abOUT Maine Fall 2014

Greetings from

PEAKS ISLAND A step back in time

Southern Maine Beaches

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TABLE OF CONTENTS features 6 14 16 28

Greetings from Peaks Island Which of you is the “Real Mom”?

Southern Maine Beach Communities

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OUT! As I Want To Be

arts, entertainment & scenes 12 21 22 32 36

Babymooning!

Bluto & Pook - A Book Review Blake Hayes - Maine’s Hottest Gay Radio Personality Antiquing Calendar of Events

plates & fares 30

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A Drink & A Dish

business profile 26

Lolita Restaurant & Tree Spirits Winery

finance 25

Funny Finance with Liz Winfeld

marryMAINE: weddings 38 40 43 44

Your Ogunquit Wedding gayweddingsinmaine.com Same-sex Couples Sid’s Picks

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from the editor....

Welcome to the second issue of abOUT MAINE! Our intent with this issue is to give readers a mixture of local, relevant articles to tempt the senses and awaken the mind.

As summer temps drop and the morning and evening air gets nippy, Maine remains a vacation paradise. The southern Maine beaches, destinations like Peaks Island, and actually the entire state offer LGBT residents and tourists a bounty of things to do, places to see, extraordinary eateries, breathtaking vistas to embrace, and fun for the whole family.

Though summer is drawing to a close, the “shoulder season” in Maine is no less impressive. This issue invites you to wander the state in search of that which intrigues you. I guarantee you’ll find it here … old and new!

Maine history abounds. Some “treasures and gems” are as obvious as the island of Peaks, but often many are tucked away in one of hundreds of Maine antique shops and galleries. Enjoy a stroll through time … and a few antique shops … with our friends Sid Tripp and Lyn Tesseyman.

Finally, I’d like to thank all our readers for your feedback on the inaugural issue of abOUT MAINE. From what you shared with us and the ongoing requests for copies, it was a huge success! Your kind words were inspiring. Also, thank you to our advertisers for being part of this journey and having faith in us. To all, we hope you enjoy this issue, and please feel free to continue to give us your feedback and suggestions for articles. Your support is appreciated!

Publisher: Wendi Smith wendi@rfbads.com Editor-at-Large: Sid Tripp info@proactiveresources.com Copy Editor: Belinda Carter Calendar Editor: Jenn Rich jrich@rfbads.com Contributing Writers: Christine Palmer, Frances Reed, Jennifer Boggs, Bill Caldwell, Lyn Tesseyman, Liz Winfeld Design & Production Manager: Katie Grant katie@kgrantdesign.com Account Executive: Lyn Tesseyman lynt@rfbads.com Account Executive: Jenn Rich jrich@rfbads.com Account Executive: Pat Demos patdemos@gotravelmaine.com abOUT maine magazine is a production of: RFB Advertising LLC Cover Photo courtesy of Maine Historical Society abOUT maine magazine 266 Meadow St. Rockport, ME 04856 For subscription info see page 21 or call 207-230-0260 x6 To advertise in the next issue please contact: Wendi Smith wendi@rfbads.com All rights reserved. Reproduction in whole or in part without written permission is prohibited. This magazine is made possible by the participation of advertisers. We offer them our thanks and ask you to consider them first when patronizing businesses in Maine.

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Greetings from

PEAKS ISL AND

By Christine Palmer

This four-story structure with annex replaced the initial smaller Peaks Island House in 1904.

This incarnation of the hotel burned in 1934.

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Ask frequent visitors to Peaks Island what they like about the place and you may have a hard time getting them to stop with the accolades. Magical. Quaint. Fabulous. Wonderful. Serene. Peaceful. Beautiful. Tranquil.

Breathtaking. Idyllic. And of course, fun.

“I know it sounds corny, but I call it my soul home,” says Ginger Kenney, a retired nurse from Portland. Ferry rides to the island for visits to relatives started for Kenney when she was just three years old. Later, beginning in 1993, she and her husband began taking yearly twoweek vacations on Peaks, where they rent a cottage each fall.

Confesses Kenney, “When I was a little kid, it actually was not my favorite place, because the beach we went to was rocky.” She preferred the sandy environment of Old Orchard Beach in those days. That preference soon changed after she visited Peaks as an adult and was seduced by the island’s energy.

“I get off that ferry and everything falls away,” Kenney says. “You just leave behind anything that might be troublesome.”

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The bathing beach below the Gem Theater on Peaks Island, circa 1900. Built in 1884, the building was initially a roller skating rink.

The Gem Theater, which opened in 1898 and operated through the mid 1920s, was a popular summer stock theater. The building was destroyed by fire in 1934.

The Portland Fire Department’s Hose 12 operated out of the Peaks Island Fire Station. This circa 1912 photograph, taken by Horatio N. Brackett, depicts the traditional horse drawn fire hose cart, which would accompany a ladder cart to a fire site

One thing visitors never have to worry about is whether the island is gay-friendly. It is.

“It’s absolutely gay-friendly,” says Jayson Mathieu, wedding director for The Inn on Peaks Island. “It’s family-friendly, it’s gay-friendly.” Mathieu says he’s managed several gay weddings to date and has already begun booking LGBT nuptials for 2015.

“We hosted the finale of gay pride this year with a tea dance,” Mathieu said. “There were more than 350 people there. It was pretty spectacular.” As a gay man, Mathieu is “thrilled” that LGBTs can now marry in Maine.

“It’s a romantic place, even in the winter,” he says. “We have fireplaces in the rooms … during the shoulder season it gets nice and quiet.”

Because the island’s population morphs from 864, according to the 2010 U.S. Census, to between 2,000 and 4,000 during the summer, many visitors (includ-

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ing Kenney) actually do prefer to visit in the off-season, when the pace is slower and the mood quieter.

Sid Tripp, president and CEO of Proactive Resources Design and a co-founder of the DownEast Pride Alliance business networking group, is another Peaks Island fan.

“I spend a lot of time on Peaks in the summer,” Tripp wrote in an email. “It’s a really quaint island, easily accessible by a 12-minute ferry ride.” Tripp says he particularly enjoys watching “the nightly game of cards the old-timers have in the bar at The Inn on Peaks Island.”

Kenney, Tripp, Mathieu, and other frequent day-trippers to the popular Casco Bay island destination helped us put together a long list of things to do and see on Peaks Island. Here are but a few. (or you can always do what a lot of visitors love best—absolutely nothing.)

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APPRECIATE. Peaks Island and artists go together like lobster and butter. Fine art, all with a Maine connection, is showcased at the Richard Boyd Art Gallery and the Gem Gallery.

BIKE. Brad & Wyatt’s Bike Shop supplies the gear; you do the pedaling. Rentals are a modest $10 for two hours ($15 for four hours, $20 for the day).

CLICK. Take a memorable selfie or a breathtaking scenic photograph from practically anywhere on the island, which one visitor says offers “typical, classic calendar pictures of the Maine coast.”

EAT. Where to start? Try a snack or a breakfast at the Peaks Café, dine at the Cockeyed Gull, The Inn at Peaks Island, the Peaks Island House or the Harbor View at Jones Landing. The latter offers live reggae music each Sunday during the summer.

ESCAPE. Referred to as the Back Shore, this is reportedly the place to go on Peaks for peace and quiet, as well as a great spot to meditate on the pounding surf. (Follow Seashore Avenue along the southeastern edge of the island.)

EXPLORE. Three historic sites on Peaks honor military activities, the Eighth Maine Regiment Living Museum, the Fifth Maine Regiment Museum and Battery Steele. There also is must-see place to explore that defies categorizing. It’s called the Umbrella Cover Museum, and it’s exactly what it says, a repository of umbrella sheaths. (Reservations required.)

INDULGE. Few visitors leave Peaks Island without having had a lick (or two or three) from Down Front, an ice cream emporium that also sells candy and island apparel.

KAYAK. Sea kayaking equipment is available for rent at Maine Island Kayak Co., where visitors also can sign up for lessons, guided day trips, or sunset excursions.

MARRY. On any given weekend there might be five or more nuptials underway somewhere on Peaks, one of Maine’s favorite wedding sites. Among the most popular venues are The Inn at Peaks Island, the Harbor View at Jones Landing, the Fifth Maine Regiment Memorial Hall,

and the Eighth Maine Regiment Living Museum & Lodge.

RENT. If you’re lucky enough to be visiting Peaks for a week or more, Harborview Properties and Ashmore Realty both manage rental cottages.

RIDE. Kids can saddle up at Horse Island Camp for the day ($95) or the week ($450) or take a trail ride with the family ($40 per person, per hour).

SHOP. For all the vittles you might need for a day or a week or a month, Hannigan’s Island Market is the place to go. For souvenirs and gifts, the folks at Take a Peak will help you “bring some of the island home.”

SLEEP. In addition to the Inn, places to stay overnight on Peaks include the Eighth Maine Regiment Lodge (“indoor camping” in 15 bedrooms with three shared baths) and the Peaks Island House (four rooms at the main building, one private cottage).

SOCIALIZE. People-watching begins and ends on the three-mile ferry ride. How to tell the locals from the tourists?

Easy, according to one source. “Because it’s a commuter island and technically a neighborhood of Portland, a lot of the people on board will be residents,” she said. “They’re the ones walking off looking tired and carrying a briefcase.”

SUNBATHE. Peaks is an island after all, and that means beaches. The three most well-known are Sandy Beach, Rocky Beach, and Centennial Beach. This trio is good for relaxing, rock hunting, and collecting sea glass, respectively.

TOUR. Peaks Island Tours offers a fun way to see the sites—in an open electric golf cart. Guides are island residents. Tours last a little more than an hour and cost $18 for adults, $16 for seniors and $12 for children under 12.

WALK. It’s only four miles around the entire perimeter of Peaks Island, and the walk is “an easy jaunt,” according to most. The entire island covers only approximately 740 acres.

WATCH. Several establishments boast of offering “best views of the sunset.” Pick one or just find a west-facing rock to sit on and enjoy!

MAINE HISTORICAL SOCIETY Because an understanding of the past is vital to a healthy and progressive society, Maine Historical Society collects and exhibits historical treasures, facilitates historical research, and provides programs that make history meaningful, accessible and enjoyable. Located in downtown Portland, we are comprised of the Wadsworth– Longfellow House and Garden, the MHS Museum, the Brown Library and the Maine Memory Network. To learn more visit us at www.MaineHistory.org.

PEAKS ISL AND A Brief History

By Bill Caldwell

Peak’s is the only island in Casco Bay, which has developed into a bedroom suburb of Portland. There are more than a thousand homes here built on less than 700 acres. Morning and evening ferries are filled with commuters who go daily to jobs in the city; and with youngsters who go to school in Portland. Peak’s is only a 15-minute boat ride from the city.

