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22 Babe in the Woods Architect Chris Campbell's enchanting camp on Damariscotta Lake blurs the lines between inside and outside.

By Brad Favreau

29 Radioactive Greens

Former protesters embrace nuke power as the lesser evil.

By Donna Stuart

30 IB Most Intriguing People in Maine Trend-setters who leave us shaken and stirred: Amy Arnett, Peter Carlisle, Jaed Coffin, Linda Greenlaw, Robert Indiana, Bernard Lown, Jennifer Norbert, Christian Tietje, and the daring duo of Fritz Grobe and Stephen Voltz.

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Fritz Grebe (left) and Stepen Voltz, creators of "The Great Diet Coke and Mentos Experiments," spin straw into gold again-with sticky notes. See "10 Most Intriguing People in Maine,” page 30.

Now 15 percent of the work force, women boatbuilders rock the cradle of the deep.

By Donna Stuart

SPECIAL SECTION

Events Guide See, hear, wonder...shop!

Also: Shopping with Mother Earth in mind? Go red and green.

n Every Issue Letters Readers sound off on Patrick Dempsey's world, Geraldo Rivera's world, and Christina's World.

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A tasty blend of the fabulous, noteworthy, and absurd.

5b I*ning Guide 59 Restaurant Review Chef Lee Skawinski's Vignola: Italian for beginners and experts.

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66 Goings On 95 House of the Month Zoned for Bed & Breakfast near USM, this 7-bedroom John Calvin Stevens mansion was built for Dr. Alfred King in 1912.

98 New England I lonies & I..iving 1 0 1 Fiction "This Month's Rent"

By Brenda Sparks Prescott

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Departments 14 From the Editor "Da Vinci Code" A street by any other name...in the Forest City.

By Colin Sargent

54 Market Watch Art nouveau miniature lamps light up auction houses.

By Sarah Cumming Cecil

56 Performance Singer Cassi Gray carries a torch for Portland.

By Todd M. Richard

60 Personal Shopper Hats off to alpaca, angora, and international blends.

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DaVinci Code Back when nobody trusted anyone over 30, activists at Yale University rallied to the underground slogan, "We can pick die Yale lock." As in, we can get to the bottom of things to understand why they are the way they are. Is there a secret key to our local haunts, a Forest City Da Vinci Code?

How do we listen to the tumblers as we try to crack Maine's combination lock?

Heading west on Brighton Avenue past the University of Southern Maine, you see three quick signs in succession on the right: "William Street," "Pitt Street," and "Fessenden Street." Collectively, the developer was summoning the ghost of William Pitt Fessenden (1806-1869) from die grave.

President Abraham Lincoln appointed U.S. Senator Fessenden our nation s Secretary of the Treasury in 1864.

Navigating the nether regions between Brighton Avenue and Capisic Street, there's a 1950s development bisected by "David Road." It's named for Minat (Mitcliell and Nathan Cope) developer Mitcliell Cope's eloquent son David, who would later seize die attention of Maine's business community in the 1980s as partner of Liberty' Group. Off Baxter Boulevaid, there s Pya Road, named for Mitchell Cope's mother (his daughter is also named Pya).

What's in a name? WCSH- PV was named for the first letters in Congress Square 1 lotel, where die fledgling station's first broadcast studio was located.

"Chesuncook," according to Hie Names ofM aine by' Brian McCauley;' is Abenaki for at tire place of the principal outlet.'" See, all this time, I thought that was Freeport.

The Names of Maine says Christmas Cove may carry its name, in part, from the "uncertain" legend that "Norsemen spent Christmas here in 1014." Ah, nothing like a Viking Christmas. Were Odin's feelings hurt? And did they heat up their pigs in blankets on a six-burner Viking stove?

More interesting, and credible, is the listing for "Chebeague" in The Names of Maine, Abenaki for "almost separated." That is, "it becomes two Islands at high tide, or did when it was named." In modem parlance, Pamela Anderson is Chebeague with Tommy' Lee.

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SO, THE ZOMBIES ARE OKAY...?

1 see no possible merit in your depraved article ["It's Christina's World...we just live in it," September 2008]. Yours was a loathsome decision to publish "Budweiser: Christina's Beer is the King of Beers," as if Christina, low to the ground because she could not walk, yearned only for a cold beer. Your editorial standards are low indeed.

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After reading my first Portland Magazine (September 2008], I was overjoyed with all the human-interest articles.

The Hammond [Lumber] family make their home in Belgrade and might qualify for one of your articles about a Maine family who have built the largest retail lumber business in New England, with eight stores in Maine.

Art Dodge, Santa Clara, California GOING FORTHEJUGGLER

I'm a long-time collector of publications with actor Patrick Dempsey both inside and on the cover. I own one of the issues of your magazine where he's on the cover [May 2005], but I believe he was on your cover a second time, too [November], in 2002. The cover story/ interview was "Sweet Home Harpswell: Patrick Dempsey's Maine." I'm sorry-1 don't know the exact date, but the article was written by Mark Griffin.

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When Lobsters Fly

"We didn't know how we looked until the after-party," says Evan Mills, member of the five-person, Gorham-based Crustacean Avengers. The single-piloted glider (lower right, pushed into flight by the lobster crew) came away victorious in Chicago at Red Bull's Flugtag ("Flying Day" in German), sailing 120 feet through the air. But really, why the lobster outfits? "Lumberjacks and blueberries got tossed around as costume ideas. Even green absinthe fairies. ...There's always next year." -Katie E. Fuller

Catching Tigers with Red Leather Making a splash on eBay: This 1871 leather fire bucket emblazoned "Portland Volunteer Fire Department" fetched $438 amid a flurry of bidding. A foot tall and in "great original condition," the item surfaced-where else?- in Kentucky. Now that's a long bucket brigade.

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Sleeping Beauty Why shouldn't your pooch live like Tinkerbell?

Total luxury now awaits in the form of the William Wegman Collection at HiltonToHome. com ($109-$175). Hilton Resorts across the U.S. already supply the beds-designed by Maine artist Wegman-for their furry guests. Abby Flynn, general manager at the Hilton Garden Inn Waterfront on Commercial Street, says, "We have an entire floor-25 rooms-available for guests with pets.

Some have a city view, some a water view."

Taking the Bait 'We use 170 lobster traps, Jeff

Who knows how many shoppers stormed the new Apple outlet in the Maine Mall, but more than 850 lined up before the doors first opened, according to the mother ship in Cupertino, California.

Manager Jamie Feuss came from Chicago to land this job.

"We're happy to finally be here in Maine," he says. First stop for Feuss and his wife? "The Lobster Shack in Cape Elizabeth." Which makes us wonder, where would the 'PC guy' have gone?

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Hanae Mori may well be the Coco Chanel of Japan.

Her exotic Butterfly line of frais in high demand.

So what does this have to do with celebrating a Maine holiday? "Hanae Mori makes a point of offering new retail initiatives not just in Paris, Milan, or New York, but at the same time in select stores in all sorts of places, including Macy's in South Portland, Maine," says Adam Brecht, who represents the firm in the United States.

Now that's refreshing. To these guys, we're not just a bunch of clamdiggers behind the retail curve but clients worthy of consideration. Back at you, Hanae Mori. Holiday Gift sets for women and men, offered "from Thanksgiving through December, are $80 and up."

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Designers make a very big deal of capturing the views outside. Campbell goes a step further by inviting the weather inside literally-through the most unusual element here: an eightfoot-diameter oculus atop the great room that's open to the sky above.

Like the Pantheon in Rome that inspires it, the oculus admits an "eye" of sunlight that tracks through the camp's interior during the day-a sizzling intelligence. But it also acts as a cooling element, venting warm inside air during the summer months. Beauty and function combine.

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Snow falling on cedar: An oculus in the ceiling lets the weather in— literally. Campbell has enjoyed the sight of snowflakes descending gently into his living room.

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Classical architecture flourishes here in other ways, too. A cross of equal-length amrs (a Greek cross) gives shape to the house and helps delineate tire interior spaces. This cross is most striking from the roof deck, where tire four arms of the cross radiate from tire center oculus. But from tire ground below, tire cross's clean, spare arms contrast sharply with the more traditional cabin-like gabled wings that "saddleback into the corners" of the cross.

Mixing Classical empiricism with Mainecamp vernacular creates a kind of magic.

Inside, within the cross, Campbell surrounds the great room-the central gathering spot-with bedrooms and more private relaxing spaces beneath the rustic gables. This allows one to move from "cabin-y spaces into an elegant, soaring room.

"It's like four little houses around a town square," he says of the layout. Because he shares tire camp with his two siblings and their families-all coming together during the holidays—the idea of a small town within a small house is even more appropriate.

This 'town' is relaxed and carefree. It's designed to reflect its natural surroundings and, in unexpected ways, to bring to mind playful images. Throughout the house, finishes are tough and durable. Beneath the oculus in the great room is a green-tile floor, echoing the mossy' ground outside. (A floor drain carries away' whatever wetness lands there.) Natural wood paneling and exposed beams and rafters create a comfortable rusticity, while industrial-like electrical and plumbing fixtures (complete with exposed conduit and copper pipes) complete the can't-break-it-if-you-tried ambience.

Also notable about Campbell's camp are the small ways in which a more innocent time is evoked. Beneath each of the four gables is an identical bedroom. The placement of each built-in bed looks unusual at first glance: footboard against tire window, so tire headboard allows a dreamer to gaze directly' through the windows. For Campbell, this arrangement recalls tire loose, untroubled feeling of "sleeping in a pup tent in the Maine woods on a warm summer night."

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OUTLOOK Rough decision? One by one, some of Maine's most retrenched anti-nuke activists are reconsidering nuclear power as the lesser evil in the name of all things green.

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So where does this leave Maine's former no-nuke activists as we hurtle into a green 21st century?

In a quandary in some cases. When Maine Yankee closed in 1996, it sounded the death knell of nuclear power in Maine. Or did it? With the soaring cost of oil-which fuels the heat in 80 percent of Maine homes, the highest percentage in the U.S.-and with climate change increasingly evident, are Mainers ready to reconsider nuclear power?

"When I was marching against nuclear power when 1 was younger, I didn't know the science. 1 was going on gut reaction, which is irrational," Don Schuman of Edgecomb says ruefull}'. "At the time, I was living on a farm with my wife and young children.

We ate organic foods, ground our own flour from wheat berries, and were environmentally aware. Being anti-nuclear power was part of the picture. But today, I have a complete!}' different view."

Schuman and his wife, Charlene, owned a bed-and-breakfast when he was invited to represent the business community as a member of the Maine Yankee Community Advisory Panel on Decommissioning that was formed in 1997 to help disseminate information to the communit}'.

Above: Workers arrive for the 6 a.m. shift at Mame Yankee nuclear power plant in Wiscasset in 1997, the day officials from the troubled plant met with the Nuclear Regulatory Commission about improving conditions at the facility, which had been shut down in December 1996.

