballet, Merrill Auditorium, 20 Myrtle St. The Nutcracker, weekends Nov. 26–Dec. 5. 842-0800.

Ogunquit Playhouse, 10 Main St. Holiday online auction featuring exclusive items, including props, costumes, and set pieces from 2021 Playhouse productions, virtual meet & greets with Playhouse cast members, home-stays in Florida & the Dominican Republic, & an original oil painting by Bradford T. Kenney, Nov. 30–Dec. 6. 646-5511. Ogunquit Performing Arts, S. Judson Dunaway Center, 23 School St. Classic Film Series: Christmas in Connecticut, Dec. 5. 646-5139. Penobscot Theatre Company, 51 Main St., Bangor. Miracle on 34th Street: A Live Musical Radio Play, Nov. 18–Dec. 26; Who’s Holiday, Dec. 2–26; Auld Lang Zing!, Dec. 29–31. 942-3333. Portland Ballet, Merrill Auditorium, 20 Myrtle St. A Victorian Nutcracker, Dec. 18–23. 842-0800. Portland Stage, 25A Forest Ave. A Christmas Carol, Dec. 4–24. 774-0465. Portland Symphony Orchestra, Merrill Auditorium, 20 Myrtle St. Magic of Christmas, Dec. 10–19; On-Demand Dec. 17–Jan. 1, 2022. 842-0800. The Public Theater, 31 Maple St., Lewiston. A Very Ida Christmas, Dec. 10–12. 782-3200.

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t the dawn of the last century, this house—170 Eastern Promenade, with its signature turret—ushered in a new era of splendor at the edge of the Atlantic. It’s listed at press time for $2.85M THE ECHOING GREEN “My favorite place is the second-floor balcony facing the ocean,” says James Lindvall, the seller’s agent. “You see the whole bay, the islands, all the green grass on the Prom, Fort Gorges. I’ve attended concerts myself” on the Eastern Prom’s luxuriant slopes. “It’s such an experience to come out here, listening.”

Amenities include a Finnish sauna and four decks/balconies. It’s a two-unit house with a total of 6,299 square feet. “The first floor is all one unit: two bedrooms and a large living room and dining room side by side. In between the dining room and kitchen is a unique butler’s pantry” with lovely woodwork. “The kitchen [with wainscoting, island, and banquette] has an oversized slate sink.” Original trim and doors suggest the early days, but many finishes are contemporary. The first floor has pocket doors and tin ceilings. Victorian tiles decorate “the fireplaces on the first and second floor, both gas.” NOVEMBER 2021 91

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TALKING WALLS A FAMILY’S SUCCESS STORY ccording to files at the Munjoy Hill Historic District, this Queen Anne was built for Alfred Southworth in 1902. Alfred’s father was the Rev. Francis B. Southworth, founder of the Mariner’s Church on Fore Street. Years after his dad started Southworth Press to print Bibles for his mariners, young Alfred became the manager. The press grew into Southworth Machine Co., which diversified to include the manufacture of printing presses, lithography machines, hole-punching machines, automotive parts, trawlers, even fire engines for towns all over New England.

FROM BIBLES TO AIRCRAFT ENGINES In World War II, Southworth Machine worked night and day making aircraft engines and aviation parts, according to the company’s proud history. Afterward, the aerospace industry came calling. Now an international company with headquarters in Falmouth, the Southworth International Group, Inc. (SIGI Global) owns divisions in the “U.S., Mexico, Sweden, England, France, Germany and China,” according to the firm’s website. Now their specialty is “vertical lifting and positioning equipment.” Heavy lifting. If the Pyramids were built today, no doubt a Southworth machine would make quick, back-saving work of it. “Lifting solutions” is their motto. No wonder the Southworths made it to the Prom.

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MARKETED AS A TWO-FAMILY Today, “the second and third floors make up the owner’s quarters,” complete with gym and sauna. “Two sitting rooms on the second floor face the ocean. The front of the third floor has a huge primary bedroom and balcony with ocean exposure.” FRONT-ROW TICKETS TO THE SHOW You won’t need to find a parking space to see the fireworks. “They shut down the Prom, so it’s hard to drive up here on July 4th unless you own one of the properties.” Fortunately “this house comes with a one-car garage and parking for four more cars.” Imagine how many of your friends will congratulate you for owning the most enviable parking spaces in town. Don’t just dream of a five-star address. The Prom is the living end. n Taxes for 170-174 Eastern Prom are $30,091.

