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“Apricity: The Warmth of the Sun in Winter” How to winter over, courtesy of your cat.

By Colin W. Sargent

14 Letters

MAINE LIFE 17 Chowder

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

35 Welcome to My Camp Maine’s summer camps set the stage for your favorite stars’ successes.

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80 53 What’s Playing

If you thought there was no culture under quarantine, think again. When the going gets tough, the arts get going.

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HOMES & DESIGN

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“Walk on the Wild Side” Hunker down in your own waterfront bunker.

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70 Maine Real Estate

Art&Style 27 The Fuel of Influence Three Maine artist pairings across time.

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19 Flights of Fancy

Is eccentricity the Maine vernacular? From the Wedding Cake House to Wilhelm Reich’s Mad Scientist Laboratory to a lakefront castle, Maine houses intrigue and astonish.

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n Maine, we love to bask in the sun and feel it warm our bones. It’s a guilty pleasure, especially in winter’s razor cold. Cats have always been connoisseurs of the wintry word “apricity.”

You know the mystical way they find the perfect spot to catch the sun’s warmth through a windowpane, no matter how cold it is outside. They know how to stop time in such a place. They become still and wise—sexy cozy.

From their point of view, you get extra points if icicles hang from the windows and working stiffs are digging their cars out from a big snowstorm. That’s when apricity dips into schadenfreude. You’ve seen those cats: “I’m warm, and you’re not!”

Merriam-Webster dates this obscure word to 1623, but apricity futures are looking bright. In front of our eyes, the term is outpacing words like hiemal and brumation.

The University of Texas at Austin has a literary magazine called Apricity. Way cool, Mr. McConaughey!

In all selfishness, I hope you take a moment to experiment with apricity this winter (before I take the word out of our style sheet next year). You deserve it. Find that shaft of sunlight and believe. It’s rough outside, Pilgrim, but we’re gonna be okay.

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NEW YEAR’S RESOLUTION I loved your Winterguide 2021 issue. I live in Falmouth but can see it covers Maine life across the state while focusing on Portland as we enter the “Brave New World” mentioned on your cover.

I especially loved the article by Craig Lorimer on Franklin Street before the Arterial [“Dividing the Heart”], which featured a small photo of my grandmother, Goldie Davidson, and family, including David Davidson, my father. The interview questions were excellent and the responses from Mildred Kaplan Drees accurate and moving.

The format of Portland Magazine is diverse and the photography great. The advertising is excellent, and I got a subscription to start the year off right.

Pat Davidson Reef, Falmouth COUNT US IN Your inclusiveness is so needed, so appreciated in the October 2020 issue. You make it look easy. I have forwarded copies to friends I know will be thrilled how respectful this issue is, and I am planning to buy subscriptions for all my siblings. I would love to see this much inclusion on a regular basis. Better than wonderful! Maine needs this kind of writing.

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Hiding in Maine. With Us. “Death to the Dracu grandson!”

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Safe Space for Scientists

“Students who felt isolated by their love of science or technology find themselves with fellow enthusiasts,” says Thomas Bickford of Maine Robotics Camp. “They build a robot, try it, have it fail, modify it, and try again until they succeed. We need to realize we’ve put so much emphasis on not failing we’ve forgotten that’s how we learn.”

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Three houses take the dream ramp into the unknown.

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quantum superposition shows a unit in two possible states at once.

We don’t know which is real until we test them. Here’s a trio of whimsical residences—call them the Three Whimsies— that fit that description.

Triumph or Tragedy?

Norwood, the Tiny Castle

It shimmers across the water. It conjures up the past. It’s a fabulous European romantic gesture lost in the New World wilderness of Maine.

When Maine’s first Commissioner of the Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife traveled through Europe in 1890, he brought home a dream: the creation of a fairy-tale castle here in Maine. Who was this dreamer? There’s a sweet backstory.

According to the Willimantic, Maine, town website, Willis E. Parsons was the lawyer

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who “performed the ceremony to ‘marry’ Dover to Foxcroft.” Ever the romantic, he commissioned French-Canadian workers to build his dream castle on Sebec Lake as a wedding gift for his new bride, Agnes.

The eccentricity is magnified when you consider how deep Norwood Castle is in the woods. In her master’s thesis “Castles in America: Their Diffusion into the Northeastern United States during the Roman-

Dunvegan Inspo: Norwood Castle was inspired by Dunvegan Castle on the Isle of Skye in Scotland.

tic Era (1870-1930)” scholar Laura Bell studied 50 New England castles and found that “the castle that is located in the county with the smallest density is Norwood Castle in an area with four people per square mile.”

Compare this to greater Philadelphia’s “Ballytore and Druim Moir with 6,271 people per square mile.”

Surely Norwood is in the “peripheral” category and not the “cluster” category of castles.

Constructed of wood above a granite base, the pocket castle is still in the same family.

THE LAIRD OF NORWOOD Beyond being a dreamer, Willis E. Parsons “was an architect, lawyer, and builder. He read for the law,” says John Parsons, Willis’s grandson. As for the legend that Willis “married” Dover to Foxcroft, “he was the county attorney at the time. We don’t know what took him to Europe in 1890. He went Feb./March 2021 19

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It takes a little imagination to see why.”

A mist floats over the water. “My grandfather died before I was born,” says Parsons, who is now in his eighties. “My father died when I was 24.” A gulf of regret separates the living and the dead. To bridge it, “I have visited Dunvegan—just to complete the loop.”

SOUNDS LIKE LOVE TO US he castle on Lake Sebec “is not that attractive, really. You see beautiful castles on TV and in the movies,” and Norwood doesn’t quite rise to that standard. “It’s not large. It’s four bedrooms and just 1,100 square feet. It has a central tower, but there’s very little that’s special about it. It’s unfinished, with raw 2" x 6" joists and knotty pine. There is no great hall. Inside is one fireplace with a woodstove. It’s really no different from any other camp on the lake.”

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Can we see a picture of the inside?

“No, you may not.”

Surely this wasn’t your grandfather’s year-round home?

“It wasn’t. He lived on Main Street in Dover-Foxcroft, in a Victorian house now owned by the Mayo Hospital. My father was born in Dover-Foxcroft but went to Harvard Law and settled in Hartford. I went to the Kingswood School in Hartford and then went to RISD. I spent 40 years living in Washington, D. C., working as a landscape architect for the National Park Service.”

Still, an unseen force summoned you to Scotland to see Dunvegan Castle.

“We were touring Ireland, Scotland, and England 30 years ago with some friends. We couldn’t resist stopping at the Isle of Skye.”

If we can’t see the inside of the castle, the knotty pine and all, what are some of the books inside, to give us a feel for the castle’s personality?

“What do you mean?”

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“There is no library.”

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“There are three or four books about castles.” [No, I’m not going to share their titles with you. It’s not your castle.]

LOCAL RENOWN Asked if locals around the lake have a nickname for the structure, Parsons says, “People don’t call it Norwood Castle much, just The Castle. It was originally built on a 100by 200-foot lot.” He’s since increased the lot beyond four acres.

