Portland Monthly Magazine Summerguide 2018

Story Land and Santa’s Village Packages

Our two night Story Land and Santa’s Village packages provide all the fun of a magical visit. Choose from one of two of New England’s most popular attractions, with resort accommodations, breakfast, and passes to Kahuna Laguna Indoor Water Park. It’s fun for the whole family!

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A PRIME SUMMER DESTINATION

Summertime brings out the best in Maine. We like to think it brings out the best in the University of New England’s beautiful Biddeford, Maine campus too, making this the perfect time of year to plan your college visit.

There’s no better way to learn about UNE’s unparalleled mix of health care, sciences, business, technology, and liberal arts programs and our distinctive focus on innovation, community engagement, and hands-on learning experiences.

All this, on a campus with scenic woods and 4,000 feet of shoreline, where skiing, surfing, biking, and hiking, are within easy driving distance, and Portland, Maine, named “America’s Most Livable City” by Forbes, is only 30 minutes away.

Plan your visit now. une.edu/visit

IF CANCER THINKS MAINE IS A PUSHOVER

Being from Maine, we all know what can be accomplished when Mainers pull together. So today, we introduce a new approach to coordinated cancer care. It’s a powerful collaboration of world-class oncology teams throughout Maine, with expedited access to second opinions, clinical trials and treatment of rare cancers at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. With the steadfast support of the Harold Alfond Foundation, this cancer dream team has been assembled with one simple, powerful mission: to provide Mainers a relentless new partner in their fi ght to overcome this disease, right here at home. To learn more, go to MaineHealth.org/cancer or call 1-844-944-8094.

LORIE

IT’S COME TO THE WRONG PLACE.

is excited to announce that we have a new showroom in the works!

As the historic India Street neighborhood is transforming, so are we. Our new location will be in the brand new Mason Block building at 62 India St., just around the corner from our current location. We are working hard to create a beautiful environment that will be collaborative, unique and inspirational. We will provide you with a state of the art tile shopping experience by showcasing our products in a refreshing, streamlined gallery for all to enjoy! Our team looks forward to sharing this new space with you while being committed to providing the same outstanding service you’ve come to know for nearly 20 years.

Look for news and updates over the next few months as we take this journey. Follow us on social media to see the transformation in action.

-The Team at Old Port Specialty Tile Co

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Ben Coombs

"Rest for the Weary" Oil on Canvas, 48" x 37.5"

Ronald Frontin

Chinese Stone Guardian Lion, 17th Century, 5’ Tall

"High Tide" Watercolor, 22" x 30"

Stephen Hodecker Serapi, Circa 1870, 9’5” x 12’9”

The window won’t need to be rolled down like before. No blast of cold air rushes into the car to wake the children sleeping in the back. There is no cause to stop and start and stop and wait your turn to pay. No fumbling for the right change or the smallest bills. Just a gentle roll through the tollbooth, past the green light that says both “go” and “thank you.”

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Education: University of Massachusetts Medical School

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Fellowship: Surgical Oncology, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center

A HIGHER LEVEL OF SURGICAL CARE

At Central Maine Healthcare, we begin by listening to cancer patients and understanding their concerns. Our highly skilled surgical oncologists work with medical oncologists and others as part a multidisciplinary team that offers not only advanced surgical treatment, but a full spectrum of care: chemotherapy, radiation, nutrition, palliative care, and more.

As a fellowship-trained surgical oncologist, Dr. Rutstein is renowned throughout Maine for her skill in treating cancers of the breast, skin, gallbladder, pancreas, and liver, including regional treatment programs and palliative care for patients with advanced stages of cancer. She takes pride in her ability to empathize with every patient, and her experience and expertise are recognized for raising the level of quality care in the communities we serve.

“BEYOND SURGERY, WE SURROUND PATIENTS WITH SKILLED PEOPLE TO SUPPORT THEM ON EVERY LEVEL.”

—LISA RUTSTEIN MD, SURGICAL ONCOLOGIST

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The Yin & Yang of the Coastal Real Estate

198 Flying in Place

If what you’re looking for is drama, excitement, and exposure, then strap on your spike heels and strike a pose at Rockhouse off Shore Road in York.

By Colin W. Sargent

268 A Thousand Julys

If serenity, comfort, and lazy family summer days float your boat, slip on your espadrilles for a tour of 18 Carroll Road in tony Falmouth Foreside.

By Colin W. Sargent

Maine moments

150 Dreamy Islands

Escape to your own private Maine isle–a passport to paradise.

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Colin W. Sargent, Olivia Gunn

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& Sofia Voltin

278 New England Home & Living Exciting properties to make your fantasy of a home in Maine come

211 High Velocity Victoria Rowell

We catch up with Portland native and former Young and the Restless actress Victoria Rowell on her new role(s).

By Colin W. Sargent adventure

45 Experience

Your guide to Unforgettable Attractions & Events to make this your most memorable summer ever!

96 Unforgettable Summer isn’t summer until we touch down on our dearest places in Vacationland, the ones we loved as children. Deconstruct the nostalgia to discover the beating heart of Maine’s most magnetic attractions.

By Colin W. Sargent

100 Moments to Astonish Stop the car. Set your navigator to these magic spots. Now this is Unforgettable Maine.

By Colin W. Sargent & Olivia Gunn Kotsishevskaya

167 Ultimate Yacht Charters

Paul

Board the most luxurious yachts gliding into port this summer. By Karen Hofreiter

“Myth & Magic of the Repeatable Moment,” p. 96

the arts & style

41 Maine Classics

Because some things never go out of style.

145 Portland After Dark

“Summer Out Loud”

Long days, late nights, live music: Where to get your roar on this season.

By Sarah Moore

146 When Portland Met Harry

Interview with Harry Connick, Jr.

By Olivia Gunn Kotsishevskaya

219 Into the Wild Waves

The memoir of a woman’s journey to channel the elusive spirit of Pulitzer-Prize winning poet Edna St. Vincent Millay of Camden, Rockport, and her beloved Ragged Island.

By Sue McCormick

237 L’Esprit de l’Escalier “Maine Across the Pages”

A river of Francophone talent runs through it.

By Rhea Côté Robbins

315 Fiction

Standout alternative beach read: “Return of the Native”

By Jason Brown

Food&drink

87 Red Delicious: Super Chefs Share Secret

Lobster Recipes

Emeril Lagasse first got cracking in South Portland. Who knew?

By Diane Hudson

161 Hungry Eye

“The Thrifty Gourmet” Pssst…Here’s how the clever epicure navigates the city’s best restaurants without breaking the bank.

By Claire Z. Cramer

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189 Summer Loves

In our increasingly sophisticated foodie world, have we ditched the shared bean supper? How To Cook

A Moose author Kate Christensen makes a case for celebrating the classic Maine flavors together.

By Kate Christensen

225 Demon Rum

Portland’s history is awash with rum. Relive our riotous past (responsibly) with a delicious, locally-made rum cocktail this summer.

From Staff & Wire Reports

240 Dining Guide

Twenty-five select area restaurants strut their stuff.

241 Restaurant Review

If you love live entertainment and Ogunquit charm, reserve a table for dinner and a show at Jonathan’s. Performers this summer include John Sebastian, Jonathan Edwards, Melanie, Paula Poundstone, Bob Marley…

By Colin W. Sargent

Maine liFe

181 Man’s Best Friends on the West End

Get to know your furry neighbors.

By Meaghan Maurice & Sarah Moore

320 Flash

You being you.

deCoder

43 Concierge:

A selection of insider tips for entertainment

85 Chowder:

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

One Moment in Maine

Perfect moments are elusive. When I try to capture one on the page, it disappears. It’s like that first sip of coffee you have in the morning. The very first rose bud on the bush.

Warming my hands on the chipped mug, I look across the waves toward One Mile Rock for the millionth time and realize that right in front of me the first sea rose of the season is blooming. It wasn’t there yesterday. But it was there fifty years ago. Five, ten, fifteen, 100. The Myth and Magic of the Repeatable Moment.

The myth is that a moment can be choreographed to be repeatable. The magic is when you stumble on it. Because you can’t orchestrate it. The more you try to set it up, the more it’s likely to fall apart. It’s that darned intentional fallacy–you can’t go home again, but the magic is, you may just wake up and find yourself there.

This is my 63rd summer at The Black Pearl, the dear cottage my grandparents built on Gooch’s Beach in Kennebunk in 1920. It is surpassingly, almost painfully, sweet. There is no summer in my life when I haven’t moved hell or high water to spend at least a day here. Even when I was a Navy pilot, having joined the ghosts of the Sargent Boys and wondered if my father, Wendell (a B-17 pilot), or my Uncle Cordis (C-47s), had ever made it back here on liberty from the European Theatre or the Hump over Burma where they were flying, even for just a day, or, in my Uncle Marshall’s case, U-boat hunting from Coast Guard headquarters in Boston. What had it been like for them to return when it was hardest, when a whirlwind of forces tried to keep them away? When the world was at its darkest, was the dream of sunrise over the beach what kept them going? When my wife and I had a newborn, we returned to show our son that same sunrise. As our son would point out, this reflects not so much on our parenthood as our privilege. He’s right that we should be grateful, and we are.

The Black Pearl is a modest dwelling–beadboard partitions instead of walls, exposed beams, a clawfoot tub with rusty feet, and honeysuckle taking over the back yard. You know, the perfect Maine cottage. There were bridge parties and séances here in the 1940s. Even after my grandfather died, my grandmother returned each summer, trying to recreate the precious rituals they’d shared.

Her decks of playing cards are still here, tucked in the top drawer of the desk. Faded, but here. Each spring, I open the drawer to make sure.

We all collect bracelets of experiences instead of charms, pick up summers like starfish on the beach. It’s where the simple and the sublime meet. I can hear your steps on the porch. I’m glad to see you. More than that–I’m glad you’ve stopped by.

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I am a black woman who has lived in Maine since 2004, and I can’t tell you the amount of times that I have looked at Maine-based magazines just wishing…hoping…praying to see someone who looks like me. Admittedly, I eventually gave up hoping and stopped reading local magazines altogether. What a pleasant surprise, then, to be walking through my local supermarket and be struck by the incredibly talented and gorgeous Gina Yashere! Thank you, thank you for giving me hope that attitudes in Maine are changing, and especially for demonstrating that beauty (and kick-ass talent!) comes in all colors.

Nicole Nelson, Topsham

directors’ cut

[See “Maine’s Close Up,” May 2018.]

Thanks! I appreciate that you included our film Holly Star.

Michael A. Nickles, Director, Holly Star

Oh, I love it! Congratulations on the piece and huge thanks for including my film!

Erica Fae, Director, To Keep The Light

Thanks for including us in your article.

Josh Gerritsen, Director, Island Zero

a 12-Year love

[See “Sushi, Chic and Sleek,” a review of Benkay, May 2018.]

Hands down, Benkay has the best sushi I’ve ever had! It’s been our favorite since we

moved here in 2006.

Katie Tuzmen, Falmouth

Homegrown

[See “Mushroom Magic,” May 2018.]

Thank you for the detailed story of how this magical Maine Mushroom Collaborative works!

Mousam Valley Mushrooms

lost kennebunk

I’m looking for a reprint of an article by Colin W. Sargent titled “Inventing the Campbells.” [The family that owned the Palm Beach Clothing Line lived in what’s now the Franciscan Monastery.] Unfortunately, I don’t know what issue it’s from, but it was a July/August issue.

Sandy Worcester, La Jolla, CA

See “Inventing the Campbells,” July/August 1997–Ed.

lobsters, not Hipsters

“A few days ago, a Groupon offer popped up on my phone that was too irresistible to pass up. Portland Magazine was offering a great deal: two years for the price of one. Since my current subscription was about to expire, I was more than happy to shell out $24 for a brand new, two-year subscription to my favorite Rose City periodical.

“…It’s amazing what a difference one little word can make. Instead of a subscription to a magazine detailing life in Oregon’s largest city, I had inadvertently subscribed to a magazine detailing life in Maine’s largest city…The Pine Tree State, not the Beaver State. Lobsters, not hipsters...

“But then, I actually started to regret my hasty decision to demand my money back[…]True, it’s more Gorton’s fisherman than Paul Bunyan, but it does possess a certain allure[…]Based on photos, the scenery is downright beautiful. Plus, Stephen King would be my neighbor! (Seriously. Maine isn’t exactly overrun with people. Wikipedia tells me it’s the eighth least populous state. I feel like you’re neighbors, at least in spirit, with everybody else who calls Maine home.) I was all set to log back onto Groupon and buy another subscription to this faraway Portland Magazine, but then my uncle informed me that Maine’s governor is a real prick, so I put a pin in that idea, at least until after the next election.”

–From a blog by Mark Petruska, WA

there’ssomething Larry about

he’s 700 pounds, 70 feet wide, 12 feet high, and perched right on top of taste of maine in Woolwich. “i wanted to do something special for our 40th anniversary,” says owner candy gregory. her brother, larry, who opened Taste of Maine, used to lease an inflatable crab for the roof in the 1980s. “Buster [the crab] is dead and gone, so my daughter found a lobster, and we named him larry.” gregory says the giant crustacean will stay up until october and has been a hit with diners so far.

Headliner Make RooM foR Ba Be’s

When one pub closes, another opens. cape elizabeth musician ginger cote, who has toured with emmylou harris and Bonnie raitt, is opening Big Babe’s Tavern on ocean Street in South portland, former home of the beloved griffin club, which closed its doors in June last year. “i knew i wanted to open a music tavern in Sopo. When i found out about the building in Knightville, i knew that was the place,” says cote. “ [Big Babe’s] will be a spot for everyone, especially serious music lovers.” great, but will there still be $2 draft specials?

A Colby College alumna is among four journalists awarded the 2018 Pulitzer Prize for the rooting out of sexual misconduct among Hollywood’s most powerful. sistant managing editor Rebecca Corbett (Colby ’74) led the team that broke the story of the Harvey Weinstein sexual harassment allegations. They share the Pulitzer with Ronan Farrow of The New Yorker. Corbett was the assistant state editor at the Morning Sentinel, where, she tells Colby Magazine, she learned that her job is “…understanding the big picture as well as the facts that you’re putting into stories.”

chocolate’s long-time competitor may be down for the count at Mount Desert Island Ice Cream. With the price of vanilla beans soaring worldwide from $100 per pound to $450, owner linda parker is taking a licking but still ticking. “ i won’t sell vanilla ice cream at all, but vanilla beans are a hot commodity right now and supply is down.” Vanilla is also the base for many of her other flavors.

She may have a few years on her (try 112), but never underestimate a Bath girl. The ner, took to the water again on June 9. Restoration began in 2006 and was completed last year, after the ship was purchased by the Maine Maritime Museum. Mary E be docked at the museum for visitors through October. Look for cameos at Portland SchoonerFest and the Boothbay Harbor Windjammer Festival.

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Guster on the Ocean

Ready, Set, Sail, Portland

Maybe you’re one of the Mainers who’s seen Guster nine times already, but if you haven’t seen them on the water, make it ten. The popular Boston band returns to Portland this summer for the second annual Guster On the Ocean at the State Theatre, Thompson’s Point, and Hadlock Field August 3-5. Faithful fans can look forward to something fresh this year. “We have a new album coming out soon, so we will be featuring some new songs and sounds,” says band member and Portland resident Adam Gardner.

SummertimeBlues

interview by olivia gunn kotsishevskaya

from Brazil to north Carolina, texas, Canada, and everywhere in between, vanessa Collier has an axe to grind. the 27-year-old, who grew up in maryland, picked up her first saxophone when she was nine and hasn’t put it down since. She’ll carry it with her all the

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from June 22 to June 24, seven schooners will race through portland harbor during the second annual Portland schoonerFest and regatta highlights include the first appearance of the Mary E (see “Classics”) since being newly restored by the maine maritime museum. the welcoming Ceremony on June 22 is free to the public. tickets to all other events can be found online at tallshipsportland.org.

The Hoppiest Day of the Year

food trucks, live music, and locally brewed beer all rolled into one. that’s the Maine brewers guild summer session celebration at thompson’s point, where brewers from across the state gather to showcase their best alongside friends from out of state. (don’t be a beer snob–other states brew too, you know.) this year, Bog iron Brewing of massachusetts, throwback Brewery of new hampshire, and others from away will join a long list of maine brewers including Banded horn, allagash, and peak organic Brewing Company. tickets are $49 for general admission.

First Friday Fiction

Portland Monthly returns to maine historical Society for First Friday

Fiction on July 6, when pen/faulkner award-winning author kate Christensen will launch her new novel, The Last Cruise. (See her story in this issue, “Summer loves” on p.189.) enjoy a reading and refreshments surrounded by the beauty of the longfellow garden starting at 6:30 p.m. the event is free and open to the public. for more information contact olivia@portlandmonthly.com.

way to the North Atlantic Blues Festival in rockland on July 15.

Will this be your first time in Maine? Are you excited?

i visited in november to play at paul Benjamin’s pub, time out, in rockland. But other than that, not since i was a kid.

Where does your musical ability come from, and when did you first start playing?

i first started playing as soon as you could in band, which was around nine or ten. no one in my family really played. i had taken six months of piano lessons, but really didn’t like the teacher. i happened to see someone playing saxophone on a tv show and i just loved the sound of it. i told my mom, “you have to let me play this.” after six months, she rented one for me and i started playing for fun out of every book i could find.

It’s interesting you picked up on the sound so young. Usually kids want to play because someone they admire plays it.

everyone gravitates towards something different. i think the saxophone speaks to people in that way. a lot of people i’ve spoken to say it was the sound of the saxophone that got them.

Art

Bates College Museum of Art, olin arts center, 75 russell St., lewiston. dahlov ipcar: Blue moons & menageries, Jun. 8-oct. 6. 786-6158.

Bowdoin College

Museum of Art, 245 maine St., Brunswick. richard pousette-dart: painting/light/Space, apr. 19-Sep. 16; made in maine, through aug. 19; Winslow Homer and the camera: photography and the art of painting, Jun. 23-oct. 28; art from the northern plains, through Jul. 8; aegyptuS: egypt in the greco-roman World, through Jul. 15; in the round: ancient art from all Sides, aug. 16-Jan.6. 725-3275.

Center for Maine Contemporary Art, 21 Winter St., rockland. John moore: resonance, through Jun. 17; Screen B.r a c e., Jun. 4-oct. 7; tom Burckhardt: Studio flood, Jun. 9-oct. 7; Jocelyn lee: the appearance of things, through oct. 14; John Bisbee: american Steel, Jun. 30-

You’re 27 and already playing with some of the great musicians, including Bobby Rush, at the North Atlantic Blues Festival this summer. What’s the next goal? i’d like to remain independent. that’s important to me. i want to keep making the art i love to hear, and i don’t want to ever give that up. i hope to one day play red rocks [denver, colorado] and record a live record there. i’d love to see all of the countries i can and keep connecting with people.

Speaking of travelling, you’re headed to Brazil next. What are some of your favorite countries you’ve been to? Well, Brazil is up there. germany was great as

well. turkey was awesome. i was there a couple years ago touring with Joe lewis Walker. it’s all kind of new to me, too.

When you’re not on tour, you’re giving private lessons. How do you teach kids to really feel the music? Is that teachable?

there are a lot of different schools that do different things. i find montessori schools allow kids to explore the world through their senses, [so] those kids tend to already be in that mindset. if you’re going to play something, it’s got to make you feel something and the audience feel something. i spend a lot of time asking them to describe the scene of a movie to go along with the music. it gets them thinking about tone, mood, and emotion. Just giving them something visual to connect to allows them to play with it.

So what’s your favorite movie soundtrack?

i love the Jurassic park soundtrack.

What’s on your playlist right now?

oh, so much. i love the Wood brothers, tedeschi trucks Band. there’s a guy who plays with african and middle eastern influences–Bombino. His nomad album was really good, but he just put out a new one [DErAn, partisan records]. n

oct. 14. 701-5005.

Colby College Museum of Art, 5600 mayflower Hill dr., Waterville. contemporary Highlights, apr. 10-aug. 26; city of ambition: photography from the collection, through Sep. 16; game time: the Sports photography of Walter iooss, through Jun. 24. 859-5600.

Farnsworth Art Museum, 16 museum St., rockland. andrew Wyeth: temperas and Studies from the Wyeth collection, mar. 17-feb. 3, 2019; ai Weiwei: circle of animals/zodiac Heads, mar. 24 - dec. 30; andrew Wyeth in rockland, apr. 7-feb. 17, 2019; maine: the farnsworth collection, through mar. 14, 2021;

Stories of the land and its people 2018, through Sep. 9; n c. Wyeth: poems of american patriotism, through oct. 28; on a mountain in maine, through oct. 7. 596-6457.

First Friday Art Walk, downtown portland. visit local galleries, studios, and museums, Jul. 6, aug. 3.

Greenhut Galleries, 146 middle St., portland. John Whalley Solo exhibition, Jun. 7-30; david driskell Solo exhibition, Jul. 5-28. 772-2693.

Maine Maritime Museum, 243 Washington St., Bath.

BiW: Building america’s navy, through dec. 2020; Workaday to Holiday: Schooners along the maine coast. 443-1316.

MECA, 522 congress St., portland. maine college of art Summer Sale, Jun.

28-30. 775-3052. Monhegan Museum, 1 light House Hill rd., monhegan. celebrating fifty years 1968-2018, featuring works by some 70 artists including george Bellows, James fitzgerald, robert

We’re not in Maine anymore. Dahlov Ipcar takes us to exotic lands in her exhibit Blue Moons and Menageries, coming to the Olin Arts Center at Bates College Museum of Art Jun. 8-Oct. 6.

henry, edward hopper, rockwell Kent, louise nevelson, andrew

Wyeth and more, Jul. 1-Sep. 30. 596-7003.

ogunquit Museum of american art, 543 Shore rd., ogunquit. permanent collection of important paintings, sculpture, drawings, prints and photographs from the late 1800s to present day, open daily; Surrounded: Sampling burchfield’s Wallpaper, through Jul. 8; Steve hawley: Studio light, through Jul. 4; boundaries, Jul. 14-oct. 31; lois Dodd: Drawings and paintings, Jul. 14-oct. 31; bill Viola: the Fall into paradise, Jul. 12-oct. 31. 646-4909.

portland Museum of art, 7 Congress Sq. the robbers: german art in a time of Crisis, through Jul. 15; under pressure: art form the 1980s, mar. 30-aug. 12; Clarence h. White and his World, Jun. 22-Sep. 16; painter and poet: the art of ashley bryan, aug. 3-nov. 25. 775-6148.

richard Boyd art Gallery, 15 epps St., peaks island. Works in Watercolor by randy eckard, through Jun. 29; patricia Chandler a Solo exhibition of paintings, Jul. 1-30; paintings in gouache by amy bickford, aug. 1-30. 712-1097.

UnE art Gallery, 716 Stevens ave., portland. inside the Cube: looking back over 40 years, apr. 20-Jul. 15; 2018 Department of arts Faculty exhibition, aug. 1-oct. 21; annual Sculpture garden invitational, Jun. 8-oct. 31; 221-4499.

ThEaTEr

1932 Criterion theater, 35 Cottage St., bar harbor. tanglewood marionettes’

The Dragon King, Jun. 30; tanglewood marionettes’ Sleeping Beauty, Jul.1; bhmF opera: hansel and Gretel, Jul 20; nimbus Dance Works, aug. 4. 288-0829.

Bates dance Festival, 305

College St., lewiston. myCelial: Street parliament, Jul. 5-7; boys in trouble, Jul. 12, 14; liFteD, Jul. 20-21; musicians’ Concert, Jul. 23; the lectern: rule by rule by rule, Jul. 27-28; portrait of myself as my Father, aug. 2-3; Festival Finale, aug. 4. 786-6381.

Carousel Music theater, 196 townsend ave., boothbay harbor. 100 Years of Broadway, Jun. 21-Jul. 21; all hands on Deck, Jul. 24-aug. 9; You’re a Good Man, charlie Brown, aug. 14-Sept. 2. 633-5297.

Celebration Barn theater, 190 Stock Farm rd., South paris. molly and John gawler, Jun.16; Figures of Speech theatre’s nightingale, Jun. 23; mike miclon’s The Early Evening Show, Jul. 7, aug. 4, Sep. 1; michael burgos’ The Eulogy, Jul. 14; a night of new Works, Jul. 20; The Spectacular - a Fundraiser for Celebration barn theater, Jul. 21; Steven ragatz’s Under the Umbrella, Life is a circus, aug. 11; happenstance theater’s pinot and augustine, aug. 18. 743-8452.

Cold Comfort theater, belfast. The Boys next Door, Jun. 22-4, Jun. 29-Jul.

1; an original musical adaptation of The Tempest, Jul. 20-22, Jul. 27-29; Love Letters, aug. 29. 930-7244. deertrees theater, 156 Deertrees rd., harrison. a Betrothal and The Universal Language, Jul. 12, 20, 27; opera maine: Three Decembers, Jul. 13; The amazing adventures of Louis de rougemont, Jul. 14, 19, 27, aug. 4; Turn of the Screw, aug. 9, 12, 17. 583-6747.

Fenix theatre Company, at Deering oaks park, portland. Eurydice, Jul. 13-22, 27, 29. 400-6223. Footlights theater, 190 uS-1, Falmouth. The Ladies’ Guide to Life & Laughter, Jul. 10-aug. 30. 747-5434.

Freeport Community players, Freeport performing arts Center, 30 holbrook St., Freeport. one-act Showcase, Jul. 12-29. 865-2220.

Gaslight theater, 1 Winthrop St., hallowell. Marriage is Murder, aug. 24-26, 31, Sept. 1-2. 626-3698.

Hackmatack playhouse, 538 School St., berwick. Lend Me a Tenor, Jun. 1530; all Shook Up, Jul. 4-21; The Bridges of Madison county, Jul. 25-aug. 11; Dial M for Murder, aug. 15-Sept. 1. 698-1807.

Hamilton House, 40 Vaughan’s ln., South berwick. The 39 Steps Live radio play, aug. 10-12. 384-2454.

Heartwood regional theater Company, parker b poe theater, 81 academy hill rd., newcastle. Down along the cove, Jun. 29Jul. 1, Jul. 6-7; The Secret Garden, Jul. 20- 22, 25-28. 563-1373.

lakewood theater, 76 theater rd., madison. incorruptible, Jun. 7-10, 1316; Little Shop of horrors, Jun. 21-24, 27-30; Jenny’s house of Joy, Jul. 5-8, 11-14; The irish…and how They Got That Way, Jul. 1922, Jul. 25-28; The Legend of Georgia McBride, aug. 2-5, 8-11; a Funny Thing

It’s not summer without taking in one of the free concerts at L.L. Bean’s flagship store in Freeport. This year features Devon Gilfillian (right) on July 4 and Old Crow Medicine Show (above) July 21.

Yogis, get your mats ready. The Maine Yoga Fest will be held Jun. 29-Jul. 1 at the East End School in Portland.

Happened on the Way to the Forum, aug. 16-19, 22-25; Anne of Green Gables, aug. 30-sep. 2, 5-8. 474-7176.

lewiston-auburn little theatre, 30 academy st., auburn. 12 Angry Men, Jun. 8-15; Young Frankenstein, aug. 10-19. 783-0958.

little theatre at nasson Community Center, 457 main st., springvale. good theater presents Underwater Guy, Jun. 23-24; music of your life 50’s and 60’s, Jul. 13; good theater presents Love Letters, Jul.14-15; good theater presents Love, Loss, and What i Wore, Jul. 28-29; Dio Disciples, aug. 2; nasson senior theater presents Finding Glady’s, aug. 1017; stranger than Fiction presents a night of improv, aug. 25. 324-5657.

lyric Music theater, 176 sawyer st., south portland. The Foreigner, Jun. 8-17. 799-1421.

Maine State Ballet theater, 348 u s rte. 1, Falmouth. Dancer’s choice showcase, Jun. 20-21; Hansel and Gretel, august 9-11, 16-18. 781-7672.

Maine State Music theatre, pickard theater, 1 Bath rd., Brunswick. Million Dollar Quartet, Jun. 6-23;

Beauty and the Beast, Jun. 27-Jul. 14; Saturday night Fever, Jul. 18-aug. 4; Bye Bye Birdie, Jul. 30; Singin’ in the rain, aug. 8-25; nunsense, aug. 14-26. pinocchio, aug. 20. 725-8769.

Merrill auditorium, 20 myrtle st., portland. Dirty Dancing, Jun. 18-19; The Marriage of Figaro, Jul. 25, 27. 842-0800.

ogunquit playhouse, 10 main st., ogunquit. Oklahoma! through Jul. 7; An American in paris, Jul. 11aug. 4; Grumpy Old Men: The Musical, aug. 8-sep. 1. 646-5511.

penobscot theatre Company, Bangor opera house, 131 main st. Shear Madness, through Jul. 8. 942-3333.

portland Fringe Festival, downtown portland. over 125 performances throughout downtown portland, June 16-23.

Saco river theater, 29 salmon Falls rd., Buxton. Accomplice, Jul. 20-28. 929-6615.

Saint lawrence arts, 76 congress st., portland. opera maine presents Three Decembers, Jul. 11; Mother Jones in Heaven, aug. 9-12. 775-5568.

Schoolhouse arts Center, 16 richville rd., standish.

Seussical: The Musical, Jul. 12-29; Aladdin KiDS, aug.

3-5; Mary poppins Jr., aug. 17-19. 642-3743. theater at Monmouth, 796 main st., monmouth. pride @ prejudice, Jun. 23aug. 17; The True Story of Little red, Jun. 30-aug. 16; Twelfth night, Jul. 5-aug. 19; richard iii, Jul. 12-aug. 18; Enchanted April, Jul. 19-aug. 16; Dial “M” for Murder, Jul. 26-aug. 17. 933-9999.

