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The Portland would not only be the first Navy vessel to arrive at the dirigible Akron disaster; she’d go on to become one of the most heroic and battle-scarred ships to fight the war in the Pacific. Thirteen years after the launch, “I had dinner with the captain on October 25, 1945, when the ship visited Portland.” Crew members were no doubt delighted to see that the little girl had grown into a beautiful young woman of 25.

“It was monstrous. It was so long I couldn’t see all the way to the stern,” Doughty says. “It was the biggest thing I’d ever seen. We were way up three stagings high. For a little girl my size it was very, very, very big. I wore a white dress (which was very cute, so my mother told me), I was surrounded by military officers, and my father was on the staging below us. Funny thing was, it wasn’t champagne, it was mineral water–you know, it was Prohibition! I still have the bottle. It’s in gold mesh in a mahogany box. I keep it in our condo in Yarmouth.”

A city would be lost without its family silver. Good thing we know exactly where we keep ours in the Forest City. “I know exactly where the silver tea service from the World War II cruiser USS Portland is,” says Capt. Jeffrey Monroe, director of the Department of Ports and Transportation. “It’s not lost at all [see “Portland’s Attic,” February/March 2008]. “We have it right here, on display in our conference room beside my office” on the waterfront.

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“The silver was a gift from the city to the first USS Portland, which was launched in May of 1932 in Quincy, Massachusetts.”

In fact, the heavy cruiser was christened by Mary Doughty of Yarmouth, just 12 at the time. But she remembers. “It was May 13. My father, Ralph Brooks, chairman of Portland’s city council, was the launch sponsor, so that was my connection.” Plus, it doesn’t hurt being an adorable pre-teen swinging a magnum of bubbly against the knife edge of a cruiser’s lissome hull.

When the first cruiser Portland was decommissioned in 1946 (she was finally scrapped in 1959), the silver service was put in storage by the Navy, then forwarded to the second USS Portland in 1970. When the second Portland was decommissioned in 2003, the silver was given to our city on indefinite loan by the Department of the Navy. “Isn’t this beauti ful?” Monroe asks, gazing into the glass display case. “Now that Ocean Gateway is com plete, this service is going to be displayed in a place of honor, for all to see.” Outside the windows, tugboats jostle around Maine State Pier as it awaits big changes by Olympia Development in the coming year.

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Landscape painter Charles Codman has lost his head–stone, that is. But Spirits Alive hopes to give him a new one. The group held a 17-painter show last year with the Society for East End Art called “Beyond the Gates–Art Inspired by the Eastern Cemetery” at North Star Café and Casco Bay Frames. “We raised $315 toward a new stone,” Spirits founder Christina White says, the balance of $2,335 covered by a fundraiser this spring. This new stone will be “an exact replica,” White says. “He made such a big contribution in life. It’s the least we can do.” Visit spiritsalive.org.

–Benjamin Haley Letter Day What would compel a Bowdoinham com mercial baker to use 3,000 bags of stucco clay to build a 200,000-pound oven in the shape of a woman? Mother Earth Bakery owner Dean Zoulamis considers it a labor of love. “All the materials I use in my baking come from mother earth.” Inspired, “my wife said, ‘How ‘bout making an oven shaped like a woman?’ Fire in the Belly

fabulous, noteworthy, and absurd APRIL 2008 23 I took pottery while at Falmouth High School, but I had no experi ence with the human figure. So I called up my old high school art teacher and friend Jim Stampone and another artist pal, Will Zell, and they offered critiques.” After “a final burnish of the front with a tablespoon,” Zoulamis is turning out 350 loaves a week of his 100 percent Maine grain, all-organic “peasant breads inspired by my Greek heritage” in the oven’s belly. Look for Mother Earth bread in local markets or at Whole Foods in Portland. –Maura Cooper AsSeeOthersUs Tale of Two Sisters, an upcom ing 2008 DreamWorks release based on the ghostly 2003 Korean film Changhwa Hongryon, has all the lobster trappings of the Maine coast–the story is set here–though shooting’s just wrapped in the Pacific Northwest. This one may just touch a nerve. COOPERAURAMTURCOTT;VIVIANFRENCH;KIMBERLYBOTTOM:TOTOP

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Talk about a house with personality for personalities! Cumberland Foreside was forced into a new century when bold, modern Greyhouse gave locals an unexpected taste of Europe in 1905. Today, the former residence of a celebrated Vanity Fair writer–later U.S. Ambassador to Ireland–and currently the home of nightclub diva Tommi Marx, is on the market for $2.2 million.

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Greyhouse’s expansive grounds, once more than 10 acres and reduced to 2.7 in the 1990s, evoke its turn-of-the-last-century pedigree. Society novelist David Gray com missioned the design in 1905. BY COLIN SARGENT

Greyhouse’s expansive grounds, once more than 10 acres and reduced to 2.7 in the 1990s, evoke its turn-of-the-last-century pedigree. Society novelist David Gray com missioned the design in 1905.

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“Just the feeling of turning toward the ocean off Route 88 and not finding a Shingle Style house but instead, something like this, in stucco, just hidden away?” It’s like a dash of Eyre dropped onto the Maine coast. Or is it a wee bit of Scotland? Whatever the influence, this dreamy retreat is “unlike any other house on the Foreside. And does it ever have a story!”

The next owners here were the Morrills, owners of B&M Brick Oven Baked Beans. At some point, paneling from Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s torn down birthplace on India Street was added to decorate the hall. But long before that, this place had a stun ning way of reconciling the charms of the past with something very exciting and new.

Designed by Winton Scott to capture the spirit of the original wing, the sun-soaked salon dis plays Tommi Marx’s art collection as well as ocean views through a channel of tall trees.

Greyhouse’s dark green lawn plunged down to the sea, where Gray kept a pier and yacht. The mansion’s sunken garden was enlivened by peonies that still grace this site today, after a century. Old world charm? This Shangri la may have no equal in Cumberland Foreside. “Mrs. Morrill sold it to her son for $1,” Tommi Marx laughs. “Then Charlton and Noni Ames bought it,” and lived here from 1982 until 2001.

“Then Peter and I moved in [after pay ing $900,000],” Marx continues, and did a wonderful job of selective updating with

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Built in 1905 for society novelist, playwright, and Vanity Fair contributor David Gray (1870 1968), Greyhouse reflects his world travels in its European modernist design. With its low profile; tall, narrow win dows; and dramatic overhangs suggesting the Aesthetic Movement, the house seems almost to presage Gray’s later appointment as U.S. Ambassador to Ireland (serving from 15 April 1940 until 28 June 1947).

e just went wild. It was love at first sight,” says Tommi Marx of the moment her husband, the late Peter Marx, first set eyes on Greyhouse.

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Clockwise from top: The gunite pool cools hot summer days; sunken gardens, original to the house, include peonies more than 100 years old; paneling rescued from Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s India Street birthplace greets visitors as they enter the front hall. out disturbing a structure that seems, well, perfect with its hand-adzed beamed ceilings, ancient (and no doubt sal vaged) wide pine flooring, and curling Federal staircase. “I told Andy Nelson [of Nelson Rarities] I was thinking of putting in a big awning and gazebo off the side of the house. He said, ‘Tommi, if you do that I will personally come over and kill you. It’s perfect as it is,’” Marx laughs. Resisting the temptation to change the kitchen, which a less sentimental owner might have updated with new cabi netry and granite, Marx has still made Greyhouse her own, mixing understatement with flair. “I had help,” she says. “When I was painting some doors, friends would come in and exclaim, ‘Oh, God, that has a perfectly awful shade of purple. No, that’s too

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Sometimes this caught unsuspecting neighbors by surprise. “Hey,” she laughs, “If you come to Chez Marx, you have to come and listen to me. I remember the first time a neighbor from the Foreside came to dinner with her husband,” and with a twinkle Marx took in her reaction “as I touched a button on the wall after dinner and magi cally some music came on. It was one of my MMOs [Music Minus One], you know, the background track to one of my songs, and I started singing. Later on I heard her whisper to her husband, ‘How can we have them over for dinner now [to return the invitation]? I can’t do anything like that!’” Another time, it was ghostly gray twilight “when a sub contractor was finishing some tiling for me. Then a car drove up, and a man showed up at my door in frumpled jeans below a tuxedo coat and tie. He told me he was a Morrill descendant and wanted to see the basement.” Who wouldn’t have been spooked? “I gave a Coke to the guy who was finishing the tiles and asked him to stay” until the unusual gentleman left. “Then, ages later, he came up from the basement, offering no “‘Didexplanation.yousee what you wanted?’ I asked.

Here in Cumberland Foreside, during the happy days with her husband at her side, she often rehearsed and per formed in the two-story salon: “I’m a singer, so I’ve had 12 or 14 musicians here. On top of that, I hold my famous Swedish smorgasbord at Greyhouse–with 40 people, twice a year.” Even on more intimate occasions, with just another couple visiting, “After dinner, I will go in and sing.”

APRIL 2008 31 HOUSE OF THE MONTH pink. Too Pepto-Bismol–go a little more Colgate.’” After seven coats, the doors “are just right, in Longchamphandbag pink.”

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The library today would no doubt please original owner David Gray, a novelist and Vanity Fair contributing writer who would go on to become U.S. Ambassador to Ireland during the FDR years.

If Marx, who is mourning her husband’s passing last spring, sounds indomitably effervescent at the same time, she is. It goes with the territory of being a chanteuse. Upon hearing that the LandVest listing agent compared her singing to Liza Minnelli’s, Tommi Thomas (her perform ing name) says, “I have been compared to Ella Fitzgerald, Judy Garland, and Sarah Vaughan all wrapped into one by the Southampton press.”

Her next release is titled Being Alive.

Photo: Marx enjoys the warm “second living room” off the dining area below hand-adzed beams.

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In spite of the slight, it was a yearly pil grimage for the Grays (when David wasn’t in the Mediterranean, yachting with pal Frank Crowninshield) to stop “at Hyde Park [to see the Roosevelts] on their way first to New York and then to their place in Florida, where they spent the cold months,” says former owner Noni Ames. As for the Maine connection, “The Grays had friends at the Smith Estate, where the Paysons would later live. They only spent one month a year here. Their place in Florida was smaller but simi lar in design to Greyhouse.”

“‘Oh, yes, it’s still there.’

The sunlit salon “was reconstructed on the same spot where an original wing had been torn down by one of the Morrills years earlier [in the 1960s], who claimed he’d had it taken down because he didn’t want to pay property taxes on it.” Originally, the precur sor to the salon “was two floors, including a pink sick room where FDR is said to have been exiled during a visit because he wasn’t exactly a favorite of Maude Gray, David’s wife, who was Eleanor Roosevelt’s aunt. So bizarre–the measles room!”

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“And that was it! He drove away! I happened to mention it to Noni Ames, the previous owner, and she told me she’d had the same experience years before! The man never told me what he’d needed to see down there; the only information he offered was, ‘I used to play football where the [custom gunite] pool is, by the pet cemetery,’ and of course there is one at Greyhouse, with little headstones for ‘Zeke,’ ‘Billy,’ ‘Samantha,’ and ‘Lilli.’”

Asked about her famous gams, chanteuse Tommi Thomas (Marx) laughs, “Men just go, ‘Gorgeous legs!’” She’s performed at the Copacabana, toured with the USO, and appeared in more than 200 nightclubs. Among her seven CDs are It’s About Time and About You, recorded at The Studio in Portland and available through klarity.com.

As for changes here over the years, early on “there was a telephone room and a writ ing room” (now, two spectacular writing desks on either side of a chimney look down on the salon from the second floor). “The red room,” now used for dining, “used to be the poker room,” Ames says. “The dining room was in what is now the other living room where Tommi has a table at the end of the room; it’s the room that has a fireplace at eachTheend.”main living room was on the first floor [of the razed old wing] “where we put that addition on,” Ames says. “It’s the exact same footprint as the original wing, but we didn’t put in a second floor! Winton Scott took his cues from the rest of the house,” in a style that conjures up the whimsical teahous es of Glasgow’s Charles Rennie Mackintosh. Acreage is 2.7 now, but “the house [at one time] had a lot of land that went to Sturdivant Road all the way, oh gosh, where Bob Porteous lived. There was a road that went down to the water, and they had a pier and a boat.” Today there is a view easement and a deeded right-of-way to the shore.

On the other hand, some things never change. There’s still a butler’s pantry, sepa rate walk-in pantry, study, master bedroom, guest suite, bedroom suite, Dutch door leading to the formal gardens, stone-edged terraces, and a private road with stonewalled“Youentry.can see the French lilac bushes and beautiful rosa rugosa,” Marx says. “The sunken gardens here have 100-year-old peo nies. There are four fireplaces in this house for the holidays. The stucco keeps it cool in the summer–it was the rage in the 1920s.” Simply put, it hurts to leave. “I grew up in Kansas, in farm country. When you get up early in the morning you get the bacon and sausage going. That’s just what you do,” and there’s a wistful sense of lost daily routine here, too, as a backdrop for the memories. “I gave a shower here for my goddaughter. I had Peter’s funeral here; 140 people came.” It takes a big personality to fill up a swell place like Greyhouse. “There are people all over Portland who once attended a party here,” Noni Ames says. But, hey. Even if you can’t sing. Even if you can’t fathom the mys tery of the basement. You owe it to yourself to tour this Celtic Modern show-stopper. Because like the spectre in tie and tails, you might just leave your heart here, too. n

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BY JUDITH GAINES • PHOTOS BY ROBERT WITKOWSKI

Starry caprice: from top, Lydia Shire’s signature Lobster Deep Fried in Homemade Lard surprises with an accompanying Homemade Baked Beans dish, $38; the second floor in the Victorian-era Atlantic Hotel is home to eclectic Blue Sky on York Beach.

