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May 2018

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EVERY SPIRIT HAS A STORY. LET’S TALK ABOUT THE MARTINI There are as many storied origins of the martini as there are ways to make one. Some believe that a New York bartender named Martini invented the drink in 1912, while some believe it was invented in San Francisco by Professor Jerry Thomas around 1850 for a miner on his way to Martinez, California. Lore says that a miner placed a nugget of gold on Jerry’s bar and challenged him to concoct something special. The result was the Martinez, the said prototype of the Martini. The Martinez was first published in The Bartenders Guide in 1887, and was made with a full wine glass of sweet vermouth, one (1) ounce of Old Tom Gin, some bitters and a dash or two of maraschino. In those days, if the drink wasn’t sweet enough, gum syrup was added.

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GRATITUDE

A party to thank all the people who make Kennebunkport Festival possible. At Stripers Waterside Restaurant, sponsored by Gagne & Sons.

TUESDAY JUNE 5

WEDNESDAY JUNE 6

COCKTAILS AT THE BURLEIGH

COCKTAILS AT THE COLONY

THE ART OF DINING DINNERS

A cocktail party in the lounge and spilling onto the patio in the heart of Dock Square. At the Kennebunkport Inn, sponsored by Pack Maynard and Associates Real Estate, Effen, Hornitos, and Sipsmith.

A series of intimate dinners prepared by top chefs in private homes in the Kennebunkport area. Each dinner showcases work by an Art Collector Maine artist. Sponsored by Maker’s Mark. Hurlbutt Residence Chef Pierre Gignac of Ocean. Sponsored by Lane Press

Manetti Residence Chef Rian Wylie of Little Giant.

KPT Historical Society Chef German Lucarelli of Ports of Italy. Kuehnle Residence Chef John Shaw of The Boathouse Restaurant. Molloy Residence Chef Romann Dumorne of Northern Union.

THURSDAY JUNE 7 HINCKLEY RECEPTION

An open air cocktail party on the deck and docks. At Chicks Marina, sponsored by the Hinckley Company, Effen, Hornitos, and Sipsmith.

PUTTING ON THE GLITZ

A rock ’n roll evening of fine food and good spirits. Hosted by David’s Restaurants and Wallace Events under the tent at the Pilot House Boatyard. Sponsored by Wallace Events, Terrapin Landscapes and The Pilot House Restaurant.

THE AFTER PARTY

The night continues in this bustling pub overlooking the riverfront with live music. At Federal Jack’s Restaurant & Brew Pub.

Old Vines Wine Bar Chef Joel Souza of Old Vines Wine Bar. Pear Tree Farm Chef Peggy Liversidge of Kitchen Chicks Catering. Turner/Bull Residence Chef Rick Shell of The Cliff House. Matthews Residence Chef Melissa Maidana of Sol Food.

A cocktail party with an ocean view on the wrap-around porch. At the Colony Hotel, sponsored by Kennebunk Beach Realty and Piscataqua Landscaping & Tree Service, Effen, Hornitos, and Sipsmith.

A series of intimate dinners prepared by top chefs in private homes in the Kennebunkport area. Each dinner showcases work by an Art Collector Maine artist. Sponsored by Maker’s Mark. Feingold Residence Chef Avery Richter of Black Tie Catering. Sponsored by Spang Builders

On the Marsh Bistro Chef Peter Pappas of On the Marsh Bistro.

Harrington Residence Chef Joseph Schafer of Earth.

Raffaelli Residence Chef Harding Lee Smith of The Rooms Restaurants.

Heard Residence Chef Guy Hernandez of Lolita.

Rice Residence Chef Emil Rivera of Sur Lie.

Marquis Residence Chef Adam Flood of Grace. Sponsored by Douston Construction

Sullivan Residence Chef Matt Ginn of Evo Kitchen + Bar.

FRIDAY JUNE 8

SATURDAY JUNE 9

MAINE ART HILL BLOCK PARTY

GRAND TASTING

MAKE MINE FROM MAINE

MAINE CRAFT MUSIC FESTIVAL

CHEF'S NIGHT OUT

AMUSE

Get the evening into full gear with this fun new event. Tour multiple art galleries including The Gallery, Shows and Studios on Maine Art Hill, and Gallery at the Grand. Live music, food trucks, art and more! A specially curated cocktail party featuring 15 craft distillers from all over Maine who will share their favorite drinks with you. Sip with us waterside at the Pilot House Boatyard and enjoy an early evening of drinks, nibbles, and conversation. Sponsored by Maine Spirits. A culinary experience featuring guest chefs from Maine and beyond joining forces to create a multi-course, family style seated dinner in a candlelit barn at the Wells Reserve at Laudholm. Hosted by Chef Justin Walker and Danielle Walker of Walkers Maine. Ticket includes Sweet Soirée (see below). Sponsored by Richard Moody & Sons and Maker’s Mark.

SWEET SOIR E

Save room for dessert! This dessert extravaganza will knock your socks off! Sample a number of sparkling wines and Champagne while you enjoy your desserts. Ticket to Sweet Soiree included with ticket to Chef’s Night Out or purchase Sweet Soiree tickets separately.

An afternoon tasting event under a tent on the water with offerings from over 20 different chefs plus wines, beer and cocktails. At the Pilot House Boatyard. Sponsored by The Pilot House Restaurant, Clarke Sub Zero & Wolf, Effen, Hornitos, Sipsmith, and Yelp. Enjoy an afternoon of original Maine-made music on the River Green at the Captain Lord Mansion, featuring live music by Spencer Albee and The Mallett Brothers Band as well as food trucks and craft beer. Sponsored by Seaport Development Group and Shipyard Brewing Company. A cocktail party to kick off the evening, dockside on the schooner restaurant Spirit of Massachusetts. At the Pilot House Marina sponsored by Yarmouth Boat Yard.

PRIVATE EYES

An invitation-only Champagne and caviar exhibition of Maine artists. At the Gallery at the Grand sponsored by Browne Trading Company.

GRAND FINALE

Wrap up the 2018 Kennebunkport Festival with this fun night featuring incredible spreads of food and drink, music and dancing. At On The Marsh Bistro, sponsored by Jim Godbout Plumbing and Heating and Maker’s Mark.

ARTof DINING

TUESDAY & WEDNESDAY JUNE 5 & 6 THURSDAY 7 - 10 PM JUNE 8 Private Homes Kennebunk 6 -&10Kennebunkport PM A series of intimate dinners prepared Vinegar Hill Barn by top chefs in private homes in the Kennebunkport area. Each dinner Arundel showcases work by an Art Collector Maine artist. Sponsored by Maker’s Mark.

THURSDAY, JUNE 7 6:30 - 10 PM Pilot House Boatyard Kennebunk

THURSDAY Hosted by David’s Restaurants and Wallace Events JUNE 8 with chefs David Turin, David’s, David’s Opus 6 - 10 PM Ten, and David’s 388

Josh Berry of Union, Daniel Dumont Hill BarnCorner, of TheVinegar Farm at Eastman’s Norm HebertArundel of Bintliff’s Ogunquit, German Lucarelli of Ports of Italy, and Harding Lee Smith of The Rooms Restaurants. Sponsored by The Pilot House Restaurant, Terrapin Landscapes and Wallace Events.

FRIDAY, JUNE 8 6 - 10:30 PM Wells Reserve at Laudholm Wells

THURSDAY JUNE 8 6 - 10 PM

A culinary experience featuring guest chefs from Maine and beyond joining forces to create a multi-course, family style seated dinner in a candlelit barn at the Vinegar Barn Wells ReserveHill at Laudholm. Hosted by Chef Justin Walker and Arundel Danielle Walker of Walkers Maine. Sponsored by Richard Moody & Sons, Maker’s Mark, Casco Bay Butter, Cellardoor Winery, and Pine State Beverage.

SATURDAY, JUNE 9 Noon - 3 PM

SATURDAY, JUNE 9 1- 5 PM

SATURDAY, JUNE 9 7 - 10 PM

Pilot House Boatyard Kennebunk

Spencer Albee & Band and The Mallet Brothers Band

On the Marsh Bistro Kennebunk

THURSDAY JUNE An afternoon tasting 8 event under a tent on the water with offerings from 6 - 10chefs PMplus wines, over 20 different

THURSDAY JUNE 8 Live on the River Green at Captain 6Lord- 10 PM Mansion

Vinegar Hill Barn Sponsored by The Pilot House Arundel

A day of original Vinegar HillMaine-made Barn music in a grassy field with food Arundel trucks and craft beers.

beer and cocktails.

Restaurant, Clarke Sub Zero & Wolf, Effen, Hornitos, Sipsmith, and Yelp.

Sponsored by Seaport Development Group and Shipyard Brewing Company.

THURSDAY JUNE 8 Wrap up the 2018 Kennebunkport Festival with this fun night featuring 6 spreads - 10 PM incredible of food and drink, music and dancing.

Vinegar Hill Barn

Sponsored by Jim Godbout Arundel Plumbing & Heating, Makerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Mark, and On the Marsh Bistro.

CONTENTS Green Grass, Blue Waters 062

How healthy lawn and garden practices are contributing to a vibrant Casco Bay by Dr. Lisa Belisle | Photography by Matt Cosby

From Away 072

Phil Crossman, philosopher of Carvers Harbor, observes Vinalhaven from his perch at Tidewater Motel by Philip Conkling | Photography by Matt Cosby

Clams and Community 082

The Yarmouth Clam Festival has been drawing families, seafood lovers, and roadside lawn chairs for more than 50 years by Dr. Lisa Belisle | Photography by Heidi Kirn

on the cover

A flag waving on the back of a boat docked at Islesford. Photography by Peter Frank Edwards

On a Cranberry Cove 096

on this page

Jutting over the salt water at the town landing on Little Cranberry Island, Islesford Dock is a beacon for the sailboat crowd, and those of us tempted by seaside chowder and cocktails

Boats aplenty are the view from Islesford Dock. It’s lunchtime, and the dock is hopping on this summer day in the Cranberry Isles. Photography by Peter Frank Edwards

by Sandy Lang | Photography by Peter Frank Edwards

Across the Pond 114

A longtime family camp in Buxton gets a DIY high-style upgrade, complete with gold wallpaper, pop art prints, and sliding glass to bring the outside in by Katy Kelleher | Photography by James Salomon

High Demand 126

Maine’s real estate market continues to grow in value, but low inventory is creating challenges for potential buyers around the state by Paul Koenig

THERE + THEN 022 Going out, giving back: supporting nonprofits + local businesses in the vital work they do year-round NEW + NOTEWORTHY

031 What’s happening around the state

48 HOURS

036 Rockland, Port Clyde + Thomaston; Camden + Rockport

by Kendra McDonald and Heidi Kirn

A-LIST

058 Lighthouses

by Kate Gardner Photography by Nicole Wolf

LOVE MAINE RADIO 071 Interview with Birch Shambaugh by Kate Gardner Photography by Sean Thomas

EAT 142 Bolster, Snow + Co.

by Susan Axelrod Photography by Nicole Wolf

CAPTURE

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EDITOR’S NOTE 017 STAFF INSIGHTS 019 CONTRIBUTORS 021 EVENTS 028

Karen Bowe, Ryan Hammond, Peter Heinz, Tom Urban DIRECTOR OF EVENTS & EXPERIENTIAL MARKETING |

Reven Oliver DIRECTOR OF CORPORATE GIVING & VISIBILITY |

Shelbi Wassick COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT MANAGER | Casey Lovejoy CREDIT MANAGER | Melissa Olander OFFICE MANAGER | Cyndi Alden CIRCULATION | Sarah Lynn

ART COLLECTOR MAINE |

Jack Leonardi, Taylor McCafferty, Kendra McDonald, Emma Wilson THE BRAND COMPANY |

Taylor Adams, Chris Kast, Maureen Littlefield LOVE MAINE RADIO WITH DR. LISA BELISLE |

Spencer Albee, Dr. Lisa Belisle, Kate Gardner, Paul Koenig, Casey Lovejoy, Shelbi Wassick MAINE HOME+DESIGN MAGAZINE |

Danielle Devine, Heidi Kirn OLD PORT MAGAZINE |

Susan Axelrod, Joel Kuschke AGELESS MAINE MAGAZINE |

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Susan Axelrod, Sarah Prak

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Little Cranberry Island

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MAY IN MAINE STORIES FROM AROUND THE STATE

Although spring officially starts in March, the spring of green fields and blooming flowers usually doesn't begin here until May, post-mud season. That’s when it actually feels like summer is around the corner.

islanders and visitors for more than four decades. But its future was in limbo before new owners Michael Boland and Mitchell Rales stepped in and bought the restaurant in January 2017, preserving the local institution.

Speaking of flowers, Dr. Lisa Belisle and Matt Cosby covered Eddie Woodin’s beautiful gardens for this issue, (“Green Grass, Blue Waters,” p. 062). Woodin has been preaching—and practicing— environmentally friendly landscaping practices for years. He formed a community group that eventually convinced the town of Scarborough to enact a pest-management policy that restricts the use of synthetic weed killers and other chemicals on municipal properties.

In Yarmouth, the local institution is an event: the Yarmouth Clam Festival. Dr. Lisa Belisle writes about her history with the festival and the town, accompanying photos by Heidi Kirn (“Clams and Community,” p. 082). Both Lisa and Heidi have recently taken on new roles at Maine Media Collective. Lisa is now editor-inchief after serving as wellness editor and the host of Love Maine Radio, and Heidi is editor-at-large after years as art director of Maine Home+Design.

Another individual who has left a mark on his community is Phil Crossman. Crossman is the owner of the Tidewater Motel on Vinalhaven and a storyteller of local lore, (“From Away,” p. 072). He regularly writes for The Wind, the town’s weekly publication, and The Working Waterfront. His book Away Happens chronicles the peculiarities of island life and the characters he encounters on Vinalhaven. On a different island, Sandy Lang and Peter Frank Edwards visited Islesford Dock last summer, (“On a Cranberry Cove,” p. 096). The iconic restaurant has been serving

Also in this issue, you’ll find our annual real estate listing, which provides a snapshot of properties sold within the last 18 months, along with insights from Maine’s top real estate firms on factors shaping the market ("High Demand," p. 126). Wherever you live, I hope this issue feels like the start of spring: full of life, blue skies, and the return of picnics on green (and dry) lawns.