Left: The Clamshell Alliance marched onto the Seabrook, New Hampshire, nuclear power plant construction site and camped out there in 1977, resulting in 1,414arrests. The nudear plant didn't go on-line until 1990, and it was only half of the originally planned size.

"We received a lot of training from the people at Maine Yankee about nuclear power, the plant, and the industry. As part of this, 1 did an enormous amount of reading, and I went to a conference where we heard talks by industry professionals from Germany, Sweden, France, and England, where there were new generation plants. 1 was blown away by how smart and dedicated they all are, and 1 got to know people who worked at Maine Yankee, which was viewed as one of the best plants in the country'. [Building Maine Yankee] had been a dream of theirs for years, and then they had to shut it down because of the community. That shouldn't have happened-it could still be running."

Schuman does admit that he has reservations about the issue of nuclear waste. "Yucca Mountain isn't open yet. They were supposed to take the spent fuel from Maine Yankee; instead it's buried on the site.

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If you liked their Mentos-andDiet-Coke stunt, you're going to love the latest display this duo has cooked up for us.

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So far, about 40 million people.

Bet they wouldn't make any money on it?

You'd lose.

Meet Fritz Grobe, 40, and Stew Voltz, 50, otherwise known as the EepyBird guys. Both jugglers and performers, they first met at Celebration Barn Theater in South Paris, an international school for the performing arts that's become one of the places in the world to studs- physical theater for mimes, clowns, storytellers, musicians, actors, and jugglers.

It was obviously a meeting of the minds.. .or mavbe a meeting out of their minds...

Since they tend to finish each other's sentences, we won't bother with who said what; instead we'll just let you know that Voltz starts the story.

"1 sent my brother in California the link to the Diet-Coke-and-Mentos experiment on a Saturday morning in June 2006. Since Fritz and 1 were going to be away, we put 32 PORTLAND MONTHLY MAGAZINE

our friend Jason Tardy's number in it. On Monday, Jason called us: 'Hey guys, about that video. And all thousand of the phone calls I've been getting...And by the way, David Letterman called.'"

Three weeks later, they did the Late Show with Letterman and the Today show...and the insanity was in full swing. Soon the pair was everywhere-written up in Rolling Stone, The New York Times, and GQ, appearing live at Caesar's Palace, on the Ellen DeGeneres Show, and with Boston's Blue Man Group.

They were jetting to Paris, Istanbul, Holland, and Belgium, making sticky Diet-Coke-andMentos messes all along the way. Soon Coke and Mentos got onboard and provided them with the necessary soda and candy. After all, Mentos sales went up about 20 percent, and visits to Coke.com doubled.

"We were hoping people would enjoy the video and that it would catch on, but we never expected it to catch on as quickly as it did. Within hours of first sending the video link out, we got tens of thousands of people coming to our website, EepyBird.com. We .pent the next couple of days checking in with our internet provider to make sure it didn't go down. The provider didn't even have a payment plan for the scale of traffic we were getting.

"Luckily, we did have monetizing in mind from the beginning. One of the biggest things we asked ourselves before we put it on EepyBird.com was: Who do we want to have host the video? The issue was YouTube or a new outfit called Rex-ver that allows you to get paid if you get views. You put a single, still-frame image at the end of your video, and if someone clicks on it, Revver shares the revenue with you, fifty-fifty. We looked pretty hard at Revver and the people behind it. They're very artist-focused and are all about sharing the revenue with the creators.

They had good artist sensibilities. The feeling was that if we went with them and no one saw the video, we could always put it on YouTube. But it went up on Revver.com and we never looked back.

"It made us the first viral video creators to make money right out of the gate. It was fantastic. But it completely took over our lives.

Initially it was all right, because we thought it would last a week and a half and then we'd

go back to our lives..."

T wo years later, they have a pile of a wards, Voltz has given up his Massachusetts law practice, and their second sticky project has just premiered simultaneously online and on ABC Family's Samurai Girl.

"Ever since the Diet-Coke-and-Mentosexperiments madness started, we'd been asked what would be next. Everyone thinks of us as scientists because we wore lab coats, but really we're a physical comedy theater company. We're all about obsessive research, whether it's juggling or magic or Diet Coke and Mentos, or now sticky notes.

We want to find that way in which ordinary objects can do extraordinary things.

"Once we knew we were looking for something in the same vein, we searched around the house, around the store. We went to Office Max in Auburn and spent three hours going up and down the aisles. We came back with a carload of things, but we finally focused on dispenser Post-It Notes. After about three days, three solid days of experimenting, we finally had a glimmer of an idea. It took just over a year, with all our traveling, to get all the effects you see in the video.

"It worked out poetically that Office Max sponsored it, since that's where this idea began. We went to Digisynd, which is owned by Disney-the name stands for Digital Syndication. We knew their founders back when they were witli Rex-ver. When we showed them a sneak peak of the stickynote project, they thought it was really, really interesting. They connected us with

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ABC Family and Office Max. It's amazing, because it's another first: the first time a viral video creator has gone to traditional media to premiere its new video. It's really a new model for the future, bringing together traditional media, digital media, and sponsorships by big brands.

"With Diet Coke and Mentos, we made money through ads, so it really made a difference to us where people watched the video. But with sponsors involved, we get the freedom to say, 'Hey, people, come watch the video wherever you find it.' We can still make money without worrying about where people see it. We see an incredible number of viewings all over the internet-we believe we crossed a million views in the first week."

So is EepyBird packing up and leaving downtown Buckfield for tire bright lights of the Big Apple or L.A.? Not a chance.

"Buckfield is a great community of performers. At one point, Buckfield had more jugglers per capita than anywhere else in the world. Because of Celebration Barn and Oddfellow Theater, there's an incredible group of performers in Maine and in the Buckfield area specifically. When we

needed to drill holes in 3,000 Mentos in one day to get ready for the Letterman and Today shows, a handful of fellow performers jumped in to help at my house. We had two people who'd performed at the White House, one just back from China, one who used to be Barclay the Dog on Sesame Street.

Yet they're all drilling Mentos to help us out. The people who book our live performances, who do our music, they're all right here in Buckfield.. .and Turner, which is just a suburb of Buckfield."

Grobe has the last word. "If we can keep this up-where we do our work in Buckfield and travel to performances-that's the kind of life I want. There's nothing like coming back to Buckfield, seeing the horses in the field next to our house. In this day and age, that's suddenly possible. Buckfield can become the third major entertainment capital in the U.S.: it'll be iNew York, L.A., and Buckfield, Maine." - Donna Stuart When they're not traveling, you can often catch EepyBird performing at the Oddfellow Theater in downtown Buckfield. Believe us, it's worth the drive.

No matter who's onstage, it's a hoot. For a schedule of performances, visit www.oddfellow.com.

While the ant lion is not her raison d'etre, it was charmante enough to win her a Fulbright-and a ticket to Slovenia.

he ant lion is a unique insect," says Dr. Amy Arnett, associate professor of ecology at Unity College. "The larva stage is long-lived, and they dig pits in sandy soil that look like very precise upside-down cones-traps for catching prey. Working backwards, they flip sand over their heads to put the finer grains of sand on the outside. When the ant comes along, it falls into the pit and slides to the bottom. Ant lions have huge mandibles.

They grab the ant, suck the juices out of it, and throw it out of the pit."

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PEOPLE across the sand, it leaves a distinctive squiggle-like trail-hence, in the southern United States, it's known as the doodlebug. Ant lions are found worldwide, most commonly in sandy and arid habitats.

Arnett recently won a Fulbright Scholarship Award-the second time in two years that a Unity College professor has received the prestigious award. In doing so, Arnett joins the ranks of some of the most accomplished researchers and teachers in the world, many from better-known state colleges and privately funded universities.

"It's an honor because you represent the U.S.A, abroad as a scholar and an ambassador," she says.

From February' to June 2009, Arnett will teach and conduct research with a longtime colleague at the University of Maribor in Slovenia. "He studies the ant lion; we've known each other for years because I studied ant lions for my dissertation at the University of Vermont. We read each other's papers, and I've helped him organize an international symposium. We decided we wanted to collaborate."

Arnett may need to modify her teaching methods somewhat for her Slovenian students, but not due to language. She'll be teaching in English. "1 think the U.S. is making good progress away from the lecture-based higher-education system, although in the larger universities, it's still that way. At Unity, we emphasize more experiential, activity- and discussion-based learning. Europe is still very lecture-based.

As 1 prepare for teaching over there, 1 need to keep in mind that's where the students are likelv more comfortable-but I want to challenge them into having their own opinions and using their own past experiences.

Bv bringing that into the classroom, we can have conversations instead of it being such a one-way directive."

Accompanying Arnett to Slovenia will be her husband, Scott Hall, a biolo« " gist for the National Audubon Seabird Restoration Project, and their children, Caleb, 6, and Phoebe, 3. "Scott ft is tire one who got me to move to Maine.

He'd come to Nebraska while I did my post-doc work [she did her undergraduate at University of Michigan and doctoral work in Vermont], so 1 had to promise to come to Maine in return. 1 I is office is in Bremen, and we live in Belfast. Now we really are dug in, and we love living here." - Donna Stuart 34 PORTLAND MONTHLY MAGAZINE

PETER CARLISLE Michael Phelps's agent makes a splash with all of his high-profile clients. ber sports agent Peter Carlisle is glad to be back home in Portland.

"I was three weeks in China, then London, New York, Orlando, Chicago, San Francisco, L.A., New York, then finally home. It's crazy."

Crazy because Carlisle represents the most famous-and medaled-Olympian of the 2008 Summer Games, Michael Phelps, as well as teammates lan Crocker, Ryan Lochte,

Lenny Krayzelburg, Garrett Weber-Gale, Katie Hoff, Kirsty Coventry, and Megan Jendrick.

Just 12 years after leaving law to set up his own sports-management agency', and 7 years after selling CarlLsleSports Management toOctagon-a global sports and entertainment marketing firm-Carlisle, 40, is at the top of his game.

As head of Octagon's Olympic and Action Sports Division, he, along with Phelps and his other clients-including snowboarders Seth Wescott, Kelly Clark, Chris Klug, Luke Mitrani, Shaun Palmer, and Ross Powerare revolutionizing how Olympic athletes are managed, marketed, and monetized. According to one source, virtually every one of Carlisle's athletes makes half a million dollars a year, with Phelps taking in an estimated $3 to $5 million a year before he headed to China.

"What Michael did in Beijing changes everything," Carlisle says. "He's bringing companies into sports, the Olympics, and swimming who'd never thought to spend a dime in this way before. The impact for other athletes is huge. It's a game-changer.

1 could call any company now and get a different reception than I would have four years ago."