Waterman’s Community Center, 12 main st., north haven. Bestselling author susan minot debuts original play, On island, aug. 2, aug. 5. 867-2100.

Waterville opera House, 93 main st. 3rd Flr., Waterville. Seussical, Jun.15-17 & 22-24; the Bolshoi Ballet: coppelia, Jul.1. 873-7000.

MUSic

1932 Criterion theater, 35 tage st., Bar the Wailers, Jun. 22; Bee parks and the hornets, Jul. 5; Judy collins, Jul. 13; montgomery gentry, Jul. 28; Billy Bob thornton & the Boxmasters, aug. 3. 288-0829.

aura, 121 c st., portland. awolnation, Jun. 20; Wyclef Jean with armies,

Lose yourself in the music on the sea. Casco Bay Lines hosts Music Cruises this summer featuring The Hurricanes June 16; Racer X June 29; Wavelength July 20; and the Don Campbell Band July 27.

Jun. 23; sara evans, Jun. 30; Wclz presents Frank turner, Jul. 5; Voyage: a Journey tribute, Jul. 6; asleep at the Wheel, Jul. 7; Judy collins, Jul. 14; the James hunter six, Jul. 21; todd rundgren, Jul. 26; g love solo acoustic with ron artis ii, Jul. 27; Jake shimabukuro, Jul. 28; Billy Bob thornton and the Boxmasters, aug. 2; toots and the maytals, aug. 3; Justin hayward, aug. 8; Dark Desert eagles, aug. 17; little river Band, aug.

25. 772-8274. Bach Virtuosi Festival, portland. Jun. 17,19, 21, 23, 24.

Blue, 650a congress st., portland. irish nights, every Wed.; the happy hour music series, every thurs.; Jazz at Blue, every sat.; Women singers & songwriters showcase, aug. 12; cumberland crossing’s Bluegrass Jam!, Jul. 12, aug. 9; middle eastern Dance night with zapion & Friends, Jun. 21, Jul. 19;

Bring a folding chair, a blanket, and a snack to Congress Square July 13. There will be a screening of Baraka at 8 p.m. hosted by the Portland Museum of Art.

Riverside Wood Carving is hosting a demo July 21 at 9 a.m. at Maine Wildlife Park in Gray.

Take a coastal stroll through the flowers in bloom during the Cape Elizabeth Garden Tour on July 14. Don’t forget your allergy meds!

Jul. 27; All Our exes Live in Texas, Jun. 24; The middle eastern Jazz Project, Jul. 14; Kyle Hardy group, Jul. 21; Hattie Simon, Aug. 4; el malo, Aug. 10; Choro Louco, Aug. 31.774-4111.

Celebration Barn Theater, 190 Stock Farm rd., South Paris. Samuel James in Concert, Jun. 30; Singer-Songwriter Slaid Cleaves, Jul. 28; Sean mencher in Concert, Aug. 25. 743-8452.

Darling’s Waterfront Pavilion, 1 railroad St., Bangor. Paramore, Jun. 21; ray Lamontagne, Jun. 28; Steven miller Band, Jul. 5; impact music Festival, Jul. 27-29; Kid rock, Aug. 3; Keith urban, Aug. 5; Kenny Chesney, Aug. 16; Pentatonix, Aug. 30. 358-9327.

Deertrees Theater, 156 deertrees rd., Harrison. milltown roadshow, Jun. 30; Open the door for Three, Jul. 6; deep Blue ‘C’ Studio Orchestra, Jul. 7; Camp encore/Coda in Concert, Jul. 16; music from the movies with Susie Pepper & Kelly muse, Jul. 20; david mallet & Friends, Jul. 21; Aeterna Trio, Jul. 26; Piano men - The music of Billy & elton, Jul. 28; The Lonely Heartstring Band, Aug. 2; Heather Pierson Acoustic Trio & Ordinary elephant, Aug. 10; The Juliet Letters, Aug. 11; Women of Song: maine Singer/Songwriters, Aug. 16; Cheryl Wheeler, Aug. 18. 583-6747.

Empire, 575 Congress St., Portland. Ben Caplan and the Casual Smokers, Jun. 21; Southern Culture On The Skids, Jun. 27; Stephen Lewis & The Big Band of Fun, Jun. 29; Brooks Wheelan, Jul. 6. 558-2279.

Hamilton House, 40 Vaughan’s Ln., South Berwick. Sundays in the garden: Harvey reid, Jul. 1; Soggy Po’ Boys, Jul. 8; Austin Burns, Jul. 15; Kristen miller, Jul. 22; La madeleine, Jul. 29. 384-2454.

Jonathan’s Ogunquit, 92 Bourne Ln., Ogunquit. Cliff eberhardt, Jon Butcher and richard Barone, Jun. 30; david Bromberg, Jul. 19; melanie, Jul. 20; Tom rush, Jul. 22; Carbon Leaf, Jul. 27; Jonathan edwards, Jul. 28; Jeff

Catch violist Ashleigh Gordon, chamber music, pops, jazz, opera, and strings at the Bar Harbor Music Fest, July 1–29.

JUNE 22 RUSTIC OVERTONES w/MYRO

JUNE 23 ROOMFUL OF BLUES

JUNE 29 THE BEAUTIFUL ONES: PRINCE TRIBUTE*

JUNE 30 THE AWESOME: 80s TRIBUTE*

JULY 7 THE ADAM EZRA BAND

JULY 11 CENTER FOR GRIEVING CHILDREN BENEFIT

JULY 13 JIM MESSINA

JULY 14 PAULA COLE

JULY 15 THE STRAY CAT LEE ROCKER**

JULY 20 THE BELMONTS

JULY 21 O SOLE TRIO

JULY 22 THE GATLIN BROTHERS**

*$10 of every ticket will be donated to the Maine Chapter of the Alzheimer’s Association as part of our Alzheimer’s Awareness Weekend. Shows marked with ** are part of our Sunday Chill at the Hill series. Garden Bar will open at 3:30pm and featurelive acoustic music and food trucks until the 6:30pm curtain. All other shows start at 8pm.

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Daniels and Ben Daniels Band, aug. 4; John Sebastian, aug. 5; howie Day, aug. 10; Peter yarrow, aug. 19. 646-4777.

l.l. Bean Summer Concert Series, Discovery Park, Freeport. Devon gilfillian, Jul. 4; Chase Rice, Jul. 7; Big head todd and the monsters, Jul. 14; old Crow medicine Snow, Jul. 21; Passenger, Jul. 28; the Revivalists, aug. 4; the Fray, Sep. 1. 877-755-2326.

Maine academy of Modern Music, Portland. the mamm stage at the old Port Festival, Jun.10; mamm Presents: the Kids are alright Series at Deering oaks Park, Jul. 7, 14, 21, 27. 899-3433.

Maine State Music theatre, Pickard theater, 1 Bath Rd., Brunswick. i Love a piano, Jun. 18; Broadway to Brunswick, aug. 13. 725-8769.

Maine State pier portland. Slightly Stoopid, Jul. 8: Billy Currington, Jul. 27; the Roots, Jun. 29; i love the 90’s tour, aug. 3; lee Brice, aug. 8; Kip moore, aug. 25. 358-9327.

Mayo Street arts, 10 mayo Street. Brian Calhoon’s marimba Cabaret, Jun. 16; Jawahir middle eastern ensemble, Jun. 23; it’s time to make a Change Secular Revival, Jun. 24; Jenny Van West & thierry lubangi, Jun. 30. 879-4629.

Merrill auditorium, 20 myrtle St., Portland. harry Connick, Jr. a new orleans tricentennial Celebration, Jun. 22; Darci lynne & Friends, Jun. 24; lyle lovett and his large Band, aug.

Acadia Inn

(207) 288-3500

(800) 638-3636

www.acadiainn.com

Atlantic Oceanside

(207) 288-5801

(800) 336-2463

www.aobarharbor.com

Bar Harbor Grand

(207) 288-5226

(888) 766-2529

www.barharborgrand.com

Bar Harbor Inn

(207) 288-3351

(800) 248-3351

www.barharborinn.com

Bar Harbor Motel

(207) 288-3453

(800) 388-3453

www.barharbormotel.com

Best Western (207) 288-5823

www.acadiaparkinn.com

Comfort Inn

(207) 667-1345

www.ellsworthcomfortinn.com

Hampton Inn

(207) 667-2688

www.ellsworthhamptoninn.com

Quality Inn

(207) 288-5403

(800) 282-5403

www.barharborqualityinn.com

Ramada

(207) 667-9341

www.ellsworthramada.com

Villager Motel

(207) 288-3211

(888) 383-3211

www.barharborvillager.com

Hampton Inn Saco Maine

(207) 282-7222

www.hamptoninnsaco.com

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1; lindsey Stirling, aug. 2. 842-0800.

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A Retirement Community in Coastal Blue Hill, Maine

Our community is a blending of thoughtful design, excellent service, and genuine caring, making life at Parker Ridge a joyful experience. Our wellness programs help you get the most out of life by staying fit and healthy, and with staff on duty 24 hours per day, you can feel secure that help is there when you need it. With residential living at Parker Ridge you have the option to add flexible care plans as your needs change. Should you need additional services or care down the road, there is no need to move, and you will never pay for services you don't need.

Troubadours &Tangos

Musicians include:

Brentano String Quartet

Jason Vieaux, guitar

Julien Labro, accordion

Thomas Sauer, piano

Stefan Jackiw, violin

Performing music of: Schubert, Piazzolla, Britten, Dowland, Ravel, Albeniz, and a world premiere by Steven Mackey

August 6–18

Darrows Barn at Round Top Farm Business Route 1, Damariscotta

Mountain Village Farm Bed & Breakfast, Blues in the Barn Concert Series 164 main St., Kingfield. Juke Joint Devils, Jun 17; Victor Wainwright & the train, Jul. 4; Kenny neal, aug. 12; nick moss Band, aug. 26. 265-2030.

Music Cruises, Casco Bay lines, 56 Commercial St., Portland. the hurricanes, Jun. 16; Racer X, Jun. 29; Wavelength, Jul. 20; Don Campbell Band, Jul.27. 774-7871.

operahouse at Boothbay Harbor, 86 townsend ave., Boothbay harbor. newberry & Verch, Jun. 23; Frank Vignola hot Jazz trio, Jun. 29; alison Brown Quartet, Jun. 30; the Subdudes, Jul. 7; yes Darling, Jul. 11; molly tuttle, Jul. 13; DaPonte String Quartet, Jul. 17. 633-5159.

one longfellow Square, 181 State St., Portland. Katie matzell and amarantos Quartet, Jun. 16; Chris hillman and herb Pedersen, Jun. 17; mary Fahl, Jun. 22; earl mac, Jul. 06; Sarah Potenza, Jul. 12; anaïs mitchell, aug. 3. 761-1757.

port City Music Hall, 504 Congress St., Portland. Kevin morby, Jun. 20; houndmouth, Jun. 23; the nels Cline 4, Jul. 3; the Devon allman Project, Jul. 16; the acacia Strain, Jul. 19; Femi Kuti & the Positive Force, Jul. 24; Phoebe Bridgers, Jul. 27; Chris Webby, aug. 2; the Dustbowl Revival, aug. 30. 956-6000. portland Chamber Music Festival, hannaford hall, University of maine Portland campus. opening night Celebration, aug. 9; Romantic Visions: Falla, Primosch, and Dvořák, aug. 11; Family Concert: all about the Violin, aug. 12; Bach, Brahms, and ‘Paganiniana,’ aug. 16; Season Finale: Passing the torch, aug. 18. 320-0257.

Saco river theater, 29 Salmon Falls Rd., Buxton. David mallett, aug. 11; SRt Classical music Series, aug. 19; Don Roy trio, aug. 24. 929-6615.

St. lawrence arts, 76 Congress St., Portland. magic eight Ball Summer Solstice Celebration, Jun. 16; Showcase of Women Songwriters, Jun. 23; the Kevin Prater Band, Jun. 28; ana egge, Jul. 20; Rod Picott - out Past the Wires,

Laurie Lakshmi Lefebvre (Proctor)

Jul. 21. 775-5568.

Space Gallery, 538 Congress Street., Portland. Pile with Lina Tullgren, Jul. 10; Faust, Jul. 17; An evening with Spose, Jul. 21; Blueprint with graphic melee and Words of Phrase, Jul. 30. 828-5600.

State Theatre, 609 Congress St., Portland. Cold War Kids, Jun. 20; John Butler Trio, Jul. 13; Bruce Hornsby & The Noisemakers, Jul. 19; mary Chapin Carpenter, Jul. 20; Courtney Barnett, Jul. 26; Punch Brothers, Jul. 27; Lord Huron, Jul. 30; Franz Ferdinand, Aug. 7; The Flaming Lips, Aug. 21; John Hiatt & The goners, Aug. 25. 956-6000.

Stone Mountain Arts Center, 695 dugway rd., Brownfield. Tom rush accompanied by matt Nakoa, Jun. 22; riders in the Sky, Jun. 30; Heather Pierson Trio, Jul 3; Peter Wolf, Jul. 12-13; mary Chapin Carpenter, Jul.21-22; Jeff daniels with the Ben daniels Band, Aug. 3; Patty griffin, Aug. 5; Ladysmith Black mambazo, Aug. 10; Cheryl Wheeler & Kenny White, Aug. 17; Taj mahal Trio, Aug. 30. 935-7292.

The Gracie Theatre, 1 College Cir., Bangor. Cruising Steady: The music and Friendship of Aretha Franklin and Smokey robinson, Jun. 23; Tribute to Frank Sinatra with the Hal mcintyre Orchestra, Aug. 8. 941-7888.

Thompson’s Point, 10 Thompson’s Point. Fitz

Seal Cove Auto Museum

& the tantrums with X ambassadors, Jun. 16; alt J, Jun. 18; lettuce, galactic, and Jaw gems, Jun. 22; lake Street Dive, Jul. 7; Brandi Carlile, Jason isbell and the 400 Unit, Jul. 21; guster on the ocean, aug. 3-4. 956-6000.

Waterville opera House, 93 main St. 3rd Flr., Waterville. Carbon leaf, Jul. 25; the Weight Band, aug. 10. 873-7000.

comEdy

1932 Criterion theater, 35 Cottage St., Bar harbor. the maine Comedy allstars, Jul. 21. 288-0829.

Blue, 650a Congress St., Portland. Comedy night: Worst Day of the Week, every mon. 774-4111.

Bull Feeney’s, 375 Fore St., Portland. open mic Comedy, every Wed. 773-7210.

Empire, 575 Congress St., Portland. First Friday Comedy, Jul. 6, aug. 3; empire Comedy Summer Classic, every Sun. 558-2279.

Jonathan’s ogunquit, 92 Bourne ln., ogunquit. Bob marley, Jun. 17; lenny Clarke, Jul. 5; Steve Sweeney, Jul. 14; Jim mcCue and the Boston Comedy Festival all Stars, Jul. 21; Paula Poundstone, aug. 17-18. 646-4777.

lincoln’s, 36 market St. laugh Shack Comedy, every thurs.

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Nasson Little Theatre, 457 main St., Springvale. ed Thomas and Hugo, Jul. 21; 324-5657. One Longfellow Square, 181 State St., Portland. LOLS: An evening of Local Comedy, Jun. 30, Jul 20. 761-1757.

Port City Music Hall, 504 Congress St., Portland. maria Bamford, Jul. 7; wellred: From dixie with Love feat. Trae Crowder, drew morgan, & Corey Forrester, Jul. 8-9; Francis ellis Jul. 21. 956-6000.

State Theatre, 609 Congress St., Portland. david Cross: Oh Come On Tour, Jun. 19; Chris d’elia: Follow the Leader 2018 Tour, Jul. 05; miranda Sings Live…No Offense, Jul. 17. 956-6000.

Stone Mountain Arts Center, 695 dugway rd., Brownfield. Juston mcKinney, Jun. 29; Paula Poundstone, Jul. 6; Bob marley, Jul. 19. 935-7292.

TasTy EvEnTs

Allagash Street Fair 2018, Allagash Brewing, 50 industrial Way, Portland. Featuring beer, food, music, performances and fun events, Jun. 23. 878-5385.

Allagash Street Fair Pre-Party, great Lost Bear, 540 Forest Ave., Portland. A raucous preStreet Fair extravaganza, with many Allagash beers on draft, specials, and a giveaway of 3 pairs of Street Fair tickets, Jun. 21. 772-0300. Beer in the Garden, The Longfellow garden, 489 Congress St., Portland. Beer, snacks, and artifacts from the maine Historical Society, every third Tues. 774-1822.

Cellardoor Winery, 367 Youngtown rd., Lincolnville. Complimentary Pairings food and wine pairings every Sun. Jun.10-Sep.2; Wine & Pizza Party, Jul. 11; grape Affair, a night of dining, dancing and live music, Jul. 26; Live in the Vines with dancing and music, Jul. 28; Vino Al Fresco, an outdoors Tuscan-inspired feast, Aug. 9; under the maine Sun: Havana Nights, Aug. 23; Sip, eat, dance, Aug. 25. 763-4478. Cellardoor Winery at the Point, 4 Thompson’s Point #110. Wednesday food and wine pairings, Jun. 20; Pairings 101, Jun. 27, Aug. 8. 536-7700.

Dinner on the Coast, Shoreline rd., mackworth Point, Falmouth. A formal dinner to celebrate Falmouth’s 300th anniversary, and benefit Falmouth Historical Society, Tall Ships maine, and Falmouth education Foundation. 619-1842.

Great Falls Brewfest, Simard-Payne memorial Park, Lewiston. Baxter Brewing Co. presents a celebration of craft beer featuring 50+ breweries, food trucks, maine businesses, games and music, Jun. 23. 333-6769.

Ice Cream Train, Maine Narrow Gauge Railroad Co. & Museum, 58 Fore St., Portland. Complimentary ice cream cup as you take an evening train ride along Casco Bay, Jun. 29, Jul. 27, Aug. 10, Aug 24. 828-0814.

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Izzy’s Summer Cheesecake Tasting, izzy’s Cheesecake, 135 Walton St., Portland. Taste top flavors and use your ticket to get a slice of your favorite cheesecake, with games, raffles and more, Jun. 21.

Leroux Kitchen, 161 Commercial St., Portland. monthly free wine tastings. Call for dates. 5537665.

Local Sprouts, 649 Congress St., Portland. music Brunch with Sean mencher and friends, every Sun. 899-3529.

Lolita Vinoteca + Asador, 90 Congress St., Portland. Tapas mondays with wine pairings, every mon. 775-5652.

Maine Lobster Festival, Harbor Park, rockland. Steamed lobsters, seafood cooking contest, family activities and races, arts and crafts, live entertainment and The Big Parade, Aug. 1-5. 800-576-7512.

Newagen Seaside Inn, 60 Newagen Colony rd., Southport. Traditional maine lobster bakes, $45 per person, call to make reservations, every Tues. Jul.-Aug. 633-5242.

New England Brewfest, Loon mountain resort, Lincoln/Woodstock, NH. Celebrating it’s 14th season with a weekend getaway of social events for craft brew lovers including beer pairing dinners with live music, brewery tours, and fun activities like beer yoga, Jun. 22-24. (603) 745-6621.

Norumbega Cidery, 380 Woodman rd., New gloucester. Summer Cider Series, Jul. 7, Aug. 4, Sep. 1. 370-2027.

Rosemont Markets, Portland and Yarmouth. Tasting events on Fridays. 774-8129.

Summer Session Beer Festival, 10 Thompson’s Point, Portland. Annual summer beer festival, featuring maine an out-of-state breweries, food trucks, and live music, Jul. 28.

Sweetgrass Farm Winery & Distillery, 347 Carroll rd., union. Open Farm day with tasting and tour of farm winery and distillery, Jul. 22. 785-3024.

Tate House, 1267 Westbrook St., Portland. Fifth annual Colonial Tea in the beautiful gardens, overlooking the Stroudwater river. reservations are requested, Jun. 10. 774-6177.

Wells Brew Fest, Wells Harbor Community Park, Wells. inaugural Wells Brew Fest, a celebration of maine craft brewers and sample from 30+ breweries and over 100 styles of beer, featuring live music, food vendors, and more, Jul. 14.

Wiggly Bridge Distillery Barn, 441 uS rt. 1, York. Saturday Night Vibes with cocktails and live music every Sat. through Aug. 18. 3639322.

Wine Walks with Erica Archer, Portland and Falmouth. Wine (and food) Walks in Portland, weekly Sat.; Sunset Wine Sails in Portland, weekly Fri. Sat. Sun.; Wine excursion: Land & Sea Adventure with Wine & Tapas, Jun. 20; Sunset Wine Sail: delicious Sparkling Wines,

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Jun. 20; Sunset Wine Sail: Delicious Whites, Jun. 21. 619-4630.

Yarmouth Clam Festival, yarmouth. 53rd annual event with three days of fantastic food, live music, arts and crafts shows, road races and more, Jul. 20-22. 846-3984.

Film

Bluestocking Film Series, talbot auditorium, luther Bonney hall, USm, Portland. Festival celebrating and promoting talented, emerging and established filmmakers with 15 femaledriven films, aug. 3-4.

Food, Fun & Films, l l. Bean, Freeport. Free outdoor movies every Friday night featuring local food trucks and vendors, Jul. 7-Sep. 1. 877-755-2326.

Maine International Film Festival, 17 Railroad Sq., Waterville. the 20th anniversary celebration, featuring special guests, awards, and world premieres, Jul. 13-22. 861-8138.

portland Museum of art, 7 Congress Sq. Westfront 1918, Jun. 14; Baraka, Jul. 13. 7756148.

portland Summer Films, Congress Square Park, Portland. Back to the Future, Jun. 24; little Shop of Horrors, Jul. 1; Grease, Jul. 8; The Great Outdoors, Jul. 15; rebel Without a cause, Jul. 22; The man Who Knew Too much, Jul. 29;

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War Games, Aug. 5; close Encounters, Aug. 12; new York Stories, Aug. 19; Black panther, Aug. 26.

Space 2018 Summer Rooftop Film Series, Bayside Bowl, 58 Alder St., Portland. Free films start at sunset. Lady Bird, Jun. 20; Searching for Sugarman, Jun. 27; Stop Making Sense, Jul. 11; Girls Trip, Jul. 18; Endless Summer, Jul. 25; Shaun of the Dead, Aug. 1; iT, Aug. 8; The Florida project, Aug. 15; Black panther, Aug. 22; Shut Up and play the Hits, Aug. 29. Space Gallery, The Work at uSm, Jun. 23; Storycorps Animated Shorts in Congress Square Park, Jul. 3; 828-5600.

LiTErarY EvEnTS

LFK, 188A State St., Portland. Word Portland, a monthly reading series featuring original writing from authors on the first mon. of every month. 899-3277.

Longfellow Books, 1 monument Way, Portland. The Secret Token with Andrew Lawler, Jun. 27; Bimini Twist with Linda greenlaw, Jul. 2; implosion: a Memoir of an architect’s Daughter with elizabeth garber, Jul. 12; Bernice abbott: a Life in photography with Julia Van Haaften, Aug. 3. 772-4045.

Maine Historical Society, The Longfellow garden, 489 Congress St., Portland. portland

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Monthly First Friday Fiction, The Last cruise by Kate Christensen, Jul. 6; the Children’s hour, reading of favorite story books followed by crafts and activities, Jun. 20, Jul. 11, aug. 8, aug. 22. 774-1822.

print: a Bookstore, 273 Congress St., Portland. The Book of Essie with author meghan maclean Weir, Jun. 20; Storytime of Walk Your Dog with illustrator neesha hudson, Jun. 24; Down East: An illustrated History of Maritime Maine with lincoln Paine, Jun. 26; call Me American with abdi nor iftin, Jun. 27; The Last Lobster: Boom or Bust for Maine’s Greatest Fishery with Christopher White, Jun. 29. 536-4778.

Sarah orne Jewett House Museum, 5 Portland St., South Berwick. Sobo Story Slam: Campfire Stories, Jun. 8; Sarah orne Jewett Stories Reading with light refreshments, Jun. 29; “a Writer’s Circle” Writer’s group, bring a short piece of writing to share, or come just to listen, Jul. 9 or aug. 13. 384-2454.

Space Gallery, 538 Congress St., Portland. olivia gatwood and Joaquina mertz, aug. 24. 828-5600.

Wiscasset public library, 21 high St., Wiscasset. Summer Fun at Castle tucker: Summer Stories for Children, combination of storytime and summertime games. 384-2454 ext. 2.

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Baxter House Museum, 71 South St., gorham. The 1831 birthplace of James Phinney Baxter, former mayor of Portland and governor of maine. mon.-Sat. 222-1190.

Castle Tucker, 2 Lee St., Wicasset. Federalstyle mansion built by Judge Silas Lee in 1807, Wed.-Sun.; Jul. 14, Aug. 11; Brew with a View, Jul. 12; Summer Fun at Castle Tucker: Lawn games and House Tours, Jul. 23; Plein Air Painting day with Jennifer Linskey, Aug. 23; mollie Tucker’s Kitchen: A Culinary Tour, Aug. 29. 882-7169.

Deer Isle-Stonington Historical Society, 416 Sunset rd., deer isle. extensive collection of historical objects and documents housed in the 1830 Sellers House, Wed.-Fri., Jun.16Sep.16. 348-6400.

Fire House Museum, 157 Spring St., Portland. Well-preserved fire house built in 1891, showcasing antique fire fighting machinery, first Fri. every month. 772-2040.

Hamilton House, 40 Vaughan’s Ln., South Berwick.1785 georgian mansion on the Salmon Falls river purchased by mrs. emily Tyson in 1989, and restored to its former glory through the influence of the writings of Sarah Orne Jewett, Wed.-Sun.; Family Portrait day, Aug. 5. 384-2454.

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International Cryptozoology Museum, 4 Thompson’s Point rd., Suite 106. explore hidden and unknown animals like Yetis and Bigfoot and other worldwide cryptids, mon., Wed.-Sun.

Joshua L. Chamberlain Museum, 226 maine St., Brunswick. Built in 1824 and briefly occupied by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, longterm home of the Civil War hero Chamberlain, four-term maine governor, and president of Bowdoin College, Tue.-Sat., Through Oct.7. 729-6958.

L.C. Bates Museum, 14 easler rd., Hinckley. maine’s early 20th-century natural history museum includes a mounted blue marlin donated by ernest Hemingway, Wed.-Sun. 238-4250. Maine Historical Society, 489 Congress St., Portland. museum features changing exhibitions and programs spanning more than twelve centuries of maine life, open daily; maine eats: The Food revolution Starts Here, mar. 2-Feb. 9 2019; eye in the Sky, Apr. 11-Sep. 30. 774-1822.

Maine Jewish Museum, 267 Congress St., Portland. Featuring exhibits byTed Arnold, rush Brown, and Alex Sax, mon.-Fri., through Jul. 5. 773-2339.

Maine Narrow Gauge Railroad Company & Museum, 58 Fore St., Portland. Preserves and operates historic two foot gauge railroad

West Quoddy Station

Welcome to The Keeper's Cottage at West Quoddy Station.

Its location on the Easternmost Point of the United States has attracted photographers and other travelers from all over the world, so that they can watch the first sunrise over the ocean. The West Quoddy Station previously served as US coast guard Station 1, District 1, was decommissioned in 1970, and since 2001, has carefully been renovated. The Keeper’s Cottage, one of the seven buildings on the property, was completed in 2011 and is a reconstruction of the 1806 West Quoddy Head Light Keepers House, giving guests an opportunity to appreciate the beauty and privacy of Quoddy Head.

The house has a full kitchen, amply sized, with L.L. Bean beds and antiques. Amenities include washers/dryers, decks, picnic tables, lawn furniture and lawn games. Guests can visit the lighthouses nearby, hike trails, go whale watching or visit the FDR International Park.

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Maritime Museum, 243 Washington St., Bath. exhibits, interaction, replicas, river cruises, open daily. 443-1316.

Marrett House, 40 ossipee trail east Rte. 25, Standish. late georgian house (1789) with extensive herb and perennial garden, first & third Sat., to oct. 15. 882-7169.

Montpelier: the General Henry Knox Museum, 30 high St., thomaston. the Secretary of War to george Washington retired to maine in 1895; this 1929 replica of his mansion includes many of the furnishings of the original, tue.-Sat. 354-8062.

neal dow Memorial, 714 Congress St., Portland. Federal-style, 1829 home of general neal Dow, two-time mayor of Portland and active Prohibitionist, abolitionist & advocate of women’s rights and prison reform, tours by appointment only. 773-7773.

nickels-Sortwell House, 121 main St., Wiscasset. Federal-style mansion, built in 1807 by ship owner and trader William nickels with Colonial Revival furnishings and three-story elliptical stairway, open Fri.-Sun.; twilight tour, Jun. 19, aug. 23; Crafts Show, Jul. 26. 882-7169.

northeast Historic Film Museum, 85 main St., Bucksport. the Society is dedicated to preserving regional film, and its alamo theater

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displays antique film and movie theater paraphernalia, open tue.-thu., and mon., Fri. by appointment. 469-0924.

owls Head transportation Museum, 117 museum St., owls head. Celebrating machines of a bygone era through conservation, preservation and demonstration, open daily; hemmings 2018 great Race City Stop, Jun. 27; american, muscle & Custom Cruise-in, Jul. 7-8; truck & tractor Show, Jul. 21-22; Wings & Wheels Spectacular, aug. 4-5; new england auto auction, aug. 15-18; Barnstormers Ball, aug. 25; Vintage motorcycle Festival, Sep. 1-2. 594-4418.

peary’s Eagle Island, Casco Bay, harpswell. admiral Robert e Peary, claimed the first man at the north Pole, kept his summer home and library here. through labor Day. 624-6080.

penobscot Marine Museum, 2 Church St., Searsport. maritime exhibits & history, open daily. 548-0334.

penobscot nation Museum, 12 Down St., indian island. thousands of years of maine native american history, of both the Penobscot and Wabanaki peoples, as well as contemporary paintings, woodcarving, and basketry, mon.-Sat. 827-4153.

portland observatory Museum, 138 Congress St., Portland. Daily tours of america’s only remaining historic marine signal tower, open

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Project Puffin Visitor Center, 311 main St., rockland. documenting the Audubon Society’s conservation efforts with interactive educational exhibits, including live camera feeds of the puffins and seabirds 20 miles south at the Seal island National Wildlife refuge, open daily. 596-5566.

