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“A little after 4 a.m on February 12” last winter, Berrigan and the other members of Plowshares 6 boarded the new Aegis cruiser The Sullivans at Bath Iron Works in Bath last winter in order to demonstrate against the deadly power of a ship “that has the firepower to vaporize life on this continent,” Berrigan says.

“Why did you pick Bath instead of Litton Industries in Mississippi or Electric Boat in New London, Connecticut?”

“Because of the Navy's boast that it’s the most powerful ship afloat. An Aegis cruiser can withstand simultaneous assaults from the surface, subsurface, or air.”

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I low come your attack was successful?

We’ve learned that as many as 200 Navy men were aboard.”

“We didn’t expect that, either,” he says.

“Most of the young sailors were asleep.

We tried to bluff our way aboard, but the four watchstandcrs said we had to have IDs. We kept coming, and the four of them stopped three of us, including me, and detained us near the helo hangar.

The other three of us continued.”

“Throwing blood. It’s a provocative image, but isn’t blood a deadly weapon now, too?”

“Blood is a biblical symbol of life. We ensured none of us had AIDS. We wouldn’t ever hurl blood at another human being.”

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“Security is a myth. No human being can protect an omnicidal weapon like that. That’s one of the points we were making.”

“Did you fear you would be shot?”

“They phy sically challenged us. They drew pistols and a shotgun on us. They were cursing, frantic. But security is alw'ays lacking.”

Berrigan has such a kind voice it’s impossible not to admire him, even though he is justly jailed for endangering national security. LCDR Jeff Bender, the Atlantic Fleet’s spokesperson, says the ship wasn’t officially commissioned and wouldn’t comment on the lack of security that would have permitted a truly murderous group of saboteurs to kill the 200 Naw personnel on board.

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We were very pleased to see you take up the plight of St. Dominic’s Church and its unfortunate parishioners in your column last month, though deeply saddened by the necessity of your doing so—and by the situation’s tragic resemblance to that of the St. Lawrence Church. Wc would like to stress two other reasons why St. Dominic’s should not be callously jettisoned like excess baggage at the end of a vacation.

From a musical standpoint, St. Dominic’s is a shining gem among Portland’s churches. Its resonant, warm acoustics arc unsurpassed for speech, for choral singing, and for playing the 1893 I look & I hustings tracker organ in the balcony—another sadly under-appreciated Portland treasure that deserves to remain in the sympathetic space it was designed for. Such well-designed and versatile spaces arc rare indeed, and should not be taken for granted or lightly disposed of, because unfortunately, all the modem scientific calculations in the world give no guarantee of achieving such ideal acoustical conditions again—as anyone who’s ever tried to listen to a concert in New York City’s costly Philhannonic I Lull at I Jncoln Center knows only too well.

Secondly, St. Dominic’s is breathtakingly beautiful, and beauty is of vital importance in this frantic age wc live in.

When you enter St. Dominic’s, you know immediately that you are in a sacred space set apart and different from the workaday world, because everything around you testifies that those who designed and built and funded it gave freely of the best the}’ had to offer. Can the same be said of these generic “shopping mall” churches springing up right and left like so many slipshod condominiums? Do we really want cinderblock and industrial carpet to be the architectural legacy and standard of beauty we leas e behind for our descendants to admire and emulate?

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|9SOs. But how did the original design reach the Bass Shoe Co? It seems an editor at Esquire magazine on vacation in \orwav in 1936 fell in love with the Norwegian fishing slippers he saw everywhere in fishing ports along the North Sea. Upon his return to the United States, he brought some of the slippers to an acquaintance at Bass, and before you could sav Jack Kennedy, an American icon was born. The name "Weejun,” simply a sawed-off version of “Norwegian," obvionslv caught on, and now early pairs of the shoes are guarded like moon rocks at Bass’s corporate offices in Falmouth.

They’re a part of the literature, too. Bcvond the Esquire connection, as early as 1949, thev were what 1 lolden Caulfield and his friends assuredly wore at Penccy Pre]) in The Catcher in the Rye. They really were. And when 'I ar I leels, the campus magazine for the University of North Carolina. glorified Wecjuns as the only shoe that was truly “with it" back in 1966, the line took off in the deep South, too.

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Did vou know that docksiders originated in Maine as well? The Sebago Co. still flourishes because of the shoes they in'ented to provide good footing for yachtsmen on slippery topsides, and as for popularity this vcar docksiders were sent up as the paradigmatic /American suburban footgear when Tim Meadows joked “Saturday Night Live" that they’re "hat you wear when vou'rc watching Mad About Ton.”' Consumers are mad about them in Japan, as w ell, where business is booming.

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“Bert & I’s” Marshall Dodge

Creator of the w orld-famous “Bert & I” recordings, the handsome, incredibly gifted Marshall Dodge is more with us now than ewer before, in spite of his tragic death in Hawaii while riding a bicycle in 1982, when an automobile driven bv a drunken driver took his life.

Unlike the native Maine lobstermen he portrayed. Dodge was born with a silver spoon in his mouth, graduating from the prestigious St. Paul’s prep school (in the footsteps of I*’. Scott Hitzgcrald, et. al.) in 1953, follow ed by an undergraduate degree at Yale (1957) and a A lastcr’s Degree in Philosophy at Yale (I960). And it was there—in the halls of pri\ ilege outside of Maine—that lie developed a knack for Yankee-speak. “There’s a tradition of Downcast stor\telling in the gentlemen’s clubs of Boston,” Dodge explained in an interview with liiltersweel Magazine. “I larvard graduates w ho summered in Maine would pick up Downeast anecdotes and work them into stories that they would tell for the amusement of their friends. These were men like 1 lorace Stevens, a Cambridge surgeon, who used to summer in Boothbax I larbor, and Alan Bemis, a meteorologist who has a place in Brooklin. I loved their stories and started to tell them mvself to anvone who would listen...

My art is an effort on the part of a citv bov to regain some of the instincts I lost, or rather newer had, growing up on the upper Hast Side of New York. In m\ life, I ve just gone further than those men who return to the St. Botolph’s Club and the

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At Maine Art gallery we feature northern New England's largest selection of limited edition prints by Sally Caldwell Fisher, including more than thirty, hand-pulled, serigraphs and lithographs, on paper and linen.

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Edward Gordon At Maine Art gallery, one of our featured artists is Edward Gordon. Edward's Realism is highly respected by collectors across the United States.

Maine Art gallery displays more than 20 prints by Edward Gordon, including six new Giclee editions, stop in and see on your next visit to Kennebunkport, or if you prefer please call to receive a portfolio.

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In spite of Dodge’s continued bonestv about his New York upbringing, some Mainers criticized him for being from awav and yet cashing in on the .Maine Mystique, for being a “dilletante millionaire" without moving to Maine until the 1970s, and for spending his earnings from "Bert and I” on a seemingly endless series of postgraduate degrees, where he floated from Yale to NYU to Eordham.

But even if you don’t cotton to his roots oraren’t familiar with the "Bert & 1" stories, you’ve been touched bv Dodge as founder of Maine Arts. Inc., and the Maine Festival. Ever the raconteur, he launched it by convincing fellow Mainers Gordon Bok and Judd Strunk (who himself achieved Mondo .Maine status in the 1960s when he appeared on “Rowan & Martin’s Laugh In” to sing his number one hit “I'll Give You Daisy z\ Day” for the likes of Goldie I lawn, Tim Tim, and a worldwide television audience) to headline the event.

As Episcopal minister Robert A. Brian, Dodge's partner in "Bert &’ I" and a fellow Yale graduate, said at the New Haven, Connecticut, services for the humorist, "We will feel his presence-on quiet evenings on the coast of Maine or at the edge of a forest; and hear him at the sound ofa fog horn, a makc-and-brcak engine or afresh breeze; or think of him in a myriad of separate ways which bring him to us personally.”

Other eulogists were Garrison Keillor and The New Yorker’s Calvin Trillin.

In any case, “Bert and I” ruled the air"aves back before Rake Wobegon ever landed its first loon, and there’s no telling how famous Dodge- and Maine-would he if he were with us today.

Tim Sample

Renaissance hick 'rim Sample, now the dean of Maine storytellers, continues the tradition of the “Bert & I” series, perpetuating the yarns with perfect timing, deliver}, and his own native insights. Known to the world outside of Maine as that funny §uy who appears on “CBS Sunday Mornmg even month with a piece he writes and films called "Postcards from Maine,” "riter/comic/musician/artist is putting Blondo Maine on the map as never bc-

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Robert Skoglund “The Humble Farmer”

Robert Skoglund is the dry martini. "Hi there. I’m Robert Skoglund with your news and commentary. There’s no end to w hat you can hear out here on the street.

You know that thev fix lobsters to Yew York City. z\ dealer down there, I was told, sold the dead ones first. He told people

Thursday is Free Appraisal Day Kaja Vcillcux, Maine's foremost antiques appraiser, will give you a free verbal appraisal on anything old you bring. Jewelry, watches, silver, paintings, furniture china, clocks, rugs, toys, etc. One item or a car full! Too large to carry? Bring a photograph. Every Thursday and always free! Call for your appointment today.

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that they were the best ones because when they were way up in the air in the plane they went into a trance so thev werent thrashing around, making their meat tough, like the live ones."

Skoglund, w hose radio show is a favorite on Public Radio, is rapidlv expanding his influence through his sxndicatcd radio show, web site, and speaking engagements all over the country-who docs he think he is, Tclstar?-aud is therefore part of the new Mondo Maine. He also hosts the largest lobster bake in the United States

each year in his home town of St. George, Maine, and is the first to be credited with that happy phrase “Year-round Summer People” to describe the new-lifers among us who have had the temerity to move here.

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Remember the art-nouveau White Rock Girl on the label of famed White Rock Ginger Ale from way back when?

She’s Mondo Maine from the tip of her wings to the tip of her toes. The topless Psyche quickly became part of our nation’s collective unconscious, forever leaning over an eponymous white rock and gazing into a pool of crystal-clear water...

"Seems to me that someplace in Saco made the stuff,” says George Stryker, inventory’ manager for National Distributors. “There’s a faint light going on in the back of my head ... try Donovan & Donovan of Saco. I’m beginning to remember that they had something to do with distributing the stuff.”

“We used to carry' it years ago, but what we bottled was Seal Rock,” say's Ron Donovan. “1 think White Rock’s done in Massachusetts now.”

In any case, tradition has it that the White Rock name was inspired early in this century by our own White Rock, Maine-part of the town of Gorhamalthough the soda is no longer produced here, if it ever was.

“But does the original white rock for which the place is named still exist?” we ask a White Rock native. “No doubt.” We are taken into a field behind an ancient Gorham church and shown a white rock that “the Indians could see from miles away. They used it for navigation.” The white rock is about the size of a computer monitor. Impressed? As they say' up here in the Northern Boreal forests, “So aren’t we!”

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Maine Coon Cats have propagated the Maine Mystique ever since they arrived in Wiscasset, Maine, in ships of the China Trade.

The legend that they came here from Canton under the creak of oak and canvas is only one of many that surround the beautiful, bushy-tailed cat, which has been declared a breed in itself.

The claim that Maine Coon Cats actually have raccoon blood in them is easily turned aside by any biology student.

But another tradition, that they are descended from one of Marie Antoinette’s cats, has quite a following.

According to Cat Fanciers, it seems (and don’t all Mondo Maine anecdotes begin with ‘it seems’) that the Maine coon cat “sprang from the six pet cats which Marie Antoinette sent to Wiscasset, Maine, when she was planning to escape from France during the French Resolution.”

The date was October, 1793, and secretly, while Antoinette was imprisoned in the Conciergcrie, some of her belongings-fumiture, dresses, Gobelin tapestries, and, er, Maine Coon cats-were loaded aboard the ship Sally (the Sally, which really did exist and whose commissioning papers may be found today' on the register

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BANGOR THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY at Wiscasset), was captained by Stephen Clough and owned by the merchant James Swan of Boston and Paris as part of a plan to rescue the Queen. But “alas, the plan miscarried,” and the ship was forced to sail back to Maine without her. To this day, Clough descendants arc often named “Antoinette,” and a few relics from the Queen’s cargo are passed from generation to generation, as well as the willful Maine Coon Cat breed.

Popular in the early years, Maine Coon Cats were overshadowed by other, “more flamboyant" Angoras brought in by China Trade steamers, but the breed “began to regain its fomier widespread popularity in the 1950s when more and more cat fanciers began to take notice of them, show them, and record their pedigrees. In 1968, six breeders formed the Maine Coon Breeders and Fanciers Association (MCBFA) to preserve and protect the breed. Today, MCBFA membership numbers over 1,000 fanciers and 200 breeders. By 1980, all registries had recognized the Maine Coon, and it was well on its way to regaining its former glory,” reports Cat Fanciers.

Today, they’re the third most popular breed of cat in tire United States.

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Of course, Castle Rock Entertainment is named for the fictional Maine town that appears in Steven King novels. But just to make sure, we called Beverly Hills and asked to speak with Castle Rock’s public relations department. “Hold on, let me transfer you to Marketing.” The woman in marketing is delighted to list a hit parade of recent Castle Rock films, such as Extreme Measures, The Spitfire Grille, Absolute Power, Shawshank Redemption, The American President, Hamlet, Ghostsol Mississippi, City Slickers, Delores Claiborne, and Forget Paris, two of which (Redemption and Claiborne) were even written by Bangor’s preternaturalb Mondo Steven King, but surprises us when she admits, “I’ve never heard anvbodv bring it (King’s fictional town of Castle Rock) up.

I’ve only been around here for three years... Castle Rock Films have been around for 10.

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From the 1930s to the 1950s. new Palm Beach suit designs w ere introduced to the world each year at Portland’s Benoit's

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Eormer Palm Beach president Elmer Ward Sr. used to tell it this way: During World War II, a gentleman with international flair—a Ronald Coleman typc-was captured by the Japanese. Of course, be wouldn’t have been caught dead without his Palm Beach Sunfrost jacket, and when he was released three years later, he showed up at the Palm Beach offices “wearing a battered-looking Palm Beach coat, seven or eight years old. I Ie said that he had been in the Philippines when the Japanese armies arrived there in 1942, and he had been interned by the enemy and marched away to a prison camp without opportunity to get extra clothing to augment the suit he was wearing. He spent three years in the prison camp, where he wore this suit constantly, washing it whenever he could get enough water. Finally, when liberation was near, a Japanese guard stole his pants. This man met the liberating armies wearing his only coatthe Palm Beach coat, incidentally, that he had brought with him to our offices. He told us that he would like to get some more pants to match the coat, which he considered still in good shape and in proper condition to wear in polite society.”

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The lovely John Russwunn House, on the National Register of Historic Places and just across the street from Cheverus 1 ligh School, on 238 Ocean Avenue, Portland, is for sale this summer for $198,500 through town (5 Shore Realty. Russwunn, an 1826 Rowdoin grad (I lawthome and l/mgfellow, class of 1825, both befriended him), was the third African-American in the country to graduate from college and the first to belong to a fraternity. I Ie went on to become a nationally recognized publisher and co-editor of Freedom’s Journal, the first African-American-owned and published newspaper in the United States..

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I IE COZY DOUBLE front parlors—complete with working fireplaces, hardwood floors, sixover-six windows, Eedcral woodwork, and Greek Revival moldings—on the first floor of the two-story, white clapboard house opposite Cheverus High School on Ocean Avenue seem perfectly suited to sedate grownup activities like crosswords and cocktails; while the slant-ceilinged, loft-like nooks and crannies connecting to a walk-in attic at the back of the upstairs strike

one immediately as an ideal setting for kids to engage in more strenuous pursuits such as hide-and-seek. This duality of purpose no doubt came in handy between 1812 and 1838, when the John Brown Russwnrm House—built c. 1810 and now a Greater Portland Landmark listed on the National Register—may have been home to as many as 14 children of parentage as oddly mixed and unlikely as anything you’d encounter on a modem TV sitcom.

