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It’s 1938. Your brother, Sir Harry Oakes, is the richest plutocrat in North America. Fifty years later, Rod Steiger will star in the lurid biopic Passion & Paradise. How can you match that? For starters, you enjoy your 265-acre wedding gift, Brambletye, on the shores of Moosehead

Lake, just up for sale for $12,850,000.

FROM TOP: LANDVEST; STAFF PHOTO; STAFF GRAPHIC; STAFF PHOTO; ADOBE STOCK When Wells Auto Museum closed years ago, its silver 1980s DeLorean disappeared. But wait! “It’s right here,” says Peter Farrell, events manager at Maine Classic Car Museum, the new tourist magnet at Motorland, 2564 Portland Road (Route 1) in Arundel. “We also host gatherings, events, and presentations here” among the shiny objects, including sock hops. Think poodle skirts. From vintage Jaguars to groovy campers to woodies, a Tucker, and FDR’s lustrous Packard, this joint is jumpin’.

When Justin Timberlake and Jessica Biel put their $35M Los Angeles mansion up for sale, listings photos revealed a portrait (complete with fedora) by Maine artist Alex Katz eavesdropping in their living room. If it isn’t a Katz, it’s a copy-Katz. According to the Fish and Wildlife Service, “great cormorants are present in the Gulf of Maine during the winter months, long after [those snow-flaky] double-crested cormorants have flown south.”

Please, Let it Be Please, Let it Be

Suddenly we’re all kicking our foosball games to the curb in anticipation of a new era when it’s safe to explore the world outside our rec rooms and man caves. At press time, there were 28 foosball tables for sale in Maine on Facebook Marketplace, ranging from $60 to $2,500. Ah, the platinum edition!