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r e a l estate tle any way but by boat.” We just don’t get moats in Maine, do we?

LEGACY Turns out Norwood is a romanticization of North Woods. “We’ve tried to keep it exactly as it was. This was a folly, no doubt about it. When we’ve made repairs to try to keep it the same over the years, sometimes we’ve joked that my grandfather’s up there, looking down and laughing at us, saying, ‘Castles are made of stone, not wood. I never intended this to last more than 15 to 50 years, and here you are, keeping it up!’”

Milan Cathedral

“When Kenneth died, I stopped doing

anything related to the house because I didn’t know who was going to own it. It wasn’t from Ruin or Rescue? a lack of wanting to do something. I just didn’t TheWedding Cake House want to benefit the other team.”

What’s a good drink pairing for The Castle?

“If you want to say Glenfiddich, Glenfiddich sounds good to me.”

1) The Wedding Cake House is falling apart. 2) The Wedding Cake House is being restored. Both are true at once. hen Palm Beach art dealer Jimmy Barker died on October 10, 2020, the Wedding Cake House at 104 Summer Street in Kennebunk was plunged into limbo until Barker’s nephew, Hunt Edwards, emerged as the new owner from the settlement process with the estate of Barker’s partner, Kenneth Douglas, who had predeceased him. “When I came up after the settlement with Ken Douglas’s estate, I found that the sump pump had cracked and frozen,” Edwards says. “Over fifteen inches of water was in the basement. Either the furnace died or the power went off and it wasn’t working. I had to replace the furnace for $23,000 or $24,000.”

Sadly, the basement was where Barker had stored his collection of priceless artworks, many by acclaimed Ogunquit artist Channing Hare. The water destroyed “a lot of the pastels and watercolors. We’re talking about a couple hundred paintings.

Jimmy bought the Channing Hare collection from the Channing Hare estate. A lot of the art is not signed. Some were by Stevie Hensel, Channing Hare’s protégé.

Some of them we were able to salvage. The oil paintings did pretty well. The restoration people charge around $350 an hour.

They taught my daughter how to do this.

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ings to start with. The really bad ones, we just couldn’t save.”

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eanwhile, the 1825 brick mansion, decorated with carved gingerbread to suggest the Gothic carving on Milan Cathedral, was drowning in disrepair.

“When Kenneth died, I stopped doing anything related to the house because I didn’t know who was going to own it. It wasn’t from a lack of wanting to do something. I just didn’t want to benefit the other team.

“Once we resolved things at the end of ’18, the beginning of ’19 was when we owned it.” First things first: “A new furnace system.” Ironically, in a house that was such a spectacular tourist attraction, “We had to start with things you couldn’t see. My background is construction and foundation, so I started with the ground and went to the roof. We rebuilt the whole west end, working on sill beams in the barn and carriage house. Under the barn and carriage house we redid all the foundations and columns and piers.”

On the façade, “one of the columns fell off the barn. It damaged it pretty significantly. None of the six decorative columns on the main house had supports. It’s interesting how [original owner George W. Bourne’s ship carpenters] did mimic the stuff in a pretty rudimentary way to suggest

the cathedral in Milan, though I’ve never been there.”

Then there’s the further question: Do you use white composite material to replicate the gingerbread, or do you go all the way back to wood?

“I hate that plastic wood, but in some cases, I may cave in and use it. I go back and forth on the historical elements. In places I’m trying mahogany or aged white pine. The problem is, the gingerbread wasn’t maintained to sustain its life. The finials on top of the columns are disintegrating. I could have made the gingerbread out of [PVC-like composite plastic planks such as] Coosa board and Penske board and never had to think about it again. I’m going back and forth on how I’m going to deal with it. I told historic preservation I’m going to make up two sample dentil boards with the moldings out of Penske board and paint them, put them up, and see how they go. If it doesn’t look right, we’ll take it down and try something new.

“I haven’t thought of 3-D printing for the gingerbread because the material is so long. One span is 22 feet. Coosa board could really cut the weight that’s on there.

But even a 4' x 8' sheet of Coosa board is $350 to $400.” Well, how about a fiber laser cutter?

People adore this beautiful ruin. They love that the original carvings were made by ship carvers in the 1850s. The ghosts of Feb./March 2021 23

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r e a l estate visitors past are stakeholders. Claudette Colbert accompanied Jimmy Barker when he fell in love at first sight with the Wedding Cake House on an outing from a nearby house party hosted by Channing Hare, who also had designs on it. “The Bushes were visitors. I think Liberace was here.”

With or without his trademark candelabra? Now there’s a quantum superposition! Was he here or not here? Were the piano’s candelabra lit or not lit? “What I hear is he played the piano up in the carriage house. I’m not saying that’s true; that’s what I heard.”

On some levels, this is the Mt. Everest of historic-home restorations. But with his patient, thoughtful approach, Edwards might just pull it off. “My overall goal is 2026. That’s the bicentennial for the house.

It gives me something great to shoot for—if I’m still alive by then. This house might kill me before I get it fixed!”

Orgonon: Orgasmic or Outrageous?

Is he or isn’t he…crazy like a fox?

A stone box hides a wooden box. aine has few spookier landmarks than the home and laboratory of Dr. Wilhelm Reich (1897-1957). The Orgone Energy Observa-

orgone…primordial, cosmic energy.”

—Wilhelm Reich tory is “a rare example in Maine of the International Style,” according to Orgonon’s application to become a National Historic Monument. The paradox: Is Orgonon the former home of a genius or a mad scientist?

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ommanding sweeping views from a hilltop above Dodge Pond in Rangeley, Orgonon seems a fitting aerie for the notorious (or is it worldrenowned?) psychiatrist Reich, who studied under Sigmund Freud in Vienna but eventually parted ways with him over the Oedipus Complex. The architect was James Byron Bell of New York, known for soaring hospitals and university buildings—even W. T. Grant retail stores—with lots of glass and flat roofs.

Seen through 21st-century eyes, this modernist fieldstone structure, now the Wilhelm Reich Museum, may be the ultimate expression of working remotely from home. From this aerie, Reich refined his findings regarding “orgone energy” and

earned a celebrity following that included Norman Mailer, Allen Ginsberg, William Burroughs, and Jack Kerouac. (Why are we not surprised?)

“Reich was a cluster of contradictions,” Richard Gilman has written in a New York Times review of Reich’s published letters.

Gilman points to Reich’s courtship of Albert Einstein as an example. After less than lukewarm encouragement from Einstein, Reich dragged his phone-booth-sized Orgone Energy Accumulator all the way to Princeton for a dismal show-and-tell in order to win Einstein over. Here’s Reich, in a letter about the incident: “When I told him, in concluding, that people considered me mad, his reply was ‘I can believe that.’”

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mericans tend to view uniqueness as the most important artistic quality, yet at the same time, we like linking artists to movements and mentors. We seek connection through context, but originality is about unexplored territory. Art lovers and artists alike feel this anxiety about the question of influence.

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“ I work with how one space connects to another— the mystery that is around the corner.”