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In his Personal Recollections of Nathaniel 1 lawthome, Horatio Bridge (class of 1825 and later Pay-Master General of the U. S. Navy) records that at Bowdoin Russwurm proved to be “a diligent student, but of no marked ability.

He lived at a carpenter’s house, just beyond the village limits.” It is unclear whether this quasi-exilc was entirely self-imposed or externally inflicted by college regulations, but if Russwurm lived off-campus because he felt uncomfortable dwelling in the thick of Bowdoin’s social scene, he was not alone in doing so: a monograph on Antislavery Materials at Bowdoin College edited by Angela M. Leonard notes that 1 lenry Wadsworth Longfellow (class of 1825) felt so out of place as a fourtecn-year-old freshman that he resided much of the time at home in Portland. At any rate, Russwurm’s color did not keep Bridge and Hawthorne from hiking out to call upon him several times at his off-campus digs — although Bridge does report that Russwurm’s “sensitiveness on account of his color prevented him from returning the calls” —nor did it deter Hawthorne from inviting him to join Bowdoin’s Athenaean Society, the more progressive and Democratic of the college’s two rival literary' organizations.

This invitation Russwurm accepted “with alacrity,” thereby becoming the first black man in America to join a college fraternity. t seems likely that Russwurm’s years at Bowdoin were instrumental in the development of his interest in the Abolitionist and Colonization movements’ answers to the slavery question then dividing the nation. One of his professors, William Smyth, was an ardent abolitionist, while another, Thomas Cogswell Upham, supported colonization. Moreover, legend has it that Upham’s house—now the John Brown Russwurm Center for Africana Studies at Bowdoin —was a stop on the Underground Railroad. Russwurm’s commencement address —which re-

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ceivcd coverage in Portland and Boston newspapers —focused on the successful Haitian slave revolt of 1804, and before he graduated in 1826 —as only the third black man in zXmcrica to be awarded a college degree — Russwurm had been planning to study medicine in Boston prior to emigrating to I laiti. owever, at some point his plans changed, and by 1827 he was well-established in New York City as co-editor, with the militant Presbyterian minister Samuel E. Cornish, of the alxditionist newspaper Freedom’s jonnuil-lhe first newspaper in /Kmerica owned and published bv African-Americans. The editorial of the first issue boldly proclaimed: “We wish to plead our own case. Too long have others spoken for us. Too long has the public been deceived by misrepresentations in things which concern us dearly.” ’Hie weekly publication of black news, success stories, literature, and letters filled a long-standing void in the struggle for black self-determination, and the paper was distributed in New York, New Jersey, Maine, Massachusetts, and even in such slavery strongholds as Maryland and Virginia, and as far afield as Canada, I laiti, and England, with an estimated circulation of 1,000 (John Brown Russwurm by' Mary' Sagarin, 1970). But a little over a year after Freedom’s Journal’s inception, Russwurm had grown so discouraged by the lack of progress towards the abolition of slavery in America —despite ever more violent agitation for it—that he reversed his position completely and declared that emigration to Africa offered blacks the sole remaining hope of achieving dignity and independence. This about-face so angered steadfast abolitionists that Cornish left the paper, Russwurm’s former supporters burned him in effigy in the streets as a traitor to their cause, and Russwurm himself resigned as editor in 1828.

Putting his money where his mouth was, Russwurm sailed for Liberia in 1829 under the auspices of the zkmcri-

■ HOUSE ■ can Colonization Society, an organization ostensibly founded to help former slaves attain a better quality of life in Africa than was available to them in America—although its opponents suspected an ulterior motive of eventually ejecting all freedmen from the country they had broken their backs to build. As superintendent of schools, colonial secretary', and vice-agent in Monrovia, Russwurm proceeded to run himself ragged establishing a school system for colonists and natives, learning and teaching new agricultural methods to the other colonists, negotiating with warring native tribes who regarded American blacks as “white” interlopers, and publishing the Liberia Herald. But whenever conflict arose, Russwurm found himself progressively demoted for his pains by the white Americans who funded the Colonization Society and could not, even at an ocean’s distance, refrairr from regarding their adult beneficiaries as so many motherless children in sore need of discipline (John Russwurm by Janice Borzcndowski, 1989). ut even under adverse circustanccs in Africa, Russwurm continued to reap the benefits of his Bowdoin education. He became good friends with Dr. James I lall, an 1822 graduate of Bowdoin’s medical school who was working for the Maryland Colonization Society at their outpost southeast of Monrovia at Cape Palmas. When Hall resigned as Governor of the Maryland Colony in 1836 due to exhaustion, he recommended Russwurm to the Maryland Society as his successor. 'Ilie Old Boy Network held strong, and Russwurm got the top job, becoming the first black high official appointed by the all-white organization. When Russwurm’s Bowdoin friend Horatio Bridge arrived at Las Palmas in 1843 aboard a U. S. Navy warship hunting for slavers—proving once again what a small place the world is—he recorded with pleasure that the Governor of Cape Palmas “received, with dignity and ease, the Commodore and officers

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Story By Diane Hudson mum-like or the soft brown feathers of a hen’s back. “But is it edible?”

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favorites in mycological lingo — “Choice!”

—the meaning of which he immediately illustrates by sautccing a few pieces simply in butter and serving us w'hat tastes like the finest roast bird meat imaginable.

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Being a “stalker of the wild asparagus” since Euell Gibbons’s time, with perhaps too many' seasons behind me of fiddleheading, dandelion picking (for greens and wine), berrying, and on and on, I figure this mushroom business will be a

The only Afghan Restaurant in Maine is conveniently located downtown at 419 Congress Street, where the Habibzai family brings traditional Afghan cuisine to Portland using ingredients such as Basmati rice, lamb, chicken, beef, spinach, eggplant, green beans, and pumpkin. The results—including many vegetarian dishes—are delicious but not too spicy, and attract patrons from as far away as Boston and Bangor. Bring your own wine and beer to complement meals that have earned 3-1/2 stars out of four and the “Best Ethnic Food" award from CBW. Catering and take-out are available, and most major credit cards are accepted. 773-3431.

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The menu changes daily, and all wines are offered by the glass. Discover new enjoyment with David’s refreshing approach to food and wine, while experiencing the charm of a Parisian bistro. Aubergine is truly Portland's answer for a new dining experience.

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The Audubon Room at the Inn by the Sea on Route 77 in Cape Elizabeth combines breathtaking views of the Atlantic Ocean with culinary masterpieces that feature fresh local produce, native seafood specialties, and exceptional homemade breads and desserts prepared on the premises. Some house favorites include Grilled Salmon with an Orange Basil Vinaigrette, Sauteed Oysters with Porcini and Champagne, and Lemon Custard Tart with Maine Blueberries. Patio dining and carry-out available. 767-0888.

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by Frederick Law Olmstead of Central Park fame, the Barking Squirrel Cafe offers patrons a warm fire and a relaxing setting by the fountain in Portland’s Deering Oaks Park, inviting comparison to New York’s renowned Tavern on the Green. Open Tuesday-Sunday and holidays for breakfast, lunch, dinner, Sunday brunch, and take-out, the Barking Squirrel serves a broad variety of traditional, vegetarian, seafood, and world cuisine at very affordable prices ($1.50 on up). Enjoy the huge outdoor barbecue pit for lobster and clam bakes in summertime. FREE Winslow's Gourmet coffee 7:3010:30 a.mJ 774-5514.

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at the Portland Jetport, specializes in American bistro cuisine with an emphasis on native seafood and prime cuts of meat, but it is Chef William Boutwell's creative touches—like shrimp and lobster Napoleon with grilled e99Plant, goat cheese, and red peppers served over a tomato coulis—that make this dining experience like no other in Portland. In addition to a spectacular Sunday brunch, the Cafe also offers wine dinners, Portland’s only Chefs Table, and a fine selection of locally brewed beers. For reservations call 775-0032.

At David’s Restaurant you can sample four-star entries featuring farm-fresh produce and native products like seafood sausage, sesame and coriander crusted tuna, or goat cheese packets with grilled vegetables (773-4340). David’s at the Oyster Club, set ' n a converted open-air market building, boasts an ebundant raw bar, 20 varieties of seafood, lobster, fresh

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You can’t beat the location of DiMillo’s Floating Restaurant at 25 Long Wharf off Commercial Street for fabulous water views of Portland Harbor. Escape from the hustle and bustle of the city by watching the boats go by as you enjoy fresh Maine lobster served year-round, steak, seafood dishes, and more. Open 7 days a week from 11 a.m. to 11 p.m., with a children’s menu available. For drinks and a lighter menu, try their Portside Lounge. 772-2216.

Welcome to F. Parker Reidy’s, site of the original Portland Savings Bank built in 1866 at 83 Exchange Street. Established in 1976 during the renaissance of the Old Port area, F. Parker Reidy’s has become a Portland fine dining tradition, specializing in steaks and fresh seafood, but also offering pasta, chicken, and salads, with prime rib featured on weekends. Turn-of-thecentury decor, personalized service, and great food create a warm and congenial atmosphere popular for both business and intimate dining. 773-4731.

Deep in the heart of the mysterious Woodfords area at 540 Forest Avenue is the Great Lost Bear, where you’ll find a full bar featuring over 50 (that’s right, five-o) draught beers, predominantly from local microbreweries. Accompanying them is an enormous menu with everything from soups, salads, and sandwiches to steaks and ribs, as well as a large vegetarian selection and the best nachos and buffalo wings in town. Discover where the natives go when they’re restless! Serving from 11:30 a.m. to 11:30 p.m. seven days a week. 7720300. Hit the internet and visit us on-line at: httpyAvww.ime.net/bear/ Hugo’s Portland Bistro, accessibly located at the

intersection of Middle Street and Franklin Artery, was Portland Dining Guides 1996 Gold Medal Winner. The innovative menu changes monthly and features fresh seafood and interesting vegetarian dishes. Crab cakes are a house specialty, and parking is available. Serving dinner only, Tuesday-Saturday, with live piano music nightly. For reservations call 774-8538.

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Conveniently located only minutes north of Portland in the Portland Athletic Club at 196 Route 1 in the beautiful coastal town of Falmouth, Iguana Bay is open seven days a week from 11 a.m. to 11 p.m., with brunch from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Sunday. House specialties include chili rellenos, shredded beef burritos, margaritas, micro-brews, and specialty tequilas. Happy Hour is 4-6 p.m. Monday through Saturday. 7815308.

At the Market Street Grille in the Portland Regency Hotel, spectacular cuisine, Old Port charm, and impeccable service come together in an elegant yet casual environment. Along with daily fresh specials featuring foods from land and sea, the Grille’s chef prepares unforgettable feasts like Seafood Fettucine with lobster, shrimp, and mussels: Baked Lobster with seafood stuffing; Steak Diane Tenderloin, and Black

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Voted “Best Pizza in Maine" since 1990 by the PPH and CBW, Ricetta’s Brick Oven Pizzeria is truly a taste of the Old Country. M. E. Curly of the PPH raves: “Ricetta’s is arguably the best pizza west of Rome." Dine-in, takeout, delivery, and catering are available, and the alFyoucan-eat gourmet lunch buffet includes pizzas, pastas, soups, and salads. A full selection of beer and wine is available, and kids eat FREE on Mondays from 3 p.m. till closing. Located at 29 Western Avenue, South Portland.

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Fresh lobsters, shellfish, salmon, and local fish have been specialties at the historic Seamen’s Club for over three generations, while aged beef, prime rib, quiches, fresh pasta, vegetarian and southwestern selections, home-baked breads and desserts, and fresh fruits and vegetables round out the menu. The best weekend brunches on the planet include soups, turkey sandwiches, and salads, and a full bar is always available. The Lunch and “Lite" menus are served from 11 a.m. to 11 p.m. in a comfortable setting overlooking the harbor at 1 Exchange Street and 375 Fore Street in the hub of the Old Port. Call 772-7311. Fax orders: 7614444. No room charges ever for banquets and meetings: 773-3333.

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cinch. Our plan this weekend includes a visit to friends in Gouldsboro whose land abuts a large old cemetery; Bill grinning]) suggests that there should be lots of saprophytes in that kind of place.

He sets us up with what we need for our first foray — a sharp knife, small trowel, waxed paper, baskets, and-probably best of al 1—a healthy dispensation of caution.

He warns us not to eat anything wc pick, to pick each specimen in various stages of its growth, keeping the entire mushroom with its base intact (for identification purposes), and to wrap each different species separately, as any poisons present in one will contaminate the entire lot. He also loans us his National Audubon Field Guide to North American Mushrooms, encouraging us to bring our specimens back for him to help us with identification. t turns out that our friends’ home in Gouldsboro was once that of the famed garden accessories designer E.E. Sodcrholtz, an avid “shroomcr” who used to conduct man)’ fertile forays on the very land we’re about to trod. The first one wc spot is just outside the house! A classically shaped agaricus, looking quite like the cultivated “button mushroom” or supermarket type, low to the ground and large capped—our mouths water as we wrap it and slip it into our basket. Then, for a long stretch, nothing.

Only brightly colored wildflowers dot the sides of the path which would otherwise cheer us were wc not so doggedly seeking mushrooms. We finally reach the edge of the cemetery — there! Another, like the first one. Up a hill, more; three or four clumped together. While picking these looking a foot or so away, more. Suddenly the entire ground mushrooms with mushrooms, so man)’ so fast we think we may be seeing them into being! And some are huge, with caps 4” to 6” wide. And the colors-dccp reds, brilliant oranges, subtle purples, blacks. They are dry', sticky, smooth, and prickly. They arc cylindrical, flat, round, and funnel shaped. They are everywhere, and wc pick them-a good 20 different kinds. Wc excitedly return to Blue Hill anticipating a long and heady feast.

Bill, a painter with a rich palette, is impressed by the many varied colors but not by the culinary properties of our finds — except for one. On finding that one, however, he becomes extremely animated. “You’ve got a King Bolete, Boletus

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edulis. I Ie explains that the Latin name is better to remember as the common names are apt to change from place to place—this bolete, for example is known as ‘cep’ or ‘porcini” in Europe. Whatever its name, 1 will forever remember it as ‘choice;’ the apotheosis of edible mushrooms, its taste that of a perfectly broiled tenderloin, juicy and sweet.

Once again hooked, but more like a fish that would do well to forget this meat and move on, 1 protest: Why not the rest of these — are you sure we can’t eat them?

Bill won’t even touch them without washing his hands. “Not so good. Could make you sick or even cost you your lives.” He

“This pretty red one, for example, is a Russula emetica, so named because it will most likely cause an emetic reaction if eaten.” All of a sudden it looks slimy, like a nightclub thing and therefore less appealing, but still attractive with its ivory gills and stem. proceeds to identify some of our collection. “'ITiis pretty' red one, for example, is a Russula emetica, so named because it will most likely cause an emetic reaction if eaten.” All of a sudden it looks slimy, like a nightclub thing and therefore less appealing, but still attractive with its ivory' gills and stem. “This bright orange Jack O’Lantcrn (Omphalotus olearius) which many mistake for a great find as it looks like a tasty chanterelle (Cantharellus cibarius), will also make you sick.” Then he beetles his brows like Nathaniel Hawthorne and says, “Directly after it’s picked, it will glow in the dark, emanating an eerie greenish light.”