The Casco Bay Lines ferry is a focal point in the lives of Peak Islanders; its fares and schedules are issues, which bind all Peak’s Islanders together in a running battle with the ferry line. In frustration, they often threaten to operate their own private line.

Peak’s Island, so close to the mainland, was settled 350 years ago by the Bracketts and the Palmers, and later the Sterlings, Trefethens, Mittons, Munjoys and Trotts. The name of the island changed often, depending upon who was living here. The busy hand of George Cleaves is imprinted in its history. Cleaves held title, then gave it to his son—in—law, Michael Mitton.

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Two Brackett brothers married two daughters of Michael Mitton and sold out to B. Trott.

Peak’s problem was that it was in easy striking distance of the Indians. They raided in 1689, and wiped out many of the settlers. Only the presence of Major Benjamin Church and his soldiers, stationed there to help guard Falmouth (Portland), kept that fight from becoming a total massacre. The next year, a second battle drove the brave souls remaining from the island.

Yet soon a few settlers came back; the island was too handy, too big and too lovely to leave totally empty. But even 100 years later, at the time of the Revolution, only three major houses stood on Peak’s Island named after Samuel Peak.

By 1850 William Jones had begun to turn Peak’s into a tourist island for day visitors from Portland. Jones turned his boarding house into a restaurant specializing in shore dinners. Canadian visitors coming into Portland on the Grand Trunk Railway would take the boat out to abOUT MAINE 2014

Peak’s and eat lobster, clams and corn at Jones’ restaurant. By 1851, the tourist traffic was big enough for Horace G. Cook to put a fast steamer, Antelope, into service out to Peak’s Island.

In the next 30 years Peak’s became Casco Bay’s great summer attraction.

Amusement parks, boarding houses, hotels, skating rinks, and theaters dotted the island. A huge building, first used as the Forest City Skating Rink, became the Gem Theater, run by a Portland entrepreneur named Bart MacCullum. He staged musical comedies and Broadway tryouts on this Maine island. A kind of Coney Island amusement park, called Greenwood Park, attracted thousands of families on a day’s outing. A famed balloonist named Prince Leo was a top drawing card. The Prince would climb into his balloon, ascend hundreds of feet into the air, then parachute down to Peak’s Island. A Professor Oldwie astonished visitors by walking on water. He wore two outsize floats as shoes, and plowed across the water rather like a cross country skier over snow.

A fleet of steamers, able to carry several hundred passengers each, plied in summer between the island and Portland.

The day’s outing was olfered at a bargain; only 25 cents, which included the boat ride, plus a chance to see the open air Vaudeville shows. That great figure of Broadway, George M. Cohan, produced some of his first hits at the Gem Theater on Peak’s Island.

John Ford, the Portland boy who became one of America’s greatest film directors, started on his theatrical career by being an usher at the old Gem. Peak’s Island enjoyed fame as the supposed site of Longfellow’s “Wreck of the Hesperus.” It wasn’t. Longfellow wrote “The Wreck of the Hesperus” in Portland, in the year 1839. But the shipwreck of the Helen Eliza on Peak’s Island, on which the poem was supposedly based, did not happen until 30 years later, on September 8th, 1869.

The Helen Eliza was wrecked off Peak’s Island, with 11 persons aboard, ten of whom drowned. Here is the story, told by the sole survivor, Charles abOUT MAINE 2014

Jordan. But first, a word of caution.

Jordan was a colorful character, prone to embroidering facts; he’d been taken prisoner in the south in the Civil War, supposedly the sole survivor of a company of 80 men. At war’s end, Jordan was released from Libby Prison and boarded a schooner headed north.

That schooner was wrecked off CapeCod A— and Jordan was, supposedly, the sole survivor of that, too. He then took passage aboard the Helen Eliza, and became the sole survivor again, when she met her end at Peak’s Island.

Now, for Jordan’ account of the wreck of the Helen Eliza at Peak’s Island.

“During the afternoon of September 8, 1869, thick fog set in, followed by a perfect deluge of rain, and wind increased till it blew a regular hurricane . . . Both anchors were let go, but the cables parted . . . there was little doubt the vessel would go aground on Peak’s Island. Capt. Miller at the helm probably received his death blow from the main boom . . . The vessel struck heavily, killing instantly five persons with me in theforecastle . . . I was swept into the raging water . . .Seeing an empty barrel floating by, I was fortunate enough to secure it . . . The waves ran fearfully high. I was swept by George W. Clark and Benjamin Lurvey who were clinging to a plank . . . I decided I must not make myself known to them, for the chances of three clinging in safety to my barrel were slim . . . The undertow was very powerful, but I managed to get to a ledge of rocks. I heard Clark, hailing. I answered the call, enjoining him to hold on to his plank and get to the ledge. I did not hear him again and probably the two men were swallowed up in the undertow . . . I soon found the ledge did not form part of an island, but would be covered at high water. I plunged again into the seething waters. Another terrible contest with surf followed . . . Moments seemed like hours

. . . My strength was fast failing . . . Making one last desperate effort, I neared a shore and made a landing . . . Now it was nine in the evening and the past two hours of exertion told on me. I could scarcely lift one foot before the other, but I persevered and came to the house of Mr. Smith Hadlock . . . When rested, I joined the men of the island in a search for my shipmates. Mr. Jones, landlord of the hotel, secured me a free passage home.

The inhabitants of the island, mostly poor fishermen, made me up a purse of $18.”

Jordan swore he’d never come close to water again. So he went inland, and took up farming in New Hampshire, far from the sea. There he slipped on a log crossing a stream and drowned.

From Islands of Maine by Bill Caldwell. Copyright © Down East Books.

Used by arrangement with the publisher. All rights reserved. No part of this excerpt may be reproduced or printed without permission in writing from the publisher.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR Bill Caldwell was Maine’s most popular newspaper columnist, appearing three times a week in the Portland Press Herald and the Maine Sunday Telegram. He was an ardent boatman, who knew the Maine islands and island people well from cruising among them for more than 20 years, aboard his converted 30-foot lobster boat the Steer Clear. Thousands of his fans mourned his death in 2001 at the age of 81. In addition to writing Islands of Maine, he also wrote Rivers of Fortune and Lighthouses of Maine. All three books are still in print and available from Down East Books.

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look no further than the state whose official slogan is Vacationland! Maine is the perfect place to babymoon because it offers something for everyone: pampering at luxury accommodations, total tranquility in the woods, foodie tours (quench those wild prego cravings!), and sightseeing in coastal towns.

Follow these tips on making the most of your Maine babymoon!

TIP #1. PLAN AHEAD

A current trend in travel—and among expecting parents—is the babymoon.

A babymoon is a special vacation, a kind of last hurrah before a child arrives into parents’ lives. Search the hashtag #babymoon on Instagram and you become privy to 50,913 (and counting) photos of strangers’ babymoon experiences—it’s predominantly young couples on tropical beaches showing off her bump and enjoying mocktails.

Here’s the thing: you don’t need to be pregnant, coupled up, or the owner of an Amex black card to enjoy a healthy getaway to reflect and relax before your family grows.

So, who takes a babymoon? Parents-to-be awaiting their adoption process to finalize, those expecting the birth of a child by surrogate, and pregnant women and transmen (and partners) reap the emotional and physical benefits of a week or weekend away. A babymoon also offers a much-needed respite for those who are trying to conceive—a process that can take years— so don’t wait on baby to babymoon.

Building a family is an incredibly exciting and exhausting time in your life and relationship, and taking a sojourn from the daily grind—even if it’s an overnight at a local inn that serves a killer brunch—is crucial to maintaining perspective, reconnecting with your partner, slowing down your schedule, resting your body, and realigning your energies.

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Planning your babymoon for six weeks-to-four months before the arrival of your sweet new bundle is ideal timing—pregnant travelers will (hopefully) be out of morning-sickness woods, and a due date/adoption date is still far enough away that early arrivals pose an unlikely concern. If you reside outside of Maine, book flights to PWM early (many health care providers and airlines restrict flying after 35 weeks of pregnancy), check availability at accommodations, and request time off from work.

By scheduling your trip in advance, you’ll have something really special to look forward to and won’t have the added stress of last-minute bookings.

TIP #2. SAFETY & SICKNESS

If you’re pregnant and still feeling icky, now might not be the best time to get away. The last thing you’ll want on your romantic (or plutonic, if bringing a pal with you) vacation is nausea and fatigue. Most pregnant persons report feeling well in the second and third trimesters, but of course this is different for everyone. Keep your doctor in the loop on travel plans, and scope out nearby medical providers near your destination. Those with high-risk pregnancies may be advised to plan for closer-to-home getaways. Limit your sitting time while traveling and take breaks to stretch, hydrate, and eat! I believe that all Maine (and world) travel destinations should be LGBT travel destinations, but personal safety and comfort is of top concern; some folks may want to check on the LGBT-friendliness of a hotel, spa, or wilderness guide before leaving home.

TIP #3. BABYMOON WITH KIDS?

A babymoon can also serve as a great way to spend quality time with your children before a new brother or sister arrives. The key to a relaxing

babymoon is downtime, so try to find a special place where you can all connect, share, and laugh. Renting a cabin at a lake sounds ideal in this situation!

TIP #4. EXPERIENCE THE WORLD OFFLINE!

One way to maximize your babymoon is to unplug. Don’t bring your laptop or tablet, and resist the urge to tweet and post pictures of your babymoon. You may even want to babymoon where there’s no wifi (I recommend glamping at Frost Mountain Yurts in Brownfield). Live in the present and rekindle the romance—in real time!

TIP #5. BABYMOON WITHOUT BREAKING THE BANK

Another travel trend for the budget-minded is the staycation. Use the same principle for a babymoon that doesn’t jeopardize your purchase of a Chariot Carrier CX2 jogging stroller once baby arrives. If you can’t justify the cost of a hotel stay, turn your humble abode into an oasis of calm—don’t spend a minute decorating that nursery!

Pamper yourself with a meal out, book a massage or acupuncture session, or spend a day walking on the beach (in Maine that’s a lovely idea any time of the year!). Remember, a babymoon is for you, so do it your way.

TIP #6. LIVE IN THE MOMENT

Right now you’re probably thinking about this baby-to-be at least 50 times a day. On your babymoon, try and focus on the present (yes, pregnant readers, you can still delight in the kicks and somersaults you’re feeling). By making a pact with your travel companion to limit baby-talk, you’ll create space for other meaningful conversations to happen…or maybe you’ll even revel in some intentional silence—enjoy it while it lasts!

Dani Fazio is a Masters Candidate in the School of Social Work at University of Southern Maine, where her focus is on perinatal social work and LGBT health. She is a native of Maine and enjoys exploring rivers, restaurants, and offleash dog parks. Dani is a Notary Public and performs wedding and baby celebration ceremonies. www.StillpointWeddings.com. abOUT MAINE 2014

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“SO, WHICH OF YOU IS THE REAL MOM?”

