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Devil’s Apprentice Angela Adams fans hase been surprised and delighted to see the Portland designer’s rugs and furniture on The Apprentice, the NBC reality television shoss- sshcre ssould-be executives s ic for a job ss i th Donald Trump.

"You can sec our red Kcnga rug, our neutral scoot (chocolate svith circles), our spiked shag rug (in blue, green, and ss hitc), and our sector armchairs,” sas s sales assistant Rebecca 1 losley from A Angela Adams’s studio at 273 Congress Street in Portland.

“Thcs’rc in every episode because they decorate the penthouse ss hcre the contestants arc staying. You can see them on the NBC ss ebsite sshen you visit the shoss Adams, 38, ssho gross’ up on k North 1 laven Island 12 miles off the Maine coast, svas featured recentls’ in the Boston Globes Life at Home

section, which praised t for her "organic shapes, snappy color palette, retro inspiration, and natural fibers...an unusual amalgamo New York chic and island Main; “1 think it's really amazing that there arc so many little pockets of design in the Unit.

States and s ou wouldn’t think Portland, Maine, be one of them. But she’s put it on the map,” the Boston Globe quotes Panamai Manadee, whoo" the boutique Bliss I lomc on Boston’s Newbury Street, as saying. “Placing one of her rugs in a room is a good was- to change the look of the room," Manadee says.

The palettes she chooses are so good. The ssay she designs her rugs is perfect.”

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Mom of Whassup Thank yon for the exciting piece on me and my tribe [“Breaking Wax es,” bv Timothy C. Scott, Fcbrnan/March 2004]!

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Solitary Man There is an informal community of shop ow ners and pedestrian regulars along midtow n Congress Street. The\ a familiar and interesting band, and Michael Ricci was an important parte the group. Bareheaded Michael and I. signature coal black handlebar moustache will be missed. My almost dailv encounters with him were always

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Seeing Michael sitting in front of Anna’s, I snapped Ins picture from ac the street. When 1 approached him, anxiously asked if I’d taken his photo sensed his wariness of being photographed and said no. Now that he’sE I'm glad I have that remembrance.

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“'I his was a earefree summer. I took the Red Cross senior lifesaving test, the one girl in a blush of boys taking the course. I passed and wore my emblem proudly on my bathingsuit."

And so it was that the beaches of Ogunquit QUOTE FROM BETTE DAVIS AUTOBIOGRAPHY PHOTO: were blessed in the summer of 1926 with an 18- PRIVATE COLLECTION ycar-old future icon of American cinema, Bette Bas is (1908-1989). In addition to serving as the town’s sole female lifeguard. Oas is, born Ruth IElizabeth Oasis in l,owell.

Massachusetts, contacted Bennett Kilpack, then director of the Ogunquit Playhouse, to see if “he wouldn’t let me play some parts at his playhouse during the summer. I Ie was most pleasant but most emphatic that I was too young, and as I was also totallv inexperienced, the whole idea was impractical.” Just nine years later, Bas is would star in Dangerous and w in her first Best Actress Oscar.

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Architectural renovations are in progress at 477 Congress Street's Chapman Building, also known as the “’l ime and Temperature Building.” 1*’,reeled in 1926. the building was one of the first in the nation to host an indoor mall. Since the twenties, a second level and office spaces have been added, and beige plaster walls cover the building’s original interior design. In 2003, the building was sold to I' lorida investor Jeff Cohen for $9.5 million. Cohen is spearheading the renovations and hopes to bring back a look evocative of the 1920s plaza. According to Jennifer Cofran, executive assistant of Boulos Propertv Management, there's no telling how far the reconstruction will go.

"We started with no final date in mind. It’s hard to tell w hen vou start to open up walls and find new things [Corinthian pilasters, painted ceilings]. We are going to bring back evervihing we can.”

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Deerfoot of the Diamond Forget about w hether it’s PC or not: Many Mainers 5 arc proud to know that the Cleveland u> Indians’ moniker was created in honor of one of its first star players, I ,ouis Sockalcxis (1871-1913), a Penobscot Indian athlete who grew up on Maine's Indian Island near Old Town.

But do the Cleveland Indians themselves recognize the inspiration for their name?

“W'c sure do!” sass Bob DiBiasio, Vice President of Public Relations for the Cleveland team. “We arc extremely proud to foster the legacy of Louis b’rancis Sockalcxis, a wonderful athlete and human being.” So spectacular w ere his feats on the diamond that Sockalcxis was the senfirst athlete inducted into the I loly Cross Athletic 1 fall of Fame in 1956. I Ie was inducted into the Maine Sports 1 kill of Fame in 1985 and into the American Indian Athletic 1 lall of Fame in 2000.

Dry Mountain Imagine Diana Ross being forced to sing “Babs- Lose” on her was to prison. Portland’s Brigadier General Neal Dow (1804-189/) had a similar experience after Confederate soldiers shot, captured, and dragged Dow acrosst. countnside to Libbv Prison in Richmond, Virginia. Once the Rebs discovered whom thev’d captured-thc “bather of Prohibition”-thcy encouraged him at gunpoint to delr. temperance speeches to throngs of Southerners while being transported to his incarceration point.

The Women’s Christian Temperance Union still operates his house as a museuniat 714 Congress Street (free admission), frequently conducting national meetings here.

Pictured: the Confederate prisoner’s shirt Dow brought bach Maine, as well as his uniform hat, both on display at the Neal Dow 1 louse among a raft of personal items. "\'a Dow’s private library- is completely intact here, ’ say caretaker Rob Quatrauo. "This is the last of 29 private libraries left in Portland. /\s a Portland attraction, this is an undiscovered jewel.’ I

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Several years ago some of his work appeared in a newspaper from the Republic of Ceorgia.

Yes, sports fans, that was Portland Sea Dog outfielder Justin Scherrod.

25, on ABC’s The Hacheloretle, one of 25 hunks vicing for Meredith Phillips's attention. Cut w ith 10 of his buddies on the opening night of the reality IV show , Sherrod, w ho told reporters he dared the risk because it “sounded pretty cool," might have felt dow ncast had he not received far more exciting news: he’s halfwav closer to I'cnwav and the real “Show.”

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It's tough for citizen-soldiers. We’re pretty tired and prettv beat up. We all signed up. we knew what we were getting into, and we have no problem serving overseas. ’1 hey were projecting >65 days boots-on-ground, but now diev want us to do another six months and maybe another two months after that. I just don't think they were prepared for the aftermath. I think they underestimated w hat it was going to entail.

We were in the process of redeploying when thev extended us, w hich took the w ind out of our sails. 'Rieu it was geUing the morale back up, which has been pretty good, but now with the ambushes people are just really tired. 1 love going over there and defending mv country, but we ve done two dcplovments in three years.

Somewhere around the second w eek of

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"Everybody has an opinion about Iraq, but I think, Wh| doesn't anybody ask a soldier what it was like over there?" BY ROBERT BLECHL

Mav I should be home home. I’m hoping that’s it because we’ve had the rug pulled out from under ns so many times.

What's your role in Iraq? Mostly we patrol our region, which is Al-Anbar from the RamadiTallujah area west to 1 ladisa.

There are a lot of Bedouin communities.

We drive out in the desert and it’s like ( rediscovering Moses. It’s incredible.

People living in tents, herders, shepherds.

Thev’rc out there doing the same thing I’m sure thev’ve been doing for thousands of years.

A warm welcome? The Bedouin communities are very receptive. They’re out there cheering, kids are coming up.

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We drive out in the desert and it’s like rediscovering Moses completely different atmosphere. That’s where we are-not likcj.very •,?ls there a constant state of anxiety? Yes. Two times a week we're either encotintcring Il’.Ds I improvised explosive devices] or ambushes and small-arms fire, especially through, the Bamadi-Kallujah area. We re praying to get through these areas because these IKOs are probabh "hat s killing more of the coalition than anything else.

[U'-Os| are made mostly out of artillcrv shells, munitions these guvs are pilfering from their own ammo points. There are hundreds of them scattered throughout Iraq. ] hey disassemble the rounds then bun them alongside the road. A lot of them are remote control and thev wait until a convoy or what we call a soft target §oes by, and off thev go.

Is there anything some of us might not understand about the conflict? Were fighting a w hole new war here, something we’ve never experienced before, and that’s the area where problems are going to happen. W'c’rc fighting against future terrorist actions, to be able to respond over there rather than doing it from here.

1 laving a foothold in the Middle East is going to be huge for the future.

I didn’t go over there to fight for the president or the U.S. government. I went over there to fight for my country, my familv, and my friends. That’s what it’s all about and that’s why most of the soldiers are there. W'e got rid of a bad man who was treating his people poorly and we’re in a strategic position.

What will you always remember about vour experience? Probablv the biggest

thing-and this might sound cornv-is the brotherhood of friends I’ll have for the rest of mv life. These people have done some extraordinarily brave things.

Parting shot? I just w ant to survive the rest and come home to my family . And I’ll be supporting and feeling the same thoughts for the people w ho take mv place.

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MATT TEFFT, 35: Coast Guard Group, Portland Deployment: We were in Virginia from October 31,2002, for training, then we flew to Bahrain in February [2003]. I returned September 17.

M T hat was your job? 1 was chief

engineer on the Wrangell, a 11O-foot patrol boat. We did various things. Mine-sweeper security was one of the biggest at the beginning of the war. Then we escorted humanitarian ships up the port of Umm Qasr. We also looked for oil smuggling.

What was your region? Our home port was Bahrain. 'Ilie riser we patrolled [Khawr-Abd-Allah] ran directly between Kuwait and Iraq. The main port is Umm Qasr.

Any close calls? 1 wouldn’t say real close. We did cruise alongside some Iraqi patrol boats just before the war broke out. 'Bhat was hairy. And escorting the mine sweepers in the ris ers, you newer kness ss hat ssas going to happen.

A normal cress- is 16, but sse had a cress- of 22, svith some extra lassenforcement personnel and extra guys to help, to man the extra guns and sshatnot. It ssas pretty crossdcd. It ssas a good, tight cress- on the boat and sse got through it together.

Physically, what was it like? Really hot.

And as the summer svent on it just got hotter and hotter, but luckily ss e ssere already acclimated to it. I think one of the hottest temperatures ssas 129 degrees.

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problems ss ith our sea strainers for on: generators, sshcrc they’d clog the sea strainers. That’s not something sse we: used to.

Then ss e sass- sand storms ss hcnwe ssere out in the Persian Gulf, which _ ssas kind of stran; since sse re used fog around here ss’as almost like a only it had a bro; tint to it. Your s isibilits- ssent straight doss n to nothing. It clogs the filters a lot a the intakes of th: engine. It ssas strange oral there the middle of th: ocean bas ing a jg sandstorm court ” What will you 3 always rememfr h ss as a lot of hard' F and a lot of hour z s ou get a certain dn aerial target with the cutter's § satisfaction senm cannon during gunnery training l< sour connin'.

going up the ris er there. That ssas pretty brutal, especially dossn in the engine room, [laughs] Anything unusual? The jellyfish. There ss ere a lot of jellyfish. At some points you could almost ssalk on them. We had

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JOSHUA KINNEY (June 22, 1983June 9, 2003): 2nd Combat Engineer Battalion, 2nd Division, Marine Corps

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e’d shown up on Morgan’s doorstep quite bv suq^rise.” recounts Jane Kinney. “I couldn’t believe be was in Maine."

That was Josh, she says, always surprising.

The only time I saw him in his dress blues was in his casket.

