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ow would Preston Sturges direct us into a monster hit? First, he’d call it Holidaze. Next he’d use our snapshot of Congress Street before Porteous, Mitchell & Braun became MECA as the movie poster. He’d make sure to spotlight the sweet, courageous way we’re turning scary times into the best of times. Surely he’d capture, as he did during the Depression, that every crazy moment is full of hope. Portland’s own Jean Arthur (1900-1991) grew up at 1 Marie Terrace as well as on Congress Street. She was Sturges’s lead actress in the 1937 screwball comedy Easy Living. She doesn’t catch pennies from heaven; she catches mink coats from penthouses. When such a garment is tossed from the lofty apartment window of a Manhattan high-rise, it floats down and lands on her head. Now that she’s sheathed in glossy fur, she has everyone’s attention. Gossips link her to the financier who threw the coat, and suddenly she’s somebody. The owner of the glitzy Hotel Louis offers her a suite for free just so he can whisper to investors that she’s staying there. World markets rise and tumble on her stock tips. Did somebody say “influencer”? I first learned that Jean Arthur lived among us in the Forest City between 1910 and 1915 from a wonderful story called “Ms. Deeds” written for Portland Magazine by William and Debra Barry. Even better, the Barrys report that Arthur worked with fellow Portlander John Ford at least twice. The 1923 silent film Cameo Kirby, based on a theater production by Kennebunkport novelist Booth Tarkington, was the first time, the Barrys say, that Ford worked under the name John Ford. Then, in 1935, Arthur shines in Ford’s The Whole Town’s Talking. Catch it on Amazon Prime. Why bring up screwball comedy now, of all times? As we bundle up for 2022, what’s really easy isn’t money or even living but how fun it is to feel this city wrapped around us right now, glossy and impossible, sharing a place that fosters talents like Jean Arthur and John Ford. Happy holidays!

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How very Wagnerian. In a stunning twist of fate and a true triumph over terror, a Black Forest vision is the inspiration for this captivating castle on the Maine coast.

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Spad biplane behind opposition lines during a dogfight. The aviator was fleeing for his life to freedom after a bold escape from the deadly prison camp in Villingen. Pursued by baying hounds amid whizzing bullets and the ghastly shapes of trees, he “clawed through the forest at night,” traveling under the stars through hamlet and farm, logging roads and icy streams. Every sound, from thrashing rabbits to “frightened deer,” intensified his own fears.

His every footstep grew louder. Skirting the sleeping village of Tannheim, his senses went to full alert when all the cuckoo clocks went off at the same time. “The mania that the Black Forester has for crowing, ringing clocks helped tremendously to locate villages,” though their jangling made his heart knock in his chest. “The sound of their bell striking the quarter hours” helped him “get a fairly accurate compass bearing of all the unseen villages” in his path to the Rhine.

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Just as he reached the enormous river’s edge, high atop a black cliff that dropped hundreds of feet to the water, he passed the ruins of a 12th-century castle. “A great mountain wall.” He paused in wonder at the ruins of Hauenstein castle. It wasn’t the kind of thing he’d ever forget, especially as a person who had a gift for shapes and feelings. From the vaulted, roofless caverns of this outpost he looked across the Rhine and studied the timing of trains. In the pre-dawn darkness he slipped all the way down the cliff into the water. He started swimming. 2 0 P O R T L A N D M O N T H LY M A G A Z I N E

FAMED BOSTON ARCHITECT illis came home to a hero’s welcome. A six-part series in the Boston Globe let fellow New Englanders share in the harrowing escape of this brilliant flier who was also a gifted designer. His exacting eye even put the final touches on the squadron insignia for the Lafayette Escadrille. Remember the Native American in headdress on Cary Grant’s leather flying jacket in Only Angels Have Wings? As his high-flying houses became the envy of the smart set, his dark escape through Germany sank into his private nightmares.

A REQUEST FOR WHIMSY Until MIT physicist Alan C. Bemis approached him with a project in Maine (see the pals’ photo, previous spread; Willis wears the beret). Build me a fabulous mansion at the top of a sheer cliff with views over Eggemoggin Reach in Brooklin. The northern lights crowded the sky over the perfect site. If ever a haven were built on the aerie that was High Head, the stars would come in through the windows and share dessert of giant charlotte russe with you. But what could you build up there—if you let your imagination run wild?