Roosevelt Campobello International Museum, 459 rt. 774, Welshpool, New Brunswick, Canada. Franklin d roosevelt’s summer island retreat. Open daily. (506) 752-2922.

Sarah Orne Jewett House, 5 Portland St., South Berwick. The author’s 1819 georgian residence, Fri.-Sun. 384-2454.

Seal Cove Auto Museum, 1414 Tremont rd., Seal Cove. more than 50 beautiful vehicles from the ornate Brass era, 1895-1917, open daily; demo day, Jun. 21, Jul. 19, Aug. 16; great race & Car-B-Que, Jun. 28; Cars & Coffee: Corvettes, Jul. 21; murder mystery dinner, Jul. 29; Watercolor Workshop with Judy Taylor, Aug. 8-9; Cars & Coffee: London to Brighton rally, Aug. 11. 244-9242.

Seashore Trolley Museum, 195 Log Cabin rd., Kennebunkport. The largest electric railway museum in the world, with over 250 historic and international vehicles, open daily. 967-2712.

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Skolfield-Whittier House, 159 Park Row, Brunswick. Seventeen-room “time capsule” with Victorian furnishings and items from sea captain alfred Skolfield’s world voyages, Wed.Sat. 729-6606.

Skyline Farm, 95 the lane, north yarmouth. over 80 carriages and sleighs from the late 18th century to the 1920s, as well as walking and riding trails, farm-related demonstrations, and riding lessons. Carriage museum open during events listed and by apt. 829-9203. Stanley Museum, 40 School St., Kingfield. Dedicated to the genius of the Stanley family, inventors of the Stanley Steamer, a steam-powered car that held the record for fastest automobile in the world from 1906 to 1911. original cars and engines, as well as photography, airbrush paintings, and violins. Photographs by Chansonetta Stanley emmons, paintings by Dorothy emmons, and creations by other members of the Stanley family, tue.Sun. 265-2729.

Stanwood Wildlife Sanctuary at Birdsacre, 289 high St., ellsworth. Former home of Cordelia J. Stanwood, Victorian-era ornithologist and wildlife photographer, now housing a sanctuary for unreleasable birds and a library of her extensive notes and photographs, open daily. 667-8460.

tate House, 1267 Westbrook St., Portland. Capt. george tate’s 1755 house with an unusual clerestory in the gambrel roof and an herb garden overlooking Stroudwater River, Wed.-Sun., through oct. 774-6177.

thompson Ice House Museum, 4568 Rte. 129, South Bristol. traditional methods of ice harvesting are employed at this historic national site, open Wed., Fri., Sat., Jul.-aug.; annual ice Cream Social, Jul. 1. 644-8808.

Umbrella Cover Museum, 62-B island ave., Peaks island. World record holder of umbrella covers, each with a story of its own, tue.-Sun. 939-0301.

Victoria Mansion, 109 Danforth St., Portland. historic house with collections from the high Victorian period. Built 1858-1860 for new orleans hotelier Ruggles morse, the mansion’s interiors boast original furniture and décor, open daily. 772-4841.

Wadsworth-longfellow House, 489 Congress St., Portland. Childhood home of poet henry Wadsworth longfellow, open daily. 774-1822.

Wendell Gilley Museum, 4 herrick Rd., Southwest harbor. true-to-life wood carvings of birds made by Wendell gilley and others, as well as educational biology programs and woodcarving workshops, tue.-Sat. 244-7555.

Wilhelm reich Museum, 19 orgonon Circle, Dodge Pond Rd., Rangeley. Research and living space of a colleague of Sigmund Freud, famous promoter of “orgones,” Wed.-Sun., Jul.aug. 864-3443.

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Bangor State Fair, Cross insurance Center, 515 main St., Bangor. mechanical rides and games, live music and eating competitions. Attractions include a demolition derby, Kenyan acrobats act, frisbee dogs, agricultural exhibitions and much more, Jul. 27-Aug. 5. 561-8300.

Bath Heritage Days Festival, Front St., Bath. Six day festival featuring carnival, food, live music, artisan’s market, antique car show, book sales, and fireworks, Jun. 29-Jul. 4.

Belfast Harbor Fest, 34 Commercial St., Belfast. National Boat Building Challenge, rotary gala and Art Auction, Come Boating!

18th Annual regatta, Boat Show, Cardboard Boat Challenge, Pancake Breakfast, Barbeque dinner, 5K Bug run/Walk, Habitat for Humanity Lobster gala, Front Street Shipyard Tours, Live Bands and more family fun, Aug. 17-19.

Cape Elizabeth Garden Tour 2018, 1000 Shore rd., Cape elizabeth. Tour coastal maine gardens in peak summer bloom. Proceeds benefit the Fort Williams Park Foundation, Jul. 14. 767-3707.

Flaherty Farm Arts & Crafts Show, Flaherty’s Family Farm, 123 Payne rd., Scarborough. A show and sale of unique hand crafted products ranging from locally made pottery, fused and stained glass, jewelry, folk and fine art, wood products, specialty foods, soaps, candles and more, Aug. 10-12. 883-5494.

Hemmings Motor News 2018: The Great Race, City Pier, Bar Harbor. A vintage car rally featuring automobiles from 1972 and older, 4-8 pm Jun. 28. 801-2566.

Maine Highland Games and Scottish Festival, Topsham Fairgrounds, Topsham. 40th Annual Highland games featuring parade of the clans, music, athletic and dancing competitions, food, sheep dog demonstrations, workshops and more, Aug. 18.

Maine Lobster Boat Races, Harpswell: July 29. See maine-lylobster.com for more locations throughout maine, through Aug. 19.

Maine Lobster Ride, Camden Snow Bowl 20 Barnestown rd., Camden. The Bicycle Coalition of maine’s Lobster ride & roll follows winding, country lanes and the coast past lighthouses and lobster boats, Jul. 22. 699-4032.

Maine Quilt Show, Augusta Civic Center, 76 Community dr., Augusta. Featuring special exhibits, workshops and demonstrations with over 500 quilts on display, Jul. 26-28. 216-7358.

Maine Yoga Fest, east end School. Premiere yoga and wellness event with a diverse program of yoga practitioners, instructors, artists, musicians and businesses, Jun. 29-Jul. 1.

Monday Night Fisherman’s Feed, 12 Commercial St., St. george. Hosted by Luke’s Lobster and Allagash Brewing, lobster served family style, limited seating, every mon. Jun. 25-Aug. 27. 691-3020.

Olde Bristol Days, Old Fort grounds at Colonial Pemaquid. 66th Olde Bristol days, featur-

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ing food and craft vendors, parade, music, fireworks and lobster boat races, Aug. 11-12.

Portland Harbor Paddleboard Tours, east end Beach. Quick stand-up paddleboarding lesson followed by a tour with licensed maine guide, paddling along Portland waterfront, lighthouses, lobsterboats and forts with chances of spotting wildlife, most Fri., Sun., and Wed., or by request. 370-9730.

Portland Kids Duathlon, 65 Cove St. Portland’s first duathlon race for children, gives kids ages 5-12 an opportunity to participate in run, bike, run format race. This exciting new event includes two waves, a bike/run short course for ages 5-8, and run/bike/run long course for ages 8-12, Jul. 15.

Portland SchoonerFest and Regatta, eastern Promenade. Traditional schooners, famous and hometown favorites alike, race and parade under sail in Portland Harbor. For the first time featuring marine maritime museum’s legendary and recently restored schooner, the Mary E 619-1842.

Save a Stray 5K and Festival, L.L. Bean, Freeport. Benefits Coastal Humane Society and Lincoln County Animal Shelter. 5K race, and festival which features food trucks, dog demos, an Ask A Vet booth, an Amateur “Worst in Show,” face painting and much more, Aug. 25. Startup Maine, Maine College of Art (MECA), 522 Congress St. Formerly known as the annual maine Startup & Create Week, Startup maine is a three day conference of learning, interviews with leaders, hands-on workshops and social events, Jun. 21-23.

Wiggly Bridge Distillery Barn, 441 uS route 1, York. A fun fitness event coached by CrossFit Harpoon to benefit make-A-Wish maine, Aug. 12. 363-9322.

Windjammer Days, Boothbay Harbor. 56th Annual Windjammer days Festival, featuring a fleet of tall ships, fireworks, local food and family activities, Jun. 24-Jun. 30. 619-1842.

Winter Harbor Lobster Festival, Winter Harbor. 54th annual Winter Harbor Lobster Festival, featuring blueberry pancake breakfast, craft fair, lobster boat races, lobster dinner and parade, Aug. 11.

Wood Carving Demo, maine Wildlife Park, 56 game Farm rd., gray. riverside Wood Carving presents a live demonstration, Jul. 21. 577-0658.

Yoga in the Outfield, Hadlock Field, 271 Park Ave. To benefit maine Children’s Cancer Program, take part in a pre-game yoga class in the outfield at Hadlock Field, followed by a game played by the Sea dogs, Jun. 24.

Yoga in the Park, discovery Park, Freeport. Bring a mat for free yoga with instruction by Freeport Yoga Company every monday, Wednesday and Friday morning. All levels welcome, Jul. 2 - Sep. 1. 877-755-2326.

–compiled by Sofia Voltin and Maureen DeGrinney. To submit your own event listing, visit: portlandmonthly.com/portmag/submit-an-event/

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Hollywood fancies Maine as the back-to-the-earth escapist’s paradise. Consider the self-discovery romantic drama Maine, which follows a pair of hikers who meet on the Appalachian Trail. “Lake,” a “younger” man, teams up with “Bluebird,” a married Spanish woman, and the two reveal their most inner-kept secrets while through-hiking to the Mt. Katahdin trailhead. Directed by Matthew Brown, Maine premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival in April. Visit www.hollywoodreporter.com/review/maine-1103066 for reviews.

move over, gwyneth, and take your kale with you. leigh kellis, owner of portland’s Holy Donuts, wrote Women Who need Donuts [$8.99, balboa press] while coming to terms with her own body image. “it became clear to me that the donut business was symbolic of a deeper need in me–a need to make peace with food, with body image, with my appetite!”

e book follows kellis’s journey into launching her own business and embracing her love of have a couple men, sister.

it sounds like campfire lore that would frighten the likes of anthony bourdain, but this is no tall tale. wes acker, the “meatless butcher” of Casco, is a man on a mission to serve you vegan “sirloin” just in time for grilling season. the owner of Freshiez—a company that will deliver organic, artisanal plant-based “meat” to your doorstep—is launching the less Butcher Box to raise money to open the first certified-organic meatless butcher shop in the country. the same types of meats you’d expect: burger patties, steaks, sausages, hot dogs, holiday roasts, and lunch meats.”

Indiana Faux

international popart star Robert Indiana, renowned for his “loVe” prints and sculptures, was found dead at 89 in his Star of hope lodge on Vinalhaven. the day before his death, a federal lawsuit was filed by morgan art foundation, ltd., against his caretaker, Jamie thomas, and michael mckenzie of american image art accusing the pair of selling and exhibiting fraudulent works as original indianas, according to the Press Herald the lawsuit also alleges that while indiana was in a vulnerable state of health, the two defendants kept him isolated during their exploitation of his work.

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Selena Gomez has tapped South Portland singer-songwriter Amy Allen for a new song on the season-two soundtrack of Netflix’s 13 Reasons Why. On Instagram, Allen says “Back to You” is about her first love. She thanks Gomez for her “beautiful, honest performance and for believing in the song.” We know, Beliebers–it’s hard to believe the song was not written about Justin.

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Maine lobster stars for these celebrity chefs.

Once a humble bottom feeder fit only for the plates of prisoners and slaves, the Maine lobster is now hailed as haute cuisine. Today lobster is swimmingly approved by acclaimed chefs nationwide who spin it–like straw into gold–to ever-increasing culinary heights. A few of them share their favorite crustacean creations with Portland Monthly.

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Emeril Lagasse won a full scholarship to study music at the New England Conservatory of Music but turned it down to pursue a life in the culinary arts. “My mother was the inspiration,” he says. “It all started in her kitchen.

Clark Frasier and Mark Gaier’s Lobster Shortcake with Rum Vanilla Sauce

Emeril Lagasse

Melissa Kelly

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Emeril…

“I had a home in Old Orchard Beach… I would always stop at this place—I think it was called the Lobster Pot—for lobster rolls.” —Emeril

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Twenty-one-year-old executive chef Emeril Lagasse, center, with his staff at Sherarton Inn’s Seasons restaurant in South Portland, 1980.

Lobster & Parpardelle with Saffron Cream Sauce

Recipe courtesy Chef Emeril Lagasse, copyright MSLO, all rights reserved

Yield: 1 pound cooked lobster meat, about 2 cups chopped.

Prep Time: 1 hour

Total Time: 1 hour 35 minutes

1 pound fresh pappardelle pasta

2 tablespoons unsalted butter

2 tablespoons olive oil

2 tablespoons minced shallots

2 teaspoons minced garlic

1/4 cup dry white wine

1/2 teaspoon saffron threads

1 tablespoon tomato paste

1/2 cup Lobster Stock

1 cup heavy cream

2 1/2 cups teardrop tomatoes, cut in half

1 teaspoon kosher salt

1/2 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper

2 tablespoons unsalted butter

1 tablespoon chopped fresh chives

1 pound Steamed Lobster meat, chopped (recipe follows)

1/2 cup grated Parmigiano-Reggiano cheese

Bring a large pot of salted water to a boil. add the pasta and cook until al dente, 3 to 4 minutes. remove 1/2 cup pasta water from the pot and set aside; drain the pasta in a colander. transfer the pasta to a bowl and toss with one tablespoon of olive oil, cover and set aside.

Meanwhile, heat the remaining 1 tablespoon of olive oil and 2 tablespoons of butter in a large skillet over medium heat. when hot, add the shallots and cook, stirring until soft and fragrant, about one minute. add the garlic and continue to cook and stir for another minute. add the white wine, saffron and tomato paste and cook for 5 minutes longer. add the lobster stock and the reserved pasta water and bring to a boil. Cook until the stock is reduced by half, 5 to 7 minutes. add the heavy cream and cook until reduced by half, about 5 minutes longer. add the tomatoes, salt and pepper and reduce the heat to low. Cook just until the tomatoes release their liquid, about 3 minutes. Stir in the butter and chives and whisk to blend. add the chopped lobster and cook until just heated through. toss the pasta with the sauce and cook for 1 minute longer, until the pasta is heated through.

Divide the pasta between 4 bowls, garnish with the parmesan cheese and serve immediately.

in a 6 quart cast iron dutch oven, or other heavy-bottomed pot with a tight-fitting lid, combine the tomatoes, wine, water, sliced onions, peppercorns, tarragon, and bay leaf. bring to a boil over high heat, reduce the heat to a simmer, and cook for 15 minutes. raise the heat back to high. add the lobsters to the pot one at a time. Cover the pot immediately with a tight-fitting lid. Steam the lobster until they are bright red and you can pull the long feelers on the head out with no resistance, about 9 to 11 minutes. using tongs, immediately plunge the lobsters into the bowl of ice water and let cool for 5 minutes. repeat with the remaining lobsters.

remove the lobsters from the ice water and set on a rimmed baking sheet. using kitchen shears, remove the lobster meat from the tail and claws. use a knife to chop the meat into bite size pieces. you should have about 2 cups of lobster meat, set aside until ready to use. best if used within 2 days.

rinse the lobster shells and reserve to make stock.

I grew up cooking with her. I tried the music thing for a while, but in the end I wanted to cook.” That’s not to say he doesn’t feel the beat every now and then. “If there’s a set of drums at an event, it is likely that you will catch me playing before the night is over.”

From 1980 to 1982, Lagasse worked as the executive chef at the Sheraton in South Portland, where Doubletree is today. “Portland is a wonderful city with the ocean right there and great seafood,” he says. “I made a friend, Rod Mitchell [of Browne Trading Company], over 30 years ago, and I still buy Day Boat Scallops and Peekytoe crab from him.”

Asked if he ever thought about opening a restaurant in Maine, Emeril admits it’s crossed his mind. “I really loved being there,” he says. “There weren’t many restaurants back then, but there were fish shacks and lobster shacks. I had a home in Old Orchard Beach, and on the way to South Portland I would always stop at this place–I think it was called the Lobster Pot–for lobster rolls.” But Commander’s Palace in New Orleans drew him away in 1982, and the rest, as they say, is history.

Of the recipe he’s sharing with us–one of his go-tos–Emeril says it combines two of his favorite things: lobster and pasta. “It’s simple enough to let the taste of the sweet lobster shine through and yet sophisticated enough to serve as part of an elegant meal. When I opened Emeril’s in New Orleans (left), lobster wasn’t often seen on local menus. This was a way for me to introduce it to locals who already had a love for pasta with creamy seafood sauces. The touch of saffron adds complexity to the simple combination of flavors.”

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Nominated five times for the James Beard Foundation’s Best Chef(s) of the Northeast award, the team of Clark Frasier and Mark Gaier got their start working for celebrity chef Jeremiah Tower. It was the mid ’80s and the two were working at Stars, Tower’s legendary restaurant in San Francisco. “J.T. was old-school–very difficult and rigorous,” says Frasier. “If he didn’t like what was prepared, he would throw it on the ground. He demanded–and got–the best.”

As if working under Tower wasn’t challenging enough, after two inspiring years at Stars, Frasier and Gaier decided they wanted to open a place of their own. “We were so young. No one would take a chance on us in California. It was so much money.” Turns out, California’s loss was Maine’s gain. In 1988, the two chefs opened the iconic Arrows Restaurant in Ogunquit, which went on to be selected as “One of America’s Most Romantic Restaurants” by Bon Appétit and “One of America’s Top 50 Restaurants” by Gourmet. Arrows closed in 2013 after 25 years, but the two James Beard award-winning chefs’ (the duo won “Best Chefs in the Northeast” in 2010) restaurant M.C. Perkins Cove is still cooking in Ogunquit.

In April, Frasier and Gaier cooked alongside their first boss again when Jeremiah Tower joined the pair at the re-

Lobster Shortcake with Rum Vanilla Sauce

Yield: 6 Servings

Shortcake:

1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour

1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder

1/2 teaspoon baking soda

1 teaspoon salt

12 tablespoons (1 1/2 sticks)

very cold butter, cubed

3/4 to 1 cup buttermilk

1/4 cup heavy cream

Lime Vanilla Rum Sauce:

1/2 cup lime juice

1/2 cup rice wine vinegar

1/4 cup dark rum

1 serrano chile, seeded and finely chopped

1/2 vanilla bean, split lengthwise

1/4 cup finely chopped shallots

1 tablespoon finely sliced fresh ginger

nowned Pebble Beach Food & Wine weekend in California. The “premier epicurean lifestyle event on the West Coast” made for a perfect reunion. “It was so moving,” says Frasier. “It was like having the approval of your father or mother. When we worked at Stars we were kids. The world came to J.T. Every food writer and all the famous folks. Cooking with him as peers was very gratifying–everything came full circle. There was this feeling of real substance, which is an elusive fish these days.” But the real star of the event was none other than the Maine lob-

the 2017 documentary Jeremiah Tower: The Last Magnificent tells the story of “one of the most controversial and influential figures in the history of american gastronomy” and features interviews with mario Batali, anthony Bourdain, ruth reichl, and martha stewart. available on netflix, amazon, and itunes.

1/2 pound (2 sticks) unsalted butter, softened

Kosher salt and freshly ground black pepper

Curried Shallots:

8 shallots, peeled and thinly sliced

1 teaspoon finely chopped fresh ginger

1 serrano chile, seeded and finely chopped

1 teaspoon turmeric

1 tablespoon Madras curry powder

1 teaspoon kosher salt

1 cup rice wine vinegar

Lobster:

3 (1 ¼-pound) lobsters, boiled and meat removed 1/2 pound (1 stick) butter

for the shortcake: preheat the oven to 325°f. combine the dry ingredients in a bowl. cut the butter into the dry ingredients. add the buttermilk, a bit at a time, until a soft dough holds together. roll the dough to a 1/2-inch thickness and cut with a 3-inch round cutter. make 12 cakes. Brush with cream and bake until lightly brown, about 15 minutes. cool on a rack.

for the lime vanilla sauce: combine the lime juice, vinegar, rum, chile, vanilla bean, shallots, and ginger in a saucepan. cook on medium heat until reduced by two-thirds. reduce the heat to low and whisk in the softened butter. season with salt and pepper to taste. strain through a fine sieve and discard solid ingredients. the sauce can be held in a warm place for up to 1 hour.

for the curried shallots: place all the ingredients in a stainless steel pot and bring to a boil. turn on the heat and cool. these can be made a day ahead and kept in the refrigerator.

for the lobster: split each lobster tail in half. melt the butter over medium heat.

add the lobster and heat gently until the lobster is warmed through, 3 to 4 minutes.

to assemble the dish: spoon half of the sauce evenly onto six warm plates. split each shortcake and place the bottom half on each plate. top each shortcake with one-half of a tail, a claw, and knuckle meat. topped with the remaining sauce and then with the top of the shortcake. Divide the curried shallots among the plates.

Mark Gaier and clark frasier have popularized a sweet twist on the expected with their lobster shortcake.

Gaier and Frasier flank Jeremiah Tower, third from left.

ster in Frasier and Gaier’s Lobster Shortcake with Rum Vanilla Sauce. See the photo that opens this story.

Queen of the coast

Primo chef/owner Melissa Kelly, the first two-time winner (1999, 2013) of the James Beard Foundation’s Best Chef: Northeast Award, came to the culinary table from an auspicious family background in Long Island, New York. “My mom was a stay-at-home mom who cooked a lot from food raised in her garden, because that was affordable,” she says. Another early role model was her Italian grandmother. “I loved to cook in her kitchen, and still prefer Mediterranean influences.” Her grandfather, Primo, was a butcher.

Granted a scholarship for studies at the Culinary Institute of America, Kelly graduated first in her class, and from there the

Maine Lobster & Celeriac

Yield: 6 servings

2 whole Maine lobsters

1 tablespoon olive oil

1 tablespoon anatto seeds

1 medium onion, chopped

1 carrot, chopped

1 stalk of celery, chopped

2 cloves garlic, crushed

6 tablespoons tomato puree

1 cup brandy

½ cup sweet vermouth

1 bay leaf

1 sprig of thyme

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channels reality from Mcloon’s lobster shack, a lobster pound run by a young couple. “[the owner’s] dad is a lobsterman. it ’s in spruce head, ten minutes from the restaurant, and it’s BYoB ” Kelly’s primo innovation is “lobster celeriac.”

experiences and accolades kept coming. “Working with Larry Forgione at American Place and Alice Waters at Chez Panisse really got me started on the path that was actually instilled by my grandmother: the best food is simple, seasonal, fresh, and uses only quality ingredients.”

What started in Rockland 19 years ago as “a small greenhouse, a few hens, and a couple of pigs” has become a four-acre organic farm providing 80 percent of what is

¼ teaspoon cayenne pepper

6 cups lobster stock (can sub fish stock)

2 cups heavy cream

1 large knob celeriac, peeled and halved

(1 half diced in large chunks,

1 half sliced paper thin then julienne)

Salt and pepper to taste

Vegetable or canola oil

2 tablespoons parsley and tarragon, chopped

In a large sauce pot boil water and cook lobsters for 7 minutes. remove and plunge into an ice bath. pull lobster meat from shell reserving both the shells and the meat. large dice meat and refrigerate until later.

heat a large sauce pot over high heat.

add lobster shells and annato seeds and sear. add onions, celery and carrot and cook until onion is translucent.

add garlic and cook 3 minutes.

add tomato puree cook 4-5 minutes but do not brown, deglaze with brandy and vermouth. be careful as this may ignite.

reduce the alcohol until almost dry, add spices and herbs, add stock. add diced celeriac. bring up to a boil, reduce by half. make sure the celeriac is tender at this point. add heavy cream and bring it back up to a boil.

turn down to a simmer and cook 15-20 minutes longer.

remove from heat and strain through a mesh strainer, pushing out all of the juices. taste, adjust seasonings and check texture. if you’d like the sauce a little thicker you can put it back on the fire and thicken with a cornstarch slurry. (2 tablespoons cornstarch, 3 tablespoons cold water, mixed together and whisked in)

heat vegetable oil to 375°.

fry the julienne celeriac a handful at a time (it should be golden brown and crisp). Drain fried julienne on paper towels and sprinkle with salt. When ready to serve heat sauce, add meat. Garnish center of the plate with fried celeriac and chopped herb mixture.

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served at Primo. The rest is sourced from local farmers sharing those same values.

Kelly also cooks and gardens at two other Primo locations. One is in Tucson, Arizona, and the other in Orlando, Florida, where she revels in the opportunity to grow and use different ingredients “like citrus, papayas, figs, and artichokes.”

For her own lobster-eating experience, Kelly loves going to McLoon’s Lobster Shack, a lobster pound run by a young couple. “[The owner’s] dad is a lobsterman. It’s in Spruce Head, ten minutes from the restaurant, and it’s BYOB.” Emeril would certainly join Kelly on this outing.

In From the WIndy cIt y

Each summer, Chef Ryan McCaskey, the owner of Acadia, a Michelin Guide two-starred restaurant in the Windy City, returns to Deer Isle, his childhood playground where the cooking bug first bit. “When I was about eight years old, my family started summering in Maine at Goose Cove Lodge,” he says. “I would poke my

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runs acadia, a Chicago bistro that takes inspiration from Deer isle. his stonington lobster dish jazzes the classic with “tom kha, daikon, kohlrabi, and kaffir lime.”

Yield: 3 quarts

1800 grams lobster bodies, thorax only, gills removed

975 grams whole peeled tomato

788 grams carrots

375 grams onion

275 grams celery

Lobster Bisque

100 grams garlic

175 grams leeks

110 grams tomato paste

250 grams cognac

28 grams chervil

3 grams bay leaves

Roast lobster, bay leaves, and garlic in a hot pan for 15 minutes. Add vegetables and continue to roast another 15 minutes. deglaze with cognac and cook 5 minutes. Add tomato paste and chervil. Transfer to stock pot and add water just to cover. Cook for 2 to 2.5 hours. Chop or pulverize the solids and shells. Bring just to a boil. Strain. reduce stock by half and add the same weight of the stock in heavy cream. reduce by half again. Finish with whole butter and salt.

if the Michelin Guide gave stars in maine, we might have had mcCaskey here. He came close to buying Hugo’s from his longtime friend and James Beard Awardwinner rob evans. But he knew if he took his talent to Chicago, he’d be in line for those coveted stars. right he was.

head in the kitchen and study the chefs. Then one day, there I was, shelling peas.”

Following culinary studies in Chicago, McCaskey took a job cooking at Goose Cove, where he was spoiled with the freshest local ingredients. “We picked our own lettuce and herbs from our garden, got our chickens down the road, and went to the dock for fresh seafood.” Carrying this over to his own restaurant, McCaskey is insistent on getting his ingredients from Maine. “I get my lettuce from Maine’s Yellow Birch Farm in Deer Isle, and onions and potatoes from Four Seasons Farm in Harborside.” Unsurprisingly, McCaskey says he “can’t find blueberries anywhere better than Maine’s.”

But what lobster is he serving those Bear

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Memory’s Shore

Everybody’s in search of the perfect destination lobster bake to return to every year–in this case on a private island off the west side of Deer Isle. The schooner Mary Day darts around Maine’s archipelago for 3-day, 4-day, and 6-day cruises, the experience made magnetic by a lobster bake on the beach.

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Repeatable Moment

Summer isn’t summer until you visit these spellbinding places.

By Colin W. s a rgent

The hunger pang that seizes you as you rake the steaming seaweed off that firstof-the-season family lobsterbake on the beach. The euphoria that comes over you when you shake summer linens out of a cedar closet while you make up the beds of a camp at the lake. What makes us shiver when we hear the call of a loon? For some of us, it’s a near-religious high when we try our first s’more at a campfire in Maine. Recently, a friend jumped for joy when he heard, “Pride’s Corner Drive-In is back this year–all summer long.” “I’m there!” he said.

Just try and beat Maine for rustic ritual. A similar mystical feeling sweeps over us when we visit Marginal Way in Ogunquit. When we venture onto the cliff walk year after year, stepping into the clouds, we know we’re never here alone. We’re walking with the ghosts of Bette Davis and Gary Merrill, Tallulah Bankhead, and other actors from Ogunquit Playhouse over the years. As Carson Kressley has told us here at Portland Monthly, “There’s nothing marginal about Marginal Way.” It’s unstuck in time.