Paul Koenig Managing Editor pkoenig@themainemag.com

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We fill our work days creating Maine-centric media products—publishing magazines and guides, producing radio shows, managing social media sites, developing websites, filming videos, producing events—because of this simple tenet. Our staff have stayed here, come back here, or moved here because we love Maine’s rich history, its unique character, and the people who live here, and most important, because we believe in Maine’s potential. We simultaneously love the Maine we grew up in and fully embrace the reality that things change and evolve. And we bear witness to that happening here. We are cheerleaders for Maine as a place for people to live, stay, and thrive—a place for people from away to move to, a place for second homeowners to buy into, a place to raise children, a place to start and operate a business—as well as a place to visit and explore, a place to escape and heal. And, a place to be inspired. We cover Maine in a positive light. We intentionally leave the negativity and snark to other media outlets. There is a place for everything, and we honor that. But that place is not here. So if you love Maine, please turn to us with your reading eyes, your listening ears, your follows and your likes, your attendance, and your advertising and sponsorships. Explore what we believe is the best Maine has to offer, on the pages of our magazines and guides, through the airwaves, at events, and via social media.

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STAFF INSIGHTS Answering questions about how we experience the state

WHY DO YOU LIVE WHERE YOU DO IN MAINE? “My husband and I own 120 acres on a ridge overlooking Sebago Lake in Casco. In the summer, we enjoy boating, golfing, and hiking. In the fall, we ride our ATVs from trails on our property to catch amazing foliage views in obscure places. In the winter, we have quick access to ski resorts, snowshoeing from our backyard, and snowmobiling on the trails from our property. Our most favorite feature of living here is the ability to see the stars at night and enjoy the tranquil silence of the day. It makes the 45-minute drive on my way home from Portland worth it.” Melissa Olander A/R and Credit Manager molander@themainemag.com

“When my husband’s parents sold his childhood home in Freeport, they divided the land, and we acquired a 4.25-acre lot. We walked the land more times than I can count to find the perfect spot to build on. Woods surround our house, which overlooks a small pond and field. We designed the house to have as many windows as possible so we can enjoy the wooded area around our house. Most important about where we live— not just in Freeport but in Maine—is the proximity to so many different experiences: skiing, surfing, dining, mountain biking, hiking, and shopping—the list goes on. We went away for a bit, but we came back as soon as we could.” Maureen Littlefield Art Director, The Brand Company maureen@thebrandcompany.me

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“My mom was a beach fanatic. We lived in rural western Maine but spent our summers in Wells and visiting Kennebunkport. Eventually my brother and parents relocated to the area permanently. I had been living in New York for years, and during one visit in the quiet off-season, while pushing my young children on the swings at Mother’s Beach, breathing in the salty sea air and listening to the waves crashing, I thought to myself, ‘I just love this so much, why don’t I live here?’ It took a couple of years, but I am glad to now call Kennebunk home.” Heidi Kirn Editor-at-Large hkirn@mainehomedesign.com May 2018 19

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CONTRIBUTORS

NICOLE WOLF is a commercial photographer

KENDRA MCDONALD moved to Maine from Brooklyn three years ago. Before joining Art Collector Maine, she worked in fashion for Jil Sander and Sonia Rykiel in New York. She was excited to find a thriving art, fashion, and music scene in Maine, as well as fresh air, friendly faces, and ocean views. In this issue, Kendra and her friend spent 48 hours in Rockland, Thomaston, and Port Clyde, sourcing vintage finds, good coffee, books, and periwinkles. She lives in the West End with her two rescue cats, Rufus and Rex. 48 HOURS, p. 036

Travel and food are frequent subjects for writer SANDY LANG, who is always happy for excursions that include a ferry ride. For this month’s story, she hopped on the Beal and Bunker Mail Boat and Ferry from Northeast Harbor, which made a mini tour of the Cranberry Isles with several island stops, including at Little Cranberry Island and a restaurant reached only by boat, Islesford Dock. “ON A CRANBERRY COVE,” p. 096

Photographer PETER FRANK EDWARDS says it was a fantastic time spent at Islesford Dock with restaurateur Michael Boland and crew for this month’s story. “We were lucky enough to taste everything we photographed—a favorite was the Asian-inspired spare ribs, which were sticky, spiced, and delicious.” Edwards's recent assignments include work for Food and Wine, House Beautiful, and the Wall Street Journal. “ON A CRANBERRY COVE,” p. 096

based in Portland. Her life’s work has led to features for National Geographic, Food and Wine, GQ, and PDN to name a few, but she loves being a part of the creative community in her home town the most. This month’s Eat feature brought her to Bolster, Snow, and Co., the chic and photogenic restaurant in the Francis, near Portland’s West End. “A RISING STAR,” p. 142

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THERE + THEN

CREATE BIGGER

BRAND

Photography by Dave Dostie

FEBRUARY CINQ A SEPT

An after-work gathering of friends and colleagues Community members attended the February Cinq a Sept at the Francis in Portland. The Francis and Barr Hill by Caledonia Spirits provided hors d’oeuvres and drinks. Maine Media Collective presented a copy of the cover of Maine Home+Design’s February Interior Design issue to Tyler Karu of Tyler Karu Design and Interiors in honor of her project that was featured on the cover. 01

“Our monthly Cinq a Sept events are a wonderful way to connect in person with our community of friends and introduce them to each other. The recently renovated boutique hotel was a fitting place to celebrate our Maine Home+Design annual Interior Design issue, which featured 15 spaces from talented interior designers all across the state.” —Heidi Kirn, editor-at-large at Maine Media Collective

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01 Dr. Lisa Belisle, editor-in-chief at Maine Media Collective; Brett Johnson, owner and designer at Main Street Design Company; and Rowan Wagner, Main Street Design Company 02 Candace Pilk Karu, social media strategist and lifestyle expert at 3C Media Group; Jeffrey D’Amico, director of sales at Maine Media Collective; and Tyler Karu, owner and designer at Tyler Karu Design and Interiors 03 Reven Oliver, director of events and experiential marketing, and Margaret Ybarra, principal strategist at IMPACT Branding and Design 04 Jill Hinckley, owner of Hinckley Introductions; Sandy Spaulding, managing director of business development and strategy at Hodgdon Marine Group; and Emily Wedick, advertising account manager at Maine Media Collective 05 Andrea King, publisher and CEO at Maine Media Collective; Ralph Hurlbutt; and Louise Hurlbutt, owner of Hurlbutt Designs 06 Brendan Canning, vice president of business development at MyHealthMath, and Sheila Gibbons, director of spirits at Pine State Spirits 07 Heidi Kirn, editor-at-large at Maine Media Collective, and Nicole Wolf, owner of Nicole Wolf Photography 08 Daniel Talmatch, owner of the North Point, and Kelly Marble-Talmatch, manager at the North Point

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THE CENTER FOR GRIEVING CHILDREN’S LOVE GALA

Raising money to support grieving children and families Several hundred community members gathered at Brick South at Thompson’s Point in February to celebrate the Center for Grieving Children (CGC) at the annual Love Really Counts Auction and Dinner Gala. With a record number of guests this year, the center’s largest fundraising event raised $330,000 to support free grief support services for families. 01

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“Our program evaluation demonstrates a significant increase in protective factors for children and families that help make them more resilient in the face of grief and loss, especially in the areas of belonging, hopefulness, and family support.”

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—Anne Heros, executive director of the Center for Grieving Children

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01 Casey Lovejoy, community development manager at Maine Media Collective; Jeffrey D’Amico, director of sales at Maine Media Collective; Ed Tumavicus, CGC board president; and Megan Staton Tumavicus, family physician at Intermed 02 Jaye Kenney Gorham, independent real estate broker at Portside Real Estate Group, and Nichole Cullen, realtor at Portside Real Estate Group 03 Karen Lonsdale Chasse, director of development and community outreach at Biddeford School Department, and Christy Mitchell, certified surgical technician at Aspen Dental 04 Ciara Price, model, and Casey Prentice, president at the Prentice Organization 05 Stephanie Williams, special counsel, and Dan Coyne, senior vice president of community impact at United Way of Greater Portland 06 Brenda Bryant and Jenilee Bryant, CGC board member 07 Shikha Vasaiwala, CGC board member, and Samip Vasaiwala, cardiologist at MaineHealth Cardiology 08 Roseann McConnell, CGC volunteer, and Jill Fanucci, freelance photo editor 09 Jessica Falcone, realtor at LandPoint Corporation, and Derek Miller, associate broker at CRBE/The Boulos Company

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JUNE 16

Comedy Legend and Actor

Classical-to-Pop Singing String Quartet

KEVIN NEALON

WELL-STRUNG

JUNE 25

Broadway & Cabaret Chanteuse

MICHELLE CURRIE

& THE JIM RICE BAND

JULY 7

Boston Indie Rock Band

THE ADAM EZRA BAND

JUNE 28

Superstar Gender Illusionist Presents “Born Again”

MISS RICHFIELD 1981

JULY 13

JUNE 22

JUNE 23

Soul and Funk

R&B and Soul Legends

RUSTIC OVERTONES

ROOMFUL OF BLUES

June 29

JUNE 30

A Prince Tribute

Portland-based 80s Tribute Band

DEAN FORD & THE BEAUTIFUL ONES*

THE AWESOME*

JULY 14

AUGUST 3

Buffalo Springfield/Poco/ Loggins & Messina Legend

Grammy-Winning Singer/Songwriter

Featuring Johnny A., Magic Dick and Shun Ng

JIM MESSINA

PAULA COLE

LEGENDS OF BOSTON

*$10 of every ticket will be donated to the Maine Chapter of the Alzheimer’s Association as part of our Alzheimer’s Awareness Weekend.

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2018 MAINE JEWISH FILM FESTIVAL LAUNCH PARTY

A gathering to kick off this year’s Maine Jewish Film Festival Over 60 individual, business, and foundation donors gathered at the Portland Art Gallery in February to launch the 2018 Maine Jewish Film Festival. Highlights of the evening included food by David’s Restaurant, previewing clips of films from the 2018 festival, and a presentation by festival president David Scholder and festival executive director Barbara Merson. 01

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“In our 21st-anniversary season, we continued our growth while entertaining and educating movie lovers of all backgrounds. With over 3,000 attendees, Maine Jewish Film Festival is now one of Maine’s premier arts events. We are grateful to our donors, including Maine Media Collective, for helping to make this possible.” —Barbara Merson, executive director of the Maine Jewish Film Festival

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01 John Shoos, executive director of Sam L. Cohen Foundation; Emma Wilson, managing director of Art Collector Maine; and Dana Baldwin, program officer at Sam L. Cohen Foundation 02 Elsa McGary, cash management advisor at Machias Savings Bank, and Karen Nickerson Coffin, branch manager at Machias Savings Bank 03 Barbara Merson, executive director of Maine Jewish Film Festival 04 Lisa Hutter, consulting dietician, and Jon Hutter, Maine Jewish Film Festival board member 05 David Scholder, president of the Maine Jewish Film Festival 06 David Scholder; Barbara Merson; and Daniel Heinrich, Maine Jewish Film Festival board member 07 Deena Weinstein, educator and storyteller, and Isaac Merson, outreach coordinator at Maine Jewish Film Festival

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EVENTS

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FIRST THURSDAY ART OPENING FEATURING ARTWORKS BY DEBORAH RANDALL 5 p.m.−7 p.m. Portland Art Gallery 154 Middle St. | Portland artcollectormaine.com

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THE MIDVALE HIGH SCHOOL 50TH REUNION The Public Theatre 31 Maple St. | Lewiston thepublictheatre.org

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A city of about 7,300 with a thriving art scene, Rockland is also a jumping-off point for exploring neighboring midcoast towns and for ferries to Penobscot Bay islands.

FRIDAY EVENING

Dinner and after-dinner dance party As a recent Maine transplant from Brooklyn, my fascination with the midcoast kicked in early. I had passed through Rockland 15 years ago on a trip to Vinalhaven, but when my friend Brittany and I arrive for the weekend, I quickly realize that this is not the Rockland I knew then. The vibrant city has an eclectic mix of older and younger people—hip even in the dead of winter. Our journey begins with the most important thing: coffee. We pop in to Rock City Cafe on Main Street, where I order an Americano, and then we head to the back of the building to a bookstore called Hello Hello Books, where I peruse the selection of used, new, rare, and collectible books. Coffee in hand, we explore Black Parrot a few 36

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doors down, which offers a high-end mix of tailored apparel, beauty products, and coffee table books. We check in to 250 Main Hotel, where general manager Ruth Woodbury Starr greets us. Built just two years ago, 250 Main is a boutique hotel designed and crafted by yachtsman and boatbuilder Cabot Lyman, also the owner and founder of Lyman-Morse Boatbuilding in Thomaston. On the corner of Main and Pleasant Streets, 250 Main has yacht-style details and mahogany throughout. In the entry hall of the second floor a curved balcony separating the second and third floors brings to mind the hull of a ship. The lobby is filled with contemporary art, making me feel like I’m gazing into a gallery owner’s dream. We are shown to our rooms, and in mine, a balcony overlooks Rockland Harbor. I quickly change for our seven-thirty dinner reservation, and we head out down Main Street—we are only a three- to five-minute walk from everything.

First we pop in to newly opened Ada’s Kitchen for appetizers, and we order roasted celeriac and fresh mozzarella smeared with pesto. Later, at Suzuki’s Sushi Bar, we choose the chef’s choice for dinner: an omakase platter including ceviche served in a blood-orange peel, local scallops, and fish roe. After dinner we head down to a dance party at a vintage clothing shop called Daughters. Before I joined Maine Media Collective, I worked in fashion in New York, so I’m always excited to explore the fashion scene in new places. We meet owner Ariel Birke and get to talking about fashion and New York, since she left the city two years ago, just after I did. She is well versed in vintage women’s clothes and specializes in denim—her favorite. I immediately fall in love with her shop. Her boyfriend is spinning records as I’m checking out the threads, and Brittany is dancing. We also meet Emily Seymour, the owner of Curator, another nearby vintage store, who is holding her 11-week-old puppy, Maisie.

