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Miles Cone DMD, CDT

is Portland’s premier prosthodontist but there is a whole other side to him most people never get to see

“As soon as my last patient leaves the office, my second career begins.”

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e all go to the dentist, but rarely do we ever imagine or think about what goes on in the lives of these doctors behind the scenes in the six months between our exams and the occasional cavity or crown. For Dr. Miles Cone, the owner of Nuance Dental Specialists, treating patients is only half the story. Houston, Chicago, Seattle, San Francisco, Phoenix, Boston - a snapshot itinerary of Dr. Cone’s lecture schedule for the first half of the 2017 calendar year. Add to this a prolific penchant for publishing his work and dental industry sponsors from Japan and Europe, and you have the makings of a dental specialist that is obsessed with his career and demonstrates

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an uncompromised commitment towards his patients. If you want to earn national and international recognition on this scale, there is no place in the day for golf or lukewarm sentiments about your profession.

a fair bit of the cost to the patient.

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DEN T Adaily L S PE C I A L I STS very rewarding and time-consuming process.

Each paper I publish requires on average about A. Being a CDT allows me to have a greater 90 hours of work, not including the time I level of control over each phase of treatment CMYK invest in patient care. All that time reading and and it definitely requires a lot of late nights after investigating the current trends is important for hours in my in-office laboratory, since I am able me to stay on top of the latest advances in dental to perform many of the laboratory steps myself. technology and to guide my daily practice with The benefits are that I am able to ensure a higher relevant protocols regarding evidence-based quality product while simultaneously eliminating dentistry.

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A. The cons, well, I’m 6’3”, so limited legroom on a flight from Maine to California is always a bummer. Time away from my family is truly the hardest part, but they do come with me from time to time. As for the pros, it’s hard to place a value on the relationships I have made and the positive feedback I’ve received from all of the talks I’ve given. It’s a great feeling getting confirmation from so many folks that my GREYSCALE

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Q. As the subject matter expert in prosthetic dentistry, what areas within your specialty do you anticipate will change the way that your patients will be treated in the future?

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

A series of intimate dinners prepared by top chefs in private homes in the Kennebunkport area. Each dinner showcases work by an Art Collector Maine artist.

Pear Tree Farm Chef Daniel Simpson and Peggy Liversidge of Kitchen Chicks Catering.

Kuehnle Residence Chef John Shaw of Tides Beach Club, sponsored by Piscataqua Landscaping.

Burke Residence Chef Josh Berry of Union at the Press Hotel.

Feingold Residence Chef Avery Richter of the Black Tie Company.

Hurlbutt Residence Chefs Meghann Ward and Kevin Walsh of Tapestry Boston.

Burke Residence Chef Jackson Yordon of Salt & Honey, sponsored by Caleb Johnson Architects+Builders.

A cocktail party with an ocean view on the wrap-around porch. At the Colony Hotel, sponsored by Piscataqua Landscaping and Kennebunk Beach Realty with live music by Ocean Ave.

A series of intimate dinners prepared by top chefs in private homes in the Kennebunkport area. Each dinner showcases work by an Art Collector Maine artist.

Bette Residence Chef Guy Hernandez of Lolita Vinoteca + Asador, sponsored by Piscataqua Landscaping.

Turner/Bull Residence Chef Mel Chaiken of Fiddlehead Restaurant.

Old Vines Wine Bar Chef Joel Souza of Old Vines Wine Bar.

Rice Residence Chef Emil Rivera of Sur Lie.

Molloy Residence Chef Rick Shell of The Cliff House.

Gillard Residence Chef Dan Sriprasert of The Green Elephant.

Knudsen Residence Chef German Lucarelli of Ports of Italy.

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An open air cocktail party on the deck and docks. At Chicks Marina, sponsored by the Hinckley Company with live music.

A culinary experience featuring a multi-course, family-style seated dinner in a candlelit barn. Hosted by Chefs Justin Walker and Danielle Walker at Vinegar Hill Barn with top chefs from Maine and away, sponsored

by Richard Moody & Sons.

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.

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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Continue your Friday night in this bustling pub overlooking the riverfront.

At Federal Jack’s Restaurant & Brew Pub with live music.

An afternoon tasting event under a tent on the water with offerings from over 25 different chefs and wineries. Under the tent at Pilot House Boatyard.

A day of original Maine-made music in a grassy field with food trucks and craft beers on draft.

On the River Green at the Captain Lord Mansion with music by Spencer Albee and the Ghost of Paul Revere.

Burke Residence Chef Adam Flood of Grace.

Pressly Residence Chef Romann Dumorne of Northern Union.

Rafaelli Residence Chef Harding Lee Smith of The Rooms Restaurants.

Julian Residence Chef Matt Ginn of Evo Kitchen + Bar. Keller Residence Chef Pierre Gignac of Ocean sponsored

by Spang Builders.

ART WORKS OPENING

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

CHOICE ART SHOW

A curated-by-you art show atop the hill. Vote at maine-art.com/choice.

At Maine Art Shows.

GRAND FINALE

A waterfront evening-into-the-night party with incredible spreads of food, fun drinks, live music, and dancing.

Hosted by Chef David Turin at David’s KPT, sponsored by Jim Godbout Plumbing and Heating.

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EXUBERANT ZEN A turn-of-the-century Arts District home is updated to celebrate art and family.

by Debra Spark Photography by Myriam Babin

T H I S PAG E :

“In another city, you might play golf to get business done, but here it’s art.” ­–­Alex Fisher

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STRIKING IT BIG

Bayside Bowl now has more room to play, eat, and drink for locals and pros.

by Susan Axelrod Photography by Erin Little

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TAPPING INTO GROWTH The New England Craft Brew Summit positions local brewers as leaders of the pack.

by Susan Axelrod Photography by Nicole Wolf

D E PA RT M E N TS

21 TA K E N OT I C E News, notes, and more

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Lolita Vinoteca & Asador

Yo g a t e a c h e r D o n n a M c N e i l imbues her classes with joy, grace, and (occasionally) politics.

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Yo u r g u i d e t o g a l l e r y h o p p i n g

40 P RO F I L E

For Brenda Garrand, work that matters propels life’s plotline.

71 GAT H E R MECA Holiday Sale

72 I N S I D E R P I C KS The staff of Shipyard Brewing on their favorite places to drink beer

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B r i a n n e a n d A l e x F i s h e r, a n d A l e x ’ s d a u g h t e r, H u d s o n , enjoy the sunshine and the view of Portland from the roof deck of their Arts District home.

