Portland Monthly Magazine December 2012

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December 2012

Volume 27, No. 9

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December 2012

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From Rome with Love A Gap Year for Grown Ups

Alex Cross co-star Rachel Nichols on the characters she owns.

Interview by Liza Darvin For the New Year, where do you cache your cash?

From Staff & Wire Reports

A noteworthy Portland couple hits the reset button with a change of venue.

Interview by Donna Stuart

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Chasing Amelia

Two adventurers who love Maine race to solve the Earhart mystery.

By Jason Stevenson

An American Werewolf in Wembley Stadium Looking across the Pond, is a Patriot still a patriot?

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60 2012 Gift Guide 85 House of the Month 87 New England Homes & Living

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Jamie Wyeth says he can hear the horn from his house on Monhegan. “It constantly blows. It’s so funny. People ask, ‘Aren’t you bothered by this horn?’ You get used to it. Manana is so different from Monhegan. Manana is very stark, no trees, exposed. Wild. I love it on because nobody goes there. I used to go in and have lunch with the guys who operated the station, before it was automated.

“I’ve painted the Sound Station a number of times. My father painted it, too. One of my paintings is Bronze Age, which they have at the Farnsworth, the one with the bell on the ground. That’s what the keeper rang before they had foghorns.”

One look at Bronze Age and you can hear the bell’s deafening silence.

“It certainly was ringing in my ears when I painted it. When I got there, it was just the bell [on the ledge] beside the Sound Station, with the carriage rotted away. I loved the notion that it was still there. Before the foghorn, I don’t know if the keeper went out every hour or what he hit it with!”

Can someone truly own a property like this, or do the birds own it?

“Well, yeah. I used to go over and help the island shepherd shear his sheep. He’d lived there for years. With no one to talk to otherwise, he was non-stop talker. Of course he ended up sounding like a sheep! Ho-o-o-o-w a-a-a-r-e you-u-u do-o-oing-g-g? He let me use a pair of his old metal shears. After an hour of so I was just completely soaked with lanolin. I knew wool had lanolin, but I had no idea how much.”

We were going to ask you, ‘What’s the strangest thing you’ve ever seen or heard happen on Manana,’ but I think you’ve just told it to us. You like to rescue lighthouses (Southern Island). Do you have a personal interest in entering the bidding for the Manana Sound Station?

“I really don’t. I don’t think any group is going forward. I love the idea that it’s a still a working station, and I actually own one tenth of Manana, but I have enough to do on Southern Island to keep me busy with lighthouses.”

To enter the bidding, $10,000 is needed as a minimum bid (registration deposit is $5,000).

The GSA sales portfolio reports this ramshackle 1855 landmark as “0.15 acres improved with a two-story, white, wooden clapboard, four-bedroom former Keeper’s Quarters that measures 2,958 square feet…[There’s a] brick foundation with a brick cistern in the basement and an attached deck.” Thrown in for the bargain: “a brick Sound Signal Building with a wooden tower, constructed in 1889, and measuring approximately 220 square feet,” according to the Government Invitation for Bids. To participate, contact Barbara J. Salfity at 617-565-5696.

“The auction is ongoing right now,” says Tiffany Lanceleve of Property Disposal. To see who’s winning, “Follow the bidding on GSA’s web site: realestatesales.gov/gsaauctions/aucitdsc. We won’t set an end date until we’ve scheduled the on-site inspection.”

What you don’t get: “The U.S. Coast Guard will retain the solar array, fog signal equipment, the equipment storage building (1905), the walkway, and the boat launch.”

Imagine–you can live in a Jamie Wyeth painting. You and yours will inherit the wind.

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I read with great interest your recent coverage of Fritzi Cohen (“Swimming with the Sharks,” Summerguide 2012; “Letter from Editor,” October 2013). Your tribute to her was touching and well written. To us fans, she always looked like she did when she asked Roy Scheider in Jaws, “Are you going to close the beaches!?”

I quoted from your article about her in my eulogy at her services, and added something she did for me. It was 1976. I’d lost my ticket to London from New York on a theater trip planned by Portland Players. The people at the counter didn’t believe me. So Fritzi walked up and “helped” them believe.

Within seconds, they issued a new ticket and I was on my way.

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Regarding “Give Me a Break” by Reed McNamara (Oct. 2012), I was curious about the characterization of the agreement the City made with Federated Companies for development in Bayside. A “direct cash infusion of taxpayer money”…is not accurate. The $9 million is money received from the Dept. of Housing & Urban Development to provide funding to improve Bayside…identified by the City Council as an area needing improvement and also qualified by HUD back in 2002 to receive funds to help make those im­prove­ments.