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01 A Saturday stroll out on the breakwater. 02 A cozy stay at 250 Main Hotel. 03 All the vintage shoes at Curator. 04 Periwinkles at Sammy’s Deluxe. 05 Vintage outfits at Curator. 06 Cafe Miranda, a quirky Rockland staple. 07 Visiting the Center for Maine Contemporary Art.

SATURDAY MORNING

A couple cups of coffee and art explorations I’m up around seven, already ready to rock. I roll out of bed and head downstairs to the lobby for Rock City coffee. I walk out across the street to Rockland Harbor, where it’s windy and cold, and take in the views. Brittany and I take a short walk to Main Street Markets, where I order the Super Green Bowl with coconut, spinach, avocado, almond milk, and chia seeds, all blended and topped with granola. Obviously, I get more coffee, too. Brittany orders the hummus toast with roasted tomato and pepper. We head out to our first stop, the Farnsworth Art Museum. The museum is still installing an exhibition featuring the work of Chinese artist Ai Weiwei, but we’re able to catch the Louise Nevelson show. Nevelson was one America’s most important twentieth-century sculptors and grew up in Rockland. At the nearby Archipelago, the shop associated with the Island Institute, I buy a couple of postcards showing nautical maps. Next up it’s the Center for Maine Contemporary Art. We cruise through the Boundaries exhibition, a collaboration between poet Richard Blanco and fine art photographer Jacob

Hessler, and Materiality: The Matter of Matter, which features large-scale, abstract textiles. Before lunch, we walk out to the Rockland Harbor Breakwater Light. Its breakwater was built in the 1890s from more than 700,000 tons of granite blocks and is nearly a mile long.

AFTERNOON

Vintage, art, and home goods shopping At Cafe Miranda, we grab seats at the bar and order salads, admiring the quirky decor and fuchsia walls of the laid-back Rockland staple. Afterward it’s time to meet up with our new friend Emily Seymour at Curator, a hot spot for one-of-a-kind, hand-selected vintage. Emily describes the store’s clientele as men and women who wear men’s clothes, although recently she and co-owner Ben Dorr added a rack of women’s vintage as well. Later, at Daughters again, Brittany and I try on pieces from the selection of women’s vintage ready-to-wear, including Miu Miu and Ann Demeulemeester, and browse Maine-made face oils, soaps, and incenses. Monochromatic visual merchandising inspires me, so I purchase a brown leather woven bag, a wool striped jacket from the ’70s, a vintage thermal, and a deadstock ’70s “perfect” white Hanes tee. I make plans to see both Emily and Ariel this summer. At Dowling Walsh Gallery, we are greeted by an 82- by 100-inch Bo

Bartlett work called Christmas, depicting a child on his bike in the snow. We also check out Periscope, a home goods shop offering curated contemporary lighting fixtures, furniture, and accessories.

EVENING

Fresh, local food For dinner, we head out to Sammy’s Deluxe for dinner, a relatively new place from owner Sam Richman, the former chef at Salt Water Farm. Our food is fresh and original, from periwinkles cooked in garlic-seaweed butter and house-made ricotta with delicata and sweet potato to raw oysters and oysters Rockefeller. We take a stroll by the harbor before relaxing in front of the fireplace in the lobby back at 250 Main Hotel.

SUNDAY MORNING

Adventures in Port Clyde and Thomaston and miniature wooden boats I’m up at around seven again, and I’m delighted to see snowfall outside my window. From the rooftop of 250 Main Hotel, I take in the view toward Camden Hills as the snow is falling. I snap some shots and

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head downstairs for fuel. For breakfast, I eat a yogurt bowl with fresh fruit and a croissant along with, of course, coffee. We check out of the hotel and head to the Port Clyde General Store to meet Ron Crusan, director of Linda Bean’s Maine Wyeth Gallery. Although the gallery doesn’t open until Memorial Day weekend, the work is available on its new website. We head upstairs to the gallery, which sells printers’ proofs, rare copies, and posters of Jamie Wyeth’s work. My favorite is called Lighthouse, showing the back of a long-haired boy in a Revolutionary War coat. Crusan tells us that Wyeth used his father’s collection of Revolutionary War props as inspiration for his vibrant, detailed work. We drive out to Marshall Point Light, which was featured in the film Forrest Gump, for a view toward Monhegan Island, and then we stop at the Maine State Prison Showroom in Thomaston. The shop, open since 1824, offers handcrafted furniture and knickknacks created by inmates. I buy two handmade wooden boats and an embossed leather keychain. After our long weekend, we drive back to Portland, tired and yet already hoping to return in the summer.

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Rich with artists, extraordinary dining, and outdoor opportunities ranging from hiking to kayaking to boating, the midcoast towns of Camden and Rockport make for a weekend getaway full of variety.

FRIDAY EVENING

A warm welcome My first stop is for dinner in Rockport. 18 Central Oyster Bar and Grill's warm and cozy wooden interior feels perfect on a dark Maine night. The open kitchen with a wood-fired oven adds to the warmth and bustle. I meet my friend Megan van der Kieft of Margo Moore Interiors and her friend Bridget Leavitt, a small business consultant. We are at a table in the back next to a window that in daylight would reveal a view of Rockport Harbor. We enjoy the daily special of Jerusalem artichoke soup with local sea scallops, fresh herbs, a drizzle of chile oil, and balsamic reduction topped with sunchoke chips. It’s raining, and one of the Camden Harbour Inn staff members greets my car with an umbrella, setting the tone for the level of attention I’ll receive all weekend. House-made truffles adorned with red rose petals and a glass of prosecco welcome me in the Royal Dutch Suite.

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I settle into the chic yet comfortable living room to enjoy the suite’s historic charm and one of its fireplaces. The bathroom also has a gas fireplace, traditional sauna, steam and rain shower, and air bath, which I thoroughly enjoy before slipping into the feather bed to sleep.

SATURDAY MORNING

Nautical crafters and photography tours The glass French doors visible from my bed open onto a balcony facing Camden Harbor. The morning sun dazzles and reflects off of the ocean below. Breakfast in the dining room overlooks a porch with rocking chairs. I enjoy the newspaper that was left outside my suite door and the fluffiest scrambled eggs, from Bowden’s Egg Farm, with lightly sautéed spinach and rustic potatoes. The town is still waking up as I take a short walk to the Camden Public Library and to the harbor to take photos of the boats docked at Lyman-Morse Boatbuilding. It’s a six-minute drive from Camden to Rockport, home

of Bohndell Sails, where sail design, production, and repair are all done in-house. Robin Chace Payson and her mom, Sue Chace, show me around the family business that has been making custom sails since 1870. My next stop is right around the corner at Maine Media Workshops and College, which offers year-round workshops for photographers, filmmakers, and media artists. Having attended summer workshops with their brilliant faculty on the peaceful ten-acre campus in Rockport, I can attest to the magical experience. Brenton Hamilton, an artist and faculty member, shows me the Ernst Haas photography lab, where Hamilton teaches historic processes. Around the corner in Rockport Village, in the historic red-brick Shepard Block building, I find Maine Media Gallery and Tim Whelan Photographic Books. My friend and fellow photographer Cate Wnek meets me here. We enjoy chatting with Whelen, a photographer with an impressive collection of photography books. We were hoping to connect with Peter Ralston, who owns Ralston Gallery across the street, but run out of time before our lunch reservation.

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01 Lobster boats on the docks in Camden. 02 Detail of a wall of rigging supplies at Bohndell Sails. 03 View of Camden Harbor from the top of Mount Battie in Camden Hills State Park. 04 Colorful and fresh salad from Long Grain. 05 Looking down at a skiff at Rockport Marine Park. 06 Brenton Hamilton at Maine Media Workshops and College showing me a print in the photography lab. 07 A Sea Bag packed for the weekend. 08 View of Sea Dog Brewing Company on Main Street in Camden.

AFTERNOON

Dining and shopping downtown Long Grain, a small restaurant on Camden’s Main Street, has an eclectic mix of chairs and one wall lined with funky wallpaper. It is always packed, and today is no different. Husband-and-wife owners Ravin Nakjaroen and Paula Palakawong are known for combining fresh Maine ingredients with authentic Thai flavors and recipes. We order the Vietnamese salad with nuoc cham dressing, which is bursting with fresh herbs, along with pad seaw, a dish with house-made rice noodles and organic farm greens in a light and sweet soy sauce. After lunch we head to Margo Moore Interiors

for a tour of the shop, which is packed with bold, colorful items such as pillows, furniture, and gifts. We stroll through town to Sea Bags, which turns sails into stunning tote bags and accessories. As it happens, I am carrying the custom-made bag that Sea Bags created with Maine magazine for the Kennebunkport Festival. From there we pop in and out of Sherman’s Maine Coast Book Shop and Jo Ellen Designs and make our way to Sea Dog Brewing Company, which features its own craft beers and a great pub menu with plenty of seafood. We chat with manager Robert Labbe as he takes us on a tour and shows us the outdoor decks on the harbor side. Inside, the tables offer views of the harbor as well.

Swans Island Company is housed in a white rounded building on the corner across the street. Sales associate Mary Rabaioli tells us the story of how the yarn is carefully sourced and spun and dyed by hand in the company’s Northport dye house. I purchase a pair of striped Cafe Mitts that are soft and fingerless, which makes them perfect for taking photos in the Maine cold.

EVENING

White tablecloth service in the midcoast I’ve heard raves about Natalie’s, Camden Harbour Inn’s restaurant, so I’m looking forward to eating here. Cate joins me, and we decide on the four-course

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The rows of raised beds are alive with activity. Bees dip and swerve around a scattered village of birdhouses. A painted lady briefly settles on a coneflower before fluttering over to a stalk of purple-blossomed joe-pye weed. “The earth has a soul,” says gardener and businessman Eddie Woodin, stopping to listen to the plaintive cry of a catbird. “Everything does.” A longtime birder and environmentalist, Woodin has spent two decades creating outdoor space that benefits all who use it—from humans to hummingbirds—in the healthiest way possible. His approach is championed by organizations like Friends of Casco Bay and others who seek to protect Maine’s woods, wildlife, and waters for generations to come. Growing up in Concord, Massachusetts, during the 1950s, Woodin spent a lot of time outdoors and paid close attention to the local wildlife. This was before the widespread availability of polio vaccines, and outbreaks of the disease were causing 15,000 cases of paralysis each year in the United States. Because at the time it was thought that mosquitoes might be carriers

of the poliovirus, towns were aggressive in their use of pesticides. “We would hear the drone of the tank truck in the summer,” says Woodin. “Seated on top was a man with a spray hose and DDT. You ran for cover. You closed the windows. There was no warning. And it was incredible, the spray that went down the middle of the road, killing the Baltimore orioles. It eventually killed the screech owls, too.” Woodin’s observations correlated with what would become a widespread understanding of the impact of the insecticide dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane (DDT) on the environment, as documented by Rachel Carson in her groundbreaking 1962 book Silent Spring. Woodin came to Maine to attend Colby College. The school recruited him to play football and baseball, awarding him a scholarship—a boon for his blue-collar family. During the summers between his college years, Woodin reconnected with the outdoors working at his own landscaping business. After graduation, he moved to California for a short time, then returned to the Pine Tree State in 1970. In marketing and sales all of his life, he went on to found

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Woodin and Company Store Fixtures, now a 25-year-old company that designs and manufactures interior retail spaces for stores like Barnes and Noble. When Woodin bought his current home on Grondin Pond in Scarborough 20 years ago, his property had no grass on it. The development in which it is located was built near a former gravel pit that had been filled with water, yielding a 28-acre pond. Woodin viewed his vegetation-free lot as an opportunity. His goal was to fill the two acres with plants and trees and, in the process, create a habitat for birds and wildlife. He did this without the use of pesticides, herbicides, or other synthetic chemicals, using only dehydrated compost as fertilizer. “I started planting, and it got bigger and bigger,” says Woodin. “My message is abstinence. You don’t need the chemicals.” Over time he noted an increasing absence of bugs—and bats—on his property. “We had eight brown bats that had been historically in the yard, and all of a sudden I noticed there are no brown bats,” says Woodin, who is also a member of the Maine Audubon Society. “Probably two weeks later, a nesting box of adult tree swallows abandoned the nest and the left the young behind because there were no insects.” Woodin was concerned about this change in the ecosystem. He

suspected that pesticides might be to blame, so he continued to educate himself on the subject. In 2009 he began gathering a group of like-minded individuals, many of whom he met through the Scarborough Land Trust, and formed the group Citizens for a Green Scarborough. They collected over 700 pages of documents describing the negative impacts of chemical pesticides on the environment and human health. One of their primary concerns was town fields where children play sports on grass that has been chemically treated. “Children are impacted when they slide into first base or play soccer. A lot of these chemicals are then tracked into the home,” says Woodin. “We want to keep our kids healthy. Better to have weeds than pesticides.” Woodin’s group faced resistance from chemical companies as well as some local landscapers and pesticide professionals. These groups argued that organic pesticides are not only expensive but, in treating the soil rather than the weeds, could be equally toxic. “We had a lot of opposition. It was quite a battle,” says Woodin. By 2011 Citizens for a Green Scarborough had convinced the town to enact a progressive pest-management policy, which restricts the use of synthetic weed killers and other chemicals on municipal properties. “It’s a great Margaret Mead example of how a committee of passionate, committed people can change a community,” says Woodin, alluding to a quote by the well-known anthropologist. “And we did.”

From left: A monarch alights on pink swamp milkweed. Shasta daisies bring a touch of white to the garden’s vibrant landscape. Opposite: Conservationist Eddie Woodin was honored by Historic New England in 2017 for his extensive collection of bird art.

