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CONTENTS

1998. Volume 1V Number 4 Celebrating Our I ^th Year

Features 1 5 Insider’s Guide To The Reul Maine. \ host of people who know and love Maine reveal their secret sources of inspiration.

By Colin Sargent, Gwen Thompson & Frank Bishop.

51 Dream Islands.

A statewide guide to even complete island for sale in Maine.

By Colin Sargent.

61 Portland hire Starter Mowat: Monster or Tortured Soul?

By William David Barry & Debra Verner Barry.

KNIFE EDGE. KATAHDINCHUCK FEIL IMAGE FROM THE COLLECTION OF WILL ANDERSON

65 Peaks Island House.

Restaurant Review By Phil Rogers.

95 Playing Ball.

New Fiction By Scott D. Pomfret.

Departments 79

From I’hc Editor letters Listings 1 louse Of The Month New England Homes ■ uu an act tai mt* >>t Boon hLm

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n 1 lemingwav’s Death In The Afternoon, the bullfighting term querencia is defined as the place in the ring where the bull feels most comfortable, and is therefore most dangerous. One of the “natural querencias," or “preferred localities,” for a bull is the first spot he stands in after entering the ring. I Ie's strong and voting there, and no knives have been plunged in his back. I.ater in the fight, when he knows he’s soon to die, something passes through bis brain, and eight out of ten times he’ll drag himself back to that very spot before making his final charge.

So it is with people, Stephen Dobvns observes in his poem “Querencia": “As for querencia, we all have a place w here we feel safest, even if it is onlv the idea of a place, maybe an idea by itself, the place that our being radiates out from, like an ideal of friendship or justice or perhaps something simpler like the memory of a back porch where we laughed a lot and how the setting sun through the pine trees shone on the green chairs, flickered off the ice cubes in our glasses. We all have some spot in our mind which we go back to from hospital bed, or fight with husband or wife, or the wreckage of a life."

Maybe it’s the top of a mountain von climbed before vou w ent off to war, or the end of a breakwater where as a newhwed you sipped champagne with vour w ife. Por Stan 1 leuislcr, longtime editor of Haltimore Magazine, it s a place under

the stars of Moosehead Like, on hisfamik’s private island near ML Kineo: “The first thing we alwavs do on our first night on the island is go out on our captain’s walk and sit there and look up at the stars like we've never seen them before. It’s already deeplv beautiful, w ith Mt. Kineo in front of us, breathtaking. But sometimes, sweeping across the skv, the Northern I .ights fix above us in a shimmer and it is magic.”

I lis children are grown up nowand the island’s for sale (see “Dream Islands," page 51), but his querencia w ill alwavs be here with us, in the North Woods.

Inspired by this, we’ve asked a number of people w ho know and love Maine to tell us w here their natural and accidental querencias are (see page 5 1, our “Insider’s Guide To The Real Maine”) Collectively, we hope, these places will bring vou a lot of jov.

Unless you’re trving to quit smoking.

The thing about r/i/erenc/c/.s-mountaintops, back porches hanging over lakes, umbrella tables overlooking moonlit beaches, even favorite greasv spoons (like Pat’s Pizza in Orono)-is thev’re just the places where a person might feel an incredible urge to light up a cigarette.

If so, this issue, which w e re alrcadv calling The Querencia Issue, should be banned by the Surgeon General. Taken in large doses, it could send people out of their offices and into the parking lot thousands of times.

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There are two magazines I read and reread, cover to cover, including advertisements. One is WoodenBoat, and the other is yours.

In the May issue, the garden piece (“Two Secret Gardens,” by Gwen Thompson); the smuggling piece (“Smuggling in Casco Bay,” by William David Barry') — (after all, my heritage is Joncsport, home of some wonderfully built rum-runners); and especially the long overdue Veteran’s Park recognition from my friend Bill Whitten, are all wonderfully well done!

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A few months ago we got the third family. 1 knew immediately something different had happened because all the overgrown shmbbery around the house was cut down. Next, the towering pine tree that grew between the two houses was taken away by the city' to be this year’s Christmas tree in Monument Square. It really' was too large for the space between the two houses. Downtown it was the finest tree I have seen in years. What was going to happen next?

I didn’t have long to wait. The other day I looked out my window and there it was in all its brilliance. My neighbor’s front door looked back at me like it never had before. It was red. No, 1 don’t mean maroon, crimson, or even barn red. It was a screaming, fireengine red. I looked again. I was not

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mistaken. It was still very red.

It’s a funny thing, in all the years I lived next door, 1 never noticed the color of that door. Now, it was all I could see.

When I was in college, I used to have a European history professor who had the reputation of wearing a red tie only when he gave the lecture on the French Revolution. I thought about him and then I thought, what is this man declaring? I decided to inquire further.

My neighbor publishes a monthly called Portland Magazine. Its advertisers are plush resorts, restaurants, and art galleries. Its articles are about celebrities and Portland interests. The only thing radical I cotdd see in the last issue was Felicia Knight leaving for Washington, D.C. However, there was a clue in the fact that the magazine featured an article of fiction devoted solely to an inanimate object - a chair.

Tire author invested in what was obviously a psychiatrist’s chair, all sorts of human characteristics. It had eczema, skin, guts, pain, and misery. By the time it went to meet its maker, the reader wept for it and took stock of his own past life.

What is that red door telling us?

Hardly anyone ever uses the door itself.

All visitors go through the back door. Is this a mystical symbol of the occult?

Does it signify that the owner of the home is a member of the red door association of the world? If so, what are their objectives? 1 don’t know the answers to these questions, but you can bet, I am going to be watching.

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As a long-tenn subscriber to Portland Magazine, I have enjoyed your various articles and editorial comments over many years. 1 lowcver, 1 do have to correct a statement attributed to me in your editorial in the May 1998 edition.

You quote me as having stated that I never noticed the historic alley of trees on Baxter Boulevard. Interestingly,

since you were not at that Planning Board Meeting, you attribute the quote to the Portland Newspapers, who, as far as 1 can tell, either misquoted or severely edited what I said at that meeting. Specifically, my concern as a fonner marathoner who has run thousands of miles around Back Cove (therefore occasionally noticing the Linden trees on the Boulevard) was that it is the path between the trees and Back Cove that is important to me, not the “spatial relationship” of those trees as they bracket the pavement of Route 1.

Unfortunately, you not only perpetuated the Press Herald’s misquote or poor editing, but did not even take the time to call me, a subscriber, to check on what I had said. Again, my concern was with the trail along Baxter Boulevard as a park, not the roadway that bisects it and the park’s use by various recreational interests, not interstate travelers on Route 1. Since the issue of the precise location of Route 1 within the alley of trees is something that is not important to park users, I concluded that the redesign was “totally reasonable in preserving the historic landscape.” Certainly, the park and its use should be more important to the historic preservation interests of the City than where the pavement of Route 1 is located.

See, 1 am not the myopic redneck you thought I was. Thank you for letting me set the record straight.

Kenneth M. Cole 111 Portland

Margaret Deland

How proud I am of you and your magazine. It has brought back so many wonderful memories. The article on car license plates (“We’ve Got Your Number!” April 1997, By Colin Sargent) was particular!}' meaningful. My husband was installing handrails at the Kenneth Roberts estate. Who should drive by but Mr. Roberts himself. His car number was 1900. My husband requested 2900, and low and behold, the secretary of state was a fraternity brother - so the number was his.

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Your article mentioning novelist Margaret Deland (“Paper Antiques,” May 1998, by Colin Sargent) sent me researching the “Resting Place” on Ocean Avenue in Kennebunkport, a lovely stone bench she had built in front of her riverside house (just to the right of the Nonantum Hotel) in 1918 in memory of her husband, who died in 1917, for the benefit of passersby.

The semicircular seat of slate, sea, and fieldstones was fashioned out of stones collected by the people of Kennebunkport. Ben Hoff, the Delands’ gardener, built it.

What a remarkable recollection of a delightful lady called Margaret Deland. Continue your excellent storytelling about Maine and her people.

Marion Hussey Kennebunkport Margaret Deland's breakthrough protagonists are strong women eager to tackle a new century. A wave of new recognition for her seems overdue.-Ed.

Definitely Singing

Gruss from Germany! Enjoyed your February/March issue of Portland Magazine.

My husband and I will be in Portland for two weeks in July, and 1 woidd love to stop by and meet you; also, I’m definitely singing with the Symphony in March 1999!

Margaret Younger Dusseldorf, Germany

1920s Memories

Glad to see our old favorites (in your April 1998 feature “Tales of the Grand Hotels & Inns,” by Gwen Thompson and Frank Bishop), Isabel’s Pomegranate Inn (how we miss Alan), and the Black Point Inn at Prouts Neck, where we had such wonderful times with the likes of Dorothy Schubart in the late 1920s.

Glad we found j our magazine.

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att vott tell me your favorite spot in the state of Maine? I ask author Kendall Merriam, who lives in Richmond. Kendall knows a lot about Maine.

One time he told me about a place where somebodv had row ed a dead deer out to a spindle and tied it there, just to disturb fishermen.

"W'hat kind of place?”

“A place...so hoh soil’d w ant your ashes scattered there.''

There is a pause.

“So it can’t be a restaurant."

"Norman Mailer’s favorite place is Otter Cliffs, near Thunder Hole in Acadia National Park. I Ie had to climb them as a rite of passage w hen lie was in I lis tw en¬

ties. When he was halfwav up he looked down and saw the rocks hissing below like a gas station floor. The nooks and crannies and tussocks of grass on the cliffs oilv face reminded him of human body parts. " "That sounds like Mailer.”

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telephone I hear him pull out a blue package of Cauloise cigarettes and strike a match. It’s not that my hearing is that good: Kendall only smokes this one kind of spooky cigarettes.

“Well,” he says at length, “the trouble is, people can’t go to my favorite spot, because it’s private property.”

“That’s okay. We just want to know where it is.”

“I mean it’s really private.”

“Tell us.”

“I heard Howard Clifford wouldn’t tell you about his spot.”

“That’s because his place is where he caught the Presidential salmon.”

“The U.S. record-setting salmon, you mean.”

“He says he’s sw'orn to secrecy. He’s as much as told us he’d rather die than tell his place.”

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GOV. KENNETH CURDS, 67, has served as Governor of Maine (1967-1974), Chairman, Democratic National Committee (1977-1978), U.S. Ambassador to Canada (1979-1981), Superintendent of Maine Maritime Academy (19861993), and continues today as partner of the Portland law firm of Curtis, Thaxter, Stevens, Broder & Micoleau, 1 Canal Plaza, which he founded in February, 1975.

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for environmental reasons. Citizens took their own trash to the landfills. At that time, the South Portland dump was on Highland Avenue, just after the high school. You drove in, parked your car as near to the edge of the landfill as you thought you could possibly travel before it sank to its axles, and then you waded through the seagulls, in ankle-deep sludge, before you let your garbage bags fly. It was a really miserable and degrading experience. As I hiked and hurled the last of my trash from my yellow Volkswagen bug into the landfill, 1 looked at the guy who’d been keeping pace with me, bag for bag, from his big American station wagon. I was an English immigrant who had never seen a member of the upper echelons of government or the ruling classes ever lift a finger in manual labor. The man who was matching me trash for trash in the mud on a cold and miserable day at the town dump I recognized as Ken Curtis, a fellow resident of South Portland and our governor. 1 didn’t say anything except to myself. This is America—hut that’s Maine.

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It began with a painting that my best friend snapped up at the tail end of an auction for just $15. It was a Rockwell Kent-style oil of a classic Maine scene: a shore, a fisherman rowing his dory through a sweep of dark sea toward a hump of offshore granite island. 1 loved it the minute I saw it. So did all the antique dealers in Hallowell, where we lived.

Within 24 hours my friend had a $300 offer for the painting—an irresistablc sum for a young anthropologist who earned just $100 a week doing Native rights work.

He resigned himself to selling. With missionary zeal I talked him out of it.

A few' years later, my friend and 1 decided to marry'. Where to make our promises proved to be a dilemma. As a Dutchman, he preferred one side of the ocean, and I, an American, preferred the other. It was his idea to wed “inbctw'ccn” on Monhegan Island. We rode over from Port Clyde on the mail boat, stashed our weddingoutfits in a little cottage on the southwest shore, stopped by the parsonage to meet the minister, and then headed for Cathedral Woods. In this sanctuary of towering red spruce, balsam and pine, we

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made our way along a needle-carpeted trail punctuated by massive tree roots and moss-covered slabs of granite. At its eastern edge we stepped out of the shadows onto Black I lead, where a vast primordial vista of rock, sea, sky and sun smacks you in the face. Standing there, 150 feet above the water, we watched swells that had rolled all the way from Europe crash against sheer granite cliffs and break into a spray of light. llien we moved southward, staying as close to the island’s edge as possible, scrambling up and down the lichencrusted rock, here and there stopping to lounge. By the time we looped around the southern nose of the island back to our cottage, the sun had slipped below the horizon. It wasn’t until we woke up the next day—our wedding day—that we noticed the view from our cottage: precisely that of the painting, right down to the dory'.

BUNNY McBRIDE, author of Molly Spotted Elk: A Penobscot in Paris (U. of Okla. Press, 1995), has just finished a new book, Women of the Dawn, profiling the lives of four Native American women in Maine, one from each of the last four centuries.

Spotted Elk, now out in paperback, has been optioned for a film.

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n the 1960s, my friends and I - all of us Little League age - used to run between the cottages at Higgins Beach, back and forth from the river to the cliffs, dodging damp beach towels on clotheslines, trying to stay underneath the plane that dusted the beach with mosquito-killer. Our aim was to get a summer’s worth of insect repellent in one gigantic dose. (I bet we got a gigantic dose of something; thank goodness my children seem normal.) Even though it’s the site of these suicide runs, Higgins Beach is where I feel most alive.

BRIAN DALY, 44, is a native of Portland. Ue wrote the screenplay for RIG AND HAIRY, an upcoming Showtime Original Picture For Kids starring Richard Thomas. The movie is based on Daly’s children’s novel, also called Big and I lairy.

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and about two hundred men and women in denim and flannel hoofing their heavy boots to “Elvira” or even “Jail House Rock” - that’s the spot to which I keep returning in memories from the late 70’s and early 80’s. That’s my Maine. 'Hie diner didn’t sell alcohol and so people brought coolers with gallon jugs of whiskey, gin and vodka with soft drink mixers, these were presided over by Cooler Queens - women of well over two and three hundred pounds with elaborate hairdos and low cut gowns showing a creamy acreage of powdered bosom, gowns like a prom dress and wedding dress sewn together. Each woidd sit with the cooler between her knees and maintain expressions of regality and benign indifference.

Their husbands or boyfriends were invariably skinny. The Cooler Queens rarely danced but when they did it was with the stateliness of ocean liners and they held their eyes above the crowds as if concentrating on an ideal of perfection denied to common folk. ne’s ears hurt at the 10-4 diner on a Saturday night and talk beneath a scream was impossible. There was the thud of the beat and more than two hundred thick heels coming down on the beat.

The air reeked of fried food, spilled beer, cheap perfume and sweat. Children dashed among the dancers or attempted their own dances, clumsy parodies of dances as if frightened by the vast sexuality of the Cooler Queens, a sexuality like a mudslide enveloping an Italian village.