The City applied for this money for the purpose of building a parking garage to provide public parking for future economic development…There was discussion…of the garage being pub­licly built and owned, 1 2 p o r t l a n d m o n t h ly m a g a z i n e

but the decision was it should be private­ly con­ structed as part of larger develop­ment, with the condition it be available for public use.

You may recall the City being in negotia­ tions with Maine Health a few years ago to do just such a development, which fell vic­ tim to the economic downturn and was abandoned. We subsequently negotiated the current agreement with the Federated Com­ panies, which still includes the parking ga­ rage that the $9 million is being used for. Part of this funding is a loan that will be paid back to HUD through a portion of the tax revenue the City receives from the develop­ ment, which was anticipated and is what ini­ tially secured the HUD funds.

I believe that the statement made in the arti­ cle is misleading to readers, as it suggests that the $9 million is some kind of taxpayer subsidy to the development. The only connection to tax revenue is from the development itself, which has been the expectation for years in order to redevelop the Bayside area, and there is a net gain to the City…

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Ellen Sanborn is correct in pointing out that this deal isn’t a “direct cash infusion of taxpayer money.”

Borrowing money from the federal government, and giv­ ing that money to a private developer, should be character­ ized as an “indirect infusion of taxpayer money.”After all, the city is not spending money it actually has…just taking out a loan (on the good faith and credit of Portland taxpayers), giv­ ing that money to a developer, and repaying the loan (plus in­ terest) using tax receipts over the next few decades…

The City of Portland is financing an infrastructure project they have claimed for years to need…and the city walks away with absolutely no ownership in the project whatsoever. In fact, what Portland gets in return is the privilege of renting the parking spaces they need …from the company that is already benefiting from …taxpayer largesse.

The City of Portland is well worth the investment any en­ terprise makes…to locate here. I believe the [public’s] sensitivi­ ty to TIF…stems from three things: a growing fiscal conservatism; a general mistrust over the creeping privatiza­ tion of public works; but more than anything else, an immense pride in the city–its workforce, its creativity, its environment…

While the City should certainly court private investment, [city leadership seems] to hold an increasingly dim view of the as­ sets [we] bring to the negotiating table. Portland is worth in­ vesting in. The companies obviously believe this. So why doesn’t the City Council?–Read McNamara Jr.

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Enjoyed your interview with Daryl Hall (“Preservation Hall” July/August 2007 by Colin W. Sargent) on restoring his home in [Kittery Point]. What an inspiring, down to earth, timelessly cool guy. I’ve enjoyed the jam sessions at his house as well as the chefs who come out to share their expertise…Like the houses he restores, Daryl Hall will al­ ways be a class act.

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The Nutcracker Maine State Ballet’s holiday classic at Merrill Auditorium $15-$55, mainestateballet.org

9 Days of Spirit Christmas Prelude (Dec 1-2 & 7-9) Dock Square kicks off festivities in anticipation of the holidays.

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natalie MacMaster “Christmas in Cape Breton” The famed Nova Scotia fiddler brings her native Christmas carols and Celtic melodies to 7:30pm, Merrill Auditorium, $35-$50, portlandovations.org

VOICE & Speech Performance Theater professor, stage dialect & speech coach Katalin Vecsey’s talented student performers present a showcase of their final theater projects.

7:30pm, Gannett Theater, Bates College, Lewiston, Free, but tickets required, www.bates.edu

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First Friday Art Walk 5pm-9pm, Arts District, Portland Free, portlandmaine.com

Merry Madness Downtown Portland stores host late-night shopping and refreshments. 5-10pm, Free, kickoff at Portland Regency Hotel, $7 for souvenir bottomless mug of hot chocolate or glass of wine, portlandmaine.com

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Christmas Magic of Christmas Portland Symphony Orchestra.

Orchestra Dec. 14-16, 21-23, Merrill Auditorium, $31-$61 portlandsymphony.org

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BOB MARLeY 13th Annual Holiday Show with Krazy Jake Dec. 28-31, Merrill Auditorium, $47.50, tickets.porttix.com

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FANTASTIC STORIES: THE SUPERNATURAL IN 19th- CENTURY JAPANESE PRINTS Late Edo period Japanese woodblock prints depicting mythical creatures. Through March 3, 2013, Bowdoin Museum of Art, Free, bowdoin.edu/art-museum

New Year’s Eve Maple Leaf Drop, 11pm, Dec. 31 Sardine Drop, 12am, Jan. 1 43 Water St., Eastport. Free, tidesinstitute.org/newyearseve2012.html

