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contents A Practical Visionary 078

Remembering Emily Muir: A city maverick who found her artistic inspiration in Stonington by Philip Conkling | Photography by Matt Cosby

“It Is All About the Kids” 084

How the Alfond Youth Center became a model for the country and helped transform central Maine’s future. by Philip Conkling | Photography by Nicole Wolf

Wing Watchers 096

Binoculars are up, and the count is on from the Schoodic Peninsula. With guides who know where to look, we’re watching for birdlife—in the sky and on the sea. by Sandy Lang | Photography by Peter Frank Edwards

Playful and Practical 108

Inside Kate and Aaron Anker’s split-level ranch in Cape Elizabeth you’ll find paintings by local artists, reclaimed wood, eco-friendly materials, and a whole bunch of Legos. by Katy Kelleher | Photography by Erin Little

Moving for the Lifestyle 118

Access to the outdoors and expanding food and cultural offerings in communities around the state make Maine a popular destination for homebuyers. by Paul Koenig

on the cover

“To get this shot I walked along Crockett Cove in Stonington and waited for the tide to go out, so I could get as close as possible. There’s something special about seeing an Emily Muir home from the water— standing tall and proud among nature.” Photography by Matt Cosby

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Looking out at Crockett Cove from one of Muir’s houses in Stonington. Photography by Matt Cosby

THERE + THEN 030 Going out, giving back: supporting nonprofits + local businesses in the vital work they do year-round SOCIAL MEDIA 043 Sharing memories of the state sparked by social media NEW + NOTEWORTHY

045 What’s happening around the state

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046 Camden and Rockport + Rockland, Thomaston, and Port Clyde

by Emma FitzGerald and Paul Koenig

TELLING ROOM 068 Young Writers Contest Winnter: Brooks Miller, Casco Bay High School A-LIST 070 Antique Stores by Brittany Cost Photography by Sarah Beard Buckley

WELLNESS 072 Stone Mountain Arts Center by Dr. Lisa Belisle Photography by Matt Cosby

EAT 148 The Carriage House Restaurant by Karen Watterson Photography by Nicole Wolf

EAT BLOGS

156 Salt Pine Social + Owl and Elm

by Karen Watterson Photography by Lauren Lear and Liz Caron

CAPTURE 166 Dennis Weeks LOVE MAINE RADIO

with Dr. Lisa Belisle Michael Miclon

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EDITOR’S NOTE 023 STAFF NOTE 025 CONTRIBUTORS 027 WORDS FROM OUR SUBSCRIBERS 033 EVENTS 040

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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 with live music by Pete Kilpatrick. A Maine-themed party with food and drink stations, music, and dancing— seaside. Hosted by Chef David Turin and Azalea Events under the tent at the Pilot House Boatyard.

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Keller Residence Chef Pierre Gignac of Ocean sponsored by Spang Builders.

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A lively reception featuring the works of Art Collector Maine artists, Eric Hopkins and Jane Dahmen. At Gallery at the Grand with live music by Molly Mae.

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May in Maine—

Stories from around the state

I feel fortunate to be able to tell stories each month about people doing good work all over the state. The people, organizations, and businesses we cover reinforce to me why I love Maine. Our approach is different than news organizations, which has the important role of shining a spotlight on injustices and holding those in power accountable. Instead, we deliberately cover Maine in a positive light. We find individuals deserving of recognition, document worthwhile experiences, and promote valuable contributions to our state. Whether it’s a story on these pages, from one of our events like Maine Live, or on our Love Maine Radio show, each one is our way of saying, yes, more of this. Our May issue is filled with stories embodying that sentiment. Dr. Lisa Belisle discovers the magic of Stone Mountain Arts Center, a one-of-a-kind musical venue in the woods of Brownfield, near the New Hampshire border.

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(Wellness, p. 072). Singer-songwriter Carol Noonan and her husband, Jeff Flagg, host nationally touring musicians for intimate performances in a 200-year-old converted barn.

architect. (“A Practical Visionary,” p. 078). Before she died in 2003 at the age of 99, Muir had designed or renovated 46 houses, earning rave reviews from critics and a Design International award.

In Waterville, Ken Walsh has spent the last 25 years helping turn the Alfond Youth Center into a world-class facility, offering childcare, tutoring, karate, gymnastics, and more to area youth of all socioeconomic backgrounds. (“It Is All About the Kids,” p. 084). The merged Boys and Girls Club and YMCA serves more than 5,000 children and 350,000 people total each year.

These are the stories we want people to know about. More fearless artists leaving lasting marks on their communities. More dreamers creating musical destinations tucked away in the woods. More opportunities for children to thrive and grow. More of all this, here in Maine.

Writer Philip Conkling also tells the story of Emily Muir, an artist who moved to Stonington in 1939 and became a self-taught

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WE LOVE MAINE. 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 stayed here, came back here, or moved here because they love Maine’s rich history, its unique character, and the people who live here, and most importantly we believe in Maine’s potential. We simultaneously love the Maine we grew up in, while fully embracing 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, as a place for second homeowners to buy into, a place to raise children, a place to start and operate a business, as a place to visit and explore, as a place to escape and heal. And, as a place to be inspired. We cover Maine in a positive light. We very 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, guides, through the airwaves, at events, and via social media.

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STAFF NOTE Photography by Heidi Kirn

In 2009, Maine Media Collective—at least in name—didn’t exist yet. Nor did this magazine you’re holding in your hands. At the time, MMC, as it would come to be known years later, was only one magazine, Maine Home+Design, produced by just a handful of staff. As managing editor of that publication for seven years, my colleagues and I spent our days immersed in Maine homes—finding them, talking to the people who made them, learning about the families who lived in them, unearthing the distinct circumstances and stories behind each one. From the beginning, pre-Pinterest and Houzz, we were aware that what we were sharing on our pages was more than just beautiful house fodder to dog-ear and file away in inspiration folders. These were stories of people building homes, livelihoods, families, memories.

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The question we’ve always sought to answer in our MH+D stories was why, in a world of possible places to live, did you choose Maine? And how does Maine inform the space? Maybe it’s in the way a window frames a certain pinefilled vista, the way the veins in a slab of granite mimic the ocean waves, or the way the kitchen tile evokes the pearly layer of an oyster shell. Maybe it’s simply that the homeowners grew up here and wanted their own kids to have that same experience. Years later, when we launched Maine magazine, and eventually Old Port magazine, we found ourselves with two additional outlets in which to publish stories about Maine homes. We’ve been able to cover more ground and a wider variety of

ground—from the houseboat in Kittery to the 1700s house in Cumberland that a young family renovated mostly on their own. The houses in the three magazines are each a little different, appealing to slightly different audiences, but all of them speak to an idea we’ve long held: that Maine itself is a character in every story.

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WE GIVE BACK.

Our mission is to make a substantial and unique commitment to supporting Maine’s nonprofit community both statewide, regionally, and at the town level. We believe that the work Maine’s nonprofit organizations do, individually and collectively, makes our lives better and Maine a better place to live. With limited budgets, Maine’s nonprofits need help boosting awareness of their specific causes and help to raise the funds they need. We have established long-term relationships with over 120 nonprofits and community-based organizations. We give to these organizations by providing, free of charge, services ranging from advertising, graphic design, brand development, marketing advice, online announcements, and social media engagement. We often include nonprofit organizations in our editorial coverage through feature articles and/or recaps of their events. You’ll find the latter in our “There + Then,” “Turnout,” and “Gather” sections. Over the past year, we have made cash and inkind donations and services of more than:

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CONTRIBUTORS

ERIN LITTLE had the pleasure of photographing Aaron and Kate Anker’s family for this issue and captured how they utilize their amazing creative space. Erin’s clients include Apple, Etsy, and Yakima, and her work has been in Food and Wine, The New York Times, and most recently, GQ. “Playful and Practical,” p. 108

In addition to being a family physician, writer, and host of Love Maine Radio, DR. LISA BELISLE has a great deal of fun being on stage as the co-host of Maine Live. Writing a story about the Stone Mountain Arts Center was a natural fit. Wellness, p. 72

EMMA FITZGERALD, art director at the Brand

Company, grew up in midcoast Maine. She’s passionate about all things having to do with typography, illustration, and design. Emma adores the hours spent with her children and partner, exploring, creating, and playing in the vastness of her native backyard. 48 Hours, p. 046

Originally from Brunswick, editorial assistant

BRITTANY COST spent the last few years in Canada.

Now back in Maine, she’s impatient for her first summer in Portland. She’s looking forward to spending warm, early mornings watching the sunrise over the Eastern Prom. A-List, p. 70

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A masquerade ball raising money for sick children and their families Ronald McDonald House Charities of Maine recently raised nearly $82,000 at its 2016 masquerade ball to benefit sick children and their families throughout Maine and New Hampshire. Held at Portland Marriott at Sable Oaks, the event featured a silent and live auction, dinner, and dancing to music performed by local band Tickle. Nearly 250 masked guests were in attendance. 01

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01 Ray Ruby, Portland house manager at RMHC; Rachel LaPlante, development and marketing coordinator at RMHC; Alicia Milne, development director at RMHC; Whitney Linscott, Bangor house manager at RMHC; Ashley MacMillan, community relations manager at RMHC; Karla Prouty, office manager at RMHC; Chelsea Pickett, overnight staff at RMHC; and Brittany Whalen, development coordinator at RMHC 02 Patrick Morin, partner at Baker Newman Noyes, and Dianna Morin 03 Josh Day, cook at Applebee’s, and Jen Day, tax examiner at State of Maine 04 James Beaupré, innovation engineer at University of Maine, and Danielle Beaupré, French instructor at Husson University and Maine Maritime Academy 05 Masks on display. 06 Joyce Coyne, artist, and Coley Coyne, lawyer at Murphy & Coyne 07 Angela Murphy, retired, and Paul Murphy, lawyer at Murphy & Coyne 08 Guests gather at Portland Marriott at Sable Oaks.

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MARCH CINQ A SEPT

A monthly after-work gathering of friends and colleagues In March community members congregated at the Camden Harbour Inn for the monthly Cinq A Sept. Sponsors included Maine Honda Dealers and UBS Financial, and the evening featured specialty cocktails using Cold River Vodka.

“The Camden Harbour Inn is a true gem among Maine hotels, and Camden is one of the quintessential seaside towns in Maine that shouldn’t be missed.”

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A dinner and auction supporting artistic and educational programs for all ages The Portland Symphony Orchestra hosted its Annual Wine Dinner and Auction at the Harraseeket Inn. Fine wines from Schatzi Wines were available, and chefs from the Harraseeket Inn, Fore Street, Tao Yuan, Francine Bistro, and the Purple House provided dinner as symphony musicians performed. Proceeds benefited the symphony’s artistic and educational programs. 01

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Presented by Portland Stage Company 6 p.m.–8 p.m. Portland House of Music 25 Temple St. | Portland 207.774.0465 portlandstage.org

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FIRST THURSDAY ART OPENING FEATURING ARTISTS TIM BEAVIS AND ERIN MCGEE FERRELL Presented by Portland Art Gallery 5 p.m.–7 p.m. 154 Middle St. | Portland 207.956.7105 artcollectormaine.com

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TOAST ON THE COAST

Presented by Easterseals Maine 6 p.m.–8:30 p.m. Portland Ocean Gateway 14 Maine State Pier | Portland 207.828.0754 easterseals.com/maine

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RUN OF THE ROYAL: CORPORATE CANOE CHALLENGE

Presented by Royal River Conservation Trust 10 a.m. Yarmouth History Center 118 East Elm St. | Yarmouth 207.847.9399 rrct.org

2017 MAMM SLAM FINALS

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2017 MAINE FAMILY BUSINESS AWARDS

Presented by the Maine Institute for FamilyOwned Business 5 p.m.–9 p.m. Holiday Inn by the Bay 88 Spring St. | Portland 207.798.2667 instituteforfamilyownedbusiness .wildapricot.org

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Online editor Shelbi Wassick had driven to Vermont with her family to pick up her cousin’s nine-year-old daughter, Kyla, for February break. As their ﬁrst stop on a tour of all things Maine, Shelbi’s family visited the Cape Neddick Lighthouse in York, also known as Nubble Light, where Shelbi shot this image and where Kyla once again stepped onto the Maine shore. Cindy Rigg Brodrick My great-grandmother used to tell me stories about the children of the lighthouse keeper taking a rowboat across to get to school! My great-grandmother lived in York Beach from 1895 until about the start of World War I.

OPENING FOR THE SEASON MOTHER'S DAY WEEKEND

Deborah Rataic Our favorite place for a getaway. Planning an April visit for our 41st anniversary. We need a do-over since last year’s 40th anniversary was cut short. Thinking positive!

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Philanthropists Joe and Sheri Boulos have committed $10 million to Colby College in Waterville. In recognition of their gift, Colby plans to name its new ﬁtness center in their honor, which forms part of the athletic complex scheduled to open in 2020. The Bouloses have also pledged $350,000 to the Colby Fund to further facilitate the college’s operations and accelerate strategic initiatives.

As part of its Summer of Art and Science, the Wells Reserve at Laudholm opens Power of Place on June 7, an outdoor sculpture exhibition and sale featuring works by New England artists. The exhibition continues through Columbus Day.

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The University of New England recently announced James Herbert as the next president of the university. Formerly executive vice provost and dean of the Graduate College at Drexel University in Philadelphia, Herbert assumes office at UNE on July 1.

Angelica Das and Samara Chadwick have joined the Points North Institute in Camden, a media organization that promotes the nonfiction work of creatives in various media, including film, fine art, and journalism. In her new role as managing director, Das will oversee the group’s operations, including the Camden International Film Festival, scheduled for September 14–17, and Chadwick will serve as an additional programmer.