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mmediately after I graduated college, I moved to New York City, where I had a job and friends who would put me up until I found a place to live. Getting off a bus from Connecticut, suitcase in my hand, I channeled my idol, Mary Richards of the Mary Tyler Moore Show as I imagined the fabulous career and life I would make in what I thought was the only place to be for an ambitious girl like me.

Ambitious girl Brenda Garrand thought the same thing, but her first job right out of Bates College was here in Maine, so she stayed. She fell in love, got married, and had a child while building a highly successful advertising agency, GarrandPartners, and a connected, communitydriven life in Portland. Talking to her for a profile in this issue (Brand Builder, page 40), I was again reminded of the powerful creative energy in this city, especially given its tiny size.

Recently, the James Beard Foundation Award semifinalists were announced. (If you’re not

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familiar, they are considered the Oscars of the food world.) In the borough of Manhattan, which has 1.6 million people, there are 33 semifinalists. Portland, a city of 66,000 people, has 8. Let that sink in a minute …

Our city boasts similarly astonishing statistics when it comes to beer. With more craft breweries per capita than any other city in the U.S., it draws tourists who come just to experience the beer scene. The second-annual New England Craft Brew Summit, held at the University of Southern Maine on March 31, drew brewers from Maine and beyond to connect on issues that matter to the industry.

(Tapping into Growth, page 52).

Portland seems to be on everyone’s radar for food and drink, but if Charlie Mitchell and Justin Alfond have their way, it will also be known for … bowling. The L.L.Bean PBA League returns to Bayside Bowl for the third year later this month for a week of tournaments, one of which will be televised live

on ESPN. Pro bowlers already love Portland, say Mitchell and Alfond, and when they see Bayside Bowl’s impressive expansion—eight new lanes, cool new bar and lounge spaces, and a rooftop deck with an Airstream trailer taco bar—they are going to be seriously wowed (Striking it Big, page 46).

I can’t wait to sit on that deck and watch the sunset over Back Cove this summer. Because as much as I loved my Mary Richards-inspired fantasy life in Manhattan all those years ago, it was too expensive, too crowded, too loud. The sunsets, the ocean, the food and drink—but most of all the sense of community—make Portland the only city where this older, wiser, and still-ambitious woman wants to be.

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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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or the past five years I have had the pleasure of living and working in Portland. I’ve enjoyed every nook and cranny of the city: its culture; its history; and its food and drink.

I’ve been happy to discover locally brewed beer and cocktails made with local spirits, which are as much a part of the culinary landscape as restaurant dishes prepared with locally grown and raised ingredients.

Anyone who knows me knows that I especially love Portland’s restaurant scene, and as an account manager for Old Port, Maine and Maine Home + Design magazines, I get to take advantage of it on a regular basis. From the burgers at Nosh to the incredible experience of Tempo Dulu at The Danforth Inn—I feel lucky to be in a city full of creative, talented chefs and restaurateurs.

One of my favorite local breweries— Shipyard—is familiar not only to Mainers but beer fans nationwide. The first Shipyard beer I ever tried was Pumpkinhead, and it’s still one of my favorites, but when friends come to visit from out of town, I often take them to brewery’s friendly tasting room to see what’s new.

Before I moved to Maine, I lived in California where craft beer wasn’t on my radar. In Portland

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air, and I’m looking forward to warmer days of people watching on the patio at David’s in Monument Square, and getting out on Casco Bay. If you see me out and about, I’ll be hoisting a Shipyard Island Time IPA.

JEFFREY D’AMICO Advertising Account Manager jdamico@themainemag.com

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Grace Skerritt, office administrator, is a bornand-raised Portlander who develops a deeper appreciation for her city each year. In the summer, she sails out to the many islands of Casco Bay and enjoys beach hopping on the weekends. In the winter, she spends her time taste testing all of the fabulous restaurants the Old Port has to offer.

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ERIN LITTLE

Erin Little enjoys photographing people doing what they love, and for this issue she got to do that twice. She was inspired by Donna McNeil’s passion for yoga (Active Life, page 32) and can’t wait to try her hand at bowling at Bayside (Striking it Big, page 46). When she doesn’t have her camera in hand, she’s usually walking her dog through the West End and hanging out with her 10-year-old daughter.

SHELBI WASSICK

Shelbi Wassick is the online editor at Maine, Maine Home+Design, and Old Port magazines.

A proud Mainer born and raised in the Lakes Region, she now lives and loves in Portland, where she is constantly searching for three things: a new restaurant, a parking spot, and a great cup of coffee.

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CHAD CONLEY,

coow n e r o f t h e Pa l a c e Di n e r i n Bi d d e f o rd , is opening a new re s t a u r a n t a t 4 2 8 Fo re s t Av e n u e i n Po r t l a n d — t h e f o r m e r l o c a t i o n o f Br e a Lu Cafe. Dextrous C re a t i v e’s Tr a c i e Re e d i s d e s i g n i n g the new space, which Conley plans to open t h i s s u m m e r. T h e re s t a u r a n t w i l l s e r v e b re a k f a s t a n d l u n c h .

Conley and business p a r t n e r Gre g Mi t c h e l l t o o k ov e r t h e Pa l a c e Di n e r, t h e o l d e s t d i n e r i n Ma i n e a n d one of the oldest in t h e c o u n t r y, i n 2 0 1 4 .

Photos from top: Dan Soley, courtesy of Allagash Brewing Co.

A & C G R O C E RY , a community corner store, has opened on t h e c o r n e r o f Fo x St re e t a n d Wa s h i n g t o n Av e n u e o n Mu n j oy Hi l l . T h e shop includes a deli and o f f e r s b e e r, w i n e , a n d fresh produce, as well as a variety of other local g o o d s . O w n e r Jo e Fo u r n i e r formerly worked at Ro s e m o n t Ma r k e t a n d c o f o u n d e d t h e Fa r m St a n d i n So u t h Po r t l a n d .

T H E A S Y L U M nightclub re o p e n s l a t e r t h i s m o n t h w i t h a n e w n a m e , Au r a , a f t e r a $ 9 . 1 m i l l i o n e x p a n s i o n . Au r a w i l l include a new concert hall that holds 1,000 people, double the space of Asylum, which opened in 1997. WRBC Architects/ Engineers added a fifth floor to the building, located at 121 C e n t e r St . T h e n e w, f i v e - r o o m venue will also be available t o re n t f o r e v e n t s , s u c h a s w e d d i n g s a n d c o n f e re n c e s .