This is the kind of question that LGBTQ families, which thankfully is happening in growing numbers, hear when they are out and about with their children.

By Anne Beldon

According to the 2010 census, 111,000 same sex couples are raising 170,000 children under the age of 18; 10% of these couples are adoptive parents. The majority of these parents (72%) are women. So most importantly, for LGBTQ couples, if you want to have a family, you are not alone! This issue has been politicized in recent years, especially with marriage equality on the forefront. Presently, there are 17 states that recognize gay marriage, opening up the issue of family building for all kinds of couples. However, each option deserves careful consideration and not every route to parenthood is right for every couple. Beyond the political aspect, there is the humanistic aspect of how to honor our children’s roots and guide them in the intimate process of claiming their identities. As parents, we need to be comfortable supporting our 14

children in both these processes, and the ability or inability to do so helps to inform couples as to which family building option is best for them.

As a Fertility and Adoption Coach, I work with all kinds of couples and single women as they labor to bring children into their lives. For many, it can be an overwhelming process that includes navigating medical terminology, scheduling multiple doctor visits, and coming up against one decision after another: • Do we want a known or anonymous sperm donor?

• Do we use fresh or frozen eggs?

• If we need a surrogate, do we ask my sister or use a third party service?

• What is this going to cost, and how will we pay for it?

The questions are endless. I work with people as they examine these

questions and try to find their own places of comfort with them, which can be different than family members or close well-meaning friends. One barometer for which family building option is right for any future parent is the ability to story a child’s beginnings that feels good and nests comfortably. For example, if you are a gay couple considering surrogacy with one partner’s sperm, an egg from a bank, and a surrogate you have never met before,you will need to develop language for your child around whose tummy they grew in and whose egg met up with your sperm, all of which you need to feel good about.

Children have that uncanny 6th sense about how awkward their parents really feel about something even when words say something different. Sometimes I ask my clients to imagine out loud that they are telling their child the abOUT MAINE 2014

story of how they came into this world, even “trying on” different scenarios to see which feels best. This is an essential foundation to then be able to support your child as he or she grows and develops his or her own identity.

Like everyone, LGBTQ families have an array of options available to them today that didn’t exist in recent years because of the many advancements in ART, Artificial Reproductive Technology.

However the choices come with the weight of questions that often have not been on anyone’s radar up until now: • Am I comfortable with my child potentially having full genetic siblings scattered around the country if I choose donor embryo?

• What will it be like if my partner has a genetic connection to our child and I don’t?

• How do I feel about using a surrogate in a developing country? In this country?

• Do we want an open relationship with our sperm/ egg donor?

• What kind of relationship do we want with our child’s genetic/birth/first parents?

These are questions that everyone must consider when looking at alternative ways of building a family. However there are additional issues unique to LGBTQ couples that invite attention. Some of these issues might be: • Which partner’s egg/ sperm will we use?

• For lesbian couples doing IVF, who will carry the baby?

• What legal steps do we want to take to ensure both partners have legal rights as parents?

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ers who are sensitive to and supportive of LGBTQ couples?

• How will we support our child’s identity development in a society where heterosexuality and biological families are both still the norm?

As these are addressed, practical choices and personal values emerge that illuminate which path will provide the most solid footing for a couple’s future family.

The story of how a child comes into this earthly world, though originally crafted by parents, ultimately belongs to that child. It is a story that needs to honor the truth and come from the heart and can withstand the vagaries of shifting political winds and various personal biases. While the nitty gritty decisions outlined above are necessary, the heart and soul of children’s foundations lie in our ability to narrate their life beginnings in a way that feels whole and true and supports them in their journey through life.

Anne Beldon is an adoption and fertility coach with an office in Portland and also works on skype with couples around the country.

She is a bio-adoptive Mom herself and has a passion for helping all kinds of families have children.

REAL MOMS Meredith & Harris

Meredith and Harris with their daughter, Frankie, who was conceived via sperm from a bank. Their fertility journey took 2 years, much longer than expected. They originally considered adoption but opted to first try themselves conceiving with a friend’s sperm. After several unsuccessful attempts, they turned to a bank, though it was the second bank and a total of 30 inseminations which finally brought them Frankie. Their decision of who would be the

biological mother was based on age- Harris is older, so she carried this baby, and they plan for Meredith to conceive and carry Frankie’s sibling. Both Meredith and Harris agreed that seeking support early, from friends, relatives, or a group is important, rather than carrying the load all themselves. They both attended the Portland RESOLVE group facilitated by Anne and became part of a group that has kept meeting after they all have become pregnant.

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Southern Maine Beaches

The Maine Beaches region, an hour north of Boston and south of Portland, stretches from Kittery to Old Orchard Beach and boasts 30+ miles of dazzling white sand. Despite the natural inclination to think of the Maine Beaches as your summertime destination, make no mistake about it…we are without a doubt your 4-season vacation option!

The quintessential beachside communities that make up the area are steeped in heritage and allow visitors an opportunity to step back in time.

Each offers a wide variety of lodging and dining options, and no shortage of things to do while you’re here! The Southern Maine Coast is a shopper’s delight. Additionally, outdoor recreation in the Maine Beaches Region is unmatched! Whether on foot, on wheels or on water, stunning scenery, and of course lighthouses, await your exploration! Bringing the kiddos? Make sure to check out one of our several exciting amusement parks or family friendly events! Add in golfing, birding, sailing, fishing and our robust arts and culture and what more could you ask for in a vacation destination?

The ease of getting to and around the Maine Beaches not only makes it your ideal vacation spot, it is also the perfect backdrop for your wedding or conference! Whether tying the knot or tying the tie we have everything here to meet your event planning needs. So what are you waiting for? To start planning your Maine Beaches getaway

Y ORK AND Y ORK HARBOR

Composed of what were once four smaller communities, the towns of Cape Neddick, York Harbor, York Village and York Beach formed under one government to create this beautiful and diverse town. It is famous for its long sandy beaches, and safe, family-friendly beach-town atmosphere. As each year passes, the area becomes more of a destination for weddings, family reunions, or just a place to get away.

Nubble Lighthouse is one of the most photographed lighthouses in the world and is a popular spot for residents and visitors alike. It has a small park with benches that make it a peaceful place to rest and reflect.

Once a summer-season-only resort area, York has become a year-round vacation destination.

The Museums of Old York maintain numerous historic buildings including Jefferds’ Tavern, the John Hancock Wharf, the Old Goal (America’s oldest jail), and the Emerson-Wilcox House.

This museum is located in the heart of York Village and offers lectures and special events throughout the year. It is open for tours in the summertime.

HARBOR BEACH

A family favorite is a visit to our zoo and amusement park. Lobstering, fishing, boat building and farming were the foundations of the economy until the late 1800s when the southern Maine coast began to attract summer visitors in large numbers.

The proximity of the Yorks to the cultural centers of Boston and New York City continue to make it one of the most sought-after places to live in southern Maine.

OGUNQUIT

Ogunquit is essentially a tranquil, small village where you can enjoy the simple pleasures at a peaceful pace, no matter how crowded it may become at times. It offers almost everything to almost everyone as perhaps nowhere else in the country can: the finest stretch of pristine beach whose glistening white sand flows wide and long; a picturesque small harbor, with its fishing and pleasure boats moving easily at their quiet moorings and crowned by a unique draw-footbridge; the quaint New England flavor of the Village Center with its countless restaurants, art galleries, gift shops, inns, hotels and guesthouses; awesome views of high waves crashing against rocks, and soothing views of gentle waters easing up onto clean white sand; kayaking, paddle-boarding and fine golf courses nearby; the Ogunquit Playhouse, movie theaters and small repertory companies; boat rides, either for sightseeing or for trapping Maine’s famous lobster or for fishing in the deep dark sea; the exceptionally stirring and exhilarating Marginal Way footpath which winds along a craggy promontory shadowabOUT MAINE 2014

ing the vast Atlantic for a sandpiper’s view of the famed rocky coast of Maine.

Over the past 100 years, this attractive seaside village has evolved without losing any of its charisma or endearing quaintness.

When you see the powdery stretch of white sand curving into a backdrop of rugged cliffs, you’ll understand why Ogunquit has been drawing admirers for so many years. This site called “beautiful place by the sea” is suitably named, and the bountiful beach is a special treasure in Maine whose rockbound coastline yields few such vast, open places.

The Marginal Way is a paved footpath atop the cliffs, meandering through bayberry and bittersweet bushes, gnarled shrubs of fragrant sea roses, shaded alcoves, and expansive views of the Atlantic with all its varying moods.

There is no better place to unwind and be overwhelmed by the immensity and vastness of nature, then come away feeling humbled and contented yet remarkably uplifted and refreshed.

Maine has few small harbors as picturesque as Perkins Cove. Stand on the white painted drawbridge and watch the fascinating life of this little port and of the numerous birds living in the birdhouses nailed to the pilings under the footbridge. Lobstermen constantly shuttle in and out with their pots and catches, and sailing ships and fishing parties make their way through the crowded harbor, leaving for or coming in from a day of relaxation or adventure.

Ogunquit began to lure fine artists in the late 1880’s, when they stumbled upon the artist’s paradise of Perkins Cove, which was then a small picturesque inlet with colorful, sturdy New England sailing dories and weathered fish shacks. By the end of the 19th century, Ogunquit had become a well-established artist colony. You can experience our art colony today at the Ogunquit Museum of American Art, praised as “…the most beautiful small museum in the world.” Perched high above the rocks in Narrow Cove where artists used to congregate, the Museum’s all-glass east wall looks dramatically out over an expanse of ocean. The lawn is dressed with whim-

sical, oversized wood sculptures and a small pond where butterflies gather.

Additionally, Ogunquit offers a profusion of galleries, many still in Perkins Cove, where fine original art can be viewed and purchased.

Ogunquit has been similarly blessed with performing arts. Since 1933, top stars perform on the stage of the splendid Ogunquit Playhouse. It continues the tradition of high theatrical standards and the excellent quality of performances and productions for the enjoyment of future generations who flock to this small town on the Maine coast. Arts prevail in Ogunquit as galleries and summer theatre are still an important part of its landscape.

WELLS

Beautiful and historic Wells continues to be one of the finest family vacation spots anywhere, offering seven miles of coastline, the nationally recognized Wells Reserve at Laudholm and the Rachel Carson National Wildlife Preserve.

We are easily reached by car off Maine Turnpike Exit 25 just 1 hour north of Boston. The Wells Regional Transportation Center is home to the Downeaster Passenger Train operate

by Amtrak, which runs from Boston’s North Station.

Wells boast approximately 4,000 lodging accommodations from cozy Inns and B&B’s, to fine hotels, motels, private beach homes and resorts as well as campgrounds with options from simple tenting sites to full service for recreational vehicles.

Dining selections include lobster and clam shacks, family-friendly restaurants and fine dining establishments.