At the Colony Resort, some guests who return to the Kennebunks every summer insist

on sitting in “The Bird Cage,” the diningroom gazebo that hangs over the putting green and looks across the Atlantic with direct views of forever. “It’s only open for the Mariner’s Buffets we hold on Fridays in July and August,” a reception staffer says on the phone at press time. “The Fridays near July 4 are already booked, so you should make a reservation soon if you’re hoping for August.” Or July 4, 2019.

Nostalgia has a wait-list.

If you haven’t ridden the Casco Bay Lines mail boat that ferries you out to greet the islands as they rise out of the sea, it’s a ritual you need to start now. Many Mainers make a thrifty habit of grabbing this extraordinary experience every year, because on a ride like this, everybody’s a millionaire. The mail run features Little Diamond Island, Great Diamond Island, Long Island, Cliff Island, and Chebeague. Tickets run $16.50

through Labor Day; bring your child ($8.50) or dog ($4.10). Departing at 10 a.m. and 2:15 p.m. from Maine State Pier (Conde Nast Traveler recommends 10 a.m. boat as most astonishing).

Eagle Island is a mesmerizing destination all its own that features the 1904 summer home of polar explorer Admiral Robert E. Peary. His Arctic gear is still there, as if he just stepped out for a moment. His books are still in the library. Connections magically forge themselves here. The architect John Calvin Stevens and Robert Peary were in the same class (1873) at Portland High School. Can’t you just see them sitting in the back, horsing around?

The poet Barbara Lefcowcoined the term “Myth of the Repeatable Moment” during her string of summer visits to the place she loved.” As you build your memory palace, think of her. n

Portland explorer Robert E. Peary’s home on Eagle Island is a museum that includes personal effects and books–as if Peary just left a moment before.

Fireworks light up the beloved “Bird Cage,” the gazebo-like space in The Colony Resort that is often requested by romantic diners.

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Point of Departure

Built in 1887 by the Oasis Club, a group promoting “literary and social culture,” The Mount Desert Reading Room was a haven for Maine elites: the Vanderbilts, Morgans, and Pulitzers. During Prohibition, the club, which was men-only until 1921, could enjoy highbrow conversation… on ice. Today, visitors can drink their Scotch openly at the Bar Harbor Inn’s Oasis Lounge before catching a sunset sail on the Margaret Todd.

Where the Wild Things Are

The Maine Wildlife Park in Gray is home to over 30 species of native woodland creatures, some on the mend. The best part? You don’t have to paddle the Allagash to see them. In the circular trout pools here, the fish stream out like a kaleidoscopic view if you shout at them. So don’t shout. Through November 11, 56 Game Farm Road, 657-4977.

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There’s something about the Maine experience that’s not just a one-off. Pictured: the ritual of travelers assembling at the top of Cadillac Mountain near Bar Harbor. Hike or cruise in your car to the highest point along the North Atlantic Seaboard and be wowed by views of Acadia National Park at sunrise.

Pride’s Corner

Originally opened in 1952 by WWII veteran John Tevanian, this landmark drivein is a Route 302 pride and joy. “It was exciting being around the drive-ins as a kid,” manager Jeff Tevanian says. “Growing up, there wasn’t a lot of access to media, so when you saw the film cans arrive with all of the movies that no one has seen before, it was thrilling. I was really little when the original Star Wars came out and I remember thinking ‘Wow! Star Wars is in those cans.’” Only a mile and a half from the Portland-Westbrook line, the Pride’s Corner screens movies weekly through September. 797-3154.

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Campobello

You’ll need your passport for this trip. Across the bridge from Lubec is Campobello Island, the beloved Canadian summer vacation spot of Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt. Tour their 34-room cottage (18 bedrooms, 6 bathrooms) and explore the 2,800-acre park to enjoy the island’s natural beauty that drew them back year after year.

“Last year we saw a record of 180,000 visitors. Twenty-five percent were returners,” Kate Johnston, manager of visitor services, says. “People are drawn back because we are consciously adding new experiences.” This year, they’re loving “a new guided hike to Friar’s Head, which was FDR’s favorite.”

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Ogunquit & Maine’s Oldest Association of Artists

For many world artists, Ogunquit is the center of the summer universe. For over 100 years, the colony has been a magnet and a stage for colorful figures. Walt Kuhn, Yasuo Kunioshi, Gertrude Fiske, Edward Hopper, Robert & John Laurent, Charles Woodbury, Hamilton Easter Field, and Isabel Lewando created an atmosphere that draws an endless throng of returning sojourners. Woodbury, at his renowned school on the rocks, offered to teach his students not to draw, but to see. “Paint in verbs, not in nouns.” The Ogunquit Museum of American Art, directly on the surf, was founded by Hemingway buddy Henry Strater. The famous handoperated Perkins Cove bridge joins the restaurants, museums, and galleries and is the ultimate crafted destination to define your Maine summer.

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Marginal Way

Decidedly not a part of Marginal Way; Ogunquit Playhouse has sent many of its stars on spiritual journeys at the ocean’s edge when they aren’t up on stage.

Marginal Way may already have dazzled you with its 170-foot granite cliffs and benches offering romantic overlooks of the Atlantic. Surely it brings you closer to your thoughts But did you know that a close encounter of the Downeast kind took place here in 1989? According to Abduction: Human Encounters with Aliens, it happened to the male member of a couple walking the “cliffside” path and opened the door to the man’s memories of contretemps with aliens in 1961.

The cliff walk is also a magnet for stars from Ogunquit Playhouse. Think of it as a right of passage. So think of your repeatable moments on Marginal Way as a geographic conversation with traveling companions including Eva Marie Saint, Ethel Barrymore, Myrna Loy, Van Johnson, Anthony Quinn, Ceasar Romero, Richard Widmark, and on and on.

None of which tells you how the Way sprang to being. In 1928, Josiah Chase

gave this meandering stretch of land that floats up from the parking lot across the street from Barnacle Billy’s and finishes with stunning views of Ogunquit Beach to the town. In time, other shorefront owners followed suit. Plantings include

European trees as well as “bayberry, honeysuckle and bittersweet, gnarled shrubs of fragrant pink and white sea roses that frame expansive views of the Atlantic Ocean” according to the Marginal Way Preservation Fund.

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Dessert Oasis

It’s a delicious tradition that’s lasted over 40 years. “We’re emphatic about only doing it during strawberry season,” says Michael Guptill, owner of Hackmatack Playhouse in Berwick. “And we use real strawberries, real cream, and real biscuits. None of that spongey stuff.”

Since the opening of the theater in 1972, the Guptill family has been serving either strawberry shortcake or blueberry pie as an intermission delight. What Guptill’s parents started as a “way to sell strawberries” has become one of the sweetest memories in Maine.

Picture a childhood flavored with strawberry shortcake, blueberry pie, and Rodgers and Hammerstein served up on a sprawling 200-acre farm, where each summer set designers, actors, and directors roam the grounds along with the year-round tenants

of Hackmatack Farm, a herd of American bison. That’s some serious summer stock. “I’m in the shop as we’re talking right now,” Guptill says, “and right outside we’re building a set. I’m surrounded by beauty and artists. There’s nothing like it.”

Guptill plans to serve strawberry shortcake for the first two weeks of Lend Me a Tenor (through June 30), and then it’ll be blueberry pie season when All Shook Up opens July 4. Look for The Bridges of Madison County through August 11 followed by Dial M for Murder through September 1.

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The Wells Reserve at Laudholm Farm (built in 1860) has a spell-binding effect on visitors. That’s because it looks the same way it did in 1929, 1949, 1979, and today.

Nick Charov, director of the Laudholm Trust, explains the magnetism that makes visitors return every year.

“You don’t expect this gentleman’s farm to be up here, overlooking the ocean. It’s should

have been developed decades ago, according to what seems to have happened to the rest of Southern Maine. It’s an oasis in time, almost trapped in amber. The funny thing is, people who see it want it to be theirs and theirs alone.” Which can’t happen. “This farm is just a beautiful face hiding a 21st century laboratory inside that addresses coastal science and climate change.”

Mustang Fastbacks

Set on 63 acres in Biddeford, Ever After Mustang Rescue may look like the set of a classic Western, but it’s the real deal. Visit Mona Jerome and her band of misfit mustangs at the refuge, which takes in previously abused and neglected wild horses. Under Mona’s guidance, the team works to rehabilitate and eventually find homes for the maltreated mustangs. Portland Monthly’s close friend, Remington, an Ever After ambassador, resides at the refuge and is always happy to welcome visitors. mustangrescue.org.

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Flying Leaps

Everybody loves a townie spot. You know the scene: a group of kids, high on summer loving, running full speed ahead and over the edge into the cool blue of the local swimming hole. It’s straight out of every small-town summer in Stephen King’s Maine.

Head to Coos Canyon ‘up by Tumbledown past Rumford’ in Byron this summer and make it your own memory. “I’m hesitant to give out the location of the best swimming hole in the eastern United States,” says photographer Rob Martin, who spent his childhood summers jumping off these cliffs. “It’s a rite of passage for the locals.” Central to the experience is, “the waiting. Nervous teens stand at the edge trying to muster the courage to take a literal leap of faith: is the water deep enough [19 feet]? Now my kids jump them.” Martin says the cliffs are legendary; and lo-

cal lore lingers. “There’s this one pine tree that people climb for a 55-foot drop.” Then there’s the tale of “the man who died hitting the ‘shelf,’ a ledge at the cliff’s bottom.” Specialty jumps include “the 18-footer and the legendary 32-footer across the way–if you dare.” Well, do you?

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Picnic Rock in Kennebunkport is a well-known jump. The boulder rests on the banks of the Kennebec River, coaxing sun-warmed boaters with the promise of a cooling splash. Frenchman’s Hole in North Bethel makes for a refreshing dip after a day of hiking around Sunday River. According to the website Wild Swimming New England, the drop from the falls into the natural pool is about 30 feet.

Maine’s Epic Jumps

Picnic rock in Kennebunkport is a well-known jump. the boulder rests on the banks of the Kennebec river, coaxing sun-warmed boaters with the promise of a cooling splash.

Frye’s leap on frye island is one of the most legendary cliffs of maine. as legend has it, captain joseph frye made the 50-foot jump to evade capture by native americans. Be forewarned: the cliff is located on private property and wardens are routinely called for trespassers.

Frenchman’s hole in north Bethel makes for a refreshing dip after a day of hiking around Sunday river. according to the website wild Swimming new england, the drop from the falls into the natural pool is about 30 feet.

Frye’s Leap on Frye Island is one of the most legendary cliffs of Maine. As legend has it, Captain Joseph Frye made the 50-foot jump to evade capture by Native Americans. Be forewarned: the cliff is located on private property and wardens are routinely called for trespassers.

One Cruise Leads to Another

During a five-day sail on the Stephen Taber and the Ladona, Bob Murray, family, and friends catch an after-dinner sunset. “One of the highlights, among many, was rafting up each night to enjoy the camaraderie and amazing food that the crew provided,” says Murray. “We’re now planning another combined boat jam for 2019.”

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Rustic Dining

Fresh clams, mussels, layers of salty seaweed, a big stock pot, and, of course, your lobsters–all the tools needed for your authentic lobster bake. Cook it all over an open fire and you’re one step closer to Mainer status. Lobster bakes are essential to any Maine summer, but if you’re hesitant to take on the task alone, there’s no shame in calling in the professionals. Trust us, no one here wants a trip to the emergency room. Courtney Macisaac of The Maine Lobster Bake Co. has all the experience you need. “I grew up on Peaks [Island] and we’d cook lobsters on the beach, over a fire right in the saltwater. Being on the island, everyone has cookouts on the backside. You’d have to get there really early in the day to get a spot. The kids would be sent out early to get a spot and gather water and seaweed.”

Photographer Jim Dugan captured these hardshells just before the feast on a private island off the west side of Deer Isle. The schooner Mary Day is anchored just off shore.

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Thrill of the Saco River

Some repeatable moments connect us with inexpressible beauties. Others just drag us straight down to hell. Consider the Saco River, just named one of one of the world’s “14 Most Haunted Bodies of Water” by Readers Digest

The Curse of the Saco River grew into legend after 1761. Squanto’s wife Sokokis was traveling in a canoe when a party of drunken English colonists made a wager. They wanted to see if her infant child could swim–if they flipped her canoe. Of course the sweet child

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The observation tower of the Penobscot Narrows Bridge takes summer adventure to a new height–437 feet, to be exact. The cinematic cable-stayed bridge stretches to connect Verona Island to Prospect on the western bank of the Penobscot River. An elevator ride shoots visitors to the top of the tower, where you’ll get a 360-degree view overlooking Penobscot Bay and rolling hills to the west. Tickets for the observatory are $6 for adults and $4 for children, including admission to neighboring Fort Knox for those who prefer their adventures at lower altitude. 469-6553.

drowned. Returning to the unlucky site, Squanto and Sokokis cursed both the settlers and the body of water forever with “incantations…below the falls. [Squanto] chanted his mystic words and poured his oblation of ‘bad medicine’ into the stream, which summoned his Satanic Majesty, Hobowacko, who cursed the spot roundly, so that as long as the white man lives, the Saco waters must each year drown three of his hated race,” according to Celia Sturtevant of the Maine Writers Research Club.

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Saltwater Taffy has been a New England tradition for over a century, and Goldenrod has been making sweet and sticky kisses since 1896. A visit is sure to make you nostalgic for the summers of your youth! What stretches time here is the experience of looking through the windows during different stages of your life and watching the hypnotic process of the taffy being made.

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Island Gardens

The Isles of Shoals, clustered between Maine and New Hampshire, may seem an unlikely repeatable moment for an artistic, literary, musical, and intellectual salon, but Celia Thaxter’s tales of the islands where she grew up (her father was the White Island lighthouse keeper) lured 19th-century luminaries like Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Sarah Orne Jewett, and Childe Hassam to the Appledore House Hotel her family ran on Appledore Island. The garden Celia tended still blooms there today. It’s kept alive by people who loved her work. The Shoals Marine Laboratory offers garden tours June 26–August 20. (603)862-5346.

Getting There: To really see Celia’s Garden, The Isles of Shoals Marine Laboratory offers an “Allinclusive trip aboard R/V Gulf Challenger, guided garden tours, and a gourmet catered lunch (includes beverages and dessert, served buffet-style with vegetarian options available) $100.”

star island

The Oceanic Hotel on Star Island was one of the first resort hotels built on the New England coast over a century ago. Take a ferry from Portsmouth or Rye, New Hampshire, and relax in a rocking chair on the verandah of this historic hotel contemporaneous with neighboring Appledore House Hotel–which burned down in 1914–for a taste of how 19thcentury New England literati vacationed.

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Venice, Italy may be “the world’s unconscious,” but Maine is “the world’s summer camp.” It’s one reason why so many of us return here.

• Hurricane Island, Maine, is where John F. Kennedy, Jr., traveled to discover himself during his Outward Bound experience in 1977.

• Mom Tri Devakul, prince of Thailand, went to Camp Chewonki in Wiscasset in 1954. Then he became a world-famous architect.

• Many of us store our lost childhoods in camp trunks marked “Maine,” even in the movies. That’s why Maine appears as campground heaven in everything from The Seven-Year Itch to Sex and the City (Charlotte went to summer camp in Maine… pause to roll your eyes) to The Parent Trap (1998), starring Lindsay Lohan. The twins are sent to Camp Walden in Denmark. “They based the camp on Walden because the daughter of the producer and director team [Nancy Meyers & Charles Shyer] went here, and they loved it so much,” camp director Kathy Jones says.

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Into the Woods

Deep in the woods of Piscataquis County rest the “ghost trains.” Striking against the tall Maine pines, the two abandoned steam locomotive engines were once part of the Eagle Lake and West Branch Railroad in the late 1920s. Matt LaRoche, superintendent of the Allagash Wilderness Waterway, suggests using the old reliable Maine Atlas and Gazetteer to follow the one-mile hike from the end of Tram Road, since Siri doesn’t know her way around these parts.

Chasing Waterfalls

Planning your next hike has never been so easy. Using Maine Trail Finder, you can map out your summer treks around Maine’s stunning views, historical sites, and adventures hiding in plain sight. Chase the cascades this summer starting with the Moxie Falls Trail, a two-mile roundtrip hike that takes you to one of the state’s highest waterfalls, located 50 miles north of Skowhegan. mainetrailfinder.com.

Dead Heads

With only three dam releases left this year, white-water rafting down the Dead River is a Maine moment you don’t want to miss. Road trip to The Forks with your most adventurous friends for the September 2 release. “We see returning rafters every year. The Dead River is a rite of passage for some,” says Northern Outdoors president Russell Waters. Brendan Gigliotti of Connecticut is one of those Dead Heads. “I’ve been to Northern Outdoors nine years in a row to raft the Dead on Labor Day weekend. This will mark my 10th year.” Now that’s a committed fan! northernoutdoors.com.

Red’s Ice Cream

This hangout in South Portland has been in operation since the 1950s, and fans of all ages still happily wait in line on hot summer days for some chilled soft serve ice cream or tasty frozen yogurt!

Our Rivers

The arteries of Maine’s wild, beating heart are as familiar to many of us as the hallways of our homes. Like the memory shared by Jack Ryan (played by Alec Baldwin) in The Hunt for Red October as the Soviet submarine pushes down the Penobscot, a lot of Mainers too were taught to fish and swim off these riverbanks. This summer, between baseball games and barbecues, take a zenful day to canoe the Allagash, fly-fish the Penobscot, or swim in the Saco.

Bird’s-Eye View

Sometimes locals are the biggest slackers when it comes to sightseeing in their own city. Can you say you’ve seen it all from one end to the other? Starting on Munjoy Hill, climb to the top of the historic Portland Observatory. There you’ll get a fresh look at the city you know like the back of your hand and be able to point out a few Portland must-sees to your friends.

Maine’s Front Door

Warren’s Lobster House in Kittery has been serving up great seafood for the past 78 years and makes for the perfect pit stop on Route 1. Take a lunch a break on the deck overlooking the Piscataqua River or nestle in the “Lobster Trap Lounge” before making your way through Vacationland.

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DiMillo’s

What was originally a car ferry travelling between Delaware and New Jersey in 1941, DiMillo’s Floating Restaurant is a local favorite. The ocean view accompanied by a lobster dinner is a moment held dear in many Maine hearts and those of a few celebrities’s, too. “We have Olympia Snowe in the dining room right now eating lunch, but Taylor Swift has thrown a private party here. James Taylor stopped by, and Walter Cronkite was here once, too.” For dining room manager Melissa Andersen, a celebrity sighting is just another day in the life on the Portland harbor.

Castle Tucker

This house museum, situated on a hill overlooking the Sheepscot River, dates back to the days when it was said you could cross from Wiscasset to Edgecomb just by hopping across the decks of all the ships anchored in the harbor. With three generations of family possessions on view, the house is a time capsule of the everyday life of the Tucker family of ship owners and sea captains.

Master’s Studio

American landscape artist Winslow Homer painted many of his masterpieces from the balcony of his Prouts Neck home on the rocky Maine coast. Visit his historic studio overlooking the Atlantic Ocean and maybe you’ll catch a breeze of inspiration yourself.

Stephen King’s House

It’s a Maine Instagram hit looming in the background of fans’ spooky selfies. You can’t miss the big red mansion on West Broadway in Bangor.

Maine’s MidCoast & Islands

The MidCoast is alive with amazing local food, outdoor adventures, renowned museums, and cozy places to stay.

A short drive from Portland is all it takes to discover the many hidden gems of the coast that will make your Maine summer unforgettable.

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Garden Oasis

The Longfellow House in Portland was the childhood home of poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. Visit the Maine Historical Society next door to view the Maine Eats exhibit or take an afternoon reading break in the Longfellow Garden, a hidden oasis behind the museum.

Otter Cliff

Catch a spectacular sunrise over the Atlantic from 110-foot Otter Cliff on the eastern shore of Mt. Desert Island in Acadia National Park

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Mount Kineo

Rising over 700 feet above Moosehead Lake, Mount Kineo offers breathtaking views of the lake and surrounding mountains. The trailheads are only accessible by boat from Rockwood, where there’s a public boat launch and a commercial shuttle boat to ferry hikers across.

Mabel’s Lobster Claw

Rainy day in the Kennebunks? Stop time by sitting on the porch or slipping into a booth for fried clams or even their signature Baked Lobster Savannah

Yearly Retreat

Each summer African-American author and civil-rights activist W.E.B. DuBois spent two weeks at the Cambridge Gun and Rod Club, where he could finally evade FBI surveillance. Get off the grid yourself for a weekend getaway on Lake Cobbosseecontee.

Indoor Voice

The indoor trout pond on the first level of the L.L. Bean flagship store in Freeport opens the imaginations of aspiring young campers. Kids surround the water, mesmerized by the creatures swirling below. But this is no wishing well. You’re likely to get a scolding from a customer there for new waders if you dare toss a penny in that pool.

Agamenticus

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Summer Out Loud

turn up the volume–a big season of extraordinary musical experiences is on the horizon.

Like anyone who’s lost her heart to Vacationland, you wait for summer here with such impatience and ill-contained excitement that once it finally arrives in all its sparkling, technicolor glory, the days begin to flash by like playing cards in a dealer’s hand. Before you blink, find a moment to pause and let your favorite season soak in. Our tip? There’s nothing like the throb of bass and collective swaying of a crowd drunk on live music (and, let’s be real, beer) to anchor you in the moment.

By Sarah Moore

Under the StarS

Can you remember life before Thompson’s Point? This year marks only the third season of live shows, but it’s hard to imagine a time before we crowded onto this finger of grass that juts into the Fore River to listen to some of the world’s biggest acts under a setting sun. And the stars really do come out at Thompson’s Point: Bob Dylan, Leon Bridges, and Alabama Shakes have all taken the stage in recent years. Savvy concertgoers bring their own picnic blankets and camp chairs and stake claims well in

advance, sustained by a rainbow cavalcade of local food trucks representing every corner of the culinary map. You’ll find shade and, crucially, cold beer under the canopy of “The Depot,” a vast steel gazebo left over from the Point’s previous life as a railyard and munitions factory.

This year’s line-up promises to be as diverse as ever, with Lake Street Dive (July 7) and Brandi Carlile and Jason Isbell (July 21) billed to bring the venue to life. Homegrown talent will have its moment in the spotlight too, when Thompson’s Point hosts

Back to front: Lake Street Dive, The Ghost of Paul Revere, and the Ballroom Thieves will all rock Thompson’s Point this summer.

Ghostland (September 1), fronted by Portland’s “holler-folk” minstrels, The Ghost of Paul Revere. A cult favorite among Mainers, the band has seen their star ascend this year thanks to a new album and an appearance on Conan. Catch them on the water alongside these other local gems: The Ballroom Thieves, Shovels & Rope, and Max Garcia Conover

Summer in the City

Even if you’ve sworn to stay outside for every second of sunshine, there are a handful of incoming musical acts to send you racing for the dark embrace of a concert hall this summer. From New Zealand the John Butler Trio comes to the State Theatre on July 13 in a clamor of drum beats and virtuosic guitar solos. At Port City Music Hall, Houndmouth serves up laid-back Cali-cool sounds on June 23. And you’ll find it impossible to be a wallflower when the iconic sunny funk of Jamaica’s Toots & The Maytals hits your ears at Aura on August 3. Credited with popularizing–and even coining the term–reggae, Toots and the Maytals are the living legends you can’t afford to miss this year.

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W hile there’s nothing like watching your favorite band to make your spirits soar, all those tickets make your bank balance take a dive. Lucky for you, Portland’s bars light up with live acts every night of the week–no cover required. Commercial Street boasts three options for any mood. Hungry? Portland Lobster Company is a local rite of passage and fail-safe seasonal destination when you want to sit beside the water, drink beer, eat lobster, and soak up live jams. (When do you ever not want to do that?) It may take a few minutes of awkward bobbing around the deck to snag a free table, but once you’re installed, you’ve hit the jackpot. This summer, deck dwellers can look forward to the Jason Spooner Band on June 23, O.C. & The Offbeats on June 25, and Dominic Lavoie and Keanu Keanu on June 27. Added bonus? Dogs are welcome.

All fired up? The wide wooden deck overlooking Custom House Wharf is home to The Porthole–and, incidentally, some of the wildest sights you’re likely to see

When Portland Met Harry

harry connick, jr.’s visit here as summer opened linked maine’s acadians with the cajuns of connick’s native new orleans. We caught up with him for some impressions.

How do you connect with audiences in different regions?

Portland and New Orleans are so far apart, but the Acadian/ Cajun connection draws us together.

Portland is great. Audiences are unique–individual people. I try to connect with them. That determines the show. New Orleans is pretty laid back [by comparison]. It might have to do with the weather down there. But we have a great musical culture, an incredible restaurant scene, Mardi Gras, Jazz Fest. We’re celebrating our tricentennial.

This issue includes a story on Emeril Lagasse. Did you know he worked in Maine before he went to New Orleans? That’s very cool.

Many may consider the soundtrack for When Harry Met Sally as your big break, what do you think it was?

I had a big break when I signed to Columbia Records when I was 19, but in terms of propelling me to a national and international spotlight, it was When Harry Met Sally After I did that music, I became visible to a lot of people.

Do actors make better musicians, or do musicians make better actors?

You can’t really say. The only thing you can say about music is that there are probably more finite things that you need to know how to do if you’re a musician than if you’re an actor. That’s a dangerous thing to say, but we all know how to speak, we all have emotions, and those are the basic tools for actors. Whereas if you play an instrument, you have

to know about something–where to put your hands on the guitar or on the keyboard.

How does a mega talent stay down-to-earth?

My parents raised me and my sister in such a way that we have our heads on straight. We respect our elders; we have strong faith and good work ethics. Life is too short to get caught up in the silly things that don’t have any worth. I love my career and love the things that accompany being successful, but ultimately my family and friends are paramount in my life. It’s not like they keep me grounded because that’s just like breathing. It’s something so integral to who I am, and everything else comes after that.

Which one of Sinatra’s “suicide songs” is your favorite?

He did an album called Frank Sinatra Sings for Only the Lonely. The title track to that is one of the most remarkable vocals you’ll ever hear, and it was accompanied by an orchestration done by Nelson Riddle. It’s just a very high level of American music, about as high as you can get. If you put on some headphones and sit back and listen to how he sings, the heartbreak of those lyrics is very powerful.

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on a night out in Portland. Once you’ve crammed yourself onto the creaking wooden boards and wrestled your way to the bar, find a spot where you can really move to the music and put on a show for the diners at Scales across the water. On a good night the atmosphere is electric.

Winding down? Just a few doors along, you’ll find Andy’s Old Port Pub, an underthe-radar staple of Commercial Street. Andy’s may not boast a waterfront deck like its cohorts, but what it lacks in views, it makes up for in excellent beer offerings and reliably good live music almost every night of the week. On Thursdays Andy’s hosts Boston singer-songwriter Kali StoddardImari, and Maine’s own Freddy Dame performs June 25 and July 29.

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Maine’s answer to the Jersey Shore is a mere fifteen-minute train ride from Portland. Leave your dignity on the peninsula when you head for Old Orchard Beach. (Who doesn’t crave that electrifying cocktail of bright lights, sugar, and bad behavior once in while?) After you’ve explored the strip and unleashed

some pent-up aggression on the bumper cars, head to the heart of the action: Old Orchard Beach Pier. Bounce around Hooligans and Sunset Deck for beers and fried clams to gather strength before diving into the action at the Top of the Pier nightclub. DJ Lenza keeps the dance floor filled every Saturday night. Fireworks light up the sky and ocean every Thursday.

Live Music with a Side of Lobster

come to see recurring favorites such as Pete kilpatrick Band, Joint Chiefs, Jason

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stone Mountain arts Center welcomes Peter Wolf and Mary Chapin Carpenter to their rustic stage.

sical events. A 40-minute drive from Portland–ending in a bumpy ride along an un-posted track–delivers you to a charming timber-framed theater in the Brownfield woods. Stone Mountain Arts Center was launched by acclaimed musician Carol Noonan in 2006. This intimate, out-ofthe-way oasis has since become an unlikely magnet for musicians of international stature. Guests sit at long tables or on the mezzanine level (book the pre-show supper and gorge on vast portions of homemade food) before acts like Peter Wolf (July 12 & 13) and Mary Chapin Carpenter (July 21 & 22) take the stage.

into the Woods

Take a break from the city clamor and turn your compass to roads less traveled to experience some of Maine’s most unique mu-

For four days in July, a quiet, grassy stretch between the Ossipee River and the foothills of the White Mountains is transformed into a rustic haven for roots and bluegrass fans. The Ossipee Valley Music Festival is the kind of place where you walk barefoot among the vendors and artists sharing food and beers. This year, The Wood Brothers, Billy Strings, and Dustbowl Revival headline July 26-29. Ossipee has the added bragging rights of being the only four-day festival in the country free to kids under the age of 17. n

spooner Band, and Band Beyond description on the deck at Portland lobster Co., commercial Street.

Merrill auditorium hosts an impressive roster this season, including lyle lovett and his large band on august 1. lindsey stirling performs on august 2.

Nashville-based duo Freddy and Francine will be at Stone Mountain Arts Center Friday July 27.

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By Colin W. Sargent

Everybody’s hunting him–from fellow Penobscots to Yankee settlers–but he keeps slipping away, hopping from island to island just ahead of his pursuers. Soundlessly the sachem Joseph Orono and his followers head their fleet of canoes for the shore of a large island that seems almost to be floating ahead.

