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Linda Bean’s Maine Wyeth Gallery in Port Clyde has given birth to an offspring in Freeport. It’s a new fine art satellite gallery where you can buy original Wyeth paintings and limited edition signed prints, most coming directly from the Wyeth family through Linda to you — exclusively at the Freeport Antiques & Heirlooms Showcase. It’s surrounded by Maine’s best offerings from 40 antiques dealers to greet you on one floor. It’s on same side as the LL Bean campus, the same easy walk Linda’s grandfather took between his home and store starting 1911. Upstairs above the new gallery see Linda’s exhibit of her father Warnie Bean’s prototype shop designs between 1925-1950, including the now world famous Bean Boat & Tote Bag in 1946, duffels, original camp bags, and hunting/fishing cases of leather and canvas. FREEPORT ANTIQUES AND HEIRLOOMS SHOWCASE

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Start your day at 10 am at The Wyeth Gallery inside the new Freeport Antiques & Heirlooms Showcase. Then drive north on Route 1 from Brunswick to nearby Rockland, but turn right onto Route 131 just north of Thomaston. Proceed down that peninsula to the end: Port Clyde. Get a room at The Seaside Inn or Ocean House (to call ahead: 3720700). Enjoy the old fashioned Port Clyde General Store and harborfront Wyeth Gallery, then cocktails at The Seaside’s Barn and supper on the wharf at The Dip Net. 2 excursions are available: to Monhegan “the artists’ island” 3 times a day and returning to Port Clyde. Or an afternoon “Wyeths by Water” to see where NC, Andrew, and Jamie painted their masterpieces, departing the Port Clyde General Store daily at 2 pm. Both make a grand finale to your Wyeth trip! LINDA BEAN ’ S WYETHS BY WATER

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Whoever said “behind every man…” didn’t know the wives of Waldo Peirce. Allow us to introduce you to some very formidable women. By Colin W. Sargent

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Twenty standouts from this year’s auction stunners. From Staff & Wire reports

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“Flights of Fancy” By Colin W. Sargent

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“Lives Below” The art of Yvonne Jacquette. By Rhea Côté Robbins

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Our compromised past revisited. By Dr. Brian Purnell

“Dogman Lie” By Dan Domench

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Dr. Susan Shaw carries the torch of environmentalist Rachel Carson. By Sarah Moore

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The King kids are all right. By Nina Livingstone

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“Devouring Art” Maine restaurants feed all of our senses. By Diane Hudson

We catch you being you.

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“I’ll Have What She’s Having” Five paintings, five drinks. By Ralph Hersom

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Twenty-seven select area restaurants strut their stuff.

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Lio is chef Cara Stadler’s third charm in a row. By Claire Z. Cramer

Lose yourself in the romance of the Kavanagh House in Damariscotta Mills. By Brad Emerson

Because some things never go out of style.

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A selection of insider tips for entertainment.

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The harvest is coming, and you don’t want to miss the haul. By Emily Taylor

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

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“Date Night” Monday is for Lovers. By Olivia Gunn Kostsishevskaya

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e’ve told you that the first airmail flight from Maine took off from Gooch’s Beach in Kennebunk and almost hit the Narragansett Hotel while climbing out. [See “Inventing the Campbells”] We’ve told you that a Mainer stowaway hid aboard an early transoceanic flight from Old Orchard Beach and made it to Comillas (in northern Spain, on the Bay of Biscay) to experience the cheers with the rest of the plane’s crew. The stowaway’s picture was flashed across the globe in newspapers—the ultimate selfie. [See “The Pier.”] Well, here’s another clue for you all. In February, 2004, the Dirigo Flyer, a newsletter published by the Maine Aviation Historical Society, teased its readers by venturing these two black-and-white snapshots: “Marquis Lippo Gerini’s Loening amphibian at Kennebunk Beach, in front of the Sagamore.” [In one image, the Narragansett Hotel looms in the background. The other shows the Sagamore Hotel–later the Sea Spray, now razed.] “Does anyone know who the Marquis was…? Fourteen years later, here’s the answer. Early in the 20th century, it was all the rage for children of wealthy merchant princes in Newport, Rhode Island, and New Haven, Connecticut, to marry European nobles with titles (it was such a cliché—one day, you’re Consuela Vanderbilt, the next you’re the Duchess of Marlborough sitting below a giant John Singer Sargent painting of yourself)–instantly conferring old money cache on the nouveau riche. From a German archive, we’ve run into this: “Daughter of Theatre King Weds Italian Nobleman. Their Wedding a Gay Event. Photo shows the Marquis Lippo Gerini [of Florence, Italy] and his bride, the former Lillian Madelyn Poli, on the steps of St. John’s Roman Catholic Church [in New Haven] after the wedding ceremony. It is reported that the bride’s father, Sylvester [Z.] Poli, vaudeville king, gave his daughter a $2,000,000 dowry.” There was a “lavish reception at Villa Rosa, Woodmont, Connecticut,” where the Polis lived. Against all odds, the waterfront mansion Villa Rosa survives! https://www.youtube.com/ watch?v=TqpcysyeJ1I Sylvester Poli’s “Poli’s Palace” vaudeville and movie theaters drew crowds all over cities and mill towns in New England. (He sold out to 20th Century Fox.) For many new citizens, these early movies were the footlights to a new Nation. Many a Loew’s Theatre was formerly a Poli’s Palace. As a child, jazz great Artie Shaw used to sneak into the Poli’s in his native New Haven. That’s where he caught the bug for show business… A Maine beach is a place of converging narratives, washed away by the tides. Beauty, survival, curiosity. The mysterious force that brought Marquis Lippo Gerini to Maine is what brought you here. File all of this under: footprints in the sand.

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Yes, you can collect great Maine artists. Get in on the ground floor with a DeWitt Hardy seascape. Grey Skies (1975, Maine) is listed for $650 in The Press Herald. Hardy paintings have been sold for $25 to $4,012, according to askART.com. Current owner Elizabeth Casey of Boston says she “believes the painting is of the Ogunquit coast. While Hardy did a lot of figures and humans later in life, he had an eye for landscapes, so I bought it from an art dealer.” Hardy died in 2017 and is remembered as a prominent student of the famed Ogunquit art colony.

Now that Portland is “Restaurant City of the Year” (Bon Appétit) and the eighth best craft-beer destination in the U.S. (RewardExpert), another Maine chef has made the cut. Matt Ginn of Evo beat out three other contestants in a recent episode of the Food Network show Chopped. Ginn returned home with the $10,000 prize for the episode “Room for Shrooms.” A number of Maine chefs have competed on the show, including Duckfat’s Melissa Corey and Christian Hayes of Dandelion Catering in Yarmouth.

Truckin’ so ali Bantu cuisine is rolling your way on a new ood truc , ull o delicious resh vegetables ro n r C F lewiston and culinary s ill ro i C lisbon . ohan fertig-Burd says the truc will serve ar -to-table so ali Bantu eats, including “sa busas a y pastries lled with eat and or veggies stewed goat, roasted chic en legs, corn, beans, and vegetables stews.” en oy two types o bread and so ali chai tea.

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12 Kitchens, One Tour MECA lights up with Las Vegas artist Tim Bavington’s Rock & Roll Abstraction (on display through October 19). On October 18, the abstract painter will discuss the exhibit in the Bob Crewe Gallery. Jamming music with color, Bavington takes audiences through a visual experience of his favorite songs of the 1960s and 1970s, from the Rolling Stones to Hendrix. meca.edu.

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Fort Gorges is coming out with guns blasting—as an arts venue. Hog Island is the location of Double Vision, a multimedia experience by artists Andrea Steves, Yulia Pinkusevich, and Francois Hugh, on October 13. Explore modern dangers and interact with the island via radio transmissions. “The interesting thing to me about Fort Gorges is that it has long been waiting for a use,” director Erin Johnson says. “It was made defunct before its completion. What does waiting and anticipation mean in 2018 now that nuclear war is back on the table? That brings a lot of fear and anticipation. The Cold War immediately comes to mind.”

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rd., unity. celebrate the organic and rural version o the good li e and learn new things about ar ing. agricultural de onstrations, don ey and ule show, sheepdog de onstrations, a 5 race, and dra t horse show, plus produce and cra ts vendors, ood, usic and ore, sept. 21-23. 568-4142. C a F , 17 maple st., cornish. 5 road race, cra t and produce vendors, apple-pie ba ing co petition, ood booths with apple and non-apple o erings, and live entertain ent, sept. 29. 625-4993.

C F a , ogun uit. coordinated by ogun uit per or ing arts, an expanded festival is planned, sept. 7-10. 646-6170.

C C F , cu berland fairgrounds, 197 Blanchard rd. exhibition halls, idway, livestoc , ani al pulls, de olition derby, barbecue, pu p in and s uash weigh-o s, and harness racing, sept. 2329. 829-5531.

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da ariscotta. pu p inboat regatta and derby, pu p in catapulting, giant pu p in art, pu p in-pie eating, and parade, sept. 22-oct. 8. 677-3087.

F F , 292 high st. large idway, exhibit halls, livestoc exhibits, ani al pulling events and harness racing, sept. 1622. 778-6083.

F F F , l.l. Bean, 95 main st., freeport. featuring photography, ewelry, and usical per or ances, oct. 5-7. 865-1212.

F d , ha ond par and eliot ele entary school, 1298 state rd. co unity event eaturing a 5k road race, cra ts, ood, parade, and colonial reenact ent, sept. 29. eliot estivaland5 .co . F F , sunday river resort. the uno cial ic o to sunday river s winter season, the estival includes live usic, a beer garden, wine tasting, arts & cra ts, scenic li t and wagon rides, children s ga es and activities, and the a ous north a erican i e carrying cha pionship, oct. 6-7. 800 543-2754.

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large ani als, as well as rides and ood, sept. 30oct. 7. 935-3268. h , short sands Beach, yor . traditional all harvest ood, ids activities, cra ts, and usic, oct. 13. 363-4422. h h , ocean gateway, portland. ninth annual ood and wine estival 21 only . che de onstrations, lobster che co petition, Brews & Blues BB , tasting events, oct. 18-21. harvestontheharbor.co .