But don't confuse Peter Carlisle with Tom Cruise in ferry Maguire. "All sports are different. In football, you do one deal with the league or team and that's it. [With Olympic sports,] one-hundred percent of the revenues for the athlete and for us come from sponsorships, so day-to-day we manage the athlete so he's well-positioned in tire marketplace. You have to bring to the table a legal perspective, a protectionist perspective, a marketing perspective, and an entrepreneurial perspective. If I have an advantage, it's that I have all those things. I'm a lawyer by training [he has a B.A. from Bates College and J.D. from UMaine Law School], but my

strength is marketing-seeing opportunities where other people don't and creating still more opportunities."

Carlisle is nothing if not creative and proactive. "If you sit down and wait for companies to come up with programs, they'll be more beneficial to the brand than the athlete. You have to create opportunities that don't exist. When 1 started floating the idea of a swimming tour in 2003, everyone said, 'You're crazy. You can't do a swim tour-it's not that kind of sport.'

"We got Disney involved, and we created the month-long 2004 Swim with the Stars Tour-rock-band, tour bus, and all-beginning at Disney World and ending at Disneyland.

The swimmers then owned their own postOh/tnpic tour. Disney -won three national PR awards for it, but the athletes created and controlled it.

"After Torino, we did the same thing for Seth Wescott and plugged Visa into that. At the World Championships, I had an idea.

I created a tour in partnership with Visa, Speedo, and Special Olympics China-the

Visa Friendship Lanes Tour that included Michael [Phelps] and Katie Hoff-as a way to get the athletes into China ahead of the Beijing Games to give the Chinese media direct access to the athletes. Some global companies thought they couldn't use American athletes to market in China. With that tour, we showed we can.

"Michael will be announcing a new food deal soon. Fifteen major global companies have been competing for that. When he selects one, you'll still have 14 other companies who've been thinking about swimming and sponsoring athletes."

But what happens when Michael Phelps is no longer chasing Olympic gold? Johnny Weissmuller became I’arzan. Buster Crabbe was Flash Gordon. Will we see Phelps as James Bond?

"It remains to be seen. He's had a lot of invitations to be in movies and TV shows, but he should continue to make swimming his top priority. He says he won't be swimming [competitively] beyond age 30. It's premature to build an entertainment career

just because you can. You don't change your goals just because of opportunity."

Carlisle certainly hasn't changed his goals, and he's awash in opportunities. "I'd rather do more for fewer athletes than build my business on a superficial level by signing more athletes. There's so much nontraditional stuff you can do with these athletes, but it takes time and focus. I'd rather go more deeply."

Nor is he focused on moving his business to New York or London. "I grew up in Cape Elizabeth and have lived in Maine since the age of two. Portland is home. I have absolutely no interest in living anywhere else. When I sold my business to Octagon, one of the problems was, 1 wasn't going to move. I think they thought I'd come around!

But Portland's the greatest city around.

Everything's so accessible here. Portland is manageable, quaint-but it's a real city. I can ride my bike from home to work in twelve minutes. I'm just a few minutes from anything I want to do. It's where I want to raise my family." - Donna Stuart

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"It's tough to explain to a family or a loved one why we couldn't get the result we wanted," says Norbert hours after the verdict was delivered. "That is absolutely a difficult part of the job. I told the family in this case that '1 can guarantee you that I will give it everything 1 have.' 1 feel like that's what we did."

It was her work on a previous boating manslaughter case that earned Norbert her position as co-counsel with District Attorney Stephanie Anderson on this case. "It was a couple of yearsago, [and it involved] a Jet Ski rider with a passenger on the back who collid(Continued on page 76)

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Laughter tumbles from Denise Click as she describes her journey from working with her hands as a massage therapist to a composite technician, dealing with carbon, fiber, resins, and a largely male workforce at Hodgdon Yachts in East Boothbay.

"I made a list of what I like to do-being in the outdoors, making things with my hands, being in a nontraditional occupation-and this seemed to be a great fit. To succeed, you do have to be confident in who you are, but the job helps build your confidence-and you can be a bit sassy. This is my favorite job I've ever had, and it's a career I can (Continued on page 90)

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The Polar Express™ The Maine Narrow Gauge Railroad Inspired by the award-winning book by Chris Van Allsburg— listen along with the stoiy as the train makes its roundtrip journey to the North Pole. Meet Santa and enjoy caroling, hot chocolate, and a cookie. And, for those who believe, a collectible sleigh bell for each child.

Kids are encouraged to wear their pajamas!

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Train Schedule Nov. 28, 29, 30; Dec. 5, 6, 7; 12, 13, 14; 17-23 at 4,5:15, 6:30 & 7:45 pm Tickets at PortTix: www.PortTix.com (207) 842-0800 $25 Adult/$22 Child For More Information: Call the Maine Narrow Gauge at (207) 828-0814, e-mail at info@mngrr.org, or check the website at www.mngrr.org TM & C Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. (s08) Based on THE POLAR EXPRESS book and characters. TM & 01985 by Chris Wn Allsburg.

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CHRISTMAS BY THE BAY 2008 In the Fullness oj Time

A Cantata performed by the Adult Choir Saturday, November 29, at 2:00 p.m.

Sunday, November 30, at 6:00 p.m.

Eyewitness News: Christmas

A Drama Presentation Friday, December 5, at 7:00 p.m.

Saturday, December 6, at 2:00 p.m.

Sunday. December 7, at 6:00 p.m.

Angels Aware!

A Children's Musical performed by the Junior Choir Sunday, December 14, at 6:00 p.m.

Behold the Lamb of God

A Musical performed by the Praise and Worship Band Saturday, December 20, at 7:00 p.m.

Sunday, December 21, at 6:00 p.m.

Admission is free!

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Sculpturi Miniature lamps, which lit the way during the Art Nouveau period, now command big prices at auction.

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amps are to interiors what handbags are to fashionistas. And the Judith Leiber evening bags of lighting fixtures were the miniature Art Nouveau lamps that were all the rage around the turn of the 20th century. These meticulously crafted low-wattage lamps were designed for mantels, side tables, or marbleentombed servers. Because they were done by hand, they were expensive even in their time, retailing for $25 to $50. At a recent glass and lamp auction at James D. Julia Auctioneers of Fairfield, several of these baubles caught the crowd's eye.

A figural miniature lamp of a rooster made with an open framework body, full tail, and blown-out glass inserts in a brilliant orange-red with blue, white, yellow, and green mottling, sold for $8,625. Measuring seventeen by sixteen inches, it is signed by its collaborating French creators: the glass

factory Muller Fres Luneville and the metal factory Chapelle Nancy.

A rare miniature oil lamp, 15 inches long, featured a bullet-shaped font with the legend "Admiral Dewey's Lamp."

Crossed flags, an anchor, and the slogan "Remember the Maine" decorated the stem, while the original ball shade danced with a picture of the Maine on the front and a mountain on the back. Brought to auction by a picker, the lamp sold for $2,400, exceeding its $l,000-$l,500 estimate.

"Something referencing the Maine will have extra appeal here," reports Dudley Browne, head of the lamp and glass department at James D. Julia Auctioneers,

Far left: Bronze lamp cast in the shape of a Mosque with stained glass windows and tower in the dome. The lamp21 Vi inches to the top of the tower-is lit from the top of the dome as well as from the tower, and signed on the back, "Argentor Vienna."

Estimated at $3,000 to $5,000, the lamp sold for $4,888.

Near left: This magnificent 17" x 16" figural lamp features a rooster with open framework body-filled with a blown-out glass insert in bright reddish-orange with blue, white, yellow and green mottling-and full tail. Glass is signed on the side with engraved signature "Muller Fres Luneville," while the metal base is signed "Chapelle Nancy." Estimated at $8,000-$12,000, it sold for $8,625.

"but historic pieces always have crossover draw-attracting Maine collectors as well as miniature lamp collectors."

The Victorian fascination for Araby came to light in a Viennese bronze lamp cast in the shape of a mosque with stained-glass windows and a tower. Fetching $4,888, it was signed "Argentor Vienna." Unusually tall at 21 inches, it was lit from both tlae top of the dome and the tower. Peering within, viewers discovered a window with an inset designed to create tire illusion of a looking out on a second, tiny landscape of another, neighboring mosque-worlds within worlds. ■ Sarah Cumming Cecil, a principal in the interior design firm Rose Cumming (www.rosecummingdesign.com), writes frequently on art, antiques, and interior design.

Her work has appeared in ARTnews, Architectural Digest, House Beautiful, Connoisseur, and The New York Times.

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PERFORMANCE|Todd M. Richard

| Cassi Gray came to Portland from Northport and plugged, right into the music scene, surprising her audience with her command of jazz standards.

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t 22, Cassi Gray has a voice with a seasoning well beyond her years. Relocating I here from Utah with her family, Gray spent her teen years in Northport and now resides in Portland. A full-time student at the University of Southern Maine, she juggles a music education, an increasing gig schedule, and a job as liturgical musical director at St. Joseph's College in Standish.

None of which comes over her when she steps in front of a hot microphone at Blue on a rainy Saturday night

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The jazz community I've discovered in Portland's been very warmand welcoming. By the very nature of the genre, fellow jazz artists really support each other and enjoy jamming together since if s rarely a solo act for any of us. I remember sitting in last year a couple of times with Leah Finkelstein during her solo sets at the Dogfish. We just picked out some of the jazz standards from her book for me to sing and played it by ear. It was a lot of fun!

More recently, I sat in with the Jazz Monstahs, and am now collaborating with their piano player, Glenway Fripp.

What makes you different?

' •. ' Having studied with a professor with his doctorate in Brazilian guitar, I've been heavily influenced by him and the Brazilian style. He was also the one to introduce me to "jazzier" chords, forever changing my style from good old-fashioned folk/pop to a jazz-infused mix of Latin, blues, folk, and pop. I use nuances from any sort of music I listen to and try not to limit how I conceptualize my music.

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Do you have a specific approach to standards?

I often consider what would "modernize" the piece. What would make audiences able to relate to a song they've never heard before? How can I do the unexpected? How can I connect generations or styles that seem to have no relation to each other? For example, I've mused over the idea of doing a "Crazy" medley infusing Patsy Cline's version with Gnarls Barkley's.

Tell us about rifeafterUSM.Thedidid is to head for NewYork.

I don't plan on making a mad dash for the border. I'm really enjoying Portland and would like to see how much I can do here.

I have many options: I teach voice, both jazz and classical, and can build up my private studio to supplement my gigging. I'll also be certified to teach music K-12 in Maine, so I may find myself in a school district. No matter what, I'll be working with music and will certainly be performing.

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Say you're sick and forced to sing at a party-the Bridget Jones nightmare. What are your 'go to' tunes to give people goosebumps?

It depends on the crowd. I'll sing a range from the old favorites like "Amazing Grace," "Ave Maria," "Summertime," and "Lean On Me," to Disney songs like "Hakuna Matata"-by the end of which hopefully the whole room is singing. Overdone love song? "I Will Always Love You." Favorite sixties tune? "What A Day For A Daydream." Jazz Standard? "Fly Me to die Moon."