He picks up one of the innocent-looking little brown ones we found growing in a clump on a birch tree, pinches it, and our mouths drop as it slowly turns blue. “Alia!

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“Did the Indians use them?” I ask.

“Nope. Maine Indians were spooked by mushrooms and rarely-if ever-touched them.”

What about the beautiful white one I found standing proudly all on its own, looking very much like a fine, fresh ‘button’ mushroom (Agaricus bisporous) in a Shop ’n Save? “Destroying Angel (Am-rmita virosa). It’s deadly poisonous, slowly infecting the kidneys and liver and resulting in coma and death if treatment is not sought early enough. The problem is compounded by the fact that there are no noticeable symptoms for several hours, and by the time there is any discomfort the toxins are already into the liver, causing serious damage.”

We consider Bill at length. “Arc you making this up?” we ask. c head home, intent upor checking up on him. Where can 1 find someone like Bil nearer Portland to help ir identifving my finds? /\ call K Maine Audubon Society in Falmouth turns up the name of Sam Ristich i> North Yarmouth. Known as Maine! mycological guru, the most avid, enthusiastic, and knowledgablc mushroom col-

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(Morchella esculenta) to photograph for this story, I call him. “Morels in Maine are as sporadic as dragon’s teeth, although you are correct — this is the season, from the 14th of May to as late as June 10th in the Katahdin area. There’s a little garden belonging to some people at Sebago Lake where they come up; right now around here we have lots of stuff growing on wood — come on over, we’ll find some interesting things.”

And we do, starting with the dirt cellar where Sam has just that morning spotted the Recurved Cup (Peziza repanda). It reminds us of Wood-Ears that we buy at Sun Market for our oriental soups; we are assured that it is very similar and take some home for dinner. Wood-Ears have been recently identified as possibly contributing to the low incidence of heart disease in China, as they affect blood coagulation. This discussion sends Sam into the shed, where he hauls out (see photo) a 12” wide fan shaped Hemlock Varnish Shelf (Camoderma tsugae) which is claimed by Asians and increas-

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Another fine source for continuing on our healthy foraging in this field is the Maine Mycological Association (207-878-2060), a state-wide group with an informative and

He pinches it, and onr mouths drop as it slowly turns blue.

“This one will make you glow - its the Blue-foot Psilocybe, one of the hallucinogenic species around here. These attack the central nervous system and are certainly not worth fooling with-a very small quantity can be fatal.”

Above recurved cups, dried chicken of the woods, and dried black morels.

entertaining monthly newsletter and frequent mushroom forays — walks through lovely areas with folks who know where to look and what to find. Our first trip fetches us many chanterelles, and we don’t have to try the glow-in-thc-dark test, as our trail boss Dave Crowley assures us they are the real (i.e., edible) thing. l ie also introduces us to “Black Trumpets” or “I lorn of Plenty” (Craterellus fallax), a “choice" we’ve never encountered before-lovely, blue-black, exotic and sweet, growing wildly for the taking in nearby Cornish.

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ts We also find what Sam tells ns is a lobster mushroom (Hypomyces lactifluorum), n looking as its name suggests, bright n orange-red. This really does taste like a > finely cooked, butter-dipped lobster, i, More caution is advised, however: This

d Like Longfellow, the Boletus edulis enjoys the company of murmuring pines and hemlocks.

I'oreground: I lendock varnished shelf.

Background: Artist’s conk (used foretellings).

mushroom is a mold growing on various white species of other mushrooms, and its edibility depends on the edibility of its host. We wouldn’t cat one without expert identification!

When planning walks on our own, we allow for the fact that species tend to come back to the same areas, so once we find good picking we note the spot and return.

It is helpful also to learn the mycorrhizal associations, i.e., understanding where a particular mushroom will grow in relation to the higher plants with which it is associated (the Boletus edulis, for example, like Longfellow, enjoys the company of munnuring pines and hemlocks).

And, of course, stay in touch with your mushroom-minded friends! Incidentally, Bill disclaims all associations with Findhorn and apologizes for the meager 25 pound mushroom — “They grow to 100 pounds, these Hens of the Woods. But, there is an island near here where thousands of chanterelles grow, every year, let me tell you....”

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And this summer, an unprecedented 17 saltwater island nations are up for sale off the coast of X laine-t/rree of them for under

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Peggy Island, saws listing agent Bill Van Twisk of CUR Real Estate in Brunswick, is “a lot of beauty in a small package." At 1.7 acres, it extends the Northern Boreal Forest out into the Atlantic like a floating exclamation point, with evergreens, pines, oaks, and birches as well as beautiful salt marshes on either end. “There's fairly deep water on one side of the island," he says, and you don’t har e to call out for pizza. because there are “mud flats for clam digging.” For a view of Peggv Island, drive to Robinhood Marina or simply to

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Tommy’s Island is just a single acre, half of which appears in the picture above, and it’s just a short boatride — less than five minutes — off the mainland in Ixing Cove in the town of St. George. “The front of it looks toward the Great Northern Mussel Eactoiy,” says Linda Ealkenmeyer of Atlantic Realty'. “It has good striped bass fishing from June to September, and it is buildable. A seasonal camp would be ideal. There’s a picnic table and some fir trees; the side that faces the open ocean has a nice little beach.” Like jewelry' surrounding this island arc beds of wild blue mussels, and there are “all kinds of birds, gulls and songbirds,” as well as a grove of mature birch trees. “It’s peaceful, quiet.”

T amed, the ocean docs not crash but rather laps against this island. “It’s beautiful. I don’t know why' we still have it. I’m surprised it hasn’t sold.” Eor infonnation, call (207) 594-7314.

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“There’s also a 360-degrce view,” says Jean Geiger of Brunswick Realty Group, who has also seen doves, woodpeckers, ducks, swallows, and chickadees here. “Deer visit in the winter,” and the human population enjoys the “blueberries, raspberries, and blackberries” that thrive on the grassy, windswept slopes. You also get two homes for your purchase price: “One home has 3 bedrooms and 1.5 baths; the other has two bedrooms. Both are log-cabin type, with electricity', heat, and an ingenious water system.” The present owner is a helicopter pilot, Geiger reports, “so we have a number of aerial photos.” For more information, call 729-2820.

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Island was listed for the same price last year, but this time the seller is enlisting the help of VIP Realty. “I ran an ad in the New York Tinies last year, and four or five people responded to it, but they didn’t buy it,” says Secor. “T he purchase price includes one oceanfront acre with 264 feet of deepwater frontage on Ixioks I lead on the mainland for access,” reports Doris Davis of VIP. “dire island itself is protected from hea\y weather by Roque Island, an imposing presence (and a popular yachting destination) two miles southeast, with its spectacular Great 1 lead and crescent sand beach in view on its north shore. Dunn Island comes with a cabin with an ocean-view deck built from full white cedar logs in 1976.”

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“It’s kind of ledgy," says listing agent Lin Billings of Brunswick Realty, “with only scrub vegetation — bushes or small trees, blueberries and junipers, but there’s a single mid-1950s cottage in very'good shape out here with a beautiful fieldstone fireplace made with found stones, including quartz and smooth stone washed by cons of waves collapsing on the shore.” All the two-story structure needs is “some cosmetic work. I here’s a leak in the cistem, and there’s no septic system in the island.

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lie pier. It’s half a mile out to sea, beautiful and covered with spruce. There’s a quite a fine 20-foot by 30-foot cottage on the island, too, built in 1988 with sliding doors on three sides, vertical board & batten wood interior, three bedrooms, four rooms, and one three-quarter bath. Gas lights and a new dock.” Matthew says Bragdon Island was once called Granite Island. “Granite from the island was used to make some bridge in the Portland or South Portland area,” possibly the Million Dollar bridge. Beyond the six acres of the island, “there’s deeded mainland access (a one-acre lot right within walking distance of the pier, along the shore). Three other islands, called 'Ilie Sister Islands, are right beside it. One of the Sisters is the Pinkham Island offered by Rob Williams.

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Maine. Ifyou can afford majestic, 30-acre Snow Island, maybe they’ll start tracking you down, too. But by then you won’t care, because you’ll be out of reach in the protected waters of Quahog Bay with outrageously low annual property’ taxes of $2,034. “This is the essence of a Maine island, accented with towering pines, nigged shorelines, and a picturesque cove with seasonal cottage and deepwater docks on both the island and a mainland parcel that goes with it,” says Rob Williams. According to legend, Marie Antoinette, in October, 1793, dreamed of escaping to a safe house in Maine near Wiscasset, to the north; this secluded island, just a quarter-mile from shore, is a good deal more majestic than the one she had in mind.

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LISTINGS Music The LARK Srx'iety for Chamber Music, P.O Box 11, Portland 'Ilie annual Portland Siring Quartet Festival encompasses Iwo PSQ concerts in Ummer Chapel al Colby College in Waterville at 7 p in on Tuesday, Juh 29 and at 7 p.m on Tuesday, August 5 (tickets are S10 for adults and $7 for students), as well as two

I xmrncr Chapel concerts by String Quartet Institute participants at 230 p.m and 730 p in on Saturday. August 9 (free). For more information, call 872-5568.

Portland Conservatory of Music, 44 Oak Street. Portland, is sponsoring a Theremin Institute June 15-21, with an international faculty including l.vdia Kavinia, Robert Moog. Olivia Mattis, Elliott Schwartz. David Mc<2oniack, and Eric Ross participating in a week of lectures, instruction, seminars, concerts, and workshops focusing on this unusual electronic instrument Call 775-5556 for details.

Portland’s Downtown District, 4<X) Congress Street, is once again sponsoring a weekday scries ol b'RKK noontime concerts in Portland’s downtown parks and plazas 'lliis year's July lineup includes- Riga lahian Chon is on June 50 in Monument Square (MS); fiddler Lissa Schneckenburger and guitarist John Cote on July I in Post Office Park (PO); Julie and Brownie’s children’s songs on July 2 in Tommy's Park (TT); Country Hearts country band on Juh 5 in Congress Square (CS); Ram Island Dance Company performing “American landscapes” on July 7 (PO); Raccoon Beach playing light jazz on July 8 ('ll’); USM 'Hicaler Academy presenting children’s stories on July 9 (TP); light rock duo the lane Puppies on July 10 (CS); Maine’s own musical satirists the Casco Steppes on Juh 11 (MS); Sound Alliance barbershop quartet strolling on Congress Street on Juh 14. folksinger Slaid Cleaves on July 15 flT), Tangletoon musical fun for kids on July 16 fIT). Aggressive Folk Review of local musicians on Juh 17 (CS); Ramblin’ Dan Stevens’ country blue*, on July 18 m’); I .mu) Dccvcs’ original folk rock on July 21 (PO); gospel duo As Promised on July 22 (TP); children’s entertainment bv Spoof Gabbling Circus on July 25 f IP); teens from the Maine Summer Dramatic Institute performing Shakespeare scenes on Juh 24 (CS); Freefall a cappella quintet on July 25 (TP); flutist Anthorn Allen on July 28 (IX)). Irish music by Rakish Paddy on July 29 flP); original acoustic music In the Scharf Brothers on July 50 fl'P); and the Names Project Marne AIDS Quill exhibit on July 51 (CS). hi August, don’t miss acoustic powered rock bv the Brotherhood Dogs on August 1 (MS). Cals and Pals a cappella quartet on August 4 (’IT); world rhythm trio SisTAA on August 5 flP); Children’s Day with mascots, storks. and icecream on August 6 fl'P); .Actor Factor performing “’Ilie Wizard of Odds" on August ” (CS); the Tim Janis Ensemble on August 8 (MS); Winterwood’s folk. jazz, and blues on August 11 (TT); Tom Pinozzolfs acoustic folk ruck on August 12 (PO). a Stress Reduction Lunch Hour on August 15 fl'P), light rwk duo Take 2 on August 14 (CS); jazz duo Charlie and Claudia on August 15 (MS); showtimes In the Scat Cats on August 18 (MS); Anm ('lark’s original folk and blues on August 19 (TP); Fiddlin' Mark Molinari’s musical fun for kids on August 29 fl’P). improv theater by Instant Comcdv on August 21 (CS). Finnish and Franco- American dance music by Faux. Swcgart. and Theriault on August 22 (TP); veiling dancers from Ram Island Dance performing “Summer in the Old Port" as choreographed by Betsey Dunphy on .August 25 (IX)). Barney Martin's acoustic rock on /August 26 ( IP); Annegret Baier’s African drumming for kids on August 27 (TP); Art in the Park local art sales, exhibits, and workshops on August 28 (CS); and original rock bv the Dan Merrill Band on August 29 (MS). In addition, even Thursday from 6 to 8 p m. the State Sheet Traditional Jazz Band and Fnends will play in Tommy’s Park (through Oetolx'r 17). Call 772-6828 for details.

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Chandler's Band concerts will take place at the bort Allen Park Gazebo on the Eastern Prom at 6 p.m on Friday, Juh 4, at 7:50 p.m. on Thursday, July 10; at 730 p.m on Thursday. July 17, aixl at 7:15 p.m on Thursday , July 24 (ram dale is 715 p.m on Thursday, July 51). Call 874-8791 or 874-8795 for more information. /Arts Conservatory Theater & Studio, 541 Cumlx?rland Avenue, Portland The Bernard Tshimangolav Baid performs music from Zaire at 8 p.m. on June 27, July 27, and August 9 and 27. Tickets cost SI0 for adults and $8 for students and seniors. For more information, call 761-2465 Oak Street Theatre, 92 Oak Street, P.O. Box 5201, Portland. The female quintet Diva Brazilia plays Brazilian and American jazz, on flute, guitar, voice, and percussion at 8 p.m. on Wednesday, June 18 (tickets $5). Next, Maine band Papa Ixivcs Mambo takes the stage at 8 p.m. on Saturday, June 27 aid Sunday, June 28 (tickets $6). Box Office: 775-5105.

University of Southern Maine Department of Music, 57 College Avenue, Gorham. The Terry White Big Band, a 15-piecc jazz ensemble, performs at 8 p.m. on Sunday. July 6. Then on Monday, July 7 at 8 p m., USM saxophone instructor Bill Street plays a recital of jazz and classical selections. Next the USM Faculty Brass Trio —featuring John Schnell on trumpet, John Boden on horn, and Mark Mauduca on trombone—presents a varied program on Tuesday. July 8 at 8 p.m. All concerts take place in Corthell Concert Hall .Admission is $5. Box office 780-5555.

Saco River Grange Hall, Salmon Falls Road, Bar Milk, celebrates its own centennial as well as Schulx’rt’s bicentennial (birth) and Brahms’ centennial (death) when virtuoso double bassist Paul Erhard joins forces with pianist Judith Quimbv to perform Rachmaninoffs Vocalise in c Op. 54/14. as well as works by Bach, Brahms. Schulxrt, Vivaldi, and Giovanni Bottesini at 7 50 p m on Saturday. June 14 (tickets arc $9 for adults and $7 for students and seniors). Next, celebrated Berlin violinist Bernhard Hartog, concertmaster of the Berlin Radio Svmphonv (conducted by Vladimir Ashkenazy), and pianist Scvimbike Ehbay collaborate on Beethoven’s Sonata in A Op. 12 No. 2. Schumann’s Sonata in a Op. 105. Brahms’ Scherzo in c for Violin and Piano. Ives’ largo, and Schulx’rt’s Fantasia in C for A’iolin and Piano D 954 at 730 p.m. on Friday, July IS (tickets $9/$7). Northeast Winds. New England’s favonte Insh minstrels, are ix‘\t in line to take the stage al 730 p.m. on Friday. August 22 ($8^Zi). Then animated pianist .Allan Barker plays a lyrical program in honor of Andrew Wyeth's 80th birthday and the pastoral spin! of Iris paintings at 730 p.m on Saturday, August 50 ($8/$6). ('all 929-6472.

