Portland Monthly Magazine Summerguide 2011

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CHRIS BOTTI September 29, 2011 • 7:30 pm

CREOLE CHOIR OF CUBA October 14, 2011 • 8 pm National Broadway Tour

“MONTY PYTHON’S SPAMALOT” October 20, 2011 • 8 pm October 21, 2011 • 8 pm

HANDEL & HAYDN SOCIETY October 29, 2011 • 3 pm

GOOD VS. EVIL: ANTHONY BOURDAIN & ERIC RIPERT November 3, 2011 • 7:30 pm Neil Berg’s

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Summer 2011 exhibitions

Andrea Sulzer, Untitled (detail), 2011, colored pencil, 78 x 50 in.

Amy Stacey Curtis, 22 Hour Drawing, 2010, graphite, 22 ½ x 22 ½ in.

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Emerging Dis/Order : Drawings by Amy Stacey Curtis, Alison Hildreth, and Andrea Sulzer through September 10 curated by William Low Alison Hildreth, Untitled (detail), 2011, graphite and ink wash, 72 x 38 in.

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George Platt Lynes, Marsden Hartley, ca. 1942, Silver print, 9 ¼ x 7 ½ in.

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Selected Drawings and Photographs from the Marsden Hartley Memorial Collection through September 5

Andrew and Jamie Wyeth: Selections from the Collection of Victoria Browning Wyeth through October 2 curated by William Low and Victoria Wyeth funded in part by the Mr. and Mrs. Raymond J. Horowitz Foundation for the Arts

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Summerguide 2011

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Features 58

Who’s On First…Sunrise

104 Anatomy of a Skyline

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Maine Fra Diavolo

116 Love on the Rocks

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Notorious in Cape Elizabeth

127 Keeping Up With the Kangs

A host of locations fights for the right to claim “first sunrise in the U.S.” From Staff & Wire Reports America’s hottest chef shares his love affair with Maine and flirtatious renditions of our traditional lobster dishes.

Interview by Colin W. Sargent

Vertical ventures: A century of skyscrapers in Portland.

By Patrick Venne “As the ocean is never full of water, so is the heart never full of love.”

From Staff & Wire Reports

Cinephiles ready your bids–Ingrid Bergman’s summer ‘home away from Sweden’ is up for sale.

By Colin W. Sargent

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Twenty-first century collectors from mainland China are bidding up a storm at Maine auctions.

By Colin Sterling Sargent

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96 Dream Islands

Yes, you can own an island paradise.

By Karen E. Hofreiter, Benjamin Goodridge, & Bethany Stone

Cover: “Sunny Side Up,” by Don Dunbar. See story, page 58.

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Features 133

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133 No Fear of Flying

You want to talk about a jump suit.

By Jeff Nebelkopf

Special advertising section

136 Where to Stay

143 Lobsters on a Plane

Maine lobsters so cosmo­politan they aren’t even from Maine anymore.

By Colin W. Sargent

149 A Belvedere of

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165 The Young & the Restless

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Young George and Barbara Bush vamp for American Vogue.

By Colin W. Sargent

177 Live in Hollywood, Thrive in Maine

Kirsten Dunst has just won Best Actress at the Cannes Film Festival. So naturally she’s “living wild” with health guru Daniel Vitalis.

Interview by Jeanee Dudley

Lost Amenities

Ferris wheels, luaus, swimming in the sky…oh, how we miss our hot spots of yesteryear.

By Colin W. Sargent

157 Back $tories

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What does become an heirloom most?

By Brad Emerson

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24 From the Editor 26 Letters to the Editor 30 Imperitifs 33 Book Review

Special advertising sections

179 2011 Guide to Wellness 180

205 House of the Month

The lost city of Deering.

By Colin W. Sargent

A steal in Naples.

207 New England

36 Goings On 55 Chowder 162 Cuiscene

Homes & Living

225 Fiction

“Wildlife Control�

By Mameve Medwed

Wacky Maine foods.

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Dollars & Sense

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Performance

239 Flash

Summer nights out on the cheap.

By Karen E. Hofreiter Actress Karissa Staples.

Interview by Jenna K. Quantararo

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Restaurant Review

173

Dining Guide

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Golfing in Maine

Traveling with Arrows.

By Diane Hudson

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Picture Yourself Here

Bangor Theological Seminary in Portland: new adventures for the mind and spirit at the country’s third oldest seminary

BTS, the third-oldest seminary in the U.S., offers adventures for the mind and spirit to those seeking academic challenge, personal enrichment, deeper engagement in issues of social justice, a challenging spiritual life, or a vocational call. In both Portland and Bangor, we provide a rich array of learning opportunities that span religion, spirituality, theology, social justice, ethics, world religions, pastoral studies, and gender and sexuality studies. Individuals are welcome to study full or part-time and to enroll in a program or take classes one-by-one.

Our agship program, the Master of Divinity (M.Div.) program, combines excellent academic preparation with mentored practice in church and community settings. It prepares individuals for lives of justice, compassion, and service. Many of our M.Div. graduates become extraordinary leaders at places of worship, in organizations, and in communities around the world.

Our Master of Arts (M.A.) program offers advanced study enriched by inquiry, intellectual rigor, a dynamic learning community, and a variety of perspectives.

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I’m driving behind a New Mexico license plate–yellow with red letters in celebration of how much sunshine they enjoy in the great American Southwest. “If you love your ‘Land of Enchantment’ so much,” I laugh, “what brings you to Vacationland?”

Because we’re ‘cool,’ for one thing–‘the nation’s air-conditioner.’

Then, too, New Mexico sunshine comes cheap, the way views of the Atlantic come cheap here. Can you believe the shimmering slice of Rockland Harbor the Rockland Dunkin’ Donuts indifferently sits on? Don’t you love the Hannafords in South Portland with the luxury to turn its back on sparkling views of the Portland skyline?

Maine’s rare and ethereal sunshine is more exotic for its fragility, for the way our blue dungeon fog swallows our coastline in the morning before lifting its veil to expose the sun’s icy, extraordinary rays.

I love Emily Dickinson’s line, “I’ll tell you how the Sun rose–A Ribbon at a time.” Did you know that no fewer than three places in Maine claim to catch the first precious rays of sunshine to greet the United States each morning? (See our related story “Who’s On First Sunrise?” on page 58). This summer, it’s time to meet our sunshine personally.

Consider the romance (or lack thereof) implied by the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) list of the sunniest cities in America. To Portland’s 57 percent, Yuma, Arizona, pants with a crispy-fried 90 percent. Las Vegas, Phoenix, and Tucson have 85 percent, followed by Key West at 76 and Miami at 70 percent.

Maybe our 57-percent sunshine ‘solution’ is not so bad after all! On the dark side, there’s Juneau, Alaska, America’s ice tray, with just 30 percent sunshine. For the full list, visit portlandmagazine.com/sun.

Besides, whoever said fog isn’t beautiful? Steve Martin has quipped, “A day without sunshine is, well, night,” but the flip side of that is, “A city without fog is demystified.” Assuming you’re not an extraterrestrial, which city would make the most intriguing date–the diaphanous world capitals of London, San Francisco, Port­ land…or Roswell, New Mexico (74 percent)? Because on top of being flattened by too much sun, I hear Roswell’s a little spacey.

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Tailgating Sunshine

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I know Chris and Abby will be as pleased as I am for the cover-to-cover attention you have devoted to us. Thanks again!

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stardust memories

Loved your story [“Into the Woods,” May 2011] on Lakewood Theater. It brought back wonderful memories of my performing there in 1977 in Neil Simon’s God’s Favorite starring Imogene Coca. We toured the show starting in Raleigh, North Carolina, and also at Lakes Region Theatre in Laconia, New Hampshire. Our final stop was Lakewood, and it was a dream come true for me after 25 years of reviewing Lakewood as WCSHTV’s theater critic. Great stars like Humphrey Bogart and Bette Davis used to do summer stock. Those days are gone. I saw, reviewed, and interviewed a young John Travolta there in Bus Stop. In God’s Favorite, Rita Rudner played my daughter. She was then a young New York actress and is now our number one famous female stand-up comic. Great memories. Delighted Lakewood is still going strong.

Fritzi Cohen, Portland

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the faces and places of the last 25 years. …In 1980 there was a feeling of a new era, starting on the corner of 446 Fore Street at a new pub called Three Dollar Deweys. It was the brainstorm of owner Alan Eames, who said the name came from the days of the old West, where in brothels you could buy favors from the ladies employed there. The favors included $1 lookies, $2 feelies, or $3 deweys.

As one of the original employees, I can tell you that on that corner started the local craze for imported beer, and it was also where many ideas of brew pubs started.

Deweys was the first! One of the owners of Gritty’s started as a bartender [here]…

The picture in the [“What’s 25 Years Between Friends?”] article on page 39 of the bartender with the mustache that you identified as being Gritty’s is actually Three Dollar Deweys. The bartender’s name is Vincent, and I worked with him many times. I would say it was taken around 1983. The brick arches of the bar at Deweys are visible. The shirt the bartender is wearing with the man behind the bar with the pull taps was designed

by Alan Eames.

It was such a special time, in spite of the indulgent haze of the 1980s. The memories remain. Thank you for a great magazine.

Michelle R. Faoiz, original employee of Three Dollar Deweys (1980-1987)

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By Maine’s Finest Artisans [“Chowder,” April 2011], because the Dept. of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife was not. I feel very lucky to have had a personal experience with an enigma similar to Bigfoot: It was late spring/early summer 2006. I was traveling I95 South past Medway. It was about 11:30 p.m. and pouring rain. A very large cat leaped across the roadway in front of me. I swerved into the left lane to avoid the animal. It came to a sitting position in the breakdown lane, so I got a good look at it. It was as large as a Labrador retriever but longer. It was wet but had short, fluffy, orange hair. The ears were large and rounded. In the sitting position, its head was higher than a guard rail. The photo in your magazine is exactly what I saw…

Inland Fish & Wildlife would not believe me and insisted I‘d seen a bobcat. I have lived in Maine all my life, and I know my animals. I come from a family of outdoor enthusiasts. I have petted a dead bobcat. IF&W tried to convince me [what I saw] was a lynx. It certainly was not. Lynx are long-haired and fluffy, have pointy hair on their ears, and are gray.

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Did they not listen to what I said? Highway! Late at night! Pouring rain!

My uncle had a farm outside Houlton, and he reported seeing a “mountain lion” at the back of one of his fields. He said the size of it intimidated him, and he was scared for his life. That was about 30 years ago.

Over the years, I have heard a good dozen stories of cougar sightings. Everyone said their claims were dismissed by IF&W. What doesn’t IF&W get? These are nocturnal animals that require a large territory.

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Uncovering the Lost City of

Deering

The Coyle Mansion perched grandly above what would become Baxter Boulevard, with Portland’s emerging skyline in the distance. The rear ell of this building still stands at 57 Clifton Street.

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ortland’s peninsula has always had a press agent. In contrast, the lost city of Deering, as revealed in Deering: A Social and Architectural History, by William David Barry and Patricia McGraw Anderson (Greater Portland Landmarks, hardcover, 216 pages, $37.95), brings us a poignant story that delivers a very personal feel for the suburb lost between who we are and who we dreamed of being.

With her corners, ponds, neighborhood stores, and marshes, Deering emerges as Portland’s jealous younger sister, overlooked and alluring, in this lushly produced and thoughtfully written book, ten years in the making and designed to dazzle any coffee table and intrigue history buffs who love to make connections.

Because Deering is a living history project, the questions run deep: •What impelled us to come together in so many ‘corners,’ such as Morrill’s Corner, Rosemont Corner, and

the mysterious Woodfords area?

•What unrealized ambition allowed us to erect a mini skyscraper like the Odd Fellows Hall on 649 Forest Avenue, only to maroon it as a footnote to history and build a Dunkin’ Donuts nearby instead?

•What long-forgotten mansion once peered down on us from the center of Baxter Woods between Forest and Stevens avenues, with only its granite front gates surviving in 2011 to tantalize the curious?

You Go, Girl

The collective sense of Deering’s feminine aura goes way back, Barry, coauthor of the Portlandbased novel Pyrrhus Venture (Little Brown, 1983), says.

“By 1871, Deering had evolved from a neighborhood into a town. In 1891, it became an incorSummerguide

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It’s All of Us, Really Three people “have approached me to let me know they appear as children on the front cover of the book,” Barry says. “The little boy on the pony is Carl Barker. Then there’s Jeannine Sullivan, whose father ran Sullivan Camera. Beverley Knudsen came up to me after I finished a presentation at Falmouth Library. She pointed to a little girl in the picture and said, ‘That’s me.”’

Redcaps at Union Station. “Cattle used to graze at a pond where Union Station Shopping Center’s parking lot is today, after they came to the area from points west along the Great Road to Coos. That’s why the parking lot is still shaped like a bowl.”

porated city–a rival of the Portland peninsula. Then, in 1899, against its will, amid speeches and marches, Deering was joined to Portland,” Barry says.

“Deering voters voted against it. Portland voters voted for it.”

This was a national trend, he notes, “the same period when America was annexing Puerto Rico and the Philippines. Both Boston and New York were expanding and annexing suburbs at the same time. Big was good.

So why not add Deering?”

As for Deering’s distaff anima, “There’s a wonderful cartoon we found for the book.

It’s a gentleman, ‘Portland,’ pitching woo to Mademoiselle ‘Deering.’ It’s a bit uncomfortable! The caption reads, ‘I’m tired of being a brother to you…come!’ Talk about a shotgun marriage.”

As he does so successfully in these pages, Barry touches on the larger connection: “You could write American history using Deering and not be too far off the big picture.”

Enlightened Trajectory

With Barry unveiling the social history and 3 4 p o r t l a n d m o n t h ly m a g a z i n e

the late Anderson deftly pointing to trends in Deering’s architecture as expressions of a larger culture–it is she who so evocatively delineates Deering’s love for her “corners”–the book is a thoughtful tour of dreams deferred and men who would be king.

“In 1804, James Deering built the Deering Mansion on land he acquired from the Noyes family. He was a successful merchant and Portland’s first suburbanite. The mansion used to sit at the top of the hill on the USM campus, sloping down where Interstate 295 is today. Imagine, all of Deering Oaks was his front yard.”

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nother of Deering’s last emperors who wished to be aloof from the shipyards on the Peninsula was Capt. J. B. Coyle, for which Coyle Street, which connects Woodfords Corner to Baxter Boulevard today, is named.

“Coyle was a teetotaler who wanted to get out of town. He was a wealthy fellow, a self-made man. Even though he earned his fortune from the Eastern Steamship Company, he didn’t like a lot of the riots on the Portland waterfront, where many poor Yankees had congregated. Many of these were riots over nothing, like in Gangs of New York. He was at the head of a trend. A lot of people

made their money on the waterfront but didn’t want to live there. They didn’t want a brick in the head. Portland was very rough, very ‘interesting.’ So these people removed to gated estates.”

Surprise After Surprise

The book’s stunning color image of Coyle’s vanished mansion with Portland’s barely imagined skyline in the background “is one of Brown’s best,” Barry says of acclaimed local artist Harrison Bird Brown. “It shows how marshy Back Cove is, and how there were little streams on Forest Avenue that are now culverts with serpentine drains. You see them out there in the mud. Eventually the Coyle Mansion was torn down.”

Then the surprise: “Except for a remnant of the original ell, which still exists at 57 Clifton Street, hidden in plain sight. You can drive out and see it.”

After you drive out and buy this book, that is. From the area’s Native Americans to the heartbreak of the polluted Presumpscot River to the Model T’s and Model A’s for sale along Forest Avenue’s famous Auto Row and many of the greasy spoons that invigorate Deering as a singular area today, it’s gratifying to understand we live and work in a how-town that’s far more full of wonder than just a place be-

tween places.

For example, this book doesn’t just show us a perfunctory photo of Union Station. Instead of rich rail travelers that a project 30 years ago might have highlighted, we click closer for a fantastic snap of some of the redcaps who handled the baggage and helped carry the region to this point in time.

In so many ways, Deering gives voice to the invisible world that’s always been under our feet.

“Portland could never have existed on its own, at the harbor’s edge. It needed the Deerings to sustain it. As they say, the almshouse is always at the edge of town.”

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Revealing the unseen

•After the Civil War ”there were thousands of hobos in Deering. Deering documents show that one year alone they were taking care of 500 hobos. A law dating to Elizabethan times protected their right to come home and stay at the almshouse during the winter months. In summer, they rode the rails all over the country, looking for work.”

•The parking lot at Union Station Plaza is shaped like a bowl “Cattle used to graze in a pond there after traveling here from Vermont on the Great Road to Coos [the Indian name for the Connecticut River].”

•We tore down a racetrack and stadium behind the present Deering High School that had a grandstand and seats for 10,000.

•Thompson’s Point, very much in the news just now as the proposed site of a convention/sports center called The Forefront, was man-made. “It was a round lagoon called the Roundabout–an amazing area that was a transfer table for trains. Now, it looks like it’s going to be something again!”

Beyond the cultural emergency that every graduate of Deering High School must own this gorgeous book and send it to friends as a gift (full disclosure: this reviewer is Deering High ’73 and “loyal to the purple” per the school’s fight song), a far larger audience of individual readers, collectors, and libraries will prize it for its striking photographs, amazing trivia, canny analysis, and puckish sense of humor. It’s indispensable as the sequel to Landmarks’s companion publication, Portland: A History.

If you enjoy the yin and the yang of things, I recommend you buy them both. n Purchase Deering: A Social and Architectural History at mainehistorystore.com/deering, portlandlandmarks.org.

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lvis Costello loves to keep things as fresh as Maine’s salt air, which translates to a mix of exciting new material beyond his hits when he lights up State Theatre in Portland July 28. As he told The Observer in London before wending his way here, “If you depart from what people know you for… you run the risk of horrifying them.

But that’s not the end of the world.”

If you’ve already ponied up $45 to $70 for his sold-out show here (scalper tickets could crest $200), you may not just have a great time, you might inspire a new burst of creativity from the composer, because, as he’s explained to

fans, “Where you are seeps in somehow.”

Regarding ‘seepage,’ here’s an insider tip: Costello, 56, née Declan Patrick MacManus, chose his stage name as a tribute to Elvis Presley, who by coincidence was scheduled for back-to-back summer concerts here August 17-18, 1977 at Cumberland County Civic Center. When Presley showed up dead, over 12,000 local tickets

had been sold, at $15 and up. The concert was so close to happening, Presley had sent his manager, Col. Tom Parker, in advance to line the windows of his hotel room at the Sheraton Tara with tin foil as proof against aliens.

Immature? As Costello observed to The Observer: “I’ve never liked the word maturity. It implies decay.” n

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23.-Sept. 3. 985-5552 arundelbarnplayhouse.com Belfast Maskers, 43 Front St., Belfast. Dancing at Lughnasa, Jun. 30-Jul. 9; USO Tribute Show, Jul. 4; Pirates of Penzance, Jul. 28-Aug. 6; Talking Heads, Sept.

15-25. 338-9668 belfastmaskers.com Boothbay Playhouse, 275 Wiscasset Rd., Boothbay. Seussical the Musical, Jun. 23-Jul. 9; Nunsense, Jul. 13-23; Guys and Dolls, Aug. 3-20; Call Me Madam, Sept.

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Acadia Repertory Theatre, 1154 Main St., Somesville. The Mystery of Irma Vep, Jul. 1-17; 44 Plays for 44 Presidents, Jul. 19-31; Blithe Spirit, Aug. 2-14; Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the Jersey Lily, Aug.16Sept. 4. 244-7260 acadiarep.com

14-24. 633-3379 boothbayplayhouse.com Carousel Music Theater, 194 Townsend Ave., Boothbay Harbor. Hello Happiness!, Jun. 18-Jul. 18; Those Roaring 20s, Jul. 20-Aug. 15; Bandstand, 1960, Aug. 17-Sept. 12; Hooray for the USO!, Sept.14-Oct. 13.

633-5297 carouselmusictheater.org Celebration Barn Theater,194 Stock Farm Rd., South Paris. Mrs. Smith Goes to Washington, Jul. 2; The Early Evening Show, Jul. 9; Timepiece, Jul. 23; Totally, Jul. 30; Exceptions to Gravity, Aug. 6; The Soiree, Aug. 27.

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Children’s Museum and Theatre of Maine, 142 Free St., Portland. Little Red Riding Hood, Jul. 22Aug. 1. 828-5726 kitetails.org

Enjoy your morning coffee with harbor views from our relaxing waterfront decks. Visit our quiet Victorian B&B, just steps from the charming shops and restaurants of Boothbay Harbor village.

Deertrees Theatre and Cultural Center, 162 Deertrees Rd., Harrison. Bikinis, Aug. 4-7; Burt and Me, Aug. 11-14; Monsters! The Musical, Aug. 17-21; Breakfast With Mary, Aug. 24-28.

583-6747 deertreestheatre.org Fenix Theatre Company, 81 Spruce St., Portland (performances in Deering Oaks Park).

Love’s Labors Lost, Jul. 14, 16, 22, 28, Aug. 5, 11, 13; Waiting for Godot, Jul. 15, 21, 23, 29, Aug. 4, 6, 12.

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Freeport Community Players, Freeport Performing Arts Center, 30 Holbrook St., Freeport. Pirates of Penzance, Jul. 14-31; The Foreigner, Sept. 15-Oct. 2.

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Ten Nights In A Barroom, Jun. 29-Jul. 2; A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, Jul. 6-23; Singin’ In the Rain, Jul. 27-Aug.13; The 39 Steps, Aug. 17-Sept. 3.

698-1807 hackmatack.org Lakewood Theater, 76 Theater Rd., Madison. Heaven Help Me, Jun. 23-Jul. 2; Sugar, Jul. 7-16; Moon Over Buffalo, Jul. 21-30; Once Upon a Mattress, Aug. 4-13; The Red Velvet Cake War, Aug. 18-27; To Kill a Mockingbird, Sept. 1-10.

474-7176 lakewoodtheater.org Lucid Stage, 29 Baxter Blvd., Portland. Vivid Motion, Jul. 13-17. 899-3993 lucidstage.com Lyric Music Theatre, 176 Sawyer St., South Portland. The Butler Did It, Jun. 17-26.

799-6509 lyricmusictheater.org Penobscot Theatre Company, 131 Main St., Bangor. Northern Writes: 5th Annual New Play Festival, Jun. 21-Jul. 3. 947-6618 penobscottheatre.org Portland Opera Repertory Theatre, Merrill Auditorium, Portland. La Fille du Regiment (The Daughter of the Regiment), Jul. 28, 30. 879-7678 portopera.org St. Lawrence Arts Center, 76 Congress St., Portland.

Special Needs-A night of standup comedy with Selena Luna; Aug. 3. 775-5568 stlawrencearts.org Schoolhouse Arts Center, Rt. 114, Sebago Lake Village. Narnia, Jul. 6-24; Beauty & the Beast Junior, Summerguide

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Emmylou HarriS State Theatre 609 Congress Street, Portland July 30, 956-6000 statetheatreportland.com Jul. 29-31; Teen Summer Shakespeare Production, Aug. 12-14; Unnecessary Farce, Sept. 9-25.

642-3743 schoolhousearts.org Stonington Opera House, Stonington. Much Ado About Nothing, Jun. 30- Jul. 16; Elizabeth Rex, Jul. 7-16; Mrs. Smith Goes to Washington, Aug. 25.

367-2788 operahousearts.org The Theatre At Monmouth, 796 Main St., Monmouth. Black Fly Follies, Jul. 2; Much Ado About Nothing, Jul. 7-Aug. 20; The Compleat Wrks of William Shakespeare, Abridged, Jul. 10, 20, Aug. 2, 17; Room Service, Jul. 14-Aug.20; Blithe Spirit, Jul. 22-Aug 19; King Lear, Jul. 29-Aug. 18; James and the Giant Peach, Aug. 2-19. 939-9999 theatreatmonmouth.org The Theater Project,14 School St., Brunswick.

Stuart Little, Jul. 22-24; Boxers-A Collection of Shorts, Jul. 29-30; Twelfth Night, Aug. 5-14; Harriet the Spy, Aug. 19-21. 729-8584 theaterproject.com Waterville Opera House, 1 Common St., Waterville. Ellen Tipper Concert, Jun. 24.

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Bar Harbor Music Festival, Bar Harbor. Brass Venture, Jul. 1; Sexy Spaniards & Latin Lovers, Jul. 3; Christopher Johnson, pianist, Jul. 8; Pops Concert, Jul. 10; New Composers Concert, Jul. 13; The Barber of Seville, Jul. 15; Wolverine Jazz Band, Jul. 17; Inesa Sinkevych, pianist, Jul. 22; 4-Hand Piano Concert, Jul. 24; Acadia National Park Outdoor Concert, Jul. 28; Bob Noonan Memorial Concert, Jul. 29; Bar Harbor Festival String Orchestra, Jul. 31. barharbormusicfestival.org Bay Chamber Concerts, Strand Theatre, Rockport Opera House and Farnsworth Wyeth Center, Rockland. Dancing in the Street, Jul. 3, Camden Harbor Park; Bach to Schumann, Jul. 7; Young Stars of Maine, Jul. 8; Time for Three, Jul. 13; Three + Curtis = 8, Jul. 14;

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Choreographer’s Showcase, Jul. 8; The Poet’s Love with Napoli and Souvenir, Aug. 5, 6, 12, 13.

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Portland Downtown District’s Live at Five concert series, Monument Square, every Thursday July 7-August 4. Free.

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RX Bandits, Jul. 16; Marc Broussard, Jul. 24; ZootZ, Jul. 30; The Tedeschi Trucks Band, Aug. 19; Justin Townes Earle, Aug. 23. 899-4990 portcitymusichall.com

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St., Portland. International Piano Festival, Jun. 22-30; Festival Concert, Jun. 25, 27; Tamara Poddubnaya, Jun. 26; Rising Star Concert, Franco American Center, Lewiston, Jun. 27. 775-3356 portlandconservatory.net Portland Symphony Orchestra, Eastern Promenade, Portland. Stars and Stripes Spectacular, Jul. 4.