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Woodin and Citizens for a Green Scarborough used the media coverage they received to spread their message to individuals in their community and elsewhere. “My concept was, if we could convince the town to go organic on their municipal property, including the athletic fields, they were the tip of the iceberg,” says Woodin. “We’ve converted hundreds of homeowners from there.” This has continued to be a topic of interest across the state: according to the Maine Department of Agriculture, Conservation, and Forestry, 29 towns, from Allagash to Wells, have adopted local ordinances to control pesticide use. In January 2018 the city of Portland passed one of the most far-reaching ordinances to date, with the help of the environmental group Friends of Casco Bay. Friends of Casco Bay has had a stake in healthy Maine waters since the organization’s formation in 1989. The organization came into being after a report entitled “Troubled Waters: Report on the Environmental Health of Casco Bay,” by biologist Paul Hauge, the Conservation Law Foundation, and the Island Institute, claimed that the region had one of the most polluted estuaries in the nation. Since that time, Friends of Casco Bay staff and volunteers have been monitoring water quality at multiple sites. Between 2001 and 2009 they collected rainwater flowing into Casco Bay and analyzed the samples for a suite of pesticides. Lab results identified nine different pesticides in 14 locations. “Casco Bay receives waters from throughout inland Maine: any wetlands that drain into rivers will eventually make their way to Casco Bay,” says Mary Cerullo. A self-described “science translator,” Cerullo is the associate director of Friends of Casco Bay. “Public and private property owners have the capacity to impact living matter, whether plant or animal, in the bay waters.” Cerullo says that the bay has experienced significant problems with algal bloom due to the nitrogen in fertilizers. Nitrogen, as it does on land, triggers plant growth in the ocean. When these blooms die, decomposition removes oxygen that marine life needs and adds carbon dioxide, which can make the seawater more acidic. Clams and mussels have more difficulty building and maintaining their shells in these conditions. “Because of the impact of nitrogen, fertilizers, and pesticides, we realized we had to get people involved and thinking about how they use their properties,” Mary Cerullo, associate director of Friends of Casco Bay, and Casco Baykeeper Ivy Frinoca.

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says Cerullo. “Even if they live far up the watershed, it still comes down those rivers.” Through its BayScaping initiative, Friends of Casco Bay suggests that people minimize the use of chemicals in lawn care. “Things wash off of lawns more than gardens or under trees,” says Cerullo. “Our position has been, ‘Let’s keep it out of the water.’” Friends of Casco Bay suggests practices like composting, using perennial ryegrass in thinning areas, and mulching with grass clippings. Friends of Casco Bay also works with landscapers, arborists, and others who have an interest in the lawn and garden industry. “We have a really collaborative approach, which sometimes separates us from other organizations,” says Cerullo. “We want to put everybody into the conversation. Whatever is created as a result will be a lot more responsible.” “The public has become much more aware that, even though we live in a state where we think we’re in a totally clean environment, these are real threats, and they want to do something about it,” says Ivy Frignoca, the Casco Baykeeper for Friends of Casco Bay. Friends of Casco Bay works with others who share an interest in Maine’s ecosystem, addressing watershed-wide issues in partnerships or coalitions with other organizations. The Maine Department of Agriculture, Conservation, and Forestry has a counterpart to the 20-year-old BayScaping program called YardScaping, which offers ideas about how to manage pests, design landscapes, and choose plants that attract pollinators like bees and birds. In partnership with the City of Portland, this program created a two-and-a-half-acre demonstration landscape on Back Cove, which “showcases appropriate plantings in urban to rural settings in a beautiful, homeowner-doable way, plus serves as a model for municipalities across the state,” according to the program’s website. “It’s pretty exciting to see these efforts going on in the communities around Casco Bay,” says Frignoca. Woodin says that one the most important things he did for his own lawn and garden was to change his expectations. He is willing to put up with a few of what many of us consider to be weeds in order to create a healthier ecosystem. “Dandelions, I embraced. I enjoy them. It’s the first natural flower for the bees. I love clover,” he says. “And in the end, this natural approach has created a great property teeming with an abundance of life.”

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BIRCH SHAMBAUGH

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Birch Shambaugh and Fayth Preyer, the husband-and-wife team behind Portland’s Woodford Food and Beverage, saw the potential to help revitalize the neighborhood long before they opened their bar and restaurant two years ago. “There was an opportunity to try and bring a great neighborhood place back into that space and, at the same time, drive a meaningful plot in helping increase momentum toward Woodfords Corner being more of a neighborhood epicenter again,” says Shambaugh. The Forest Avenue building in the center of Woodfords Corner once housed Valle’s Steak House. For the couple, who live in Portland’s Oakdale neighborhood with their two children, opening a restaurant off the peninsula was important. “The only thing that was interesting to us was doing something out there in the community that we lived in and trying to make a neighborhood place,” says Shambaugh. The restaurateur says his goal has been to create a gathering space for neighbors as well as a “compelling jaunt” for visitors in the Portland area. The restaurant recently expanded lunch service and is now open daytime through dinner six days a week. Although Woodfords Corner is undergoing a long-term road reconstruction project, Shambaugh says the improvements will be worth the hassle of dealing with construction. “It’s part of the civic contract, and if it’s even incrementally successful, it would be a real difference-maker for the livability and the walkability and the overall experience of both living in and passing through Woodfords Corner, which is a notoriously lousy intersection,” says Shambaugh. Local customers have been supportive throughout the construction, he says. Shambaugh says he and Preyer, both of whom worked in hospitality and food service for years, try to offer a compelling place for people to come together and relax. It’s important to them that people feel comfortable at their restaurant. “Ultimately, as much as we are welcoming people into our restaurant, they’re welcoming us and one another into their lives when they’re there regularly,” says Shambaugh. “It becomes this, again, this synergistic thing that almost has a life and breath of its own.”

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FROM AWAY

Phil Crossman, philosopher of Carvers Harbor, observes Vinalhaven from his perch at Tidewater Motel

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To his everlasting regret, Phil Crossman, 73, was not born on Vinalhaven. He admits that he arrived on the island when he was already four, in the company of his mother and father and one of his three brothers—the other two not yet having been born, thus avoiding the stain on their birthright. Crossman’s mother, however, was legitimate: she was born on Vinalhaven, as were Crossman’s grandparents, great-grandparents, and great-great-grandparents going all the way back to 1792, when James Roberts first sailed into Vinalhaven’s Old Harbor and settled on the island. Even so, certain neighbors of Crossman keep close track of island nativity, and he is often reminded of the subtle gradations that distinguish those who are “from here” from those who are “from away.” Tall, lanky, and with owlish glasses balanced on the bridge of his nose, Crossman is referred to by islanders as “Crow,” a nickname he inherited as a teenager in reference to a similarly named six-foot-six stonecutter who staggered around under the effects of alcohol. That summer, Crossman had grown six inches and was equally unsteady in his new frame, so he also began to be called Crow.

Whether you recognize any avian features or not, it’s hard to miss Crossman on Vinalhaven. You might encounter him delivering or retrieving someone or something at the ferry landing. Or you might see him at the town dump, unloading construction debris from a building or repair project. You are certain to see him at a town meeting, where he is a selectman, or at civic meetings, land trust events, or island celebrations (he often performs as a singer in Phil ’n the Blanks). He may be at any of these places if he is not at his primary place of business, the Tidewater Motel in the middle of Vinalhaven’s “downstreet.” Aside from his innumerable other interests, Crossman is a gifted storyteller and writer. As an author, he has artfully dissected the distinctions between island natives and other residents in his book Away Happens, a supremely wry and antic chronicle of island life. “There are only two places,” he writes. “Here, this island off the coast of Maine, and Away. Here, this place, is a small place and Away, everywhere else, is a big place, but make no mistake about it, Here is Here and Away is Not.”

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Opposite: Crossman strides by the former Odd Fellows hall owned by the artist Robert Indiana. This page, from left: Tidewater Motel room keys. Clam Shell Alley in innermost Carvers Harbor.

For the past two decades, Crossman has contributed regular columns to Vinalhaven’s weekly publication of news and announcements, The Wind, which is published by volunteers who gather weekly in the basement of the Union Church. Crossman’s columns have also appeared in the regional newspaper The Working Waterfront, where he maintains a farflung and loyal readership. In fact, it was one of his Working Waterfront columns that landed him the publishing contract for Away Happens. An employee in the shipping department at the University Press of New England was reading a vintage Crossman piece during her lunch break and laughing audibly when an editor walked by and wanted to know what was so amusing. Crossman’s first book was born. According to Crossman, his career as a writer began in high school when he enrolled in a class called Creative Nonfiction, which gave legitimacy to what, until then, had been no more than a

penchant for “stretching the truth.” One of Crossman’s earliest published stories involves his dog, Yitzhak, who in real life had hopped aboard a pickup truck bound for the north end of the island, where the Ames brothers had a tree-cutting job and where Linnell Mather, a landscaper, also worked. Later that day, a bank manager frantically waved Crossman down in town and asked him if anyone had caught up with him yet. Crossman was sure someone in his family had died. In fact, a large spruce tree had landed on Yitzhak, and the word was that it didn’t look good for him. While his wife arranged for an emergency Penobscot Island Air flight, Crossman headed to the scene of the accident to find Yitzhak swaddled in a blanket in Mather’s lap. Yitzhak recovered despite a rather substantial hole in his skull and went on to live some years before dying peacefully. But the incident somehow excited mysterious neurons in Crossman’s brain that connected his restless mind to

fingers on a keyboard, and his incarnation as a town wit took over as he continued submitting his wry observations on island life to The Wind. Crossman observes the behavior of his fellow islanders as obsessively as a myrmecologist studies an ant colony. “That’s the beauty of living here,” Crossman tells me during a visit with him at the Tidewater Motel. “There are so many interesting people doing funny things on the island, it’s easy to write stories.” Sometimes he makes up composite characters for his stories to protect the identities of some of the objects of his humor, but then, Crossman adds, “Some of them say, ‘Why didn’t you use my name? I could use the publicity.’” One of the characters that Crossman wrote about in Away Happens who perhaps could use less publicity is Bait Dyer. Described as a tiny, wiry, and double-jointed young man, he acquired his nickname on the May 2018 75

day of his high school graduation after accepting a bet from his classmates that he couldn’t get himself into a wooden lobster trap. Writes Crossman, “After removing the potheads and partition, he squirmed in through the door, and from the fetal position—he did that which no one before or since has ever done—he closed the trap door, thereby establishing himself in the annals of town lore.” Crossman goes on, “If it had ended there…but of course it didn’t.” Dyer’s companions hauled him through town in the back of a pickup truck, advertising a miraculous new bait that did not need to be kept fresh like herring. They then proceeded to row him out to a lobster boat, lift him and the trap aboard, and with 30 fathoms of rope and buoy tied on, head

“ That’s the beauty of living here. There are so many interesting people doing funny things on the island, it’s easy to write stories.” offshore. Bait Dyer, who never went on a lobster boat again, retreated to the island transfer station, where he became a junior attendant and equipment operator. Another of Crossman’s favorite stories, which he sheepishly admits is a bit of a composite, involves the “Oopsman,” who delivers packages on Vinalhaven for UPS. The Oopsman is well known for delivering as many packages as possible during the morning ferry run to people who happen to be onboard to save him the time and effort of driving all over the island. On one particular day, he had a package for a lobsterman who was known to have a heavy foot after he climbed into his truck at the end of a day of fishing, “booking it” for town. The new deputy sheriff on the island had carefully laid a radar trap for the lobstermen by secreting himself under a lilac bush along the route the lobsterman would be taking. With the last ferry leaving soon, the Oopsman took the opportunity to save time by delivering the lobsterman’s package to the deputy sheriff under the lilac bush, asking him to give it to the miscreant when he caught him speeding. A short while later, the lobsterman drove serenely up to the lilac bush, leaned his head down, and politely asked the sheriff for his package. 76

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In addition to his talents as a writerphilosopher and local politician, and in between various other occupations including carpenter, one-time hardware store owner, wine merchant, and motel owner, Crossman also ran a restaurant on Vinalhaven. “It lasted 90 days,” Crossman tells me matter-of-factly. He decided to call his restaurant the Crow’s Nest, named modestly after himself. “When I first discussed the restaurant idea with Elaine,” recalls Crossman, referring to his longsuffering wife, “she said, ‘Let’s get one thing clear—I’m not having anything to do with it.’ And by the end of it she was down there washing dishes with me at midnight.” Partway into their one and only season, Crossman opened the Crow’s Nest for Sunday brunches. This effort lasted three Sundays. Crossman had hired an eccentric local artist who had cooked professionally earlier in his life and brought in all of his expensive copper cookware. “He had wonderful, exotic recipes, and the first

Sunday the line spilled out the door and into the street,” Crossman recalls. The waitstaff took the orders and put them on clips in the kitchen for the chef, Crossman continues, still highly amused several decades later. The chef would take a random slip to prepare a dish, not in the order in which it had been received but according to what the artist wanted to cook next. “I was the short-order cook, so my omelets became dry and hard under the heat lamp,” says Crossman, “while the chef did his thing. By the third week all seven waitstaff threatened to quit.” Because Crossman obsessively observes everything happening on Vinalhaven from his vantage point at the Tidewater Motel, perhaps it is not surprising that he took the lead on raising funds to protect the historic character of the downtown section of Carvers Harbor. Crossman was instrumental in the formation of the nonprofit Historic Downstreet, which raised over $150,000 to renovate the

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island’s original fire station and restore the Reuben Carver fire engine from 1906. This success helped inspire the community to save other historic buildings downtown. As part of the historic preservation effort, Crossman met with Robert Indiana regarding the future of the towering four-story former Odd Fellows hall, which the artist renovated almost 40 years ago, shortly after moving to the island. Crossman made an appointment to go see Indiana, who had become reclusive. Indiana waited for Crossman upstairs in the building’s largest room, which at one time was the ceremonial center of the Odd Fellows’ complex rituals. Indiana offered Crossman a seat on the couch. Sitting next to Crossman was an enormous black mechanical dog. Indiana

began by asking Crossman why he was not raising money to help him restore his historic Odd Fellows building. Crossman responded by describing the time 30 years ago when island hoodlums broke a window on the front of the historic building. Seeing the damage on his way to work, Crossman retrieved a ladder, took out the window frame, brought it back to his shop, replaced the glass, repaired the frame, and reinstalled it. Suddenly the dog reached out its paw and placed it on Crossman’s lap. Unnerved but undaunted Crossman pressed on and was astounded when Indiana told him he’d watched the whole repair process, although he had never mentioned it or thanked Crossman. When Crossman finally expressed some angst at the continual interruptions from the dog, Indiana said, “For Christ sake, Phil, pet the dog,” whereupon the dog turned

From the decks of the Tidewater inn, islanders and visitors enjoy the expanse of Carvers Harbor.

