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Foreground L-R: Sarazen, Ward (barely visible in white), Didrikson, Levinson. Was novelist Kenneth Roberts seated among the spectators (near lattice)? His house was adjacent to the 1st hole fairway, and he was a golfing buddy of Elmer Ward.

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he striking advantage of Maine is, we aren’t on the way to somewhere else.

That’s why legendary golfers love to play in the state known as “the Nation’s Air Conditioner.”

We were leafing through a battered Kennebunk Beach photo album when four snapshots jumped off the page. My grandfather, Edward Hall Sargent, documented the July 28, 1935, visit to Webhannet Golf Club by Gene Sarazen (winner of seven majors, including the U.S. Open, Masters, and PGA) and Mildred “Babe” Didrikson, the 1932 Olympic track star who’d win ten major tournaments in the LPGA, becoming

No. 1 in the world by the time she died at 45.

The visiting golfers were the guests of Mr. and Mrs. W. N. “Jim” Campbell, heirs to the Palm Beach jacket clothing fortune and owners of Goodall mills in Sanford. Disembarking from their hosts’ private plane, the players took on Webhannet’s own luminaries Elmer Ward (1930 New England Amateur champion) and John O. Levinson (New England Amateur winner in ’36, ’37, and ’47).

When Didrikson hit her drive on the first hole, a loud bang and a spark from the impact made the gallery of 500 jump. The photographer spotted the trick: she’d set up the phosphorus heads of kitchen matches around her ball.

Asked by a fan what he thought of Didrikson’s technique, Sarazen was overheard to say, “She’s a slugger all right.”

The late Larry Ward, Elmer’s son, recalled on webhannetgolfclub.com/web/ pages/history: “John had a less-than-spectacular front 9 but Elmer kept them in the match with a commendable 37. Then, on the back, Levinson’s skills kicked in. One of the highlights was when he drove the 16th green and sank the putt.”

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(Camp Wyanoke on Lake Winnipesaukee no longer exists.)

It was my first experience inside the box. I heard footsteps going away. I took a mental snapshot of my new world, black and cornerless. My cherished copy of Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The House of the Seven Gables was inside the trunk with me, its spine poking into mine. It was too dark to read. I passed out.

I came to with the box unlocked. I exulted in the icy-sharp air, but this was the last straw. I decided to break out of camp, make a mad dash (2.5 miles) to Wolfeboro, and call my parents (collect) from the phone booth just outside the hardware store with the cool Jitterbug fishing lures.

Outside Wyanoke’s stone gate, on the crest of the hill, a red fox trotted across the road not twenty feet from me. He stopped, turned his head, and eyed me for twenty seconds. He stared so intently I was sure he was about to speak: “And just where do you think you’re going?”

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Refrains The wind through the pines. Lake waters lapping the shore. Campfires crackling, voices raised in harmony—all supply the soundtrack to Maine summers.

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on the Jersey shore the morning after her performance of the Bach B Minor Mass in a nearby town, determined to enjoy a stroll on the boardwalk before the clouds burst. “We’ll be fine, as long as we don’t walk backwards in the rain wearing a yellow slicker,” I say as we set off. “At Wohelo, where I went to camp, that was

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O UT THERE life, with songs for every occasion and for every activity—from keeping a steady pace paddling to timing how long we had to tread water to pass the swim test. We sang to raise team spirit at morning crew practice, out of sheer exuberance sailing in good wind, and whenever we gathered together at mealtimes or around the campfire.

“There are cheers, welcome songs, thankyou songs, and sad goodbye songs.”

When my baby was born I sang him camp songs all the time, because they were the only ones I knew by heart.

astonishment.

“How did I not know your dad went to Timanous?” I ask Katharine.

“How did I not know my dad could sing?

I’ve never heard him sing before!”

“THE SOUNDS OF CAMP” In the world music class I took in college, we learned about African tribes that don’t have any way to say “I can’t sing” in the Western sense, because in their culture this would be tantamount to saying “I can’t talk.” Sleepaway camp is much the same.

“Singing and camp are synonymous,” says Abby Golden Shapiro, who spent six summers at Camp Vega in Fayette. “Every woman I’ve met who went to girls’ camp talks about singing camp songs. It’s part of the culture of being a camper.”

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The dininghall tug-ofwar surrounding the latter is indicative of the degree to which these songs collec-

tively moved us: whenever one table started to sing an end-of-camp song for the first time that summer, another table inevitably decided it was too soon to get all verklempt and drowned out this attempt at nostalgia with the peppiest song involving the most hand-clapping, foot-stomping, and tablethumping, sung at the top of their lungs.

“DOWN THROUGH THE YEARS” “The same songs are sung by many generations,” says Barbara Klein, who went to Camp Vega for six summers. “I sing them with my daughter and granddaughter.”

“It’s a nice way to connect with alumnae, because when they return to camp they can sing along, and you can watch little girls recognize songs that their grandmothers or aunts or mothers sang to them,” says Lucy Paiste, who spent thirteen summers at Wohelo as a camper and counselor. “When my baby was born I sang him camp songs all the time, because they were the only ones I knew by heart,” says fellow Woheloite Hilary Hodge. And long before Wohelo’s “Col-

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the only rule—” “You went to Wohelo?” My friend’s dad halts. “I went to Timanous!”

Wohelo’s brother camp. “Then you must know ‘Old Chief Timanous!’”

We burst into all three verses of this hymn to the founder of both camps—including the two-part harmony on the refrain—smack in the middle of the boardwalk as my friend and her mom look on in

or Song” become alumna Maggie Rogers’s signature tune on stages around the world, “My mother went to the same camp and sang it to me every night at bedtime when I was a child,” says Jenny Edwards Chavira, who spent five summers there herself.

“I find myself humming ‘The W in Winona’ all the time,” says Stuart Henderson.