842-0800, 842-0812 TTY portlandsymphony.com The Saltwater Music Festival, Thomas Point Beach, Brunswick. July 31. saltwaterfest.com Space Gallery, 538 Congress St., Portland. Josiah Wolf, Jun. 26; A Reading and Signing with Simon Van Booy, Jul. 20. 828-5600 space538.org State Theatre, 609 Congress St., Portland. Underoath, Jul. 11; Reel Big Fish, Streetlight Manifesto, Jul. 24; Elvis Costello, Jul. 28; Beirut, Lady Lamb The Beekeeper, Jul. 29; Emmylou Harris, Jul. 30; John Butler Trio, Jul. 31; Dweezil Zappa Plays Zappa, Aug. 4; Gusta, Ra Ra Riot, Aug. 6; Bob Weir, Aug. 6; Taj Mahal, Aug. 13; Bela Fleck & The Flecktones, Aug. 27.

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Stone Mountain Arts Center, 695 Dug Way Rd., Brownfield. Inanna, Jun. 30; Stone Mountain LIVE, Jul. 2; Le Vent Du Nord, Jul. 8; Marty Stuart and the Fabulous Superlatives, Jul. 9, 10; Pine Leaf Boys, Jul. 16; Waltzing’s for Dreamers, Jul. 17, Aug. 18; Robert Cray, Jul. 18; Mary Chapin Carpenter, Jul. 20, 21; Mountain Heart, Jul. 22; Jimmy Webb, Jul. 23; The Wailin Jennys, Jul. 28; Oumou Sangare, Jul. 30; Del McCoury Band, Aug. 3; Bob Marley, Aug. 4; Chris Smither, Aug. 12; Ellis Paul, Aug. 13; Colin Hay, Aug. 17; LIVE Anniversary Show, Aug. 20; Kris Delmhorst and Session Americana, Aug. 27; Richard Thompson, Aug. 30. 935-7292 stonemountainartscenter.com The Temple, 50 Temple Ave., Ocean Park. Ashley Liberty and Daniel Strange present a concert of original music, Jul. 17. ashleyliberty.com

Don’t Miss Bark in the Park, Hadlock Field, Portland. Sea Dogs vs. Altoona, dogs welcome. Jun. 26. 346-8606 Bates College Midsummer Lakeside Concert Series, Florence Keigwin Amphitheater, Lewiston.

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Cellardoor Winery, Rockport Village. “Pop the Cork,” incl. release of 2011 Artist Series, music by Huey Lewis and The News, Jun. 23. Advance tickets required. 236-2654 mainewine.com Children’s Museum and Theatre of Maine, 142 Free St., Portland. Camera Obscura, ongoing.

828-1234 kitetails.org Compass Project Boat Building Festival, Back Cove at Preble, Portland. Boat building, celebration at East End Beach, Jul. 8-10. 774-0682 compassproject.org Grand Lake Stream America, Grand Lake Stream.

July 4th celebration: children’s games, 3-mile race, frog races, blueberry pie-eating contest, tubing, parade, music by Sweetback Sisters. grandlakestream.org KahBang Music Festival, Bangor waterfront.

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North Atlantic Blues Festival, Rockland’s Public Landing Jul. 16-17. northatlanticbluesfestival.com Penobscot Bay Rendezvous, Thomaston, Rockland, and Camden. “Maine’s Regatta of the Season,” Aug. 18-21. penobscotbayrendezvous.com Saddleback Mountain Bluegrass Festival, Saddle4 8 p o r t l a n d m o n t h ly m a g a z i n e

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829-9203 skylinefarm.org Summer in the Parks Concerts, Portland. Western Prom: Rob Simpson, Jul. 6; Darien Brahms, Jul. 13; Mark Farrington, Jul. 20; Sorcha, Jul. 27; Phantom Buffalo, Aug. 3; Will Gattis, Aug. 10. Deering Oaks Park: Jon Call, Jul. 7; Delilah & Chandra, Jul. 14; Tangletoons, Jul. 21; Sparks Ark, Jul. 28; Sammie Haynes, Aug. 4. Eastern Promenade, Fort Allen Park: Marie Moreshead, Jul. 7; Don Roy, Jul. 14; Chandler’s Band, Jul. 21; Sean Mencher & Rhythm Kings, Jul. 28; Big Chief, Aug. 4; Banda di Nepi, Aug. 8; The McCarthys, Aug. 11. portlandmaine.gov

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Works of photographer Cynthia Farr-Weinfeld, to Jul. 31. 541-9600 Center for Maine Contemporary Art, 162 Russell Ave., Rockport. Robert Hamilton: Artful Living House Tour, Jul. 8; The Last Paintings, Jul. 10; Elizabeth Cashin McMillen and Duane Paluska: Counterpoint, Jul. 10; Shannon Rankin: Fathom Jul. 10; Steve Mumford: Embedded-Recent Drawings from Iraq and Afghanistan, to Jul. 10; Art to Collect Now–Benefit Auction Exhibit, Jul. 16-30; Reese Inman: Burn Drawings and Recent Paintings, Jul. 16-Sept. 25; Auction, Jul. 31; Inka Essenhigh and Richard Van Buren, Aug. 6; Ethan Hayes-

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Works of Cynthia Farr-Weinfeld Farnsworth Art Museum, Borealis Bistro in Portland Through July 31 16 Museum St., Rockland.

Four in Maine: Drawings, to Sept. 11. mariners in Deepwater Commerce, ongoing.

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Gallery artists’ show, Osher Map Collection. 781Maine Moderns: Art in Seguinland, 1900-1940, to Sept.

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Maine Maritime Museum, 243 Washington St., Bath. Cold Waters, Cold War: The 20th Century Navy in Maine, to Aug. 7; Snow Squall: Last of the American Clipper Ships, on-going; Distant Lands of Palm and Spice: Maine Ships and

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Historic House Museums Baxter Museum, 67 South St., Gorham. The 1831 birthplace of James Phinney Baxter, former Mayor of Portland and Gov. of Maine. Open Tu and Th, Jun.Aug. 839-5031 baxterlibrary.org Castle Tucker, 2 Lee St., Wiscasset. Federal-style mansion built by Judge Silas Lee in 1807. W-Su, to

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Built in 1785, purchased by Mrs. Emily Tyson in 1898, and restored to its former glory through the influence of the writings of Sarah Orne Jewett. W-Su, to Oct. 15. 384-2454 historicnewengland.org Joshua L. Chamberlain Museum, 226 Maine St., Brunswick. Partially-restored 1820s home of the Civil War hero, four-term Maine governor, and president of Bowdoin College . Tu-Sa, to Sept.

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Sarah Orne Jewett House, 5 Portland St., South Berwick. Jewett’s 1819 Georgian residence, F-Su, to October 15. 436-3205, 384-2454 historicnewengland.org Skolfield-Whittier House, 161 Park Row, Brunswick. Seventeen-room “time capsule” with Victorian furnishings and items from sea captain Alfred Skolfield’s world voyages. Tu-F, through Sept. 729-6606 community.curtislibrary.com Tate House, 1270 Westbrook St., Portland. Capt.

George Tate’s 1755 house with an unusual clerestory in the gambrel roof and an herb garden overlooking Stroudwater River. 774-9781 tatehouse.org Victoria Mansion, 109 Danforth St., Portland.

Historic house with collections of the High Victorian period. Built in 1858-1860 for New Orleans hotelier Ruggles Morse, the mansion’s interiors boast original furniture and decor. Tu-Su, group tours by reservation. 772-4841 victoriamansion.org Wadsworth-Longfellow House, 487 Congress St., Portland. Childhood home of poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, to Oct. 31. 774-1822 mainehistory.org –Compiled by Diane Hudson

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Jazz siren Tess Collins (the niece of Sen. Susan Collins) brings her internationally velvet vocals home to Maine this summer after a year-long tour of performing in Beijing. Visit facebook.com/ tesscollinsmusic to catch a local show.

In recent weeks, the people of Kennebunks have been haunted by the appearance of a mysterious peacock and his partner in crime, a peahen.

Judith Hunt, who played witness to the dynamic duo cavorting on Mille Fleur Farm, says, “It was just like magic…they loved the raspberries… [and the] hooting is just the most beautiful sound I’ve ever heard.” While the peahen has been captured, there’s still no word at press time on the whereabouts of the elusive peacock, who’s been seen on various rooftops.

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Marine biologists were mesmerized by the aquatic ballet of 150 right whales in the Gulf of Maine recently. Eat your heart out, Esther Williams.

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Royal Wedding watchers went gaga over “that dress,” yes, but also “that car!” The 1969 Aston-Martin the prince and princess drove away is a present Queen Elizabeth II gave to Prince Charles (frugally including a second engine for spare parts into perpetuity). Inspired ourselves, we asked the Bureau of Motor Vehicles to tell us how many Aston-Martins are registered in Maine. “Seven registered, one unregistered: one gray, one black, and one maroon Vantage Coupe; a black Vantage Convertible; a green Vanquish Coupe; a black Vanquish S Coupe; a silver Coupe; and a black Volante Convertible.” No royal blue, unfortunately. “We have one here in storage,” says Kal Rogers of Portland Motor Club. To put yours on ice it’s $2,400/year, including security, climate-control, tire pressure monitoring. portlandmotorclub.com

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DOLPHINS While a dolphin will snicker she’s ‘the genius of the sea,’ researchers from NOAA’s Northeast Fisheries Science Center found themselves outwitted by another artful dodger–the harbor seal. Despite a lower EQ*, the seals proved too Gingko Blue gets its name from the surrounding gingko trees lining the corner of Union and Fore streets. The ‘blue’ speaks to the live contemporary and classical jazz playing in the new lounge “every night we’re open,” says manager Nicolle Morneault. facebook.com/gingkoblue

There is nowhere quite like downtown Portland.

Prof. John Anderson of the College of the Atlantic offers a Swiftian tiebreaker: “Seals taste worse than dolphins. But with a leeetle garlic, some white wine…sorry. I don’t know much about relative intelligence.”

Bottlenose Dolphins Speed: 22 mph Weight: 575 lbs Movies: Day of the Dolphin, Flipper Books: Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy Habitat: Patagonia to Nova Scotia Communication with Humans: Sign language, whistles, five-word sentences EQ (*alternative measure of IQ): 2.5-4.5 A

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“A lot of people ask if our gummy lobsters taste like real lobsters. Most are relieved to find they’re strawberry-flavored,” says Arielle Morabito of Old Port Candy Company on 422 Fore Street. $8/lb, oldportcandyco.com. (For the real thing, a new alternative is Walgreens on Forest Avenue, where they’ve added a live lobster tank to their inventory. smart for 12 credentialed marine biologists recently (with ivy-league degrees, grant mon- Really. “I’d like a pound and a quarter with my Zoloft, please!”

ey, and Zodiacs?), who managed to tag only three seals after four days in Penobscot Bay.

Harbor Seals 15 mph–”Really, is speed intelligence?”

290 lbs–”More svelte, prettier pelt” Andre, Jaws 2–”Let’s not go there.”

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I Meet the Contender: Mars Hill

n the adorable French film Amélie, shy Amélie Poulain derives a secret joy from the tiny things in life, like “piercing the crust of crème brûlée with the tip of a spoon.” So it is with the crack of dawn in Maine, where crowds of pleasure-seekers tip the edge of darkness in communities from Bar Harbor to Eastport and Lubec to experience the first magic rays of sunshine to reach the United States from points east.

Yes, but which spot enjoys the very first, freshest rays?

“We fight about it–us and Eastport,” says Keith Johnson, who works under the shadow of Cadillac Mountain at Acadia National Park.

But really, Cadillac can verify the earliest sunrise only from October 7 to March 6, according to U.S. Naval Observatory records. Hundreds of rosy-cheeked adventurers scale the peak to catch the first glimpse of the New Year’s sun as it rises over the Porcupine Islands.

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Meet the Contender: Eastport

enjoys the first rays of sun in the U.S. “That’s definite­ ly Eastport!”

How ‘Eastport’ of her to say that.

“We have the most amazing sunrises and sunsets here. Actually, the very first sun rays come across Pleasant Point on the Quoddy Reservation [at Si­ payik, just to the north]. I go camping just to watch the incredible sun come up. My friend has the most beautiful pictures of the sunrise, taken from all an­ gles. I’ve told her, ‘You need to sell these!’” As for Lu­ bec’s claim, Eliason replies, “We’re north of Lubec [just as Pleasant Point is north of Eastport]. The sun hits us first.” Her hotel overlooks President Frank­ lin Delano Roosevelt’s summer retreat Cam­po­­ bello, the setting for Sunrise at Campobello. “Sunlight Clockwise, from top: Downtown Eastport; magic on the weirs; private party, with lobster boats attending.

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Sunrise, Sunset ”As the Millennium drew near, Gov. Angus King headed here to celebrate the first sunrise in the United States on January 1, 2000. But whose sunrise would he pick?” Ever the politician, the sly fox shared “sunrise in Lubec, sunset in Eastport.”

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out there Right: The first rays of sun hit the U.S. on the rocky shores of Lubec from March 7 to March 24 and September 19 to October 6.

says Deb Bridges, who runs the visitor’s center.

The red-and-white-striped lighthouse greets the country’s first sunlight March 7 to March 24 and September 19 to October 6 (U.S. Naval Observatory records). Revelers frequently make the overnight drive from as far away as Virginia to experience one of the earliest sunrises (though not the earliest).

Let’s not forget the dark horse–Mars Hill–with its ridge of windmills standing as sentries welcoming the sun March 25 to September 18. When asked whether Mars Hill

plays host to the first sunlight, Andrew Mooers of Mooers Realty plays the Swiss card, saying, “Each town manager will have a different spin on that one.”

At the end of the day, Nancy Asante’s spin might just pull Eastport into the lead.

“Lost in all of this is the claim less taken,” she says with silvery foreshadowing. “We also have the first moonrise.” n

>> To cast your vote or comment on any of these positions, please email us at staff@portlandmonthly.com.

Eastport — in a very good light photographs © Don Dunbar/Eastern Maine Images

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must be unimaginably used up and drab by the time it reaches Portland,” she laughs.

“Yeah, poor Portland!”

Nancy Asante of Eastport, one of four owners of The Commons, a historic gallery and artists’ retreat, says, “Eastport is the easternmost city in the United States. Lubec is the easternmost town. Each wins in its own category!” When we teetered toward the Millennium, “There was a huge geographic brouhaha about this. At sea level, the first rays of sunlight actually hit Sail Rock off Lubec. You won’t find it on a map. It’s just a tiny rock that looks like a sail. Strictly speaking, the top of Cadillac Mountain, with its couple hundred feet of elevation, may very well ‘see’ the first sunrise without being closest to it.”

When magic, science, and romance approach infinity as a limit, it’s complicated.

Then there’s West Quoddy Head Light in Lubec, the easternmost point in the continental U.S. “Out here, the sun comes up very early,”

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Everyone waves to each other, even to strangers. Phone numbers are exchanged with only four numbers. No dress codes and lots of friendly hellos. Our historic Port was invaded by the British in 1814 and the island occupied for four years. The British Occupation may be the reason Eastport celebrates the biggest and best 4th of July Celebration in Maine. Today the Port of Eastport stands as one of the key centers of International Commerce on the Coast of Maine. Thanks to a causeway system built during the last century this Maine Island of paradise is accessible by car.

Discover the best handcrafted mustards on earth at the century-old Raye’s Mustard Mill. Visit America’s oldest ship Chandlery, S.L. Wadsworth’s, - opened during the War of 1812 and still operated by the family of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. Walk in the steps along our streets where the Roosevelts’ shopped… often saying, “send the bill to The White House.” Our art colony is one of the oldest in America. Just up the river is the site of the first European settlement in North America pre-dating Jamestown, Virginia. Our closest neighbors are the noble Passamaquoddy, one of the oldest indigenous cultures in all of the Americas.

From our docks board our own Windjammer. Sail past FDR’s beloved home at Campobello. Discover our whales, seals playing in our waters and our eagles overhead. Eastport is one the last affordable seaside destinations in Maine. Antique shops, gift shops and art galleries await you. Our Restaurants allow you to enjoy your favorite cocktail, fill-up on your favorite Seafood, Salad or Burger at prices kind to your wallet. You’ll find one of Maine’s biggest Lobster Roll’s here and Maine’s oldest Diner. We have Hot Dogs of legend, a waterfront Ice Cream Shop and our own island Bakehouse. Our famous lodging offerings are like having your own island getaway.

Come to Eastport and experience the First Light of Each New Day in America for yourself. You’ll discover the real Maine you’ve been looking for. It still exists in Eastport.

Come for our people, history and unique festivals and celebrations. The Pirate Festival in Eastport is the best on the East Coast. Over 90% of the events are free to visitors of all ages. The entire town and visitors dress up like pirates. Our Salmon Festival is a world class culinary event. The Grand 4th of July Celebration should be on every Mainer’s bucket list. You can learn about our noble Native American Heritage at Indian Days in August and discover Eastport’s century-old Art Colony during Paint Eastport Day. Then come back for the Christmas Home Tours and New Year’s in the Square.

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Since you’ve collaborated with Eva Longoria on Beso, with locations in Las Vegas and Los Angeles, what Maine celebrity would you consider working with in this neck of the woods?

Our guess was Martha Stewart, who lives in Edsel Ford’s former mansion Skylands in Northeast Harbor. She loves you on the Internet. She’s mentioned your ‘bedroom eyes.’

He could even fly the celebrity diners in himself!

Well, how about the Forest City for your new restaurant? Think Wicked Wild Olives.

Let’s see. I’d partner with John Travolta.

We’d call our rustic Mediterranean restaurant Saturday Night Fever. Or Vinnie Barbarino’s.

I’ve never been to her place in Maine, but I’ve heard it’s amazing.

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How about locating a Figs here? Since your Figs restaurants specialize in Neapolitan pizza, wouldn’t it be perfect to locate one in Naples, Maine, a beautiful resort town with a causeway, sea planes, a scenic paddle wheel ferry–all on the southern tip of Long Lake? Steamy summer crowds.

Where is that? I’d like to go see that!

And then there’s Camden, where your mother’s lived for over 30 years. It’s very dear to you, isn’t it?

I love Portland, but I’ve been coming in to Camden for 40 years. Longer than that. I love what’s going on up there, with what [chef] Brian [Hill of Francine Bistro] is doing, all the chefs up there. It’s a good little restaurant scene.

There was a restaurant called John Wanamaker on an old seagoing tugboat. They used to dock in Camden, and you’d eat right on the boat.

Dining as theater.

Maybe that woke something up in me… Dinner as an event and dining as entertainment. Yes!

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My dream Maine bistro?

I’d partner with John Travolta. We’d call our rustic Mediterranean place Saturday Night Fever. Or Vinnie Barbarino’s.

and beautiful. I love the inlets. When you’re in Rockport or Rockland, the beautiful coves. Something right on top of the view. It’s like the fun Greek restaurants that are open in the summer. You get the beautiful fresh seafood, wood fires. You eat on the sand, on the beach.

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Lobster with nutmeg vinaigrette and chestnut purĂŠe

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Sex on the Beach…

Lobster’s a very rich shellfish, and then with the cream, it’s super decadent. It’s having your cake and eating it too.

The truffles marry the corn and lobster together.

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Once there was an old seagoing tugboat, the John Wanamaker, that used to dock in Camden, and you’d eat right on the boat…. I was 16, and it woke something up in me: cuisine as an event.

Your mother’s kitchen at Seamew in Camden puts you right in front of the sailboats in the harbor. Dramatic visuals, hungry ocean. Dish by dish, what’s your idea of a perfect summer supper at her place up here?

Soft shell lobsters. Call it a cliché, but to me it’s the thing I think of most. We get the lobsters from the local guys, spread out newspapers on the table, put the big pile of lobsters in the center of the table, and make homemade potato chips, fresh tomatoes and zucchini, and blueberry bread. My mother started baking blueberry bread I don’t know how many years ago. It’s kind of like ‘coffee- cake-meetspoundcake.’ Did I mention steamers with chorizo sausage?

Take us into your mom’s kitchen. What do we see?

It’s rustic, with an island in the middle. The floors are kind of crooked! It’s just very simple, humble, not fancy in any way. It’s open to the dining room and living room.

From left: English enjoys lobster bakes on the coast of Maine; John Wanamaker was made into a floating restaurant run by the Dunfey family, first in Camden and later in Portsmouth, NH, until 2002.

When you’re not visiting with your mom, what excursions do you make up here?

We usually do a hike up Mt. Battie–an outing in the afternoon. It’s a great exercise to burn off my mother’s cooking. We’ll go to the little outdoor chapel in Camden. Sometimes we’ll head over to Islesboro. For years we had a little boat we’d tool around in, like a mini lobster boat.

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You’re so connected to so many places, that this Maine connection of yours is a comparative secret. Where do you see your Maine experiences and connection to family being expressed in your cuisine?

So often, great food comes from great stories. The memory of sitting out on the deck or cooking on the beach. I remember cooking on the beach with my uncle from Calabria on the coast, just hanging out, doing food inspired by Maine and Maine ingredi-

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A lot of Mediterranean cuisine is based on seafood, just like in Maine. I don’t know if the worlds are that far apart. A potato is a potato, you know. Fish is fish. Once you understand that, you can substitute without much issue. It’s all about how they might use a certain type of fish. Mediterranean and

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Your olive-oil braised lobster with lemongrass corn has a Far East-flavor twist with the coconut, as well as a fiery kick.

Where were you when you came up with that one?

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I‘ve gone to Thailand a lot, done a lot of shows there. Lemongrass is one of the great flavors of Southeast Asia. Corn is very versatile. It brings out the perfume of the lemongrass and combines it with its own sweetness.

What’s a flavor you’d never dare to combine with lobster?

Maybe chocolate? I’m kidding. I don’t know.

In fact, I’d do a lobster mole. I think it would be good.

Maine’s getting raves for its peekytoe crabs now. In fact, we supply Chesapeake Bay restaurants with crabmeat when

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their blue crabs go dormant in the winter months. Do you have a dish that includes peekytoe crab?

Yeah. I’ve used it in many different variations. I think peekytoe crab is best cold, or we use it as a garnish. I do a dish called “Spaghetti Crabonara.”

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I’m a huge fan of crabmeat, I must say. I love that fresh-picked crab, it’s amazing. I also like it better than I like lobster. I mean to me, crab is so sweet and delicate, and lobster has

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a heartier, more rubbery sensation.

The Chinese are going crazy for Maine lobster right now, emerging as a huge client. But they call Maine lobster “Boston lobster” because they see Boston’s Logan Airport shipping labels. It’s as though the market is creating a new species that has nothing to do with biology, the “Boston lobster.” What do you think Maine should do to protect its brand?

It’s really just marketing. Maine needs to let the world know their lobster is the best anywhere, that it’s not just coming out of Canadian waters, it’s from Maine waters.

Tell us about your lobster popovers as an hors d’œuvre.

I like popovers in many things. They’re great delivery vehicles: roast beef, lobster salad, almond butter, great Maine cheddar cheese. I’ve always done popovers with crab and also braised short ribs as a nod to Yorkshire pudding.

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It’s not just an urban legend.

Ingrid Bergman

lived here among us in the icy summer of 1946, at 9 Ironclad Road. And now you can, too–for $679,000.

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fter flying from Sweden, the two tourists hopped the State of Maine Express in Manhattan and headed for Union Station.

Both striking and lovely, they’d have turned heads even if they hadn’t been Kay Brown and Ingrid Bergman.

From Portland, they breezed to 9 Ironclad Road in Cape Elizabeth, where Kay’s college roommate lived with her family above the booming surf.

“Kay called my mother from Sweden,” says John W. (“Jack”) Deering, Jr., of Falmouth. “She said, ‘Tref, it’s Kay. May we please stop on the way home to New York? Ingrid is exhausted, and so am I!’ “My mom called me at Governor Dummer Academy, where I was going to school. She asked me if I wanted to help out.”

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She’d just filmed Notorious with Cary Grant.

A trip to Maine–whose coastline resembles Sweden–would be a nice introduction to the U.S.

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He laughs.

“I was sixteen.”

Kay Brown and Eleanor Trefethen Deering “were thicker than fleas,” Jack Deering says. “They were both Wellesley College, class of 1924.

“It was Kay who brought Ingrid Bergman to the United States. Kay was working for David O. Selznick at the time,” as an agent and book editor famous for snapping up the rights to Gone With The Wind for her boss to make the blockbuster film.

“Selznick told Kay, ‘Look, this Swedish girl’s making quite a ripple over there. I want you to go over and check this thing out.’ Kay went over and liked what she saw.”

So did young Jack Deering. “Ingrid Bergman! Absolute-

“Tref, it’s Kay. May we please stop on the way home to New York?

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“She stayed with us three days [May 1821, 1946]. Ingrid got my bed. Lucky me, I wasn’t in it. I have a photograph where my brother Robinson and I are flanking her on the porch–two basketball stars.”

More often than not, the subject was lobster.

“The girls wanted to take off their girdles and relax. And they did!”

“We had lobster three times a day. My mother could serve it fabulously any kind of way. Her brother ran a big lobster pound on Custom House Wharf in Portland.”

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After she left, shy neighbors knocked on the door, hoping for a glimpse of “Ingrid’s shower.” after her departure from Maine.

It’s tempting to say this was the time when Bergman, 30, was at her most beautiful. Her next assignment was a starring role in Broadway’s Joan of Lorraine, November 18, 1946 to May 10, 1947.

Her Maine soujourn also catches her on the edge of becoming notorious herself.

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No trip to Maine would be complete without lobster at Boone’s on Custom House Wharf.

That afternoon, Ingrid got to be just another girl in a bib.

“It’s fair to say she was in ice here in Maine,” Deering says.