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to Crossman and whimpered. Recalling the surreal encounter, Crossman says, “A reclusive artist’s talking mechanical dog in the Odd Fellows hall—you could not make this stuff up.” We climb into the cab of Crossman’s truck for a ride around the harbor. Every bend and every passing vehicle sparks another tale from the obsessive storyteller. Crossing the Lanes Island Bridge brings to mind the time Crossman broke his arm as a boy living in a nearby house. Crossman’s father, Bud, sped his son down to Dr. Ralph Earle’s office in town, located in a large open room above a small market on Main Street. The doctor’s assistant was at one end of the room and Dr. Earle was at the other. As soon as Crossman and his father came in, Dr. Earle began striding across the room, then stopped to whisper something

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Clams and Community

The Yarmouth Clam Festival has been drawing families, seafood lovers, and roadside lawn chairs for more than 50 years By Dr. Lisa Belisle // Photography by Heidi Kirn

Opposite: Waiting in line for Clam Festival fare.

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was just tall enough to see out the window of my familyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s station wagon, and I pressed my face to the glass, hoping for a glimpse of our new town. Although the nearby ocean was a familiar sight, the trees were tall and pointed, nothing like the jaunty Florida palms I had known. Then, rising above the horizon, I saw it: a Ferris wheel, glinting in the sun as it slowly revolved. I could not believe our good fortune. We were moving to a place that had not only a carnival but also a three-day celebration centered around food and fun. We were relocating to the home of the Yarmouth Clam Festival. The Yarmouth Clam Festival began in 1965. Held during the third weekend of July every year, this

free event attracts more than 120,000 people annually. Visitors come to our coastal Maine community to watch the Friday night parade, run in the five-mile road race, shop for handmade items, and eat thousands of pounds of seafood. For the 8,500 Yarmouth residents, it is a multi-street block party and reunion, which also supports more than 35 school and civic organizations. Known for its proximity to Portland, Yarmouth has ample access to farmland, woods, and waters. Indigenous people inhabited the area for thousands of years before more recent settlers came in part because of the Royal River, which now features four sets of power-producing waterfalls along a mile of navigable water. According to the

Opposite: Parade horses head up the street, along which people begin setting out chairs weeks in advance to reserve their viewing spots. This page, from left: Volunteers from the First Universalist Church of Yarmouth keep the clam cakes coming on Main Street. Emerson Flaker of Scarborough takes home a road racing trophy. May 2018 85

Yarmouth Historical Society, the first sawmill here was built in 1674. There have been 57 mills and several factories—producing everything from grain and lumber to shoes and bricks—along the banks of the Royal. Yarmouth was also once a shipbuilding town: its school teams are known as the Clippers, although the speedy sailing vessels were never constructed here. My parents had selected Yarmouth carefully. My father, raised in Biddeford, had recently completed his medical training in the navy, and wanted to join a small family-medicine practice. My mother, a native of South Portland, was a teacher. They met while studying at the University of Maine in

Orono. When it came time to move back to their home state, they chose a town where their growing family would get a good public school education. I was six years old and had recently finished first grade at Lakeside Elementary School in Orange Park. We did not attend the Clam Fest the day we moved in to our century-old Church Street home, located down the hill from Yarmouth’s Old Meeting House. My parents had five children under the age of six—including a newborn—and despite our pleas, my siblings and I got no closer to the downtown hubbub than listening to the commotion from our front yard. In subsequent years, we watched the

Sweet potato fries and a lime rickey are sure to hit the spot on a warm July day. Opposite: An antique Yarmouth fire truck wows the parade crowd.

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Friday night parade from West Elm Street, a block away from our house. My sisters (Amy, Adelle, and Emily) exclaimed over the clowns who doled out candy to the kids sitting curbside; my brother, Jeff, was always a fan of the miniature cars driven in circuitous formations by adult Shriners. Every year or so, my parents added a sibling to our clan until there were ten of us, with Matt, Sarah, John, Brian, and Peter rounding out the ranks. When we were old enough, we became part of the show, taking turns marching with the Girl or Boy Scouts, playing in the Harrison Middle School band, and riding on neighborhood floats. When my own children entered the Yarmouth school system a generation later, they did the same. My

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son, Campbell, once drove Maine TV celebrity Bill Green in a donated convertibleâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;through a sudden downpour. By then it was my turn to play the role of spectator again, watching from the lawns of friends who had homes along the route and thus used their proximity as a welcome excuse for a party. Each year we carefully sidestepped the chairs that parade watchers set out on the streets of Yarmouth weeks in advance of the occasion. I attended my first several Clam Fest craft fairs with my twin sisters, Amy and Adelle. Clutching change purses filled with money we had earned by delivering newspapers on foot, we meted out our dollars with extreme discernment. Sometimes our hard-won wages bought a pair of earrings,

sometimes a puppet. Later, my sister Emily and I would walk the same paths on the North Yarmouth Academy grounds with our kids, sipping lime rickeys and stopping to listen to the performances underneath the nearby tent. Occasionally, we would bring the kids to the carnival located behind the Merrill Memorial Library on the Rowe School baseball field. It was a milestone when my adolescent children began attending Locals Night at the carnival by themselves, sporting plastic wristbands and catching up with friends that they hadn’t seen since school ended in June. The Clam Fest features sporting events ranging from a diaper derby to a professional bike race. On Saturday morning we now run (or watch) the Pat’s

Pizza Clam Festival Classic road race and kids’ fun run. The road race begins and ends in front of Main Street’s cheering crowds. In between, the fivemile course loops around East Elm, North Road, and the tree-lined Royal River path. The North Road segment can be particularly unforgiving on a hot July morning, but there are numerous water stations and individuals with their garden hoses at the ready as the runners pass by. After crossing the finish line, we head for the food booths on Memorial Green. Each year 3,000 volunteers from local churches, schools, and community groups serve “more than 6,000 pounds of clams, 6,000 lobster rolls, 2,500 pancake breakfasts, 2,000 shore dinners, 400 homemade

Opposite: Standing in line for a festival ride offered by Smokey’s Greater Shows. This page: Carnival worker Kevin Metlow keeps the crowd entertained.

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pies, and 6,000 strawberry shortcakes…washed down with over 13,500 lime rickeys,” according to the Yarmouth Chamber of Commerce, the organizers of the festival. Being a Clam Fest volunteer is an important part of living in Yarmouth; the money we raise goes to our nonprofit organizations. My parents, siblings, children, and I have done everything from flipping blueberry pancakes to selling soda, picking up trash, and overseeing parking. When we aren’t doing our civic duty, we are watching events like the firefighters’ muster and the Maine State Clam Shucking Contest. We stop in at the Yarmouth High School alumni booth to browse through old yearbooks. My daughters, Abby and Sophie—the youngest of

whom will enter her final year of high school in the fall— marvel over the perms my friends and I had in the late 1980s. When it is time for the fireworks, we spread our blankets across the nearby playing fields and watch multicolored sprays of stars light up the sky. Sunday is another full day of events, and then the Yarmouth Clam Festival is over for another year. I thank my parents for having the prescience to move to Yarmouth—to the magical place of the Ferris wheel. After several decades living in this town, I still look forward to the third weekend in July. There is nothing like a summer festival in a small Maine town.

Opposite: Enjoying Clam Festival nightlife. This page: Getting a bird’s-eye view of the Yarmouth Clam Festival.

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ON A CRANBERRY COVE Reached only by boat, Islesford Dock is a scrappy outlier. Jutting over the salt water at the town landing on Little Cranberry Island, it’s a beacon for the sailboat crowd, and those of us tempted by seaside chowder and cocktails. By Sandy Lang // Photography by Peter Frank Edwards

t’s a fog-early summer day, and we’re on the Beal and Bunker Mail Boat and Ferry, which runs out of Northeast Harbor on Mount Dessert Island (MDI). It’s not a heavy fog but a wispy skim, hovering and making some of the long views hazy. Piled in with all of the Amazon packages and other morning passengers, we’re headed out across the water a few miles, to the five islands of the town of Cranberry Isles. It’s an easygoing August weekday, and some of the other morning passengers have newspapers, but we all look to be anticipating something. It’s as if everyone is ready for the island transition.

On this boat, too, is Michael Boland. He has a long beard and dark sunglasses, and he’s the MDI restaurateur behind some Bar Harbor dining favorites: Havana restaurant and Choco-Latte cafe. As the ferry passes Greening Island, Sutton Island, and Great Cranberry, Boland and I start talking about birthdays. His 50th is coming up in a few weeks, and he says he wasn’t sure how to celebrate until it dawned on him: “I have the coolest restaurant on the coast of Maine, so why would I celebrate anywhere else? We’re closing that day for a private party.”

Opposite: The quiet of a summer morning before another busy day at Islesford Dock, serving customers for more than four decades on Little Cranberry Island.

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By Ferry, by Yacht The restaurant he’s describing is the iconic Islesford Dock on Little Cranberry Island (population: 94 year-round and 600 in summer). In the village of Islesford on the 200-acre island, the restaurant is an institution for the boating crowd around MDI and for Cranberry Isles’ summer residents. I first saw the rustic restaurant while on another boating excursion, around Acadia National Park back in 2016. The weather-beaten exterior immediately charmed me, but the restaurant wasn’t open that day, and the boat captain explained that the ownership and whole future of the place was in limbo because its longtime owners had decided to sell. By January 2017 Boland helped make sure the restaurant would reopen when he bought the one-acre property with Mitchell Rales, a billionaire businessman and art collector from Maryland, who owns a second home in Northeast Harbor. The new owners announced they not only would keep the restaurant open but would hire many past employees, install new bathrooms and floors while keeping the rustic overall character, and extend the season to early June through Columbus Day.

To get us ashore, the ferry’s captain threads through the sailboats moored near the floating docks of the island cove, and our view is of dock pilings and weather-worn buildings over water. This is still a lobstering island, and a smaller dock is home to the Cranberry Isles Fishermen’s Co-Op. Beside it, the restaurant looks like an oversized, wooden shed-style shack with water-facing windows, and it’s situated at the head of the old coal dock. Patches of gray-green moss and lichens that appear to have crept upward from the salt water are clinging to the wooden siding on some of the walls. I’ve read that the creator of SpongeBob SquarePants had visited Maine on early family summer trips, and it’s true that its vibe is reminiscent of the Krusty Krab, the undersea restaurant in the TV series and movies. Boland explains that Stephen Hillenburg, the show’s animator and a former marine biologist, also “has spent a bunch of time on the island...word is that the Krusty Krab was modeled after the Islesford Dock Restaurant, and that the Squidward Tentacles character was modeled after one particularly grumpy cook from long ago.”

Now, I’m even more enchanted.

Opposite: The ferry arrives at Islesford, and passengers make their way up to the restaurant and art galleries situated on an old coal dock on Little Cranberry Island.

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“MY PARTNER AND I WERE MOTIVATED TO BUY THE RESTAURANT, MOST OF ALL, BECAUSE IT’S BEEN SUCH A SPECIAL PLACE TO SO MANY PEOPLE, FOR SO MANY YEARS.”

From left: Gretchen Blank tends the restaurant’s organic garden, within 100 yards of the restaurant’s kitchen door. Michael Boland, who says, “The major bonus [of helping to keep Islesford Dock open] is that it really does seem to be a linchpin for the island economy, providing a significant amount of income for many folks.” Opposite: Lunchtime in the Islesford Dock dining room with ocean scenes, just outside the windows and in paintings on the walls. Besides food and drink, the restaurant showcases fine art in its adjoining gallery, and it helped to launch a series of islandwide art walks last summer.

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Island Differences Before jumping off the boat, Boland hoists a few crates of kitchen supplies and wine onto the dock. That’s the thing about islands—almost everything has to be transported on and off. There’s no running down the street to grab something forgotten. We follow him into the long, narrow kitchen, and it’s filled with a busy crew. Employee Nate Pfohl is stirring a massive pot of chowder. The steam is rising, and I smell the clam broth and potatoes. Other crew members are chopping ingredients, shucking oysters, or washing dishes. We’ve got time before lunch to look around as “Team Dock” keeps cooking. In a storeroom, I see several kegs of beer. That’s another island difference, Boland explains. By pouring from kegs the restaurant can avoid having to deal with so many bottles and cans. Waste and recycling costs and hastle are reduced. That’s also why the owners invested in a reverse-osmosis water system to filter the well water and remove off-notes from its natural mineral content. That way, they can serve tap water instead of bottled water and reduce the restaurant’s carbon footprint. Another way to be more sustainable is to grow and gather what they can on the island itself. Barely 50 steps from the back door of the restaurant is a hillside garden with a toppled but living apple tree—a mature one with sprawling branches. Here we meet Gretchen Blank, who was born in Bar Harbor and grew up on the island. By sixth grade, she and her twin sister, Frances, were hiring themselves out to cook special meals for island locals. Later, Gretchen says, she would work on weekends at Islesford

Dock—bussing tables, washing dishes, as a barback, on the prep line, and as a waitress. She left Maine for a spell of working in an apple orchard in New Zealand, but now the restaurant’s garden is her domain. “I wasn’t planning on coming back, but Michael got in touch about this job before the reopening, and it was an easy thing to say yes to.” She shows us around a garden of tomatoes, five kinds of basil, cucumbers, raspberries, and dozens more herbs and vegetables. She’s growing purple, white, and yellow varieties of carrots. Flowers for the tables include phlox, tall sunflowers, and sweet peas with curling tendrils. She points out the radicchio, which grows well, she says, “if the bugs don’t get it.” Using natural, organic methods, Blank started the year’s plants from seed in the restaurant’s greenhousein April, then she moved the seedlings into outdoor garden plots. She’s carrying a basket, and as we’re talking she's gathering microgreens and herbs for the kitchen. I notice the tattoo on her wrist that’s an outline of the island’s shape. The clouds and fog have burnt off completely by now, and I use the sunshine as an excuse to buy a hat at the Lobster Co-Op next door. Just outside the coop, we see a woman wearing the kitchen clogs of a chef—along with skull earrings, a few tattoos, and a bright-eyed smile. She is the restaurant’s executive chef, Emily Damon, and is stopping by to check on the lobsters needed for the day's chilled salads and lobster rolls.