One thought of flinging oneself on one or another milky bosom and being sucked inside, one’s last visible sign being a pair of work boots kicking up out of the lady’s cleavage. It never seemed that I saw these women on other occasions. Apparently it was only these weekend dances which summoned them from inside their mobile homes and tree-surrounded tar-paper cabins with a white hand-lettered sign out in front advertising blueberries or piglets.

The music called them, the bearded musicians with their baseball caps and denim overalls. The first notes of “A Whole Lot of Shakin’ Coin’ On” would waft across the leafless autumn trees and tlic Cooler Queens would summon their skinny significant others to lug the Styrofoam coolers out to the old Buick. Anybody can praise the majesty of the Maine coast or the stark rock cliffs of its moun-

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STEPHEN DOBYNS is the author of 9 collections of poetry and 16 novels, including the bestselling “Saratoga” mystery series. His latest novel is The Church of Dead Girls.

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y love of the Casco Bay islands goes way back. Just prior to World War II, during the summer of 1941, when 1 was twenty, Portland was already well fortified in readiness for war. The whole harbor was full of ships and sailors. My sister and I spent three or more nights a week at the USO dances held in Portland at the Masonic Hall and at the Chamber of Commerce and out at Fort McKinley on Great Diamond Island. That was our whole social life. Once we volunteered to help entertain the enlisted personnel on Clapboard Island, off the coast of Falmouth. The only family with a house there had invited them out for a picnic.

There was a dance, and before long we paired off with two friendly sailors. They were handsome, of course, in their white sailor suits. Jim Sands was the one who went with my sister, but I can’t remember none of my guys’ names. We ate hot dogs and hamburgers, and explored the shore of the island together. Then we just sat on some big rocks and talked. I can’t even remember what we talked about, but we had such a good time we missed the boat back to Portland. ’Hie people who lived on the island arranged some other transportation for us, and we all went to the movies together when we got back to Portland.

Their ship left soon after, so we never saw them again, but 1 always wondered what happened to them. When I re-visited the empty parade grounds and abandoned brick bunkers on Great Diamond Island a few years after the War, it was so silent and eerie, it was almost like a ghost town.

Later on, the former base was vandalized, and eventually torn down to make way for the condos. But I still like to walk out to the tower at Whitehead on Cushing Island. Looking at those vine-covered mounds that were once military installations brings back all the enjoyment of those USO dances.

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GARY LAWLESS lives in Noblcboro, is co-owner of Gulf of Maine Bookstore in Bninswick, and lias a new book of poems, Caribouddhism, from Blackberry Books. He will be teaching at Bates College this fall.

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“You have just gone down to the harbour again. It seems really only a moment since we both came up from the harbour, you drenched to the skin, I shining and excited almost to-what is the French word?-not ‘translution’-certainly not transport-what the hell is it?"

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in a September 1949 note to Eugen Jan Boisscvain while on Ragged Island.

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first fell in love with Maine when I realized it was there that 1 could find “the repeatable moment.” The time was July of 1977, the place was Ragged Island, a small island in Casco Bay with only one house, no electricity', no plumbing. Once the island had been owned by Edna St. Vincent Millay, but though I am a poet myself, Millay has no direct involvement with that moment when sitting at the handhewn pine table in the house’s combination kitchen and dining room, 1 reached my epiphany.

It was the second year in a row that I had visited the island, along with an old friend.

We were sitting at the table eating a meal identical to one 1 had prepared the preceding year: boiled lobster (what did you expect? This was Maine); baked potatoes; salad; freshly baked blueberry bread, and a bottle of Merlot. A conventional enough mcal-but it wasn’t the food, it was the replication that struck me. There I was looking out the window at the eveningblue water of the bay when a large ferry boat passed by, its windows lighting one by one: the Prince of Fundy bound for Nova Scotia. On the battery operated radio Artie Shaw was playing “Begin the Beguinc”-thc exact same song he had sung at last year’s lobster dinner at precisely the moment I had sighted the Prince of

Fundy.

Ah, so despite what Nick Carraway said in The Great Gatsby, it was indeed possible to repeat the past and thus entertain the illusion that time could, at least briefly, be stopped. Even knowing it was an illusion didn’t matter, especially when the moment was repeated several years in succession. Indeed, even though 1 have not been to Ragged Island in nearly a decade and no longer see the person who accompanied me there, and-not least-the Prince of Fundy no longer plies its way to Nova Scotia, Maine is still the place where I realized I could stop time, the place of the repeatable moment.

BARBARA F. LEFCOWIiy has published five poetry books, a novel, as well as stories, essays, and poems in over 250 journals. She has won writing fellowships from the NEA, Rockefeller Foundation, and Maryland Arts Council, and travels widely in search of tire repeatable moment.

“Eugen, I want that island!”

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Rock Oven is gone. Part of the massive rock that fanned the Dcv■ il’s Backbone on Ragged Island is gone, slid a few winters back into Casco Bay when no one was looking. But I’m still here, a bit cracked myself after the ice storm, true Maine-iac that I am who dreams all winter of coming over the hill on Orrs Island and down the twisting road to Prince’s red bam (always to be Prince’s red barn) just this side of the cobstone bridge. And then I step into my Maine.

If I’m in luck, this summer’s return will be just like the first time in 1976: a hot day and strange road south from Cooks Comer. Where is the water? A small shack and my first clam roll (before the doctor has forbidden all tasty things) at Fat Pat’s Fried Clams. Then we follow the road between dark pines into a sudden chill and mist with the children asking every mile “Where is the water?” And then a turn and a thin sliver of inlet with a halfsunken boat and another turn with lobster and sports boats in water as still as a Watteau. The road falls suddenly and surprises with its dips and twists onto the bridge

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for Orrs, to the left a small fiord and lobster-boat landing, to our right and up the hill a fog that has settled on Orrs’ backbone. 'Iben we lose the water in country and fields and wonder if we’ve gone wrong. Where is the water? But we’ve gone the only way there is to go.

The road tunnels forever until that final drop and wide swing of truck and boat in Prince’s yard where, stunned by blue all around us, we launch for Ragged Island.

For two weeks the water will circle us and follow us like a friendly seal.

Even now, 23 summers after our first visit, I wake up dreaming of that road...of rock, lobster pots, and pines.

Author, playwright, editor, and critic ALIAN B. LEECOWITZ is founding creative director ofThe Writer’s Center, Bethesda, Maryland, which he established in 1976, a year after his first visit to Ragged Island.

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The most beautiful place in Maine - indeed the world - is Mount Desert Island. Not a single peak or lake, not one cliff or coastal spot, but the island in its entirety, in its magnificent diversity: mountains rising out of the ocean, forests running down to the shoreline, the clean air, and, above all else, the sense of the beauty and majesty' of nature. Visiting Mount Desert Island always brings to my mind two thoughts: 1) the need for humans to live in closer harmony with nature; and 2) how lucky we arc to have easy access to such a beautiful place.

SEN. GEORGE J. MITCHELL, 64, after capping an outstanding carreer as U.S. Senate Majority Leader, headed our nation’s negotiating team with Northern Ireland as Independent Chairman of the Peace Talks in Ireland. His world-acclaimed efforts were so successful that his position was dissolved in April.

Kate Barnes

I stopped at Chimney Farm to admire the purple-&-white irises Beth and Gary have divided until, from my mother’s original dozen, they now have more than a hundred in bloom. It was a quiet evening; no one was there; shadows stretched out long on the cut grass, on the overgrown roses and shaggy honeysuckle covered with blossoms. Tire irises seemed triumphant as they marched along by the bam with tlieir white crowns and dark purple falls. A few of the big apple trees planted in the 1830s are left around the house; they’re hollow

now but they were leafing bravely. Below the lawn, 1 could see the pastures running down to the still lake in that golden light, while the sun hung low over the pines behind the fann graveyard.

1 thought there was a feeling of great quiet and sweetness in the place — nothing spick-&-span, but a kind of magic to the old house, the fields edged with water, the caves of leaves. 1 looked at the small white portico made by a figurehead carver that juts out over the side door - two curving snakes serpenting up to lions’ masks, their forked white tongues stuck out. Then I strolled around smelling the pale Bourbon roses and a fountain of dark peonies. 1 jumped when I heard a loud nicker behind me - 1 luh-huh-huh-huh! It was Blackberry, the pensioner horse, in an arch of grapevines; he’d heard footsteps and hurried up to the fence to poke his grizzled nose out for treats.

“What about all this,” 1 wondered, “why do I make such an effort to hang on to it?”I think it must be that the great sweetness one feels there, the honorable, longlasting beauty. The whole farm seems to me like an enameled music box; it shines and it sings (both rather softly); and my parents’ voices arc in the music.

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t is early morning, a mist hangs over the lake, and the coffee is on.

Ilie perfect stillness is broken only by a pair of loons calling each other over great distances of quiet water. 1 push my old guide boat off the dock and row to where the trout are rising to a morning batch of mayflies.

1 know it sounds like “A River Runs Through It” — but it’s the real thing, and it’s the Rangeley latkes. I am fortunate to have a summer place there, and although I have changed ‘permanent’ residences several time, Rangeley will always be my true home.

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Maine, the essence, for me, is Sorry Beach. It’s a secret beach, public all right, but there is no sign on the twisting little road that leads to its secluded splendor. It has a ramp and 1 can slide my 50-pound cedar dinghy in the cove, Maine made, that I carry on my pick-up. There are usually loons about, and seals wait for the brook, often foaming across rocks, to come up with the day’s supply of silver menhaden. Early mornings a black bear dangles his feet from a boulder. A fox shows his ears above the sweet grass.

When the moon is full, coyotes chant on the gravel beach. That would be spring.

Winter time is good, too. The Sorry (I won’t give a true name, we’re trying to be private here) folks keep the road plowed.

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hen I want to be uplifted or regain a renewed perspective about life, I head for the coast, where I can get close to the waves, gaze out at the horizon, and just take in the power of the place.

Pemaquid Point, with its massive, smooth rocks and dramatic views, comes instantly to mind. Though every season has its gifts, 1 particularly like this area in June, when the roses are at their peak and the light is more beautiful and celestial than anywhere else on earth.

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ou’d be hard pressed to devise a more diabolical brain teaser than asking me to identify my favorite spot in the state of Maine. But upon reflection I find that I do indeed have one special Maine place.

Ocean Point juts out from the eastern side of Linnekin Bay near my hometown of Booth bay Harbor. There is a small crescent beach there, on Grimes Cove, paved with surf-smoothed stones and buttressed on both sides by granite outcroppings. Sitting on that beach gazing toward the ocean, you first see tiny Green Island.

Beyond it are Fisherman’s Island and neighboring Damariscove. Past Damariscove is Outer Heron Island, and beyond that but still visible on a clear day is Monhegan. ITese are the islands of my Maine boyhood-each one, in turn, eagerly anticipated and thoroughly explored. This is the ocean of my childhood wonder.

These are the rocks of picnic and bonfire and icy winter brooding.

I’ve been there a hundred times since my first visit at age six. Summer or winter, calm or storm, day or night, the view from Grimes Cove is mesmerizing, a reminder that this magnificent place stood unmolested for eons before I arrived and will remain long after I’m gone. With every visit I’m captivated all over again by the timeless beauty of Maine.

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It was at Madawaska Lake that my father taught me to swim, drive a motor boat and water ski. 1 remember the thrill when I finally learned to drop a water ski without falling and, pulled by the motorboat driven by my father, circled the cove for a perfect landing in front of our camp. One summer, my brothers and sisters and I joined with neighboring kids to put on a “water show” for our tolerant parents who applauded our limited skills.

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want to take you to Dcbouille Mountain. 1 am going to take you north on Interstate 95 to its final exit. You will be in Houlton, Maine.

Continue north, following Route 1 past the sleepy towns of Bridgewater, Monticello, and Mars Hill. Stop at the Northeastland Hotel in Presque Isle for a bit of lunch and a cup of coffee. Stretch your legs, look around. Get back on Route 1 through Caribou, then along the St. John River past Van Buren, Madawaska, Fort Kent and St. John.

When you reach St. Francis, you pass from one world to another. Imagine a dusty', bumpy pickup ride with your windows open a crack. You pass a gate, where you pay the paper company to use their land. An unmapped summer stream, as high as your tires, blocks your way. A msted skidder and a slashed forest blight either side of the road. You drive past the Red River Camps, over one last stream to sparkling Debouille Pond. The air is thick with mosquitoes and blackflies. So thick you swallow a few. The water is cold, cold.

On the opposite side of the pond is a rock face that falls sharply into the lake as far down as you can see. 'Hr is pond is deep.

Your trail is on the western side of the rock face. It is fairly steep, but short. A quarter of the way up there is a sign with an arrow: Ice Caves. You’ll go there on your way down. On top of the 2,000-foot mountain is a helipad, a cabin with scattered papers on the floor, and a fire tower with an observatory. On your way up the tower the wind will dry the sweat in your hair, harden the mosquito blood to your calves. From atop you can see south, west, and east across Maine, north into New Brunswick and Quebec. You won’t see a road or a clear-cut. You can’t imagine how this could be.

If you look closely about the observatory' you will find a message (among a multitude of others) carved by an 18-year-old’s L.L. Bean Swiss army knife. It says: TAKE BACK YOUR LIVES. This place just makes you feel like that. So take a deep

breath. Then another. You have to leave soon.

The Ice Caves are frozen year round, even during the hottest of July afternoons.

Unaccountably, you pass from stultifying 80-degree heat into “sunny pleasure domes with caves of ice, ” crevasses in the rock where you can store a few beverages for your camp site at the foot of the mountain and return to find them ice-cold.

FRANK BISHOP, 23, is a 1997 graduate of Colgate University. He has been on Portland Magazine’s staff since December, 1997.

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Maine’s islands and rocky coast characterize our state but also offer some of the most special areas for us, from the long sandy beaches of the South, to the bold coast of downeast Maine, to the spectacular hills and deep harbors of central Maine. We have long enjoyed picnicking on the coast, especially on the quiet, beautifid islands that abound near the Hancock Point home that has been in Jock’s family for nearly 110 years.

Although it is always hard to carve out enough time, we have spent countless summer days there in Hancock Point, enjoying the August weather and special way of life that brings summer to life.

With its magnificent sense of community and wonderfill seaside location -including spectacular views across Frenchman’s Bay to Mt. Desert Island - our home at Hancock Point is at once a gathering spot for family, and a way to escape the pressures of day-to-day life. Our Augusts there recall happy memories of activities like tennis, sailing, reading and spending time with the family, and we especially enjoy dining out at the Crocker House restaurant nearby.

SENATOR OLYMPIA J. SNOWE zXND GOV. JOHN R. McKERNAN, Jr. (1987-1995).

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en hayrack at ten or eleven years old was the greatest fun, though when you climbed down your arms and legs and whole body were splotched and itchy from sun and hay and sweat!

Down across the road at the head of the cove, we swam and dived from the wharf (where coastal schooners in earlier years had unloaded supplies for the general stores, barrels of sugar, vinegar, molasses, crates of boots and bolts of calico.) My dog, Ashley, and I still go down to the cove to swim.

In April, the smell of the damp early evenings has not changed from seventy years ago when playing outside until dark where was the sound of the frogs, and of the tin can flying off the stump as we scattered to hiding places.

The lilacs and the chestnut tree, the bridal wreath and spice bushes were all here when I was bom upstairs in the front bedroom, as were the yellow iris and lemon lilies, the columbine and delphinium in the garden beds.