Soon enough, after she’d shot Stromboli, the fanzines would scream with headlines about Bergman leaving her dentist-turnedneurosurgeon husband, Dr. Petter Lindström (with whom she’d had a daughter, Pia Linström), for “Roberto Rossellini, the Italian stallion,” Jack Deering says. “She and Rossellini became the parents of a son, Robertino, and twin daughters Ingrid Rossellini and the actress Isabella Rossellini.”

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curled up on the stone sun seat to drink in the spectacular views of Beckett’s Castle and Ram Island Light, and just find a quiet place to hear herself think.

“I think the girls just wanted to take off their girdles and relax. And they did!”

As for Bergman’s state of mind here, she seemed released from pressure and remarked that she loved this part of Maine because it reminded her of Sweden.

“I never saw her anything but polite, friendly, and always with a smile,” Deering says. “I was in love. It’s easy at 16.”

Lovely as she was, it wasn’t easy for Bergman to overshadow Brown, who, according to Wikipedia, was–in addition to being the story editor for Hitchcock’s Rebecca

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Wrong Man (1956) to The Heart is A Lonely Hunter (1968) to A Perfect Murder (1998), tells us from New York: “My sister thinks she has a photo of Tref and my mother together. Tref was an old and close friend, and they held their friendship through the years.

“At the time you mention, mother was working for David O. Selznick as his representative in NYC, and it was she who went to Sweden to bring Ingrid to the USA,” with Maine the soft landing.

“Maybe ‘they’ decided that a trip to Maine–whose coastline somewhat imitates Sweden–would be a nice introduction to the U.S.?”

Told as an aside how much we enjoyed A Perfect Murder, in which Laurinda plays one of the women in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, we get a taste of her inherited gift for dialogue when she twinkles, “A Perfect Murder was not a good movie.”

Upon Bergman and Brown’s departure, “She wrote a beautiful note to us, addressed to ‘The Lobster Family,’” Jack Deering says.

“She also sent us a present, a beautiful Steuben glass vase that we have to this day in our home in Falmouth. I was sad when she left.”

The recollection of that lost summer touches Deering’s voice when he tells us on the telephone, “My brother Robinson Adams Deering, the other boy in the photograph, died four years ago.”

He’s about to ring off when his wife, Falmouth real estate executive Ann Deering,

“Making your life greener since 1982” quips, “There’s another story in all of this that’s so ‘Maine.’ The neighbors were overcome with curiosity while all of this was going on. From what I understand, Ingrid took a shower in a bathroom the Deerings had just upgraded before they knew she was coming, and after she left the neighbors called and wanted to take a look at ‘Ingrid’s shower.’”

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The seller, Barbara Newcomb, is proud to possess the original blueprints to the cottage. “There’s a tradition that the ghost of Longfellow still prowls the parapets of Beckett’s Castle down there, where he’s said to have written some of his poetry,” Newcomb says.

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breath and sat on the wicker chairs on the giant, wraparound porch.

“There are four bedrooms and three baths,” Flynn says. “People’s eyes open wide when they walk in from the ocean porch to see the original birch paneling in the living room, anchored by a toasty chateau fireplace. This cottage is ideal for entertaining.”

The dining room and family room, also in birch with coffered ceilings, “open right up to the ocean.”

A drive-up convenience: “There’s a connected two-car garage.”

The lot is generous at .69 acres, spilling below gardens to an exquisite rocky sun seat “where you can see Ram Island Light and the Atlantic” heaving below.

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here’s a singular, small plant that grows on the edge of a henhouse on Nautilus Island. Unlike the gardens (lush with waxy, wide-leafed rhubarb), patches of wild violets and gold dandelions, and a vineyard of gnarled grapevines, this leafy loner is as unremarkable as a pesky weed–until you pop one of the edible leaves in your mouth. The mild, familiar taste of celery hits the palate first before the unexpected explosion of tongue-tingling pepper that’s not easily forgettable.

Nothing is easily forgettable about Nautilus. Yes, it has all the stunning and quotidian hallmarks of a coastal Maine island–briny breezes, rocky shores, a solitude enveloped in blue–yet the unexpected appears at every turn. There’s an antique billiard table, restored to its original gleaming glory and ready for some action in the rustic barn; a sugar shack where

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maple syrup is made the old-fashioned way, tin buckets and all; a well which still provides fresh water hundreds of years after being built and tapped by Paul Revere in the late 18th century; and an intimate pergola with lily pond, a perfect spot for morning coffee.

In the middle of all this simple, bucolic charm, there’s world-class-resort luxury, like the sparkling, azure infinity pool that cascades down the tiered landscaping surrounding the hilltop chateau. Everywhere lies the juxtaposition of Mediterranean sensuality, rugged beauty, and the utilitarian sensibility of a working farm. It’s Travel & Leisure meets Yankee, a collision of St. Barts with Prince Edward Island.

Nautilus (named after a British war sloop and taken from the British by American Marines under the command of Paul Revere during the otherwise disastrous Penobscot Expedition of 1779) lies only a fiveminute ride from Castine. The private boat will meet you at Dennett’s Wharf to whisk you away to your pristine retreat. (But first, stop by the clam shack on

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Dennett’s for an early lunch–the open-faced Reuben sandwich will start your trip out right). After you alight at the dock, follow the gravel path up the gentle hill past the tennis court and three-bedroom cottage. Just before you reach the brilliant red Japanese maple tree, the buttercupyellow manor rises into view.

From the bright foyer, there’s no wrong way to go. The first floor is a maze of sunlit rooms showcasing brick fireplaces; French country décor; floor-to-ceiling bookshelves holding browned, first edition books; and eclectic, ‘local’ antiques, like the collection of 18th-century cannonballs.

The country kitchen is a chef’s dream, with professional, top-of-the-line stainless steel appliances and wood-burning stove. Up the grand, winding staircase are six bedrooms with picture windows and three bathrooms with a blend of modern and Victorian amenities, like a porcelain claw foot tub and extravagant glass showers.

Ultimately stunning are the outdoor grounds. Ecru stone pathways undulate up and around the house, leading to tiny, tucked-away sunbathing spots and the huge

stone patio adorned with the pearl-white blossoms of magnolia trees and twisted vines flush with sweet grapes ripe for the picking.

A perfect day starts with a pancake-and-homemademaple-syrup breakfast on the elevated, circular terrace, followed by a lazy hike through towering pine and birch trees. Stroll to the tip of the island’s ‘finger’ and enjoy views of Castine across the way. On the return trip, access the rough shoreline, blanketed with deep blue-and-white mussel shells that crunch underfoot. If it’s low tide, walk the land bridge to Holbrook Island, an uninhabited nature sanctuary. After exploring, head to the gray-shingled boathouse and quench your thirst with a German Kölsch on tap at the long, granite, fully-stocked bar. The best part–you’ll have it all to yourself. If it’s sunny, enjoy your drink on the deck; if it’s chilly, take a seat on the padded leather, U-shaped bench in front of the blazing fireplace.

At dusk, as you make your way back to the house on a path illuminated by old-fashioned lampposts, grab some fresh-laid eggs from the henhouse for the next day’s Summerguide

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If you’re sighing because $10.6M is a tad out of reach, this paradise can still be yours for a week or two. “Until we find a new owner for the property, the entire island is available for short and long-term rental year-round,” says owner Paul Brouillard, whose vision created this wonderland. “In the meantime, we’ll be continuing to work toward our goal of reclaiming the farmland and restoring the island to the way it was for over 100 years– completely self-sustainable.”

Thirty-eight acres; taxes $9,423. For sale or rental information, contact John Saint-Amour at LandVest.

Davis Island, St. George, $4.95M

The ferry from Port Clyde to Monhegan “passes Davis Island daily,” says Terry Sortwell of LandVest. “The passengers don’t know what they’re missing.”

As the owner, you’d know.

Tie up to the wooden pier of one of the outermost islands in the St. George chain and climb past honeysuckle bushes and the occasional spruce to the estate at the center of the island, which overlooks everything– dark blue ocean in three directions until either land or the curvature of the earth take over. From the cupola atop the house you

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breakfast and pick some fresh sage to add to a brown butter sauce for your juicy steaks, to be sizzled on the grill in the fully-equipped, outdoor kitchen located on the stone patio.

While sipping a chilled Grüner Veltliner and chopping onions, watch the sun set over the pool, the fiery reds and oranges shimmering off its glassy surface which extends seamlessly to the ocean’s horizon. With the smell of an al fresco dinner lingering in the cool night air, let the sweet finish to your day be a relaxing soak in the steamy jacuzzi, the starsprinkled sky above and a glass of bubbly at your side.

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cape elizabeth classic old school charm, sea shells and shore, farms and fog horns, light houses, and lobster traps.

have a bird’s-eye view of neighboring Allen Island, on which Betsy Wyeth–widow of acclaimed artist Andrew Wyeth–has created a 19th-century art compound. Whatever your brushstroke, Davis holds a different dream for everyone.

Forty-eight acres; taxes $18,430.

Norton Island, Addison, $3.25M

You’ve heard of a Nantucket sleigh ride. But how about a summer slalom? “There are literally thousands of lobster buoys surrounding

Barney’s Island Beals, $54,500

Who’d have thought you could buy your own island for the price of a 2011 BMW 3-Series? Though you can’t build here, other possibilities–like romantic picnics and secluded camping–abound, and the island is within a stone’s throw of the mainland. “If the tide is right and you push off the shore with enough force, you can float over to Barney’s in a rowboat,” says broker Billy Milliken.

“It’s that accessible. But once you’re out

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Norton Island,” says Steve Shelton of Acadia Realty Group. “You can sit on the shore for hours and watch [lobstermen] come by, see what comes up in their traps.”

When you tire of lounging on the granite ledges, take a stroll through the golden fields on the south end of the island or go exploring for sea glass on the pebble beaches.

“Kids love combing the shores. New treasures wash up daily.”

Up on the point sits the 10-year-old main house, adorned with floor-to-ceiling windows.

There’s also a board-and-batten guest house here, although “you have your very own boathouse in Eastern Harbor [on the mainland, 25 miles north of Bar Harbor], complete with bunk bed and fireplace. Dock your boat and spend the night.”

Sixty acres; taxes $16,636.

here, it’s like a different world. I think the fact that you can’t build here only adds to the island’s mystique.”

Also adding a touch of whimsy, “Tall Barney” Beals–the Yao Ming of the 1800s– had ties to the island. “He was said to carry a barrel-full of molasses under each arm, and he could lift whole engines out of fishing boats. He went on adventures with local Native American tribes and is ultimately responsible for half the Jonesport/Beals population at present day…. There was an old structure on the island back then, said to be Tall Barney’s fishing shack. It remains untraceable now.” One has to wonder if the spirit of Tall Barney is responsible for the strict zoning regulations. If he can’t have his shack, neither can you.

One acre; taxes $232.

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Ram Island, Saco, $495,000

recreational boaters to a rocky death. “There are no trees, so the views are limitless. The house in the center of the island rises up like an observation tower, and from here you can see for miles. It’s built to resist all sorts of weather.”

Milliken points out the deep water around the island, which makes boat access and unloading a breeze. “The bottom drops off to 50 feet just offshore, so there’s no need for a mooring. You can keep your boat tied up to the dock and forget about a low tide

Once you’ve ascended to the “quaint little cottage with a stone fireplace” at the island’s center, you can do as the spirited owners in the ‘50s did: “They’d raise a flag over the cottage when they didn’t want to be disturbed”–a variation on the sock on the dormitory door knob? “When the flag came down, visitors were welcome.” Well, everyone but pirates.

scratching up the hull.” After you alight, sit back on the deck and relish the sight of bald eagles soaring with the thermals.

During low tide, steep, slender ledges, dark and slick from seaweed, are imposing enough to deter whatever pirate ships–ghost or real–that may be lurking in the early morning fog. To stage your successful invasion of Ram Island, here’s a little secret: “You have to use the deepwater mooring on the other side of the ledges,” says Charlene Farley of Maine Coast Properties. “There’s no dock. [You] just row in through the shallows and pull [your] dinghy up on shore.”

One acre; taxes $2,700.

Calf Island, Jonesport, $199,000

On the outside fringes of Eastern Bay lies a bold, windswept island that broker Billy Milliken of Jonesport Realty describes as “the edge of the wild.” Though exposed rock stretches across more than half the island’s surface, Calf is like the shores of Homer’s Greek epics but without Sirens luring

Two acres; taxes $481.

Narrows Island and Bar Island Harrington, $1.6M

Why settle for one island when you can enjoy a duet? Own the spruce-laden, three-beach paradise of Narrows Island, as well as wild, undeveloped Bar Island, separated from each other by a “short paddle in a canoe,” according to owner Ronald Gallant, Jr. “You can even walk there by sand bar if the tide is right.”

The larger Narrows Island has no power or septic, but you won’t miss the hum of electricity ever-present on the mainland.

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A century of Skyscrapers

The InterMed Building on the corner of Preble Street and Marginal Way slides a sense of skyscrapers closer to Back Cove.

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all buildings began revolutionizing cities when the elevator and steel building frames planted a seed for modern skyscrapers in New York and Chicago at the close of the 19th century. Although most new skyscrapers are no longer built in the United States, let alone New England, Portland was at the local forefront of their embryonic stage of evolution. Two thousand ten marked the 100th anniversary of the City’s first “skyscraper.” Although the impetus for that building, like most, was a commercial concern, it is intriguing to consider what it and other high-rises across Portland’s punctuated skyline have meant and continue to mean for the city’s cultural and social interests as well. Portland’s high-rises have been characterized by both successes and failures in their attempt to integrate with historical building stock of this traditionally lowrise city, and both offer meaningful implications for the future.

While some view tall buildings as the antithesis to the Maine way of life, others recognize them as symbols of commercial significance.

Both perspectives are valid and need not be considered mutually exclusive. After all, height is relative, and Portland’s current tallest building, the 1966 Leasure, Tuttle and Lee-designed public housing facility known as Franklin Towers, tops out at a mere 17 stories. As Portland’s second tallest, Back Bay Tower rises 15 floors, meager by big city standards but still several stories taller than most Portland high-rises. The miniature stature of most Portland high-rises coupled with thoughtful street level design represents a simultaneous fulfillment of the desire for both a livable present and a prosperous future.

To illustrate, it is best to start at the beginning.

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Financial towers sparkle at Canal Plaza, with One Portland Square to the far right.

Maine’s first skyscraper was built by Portland lawyer Charles Sumner Cook in 1910, when the Beaux-Arts Fidelity Building, designed by G. Henri Desmond, climbed high above neighboring Monument Square.

This beautiful landmark replaced one of the City’s first movie theaters and was built on Portland’s most valuable real estate. At only 10 stories, most are surprised to learn this pioneering high-rise was taller than any building in Boston upon completion.

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he Fidelity Building gave Portland metropolitan status, but avoided the pitfalls of today’s skyscrapers. Clad on two sides

by Indiana Bedford limestone and brick elsewhere, its finely chiseled cornices allow the building–with its grand entrance along the sidewalk–to seamlessly integrate with the ornate details of squatter buildings across the street. These features create a sense of place and a walkable public realm, difficult to create at any scale but particularly one of high-rise proportions. Difficult, however, is not the same as impossible, and the next high-rise to punctuate the city’s skyline likewise respects its urban fabric.

The 14-story, neoclassical Time & Temperature Building at 477 Congress Street was originally constructed as a 12-story, stuccoand-limestone tower in 1924, before adding two additional floors in 1962 and an electronic rooftop billboard from which it derives its present day moniker in 1964. For nearly a quarter century, the building’s top two floors stood in stark visual contrast to lower floors until in 1986, when an effort was made to remodel them in a manner more contextually appropriate. Every December, this iconic structure is bathed in blue light during Make a Wish Foundation’s “Stories of Light” campaign. Together with the neighboring Fidelity Building, it creates a gateway to downtown, welcoming residents and beckoning visitors, by perfectly complementing its surroundings at street level with large windows and a stately base.

This welcoming effect likely inspired the decision to locate one of the nation’s first indoor shopping malls inside the Time & Temperature Building. When Maine Mall was a pig farm and the Old Port was an old port, the Time & Temperature Building contained fanciful boutiques lining an upscale 1 0 6 p o r t l a n d m o n t h ly m a g a z i n e

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shopping arcade reminiscent of an Italian galleria. Ironically, this testament to Congress Street’s heyday status as a retail mecca was a forerunner to the suburban malls which later drained downtowns across the nation. Today the Time & Temperature Building remains one of the city’s most recognizable, but it cannot claim the highest elevation on the Peninsula. That distinction belongs to the 13-story Eastland Hotel.

In 1927, the steel-framed, red-brick Eastland Hotel opened amid much fanfare as the largest hotel north of New York City.

The $2 million project was conceived by hotelier Henry P. Rines and designed by architect Herbert Rhodes. Heralded as the most important building project in the city’s history at the time, keys to the building were dropped into Portland Harbor by well known radio announcer Graham McNamee the day after it opened, signaling a hope that its doors would never close.

From the beginning, the Eastland’s height and size figured prominently in attracting visitors, the likes of whom have included movie star Julia Roberts and celebrated pilot Charles Lindbergh. The

building once offered a roof-deck swimming pool and now boasts the only cocktail lounge in town where top-shelf can be ordered on the top floor. Visitors to Eastland’s rooftop bar and lounge can relax while soaking in panoramic views of Portland’s bustling downtown from an unparalleled vantage point offering sweeping urban vistas. At street level, the Eastland benefits from its Arts District location but suffers from the void created where abutting Congress Square Plaza recedes from the street. Such detrimental lack of continuity in the street wall exists along the perimeter of other highrises, as well.

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he 10-story, brick-and-glass modernist office complex known as One Canal Plaza sits just behind the site of the former Falmouth Hotel. Currently owned by David Solely, the building was constructed in 1973 and rose from a parking lot along what was formerly Plum Street. Shortly thereafter, Spring Street became the innercity highway it is today, and Canal Plaza was designed to connect Monument Square with the waterfront. Although visu-

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When it was built in 1910, the Fidelity Building, created from Indiana limestone, was taller than any building in Boston due to height restrictions in that city.

24 year old business prodigy, Michael A. Liberty’s vision, passion, and courage, in partnership with forward-thinking city planners, resulted in magnificent landmarks like the 100 Middle Street Towers which are trophies on the modern Portland’s skyline.

Designed by Michael on a napkin and later formalized by a Boston architect, the nationally recognized Chandler’s Wharf building is a tribute to Michael Liberty’s unique vision. Chandlers Wharf set a new standard in waterfront living and is still a model of the city’s progressive and proactive approach to economic development.

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Copley Square? Sorry. The buildings of Monument Square, left to right: One Monument Square, Two Monument Square, One City Center, Canal Plaza, One Portland Square

ally appealing, the Plaza suffers from the same unforeseen consequences as other urban plazas across the nation: lack of other people. People like other people, and the semi-private nature of Canal Plaza coupled with an apparent lack of pedestrian permeability creates a distant feeling from the abundant activity on surrounding streets.

Inside, however, the story is different; the uppermost floors, home to prominent law firms, offer breathtaking harbor and

The Portland Public Library is designed to complement its taller neighbors, the Fidelity and Time & Temperature buildings.

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Pretty pair, left to right: Time & Temperature Building and Fidelity Building on Monument Square

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One Canal Plaza’s direct neighbor, the postmodern One Portland Square, is a product of the unprecedented economic prosperity Portland witnessed in the 1980s.

It offers refined finishes on each of its nine stories and pays homage to the Time & Temperature Building with a rooftop clock; but it, too, has had mixed success integrating well with its surroundings. Behind it is a sea of asphalt, cleared of buildings decades ago for a potential convention center. As the building interacts with Temple Street, however, it gracefully hugs the corner as it curves onto Spring Street, warmly greeting passersby with its tastefully designed main entrance and context-sensitive brick exterior. At a height tall enough to peak above the Old Port’s 19th-century warehouses and short enough to frame the tops of buildings along Congress Street, One Portland Square is, on balance, an urban design success.

The same is true of 511 Congress Street. The former Maine Savings Plaza is now a 1974 modernist, tinted-glass and dark-toned 10-story office tower set back from the flow of pe-

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It’s Back Bay Tower, photographed from Deering Oaks Park–also designed by the firm of Fredrick Law Olmsted.

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destrian traffic at 511 Congress Street. Although impressive from afar, the fortress-like effect created at street level by the removal and elevation of this Jung|Brannen Associates-designed building’s ground floor uses detracts from the livability of downtown.

Several blocks east, the 13-story Dorsky, Hodgson & Partners-designed One City Center also recedes from the street, but manages to integrate with existing buildings well because of the stepped-back nature of its elevation and the pedestrian-only street bordering its entrance. When it opened in the 1980s, the building revived the concept of indoor shopping malls, and today it continues to entertain a mix of uses, hosting numerous eateries and serving as a vital link between Downtown and the Old Port.

Next door, One Monument Square represents the first of Portland’s many flirtations with true skyscrapers. At only 10 stories, this Walker O. Cain & Associatesdesigned building is similar to the city’s other stocky high-rises; but in the 1960s it was envisioned as Portland’s 20-story answer to the urban exodus to the suburbs.

Although shorter than envisaged, One Monument Square nevertheless enhances downtown, providing a splendid enclosure for Monument Square with

The Cedars Nursing Care Center, Portland With live-in residents, maintaining high building standards while keeping the residents’ comfort and staff needs in utmost regard was essential for this project’s success.

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the modernized façade and well-placed entrance. Together with the adjoining ninestory Two Monument Square and the recently renovated and now-shimmering Public Library, the building creates pedestrian activity on a daily basis and is an architecturally interesting contribution to the city’s most prominent public space.

Portland’s vacillation regarding true skyscrapers can also be seen in Lincoln Square, a 22-story complex proposed–but never built–in the 1980s. That project coincided with a comprehensive overhaul of height restrictions, resulting in a policy of steering future vertical growth toward the geographic spine that is Congress Street. Before those regulatory changes, even the Old Port was eyed for taller buildings.

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Other unrealized high-rise visions have included a 15-story addition to the Fidelity Building on land formerly occupied by a historic theater behind the former Public Market Building; a progressive 17-story proposal by Portland developer Joe Boulos as part of a pitch to build a new civic arena; and a highrise office complex proposed for property 1 1 4 p o r t l a n d m o n t h ly m a g a z i n e

directly abutting the county courthouse. The late philanthropist Elizabeth Noyce also entertained the idea of linking 511 Congress Street to the Time & Temperature and Fidelity buildings by sky-bridge. Most ambitious of all was New York developer John Cacoulidis’s desire to build a 30-story building next to City Hall.

While not everyone may yet be comfortable with such projects, the previous century indicates that properly designed tall buildings can add to, rather than detract from, a city’s vibrancy. As Portland’s population grows, land scarcity will spark

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Soup, Salad, Paninis, Wraps–Among the Arcade shops is Right Time Café, 54 seats. Slide into a wooden booth. “The best part of being here is that we’re right in the middle of downtown,” says restaurateur Karl Whipple.

renewed interest in high-rise construction.

To an extent, this can already be seen in structures like the InterMed Building at 84 Marginal Way, a 10-story, mixed-use building designed by Harriman Associates and recently erected in Portland’s fast-developing Bayside neighborhood.

Such development must be guided in the right direction–with an emphasis on livable, lively streets and pedestrian-friendly shopping experiences–and be mixed-use, well integrated projects of manageable scale. High buildings require high expectations. The time to reach consensus as to what those expectations should be is now, because as Portland’s motto itself suggests, this city will rise again. n

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is just one magic spot along 500 miles of rocky coastline offering safe harbor for stolen kisses and windswept embraces where lovers can seal the deal.

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The stunning waterfalls, glistening pools, and rainbow-hued gorges are inspiring enough to bring out the inner Hawkeye and Cora in any couple. Nestled just south of picturesque Rangeley, the set of four falls creates a roar of driving water that collects in the tranquil pools below. Who says only fools rush in?

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luxurious linens, and incredible views of the sunsets over the lake and mountains,” says proprietor Linda J. Bortis. “Our most romantic room is the Katahdin suite, with two fireplaces–one is in the bathroom!–a private deck, and private garden. We also have a natural stone fire pit, perfect for gazing at the stars after a day of canoeing or hiking.”

Your romantic getaway to the Lodge at Moosehead Lake begins with a ride on the historic Katahdin ferry, which slips quietly through the still waters.

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e’ve had to put in a huge bank of a dozen phones, and sometimes even that’s not enough,” says Kaja Veilleux of Thomaston Place Auction Galleries. Mid-call, “I even finding myself looking over at them when a Chinese piece is about to come up”–a 21st-century reflex? “You never know what’s going to happen. I’ve seen them blow up time after time. The market’s completely different from how it was just a few years ago.”

Veilleux has certainly seen the effects in Maine of the new purchasing Across the Pond power of successful Chinese entrepreneurs and business leaders–the 18th-Century Qianlong Chinese Vase ones who, after the death of Mao Zedong, were lucky enough to be the Estimate: £800,000-£1.2 million ones to “get rich first,” as Mao’s successor Deng Xiaoping said preco- Price realized, despite whispers about its pedigree: £53 million (US$86.9 million) cious individuals would have to do in order to develop the Chinese Bainbridges Auction House, Ruislip, London economy as a whole.

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•Veilleux’s recent eye-popping sales of a jade vase for $205,000 and a bronze incense burner at $108,000 are an order of magnitude above early expectations.

This is the local impact of the incredible wave of demand for Chinese artifacts that led an 18th-century vase discovered in an English attic to sell for $87 million just months ago, which, stunning as it is, represents only a small fraction of the $10.9 billion spent by Chinese nationals on art–a figure that has quadrupled over the past five years, according to the Wall Street Journal, which points to a core group of roughly 200 private and public mainland Chinese collectors.

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“This is something we’ve all learned about very recently–it’s definitely a new phenomenon,” says Becky MacGuire, senior expert in Chinese artifacts at Christie’s. “Mainland Chinese participation has been growing rapidly, it started maybe seven years ago. At that time it was about five to seven percent of the market. For our last Chinese sale, it was 22 percent of the bids. It’s fun to think that Christie’s has experienced both ends of this trade–we’ve been prominent in Chinese artifacts since our founding in 1767.”