Jackson Lab president and CEO Edison Liu and professor Karolina Palucka have been awarded $2.8 million in grants from the U.S. Department of Defense for research into triplenegative breast cancer, one of the deadliest forms of breast cancer. Liu will further explore his discovery last year of a specific genome configuration found within the tumors and develop targeted treatments. Palucka will investigate treatments that enable the immune system to fight the cancer.

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WHERE WE STAYED CAMDEN HARBOUR INN WHERE WE ATE FRANCINE BISTRO NATALIE’S NINA JUNE LONG GRAIN ZOOT COFFEE BOYNTON-MCKAY FOOD CO. CAMDEN DELI 3 DOGS CAFE FLATBREAD COMPANY WHAT WE DID U.S. NATIONAL TOBOGGAN CHAMPIONSHIPS WINTERFEST CAMDEN CLAY CO. YOGA AT HIGH MOUNTAIN HALL LILY, LUPINE, AND FERN GLENDARRAGH LAVENDER FARM ROCKPORT BLUEPRINT OWL AND TURTLE BOOKSHOP CAFE SURROUNDINGS ONCE A TREE MAINE SPORT OUTFITTERS MEGUNTICOOK MARKET FRESH OFF THE FARM

Charming and quintessential—whether you are a native of Maine or from afar—Camden and Rockport offer breathtaking views, memorable dining, and enjoyment in all areas of interest.

EVENING:

Dining and accommodations The scenic drive through downtown Rockport into Camden treats us to an early sunset over Rockport Harbor. We drive under Camden’s iconic archway, welcoming us to a snow-dusted town. With a full moon rising, we arrive at the Camden Harbour Inn and are immediately made to feel at home. This picturesque inn and the warm staff do not miss a detail in making your stay top-notch. Camden is bustling, with the U.S. National Toboggan Championships in town. With time to spare before dinner, we hop over to Francine Bistro to ease into the evening. Chef-owner Brian Hill changes his menu daily to suit Maine’s seasonal offerings. In the warmth of the dimly lit atmosphere and full house, we enjoy wine with lovely Maine rope-grown mussels and the evening’s special, organic local beef carpaccio. Within the pristine and historic Camden Harbour Inn, Natalie’s restaurant wows from the moment one enters the space. We select from the chef’s menu to build our own four-course dinner. The service is impeccable and the palate sophisticated. After lobster consommé and squab and flounder with celery root risotto, three hours later we are in bliss, finishing with a flight of housemade sorbetto.

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MORNING:

A little relaxation and rejuvenation We wake and walk downstairs to have coffee, tea, and a small bite. On our way, we are welcomed by the coziness of the fireplace and views of the snow heavily falling outside. Inside Natalie’s is a stunning buffet with artisanal cheeses, charcuterie, granola, yogurt, and more. Diners can supplement the buffet with menu items, such as cocoa nib pancakes or Maine lobster eggs benedict.

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04 01 The welcoming fireplace at Camden Harbour Inn, part of the guest lounge. 02 The beautiful array of Camden Clay Co.’s artistry featured in the showroom. 03 Delectable desserts enjoyed at Long Grain in Camden. 04 Full moon rising over Camden Harbor. 05 Racers finding their time at the U.S. National Toboggan Championships. church. The facility offers fitness and yoga classes and serves as an event and concert venue. Our morning yoga class is with Denyse Robinson in the upstairs space. Beautiful exposed beams and fine architectural lines create the ultimate sanctuary. Robinson balances the class perfectly—an ideal Saturday morning of exertion and relaxation. We skip over to Nina June in downtown Rockport. The restaurant is exquisite, and chefowner Sara Jenkins is a delight. We sip freshly squeezed blood orange juice and sample each other’s delicacies. As we eat, my two children are enthralled as they watch one chef make fresh pasta for the evening’s menu.

AFTERNOON: Art and play

I arranged with my friends, Jess

and Austin Smith, to visit their studio and showroom at Camden Clay Co. Each time I go, I am enamored by yet another piece of their work. From the color palette of the glaze to the nautical charts on some of the creations, look no further for one-of-a-kind ceramics for your home or that perfect Maine gift. The Smiths are usually at the studio Thursdays through Saturdays, but call or email ahead if you plan to visit.

EVENING:

From art to the snowy outdoors, we head over to the Camden Snow Bowl for a taste of this year’s U.S. National Toboggan Championships. If you have yet to go, it is a must—an epic adventure for the entire family, whether you are racing or not. From fun costumes to the extremely serious racers, this event has it all during winter in the midcoast.

No matter the holiday, Lily, Lupine, and Fern is an ideal gift stop and has been for over 20 years. With an abundant selection of fine wines and cheeses, flowers, chocolates, and more, owner Gary Anderson will be able to suggest the right special something. Last but not least, we visit Owl and Turtle Bookshop Cafe, which, along with books, offers a lovely chai tea to warm us up.

Dining, Valentine’s Day, and leisure After an eventful, snowy day, we remember that we need a few odds and ends as we head back into town before our dinner reservation. Art supplies for my son’s Valentine’s Day cards are one of them. Rockport Blueprint sells everything an artist or craftsperson desires.

Feeling the chill of the day, we are glad to have made an early dinner reservation at one of our all-time favorites, Long Grain. We go over the top ordering dishes to share: steamed local pork dumplings, daily house-made noodles with spicy stir-fried Thai basil, organic farmer greens and mushrooms, Maine crab fried rice, stir-fried ginger chicken and mushrooms with rice, and more. It is a heavenly dining experience each and every time.

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SUNDAY

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01 58 Fore is excited to be booking events through June 2017! Reach out to Jessica Pachuta for more information: jlp@prenticehospitality.com

01 Overlooking Camden Harbor as we enjoy lunch at the Camden Deli. 02 The only way to eat Flatbread Company’s pizza—go for it! 03 Natalie’s stunning breakfast buffet, part of our stay at Camden Harbour Inn. Boynton-McKay Food Co., another place we never miss when in Camden. Owners Brian Beggarly and Molly Eddy have turned this special spot into a local favorite. Baked goods are made in-house and sprawl deliciously on the counter. Breakfast and lunch options include huevos rancheros, homemade French toast, slow-roast pork tacos, and a melt with bacon, arugula, and local goat cheese. The annual Winterfest sculptures are still on display in the Camden Amphitheater and Village Green. Soon shops begin to open despite the snowy weather. I can’t help but pass time in Surroundings, a home goods and gift shop; Once a Tree, a fine woodworking store; Maine Sport Outfitters; and Glendarragh Lavender Farm’s retail store.

AFTERNOON:

Lunch, provisions, and treats What is better than a bowl of chowder and a sandwich on

an overcast, snowy day? The Camden Deli not only nails such a craving, but the view from the dining area is unmatched. Before making our way to Rockport, we stop at Megunticook Market for a few provisions. I have stopped countless times before—whether on my way to a picnic at Shirt Tail Point or prior to hitting the Camden Hills for a hike. The market offers beverages, snacks, cheese, inhouse deli options, and more. We are drawn to a post-lunch treat and tea at 3 Dogs Cafe in Rockport. The variety of the baked goods is endless—cakes, pastries, and cookies. We take note to return for one of the signature island sandwiches, like the North Haven. We pop into another favorite Route 1, family-owned business, Fresh Off the Farm. Since I was a girl, shoppers have been able to find organic produce and all-natural beauty products here. In the summer, the pies are a hit.

It is nearing dinnertime and comfort food is calling our names. Flatbread Company offers gluten-free pizza options in addition to its regular menu. We enjoy a Punctuated Equilibrium—a pizza with Kalamata olives, fresh organic rosemary, Sunset Acres goat cheese, herbs, and garlic oil. As we dine, we reflect on our 48 Hours not only being a funfilled, epic, snowy weekend, but one that gave us the calm and rejuvenation we needed. Midcoast Maine delivered exactly what we were craving for a winter weekend getaway.

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Welcome wine and diverse cuisine We arrive at 250 Main Hotel just in time for the daily wine social hour. The hotel’s lobby and hallways double as galleries for contemporary Maine artists, including many from the region like Eric Hopkins and Sam Cady, whose six-foot-long painting on cut canvas of Harbor Island hangs above the lobby’s gas fireplace. We call Cafe Miranda for a late reservation, giving us time to explore the hotel a bit. In the open

hallway outside our room, the art is a family affair. The work is all by area artists Susan and Tim Van Campen and their daughter, Greta Van Campen. The eclectically decorated Cafe Miranda is bustling, and nearly everyone exiting has at least one to-go box in hand. The menu is daunting, chock-full of a wide range of cuisines. We start with the hefty house-smoked chicken eggrolls and a dish of seared scallops with mushrooms, egg and ginger broth, watermelon radishes, kimchi, and nori. The duck confit special is fall-apart tender, with brown veal stock, herb spaetzle, sauerkraut, and dried cranberries.

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02 chance to appreciate the view of Penobscot Bay from the wraparound, fifth-floor windows of our 250 Main Hotel room. The hotel offers a complimentary breakfast, but we instead grab cups of Rock City Coffee to go. Home Kitchen Cafe is a tenminute walk from the hotel, just north of the historic downtown. The cafe serves generous portions of from-scratch breakfast and lunch year-round. Seated at the large counter, we have a front-row view of the cafe’s famous buns— freshly baked sticky buns and cinnamon buns tempting us from under plastic lids. We have a little time before the Farnsworth Art Museum opens, so we stop into Atlantic Baking Co. for coffee. But it’s Doughnut Saturday, so we also order a honey cruller, a meltin-your-mouth airy treat. The Farnsworth Art Museum has a deep collection of American

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01 Chelsea Ellis surrounded by the Sam Cady retrospective at the Center for Maine Contemporary Art. 02 Bixby and Co.’s chocolate factory in Rockland. 03 The steps up to Owls Head Light. 04 The Owls Head Transportation Museum’s1957 Ford Thunderbird. 05 Seared scallops with egg and ginger broth, watermelon radish, kimchi, and nori at Cafe Miranda. 06 View of Penobscot Bay from 250 Main Hotel. art, including a number of pieces by the Wyeth family and Louise Nevelson. An exhibition titled Women, on display through January 2018, has two parts: one room highlights work by women artists, and the other has women as the subjects, both ranging in time period and medium. Later this year the museum will be unveiling two other shows that feature women artists: a major retrospective of Marguerite Zorach’s works opening in June and a Nevelson exhibition in July. Before lunch, we make another stop high on aesthetics—the stylish and modern home design store Periscope. The shop, opened in January by Ariel Hall and Jan Leth, sells furniture and housewares from both Scandinavian designers and smaller, often local designers and builders. There’s no shortage of sleek, swoon-worthy pieces, along

with some surprises, like a dresser disguised as a stack of logs by Maine-based Mark Moskovitz.

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New museum on the block and sartorial shopping Between our museum visits we stop into Main Street Markets for lunch. Along with local produce, meats, and other grocery items, the market has a mouth-watering cafe menu. A simple ham and cheese sandwich is elevated with brie, honey mustard, and a crunchy, yet soft, baguette. There’s also a juice and smoothie bar and a build-yourown salad or wrap option. Last summer the Center for Maine Contemporary Art opened the glass doors to its striking, modern building designed by acclaimed architect Toshiko Mori. In the soaring, light-filled

space of CMCA’s main gallery is a retrospective of Sam Cady’s work, open through June 11. Much of the work by Cady, who was born in Boothbay Harbor, is on canvases shaped like the subjects, which often look as if they were cut out of even larger paintings. Later this year the museum will feature Night Stories, an exhibit of Belfast-based artist Linden Frederick’s paintings and accompanying stories inspired by Frederick’s vignettes.

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Around the corner from the CMCA is Archipelago, the retail store of the Island Institute. The shop features art, gifts, crafts, housewares, and jewelry by Maine artists, including many from the islands and coast. Farther along the downtown is Fiore, which has dozens of varieties of olive oil and balsamic vinegar for sale (and for sampling). Nearby are two of our usual shopping stops—FourTwelve, a women’s clothing boutique that sells garments made in the studios out back and by select designers, and Curator, a men’s consignment and vintage store that opened last year.

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Lighthouse at dusk and creative crustaceans The sun is beginning to set, so we drive to the Rockland Breakwater. Dark blues surround the granite structure jutting out more than 4,000 feet into Rockland Harbor. We can see the lighthouse blinking at the end of the breakwater, but we turn around to beat the impending darkness back to our car.

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We fuel up for our last day in Rockland with a downtown mainstay, Rock City Cafe. It offers sandwiches, wraps, soups, and salads, along with its locally roasted coffee (and a bookstore out back). We order breakfast burritos and split a slice of decadent Nutella-swirl pumpkin cheesecake. After checking out of our hotel, we drive to Rockland Marketplace, an antique mall with over 50 dealers. Many of the booths have pieces connected to the region, including vintage varsity jackets from area high schools and books by North Haven artist Eric Hopkins. The Owls Head Transportation Museum, a ten-minute drive south of Rockland, has an impressive collection of antique cars, planes, motorcycles, and other vintage vehicles on display. Even more remarkable is that the museum operates the vehicles at special events throughout the year. In the 58

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WELLNESS by Dr. Lisa Belisle Photography by Matt Cosby Opposite: At Stone Mountain Arts Center, gourmet comfort food is served before music from internationally known artists at its Brownfield venue. This page: Musician Carol Noonan, co-owner of Stone Mountain Arts Center, regularly performs her own music at the center.