Perhaps it is the wonderful and rare continuum that binds me to Prospect Harbor and this house.

Novelist MIRIAM COLWELL is the author of Wind Off The Water (Random House, 19-15), Day Of The Trumpet (Random House, 1947), and Young (1955), which was optioned by 20th Century Fox and is now being reprinted by Puckerbrush Press. After going to New York in her teens, where she wrote poetry and advertising copy, she returned to Prospect Harbor to become “the youngest postmaster in the country in one of its smallest offices!”

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am always left breathless by the natural beauty of Maine, from the hills of Oxford County to the potato fields of Aroostook County' to the cobblestoned streets of the Old Port to 'Humcler Hole in Acadia National Park. But I have to say that my favorite vacation spot is our family camp on Holbrook Pond in Holden. It is a place where the entire family can gather, play games, watch the children swim, and simply talk. It is our own Golden Pond, a magical place where time stops, the telephones don’t ring, and the television is thankfully neglected.

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With so many wonderful places in Maine it is difficult to select just one spot. However, for me, that place has to be North Pond in the town of Smithfield.

I have been going there nearly every' year since I was one year old. The lake is one of the six jewels of the Belgrade Lakes chain.

North Pond is just perfect for swimming, boating, and fishing. It has something for everyone. It is beautiful in the spring, summer, and fall. One of the prettiest seasons is autumn when the leaves begin to turn and the lake is quiet and placid. This has to be one of nature’s most tranquil scenes.

In a changing world, Smithfield seems to be a constant. Many generations of families return to the same cottages year after year. This has made for a very' congenial group of people who have developed lasting friendships.

There is also a very' friendly relationship between the local citizens and the summer visitors. Everybody looks forward to the Church and Grange dinners which take place throughout the summer.

As one who attends many of Maine’s country' fairs, Smithfield is ideally' located.

I ahvays go to Skowhegan, Union, and Windsor to sec my' favorite sport of harness racing. Now that is entertainment!

I guess my love affair with North Pond is a lot like that of the renowned author E.B. White, w'ho, in his favorite essay, the much anthologized, “Once More to the Lake," described a long life believing there was no place in the world like a lake in Maine. I certainly subscribe to that.

FORMER MAINE GOVERNOR JOHN IL REED (1960-1966), 77, practices law as a consultant in Washington D.C. and frequently attends meetings of the Maine Society there. A Naval Officer during World War 11, he was director of the Reed (Potato) Farms, Inc., (a thousand acres) in Fort Fairfield from 1946-1959 before being elected president of the Maine State Senate in 1959. He served as American zXmbassador to Sri Lanka and

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was a young Scottish painter living in a cramped London bedsitter, when 1 met an American girl. One day she showed me an advertisement for a Maine farmhouse on 100 acres for $4000. The thought of all that space pulled us from London to Maine, in search of what seemed to us a kind of Holy Grail. It was late April when we got to Farmington; there was snow on the ground, the farmhouse was a wreck, the 100 acres a wasteland. Disappointed, we headed for the coast, arriving at night at Milbridge where some inquiries at a local store got us accommodation in an zV frame on Tom Leighton Point.

In the morning, I stepped out onto our deck, into one of those magical mornings that are vantage Maine, the sea a Botticelli blue, smooth water broken occasionally by an excited duck, the drone of a lobster boat just out of sight behind a distant morning haze, the air spiked with pine.

I knew instantly that this is where I wanted to be, to paint, to take all those pieces of sight and sound, like parts of an equation, to juggle them, bring them to order, and that if I could solve the equation I would have something really good. That was th irty years ago. 1 am still working on the equation.

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arnsworth’s Cafe, better known as Pat’s Pizza, is the heart and soul of Orono, Maine. Generations of Orono locals, as well as thousands of students at the University' of Maine, have grown up on Pat’s popular plain Maine fare.

I was a freshman at the University in 1960-61 when I ate my first Pat’s pizza, delivered to the dorm. And I was a senior when 1 first started drinking legally' in Pat’s tap room.

But Pat’s is about much more than pizza and beer. While the food is good and cheap, it’s the atmosphere that people want to experience again and again. The first thing many of my fonner Orono students do when they come home is to go to Pat’s to see who’s around. It’s the most popular hang-out for everyone of all ages.

As my colleague Thom Ingraham says, “The breakfast crowd at Pat’s is Orono without a university,” with all the locals and regulars dishing the dirt, talking about town government, the schools, and so on. ’I he old wooden booths, the scarred tables, the worn floor tiles, the counter, tire tap room, and Pat Farnsworth himself haven’t changed much over the past forty years.

Hundreds of Orono students have worked at Pat’s waiting on tables, making and delivering pizzas.

During last January's ice storm and several-day power outage, Pat’s was the only place in town with power and the restaurant was packed even more than usual. ’Phe whole world had gone black but Pat’s had light with people inside laughing, telling stories, eating pizza and drinking beer. As ’Hrom Ingraham said, “It was like a festival in the middle of a disaster.”

Pat’s Pizza remains a good-humored and human place where no one rushes the customers. It’s a politically incorrect, wann environment where everyone’s welcome.

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On top of Mount Whitecap, rambling along its length in a shifting cloud revealing and occluding stands of virginal but stunted balsam and spruce, I’m reminded of the curse of the naked witches upon Macbeth, how he’d be safe until pine

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trees started to dance in veils. I’d have solid rock beneath iny feet, an illusion of farsighted clarity, and this assures me of safety and leads me on.

Ravens hop from bush to branch. Far below the graywhite plumes of the Rumford paper mills obey the breeze. But when I turn around an array of cairns, pink and orange survey ribbons tied into trees, fans north, west and south like veins on a maple leaf, and that’s when I lose my way: cut south too soon, or persist too far west. Every' path is identically marked, identically open and clear. Soon as the trees rise above my head, the most substantial logging track, fitted with carefully hewn log and boulder bridges, can vanish into and alder thicket and never reappear.

Once back-tracking in rain and darkness over one tote road after another, I came out at Red Hill, five miles from my camp.

I walked up to a white farmhouse with stained glass windows on all four sides, like the witch’s candy pane house in “Hansel and Gretel”. In the living room, deaf and blind to my knocking, shouting and jumping-jacks in the night’s cold mist, were people watching television without clothes on. One held a kitten in his lap. Furious, foot sore and amazed, I walked down the road and knocked at the next house, where a man and his son gave me a ride back to my cabin, steadily declining my jokes and queries about the frolics of their naked neighbors. nother time, in leafless Novemberonly the scrub oaks were dense with chattering russet leaves - 1 found my way more or less straight back to my camp with a compass.

Making a diagonal ascent in the cold darkness of the last hill above my cabin, climbing through saplings, stones and pricker-buns on hands and knees, 1 paused at what looked like a wide opal mirror open suddenly at chin-level, reflecting the moonlight and stars.

A grotto, I told myself, with a pond. I returned to look at it in the summer. It was an old fluorite mine abutting a stagnant pond littered with rock debris and tailings.

I love my camp’s predictable warmth and domesticity. The glacier polished quartz and limestone summit of Rumford Whitecap is not the deep blue sea inverted as scantily forested rock, and the naked man engrossed with his television and furry kitten is not the devil. But in between them lies that frozen grotto first seen half-lost in darkness, and which haunts my memory

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Poet and USM professor KENNETH ROSEN recently won a Fulbright Teaching fellowship that will take him to Yugoslavia this September. Founder of Ure Stonecoast Writers Conference, he lias been featured in Poetry Magazine. His most recent book is No Snake, No Paradise (Ascensius Press).

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f there were a place to go so yon could cleanse the daily debris of life from your brain, bring back the calm, to connect your body with the soul, it would have to be this unique haven nestled in the fir and pines of northern Maine woodlands. It’s called the Umcolcus Stream in T8 R6 WELS, and it’s not an organized town populated with people but an organized town populated with wildlife of various species.

Wood-log recreational camps owned by my dear friends Al and Audrey Currier sit on a carpet of constantly mowed lawn that serve as the backdrop for a flowing stream that lingers into a deadwater. Canoe and paddles are always beckoning me to quietly paddle the stream and listen and observe the sounds of everything that is not part of my daily routine. How alive 1 feel! I low alive everything is! Drudgery is gone. I am renewed watching a cow moose come out with her young. Her tolerance for us being in the same pond is expected-thcre is an unspoken understanding , a knowing that she is the rightfill owner. A great blue heron sw'ecps into the water on the morning sunrise. Later, sitting back on the screened porch overlooking the dcadwatcr, I can take in all that is audible, trying to distinguish species of birds.

Because of my love of this place I was married here. Eriends and family gathered to celebrate our union. My sister flew' in from Eugene, Oregon, to stand with me. 'Hie camps w'ere made festive for the occasion. Wildflowers and garden flow'ers of all color and variety were abundant.

Gas lanterns and tiki torches cast a mystical aura. 'Hie evening sky filled with pale light from an almost-full moon. Family and friends stayed the night, not wanting to leave the serenity. Standing out on the water’s edge around midnight you could have heard a pin drop. Things were back to normal. Granted, it was an inconvenience for the wildlife to endure w'ith all the sounds of people having a good time,

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STAN NEPTUNE is 49 years old and lives on Indian Island near Old Town. He is a carver and researcher of Penobscot Indian traditional and ceremonial root clubs. A display of some of his work and research recently appeared at the Portland Historical Society. A book on the subject, "Spirits in the Wood’’ by Joyce Butler can be found at the society. As his surname denotes, he is descended from John Neptune, greatest of the Penobscot witches.

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I fell head-first from my Grandfather’s knee, into a frame for hooking rugs, and cut my tongue and bled. The rug in the frame told a story with green leaves and oxen.

In the livingroom with many (toppled) stacks of books, with deer rifles and piano, there were “footpaths of red dust”: that is, the floor was red where the surface of the linoleum had worn away underfoot.

A great dark banister pulled you upstairs, where some windows looked into hayfields - other windows looked at the bam, and down upon a grindstone in the dooryard.

There arc two things I want to see again, from one of the bedrooms upstairs: a print of the child Handel in his nightshirt, caught playing the piano in the dark - and a picture clipped from a magazine and glued to the plaster wall: a Texas longhorn, steaming mad, and a cowboy with a lariat. from that high-ceilinged room, where I’d been sleeping, a small door and a stairway once led to the attic. Everything up there was quiet as ashes, and colored gold.

Above it all, the footstone that matched the soldier’s grave marker down in the cellar, sat at the top of the chimney and kept the rain out.

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rom January 1982 to July 1989 I was in solo practice as an obstetrician in Portland, so I couldn’t stray very far from the city. At that time the labor and delivery area of Mercy Hospital was on the fifth floor, on the eastern corner of the building, looking down State Street past St. Dominic’s over the harbor and out to sea. My favorite time was the first light of dawn, gazing out at the sleeping city and bobbing boats while the sky turned pink, then gold, in the east, lire laboring city came to life before my eyes, as I sat at the bedside of my laboring patient waiting for a new child to begin its life. What a privilege to be doing work I loved in a spot like thateven if it was the middle of tire night!

DR. CAROL WARD, 47, was the first woman resident in Ob-Gyn at Maine Medical Center. She has been in practice since 1982, and is currently chairman of the Ob-Gyn department at Mercy Hospital.

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1 miss the occan-that crystal, salty, fresh air-and the pine trees. I’d love to grab a great big, breathing lungful of both! I’ve also found that northern places all over the world attract people with a strong moral backbone, and that’s what 1 miss the most about Maine. It’s the same in Scandinavia, where 1 lived for many years, or in Scotland. When you go into a bank in Maine, for example, the people working there are sharper and more attentive, but they also lead a slower-paced life than in the south. This gives you a certain freedom that’s lacking in the rest of the world.

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y favorite place in Maine is my grandparents’ kitchen in Lille, when my grandfather sits in his rocking chair and plays the fiddle while fty'ing potatoes on the woodstovc and clogging with his feet. Any neighbors who happen to be there join in on accordion and spoons. My' grandmother will play piano in the living room, but while we’re in the kitchen, she just knits.

Sometimes people get up and dance, and everybody sings. I can still sing all those old French songs, but they don’t translate too well. Usually they’re about talking wolves and sheep, or drinking beer.

This used to happen every couple of nights. Somebody had a house party, and people went around to different houses.

But they don’t do this too much any more.

When I was a kid it was mostly old people playing Acadian music, and now the old people are too old to do it, or too dead. My grandparents’ house got condemned, and they tore it down. It was 150 years old and slowly sinking down into the swamp.

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oon Island is so wild a place there’s no graffiti on it. It’s more like a space station than a lighthouse. It’s so lonely’ it takes your breath away.

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don’t do what we did. Binding the lock open at the throat of the tower, we wound our way up and up, 133 feet to the top.

And what did we find inside? We expected seagull feathers (there arc killer gulls outside), old packages of cigarettes, beer cans. What we found was something else entirely - dead songbirds in the tower, greens, yellows, and blues.

Boon Island was the inhospitable ledge where the British merchant ship Nottingham was wrecked during a storm in the winter of 1710. No one picked up the survivors, and cannibalism followed.

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Climbing Mt. Katahdin via the AP Trail, 1 was by myself but never alone. For the 3 1/2 hour hike, 1 had inspiring conversations with people on the way up and on the way down. One of them was a 72year-old Scotsman. He had a heart valve replaced and said that he could now go home and tell the doctor that the surgery was indeed a success. After that, my cramping legs didn’t seem so bad either. It will be a very' long time before I forget the sight of the moon that night after 1 returned to my camp. I have seen clear night skies and bright moons before, but the full moon that night shined so brightly that all I could do was sit there and watch it, awestruck.

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Will Anderson Stonington and Eastport hase seen better clas s, but there’s still a grandeur that shows through. In the morning, the beautiful brick buildings rise out of the mist-it’s as if thes ’rc rising right out of the water. The fact that sou can’t go ans further east intrigues me. \\ ILLAXDERSOX is Ilie author of mam popular books, including Was Haseball Really Invented hi Maine? ami Hie Great State o/ Maine Heer Boob

Dr. Roy Partridge Our family has a ritual of hiking to the top of Bradbury Mountain in I’ownal on ms birthday. I lere. at the top of the mountain, we enjoy snacks and a birthdas cake, surrounded bs an ocean of.serenits.

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was born 62 scars ago in the sillage of St. George in grandfather’s house scsen houses up the road from here. I now lis c in a decrepit 1811 house that belonged to one of his father’s cousins.

My great-great-great-grandfather, a remarkable man who returned from the battle at I larlem I (eights to father 10 children with a Britisli ball in his stomach, owned my fields and woods 200 or so years ago, the same woods where, one crisp I lallowccn night os er 50 years ago, I spent some time on ms- back in the tall grasses, looking at the stars, waiting to

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jump out at the other trick or treaters.

(I guess I sort of do that on the radio now.)

Back then I delivered newspapers to the house next door, which one of great grandfather’s cousins built around 1854.

The I'innish woman who lived there couldn’t speak English. but alwavs gave me a cookie and a penns tip. I let sauna is now nn toolshed. I’mnk KcrswelL w ho lived in the next house up. sold ms brother his pristine 52 Chevrolet Coupe because grandfather, a second cousin to frank’s mother, was the onk person to help 1'rank build his house a hundred or so s cars ago. I wo houses up from I rank was Peres Jones, whom I helped chop alders and haul them home, even though I was w icked allergic to Maude, the mule, who pulled his wagon. I was walking behind Vic Dennison’s mowing machine two fields above there one hot summer das . when the horses stepped in a hornet's nest... You get the idea. Ms own personal msthologs starts and stops here. Somedas ms ashes will be thrown out in the pasture under ms apple trees because 1 wouldn’t know how to function in ans other place.