It was late May 2003 and the voting Marine had just departed Camp Lejeune, North Carolina, for his home state of Maine. Ahead of him were three w eeks of leas e, which lie planned to share with siblings Morgan and Kathrvn in Kennebunk, and mother Jane in Bangor.

Behind him was three months in Iraq-hot, dusty, grueling-in the thick of conflict. I hel9-ycar-old had gone off to boot camp some two months after the 911 attacks, then continued to advanced training. After graduating with honors from his combat engineering class, Kinney swiftly obtained promotion to lance coqsoral.

Wlien word came out that war was imminent,” Jane says, “he forewarned me he was going over. Krom that point on, 1 coukln t sleep. I work in an operating room at Eastern Maine Medical Center and they always had the television in the lounge tuned to CANN. You look, sou wonder if you’rc going to see sour son on there in combat.”

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“The next thing 1 know I get a call h. him and he's in Camp Lejeune. I'mh "rhank God, 1ic s ^om^ to he okay Hu said he’d be coining up in two weeks ' I’m pacing mvself, there’ll be plenty o' time with Josh.”

Then. in a wrenching twist of fate, th unthinkable happened. Kinnes and th: companions were driving through the Sanford blueberry fields in the early in ing hours of June 9 when Kinney’s Jeef veered out of control. Ilie passengers sustained injury. Kinney, two weeks sir his 20th birthday, was killed instantly.

“1 was supposed to be reunited with him that day," says Jane, who hadnts her son for more than a sear. “Ovcrtf phone I’d said. “Come to the hospital where 1 work; I want you to meet son* people.’ I just wanted them to med someone who was in my ewes my here So 1 said, ‘(Ionic to the hospital and Idj tell sou hoss to get there.’ 1 le said. ‘Moyi

It was the humanitarir side of the mission which warmed his brother’s heart.

“I just wanted them to meet someone who was in my eyes my hero.”

1'11 find von.’ I said. 'Josh, it isn’t a small hospital.’ 1 Ie said, 'Mom. I'll find yon.’

That was the last thing he ever said Io me.”

The ensuing months Jane calls an unreal ''blur,’’ one which from time to time still grips her. “I'll snap to and realize mv son’s dead. The only time I saw him in his dress bines was in his casket.”

Jane describes her famik as close. A year separated each of her children, w ith Morgan the oldest, Kate the youngest.

Josh the middle.

"The night he died." Morgan savs, “we'd rcalk hung out for the first time.

1 Ie dropped me off about midnight, and ' the next morning he was going up to Bangor. When he died it wasn’t as if he was going to come back and give me one last goodbve. 1 just had to get it through > my head I’d never see him walk through the front door again."

'1 he Kinnevs are left instead w ith r memories of a loving son, brother, and ■ young man w ho’d found his calling in the military.

“I Ie did it so damn well,” Morgan I; declares pioudk. “I le had this idealism.”

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ED WEAGLE, 43: Tech sergeant, power production, Air National Gui 265th Combat Communications Squadron, South Portland Deployment: February 22, 2003returned after five months Civilian job: Previously a marine mechanic. Presently employed fui time at the South Portland Guard squadron.

A T /wt ”ds your role in Iraq?

Operating and maintainin' W w generators. Ansthing that required power, we supplied it. I was; of a 27-man civil engineering team which was sent to Tallil Air Base to sr a [refueling] base for the A-10 [aircrar Our whole puqrose was supporting th flight ops.

Repairs were started on Tallil aftert first Gulf War, but because of the no-' zone they were never finished. Bomb out buildings, rubble cvciywhcre, it' actually quite a mess. We cleaned th runway and parking ramps for the A-. to refuel. .After two weeks they were actuallv stationed there.

We were sent there as a lead team: ! others came in and.. .finished up, po' 1 in latrines and showers and laundn 11 support a base to stay there for a whil 1 Tell us about your experience. 'Ik 1 few days were kind of hairy because were there the das' after the .Army toe' the base. There was fighting within esesight, and for three nights we wa! 1 them fight. It’s kind of nenc-wrackird see it that close and know there's no: between s ou and them if they break । through the line. Thankfulls' we did: have to fight For our own ]^rotection -

KELLY COYNE, 29: Staff Sergeant, Air National Guard, 265th Combat Communications Squadron, South Portland Deployment: Kuwait for five months beginning February 2003 Occupation and Status:

Information technology specialist, 10 years active duty Native of South Portland, graduated from South Portland High Most of your time was spent in Kuwait, but you took a weekend convoy to Iracp We delixered supplies up to Tallil Air Base.

Crossing the border into Iraq, it was rcalli' strange.

I’d like to sax’ things came out of the woodwork, but there was no wood, it was sand.

One striking image you’ve described to us has to do with the immense and the tender side by side. Seeing these xoung Iraqi kids running alongside the Humxcc tires twice their size-tbe first sight of that really broke my heart. My nieces and nephews mean the world to me [and I couldn’t help but feel the connection to

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which allowed us to get along witli our job to help support [the Army and Marines] by giving them the aircraft they needed to stay oxer their heads.

It was tough physically dealing with the heat. It was something like IS below when we left here in February [2003].

We got ox er there and it was 90 degrees. 1 was there a month before we got shipped north, and it went from 90 to 110. Wc were seeing 120 and 130 degrees.

On the flip side, any light-hearted moments? Being in a Guard unit there are a lot of us who are 40-plus. But ox er there I was the only Guard person on this team. Fxcnone else was aclix e duty. M'e had three or four guxs in their thirties, including our commander, who went with us, but exerybodx’ else was 19, 20, 21,22. 1 was actually old enough to be their father, which felt kind of odd.

Besides the heat, was there anything, else that made the going tough? Wlicn the Marines took oxer An-Nasiri\ah, nix’ superiors immediately went downtown to talk to the locals. We’re so used to being able to go to a hardware store and bu\’ things, but there if you want a box of screws, .you pay [the Iraqi store] and they put the order in to the gox eminent, and the goxemment gixes you the box of screws. 'Ilie hardware store s just a contact point. You can t be in any hurry, that’s for sure.

Also, many [Iraqis] were happx’ that [Husseinj had been ousted, but at the same time they were s cry demanding in getting food and water because the Iraqi military was destroying water plants and power plants and whatexer the\’ could. So it made it hard for the Marines and Armx’ to befriend them because of those issues.

It was like, A ou’rc here, we should haxe water, wc should hax e power.”

Is there anything some people might not understand about the conflict? We " eren t aware of it until we got there, but '' s I ()o d out xxas how oppressed the Jraqis] really wcre.'Ihcy didn't haxe anxI ling unless the [Hussein] goxeminent save it to them.

these people].

I low did you feel about vour safety? A lot of conxoys were getting attacked, so the possibility of danger w as there. You hax e to haxe faith in the people and in xour military or you'd be a nervous wreck.

You're back in South Portland now; would you go back if called to duty?

I'd return in a heartbeat. It was one of the best experiences I’ic had. It was demanding, but I felt prefix’ safe. I believe in w hat we did and beliexe it was the right thing.

Captain Chip Vance.

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CURTIS MILLS, 30: Army Reser 94th Police Company Deployment: December 2002, fr: the company’s detachment in Sact Civilian job: Mailman in Sanford mt sustained serious injury la< September in Ramadi. I lou t it happen? There were three teams out that night. m\ team and tv others. W'e w ere doing presence patre MSP patrols, looking for |suspicious actix ite ] and/or being a deterrent. Wc were moving in blackout drives. Anil buried off the side of the road, w entf and hit the I lumvee I was in.

The shrapnel ripped into mv back.' right leg, and nw right arm and shoui:

It has been a high cost, but the ultimate goal is so wonderful It felt like I’d just been crushed. It hit like a sledgehammer. My arm was just shattered. 'Hien I [felt as though I] expanded. I remember looking over and seeing my driver selling. 1 went to get ms’ gunner and he was slumped in his seat. A piece of shrapnel had ent into his carotid artery. So 1 got on the mike and said “We’ve been hit."

After the initial blast we had to turn around and go back through the area.

Another I KO goes off, and that erupts into a gunfight on the way out. 1 don’t know how 1 did it. I had my bones sticking out of me, but we shot our wa\out of it.

I could never feel my foot, so I figured it’d been blown off. I tried to psvehe myself up and look at it. I final ly got a flashlight and saw mv foot was there.

By the time they got me back to camp, the helicopter was prepped and reads’ to go with my gunner on it, and they sscre cutting ass ay my clothes and trs ing to stabilize the amount of blood I ssas losing. My blood pressure ssas s cry loss , but I ssas alssays conscious.

I low is your therapy coming along? I ssas doing ssell until 1 took a nasty fall on some ice and dislocated ms’ shoulder. It really set us back. My arm is frozen into the socket. We’re doing some intensis c therapy on it. They’re talking about completely replacing my shoulder and the upper part of my arm. I'Acntualls I’d like to be able to run and do push-ups again. But right noss 1 can’t ssalk scry ss ell svithout a cane. The Army is going to medically retire me and decide svhich percent I’m disabled.

We also dicin’! knoss until I ssas at Walter Reed [Army Medical (’enter] that one of the holes on my side ss as actuallsa bullet ssound [from the firefight]. So I’se

“Comingnom thistimeI wa happy becaus madeitthroT detector, spite of multi

got a bullet lodged in ms’ upper left leg.

They put me through an ultrasound, too, and found more shrapnel inside and around my spine and noticed that all ms loss er discs ss cre bulging and herniated.

There’s no ssay they’ll eser get all the shrapnel out of me. Some of the pieces are by nenes.

That comes ss ith its oss n set of prolr-

One of my assignments put me in direct contact with gold bouillon confiscated from Saddam. Here I am holding some (left).

Icms. Coming home this time I ssas happy because I made it through the metal detector. Sometimes I get through, sometimes I don’t. Another time I ssas selected for a personal scan, and the detector ssas going off cs ersvs here, on my back, arm, legs.

As it stands noss-, my right foot is paralszcd and the loss er part of ms- right leg is numb-the muscles don’t really ssork. Ms knee ssorks. That’s about it.

And I’m bas ing a lot of back problems.

T he shrapnel that came through my arm completels’ ripped through it and gase me a compound fracture, svhere the bone itself ssas busted in half. So the reconstmetise surgen thes did on ms arm insolsed metal plates and scresss and pins to rebuild. I hase s en- limited use of ms arm right noss . I can keep it to les cl, but can’t lift it up.

What's your goal for recovery?

I svant to be able to thross a football to my son.

Do you intend to resume your postal route? 1 lopefully, if I can. It ssould be ssonderful to go back and hand cans mail, but I think it ssould be a little unreasonable right nosv. I don’t has e a lot of control of my arm.

Is there anything some civilians in Maine might not understand about the conflict? Wc did a lot of patrolling, a lot of raids. But one of the things sse did us er there that I'm proud of is helping to train the ness- police force.

Unfortunately you’ll find some of the people in the ness’ police force still kind of going ss ith the older ss ays. where (lies think they can thiese and bulls’ people.

And ssc’se found people like that and quickly fired them. But it’s a touchs’ situation. Don’t be quick to judge the police that ss e’re training os er there.

You’se got to put it in context. These people aren't much different than the Old West.They’re trying to build their com itry from nothing. You’se just got to has e patience and dris e through it. If it takes 100 years for that countrs’ to turn around, I’d say that's not a bad deal.

I just hope sse don’t pull out before the job is finished. It has been a high cost, but the ultimate goal is so ssonderful. In the end it’s got to outweigh the cost.

People base got esers right to protest, and I hear people protesting about bringing the soldiers back and I think, 'Wiry don’t you ask a soldier boss he feels about being user there?’ The majority of them are going to tell you they sohmteered and ssant to finish the job.