WE ARE GATHERED IN A FOREST, WITHIN THE WOODEN WALLS OF A CONVERTED BARN. Rough-hewn beams span the space above us. Soft murmurs of anticipation ripple through the hushed crowd. Strands of tiny white lights twinkle across the birch trees in the corner of the room; tall windows soar over the stage, letting in the black night. Tonight’s band, whose name means “the wolves,” makes its final preparations behind the scenes. The Stone Mountain Arts Center has been attracting big musical acts (like tonight’s multiple Grammy Award-winning Los Lobos) to its Brownfield barn and farmhouse for more than a decade. “It’s a little frozen in time,” says Stone Mountain Arts co-owner and musician Carol Noonan. “We’re not connected socially like everybody else is. We’re just kind of up here in the middle of nowhere.” My own journey to the Stone Mountain Arts Center began on a Friday afternoon in January. An hour into the woods of western Maine, the GPS and cellular phone reception cut out, so my traveling companion and I continue our navigation the old-fashioned way: by road signs. We drive in relative solitude until, out of the tree shadows, we see the faint beam of a flashlight. It feels as if we have happened across C.S. Lewis’s lamppost in the wardrobe. The man behind the flashlight directs us to our parking spot and gestures to a row of illuminated buildings in the clearing behind him. We have found the Stone Mountain Arts Center, and the home that Noonan shares with her business partner and husband, Jeff Flagg. A longtime singer-songwriter, Noonan has spent her life making music. She grew up in Peabody, Massachusetts. “We really weren’t an artsy family by any means,” says Noonan of her Irish Catholic family. “We were very bluecollar. But I was always drawn to folk music.” After high school, Noonan attended the New England Conservatory in Boston. “I was kind of this normal kid, but I could sing.”

By the late 1980s, Noonan had become a vocalist and guitarist for Knots and Crosses, a New England band that would go on to produce two original albums before disbanding in 1994. Noonan has since recorded multiple albums as a solo artist, including her latest, Raven Girl, released in 2016. She first traveled to Maine when she was 19 for a summer job at the Quisisana Resort in Center Lovell, known for offering a unique musical theater experience to

vacationers on the shores of Kezar Lake. Noonan worked there for ten years. “I just fell in love with that part of Maine,” says Noonan. “It’s really beautiful—the lakes and the mountains. It’s my favorite part of Maine.” Noonan eventually migrated to Portland. While waitressing at the Dry Dock in 1992, she met Flagg, who was making commercial fishing nets in the space that is now Browne Trading Company on Commercial Street. May 2017 73

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From left: Julia Franks shares a laugh with her table mates during dinner. Three members of Los Lobos on stage. The six-person band was nominated for induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2015. Opposite page: Backstage at Stone Mountain, where bands can play their favorite records in the listening room.

“He would come to see me at the Dry Dock, and I still remember his order: a light beer by Miller,” says Noonan.

as she tucks a strand of long dark hair behind one ear. “That’s what the grange halls have always done.”

Noonan and Flagg moved to their 200-yearold Brownfield farmhouse, located in the foothills of the White Mountains, in 1994. “It was really important to me, when I would come off the road, that there would be nothing to do in the area unless we came to Portland or traveled,” says Noonan, who had continued to tour for her musical career. “It was so quiet in western Maine.”

Noonan and Flagg decided to capitalize on the appreciative audience they had found in Brownfield. Flagg, with the help of numerous volunteers and local contractors, oversaw the conversion of the barn behind their house into a performance venue. “We knew that if we built it, people would come,” says Noonan. “People love their music.”

Noonan used to rent a nearby church to perform a Christmas concert and found her neighbors to be very supportive of her music. “I thought, ‘You know, I can’t be so great that people are coming to see me every year. They’re coming because there’s nothing else to do. It’s Saturday night. It’s near their house,’” she says. “In rural towns, you have to make your own kind of world and your own entertainment,” continues Noonan, smiling 74

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Stone Mountain Arts Center opened in August 2006. Country music artist Mary Chapin Carpenter was the venue’s first big name. “Instead of starting small and getting little-known artists we got big artists, and people followed them here,” says Noonan. “If you ever said that Lyle Lovett and Aaron Neville would be in my backyard, I would think you were crazy, but everybody else thought that we were crazy and we did do it.” Flagg and Noonan continued to make

improvements to their property, eventually moving the performances into the highceilinged timber frame space where Flagg had once made fishing nets. They converted the original performance space to a welcome area and lounge for the venue. The shows routinely sell out, attracting music lovers from around New England and beyond. Noonan says that 75 percent of their guests come from outside of Maine. Part of the draw is the intimate setting. “I wanted to bring big artists to a small room so you would get to see them in that original way of seeing them perform,” says Noonan. “You get to see their hands and their face and they talk to the audience in a way they don’t do in a big room.” The Stone Mountain Arts Center remains a community effort. Many of its 15 to 20 full- and part-time employees are friends and neighbors who have worked here since the beginning. “We’ve watched some of our younger people grow up with us,” says

Noonan. After spending many years in the insurance industry in Massachusetts, Noonan’s sister, Katy, also moved up to Maine to help out. During tonight’s performance, she can be found working behind the bar. Part of the Stone Mountain Arts Center experience is eating a delicious homemade meal before the show. Rather than sitting in rows of chairs before a stage, people are assigned to four- and eight-person tables on the main floor, or in the loft that has been built over the kitchen. Our server for the evening is Jackie Gardner, a floral designer who co-owns Moonset Farm in Porter with her husband, Mike. She offers recommendations on the menu, which features everything from macaroni and cheese and vegetarian chili to a “fruity but not snooty salad.” Across the room, full with the 200-person sellout crowd, one table celebrates a guest’s birthday with the help of a homemade brownie sundae and a “Happy Birthday” serenade. Before long, Noonan, microphone in hand, is laying the ground rules of the performance

“We knew that if we built it, people would come. People love their music.” as the lights go down. She reminds us not to use our cell phones—they don’t work here anyway—and that photography is not permitted. She gives a quick hug to one of the staff members as she returns the microphone. Then it is time for Los Lobos to take the stage. This six-man band, first formed in 1973 by guitarist/accordionist David Hidalgo and

percussionist Louie Perez, has performed around the world. Native to East Los Angeles, the sunglasses-wearing lead singer jokes about our cold Maine temperatures. But they will provide their own heat, rocking the room with songs like “Made to Break Your Heart” and “Poquito Para Aqui.” The darkness of the night breaks open with the energy of the band. For a few hours, gathered in a 200-year-old barn in a forest clearing, we let our spirits dance with the music of the wolves. It has been a journey well worth making. “I’m still shocked when people drive up the road and when the room fills up,” says Noonan. “It is kind of that ‘Oh my God. What were we thinking and how lucky did we get that they actually did come?’”

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I recall the day I met Emily Muir in 1975 clear as a bell. I was a graduate student collecting baseline ecological data on twelve Maine islands owned by the Nature Conservancy. Two of the islands were off Stonington’s shores and the organization’s trustees suggested a local resident and yachtswoman, Muir, might be willing to transport me out to the islands, where I could camp. I drove down a long winding driveway opposite a lily pond to find Muir at a modest white clapboard house. I later learned she had designed it and carefully situated it amid massive shouldering granite outcrops. Muir greeted me and escorted me down the ramp of her dock, where she hopped into her 24-foot inboard-outboard Whaler, invited me aboard, throttled up, and navigated a winding course through the half-tide ledges of the Deer Isle Thorofare out to Wreck Island.

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After we dropped anchor and rowed ashore, Muir and I walked up a trail to the height of land in an old field near an abandoned stone foundation surrounded by an encroaching army of cat spruce. We marveled at the views of the dark-domed, island-studded landscape stretching south to Isle au Haut’s spiky silhouette and then back north to the cheek-by-jowl jumble of Stonington’s busy working waterfront. Years earlier, Emily Muir had presciently begun buying and protecting these islands—eventually owning all or parts of five of them—because she knew how easily this landscape could be permanently altered by errant development. Muir, a painter, had been inspired by these landscapes ever since her parents brought her to the area as a child in 1914. She donated her one-third interest in Wreck Island to the Nature Conservancy in the mid-1970s and rallied her neighbors and local citizens to raise the funds to buy and donate the remainder. When I returned ashore after

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Opposite page: Emily Muir and her sculptor husband, Bill. This page: The interior of Falls House at Crockett Cove, available to rent through Downeast Maine Vacation Rentals.

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Emily Muir

From left: The Wilson Cottage on Crockett Cove, one of 46 houses Muir designed or renovated on Deer Isle and Stonington. View of Rabbit Island in Crockett Cove from the Falls House. Opposite page: From the deck of Wilson Cottage, a sweeping view of Barred Island and East Penobscot Bay.

Wreck Island field work, Muir took me into her studio, where stacks of her canvases were lined up against the walls next to piles of clay from ceramics projects, clay figurines, and a wonderful assortment of sculptures by her husband, Bill Muir. Emily Muir was born in Chicago and raised in New York City, but she found her true home in Maine. Like her neighbors in Stonington and Deer Isle, where she settled and spent her long and productive adult life, Muir was both visionary and practical. Beyond her work as an artist, sculptor, writer, designer, developer, conservationist, political activist, and community leader, she also dreamed of changing the world, and then doggedly chased her dreams into the bright light of day. Until she died at 99 in 2003, Muir was sharp-witted, but never sharp-tongued. She was kind and generous, but no one could ever tell this creative talent what to think.

After Muir appeared at a friend’s graduation ceremony dressed in men’s white knickers and men’s shoes, a disapproving dean suggested Muir leave Vassar College. Muir was happy to leave and enrolled the next fall in the Art Students League in New York City. Muir recalled the first critique of her painting in an Island Journal interview I did with her in 1987. “The instructor came around for the criticism and asked, ‘Did you paint that?’ I said, ‘Yes.’ ‘Don’t you ever feel anything?’ he asked. Oh, I felt something right then! It was as if the world had swallowed me.” The following week the model had a headache, and Muir vowed, “If I have to get a headache myself, I am going to put that headache on canvas.” The instructor came around again. “Did you paint that?” he asked. “Yes,” she said. “And he said, ‘Thank God.’ That stayed with me,” she said of the lesson, and that is the advice she often offered young artists. “Feel something,” she told them.

Muir spent her first year of college at Vassar, but wanted desperately to study art full time.

Muir met the sculptor Bill Muir at the Art Students League, and they married in 1928.

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When Muir’s mother found a piece of land at the eastern end of the Deer Isle Thorofare, Muir designed a house for her mother and father—even though she had never studied architecture. Shortly thereafter she designed a smaller studio and Cape on the shore for herself and Bill, where she would spend the remainder of her life. In 1939, the Muirs moved permanently to Stonington to settle into a creatively inspired life of art, design, sculpture, local politics, and outdoor adventures. After Senator Margaret Chase Smith came to Stonington to give a lecture and stayed with Emily Muir’s parents, whom Muir referred to as “safely Republican,” the senator asked her to paint her official portrait for the Maine State House. In her 2002 autobiography, Time of My Life, Muir describes capturing both the senator’s hands in action, because her hands were never still. Smith is in a red dress with her signature red rose with a glimpse of the capitol dome and a figure of liberty in the background. The Maine Arts Commission asked for 23

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changes, “all carefully listed,” suggesting the senator’s hands should be in repose, and that the capitol dome and liberty figure were not appropriate to the subject. Muir’s response to the commission’s request for changes was, “Go do it yourself.” The portrait now hangs in the senator’s private collection. Margaret Chase Smith, for her part, convinced President Dwight Eisenhower to appoint Muir to the National Commission of Fine Arts in 1955. As Muir later wrote, she was “the first woman to serve in that capacity, and as I soon learned, in the minds of my colleagues, hopefully the last.” Muir found that her expected role was simply to remain quiet, and then to go along with decisions about artwork that had already been made by others. She suggested to her six male fellow commissioners, “It might be a good idea to reserve a certain percentage of the cost of any new government buildings to enrich and beautify them with art.” No one listened, but eventually the federal government and most states, including Maine, established Percent for Art programs beginning in the late 1970s, and Muir wrote, “Sometimes I tell myself that perhaps, just perhaps, I might have given it a start.” The small Cape on the shore, where I originally met Muir and visited her until her

death, became the center of her universe. In her Island Journal interview she said that designing houses came easier to her than her other artistic work. “In designing houses, I didn’t have anything to outgrow, as I did in painting and sculpture, so the buildings are more me. I could go into a house right away and see what I would do differently. When I’d hear of someone who was going to build, I’d practically throw myself at their feet and beg them to let me design their house. Of course, no one ever let me.” In 1959, Bill Muir encouraged fellow members of the board of trustees for Haystack Mountain School of Crafts, then located in Liberty, to buy one of two pieces of land available in Stonington and relocate to the Maine coast. That was the spark Emily Muir needed. Her father had just died and left her a little bit of money. She said, “‘Bill, I am going to buy the other piece and build a house on it and someone is going to buy it.’ And I did.” That first house was on Crockett Cove, and it became one of 46 houses she designed or renovated during her long career, garnering rave reviews from critics and environmentalists, and earning her a Design International award. Muir said her houses “turned out to be contemporary, but they are not copies of

anything I ever saw. They are meant to fit the needs of the landscape.” Muir admired the proportions of old farmhouses on Deer Isle and Stonington, most of which are situated in old fields or along roads. Most everything she built, however, was on uneven or steepsided ground near the shore. Muir’s houses, the majority of which are situated amid bold granite outcrops on the west-facing shore of Crockett Cove in Stonington, feature large glass facades with sweeping views of the daily surge and swash of the cove’s tides. “My idea,” she said, “was to make the approach friendly and leave the drama for the water side.” While sitting in her living room overlooking Deer Isle Thorofare and reflecting on her long life in Stonington, Muir told me that what she appreciated most about her adopted homeland was that it kept her “out of contact with—I guess sophistication is the best word. The things that are ‘put on.’ It’s not that I hobnob a lot with the fishermen here, but I like them. They make me feel like there’s something solid about them.” Her neighbors might not have initially known what to make of this unconventional woman who came to live among them, but they ultimately recognized in her fearless individualism a kindly, creative, and kindred spirit. May 2017 81

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How the Alfond Youth Center became a model for the country and helped transform central Maine’s future