GINGERBREAD HOUSE DECORATING FOR ADULTS 12-3pm, Hartstone Inn, Camden, $55, hartstoneinn.com

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8pm, One Longfellow Square, $15-$18, onelongfellowsquare.com

POLAR EXPRESS–Ride Chris Van Allsburg’s magical train to visit Santa at the North Pole and see all the beloved characters come to life. Weekends through Dec. 23, Maine Narrow Gauge Railroad Company and Museum, $20-$40, mainenarrowgauge.org/ polar-express

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Copper Beech Tree Lighting Portland Museum of Art, 7pm, Free, portlandmuseum.org,

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The Santaland Diaries David Sedaris’s one-elf comedy has ‘Crumpet’ relate the trials and tribulations of Macy’s department store at the height of the shopping season. Through Dec. 16, Portland Stage Co. Studio Theater, $24, portlandstage.org

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ChRISTMAS AT THE VICTORIA MANSION: The Gilded Age Through Jan. 6 Victoria Mansion 109 Danforth St., $5-$15, victoriamansion.org

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Theater Lyric Music Theater, 176 Sawyer St., South Portland. Once Upon a Mattress, Feb. 15-Mar. 2; The Drowsy Chaperone, Apr. 12-27; Deathtrap, Jun. 21-30.

799-1421 lyricmusictheater.org Merrill Auditorium, 20 Myrtle St., Portland. Beauty and the Beast, Jan. 4-5; The Joffrey Ballet, Mar. 21; Rock of Ages, Mar. 30; HAIR, Apr. 19; The Story of the Three Little Pigs, Apr. 21. 842-0800 porttix.com Penobscot Theatre Company, 131 Main St., Bangor.

Annie, through Dec. 29; The Sugar Bean Sisters, Jan. 30-Feb. 17; Wit, Mar. 13-31; Around the World in 80 Days, May 15-Jun. 2. 947-6618 penobscottheatre.org Portland Players, 420 Cottage Rd., South Portland. Arsenic and Old Lace, Jan. 25-Feb. 10; Noises Off, Mar. 22-Apr. 7; All Shook Up, May 17-Jun. 2.

799-7337 portlandplayers.org Portland Stage, 25A Forest Ave., Portland. A Christmas Carol, through Dec. 23; Greater Tuna, Jan. 22-Feb. 17; A Song at Twilight, Feb. 28-Mar. 18; Love/Sick, Mar. 26-Apr. 21; Wittenburg, Apr. 30-May 19. 780-5151 portlandstage.org

Music Asylum, 121 Center St., Portland. Karaoke, every W; 80s Dance Party, every Th. 772-8274 portlandasylum.com

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Bayside Bowl, 58 Alder St., Portland.

Jerks of Grass, every Th; Mozart 212, Dec. 28; MAMM Jams, Jan. 4, Feb. 1, Mar. 1, Apr. 5.

791-2695 baysidebowl.com/events Blue, 650 Congress St., Portland. Traditional Irish Session, every W; MSA in the Round; Tip O’ the Hat Series, Dec. 15; Tim Novak; The Big Lonesome; Groove Ruckus, Dec. 20; Welterweight; Matt Meyer & The Gumption Junction, Dec. 21; In the Round with Shanna; Connor Garvey; The Hardy Quartet, Dec. 22; The Barn Swallows; Dharma Bird; Samuel James & Dana Gross, Dec. 27; Bob Rasero; Seth Wonkka; LQH, Dec. 28; Kendy Gable; Noel Brennan, Dec. 29; OKBARI; Joyce Anderson; Evan King Group, Jan. 4; Abram Taylor, Jan. 5; The Barn Swallows; Bluegrass Jam Session, Jan. 10; Chris Robley; Poke Chop & TOWM, Jan. 11; Jesse Lupica Quartet; Hee Hawk; Jacob Forbes Quartet, Jan. 12; Groove Ruckus, Jan. 17; Suncooked; The Four Legged Faithful, Jan. 18; Sean Mencher & His Rhythm Kings, Jan. 19; Bob Rasero; Putnam Murdock; Trapparatus, Jan. 25; Wurlibird; Domino Jazz, Jan. 26. 774-4111 portcityblue.com Dogfish Bar and Grille, 128 Free St., Portland.

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Empire Dine and Dance, 575 Congress St., Portland. The Couch, open mic, every Su; Bluegrass, every M; Chaz Lester Trio, jazz, every Tu; Clash of the Titans, every W; Marco Benevento, Dec. 15; Steiner Street; Borderlines, Dec. 28; All Good Feel God Collective; Eight Feet Tall;Joint Chiefs, Jan. 26. 879-8988 portlandempire.com Hannaford Hall, USM, 88 Bedford St., Portland.