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ream resorts work overtime to update the allure of Maine. But whether it’s the vanishing-edge swimming pool at 1 he Cliff House Resort \ Spa in Ogunquit that pushes the envelope (compare photo this page with the old Cliff House, lower left) ora new chef, spa, or hidden garden, Maine’s dream resorts are, and always will be, in the memory-creating business. Because it’s the continuum of anecdotes, the elegant tread of ghosts on the stairs, that creates the aura of a place.

Otherwise, there is no there there.

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Spa lias welcomed guests since 1872, more recently former President George Bush and Barbara Bush, former Sen. William Cohen, Gov. John Baldacci, The I we Boal's Gavin MacLeod, and the Brown family, founders of Brown University, who have come here for five generations.

'Hie dining room, backlit by scenic Bald I lead Cliff, is among the most majestic in Maine. Pamper yourself at The Cliff 1 louse’s oceanfront balconies and new world-class spa. Rates range from $180 to $310 for a room only, and up to $1,766 for special packages. Call 361-1000 or visit cliffliousemaine.com.

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Newagen Seaside Inn

n 1923, Joshua Brooks, founder of Brooks Bank and Pastern Expo, spun a rundown Southport boarding house into a hotel that would become an icon.

11c brought electricity to the unsettled area, extended Route 27 to their door, and bought 300 acres to save them from reckless local logging.

The magnificent onc-eighth-mile-long Inn stretched toward the sea. MacMillan and Bi rd set sail for the Arctic from this dock, following a lavish farewell. Maine’s governors, Jack Benin, and Rachael Carson came annually.

Eire consumed the place in 1943. Despite wartime shortages, Brooks rebuilt in an astonishing three months. I ,atcr, a ship delivering candlepin bowling lanes sank nearby. I ’wo of the retrieved lanes now operate impeccably in Newagcn’s vast game room.

New owners Scott and Corinne Larson maintain the 30 spotless guest rooms, three cottages, and full restaurant-protected from, but ever watchful over, the deep Atlantic. Their desire to maintain the integrity of the Inn-and the Maine coast-can be seen in every detail, from salvaged maple antiques to crisp, white linens. Guests include Alan Arkin and

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Local artist Tons r an I lasselt plans a week-long workshop this summer. Last summer, special assistant to President Bush Briair Besancenev got married here. And last fall. Glamour magazine did a photo shoot-and all the models stayed here.

Rates range from $ 110 to $250 per night, and include full breakfast. Call 633-5242 or (800) 654-5242, or visit hwv. new agenseasideinn.com.

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Eastland Park Hotel

he grandeur of the sprawling lobby, glistening chandeliers, and rich marble sets the tone of the Roaring Twenties here at this 1927 grand dame visited by everyone from Bruce Springsteen to Lindbergh. No wonder so many couples choose to w ed here, with 202 rooms, 50 of them concierge rooms. New touches include antique Baroque-style furniture imported from Denmark, and fixtures fashioned after a Madrid cafe.

dropping the hotel’s front-door keys if Portland’s 1 larbor, implying that the Eastland would never close her door The Magna Group bought the landm property in 2000, investing S4.5 millh in renovations. ’Ilie former Decoupage restaurants now named Adeline’s Grille, after tM wife of the hotel’s builder, 1 lenry Rkj (She was also the first female lawyer!

Cumberland County.) Portland’son'l rooftop lounge, "Pop of the East, offers panoramic views of the city and bay to mention deep couches and liveji' Don’t miss the Banana Cream Pietir and Mango Bellinis.

Mice Cooperand Al Gore. Joe 1 aeberman, and (ieorge \\ . Bush al' have enjoyed the Eastland’s hospital', Rates range from $89 to $229. Call 5411,(888) 671-8008. or visit war w.eastlandparkhotel.com.

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he Lucerne legacy began nearly 200 t ears ago-a family home built bs Nathan Phillips, a respite for stagecoach travelers, a high-socictv summer haunt, and a hallway house before morphing into the dream resort it is today.

Named after a fair Swiss t illage, the I aicernc is embraced by rolling hills and lakes, reminiscent of nigged Alpine grace.

Such guests as President I Asses S. Chant, I lenn f ord. John Kockclcllcr, and Amelia Larhart (it does fee] as though you’re fixing here!) enjoyed the solitude of this enchanted landscape. Notorious for its homemade champagne cider, the inn offered a quiet hideaway from the long arm of Prohibition.

'Hie Donald Ross-designed golf club, professional clay tennis courts, and skeet-shooting matches added sophistication to the outdoor man els that nature already bestowed. The inn, listed on the .National Register of 1 listoric Places, was unparalleled in its offerings.

Broadcast journalists Diane Sawver and Jane Panics are on the list of contemporary celebrity guests here. Owners Bion and Dorain Poster had to turn assay Oprah \\ infres last summer ss hen the hotel ss as booked svi th a ss edding and could not accommodate the number of rooms Oprah needed.

'Hie inn has 31 rooms ss itli eight suites, each suite offering a fireplace, rich Victorian decor, os ersized bathroom, and sprass ling s istas. Dining-room fare is served ss itli s iess s of Phillips Lake and Bald Mountain.

Rates fora double room range from $59 to $199, ss ith sscekend packages including meals. For resersations or more information call 843-5123 or (800) 325-5123, or sisit ssasw.lucerncinn.com.

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ern Cook and his wife Betsy haxe been cultivating this institution since 1977 (purchased from Betsy’s grandfather, Charles Miller). The restaurant, including separate, cozv raw-bar lounge, is famous for exquisite cuisine.

Join guests including 1 lillarx Clinton, Oh inpia Snowe, Xaomi Judd. I lelcn Himi. Sigournev Wcaxer. ZZ l op, and Km Kristofferson. Bob Dxlan had a piano put into his suite.

Amcnitites: three-story spa and health club with a saltwater pool and hot tub; 125 opulent guestrooms, 24 with fireplace, hot tub, bathroom telex ision, and separate parlor. Rates arc 889 to $229.

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■f Harraseeket Inn iners rcxel here in some of Maine’s best cuisine at the Maine Dining Room or the more casual Broad Arrow laxern. I heir entirely organic, locally raised and homemade menus and buffets offer fresh meats and xegetablcs roasted in the busy wood stoxe. followed by baker Sharon 1 .awrence’s unparalleled C cesserts. Amenities include indoor pool. classic gardens. 84 rooms, and suites with ’replaces. Antiques and ice sculptures, glowing hearths, and polished fixtures attest to a keen eve for detail. 1 lighE .' 1S 'bilitv clientele: Cher. John Travolta.

'• ^aonn Judd, ;!nd the Bush family.

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Famous guests Norumbega: Trying to escape an

impending storm while cruising the coast on his yacht, Dustin Hoffman was unceremoniously rejected from the Norumbega Hotel due to an unfortunate lack of vacancies.

Samoset: Frequent Samoset guest John

Travolta has developed a love affair with the Samoset’s tiramisu. He has such an affinity for the the Samoset's baked confections that, when not staying at the resort, he has been known to order them for delivery at his Isleboro home.

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Holiday Inn by the Bay: In the late 1970s, Frank Sinatra stayed at the Holiday Inn by the Bay. Director of Operations Gus Tillman: “I don’t know what he did when he was here because it was so secretive! He didn’t even sign himself in. He had someone else do that. He flew in on a private jet, was whisked up to his room, and was never really seen after that (though he did order an enormous party platter from the Old Port Tavern). I don’t even know how long he was here."

Sebasco Resort: A portion of Cameron Diaz’s 1997 film Head Above Water was filmed at the Sebasco Resort in Phippsburg. According to Jean Marshall of Sebasco, “The scene at the end where she drowns is in our pool.” Because the

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film was shot in autumn, “it was very cold water when Cameron Diaz was here,” and, between takes, in order to keep Diaz’s skin from turning blue, “they had a hot tub and kept it at the edge of the pool,” so she could warm up.

Sheraton Tara Hotel: If Elvis Presley had not died in Memphis the night of his scheduled performance at the Cumberland County Civic Center, he would have stayed once again at the Sheraton Tara Hotel near the new Maine Mall on August 16, 1977. In fact, Colonel Tom Parker was already up here in South Portland, placing aluminum foil on all the windows of Elvis’s suite because it was the King’s habit to stay up all night and sleep all day.

Inn on Carleton: “It was the most

bizarre thing,” says innkeeper Sue Cox of the Inn on Carleton of actor Alec Baldwin’s stay in the late 1990s. “You should have seen the way he chatted with everyone at breakfast. He was very gracious and seemed truly interested in what everyone else was up to. He’s such a down-to-earth person, not the least bit impressed with himself. He really was a nice guy.”

Inn by the Sea: Cape Elizabeth police decided to ignore their law-enforcement duties when they realized the group of folks strumming guitars and singing songs around the illegal bonfire on the beach in

front of the Inn by the Sea was none othethan Inn guest Garth Brooks and his banc Katarina Witt and Brian Boitano stayed a‘ the Inn by the Sea for extended periods a time for three consecutive years while preparing for fall and winter performance: They were highly visible, even appearing on television’s Entertainment Tonight walking along Crescent Beach.

Portland Regency: John F. Kennedy, Jr. was one of the most vehemently tracked celebrities in American society before his tragic death. So it was quite a surprise when he showed up in the Old Port’s premier hotel, the Regency, during the off-season without a reservation.

Pomegranate Inn: Portland’s picturesque Pomegranate Inn has attracted its share artsy clientele over th; years. Best selling author Toni Morrison, spent time here at the Inn while preparing to write her novel Paradise.

Lake House Bed and Breakfast:

According to Michael Meyers of the Lake House in Waterford, a young Mickey Rooney and Judy Garland “are in the guest register. It was sometime in the 1940s but there are no dates so it’s hard to tell.”

Meyers speculates that the pair were here either recreating at Sterling Hayden’s cottage on Kezar Lake or doing a product at the Deertrees Theatre in Harrison.

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| Portland Harbor Hotel ashioned by DiLeonardo, designer of the famed Bellagio in Vegas, this $13million boutique hotel positions its guests enviably in the center of the Old Port. A gothic limestone fireplace flanked with bookshelves invites guests to enjoy the lobby 's cheery colors and textures.

Xcw as it is, its guest book already includes Carly Simon, Jerry Seinfeld, Bilh Joel, and repeat summer visitor

Katie (,'onric.

Each of the 97 rooms and 13 suites is unique, with plush, bedding, marble and granite bathrooms, and several “bath turndow n” services: they’ll draw the bath, add salts and flower petals, and light candles.

The outstanding Eve's Restaurant received four stirs from the Sunday Telegram, mirroring the hotel's coveted four-diamond AAA rating. The high-tech meeting rooms include drop-down LCD, DVD, and videoconferencing.

Concierge David Costa is Maine’s onlv certified Les Clefs d’Or member of the International Association of Professional Concierges, and the staff takes etiquette classes to better sene. Built in 2002, this harbor-view hotel is one of the Port’s most distinctive properties.

Deluxe, garden, and king rooms range from SL9 to $369, w ith a Pampered Pinot Package at $229. Roof garden. Call 775-9090 or (888) 798-9090 or visit wwv.portlandharborhotel.com.

At one of Americas premier oceanfront resorts — you will

enjoy luxurious accommodations, asvard winning championship golf, and tennis. Experience Four-Diamond dining, exceptional wines and outstanding service in Marcel’s restaurant or for a more casual menu try our Breakyvater Cafe. Relax with a soothing massage and sauna in our state-of-the-art health club and cardio theater, and a splash in one of our pools, or take a quiet stroll out to the adjoining lighthouse, and children will love Smnocmnp — our fun-filled summer day camp!