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“The real expansion has been mainly in the Chinese antiques [as opposed to pieces created in China for export to the Western market during the days of the sailing ships],” says Bill Gage of James D. Julia Auctions. “It’s important to remember that these are two different markets. But the really good Export pieces are getting attention, too,” particularly singular treasures such as “a piece we have coming up that is in the rose mandarin pattern, custom-made for a Cuban aristocrat in the 19th century.”

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As for the depth of the new bidders’ desires and the heart of their motivation, the goods themselves are being reclaimed by those who

want to dust them off and repurpose them for their original cache: prestige.

After China’s mercantilest veil was forcibly lifted by the Opium Wars, access to the world’s largest and wealthiest commercial society in the 18th century grew exponentially. For merchants, the real money in the China trade was in smuggling opium into China and then using the proceeds to buy tea, silk, porcelain, and Chinese export crafts to sell to conspicuous Western consumers desperate to keep up with the chinoiserie–the latest Chinese fashions.

tion of wealth. Travel time to and from China was so long that only merchants with considerable capital could afford to have that much investment outstanding.”

The first generation of demand came from the merchants and ship captains themselves, whose luxuries from far away were the envy of their neighbors.

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“When a Chinese piece is about to come up, I find myself looking at the phones.” …A 21st-century reflex?

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While the “humdrum trade with Europe and England was the foundation of the New England shipping economy,” says Professor Bill Fowler of Northeastern University, a specialist in American colonial, Revolutionary, and maritime history, “in terms of image and stature, the China trade was very important. To be a merchant involved in the trade was an indica-

possible for every mansion in Maine and the rest of New England to sport the latest from the ‘Chinese Export Barn.’

“These have been a part of American styles since as long as there’s been an America,” says MacGuire. “If you look at Whistler paintings, you’ll see Chinese vases in the background.” Forget about keeping up with the Joneses–everyone was trying to show they could keep up with the Kangs.

No wonder rose medallion and celadon

porcelains were so treasured when Maine’s ship-captains appeared with them after returning ‘out of the blue.’

Truth or lie, it’s significant that a chestnut still claims that toward the end of the 19th century, ‘one in every six of the world’s deepwater ship captains [read Far East] hailed from Searsport.’

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It is this very human motivation that is driving customers from China to buy ‘back’ China Trade goods from the West, and emphatically not a project of the People’s Republic of China. “There’s nothing secret about it,” says MacGuire. “Many of our buyers are anonymous from all over the world, but we’re usually in contact and develop relationships with all of our potential bidders, to better our pre-sale exhibitions and catalogues. It’s in both sides’ interest to start that dialogue so that we can better match a potential purchase to a potential buyer.”

“The Chinese government does not encourage any Chinese individuals or corporations to purchase cultural relics in foreign countries, nor is there any government program to do so,” says Mr. Lin Ruihua of the Office of Cultural Affairs of the Embassy of the People’s Republic of China in the United States. Artifacts looted by foreign military forces, such as during the Anglo-French sack of the Summer Palace outside Beijing in 1860, “should be returned,” but to the Chinese government, even those goods essentially paid for with opium delivered under the guns of British warships are “a different story, though there is much to be discussed on the legality of specific objects.”

Lin, MacGuire, and Veilleux are in agreement on the reason for the expansion of demand: the rapid expansion of the Chinese economy. “These guys are excited to be able to buy their stuff back. Not ask for it back, but buy it back. And it’s great for us, too,” says Veilleux. “And it’s all across the board. This market used to be very sophisticated, very old money, very academic.

Now, anybody can play. The amateurs might not know as much but are doing it because they want to enjoy these objects.

They bring in the excitement–and they can outbid the [Boston] MFA.” What goes around the world, comes around. Chinese and Chinese Export antiques are a way for a Shanghai yuppie to show off success and wealth–just as they were for Maine shipping captains 150 years ago. n

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After six years of wingsuiting and setting world records in formation flying, I still love what I do and can’t see myself doing anything else. Wingsuit flying has made my life on the ground better–most problems are easier now to overcome. Hopping out of an airplane or off a cliff has a way of making the tough things in life seem trivial. n

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This wingsuiting stuff is amazing. If you’ve never even been sky-diving, where do you start?

Easy! To fly in a wingsuit, you have to have a Class C license, which requires 250 skydiving jumps.

How much does it cost to jump in a wingsuit?

Anywhere from $24-$150 per jump. A new suit is about $1,000. Here, we don’t really charge anything if people want to get into it, and we have loaner suits.

What are a few of the major differences between skydiving and wingsuiting?

They’re both technically skydiving because they require a parachute to land safely. With wingsuiting, the free fall lasts much longer. You can increase your rate of fall by collapsing the wings, and you can also reduce your flying speed to as low as 50 mph. You can do barrel rolls and even cool maneuvers with other people. It’s a bit more like flying an airplane.

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Is that why wingsuiters are called ‘pilots’?

You’re really piloting yourself–flying at such high speeds, any changes you make move your entire body. I’m also a pilot, and when I’m flying in a wingsuit, I feel like I’m flying a jet.

What are the more extreme versions of wingsuiting (if more extreme is even possible)? Can you wingsuit without a parachute?

Not yet, but people have been talking about it.

Essentially, you have to reduce the drag so you can make contact with the surface, which could be too much for the human body to sustain.

What about jet-powered wingsuits?

Some Red Bull-sponsored guys are doing it and also a guy from Germany–I think he flew across the Channel. But it’s not probably going to be in public access for a couple years.

What’s the most incredible experience you’ve had flying in a wingsuit?

For my first wingsuit jump, I went to a cliff in northern Italy, where they were developing and testing these suits, and I asked if I could try it. With skydiving, when you jump off a cliff, you start falling right away, but in this suit, I felt like I was rocket-propelled off the cliff. It was incredible–being able to fly in and out of clouds in free fall.

Any issues with hot or itchy suits?

Nope. Very comfortable. Each one is customized to your body type. Wingsuits do have tension in the wings and make it difficult for you to touch your head, but you get used to it. Newer versions feel less claustrophobic.

Is there a profile of a ‘typical’ wingsuiter? What’s the average age demographic?

They are similar in temperament to base-jumpers, usually taking more risks than the average skydiver. But they’re not too crazy, y’know? The average age is 25 to 30. We had a guy last year, though, he was 72.

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Maine Mystique

WI IN...WLD CAUG HATE HT VER

While you were sleeping, Maine stopped branding our lobsters.

by co l i n W. S a r g e n t

robert witkowski ILLUSTATION

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s Maine lobster so fabulous it isn’t even from Maine anymore?

A Seattle resident takes some friends out for a celebration dinner of Maine lobster and proudly announces, “I’m thinking of moving to Maine.”

“Fascinating,” one of his guests replies, skillfully cracking his lobster’s bright red claw, extracting the meat, and tossing it to the back of his mouth. “What state is that in?”

Nightmares like this keep Maine Lobster Council executives up at night.

Especially since there’s a surge in world demand for lobster just now, particularly from China.

“I was in Hong Kong and mainland China,” says Summerguide

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Dane Somers of the Maine Lobster Council, “and do you know what they call this species, caught in Maine waters? ‘Boston lobster.’”

Get out of town.

It’s tragic, because “Chinese diners love our lobster. It’s very much in style right now.” Just as Western diners love to fiddle with chop sticks, “They love working with the lobster crackers, the lobster picks, the lobster bibs, cracking the shells, dipping the meat in the butter.”

Described that way, it almost seems like a fetish. There used to be a bar in Berlin, Germany, called Kennebunkport, where they’d serve lobster rolls, wear blue blazers, and drink Vodka Collinses.

“But the vast majority of live Maine lobster shipped overseas flies out of Logan Airport,” Somers says. “The shipping crates clear customs with tags saying ‘Boston Lobster.’ So what would you call it if you started unloading it? We’re educating all of China to call Maine lobster ‘Boston lobster.’ A new marketing species is being created right in front of our eyes.”

What to do?

We’ve contacted marketing guru Donny Deutsch to see how he’d handle this ‘opportunity,’ but he’s offered no bright ideas. Ditto for mad man Jerry Della Femina. Did we expect anything beyond indifference from these guys, who probably prefer Manhattan clam chowder and root for the Yankees?

Clearly, it’s up to us.

“Canadian lobster is shipped out of Logan, too,” and it’s being tarred with the same feather. Is there nothing we can do to exterminate the fake species homarus loganus?

What about the rubber bands we were all so excited about a few years ago? When did we stop doing that? Didn’t former Gov. John Baldacci see this coming when he sparked an initiative to brand all lobsters caught in Maine with elastic bands on their claws with the legend: “Certified Maine Lobster”?

While we were sleeping, the practice stopped happening. Sort of.

“The short answer is,” Somers says, “if you allow a single lobster with a ‘Certified Maine Lobster’ band into a truckload of perfectly wonderful Maine lobsters without bands, it makes buyers and distributors suspect the other lobsters weren’t caught in Maine waters, even if they were.”

On top of that, it hurts the other lobsters’ feelings.

So the banded lobsters never made it onto the international planes?

“The banding project never really got off the ground, so to speak, because of the logistical challenges. Particularly the nuts and bolts weren’t thought through, quite frankly, at the time.”

Even if the bands were provided to the guys on the boats free of charge, along with the bait and fuel the dealers provide them with, “Imagine getting those guys to change.”

So lobsters are often comingled with lobsters from other areas. “We’re not the only place to harvest the species. It gets complicated as you weave your way through the supply chain.

“Individual proprietary business names on the bands made the issue more complex.

Different entities and screening agencies got involved. Should the bands say, ‘Product of Maine,’ or ‘Product of America’?” (After all, the species is homarus americanus.)

“In the end, the guys have no interest.

The dealers say, ‘I can’t open every crate and go through it. Am I going to spend more money to do this, do I get paid for doing it? No. Not right away.’”

Deeper in the supply chain, “Bands get taken off,” or, just as wacky, put on.

“Sometimes they’ll use their own color coding system. All the ones with the yellow bands came in on Monday, the blue bands came in on Tuesday. They have their own proprietary brands. This came from ‘Smith’s Wholesale Seafood.’”

the whole portion, there’s a fuzziness to it.

If there are tags on any of the lobsters, the dealer may say, ‘I don’t want to deliver that to my customers. It gives the perception, what’s wrong with those? Why don’t they have the tag?’

“Because usually, an unmarked lobster already is a Maine lobster. Eighty-two percent of what’s harvested in the U.S. is from Maine. The default has become to call it all Maine lobster, whatever’s in the truck. Except really in and around Boston, you’ll never see the term ‘Massachusetts lobster.’

“That’s because Maine lobster has become a common accepted name for that species. Inspectors have bigger fish to fry.

“Take this phenomenon to its limits, and we’re in the same boat as Danish pastry–it’s not from Denmark anymore.”

When was the last time you saw a discerning diner look up from his or her menu and ask, “Are these Belgian waffles really

from Belgium?”

So unless we build a bigger airport than Logan and start shipping directly to China, we’re finished?

Star Wars

“There’s some interesting emerging technology. You can put a tag with a data matrix code bar on a lobster’s knuckle that isn’t easy to remove. Then, if you have a barcode reader installed on your smart phone, you can simply wave it over the knuckle and an app will launch that will tell you where that lobster is from.”

So one day people will be in Venice, It-

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Fuzzy Lobsters

Let’s forget about China for the moment, and France, and Italy. What about Stateside? What happens to our banded or unbanded Maine lobsters then?

“On the East Coast, say, a live lobster comes off the boat, then goes to a buying station, then to a wholesale dealer, to a shipper, then to NYC to a wholesale seafood distributor, then to a supplier who gives it to the Russian Tea Room.”

It’s almost a sleight-of-hand illusion to watch a Maine lobster lose its identity.

“A truckload of Maine lobsters heading south to New York through Kittery stops in Boston at a regional distributor to exchange cargo and take on 400 or 500 more pounds. Some of these crates are from Maine and others are not. Because it’s not Summerguide

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funny thing happened on the way to the Food/Wine/Works of Art Festival in Kennebunkport. We bought two live lobsters from The Clam Shack, took them home, steamed them, peeled off the bright yellow bands on the claws, and saw WILD CANADA printed inside.

Curious, we stop in again at the Shack and find all the lobsters in the tank have yellow bands, some with ‘Wild Canada’ right on out there for all to see.

Surprised, we ask the friendly clerk leaning over the glass counter, “Where do your lobsters come from?”

“All ours come from Cape Porpoise,” he says.

“Our lobsterman is Eric Emmons.”

“Why do the bands say ‘WILD CANADA?’” we ask.

“What?” he says, peering into the tank, as if for the first time. “I dunno.” He shrugs. “Maybe he uses them because he gets them free, or somethin’. Sometimes they’re purple or blue.

Today they’re just yellow.”

We call information to get a phone number for Emmons, but the only number available is unlisted. Through an Internet search we find an Eric Emmons, a member of the Maine Lobster Zone Council (District 7, Kennebunkport), and call that number to see if he would ever put a Canadian label on a Maine lobster to save the cost of a band. Emmons didn’t call back, but we did receive a call from The Clam Shack owner Steve Kingston. “[My clerk] didn’t get it right. Those are Canadian lobsters. We don’t switch the tags! This time of year, June through the first week in July, my hunch is that every single dealer or restaurant nearby needs Canadian lobsters to meet demand, and if they say they’re serving 100-percent Maine lobsters, they’re lying their asses off…. Our local catch comes on strongest in September, October, November.”

But this happened Friday, not the end of a weekend. And no one else had asked.

We call across town to Port Lobster.

Greg Stewart tells us, “This week we have 90-percent Maine lobster and 10-percent Canadian. But in the spring months, before the soft shell season [which runs July-November], we normally sell about 70-percent Canadian to 30-percent Maine.”

Regarding banding in general, an anonymous Rockport lobsterman gets the last word: “Since they never made [using ‘Certified in Maine’ lobster bands] a law, [the practice] just sort of fizzled.”

Maine Mystique aly, eating lobsters on the Grand Canal, and they can scan the bar code on a lobster’s knuckle and see it was caught by ‘Bunk’ McFlannel of Little Diamond Island?

“Yes. There will be a little picture of the lobsterman and his boat, right in Maine, or something like that.”

And the only reason the knuckle bar codes won’t suffer the same fate as the bands is that, “it’s an emerging trend to identify the source of all food, and the standards are rising to the point where international agencies are going to get together and insist on it. In terms of branding, that can only help us,” and Maine lobsters will ride the technology tide.

“Right now, if you’re shipping any kind of seafood outside the U.S., the products have to be labeled with COOL– country of original labeling–where they’re from. That’s an international standard on the shipping case, ‘Produce of the USA.’ In my personal opinion, this will be refined to the point where both safety and freshness standards and retail market demands will require individual lobsters to” wear their identifying credentials on their sleeves.

“It’s not an easy thing to take off a knuckle bar code the way it is to snap off an elastic band.”

So diners will be waving their phones over their food?

“You can incorporate rich media into that. Hong Kong is incredibly wireless. Everybody has it. In China, it’s leapfrogging over land lines that never existed. If you’re a person getting a new phone in China, chances are, it’s a wireless phone.”

So it’s kismet. China will lead itself to discover that ‘Boston lobsters’ are really from Maine.

So much for your bright ideas, Donny!

“You know everyone wants to know where food is from now. Food products will lead the way to these advancements.

That’s why farmers’ markets are popular.

Technology–I could care less if I buy a Toyota and some parts are in Japan or Ohio.

That’s not an emotional trigger for me. But a food product? Yeah. I want to know!

“Think of the possibilities. You could be in a restaurant in Hong Kong or Shanghai.

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here are the tiki bars of yesteryear? In the 1960s, the Eastland Hotel played host to the Hawaiian Hut lounge, where the Don Drapers of Portland drank bright blue cocktails and wore leis and grass skirts on their skinny black suits.

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The Noah’s Ark attraction and big band dance hall at the end of Old Orchard Beach Pier, lost decades ago to fire, still hangs over the Atlantic like a ghost limb.

The A-listers used to stay here, at the Poland Spring House on Route 26. An episode of the TV show Route 66 was filmed nearby. The cast included Fritzi Cohen and Joan Crawford.

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Did you know we used to have swan boats at Deering Oaks, not to mention a restaurant and an ice-skating concession? Take me out of this belvedere of summers past, ghost, I can’t look anymore.

You’ve heard of the famous Casco Castle in Freeport. One of its towers survives. But did you know it was as magnificent as our postcard here?

Pictured in this story are two snapshots of the Portland Society of Natural History.

The imposing building was designed by Francis Fassett. Former Portlander and longtime subscriber Craig Lorimer contacted us recently after he ran into a 1997 issue of the Northeastern Naturalist, where a biologist who visited the museum in 1942 took some photos of the dodo bird and birch-bark canoe that many of us still carry around in our extinct portfolio of dead memories. Not to mention “the first exhibit that greeted you as you rounded the corner on entry: a human skeleton dangling in a lighted case.

“I think his article clears up the mystery about the apparent ‘holes’ in the roof,” says

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“The Deering Oaks Family Festival began as a celebration for Portland’s 350th anniversary and grew to attract up to 100,000 people. Delta named it one of the top events nationally, along with the Kentucky Derby.”

Only one of the towers of the Casco Castle in Freeport remains.

–Don McNamara Lorimer, a youth member at the Society in the 1960s who remembers, not without pleasure, wondering if starlight might filter in if he risked a stop-by at night. “[The visiting biologist] mentions the Francis Fassett design included a large skylight designed to provide much natural light in the days before electricity. His photo of the museum gallery shows a well-lighted interior, and the caption points out that the curtains on the display cases on the second bal-

Swan boats used to float on the pond at Deering Oaks Park.

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Provenance and the price of pedigree.

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eorge Washington’s teeth. Marilyn Monroe’s dress. Jackie Kennedy’s fake–excuse me, faux–pearls. Babe Ruth’s bat. Grandmother’s rose medallion tea set. Everyone loves a talisman with provenance–a mystic connection with history, fame, or even just a beloved ancestor. If the ancestor was Thomas Jefferson or Ma Barker, better still. Every antiques mall has a $50 chair priced at $500 because its seat carries the imprint of a famous derriere. These are the items that can carry a premium above their intrinsic value in the marketplace or cause usually civilized family members to fight to the death for possession of a departed relative’s dented flatware.

Or are they? Does ‘gilt by association’ transform value? Once upon a time, the world held up its paddles for dross linked to history–from pieces of the True Cross (to say nothing of pieces from not-so-true crosses) in medieval times to beds slept in by Lafayette (many crafted long after his death). In our own era, with its celebrity-driven

Top: Pair of English Hepplewhite mahogany armchairs Estimated:$5,000-$10,000 Price realized: $52,900 James D. Julia Auctioneers February, 2011 Battle of Yorktown Map executed

by Jean Baptiste Gouvion in 1781 Estimated: $5,000-$50,000 Price realized: $1.15M James D. Julia Auctioneers February, 2010 Bottom: Jackie O’s pearl necklace Estimated: $39,300-$47,200 Price realized: £30,000 (US$48,900) Bonhams Auctioneers, August, 2010

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m a r k e t w at c h culture, associations with fame, or at least fortune, are the gold standard, with Madonna’s cross the sine qua non.

The modern celebrity auction first hyperventilated in 1996 at Sotheby’s New York, with the personal effects of the late Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis. A masterpiece of marketing, even the most tarnished treasures brought vertigo-inducing prices, none more so than the aforementioned pearls. Estimated to sell for $500-700, they were hammered down for $211,500. They were purchased by the Franklin Mint, who have since minted money exhibiting them and marketing reproductions for sale–all with promise of collector value. Before you laugh, remember that there was at least one person, and probably several, underbidding the Mint to achieve this price. And, faster than you can forget what ‘greige’ means [a shade Jackie coined to describe the gray area between charcoal and beige], those pearls will not be worth anything resembling $211,500.

Already the shift is seen: Bonhams, an English auction house, recently sold another set of Jackie’s three-strand pearls (she had many, which raises another question, that of uniqueness, which is a subject for another day). This time, the pre-sale estimate was higher–$39,300 to $47,200, and the hammer price was £30,000 (US$48,900). Do you begin to see how the game works and how fickle the results?

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Lear, George Washington’s Aide de Camp, sent the price through the stratosphere.

On the flip side, a few months earlier, at a Jerry Miller & Company auction, effects descended through the family of Robert Morris–a signer of the Declaration of Independence–generated a buzz. Included in the sale were two Louis XVI armchairs with an ancient handwritten label attached to the bottom announcing that they’d come from Versailles after the French Revolution.

Isn’t it fortunate that every rich family of 200 years ago seemed to own something spirited directly from Versailles, as well as something George Washington had given grandfather? Think of these as American splinters of the True Cross. The chairs had a ‘later’ coat of black paint and were not exceptional for their type–Versailles is a big palace. Final hammer was $600. Which goes to show, no matter what horse an antique rides in on, condition, quality, and rarity still play a role.

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This can be seen at the Woolworth sale, also at Julia’s, in February. No, not dime store king Frank W. Woolworth, grandfather of Barbara Hutton (who was Mrs. Cary Grant from 1942-1945), but the descendants of F.W.’s brother Norman, who had a summer estate on Lake Cobbosseecontee. A selection

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of elegant household loot from the vacation palace here, buoyed by the famous name, attracted a crush of buyers, and for the stellar listings in the sale–Georgian silver in particular–prices were strong, quality and provenance working together. For perfectly wonderful ordinary household furnishings, the name did not work the same magic and bargains, even by non-provenance standards, were to be had.

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My Brush(es) With Fame

Regarding value gained by association with celebrity, this correspondent offers up a final case. Several years ago, I was guest auctioneer at a charity art auction. Despite the beautiful day, the auction, held at a seaside estate, was performing tepidly, and the well-heeled crowd, already annoyed the wine wasn’t free, was mostly sitting on its hands. My coauctioneer had brought some of her grandfather’s used paint brushes as her donation.

As that grandfather was Andrew Wyeth, these were no ordinary used brushes, and faces in the crowd lit up. There were palpable murmurs of interest. People leaned forward in their seats. The opening bid, set by the Wyeth family–I don’t remember how much, but let’s say $2,500 a brush–was announced. Just as quickly, the crowd fell back into somnambulance, and the brushes went unsold. So, as you can see, provenance really does matter–except when it doesn’t. n

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Riddle your tongue with these yummy, local food oddities.

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ainers have long had a tolerance and even appreciation for things quirky and odd. In Portland, for example, Monument Square is actually a triangle, and the Casco Bay Bridge crosses the Fore River, not Casco Bay. The city was once known, fittingly enough, as “Quack.”

This spunky, oddball flare is evident on Maine’s food scene, too. Chef Rob Evans of Hugo’s in Portland says his cod tongue tempura is a popular dish. Silly’s, also in Portland, offers an avocado milkshake, which is better than it sounds. Cleonice in Ellsworth serves a salad with scungilli, or sea whelks.

At Blue Sky on York Beach, Lydia Shire, famous for serving brains two ways, finds her patrons enjoy dishes such as duck confit on gingerbread toast, oxtails with yucca, and raised potato donuts.

What’s Maine’s best-kept secret delicacy? Moose balls (from locally hunted moose, of course). But the two tennis-ball-sized testicles, served in a cream sauce, don’t come cheap–$1,495 to be exact.

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“As we say, if you’ve got the money, we’ve got the balls,” says Leigh Turner, owner of Black Frog (formerly Road Kill Café) in Greenville. “Part of the expense covers the $1,000 fine because it is illegal in the U.S. to sell game meat and parts unless the game animals are farm-raised.”

The balls–said to taste like chicken livers–are kept in the freezer until brave patrons order them. “We keep enough around to meet market demand,” which is to say, “very few.”

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Factor The specialty food front is full of tasty and unusual treats. At Coastal Maine Popcorn, based in Boothbay Harbor with a second store in Portland, you will find popcorn in more than 60 flavors, including dill pickle, buffalo wing, key lime pie, root beer, wasabi soy, watermelon, and seasonal flavors like egg nog, pumpkin pie, and candy corn. As Paul Roberts, who co-owns Coastal with his wife Julie, puts it, “We think out of the box.”

In Abbot, B&B Gourmet Biscuit Meal offers a biscuit mix that can be combined with soda pop for a different take on soda bread.

Even Moxie?

“Champagne, beer, anything,” says creator Marie Schmiedlehner.

Dolcelinos in Lincolnville sells non-icecream ice cream sandwiches–a frozen mousse squashed between large cookies. Flavors include the “Aztec” (frozen vanilla custard with chili powder between chocolate cookies).

Jack’s Gourmet in North Monmouth makes exotic pickles and jams, such as the hazelnut coffee-flavored “Java Jelly” and the “Zesty Toe Jam,” a tomato jam zapped with horseradish, basil, and hot peppers. Whose toes? Who knows?

Then there are oddball candies, such as Lobster Poo (red, candy-coated peanuts) and Seagull Poo (yogurt-covered raisins).

Sold at Maine’s Pantry in Portland, owner Elena Morrow-Spitzer says, “People think the candies are funny and cute.” n

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George & Barbara Bush share a tender moment– vamping for a Lewiston mill.

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ndiana Jones might have snickered. But not Museum L-A’s Susan Beane. “We were in the basement of Bates Mill No. 5, where all the archives and records were kept,” she says. “We came across several films, packaged up. When we looked at the canisters, we saw ‘Back to School promotion, 1948.’

“Prior to that, we’d seen a company magazine listing the Bates ‘College Board’ and saw George and Barbara Bush were members. Looking at the 1948 film, we thought maybe–if they were on the board–maybe we’d see them!”

In those days, LTJG George H. W. Bush, USNR, Yale ‘48, was a lanky war hero, an economics major, a Phi Beta Kappa, and captain of the baseball team. Dark-haired bride Barbara had left Smith College to marry him. She cut her hair a little like Patricia Neal.

“We brought it to North­ east Historic Film in Belfast,” and voila! Ever the sleuth, Beane learned “a still from the film appeared in the August 1, 1948 issue of American Vogue magazine,” showing the famous couple holding court in a young-marrieds dorm room.“We purchased it online.”