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Songs for every occasion, right? What do you sing when you're stuck in traffic on the Casco Bay Bridge ?

I can remember singing Bonnie Raitt's "Gimme One Reason" more than once.

When you're singing and really into belting out a standard, what song brings you dosestto an out-of-body experience?

Blue in Green has a wonderfully haunting melody. But that's different from my belting, go-wild song, which would have to be "All of Me." I've lived with it so long, I'm comfortable enough to take it out of the park. ■ Cassi Gray performs at Blue November8and at Slainte November 22. For more information,

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DI N I N GG U I D E | Fine Dining in Maine

3 Dollar Dewey's in the heart of Portland’s Old Port is not to be missed. Pub fare includes chowder, appetizers-including beer-battered shrimp, buffalo wings, and glorious nachos-as well as chili, salads, seafood, hamburgers, chicken sandwiches, and build-your-own pizzas. A beer-lover's heaven with 36 draft beers and 42 bottled beers. Open every day 11:30 a.m.-1:00 a.m. 241 Commercial Street, www.3dollardeweys.com 772-3310

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51 Wharf Restaurant Casual fine-dining restaurant by day and posh live entertainment by night. Chef Kevin Soucy's avant-garde new American cuisine showcases an eclectic mix of seasonal, local ingredients inspired by worldwide cultures in the small-plates menu and regional favorites including twin-lobster dinners and a variety of fresh, indigenous seafood. 51 Wharf Street in Portland's Old Port, www.51wharf.com 774-1151 ‘ Anthony's Italian Kitchen 151 Middle Street, lower level, Portland, voted "Best in Portland" three years in a row. Pizza, pasta, and sandwiches. All homemade recipes including lasagna, chicken parmesan, eggplant parmesan, meatballs, and Italian sausages. No item over $10. Beerand wine. Friday and Saturday night, live Broadway review includes five-course dinner for $35/pp.

Catering available. 774-8668 * Beale Street Barbeque continues a tradition of eclectic American cuisine at their new location in South Portland. Stili serving the best hardwood-smoked and grilled meats, poultry, fish, and seafood, as well as tasty appetizers, specialty sandwiches, salads, and creative daily lunch and dinner specials. Full bar featuring Maine microbrews on tap. No reservations needed, children welcome. Open all day, every day at 725 Broadway in South Portland, www.mainebbq.com 767-0130 Becky's at 390 Commercial Street, featured in Esquire and recommended by Rachael Ray. is "a slice of diner heaven," according to Gourmet. Serving classic diner fare within the call of gulls, it’s Maine's best family-friendly place to keep ;t real. Open 4 a.m.-9 p.m„ 7 days a week. 773-7070

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BiBo's Madd Apple Cafe. 23 Forest Avenue, Portland, ,n the heart of the Arts District. Focusing on creative, affordable cuisine with an eclectic wine list to match, served in a bright casual atmosphere, lunch Wed.-Fri. 11:3O-2, brunch Sun. 11 -2. dinner Wed.-Sat. from 5:30 and Sundays 4-8. Menus change with the local growing season.

Menus online at www.bibosportland.com 774-9698 * Bonobo restaurant in Portland's West End bakes up over a dozen tasty varieties of 13-inch wood-fired pizzasmany by-the-slice-along with daily specials and salads. Try the namesake (Bonobo) pizza, topped with mushrooms, prosciutto, baby spinach, leeks, fontina, and creamy sauce; or the Marley, with jerk chicken sausage, roasted red peppers, pickled hot peppers, Cheddar, mozzarella, sauce, and scallions. Lunch Wed.-Fri, 11:3O-2:3O, Sat. 12-4. Dinner Sun.-Thurs.4-10, Fri.and Sat 4-11.46 Pine Street at Brackett www.bonobopizza.com 347-8267

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Brea Lu' Cafe serves the best breakfast in town! Breakfast cho ces include twelve specialty omelets with toast and home fries, build your own, or select French toast, Eggs Benedict, or an all-star breakfast sandwich. Lunch features homemade chili and fresh, made-to-order sandwiches, wraps, and burgers. Open seven days 7 a.m.-l p.m, at 428 Forest Avenue, Portland. 772-9202 Cafe Stroudwater has been an award-winning local favorite for many years. Chef Paul LHeureux features delicious local cuisine using local products based on the season. Fora truly unique experience, reserve a "Chefs Table," where you and your guest will be seated right in the kitchen while the Chef prepares your six-course meal accompanied by select wines. 1050 Westbrook Street in the Embassy Suites, Portland. 775-0032' DiMillo's Floating Restaurant at 25 Long Wharf off Commercial Street. You can t beat the location for fabulous water views of Portland Harbor. Escape the hustle & bustle of the city'. Watch the boats go bv. Enjoy fresh Maine lobster year-round, steak, seafood dishes, & more. Serving 7 days from 1100 a.m. Children's menu available. For drinks & a lighter menu, 17 our Portside Lounge. 772-2216

The Dogfish Bar & Grille, 1 28 Free Street, Portland 772-5483, and The Dogfish Cafe, 953 Congress Street. Portland, 253-5400. "Great food, drink, and service in a casual and unpretentious atmosphere." The Cafe (Monday-Saturday lunch and dinner, and now serving Sunday Brunch) offers a more intimate setting while the Bar & Grille (open 7 days a week at 11:30 a.m.) offers live music Wednesday-Saturday nights. For a real local feel, reasonable prices, and great food, check out either one or both! www.thedogfishcompany.com Eve's At The Garden 468 Fore Street, Portland, promises a unique experience and a fresh local approach to food.

Chef Jeff Landry and his team utilize products from Maine's coastal waters and farms: jumbo diver-harvested scallops, Maine-raised organic pork, line-caught Atlantic halibut, free-range chicken, and fresh Maine lobster prepared several different ways. Free valet parking. Lunch 11:30 a.m.-2 p.m., Dinner 5:30 p.m.-9:30 p.m. 523-2040 The Great Impasta Premier Italian Restaurant in Brunswick. recognized as one of the Top 25 Italian Restaurants in all of New England." Intimate dining room setting, fun and varied wine list, and creative Italian & Mediterraneaninspired dishes at surprisingly reasonable prices. Open for lunch and dinner, Monday through Saturday. 42 Maine Street, Brunswick, www.thegreatimpasta.com 729-5858 Great Lost Bear, 540 Forest Avenue in the Woodfords area of Portland. A full bar with over 60 draught beers from local micro-breweries and imported specialties. Our menu features salads, sandwiches, steaks, a large vegetarian selection, the best nachos & buffalo wings in town. Discover where the natives go when they're restless! Every day 11:30 a.m.-11:30 p.m. www.greatlostbear.com 772-0300 Jacqueline's Tea Room and Gift Shop experience authentic Afternoon Tea in an exquisite English setting.

Select from over 70 of the finest quality loose-leaf teas to accompany your four-course luncheon of scones with Devon cream, preserves and lemon curd, finger sandwiches of all kinds, and desserts. Great for intimate conversations and parties. 10:30a.m.-3 p.m. Tuesday-Friday and alternating weekends. 201 Main Street, Freeport. Reservations only. www.jacquelinestearoom.com 865-2123* Jameson Tavern with a casual bar, lounge & dining room.

The building is the site of the signing of the Constitution for the state of Maine when it broke away from Massachusetts.

Classic preparations served in a graceful & elegant setting make this a fine retreat from frenzied outlet shopping. 115 Main Street. Freeport. 865-4196' La Familia -best Latin American cuisine north of the border. Classic appetizers like empanadas and ceviche, and generously plated entrees: jumbo pan-fried shrimp in butter with garlic and onion served with fried plantains and salad, and rotisserie chicken with Latin seasonings. Try homemade flan for dessert. Lunch and dinner MondayThursday noon-8 p.m, Friday noon-10 p.m. Saturday noon.-8 p.m. 906 Brighton Avenue, Portland. 761-5865 Lotus Chinese and Japanese Restaurant 251 U.S. Rte. 1. Falmouth, Maine (Falmouth Shopping Plaza). We feature full-service bar and lounge area, sushi bar, Chinese traditional food not available outside of Boston, friendly atmosphere and courteous service. 781-3453 Margaritas Mexican Restaurants & Watering Hole!

Two locations in Portland, others in Lewiston. Augusta.

Orono & Portsmouth, serving oversized meals & colossal drinks. Always free hot chips & salsa, legendary margaritas. & the house specialty, the sizzling fajita. Happy hour M-F, 4-7 p.m., free hot appetizers. In Portland at 242 St. John Street, Union Station Plaza, 874-6444 & 11 Brown Street near the Civic Center. 774-9398 Maria's Ristorante est. 1960,337 Cumberland Avenue, Portland, one street down from Congress Street. Portland's finest Italian Cuisine. Maine Sunday Telegram's four-star restaurant. Homemade sausages and finest meatballs aroun.: thick Veal Chops a la Maria. Zuppa De Pesce Fradiavoio. homemade gelato, and Italian-style cakes. Lunch and DinnerTuesday-Saturday, $ 13-S25. "Preserving the authentic Italian dining experience." www.mariasrestaurant.com 207-772-9232

MJ's Grille and Tavern offers casual fine dining in a comfortable environment, with a variety of dishes-from small plates and seasonal salads to steak and local seafood. Handcrafted wooden bar offers a wide selection of beers from around the world, local beers, fine wines, and martinis. Private rooms for parties.

Downstairs Tavern open Friday and Saturday nights with DJs and bands. 94 Maine Street. Brunswick. www.mjsgrille.com 729-6574 North Star Music Cafe, 225 Congress Street, at the base of Munjoy Hill in Portland. A coffee shop and cafe offering soups, sandwiches, salads, and specials made from scratch. Eat by our sunny windows or take your food to go. A full coffee bar, sodas, beer, and wine available.

Music most nights. Check www.northstarcafe.net for calendar and hours. 699-2994 O’Naturals serves natural and organic flatbread sandwiches, tossed salads. Asian noodles, soups, and kids’ meals. Quick service, but our leather couches, wireless internet, and comfortable atmosphere will entice you to stay. Flatbread pizza after 4 p.m. and pesto chicken, roast beef, wild bison meatloaf, wild Alaskan salmon, and many vegetarian items-something for everyone.

Portland 321-2050 and Falmouth. 781-8889 The Pepperclub s a prize-winning restaurant ’Best Vegetarian" & "Best Value' in Frommer's Guide to New England) with creative world cuisine.

Blackboard menu lists five vegetarian, three fish, & three meat entrees, including an organic beefburger.

Relaxed, affordable dining on the edge of the Old Port w/free parking. Open nightly at 5 p.m. 78 Middle Street. www.pepperclubrestaurant.com 772-0531 SeaGrass Bistro 30 Forest Falls Drive. Yarmouth, an intimate 40-seat dining room with an open kitchen. Chef Stephanie's style of American Bistro Cuisine, with Asian, French, and Tuscan influences, uses fresh local ingredients. Menu changes frequently.