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Kendall Merriam Matinic Island is eight miles off Spruce Head, halfway between Monhegan and Matinicus Island. It’s a prisatels owned, svith onls lobster boats for transportation.

Eor me. the island was a child's paradise, with rocks to climb, I'wo Pond Beach to swim in. and the Jackson girls to flirt ss ith.

The sun and sea air made us hungrier than on shore and ms friend Woods’s mother alssass made us delicious meals, after w hich we could go out hauling, rowing. or fishing for mackerel. It seemed like all of the Maine coast condensed into one place and time.

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he vear is 1954, and you are on secluded Whaleboat Island, w here artist Stephen Etnier (1903-1984) is walking through wild roses, painting in his head. Paper birches crowd toward the water and a single heron flaps oxer the fennel grass, breaking the silence, but Etnier doesn't look up.

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Story By Colin Sargent almost black. Intrigued with this, he dreams further into the blackness until he nearlv stumbles through onto the other side. A former student of Rockwell Kent, Etnier considers the trees for a moment, dips a mental bristle, and darkens the center of them even more.

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and in a wav, it’s a shame it's for sale. It's got to be one of the loveliest islands in Maine, because it’s covered with wild rugosa roses and has a stand of uncut w hite pines on it that would have qualified for the King’s masts. They’re beautiful tall trees, like the Bowdoin Pines. 1 read somew here it’s one of the few stands of uncut pines left in this part of the state.

What did vou say it was for sale for?”

One-hundred-twenty-five-acre Whaleboat Island, the first of our Dream Islands this vear, could be vours this summer for $890,000. he Indians got here first, as a shell mound testifies. Then, according to documents written bv Stephen Ktuier’s former w ife. Samuella Shain, and provided bv listing agent Spike 1 laible of Brunswick Realty, Whaleboat next surfaces in a deed “this tenth of Mav in the fourteenth year of I lis Majestv’s reign, Annoque Domini 1 / /4,” where Jacob Mitchell sells “in consideration of love and good will and also 40 shillings law full money” over a quarter of the island to his son, David.

Fourteen y ears later, Samuella’s documents indicate, the Jacob Blake family bought the island and lived here until 1861. Stone walls and foundations scattered across the center of the island are all that remains of these early settlers.

“Bv 1878, Paul Merryman of Ilarpswell started buving lots on Whaleboat... and (bv) 1889 he ow ned it all, for a total investment of $1,085.”

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And on and on, until 1954, when the world traveler Esquire Magazine featured as “Stephen Etnier: Bad Boy Artist” in Mav, 1939, became lord of the isle. zYccording to journeys over Water, the program that accompanied the spring 1998 Etnier retrospective at the Portland Museum of Art, the Yale dropout (lie later completed studies at the Pennsylvania Academv of the Eine Arts by way of 1 laserford College and sojourns to “Rio de Janeiro, Santos, Sao Paulo, Bahia, Pernambuco, and Buenos Aires”) started at the top, creating something of a Yew York sensation in the 1930s with acclaimed shows at the Dudensing Galleries and Milch Galleries and sales to prestigious museums from The Metropolitan Museum of Art (where he sold his first painting, in April, 1936) on dow n. As beautiful and damned as am character E. Scott Eitzgerald might have created, he was pals w ith llemingwav, ow ner of several amphibious aircraft (two pontooned Cessnas and a Seabee fixing boat), and, as heir to a famik fortune amassed from patents needed to produce gizmos from washing machines to turbines, forever insulated from hard times (though, ironically, art critics seem to agree that history will consider him a member of the Ash Can School).

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is that “he was not exclusively a social person; he had plenty of capacity for solitude.

He divided the two.

“Steven was proud of the fact that he owned Whaleboat Island. Did he have a misspent youth? It’s hard for a guy as rich as he was to have a misspent youth. All 1 know is, he painted hard. l ie got up early (from 1934 on, his permanent residence was in South I larpswcll), at 5:30 or 6 exert morning. Bv the afternoon he started tapering off after he got older. " Nowhere was the cpiiet side of Etnier more profound than on Wlialeboat Island.

"T he thing about Whaleboat is, it rises quite high from Casco Bav, and because of that hump it looks like an overturned whaleboat, hence its name. It has the usual island animals: fox, deer, and raccoon, as well as nesting ospreys.”

When we ask about beaches, listing agent Spike 1 laiblc chimes in: “T he nicest, sandiest beach faces 1 laqrswell Neck, in the middle of the island, but that’s tidal,” he savs. “T here are shingly beaches, or pocket beaches, where you can land an outboard or canoe. T here is no pier and there are no permanent structures on the island, but that’s w hat makes it extraordinary - it’s a completely wild island. T here’s no other island its size that I could compare it to in Casco Bay." Property taxes are just $1,553, “because of some of the forever-wild casements on the property.”

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tan I leuisler, former editor and pul> lisher of Baltimore Magazine, and his wife. Bctsv Evans I leuisler. daughter of investment banker “CIuzza” Evans, w ho had the vision to buv this six-acre beauty in the 1950s. speak w ith real jov about the pleasures of Evans Island (sec photo, page 51). w hich thev have just listed this summer for $240,000 with I ,uke Muzzv of Century 21 Muzzy Real Estate in Greenville.

"Kineo just dominates out of the front w indow," 1 leuisler savs. “It looks in the windows. Do sou sec that incredible rock wall on the east side? It’s all flint. T hat’s w here the Native Americans came to get their arrow heads."

T he area is so rich for archaeologists that “some of them conducted a survey about S to 10 sears ago. T hew didn’t discover Atlantis or anything, but they did locate some shell middens."

T he two cabins on the island, each

approximately 40 years old, “both look out on Kineo. We’ve visited here even slimmer and have virtnallv grown up on the place. We’ve seen moose here, red squirrells and chipmunks. One vear, a famik of raccoons and the mother got a very good London broil off the grill when I went inside the house. 'I hirtv years ago, loons were mysterious and distant - soil’d verv rarck sec them. Now tliev seem to know they've been protected and just paddle back by the dock here. Of course, there’s spectacular fishing for freshwater salmon and lake trout (something I lenn David Thoreau and his Indian guide, Joe Polis, learned when passing by here on their way to Mt. Kineo in The Maine Woods'), and they’re so easy to catch we’re running out of recipes for them. Recentk wc tried Trait an bleu. You kill and gut the trout instantly into the poaching liquid and it turns kind of pale blue. It’s incredible."

And then there are the fabulous, moldcring remains of the Mt. Kineo Resort at your disposal, just a canoe trip away. “We can tie up our boats at the Resort and walk up two trails to the top.

At the bottom von have what’s left of the golf course. z\t the to]) you can see the whole world: Spencer Mountain, Squaw Mountain, the Moose River. To inv mind it’s the quintessential Maine view.”

More limes than he can count, he’s gotten his first cup of coffee and looked out the window to see the steamboat Katahdin glide by during its weekly cruise around Kineo. “Il can actually steal up on you, because a steamboat is totally silent.”

And .Moosehead Like itself is something of a w onder: “It's 40 miles long and several hundred feet deep. It has a personality of its own and truly is an inland ocean: Sometimes the wind comes ripping down the lake and vou get real waves.”

A few inlets up the lake, he knows a place where he can just about guarantee seeing a few “moose feeding on the likpads."

Regarding the buildings, "Mr. Kvans built the first camp largely with beams and woods from a New Jersey Barn. It has a two-and-one-half-ston stone fireplace, made from big round stones from the lake. The obligators moose antlers arc on the front. The new cabin is more modern, though both cabins have electricity from the mainland for cooking and electric heat to augment the woodstoves.

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Sometimes deer “appear at the fringesof the forest,” lapping at “freshwater streams flowing down to tire beaches.”

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Sheltered by Seven-Hundred-Acre Island, Spruce Island, and Warren Island State Park, seven-acre Birch Island is part of Islesboro and overlooks one of the most exclusive island thoroughfares in Maine.

“It’s mostly pine trees,” says listing agent Lee Montgomery of the Allen Agency.

“Birds use it as a sanctuary.”

Once on the island, “you’re looking across to Camden Hills to the west and 700-Acre Island and Spruce Island in the foreground. Looking east, you can see Gilkey Harbor, Dark Harbor, and Islesboro.” It’s also just hundreds of yards from Islesboro Public Landing, where there is a boat ramp, and the Islesboro Ferry Terminal. This island is right in the thick of things.

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“It’s a wonderful little four acres with nice big ledges, beaches, and gravel,” says Jean Ford of Shepard’s Select Properties in Stonington of charming, evergreenclad Polypod Island in Southwest Harbor, and it’s just 500-600 feet oft the end of Merchant’s Point,” e.g., one of the most exclusive areas in North America.

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Ram LJ an J, $182,000 Within easv viewing distance of Orrs Island and close to Ragged Island of I'ldim St. Vincent Milkw fame, this five-acre isle can easilv be visited bv chartering a small bout out of Wills Cut, the bodv of w ater that runs below the cribstone bridge w here Bailey Island and Orrs Island meet. Part of the town of 1 larpswcll and know n for its seals, gulls, and wiki ducks, Ram Island is a “unique opportunitv to own an openocean island,” savs listing agent Rob Williams of Rob Williams Real F,state, who never fails to list several islands for purchase every year (see Pinkham Island, next page). For information, call (207) S33-5078.

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H ust short weeks after Vance Gray of ■ Downeast Properties sold Little I Freese Island, off Deer Isle (listed I last vear at 5195,000), he snapped I up another stunner to headline J this summer: 77-acre Bare Island, at 5770,000. Just a mile from Buck’s 1 [arbor in Machias Bai, its bold headlands offerelevations up to 100 feet above sea level, “w ith high lookout points,” Gray says.

"On other parts of the island there are open sunlit clearings with white birch trees. Tall spruces loom over the many interesting shorefront ledges. And the topograph}' of the island is so varied that at the same moment vou can enjoy everything from quiet, serene water to wild surf.”

A two-story shingled cottage, built in 1972, has lots of glass and “captures the natural forest setting” with its two bedrooms, knottv pine interior, and large brick fireplace. Guest quarters (“The Tree 1 louse") arc connected to the main house bv a catwalk. Ragles, osprev, and seals reign supreme in this dramatic setting.

I'orhes Magazine lias called us in the w ake of past Dream Islands issues when we've profiled properties attractive to their readers-and we won't be a bit surprised if thc\ call this vear about this one.

POkm kUJ. $219,500 Several hundred vards east of Potts Point, better known as the tippy end of South I larpswcll. is five-acre Pinkham Island, a standout because of its relatively high elevations and verv sandy beach on the north end. A single 19>0s-era cottage with a fieldstone fireplace “made with found stones, including quartz and smooth stone washed by eons of waves collapsing on the shore" is here to warm you and votir coffee. Views from the living room overlook 1 laskcll Island half a mile to the south. Spike I laible of Brunswick Realty is votir guide.

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To view this seven-acre island, “head out Route 24 from Cook’s Corner to Bailey Island, then turn left on Ctmdy 1 larbor Road and take another left on Oak I .edge Road to Eggemoggin and the public pier.

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Story By William David Barry & Debra Verrier Barry t 9:40a.m.on()ctolx:r IS, 1775 Lt. 1 lenrv Mowat ordered the raising of a “blood red pennant atop the maintopgallant mast head of the Roval Naw sloop Canceaux. and the bombardment of I'almouth Neck (now Portland) began. Bv sunset, “the body of the town was in one flame,” with 1 50 houses, wharves, a church, library, and distillery destroyed.

In the sweep of local history, no indiv idual has come in for more personal abuse than Mowat. The Rev. Samuel Dean called him an “execrable scoundrel," “infamous incendiary," and “monster of ingratitude." Ceorge Washington called the attack "an Outrage exceeding in Barbarity eY Cruelty even hostile Act practiced among civilized Nations."

And as late as 1SS6, historian William Coold still applied words like "detestable" and "cruel" to the officerand the action. Indeed, most writers attributed the deed to a personal vendetta. Mowat’s own postwar recollections, little more than a whiny string of complaints about lack of promotion, did little to change his reputation here.

After all, he’d been treated well by Portland loyalists, knew a number of them socially, had shared toasts w ith them as an invited guest at many of their receptions and dances. I low could he have betrayed these acquaintances by burning their town?

In 1890, Maine historian Joseph Williamson first advanced the possibility that Mowat was simply an honest, exacting

researcher David Ellison began a search of sources on the other side of the Atlantic. 1 Ie has since shared his findings with The Maine I listorical Society, many of them revelatory.

I lie upshot is, Lt. Mowat directed the bombardment, and no sane historian should seek to absolve him entirely from this deed. 1 lovvever, it is clear that he in no wav merits all the villainy heaped on him.

A native of Scotland, I lenrv w as the son of a naw Captain and brother to at least two others in the service. (All the Mowats would die at sea.) After serving as a midshipman, I lenrv was advanced to lieutenant aboard I IMS Tallimore. In 1764 he received command of the armed sloop Canceaux in North American walers. At that time, observes historian Neil R. Stout, “The Roval Naw was caught in the middle. It was expected to enforce unenforceable laws, to protect Roval Officials and propertv, and & to keep 11lie Americans in awe of British imight, all with inadcquate numbers and types of ships."

With the naw pressed to a •3 mere law-enforcement role there was little room for advancement, and Mowat ,1 remained lieutenant aboard the same vessel for 12 years.

Bv courtesv. he was called captain, but without the pay that a so-called post-captain garnered.

Mowat was a skilled commander and apparently was w ell thought of by Americans on the coast of Maine. He charmed leading citizens and was invited to various homes. 'I he rub came in Mav, 1775, when Mowat arrived in Casco Bay in the Canceaux to assist a Tory merchant in the removal of a shipment of masts destined for the Roval Naw. In a non-v iolent attempt to stop this action, local rebels seized the masts and secreted them up the Lore River while keeping Capt. Mowat pleasantly occupied at a social function, nter Col. Samuel Thompson and the Brunswick militia, who vowed to sink the Canceaux. This outside agitator, with no property to lose in Ealmouth Neck, was told to stay home by the I ’almouth rebels.

Incensed, he landed on Munjoy Hill and kidnapped Mowat while the officer

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Since the Bicentennial (19/6-1985), more observers have begun to concur, including Donald A. Yerxa in The Turning of Taimouth (Maine Historical Society), who explored the incident in some depth.

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Thompson replied that for every shot fired, he’d cut a chunk out of Mowat.

But cooler Portlanders prevailed. Local rebel leaders freed Mowat and conducted him to his ship in exchange for his word that, upon demand, he would return for questioning.

Prudently, he stayed aboard his vessel while Thompson vented his wrath on local property owners.

In a state of agitation and apparently in disgrace, the Canceaux sailed out of port without the masts, and in their elation the locals saw this incident, known as “Thompson’s War,” as one of a string of small victories over British officialdom.

N" obody seriously expected the British to fire a town that was the Royal Navy’s largest mast supplier and was almost wholly inhabited by English-speaking people.