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TALKING WALLS vard ’28, MIT ’30) had started coming to Brooklin in the 1920s. Beyond his intellectual chops, the young Bemis (he was 31) was heir to the Bemis packaging fortune (just acquired in 2019 for $5.25B in shares). Harold Willis was a summer neighbor in Brooklin. Big dreams have a way of bumping into each other over cocktails. Bemis’s instincts were sound: Harold Willis was on his way to being named president of the Boston Society of Architects.

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Both were innovators who loved Maine. Willis had already “bought 150-180 acres of nearby Flye Point in Brooklin for $5,000 right after World War I,” says his greatgranddaughter Hester Mishkin, “where he restored an ancient saltwater farm that’s still in the family today.” Bemis purchased his cliff lot with the breathtaking views in 1936. Now it was magic time. PRYING EYES The village of Brooklin had very few summer people when the great schloss started to take shape at the top of High Head. Hmm. This couldn’t be inspired by the Rhineland, could it? some of the locals may have sniped. In 1937, New England was on edge about Germany. Hopefully a spy wouldn’t be up in that tower, radioing ship traffic and guiding in U-boats. It’s easy to get the wrong idea. Short story long, that may be why this house is more often called Norwegianinspired or Swedish-inspired instead of Teutonic-nightmare-inspired, despite its Wagnerian undertones. As construction continued through November of 1937, the 2,300-square-foot granite structure (with a separate Children’s House, for a total of 7,000 square feet) at 158 High Head Drive, Brooklin, rose into the sky, complete with lighthouse tower, parapets, a sleeping porch that just hangs over the water, and a grand ballroom dancing the light fantastic at the edge of infinity. (Continued on page 25)

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HALF THE FUN IS GETTING THERE To keep an eye on things, “My grandfather used to fly his Fairchild 24 float plane from Massachusetts to Maine,” says John Macone. “He was a pretty amazing pilot. That’s how he commuted from Boston to Maine. He’d fly it out of the ocean in all kinds of weather.” emis had “five daughters. My mother was one of them. The routine would be to load my grandmother and the girls and the dogs in the car. Then he’d fly

and get here hours earlier.” Point of order: You can’t just leave a gorgeous plane like that to face the waves boiling at the bottom of the cliff. “No. So he built a seaplane hangar with a railway and could haul it up above the waves. It was quite an adventure,” Macone says. “There’s six miles of nowhere between here and the Deer Isle Bridge, which leaves some significant fetch” to really dish up the winds. “The angle was 17 degrees” for the winch. (Continued on page 26)

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shiny. ‘I’ll hand you the saw.’” UNDER THE SPELL OF ELEGANCE ew owner Kate Morris says, “Our son Tom [Morris] took us out on his boat. We looked up at it. From down there, it was the tower that stood out. Tom said, ‘It’s for sale. Maybe it would be fun to see it.’” Kate’s husband, Hans Morris, founder of NYCA Partners, a Madison Avenue investment firm, said, “We are not buying it. We are not buying anything in Maine.” “But when he saw it up close we laughed, because he started taking pictures rapidly,” Kate says. “‘He likes it!’” The asking price was $3.8M—for seven bedrooms, six baths, and 30 acres of savage beauty that few have ever seen. “The setting, design, craftmanship— it’s been untouched,” Hans says. “There’s a sort of timelessness about it. Then there’s that Tower Room. With unobstructed views” of forever. Kate Morris worked in New York in finance before going to design school and as-

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“But this is the wildest in our portfolio,” Hans says of the new project. “We hope to rent it during the high season and stay in it during the off season. We’re hoping for this July” for the first new tenants. “It’s never been rented before,” Kate says. She describes the vibe as “Swedish, Nordic, Norwegian, Northern European. We fell in love with it because it’s not one of the ubiquitous Shingle Style cottages you see from the water up here,” Kate says. One of her favorite details is the ballroom, with its