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Brunswick 'litis year the Fridas night MusicFest conceit sems at 8 p m in Brunswick High School's Crooker Theater will feature Schulx-rt s Introduction and Variations on TnxFne Blumen, songs by Brahms and Gershwin, and Brahms' Quintet in f minor Op 54 on June 27. Schuberts I no No. 1 in Bb, Copland’s Ijncoln Portrait, and Gershwins Bhapsudv in Blue on July 4. Carl Reinecke's Trio for Olxx*. French Horn, and Pi.UK), George Crumb's Saght of the Four Moons, and Brahms' Piano Concerto No 2 in Bb Op. 85 on July 11. Brahms' Viola Sonata No I in f minor, the world premiere of Sebastian Currier's Chamlxr Concerto for Violin and String Orchestra.

Verdi's "Sempre lilxra” from lu I'ravtata. Mozarts "Non mi dir” from Don Giovanni. and Gershwin’s An Xmencan tn Pans on July 18. Brahms' Piano Trio No 2 in C Major Op 87, Mario Castelnuoso-Ttxkvo's Sonatina for Hute and Guitar, and Bach's Bramlcnbmg Concerto No. 4 in G Major on Juh 25. and Barlx'i’s Summer Music. Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 25 in A Major K 488, and Schulxrt's Piano Quintet in A Major “Trout” on August 1 MusicFest ticke ts exist $17.5(1 for adults and $16 for children I1ie Wednesday cxenhig Upbeat’ senes of infonnal and edixtic concerts al " 5ll p.m. m Kresge Auditorium will include Bach’s Lute Suite No. I in e minor, Trilogy for Olxxaml I larp In Flliolt Carter. Bartok’s Romanian Dances. Ravels Chansons madfeaws, and bos' Violin sonata No. 2 on June 25. Bccthmcn's Sonata for Fn-nch Horn and Piano in F Major Op. 17. Badx*r's Piano Sonata, ami Brahms’ Cello Sonata No I in c minor on July 2; Copland's Violin Sonata. Twilight Music by John Harbison. Brahms' Zu ci Geistliche Dcder. and Brahms’ Piarx) I no No. 5 in c minor on Juh 9; Five French Dances by Mann Marais. Fantasia on a 'Theme of Marin Marais for Viola and Double Bass In John Tarlaglia, Debussy’s Sonata for Flute, Viola, and Harp.

Schumann’s Sonata No I in a minor Op. 105, and Bernstein's Chichester Psalms on July 16; Schuix*rt's String'I no in Bb D 581, Divertimento No. 4 by Flliott Schwartz, excerpts from Schubert's Winterreise. and Sonnets to Orpheus, Book I by Richard Daniclpour on Juls 25; and Scrcnale Conecrtanle Op 105 by Anton Dialxlli, Six Mckxlies- Nocturne In John C^age, Federico's Little Songs for Children bs George Crumb.

Mourning [or the Queen of Sunday by W arren Benson, and Bernstein's West Side Story arranged for percussion ami pianos In JeH Mdarsky on Juh 50. Upbeat 1tickets cent SS 'Hie annual Outdmir Family Concert al 5 p.m. on Sundin, July 6 on the* Bowdoin College' Quad will include' Voices of the Whale In George Crumb anel “La Pnmasera" from Vhaldi's Four Seasons, with picnic suppers. door prizes. raffle tickets, and refreshments available (tickets arc $5 for adults and $2 for children; ram dale is Monday. July 7 at 7 p.m ). 'The Gala Performance at 8 p.m. on 'Thursday. July 22 in Crooker 'Hieater will include Bach's Concerto for Violin. Olxx*. ami Strings in c minor, Brahms' Cello Sonata No. 2 in F Major, and Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 21 m C Major K 467 "FhiM Madigan" (tickets $22 50) 'The Gampci Festival of Contemporary Music will feature works bs resident composers Peter Aslam. Rulx’rt Braser. Sebastian Currier. Daxid leisner.

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26. and 27 at 7.50 p m. in Kresge Auditorium (tukds $8). Box Office: 725-5895 Hariwr Jazz Weekend, Boolhbm Harbor. offers audiences a tempting anas oi lite jazz performances around town Kicking things oft on Fridas. July 11 is a concert bs the 94lh Anns Band at 7:50 p in al Sample's Shipyard (free). Ilie music continue* on Saturday. July 12 with a Jazz Procession featuring Pete Collins’ Jazz Band Ball from 10 a m Io noon. followed bs the Nrx'l Kalchks Quintet at tlx* Rmkhdc Inn from 2 to 5 p m ($5 for adults ami $5 for shrdenh). the Maine Bones at Hshennan’s

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June 13 at 8 p.m.. piano duo Igor Kipnis and Karen Kushner play Brahms’ I.iclx'shcder Waltzes Op. 52a and Hungarian Dances Nos. 1-6. as well as Schulx'it’s Fantasia in f minor D 940 and Divertissement i) I'hongroisc in g minor D 818. Then on Saturday, June 14 at 8 p in . the DaPonlc String Quartet plays Beethoven's Slnng Quartet No. II inf minor Op. 95.

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June 15 al 4 p.m , mezzosoprano Jane Struss and pianist Brian Moll perform Schubert's Div Wintemise D 911. Single tickets cost S10 each in advance or $12 each at ihedooi; a subscription Io all four concerts is $34. Call 6466170.

Jonathan’s Upstairs. 2 Bourne lame. Ogunquit. continues their tradition of providing diverse musical entertainment all season long French-Canadian women's folk artist Uicie Blue Tremblay gels the ball rolling on Friday. June 13 ($15); followed by Peter Wolf (of the J. Ceils Band) on Saturday, July 5 ($15); and the Flirtations—a multi-cultural, gay, a cappclla group -on Friday, July 11 ($15). Nevi, electrifying jazz harpist Deborah Henson-Ouunt performs on Thursday. July 17 ($15); followed by Roger McGuinn (of the Byrds) with Suzanne McDermott on Friday, July IS ($20); and folk diva Patty 1 firkin on Friday. July 25 (SI5). Jonathan Edwards returns on Friday, August I ($20); Suede croons a mixture of jazz, pop, and blues on Fnday, August 8 ($15); and Livingston Taylor returns on Friday , August 15 ($20). Then Alaskan songwriter LibbyRoderick spins musical tales on Friday, August 22 ($15); followed by Mame-grown folk star Dave Mallett on Saturday, September 20 ($15); and the blues of lx?oii Rcdbonc with Mimi Cates on Friday, Octolrer 24 ($20). All shows arc al 9 p.m Call (800)464-9934 or 646-4777 for tickets and dinner reservations.

Colby College, Waterville. The 19th Annual Piano Institute Recital by zknthony di Bonaventura will lake place in lonmer Chapel at 730 p.m on Monday, Julv 7 (admission is $8 for adults arxl S5 for students and seniors). Next up is Al Cores’s Big Band Bash at dusk on Julv 13 at a kxrahon still T13A (free).

Ilie Piano Institute Participant Recital will lx? held in Ixmmcr Chapel at 7 30 p.m. on Thursday, Julv 17 and Fnday. July 18 (free admission). Then the New England Music Camp Pops Concert takes place at 7:30 p.m. on Saturday, August 2 in Wadsworth Gymnasium ($12.50). Robert Edward Smith will give a harpsichord recital on Wednesday, August 13 in Given Auditorium; followed by an organ recital bs John Rose and John Walker on Thursday, August 14 al a location still TBA. and the Church Music Institute Closing Recital on Thursday.

August 15 m lonmer Chapel (all three arc at 7:30 p.m. with free admission). For more information. call 872-3276.

Maine Center for the Arts. University of Maine. Orono, legendan singer-songwriter arxl Maine resident Don Mclean takes the stage at 8 p.m on Saturday. June 28 ($15/$l3), followed by two-time female country vocalist of the year Kathy Matlca al 7 pm on llmrsdav. Julv 10 ($23/$21). To order tickets, call 581-1 755 or SOkMCA-HW (800622-8499).

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Maine Arts. 582 Congress Street. Portland, is sponsoring a senes of free dances on Satmckn nights from 6 to 9.30 p.m. in Congress Square, including a contradance with John McIntire and Winded Peas on June 28. modern dance troupe Island Moving Co visiting from Rhode Island on July 5. a participatory swing dance with the Mainiac Swing Dance Srx-ieh on July 12; a modem dance showcase by Ram Island Dance on Juh 19, a participatory Latin dance with Danza Uitino on Juh 26. a modern dance showcase on August 9. another participatory swing dance with the Mainiac Swing Dance Society on August 16. tap and modem dance by Betsy Dunphv and Dancers on August 23, and another participatory Latin dance with Danza Latino on August 30. For more information. call 772-9012 or (800)639.4212 Maine Audubon Society, Gilsland Farm Environmental Center, Falmouth. Dancers from the Bale's Dance Festival will give the world premiere performances of "Flight’’ —a new sitespecific work by acclaimed choreographers Sara Pearson and Patrik Widng that comprises vignettes linking art and nature at different spots throughout the fields and forest of the sanctuary at 7 p in. on Wednesday, August 13 and at 2 p.m on Saturday.

August 16 (tickets arc $8 for adults and $4 for children). For information and reservations, call 781-2330.

Deertrccs Theatre and Cultural Center, P.O. Box 577, Harrison. Maine Dance Network presents “A Mix" —an evening of dance by Maine performers, including Jay Gilligan, post-modem conceptual juggler, a new work by Portland's Ram Island Dance Company ; IVbi Irons in "Jazz and Blues”; and a combination of rhythm, hip-hop, and modem dance by I larold Philbrook, two-time winner of Dance Portland's Student Choreographer dance showcase, at 8 p.m on Saturday, July 5 (rickets $10). For reservations, call 583-6747 from 1 to 5 pm., Tuesday-Saturday.

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Portland Museum of Art, 7 (Congress Square. Portland “A Matter of Perception: First Annual Juried Exhibition by Artists witli Disabilities" features more than forty paintings, sculptures, draw ings, and pieces of decorative art created by gifted artists with disabilities (through June 15 in the Sweat Galleries).

"Perspectives. 'Ilie Art of the Book" focuses on Maine visual artists who use traditional Ixxik formats such as paper-making calligraphy, binding, watercolors, and typography in creating Ixxjks as artwork (through June 28) Opening June 19 is “Alex Katz Under the Stars American landscapes 1951 -1995." the first retrospective exhibit of Katz’s acclaimed paintings ranging from wxxxlland and beach scenes in Maine to urban scenes in New York City (through September 14). Opening June 28 is "Seurat to Sevenni Masterworks on Paper from the Robert and Maurinc Rothschild Famih Collection" which features more than 30 drawings aixl pnnts by Edgar Degas. Sonia Delaunay.

Paul Gauguin. Julio Gonzalez. Natalia Contcharova. Juan Gris, Paul Klee. Gustav Klimt, Francis Kupka. Hann lumens, Fernand iZger. Henn Matisse, Joan Miro, Piet Mondrian.

Pablo Picasso. Olga Rozanova, Georges Rouault. Georges Scmat. Cino Sevenni. aid Isdouard Vuillard (through October 13). Opening Juh 11. "Andrew Wyeth at 80: A Celebration" fix-uses on tlx.’ artist s work in Maine and features more than 20 watercolors, dn brushes. aixl temperas of landscapes, interiors, and portraits (through October 13). 'Ilie museum is open 10 a m to 5 p m Tucsdav-Saturdav. 10 a m to 9 p.m. ThursdayF’ndav, and noon to 5 p.m. on Sunday From July through Columbus Dav the museum is also open 10-5 on Mondays z\dmission is $6 for adults. $5 for seniors aixl students, and $1 for children 6-12. with free admission for everyone Friday evenings from 5 pm. to 9 pin. Call 773-ARTS or (800)6394067.

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Children’s Museum of Maine, 142 Free Street. Portland 'Hie fun is contagious at the “HA! HA! HA! Liughter Around the World” exhibit, where you can Irani once and for all just what the difference is between a snicker and a chortle; have your own guffaws measured by a laughometer; deposit and withdraw kncxk-kncxks, riddles, and tongue-twisters al the joke bank; or try making an audience roll in the aisles by getting Ixhind the mike at the coined) circus (through September 1997). In a similar vein, the concurrent "HA 1IIA! HA! I Slighter Is Good for You!” exhibit explores the relationship Ixlwcen health and humor via hands-on exhibits such as a pulse meter, the Benefits of laughter board game, and the amazing Face Morphing Box. as well as through special performances by clowns and humorists and informational visits from health care professionals (through September 19*)?). Open WednesdaySaturday 10-5, Sunday 12-5, and the fust Friday evening of every month 5-8 (free admission). Admission is $4 per person For recorded information call 828-1254.

Danforth Gallery, 20-36 Danforth Street, Portland The “Annual Members’ Exhibition of Painting, Works-on-Papcr, Prints, and Fabrics" runs through Sunday. June 29 Opening August 7 is the “Annual Members’ Exhibition of Sculpture and Photography" (through August 30). Meanwhile, the “Forest Git)’ Annual IW Sculpture Exhibition” will lx* on display in Deering Oaks Park from July through October. 'Hie gallery is open 12-4 on Wednesday. Saturday, and Sunday; and 12-8 on llmrsday and Friday (free admission). For more information, call 775-6245.

Salt Gallery, P.O, Box 4077, 17 Pine Street. Portland. “Spring Term Student Work” is a survey of the documentary writing and photography produced by a dozen students from the Salt Center for I'iocumenlan- Held Studies (through July 6). Hie Caller} is open Io the public 2-6 p in. on Wednesdays and Fridays, and 10 a.m.-l p in. on Saturdays (free admission). For more information, call 761-0660.

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Osher Map Library, Smith Center for Cartographic Education, 314 Forest Avenue, Portland. “Maine Wilderness Transformed: Timber. Sporting, and Exploitation of the Moosehcad Lake Region” outlines the mapping and exploration of the wilderness by European settlers, map makers, timber barons, railroad engineers, and sporting enthusiasts from just after the American Revolution through the I‘XXX (through January 4, 1998). I Jbrary hours are 1-4 30 p.m. and (>S p in on Wednesday; 9 a.m.-12:3O p.m and 1-4.30 p.m on 'Hmrsdav; and 9 a.m. -12:30 p.m. on Saturday. Admission is free. Call 7864850.

University of Southern Maine Art Gallery, 37 College Avenue, Gotham. Opening June 21, “Celebrate zMumni! Part One” features new sculptural installations by USM alumni Astrid Bowlby *94, Phil L-onergan, and Lucy Snow '95 (through August I). Callcry hours: Tuesday-Friday 11-4, and 1-4 on Saturdays (free admission). Call 780-5409.

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Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick. "Connections with Antiquity” consists of clay, metal, and paper cut-out panels created by Maine artist George Mason in response to the ongoing exhibit "Art and Life in the Ancient Mediterranean" (through December 23).'Hie galleries are open 10 a m.-5 p.m Tuesday-Saturday and 2-5 pin. on Sunday (free admission).

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Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum, Hubbard Hall. Bowdoin College. Brunswick, displays the fur clothing, snowshoes, pickaxes, knives. guns, and one of the five sledges that Rolxrt E. Peary took to the North Pole, as well as the Eskimo pots and lamps, ivory and soapstone carvings, hunting weapons, clothing, and full-size skin kayak that Donald B. MacMillan encountered on his Arctic explorations Ongoing exhibits include: “S. S’.