ETHEL: Present Beauty, Jan. 30; The Bad Plus, Feb. 17; Voices of Afghanistan, Mar. 16; Pablo Ziegler Trio, Mar. 28. 842-0800 porttix.com Jonathan’s, 92 Bournes Ln., Ogunquit.

Stephen Kellogg Solo, Dec. 30; All Together Now Beatles Tribute, Feb. 14.

646-4526 jonathansrestaurant.com Merrill Auditorium, 20 Myrtle St., Portland. Magic of Christmas, Dec. 14-23; Wynton Marsalis, Jan. 25; Happy Birthday, Mozart!; Jan. 27; Beethoven’s Fifth, Feb. 5; Midtown Men, Feb. 14; Marc-Andre Hamelin, Feb. 16; A Night at the Movies, Feb. 23-24; Wynton Marsalis: Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra, Jan. 25; Happy Birthday Mozart, Jan. 27; Beethoven’s Fifth, Feb. 5; Midtown Men, Feb. 14; Marc-Andre Hamelin, Feb. 16; The Bad Plus, Feb. 17; A Night at the Movies, Feb. 23-24; Celtic Woman, Apr. 9.

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One Longfellow Square, 181 State St., Portland. Yulegrass, Dec. 15; Portland Jazz Orchestra, Dec. 20; Inanna Winter Solstice, Dec. 21; Alexis P. Suter Band, Dec. 22; Ellis Paul, Dec 29; Garnet Rogers, Jan. 11; Eilen Jewel, Jan. 17; Portland Jazz Orchestra, Jan. 24; Ronnie Earl & the Broadcasters, Jan. 26; Tift Merritt, Jan. 30; Portland Jazz Orchestra, Feb. 7; Jonathan Edwards, Feb. 15; Steve Forbert, Feb. 23; Willie Nile, Mar. 8; Portland Jazz Orchestra, Mar. 21; Paula Poundstone, Apr 4.

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Killswitch Engage, Dec. 20; Badfish; Ryan Montbleau Band, Dec. 28; Devil Makes Three, Dec. 29; moe, Dec. 30-31; Keane, Jan. 30; Punch Brothers, Feb. 17; George Thorogood and the Destroyers, Mar. 8; Great Big Sea, Apr. 24.

956-6000 statetheatreportland.com Stone Mountain Arts Center, 695 Dug Way Rd., Brownfield. Stone Mountain Live for Christmas, Dec. 15-22; Dar Williams, Dec. 29; Paula Cole, Jan. 20; Paul Rishell and Annie Raines, Feb. 8; Red Molly, Feb. 9; Sweet Honey in the Rock, Feb. 17; Stray Birds, Mar. 15; Paula Poundstone, Mar. 23; Tim O’Brien, Apr. 6; April Verch, Apr. 27; Jonathan Edwards, May 4; Steep Canyon Rangers, May 5. 935-7292 stonemountainartscenter.com/artscenter

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Galleries Addison Woolley Gallery, 132 Washington Ave., Portland. Dave Wade, Alan Sockloff, through Dec. 22; Dan Dow, Diane Hudson, opening Jan. 4.

450-8499 addisonwoolley.com Art Gallery at UNE, 716 Stevens Ave., Portland. Maine Women Pioneers III, through Jul. 21. 221-4499 une.edu/artgallery Bates College Museum of Art, 75 Russell St., Lewiston. Robert S. Neuman’s Ship to Paradise, Jan. 18-Mar. 22; Fransje Killaars: Color at the Center, Jan. 25-Mar. 22. 786-6259 bates.edu/museum Bowdoin College Museum of Art, 1 Bath Rd., Brunswick. We Never See Anything Clearly: John Ruskin and Landscape Painting; Making a Presence: F. Holland Dai in Artistic Photography, through Dec. 23; A Printmaking ABC: In Memoriam David P. Becker, through Mar. 10.

725-3275 bowdoin.edu/art-museum First Friday Art Walk, downtown Portland. Visit local galleries, studios, and museums, Jan. 4, Feb. 1, Mar. 1, Apr. 5. firstfridayartwalk.com Maine Historical Society Museum, 489 Congress St., Portland. Wired: How Electricity Came to Maine, through May 26. 774-1822 mainehistory.org

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Portland Museum of Art, 7 Congress Sq., Portland. Weatherbeaten: Winslow Homer and Maine, through Dec. 30; Maine Sublime: Portland Society of Art: Winslow Homer’s Legacy in Maine, through Jan. 13; Lois Dodd: Catching the Light, opens Jan. 17.