raised bandstand. In the Children’s House there’s a pingpong table. Imagine the echoic sound of a ping-pong ball bouncing up here amid the roaring plenitude. When he learns that one of the guests who stayed here was Edward Land, inventor of the Polaroid Land Camera, Hans, who seems to like unraveling mysteries, lights up. “Of course. It was the darkest part of the Depression,” when the world was on the ropes, “when Edward Land gave an anonymous gift of $5 million to MIT, just when they needed it.” Among venture capitalists, “It’s a famous gift. That was an unspeakable amount of money, particularly back then. No wonder Alan Bemis, the MIT physics professor, and Edward Land” shared a visit up here to celebrate. “FROZEN MUSIC” Now that High Head’s new owners envision renting it during the summer (do we hear luxury weddings, executive retreats, family reunions?), the castle and her architect

are likely to receive more well-deserved acclaim. Not that Willis is unrecognized. His family always called him “The Colonel,” says his great-granddaughter Hester Mishkin. “His flight jacket is in the Smithsonian’s Air and Space Museum.” And we’re not talking about the lost and found! Willis’s wife, Cornelia, was the sister of Gertrude Fiske, Mishkin says. (A Maine connection: Gertrude Fiske was a student of Charles Woodbury at the Ogunquit Art Colony.) When we reached Mishkin, she was in New York, where her talented ancestor was being recognized for his restoration design contributions to St. Patrick’s Cathedral and the next project he tackled after High Head: The Cloisters (1938), a division of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Thanks for the ride, Colonel. May your lift always exceed your drag. n Taxes are estimated at: $34,500. All property photos by Dean Tyler.

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One day, I notice a flash of neon darting above the path in front of me and I think, “Oh, no! What’s happening with my eyes now?”

switched off two of my five senses like circuit breakers. The first stage of grief is astonishment. Next, reassurance. Surely my senses will return within a week or two, as they do for more than ninety percent of those who lose them. Wrong.

that in terms of the CDC’s guidelines I was considered recovered. But I’m a food writer living in the Foodiest City in America, and I’ve lost my senses of taste and smell.

BREAK IT DOWN As eight weeks go by, I start journaling my taste and smell progress— or put more accurately, the lack of it. A good writer can write her way out of anything, right?

HEARTBROKEN AGAIN I sit myself down to savor an exquisite Greek salad with Micucci’s finest feta, dried oregano imported from Greece, Kalamata olives, fresh greens, and a top-notch Retsina (a resinated Greek wine that perfectly balances the cheese, EVOO, and herbs). First bites, bliss. Then, suddenly, nothing. No flavor, no pungent fragrance waking treasured memories. Somebody’s

HEART TO HEART ONLINE My research leads me to a group in the UK called AbScent touting an olfactory training system of regularly smelling essential oils to help regain these senses. My daughter sends me four therapeutic-grade oils as suggested on their website: lemon (fruity), clove (spicy), eucalyptus (resinous), and geranium (floral). I sniff them religiously, morning and night, mostly getting nothing.

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SISTER ACT Armed with immunity from having had COVID, I travel to Sedona for what turns out to be a six-month stay with my sister. One night she prepares a rack of lamb, my favorite. First bite: cardboard. I want to taste it so badly I burst into tears. Banished from the table after that, I take my meals separately. People don’t know how to cope with this.

Z EITG E IST FIRE WITH FIRE I start taking long walks, photographing everything. One day, I notice a flash of neon darting above the path in front of me and think, “Oh, no, what’s happening with my eyes now?” Another flash, just long enough for me to detect a bird sporting feathers of an almost blinding blue—a color I’m sure I’ve never seen! I’ve never been a “birder” nor had any interest in bird photography, but oh, the colors! I’m totally smitten. WAY MORE THAN FIVE Maybe the crushing loss of tasting and smelling has opened me up to new sensations. At first hard to find, like that unidentifiable flash of color, birds begin appearing everywhere as I begin standing still, listening for their calls. These creatures seem to have a kind of empathy for me, displaying themselves—indeed, almost posing—to help me regain my footing in an exquisite world that I’m sorely missing. A friend looks at the jaunty, witty, wildly comical cast of my bluebird shots and

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exclaims, “They all look like Eddie!” My life partner of thirty years and soulmate I’ve missed every minute of the past five years. With each new day of no recovery in taste and smell, my other senses heighten, colors and sounds more vivid and arresting than they were prior to my suffering anosmia. I plunge into the Cornell Lab of Ornithology’s Merlin Bird ID app and start a life list (words I’d never heard before). SKUNK HOUR Thus begins a daily pursuit and solace for the anxiety that comes with this invisible disability where you can’t smell dangerous warning signs like a gas leak or food gone bad. When I put a batch of chili on to sim-

mer, my nose can’t signal if it’s burning. Silver lining? I don’t know whether or not it tastes burnt. Now I set an alarm whenever I put anything on the stove. One memorable day my sister cries out, “Oh, God, do you smell that?” We stare at each other blankly, then laugh. Apparently there’s a skunk—super strong by the look on her face. Googling for anything that can help me feel normal, I find that AbScent (I am still doing their recommended smell training