C hef Lydia Shire has a reputation for food that is amusing, bold, even outrageous–and successful despite, or perhaps because of, this. She says she was “the first chef in America to have an offal sec tion on the menu,” referring to the fare at Biba, a restaurant in Boston where she offered pig noses, duck testicles, lamb tongues, veal hearts, and at least two brains dishes every night. The same menu had a cate gory called, simply, “Starch,” for potatoes, pasta, and the like. This sort of audacity might have done in a less-talented, less-determined chef. But Shire’s daring cuisine won her the coveted James Beard award as “Best Chef in the Northeast” in 1991. A few years later, she invaded Locke-Ober, a celebrated men’s club haunted by Boston Brahmins and the ghost of JFK himself, where women had been prohibited for 97 years. She transformed it into a High concept meets carnival whimsy at the new Lydia Shire eatery in York Beach that everybody is talking about.

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Center: Patrons at an exhibition–from left, Dr. Vicci Howard jokes with friends while Alex and Lori Betrovic admire their meals.

Bottom, from left: Sarah Tulley and Tom Weiner make the four-hour pilgrimage from Middlebury, Vermont, for a delicious dinner here. Currently the dining-room manag er of the Swift House Inn, Weiner’s loyalty to Shire dates to his employment at Biba in Boston from 1994 to 1999; Charcoaled Skirt Steak with Crush of Green Garlic, $29.

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Top, from left: A side order of Hot Raised Potato Doughnuts with Lyle’s Golden Syrup made with Maine potatoes turns the ridiculous sublime–a four-star sight gag by Shire that doubles as a nod to York Beach’s carnival atmosphere, $4; the frying pan sizzles as lobster tails are prepared for another Maine-inspired creation; Lydia Shire in her element and a long way from her starting wage of $2.62/hour at Maison Robert in Boston.

thriving restaurant–“half classical, half Lydia,” she says–that wel comed both sexes. Now Shire, 59, is opening a gorgeous gourmet restaurant in the heart of honky-tonk York Beach, just down the street from a surf-side bowling alley and the Fun-O-Rama. Chefs all over Maine are abuzz. Shire calls her new place “Blue Sky on York Beach.” The sky, it seems, is the limit. Her restaurant features dishes like duck confit on gingerbread toast, oxtails with yucca cooked in an open hearth, lobster pizza, maple-roasted Scottish salmon with parsnip stew, and, in a side dish category called “Spuds and Veg,” raised potato doughnuts with

“This is a labor of love” Lydia “ThisShireisa labor of love” –Lydia Shire APRIL 2008 37

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Clockwise from top left: Blue Sky’s dining room; assistant chef Susan Regis; Neil Rudnick draws a pint from one of “Rosie the Robot’s” many taps; Hot Buttered Lobster on Thin Panko Fried Pork Chops, $34.

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Lyle’s Golden Syrup. “It’s just an odd thing that I put on the menu,” she says with a smile, referring to the potato doughnut. “It’s good for kids.”Sharing a spicy lamb pizza with me in her jazzy new lounge while a fire crackles nearby,

INSIDE STORY 40 PORTLAND MONTHLY MAGAZINE I’m a little bit Classic... Even Neil Simon’s oddest cou ple couldn’t have envisioned the successful synergy these seemingly opposed architec tural sensibilities create. Tale of

APRIL 2008 41 AGRAFIOTISSANDYPHOTOS:ALL BY BRAD FAVREAU ...I’m a little Post-Modern. Two Styles

Classicclassics.appointments warm the vaulted living room.

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tastes. My reference point is family and commit ment to family tradition.”

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Foote’s dream was of a classical home. He is devoted to classical Greek and Roman architec ture, and so Vitruvius and Andrea Palladio were big inspirations for the design of the house. Four massive Tuscan columns, carefully proportioned, and a neo-classical pediment define the portico that dominates the front of the tripartite design. Palladio himself would be pleased. The wings on either side of the portico are flavored by Thomas Jefferson, Foote’s other architectural hero. Inside, the northeast wing of the house, cast in e’re the lizard and the salaman der,” Stephen Foote says, laughing, describing himself and his life com panion Jonathan Pelletier. “He’s sun and heat and I’m cool and dark.” It’s ironic, but these two contradictory creatures have managed to create a habitat on McCurdy Pond in Bremen where they both can thrive. “I’m historic and classical,” says Foote, retired dean of Portland’s St. Luke’s Cathedral and president of the board at Greater Portland Landmarks from 1992-1994. “I grew up in Con necticut in a very artful house with refined Classic appointments warm the vaulted living room. Stephen Foote loves the

Richard Neutra to Foote’s Palladio.

Jonathan Pelletier looks into his modern bedroom from the garden.

A Palladian window lends Jeffersonian flair to the room.Jeffersonian flair to the room.

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APRIL 2008 43 shadow much of the day to satisfy his craving for cool surroundings, is the space Foote calls his own. Deep, dark wood tones and colors give the room an Edwardian air, but hints of Foote’s love of clas sicism are everywhere, from the books he keeps on his spacious built-in bookcases to the architectural models he enjoys building. Many of the objects in the room are links to other people, places, and times in Foote’s life. “These associations are soul ful connections and are wickedly importantly to me,” he Pelletiersays.is

INN AT BAY LEDGE Bar Harbor

Alec Baldwin“Didnickmyscone?” …and other tales of the B&Bs.

BY MAURA COOPER Which celebrities will be taking a kayaking class with you this spring? Above: Bar Harbor Inn

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“They were just like any other young couple in love,” Jeani Ochtera recalls of the day President Bush’s daughter Jenna Bush and her fiancé, Henry Hager, spent at the Inn at Bay Ledge, checking in only hours after Hager popped the question to Bush during an ear ly-morning hike atop Cadillac Mountain. “I had no idea they’d just gotten engaged,” Ochtera says, but after an order from Washington, D.C., came to purchase a bottle of champagne for the happy couple,

T ed Kennedy and John Glenn walk into a bar. Pause for Broadway dactyl. Though they don’t actually slide armin-arm into Hancock Point’s lovely Crocker House at the same time, it underscores the point: You never know who you’re going to bump into in a Maine B&B. With tabloids and paparazzi out in full force these days, triggerhappy to catch the newest rising or falling star, it seems one important thing gets lost about the people whose lives we follow with such great avidity–their humanity.

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Cue Maine’s bed & breakfasts. With their chatty innkeepers, com munal breakfast tables, and down-home-Maine ambiance, these gour met inns offer something unique to their celebrity clientele: a place of scene and sequel where friendly hobnobbing and respectful distance find a balance of sorts under the ever-watchful eye of the pivotal char acter who gives each B&B its unique flair–the innkeeper.

Russell Legare’s new $5.175 million creation is one of three new homes transforming the face and culture of Littlejohn Island. 46 PORTLAND MONTHLY MAGAZINE VANISHING BigMAINEDramaLittleonBig DramaLittleon

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t’s gone now, the big old summer house that once graced the northern end of Littlejohn Island. It sat on one of the choicest pieces of real estate in southern Maine: about 100 acres of largely untouched waterfront property on an island accessible by bridge, 20 minutes from Portland. The land had been held in the same family for more than 130 years. But about four years ago, family members decided to demolish the old house and sell most of the land. Now the summer place has become Littlejohn Shores, an elite on

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After 130 years, there are fewer Soules this side of paradise. BY JUDITH GAINES

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Bottom: Lemme, lemme upgrade–Rip Cunningham’s new home is just feet from the original homestead, now torn down. Black & white inset: In days past, Finn and Poppy (lying down) enjoyed the summer day while laundry flapped in the warm breeze outside the rambling home’s laundry house, which also boarded servants.

Top: Panorama from the covered porch of Russell Legare’s new house unfolds with views of Casco Bay. Black & white inset: View from the dock where a traditional island trade lobster boat fishes from the past.

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to stay and share the place as a family home, something could have been worked out. If somebody had really wanted to stay and share the place as a family home, something could have been worked out.

In the paintings, both Soules wear evening attire and look elegant, self-possessed, charming, wealthy. Henchman was a handsome, savvy sea captain and master carpenter who ran a ship building company in Freeport with two brothers and even established a “Freeport and California Mining Company” during the 1848 Gold Rush. Lydia was a descendant of George Soule, who came to New England on the Mayflower and was indentured to Governor Winthrop until he worked his way to entrepreneurial freedom. Pretty and adventurous, she watched over the shipping busi ness when her husband was gone and even joined him on some of his ocean voyages until his death in 1860.In1878, perhaps seeking solace at the evoca tive, soulful point where land and water meet or maybe just hoping to have a good time, Lydia came to Littlejohn on a “camping” trip. To people in her social class then, this meant renting a room in aBeforefarmhouse.sheleft “camp” that summer, Lydia Soule had fallen in love with the island. She bought an acre of land, and soon her summer home rose on Littlejohn’s shores. Over the years, her heirs really wanted

The paintings hang on a wall of a spanking new house built on the old home site by the Soules’ great-great grandson, Colin “Rip” Cunningham, a writer, editor, and former publisher of sportsfishing publications. The Soules peer out from one corner of his new, cathedral-ceilinged living room overlooking Casco Bay, with overstuffed chairs upholstered in pinks and grays and a huge, dou ble-sided stone fireplace that also faces out onto a waterfront patio. It’s a pleasant room in a pleas ant house but sterile in the way that new buildings often are, with none of the well-worn coziness of the past. The portraits seem sadly out of place.

Behind that sale is a tale of nobility and callow ness, generosity and greed, or at least financial expediency–but not in equal parts, because the main players in this tale really wanted to do the right thing. They ran up against the realities of modern living.

The fallen summer lady was a beige, shinglestyle, red-roofed Victorian “cottage” with a war ren of little rooms, jerry-built through the years; a wraparound porch so large that it contained a semi-enclosed living and dining area open on two sides to the sea; and several funky outbuildings. Now all that remain are a few pieces of antique furniture, a claw-footed bathtub, a leather mailbag once used to bring letters up from the wharf, some other mementos, and a portrait of the spirited woman who built the place, Lydia Soule, along with her husband, Henchman.

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development for new, mansion-like estates.

50 PORTLAND MONTHLY MAGAZINE VANISHING MAINE would add onto the home and the hold ings until the “cottage” and outbuildings contained 13 bedrooms and the land totaled more than 100 acres, nearly half of the entire island. They kept the property in pristine condition–a woodsy, undeveloped domain for eagles, osprey, deer, foxes, porcupines, and loons, as well as for the Soules’ lucky descendants, who summered here. They called their summer place “Pemasong.” But like a song of summer itself in Maine, its pleasures passed too quickly. Seen from the air, the Pemasong land looks like a large woman’s boot with a high, narrow heel, or perhaps the upper man dible and jaw of some prehistoric creature. From the ground, it’s breathtakingly beauti ful, with pretty paths around the perimeter and water views in almost every direction. It’s an untouched rural realm, serene and very private. The gravel lane that leads to it is so narrow and the forest so thick that the little roadway seems to burrow into the pines and trees on both sides meet over head, even in winter. Accounts of life here through the years recall the joys of island living and the partic ular pleasures of the old house, as well as a few traumatic moments. In Grandma’s Island, Grandma’s Ocean, family historian Orville Rogers writes about clam and lobster bakes on the beach, lunch at “picnic rock,” croquet on the lawn, a ring toss on hanging coffee cup hooks. Another family favorite was playing darts on the porch, he says. In their version, cards were affixed to woodwork and dart throwers tried “to pin the best poker hand with five Rogers,darts.”whomanaged the property from the 1930s until the mid 1970s, also recalls the times when a hungry–and eventually affectionate–seal washed onto beach; when a bold little fox came right up to the front door, apparently curious about activities inside; and when a ferocious storm stripped the trees “and shredded green leaves were blown so hard against the front of the laun dry that it looked like a spatter job of green paint on the Cunningham,building.”now62, describes his days here as “an endless succession of digging for clams, scouting the perimeter of the island, either by shore or along the woods path,” and childhood thrills such as dropping from a rope swing into the water. At the end of each day, he wrote in an essay about “Coming Home” to Littlejohn, “all the adult house guests would gather on the front porch for the ‘Golden Hour.’ I always thought it was so named for the golden reflections of the sunset in the windows of the Chebeague Inn,” visible across Casco Bay, “but now I am not sure that it wasn’t the golden liquid that they placed in their cocktail glass es. Whatever the reason, it was the social punctuation mark to the day’s events and a wonderful reason to sit, talk, and watch the on water world go by.” In the 1950s and 1960s, “the adventure changed somewhat,” he observes, when a bridge was built joining Cousins Island to the mainland, and then another bridge linked Littlejohn to Cousins, making Pemasong accessible by automobile. But what changed the place most of all was the increase in heirs with some claim to it. Pemasong had survived in part because The foundation is already laid for starmaker Jerry Ade’s new home. Hip-hop manager Ade intro duced Beyoncé to Jay-Z. Another home is being built here by Russell Legare, the former associate producer of The Fresh Prince of Bel Air. ADEJERRYOFCOURTESYRENDERINGARCHITECTURAL

Like the song of summer itself, Pemasong’s pleasures passed too quickly. “It’s my interpretation of Frank Lloyd Wright [meets] John Calvin Stevens.” –Jerry Ade

The Golden Hour wasn’t quite so golden or languid any Furthermore,more.no one wanted to spend their short stay on Littlejohn tending to home repairs and property maintenance. “No one did much work on it. They just wanted to come and play,” says Cunningham’s daugh ter, Winnett Ordway, 31, a real estate agent living in South Freeport. Cunningham adds, “While major repairs got done, there was an air of dowdiness creeping in.”