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Bates College Museum of Art, Bardwell and Russell Streets, Lew iston. "Paul Heroux: z\ l eu-Year Review of Ceramics" showcases 30 painted ceramic objects created bv the Bates art professor, as well as two of his etchings and the installation photographs of a mural commissioned bv the Department of Marine Resources through the Percent for Art program (through August 15). On display in the lower gallery are “Collection Highlights” and "Abstract Collage" (through August 15). Museum hours: Tuesday-Saturday 10-5 and Suixlay 1-5 (free admission). Call 786-6158.

Maine Maritime Museum, 243 Washington Street, Bath "rankers and Tramps” traces Maine’s historv of building oceangoing steamships (through September 14). “The Schooner Life" is a celebration of the museum’s Percy &■ Small Shipyard and the 100th anniversary of the shipbuilding partnership of Capt. Sam Percy and Donald Small (through December).

“Seafaring from Old Bath” chronicles the ships and shipbuilders of the Kennebec River from the end of the Napoleonic Wars until I860 (ongoing). Museum hours are 9:30-5:00 every day. Admission is $7.50 for adults, $4.75 for children 6-17, and $21 for a family of at least 2 adults and 2 children. For details call 443-1316.

Ogunquit Museum of American Art, P.O. Box 815, Shore Road, Ogunquit. 'Hie 1997 exhibition season begins July 1 with a retrospective of 50 works by thought-provoking realist painter Hnghie lee-Smith (through August 13). Also opening July I is the American W atercolor Society’s 130th National Traveling Exhibition —comprising 50 works by some of its most illustrious mcmlx-rs—and an exhibit of 20 watercolors of Maine seascapes

by John Marin 0xith through August 13). 'Ilie museum will be closed August 14-17 for re-hanging and will reopen August 18 with “Realism in 20th-Century Amencan Painting,” a major survey exhibition focusing on the changing perceptions of realism in 100 works bv William Bailey, Alexander Brook.

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Waterville. "Ilie Wliite I louse Collection of American Crafts" includes nine precious metal pieces, three quilts, seventeen turned wood vessels, sixteen pieces of blow n glass, three pieces of wooden furniture, three baskets, one textile figure form, one piece of jcwclrv. and eighteen ceramic bowls, teapots, and jars hand-crafted bv many of America's most accomplished artisans (through July B). Opening August 6 is an exhibit of the works of Hunt Slonern (through NovemlxT 2). Also on display is an ongoing exhibit of the works of Alex Katz ‘Hie museum is open to the public free of charge 10 a m.-4 50 p in. Monday-Saturday and 2-4 50 p.m on Sunday. Call 872-5228.

Penobscot Marine Museum, Route I and Church Street, Searsport. ’Reflections in Light" showcases American pressed and cut glass from the museum's collections; "Master Craftsman Captain Phineas Banning Blanchard" pays tribute to the eponymous ship-model builder; and Travel to the Pacific Rim" (opening June 20) explores the childhood sea voyages of Lincoln and Joanna Colcord (all through October 15). In celebration of Maine Museum Day, admission is free on Saturday. June 28. Museum hours arc Monday-Saturday 10-5 and Sunday 12-5; admission is $5 for adults, $4 for seniors. $2 for children 7-15, and free for children 6 and under Call 5482529.

Hudson Museum, Maine Center for the Arts, University of Maine, Orono. “Up River: The Story of a Maine Fishing Community" displays Olive Pierce’s photographs of fishing families around Bremen and Vinalhaven. with accompanying text by Maine novelist Carolyn Chute (through July 20).

“Ccviar &• Sea: Peoples of the Northwest Coast" examines the house life, ceremonial life, social life, feasting, potlalching, masked dance pcrfonnanccs. and land and sea harvesting of the hunting-and-gathering peoples of the Pacific Northwest via secret society animal masks, ceremonial robes, crest hats, bentwood boxes, whaling baskets, harpoons, feast bowls, horn spoons, rattles, arxl while cedar plalfonns that evoke the interior of the region’s great plank houses (ongoing). ‘Hie museum is open 9 am.-4 p.m., Tuesdav-Fridav and II a m.-4 p.m.

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Friday-Saturday and at 2 p.m on Sunday Casco Steppes presents a sparkling evening of political and social satire at 8 p in. on June 28. and Reindeer'Dicatcr Company pays musical tribute to “America's sweetheart," Connie Francis, with Among My Souvenirs al 2 pm on June 29 Then another Beebe musical still ‘IBA will plav July 4-20 at 8 p.m. Fndav-Saturdav anti at 2 p.m on Surxlav Tickets to all shows arc $10 for adults and $8 for students ami seniors. For more information, call 7612465.

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many stars such as Ali MacGraw and Eiv Ullmann and performs year-round in a converted stationhouse on the old Bclfast-Mooschead railroad tracks overlooking the waterfront in Belfast. lurM up is Middle-Aged White Guys by Jane Martin —a bizarre, comic reunion of three brothers that even includes an Eh is sighting —double-billed with Martin's Pomp and Circumstance. an acerbic consideration of the role of the artist in society (June 12-15. 20-22, 27-29, and July 4-6). The next pnxluction is Fonnvr Plaid, Ross and Raitt's delightfully goofy musical comedy alxiul four male singers who. killed in a car crash, are reincarnated and continue their careers (August 7-10, 14-17, and 21-24). All performances are al 8 p.m. Tickets are $12 for musicals. $10 for plays, and $6 for students. For reservations and infonnation call 338-9668.

Carousel Music Theatre. Looking for cabaret-style entertainment this summer? Head to scenic mid-coast Boolhbay Harbor to be wined, dined, and sung to by the waitstaff while taking in a vintage Broadway show—all for $22.

The Carousel Music 'llicalrc “on the meadows" offers a taste of the good old days in a turn-of-tfic-cenlury atmosphere with original shows created by Dominic Caney. In this, their 22nd year, the Carousel is offering Uh, Uh, Uh...Dant Touch That Dial!—a look inside a radio studio during the Golden Era of Radio—through most of June. Then A Fractured Fairy Tale gives colorful renditions of Grimms Fairy Tales (June 5(LAugust 2). The Best Things In I ife Are Free takes a look back al carefree American collegiate life (throughout August); and Broadway's My Beat, opening Septemlxrr 8, serves up American music at ils best, with a rich blend of pop music, folk lunes, opera, and Nashville country songs. For reservations, call 633-5297.

Dccrtrees Theatre and Cultural Center, P.O. Box 577, Harrison. 'Hits magnificent 500-seat, antique wooden opera house was built in the thick woods of I larrison by Enrica Clay Dillon, Clark Cable’s sister-in-law. Since then it has come full circle from attracting Broadway’s finest in 1936 to attracting only porcupines in the 1980s to gaining slate and national Historic landmark status in 1988. 'Ilie 61st season gets under way with die lake Region Community Theatre's production of Rodgers and Hammerstein's evcr-popular Oklahoma! (June 2629), followed by What Doesn't Kill Us, a romantic comedy about a woman, her lover, her dale, her waiter, and her psychiatrist (July 1). 'Hie Maine Storytelling Festival features John McDonald, Kendall Morris, Cary Croker, and C. Spencer spinning laics to delight audiences of all ages (July 12). Next Vintage Repertory Company presents Marriage, Clara Armand's adaptation of Gogol's side-splitting, farcical look al matrimony (July 18-19). Following that, ‘ Scribners Mills Back to the Past” comprises narration and fixing tableaux retracing the life of ]av Scribner at the Mill in I larrison as performed by people from the area (August 3). In My Head I'm Thin is an original play that uses comedy, original songs, slides, and lifesize reproductions of classic nude paintings in a light hearted and insightful examination of women and Ixxly image (August 15). 'Phen The Rainforest is an all-day interactive event using music and media Io transform the Maine wixxls into a living rainforest (August 22). The Benny Reehl Benefit Show combines music, theatre, dance, comedy, and vaudeville Io raise money Io offset the considerable costs of Roehl's stroke recovery (August 29). Lastly, Figures of Speech Theatre presents their Broadway production of Nightingale — an adaptation of Hans Christian Andersen's classic tale using basswrxxl puppets, actors, and original live music (August 30).

Most shows begin al 8 p.m., and tickets to most shows cost $10.

For reservations, call 583-6747 from 1 Io 5 p.m., TuesdaySaturday Frcc|x>rt Players is a year-round operalion that puts on a musical al Freejiort High School each summer. 'Phis year's offering, Oliver, showcases the talents of the twelve children playing Oliver Twist and Dickens’ other Ixmdon orphans torn lx*tween grxxl and evil adult influences as they struggle to learn the art of street survival (August 1-2 and 8-9 at 7:30 p.m., with a single Sunday matinee at 2 p.m on August 3). Barbara Jacks, founder and president of this ten-year-old company, directs every play and has scrublred many a stage as well. She says proudly , “I don't paint or sculpt -I communicate. There is nothing so gratifying as seeing the audience respond and burst out in laughter—it is so physical.” Tickets arc $10 for adults and $8 for students and children For tickets and infonnation, call 865-6041.

Grand /Viditorium, Main Street in Ellsworth On July 13, 1938, 'Hie Ellsworth American announced the landmark Grand Theater's gala opening “The house has been tastefully appointed, patron comfort and enjoyment Ircing uppermost in tiic mind of the builders..." But as time wore on, this illustrious theater of the silver screen fell slowly into ruins and was temporarily abandoned when fire and flood shut her doors in

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■ LISTINGS ■ the carl\ I97(K. Fortunately. in I975 the ('.rand was rescued Irom demolition and is once again lx*coming a jewel in die community This summer, the ('.rand will host a variety of avant-garde films, staixl-up performances. live foil, blues, aixl zydeco Tickets are $5 for adults and $4 for seniors and students In addition, a Gillx.it and Sullivan operetta will be* performed July IMI (and possibly Julv 12); tic kets arc SI2 for adults and $9 for seniors and students. For information and movie listings, call the Ixh office at (>67-95(X).

Hackmatack Playhouse. Route 9. Berwick Cow names like “Ethel” and "Dottie” still visible on the bam wall are proof positive* that this theater formedv entertained an entirch different clientele. Ilie playhouse, a ixHnertixl dairy bain fitted out with a stage and real theater seats, is si tinted on a farm that has been owned by the (mptill family since* the mid l690s.

Sandy Giipli!l says the bnn is known for its American summer theater as well as lor the home-grown strawlx*rn<5 (compkle with shortcake) sened dunng intermission 'Ilie* 26th season gets off to a sure-fire* start with the* Rodgers and Hammerstein classic Carousel (June 24-29 and July 1-5). Nevi it’s Run For Your Wife, a sidesplitting British farce by Rav Cooney (Juh 813 and 15-19) Then there’s Sweeney Todd. Stephen Sondheim's macabre* musical alxmt the “Demon Barber of Fleet Street” (Julv 22-27 and Julv 29-Augusl 2). and the perciiially popular Gillx*rt and Sullivan operettaTAe Pirates of Penzance (August 5-10 and 12-16). Hie season finale is Ira Ivsin'sDeathtrap . a thriller that is especially chilling when performed in a small theater (August 19-24 and 26-31)). Curtain is at 8 p in 'Umrvlav-Sundav. with additional 2 p m matinees on Sundays June 29. July B and 27. August 10 and 24 'Hiere will also Ik* a children's the-atre senes Julv 11 -August 9 Tickets cost $13-$16 For information and reservations, call 698-1807.

Jonathan’s Uptairs, 2 Bourne* l^ne. Ogunquit. |oins forces with Shenanigans Productions to present Tatty X" Tina's Wedding every Wednesday at 8 p in. July 2-Septemlx*r 3. ,\t tins dinner the*ater production, the audience is invited to join the cast of 20 for the* vows, champagne march, dinner, group dances, cake-cutting liouquet throwing, and more* (tickets exist $29 95, including the wedding reception dinner and cake).

Meanwhile, on Sunday nights at 8 p.m Ogtmquit Productions presents Israel Horovittz’ comic drama Park Your Car in Harvard Yard July B and 27 and August 10 and 17; and A R Gurney's poignant comedy love letters Julv 20 and August 3 (tickets $8). ('all G4<>4777 or 6466825 for tickets.

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lakewotxl 'Theater majestically wears the crown as Maine's oldest summer theater, as well as the title of the Official Theater of the State of Mame by virtue of reigning on the lx*aulitul shorn of Like Wesscrunsctt. six miles north of Skowhegan, for the past % years. Its remote location has not prevented the theater from attracting its share of celebrities—John Travolta.

John Barrymore, and lama Turner arc but a few 'Ilie New England premiere of Jungle Queen Debutante. a giddy spoof of 1950s musicals, will bounce into kikcwixxl June 19-21 and 26 28, with matinees on June 22, 25. arxl 28 Xcxt, laughter On The 23rd Floor. by Xeil Simon, is a comedy of wnlers set in 1953 dunng television's Golden Age (July 3-5 arxl 10-12, with matinees on July 6. 9. and 12). 'Ihen Moon Over Buffalo, by Ken I aidwig is the comical saga of a veteran acting troupe on tour in the hinterlands (July 17-19 and 24-26. with matinees July 20. 23. and 26) Rrxlgcrs ami Hammerstein’s irresistible Sound Of Music needs no explanation (July 3)-August 2 and August 7-9, with matinees August 3, 6, arxl 9). Following that, A R Gurney’s Sylvia centers around the touching complications that ensue when a middle-aged man unexpectedly brings home a dog (plavcd by a sexy young woman) he has picked up in llic park —much to the dismav of his wife (rXugust 14-16 and 21-23 with matinees August 17, 20. and 23). 'Ihen Return Engagements is a romantic comcds bv Bernard Slade about win unlikely opposites do indeed attract (August 28-30 and September 4-6. with matinees August 31, Scptemlx-r 3 arxl 6). 'lire season closes with Funny Money bv Ray Cooney, who is arguably England’s funniest living playwright (September 11-13 and 18-20. with matinees September 14. 17, and 20). l^kewood Theater also offers a Young Performers’ Camp for children June 2S-August 9; to enroll, call 4"4-5S4S All evening shows arc at 8 p.m 'IhursdaySaturday, and all matinees are al 2 p m Tickets arc $16 for adults and $15 for children 12 and under, season tickets arxl discounts arc available Box office 474-7176 Mad Horse Theatre Company. 955 Forest Venue. Portl.uxl, now m its 12th season, boastsan intimate 120seats and Maine's only resident theatre ensemble 'Ihis summer’s production otMisery is the Mame premiere of Simon Morse's adaptation of Stephen King's novel about a besl-scllmg author of romance novels who is injured in a terrible car accident on a lonely mountain road and winds up in the home of his “Number One Fan" —a nurse with a mysterious and disturbing past (July 17-

■ LISTINGS ■ August 17). Performances are Thursday at 7:30 p.m., briday and Saturday al 8 p.m., and Sunday at 5 p.m. 'rickets cost $18 for adult and $16 for students and seniors, except on Saturdays, when they arc $20618. Call 797-3338.

Maine State Music 'llrcatrc’s impressive musical productions take place just off Maine Street in Brunswick on the beautiful campus of Bow doin College, where many aspiring professionals have tested their wings on the stage of Pickard 'Ilieatcr. 'Ilie 39th season opens with Meredith Wilson’s The Music Man (June 10-21) and continues with Stephen Sondheim’s Sweeney Todd (June 24July 5), followed by Lerner and Loewe’s Camelot July 8-26). Next up is the Who’s rock opera Tommy alxjul young British “Pinball Wizard" Tommy Walker (July 29August 9). 'J he season closes with the loug-nmning Broadway hit A Chorus Ijne , featuring songs by Marvin Hamlisch and choreography by Michael Bennet (August 12-23). For tickets, subscriptions, and information, call 725-8769.