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The days begin early at the Alfond Youth Center in Waterville. At 7:30 each morning, parents from Waterville and surrounding towns begin arriving at the 72,000-square-foot building on the east side of Waterville to drop off their three-to-five-year-olds at the licensed early care center inside. The preschool kids make a beeline to their room and enter their own small world, filled with books and activity materials. Between 2:30 and 3:00 in the afternoon nearly a dozen buses from area communities deliver up to 210 middle school children for after-school activities. “By the second or third day, we know every kid’s name and age,” says Katie McCabe, the center’s childcare director. Her after-school staff of 20 counselors, four teachers, and two administrators has also learned the names of the children’s parents and has begun to understand each of their stories. Ken Walsh is the chief executive officer and impresario of this jaw-dropping facility. He meets me in the entry hall, not long after the preschoolers arrive on a recent morning. He is all coiled energy, with a high-wattage smile as wide as his face. He is a man who has become an indispensible part of Waterville’s current rebound and its increasingly encouraging future. While Walsh provides a quick overview of the packed daily schedule at the youth center, we walk through an expansive activity room for the middle-schoolers, including a fullservice cafeteria, and past two all-purpose gymnasiums, an Olympic-sized swimming pool, and a dance studio all on the main floor. On every wall are pictures of area youth and the adult mentors and supporters who have helped them excel at one activity or another. I also cannot help but notice a large sign over Walsh’s shoulder in the lobby: “The biggest, the best, the most successful—one incredible facility.” General Colin Powell’s 1999 testimonial from his visit is as accurate today as it was 18 years ago. To Walsh’s left, I note a display announcing National Mentoring Month with the encouragement “Remember Those Who Believed in You.” A lot of people have believed in Walsh, as I learn from the story of his unlikely path to Waterville. Walsh spent the first 13 years of his life in the Bensonhurst section of Brooklyn, the sixth of seven children from an Irish-Italian marriage. His father, whom Walsh describes as “a struggling commercial artist,” and his Sicilian mother were later able to escape the city to settle the family in

the more bucolic town of Amenia, two hours north of New York City. One of the first things that Walsh and his brothers did was lay out a baseball field in the cornfield next door, creating a field of dreams long before anyone popularized that notion in a movie.

brothers, he says, “I used to get pounded all the time.” But his father “set the bar for all of us.” The unwritten rule in the family, says Walsh, “was to work hard and accomplish your goals. We were never not going to college—none of us.”

Sports became an enduring metaphor for Walsh, who recalls his father teaching him how to throw a curveball at age nine. As the youngest boy with three older, competitive

After Walsh graduated from college, he landed a job as an assistant director of the Boys and Girls Club of New Rochelle, New York, then run by an all Italian-American staff. “I was May 2017 87

Playing hoops in the pool during free swim time.

an Irish guy—all energy—and I was going to change the world,” he recalls. Shortly into his tenure in New Rochelle, Walsh met a man who would change his world. The fellow began speaking to him urgently, but Walsh could not understand a word. A few hours later, the man returned to the club with an interpreter and told Walsh he wanted to volunteer to teach karate classes. When Walsh approached his boss with the idea, the director was incredulous: “What, you are going to teach these kids to fight?” But Walsh was so interested that he began working out one-on-one with his new “Renshi,” Javier Diaz, a respected karate 88

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master. It did not take long for the director to see the potential for teaching kids valuable life lessons through karate. Walsh liked the selfdefense and competition elements of karate, but it was the character-development part of the philosophy that stuck with him. Walsh related to the step-by-step progress a student makes in karate, from white belt to brown belt to black belt, and so on up the ladder. “Without goals and timetables you don’t get anywhere in life. It goes by pretty fast,” Walsh says. In New Rochelle, Walsh’s life was going by fast. He had destroyed his knee playing semi-pro baseball and had just gone through

a painful divorce. He began looking for a new post at a Boys and Girls Club anywhere in America, preferably far away, when the onceproud Waterville Boys and Girls Club came knocking and invited him to interview for the position of its director. In December 1991, Walsh drove to Waterville for an interview in his Datsun 280ZX sports car and parked in front of a dilapidated brick building downtown. The club was “all beat up,” he says, and worse, had run deficits for the previous ten years. “There was talk of shutting the club down, while the staff was trying to find money just to pay the oil bill.” On top of that, if he accepted the challenge of trying to

“By the second or third day, we know every kid’s name and age.” turn the club around, he would be paid less than he was making as an assistant director back in New Rochelle. But Walsh did not care. “I had nothing to lose,” he told himself. “That first month I turned that sucker upsidedown,” he says. Walsh remembers being on his hands and knees with his staff scrubbing the floor of the gym. “We had to work with what we had.” But his basic philosophy was simple: “It is all about the kids.” Walsh soon organized a teen center and brought in karate and dance programs. After his first year, the club had a small surplus in the budget. But Walsh’s next hurdle loomed—how to renovate the crumbling 50-year-old building, a big challenge with a $2 million price tag. That was when one of the former members of his board of directors, Johnny Mitchell, a local sports hero who played basketball for the Boys and Girls Club of Waterville and was brother to then-United States Senator George Mitchell, introduced Walsh to Harold Alfond. Alfond had built the Dexter Shoe Company into an economic powerhouse in central Maine. Mitchell brought Walsh over to Alfond’s house, ostensibly to talk about a contribution to the building campaign, but they spent the first hour and a half watching the Patriots play in a Monday Night Football game. At halftime, as Walsh recalls, “Drew Bledsoe had just scored a touchdown and everyone was feeling good. Harold looked over at me and asked which I wanted, either $50,000 a year for five years, no questions asked, or a $500,000 challenge that had to be matched in a year.” Walsh wanted the challenge, and could see Mitchell nodding at the other end of the room.

Over the next two years Walsh and his board raised $2.1 million and, according to Walsh, “got the club back on track.” Alfond was pleased. The renovated club was soon bursting at the seams, so Walsh prepared to go back to Alfond to talk to him about a brandnew facility. Alfond, already thinking ahead, told Walsh that he should aspire to create “the best Boys and Girls Club in America, but maybe not in its current location.” In the meantime, Greg Powell, a lawyer who had grown up in Waterville, was recruited by Harold Alfond to help run his foundation. Powell, brand new to the job in 1996, was also aware that in addition to the Boys and Girls Club, two other youth-oriented Waterville organizations—the local YMCA and the city’s recreation department, which was in charge of the public swimming pool—had approached the Alfond Foundation for capital campaign funding. All three needed help to repair their overtaxed and aging facilities. Alfond and Powell came up with a bold proposal. The pair called the heads of the three organizations to a meeting, also including the two board chairpersons and the mayor of Waterville, to deliver the bad news. None of them would get any money from the foundation. However, the foundation was prepared to make a very large investment in new facilities if the three entities were prepared to cooperate. Alfond and Powell’s reasoning was simple. As Powell explained the rationale to me, “In a city of 14,000 with a declining tax base, everyone could not have their own Taj Mahal.” Furthermore, says Powell, “Instead of three struggling enterprises, maybe you could get one great organization.” May 2017 89

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“Any merger is a big deal and needs the right person to lead it.” The two foundation leaders then went a step further—a very big step. They laid out their basic criteria for the merger: first, there would be one common facility; second, each organization would contribute assets to the combined effort, and they would agree to work collaboratively to raise the necessary funds for the new facility. To cap off their offer, Alfond and Powell drew up an organizational chart for an umbrella entity with three subsidiaries and named Walsh the leader of the new organization. “Any merger is a big deal,” says Powell, “and needs the right person to lead it.” Alfond and Powell chose Walsh because he had just completed a successful capital campaign. “He was talented, energetic, and engaged in the community—and he had a very strong board,” says Powell. In other words, leadership mattered. “We picked him,” he says of Walsh, “but he earned it.” May 2017 91

Opposite, clockwise from top left: Greg Powell, chair of the Harold Alfond Foundation, helped facilitate the merger that created the center. Gymnastics at AYC is for all ages. “Renshi” Craig Sargent prepares brown belt Pete Buteria for his black belt test. Brian Bellows, a former youth member, is now a mentor to many others.

Powell smiles as he describes the next part of the story. “All hell broke loose on the boards as the organizations struggled to find common ground,” he says. “Locally respected and committed board members of each organization feared their brands would be diluted.” But slowly the organizations came together. Waterville Mayor Ruth Joseph got the city to donate land next to the town-owned swimming pool and put up a $1 million bond to repair the outdoor pool. Within two years, the $10 million fundraising campaign to meet Alfond’s three-to-one challenge had picked up real steam under Walsh’s leadership. In May of 1999, the organizations established the firstever combined YMCA Boys and Girls Club in America, named the Alfond Youth Center. Behind this new organization is a story of dedication, passion, and teamwork on the parts of many people. Even more impressive is how these same qualities play out day after day

at the center—whether in the myriad sports programs, the dance or gymnastics programs, or the karate program that remains close to Walsh’s heart. Craig Sargent has been the director of the center’s karate program since 2002. “I have been at the club,” he tells me, “since I was five. I pretty much grew up here.” Sargent met the man he calls Shihan Ken (shihan is a Japanese term translated as “master instructor”) when Walsh became director in 1992. “I was going through hard times,” says Sargent. “I was making bad decisions—shoplifting and fighting at school. Drugs were around. I could have gone down the wrong path. Karate kept me here, but it was also the atmosphere—it was very positive—everyone cared and it was genuine.” Sargent now oversees 150 kids in programs ranging from “Little Dragons” for three-toseven-year-olds to classes for teens and adults. “We are focused on character building,” says Sargent, “giving those kids who need it most a chance to learn that discipline.” Walsh says that Sargent “has made a difference in thousands of kids’ lives.”

When Greg Powell reflects back on that first project he worked on with Harold Alfond, he recognizes that the pair had developed the key elements that have become the principles of the foundation’s investment philosophy ever since. Powell and his fellow board members carefully consider whether a leader can catalyze the teamwork necessary and mobilize people to get behind a vision that everyone can be proud of—or, as Powell puts it succinctly, “getting competing organizations together to accomplish bigger objectives, rather than each operating on its own.” The spectacular success of the Alfond Youth Center in Waterville, which occurred during some of the community’s most stressful economic times, has helped create a blueprint for other private and public investments that are reimagining and reinventing the vibrancy of central Maine—beginning with investing in its young people.

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WATCHERS BINOCULARS ARE UP, AND THE COUNT IS ON FROM THE SCHOODIC PENINSULA. WITH GUIDES WHO KNOW WHERE TO LOOK, WE’RE WATCHING FOR BIRDLIFE—IN THE SKY AND ON THE SEA. by SANDY LANG Photography by PETER FRANK EDWARDS

During a guided birdwatching excursion, a group watches for migratory seabirds from the ledges at Schoodic Point. Opposite page: One of the many bald eagles spotted during the multi-day downeast Winged Migration tour.

and then a great cormorant diving into the surf. Northern harriers are flying low near Schoodic Island, and the common eider ducks are likely fishing for blue mussels, according to Seth Benz, the other bird expert who coordinates this tour.

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veryone fans out across the ledge at Schoodic Point, staying within earshot of one another. Waves are splashing with great whooshes into rock crevices.

“If the herring gulls all fly up at once, look for an eagle,” Bob Duchesne calls out. He’s one of two seasoned Maine birders leading a vanload of eco-minded travelers on a four-day excursion downeast, the Winged Migration tour. I’ve just caught up with the group as it gathers on the sun-warmed granite. The wide ledges of Schoodic Point are at the very tip of the Schoodic Peninsula, across Winter Harbor from Mount Desert Island. The massive rock formations are in hues of pink, orange, and gray that are splattered in many places with the white

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stains of bird droppings. It’s probably a good sign for this outing, I think. The group members are already fixing their gazes on the choppy ocean water, the distant Schoodic Island, and the bright sky above. Each person has a pair of binoculars at the ready. This bird pursuit began with the participants arriving by car or air to meet in Bangor and then driving here, just in time for the late-summer southern migration of birds (and people). We don’t see eagles at the moment. (At the tour’s start, Duchesne predicts to the group that we will see at least a dozen bald eagles during the trip.) The names of other specific types of birds are soon called out when people spot them—over there a black guillemot (akin to the puffin, with vermillion-red feet),

The group is basing its birdwatching from the Schoodic Institute in Acadia National Park during the days that we join them. As we watch that sunny afternoon from Schoodic Point, and then from the Blueberry Hill Overlook (also in Acadia on the Schoodic Peninsula), group members and the guides identify as many floating or flying birds as they can by sight, and sometimes by the sound of their calls or songs. Some birds’ identities are confirmed through comparisons with illustrations in birders’ field guides. And I notice that people are jotting numbers and checkmarks down on paper checklists. Like a scorecard, a bird tally is being kept. At dinnertime, while the group is seated on a patio at the Schoodic Institute for trays of steaming lobster and corn on the cob, Benz announces the numbers and types of birds seen so far, including hundreds of sandpipers, a few hawks, and several warbler songbirds. By the end of the group’s first day, the collective total is 54 species of birds. This is good news for the five couples who are participating. They’re traveling together as staff and members of a community nature center in Troy, Ohio. “We’re here for the opportunity to see seabirds and other species of birds and animals that aren’t found in the Midwest,” Becky Crow of the Brukner Nature Center explains.

“IF THE HERRING GULLS ALL FLY UP AT ONCE, LOOK FOR AN EAGLE.”

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BIRDS ARE DARTING ABOUT IN THE MUD, HEADS DOWN AND FEEDING FEVERISHLY.

Seabirds, fish, and marine mammals, including whales, dolphins, and seals, are part of the offshore scenery for visitors on Bar Harbor Whale Watch Co. boats. Opposite page: Gulls watch people and people watch for gulls on the Schoodic Peninsula.