—Oliver Solmitz

Architectonic Logic A friend who recently viewed sculptures by Oliver Solmitz at Corey Daniels Gallery came to appreciate the work by comparing it to the Cubist wall assemblages of the late Maine great Louise Nevelson (1899–1998).

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Nevelson’s best-known works were black sets of connected wall boxes constructed from scrap wood. Solmitz’s wood or steel sculptures have an architectonic logic that reveals them by the light that passes into them. His works are often monochrome;

when they use color, it is to interact with light rather than articulate the object.

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he Nevelson comparison impelled me to ask Solmitz himself about Nevelson. “I love her work,”

clockwise from top: night flight #1 by louise nevelson, 1973, 6' 9" x 10' 4" – seattle-tacoma airport; louise nevelson — national portrait gallery; untitled by oliver Solmitz, 2021; untitled 4 by oliver solmitz, 2020

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Jon Imber Tiger Lily Oil on canvas 62" x 66"

“I learned the joy

of…welcoming the happy accident that sometimes redirects the work.” ­—Linda Packard

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Linda Packard A Mariner’s Verse Oil on canvas 30" x 30"

he says. ”She works in shade and shadow. I work with how one space connects to another—the mystery that is around the corner. We’re both formalists, but I am more interested in the space than the structure. My structures define the spatial experience and how light activates the space.”

I was impressed with the nuance of these distinctions. The admiration and sense of connection Solmitz expressed made me rethink my take on both artists.

Juicy Paint n her artist statement, plein-air painter Linda Packard acknowledges her artistic affinity to her teacher, the late Maine painter Jon Imber (1950-2014), whose bravado with the brush was vivaciously bold.

But I learned something else about his work when I compared it to Packard’s: his often chalky paint was straightforwardly opaque, while Packard revels in transparency using techniques picked up in her painting group.

“I think our strongest common denominator is that it’s all about the paint,” Packard says. “The paint drives the expression.

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Through Jon I learned the joy of working with juicy paint, scraping and rubbing out, and welcoming the happy accident that sometimes redirects the work.”

From Scratch ometimes a mentoring relationship is about learning how not to follow, as with photographers Anna Mikuskova and Paul Caponigro, the heir apparent of Ansel Adams’s print mastery. (Caponigro even used to teach for Adams.)

Mikuskova says that when she started doing photography, she knew nothing about

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Paul Caponigro Infrared Tree, Rochester, NY, 1958 Gelatin silver print

“There is no recipe: you add, subtract, look, listen, and learn to trust your instincts.”

—Anna Mikuskova

the darkroom rules insisted upon by some instructors: “Rules about good blacks, consistent size, and always starting with a certain filter, that make all your prints look the same. Instead, Paul would point at the still-wet image on the glass screen and ask, ‘What do you see?’ Of course, no rules are harder to follow, and with every print you start from scratch. There is no recipe: you add, subtract, look, listen, and learn to trust your instincts.”

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W e lcom e to My Camp from top: maggie Rogers facebook; still from democratic national committee performance

Seems like the whole world went to summer camp in Maine. from staff & Wire reports

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ilver lining to the 2020 Democratic National Convention going virtual? It got opened seaside from Scarborough by Grammy-nominated singer-songwriter Maggie Rogers, no stranger to performing en plein air. “I’m a camp girl,” Rogers reveals in her behind-the-scenes video for “Dog Years,” filmed at Wohelo Camps on Sebago Lake, where she spent twelve summers. “When I was fourteen it rained the whole summer, and that was when I first started writing music…We were stuck in the cabin, so I just played guitar all summer, and that was when I started writing songs.”

Now That the Light Is Fading, the title of Rogers’s debut EP, is also the opening line of the first track, “Color Song,” a favorite Wohelo song she sang around the campfire and now sings onstage around the world: bit.ly/MaggieRogersRadioCity.

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wil dern ess Broadway Rhythms he woods and canvas tents of Camp Wigwam, established in 1910 on Bear Pond in Waterford, have long been a backdrop for the performing arts. Just ask former campers Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart—if only you could. Even J. D. Salinger, who would in later years become notoriously reclusive, emerged from his shell to perform in at least four camp plays and was voted the most popular actor by his counselors and fellow campers in the summer of 1930, according to www.pbs.org/wnet/americanmasters/jdsalinger-salinger-timeline/2838/.

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Across the years Camp Wigwam’s Broadway/Hollywood crew has also included Frank Loesser, Stephen Sondheim, Charles Strouse, and David O. Selznick.

“There was another song which I did not write. It was strongly discouraged by the two camp owners but sung joyously in secret to the tune of ‘My Bonnie Lies Over the Ocean’…I reproduce here the elegant lyrics: To Wigwam we go in the summer, The lousiest place on this earth.

For this we pay three hundred dollars, Which is fifty times more than it’s worth.

Bring back, bring back, Oh, bring back my money to me, to me.

Bring back, bring back, Oh, bring back my money to me.”

Look who's gone "upta camp" with us!

Walter Annenberg

Camp Yukon Annenberg was an American publisher, philanthropist, and diplomat.

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Patrick Dempsey

Lauren Bacall

American Film Institute.

She attended Highland Nature Camps (known as Camp Mataponi).

Chris Berman

Camp Winnebago Berman anchors SportsCenter, Monday

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Which of these hit songs by former Maine campers rings a bell? Take our songbook survey at: tinyurl.com/jo5cuz9l and stay tuned for the results in our April issue.

Yes, it was a boys’ camp.

Stars in the Lake

Highland Nature Camps (Camp Mataponi) Bacall is an American film and stage actress and model, known for her distinctive husky voice and sultry looks. In 1999, Bacall was ranked #20 of the 25 actresses on the AFI’s 100 Years…

100 Stars list by the

Music to Your Ears

Camp Wekeela Dempsey is an American actor and race car driver, best known for his role as neurosurgeon Dr. Derek Shepherd (“McDreamy”) on the ABC medical drama Grey’s Anatomy. Prior to Grey’s Anatomy he made several television appearances and was nominated for an Emmy Award. He has also appeared in several films, including Sweet

Claire Danes and her older brother Asa both went to Hidden Valley Camp in Freedom. Their mother, artist Carla Danes, has told us that her New York City kids “needed nature,” and “Maine was just right.”

Home Alabama, Made of Honor, Valentine’s Day, Enchanted, With Honors, Flypaper, Freedom Writers, and Transformers: Dark of the Moon.

Theo Epstein

West End House Camp Epstein is the President of Baseball Operations for the Chicago Cubs.

On November 25, 2002, he became the youngest GM in the history of Major League Baseball when the Boston Red Sox hired him at the age of 28. In 2004, he was general manager of the club that

won the first World Series championship by the Red Sox in 86 years.

Ben Feldman

Camp Manitou for Boys Feldman is known for playing the unstable Michael Ginsberg on Mad Men. Fun fact: his dad owns an ad agency!

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So No Tan? Less surprisingly, “By the time Richard Rodgers attended Wigwam in 1916, he was so intrigued with music that he spent hours playing the piano rather than swimming and hiking,” Elli Smerling writes in “Campfire Days at Camp Wigwam” on wnyc.org.

