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Food&Drink

8 From the Editor

27 Stone Soup

15 Guess Who?

21 Throwback Thanksgiving

“Strange Days, Indeed” Kennebunk’s little-known connection to the monstrous conspirators Leopold & Loeb.

By Colin W. Sargent

10 Letters 25 Breaking the Ice

The ship Polarstern returns from the Arctic with dire warnings about Global Warming. In 1923, Donald MacMillan was sent to the Arctic aboard the Schooner Bowdoin to measure growing glaciers that gave rise to fears of a New Ice Age and Global Cooling.

Wait, what?

By Colin W. Sargent

40 Gift Guide

Where the Ghost of Christmas Future shops.

Businesses near and far create the new kid on the block–the Children’s Museum & Theatre of Maine–in front of our very eyes. And we’re loving it.

From Staff & Wire Reports

63 Talking Walls

“So Maine!” Meet your forever getaway on Christmas Cove.

By Colin W. Sargent

66 Homes & Living

Exciting properties to make your fantasy of a home in Maine come true.

Art&Style 72 Last Words

“File this Under: Maine Noir.” After filming Laura, Dana Andrews turns up in Vinalhaven for an adaptation of Ruth Moore’s Spoonhandle.

By Colin W. Sargent

It’s me, Portland Head Light, and I’m turning up in places you’d never imagine–often uncredited. At least please spell my name right.

By Sarah Samel

A magic doorway to the past invites old/new vegetable traditions to the table.

By Meaghan Maurice Bailey

38 Dining Guide

Maine Life

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A tasty blend of the Fabulous, the Eyebrow-Raising, and the Just Plain Wrong.

33 Experience

“Dinner Out” Glamour curbside takeout is on the rise at Yeto’s.

By Colin W. Sargent

Degrees of separation— distancing as an art form. See what’s new, presented in novel ways.

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ow do you ‘quarantine?’ Like you, I’m bingewatching. I like the way the writers of Mad Men deepen storylines with sideshadowing. Unlike foreshadowing, sideshadowing illuminates news outside the central story that colors the mood. As a London advertising agency swallows up Manhattan’s Sterling Cooper, the employees grow irritable. In the darkened executive lounge, flickering images of the Cuban Missile Crisis play across the TV screen.

Characters fear becoming irrelevant when the railway palace known as Penn Station (already some of its marble columns encased in plastic) is razed in favor of the new Madison Square Garden with its space-age design. Not everyone is excited about the next new thing.

Our own Union Station fell to the wrecking ball about this same time and was replaced by a shopping center. At least this ushered in the preservation surge that created Greater Portland Landmarks.

Who knows what COVID-19 is sideshadowing today. It led me to finish a project cleaning out some bookcases in our cottage that I’d put off organizing for 30 years. A yellowed obituary fell out of a journal.

“Dead. John O. Levinson, 59, Chicago attorney.”

Hey! As a jaded teen in Kennebunk, I’d caddied a few times for John O. Levinson, Sr., a three-time New England Amateur winner. Longest, straightest drives I’ve ever seen. I was aboard a Navy ship in 1974 when a letter from my father, including the article, was delivered to me at mail call. I read my dad’s letter forthwith but missed this clipping, tucked in with the funnies and other news, until this very second: “…Levinson, as a nine-year-old boy, was the original murder target of self-styled ‘Supermen’ Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb; of cancer; in Portland, Maine. Levinson was a friend of Loeb’s younger brother Tommy in 1924 when the jaded teenage duo decided on him as the victim of their ‘perfect crime.’ The pair attempted to follow Levinson home from a sand-lot baseball game, but he had turned down a different street from the usual one and inadvertently eluded them. They then killed 14-year-old Bobby Franks instead.”

“Hey, how’s it going up there?” my wife calls from downstairs.

“Slowly. There are a lot of shadows to carry.” I ponder what it must have been like for Levinson trying to ignore 50 years of death at his heels. No wonder he could be grouchy.

Sideshadowing stalks you unawares. With coronavirus in the air, I think of this later that night as we watch a Mad Men episode that savagely refers to the Hitchcock movie Rope.

The thing about sideshadowing is, you never know whose bag you’re carrying. Where’s the sideshadowing? We’re the sideshadowing.

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On page 23 is an ad for cruises on Moosehead Lake. My Dad had a gift for finding summer jobs for us kids. My sister and I found ourselves at the Squaw Mountain Inn, she as a housemaid and me as a caddy on the golf course.

On page 119 is the story on McCarthy and Margaret Chase Smith. I met her in the 1949 Senior Trip to the Washington D.C. area by the Deering High School class. I think my Dad at the time was Republican Chair of Cumberland County. Mrs. Smith said she didn’t know him but did know my grandmother in South Portland. He was no McCarthy follower; maybe didn’t like his sense of humor.

Page 135 is an ad for the Shaker Village. We used to stop for a visit on our way to Paris Hill from Portland. It was a neat place. Thanks for your friendship and magazine.

Lincoln King, Carthage, Texas We’re sad to lose our great reader and thoughtful correspondent Lincoln King (April 13, 1931-August 16, 2020), a Portland native, Brown University graduate, Army Intelligence officer, and career educator who retired to Carthage, Texas, but remained a Mainer through and through. Lincoln, I’ll miss your wonderful connections to our stories. I’ll miss you. –Ed.

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On the House!

HGTV is giving away a fully furnished “Urban Oasis” at 71 Essex Street in Portland. Grand prize value: $650,000 including cash. Pro tip: you can enter twice a day. And if this is “urban,” what do you call this? (Mainer Berenice Abbott’s photo of Manhattan, titled New York at Night, 1932.)

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The October 2020 issue of Psychology Today says, 96 percent of dog owners (32% cats) feel their pet “helps them to keep fit. Dogs still need to be walked…cats do not.” Dogs top cats (59% to 35%) as “the reason I keep in touch with some people or social media groups.” Says Pope Memorial Humane Society (Thomaston): “People have more time now. It’s a nationwide upward trend.”