Opposite: Chef Emily Damon (in printed apron, center-left) with the kitchen crew at Islesford Dock. Some sous chefs and cooks move to Maine for the summer from New York, Boston, and beyond. The work commute here is a ferry ride from Mount Desert Island or a walk from shared housing on Little Cranberry Island.

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Family Style Midmorning has eased into lunchtime. We walk past the Little Cranberry Yacht Club headquarters, marked by burgees with a circle of five spots to represent the five islands. A boy from the island, Whit Chaplin, has just gotten back from taking some younger kids out for a rowing lesson. When we step back into the busy kitchen I hear a server call out: “Order in! For table ten, and it’s a super, super VIP.” Quincy Garner and Edwin Lebron, two guys from Manhattan and Brooklyn restaurants who are working here for the summer, look up but take it in stride when they hear that summertime Seal Harbor resident and entrepreneur Martha Stewart is here with 11 friends for her birthday lunch. “We’re making great food, and the pace is at a New York level,” Lebron says, and I watch awhile as the kitchen crew keeps cook-

ing and plating up Asian-style barbecue ribs and “Dock” burgers with caramelized onion–garlic jam and herbed crinkle fries. The sizzles and delicious smells fill the old wooden building. “We live in military-like barracks for the summer,” Lebron explains, “but sometimes we jump in the water at the end of the night. Working here is magical.” Taking on the chef’s role here is a return to childhood memories for Damon, who grew up in Northeast Harbor. Her family would visit Little Cranberry on weekends before she left to study art in New York City and the culinary arts in San Francisco, and before she worked in restaurants in New Mexico, Canada, and Rhode Island. Back home on MDI, Damon has been a chef-owner of three now-closed Northeast Harbor restaurants: 151 Main Street, House of M, and Watermark. Because Islesford Dock is seasonal, she’s been able to keep her other job, as chef at Mount Desert Elementary School, as well.

Opposite: Fresh-baked biscuits with butter, honey, and tiny blooms from the organic garden. This page: Before dinner service, the “Team Dock” staff learn about new wine selections at Islesford Dock. May 2018 105

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Fog Finish I step out into the dining room to see the scene. Off their own boats or as ferry passengers, the lunch crowd has arrived. (Her back is to me, but I recognize Stewart when I see her blonde hair and crisp white oxford shirt.) Two Hinckley yachts are now tied up at the dock. One is painted heather green. That’s Stewart’s “picnic boat,” which she commissioned from the Southwest Harbor–founded company and had painted an exclusive hull color. (The yacht’s name is Skylands II, after her hillside home in Seal Harbor.) I sit with a saltwater view for a lunch of fish chowder, a few of those ribs, and the Louie salad of chilled lobster and shrimp in a creamy dill dressing. Damon also brings out a plate of hot biscuits with a crock of butter topped with honey. I eat it all as I watch the clear sunny day start to melt into an afternoon fog. People are making their way to their boats, as the fog rolls in by two o’clock and hangs thickly on the water through the afternoon. Eventually the evening waitstaff start to arrive. They meet with Boland for a wine tasting and to sample the night’s special, a thick grilled T-bone steak. Damon says some of the staff live on the island but many ride the ferry daily, and if they ever complain about the added time she shares a reminder. “I’ll say,

‘Guys, you’re off an island, on an island, on a dock. That’s pretty special.’” Meanwhile, everyone waits for the evening diners. Some of the 130 or so with reservations are delayed or have canceled because of the fog. Whit Chaplin’s father, Courtney Chaplin, an experienced rower and past chief of the island’s volunteer fire department, is touching up the paint on a wooden boat that’s turned hull-side-up behind the restaurant. He’s getting it ready for a rowing-event fundraiser for Islesford Boatworks, which has been building boats all summer with island kids. Then the sun breaks through. The water’s surface smooths out, and there are ripples of light on the whitewashed walls inside as the sun gets lower. I can see sunlight on paintings in the restaurant’s gallery, which is connected to the dining room. Bartender Sierra Lowe, who returns each year from Texas to make the “Margo-rita” and Sea Glass cocktails, is juicing a bowl of oranges. Manager and gallerist Georgia Howland, who Boland says can carry more dinner plates than just about anyone he’s seen, is checking in with longtime staff, including brother and sister Isaac Krasnow and Sam Krasnow. Everyone’s ready for another summer dinnertime, with Islesford Dock open in all of its moss-covered glory, just as the next ferry arrives.

Opposite: No car is needed, but a boat is essential to get to Islesford Dock. This page: The restaurant’s lobster comes from Little Cranberry Lobster, the fishermen’s co-op on the dock next door.

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Opposite: Laura Bindloss’s best summer memories took place in this charming camp—she grew up playing in the shallow waters of Bonny Eagle Pond. In 2017 Laura and her husband, Simon, purchased the property from her mother and set about updating it. This page: “For me, Maine is what a summer holiday should be: near a lake, low-key, and relaxing,” says Simon. Laura and Simon spend their vacations visiting Snell Family Farm to buy fresh produce, cooking on the porch, and lounging on floaties in the waist-deep water of the lake. May 2018 115

Two days after Laura and Simon Bindloss got engaged on the shores of Bonny Eagle Pond in Buxton, they “flew to opposite corners of the earth” (as Laura puts it). Simon was headed back to London, where he worked in finance, and Laura was moving to New York City to start the next phase in her career. The pair had met in London, but when Laura’s visa ran out, they knew that the separation they were about to undergo would test any relationship, even one as happy as theirs. Fortunately, Laura says, “Simon didn’t care. He had already bought an engagement ring. He knew he wanted to make it work—that’s a testament to him. He’s a planner.” She had no idea the proposal was coming. “I never in a million years would have thought that was the moment he’d pick, but romance got the better of him.” Simon got down on one knee on a rocky ledge just a few feet away from the pinescented waters of the pond. As Laura’s father looked on in approval from the deck of their old Maine camp, Simon popped the question. After she said yes, they popped a bottle of champagne and celebrated as the sun went down, casting a festive rosy hue over the waist-deep waters of Bonny Eagle. Things have changed since that happy evening. Laura’s father has passed away, and the couple no longer needs to buy plane tickets before embarking on a date night. Now they live together in New York City, where Laura runs Nylon Consulting, a public relations firm for luxury brands, and Simon works in renewable energy at Wavelength Lighting. The camp

has changed, too. It’s chicer and more stylish, but it still feels like home to this intercontinental couple, who purchased it from Laura’s mother in 2017. Simon and Laura didn’t want to change too much about the house—after all, it is filled with memories, and the structure itself was perfectly functional. However, they decided to get rid of a lot of the “granny stuff,” as Simon puts it. “We carted away maybe 15 carloads of old things,” he says. “But we tried to keep a lot, like this wood box that we turned into a television stand.” The downstairs living room, dining room, and kitchen area saw the bulk of the couple’s renovation work. Before they purchased the house, it had dark wood kitchen cabinetry, lots of knotty pine, a huge cast-iron stove in the middle of the living space, and heavy wood furniture that hadn’t been moved in years. They decided to rework the layout of the semi-open-concept room, removing the stove to create space for a breakfast bar, sanding and painting the kitchen cabinets to create a lighter overall feel, and bringing in new rugs and furniture sourced from Laura’s client list. The result is a sunny, modern living room with a white-painted brick fireplace, a cheerful ikat blue and white rug, an L-shaped sofa bed tucked into the corner, and a bright yellow armchair that adds a vivid pop of color. Laura also used leafprint fabric from one of her clients, Ferrick Mason, to cover the living room ottoman and add another pattern into the playful space. “We chose all the colors in the room based on that fabric,” she explains.

While they kept some furniture, Laura and Simon decided to update the decor to better suit their tastes. They paired kitchen dining chairs from the original home with a new table and hanging lights purchased at Crate and Barrel.

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The kitchen has been updated to feature a long blonde-wood breakfast bar with highback black bar stools, sophisticated green cabinetry, sky blue walls, and a collection of framed watercolors painted by Simon’s mother. They also knocked down part of the front wall and installed a glass sliding door to create a seamless transition from the living room and dining space onto the deck. “We really spend most of our time here out on the deck anyway,” Simon says. “The first summer we owned the place didn’t feel like too much of a holiday, since we spent every weekend driving up, going to Home Depot, and painting everything,” says Simon. Fortunately, the couple didn’t need to do much to the upstairs bedrooms— Laura knew that a few quarts of paint, carefully chosen wallpaper, and some new textiles would work wonders. “The cool

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thing about our house is that it’s an extreme juxtaposition of high and low,” Laura says. “We have wallpaper from de Gournay and pieces from Ikea.” They covered the drab, faded pink of the bedroom walls with coats of white and blue paint and brought in modern geometric patterned textiles to freshen up the beds. In their bedroom, Laura wanted to showcase a particularly striking gold chinoiserie wallpaper that is covered with whimsical paintings of rosebushes and songbirds (hand-painted in China by the artisans at de Gournay). It’s one of those quirky design decisions that almost shouldn’t work—shiny gold paper in a Maine camp?—yet somehow it does. “Laura has a real eye for interior design,” says her husband. Plus, Laura adds, “That room can feel a bit dark, and the gilded wallpaper really picks up the light and brightens it up.”

Laura and Simon’s room features dramatic gold wallpaper by de Gournay, bedding by Evitavonni, and a side table by Uhuru Design. Opposite: The kitchen was once dark and dated; now it’s light and bright. The countertop is from StoneCraft in Gorham, and the cupboards are painted Narragansett Green by Benjamin Moore. The walls are Iceberg by Benjamin Moore. The sink and faucet are from Kohler.

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“ WE’LL NEVER SELL THIS HOUSE. NEVER. IT’S BEEN IN MY FAMILY FOR TOO LONG.”

Although their home base is 300 miles away, Simon and Laura come up to Maine as often as possible. “For me, Maine is what a summer holiday should be: near a lake, lowkey, and relaxing,” says Simon. They spend their days floating on the water, visiting Snell Family Farm for fresh produce, cooking on the porch, and enjoying the occasional dinner out at MK Kitchen in Gorham. They play on the rope swing at Salmon Falls, Simon trains for triathlons in his downtime, and Laura likes to go fishing for pike. “One time she used a Jordan’s hot dog as bait and managed to catch a reasonably large fish,” Simon says with a laugh.

The house is their escape from everyday life, and in the past five years, Maine has become their place, just as it was for Laura’s parents and grandparents. When asked if she would ever consider a vacation home closer to New York City, Laura is vehement. “We’ll never sell this house,” she says. “Never. It’s been in my family for too long. There’s a part of my grandmother’s soul in this house, and there’s a part of my dad here, too. And the fact that it’s where we got engaged? That makes it all the more special.”

Opposite: To make the living room feel more modern, Simon and Laura painted the brick fireplace with Benjamin Moore’s Decorator’s White. “We had to have at least one lobster in the house,” jokes Simon about their crustacean wall art. This page: The couple relaxes in their chic new den. The rug is by Luke Irwin, and the pillows feature fabric by Sasha Bikoff and Ferrick Mason.

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HIGH DEMAND Maine’s real estate market continues to grow in value, but low inventory is creating challenges for potential buyers around the state BY PAUL KOENIG

riven by high demand in southern Maine and low inventory around the state, Maine saw home prices continue to rise last year. Especially in York and Cumberland counties and other hot real estate markets, low inventory has held back house sales, with transactions only increasing 0.7 percent from 2016, according to Maine Listings data. “It’s definitely still a sellers’ market,” says Dava Davin, owner of Portside Real Estate Group. “We are seeing a lot of listings sell very quickly and multiple-offer situations. Buyers are struggling to find the right home.” Overall, more people moved to Maine in 2017 than moved away, so there are more buyers than inventory, Davin says. “Either people are staying at their locations and renovating or adding an addition instead of selling, so we have a little bit of a bottleneck.” David Banks, owner of RE/MAX by the Bay, says the construction of new subdivisions in the greater Portland area have done well because baby boomers nearing retirement age are looking to downsize and are seeking places with less maintenance. However, he says there are inventory challenges across the board. “I think that until inventory grows quite a bit, the demand will still be there, and the sellers are the ones that are really benefiting from it,” Banks says. Chris Lynch, owner of Legacy Properties Sotheby's International Realty, says the high demand is also being driven by a gradual change in the way Maine is viewed. Historically Maine was seen as a place that people only want to be in during the summer months, Lynch says, but in the past decade, and especially the past couple of years, Maine’s reputation has shifted, with people realizing it has an appealing year-round lifestyle. “There are people from all over the world looking to relocate to Maine,” Lynch says. Jeff Davis, a broker/owner at Town and Shore Associates, has been in the industry for more than

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two decades and has seen the ups and downs of the real estate market. Despite high prices, barring any huge economic change, he doesn’t expect the market to crash like it did in 2008. Although interest rates are expected to increase, as long as the increases are not done aggressively, Davis doesn’t think it will negatively impact the market in the short term. Andrew Snyder, a broker with Benchmark Residential and Investment Real Estate, says that although prices have increased, “there’s not the irrational exuberance we’ve seen in past markets.” It’s easier for buyers to notice when properties priced above market value, he says. “If you see a property on the market in Portland that’s been on the market for more than a month, there’s reason for that. Most often it’s because of pricing.” Like Portland, downtown Bar Harbor is in very high demand. Amy Cameron, an associate broker with Swan Agency Sotheby's International Realty, says low inventory, especially on Mount Desert Island, is a concern for all brokers she’s spoken with. “We have buyers that want to buy, but we really don’t have anything to sell right now,” Cameron says. Properties in more rural areas that haven’t gotten much attention in recent years are starting to see more activity. “People are starting to reach out a little bit farther to locations that they weren’t really thinking about, but they have to buy something.” Low inventory is a challenge in the midcoast, too, says Scott Horty, owner of Camden Real Estate Company. Knox County had around 400 active listings and 100 pending contracts in March. In the summer of 2014 the county had around the same number of pending contracts but double the number of active listings, he says. Horty doesn’t expect the inventory problem to substantially subside in the near future. “There continues to be an influx of people who want to live here year-round because it's a great place to live, naturally beautiful, vibrant, and safe.” he says.

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On the following pages we present a snapshot of coastal and lakefront properties that have sold within the last 18 months.