With help from Sen. Olympia Snowe’s office, the film is now part of the Presidential Library.

The Mad Men styling is not lost on Beane. “Bates’s advertising arm was Bates Fabrics on Worth Avenue in New York.

All their advertising had the same ‘look.’ It’s looks like they’re drinking from a coffee set or tea set.”

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Beane’s still bewitched by the still. “My dorm room at Holy Cross most certainly did not look like this dorm room!" n

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Savor your treats from Hannigan’s Island Market on the breezy upper deck of a Casco Bay Lines ferry. followed by City Hall’s clock tower. By the time you reach the short wood rail at the edge of the ‘cliff,’ the sparkling city will be at your feet. Cuddle on a blanket on a bench while feeding each other pepperoni slices and watching the cars on I-295 zip alongside the Back Cove like buzzing fireflies.

Before Sunset

Sunsets can be a romantic cliché, but even the most cynical will find it hard not to get into the mood watching the sun slip through an orange-and-pink streaked sky over a spontaneous gourmet picnic dinner on the Western Prom.

Start with a trip to Aurora Provisions on Pine Street for some goodies, like silky pâté, raw local cheese, a crusty baguette, briny olives, and a decadent, chocolate-frosted brownie. Pair with a bottle of sparkling cider or a crisp white wine (alcohol is not allowed on the Prom, so drink at your own risk).

After packing up dinner, stroll down West Street, with its sprawling brick houses and tree-lined sidewalks. West Street ends at the Western Prom ‘roundabout.’ Plenty of benches are available, but for the ultimate picnic spot, take a few steps northwest. After you cross the first footpath, you’ll come to a large tree stump which functions perfectly as a table. You’ll have a clear view of the sunset over Mt. Washington and a seagull serenade.

For musical entertainment, go on a Wednesday evening and sway to the tunes of musical acts like Rob Simpson and Sorcha, hosted by the Summer in the Park Concert Series (July through mid-August).

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Not ready for the night to end? There’s no reason to let each other’s hands go just yet. Simply Sandwich on Dana Street is open for takeout until 2 a.m. and serves up sinful fried indulgences (go for the onion rings) and hearty sandwiches ($5-8). Try the Pastrami n’ Cheese Panini (black pastrami, Swiss cheese, and spicy brown mustard on marble rye) or the Old Port Italian (sweet capicola, aged provolone, tomato, pickle, bell pepper, red onion, and kalamata olives on an Italian roll).

Supper in hand, finding an outdoor nosh spot with ambiance is next. Walk down Dana, cross Commercial Street, and take a left. Continue past Portland Lobster Company and take a right onto the next stretch of dock. Have your impromptu picnic on the wide concrete wall that runs along the water, dangle your feet over the side, and enjoy the upbeat live music across the way (Portland Lobster Company features live music every evening in the summer).

Watch diners crack lobsters that likely were caught by boats docked below. Breathe in the salty air and take in the twinkle and bustle of the Old Port as the night spills around you. n

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Biddeford bombshell Karissa Staples is a star. What’s up with that!

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arissa Staples fell in love with the stage at Biddeford City Theater. It was here she began developing the talent which would take her to the New York Conservatory for Dramatic Arts, Sullivan Studios in Toronto, and Hollywood. Her work in feature films including I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell has led to a starring role in the series What's Up, Warthogs! (Family Channel Canada, Sundays, 9:30 a.m. EST; also available online in some locations at family.ca).

Tell us about What's Up, Warthogs!

It’s a teen comedy about two high school rivals, Eric and Victoria, whose lives collide every morning when they meet to do their school’s on-air announcements.

Tell us about your character. Any similarities to you?

Which TV shows do you watch?

I hate to admit it. I’m a Bachelorette addict. You bet I’ve been watching our girl [Mainer Ashley Hebert] this season!

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I play Victoria Jagger. She’s the student body president, hard-working but not afraid to be silly. One moment she’s campaigning in the hallway, the next she’s in the audio/visual studio, yelling hysterically at a video game. Most of the time, she’s funny and doesn’t even know it. We’re very much alike in that way, though I’m a bit more sarcastic in real life. In high school, I was also class president, involved with Crossroads Youth Center and Project AWARE, and of course, did my duties as Miss Maine.

Would you appear on reality TV?

It’s fun when you have someone representing your state on TV in (hopefully) a good way, but I could never be exposed like that.

When I’m on a show, I am playing a different person, so it’s okay. But showing real emotions as Karissa Staples…well, I’m just too private a person.

So if not on TV, might we see the “real” Karissa Staples in Maine anytime soon?

I was back for the holidays. I think next time I’ll just go to go. I’ll stop into Biddeford, Biddeford Pool, and, of course, Portland!

You go, Warthog! Now that you’re based out of L.A., anything about here that you miss?

L.A.’s a whole different world, but it’s the best place to be doing what I want to do. I miss snowstorms, though. I really loved [filming the show] in Toronto because it reminds me of Maine, and I can get my snow fix!

I love to eat [laughs], and Yosaku in Portland is a favorite of mine. Plus, eating lobster [in L.A.] is not the same. It’s not the cook-itin-a-pot, break-open-the-claws-with-yourbare-hands kind of experience.

Method lobster. How big of a factor is your Franco-American identity as an actress?

ways been my dream. It’s a gift to be able to make people laugh–it’s so uplifting. I know how good I feel when I think something is funny.

Tickling your own funny bone. So, is laughter your moodlifter of choice?

Yes, my mood can change in an instant with just one laugh! I constantly laugh on set all day, every day.

What else do you do to de-stress?

I love going to ArcLight and watching movies, mostly comedies. But I don’t have any favorites–I usually won’t watch a movie more than once.

Where’d you go to see films here?

Whose footsteps would you like to follow in?

Sandra Bullock! She’s funny, likeable, and has had a long, steady career. I want to be the funny, lead female who’s also taken seriously. I haven’t met her yet, but when it happens, the world will know!

With guilty pleasures like this, how do you stay in shape when your fellow actors are eating sprouts?

You’ve just been given an unlimited budget to film a script you wrote, the only stipulation being it has to take place in Maine. What would it be about, who would star in it, and where would you film it?

Nothing beats the feeling of being on stage…

I miss the natural high. But my focus right now is television.

Is comedy your favorite acting genre? What’s it about making people laugh that satisfies you?

It truly is. It’s what I feel most comfortable doing, and being part of a sitcom has al-

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And my grandparents speak fluent French! I studied it in school, but I was never fluent.

Every year there’s the big [La Kermesse] festival downtown. My Pépère would cook pork and beans, tourtière, beef stew…such comfort food I miss so much!

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It would be fun to get the stars of Saturday Night Live to go on a Maine adventure that goes all wrong! They’d do it all–hike Mt. Katahdin, sail Boothbay Harbor, and go skiing at Sugarloaf.

So, they should skip La Kermesse?

Absolutely not! Although, for awhile it wasn’t certain they were still going to do it, in which case I’d host a festival of my own [for the movie]. And I can guarantee there’d be the most amazing food! n

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From Bologna Theme dinners at Arrows let you travel the world and return to Ogunquit in time to catch a show.

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41 Berwick Road, Ogunquit And we gorge ourselves from the get-go with sumpCall for hours 361-1100 tuous gnocchi, lovingly formed rounds sautéed to perarrows.com fection, sporting buttery black truffle oil, a smattering of Parmesan cheese, sea salt (so tangy), and a surprise hit of slightly singed lovage.

Entertaining our taste buds even further are the big-flavored-yet-diminutive “Mousseron,” jewelsized mushrooms foraged nearby today and so valuable they’re sold by the ounce.

In close formation with our wine flight, the gnocchi is paired with a 2009 Feudi di San Gregorio Lacryma Christi del Vesuvio, its light golden color and flavor matching the dish’s subtleties sparkle for sparkle. Brilliant.

Our explorations continue with Arrows’s 2009 vintage house-cured prosciutto under crisp, fresh-picked baby lettuce. The saltiness of the meat is masterfully mingled with the semi-tart bite of the greens, the melon-like flavor of Parmigiano-Reggiano, and the viscous sweetness of a 10-year balsamic.

Next, we plunge into the mortadella rillette, a ‘high-end’ egg salad with ham, but it’s hardly that pedestrian. The rich flavor and creamy texture spreads nicely on the olive-oil-chive rolls, flatbread, and lemony sorrel leaves.

A gorgeous, house-made pasta Bolognese follows. The delectable, melt-in-your-mouth tagliatelle-style pasta wears a delicately seasoned red sauce with a touch of ground pork and beef.

A robust 2007 Fonterutoli Chianti Classico enhances these nicely understated yet enormously satisfying flavors.

Big on personality, the wood-roasted suckling pig and beef-wrapped sausage make their grand entrance next. The rich moment the pork delivers is nothing short of “eureka!” Our server notes the

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pig has been roasting on the fire at Arrows from early that morning, resulting in the intense smoky flavors and tender texture. It languishes in a deep, dark sauce that begs every drop to be sopped up. A 2008 Poliziano Rosso di Montepulciano is just light enough to enhance the smoky flavors.

The beef-wrapped sausage is a wondrous delight, conjuring up childhood memories of rich, robust meats. Tender flank steak, exuding a red-wine, veal stock reduction, softly fills the palate with substantial flavors, a hint of heat, and the mysteries of perfectly selected herbs.

Accompaniments include a glowing copper pot full of little onions, sweet, sour, pungent and sharp; crisp green beans; and lightly-seared bunches of Arrows’s fresh escarole.

The cheese course is not to be missed.

Creamy, silky, house-made Burrata and mild, intricately-flavored Pecorino Tartufo complement the sweet tartness of red grape jam and grilled ciabatta. Bellissimo!

We end on a perfect note with desserts including traditional spiced cake, Modenese rice pudding with bright blood orange slices, and a savory apple cream tart.

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Brea Lu Cafe has been serving up breakfast & lunch for 23 years!

Favorite menu choices include 12 specialty omelets, build-your-own breakfast burritos, Belgian waffles w/ fruit, eggs Benedict & homemade corned beef hash. Lunch features homemade chili, fresh made-to-order sandwiches, burgers & wraps. Open daily, 7am-2pm. 428 Forest Ave., Portland, 772-9202.

Bull Feeney’s Authentic Irish pub & restaurant, serving delicious

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Clementine Restaurant 44 Maine St., Brunswick. Chef-Owner Dana Robicheaw offers the culinary expertise he acquired at Johnson & Wales & other Portland fine dining establishments. Exquisite food & fine wine in a relaxed atmosphere. Join us for a three-course, prix fixe menu for only $25. Tu-Sa 5-9pm. 721-9800, clementinemaine.com DiMillo’s On the Water serves the freshest lobster, seafood, Black Angus cuts of beef, Italian fare & more. DiMillo’s offers fabulous views of the water in Portland Harbor from every table Famous lobster Roll, clam chowder, haddock chowder, lobster stew & delicious salads. Serving from 11am. Commercial St., Old Port, 772-2216, dimillos.com.

Eve’s at the Garden takes a fresh and local approach to food. Chef Jeff Landry uses ingredients from Maine’s coastal waters and farms: jumbo scallops, naturally raised pork and beef, sustainably raised fish and shellfish and Maine lobster prepared Mediterranean style. Free dinner valet. Lunch 11:30-2, dinner 5-9:30. 468 Fore St., Portland.

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Fish Bones American Grill A casual upscale restaurant offering creative American cuisine. Specialties include grilled thin crust flatbreads, unique entrée salads & creative dinner offerings. Located in the heart of Lewiston in the historic Bates Mill complex with off-street parking. Come get hooked! Lunch & dinner Tu-F; dinner only Sa; seasonal brunch Su. 333-3663 fishbonesmaine.com. * The Good Table “Honest, good food.” Made-from-scratch brunch, lunch & dinner. A well-rounded menu w/choices to please every palate. W/inspired blackboard specials, the kitchen always takes advantage of locally-grown produce & seafood. Full bar w/seasonal cocktails. Seasonal hours. 527 Ocean House Rd., Rte. 77, Cape Elizabeth, 799-4663, thegoodtablerestaurant.net.

Grace A 160-year-old Methodist church engulfed by huge cathedral ceilings & beautiful stained-glass windows. Our eclectic menu & houseinfused cocktails provide a perfect atmosphere for any occasion.

Reservations are recommended w/ample seating at our circular 30-seat bar, or in our comfortable cocktail lounge. Open Tu-Sa evenings at 5pm.

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The Great Impasta, a long-standing restaurant located on Maine St., serves Mediterranean-inspired food w/ a concentration on Italian dishes. This restaurant is a favorite of both locals & those from away.

Incredible, fragrant aromas from the open kitchen hit you the moment you walk through the door. Vegan & gluten-free menus available. 42 Maine St., historic Brunswick, 729-5858, thegreatimpasta.com.

Hurricane Restaurant Executive Chef Brooks MacDonald literally wrote the book on lobster, Lobster Tales: Recipes & Recitations Featuring the Maine Attraction. Serving only the freshest seafood, menus change daily. Award-winning wine list, in-house pastry chef and contemporary New England Cuisine. Maine dining the way it should be. Open for lunch and dinner seven days a week. Dock Square, Kennebunkport, 967-9111, hurricanerestaurant.com Jacqueline’s Tea Room & Gift Shop Authentic afternoon tea in an exquisite English setting. Over 70 of the finest quality loose-leaf teas to accompany your four-course luncheon of scones, finger sandwiches of all kinds & desserts. Great for intimate conversations & parties. Reservations only (not required for shopping).

10:30am-3pm. Tu-F & alternating weekends. 201 Main St., Freeport, 865-2123, jacquelinestearoom.com.

Jameson Tavern is one of the oldest historic taverns in Maine and is said to be the site of the signing of the papers separating Maine from the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.

The Tavern has a bar and dining room and serving seafood, Maine lobster, steaks, pasta, and award-winning clam chowder. Our lobster stew was featured on FoodNation with Bobby Flay as a “fine Maine Restaurant.” 115 Main St., Freeport, 865-4196, jamesontavern.com. * JP Thornton’s Bar & Grille offers upscale, fresh cuisine in a casual pub setting. Known in the Portland area for having a “Cheers-like” atmosphere, locals & those who stumble across this hidden jewel of Foodie favorites can enjoy hand-cut grilled steaks, fresh seafood & house appetizers w/a great selection of microbrews & specialty cocktails. 740 Broadway, S. Portland, 799-3100.

Little Seoul Restaurant Authentic Korean cuisine and sushi bar in a relaxed, casual atmosphere. Quality food at reasonable prices. The service is excellent at Portland’s newest culinary experience. Located in the heart of the Old Port. No reservations needed. Open for lunch, dinner and takeout M-Th 11:30am-9pm, F-Sa until 10pm. 90 Exchange St., Portland, 699-4326.

Lotus Chinese and Japanese Restaurant We feature full-service bar and lounge area, sushi bar, Chinese traditional food not available outside of Boston, friendly atmosphere and courteous service. 251 U.S. Route 1, Falmouth (Falmouth Shopping Plaza), 781-3453.

Maria’s Restaurant and Catering Neapolitan Italian Cooking at its finest. Maine Sunday Telegram four-star restaurant.

Homemade Cavitelli Pasta, think Veal Chops Milanese-Style, Zuppa Di Pesce Fradiavolo, New England’s best Eggplant Parmigiana, Pistachio Gelato, Italian-Style Cakes, Neapolitan five-star wine list. Came in and see Tony and Gregorio; they’ll take excellent care of you. Prices starting at $10 for entrées. Open Tu–Sa. 337 Cumberland Ave, Portland, 772-9232, 233-9232, mariasrestaurant.com.

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One Dock Creative, contemporary New England Cuisine & traditional Maine favorites in a relaxed setting overlooking the Kennebunk River.

The menu offers “small plates,” such as duck spring rolls, flatbread signature pizzas, pan-seared scallops in a maple glaze & a lobster & chipotle cheddar macaroni & cheese, proving to be fan favorites. W-Sa 6-9pm. Kennebunkport Inn, Kennebunkport, 967-2621, onedock.com.

Pat’s Pizza offers a full bar & family dining experience in the heart of Portland’s Historic District. Pat’s offers a full menu of appetizers, entrees, desserts & of course, pizza! We also have a large selection of salads & sandwiches for lunch. Large parties welcome, please call ahead.

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The Pepperclub/Good Egg Café Two favorites, same location! The Pepperclub (“Best Vege­tarian” & “Best Value” in Frommer’s Guide to New England) has creative world cuisine. Blackboard menu lists five vegetarian, three fish & three meat entrées, including an organic beef burger. Relaxed, affordable dining on the edge of the Old Port w/free parking. Pepperclub, daily from 5pm; Good Egg Café, Tu-F 7-11am, Sa-Su 8am-1pm. 78 Middle St., 772-0531, pepperclubrestaurant.com.

Pier 77 & The Ramp Bar & Grill are owned & managed by Kate & Chef Peter Morency. Pier 77 has a formal dining room w/stunning views of Cape Porpoise Harbor & live music each weekend, while the Ramp is more casual, w/its own bar menu at hard-to-beat prices.

967-8500, pier77restaurant.com. * Pom’s Thai Taste Restaurant, Noodle House & Sushi Bar was voted “The Best of Portland ‘09” by Phoenix readers, w/vegetarian & wheat-free options, a kid’s menu, made-to-order noodle soup & $1 sushi every M & Tu. 571 Congress St., Portland, 772-7999. Also in S. Portland, Pom’s Thai Restaurant at 209 Western Ave., 347-3000 & Thai Taste Restaurant at 435 Cottage Rd., 767-3599, thaitastemaine.com.

Rivalries Sports Pub & Grill An upscale sports bar serving creative pub food in a fun and comfortable atmosphere. Known for some of Portland’s best casual food, Rivalries’ menu has something for everyone.

And with 30+ HD TVs and every major pro and college sports package, you won’t miss a game! Conveniently located in Portland’s Historic Old Port District. 774-6044, rivalriesportland.com.

The Salt Exchange Contemporary “small plate” cuisine using local, organic, & sustainable ingredients. Fresh local fish daily. Full bar with Happy Hour weekdays 5:30-7pm. Open for lunch Tu-Sa 11:30am-3pm & dinner 5:30-9pm, (10pm Fri & Sat). Free Parking in the evening. 245 Commercial St., Portland, 347-5687, thesaltexchange.net. * Silly’s, chosen “Best Bargain” by Yankee magazine now features something for everyone including weekend brunch along with vegan & gluten-free options. Silly’s staff, voted “Best Service” by Phoenix readers, presents all-scratch kitchen food in a whimsical setting either inside or in the garden patio. Open Tu-F 11am-9pm and Sa-Su 9am-9pm. 40 Washington Ave., 772-0360, sillys.com.

Stonyfield Cafe (formerly O’Naturals) serves natural & organic flatbread sandwiches, tossed salads, rice & noodle bowls, soups, kids, meals, organic tart frozen yogurt & Sunday Brunch. Quick service for people on the go…but our leather couches, wireless internet & comfortable atmosphere will entice you to stay. Chicken, roast beef, wild bison meatloaf, wild Alaskan salmon & many vegetarian items–there’s something for everyone. Route 1, Falmouth, 781-8889, stonyfieldcafe.com.

Twenty Milk St. U.S.D.A. prime & choice steaks & the freshest seafood, combining award-winning classic American cuisine w/fine wines in a warm & inviting atmosphere. Crab cakes w/lemon shallot mayonnaise, baked escargot, charbroiled chili-lime scallops & sumptuous desserts.

Complimentary valet parking. Dinner daily; also breakfast, lunch & brunch. Portland Regency Hotel, 774-4200, theregency.com.

Varano’s Italian Restaurant Food so good, you may never cook again. W/stunning views of the coast & the Rachel Carson Wildlife Refuge. The best Italian food north of Boston. The menu offers signature Italian dishes & special family recipes & the comprehensive all-Italian wine list is a Wine Spectator award recipient since 2002. 60 Mile Rd., Wells, 641-8550, varanos.com.

Vaughan Street offers breakfast and lunch. Soups, salads, baked goods, tortilla rollups, traditional sandwiches and our specialty: freshbaked focaccia sandwiches. Daily we make sandwiches that promise a unique and delicious experience. You’ve gotta try it! Conveniently located across from Maine Medical Center. 235 Vaughan St., Portland, 277-8993, vaughanst.com.

Walter’s is one of Maine’s most popular restaurants. Chef/owner Jeff Buerhaus is inspired by global influences. Seasonal menus are accented by creative daily specials. Extensive wine list & inventive cocktail creations complement menu offerings. M-Sa lunch 11:30am-2:30pm, dinner from 5pm, bar menu 2:30pm-midnight. Su brunch 10am-2:30pm. 2 Portland Sq., 871-9258, waltersportland.com.

Wells Beach Steakhouse & T-Bone Lounge serves prime & allnatural steaks, fresh seafood & delicious salads, w/Kobe sirloin steaks, set in a plush atmosphere. Enjoy a selection from the highly allocated new world wine list, or a signature Wells Beach martini under the starry ‘sky’ of the lounge. 73 Mile Rd., Wells, 6462252, wellsbeachsteakhouse.com. *

Yosaku Authentic Japanese culinary experience, designed by owner/chef Sato Takahiro. Premium sushi, sashimi & rolls, plus traditionally cooked Japanese cuisine for the sushi-shy. Best deck dining overlooking our tranquil Japanese garden & waterfall. Lunch M-F 11:30am-2pm, Sa-Su noon-3pm. Dinner 5-9:30pm, F-Sa 5-10:30pm. 1 Danforth St., 780-0880. *reservations recommended

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Who knew Kirsten Dunst’s secret weapon is a mysterious Mainer named Daniel Vitalis? And what vitamin do you take, exactly, that helps you win Best Actress at Cannes? by J e a n e e D u d l e y

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Kirsten Dunst has had a killer month,

between hanging with pals at Fore Street in the Old Port and, barely days later, winning Best Actress at the 2011 Cannes Film Festival. “Portland has such a good vibe,” she says after bringing the award home for her performance in Melancholia. “The nature of this state is so beautiful. I grew up on the East Coast but also in the woods, so it’s a familiar feeling.”

The celeb’s May visit here was prompted by an invitation from Daniel Vitalis, a wellness guru and primitive skills enthusiast who is developing a growing international clientele. With an enthusiasm that approaches devotion, Dunst has endorsed his supplement brand, Surthrival, ever since the two first met on the West Coast. “I use the Chaga tincture; it’s one of the most powerful mushrooms for healing on the planet…. My friend uses the pine pollen, and I discovered the products through him.”

Commenting on the local fare of the East Coast’s foodiest city, she says, “Best eats in Maine would have to be the home-

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“I’m sure I will [return to Portland],” she says. “It would be fun to make a movie here.

I look forward to seeing my Maine friends again and eating lobster with them.”

But first, Dunst and Vitalis have plans to travel to Peru to sample Ayahuasca [a.k.a. “vine of the dead”], a traditional Quechua medicine that has cardiovascular and digestive benefits as well as hallucinogenic properties. Who is this shaman of the Maine woods who ties back his locks and dons a button-up shirt for dinner, suggesting a persuasive sociability, while his green-flame knuckle tattoos (remember Robert Mitchum’s in Night of the Hunter?) spell out “HARD-LINE” across his hands–“a symbol of my commitment to the Earth”? We talked to Daniel to better appreciate his approach to wellness and the magnetic effect he has on people who seek his insight.

So how does one go about inviting Kirsten Dunst to dinner in the Old Port?

Daniel Vitalis: I’m a public speaker. I do a lot of interviews and videos. Kirsten’s boyfriend [Jason Boesel, drummer for indie band Rilo Kiley] is a fan of my work, so I guess Kirsten was exposed via osmosis. I have a real passion for spring water–it’s far healthier than anything you can get from the tap or in a bottle. Our website, findaspring.com, shows you where you can find your own natural spring water here and around the country.

One of Kirsten’s favorite hobbies is gathering spring water. Anyway, I was giving a talk in L.A. that [Kirsten and Jason] attended. I gave her the Surthrival shirt she was photographed wearing in L.A. We all got to talking, and I invited them to Maine. They came out for about four or five days.”

And what exactly is Surthrival?

Surthrival is a line of products I’ve developed, researched, and tested on my own body. Most of them affect epigenomic expression, or tissue regeneration. Surthrival is about ‘getting by’ through ‘getting enough’–thriving no matter what the circumstance, especially with the great obstacles we are now facing as a species.

Heavy metal pollution, changing seas, problems associated with dependence on oil… we’re going to be seeing some big changes in the next few decades.

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What is ‘epigenomic expression’?

DNA structure and gene expression. Over the last 200,000 years, humans have become less robust–we have worse teeth and smaller, brittler bones, which are a result of living in an industrial world. Fifty percent of this generation will die of cancer. We’re trying to pioneer a lifestyle that will lead us back to health.

And part of that is your wild-food initiative?

I’m working with a modest and wellknown botanist, Arthur Haines. He has a few guidebooks you may have heard of [including Flora Novara Angliae: A Manual for the Iden­tification of Native and Naturalized Higher Vascular Plants of New England]. We’re working on foraging workshops–the next one is in September.

We’ll be teaching friction fire-starting, and Chef Frank Giglio will be preparing foraged foods.

So you were …foraging at Fore Street?

Everything is fresh, locally sourced, so you’ve got things like fish eggs, organ meats, and foraged plants like wild leeks and fiddleheads.

It’s no surprise that the most high-end and well-prepared food is also the most nutritious.

I have a huge passion for restaurants like Fore Street. I love the mussels!

Which naturally made it a good choice for friends on a visit.

When Kirsten and Jason were here, that’s where we wanted to take them for dinner–funny, on the way they said they’d heard of Fore Street through a chef friend in New York.

Where else can we find a wild meal in Portland?

I like Hugo’s; I’ve heard 555 is good. Flatbread is awesome, too. It’s so good, and they use local, natural ingredients, and it’s the opposite end of the price spectrum. You go to Fore Street and drop $1,000 with a few friends, or you can get pizzas and spend $40.