O n Ju n e 2 4 , A L L A G A S H B R E W I N G C O M PA N Y ’s a n n u a l A l l a g a s h St re e t Fe s t i v a l w i l l t a k e p l a c e f r o m 1 p. m . t o 6 p. m . T h e f e s t i v a l f e a t u re s e l e v e n b re w e r i e s , a l o n g w i t h f o o d v e n d o r s , l o c a l a r t i s a n s , l i v e m u s i c , a n d a p i n e w o o d d e r b y. O n e dollar from every beer sold will be donated to the Allagash W i l d e r n e s s Wa t e r w a y Fo u n d a t i o n , a n o n p r o f i t t h a t p r o t e c t s t h e r i v e r a n d p r o m o t e s t h e re g i o n’s h i s t o r y a n d c u l t u re .

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n a cold February morning, I stand in front of Lolita’s “box of fire” with owners Stella and Guy Hernandez.

The bricks of the wood-fired open grill are still warm from the night before as chef de cuisine Kimmo Meronen piles in logs, lights another fire, and begins to fan the flames. We warm up quickly, and all agree that this spot at the end of the zinc bar is a pretty good place for a chat. As we talk, vendors come and go with wine and produce, Guy is on the phone trying to find a repairman for the Garland stove, and Meronen is prepping for dinner. “By the time customers show up late afternoon, we’ve already put in eight hours,” says Stella. “But at the end of the night, we want guests to walk away not thinking about how we pulled it off. We want it to look easy to them, and that’s something we

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all agreed on from the start.”

The Hernandezes are veteran Portland restaurateurs who opened Lolita with partner Neil Reiter in the spring of 2014, just a few doors down from the couple’s previous restaurant, Bar Lola, a Munjoy Hill fixture for seven years. “Cooking is the easy part,” says Guy. “We want everyone to have the best experience, no matter how big or small their order. It’s not about us. It’s about the guests.” Stella, who runs the front of the house, concurs. “We hire people with an innate sense of hospitality,” she says. “I can teach you how to carry a plate, but I can’t teach you how to treat a guest. That’s an intuitive thing.” Stella possesses the hospitality gene herself, and uses it in all aspects of running Lolita. “You can come APRIL // 2017

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“WE’LL MEET YOU WHERE YOU ARE, WITH WHATEVER KIND OF EXPERIENCE YOU WANT TO HAVE.” –GUY HERNANDEZ

to Lolita and interact with us. Talk to Kimmo and Guy in the open kitchen, or ignore us and just pay attention to those at your table,” she says. “We’ll meet you where you are, with whatever kind of experience you want to have,” adds Guy. Stella uses this practice especially when it comes to wine. “I’m not here to tell you how much I know about wine,” she says. “I love wine and I can answer your questions, but it’s more about having a conversation and finding out what the guest likes.” The walls of Lolita are 26 OLD PORT

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lined with wine bottles, as you would see in a wine shop. It’s okay to get out of your seat and look around. The wines are mostly from small producers, chosen to complement the Mediterranean-inspired dishes. “Wine and food are equally important here,” says Stella.

“They’re both part of our name. Vinoteca translates to ‘wine collection’ and asador is ‘wood-fired cooking.’” The bar and dining space are afforded equal billing, with the room-length bar running parallel to a row of rustic wooden tables along the wall. “You can have the same experience in either place,” Stella says.

This page, clockwise from top left: Stella and Guy Hernandez enjoy an evening at their restaurant with their son, Antonio. Vanilla bean flan with caramel sauce.

Atop Munjoy Hill, convivial Lolita beckons. Opposite page: The menu includes small plates and snacks to savor with wine.

A few nights later, I have the opportunity to dine at Lolita. In the far corner, a young couple is deep in quiet conversation, while at the almost-full bar, friends are sharing plates of charcuterie, wine, and beer. Our server, Jenn Rothbart, enthusiastically explains the menu, which categorizes dishes by size. I’m glad to see so many plates suitable for sharing because everything sounds tempting and I want to taste it all. But first, wine. My companion is happy to see an albariño on the list of wines by the glass. It’s a Spanish white wine, bright and zesty, that goes particularly well with seafood and spicy dishes. I choose a French pinot noir, warm and full of rich berry flavor, a fine complement to foods and sauces that are higher in acidity. It holds up well to a thick slice of toast topped with garlicky rapini, anchovy, and piquant Calabrian peppers. We order more than necessary because it’s all so enticing, and each plate is as delicious as we’d hoped. Grilled cauliflower is cooked perfectly with a little char, and it’s wonderful dipped in smoky harissa labneh. Ricotta gnocchi is velvety

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and light, with earthy pan-roasted mushrooms and a touch of cream. A bowl of wood-roasted clams is simply executed, but highly flavorful. It’s difficult to pinpoint a favorite, but if forced to choose, it’s the torchio bathed in ‘nduja, a peppery, spreadable salami. The unassuming bowl of twisted pasta is cooked properly al dente and studded with peas. One delicious bite leads to another and before we know it, the bowl is sadly empty. “This is a dish that would incite riots if it was to be taken off the menu,” Stella tells me.

While we dine, Stella posts herself at the end of the bar, close to the kitchen, where her husband and Meronen move between the now-repaired Garland stove and the “box of fire,” with saute pans and roasting trays. From here, she keeps an eye on everything, anticipating needs and lending a hand as necessary. She jokes with the staff, and they clearly enjoy each other’s company. “This is who are,” she says. “It’s all out in the open. There are no tricks.”

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HEART-OPENING POSE YOGA TEACHER DONNA MCNEIL IMBUES HER CLASSES WITH J O Y, G R A C E , A N D ( O C C A S I O N A L LY ) P O L I T I C S .

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Moving among members of her class, McNeil stops to gently correct any three-legged dog poses that are out of alignment. In the front room at Niraj, sun streams in through large windows facing the street.

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stand on one leg with the other extended in front of me. My standing knee is bent, and my balance is wobbly—I rock a little from side to side on my left foot, my bare toes gripping the surface of my yoga mat. From the front of the room, a voice softly intones, “Lift your right hand and reach over toward your neighbor. Rest your hand on their shoulder.” I feel a hand gently touch my left shoulder as I look over to the woman next to me. Her hair is in a ponytail and her face is concentrating, but our eyes meet for a moment, and I smile before putting my palm on the bare skin of her back.

“We’re doing this pose to highlight something important,” says yoga instructor Donna McNeil as the room transforms into lines of people standing, hands to shoulders, a chain of tenuous, yet tender, support. “Isn’t it easier to balance when you connect with others?”