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F F F , railway illage, 586 iscasset rd., Boothbay. train rides, usic, and a children s corner. oct. 6-8. 633-4727. septemBer 2018 27

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l n C F , 342 laudhol far rd., ells. hundreds o artisans exhibit their wares, along with usic, and ood., sept. 8-9. 646-1555. M bb C , hollywood casino and raceway, Bangor. a wee end celebration o barbecue, great usic, and beer, sept. 21-23. 288-0269. M

b F s s , sunday river resort, 15 south ridge rd., newry. kic s o with a beer dinner at the id- ountain pea lodge, ollowed by beer sa pling ro as any as 100 maine cra t brews, oyster tasting event, ore ood and a ily- riendly activities, sept. 14-16. 800 543-2754. M

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maine s artisans present their heirloo uality cra ts, sept. 15-16. ainecra tsguild.co .

truc and tractor pulls, idway rides, petting oo, live entertain ent and a lu ber ac show, sept. 14-16. 628-3171.

M C , maine cra t association. a statewide tour o studios, breweries, and businesses, oct. 13-14. 205-0791.

n a C C , sunday river, 97 su it rd., Bethel. co itted couples ace uneven ground, obstacles, and water ha ards at this lighthearted annual challenge, oct. 6. sundayriver.co .

M h F , cross insurance ctr., Bangor. a delicious celebration o maine s s all ar s and their bounty, nov. 17-18. 561-8300. M b F , l 261 point sebago rd., casco. the areas largest annual sa pling event and o tober est eatures maine- ade beers, icrobrews, and wine, along with ood, live usic, and the artisan s cra t show, sept. 29. ainela esbrewest.co . M

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mericana band Birds of Chicago will be gracing the stage at Camden arbor pera ouse on eptember 2 th.

ing the heritage, spirit o adventure, and ingenuity o boats and waterborne pursuits, sept. 28-30. n h F F , strawbery Ban e museu , 14 hancoc st., ports outh, nh. a

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C F , 67 o pottle rd. livestoc shows, horse pulling, traditional ar ing and cra ting de onstrations, live usic, ood and ore, sept. 1215. 739-2204. p o F , schooner landing restaurant and marina, 40 main st., da ariscotta. more than 10,000 oysters served annually to bene t the edward a. myers marine conservation fund. entertain ent stage,

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s o , downtown ater st, gardiner. the 7th annual swine & stein o tober est is a tri ecta o beer, ood, and usic. a beer tasting will showcase the incredible diversity o maine cra t beers along with ood ro uality maine restaurants. oct 6. gardiner ainstreet.org. , gardiner road, iscasset. t F celebrating the land, ar s, and people that provide local produce to the region. choose your tour and wind through the scenic ar land o midcoast maine. the ride begins and ends at the morris far ., sept. 15. orris ar .org. t e F , downtown millinoc et. parade, learn-to-paddle excursions, chili coo -o , and usical per or ances by rustic overtones and portland s mallet Brothers, sept. 14-16. trailsend estival.org. n F , 184 Burnett road, freeport. annual harvest dance sept. 29; pu p in hayrides, sat-sundays sept. 8-oct. 21. wol esnec ar .org.

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b C M a , olin arts center, 75 russell st., lewiston. dahlov ipcar: Blue moons & menageries, through oct. 6; anthropocenic: art about the natural orld in the hu an era, oct. 27-mar. 23, 2019; a y stacey curtis: ti e and place, oct. 27-dec. 21. 786-6158. b C M a , 245 maine st., Brunswic . richard pousette-dart: painting light space, through sept. 16; inslow ho er and the ca era: photography and the art o painting, through oct. 28; a handheld history: five centuries o medals ro the molinari collection, through an. 6; in the round: ancient art ro all sides, through an. 6. 725-3275. C

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Moose 5 is one of the paintings showcased at the ois odd e hibition, Drawings and Paintings, at gun uit Museum of merican rt through ctober .

inter st., roc land. tor wase dyson: nautical dus , beginning oct. 4; screen B.r.a.c.e., through oct. 7; to Burc hardt: studio flood, through oct. 7; ocelyn lee: the appearance o things, through oct. 14; ohn Bisbee: a erican steel, through oct. 14. 701-5005. C C M a , 5600 mayower hill dr., aterville. city o a bition: photography ro the collection, through sept. 16; on the far : a erican eathervanes ro a distinguished new england collection, through nov. 11; sel and society: the nor a Boo marin collection o ger an expressionist prints, through an. 13. 859-5600. C p , 84 free street. music events and a rotating gallery. 370-4784.

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C g , 24 par er point rd., Blue hill. expectations o place: a group exhibition, through sept. 22; su er ind, sept. 25-oct. 13. 917-204-4001 F a M , 16 museu st., roc land. andrew yeth: te peras and studies ro the yeth collection, through feb. 3, 2019; ai eiwei: circle o ani als odiac heads, through dec. 30; andrew yeth in roc land, through feb. 17, 2019; maine: the farnsworth collection, through mar. 14, 2021; n.c. yeth: poe s o a erican patriotis , through oct. 28; on a mountain in maine, through oct. 7; the yeths: fa ily and friends, through dec. 30. 596-6457. g F a , 31 townsend ave., Boothbay harbor. essica ives sept. 6-oct. 2. 633-6849. g g , 146 middle st., portland. to paie ent solo exhibition, sept. 6-29; sandra uinn solo exhibition, oct. 4-27. 772-2693. M a g nebun . illia 967-2803.

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M M , 267 congress st. oan Busing: monoprints, sara crisp: mixed media, shelley ordon-paintings and ani ations. 773-2339.

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MeCa, 522 congress st. curious nature: 2018 alu ni triennial, through sept. 15; ma ing migration isible: traces, trac s & pathways, oct. 5-dec. 14. 775-3052

photographs ro the late 1800s to present day, open daily; Boundaries, through oct. 31; lois dodd: drawings and paintings, through oct. 31; Bill iola: the fall into paradise, through oct. 31; the iew ro narrow cove,

and poet: the art o ashley Bryan, aug. 3-nov. 25; Beyond the pedestal: isa u noguchi and the Borders o sculpture, oct. 5- an. 6, 2019. 775-6148. r b a g , 15 epps st., pea s island. a o an s perspective,

M M , 1 light house hill rd., monhegan. celebrating fi ty years 1968-2018, eaturing wor s by so e 70 artists including george Bellows, a es fit gerald, robert henry, edward hopper, roc well kent, louise nevelson, andrew yeth and ore, through sept. 30. 596-7003. p l

l ’ g , 5 monuent s uare. the art o rube goldberg, through sept. 22. 871-1700.

, 716 stene a g vens ave., portland. 2018 depart ent o arts faculty exhibition, through-oct. 21; annual sculpture garden invitational, through oct. 31; 221-4499.

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C M t , 196 townsend ave., Boothbay harbor. l a l , sept. 4-22. 633-5297.

M o a a , 543 shore rd., ogun uit. per anent collection o i portant paintings, sculptures, drawings, prints and

a , 40 harlow st., Bangor. darren e enau, sept. 14-dec. 29; shelley reed, sept. 14-dec. 29. 581-3300.

through oct. 31; this side o paradise: a erican artists o the paris salon, through oct. 31. 646-4909. p M a , 7 congress s . clarence h. hite and his orld, through sept. 16; painter

through sept. 29; scenes o maine 2018, oct. 1-30. 712-1097. s g , 28 ater st., da ariscotta. art harvest, sept. 14-oct. 19. 563-1991. M

C b , 190 stoc far t rd., south paris. “this is hat happened” hosted by sally ones, sept. 15; ping pong circus, sept. 22; mi e miclon s “the early evening show,” oct. 6. 743-8452. C t , 205 main st., Bidde ord. , sept. 21-oct. 7.

282-0849. 1 2C t , 35 cottage st., Bar harbor. river hyless, sept. 6; d , sept. 7; Bangor sy phony orchestra, sept. 14. 2880829. g , 1 int throp st., hallowell. , oct. 19-2, 26-28. 626-3698. g t , 76 congress st., portland. t i t d t t , oct. 3-28. 835-0895 , 76 l t theater rd., madison. t , sept. 13-16, 19-22. 474-7176. l a l t , 30 acade y st., auburn. , oct. 19-28. 783-0958. M , 176 l t sawyer st., south portland. t a , sept. 14-30. 799-1421 M

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23 mosher st., south portland. t l a , sept. 20-oct. 7. 747-4148

p , 1 railroad st., Bangor. ac Brown Band, sept. 28. 358-9327.

he alternative rock band oseph, hailing from the ot er Portland, sings at Port City Music all on eptember th.

e , 575 congress st., portland. end o su er fest, oct. 13. 558-2279.

M s b t , 348 u.s. rte. 1, t fal outh. t , oct. 6-7, 13-14. 781-7672.

’ o , 92 Bourne ln., ogun uit. cheryl heeler, oct. 13; cris illia son, oct. 19; an evening o dan fogelberg music by don ca pbell Band, oct. 27. 646-4777.

M a , 20 myrtle st., portland. t r , oct. 6; theresa caputo live the experience, oct. 11. 842-0800.

M s a , fox field. Bulgari a, sept. 13. 879-4629.

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o p , 10 main st., ogun uit. , sept. 5-oct. 28. 646-5511. p t C , Bangor opera house, 131 main st. t , sept. 6-23; d , oct. 18-nov. 4. 942-3333. t p p , 420 cottage rd., south portland. l , sept. 21-oct. 7. 799-7337 p s , 25 forest ave., portland. ,

sept. 25-oct. 21. 774-0465 s a C , 16 richville rd., standish. a t t , sept. 28-oct. 7; fall one acts, oct. 12-14. 642-3743. t M , 796 main st., mon outh. , sept. 13-16, 20-23; l , oct. 12-14. 933-9999.

a , 121 center st., portland. the magpie salute, sept. 13; three dog night, sept. 29; iration: press play fall tour, oct. 5; the english Beat, oct. 20; the record co pany, oct. 22; pin tal ing fish, oct. 23. 772-8274. b

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portland. irish nights, every ed.; the happy hour music series, every thurs.; a at Blue, every sat. 774-4111. C

b t , 190 stoc far rd., south paris. the ale house string Band, sept. 29; gawler fa ily Band, oct. 13. 743-8452. d

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164 main st., king eld. anthony geraci and the Boston Blues all-stars, sept. 9; doug de ing & the ewel tones, sept. 30. 2652030.

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o h b h , 86 townsend ave., Boothbay harbor. peppino d agostino, sept. 14; coig, sept. 22; the contenders, sept. 29; eileen ivers, oct. 6; u.s. air force heritage o a erica Brass, oct. 13. 633-5159. o l s , 181 state st., portland. roscoe & etta maia sharp and anna schul e , sept. 12; steve forbert, sept. 13; the maine middle eastern orchestra, sept. he Portland a rchestra performs at ne ongfellow uare on eptember 2 th.