“It’s only been twenty years!”

“When I get together with my camp friends forty-seven years after I left Camp Hawthorne, we still sing the same songs,” says Jim Brennan. “Our camp day generally closed with singing ‘Taps,’ so even now when we are together, someone will break into

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‘Taps’ when it’s time to wrap up the evening.”

“I think if you attend a camp for years, the songs become part of your DNA,” says Nancy Scheerer, who spent eleven summers at Camp Wawenock on Sebago Lake. “Almost fifty years later, I can still remember the words to the songs I learned my first summer.”

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nd after twenty-six years at Wohelo, “I am almost always humming a camp song to myself,” says Sarah Wildrick Hamilton.

“I find the songs soothing,” says fellow alum Jessica Bancroft. “I sing Council Fire songs to myself at the dentist to remind me of a place I felt calm and content. Thinking of camp is comforting to me, especially during stress.”

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England Ivy Leaguers,” says Westy Dain of Timanous, which was not atypical in this among Maine sleepaway camps. “When they had to come up with songs, they often repurposed their colleges’ football fight songs. ‘Old Chief Timanous’ was taken, with very few word changes, from ‘Lord Jeffery Amherst.’” When I went to college, I was startled to hear another of my brother camp’s anthems, “Rise, Camp Timanous,” ringing out over the Quad on the chapel chimes—based, unbeknownst to me, on the alma mater formerly known as “Rise, Sons of Bowdoin” (now re-titled “Raise Songs

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time provides a musical education of cultures and eras that brings the ages together and becomes part of the tradition.”

“SEND THE ECHOES FAR AND NEAR” A tradition that flourishes at Maine summer camps to this day. “Counselors are constantly writing songs for camp events,” says Jim Morse of Winona Camps in Bridgton, and at Camp Wawenock “most campers collaborate on songs” too, says Nancy Scheerer. “The fact that songs have been written for many decades by campers speaks to the camp’s deeprooted traditions.” At Wohelo, says Deb Gamber, “songs are written once a week for use at the weekly Council Fire skit, known as Count, as it recounts the week’s events. Some survived, but most were one-hit wonders,” a microcosm of the vicissitudes of pop music.

“You need good camp imagery and a

catchy tune with a relatively small range so that most people can sing it," says Lucy Paiste.

“I particularly like songs with harmony,” says Camp Vega alum Carla Schine Dener, while Vega counselor Kate Phillips favors songs “that include activities that haven’t changed or traditions that

generations of campers have passed down from mother to daughter. I am reminded of all the memories I have, the friends I’ve made, and all the glorious places around camp that I’ve sung those songs. When an activity requires you to make up a song about camp, you get to put down your thoughts on what you love about it so much.”

Case in point: “‘The Sounds of Camp Are Happy Ones’ is an upbeat tune that sings through the specifics of our day at camp based on the noises of different activities, from sailing to metalworking to weaving,” says Anne Lathrop Snow. “As we approached mid-summer, hoping for Beach

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Day, we’d sing this song more often and more loudly at the line about going to the beach, so both the lyrics and how we sang it wove together a joyful picture of a summer day at Wohelo, sung to the tune of ‘Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious.’”

Much of my knowledge of the Great American Songbook was gleaned secondhand from all the Broadway standards we sang re-written with camp lyrics. As Maria Muth Connor puts it: “You know Wawenock is in your blood when you hear songs and all you can think of is the Wawenock words.” After attending Camp Vega, “Every time I watch The Sound of Music I sing ‘State of Maine’ to the tune of ‘Edelweiss,’” says Ferne Abrams.

“DEEP IN THE WOODS OF MAINE” Yet these were not summer theater camps or performing arts camps, as my school friends who didn’t go to camp assumed from the number of times I exclaimed, “We sing this at camp!” on my first chance encounter with the original lyrics to one of my favorite camp songs.

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During our April 2021 interview with actor Matt Salinger (The Ice Road, 2021), he told us about his mom’s days as a camper in Maine. We’d already discussed his dad’s—the late J. D. Salinger’s—childhood adventures at Camp Wigwam.

I just had a fun conversation with her about Wyonegonic! When I asked her about it, she immediately broke into what I gathered was the Wyonegonic song. My 87-year-old mother! Her voice cracked a few times, but she remembered it.

She couldn't remember if she went two or three summers. “I wish it had been more.” She was evacuated from London when she was a little girl during World War II. She'd bounced around to different cities, countries—at one time it was a convent school. What a relief Camp Wyonegonic must have been. She found it to be a wonderful, welcoming, empowering, kind place. Once, when I told her I was dating somebody who went there, she loved it.

Then what kind of camp is it?

I got a lot of blank looks trying to explain that it wasn’t any kind of specialized theme camp, but just a cluster of cabins in the woods alongside a lake, where we did the obvious things to do in that setting— nature crafts and water sports—and sang while doing them. But clearly, from the even blanker looks I got—Why would you do that?—group singing was not an integral part of most teenagers’ daily lives. Yet it was so thoroughly woven into the fabric of camp life as something everybody could and did do, my only answer was, Why wouldn’t you?

“The first thing you notice as a counselor arriving for pre-camp training at Wohelo is just how quiet everything is,” says Bailey McWilliams. “Camp doesn’t seem alive until there’s laughter and song coming from the dining halls. It elicits joy and brings people together.” Group singing also “allows for moments of shared memory and reflection, both silly and serious,” says Cassie Richardson of Hidden Valley Camp in Freedom. On a physiological level, “Music makes people feel happy by triggering the release of dopamine in the

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“I once attended an organ recital in Old Orchard Beach where the organist introduced a ‘mood poem’ from the 1920s and I instantly recognized the melody as the ‘Color Song’ at camp. It made me smile, because Wohelo girls and women have long been writing their own lyrics to contemporary songs.”

brain,” says Wohelo alum Nina Pyle Furlanetto. “Singing together creates a bonding experience while feeling the benefits of the increase in dopamine.”