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If the once-beautiful seaside cottage began to seem seriously frayed around the edges, it also became apparent that it was built in a palmier era, when other sensibilities reigned. Because guests came by boat when it was built, the house faced Casco Bay rather than the driveway by which most visitors now arrived. “And when you opened the front door, you came into a dump room, a catchall full of trash, dog beds, crates, all sorts of junk. It was a funny way to be introduced to a property and a house,” says Ordway. Oddly, only two rooms in the old house actually had water views. The kitchen, staffed by servants, was hidden at the back of the building with their little quarters above it; current owners, who no longer have ser vants, preferred a more centrally located cooking area and fewer, larger bedrooms. With so many people sharing some interest in the property, there were con flicting ideas about how to solve its prob lems. Could they continue patching up the place, or was it time for a major renovation? Should they pool their resources to pay for repairs, or sell off some property to raise the necessary funds? Perhaps some conser vation organization would buy develop ment rights? Winterizing the home would allow everyone more time to spend in it, but it had been built without a foundation. Making it usable year-round meant that the house would have to be jacked up and a new base built beneath it, “which archi

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Not that philosophy has been his exclusive guiding star. After they both graduated from Harvard with degrees in philosophy, Cathcart worked with street gangs in Chicago, then moved to Portland to teach philosophy and comparative religion at Westbrook Junior College. While he only taught for three years, he stayed in Portland for 32 Alongyears.the way, Cathcart and Klein pub

“Dan’s a much better collector of jokes. I remember a bit more philosophy than he does, probably because I’ve dropped in and out of divinity school a few times. He’s the funny guy and I’m the philosophy guy.”

“to confound our sense of the way things are, to flip our worlds upside down, and to ferret out hidden, often uncomfortable, truths about life. What the philosopher calls an insight, the gagster calls a zinger.”

On Inductive Logic (which is what Sherlock Holmes actually used)

And zing they do. In 200 pages with nearly a joke per page (143-plus cartoons, if you’re counting), Cathcart and Klein mesh freshman philosophy and comedy with hilarious and insightful results.

HOLMES AND WATSON are on a camping trip. In the middle of the night Holmes wakes up and gives Dr. Watson a nudge. “Watson,” he says, “look up in the sky and tell me what you see.”

“I see millions of stars, Holmes,” says “AndWatson.whatdo you conclude from that, WatsonWatson?”thinksfor a moment. “Well,” he says, “astronomically, it tells me that there are millions of galaxies and potentially billions of planets. Astrologically, I observe that Saturn is in Leo. Horologically, I deduce that the time is approximately a quarter past three. Meteorologically, I suspect that we will have a beautiful day tomorrow. Theologically, I see that God is all power ful, and we are small and insignificant. Uh, what does it tell you, Holmes?” “Watson, you idiot! Someone has stolen our tent!”

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Below: Dawn’s Presence Two (in 6 parts), 1969-1975, more than doubled pre-auction estimates, fetch ing $553,000 at Christie’s New York September 10, 2007.

Left: Photographer Cecil Beaton cap tured Nevelson with her work in 1978.

–April Jacobs, Christie’s Today, prices for sculptures by the little girl who traded Rockland for Manhattan are soaring out of

Novel Nevelson hen one thinks of sculptor Louise Nevelson (1899-1988), the false eyelashes and scarved hair are almost as synonymous as her stacked, sculptures. The identity she created for herself did little to reveal her Rockland childhood–something she was happy to put behind her early on as she drove herself to become a force on the twentieth-century New York art scene. Today, she is the subject of a major traveling exhibition orga nized by the Jewish Museum in New York. Not coincidentally, the prices for her work have soared at auction. In September, Christie’s had a record breaker with “Dawn’s Presence “For years, Louise Nevelson’s work was highly undervalued at auction.”

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Finely Carved China From July 2nd and was taken on by the Jackson Gallery “For years Nevelson’s work was highly undervalued at auction,” Jacobs, a specialist in the Post-War Contemporary Art Department at Christie’s, New York. “We had seen a small rise in pric es for her work over the past few years, but the exhibition at the Jewish Museum really allowed collectors to experience Nevelson’s work in a new light, and the market respond ed accordingly.”TheJewishMuseum exhibition shows collectors the best of her work while dis playing its breadth and beauty. Strikingly, she made use of found wood objects, which she’d paint in a single color–usually black, but on rarer occasions, white or gold. Frequently, she’d encase these wood boxes to create a unique environment to frame her own remembered past. “The work [can] be small or large,” reports Christie’s Jacobs, “but if it displays a composition that is eye-catching, enthralling, and leaves one engaged and asking further questions, then it is a great piece.” Nevelson’s family moved to Rockland in 1905 from Kiev in the Ukraine. Keenly aware of her Eastern European Jewish roots and of being an outsider, Nevelson made it her goal early on to leave Maine and move to New York, which she did in 1920. But this early feeling of being a foreigner and its “otherness” later became a source of inspiration for her work. Before her death in April 1988, in addition to donating works by other artists, Nevelson donated 56 of her own works to Rockland’s Farnsworth Art Museum after exhibiting there and hesi tantly attending the openings. “Obviously, as a young woman, she wanted to leave Rockland,” says her friend and former director of the Farnsworth Art Museum Marius Peladeau, “and I think she was afraid of coming back, but when she did, decades later, she was overwhelmed by the reception. Rockland had changed, and everybody came to the museum. Rockland realized she was a doyenne of American art.” n Sarah Cumming Cecil, a principal in the interior design firm Rose Cumming (www.rosecummingdesign.com), writes frequently on art, antiques, and interior design. Her work has appeared in ARTnews, Architectural Digest,

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Chris White’s new CD Hotel Arrival, named for a sign he loves outside the Portland Harbor Hotel, laments love gone wrong.

Chris White knows exactly where he’s going–right where you live.

He started out in Houlton. Next, Chris White, 31, descended into Auburn, and now he’s an influential presence in Portland, an integral part of both Frotus Caper–Portland’s re-emerging pop jugger naut–and the Lomax, an alt-country act. Ever energetic, the multi-instrumentalist steals away to write music for his long-gestating solo project. But in the meantime, word is that with Frotus Caper’s Hotel Arrival, he’ll have all of Maine on a string. What instrument came first? I started piano when I was five and contin ued for six years. I dabbled with violin and alto sax in high school. I started guitar lessons in seventh grade and it was all over. Even at 11, I was more interested in writing my own songs than playing “Smoke on the Water” or “Iron Man.” Now I play some banjo, mando lin, keyboards, bass–lots of plucked strings, really–and I sing, of course. Is Lomax a reference to Alan Lomax, the music archivist? It sure is! That’s an Andy [Ellis] thing, really. He’s very into old-timey music; he’s a musi cal encyclopedia. I love the nostalgia that Lomax evokes. Even when people don’t get the reference, I think it inspires wonder or maybe sparks a memory people can’t quite put their fingers on. What’s the sound of the Lomax? Are you going to use those words “alt-country”? It’s more like quirky alt-country. We also draw from XTC, R.E.M., roots music, and even some R&B. Andy’s artwork has a car toonish quality that comes through in his lyrics. Dave’s [Ragsdale] songs enter the realm of 1970s glam á la New York Dolls, and sometimes we play with new wave influences. The combination of everybody’s diverse background makes for a fairly unique sound.

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Overall, the roots music scene is huge. Where is this resur gence coming from?

There are no rules in music, especially now. Trying to keep a genre ‘pure’ seems ludi crous to me.

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I wonder if the popularity of bands like Wilco and the Jayhawks has given country musicians or roots musicians a little more credibility. I grew up thinking country was blue-collar music, but I realize now that there are amazing musicians in the C&W world. Not to mention the accessibility of country songs–they are very easy to identify with.

Whatever happened to Frotus Caper, one of the most notable pop-rock bands to come out of Portland in the past several years? Well, it didn’t really go anywhere, and I guess that was the problem. We worked very hard and had a lot of fun, but it was a writing and recording project more than anything else. And yet you’re still working with some of the Caper on a new project. Ah, yes. Frotus started work on a new album in 2004, Safe Houses, but things kind of fell apart. Chad Walls and I continued to write songs and record, with the intention of releasing another Frotus Caper record. But we’ve gotten so far from Frotus we decided to be a new band all together, Hotel Arrival. We look forward to a selftitled release this spring. To the exclusion of Lomax? The Lomax are planning a release in sum mer, tentatively titled Love Laughed at Me I hope to play more guitar with Andy Happel. But everything pales beside what I’m planning for August 23–I’m getting married to Rachel Horton! The band name Hotel Arrival is her idea. She noticed other bands adopting signs as their names. We passed the Portland Harbor Hotel, and she said, “That would be a cool name for a band!” n Hotel Arrival’s CD arrives this month with a party at SPACE Gallery; the new Lomax CD, Love Laughed at Me, is expected in May, followed by anticipated performance dates at Empire Dine and Dance and Portland Lobster Co. as well as a gig at the Maine Lobster Festival in Rockland.

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Lotus Chinese and Japanese Restaurant, 251 US Rt. 1 Falmouth, Maine (Falmouth Shopping Plaza). We feature fullservice bar and lounge area, sushi bar, Chinese traditional food not available outside of Boston, friendly atmosphere and courteous service. 781-3453 Lucky Thai. Come experience the only Thai cuisine in Gorham, at 25 Elm Street. Serving fresh cuisine and many vegetarian entrées. Our chefs use only fresh herbs and spices that will satisfy your appetite. Beer and wine are available. Dine in or take out. Open 7 days a week. 839-6999 Margaritas Mexican Restaurants & Watering Hole! Two locations in Portland, others in Lewiston, Augusta, Orono & Portsmouth, serving oversized meals & colossal drinks. Always free hot chips & salsa, legendary margaritas, & the house specialty, the sizzling fajita. Happy hour M-F, 4-7 p.m., free hot appetizers. In Portland at 242 St. John Street, Union Station Plaza, 874-6444 & 11 Brown Street near the Civic Center.

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Eve’s At The Garden, 468 Fore Street, Portland, promises a unique experience and a fresh local approach to food. Chef Jeff Landry and his team utilize products from Maine’s coastal waters and farms: jumbo diver-harvested scallops, Maine-raised organic pork, line-caught Atlantic halibut, free-range chicken, and fresh Maine lobster prepared several different ways. Free valet parking. Lunch 11:30 a.m.-2 p.m., Dinner 5:30 p.m.-9:30 p.m. 523-2040

the Bar & Grille (open 7 days a week at 11:30 a.m.) offers live music Wednesday-Saturday nights. For a real local feel, reasonable prices, and great food, check out either one or both!

BiBo’s Madd Apple Cafe, 23 Forest Avenue, Portland, in the heart of the Arts District. Focusing on creative, affordable cuisine with an eclectic wine list to match, served in a bright casual atmosphere. Lunch Wed.-Fri. 11:30-2; brunch Sun. 11-2; dinner Wed.-Sat. from 5:30 and Sundays 4-8. Menus change with the local growing season. Menus online at www.bibosportland.com. * 774-9698

Classic appetizers like empañadas and ceviche, and generously plated entrées: jumbo pan-fried shrimp in butter with garlic and onion served with fried plantains and salad, and rotisserie chicken with Latin seasonings. Try homemade flan for dessert. Lunch and dinner Monday-Thursday noon-8 p.m, Friday noon-10 p.m. Saturday noon.-8 p.m. 906 Brighton Avenue, Portland. 761-5865

774-9398 Maria’s Ristorante, est. 1960, 337 Cumberland Avenue, Portland. Portland’s Finest Italian Cusine. Maine Sunday Telegram’s FourStar Italian Restaurant. Wonderful Italian wines, with exclusives.

3 Dollar Dewey’s in the heart of Portland’s Old Port is not to be missed. Pub fare includes chowder, appetizers–including beerbattered shrimp, buffalo wings, and glorious nachos–as well as chili, salads, seafood, hamburgers, chicken sandwiches, and buildyour-own pizzas. A beer-lover’s heaven with 36 draft beers and 42 bottled beers. Open every day 11:30 a.m.-1:00 a.m. 241 Commercial Street. www.3dollardeweys.com 772-3310

MJ’s Grille and Tavern offers casual fine dining in a comfortable environment, with a variety of dishes–from small plates and seasonal salads to steak and local seafood. Handcrafted wooden bar offers a wide selection of beers from around the world, local beers, fine wines, and martinis. Private rooms for parties. Downstairs Tavern open Friday and Saturday

Costa Vida Fresh Mexican Grill, 209 Western Avenue, South Portland, with distinctly Californian décor. Famous for sweet pork, made-to-order smothered burritos, savory desserts, and chicken salads with creamy tomatillo ranch dressing, Costa Vida prepares everything fresh on the premises–and the food is addicting! Entrées $5-$9. Monday–Saturday 11 a.m.-9 p.m. Catering available. www.CostaVidaNewEngland.com 772-VIDA or take it to go: 772-TOGO.