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Z EI TG EI ST and getting slight scents of lemon and clove now) has a Facebook page devoted to people like me. You have to be vetted prior to joining—this is my tribe! Here’s my safe place to vent about not being understood; to see that others experience the same frustration of tastes returning one day only to vanish the next; and to learn that some folks are recovering even after fifteen to twenty months, when I’d begun to think I never would, posting: THE RANT “I thought I was handling it well. Some tastes here and there and even some smells (the occasional fleeting whiff of the grass being cut), but tonight just hit me hard. Got some triple cream blue cheese at Trader Joe’s and some red wine (one of their Italian reds)...these tastes have come through a little bit in the past weeks. But tonight, nothing. Well. A little, but nothing like

The bluebird who captured me in flight was a gift that helped me maintain my sanity. what I know these flavors should be. Fifteen months now. I am depressed. Yes. I know I should be and do feel thankful that I am alive (at 75), but I really really miss being able to enjoy tasting and smelling…” IS ANYBODY OUT THERE? Responses are immediate, plentiful, and heartwarming: “It’s a grieving process. Feel what you need to feel.” “Don’t ever feel any guilt. Too many people have NO IDEA what it’s like to face what so many do. During Covid those with a loss of taste and smell are the forgotten ones due to people having zero empathy because they will NEVER know what it’s like until they experience it.” “I can’t imagine being that far out & you’re entitled to feel that way, praying for healing. Sending healing thoughts your way—and yes, you should feel zero guilt about losing 2/5 senses. It is absolutely depressing and miserable, even with the perspective that things could be worse. It is such 36 P O R T L A N D MAGAZINE

an isolating disability that people just can’t get if it’s not happening to them. I’m only 3 months in and praying for a miracle—just want to be able to smell my newborn.” “If it helps, I’m at 19 months, and all the flavors and scents I could on occasion taste or smell have returned consistently—mint, rose, dill, rosemary, green tea, tomato plants, etc.—the gamut. Hang in there—I think it’s safe to say if you can smell them sometimes, the receptors are healing and will return. Or at least that’s certainly been my experience.”

THE LOWER THE LOWS... lthough this condition stinks, it’s opened up, for me at least, a whole new menu of compassion that makes for a nurturing diet. As some tastes and a very few smells return, I look forward to whatever percentage might come through with any food I try. Yet often, as sufferers finally start to savor returning flavors, these suddenly become off-putting. This parosmia I now fear has been likened to rewiring a house, or to a switchboard operator making the wrong connection: the brain picks up a scent like tuna fish and translates it to dirty laundry, or worse. Bread baking may smell like rotting garbage or fresh air seem filled with cigarette smoke. I’ve read of some who cannot eat, as most foods emit smells that make them so nauseated they’d give anything to be back at zero smell and taste. THE HIGHER THE HIGHS! So I’m deeply grateful for each tiny step forward, like being able to taste a shrimp dish at Local 188 recently, and a taco filled with roasted vegetables at Taco Trio in South Portland. Yet with some tastes and smells returning but not reliably staying, after so many months without complete healing, it’s hard to muster up hope without the support and comfort of empathetic friends. The bluebird who captured me in flight was a gift that helped me maintain my sanity and keep going during those early months of complete loss. Food now, when tasted, somehow holds even more appeal than it ever did. For so long I had nothing. This is paradise compared to that. n Hudson’s startling new avian photos are on view in the exhibition “Birds” at Cove Street Arts, 71 Cove Street, December 16February 19, 2022. DECEMBER 2021 37