“The songs are a special language that we share,” says Sarah Wildrick Hamilton.

Without this common ground of music, “I bet the void would be filled by pop songs, which would be polarizing, because there would be some girls that knew songs that others didn’t, so it would be less equalizing,” says Lucy Paiste.

“I don’t think I’d feel as connected to the camp and the people without camp songs,” says Elle Yarborough of Slovenski Camps in Raymond, and Jessica Bancroft finds that “Camp friends are many of my closest friends. At the reunion, singing songs by the fire, I felt connected to all of the women there. We all knew all of the words, and sharing that thirty-five years later felt like I was a part of something bigger. I don’t feel this way about high school or college.”

“There’s a special kind of connection to know that every girl sitting in the pitch black in the otherwise silent woods is imagining the same thing together, singing a song that connects them across space and time,” says campmate Heather Ainsworth.

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Join us for a Safe and Rewarding Summer of Learning My Camp,” Feb./March 2021), “Singing camp songs is something every single camper and counselor can participate in,” says Ted Bucknam of Winona. “It brings instant joy and belonging” even to campers who never sang outside of camp, because “I would have scared people,” says Jim Morse. “That’s why camp is incredible.”

“It’s pretty interesting that at an allboys camp, never once did I hear anyone make fun of the singing, or not want to be part of it,” says Bucknam.

“But away from camp, it’s likely the majority of those same boys (and men) didn’t sing one song. Camp brings out a special ability to be yourself without anyone judging who you are and permits everyone to just have fun in the moment. So the songs are symbolic of much of what everyone loves about camp: a place to be yourself without fear of being judged. Everyone is accepted, and we all celebrate that together every day through the songs we sing.” n

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Has the state of hyper-effervescence just been perfected? Using nanoemulsion, Wynk’s “exclusive Maine distributor, AfterGlow Edible Co.,” with offices in Sanford, offers “hard seltzer replacements in Black Cherry Fizz, Juicy Mango, and Lime Twist,” says Casey Coughlin of Wynk. According to preparedfoods.com, “each 8.4-oz. can of Wynk has zero calories and offers a light, relaxing buzz. Wynk's microdose of 2.5 mg THC and 2.5 mg CBD has an onset time of about 10–15 minutes. Product will be available for both medical patients and consumers 21 years of age and older.”

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December finished strong with $9,477,249 in sales, higher than November’s $8.36M and roughly as high as July. Total sales for 2021 were $81,801,952.

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be the perfect fit.” Owner Roberto Rodriguez, a Portland City Councilor-At-Large, is also Co-Interim Director of Cultivating Community, a local non-profit that manages community gardens throughout the city, increasing plots in affordable housing locations and outreach to low-income gardeners.

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ANTIDOTE TO ISOLATION he pandemic “took us all by surprise. We’ve become more creative in how we approach this new way of life. I started the garden as a project to keep me out of the supermarkets, and to have my own fresh organic produce.”

“It’s a conversation starter with the dog walkers going by. My ten-year-old neighbor, Keely Beyland, helps me water and weed, and she and her family enjoy fresh greens all season.”

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He envisions cultivating more work with clients who seek ongoing help with maintaining their gardens, not just the start up and shut down, growing his business slowly so that he can fully tend to his customers. “I don’t want to be a garden empire, but rather to stay focused on our mission, being purpose-

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THE FIRST TIME AROUND he notion of growing your own food when times get tough has no start date, but national efforts to defend our supply chains against the threats of wartime can be traced back to 1917, when the U.S. government launched an all-out campaign enlisting civilians to grow “war gardens” to free up food for soldiers fight-

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ing overseas in World War I. As Rose Hayden-Smith describes it in Sowing the Seeds of Victory: American Gardening Programs of World War I (2014), the effort to get people involved was “striking in its use of military imagery,” with posters depicting women and children as “soldiers of the soil.”

With the onset of World War II in the 1940s, the same mindset prevailed.

“Grow your own, can your own” became a popular mantra, and the nation took to heart quotes such as this one from Claude Wickard, U.S. Secretary of Agriculture (1940-45) and head of the War Food Administration: “A Victory Garden is like a share in an airplane factory. It helps win the War and it pays dividends too.” Americans used every scrap of soil to cultivate an estimated twenty million “Victory Gardens,” growing nearly forty percent of the nation’s fruits and vegetables.

Now in 2022, we are at war with COVID. Food shortages are real, as supply chains are interrupted. Regional distribution centers are reeling, climate change affects delivery, and more workers and delivery personnel in grocery stores are desperately needed, leading to recurring bare shelves that were once bursting with food supplies we thought would always be here. The seeds are again planted for us to recognize the role food plays in soldiering on, and to do something about it ourselves on the home front.

HU NGRY E YE GROW IT IN GOOD HEALTH For Brenda Lee and her husband Kevin Schooley, both RNs at Maine Medical Center at the peak of the pandemic, their victory garden at their newly purchased home in Gray turned out to be a major stress buster. “Back in the beginning of the pandemic, I would pull up at the hospital and just be shaking with so much anxiety—and then on top of that, having to stay home the rest of the time, not going anywhere for any relief,” Brenda says. “Having this little outside oasis where we were growing things helped us escape the scary world.”

They added chickens, building them a mighty fine coop. “Before work, I let the chickens out to free-range all day, and come home and make sure they’re putting themselves to bed. They’re a hoot and a half— they all have names and personalities. Our three golden girls are of course named Blanche, Rose, and Dorothy. Many days I just lay on the lawn and felt like I was in paradise, with chickens running all around me, cut off from the craziness of the world.”