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p C o e , merrill auditoriu , 20 myrtle st. ean- illy kun and a uintet, sept. 26. 842-0800. p h M e , 57 te ple st. gina and the red eye flight crew su er residency, every mon. through sept. 24; maine dead pro ect su er residency, every ed. through oct. 10, oct. 19; Bari a, sept. 20; she e ia copeland, sept. 21; greg Brown, oct. 11; the cali ornia honeydrops, oct. 20; the kurt Ba er Band, oct. 31. 805-0134

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h , 504 congress st., p C M portland. sister sparrow & the dirty Birds, sept. 15; oseph, sept. 17; e ere pro ised etpac s, sept. 19; to papa, sept. 20; u ebox the ghost, sept. 22; slaves and escape the fate, sept. 24; mt. oy, sept. 25; noah gundersen, sept. 26; steven page trio, oct. 2; clo ee, oct. 7; the o bats, oct. 22; Baha as, oct. 27. 956-6000.

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14; charlie hunter trio, sept. 16; the portland a orchestra, sept. 20; troubadours in the round, sept. 27; popa chubby, sept. 28; slaid cleaves, oct. 3; ant e duve ot w rachael kilgour, oct. 6; ronnie earl & the Broadcasters, oct. 13; Bonnie prince Billy w the other years, oct. 14; martin Barre o ethro tull full Band acoustic, oct. 16; martin Barre o ethro tull full Band electric, oct. 17; the portland a orchestra, oct. 18; eli abeth coo w caleb caudle, oct. 20. 761-1757.

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s r t , 29 sal on falls rd., Buxton. du e robillard, sept. 14. 929-6615. s , 25 preble st. dustin le asseur, sept. 14. 245-3088 s g , 538 congress st., portland. exhibition by ustin favela, p lvora, through sept. 22nd; michael hurley with darren hanlon, sept. 30; mc chris is dead tour, oct. 6. 828-5600. s t , 609 congress st., portland. the robert cray Band, sept. 13; an evening with dawes: password tour, sept. 14; tra pled By turtles, sept. 16; snow patrol, sept. 17; ne o case, sept. 22; mil y chance: Blosso tour, sept. 25; an evening with pat metheny w antonio sanche , linda may han oh & gwily si coc , oct. 3; modest mouse, oct. 4; rainbow kitten surprise: the friend, love, free all tour, oct. 5; chro eo, oct. 6; the music o crea : 50th anniversary tour, oct. 7; the glitch mob, oct. 19; post odern u ebox, oct. 31. 956-6000. s M a C , 695 dugway rd., Brown eld. robert cray Band, sept. 11; the suitcase un et, sept. 14; david Bro berg uintet, sept. 21; Birds o chicago, sept. 27; ance gilbert and ellis paul, sept. 28; ada e ra group, sept. 29; slaid cleaves, oct. 4; osh ritter, oct. 7; tia Bra da, oct. 18; eileen ivers and universal roots, oct. 19; the lone Bellow, oct. 26. 935-7292.

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t ’ p , 10 tho pson s point. nathaniel rateli & the night sweats, sept. 15. 956-6000. v h M t , 53 old post rd., arundel. Bob seger tribute: live Bullet, sept. 14; rita coolidge, sept. 15; the kingston trio, sept. 21; the the Band Band, sept. 22; martin sexton, sept. 28; ohn mueller s inter dance party, sept. 29; udy gold, oct. 5; recycled percussion, oct. 6; copley- a es-pic, oct. 12; imagine: a Beatles tribute by oe Boucher, oct. 13; george inston, oct. 19; the hit men, oct. 20. 985-5552. o h , 93 main st. 3rd flr., aterville. aterville roc s , sept. 28; osh ritter, oct. 6. 873-7000.

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o l s , 181 state st., portland. nicole olcott & larry keigwin: places please , oct. 25-26. 761-1757. p C M h , 504 congress st., portland. it s me again: an aparna nancherla tour, oct. 6. 956-6000. p h M e , 57 te ple st. co edy and coc tails presented by karen morgan, sept. 27. 805-0134

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e k t , c salt gouret mar et, 349 ocean house road, cape eli abeth. tour 12 beauti ul, inspiring itchens, and support the cape eli abeth education foundation, sept. 22. 917-612-4452. C , 367 youngtown rd., lincolnville. co ple entary pairings every sun. sept. 9-oct. 21; food truc saturday: grillin Bra ilian, sept. 22; Bistro night with ta eca ones, oct. 12; the mad hatter s dinner, oct. 26. 763-4478.

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b g , the long ellow garden, 489 congress st., portland. Beer, snac s, and arti acts ro the maine historical society, sept. 18 and oct. 16. 774-1822.

l r k , 161 co ercial st., portland. monthly ree wine tastings. call or dates. 553-7665. l v a , 90 congress st., portland. tapas mondays with wine pairings, every mon. 775-5652. r M , portland and yar outh. tasting events on fridays. call or dates. 7748129. s F o p t r , 324 fore st. tasting bar is open year-round or maine- ade wines and spirits. 761-8gin b b , 441 us rt. 1, d yor . saturday night ibes with coc tails and live usic every sat. through oct. 20 no event oct. 13 . 363-9322. F , portland. oin so elier erica archer or a the ed wal through a portland neighborhood with wine and spirit tastings paired with delicious oods, every sat. through sept. 29, oct. 27. 619-4630

C i F F , see website or locations. the 11th anniversary o the estival created to highlight e erging docu entary l a ers. fil screenings, ost ollowed by &a sessions with the artists, sept. 13-16. pointsnorthinstitute.org.

p h M e , 57 te ple st. Bo b diggity arts presents atch this fil festival, oct. 28. 805-0134

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lFk, 188a state st., portland. ord portland, a onthly reading series eaturing original writing ro authors on the rst mon. o every onth. 899-3277. s o h M ,5 portland st., south Berwic . â&#x20AC;&#x153;a riter s circleâ&#x20AC;? riter s group, bring a short piece o writing to share, or co e ust to listen, sept. 17 or oct. 15. 384-2454.

b h M , 71 south st., gorha . the 1831 birthplace o a es phinney Baxter, or er ayor o portland and governor o maine. mon.-sat. 222-1190. C t , 2 lee st., icasset. federalstyle ansion built by udge silas lee in 1807, ed.-sun. Behind closed doors o castle tuc er, sept. 14; plein air painting day, sept. 20. 882-7169. d i s h s , 416 sunset rd., deer isle. extensive collection o historical ob ects and docu ents housed in the 1830 sellers house, ed.-fri., through sept. 16. 348-6400. F

h M , 157 spring st., portland. ell-preserved re house built in 1891, showcasing anti ue re ghting achinery, rst fri. every onth. 772-2040. h h , 40 aughan s ln., south Berwic .1785 georgian ansion on the sal on falls river, purchased by mrs. e ily tyson in 1989 and restored to its or er glory through the in uence o the writings o sarah orne ewett, ed.-sun.; fa ily portrait day, sept. 16. 384-2454. i C M , 4 tho pson s point rd., suite 106. explore hidden and un nown ani als li e yetis and Big oot and other worldwide cryptids, mon., ed.-sun. l C M , 226 maine st., Brunswic . Built in 1824 and brie y occupied by henry adsworth long ellow, longter ho e o the civil ar hero cha berlain, our-ter maine governor, and president o Bowdoin college, tue.-sat., through oct. 7. 729-6958. lC b M , 14 easler rd., hinc ley. maine s early 20th-century natural history useu includes a ounted blue arlin donated by ernest he ingway, ed.-sun. 238-4250. M h s , 489 congress st., portland. museu eatures changing exhibitions and progra s spanning ore than twelve centuries o maine li e, open daily; septemBer 2018 37

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s h , 121 main st., iscasset. federal-style ansion, built in 1807 by ship owner and trader illia nic els with colonial revival urnishings and three-story elliptical stairway, open fri.-sun. 882-7169. h F M , 85 main n st., Buc sport. the society is dedicated to preserving regional l , and its ala o theater displays anti ue l and ovie theater paraphernalia, open tue.-thu., and mon., fri. by appoint ent. 469-0924. o h t M , 117 museu st., owls head. celebrating achines o a bygone era through conservation, preservation and de onstration, open daily; foreign auto festival, sept. 15-16; great fall auction, oct. 27. 594-4418. M M , 2 church st., p searsport. mariti e exhibits & history, open daily through oct. 21. 548-0334. p n M , 12 down st., indian island. thousands o years o maine native a erican history, o both the penobscot and abana i peoples, as well as conte porary paintings, woodcarving, and bas etry, mon.-sat. 827-4153. p o M , 138 congress st., portland. daily tours o a ericas only re aining historic arine signal tower, open daily. 774-5561. 3 8 p o r t l a n d m o n t h ly m a g a i n e

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C i M , 459 rt. 774, elshpool, new Brunswic , canada. fran lin d. roosevelt s su er island retreat. open daily through oct. 8. 506 752-2922. s o h , 5 portland st., south Berwic . the author s 1819 georgian residence, fri.-sun through oct. 15. 384-2454. M , 1414 tre ont rd., s C a seal cove. more than 50 beauti ul vehicles ro the ornate Brass era, 1895-1917, open daily; cars & co ee: cars & canines, sept. 15; de o day, sept. 20; cars & co ee: early fords, oct. 13; hood orna ent carving or shop, oct. 13; history happy hour, oct. 18. 244-9242.

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s M , 40 school st., king eld. dedicated to the genius o the stanley a ily, inventors o the stanley stea er, a stea powered car that held the record or astest auto obile in the world ro 1906 to 1911. original cars and engines, as well as photography, airbrush paintings, and violins. photographs by chansonetta stanley e ons, paintings by dorothy e ons, and creations by other e bers o the stanley a ily, tue.sun. 265-2729. s s b , 289 high st., ellsworth. for er ho e o cordelia . stanwood, ictorian-era ornithologist and wildli e photographer, now housing a sanctuary or unreleasable birds and a library o her extensive notes and photographs, open daily. 667-8460. t h , 1267 estbroo st., portland. capt. george tate s 1755 house with an unusual clerestory in the ga brel roo and an herb garden overloo ing stroudwater river, ed. sun., through oct. 774-6177. v

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Selected Exhibitions Selected Exhibitions 2018-2019

Through October 6, 2018 Dahlov Ipcar: Blue Moons & Menageries June 12 - October 24, 2015

Points of View: private collections, this Photographs by Jay Drawn Gould,mainly Gary from Green, David Maisel and exhibition presents paintings, drawings, Shoshannah White prints, and sculptures by one of Maine’s bestViewing elements of the Maine landscape from different levels of known artists, Dahlov Ipcar (1917-2017). scale – from great distance to very close-up, the contemporary The daughter of prominent modernist artists, photographers in this exhibition different of the Marguerite explore and William Zorach,aspects Ipcar reached interrelationships between human populations and the natural world. a wide audience through the many children’s Nathalie Miebach, eed, ood and da a,

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June 12 - October 24, 2015 The Painter of Maine: Photographs of Marsden Hartley Marsden Hartley (1877-1943), a native son of Lewiston Maine, is recognized as one of the most important American modernists. This exhibition Jan Piribeck, n on ri t from , 1 , di i al p focuses onn images of artist, ox, oanonymous e n i toned ioning photographs ng ro oft Co es o him as a young man to images taken by George Platt Lynes the last year October 27, 2018 – March 23, 2019 of Hartley’s life.