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Oik Street Hieatre, 92 Oak Street, P.O. Box 5201. Portland Vintage Repertory Company celebrates British comedy with Mixed Doubles. a side-splitting pairing of I larold Pinter’s zany comedy The Lover with Michael Frayn’s marital farce Chinamen (through June 15). Twice baked and Perpetually Unplugged! is an evening of outrageous characters and political satire created by comedienne Judith Sloan (June 19-21).

Durang, Durang (Part II ), produced by Dark Water Iheatre Company, is a second potpourri of hilariously anarchic one-acts

by Christopher Durang (July 10-August 3). laming the Savages. by local playwright John Nichols, is an exploration of how civilization is like an oatmeal cookie (August 7-17). Concluding this summer’s offerings is a new off beat comedy by Dan Remmcs entitled What Doesn’t Kill Us (August 21-31). 'Pickets are $12 for adults and $10 for students and seniors. 'Ilierc will also be an open poetry reading hosted by Steve Luttrell of Cafe Review magazine at 8 p.m. on Monday . June 30, with sign-up at 7:30 p.m. ($2). Box office: 775-5103.

Ogimquit Playhouse. Heading North on Route 1 from York affords you a gcxxl view of the Oqimquit Play house, a 750-seat, whitewashed, restoreri bam surrounded by manicured rolling law ns aid sculpted hedges. Broadway showman W alter Hartwig purchased the former W'care farm in 1937 and transformed it into a state-oPhc art theater. All the big stars have performed here, earning it the title of “America’s Foremost Summer Theater." 'Ilie season opens with Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Carousel . set in Maine and starring Broadway’s George Dvonky and Edwardyne Cowan (Jtme23-Julv 5). Ncxt.Crace and Clone, by Torn Ziegler is a heartwarming comcdv starring Pat Carroll arxl Bonnie Franklin as two strong-willed women of different generations whose paths cross in a Virginia mountain cabin (July 7-19). In the midst of summer’s heat, the Play house will offer Agatha Christie’s chilling mystery thriller Spider's Web 0uly 21- August 2). 'Ihen Broadway stars Izc Rov Reams and Florence Iacey pay tribute Io the man who wrote I lello, Dolly!, la Cage aux Tolles, and Mame in a new musical revue entitled z\n Evening with ferry Herman (August 4-August 16). 'Ihc last show of the season, Ken I atdwig’s 1995 Broadway hit comedy Moon Over buffalo, revolves around a mediocre touring company in the 1950s and stars Cavin Macleod of “Marv Tvler Moore Show" and "lx>ve Boat" fame (August 18-30). Curtain is at 8 p.m Monday-Saturdav, with matinees at 2:30 p.m. on Wednesday and Ihursday All seats for all performances are $24. Box Office- 646-5511.

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■ LISTINGS ■ 8 pin Wednesday-Sunday. Bring vour own blankets and lawn chairs, or sit on the bleachers Kath evening picnicking is encouraged. and local restaurants provide affordable food while Renaissance dancing, madrigal singing. Higgling, sword plav. and a special children’s orientation enliven pre-show time. A variety ol Shakespearean and musical theater workshops for children are also offered in conjunction with the festival Tickets cost $5. Call 924-HB. Portland Players, 420 Cottage Road. South Portland Sloppy, amiable Oscar and compulsively neat helix struggle to survive rooming together in Neil Simon's classic comcdv The Odd (Mtple (through June 14 al 8 p m Fridas -Saturday 01x1 at 230 pm on Sunday). Tickets cost SB Call 799-7357.

Portland Stage Compam, 25A Forest Avenue, places strong emphasis on the sup|x>rt of theater artists and the development of new plavs Contrary Io what one might expect from the title, their first summer musical ever —Dus Harbccu by Scott Warrender and Jun Lings —has little to do with America’s favorite style of summertime cookccv, but is rather an irreverent spoof of Wagner’s Ring Cycle set in Texas, where Icmpestcrosscd lovers Siegfried and Brunnhilde two-step their wav m pursuit of love, happiness, and a magical nng of gold (Julv 6 to August 5). Tickets cost $19-29. with discounts available for students, seniors, and groups. Box Office 7744)465.

Round Top Center For 'Ilie Arts 'Hie view is still the same from this 1915 homestead on Business Route 1 in Damariscotta rolling fields, orchards, and sweeping views of the Damariscotta River But the dairy cows that were the principal inhabitants of the once prosperous farm arc long gone, and nowadays the staff claims that its high arched uxif gives the 200-seat, converted cow bam “better acoustics than Ilie old Portland Auditorium? ‘Ibis thriving, non-profit center for the performing arts is a year-round hotlied of theater classes, productions, workshops, concerts, and art exhibits for the surrounding area 'Hus summer there will l>c several theater workshops for children, as well as outdoor jazz concerts, exhibits, lectures, poctrv readings, and other special events. 'Die highlight of the summer is Round l op Festival Dav on Julv 26. complete with an Epic Brass concert and the 9th annual craft fair. For mere information, call 565-1507.

Saco River Grange Hall, Salmon Falls Road. Bar Mills The Wizard of Oz meets Motown in the Originals’ production of the'Tony Award-winning, super-soul musical The Wiz (July 2526. July 51-August 2. and August 7-9 at 730 p.m. 'lliursdavSaturday). 'Pickets are $9 for adults and $7 for students and seniors, with pav-what-vou-can night on 'llmrsdav ('all 9296472.

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Springvale. 'Ilie sensational farce No Sei Please We're Hnlish nuts through June 21 Dien the 60s arc back with Hair (July 10-26)—can you dig it?- and the nuns return in Slunsensc II (August 1430) Following that is Moments (SeplemlxT 5-6). In keeping with long-standing tradition, the season ends with a mystery. Agatha Christie’s hair-raising Ten l.itt/c Indians (September I9-Odobcr 4). And don’t miss the annual I billoween thriller this year it's Dracula - 100 years old and still undead (OcIoImt 24-NovemlxT 8). ('all >24-%9l for show times and ticket prices.

Hieater at Monmouth Nestled in the folds of bucolic hills, apple orchards, and lakes along Route 202 is a gem of a summer theater elegantly adorned with stained glass, roerx'o plasterwork, and ccilmg murals. Victurian-shle (himston Hall was built in 1902, pnmanlv as an opera house, but also with space for a town hall and library ‘The 275-scal facility is acoustically perfect, and no one is ever more than twelve rows from the stage. Monmouth was designated "Maine's Shakespearean Hieater" by the slate legislature in recognition of its outstanding dramas, and each summer Monmouth's loval cast of seasoned actors returns from theaters in New York aiul on the West Coast to |x-rfonn in rolling repertory, alternating daily in different parts m a different plays A Midsummer Sight's Drram (opening Julv 2) and Ilamlet (opening Juh 20) are this summer’s Shakespearean offerings, with Moliere’s classic comedy The M/ser (opening Julv 10) and William Nicholsons Shadinelands — Ixised on the hie of (7 S. lewis (opening Julv 29) - rounding out the season I here will also lx* a children's show. Aladdin, opening Xugust 10 Evening shows start at 8 p.m . and matinees arc al 2 p m Tickets are $24 for Opening Night. $20 for adults. $18 for senior, and for matinees, aixl Si4 lor students. Tickets for the children’s show arc $7 lor adults arid vj tor children ('all the Ixix office al 955-97)9 for show dates.

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Portland Symphony Orchestra, P.O. Box 3573, 20 Myrtle Street. Portland, presents their annual scries of outdoor "Independence Pops" concerts, this year saluting John Philip Sousa and the l(X)th anniversary of his immortal march “Stars and Stripes Forever” with “Semper Fidelis." "Ilie Washington Post March." “'Ilie 'HuuKlerer,” "Fl Capitan,” “'Hie Liberty Bell," and more, followed by a fireworks display at each concert Performances arc on Wednesday, July 2 at 7:30 p m at'Diomas Point Beach in Bnmswick (ram site: Bath Junior I ligh School), on 'llmrsday, July 1 at 7:30 p.m. at Fort Williams Park in Cape Elizabeth (rain site: Cumberland County Civic Center); on Friday. July 4 at 7:30 p.m on the grounds of Mt Blue High School in Fannington (rain site: Mt Blue High School Gvm); and on Saturday. July 5 al 7:30 p.m. at Shawnee Peak in Bridgton (rain site: lake Region High School). Advance tickets arc $14 for adults, $40 for a family of four, and $12 for children, seniors, and groups of 10 or more. At the gate they are $20, $50, and $15. Call PortTix at 842-0800 for tickets.

Friends of the Kotzschmar Organ, P.O. Box 7455, Portland, rc-commences their annual summer series of 7:30 p.m Tuesday evening organ concerts on the mighticr-than-cver, newly restored Kotzschmar organ in the new Merrill Auditorium in City Hall. 'Illis year’s organists are Portland Municipal Organist Ray Cornils and the Kotzschmar Festival Brass on June 17. Douglas Rafter on June 24, Fred Hohman on July I, Robert MacDonald on July 8; I larold Stover on July 15; Bcrj Zamkochian on July 22; Walt Strony on July 29. John Weaver on August 5; Michael Stairs on August 12; Cordon Turk on August 19; and Alan Morrison on August 26.

(Admission is by suggested $5 donation at the doorjlliere will also be a scries of free, hour-long organ demonstrations and tours starting at noon on Thursdays June 26, July 10. and August 7 and 21 For birther information, call 774-3427.

Portland Ojnra Repertory llicatrc, P.O Box 7733. Portland, presents a fully staged and costumed production of Puccini’s Tosca with live orchestra and organ in the newly renovated and air-conditioned Merrill Auditorium in City Hall on 'Huirsday, July 24 and Saturday. July 26 at 8 p m. (tickets $15-$45). Opera run-out concerts will be performed around the state by members of the company at the Peaks Island Music Association on Wednesday. July 9; at Dccrtrces Theatre in Harrison on Friday, July 11; at Round Top Center for the Arts in Damariscotta on Saturday, July 12; at the Temple in Ocean Park on Sunday, July 13; and at the Camden Opera I louse on 'Hnirsday. July 17. POR'I’s apprentices will perform in recital on Wednesday, July 23 at a location still TBA Call PortTix at 842-0800 for tickets; call 7~4-4536 for additional information.

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lifelong home of General Neal Dow. Iwo-time mayor of Portkiiul aix! an active Prohibitionist, aliolihonist, and advocate of prison reform and women's rights Bruit in 1829, the late Kcdcral-stvle mansion features furnishings of varied periods original to the house, portraits and other fine paintings, specially-designed ornamental irotiwoik, and memorabilia of Dow’s military and political careers. Now admmisteied by the Mame W omen’s Christian Temperance I Inion, the house is open Mondav-bndav, II am.-4 p in sear-round for guided toms with no admission charge, ('all 7~T777>.

Tate House, 1270 WeMbuxik Shed. Portland Starting June IS, l ate House will be open to the public Tuesday-Satmdav, 10 a in -4 pin . and 14 pm. on Sunday through September SO (open l*ndav-Sundav through October). The elegant 1755 daplxiard house was the residence of (Captain George Tale, a senior mast agent foi the British Koval Navy, and features an unusual clciestorv in the gambrel r<x>f and an I Slh-ccntury herb garden ovcil<x>kmg the Stroudwater Kiser During July and August, walking tours of histone Slmudwaler will lie offeied on Tuesdays al 10:50 a m , and there will Ik* garden toms and lea served m the garden on Wednesdays from 10 a m Io 4 p m hi addition, all season long there wdl lx- "Murder of Man Tale” lours (she died in the house) al 1030 a in on Kridavs, and "Architectural Koens Tours” examining the structure from basement to attic at 1:15, 2:15, and 5:15 p.m on Saturdays.

Admission is $4 for adults and $1 lor children under 12 ('all 774-9781 for additional inionnation.

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Poilland. was started bv Landmarks Advisors Service, a volunteer group that otters technical advice on historic buildings II houses the most extensive collection of preservation books. pcntxlicals. and files north of Boston Ilie library is open Monday Kndav from 9 a m Io 5 p m. (except holidays) and is usually staffed on Mondav mornings and Thursday afternoons. Km more information, call Greater Portland Lmdmarks al “74-5561.

Baxter Museum, 67 South Street. Gorham, is housed in the 1851 birthplace of James Phinney Baxter, mayor of Portland, governor of Mame, and philanthropist extraordinaire. Open Tuesdays and 'Ibursdayx from 10 a m. to 2 p.m in July and August (or bv appointment), the museum displays Baxter family items aixl memorabilia, articles and artifacts relating to Gorham history, Civil War artifacts, and portraits and paintings.

Donations are gratefully accepted. CTali 859-5051.

Marrett House, Route 25. Standish, is a late Georgian house (1789) that reflects through its architecture, furnishings, and family heirlooms the evolution of tastes and patterns of living over the 150 years il remained in the Marrett family The grounds include an extensive herb and perennial garden.

House tours are given on Saturday and Sunday on the hour from 11 a m. Io 4 p.m. (through OcIoIxm 15); admission is $4 for adults. $5.50 for seniors, and $2 for children. Call 642-5052 for more information Peary’s Eagle Island. Casco Bay, Harpswdl, is the site of zXdmiral Rolled E. Peary ’s summer home and library. June 15 through labor Day from 9 a m to sunset you can visit the house of the first man to reach the North Pole, explore the wxxxlsv island trails, beachcomb, and watch for seals (admission is $1.50 for adults, 50e for children 5-11, and free for seniors over 65 and children under 5). To get there, bring your own Ixiat. or call Eagle Tours in Portland at 774-6498 (daily fourhour tours leaving from long Wliarf at 10 a.in. cost $15 for adults. $12 for seniors, and $9 for children) or Atlantic Seal Cmises in South Freeport at 865-6112 (three-hour narrated tours including lobstering demonstrations depart from Freeport Town Wliarf at 9:50 am. and 1:50 p.m. and cost $20 for adults and $15 for children, including park fee and parking).

Pejepscot Museum, 159 Park Row. Brunswick, features changing exhibits on local history drawn from a collection of about 50,(XX) artifacts and over 2O.(XX) local photographs. Ilie museum is open Monday-Saturday. 9 a m -4 50 p in (free admission). A combined visit to all three museums exists $6 for adults and $5 for children. Call 7296606 for more information Skolficld-Whittier House, 161 Park Row, Brunswick, is a 17r<x>m time capsule that contains intact Victorian furnishings, decorations, and fixtures, as well as numerous items from sea captain Alfred Skolficld’s vovages to Europe and Asia and from the twenty years he spent living in England. Ilie house is open Tuesday-Kndav, 10 a in -5 p.m . and 10 am.-4 p m. on Saturday (through September). Admission is $4 for adults and $2 for children Joshua I. Chamberlain Museum, 226 Mame Street, is located in the Civil War hero’s partially restored 1820s home, which was expanded vertically tn 1871 when Chamlx'rhin raised the existing Cape Crxl eleven feet off the ground and inserted a

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Taylor-Barry House, 24 Summer Street, Kennebunk This 1803 sea captain's home opens for the season on June I" and features an onginal stenciled hallway, four furnished period rooms, and a 20th-century artist’s studio. I lours are TuesdayFndas, 1-4 pm. (through 1 .abor Dav), admission is S3 for adults anti free for children. Call 985-4802.