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A BEAUTIFUL DAY IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD After so many COVID-related shutdowns, it’s a refreshing contrast to see Portland’s green space expand. Karen Boultbee has for years planted a wee patch of flowers outside the The Front Room in the East End, until “COVID provided the opportu-

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“It is one of the joys of my life. I get up, put on my gardening clothes, and get to work, and when finished, walk the Prom for two or three miles. It’s my big outing and makes me feel less anxious about not doing things like going to the movies, which I enjoyed so much pre-COVID.”

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corched by two world wars, designers braced for the Apocalypse. Few angels were in the architecture but plenty of angles. Shoot for severe to the point of scary, yet occasionally intimate.

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ORGONON, RANGELEY “Located at the summit of a hill overlooking Dodge Pond, the Orgone Energy Observatory is an International Style building that was designed by the New York architect James B. Bell and constructed in 1948 for Dr. Wilhelm Reich (1897-1957), a controversial psychiatrist who developed

the Orgone therapy method,” according to Orgonon’s submission paperwork to the National Register of Historic Places. “It was built by the Rangeley contractor S. A. Collins & Son.” FORTUNE ROCK, SEAL HARBOR Here’s a rare residential example: In “Maine

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Fortune Rock, Seal Harbor George Howe Forms of American Architecture (1976), Philip Isaacson wrote that ‘The modern home…made its tentative debut in 1936 from designs prepared by George Howe for Clara Fargo Thomas. The resulting low house of native materials is cantilevered over the waters of Seal Harbor, a choice its architect…shared with [Frank Lloyd] Wright.’”

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The international style is intellectual, not sensual. It’s not of the gut. Severe. If you’re not good at it you end up with lots of bad concrete buildings.

—Scott Simons

2017

gaging with our fears,’ he would say.”

To tag along with Mailer in Maine, read Harlot’s Ghost.

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HAROLD TANDY HOUSE, HAMPDEN HIGHLANDS Art critic Isaacson ventures in Maine Forms of Architecture that the 1944 “Harold Tandy House at Hampden Highland” designed by architect Eaton W. Tarbell of Bangor, also makes the cut.

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Orgone Energy Observatory Rangeley, James B. Bell

“THE GLASS HOUSE,” FALMOUTH Want some more International velvet? See our story (Heart of Glass, September 2006) about the landmark Payson House in Falmouth Foreside designed by Gropius protégé Serge Chermayeff in 1952 and extended by his son Peter in 1972. “The whole house cantilevers at an average height of twelve inches above ground in all directions and is entered everywhere over open oak slat steps. These two devices absorb variants in snow level and minimize the risk of snow drifts and ice formation over the steps,” Chermayeff wrote in The Architectural Review in 1954.

“It has its roots in the Gropius days,” says Scott Simons of Simons Architects in Portland.

“Early on, I worked in the Breuer office in New York, so I was close to that. He taught with Gropius at the Harvard Graduate School of Design. Breuer designed a house across the street from Fort Williams [at 84 Stonybrook Road] in Cape Elizabeth that we recently renovated—it has a U shape with a courtyard in the center.

“The [1979] Portland Public Library that we updated was originally described as ‘late International Style’ in the Congress Street [landmark] docs. It was clad in granite. We enclosed it in glass.”

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TWIST ON A TWIST hat do you call it when you alter something that was already in the International Style?

“We call it a modern intervention. The building didn’t work anymore. It was built when many libraries were modeled on the

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Potter House, Cape Elizabeth Marcel Breuer

Louis Kahn library at Phillips Exeter Academy. When it came out, it was a breakthrough design. It’s like a cube on the inside. You go into the void, go get your book, and walk toward the light. You come up in the darkness—the center of your brain—then go to the reading tables. Because of this, libraries all over now have darkness in the center and you go out to the light.

“The Portland Public Library was built on that same paradigm. You’d enter by a long ramp to the circulation desk—remember that?—and then you’re in the dark core.

“We thought that’s not a relevant paradigm anymore. Now you can have the Library of Congress on your phone, so let’s flip it around. [Our 2010 renovation] brought the insides of the library to the street to participate in the Square.”

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MORE INFLUENCE The Haystack Mountain School of Crafts on Deer Isle is in part an evolution of the International Style. “It was designed

by Ed[ward] Larrabee Barnes [in 1960],” Simons says. “Barnes also designed houses in Boothbay and in the Acadia area.

They’re the next generation of the Gropius houses. Right now we’re doing a master plan for Haystack.”

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Spring Guide 2022 Home & Garden Shows

Bangor Home Show, Cross Insurance Center, 515 Main St. Mar. 26–27. 800-237-6024.

Bath Antique Sale, Bath Middle School, 6 Old Brunswick Rd. Furniture, jewelry, toys, dolls, paintings, and folk art, Mar. 13 and Apr. 24.

832-7798.

NH. Exhibitions for homeowners, gardening, and recreational activities, Apr. 23. 805-727-3376.

Kennebunk Antiques Show & Sale, The Middle School of the Kennebunks,

vintage clothing, and toys both indoors and outdoors, Aug. 12-13. 350-9444.

The Maine + Garden Marketplace, 8 Thompson's Point Rd. Indoor market with over 100 garden sup-

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Boothbay Region Antiques Show & Sale, The Boothbay Common, Route 27. July 9. 832-7798 Burlington Home Show, DoubleTree by Hilton, 870 Williston Rd., Burlington, VT. Regional home improvement show, Mar. 4. 800237-6024 Camden-Rockport Antiques Show & Sale, Camden Hills Regional High School, 25 Keelson Dr., Rockport. Jul.23–24.

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Connecticut Flower & Garden Show, Connecticut Convention Center, 100 Columbus Blvd., Hartford.

Over 300 booths, beautifully landscaped gardens, design & horticulture competition, and over 80 hours of seminars and demonstrations, Feb. 24–27. 860-844-8461.