June 12, 2015 – MarchModern 26, 2016 Art, New York. Maine Collected or t o on, 1 6, This exhibition features Dahlov works byIpcar, some ill of the many contemporary oil on linen, 3 x inc es Co es o e artists represented in the permanent collection who live in or are C a les pca a il connected to Maine. This exhibition includes work in most media and in a wide variety of Through themes and styles,6,many October 2018of which have not been on view in the museum previously. Maine Collected, and The Maine Moderns: Drawings by Marsden Painter of Maine are companion exhibitions of Director’s Cut: The Hartley and Carl Sprinchorn Maine Art Museum Trail at the Portland Museum of Art from May 21 – September 13. Drawn from the museum’s Marsden Hartley Memorial Collection and a recent major

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Anthropocenic: Art About the Natural World in the Human Era Photographer unknown, Marsden Hartley, 1908-09, toned black and white photograph

Geologists have been thinking about how the Holocene, the geological period that began at the end of the last ice age 12,000 years ago, has been replaced by the Anthropocene. This potential new epoch is named for humans and is defined as one in which our impact on the world has been so acute that it is in the geologic evidence. Anthropocenic is a topical and compelling group exhibition by 17 artists/collaboratives from Maine, throughout the US, and abroad, who make art about nature, the natural world, and our effect on and interrelation with it in the 21st century. Artists: Jennifer Allora & Guillermo Calzadilla, Sammy Baloji, Timothy Berry, Ursula Biemann, Michel Droge, Deb Hall, Adriane Herman, Laurie Hogin, Isabella Kirkland, Eve Andreé Larameé, Michael Light, Nathalie Miebach, Lori Nix & Kathleen Gerber, Jan Piribeck, Julie Poitras Santos, Superflex, Maika’i Tubbs

November 6, 2015 – March 2016 gift of26, works by Carl Sprinchorn, Maine The View Out His Window (andbrings in histogether mind’s fieye): Moderns guralPhotographs drawings by by Jeffery Becton these longtime friends. Hartley (1877-1943) A photographer and image-maker lives onMaine Deer and Isle,isarecogrocky and was born inwho Lewiston, forested island off the nized coastasofanMaine, Jeffery Becton constructs innovative and important Ameriimages about his surroundings, from extraordinary sweeping coastal can Modernist. Sprinchorn (1887-1971) was views to internal life, both house interiorsartist andwho thetraveled introspective a Swedish/American to space that enlivens one’sMaine imagination. to paint and draw many times. Marsden Hartley,

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October 27 – December 21, 2018 Amy Stacey Place The photography exhibitions are partCurtis: of theTime Maineand Photo Project (mainephotoproject.org), a statewide photography collaboration in for ambitious and interactive 2105. The Maine Photo Recognized Project is organized and supported by the insculpture installations based on concepts of stitutions of the Maine Curators’ Forum and is generously sponsored order, chaos, and repetition, in 1998 Curtis by the Bates College Museum of Art, the Bowdoin College Museum embarked on an eighteen-year project, of Art, and the Colby College Museum of Art, with fiscal management producing nine “solo-biennials” comprised of provided by the Maine Historical Society. eighty-one installation and new-media works The Maine Photo Project is funded presented in different mill spaces acrossin part by a grant from the Maine Arts Commisthe state of Maine. Curtis has also explored sion, an independent state agency supportconceptual ideas in drawing series, which edthe by focus the National Endowment for the Arts. are on this exhibition.

Amy Stacey Curtis, FundedBecton, in part byThe the Synergy Fund. Jeffery Keeper’s House, 2008, digital montage realized as archival pigment print 1 , ap i e, x Visit the website for programming information and updates. Co es o e a is

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historic house with collections ro the high ictorian period. Built 1858-1860 or new orleans hotelier ruggles morse, the ansion s interiors boast original urniture and d cor, open daily. 772-4841. h , 489 conl gress st., portland. childhood ho e o poet henry adsworth long ellow, open daily. 774-1822. g M , 4 herric rd., southwest harbor. true-to-li e wood carvings o birds ade by endell gilley and others, as well as educational biology progra s and woodcarving wor shops, tue.-sat. 244-7555. M , 19 orgonon circle, r dodge pond rd., rangeley. research and living space o a colleague o sig und freud, a ous pro oter o “orgones,” sat., sept. by apt., oct. 864-3443.

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Fine contemporary prints and other intriguing art Featuring work by

Brian Keegstra: Avian Eclipse, woodcut

Susan Amons Siri Beckman Chris Beneman Holly Berry Mae Billington Matt Brown Kathleen Buchanan Brian Cohen Julie Crane Rebecca Goodale Jean Gumpper Brian Keegstra David Morgan Lilian Day Thorpe Susan Wilder Russell Wray Sherrie York and others Matt Brown: Moon Over Mt. Desert Island, woodcut

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clock ise from top left: mercedes illeneu e, courtesy photo, courtesy of aBigail s art , ackson pollock, composition ith masked forms, 1941. oil on can as, 27 3 4 49 3 4 in. colBy college museum of art. gift of the Barsalona family, museum purchase from the ere aBBott ac uisition fund, and gift of peter and paula lunder, the lunder collection, 2018.084. 2018 pollock-krasner foundation artists rights society ars , ne york

even superheroes need so e r&r, and where better than in maine ahead o the 2019 l , writer M s has released , a ve-part co ic boo series in which the bac story o carol danvers a. .a. you know ho is un olded, revealing that danvers su ers in harpswell. the narrative u ps with vistas near and dear, including portland head light. p

’ 1941 is a ing a splash at C C M a . a ter 45 years in a private collection, the oil painting has been added to the lunder collection. “ ith this ac uisition, we are deepening our strength in a erican odernis ,” says carolyn mu y, director and chie curator o colby college museu o art. “this extraordinary painting represents an iconic o ent in abstract art and will beco e a linchpin o the collection.”

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“Too big even to fit in the lobster trap,” says Eric Wallace of his big catch. The 25-pound lobster was caught off the coast of Phippsburg. According to WABITV, Wallace, a lobsterman of 35 years, snapped a few photos and let the lobster slip into the water. But this wouldn’t be a Maine tale were someone not to outdo him. A few days later, a 28-pound lobster was reportedly caught off the coast of Harpswell. Can you say one uppah? septemBer 2018 45

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ortland, meet Monday. You’ve made it through the first eight hours of the work week. Now, let’s have some fun on a night that dares you to go out on the town. Join The Inkwell at Portland Press Hotel for their Off the Record Happy Hour. The $5 house wines, well drinks, and 16-ounce local beers lure you in, but the real draw is basking in that early evening sun. The Inkwell’s cool, minimalist interior and white marble bar are designed to offer a crisp start to your evening. The “shares” menu includes easy snacks like the House Made BBQ Chips ($7) and Grilled Flatbread ($12). Looking beyond the well, enjoy one of the signature cocktails, including the Lime Rickey ($6) or the Szechaun Gimlet ($12), a peppery vodseptemBer 2018 47

p ort lan d a F t e r da r k ka sip sure to give you the kick you need before making your way to Monument Square, where a fabulous dinner awaits. a Mon Mental Meal Few seats in town beat a high-top table at David’s Restaurant. A window seat showcases the city in motion.

tart off with Daily Mussels, which on a recent visit were smothered in a tomato basil broth. You may be hesitant to soak the rest up with fresh garlic bread on your romantic evening, but trust us. Life is too short to not indulge. Just don’t forget the Doublemint. Soon you’ll be on the dance floor, so keep the meal light with a shared Napoletana Margherita pizza ($23) and the Arugula & Beets Salad ($13.50). The entire meal proves you don’t have to break the bank to

enjoy a decadent date here. Feel the F nk Now that you’re fed, full, and hopefully a little tipsy, it’s time to soar on the dance floor of Portland House of Music and Events. Gina & the Red-Eye Flight Crew crank up Monday nights through September 24. From 8:30 p.m. to midnight, the band has all you need to step out of the Mondays and dance your way into the week. There’s no room for wallflowers at this party, so the two of you had better be prepared to move. The floor is packed by 10 p.m.

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hiskey and Chill Before calling it a night, take the four-minute walk to the newly opened Independent Ice Co. on Wharf Street. This cozy, leatherseated bar has enough space to get comfortable and close, and the chandelier and candle lighting offer the ambiance you need to start taking flirtations a little more seriously. Cool off those dancing shoes with one of the “Pure Pours.” The Knickerbocker Ice Boulevardier ($11) is the nightcap you need. The bourbon-based cocktail with a touch of campari, sweet vermouth, and orange peel is the final answer to this night and hopefully loosens you up just enough to ask, “What are you doing Tuesday?” n

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abelaisian, bawdy, witty, robust, wild, lusty, protean, lecherous, luscious, the kind of man Ernest Hemingway wished he could be, Waldo Peirce (1884-1970) is Maine’s satyr prince of the art world. He devoured life. So whatever happened to his wives?

It’s well known Waldo was pals with fellow Harvard classmate John Reed (played by Warren Beatty in Reds); ran with the bulls at Pamplona with Hemingway; appeared as a character in The Sun Also Rises; and painted Hemingway across Europe and Key West, one canvas gracing the October 18, 1937, cover of Time magazine. But it’s not so well known that Waldo’s four wives were doorways for his perceptions. Most survey stories about the strapping six-foot, two-inch Bangor native barely get to his wives, or leave them out entirely. Let’s instead begin with them. septemBer 2018 51

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the ild Child Dark-haired, dark-eyed Dorothy Rice (1889-1960) was 18 when “Girl on Motor Cycle Laughs at Speedy Police” rocked Manhattan’s society pages in 1907. The heiress was “charged with driving motorcycles on Broadway at 35 mph… Bicycle Policeman Merritt was at Eighty-fifth and Broadway when Miss Rice and her party [of six millionaire teenagers] flashed by him, ‘burning up the asphalt…’ He pursued, but at Ninetieth street was still trailing by a block. Bicycle Policemen Walsh joined him, but the speeding sextette gave them their gasoline odor and dust… Miss Rice made them hustle for 12 blocks.”