Music while you dine Thursdays in October & December.

Open Wednesday-Saturday for dinner, reservations starting at 6 p.m. Visit our website for Cooking Class Information, www.seagrassbistro.com 846-3885 ' Twenty Milk Street, in the Portland Regency Hotel, is proud to be the only restaurant in Maine to serve exclusively U.S.D.A. prime steaks, combining awardwinning classic American Cuisine with fine wines in a warm and inviting atmosphere. Featuring Regency Crab Cakes. Baked Escargo, 20-oz. Porterhouse Steak, Sesame Tuna, homemade breads, and desserts. Dinner seven nights a week; also serving breakfast, lunch and brunch.

Complimentary Valet Parking. 774-4200 Walter's 1 5 Exchange Street, Portland. Cuisine with worldly influences-casual fine dining with a metropolitan flair. Menu changes seasonally with popular blackboard specials. Bar manager Steven Lovenguth's wine list complements Chef Jeff Buerhaus's menu selections. Interesting cocktails and dessert drinks, also.

Open Mon-Sat 11;30-2:30 for lunch; dinner from 5:00 seven nights a week. Private room available for up to 26 guests, www.walterscafe.com 871 -9258 Wells Beach Steakhouse and T-Bone Lounge serves prime steaks, fresh seafood, and delicious salads, featuring Kobe sirloin steaks, stuffed smoked salmon and grilled swordfish in an upscale, plush atmosphere.

Enjoy a selection from the highly allocated new world wine list, or a signature 28-ounce Wells Beach martini under the starry 'sky' of the lounge. 73 Mile Road, Wells. www.wellsbeachsteakhouse.com 646-2252 Yosaku at 1 Danforth Street, is an authentic Japanese cui nary' experience, designed by owner Sato Takahiro and lead chef Matsuyama Masahiro. Premium sushi, sashimi, and rolls, including Yosaku roll, spicy scallop roll, Godzilla roll, Portland Pirates roll, and traditional cooked Japanese cuisine for the sushi-shy. Enjoy a bento box beside a tranquil Japanese waterfall. Lunch MondayFriday 11:3O-2, Saturday-Sunday 12-3. Dinner 5-9:30.

Friday-Saturday 5-10:30. 780-0880 "reservations recommended

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This is the Portland of our dreams, evoked by talented chef Lee Skawinski. Coowner of both restaurants with Dan Kary and Michele Mazur-Kary, Skawinski has outdone himself again, offering scrumptious country Italian cuisine in this remarkably comfortable setting.

An active member of the Slow Food movement [see "Taking ItSlow," VVinterguide2008], Skawinski deftly uses fresh ingredients from local purveyors including the restaurants' farm, Grandview, just north of Portland.

The attractive menu, inspired by northern Italian osteria dining, offers everything from terrific thin-crust pizza hot from Vignola's stone oven ($11-$16) to grilled hanger steak or roasted cod fillet ($21).

Deemed a premier wine-tasting destination by Wine & Spirits Magazine, Vignola offers a wine list sure to please, featuring notyour-usual suspects such as Censia Erte 2006, a rich Tuscan blend of Cabernet Savignon and Sangiovese, $26. Ditto for the artisinal beers, ranging from Shipyard's Old Thumper ($6.50) to Vai Dieo Methusalem, Tripel Abbey Ale from Belgium, (6 liter $230).

After dipping good bread in plates of rich olive oil, we savored an antipasta of spiced wal¬

nuts, balsamic peppers, and olive misto, beautifully presented: a bargain at $4.

Next came over-the-top assorted Italian salumi with creamy Montasio cheese and wafer thin crostini ($12): Bram!

For entrees, my partner devoured the popular Veal Milanese ($19): crispy, tender veal fillets with marinated tomatoes, accompanied by organic pea tendrils tossed in a succulent dressing, and tasty roasted farm potatoes.

My hand-cut Fettuccine with braised Maine lamb ($18) was so flavorful, with delicious chunks of lamb perfectly accented by enoki mushrooms and Gorgonzola cream, that I found myself dreaming of seconds... and thirds!

Finishing with sweets, we shared a tasty concoction by talented pastry chef Emily Delois: tire blueberry Patina Cotta, with fresh Maine blueberries, whipped white chocolate cream, and cinnamon pizzelle cookie ($7).

Also available is a spectacular array of cheeses from Italy, France, Germany, Austria, Spain, and Maine ($6 for one and $20 for a selection of four).

Then there are liquid desserts, such as the chocolate-covered strawberry martini ($10), Grappa di Barbera, Masselli ($14), or the 1979 Pedro Ximenex Sherry, Gran Riserva ($12.25). ■ Vignola, 12 Dana Street, Portland. Dinner every evening 5-midnight; lunch Friday-Saturday begins 11:00 a.m.; Sunday Brunch begins 11:00 a.m.

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It's elemental, Watson. Winter hats say volumes about your personality.

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ainers are famous for spinning a good yam, and the hats we wear are a big part of the story, with strands of alpaca and wool connecting us to exotic ports of call the world over.

"Alpaca is softer than cashmere," says Skip Taylor, co-owner with wife Judy, of Winter's Gone Farm and Alpaca Store in Wiscasset. "My wife designs most of our hats and scarves. She's been designing for seven years and travels twice a year to our manufacturers in Peru."

In dozens of colors and sizes, the Taylors' hats range from the understated to baby alpaca fur lined in silk (15-$60).

"I try to make my hats and scarves wearable pieces of art-unique but not overpowering," says Cindy Lavan, owner and fiber artist at Chase Tavern Farm in Bowdoin. With hand- or mill-spun alpaca fiber, her winter gear is "incredibly warm and lightweight to wear." Striking in combinations of white, gray, black, and brown-often shot through with wool and angora-her hats, scarves, and sets ($27 to $85) will keep you beautiful and toasty.

Serendipity in the Old Port offers dreamy lines from Oleana and Dale of Norway. "We've had these for years, and they've always done well," owner Cecily O'Connor says. New this year: hats made from boiled

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wool and velvet impaled by custom pins by artist Sue Cornelison.

Nomads in the Old Port treats shoppers to "13 or 14 different brands of hats" to help top things off, says owner Kelly Fermald, including Pistil, Ambler, Ibex, and Isis.

"People look for hats that not only keep them warm but also go with their wardrobes, complement their face shapes and hairstyles, and say something about them."

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or those who love fresh, locally grown produce, November is the saddest month, marking the end of the harvest season. Fortunately, it also begins holiday celebrations when Maine's culinary pros pull out all the stops to provide an array of goodies that lighten the heart.

At charming little Bogusha’s Polish Deli on Stevens Avenue, Bogumila Pawlaczyk, also known as Bogusha, presents several Old World delicacies for the holidays. There's plum strudel, poppy seed roulette, and babkas with raisins, cheese, or plum butter. Traditional Polish Christmas Eve favorites include Cnyustn Vegelina, which is something like a hunter's stew with mushroom, onion, and tomato; and two different kinds of peroggi-with mushroom and sauerkraut, or with potato, onion, and cheese. To warm cold winter nights, this year Bogusha will offer some Polish soups to go, including barley soup with mushrooms and kielbasa, red or white borscht, and sorrel soup with hard-boiled eggs.

"We're going to have beautiful stuff," she says. "Anyone who knows my ccxtking knows how good it is. All handmade, very fresh."

Readers might not expect to find a huge collection of German and Viennese holiday treats down a country road in rural Waldoboro, but this is one of the claims to fame of Morse's Krauthaus and Euro Deli. "At Christmastime, it's really unbelievable," says co-owner David Swetnam. "We lose control."

Chief among Morse's holiday delights is a fragrant medley of Stollen-rum, marzipan, butter, and more-from under $10 to $50 from some of Germany's oldest and most famous bakeries, such as Reimann in Dresden and Niederegger in Lubeck. The store also imports bimmkuchen, literally "tree cake." The king of European Christmas cakes, these elaborately layered confections "are cut hori62 PORTLAND MONTHLY MAGAZINE

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zontally, rather than vertically like most cakes, to expose all the layers, which look like rings on a tree," Swetnam says. Other German holiday favorites include spicy, intricately molded cookies called Pfeffenieusse; and gingerbread Lebkuchen, including Elisenlebknchen, puffy cookies required by German law to contain not less than 25 percent hazelnuts.

From the I iotel Sacher in Vienna, Morse's brings the renowned chocolate Sachertortes as well as Mozart kugels, "the most famous candies in Vienna," Swetnam says. He describes the kugels as "chocolate truffles with pistachio marzipan nougat centers, surrounded by dark chocolate and wrapped in multi-colored foil with images of Mozart."

Especially for Scandinavian customers, there are assorted "glogg" mixes, special wine-based drink mixes in ornate bottles.

Anyone celebrating Hannukah may want to stop by Aurora Provisions in Portland. Manager Leslie Oster says the store is famous for its homemade matzoh toffee, "burnt caramel on top of matzoh crackers dipped in dark chocolate," chocolate coins known as gelts, and "a cornucopia of holiday cookies, including sugar cookies shaped like dreidels. Stars of David, and blue snowflake angels. And we have potato latkes coming out our ears," she says.

For all the winter holidays, Aurora also imports lots of French chocolates, including chocolate cherries filled with Armagnac, various nut barks, and all-natural candy canes, as well as several reserve and hard-to-get wines from small producers or winemakers with whom the store has a special relationship.

The Rosemont Bakery, with two locations in Portland and another store in Yarmouth, makes its own challah, the traditional Jewish braided bread, for Hannukah. It also makes several pies suitable for any festive winter meal, such as pecan bourbon pie with chocolate butter crust, and silken pumpkin pie with linzer nut crust.

Another favorite, says manager Lisa Childs, are its organic, all-butter sugar cixikies in decorative bags.

To many French Canadians, Christmas isn't Christmas without a tourtiere, the famous two-crusted ground pork pie with onions and potatoes. Mailhot’s in Lewiston makes these year-round, "but we can't make enough of them for the holidays," says Marc Mailhot, the fourth generation of his family to work in the company. Mailhot's also offers blood sausage and a pork pate called Cretans, both especially popular in winter.

Another version of the tourtiere is available at Grant’s Bakery in Lewiston. "We don't call them tourtieres. We just call them pork 64 PORTLAND MONTHLY MAGAZINE

Petit Fours from Stonewall Kitchen offer bite-sized treats-made from milled almond paste and creamy butter-in twelve varieties.

pies. But Franco-Americans love them," says co-owner Ron Grant. His bakery specializes in decorated cakes, including holiday favorites like Santa-face cakes, baby snowmen, cakes shaped like Christmas trees, and the ever-popular Yule logs, which are chocolate or jellyroll cakes frosted with chocolate and maple icing to resemble tree logs.