Newport Daffodil Days, Newport, RI. Free festival events across the city while over 1 million donated daffodils bloom, Apr. 1-30. newportdaffydays.com.

Home, Garden & Recreation Show, Prospect Mountain High School, 242 Suncook Valley Rd., Alton,

The Maine Home Show, Norway Savings Bank Arena, 985 Turner St., Auburn.

Over 100 home-related products and services like landscaping, pool & spa, weatherization & efficiency, new construction & additions, generator systems, banks, credit unions & mortgage lenders, with showonly discounts, special offers, and giveaways, Mar. 19–20. 577-2721.

Home Garden Flower Show with Cannabis, Fryeburg Fairgrounds, 1154 Main St. Live music, food, beer and wine, seminars, 150 exhibitors offering services and products for your home, garden and personal use, cannabis products to grow your own and for personal use, and vendors sell edibles and products for medicinal use, May 20–22. 603-7335808.

Vermont Flower Show, Champlain Valley Expo, 105 Pearl St., Essex Junction. A garden adventure for all ages. Mar 4–6. 802-4255117.

60 Thompson Rd., Kennebunk. Aug. 13–14.

ply and services merchants, Mar. 25–27. 623-6430.

Wells Outdoor Antiques Show and Sale, 342 Laudholm Farm Rd. Over 75 exhibitors selling furniture, china, and jewelry, Jun. 26.

800-641-6908.

Maine Antiques Festival, 1 Fairgrounds Lane, Union.

Over 150 antiques dealers from across the U.S. and Canada display formal and informal furnishings, art, repurposed items, jewelry, rugs,

Maine Home Show, Cross Insurance Center, 515 Main St., Bangor. Local contractors, landscapers, and home improvement specialists strut their stuff, Mar. 26–27.

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Western Massachusetts Home & Garden Show, Eastern States Expo, 1305 Memorial Ave., West Springfield. Attractions include the Delta Mobile Showroom, Mar. 24–27.

Let’s all welcome Gladys Knight to Portland’s Merrill Auditorium on March 11. 842-0800.

413-733-8158.

Maine Boat Shows

Maine Boats, Homes, & Harbors Show, Harbor Park, 1 Pleasant St., Rockland. With artists, architects, boatbuilders, craftsmen, designers, furniture-makers, and jewelers, Aug.12–14.

594-8622.

The Portland Boat Show, Portland Sports Complex, 512 Warren Ave. Center console and walkaround fishing boats, bowriders, cuddy cabins, cruisers, pontoon boats, wakeboard boats, and wakesurf boats, Mar.3–6. 655-2722.

Theater

Footlights Theatre, 190 US1, Falmouth. A Passage of Time, Apr. 7–23. 747-5434.

Good Theater, St. Lawrence Arts Center, 76 Congress St. Harry Townsend’s Last Stand, through Feb. 20; Significant Other, Mar. 2–20; Desperate Measures, Mar. 30–Apr. 24. 835-0895.

Gracie Theatre, 1 College Cir., Bangor. Queen Flash, Mar. 26; TAKE3, Apr. 28.

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Mayo Street Arts, 10 Mayo St. Modern Times Theater's The Perils of Mr. Punch, Feb. 19. 879-4629.

Penobscot Theatre Company, Bangor Opera House, 131 Main St. Maytag Virgin, through Feb. 27; Hockey Mom, Mar. 24–Apr. 16. 942-3333.

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Portland Stage, 25A Forest Ave. Last Ship to Proxima Centauri, Mar. 2–20; I And You, Mar. 30–Apr. 17. 774-0465.

The Public Theater, 31 Maple St., Lewiston.

Dancing Lessons, Mar. 11–20; Screwball Comedy, Apr. 29–May 8; Be Here Now, June 17–26.

782-3200.

Waterville Opera House, 1 Common St. Cyrano De Bergerac, March 5; Tuck Everlasting: The Musical, Apr. 1–10. 873-7000.

Dance

Collins Center for the Arts, 2 Flagstaff Rd., Orono. Anne of Green Gables: The Ballet, Apr. 16. 581-1755.

Maine State Ballet, Lopez Theater, 348 U. S. Route 1, Falmouth. Beauty and the Beast, Mar. 25–Apr.10. 781-3587.

Portland Ballet, Westbrook PAC, 471 Stroudwater St. Boy Meets Girl, Mar. 11; Firebird, Apr. 29–30. 842-0800.

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Blue, 650A Congress St. Cumberland Crossing

& Bluegrass Tracy McMullen, Feb. 19; Ocean Sol Jazz & Special Guests, Feb. 20; Maine Middle Eastern Ensemble, and Showmen’s Rest, Mar. 3; Darlin’ Corey, Mar. 4; Michael Beling, Mar. 5; Gleg Klein & Clementine;s Army, Mar. 6; Matt Meyer & the Gumption Junction, Cumberland Crossing and Bluegrass Jam Session, Mar. 10; el malo, Mar. 11; Carl Dimow Quartet, Titus Abbott Collective, Mar. 12; Jenny Van West & Special Guests, Mar. 13; Layne’s Wine Gig, and D. Gross, Mar. 17; Choro Louco, Mar. 18; Tracy McMullen, Mar. 19; Sue Sheriff Jazz, Mar. 20; Bess Jacaues & The Strays, Mar. 22; Frank Fotusky and KF3 Vibing on a Thursday!, Mar. 24; Samuel James, Mar. 25; Sherrie Phair Trio, Mar. 26; Jazz Sesh, every Tue; Irish Session, every Wed. 774-4111.

The Chocolate Church Arts Center, 804 Washington St., Bath. Erica Brown and The Bluegrass Connection, Feb. 25; An Evening with Tom Rush, March 26; The Mallett Brothers Band, April 9.