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fficer Mallon finally “overhauled her at One Hundred and Twelfth street, where he coaxed her to throw out the clutch” on her beloved blue Indian™. “She begged and pleaded, shook her curls and stamped her feet, but Mallon was firm…” Dragged into 100th Street Station, her gang was photographed “in forlorn attitudes.” But Dorothy wasn’t vanquished. When the patrol wagon arrived to take them all to the courthouse for immediate sentencing, “Miss Rice asked to be allowed to sit beside the driver. Mallon, however, insisted on accompanying her to court on his motorcycle. When arraigned before Magistrate Hoffman her cheeks were radiant and she seemed to enjoy the episode.” From whence the insouciance? Her fa5 2 p o r t l a n d m o n t h ly m a g a i n e

ho was dorothy rice, really daddy le t a 40m ortune when he died, according to the t . Born in Bavaria, isaac rice was a new yor lawyer colu bia law , pro essor o law, usician, chess genius and i presario the rice ga bit was his signature , publisher maga ine , railroad counsel, and tycoon reading railroad, etc. . he wasn t ust a board piece he was the entire ga e o monopoly. all o which pales when co pared to his ounding the holland torpedo Boat co. later na ed electric Boat now nown as general dyna ics electric Boat . he and his subcontractors including fore river shipyard in uincy, massachusetts built stunning eets o u.s. navy sub arines or orld ar i and ii, as well as sub arines or Britain he too us under the waves. the rice ansion, “ illa ulia” on riverside drive still standing at 343 est 89th street , is a Beaux arts asterpiece na ed or her o , ulia rice, m.d., an intellectual, activist, and social powerhouse. hen tugboats on the hudson river rattled her teacups, she triu phed in a success ul co unity and newspaper ove ent to control their noise.

ther owned Electric Boat. He didn’t just build the Navy’s submarines, he held the patent for them. The Rice kids and their friends were so rich their clubhouse was the St. Regis. Dorothy studied sculpture and painting in the Art Students League, with private instruction and encouragement from Robert Henri, William Merritt Chase, John Sloan, and George Bellows. These men in capes liked her art, and they didn’t mind her fa-

ther’s money, either. They suggested a oneartist show. Splashy venue, unbelievable press anticipation, jealousy from other artists. Likely, Dorothy sensed it was time for a new address. Cruising to Europe, she painted in a castle in Madrid and studied under Joaquín Sorolla when she wasn’t in Paris (she met Rodin at his studio days after the Titanic went down). “My work went very well, partly due to me and partly to my subconscious,

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lassmate George Biddle introduced her to her future husband during her second winter in Paris, when she was 23. “It seemed he had a friend called Waldo Peirce who, he assured me, was just as crazy as I was,” Dorothy writes in her 1938 autobiography Curiouser and Curiouser. “I was interested… I inquired Waldo’s height—he was six feet two. This seemed a dignified height. I told George to produce Waldo, which he did. “We got married in Madrid, in a German Methodist Church, with the American vice-consul, who was a Filipino, to make it legal.” How droll. Why did the world press

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channel their romance so deeply? To begin with, these sexy ex-pats were a perfect match as risk-takers. Harvard football star Waldo had once hopped aboard a freighter bound for England with classmate John Reed, then dove overboard halfway out of Boston Harbor, leaving Reed to defend himself from charges of Waldo’s “disappearance” and “murder.” Waldo’s punchline for that prank was to meet Reed at the docks when he reached England, having caught a faster ship. They also shared vast fortunes (for Waldo, it was timber money on both sides of

his family). They were a dream couple, with talent overload. Nothing could stop them. “We lived in Spain in the summer and Paris in the winter, but we fought in both places,” Dorothy writes. “We couldn’t agree who was the better artist. In 1914 Father and Mother and the family were in St. Petersburg. I was on the way up to meet them when the War broke out, so I went with them to England, and then home. Waldo joined an ambulance corps and stayed behind.” In France.

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an aMeriCan ven s “But while her husband was away, the adventurous Dorothy learned to fly at the Wright School in Mineola, New York, and earned pilot’s license No. 561 from the Aero Club of America on August 23rd, 1916, becoming the tenth woman in the United States to be licensed to fly,” reports check-six.com. Dorothy was seven full years ahead of Amelia Earhart, tearing up the clouds with her dashing flight instructor, a Navy lieutenant junior grade whose

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ly never looked at my canvas, concentrating entirely on my condition… When [Ignacio] Zuloaga came in he was terrifically impressed. He said it was by far the best picture I’d ever done. From then on, whenever I’d reached the finishing touches, I would drink black coffee and turn the matter over entirely to my subconscious.” Dorothy’s canvases grew close to room size.

dad, Elmer Sperry, had invented the gyro compass. Young Lawrence Sperry used his father’s invention to invent the world’s first turn-and-bank indicator, the world’s first retractable landing gear, and the world’s first autopilot, according to www. check-six.com. On November 21, 1916, Sperry and Dorothy gave his autopilot a test run while aloft in Dorothy’s “personally owned Curtiss hydroplane… The gyro-stabilizer…was knocked off, and the plane descended into the waters a half mile off the shores of Long Island’s Great South Bay…” Because such details can be delicate, check-six.com lets Sperry pick up the story: “It was only a trivial mishap. We decided to land on the water and came down perfectly from a height of 600 feet and would have made a perfect landing had not the hull of our machine struck one of the stakes that dot the water, which staved a hole in it.”

Check.six.com resumes: “The [gashed, sinking] plane became entangled in fishing nets” when “a pair of duck hunters who witnessed the plane’s plummet to Earth rowed out to the crash site to help the now waterlogged aviators [hanging onto the debris]. They noticed that both Sperry and [Mrs.] Peirce were naked! “Sperry quickly stated that the force of the crash ‘divested’ both [himself] and Peirce of their clothing.” Because ‘accuracy, accuracy, accuracy’ is the watchword for legends of this nature, check-six.com brings the claim home with, “Sperry later confessed to a friend that the duo were involved in the physical act of love, and that he must have accidentally bumped the gyro-stabilizer platform while maneuvering. And although their flight occurred well below 5,280 feet, the pair of lovers are generally recognized as the first members of the Mile High Club. ...In the

end, in the autumn of 1917, Dorothy Peirce filed for divorce [while Waldo was off winning the Croix de Guerre for his heroism], citing non-support and cruel treatment. Mr. Peirce did little to contest the divorce– and was rather happy to be separated from Dorothy’s mother, whom he referred to as ‘the umbilicus.’” orothy and Waldo were such a dream couple that Psychology Today points to their breakup as an unnerving cultural phenomenon. Newspaper stories from the period grappled with the question of how a relationship between two such perfect—even “eugenic”—individuals could fail. The December 9, 1917, issue of the San Francisco Chronicle included a full page spread on Dorothy and Waldo’s divorce with photographs of the unhappy couple, entitled “The Sad and Very Imperfect Romance of a Perfect Man and Perfect Woman.” The article stated that when Dorothy and Waldo married in 1912, the public saw it as “the test of a new biological theory—the mating of two per-

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way. ‘Ivy,’ Rosalyne Frelinghuysen, a contemporary, recalled, ‘was the youngest in the salon, so she always poured the tea.’ Both she and Waldo were characters in Hemingway’s The Sun Also Rises, according to Mrs. Frelinghuysen.” Hemingway had become obsessed with Waldo’s stories. “He may have seen a photo of Waldo in his [uniform] in the Chicago Tribune in 1918… Perhaps this image helped spark Hemingway’s desire to volunteer…” writes Dr. William Gallagher of Bangor, an expert on Waldo Peirce, in the Harvard Review. Gallagher notes that once Hemingway reached the front in northern Italy, “He may not have driven an ambulance very much at all… Hemingway drove an ambulance at most three times. Hemingway ended up distributing candy, cigarettes, and postcards in the Rolling Canteens.” Many of the bloody, frightening sequences with ambulances that Hemingway is so famous for happened to Wal-

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1920s,” according to the New York Times. “She and her husband were intimates in the small circle of American expatriates that included F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald, Gertrude Stein, and Ernest Heming-

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the draMa een vy Troutman (1884–1979) was an actress who appeared “in at least 21 Broadway productions between 1902 and 1945,” according to Wikipedia, many of them long-running hits, one of them, The Late George Apley, a satire on Boston high society co-written by George S. Kaufman and John P. Marquand, running through 384 shows. Dark and lovely, Ivy traveled to Paris. In August 1920, she married Waldo and moved into his flat at 77 Rue de Lille. She “turned briefly to painting while living in Paris and southern France in the

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fect persons.” Call them “the beautiful ones.” Things get a shade darker when you consider that according to Waldo’s grandson, Will Peirce of Kittery, a landlord and former assistant to Francis Ford Coppola (including a screenplay draft for Inevitable Grace), Waldo was upset about the way Dorothy broke it off. “I believe my father (Michael Peirce) told me she had an abortion. Waldo was sure it was his child.” “Dorothy remarried and became a world-class bridge player with her husband, Hal Sims [they met when he chartered her aircraft], until his death in 1949,” writes check-six.com. Even in bridge, she was famous for her “nonconformity… developed during her early childhood,” writes the New York Herald Tribune in her obituary. “She passed away [in Cairo, Egypt] in 1960,” still working as an international political news correspondent. Among her many achievements, Dorothy wrote the mystery novel Fog, with Valentine Williams. The cruise liner Barbaric, bound for Southhampton from New York, becomes haunted by an icy mist. A murder is discovered. Then a clairvoyant vanishes, sparking a “cycle of fear” among the passengers, who turn on each other. How Dorothy affected Waldo’s art: Mysterious, intuitive, unapologetic Dorothy elevated Waldo into a stratospheric sphere of clients and opened up his audience to collectors with deep New York pockets. As for her intellectual elan, Dorothy is credited with nothing less than coining the word “psychic.” In bridge, she invented the term “psychic bidding.” Waldo should have known it was dangerous to try his luck.