What’s your place like in Shapleigh?

We have a little passive-solar house with one side all glass. We live on an environmental land trust–it’s about 100 acres. We’ve got apple trees, trails, gardens, a well. This year we’re moving outside–we’re working on an outdoor bedroom, shower, and kitchen.

I grew up around Dover, New Hampshire. I moved to Maine with my mom when I was 15. For the first decade, I was just hating it–I felt like I was stuck in the middle of

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What else did Kirsten and Jason enjoy while they were in the Pine Tree State?

We wanted to expose Kirsten and Jason to Maine’s rural forest, so we took them hiking.

People coming from Hollywood aren’t used to black flies–they couldn’t believe how many there were. We had a big bonfire here. We went into the woods to shoot primitive bows made from native tree wood. We shot atlatls [another primitive hunting tool]. We also went to Newfield to gather spring water.

Did they pick up any souvenirs?

We took them to Cabela’s before they left here on their way to Cannes. Jason has that kind of ’80s style, and he bought this tacky 1980s sunglasses lanyard, which he was photographed wearing at Cannes! n

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Tell us why seaweed is so essential to a Maine clambake.

First of all, it provides the steam, so you have to have that. It’s essentially a clam steam, not a clambake. Wet seaweed holds moisture in all of its little pockets. The design of the wet seaweed allows it to steam.

Soft shell lobsters.

Call it a cliché, but to me it’s the thing I think of most. We get the lobsters from the local guys, spread out newspapers on the table, put the big pile of lobsters in the center of the table, and make homemade potato chips, fresh tomatoes and zucchini, and blueberry bread.

Do lobsters taste better in a clambake because their taste mingles with the clams’–like an infused cocktail?

Yes, the sea flavor combines with it.

What’s the best wine to pair with a classic lobster dinner?

I’ll always go to a crisp French white chardonnay. Or, for the Naples connection, try Lacryma Christi white. It’s got some local white grapes in it. I like Lacryma Christi– it’s good.

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One of Maine’s best ingredients is the sea urchin. I use it for everything–risottos, pastas, spaghettini luchi de mare. I finish sauces with them, I toss them in salads, I make a tuna tartare with uni from Maine.

Sea urchins are not loved as much as they should be. In America. The Japanese obviously take their share of sea urchins out of Maine.

Tell us about some restaurants here you admire.

Fore Street in Portland–Sam [Hayward’s] restaurant–is great. [There’s] Brian’s restau-

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How about the delicious decadence of combining lobster meat with heavy cream, viz. your New England creamed corn and charred lobster chowder with summer truffles? Is there a diet version?

Lobster and cream! Lobster’s a very rich shellfish, and then with the cream, it’s super decadent. It’s having your cake and eating it too. The truffles marry the corn and lobster together. Just take the heads of the lobster, steep them in cream, and you have a beautiful soup.

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can be delicious, right over a nice wood grill. But I would say in most cases, anything that’s beyond grilling for the warmweather lobsters, I’d say don’t do anything beyond that. It’s hard to blend them into something that works other than a ceviche preparation. I find Maine lobsters to be a lot more diverse in their use for many more applications.

When I went to Venice and squinted at the menu at a restaurant on the Grand Canal, the proprietor shook me by the shoulders, turned me to the glass food display case, and said, “Don’t read the menu, look at the fish!” How important does serendipity–that sense of luck, love, and the catch of the day–figure into your philosophy of great cooking?

We try always to have flexibility in our menus to get only what’s fresh, and I think it depends on the type of restaurant. In Italy where they serve 30 covers and use four fish of one type on a given night–that’s different from what our restaurants have to do to arrive at exactly the same place.

Do you agree that Maine is truly experiencing a renaissance in cuisine, given your more traveled perspective?

I’d say so. Certainly Maine has, over the last ten years, opened its eyes with the really great chefs up here. Rod Mitchell exploited some of the great seafood of Maine. It’s 1 8 8 p o r t l a n d m o n t h ly m a g a z i n e

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I didn’t know that about Emeril. I know he has a Massachusetts background, but I didn’t know he worked in Maine. There’s a lot of great chefs in Maine. Certainly, because our country’s waking up to local, organic, sustainable ingredients, Maine is a great place to win international acclaim as a chef.

In your opinion, what’s the perfect cocktail/lobster pairing right now?

If you’re just going to do a boiled lobster, I love a great bourbon drink.

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Bourbon’s got that toasty, caramelly flavor that really adds to your anticipation of a perfect bite of lobster–you take a sip of bourbon, and it works really well.

How about swordfish?

I’d stick to vodka.

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Wharf and sail away in your Catalina 42 Mark II. As you approach, feast your eyes on the “three natural-cove beaches on the south, east, and west sides of the island.”

The island was once a hot spot for tourists, too. “Big cruise ships from Boston and New York City came to Harrington in the 1920s. Well-to-do tourists [from the Astor/ Vanderbilt set] would bebop around in

bathing suits on the surrounding islands, including Narrows, once called the ‘Bar Harbor of the Downeast.’ It’s quieter now, but it’s still a desirable location.”

How desirable?

“Well, it’s your own world.”

Seventeen acres; taxes $7,055.

Casco Bay Island New Brunswick, Canada, $1.4M

Want a summer retreat that enchants yearround? “There’s an all-season house here,” says owner Mike Kaiser of Casco Bay Island.

“It’s sturdy and insulated. You’d be comfortable no matter the time of year.” Situated atop a spruced-up cliff, the house overlooks the Bay of Fundy, and the waters that crash onshore are of both Canadian and American extraction. “You can see different countries from different sides of the island. In the summer we like to sit on the south end of the is-

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land and watch the fireworks shoot off from Lubec and Eastport.”

But Kaiser admits the wildlife is what keeps him coming back. “One time I was kayaking in front of the island with my son, and a pod of minke whales surfaced all around us. We were scared–startled, really–but they were a playful bunch.” Humpback and finback whales are also common to the area, as well as seals and eagles. Kai-

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ser says the finbacks are the most surreal.

“During their active season–July through October–you can hear them at night. They dive down and corral herring with a curtain of bubbles. When they return to the surface, all that air is released. You’re lying in bed and hear this low roar, and you know the finbacks are out there. It’s as comforting as it is haunting.”

Forty-one acres; taxes $4,365.

Greer Island, Vinalhaven, $595,000

Though only a piece of the vast puzzle that is Penobscot Bay, Greer Island is Maine at its finest. “It’s a few hundred feet off Vinalhaven,” says realtor Ed Mitchell of Legacy Properties, “so you have all of this wilderness and seclusion as well as a large, inhabited island right at your fingertips.”

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O b s e s s io n s so owned a big slice of Vinalhaven–the island has a timeless feel. “There’s calm water all around. Down on the rocks or up in the fields, you’re in tune with the porpoises, the seals, and the whales.” There are no buildings here, save for the deserted fisherman’s shack on the shore; however, the Areys hold a building permit that will be passed along to the new owner.

But even without creature comforts, there’s plenty to enjoy. “There’s a small grouping of spruce trees on the highest point, a place we call the ‘grove crescent.’

Nestled in the shade, you have a 360-degree view of everything: the mouth of Penobscot Bay, Isle Au Haut, and the open Atlantic.”

Talk about the best seat in the house.

Five acres; taxes $1,667.

Lower Birch Islands Addison, $1.295M

Want the real Maine experience? A family of lobstermen in Addison Harbor has helped protect these sandbar-connected islands for the better part of a century. “Eight members of the Batson family are still active in Addison’s lobstering community,” says Glen

Jackson of Jackson Reality. “I was heading out to the island one day when my dory broke down, and two of the Batson brothers were at my aid in ten minutes. They towed me in, fixed my outboard, and never charged me.” The Batson’s don’t discriminate against outsiders, either, and encourage whoever buys Lower Birch to use the docks in Addison Harbor.

Once you unpack your belongings at the rustic, three-bedroom island house, wander through lush flower gardens as crickets chirp and the ocean breeze sifts through the wheat fields. Walk far enough and you come to a forest of spruce, fir, and the signature birch. Walking trails lead you into the center of this expansive forest. Eventually, the thicket opens up, and the granite cliffs on the backside of the island give you the perfect vantage point from which to gaze out over Western Bay. Thirty-one acres; taxes $7,416.

palette for your creative impulses. Perhaps this is why Andrew Wyeth felt drawn to paint here. There are no trees and only a small cottage, but sometimes less is more. “[You’re] pretty much open to the elements out here,” says owner Dennis Young. “But there are other islands nearby, so you have the views.” There’s no dock–“it was wiped out by the storm of ‘78”–but two deep-water moorings provide boat access, and there’s a beach just below the cottage, perfect for landing a skiff or canoe. Walk up the wooden staircase and you’re at the foot of the cottage; you have a quiet, secluded world at your disposal. “Ain’t no noise, ‘cept for the cry of the gulls.”

Seventeen acres; taxes $1,852.

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“From the top of the tallest island, you can see for 70 miles on a clear day,” says Jeffrey Allen of Downeast Properties. “Gazing southwest to Acadia is one of my favorite pastimes.” The islands are crafted out of smooth, rounded, dark-hued ledges which cannot be built upon. However, just across the gut that separates the island from the mainland, “the owner has access to a 10-acre parcel of land where you could build a house and wake up to your islands every morning.” Together, the islands and “Point of Main” parcel can be had for $1.2M.

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Ram Island, St. George, $1.35M

“Located in Wheeler Bay, Ram Island is in the midst of one of the last working harbors left on the coast,” says owner Wilson Alling. “The harbor contains roughly seven times more lobster boats than pleasure boats.” Hear the gentle hum of the John Deere engines as you roll over in the early morning; later, sip a cup of coffee on the deck of the quaint but luxurious cabin as you watch the lobster boats haul their traps.

In the afternoon, take a walk through the woods, tasting wild raspberries while gazing at the southern horizon. “Matinic Island is out there, to the southeast. The next stop would be Portugal.”

A sand beach hugs a large portion of the island, and an active osprey nest provides more entertainment than your average Tuesday afternoon soap opera. “Watching the fledglings take flight in early August is the highlight of the summer,” says Alling.

The wharf is sheltered from tough southerly winds, and the jaunt to Port Clyde is usually a smooth one. But once you set foot on the island, the mainland will be the last thing on your mind.

Six-and-a-half acres; taxes $6,775.

Fisherman’s Island, Beals, $995,000

In the market for something shiny? “The owners of this island have dubbed it ‘the jewel of the sea,’” says Jeffrey Allen of Downeast Properties. “I think it’s because of the sand and gravel beaches that line the shores. It could be for the views of Mt. Desert Island and Cadillac Mountain.” There’s no house gracing ‘the jewel’ yet, but there is plenty of land to build upon “and a mile’s worth of coastline.” Spruce forests make up the island’s interior, and “if you follow the Summerguide

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Fifty acres; taxes $3,739.

Foster Island Harrington, $1.65M

David Rockefeller, Jr., bought this island in the 1960s. A conservation easement was imposed in 1973, and the island remains mostly untouched today. “There are a few [house] foundations from before Rockefeller owned the property,” says real estate agent Mia Brown from Knowles Company, “but they are hardly visible.”

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A lazy stream meanders through a large open field, kissing scattered spruce trees before spilling into the sea on the south end. “There’s a nice protected cove here with a sand beach.

It’s the perfect spot when the north wind is blowing.” And when the wind swings to the south? “There’s a lovely beach on the northern end where loons swim, and–if you’re feeling a little adventurous–you can row out to tiny Cow Island just offshore.” Island hopping?

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Three hundred acres; taxes $7,519.

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“It’s the classic Maine experience,” says broker Steve Shelton of Acadia Realty Group. He’s right. In the middle of Machias Bay sits a lone island that is literally away from it all. “No other islands abut Chance, and the areas of high elevation are very exposed. You can experience the full brunt of Mother Nature.” Which isn’t necessarily a bad thing, since island thunderstorms can be an adrenaline-pumping, and even romantic, experience.

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Forty-four acres; taxes $4,955.

Middle Hardwood Island Jonesport, $1.45M

What a place to hunker down. “It’s one of the last pieces of land in Eastern Bay before the Atlantic swallows everything,” says Bill Milliken of Jonesport Realty, “and what I love about it is, the house, the beach, and the dock are all sheltered from the storm.” Two more cottages hide from the wind among the spruce trees.

Follow the wooded path southwest past the ghosts of ancient cod fishermen and the view to the mainland is revealed. Across Eastern Bay is Head Harbor Island, where the remains of an old quarry rise out the fog.

These foundations are nearly a century old and provide a history lesson that is easy to absorb. Continue walking and you’ll reach flat, pink-granite ledges. “It’s the best place for a picnic because the wind is all over you– a lovely, cooling breeze–but you aren’t subjected to its full force.” Not a bad place to get blown away.

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Fresh Water Islands Phoebe Island Sebec Lake, Piscataquis, $550,000

This small, rugged island sits in “one of the most pristine lakes in Maine,” says owner Jay Baily.

“The island is accentuated by a tall rock on the shore I call ‘Lighthouse Rock,’ the freshwater lighthouse of the North.” The ‘light’ must call to the herds of deer that wade out here to munch on undergrowth and the schools of wriggling bass, ripe for the hooking.

Twenty-one acres; taxes $789.

Pine Island Long Lake, Naples, $1.2M

“I was seduced by this place,” says owner Jay Baily. It’s not hard to see why, surrounded as it is by an 11-mile-long, spring-fed lake. “[The area around] Long Lake is southern Maine, teeming with elbow-to-elbow campers onshore. But the island and the cozy, circular cottage at the center are all yours.

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One acre; taxes $1,649.

Berry Island Lake St. George, Liberty, $199,900

“It’s the perfect camping spot,” says Roland Littlefield of United Realty. Indeed, this little gem on the northeast side of Lake St. George is a prime setting for staking a tent on a bed of soft pine needles under a canopy of magnificent trees. A sandy beach sits nearby for drifting into shore in your kayak or taking a refreshing dip. Hungry?

Have a picnic on the 25-foot granite ledge that overlooks the cerulean lake. It’s a camper’s paradise, but in case you’re not the s’mores-and-bug-spray type, you do have a permit to build a house.

Six acres; taxes $3,500.

land–uncannily shaped like the country of France–is complete with an old-school log cabin and a sand beach for boat landing.

“The lake is entwined with the St. Croix River, so fish spill in by the thousands,” says broker Kim Corkan of the Maine Recreational Realty Group.

Twelve-and-a-half acres; taxes $1,012.

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“It will take a unique type of person to buy

this island,” says Peter Thornton of Legacy Properties. One look at this half-acre patch of heaven on Sebago Lake’s west shore and you may decide you fit the bill. “The threebedroom, clapboard bunkhouse sits on a ledge overlooking the water. From the deck, you can see far across the lake.” At the back of the bunkhouse, which Thornton describes as “somewhere between a cabin and a fancy home,” a handful of birch trees juts out of the soil before the lake takes over again.

Quarter acre; taxes $2,492.

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Brown Island Nicatous Lake, Burlington, $725,000

It doesn’t get any wilder than this. Sixty miles northeast of Bangor lies Nicatous Lake, one of the most secluded spots in Maine. Stenciled into the northernmost section of the lake is Brown Island. “If you have a map,” says realtor John Colannino of Dawson Commercial Brokers, “look for the fish-shaped island.”

You’ll find towering pines and hemlocks and sand beaches that are “less than

typical” in remote settings like this. “You can set up a lawn chair on the beach and feel like you’re in the tropics.” If you’re more of the adventurous type, the island offers hiking trails and birdwatching. When an afternoon storm blows through, head into the small cabin for some recreation, like a game of pool or ping pong. “The rec room is where the kids usually end up, and it’s fun for the adults, too.”

As for the lake, “you hardly ever see another boat, including verboten jet skis.” Standing at the shoreline in the evening, with a soft wind tracing the water, what do you hear if not the mechanical whir of boat engines?

“You know what you hear?” says Colannino.

“You hear quiet.”

Five acres; taxes $826.

Chasse Island Wadleigh Pond, Lyman, $449,000

Fair is fowl and fowl is fair. “There’s a game reserve on a nearby [mainland]

marsh,” says owner Russ Chasse. “Ducks and geese visit here on their way to the marsh, and we’ve had moose sightings, too.” While the pine-dense island is beautiful in the summer, “you can snowshoe out to Chasse in the winter, build a fire, set ice-fishing traps. Both seasons are special in their own way.”

Two acres; taxes $944.

White’s Island Big Lake, Washington County, $2.295M

“This is one of the largest freshwater islands in Maine,” says Deb Hen­derson of Maine Recreational Realty Group. “It’s not often that an island of this magnitude goes on the market.” Besides miles of hiking trails and endless shorefront, the new owners of this island–which has yet to be built upon–will have an estimated $400,000 worth of potential lumber (from necessary thinning of the trees) at their disposal. Anyone for pick-up sticks?

One hundred forty-four acres; taxes $1,509. n

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HOUSEOFTHEMONTH Colin W. Sargent

Real estate guru Barbara Corcoran picks this lakeside listing first as one of the best waterfront house values below $500,000 in the United States.

all photos courtesy Legacy Properties Sotheby’s International Realty/ Gary Pennington

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oquacious, loquacious, loquacious! Real estate wouldn’t be the same without Manhattan executive Barbara Corcoran, who during a recent Today Show appearance sparked interest in Maine nationwide by singing the praises of a lakeside octagon in this neck of the woods: “Our first house is in Naples, Maine, a three-bedroom home priced at $459,900, not easily done on the water.

“Naples is a four-season resort area deep in the lakes region. It’s a tiered lot that’s fully landscaped. That house is perfect–steps leading straight down to the lake with your own private dock and mooring.”

As for whether its eight sides make it hard to sell, “No, but hard to furnish.

It’s a hard house to furnish but they have done a good job. It has an open floor plan with the open fireplace, a big kitchen with exposed beams–all the windows front on the lake. It’s a lovely place to hang out.”

Listing agent Karen Wright says her special spot here is “sitting in front of the gorgeous, stand-alone stone fireplace. Also on the wrap-around deck overlooking the lake.” Maybe it really is ‘first house, best house!’ Taxes are $2,550 and the association fee is $420 per year for road & association maintenance. n

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No more sleepless nights.

Dan Frederick and his brother knew their father was managing everything in their parents home, including the care of their mother, Claudette. When their father passed away, they realized just how much her needs had changed.

After attending a seminar about Scarborough Terrace, an assisted living community, they both knew it was the perfect choice.

“Our mother needed safety, socialization, balanced meals and someone to help her manage medications,” Dan explains.

“Choosing Scarborough Terrace provided that, and alleviated fear and stress for all of us.”

If you are facing the changing needs of an aging parent or loved one, learn more about Scarborough Terrace by calling Elizabeth Simonds today at (207) 885-5568.

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HALEY POND

MOOSELOOKMEGUNTIC LAKE

RANGELEY LAKE

Cute as a button 1-BR Pondside Cottage $179,000

Historic Haines Landing 2-BR Camp w/Water Access $159,000

Exceptionally Private 3+ acre Lakeside Estate $1,100,000

“Your Real Estate Source for the Rangeley Region” Caryn Dreyfuss – Broker 2455 Main Street Rangeley, ME 04970 P.O. Box 1234 (207) 233-8275 www.realestateinrangeley.com Email: caryn@citycoverealty.com

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3-BR Chalet with Access to Haley Pond $329,900

Spacious 3-BR Chalet w/Deeded Access to Rangeley Lake $339,000

Income Producing 5-Unit, Walking Distance to the Village $295,000

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Portland Condo NEW LISTING $339,000

Scarborough NEW LISTING $499,000

Portland NEW LISTING $257,000

Freeport NEW LISTING $428,000

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WISCASSET Turn key!

2 bedroom Ranch with new siding, windows, kitchen, roof (2000), and beautiful woodfloors. $149,500 GREENVILLE - Motivated seller wants to hear offers. Call office for additional information.

WOOLWICH - Very Quiet and Private parcel on Nequasset Brook. 2.5+/- acre lot for $42,500

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P.O. Box 1557 • Located on the south corner of Route 1 & Flood Ave. • Wiscasset, ME 04578 Toll-Free (800) 215-8117 • Phone: 882-9100 • Fax: 882-9111 www.cromwellprop.com Helping Buyers and Sellers throughout Midcoast Maine!

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Starr Cottage—Classic 1790’s Greek Revival post and beam cape. 5 bedrooms, 3.5 baths, 4 fireplaces.

Glorious sunrise waterview and sunset waterfront. $1,950,000

Hermits Point Shorefront Lot— Splendid 12 acre parcel offers open woods, cleared home site. Private drive, enchanting cove with 235 feet frontage.

Protective covenants. $695,000

Panoramic Sunset Views from this lovely contemporary cape and guest cottage amidst 15 acres of lawn, open shorefront, and woods. Suitable for family compound, includes 40 acre conservancy lot and building site. $1,200,000.

Turtle Head Contemporary. Completely renovated, fully furnished, perched on rugged ledges and beach, over 5 wooded acres. Great room and deck, guest suite over garage. $725,000.

Islesboro Island select ProPertIes John Oldham, Broker

P.O. Box 300, Islesboro, ME 04848 · (207) 734-8809 oldhamip@midcoast.com · www.islesboro.com

Sunrise Cape At The Narrows.

Waterfront cedar-shingled three bedroom, great views, beach, deck, and kitchen. 2400 square feet with dining room, living room fireplace, two full baths. Quaint and cozy wooded location. $695,000.

Doc’s Harbor Prime Oceanfront three-bedroom cottage, panoramic sunrise views, easy beach access, deep water. Includes surveyed 3- acre road front lot suitable for development. $655,000.

Marshall Cove New Home. Sunset views, 200 foot sandy beach. Massive fieldstone fireplace, cathedral ceiling.

2 bedrooms, 2 full baths, gracious cover porch. Boat launch ROW. Almost done, finish to your taste. Make this your great getaway. $550,000.

Deep Cove Lane Shorelot—Beautiful, unspoiled Sabbathday Harbor. Four rolling acres of woods and fern meadow, 366 feet of gravel beach. Excellent elevated building sites, soils tested. Great views of East Penobscot Bay and Ryder Cove. $499,000

Dramatic East Shore Drive—4.2 acre lot, 990 feet bold deepwater shoreline and beach. Building site across road.

Breathtaking ocean views. $495,000

Gilkey Harbor Broad Cove—Prime waterfront lot, sweeping harbor views.

Four acres, 200 foot gravel beach.

Common drive, power installed. Soils tested. $475,000

Classic 1842 Captain’s Cape—Five bedrooms, three fireplaces and barn on five acres, sunny yard. Great family home, great space, near Dark Harbor, invites your renovations. $398,000

Pendleton Point Circa 1905—3 or 4 bedrooms, breakfast deck, bay window sunroom. Studio cabin amidst delightful woods. Whimsy, comfort, convenience near Dark Harbor village. $385,000

Ryder Cove Waterfront—10 acres, over 1,000 feet of cove beaches and wooded shore point. Soils tested, many site options, abundant wildlife, abutting conservancy. $329,000

Two Bedroom-Meadow Pond Ranch— On an acre plus lot with open fields and pondfrontage. Sunporch, open deck, garage. Just the right size and location. $299,000

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Boothbay Harbor 3 bedroom New Englander completely renovated with waterfront on Linekin Bay. $599,900

BEACHFRONT: Just steps to Peaks Island’s longest sandy beach is the “Spinnaker Suite,” a fully winterized year round cottage in ship shape condition! An incredible, very private site with impressive views of ocean, islands & gorgeous sunsets. This very sweet 2 bedroom, 2 bath cottage is on a large harbor side lot having great expansion possibilities or to be perfectly enjoyed for the darling cottage it is. Walking distance to tennis/sailing club and close to island village & ferry landing. A great offering at $495,000.

Peaks Island: pristine, quiet island living at the “door-step” of a wonderful city. Portland: rated as one of the top small cities in the country.

Some call it the best of both worlds and the fortunate ones have made it their primary or second home. Among them is longtime islander Ralph Ashmore. Ralph has specialized in island real estate for nearly 30 years & possesses the knowledge and expertise to assist you through the important process of purchasing or selling an island home.

A S H M O R E R E A LT Y 20 Welch Street, Peak Island, Maine 04108 207.766.2981 • ralph@ashmorerealty.com

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Boothbay Harbor 3 bedroom Mini Estate with guest cottage and waterviews of the harbor. $525,000

Edgecomb 3 bedroom home on 5.76 acres surrounded by fishing pond, gardens & apple trees. $349,000

63 Townsend Ave., Boothbay Harbor, ME 04538 800-576-6911 • 207-633-2222 • Fax: 207-633-6251 info@pottlerealtygroup.com • www.pottlerealtygroup.com

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  Maine Maine Ocean Ocean Islands Islands & & Land Land For For Sale Sale   Beals

Fisherman’s Island- Over a mile of your very own Maine Coastline A 5 acre “Jewel of the Sea” in its entirety.

Wonderful meadows running to interspersed beaches. 360˚ views of sea and mountains.

Located near the beloved Archipelagos of Great Wass Island- most of which is under the guidance of the Nature Conservatory.

Now offered at $995,000.

Blue Hill

Long Island- Deep Cove One oceanfront lot available with 300' of rugged bold deepwater shorefront set high to take full advantage of views over majestic Blue Hill Bay. Three remaining interior view lots for sale. All with a shared dock and potential deep water mooring. The majority (95%) of Long Island is under the stewardship of Acadia National Park, making this property a rare and desirable find.

Interior views lots starting at $98,000 Oceanfront lot offered at $249,000

MacHiasport

Scabby Island Chain & Point of Maine Awesome opportunity to own three islands located a short 20-minute boat ride from Starboard Cove in Machiasport. Beaches, bluffs, and breathtaking 360˚ views. Now offered at $510,000.

Also offered with 10.5 acres on nearby mainland known as “Point of Main.”

Offered in entirety for $1,200,000.

