CHOWDER

Take a licking on airfare and get a Mt.

Desert Island Ice Cream cone in

Matsumoto, Japan (economy from PWM to TYO $1,881 to $2,008). Or snap one up in Portland at 51 Exchange Street or at 7 Firefly Lane in Bar Harbor. In Maine, ice cream is a yearround treat.

CLOCKWISE FROM TOP LEFT: PATRICK BENTZ FONTAINE, PIXABAY, STAFF(2), PIXABAY; DARK SKY FILMS, ADOBESTOCK

PUFFIN SUMMER

Ornithologist Je Wells has reported a “mega-rarity” on Matinicus Island, famous for its Mainecore crowd of Atlantic pu ns: a visit from a Paci c tu ed pu n. As he and Allison Wells wrote in the Boothbay Register, “To get the full sense of how unusual it is to nd a tu ed pu n here in the Gulf of Maine, consider its known breeding range: from the coast of northern California to the coast of northern Alaska and across to the coast of Russia south to northern Japan.”

Zombi Go

The Zom Rom Com that stars the city of Portland, Night of the Living Deb, is now available for screening on Amazon Prime. Pictured: Co-star Ray Wise (Twin Peaks) in the living room at 150 Western Prom. Overheard from Wise during shooting after we mowed the lawn: “I love the smell of freshcut grass in the morning.”

PLAQUE ATTACK

Great to see that sufrage pioneer Augusta Hunt’s landmark brick townhouse at 165 State Street (also our own headquarters for a dozen years) now has a striking plaque that commemorates her remarkable courage. On the TMZ front, her direct descendant is Oscar-winning actress Helen Hunt.