Harry. David. Seriously.

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From left: I was only 145 years old here—We both look so young. But I hate the way I’m cropped. Wish someone had asked if I minded being only half in this shot. Because I do. By the way, the author of the novel Captain January was Laura E. Richards from Gardiner. Bet she got a nice chunk of the film’s royalties. I got zilch! In this episode of Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. the team flies in to access a secret base under the lighthouse!

Not surprising—Red Lobster has been known to steal my vibes for gift cards and restaurant décor.

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Here I am again in The Little Mermaid.

“The shot you mention is actually stock footage,” writes cinematographer Neil Oseman. “Neither I nor the production has any connection to Maine.”

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This time of year, gorgeous gourds, squash, and pumpkins transform the conversation because they’re shaped to amaze.

The Blue Hubbard

“This isn’t quite as common as the acorn or butternut, but it’s one of the most delicious. This squash has a dry flesh and stores really well.” So who brought it here? “It came to the U.S. in the mid-1800s and was grown to feed animals.

It’s also massive and cooks down well.” —Jackie Nielsen

Algonquin Pumpkin, Long Pie Pumpkin

Lewis & Clark actually traded for this Abenaki-cultivated super crop from 1804-1806. Today, it’s no longer a top seller. “We get Algonquin pumpkins once or twice a year with our ‘Fantasy Pumpkin’ shipment,” says Brendan at Trader Joe’s, Portland. Great for pies!

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No, not that kind of cranberry. “Inspired by a description of ‘Red Cranberry’ in a 1700s gardening encyclopedia, legendary bean collector John Withee, after an 11-year search, finally obtained it from Mr. Taylor of Steep Falls, Maine. The plump, round, maroon seeds without streaking look like Thanksgiving cranberries, unlike the speckled oval bush cranberry types. One of our oldest varieties, probably Native American.”

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“I like this one because it’s fun and different looking.” The “Peanut Pumpkin has been around since the early 1900s and the seeds originally came from France.”

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t’s been a wild ride. An international group of scientists aboard the Arctic research ship Polarstern intentionally locked themselves inside an ice floe to plot their course and drift during the year 2020 in the face of Global Warming.

They’ve returned with alarming news about shrinking sea ice near the Polar Cap amid modern problems. According to the New York Times, “the expedition, with a rotating contingent of about 100 scientists, technicians and crew, encountered nosy polar bears, fierce storms that damaged equipment, changing ice conditions and, most critically, the coronavirus pandemic that scrambled logistics. There were also accusations of sexual discrimination and harassment aboard a Russian support ship that accompanied the Polarstern for the first month.” A bright spot: Half the scientists on the mission ended up being women—even if they were presented with an insulting dress code!

REVERSING COURSE The rush to measure the effects Global Warming takes us back to 1923, when the National Geographic Society ironically sent Maine explorer Donald MacMillan and his crew aboard the auxiliary schooner Bowdoin to the Arctic Circle to document Global Cooling as a result of industrial

• 1898: Greenhouse Gases from industrialization studied • 1909: Early use of the term Greenhouse Effect • 1921: Bowdoin launched

from the roof of the world.

gases. MacMillan and crew measured increasing glaciers at the request of world scientists terrified of a “New Ice Age.” The capping irony is that the early signs of “global cooling” simply foreshadowed (or was overwhelmed by) the Global Warming we have now.

According to Science Daily, “over the past 150 years, global warming has more than undone the global cooling that occurred over the past six millennia, accord-

Shemanship vs. Old Boys’ Club “Last Saturday at noon Professor MacMillan’s sturdy little schooner in which he will dare the perils of the wilderness of the north slipped into the water. Miss May Fogg of Freeport, a niece of Dr. MacMillan, christened her Bowdoin, and as she slipped down the ways the band struck up ‘Bowdoin Beata.’ Many loyal voices joined in the song, and cheer after cheer greeted the boat of which so much is expected. True Bowdoin spirit was as manifest as on an athletic field, for Bowdoin men were helping one of their number to accomplish a difficult feat, to go in, fight, and win. The launching is the start.

The Bowdoin will bear with it on its trip that same Bowdoin spirit…”

–The Bowdoin Orient, April 1921 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JbLlaYVpOXM

tute to study “global cooling.”

• 1956: “Climactic Change” first appears in journalistic coverage • 1975: World population tops 4 billion. “Global warming” surfaces in new reports

• 1923: Donald MacMillian sent

by National Geographic Insti- • 2020: Forty-five years, later the

Polarstern returns to Norway after being intentionally locked in an ice floe for a year.

• 2020 and forward: The Bowdoin sails on.

“Only in rare cases did women have direct access to formal Arctic research institutions…women in

ing to a major study published June 30 in Nature Research’s Scientific Data, ‘Holocene global mean surface temperature, a multi-method reconstruction approach.’

The findings show that the millennial-scale global cooling began approximately 6,500 years ago when the long-term average global temperature topped out at around 0.7°C warmer than the mid-19th century. Since then, accelerating greenhouse gas emissions have contributed to global average temperatures that are now surpassing 1°C above the mid-19th century.”

Warming or cool, the one thing that stays red hot is the need for recognition of women’s rights to equally and safely participate on Arctic research vessels.

At least we can say the Bowdoin sails today in her 100th year with Maine Maritime Academy midshipman aboard–including women—departing from Maine for Labrador for more research.

Another point of pride is that women have taken the helm of the Bowdoin from her earliest days, among them Miriam MacMillan, Donald’s wife, and his niece May Fogg of Freeport, who christened the Bowdoin on April 9, 1921, at Hodgdon Brothers Yachts in East Boothbay (the shipyard that to this day creates high-tech ocean yachts for clients across the globe). ■

most countries remained barred from participating in “official” polar expeditions until the mid-20th century…”

—From “Women in Polar Research” in “Breaking the Arctic’s Ice Ceiling,” an initiative of The Arctic Institute.