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WIFE NO. 1 When Albert P. Cochran moved in with Pauline in 1976, he already had one murder conviction to his name. He’d confessed to the killing of his first wife, 19-year-old Patricia Sinclair, in Joliet, Illinois in 1964. He’d also confessed to the murders of their three young children: 10-month-old Craig, 2-year-old Christopher, and 3-year-old Christine. However, the murder charges for the deaths of the children were dropped due to a technicality. State’s Attorney Frank H. Masters, Jr., feared the unsigned confession Cochran made during his polygraph test could lead to the reversal of a guilty verdict. They couldn’t run the risk of this confessed killer walking free. The State appeared confident that finding this family annihilator guilty on just one murder charge would be enough to eliminate the threat he posed to society for close to his natural life. He was 25 when the judge handed down a fifty- to seventy-fiveyear sentence. However, the State didn’t dodge the risk altogether. At the time, a new criminal code in Illinois made Cochran eligible for parole in just eleven and a half years. In 1976, the board granted him parole and a transfer back to his home state: Maine. LIVE-IN KILLER Pauline knew Albert P. Cochran from childhood, when she was a foster child in his mother’s home. She also knew about his conviction and the story he’d given to in-

MYSTE RY vestigators: that he’d killed Patricia in retaliation for her taking the lives of their three children. Pauline never questioned his story until his behavior bordered on bizarre in late fall of 1976, when a shocking news story rocked the communities of central Maine. Just before midnight on November 23, 1976, police in Norridgewock found a Ford sedan run off the road, teetering on the bank of the Kennebec River with the motor running, but no driver in sight. An officer popped the trunk of the car to discover the half-clothed body of 30-year-old Janet Baxter. She’d been shot in the head and chest. Janet Baxter’s murder flooded local and state headlines. Albert Cochran’s interest in the case was alarming to Pauline. He clipped stories from the newspaper and left them scattered around her mobile home. He visited the scene of the crime, making Pauline and her pre-teen daughter join him. When Pauline asked Cochran if he killed Janet Baxter, as the South Florida Sun Sentinel reported it, he “exploded.” While Albert Cochran kept an eye on the Janet Baxter homicide investigation, state police investigators kept an eye on him. They’d seen him pull up to the crime scene, and noted his license plate. His name was added to a list of forty possible suspects, and detectives collected hair samples from him to test against evidence collected at the crime scene. At the time, the FBI reported no positive comparisons. According to the Maine State Police Missing Persons listing for Pauline Rourke, she was scheduled to be interviewed as part of the investigation into Cochran’s suspected involvement in the murder of Janet Baxter. But she disappeared before she could ever tell them what she knew. WIFE NO. 2 he 1970s rolled into the 1980s, and then the 90s, with no developments in either Janet Baxter’s or Pauline Rourke’s cases. However, the 1990s brought significant developments in DNA testing and the acceptance of DNA evidence in criminal trials. Closure was inching closer to these 1976 cold cases. Meanwhile, Albert Cochran had settled down in Stuart, Florida. He was going by his middle name, Pat, when he remarried. His new wife later told reporters

she had no idea he was a convicted murderer when they tied the knot. Albert told her that his first wife and children had died in an accident. In 1998, just months after advanced DNA technology reached the Maine State

It was like a game to Albert—a game he continued to play until the very last days of his life. Police Crime Lab, investigators submitted evidence in Janet Baxter’s case for DNA testing. The strands of Albert Cochran’s hair sitting in an evidence locker for decades were tested against other biological evidence found at the scene. It was a 1 in 36 million match. Maine State Police arrested Albert P. Cochran in Stuart, Florida, in March 1998. It happened to be his birthday. Cochran waived extradition, allowing Maine State Police to take him into custody on pending charges without a hearing in the State of Florida. DIGGING UP THE PAST Back in Maine, Albert Cochran faced trial and was ultimately convicted of the rape and murder of Janet Baxter. He received a life sentence this time, without eligibility for parole. Now, with the lead suspect in the disappearance of Pauline Rourke behind bars, Maine State Police pressed him for information they believed he was concealing. Pauline’s daughter herself visited Cochran in prison, hiding a tape recorder in the room whenever she went to see him. She tried to be nice to him, willing to do anything to learn more about what happened to her mother. He’d tell her lies, and then slip up and mention little things that sounded like the truth about how her mother died. How he shot her in the head. How cold the water was in the well where he left her body. Then he’d backtrack and his story changed again. It was like a game to Cochran—a game he continued to play until the very last days of his life. He led detectives to remote properties in

Smithfield and Fairfield. He gave them a foggy description of a slate-lined well near a dilapidated barn in a hayfield. Because he’d been working in construction at the time of Pauline’s disappearance, they also searched the concrete foundations he’d poured with metal and heat detectors. Former Maine Department of Public Safety spokesperson Steve McCausland told Bangor Daily News reporters that after a number of meetings with Albert Cochran, he got the impression that he was always scheming and calculating. We’ll never know if Cochran was honest with investigators as they continued searching. Not a single trace of Pauline was ever found. Maybe his memory failed him, or maybe it was his own dark victory lap at the end of a lifetime of manipulation and deceit.