When it came to pass, they couldn’t help but assume that Henry Mowat was taking personal revenge. Even if he had been ordered to destroy the port, contemporaries figured, he must have done so with some glee.

In fact, the record suggests that Mowat came close to exceeding his authority in trying to avoid the bombardment.

Ultimate responsibility rests on the empty head of Admiral Samuel Graves in Boston. As commander-in-chief of the North American Squadron, Graves was a patronage-hack who was seen to have made a muddle of enforcing new trade laws.

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Even based on rebel reports, Mowat started out by offering terms and meeting several times with representatives of the town. He demanded that all arms be turned over to his command, a measure the rebels considered before ultimately deeming it unacceptable.

After the bombardment, British sailors were landed to finish the job with torches, but there was no loss of life, partly because Mowat gave the townspeople warning and time to move property. This was exceptional, as Craves’s orders to Mowat did not specify any type of warning. Had he spoiled for revenge, he could easily have come in shooting. Clearly, there was no Battle of Falmouth Neck.

The burning, however, had major repercussions. Even the British press was taken aback by the burning of an English (albeit Colonial) town. Among the Americans it strengthened the resolve of rebels and pushed neutrals toward the rebel camp.

Indeed, the Declaration of Independence, signed in the following summer, had the attack in mind when it charged King George with having “plundered our Seas, ravaged our Coast, burnt our towns.” Falmouth Neck was the first of the burnt communities. s for the town’s arch-villain, Mowat continued to serve. He was a favorite of loyalist settlers along the Penobscot and at the British stronghold of Bagaduce (Castine).

He had a strong respect for Americans, and had his son educated by Maine minister Rev. Jacob Bailey. When the rebel fleet attacked Bagaduce in 1779, Mowat held off the vastly superior force with three small vessels. After 21 days, the British squadron, under Sir George Collier, swept in from Halifax, destroyed the Americans, and relieved the settlement.

Collier, rather than the resourceful Mowat, received the laurels. After the war, Mowat was promoted to post captain, but that was as far as he would go. The stigma of being a town-burner likely haunted him the rest of his days, and in a final twist, he died in command of the HMS Assistance on April 14, 1798, too close to American shore to be buried anywhere else. Ironically, he is interred at Cape Henry, Virginia, never to return to the England he loved. ft-

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At the Armory Restaurant in the Portland Regency Hotel, spectacular cuisine. Old Port charm, and impeccable service come together in an elegant yet casual atmosphere.

Along with fresh dinner specials featuring foods from land and sea. the Armory chefs prepare unforgettable house specialties like Seafood Fettuccine with lobster, shrimp, crab, and mussels; Steak Diane, and Black Angus Sirloin.

The Armory Restaurant is also open for breakfast and lunch. Reservations recommended. 774-4200.

David and Elizabeth Grant opened Aubergine Bistro-Wine Bar in November of 1996 and within 2 weeks received stunning local reviews and have since garnered national acclaim. Cuisiner David Grant and Chef de Cuisine Gordon Cameron prepare French Bistro dishes such as TwoTexture Duck with Cassis, Sweetbreads with Port and Cepes and Crispy Salmon with Spinach and Pemod and Portland's only traditional French Cheese Course. Menu changes daily; all wines available by the glass. Dinner Tues-Sat 5:30-10; French Sun Brunch 11-2. 874-0680.

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 handmade breads and desserts. House favorites include grilled crab and macadamia encrusted swordfish w/ orange pepper basil coulis and sautd of Maine lobster and veal on fresh angel hair w/ roasted tomato beurre blanc. Patio dining and off premise catering available. Serving breakfast, lunch and dinner daily. 767-0888.

The Barking Squirrel Cafe in Deering Oaks Park offers a wide selection of homemade cuisine, from burgers, fries, and salads to southwestern crab cakes, lobster benedict, and mediterranean pasta. Serving brunch under $5, lunch around $6. and dinner around $10. The Barking Squirrel is Portlands answer to New York's Tavern on the Green. Dine outdoors overlooking the park or indoors by their fireplace.

Open 7 days a week in summer; limited hours in winter.

Private parties available; free parking; credit cards. Just off Exit 6-A (1-295). 774-5514.

Owned and operated by Roger Bintliff. Blntlfff’s American Cafe is Portland's only all-day-everyday Jazz Brunch House. Greek revival structure, charming antiques and detail make breakfast, lunch or business meeting a special occasion. Signature items include crab and asparagus stuffed filet mignon, garden scampi with Pemod, seasonal vegetable Ie primavera,*and a wide array of homemade accompaniments, including desserts. Unique wine list, full bar. Brunch 7-3 daily; dinner 5:30-9 Fri and Sat only. 98 Portland St (across from the post office) 774-0005.

Cafe Stroudwater, specializes in American bistro style cuisine with an emphasis on native Mane seafood & prime cuts of beef. Il is five-star award winning chef William Boutwell’s creative touches—such as pine nut encrusted rack of lamb with fresh ratatouille—that make this dining experience like no other in Portland. In addition to a spectacular. Grand Sunday Brunch, Cafe Stroudwater serves breakfast, luncheon and dinner daily. The Cafe also offers Portland’s only Chef's Table, and an innovative selection of wines & locally brewed beers. Located in the Embassy Suites Hotel, reservations suggested 775-0032.

In the downstairs at David’s Restaurant you can sample four-star entries featuring farm-fresh produce and native products like seafood sausage, pepper crusted tuna, or goat cheese packets with grilled vegetables (773-4340). David’s, set in a converted open-air market building, boasts an abundant raw bar, 20 varieties of seafood, lobster, fresh pasta, microbrews, and Maine's largest single malt scotches list (773-4340). Torino's Stone Oven Pizzeria combines wild mushrooms, prosciutto, artichoke hearts, and fresh herbs to create authentic gourmet pizza from old Naples (780-6600).

AH three restaurants are located at 164 Middle Street.

You can’t beat the location of DIMIIIo'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. Tum-of-the-century 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 micro-breweries. 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. 772-0300. Visit us on-line at: http://www.ime.net/bear/ Freeport—Harraseeket Inn, 2 blocks north of L.L. Bean, is one great country inn with two great restaurants. Enjoy breakfast, lunch, dinner, afternoon tea or Sunday Brunch in an elegant main dining room which features classic cuisine, table side service, and flambes. The Broad Arrow Tavern offers an open kitchen, wood fired oven and grill. AAA**** Zagot and Wine Spectator Awards of Excellence. 84 rooms, indoor pool, extended stay condos. Open 365 days, major credit cards, www.stayfreeport.com. Harraseeke@aol.com .800-342-6423. Fax 207-865-1684.

Hugo's Portland Bistro, accessibly located at the intersection of Middle Street and Franklin Artery, was Portland Dining Guide's 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.

Katahdln, at Spring and High, opposite the art museum, specializes in comfort: comfortable food across a tantalizing culinary range, comfortable atmosphere and wait staff, and comfortable prices. Its identifiably loyal clientele establishes its credibility and popularity. Try the fish chowder ($2.95/3.95), crabcakes ($13.95), grilled sea scallops with spicy lime & vegetable vinaigrette ($14.95) or the chef's Blue Plate Special ($10.95). All homemade desserts including their own ice cream and sorbets. Tues-Thurs, 5-9:30pm; Fri & Sat 5-10:30. Tel: 774-7140 Marla’s Ristorante, est. 1960 by owner/chef Anthony Napolitano.offers exquisite Italian cuisine plus a large variety of Italian wines by the glass. Spacious, beautiful, Italian decorated dining rooms. Private rooms available for large parties. Specialties: veal saltimboca, lobster alfredo or fra diavolo and fried roasted garlic calamari. Desserts: panna cotta, chocolate amaretto fudge cake, and Napolitano’s own pistachio gelato. Lunch: $5-$8, Tues-Fri, 11:30am-2 pm.

Dinner $10-$19, Tues-Sat from 5 pm. 337 Cumberland Ave., on-site parking. Tel: 772-9232.

Mozon Middle's melting pot approach to nouvelle cuisine blends American ingredients with classical techniques.

Some favorite menu items are a Maine lobster and goat cheese burrito with tomatillo sauce and mango salsa; grilled filet mignon over oven-roasted red potatoes with a parmesan crisp and vintage port demi-glace; and fresh native tuna wrapped in sun-dried tomato pesto and Italian prosciutto with a basil buerre Wane. Their Bellini cocktail is the highlight of a unique selection of wines and liquors.

Parking and terrace dining are availaWe at 47 Middle Street.

Open Tuesday-Sunday at 5 p.m. for dinner. 774-9399.

Natasha’s. Portland’s newest restaurant featuring New American-style menus for brunch, lunch and dinner prepared with the freshest ingredients, including pastas, local fish, grilled meats, and many vegetarian selections. Lunch Tu-F, 11-2:30; Dinner Tu-Th, 5-9; F-Sa, 5-10; Brunch Sa-Su, 8-3.40 Portland St., 774-4004. Handicapped accessible.

The Oide House is just that: the oldest house (c. 1790) in Raymond. Sitting alongside Panther Run on Rt 85, it offers a classic, European based cuisine (Beef Wellington Bordelaise, Steak au Poivre) with the best Maine touches (chowder, Lobster Au Vin, Baked Stuffed Haddock). Elegant and comfortable, with warming fires on cool evenings, it caters to all ages and with its Child’s Comer servings is especially appealing to young families.

The Pepperclub is a prize-winning restaurant ("Best Vegetarian’ and "Best Value" in Frommer’s Guide to New England) featuring creative world cuisine. Its blackboard menu typically lists five vegetarian, three fish, and three meat entries, including a superb organic beef burger.

Pepperclub offers relaxed, colorful, unusually affordable dining on the edge of the Old Port with easy, free parking and good wines and beers. Open nightly at 5 p.m.; payment by cash or personal check. 78 Middle Street, near Franklin Artery. 772-0531.

Rlcetta's Brick Oven Pizzeria, voted “Best Pizza in Maine’ since 1990 by the PPH and CB W, Ricetta's 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, take-out, delivery, and catering are available. The all-you-can-eat gourmet lunch buffet includes pizza, pasta, soup, and salad.

Kids eat FREE during Sunday lunch buffet and Mondays from 3 p.m. until closing. Located at 29 Western Avenue, South Portland. 775-7400.

Saigon Thlnh Thanh, 608 Congress Street, Portland. “Of the 137 restaurants listed in the 1996-97 edition, Saigon Thin Thanh is a four-star restaurant ranked first in value.

Saigon Thin Thanh is Maine's—and probably New England's—-finest Vietnamese restaurant.’— Portland Dining Guide. "Four stars for food, service, and value for money.

With good, healthy, flavorful food and quick service in a pleasant, clean atmosphere, Saigon Thin Thanh is worth investigating.’— Press Herald. 773-2932.

Snow Squall, known for great Maine seafood and lobster, also serves steaks, chicken, veal, filet of beef and vegetarian selections. Offering casual dining as well as full dinners, luncheon in the patio or dining room. Mon-Fri, 11:30-9:30.

Happy hour daily 4-6, double drinks single priced, wine and beer specials, free munchies. Early dinners $7.95: Mon-Sat, 4:30-6 and Sun, 2-6. Famous Sunday brunch buffet, 11-2.

Located in South Portland waterfront market at 18 Ocean Street, ample parking. 799-2232 or 800-568-3260.

Tortilla Flat has been serving New Englanders fine Mexican food and drink for over 25 years. At 1871 Forest Avenue in Portland you can find favorites like nachos, fajitas, chimichangas, tamales, burritos, tacos, enchiladas, and frozen margaritas seven days a week, as well as seafood, steak, pork, and chicken cooked with a Mexican flair. With lunch specials starting at $3.95, a children's menu, nightly specials, a Chili Happy Hour, a screened-in deck, and lake-out, Tortilla Flat is a memorable Mexican experience you can afford any time. 797-8729.

Zephyr Grill, near the State Theater, sets an inviting mood with rich color and tiny spotlights that endow the tables with the atmosphere of private islands. Its regularly changing menu encompasses vegetarian entrees, seafood and grilled meats: perhaps a crisp com tostada with smoked duck; slow wood-roasted pork loin and cannellini beans; or pan-fried vegetarian hash with grilled veggies. Dinner 7 nights. 5 to closing. Sunday breakfast 9:30-1:30. 653 Congress with free parking behind Joe's. 828-4033

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Best of all, a new restaurant has opened this summer on Island Avenue, just up the hill from the ferry dock. Peaks Island I louse offers breakfast (unique for Peaks), lunch, and dinner. Refreshing and fun, this is a great place to bring the kids, hang out with friends, or bring a date for some sparkling skyline views of Portland from the large outdoor deck.

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The Lobster ($9.95), tender and nicely presented on a bed of lettuce with french fries and fresh cole slaw, arrived as we watched the ferry’ glide beneath the tall pines of Little Diamond Island. The New York Sirloin ($10.95) was a flavorful cut, served with baked potato and a vegetable of the day. For dessert we were delighted with a perfect island treat — a slice of homemade strawberry' rhubarb pie with ice cream. Just like grammy used to make.

Sipping our coffee and watching the skyline of Portland mellow in twilight, we realize just how lucky we are to live here.

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Belfast Maskers has enjoyed appearances from such stars as Ali McCraw and Liv Ullman. The company perfonns in a converted station house on the old Belfast Moosehead railroad overlooking the waterfront in Belfast 338-9668.

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Grand Auditorium, Main Street in downtown Ellsworth, was originally a movie theater. It was built in the 1930s and shimmers with Art Deco style. Princess Ida, by Gilbert and Sullivan, will be perfonned by the Gilbert and Sullivan Society of Hancock County July 9-11. Sha Na Na holds forth in a July 31 concert. Lisa Haley and the Zydekatas roll in on August 7, with the Pride of Maine Fiddling Festival on August 8. Wilderness Dreams rounds things off on August 28 at 8 p.m.

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Known for its sweet strawberries and 4 shortcake served during intennission, tire theater Oak Street Theater, 92 Oak Street, Portland, will present Nunsense (June 23-28 and June 30-, exists not only to produce talent, but to nurture July 4); Camelot (July 7-12 and 14-18); Phantom talent. “We are trying to provide a grass roots (July21-26and July 28-August 1); Annie (August facility for the arts.’’ The Mad I lorse Theater .

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13-30; please call for information. On the last that audiences experience art most vitally when This’year’s season includes* Cash on Delivery a: f Monday of every month (June 29, July 27, and they are called upon to engage their (June 18-27); The Homecoming (July 2-11); ' J August 24) the Theatre hosts open poetry imaginations fully, the company produces visual Noises Off (July 16-25); Dr. Cook’s Carden (July ’ readings ($2 for a seat; the first 14 people who theater that .emphasizes ‘myth and 30-Aiigust 8); Post Mortem (August 13-22); and , 4 p volunteer Jo read after 7:30 get a slot). On June transfonnation. They can be seen performing the Dearly Departed (August 27-September,5). The 2 17 you. can hear the'acoustic stylings of following shows this" summer:1- Dragon’s theater will also host tire Maine premiere of Jf Winterw ood at 7:30 p.m.' for $6.775-5130.