“I BRING THINGS FROM THE PRACTICE OFF THE MAT AND INTO MY LIFE.” –DONNA MCNEIL

We’re nearing the end of McNeil’s Friday evening yoga class at Niraj Yoga, a modern studio located in the upper Arts District on Congress Street. The class, which is just an hour long, is called Happy Hour Yoga (a nod to both the 5 p.m. timeslot and the $5 price tag). The session is emblematic of the Niraj Yoga philosophy. Each session is defined by a theme, which changes weekly according to

the instructor’s mood. This week, our theme is “bridges,” and as we bend and fold into a series of backbends and heart-opening poses, background music offers soft promises of comfort and kindness.

“I listened to a cover of the old Simon and Garfunkel song, ‘Bridge Over Troubled Water,’” McNeil explained to me. “It felt so symbolic of this moment, and it reminded me of the importance of building pathways to each other, helping other people as they go through life.”

Inspiration, McNeil says, “comes differently each week.” Sometimes she is inspired by music; other times she feels compelled to design her class in response to current events. For instance, a late-January class was inspired by the Women’s March on Washington, and featured grounding poses as a tribute to Mother Earth and the “great feminine tradition.” Another featured a soundtrack of Native American music and closed with a communal water-drinking APRIL // 2017

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ACTIVE LIFE McNeil demonstrates hanumanasana, or monkey pose.

ritual—McNeil’s homage to the protesters at Standing Rock.

These political statements are McNeil’s, but the themed yoga class is a hallmark of Niraj, which was founded in 2015 by teachers Kathleen Savoy and Melissa Lopez Landers. “We have a style called Illumina Yoga, where we teach everyone to honor their own voice,” explains Savoy. “We teach everyone that yoga is more important than just the physical poses. It starts from a theme or concept that comes directly from the present moment of your life. You take that theme, and you embody it, putting it into the physical realm of the yoga postures.”

Instead of teaching specific sequences to be repeated week in, week out, the Illumina instructors provide their teachers with the tools to create their own ever-changing flow. Like a farm-to-table menu that shifts with the seasons, these yoga classes reflect the lives of Niraj practitioners. “Donna came to our process with her own background in the arts and creation,” Savoy says. “She is a strong, powerful, embodied woman who brings her own life experience to the mat and to Niraj.”

According to McNeil, she did not discover yoga until “late in life.” She began practicing the ancient art in 1997, following a string of painful events in her personal and professional life. At the time, she remembers thinking, “If 34 OLD PORT

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“YOGA ENTERED INTO THE PHYSICAL, SPIRITUAL, AND INTELLECTUAL SIDES OF MY LIFE.” –DONNA MCNEIL

I made my body strong, it could cradle my psyche and keep me from falling apart.” The middle-aged arts professional began attending classes daily, sometimes even twice a day. “I just fell in love with it,” she says. “It entered into the physical, spiritual, and intellectual sides of my life. It hit all the high points that I needed.”

She’s been a steady practitioner ever since.

McNeil, now in her sixth decade of life, is retired from a long career that included nine years at the Maine Arts Commission, three of those years spent as the executive director. She has also served as a curator for the Bob Crewe Gallery at Maine College of Art (MECA) and authored multiple books.

(Among her achievements, she considers an exhibit of Thomas Moser’s fine furniture at

MECA a particular triumph, as well as the accompanying book, Moser: Legacy in Wood, which she co-authored with Moser). In 2014, McNeil became a certified yoga instructor under the Illumina banner. The training process was transformational, she says. “I felt as though I had gone into a nunnery; it was a spiritual gathering,” she recalls. “It just happened to be all women in the session I attended. We could all surrender to our psychic and spiritual investigations.”

McNeil now teaches twice a week, and judging from the turnout tonight, her classes are very popular. I suspect this has something to do with McNeil herself—she has an air of regal composure, a serenity that arcs through her movement and suffuses her words. During class, she walks barefoot and lightly between rows of bending yogis, issuing quiet words of advice. While her ideals and ideas are present in the room, broadcast subtly through the music choice and her occasional interjections, McNeil lets her students move according to their own physical and emotional needs.

This is the crux of McNeil’s yoga practice: the yoking of mind, body, spirit, and intellect. It is a gestalt exercise, one that touches every aspect of her life. “I bring things from the practice off the mat and into my life,” she explains. “Yoga comes with me out into the world. You carry it with you.”

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P RO F I L E

THE PEOPLE WHO MAKE PORTLAND

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Opposite page: Brenda Garrand is the CEO of Garrand Partners, a nearly 30-year-old advertising and marketing communications firm in Portland.

This page, from left: Garrand’s passport includes stamps from her frequent international trips, both for pleasure and for her vacation-home rental business, Villa Europe. A lounge area at Garrand’s office in Portland.

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renda Garrand sweeps into Portland’s Cumberland Club already in storytelling mode. Greeting me with a hug, and staff members like old friends, she regales us with a tale of getting her little electric car stuck on top of a snow bank—“impaled” is the word she uses—and in characteristic style turns a frustrating mishap into a madcap adventure that has everyone laughing. The CEO of Garrand Partners, a Portland-based advertising and marketing communications firm, Garrand has spent her career telling the stories of an impressive roster of clients that includes Dunkin’ Donuts, Hood, and Maine Medical Center. She built the nearly 30-year-old agency with a blend of brains, wit, and New England pluck, and along the way not only had to promote herself and her team, but also the idea that big-league campaigns could come out of a small firm in Maine.

“ I R E A L LY L I K E THE BUSINESS OF BUSINESS.” –BRENDA GARRAND

After working as an intern “for two cents and a fish hook” at WCBB Channel 10 in Lewiston, part of the PBS network, she landed a job as the station’s director of public information right out of college in 1979. “I had a chance to start a career doing the work I wanted to do without having to pack a suitcase,” she says.

A Vermont native who grew up in New Hampshire, Garrand came to Maine to attend Bates College and never left. “One of my colleagues asked me, ‘You’re the most New York person I know—why have you lived and made your career in Maine?’” Garrand says, as we talk over tea by the fire in the club’s cozy Red Room. “Urban legend has it—and I’m not sure this is absolutely true—that I was one of the few people in my graduating class, especially one with an art history degree, that had a job.”

In 1982, Garrand’s ties to Maine grew even stronger when she met the man she would marry. David Pierson was also a Bates graduate, but “so much older,” she jokes. After getting his master’s degree at the New School for Social Research in New York City, Pierson returned to Maine and became a contractor, eventually building the Thomas Moser Cabinetmakers factory in Auburn, among other large projects.