In his autobiography Musical Stages, Rodgers recalls “It was at Camp Wigwam that I wrote my first real song. I have no idea where the lyric came from, but the piece was called ‘Camp Fire Days’ and obviously extolled the joys of spending the summer at Dear Old Wigwam.

At Camp Wigwam, Rodgers and Hart experienced the music of the woods, and J.D. Salinger discovered the music of words.

Music of the Woods

Richard Rodgers’s love for Maine, first forged at Camp Wigwam, would charm the world years later when he chose Maine as the setting for the musical Carousel, based on Ferenc Molnar’s play Liliom that Rodgers and Hammerstein were seeking to relocate from Budapest to an American setting for Broadway. As Oscar Hammerstein II recalled in the New York Times (April 15, 1945), “The idea that really opened the way to it all was a suggestion by Dick [Rodgers] that at first sounded downright silly. This was to transplant the play to the New England coast.

But it sounded silly only for a few seconds.”

Before long, Hammerstein “began to see an attractive ensemble—sailors, whalers, girls who worked in the mills up the river, clambakes on near-by islands, an amusement park on the seaboard, things people could do in crowds, people who were strong and alive and lusty, people who had always been depicted on the stage as thin-lipped puritans—a libel I was anxious to refute…

As for the two leading characters, Julie with her courage and inner strength and outward simplicity seemed more indigenous to Maine than to Budapest…now, for the first time, Dick and I felt that irrational enthusiasm that lures men into the harrowing project of writing a musical play. And away we went.”

The rest is musical theater history. Carousel standards like “You’ll Never Walk Alone” and “If I Loved You” will always be touchstones for Maine.

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wilderness Philip Glass

Glass is an American composer who is considered one of the most influential music makers of the late 20th century. He went to a Quaker summer camp in Maine as a kid.

Peter Guber

Camp Brunonia [RIP] Guber is an American film producer and executive and chairman and CEO of Mandalay Entertainment. Films he personally produced or executive produced include Rain Man, Batman, The Color Purple, Midnight Express, Gorillas in the Mist: The Story of Dian Fossey, The Witches of Eastwick, Missing, and Flashdance. He also co-owners the Golden State Warriors and the Los Angeles Dodgers.

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Talk about fishing for time. Camp owner John Blunt says his Kennebago Lake attraction has lured fishing lovers like “[Cornelia Thurza] ‘Fly Rod’ Crosby, President Herbert Hoover, Governor Baxter, and [British poet and dramatist] John Drinkwater.” According to the Kennebago Lake fly-fishing history on the Grant’s Camps website, the lake’s fame as an international fishing mecca dates to “1863, when the stories of brook trout weighing as much as 8 pounds first appeared in the newspapers of Boston and New York. These reports were met with skepticism, and most experts believed that these fish must actually be lake trout. The debate was soon resolved when a sevenpound beauty was sent to [Professor Louis Agassiz], who confirmed that these monster trout were indeed genuine specimens of the speckled or brook trout family.”

“The Rangeley Boat originated with Grant’s Camps guides,” says Blunt.

Local stars Kurt Russell and Goldie Hawn are no strangers to these parts either. For generations, “the Russell family had a lodge with cabins on the lake, and Kurt and Goldie Hawn still own property on Dodge Pond.”

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“Cut it out. You’re going to Maine, not to Mars.”

—The Seven-Year Itch

Robert Kraft

Camp Androscoggin Kraft is the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of The Kraft Group, a diversified holding company with assets in paper and packaging, sports and entertainment, real estate development, and a private equity portfolio. His sports holdings include the National Football League‘s New England Patriots, Major League Soccer‘s New England Revolution, and Gillette Stadium.

Ruth Krauss

Camp Walden Krauss was an American writer of children’s books, including The Carrot Seed, and of theatrical poems for adult readers.

Nick Kroll

Camp Wildwood Kroll is an American actor, voice actor, screenwriter, producer, and comedian. He is best known for his role as Rodney Ruxin on The League and his own Comedy Central program, Kroll Show.

Tom Lehrer

Camp Androscoggin Lehrer is an American singer-songwriter, satirist, pianist, and mathematician. He has lectured on mathematics and musical theater.

Lehrer is best known for the pithy, humorous songs he recorded in the 1950s and 1960s.

NAACP co-founder and civil rights pioneer W. E. B. Du Bois got away from it all—including the FBI—for 30 summers running on the shores of Lake Cobbosseecontee at the lodge of the Cambridge Gun & Rod Club, a gentlemen’s club for accomplished African-American leaders from all walks of life.

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Camps Tapawingo & Wildwood In a 2017 Entertainment Weekly interview, comedian and actress Jenny Slate recalled getting kicked out of a Camp Tapawingo dance with Camp Wildwood (where My Blind Brother co-star Nick Kroll went to camp) after she gave a boy “the finger”—for the first time ever—for calling her freckled, sunburnt friend “Strawberry Shortcake.”

Alan Jay Lerner

Camp Androscoggin Lerner was an American lyricist and librettist.

In collaboration with Frederick Loewe, and later Burton Lane, he created some of the world’s most popular and enduring works of musical theatre for the stage and on film. He won three Tony Awards and three Academy Awards, among other honors.

Si Newhouse

Camp Androscoggin Newhouse is an American heir, business magnate, and philanthropist. He owns Advance Publications with his brother Donald.

Leonard Nimoy

West End House Camp Nimoy is an American actor, film director, poet, singer, and photographer. Nimoy is best known for his role of Spock in the original Star Trek series (1966–1969), and in multiple film, television, and video game sequels.

Maggie Rogers

Wohelo Camps Rogers is a New York City-based singer/ songwriter known for her hit song “Alaska” [and for opening the 2020 Democratic National Convention with “Back In My Body” streamed from the rocky Maine coast: bit.ly/MaggieRogersDNC. Fun Fact: Wohelo Camps was founded in 1907 by Dr. Luther Halsey Gulick, who devised the YMCA’s Body Mind Spirit inverted triangle in 1889, and his wife, Charlotte Vetter Gulick, who in 1911 created the complementary Work Health Love triangle from which Wohelo Camps takes its name, as does the highest award for Camp Fire Girls (co-educational as Camp Fire since 1975), which the Gulicks founded together in 1910 (Wohelo: Down through the Years 1907-1930

by Charlotte Gulick Hewson)].

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wil d e r n e s s Henry Rollins

Camp Wekeela Rollins, born Henry Garfield, is an American musician, writer, journalist, publisher, actor, motivational speaker, television and radio host, spoken word artist, comedian, and activist.

J.D. Salinger

Camp Wigwam Salinger was an American writer known for his novels The Catcher in the Rye and Franny and Zoey. His novella Hapworth 16 is a long letter from seven-year-old Seymour Glass while at summer camp.