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Black Point inn

he Black Point Inn’s history runs deep as the ocean that skirts it on three sides.

I liding only eight miles from Portland on Prouts Neck in Scarborough, this dream resort is truly a “throw back to another place and time.” Owners Eric and Pcggv Ciancette (w ho also own Portland's Regency I lotel) are justifiably proud of the pristine grounds, impeccably restored furnishings, elegant dining, and exemplary- service. Built in 1878 as an inn, and having had onlv five owners in 125 years, it remains one of Maine's grandest seaside resorts. Winslow I lomer (who owned a studio nearby), was a fixture here for decades, transfixed by the pounding surf.

Repeat visitors include W oody Allen, Day e Brubeck, and Paul \ewmaii. If the weathered, oyster-gray shingles could talk, they would describe generations of visitors plaving chess in cozy armchairs by the crackling fire, w ith a spectacular ocean view.

Gentlemen. bring a jackct-and an appetite—for dinner. Chef Bruce Orr creates five-star art with the freshest seafood, produce, and garden herbs.

Rates range from $ 129 to $630. Call 8832 500 or (800) 258-0003 or visit ww .blaclqxjintinn.com.

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Revel in the distinctive Gallic charm of Fairmont's le Chateau Frontenac in Old Quebec at joume/s end. Benedict Arnold and his men were not received so hospitably. This stately hotel, designed during Queen Victoria's reign for the Canadian Pacific Railway, stands above historic Old Quebec.

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^encSict ArnolS 6ere & Trekking the Kennebec in Luxury

BY STEPHEN CLARK

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hile vacationers nationwide are tripping over one another to follow the Lewis and Clark trail, decamping in fisc-star hotels and driving luxury SUVs. here in Maine we are heirs to the road not takcn-Bencdict Arnold's 1~” wilderness march to Quebec.

Bnt can we follow this in Inxnn? After all, .Arnold and his troops resorted to

chewing their moccasins and dcx’ourin^ dogs to stay alive in the bleakest of conditions. Yes, Arnold's trek can be followed, thanks to historic Maine resorts along the Kennebec and Dead risers, culminating with world-class accommodations at Chateau Frontenac in Quebec Citv.

Arnold and his men began their Maine experience by entering the month of the

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Next, cross the Sagadahoc Bridge an. bear north through Woolwich, Das s Kerrs’, and pass by Merrymccting Bas with eight risers draining into it.

Visit Swan Island in Richmond, noss. great wildlife preserse, where Captain j I lenrs- Dearborn and s oung Aaron Btr stopped to rest a night w hile ascendin: the riser. Pass Pownalborough Courthouse, w here John Adams practiced.c the shore of the ris er in Dresden. resP toils 1761 magnificence.

Kennebec River in 11 small coastal schooners and sloops, ascending 50 miles upriver to the head of tide. Todas. to shadow the expedition, follow the coast to the month of the Kennebec at Popham Beach State Park. \'isit massive stone Port Popham (see photo above) or Port Baldwin on a high hill that was also the site of the 1607 abortive Popham Coions.

Where to stay The Popham Beach Bed & Breakfast, an old Coast Guard Station built in 1883 right on the beach, offers striking views of, and immediate access to, Fort Popham. You can stay right at the mouth of the Kennebec.

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below $200. www.pophambeachbandb.com Next, hug the coast along the Lower Kennebec with its mans- headlands, islands, coses, and salt marshes to reach Bath, home of the Maine Maritime Museum and the huge Bath Iron Works, where modern nasal frigates are constructed.

Where to dine The Kennebec Tavern and Marina sits right on the Kennebec River in Bath.

Spectacular river views from every table.

Dine outside on the riverside patio; Arnold and his troops swept right by here.

Docking is available tor restaurant patrons at the adjoining marina. 442-8636; kennebectavern@suscom-maine.net

Don't Miss The Major Reuben Colburn House Muse in Pittston. Here, at this 1765 frame lux on a hill overlooking the Kennebec, Arnol switched to smaller bateaux constructs on site and continued upriver. The housi an "oak post-and-beam frame,” is open! appointment. Call Dan Warren at 582-7G

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food, powder, lead, and all manner of militarv supplies, constantly in the freezing waler, hauling heavily laden bateaux oxer ledges and rocks. The arm; triumphed ox er backbreaking portages a: Skowhegan balls, .Norridgewock balls, and at Devil’s balls in present-day Solon

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Don't miss In Skowhegan, the History Museum Hous; in Skowhegan has many historic Items ant letters commemorating Arnold's wilderness trek. At Arnold Park near Skowhegs Island, there is a forest of 300-year-old white pine trees that were present as Arnold passed by Skowhegan Falls. The trees have been designated a national historic area.

Old Fort Western was the first stop for Arnold's troops after boarding the bateaux. Today, the 1754

brom here, progress northward with th expedition and enter the Appalachian Mountains near Bingham and follow th river only as far as Caratunk. I lerc the expedition left the main stem of the

National Historic Landmark on the Kennebec River in Augusta offers a fort, store, and museum, with programs and activities for the whole family throughout the year.

tide. Old bort Western was used as the staging point for the anny as they struck into the wilderness north of this point.

The fort has been restored to its original 1754 frontier design with blockhouses, stockades, barracks, and store houses.

Where to stay Wouldn't Arnold's troops have loved a stop at the Senator Inn & Spa (see pool photo, right), complete with conference center, luxury suites, fireplaces, sitting rooms, spa services, massage therapy.

Visit www.senatorinn.com.

Crazy for atmosphere? The Yeaton Farm Inn Bed & Breakfast in nearby Belgrade is

an 1826 luxury time capsule, with a woodburning fireplace in each room. Price is $135 double occupancy. Visit www.yeatonfarminn.com.

North of Augusta, traverse the rolling hill country of the middle Kennebec Valiev. Parallel the army’s ascent of the river, passing through W'inslow with its blockhouse of bort I lalifax w here the men camped, to Waterville. where 'I’iconic falls was the first of four portages on the Kennebec. Bey ond the boats themselves, the men had to carry nearly 100 tons of cargo, including barrels of Relax in a spa suite at the Senator Inn & Spa, have a delicious meal in the award-winning dining room where vegetarian and heart-heoF meals are served, and make some day trips fc mid-coast sites and shopping. If only LL. Beo r had been here, Arnold's troops might have geared up, too.

Kennebec and tackled the worst portaS of tlicir march, the Great Carrying 1’k® a brutal 13-milc portage, to reach the Dead hirer (which is the west branchd the Kennebec). The army was never th* same after this dreadful experience. 5

Where to stay | The Birches Wilderness Resort offers s luxury accommodations and Whitewater o rafting at The Forks. | 'I oday the wild land westward is § blocked by Flagstaff Lake, which

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center). Did Arnold realk pass bv here? Yes. In fact he was among the first to remark upon the mountain’s unusual shape, w riting in his journal: "Wlicn Sarte-Mane VaHee-Jonetwri ^\/ ' •' abreast of the [threat j Carrying Place in the River, vou will observe Samt-GeorgesX at ab* 400 yards above vou a large r mountain in shape of a shugar UEBEC 1 ,oaf...' Also loonring into view is Bigelow Mountain Preserve in Stratton, lire latter mountain is Jackman aK named for Major Timothv Bigelow, air officer in the cx]xxlition. b rom the small town of Caratunk Stratton, the last point to gas up before crossing the Canadian "" *4. ■ At border, follow the expedition's Skowbeoa route along the North Branch of the Dead River into the maze of Hinckley the Boundary Mountains, Witte passing a series of si nail but beautiful falls: Ledge. Shadagce, and Sarampus.This was the area A&rd<net o where the expedition was hit bv a Richmond Dresden West Indian hurricane irr late cn October. It rairred for five davs Brunswick Georgetown and the w ind felled trees all Popham Beach around the men. '1 he river rose O more than nine feet irr one night. pcmS Tlic land on either side of the I 3 river flooded back in some places 5 as much as half a mile. Men had to maneuver their bateaux inundates the expedition's route for 20 through trees and bushes. Several bateaux miles along the middle portion of the were lost with their valuable cargo of Dead River. Diop south and w est around scarce food.

The source of the Dead River is the t the mountains to pick up the expedition's route in the tow ns of Stratton and Eustis(drain of Ponds, tucked in a narrow pass I through North Anson and Kingficld. through the mountains, still verv wild home of the Stanley Steamer Museum, todav. Bevond the ponds lies the final then up the scenic Carrabassett River, portage, over the 11 eight of 1 .and. Arnold past Sugarloaf USA (with its first-rate ordered the abandonment of the heavy hotel, recreational areas, and conference bateaux to speed up the march of his ebec /

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Quebec at last! Reward ^urseif wiith (/sumptuous*meal of Harid^S^^rwhonkoasfed haundvjF J? ^son). Gratin Dauphinois (potato-cheese cdsserole), and Tarteaux Poire (pear pie); a cozy room;®? an° a walk down the oldest streets in North America. , *

now-starving and exhausted armv.

W e cross the Canadian border at Coburn (lore and almost immediateh enter the pastoral high farm country of Quebec Provence. Join the Chaudicre river flow ing north through St. Georges | Stop at the Auberge Bendict Arnold for a fine night’s stav-vvww.aiibcrgcarnold.c]c.ca| to Ste. Maric, then travel over the coastal plain to the south shore of the St. Law rence at the citv of Levis.

I he Chaudicre joins the St. Livvrence River six miles above Quebec.

Across the mile-w ide river is the expedition’s and our goal: the walled citv

Working Against the Flood on Dead River, by Sydney Adamson: enduring a tough portage at Skowhegan Falls

of Quebec. Arnold and his men wore sprigs of hemlock in their hats so thev w ouldn’t shoot each other, but we needn’t be so conspicuous. I lere at journev's end. unmistakable, shimmering into the clouds, is the Le Chateau Erontenac. a Eairmont hotel originallv built bv the Canadian Pacific railroad in the late 19th ccntun (sec photos, page 40 and 41).

A night at the verv hospitable I ,e Chateau Erontenac is an unforgettable experience, without a hint of the w elter and hostility Arnold experienced the first time around.

If you insist, the staff will be happv to call vou a dved-in-the-wool explorer after hearing about v our 200-mile expedition, but their guest book lists a few of the adventurers w ho have arrived here before you: "King George \'I and Queen Elizabeth, Princess Grace of Monaco.

Chiang Kai Click, Charles de Gaulle, Ronald Reagan, Eranyois Mitterrand, Prince Andrew , Lidv Sarah Ecrguson, Charles Lindbergh. Alfred Hitchcock, and Montgomery Clift.”

Eor reservations at 1 ,e Chateau I’rontenac, visit vwvw.fairmont.com.

Stephen Clark is the author of hillwinv their hootsteps. a history of the Arnold Expedition as well as an invaluable guideb<x)k \ isit clarkbook.Mnaine.cotn.

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BY PAT FRIEDMAN

p rises the mist from the tempestuous Penobscot River.

It's the dawn of recorded history, and Maine's native "people of the dawn” navigate chicflv bv canoe. Slowly the legend of the birchbark canoe disappears, until 1920, when the last birchbark canoe is built on Indian Island for just $30.

Todav just tw o of the ancient canoes still exist in the Penobscot Museum as part of an exhibit curated by James Neptune.

Paid of storv. right? Maybe it's a new beginning. In repairing one of their museum pieces, the Penobscots discox cred so much about their original craft that thev have developed the ability to create brand new birchbark canoes for

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a mesmerized market, and they are doing just that. To date, three new prototypes have been built in Maine, one already selling to a Gorham buyer for $10,000.