Kittery TO Ogunquit

15 Donovans Ln. | York With over 400 feet of frontage on York River, this three-bedroom home has easy water access for boaters and kayakers. What it was listed for: $1,398,111 What it sold for: $1,275,000 The facts: 3 bedrooms, 2.5 baths, 2,867 square feet on 3.9 acres Listing agent: Troy Williams, Keller Williams Coastal Realty Selling agent: Troy Williams, Keller Williams Coastal Realty

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The southernmost entryway to the state offers beautiful beaches and some of Maineâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s most iconic lighthouses, including Cape Neddick Light. With the Kittery Outlets, the Ogunquit Playhouse, and a variety of local restaurants, thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s plenty to do year-round.

21 Kings Rd. | York This four-bedroom home offers a 180-degree view of the ocean and a few classic Maine lighthouses, including Boone Island, White Island, and Nubble. What it was listed for: $1,295,000 What it sold for: $1,165,000 The facts: 4 bedrooms, 2 baths, 2,240 square feet on 1.239 acres Listing agent: Anne Erwin Real Estate, Anne Erwin Sotheby's International Realty Selling agent: Anne Erwin Real Estate, Anne Erwin Sotheby's International Realty

99 Goodwin Rd. | Kittery Located on over five wooded acres on Gerrish Island, this five-bedroom home has an in-law apartment and deeded access to the ocean. What it was listed for: $995,000 What it sold for: $850,000 The facts: 5 bedrooms, 3.5 baths, 5,645 square feet on 5.16 acres Listing agent: Mary Jean Labbe, Legacy Properties Sotheby's International Realty Selling agent: William J. Gaynor, Legacy Properties Sotheby's International Realty

5 Tudor Dr. | Kittery In addition to ocean access via a dock and private boat slip, this fourbedroom home with its tall ceilings and a fireplace is set on over two acres. What it was listed for: $899,000 What it sold for: $852,500 The facts: 5 bedrooms, 3.5 baths, 3,401 square feet on 2.15 acres Listing agent: Jane S. Chase, Legacy Properties Sotheby's International Realty Selling agent: Jim A. Nadeau, Legacy Properties Sotheby's International Realty

2 Poet's Ln. | Kennebunkport This shingle-style home is located on a private park-like setting across from Walker's Point and features impressive craftsmanship and designer landscaping. What it was listed for: $1,895,000 What it sold for: $1,800,000 The facts: 4 bedrooms, 3 baths, 4 half baths, 5,212 square feet on 3.3 acres Listing agent: William J. Gaynor, Legacy Properties Sotheby's International Realty Selling agent: William J. Gaynor, Legacy Properties Sotheby's International Realty

24 Mill St. | Kennebunk This three-bedroom Cape includes a deck and a large and sunny kitchen with a cathedral ceiling. What it was listed for: $235,000 What it sold for: $228,000 The facts: 3 bedrooms, 2 baths, 1,344 square feet on 0.57 acres Listing agent: Patricia J. Gallagher, Kennebunk Beach Realty Selling agent: Patricia J. Gallagher, Kennebunk Beach Realty

KENNEBUNKS TO SCARBOROUGH From Goose Rocks Beach to Scarborough Beach State Park, this stretch of southern Maine has enough beach options to last an entire summer. To enjoy the coastline, walk, bike, or run along the Eastern Trail or check out the pier at Old Orchard Beach.

30 Merrill St. | Portland

PORTLAND + SOUTH PORTLAND From the peninsula to the city’s outer edges, there’s no shortage of restaurants, coffee shops, and breweries to enjoy in Portland. The state’s largest city has an urban edge without sacrificing Maine charm, while nearby South Portland is full of cozy neighborhoods.

Perched on one of the highest points in Portland, this state-of-the-art condo offers 360-degree views that include Mount Washington and Casco Bay. What it was listed for: $895,000 What it sold for: $830,000 The facts: 3 bedrooms, 2.5 baths, 1,856 square feet on 0.117 acres Listing agent: Tom Landry, Benchmark Residential & Investment Real Estate

32 Turner St. | Portland With three decks and a rooftop entertainment area, this five-bedroom home has sweeping views of the city and ocean. What it was listed for: $1,295,000 What it sold for: $1,200,000 The facts: 5 bedrooms, 4.5 baths, 3,189 square feet on 0.073 acres Listing agent: Dava M. Davin and Vanessa D. Greco, Portside Real Estate Group Selling agent: Taylor M. Owen, Keller Williams Realty

207 Fore St. | Unit #8, Portland This corner unit has great water views and easy access to Portland’s many restaurants, coffee shops, boutiques, and galleries. What it was listed for: $925,000 What it sold for: $858,000 The facts: 2 bedrooms, 2 baths, 1,344 square feet on 0.52 acres Listing agent: Brianne O'Donnell Fisher, the Swan Agency Sotheby's International Realty Selling agent: Karen N. Reiche, LandVest

31 Reynolds St. | South Portland This charming four-bedroom bungalow has a woodburning fireplace and is in close proximity to beaches and nearby Portland. What it was listed for: $309,900 What it sold for: $309,900 The facts: 4 bedrooms, 2 baths, 1,768 square feet on 0.12 acres Listing agent: The David Banks Team, RE/MAX By The Bay Selling agent: Laura Fay, Keller Williams Realty May 2018 129

Cape Elizabeth, Falmouth, Yarmouth + Freeport

Surrounding Portland, these small towns offer a classic New England feel, strong community connections, and highly rated school districts. State parks, including Crescent Beach and Wolfe’s Neck, plus the walking trail at Mackworth Island, offer plenty of options for outdoor family fun.

29 Maeves Way | Cumberland

142 White's Cove Rd. | Yarmouth

19 Hogans Flat | Freeport

989 Shore Rd. | Cape Elizabeth

With indoor and outdoor entertaining spaces, this fourbedroom farmhouse has modern amenities and rustic charm.

This four-bedroom home offers panoramic water views of White Cove and has a private guest suite in the lower level.

This beautiful custom home is surrounded by conservation land in Wolfe’s Neck Woods State Park and has deeded ocean access.

This open-concept home, which is located next to Fort Williams Park, has wide ocean views made better by tall, expansive windows on the main floor.

What it was listed for: $1,350,000 What it sold for: $1,275,000 The facts: 4 bedrooms, 3.5 baths, 4,200 square feet on 1.75 acres Listing agent: The David Banks Team, RE/MAX By The Bay Selling agent: Benjamin Schulz, Vitalius Real Estate Group

What it was listed for: $1,300,000 What it sold for: $1,300,000 The facts: 4 bedrooms, 3.5 baths, 3,732 square feet on 0.13 acres Listing agent: Joi L. Kressbach, Town & Shore Associates Selling agent: Polly B. Nichols, Legacy Properties Sotheby's International Realty

3 Avon Rd. | Cape Elizabeth Located in Shore Acres, this cottage-style home is filled with period details including coffered ceilings, exposed brick, hardwood floors, and a sun-filled enclosed porch. What it was listed for: $399,999 What it sold for: $393,000 The facts: 4 bedrooms, 2.5 baths, 2,000 square feet on 0.29 acres Listing agent: Melissa A. McKersie and Polly B. Nichols, Legacy Properties Sotheby's International Realty Selling agent: Louis F. Santoro, Santoro Real Estate

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What it was listed for: $595,000 What it sold for: $593,500 The facts: 2 bedrooms, 1.5 baths, 1,695 square feet on 0.54 acres Listing agent: Brett P. Davis, Brett Davis Real Estate Selling agent: Mackenzie P. Simpson, Porta & Company

What it was listed for: $698,000 What it sold for: $673,500 The facts: 5 bedrooms, 3 baths, 3,020 square feet on 0.49 acres Listing agent: Melissa A. McKersie and Polly B. Nichols, Legacy Properties Sotheby's International Realty Selling agent: Paul Vose, Charter Properties

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56 Federal St. | Brunswick This federal-style home has a patio and fenced-in yard and is within walking distance of Bowdoin College and downtown Brunswick. What it was listed for: $695,000 What it sold for: $685,000 The facts: 3 bedrooms, 2.5 baths, 3,045 square feet on 0.33 acres Listing agent: Andrea Galuza, RE/MAX Riverside Selling agent: Paul A. McKee, Keller Williams Realty

3 Atkins Bay Dr. | Phippsburg In addition to panoramic ocean views, a wraparound porch, and rooftop deck, this home has a mooring and deeded access to Atkins Bay. What it was listed for: $499,000 What it sold for: $490,000 The facts: 3 bedrooms, 2.5 baths, 2,900 square feet on 3 acres Listing agent: Christine M. Pemberton, William Raveis Real Estate Selling agent: Christine M. Pemberton, William Raveis Real Estate

3 Cranberry Dr. | Brunswick This four-bedroom home is within walking distance of both downtown Brunswick and Thomas Point Beach. What it was listed for: $490,000 What it sold for: $490,000 The facts: 4 bedrooms, 2.5 baths, 3,500 square feet on 3.1 acres Listing agent: John R. Collins, Legacy Properties Sotheby's International Realty Selling agent: Melissa A. McKersie, Legacy Properties Sotheby's International Realty

Harpswell, Brunswick + Bath A drive along Harpswellâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s rocky coast offers picturesque ocean views, while nearby Brunswick has a charming, walkable downtown filled with shops and restaurants. Bath, an industrial city known for shipbuilding, is quiet and historic with easy access to the Kennebec River.

669 Cross Point Rd. | Edgecomb This midcentury home sited directly on the Sheepscot River has a deep-water dock, a heated pool, and an oversized two-car garage. What it was listed for: $875,000 What it sold for: $824,000 The facts: 2 bedrooms, 2 baths, 2,600 square feet on 1.6 acres Listing agent: Joane Tait, Legacy Properties Sotheby's International Realty Selling agent: Miles E. Geisler, Legacy Properties Sotheby's International Realty

5 Grandview Ave. | Boothbay Harbor Located in Spruce Point, this custom home has a deep waterfront with a private dock and float, as well as panoramic views of outer Boothbay Harbor. What it was listed for: $1,395,000 What it sold for: $1,500,000 The facts: 5 bedrooms, 4 baths, 2,805 square feet on 0.78 acres Listing agent: Bruce B. Tindal, Tindal & Callahan Real Estate Selling agent: Karen K. Roberts, Tindal & Callahan Real Estate

Boothbay Peninsula Known for its whale watches and sailing, Boothbay has plenty to do on the water as well as on the shore. Reid State Park has sandy beaches for relaxing and rocky ledges for exploring, while Wiscasset is known for the infamous Redâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Eats lobster shack.

73/78 Back Door Rd. | Westport Island Located on over 56 acres, this home has a deep-water dock, a heated solarium, and a separate two-bedroom log cabin for guests. What it was listed for: $915,000 What it sold for: $915,000 The facts: 5 bedrooms, 4 baths, 4,850 square feet on 56.8 acres Listing agent: John R. Collins, Legacy Properties Sotheby's International Realty Selling agent: Crystal E. Almasi, The Maine Real Estate Network May 2018 131

Midcoast: Belfast TO Rockland

With a bustling downtown and art museums such as the Center for Maine Contemporary Art and the Farnsworth Art Museum, Rockland has plenty to offer for weekend adventures and nights out on the town. Belfast is rich in history, which can be discovered on its streets and many trails.

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This four-bedroom home offers 300 feet of water frontage and views of Penobscot Bay and Islesboro.

Located in town, this recently renovated two-bedroom home has a wraparound porch and a spacious backyard.

This fully furnished home located on the waterfront home has a pool, tennis courts, and clubhouse.

This four-bedroom home has a private fenced in backyard and is within close proximity to Rockland's downtown.

What it was listed for: $895,000 What it sold for: $867,500 The facts: 4 bedrooms, 3.5 baths, 3,499 square feet on 1.63 acres Listing agent: Scott T. Horty, Camden Real Estate Company Selling agent: Mary D. Bumiller, On the Water Real Estate Company

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What it was listed for: $389,000 What it sold for: $365,000 The facts: 2 bedrooms, 2.5 baths, 1,260 square feet on 0.17 acres Listing agent: Kessler T. Horty, Camden Real Estate Company Selling agent: Avary A. Lamont, Camden Coast Real Estate

What it was listed for: $875,000 What it sold for: $874,000 The facts: 3 bedrooms, 2.5 baths, 2,500 square feet on 62 acres Listing agent: Leslie J. Tranchell, Legacy Properties Sotheby's International Realty Selling agent: Marjorie S. Crowley, Coast Wise Realty

What it was listed for: $315,000 What it sold for: $315,000 The facts: 4 bedrooms, 2.5 baths, 2,400 square feet on 0.34 acres Listing agent: George C. Wheelwright, Legacy Properties Sotheby's International Realty Selling agent: Michelle E. Gifford, RE/ MAX Jaret & Cohn

St. George Peninsula

Filled with cozy cottages near the water, St. George is known as a quiet retreat for artists and others seeking serenity in this historic fishing village. Ocean views are made better by classic lighthouses such as Owl’s Head Lighthouse and Marshall Point Lighthouse in Port Clyde.

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359 Island Ave. | Saint George

This charming Cape has plenty of light and a private waterfront area on the Saint George River for canoeing or paddleboarding.

This custom cottage located on Rackliff Island has deep-water access, wide southeast views of Seal Harbor, and is accessible by a short causeway from the mainland.

What it was listed for: $235,000 What it sold for: $222,500 The facts: 3 bedrooms, 2 baths, 1,399 square feet on 0.83 acres Listing agent: Alex T. Cohen, Camden Real Estate Company Selling agent: Cheryl Oliveri-Daly, Camden Real Estate Company

What it was listed for: $795,000 What it sold for: $770,000 The facts: 3 bedrooms, 2.5 baths, 1,900 square feet on 1.03 acres Listing agent: Lori A. Alexander, Legacy Properties Sotheby's International Realty Selling agent: Gregg Imus, RE/MAX Jaret & Cohn

53 Stevens Ln. | Cushing Located on the shore of Maple Juice Cove, this home has a private commercial-grade wharf with a dock and float and includes three additional waterfront lots with room for expansion. What it was listed for: $1,395,000 What it sold for: $1,395,000 The facts: 4 bedrooms, 2.5 baths, 3,900 square feet on 5 acres Listing agent: Brian W. Wickenden, Legacy Properties Sotheby's International Realty Selling agent: Heidi H. Steele, RE/MAX Jaret & Cohn

Blue Hill, Stonington, Deer Isle + Castine These small towns west of Acadia National Park are known for being great contributors to Maine’s lobster industry. A drive over the bridges connecting the island towns of Stonington and Deer Isle will reveal inlets full of working lobster boats.