Jenny Slate

Camp Tapawingo Slate is an American actress, stand-up comedian, and author best known as the creator of the Marcel the Shell With Shoes On short films, which was also spun off into a children’s book. She is also known for her season as a cast member on Saturday Night Live 2009–2010, as well as for her recurring roles on House of Lies, Parks and Recreation, Bob’s Burgers, and Kroll Show. She most recently starred in the 2014 Sundance film Obvious Child, and currently co-stars in the FX comedy series Married. She spent eight summers at summer camp.

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Robert Smigel

Camp Modin Smigel is an American actor, humorist, comedian, and writer known for his Saturday Night Live “TV Funhouse” cartoon shorts

Spending the summer in a cabin called “The Morgue” (since renovated) may or may not have been a factor in actor-director Ben Stiller’s initial homesickness at Hidden Valley Camp. But by the time his father, Jerry Stiller, came up to see his son perform in the camp play, Ben had already acclimated, thanks in part to his first kiss, which he told W Magazine (1/11/2018) was “charged” and took place “under a tree.”

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Stephen Sondheim

Camp Androscoggin Sondheim is an American composer and lyricist known for his immense contributions to musical theatre for over 50 years. He is the winner of an Academy Award, eight Tony Awards (more than any other composer) including the Special Tony Award for Lifetime Achievement in the Theatre, eight Grammy Awards, a Pulitzer Prize, and the Laurence Olivier Award.

Gregory Sporleder

Camp Wildwood Sporleder is an American actor notable for playing military men in films such as The Rock, Black Hawk Down, and Renaissance Man, as well as Calvin Norris in the HBO series True Blood.

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David Wain

Camp Modin Wain is an American comedian, writer, actor,

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William Zeckendorf

Camp Androscoggin Zeckendorf was a prominent American real estate developer. Through his development company Webb and Knapp—for which he began working in 1938 and which he purchased in 1949—he developed a significant portion of the New York City urban landscape. n —List of campers & backstories courtesy of SummerCampCulture.com

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Small Packages A Moveable Bar: Curbside Cocktails

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t’s a brisk Friday night, and our bubble buddies are masked and bundled, with personal bottles of hand sanitizer in tow, hyperconscious of distance and craving conviviality.

In the city that spawned the world’s first Total Abstinence Society in 1815, we’re not sure what to expect from takeout cocktails. Secret knocks on speakeasy doors? Hip flasks slipped into pockets?

Sippy cups in brown paper bags? Straws?

We all BYO cocktail glasses from home in preparation for every contingency, but it turns out we didn’t need the trench coats and dark glasses. Portland mixologists now brazenly supply exactingly pre-mixed, portioned, prettily packaged cocktails with custom labels, typically serving two, ideal for sipping with your co-quarantined beloved. All you need to bring to the table is ice.

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Over-the-counter pick-me-up.

Conversion Experience t’s a strange experience to tell people to take drinks away,” Hunt and Alpine co-owner Andrew Volk says.

“Unthinkable before COVID. We make it as easy as we possibly can, because we want to replicate the experience of sitting down in our bar and being handed an amazing drink. Everything comes portioned, and we provide the garnish. All you have to do is pour it.” Volk recommends the Bone Crusher ($18, serves two). “It’s made with mezcal, fresh lime 1. juice, and a dash of Tabasco.

Think smoky, spicy margarita.” The petite plastic bottle is delivered to us at the door with Doorstep a side of Hunt and Alpine’s fadelivery, popmous popcorn. Bonus! corn included.

Taster One: “I’m not usually a Mezcal drinker, but the lime and red pepper make it very balanced. It’s delicious and worth the cash.”

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Sibling Rivalry Vena’s Fizz House co-owner Steven Corman—after protesting that being asked to

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Bone Crusher

Hunt and Alpine $18, serves 2 Mezcal, fresh lime juice, and a dash of Tabasco

pick one drink is like being tasked with choosing a favorite among one’s children—settled fairly quickly on the Raspberry Cordial ($20, serves 2). “It’s sweet, sour, and bitter all at once on your palate. Almost for a moment too sweet, then—bam!—the bitter hits.” This pick-meup is an infusion of silver tequila, tart raspberry shrub, lime juice, and Vena’s Fiesta Bitters, sold to us over the counter in a glass bottle like “medicinal tonics” of yore.

Taster Two: “It’s tequila forward with finishing notes of raspberry Keep this bottle out and lime. Sweet.” of reach of children.

Taster Three: “The shrub flavor stands out 3. with a sophisticated richness. I feel fancy and ready for a lovely celebration, especially with the ‘fiesta’ bitters.”

Split Personality Erin Pirkola of Central Provisions recommends The Punch ($24, serves two). “It’s made with a chicha morada syrup. Purple corn is cooked down with water, syrup, sugar, cloves, cinnamon, pineapple rind. It’s a two-hour process. Classically, that would be served as its own drink. But we use it as syrup in our punch.” The plastic juice bottle we pick up at the front door looks innocent enough with its little plastic bag of dried lime slices, but the chicha morada dances with Bolivi-

an brandy and pineapple rum. Serve on the rocks and keep out 4. of reach of children.

“It’s sweet,” Taster Four says. “The pineapple rum really comes through.”

“Disagree,” Taster One says in the night’s first major controversy. “The green apple really comes through—it’s slightly sweet and veeeery smooth.”

Summer Home in a Glass Michael Gatlin of Maine Craft Distilling recommends the Mystic Lady ($12, serves one). “It’s sweet, light, and well-balanced with rich, herbaceous honey and tart citrus alongside notes of spring grass and autumn sunshine.” Handed to us through the pick-up window in plastic cups in a to-go tray, this blend of Alchemy Gin, lemon, basil honey, elderflower, and Owl & Whale Buddha’s Hand Bitut. ters could almost pass for akeo ted t s fi fast-food lemonade—unTwo til you stick the straws in and sip.

Taster Four: “It has a sweet, light flavor.

The honey really comes 5. through. Makes me think of a summer field alive with butterflies and bees.”

Taster Five: “Agreed. I feel transported to a porch on a beach. It starts with strong floral notes and moves

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Mystic Lady

Marty Washington

Central Provisions $24, serves 2 Vena’s Fizz House Bolivian brandy, $20, serves 2 Silver tequila, tart raspberry pineapple rum, chicha morada, and lime shrub, lime juice, and Vena’s Fiesta Bitters

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Maine Craft Distilling $12, serves 1 Alchemy Gin, lemon, basil honey, elderflower, and Owl & Whale Buddha’s Hand Bitters

Cocktail Mary $24, serves 2 Hardshore Gin, Root Wild Grapefruit Kombucha, Luxardo Aperitivo, and maple syrup

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missed this. Our shared imbibing is joy stirred with a dash of 2. bitters. Perhaps in this new landscape of caution, our desire for connection is keener. Drinking separately together, we’re transported to happy hours past. We hope you are too.

Yes, we’d like fries with that!

Hungry (Thirsty) eye seamlessly into a smooth, heavy finish.”

Mother Knows Best ocktail Mary owner Isaac MacDougal recommends the Marty Washington ($24, serves two), made with Hardshore Gin and Root Wild Kombucha, “Both of which are Washington Avenue businesses, hence the name,” MacDougal says.