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With a leader’s alert gaze and blue eyes some say were inherited from his legendary ancestor, the third Baron de Saint-Castine (for whom the town of Castine is named), the ambassador and warrior Orono (from whom the University town got its name) directs his party toward a beach lined with white sand, granite formations rich with blue mussels, and evergreens. His grandmother, the daughter of the Penobscot chief Madockawando, might have fallen under the spell of this island and its noble aspect. What a stunning place of seclusion!

“With a Récollet missionary, Orono, persecuted for being a ‘zealous Catholic,’ debarks to establish [his] headquarters on White Island, off Sunshine, with several wigwams and a chapel,” according to William A. Haviland in Canoe Indians of Down East Maine.

Everybody needs to disappear sometimes. How about you? A new summer means a new beginning. White Island became the rustic capital of Orono’s spiritual journey in 1783. In 2018, this dreamy island can be yours for $1.675M. Imagine 7,500 feet of shorefront just a strong paddle away from the WoodenBoat school

and Brooklin Boat yard–making White Island an international landmark in the yachting universe.

There’s an A-frame and dock at the north end,” says listing agent Terry Sortwell. “At low tide, it’s really lovely. Granite

“At low tide, it’s really lovely. Granite wedges rise up on the north side of the island, facing Eggemoggin Reach.”

wedges rise up on the north side of the island, facing Eggemoggin Reach.” Sixty-one acres are for sale. “The only thing that’s not being sold is a south-end parcel of about five acres with a house and dock. The sellers sold that to friends some years ago.”

Why would the sellers ever leave this Shangri-la?

“It’s one of those things where the parents are of a certain age, the children are scattered, it’s not being used, it’s time to move on. There’s a conservation easement that limits future building on part of the island, but a part of the southwestern shore can be built on.”

Chief Joseph Orono

According to penobscotculture.com, “How long he lived is hotly debated. Some say he lived to be somewhere between 110 and 113… He assumed the role of Chief at a time of turmoil for the Penobscot Nation. Around the Revolutionary War, Chief Orono received letters from george Washington. Orono was sympathetic to the American cause in the war. in a speech in 1775 Orono said, ‘Our white brothers (Americans) tell us that they came to our land to enjoy liberty and life. But their king (of england) is coming to bind them in chains and to kill them. We must fight him.’”

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Hope Floats

“When they were shooting The Whales of August on nearby Peaks Island, some of the cast members stayed here on Hope Island,” says John Saint-Amour of LandVest. “So who knows? Maybe Bette Davis, Lillian Gish, or Vincent Price stayed here.” Back then, Hope “was owned by the Hope Island Club, a group of business people from Philadelphia.” The original Shingle Style house was a Dutch Colonial with white shingles and five fireplaces, dating to 1913. The Club was also enlivened by members of “The Ameri-

can Federation of Amiable, Avaricious, and Continuous Clam Diggers.”

“Back in the day, people used to row over from Deer Point on Chebeague to attend grand parties out there,” a Chebeague resident tells us.

Nowadays, the island gets power “through a submerged cable to the mainland,” Saint-Amour says. “It was installed between 1991 and 1992 for a figure between $75,000 and $100,000.”

It was Saint-Amour who sold the 86-acre island in 1993 (for a reported $1.3 million) to New York (and international) commercial real estate developers John and

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Think of this compound as Neverland (including peacocks) with an 11,000-square foot castle, a tavern, a 10-horse stable, and over two miles of soaring oceanfront cliffs. “The kind of person who’ll buy this is a kingdom buyer, someone with Maine connections, whether it’s through camp, college, or business,” Saint-Amour says. “It’s a perfect place for a new extended family to enjoy. The [present] family’s enjoyed owning the island for 24 years. Now it’s time for the island to go.” Maybe Vincent Price had : 5.89

ith a name like Mistake, you’d think this island off Jonesport could hold its own in Maine seafarer lore. Unfortunately, the curious name may only be the result of a linguistic blunder. According to The Lighthouses of Maine: Acadia Region and the Bold Coast, “the name of the approximately 30-acre Mistake Island, about four miles south of Moosabec Reach…appears to be another corruption of Mooseabec [deriving from a Native-American term for moose head].” But Jonesport Realty executive William Milliken, president of the Arnold Memorial Medical Building Society (the current owners of the island), thinks there’s more to it. “Nobody knows why it’s called Mistake. I think some of the earlier settlers were there, someone messed up, and the story is lost to history.”

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Moose Peak Light, Mistake Island was recently used as the location for the awardwinning film To Keep the Light, which tells the heroic story of Matinicus Rock Light keeper Abbie Burgess. Director Erica Fae says she insisted on shooting her period film here because the lighthouse is authentic, from the 1800s. “And it’s just all so, so beautiful.”

Originally built in 1826, Moose Peak Light and the fog-signal building (built in 1912) are part of the 5.89 acres for sale. Milliken, a descendant of the first lighthouse keeper, says the society hopes to find someone who’ll be a good steward of the island. “We hope to find someone who respects the island and its history, and shows an interest in opening it to the public.” Milliken spends a lot of time on the island himself, birdwatching or picnicking. “It’s really dramatic. There’s nothing here. Just going out here and being is a humbling experience.”

The island is accessible by boat, five minutes from Jonesport’s harbor. A walkway takes guests to the lighthouse from a boat-

house and gangway on the 24 acres managed by the Nature Conservancy.

According to the Bangor Daily News, Mistake Island was donated to the AMMBS by Donald J. Vaccaro of Connecticut not long after he bought it for $93,500 in 2013, when it was auctioned off by the General Services Administration. Asked why Vaccaro bought the island only to sell it five years later, Milliken says, “You’d be surprised who will just buy an island.” Here,

the old saying couldn’t be more true: one man’s Mistake is another’s opportunity.

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Greer Island Penobscot Bay, Vinalhaven price: $395,000 taxes: $2,589 acreage: 5.1

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longed to Elizabeth Arey’s family for over a century. “My late husband inherited it. His great-grandfather sold him the island when he was a little boy.” Greer Island was passed down as a place where the family gathered for reunions, cookouts, and camping trips. “We always had an annual family picnic with grilled lobster, all kinds of clams, and all sorts of things.” One of Arey’s favorite pastimes was scouring the beaches around Greer Island for sea glass. Today, she has an enormous jar full of cobalt, rose, and green gems collected over a lifetime of family summer vacations. The jar is full, and she’s is ready to sell the property to a new family, who dreams of collecting their own island memories.

Greer Island lies 1,000 feet offshore from Vinalhaven, the largest of the islands in Penobscot Bay. From Vinalhaven, Greer Island is easily accessible by boat or kayak, and within swimming distance of Geary’s Beach. At low tide, you can skip the water travel altogether and take a 10-minute stroll

across the land bridge. At the end of this natural walkway, a rustic 12-by-15 shack rests in a wildflower meadow by the shore. Years ago, this modest building was rented out as a cabin to fishermen catching herring in the cove. Now, lobster buoys speckle the same stretch of water between Greer and Vinalhaven–a friendly reminder of the town’s long history as a traditional Maine seafaring community.

Wild roses and strawberries are scattered across the island between stands of evergreens. The Camden Hills rise out of the west, Isle Au Haut lies to the east, and little island gems, such as Sister’s Ledge and Mitten Ledge, dot the wide blue beyond Greer’s rocky shore.

Elizabeth and family have loved Greer

Island as a retreat from their busy lives in New York, where Elizabeth worked as a reporter photographer and her late husband was a director of public relations for Pan American World Airways. Among the best times here: fishing for mackerel out of a small boat. “My children, my husband, and I used to go out and stay overnight and picnic. We’d go every single day” from the Areys’ ancestral home on Vinalhaven. “My boys would treasure hunt and scavenger hunt on the island. With five acres, there was a lot to discover. We never had any problem entertaining them.”

Greer Island is certified through FEMA as outside the 100-year floodplain, and also has MDIFW (Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife) certification to prove it’s not a significant wildlife habitat. Elizabeth had plans to build a summer home on Greer Island, but despite these certifications, Vinalhaven has the island zoned for resource protection, with restrictions on building anything larger than a 600-square-foot structure. (This seems in-

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You don’t have to be rich to dine like royalty here.

By Clair E Z. Cram E r

If you love dining out in delicious Portland, it helps to have a few strategies for finding fine food without breaking the bank. For starters, you don’t always have to go to the high-ticket, marquee spots in the Old Port. (Although we do recommend snagging a barstool at Fore Street the moment they open, for a drink and an appetizer or two at cocktail hour. No matter what you order, it’s going to be terrific, and you can enjoy watching others spend a fortune.) Wonders await elsewhere. Remember, you’re an epicure, not a snob. There are happy-hour specials all over town involving not just drink offers, but special bar menus, tapas, and appetizer discounts. It doesn’t have to be a feast every night. The best surprises come when you sample and graze,

and Portland menus have elevated the “small plate” concept to an art form. Consider this radical-cheap manifesto:

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First, get into the epicure’s mindset. For some of us, oysters and caviar are a great gateway to that one-percenter feeling.

“Just check off which kinds you want and how many,” says Sam Molloy from behind the counter at Island Creek Oysters on Washington Avenue, handing over a paper checklist. Before him on a field of crushed ice sit clusters of oysters labeled with their provenances.

“They’re all $1.50 each,” he says. “Even the wild, foraged Maine Belons from Damariscotta.” We’re in. We find that the Mook-

Enjoy your oyster outside on the deck at The Shop, an oasis on inner Washington Avenue.

…gets you seven oysters (two grilled!) and one 8oz. kolsch at The Shop. $25

…for beets, frites, boquerones, and a bloody at Central Provisions.

ie Blues from Bill Mook’s seafood farm in Damariscotta have classic oyster flavor: mildly saline, tender, and sweet. The wild Maine Belon is a huge, flat-shelled beast, and it turns out to be a tangy, meaty revelation.

Island Creek, a.k.a. The Shop, is a seafood tasting room with a nicely curated selection of local brews and wine to accompany. It’s also a seafood market, and this is its charm. The crushed-ice display, racks of retail items for sale, and stark, backless metal stools are in jaunty contrast to the oysters and caviar you can wash down here with such treats as a glass of Paul D. GrünerVeltliner from Austria ($7) or Bunker Brewing Salad Daze ($8). The sound system is excellent, and there’s patio seating.

“We’ve got a Sunday caviar special,” says manager Kit Paschal. “Three five-gram bites of caviar for $18. One bite is straight caviar on a Mother of Pearl spoon, one’s on an oyster, and one’s on a blini.”

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“Did you know it’s Wine Wednesday?” asks our waitress at Little Giant, one of the West End’s friendly cafes, as she deals out menus. “All the bottles with stars next to them are half price tonight.”

We select a bottle of Valtea Spanish Albarino–floral and mineral and summery–

to accompany a salad of Little Gem lettuce with buttermilk dressing and a shower of tiny parmesan croutons. Porco à Alentejana follows, a sophisticated riff on a traditional Portuguese stew of clams and pork. Impossibly tender cubes of braised pork shoulder, sweet and tender littleneck clams, and bits of fried potato are enrobed in a tomato sauce in a wide, shallow bowl. Grilled toasts accompany for chasing the juices.

The check for this fancy-peasant feast is $61, including the $44 bottle of Albarino, which tonight is ours for just $22.

That’s not the only half-price-bottle night in town. Local 188 has one on Mondays, at C2 in the Westin Portland Harborview on High Street it’s Wednesdays, and

at cozy Bonobo on Pine Street, wine by the bottle is half price on Mondays with a pizza special thrown in.

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On Munjoy Hill, Lolita turns Monday evenings into tasty surprises. “We have a lot of repeat Tapas Night customers,” says Stella Hernandez, co-owner with her chef husband Guy Hernandez. “It can be funny in the dead of winter when tapas-seekers come in from the cold the moment we open.”

Every Monday, Stella chooses a half a dozen wines to showcase a country or region, such as Spain or South America. These are offered at $5 per glass, and that

A glass of wine comes with a free tapa (see above) for just $5 on Tapas Mondays at Lolita. A recent “back to Spain night” selection includes, clockwise from left: Catalan black rice with aioli; albondigas; papas with mojo; wood-grilled pork steak; blistered shishitos; and Bangs Island Mussels in escabeche. Below, Stella Hernandez serves bar patrons at Lolita.

…gets you a glass of wine and a tapa.

price includes a complimentary tapa created by Guy and his team to support the regional theme.

The fun part is that you pick the wine, but the tapa is a surprise. On a recent visit, France was the theme. I chose a crisp Charisse Picpoul de Pinet from the LanguedocRoussillon. After inquiring whether I had dietary restrictions (nope), the bartender delivered a baguette toast topped with local North Spore mushrooms sautéed in marrow butter. Divine!

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“Tonight, keeping it French, we’ve also got a brandade fritter, vegetables and aioli, and a grilled chicken liver,” says Stella. Stick around, and you might try them all.

Across Congress Street, the Blue Spoon has weeknight Wine Time from 4:30 to 6 p.m., when a glass of red, white, or sparkling house wine or selected local beer is $4. You can match this up with such tasty appetizers as Patatas Bravas ($6) or Blue Cheese Toast with garlic spinach ($8).

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In the Old Port, the Corner Room has a notoriously great complimentary spread of finger food on weekdays with $3 house wine, beer, and prosecco.

At Woodford Food & Beverage on Forest Avenue, there’s a happy hour from 4 to 6 p.m. every day but Sunday with a daily selected $3 draft and glass of wine for $5.

“We make a special happy-hour cocktail every day, too, for $6, and our oyster shooters are $4,” says Birch Shambaugh, who owns the Woodford Corner hotspot with his wife Fayth Preyer. Oyster shooter? “We place one of whatever oyster we’re shucking that day in a small glass of our own horseradish-infused vodka, and top it with our Bloody Mary mix.” You know you want

…for select bottles of wine on Wednesdays at Little Giant in the West End.

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one. “Oh it’s just about everyone’s favorite thing,” Shambaugh says.

Maybe it isn’t always about the food for you? If what you want is the vibe, you might head to the Inkwell, the Press Hotel ’s bar on Exchange any Sunday through Thursday from 4 to 6. The marble bar, upholstered sofas, banquettes, and barstools, and the view of Exchange Street all whisper seductively of a luxury getaway. But the well drinks, local brews, and selected wines are just $5 each.

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Treat yourself to the perfect little midday meal to experience fine dining on a thrifty budget.

Central Provisions serves brunch on Mondays too, which seems enlightened. On a recent Monday, I sat at the bar watching the kitchen team carefully compose lovely dishes while listening to the mellow, bluesy sound track.

“Our sourdough is from Standard Baking,” I’m told by a young fellow slicing a loaf. “The burger buns are made in house, and we make the gougères here.” He serves me the day’s special breakfast sandwich: a split gougère (savory, biscuit-sized cheese puff) topped with thin shavings of ham, a sunny-side up egg, and gruyère-spiked mornay sauce, with a tangle of peppery arugula leaves on top.

It’s a $12 thrill. And since it’s Monday brunch, you might include a mimosa or bloody Mary to go with it for $7.

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The city’s fantastic Thai, Vietnamese, Chinese, Japanese, and Korean restaurants offer more affordable incentives. Sichuan Kitchen on Congress Street has two-course lunches for $10; neighbor Mi Sen has them for $12. Hot noodle bowls and pho at Cong Tu Bot on Washington Avenue are a famously great value at $12 to $14. In the heart of the Arts district, enjoy a plate of four hot, crisp lobster rangoons at Empire for only $8.

Bao Bao, the dumpling destination on Spring Street, cleverly schedules happy hour between 2 and 4 p.m. Wednesdays through Fridays, with all dumplings half price. Two of you might share an order of pork and scallion dumplings and a large carafe of sake for a grand total of less than $10. n

Ultimate Yacht Charters

get ready for the ride of your life along the maine coast.

By Karen Hofreiter

Terraces for stargazing. Gleaming oak woodwork and ornate bronze fixtures. Feasts of fresh oysters and flutes of golden champagne. Private chefs. 360-degree ocean views. It may sound like a deluxe suite in a luxury hotel, but this decadence is served up on the open seas. Sure, the sleeping quarters may be “charming and cozy” (i.e., not for the claustrophobic), but in every other sense, a yachting vacation can be an unparalleled experience, particularly if the yacht is cruising along the stunning Maine coast.

To enjoy the pleasures of yachting is to participate in a seven-centuries’-old recreation. When 14th-century Dutch aristocrats began using former pirate–and smuggler–hunting boats for pleasure cruises, the yacht (derived from the Dutch jachtschip meaning “ship that goes fast”) in its modern sense was born. Since Cleopatra’s Barge, one of the first pleasure yachts in the U.S., sailed out of Salem, Massachusetts in 1817, there’s been a steady evolution of creature comforts, aided by staggering computer-engineered enhancements those ear-

ly Dutch maritime recreators could hardly have imagined, from temperature-sensing marble showers to iPod docking stations.

Those early leisure zeilers might also have boggled at a coastline over four times as long as that of the current-day Netherlands: including islands, Maine has over 5,000 miles of coastline to the Netherlands’ 1,200. While the Dutch coast is certainly beautiful, it pales in comparison to Maine's undulating coastal landscape, with its rugged cliffs crowned by evergreens, time-weary drooping

The Ne Plus Vltra, a yare 40-foot Hinckley Bermuda Yawl, is available from Buck’s Harbor Marina to charter for circa $4,500 a week in the high season.

bluffs, scraggly dunes, placid beaches, and roughly 4,500 islands ranging from the hauntingly desolate to quaintly picturesque. The true luxury of yachting in Maine is the astounding scenery.

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“The coast of Maine, particularly Penobscot Bay, yields some of the best cruising grounds found anywhere,” says Peter Johanson, president and owner of Rocklandbased Johanson Boatworks, whose charter clients travel from as far away as Europe and Hong Kong for the experience. “The rocky granite coast is magnificent to view,

and the many unpopulated islands provide hours of exploration and gunkholing.”

Jack Bullock, owner of Evening Star Yacht Charters, agrees. “I’ve sailed the entire East Coast, Bahamas, Virgin Islands, and Caribbean. However, Maine is unique, considered by many to be one of the best cruising areas in the world. There’s almost always a 15-20 knot breeze, and the water is relatively flat. And with the endless miles of coastline, one could anchor in a different place every day for decades and never anchor in the same spot twice.”

That’s not to say Maine can’t present daunting challenges for even the most experienced sailor. “It takes strong navigation skills,” Bullock says. “The most challenging routes in Maine are those in areas where there are many uninhabited islands–it can be easy to get confused and lose one’s exact location,” says Johanson.

“For example, along the Deer Island Thorofare–which is extremely raw and beautiful–it can be tricky maneuvering in and around the islands, especially in times of fog.” However, according to Johanson, the crack-a-beer-and-chill captains who want to take it easy can choose to “hug the coastline where the fog tends to be less, pick up a mooring or dockage each night, and enjoy shoreside amenities by sailing from one harbor town to the next, like Rockland, Camden, Belfast, Castine, and Bucks Harbor. Each of these towns has its own ambiance, but what they all share equally are

Ladona keeps her passengers entertained with beauty and cuisine.

Fair Winds & FolloWing seas

if you can’t stretch your vacation budget to a luxury yacht charter, you can still reap the benefits of maine’s maritime culture on a shoestring. head to the waterfront on June 22-24 to experience portland Schoonerfest and regatta in glorious live action. this year, seven large traditional schooners will take to Casco Bay to parade and race over the course of the weekend. the fleet will include some of the most famous schooners in the country, including gloucester’s schooner Adventure, the 131-foot Harvey Gamage of portland, Bailey island schooner Alert, and maine maritime museum’s newly restored Mary E schooners Bagheera and Wendameen (above), a familiar sight on portland’s skyline, will also join the fray. throw yourself into the seafaring spirit and book tickets for a variety of sails aboard the two golden-age vessels through portland Schooner Co.

dockside lobster shacks, five-star restaurants, gourmet delis, and shops selling fine wines and craft beers.”

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How you go about your exploration depends on your budget and tastes. Whether your splurge amount is $1,500 or $20,000 a week, whether you prefer homey cabin-style interiors or Old World opulence, there’s a range of options for charter yachts.

Johanson Boatworks (Rockland, charters from $2,800/week, 596-7060) offers a varied cadre of sailing yachts for bareboat (without a crew) charter. The Fascination (44-foot sailboat, accommodates six, $5,200/week) is a classic beauty, featuring a generous main seating area with L-shaped white couches, a galley kitchen, warm wood paneling, and traditional maritime-style décor with clocks, oil lanterns, and bookshelves. Guests have the convenience of having everything on board they may need

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for the trip. Miriah Swan, charter coordinator, touts this as a big plus. “The beauty of chartering is you have the entire boat equipped with a full galley so your lodging and meals are packed into one package.”

Buck’s Harbor (South Brooksville, charters from $1100/week, 326-8839) offers bareboat charters in all types and sizes. If it’s celebrity glam you’re looking for, then the Velocity (44-foot catamaran, accommodates 8-12, $7,500/week) is your modus transportius. Sleek and modern, she’d look more at home in flashy Miami than sturdy New England. The breezy interior is decorated in neutrals and soft blues and bathed in sunlight from the windows that wrap around the seating area in the main salon, which means dinner is served with a panoramic view. Besides four staterooms with private showers, the open-concept space includes a galley kitchen and cockpit (with mini-bar, of course). The trampoline provides space for sunbathing, and the flybridge is the perfect spot for getting that giddy, cloud-nine feeling. If your style runs a little less ostentatious, the Maine Idea (50-foot trawler, accommodates six, $7,000/week) is your gal. This merry trawler is typecast for a Maine

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adventure. Large windows and glass doors enclose the airy salon, which features gorgeous oak and fir woodwork with casual furniture upholstered in a cheerful green.

Just like Jack Bullock of Evening Star Yacht Charters (Belfast Harbor, 479-5403), you’ll fall in love with the Evening Star (45-foot yawl, accommodates four, $4,000/ week June, $4,500 July-September). Built in Holland in 1968, “she’s elegant, beautiful, and classic, and exhibits a high standard and quality construction not found in most production boats today,” Bullock says. “She’s also extremely well outfitted for sailing in Maine.” The interior is varnished teak throughout and includes two staterooms with private bathrooms and a gemütlich salon with a Dutch soapstone and bronze fireplace. Sail her into peaceful, wide-open Tenants Harbor or wild and narrow Perry Creek on Vinalhaven, two of Bullock’s favorite places.

If lifting a glass of rosé to your lips is the most strenuous activity you want on your vacation, look no further than an all-inclusive cruise on the historic Schooner Ladona or Stephen Taber (Rockland, 207594-4723, multi-day specialty and private charters available). Both are owned by Noah and Jane Barnes, who spare no effort or expense to give their guests an unforgettable experience. Meals made fresh on-

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Included in the fleet of available yachts from Buck’s Harbor is Bluejacket, a 54-foot Alden (above); the catamaran Velocity, below; and Maine Idea, a 50-foot trawler, bottom left.

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board feature local Maine ingredients, and the multi-course dinners include expert wine pairings. Accommodations and amenities are first class. The Schooner Ladona (82-foot schooner, accommodates 17), built in 1922 at the Hodgdon boatyard, showcases an elegant nautical-style décor with ecru wood-plank ceilings and walls, bluehued textiles, rich wood accents, and lavish bronze fixtures throughout. Each of the nine staterooms has its own private vanity with sink; the showers feature mosaic marble tile and rainshower heads. The spacious galley kitchen flows into the main living area with its custom L-shaped sofa seating and polished wood table. Guests can dine al fresco at the farmhouse-style table on the deck or lounge on one of the pillow-piled daybeds. The Stephen Taber (110-foot windjammer, accommodates 22), built in 1871 and a National Historic Landmark, has an American Colonial-meetsAdirondack cabin feel, with wood paneling throughout and Scottish touches like oil lamps and tartan blankets. There’s even a tiny library tucked away in a nook. The

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Join us for a 2 1/2 - 3 hr. cruise on board our Brand New 47’ Lobster Boat! Watch for Whales, Seals, Eagles, and Porpoise as we pass by the Old Sow Whirlpool and East Quoddy Lighthouse. The Captain will Pull traps and add Starfish, Lobster, and much more to our ON BOARD TOUCH TANK! Fun and educational for the whole family!

Leaves 1:30pm from the Eastport Waterfront Adults $45.00 Children under 12 yrs. $30.00 Children under 5 yrs. $15.00

Fishing Trips: 3 hrs. We provide all the gear. Same pricing as whale watch Call for more info and reservations.

Watch for Whales, seals, Eagles, and porpoises as we pass by the old sow Whirlpool and east Quoddy Lighthouse. the Captain will pull traps and add Starfish, Lobster, and much more to our ON BOarD tOUCH taNK! Fun and educational for the whole family!

Daily tours Leave at 1:30pm from the eastport Waterfront adults $45.00

Children under 12 $30.00 Children under 5 $15.00

three Hour Fishing trips: We provide all the gear. Same pricing as whale watch Call for more info and reservations.

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Best Friend on the

West End

Age: 8

Breed: Staffordshire Terrier mix

Spotted: The Western Prom

Not a big fan: “When my mom sleeps in. And when she vacuums!”

Can’t get enough: Resting in the sun, especially on hot pavement. Taking naps with my friend Teddy.

They’re noisy, hyper, and messy—and they’re still your favorite neighbors in town.

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GeorGe eliot

Age: 8

Breed: Pitbull mix. “I’m a heinz 57 pup.”

Spotted: Strolling along Pine Street

Not a big fan: Puppies

Can’t get enough: “I’ll lie down in the street and stare at you adoringly to get your attention. I’ll make you feel like the only human in the world…Until the next person comes along.”

Dill

Age: 1.5

Breed: Puerto Rico Rescue

Spotted: Cumberland Avenue

Not a big fan: “Being on a leash! I’m a no-strings-attached kind of guy.”

Can’t get enough: “Food. I’ll eat anything you drop on the floor.”

age: 6 months

Breed: mini australian Shepherd

Spotted: admiring the Francis Fassett house on Pine Street.

not a big fan: “Puddles! i have to stop and step around each one.”

Can’t get enough: other dogs—and sticks!

Dunc an

age: 7 Breed: golden retriever

Spotted: longfellow Square

not a big fan: “When i’m forced to go five minutes without being petted.”

Can’t get enough: Belly rubs, squirrels, and car rides.

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Lucy

Age: 8

Breed: Collie/Australian Shepherd mix

Spotted: Sunbathing on the Western Prom

Not a big fan: “When mom doesn’t share her lunch.”

Can’t get enough: “Long walks on the beach in the summer; chasing squirrels.” n

Z oe y

Age: 4

Breed: Border

Collie/Lab mix

Spotted: outside

Aurora Provisions at lunch.

Not a big fan: “Storm drains, ever since i watched the movie It…”

Can’t get enough: “the gelato window at Bonobo!”

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Back-to-basic classic flavors create a memorable experience.

Imoved to Portland from New York City almost seven years ago, in part because I fell in love with the food up here, the quality of the restaurants, the emphasis on fresh and local ingredients, and the joy and pride radiating from the purveyors at the farmers’ market.

Hankering for a traditional, down-home meal made with local ingredients, I decided to make an old-fashioned bean supper

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from scratch. (Cue groans from those still suffering from Post-Traumatic Bean Supper Disorder after being dragged to the church weekend after weekend.)

tried and true

Bean suppers date back to when hardworking Mainers, hungry from a long week of physical labor, came together for a big meal of beans, brown bread, and sides on Saturday nights. The meal was served in lumber camps, churches, and family homes alike. The beans were sometimes slow-cooked overnight in a cast-iron pot buried in a covered “bean hole” outside, but more often they were baked all day in low-temperature ovens. Because Maine used to be one of the top three states in dried-bean production, Mainers used cheap, abundant local beans such as Marfax beans or yellow eyes, which hold their shape and stay firm. They might also use Jacob’s cattle beans or soldier beans, which melt with the onion into the molasses-salt pork-mustard bath they’re baked in.

“You have to use Marfax,” James Beard Award semi-finalist Erin French tells me.

Her Lost Kitchen restaurant in Freedom is famed across New England, so I take her cooking advice seriously. “We had baked beans on winter Saturdays when I was growing up. I don’t mess with the traditional recipes. My grandmother and then my mother made baked beans the traditional way, with salt pork, ketchup, molasses, onion, and dry mustard. And Mar-

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fax beans. They’re the creamy little brown ones that keep their shape. They stand up.” Though you’re bound to find a chic revision of baked beans with the hashtag #heirloom on Instagram, Grandma knows best. “We use yellow-eye beans in ours,” counters Kathy Sherman, owner of Sherman’s Farm Stand, which is technically across the state line in New Hampshire, but only a stone’s throw from Fryeburg, Maine–in my mind, anyway. “They don’t turn to mush.”

Back in the old days, while the beans slow-cooked, a loaf or two of brown bread steamed in coffee cans set into a kettle. This tangy, chewy bread was made with equal parts cornmeal, white, and rye flours, with or without raisins, plus dark molasses, milk or buttermilk, salt, and baking soda. The combination of flours came about from typical Maine pragmatic thrift, since white flour was expensive. The bread was steamed because it was often made outside, on a campfire.

Of course, Mainers ate this way primarily because it was easy, cheap, and hearty.