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Talents blend to create the new Children’s Museum & Theatre of Maine.

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n the ancient folk tale “Stone Soup,” a band of bony soldiers floats into a village and proposes to the townspeople that they make soup out of stones for all to enjoy in the village square. Wary at first, the villagers are emboldened to add some scraps of meat here, a hidden potato there. The soup deepens, becomes a rich dish to satisfy our hunger. Be degrees, everything tastes better and better. Voila. Everybody’s happy!

On Thompson’s Point, the soup is nearly ready for 2021’s grand opening.

We’ve seen the fanciful structure rise courageously during COVID. There is excitement, because when the Museum merged with the Children’s Theatre of Maine, a sense of our community being on stage crystallized. After all, Tony-winning actress (and Portland Magazine subscriber) Andrea Martin started her brilliant career with the Children’s Theatre of Maine.

So the curtain’s going up. We’ve all got to help—with visits, donations, inspirations, good will. We thought our readers would like a list of the delicious ingredients that are coming together: Design Matters

Greg Belew, Hands On! Studios

Fro m Staff & Wire Report s

What is your company doing for the new project?

“Exhibition design.” Specifically, “water play and ball play.” It’s very important that these exhibitions “reflect the Portland community. Children’s museums become cultural hubs.”

Hands On! Studios is headquartered in St. Petersburg, FL. How did you end up working with a Maine museum?

“The museum did their own research. We were shortlisted for an interview.

We’ve been in business over 30 years—we’ve done overseas and domestic work, and we specialize in learning through play.”

How will your exhibit be best interacted with by kids?

“Children don’t have as many opportunities for play, and parents don’t, either. Children’s museums and science centers give an opportunity for parents to learn about how their kids play and engage by watching.” For example, there will be a climber in the main lobby that will hone “motor skills and safe risk-taking.” There will be a miniature Portland on the second floor, including “a lobster boat, airport, beach scene, fire truck,

and a hospital.”

Are there any Maine themes? Is there someplace in Maine that inspired your design?

“We want to celebrate Maine and what makes Maine unique. It’s more about inspiration from what the museum team knows about the community.” Belew wants to be sure that the project “has a very Portland feel. We did a lot of research on the Portland area, and that shows up in the color palette.”

Are there any special touches that you wouldn’t do someplace else?

“The light and color gallery. The museum brought over a camera obscura from the old location. It’s very unique. I’m not sure of any other museum that has one.” Along with this comes a “pinhole camera, a very early version of creating an image. It’s a phenomenon on how lights and opticals work.”

Anyone you plan on bringing to the new museum?

“My wife. She doesn’t get to see a lot of my projects. I hope she’ll see the opening.”

Have you ever been to the current Children’s Museum location?

“I have. I’ve been to Portland quite a lot.

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Horizons

“These are hollow, plastic playpen balls—kids can toss them around and nobody will get hurt. The ball wall manipulates direction and teaches kids about physics and movement.” —David Foster, Boss Display.

MECA graduate Rachel Gloria Adams will be doing the mural for the air playroom as well as the water playroom.

You have fabulous restaurants, but it’s very cold! Especially for a Floridian!”

tion and teaches kids about physics and movement. There’s even a ball cannon— kids can play around with what angle to launch from.”

ing future artists who will bring us all what we need. I think art is very important when times get tough like this.”

feel very lucky,” says Belew. “I am an architect by training. I started out freelancing and realized I could have a lot of impact on kids and learning with this project. My goal is to have visitors tell me ‘I came here as a kid, loved your exhibits, and now my kids are here with me.’”

How does it make you feel to be part of a project that generations of future Mainers will enjoy?

“Friends that have children that are museum age. Post-COVID, I have nieces and nephews that are that age, and we always appreciate people coming out of state.”

Some Exhibit Designs

Where is your business headquartered?

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David Foster, Boss Display What is your company doing for the new project?

“We’re fabricating exhibit designs from Hands On! We consulted and worked through design development, and will move to production here in our shop.

We have 3 or 4 drafting personnel doing 3D modeling.”

What is the inspiration behind your exhibit? How will your exhibit be best interacted with by kids?

“We are very influenced by Alexander Calder,” says Foster. Calder is an American sculptor known for his kinetic pieces. “This exhibit is very much inspired by sculpture.

We’re taking the opportunity to move it into a more creative direction.”

The focus is on interactive sculptures and exhibits that are physics and toy-based.

There will be “two water tables that have a ball element to them: you can shoot a ball up into the air and onto a track. There are endless possibilities on how you can interact with things.”

“Adjacent is the ball area,” says Foster.

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Anyone you plan on bringing to the new museum?

“It’s always exciting,” says Foster. “The most rewarding part for us is the final video of the local kids interacting with our exhibit. We enjoy going to museums all over and seeing how they bring different aspects of the community into it.”

“Columbus, Ohio. We’re in only one location. Everything is done under one roof.

We’re the go-to for water and ball exhibits.”

How did you get involved in a project at a Maine museum?

“Greg Belew reached out to us. He’s a good friend of ours. We started giving him suggestions on design.”

I Can Hear for Miles

Pat O’Donnell, Stone Mountain Sound How does it make you feel to be part of a project that generations of future Mainers will enjoy?

Any special touches you’re doing that you wouldn’t do someplace else?

“Our company strength is tailoring to the needs of the client rather than going for a cookie-cutter version. Each of our installs is tailored in some way. We definitely brought some ideas to the table that the museum liked that tailored the technology to their unique needs. We have installed both the sound and lighting operations, and in addition to that, we are creating a more usersimple experience so that there doesn’t need to be a full staff. It’s fully featured enough that they can bring in a full staff, but it’s also an automated control system.”