“Martha—Marty—was our late mother, and she would’ve loved this one.”

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Maple syrup and Luxardo Aperitivo give this play on an Aperol spritz a botanical backbone fit to relish year round.

Brown paper bag The Marty Washingnot pictured. ton was our staff favorite to pour two-fisted. Grab a mason jar and fill it with ice. Pour in half the glass pint bottle of Marty Washington mixture and half the can of grapefruit kombucha.

Then do it again. Cheers!

Taster Five: “It starts off with a taste of cherry and the fizz of kombucha, then changes quietly to the smooth maple taste and finishes with the bitterness of grapefruit. Seriously refreshing.”

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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 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.

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, 11:301. 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.

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

H u n g ry ( Th i r sty) eye rhum, Montenegro, Amontillado, lemongrass, spruce tip, pecan, and woodsmoke, Ship, Captain, Crew ($25, serves 2) from Blyth and Burrows won staff favorite for flavor. Haven’t we all been feeling a bit like Fortunato in our quarantine coops?

Taster Two: “It starts with a smoky nose that is well-balanced.

Then when the bourbon notes finish, their smokiness lingers in your mouth.”

Taster Three: “Wow! It’s sweet caramel and smoke and pepper.

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Experience

What ’s Playing Theater

Feeley, every Sun. Feb. 21– Mar. 28. 361-2272.

29 Elm St. Kea Tesseyman Dance Company live streamed, Mar. 19. 2363154.

Friends of the Kotzschmar Organ, Mer-

Camden Opera House,

New Surry Theatre, 18 Union St., Blue Hill. Looking for the Pony virtual reading and talk with the playwright, Mar. 5–7. newsurrytheatre.org.

Penobscot Theatre Company, Bangor Opera

House, 131 Main St. The Tiniest Librarian, through Feb. 28; White Rabbit Red Rabbit, Mar. 11–Apr. 3; Bee Parks and the Hornets, Apr. 11–May 2. 942-3333.

The Portland Players Theater, 420 Cottage Rd., South Portland. God of Carnage, Mar. 19–Apr. 4.

799-7337.

Portland Stage Company, 25 Forest Ave. On-de-

mand digital theatre: Or by Liz Duffy Adams, Feb. 10-28.

774-0465

Royal River Community Players, The Playhouse,

305 US-1, Yarmouth. Love Is: A Cabaret, Feb. 11–12; Yarns, Truths & Tales: An Evening of Storytelling, Apr. 2–3. 760-4350.

The Strand Theatre, 345

Main St., Rockland. Strand On the Air, broadcast on WRFR and streamed on wrfr.org, Feb. 28. 594-0070.

Music

Aura, 121 Center St. The Petty-

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breakers, Apr. 10. 772-8274.

Camden Opera House,

29 Elm St. New Shades of Blue, Feb. 26; When Particles Collide, Mar. 5; Lauren Crosby, Mar. 12; Denny Breau, Mar. 26. 236-3154.

Clay Hill Farm, 220 Clay

Hill Rd., Cape Neddick.

Winter Pub Nights with Ryan

rill Auditorium, 20 Myrtle St. Bach Birthday Bash livestream, Mar. 20. 5534363.

Frog & Turtle, 3 Bridge St., Westbrook. The Jimmy Macisso Trio, Feb. 25; The Juke Joint Devil Band, Feb. 26, Mar. 26. 591-4185.

Jonathan’s Ogunquit, 92

Bourne Ln. Dueling Pianos, Feb. 19; The Ultimate Tribute to Rod Stewart, Feb. 20.

646-4777.

Opera House at Boothbay Harbor, 86 Townsend

Ave. Tommy Emmanuel, Apr. 17. 633-5159.

Portland Conservatory of Music, 202 Woodford

St. Noonday Concert Series Online: Laura del Sol Jiménez, Feb. 18–Mar. 3; Don Pride, Mar. 4–Mar. 17; VentiCordi, Mar. 18–Mar. 31.

775-3356.

Portland Symphony Orchestra, Merrill Audito-

rium, 20 Myrtle Street. Ondemand digital concerts: Debussy’s La mer, Feb. 3-Mar. 5; Shostakovich & Tchaikovsky, Feb. 17-Mar. 19; Satchmo: The Louis Armstrong Tribute with Byron Stripling, Mar. 3-Apr. 2; Schooner Fare, Mar. 17-Apr. 16. 842-0800.

State Theatre, 609 Con-

gress St. Walk Off the Earth, Feb. 26; Daughtry, Apr. 7.

956-6000.

Stone Mountain Arts Center, 695 Dugway Rd.,

Brownfield. St. Paddy’s Dimming of the Day Dinner with The Carol Noonan Trio, Erica Brown, & Josephine County, Mar. 17; Darrell Scott, Apr. 17. 935-7292.

Waterville Opera House, 93 Main St. LeAnn Rimes, Feb. 26; Daughtry Acoustic Trio, Mar. 18. 873-7000.

Comedy

Jonathan’s Ogunquit, 92 Bourne Ln. Paula Poundstone, Mar. 26. 646-4777.

State Theatre, 609 Con-

gress St. BenDeLaCreme is… Ready to Be Committed, Apr. 10. 956-6000.

Art

Center for Maine Contemporary Art, 21 Winter

St., Rockland. Shelter (Earth, House, Body, Spirit), juried online exhibition through Feb. 21; 2020 Biennial, through May 2. 701-5005.

Cove Street Arts, 71

Cove St. Soulful Stitching, Feb. 6–Mar. 13; Cyanotype, Ed Douglas: Cornerstones, through Feb. 20; Meg Brown Payson: a silence fell with the waking bird, through Mar. 20. 808-8911.

Fellows 2021, through Apr. 7. 594-5611.

184 Port Rd., Kennebunk.

Into the Unknown, Mar. 1– Apr. 30. 204-0480.

Portland Museum of Art,

Maine Maritime Museum, 243 Washington St.,

7 Congress Sq. Untitled, 2020: Art From Maine in A _ _ _ _ _ _ Time, through May 31. 775-6148.

Bath. A Sailor’s Treasure: Sea Chests & Curiosities, through Jun. 14. 443-1316.

Maine College of Art, 522

Congress St. Parallax/Geography, through Feb. 28; Tory Fair: Portable Window, through Feb. 28; 2020 MFA Thesis, Mar. 10–Apr. 16.

699-5025.

Messler Gallery, 25 Mill St., Rockport. Alumni and

Richard Boyd Art Gallery,

15 Epps St., Peaks Island. A Group Exhibit of Visual Arts, through Feb. 28; A Walk in the Woods, Mar. 5–28. 712-1097.

River Arts, 241 US-1, Damariscotta. Artist’s Choice, through Mar. 13; New Works, Mar. 17–Apr.

Wild Animal Therapy

Maine Wildlife Park, 56 Game Farm Road, Gray, may be closed to visitors just now, but they’re bringing us close to their resident creatures with a heartwarming audio tour. mainewildlifepark.oncell.com/en/index.html

Farnsworth Art Museum, 16 Museum St., Rockland.