Bean suppers nourish and satisfy, they stick to the ribs. But a heap of rich, porky baked beans and a slab of fresh brown bread with thick-spread butter also makes a delicious meal. It is to inland Maine what the clambake is to Down Easters: the quintessential communal suppah, perfect for a crowd, beloved by everyone, made out of food grown close to home, augmented with those pe-

rennially cheap staples, cornmeal and salt pork and molasses.

t wo SideS to every recipe

Traditionally bean hole suppers included a variety of side dishes, depending on the season and on what was bursting out of the garden or put up in plentiful jars on the pantry shelves: stewed greens; carrot

A Sweet Memory

Cushman’s Bakery was founded in 1914 and sat on the corner of Kennebec and elm in Portland. the Scotch cookies, of the molasses variety, are a taste remembered fondly by maine and her visitors. today, the cookies can be found on Chebeague island, where the secret recipe was discovered long after the bakery closed.

and cabbage coleslaw; green-tomato piccalilli relish; and succotash, made with fresh sweet corn cut off the cob plus whatever fresh-shucked beans were plentiful. “And red snapper hot dogs,” says French. “Is that a side? Sometimes we cut them straight into the beans. And we always had either Waldorf salad or coleslaw.”

“Braised dandelion greens with bacon and just a teeny dollop of maple syrup and another of apple-cider vinegar,” says Ladleah Dunn, whose recently opened Lincolnville General Store in Midcoast Maine offers an array of local delicacies. “And piccalilli with the baked beans.”

“Pickles on baked beans?” To French, this sounds suspect. “Never. It’s too much sweet on sweet.”

You say Marfax, I say yellow eye–Mainers are nothing if not opinionated about

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food. To which I say, amen, and pass the piccalilli, so I ask Dunn for her recipe. She gives me a fast version she dubbed Quickallili: Seed and mince, pulsing in the Cuisinart, a heap (two pounds) of green tomatoes and a handful of shallots. In a pot, throw together a solution of half rice vinegar and half Mirin sweetened sushi vinegar, about a cup of each, with pepper, salt, brown sugar, mustard seeds, a couple of bay leaves, a few cloves, and hot red pepper flakes, and boil it for a couple of minutes. Mix with the tomatoes, cover, and let it sit overnight in the fridge, or up to a week.

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Preservation

Craving something light, but creamy and starchy as well, I decide to try my hand at succotash. When I was growing up, succotash always came frozen or from cans, and I hated it: mushy lima beans, tasteless corn kernels, held together in a gelatinous broth. But one night, when I was out for dinner at Scales, Sam Hayward and Dana Street’s joint seafood restaurant on a wharf off Commercial Street in Portland, I ordered the succotash as a side to a bucket of steamers. When it arrived, I took one bite and swooned. It was a revelation. This succotash was bright, fresh, rich, and glossy. It melted on my tongue.

“It’s always seasonal here,” Chef Travis Olson tells me. “In the spring, we use the earliest shelling beans. They

Butter Me Up

in her Good Maine Food cookbook, marjorie mosser provides a seasoned recipe for an old maine favorite–hot buttered rum. as the character Cap says in Kenneth Roberts’s Northwest Passage, “a few of those and you could play with me like a kitten.” according to Roberts, the origins of hot Buttered Rum can be traced to our state.

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have to be fresh–that’s what makes it special. We’re waiting for the first fava beans now. They’re meaty, sweet, and savory, less starchy than limas. And we use freshshucked sweet corn, and this time of year, some spring onions or garlic scapes. And butter, and a combination of rich chicken stock and a broth made from the corncobs. We add minced salty, smoky country ham in kernel-sized bits. And some mild heat–chili flakes or pureed smoked jalapenos. Maybe a roux. Not a gravy–just to make it cohesive, so the liquid clings to the vegetables.” “How much butter?” I ask, my mouth watering so much I can hardly talk. “Plenty,” he laughs. Okay, so maybe this one isn’t filed under “lighter cooking,” but who can argue with that?

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With my menu complete, all that’s left are the ingredients. Even though it’s early spring, and very little is growing here yet, I manage to stick close to home for some of my groceries. I find yellow-eye beans from Green Thumb Farms at Sherman’s. For the brown bread, instead of rye flour, I use Bouchard Family Farms Acadian buckwheat flour from Fort Kent. At Hannaford, I buy a big bunch of locally grown fresh dandelion greens and Maine-raised bacon and ham. But, I confess, no red snapper hot dogs, which feels like a capital crime. And I score a couple of bottles of Moxie, the traditional Maine soda flavored with gentian root. To me it tastes like a slightly bitter version of root beer, its medicinal cousin.

On Friday, I tackle Dunn’s Quickallili and set the yellow-eye beans to soak overnight. On Saturday morning, I start the baked beans, using the New York Times classic recipe. I make my own version of brown bread, using Maine buckwheat flour in place of rye, a cup of raisins, and almond milk with vinegar instead of buttermilk, since that’s what I had on hand. Travis’s succotash is my next project. Since there are no shelling beans available yet, I use baby lima beans (sorry, Travis). And, strictly for research purposes, I use plenty of butter, simmering the shallots, minced ham, and lima beans in the two rich broths until the liquid has mostly cooked off.

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Next, I add the corn and spring onions and let it all cook until it has coalesced into a sweet, melting stew. Finally, I make Ladleah’s savory, surprisingly luscious dandelion greens.

This elaborate menu–beans, bread, ‘tash, greens, and relish–is all just for my husband and me, not a church full of neighbors, or a big farm family, or a lumber camp crew gathered around a long table. But it feels festive, and eating the delicious results of the generous advice I’ve gleaned from Maine chefs, I feel both connected to tradition and happily well fed. And the leftovers, reheated, will last for days.

To go along with the meal, I’ve invented a crisp, herbaceous cocktail to celebrate my new home’s culinary roots. I call it the Moxie Foxtail: Into a shaker with ice, pour a jigger of bourbon and another of Aperol, then another of fresh lemon or lime juice. Shake briefly and pour with the ice into a highball glass. Top with Moxie, mix with a stirrer, and toast the incomparable flavors of a Maine bean supper. n

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Flying in Place

Welcome

By colin w. sa R g ent

What do you dream of when you already live in a dream house? The question stops software engineer and hotelier Christopher Crane short. He beetles his brow, walks a few steps toward the Atlantic, and points toward London. “You dream of living in a dream house that’s closer to the water.”

In 1998, he and his wife Elizabeth were a pair of Britons from away visiting friends in Maine. “Liz is from Guisborough, in North Yorkshire. I’m from Derbyshire.”

During their first visit to the Yorks and Ogunquit, they poked around the coast and stumbled upon the ghost of a stone and shingle mansion designed by Portland architect Antoine Dorticos for sale on Shore Road in York. “Cragmere was for sale forever. It was a wreck. Liz told me, ‘You must be crazy. You like modern homes. I like modern homes.’ It turns out, I was,” Chris says.

“We renovated Cragmere from 1997 to 1998 and lived there for 11 years.”

If Cragmere was the question, the modern house we’re standing in at 11 Cragmere Way is the answer. “Cragmere was a grand cottage. But that was shelter. This is exposure.”

Sea Change

Right on the booming shelves of surf, tucked below the knoll where Cragmere holds court, was a mid-century modern designed by Fletcher Ashley in 1959. “Somewhere there’s a 1959 penny on this property, below a post,” Chris says as he takes us through Rockhouse, Cragmere’s younger, hipper sister that was developed from the original Cragmere parcel, closer to the water. “We bought Rockhouse to have a better view from Cragmere. We wanted to clear some brush down here. But once we got to the deck hanging over the water, we said, ‘It’s pretty

nice here!’ The architect [who transformed the Ashley design into what Rockhouse is today] was my nephew from England, Charles MacKeith–my sister’s son. With his partner, Madeleine Adams, they completely reimagined this space.”

If rockhouse Were a MusIc al coMposItIon…

Chris guides us past a Yamaha baby grand toward staggering views of the water. If Frank Sinatra were still around, this would have been his spot, baby. Who plays the piano? “Chris does,” Liz says. If this house could be summed up in a song, what would it be? Chris shrugs.

“Fly

Me to the Moon.”

Visitors can’t help but feel a sense of Frank Lloyd Wright’s famous dictum of “compression and release” as the trajectory of sightlines opens toward the vast ocean.

“I said I was in the software business [largely programs used by Customs workers processing imports into different countries], but we’re also in the hotel business. See that big building to the right of Nubble Light?” Chris points. “That’s our ViewPoint Hotel.”

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The most innovative part of the design is that the rooms in Rockhouse actually glide,

shift, and recompose with a seamless system of pocket doors, cabinets, and sleeping quarters that vanish when closed.

“It’s better than open concept, because the rooms can change,” Chris says. “Un-

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You’re so close to Boon Island “you can see the water on the other side of the lighthouse,” Chris says. “The silvery slips of land on the horizon are The Isles of Shoals.” Houses in this lucky part of the world can tell time by the passages of the Finestkind tour boat that cruises by us, having just passed the Cliff House resort. We ask Chris and Liz if they’ve been on the Finestkind to gaze up at their

sparkling glass house. “Yes.” Guilty. Every once in a while, you should seize the chance to see how the other half lives–even if you’re them.

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One interested couple of possible purchasers has come through twice without pulling the trigger. Why? “It seems too much like a vacation home.”

Exactly. It’s a perfect day, and the ocean is almost too close, too dazzling. During electrical storms, it must be even more cinematic out here. At night there’s so little light pollution Chris has a telescope in the tower so he can collect the stars–seashells in the sky.

Nothing is forever, even in a place this fortunate. “A visiting friend of mine once asked us, ‘When is summer in Maine?’” Chris says. “By then I knew to answer, ‘Sometimes on a Wednesday.’”

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High Velocity Victoria Rowell

in spite of difficult early years as a foster child, Portland native Victoria Rowell’s ties to maine are unshakable. Here’s what she’s up to now!

By Colin W. s a R g ent

On May 10, 1959, future ballet principal, dazzling actress, Ph.D., bestselling author, and movie mogul Victoria Rowell was born at Mercy Hospital in Portland.

This summer, she’s shooting a film in which she’s the executive producer, director, screenwriter, and a lead actress. We caught up with her as her production company, Days Ferry Productions, LLC, revs up to full throttle.

The village of Days Ferry goes way back in Maine history before it became Woolwich. Established in 1754 on the banks of the Kennebec, it seems almost like a fable—a magic place, like Brigadoon. Is Days Ferry your Castle Rock? Well, I’ll tell you, I love history. I cover my Maine connections in my memoir The Women Who Raised Me [Harper Collins, 2007, a New York Times best seller]. My mother’s side of the family is buried in the Castine cemetery. In our family plot, one of our family members was the drummer boy for the 16th Regiment in the Revolutionary War. I named my production company Day’s Ferry in 1999, when I was house-hunting along the coast. I was very close to buying a fabulous house on Peaks Island, with mature trees I loved but no septic. I couldn’t be 3,000 miles away [in Hollywood] and have no septic tank! Anyway, I kept looking. And during this journey I saw a spellbinding place set on the water. It had gone many years unattend-

ed. It was in Days Ferry.

What’s the name of your new film? Jacqueline and Jilly. No ampersand.

Since you’re the executive producer, director, lead actress, and co-screenwriter, how did you pitch it to yourself?

The logline is “An American family drama—three women, two shattered dreams,

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one addiction.” The father’s a well-heeled lobbyist in Newport News, Virginia—horse country. They share a charmed life. They live in the perfect house with a perfect, manicured lawn. There’s the pious grandmother, the mother, and the daughter, training to be an Olympic equestrian. She has a nasty fall. When she turns to opioids, her mother goes into denial. How could our daughter possibly have become an addict? This couldn’t happen to us. How could she possibly behave this way?

covery. The goal is to have family early on have a conversation.

What’s the heart of the story?

It’s about the family peeling back the onion. I started tinkering with this story in 2006. Now we are in a pandemic with opioid addiction, with a 13-percent uptick in the last year. In the story, first there’s the denial, then the acceptance, then the resolution. I pitched it to the Government Film Office in Washington, D.C. We’re negotiating a Lincoln Theatre debut in Washington. The reason everybody’s interested is because there’s such a need. That’s why it’s PG-13. It’s less on the optics of drug addiction than on the person who’s in recovery, and the importance of family in contributing to that re-

You directed all six episodes of The Rich and the Ruthless last year. Working in all three dimensions as executive producer, writer, and director, not to mention acting in the movie this summer, do you think you’ll experience, at least creatively, multiple personality disorder? Hollywood has changed because the industry has changed. UMC, HULU, Netflix—the business morphs every day. There is heavy lifting as an executive producer, but luckily I’ll have help there. I’ve been to Virginia twice for the scouting process. We start production on July 21 and wrap on August 4. We’ve been blessed with the Riverside Regional Hospital allowing us to film at an annex that is not being used at this time. I’ve met the mayor of Newport News. Hampton University is allowing us to shoot on their historic campus.

What script software do you use?

Ilike WriterDuet. It’s an amazing piece of software that allows multiple writers to work on one script. My main cowriter is Patricia Cuffie-Jones. I’ve already worked successfully with her—I did one of her plays in D.C. For my computer, I use a Macbook Pro. You’ll laugh, but as a Mainer, a daughter of Maine, I’m an extremely practical person. My Timberland boots must be 18 years old, and this Macbook

Victoria was a cast member of the longrunning soap opera The Young and the Restless according to her filmography on imBD, she filmed 657 episodes playing Drucilla Barber Winters.

Wasn’t she in…

• yes! Rowell played Dr. amanda Bentleylivingston, who helped Dick Van Dyke’s character, Dr. mark Sloan, solve crimes in Diagnosis Murder

• Just some of this multiaward-winning actress’s movies: Water in a Broken Glass (2018), Of Boys and Men, The Feast of All Saints, A Wake in Providence, Dumb and Dumber, The Distinguished Gentleman

• She has a doctorate from the University of Southern maine and Boston’s Wheelock College recognizing her work in foster care and adoption.

• in 1990 she started the Rowell Foster Children’s Positive Plan, which provides fine art scholarships for foster children and adopted youth. Portland native taurean green was selected for the program when he was 11 years old. he went on to study with San Francisco Ballet and danced with Pacific northwest Ballet before joining Dance theatre of harlem in 2011.

• Victoria was eight years old when she received the Ford Foundation Scholarship to the Cambridge School of Ballet in harvard Square. She would go on to receive scholarships to the School of american Ballet, the american Ballet theatre, and the Dance theatre of harlem. She studied at the american Ballet theatre School before joining the american Ballet theatre ii Company.

“You know what big is for a storm in Maine. Well, a bolt of lightning went through one window and out the other!”

Featured in Jacqueline and Jilly, from left: Daphne Reid, Richard Brooks, and Nikko Austen Smith.

Pro must be eight years old! It reminds me of the 1955 Thunderbird I used to drive. Just because something’s old doesn’t mean it’s broken.

Who are your lead actors?

Richard Brooks, a star from Law and Order; Daphne Reid [The Fresh Prince of BelAir], a consummate actress; myself; and I believe in casting newcomers. Nikko Austen Smith plays the daughter.

Alfred Hitchcock says, “Great villain, great movie.” Who’s your great villain?

The villain in this case is the opioid, the addiction. By virtue of the therapist and the doctor, who’s played by Lamont Easter [House of Cards, VEEP, Madame Secretary], we’re able to get facts to the viewer dramatically. I’m consulting with Dr. Jocelyn Cox, a leading addiction psychiatrist in Atlanta [Associate Addiction Psychiatry Fellowship Program Director at Emory School of Medicine]. She’s been reading the script.

Is there a figure who’s the conscience of the film?

Yes, the grandmother, Zillah Stuart, is the conscience. As is the case with many grandparents, she might lament what’s happening to her granddaughter, but she dotes on her. She’s astonished that her granddaughter could be addicted to painkillers or worse. She is the North Star in the narrative. She offers levity too, which is important with this subject matter. There has to be a balance. The audience has to have tension and release, tension and release.

How much does your longtime foster mom in Maine, Agatha Armstead, float into Zillah’s character? Agatha is in all that I do. She’s very regal and wise and humorous, like Zillah.

What’s the funniest thing Agatha ever told you?

It’s more mystical than funny. On her 60-acre farm in West Lebanon, Maine, where I grew up—I went to school in Berwick—we had an over 200-year-old farmhouse, a barn, and some outbuildings. She purchased the property after the war in the 1940s. She was a proper Bostonian—very religious. I’ll never forget what she told me. There was a big electrical storm that caught the house by surprise with its windows open. You know what big is for a storm in Maine. Well, a bolt of lightning went

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through one window and out the other! Agatha was my inspiration, the quintessential mentor. She studied piano at New England Conservatory, and it was she who saw my love of dance. Some people are meant to be raised by one mother. I was meant to be raised by many. Agatha guided me toward a dance scholarship in Boston [Cambridge School of Ballet] that lasted for eight years and started so much for me.

You’ve acted with so many talented people: Forest Whitaker, Christina Ricci, Samuel L. Jackson, Dick Van Dyke, and even that force of nature Eartha Kitt. When you were in New Orleans to shoot The Feast of All Saints with Forest Whitaker, novelist Anne Rice was the executive producer. Did you watch her in action? Was there something you learned from her that you’ll be taking into Jacqueline and Jilly?

We shot The Feast of All Saints in Canada. I didn’t see much of Anne. Of course she was on top of the story. But all of that factors into the changes that are happening in Hollywood. The push for diversity. Fair economic exchange on both sides of the camera. For every 22 opportunities, one woman gets one. Right now, there’s a sea change of change. I’ve been diligent. And I appreciate all the influences that have come my way.

Jacqueline and Jilly explores themes of denial and the dangers of looking the other way. One of your earliest movie experiences was in Leonard Part 6, starring Bill Cosby. In the wake of #MeToo, our readers would expect me to ask you if he harassed you in any way. I never had a problem with Bill Cosby, but I have no reason to doubt the women who have shared their painful experiences. I’ve met Camille Cosby and at least two of his daughters, but that does not diminish my sorrow for the women who have had this experience. I don’t think every experience with every person is the same. In my case, it was paternal. I was a recurring character on The Cosby Show. What’s happened is devastating. Looking the other way really is an overarching theme with conflict. It’s easier to look the other way from poverty, from the Israeli and Palestine conflict, from millions of hungry children, from immigration injustice, from people coming from many parts of the world looking for a better way. We are in a crisis. People are looking the other way when Hawaii is on fire. [As a culture], we look away from sexual harassment or addiction. In Jacqueline and Jilly, every-

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thing is perfect; everyone’s driving the right car. One of the catalysts is the daughter taking responsibility for her addiction. But her mother wants to keep her quiet. Many generations of success are at stake. The father is a lobbyist [with a reputation to protect].

You really can’t get sober and fight addiction quietly behind closed doors. It’s not just the family, it’s the community. Oftentimes when families are embroiled in this war–this incredible struggle–to keep a child or family member alive, the community should be involved.

I’ve met with Mayor Price in Newport News. There’s not a community in our country that’s not touched by addiction. Addiction does not discriminate. It is staggering. It doesn’t matter if you’re the CEO of a global company. It doesn’t matter if you’re a doctor or the president of a college. Jacqueline and Jilly is important not because I’m a part of it, but because we’re all a part of it.

Since you grew up on a 60-acre farm in West Lebanon, I’m guessing you know horses. When did you first ride one? Our neighbors up the road were the Nadeaus. They had fabulous horses. I must have been seven or eight years old. I remember I was on a smaller pony and I got thrown. That really shook me up. I’m a ballet dancer. I don’t like to fall. I’ve never been a horse person.

Is that where you got your inciting incident for the movie?

My daughter Maya was a rider. And she’ll be on set as an assistant producer for the film. But I don’t believe my early fall figures into the story. I just really wanted to give dimension and production value to the movie. And Maine always informs me on where to go–nature and being outdoors. So much of story becomes interior, especially in a low-budget film. This helped me take the action outdoors. The whole idea of nature. I wanted the daughter to be athletic. I found a wonderful stable in Virginia. We’re the sum of our experiences. We can pluck them out, and they’re there. It’s like a massive library.

I blasphemed this morning when I refreshed my memory that your first foster family in Maine couldn’t keep you

isn’t that…

because raising a mixed-race foster child was forbidden to white parents by Maine law. I know you’ve said you love Maine. What in your heart keeps you from hating Maine?

When your history is lost to you, you lose everything. I’m currently looking for my AfricanAmerican father. Dead or alive. Dr. Herb Nelson is helping me, and now we have some new advantages in modern science. My mother’s family is of European descent. John Howland of the Mayflower, an early settler in Maine, is my ancestor.

Mine too! Nice to meet you, cousin. What a small, wonderful world it is.

I’m the 13th generation. Why I don’t hate Maine… I love Maine. I love my mother, Dorothy Collins, though she was unable to care for me due to mental illness. I’m grateful to her for giving me life. She had no prenatal care. [In 1959] I guess they were feeling she was not going to be able to take care of this mixed-raced child. She got no support from her illustrious family, who turned its back. But that’s too bad. We

existed. Thanks to Mercy Hospital in Portland, those nuns [Sisters of Mercy] took care of me. I keep in touch with them. I’m grateful to Mr. and Mrs. Taylor for campaigning to take me out of the Home [Holy Innocents on Mellen Street]. They were able to take care of me. Then [two and a half years later] Maine stepped in. They said, “She’s black–you can’t keep her.” The state of Maine took me away from the Taylors because Maine was one of 16 states where it was against the law for white parents to raise a black foster child. Maine gave me life. Maine inspired me. My second mother, Agatha Armstead, gave me this farm life: swim in the lake, pick blueberries, learn about flora and fauna, shovel snow and skate. This was a true childhood. I believe God gave me this experience because God knew that I could share it with others. HBO has optioned my memoir The Women Who Raised Me twice. When we get that green light one day, we can shoot some of the movie in Maine! The Maine Film Office does offer some incentives. n

Into the Wild Waves

from the british isles to ragged isle, an actress transcends time and space to become her favorite maine poet onstage.

By s u e McCor M IC k

Istep onto the stage and take my place in the darkness. Silk pajamas, bare feet, a glass of wine in my hand, a soundscape of wind in the trees, and the soft patter of rain on clapboard walls. I take a breath, the lights go up, and I speak: What lips my lips have kissed, and where and why, I have forgotten–

This moment has been a long time in the making. It’s the opening night of Wild as the White Waves, and, just like my play, my journey to get here began with the words of this melancholy sonnet by Maine’s Edna St. Vincent Millay. I let them fall and settle like the leaves of the lighting effect dappling the stage around me, and I remember where I read them first and how it all began.

Asecondhand bookshop in England, 1998. In a battered anthology, I caught sight of a single, wonderful verse with a startling immediacy that leapt off the page into my imagination. Who was Edna St. Vincent Millay, and why had I never heard of her? It was the early days of the internet, but I tried my luck. I discovered she was American and the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for poetry. Little else. Her books were out of print in the United Kingdom, and no one I knew or asked there had ever heard of her. Now I had another question. How could this happen? As an actor and writer constantly harvesting ideas for the next project, I was intrigued. I set myself to find out more.

An international book search unearthed a copy of her collected letters. My interest deepened. A childhood in Camden, Maine; a scholarship to Vassar; drink and drugs in Greenwich Village; bisexual love affairs; a remarkable marriage; and, always, a constant dedication to the pro-

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gary lawless, poet and owner of gulf of maine books, nurtures a long-held affinity for millay and her transformative words. lawless was involved in the original effort to save millay’s birthplace home on broadway in rockland, resulting in the eventual purchase and restoration of the duplex by the rockland historical society. millay house rockland is now open to the public.

in a Free Press review of The Selected Poems of Edna St. Vincent Millay–An Annotated Edition, lawless examines the inimitable poet’s unique writing process, noting: “in a letter, millay says that ‘the first draft of my poem is seldom in ink–more likely to be done in lipstick or with a burnt match.’ her poems were composed in notebooks, but also on all sorts of loose papers–envelopes, napkins, and in letters to others.”

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Hair which she still devoutly trusts is red. Colorless eyes, employing A childish wonder

To which they have no statistic Title.

as a fellow poet and resident of midcoast maine, lawless feels a personal connection that has spanned his adult life. “i grew up in belfast in the 1960s,” he says. “in high school we knew about millay and her camden connections, but she wasn’t taught in school back then. i really came to love her after college. in the 1980s, a friend named ramona barth, a great millay fan, got me involved in a number of events. We performed her poems outside the camden library and in the town amphitheater–on one of the coldest days in February that year! i held her nightgown at that event. i’ve even read “renascence” at the top of mount battie.

“my favorite poem, the one i’ve read many times, including at various millay events, is “conscientious objector,” a powerful poem–as appropriate today as the day she wrote it. yes, i do feel she was a kindred spirit. i grew up in belfast; she grew up in rockland and camden. she became a very progressive, strong, individual poetic voice, but she always loved maine.

here is a previously unpublished self-portrait, drawn from a letter to edmund Wilson”:

A large mouth, Lascivious, Aceticized by blasphemies. A long throat, Which will someday Be strangled. Thin arms, In the summer-time leopard With freckles. A small body, Unexclamatory, But which, Were it the fashion to wear no clothes, Would be as well-dressed As any.

Sue McCormick plays the role of Millay in her onewoman show, Wild as the White Waves.

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cess of writing. I was fascinated by the life and the woman and inspired by the idea of sharing her with an audience. The play began to form in my mind.

The desire to see the places I was reading about became irresistible. After months of emails, I was given permission to visit Steepletop, her farmhouse retreat in upstate New York, closed to the public in those days. Next I traveled to her birthplace, a little house on Broadway in Rockland. From there, I went to Camden, the stunning coastal town that inspired Millay to write “Renascence,” the poem that started her rise to fame. I looked for her statue in Harbor Park, gazing out on the Gulf of Maine.

All I could see from where I stood Was three long mountains and a wood; I turned and looked another way,

And saw three islands in a bay.

Back home, with my mind and heart full of this trip, White Waves seemed to write itself.

My timing was serendipitous. After the publication of the biography Savage Beauty: The Life of Edna St. Vincent Millay by Nancy Milford, there was a new surge of interest in the poems and certain collections were re-issued. The BBC asked me to appear in an episode of the series “Adventures in Poetry on Radio 4.” I took the show to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. After the performance, people asked me where they could buy her books, and I was happy to tell them she was in print once again.

I’ve worked as an actor for over forty years, performing all over the UK on stage, screen, and radio. But the play that started with a single sonnet and took me on a journey of discovery to the shores of Maine has been the most challenging and rewarding experience of my career.

“The view is enough to stop your breath with its beauty,” I tell the audience, thinking of the wind at the top of Mount Battie, above the wide sea that she loved and needed in order to feel whole. I think of Ragged Island, “our little piece of rock in Casco Bay,” where she pulled herself back from addiction. I think of a fall downstairs that ended a unique life too soon and robbed us all of the poetry still to come.

I will put chaos into fourteen lines And keep him there – n

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The riot, which left one man dead and many others injured, lit a fuse that sizzled toward of the end of the Dow’s reign. His “Maine law,” which banned the sales of ‘evil’ spirits from 1851 forward, was ripped out of the books in 1856 (though it laid the groundwork for the 18th Amendment). Each year in the Old Port, a street celebration toasts memories of the riot at local bars.

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the seasonal swells of maine’s wild-growing produce marked the passage of childhood for a young maliseet writer.

By Mihku Paul

i’ve lived in cities my entire adult life, a sharp contrast to the little town on the Penobscot River where I spent the first 18 years of my life. As an urban Indigenous woman, I try to maintain cultural practices that keep me connected to my identity. For many Indigenous communities, food gathering and cooking continue to reflect who we are. We eat seasonally, hunt and fish for subsistence, and find ways to preserve the wild harvest.

Our year typically began with smelt season, and smelts were stockpiled in the freezer until one day in April when it was warm enough to throw open the windows and have a fish fry. Dandelions accompanied our feast of smelts dredged in flour, dipped in egg, and rolled in cornmeal before they were deep fried. To’Mahsis, or frybread, would round out the meal.

Once the ice was out of the river and the leaves on the trees were as big as a mouse’s ear, it was time for fiddleheads. Bass fishing followed close behind, and they were fun to catch, although I was twelve before I could handle

one on the line by myself.

June signaled the end of school and the start of camping on the river islands. If the fishing was bad, we ate canned beans heated in the coals of a campfire and scooped onto birch-bark plates. There might be half-squashed donuts from Labree’s Bakery for dessert, pulled from the ash pack basket that held so many undiscovered wonders like an extra tin of worms, a second plaid shirt, or the odd bottle of soda which we called pop.

The biggest event of the summer was berry-raking time. Blueberries are a cash crop and income source for many Indigenous people in Maine and Canada. When I was young, blueberries were only harvested by hand with a special metal rake. We used the rake to work a line: marked lanes of white cotton string run for 25 yards or so that were 8-10 feet wide. I’d just finished third grade when I got my first chance to rake and earn some of my own money for school clothes. I was a small kid, so my Aunt Margie had a rake specially welded just for me. The idea was to fill your bushel basket and then get it to the winnower for cleaning and boxing–no easy feat when you consider that Maine’s wild

blueberries are smaller than high-bush types. Too many sticks and leaves were a no-no, and many times I had to go back to the line and rake more to top a box, which had to be level to count as full.

We had blueberry pancakes for breakfast and blueberry cake after supper, with handfuls of fresh blueberries in between. Sometimes, after the adults had finished their coffee and left on errands, we’d sneak the evaporated milk they used and pour it over the berries as a sweet treat.

Ican still hear the rattle-flap sound of the winnow machine plunked at the top of a section of strings, with several tall stacks of wooden boxes teetering six and eight high. Every few hours, a truck came bouncing over the barrens to pick up the full boxes and drop off empties.

Over the years, I raked nearly every summer until I was 16. By then, I was no longer staying at camp. I rode a company bus to Cherryfield at the crack of dawn each morning. I’d become more interested in the strong young men at the winnower than in earning money for new shoes and school supplies. More than once, my girlfriends and I were scolded for lingering at the winnower and chatting up the teenage boys who worked all day long lifting bushel baskets and stacking boxes.