What is different about this project from others you’ve done in the past?

“It feels great. We’re based in South Port“Working in the Northeast, a lot of the land. Both Noah Cole, my business parttheater situations that we do are in exner, and I love to be involved in any comisting buildings. This is not only new munity project. Luckily, a lot of the stuff construction, but it’s a theater that is we do is theater, where tailored for children’s Pat Corrigan in front of one of his murals in folks get to experiproductions that exists in the Bayside neighborhood. ence a wide range of a building that has a lot art. It feels good to be of other stuff going on. a part of that commuWe need to tie into other nity that will present systems that service the art and community building as well. The theevents. The added eleater and the museum setment that it’s children’s ting is very unique, which theater is great, too, is not something there’s because we’re inspira whole lot of. The tech-

from top: courtesy the childrens museum; courtesy rachel gloria adams; diane hudson

How does it make you feel to be part of a project that generations of future Mainers will enjoy?

nical challenges that arise from being a theater inside a museum are unique.”

Surround sound Jonah Sacks, Acentech

“We know that the site is exposed to a number of noise sources, like airplanes from the Jetport and a highway that’s nearby,” says Jonah Sacks of Acentech, an acoustic consulting firm in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

He’s going to “make sure everybody can hear everything” in the new theater. He and his team are ensuring “nothing that goes on outside the building or outside the theater can be heard during the show.”

A Stone Soupçon of the collaborative contributors.

Hussey Seating, known the world over for its stadium seating in artistic venues and sports palaces, is donating the theater seats.

We’re grateful to Tom Hussey and his team.

Let him know you care: tomhussey@husseyseating.com.

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he creative challenge of landscaping on the once stark Thompson’s Point is being undertaken by Salmon Falls Nursery. Thanks to Jason Meekins.

Drop him a note. [As you can see, we’re asking you to participate–in the spirit of Stone Soup!] Jason@salmonfallsnursery.com Zachau Construction brings nothing less than the building to us. Every time you open the door, think of them and Jeff Zachau’s guidance. jeff@zachauconstruction.com.

One of the participating artists is Portland’s own Pat Corrigan. “Right now, I’m painting signage that will populate the Our Town exhibition area and then, I think in the same area, there will be a few murals on the walls. There’s a hospital exhibition and a train-station exhibition that I’ll be doing murals on.”

Textile designer and painter Rachel Gloria Adams will be doing “two murals for the air playroom and the water playroom.

For the water room, I’m working on ripples on a lake, shades of blue, different ways water can be captured. For the air playroom, it’s all about flight. This project is my first mural. You want to make something that stands the test of time. Being part of that history, especially as a Black artist in Maine, is just incredible.”

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WHEN IMAGINATION MATTERS With the 2021 opening of their new state-of-the-art facility, the Children’s Museum & Theatre of Maine will offer innovative exhibits, alongside performances, classes, workshops and community events.

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THANKS TO YOU We Believe In Exploration, Discovery, and Play

MAINE KIDS GET THE BEST OF IT

At GSB, we know how valuable the Children’s Museum & Theatre is.

Our kids went to sea on the lobster boat, visited space in the shuttle, and rode to the rescue on the fire truck. That’s why we’re proud to add our voice and our support to the 200-plus donors who came together to support your move to Thompson’s Point. So thank you, from your many fans here at GSB. See you on the lobster boat!

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Experience

Portland Harbor Christmas Boat Parade of Lights

Theater

New Surry Theatre, 18 Union St., Blue Hill. The Humans (livestream), Nov. 20, 21, 27, 28. 200-4720.

from top: michael leonard; courtesy photo

Penobscot Theatre Company, 131 Main St., Bangor. Ghost Postcards from Maine, a virtual audio performance, through Nov. 8; Exceptions to Gravity (streamed), Nov. 8–29.

942-3333.

Portland Stage, 25A Forest Ave., Talley’s Folly, through Nov. 15. 774-0465.

25; Laurel Martin , Dec. 2; Jazz Sesh online, every Tue. 774-4111.

Camden Opera House, 29 Elm St., Mark Tipton, Nov. 13. 236-3154.

The Frog & Turtle, 3 Bridge St., Westbrook. Captain Ray & the Castaways, Nov. 13; Moore Wild Lynch, Nov. 20; The Jimmy Macisso Trio, Nov. 26; Juke Joint Devil Band, Nov. 27; David Good, Dec. 3. 591-4185.

Jonathan’s Ogunquit, 92 Bourne Ln., Introduction, The Chicago Experience, Nov. 14; Montgomery & Marshall, Nov. 20; Elton John & Billy Joel, Face to Face Tribute, Nov. 21. 646-4777.

Portland Symphony Orchestra, 50 Monument Sq., Bach and Brahms (online), Nov. 14. 842-0800.

Saco River Theatre, 29 Salmon Falls Rd., Buxton.

Erica Brown and the Blue-

Schoodic Arts, Gouldsboro Town Park, Prospect Harbor.

Meetinghouse Theatre Lab directed by Brent Hutchins, Nov. 21. 963-2569.

Spring St., Virtual Art Talk, Nov. 17. 333-6640.

Schoodic Arts, 427 Main St., Winter Harbor. Colin Graebert Trio, Nov. 27.

963-2569.

Brick Store Museum, 117 Main St., Kennebunk. Perspectives 2020, through Dec. 31. 985-4802.

State Theatre, 609 Congress St., Cold War Kids livestream, Nov. 8, 22; Sylvan Esso livestream, Nov. 17, Dec. 1. 956-6000.

Center for Maine Contemporary Art, 21 Winter St., Rockland. BIENNIAL 2020, Oct. 3–May 2, 2021.

701-5005.

Stone Mountain Arts Center, 695 Dugway Rd., Brownfield. Adam Ezra Group, Nov. 27, 28.

935-7292.