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PROFILE This page, from left: The entrance to Milestone Foundation on India Street, one of the few places addicts can detox and get access to treatment in Portland. Dowd’s stethoscope.

Oppposite page: A selection of books in the Milestone patient lounge includes “the big book” of Alcoholics Anonymous.

“ T H E R E ’ S A C E R TA I N M U S E T H AT E X I S T S I N C O M M U N I T I E S , S O M E T H I N G T H AT HAPPENS WHEN PEOPLE WHO ARE L I K E - M I N D E D , S I M I L A R LY I N F L U E N C E D , AND INSPIRED ARE IN PROXIMITY TO EACH OTHER.” –BRENDA GARRAND of the day, it was clear that if I wanted to stay married to this man I adore, that he wasn’t going anywhere,” says Garrand. In 1987, after their only child, Charles, was born, a variety of circumstances prompted Garrand to start her own business. “My mother had done that, my grandfather had done that, it was part of the family tradition,” she says.

Marian Garrand was a powerful influence on her only child’s business acumen and creativity.

“When I was six or seven, my mother said, ‘Enough of this domesticity business,’” Brenda recalls. “She got her driver’s license and a real estate license and within about 18 months was running her own real estate company.”

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had been part of the Cornish Artists’ Colony.

The enclave of mostly summer homes was established by the sculptor Augustus SaintGaudens in the late 1800s and attracted many of the creative luminaries of the day, including painter and etcher Stephen Parrish, father of the illustrator Maxfield Parrish. “My mother, being the ambitious chick that she was, thought it would be great for us to leave the beautiful, ranch-style home she and my dad had built after the war and purchase one of these old, fabulous cottages,” Garrand says. The house, called Northcote, had been the Parrish home.

“I grew up surrounded by the crumbling remains of an extraordinary community,” says Garrand, admitting that while the property was a “fabulous, magical place,” it was also remote,

and lonely for an only child. “I learned how to do stuff and how to be busy and how to take solace and comfort in my own company,” she says. The experience of growing up in that environment was formative for her. “It made me appreciate the way a cultural surrounding impacts the quality of one’s life,” she says. “Here in Portland, it’s not dissimilar. There’s a certain muse that exists in communities, something that happens when people who are like-minded, similarly influenced, and inspired are in proximity to each other.”

What Garrand calls “the critical buzz that comes from connectivity,” coupled with her independent spirit, have driven her business and personal success. In addition to leading a team of 25 at Garrand Partners, she is in her third year as Maine’s honorary consul of Canada—a post that involves strengthening business ties between the state and its northern neighbor— and she owns a vacation home-rental business, Villa Europe. Throughout her career, she has been involved in nonprofit organizations.

Currently she serves on the boards of Maine and Co., Maine Public, and the Mitchell Institute; is a member of the Leadership Council of the Foundation for Maine’s Community Colleges; and is vice-president of the Cumberland Club.

THIS IS SO PORTLAND.

Opposite page: Garrand and her husband, attorney David Pierson, at home in Portland’s Stroudwater neighborhood. This page, from top: Garrand is an avid knitter who both designs and creates knitwear. A writer’s souvenirs: pen, ink, and paper from Garrand’s Italian home in Florence.

Somehow, she also finds time for leisure: sailing with her husband and son, playing the piano, and knitting—including sweaters for her beloved King Charles Cavalier Spaniel, Isobel. Garrand usually spends part of the winter in Florence, Italy—headquarters for Villa Europe— but says matter-of-factly that she was too busy to make the trip this year. “The older I get, it’s not so much about writing a great headline or figuring out the best strategic plan—I like all that, but I really like the business of business,” she says. Going to a Sea Dogs home game and seeing her clients’ names on the billboards surrounding Hadlock Field is especially gratifying, she says. “And the real reason it’s so much fun is that you think about the people whose lives have been entwined with yours, the kids who’ve gone to college, and the moms and dads who’ve raised babies, and now grandchildren, and the long tradition of doing what you do.” That’s a lot of stories, and, for Garrand, there are many more to be told.

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This page: The sign above the new entrance to Bayside Bowl, which now faces Kennebec Street. The rooftop bar features a fire pit and an Airstream trailer that serves tacos.

Opposite page: Bayside Bowl co-owner Justin Alfond hopes for a strike.

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warm evenings this summer, a roof deck in Bayside just might rival the Portland waterfront as a popular place to chill. From atop the expanded Bayside Bowl, you can nosh on tacos ordered from a circa 1962 Airstream trailer and sip a margarita as you take in a panoramic view of the sunset over Back Cove, before settling in around the fire pit. The Airstream was hauled up to the deck by crane.

“We loved the idea of using a vintage trailer as a food truck—and we think it might be the only one on a roof in Maine,” says Bayside Bowl operator Charlie Mitchell, who owns the business with former Maine State Senator Justin Alfond.

The rooftop bar and lounge is just one aspect of the bigger and bolder Bayside Bowl. Eight new lanes (built with repurposed equipment, except for the ball returns) anchor a 40,000-squarefoot addition, dubbed “West Bayside” by the owners. A redesigned central entrance now faces Kennebec Street and leads to a pro shop, an arcade with old-school games like Skee-Ball and pinball, a long bar, and lounge areas with couches and wood-paneled walls. For private

gatherings of up to 25, the Garage, a meeting room accessed by a garage door, boasts stateof-the-art AV equipment and a large picture window with a view of the new lanes, and the sprawling mezzanine overlooking the whole space can accommodate up to 150 guests.

There will be TVs, but just a few. “Our business model is built on people having a good time together, not being overwhelmed by screens,” says Alfond.

Mitchell and Alfond opened Bayside Bowl six years ago, inspired by Mid City Lanes Rock ‘n’ Bowl—an iconic bowling and music venue in New Orleans. Mitchell had started a bowling league, which needed a home, and the two

“We’re pretty excited about this being added to Portland’s story.”

–JUSTIN ALFOND

men scouted the city trying to find the right location. “The Bayside community wanted us here,” says Alfond. From the beginning, good food, drink, and music were important parts of the mix, but the leagues quickly multiplied, and walk-ins looking for an evening’s entertainment were often disappointed to find that they could order Bayside’s famous tot poutine (homemade “tater tots” with cheese curds and vegan mushroom gravy) and a local beer, but couldn’t bowl. “A lot of times people came down here and it was a wait for a lane,” says Mitchell. “An hour wait is great—you can have dinner and a drink—but if it gets much longer than that, or if you have kids, it can be hard.”