Wild blueberries are an important part of the food industry in Maine. Their flavor is unique, and they’re touted as having many important health benefits. Though the harvest has fallen some in recent years, Maine is the wild-blueberry capital of the nation. I knew none of these things when I was growing up. I only knew that blueberry season was a chance to earn some pocket money, flirt with boys, and fill myself with a sweetness that meant all things home. n

Mihku Paul is a Maliseet writer and visual artist who grew up on the Penobscot River. She’s a 2010 graduate of the Stonecoast MFA Creative Writing Program.

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Maine Across the Pages

inspired by the creation of a franco route, i trace the history of the state’s French heritage through the immortal words of its authors.

Recently, a story in The Valley Breeze caught my eye: “Franco Route to promote French Canadian heritage in New England.” According to the article, the New England Museum of Work and Culture is in the planning stages of connecting the dots of the French heritage on the New England landscape, particularly in Lewiston and Biddeford. I thought to myself, “Why not a Franco-heritage literary route too?” Inspired, I’ve devised a literary tour of Franco-American Maine. Take a journey through your library (or in person) and unearth the talents of French-heritage writers throughout our state. I can only scratch the surface of Francophone literature in Maine. If you’d like to share worthy writings by writers of Franco-American descent, please send recommendations to editor@portlandmonthly.com.

Starting at the tippy-top of Maine, we

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discover Helen Hamlin of Fort Kent and her writing, which celebrates her lifelong love of the North Woods in Nine Mile Bridge and the lesser-known but more French-heritage-defined Pine, Potatoes and People. While we’re in Fort Kent, did you know it was home to another Mainer whose intense expression of the French language would become world-renowned? Meet Captain Mattie Pinette, who became then-General Eisenhower’s personal secretary during World War II. Moving through Aroostook, we arrive at the St. John Valley, the setting for Lee Nadeau-Single’s Annette–The Story of a Pioneer Woman, which tells a historical tale of settlers in northern Maine. Fellow County woman Trudy Chambers Price gives the woman’s perspective on living in the country through her volume The Cows are Out!

In these northern reaches, poet Rina

Soucy writes lyrically of her surroundings in Sérénade saisonnière, particularly of the St. John River that winds its way through her homeland: “Coule le Saint-Jean…/ Fleuve au long cours…/ J’entends/ L’éternel refrain de ta débâcle printanière.” Fellow Franco-American poets include Jeri Theriault, Susann Pelletier, Normand Dubé, Jim Bishop, Dorianne Laux, Cleo Ouellette, Ida Roy, Nanci Breau, Cecile Poulin, Maureen Perry, and Louise Bogan, who all engage Maine sensibilities in their verse.

Moving south on the literary tour, discover Le Forum, a bilingual periodical published by the University of Maine’s FrancoAmerican Centre, which features different authors on a quarterly basis. While on your travels, why not stop by the Margaret Chase Smith Library in Skowhegan? The 1964 presidential candidate’s French-Canadian lineage was used to malign her by the op-

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position during her Senate bid in 1948. According to a 2016 story in The New Yorker, along with accusations of communist sympathies, a smear campaign was initiated claiming Chase was “actually French Canadian (a maligned ethnic group among some in Maine), or a woman of loose morals… In the end, the effort to denigrate her and tarnish her record gained little traction.” Fellow Franco-American Melissa MacCrea outlines Smith’s legacy in It Takes a Woman: Women Shaping Public Policy.

In central and southern Maine, Greg Chabot, Paul Paré, Normand Beaupré, Denis Ledoux, Charlotte Michaud, Lynn Plourde, Gerard Robichaud, Michael Parent, Thomas Burby, Lorraine St. Pierre, Georgette Bérubé, Cathy Plourde, Jacquie Giasson Fuller, Laurie Meunier Graves, and I have produced numerous works capturing the Franco-American literary landscape in words, deeds, and people. Detour via Lewiston to visit the former home of Camille Lessard Bissonnette, a suffragist who enlightens the sojourner on

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the immigration experience in her standout novel Canuck and other Stories. Then learn some lessons in love from Alberte Gastonguay’s dating cautionary tale, The Young Franco-American. Newbery Award-winner Rachel Field summered on Cranberry Island, the setting that inspired her 1931 children’s book Calico Bush, which explores the intersection of three cultures on the Cranberry Islands off the coast of Maine. South Berwick’s own literary and feminist icon Sarah Orne Jewett, also of French ancestry, wrote three short stories that touched on her heritage: “The Grey Mills of Farley,” “Mère Pochette,” and “Little French Mary.” Edna St. Vincent Millay, also of French ancestry, defines the Maine coast with her verse and verve. Traveling across the Maine landscape via the pages of French cultural heritage authors is a redefining experience–it offers opportunities to view the landscape from a different perspective, the chance to read one’s way to a new mindset. n

Rhea Côté Robbins is the author of ‘down the Plains,’ and editor of Heliotrope–French Heritage Women Create.

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anthony’s Italian Kitchen, offers homemade italian cooking using the freshest ingredients, featuring favorites such as pizza, pasta,and sandwiches. Voted “Best in Portland” for three years. Dinein and catering services on offer. Beer and wine available. open 11-8 mon. through Sat. 151 middle St #5, Portland; and new location Cumberland County Courthouse, 205 newbury St. anthonysitaliankitchen.com, 774-8668.

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Bayside american Café (formerly Bintliff’s) owned and run by Joe & Diane Catoggio since 2003. the menu includes delicious items like housemade smoked salmon, corned beef hash, crab cakes, sandwiches, salads, Benedicts, and more. Come and discover why customers love Bayside american Café. Breakfast, brunch, and lunch are served daily starting at 7 a.m. 98 Portland St., Portland, 7740005 baysideamericancafe.com.

Benkay sushi bar and Japanese restaurant is back! at our new location on 16 middle Street, chef ando has designed an authentic Japanese culinary experience close to Portland’s waterfront. Full bar and menu including premium sushi, sashimi, and rolls. monday-Friday: lunch, 11:30 a.m. - 2 p.m.; Dinner: 5 p.m. - close. Saturday - Sunday: 11:30 a.m. - close. 773-5555, sushiman.com

Bistro 233 has something great and affordable for everyone in the family! Come in for our maine mussels, new york strip streak, baby back ribs, fish tacos, chicken piccata, fish & chips, jambalaya, and our Bistro Burger. no more arguing about food style when you come to Bistro 233 – we have it all! Fun, laid-back environment. 233 U.S. 1 yarmouth 846-3633 bistro233.com

BlueFin north atlantic Seafood in the old port harnesses all that maine is, and positions it into a delicious dish. executive chef tim labonte creates new and unexpected meals using fresh, locallycaught seafood and seasonal ingredients. From breakfast through dinner and anything in-between, your next adventure may just be your next dish. 468 Fore Street 775-9090. bluefinportland.com

Bolster, Snow & Co., is located in the spectacularly reincarnated brick mansion, the Francis (formerly the mellen e Bolster house). With executive chef nicolas Verdisco at the helm, Bolster Snow provides guests with warm, genuine hospitality, gracious service, and fiercely seasonal food and drink that are representative of the northeast region. 747 congress St. portland, 772-7485, thefrancismaine.com

Bruno’s Voted portland’s Best italian restaurant by market Surveys of America, Bruno’s offers a delicious variety of classic italian, American, and seafood dishes–and they make all of their pasta in-house. great sandwiches, pizza, calzones, soups, chowders, and salads. enjoy lunch or dinner in the dining room or the tavern. casual dining at its best. 33 Allen Ave., 878-9511.

Bull Feeney’s Authentic irish pub & restaurant, serving delicious from-scratch sandwiches, steaks, seafood & hearty irish fare, pouring local craft & premium imported brews, plus maine’s most extensive selection of single malt Scotch & irish whiskeys. live music five nights. open 7 days, 11:30 a.m. - 1 a.m. kitchen closes at 10 p.m. 375 Fore St. 773-7210, bullfeeneys.com.

Congress Bar and grill Serving portlanders delicious food and beers for years! Fully embrace portland’s laid back, no frills attitude. try thai chili wings and the best fries in the city while vintage game shows play on-screen. happy hour everyday 4 p.m.- 6 p.m. & 10 p.m. - 12 a.m. late night menu Fri & Sat. open 7 days, 11:30 a.m. to 1 a.m., 617 congress St., portland 828-9944

the Corner room features bright, wideopen space complemented by handcrafted woodwork. patrons can expect a warm, comfortable atmosphere, marked by the rich aromas of house-made pastas, pizzas, antipasti and artisanal breads. enjoy the taste of Venice in the heart of portland, me! 879-4747, 110 exchange Street. Visit thecornerroomkitchenandbar.com.

el Corazon mexican food from the heart. Authentic family recipes passed down through generations, plus an

Dinner & a Show

ogunquit comes alive at Jonathan’s.

By Colin w. Sargent

Dare to live Summer Out Loud and go to Jonathan’s for a perfect date night. We pull into 92 Bourne Lane at 7:15 for dinner and an 8 p.m. live show. For $83 each, we have premium tickets with $25 credits toward our meal. Tonight, it’s the Kruger Brothers.

In 1976–forty-two years ago–Jonathan West bought his parents’ house and transformed it into a restaurant. Across many summers and many repeatable moments, Jonathan’s shines as both a bistro (he was named Maine Restaurateur of the Year in 2017) and significant entertainment venue. It also incites memories. The first time we ate here, our chanteuse was the big-band star singer Anita O’Day, who could swing with the best of bands from Gene Krupa and His Orchestra to the Nat King Cole Trio. It was a master class when Anita sang “Honeysuckle Rose” in such a knowing, heartwrenching way my dining companion spontaneously walked up and hugged her after the show. Because art is personal here, the unexpected is always onstage at Jonathan’s.

How can they land acts this good? Silly question. Who doesn’t want to come to Ogunquit?

On July 20, it’s singer Melanie (yes, “the” Melanie who performed at Woodstock); headliner (and Cape Elizabeth resident) Jonathan Edwards arrives on July 28; actor Jeff Daniels (Ragtime, Terms of Endearment, the Purple Rose of Cairo, Something Wild, Dumb & Dumber, Gettysburg, Pleasantville) performs with the Ben Daniels Band on August 4; then it’s John Sebastian from the Lovin’ Spoonful on August 5; and Peter Yarrow from Peter, Paul, and Mary (Peter co-wrote “Puff the Magic Dragon”) sings by the sea on August 19. I could go on (Jonathan’s is also a hot spot for stand-up comics), but we’re hungry.

We dive into the VooDoo Coconut Fried Shrimp ($13.50) with pa-

Melanie | July 20

Jeff Daniels | August 4

John Sebastian | August 5

Scratch-made Nice People Totally Authentic Bull Feeney’s

paya, apricot, dark rum, habanero sauce, and avocado lime puree; and the Baked Artichoke Hearts. For an entrée, I almost pick the King Lobster but at the last second switch to Eggplant Napoleon, while my dining companion is more dramatic: Steak Diane prepared with Black Angus tenderloin medallions, mushrooms, garlic, shallots, and sherry. We’re on fire! The house wine is La Vieille Ferme. With a premium ticket you get a table up-front for the performance, dessert and coffee included.

Shhh! The show’s about to start. The Kruger Brothers are an international act featuring exploratory waves of banjo, bass, and guitar that make us feel we’re in the sound canyons of a movie. They sweep us away. n

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“oversized tequila selection.” try Portland’s own “marisco”- a mexican seafood cocktail of shrimp, bay scallops, clams, octopus, and, naturally, maine lobster. open lunch and dinner, mon.thur. 11:00 a.m.-10:00 p.m.; Fri.-Sat. till 11:00 p.m.;Sun. 9 a.m.-9 p.m. 190 State St. Portland. elcorazonportland. com, 536-1354

Fish Bones american Grill offers creatively prepared american cuisine along the canal in the historic Bates mill complex in the heart of downtown lewiston. open seven days, offering dinner monday through Sunday, lunch monday through Friday, and brunch on Sundays. Come get hooked at 70 lincoln Street, Bates mill no. 6! fishbonesmaine.com, 333-3663.

Homage restaurant dazzles with scratch-made, hand-crafted food and cocktails. tuck into our mushroom tarts, mom’s Fried Chicken, Steak “Wellington,” Steak and Scallops, Squash and Beans, gingersnap Creme Brulee, or Blondie Sundae. 9 mechanic St. Freeport, me 869-5139 homagetherestaurant.com

Hurricane restaurant new england cuisine with an international twist. local produce and seafood, full bar, awardwinning wine list, in-house dessert chef. nurturing the seacoast palate for over 25 years. good restaurants come and go. great restaurants get better and better. lunch and dinner seven days a week. Bar menu always available. 29 Dock Square, Kennebunkport, maine. 967-9111. hurricanerestaurant.com

J’s oyster is a premier seafood destination and locals’ favorite with indoor and outdoor waterfront seating on one of Portland’s scenic piers. established

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in 1977, J’s offers classic favorites and friendly service. Coastal Living claimed J’s one of “America’s Best Seafood dives 2016.” Find us on Facebook. 772-4828

Maria’s Ristorante is Portland’s original classic italian restaurant. greg and Tony Napolitano prepare classics like Zuppa de Pesce, eggplant Parmigiana, grilled Veal Sausages, Veal Chop milanese, homemade cavatelli pastas, Pistachio gelato, and maine’s Best meatballs. Prices $11.95 - $22.95. Tue.-Sat. starting at 5 p.m. Catering always available. 337 Cumberland Ave. 772-9232, mariasrestaurant.com.

Pearl Kennebunk & Spat Oyster Cellar is Chef rebecca Charles’s (of Pearl Oyster Bar, New York) newest restaurant. enjoy elevated beach food, including Charles’s famous reinvention of maine’s lobster roll. Happy Hour on Wed., Thurs., and Sun. from 5 p.m. - 6 p.m. for $1 oysters, $5 wines, and well cocktails! 27 Western Ave. Kennebunk. pearloysterbar.com/pearl-maine/. 204-0860

Pedro’s focuses on simple yet fullflavored mexican and Latino food. Offering tacos, burritos and an impressive array of margaritas, sangria, beer, and wine. especiales de la semana (specials of the week) keep the menu varied and fresh and showcase different Latino cultures. Seasonal outdoor dining available. Open daily, 12 p.m. - 10 p.m. 181 Port rd., Kennebunk, pedrosmaine. com. 967-5544

Portland Lobster Company experience

“maine’s Best Lobster roll,” lobster dinners, steamers, fried claims, chowder, and more before visiting our outdoor bar for an ice-cold local beer or a glass of fine wine. Then relax on our deck overlooking the gorgeous Portland Harbor while listening to daily live music. 180 Commercial Street, 775-2112 portlandlobstercompany.com

Ricetta’s Brick Oven Ristorante, a maine italian favorite since 1989. experience a modern, family-friendly atmosphere with a versatile menu filled with award-winning brick oven pizzas, pasta, grill, and italian entrees, using as many locally sourced ingredients as possible, plus gluten-free options. Sunday - Thursday 11:30 a.m. – 9 p.m.; Friday & Saturday: 11:30 a.m. –10 p.m. 240 u S route 1, Falmouth. 781-3100.

Rivalries Sports Pub & Grill Now with two fun and comfortable upscale sports bar locations. Known for great casual pub 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!

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Located at 10 Cotton Street in Portland (774-6044) and 2 Hat Trick drive, just off i-295 in Falmouth (747-4020), rivalriesmaine.com

Tally’s Kitchen at Bayside, located on 84 marginal Way in Portland, is a unique breakfast and lunch boutique. Life-long Portlander Julie Taliento Walsh builds on her reputation for quality and affordable classic fare with vegetarian & gluten-free options served in a friendly setting that feels like home. House made baked goods, artisan sandwiches, soups, salads, freshly brewed coffee, and blackboard specials that change daily. Breakfast and lunch: monday - Friday, 7 a.m. until 3 p.m., 207-400-2533, tallyskitchen.com

Twenty Milk Street welcomes diners with warm, intimate décor and a lovely brick fireplace. Located in the Historic Portland regency Hotel, we offer Sunday brunch, breakfast, lunch, and dinner, specializing in modern American dishes with a New england flourish. We’re proud to serve local produce, seafood and beef, pork, chicken, and turkey from our own farm! 774-4200.

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fans? “I only buy Stonington, Maine, lobster.” McCaskey tried Brittany Blue lobsters for awhile, but says they are expensive and hard to get. For a restaurant that goes through nearly 140 lobsters a week, they need those reliable Mainers.

While it’s clear this Chicagoan can crack claws with the rest of us, he prides himself on his bisque. “The lobster stock is made meticulously, using only certain parts of the crustacean,” says McCaskey. “Each step is strategic. We have mastered this at Acadia. It is a challenge teaching our chefs the technique. There’s a lot of push and pull.

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You have to be able to smell it, to taste it.”

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˝All I do is cook and study,” says 23-year-old Nathaniel Adam, executive sous chef at Boothbay Harbor Country Club and Harvest on the Harbor’s 2017 Lobster Chef of the Year. Self-taught, Adam has been cooking since he was a kid. “My mom was a single mom who worked all the time, so my older brother Eric and I cooked for the family.”

Adam’s brother went on to study at the College of Culinary Arts at Johnson & Wales University, and helped teach Adam the kitchen basics. “Only so much cooking is teachable. A huge portion of it is natural talent,” says Adam, who demonstrates plenty of that, winning Judge’s Choice at the sixth annual Claw Down Maine Lobster Bite Competition last year. For that recipe, he was trying to come up with the simplest way of using lobster “without masking the flavor.” He opted for “basic ingredients and

Yield: About 1 quart

Sweet Corn Emulsion: 560 grams fresh sweet corn; 200 grams small diced yellow onion; 4 grams shaved garlic; 700 grams heavy cream; 10 grams salt; *166 grams thyme brown butter (last step)

Candied Thyme Brown Butter: 1 pound whole unsalted butter, 20 grams fresh thyme sprigs

Tarragon stock: 2 grams spent vanilla beans; 4 grams lemon zest; 10 grams minced garlic; 30 grams shallot; 70 grams fresh tarragon; 800 grams water; 15 grams white vinegar; 10 grams salt; 15 grams sugar; 2 tablespoons dry oregano

Vanilla Tarragon Sea Foam: 350 grams tarragon stock; 7 grams soy lethicin

Sea Salt Coral Tuile:10 grams flour; 80 grams water; 30 grams vegetable oil; 3 grams salt

Butter Poached Lobster Claws:6 lobster claws; 4 tablespoons whole butter; Pinch of salt; 1 tablespoon minced parsley

Place butter in a small pot and heat on low until melted. Place claws in pot and gently stir around to warm the lobster. Once lobster is warmed, season with salt and parsley.

Assembly: Serve as a large dish or in small spoons as an appetizer. Place corn sauce at the bottom of the spoon, top with the warm lobster, tobiko, a piece of tuile, a touch of sea foam and fresh herbs. enjoy.

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F.O. Goldthwaite’s Pool Lobster

blueberry pie lobster rolls paninis

New England Clam Chowder box lunches breakfast

Across from the Village Green

164 Main Street Bar Harbor

a classic preparation to keep it elegant.”

When he isn’t buried in kitchen utensils or books for class, Adam loves to fish and hike in Maine with his fiancée. During Boothbay Harbor Country Club’s off-season, he runs Savor the Flavor, a private-chef service in Florida. His go-to meal? “I’m a comfort-food kind of a guy. Give me a plate of ribs paired with some collard greens and cornbread–nothing beats it!” n

Clawdown 2017 at Newagen Seaside Inn in Boothbay.

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consistent with nearby Sheep Island, which falls under the same protections, yet has two homes.) However, resource protection doesn’t mean you can’t acquire a building permit. In fact, “I am holding a current building permit,” Elizabeth says, “for a cabin and for a float dock and ramp.” She already has the foundation footings and a septic plan in place. There are even arrangements to add a cistern or small desalination plant, solar panels, and hydroelectric power. Greer Island is prepped to become a virtually self-sustaining summer home.

All that’s needed now is you.

Brown Island Nicatous Lake, Hancock County price: $499,000 taxes $800 acreage: 5

“This is solitude and a wildlife experience second to none,” says realtor John Colannino of Brown Island. Nicatous Lake, a “forever-wild area” sixty miles northeast of Bangor, is the centerpiece of 20,000 contiguous

“Every item has a story, a history. We relish that history and wish to pass it on to new owners.”

–Dave White

acres of state-protected forest, including 30 miles of undeveloped shoreline. Nestled in this wildlife haven, Brown Island startles visitors with its savage beauty.

From the lake’s north end, a scenic fivemile ride from the boat launch at Nicatous Lodge and Cabins takes you over still blue water past sinuous coves to Brown Island. There’s a good chance of spotting nesting loons or even a bald eagle or two along the way. Take your pick of one of two docks on the island for tying up the boat. From here, wooded trails weave through white birch and pine to the rustic dwellings that make

Brown Island

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up a family-style compound. The main house includes a master bedroom, bathroom, and living room with a fieldstone fireplace, while a nearby building houses the kitchen and additional living space, all drenched with sun through sliding glass doors. The forest backdrop has clearly inspired the warm wood paneling, exposed beams, and forest-green accents, and this natural theme extends to the four separate guest cottages, painted in the same deep green. The property is reminiscent of a summer sleepaway camp, but with the added luxuries of running water and electricity. The whole compound is being sold fully furnished, with the added bonus of an 18-foot speedboat, canoe, paddle boat, cook stoves, and more essentials to equip your private island camp.

Current owner Phil Brown has researched a bit of the island’s history. The structures on Brown Island were built in the 1930s by a man named Dr. Butterfield, a surgeon from Boston. “Dr. Butterfield was an avid hunter and fisherman,” says Brown.

“Brown Island [and the lands surrounding Nicatous Lake] were basically his own hunting and fishing grounds. He brought up doctors from Mass General to hunt, fish, and unwind.” In 1997, the Robbins Lumber Company purchased the Nicatous Land and worked with the state of Maine to conserve the abundant wildlife through a combination of working forest conservation easement and state acquisition of key shoreline areas. The former private hunting and fishing grounds of Dr. Butterfield are now “protected in perpetuity.”

Pine Island Long Lake, Naples

Price: $550,000

Taxes: $5,326 Acreage: 1

Sometimes you just want a little solitude without having to take a 30-minute boat trip to the mainland and drive another hour because you forgot the milk. “I call it privacy in the heart of the party,” says Pine Island owner Jay Bailey.

Pine Island $550K

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“One of the challenges of selling an island is getting there,” says realtor James Bump. Here, it’s only a five-minute trip from Naples, the hot spot of the Sebago Lake region, with its marinas, float planes, and restaurants.

Sure, you need a boat, but isn’t that why you’re buying an island in the first place? Bailey laughs. “The problem with most waterfront properties is that the boat doesn’t have a real purpose. You take it out and drive it in circles. But with Pine Island, the boat has a real life. You need the boat.” As you approach Pine Island from midway down the aptly named Long Lake, Mt. Washington towers in the distance. Bailey says, “Go up the lake [in early spring] you see Mt. Washington snow-capped. When you see the snow, it’s dramatic.”

Pine Island is just one acre, shaded by cathedral pines, with paths meandering to the dock and little sandy beaches. “My kids grew up out here. They learned to swim here. It’s a great island to snorkel. The light reflects off the fragmented glacial rock, so there is bright, pretty snorkeling with a

lot of interesting rock formations.” Not to mention, “You can swim out and see where the bass hang out.”

After nesting loons intrigue with their calls after sunset, another neighbor might drop in. “We have nocturnal flying squirrels,” says Bailey. “They [float down from trees] after dinner and go for our dishes. They land on our picnic table and crawl around–I had one travel up my shoulder one time.” While flying critters might not appeal to the faint-hearted, for Bailey’s family it’s dinner, then a show. “It’s one of our regular evening events: hanging with the flying squirrels come sunset.”

Phoebe Island Sebec Lake, Bowerbank price: $459,000 taxes: $1,200 Acreage: .11 (additional 22 acres on land)

Phoebe Island on Sebec Lake is a petite .11-acre island with a 1930s cottage built on its shoreline. “It’s almost like you’re in a boat, but without the seasickness,” says Jay Bailey. If you’re puzzled by the $459,000 price tag,

Phoebe Island is just one of a three-piece package that encompasses an additional twenty-two acres on the mainland, including another house with two fishing ponds.

Barely 100 feet from shore, Phoebe Island can be reached by a walkway even in the dead of winter.

Just off the front porch of the cottage is tournament-quality fishing; the lake is teeming with trout and bass. Front-porch fishing transitions to ice fishing once Sebec Lake freezes over, and the acreage on shore is prime for snowmobiling, making Phoebe Island, in Bailey’s opinion, “a true Maine sportsman’s paradise.”

Greer Island is an exclusive 5+ acre property located just off Vinalhaven, ME in beautiful Penobscot Bay. The island is easily accessible by boat anytime or by foot at low tide. A rustic fish shack/ studio sits at the water's edge surrounded by wild roses. Current zoning permits a dock and a 600 sqft. building. It is ready for you to enjoy as is or build to suit.

Greer Island - $395,000 • MLS#1340216

Phoebe Island $459K

Little Clapboard Island

Falmouth Price: $4,500,000

Taxes: $3,452 Acreage: 22 acres

One mile from Falmouth Foreside, Little Clapboard is a modest island located just off its namesake, Clapboard Island. The tiny getaway, with a rich green center and private sandy beach, can be accessed by rowboat, by swimming, or by walking at low tide from Clapboard Island. For $4.5 million dollars, this gem can be all yours–along with 22 acres of Clapboard Island, which includes an historic estate equipped with eight bedrooms, six bathrooms, 10 working fireplaces, a guesthouse, a teahouse, a children’s playhouse, a large barn, a boathouse, five beaches, a helipad, and a stone pier with docking room for large ships stretching into Casco Bay.

Samuel F. Houston, owner of the Pennsylvania Railroad, bought Clapboard Island in 1897 and with the help of his friend the architect Joseph M. Huston hired 100 local workers, mostly shipbuilders, to cre-

We carry many local and unique products, house-made meals, lobster rolls, crab rolls, Italians, pizza, and steamed lobster

“As Mom aged, we thought it best if she stayed in her home. We were wrong. Even with hours of home care, Mom wasn’t thriving. She needed more. She especially needed more socialization—not isolation. And more reliable care too. So she made the move to Scarborough Terrace. She truly loves her elegant new home! Life is more complete with lots of friends and activities, chefprepared meals, daily care, medication management, and even transportation to appointments and outings. I visit her often, so I know Mom is happier and more relaxed now… and I am too. We only wish she’d moved sooner.” Call Elizabeth today! 207.885.5568 or visit ScarboroughTerrace.com

Little Clapboard

$4.5M

ate this historic island home in 100 days. The shipbuilders left a kind of signature above each fireplace. “Having come from the shipyards, [the workers] introduced an architectural motif to represent the bow of a ship,” says owner Alfred Hoffman. “Every fireplace has some sort of rendition of that design concept.” As soon as it was complete, the Houston family began spending their summers at Clapboard and continued to do so for generations. It wasn’t until the late 1990s that Clapboard left the Houston family when it was bought by Alfred and Dawn Hoffman.

Details such as the pine Samuel Houston shipped all the way from Oregon have been lovingly restored to their natural luster. The house has been updated with modern conveniences such as a new kitchen and solar panels but maintains the same period feel. The Clapboard Island estate for sale consists of 22 acres on the south end of 40-acre Clapboard Island. In 2014, Maine Coast Heritage Trust purchased the northern half of the island, with the exception of one other private home on the northwestern side.

“[Clapboard Island] is shaped like an hourglass, so there is a natural boundary between what the Heritage Trust owns and what is private property,” says realtor David Banks.

For a convenient departure from the mainland, Madokawando Landing in Falmouth provides two gated parking spots, a mooring, and use of the dock. From there, your stone pier, historic estate, and private Little Clapboard Island are just a five-minute boat ride away.

“I haven’t seen Mom smile this much in years.”

Lori Tremblay, Khan-Ker, oil on panel, 26 x 16 inches

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Scabby Island Chain Machiasport

Price: $400,000

Taxes: $3,845 Acreage: 18

Scabby, indeed. We promise–the name of this string of pearls does it no justice. If you’re craving wide-open spaces, a 20-minute boat ride from Starboard Cove in Machiasport will take you to three sunny islands that make up the Scabby Island Chain. The chain is surrounded by deep water–very deep water–but at low tide Haul Out, Petrel, and Laridae Islands connect and add up to 18 acres with four landing places. Petrel is the largest of the three, with a field, freshwater pond, and sheltered sites for camping.

Scabby Islands $400k

Trend-setting

PM Construction has been working with the owner and architect to create a visually-interesting and multifunctional facility. This project aspires to be a trend-setting development within an urban environment. It is a unique facility which encompasses all aspects of farm-to-table, from agricultural production to consumption. When you need help bringing your next project to fruition contact Laura Blanchette 207.282.7697

TAO Greenhouse — Brunswick

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To the east lie the Libby Islands and Libby Island Lighthouse. To the south is open ocean stretching to the horizon. No trees means truly breathtaking panoramas with the possibility of whale spotting. An added bonus? Black flies seem to bypass the area all summer long.

Bare Island, machiasport

Price: $2,800,000

Taxes:$5,362 Acreage: 77

Far from being bare, this 77-acre island in Machiasport has it all–rugged shoreline with sandy beaches, dense forest lush with wildlife, freshwater springs, and hiking trails surrounding a four-bedroom home.