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Nickels-Sortwcll House, Main Street and Federal Street, Route 1. Wiscasset. ‘Diis elegant Fedvral-shle mansion, built in 1807 by ship owner and trader W illiam Nickels, feature's Colonial Revival furnishings and a three-ston elliptical stairway topped with a skylight House tours arc offered even hour on the hour Wednesday-Sunday from II a m. io 4 pm. (through Octol>cr 15). Admission is $4 For more infonnation call 8826218.

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Sarah Ome Jewett House, 5 Portland Street, South Berwick Maine writer Sarah Ohio Jewett spent most of her life in this statelv Georgian residence owned by her family since* 1819 and furnishe*d with an eclectic combination of 18th-century antiques and wallpapers and mrxlcni furniture* influenced by the Arts and Crafts movement House tours start on the hour Wednesday-Sunday from II a m io 4 p.m (through Octolier 15). Admission is $4 for adults. $3 50 for seniors, and $2 for children Call (603) 436-3205 Miswllmn-ous Greater Portland landmarks, 165 Slate Street, Portland 'Ilie annual West EikI House and Garden Tour will lake place on Saturday. June 28 from 10 a m. to 3 30 p m. Tickets cost $20.

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Special events include a 'Dieramin Jam al 2 p.m. on June 18; a Cav and lesbian Pride I jghls Concert al 8 pm on June IS; Pret & Portland—Portland's funkiest fashion show—from noon to 4 p.m. on June 21; a preview of Dark Waler Theater's production of During Durung at noon on Jinx? 27; 'I ales from the Village Story tellers Festival on June 28 at a time'IBA. 3rd of July Country Jamboree with music, barbecue, and linedancing from noon to 9:30 p m. on Juls 3, a concert by the Elmhurst College Jazz Band al 7 p.m. on July 15; Bhintfesl on WMPG 90.9 JAI hosting teen talent contest winners from 7 Io 9 p.m. on July 28, Urban Artist Day II sponsored bv Amcncorps at noon on August 9. a Portland Fock! Festival fundraising for food security in Maine from 6 to 9 p.m. on Scplemlx*r 11, and One World Portland, a celebration of Portland’s many ethnic cultures with international music, dance, focxl. arxl art from 10 a m to 4 p.m. on September 13 Thursday night radio talk shows on WMPG 90.9 FM feature current events from 7 30 to 8:15 p.m_, followed b\ concerts from 8 15 to 9:30 p.m Guests include: Maine rock band the Boneheads on June 26; the Bealroots gypsv rexk on July 10, the Eleanor Heals Jazz Quartci on Juls 17; a preview of Maine Festival prefonners on Juk 24; Rev. Margaret Ijwsou and the Gospel Explosion with the Green Memorial Mass Choir on Juls 31; Litin jazz In Who’s I’Joun on August 7, world beat trio SisTAA on August 14. folk rock by Rubs on August 21; aixi Jason Ricci’s blues on \ugust 28. Youth .Mts Nights are on Fridays from 6 to 9 30 p m . and feature a dance parts’ with Vitamin C on June 27; Bhmlfcst teen talent competitions on July 11. 18. aixl 25; rollerbladc and skalelxiard demos on August 8. a jazz and blues jam with the Hot Tomato Band on August 15. Youth Variety Arts Night on August 22; and the movie Saturday S'ighf Fcwr on August 29 'Die Sundas afternoon community concerts from 2 Io 4 p m. feature local performers, including the Slate* Street Traditional Jazz Band playing New Orleans Dixieland on June 29. the Saccarappa Boss performing popular classics on Juls 6; the Rosal Riser Philharmonic Jazz Barxl performing Ness Orleans Dixieland on July 13. the Community Orchestra of the Portland Symphony on Juls 20; popular classics from the Old rune Music Makers on July 27; Broadway favorites by Seaglass Performing Arts on August 10; the Rosal Riser Chorus —a female a cappclh group —on August 17; Back Io Basics bluegrass on August 24. and a Golden Age Talent Show featuring Portland's creative senior citizens on August 31 For more infonnation, call "*’2-<X)|2 or (Si K))639-4212.

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George Hamm’s Coined) Showcase presents 6 different comedians from all over the East Coast each w eek ($6). Drinks and a light menu of appetizers and sandwiches are available while performers such as Anthony Clark, Vinnie Favorite, and Mike McDonald strut their stuff on stage. Don’t miss Portland’s King of Comedy Bob Marley and IIBO’s Rich Geisler on Friday. June 13 and Saturday, June 14! Reservations are suggested 774-5554.

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■ LISTINGS ■ waiting for a finder. Ilie highway has alwap Ikcu an antiques haven. Much comes to market from the vast New England hinterland, from old farmhouses and sea captains’ homes. 'These listings will help you nx>t out some of these unique antiques shops as well as discover factory outlets, legends, scenic spots, natural landmarks, obscure curses, and much more.

klllery ’Today, modern submarines built at Kiltcry’s Portsmouth Naval Shipyard have replaced William Pepperell’s golden barge and John Paul Jones’s ship Ranger, which was built here. 1 low things have changed But the most dramatic recent changes in Kittery’s landscape have occurred along the King’s 1 lighway over the last decade.

“Many of the old summer cottages and cabins tliat lined the road are gone,’’ remarks Marcia Beverly, speaking of Route 1 in Kittery*. “z\ few years ago, the last of the old-

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sporting grxxls. You will find guns, archer)' cc|uipment, fishing gear, canoes, and snowshoes, along w ith men’s and women’s clothing, jewelry. Maine-made gifts, and dog training equipment. 'Ihey also sell scents to attract just about any game pu want to shoot. Just sprinkle a little in your front yard and enjoy the hunt without leaving the brcakfirst table.

York What’s the oldest chartered citv in America 7 If you answered New York, pm’re half right. York, Maine, was chartered in 1641, and the Old York Historical Society has one of the finest assemblages of historic homes in Maine (Route 1A).

'Ihe perfect place for lunch is the Goldenrod on the road to York Beach (Route 1A), where you can sip a lime rickcy in a frosted glass in a metal holder while you watch taffy lx.*ing pulled in the w indow and devour fixxl you just can’t fix at home. The taffy is fresh and rxldlv hypnotic as it stretches from side to side, and the atmosphere of deep varnish and fireplace recalls Maine summers of old Just up the wav, at the York Wild Animal Kingdom, sec a rare w hite liger and other fellow creatures in the park and then travel this coastal road a s|xll. 'Hie grey fieldstonc churches along this mad look out to the sea and bear an eerie resemblance Io the ancient, windswept outposts on remote parts of the British Isles.

Ogun quit The only foot-drawbridge in the United States is in Ogunqmt It spans Perkins Cove and then follows the Marginal wav. Marginal Way has no [xer as an (xcanic walkway. It has benches at strategic spots w ith wild roses and exotic, imported hardwoods growing in the rocky crags along the walk. Ogunquit means “Beautiful place by the sea” in Algonquin, but in this case it is an understatement.

Barnacle Billy’s is the shellfish lovers’ paradise here, w ith lovely views of the tuna and lobster-fishing fleets and the happy sound of raucous shucking as lobster carcasses and clams head out to the dumpster under the stars.

■ LISTINGS ■ Back on Route 1, check out the Ogunquit Playhouse.

It's Iktii there since 195? and has drawn many of the greatest names in movies and theater to jK-rform, from Bette Davis (who used to work summers here as a waitress) to Shirley Booth. It still puts on fixe shows a summer, and the immaculately manicured grounds and topiary shrubs are worth a look even if you can’t stay for the show.

Next, on your left, is The Viking, an ice cream smorgasbord that was possibly the first in the country to treat dessert like a salad bar. Back in the early sixties, when this place was designed and launched, it was on the cutting edge of trend, as Ixild and suqmsing as the IBM Selectric 2. It’s vaulting Nordic ceilings and delicious tastes make it a fun stop as well as a Ixumtifully maintained time ciqisule.

WA Wells has seven miles of beaches. You might lx? in the (Caribbean—except tliat the water is cold enough to kill a penguin. Hit the brakes if you’re driving past the Milestone Motel right now. Jeff Desjardins from the front desk is alxmt to tell you where you can find a real King’s Highway marker lalxjlcd “B 89 1769." The letter B denotes lioston, the numlx.T 89 indicates the distance in miles to that city, and 1769 is the date of the marker.

“Heading north, just before the motel, is the Captain 'IItouuis Road. Take a left and follow it up a slope to the first intersection and take a right on that road. Drive a few hundred feet down that and you’ll sec the marker obscured by overgrowth, but it’s there. It’s shaped roughly like a diamond," Jeff says. We arc now entering the Gold Coast of antique stores and flea markets that have transformed the Wells to Kennebunk stretch of Route 1. lire best stops arc MacDougalLCionct Antiques and Associates, heavy in Salem, Boston, and New York period furniture as well as Chinese export porcelain, and Jorgensen's, which has a huge, museum-like inventor}’ of top-end Federal furniture. 'Hicre’s a wonderful Colonial garden behind the old farmhouse where you can relax in what seems a different world In cxMitnil Wells, enjoy a pile of homemade doughnuts at Congdon’s. Hicse have

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Further up the line, book lovers will love a stop at Douglas Harding Rare Books, which has a vet} - deep collection and is located in the old W'clls train station.

Your next stop in W'clls involves a right turn onto laudholm Fann Road. If you want to sec an incredibly preserved oceanfront farmhouse, this is an experience that cannot lx? equalled laudholm Fann is now home to a 1,600-acre estuarial research reserve. There arc seven miles of trails for hiking, and a large deer herd grazes frcch in the fields alxmt the sanctuary. 'Ilie farm was one of the first settlements in Wells, and a building from 1717 houses a visitor’s center and current exhibits concerning the ecological importance of estuaries Lindholm's grounds are open until 5 every day, visitor’s center from 10-4, with a $5 parking fee.

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You’ve Ixvn driving past it for years. And anyone who continues to wear blinders while driving through Biddeford, training their eyes solely on jxiints north, will surely miss this Route 1 enigma —the ancient house on Route I that calls itself Club Voltiguer Ihe downstairs windows are blackened, and alxne the front drxir a faded coat of arms rests. Hie motto underneath reads: El

Pourquoi Pas? Fonde en 1926. W'c don't know much alxiut it. except that those crossed things inside the coat of arms are not tuna fins or lacrosse slicks Hicy arc snowshoes, and snowshoeing is the Chib’s declared puqxisc. Curiously, it’s open vear-round: “For dancing,” they say, and we must take the Voltigucrs’ word and leave the rest to imagination As early as 1759, there was a mill on Factory Island Wlicn it went bankrupt in 1829, York Manufacturing acquired the textile mill and bulked it up to a 1.000-workcr operation by 1839. “Il was originally

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Although the active violence against the white man ended, legend also has it that Squanto wrought a curse on the river that survives to this day: "/Vs long as the white num lives, the Saco w aters must each year drow n three of his hated nice,” relates Celia Sturtevant. 'Hie Saco today looks lazy and harmless, and mavlx? that is why people are so surprised w hen the Ixxlics wash ashore each year.

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chilled Dairy Joy, look to the left and see a forgettable late-Federal structure most of whose lawn has been engulfed by Route I. Il is the easily overkxrked home of Governor John Fairfield, w ho led the state from 1S38-41 Its bricks are printed yellow, the roof is hipped, and it has four large chimneys. A congressman in Iris early )-ears, Fairfield also served as a U.S. senator from 1842-49, with

places, private baths (jacuzzi, steam or standard), air conditioning and cable TV. Breakfast and lea included. Fine dining and tavern. Entertainment.

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him Presidential timber. His sudden death during an operation was the first of many steps that sent the house into obscurity.

Swirbormaigli Massacre Pond, Massacre Road Prout’s Neck is peacefill again, but the bkxxly names of places within the community recall with chilling

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immediacy the memory' of its carl) years. Fnraged by the death of Sagamore Squanto’s child and other atrocities which included the beheading of an Indian boy for trying on a settler’s tri-eomer hat. the Saco trilx- attacked this quiet settlement in the 1680s, murdering 18 men.

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women, and children. Only one white settler survived the wrath of Squanto’s people by escaping into the marshes-perhaps hiding in the tall marsh grass where Route 1 now runs.

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Old Port Guide Bayview Gallery

75 Market Street, Portland, Maine 04101.

The Old Port's premier art gallery and framing shop, specializing in original paintings and sculpture by Maine artists, an extensive collection of prints—both limited and open editions, and posters. I’he gallery offers an impressive array of framing materials to meet the discriminating taste of its clientele. Gallery hours are 9:30-5:30, daily.

(207) 773-3007.

Exchange Street Gallery

7 Exchange Street, Portland, Maine 04101.

Exhibiting exclusively the paintings and limited editions of Portland artist R.N. Cohen. Drop by rhe gallery and sec Portland’s “Union Station Remembered”, the latest limited edition in the Portland Remembered series and the newest release in the Old Orchard Beach scries, paintings and prints of coastal Maine, Portland, and the nostalgic. (207) 772-0633Gallery 7

164 Middle Street, Portland, Maine 04101.

Handcrafted furniture, jewelry, pottery, glassware, lamps, fiberwork, home accessories, and exclusive gifts by more than 100 local and national artists.

Bridal registry. New exhibits four times a year.

(207) 76*1-7007.

Glen Abbey Gourmet, Ltd.

84 Exchange Street, Portland, Maine 04101.

An international specialty food store specializing in customized gift baskets with products from around the world. Come in and see us at 84 Exchange Street in the Old Port or call. (207) 773-1181.

Harbor Fish Market

9 Custom House Wharf, Portland, Maine 04101.

Retail and wholesale. Producers of high quality seafood on Portland’s waterfront since 1970.

Voted Portland’s best for several consecutive years. We ship nationwide. (207) 775-0251.

Kennedy Studios

42 Exchange Street, Portland, Maine 04101.

Custom framing. Choose from a large selection of mouldings and mats. Limited edition prints and posters, many by local artists. Panoramic lighthouse photographs. For all your decorating and framing needs. (207) 772-8766.

Lovell Designs

26 Exchange Street, Portland, Maine 04101.

Distinctive jewelry' designs by Maine artist Ken Kantro. Come to our shop and see the complete line of nature-inspired jewelry, tableware and ornaments. (207) 828-5303-

One of the most memorable antique auctions held in the State of Maine in many years, conducted by our firm in August of 1995.

If you have one item of substance, an entire collection or an estate, call us for a free consultation. We regularly receive consignments from all over North America. Our client base is world wide and we compete with any auction house in North America, whether it be located in New York City, San Francisco, Louisiana, etc. Why not consider a firm that will give you the best service, get you the most money and that is located right here in Maine?

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of our squadron, myself all the more cordially because we had been college associates and fellow-Athenaeans."

The one thing that had sustained Russwurm through every disappointment and disillusionment was his abiding faith in the power of education to improve man’s lot in life. Thus it is no surprise that in 1849 he followed in his father’s footsteps by returning briefly to America to pay one last visit to his beloved white family and enroll his own two sons at Yarmouth Academy, which they attended while living with Russwurm’s cvcr-loyal stepmother. (In 1833 Russwurm had married Sarah E. McGill, the daughter of his predecessor as superintendent of schools in Liberia.) While in Maine, Russwurm met for the first time another Bowdoin alumnus, U. S. Senator William Pitt Fessenden (class of 1823), who was so impressed with his abilities that he endeavored to persuade him to remain in America and dedicate his considerable talents to the anti-slavery cause in the States. Russwurm’s allegiance, however, could not be swayed from the new homeland to which he had dedicated so much of his life. He returned to Cape Palmas and continued to sene as governor until his death in 1851.