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Birds aren’t the only draw, though. Not everyone in the group is an avid birdwatcher, says Deb Oexmann, executive director of the center, and most had never visited Maine. So the tour is an interesting way to explore the state’s coastline. At dinner, several people say it’s their first experience eating a steamed lobster. For Oexmann, this is a return trip. After college she hiked the Appalachian Trail with a Mount Katahdin start.

TWO-MAN TOUR In the morning we’ll begin birding again. Ferrying the group in a 15-person van, Duchesne and Benz make sure the travelers see as much wildlife as possible. At each stop, they stand before the group and give an introduction to the scenery and birds, and they set up a powerful viewing scope on a tripod when there are distant views of interest to be had—like those northern harriers gliding buoyantly over Schoodic Island. Duchesne has the deep and mellow voice of a disc jockey. He has, in fact, worked as a radio host for decades. Now he’s a Maine state legislator (representing House district 121) and a birding columnist for the Bangor Daily News. He also devised the Maine Birding

Trail, a listing and guide to specific places where there’s a good chance to see birds. Benz adds his own scholarly and scientific knowledge to the mix. He previously worked for Project Puffin and as assistant curator of the Hawk Mountain Sanctuary in Pennsylvania, and he’s now the director of the Bird Ecology Program, a field station for bird study at the Schoodic Institute at Acadia National Park. Together, the two men offer the birding tour several times each year. I’m catching up with them during the fall migration, when Maine is a birding hotspot. Millions of birds move through the state each spring (heading north) and then again in late summer and fall (southbound). It’s part of the fascinating natural phenomenon of migration, when birds of all sizes, including hawks and seabirds from Canada and beyond, pass by en masse—some flying thousands of miles in each direction.

CHASING TIDES Plovers. Greater and lesser yellowlegs. Sandpipers. We see birds in every direction when we arrive at Pinkham Bay in Steuben. The high tide is withdrawing, exposing wide

mudflats. Winged creatures are flying high overhead and low over the water; birds are darting about in the mud, heads down and feeding feverishly. Duchesne looks through the viewing scope. “There are hundreds, if not thousands, of shorebirds on that other side.” It’s an impressive natural scene. Birds are flying together, moving in sweeping masses of energy. Large oyster shells are scattered about. I spy a lone deer on a muddy bank across the water. And we all watch as an osprey that has been hovering overhead suddenly drops in a targeted splash into the water to catch a fish in his talons—a fish so big that the raptor flies low to carry it away. Duchesne recognizes our excitement, but he says it’s always bittersweet to see the largest flocks of birds today, “because you think about how many more there would have been years ago.” Benz notes that shorebirds are of particular concern, and that studies show that several Atlantic Flyway shorebird species have experienced declines between 50 percent and 90 percent within the last three decades; and May 2017 103

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More than 20 miles offshore from Bar Harbor, it’s the realm of migrating seabirds and whales at Mount Desert Rock, a seasonal outpost of the College of the Atlantic’s Allied Whale research division.

38 shorebird species spend some portion of their annual life cycle in Maine. Two of those species, the piping plover and the red knot, are listed as threatened under the U.S. Endangered Species Act. While we spend the rest of the afternoon paying attention to the mixed flocks of shorebirds feeding and flying across the flats, I wonder about what’s ahead for bird populations as the world faces climate and environmental changes. Observing and understanding wildlife feels even more important.

WHALE MORNING, HAWKISH AFTERNOON The next day we’re all up before daylight to grab breakfast before heading over to meet a boat with the Bar Harbor Whale Watch Co. The idea is to see whales and, hopefully, some migrating seabirds, too. Everyone is wearing multiple layers of jackets and sweaters, but it turns out to be one of those ultra-calm days on the water. The sun is warming, and the blue of the water is almost the same hue as the sky—the horizon is practically seamless. The boat tracks out of the harbor, toward the lighthouse and Mount Desert Rock research station that’s about 25 nautical miles south of the College of the Atlantic. We see only glimpses of birdlife at first. Duchesne and Benz begin to point out dozens of birds, including sanderling-like red-necked phalaropes and larger great shearwaters; the black and white shearwaters live offshore and range north to Greenland and Iceland. The guides keep their binoculars up and tell us they were hoping for more sightings of rare birds. But I’m not let down. It’s always amazing to me that birds and animals can live far away from land. I’m fascinated. Besides, it’s a gorgeous day, and other marine life keeps popping up in the open water. We see gray seals with bulky, horse-like heads; pods of playful white dolphins that jump from the

water in perfectly rounded arcs as they swim; and two humpback whales floating next to each other like enormous logs. When the whales roll into motion and begin to swim, their fins and tails remind me of wings; their movements in the water are as graceful as birds. Suddenly, a chickadee-sized bird flits across the deck of the boat—how and why is it so far offshore? The passengers point and the boat’s crew identify the interloper as a redbreasted nuthatch. Then the pair of whales splashes and dives. Their tails rise, dripping above the sea’s surface. It’s an unforgettable snapshot of the large and small wonders of nature. Back on land that afternoon, we take a picnic lunch to the top of Cadillac Mountain. A ranger from Acadia National Park is staffing a fall hawk watch nearby. We sit to watch the hawks and herring gulls lifted on the thermals, the wind currents rising up from the ocean. The sun is bright and there are only thin wisps of clouds in the peaceful afternoon sky. “That’s definitely a sharpie,” I hear someone say. The raptor with a rapid wingbeat must be a sharp-shinned hawk.

FINAL COUNTDOWN Crow writes to me later and describes one of her favorite moments of the trip. On the return drive from Lubec, she says, the group stopped at a cove near Cutler for one of the last chances to add a new bird species to their lists. Birds weren’t the show there, though. Instead, they came upon what must have been hundreds of harbor seals. Mist was hanging over the relatively calm water, and the seals’ heads were all positioned in the same way, just above the water, she recalls. “It was surreal. I’ve never seen anything quite like it.” Another highlight of the trip for Crow was that her husband added 33 species to his life list while in Maine. Everyone in the Ohio group, she says, gained a new appreciation for birds. Her musings remind me of that first night when we were all sitting around cracking into lobster claws. We’d been birdwatching all day, yet some in the group May 2017 105

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talked of going out again, this time on a moonlit walk to listen and look for owls before bedtime—they might be able to add one more bird to the checklist. Beyond personal goals, the sightings add to science. Bird counts from the Maine tours are folded into data and work gathered by the Schoodic Bird Ecology Lab, according to Benz. More broadly, he says, the information “helps to document bird presence, abundance, and distribution throughout the region.”

So while it’s fun just to be outside and to be a better observer of the sights, sounds, and variety of birdlife, this downeast trip reinforced for me that it can also be important to share what you’ve discovered. To that end, the group did eventually see a bald eagle, as Duchesne had predicted—more than 20 eagles were spied during the trip. That was cause for a little celebrating in the van. And in this patient sport of birdwatching, I’ve learned, the counts really do count.

BIRDY: 112 ways Over the five-day Winged Migration tour downeast from Acadia National Park to Eastport and Lubec, bird sightings numbered in the thousands. According to a list kept by Seth Benz online at ebird.org (a real-time tool used by scientists and backyard birders to record bird sightings worldwide), the group’s tally of sightings totaled 112 different kinds of birds seen from September 2–6, 2016, including two red knot shorebirds (recently listed as threatened and protected by the Endangered Species Act), soaring hawks, long-legged herons and sandpipers, pecking woodpeckers and singing warblers, a singular great horned owl, and a tiny ruby-throated hummingbird. The full list can be found with the online story at

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When Kate and Aaron Anker purchased their home in Cape Elizabeth, it was a simple ranch, which fit their needs at the time. However, as their family grew, they discovered they needed a little more space and decided to undertake an expansion. Opposite page: Kate sits in her open and airy living room, where sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s surrounded by art and natural light. The ceramic sculpture on the coffee table is by artist Christine Caswell, who also serves as the clay center manager at Kateâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s artist space, Running With Scissors.

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INSIDE KATE AND AARON ANKER’S SPLITLEVEL RANCH IN CAPE ELIZABETH, YOU’LL FIND PAINTINGS BY LOCAL ARTISTS, RECLAIMED WOOD, ECO-FRIENDLY MATERIALS, AND A WHOLE BUNCH OF LEGOS.

by KATY KELLEHER Photography by ERIN LITTLE

he year was 1999, and Kate Mathison was walking along Portland’s Eastern Promenade when she saw a vintage VW bus. She began nosing around the vehicle. “I was trying to figure out who owned it so I could get my angle on how to approach him,” Kate says. At the time, Kate was a recent art school graduate who had just relocated from Minnesota to Portland. The van belonged to a man named Aaron Anker, who happened to be playing Frisbee on the nearby grass. “When I got the bus in 1993, my grandmother told me I was crazy,” Aaron remembers. “She owned one in the ’60s and ’70s, but I bought it because I wanted to always have a place to sleep. So I told [Kate] it wasn’t for sale, because someday I wanted to have a family and take them camping.” He asked for her phone number; she gave him her digits. Fast-forward 18 years. The couple is married (and she now goes by Kate Anker) with two kids, a Portuguese water dog named Luna, and an extensive art collection that hangs in their quirky, newly expanded house in Cape Elizabeth. (They still have that bus, too, and they have taken it camping many times.) My first impression of this couple is one of easygoing warmth. The moment I enter their foyer, I’m greeted by a bouncing dog and Aaron’s offer of tea, which he serves in May 2017 109

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“SUSTAINABILITY ISN’T A BUZZWORD FOR ME. AND IT ISN’T JUST ABOUT ENVIRONMENTALISM. IT’S ABOUT DOING THINGS IN A MEASURED WAY.”

Opposite page: In the time between the story interview and the visit from photographer Erin Little, Kate and Aaron hung this colorful and marine-inspired piece by Carter Shappy in their foyer, where it now greets visitors. This page: Kate is an accomplished potter, and many of her works can be seen throughout the house. On the dining room table rests an original vase by Kate.

handmade ceramic cups. As we sit on their minimalist couches in the sunny living room, conversation winds from art to food to green energy until we’re back to where we started, talking about their home life in Maine. “As a couple, we have a lot of fun creating cool stuff together,” Aaron says. He could be talking about their intricate Lego structures, which Kate and Aaron construct in their spare time and set on shelves and stools all around the house. Or he could be talking about either of their professional lives— Aaron is the co-owner of GrandyOats, an organic granola company based in Hiram, and Kate is the owner and director of a Portland artists’ space, Running with Scissors. Or he could even be talking about their two young daughters, who arrive home from school while we’re talking and bound upstairs with art projects in tow. But truly, he’s talking about all of their accomplishments and ongoing projects, including the four walls that rise up around us. “This house is an extension of our creations,” he says. “When we decided to redo the house 112

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“WE WANTED TO HAVE A PLACE WHERE WE COULD REALLY LIVE AND BE COMFORTABLE.” and to expand it, we knew we wanted to work with local builders and architects, and be as environmentally friendly as possible.” In 2014, after a decade of living in their 1950s raised ranch, the couple decided to hire Portland-based architecture firm Briburn to update the structure, knocking down walls, adding windows, and creating an open and inviting floor plan that ushers guests from the foyer into the kitchen, dining, and living room areas. “Our immediate goal was to have more

family space, and to bring more light into the house,” says Kate. They also hired Ron Spidle of Vindle Builders to facilitate construction. “We knew Ron because his wife was a teacher at my daughter’s preschool,” Aaron adds. “We like knowing who we’re working with, right down to the prints we’re going to hang on the wall,” he says, gesturing towards a massive piece that Kate has unfurled on the floor. It’s a print by Maine-based artist (and Running with Scissors print shop director) Carter Shappy, and as soon as they find a big enough Plexiglass frame, this ten-foot-by-four-foot abstract swirl (inspired by fishing nets and seaweed) will hang in their entryway near a piece Kate painted when she was 16 and a painting by fellow Running with Scissors artist Robert Nason. In addition to supporting local artists and companies, it was also important to the Ankers that their home reflect their commitment to environmentally sustainable practices. “Cutting down trees pained us,” says Kate, although it was necessary to remove a few trees in the yard to make space for the expansion. “But we looked really

Opposite page, from left: Kate and Aaron designed and built this quirky loft space for their kids in a single weekend. This vintage Asian cabinet sits in their open living room/dining room area. The owl painting shown above is by Flyn Costello. The liquid ceramic vessel that sits next to the painting is by artist Sequoia Miller. This page: The family dog, Luna, hangs out on the couch underneath paintings and prints that Kate and Aaron purchased during their travels around Maine and abroad.