Also in Lewiston, for those who think Christmas isn't Christmas without onino/f, Chef Antonio Briglio at Antonio’s New York Deli and Bakery

makes the Sicilian tubular pastries filled with flavored ricotta cheese.

Wife Abigail also makes a range of special cheesecakes, including turtle cheesecake with caramel, chocolate, and walnuts.

At Portland's La Bodega Latina, where the cooking reflects styles from the Dominican Republic, customers can order a blockbuster holiday dish bound to satisfy even the hardiest appetites. It's called Moro de Guandides con Pcrnil, Polio al Homo, Spaghetti, Pastel en Hoja y Ensalada Ruza. This means rice with pigeon peas, roast pork, roast chicken, spaghetti with diced roast porkchops, and a violet-colored potato salad-all in the same dish! Manager Jasmine Duran explains that the combination is a traditional Christmas favorite and that the reason for the violet color in the salad "is because we add beets." This mega treat should be special ordered from the bodega's catering ami.

Stonewall Kitchen, the famous jam makers who started at a Portsmouth farmers' market about 15 years ago, rolls out several special items for the holidays. Marketing manager Stacy Burrus recommends the Bellini Brie, a French brie cheese topped with peadi and prosecco jam and covered with puff pastry. "It arrives frozen and you just pop it in the oven," she says. For one of her own Christmas presents to her family, she sent Stonewall's hand-made cinnamon rolls, which also arrive frozen.

Also popular is its Chocolate Molten Lava Cake Mix, "a great holiday dessert, easy to make," she says. And she favors putting Stonewall Kitchen's roasted garlic onion jam on a prepared pizza shell with a little crumbled goat or blue cheese on top. "It's always the hit of the party," Burrus claims.

The holiday season is "a fantasy" at On the Marsh, says Denise Rubin, proprietress of the Kennebunk restaurant. Trees near the restaurant and its tidal marsh are lit with little decorative lights, and its renovated barn is aglow with candles and arty antiques.

Among the dishes on offer by Chef Jeffrey A. Savage are his deconstructed Beef Wellington with mushroom duxelles, foisgras torchon,

Waynflete Students are ; Artists & Athletes, Scholars & Sculptors, Musicians & Mathematicians... www.waynflete.org puff pastry and truffled demi-glace; an exotic cornmeal pie with roasted wild mushrooms, onions, garlic, wilted Swiss chard, acorn squash, and fennel pollen cream; and a variety-packed cassoulet with red-wine-braised ham and lamb shoulder, duck confit, pork sausage, tarbais beans, and roasted root vegetables.

1'he bar at the Back Bay Grill is known for its seasonal specials. This year, offerings include several drinks guaranteed to banish winter's chill. The most outrageous is Old Man Winter's Coffee, with B&B, Tia Maria, Disaronno, and cognac in a mug of coffee topped with cinnamon whipped cream. For those who prefer non-alcoholic soul warmers, the restaurant will feature two special winter soups: potato leek with duck rillettes, fried leeks, and chive oil; and parsnip soup with pancetta, fresh herbs, and truffle oil.

Finally, this winter Chef de Cuisine Lawrence Klang of theCAMDEN Harbour Inn has been invited to present a meal to the prestigious James Beard Foundation.

Following that event, essentially the same menu will be available at the inn's restaurant December 15-26. The seven-course meal, with wine pairings, includes a cappuccino of wild mushrooms, spiced leg of boar, roasted breast of wild partridge, Maine salmon with choucroute, and clementine confit with orange creme Bavaroise. ■

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Dance Portland Ballet Portland. The Victorian Nutcracker .Franco-American Heritage Center,

Lewiston, December 7; Kennett High School, North Conway, New Hampshire, December 13-l 4; Merrill Auditorium, December 17.842-0800 or www.portlandballet.org Maine State Ballet 348 US Route One, Falmouth. Nutcracker, Merrill Auditorium,

December 29-30 and January 5-7.842-0800 or www.mainestateballet.org

Theater Good Theater. St. Lawrence Arts Center, 76 Congress Street, Portland. Stones in his

Pockets to November 23, Broadway at Good Theater opens December 4.885-5883 or www.goodtheater.com Portland Players South Portland. Five Women Wearing the Same Dress, November

-23.www.portlandplayers.org Portland Stage Company Forest Avenue, Portland. Wait Until Dark to November

23; A Christmas .arc . from December 5 to 24. 774-0465 or www.portlandstage.com The Public Theatre Lisbon and Maple Streets, Lewiston. The Secrets of a Soccer Mom

to November 9; A Christmas Carol, December 12-14. 781-2211 or www.thepublictheatre.org

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Annual Holiday Tree Lighting Ceremony Friday, November 28th 5:30pm, Monument Square

Come see the spectacular lighting of the tree at this annual tradition!

Entertainment begins with Rick Charette and the Bubblegum Band.

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Every weekend during the holiday season (12 days in all!), downtown merchants, restaurants, and organizations host a celebration with holiday music, drawings for distinctive local items, activities for the entire family and more!

Merry Madness Thursday, December 18th 5pm-10pm

Shop 'til you drop in downtown Portland! Participating stores will remain open until 10 pm. Merry Madness kicks off downtown with music, food, and fun! It's a night full of fun with your friends-shop, eat, and be merry!

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12 November, 7 pm. Kennebunkport Historical Society 125 North St, Kennebunkport, kporthlstoryxxg 13 November, 7 p.m. York Art Association York Harbor, raynorshyn.com/yaal 15 November, 4 p.m. Gulf of Maine Books Publication Party 134 Maine St, Brunswick, gulfofmainebooks.blogspotcom 19 November, 7 p.m. The Harvard Coop Bookstore 1400 Massachusetts Avenue and 18 Palmer St, Cambridge, Massachusetts, harvardcoopbooksbncoBege.com 20 November, 7 p.m. Books Etc. 38 Exchange St, Portland, mainebooksetc.com 3 December, 630 p.m. Books Etc. 240 U.S. Route 1, Falmouth, mainebooksetc.com 13 December, 2 p.m.

Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Indian 4th and Independence Avenue, Washington, D.C., www.writer.org/events/lndexjsp, Americanlndanst du 17 December, 12 noon Portland Public Library, Brown Bag Luncheon, 5 Monument Square, Portland, portlandSxaiy.com 9 January, 730 p.m. Stonecoast Residency Public Reading Stonecoast MFA, Freeport Community Center, 53 Depot St, Freeportinfo@fcsmaine.org or Harraseeket Inn, 162 Main Street Freeport, harraseeketinn.axn, usm.maine.edu/stoneooastmfa

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Stairway to Heaven: From Chinese Streets to Monuments and Skyscraper, and Flourishing Folk: New England Decorated Works on Paper and Document Boxes to December 14. 786-6158 or www.bates.edu/museum.xml Colby College Museum of Art, Mayflower Hill,

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Power Council to look at the possibility of building another nuclear plant in Maine.

"We’re going to need more and more electricity, or people are going to start freezing.

People don’t understand that nuclear technology has changed in the last 30 to 40 years. It's matured. The French get threequarters of their electricity from nuclear.

There are highly effective passive safety systems; and you can now burn waste in the reactor and get rid of 90 percent of it.” Walker also sees nuclear power as a way to stoke Maine's economic engine.

"Washington County would be a wonderful place to put a nuclear plant. It would be an economic stimulus to the region during the build and after, and would expand the tax base vastly."

In recent interviews, all expressed horror that nuclear power would even be considered an option for Maine, as did Andy (Anne D.) Burt, who went from reporting on the hearings held prior to the building of Maine Yankee to being galvanized into action, ultimately becoming involved with Friends

CRAFTSMANSHIP of the Coast. After nearly nine years working on environmental justice for the Maine Council of Churches, with a special focus on climate change, Burt says, "Nuclear power plants are an accident waiting to happen, a smoking gun. There are so many safer, more economical ways we can generate power.

Besides, developers of nuclear power aren't going to move forward unless they have guarantees that U.S. taxpayers will assume the risk.

"But," Burt continues, "Ray Shadis is the man to talk to about nuclear power and its history in Maine. He knows the science.

Even the NRC respects him."

An artist who looks to the day he can return to his art, Ray Shadis has been one of the state's longest-standing and most articulate opponents to nuclear power. Not only was he one of the key grass-roots activists in Friends of the Coast-more than a decade after Maine Yankee's decommissioning, he continues to be an industry watchdog. Most recently, as a technical consultant working with the New England Coalition, he testified before the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission about the Vermont Yankee license renewal.

"The industry is a learning animal," says Shadis. "It tried to learn from its mistakes, and all to its credit, it has. But the industry is now, as it was then, pressured by the bottom line. Reorganized as a lobbying group, the Nuclear Energy Institute works handin-glove with the NRC. They've successfully eased oversight, widened margins of risk, all in a concerted effort to have fewer inspections and longer periods between inspections of plants. Plants that were reaching the end of their supposed life have gone through license renewal and been approved for a 20-percent uprate-that means they can run these older plants longer, hotter, and harder than they were designed for, all based on the idea that you can make adjustments and get away with it with only a small loss of safety margin."

But Shadis does not see a fight between the pro- and anti-nuclear factions determining whether Maine will have another nuclear plant in the foreseeable future. He says he has been told by industry insiders that the nuclear power industry itself does not see New England-particularly Maine-as a place to put nuclear plants. Because of the region's history of vocal opposition, he says, "It's just not going to happen." ■

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"I've worked on several other high-profile cases before-like possession of chiId pomography-but this was a unique case because the investigation itself was enormous. There were over a hundred witnesses involved. It was an immense amount of preparationlearning about boats and how they operate, what the different parts are, and being able to present it in a way that non-boaters can understand-because we had no guarantee that anyone on the jury would be a boater.

"We don't typically cocounsel cases, but this case was...immense as far as witnesses and evidence. The discovery and reports were well over 1,000 pages. We put in 70-some exhibits; one person couldn't have done it all.

And there was a lot of pretrial litigation, too."

The trial started on September 8 and concluded 16 days later. "The actual presentation took much longer than a typical jury trial. Even murder trials don't usually go this long."

Norbert wasn't the least intimidated by

going up against the defense team, which was led by J. Albert Johnson, a Boston attorney who once represented Patty Hearst. "If I know the case inside and out, I feel confident.

I felt that I knew the case inside and out, and 1 prepared well enough to address any issue that came up." Norbert and District Attorney Anderson split the duties, with Norbert giving the opening and Anderson closing. "We pretty much split the witnesses down the middle-we called close to 30. She focused on the blood testing, and I focused on the boat reconstruction. That's how we saw' the case, as far as preparation; those were the two main points we needed to be ready to go on."

Norbert always knew' she wanted to be a prosecutor. "My father, a Navy F-14 fighter pilot, instilled in us a sense of personal responsibility for the choices we make. I wanted to go into a field where I could help people. Those two things came together for me in law."