Neptune, a descendant of renowned Penobscot witch Gow John Neptune (1767-1865), says the birchbark canoe is "the center of our ancestors' lives.’’ Just as the old ones were built with white cedar planks, ribs, and gunwales, so are the new, two of them here on Indian Island, just footsteps awav from the Old 1’own Canoe company, famous today for its plastic descendants.

Treated to a maiden cruise, one finds the birchbark canoe's narrow profile cuts through the water and stays surprisingly

Barry McGrane with one of the canoes hr helped build

steady. Hven on the new boats, Penobscot double-curve symbols etched into the bark ■ whisper incantations to the < n Fourth (spirit) W orld.

J H’ c -Ist-ccntiiB' Penobscots W working on the new- generation > birchbarks include Joe (I lugga) W Dana (cousin to Chief Barn- Dana), Roland Jewel, Frank Poring, Barry McCranc, and tribal elder Nick Dow .

Consulting on the project is Steve Cavard, a lifelong canoe craftsman who knows how to breathe life into each subtle curve. “'I’hey each take about 500 hours to build,” Cavard, who is not a Penobscot, says. Clients expressing interest in birchbark canoes range from a tattoo artist and truck driver to a student, doctor, even a California wine maker.

Wliv birchbark? A birchbark canoe is entirely different from any other canoe, even the classic Maine wood/canvas canoc. because it starts w ith the birch bark and then the inside space is Filled with the wood. Cavard savs, “Even other ’kind of canoe is built from the inside out.

But with birchbark, it’s kinda like stuffing a pillowcase.”

Although 'birchbark' elicits visuals of w hite speckled bark, the inside of the bark is actually harvested, lending warm, rich, deep hues of cocoa, tan, and beige. The authentic craft, like a form-fitting suede jacket, is as beguiling to see as it is hxpnotic to paddle.

Selection is critical when gathering the bark. "It takes a long time finding high-

The authentic Penobscot birchbark canoe, like a form-fitting suede jacket, is as beguiling to see as it is hypnotic to paddle. steaming water and drizzles it around on the nest, keeping it moist. The smell of that warm, wet bark evokes waking up in the woods in the rain. The pow er of the ancestors seems to shudder skyward in the steam.

Cavard learned the traditional

Planking thin cedar strips edge to edge-top end shows the ribs after planking

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quality bark. It was always hard, but especially now with all the trees gone, it’s a nev er-ending quest. And a good excuse to be in the woods,” says Cavard.

To lav the keel, the men rest the canoe atop a soft bed of bark shards. Periodically, someone dips into the vat of

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3. Measure the outside for the rib fitting, subtracting about three-quarters of an inch for inside measurement.

4. Gently and with great strength, bring up and fold the sides of the bark around the frame, w hich is held up by temporary stakes.

5. Sew the bark in place.

6. Raise the gunwales to their final height, and lash the edges with black or red

spruce roots. Sew up stem and stem.

7. Ilie canoe is ready for her ribs an<d planking. T his takes several davs.

8. Boil the ribs one-half hour. Tie anid hold in place so that they’re in a succession and everything works andl fits together.

9. Kit and gently pound the frames into place using a wedge of wood wiith the hammer.

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A building of these canoes after so much I time symbolizes the unity that people "seem to have lost-tlic sense of community. “Tor the first time in a long time we sec this many people learning and working together. It makes a person strong and helps us learn who we are.

With locals stopping by to pitch in, to learn, to bring water and food, to take pictures...it has brought our sense of unitv back, which is so sorely needed.”

“It was Chief [Barry] Dana’s idea to bas e a canoc-building class,” sass '1'ribal elder Butch Phillips of his nephew. “It generated tremendous interest all through the community. 'There were blessings on all of it, including the materials and Mother Karth where they came from.”

And, in the movie Penobscot: The People andTheir River, Chief Dana says, “Wlien we put this canoe in the water, it w as like a ceremony..."

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BY CHRIS THOMPSON ore than half a century after his death, Walt Kuhn (1877-1949) is sparking a minisensation on eBay, raising hopes about the prickly Ogunquit artists place in history as well as peqdcxing questions about an artist's posthumous intellectual property rights.

Famous as one of the breakthrough modernists who organized the Armors Show in Xew York in 1913 (gising American audiences, including most artists, their first glimpse of the experiments being undertaken by their European contemporaries, the likes of Duchamp and Matisse), Kuhn was skepdical of critical acclaim himself and later Resistant to the follow-up survey exhibi^bons of American painting after World IWar I, which might base further popularized his work. j in short, while the European-trained >^n,a native New Yorker, often painted flowns, he never suffered fools. j Art dealers regularly praise Kuhn's iconoWastic integrity and resistance to hype ile describing his work. Wliich makes it b niorc ironic to see a constellation of «ft: White Clown, 1929 <°P nght: Sleeping Girl in Coat, 1928 “ottom right: Trio, 1937

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his personal effects, from cufflinks to ven personal letters to tantalizing copper etching plates with mans' strikes left on them, offered on the internet.

Such reflections on Kuhn’s passion for privacy buttressed the sale, in a recent eBas

Walt Kuhn painted clowns but didn't suffer fools.

Alow that eBay is showered with the personal effects of the artist who hated hype, there may be a resurgence.

and its collectible ephemera. 'I he latest rediscovery of Walt Kuhn can be traced to the sale of one of his paintings for $1.1 million at a Sotheby 's auction in Mav 2001. This wasn’t the first blockbuster price Kuhn fetched: In 1949, the s ear of his death, American art collector and statesman \\ . As ercll 1 larriman purchased one of Kuhn’s paintings from Kuhn’s widow for $100,000-a record price for an American painting. Twcke years later, follow ing the death of Mrs. Kuhn, their daughter Brenda Kuhn

auction, of a 1943 letter Kuhn wrote from Ogunquit to his wife back in NcwYork-a tender missive in w hich he noted the rainsw eather, his lingering cold, as well as his progress in his efforts to secure permission from the U.S. Coast Guard in Biddeford Pool to get a “coast painting permit" in the midst of the Second World War. Coincident with the internet phenomenon-it's as if the contents of Kuhn’s barn have been shaken directly onto the intcrnct-is the possibility amid all this sensation that Kuhn may be enjoying the beginnings of a real resurgence.

Recent s ears have seen an upsurge in interest in Kuhn’s work, as well as his life

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Wall Kuhn’s works and their home in Ogunquit. Brenda’s death in 1993 con-, plcted the dispersal of the Kuhn estate I into the market, but eBas' has created; second shower: Now bits and pieces oh her collection can be ours, and with them fragments of the history cf Amer s. ican Modernism. t What we might call the “KuH effect” raises two intriguing questions. 'I'he first one is moral: Should the personal effects of;artist be brought together in museum collections or diced and sold of to the highest bidders? \ blurb on eBas' bs'IT Coast Books to sell one of Kuhn's perso; letters states, “It is practicallv impossible own a letter bs' Walt Kuhn unless you 1 one from us. The onk other place toev read one is at the Smithsonian."

Bevond this, is tossing an artist’s letter the four winds of cBas hurting or actua promoting an artist's future?

Last Coast Books proprietor and art dealer Men Slotnick of Wells defend the practice on the grounds of vitalih: “Someone as prominent as Kuhn wro; many letters to fellow artists, and it wo; be impossible to assemble even a frac of his correspondence. Without hesitation I'd sav that a single letter written t Walt Kuhn in a private collection mor more to the owner than it would to at; institution that has hundreds of Iris

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After Walt Kutin died, his wife and daughter devoted their lives to placing individual paintings in some of the finest museums in the United States. Bad move? which appears to have had no more than six prints made from it. It’s one of a number of original Kuhn plates they’ve offered on eBav. "\ cr\ seldom does an original etching plate by an important artist ever reach the open market,” reads the online advertisement. I he sale of such an item begs the second and far more intricate question posed by the Kuhn effect: If vou buv Kuhn’s plate for Exotic Blossoms from a dealer w ho purchased it from the artist’s daughter, can you vourself turn loose a slew of new “original” Kuhn prints? More tmtalizingly, w ith the artist unable to review them, will they he art or monstrosities?

1’rcvailing art-world opinion considers the prints themselves, and not the plate from which they arc produced, to be the originals.”'I’he International Fine Print Dealers/Association has generated a list of seven wavs in which the relationship between the artist and the print that bears his or her name can be communicated to the market. In the first, the artist creates the plate, determines the number of prints in the scries, and pulls the prints himself; the entries move seriallv toward less involvement of the artist, ending with the seventh, in which the print is made rom the plate w ithout the authorization °f the artist, or his/her estate or legal representative. 'I his filter of protection Provided by the IP’PDA recommends I ’<it the sale of legitimate “fine art multiPcs -prints made from plates, castings U| n molds, photographs from negativesaccompanied by a certificate of authenheity I his notes the artist’s name, title, size 0 * re edition and this work's place in it, the

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date of release, and the number of artist’s proofs. I Inless a work’s bill of sale outlines the artist’s retention of exclusive rights to reproduction. American property rights laws guarantee these rights to whomever owns the plate. Once you do, nothing prevents von from making an unlimited edition of Exotic Blossoms, nor from selling each print for as much as the market will bear.

In the end, the smart customer-wondering w hv, if the workwi one Kulm stood behind, he never printed from the plate himself-will drop s our pm and opt for one of Kuhn’s letters ora jxrirr his cufflinks instead. lotnick says a reliable guarantee from an art dealer has two parts.

“Number one: No time limit on authenticity. Number two: The seller knows that the work is authentic. Anvot: can sell an object with a guarantee that simplv sass he’ll refund if it isn’t right.k that means thev could offer ‘bad’ art all das' long. We hare alwavs sold with ano time-limit guarantee for authenticity’ It is often the case that a “rediscover artist amounts to a ncwlv discos cred

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opportunity to make some money on the art market. "It remains to be seen." he savs. “whether Walt Kuhn is really going to be ‘rediscovered.’ A million-dollar sale in today's art market is about as important as yesterday ’s newspaper. Kuhn himself did much to hold his reputation down,”

Stirring up the flames of the Ashcan School, Kuhn and his cohorts launched the famous Armory Show of 1913.

Slotnick notes, "and after his death his w ife and daughter spent the rest of their lives attempting to place his paintings in important museum collections. To the extent that they were successful, perhaps, there may be too few major paintings available to sustain a growing market."

As for how we separate fact from fiction when considering the “Kuhn effect," Slotnick says, “Distinguishing hvpe from sul> stance is a fact of life in the art world. I Ivpc docs in fact turn into substance sometimes.

H'cn that happens the hype is forgotten.

Kuhns accomplishments both as an artist and a larger-than-life figure in the art world probably assure him of his place in art history books. But if there arc not enough artworks for collectors, auction sales, and exhibitions. the fires mav dim again. 'Ihere should be little doubt that his prices will continue to rise, however, because of the small amount for sale. But fewer paintings at higher prices will not make Walt Kuhn ahousehold name."

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illions know Jolin Aid .aughlin as the host of tw o weekh public affairs shows on public television: I he MeOiu^hlin ('roup, on the air since 1982, anil One on One. which premiered two years later.

Manx others recall Mel aughlin, w ho holds a Ph.ID. from Columbia University, as Washington editor and columnist for \ational Review throughout the 1980s.

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But few are aware that exactlv 50 vears ago, John McLinghlin studied and taught in Portland, at Chevcrus, as part of his Jesuit studies.