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16Little Kings Lane | $1,900,000 River Way | $1,950,000 Kennebunkport, Maine • 4 Beds , 4 Baths • MLS #1510762

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Welcome to 16 Kings Lane, a tastefully redesigned cape just a short stroll to the famous Goose Rocks Beach. With impressive water views, this contemporary, stylish beach house sets the stage with over 2000 sq. ft. of wondrous living space. The first floor features an open concept design, natural light and breathtaking views. For easy and accessible living, you will find a convenient and comfortable bedroom suite nestled on the first floor.

State-of-the-art appliances, a whole house generator, partially finished basement and deeded access to Little River. Unwind and recharge on the expansive 40’ deck overlooking a beautifully landscaped backyard with the river just a stone’s throw away. Thoroughly remodeled, refined and refreshed, this exquisite Goose Rocks Beach property ticks all the boxes and more. Come visit 16 Kings Lane, fall in love, and call it home.

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631 Mtn. Road –With A rare offering, PINE GROVE LANE – –Located close the village with expansive 467 Bald Dallas Hill Road -MOOSELOOK Adorable LogtoLAKE Cabin Views of East 4southwest bed, 4.5 bath contemporary lakefront home w/beach, detached views of Rangeley Lake, 4 beds, 3.5 baths, very close Kennebago Mtn Range and Gull Pond, 2 beds, 1 bath, Walk-Out garage ANDDetached private island w/2 bedroom cottage, 3.56 to Saddleback Ski Area, snowmobile andguest ATVabove, from your doorstep, Basement, Heated Garage W/room snowmobile from our doorstep! $495,000. Acres! $1,899,000. heated garage! $639,000.

277 Stephens Road MOOSELOOK LAKEMaine – West facing Lake PROCTOR – Gorgeous VIEWS overlooking Rangeley 2582 MainROAD Street -–Downtown Rangeley Business W/105 Sandy Beach frontage, 4 bed, 3 bath home w/attached 3 carConveand Saddleback Ski Area, wonderful estate property located just Feet of Waterfront On Rangeley Lake, Lakeside Marina and heated and detached 3Boat car Business, garage bonus room! outside the Rangeley village, Acres,4w/large bed,4.5 bath w/ nience,garage 25 Boat Slips, Rental 48.32 Fuel On Site,home Vibrant Main St. Business! $965,000. $850,000. guest quarters. $1,495,000.

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With Gratitude

Thank you to my valued clients and referral partners. May the upcoming holiday season be filled with joy and tranquility.

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LA ST WORDS Town Meeting (continued from page 104)

this town are vaccinated. We need to act to protect our young children and the healthcompromised among us. The town warrant would mandate masking and require proof of vaccination for everyone eligible when indoors in any public place. This may seem harsh, but do we really have a choice?”

o choice? What did Ned know about this town? He wasn’t from here. He’d only moved here after retiring from one of Portland’s well-heeled law firms. He wasn’t here when the mill closed. He didn’t see local stores on Main Street replaced by sleepy antique shops that some of us in town suspected were a front for drugs. He idolized rural life just because he’d spent some childhood summers “in the country,” and called himself a “gentleman farmer,” whatever that meant. “It’s so quaint—I love it here,” Ned had said when he brought his Volvo in for an oil change at Jacob’s garage. “I just bought the Townsend farm out by the lake. You know the place?”

…Most likely the urban transplants who kept moving to Rockledge, buying up camps down on the lake from locals cashing out.” “Yes,” Jacob said. “I know the place.” Ned addressed the crowded, murmuring hall: “Do I hear a second? Thank you! Now who supports this warrant?” Jacob looked around. Who the hell were all these yeas? Most likely the urban transplants who kept moving to Rock-

ledge, buying up camps down on the lake from locals cashing out. Some of these were family places owned for decades. Knock down the old to build the new. Ned lapped up all the support. This in a town where Jacob was by no means the only resident who didn’t believe in COVID,

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calling it a hoax or saying it wasn’t that bad, refusing to wear masks or get vaccinated as a badge of their independence. “Opposed?” Silence. Jacob caught several of his friends without masks lowering their heads as if to inspect their hands. Are you looking at the dirt under your fingernails? Why don’t you speak? He swallowed. I need to say what I came here to say. Even if some of these people speak better than me, look down on me. He didn’t own a $70,000 foreign car and didn’t think he was particularly good-looking— not like Ned with his silvered hair. He’d barely graduated from high school—he didn’t have the smarts. His marriage to his high-school girlfriend hadn’t lasted long, and his ex had custody of their son. He did what he could as a mechanic—tried to make it work.