Bare Island is a ten-minute boat ride from the nearest harbor and five minutes from the mainland beach. At the center of this massive island is a forest populated by deer, great blue heron, and moose.

Trees screen the house, set back a short way from the shore, from view of passing boats, preserving the untamed look of the island yet maintaining a view of the inner harbor for the inhabitants. Inside the lodge, natural wood paneling and tall ceilings make the most of the windows’ natural light softened by the tree canopy. Outside, ample porches and balconies surround both your main house and your separate two-story treehouse. Because you’ve really made it here. Embrace the wild with open arms. n

Bare Island $2.8M

A Thousand Julys

this comfy oceanfront designer home by Royal Barry Wills was aces in 1938. this summer, think of this marvelous home as The Yin of Maine Coastal Real Estate.

In Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House, Cary Grant and Myrna Loy glorify the creation of the ultimate country residence outside the dreary, hyperactive city. Creamy white paneling and banks of natural-light-filled windows (certainly a reaction to Victorian piles, dark woodwork, and high-rise canyon shadows) announced that the owners of this sanctuary were young, fresh, well-heeled, and automobiled. Ten years before the hit movie landed at State Theatre in Portland, Falmouth Foreside had a debut of its own.

B Y Colin W. Sa R g E n T

Trend-setting society architect Royal Barry Wills (1895-1962) studied the waterfront lots in the new “Bramhall Field” development and created a spiffing squire’s residence at 18 Carroll Street just to the south of Portland Country Club. Wills was red hot in 1938, having been selected by a “typical” upper-income family as having the most desired design for a home in a Life magazine contest. In second place was the modernist Frank Lloyd Wright. As you can imagine, Wright went into a “Royal” tear about it.

This home was all about comfort. “The herringbone floors are original,” says real-estate broker Teddy Piper of

David Banks Re/Max By The Bay. “So are the cedar shake shingles (designed to look individually cut for rustic elegance) and the steel mullions on this bay bumpout” that’s almost a room unto itself, flanked by steel casement windows that match the period. But something’s missing. I feel a strong sense of music here, but there are no instruments on display. This magnificent bay window would be the perfect place for a baby grand.

The herringbone floors are original to 1938.

From this spot, you can almost overhear the swells at Portland Country Club whispering about the new Royal Barry Wills house taking shape against the blue waves as they sip their Old Fashioneds. With his weekly column and dream-home sketches in the Boston Transcript, Wills was the high priest of the modern Cape Cod and its sumptuous variations.

And what a view this four-bedroom beauty has–especially now. “Here we are in Falmouth, on a 2.7-acre lot facing the water, and we don’t see the CMP Power Plant,” says Piper. Outside the windows are deep green lawns, exquisite shrubbery, and impossibly privileged views of “the Brothers, a pair of islands off the Otis property.”

The Otis Elevator people?

Piper laughs. “I’ve heard that both con-

The wide second-floor terrace begs for dancing under the stars.

firmed and denied.”

As you approach the sweep of water, you can see the Portland House apartment building (1969) to the right, softened by distance above the causeway to Mackworth Island. The feeling of insular comfort and safety here is strangely thrilling.

“A removable dock can be added with town permission,” Piper says. It’s easy to imagine a kayak soundlessly stealing to the soft shore.

“Bramhall Field was one of the older developments on the Foreside. John Marshall Brown Co. was the original developer. The lots facing the water were built first.”

Here we are in Falmouth, on a 2.7-acre lot facing the water, and we don’t see the CMP Power Plant!

Who wouldn’t want to drop anchor in surroundings this exclusive, protective, and comfortable? The property has a new carriage house, two new dormers, and a luxuriant FROG (family room over garage) with even more exquisite views of Casco Bay.

“Royal Barry Wills built at least a hundred homes like this in Maine,” Piper says. “Many are in Cape Elizabeth.”

Yes, but who were the Cary Grant and Myrna Loy who were building this snug haven as the world was becoming increasingly dangerous and on the brink of war. Kristallnacht was in November, 1938, and the Invasion of Poland began in September, 1939. But also, one of my favorite tunes was written in 1938 and recorded by Marlene

You can see the Portland House to the right, softened by distance.

Dietrich in 1939. As I look out the window, I can almost hear it: “You go to my head… like a summer with a thousand Julys.” Time stops here.

the lucky ones

The original owners, William and Elinor Clark, were just 30 and 31 when the house was built. Their daughter, attorney Sarah “Sally” Clark McIntyre (University of Maine School of Law 1976) remembers:

“My parents built the house [the blueprints still exist on the property]. My father’s father sent my father, who went to Harvard, up to Maine from Boston to run the business that became Bancroft and Martin Rolling Mills of South Portland. They provided many of the steel girders for the bridges on the Maine Turnpike.

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We never had a name for the house. We just called it 18 Carroll Street. It was so great to grow up there. There was only one other house on the street, which wasn’t paved. We always had a dock, with some kind of motorboat, but our motorboat was destroyed in Hurricane Carol (1954). Then we had a sailboat.

“It was the kind of home where people

House of tHe MontH

were always dropping in. There were parties for the Symphony, and in fact sometimes the conductor would bring a group of friends and perform here.”

Bingo. I bet I know where.

“My mother went to New England Conservatory. She played the piano. My brother-in-law [the late Donald F. Sandberg, also a Harvard grad, who, according to his obituary, composed “music for the Harvard Hasty Pudding show Seeing Red in 1952” and headlined recitals at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum] played the piano too. My father played the musical saw. It was a riot. I played the flute. During the holidays, hundreds of guests came to sing carols–that was quite something–and sometimes play duets. We called the huge room with the bay window the Music Room. It didn’t just have one piano–it had two.”

Small wonder the room still rings with the after-echoes. For $3.415M, you could join in. Taxes are $31,491. n

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PORTLAND: 82 Roaring Brook Road

Wonderful colonial located in a desirable North Deering neighborhood. This home sits on a beautiful lot and features many updates, including a beautiful kitchen with granite and brand new stainless appliances. The family room is open to the kitchen, with a gas stove and access to the rear yard and large deck. Formal dining room and living room/den and half bath/laundry complete the first floor. Upstairs are two good-sized bedrooms, full bath, and large master suite with huge master bath and walk-in closet. Partially finished basement includes office/guest room playroom/family room. Move right into this home — freshly painted interior. This home is immaculate! MLS# 1346236

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Welcome to 21 Trailside Way

Shawnee Peak, Bridgton ME

Custom Craftsmanship and modern amenities await you after a day full of outdoor recreation, right out your front door. Hike Pleasant Mountain or drop your kayak into the nearby ponds and lakes. Paddle, play tennis, or cycle the mountain roads from this Cedar-shingled chalet built in 2016, true to Maine ski country style. Bonus with ski in / ski out access to a base lodge / lift yards away to look forward to next snow seasons. MLS# 1349638

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Chebeague Island

Location, location! Two quintessential “Maine” cottages with porches and decks perched on Chebeague’s outer shore. Spectacular sunrise views, deepwater anchorage, improvements, and rental history. Close to many island amenities, including golf and tennis, in one of Casco Bay’s most desirable communities. MLS# 1349469

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60 Haskell Drive Chebeague Island

Built new in 2011 on three private acres by Fine Lines, this is the oceanfront shingle cottage of your dreams. Extraordinary quality with reclaimed red birch floors throughout, sandy beachfront, first-floor master, breathtaking views, and easy commute to Portland’s Old Port.

MLS# 1349280

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PARKER POND — YEAR-ROUND HOME ON 26 PRIVATE ACRES FEATURING KITCHEN WITH GRANITE AND GREAT ROOM WITH VAULTED CEILING. OFFERING INCLUDES SEASONAL COTTAGE WITH 365’ OF WATER FRONTAGE, DECK, DOCK AND LAKE VIEWS. $559,000

COUNTRY ESTATE ON 17+ ACRES WITH 1750’ ALONG THE CARRABASSETT RIVER. TOP QUALITY BARNS, STALLS, SHOP AND GUEST APT. MINUTES TO SUGARLOAF.

EMBDEN POND — SPACIOUS & FUN FOUR-SEASONS LAKEFRONT HOME WITH BEAUTIFUL NEW KITCHEN & UPGRADES THROUGHOUT. 5800SF WITH GREAT ROOM, DECKS, HOT TUB, DOCK & LAKE VIEWS! PERFECT FOR ENTERTAINING. $599.000

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Why Buy 1 Cottage When You Can Have 2! “FishA-Do Haven” – 1st Offering in 30+ Years. Both 2-BR Camps are Fully Yr-Rnd, Well Maintained, Furniture Included. WF with Dock, Small Boat Launch. $269,000

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HANCOCK POND, EMBDEN Log Cabin with 135 ft. of shoreline. Charming. Dock, boat house, and even a boat! Turn-key for your immediate enjoyment. Hancock Pond is approx. 320 acres and max. depth of 106 ft. $197,000.

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Jefferson, Café

Beautifully renovated bakery and café in Jefferson is ready for opening. Café has everything you need to start cooking now–fryolators, sandwich units, proofer, pizza oven, stove, grill top, refrigerators, freezer, walk-in cooler. New tables are in place and waiting for customers to enjoy their meals. $295,000

Jefferson – This beautiful home is a dream—350' of waterfront, dock and gazebo at waters edge. Overlooking the water is a 2 bedroom, 2½ bath home with sunroom that leads out to a large deck and screened-in room with outdoor kitchen & cozy chairs for watching the gorgeous sunsets. Inside is a family room, large dining/living room with fireplace, office, and master bedroom with outside deck. Yard is beautifully landscaped along with apple and pear trees, lighted path to waterfront, greenhouse & 3-car garage. Must see! $389,000

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Terrace Heights Condominium

25 Preservation Lane, South Portland

14 Luxury townhouse style condos being built! Abutting South Portland conservation area with a pond and views of the White Mountains! Featuring 3 bedrooms, 2.5 bathrooms, an open layout with tall ceilings, and crown moldings on the first floor. Enjoy a living room with a gas fireplace, air conditioning, go outside to your patio or up and out through your master bedroom to your balcony! Allowances are for flooring, kitchen, counters, and appliances including washer and dryer. Close to shopping, schools, interstate, restaurants, mall and more. MLS#: 1347023 $353,000 No site visits without listing broker present.

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Maine Forests - Experience the Value

186-acre home, farm and timber investment

The Benson Homestead and Forest is an attractive central Maine investment property, highlighted by a wellmaintained farmhouse with active rental income. Open fields provide farming opportunities and the wellstocked timberland, featuring quality upland hardwoods and white pine, is a source of income and recreation.

217 acres for woodlot management and recreation

Saddleback Ridge Forest includes the landmark Saddleback Ridge as part of its rolling terrain covered with mixed species forest. This is a solid, long-term timberland investment with extensive internal trails allowing for hiking, snowshoeing, hunting, birdwatching, ATV riding and enjoying the solitude. Locations

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oceanFront cedar-shingled year-round three-bedroom home, 2,400 square foot, two bath, quaint and cozy wooded location. Refurbished kitchen. 1.4 acres and 375 feet of bold shoreline. Great views, beach, deck. Near historical society, town tennis, and sailing. $599,000

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turn oF century 3 or 4 bedrooM circa 1905 home. Breakfast deck, bay window sunroom, detached studio/guest cabin amidst delightful open woods. Whimsy, comfort, and convenience near Dark Harbor village. $210,000

an inviting year round hoMe Dark Harbor Village, just steps from summer shops. Built in 1920, completely renovated in 1978. Open floor plan kitchen/ dining room, large living room, master bedroom/bath/ jacuzzi, guest bedroom, first floor bedroom and full bath. Ample acreage with ROW to buildable lots. Enjoy life in a quaint and historic island summer community. $300,000

kedears hill saltbox three-bedroom home on private road to shared sandy private beach. Neighboring meadows, southern exposure, garden spot, large lot next to highest island point. Well-built, efficient. Oak flooring, workshop. Wonderful first or second home. $225,000

Four-bedrooM greek-revival Near Dark Harbor. A welcoming home with over two acres of lawn and meadow all tucked behind the cedar hedge. Kitchen, dining room hearth, living room fireplace, two full baths, first floor bedroom, three upstairs, porch, pantry laundry, attached shed and two-car detached barn with insulated loft. Fine exterior detailing. Excellent large garden spot. $195,000

sherMan dodge hoMe near Dark Harbor. Carefully constructed in 1912, by island builder Frederick Lee, this three-bedroom house is being sold “as is” with all fixtures and furnishings. Eight-foot ceilings, hard pine flooring, wainscoting, pocket doors, finished attic, covered porch, playhouse, garage and woodworking shop. New drilled well fall 2016. Sunny yard edged with woods. A great, well-cared for family home! $135,000

Meadow Pond Must see! 1850s Greek Revival Completely Renovated 1992, historic detail preserved. 4.5 acres on pond, sweeping views, lovingly landscaped meadow. Kitchen, living room, two bedrooms, two baths, maple & ash flooring. Easy to heat. Two detached guest studios, green house, tool shed. Large sunny garden spots, seasonal stream. A real gem! $200,000

1890’s Meadow Pond brook Three-Bedroom, Two-Full Bath Home. 2.72 acres of lawn, yard, light woods bounded by brook with just a peek over the pond. Kitchen, dining room, family room, den, living room, very accommodating. Well maintained, exterior just painted. Great family home and location. $165,000

well-built 1973 cedar shingle cape on 4.4 acre lot. Set back from road convenient to town and ferry, nearby golf course. Kitchen, dining room, living room fireplace, laundry and half bath, two bedrooms and full bath upstairs. Attached garage, detached garage/shop, green house and shed. A comfy year-round or summer home. $160,000 sale Pending

| MLS 1347139 | Contemporary Cul-de-sac

Floor Bedroom | $440,000

islesboro | MLS 1337200 | 74+/- Acre peninsula | dock & pier 4 BR | 4 BA | Home + Cottage | 6,800’ frontage | Beaches | $4,495,000

camden | MLS 1339090 | Historic Victorian | great Location 5 BR | 4 BA | In-Law Apt. | Fenced Backyard | $1,195,000

cUsHinG | MLS 1309837 | unobstructed Views and privacy 4 BR | Modern Amenities | Waterfront Access | $949,000

bristol | MLS 1348545 | South Bristol Harbor Frontage 4 BR | 4 BA | 6.65 Acres | Home, Barn, dock & Float | $2,295,000

camden | MLS 1339516 | Architect designed Contemporary 4 BR | 3+ BA | Stunning penobscot Bay Views | $1,050,000

Completely renovated and restored in 2006 from basement to attic, this home offers all modern utilities including central air, 7-zone double furnace heat system and all new plumbing and electric. With 5 spacious bedrooms, 2 full and 3 half baths, there is plenty of room for family and guests. The chef’s kitchen is beyond anyone’s wildest expectations, with a 60” Wolf range, Sub-Zero refrigerator and granite countertops great for entertaining.

Offered at $1,099,000 | MLS 1300530

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Amazing views of Cape Porpoise Harbor! Endless possibilities abound with this quaint 4 bedroom 2 ½ bath home in the heart of the village. Sweeping yard and gardens leading to unobstructed water views. Turn this into your dream home or many other options with Cape Porpoise Square Zoning. It will not last long!

Offered at $925,000 | MLS 1350888

Dramatic, 3400+/- SF, shingle-style Cottage home with three levels, four bedrooms and 4.5 baths. Breathtaking panoramic ocean views from every room, especially from the great room and gourmet kitchen. Whimsical 800+/- SF guest cottage designed like a lighthouse with a wraparound porch and turret. $1,590,000 MLS#1338776

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JUNIPER POINT WATERFRONT

Winterized 4BR/2.5BA cottage in the coveted Juniper Point community. West-facing frontage & deep-water dock, living room with 16’+ ceiling, fireplace & porch. $1,295,000

SOUTHPORT ISLAND OCEANFRONT

4BR/3.5BA Whitten-designed home w/ guest cottage & barn on 9+ acres. Views of the Atlantic & area islands. 3-bay garage, elevator, 3 fireplaces & generator. $3,200,000

CLASSIC OCEAN POINT COTTAGE

4BR/1BA classic seasonal cottage. Westerly facing with a large porch/deck for views of Card Cove & spectacular sunsets. $525,000

OCEAN POINT COTTAGE

Property features two cottages: a 2BR and a 1BR. Spectacular panoramic views with 200’ +/- of frontage on Linekin Bay and a deep-water dock. $895,000

CAPE NEWAGEN SOUTHPORT

3BR/3BA home with 91’ of frontage & rights to a substantial dock & float on Cape Harbor. One floor living, garage, workshop & 3-season porch. $775,000

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DAMARISCOTTA RIVER WATERFRONT

3BR/2BA cape with 315.2 ft of waterfront & access to a common deep-water dock. Living room w/ fireplace & river side deck. $499,000

Swan Lake

Notably one of THE most remarkable properties on this desirable lake!

Custom built w/3314 sq.ft., Cathedral ceiling in Great Room will awe you. Access to Waterfront deck from both levels & garage.

1.5 Acres w/ 285’ frontage and dock for the boats! Expansion Possible.

MLS: 1304620 | $529,900

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Swan Lake

MLS: 1287308 | $299,900

Chalet on 5+ Acres, 330' of lakefront. Kitchen w/ Granite island, stainless appliances, opens to cathedral living room. Master features oversized shower spa, jetted tub, dual vanities & walk-in closet.

Finished lower level w/ full bath, kitchenette & bar. 3-room apartment over 3-bay garage. $499,900

Belfast

Built in 2003, nothing spared here folks!

Captivating views from every room, wraparound deck, lower level patio, Great Room w/fireplace, Master En-Suite w/fireplace & jetted tub, family room on lower level with walkout to the shore!

MLS: 1302727 | $349,900

The Captain Henry J. Chaples House. Meticulously maintained & updated; Circa 1870 Sea Captains Colonial offering 12 rooms, formal dining and front parlor. 1st floor bdrm and den. Original barn transformed magnificently to lovely studio w/ separate entrance. Nearly an acre, walk to town. $425,000.

Belfast

Custom built 3/2 home features intricate details throughout. Lovely wood floors, seasonal water views and easy access on the Rail Trail which leads to the Belfast Waterfront. Water facing screened porch and spacious deck. Must SEE!

MLS:1295111 | $229,900

Lovingly renovated 3/3, New England Cape on 2.75 acres, offering spacious, well-appointed eat-in kitchen, large dining and living rooms. Laundry & mud room w/ entrance to fenced yard for pets & chickens. Detached heated garage. Circular paved driveway. Only 3 miles from Belfast Waterfront. $ 189,900

museums and oceanfront parks from this in-town, 3 bedroom 1850s home on spacious .66 Acre lot, in Historical Sea Captains Village along the Mid Coast. Eat-in kitchen, spacious dining & living rms, detached garage and beautiful lot. $185,000

Belfast Commanding views across Penobscot Bay from this Contemporary, only 5 miles to downtown Belfast waterfront. Built in 2005, this 1624 sq. ft home features access to oceanfront from every room! City utilities, private development. Enjoy lobster bakes on your own beach!

MLS: 1283853 | $549,900

on U.S. Rt. 1 makes this ideal home office, accounting, legal or medical facility.

MLS: 1290995 | $254,900

MIDCOAST HOTEL

Well-known Midcoast hotel with 80 refurbished rooms and suites. Includes restaurant, indoor pool, fitness center & other amenities.

KENNEBUNKPORT HOTEL AND MARINA

Unique riverfront hotel & marina property with 50+ boat slips. Short walk to Kennebunkport's shops, restaurants & tourist activities.

LEWISTON RAMADA

Full service hotel with 117 rooms and suites. Property includes restaurant, lounge, and banquet facilities, indoor pool and fitness center.

NORTHERN MAINE INN

Established interior corridor hotel nearby to the Canadian border at the intersection of US Route 1 and I-95. Large comfortable rooms and suites, restaurant & lounge.

OLD ORCHARD BEACH MOTEL

Modern motel located across from one of Maine’s most popular sand beaches. 30 -units plus a twobedroom cottage, In-ground swimming pool with additional parking.

OCEAN GATE RESORT

Boothbay area oceanfront resort with 65 rooms, suites and cottages on a 32 acre campus. Includes pool, tennis courts, fitness center and other resort amenities.

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#503 Charmingly renovated in-town farmhouse with 2700 sq. ft. of living space, a finished room above the heated garage, 3 bedrooms and a porch!! SUPER PRICE!! $189,000

#434 Gracious home on 100 ft. of Rangely Lake, year round, spacious open living areas, lots of windows. Great views. Close to Rangeley village. $449,000

#555 Contemporary 5 bedroom home on 2.4 acres, with hardwood floors, granite counters, large rooms, lots of light, and views of Saddleback. Full basement, too! $325,000

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The Return of the Native

By Jason Brown

Grandma appeared on the porch with her paints and her corgi, Emma. I sat upright with my prop, a book I wasn’t reading, and Grandma worked on her painting of me. Inside the front cover of the book, Adam Bede, my great-grandmother had written her name, Mary Hutchinson Fogg. “With a single drop of ink for a mirror, the Egyptian sorcerer undertakes to reveal to any chance comer far-reaching visions of the past,” read the first line. Grandma reached out, dabbed at the surface of her canvas, and retracted the brush.

I looked over the bay and noticed Dickey Saltonstall in his skiff erratically bouncing toward us from the mainland. Dickey, who only took his misfiring outboard to the mainland when he had to, was an old friend of my family—their only friend among the summer people. For the last few years since my parents split, he had also

been my mother’s boyfriend. Despite these marks against him, he was the only person on the island outside our immediate family I spent time with. A couple afternoons a week I taught him how to sail.

Dickey’s boat slapped a larger wave, and without warning he veered to the left and ground the bottom of his boat—and probably the prop—against the Turnip Island ledge. His boat had stopped; we could no longer hear the sound of his engine.

As the many times great-grandson of Captain Dudley Saltonstall, the colonial commander responsible for the disaster of the 1779 Penobscot Expedition, the worst American naval defeat of the American Revolution—and the worst American naval defeat period until Pearl Harbor—Dickey’d had a lot of problems with boats over the years. Refusing to engage the British, Captain Saltonstall led his fleet up the Penobscot River until they were trapped and bat-

tered to pieces. I considered myself a minor expert on American military defeats: Arrowsic and Kittery (if you counted colonists chased out of what’s now the State of Maine by the Abenaki), Bunker Hill, Arnold’s assault on Quebec. The Penobscot Expedition, so catastrophic in scale and so clearly the fault of one man (Dickey’s namesake), remained my favorite.

“Dickey’s been out of sorts since that letter from your mother arrived last week,” Grandma said as she peered around her painting at the bay. Eight days ago, Dickey had received a letter with no return address. Just a stamp saying Correos Mexico Oficina Del Gobierno. Wanting to hear how my mother had been doing in Batopilas (where she had been teaching English since the spring), and also needing to know when to pick her up at the airport, Dickey, Grandma, and I had been waiting for such a letter for weeks. According to the letter,

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she would arrive in Portland later tonight, on the last flight to land before midnight.

I wondered aloud if we should take the skiff to rescue Dickey, but Grandma pointed out that he had already set his oars and was rowing toward the beach in front of our house. Grandma believed in people helping themselves. As he beached his boat and trudged through a tangled pile of seaweed the ocean had barfed up during the last storm, I thought of pictures I’d seen of Omaha Beach—not technically an American defeat, though it certainly was for those who’d landed there. My grandfather had survived the landing but had never spoken of it.

After lunch, Grandma asked me to find Dickey and remind him we had to leave around nine that evening to pick my mother up at the airport on time. No one on the island had phones. Walking across the island, I watched the summer light flip through the maple leaves. The two-hundred-acre island where my ancestors had settled in the 1700s sat less than a quarter mile from the “mainland”–itself a larger island one could access by bridge–but I felt as if we lived far out to sea. Salt mixed with pine sap pinched my nose. I wished my cousins were here. While I stayed on the island to help Grandma, my grandfather had taken my younger sister and cousins upriver in our lobster boat to Vaughn, the town where we all lived in the winter.

I wanted to forget about my mother. I didn’t miss her, exactly—she never seemed happy to see my sister or me. The three of us lived together like roommates in the old house in Vaughn. I just needed to know that she was coming back—a need I wished I could live without.

Less than three months ago Dickey, Grandma, my sister, and I had driven my mother to the airport in Portland, where, in the parking lot, my mother had squeezed my hand. “I’ll see you again before you know it,” she said to my sister and me, and flicked her brown hair out of her face. Only thirty-nine, and thin as a schoolgirl, she had no grey hair. She didn’t want us coming with her to the terminal—too emotional for her, she said, even though she was only going for the summer. We stood around the car and watched her pass, waving,

through the revolving door.

Now the summer was almost over. In a few weeks everyone on the island except my family would drive south.

I reached Dickey’s house and peered through his screen door to where he sat in the dark parlor in a frayed chair. He told me to come in before I knocked and motioned to the other chair. I delivered the message Grandma had given me, and Dickey nodded. Lying beneath one of the front windows, Dickey’s dog, Persephone, opened an eye but didn’t raise her head. Dickey pushed out of his chair to select one of his records. Unlike us, Dickey had electricity, a hot water heater, blown-in insulation. Though he rarely spent it, especially on clothing, Dickey had money.

“Do you remember the Gulf of Tonkin?” he asked me.

“No,” I said. He furrowed his brow as he did when he talked, during our sailing lessons, about the historical forces that would someday recalibrate social inequality.

“I don’t think you were born yet when she said those things to your grandfather about the war—it wasn’t even a war then.”

My mother and grandfather stayed on opposite sides of the room from each other during family events.

“Your grandfather was a soldier,” Dickey said, “and on some level all soldiers think alike. Your mother was a moth in the firelight, you know what I mean?”

I nodded, though I had no idea.

“Then there was the night your grandfather threw the ham through the window. You were only about three years old then, right before your mother went out to San Francisco for six months.”

I’d never heard of my grandfather doing such a thing, and I’d never heard of my mother going to San Francisco at all.

“Sometimes people just disappear, John. A lot of them disappeared—like Andrew Young, one of the people your father lives with over on China Lake. And your mother’s friend Stacey—also a friend of mine. I was part of them, though I was too old to be. I’ve always been too old to be doing whatever it is I’m doing.” Dickey rubbed his eyes. Maybe he’d forgotten I was there.

“Your father wouldn’t go to California to get her, so I went. She was the queen of the hive out there. She raised people out of their chrysalis. Not everyone, though,” he

said, nodding gravely. “They were jealous of her flame.”

The mother I knew took hour-long baths, blasted Neil Young on school nights, and heated up supper from cans. In the morning she guzzled coffee and never cooked breakfast.

Dickey steepled his hands in front his mouth. “It was a very hard decision for her—going down to Mexico. She asked me to keep an eye on you…Thank god you have your grandmother.”

The record ended and the arm of the player slid to its cradle. He gazed out the window at the field that ran from in front of his house to the western shore of the island. The grass warbled across the 200-year-old warped windowpanes that always looked wet, especially in the sunlight. Dickey recounted the rest of what my mother had said in the letter he’d received from her: She washed her clothes in the river with herders. The canyon walls eclipsed the sun early in the afternoon. She’d met a woman, an artist from Germany who lived in a one-room adobe studio and walked through the canyons on sandals she had made from old tires.

Dickey stood and slowly shuffled to the kitchen, where I heard him put on the kettle and open the breadbox.

By the time I reached the edge of his field, the music had returned—the same record. The sound followed me down the trail.

After dark, Grandma and I met Dickey at the island landing, and we all climbed into the skiff. Grandma pulled on the starter cord, and the engine coughed but didn’t start. I told her to let me try.

“Wait,” Dickey said. “She’s not coming back. I’ve been trying to warn you.”

Grandma looked at him for what seemed like a long time. “How did you try to warn us? How, exactly? Oh, for God’s sake.”

“She said she was in love. I wanted to warn you.”

Grandma didn’t respond. The hull rocked under us. Across the water, a green light flashed on the black hump of the mainland. Though I wouldn’t have said so to Grandma or Dickey, I never wanted to see my mother or hear her voice again. As if I’d spoken my thoughts, they both looked at me, and I wanted to claw back what I felt.

The great blue heron that often rested on the rocks next to the dock spread its wings and leapt into the darkness. We couldn’t trace its gray body against the night sky, but we could hear the whoosh of its wings and sense the air displaced by its flight brush the surface of the water. No one could stay aloft forever, not even my mother. I didn’t hate her, couldn’t afford to.

As we walked across the island in silence, Dickey rested his hand on my shoulder. At Devereux’s Field, where the trail split, he lifted his hand and we began to part ways.

“Good night, Dickey,” Grandma said.

“Good night, Mrs. H.”

When Grandma and I reached the far end of the field, she stumbled in the grass and caught herself. Gripping the air with her fists, she swayed and stared into the gunmetal-blue shadows at the edge of the woods. If I had known then what I know now, that people do disappear, I would have taken Grandma’s arm and held her to me. Instead, I stood

by as she breathed deeply. A minute passed, and she started walking toward the house again. I stayed a few steps behind her. In the parlor I froze when she froze with her hand on my grandfather’s chair.

“I don’t care what your mother does, your home is with us now,” she said over her shoulder. When she had waited long enough to be sure I had heard, she climbed the stairs. I followed. At the top, she turned right, and I turned left. I undressed and climbed under the covers. I knew Grandma had meant what she’d said; I wanted to believe her. Outside my window the moon traced a silver line from the distant islands across the bay to the cove below our house. A breeze filtered through the screen and touched my neck, and I listened to the long shallow waves, the echoes of ocean storms, collapsing on the beach with a hush. n

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