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Perkins Street Exceptional quality and attention to detail are the hallmarks of this remarkable property. Artfully designed gardens lead to expansive gravel/sandy beach and deepwater frontage on Castine Harbor. Overlooking Historic Nautilus Island, Dices Head toward bold open Atlantic Ocean.

Offered at $2,495,000.

Deer isle

High Cliff Set high above the sea to capture splendid views of the islands of East Penobscot Bay to the Camden Hills.

The finely crafted home features a superb artist studio and is complimented by imaginative landscaping as well as an orchard and organic vegetable gardens.

Offered at $2,250,000.

Brooksville

Weir Cove Rare opportunity to purchase 16 acres on sought after Cape Rosier. The quintessential Maine shingled style cottage overlooks an expansive 1,280 feet of deepwater frontage. Commanding unobstructed ocean views over island dotted coastal waters.

Offered at $1,900,000.

MacHiasport

Yoho Head Luxurious, custom estate with land leading gently to 206' of sandy beach frontage that overlooks Fan Island, Roque Bluffs and the bold open Atlantic Ocean. An extraordinary exclusive gated community sharing 400 acres with 2 additional private beaches, clamming/picnic facilities and a designated nature area.

Offered at $1,590,000.

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WISCASSET 207-882-7357

Old world charm and modern living meet in this unique property! Beautiful stone wall with double fireplaces separates the living room from the spacious “eat and entertain” gourmet kitchen. 3 bedroom, 2.75 baths with rights to common dock on Touassic Bay. Woolwich MLS 1012133 $480,000

To be built custom home with panoramic views to open Ocean. Rare offering with private beaches and walking trails all along the ocean. 200 acres of shared untouched land is another reason to consider this great property in beautiful Indian Point!

Georgetown MLS 999996 $1,150,000

Stunning house, gorgeous setting!

Elegant waterfront community where birdlife abounds! 3 bed/3.5 bath craftsman inspired contemporary cottage style home. Waterfront and waterviews , privacy and convenient to town.

Get away every time you go home!!

Woolwich MLS 999820 $795,000

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BELFAST: Circa 1840 Greek Revival in historical district of Primrose Hill. Front parlors, music, dining & sitting rms; 3000 sq.ft. w/ media/family rm, studio, & office all incorporated in tasteful fashion. Water views & Roof Top Deck overlooking Harbor and downtown waterfront! MUST SEE, $345,000

SEARSPORT: Situated on the edge of Cains Pond, this architect designed and built passive solar contemporary features 2800 sq. ft., w/4 bdrms, 3 baths, den, family room and solarium facing the water. Very private location, over 5 acres, 250+ feet on water, landscaped by professionals, this one has it all! Visit our website for the virtual tour.

Offered at $399,900

BELFAST: Breathtaking views of the harbor from every room, this Bayview Street gem is waiting for you. 2-3 bdrms, studio on upper level overlooking water, 3 decks & patio.

Moor your boat and enjoy oceanfront access a short walk away to keep your dingy! Priced to sell! $259,900

BROOKS: Well built home perfect for that gentleman/woman farmer featuring 20+ acres with 30x36 Barn w/5 Horse stalls, tack rm, dble sliding doors, water & ele!

Attached garage w/shop on upper level, NOW ONLY $214,900

BELFAST: PRIVATE location, only 4 miles to downtown waterfront, home offers a flexible layout w/2 levels. Patio doors from living rm. opens to deck facing expansive & manicured back yard with room for all the outdoor activities; V-match, hardwood in kitchen, new heating system, Now Only $139,900!

BELFAST: Oceanfront Resort & Campground includes 8.27 acres with 402’ on the ocean, 359’ on Rt. 1. Contemporary w/living quarters on upper level, campground office on lower level, 45 sites plus a separate building w/ 48-seat restaurant, all with open vistas & access to beach. Rare opportunity, sale includes real estate & businesses! $1,495,000

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237 Waldoboro Road, Jefferson, ME 04348 • (207) 549-5657 • FAX 549-5647 237 Waldoboro Road, Jefferson, ME 04348 • 207-549-5657 • FAX 207-549-5647 Jefferson - This beautiful brick home has many features. First-floor bedroom with bath, open kitchen, living and dining area, a formal living and dining room, 2-car garage and a fabulous view of Damariscotta Lake! $250,000

Jefferson - Truly a beautiful piece of Maine–19.3

Damariscotta Lake, Jefferson acres of land with 770' of - Well situated on capea overlooking waterfront quiet and Damariscotta Lake on$324,000 33 acres with peaceful pond!

450’ of shore frontage. Property has barn with 6 stalls and pasture.

Home has fireplace in living room, central vac, radiant heated garage, screen porch, open deck and waterfront dock. $ 562,500

Nobleboro - Own a small piece of paradise - a beautiful 68 acre parcel of land with 850’ of waterfront on the east shore of Damariscotta Lake with fantastic sunsets. $ 895,000

Pittston - What a beautiful lot bordered on two

Jefferson - Enjoy watching the sides by the Eastern River sunrise from this cottage located in wonderful a real Maine on the waterfront. $ 274,900 rural village within walk-

ing distance of the general store. A well-maintained 1830s cape includes 2 chimneys, deck, porch, garage, with 4 acres of open backyard. $174,500

Windsor - This 44+/acre parcel includes 20 acres of open field. Sitting on this parcel of land is a privately located 16'x60' Maple Leaf single-wide home for you to live in while building your rural Maine farm. $164,000

Nobleboro - Two cottages, sandy beach, docks, privacy, all on the water’s edge. One cottage with 3 bedrooms, sun porch, dining area, and garage. Other cottage has 2 bedrooms and sits on the rocky edge of the water. $799,000

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A Shorefront ContemporAry Set on almost an acre of beautiful land that slopes gently down to a rocky beach, this 2600+/- sq. ft. architect designed contemporary is, in a word, stunning. The soaring ceiling and wall of glass in the dining room plus custom cabinetry in the kitchen exemplify both the wonderful design and quality workmanship found throughout. All but one of the rooms offers water views â&#x20AC;&#x201C; most of those being glorious. Islands, open ocean and Hussey Sound and all of its boating traffic lay out in front of you while surrounding the home are beautifully landscaped grounds backed up by woods that abut preserved lands.

What a setting! A living room with gas fireplace, a master suite with its own deck, 3 other bedrooms and a den (which has been a 1st floor bedroom) and wonderful decking complete the picture. In a very private feeling location on Peaks Island, this property is proudly offered at $1,100,000.00

Kirk Goodhue, Agent 207.766.5966 14 Welch Street, Peaks Island, Maine | www.portisland.com

Cape Elizabeth Ocean View Live where Ingrid Bergman stayed (see story in this issue). Remarkable 4 bedroom Cottage Style home with spectacular ocean views from almost every room! Beautiful wood trim and moldings, gas fireplace, updated kitchen and bathrooms, large porch and yard overlooking the water! Right of way to water. A Must See! $679,900.

Joe Flynn, Realtor

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Falmouth $1,050,000 Steve Parkhurst 523-8102

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Portland $475,000 Tish Whipple 523-8104

Cape Elizabeth $1,150,000 Susan Lamb 523-8105

Cape Elizabeth $1,195,000 Cindy Landrigan 523-8106

Falmouth $749,000 Rowan Morse 523-8107

Westbrook $325,000 Mark Fortier 523-8108

Brunswick $339,900 Jeff Davis 523-8118

Portland $460,000 Sandy Johnson 523-8110

Falmouth $995,000 Edie Boothby 523-8111

Cape Elizabeth $269,900 Dianne Maskewitz 523-8112

Cumberland $899,000 Bob Knecht 523-8114

Freeport $1,575,000 Gail Landry 523-8115

Portland $264,900 Chris Jackson 523-8116

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Kennebunk, Maine

PINE KNOT COTTAGE

ME1001

ME1000

ME0999

Southwest Harbor, Maine

THE ARBOR

FLYING PASSAGE

Boothbay, Maine

Lush and colorful gardens surround this year-round waterfront home with 0.87± acres and 97± ft of shorefront. Renovated and updated, the 3-bedroom residence includes a 2-car garage with guest apartment and a 3-bedroom guest house with large greenhouse on a separate lot. Enjoy ever changing views of the harbor or walk to the waterfront past a beautiful flower covered arbor. $1,795,000

Pine Knot offers 600± feet of beautiful sandy beach frontage on historic Parsons Beach in the town of Kennebunk. This 3.18+ acre estate offers a two-story Shingle-style cottage with 6,000± square feet of living space, eight bedrooms, five and one-half baths and period fixtures throughout.The property also features a classic covered porch, carriage house, and a newly constructed changing house. $3,850,000

Flying Passage is a private residence located on Barters Island in the town of Boothbay. Located on an elevated site of 6± acres of cleared fields and lawn with 400± feet of frontage on the Back River, the home offers 5 bedrooms, 5 baths, and a private master suite with deck. Includes a private island, waterfront pier with float, and deepwater mooring. $1,195,000

Story Litchfield 207-276-3840

John Scribner 207-874-2057

John Scribner 207-874-2057

Historic 46± acre saltwater farm with 5,300+ ft on the Cross River and access to the Atlantic Ocean.

Picturesque setting with rolling lawns, 20± acres of fields, majestic hardwood trees and 2± acre pond.

The Cape-style residence provides 3 bedroom suites and 4 fireplaces within its 3,135± sf. Other features include a 30x50 barn and 18x20 studio.

Additional land available. $1,795,000

John Saint-Amour 207-874-6160

Boothbay Harbor, Maine

ANGEL POINT

ME0996

ME1002

ME0990

Boothbay, Maine

CROSS RIVER FARM

Cushing, Maine

30 DAVIS POINT ROAD

Angel Point is privately sited on 1.92± acres, with 218± feet of waterfront and westerly views over Ebenecook Harbor and the Sheepscot River. Completed in 1991, this elegant 4-bedroom, 4 1/2 bath residence presents 4,726± square feet of light-filled living space, and offers a deepwater dock, ramp, floats, moorings, and direct deepwater access to Townsend Gut and the Atlantic Ocean. $1,950,000

A meticulously crafted traditional Cape and barn are perfectly sited on a hilltop overlooking this property’s 45± resplendent acres. The land is composed of rolling fields, woods, and a pond, along with a small amount of tidal frontage on Davis Cove. The Davis Point peninsula’s exceptional scenic beauty and bucolic character is well-preserved by residents committed to conservation. $975,000

William Davisson 207-228-0170

Terry Sortwell 207-236-3543

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AUGUSTA - A family paradise! Augusta’s nicest home! 5 BRs, 4.5 baths, custom kitchen, wood flrs, 5 fireplaces, 7 garage bays, a true Royal Barry Wills design. Circular drive, deck, patio, tennis court, inground pool, spectacular views, privacy.

WINTHROP WATERFRONT - What a spot! Open concept home with tons of glass facing Lower Narrows Pond.

Oak kitchen, cathedral family room, stone & slate hearths, patio, garage, updated systems.

Very nice! $275,000

HALLOWELL - Stunning & new custom-built Contemporary Ranch. Huge master suite w/separate tub/shower, cathedral living w/gas fireplace, lg. kitchen, 3 BRs, 2 baths, attached garage, open front porch, 1st floor laundry. Total quality! $275,000

W. GARDINER - Brand new custom built home in fantastic neighborhood. 3 BRs, 2 baths, open concept, radiant heat, custom multi-head shower, heated garage, entry porch, handicap accessible, craftsman style trim & much more! $200,000

W. GARDINER - Spectacular setting with views for miles. Massive log home with slate fireplace, lots of glass, soaring ceilings, 3 BRs, 2.5 baths, loft, family room, open concept, 2 car garage, privacy. Just incredible! $450,000

AUGUSTA - Solid brick office bldg in a very accessible, visible & desirable spot on the edge of Augusta’s historic downtown. 2 stories, tall ceilings, 5998 sf & HWBB oil heat as well as parking. Kennebec River views.

What a spot for the money! $300,000

WINTHROP WATERFRONT - Extraordinary Cobbossee Lake lodge w/292’ of waterfront. 5 BRs, kitchen w/breakfast nook, huge LR w/stone fireplace, dining, enclosed porch, boathouse, sandy beach, 3 car garage & more! $550,000

MANCHESTER - Contemporary home on 30 acres. 3 BRs w/ ensuite baths, lots of glass & views. Master suite w/sauna, cherry kitchen, stone fireplace, cathedral ceilings, pond, bunk house, indoor gym, decks, plus 2 unit carriage house. $575,000

89 Water St. Hallowell, ME 04347 207-622-2220 www.thecapitalchoice.com

GARDINER - Outstanding Gardiner lot! Beautiful parklike grounds set the mood! This stunning home has 5 BRs, 2 3/4 baths, formal dining, large kitchen, formal living. Large porch, wood floors, fireplaces, detached barn, plus 3 BR inlaw apt. $275,000

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TINA LUCAS

JOE TACKA

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FALMOUTH FORESIDE $334,900

MLS 1013693

EASTERN PROMENADE

SCARBOROUGH

Gorgeous, one of a kind, custom built designer home on nearly 2 acres in the popular Highlands subdivision. Cherry floors, Chef’s kitchen with large island, master suite features fabulous spa bath, details abound inside & out. Quality, quality, quality from every angle!

$649,000

MLS 997657

SOUTH PORTLAND

$169,900

A RARE FIND! Fully renovated single family home loaded with period details, paved driveway, lovely yard, three bedrooms, 2.5 baths, wood floors, gorgeous kitchen with granite counters, sunroom with sliders to the deck and stained glass. Don’t miss it!

MLS 1012363

Newly listed @ $599,000

NEW CONSTRUCTION

GORHAM

$229,900

MLS 1012362

PORTLAND

$214,500

MLS 996004

GORHAM

$269,900

MLS 1012361

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BAILEY ISLAND

PHIPPSBURG Architecturally designed and custom built in 1992 at Parker Head in a bucolic setting of 4.5 AC with 300’+/- on the Kennebec River, this Maine farmhouse style home combines charming elements of the past with contemporary comforts in an open kitchen/dining/family room with woodstove, master bedroom suite, study with Rumford fireplace and sun room addition on the first floor, two bedrooms and bath on the second floor.

Energy efficiency, cherry and tile floors, maximized water views, perennial gardens, room for dock and float… all for $695,000.

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Wildlife Control It’s 1994, and it isn’t just the squirrels scurrying softly behind her walls; it’s the notion of thousands of computer viruses.

Some nights she lies in bed and listens to Henry recite their names: Taiwan, Enigma, Monkey, Maltese Amoeba, Green Caterpillar, Tequila, Perfumed, James Bond, Spanish Holiday. In comparison, the Squirrel Family is a term both predictable and ordinary. Though maybe a little too close to home…

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he squirrels are still asleep. Margaret pictures them nestled in the walls. Tufts of grey fur among the plaster and lathing, the studs and nails and tangles of wire. Twenty years ago, the carpenters, rewiring the kitchen, found a cache of Boston Evening Transcripts dated from 1865.

They also found a child’s bracelet just a little larger across than a silver dollar, a link of tiny seed pearls as knobbed and translucent as baby teeth.

It’s six in the morning and Margaret’s teeth are throbbing–the reason she’s awake before the squirrels. The twangs and thumps bang not from inside the walls but from inside her own mouth. “Oh, my,” the specialist had said in a voice muffled by a mask thick as a thumb.

He was dressed like somebody sent to clean up Chernobyl. It was hard to imagine she’d posed much of a threat in the sexually-transmitted disease department. She was a small, neatly made woman whose wedding ring after twenty-six years had worn as thin as wire, and whose denim wrap-around might have given more than a hint of safe monogamous sex.

Safe and boring, she thinks now as she watches Henry’s widening body rise and fall with its steady, well-fed breaths. Theirs

is an old bed, an antique four poster with a standard double mattress and box spring.

Twenty-six years ago it seemed vast as an ocean compared to the monastic cots they’d shared in various dormitory rooms. Now when Henry shifts, Margaret’s side seesaws up. “This bed no longer fits us,” she’d complained to Henry. “It’s too small.”

“What a darling little bed,” the mother of one of her middle school students had

exclaimed on a tour of their Victorian house.

She’d come to dinner to “form a bond with Sophie’s favorite teacher and to clear up this learning-disability nonsense.”

“How quaint,” she’d trilled.

“Isn’t it,” Margaret had nodded enthusiastically to hide her love of hotel bedrooms with pillows long and round as logs and mattresses you could stretch a leg across and never touch a spouse’s not-too-solid flesh.

Now she gives Henry a kick and his snore sputters, then settles back into gear. Last week, she’d picked up a health digest and looked under snore. ‘See apnea,’ read the index. “The culprit is those extra pounds,” the first sentence warned. These last few nights, what with her tweaking teeth and Henry’s snores along with her anxious anticipation of squirrel activity at dawn’s early light, she has resented his noisy, bed-hogging sleep. She’s started kicking him, mean little pokes to his shoulder or his ribs. Sometimes she reaches over and shuts his mouth with as much tenderness as she slams her gaping, junk-filled kitchen drawer. Once she pulled his pillow out from under him. He just snuffled and rolled onto his back. In the morning after his shower she inspects his body slyly for the imprint of her knee or her thumb. “Sleep well?” she’ll ask.

“Oh yes,” he’ll say, “though I can’t understand why I’m so tired.”

And she’ll feel heartless.

Now she turns toward the alarm clock.

She can barely see over Henry to its luminous dial. She wonders about bodies, beautiful on their king-sized acreage. And as if in punishment for such a thought her gum twinges.

Should she get up and record this in her tooth diary? Three a.m., moderate to heavy twinge in upper right bicuspid?

“You need a root canal in practically every tooth,” the specialist had warned.

“Whoever did those fillings? What butcher, pardon my French?”

Margaret thought of kindly Doctor Bergen, his gentle smile, his pale blue eyes, his pepperminted breath. How empathetic. He’d wince a millisecond before she’d wince, so tuned was he to his patients’ nerve endings.

And so apparently incompetent with their nerve roots, not to mention their cavities and porcelain finishes. Well, that was her problem, one of them anyway. She always picked bedside manner over technical skill. Dr. Bergen had been her dentist for the quarter century she had been married to Henry. Were these such bad traits–loyalty, resistance to change?

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weighed the same, wore her hair the same way, parted in the middle, curled under. She and Henry lived in the same house in Cambridge their parents had jointly put the down payment on when she was a bride of twenty.

She was now forty-six, had a cloud of freckles across her nose, and only in strong sunlight could you see a tracery of grey. “Mom, you’re a throwback,” said her daughter, Kate, the feminist.

“Mom, you’re a fox,” said her son, Tom, the multiculturalist. Her children, now on the West Coast, both thrill and exhaust her, their shifting opinions, lovers, friends, majors, even their looks rattle by like high speed trains whose windows you just begin to glimpse into before others take their place.

Better her yearly portion of fourteen-year-old boarders at Miss Merryfield’s school outside of Boston, whose periods and pimples and difficult rebuilt families and learning problems seem remarkably the same. Once she’d asked Henry if she was getting old. Long-intooth had been the precise and, alas, prescient phrase she’d used. “Margaret, you’re the woman I married, exactly the same,” Henry had replied.

“Mrs. Harris, dentally speaking, you are not the woman you were,” the specialist said.

“There are terrible changes going on in your mouth. I suggest you keep a tooth diary. List what hurts when. What tooth is sensitive to heat, to cold. Distinguish between a dull ache and a sharp twinge. No diagnosis, no treatment is possible until we chart the whole pattern of decay. A tooth diary will provide a map to follow the trail.”

Margaret lies awake, waiting for the squirrels to follow their trail. By now she knows it so well she could mark it out in as much detail as the ones in Henry’s Appalachian Mountain Guide. The squirrels start in her bedroom, tunnel through the kids’ old rooms behind their posters and bulletin boards full of Red Sox tickets and dried corsages and the photos of rock groups whose members have either gone on to rehab or investment banking. On the beds lie piles of outgrown clothes which she keeps meaning to give away. She imagines the squirrels crashing through the walls and dive bombing into carefully folded corduroy overalls and smocked organdy pin-

afores. But they stay inside. They scamper above the breakfast table. They scurry along the dining room’s dropped ceiling. They play tag behind the bathroom shower. They slip and slide inside her study’s sloping eaves. Then start over again, runners doing laps. All winter long she traced the scratch of their toenails and the scatter of spilled nuts like a sudden

“July 9,” she writes, “1994, small twinge in upper right bicuspid. Dull ache in lower left jaw.”

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broken strand of pearls or dice rolled out on a Monopoly board. She did some research and was able to rule out field mice, raccoons, and, thank God, rats. Sometimes she imagines the damage they’ll do, eating wires, chewing studs until her whole house will short out in a blaze or implode like a building wired for demolition. If squirrels can get inside her walls why not inside her rooms, her light, high-ceilinged rooms with the lovingly waxed furniture and the inherited rugs?

They could gnaw at furniture with infested teeth in foaming, rabid mouths. Spread Legionnaire’s disease through heating ducts.

Who knows what other germs? Or they could die. And there would be the smell of rot and decay which polite guests would pretend not to notice the way they once ignored the stench of moldy cheese trapped behind the refrigerator. “Ignore it,” Henry had said. A typical response which infuriates her.

“You think by ignoring any problem it will go away.”

“Not any. Some.”

“Baloney. You suppose our squirrels will pack their little bags of nuts one day and say ‘so much for the Harrises. Let’s move to the Goldbergs’ house–better pickings and closer to Harvard Square.’”

“Could be. Sometimes viruses appear in computers, and the next day they’re gone. As if they’re on a schedule. Sometimes there is

spontaneous disappearance.”

“Sure, and if I ignore my teeth they’ll just improve. Or even worse, disappear.

Crumble and fall to the floor like old plaster.

Oh, Henry, if the parents of my students had ignored their problems,” she’d protested, “they’d be stuck with illiterates, at the worst with sociopaths.”

“You exaggerate, my dear.”

“And you…” What was the opposite of exaggerate, anyway? “You do the opposite!”

Henry shook his head. “We’re talking squirrels here, not life.”

Henry was right. Is right. They have been lucky. With their children, their marriage, their life. She knocks on the headboard’s battered mahogany. So far. A dull good luck.

The children haven’t joined cults or gangs.

Henry hasn’t bought junk bonds or put on her underwear. Both sets of grandparents are in Florida, playing golf and eating the earlybird special with no sign of Alzheimer’s. So what if the bed is too small and the goings-on in bed more earthbound than earth moving?

So what if Henry snores? Widows write Dear Abby all the time missing their husband’s snores and their comforting paunches. Ignore it, she decided. Follow Henry’s advice. At least wait the winter out. With good weather, the squirrels would move outdoors. With luck, they would not renew the lease.

This hasn’t been the case. It’s July now, the hottest on record, with humidity to match.

Margaret and Henry sleep naked on soggy sheets, and in the morning her hair is a wet clump against the back of her neck and his paunch is not something she wants to cuddle against. The stores are sold out of air-conditioners. The super deluxe fan she bought for an exorbitant $49.95 stirs the still air as languidly as the wrists of Southern belles on slipcovered fainting sofas. The squirrels are still squirreling through the walls, though these days they seem sluggish. Is it only her imagination that their footsteps lag, that their nuts fall with less abandon, less abundance?

Henry says that in the computer labs the PC’s are chugging three-quarter time. Henry teaches computer science at MIT. His specialty is computer viruses. During the school year he travels over the country consulting to various companies and acting as an expert witness in trials of hackers. Some of them have been his students.

Margaret knows about problem students. All winter she agonizes about them.

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Come June, she puts them away in storage like the trunk of heavy woolens or a squirrels’ cache of nuts. All summer she gets postcards from Ibiza, from Southampton, from dude ranches in Jackson Hole. Often these are poorly spelled, illegible–but they are not essays she’s assigned. “It’s like that rule about eating oysters in months that end in r,” she explains. “My rule is no worries about spelling and syntax from June till after Labor Day.” Which frees her for other worries like squirrels and teeth.

Both of which she can no longer ignore.

The wildlife control man is coming this afternoon. A week ago, she didn’t know there was such a thing. She’d looked in the Yellow Pages under pest eradication and rodents. She’d called places with names like Unwanted Critters and Pest-Less, Dennis the Menace, Terminex, Rat Riddance, and Roach Router.

“We don’t do squirrels or raccoons,” said one woman in a voice so snooty it made you feel that roaches and rats were a better class of clientele. One place specialized in silverfish; another moths. Finally she was given a list of wildlife control officers, “licensed by the state,” added her informant ominously.

“What does that mean?”

“That they can’t dispose of them in the usual manner.”

“Ah,” said Margaret, acting as if she knew what the usual manner was. As if, oh dear, she were a woman to whom mouse traps and roach motels were as common as dish detergent under the sink. Not that she didn’t know something about infestation, she told herself, remembering the year that lice ran through the fourth grade. She thought of the bottles of Kwell, their tarry smells, their terrifying list of chemicals, the fine-toothed combs she boiled and boiled, Kate and Tom’s terrible yells while she picked nits as if she were born to it.

“Well, I hope you solve your problem,” said the answering service for Bug Busters.

“Which one?”

Margaret had wanted to ask.

Now between the squirrels and her teeth Margaret knows she’ll never get to sleep. She climbs out of bed. Henry rolls onto his back, arms and legs splayed across their quaint and cozy and inadequate bed.

He’s in the position of the Da Vinci draw-

ing, she notices, but regretfully that’s where the resemblance ends. For a moment she pictures him as a handsome, slender groom.

They’d spent their honeymoon in Italy, where the Italians seemed to prefer their women fully fleshed, their men’s bodies closer to the bone. She chastises herself. She knows it’s what inside that counts. Hasn’t she taught her children this, stated it over and over, all the while elated by their dazzling good looks?

Of course she loves Henry, his sweetness, his loyalty, his fine mind and upright principles. She thinks of computer viruses timed to wreak their havoc, then move on. Unlike squirrels. Unlike teeth. Unlike, even, the small discontents in long-contented marriages. Do these fester until something drastic needs to be done?