Recreational activities include kayaking, canoeing, fishing, sailing and surfing. Miles of paths are available for hiking, biking and strolling and several golf courses are located in the area.

Numerous local events and craft fairs are held at various times of the year and are open to the public.

The area offers historic sites, lighthouses, an extensive selection of antique shops, collectible bookstores, outlet stores and general retail stores for every taste and budget.

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We sincerely welcome you to our community where you will find friendly folks and warm hospitality. We want to help make your visit in Wells both enjoyable and memorable.

THE KENNEBUNKS

The heart of Kennebunkport, Dock Square, is full of the bustle and energy that draws people to the Kennebunks. From here you can take a whale watch cruise, browse through dozens of unique shops and experience the world-class cuisine for which the region has become known. The community boasts a quiet and quaint small New England town -- a great community in which to reside, relocate or retire. A strong sense of community and volunteerism is the fabric of Kennebunkport.

Park on the street (be sure to obey the posted rules), in the for-pay municipal lot behind Alisson’s or at the free municipal lot on North Street next to the Village Fire Department and spend hours strolling, shopping, dining and taking in the magnificent views.

Walker’s Point, the summer home of President George H.W. Bush and wife Barbara, is a world-renowned site. Walker’s Point has been visited by presidents, foreign heads of state and celebrities alike over the years. Drive, walk or bicycle down Ocean Ave, about two miles from Dock Square. Vehicles may only stop in the designated area; no stopping on the road is permitted.

Though the house is not open to the public, you can stop briefly at the designated parking overlook to snap a quick picture. Stop and see Anchor to Windward, the town’s new overlook spot, a special tribute to “41” installed in 2009.

Join us throughout the beautiful and warm summer months, the crispness of the fall season and for the first two weekends in December, when Christmas Prelude lights up the town with events from tree lightings to parades to craft fairs galore. Just up Spring Street you’ll find the majestic White Columns, where in-season tours are offered that will give visitors a taste of life in the past.

Around the corner on Maine Street, historic homes – several of them now inns – are worthy of a look as you stroll or drive past.

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Looking for a quiet place to take a stroll and experience a real New England town? Look no further than downtown Kennebunk, Lower Village, the residential areas and rural area of West Kennebunk. With its roots firmly embedded in centuries of history but planning ahead for a vibrant future, the community and its town officials are embracing change with new businesses and initiatives. You’ll appreciate the benches, flowers, and pedestrian plaza (a perfect spot to eat breakfast or lunch outdoors!) while strolling along past unique shops, numerous eateries and lovely parks.

Downtown Kennebunk is where you’ll find the thriving Farmers Market from spring to fall, numerous events from May Day to Old Home Days to Winterfest, and ice skating at the Main Street rink in the winter. During the summer months, a shuttle runs from downtown to Lower Village, for residents and visitors alike who wish to take in all that the area has to offer without having to worry about parking. And speaking of parking, free municipal parking is available at the former Garden Street Market parking lot and behind Perfecto’s and Frameworks at the corner of Main and Grove streets.

Lower Village boasts a vibrant section of town, located just a stroll across the bridge from Dock Square. You can find shops offering everything from souvenirs, jewelry, clothing and find collectibles, to surf boards and fabulous eateries specializing in cuisines from all over the globe. The accommodations range from upscale inns to comfortable hotels to private bed and breakfasts and rental homes. Pause for a picture in front of the Kennebunk River Basin, or stroll the grounds of the serene Franciscan Monastery before heading farther down Beach Avenue to Kennebunk’s world-renowned beaches. During the summer, a shuttle runs between Lower Village, the beaches and downtown Kennebunk.

When the kids get hungry they can explore the boardwalk for pizza, Frenchfries, hot dogs and cheeseburgers, or you can choose from the many family style restaurants around town. Try your luck on the video games, jump on a ride, and treat yourself to an ice cream or a cold soda. Thrills, chills and frillstake your pick or do it all.

Catering to tourists and families is a way of life in Old Orchard Beach. The beach, the arcades and amusement rides, nightly entertainment, auto races and harness racing are favorite activities in the Old Orchard Beach area. Old Orchard’s Pier is the center of the recreational activities. Extending nearly 500 feet over the Atlantic Ocean, the Pier features shops, fast food, and games of skill. During the summer many special events are planned to entertain and mesmerize everyone in the family festivals, fairs, free concerts, street dances, and fireworks most Thursday nights.

Besides the Pier, the beachfront businesses offer gift and souvenir shops, restaurants, nightclubs, and arcades.

Our seven-mile long stretch of wide sandy beach is understandably the major attraction. But when visiting Old Orchard Beach there is a full range of things available to see and do in and around the Old Orchard Beach area.

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b o o k review Not all coming out stories are lilies and roses. Brunswick author Douglas Antreassian (AKA Pook) went there – to the cause of his pain as a closeted married man – and came out – with a brutally honest, laugh out loud funny and totally scandalous account of his enlightened mission to help others on similar paths.

Antreassian is a New Jersey boy turned Mainer, who is a self-admitted slacker and a food stamp reA Strange Love Revealed cipient. He is totally dependent

By Douglas Antreassian on his relatives Available on Amazon and determined $9.87 (Paperback) $6.99 (Kindle Edition) to find his true self and the meaning of his anxious, dysfunctional, and overly nostalgic life (re: his love of Howard Johnson’s in Bangor & lumpy Cream of Wheat).

After receiving permission from his Mormon wife to explore his sexual fantasies (in exchange ~ for all things, expensive furniture), he races against 90 days given him to discover his true orientation once and for all.

Once on his journey, Antreassian enters a world of raucous, small town Maine by way of lurid drug dens, seedy stalkers, and awkward one-night stands, all thanks to his passion for Craig’s List.

His Craig’s List experiences make for some very funny observations and witty listings 5 out of 7 isn’t bad – 43.

I’m 5 of the following: 1. Cute 2. Rich 3. Cuddly 4. Great in bed 5. Literate 6. Kinky 7. Amish Want to find out which 5? It’s your move.

BLUTO & POOK

Obsessive-compulsive, delusional, forever timid, and a hypochondriac, somehow Antreassian manages to find the love of his life and starts living for the first time as a gay man, albeit obsessed with the Pillsbury Doughboy (his childhood “teddy bear”), Moxie, and Hogan’s Heroes.

Unsuited to the job market, his early wanderings (supported in part on the backs of his increasingly impoverished relatives) lead him to jobs as a talking menu, a sightseeing tour operator in Salem, Ma (complete with a broken down hearse as “tour bus”), and eventually as a father of two, all the while managing to offend a cadre of unsuspecting private citizens, government bodies, and numerous psychotherapists along the way.

Antreassian set out to write an inspiring, stream-of-conscious personal work, full of local color and Maine humor.

Somewhat vulgar and crude in parts, this coming out autobiography is not your typical self-published offering. It is a funny and slightly kooky account of a self absorbed man, painfully self-aware, and brutally sincere, who happily tosses his wife and two kids over for his first male love ~ Bill (AKA Bluto).

Bluto & Pook: A Strange Love Revealed is funny, poignant, acerbic, chaotic, cringe-worthy, raunchy (in parts), innocent, and kind. One only hopes that Douglas Antreassian has at last turned his rich avocation of observation into steady work as a writer much to the delight of his supporting relatives. B-

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blake hayes maine’s hottest gay radio personality. by christine palmer

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Blake Hayes might not shake your hand when he first meets you. He might hug you. He’s that kind of guyfriendly, warm, thoughtful, articulate, and gay—gay as in “cheerful” just as much as in “likes guys.”

Out and proud since his teens, Hayes, 29, actually gets paid to have a sunny disposition, at least from 5 a.m. to 10 a.m. Monday through Saturday, when he and on-air partner-in-repartee Eva Matteson host the “Blake & Eva” show on radio station Coast 93.1 (WMGX-FM), one of seven stations belonging to the Portland Radio Group.

Hayes became a Maine broadcaster in January after working for two years in the much larger Houston, Texas market. That assignment followed four years in New York announcing minor league baseball.

Despite moving to a smaller market, Hayes says he couldn’t be happier and that, yes, he actually likes most of the songs he plays for Coast’s “hot adult contemporary” music format.

“I wanted to come to Portland,” Hayes says. “I needed to learn how to do mornings.” With family in the area (aunt, cousins) the Connecticut native was delighted to be working closer to home.

“Connecticut is now a drive away instead of a flight away,” he adds.

“Plus, this may sound crazy, but I missed the snow.” As a lover of good food, he also was attracted to Portland for its reputation as a foodie magnet.

Hayes grew up in the New Haven area. Shy as a youngster, he overcame that barrier by learning how to perform magic tricks. “Magic brought me out of my shell,” he said. “I loved being in talent shows and then did some theater in high school.”

He had “inklings” that he was gay as early as middle school, didn’t come out to himself until he was 18 and in college, and did not share that information with his parents (construction worker dad, artist mom) until he was 22. His folks, he says, were unfazed.

“I knew it would be OK,” he says.

“I could probably kill somebody, and they would still be on my side.” His

younger siblings, one brother and one sister, were also supportive.

Although he has had several serious relationships, the 2007 Emerson College graduate is currently unattached. “Everybody I’ve ever dated I’ve been ‘in love’ with,” he muses.

“I’m on good terms with most of my exes.”

On the day we visited with Hayes at the station’s So. Portland studios, he sported a T-shirt emblazoned with NOH8 in large, chest-sized letters, knee-length cut-offs, several orange bangle bracelets, and a cap adorned with a logo that urged “PLAY DIRTY.” (He confessed that he didn’t know what the phrase meant.)

According to Hayes, being gay, rather than being a roadblock, was a plus during the interview process for his new job, both with his boss and his on-air partner.

don’t get thrown out “ofPeople the house because they’re straight. Coming out is not a joke.

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“In some parts of the country,” he said, “you would be barred from the job for being gay. Here, I think it is part of why I got the job.” The powersthat-be realized that he and Eva—a straight woman “who has lots of gay friends”—could offer a new twist on the airwaves.

The announcers’ banter is never offensive, nor is it in-your-face LGBT, and it’s deliberately non-political. “I would never want someone to stop listening because I said something that was too risqué,” Hayes explains, “and it’s rare that I get on a high horse about gay issues.”

This is not to say that Hayes is blasé about the fight for LGBT equality and the damage that can be done by homophobia.

“People don’t get thrown out of the house because they’re straight,” he says. “Coming out is not a joke.”

To further make the point, he explains that the tattoo on his right forearm, the Roman numerals XIV, refers to the

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14th Amendment, with the middle characters creating an equal sign.

Beyond those few basic boundaries, not much is off limits for the Coast 93.1 morning team. Anything trending on Twitter or tucked in the day’s online newspaper is fair game.