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Collins Center for the Arts, 2 Flagstaff Rd., Orono. Nobuntu, Feb. 13; Rigoletto, Feb. 19; Masterworks IV: From the Firebird to the Future, Mar. 6; The Robert Cray Band, Mar. 12; The Warming Sea, Mar. 19; Martina McBride, Mar. 26; Miró Quartet with David Shifrin, Mar. 27; Ariadne auf Naxos, Apr.3; Masterworks V: The Grand Finale, Apr. 10. 581-1755.

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Friends of the Kotzschmar Organ, Merrill Auditorium, 20 Myrtle St. Bach Birthday Bash, Mar. 22 (on-demand Mar. 26–Apr. 25). 553-4363.

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Mayo Street Arts, 10 Bonnie Raitt Mayo St. Seyir Duo: April 23 Music of the Middle Merrill Audito rium East, Feb. 25; Narración Flamenca Featuring Dance, Song & Guitar, Feb. 26 & 27. 879-4629.

Merrill Auditorium, 20 Myrtle St. Gladys Knight, Mar. 11; The World’s Greatest Pink Floyd Show: Brit Floyd World Tour, Mar. 25; Celtic Woman: Postcards from Ireland, Mar. 29; The Beach Boys: 60 Years of the Sounds of Summer, Apr. 1; Diana Krall, Apr. 5; Bonnie Raitt: Just Like That Tour, Apr. 23. 842-0800.

One Longfellow Square, 181 State St. Clem Snide, Feb. 23; John McEuen of the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, Feb. 26; Le Vent Du Nord, Feb. 27; Dervish, Mar. 2; David Wax Museum (trio), Mar. 3; Seamus Egan Project, Mar. 5; Lurrie Bell with the Blues Prophets, Mar. 10; Josephine County, Mar. 11; Mark Erelli and Mary Bragg, Mar. 16; Portland Jazz Orchestra, Mar. 24; Stick Men feat.

Tony Levin, Pat Mastelotto, and Marcus Reuter, Apr. 5; John Craigie with special guest The Lowest Pair, Apr. 6–7; Jill Sobule with Emma Ivy, Apr. 10; Portland Jazz Orchestra, Apr. 21. 761-1757.

Portland House of Music, 25 Temple St. You Should Smile More, Mar. 3; Marble Eyes, Mar. 4; Yellow Ledvedde: A Tribute to Pearl Jam and Loud Love: A Tribute to Soundgarden, Apr. 18; Randon Rab with special guest Cosmal, Apr. 20.

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Portland Ovations, Merrill Auditorium, 20 Myrtle St. Anaïs Mitchell + Bonny Light Horseman, Feb. 17; Sphinx Virtuosi, Mar. 31, From Marnako to Birmingham: Amadou & Mariam and Blind Boys of Alabama, Apr. 29. 842-0800.

Portland Symphony Orchestra, Merrill Auditorium, 20 Myrtle St. Eckart Conducts Bartók, Feb. 20 & 22 (on-demand Mar. 2–Apr. 1); Music of Motown, Feb 26–27 (on-demand Mar. 9–Apr. 8); Barber & Brahms, Mar. 14 (on-demand Mar. 16– Apr. 15); Singers and Songwriters with Michael Cavanaugh: The Music of Paul Simon, James Taylor, and Neil Diamond, Mar. 19–20; The Composer Is Dead (re-scheduled), Mar. 27; Dan Brown’s Wild Symphony, Apr. 3; St. Matthew Passion, Apr. 10 & 12 (on-demand Apr. 20–May 20). 842-0800.

State Theatre, 609 Congress St. Punch Brothers, Mar. 5; Allison Russell, Mar. 9; Dark Star Orchestra, Mar.11–12; Ministry, Mar. 13; Dropkick Murphys, Mar. 15; The Origin of Love, Mar. 18; Festival Of Praise, Mar. 20; Sammy Rae, Mar.

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Stone Mountain Arts Center, 695 Dugway Rd., Brownfield. Erica Brown and the Bluegrass Connection, Feb. 26; Teddy Thompson and Jenni Muldaur, Mar. 4; Ye Vagabonds, March 11; Kris Delmhorst, Mar. 12; Robert Cray Band, Mar. 15; St. Paddy’s Celebration, Mar. 17; Celia Woodsmith and Jason Anick Trio, Mar. 18; Los Lobos, Mar. 23; Matt Nagoya, Mar. 25; Kat Edmonton, Mar. 26; The Wailin’ Jennys, Mar. 30; Jimmie Vaughan, Mar. 31; David, Luke, and Will Mallett, Apr. 8; Gibson Brothers, Apr. 9; George Winston, Apr. 14; Bacon Brothers, Apr. 15. 935-7292.

The Strand Theatre, 345 Main St., Rockland.

Oshima Brothers, Feb. 18; German Lopez and Antonio Toledo, Mar. 17. 594-0070.

Waterville Opera House, 1 Common St. Bruce Cockburn, Mar. 1. 873-7000.

Comedy

Cross Insurance Arena, 1 Civic Center Sq. Jeff Dunham: Seriously?!, Mar. 17; John Mulaney: From Scratch, Mar. 18. 791-2200.

Merrill Auditorium, 20 Myrtle St. Tim Dillon: A Real Hero, Feb. 23; Whitney Cummings: Touch Me Tour, Mar. 18; Bert Kreischer: The Berty Boy

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Relapse Tour, Apr. 2. 842-0800.

State Theatre, 609 Congress St. Al Franken, Mar. 6; Tom Segura, Mar. 16–17; Gus Johnson, Mar. 19; Trey Kennedy, Mar. 24; Patton Oswalt, Mar. 26; CrankGameplays, Apr. 15. 956-6000.

Stone Mountain Arts Center, 695 Dugway Rd., Brownfield. Bob Marley, Feb. 17. 935-7292.