Cove Street Arts, 71 Cove St., Flight, through Dec. 5; Faculty Photography, through Dec. 12; STEAM, through Dec. 31. 808-8911.

Comedy

Eastport Arts Center, 36 Washington St., Covid Creations virtual exhibition, opens Dec. 1. 853-4650.

Jonathan’s Ogunquit, 92 Bourne Ln., Steve Sweeney, Nov. 13. 646-4777.

Saco River Theater, 29 Salmon Falls Rd., Buxton.

VILLAIN: DeBLANKS, Nov. 14. 929-6615.

Music

Blue, 650A Congress St., All events are on Facebook: Kevin Burke, Nov. 11; Chris Brinn, Nov. 18; Matt Christian & Max Carmichael, Nov.

grass Connection, Nov. 7.

929-6615.

Watch the Sylvan Esso Livestream via the State Theatre on Tuesday, November 17.

Art

Auburn Public Library, 49

Farnsworth Art Museum, 16 Museum St., Rockland.

Zoom Step by Step: Watercolor with Erica Qualey, Nov. 17, Dec. 1; Transforming the Ordinary: Women in American Book Cover De-

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The Natural Resources Council of Maine’s goes

VIRTUAL!

Tom Paiement solo exhibition, November 5 through 28 at Greenhut Gallery. sign zoom presentation, Nov. 18; Eliot Porter: All the Wild Places zoom curator talk, Dec. 2; Taking Care Of Rembrandt And Friends: Adventures In Painting zoom talk, Dec. 9. 596-6457.

Greenhut Galleries, 146 Middle St., Tom Paiement, Nov. 5–28. 772-2693.

Jack S. Ketchum Library, 11 Hills Beach Rd., Biddeford. Cut with the Kitchen Knife, through Jan. 18, 2021. 602-3000.

Kittery Art Association, 8 Coleman Ave., En Plein Air, through Nov. 29. 451-9384.

KW Contemporary Art, 184 Port Rd., Kennebunk. Falling, through Nov. 30; All That Glitters…, Dec. 1–Jan. 9, 2021. 204-0480.

Maine Historical Society, 489 Congress St., State of Mind: Becoming Maine, through Jan. 30, 2021. 774-1822.

Maine Maritime Museum, 243 Washington St., Bath. Boatshop Workshop: Shaker Box Making, Dec. 9–10. 443-1316.

NRCM is grateful to the many Dip & Dash sponsors who have extended their support in this unusual year.

Special shout out to our Champion Sponsors:

MECA, 522 Congress St. Acoustic Resonance, through Dec. 11. 699-5025.

Messler Gallery, 25 Mill St., Rockport. Out of Bounds: The Art of Croquet, through Jan. 6, 2021. 594-5611.

Portland Museum of Art, 7 Congress Sq., Seascape, Mythmakers: The Art of Winslow Homer and Frederic Remington, through Nov. 29. 775-6148.

Richard Boyd Art Gallery, 15 Epps St., Peaks Island. Serenity-2020, through Nov. 29. 712-1097.

River Arts, 241 US-1, Damariscotta. Artist’s Choice, through Nov. 28. 563-1507.

Roux & Cyr Gallery, 48 Free St., Monet Workshop, Nov. 13–15. 576-7787.

Saco Museum, 371 Main St., “I Have Always Found Much Pleasure in Painting”: Gibeon

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From top: courtesy greenhut gallery; detail from “Watching the Breakers,” 1896, oil on canvas by winslow homer. Arkell Museum at Canajoharie New York.

DIP & DASH

Experience

Elden Bradbury (1833-1904), through Dec. 31. 283-3861.

University of Maine Museum of Art, 40 Harlow St., Bangor. Maine Inspired: Art Luminaries at the Bicentennial, JoAnne Carson: Wood Nymphs, Marcie Jan Bronstein: Being Here, through Dec. 23. 581-3300.

University of New England Museum of Art, 716 Stevens Ave., Photography in Maine, 18402020, through Jan. 31, 2021. 221-4499.

Film

Curtis Memorial Library, 23 Pleasant St., Brunswick. Virtual Film Discussion: First Earth, Nov. 11; How Poor People Survive in the USA, Nov. 25. 725-5242.

Frontier, 14 Maine St., Mill 3 Fort Andross, Brunswick. Virtual Cinemas Series: RBG, Oliver Sacks: His Own Life, Epicentro, The Fight, The Rest I Make Up, John Lewis: Good Trouble, ongoing update with newest films. 725-5222.

Maine Historical Society, 489 Congress St., Representing Race in Mid-Century Maine Film: Lost Boundaries (1949) followed by Zoom talk, Nov. 11. 774-1822.

Maine Jewish Film Festival, mjff.org. First Virtual Maine Jewish Film Festival, Nov. 7–22.

831-7495.

Portland Museum of Art, 7 Congress Sq., PMA Films virtual cinema: RBG, The Artist’s Wife, Softie, Our Time Machine, new films added weekly. 775-6148.

Literary

Curtis Memorial Library, 23 Pleasant St., Brunswick. Ellen Cooney, Nov. 19; Ken Gloss Antiquarian Book Program (virtual), Dec. 3; Irene Drago, Dec. 9. 725-5242.

Flight Deck Brewing, 11 Atlantic Ave., Brunswick. Books & Brews, Dec. 2. 504-5133.

See Mythmakers: The Art of Winslow Homer and Frederic Remington at Portland Museum of Art through November 29. Schedule your visit online ahead of time at www.portlandmuseum.org.

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Print: A Bookstore, 273 Congress St., Layne Witherell’s Wine Maniacs (virtual), Nov. 12.

536-4778.

Scarborough Public Library, 48 Gorham Rd. Virtual book discussion of This Is Chance!, Nov. 10. 883-4723.

Lectures

Historic New England, Ladies in the Field: The Victorian Pastimes of Botany and Gardening, Nov. 11; The Glass Flowers: Marvels of Art & Science, Nov. 18. (617) 994-5959.