League play will now be restricted to the original 12 lanes, in “East Bayside,” where the old dining area is being revamped into a music venue. “We’re going to have a show every weekend night in May to reintroduce it,” says Mitchell. Despite the increased focus on entertainment, however, leagues are still at the core of Bayside Bowl. “There are plenty of boutique bowling alleys going up around the country doing a good job with their food and cocktails,” says Mitchell. “But what we have

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that is unique, is all of those things in a facility that is built around leagues and hosting tournaments.”

Pro bowling has a dedicated fan base in Portland.

From April 9 through April 16, the Professional Bowlers Association (PBA) national tour returns to Bayside Bowl for the third year with the L.L.Bean PBA League and Elias Cup, joined this year by the MaineQuarterly.com Mark Roth/Marshall Holman Doubles Championship, a tournament that has been around since the 1970s, says Mitchell. In past years, wildly enthusiastic, sold-out crowds have endeared the venue and the city to pro bowlers from around the world. “I travel to a lot of the PBA events and meet with the players—this is really the place they talk about,” says Mitchell. “They have established incredibly close friendships with a lot of players and fans in Portland. Just this week, Tommy Jones was here bowling on the weekend. He’s one of the best players in the world.” Bayside Bowl has its own PBA team, the Portland Lumberjacks, which will play in the Elias Cup. One new player, drafted in Las Vegas earlier this year, is Kyle Troup, known for his self-taught, two-handed bowling style, “crazy clothes and giant hair,” says Mitchell. “I think he’ll really fit in with our crowd.”

ESPN, which tapes Elias Cup play, will broadcast the Roth/Holman finals live on Sunday, April 16—a first for Bayside Bowl and a tribute to the hometown crowd. “Outsiders come and ask, ‘How did you create this level of excitement and knowledge with the fans?’” says Alfond. “It’s simple: they’re here all the time and understand the sport.

They not only appreciate what the pro bowlers do, they want to emulate them.”

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Included in the Elias Cup festivities are a live music show on Saturday night, and vodka and beer tastings with sponsor Shipyard Brewing Company, as well as a fly-fishing demonstration off the roof deck with PBA sideline reporter Kimberly Pressler, who will be wearing L.L.Bean gear during the whole tournament, according to Alfond. “This year’s PBA event will showcase some of Maine’s best brands and the iconic things that people know about Maine,” he says. “But our goal is to keep elevating it; pro bowlers love our famous lobsters and blueberries—which is great—and we want to show them there’s more to enjoy.”

Mitchell has his sights set on bringing more national and international tournaments to Bayside Bowl, including the women’s bowling tour. “It’s not a particularly modest claim, but I think it’s true: We have the world’s best tournament bowling venue,” he says. “People say, ‘You guys are creating not only a community for bowlers, but you’re creating an even better community for Bayside, and by extension, a better community for Portland,’” says Alfond. “Every sunset that Mother Nature will give us is a great opportunity to attract tourists and locals. We’re pretty excited about this being added to Portland’s story.”

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This page: A sampler of Allagash beers is poured for a customer in the brewery’s tasting room on Industrial Way in Portland. Opposite page: Beer fans enjoying a tasting at Austin Street Brewery, which is across Industrial Way from Allagash.

Tapping Into Growth

The New England Craft Brew Summit positions local brewers as leaders of the pack.

by Susan Axelrod Photography by Nicole Wolf

This page: Allagash Tripel sits in a freshly emptied bourbon barrel, aging for eight weeks to turn into Curieux. Opposite page, from left: A flask of microbiological media in the Allagash lab. Maine Brewers’ Guild Executive Director Sean Sullivan poses in front of brewing equipment at Allagash.

The Guild represents 65 breweries statewide.

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Portland was a pioneering beer city from the very beginning. When David and the late Karen Geary introduced Geary’s Pale Ale at D. L. Geary Brewing Co. on Industrial Way in 1986, it was not just the first craft beer brewed in Portland, or even in Maine, but anywhere east of the Mississippi since Prohibition was repealed.

By 1998, the first wave of craft breweries (defined by the Brewers Association as an independently owned operation producing less than six million barrels annually) in the city had grown to include two of Maine’s bestknown beer brands: Shipyard and Allagash.

Maine Beer Company, which opened in 2009 on Industrial Way and has since moved to Freeport, was on the leading edge of a new wave of breweries that continues to roll into Portland. Today, the city proper is home to 15 craft beer producers, with at least two more on the horizon for 2017, a growth rate that has earned Portland the distinction of having the most breweries per capita of all cities in the country. Statewide, the numbers are just as impressive. In early 2013, Maine had 35 breweries; there are 97 today, according to the Maine Brewers’ Guild.

“Growth” was the theme of the second-annual New England Craft Brew Summit, held at the University of Southern Maine on March

31, 2017. Conceived by Broadreach Public Relations, who brought the idea to the Maine Brewers’ Guild, the industry conference and trade show was created as a way for brewers to connect outside of open-to-the-public beer festivals, and to learn from each other and from supporting industries. “We had an accounting firm, a law firm, an IT company, and others, who all wanted to break into or do more work in the craft brew segment, but the beer festivals that existed weren’t really an appropriate place to put our clients in front of the brewers,” says Broadreach owner Linda Varrell. The title of the conference was chosen so that “Maine brewers could put their stake in the ground” as leaders in the industry, she says. “There was a level of validation that this isn’t just a hobby. Folks in professional services and banking could see that we need to pay attention to this sector and to help it thrive.”

While the conference provides a means for professional service providers and other vendors to connect with brewers, its focus is less marketing than education, Varrell explains.

One of this year’s panels, led by Matthew

Pore from the Portland accounting firm Baker Newman Noyes, addressed research and development tax credits, available to breweries that are trying to increase efficiency or improve quality. “If a brewery employee is working on one of those two areas, labor is a significant component of the credit,” says Pore, who represents four Portland breweries, including Allagash. “The beer industry is collaborative, and whether or not someone wants to use Baker Newman Noyes for services, they should have the information.”

“Our brewery continues to grow at a breakneck pace, which along with everything else requires careful attention,” says Joel Mahaffey, a partner in Portland’s Foundation Brewing Company, which opened in 2013.

Last year, when the conference theme was “quality,” Mahaffey participated on a panel that focused on yeast management. “We ended up talking about all different aspects of fermentation—it was a really organic conversation,” he says. “As we grow and are producing more beer we need to make sure that we’re growing our quality program at the

same rate that we grow our production.”