Art

Bates College Museum of Art, 75 Russell St., Lewiston. Lesley Dill Wilderness: Light Sizzles Around Me, through Mar. 26. 786-6158.

Bowdoin College Museum of Art, 245 Maine St., Brunswick. New Views of the Middle Ages: Highlights from the Wyvern Collection, Assyria to America, through Feb. 27; Re|Framing the Collection: New Considerations in European and American Art, 1475-1875, through Dec. 21, 2023. 725-3275.

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Brick Store Museum, 117 Main St., Kennebunk. Jane Morgan: In My Style, through Feb. 28. 985-4802.

Center for Maine Contemporary Art, 21 Winter St., Rockland. Chris Doyle: The Fabricators, through May 8; Nicola Lopez: Visions, Phantoms, and Apparitions, through May 8; Young Sun Han: Passages from a Memoir and Tourist in the Dark, through May 8. 701-5005.

Colby College Museum of Art, 5600 Mayflower Hill Dr., Waterville. Jacob Lawrence: The Life of Toussaint L’Ouverture, through Feb. 20; The Poetics of Atmosphere: Lorna Simpson’s Cloudscape and Other Works from the Collection, through Apr. 17; Act of Sight: The Tsiaras Family Photography Collection, through Aug. 14; Sarah Cain: hand in hand, Mar. 31–Dec. 11. 859-5600.

Cove Street Arts, 71 Cove St. Birds, through Feb. 19; Wintry Mix, through Mar. 12; Michael Torlen: Dance Me to the End, through Apr. 9.

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Farnsworth Art Museum, 16 Museum St., Rockland. Women of Vision, through Mar. 6; Robert Indiana: The Hartley Elegies, through Mar. 27; Betsy Wyeth: Partner and Muse, through Apr. 3; Robert Indiana: The Hartley Elegies, through Mar. 27; Betsy’s Gift: The Works of N.C., Andrew, and Jamie Wyeth, through May 8. 596-6457.

Greenhut Galleries, 146 Middle St. Showcase: Greenhut Artists, through Apr. 2; 11th Biennial Portland Show, Apr. 7–May 28. 772-2693.

Maine Historical Society, 489 Congress St., Northern Threads: Two Centuries of Dress at Maine Historical Society, Part 1: Clothing circa 1780–1889, Mar. 16–July 30; Part II: Clothing circa 1890–1980, Aug. 12–Dec. 31. 774-1822.

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Maine Maritime Museum, 243 Washington St., Bath. Sustaining Maine’s Waters: Understanding the Changing Gulf of Maine; A Sailor’s Treasure: Sea Chests & Curiosities; Shipwrecks & Salvage, through Dec. 31. 443-1316.

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EXPERIENCE Maine Narrow Gauge Railroad Co. & Museum, 49 Thames St. The Black Guards of Maine. 842-0800.

The Maine Photography Show, Boothbay Region Art Foundation, 1 Townsend Ave., Boothbay Harbor.

Annual premier juried gallery show of photography in Maine for 15 years, Apr.9– May 6. 633-2703.

Maine Sculpture Trail, Schoodic International Sculpture Symposium.

An outdoor exhibit of 34 sculptures spanning over 273 miles along the coastal region of Downeast Maine. schoodicsculpture.org.

Messler Gallery, 25 Mill St., Rockport. Maine Wood 2022: 8th biennial, juried show of outstanding Maine woodworkers in all genres, through Apr. 6. 594-5611.

Moss Galleries, 100 Fore St. & 251 US-1, Falmouth.

Charlie Hewitt: Bush of Ghosts, through Feb. 28.

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Portland Museum of Art, 7 Congress Sq. North Atlantic Triennial Down North, Feb. 18–Jun. 5; Interaction of Color: Prints from the PMA Collection, Feb. 19–May 22.; Flying Woman: The Paintings of Katherine Bradford, Jun. 25–Sep. 11. 775-6148.

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This 1820 Greek Revival landmark at 185 North Road in Bridgton is so crisply understated that every room looks like an Andrew Wyeth dry-brush painting.

All of the paneling is original, the wainscoting single-board.

The magic goes down to the floorboards. “During repairs we found letters sent to the family during the Civil War,” says seller Dale Daniels, 64, a former L.L. Bean executive.

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During repairs we found letters sent to the family during the Civil War.

“This house was originally built for Carson Rose,” Daniels says. “He had a brother who lived nearby; each brother had six children.

My wife Bethany and I bought it in 1990 for $40,000. When first we came in, we were excited to see horsehair-plaster ceilings with lathes. But some of the ceilings were in rough shape, so room by room I blueboarded but kept the lathes. Then we had a FEB./MARCH 2022 69

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plaster artisan come in” for the finish work.

“That’s when we found the family letters.

I was re-doing the living room ceiling,” his head poking up between the beams. “They were stuffed below the floorboards on the second floor.”

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stopper, swoon-worthy. “It has a working original Dutch oven and a spit. We’ve used the spit, and also made stews” in the enormous hearth.

“The hardware on the doors is original.

The doors are all original except the front door. When we got here, the [three] bedrooms were finished but not the hallways upstairs leading to them. From what I understand this was not uncommon.”

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hey’re finished now, along with a full-sized post-and-beam barn Daniels made by himself “in 2005”—a symphony of wood with exquisite proportions. “A lot of the structural timbers are cut from the property here. Hemlocks.”

THE TICKING OF ETERNITY The spirit of a house usually conveys, deep(Continued on page 73)

You can hear the boom of the pond when the ice breaks up.

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It has a working original Dutch oven and a spit.

We’ve used the spit, and also made stews” in the enormous hearth.

Shaker Simple (continued from page 71)

ened by the dreams of the present occupants. “The Bridgton Historical Society has an old map with five historic houses on it. This is one of them.” From here, “you can see Shawnee Peak. From the edge of the property’s 6.7 acres, a power line cuts straight to the Pond, just 400 yards away.