During the time we sat with the dynamic duo, they offered commentary on such news items as Madonna’s near-brush with jury duty, Justin Bieber’s hair style, funny but dangerous attack cats, and Zack Brown’s potato salad Kickstarter campaign.

Matteson, 53 and a veteran of the station’s parent company for 10 years, describes working the early shift with Hayes—they’re both at the station by the ungodly hour of 4 a.m.—as something “like a marriage … but a different kind of match.” They both rise at 3 a.m.; he needs three cups of coffee, she only one, to get the juices flowing.

The chemistry between them is just right, she says, and adds that she felt it from the get-go. The two announcers hit it off immediately during Hayes’s interview process, sharing their passions for binge-watching TV shows on Netflix and rescuing shelter pets. (She recently lost her beloved dog Emma; he dotes on Oscar, his current black pit bull mix companion.)

Hayes and Matteson are both single, but one wonders when they would ever have the time to date anyway. In addition to the long hours they work behind the microphone, they are frequently seen about town at a wide variety of events, 24

fund-raisers, and community gatherings. During the summer, they are on deck (literally) and on-air at the Porthole Restaurant and Pub each Friday from 5 to 7 p.m. for happy hour.

Once word spread that the sandy-haired, trim and attractive Hayes (warm brown eyes, neatly groomed almost-beard) was a strong LGBT advocate, the invitations—some altruistic, some outrageous—began to roll in. The requests included Portland Pride and a gay salsa dance class.

“People started to ask me to emcee things,” Hayes said. “I try to do as much of that as I can.” On his blog, he lists rescue pets, children’s hospitals, MS bike rides, the food bank, and HIV/AIDS organizations as favorite philanthropies.

While he continues his honeymoon period at Coast 93.1, Hayes looks forward to a future he hopes will include work in television. TV allows for more task specialization unlike working in radio where running the board requires multitasking, he explains.

“In radio, you are the equivalent of an entire TV control room,” Hayes says while flipping dials, shuffling scripts, talking to callers, adjusting earphones, and carrying on a coherent conversation with his on-air partner.

Matteson says she’s happy to let Hayes be in charge of all that frantic activity; she prefers working the other side of the conversation. Clearly a fan of her on-air partner, she adds, “Blake is really, really likable. Everybody likes Blake.” abOUT MAINE 2014

FUNNY FINANCE

Money Management with a Sense of Humor By Liz Winfeld, AAMS, FA* When people ask why I mix humor with finances, I say that typical client conversations are about retirement savings, managing debt, covering housing and medical costs, combining finances with a new partner/spouse, planning for college, or helping elderly parents.

Really…what’s not funny here? Most people would rather clean their ovens with their tongues than do a monthly budget. In fact, my own oven is very clean!

If you can appreciate the humanity of so many of us dealing with these things, then you can probably also appreciate that we all might need help. If you do look for help, there are a couple of questions to consider.

First, do you qualify to work with a financial adviser?

Many people think you have to be “wealthy” to work with an adviser. But what does that mean? For some people, it’s three week-long vacations a year. For others, it’s three hours reading a book without being interrupted. Anyway, the question is irrelevant. It is not the amount of money that disqualifies a person from working with an advisor; it’s the degree to which a person feels s/he needs and wants help understanding how asset management works.

“Buy!, Sell!, Trade!” is indeed a lot of fun for advisers, especially when we are doing it with other people’s money, but our primary function is to help clients make informed decisions about their money. So if you are open to the idea of someone explaining things to you, then you are absolutely qualified to seek an adviser.

The second question is: what questions should you ask?

Liz Winfeld, AAMS Financial Advisor

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You can ask an adviser whatever you want. A successful advising relationship is a very personal one founded on mutual trust and a shared sense of what’s right for you regarding strategies and tactics. There is no such thing as a stupid question. Financial advisers weren’t born knowing what we know about the tools we use. We know what it’s like to be curious and to have to learn if a certain product is appropriate and even how it works. If you’re shopping for an adviser and you don’t feel like s/he is willing to spend all day if necessary answering your questions, then just keep shopping.

You can certainly ask an adviser their investment philosophy and what products they are most comfortable using.

It’s also fine to ask for references, (although if they offer up their mother, you might want to get another name too), and it’s absolutely okay to ask how FAs get paid. They are paid in one of three ways: • With an hourly fee for consultations and then a commission from buying products like stocks or funds • As a percentage of assets under management where all of the sales charges and commissions are covered with the exception of tools like insurance or annuities • On a transactional basis where every purchase or sale of a holding will have an associated sales charge.

So, if your testosterone level is not too high to allow you to ask for directions, it may also not be too high to allow you to seek financial guidance. We’re out here…come find us!

Liz Winfeld is an independent financial advisor, licensed and everything, out of Cape Elizabeth, Maine. She is also principal of Funny Finance, an organization dedicated to making finances more accessible and, therefore, more useful to more people. Feel free to email her at liz.winfeld@hotmail.com or call 207.860.0176. *P.S. Those letters after my name stand for Accredited Asset Management Specialist and Financial Advisor. I’ve been called worse.

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Lolita How do you create a restaurant with an intimate and friendly feeling? Start with just 877 square feet of space and then bring it to life with thoughtful design and meticulous detail. When Lauren Reiter set about designing Lolita, the recently opened restaurant in Portland’s Munjoy Hill neighborhood, the architect’s biggest challenge became what drove the design.

“There’s a lot of stuff in a restaurant like food, plates, and glassware. Because we couldn’t hide it all, we decided to make everything visible and attractive but still very practical,” said Lauren. “The physical shelving and the color and patterns associated with everything on them actually became the main design elements.”

The literal openness of Lolita— along with the informality of watching the Chef fetch ingredients from a shelf in front of you or scooting aside occasionally while a server selects a bottle of wine— is just the casual ambiance for which the partners were aiming.

There are just 30 seats (10 at the bar and 20 at the banquet), and it’s not uncommon for people who don’t know

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each other when they sit down to be exchanging phone numbers by the time they’re done.

Executive Chef Guy Hernandez plans the menu and helms the custom wood-fired grill, while his wife Stella Hernandez manages the front-of-house

and curates the extensive wine collection. Neil Reiter is the third partner, helping Chef Hernandez develop the menu, as well as Lolita’s branding and marketing. Occasionally you’ll find him at the host stand welcoming guests.

“We all had the same vision: a gath-

ering spot where friends and strangers alike could gather and share a plate of food, a glass of wine, good conversation— like an Old World neighborhood bodega,” said Neil.

With its small, medium, and large sharing plates, the Mediterranean-inspired menu reflects the bodega concept as well. Patrons dining solo or in groups can enjoy everything from a bowl of olives or a plate of cheese to a juicy porterhouse steak that serves three or more. And the apple tart fine is proving to be an instant classic; the warm dessert fills the plate with scalloped apples (bruléed for good measure) on top, the tart caramelized on the bottom, and then finished with a dollop of fresh cream.

When asked which dish is his favorite, Chef Hernandez was hard-pressed to choose just one, but he did admit to looking forward to putting some fresh fall ingredients on the grill: “Using the fire to work on some slow braised lamb is definitely on my radar for the coming months.”

Although it just opened in June, Lolita already runs like a well-oiled machine, a testament to Guy’s and Stella’s abOUT MAINE 2014

restaurateur experience. (The couple owned the popular Bar Lola, which closed in late 2013.)

According to Chef Hernandez, they chose their hours (11:00am-11:00pm every day, except Tuesday) so that there “could be a place that was always open when you were hungry.” Indeed, people are encouraged to graze for four hours or just stop by for a drink and a chat.

“From the beginning, the ethos and personality of Lolita has been, what we call, spirited,” said Neil Reiter. “If you’re interested in good food, fine wine, and a comfortable atmosphere with other spirited individuals, then this is the place for you.”

Tree Spirits

winery & distillery Have you ever celebrated a special occasion with maple wine or rung in the New Year by popping a cork of maple…champagne? You may think that the flavor would be cloying and unbearably sweet, but winemaker and distiller Bruce Olson explains that he’s worked hard to create maple beverages that have a “sense of maple about them,” and are pleasing to the palate. In other words, the last thing you’d want to do is pour it on your pancakes.

That sense of fun and playfulness is what makes Tree Spirits in Oakland, Maine such a hidden gem. Olson and partner Karen Heck are the co-owners of the small winery and distillery, and together their goal is to make the best wines and spirits using local agricultural products. In fact, all of the products they use come from within a ten-mile radius of the business.

“The maple syrup we use comes from Bacon Farm in Sydney, the apples and pears we use come from Apple Farm in Fairfield— we know the farmers that grow our ingredients, and that makes it more personal and more fun,” Olson said.

Olson started making fruit wines for fun in 1997. Since then, he’s won numerous medals at national and international spirits and abOUT MAINE 2014

wine competitions, including a Double Gold Medal for the Tree Spirits Apple Extra Dry champagne at the San Francisco International Wine Competition in 2011.

Tree Spirits’ unique offerings now include sparkling pear wine, pear brandy, and applejack, and they’re the only company in Maine that produces absinthe.

When she’s not working on marketing or generating ideas for Tree Spirits, Karen Heck is the mayor of Waterville and works at a small public health philanthropy business.

One of her favorites is the Apple Picnic wine: “I’m not usually a white wine drinker, but the Picnic wine is my favorite warm weather wine. It’s not sweet or heavy and tastes great alone or with fish, chicken, and salads.”

Heck and Olson both encourage people to visit Tree Spirits and try some of the unusual products they create. “Few wineries in Maine are making sparkling wines or distilling their wines to make brandies,” said Heck.

“And as far as we know, there isn’t anyone in the country making wine or champagne from maple syrup.”

The tasting room is small (the bar seats seven, but about a dozen can mill about comfortably) and sits adjacent to the production area. It costs $5 for a tasting, but Olson jokes

that it’s a great deal because patrons get to keep the glass, worth $4. The tasting menu offers 10-12 different products although each person is limited to five different beverages.

Tree Spirits is open Wednesday-Saturday, 12:00pm-5:30pm, but if you call ahead on other days, chances are Olson will be there and “happy to let people taste and show them around the facility.”

Though most of Tree Spirits’ sales are at the Fairfield headquarters, their products are in more than 40 stores throughout the state— and might just make the perfect, uncommon Maine gift for friends who are local or from away.

The Ciderjack Karen Heck’s favorite fall cocktail: Ciderjack. The addition of the Applejack cuts the thickness and the sweetness of the cider, and it’s great hot or cold.

• 2oz Tree Spirits Applejack • 6oz cider • Drink hot or cold. (Best to add Apple Jack to heated cider) • Optional: Sprinkle with Tree Spirits Spice Mix or add your favorite spices.

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OUT! as i want to be by christine palmer

Jeanne Dooley will not, will not, let the good be the enemy of the best. She’s delighted that Maine embraced gay marriage in 2012 (that’s the good), but when it comes to protecting and supporting LGBT youth she wants only the best. To her, that means a lot more effort on behalf of the state’s lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, and questioning youth.