We queried McLaughlin-who’s lived in Washington. D.C.. for the past 35 vears-abont his davs in xMaine and his take on onr state and cits since leaving half a century ago.

POKTLWD MaGA/IXE: When did vou live in Maine?

McLaughlin: Exactly 50 years ago.uk 1 was a ‘Scholastic’ in Jesuit parlance, meaning within the course of studies. 1 w as asked to teach freshmen for a yean Chcvcrus-historv. Latin, and English' and to be available to be a substitute teacher across the board, seniors to freshmen. I was also asked to run the bookstore and help with the intrainu® sports budgeting-basketball, football, track, the newlv formed swimming tea

and skiing—as well as Io handle public relations.

What was your lake on the Cheverus students?

Cheverus students were like their parents. Upbeat, friendly, solid, funloving, generous, shovv-me smart, occasionally cantankerous, usually polite.

Wliat stood out most were the solid habits of these young citizens.

Cheverus drew students from among families w hose parents worked in the industrial sector: commercial fishing, lumber, shipbuilding. Bv no means were thevlimited to Portland elite. This accounts for the temperament and selfdirectedness and emotional maturihrciatively speaking-of the student hodv that Cheverus was able to attract and nurse and challenge.

Have you been hack to .Maine since?

McLaughlin: In the sixties, 1 gave a few lectures in Brunswick al Bowdoin and have made a few sprints from Washington, holiday ones, since then. In recent years my wife Cristina has spent more time visiting Maine than 1 have, w hich is noteworthy since she is Latin and from the torrid Caribbean, where she spent her early childhood. She adores Maine, cold or no cold.

In the sixties, seventies, and eighties 1 passed through Portland a few times and saw some of the start-up of urban renewal. I his interview has brought with it a round of remcmbrances-of how much I liked outings on Casco Bav and in Cape 1'., and Portland's cobblestone streets, the Victorian mansions, the Old Port, the iron pier hooks of the waterfront, walks on Congress Street and Commercial Street. Some of it reminds me of

Newport, where 1 spent summer holidavs grow ing up in Rhode Island.

I have a yen now to cruise the bav again, take the ferry to Diamond Cove and Peaks Island, and visit Old Orchard Beach. I’ve heard a lot about the Portland Public Market and the chic new bistros and bars and adventurous cuisines. 1 want to see for myself whether it measures up to the hype. Likewise the mushrooming real estate values.

And above all, I want to eat at least two lobster rolls in one sitting. I hear Portland is relaxed, undemanding, stress-free.

We’ll see.

I ve devoted a lot of mv professional time to Maine and am still intrigued bv its enigmatic politics. .Maine’s political topography is as rough-hewn and unpredictable as its coastline. Its residents are largely unpretentious, flinty, no nonsense. \Mien I was there, the total population was less than one million. Ticket-splitting in elections is a way of life and the ethnic diversity of the state—Irish, Arab, Creek.

Krcnch-Canadian, immigrants-adds up to Maine being a high risk to call.

The cliche that Maine citizens arc ‘rugged individualists’ I found to be true when I was there. When politics became mv professional focus, 1 saw the extent to which that was true. aine inhabitants don’t vote partv, thev vote person. Ross Perot’s second-place w in in 1992 ahead of President George Bush is a case in dramatic point. Maine was where he got his highest vote in the nation. 'Hie political peculiarities of Maine's citizens has been great fodder for 7 he McGiughlin Group over the years and also for the One on One show.

I ve known Bill Cohen since he was in Congress in the 1980s. and through his Senate career and his defense secretarv status in the Clinton administration. In fad, he was mv guest on One on One [in February], So wur A laine experience has echoes?

I travel all over the world. \Miat suqxises me is how oddly I encounter Cheverus grads. I can recall in Pakistan, in the late 1980s, interviewing President Zia when he revealed that Pakistan was involved in the enrichment of uranium-and in the Islamabad hotel lobby where 1 was stay ing, bumping into a Cheverus grad, w ho recognized me from television, introduced himself, and we reminisced.

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through the stadium thronged wall towa[ with people, a similar encounter took place. Alumnae also come over and introduce themselvcs-which is how I discovered that Chcvcms had gone coed In Washington recently, two young women...Chcvcms grads., .came over and filled me in on the school and the Portland buzz.

What are some of your most striking memories of Portland? When the water recedes, where are the high rocks?

McLaurin: X lost vivid in retrospect are the Jesuits who ran the school. There wen almost 25 of us. At least half of us lived in a sprawling brick, three or four floors, typical Portland home, on Danforth Sta in the 1 50s block, as I recall.

Reverend Robert Hewitt was the recto: a seasoned professional, rigorously organized and scheduled, whom you could set your dock by. A skilled administrator, he could handle the Jesuits reporting to him-well-trained, gifted individuals, sometimes bullheaded, but ultimately yielding.

Jesuit dinner and lounge conversation at Danforth Street had plenty' of materia, to talk about in those days. Republican Senator Joe McCarthy had led the televised hearing on alleged communism if the Army, and the Senate condemned him. The Supreme Court ruled segregation in public schools unconstitutional.

President Eisenhower told the Pentagon that it was okay to train the South Vietnamese Army, an action not often cited.

Lots of hot exchanges over the impact o‘ these actions. o two Chcvcms Jesuits were alike No prima donnas, but several skeptics and one cynic. 4 here were moments when the banter and the impromptu vaudeville were hilarious. IE esprit de corps was great. Rather Hewitt, i the- wav, was also very adept at fashioning j relationships with civic officials and ecclesiastics. Reverend John Keegan, «h heads up the school now, is cut from the same cloth as Bob Hewitt and, in additio he’s a one-man Jesuit band. Incredible.

Reverend Frank Gilday, the principal then, was a legend among Jesuits—not on< for his kinetic energy', but for his school management, his sense of mission, his tenacity of purpose. 1 le was also inadvertently comical, notably fora persistent habit of mixing metaphors.

"Too many cooks at the tiller,” became^ classic in the New England province.

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quoted at almost every snafu.

Bob Lindsay and Donald Lynch w ere also scholastics who served with me, and both endured in the Order. Bather Lvneh passing awav last year. Bob Lindsay’s ministry goes on.

Father James Shea was the assistant principal and the dean of discipline who issued late slips and demerits to students.

He was action-orientated, peppy, very straightforward. e and I struck a pact to execute a two-person fitness regime. We would walk ox er to the school every morning, more or less, across town, from Danforth Street, in all weather, arrixing in ' time for me to open the bookstore before class. So rain or shine, snoxx or sleet, xx e slogged our wax' across town, rex iexx ing | game scores and school projects, j including those \\ ith a public-relations potential, one of which was a bus dax-trip ' to Augusta to meet with the nexx lx ; inaugurated and noxx- legendary Edmund Muskie, the first Democrat in some 20 tears. Ilie trip came to pass. t Muskie assembled the students in a |big conference room and talked about k what an important calling public scrx ice and politics are. The new gox ernor’s | high seriousness and xx armth w ere ] evident then and onl\' grew w hen he j came to the nation’s capital as Maine’s senator, then vice presidential candidate with Hubert Humphrey in 1968 running against Republican Richard Xixon, for whom 1 w orked as a speechwriter, and Spiro Agnew.

I last visited with Ed Muskie at a luncheon hosted b\ Bill Cohen and his present wife Janet Langhart Cohen. He j died in 1996, in his 80s, a great warrior ' statesman, and so emblematic of Maine’s special character. " add you ever consider living , here again?

Mefaughin: From ,\ lay to October, definitely. Winters, I’ll pass. I got Maine "inters out of my svstem walking crosstown for 10 months with Jim Shea.

Flie new ethnic luxuriousness of Blaine, which I presume has penetrated Portland, interests me greatlxx Ethnicity "arms up a city. It’s an antidote to a power dynamic like the aggressix e one "esee in Washington that flattens and sterilizes. Miami has a rich ethnicitv.

Cristina and I get there as often as we cai1, but Miami is hardly an easv-going C1 b as Portland savs it is.

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o Moby Dick author I Icrman Melville, “a whale ship was niv Yale College and my I larvard.”To Cape Elizabeth fisherman John Ready, “a lobster boat is my Northeastern University.”

Advisor Bill Munze explains. “John’s a Business Administration major as part of our five-year cooperative education program. Northeastern Coop juggles thousands of real-life jobs for full college credit, “but as far as I know, John’s the only one who's done amthing with lobster.”

"I'd been nmning my own lobster business since 1 was 8," Readv, 21, sass. “I just asked pennission to keep working."

Munze didn't blink: “1 low odd it would have been to give him his business ‘experience’ in a different industry, when he knew so clearly what he wanted to do.”

Working with Ready. Munze designed three six-month coop semesters—I obster 101,201. and 301 ?—for Readv between more fonnal academic semesters at Northeastern (ranked first in the country bv I hS. News O World Report for its internships and cooperative education). “I le follows a different tack," Munze says. “I he work ethic there is rare. I Ie’s a senior now , and at every point he’s used the Coop program to tiv out some very bold J new ideas. One year he worked with the Atlantic National 'I ’rust, bm inga failing lobster pound in northern Maine. John turned it around [with business concepts J bed retmed at Northeastern), and the trust has sold it for a lot of money.”

Even if it hadn't worked out so well, 1 learned a lot there," Ready savs.

Another of Reads ’s ideas is lobster to h our Door, a companv that delivers crustaceans to posh Boston and Martha’s Vincvard eateries—lobsters guaranteed caught in Casco Bay this morning.

I wo weeks ago I organized a fundraiser for the Entrepreneur Club, selling out the 250 lobsters wed brought in less than h'o hours." Ready savs. “I was suqjriscd at how many people Boughton the spot."

Ure one exception? Munze. "I wasn't allowed to pay he protests. “John presented two to my wife aod me. 1 hey really were delicious." o how does .Munze like his lobster cooked? “I'm a 0 s ter freak. 111 take it anv was I can.”

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t the first inkling of spring, extremekayakers listen to the ice as it starts to crack. “I eat, sleep, and drink April whitewater kayaking in Maine. It’s a rite of spring here,” says ^dentist John Frachella, a whitewater kayak designer and retail sports trend predictor/consultant. He runs a free clinic for underprivileged children for the city of Bangor. t “All of a sudden we go down to the streams,” explains Frachella, “and you think: theseare the same molecules we are skiing on, changing from solid to liquid, and we are going to have an intimate experience with them in their morphed state. We are so anxious.. .to get in the water that we don’t care how cold it is, and we risk our lives to do so.” ; “Creeking," named for the dangerously

narrow, vertical,fend technical creeks that draw tire most extreme kayakers, has ’ claimed the lives of some of Frachella’s expert friends.

A self-proclaimed adrenaline junkie; the 154-year-old says, “We were all canoeists ‘ before we were kayakers.” He remembers ? 25 years ago when creeking started in Bangor, close to the home of Old Town ; Canoe. When the ice broke up, daredevils in wool sweaters and pants

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The 75-foot gorge waft of Gulf Hagas are Ke a refrigerator, caked with beautifulyi flee that tangs evan into Ma^Wtan a walot Ice fats, Its deady raced canoes down streams. Frachella, in a canoe, was the first to successfully ride some of Maine’s most treacherous white waters, Including Gulf Hagas Stream with its 12-, 14-, and almost 20-fbot waterfells. In the interest of public safety, he and his fellow adventurers created different names for the most dangerous rapids so no greenhorns could find them on the map.

In 1985, the DanCer expanded the whitewater boating world as the first massproduced, plastic kayaks that; unlike former fiberglass models, could bang into rocks without breaking.

But even with high-tech equipment, Frachella says, it’s still almost “a game of Russian roulette.”