DiMillo’s Floating Restaurant at 25 Long Wharf off Commercial Street. You can’t beat the location for fabulous water views of Portland Harbor. Escape the hustle & bustle of the city. Watch the boats go by. Enjoy fresh Maine lobster year-round, steak, seafood dishes, & more. Serving 7 days from 11:00 a.m. Children’s menu available. For drinks & a lighter menu, try our Portside Lounge. 772-2216

The Great Impasta, Premier Italian Restaurant in Brunswick, recognized as one of the “Top 25 Italian Restaurants in all of New England.” Intimate dining room setting, fun and varied wine list, and creative Italian & Mediterranean-inspired dishes at surprisingly reasonable prices. Open for lunch and dinner, Monday through Saturday. 42 Maine Street, Brunswick. www.thegreatimpasta.com 729-5858

Great Lost Bear 540 Forest Avenue in the Woodfords area of Portland. A full bar with over 50 draught beers, predominantly from local micro-breweries, an enormous menu with soups, salads, sandwiches, steaks, a large vegetarian selection, the best nachos & buffalo wings in town. Discover where the natives go when they’re restless! Every day 11:30 a.m.-11:30 p.m. www.greatlostbear.com 772-0300

Jacqueline’s Tea Room and Gift Shop, experience authentic Afternoon Tea in an exquisite English setting. Select from over 70 of the finest quality loose-leaf teas to accompany your four-course luncheon of scones with Devon cream, preserves and lemon curd, finger sandwiches of all kinds, and desserts. Great for intimate conversations and parties. 10:30 a.m.-3 p.m. Tuesday-Friday and alternating weekends. 201 Main Street, Freeport. Reservations only. * www.jacquelinestearoom.com 865-2123

La Familia–best Latin American cuisine north of the border.

Café Stroudwater has been an award-winning local favorite for many years. Chef Paul L’Heureux features delicious local cuisine using local products based on the season. For a truly unique experience, reserve a “Chef’s Table,” where you and your guest will be seated right in the kitchen while the Chef prepares your sixcourse meal accompanied by select wines. * 1050 Westbrook Street in the Embassy Suites, Portland. 775-0032 Castine Inn, a perfect getaway in one of the most beautiful villages in New England, overlooking a perennial garden and Castine Harbor. Enjoy Chef Tom Gutow’s unique and refined cuisine in a casually elegant setting. Both á la carte and tasting menus available at one of Food & Wine magazine’s 50 top hotel restaurants in the U.S. June through September. www.castineinn.com 326-4365 Cinque Terre, Portland’s destination for authentic Italian cuisine, located in the Historic Old Port. Both á la carte and fixed-price menu selections available in a casually elegant setting. Sample hand-made pasta, ravioli, and gelatos. Enjoy the best local fish, meat, and finest Italian wines from our Wine Spectator awardwinning list. Summer patio seating, dining room open 7 days from 5 p.m. * 36 Wharf Street, Portland, cinqueterremaine.com 347-6154 Clayton’s Cafe 447 Route 1, Yarmouth. This family-owned gourmet deli, coffee shop, and bakery specializes in sandwiches for no mean appetite. Enjoy a fresh-brewed iced tea and the famous chicken salad on the outdoor patio. Also featuring soups and salads and a full array of take-home dinners, menu rotating daily. Monday-Friday, 7:00-7:00 & Saturday, 8:30-5:00. www.claytonscafe.com. 846-1117

APRIL 2008 67 nights with DJs and bands. 94 Maine Street, Brunswick. www.mjsgrille.com 729-6574

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Desserts sparkle here: Try the popular Chocolate Nemesis or an array of cobblers, crisps, and tartlets. Just a stunning, romantic outing. Aaron and Paul, we love your Henry and Marty! n Henry and Marty, 61 Maine Street, Brunswick. Dinner Tuesday-Sunday, 5-9 p.m. 721-9141 or www.henryandmarty.com

The Pepperclub is a prize-winning restaurant (“Best Vegetarian” & “Best Value” in Frommer’s Guide to New England) with creative world cuisine. Blackboard menu lists five vegetarian, three fish, & three meat entrées, including an organic beef burger. Relaxed, affordable dining on the edge of the Old Port w/free parking. Open nightly at 5 p.m. 78 Middle Street. 772-0531

Next, my partner selects Thin-Crust Pizza ($14). Here, pizza is a three-dimensional art form, with eye-opening ingredients such as fresh arugula, caramelized Vidalia onions, gorgonzola and Olde Shiretown cheeses, and Kalamata olives. Other tantalizing entrées include Filet Mignon with Oyster Creek mushrooms ($29), Paella Valenciana ($26), Roasted Salmon in an organic cran berry rosemary sauce ($24), Cuban-Style Shrimp ($19), and French Lentil Loaf ($16). The Rack of Lamb ($27) I order, marinat ed in rosemary and garlic with an aromatic balsamic-vinegar-and-red-wine demi-glaze, is cooked perfectly. Seared quickly over a hot fire, the result is a tasty caramelized crust and juicy, tender meat. The accompany ing roasted chestnut flavor of the Princess LaRatte fingerling potatoes and simple sau téed rainbow chard tossed in homemade lemon oil couldn’t be better.

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SeaGrass Bistro, 30 Forest Falls Drive, Yarmouth, an intimate 40-seat dining room with an open kitchen. Chef Stephanie’s style of American Bistro Cuisine, with Asian, French, and Tuscan influences, uses fresh local ingredients. Menu changes frequently. Music while you dine Thursdays in October & December. Open Wednesday-Saturday for dinner, reservations starting at 6 p.m. Visit our Website for Cooking Class Information * www.seagrassbistro.com 846-3885

One Eyed Jacks Pizza serves it up by the pie or slice, including pesto chicken with garlic cream sauce or prosciutto and pineapple–also tacos with your choice of fish, shrimp, chicken, pork or beef. Don’t miss the great sides and nightly specials. Serving beer and wine. Family friendly! Open every day from 11a.m.-10 p.m. at 127 Commercial Street, Portland. 772-6200

A line of diners waits outside of Henry and Marty, a favorite Brunswick eatery since 1998 (now owned by Aaron Park–former chef/owner of the West Side Café in Portland–and Paul Hollingsworth). There are reasons for this: First, lucky to grab a seat at the bar, we are delighted by the Blue Dog Bar Kibbles ($4 each) and begin devouring the tapas-like warmed country olives, pizette, albondigas (Bisson Farm beef and pork meat balls in a fennel roasted tomato sauce), spiced nuts, Korean scallion pancake, shrimp crostini, blue perro huevo (organic chorizo with scrambled egg and cheese with bread).

Then, sure, why not try the Blue Doggie cocktail (Absolut citron, Cointreau, cranberry, and lime, $9)? Red wines are stored in tem perature-controlled facilities, and we get an insight into this restaurant’s success when we overhear the knowledgeable and personable bartender tell a diner to call from his car next time so she can open a bottle prior to his arriv al. Starting to relax, we discover an incredible value and flavor in the Perrin Reserve Côtes du Rhône, 2005 ($21). Then we tear into the chicken liver paté ($9) and a cup of house-made minestrone ($4). Both substantial and satisfying, the paté has enormous appeal with its rustic simplic ity. Two large rectangular slices, topped by bread-stick ribbons, are nicely complement ed with good grainy mustard, cornichons, and a feisty flavorful pickled garlic scape.

Twenty Milk Street, in the Portland Regency Hotel, is proud to be the only restaurant in Maine to serve exclusively U.S.D.A. prime steaks, combining award-winning classic American Cuisine with fine wines in a warm and inviting atmosphere. Featuring Regency Crab Cakes, Baked Escargo, 20-oz. Porterhouse Steak, Sesame Tuna, homemade breads, and desserts. Dinner seven nights a week; also serving breakfast, lunch and brunch. Complimentary Valet Parking. 774-4200 Una Tapas Winebar Lounge, Portland’s destination for unique and exciting food, wine, and cocktails. Weekday Happy Hours, interesting and eclectic wines, signature cocktails, flavorful tapas plates, and special music events with live jazz two days a week. “Best Martini Bar”–Press-Herald and Casco Bay Weekly. Near Downtown, the waterfront, and the Old Port at 505 Fore Street. www.unawinebar.com 828-0300

North Star Music Café, 225 Congress Street, at the base of Munjoy Hill in Portland. A coffee shop and café offering soups, sandwiches, salads, and specials made from scratch. Eat by our sunny windows or take your food to go. A full coffee bar, sodas, beer, and wine available. Music most nights. Check www. northstarcafe.net for calendar and hours. 699-2994

Uncle Billy’s is a welcome oasis–a reminder that life is good. Owner/chef Jonathan St. Laurent’s famous barbeque with Quebecois flair: Grilled Skirt Steak with Frites á la Francais, mussels steamed in beer, melt-in-your-mouth beef brisket, and braised lamb with polenta and mushrooms. Blues-age décor, jukebox of funky tunes, live music, full bar, and Happy Hour–beers from Lambics to Schlitz. 653 Congress Street, Tuesday-Saturday 5-close, Sunday 12-close. 761-5930 Walter’s, 15 Exchange Street, Portland. Cuisine with “worldly” influences–casual fine dining with a metropolitan flair. Menu changes seasonally with popular blackboard specials. Bar manager Steven Lovenguth’s wine list complements Chef Jeff Buerhaus’s menu selections. Interesting cocktails and dessert drinks, also. Open Mon-Sat 11:30-2:30 for lunch; dinner from 5:00 seven nights a week. Private room available for up to 26 guests. www.walterscafe.com 871-9258 Wells Beach Steakhouse and T-Bone Lounge serves prime steaks, fresh seafood, and delicious salads, featuring Kobe sirloin steaks, stuffed smoked salmon and grilled swordfish in an upscale, plush atmosphere. Enjoy a selection from the highly allocated new world wine list, or a signature 28-ounce Wells Beach martini under the starry ‘sky’ of the lounge. 73 Mile Road, Wells. www. wellsbeachsteakhouse.com 646-2252 Yosaku, at 1 Danforth Street, is an authentic Japanese culinary experience, designed by owner Sato Takahiro and lead chef Matsuyama Masahiro. Premium sushi, sashimi, and rolls, including Yosaku roll, spicy scallop roll, Godzilla roll, Portland Pirates roll, and traditional cooked Japanese cuisine for the sushi-shy. Enjoy a bento box beside a tranquil Japanese waterfall. Lunch MondayFriday 11:30-2, Saturday-Sunday 12-3. Dinner 5-9:30, FridaySaturday 5-10:30. 780-0880 Diane Hudson

O’Naturals serves natural and organic flatbread sandwiches, tossed salads, Asian noodles, soups, and kids’ meals. Quick service, but our leather couches, wireless internet, and comfortable atmos phere will entice you to stay. Flatbread pizza after 4 p.m. and pesto chicken, roast beef, wild bison meatloaf, wild Alaskan salmon, and many vegetarian items–something for everyone. Portland 3212050 and Falmouth 781-8889

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AGENDA Above: PCA presents the Borromeo String Quartet at Merrill Auditorium. Among the selec tions will be the world premiere of a new work by Maine’s Elliott Schwartz, the first piece ever com missioned by PCA, May 8, 7:30 p.m., $34, students $10. Visit www.pcagreatperformances.org or call 842-0800. Right: Smucker’s Stars On Ice touches down at Cumberland County Civic Center on Satur day, April 12 at 7:30 p.m., $24, $45, $65, $110. Visit www.theciviccenter.com. Above, far right: The Atrium Arts Gallery at the University of Southern Maine, LewistonAuburn Campus, presents “Reading, Writing, and Defning: Maine Book Arts.” The exhibit opens with a reception on April 25 and runs through June 21. Visit usm.maine.edu/lac/art or call 753-6554. APRIL 2008 69 GOINGS ON Events Calendar Galleries Abbe Museum , 26 Mount Desert St., Bar Harbor. Native American culture and his tory in Maine. “Journeys West” to June 15. 288-3519 or www.abbemuseum.org Addison Woolley Gallery , 87 Market Street, Portland. Celebration of Spring to April 30. 450-8499. Aucocisco Gallery , 613 Congress Street, Portland. Elizabeth Cashin McMillen, Rose Marie Frick April 2-26; Grace DeGennaro, Bernard Langlais open April 30. 775-2222 or www.aucocisco.com Bowdoin College Museum of Art , Walker Art Building, Brunswick. “Walker Sisters and Collecting in Victorian Boston” to August 28. 725-3275 or www.bowdoin.edu/art-museumGOODALE,MAINE/REBECCASOUTHERNOFUNIVERSITYPERFORMANCES;GREATPCATOP:FROMCLOCKWISE OAKSTHE PHOTOLEC.;INCOMMUNICATIONSBAILEYROB;18"X24"X84",FI

Daniel Kany Gallery , 89 Exchange Street, Portland. Maine Crafts Association exhibit, MCA April 4-May 24. 514-7475 or www.kany.net

Frost Gully Gallery , 1159 U.S. Route 1, Freeport.

MFA Thesis Exhibition opens May 10. 775-3052 or www.meca.edu

Louise Bourne, Jane Woodward Rotondi, Richard Garritus to May 30. 781-3555.

Galeyrie Fine Art , 240 US Route 1, Falmouth.

Maine Narrow Gauge Railroad & Museum , 58 Fore Street, Portland. Weekend train rides to

Greenhut Gallery , 146 Middle Street, Portland. Margaret Gerding to April 26, Ed Douglas opens May 1. 772-2693 or www.greenhutgalleries.com

Thomas Crotty, Dahlov Ipcar, Janet C. Manyan. 865-4505 or www.frostgullygallery.com

Maine Historical Society Museum , 489 Congress Street, Portland. “Maine Indian Artforms from the Hudson Museum” to June 1. 774-1822 or www.mainehistory.org Maine Maritime Museum , 243 Washington Street, Bath. “Legacy of Ships” to May 4. 443-1316 or www.mainemaritimemuseum.org

Institute of Contemporary Art at Maine College of Art , 522 Congress Street, Portland.