Maine Historical Society, 489 Congress St., Maine at 200 Series (Zoom): Pandemics in Wabanaki Communities, Nov. 11. 774-1822.

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Now You’re Cooking, 49 Front St., Bath. Virtual Cooking Demo, every Thu. 443-1402.

Schoodic Arts, 427 Main St., Winter Harbor.

Weekend Brunch virtual cooking workshop, Dec. 5. 963-2569.

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Dining Guide Becky’s Diner has been serving comfort food at a reasonable price on Portland’s historic waterfront since 1991. Located at 390 Commercial Street, we offer all-day breakfast, locally sourced seafood, and diner classics such as our Roast Turkey Dinner. Featured on the Food Network’s “Diners, Drive-Ins & Dives,” come see what all the fuss is about. Becky’s Diner, Nothin Finah! 773-7070.

BlueFin North Atlantic Seafood Chef Gil Plaster creates the quintessential Old Port dining experience: classic, contemporary dishes with fresh, locally caught seafood & seasonal ingredients.

Breakfast, lunch, dinner, or your favorite cocktail in comfortable elegance or out on the patio w/ fire pit. 468 Fore St. 7759090, bluefinportland.com.

Bull Feeney’s Authentic hearty Irish fare: from-scratch sandwiches, steaks, & seafood. Local craft & premium imported brews. Maine’s most extensive selection of single malt Scotch & Irish whiskeys. Live music 5 nights. Open 7 days, 11:30-1. Kitchen till 10. 375 Fore St. 773-7210, bullfeeneys.com.

Eighteen95 A warm and intimate restaurant w/ a lovely fireplace in the historic Portland Regency Hotel and Spa. Offering Breakfast, Dinner, and Sunday brunch. Specializing in modern American dishes w/ a New England influence. Local seafood, pork, chicken, turkey, with beef & produce from our farm! 774-4200.

Flatbread Company Portland Tucked between two wharves with picturesque waterfront views. Family-friendly restaurant w/ signature pizzas, weekly carne & veggie specials. Made w/ local ingredients, baked in wood-fired, clay ovens. Everything’s homemade, organic, and nitrate-free. 24 local drafts & cocktails showcase all-local breweries & distilleries. 72 Commercial St., 772-8777, flatbreadcompany.com.

Seven Arctic explorers, one Snowy Owl—what could possibly go wrong?

Join Arcturus and his pals Lena, Captain Donald MacMillan, and a crew of friendly research sailors aboard the lovely schooner Bowdoin in 1934. The wounded snowy owl gets a lift from Portland, Maine, to his Arctic homeland.

On the way, everyone learns something new in this children’s story inspired by a true adventure. $12.95 Suggested for ages 3 to 9.

To pre-order, call Jennifer at 207-775-4339.

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Hurricane Restaurant New England cuisine with an international twist. Lobster & blueberry pie! Local produce and seafood, full bar, award-winning wine list, in-house dessert chef. Sunday brunch.

Live music Wednesday nights. Lunch and dinner seven days a week. Bar menu always available. Good restaurants come and go. Great restaurants get better and better. Reservations suggested. 29 Dock Square, Kennebunkport. 967-9111, hurricanerestaurant.com

Rivalries Sports Pub & Grill Now with two fun, comfortable upscale sports bar locations. Known for great pub food, Rivalries’ menu has something for everyone. With 30+ HD TVs and every major pro and college sports package, you won’t miss a game! Located at 10 Cotton St. in Portland. (774-6044). And 2 Hat Trick Drive, just off I-295 in Falmouth.

747-4020, rivalriesmaine.com.

Sea Glass at Inn by the Sea Chef Chadwick’s seasonally sourced, innovative

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taste of Maine. Spectacular ocean views inside the intimate restaurant or on the decks. Creative vegan dishes w/produce & seafood from local farms & sea. (Wine Spectator “Best of” Award of Excellence) 40 Bowery Beach Rd., Cape Elizabeth.

799-3134, innbythesea.com.

Shay’s Pub & Grill Heart of Portland.

Local favorite since 2005. Pub fare specialties: sweet & spicy chicken sandwich, fish & chips, seasonal salads.

Famous $5 martini menu & daily specials.

Outdoor seating. M-Tues. 11:30-9, W-Sat. 11:30-10, Sun. closed. Schedule your private event with us! 18 Monument Sq. 772-2626, shaysgrillpub.com.

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Is there a way to perfect the curbside-pick-up experience? Yeto’s in Biddeford is on it.

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t’s a perfect fall evening. Crisp as an apple. We’re hungry for something satisfying, vaguely Italian, and different, so we call Yeto’s. With a fifteen-minute parking spot right outside the front door, they make it easy.

Our first appetizer is Creole Oysters Rockefeller ($16)–oysters, bread crumbs, parmesan, and butter, with an herb medley.

One of us devours them, glad for the fresh oyster taste. The other enjoys them too, but wonders if they’re a bit crispy.

The Southern Shrimp Cocktail ($12) stars delicious roasted shrimp. They’re huge, juicy, and the Alabama white sauce is exciting. With the basil remoulade and lemons, they’re perfect.

So is the Princess Salad ($9) we share.

We love fruit in a salad, so our hopes are high for the Princess, a dream team of “butter lettuce, peach-candied bacon, peaches, pickled onions, feta, shaved almonds, and green goddess dressing.” Wow. One salad is more than enough for two.

Next, we tuck into the Chicken Riggies ($10): “grilled chicken, Kalamata olives, cherry peppers, caramelized onions, cream, red sauce, parmesan, and rigatoni.” Fun tweaks of spice and the olives

take this in an interesting direction. The Meat and Potatoes meal ($22), a gourmet sampling of the house-smoked meat and chunky mashed potatoes, accompanied by three different barbecue sauces (we found the coffee to be most interesting) is yummy. The presentation makes it an intriguing puzzle to tell what’s what (even with a flashlight to augment the romantic lighting at home). The burnt ends stand out as fantastic and are fought over, a piquant crunch.