e unfolded a crumpled envelope, grease marks on the edges, and started to read: “I was one of those who went down to that impeachment rally in Augusta last year to protest for my rights. Governor Mills had no business tell-

ting emotional but could see that the resolution was now in jeopardy and was not surprised Ned decided to table the motion to avoid defeat, saying the matter needed more study. As the hall emptied, Jacob ran into Maybell, the elderly town clerk who in a prior career had taught him in second grade. “It was brave of you to speak up, Jacob,” she said. “You’re a good boy, and I’ll always be grateful for all you did for me after my husband passed.” “Thank you, Maybell. It’s nice to see you looking so well.” Heading for his truck, Jacob saw Ned bearing down on him. He turned away, but as he did, heard a gasp and saw Ned fall hard on the black ice. That’s what happens when you just walk on city streets. But he quickly knelt and helped Ned to his feet. “Thanks, Jacob.” Ned seemed shaken, slightly disoriented. “I don’t know you well, but you shouldn’t take this all so personally.” Jacob stiffened. “It is personal—very personal! You want to cover my mouth and inject me so my genes are changed? It doesn’t get more personal than that.”

His marriage to his high-school girlfriend hadn’t lasted long, and his ex had custody of their son.” ing me how to breathe, and neither do you, Ned. God gave me that right. And now you want to require me to be vaccinated?” He sensed his voice growing louder, glimpsed spittle projecting from his mouth. “I’m no lawyer like you, Ned, but to me these mandates trample on my liberties. It’s been bad enough during this pandemic—you want to make it worse?” Jacob sat when he felt his arms shaking, receiving nods of approval from many in attendance. He cursed himself for get-

“More personal than losing your wife?” Ned’s eyes were tired, haunted. Jacob stopped short. Rumor had it that Ned’s wife had come down with COVID and died less than a year after his retirement. “We were married forty years, but I wasn’t allowed to be at her side to hold her hand when she passed. I just don’t want—” Ned’s voice went ragged. “I don’t want anyone else to go through that.” Jacob had heard some folks in town say Ned had a good heart. Maybe it was true. n NOVEMBER 2021 103

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I just bought the Townsend Farm out by the lake. You know the place?”

Town Meeting acob Ham pulled up to the Rockledge town hall in his Ford 150, its STOP THE STEAL tailgate sticker almost unreadable in the freezing rain. He normally didn’t care about town meetings. Tonight was different. The hall was jammed as Ned Whitlock, the First Selectman, called the meeting to order. “Thank you all for showing up. As you know, the Delta variant is rising, and not enough of us in (Continued on page 102)

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UNION MAINE BY ALTHEA HUBBARD

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Chicken Sausage Stuffed Acorn Squash with Mushrooms and Apple SERVES 4 Ingredients: 2

Acorn squash, halved crosswise, seeds removed

2 tsp.

Hannaford Extra Virgin Olive Oil

6 oz.

Nature’s Promise® Italian Chicken Sausage with Kale, casings removed (about two links)

Honeycrisp apple, chopped into small pieces

1 cup

Baby bella mushrooms, chopped

2 tsp.

Minced garlic

1 (5 oz.) Fresh Express® Baby Spinach, chopped 2 Tbsp. Water 1/2 tsp. McCormick GourmetTM Organic Crushed Rosemary 1/2 tsp. McCormick® Thyme Leaves Pinch

McCormick® Crushed Red Pepper

Pouches Nature’s Promise® 90 Seconds Whole Grain Brown Rice, cooked according to package directions

1/4 cup Cabot® Lite50 Sharp Cheddar Cheese, shredded Salt and pepper 2 Tbsp. Chopped fresh parsley Directions: 1. Heat oven to 425°F. Brush cut sides of squash with oil and place cut side down on a parchment-lined baking sheet. Roast until tender, 30 to 40 minutes.

Acorn squash is rich in nutrients like fiber, potassium and vitamin C. It’s the perfect size to fill with your favorite fall flavors, such as apple, thyme and rosemary and makes a delicious and savory November night meal.

2. Meanwhile, cook chicken sausage in a large nonstick skillet over medium heat until cooked through, about 5 minutes, breaking up into small pieces with a wooden spoon. Add apple, mushrooms, garlic, spinach, water, rosemary, thyme and red pepper to skillet and cook, stirring frequently, until mushrooms and apple are slightly softened, and spinach is wilted, about 5 minutes. 3. Remove skillet from heat and stir in rice and cheese. Season with salt and pepper to taste and divide among squash halves. Return squash to oven and bake until filling is hot, about 10 minutes. Sprinkle with parsley and serve.

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