“Growth” means different things to different breweries, says Sean Sullivan, executive director of the Maine Brewers’ Guild, which has 65 member breweries. “For some, growing means straight scale: making more beer, selling more beer, expanding your reach. For others, growth is about staying small and more deeply engaging with local communities—whether it’s hosting a yoga class, offering an open mic night, or opening up their space for nonprofits to meet.”

Sullivan gets animated talking about the possibilities for beer as an economic driver in the state—engaging farmers to grow barley and hops, for example, and retraining Mainers whose manufacturing jobs have disappeared to work in beer-related industries. For now, however, brewing’s biggest economic impact has been tourism. “I think beer is creating a new narrative for Maine to share with the Boston, New York, and Chicago audiences about why you should visit,” he says. This is especially true for Portland, where the

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“I THINK BEER IS CREATING A NEW NARRATIVE FOR MAINE TO SHARE WITH THE BOSTON, NEW YORK, AND CHICAGO AUDIENCES ABOUT WHY YOU SHOULD VISIT.” –Sean Sullivan, Maine Brewers’ Guild

The tasting room at Allagash Brewing Company is one of the few to offer free beer tastings. Since it opened in 1995, Allagash has offered tours and tastings to educate consumers about its Belgian-style beers.

This page: A growler of Austin Street Brewery’s signature Patina Pale Ale. Opposite page, from left: Savoring the last sip at Austin Street’s tasting room. Co-owner/ operator Will Fisher and co-owner/head brewer Jake Austin in the brewery at Austin Street.

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breweries complement the celebrated food scene, even though most do not share the same neighborhoods. One that does is Shipyard, which opened in 1994 in an abandoned factory on Newbury Street, now a Portland icon with a popular tasting room. “That area was in rough shape, and the city worked with us to revitalize it,” says Shipyard co-founder and president Fred Forsley. “It’s been an economic engine and expanded the Old Port.”

Founded in 1992 at Federal Jack’s Brewpub in Kennebunk, Shipyard now brews just over 100,000 barrels of beer annually, more than 200 times what Forsley and brewmaster Alan Pugsley produced that first year. As the company nears its twenty-fifth anniversary in June, it is adapting some of its recipes to match changing consumer tastes, including its flagship, Shipyard Export. “It’s a subtle change, but it’s a good one,” says Forsley.

Five miles from downtown in Portland’s Riverton neighborhood, Industrial Way has served as an “incubator” for several Portland breweries and now is a major destination for beer fans. “If you sat down with tourism people and said, ‘Let’s build a bunch of breweries and try to get tourists to drive miles

“I WANT EVERYONE TO GROW, BECAUSE IF ALL OF US IN MAINE ARE MAKING GREAT BEER, WE’RE ALL GOING TO BE BETTER OFF.” –Will Fisher, Austin Street Brewery

out of town to go visit an industrial park,’ they would say, ‘OK, what other ideas do you have?’” says Sullivan. When Allagash Brewing Company opened on Industrial Way nearly 22 years ago, visitors were rare. “It used to be that one or two days a week the door would open and someone would walk in,” says Jason Perkins, Allagash’s brewmaster for 18 years.

Now the brewery’s tasting room, which offers free sample pours of four beers, is one of the industrial park’s biggest draws. “Even in those years when nobody was coming, tours were a big focus for us,” says Perkins. “The public just wasn’t used to our Belgian-style beer; it required face-to-face education.”

Visitors to Portland breweries today are much more knowledgeable, especially when it comes to the super popular, hop-forward styles of beer, says Will Fisher, who owns Austin Street Brewery on Industrial Way with Jake Austin. The “wild beers” Austin Street brews with different strains of yeast often require an introduction, but “people still buy them because I believe they trust us,” he says. Using their own savings, Fisher and Austin opened their brewery in 2014, brewing one barrel at a time by themselves. In 2016, they financed APRIL // 2017

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“OUR BREWERY CONTINUES TO GROW AT A BREAKNECK PACE, WHICH ALONG WITH EVERYTHING ELSE REQUIRES CAREFUL ATTENTION.” –Joel Mahaffey, Foundation Brewing company

new equipment, increased production to 10 barrels batches, and hired two full-time and two part-time employees. Being across the street from Allagash has given him valuable opportunities to connect with Perkins and owner Rob Tod, says Fisher. “They are always willing to share anything they know.”

In addition to establishing Industrial Way as a beer destination, breweries have helped raise the status of once-blighted East Bayside, a development Sullivan compares to the organic growth around urban artist communities. Rising Tide and Bunker (which recently moved to Libbytown) were the first to convert the neighborhood’s grungy warehouses into hip breweries. Now jokingly called Y’East Bayside, the area is also home to Lone Pine and One Eye Open breweries, Urban Farm Fermentory, makers of cider, kombucha, and an ancient style of beer called gruit, coffee roasters, maker spaces, and other creative industries.

“A brewery opens up, then people realize, ‘Well geez, I could open a coffee shop there because my whole market is walking by,’ or ‘Saturdays and Sundays there’s 100 people standing out front—they don’t have anything to eat, so I’ll bring my food truck over there,’” Sullivan says.

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The summit introduced and reinforced ways for brewers and other businesses to collaborate. “A lot of us are the same age and are growing at the same rate,” says Fisher. “I want everyone to grow, because if all of us in Maine are making great beer, we’re all going to be better off.”

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This page: Alex and Brianne Fisher relax with Alex’s daughter Hudson and their dogs on the rooftop deck of their home, which has panoramic views of Portland, including Casco Bay. Opposite page: An early twentieth-century former sea captain’s home, the Fishers’ house is set back from a busy street. Little has changed on the exterior, though the brick was recently repointed and painted white.

by Debra Spark Photography by Myriam Babin Before Alex Fisher met his wife, Brianne, he was an aficionado of pop art. He collected old advertisements, computer games, and pinball machines. “There were lots of lights and color,” Alex says of his home decor. Brianne’s style was more subdued. By the time the two combined households, buying a turn-of-thecentury sea captain’s house in Portland’s Arts District in 2012, Alex had sold the collection.

Now their aesthetics mesh in an interior that reflects Brianne’s Zen sensibilities and Alex’s exuberance. “I throw out a thousand ideas, but I am smart enough not to do anything without approval,” says Alex.

Brianne is a broker at the Swan Agency Sotheby’s International Realty, and the couple met when she showed him an apartment. Alex is a Portland-centric entrepreneur, who founded or cofounded the Portland Lobster Company, El Rayo Taqueria, and Planet Dog, among other businesses. A Maine native, Brianne was born in Portland and has a degree in equine science from Findlay College in Ohio (now the University of Findlay). “I knew if she could whisper to horses and dogs, as she does, she could certainly whisper to me,” her husband says. Although he has lived in Maine for 20 years, Alex was a Brooklyn kid who spent childhood summers in the Catskills and went to graduate school at Bard College in Annandaleon-Hudson.