She throws on Henry’s old Madras robe.

She goes up to her study, which at this hour in the morning is already sweltering. In the summer she doesn’t spend much time in here. Less than the squirrels, apparently, who are now dancing over her desk. “Your days in my walls are numbered!” she yells, maniacal as the villain who chains the damsel to the railroad tracks. But if she’s the villain, she’s also the damsel in distress, ready for rescue.

First, though, there is the little matter of her tooth diary. She reaches for the blank notebooks on her desk. There are three of them that her best friend Sue brought back from the National Portrait Gallery the summer she went to London after her year of treatment for endometrial cancer. That was five years ago, and it seems to Margaret that Sue managed

Perhaps the bagels are so soggy the squirrels rejected them the way you send a bad wine back. that terrible year better than she herself had, who’d felt such a sense of helplessness.

“Let me drive you to radiation,” Margaret would plead. “I need to.”

“If you need to.” Sue would lock up her

own car and then jump into Margaret’s passenger seat.

Waiting for her in the hospital lounge, Margaret had sat on red-upholstered chairs flipping through old New Yorkers, trying to ignore the happyface posters announcing you are not alone, the sign-up sheets listing support groups, the brochures listing warning signs, the mockingly thriving plants, the patently unthriving patients, and others who except for their robes looked just like her with briefcases on their laps and good pearl earrings in their ears. Trying not to think of death.

Thinking only of death.

“I’ve changed,” Sue said. “Sometimes it takes something really awful to shake you up.

Out of complacency. To make you appreciate the good things.”

“You sound like you’re almost grateful for the cancer.”

“In a way, I am.”

“Oh, Sue,” Margaret had sighed.

“Poor Margaret,” said Sue gently, as if Margaret were the one you needed to be sad for.

And if Sue, why not her, Henry, the kids, anyone? Margaret had thought that whole year and off and on since. God knows, she can obsess about an ache, a mole, a bruise, not to mention ordinary middle age and its inevitable passage into plain old age. Plus every phone call late at night. Maniacs and murderers. Lightning bolts from the heavens. Birds flying into the engines of airplanes. Random violence. Random disease. Poisonous foods.

Poisonous cells. She imagines Henry’s death and it seems so huge that her concerns turn tiny: How will she do a tax return? How will she manage the heavy garbage cans? These fears don’t seem to be part of Sue’s vocabulary. This week, Sue’s off climbing rocks. Last month it was whitewater rafting. This from a person who never learned to ride a twowheel bike. Who called her husband at work when she found a spider dangling over the kitchen sink.

Margaret should be grateful it’s only her teeth. She’s been composing her tooth diary in her head, but now’s the time to put it on the page. Margaret opens her notebook with a portrait of Edith Sitwell on the cover.

“July 9,” she writes, “1994, small twinge in upper right bicuspid. Dull ache in lower left jaw.” She sighs. Her prose is as dull as her ache. Her students, with her coaching, might achieve something more colorful. Even Reiko Summerguide

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bungalows. Well-tended lawns and jungles of weeds. There are kids on hand-me-down trikes and kids in fancy German cars. Stable couples like her and Henry. Shifting couples out of John Updike. Norman Rockwell families and families slotted for Oprah.

“Not my neighbors,” Margaret had said.

Gus Abbott had laughed. “You’d be surprised.”

Now as Gus Abbott jumps from the side of the truck, Margaret is not surprised to see he isn’t quite the hero of her rescue dreams. He’s small and wiry, with the bantam stance of high-school bad boys who smoke behind the locker doors and play games of chicken late at night in deserted parking lots. He’s wearing low-slung jeans and a white T-shirt whose

jocks and JD’s. Now she wonders what she missed. There was glamour to the outcasts, a sense of life lived on the edge. She catches herself. Gus Abbott isn’t James Dean. And she’s a middle-aged woman with bad teeth and squirrels.

“Let’s check the house,” he says. “We’ll start on the outside. Then work our way through.” She remembers a toy the children once had: The Visible Man. A transparent plastic shell with all the veins and arteries, muscles and joints, organs exposed.

You could pull a plastic tab and lift the heart right out. An educational toy that wasn’t much of a success, the children, Philistines, preferring their Barbies and their GI Joes. Yet, as she leads Gus around her house, she thinks

There’s trouble in Haiti, trouble with the crime bill, trouble with the health bill. People are dying of starvation in Rwanda, of cholera in Russia, of bubonic plague in India, and OJ Simpson’s trial is about to start. sleeves are rolled up.

Margaret supposes the reason there isn’t a pack of Camels tucked into those folds is because of all the climbing he has to do. She walks out to meet him. He’s older than at first glance, she realizes, even allowing for the weatherbeaten face of somebody who spends a lot of time on people’s hot tin roofs. Late thirties, but with a nice smile of cluttered teeth. The front two are large, almost rodenty.

“Mrs. Harris? I’m Gus.” He thrusts out his arm. His handshake is firm, the fingers padded with calluses. “Nice house.”

“Yes. Or at least it was,” she says, “Before the invasion of the aliens, that is.”

“We’ll take care of that,” he says.

She notes the plural. The two of us, in battle against the enemy. If politics makes strange bedfellows, so does war. In high school she hung out with the nerds with good report cards. Henry was one of them. Back then she used to look down her Clearasiled nose at the

of that toy, the absolute intimacy with which you could trace a circulatory system. How its transparency turns everything accessible.

“Talk about accessible,” Gus says. “See up there?” They are standing in the backyard.

Gus points, and Margaret gets a sudden whiff of undeodorized armpit, a manly smell. She looks up and sees peeling paint under the edge of the roof. “The wood’s rotted. Easy enough for our little buggers to bore right through.” He takes a few steps to the side.

“And up there where those gutters are bent.

And those loose shingles. This place’s got more holes than your average Swiss cheese.”

She remembers when they first bought the house, how both fathers had gone through it, checking structure, the soundness of walls, the solidity of frame, the state of the pipes, the state of the boiler, the threat of dry rot, the threat of carpenter ants. Their mothers had worried about kitchen layout and measured the steps between laundry and nursery.

“Solid as a fortress,” the fathers had said. And it had been their fortress, hers and Henry’s

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Teramoto, dyslexic in two languages, might come up with an interesting haiku. “Sorry, Edith, I do apologize,” she says. She shuts her tooth diary and goes downstairs into the bathroom. There she performs a series of flossing and brushing and massaging that the specialist’s hygienist taught her with a level of concern an aerobics instructor might give to someone just back from a quadruple bypass.

She admires her shiny teeth and red, slightly bleeding gums. Her teeth are as white and even as Chicklets. You can’t always tell when there’s rot inside. Next to the medicine cabinet she runs a hand along a smooth, pale-yellowpainted wall.

By the time she’s taken a shower and washed and dried her hair, Henry has left.

“Have an early appointment” is chalked across the kitchen blackboard signed with three x’s and three o’s. The newspapers lie opened on the kitchen table, but she’s surprised not to see the usual remains of his breakfast: the last few cornflakes in their puddle of milk (the one-percent fat she buys, the two-percent fat he buys), the toast crumbs with their smears of both butter and marmalade, the banana peel, the coffee mug, its teaspoon dipped three times into the sugar bowl.

A breakfast meeting, she thinks. Pancakes, sausages, eggs, homefries. She thinks squirrels, bed, teeth. Out of her control. Beyond her control.

The wildlife control man comes at two.

She hears him before she sees him. Hears his truck pull up into the driveway with many separate rattling sounds. She looks out the window. The truck is a blue pickup with rusted sides. In the back are several ladders and a pile of junk. True to his promise, no words spell out the nature of his work.

“Don’t worry,” said Gus Abbott when she telephoned him, the first on the list, “My truck is unmarked.”

“What difference does that make?”

“The neighbors.”

“The neighbors?”

“Most folks don’t like them to know.”

She thought of her neighborhood, what the local activists call a multi-use, fluctuating neighborhood between Harvard and Porter Squares. There are apartment buildings and huge old houses and a few pinched-looking

and the kids’.

“A house is like a body,” Gus says now.

“After a while it starts to break down.”

Not your body, Margaret notes, appraising his cute butt and hips so slim you could hook an arm around. Involuntarily her hand flies up to touch her tooth. She raises her head to her Swiss cheese roof.

Inside, they follow the trail of the squirrels. She takes him through her study into the bedroom. The bed’s unmade. Jackets and ties hang off the back of every chair. On the floor, a tangle of laundry waits for the machine.

Two of her bras lie limply in a fold of Henry’s undershorts. Why didn’t she think to clean up before letting this stranger get so close?

Gus slides open the window screen. “It’s one thing to pinpoint a problem. Another to get rid of it.” He crawls onto the flat part of the roof until all that’s left is the heel of a combat boot.

At last, Gus maps out his plan of attack.

He goes to his truck to gather his traps. “You can get back to your business,” he tells her.

“No need to be bothering you. I can reach everything from my ladders.”

But when Margaret goes back to her business–an article on attention deficit disorder–a ladder clangs behind her window next to her desk and it is only a matter of minutes before she is looking directly into Gus Abbott’s crotch.

She moves to the bedroom, makes the bed, sorts the laundry into lights and darks, throws out three old lipsticks and a perfume that smells of iodine. She slumps into the easy chair, pushing aside Henry’s shirt that needs a button and her skirt that needs a hem. But just as she turns to the checklist of symptoms–If you have three of these you have A.D.D.–she sees two combat boots jump onto the flat roof, followed by a waving hand with a thumb’s up.

She sticks out her thumb in response, grabs her article, and heads for the basement. This cure is as bad as what’s being cured, she thinks.

“The cure sounds as hard as the disease,” she’d said to Sue. “Not when you consider the alternative,” Sue had said.

Henry’s study is in the basement. The bunker, they call it. With only one thin, high window and the stingiest shaft of light. She hardly ever goes in there. She doesn’t like the hums of the fluorescent bulbs, the chugs of Henry’s computer. In the winter you hear the boiler starting up, the rumble of the furnace. In the summer the only air-conditioner (for the

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Like a fall-out shelter, though Margaret never feels sheltered there. Just cut off.

Margaret slides Henry’s chair from in front of his computer to his desk. It’s an old, oak office chair, with room for one other whole person next to her. Maybe for two the size of Gus. The castors are so large and the back tilts at such an angle that her feet don’t touch the floor. Margaret looks around the room at the machines, fax, the modem, the printer, the copier, the tower of file cabinets, and feels dwarfed by maleness. She coasts Henry’s chair closer to his desk, slips out of her sandals, and puts her feet up on it. Now all she needs is a cigar, and when she glances at Henry’s desk she sees a box of them, though Henry doesn’t smoke.

Probably a gift from some grateful client for whose viruses Henry found the antidote. Margaret herself prefers the cases of wine and the Harry and David Fruit of the Month.

Her eyes slide over the piles of paper to a shiny black vinyl case.

She zips it open. Inside she finds a blood-pressure kit. What kind of a gift is that? Next to it lies Henry’s Week at a Glance. She glances at it. ‘Hospital appt.’ is penciled-in and underlined. Her blood pressure drops, and her hands are so clammy they splotch the article on attention deficit. It’s she who’s guilty of attention deficit, not her students, with their documented, unusually circuited brains. She has no brain; she’s bird-brained, squirrel-brained, worried about teeth and rodents and a few unsightly pounds. What about Henry’s heart! Panic rises at the back of her throat. She puts her hand on her chest and feels a phantom pounding like the pain in an amputated limb.

She runs up the three flights to her study, where she keeps The Complete Guide to Symptoms. The ladder is still outside her window. She hears footsteps march across her roof and other dragging, clanging sounds.

She turns to Apnea. She sees ‘Symptoms: snoring. Possible Complications: heartbeat irregularities and congestive heart failure.’

She puts down the book. Her breaths come fast. “Easy,” she tells herself. “Don’t get overwhelmed,” she tells her students. “Break

everything down into smaller, more manageable parts.” She picks up the book again and tries to take her own advice. She reads that sleep apnea is the cessation of breathing while in deep sleep. She thinks of Henry’s noisy yet steady breaths. All those nights of poking him, she’s never heard them actually stop.

Hospital appt. could mean he’s been hired to cure a glitch in a hospital’s computer system.

The blood-pressure kit could be the hospital equivalent of the slippers and face mask the airlines give out. Overhead a hammer pounds on her roof, and she hears the rattle of a chain. She’s been paying so much attention to her squirrels and her teeth, obsessing about one, diarizing the other, she’s been ignoring the solid center of her house, its heart, her heart’s delight.

“The traps are in place,” Gus Abbott says.

Startled, Margaret nearly drops her Symptom Guide. He’s on the ladder outside the window, scratching against the screen. “I didn’t hear you climb down,” she says. He’s framed in her window from the waist up. He looks skinny, insubstantial. He’s got old acne scars clustered on one side of his chin. She can’t believe that minutes ago this was the figure of her rescue fantasy.

“No wonder,” he says. “You were that absorbed.”

“Is everything all set?” she asks.

“Just one problem. I’ll show you. Meet me out back.”

She goes downstairs and around to the back yard, where he’s collapsing a ladder that looks like it needs a team of muscle men to hold it up. He hardly seems out of breath as he leans it on its side, then slides it into his truck. “I’ve put down six traps,” he says, “all at places which show signs of entry. See up there?”

Margaret looks up and can make out two of the traps, rectangular metal boxes with cross-hatched metal sides and top which resemble larger versions of the covered bridges in the train sets Henry used to buy Tom. “I baited them with bagels. Squirrels love them,” he says, proud as if he’s offering caviar. As if he’s itemizing last meal menus for prisoners on death row.

“Of course you don’t kill them?” she asks,

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“Of course not,” he says, a little too quickly. “We take them away. So far away they’ll never come back.”

She wants to ask how far that is. But, then, she’s pretty sure she knows. “What’s the problem?” she asks instead.

“One trap’s directly across from your neighbor’s window. I leave the traps there for a few days. Squirrels can survive for a week.

But neighbors see them and get all hot and bothered and call the SPCA.” “Not my neighbor,” Margaret says. Hilda Leach is a reclusive library cataloguer who seems to spend her free time cataloguing a litany of what she calls female complaints.

“You’d be surprised,” Gus Abbott says.

“I’ll call Hilda,” Margaret promises.

Gus Abbott explains he’ll be back in a few days to get the traps and not to worry about clanging and vibrations from the roof. “Just the squirrels getting their exercise.”

She feels like a collaborator, an accessory before the fact. “They don’t suffer?” she asks.

“Hey, they’ve got their bagels.” He gives her an officer’s salute. “Besides, it’s Havahart.”

“Just what I need myself.”

After he leaves, Margaret goes in and telephones Hilda. Hilda answers on the first ring.

“I hoped you were the doctor. He’s supposed to get back to me,” she says.

“Then I won’t keep you. I wanted to warn you, in case you notice anything on our roof…”

“He promised he’d call before three.”

“We’ve got squirrels…”

“I’ve got PMS.”

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t dinner time it starts to rain. One of those torrential summer storms in which the sky darkens to grey and the heavens open up with a great crash. Immediately Margaret pictures the squirrels in their metal cages inviting lightning bolts. Electrocution seems hardly the punishment to fit the crime. Or drowning. She remembers a kitten the children had–the aptly-named Fluffy– who once fell into the tub and who when fished out alive was still a pathetic skeleton of its former self. She pictures a sodden squirrel with all its fur matted down. A vision so abject as to wrench even Hilda Leach away from her PMS and bestir her to action. Should she summon Gus Abbott? The squirrels may not yet be trapped. Perhaps the bagels are so 2 3 2 p o r t l a n d m o n t h ly m a g a z i n e

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What else can go wrong, Margaret wonders now. But it’s not a question she wants an answer to. She’s in the kitchen, cooking dinner: boned chicken breasts, salad, steamed asparagus. She hesitates, then plunges ahead to make the hollandaise. She’s feeling tender toward Henry, which means, however foolhardy, wanting to give treats. When Henry comes home he’s drenched. He drips puddles on the kitchen floor. As he kisses her, rain from his hair streams down her cheeks. She studies him closely. His color’s fine, his eyes are clear, no worries line his brow or hollow his cheeks. Yet when they eat, he nibbles at half the chicken and scrapes the hollandaise off the asparagus spears. She offers an up-todate squirrel report, outlines her anxieties.

“Their coats are more water repellent than mine,” he consoles. “Besides, who knows if they’re even in the traps.”

“My thought exactly. Though we ought to check.”

“Let’s leave them to fate,” he says. ‘’I’m not a squirrel fan these days. Oddly, enough, there’s a new virus called the Squirrel Family. It’s invaded the system and is infecting everything.”

Margaret feels relief. Of course. The Squirrel Family’s got into the hospital computers. Henry’s consulting as a professional.

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both predictable and ordinary. Though maybe a little too close to home. “Some husbands recite poetry,” she’d said to Henry.

“Aren’t you glad yours is such an original?”

At the time she’d agreed. She liked those lists. The way Henry caressed their syllables, they could have been love sonnets. She was intrigued by the evil sounding ones: Bubonic, Chinese Blood, Curse, Creeper, and Devil’s Dance. There were benign ones, too: Liberty, Fish, Yankee Doodle, Viva Mexico. Their names were no clue to their level of malignity.

Her mind lingers on Chinese Blood, then segues to blood pressure. Blood- pressure kit.

Henry brings the dishes to the sink, scrapes and rinses them. “Let’s watch the news,” he says.

Henry and Margaret go upstairs to the extra bedroom where they keep the TV. There’s trouble in Haiti, trouble with the crime bill, trouble with the health bill.

People are dying of starvation in Rwanda, of cholera in Russia, of bubonic plague in India, and OJ Simpson’s trial is about to start. Dejected, Henry and Margaret slump against each other on the love seat. “The world’s going to hell in a handbasket, and everybody’s freaking out about computer viruses gumming up the works.” Henry reaches for the remote control.

But before he can switch the channels, the anchorman comes back flashing a smile of perfect, gleaming teeth: “In a lighter vein, we’ve got two back-to-back animal stories.”

Henry and Margaret sit up, eager as children waiting to be read from Winnie the Pooh or Charlotte’s Web. Or Trouble in Paradise. The first story’s about a bear who’s come down from the California hills to loll in the hot tubs on the patios of a small-town neighborhood. There’s a shot of him frolicking. Steam rises from the hot tub. Behind him you can see banks of bougainvillea and a fancy Weber barbecue.

“How adorable,” Margaret exclaims.

“Not so adorable when you think of getting in the hot tub after him,” Henry says.

Everyone’s enchanted, reports the anchorman, except one misanthrope (or ursinephobe?) who notified the Department of Interior. A wildlife officer in Mounties hat announces the bear will have to be put away, that the California laid-back life has spoiled him for the wild. Meanwhile the commu-

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nity has taken to the streets to save their bear, whose fate so far remains undetermined.

The second report is about a rat, the anchorman warns. The camera shows somebody’s distinctly non-California back yard with aluminum lawn furniture and a tangled tomato patch. A pleasant-faced man in a plaid shirt curving over his stomach explains that a rat had been eating his best tomatoes. So he set a trap, caught the rat, and killed the rat. His tomatoes thrived. A neighbor complained. His court date is set for a week from next Monday.

“Oh my God,” Margaret rubs her jaw.

“And for a rat!”

“It’s not as if it’s an endangered species.

Some people are nuts.” Henry presses the mute button on the remote, and the sound goes off.

“Compared to a rat, a squirrel is a Teddy bear!”

Henry nods at the TV. “That won’t happen here.”

“How can we be sure?” Margaret tips her head toward the ceiling. The rain is now pounding in syncopation with her tooth.

“It’s pouring.”

“Which means no one’s out and about.

Anyway, it’s too dark for anyone to see anything.”

“But this is Cambridge. An activist lurks on every block!”

“For rent control. Recycling. Nobody’s going to get too active about squirrels in somebody else’s walls.”

Rain slides across the outside of their walls. Static sparkles on the silent TV. “No one else would leave even a rat outside in weather like this!”

“Animals are accustomed to all sorts of weather. What’s a little rain?”

They hear a clap of thunder, the whoosh of wind. A branch cracks and bangs to the ground.

“A lot of rain,” Margaret says.

“Or a lot of rain.”

“It is Havahart,” Margaret says.

“An oxymoron,” Henry laughs.

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“Henry,” she asks, “what hospital appointment did you have this morning?”

Henry pulls his hand away.

“I was hiding from the squirrel man. I saw your Week at a Glance. And your blood- pressure kit.”

“I planned to tell you,” Henry says.

“Henry! I’m your wife! You can keep your mistresses secret. But only your mistresses.”

“I have no mistresses, you know that.”

“But you have secrets. A secret.”

“I didn’t want you to worry.”

“Henry, worrying is my profession. I am the mistress of worry.”

“It sounds worse than it is.”

“Shoot.”

“I’ve joined a Cardiac-risk-reduction program. At the hospital.”

Margaret gasps. “Cardiac risk?”

“Not much. Just a little bit.”

“Like being a little bit pregnant. That kind of little?” She wills her mind to focus. There are no little viruses, Henry has told her. Some things can’t be quantified.

“I’ve had a scare. A little scare.”

Margaret starts to speak, but nothing comes out. Just an open mouth of lousy teeth and a throat closed with fear.

Henry explains about the hospital program. How he’s cutting fat out of his diet, learning deep breathing, yoga, stress control.

He’s keeping a diary of what he eats. He takes his blood pressure a half hour after his exercise. He writes it in a chart. “My blood pressure’s already gone down,” he says.

“Oh, Henry,” she says and starts to cry.

“When have you been doing all of this?

Where? I didn’t have a clue.”

“In my study. In the mornings. Sometimes after supper.”

“I didn’t even notice.” She’s astonished.

After all, theirs is a traditional marriage with chores parceled out; Henry does the taxes; she does the dinner parties. It’s his department, not noticing.

“I like that about you, Margaret, your obsessions, how the world can fall away you get so preoccupied. It’s a good quality.”

“It’s a rotten one,” she scolds herself. Then she scolds Henry. How could he not tell her?

What is a marriage, what sort of life have they clumped together all these years if he can keep something so crucial from her? On and on she goes, gathering steam, mind racing, heart racing, words racing, puffing out a

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“Stop.” Henry holds up his hand like a traffic cop.

She stops, brakes jammed to the floor. No winding down. “They tell us at the hospital when someone is adding to your stress, just say stop.”

“Like Nancy Reagan’s just say no?”

“It’s not funny, Margaret.”

“Oh, Henry, don’t I know that!” She touches him. “If only I could say stop to everything.”

“Not everything.”

“What’s dangerous, then.”

Henry pulls her tight. Against her breast she feels the thump of his endangered heart.

That night, the rain stops. Henry and Margaret make love. Margaret tries not to think of Nelson Rockefeller, who had a fatal heart attack in a king-sized bed with a thirtyyear-old, although the newspapers tried to hush it up. She’s read somewhere that men who have heart attacks during sex are usually with their mistresses. Old, familiar bodies in long-familiar marriages pose less of a risk. She places her hand on Henry’s heart.

She wishes she could pluck it out and polish it the way you can with The Visible Man. After the feminist revolution, a Visible Woman started appearing on the shelves of upmarket toy stores. By that time her daughter was too old. But Margaret remembers its box. There was a pregnant womb you could order as an optional part. Why can’t humans come with options? Why can’t you place an order for whatever extra you might need? She pictures her house, with its windows, its doors, its vulnerable roof, its accessible walls. A visible house. She pictures herself up under the eaves, writing her tooth diary, charting her squirrels. And Henry down in the basement writing his food diary, charting his blood pressure. Doing his deep breathing. All the connecting rooms and passageways of a house. All the roots and connections of a marriage. Its circulatory system. All night she lies awake holding Henry, listening to his breaths turn to snores, listening to his heart trapped inside his chest, straining to hear the sounds the squirrels might make.

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knows. The five are all dead. Two drowned, three electrocuted. Hilda Leach notified the Department of Interior. The subpoena stuffs the pocket of his cut-off Levi vest even as they speak.

“The five are live and kicking, but one trap’s malfunctioned.”

“Which means?”

“A sixth squirrel may be knocking at your door. The bagel’s gone.”

“And that means what?”

“That there could be a sixth squirrel.

Squirrels are territorial. Once a squirrel’s picked his home, he’s hell bent for leather to find another way in.”

“Well, I guess we’ll deal with that problem when or if comes along.”

She writes him a check, wedging her checkbook against the carved panel of the door. The sun slants in such a way that it beams a spotlight on their name printed at the top of their joint checking account–“Mr. and Mrs. Henry W. Harris” it reads–as if it’s been sunkissed. Gus Abbott holds out his hand. She grasps the calloused fingers. She’s

diary. She fills the last page, then telephones the specialist to set up her appointment.

“You’re right to get this under control,” the receptionist soothes.

It’s another hot day, so hot you’d never think there’d been a drop of rain. When Margaret goes downstairs to meet Gus, she has to look sideways at him because of the sun. “I’m nearly finished,” Gus says, pointing to the back of his truck. “Just a couple more.”

Margaret averts her eyes from the truck.

“Call me when you’re done.”

By the time Gus Abbott rings the front door bell, she’s put in a load of laundry and made the bed. He’s looking young this morning, babyfaced, scrawny. In the last two days she’s developed a new-found appreciation for substance and maturity.

“So you want the good news or the bad news?” he asks her.

“Both,” she says. “The good news first.”

“I’ve caught five squirrels. And plugged all the holes.”

“And the bad?” she asks. She’s sure she

amazed it’s been only a week from the diagnosis of the problem to its final solution. Not quite solution. Not quite final, after all.

“The treatment seems to have worked,” Sue had said, “but nothing’s final.”

“Thanks,” she says to Gus. “Let’s hope no squirrel returns.”

She thinks of that one squirrel. Which may or may not even exist. A bird could have stolen the bagel from the trap. The rain may have washed it away. Or on a dark and stormy night, the squirrel might even mistake Hilda Leach’s house for hers. “If it does, you’ll be the first to know.” She smiles at him.

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