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Agatha Christie’s Ten little Indians, August 24Barbara is a transplant from Southboro, Mass, Oscar Hammerstein’s Show Boat steams in July September 5. Single tickets cost $24. 646-5511. who now lives on an island off the coast of 21-August 8. In the Beginning, by Tony Aw ardFreeport. The Sound of Music, a Rodgers and winner Maury Ycston (Nine, Titanic), is on the Outlore Theatre Company at 275 Main Sheet, Hammerstein musical, will be featured August 6slate for August 11-22. As an added bonus, Rockland operates a dinner theater overlooking 9 and 14-17. Tickets are $10 for adults and $8 for MSMT is joining with the Portland Stage Rockland Harbor. Call 594-2522. students and seniors. Call 865-6041.

Company to bring to Maine for the first time ever the Tony Award-w inning play Master Class, Penobscot Theatre Company, Bangor. In Gaslight Theater, City' 1 lall, 1 fallow ell, presents August 25-September 19. Call 725-8769. celebration of its fifth anniversary, the Maine Inherit the Wind, by Jerome Lawrence and Shakespeare Festival will revive its inaugural Robert E. Lee, June 18-20 and 25-27. Next is Maritime Productions is the world’s only production of Shakespeare’s best-loved comedy, Nunsense by Dan Goggin, August 27-30 and completely nautical, entirely professional A Midsummer Night’s Dream. All shows run September 3-5. The Gaslight Theater—if you entertainment company, perfonning true tales of Wednesday through Sunday, July 23-August 15 include its previous incarnation as the Augusta intrigue and horror from our maritime past and outdoors, in rotating repertory on the banks of

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This year’s line-up includes Sliakespeare’s The Merry Wives of Windsor (July 2-August 29); The Sign of Tour, a Sherlock Holmes mystery (July 9-August 29); Shakespeare’s Richard III (July 24-August 27); and The I leiress by Henry James (July 31-August 28). All plays arc performed in rotating repertory. Curtain is at 8 p.m., with 2 p.m. matinees on Saturday. There will also be a children’s sho v, jack and the Beanstalk (August 9-August 27 at 2 p.m. on Sunday, Tuesday, and Thursday only). For complete schedule information, call 933-9999.

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Portland Symphony Orchestra, P.O. Box 3573, 20 Myrtle Street, Portland, presents their annual outdoor Independence Pops concerts at 7:30 p m. on Friday, July 3 at Fort William Park in Cape Elizabeth (rain site: Cumberland County Civic Center); at 7:30 p.m. on Saturday, July 4 at Shawnee Peak in Bridgton (rain site: Lake Region I Ugh School); and at 6:30 p.m. on Sunday, July 5 at the Thornton Academy football field in Saco (rain site: Thornton Academy gym). The program will include Stephen Foster’s Kentucky Home Medley, Tchaikovsky’s 1812 Overture, Copland’s Lincoln Portrait, Gershwin’s “Wintergreen for President” from Of Thee I Sing and “Summertime” from Porgy <5- Bess, a George M. Cohan celebration, variations on “Hail to the Chief,” an Appalachian medley, and “America, the Beautiful.” ’Hie July 3 and July 4 concerts will also include fireworks.

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Friends of the Kotzschmar Organ, P.O Box 7455, Portland, presents the 86th annual summer recital series on the mighty Kotzschmar organ at 7:30 p.m. on Tuesday evenings in Merrill Auditorium, starting with Portland Municipal Organist Ray Comils on June 16; followed by Kimberly Ann Hess on June 23; Douglas Rafter on June 30; William

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Informed Performance), 515 Woodford Street at Brighton Avenue, Portland, presents Boston’s Voce da Fiorenza performing vocal music of Florence's Golden Age on June 27; the Portland Early Music Consort playing 17thcentury mtrsic front Italy and Cennany on July 11; the Ensemble Galant performing music of Handel’s London on July 18; the Lygonia Consort playing 18th-century music front England and France on July 25; and Fiori Musicali performing music from Italy on August 1. Tickets cost $10 for adults and $7 for students and seniors. Call 721-3040.

Agape Center for Soul, Comnymity, & the Arts, 657 Congress Street, Portlaird. Annegrct Baier will perfonn West African rhythms, songs, and stories using a variety of percussion instniments from around the world at 7:30 p.m. on Thursday, June 18 ($5). Then join vocalist Victoria Marcs-I Icrshey for an evening of hot and sassy jazz, both classic and contemporary, flavored with influences from Latin America and the Caribbean at 7:30 p.m. on Saturday, June 27 ($5, with proceeds to benefit the NAACP, the I-atin Community Council, and Agape). Call 780-1500.

Bowdoin Summer Music Festival, Bowdoin College, Brunswick. This year’s Musicfest concert series (held at 8 p.m. on Fridays in Crookcr Theater at Bnmswick High School) begins on July 3 with Bach’s Chromatic Fantasic and Fugue in d, Dvorak’s Piano Quintet in A op. 81, and Mozart’s Symphonic Conccrtante in Eb. The July 10 program includes Vivaldi’s Concerto in a for Bassoon and Strings RV 497, Brahms’ Sextet No. 2 in G op. 36, and Mozart’s String Quintet in g K. 516.

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Musicfcst tickets cost $17.50 for adults and $10 for children. The Upbeat! concert scries (held at 7 p.m. on Sundays at Bowdoin College) begins on July 5 in Kresge Auditorium with Poulenc’s Sonata for Cello and Piano, Till E'-'enspiegel’s Merry Pranks by Richard Strauss, and Mendelssohn’s Octet for Strings in Eb Op. 20. The July 12 performance in Moulton

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■ LISTINGS ■ Union includes Amilcare Ponchielli’s Quartetto, George Rochberg’s Slow I'ires of Autumn for flute and harp, Beethoven’s Sonata in A Op. 69 for Cello and Piano, Donald Freund’s Rast Music for cello, and Elgar’s Sonata for Violin and Piano. Then on July 19 in Kresge Auditorium it’s the Maine premiere of Kaija , Saariaho’s New Gates, Brahms’ Sonata in G Op. 78 for Violin and Piano, and Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring arranged by the composer for two pianos and percussion. Upbeat! tickets cost $8.

Special events include “Bach in the Chapel”— Bach’s Suites for Solo Cello No. 2 in d, No. 3 in C, and No. 5 in c performed by Tsuyoshi Tsutsumi at 7:30 p.m. on Wednesday, July 8 in the Bowdoin Chapel (free); and an outdoor family concert with refreshments at 3 p.m. on Sunday, July 12 on the Bowdoin Quad ($5 for adults; free for children). Call 725-3895.

First Parish Church, 9 Cleveland Street, Bmnswick, presents a series of summer recitals on the 1883 Hutchings-Plaistcd organ at 12:10 p.m. on Tuesdays, starting with Sean Fleming on July 7; Luke Parkin and Andrew Scanlon on July 14; Nancy Grancrt on July 21; Philip Fournier on July 28; Ray Comils on August 4; and Harold Stover on August 11. Call 729-7331.

Round Top Center for the Arts, Business Route 1, Damariscotta. As part of the Seal Bay Festival of American Music, the Cassatt String Quartet will perform works by Paul Brantley, John Duffy, Andrew Waggoner, Anna Wcesner, and Yehudi Wyner at 8 p.m. on Saturday, June 13. Tickets cost $14 for adults and $5 for children. Call 563-1507.

North Atlantic Blues Festival, Harbor Park, Rockland, offers sixteen hours of main stage musical entertainment, rain or shine.

Performing on Saturday, July 11 will be Johnny Rawls, Lil Malcolm & the Zydeco House Rockers, Studebaker John & the Hawks, Joanna Conner, Saffire-Thc Uppity Blues Women, Bobby Parker, Koko Taylor & Her Blues Machine, and the 2nd Annual Blues Club Crawl (top regional blues performers from New England and eastern Canada). Performers on Sunday, Jul)’ 12, will include Bill Morganfield, Jimmy Johnson, Shcmika Copeland, Phil Guy, Billy Branch, Melvin Taylor, and Bernard Allison. Show times: 12 p.m. to 8 p.m. both days. One-day tickets cost $20 in advance or $25 dollars at the gate; a weekend pass costs $30 in advance; tickets for children 6-12 cost $5 (gate); children under 5 free. 236-7660.

Colby College, Waterville. Don’t miss Al Corey’s Big Band Bash at 5:30 p.m. on Sunday, July 12 in the Gould Music Shell (free). Then Anthony di Bonaventura will give a piano recital at 7:30 p.m. on Monday, July 13 in Lorimer Chapel. Call 872-3386.

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Ram Island Dance, 25A Forest Avenue, Portland. The In-House Dance Series “Alive & Well” continues on Friday, June 19 at 7:30 p.m. in the Portland Performing Arts Center with studio performances showcasing New England dancers and choreographers of all disciplines ($2 suggested donation). Call 7732562.

Saco River Grange Hall, Salmon Falls Road, Bar Mills, offers contra-dancing with live music for mixers, reels, waltzes, polkas, and line dances provided by the versatile Sea Slugs at 7:30 p.m. on the first Saturday of ever}' month.

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Munseums Portland Museum of Art, 7 Congress Square, Portland. “Portrait of the Charles Shipman Payson Building: Celebrating 15 Years” is a scries of black-and-w hite photos taken by Judith Turner just after the building was completed in 1983 (through June 28). “Masterpieces of Art Nouveau Jewelry: Tiffany, Lalique, Faberge, and their Rivals” features fifty pieces in a variety of precious metals and stones from one of the finest private jewelry collections in tire world (through July 5). “Winslow Homer: Facing Nature” celebrates the gift of 17 Homer works which were the impetus for the constniction of the museum’s Charles Shipman Payson Building—including 13 watercolors, five oil paintings, selected wood engravings from the museum’s collection, and works from other private collections (through September 27).

Opening June 25, “Impressions of the Riviera: Monet, Renoir, Matisse, and their Contemporaries” focuses on nineteenth- and early twentieth-century painters’ s isions of the Cote d’Azur (through October 18). Tire museum is open 10 a m. to 5 p.m. Tuesday-Saturday, 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. Thursday-Friday, and noon to 5 p.m. on Sunday. Admission is $6 for adults, $5 for seniors and students, and $ 1 for children 612, with free admission for everyone Friday evenings from 5 p in. to 9 p.m. Call 773-ARTS or (800)639-4067.

Maine Historical Society Gallery, 489 Congress Street, Portland. “Rum, Riot, and Reform” takes a lively and provocative look at drinking in Maine and America from the Colonial era to the present day, through

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■ LISTINGS ■ handmade tavern signs, early wineglasses and beer mugs, racy political cartoons, and newspaper accounts of the speakeasies, nimrunners, and shootouts of the Prohibition era (through October 31). Tire gallery is open daily from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Admission is $2 for adults and $1 for children under 12. For further information, call 879-0427.

Danforth Gallery, 20-36 Danforth Street, Portland. Opening July 9 is the “Maine-Italia Sculpture Exchange,” featuring contemporary, multi-media works by ten sculptors from Italy (through July 30). Tire gallery is open 12-4 on Wednesday-Sunday; and 12-8 on Thursday (free admission). Call 775-6245.

Maine Narrow Gauge Railroad & Museum, 58 Fore Street, Portland. There will be a steam locomotive on the 4th of July weekend, when the train rides continue through dusk so that riders can watch the Portland fireworks. Tire museum is open daily 10 a.m.-4 p.m. (free admission), with train rides leaving on the hour from 11 a m. to 4 p.m. ($5 for adults, $4 for seniors, and $3 for children). Call 828-0814.

Galeyrie Custom Framing, 190 U.S. Route 1, Falmouth. “The Thunderhead Series: Landscapes of Maine and the American West” is tire culmination of Deborah Carlson’s four years of traveling through the American West working seasonal wilderness jobs and painting oil landscapes in remote areas of Wyoming, Montana, Idaho, Nevada, Utah, and Arizona (through Labor Day). Call 781-3555.

Spring Point Museum, Southern Maine Technical College, Fort Road, South Portland.

This year’s exhibit is “Portland Harbor: Changed Forever—the Legacy of World War II.” Permanent exhibits focus on the Spring Point Ledge Lighthouse, the clipper ship Snow Squall, and wooden shipbuilding. The museum is open 1-4 p.m. Saturday-Sunday in June and 1-4 p.m. Tuesday-Sunday in July and August. Admission is $2 for adults. 799-6337.

University of Southern Maine Art Gallery, 37 College Avenue, Gorham. “New Work by Eric Brown and Michael Libby” features recent paintings exploring themes of mapping and signage by two USM alumni (through July 5).

Gallery hours: Tuesday-Friday 11-4, and 1-4 on Saturday's (free admission). Call 780-5409.

Bates College Museum of Art, Bardwell and Russell Streets, Lewiston. Through August 4 is "Phil Sultz, Painted Collage; Jan Sultz, Stoneware Fonns.” Tuesday-Saturday 10-5 and Sunday 1-5 (free admission). Call 786-6158.

Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum, Hubbard Hall, Bowdoin College, Brunswick, displays the fur clothing snowshoes, pickaxes, knives, guns, and one of tire five sledges that Robert E. Peary took to the North Pole, as well as tire Eskimo pots and lamps, ivory and soapstone carvings, hunting weapons, clothing, and frill-size skin kayak that Donald B. MacMillan encountered

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Maine Maritime Museum, 243 Washington Street, Bath. Current exhibits include “Brunswick Sails: Paintings from the Curtis Library" (through September 13); “We Remember: The Battleship Maine" (through November 8); and ‘“rugboats” (through March 1999). “Seafaring from Old Bath" chronicles the ships and shipbuilders of tire Kennebec River from the end of the Napoleonic Wars until 1860 (ongoing). Beginning July 18, the William T. Donnell House —an Italianate house built in 1868 within sight of its owner’s shipyard on the Kennebec River—will be the site of a Designers’ Victorian Show House with rooms decorated by leading interior designers in late Victorian style as well as landscaping and gardens typical of the period (through August 16; call for hours and admission). 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.

Shaker Museum, 707 Shaker Road, New Gloucester. “The Whole Sacredly Kept: /\ Decade of the Shaker Library in Its New Home” shows visitors, through the use of many items from the library collections, how the Shakers celebrate Christmas. July 1: “The Fniitage Will Never Fail: Tire Sabbathday Dike Slrakcr Orchards” tells the ongoing story of the 200-year-old orchards at Shaker Village. Open Monday-Saturday, 10 a.m.-4:30 p.m. through Columbus Day. Call 926-4597.

Ogunquit Museum of American Art, P.O. Box 815, Shore Road, Ogunquit. Opening July 1, “Charles H. Woodbury and His Students” honors tire 100th anniversary of the founding of Woodbury’s influential Ogunquit summer school with sixty works by Woodbury aird many of his students, as well as photographs, memorabilia, and artifacts relating to the early history of the Ogunquit Art Colony (through August 12). Also opening July 1, “The Art of Arthur Getz: The New Yorker Covers” chronicles a half-century of American life from the Great Depression to the threshold of the 21st century (through August 12). Museum hours: 10:30 a.m.-5:00 p.m. Monday-Saturday and 2-5 p.m. on Sunday. 646-4909.

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■ LISTINGS ■ Richards, Martin Johnson Heade, George Inness, William Harnett, Thomas Eakins, Eastman Johnson, Elihu Vedder, Erank Benson, Willard Metcalf, John Twachtman, George Bellows, Marsden Hartley, John Marin, Rockwell Kent, William Kienbusch, Fairfield Porter, Ionise Nevelson, Lois Dodd, and Neil , Well iver (ongoing). 59G6457.