The couple wanted their home to look true to its age, even as they modernized. They preserved and restored the original architectural detailing—including the staircase, doors, sills, and hardware—but reconceived the ground

“Portland is becoming a modern American city without violating what made it special historically.”

–ALEX FISHER

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floor, removing a centrally located chimney and incorporating what had once been a screened-in porch into the living space. Now, two granite slabs form steps leading to a front door that opens onto a single, long space with rooms defined by function, not walls. Living room leads to dining room to kitchen to breakfast nook, and all of the areas are compact, as the home is just 1,800 square feet. Upstairs, three modest bedrooms have been collapsed into two and linked by a walk-in closet.

During the home inspection, Brianne climbed out a bedroom window onto the flat roof of what was then the enclosed back porch. The inspector had propped a ladder from this roof to the house’s flat roof, one story above. Brianne asked if she could come up. It was a cold, rainy day, and the inspector pointed out that she was wearing high heels. “I don’t care,” she said and began to climb, finding at the top a 360-degree view of the peninsula and Casco Bay. Brianne and Alex converted this roof to a deck with cushioned porch furniture, a place where they go to relax, or to determine if the ocean looks good for sailing.

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moved in together, Alex took Brianne to the roof, now accessible by a steel spiral staircase fashioned by Maine metalsmith Al Kronk, and asked her to marry him. A few minutes later, Brianne started to receive texts from friends, encouraging her to look at the Time and Temperature Building. The fourteen-story Congress Street office building was no longer flashing the time and temperature on its digital display, but “BRI MRRY.” The couple was married at the Portland Museum of Art (PMA), which is a big part of their lives. Their walls feature modernist works

by Alexander Calder, Robert Motherwell, Helen Frankenthaler, and Ellsworth Kelly and contemporary pieces by Mainers Mark Wethli and Cassie Jones, as well as Japanese pop-artist Takashi Murakami and James Castle—known for his use of found and homemade materials.

The Fishers’ backyard has a small courtyard with two John Bisbee sculptures, including one of Bisbee’s signature, round exploding-nail pieces.

Although the art is modern and contemporary, and the house was likely built in 1903 or earlier, the interior design is an eclectic mix of styles

Opposite page, clockwise from top: The upstairs bathroom features a framed burgee from the New York Yacht Club, and patterned wallpaper of a whale chasing a squid chasing a whale. Because Alex’s daughter Hudson is fond of horses, her bedroom was designed to look like a farm. The courtyard was originally a swampy area of the backyard. The top of a John Bisbee exploding nail sculpture can be seen to the left of the urn and the lamp. The orange fireplace is lightweight, so it can be moved around the yard. This page: The light fixture and wood-and-wicker bedframe in the master bedroom are suggestive of the era in which the house was built. The initial pillows are from Jonathan Adler. The door leads to the second-floor deck, which has a spiral steel staircase that leads to the rooftop deck.

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and periods with an emphasis on unusual items.

An Eames chair sits by an old French farm table surrounded by distressed-wood, oval-backed side chairs with seats covered in burnished-gold fabric. Within arm’s reach, there is a Norwegian Rais woodstove—mounted on a lazy Susan, so it can face any part of the room—and a TV on a wheeled wooden easel. The screen can be moved from space to space and lowered and raised at will. The kitchen has white walls, white cabinets, and a white farmer’s sink. “We like to do things in white, because somehow color finds its way into our world once we move in,” says Alex. An example: the kitchen’s orange rotary wall phone. Hudson, Alex’s 10-year old daughter, spent 30 minutes playing with it when she first saw it, finally announcing, “This is my favorite cell phone.” Another of her favorite items is the living room’s baby grand player piano, which can record the efforts of talented friends for later playback.

Even the bathrooms include quirky and fun touches. The powder room has a steamship shaving mirror, which consists of a small, long-legged table with a long-necked mirror affixed to the top. In the upstairs bathroom, the green and white wallpaper, patterned with a whale chasing a squid chasing a whale, was 66 OLD PORT

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“We like to do things in white, because somehow color finds its way into our world once we move in.”

–BRIANNE FISHER

supplied by Brooklyn friends who own Flavor Paper, a company whose various, vibrant, and sometimes trippy wall patterns have a scratchand-sniff option.

Part of what both Alex and Brianne prize about their house is its location near the PMA. At present, Alex is on the Board of Trustees, and both Alex and Brianne are members of the Contemporaries, a group of PMA supporters who convene regularly for social and community events. “It’s the best networking opportunity in the city,” says Alex. “You get together with hundreds of like-minded people and discuss art, but other things as well. A lot gets done there. In another city, with a different culture, you might play golf to get business done, but here it’s art.”

This page, from left: An orange rotary wall phone adds whimsy in the kitchen. The living room furniture is from Nicola’s Home. Opposite page: The family prepares dinner at the kitchen’s butcher-block island.

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Where do you like to drink your favorite Shipyard beer?

I like to grab a Longfellow in the wintertime and a Summer in the warmer months at the Great Lost Bear.

–Jacob Malloy, laboratory technician

I enjoy drinking Prelude at Bull Feeney’s during a blizzard or ice storm, and Island Time IPA at Tomaso’s Canteen any other time.

–Henry Poulin, canning operator

I drink whatever’s seasonal at Three Dollar Dewey’s; but I also like Top of the East. You might pay a little more for an evening there, but it’s worth it for the view.

–Ben Meisner, retail store and tasting room

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I go for a Red IPA at the Tilted Kilt in South Portland. The food’s good, and in the fall it’s a great place to watch football.

–Greg Villone, shipping and receiving

My favorite spot is Hadlock Field.

I go to a few Sea Dogs games a year—usually when I’m on vacation—and I always get the tried-and-true standard, Export.

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Portland Lobster Company is the best place in the summertime to sit on the deck and listen to music. What do I drink?

Summer, of course!

–Jill Lalumiere, accountant

My go-to bar overall is The Thirsty Pig. We also go to Pat’s Pizza downtown for all the Pats’ games—they have great deals. I usually go for Export, Prelude, or Red IPA. –Leo Ledman, tasting room

I like being outside— anywhere there’s a patio— but I love the Porthole because it’s on the water. I always order an Island Time IPA or an Export.

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