“I have a horrible time knowing her remains are out there.” —daughter Honey Rourke

Albert P. Cochran died on June 27, 2017. Whatever information about Pauline Rourke he had died with him. About two weeks later, Maine State Police reported they had six to ten credible new leads in Pauline’s disappearance that pointed back to the Smithfield-Mercer area, but as of summer 2021, Pauline is still missing. Her daughter will never stop searching, saying in 2017, “I have a horrible time knowing her remains are out there. I just want people to realize it’s very important for me to find her. I really need to have the closure. I will have a funeral, but I won’t bury her again. I won’t put her in the ground. She was too young.” If you have information that could bring Pauline Rourke home, please call the Maine State Police Unsolved Homicide Unit at (207) 624-7143. n Kylie Low is the creator and host of Dark Downeast: Maine and New England’s True Crime Podcast. For more stories of unsolved murders, missing persons, strange local folklore, and Vacationland mysteries, find Dark Downeast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and all major podcast platforms. DECEMBER 2021 45

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we’re ordering groceries, we try to think like a cook: what do cooks need?” Sometimes it’s just a break: “Our big pizza night is a couple days before Christmas when everyone’s busy wrapping gifts.” Not surprisingly, Quattrucci says they’re most likely to sell out of convenience foods like ready-made pies and cookies, “but hopefully we’ll sell out of everything!” So don’t leave it till the last minute to stock up on all the esoteric holiday essentials you might have trouble finding at half a dozen other stores, like mascarpone, lady fingers, cocoa, espresso, and eggs for tiramisù; anise extract for pizzelle cookies (“I sell pizzelle irons here too, and the flour”); baccala (dried salt cod) for the Feast of the Seven Fishes; and local (from Solo Italiano) or imported panettone. “I’d love to make it here, but it’s very complicated to make, and we don’t have the space. It’s a very long baking time and then you have to

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HU N G RY EY E Ceylon cinnamon is a special type some compare to the “Big Red” flavor of cinnamon that we love to use in holiday baking. Mace is the red outer covering of the nutmeg seed ground into a powder. It is used interchangeably with nutmeg, but has a lighter, subtler, and sweeter flavor perfect when nutmeg could be overpowering. Known as the “Queen of Spices,” green cardamom enhances both sweet and savory dishes with its floral and eucalyptus flavor profile great with baked apples, poached pears, oranges, or coffee.

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DINING GUIDE Anthony’s Italian Kitchen 30 years of Old World recipes. Best meatballs in town. Mile-high lasagnas, fresh-filled cannoli pastries, 54 sandwiches, pizza. A timeless great family spot. Beer and wine. Free parking. 151 Middle St., Portland, AnthonysItalianKitchen.com, 774-8668.

Bandaloop has moved into a restored 1700s barn on Route 1 in Arundel. Since 2004 we have offered locally sourced, globally inspired, organic cuisine. Our new home has plenty of space, parking, outdoor seating, takeout, and an event space in the loft. We continue to offer something for every palate—from vegans to carnivores and everything in between. bandalooprestaurant.com 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

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Ogunquit Playhouse, Holiday online auction, through Dec. 6. 646-5511. Ogunquit Performing Arts, S. Judson Dunaway Center, 23 School St. Classic Film Series: Christmas in Connecticut, Dec. 5. 646-5139. Blue, 650A Congress St. Irish Session every Wed. 774-4111. Cadenza, 5 Depot St., Freeport. The Collins Band, Dec. 3; Anni Clark, Dec. 4. 560-5300.