Andrew Wyeth: Maine Legacy, through Mar. 14; Transforming the Ordinary: Women in American Book Cover Design, At Home in New England, through Mar. 21; Eliot Porter: All the Wild Places, through May 2. 596-6457.

Greenhut Galleries, 146

Middle St. Objects/Objectivity, through Mar. 6; Group Hang (Greenhut Artists), Mar. 11–27. 772-2693.

Jack S. Ketchum Library,

11 Hills Beach Rd., Biddeford. Persephone in the Late Anthropocene, through May 15. 602-3000.

Kittery Art Association, 8 Coleman Ave., Resilience, Feb. 4–Mar. 7; Tactility, Mar. 11–Apr. 11. 451-9384.

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University of New England Gallery, Portland

Campus, 716 Stevens Ave. Speculative Histories & Material Culture, Feb. 19–Jun. 13. 221-4499.

Zillman Art Museum University of Maine, 40

Harlow St., Bangor. Domesticated: Amy Stein; A Vision Accomplished: Thomas Cornell; Living Windows: Gene A. Felice II & Kimathi Moore, through May 1. 581-3300.

Film

Arts Farmington, 224 Main St. Online screening of Safety Last accompanied by Doug Protsik on piano, Mar. 19. artsfarmington.org.

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Curtis Memorial Library,

23 Pleasant St., Brunswick.

Purple Mountains discussion via Zoom, Feb. 23. 7255242.

Portland Museum of Art, 7 Congress Sq. PMA Films virtual cinema: The Reason

I Jump, Tazzeka, Queer Japan, The Emoji Story, new films added weekly. 7756148.

Experience

Literary

Farnsworth Art Museum, 16 Museum St., Rockland.

Edna St. Vincent Millay: Balancing Grief & Renewal.

Maine poets celebrate Millay’s 129th birthday via Zoom readings, Feb. 21.

596-6457.

Flight Deck Brewing, 11 Atlantic Ave., Brunswick Landing. Books & Brews: The Line Becomes a River: Dispatches from the Border

by Francisco Canti, Mar. 3.

725-5242.

Maine Maple Sunday, March 28. Sap’s on tap!

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Longfellow Books, 1

Congress St. W. S. Winslow launches The Northern Reach, Mar. 2; Arisa White: Who’s Your Daddy?, Mar. 4; Gregory Brown: The Lowering Days, Mar. 9; Emily St. John Mandel: The Glass Hotel, Mar. 11. 536-4778.

Portland Public Library,

SPACE, 538 Congress St.

Monument Way. Sci-Fi Night: The Light Years by R.W.W. Greene, Feb. 25.

772.4045.

5 Monument Sq. Literary Lunch: Maria Padian, author of How to Build a Heart, with Shana Youngdahl, Feb. 19.

Pulling a James Baldwin: open-call performances of favorite excerpts, Feb. 26.

828-5600.

Lectures

portraits and landscape paintings from Maine Historical Society’s collection on Zoom Feb. 25; Maine’s Bicentennial: Looking Backward and Forward with Colin Woodard on Zoom Mar. 11. 774-1822.

Camden Opera House,

29 Elm St. The Geopolitics of the Arctic: A Region in Peril. Virtual Camden Conference featuring guest speakers including former President of Iceland Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson, Feb. 20– 21. camdenconference.org.

Maine Historical Society,

Maine Maritime Museum, 243 Washington St.,

489 Congress St. A Century of Portland Painters: Earle G. Shettleworth, Jr. discusses

Bath. Sailor Souvenirs: Tides of Cultural Exchange discussion on Zoom, Mar. 16.

443-1316.

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“At first, Phil and I thought to postpone,” Kristen Lowe says. “But we decided we’d rather have a safe celebration with our family and closest friends. We can have a big party with everyone in the future.”

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“I’ve received feedback from couples who reduced their guest list about how the wedding felt so much more intimate. It allows them to really connect with those loved ones,” says Ali Cormier, owner of Wedding Angel Events in Bangor. “And guests are grateful when couples go to extra lengths to keep everyone safe.”

SAFETY FIRST To pull off their safe ceremony, the Lowes asked all guests to be tested for Covid-19 the week leading up to the wedding. “Everyone was so supportive,” Lowe says. “My sister’s best friend tested positive, and while I’m sad she couldn’t come, I’m grateful we found out. We set the tone by taking every-

“We gave out hand sanitizer as favors.”

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ther couples’ paths took even more twists and turns to reach their dream day. Casey Murphy of Cassandra Marie Events in Gorham says, “One of my couples, Natalie and Michael Cocce, went through the wringer making plans, changing them, three, four, five times. They moved their date, their venue (twice), and downsized their guest list before they finally got to tie the knot in a safe, intimate ceremony at the groom’s

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BIG SCREEN SCENE he most creative solution I heard about—not one I planned—was a drive-in movie wedding,” Cormier says. “They projected the ceremony onto a big screen and live-streamed it for guests who couldn’t attend, with popcorn for everyone in their cars for the big show. People tailgated with a socially distanced and masked BBQ buffet, and the bride and groom visited each car just like they were visiting each table.

There was a live band, and guests danced by their cars. Everyone still had fun while wearing a mask!”

“Our wedding day felt so overwhelmingly filled with love,” says Lowe. “There was this heightened appreciation for just being together, something we used to take for granted at times. It eliminated some of the bells and whistles you can get caught up with at weddings. The focus was on celebrating this beautiful idea of marrying the person you want to spend the rest of your life with. You just want to marry each other.” n

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childhood home. But the pure excitement after their ‘I dos’ made it all worth it.”

PLAN B IS FOR BETTER “We customized the decor and design to our exact taste, which we weren’t able to do to the same extent with our original venue,” Natalie Cocce says. “My father built a bar and a wooden triangular arbor as our backdrop. My mother painted a gift box for us.

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REAT DIAMOND ISLAND—What’s this? Do we hear music? Members of the yachting set sailing into Diamond Cove’s McKinley Estates have wondered about this forlorn cement bunker for decades. “The Bunker,” built in 1910, faces the boat slips serving Fort McKinley’s Diamond’s Edge Restaurant & Marina from across the narrow cove. For years after World War II it has been a lonely place—a haven for squirrels to hide their acorns.

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“‘Hey, there’s a boat

there.’ Then you’d set off the underwater minefield.” Boom.

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ut if you’ve been here in recent years, you’ve seen an expensive ramp and dock added. Somebody has softened The Bunker’s severe façade with patio tables, umbrellas, lounge chairs, a heat lamp, and a fire pit. That’s a pretty expensive yacht tied up there. Hold on, is that a band playing on the roof?

This could be a getaway on Twin Peaks.

Or, more realistically, your next home. It’s a stunning quarantine hideaway for the connoisseur of privacy–disturbing, but on point. Who needs four walls and a roof when you have a bombproof embankment?

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Think of the efficiencies: your work-athome office is your wine cellar.