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closely at the products we brought in.” The couple decided to use Cambia, a product made from sustainably harvested wood from North American forests, for the exterior siding. Cambia is a durable, non-toxic, and warp-resistant alternative to exotic wood, made by exposing ash and poplar lumber to high heat in a controlled environment at the Northland Forest Products facility in New Hampshire. On the deck, they opted for a product called Kebony, which uses a process developed in Norway to create durable hard wood from sustainable softwoods by soaking boards in a non-toxic biomass solution before curing and drying them. The end result is rot-resistant and has a 25-year warranty. “We had a lot of fun learning about these cool green building products,” Aaron says. For Aaron, being sustainable is about more than just buying products with an organic sticker or an eco-friendly tagline. It’s about understanding the process behind each item he brings into his house, knowing how it came to exist and what resources were required for its creation. “Sustainability isn’t a buzzword for me,” he says. “And it isn’t just about environmentalism. It’s about doing things in a measured way. It means building things slow and steady, with a balanced approach.” 114

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The couple likes to set their sights on a goal and work methodically and slowly to reach it, a practice that has benefited their creative businesses and their home life. At GrandyOats, Aaron (alongside co-owner and business partner, Nat Peirce) oversees the production of small-batch organic granolas, cereals, and trail mixes, which are made in an old school building entirely powered by solar energy and feature locally grown ingredients whenever possible. The company prides itself on employing a bunch of “real granolas” (their winking euphemism for “hippie”). Running with Scissors has a similarly communityoriented mission, welcoming artists from various disciplines and supporting the greater Portland art scene by offering shared workspace and access to otherwise costprohibitive equipment. As director, it’s Kate’s job to help promote the work of the painters, printmakers, ceramicists, woodworkers, and jewelers who use the studio space. Aaron jokingly refers to her as the “Mother of Artists” before praising her for her valuesbased leadership style. “It’s been wonderful to watch Kate go through the process of working as an artist to becoming an advocate, coach, and helper for everyone else,” he says. The desire to bring people together translates

into their living space in the form of a lightfilled, open living area, designed specifically for entertaining guests. The Ankers chose furniture for their living room that was low to the ground (so it would be easier to hold conversations over and around it) and easy to move (so they could drag the sofas out of the way and create a dance floor). On one wall, they built in a system of shelves to house their collection of sculptures and their many board games. “We’re big board game people,” Aaron says. They love playing Ticket to Ride and Settlers of Catan with their daughters, and when friends come over, they often pull out a deck of cards or a pair of dice. “We knew we didn’t want a formal dining room,” Kate adds. Kate and Aaron would rather build with Legos or host a dance party than have an elaborate sit-down dinner party. “We wanted to have a place where we could really live and be comfortable,” she says. It’s a bit bigger than a VW bus, but in this creative and clever Cape Elizabeth home, Kate and Aaron have built a congruous space for all their projects and passions.

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his year the real estate market in Maine looks like it will continue its strong growth from 2016, despite the inventory of available homes being lower than usual.

Maine experienced a record year for real estate sales in 2016, while home prices also increased across most of the state. More than 17,000 homes sold in 2016, up nearly 12 percent from the year before, according to data from the Maine Association of Realtors. The median home price rose about four percent to $185,000. Real estate agents in Maine credited a stronger economy, low interest rates, and the state’s appealing lifestyle as reasons for the continued growth of the real estate market. For people who telecommute or are flexible with where they live, options for outdoor recreation and more manageable urban areas make Maine a desirable place to live. “The main driver of people choosing Maine is obviously access to the great outdoors,” says Chris Lynch, founder and owner of Legacy Properties Sotheby’s International Realty. “That’s number one by far.” Another trend from 2016 that is expected to continue is a shift to urban and community centers. Tom Landry, founder and owner of Benchmark Residential and Investment Real Estate, says the combination of Portland’s food, arts, and cultural offerings with a proximity to the coast and outdoors has made the city a destination for people relocating. It’s common to hear from wouldbe homebuyers that Portland is near the top of their list of places to live, he says. “In Portland,” says Dava Davin, owner of Portside Real Estate Group, “there’s just something for everybody, which I think makes it attractive to a variety of people

in different phases of life.” Because of an inventory crunch, homes in the Portland area priced to sell often receive multiple offers, she says. Both in Portland and throughout Cumberland County, buyers are interested in being near the amenities and communities centers and are willing to work with smaller footprints, says Sue Lessard of Town and Shore Associates. Along those lines, Lessard expects the trend of high-end condos in downtown Portland to continue. In Bar Harbor, Erica Brooks of the Swan Agency Sotheby’s International Realty has also seen a boost in popularity of in-town homes, close to shopping. “A lot of people love the idea of walking around, being able to not have a car if they don’t have to, share a car if they have one,” Brooks says. Gail Arnold, owner of Kennebunk Beach Realty, deals mainly with second-home and vacation-home buyers, and she says she’s seen an increase in people using cash for purchases. “I think people are pulling money out of CDs that aren’t paying anything and investing in real estate,” says Arnold. Although interest rates for mortgages are likley to remain relatively low this year, Arnold says the small, expected increases may encourage people to buy now. For many buyers moving to Maine from elsewhere, there is often some kind of connection to the state, says Scott Horty, owner of Camden Real Estate Company. “They went to college here. They went to summer camp here. Their aunt or uncle had a camp on the water,” he says. “They’ve got some kind of connection, and they come back here because the feeling is so strong.”

This property at 208 and 212 S Rd. in South Bristol sold for $3,500,000. Rick Bisson of Keller Williams Realty was the listing agent, and Joseph Sortwell of LandVest was the selling agent.

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

Kittery TO Ogunquit Maine’s southernmost beaches like Long Sands Beach in York and Ogunquit Beach attract families and other sun soakers, while striking panoramas are on view at Cape Neddick Light and Marginal Way. A variety of cultural offerings like the Ogunquit Playhouse and top-rated restaurants provide the perfect way to spend an evening.

4 Beacon St. | York Located across from a coveted stretch of Long Sands Beach, this five-bedroom house has multiple decks and plenty of yard space.

What it was listed for: $1,395,000 What it sold for: $1,325,000 The facts: 5 bedrooms, 4 baths, 3,981 square feet on 2.1 acres Listing agent: Troy S. Williams, Keller Williams Coastal Realty Selling agent: Troy S. Williams, Keller Williams Coastal Realty

38 Perkins Cove Rd. #2 | Ogunquit This three-bedroom, townhousestyle condo is located directly on Perkins Cove and has a boat slip at the edge of the lawn. What it was listed for: $1,399,000 What it sold for: $1,300,000 The facts: 3 bedrooms, 3 baths, 1 half bath, 2,232 square feet on 0.236 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

“THE MAIN DRIVER OF PEOPLE CHOOSING MAINE IS OBVIOUSLY ACCESS TO THE GREAT OUTDOORS. THAT’S NUMBER ONE BY FAR.” – CHRIS LYNCH, LEGACY PROPERTIES SOTHEBY’S INTERNATIONAL REALTY

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Scarborough, Old Orchard Beach, AND Saco

Kennebunks TO Biddeford Pool Explore the tall grass salt marshes near Biddeford Pool, home to a variety of wildlife, and drive along Mile Stretch Road, a long strip of land that extends into the ocean, to find a home with a view. A short ride away, the Kennebunks are home to a scenic waterfront, including Goose Rocks Beach, and some of the best dining experiences in the state.

3 Neptune Ln. | Biddeford

Offering 180-degree views of the ocean, this five-bedroom cottage is just a short walk from Fortunes Rocks Beach. What it was listed for: $1,295,000 What it sold for: $1,247,500 The facts: 5 bedrooms, 2 baths, 1 half bath, 2,459 square feet on 0.38 acres Listing agent: Anne M. McPheeters, OceanView Properties, Inc. Selling agent: Betty M. Smith, Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices New England Properties

56 Fortunes Rocks Rd. | Biddeford

49 Mile Stretch Rd. | Biddeford

This year-round cottage was renovated inside and out in 2009 and has deeded access to Fortunes Rocks Beach.

This property has a three-bedroom classic cottage and five lots with a total of 400 feet of water frontage.

What it was listed for: $665,000 What it sold for: $629,000 The facts: 3 bedrooms, 1 bath, 1 half bath, 1,400 square feet on 0.162 acres Listing agent: Anne M. McPheeters, OceanView Properties, Inc. Selling agent: Peter G. McPheeters, OceanView Properties, Inc.

What it was listed for: $675,000 What it sold for: $650,000 The facts: 3 bedrooms, 2 baths, 1,528 square feet on 3 acres Listing agent: Anne M. McPheeters, OceanView Properties, Inc. Selling agent: Anne M. McPheeters, OceanView Properties, Inc.

In the summertime, the seven-mile coastline of Old Orchard Beach lights up with restaurants, an amusement park, and games on the pier. Swim and surf at Pine Point, Scarborough Beach State Park, and Higgins Beach, and walk, run, or bike along the Eastern Trail from Casco Bay to Kittery.

47 Ferry Ln. | Saco This modern home with openconcept living spaces has more than 150 feet of deepwater frontage on Saco River.

What it was listed for: $899,000 What it sold for: $885,000 The facts: 4 bedrooms, 4 baths, 1 half bath, 2,458 square feet on 0.89 acres Listing agent: Sandra S. Murray, Keller Williams Realty Selling agent: John Harmon II and John Carroll, The Maine Real Estate Network

36 River Woods Dr. | Scarborough

11 Jocelyn Rd. | Scarborough

Located in a quiet subdivision, this fourbedroom colonial has a homeownerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s suite with a Jacuzzi tub and a workout room with a sauna.

In the heart of Prouts Neck on a private road, this five-bedroom house built in 2005 has a view of the water and opportunities for gardening.

What it was listed for: $415,000 What it sold for: $405,000 The facts: 4 bedrooms, 2 baths, 1 half bath, 3,036 square feet on 2.43 acres Listing agent: Troy L. Wilkins, Legacy Properties Sothebyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s International Realty Selling agent: Cari Turnbull and Barbara Deschenes, The Maine Real Estate Network

What it was listed for: $1,375,000 What it sold for: $1,290,000 The facts: 5 bedrooms, 2 baths, 1 half bath, 2,394 square feet on 0.23 acres Listing agent: Lucy C. Flight, Town & Shore Associates Selling agent: Lucy C. Flight, Town & Shore Associates

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Portland Peninsula AND South Portland On the Portland peninsula, a multitude of coffee shops, galleries, and restaurants gives the city an urban edge without sacrificing small-town friendliness or ocean views. Nearby, popular, cozy neighborhoods like Loveitts Field, Willard Beach, and Danforth Cove feature a strong sense of community and are only a short drive away from the city.

341 Fore St. Unit #9 | Portland

This three-bedroom Old Port condo has open-concept kitchen, living, and dining spaces, and a rooftop deck with panoramic views of Portland Harbor. What it was listed for: $675,000 What it sold for: $630,000 The facts: 3 bedrooms, 2 baths, 1,620 square feet on 0 acres Listing agent: Jeffrey T. Davis, Town & Shore Associates Selling agent: Lisa B. DiBiase, Landing Real Estate

104 West St. | Portland The John W. Burrows Mansion, named for the first owner, who built it in 1898, has been restored and upgraded and features sunset views from the Western Promenade. What it was listed for: $1,295,000 What it sold for: $1,115,000 The facts: 5 bedrooms, 4 baths, 1 half bath, 5,416 square feet on 0.287 acres Listing agent: Tom J. Landry, Benchmark Residential & Investment Real Estate Selling agent: Mike LePage and Beth Franklin, RE/MAX Heritage

546 Preble St. | South Portland This fully renovated three-bedroom Colonial is located in the heart of the Willard Beach neighborhood and offers a large chef’s kitchen, open living and dining spaces, and a large deck. What it was listed for: $459,900 What it sold for: $450,000 The facts: 3 bedrooms, 1 bath, 1 half bath, 1,481 square feet on 0.116 acres Listing agent: Matthew A. DiBiase, Landing Real Estate Selling agent: Jed Rathband, Keller Williams Realty

“PORTLAND IS BIG ENOUGH, BUT IT’S STILL SMALL AND APPROACHABLE.” – TOM LANDRY, BENCHMARK RESIDENTIAL & INVESTMENT REAL ESTATE

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Cape Elizabeth, Falmouth, Yarmouth, AND Freeport Just outside Portland, family-friendly towns offer access to the cultural wealth of Portland, highly rated school districts, and weekend nature excursions. Relax and swim at Crescent Beach State Park and Two Lights State Park, and the 1.25-mile trail at Mackworth Island is a highlight for birders. Ospreys have already made Wolfe’s Neck State Park their summer home.

33 Spar Cove Rd. | Freeport

32 McKenney Point Rd. | Cape Elizabeth

9 Merrill Rd. | Freeport

This contemporary home designed by Joseph Waltman has handmade interior doors, vaulted ceilings, and private ocean access.

On a one-acre lot with 230 feet of Cape Elizabeth shoreline, this twobedroom ranch is minutes from two lighthouses and a short drive from Portland.

This energy-efficient post-and-beam, two-bedroom home has a wood interior, an open floor plan, and is near walking trails.

What it was listed for: $695,000 What it sold for: $635,000 The facts: 4 bedrooms, 3 baths, 1 half bath, 2,992 square feet on 2.25 acres Listing agent: Brett Davis Real Estate Selling agent: Cynthia Dubois-Cote, Keller Williams Realty

What it was listed for: $1,195,000 What it sold for: $950,000 The facts: 2 bedrooms, 2 baths, 1 half bath, 1,616 square feet on 1 acre Listing agent: Bob Knecht and Susan Lessard, Town & Shore Associates Selling agent: Susan A. Girouard, L&S Realty

What it was listed for: $269,900 What it sold for: $291,555 The facts: 2 bedrooms, 2 baths, 1,389 square feet on 1.16 acres Listing agent: Tom J. Landry, Benchmark Residential & Investment Real Estate Selling agent: Tami L. Goodrich, Keller Williams Realty

10 Falls Rd. | Falmouth

This 1792 farmhouse was redesigned by Nicola’s Home and features a gourmet kitchen, four-season sunroom, and spacious living room with a fireplace. What it was listed for: $799,000 What it sold for: $799,000 The facts: 4 bedrooms, 2 baths, 1 half bath, 3,840 square feet on 1.1 acres Listing agent: David Banks, RE/MAX By The Bay Selling agent: Elizabeth Marks, The Real Estate Store

Bath, Brunswick, AND Phippsburg Art galleries, farmhouses, and ocean vistas adorn the roadside on a drive along the Harpswell islands. Nearby, Brunswick’s Maine Street is lined with restaurants offering all types of flavors. Bath, known as the City of Ships, is quaint and comfortable, and residents often steer their boats up the Kennebec River to go tubing in the brackish water and dine at lobster shacks.

59 Atkins Bay Dr. | Phippsburg

6 Amoskegan Dr. | Brunswick

With views of Atkins Bay, this property features a three-bedroom house with vaulted ceilings and a one-bedroom guest cottage with a large deck.

This four-bedroom colonial is located in a peaceful residential neighborhood and offers plenty of living space, including a library, sunroom, homeowner’s suite, and basement family room.