Sponsored by L.L.Bean, Portland Architectural Salvage, Simply Home, The Portland Phoenix & The National Endowment for the Arts postage rtl and compan y GOINGS ON Events Calendar 70 PORTLAND MONTHLY MAGAZINE Center for Maine Contemporary Art , 162 Russell Avenue, Rockport. “An Other World” to April 19, Harold Garde, Friederike Hamann, and Colin Sullivan-Stevens to June 14, Lois Dodd opens April 26. 236-2875 or www.cmcanow.org Children’s Museum of Maine , 142 Free Street, Portland. Imagination Station, Cool Science. 828-1234 or www.childrensmuseumofme.org Colby College Museum of Art , Mayflower Hill, Waterville. Amy Stacey Curtis, and Adolph Gottlieb to April 13, Whistler prints to June 15. 859-5600 or www.colby.edu/museum Cooper Jackson Gallery , 70 India Street, Port land. Noah Krell opens May 1. 772-2108 or www.cooperjacksongallery.com Eric Hopkins Gallery , North Haven Island. Studio in North Haven 867-2229, gallery in Rockland 594-1996 or www.erichopkins.com Farnsworth Museum of Art , 16 Museum Street, Rockland. Louise Nevelson, Alex Katz, Folk Art con tinue. 596-6457 or www.farnsworthmuseum.org Filament Gallery , 181 Congress Street, Portland. Jill Dalton and Ernest Paterno. 774-0932 or www.filamentgallery.com A Fine Thing: Edward T. Pollack Fine Arts , 25 Forest Avenue, Portland. “IMPACT: The Poster” to April 29. 699-2919. June Fitzpatrick Gallery at Maine College of Art , 522 Congress St., Portland. Alison Hildreth April 3-26. 879-5742 or www.junefitzpatrickgallery.com Fore Street Gallery , 372 Fore Street, Portland. Paul Black, Sylvia Dyers, Carlton Plummer. 874-8084 or www.forestreetgallery.com

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University of Southern Maine Art Galleries Gorham: Exhibits by graduating BFA students April 11-May 4. Portland: Wolcott Dodge, Sean Hasey, Ryan Wight April 1- May 4. 780-5008 or www.usm. maine.edu/~gallery Whitney Art Works Projects , 45 York Street. Portland. “The Diptych Project” to April 26. 780-0700 or http://www.whitneyartworks.com Wiscasset Bay Gallery , 67 Main Street, Wis casset. American and European Art. 882-7682 or www.wiscassetbaygallery.com

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The Museum of African Culture , 13 Brown Street, Portland. Sean Harris and Marta Morse to April 30. 871-7188 or www.africantribalartmuseum.org

Tom Veilleux Gallery , 75 Market Street, Port land. William and Marguerite Zorach, Rockwell Kent, Will Barnett. 828-0784 or www.tomveilleux.com

University of Maine Museum of Art , 40 Harlow Street, Bangor. Todd Webb opens April 18. 561-3350 or www.umma.umaine.edu

Saco Museum , 371 Main Street, Saco. “Murder, The Story of Mary Bean continues. 283-3861 or www.sacomuseum.org Seashore Trolley Museum , 195 Log Cabin Road, Kennebunkport. Trolley tours begin May 3. 967-2712 www.trolleymuseum.org

Portland Museum of Art , 7 Congress Square, Portland. George Bellows opens April 10. 775-6148 or www.portlandmuseum.com

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Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum , Hubbard Hall, Bowdoin College, Brunswick. Supplies Robert E. Peary took to the North Pole and artifacts from Donald B. MacMillan’s arctic explorations. 725-3062 or index.shtmlhttp://www.bowdoin.edu/arctic-museum/ Marine Museum , 5 Church Street, Searsport. Thomas and James Buttersworth, Robert Salmon. 548-2529 or www.penobscotmarinemuseum.org

Maine State Museum , State House Station, Augusta. “Maine Gems,” “Struggle 287-2301 or www.state.me.us/museum/ West College Campus, University of New England, 716 Stevens Avenue, Portland. Insight the lives and of than Maine women authors. Open to the by 221-4324 or www.une.edu/mwwc

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Susan Maasch Fine Art , 29 Forest Avenue, Portland. Berenice Abbott, Robert Mapplethorpe, to April 30. 699-2966 or www.susanmaaschfineart.com

Zero Station , Anderson Street, Portland. “Zero Portfolio.” 347-7000 or www.zerostation.com

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APRIL 2008 75 Stevens Avenue, Portland. Author Series: Jenny Siler April 17, Martha Tod Dudman May 1. 797-7688, ext. 4324 or www.une.edu Movies on Exchange, 10 Exchange Street, Portland. The Witnesses and The Band’s Visit April 9-15, The Counterfeiters April 16-29, Girls Rock April 23-29. 772.8041 www.moviesonexchange.com Portland Pottery and Metalsmithing Studio , 118 Washington Avenue, Portland. Pottery, jewelry-making, sculpture classes and workshops. 772-4334 or www.portlandpottery.com Portland Public Library, 5 Monument Square, Rines Auditorium, Portland. Brown Bag Lecture Wednesdays noon, “Musically Speaking” with PSO Music Director Robert Moody May 1, “Page to Stage” May 6. 871-1700 or www.portlandlibrary.com Portland Trails, 305 Commercial Street, Portland. Happy Trails Big Bash and Silent Auction April 11 at Eastland Park Hotel. 775-2411 or www.trails.org University of Southern Maine Southworth Planetarium , 96 Falmouth Street, Portland. Pla netarium shows include: Greek Mythology in the Night Sky April 13. 780-4749 or www.usm.maine.edu/planet –Compiled by Diane Hudson

The food gives a respectful nod to Yankee tradition and Maine ingredients, but the décor is entirely, sublimely Shire. Located on the second floor of the renovated Atlantic Hotel, Blue Sky is a beautiful and playful place, an interesting mix of chrome and comfort. Industrial ceiling pipes hang over cream-colored banquettes. Suspended wooden globes give off a golden glow. Brass wine holders with zigzag stems and some other adornments recall the glory, edgy days of Biba.Adouble-sided, wood-burning fireplace opens onto both the dining room and the For Shire, who loves bold colors, the blue hue was a sign that the restaurant was meant to be–and the inspiration for its name.

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CUI SCENE Shire stresses that she doesn’t want the menu to seem “scary.” “Look,” she says, pointing to it, “you can get a Caesar salad. You have lobster stew.” But if many of the flavors are familiar, she prepares them in at least slightly surprising ways, so that each dish has something unex pected and fun. The pecan pie, for instance, is fairly traditional, except that it’s baked in a wood-burning oven “until the pecans are so toasted that they’re almost burned, and the filling starts to weep,” she says. The steamed clams are prepared convention ally, except that they’re served with Maine lobsterAndbutter.there’s Shire’s signature whimsy.

The spaghetti with white clam sauce, for instance, comes with clam “rims and snouts only,” the menu says. If the prices might seem a tad steep to Mainers or the combinations exotic, Shire notes that portions are large and any dish, even the entrées, can be shared, which may make it easier for eaters to leap into the unknown. She takes pleasure in traditional dishes perfectly prepared, but she also says, “No way I’m ever going to be boring. I’ll always push the envelope.”

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There also are lots of fun decorative touches, such as the quirky gray dollar sign over the fireplace in the lounge (“We want people to spend a lot of money here,” Shire quips), Shire’s personal pig collection (“I’m a carnivore,” she explains), and the antique disco ball from an old French carousel. Shire hand-picked every light fixture, every wall paint, and every fabric, including the place mats. She even designed the chairs. Every bit of artwork comes from her person al collection. Giving a tour of the place, she leads me into the ladies’ room, where she personally washed and hung 668 different crystals in the chandelier. This is absolutely a work of love–and a kind of ode to her par ents, now deceased, who were both artists. What brought this celebrated chef to Maine, when she probably could have opened her restaurant anywhere in the world, has a lot to do with her childhood. She’s a sturdy Irish lass with bright red hair and merry blue eyes, born and raised in Brookline, Massachusetts, in a family “that always loved Maine” and came here fre quently. “I have pictures of my father and me at the lobster pound in Ogunquit, sitting under umbrellas at tables that still are there,” she says. “He taught me how to eat lobster there when I was about four years old.” When she heard that developer Don Rivers was restoring the old, dilapidated Atlantic Hotel in York Beach and looking for a restaurant to be part of the project, she was intrigued. As she got to know the funky village, “I fell under its spell. I love the horseshoe beach, the charming houses, and there’s a great mix–bikers, local business people, families that have been coming here for Theyears.”community and especially the color of the sky reminded her of a print she found in Nantucket showing a carnival scene and the same, electric blue sky. For Shire, who loves bold colors, the blue hue was a sign that the restaurant was meant to be–and the inspiration for its name. (This print now hangs behind the reception desk.) Where others might see York Beach as a somewhat seedy, amusement-beachy kind

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CUI SCENE of place, Shire saw energy and potential. While others might think a gourmet restau rant should be a quiet retreat for sophisti cated adults, she hoped this one “would be full of kids, running around.” And she knew she would have “7,600 square feet to do with as IOnewanted.”thing Shire has always wanted, right from the start, is to stand out from the crowd. Her career as a professional chef began at age 21, when her first husband “left me for another woman. I never knew the word ‘alimony,’ and I had three kids to support.” She came from a family of great cooks and always enjoyed cooking, so she decided to apply for a job in the kitchen of Maison Robert, a beautiful French restaurant in Boston’s Old City Hall. The job called for just “a salad girl,” but for the interview she baked a difficult but ter-cream cake with seven thin layers. “This was on the hottest day of the year in July, and I had to hire an air-conditioned cab to take it to the interview. In those days–this was 1971–there weren’t that many air-condi tioned cabs in Boston.”

After a stint at the Cordon Bleu Institute in London, she returned to Maison Robert as a line cook and gradually worked her way up to head chef. She subsequently cooked at many of Boston’s best establishments, including the restaurants at the Copley Plaza, Parker House, and Bostonian hotels, and in 1986 she became executive chef of the Four Seasons Hotel in Beverly Hills, California. She realized the dream of owning her own restaurant when she returned to Boston in 1989 to launch Biba (short for “Back in Boston Again”). It was there that she won the James Beard Award as “Best Chef in the Northeast,” and Food and Wine magazine named her “One of America’s Top Ten Chefs.” Money Magazine called Biba “one of the top 15 restaurants in the U.S.” Biba eventually morphed into Excelsior restaurant. In 1995, Shire opened Pignoli, her own Italian eatery, in Boston, and took over Locke-Ober in 2001.

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Somehow, she managed. When she pre sented the cake to the surprised employer, she knew she’d landed the job. “How many crazy women are out there making real but ter cream from scratch?” she says. The inci dent taught her that “working hard, being daring, maybe even outrageous, this all comes back to you a million times over.”

Shire’s cooking style and her life, says Susan Regis, who has worked with her for 19 years, is “her stellar eye and great sense of adventure. She’s a nut, absolutely fear less. She marches to her own beat. She’s very true to her own inner voice, which resonates with me. Her clothing, her food, her hair, her sense of style and color, her humor, Lydia on a plate–it all reflects the same aesthetic and spirit.”

The only one of her prior restaurants with which Shire is still involved is LockeOber. But she has brought several former staff members with her to Blue Sky, most notably Regis, who herself was named “Best Chef in the Northeast” by the James Beard Foundation in 1998, and Simon Restrepo, her chef de cuisine at Excelsior. This spring, Shire also will open Scampo, a spaghetti house, in Boston’s old Charles Street jail. “Scampo,” she notes with an Irish twinkle in her eyes, means “Escape.” She says she isn’t worried about spread ing herself too thin with these three different restaurants. “I always think restaurants are like children. Usually one needs you more than the others,” she says. Her primary residence will remain her Greek Revival farmhouse, lovingly restored in Weston, Massachusetts, but she has a condo in York Beach, husband Uriel Pineda will be Blue Sky’s kitchen manager, and she intends to be a frequent presence here, supervising and cooking in the kitchen.

Jasper White, a friend who has known Shire since 1979, says that, in fact, Blue Sky “is the best example in her entire career” of a restaurant “that reflects Lydia’s personal vision come alive”–not only in its food but in its décor, the color and feeling of the place. “I’d be surprised if the restaurant doesn’t succeed,” continues White, who is chef and owner of four Summer Shack restaurants in Massachusetts and Connecticut. “Maine is lucky to have her.” One Mainer who agrees is Jack Nahill, innkeeper and restaurateur of the Cape Arundel Inn in Kennebunkport. “When someone of her caliber opens a restaurant here,” he says, “you know that the restau rant culture in Maine is taking a giant leap forward.” n Blue Sky on York Beach, 2 Beach Road, 363-0050, www.blueskyonyorkbeach.com. Entrées $14-$38. Open Sunday-Thursday 5:30-10 p.m.; Friday-Saturday 5:30-11 p.m. Bar with limited menu open daily, 5:15 p.m.-1 a.m.