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t h e a rt s do Peirce, with Hemingway transmitting Waldo’s larger-than-life stories straight into his work. “By then, [Waldo and Ivy were dividing their] time among Paris, various locales in France, Hammamet in Tunisia, and trips back to the states for Ivy’s career and his own art shows in New York,” Gallagher writes. he Kardashians of their day, our expatriates got a lot of ink. Even Ivy’s fender bender was world news, from the New York Times to the Peoria Journal Star: “Paris, July 16 [1929]. – Mrs. Waldo Peirce, wife of the American artist, is resting comfortably at home after injuries in an automobile accident. The automobile in which Mrs. Peirce was riding was greatly damaged but she escaped with slight bruises. She was treated at the Versailles clinic nearby the scene of the accident and went immediately to her home. Mrs. Peirce formerly was Ivy Troutman, noted actress in New York. She married Peirce nine years ago,” but that marriage was not to last. According to her former paperboy, Jim Forest: “In 1951, Ivy purchased a rundown mansion on Newman Springs Road [in Tinton Falls, New Jersey], a short walk from our house. Built in the mid-19th century, shortly after the Civil War, Ivy presided over a restoration that transformed the near-ruin into a palace. For some reason, she took a special liking to me. The result was that I put Ivy at the end of my newspaper route, as she often invited me to stay for a while. Serving me a small glass of Dubonnet (imported from France but with water added in deference to my age), she often

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“After the war ended, she joined the colony of American expatriates living in Paris, thus becoming one of the ‘lost generation,’ a term coined by Gertrude Stein (whom Ivy knew but didn’t much like) and popularized by Ernest Hemingway…”

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—Jim Forest talked about her days as an actress… The First World War took her to Europe to perform for the troops. “During her Paris years, Ivy had been a close friend of James Joyce. Perhaps the greatest treasure in her treasure-filled house was a copy of the first edition of Joyce’s Ulysses, published by Shakespeare & Company. Joyce had penciled in corrections on nearly every page… Ivy had a breathtaking art collection. I found especially fascinating a small Alexander Calder mobile hanging in the living room and, in a hallway, one of Calder’s large single-line circus drawings. Occasionally Ivy had parties—soirees—for friends living in New York. Though Ivy had a maid, I was asked to put on my Sunday best and serve drinks. The guests were mainly theater people. One of the regular guests was Raymond Burr, eventually to become best known for playing lawyer Perry Mason… The only material gift from her that I still have is a delightful watercolor by Waldo Peirce. Peirce himself is on the left, manfully cutting down a tree, Ivy seductively reclining on the right, and the Maine wilderness, in which Peirce had grown up, in the background. It hangs in our living room.” September 2018 59

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vy was dumped for 22-yearold Alzira Handforth Boehm, granddaughter of Vienna-born August Abraham Boehm, the high-flying developer who built an 11-story skyscraper in the Manhattan Diamond District that was one of the first in the world. Known as 14 Maiden Lane or “The Diamond Exchange,” it’s still there. Little Miss Skyscraper’s grandfather also worked with Maine native Sir Hiram Maxim to bring gasoline combustion engines to Europe. As in, automobile engines. Dark and sexy, Alzira studied at the Art Students League in Manhattan and later studied in Paris. As a sideline, “her poetry was published in The New Yorker,” according to Wikipedia. “She taught art,” too, the site says. Among her students: “Gahan Wilson.” She and Waldo “met at a Matisse show in New York,” Gallagher writes. “Pregnant before Waldo married her, Alzira spent some time in Key West and visit-

Family portrait of l ira, Waldo, Michael, and Mellen the twins were born ctober rd, . l ira’s grandfather also built he angham, a tony econd mpire high rise at 5 Central Park West. Costing 2M to build, it hit the light fantastic with modern amenities including real ice,’ according to Wikipedia. Notables including Mia Farrow, obert yan, and Carly imon have lived there. he building has cinematic appearances in o e at irst ite, and anna and er isters. he site reports that when the building was listed for sale in 2 , estimates of the price went as high as M.

ed with Hemingway. In 1930, Waldo took Alzira back to Paris where she delivered twin boys in the American Hospital, the very hospital where Waldo often delivered

the Verdun wounded.” They had two sons, Michael and Mellen, and one daughter, Anna. [Mellen Chamberlain Peirce is an active poet and

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Art lovers have seen one of Waldo’s post-oﬃce murals in the Portland Museum of Art. But did you know that Alzira’s 1939 mural Shipwreck at Night is in South Portland’s Post Oﬃce? playwright who lives in London. In his 80s, Mellen has been explosively coming out with book after book of new poetry since 2007. His wife is Gareth Peirce, the human rights activist attorney for the Birmingham Six and Gerry Conlon and the Guildford Four. Emma Thompson was nominated for an Oscar playing Gareth in

the 1993 movie In The Name of the Father, with Daniel Day-Lewis also nominated for his role as Conlon.] n 1938, both Alzira and Waldo joined the Works Progress Administration as a husband-andwife team. Ellsworth’s City Hall is graced

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by an Alzira mural, Ellsworth, Lumber Port. During World War II, Alzira was an Army captain in the American Red Cross Motor Corps. When the war was over, she and Waldo divorced. “She moved to New Mexico and worked as an organizer for the United Mine Workers,” according to Wikipedia. Alzira’s talent, drive, and the children

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Mysterio s earth Mother very artistic endeavor leaves a door unopened. But here’s a peek at Waldo’s fourth wife, Ellen Antoinette Larsen: “I spoke with my Aunt Karin,” Will Peirce, Waldo’s grandson, writes. “Her mother was Ellen Larsen, born in Minneapolis in 1920, passed away in 2001. She studied art in New York—she painted. A friend of Ellen’s used to model for Waldo, and she and Waldo went to a

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eanwhile, another mysterious bit of flotsam on the internet suggests their creative relationship might have been even deeper: “Waldo Peirce… came to live in Newburyport for a while… They were painting my daughter’s portrait at the time. The same portrait, I might add, that turned out to be something. Waldo would work in the morning and his wife would work on it sometimes in the afternoon. Keep that quiet.” ■

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well-known cafe or restaurant where Ellen waited tables. It was during wartime. The romance started there. She preferred the quiet life in Maine, but she kept a pied-à-terre in Manhattan. After they got married, she modeled for Waldo, as did his kids. There was no escaping that job in our family! Her painting style resembled Waldo’s sometimes. Sometimes it was quite different.” Art writer Sarah Sargent of Virginia, who knew Waldo and Ellen, dates their marriage to 1946. “They seemed genuinely devoted to each other. She was yin to his yang. A slight, graceful woman, she was quiet, much younger, and a serious painter in her own right. With her, he’d finally met his match, and their 24-year marriage endured until his death.”

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aldo Peirce’s Penobscot Girls sold for $31,720 this year at the first Barridoff Gallery auction held in the new South Portland location. The painting, which depicts Peirce’s daughter Anna and model Halldis Prince on the banks of Maine's Penobscot Bay, was a stunner in the 1938 Whitney Biennial Exhibition of Contemporary American Painting. At the time, Prince was a high-society ‘it girl.’ A search of her name produces snapshots taken with the elite of the American art circle: Helen Hayes, Joan Crawford, Charlie Chaplin. She even graced the cover of the December 23, 1940, issue of LIFE magazine. Described as “a blonde Bostonian who made good in Manhattan as a model,” Halldis is the star of the issue’s feature “Life Goes to a Party: with a pretty young girl and 340 celebrities…” The painting belonged to one of Peirce’s nephews who says it was given to his mother and father, Rachael and Victor Reis, and had remained with the family for over 60 years.

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t 47 West Broadway in Bangor, three children grew up in a Gothic mansion surrounded by a black wrought-iron fence decorated with spiders, bats, and three-headed reptiles.

Inside, Stephen and Tabitha King wrote novels while their kids experimented with their own stories. Two of the children—both boys—would go on to become award-winning novelists, and the eldest would take her writing talents to the pulpit and become a minister. in the beginning As a fellow at the University of Maine, Tabitha immediately recognized her boyfriend’s gift, as she herself was a writer with an editor’s eye. In 1967, Stephen sold a short story to Startling Mystery Stories—his first professional sale. The two married in 1971 shortly after gradseptemBer 2018 77

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uation. While working to keep a roof over their heads and food on the table, they started a family, with Naomi their first born. When the novel Carrie skyrocketed Stephen into the recognition that had eluded him, his career was on its trajectory. “I was cognizant that our family was different,” Owen King, 41, the youngest sibling, says. “However, my parents did everything they could to be regular members of the community. They were accessible. They were present.

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veryone knew my old man. He was always at the store, a game, or the movies wearing his old jeans and his ball cap. He’s very approachable. That made a huge difference, so it was a little easier for me to fit in than you might expect. “[Bangor] made it possible for me to have a relatively normal childhood. I don’t know exactly how that played into becoming a writer, but I’m grateful for it,” Owen says. This grounded sense of self might explain Owen’s earlier works, which strikingly did not channel his father’s love of horror, nor match Stephen’s prolific output.