“We need a call to action,” said Dooley, who became executive director of OUT! As I Want to Be in July 2013. Based in Rockland, OUT! has been providing both a safe space, via a drop-in center, as well as a diverse roster of activities for LGBTQ youngsters aged 14-22 for 16 years.

“Our resources are slim,” said Dooley during a phone interview from her home in Waldoboro, where she resides with her same-sex partner of 13 years.

“We need to deepen our support from the community,” she added, urging activists who worked hard on gay marriage—and who have grown a bit complacent—to now turn their energies to the plight of Maine’s LGBTQ young people.

“We have a state that’s pretty amazing,” she said.

“We passed gay marriage and that’s great, but we have an environment in which the suicidal ideation and bullying rates among LGBT teens is two to three times the norm.”

According to figures provided by OUT!, the num-

bers are indeed chilling. Nine out of 10 LGBTQ teens are harassed and bullied in schools, on the streets, or online. Some 25 to 30 percent of homeless Maine teens identify as LGBTQ, and all teens in this demographic are at greater risk for substance abuse, unsafe sex, and suicide.

Dooley is particularly concerned about gay and lesbian kids living in rural Maine, where LGBTQ youth frequently experience “profound isolation,” and where “pockets of homophobia remain embedded.”

For many of those young people, the day consists of riding a bus to school, attending school, and riding a bus home. As a result, much of the work of OUT! is aimed toward ensuring that Maine’s schools are safe and supportive.

“The drop-in center is very important,” Dooley said, “but the challenge is transportation. How does a kid, for example, get to Rockland from Wiscasset?”

Schools have no such accessibility issues and therefore, she added, “We really need to expand our work into the schools. It’s absolutely critical.”

To that end, much of the work of OUT! involves helping schools figure out how to organize and provide support for GSTAs. (The acronym is an expanded moniker for what used to be known as gay-straight alliances that now include transgender persons and allies.)

Has the OUT! As I Want to Be organization been successful in its mission?

“It changed my life,” enthused Lindsay Parker of Owls Head, a former member of the organization’s board and before that a frequent visitor to the OUT! drop-in center. “It made me more responsible and gave me new opportunities.”

Parker first dropped by the Rockland center when she was 14. “I had two friends who brought me along. It progressed from there. I liked the atmosphere and went at a time when I didn’t have much of a social life. It gave me one.”

Today, at 18, Parker is a recent high school graduate and says she is contemplating attending Southern Maine Community College for a degree in general studies and art. She identifies as “pansexual or straight,” and credits her involvement in OUT! with teaching her valuable skills in leadership, community activism, fund-raising, and non-profit management.

Chase Philbrook, 22, another beneficiary of support from OUT!, has his own deeply felt gratitude for the organization.

“I first became involved with OUT! my senior year of high school. I was 17 years old and a friend who attended told me I should tag along,” he wrote in an email. “I didn’t even make it in the door before I felt welcome.”

Philbrook says the center and the people associated with it helped him deal with the pressure he experienced at home to be perfect, both academically and athletically.

“If I had not had the encouragement and support of other OUT! youth and advisors,” he adds, “I know I would not be where I am today.” Where that is includes living as a transgender male, graduating from the University of Maine

in Augusta in December with a bachelor’s degree in mental health, working as a behavioral health professional and crisis worker (“my dream job”), and seeking out ways to educate and mentor other youth.

Postcards written by the youth of the program; supplied by Executive Director Jeanne Dooley

Philbrook says OUT! gave him the resources to come out to his community—he now lives in St. George—“in a

mature and graceful way that was by no means easy but a heck of a lot easier than if I had been alone on this journey.”

His story, including the intimate details of his transition from female to male, has appeared both in print and online.

For her part, Dooley is hopeful that Parker, Philbrook, and other LGBTQ supporters will help spread the word about the organization’s need both for monetary donations and for volunteers willing to be trained as advisors. (There are currently only six trained advisors, who go through a rigorous screening process.)

“We have a problem,” Dooley said.

“We have some solutions, but we have limited resources. We have smart, savvy people in Maine, and I want them to reflect back on what it was like when they were teens and to help.” She added that even under the best of circumstances, “the teenage years are not pretty.”

To bolster her appeal, Dooley cites data from a recent study conducted by researchers at the University of British Columbia’s School of Nursing of the effectiveness of gay-straight alliances in schools. Key findings from schools that have had GSAs for at least three years include a reduction by half in the chances of experiencing homophobic discrimination and suicidal thoughts among lesbian, gay, and bisexual boys and girls, compared to schools with no GSAs. The study also reported significantly lower odds of sexual orientation discrimination for heterosexual students.

“Our youth are becoming aware of their sexuality a lot younger,” Dooley explains. “We’re seeing an average age of 12 or 13 at the center. The world isn’t changing for these kids as much as it is for the rest of the world.”

OUT! Needs YOU!

Your help! Your skills! Your perspective! Your support!

Join us for a unique, first run, Movie Event* on Monday, October 20th, at 7pm, at The Colonial Movie Theater in Belfast, or Wednesday, October 22, at 7pm, at The Strand in Rockland. Out staff will be there to share exciting updates about upcoming projects, events and trainings.

For more information contact Out at outmidcoast@gmail.com or 1-800.530.6997 Please check our website www.outmaine.org.

To purchase advance tickets @ $20 for Monday, October 20th or Wednesday October 22cnd or to make a donation go to outmaine.org for PayPal. abOUT MAINE 2014

About the movie: “The startlingly assured feature debut from Sophie Hyde is one of the best Australia’s seen in years.” Stephen Rusell, THE LOW DOWN UNDER “The sensitively observed drama is distinguished by its structurally adventurous approach and the intimacy of its storytelling.”

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a drink& 433 Fore Street Portland, Maine 04101 THE DRINK & THE DISH AS SEEN AT THE GLASS LOUNGE AT HYATT PLACE (207) 775-1000 portlandoldport.place.hyatt.com

Lounge Hours: 4PM-1AM, 7 Days Prices: 3 Stars (Out of 4)

It’s a Thursday night in the old port of Portland, and people are thirsty. At the Glass Lounge, a 60’s urban retro “Mad Men meets Brady Bunch” watering hole at the brand new Hyatt Place, the bar is packed front to back with every shade of suit and high heel. Comfortably seating 75, the bar sees a very busy Happy Hour from 4pm-6pm, 7 days-aweek. It’s popular with an urban professional 30’s – 40’s something crowd, as well as gay hipsters & metrosexuals.

On the wall play classic sixties movies – Cat On A Hot Tin Roof and the ever-popular To Catch A Thief. Behind the long, sleek Black Galaxy Marble bar, bartender Josh Miranda is making magic.

Miranda is a good-looking man with dark cropped hair, immaculately dressed in a white button-down shirt topped off with a perfect necktie. He greets regulars by name and his ever-present smile as they squeeze up to the bar.

Miranda and his bar staff are a whirl as they mix up Strong, Savory & Fresh drinks with exotic names – Smoke & Glass Manhattan, Fig Infused Sidecar & Snow White’s Poison. The service is fast, the drinks are a healthy pour and the atmosphere is upscale urban chic.

Miranda is more than a mixologist; he’s a performer, a friend, a psychologist and a food & beverage director. He’s also one of the very best bartenders in Portland. He points out that “the personality of a bartender helps define the personality of the bar itself, and that’s what makes customers happy. It’s all about leaving a lasting impression”. And true to form, Josh delivers: At the end of the bar, two ladies are surprised with the mini dividends he left with their check. They leave the bar smiling. Miranda knows they’ll be back.

THE DRINK: SOME LIKE IT HOT Rated: 8.5 Stars (Out Of 10) Initial Sip: Spicy, sweet, citrus Order It Again? Yes, but with vodka Price: $10 Glass or $36 Punch Bowl (serves 4) Remark: The chili syrup kicks ass THE RECIPE: 1.5 oz Milagro Tequila .25 oz Lime juice .25 oz Agave Nectar .25 oz Royal Rose Three Chili Syrup 1 oz Blood Orange puree Top it off with San Pellegrino Blood Orange Soda Mix all ingredients in a cocktail shaker with ice. Rim glass with a mixture of regular chili powder & salt. Pour into highball glass over fresh ice. Garnish with a lime wedge.

a dish &

Chef Darren Bennett took particular delight in preparing his signature mouth-watering dish - Flank Steak with Mushroom Sauce with Roasted Baked Potato Steak Fries & Sautéed Swiss Chard. This dish was a delicious mix of flavors & textures and it’s presentation was outstanding.

Prices for the bar menu range from $8 Ricotta Gnocchi to $11 Peeky Toe Crab Popper to $16 Lobster Taco. The portions are very generous and many times are enough for two.

THE DISH: PAN SEARED FLANK STEAK WITH MUSHROOM SAUCE Rated: 8.0 Stars (Out Of 10) Initial Taste: Steak was aged & seared to perfection Order It Again? Yes Price: $24 Remark: Perfectly medium rare THE RECIPE: 10 oz Flank Steak marinated in olive oil & pepper ¼ lbs Cremini mushrooms diced ¼ cup Heavy whipping cream ¼ cup White wine 1 TBS Butter Pan sear steak on medium high 3 minutes each side (Medium Rare) Sauté mushrooms in butter on high – 3 minutes Add cream, white wine, salt & pepper, reduce 5 minutes Spoon mushroom cream sauce on plate Serve diagonally sliced Flank Steak over sauce Serve with roasted baked potato steak fries & sautéed Swiss Chard

Photos by Brittany Rae Photography

ANTIQUING IN MAINE

By Lyn Tesseyman

Southern Maine antiquing on Route 1 has been described as the best hunting grounds for antiques in New England, full of treasures waiting to be discovered. The search for antiques begins with forgotten boxes in storage and dusty furniture from barns, then auctions, and word of mouth start a piece’s journey. They later make their ways to the flea market tables, into shops, and finally come to rest in collections or people’s homes. To start your adventure, all you have to do is get on the road.

Northern Maine is full of things people have been collecting for years. New England Yankees were known for saving everything, notoriously crowding their attics and basements. The contents would often be passed on to relatives or find their way into auctions. Auctioneers and people who are looking to deal in antiques will buy from these auctions to sell them at flea markets or directly to dealers. From here, they are sold again and again until they find their way to Route 1. As things start moving South and getting closer to Portland, any antique will have changed hands multiple times with the value rising along its journey.

The world of antiquing can be overwhelming for anyone who is looking to start, but the first step is simple: find out what you like. Be aware that your personal tastes might not always be readily apparent and will likely evolve over time. Know whether your intention is to simply store the antiques, decorate with antiques, or give them as gifts.