Born and raised in Virginia Beach while her father was stationed at Naval Air Station Oceana, Virginia, Norbert received her undergraduate degree at Old Dominion University in Norfolk in 1999, then headed for the University

of Maine School of Law' in Portland.

"I'd never been to Maine, but I like the Northeast and happened upon a catalogue [for the law' school]. I thought, if I'm going to suffer through three years of law school, it had better be a nice place to live. I saw the cobblestone streets and that it was on the ocean-I've always been drawn to the ocean-so it seemed like a natural fit. 1 fell in love with it here."

She also fell in love with Bill Norbert, then a member of the Legislature and a criminal defense attorney who previously had worked in the Attorney General's office. They met in 2001 after he came to speak at her constitutional law class. "I almost skipped the class because it was on a Friday afternoon," she laughs. "About three-quarters of the way through, I realized he was single. I knew he was friendly with one of the women in the class, so I went up to her and said, 'He's a pretty nice guy.' She told me, 'I'm going to give him your phone number.' We went out on a half-blind date-I'd seen him, but I didn't go up to him that day-and we've been together ever since." They were married in September 2003 at St. Joseph's Church in Portland. Today,

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Her husband, one of seven siblings, grew up in Portland. "He's incredibly smart and a great sounding board. He's always giving me the right words when 1 need them. I'm luck}' to have him to come home to." They live close to the neighborhood where Bill Norbert grew up. Their favorite haunts: Fuji, Benkay, Old Port Sea Grill, and Silly's-when her schedule allows.

"Most of the time, I work on the weekends and at night. I'm in charge of a unit [Misdemeanors], so in addition to being responsible for my own case load, I'm ultimately responsible for my lawyers' case loads. I have five lawyers and six interns on my team. I'm always working to make sure we're on track." Norbert, who says she makes just over $50,000, clearly isn't in the job for the money. "It's difficult to balance [the budget] with student loans and a mortgage. People ask when I'm going to go to' the dark side' and work for a law firm or on criminal defense, but I'd rather live a modest lifestyle and feel good about what 1 do." -Donna Stuart

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Solitude for the artist who created one of the most recognizable images in pop art, LOVE, which was reproduced on millions of postage stamps? Unthinkable.

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Indiana's life is the stuff of great American stories. Born Robert Clark in New Castle, Indiana, he changed his name to his native state's early in his career. His childhood wasn't easy.

"My Aunt Ruby murdered my grandmother. My mother was elated, as she'd hated her mother, and she went to South Bend to watch the trial. In her absence, mv father found other women and left," heading down that most American of highways, Route 66. Indiana's mother subsequently ran a diner on that same route, with the familiar EAT sign overhead.

A 20-foot electric EAT sign would later become Indiana's first public commissionfor the exterior of the New York Pavilion at the 1964 New York World's Fair. "The day they turned it on, a line formed. People wanted to know where the food was. I didn't

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The same year he created EAT, he collaborated with Andy Warhol on a 40-minute film of the same name. It showed Indiana, holding his cat, Particci, and eating a mushroom. "You can imagine how exciting that was," Indiana says wryly. Was it an existential statement or an expression of the importance of staying in the present? "No. Andy loved to bore people."

LOVE is what changed Indiana's life. "In 1964,1 was commissioned by the Museum of Modem Art to do a Christmas card. It became the most popular Christmas card ever issued, and from there tilings just snowballed."

It wasn't love, but hope, that took Indiana from New York to his current home. "Star of Hope was the reason I came to Vinalhaven.

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letters that, like his LOVE, includes the letter "o" on its side, the six-foot-by-six-foot-bythree-foot stainless-steel HOPE was unveiled at the Democratic National Convention in August. All proceeds from the design go to Obama's presidential campaign. "Living in the Star of Hope for 25 years, I'd done HOPE designs for myself, but it was really Obama and his book, The Audacity of Hope, that triggered my current involvement."

Unlike many Maine artists who draw inspiration from the state's rocky coast, Indiana says, "Living on Vinalhaven has no effect on my art. My art comes from within myself, though LOVE kind of stands apart.

Most of my work is very autobiographical; I'm painting my own history and my own life. This is called egocentricism," he says with a chuckle. "My own feeling is that artists are more interesting than their work. It's been my ambition ever since 1 was six years old to be an artist."

What's ahead for this octogenarian? "My goal is to plant a LOVE in every city around the globe." Closer to home, the Farnsworth Museum in Rockland is planning a retrospective of Indiana's work in 2009. You'll know it's there, says Indiana; just "Look for the EAT sign on the Farnsworth's roof."

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anderer, boxer, Buddhist monk, teacher, lobsterman, authorcharismatic Jaed Coffin, 29, whose A Chant To Soothe Wild Elephants (Da Capo/Perseus, $16) is earning rave reviews ["affecting memoir...in heartfelt prose, Coffin beautifully captures his journey, both geographical and internaV'-Publishers Weekly], now has a brand new identity: father.

"My daughter, JaiYen, is just 12 weeks old," says the Portland resident. "I hate to admit it, but I'm not the most important person in the world."

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monk at a monastery in Thailand, returning to the village where his mother was bom), kayaking from Seattle to Sitka, trawling through Mexico, and immersing himself in the bullfighting culture in Madrid, has Coffin really found "the long way home" back to Maine, as the Boston Globe puts it?

"I grew up with my sister Tahnthawan and my mother living across Thompson Street from Bowdoin College," he says.

"Typical mid-coast Maine. My father met my mom in Taiwan when he was in the army during the Vietnam War. His family, the Coffins, were whaling captains from Nantucket from way back.

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Would you urge your daughter to see the world?

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Friends in Maine-where he spent every summer he can remember in Ogunquit or Wells Beach-scratch their heads when they discover he's become a big winery honcho making monster Zinfandels and other fairly outrageous and popular wines. "There's this big disconnect/' Tietje says. "They always wonder, 'How did I get into this?'" The answer, he says, "is sheer crazed desire."

It was after high school when he worked at a Boston wine shop and cooked at restaurants including The White Barn Inn in Kennebunk, Barnacle Billy's in Ogunquit, and the East Coast Grill in Cambridge, Massachusetts, that he discovered his love for wine. He studied winemaking at the University of California at Davis to learn the scientific side of the business. "I think of it as the safety net, like painting by numbers." If a problem developed with a wine, he could figure it out in a lab.

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"I walked out through this arched doorway' and saw a big, bright orange harvest moon rising over tire hills. I'd been working two days straight. But I knew then that making wine was what 1 wanted to do for the rest of my' life. I just totally' dug it."

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His Sonoma vineyards, for instance, produce The Sophisticate-a stylish, elegant, carefully balanced wine, "the James Bond of Zinfandel." From Paso Robles comes "its evil twin, Biker, a super-spicy, intense, wild, in-your-face Zin." He also makes a "naked," no-oak Chardonnay fermented in stainless steel, and what he calls Freak Show reds from eclectic alterative varietals. There's Anarchy, for example, an unconventional Rhone blend; Heretic, based on old-vine Petite Sirah, with Tietje's tattoo on the label; and Loco, a big black blend of Spanish Tempranillo grapes "that resonates with angst."

Snooty' publications like Wine Spectator have ranked some of Tietje's bottles in the excellent, 90-95 point, category. His wines are served at many of the country's mostcoveted restaurants, including New York's Maya, Nolix, and Quest, and The Capital Grille in Washington, D.C.. He can hardly keep up with demand.

The key to his success as a winemaker, he says, "is that I go where the magic is. It's not about pursuing a varietal. It's about pursuing a region. Each region always docs one thing very well." So he studies terrain carefully and works only with the grapes each area grows best. He owns two vineyards and contracts for grapes at 18 others-so he can make all the decisions about growing and harvesting each region's grapes.

He also credits his two partners, ex-wife Susan A. ("Sam") Mahler, "a pilot, black-belt karate expert, and earth scientist who runs the company," and Bill Grant, a childhood friend from Wells and "a consummate salesman" who's in charge of sales and marketing. He's known as the ZinPimp.

Although he was bom in New Jersey and now lives in California, "1 think of myself as a Mainer," Tietje says. He still surfs and loves hanging out at the beach, especially in the fall, when Maine's beaches are less populated and foliage is aflame. "It breaks my heart that I'll probably never see that again," because it conflicts with grape harvest time in California.

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r. Bernard Lown's voice, tinged with the accent of his native Lithuania, is slightly hoarse in the aftermath of the celebration of his life. Friends, colleagues, and luminaries from around the world have gathered to pay tribute to the 87-year-old, and to reflect on his many achievements and the impact he's had on the world.

If Lown had only been a practicing cardiologist until he retired at 86, or if he'd only invented the direct-current defibrillator and the cardiac converter that's saved thousands of lives, or if he'd only' pioneered the

use of Lidocaine to regulate heart rhythms, taught at Harvard School of Public Health, and authored hundreds of articles and four books, you'd say he'd led a full and productive life.

But this is a man who did all this while promoting world peace and working to abolish nuclear weapons. In 1980, Lown co-founded International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War (IPPNW) with Soviet cardiologist Dr. Evgeni Chazov. Over the next four years, the duo recruited 135,000 doctors in 40 countries worldwide, met with world leaders and, in 1985, received the Nobel Peace Prize.

How does one man accomplish so much?

Lown reflects, then replies, "It's a moral drive. The moment you have a moral sensibility, you have a built-in gauge that rouses your emotions when you see injustice, inequity, threat of violence, or the like. That sense of outrage becomes a powerful energizer in that you can do twice as much as you could do otherwise.

"I've seen doctors when an emergency happens work for 36 hours straight and not feel tired. Plow is that possible? It is something-now this is sheer conjecture-involved with evolution. It's built into ourselves. Ethical sense is not a cognitive function. It is part of our emotional genetic legacy. Therefore it's so powerful, even little kids know right from wrong. I think moral sense is hard-wired in our brains. As long as you don't let it be subdued or extinguished or superseded by other less-worthy tilings, you then have a capacity’ for doing impossible things."

It's a life that might have seemed impossible for a 14-year-old who arrived in Lewiston in 1935, having fled anti-Semitism and the impending Holocaust. "It was my' father, my' brother, and me; we left my' mother and two siblings behind. It was hard because I didn't know the language and it was hard to adjust to the culture. It was, to me, a surprise that Lithuania, where I lived in a small community', was in many ways ahead of the community' I came to. I was bookish, and 1 loved literature. 1 began to read at age five.

I read great Russian novels-Tolstov, Balzac, and Dickens-and here I came to a culture that wasn't oriented to the book. If you went into a home, there wasn't a single book.

It shocked me! But when you're young, you learn the language rapidly. Within six months I could understand; and within a year I could speak."

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In Lewiston, he met his future wife, Louise, who helped him learn English. Her family's lodge on Sebago Lake in Naples became an important retreat, first for Louise and Bernard, then for their family and friends each August. "We call it our Shangri-la. It's so tranquil, gorgeous, the lake is pristine. It's a rustic life. We walk, swim, canoe, and we have conversations, so many conversations.