The John Russwurm House, 1810 Greater Portland I ^andmark National Register of Historic Places 238 Ocean Avenue, Portland #198,500 'Hits white-clapboard Colonial has some of the most luxuriant, tree-shaded front and side lawns in Portland. “It has the antique charm, but is very well maintained," says listing agent Barnum Burrell of Town & Shore Associates, (207) 773-0262.

Featuring driveway entrances on both Ocean Avenue and Wellington Streets, the Russwurm estate (which once Ixiasted lands rolling all the way to Back Cove and still enjojs fresh breezes from the cove) includes connected two-car garage, lovely granite foundations (the dry, modem cellar has been completely updated), 100-amp electrical service, two fireplaces, private flagstone patio with fenced side yard, original Period staircases and moldings, wainscoting in both parlors, oil heat, stonn windows, four bedrooms, 15 bathrooms, a tiled three-season conservatory with woodstove, and a new asphalt roof (1994). 1 ot dimensions arc 135 feet of frontage, 138 feet deep, 156 feet across the track. Annual taxes are $3,636.

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Rockport

Rockland

Red Wood Ranch on 3.9 +/- acres with 300' of frontage on Penobscot Bay. Wonderful location for a commercial use in the present building and build a new home on the shore. $224,900

3 bedroom, 2 bath Cape located in a fine neighborhood with parklike grounds. Large rear deck, screened-in room, great room with huge fireplace, den with fireplace, formal dining room, and eat-in kitchen. $205,000

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ThePrudential Akers Real Estate 386 Fore Street Portland, ME 04101 (207) 774-8300 Fax (207) 774-8347

PROPERTY LOCATED IN CAMDEN/ROCKPORT AREA 18 room shingle-style house well sited, on landscaped grounds at the end of a long shady driveway. Southern ocean views.

Circa 1904 Queen Anne Shingle Style home. Designed by William R. Emerson, A.LA. Landscape & layout by Olmstead Brothers. Ready for renovations.

Total land—13.76 acres, with 937 feet of shore frontage.

Asking $3,500,000.

One of the last undeveloped private Estates on the Coast of Maine. Excellent potential for a separate family compound etc.

Call Frank Akers at 774-8300 An Independently Owned and Operated Member of The Prudential Real Estate Affiliates, Inc.

The supply is low and the demand is high for properties like this.

19th Century farmhouse with attached barn, simply and tastefully restored. Verdant meadows, stonewalls, tall trees, and bubbling brooks make up this 162 acres, along with over 3,000' of shoreline on Bagaduce River. Put this all together and you have a rare and desirable place to live. Come and see! S535.000.00

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Islesboro:summer haven of choice, a simple way of life for over 200 years.

Prime location in the Dark Harbor area of Islesboro. Snug, private 3-4 BR yearround cedar-shingled cottage, 2 baths, woodstove, great kitchen, wrap around deck, flower gardens, woods, nearby sandy Town Beach. $170,000

Oceanfront cabin on scenic east shore. Private, 2-bedroom getawav.

Exceptional views, quiet location amidst 6.43 wooded acres with 900' of bold, deepwater shoreline and beach. $215,000

Pendleton Point Saltbox.

Wonderful 1870's Bayview

Home. Spacious 5-BR, 2 full baths, and a summer kitchen, beautiful hardwood/wide board flooring, original stenciling, insulated 23x29 barn/garage for I A ■ your workshop. Professionally landscaped lot, mature trees, walking garden. Always a nice summer breeze to enjoy sunrises/sunsets, loons, and osprey over the bay. Additional acreage available. $165,000

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Saltwater farm. Wonderfully renovated 1820 3-bedroom captain's Cape. Delightful panorama of wildlife, woods, water. 8 acres, ocean access. $275,000. Beach frontage, additional acreage available.

Great little summer cottage!

Charming, 2 bedrooms, water views, across from a beach. Quaint and quiet community. $95,000.

LAND: Otter Creek. 1590' of pristine beach and bold frontage, 86 acres, spectacular views, privacy. Some restrictions. 5480,000

Big Tree Beach, one of the island's prettiest. Sunset views over the Camden Hills from this beautifully wooded 5.9-acre lot with 540' of shoreline, protected anchorage, access road, and underground utilities. $195,500

John Oldham, Broker P.O. Box 300, Islesboro, ME 04848 • (207) 734-8809 •ISLAND PROPERTY-

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Bridgton Spectacular views of Rangclcy Lake. Saddleback Mt.. Sugarloaf and Mt. Washington from the spacious deck of this home. Two thousand square feet include living room (filled with windows)

Outstanding Victorian home with 4 bedrooms and O 1 large attached barn. Ideal location for in-home

fidl kitchen, mud room, office and 2 to 3 bedrooms. Two car

business. Just a short walk to town beach and all

garage all on 7 private acres. $168,500. #158

the amenities that Bridgton has to offer. $174,900.

Morton & Furbish Real Estate Agency

The Region's Oldest & our Hometown Broker

68 MAIN STREET . P.O. BOX 1209. RANGELEY ME 04970 (207) 864-5777 email: mfrealtytffrangeley.org

Specialism!; in all types oj real estate, Excellent selection of homes anil camps, lots etc. on and of/ the water. Many commercial opportunities!!!

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water view deck, first floor master bedroom suite with jacuzzi,

Fabulous brick duplex with high style! This home has been meticulously renovated with tasteful new kitchen and baths.

The floor plan and 6 bedrooms offer many opportunities fora large family.

The upgraded systems let you buy this home and move right in! $269,000.

A lovingly restored 1805 cape with new wiring, plumbing, septic and well.

Large rooms, nice floor plan and a wonderful daylight basement great for a workshop. All on well landscaped two acre lot only 20 minutes to Portland. $145,000.

This fabulous John Calvin Stevens offers gracious entry, massive rooms. 7 FP's and many original features. Original kitchen and pantry with marble counters. Beautiful master suite and carriage house. $475,000.

tub/shower, attached 2 car garage, separate guest area, dock, ramp and float. S265.000

CLASSIFIEDS Kennebunk Beach—Just a stone's throw

MAINE COAST ISLAND

away from the white sands of Kennebunk Beach, this classic cape oilers lx>lh stunning views and lots of space for f amily and guests.

Built as a year round home, this 28(K) square foot cape offers: private street, up to six spacious Ixidrixims, granite fireplace, custom built-ins. and a two car garage. $349.(XXI

Ke Kennebunkport, this custom built Colonial offers many fine amenities: custom cherry cabinetry, polished granite counters, wood and tile lUxiring. and four fireplaces to name just a few. The 36(M) sq. ft. home includes a large master suite with a fireplace, study with cherry bookcases, and a wonderful open concept kitchen family nxwn. $545JXXI

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Top quality area, top quality island! $245,000.

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Kennebunkport's most spectacular points and bordered by Rachel Carson Wildlife Preserve is this extraordinary oceanfront home. Contemporary design embraces a bright sophisticated interior offering breathtaking views of the ocean and tidal

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Why resort to anything less?

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That’s the Anchorage Inn. South coastal Maine’s only complete year-round family resort.

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swimming pool with whirlpool spa. Complete S exercise and fit- • ness room. An 'I indoor/outdoor poolside cafe for a refreshing drink or quick snack. And an oceanfront restaurant, with beachside deck, for anything from a tall cool one to an honest-to-goodness Down East lobster and clambake.

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hen Jennifer’s powder blue pickup puttered in from the climb up Highway 2, instead of elation, Thorndike felt the forlorn but familiar emptiness of waiting replaced by the oppressive density of attention to gender and female pressure. But he strode toward her truck and greeted her with a blinding smile. He had told his wife he was hiking alone, and would call her the following evening.

“Hello, hello, hello. You made it. I can’t believe it!”

The slopes rose bevond a small field and were tattered w ith orange-brown hardwoods that fanned down from the pine, fir and granite corrugations of Adams, King Ravine, and Madison.

Above lav wools' clouds. Thorndike wore leather hiking boots, khaki shorts, a Navaho ring, but no wedding band.

His weekend date had sold him a jar of preserves at the Westbrook farmer’s Market and was named Jennifer something. The hilltop parking lot, where he’d hopped on one foot then another to stay warm and relaxed, did not appear on his hiking map. Jennifer grinned happily, her eyes slightly skewered. He hadn’t noticed how her eyes were misaligned.

“I need to buy something. Can we stop at a store?”

“Lowe’s Store,” he bellowed halfheartedly. “Sure. Go right ahead.”

But he himself was tired of driving and riding, didn’t want to get back in a car, so he’d walk there. But it took him fifteen minutes to reach the white bungalow store with its little white motel cabins scattered beneath trimmed pines, their trunks painted white to ward off cars. Jennifer was sitting on a bench chewing a Snickers bar.

“Looks super,” he said. “What else you buy?”

She licked her teeth saying “Um,” to hold his attention, then wiped her fingers and tossed her swapper at a pail.

“Snickers for a boost, Kleenex in case hay fever kicks in.”

“Doesn’t sound like hippy gear. You leasing your car at Losve’s?”

“They said I could.”

FICTION Her daypack svas at her knee. She rose and shrugged herself into her straps, still grinning at him with the ideological idiocy Thorndike attributed to Californians and their suburban imitators: veg-

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Fiction By Kenneth Rosen etarian diet, historic or discreet dope consumption, robotic arts-and-crafts agendas. Besides pickles and jam, Jennifer sold driftwood and dried flosvcr arrangements.

She loped after him across Highway 2, through aspen and silver birch, over railroad tracks and the dirt service road.

Then he stopped to let her walk first, and she paused, gazing as if he might kiss her, so he did, but her breath tasted mealy, like dogfood softening in milk.

Granola, he thought to himself, audibly clearing his throat.

“Let’s hurry. We don’t want to be here in the dark.”

In theory hiking is lyrical and expansive. In fact it’s hours of glowering at rock after rock, roots, earth, weeds, bootprints, trunks of young or old trees, amber of gashed conifers. Soon there was snow on the ground, first a half-inch on the path and in clearings, then everywhere. At Gray Knob, an old family camp deeded to a local mountain club, a dozen hikers had already staked out

bedsites upstairs and down. Two treetrunks, stripped and shellacked, served as banisters to the loft. Thorndike and Jennifer shucked their packs, and claimed a bed and mattress in the downstairs pantry, with glass doors they could close for at least acoustic privacy.

The kitchen had a propane stove, pots and pans, a handpump and sink.

Darkness hushed the outdoors and magnified the murmur within. But by 7 or 8, except for a candle upstairs, occasional whispers, giggles and marijuana coughs, the house heaved solemnly in sleep. Thorndike and Jennifer ate sandwiches, cheese and wine, then lay down together. I Ie questioned her in a hoarse whisper.

“At Lowe’s, I wondered did you buy tampons or something?”

Jennifer had disappeared in the dark.

He heard her soft breathing and could stroke her boyish hair. He kissed her and tested things with his knee. She was wearing cotton undies, but didn’t resist his hand across her behind. This was both modest and encouraging.

“You mean am I having my period?

No, but I don’t use birth control. So be careful.”

“I have a thing,” he said, but in the darkness it wouldn’t unroll. He got it halfway on. She kissed him again and they strove, but couldn’t get anywhere, the half unrolled cc ’ /m like a ring on a trained duck to keep it from swallowing a fish.

“What’s the matter?” she whispered, beneath his chest.

“I don’t know. Are you a virgin?”

“Do I have a hymen? Of course not.”

He tried to delay things with conversation.

“That was a nice hike up. I wish we’d brought stuff to cook for supper.”

His breath tragically slackened while he was still in the air, and Thorndike felt himself languishing in a pleasant, but ambiguous balm. They separated their bodies and then self-consciously dozed. Suddenly Thorndike nudged Jennifer awake.

“What? What? What?” she cried.

“What?”

“You sounded like you were suffocat-

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“Yes, yes, but could be asthma," she whispered more calmly. “Sometimes woodsmoke brings it on in my sleep.

There's an inhaler in my pack, but it keeps me awake.”

“Want to give it a try?”

“1 will if you find my pack.”

Thorndike broke into a sweat. '1 lie dark house seemed hot, cold, muggy and smoky all at once. He slid into his underpants and crawled toward the comer groping for her pack.

“Front pocket,” she whispered, “a little plastic thing.”

He found it, crawled back to bed, and curled into his sleeping posture, falling asleep to the sound of two soft puffs from Jennifer’s inhaler. In the morning, he hurried into warm corduroys, socks and boots, and stumbled outdoors to pee in the snow behind a tree. There was a pink circle where the condom had stuck. He’d been unrolling it backwards, he realized. It had gone as far as it could. he sky was overcast and Thorndike couldn’t make out any summits.

Being on a cloud-socked mountaintop, worried about getting down, was like sex: even if you got there, it was all over. In the kitchen, he started water for instant oatmeal and coffee, and studied his map. For variety, he chose a dogleg past The Perch, then down beside The Log Cabin. After eating they said goodbyes to w'hoever still dawdled by the wnodstovc, walked on a level path in trampled snow', and soon arrived at a frozen flume, a plummeting threc-footwide slick of ice.

Thorndike thought it over, then handed Jennifer his pack, leapt and fell short, but hauled his torso out of the flume with cloth sleeves on packed snow. He knelt panting, wet cold on the knees of his pants. Then he stood and Jennifer tossed him his backpack and then her own. She jumped the flume without looking down, landing with a foot to spare. Embarrassed, Thorndike tried to cheer himself, as they hiked, with Cossack folksongs. I Ie knew tunes, but no Russian. I Ie invented guttural words, became so excited with his noisiness in the forest, that Jennifer began to cry.

“What’s the matter?” he whispered.

“Did I do something?”

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cretly filled with resentment. He could be so happy. He could look at red leaves clinging to a scrub oak and fill his mind with fire. Gradually the trail down lost snow, then steepness, and the path itself beneath golden leaves. They recrossed the rusty tracks, the field of aspen and silver birch, and dropped their packs into the bed of Jennifer’s pickup.

“Why don’t you follow me to my place and I’ll fix you supper?”

She did her social therapy smile, squinting and finishing close for a kiss.

“That’s okay,” he said, “1 need to pull myself together for next week.”

So in blue dusk, almost dark, Jennifer slowly drove Thorndike the quarter mile to his car.

“I low about coffee in North Conway?” she asked, a taunting edge in her voice.

Maybe she was older than he’d thought.

I ler face at twilight looked lined and the color of her hair: tarnished brass.

“Naw, I better just go.”

‘You’re not mad or anything, are you?”

More advanced consciousness grinning.

1 Ie touched her cheek and hair, reached in to kiss her mouth, and pulled back still trying to outsmilc her.

“You don’t have my phone number,” she said. “1 Icre.” She took a pen, tore a page from her notebook, and dashed off her phone number, crossing her sevens with tiny bars. “Come to the Market. I’ll give you a free jar of jam.”

She backed her truck around, waited for traffic, then drove onto the highway and downhill. In North Conway, at a rest area, Ihorndikc stopped to call his wife.

“Did you hike a lot?” she asked quietly.

“Only up Adams. I ran into snow. Met some interesting people at Cray Knob.

Hippies. Mountain bums.”

“I just had a call from someone who seemed surprised you were married. Did you hike w ith her? Is that the snow sou ran into?”

“No, no, someone 1 met trying to hike by herself I tried to help. Why do you talk like that?”

Thorndike’s wife urged him to drive careful]}', and after hanging up, he found the notebook page Jennifer had given him. Below her name and phone number he wrote a message, llicn he wrapped the page in a dollar bill he stuffed behind the dial in a booth among the line of phones at the rest area.

“CAIT. TH IS GIRL,” he wrote, “FOR I AM LOST.”

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