Don’t omit the side of Pickled Okra ($2) or the Dark Chocolate Espresso Mousse ($5). We add orange slices (an advantage of dining at home) to put the dessert over the top. One misstep: When they put everything in the trunk of our car, so we didn’t have to get out or even wear a mask, the Ravage Red Blend wine, California ($24), was left out, which was promptly corrected on our card. No problem. This just leads to another advantage of gourmet takeout. We dust off a bottle from our private collection and save on the markup.

Yeto’s has made it so easy for a romantic night at home to happen. Total is $76 plus tax and tip. We’re all joint-venture partners in discovery right now. We’re saving Yeto’s as a favorite. n N o v ember 2 0 2 0 3 9

BUY BRITISH for the holidays in Freeport

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Dec 12–28. 842-0800.

Bay Chamber Concerts, 18 Central St., Rockport. Holiday Concert via YouTube, Dec. 13. 236-2823.

Greenhut Galleries, 146 Middle St., Holiday Show, Dec. 3–Jan. 30. 7722693.

The Bethel Inn Resort, 7 Broad St., Local Craft & Wares Fair with 30+ handmade craft vendors, raffle, and horse-drawn wagon rides, Nov 27.

824-2282.

Historic New England, The Spirit of Christmas Past: Four Centuries of Christmas in New England webinar, Dec. 2. (617) 994-6679.

Boothbay Railway Village, 586 Wiscasset Rd., North Pole Express, weekends Nov. 28–Dec. 20. 633-4727.

Kittery Art Association, 8 Coleman Ave., Holiday Show, Dec. 5–13.

451-9384.

Brick South at Thompson’s Point, 8 Thompsons Point, Maker’s Market at the Point, Nov. 22. 747-5288.

Maine Historical Society, 489 Congress St., One-man stage adaptation of A Christmas Carol, performed by Gerald Dickens, Nov. 30. 774-1822.

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Christmas by the Sea, Downtown Ogunquit, Dec. 11–13. 646-2939.

Christmas Prelude, downtown Kennebunkport. Outdoor Christmas Market and virtual celebration with tree lighting, carol singing, Santa reading to the children, and prizes, Dec. 3–13.

967-0857.

Christmas with Kennerley, Home for the Holidays 2020—Available online (with unlimited views) from 12 p.m. on Saturday, December 12 to 6 p.m. on Monday, December 28.

Church of the Good Shepherd, 2614 Main St., Rangeley. Walk to Bethlehem, Dec 13.

864-5000.

Country Christmas in Bethel, corner of Church & Main St., free horse-drawn wagon

rides, Nov. 27, Dec. 5, 12. 824-2282.

Footlights Theatre, 190 US-1, Falmouth. A Christmas Carol, through Dec. 23. 747-5434.

Friends of the Kotzschmar Organ, Christmas with Kennerley—Home for the Holidays,

Midcoast Tree Festival: A Win-Tree Wonderland, St. John’s Community Center, 43 Pleasant Street, Brunswick.

Nov. 20–22, Nov. 27–Nov. 29.

Old Vines Wine Bar, 173 Port Rd., Kennebunk. Prelude 2020, Dec. 2–4, 9–11. 967-2310.

Opera House at Boothbay Harbor, 86 Townsend Ave. Creating Fantastic Gingerbread Houses, Nov. 18. Gingerbread Spectacular, Dec. 3-5. 633-5159.

Attos Antique and Estate Jewelers

We Buy & Sell 50 exchange Street, Portland

attosestatejewelry.com 207-613-9222

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Gift Guide Sparkle Weekend Freeport, December 4 through 13.

Come Visit Us in the Purple House in Freeport!

Philbrook Place, 162 Main St., Bethel. Light Up Main Street Jingle Bell Walk, a parade of carolers with Santa and Mrs. Claus on a fire truck leading to tree lighting, Dec. 5. 824-2282.

Portland Symphony Orchestra, Merrill Auditorium, 20 Myrtle St., The Magic of Christmas at Home, Dec. 1–31. 842-0800.

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Rangeley Inn, 2443 Main St., Walk to Bethlehem Annual Community Performance & Pageant, Dec. 13. 864-5000.

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Richard Boyd Art Gallery, 15 Epps St., Peaks Island. Holiday Offerings, Dec. 1–31. 712-1097.

River Arts, 241 US-1, Damariscotta. Holiday Shop, Dec. 2–Jan. 2, 2021. 563-1507.

Santa Hustle 5K: Virtual Race, any location of choice, Dec. 1-31. 847-829-4536.

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Schoolhouse Arts Center, 16 Richville Rd., Standish. Elf: The Musical, Dec. 3–13.

642-3743.

Sparkle Weekend, Downtown Freeport, Dec. 4–13.

Sunday River, 15 South Ridge Rd., Newry.

Skiing and snowboarding Santas hit the slopes for the annual Santa Sunday, Dec. 6.

State Theater, 609 Congress St., Moscow Ballet’s Great Russian Nutcracker: Christmas Stream Dec. 19–Jan. 3, 2021. 956-6000.

Stone Mountain Arts Center, 695 Dugway Rd., Brownfield. Stone Mountain LIVE Christmas, Dec. 19. 935-7292.

West Parish Congregational Church, 32 Church St., Bethel. Christmas Fair & Tea, Dec. 5. 824-2282.

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Colin W. Sargent’s Red Hands— “an astounding account of the Romanian revolution in the voice of Ceausescu’s daughter-in-law.”