“Even if I were writing a story set in, say, ancient Greece, I’m sure there’d be a touch of Maine in the landscape I described.” —Owen King “I worked so hard for so many years on Double Feature,” Owen says of his 2013 novel. “I came so close to quitting on the book [before I was able] to get to the other side and to have it resemble what I’d originally imagined.” Owen’s hard work paid off. Double Feature drew resounding cheers, with David Thomas of the New York Times Sunday septemBer 2018 79

Book Review venturing some constructive criticism. “The novel is maybe a third too long, chiefly because as he wanders around King can hardly see a place, a face or a chair without embarking on a wordy, if not literary, description of it.” Even so, Thomas finishes with a big thumbs up: “[Owen] should persevere, for when he is good—and that is often enough to make a page-turner of this book—he has a captivating energy, a precision and a fondness for people that are rare and that make the reader doubly impatient for him to do what he does best.” Owen did persevere, and in 2017 his epic novel Sleeping Beauties was published. Co-written with his father, Sleeping Beauties woke up the critics. Xan Brooks of The Guardian credits Owen with revitalizing his father’s work. “Maybe all [Stephen King] required was his son’s intervention,” Brooks writes.

or Owen, Sleeping Beauties has played a much different role. “I’m sure there are plenty of people who won’t believe it, but neither of us went into

“If you publish a book, you have to accept that you have in a way given it up. Now it belongs to the world, and the world gets to say whatever it wants.” the project thinking ‘we’re going to write a big bestseller.’ We wrote Sleeping Beauties because we had this idea that we were both excited to explore. We didn’t know if it would work. We didn’t even know if we’d be able to finish, [or] if we’d be able to mesh styles and create a shared voice that was coherent,” Owen says. “More than

anything, I was excited about the opportunity for us to spend the time together that we got to spend.” The steep slope of collaborating with his father was not lost on Owen. “He was pretty successful already. He didn’t need any help from me.” But helping is a family tradition. It was

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i s n ’ t that Tabitha King who retrieved three wadded up sheets of paper that were the beginning of Carrie from the trash. The novel ultimately ignited Stephen’s career and brought nearly 100 more novels to bookstore shelves. CatChing FlaMes On May 18, Joe Hill, a New York Times best-selling author, tweeted, “Another writer I admire also has a story available on the internet.” In the tweet, Hill provided a link to a 32-page manuscript by his father, Stephen King. Born Joseph Hillstrom King on June 4, 1972, Joe recalls that throughout his childhood he’d write stories and share them with his parents. Since age 13, he’s maintained a daily writing routine, completing at least four books by the time he was in his mid-teens. But it was during his time at Vassar College (where brother Owen also graduated) when the writer Joe Hill was born. “When I went into writing,” Hill confided to The Telegraph in 2016, “I had to know

that if someone bought one of my stories they’d bought it for the right reasons—that it is a good story and not because of who my dad is.” Joe Hill, now 47, divorced, a father of three, and living in New Hampshire, has since learned to make peace with his dad’s fame, telling GQ in 2017, “I sort of put aside my pride and started writing screenplays as Joseph King.” In fact, it was a screenplay that Joe and Owen wrote together that produced a paycheck. After three years of working on the supernatural murder mystery Fadeaway, “we came up with a script that up to this day I still feel is one of the best things I’ve ever been involved with,” Hill says. Meanwhile, Hill’s fourth novel, The Fireman, was published, pushing him to the top of The New York Times best sellers list. “Hill’s work is often compared to that of his father Stephen King, but it is time we treated him as standing on his own,” writes The Guardian’s James Smythe. Leading up to The Fireman, Hill and

his father had collaborated, too. In 2009, Joe and Stephen wrote the novella Throttle. Their second novella, In the Tall Grass, came out in 2012. Netflix recently announced buying the rights to In the Tall Grass, with plans to adapt it into a feature film. disappearing into storytelling s for how much labor goes into a labor of love, “The first draft of [Sleeping Beauties] took something like 10 months to write,” Owen says. “There was additional writing on either end, though.” He and Stephen “started out writing the story as a television script and actually had two full episodes. When we switched to prose, we used those episodes as narrative blueprints. Then, once we had a first draft, it took us a while to get the book into its final shape. If you put it altogether, there was probably twenty months of writing that went into Sleeping Beauties. The collaboration was honestly such a delight. It was so fun to plan stuff out with my dad

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and to see the way that he approached each particular character and scene. He continually surprised me in the best possible way. I treasure the time we spent talking it all through. I often felt challenged to match him when he wrote something especially great, but I liked that too. “There have been positive reviews, negative reviews, readers who loved it, readers who hated it, and plenty in between,” he says. “It all comes with the territory. If you publish a book, you have to accept that you have in a way given it up. Now it belongs to the world, and the world gets to say whatever it wants. I’m happy that readers are engaging with the book.” sensations and inspirations t took a while for Owen to get here from there. Early on, “I’d had some anxiety about being able to commit myself to the number of solitary hours I knew being a writer required.” The big change came when “I took a class called Senior Composition when I was a college senior, and that made me feel like maybe I could become a writer,” he says. “You had to produce a fairly large number of pages of fiction, and they came pretty easily for me. While I liked to write stories as an adolescent, and I felt I had some talent for it, I wasn’t dedicated.” He waits a beat. “That is, I wouldn’t let myself become dedicated. The earliest story I can vaguely remember writing was something in third or fourth grade. It featured Hammett’s detective Sam Spade, who I’d learned about by watching a little of The Maltese Falcon with my dad.” ‘Senior Comp.’ changed everything for Owen “so completely that I decided I wanted to attend graduate school and try to get an MFA in fiction writing.”

the Maine ingredient Although Owen chose to keep the name King, he and his wife, bestselling novelist Kelly Braffet, moved from Bangor to upstate New York as they both carved out their own careers. Despite living 20 years ‘away,’ Owen knows his writing doesn’t stray too far from his roots here. “Maine has always been an accepting place; a place that’s all right with eccentricity.” Owen boosts the “amazing environment” as another lure for writers. “I would 8 2 p o r t l a n d m o n t h ly m a g a i n e

is n’t t h at hypothesize that Maine’s biggest influence on my writing has to do with setting.” Well, naturally. His father has made many fictional Maine small towns places of wonder for readers. Derry and Castle Rock are likely the most recognized. Derry was the setting for his 1986 novel, IT. Castle Rock–now also the title of a Hulu series that follows the intertwined storylines of past King novels–first appeared in The Dead Zone (1979). “Even if I were writing a story set in, say, ancient Greece, I’m sure there’d be a touch of Maine in the landscape I described,” Owen says. “I saw Maine first, and I saw it for quite a while. Everything since appears [to me] in comparison.” on ard With Sleeping Beauties by his side, Owen has made it made it clear that he wants to keep growing. “I read as widely as I can. I don’t want to get stuck in a rut. I don’t want my perspective to get smaller. I want it to get bigger.” Owen’s growth as a writer is paralleled by Braffet’s, whose novels have received high praise from those who know, including Boston-based writer Dennis Lehane, who describes Save Yourself as “an electrifying tomahawk missile of a thriller with honest-to-God people at its core.”

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eople are always very curious about how it works with the two of us both being writers and working at home,” Kelly says. “I think they expect it to be far more interesting than it is. Honestly, he has his office, and I have mine. I always joke that we spend all day in different rooms together. Sometimes we meet up in the kitchen for lunch. During the day we text a lot.” Owen’s marriage to Kelly is what he lists as his “best accomplishment” to date. so yo ant to rite Owen’s best advice to fledgling writers? “Your work will be rejected, and it will be discouraging, [but] you have to keep pushing ahead. I can be quite persistent once I’ve set my teeth into a project. There’s a lot of rejection in my line of work, and you can’t let it beat you down. Even enormously successful writers get told ‘No’ frequently. The New Yorker doesn’t publish everything George Saunders sends them, I promise you.” ■ septemBer 2018 83

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openings every six to eight weeks,” Lewis says. “Celebrating artists is a way to support the community and share ideas. A certain kind of person will be drawn to a gallery, but here at Clay Hill people are coming in for food. Then they see the art. We are able to bring this gift to people who might not even know they need it.” on the table on the all The Good Table’s proprietor, Lisa Kostopoulos, started exhibiting art for personal reasons. “For years, dominated by old photos and antique bric-a-brac, the decor was dubbed by one reviewer as antiquated,” Kostopoulos says. “That got me going. Plus, I love living with my art at home.” Working with Portland artist Marilyn Blinkhorn, Kostopoulos redesigned the restaurant, gracing the walls with Blinkhorn’s striking paintings brimming with rocks, waves, and meadows. It presents a sense of place similar to the restaurant’s setL ting in Cape Elizabeth. “I was going to have rotating shows, but I couldn’t part with the work.” She bought the entire show for $3,000. In 2013, she designed a bar with “fabulous blue walls” ideally suited for hanging the work of other artists, too. “The shows rotate every six to eight weeks. The work sells. My staff and I buy, as well as

the diners.” But Kostopoulos does not take commissions, saying, “I feel like I am getting the gift.” For Stacy Cooper of Biscuits & Company in Biddeford, the decision to exhibit art was made “the minute we opened.” Rotating once a month, openings are timed for Biddeford’s First Friday Artwalk. “I wanted this restaurant to be part of a community where people could see art and hang out,” Cooper says. “It’s like you’re coming Mother and daughter team auren lmarode, artwork at right, and andi emmerman, above, take over onobo in Portland’s West nd.

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art habitat his is a new venture for us,” Jennifer Lewis says of her family-owned Clay Hill Farm in Cape Neddick. The restaurant, the first ever to be recognized by the National Wildlife Federation as a bird sanctuary and wildlife refuge, sits on 11 acres of rolling lawns, colorful gardens, and protected woodlands. “We have the space to bring the outside in. With our herbs and gardens, we bring ingredients in with our food, but being here is so experiential. I wanted to expand the boundaries and long dreamed of creating a sculpture garden on these beautiful grounds.” In April of this year, she serendipitously discovered sculptor Patrick Pierce (pictured on previous page) while meeting with his wife Kathleen Deely Pierce of the Maine Restaurant Association. Pierce launched into the sculpture project with vigor, creating Dreams Feed Me (on view through November 2018). “I love the longevity of the A site, a farm since 1794 that is nature-forward,” Pierce says. “I like adding energy; it’s a collaboration with nature that opens the way toward participation.” Inside Clay Hill is the newly opened VerandArt, a gallery situated in one of the smaller dining rooms. It’s “perfect to showcase one artist’s collection with festive

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n view at Bonobo in Portland through September 9 is another family collaboration–by Lauren Almarode and Sandi Lemmerman, a mother-and-daughter team. A small magical painting, Mountain Landscape, created by nine-year-old granddaughter Bela Almarode, is included. Offered $100 for it by a smitten buyer at the opening, Bela declined. “I like having the painting with me,” she says. Union Restaurant at the Press Hotel hosts openings of quarterly exhibits on its lower floors–a designated, well-designed space. Curated by Erin Hutton, director of programming at MECA, the works are not officially for sale by Press Hotel, but Carla

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not easy being green “We began collecting plastic waste during field studies,” Shaw says. “In 2012, I started looking at the breakdown of waste into microplastics–the miniscule fragments of plastic that we found even in the so-called ‘pristine’ waters of the Blue Hill Peninsula.” Tune into the zeitgeist and you’d be hard-pressed to miss the global buzz around single-use plastic waste. Everyday eco-warriors avow the merits of reusable water flasks over your discardable bottle of Poland Spring. Requesting a plastic straw with your drink is now a cardinal sin. “People are struck by the image of the shorebird filled with plastic toothbrushes and the littered beaches in India and Thailand–and that’s a truly worthy cause,” Shaw says. “But I think–no, I know– they don’t understand dangers of microplastics. It’s the plastics you don’t see that are the real danger. The tiny fragments moving through the food chain–moving through us.” Shaw has since formed an international coalition with fellow scientists called Plastics and the Human Health Connection with the express purpose of measuring the threat of microplastics to human health. “We’ve found a way of identifying microplastics in the bloodstream. Now we ask, what is the impact on the human body? On the brain? Can it cross the blood-brain barrier and interfere with neural transmissions? My instinct? Yes, it can. And I think they’re inside every person to a varying degree.” t rning the tide Like Carson working in the postwar boom of industrial growth, Shaw faces an unfriendly political climate. “Plastic is a multi-