What it was listed for: $639,000 What it sold for: $620,000 The facts: 3 bedrooms, 3 baths, 1 half bath, 2,500 square feet on 1.92 acres Listing agent: Joan Maloney Chrane, RE/MAX Riverside Selling agent: John Herrigel, Portside Real Estate Group

What it was listed for: $329,000 What it sold for: $331,500 The facts: 4 bedrooms, 2 baths, 1 half bath, 2,816 square feet on 0.59 acres Listing agent: Tom J. Landry, Benchmark Residential & Investment Real Estate Selling agent: Alexa R. Oestreicher, Legacy Properties Sotheby’s International Realty

Boothbay Peninsula A whale-watching haven, Boothbay is also celebrated for its kayaking, sailing, and fresh seafood. Mile and Half Mile Beaches at Reid State Park carve out the coastline, and Five Islands Lobster Company in Georgetown serves up fresh seafood on an active fishing wharf. Farmhouses and cottages, both in town and along the coast, are prevalent.

13 Spruce Shore Rd. | Boothbay

38 Higbee Ln. | Boothbay

Featuring westerly panoramic views of Linekin Bay, this sixbedroom home features 268 feet of deepwater frontage with a pocket beach and deck with mooring.

Situated on a private, five-acre peninsula on Barters Island, this five-bedroom post-and-beam home features a living room with a stone fireplace and cathedral, beamed ceilings.

What it was listed for: $1,250,000 What it sold for: $1,062,500 The facts: 6 bedrooms, 3 baths, 1 half bath, 3,047 square feet on 2.88 acres Listing agent: John I. McCarthy, Legacy Properties Sotheby’s International Realty Selling agent: James R. Mcfarlane, Keller Williams Realty

What it was listed for: $1,195,000 What it sold for: $1,150,000 The facts: 5 bedrooms, 5 baths, 1 half bath, 5,064 square feet on 5.02 acres Listing agent: Bruce B. Tindal, Tindal & Callahan Real Estate Selling agent: Mary M. Ripley, Tindal & Callahan Real Estate

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Damariscotta, Bristol, South Bristol, AND Bremen Camps and cabins encircle Damariscotta Lake, and small nearby towns boast serious fishing and oyster farming communities, which visitors can explore on a river cruise. A perfect spot to catch the sunrise, Pemaquid Point Lighthouse looms above waves that crest and break against the surrounding rocks.

46 Cove Field Rd. | Bremen

This shingle-style home sits on a 2.3-acre lot with 480 feet of frontage on Medomak River and has professionally landscaped grounds, granite walls, and steps down to the cove. What it was listed for: $995,000 What it sold for: $1,050,000 The facts: 3 bedrooms, 2 baths, 1 half bath, 2,960 square feet on 2.31 acres Listing agent: Constance Moss, Legacy Properties Sotheby’s International Realty Selling agent: Kathleen A. Shattuck, Legacy Properties Sotheby’s International Realty

1563 Route 129 | South Bristol A grassy path through the backyard of this late-eighteenth-century farmhouse leads to a saltwater cove with a small boat shed, ramp, and float. What it was listed for: $275,000 What it sold for: $275,000 The facts: 5 bedrooms, 2 baths, 2,514 square feet on 1.08 acres Listing agent: Kathleen A. Shattuck, Legacy Properties Sotheby’s International Realty Selling agent: Kathleen A. Shattuck, Legacy Properties Sotheby’s International Realty

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Rockport A drive up the midcoast is a can’tmiss Maine experience. Creative meccas including the Farnsworth Museum and Center for Maine Contemporary Art make Rockland a top destination for Mainers and outof-state visitors alike, and all along the coast, small, tight-knit communities offer cafes, diners, and quaint shops in which you can spend a weekend or a lifetime.

68 Main St. | Rockport

A short distance from downtown Rockport, this 1840 Cape has a light-filled suite with a deck and an adjacent studio building. What it was listed for: $590,000 What it sold for: $586,500 The facts: 3 bedrooms, 2 baths, 1 half bath, 2,247 square feet on 1.6 acres Listing agent: Alex Uhll, Camden Real Estate Company Selling agent: Mary Holmes, Camden Real Estate Company

788 Shore Rd. | Northport

80 Mechanic St. | Camden

This year-round cottage is located near Northport Golf Course and has a waterfront deck and steps down to a private beach.

This in-town, three-bedroom bungalow has a cook’s kitchen, large backyard, and original hardwood floors.

What it was listed for: $515,000 What it sold for: $488,000 The facts: 2 bedrooms, 1 bath, 1 half bath, 1,022 square feet on 0.11 acres Listing agent: Bill Pickford, Camden Real Estate Company Selling agent: Kim Latour, Legacy Properties Sotheby’s International Realty

What it was listed for: $229,500 What it sold for: $219,000 The facts: 3 bedrooms, 1 bath, 1,046 square feet on 0.27 acres Listing agent: Scott Horty, Camden Real Estate Company Selling agent: Vicki Doudera, Camden Real Estate Company

St. George Peninsula Historic fishing villages populate the St. George Peninsula. The peninsula lures in artists, along with others in search of a quiet cottage close to the water. At its tip, Port Clyde stretches out into the Atlantic and culminates in the Marshall Point Lighthouse.

16 Baypoint Dr. | Friendship

Sitting on the shores of Meduncook River, this modern Cape has a large sunroom, 265 feet of frontage, and a 230-foot-long dock. What it was listed for: $699,000 What it sold for: $650,000 The facts: 3 bedrooms, 2 baths, 1 half bath, 2,346 square feet on 1.54 acres Listing agent: Steven Chicoine, Keller Williams Realty Selling agent: Jessica Pooley, RE/ MAX Jaret & Cohn

Old Woods Rd. | St. George This three-bedroom farmhouse has an updated roof, siding, and insulation, and access to 84 acres of conservation land. What it was listed for: $242,000 What it sold for: $215,000 The facts: 3 bedrooms, 1 bath, 1,298 square feet on 1.65 acres Listing agent: Wendy Zwecker, Camden Real Estate Company Selling agent: Pamela Prior, Cates Real Estate

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Mount Desert Island The island’s most well-known attraction, Acadia National Park, comprises mountains, rocky coast, and scenic beaches; in the autumn, the park quiets, and lush foliage attracts leaf peepers, and with winter snowshoe aficionados and cross country skiers arrive. Numerous restaurants, art shows, and gift shops make the park’s neighbor, Bar Harbor, a favorite getaway spot.

3 and 5 Fox Ln. | Mount Desert

Big Fox and Little Fox, a pair of shingle-style cottages in Northeast Harbor, have a combined five bedrooms and direct access to trails into Acadia National Park. What it was listed for: $1,450,000 What it sold for: $1,321,280 The facts: 5 bedrooms, 4 baths, 1 half bath, 3,580 square feet on 0.16 acres Listing agent: Erika W. Mitchell, The Swan Agency Sotheby’s International Realty Selling agent: James A. Mitchell, The Swan Agency Sotheby’s International Realty

13 Garden Way | Bar Harbor This open-concept colonial has sunlit rooms with southern exposure, an updated kitchen with granite countertops, and a finished basement. What it was listed for: $759,500 What it sold for: $695,000 The facts: 3 bedrooms, 2 baths, 1 half bath, 4,302 square feet on 1 acre Listing agent: Betty B. Bryer, The Swan Agency Sotheby’s International Realty Selling agent: Gail L. Caruso, The Swan Agency Sotheby’s International Realty

Downeast: Beals AND Winter Harbor Head downeast for galleries, mountains, and fishing communities of clapboard houses that wrap around rocky shores. At Quoddy Head State Park in Lubec, witness one of the easternmost sunrises in the United States.

51 Station Rd. | Beals

114 West Oval | Winter Harbor

Atop a high ledge on Great Wass Island with sweeping views of sunsets, this modern home offers an open-floor plan, vaulted ceiling, and deepwater frontage.

Located in the Grindstone Neck community, this four-bedroom, waterfront retreat features handcrafted woodwork throughout, a large granite hearth, and a gated entry.

What it was listed for: $585,000 What it sold for: $525,000 The facts: 2 bedrooms, 2 baths, 1 half bath, 3,044 square feet on 5.4 acres Listing agent: Gail Caruso, The Swan Agency Sotheby’s International Realty Selling agent: Julie A. Farris, Jonesport Realty

What it was listed for: $1,850,000 What it sold for: $1,800,000 The facts: 4 bedrooms, 5 baths, 2 half baths, 5,125 square feet on 3.25 acres Listing agent: Amy B. Cameron, The Swan Agency Sotheby’s International Realty Selling agent: Amy B. Cameron, The Swan Agency Sotheby’s International Realty

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14 Ryefield St. | Peaks Island, Portland This completely renovated twobedroom cottage has vaulted ceilings and sweeping water views. What it was listed for: $649,000 What it sold for: $600,000 The facts: 2 bedrooms, 2 baths, 1,512 square feet on 0.08 acres Listing agent: Susan E. Lessard, Town & Shore Associates Selling agent: Susan E. Lessard, Town & Shore Associates

60 Seal Cove Ln. | Great Diamond Island, Portland

Island Homes Each Maine island creates its own type of community. Certain islands are an escape from the world, with rugged wilderness that sweeps from shore to shore, and others are rooted in a lively cultural scene. Homes of all personalities are available to match the life each resident chooses to lead.

Designed by architect Robert Stern and located on 335 feet of Great Diamond Island coastline, this shingle-style cottage has westerly water views and a deepwater deck. What it was listed for: $1,695,000 What it sold for: $1,580,000 The facts: :4 bedrooms, 3 baths, 1 half bath, 3,200 square feet on 1.141 acres Listing agent: David Banks, RE/MAX By The Bay Selling agent: David Banks, RE/MAX By The Bay

108 Norton Pond Rd. | Lincolnville Located on nearly an acre on Norton Pond, this four-bedroom home has an open living room with a fieldstone fireplace and a wall of windows overlooking the water. What it was listed for: $790,000 What it sold for: $790,000 The facts: 4 bedrooms, 3 baths, 3,410 square feet on 0.95 acres Listing agent: Ken Twaddel, Camden Real Estate Company Selling agent: A. Flint Decker of The New England Real Estate Co.

101 Steele Ln. | Washington

Lake Homes From small retreats to luxurious family estates, waterside camps abound on the borders of Maineâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s more than two thousand lakes. Kayak and swim through fresh, deep blue water and read on the porch in soft summer light. Winter nights are best spent indoors in front of a roaring wood fire.

This three-season camp on Washington Pond has its own sandy beach and open-concept kitchen, dining, and living areas. What it was listed for: $259,000 What it sold for: $240,000 The facts: 3 bedrooms, 2 baths, 1,222 square feet on 0.22 acres Listing agent: Kessler Horty, Camden Real Estate Company Selling agent: Alex Cohen, Camden Real Estate Company

DREAM Homes Private peninsulas and beaches, unmatched ocean vistas and access, and even space for heli pads, these dreams homes give a new definition to house envy.

115 Paradise Point Rd. | Boothbay Lawns and gardens slope gently down to the deepwater deck of this four-bedroom cottage, which boosts views of Linekin Bay. What it was listed for: $2,450,000 What it sold for: $1,975,000 The facts: 3 bedrooms, 3 baths, 2 half baths, 5,296 square feet on 1.89 acres Listing agent: Jonathan B. Tindal, Tindal & Callahan Real Estate Selling agent: Karen K. Roberts, Tindal & Callahan Real Estate

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26 Ocean Rd. | Cranberry Isles

With 550 feet of water frontage on Casco Bay, this estate features a sun-filled home renovated in 2005, wrap-around deck facing the water, and tennis court.

This modern Pine Point home has 100 feet of ocean frontage, large windows for a panoramic view of the water, and luxurious amenities.

This private estate has two separate homes, 40 acres of fields and woods, a deepwater dock, and space for a heli pad.

What it was listed for: $ 2,000,000 What it sold for: $1,850,000 The facts: 5 bedrooms, 5 baths, 1 half bath, 7,500 square feet on 0.34 acres Listing agent: Sandra S. Murray, Keller Williams Realty Selling agent: Susan A. Russell, Maine Home Connection

What it was listed for: $ 4,500,000 What it sold for: $3,500,000 The facts: 9 bedrooms, 4 baths, 1 half bath, 4,485 square feet on 30.1 acres Listing agent: Rick Bisson, Keller Williams Realty Selling agent: Joseph Sortwell, LandVest

Located on Great Cranberry Island’s Spurling Point, offering views of Acadia’s mountains, this property has a deepwater dock and moorings, a private beach, and over 700 feet of shore frontage.