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“Jonathan is minimalist and mid-century modern,” Foote explains. “I had to make a few concessions to the front of the house,” Pelletier, a music teach er, admits. The design became a question of “how to have the exterior not torn up by eclecticism,” he says. But his own wing of the house is expressive of his love of light and the outdoors. “He would live outside if it were warm enough,” Foote says, smiling warmly at Pelletier, who agrees: “Modernists tried so hard to blur the distinction between inside and outside. I began to get curious about how to extend outdoor life inside.” Facing the southwest, the gable end of his wing is virtually a glass wall giving way through large sliding doors to an expanse of gardens he carefully tends. Polished granite floors and walls of pale birch panels inside soak up the sunlight, baking Pelletier comfortably. “I really begin to bounce when it gets hot,” he says,Whilelaughing.Foote settles comfortably among his art and books and models at the other end of the house, Pelletier relaxes in the light ness of meticulous minimalism, countering his upbringing. “His folks still live in clutter, on the way to chaos,” Foote says. of Two Styles

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Furnishings and millwork are a blend of the contrary styles. Living room furniture and moldings are staunchly tradi tional, but only steps away is a satin-black dining table surrounded by sleek black leather chairs. The kitchen island echoes a traditional theme, but Pelletier has selected wall colors that are decidedly contempo rary. “It’s probably the only classical revival great room with modern features in the state of Maine,” says architect Nancy Barba of Barba+Wheelock Architecture in Portland, who guided the project. “I suspect a lot of people look at us and say, ‘They’re so different. What’s that about?’” says Foote. Pelletier is quick to respond. “We’ve been doing this for 12 years now, and we still haven’t quite got it figured out.” But from the look of things, they’ve got their home figured out perfectly.

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THE CROCKER HOUSE COUNTRY HancockINN “He asked to be seated at our little corner table because he wanted privacy. But having said that, I don’t think that he got it,” Richard Malaby says of the night Sen. Ted Kennedy and his wife, Victoria, stayed at The Crocker House and enjoyed a dinner of “filet, sea food pasta, and a glass or two of wine. There was a group of six ladies sitting next to them celebrating two birthdays. Before I knew it, the senator was up from the table, taking their picture for them!” Sen. John Glenn couldn’t stay under the radar here, either–especially when he sur prised the staff with a special menu request of four two-plus-pound lobsters–while Willem Dafoe was more successful coming and going undetected. “He was an intense-looking man, prone to smiling,” Malaby says. “He showed

INN ON CARLETON Portland “He is one of the nicest people I’ve ever met,” Inn on Carleton owner Phil Cox says of 30 Rock star Alec Baldwin. “He got in very late, sat right down at the bar, and talked with us like we were his family. He asked for some apple pie and a glass of milk, but we didn’t have any, so I offered to go to the market and buy him some. But if it wasn’t homemade, he wasn’t interested.”

Baldwin opted for herbal tea instead and was able to satisfy his sweet tooth the next morning over blueberry pancakes, vowing to return for more breakfast banter after enjoying his positive personal experience in the West End. 46 Carleton Street, 775-1910; www.innoncarleton.com 6 rooms, $129-$219 These A-list guests share the need for that human touch: While they’re initially drawn here by our unforgettable beaches, sea side harbors, and local cuisine, deep down they’re just like the rest of us–cold, lonely, introspective, in search of a good breakfast and a fireside chat–and looking for a place to park their Ferrari F430 Spiders. n

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Nothing can slow down legendary naval architect Olin Stephens. “He’s nearly 100 years old, and he’s still making million-dollar boats and coming to Maine every summer,” marvels Jack Burke, owner of the Pentagöet Inn. “Whenever he comes, he [insists on eat ing] in our Passports Pub”–an eclectic room covered ceiling to floor with photographs of 20th-century world leaders, including one of Stephens himself in his younger days, when he designed the 1937 America’s-Cupwinning J-sloop Ranger, the pride of Bath Iron Works, with W. Starling Burgess. “He’s a statesman, very old school–and, mind you–very humble. Celebrities today may have the bling, but this man can walk into a room and be respected like a god among sailors,” Burke says. Stephens will be back in Maine for the July 31 Eggemoggin Reach Regatta.

In the end, Cunningham decided to buy out everyone else’s shares. “Then the eco nomics were simple. I had to sell off some land to pay all my debts.”

For $4.65 million, he bought 48 acres of land from Cunningham in July 2006. Attempting to keep development within tasteful bounds, Cunningham stipulated that the land could be converted into no more than five home lots. Emmons subdi vided the property, put in roads, negoti ated building permits, and put the lots on theTomarket.date, two of these lots have been pur chased. One buyer is Jerry Ade, 58, the for mer head of Famous Artists, whose clients included Beyoncé, Jay-Z, The Beastie Boys, Sir Mix-A-Lot, Milli Vanilli, and New Kids on the Block. In 2003, Ade left the music business and now owns and manages indus trial and commercial properties in Portland. He says he was drawn to Littlejohn by “the

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In a generous action that also provided a healthy tax write-off, Cunningham trans ferred two parcels totaling 28.4 acres to the Yarmouth Land Trust (now the Royal River Conservation Trust). He sold one parcel at what he describes as the “fire-sale price” of $250,000, and donated the other. When developer Mike Emmons, 52, first saw Cunningham’s holdings on Littlejohn, “I was blown away,” he says. He’d been involved in projects in Texas, Alabama, Kentucky, Florida, and Georgia, as well as elsewhere in Maine, and “this was the most beautiful property I’d seen in 25 years of developing. To find this sort of prime ocean frontage on an island that’s accessible by bridge and so close to a major city like Portland is very rare.”

Themillion.project “is a huge risk,” he admits. “But this sort of large, oceanfront property in such fine condition is very rare. I always buy the best land I can find. I’ve never been afraid of doing things as grand as possible.” Legare describes the 8,000-square-foot Littlejohn home under construction as “a traditional, beadboard, shingle-style cottage with lots of antiques throughout but also all the modern treats and comforts, and the flair of today.” These treats include a movie the ater with 11 leather recliners, a special library for DVDs, game room, exercise room, wine cellar with a tasting room, three crystal chan deliers, huge freeform fireplace made from Littlejohn fieldstones in a dramatic, cathe dral-ceilinged great room, and a 15-zone heating system, including a heated floor in the oversized, three-car garage. Cunningham, the prime mover behind all these changes, says he is pleased with the style of the new developments. As a child, his family nicknamed him ‘Rip’ “because they said I was always tearing things up.” He’s a polite, mild-mannered guy who describes himself as “elusive” about pub licity but also deeply interested in environ mental conservation. He’s saddened that he had to sell his ancestral land and tear up the old summer homestead, but he believes that, under the circumstances, he negotiated the best possible outcome. “It wasn’t what I wanted to do,” he says. “It was what I had

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At the end of Indian Rest,one of the oldest waterfront associations in Maine,on a 1.06-acre peninsula affording privacy,frontage on the New Meadows River and access to a common dock,is a distinctive,1-story,1544-sq.-ft.,year-round home built in 1985. The main living level includes a large kitchen,dining, living room with cherry cabinets and decorative woodstove,and a large bedroom and bath,both with long,lovely views up the river. On the lower (daylight) level is a guest bedroom,pine-paneled “other”room,and large workshop. Unfinished areas on both floors allow for easy expansion — and there is a large 2-story garage with overhead storage. $675,000.

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This beautifully restored inn was built in the 1800s as a Sea Captain’s home and converted to B&B use in 1989. With frontage on the Back River, the house offers picturesque views out to the Sheepscot River and the famous swing bridge at Trevett. There are 9 guest rooms plus an owner’s quarters with a fully equipped kitchen, a breakfast room, 2 common rooms and a traditional covered porch. A heated swimming pool and custom seaside gardens offer guests places to relax. A golden opportunity to own a classic seaside inn!

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$895,000 Western Prom, Portland The Davis House, designed by William Bottomsley, with sweeping views across the Western Prom. This stately home is preserved with much of its original charm and boasts 12 rooms, 5 bedrooms, 3 freplac es, and large formal living areas with a square foot age of over 5000 +/- feet. This home also has a lovely solarium that leads to a private back garden. Priced at $1,050,000.

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The John Ellison Bradley House, Boothbay Harbor Charming antique cape, sited high above the harbor in the heart of town and restored to possibly beyond its former glory! Presently a bed and breakfast, but would make a wonderful family home, antiques shop, art gallery, etc. Pumpkin pine foors, spacious living room with raised pan eling and large freplace, kitchen with top-of-the-line appliances, dining room with freplace, and offce. One more bedroom and bath in the at tached carriage house. Inviting private brick terrace with sitting area, old fashioned gardens, and garden house. Six parking spaces! Incredible and panoramic views of the inner harbor, island, and ocean. $895,000 Contact Carol Buxton.

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Crosby Manor Estates Selling A 3-story luxury condominium just 250 ft. from the water's edge. Upper and lower decks. Approximately 3,000 sq. ft. +/-, 4 bedrooms, 3 baths, master-bedroom suite. Come make final plans. Starting price $549,000 Pre-selling Duplex. Starting price $350,000 Resale An outstanding 4-bedroom year-round luxury oceanfront home just 75' from the ocean’s edge. Price $649,000 Lovely 2 bedroom, 2 1/2 baths. Open floor plan and room to expand. Price $310,000 Maine McLean Group, LLC 49 Bayside Dr., Belfast, Maine 04915 Phone: 207-338-3311 Visit our website www.oceancondo.com Convenient In-City Location - A few blocks from a large regional hospital and city park. Short walking distance to markets, shops, restaurants, and downtown waterfront. Minutes to golf course and tennis courts. Guest moorings available. Visit us by boat or by car off Route 1. •310-Ft. Dock/Pier for Owners and Guests. Moorings permitted. A distinctive condominium community on Penobscot Bay in Belfast, Maine. Our best waterfront sites available now. Fax: 207-338-4422 Toll Free: 1-888-438-4422 info@oceancondo.com Brokers Welcome 08-008_CrosbyManorFebPM_FNL:Portland Magazine 1/11/08 4:39 PM Page 1 (800)244-5549 • www.mainlinefence.comm 272 Middle Rd. P.O. Box 27A Cumberland, ME 04021 When you buy a fence from Main Line Fence, our experience means you will get a high-quality fence that will last for many years! NEW ENGLAND HOMES & LIVING APRIL 2008 95

VIENNA – Vienna Country Estate offering privacy & history. Lovingly restored and maintained. Inviting living areas, screened porch, family room featuring a beautiful ﬁreplace, country kitchen, ﬁne gardens, and barn and grounds that create a great atmosphere. Ideal for horses or a small farm. $499,999

GREAT POND – Views of the sandy beach and lake are unbelievable from this year- round home on Great Pond. Includes guest cottage, deck, open-concept kitchen/living room/ dining room, and skylights. Well landscaped. Relax on the lawn or at the water’s edge. $469,000

CHINA LAKE – Year-round waterfront home with 5+/- acres. Enjoy expansive views as you watch the sunrise. Screened porch, master bedroom suite, spacious kitchen, and dock system. Finished family room, wood and tile ﬂoors, well landscaped with water views from all 3 ﬂoors. $764,200

GREAT POND – This lovely waterfront condominium community on Great Pond charms with two bedrooms plus 2 lofts, 1-1/2 baths, wrap-around deck overlooking the water’s edge, dock with shallow swim area, screened porch, and wonderful sunsets. $385,000 GREAT POND – Beautiful yearround home, featuring 4 bedrooms, 3 baths, family room, custom kitchen, cathedral ceilings, porch, skylights, attached 2-car garage, and deck on 2.5+/- acres. Only a short drive to Belgrade Lakes Village. GREAT$1,380,000POND– Fantastic business location in the center of Belgrade Lakes Village. 106+/- feet of water frontage on the stream leading to Great Pond with 3 rental units, paved parking, boathouse, and docks. Permitted for up to 5 uses and 8 boat slips. $495,000 495-3700

Gail Rizzo cell: (207) gailrizzo@belgradelakepoint.com242-8119 (888)-495-3711 www.belgradelakepoint.com Pat Donahue cell: (207) patdonahue@adelphia.net730-2331 221 Main Street, Belgrade Lakes, Maine 04918 Lakepoint REAL ESTATE www.TCREAL.com/PortlandApril2008 NORTHPORT: Fully furnished Contemporary has bay views & yr-round living! #858645 $337,000 Jan 207-338-3500 janandrews@tcreal.com BAngoR • BELfAsT • CAmdEn • dovER-foxCRofT • ELLswoRTh hAmPdEn • PiTTsfiELd • RoCkLAnd • skowhEgAn View Virtual Tours when you visit www.TCREAL.com/PortlandApril2008 and enter the MLS# from this ad in the property search. ROCKPORT: One of just 3 homes nestled in the Samoset Resort. Bay views! #850696 $756,000 Ann 207-542-3455 annkeefe@tcreal.com LINCOLNVILLE: Exquisite 18-acre estate borders Camden Hills State Park! #873736 $995,000 Ed 800-233-7250 edmitchell@tcreal.com ROCKPORT: Exquisite, light-flled oceanfront home has gorgeous views! #813203 $2,336,000 Ann 207-542-3455 annkeefe@tcreal.com DOVER-FOXCROFT: 4-BR Contemporary with all the extras and 5-acres. #833863 $299,900 Donna 207-564-2463 dvainio@midmaine.com VEAZIE: Spacious 4-BR is great for entertaining. Pool, freplace & HW foors. #850938 $329,000 Russ 800-639-4905 rkh@tcreal.com NEW ENGLAND HOMES & LIVING 96 PORTLAND MONTHLY MAGAZINE

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www.townandshore.com Distinctive Real Estate Exceptional Service• Seated Left to Right: Dianne Maskewitz, Gail Landry, Sandy Johnson, Deborah Kroot, Tish Whipple. Standing Left to Right: Sue Lamb, Chris Jackson, Rowan Morse, Steve Parkhurst, Edie Boothby, Bob Knecht, Cindy Landrigan, Mark Fortier. 207-773-0262 • One Union Wharf • Portland • Stunning Westerly lake views • Access To Main Snowmobile/ATV Trail • 5 Minutes from Rangeley Village • 15 Minutes from Saddleback Ski Area • Large Oversized Garages Main Street, Rangeley • (207) www.rangeleylodges.com670-5125 Four Season Condominiums Over Looking Rangeley LakeLodges Lodge Lodges Lodge TheRANGELEY, MAINE Starting $299,000at Only 4 units leftin phase 1 Only 4 units leftin phase 1 Starting $299,000at Rangeley Lakes Region Morton & Furbish Real Estate The Region’s Oldest and Largest Real Estate Agency Since 1899 For more information, please contact our office at 207-864-5777 www.morton-furbish.com DODGE POND WATERFRONT! Contact Brad Stokes today! (207) BeautifulBrad@morton-furbish.com491-4449loghousew/400feetofwater front age that sits on 8.16 acres. Home consists of three bedrooms, large living room w/woodstove & kitchen with a sun room for dining. Property has an oversized deck & unobstructed views of the pond. Very private! $595,000 Beautiful 2.5-story colonial-style residence built in 1912 located on a well manicured lot in down town Rangeley. 5 bedrooms, 5 baths with large living/dining areas. Features 9' ceilings & hand crafted woodwork throughout. Commercial zon ing/great possibilities! $549,000 Contact James Eastlack (207) Eastlack@megalink.net670-5058 GORGEOUS B&B OR PRIVATE RESIDENCE NEW ENGLAND HOMES & LIVING APRIL 2008 97

RIVERSIDE - SANDY RIVER CIRCLE - Large expanded cape di rectly on the West Mountain lift line. Seven bedrooms with 3 baths up, 1 down. Lower level: full 2-bedroom breakaway apart ment w/private entry and comfortable living room. Main house has expansive living space w/both a formal living room and comfortable family room overlooking the slopes and Bigelow Mountain. Come view this lovely mountain home. $539,000 SPRUCE CREEK - Ideally located just off Snubber Trail, this 4-bedroom, 3-bath townhouse has lots to offer–wonderful layout, ﬁreplace, deck and views. Set up an appointment to see this special property.