I’ve ice skated and ice-fished here, caught salmon and brown trout,” an experience that’s even better if you’re gliding in a “1954 (Continued on page 74)

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Thompson lapstrake boat.”

Asked for a favorite book to read here, “Bethany’s is Anne of Green Gables. She’s wild about the whole series.”

What a place to read it. Outdoor entertainment includes “deer, wild turkeys. We have berries, grape vines, apple trees—Macs.”

CONCRETE PARTICULARS he living space is 1,400 square feet, comprising the exquisite classic cape with ell created by “moving [three adorable small] houses behind the main house” as necessity required across the centuries—a train through time. The dreaming space is larger.

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wife have thrown here, Daniels says, “My forty-fifth birthday. Forty-five people.”

He takes a breath. “This house is kind of like an old piece of clothing you put away because it’s going out of style and then it’s suddenly in style again. Maybe you run into it in a drawer and say, ‘Oh yes!’

Bethany sent me into L.L. Bean recently to get…a red and black checkered shirt.”

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LA ST WORDS ation capacity of the country with hydroelectric installations in 2025. What it takes to charge the battery of a top-of-the-line Tesla would charge forty of SGV’s electric motorcycles specifically designed to be plugged into any standard household outlet. Everybody gracious enough to ride one says it’s a game changer. [See details and specifications of the bikes and their impact at sanguoventures.com.] n

Colin S. Sargent, Elida Mwanza, Evan Liu, Fr Joseph Czerwinski SDB, Jackob Chagwilila, Emanuel Sapuwa From Malawi with Love (continued from page 88)

MADE IN MALAWI he MM125 electric motorcycle, SGV’s first product, is adapted from the Honda CG design with the original engine and drivetrain removed, brought to production with assistance and investment from FCA Corp, a Houstonbased asset management firm, via the private-equity fund Africap. SGV is proud to have introduced another first in Malawi: a private certification for electric-vehicle technicians, developed in partnership with Isaac Banda, head of Automobile Mechanics at the technical institute.

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SGV co-founder Colin S. Sargent (far left) credits his education at Cheverus High School (a guiding principle is “People for Others”) in Portland as instrumental in his drive to launch SGV with fellow Northeastern University graduate Evan Liu of Dallas, Texas. Evan and Colin would love your feedback about accelerating the adoption of electric motorcycles in southern Africa; creating opportunities in STEM for women in that region; and beginning the work of training and deploying technicians right now for the coming electric mobility transition in sub-Saharan Africa, where over 9.5 million carbureted gasoline-powered motorcycles without catalytic converters are sold every year. It’ll be a big job to replace or convert all of these, but it can be done. Let’s start a conversation via letters to the Editor of Portland Magazine, on Instagram @sgvelectricmobility, or via email to directors@sanguoventures.com. Keep an eye on our Chowder section for future updates on all the jobs the Don Bosco motorcycle does.

“This is the one that I earned my certificate on.” Mwanza waves to the cycle, proud of her own role in the shared dream. “I am the one who has made this bike!” Applause resounds through the church. [youtube. com/watch?v=wzG-IH6HQN0] 7,500 MILES, MAINE TO MALAWI Success does not have to be a zero-sum game. Because Malawi has never had enough money to build a coal plant, ninety percent of its electricity is generated from renewable sources, mostly hydroelectric and solar. A French public-private partnership will nearly double the power-gener-

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Everyone you talk to on the street is worried that when the torrents do come, they’ll be too heavy.

WHILE YOU WERE SLEEPING Which magnifies the eerie beauty of a January summer Sunday, 2022. Just before the 8 o’clock service (Malawi time is seven hours ahead during Maine’s winter) at Don Bosco Catholic Parish of Lilongwe, the doors fling open as Father Joseph Czerwinski rides up the aisle to the altar on a new motorcycle that makes no sound. “I used to ride bikes a lot, when I was young and beautiful. Now I’m only beautiful.” He turns to his amused congregation and gestures to the sleek vehicle, “a most welcome donation” from Sanguo Ventures Limited (SGV), the area’s first electric-motorcycle 88 P O R T L A N D MAGAZINE

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assembly operation, —Elida Mwanza launched in 2017 to develop electric vehicles for the Southern African market.

“As you know, the roads are terrible, so the minibuses don’t reach us and all the work has had to be done on the motorbike taxis.

We’ll be keeping a careful record of all the jobs this new gift will handle for our parish and how much money those jobs would have cost on the taxis.”

Having an all-electric motorcycle can save such a parish $50,000 (USD) over five years, allowing church teachers to move around, emergency transportation to hospitals, home health care, midwife outreach services, and meal delivery to elderly parishioners.

The shiny anomaly stands front and center during the recognizably Catholic but decidedly Afrobeat-flavored service. What would Jesus say?

INCLUSION: ESSENTIAL TO THE DREAM Elida Mwanza, 25, ascends the pulpit and takes the mike—a day after earning her certificate as an electric-vehicle technician, and just over a year after completing her studies in Automobile Mechanics at Don Bosco Youth Technical Institute.

“Thank you for giving me the opportunity to speak to you all. These electric motorcycles don’t use fuel but instead use three units of electricity (thirteen cents each) to go eighty miles. They are cheap to maintain because they don’t use a gearbox or a chain, and they also make no pollution.”

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That’ll flatten the corn, you see, and corn grown on a fifty- by fifty-yard plot is the staple on which eight in ten families depend in this southern African capital city. If the harvest isn’t good, Malawi will have to import food, creating a real cash crunch for fuel. Long lines at the gas stations again, with disheartening prices. At least a New Year’s Eve thunderstorm has turned all the brown to green to get the crows cawing.

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