I bring books to read, but only get through one, because we talk and talk."

Their time on the lake is clearly regenera tive-and much needed, as Lown remains active. He's just published Prescription for Survival: A Doctor’s Journey to End Nuclear

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Madness, an eloquent and passionate memoir that Lown says is a call to action. In it, he writes, "Securing a future free of genocidal weapons requires, above all, eliminating the economic and political inequities that sunder rich and poor countries. As the Berlin Wall divided East and West, now inequality creates a fracturing divide that augurs global chaos, terrorism, and wars.

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~¥” t's not every day one of our 10 Most I Intriguing People in Maine is led JL away in handcuffs. But that's exactly what happened when swordboat captain (Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio played her in the movie The Perfect Storm), nonfiction author (The Hungry Ocean), and novelist (Slipknot) Linda Greenlaw was conducted into court in St. John's, Newfoundland, by Canadian officials after they spied her and her crew aboard the commercial fishing boat Sea Hawk allegedly straying inside Canada's 200-mile fishing limit while untangling some line.

Touchy, eh? When the alleged incursion occurred, she had a television crew on board, shooting footage for the NBC project Swords: Lives on the Line. "It's from the producers of Deadliest Catch," says Greenlaw's agent Stuart Krichevsky from New York.

Greenlaw, 47, die last human being to set eyes on the crew of the Andrea Gail before she was swallowed up by The Perfect Storm, is keeping in touch with her parents on Isle au Haut apres arrest. "'She wasn't worried,"' her mom, Martha Greenlaw, told reporter David Hench of the Portland Presss Herald. '"I'm sure she was upset.'" Upset, maybe, but undaunted.

At press time, the intrepid Greenlaw had fished up a reported $10,000 in bail personally (as part of a total of $65,000 to release boat and crew) and was back aboard the Sea Hawk in the Grand Banks.

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Diane Hoffman watched one wood-based business where she worked after another close, but after seven years at Sabre Yachts, she clearly feels a deep connection with the boat interiors she works on.

"While I don't sign any of my wooden components," she says, "the way I build them has its own uniqueness. The way I put my finish on the tops of my berths, the way 1 sand my openings-it's almost as if the boat becomes as familiar as a blood relative."

"I went from a gun to a hammer," quips Michelle Larrabee, Hoffman's co-worker. "I used to work for an armored-car service. I'd always been proud to live in the same town as Sabre-Raymond-and now I'm proud to work here. Now I'm a supervisor in the deck department. It's an awesome career."

Not that it's all smooth sailing. "We put Naugahyde up in the cabin, and you have to glue the wood first to receive it. Once I stood up and stuck my head to the deck, so somewhere there are some red hairs on a boat, hidden by the Naugahyde. Whether you

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mean to or not, you leave a little part of yourself." Asked about superstitions, she says, "You never have a 13th boat. In all our boat models, we use the alphabet. We're going to make a new model-we'll start BB-01, but there will be no BB-13."

Cathy Thompson went from fine art at the Portland School of Art to being Sabre's finest wood varnisher. "When I started here 26 years ago, we were oiling interiors, and the company was experimenting with var-

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You might call Maria Simpson a Renaissance woman. The thirty-year-old, who grew up on Penobscot Bay' and received a literature degree from Canada's McGill University, has sailed the world professionally, earning 100-ton master's and captain's licenses along the way.

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Today she's the boatyard manager at Rockport Marine, "a very' happy' place run by a bunch of liberal arts majors," she says.

She coordinates a wide range of operations at the one-acre boatyard, which has two satellite locations and a staff of fifty-five. You also might find her developing bids on contracts, writing press releases, creating the company website, fielding questions from the owner of a classic thoroughbred wooden boat, or delivering a boat to its new owners.

"From a managerial perspective, 1 enjoy seeing a boat from its concept through the day' it's launched. 1 think of the beautiful Bolero-a Sparkman & Stephens boat-we're restoring, being part of a rich tradition. Then there's the legacy of schoolchildren who will ride on the cold-molded schooner we built for the island nation, Spirit of Bermuda-theit mission is to have every' student on the island sail on this boat" before they' graduate

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highschool. It's I12feet, has three masts, and it echoes a past design, though it's rigged with state-of-the-art electronics.

Asked for tradition, Simpson says, "You put a coin in the mast step [below the main mast] for luck-yes of course, we don't want to tempt fate." Talk about the human touch"When we finished Lynx, a full-size replica of an 1812 war privateer, now operating out of Newport Beach, California, the entire crew signed the keel"-just like actors do at a cast part}' on a poster of their play.

Barbara Stainton, the owner of the Cranberry Island Boatyard, is quick to point out, "I'm not a boatbuilder; my husband, David, was. We started the business in 1985, and for 20 years 1 worked in the office doing everything from bookkeeping to dealing with customers, from sixithe to excuse. Since David died in 2006, I've been living to manage this business. People are a little astounded when they ask for the owner and I keep talking."

It's a small boatyard, each year building two to three of the 19-and-a-half foot boats her husband designed. While her staff of two full-time and two part-time workers doesn't currently include any women, this no-nonsense 75-year-old says, "I don't see any practical reason why women can't drive a nail as straight, paint as well, or do any of tire other tasks. Strength is sometimes a question, but you can always work around that."

Ingrid Wilbur-Kachmar never planned to go into the family business, Wilbur Yachts in Southwest I larbor, which was started by her parents in 1973. Still, she clearly got the entrepreneurial gene: after receiving a degree in management, she bought and ran a retail store.

"In 2001, when my parents were readv to transition out of the business, my husband, John, suggested we buy them out. My parents stayed on for two years. John, who'd been in insurance, stepped into my father's shoes in production and sales, while I took over the financial end of the business from my mother. We've brought along my technological changes, and we've changed the corporate culture, becoming more environmentally aware."

She says the company has always had women in production. "To succeed, you need a good work ethic, as everyone's performance impacts the team and the final product. This is a state of hard-working people. Anyone with the motivation, the drive to learn and work hard, can do well." ■

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n the dawn of the last century, King Hospital-a wood-frame affair that still exists as a private home-opened on William Street, near the present-day University of Southern Maine. Immediately to the left of his eponymous clinic, founder Dr. Alfred King built his own striking mansion at 141 William, for sale this fall through Benchmark Residential and Investment Real Estate for $649,900.

"Dr. King built this house between 1911 and 1912," says listing agent Tom Landry. "While ' still a senior at the Medical School of Maine [Bowdoin College, which trained physicians until 1921], where he graduated in 1886, he was tapped for the surgical staff of Maine General Hospital (now Maine Medical Center), where he worked until 1907."

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“Earle Shettleworth [of the Maine Historic Preservation Commission] told me John Calvin Stevens was the architect for both the hospital and this house," seller Jar Zimmerman says.

Graciously designed for entertaining with a marble-floor entrance, splendid wainscoted center hallway, and elegant 270degree stairway, 141 William Street ought tc be snapped up by the university as a place tc

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host faculty' parties or as headquarters for an academic department.

Zoning in the area also seems favorable for a bed and breakfast. Beyond the lusciously refurbished and refinished maple floors, the huge upper loggia is the perfect place to enjoy some scones and tea as you look out over the leaves.

The 16-foot-by-25-foot living room to the left of the hall could easily swallow a concert grand piano and a gathering, relaxing, and | reception area.

J The modem step-down den has tile fkxrrs ’ and a sliding door to a large back patio with | a bower-like feeling and room for three or four tables.

There are at least six bedrooms here, a wonderful entertaining kitchen with pantry’ and deluxe Chambers double ovens and refrigerators that bring to mind Jacqueline Bouvier at Hammersmith Farm in Neyvport or President Eisenhoyver shuffling into the galley of the Presidential yacht Sequoia (please don't change them!). Also yvonderful: the basement lounge in pickled pine with bar and kitchen ready to host Angie Dickinson.

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roll up and double-park outside Old Port Wine four minutes before they close. The air is still in the deepening darkness. Maybe a bottle of red would be just right for this damp night. My flashers ping yellow against the store's window as 1 check tire bills in my wallet and run inside. The slight, quick-fingered lady eyes the clock, but she knows my ways.

Finally home from work, I juggle the slippery shroud of our dry cleaning with the wine bottle and my messenger bag. In the front hall I flip through the mail in the basket with my free hand. The urgent envelope with the crimson border from your cell phone company is still there. You're not very good at keeping track of things.

Our roommate Francie rushes out of the kitchen. Her dark bangs sway as she crosses her arms. "Where are we going to find another roommate at this time of year?" she asks.

She's a nice enough girl but is full of useless chatter. Maybe she's worried about paying for heating oil. Who knows? We bought tire plastic for the windows, but haven't put it up yet. That s one of your projects.

"And good evening to you, too," I say.

"Why didn't you guys tell me?" Her lips spread into a thin line.

"What?" She's annoying me now. The wine bottle slips across the plastic toward my navel and 1 have to jiggle it up back nearer to the crook of my arm.

Francie sweeps back into the kitchen and I follow. She stops at the door of your tiny room which is tucked back there. It's half the size of the bedrooms upstairs. 1 put the wine on the table and follow her into the emptiness of your room. One kitchen trash bag leans against the wall, its bottom torn and spilling paper and tape cassettes with faded titles. White nail holes prick the egg-yolk-yellow paint you sloshed on the walls during one long Saturday afternoon. A whiff of your favorite coconut scent and a sudden taste of bile. I swallow.

"You didn't know," Francie says. Her chin raises and her eyes brighten in a moment of triumph before she can mask it with a crinkled brow of concern.

"He left this." Francie points to a crumpled sheet of paper torn from your journal. You've been democratic in addressing the short note to both of us. Your scrawl says you can only pay rent through next month. It offers no explanations, no apologies, no mention of our four-year relationship. It ends with the phone number of your least responsible friend. Fle's part of your South Portland crew. You've always wanted to move south. Can this be your first tiny step?

Francie watches my face. "I'm so sorry," she says. 1 don't believe her.

I swallow a few more times. "Just..." I pat the air between us, as if to push her away. She's just a roommate, not a friend. "I need to think, I say. I turn to leave but realize I still have your clean sweaters.

I drop them next to the garbage bag.

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Upstairs my room has not been disturbed. 1 remember you lighting candles and later carrying away the spent matches. No, not one thing is missing.

Back downstairs I retrieve your note and smooth it on the vacant counter where the coffee-maker used to sit. I'd bought it for your birthday, but had gotten the best model for me. I flatten out your note and reach for the cordless phone you gave me for Christmas.

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I touch our picture on the fridge. It was taken on your coffee-maker birthday, but since it was taken with my camera, I guess the picture's mine.

"What about..." 1 can't continue.

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"What about tire mess you left?"

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Your mother's Riedel wine glasses. We would never pay' so much for glasses-on-steroids we'd scoffed.

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