VILLAGE ON THE GREEN - New construction 4-bedroom, 3½-bath home. Spacious, sunny and bright! Beautiful kitch en, living area, with cathedral ceiling, stone ﬁreplace and lots of windows. Includes 2-car garage and extra family room. A must see…$550,000

RIVERSIDE-SANDY RIVER CIRCLE - Exceptional mountain retreat with plenty of room for family and friends. This 7-bed room, 4½-bath home boasts 2 family rooms, a large billiard/ game room, beautiful stone hearth, cathedral ceilings, Brazilian cherry ﬂoor, exquisite ﬁnishing touches, and numerous special features. This is an incredible value and a “must see” property.

WANGAN TOWNHOUSE - Wangan Townhouse located at the top of Mountainside Road offers fabulous views of Bigelow Mountain and beyond. True ski-in, ski-out convenience off the Buckboard Ski Trail and 2,000 square feet of living space. Call for an appointment to see this wonderful ski home today.

REDINGTON EAST - BIRCH TRAIL - SUBSTANTIAL REDUCTION! Great value for this 3+ bedroom home situ ated on a private dead-end road in Redington East. Property has just undergone improvements. If you are looking for a sunny, quiet home with a fantastic view of Sugarloaf, and added amenities of a sauna, ski-tuning area, and a 1-car ga rage, this is a tremendous deal for you. $259,000

SNOWFLOWER - 3-bedroom, 3-bath, top-ﬂoor unit with lots of sun. Sugarloaf view, woodburning ﬁreplace, screened porch, excellent condition. $299,000

B$390,000IGELOW - HEMLOCK DRIVE - Well maintained town home situated on a private corner of Hemlock Drive. Exceptional views of the Bigelow Range. 4 bedrooms, 3 baths, efﬁcient FHW baseboard, custom built-in bookcases, and a ﬁnished day light basement provide the perfect setting for an active skiing family.

WINTERSIDE - MAPLE DRIVE - Winterside townhouse with 4 bedrooms, 2½ baths, ﬁreplace, deck and views. Condo minium is in excellent condition. Includes a breakaway with separate kitchen/living area! $375,000

RIVERSIDE - KENNEBEC CIRCLE - “Unique Antique Repro duction Home” ideally located close to the trail. Exposed beams, open living, dining, kitchen, ﬁreplace, parlor stove, 4 bedrooms, 2½ baths, including master suite with cathedral ceiling and jacuzzi tub and heated garage with ski-tuning area. All of this on a beautifully landscaped lot with great perennial gardens. A rare opportunity! $635,000

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$395,000 TWINBROOK-BRIDGE STREET - Custom built post-and-beam home on 1½-acre lot with cathedral ceiling and ﬂoor-to-ceiling windows with wonderful views of Sugarloaf Mountain. Field stone ﬁreplace, 2-car garage and much more. $550,000

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VILLAGE ON THE GREEN - MASHIE LANE - Charming and immaculate 3-bedroom, 3½-bath Village on the Green home with many special features: hardwood ﬂoors throughout, 2-car garage, beautiful screened-in porch, lovely landscap ing, sauna, 2 distinct living areas, plus rec room in basement. An incredible value. $435,000

*Based on information from the Maine Real Estate Information System, Inc. for the period of January 1, 2007 through December 31, 2007. Provided by individual users of MREIS. MREIS has not reviewed the contents and does not make any representations, warranties, or guaranties regarding the accuracy timeliness or completeness of any statistical information and the data provided.

FREEPORT – Picture-perfect antique colonial built in 1820. Water views & ROW to Harraseeket River. Home offers high ceilings, 2 large living rooms, gracious dining room, eat-in kitchen, 3 ﬁreplaces and ofﬁce over barn. Offered at $699,000. David Banks 553-7302.

FALMOUTH – Tidewater Farm is a 50-home subdivision overlooking the Presumpscott River, offering single-family and attached villas with a variety of ﬂoor plans & styles. Sizes range from 1,900-3,100 SF. O ffered at $561,250. David Banks 553-7302.

KENNEBUNK – Very private solar contemporary nestled on nearly 3 acres in the heart of Kennebunk’s Lower Village & Kennebunkport’s Dock Square. Shared open space on Kennebunk R iver and first-floor master bedroom. Offered at $449,900. David Banks 553-7302.

FALMOUTH – Grand 1806 colonial has been completely restored. Large antique barn converted to great room w/ fieldstone fireplace. Five bedrooms w/private baths. Conservatory entry. Possible in-law, home business or au pair space. Offered at $850,000. Jessica M. LaPlante 553-7363

CUM BE RLAN D – Sparkling new construction on the Cumberland Foreside. Cottage-style condos offering 1,900 SF to 3,000 SF, cheery sunroom, eat-in kitchen, hardwood & tile floors, and much more. Priced from $289,900. David Banks 553-7302.

FALMOUTH – Elegant one-level home offering custom details throughout w/2 bedroom suites w/wonderful bathrooms, custom-built ofﬁce, dramatic living room w/ ﬁreplace, vaulted ceilings, spacious kitchen and sunroom. Offered at $945,000. David Banks 553-7302.

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SCARBOROUGH – Wonderful 4-bedroom home on 2.54 acres located near Higgins Beach and Prouts Neck. Features include 2-car attached garage, open kitchen, master bedroom with bath, and full daylight basement. Offered at $599,900. David Banks 553-7302.

FALMOUTH – Brand new construction in Tidewater Farm. This beautiful 3,600 SF home features 3 bedrooms, dining room, living room w/gas ﬁreplace, high-end kitchen w/ Viking appliances, 1st-ﬂoor master w/laundry and great room. Offered at $829,900. David Banks 553-7302.

CUMBERLAND – Exceptional condo w/spectacular setting & grounds. Features include living room with fireplace, dining room with hardwood floors, kitchen with fireplace & dutch oven, 4 bedrooms, 2.5 baths, and wonderful patio. Offered at $475,000. David Banks 553-7302.

CUMBERLAND – Extended cape w/new oversized master bedroom suite, beautiful bath, media room, screened porch and private deck & yard. 1,200 SF addition in 2002. Home offers 5 ﬁreplaces, cherry kitchen and 2-car attached garage Offered at $659,900. David Banks 553-7302. 970 Baxter Boulevard Portland, ME 04103 207.773.2345 www.HomesInMaine.comOFFICE

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FALMOUTH – The Tidewater Farm. This single-family home features 3 bedrooms, 3 full bathrooms and 2,000 SF of living space available on the first floor with an additional 900 SF on the second floor. Offered at $586,900. David Banks 553-7302.

FALMOUTH – Stunning custom-built cottage-style home situated in private setting. Offering every attention to detail w/elegant master suite, designer kitchen, private first-floor office and finished daylight walkout basement. Offered at $1,129,000. David Banks 553-7302.

AUGUSTA – Retail/food-service business opportunity! Fantastic curb appeal & high visibility on heavily traveled road. Three-phase electric & plenty of parking. More land available. Lots of possibilities for your new business! $215,000

DRESDEN – Striking curb appeal w/this 3-BR Cape. 2.5 baths, cathedral sunroom (all glass), basement family room, ﬁnished mudroom, attached 2-car & detached 3-car garage, in-ground pool, sauna, gorgeous landscaping. NICE! $299,900

AUGUSTA – Spacious 5-BR home on 4.88 acres. Massive cathedral family room w/skylights, hearth & woodstove hook-up, applianced kitchen, second-ﬂoor family room, and 2-car garage. Over 2,800 sq. ft. of space! 199,900

PITTSTON – Family owned for 70 years. Extremely successful Brownie’s Restaurant is up for sale. Best fried clams around! Restaurant is in impeccable condition, high visibility, large corner lot. Includes 3-4 BR house. Newer boiler & leach ﬁeld. $325,000 AUGUSTA – What a buy! Over 12,000 sq. ft. of heated space w/2 really nice overhead apts. generating $1,000/mo. 1st-ﬂoor loading dock, rubber roof, ample parking, separate detached 3-car garage, high visibility. $189,900

– What a building! These numbers work! A true triplex w/3 identical units. Each has enclosed porch, 3 huge BRs, massive living room, and large kitchen. New vinyl siding & windows, and new boiler. All units pay $800/ mo. $199,900

AUGUSTA – Currently set up for a restaurant, this high visibility location has large parking lot, full kitchen & dining. Owner ﬁnancing to qualiﬁed buyers with $65,000 down. $249,900 CHINA – Great curb appeal w/this large 4-BR Colonial. Well landscaped w/deeded access to Three Mile Pond. Walk-in pantry, family room, 2.5 baths, large deck, lots of space here!

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GARDINER – Newly renovated 3-BR, 2-bath home in one of Gardiner’s ﬁnest neighborhoods. New roof, kitchen, bathroom, paint, appliances, furnace, many windows, and chimney. Private fenced yard. $219,900

AUGUSTA – High visibility location on Civic Center Drive. Nice ﬂat double lot, great commercial location. 2-BR, 1-bath Ranch w/2-car detached garage. Well landscaped. $375,000

WHITEFIELD – Huge lodge-style log home on 13+ acres. 16' ceilings, stunning stone ﬁreplace, cathedral living/dining, galley kitchen, 3 BRs, 44'x15' master w/3/4 bath, oversized 2-car garage, gorgeous grounds. Very warm & homey. $257,500

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WINTHROP – Agency Liquor/Convenience store located on a very busy State Highway. Sale includes land, building, equipment, 14door walk-in cooler, all tanks & equipment needed for large inventory of lobsters. 4-BR apt. upstairs. $399,900

MANCHESTER – Beautiful Contemporary home featuring cathedral maple kitchen w/birch ﬂoors, LR w/20' ceilings & exposed beams & atrium to deck, 3 BRs, 2 full baths, loft w/balcony, detached garage, master suite, vinyl siding. Awesome! $229,900

READFIELD – Remodeled 4-BR Cape on 2+ acres surrounded by rock walls & a short distance from Maranacook Lake access. New maple kitchen, stainless-steel appliances, 2-car garage, 2 baths, unsurpassed privacy, deck & hot tub, too! $229,900

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T he lake hadn’t changed much over the years. Her family had owned a camp in one of the coves since the early 1950s. Her father, a mill worker, followed the lead of the other mill workers, mostly all French-Canadians, “suive bottes,” her maman would say about the men at the mill. If one bought a Chevrolet, they all bought a Chevrolet. Her father followed the lead of the men and their march to the Belgrade Lakes, and bought a lot on Great Pond. In Pinkham’s Cove. Let’s not call him an alcoholic, yet. After all, this is the 1950s…Miller Time, Lucky Strikes, Chesterfields, Pall Malls, and Winstons–”tastes good like a cigarette should”–along with the usual ten or twelve beers a serious drinking man can caler, drink, in one day. Except his beer of choice was Narragansett: “Hi, Neighbor, Have a ‘Gansett’!” That and CC, Canadian Club. That was years ago, the lake, the cove, the camp built by hand with mill salvage and then the water well, sending his two oldest sons down into the ground to find the vein of water, each taking turns to hand dig under his watchful eye and supervision. Who thought of a possible cave-in? Not him, surely. He could have lost a son with his notions of hard work. They got the well dug; the pump he installed himself, being a piper at the mill. No more carrying the water jug or going to the neighbors after that to hand pump water from their well. They died–first mother, then father–and the home and camp was divided up among the four children. One brother wanted the camp; she wanted the quilts. It was an even trade, in her mind. She had the painting that she’d painted from that summer in 1969. While fishing, she’d pointed out the sunset to her dad, and he claimed it was the first sunset he’d ever seen in all the years he’d been on the lake. She asked him, “How could you miss the sunset, it’s right there?” He claimed to never having seen the sunset. Studying art that summer, she painted the sunset for him. He framed it in barn boards like the ones on the ceiling and walls at camp, and then, on