Colby College Museum of Art, 5600 Mayflower I fill, Waterville. Tire “Joan Whitney Payson Collection’’ features 26 works by Impressionist and Post-Impressionist artists (through June 14). Opening June 24 is “Paintings and Watercolors by John Marin” (through September 27). On Tuesday, June 30 from 10 a m. to 4:30 a.m. “Art in Bloom” features Central Maine Garden Club floral arrangements on display with the art of zMex Katz in the Paul J. Schupf Wing. Tire museum is open to the public free of charge 10 a.m.-4:30 p.m. Monday-Saturday and 2-4:30 p.m. on Sunday. Call 872-3228.

Penobscot Marine Museum, Route 1 and Church Street, Scarsport. This summer’s exhibits include: “Travels to tire Pacific Rim: The Childhood Sea Voyages of Lincoln and Joanna Colcord”; “Love Affair with Maine: lire Textile Art of Irene T. McLellan”; “Stores That Satisfy: Consumer Culture in Maine, 18701920”; “Liverpool Port Painters: Heard, Hughes, Salmon, Waldron & Yorke”; “Reflections in Light: American Pressed Glass from the Museum’s Collections”; "Tire Marine Art of James and Thomas Buttersworth”; “All Ships Great and Small: The Modeler’s Art”; “Challenge of the Down-Eastcrs”; and “Master Craftsman Captain Phineas Banning Blanchard, Ship Model Builder.” Museum hours (through October 15) are Monday-Saturday 105 and Sunday 12-5. Call 548-2529.

MasceHaineotas Agape Center for Soul, Community, & the Arts, 657 Congress Street, Portland. WMPG Community Radio kicks off its 25th anniversary with an Album Cover Art Show examining record covers as both pieces of art and artifacts of culture at 6 p.m. on Friday, June 26. USM alumni DJs will be spinning the discs, and dancing is encouraged ($5 donation to benefit WMPG’s new transmitter). Call 780-1500.

Maine Audubon Society, Gilsland Farm Environmental Center, Falmouth, offers Hiking the Hills of Isle Au Haut (June 21); Writing and the Spirit of Place Workshop on Monhegan (June 21-23); Seabirds of Stratton Island I (June 27); Birding and Hiking Bigelow Mountain (June 27); Rangcley Retreat (July 1012); Puffin Sunset Cruise I (July 10); Seabirds of Stratton Island II (July 11); Morning Puffin Cruise I (July 11); Finding Freshwater Mussels (July 12); zMl About Clams! (July 18); Morning Puffin Cnrise II (July 25); Identifying Fems in Southern Maine (July 25); Hidden Wildland (August 1); Medicinal Herbs of tire Western Lakes Region (zVugust 2); Puffin Sunset Cnrise

■ LISTINGS ■ II (August 7); Whales and Seabirds of the Gulf of Maine I (August 8); Birds of Campobello Island and Lubec flats (August 8-9); Identifying the Shorebirds of Maine (August 14); Shorebirding in Southern Maine I (August 15); Plants of Mount Mcgunticook (August 15); Shorebirding in Southern Maine II (August 16); Whales and Seabirds of the Gulf of Maine II (August 22); and Canoeing the Harraseeket (August 22). Call 781-2330.

Round Top Center for the Arts, Business Route 1, Damariscotta. William Strickland, MacArthur Foundation award-winner and founder of the Bidwell Training Center and the Manchester Craftsmen Guild in Pittsburgh, will deliver a lecture on “How the arts can help meet the needs of‘at-risk’ populations” at 7 p.m. on Monday, June 15 (free). Call 563-1507.

Schooner Days, Harbor Park, Rockland. The famous tall ships will sail into Rockland harbor the weekend of July 10-12, bringing in their wake a fireworks display, concerts by the 40picce 94th zVmy Band (2 p.m. on Friday, July 10) and Schooner Fare (7:15 p.m. on Friday, July 10), the Penobscot Valley Crafts Association Show, maritime displays and demonstrations, a children’s tent, ongoing entertainment, and open house tours of local schooners. Admission is $5 for adults and $1 for children (Friday only); admission to the crafts show and children’s area is free all three days.

For more information, call 596-0376.

Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife, Route 26, Cray. The 200-acre Maine Wildlife Park is home to 25 different species of wildlife, including moose, black bear, fisher, lynx, mountain lions, white-tailed deer, wild turkeys, bald eagles, hawks, owls, and more.

There is also a nature trail, interactive wildlife and conservation displays, demonstration wildlife gardens, a show fish pool, picnic and grill areas, and a nature bookstore and gift shop.

Open late April through mid-Novembcr, 9:30 a.m.-4:00 p.m. daily. Admission is $3.50 forages 13 and up, $2.50 for senior citizcirs, $2 for ages 4-12, and free for ages 3 and under. For program information, call 657-4977.

Comedy Connections, 6 Custom House Wliarf, Portland, might be a good place to test out Reader’s Digest ‘s assertion that “laughter Is the Best Medicine” for whatever ails you Tire 158-scat waterfront club brings national comic headliners from all over the country' to Portland for four shows every weekend at 8:30 p.m. on Thursday and Friday and at 8 and 10 p.m. on Saturday (tickets $8-10). In addition, on Tuesday's there’s Chuck Roy’s Puffypalooza at 8:30 p.m. ($5), Wednesday is Improv Night at 8:30 p.m. ($5), and on Sundays at 8:30 p.m.

George Hamm’s Comedy Showcase presents 6 different comedians from all over the East Coast each week ($6). Drinks and a light menu of appetizers and sandwiches are available while performers such as Anthony Clark, Vinnie Favorito, and Mike McDonald strut

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University of Southern Maine Southworth Planetarium, 96 Falmouth Street, Portland.

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Every Friday and Saturday night at 7 p.m. there’s an astronomy show, followed by a laser light concert at 8:30 p.m.; and on Saturday afternoons at 3 p.m. there arc Family Astronomy Shows such as “Mr. Man in the Moon,” ''Hie Little Star That Could,” and Sky Friends.” The exhibit area, which contains interactive computers, space art, and video displays, is open to tire public Tuesday-Friday from 9 a m. to 5 p.m. at no charge. Tickets for astronomy shows are $5 for adults and $3 for children, students, and seniors; tickets for laser shows are $5/$4; combined tickets for both evening shows are $8r$6; and matinees are $3 for everyone. For current show titles (they rotate weekly), call 780-4249; and for information on the night sky, call Sky watch I lotline at 780-4719.

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Wadsworth-Longfellow House, 487 Congress Street, Portland, childhood home of the poet Henry Wadsworth Ixmgfellow, is open daily 10 a.mM p.m. for guided tours (through October 31). The house contains original fittings and furnishings that illustrate family life from the days of the American Revolution to the Victorian era. Admission is $5 for adults and $1 for children and includes a guided tour of the house, an orientation film on Longfellow’s career, and entrance to the exhibitions at the Maine History Gallery next door. For further information, call 879-0427.

Victoria Mansion, 109 Danforth Street, Portland. The Morse-Libby House, built between 1858 and 1860 and internationally renowned for its magnificent interiors and original furnishings and fittings, is open to the public 10a.rn.-4 p in. Tuesday-Saturday and I5 p.m. on Sunday, w ith guided tours starting at quarter of and quarter past the hour (through October 31). Admission is $5 for adults and $2 for children. Call 772-4841.

Neal Dow Memorial, 714 Congress Street, Portland, was the lifelong home of General Neal Dow, two-time mayor of Portland and an active Prohibitionist, abolitionist, and advocate of prison reform and women’s rights. Built in 1829, the late Federal-style mansion features furnishings of varied periods original to the house, portraits and other fine paintings, specially-designed ornamental ironwork, and memorabilia of Dow’s military and political

■ LISTINGS ■ careers. Now administered by the Maine Women’s Christian Temperance Union, the house is open Monday-Friday, 11 a m.-4 p.m. year-round for guided tours with no admission charge. Call 773-7773.

Tate House, 1270 Westbrook Street, Portland.

This elegant 1755 clapboard house was the residence of Captain George Tate, a senior mast agent for the British Royal Navy, and features an unusual clerestory in the gambrel roof and an 18th-century herb garden overlooking the Stroudwater River. Call 774-9781.

Frances W. Peabody Research Library, 165 State Street, Portland, was started by landmarks Advisory Service, a volunteer group that offers technical advice on historic buildings. It houses the most extensive collection of preservation books, periodicals, and files north of Boston.

The library is open Monday-Friday from 9 a m. to 5 p.m. (except holidays), with a volunteer available to assist visitors on Tuesday mornings.

For more information, call Greater Portland I andmarks at 774-5561.

Baxter Museum, 67 South Street, Gorham, is housed in the 1831 birthplace of James Phinney Baxter, mayor of Portland, governor of Maine, and philanthropist extraordinaire. Open Tuesdays and Thursdays from 10 a m. to 2 p.m. in July and z\ugust (or by appointment), the museum displays Baxter family items and memorabilia, articles and artifacts relating to Gorham history, Civil War artifacts, and portraits and paintings. Donations are gratefully accepted. Call 839-5031.

Marrett House, Route 25, Standish, is a late Georgian house (1789) that reflects through its architecture, furnishings, anti family heirlooms the evolution of tastes and patterns of living over the 150 years it 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. to 4 p.m. (through October 15); admission is $4 for adults, $3.50 for seniors, and $2 for children.

Call 642-3032 or (603)436-3205 for more infonnation.

Peary’s Eagle Island, Casco Bay, I larpswell, is tire site of Admiral Robert E. Peary’s summer home and library. June 15 through labor Day from 9 a.m. to sunset you can visit tire house of the first man to reach the North Pole, explore the woodsy island trails, beachcomb, and watch for seals (admission is $1.50 for adults, 50" for children 5-11, and free for seniors over 65 and children under 5). To get there, bring your own boat, or call Eagle Tours in Portland at 7746498 or Atlantic Seal Cruises in South Freeport at 865-61 12 (three-hour narrated tours including lobstering demonstrations depart from Freeport Town Wharf at 9:30 a.m. and 1:30 p.m. and cost $20 for adults and $15 for children, including park fee and parking).

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Current exhibits include “Say ’Aah!’: Medicine in the Pejepscot Region,” “Where Nature Smiles Her Sweetest: Merrymecting Park 18981906,” and “Pejepscot Past-Times: Objects . from the Original Collection." The museum is open Monday-Saturday, 9 a.m.-4:30 p.m. (free admission). A combined visit to all three museums costs $6 for adults and $3 for children. Call 729-6606 for more information and tour times. Skolfield-Wliitticr House, 161 Park Row, Brunswick, is a 17-room time capsule that contains intact Victorian furnishings, decorations, and fixtures, as well as numerous items from sea captain Alfred Skolfield’s voyages to Europe and Asia and from the twenty years he spent living in England.

The house is open Tuesday-Saturday, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. (through September). Admission is $4 for adults and $2 for children. Joshua L. Chamberlain Museum, 226 Maine Street, is located in the Civil War hero’s partially restored 1820s home, which was expanded vertically in 1871 when Chamberlain raised the existing Cape Cod eleven feet off the ground and inserted a new ground floor beneath it. Five rooms contain exhibits on Chamberlain’s long and varied career as a college professor, a soldier, a four-term Maine governor, and president of Bowdoin College. The museum is open Tuesday-Saturday, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. (through September). Admission is $4 for adults and $2 for children.

Taylor-Barry House, 24 Summer Street, Kennebunk. This 1803 sea captain’s home opens for the season mid-June and features an original stenciled hallway, four furnished period rooms, and a 20th-century artist’s studio.

Hours are Tuesday-Friday, 1-4 p.m. (through Libor Day); admission is $3 for adults and free for children. Call 985-4802.

Nickels-Sortwell House, Main Street and Federal Street, Route 1, Wiscasset. 'Hiis elegant Federal-style mansion, built in 1807 by ship owner and trader William Nickels, features Colonial Revival furnishings and a three-story elliptical stairway topped with a skylight. House tours are offered every hour on the hour Wednesday-Sunday from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. (through October 15). Admission is $4. For more information call 882-6218.

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Sarah Ome Jewett House, 5 Portland Street, South Berwick. Maine writer Sarah Ornc Jewett spent most of her life in this stately Georgian residence owned by her family since 1819 and furnished with an eclectic combination of 18th-century antiques and wallpapers and modem furniture influenced by tire Arts and Crafts movement. House tours start on die hour Wednesday-Sunday from 11 a m. to 4 p.m. (through October 15). Admission is $4 for adults, $3.50 for seniors, and $2 for children. Call (603) 436-3205.

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Lovely well maintained period home. 4 bedrooms, 2.5 baths, eat-in kitchen, dining room, office, fireplace, relax on the covered porch overlooking the extensive gardens, attached 2 car garage and outbuilding. $189,000

Elegant farmhouse fashioned w/ Victorian Hare. 1.5 baths, 3 bedrooms, elevated deck off master bedroom, 2 decorative fireplaces and a post and beam barn on 2 +/- acres $119,900 or 20 +/acres $129,900

US Sound vest Properties

101 Main Street, Thomaston, ME 04861 • (207) 354-0233 email:svest@midcoast.com Visit our website: www.soundvest.com

Roy Farmer Associates 152

Main St, Wiscasset, me 04578 PHONE (207) 882-7357

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Email: famier@tuiscasset.net

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EDGECOMB DEEP WATER This 4 bedroom, 2 bath home on the Sheepscot includes garage, runway and float with over 6' of water at low tide and the contemporary Saltbox Style affords water views from even.' room.

Offered at $285,000

Two family with stunning views of Casco Bay and beyond. The superior owner’s space has 3 bedrooms, 2 full baths, one with a Jacuzzi, fine kitchen, skylights and expansive deck. Also includes a 5 room rental unit, lovely yard and onsite parking. This is a special, rarely available property. $174,500

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N A N S A W Y E R — B R O K ER (207) 773-1990 EXT. 179 53 BAXTER BOULEVARD PORTLAND, ME 04101

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Downeast Ocean Island

77 acre Bare Island in its entirety offering some of the most dramatic coastline this broker has seen in 25 years of selling Maine ocean frontage. Long gravel beaches. Bold ledges, high head lands, and much much more! Delightful 2 story shingled cottage with vaulted ceilings.

Outstanding fireplace and attached guest quarters. Fantastic views that only an island can offer. A real jewel of the Sea! $770,000.

Brooksville

490 ft. of shore frontage backed by a 2.4 acre point with lovely mature oak trees and evergreens scattered throughout. Two rustic summer cabins near the shore's edge. Quiet neighborhood. 1 5 minutes to Blue Hill and 1 5 minutes by Boston Whaler to Castine Harbor and village. $95,000.

Brooksville

Cape Rosier—In the prestigious “Point" area is a quality-crafted, custom-designed, home with 3 or 4 bedrooms, 2-1/2 baths, and spacious living room with fireplace. Master bedroom and bath on the 1st level. Lots of'glass captures the natural wooded setting and fantastic views of beaches, ocean, islands, schooners, and the Camden Hills. 250' of bold, rocky shoreline. All privately tucked away on 6.5 acres. A complete package. Top quality in all respects. $548,500.

Penobscot—Castine

Winter Harbor

Lamoine (Mt. Desert Area)

Downeast coastal Maine at its finest! Cozy 3 bedroom, shingled cottage and 2 story barn. All located on 3+/- with 485 ft. of shore frontage at the harbor's edge.