294 Ames Cove Rd. | Brookesville This three-bedroom home has perennial gardens and almost 500 feet of ocean frontage on a private beach. What it was listed for: $949,000 What it sold for: $900,000 The facts: 3 bedrooms, 3 baths, 2,440 square feet on 10.4 acres Listing agent: Midge Smith, the Swan Agency Sotheby's International Realty Selling agent: Charlene Hamiwka, the Swan Agency Sotheby's International Realty

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Home to Acadia National Park, Mount Desert Island is a nature loverâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s dream. The mountains and rocky coast offer plenty of fun year-round, from kayaking to hiking to snowshoeing. Bar Harbor attracts people for its wide dining and shopping experiences.

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28 Russell Farm Rd. | Bar Harbor

Located in the forest on just over half an acre, this home offers total privacy while still being close to town.

This timber-frame home has a great room that is flooded with light and showcases a locally quarried granite fireplace.

This three-bedroom home located ten minutes from downtown features a remodeled chefâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s kitchen with a farmhouse sink, maple cabinetry, and heated floors.

What it was listed for: $999,000 What it sold for: $900,000 The facts: 4 bedrooms, 3.5 baths, 3,095 square feet on 3.05 acres Listing agent: Erica Brooks and Erin Leonardi, the Swan Agency Sotheby's International Realty Selling agent: Brenda Shelton, Acadia Realty Group

What it was listed for: $450,000 What it sold for: $440,000 The facts: 3 bedrooms, 3 baths, 2,340 square feet on 2.13 acres Listing agent: Erica Brooks and Erin Leonardi, the Swan Agency Sotheby's International Realty Selling agent: Veena Gaines, Acadia Cornerstone Real Estate

What it was listed for: $499,000 What it sold for: $450,000 The facts: 2 bedrooms, 2 baths, 1,300 square feet on 0.57 acres Listing agent: Erika Mitchell, the Swan Agency Sotheby's International Realty Selling agent: Mia Thompson and Lili Pew, the Knowles Company

51 Station Rd. | Beals Located atop a high ledge, this twobedroom home has deep-water frontage and panoramic views of Mount Desert Island. What it was listed for: $585,000 What it sold for: $525,000 The facts: 2 bedrooms, 2.5 baths, 3,044 square feet on 5.4 acres Listing agent: Gail Caruso, the Swan Agency Sotheby's International Realty Selling agent: Julie Farris, Jonesport Realty

114 West Oval | Winter Harbor Located in the Grindstone Neck community, this four-bedroom home has views of the ocean, islands, and mountains from each room. What it was listed for: $1,850,000 What it sold for: $1,800,000 The facts: 3 bedrooms, 5 baths, 2 half baths, 5,125 square feet on 3.25 acres Listing agent: Amy Cameron, the Swan Agency Sotheby's International Realty Selling agent: Amy Cameron, the Swan Agency Sotheby's International Realty

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Downeast: Winter Harbor, Lubec, Calais + Eastport Far up the coast of Maine, clapboard houses line the rocky shores, while galleries and museums offer plenty to do in these fishing communities. In Lubec, Quoddy Head State Park gives visitors the chance to witness the first sunrise in the country.

111 Sunset Ave. | Great Diamond Island, Portland At over 100 years old, this fully furnished fivebedroom cottage has a large lawn and deeded access to the ocean shore. What it was listed for: $498,000 What it sold for: $480,000 The facts: 5 bedrooms, 2 baths, 3,134 square feet on 1.17 acres Listing agent: Christine M. Pemberton, William Raveis Real Estate Selling agent: Michele A. Jordan, Badger Realty

1 South Rd. | Chebeague Island With three bedrooms and an attached barn, this home is only a short walk from Hamilton Beach, the Chebeague Island Inn, and the Great Chebeague Island Golf Club. What it was listed for: $525,000 What it sold for: $515,000 The facts: 3 bedrooms, 1 bath, 2 half baths, 1,769 square feet on 1.92 acres Listing agent: Mary J. Conroy, Portside Real Estate Selling agent: Jane L. Leonard, RE/MAX

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For inland residents who still crave waterfront living, Maine’s many lakes offer beautiful scenery and quiet retreats. With over 2,000 lakes in the state, there’s plenty of space to live and play.

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Set high above Coleman Pond, this year-round log home has a sunporch and deck overlooking the pond.

Located on Long Pond, this four-bedroom home has multiple decks, a double-sided fireplace, and an in-law apartment.

What it was listed for: $435,000 What it sold for: $409,000 The facts: 1 bedrooms, 1 baths, 936 square feet on 1.33 acres Listing agent: Scott T. Horty, Camden Real Estate Company Selling agent: Monet D. Brazier, The Maine Real Estate Networky

Maine islands are steeped in a deep sense of community and togetherness. While some are more remote and nestled in the wilderness, others are lively and bustling with restaurants and galleries. Whether looking for a summer escape or a year-round home, there is an island for everybody.

What it was listed for: $874,500 What it sold for: $800,000 The facts: 4 bedrooms, 5.5 baths, 5,000 square feet on 2 acres Listing agent: Gail Rizzo and Patrick L. Donahue, Lakepoint Real Estate Selling agent: Tom F. Ferent, Mr. Lakefront Inc

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With an open lawn leading to the rocky waterâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s edge, this Dutch Colonial home has sweeping ocean views from almost every angle.

The estate of David and Peggy Rockefeller encompasses nearly a half-mile of Maine coastline and is complemented by a granite pool, gardens, and an orchard.

Located on Shore Path, this estate offers two three-bedroom homes, one guest cottage, tennis court, and beautiful gardens and views of Frenchman Bay.

What it was listed for: $2,950,000 What it sold for: $2,799,000 The facts: 4 bedrooms, 5 baths, 2 half baths, 5,803 square feet on 1.76 acres Listing agent: Ginny M. Whitney and Skanlon S. Sittig, Legacy Properties Sotheby's International Realty Selling agent: Skanlon S. Sittig, Legacy Properties Sotheby's International Realty

What it was listed for: $19,000,000 What it sold for: $19,000,000 The facts: 7 bedrooms, 5.5 baths, 5,034 square feet on 14.5 acres Listing agent: Mia Thompson and Lili Pew, the Knowles Company Selling agent: G Keating Pepper and Jane McCombs-Beaman, the Knowles Company

What it was listed for: $2,495,000 What it sold for: $2,215,000 The facts: 3 bedrooms, 2 baths, 1,664 square feet on 2 acres Listing agent: Kim Swan, the Swan Agency Sotheby's International Realty Selling agent: Kim Swan, the Swan Agency Sotheby's International Realty

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n the upper reaches of Congress Street, one of Portland’s newest restaurants has in just seven months become one of its hottest dining destinations. Quietly stylish, with serious talent in the kitchen, Bolster, Snow, and Co. is making its mark by delivering on the promise inherent in every fine dining experience: food and service that both excite and satisfy. Bolster, Snow, and Co. is named for the family of Mellen E. Bolster, the original occupants of the brick Victorian-era mansion now repurposed as a boutique hotel, the Francis. Tony DeLois, who owns the hotel with his brothers, Nate and Jake, saw the potential for a restaurant in the 50s-era addition on the building’s main floor. A bar area with tall windows looking

out to the street connects the hotel’s elegant entrance to Bolster, Snow, and Co.’s main dining room, which is simply appointed with bentwood chairs surrounding polished wood-topped tables and features a changing collection of local artists’ work on the walls. The centerpiece of the space is the open kitchen on the back wall, its gleaming stainless steel hood and black-subway-tile dining bar providing contrast to the wood floor and furnishings. Portland-based designer Tracy Davis is responsible for the decor of both the hotel and restaurant, in which vintage architectural details are complemented with sleek, contemporary furniture and accessories. “We wanted to modernize it a little bit, so it would be more timeless and less of a timepiece,” says DeLois. A smaller dining room off the kitchen boasts a fireplace and a collection

of paintings by artist Alfred “Chip” Chadbourn, whom the DeLois family knew from Yarmouth, the brothers’ hometown. Tony DeLois is a hospitality industry veteran, having worked in both culinary and management positions including several years with New York City restaurateur Danny Meyer. His chef search for Bolster, Snow, and Co. started locally but soon broadened, eventually connecting him to Nick Verdisco, then executive sous chef at the Inn at Pound Ridge in New York, owned by celebrated chef Jean-Georges Vongerichten. Verdisco and his wife had fallen in love with Maine on a visit to Portland and Acadia National Park and wanted to figure out how to relocate. He ended up bringing three chefs from the Inn at Pound Ridge with him to Bolster, Snow,

Opposite: Scallop crudo with citrus, pickled radishes and Fresno chiles, shallots, pomegranate seeds, pistachio, and mint. This page, from left: The BSC house cocktail, made with Bimini gin, Jack’s Tonique, lemon, cranberry, and egg white. A painting by Portland artist Marci Spier in the main dining room.

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and Co. “He gave his notice, and a week later people said, ‘We want to move with you.’ That really speaks volumes of the character that we have in the kitchen,” says DeLois. Animated and charismatic, Verdisco details the twists and turns of his career like a master storyteller. Born and raised in Arizona, he owned a bike shop there for ten years, until the recession caused him to rethink his life. He sold everything and headed east and, following a stint cooking in Toronto, decided to attend culinary school in his family’s native Connecticut. His trajectory has been deliberate. “I was ten years older than everybody around me, so I mentally said, ‘I’m going to be better than everybody I stand next to,’” Verdisco says. That attitude eventually landed him at the Inn at Pound Ridge, where, following a grueling tryout, he embraced the opportunity to bring his skills to the next level. “They told me, ‘The expectation here is you drop three grains of salt, you pick up three grains of salt.’ That has stuck with me,” he says. The finesse Verdisco cultivated in that rarified environment is evident on the 144

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plates at Bolster, Snow, and Co. A crispyskinned fillet of black bass is served on top of tiny beluga lentils with sweet and sour pearl onions, roasted carrots, and a fennel and herb slaw with coconut milk. The dish is at once earthy and fresh, complex and cohesive—it’s astonishingly good. “It is all about trying to get everything in one bite, so that it really comes together,” says DeLois. Slices of tender, flavorful Denver steak (a newer cut from the chuck) are accompanied by spiced fingerling potatoes, crispy lollipop kale, candied kumquats, and silky parsnip puree—a combination of flavors and textures that works beautifully. A pillowy slab of brioche French toast draped with grilled foie gras, garnished with blueberries, spicy maple syrup, mint, and a sprinkling of granola, makes a surprising and delicious starter, the bright flavors of the berries and crunch of the granola perfect foils for the rich, creamy foie. Verdisco changes the menu as he sees fit, “whether it’s because of the season, I get bored, or the customers get bored.” Pastas, which are all made in-house, change more frequently and reflect the chef’s Italian upbringing. “I remember making ravioli with Grandma when I was eight,” he says.

Chef Nick Verdisco plates a dish in the restaurant’s open kitchen. Opposite, from left: A deconstructed ricotta tart with raspberry sorbet from pastry chef Sarah Miller. Cocktails all feature Mainemade spirits, including this Black Manhattan, made with Gunpowder Rye from New England Distilling in Portland.

“It all about trying to get everything in one bite, so that it really comes together.” Beverages at Bolster, Snow, and Co. get the same attention as the food, under the direction of general manager Ben O’Sullivan, a fellow veteran of the Vongerichten and Meyer empires. “He knows what works from a chef ’s perspective,” says Verdisco. “We jokingly say, ‘Ice is the fire.’ You’re putting together flavors that work; you need some acid, you need some sweet, you need a great product, and that’s it.” An example of this approach is the Black Manhattan, a deeply flavorful version of the classic drink made with New England Distilling Gunpowder Rye Whiskey, Amaro Averna, and orange bitters. Thanks to Tony DeLois’s interest in ciders, the bar also offers a large selection from Maine and elsewhere. “I hope that next fall we can break into doing

some fun events here with cider makers,” DeLois says. One of the three chefs Verdisco brought with him from New York is pastry chef Sarah Miller. For her sophisticated take on her mother’s ricotta tart, she pipes ricotta whipped with honey between crisp and buttery pastry triangles, plated with raspberry sorbet and finely chopped pistachios. As in Verdisco’s savory dishes, the blend of color, taste, and texture is sublime. With summer on the horizon, the chef is focused on making sure his team is prepared. “We can’t fly into flight, so we’re going to do this step by step,” he says, adding that, by the time the growing season

is here, he will have more time to spend with local farmers and other purveyors. “I’m a working chef,” Verdisco emphasizes. “I don’t sit behind a computer in an office on a different floor; I’m on the line every night.” Since the line is so visible, his presence there contributes significantly to the energy at the restaurant. Verdisco makes a point to step out into the dining rooms, greeting guests and asking earnestly for feedback. “Word of mouth in Portland is huge,” he says. “There are amazing restaurants on every block—I can throw a rock to three of them. The trust of a friend saying, ‘Go to this place,’ is I think what matters.” So far, there have been plenty of friends sharing that message, and when summer arrives, visitors will hear it with a caveat: “You’ll need a reservation.” May 2018 145

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This elegant & spacious custom built Cape was designed to maximize its setting. Situated on the east shore of Cobbosseecontee Lake with exceptional westerly views/sunsets. An open concept 2500sf, expandable home. Exceptional, flat, 1.3 ac lot with 202' of prime granite walled frontage w/ private sandy beach. Long, maplefloored living/dining expanse, two-sided chimney, 3 BR (main level master suite), 3.5 BA, bright dine-in kitchen, 3-season screened porch, expansive front deck & lawn to the lake. Lots of glass, spectacular lake views. 3 car garage, paved driveway, more. An additional 11 abutting acres also available. A special home to enjoy life and family. Minutes to Augusta/I-95.

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