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The spirit of the lakes in the area is obvious, and that’s probably why the Elizabeth Arden crowd sought to come to terms with their body image, rest and relax, and become ‘beautified’ in the process. The movie stars who now visit regularly in the area attest in the daily newspapers, for the common people, the magic of the place and their public anonymity afforded them by their fan base in the state of Maine. It’s not that we are used to stars, but more that we resent them at some level and then want to show our own importance and indepen dence by not paying attention to them. The ‘miracle’ that Maine people leave the visit ing, vacationing bigwigs alone has nothing to do with them, but everything to do with us. We are people, too, and by that very fact, equallySpiritsimportant.comesin all different shapes, sizes, and senses. This is evident in the spirit of the lake; there are good spirits and then spirits that are not so benign. Spirits of sunshine so bright that they blind the senses–reflections on the water, the wind cooling and kind, the trees swaying and holding counsel in the winds–storm or not. And then, yet, the trees stand guard on the hills, not exactly giving up all their secrets, not entirely. The presence you sense is not as friendly as they portray in theShefilm.lies on her bed, and the lack of light pollution makes the night darker and the stars more visible and clearer than any other place. The shine of the dark night equals the day’s blinding rays of sun. She contemplates the lack of light in her rest ful sleep in the knotty pine camp built over the footings of the old sporting camps. She sleeps. The shape is made known to her, not with her eyes, but with her mind, as it rolls into the dark of the room. It is blacker than any black you can imagine, its shape like a cloud of smoke of the smoke-tree variety, black cloud with form, and it moves with its own will and pace in a way that defies reason. Asleep, and yet not asleep, awake in her spirit, but slumbering in her body, she watches it roll over her husband’s sleep ing form and linger briefly just over her, and then become one with her. She cannot move. She is pinned to the bed and she feels herself being scanned, queried, questioned, her mind explored like this form is a tour ist in her being, curious as to who this new piece of ass was in this bed. That was the sense she got from the form that lay in/on her. That it was male, a dirty old man came to her mind, and he was there to get him self some. She slept in a waking state, aware and protesting his presence in her, pinning her to the bed, scanning her mind, holding her body down so that she had no control of any one of her muscles. She tried to yell out to her husband, sleeping beside her, and no sound would come out of her throat. It was the strangest thing. This form, she could sense, had been here before, and he had had his way with whoever was there then, too. This she knew from the curiousness of the inquiry which told her that much. I’ve got to move, she thought, this thing has got to go. She does not really wake up, but she’s aware of an entity in her, holding her down so she cannot move. She awoke with the most eerie sense that she’d been had, and for cheap, it seems, because the exchange was not mutual, nor telling of who, or what, the form, the black est thing she’d ever ‘seen,’ was all about. Her mind puzzled on its identity. She envisioned some old sportsman, a dirty old man, DOM, unhappy with his afterlife and the absence of

The landscape, ancient pines, blowdowns from over the years, ferns, ‘snake leaves’ she’d called them in her youth: hemlock, the poison of ancient Greek tales, a forest floor of children, tender trees, while proud maman and papa looked down from their majestic, eerie heights. She sat among the trees with her dog at several levels on the hill, Mosher Hill, just behind her camp, and the trees spoke their voices, rubbing up against each other in the wind, telling tales outside of the wild–of times and eras, human and animal, in communion with the lake and its spirit. Across the way from her camp was Mt. Philip, the same mountain and sunset view she’d painted for her father. There sat the painting in the raw. This must be proof she’d come home, again. She lay in the bed, her maman’s spool bed, hand-sanded and stained, with the cus tom three-quarter mattress special-ordered and purchased. Upon the breakup of the household when her parents had both died, she’d inherited her mother’s handiwork of refinished furniture, the antique spool bed one of her best pieces. They’d had enough furniture in their 10room house in Brewer to furnish the camp and had to purchase very little by way of pieces to complete their vacation home get away in the hemlock pines. (They remain friends with the original owners of the camp, and she’s never had the cour age to ask the woman who previously owned it if any thing strange happened to her while there. She has to remember to do this, she thinks. Someday.)

104 PORTLAND MONTHLY MAGAZINE FICTION …she’s is aware of an entity in her, holding her down so she cannot move. the walls of our living room, fashioned after the Bangor House Coffee Shop, he hung the painting by his chair at home. They gave me back my painting when he died. Years later, in another century, she and her husband, while trailering their boat on the same lake, decided to buy a camp, but in a different cove. Truly this lake garnered the touch of creation. This is the lake that inspired the film On Golden Pond. She called a local realtor and told her she was in the mood to buy a camp on Great Pond. The realtor laughed. There was nothing avail able. That was Monday. Wednesday, the realtor called back–a camp had come avail able, and they went to see it on Thursday. Friday, they put a down payment on it, and in a few weeks they’d bought the camp. The landscape of the camp was created on an old sporting-camp complex, Crystal Springs, probably due to the fact that several springs run year-round in the area. The old sporting camps became an association, and all the old camps had been torn down and rebuilt on the footings, lakeside and semirustic, with running water from the lake, flush toilets, showers, but no drinking water. Water had to be carried in, so it was back to that, and from the spring this time.

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Breakwater’s new Middle School is breaking the mold. Our students thrive in a Teachersachievement.themLearnerstotoBreakwaterexploratoryintegrative,challenging,andprogram.isthrilledexpandourmissionincludeMiddleLevelandtoprepareforsuccessandMake the Diﬀerence. This Could Be ClassroomYour Preschool through Middle School 207.772.8689 • breakwaterschool.org sex, so he comes back to his old haunt from the fishing days, and in this particular camp, “Knotty Pine” it was called back then, to visit the women there. She can even see him in his other life, red-checkered, wool hunt ing pants any time of the year, dirty old long johns, suspenders, gum rubber boots, greasy hair, fat belly, flat ass, and yellow teeth–a real looker. But horny as a goat. Repulsive and attraction-based all in one package. At least that gives him a face, and almost a name. That is what she tells herself. She wakes at some point and tells her husband what hap pened. Her husband, the quiet, believing, open-minded sort of guy, just says he heard or saw nothing. It’s not that she’s afraid, but frustrated that this presence overtook her being, pinned her to the bed, did what amounted to a body scan, got off on her, and rolled off, out of the room in the cloud of black. It left her feeling curious. Would it come again? Would she be able to do anything about the inability to move or speak? She made her plan. Like the old days, when under siege, have a backup, contingency plan of escape, or evasive action, reaction, anything but just being taken for a ride. Later she reads what she wrote of the event in her journal: My husband is out fishing, and I’m on the porch here at camp–I had a strange event in the evening hours while sleeping. Was it a dream, or did something happen which I can barely explain or identify–describe. I felt a force, dark shadowlike, fly swiftly in at the ceiling like a shadow in darkness if that is possible–a shadow without any lightWell,source.this force, because it was more felt than seen, and I cannot remember if I was sleeping or not, entered me and I was pinned down, my face flattened as if a great wind were squashing my flesh. The whole of me felt as if my life force was being crushed, held down. Like when our blood is drained out of us when we are scared or frightened. My ability to move was taken away from me. This is really hard to describe–it was a force that was visited on me. I was thinking at the time that someone had died, and this was her, or it. I was thinking there was a disturbance in the world somewhere. That’s what it felt like it was telling me. But as my muscles were being occupied and my face–cheeks mostly–were being held down, I felt paralyzed. I had my will, my eyes, but noth

106 PORTLAND MONTHLY MAGAZINE FICTION ing else. And then it exited me. I was left alone. I looked around and it was gone. A few months later, the form returns, and in a different manner, but the results are the same, she cannot move, and this time, she wakes herself up. I will wake my husband, she thinks as the entity does pretty much the same as before, but it is kept busy due to her resistance and cannot fully achieve what it is it/they came to do. They still scan the woman, but they are not forthcoming with anything of who they are. She queries back. No response. She wakes, tries to move, and she is frozen, paralyzed in her own bed. She begins to try to use her voice to speak. She begins to grunt, the same grunt she used when giving birth, the kind that leaves one’s throat raw afterwards because it is so ani mal-like and deep. She doesn’t imagine the lack of mobility because she tries and tries to move, and it will not allow her to do that. So, she uses what she does have access to, her throat, and she groans, louder and louder and louder. She can hear her husband beside her, breathing the even, easy breath of a deep and peaceful sleep. He cannot hear her, she realizes, or he’s not allowed to hear her. She is alone with this thing that will not let her move. The only thing missing is fear. She is not afraid of the being. Not a bit. And that is curious, because something tells her she should be afraid, but she’s more determined not to be taken over by something that won’t identify itself. Not even a polite, mutual exchange of a name, or what it is, and what its purpose is in visiting her like this. Get off, or out, she thinks. Asshole. Freak. GET off. And it is gone. She can hardly believe that her groaning was not heard. She wakes her husband to tell him what happened, and again, he did not hear a thing. Her second journal entry reads: I was overcome again by that force that paralyzes me at camp. I was dreaming to begin with–someone, something was trying to get in, making noise, and my husband was trying to get the light, and I was reaching up, and it came upon us, rolled in over him and me at chest height, and then laid itself in/on me, and I could not move. I woke myself and tried to reach for my husband to alert him–could not move. I used what power I had over my speech to wake up my husband. A deep groan was all I could manage; I groaned over and over again, and my husband

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FICTION Lakes. She waits for the event to happen at her house, and it does not. The feeling is one that belongs to the wild trees standing on the hill behind the camp. They are the keepers of the secret. She looks at them in their supposed innocence; they know about the hauntings because it is they who have been around long enough to be witness to the nights. She can see it recorded in their eyes, those eyes of the trees, their branches with which they rise to the heavens; their eyes have seen what she has seen. She can feel that much. If it comes again, she’ll be ready for it, she tells herself. What are the chances of that? she reasons. She’s repulsed, and attracted, but not at the same time. Her curiosity is also part of the equation. She both dreads and looks for ward to the coupling, if you can call it that. It happens again. Her journal entry now in rapid strokes: Sunday, OK, it happened again, Weird Event–The presence, I call it, unknown to me, whatever its actual form truly is, came near, I heard a noise, and then I said in my mind, “It’s back”–It jumped into me. I can feel its presence spirit-to-spirit–and on my body, as if I live in two worlds. My mind, perhaps–because my thoughts remain my own. I can think against it–it is outside of me, and then in, or possibly on me, as if it enters me because then I am paralyzed; I have new vocab thanks to the science channel: My body is in Lock Down. I cannot move. I try to move, but I do not have con trol over my body. I want my husband to wake up to see me like this as it is happening, but he sleeps soundly, like before, as if in another dimension where I cannot reach him even if I try. I am awake again. I’ve managed this much at least. I vow to be awake, which is part of my plan to combat these nocturnal ‘visits.’ This time, instead of groaning, I think to myself, in order to wake my husband, I am going to breathe hard and loud to create noise, and I do, slowly, I gain access to my own breath, because this thing sitting on me, or in me, is very, very heavy, and I get the same sense of the loss of my ability to breathe as I did when given too much anesthesia with a spinal for my C-section. I breathe heavy and heavier, flapping my lips in an attempt to make noise to wake my husband; he does not hear me, and he does not wake up. I try to turn toward my husband in my mind, because I am two different beings at the same time, and I try to yell out, but no sound will come, I cannot. I am not asleep, but awake, paralyzed. I cannot move anything because this presence has control of my

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APRIL 2008 109 movement. It feels heavy in/on me, and I resist it with all my might. We fight for control of me, and I am possessed, all save for my breathing and my mind. I think to myself as I try to breathe loudly, “This thing is so heavy it could kill me.” Still, I have no fear, only fight for control in me. I will not allow it to gain control over me. This time, I learn it has control of my body, but not my mind. Only the body–the initial event of it being there. I know its presence–it has a separate feel to it, out side of me, and then it is not outside of me but taking possession of me. I fight it being able to do what it does, and to remain myself. What I feel now is its pressure on me, on my chest, holding me down with its weight. I’m not afraid; I just don’t like its presence taking me over–which is interesting. I should have fear of it as I was hav ing difficulty breathing, so the thought crossed my mind again that it could kill me by paralyzing my lungs–I am breathing and think, my free will is still here. I wonder, is this MS, or the start of something like that? But I sense a pressure, and I see a dark shape, or rather in this case, the absence of light this time–a vacuum–a black hole of a being–I sense a presence and ‘know’ at some level that it is there, outside of me, on the side of the bed, short, because it is about as high as the bed, as it comes up and over me, riding in from outside of the physical world, a split universe. I can feel my two beings as a result–spirit and physical–or subconscious and conscious; I am sleeping, then awake–I will myself to be conscious of the event in order to record what happens. Afterward, I try to awaken my husband to tell him what happened, and he hardly reacts. Later, I see/dream a sparkling, light being, diadem-shaped, a spinning gyroscope circle roll on by and spirit-wave hello like they are patrol ling the perimeter of being, or senses, and I get the notion, or message, they have gotten the other being to leave the area. Sparkling lights waving, I register recognition like I know this being and its friendliness. “Where were you?” I think. They are there, I know, and I thank them. They keep rolling on by with the most brilliant lights I have ever seen, beyond diamond bril liance, but wherever they are it is very, very dark, and this one, with the lights in that dark, shines brilliantly, lighting itself, and only itself, in this dark. I’ve never seen such black as what they are part of–one darker than dark, the other brilliant beyond brilliant. Are these dreams? Would I do that to myself? So much for the Golden Pond of the movie–this Great Pond I know has shadows. n

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