–Martin Goodman in the Morning Star “Brilliant. If the novel is Macbeth then it is Romeo and Juliet too, for the pounding heart of the book is a great love story that never fails to move. A tale from last century and a warning for this one, Red Hands is a novel of rare power that teaches us much about Romania and even more about ourselves. ” –D. D. Johnston

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The house’s address is 2321 State Route 129 , South Bristol; Maine Aerial Photography Services

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Heard over the turkey: “I just picked up a place in Christmas Cove.

What are you doing New Year’s Eve?”

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Somebody’s going to be able to brag that they snapped up this classic getaway with just $2,999 in property taxes. A flood of buyers is after what we hold dear just now, because who wouldn’t want to spend their quarantine holidays in Christmas Cove?

This lovely retreat was once a boutique hotel. “Christmas Cove started as a summer community in the late 1800s,” says Cait Kelly, one of the sellers. “The Holly Inn, the Russell House, the Christmas Cove. Ours was called the Christmas Cove Annex.”

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The magic spell of the former hotel still holds. Many of the bedroom doors still have the original numbers on them.

And the views! In the living room, you feel like you’re flying over the Cove.

Waterside, the long green lawn glides past the greenhouse to the pier, which offers views of dazzling sunsets. Off to the side, at the water’s edge, is a boathouse that was once the hotel’s bar.

“We call it the Love Shack,” Kelly says. There’s a pause. She laughs. “No, we don’t!”

Near this cozy hideaway is a freshwater pond (half the size of a tennis court)

The view is spectacular from 2321 State Route 129, South Bristol.

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framed in ancient granite slabs. It’s so old, nobody knows how old it is, “though a historic survey is being done. Way back when, the whole Christmas Cove community used it.”

Singular Beauty igh on the hill to the left of the house, a small barn with water views has a fireplace and built-in bunks on the second floor–perfect for parties or a place for children to bunk out.

More splendidly, it’s been used as an artist’s studio.

“It’s had different lives,” Kelly says. “My parents bought it in 1967.”

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lor Patrick Edward McCarthy, 85, who died in 2015, and Norma Joan McCarthy, who died at 84 in 2019.

“My mom’s name is Tiger. She was a force to be reckoned with. She’s up in heaven right now—antiquing. She was born in Norwood, Massachusetts, then went to UMass. She and my father started a restaurant called The Sandpiper.

They put themselves through Harvard.

They had five children, and we loved this place. We were born in Cambridge, though my little brother was born in Dublin, Ireland.”

Patrick McCarthy, who’d worked in the United Nations in Ireland, had fascinating connections, among them “Seamus He-

aney, the poet, who probably stayed with us here. Joseph Brennan, the Baldaccis.”

McCarthy, born in Rumford, Maine, wasn’t just a university chancellor (also UMass), “he was an amazing cook, with a collection of [early Irish] recipes going back to the Gold Rush.”

He also knew how to handle a paintbrush. There are still so many lovely canvases and watercolors throughout the property–more than enough for a retrospective show. “For a while, it seemed like everybody in Christmas Cove had on their living-room walls a framed copy of my father’s painted Christmas cards.”

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What was their refreshment of choice during such a romantic getaway?

“Bourbon.”

What about this place makes you smile?

“When my parents first bought this house it had most recently been used as a home for the aged. When they restored it, they kept the sign in the basement. When my dad turned 50, my mother snuck downstairs and put that old sign up with his presents.

She did it again when he turned 60.”

Any ghosts?

“Yes. It’s an old baggy house. The windows shake at night. We always thought there was a grandmother in the attic. But there isn’t.

“My dad used to have shows in the barn. People all over the Cove have my dad’s artwork on their walls. My dad taught courses at the Round Top Center for the Arts in Damariscotta.”

Kelly’s generation is “two boys on the outside and three girls in the middle.

Three of us own other property in Christmas Cove. I’m one of them. My husband and I live in Connecticut and Chicago and Maine. My oldest brother is Sean. He lives in New York in the Hamptons on Swamp Road. My sister Hannah is the artistic one.

She works just outside of Tokyo.

“It’s a wonderful place for adults and children. Christmas Cove Improvement Association used to have all kinds of tournaments, for instance Bloody Mary tennis tournaments. Back then, you were either a tennis player or a boater. “ Ah, the two-party system.

“There continues to be discussion about keeping the house. It depends on the day.

One day there’s a leak in the house. That’s all it takes to put it back up for sale again!”

Captain John Smith, the explorer, landed on and named Christmas Cove on December 25, 1614. On Christmas Day, 2020, where will Christmas Cove find you?

“We’ve all had different lives. Whoever buys it will adore it. To me, it’s like putting on slippers. It’s home.”

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arely a year after Spoonhandle (1946) spent 14 weeks on the New York Times Bestseller List, actor Dana Andrews strolled onto Vinalhaven to shoot the film adaption, Deep Waters (released in 1948). A non-materialistic student-architect turned lobsterman (Andrews) finds more meaning in his life when he rescues an edgy orphan (Dean Stockwell) and reconnects with a social worker he’d once been engaged to (Jean Peters). Nuclear family restored!

Every inch of the lobster boat footage (including a savage storm) was filmed off Vinalaven. This movie really looks like Maine but doesn’t sound quite like Maine (consider hitting the mute button whenever Ed Begley looks like he’s going to try on his Maine accent). The wonderful Cesar Romero is along for the ride as a fellow lobsterman.

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readers might say the connection is fairly loose. Both book and movie reveal tensions between islanders and people “from away” about money, but naturally there’s more focus on the romance–will they or won’t they?–in the film. I’d love to know what Ruth Moore really thought of the titillating movie poster. Her story is more atmospheric and depicts many islanders with their different points of view.

It’s interesting that the boy caught for stealing is sentenced to reform school in South Portland. As a boy, I lived under the shadow of that same foreboding brick fortress–the one that looms up on the hill near the Jetport. It was a family joke/ threat: “Any more sassy talk like that and you’ll end up in the Maine State Reform School for Boys.”

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