At Your Fingertips “The Bunker was used as a control room

where you could set off underwater minefields that lay in wait for enemy ships during World War II,” says real-estate agent Peter Blake, who’s been showing the island property since December. “These were not

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contact mines, where vessels had to touch them to set them off. These mines were not touched by vessels in the water, but set off underneath them.”

In the control bunker, “You’d see an area and say, ‘Hey, there’s a boat there.’

Then you’d set off the underwater minefield.” Boom.

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This project comes with a project. Step one—head to City Hall.

“I remember going there since I was a kid, before [visionary real-estate developer] David Bateman took over Fort McKinley in the 1980s,” Blake says.

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he seller of The Bunker is “Derek Divine from Miami, Florida.” Amenities include an outdoor movie screen and roof garden. As for the music wafting from The Bunker’s upper patio (see our opening photo), “[the seller has] done some entertaining out here. He’s got heat–woodstoves. There’s water, too, with the ability to hook up to the Association leach field.

The Bunker and its surrounding buildings are covered by the HOA. Because you’re in the homeowners’ association,” for $1,160/ month you enjoy shared amenities like recreation areas and use of the restored former Army base basketball court and bowling alley of Fort McKinley.

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talking walls that dates to early in the last century. “The warehouse is where they stored the mines.

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L A ST WORDS Alex the Amazing (continued from page 80)

Again, silence.

I stared at my top right winger.

“Carla, you had a breakaway and shot three feet wide. Why?” She shook her head. “I don’t know, coach.”

At the end of two, Blanton’s goalie had only handled the puck when we threw it behind the net on a line change.

When the horn sounded, I said to Rob, “I don’t know what the hell is going on. Tell the captains I’m not coming into the dressing room. Tell them to figure it out.”

When Rob came back, I said, “What the hell do you think is going on?”

“Don’t know,” he said. “It’s like they’re in a trance.”

A thousand bees buzzed in my stomach.

“Or hypnotized?”

“You don’t think…?”

I checked my watch. Six minutes to faceoff. “Grab your laptop and Google Alex. I’m calling the bastard.” Alex’s number rang a dozen times before I got a message that his mailbox was full. I scanned the rink to no

I’ve ever witnessed at the end of the game, our girls telling Christin Duguay, Blanton’s goalie, she’d played a great game.

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avail to see if I could spot the son of a bitch.

As I jogged toward the dressing room, Rob ran toward me, his computer open.

“Alex played for Blanton.”

“Blanton’s a girls’ school.”

“Alex the Amazing was Alexis Jordan.”

“The goalie Kasey Woytowich ran over in the 2014 playoffs?”

“Yep.” “Damn!”

At the final buzzer, our crowd was silent—stunned—until someone screamed for me to be fired. Oddest handshake

t the postgame presser, I shared my suspicions with the media. That night, a reporter for The Daily Argus cornered Alex as he was leaving a show and got him to admit he’d whispered, “Never shoot on the Blanton goalie,” to each girl.

Saturday morning we hired a local psychiatrist to hypnotize each girl, and that night we barraged Duguay with fifty-eight shots in a 9-3 win. The league voided Friday’s game, which we replayed the following Wednesday. It took OT, but we won 5-4.

Our Head of School is married to an Assistant D.A. He doubted we could bring criminal charges against Alex and suggested that pursuing civil damages wouldn‘t be worth the trouble. I wanted blood, wanted to deck Alex, but I’m trying to let it pass.

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ixteen years at Willard Hall and I’ve never coached a team like this. We go 10-1-1 out of the gate, then drop five straight before Christmas. Our happy, fast, sharp-skating winners became a brooding wreck. Defensive zone turnovers, lousy shot selection, and shaky goaltending were all part of the problem, but in my gut I knew something else was wrong and asked our sports psychologist, Laura, what she’d recommend we do. She said, “Something fun.”

“We all want to have fun,” I said. “Can you be more specific?”

“Throw a pizza and karaoke party and hire a hypnotist or an illusionist. Let them get loose.”

When the girls took a knee at the first practice after break, I tossed out Laura’s idea. They shrieked and banged their sticks on the ice, and my number-one center, Kelly Lapham, said, “Alex the Amazing does this really awesome hypnotism thing.”

Rob, my assistant coach, said, “You’ve seen him?”

“Yeah,” Kelly said, “at my friend’s graduation party.”

“Where’s he from?” I asked.

“Don’t know,” Kelly said, “but I’ll find out.”

“Anyone else?” I said.

Meghan Boudreau shouted out, “Sauna

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party with Brad Pitt.”

Sadie Keith yelled, “No, the one from Juno—Elliot Page.”

Again the girls roared and banged their sticks, but when I asked for more realistic suggestions, no one spoke up. Kelly texted me the number, and I left Alex the Amazing a message.

He called the next morning. “Love to do the gig.”

I gave him the date and time, he gave me a price, and I promised to get back to him.

Our AD approved Alex’s fee, and as the swim team was away the following Thursday night, arranged for us to have the pool to ourselves.

Ten minutes in, I decided Laura was a genius. The girls were laughing like they did at the start of the season. The karaoke was gut-busting funny, and then Lydia Plourde, our top-line left winger, blew us away with her Québecois alto rendition of The Tragically Hip’s “Fireworks.”

The team lounged on the pool deck and ate while Alex set up. He was amazing. He hypnotized the girls one at a time. Once he had a player under, he’d whisper into her ear, and then say, “Go.” Girls cackled like chickens, howled like coyotes, imitated loons, barked like dogs, snorted like pigs, mooed like cows, or hopped around

the pool deck like frogs, until Alex clapped twice and said, “Wake up.” Keith, our video coach, recorded it, and the next day we watched a few minutes before practice.

That Sunday afternoon, we blew out Mary Phelps Academy 7-2, starting a fivegame winning streak that moved us back into a tie for first with Blanton in time for a pair of weekend games with them at our rink. That Thursday’s practice was upbeat, energetic, crisp—the girls focused in a way that filled me with optimism.

Then the Friday night game went south in a way that, as far as I know, had never occurred before in the history of women’s prep hockey. Not only did we lose 4-0, but we had no shots on goal. None, nada, nil, zippo, zero. This was unheard of. Not just from a team averaging 4.6 goals and 36 shots with at least 15 Grade A’s per game, but for anybody ever, to my knowledge. When we hadn’t put a puck on net fifteen minutes into the first period, I called my time-out, and the girls gathered at the boards.

“What the hell is going on?” I said.

“Why won’t someone shoot the damn puck?”

Not one player said a word.

“Come on,” Rob said, “you’re getting great looks. Get some damn shots on net.”

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Drizzle olive oil and gently toss until veggies are coated. Season with salt and pepper to taste, and gently toss again.

3.

Arrange greens on 4 plates. Divide strawberry mixture equally on lettuce and sprinkle with chopped walnuts.

4.

Drizzle balsamic glaze over salad and serve.

Nutritional Information: Amount per serving: Calories 340; Total Fat 24 g; Saturated Fat 8 g; Carbohydrate 18 g; Protein 13 g; Sodium 190 mg; Fiber 6 g Source: Recipe adapted from The Love & Lemons Cookbook

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