Worse still, in April it’s a slalom, where fallen trees and gigantic | flowing chunks of ice threaten to drown’ or freeze anyone in its path.

The 50r to 75-foot gorge walls of Gulf ' Hagas are “like a refrigerator,” caked with 1 beautifully clear ice that hangs even into

May. If part of a wall of icTfellsintothe river, it’s invisible while causing a dame strainer effect, Frachella says, “that cod kill you.”

He and his kayaking partners always assign a spotter who yells, “Look out!” when walls of ice come barreling righta them from upstream. They frantically paddle to shore, narrowly escaping a fe of ice that can last for hours before die? can get back in.

Aside from the ice, there is always tire risk of hypothermia. Dry suits or dry jackets over layered clothing help prew it. Neoprene skirts cover the cockpit of the boat and tight, latex cufls at the wd and neck waterproof kayakers in case ft flip over. Life jackets and lined helmefc are essential. “When you roll over in id water, you get an ice-cream headache,*

Trachellasays? But tKaFistKe least of a paddler’s worries. If he finds himself ■ unable to roll upright, a very dangers situation in which even the mostexp^ kayakers can find himself, the only is a “wet exit” by pulling off the cockf

^nrtanuswnnmirigirithe 3 5-to 50jjegree water. A buddy system provides a Chance for the group to rescue the person faring critical survival seconds and to retrieve the boat.

And if the thrills of oncoming ice are lot enough to give them that adrenaline fcgh, Frachella’s buddies often climb onto portions of the leftover Bangor dam bi the Penobscot River, conveniently just Bpstream from the hospital. | They paddle into a 'hydraulic’ or ‘hole,’ Mere water coming downstream hits the ■ dam remnants, forming a wave that Extends almost all the way across the river and reaches heights from five feet to the unrideable size of a school bus. “It’s the Hand analog to ocean surfing,” Frachella say's, and during low tide in April, you can find dozens of kayakers vying for position.

Frachella summers on the west branch |fthe Penobscot RiveMhe 3.5-mile, class five (most difficult rapids) Ripogenus Gorge, rated among die top 10 most difficult rivers in the world. Frachella says, “Go to any country and tell Mitewater boaters you’re from Maine and they say,‘West branch of the Penobscot?”’

Frachella relishes the rush of water and experience just outside his door here in Maine. In downtown Bangor on his lunch break, he will slip into the class-four Kenduskeag Stream, often heading up to the Souadabscook in Hampden and Marsh Stream in Franklin, both of which run only jin the spring, unless a big rain storms in.

“This sport has given me a lot,” Frachella says. “Anything I can give back to it and/or help educate the public about whitewater is an honor and a privilege.”

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ilm and television veteran Don Harvey (Eight Men Out) returns to Portland Stage Company for David Mamet’s American Buffalo, running through April 18. It’s the second time in two PSC seasons for the popular actor, whose most recent projects include the Hallmark Channel’s Plainsong and the film Com with Jenna Malone. Harvey first perfonned the Mamet play 20 years o . ago, with Sex and the City’s Chris Noth.

“David Mamet brings a nobility to the working-class struggle,” Harvey says. “He finds poetry in the vernacular of common obscenity; he’s interested in the purity of male friendship and the mythology of* everyday people. Almost every young actor who comes into theater becomes obsessed with David Mamet.”

For American Buffalo, Harvey joins the usual cluster of Mamet eccentrics at work and play, this time trying to outdo each other in stealing a Buffalo nickel. Tire dialogue is fierce and unapologetically . flinty, with Mamet’s trademark wit and irony aimed at adult audiences.

Immediately following, PSC’s season . closes with the world premiere of a play whose subject touches close to home for regional audiences and invades the fancies of those beyond. Women and the Sea, written by Shelley Berc and the theater’s own artistic director, Anita Stewart, has been in development for three years. Running April 27 through

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May 23, it’s a collection of firsthand memoirs from Maine women whose lives—and livelihoods—are intertwined with the sea: lobstermen, fishing families, fish wholesalers, and clam diggers. Call Portland Stage Company’s box office at 774-0465, or visit www.portlandstage.com for show times and ticket availability.

At the Merrill Auditorium, PCA Great Perfonnances features entertainers both light of foot and lighter than air. Internationally acclaimed MOMIX, the dance perfonnance troupe, offers Opus Cactus, inspired by choreographer Moses Pendleton’s visions of the desert, April 24 at 8 p.m. Going beyond pure ballet, MOMIX uses lighting, shadows, humor and props-along with its skilled performers-to create a world of surrealistic images that audiences have enjoyed for 20 years.

Have Steinway, Will Travel: Pianist and longtime Deutsche Grammophon recording artist Krystian Zimerman performs April 25 at 3 p.m. For the past 11 years, the Polish-bom award winner has brought his own unique music-literally, supplying his personal concert piano-to delighted audiences worldwide. Though he initially made his mark as a leading interpreter of his countryman Chopin, Zimerman also has performed a wide range of composition classics under the batons of the world’s top conductors, including the late Leonard Bernstein.

If you love a piano but prefer fiddling around, Cape Breton’s Natalie MacMaster arrives April 28 at 7:30 p.m. She’s a Canadian Grammy winner (Best Album, My Roots Are Showing) and a fiddler/step-dancer extraordinaire who hails from nearby Nova Scotia. Backed by her own four-piece band, she’s a breath of undiluted magic from tire highlands and an international favorite.

“Don’t worry, Be Happy,” he told the

world while all but eliminating the need for percussion sections; now the remarkable Bobby McFerrin teams up with another multi-talented rhythm ace,

Broadway’s Savion Glover, for a May 8 T stop on their limited tour. McFerrin has won 10 Grammys while collaborating with Yo-Yo Ma, Chick Corea, the Vierra Philharmonic, Herbie Hancock, Jack Nicholson, Robin Williams, Billy Crystal the Muppets, and audiences around the world. Dubbed “music’s last tme Renaissance man,” this vocal explorer joins fores with 1996 Tony Award Winner Glover (Bring In Da Noise, Bring in Da Funk) fa this once-in-a-lifetime event To learn abort ticket availability for any PCA/Merrill evert call PortTix at 842-0800.

Olympic and world champions strut their stuff as Smucker’s Stars on Ice visits Cumberland County Civic Center on April 10,7:30 p.m. Produced by OlyTnpr gold medalist Scott Hamilton and directed by Christopher Dean (of Toni* and Dean ice-dancing feme), the cast I® included gold medalists Oksana Baiul, Kristi Yamaguchi, Ekaterina Gordeeva, Alexei Yagudin, Jamie Sale and David Pelletier, and Elena Berezhnaya and Anton Sikharulidze, many of whom wl appear in the Portland event. Also on hand are world champions Todd Eldridge and Kurt Browning. Group discounts are available on tickets; this perennial full house. Call 775-3458 (b®. office) and 207-775-3331 (TicketmasteP The Portland Sea Dogs are back, and®1!

Boston Red Sox have got ’em. Now in th® second year as the Eastern League AA affiliate of the Sox, Portland’s own baseh^ stars of tomorrow open their home season

at Hadlock Field on April 15 at 6 p.m., squaring off against the Binghamton Mets.

Could this be another New England-New York rivalry in the making?

It sure doesn’t seem like over 10 years since the Sea Dogs returned professional baseball to Portland thanks to owner Dan Burke. Initially, the team was a double-A franchise of the expansion Florida Marlins, who lacked a triple-A team, therefore upping the quality of players Portlanders got to watch. (Before Edgar Renteria came barreling around third base for the Marlins’ first World Series championship, he rounded the bases a few times at Hadlock. So, by the way, did future Red Sox regulars Kevin Millar and Gabe Kapler.) Sea Dogs tickets are affordable for the whole family; contact them at 879-9500 or via www.portlandseadogs.com.

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DiMillo's Floating Restaurant at 25 Long Wharf off

serves up "oversized” meals & colossal-sized drinks! There-

Spectacular cuisine. Old Port charm, & impeccable service in

Commercial Street. You can't beat the location for fabulous water views of Portland Harbor. Escape from the hustle &

always free hot chips & salsa. & downright legendary

an elegant yet casual atmosphere w/ fresh dinner specials from land & sea. Unforgettable house specialties—Seafood Fettuccine w/ lobster, shrimp, crab, & mussels; Steak Diane, &

bustle of the city. Watch the boats go by. Enjoy fresh Maine

Black Angus Sirloin. Also open for breakfast & lunch.

days a week from 11 am-11 pm. Children's menu available. For drinks & a lighter menu, try our Portside Lounge. 772-2216.

Reservations recommended. 774-4200.

Barbara's Kitchen and Cafe, 388 Cottage Road. South Portland, across from the Portland Players Theater, heading to Fort Williams. Casual, creative, & modestly priced cuisine for intimate dining by sunlight for breakfast, candlelight for dinner.

Vegetarians can savor our Eggplant Ravioli with a Roasted Red Pepper Cream Sauce. NY strip steak w/ Portobello Mushrooms & demi-glaze is a favorite of carnivores. "The rosemary focaccia is reason alone to pay a visit.”—Downeast.

Full bar available. Reservations 767-6313. www.barbaraskitchen.com

fireplaces evoke old-world ambience. Enjoy our wine list, expertly prepared cuisine, Sunday Jazz Brunch featuring the Tony Boffa Jazz Trio, and holiday buffets. Enjoy ocean breezes and light fare by our pool or deck overlooking skyline and sea.

Every occasion is special at The Black Point Inn. Reservations recommended. Dinner nightly from 6:30, Sunday Brunch 10:30 to 1. Library Lounge open daily from 11:30 a.m. 8832500 www.blackpointinn.com

Gingrich's creative touches at Cafe Stroudwater at the Embassy Suites Hotel. With an emphasis on Maine native seafood & prime cuts of beef. Cafe Stroudwater offers eclectic bistro-style cuisine & a variety of select tine wines. For a most unique dining experience, reserve a place at Portland's only chefs table, where you & your guests will be pampered by Chef Anderson & his staff while enjoying a 6-course meal prepared esp. for you. Breakfast, lunch. & dinner daily. Call for information regarding Holiday Grand Buffets. Major credit

Civic Center, 774-9398. Lunch at Brown St Fridays only.

Olive Garden is a family of local restaurants focused on delighting every guest with a genuine Italian dining expert-

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like family and receive warm, friendly service. Near the Ite Mall, in The Shops at Clark's Pond. 874-9005. Visit us onfe at www.olivegarden.com.

The Pepperclub is a prize-winning restaurant ("Best Vegetarian" & "Best Value" in Frommer's Guide to New England) featuring creative world cuisine. Its blackboards

where you'll find a full bar featuring over 50 draught beers, predominantly from local micro-breweries. Accompanying

typically lists five vegetarian, three fish. & three meat entree

them is an enormous menu w/ everything from soups, salads,

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Woody's Bar and Grill 43 Middle St. Portland. Serving creative, fast food cuisine. Featuring local natural beefans chicken, and a focus on fresh local ingredients. Make sure:: try the already famous "Woody Burger”, and the soon tobs

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hef-owner l<rik Desjarlis is rcalk onto something with his new f rench restaurant, Bandol.

You’ve heard the talk—a fixed price of $60 for a five-course dinner-hut this place walks the walk.

I'or starters, we w ere surprised with complimentary glasses of sparkling white "ine and an exquisite Iranian (Sevruga) caviar nestled on a tinv homemade potato chip. Veiy festive.

Next, an additional gift from the kitchen: two wonderfully prettv and tasty Kumamoto oysters, artfully placed atop a mound of sea salt.