Start your adventure by checking out flea markets and local antique dealers. By going in and looking at what they have, you can begin to familiarize yourself with the culture.

Get used to the pricing of the items in which you are interested, so you can spot the deals.

Vendors are out picking seven days a week to bring the best finds to the Arundel Flea Market tables.

They scour yard sales, auctions, and box lot sales.

Box lot sales derive from antiques inherited from relatives that have been passed down over time and eventually stored, packed neatly in old barns or on similar properties only to be rediscovered 50 years later. The items that are inherited are either kept or go to auction. As a property sells, all things inside sell to a box lot. From there, an auctioneer will buy the entire box lot, most of the time without really knowing what all the boxes hold. From there, the boxes head to the flea market.

It’s not uncommon to see antique collectors at the flea market armed with flashlights at 2:30AM in order to get the first freshest picks. You never know what you could end up with, which is half the excitement of a flea market. If you can recognize the value of an item, you can often purchase it at an incredible price. By 9AM, a box lot could be completely picked through, with its vendor having made his money back and more while the antique collectors take home treasures for their collection or resale.

To find box lot auctions, local dealers suggest the tried and true word of mouth method, as many of the box lot sales are not advertised. A great place to start is at your local shops and markets. The majority of dealers are well-connected in the community and will be aware of different auctions happening in the area.

If you have no patience for the bustle of a flea market, Arundel Antiques offers a user-friendly display to suit customers with any levels of experience. The next step from antique shops are specialty stores whose owners will go to flea markets and shops, find old pieces, and refinish them. At this stage, all the picking, cleaning, and refinishing has been done and the pieces are ready to go from the store right into your display. If you eventually find yourself perusing the finest shops antiquing has to offer, all of the pieces are ready for display in your collection or home.

ANTIQUING CHECKLIST • Ask questions about the antique.

• Talk to dealers and understand what you are looking at.

• Notice any chips or damages that would create depreciation.

• Know what you are prepared to spend.

• Know your own value of the antique.

• If you like it and it’s within your price range, BUY IT. The next time you come back for it, it will likely be gone.

Photos by Jenn Rich

A Day Antiquing With Sid We recently had the privilege of spending a rainy Sunday with Sid Tripp as he graciously showed us the ropes of antiquing. Sid has been a connoisseur and collector for 35 years with a particular penchant for McCoy pottery and Indian treasures. Our objective was to dive into the world of antiquing and glean some firsthand insight into how it all works.

After going through the Arundel Flea Market, we headed over to Antiques USA, whose doors have been open for the past 21 years from 10AM-5PM. every day of the year. Dealers come from all over the US eager to see what Antique USA holds inside its doors. It is so popular that patrons have to register annually and with an ever-growing waiting list, it could take years for someone to get inside.

Belle Dumais has been here since the beginning and watched it change over the years, though her thesis remains the same. “Customers come in looking for all sorts of things, and there’s something for everyone. People love it.“ Next we went to Cottage Décor, located in Old Orchard Beach, which has made its home for antiques inside an actual freestanding antique as the building was constructed in 1882 as a church and still boasts stained glass windows. Countering the dreary day outside was the shop’s bright, airy, oceanside feel.

Cottage Décor specializes in vintage painted furniture, decorative and shabby chic accents, antique pottery, mirrors, lamps, and linens. Owner Michael Roberge refurbishes forgotten pieces, breathing new life and new purpose into them.

You can also find a taste of the past in Old Orchard Beach with historic photos books and souvenirs. Michael, now in his 9th season at Cottage Décor, has created a feel of what things would look like in your home, so you can see it all come together.

We then traveled on to Cabot Mills, a multi dealer emporium with over 160 high-quality displays located in Fort Andross, a beautifully restored textile mill on the Androscoggin River in Brunswick. With new merchandise coming into the 16,000 square foot showroom, there is so much to look at and shop for.

Concluding our day over Pho noodles, Sid shared with me his thoughts on why he collects and his wisdom from experience. “ I love to spend time out antiquing to find treasures that are treasures to me. You never know what you will come across. “ Earlier in the day, Sid found a beautiful wooden frame, an item he’s been collecting for a mirrored wall concept.

He looked at the frame and could imagine exactly where it could be added. “Being out there knowing what you like and what you are looking for is important in snatching up great items. “ One of Sid’s best pieces of advice for new antique collectors is to ask questions on where your antique comes from and what the story is behind the piece. That way you can start to create a narrative as to where your collection comes from if it ever leaves. And remember, as Sid says, “the best way to get started is to get out there.”

A Passion for Antique Quilts

Betsey Telford-Goodwin, owner and proprietor of Rocky Mountain Quilts in York, has been exploring her passion for the art of antique quilts for almost thirty years. In 1987, Betsey relocated from her home outside Boston, Massachusetts to Colorado. Here her love for both quilts and antiques merged into the founding of Rocky Mountain Quilts - selling art in the form of American quilts made in late 18th century to c.1945.

Through the years Betsey has lectured worldwide on the history and sociology of this tactile art form; from early American Chintz quilts to Civil War quilts, Victorian silks to Depression era feedsack quilts, and the fabulous original Folk Art quilts that came out of each of these eras. Betsey’s extensive collection also includes early Amish quilts and African American quilts made through the 1950’s.

Betsey loves to work with a client on finding the right quilt for them from her collection whether it’s for use on a wall or a bed. Collectors and designers, both novice and expert, may choose from over 450 premier antique American quilts for sale in Betsey’s shop and online gallery. Betsey also specializes in the restoration of antique quilts using only original antique fabric the same date or older than the quilt being restored. RMQ is open all year by appointment for those interested in purchasing a quilt or have a quilt in need of restoration, washing, an appraisal, or who desire custom work. www.RockyMountainQuilts.com Betsey@RMQuilts.com 207-363-6800 York Village, Maine

Our staff will help you explore our vast collection of fine quality antiques and collectibles in our 16,000 square foot showroom!

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Folk Art * African American * Amish * Traditional * Crazy Quilts Offering for sale to the discriminating collector or designer the largest selection of premier antique quilts in America dating from circa 1780 to circa 1945. Also offering professional restoration of quilts using same date or earlier fabrics, appraisals, custom quilting, and quilt washing.

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CALENDAR OF EVENTS AROOSTOOK

December 5 Caribou Santa’s Workshop Celebration. Join us as we start the holiday season by lighting the Caribou Christmas tree and greet Santa as he rides his sleigh through town. The tree lighting starts at 5:30 p.m. and then the children can follow Santa to the fire station with their wish lists.

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October 4-12 Blue Hill Annual Foliage Food & Wine Festival. A weekend of superb food and wine on the Blue Hill Peninsula. Enjoy wine dinners, complimentary wine and cheese tasting, demonstrations, workshops and much more. The flagship tasting event, A Taste of the Peninsula.

October 10-11 Southwest Harbor Acadia’s Oktoberfest and Food Festival, 20+ Maine brewers, specialty-food producers and other artisans at Smugglers Den Campground. 207-244-9264 October 12 Blue Hill Peninsula A Taste of the Peninsula. Foliage, Food and Wine Festival, Sample food from area chefs, wine makers, and food producers. 207-374-3242 End of October Eastport Witches of Eastport Festival. A family celebration of Halloween with special dinners, ghost stories, musicians, pumpkin foods and cook-off, and prizes for pumpkin decorating.853-3120 November 8 Bar Harbor 20th Annual Early Bird Sale & Bed Races. Shop in your pj’s for extra discounts.

Bed & pajama parade begins at Village Green at 10am. Bed races immediately to follow on Cottage St. First Weekend of December Eastport Eastport Historic Homes Christmas Tour. 207-853-0800 December 5 Bar Harbor Village Holidays & Midnight Madness.

Welcome Santa to the Village Green at 5pm. Plenty of activities for the adults and children. Midnight madness sale held at 8pm-midnight. Great discounts, music, food, drink & door prizes.

December 6 Bangor Festival of Lights Parade. Downtown

Bangor.

December 31 Eastport Eastport’s Sardine and Maple Leaf Drop, New Year’s Eve. Watch as a giant red Maple Leaf is lowered at 12 midnight Atlantic time (11:00 pm Eastern) and at 12 midnight Eastern time as an 8 foot Sardine is dropped to Eastport’s downtown Bank Square from the third story of the Tides Institute & Museum of Art building to celebrate the arrival of the New Year in Campobello and Eastport!

207-853-4047

GREATER PORTLAND

September 30 Portland DEPA – Downeast Pride Alliance “Business After Hours” Networking Event.

5:30 – 7:30pm GLASS – Craft Cocktail Lounge, Hyatt Place Portland Old Port, 433 Fore Street. Cash bar, appetizers & media table for sharing business cards.

FMI: depabusiness.com October 22-25 Portland Harvest on the Harbor, Experience Maine’s finest culinary fare, featuring food, wine tastings, seminars, demonstrations and more with Maine’s top chefs. harvestontheharbor.com October 28 Portland DEPA – Downeast Pride Alliance “Business After Hours” Networking Event.

5:30 – 7:30pm The Porthole, 20 Custom House Wharf, Portland. Cash bar, appetizers & media table for sharing business cards. FMI: depabusiness.com October 31 Portland Sid Tripp’s 19th Annual Halloween Bash.

9pm-1am, Mariner’s Church, 368 Fore Street, Portland. $20 Cover, Live Band: Under the Covers, Ages 21+ with Cash Bars & Costume Required. FMI: https:// www.facebook.com/SidTrippHalloweenBash November 28 Portland Portland Annual Holiday Tree lighting in downtown, Monument Square. Come with your families to celebrate the beginning of the holiday season.

December 5-7 Freeport Sparkle Weekend. Three full days of holiday fun, Friday, Saturday and Sunday.

Photos with Santa, free horse drawn carriage rides, strolling carolers. Tuba

Christmas concert at the Freeport Performing Arts Center. 207-865-1212

MAINE HIGHLANDS November 29 Greenville Deck the Halls Holiday Celebration.