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aine owes its statehood to slavery. Remember this when, in two years, we celebrate Maine’s two hundredth anniversary. In the midst of the platitudes and sales that will accompany the state’s bicentennial, remember the context that created Maine. Freedom for Mainers exacerbated slavery for black people, and strengthened slaveholders’ power. The Missouri Compromise enabled Maine to become a state. In 1818, Missouri applied to become a slave state. If Missouri permitted slavery, the South would control twelve states to North’s eleven and disrupt a tenuous balance of power. Slavery was only one difference between the regions. Northerners favored strong central government, cities, high tariffs, infrastructure, farming, manufacturing, and banking. Southerners desired weak central government (except when prosecuting fugitive slaves and securing land), low taxes, and profits from slavery funneled back into plantations. By the 1820s, the North’s economy no longer needed slave labor, although northern shipping, fishing, farming, and finance profited mightily from the South’s slave society. Few Northerners wanted to abolish slavery; most wanted slavery, and black people, to remain in the South. Maine provided a solution for the dilemma Missouri caused. Congress declared in 1819 that Maine’s admission as a free state would be tied directly to Missouri’s entrance as a slave state. Congress should have called the compromise it passed in 1820 the Missouri-Maine Compromise.

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Without Maine, the balance between slave and non-slave states could not have been achieved. A rule also emerged for slavery’s future. For roughly thirty years, Missouri’s southern border marked the wall that separated slaveholding from non-slaveholding states. Maine’s independence strengthened slavery elsewhere. As slaveholders’ power grew, so did an abolitionist movement. A party opposed to slavery’s spread arose in the North. The South, foreseeing slavery’s demise, attempted to dissolve the Union. Civil War ensued. Hundreds of thousands died. Much of the South smoldered in defeat. Slavery fell in blood and ash. Its death nearly cost the nation its life. Mainers rightly celebrate their role in keeping the nation together, especially during the Civil War. Maine takes pride in that terrible event’s creation of what Abraham Lincoln called the nation’s “new birth

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f not honor and pride, then honesty and integrity require that, alongside the expressions of jubilee, Mainers recognize how their independence came with a cost. After 1820, slavery spread. In the 1830s alone, 300,000 black men, women, and children were forced to move south, and between 1800 and 1860, more than one

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destroyed black families, inflating prices for black men in their prime working years and black women in their prime birthing years. The domestic slave market placed a premium on black women as breeders of slaves. The spread of slavery in the U.S. perpetuated rape and sexual violence, separated babies from parents, and promoted citizenship based on white racial purity. These are not the topics a state usually includes when it recognizes its origins, but Maine is in a unique position to signal to the nation an important lesson: compromising on evil has incalculable costs. ive of Maine’s seven Congressmen— Martin Kinsley, Joshua Cushman, Ezekiel Whitman, Enoch Lincoln, and James Parker—wanted to prohibit slavery’s spread into new territories. In 1820, they voted against the Missouri Compromise and against Maine’s independence. In their defense, they wrote that, if the North, and the nation, embarked upon this Compromise—and ignored what experiences proved, namely that southern slave holders were determined to dominate the nation through ironclad unity and perpetual pressure to demand more land, and more slaves—then these five Mainers declared Americans “shall deserve to be considered a besotted and stupid race, fit, only, to be led blindfold; and worthy, only, to be treated with sovereign contempt.” As we approach the bicentennial of Maine’s statehood, Mainers should celebrate the leaders who voted against Maine statehood, because they refused to support the spread of slavery. Maine occupies a unique position in the nation’s history. It can name as heroes in a bicentennial celebration legislators who stood against its independence. They knew that freedom that promoted slavery was not freedom at all, and not worth the price. In commemorating them, we can build the courage to follow their lead on current issues of consequence. One hundred years from now, when a new generation of Mainers gathers to mark statehood, it will look back on 2020, the year we remembered those who stood against independence, and for freedom. ■ r. rian urne is a rofessor of fri ana tudies and . . histor at o doin Co e e.

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na tempranillo ($7) and a Foris Rogue Valley Oregon pinot noir ($5.50) as we consider dessert. A square of mousse-like milk chocolate caraway tart shot with orange caramel, which is flanked by a scoop of toasted brioche ice cream and scattered with crunchy dark chocolate crumbs ($9), is an absolute show-stopper to conclude this delicious feast. ■

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dish of Squid Ink Spaghetti ($14) is a wonderful contrast. Black, toothsome strands of fresh pasta are tossed with chopped razor clams, very tender, and Calabrian chili, anchovy, lemon, and parsley. It looks and tastes dramatic and bright. Our server, Carrie, has explained earlier that, as at Stadler’s other establishments, dishes are delivered as they are turned out in the kitchen, and are intended as familystyle, to be shared. This system worked well for us because we found it impossible not to taste everything. Lio’s ambitious menu includes such

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cant miles inland from the summer hubbub of Route 1 and the tourist-laden towns of the midcoast from Wiscasset to Newcastle is another world, one of soft backroads passing ancient fields and quiet villages. One sees gentle rivers, white steeples, and beautifully kept 18th and 19th century houses. But, even in this rich landscape, one is brought up short at the first sight around a bend of a great square yellow house set back from the street behind ancient lilacs. Its flush board façade is adorned with pilasters. A perfect Palladian window looks out from above a semicircular portico, all surmounted by a large cupola behind a delicate balustrade. Nearby is a carriage house with a graceful row of arched doors. All seems unaltered in its setting of ample lawns against a background of ancient pines, below which a fragrant path winds to the shore of Damariscotta Lake. septemBer 2018 117

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his community, building St. Patrick’s, the first Catholic Church in Maine. In 1803, the time had come to build a house commensurate with his wealth and position, and in housewright Nicholas Codd, also a an Irish émigré, Kavanagh found the perfect designer to give shape to his dreams. Little is known about Codd’s early years. His biographer, Andrew Gerrier, notes that he came to Newcastle by 1801 after his marriage to Margaret Coffin of

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avanagh” is one of the great Federal houses of Maine, built in 1803 by James Kavanagh, the richest man in the district. An Irish Catholic émigré, Kavanagh and his friend Matthew Cottrill left their native County Wexford to escape British oppression and arrived in Boston in 1780. By 1788, they’d moved to Newcastle on the Damariscotta River in what was then the Province of Maine. There they opened a general store and prospered. Soon they made wise investments in lumber and shipbuilding, as well as the new toll bridge that connected Newcastle to Damariscotta. In 1795, for £1,018, they purchased two lumber mills and a grist mill on 576 acres known as Lithgow Farm, later adding a fulling mill–giving rise to the name of Damariscotta Mills for the surrounding village. Now a very rich man, Kavanagh began to give back to

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Nantucket, perhaps brought there by Kavanagh and Cottrill to build their own houses. By 1803, Codd’s first child was baptized by Bishop Carroll of Baltimore, who’d arrived to consecrate the new brick St. Mary’s donated by Kavanagh. After those two houses, Codd went on to build a string of Maine’s finest Federal-era houses, including the famous James McCobb “Spite House” in Phippsburg and the Captain William Nickels house for McCobb’s brother-inlaw in Wiscasset. It is not known where Codd received his architectural training; in Boston, where he first lived after arriving in America, or in his native Ireland. It is clear that, as with most of the talented housewright-architects of early 19th century New England, he made excellent use of the English and American architectural pattern books of the

day. As Earle Shettleworth noted in a recent conversation, Codd’s designs certainly owe more to Federal New England–the Boston area in particular–than late Georgian Ireland. Even so, the exterior of the house has European-inspired refinement. The flush board façade is meant to emulate smooth stone, the pilasters at the corner give gran-

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deur, and a wooden belt course at second floor level emulates similar features in stone buildings. Passing through the large front door from the semi-circular portico, one is in a hall of unusually sophisticated detail for the time and place.

he far end is apsidal, with a long curving stair rising to the second floor. Each broad and shallow step is a wooden box set upon another in imitation of the selfsupported stone stairs of England, and in the newel post is set an elaborately carved ivory inlay, bearing the designer’s initials, “N.C.,” high tribute by the owners. The hall doors are trimmed with elegant molding, ending with a flourish in scrolled volutes at floor level, a feature unique in Maine. The attic was lit by a skylight whose source was an unusual glass floor in the cupola above, possibly added in Victorian times. The second floor hall is septemBer 2018 121

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large enough for a seating area in front of the beautiful palladian window looking out to the neighboring countryside. The eight major rooms of the main house are large and high with large windows with deep reveals containing folding shutters in each. Each room

has a chimney breast and fireplace projecting from the end walls with elegant mantels. The drawing room is where Codd outdid himself, however, with a paneled wall with pilasters dividing doorways and arched cabinets, with an intricately carved cove and bracket cornice surmounting the whole. On this writer’s recent visit with a noted decorator friend, the friend nearly gasped at the

proportions and light of main bedrooms, pronouncing them ‘superb.’ Behind the stair hall, a small first floor room, now a bath, with a large north-facing window, was designated as a “Prayer Room,” completed in time for use by the former missionary Father Jean de Cheverus, soon to become the first Catholic Bishop of New England.

he rear wing, believed to be the earlier house on the site, has its own simpler charms, its lower ceilinged rooms each with fireplace (there are 12 in the house), including the large cooking

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n old house is witness to many events. In 1854, with a wave of anti-Catholic sentiment sweeping the region, and threats to burn St. Patrick’s in the air, the Church valuables were brought to “Kavanagh” for safekeeping. In the 1940s, the grand old house caught the imagination of a new neighbor, the poet Robert Lowell, living across the street with his wife, writer Jean Stafford. Although the house had always been loved and well maintained by its affluent owners, Lowell reimagined it as a gaunt survivor, the setting for his third book of poems, The Mills of the Kavanaughs. In 1959, Admiral Frederick Gore Richards and his family, who lived in a brick house in Newcastle village, were facing the construction of new Route 1 behind their house. Seeking a new home in the region, they happened upon “Kavanagh,” and became its new owners. It was a happy moment for the house, which was gently updated and maintained with great sensitivity, and for the Richards fam-

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