Our selections lor the first course, the t 'intit and (iarpaccio ot Mirscow Duck w ith puree of butternut squash soup and Raised Jamison farm 1 jmb onguc w ith mache and warm diem vinaigrette, w ere exquisite.

Iheniache, or lamb lettuce-bright green little circles °fcrisp, succulent leaves-is an ,n spired accompaniment to the ‘^eUisty lamb, and the thick. crcaniy duck soup is divine. kn almost hvpnotic series of C c ?ant servers float in and out. c ranging plates and silver,

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Then, poof! Another surprise arris es from the kitchen: a lovck tasting portion of delicate \k dikri.im ,m 8<.: Bu.m , perfectly sauteed in a sauce tapenade.

Next we savor; iwllc- De \ < a, crispy calfs brain with savov cabbage, capers, and brown butter vinaigrette, and Ris k \ < i, delectable pan-roasted veal sweetbreads w ith amazing black trumpet mushrooms and roasted shallots. The accompanying sauce is scrumptious, soaked up with a delicious sourdough bread (from 1 58 Bakery in South Portland).

'Ilie "main’’ course now takes the stage:

Bum. .1 N.itw- li d lx 11 Sir D t<H- with crispy marrow and Swiiid. Ki d 1 , r.aliiiL . braised with green olives. Of the two, I preferred the beef, w ith its dark, rich sauce and tins, incredibly flavorful beets.

And then, another rabbit from the hat: a sweet little bowl of wildflower honev and apricot sorbet-terrific.

Desiring a wine from the region in I'rance from w hich Bandol takes its name, we were delighted with a half carafe of IU I ,i Sufli. B..

(S20). This luscious, smooth, red was particularly magnificent with our next course, a world-class selection of cheeses, including a perfectly ripened \ .

Mont D e , a soft, buttery, pungent cheese accompanied bv a delicate f rench butter pear tartlette; and B.r . I la. eii Bhw , a rather hard bleu cheese coupling well with rosemary- poached quince.

After all of the above, we still managed to devour even morsel of our cheesecake enriched with homage blanc, walnut crumble, and white Valrhona chocolate sauce and the I I ill ., a most unusually appealing apple tart.

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Portland. Exhibits open with a wine tasting and public reception for the artists the first Thursday of each month. April’s show is "Three Women’s Views. Mixed Media" and May features uorks by Siri Beckman. 756-7399 orwww.tlie-cloMn.com Art Gallery at the University of Neu England. 716 Stevens Avenue. Portland.

"Studio Connections: /Artists Supporting Maine Public Broadcasting." is on display through May 2.797-7261 Aucocisco Gallery . 6I5A Congress Street and at the Eastland Park Hotel. Portland. Works by Meg Brown Payson are on display through May. 874-2060 or m m m .aucocisco.com Bates College Museum of Art. Lewiston. The .Annual Senior Exhibition is on view through May 30.786-6158. w m m .bates.edu Bowdoin College Museum of Art. Brunswick.

Current exhibits include “RSVP: Ltxiking at Children." featuring photographers Sally Mann.

Paul D’Amato. and Lewis Hine, through /April 11.

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"Lynn Travis: Four Seasons" through May I. follow ed by "Ed Douglas." opening with a pubik reception on Max 6 and continuing to Maj. 29. Tf 2693. or www.grecnhutgallcries.coni Hay Gallery. 594 Congress Street. Portland. । "Botanicals." a group show from the garden, and "Lauren Fensterstock: Castles in Spain” continue through May 2. 773-2513 or www.haygallen.ctr Institute of Contemporary Art at Maine Colles of Art. 522 Congress Street. Portland. Visiting artists include Del LaGrace Volcano on April 15."Curators' Intuition." continues through AnL' follow ed by the Senior Thesis Exhibition, opening May 8."Art Honors" is planned for May 6. S795742 or ww w.meca.edu IVA Arts. Lewiston. The All Maine Invitational ' Exhibit: IVA Arts 15th Annual Art takes placed May L 782-7228orww w.laarts.org ■ Maine Historical Society Museum. 489 Cottgro Street. Portland. "The Camera's Coast: Historic Photographs of Maritime New England." conti# to May 30. 774-1822 or ww w.mainehiston.or?

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Portland. Current exhibits incIude“Early Maine Architectural Drawings" through May 23 and •Calico & Chintz: liarly American Quilts from the Smithsonian" through June 6. Admission is free fnday evenings. 773-ARTS. 775-6148 oruww.portlandniuseuofart.org Maine Maritime Museum. 243 Washington Street, Bath. Current exhibits include "Lobstering & the Maine Coast" and "A Shipy ard in Maine: Percy & Small and the Great Schooners." 443-1316 or uuw.batbmaine.com/programs.asp Maine State Museum. 87 State House Station.

Augusta. Current shows include "2(X) Years of Maine Furniture" and "Historic Flags and Banners." 287-2304 The Maine Women Writers Collection.

Westbrook College Campus. University of New England. Stevens A venue. Portland. This special collection of literary, cultural, and social history sources by and about women authors is open to the public by appointment. 797-7688. ext. 4324 Salt Gallery . Exchange Street. Portland. "Images from the Augusta Mental Health Institute" through May 8.761-0660 or wvvw.salt.edu/gallery.html Zero Station. Anderson Street. Portland.

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Colby College. Waterville. On April l() the ColbWind Ensemble presents "I lumor and Angst." conducted by Eric Thomas, on /Xpril 17. On Apr 24 Collegium Musicum presents "Music, Camiw and the Commedia dell'Arte." and May I is theds for the final concert of the season, featuring Colb Symphony. Colby College Chorale, and the Colb Kennebec Choral Society. 872-3236 Friends of the Kotzschmar Memorial Organ Merrill Auditorium. Portland. "Music from the World's Great Cathedrals" is scheduled for Apr..

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667-95IX) or www.grandonline.org L/A Arts, 221 Lisbon Street, Lew iston. On Apr! 15, Four Shathws. featuring a cappella doo wop. appear at the Ramada Inn in Lewiston, 8(K)-63929 19 or www.laarts.org Merrill Auditorium. 20 Myrtle Street. Portland.

Opus Cactus, choreographer Moses Pendletons impressions of the desert, runs April 24: pianist Krystian Zintennan appears April 25: Russian Masters, with guest artist Charles Dimmick. Apt 27: Natalie MacMaster appears on April 28;.T Evening with Bobby McFerrin and Savion Gl<"is on May 8; and the Glenn Miller Orchestra. touring since 1956. is on May 22. 842-0800 or www.porttix.com Oratorial Chorale. Brunswick. The Chorale continues its 3()th season with a performance at^ First Parish Church in Brunsw ick on May 8 aid 1 the Sacred Heart Church in Yarmouth on May^

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Both share one of the most prestigious addresses in Maine, just a few miles past Bowdoin College but also within the call of wild osprey and gulls.

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Tire difference between the two is largely a matter of perspective and cobwebs, since the defining value of both Properties is the identical view.

I he challenge here is to tn, to salvage ibis ranch and modernize,” sas s Leonard c°tt. listing broker from Assist2Sell in

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There arc other entanglements. "The well is a drilled well, but it’s on another piece of propertv and rights arc deeded to it," Scott savs. liven "the driveway brieflv crosses someone clsc’s land” to get to the blue ranch, he savs. The ranch’s charming wooden stairs to 101 feet of spectacular deepw ater ocean frontage (with mooring rights) "is jaart of a life estate that won't convex in the sale," he admits. But all of these nuisances seem to drop aw ay when vou take in the scope and depth of this lot. fringed with tall pines at water’s edge.

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We understand the potential exists to build as high as 35 feet here, but you’d be on a first-name basis with codeenforcement officials before that ewer happened.

Maine drcam homes are either 18-room Shingle Stvle castles or just the suggestion of a residence ennobled bv an eternal view. If vou realk mean what vou sav about searching for the perfect view, the osprevs are out here, waiting for vou.

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etter. Healthier.

Fewer cigarettes, no alcohol. No drags. Shaky, but dearer, cleaner. Not jelling so much; making more sense.

Wife happier, her car back in the garage, her clothes back in the dresser, her loofah, toothbrush, cappuccino machine (complete with $17-pcr-pound bag I ofskunk-smelling beans 1 which she cannot live without) all back in their right places.

Little paranoia. A Obsessive thoughts >3 re young bnmette 5 film star, gone. Homi-( cidal urges diminished' in both frequency and^W intensity. Working on (hat; insofar as is possible.

Exercising again. Driving to the gym foyrlJajg , — A patient, calm driver; fingers finn but relaxed onTthe yvheei^® baby cooing in its car seat. Leaving baby in the day-care room and riding, for half an hour each, the stationary bike and rowing machine, until sweat rises and collects and soaks hair and shirt, runs in mulcts, bleeds evil from the head. Remembering the love of exercise, lost for so long, now improbably revived. Sober, everything surprises with its newness. For example, how quickly the body responds to training, just as it "sod to. Muscles, lungs expand, grow strong. Stretching, hitting the weights.

And though 250 lbs. rise off the chest with case, there is still the briefest moment of feeling crushed, bug-like, wings twitching, juices flowing onto pavement. So: things are not perfect But then again, no one expects them to be.

Ignoring the moment when, stopping to let a man cross the street, the ■mage comes of his body lying shattered and still against the curb. Driving On > careful and patient, until home appears. Baby smiling in its car seat, Miless, wet-lipped.

More caring. Holding doors open. Moving aside, so others may pass. Please and . >ank You. Expressing concern. Hands gentle, never angry. Crying when appropriate. >iving and accepting affection. Offering thanks. ^ber sex, like lifting weights and driving a car, is new again, and so done by the numbers

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Wondering if baby, strapped in and drooling, perceives every trip to the gyr as an expedition of infinite length and indeterminate destination. Picturing with a smile, baby as DeSoto: featherhatted, greedy, murderous, miniature musket in hand.

More productive, though time blaze? past. Cleansing until all objects-faucet hardwood stairs, the black plastic cases electronics-gleam as though they exist only in theory. Avoiding the television.

Reading again: the classics, the Big Ba Sleeping well and often. No bad dreamy Avoiding knives and other fl suggestive objects. fl Driving to the gym six days a week Am hour each for tine bike and rowing fl machine. Another hour of weights, fl Three hundred pounds rise, and still till feeling persists: crushed, suffocating, fl bleeding out. Shaking this off. Driving1 home. Baby, left too long with strangeiy struggling against its straps. fl Hair cut every two weeks. Shaving era clear-eyed morning. Brush and floss anil rinse, 3x / day. Mint gum in hip pocket] Nails trimmed. Clothes new and pressa Shoes tied, polished. Appreciative glarj ces from men, women, in-laws. fl Getting along better in encounters ufl family and strangers alike. Seeking com tact. Smiling. Thinking, then speaking!

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H. Sleep6. Repeat 4-5x/week.

Eradicating the previous life’s cruelties, fio more kicking cats. No more crisping spiders on die range top. No pornography. Replacing electric mousetraps with Havaharts.

Cultivating opinions, convictions.

Discussing, not arguing. Conceding when wrong. Leavening serious topics with humor. Laughing at self. Putting others at ease.

Driving to the gym seven days a week; twice on Tuesdays and Fridays. One hour each: bike, rowing machine, Stairmaster. Two hours of weights: 325 lbs.

Smashed flat, fluttering in weak circles.

Baby pale and listless, coughing wetly in its car seat Improving every day. Listening to CNN while cleaning. Audio Spanish lessons in Ae car. Computer repair classes two nights a week Subscribing to Mother Jones, Utne.

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