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WE WON’T GO UNTIL WE GET SOME! emember Johnny Carson’s fruitcake joke about how there’s really only one fruitcake that just gets endlessly re-gifted because nobody actually wants it? If that rang so true you’ve been wondering why fruitcake even exists, all will be revealed once you start sampling the imported selection at Bridgham & Cook British Goods (aka “the British store”) in Freeport. Unlike the typically dry and tasteless American fruitcake over-reliant on candied peel, a proper British fruitcake is often iced and contains mostly dried fruits and nuts marinated in seasonal spices and heavily embalmed with various kinds of booze. While

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you’re at it, the only British Isles store in Maine is also a great place this time of year to find out what exactly was in that Christmas pie Little Jack Horner stuck his thumb into while sitting in the corner, or to discover what all the figgy pudding fuss was about in “We Wish You a Merry Christmas.” “We’ve got a loyal following of Anglophiles who’ve spent time there or gone to school there, so they have a great appreciation for all the holiday items we have for only two months of the year—they’re here and then they’re gone,” says manager Jay Paulus. “We’ve gone from stocking nine candy bars when we started to over forty now. We have four or five tables full of holiday foods, and it all goes. We’ve had a record-breaking year already—almost our fortieth—probably topping all of them because of the pent-up demand of people finally getting out and wanting to see friends and relatives and picking up gifts to bring.” As well as every kind of plum pudding you might want to set alight for Christmas, mince pies to take along to friends on Boxing Day, and a selection of haggis for Hogmanay and Burns Night, “we also stock products from any Commonwealth country the Queen presides over, including Jamaica, South Africa, Bermuda, Canada, and the Isle of Man.” Just don’t try to put cheese on these Christmas crackers! NORTH POLE Remember that gruff but lovable prospector in the venerable Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer TV special? He’s now got his own signature cocktail, thanks to an inventive bartender at Gritty McDuff’s Brew Pub in Auburn applying the Maine principle that everything tastes better with maple syrup. “The way our drink menus work is that each bartender creates and names a seasonal drink special,” says manager Jaclyn Bergmann. “Seven or eight years ago, one of our bartenders, Chad Kordalski, got creative with the traditional oldfashioned and swapped out the usual simple syrup for the

Maine maple syrup we keep behind the bar for drinks, because we like to go local. He muddled it with a slice of orange and a splash of bitters, then added Bulleit bourbon and a maraschino cherry. Gritty’s was heavily involved with LewistonAuburn’s Christmas tree lighting and parade that year, and we took first prize with our “Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer” float featuring the Abominable Snowman

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“What’s your racing experience?” “I was born while Dad was stationed in Germany. Learned to ski and did some kid racing at Garmisch, and I’ve skied Brig and Val D’Isère. We were transferred to North Carolina when I was ten. We skied some weekends at Beech or Sugar Mountain, but their seasons are short. When Dad retired, we moved to Pittsfield, Massachusetts, where my mom’s from. I raced for Bousquet while I was in high school but was more interested in girls than slalom then, which is the only event you get good at in the Berkshires.” “Works for me.” I hired him for course crew, which requires expert skiing without poles on all terrain and the ability to endure extended hours on the mountain in all weather. We shook, and I said, “Orientation’s Saturday. Have a place for the winter?” “My buddy’s family has a house here. He’s up weekends. His parents spend January and February in South Carolina—only come up in March.” “Bluebird days in March,” I said, “are

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God’s reward for January.” Breezy was never late, sick, or hungover; never bitched about the cold or the hours. I still remember him, kilt and sporran swinging, a bundle of gates on his shoulder, weaving down the headwall behind the course setter, shouting into the frigid morning, “God’s chosen are on this mountain now!” The next year I made Breezy a salaried foreman. He passed the Referee’s Exam. The year after, he became a Level One U.S. Ski & Snowboard Technical Delegate. But at the end of that third season, seduced by tales of Wasatch powder, he followed Annie Libby to Alta. I pestered him to stay, reminding him he was one of “God’s chosen.” He said, “Lived lots of places, Dave. But never too long anywhere.” Few make skiing a career. It’s a tough wager, like gambling or farming, the odds often against you. In a snow-filled winter, snowmakers get laid off. Or the weather goes south and instructors slurp ramen. Races are lost to too much or too little

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snow, brutal cold, savage winds, or driving rain, and course crew becomes a slog. We’re all at the mercy of the weather: bartenders, housekeepers, lifties, even executives.

reezy has an engineering degree, so I figured he’d linger a few years out West, then turn up here one perfect March morning to show his wife and kids where he used to work. Instead he became a Fédération Internationale de Ski Technical Delegate—which requires fluency in German or French—then took a job with the Ski Team, following them from glacier to glacier in summer and around the world during the World Cup and Olympics. Every so often he’d pop up here, but never for long. Annie drifted home a few years back. I saw her outside Narrow Gauge Cinemas with her niece, Emma, who told me they’d seen Frozen II for the third time. “Hear you got Nationals,” Annie said. “We do.” “Breezy coming?” “Assume so.”