Fantastic views over harbor to Mark Island Lighthouse and open ocean. Walking distance to everything! Unique property. $265,000

20 minutes from beautiful Acadia National Park and 15 minutes from major shopping, hospital, and more is this saltwater farm of more than 22 acres The only thing missing is the barn and animals. New England style farmhouse, circa 1830. Four bedrooms 2 baths, living room with fireplace, spacious kitchen, and other amenities. 624 ft of frontage on a saltwater estuary. A rare opportunity $230,000.

Johnson Point area. Land on the historic Bagaduce —a 10 mile long, saltwater estuary which leads to Castine Harbor and beautiful Penobscot Bay. 10 acre, spruce clad parcel with south 8. westerly views over exciting waters of the Bagaduce. 388 ft. of ledge bound frontage with deep water moorage as evidenced by pier & float that is shared with adjoining lot that may also be purchased. $105,000.

□ OWNEAST PROPERTIES RO. Box 402, Blue Hill, ME 04614 [207] 374-5033/(207] 374-2321 FAX [207] 374-2322

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Land for Sale Elwell Idland

The / / acre ooulbern lip at lbi.< oplendid icland ofjero I be eery beat of I be Maine Coad along teilb complete privacy. Spectacular ocean view.’ I ba I include Alonbegan and Meltntc l.dandc. Over 5200 feet of oboreline, pooilive aoih leal tor a three bedroom borne and eaoy acceoo from W'beeler Bay Alartne. Come experience the natural peace. $269,000

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: Ski & Swim Remote Parcels

P. 0. Box 121, Tenant.' Harbor, Plaine 02860 fax: 207-572-8650 email: lrueball@miOeoaal.com

Year round home sites laid out for quiet and safety. Convenient to town and work.

5 and 10 acre lots convenient to skiing, lakes and the White Mountains National Forest , Affordable lake living. 7 private lots with a 3 acre park on Keoka Lake, Waterford.

Seasonal lots with beautiful views in a secluded setting. _ 800-556*5263 5 www.tchad.com

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Spacious Waterfront Homi: Choice I larpswell neighborhood.

IO rooms. I bedrooms. 3 bathrooms. shinning water views. $595,000.

11 Maine St. Brunswick. ME

LAND OF DREAMS Superb lakefront parcel located at Burnt Jacket Point on Moosehead Lake. Beautiful building site with fantastic views and many birch trees. Approximately 12 acres with nearly 400 feet of prime shore frontage. $120,000

Call, write or e-mail us for a free brochure!

The Brunswick Realty Croup (800) 639-1583 • (207) 729-2820

ISLAND PARADISE Lovely 6+/- acre island situated on the west shore of Moosehead Lake, near the west outlet of the Kennebec River. Offers 2 fine cottages, tremendous views of Mount Kineo, great shore frontage, lots of lawn area, and electric and telephone service. 5240,000

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MUZZY REAL ESTATE

PO Box 1168, Greenville, ME 04441 1-888-221-6899 (toll free) www.century21muzzy.com e-mail: muzzy@moosehead.net

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Long Island, Casco Bay

•Jb Best Deal On Casco Bay!! Several choice ocean-front parcels on an island accessed by ferry. 150 feet to 246 feet of deepwater frontage with 1.4 to 4.5-acre home sites with sunny western exposures. Incredible opportunities from $29,900. Direct deepwater oceanfronts from $49,900. For more information, call Scott Perry.

OCEANFRONT ISLAND PARCELS!

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Newton, Massachusetts 02162 (617) 630-7211

Specializing in distinctive coastal properties.

Wiscasset Waterfront

Island Oceanfront

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NEVER BEFORE OFFERED! Owned by the Hadlock family and passed down for generations since the settlement of Islesford. Over 7 acres of privacy ensure the integrity of this historically rich property. 800 feet of pebble beach and panoramic ocean views surround the owner-designed 3-bedroom home. Enjoy sunrises and sunsets from the wraparound deck or the glasswalled livingroom while watching the tide rise just yards away.

This year-round home takes full ad-vantage of its location, with water views from almost every room, including views of Baker Island and the Islesford Lifesaving Station from the master bedroom and Mount Desert Island's Cadillac Mountain from the eat-in kitchen. $450,000

XI VIA REXOX XIEDdaxsK IS>2 Cmvk Kemal Imiiv kkiiied hi town tMt (Ik* Slkx^xH River in Wiscasxcl. Six bedrooms with four baths. formal living rt»oni with fireplace. dining nxm with overkx»ks yard wuh stone wall' aiul (vtvnnial gankns Kayaking and fishing m your own cove Broker owned. SJJ’VMIO

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Great pricing: Starting at

$122,900.

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OPPORTUNITY AWAITS

Here is an opportunity to own an antique home in quintessential Maine. This home has wonderful features such as original woodwork, high ceilings, hardwood floors and a large barn perfect for in home business. Explore the possibilities at $169,500.

THE TARBOX HOUSE

Legendary farmhouse Cape, circa 1818 on 5 acres.

Updated forcomfort and longevity while retaining many original features.

Secluded yet convenient location surrounded by woodland and paths along Sebago's shores. Asking $229,000.

UNIQUE WEST END

Property with fabulous private outside deck. Many mature plantings. This home has 2 bedrooms, a wonderful open floor plan and many updates. Live in the West End of Portland for little money. Only $58,500.

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COOPERS MILLS, ME 04341 (207) 549-5657 ■ FAX 549-5657 www.blackduckrealty.com

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Damariscotta Lake Cottage

1954 2 bedroom year-round home set on the western bank of Great Bay. Beautiful sunrises, sandy beach, float, and a deck.

Drilled well, updated septic and oil heat. Can't build this close anymore! $105,000.

ROCK RIDGE ESTATES Cumberland's newest Subdivision, offering large wooded lots in an upscale family neighborhood. 38 acres of common space. Packages from $240,000.

Custom Built Homes of Maine is Maine's #1 full service builder; including site review, plans, building permits, construction financing and warranty.

CUSTOM BUILT HOMES OF MAINE, INC. 27 Main Street Windham, Maine 04062 (207) 892-3149 Fax: (207) 892-1383 E-mail: cbhm@gwi.net

WHITEFIELD 1880’s Clary

Water Mill.

4 story 30' x 80’ barn with Mill Pond.

4 +/- acres and about 400 feet on Shecpscott River.

Grist mill, lumber mill, generating plant and antique shop are all part of it's past. What would you do with it? $120,000.

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HAII.HY ISLAND

17.9 acres w/ 1,000+ ft. of south westerly exposed water frontage. 3BR, 2-1/2 hath house in excellent condition. Waterfront guest cottage, horse barn 2BR rental house!

This estate quality parcel has excellent family compound potential. S7O6.OOO.

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Waterfront. Immaculate 3BR, 2-1/2 bath home, fireplace, attached garage, largewater view decks. Enjoy the elevated panoramic views over the protected acreage at water cove. .8384.900.

BA1LEA ISLAND

Deep water frontage on Mackerel Clove.

3BR, 3 bath, fireplace, 3 cat garage, dock, ramp & float. S499.OOO.

ORRS ISLAND

ORRS ISLAND

IIARPSWELI, XEI'K

Protected waterfront on l ong Clove. 4BR, 2-1/2 bath, fireplace, dock, ramp & float, attached 2-car garage. S254.OOO.

Waterfront ranch on 2+ acres w/ frontage on Ewin Narrows. 3BR, 2 bath, attached garage, oil heat. S.319.000.

Johnson's Point. 300 ft. of westerly exposed deep water frontage 3BR, 2-1/2 bath Cape.

Spectacular sunsets. S424.OOO.

RAM ISLAND

BAILLA ISLAND

Entire open ocean island. Spectacular views in every direction. S182,00(1.

Open ocean frontage. 1880’s vintage 6BR, 4 bath, fireplace, views into Mackerel Clove. .8375,000.

PINKHAM ISLAND IN THE NEW MEADOWS

Rob Williams • real estate brokers

2-3 acre entire island, 2BR architect designed cottage, cathedral ceilings, exposed beams, mainland access, deep water dock on island. S209.500.

BAILEY ISLAND, M AI N E 04003

(207)833-5078 • 833-7795 • LAN (207) 833 - 59 15 SI’ECIALIZ.INU IN I ’ N 1 Q I ’ E COASTAL IIARPSWELL PROPERTIES

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home for all seasons. Enjoy panoramic views from this beautifully renovated, 7-bedroom, 7'/2-bath home. Wraparound porches, large private deck, gourmet kitchen, double appliances, and the utmost charm. Furnishings may be purchased separately. 5750,000.

COUNTRY LIVING OAK ROAD, GEORGETOWN

This lovely, renovated New England farmhouse must be seen to believed.

From the exterior paint job and two decks to the open airy, yet cozy feeling, this house is one of a kind.

The barn-like ell hosts a ne bath/utihty room, a garden shed and new rear entrance The feeling one gets is of peacefulness and privacy. Walking distance from the town landing and public beach. Reduced to $119,000.

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CARLETON HOUSE HIGH STREET, WISCASSET

SEI' YOl R COl USE FOR MONHEGW ISLAM) WITH I HE "MOMIEG W STORE”. Featuring a full compliment <>l produce, meats, hex erases anil ice. this multidai eted business serves both spacious second surrounding ocean. This consists ol a kitchen, dining mm. 3 bedrooms, ofl

Stately 1804 Federal estate on .8 acre in lovely, historic Wiscasset. All major systems replaced during museum-guality restoration in 1985. Truly elegant main house featuring fireplaces, 3 bedrooms, 3'/i baths, library, living ■b) room, dining room, morning room, and kitchen. Two- or 3-bedroom guest house, 15' x 41' inground pool, 3-bay garage. Beautifully landscaped.

A wonderful opportunity for the discerning buyer! $595,000.

<n-<‘r ferrv. $ 175.000.00

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76 Atlantic Place • South Portland, ME 04106 ■ (207) 774-4400 One Depot Road ■ Alfred. ME 04002 ■ (207) 324-0335

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Architects of coastal Maine

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

DOUGLAS

RICHMOND ARCHITECTS

Pendleton Point Saltbox.

Prime location in the Dark Harbor area of Islesboro.

Snug, private 3-4 bedroom year round cedarshingled cottage, 2 baths, woodstove, great kitchen, wrap around deck, flower gardens, woods, nearby sandy Town Beach. $175,000 Ocean front cabin on scenic east shore. Private, 2 bedroom getaway. Exceptional views, quiet location amidst 6.43 wooded acres with 900’ of bold, deepwater shoreline and beach. $215,000 John Oldham, Broker P.O. Box 300, Islesboro, ME 04848 (207) 734-8809 Email us at: oldhamip@midcoast.com Visit us on the web at: www.islesboro.com

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Providing responsibility through the entire project and rendering the owner's decision process enjoyable. Architects of over 150 new and renovated residential projects, featuring energy efficiency and low maintenance.

Brunswick Maine 207 - 720 - O9S9

tree lirnhure of latest Islesboro Island and waterfront home and land listings. Call now for summer cottage rentals.

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OLD SQUIRE S FARM

SAFE ‘N SIMPLE™ Organic weed control and fertilizer for lawns and gardens

Natural, corn-based pellet Safe for children and pets!

Supplies nitrogen

Available from Blue Seal Feeds Route 202 South Windham

892-9411

Story book perfect, this well established farm offers an 1 1 room.

4-5 bedroom mint cape, 3 story barn, 4 outbuilidings situated high on 23 acres of pastures, woods, fruit trees 8. 3 acre farm pond.

Exceptional views! Lebanon, ME $299,900 CUSTOM CAPE

Enjoy summer breezes from the farmer’s porch on this 3 bedroom oversized cape to be built on 5+ acres in Wells near Berwicks. Plan includes attached 2 car garage, dining room &. living room w/ hardwood floors. 2 baths. Choose your own custom colors. $ 157,900 COUNTRY SALTBOX

Quality built 3 bedroom home on 5 private acres in Lyman (25 min. to Portland). Offering 3 baths, mudroom, custom eat-in kitchen w/ breakfast bar, master bath w/ walk-in shower, 2 year old barn w/ loft (3 car garage), stone walls & perennials. S173,900

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[injoy panoramic views of Adams Pond from this 8-acrc hillside property! Privacy galore, stonewalls, birch & fruit trees add to the beauty.

Three bedrooms, second-floor family room with deck, two tireplaces, and hardwood floors!

SI 95.000.

Call for a free copy of our sales catalog and vacation directory.

Lewis & Pottle Realty One Townsend Ave.. Boothbay Harbor. ME 04538 Toll free: (800) 576-6911 e-mail: lcwpot@gwi.net

On Casco Bay’s Long Island, this summer getaway is perfect for those who want to spread out a little. Consisting of a 2-bedroom main cottage, a small guest bunkhouse, and a separate “master suite," it offers the chance for that large family to be together, yet not too close. Facing south toward the open Atlantic, the property offers wonderful views and, best of all, it is within steps of one of the nicest sandy beaches on Casco Bay (pictured here). Bold rocky shorefront, lawns, woods, garden areas, and room for more on this 1%-acre prime shorefront parcel. Yes, it has a fireplace and decks, but, most of all, it offers the “feel" of that perfect Maine cottage. $299,000.

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Kirk Goodhue • Ellin Goodhue Alyce Bauerle • Howard U. Heller • Irene Church P.O. Box 7341, Portland, ME 04112 207-766-5966 • Fax: 207-766-5968 e-mail: portisland@aol.com

Sheepscot Meadows is in the hamlet of Whitefield, midway between Augusta and Wiscasset, nestled in the peaceful Shecpscot Valley of Lincoln Co. This outstanding property has been the home of Maine’s oldest plant cooperative and an English style Bed & Breakfast. The cozy 4-bedroom home with its 800 sq. ft. attached greenhouse has almost unlimited potential for creative people.

It is surrounded by carefully landscaped grounds, a large Japanese-inspired garden with fish-filled lily pond, private garden walks among stone steps and walls. This historic property has over 1/3 mile (2030 feet) frontage on pastoral Townhouse Road, and 27 acres of woods-ringed meadows that slope to over 900 feet of frontage on one of Maine’s premier Atlantic salmon rivers. The I two-story bam and its well designed workshop add to the potential. There is also a handsome hip-roofed carriage shed that sits atop a 250-squarc-foot insulated root cellar next to an ancient row of Sugar Maples.

$295,000 David and Betti Chase 207-549-5761 chase@mint.net

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Central Maine Palmsra New England with six-plus rooms; one and a half bath; large country kitchen with raised hearth: enclosed porch: 3 attached workshops (could be home oftiecs): attached 2-car garage: walkthrough attic; heating, septic, and wiring have been updated: minutes to Routes 95 and 2: all this sits on approximately 10 acres of Jusi SW.9<X).<K> manicured land.

St. Albans. Would you like io reside on a pristeen island that is connected to the mainland by a causeway? Would you like to ow n a four-season log home that has 165 feet of good sandy beach frontage; a spiral staircase to a romantic loft bedroom plus 2 more bedrooms; family room; dining room; glass-enclosed sunroom; 1.5 baths; living room; all of this and more done in natural wxxxls to totally relax you.’

Bring your clothes because every thing else is here (all appliances, silverware, dishes, pots, and pans and so much more in excellent, impeccable condition); also a garage; workshop; air-conditioning: and needing you.

Just $179.5(MLOO

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