MIDCOAST

October 4-13 Damariscotta Pumpkinfest and Regatta. Various “start up” activities occur throughout the week, pumpkin decorating, pumpkin boat building. The “main events” occur 10/11-13 and include the pumpkin hurl/ catapult, pumpkin derby, kids activities, parades and the pumpkin boat regatta. damariscottapumpkinfest.com October 11 Thomaston Taste of Thomaston. Montpelier. Food and wine tasting festival featuring local chefs, cheese artisans. farmers, vintners, foragers and all things foodie. Live music. 207-354-8062 knoxmuseum.org October 11-12 Boothbay 47th Fall Foliage Festival – boothbay.org 207-633-4743 October 17-18 & 24-25 Prospect Fright at the Fort. Fort Knox. Visitors are led through the Fort where indescribable things lurk in the shadows. 5:30pm – 9pm. 207-469-6553 October 19 Unity Great Maine Apple Day, Cider-pressing, apple cookery, apple history, and traditions. 207-568-4142 October 22 Rockland 52 Tuesdays (an Australian film scheduled for release in 2015) - A fundraiser for Out! As I Want to Be, supporting and empowering Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgendered and Questioning Youth in Midcoast Maine. 7pm at the Strand Theatre, 345 Main Street, Rockland. Tickets available at the Strand box office. FMI outmidcoast@gmail.com October 25 Bath Bloodsuckers! Witches! Demons! (No, we don’t mean the State House.) It’s Maine’s deranged Reverend, “Handkerchief” Moody, back to fill your October with tales of madmen, murderers and Continued on page 47

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IM AGINE

your ogunquit wedding Imagine ... you gaze into the eyes of your beloved as the two of you stand on a cliff overlooking a wide expanse of ocean, and you are surrounded by your closest friends. As the officiant pronounces you married, you kiss for the first time as a married couple. The ocean waves join the onlookers as they roar with applause, and it feels like nature itself welcomes you into this union. At this moment, as you feel the ring on your finger, the ring that represents unity, it is as if you are one with your love and with the passing strangers, even with the world itself. This is the culmination of months of planning and excitement ... finally - your wedding day!

This dream can be a reality for couples who choose to marry in Ogunquit. Many couples become one on the Marginal Way, a one mile public paved path along the ocean cliffs. Others prefer to feel the sands of our soft white beaches between their toes as they look into the eyes of their loved ones. With miles of public beach, it is easy to find a place to tie the knot, to trace hearts and initials in the sand, and even to find commemorative shells to remember the moment.

Marrying in Ogunquit is incredibly easy. Our florists make one-of-a-kind bouquets and boutonnieres, our bakeries create edible masterpieces, and our Town Clerks will happily facilitate the process and can even put you in touch with experienced officiants. With no waiting period and no blood tests, all you need to marry here is identification and proof that you are not already married.

While the marriage process takes little time, you will want to stay longer in Ogunquit. Our superb lodging establishments offer a variety of amenities and our restaurants are perfect for a romantic candlelit dinner the night before the wedding or for a joyous reception following it. You and your wedding party can enjoy a cruise or a sail out of Perkins Cove and experience the local art at a variety of galleries or the Ogunquit Museum of American Art. Take in a show at the Ogunquit Playhouse or enjoy a couples massage at one of our spas. Golf, shop, kayak, or just spend hours holding the hand of your newly betrothed as you sit and contemplate the endless ocean and the lifetime of happiness ahead. Here in Ogunquit, the possibilities are almost as infinite as your love.

By Frances Reed

Photo by Brittany Rae Photography

Great Food, Great Times, Great Memories

Sinc e 1979

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Cappy’s Chowder House One Main Street • Camden • 207-236-2254 • www.cappyschowder.com Rings by Etienne Perret

“...and the bride was glowing...like she had been kissed by the sun.”

Discover Maine at its very best Steps away from acclaimed shops, galleries, boat trips and restaurants, our family-owned B&B is an ideal launching point for several days of coastal exploration. Welcoming visitors with true Maine warmth and unique style. Please call for seasonal rates & specials.

Call for a personal consultation to learn how to achieve the perfect glow for your wedding

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Four spray tans for the bridal party & the bride can tan for free $99.95 42 Maverick St. Rockland, Maine 04841 (207) 593-7779

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College sweethearts, Caroline and Bethany, were grateful for the opportunity to get legally married before they embarked on building their careers and family. Caroline, an architect, designed the plans for their first home. Both brides, who hailed from the Mid West, enjoyed loving support from their families.

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Sid’s Picks Two artistic and unique wedding vendors whose products will inspire you for your big day. Handpicked by GWM’s own bon vivant, Sid Tripp.

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Migis Lodge on Sebago Lake | South Casco, Maine

Boothbay Harbor Inn | Boothbay Harbor, Maine

Wedding Officiant Heather Thompson | South Portland, Maine Portland Discovery: Land & Sea Tours Portland, Maine

Maine Limo Service | South Portland, Maine

Shelley’s Flowers & Gifts Waldoboro, Maine

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From: Longview, Texas Wedding Date: April 3, 2014 Location: Portland Headlight City: Cape Elizabeth, Maine Photographer: Life Portraits by Angela

From: Tarboro, North Carolina Wedding Date: June 27, 2014 Location: Portland Headlight City: Cape Elizabeth, Maine Photographer: Life Portraits by Angela

CONGRATULATIONS Cindee & Kacia

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From: Ohio Wedding Date: July 14, 2014 Location: Black Point Inn City: Scarborough, Maine Photographer: Life Portraits by Angela

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SAME-SEX COUPLES have been married in Maine since December 2012, as reported by the Maine Department of Vital Statistics.

All of the happy couples featured on this page were proudly married by GWM vendor and wedding officiant: All In One Weddings | Brunswick, Maine Featured ring by: Michael Good Designer Jewelry Rockland, Maine

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From: Kansas City, Missouri Wedding Date: July 3, 2013 Location: Pemaquid Point Lighthouse City: Pemaquid, Maine

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Our Own Bon Vivant Highlights Two Extraordinary GWM Vendors

As the owner of GWM, my goal for this section is to present fun, romantic and artistic wedding inspirations by our vendors whose style is imaginative, intimate & authentic. When it comes to your special day, every couple looks forward to having something as beautiful and unique as they are. Each month, visit the Sid’s Picks page on GayWeddingsInMaine.com to see more great finds that I’ve collected just for you!

Invitations | Love Rocks ME | South Portland, Maine I’m wild about all things from artist Ellen Thayer! Her photographed designs of naturally formed “Love Rocks” are portraits simply inspired by Maine’s breathtaking coastal beauty. Ellen’s custom invitations and cards are clever missives that are beautifully personal.

Let your imagination go “wild” by designing your own wedding related announcements! Everything is 100% made in Maine.

Contact Ellen by calling (207)450-5951, or by email at ellen@loverocksme.com

Hotels & Accommodations

Music: Bands & DJs

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Black Point Inn is an historic, grand hotel located in Prouts Neck

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ceremonies, formal dinners and receptions to cocktails and

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parties, Krysia Tripp & fellow musicians bring a touch of class to

the Inn’s unhurried pace, gracious charm and attentive service.

special occasions. Contact Krysia by calling (207) 874-1910, or

Part of the prestigious Migis Hotels, call the Black Point Inn at (207)

by email at contact@krysiatripp.com

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the undead. Join us for a spectacular one-man show at the Winter Street Center, 880 Washington Street in Bath, Saturday, October 25th at 8 pm. Admission: $15 at the door. Reservations required! One ticket-holder will be selected to see Handkerchief, unmasked, following the performance. To learn more, visit HandkerchiefMoody.blogspot.com or call (207) 725-8786.

November 28-30 Rockland Festival of Lights, downtown. Santa’s workshop, horse drawn carriage rides.

Friday, Lobster Trap Tree Lighting and Saturday, Festival of Lights Parade. 207593-6093 rocklandmainstreet.com November 29 Brunswick Christmas Tree Lighting. 5-7pm. Horse & carriage rides, sing along, hot chocolate & cookies with a visit from Santa and Frosty the Snowman December 5-7 Camden Christmas by the Sea. A weekend celebration. Parade, tree lighting, and musical entertainment. Holiday sales, dining specials, photos and story hour with Santa. 207-236-4404 mainedreamvacation.com December 6 Boothbay 29th Annual Harbor Light Festival.

Santa and Mrs. Claus arrive by boat!

Holiday craft show, town tree lighting, caroling, live nativity and horse drawn carriage rides! All day event. boothbayharbor.com 207-633-2353

SOUTHERN MAINE

October 17 Ogunquit Arlo Guthrie, 7PM at Jonathan’s, 92 Bourne Ln, Ogunquit. Arlo Guthrie’s career exploded in 1967 with the release of “Alice’s Restaurant.” FMI: jonathansogunquit.com October 24 Ogunquit Suzanne Westenhoeffer: First openly lesbian comedian with an HBO special; First openly lesbian comedian on “Late Night with David Letterman.” Jason Stuart: “Not only is Stuart an all-out crowd pleaser, but he transcends the boundaries of race, gender and sexual orientation with his edgy comedic style.” 8PM at Jonathan’s, 92 Bourne Ln, Ogunquit. FMI: jonathansogunquit. com November 1-2 Wells Sixty crafters and artists to exhibit and sell their wares to include ceramics, jewelry, specialty foods, photography, pottery, herbs, graphics, clothing and much more. 10:00am - 4:00pm FREE abOUT MAINE 2014

Parking and Admission. 207-646-5172 wellschamber.org November 7 Ogunquit Ellis Paul, 8PM at Jonathan’s, 92 Bourne Ln, Ogunquit. Singer, songwriter, poet and troubadour. Awards, second only to multi platinum act Aerosmith. FMI: jonathansogunquit.com November 9 Ogunquit Celebrations by the Sea Wedding Expo. 11am-2pm, Dunaway Center, 23 School St. 646-2939 ogunquit.org November 21 Ogunquit Paula Cole, 8PM at Jonathan’s, 92 Bourne Ln, Ogunquit. Paula Cole has played before audiences all over the world, opening for artists like Peter Gabriel, Melissa Etheridge and Sarah McLachlan, and as part of the Lilith Fair lineup before she began headlining her own tours in the late ‘90s. FMI: jonathansogunquit.com November 29 Ogunquit Paula Poundstone, 2 shows, 6PM & 9PM at Jonathan’s, 92 Bourne Ln, Ogunquit.

“Known for her honesty, and an off-kilter view of the world, PAULA POUNDSTONE’S ability to create humor on the spot is legendary.” FMI: jonathansogunquit.com November 29 York Lighting of the Nubble Location: Cape Neddick Lighthouse, York Beach.

Cookies, hot chocolate, music, and Santa Claus, Countdown to the lighting at Cape Neddick Lighthouse for the holiday season. Shuttle service from Ellis Park at Short Sands Beach. 207-9670857 December 7 Old Orchard Beach Celebrate the Season by the Sea. Parade at 1pm on Old Orchard Street.

Santa and Mrs. Claus, music, hay rides and face painting. 207-934-2500 December 12-14 Ogunquit Christmas by the Sea. 207-646-2939 December 14 Wells 30th Annual Southern Maine Christmas Parade. Step off from the Wells Plaza, 2:00pm proceeding north to the Wells Jr. High School. 207-646-2451 southernmaineparade.com

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Nov. 28 - Dec. 24 Bethel Country Christmas in Bethel. Small town atmosphere, lots of fun events – Weekends Thanksgiving to Christmas.

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PUB • HARBORVIEW BAKERY • COMPANY STORE Great Food, Great Times, Great Memories

Cappy’s Chowder House One Main Street • Camden • 207-236-2254 • www.cappyschowder.com Rings by Etienne Perret