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“You know he had a health scare, right?” “No!” I stumbled a step backward. “He okay?” “His arms shake. He’s had CAT scans, Parkinson’s and ALS tests, the whole nine yards—but so far nobody’s figured it out.” “Jesus,” I said. “Only number I have is the office, and he’s never there.” Annie fished a pen from her purse and printed two numbers on my palm. “One’s his cell, one’s his team phone. He’ll answer those or call you back.” I never summoned the courage to call. Breezy was Director of Athlete Logistics for the March Nationals. At the first

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and idiots. Couch surfing and living on pasta, working for jack or for a season’s pass, then spending six months mowing greens or slinging beers to do it again.

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Team Captains’ Meeting, he engulfed me in a bear hug. “Damn, Dave, you’re ten years older than when I worked here.” “You too.” “I know Annie told you about my arms, but it’s all good now.” Not wanting to pry, I said, “It’s a great five-day forecast. Gonna ski in your kilt?” “God, no!” He shook his head. “Really?” Breezy smiled. “Tell you over a beer.” In my office later, Breezy leaned back in his chair and stared for a second at his beer. “So last April, on a sparkling Utah day too warm for long johns, I was Tele-skiing backcountry in my kilt with a friend and his wife, when an upsloping gust completely exposed my wedding tackle. I reached down à la Marilyn Monroe over the grate, took a digger, and cracked my shoulder on

a stump. Considering what I might have hit—not so bad. The shakes started later. Saw ’bout every specialist in Utah. Then Michelle Bonvouloir—a musician I’ve been living with—figured it out, because she’d had the same thing. I flew to see her neurologist in Montréal.” “What was it?” “Severely pinched nerve.” “All the other docs missed it?” “The neurologist said it’s not an easy diagnosis. Prescribed some meds and regular massage therapy, and I’m good.” “You serious about Michelle?” “Proposing when I get back.” “Good odds she says yes?” “Best I’ll ever get.” “She ski?” “Grew up at Tremblant.” “Gonna live in Park City?” “No, Montréal.” “Great! You can TD here like old times.” Breezy chewed on his lower lip. “How long you been here?” “Sixteen years.” “Being anywhere that long scares the starch out of me.” “But you’ve been out West thirteen years.” “True, but I was always traveling. Toughest part of being an Army brat was the transfers. Felt like they timed them for as soon as I was settled in somewhere. Now I’m itchy as hell when my suitcase isn’t packed. Plus this means I leave the team. But Michelle’s music is bilingual, so her best shot’s in Montréal. I love her, and she’s weary of being a nomad. Wants us to anchor down. I don’t, I lose her. ” “My Dad says skiing is the last resort of outlaws and idiots. Couch surfing and living on pasta, working for jack or for a season’s pass, then spending six months mowing greens or slinging beers to do it again.” “You’ve done fine,” Breezy said. “But I’m stuck here. No degree, no way to move up. You have options.” “I’m not good with some kinds of options,” Breezy said. “Ask Annie.” “Get a gig at a mountain in the Eastern Townships. Discover the joys of Montréal smoked meats, poutine, and tourtière. Help Michelle with her career. Have kids. Home’s a good thing too.” He scratched his ear. “Be best man?” I high-fived him. “I’ll work on my toast as soon as Michelle says yes.” n DECEMBER 2021 103

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“What kind of work are you looking for?” I asked. “Anything outside involving alpine racing.” “You might work ten straight days and be on the hill before dawn and off after dark,” I said. “Pay’s nine-fifty an hour with a full-season pass.” Breezy said, “Perfect.” (Continued on page 102)

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hirteen years ago, Campbell Reid, who enjoyed skiing in a kilt and full regalia, showed up at our pre-season job fair. “I go by Breezy,” he told me. “It’s a nickname I got for blaming misplaying a Little League fly ball on the wind.”

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