What it was listed for: $2,050,000 What it sold for: $1,925,000 The facts: 5 bedrooms, 4 baths, 6,279 square feet on 3.3 acres Listing agent: Dava M. Davin, Portside Real Estate Group Selling agent: Alexa R. Ostreicher, Legacy Properties Sotheby’s International Realty

What it was listed for: $2,250,000 What it sold for: $2,500,000 The facts: 5 bedrooms, 5 baths, 1 half bath, 3,200 square feet on 2.8 acres Listing agent: Keating Pepper and Jane McCombs-Beaman, The Knowles Company Selling agent: Danielle Davis, The Davis Agency May 2017 129

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Views of harbor, hills, and town! This architecturally stimulating, beautifully restored & expanded historic Cape is set between two of Camden’s most prestigious streets. Beautiful landscaping, gorgeous interior, 4BR, 4.5BA, office, 3 fireplaces, multi-zone heating & A/C, generator, elevator. Plus 2BR/1BA cottage! Michael Lynch 207.558.3131 | $1,795,000

Over 4 acres, more than 200’ of water frontage and a stream, this P&B cedar home welcomes year-round living, with a stone central hearth/2 gas FPs, central A/C, gourmet kitchen, open concept living and dining space, loft, screened in porch, media room, elevator, fish pond, swinging chair, dock and more. MLS 1296880 Michael Lynch 207.558.3131 | $745,000

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A perfect private family compound. This beautiful light filled 3Br 3.5 Ba, main house with granite fireplace, huge deck, hot tub and spectacular water views has its own private deep water dock and a separate 2 bedroom 2 bath guest house. Beautifully landscaped and fully furnished. MLS 1271934 Leslie Tranchell 207.694.2955 | $1,595,000

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900 Shore Road, Cape elizabeth this waterfront stone manor offers views of Casco bay’s shipping channel from most rooms including the chef ’s kitchen, master suite with balcony, living room, dining room and office. thoughtfully renovated and updated, with preserved period charm. amenities include 6 bedrooms, 7 bathrooms, coffered ceilings, two-sided fireplace, walnut floors, radiant heat, central air, and first floor guest suite. Spacious elegant flow, as well as sophisticated coziness. outdoor patios and granite steps to 150 ft private beach. mLS 1298069 Offered at $3,975,000

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early every day for five years, Kelly Farrin drove past the shuttered Carriage House Restaurant on his way to work at Primo in Rockland. He lived on Ocean Point in East Boothbay, a particularly scenic piece of land that juts into Linekin Bay. Having grown up in Boothbay, Farrin was familiar with the old restaurant that had sat vacant for the past 15 years. Before that, the Carriage House had been a popular gathering spot for locals since 1986, serving up simple coastal fare. “It always looked like a place that might suit me,” says Farrin. He kept turning over the possibilities in his mind, thinking, “How do I get myself in there? How can I make it better without offending its legacy?” Farrin’s family has lived and worked in Boothbay for several generations, so he takes the idea of legacy quite seriously. His grandmother, Norma Smith, ran the Southport Yacht Club sailing program, where his mother, Robin Farrin, was an instructor. He and his brother spent summers there, navigating the waters of Cozy Harbor. 148

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An East Manhattan, made with chefowner Kelly Farrin’s own cardamom syrup. Opposite page, from top: Farrin has returned to his Boothbay roots, reopening the Carriage House after it was shuttered for fifteen years. A dish of Maine shrimp and grits will be featured on the summer menu.

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His father, Pat Farrin, is well known around town for his construction business. Kelly Farrin was a high school basketball standout who decided that culinary school was a better fit than a traditional college. Upon graduation, he wanted to get out of New England for a while and took a job in Key West. When he returned to Maine less than a year later, he landed at Azure Cafe in Freeport. In 2010, he took home the Harvest on the Harbor Festival’s Maine Lobster Chef of the Year title, no small feat in this state. “I grew up with everyone who has a lobster boat in this town,” he says. Looking to advance his career, Farrin sent an email to Melissa Kelly, owner and chef at Primo, saying, “I want to work for you.” He got a job as a line cook with Kelly, one of Maine’s most highly regarded chefs and a twotime James Beard Award winner. At Primo, Farrin learned the value and importance of teamwork. He came to appreciate the idea of utilizing every bit of a product, whether it’s a vegetable or an animal. And his passion for food intensified. “This was the real deal,” says Farrin. “It was fire and heat nonstop, all day. Melissa Kelly works harder than anyone I’ve ever met and pushes everyone to do better, every day.” Which raises the question: why would a young chef want to leave a place, and a mentor, like that?

the effort to make her proud drives her son to improve every day. “I’m learning how to blossom, how to put myself out there and shine,” he says. Buying the Carriage House was a leap of faith, and Farrin has a fear of failing. “But I can’t let that get to me,” he says. He purchased the place in April of 2016, after a nearly year-long negotiation with former owner George Bourette. That gave him just two months to get ready for the busy season: repairs, hiring, getting vendors in place, and all that goes with opening a restaurant. “Everything came together in a very small window of time. On opening night, everyone knew their jobs, we were prepared, and the parking lot was full,” he says. “It all happened so fast that people didn’t even realize we were open. But it turned out to be crazy right from the start, with a full house every night.”

It all comes back to his hometown and his family, the memory of his mother and the respect of his father. “My dad is such a hard worker, and he motivates me to do the same,” he says. Farrin lost his mother in 2013, but

Farrin changed very little about the Carriage House’s interior and decor, wanting to stay true to the place’s heritage. The downstairs dining area is full of knotty pine tables, paneling, and posts, slightly reminiscent of a summer camp dining hall. There are nautical details, such as cleats and brass lighting, a nod to Boothbay as a boatbuilding community. Vintage signs for local businesses add oldschool charm and evoke fond memories for May 2017 149

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regulars. Photos of boats and boatbuilders from Boothbay are hung on the walls. “I inherited all this, and when we opened, people brought more stuff to me,” says Farrin. “Visitors will often point at a photo and say, ‘That was my grandfather’s boat.’ It’s like a shrine to the local community.” The mood here is quiet, perfect for families. But up a short flight of stairs, it’s more of a party, with two bars and a lively atmosphere. There you’ll find a bartender with the lovely name of Winter Page. “There are a lot of martini and Manhattan drinkers here,” she says. Page likes to put a twist on classic cocktails, like the East Manhattan she makes for us using cardamom syrup made by Farrin. She also demonstrates the Ideal, a blend of gin, dry vermouth, Maraschino Luxardo, grapefruit juice, and a dash of grapefruit bitters. She serves up the drinks on a bar that’s half of a heavily varnished, actual dinghy. The cozy room displays more signage and memorabilia, including nautical flags, propellers, and life rings. “It’s a blast from the past,” says front-of-house manager Alexandra 150

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“Visitors will often point at a photo and say, ‘That was my grandfather’s boat.’ It’s like a shrine to the local community.” Neese. “It’s been a long time since people have seen this stuff.” With its low, dark green ceiling and paneled walls, the room feels a little like the below deck of a boat. A door leads out to the roof deck for summer dining and drinking al fresco. “The place really hasn’t aged in the past 15 years,” says Farrin. What has been refreshed, quite significantly, is the food. “George’s original menu was very simple,” Farrin says. “Seafood, meat…and it never changed.” After his experience at Primo, the chef knew he could do better. “I want to

cook things that hit home for me,” he explains, “like what my mom cooked but with a twist. I want to change the perspective on these classic dishes, show that they’re not ordinary.” He picked up an appreciation for fresh ingredients from his paternal grandmother, who fed him fresh vegetables from her garden and beef from her own cows when he was a child. “Tasting those things really sparked my interest in home cooking,” Farrin says. His menu looks basic at first glance with meat and seafood options, but there’s much more than meets the eye. The chef uses techniques he learned at Primo, along with local, seasonal ingredients, to raise the quality of dishes, while maintaining a level of familiarity. Each dish is listed with its ingredients, and the knowledgeable staff can elaborate on the preparation. Farrin’s grilled ribeye steak (“the first dish I ever thought of”) is hugely popular, because he’s turned a standard into a star. The 14-ounce steak is beautifully grilled and served atop garlic smashed potatoes and fried Brussels sprouts with rich beef jus. It’s crowned by a wedge of onion, charred and smoky from the cast iron pan. “We have

to stand out and be seen,” he says. “We have to offer what others don’t.” I’m pretty certain no one else in town is serving up picklefried chicken wings, a dish Farrin makes using the vinegary brine from a jar of Morse’s pickles to add a distinctive zing. The tart flavor contrasts nicely with a chili-honey drizzle and creamy gorgonzola dip. Traditional coastal favorites such as crispy fried calamari, fish chowder, and fish and chips all rise to a new level under the chef’s experience and sure hand. He shows off a big bowl of fresh, pink Maine shrimp; a few minutes later, the shrimp have been sautéed with Creole seasonings and served over wilted spinach and creamy white grits with cheddar cheese, along with a perfectly seared piece of Scottish salmon. Bringing the whole dish together is a sofrito brodo, a spicy, smoky broth made with peppers, carrots, onion, celery, tomato, and tasso ham. “I make a shrimp stock from the shells,” he says. “That ties the broth together.” The dish is sure to be a standout when it appears on the Carriage House’s summer menu. Then Farrin mentions his secret menu item: pizza. “There’s an old Garland pizza oven that came with the place,” he tells me. “We already have all the ingredients. It’s neat to have that option.” He proofs and pre-grills pizza dough, so it’s always at the ready for friends or diners who know to ask for it. “It’s fun to play around with it,” says the chef. The Carriage House is one of the few Boothbay restaurants that stays open year round. “All I wanted this past winter was to be able to pay the bills and make the locals happy,” says Farrin. “Last summer we hit the ground running,” adds Neese. “Now that we have a year of experience behind us, we have a better understanding of how things will go.” They’re planning a garden for vegetables and herbs behind the restaurant. The ice cream station by the front door will be stocked in anticipation of orders for brownie sundaes and housemade ice cream cookie sandwiches. Picnic tables will be set up on the patio to take advantage of the longer days. Upholding, and improving upon, a piece of Boothbay’s story takes a lot of time. Before we go, Farrin tells me about his J24 sailboat, Island Woman, which was named for his grandmother. “I didn’t even get it in the water last summer,” he says. Sailing is in his blood, but the opportunity to restore a hometown fixture has been a priority. “I’d been away for so long,” he says. “It was time to come back and make something right for the locals.” The Carriage House Restaurant 388 Ocean Point Rd. | East Boothbay 207.633.6025 May 2017 151

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wl and Elm opened in September 2016 in the heart of Yarmouth village, right next to Handy’s Market. Caitlin Henningsen, who owns the restaurant with her husband, Keith Johnson, moved to Maine from Connecticut, where they owned a food truck specializing in grilled cheese. With the concept of hearty comfort food in mind, Henningsen and Johnson hired Rocco Marzilli, who also lives in Yarmouth, as the chef. He’s cooked “all over Portland,” but most recently at Nosh Kitchen Bar and Hot Suppa, both providing plenty of experience with the type of food at Owl and Elm. The menu is a group effort, with

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The menu includes flavors of the Middle East, the Mediterranean, and Asia, all carefully prepared and plated. A dish of sautéed squid sounds simple, but is a multi-layered affair with winter vegetables and a tangy citrus-soy marinade. Cornmeal fried oysters, a special tonight, are light and crispy, served with a charred tomato and jalapeno salsa that packs a spicy punch. Bright fuchsia slices of beet and horseradish-cured gravlax are delicate and delicious, plated with the traditional accompaniments. But my favorite dish is undoubtedly the unassuming smoked veggie burger, a mixture of smoky wild rice and lentils with depth from sautéed mushrooms, porcini powder, sweet potatoes, and more.

The Owl and Elm burger is a beauty, with fresh, ground beef blended with the chef’s own steak sauce. The topping is a delicious, slaw-like combo of lettuce, tomato, house-made pickles, and onion, with smoked cheddar and a swipe of aioli. Other dishes are just as carefully crafted—a generous seafood stew with lobster stock, a chicken pot pie, beautifully cooked scallops, and even a few salads. Bethany Taylor has recently been hired to bake bread and desserts, often using Henningsen’s recipes from a bakeshop she previously owned. The raspberry cake covered in rich chocolate ganache is outstanding. And don’t miss the daily sundae special, each a slightly over-the-top treat. Owl and Elm has only been open since September, but it’s already become a hugely popular spot, with its own cast of regulars from Yarmouth and surrounding towns. “We’re so happy to be here,” says Henningsen, “and we plan to stay for a very long time.”

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familiar vacation spots covered in snow or bright with fall foliage. This photo was taken on a cold day in late January. We had driven to Brunswick to have lunch and do some shopping downtown. When we were getting ready to head home, we decided that there was enough time to take the 15-mile scenic route to Bailey Island before sunset. We arrived on the island about a half hour before sunset. The warm glow of the sky illuminated the water and landscape around us. While standing on the Cribstone Bridge, I noticed the small island with

the red shack and lobster traps was accentuated by that golden hour light. Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s when I took the shot. We hopped into the car and drove around Mackerel Cove just as the sun was setting and a lobster boat was returning to the dock. It was a beautiful Maine scene to end our visit to Bailey Island.

Marguerite Zorach Nude, 1922 Oil on canvas Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, Massachusetts, Eliza S. Paine Fund and a partial gift of Dr. and Mrs. Robert A. Johnson, 1977.130

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In the performing arts, the “fourth wall” is the imaginary boundary between the performer and the audience. It allows us to watch a play or musical performance as if it is separate from us, much like watching television. When comedians, mimes, and improvisational actors interact with us while we are watching, that is called breaking the fourth wall. A lifelong performance artist and theater director, Michael Miclon has been reaching through the fourth wall since the beginning of his career in 1982. “I love that connection with a live audience,” says Miclon, a Buckfield native. “You get to affect the people that are coming into the room…I also love that for the audience, they get to affect you.” Taught by Benny and Denise Reehl of the New England Vaudeville Revue and a student of theater master Tony Montanaro at the Celebration Barn Theater in South Paris, Miclon has performed around the world. He also founded the Oddfellow Theater in Buckfield, which he ran for 14 years. These days, Miclon (who continues to perform in shows around Maine) is the executive and artistic director at the Johnson Hall Performing Arts Center in downtown Gardiner. Built in 1864 on Water Street, Johnson Hall is Maine’s oldest opera house that’s still in operation. After being temporarily shuttered in the 1980s, its first floor was renovated in 1991, and a 110-seat performance space now hosts artists like John Gorka, Dar Williams, and Slaid Cleaves. Miclon is helping to raise $4.8 million to complete the renovations in the upper floors. “I believe that live arts are essential to humanity,” says Miclon. “It’s this weird agreement that hundreds of people are going to come together in a room and not rush the stage. We understand, ‘I’ll sit here, I’ll watch, you do stuff. If I like it I’ll slap my hands together and we’ll call it good.’ It’s an incredible exchange.”

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