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772-9463 oldportwine.com RSVP, 887 Forest Ave., Portland. Wine tasting every second W, 4-7pm. 773-8808 Salt Exchange, 245 Commercial St., Portland. Bourbon tastings, first F of every month. 347-5687 thesaltexchange.net The West End Deli & Catering, 133 Spring St., Portland. Wine tastings every first F, 6-8pm.

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New York City’s hurricane-ravaged Tri-State-area residents were surprised to see Maine plates in their neighborhoods after Hurricane Sandy. Eleven Maine state troopers were a dream come true for New Jersey’s sleep-deprived law enforcement crews in Monmouth County.

Twenty-five Central Maine Power trucks re-energized northwest Jersey. And Allen & Coles Moving Systems literally brought a truckload of help, with donations through the Portland Regional Chamber of Commerce. These are just a few of the efforts launched from around our state.

This goodwill goes beyond charity; we’re returning a favor. “Some of the First Energy crews who came up here [af-

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ter the ice storm 1998, to help repair damaged CMP lines] are some of the same people working down in New Jersey now,” says CMP’s John Carroll. “This is our chance to repay them.”

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“Maine doesn’t have a state dog,” says Michelle Lagreux of Maine State Museum. Massachusetts, unsurprisingly, claims the Boston Terrier, and our long-departed Cajun cousins in Louisiana have the Catahoula Leopard Dog, but Maine has no canine ambassador to the world. “It takes a bill introduced into the legislature,“ says Lagreux, “and the breed would need to have strong connection to At a recent Portland Symphony the state.” Sadly, the Chinook’s already been slipped out from under Orchestra concert, conductor Robus by New Hampshire–outrageously, considering our claim. ert Moody addressed the crowd “Maine’s Perry Greene Kennels spearheaded saving the breed from with a personal note. “Guest cellist extinction,” Lagreux huffs. Who cares if we Joel Noyes visiting from Lincoln “ruffle New Hampshire’s feathers? They’re Center’s Metropolitan Opera Oralready ruffled over the chestra is the son of Dick [cello] bridge and shipyard.” and Clorinda [violin] Noyes who On the other hand, play for the PSO. one wag tells us, “We al“Which means,” he deadready have a state panned, “There’s a lot of Noyes up dog–the Maine Coon here on stage tonight.”

Cat. They think they run everything.”

Other state dogs: Alaska, Alaskan Malamute; Maryland, Chesapeake Bay Retriever; North Carolina, Plott Hound; Pennsylvania, Great Dane; South Carolina, Boykin Spaniel; Texas, Blue Lacy; Virginia, American Foxhound; Wisconsin, American Water Spaniel (netstate.com).

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“New Jersey asked for help, and we gave it. “

“We were wearing night vision goggles when we first came in,” says LCDR Steve Cerveny, 43, the U.S. Coast Guard helicopter pilot who, along with a second chopper and a C-130 orbiting overhead, was first to reach the replica HMS Bounty in the predawn darkness off the North Carolina coast during Hurricane Sandy. Ceverney’s mission in “50-knot winds” was to pull 16 souls from the sea.

“Now they’re saying we had 30-foot-seas out there,” he says. “I wouldn’t call it a miracle, but you’re always thankful for what you can do. .”

In all, “we had five survivors,” Cerveny says of his aircraft. “The other helo had nine.”

With people the first priority, there was no time for the unreality to sink in. “We were bringing a swimmer back up when we looked at our ten o’clock position,” Cerveny says. “We didn’t know what it was over there…a dark shape. A strobe light was up on one of the masts. What was that? It was the HMS Bounty.”

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R.I.P. Twinkies?

When David Letterman pronounced the death of Hostess Twinkies on his show due to a labor strike, it was hardly a joke to Mainers. How will this affect Hostess subsidiary J.J. Nissen’s workforce? Dead or undead, Twinkies and Wonder Bread have achieved an eerie relevance at the dawn of 2013.

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“Seeing the Bounty’s hull submerged was surreal,” says Ceverney’s co-pilot, LT Jaña Peña, 31. “A total anachronism. Hovering above this ‘pirate’ ship felt like we went back in time.”

We’ send our deepest gratitude to the Coast Guard rescue crews and our sympathy to the families of Capt. Robin Wallbridge and crewman Claudine Christian, who so loved this ship.

The Bounty and her crew have many ties to Maine. To learn about her restoration, read “Trip to Bounty-ful,” July/August 2007; “Scrutiny on the Bounty,” July/August 2001; “When Did Portland Miss the Boat?” October 2000.

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It’s an honor to earn a reputation as a woman who’s totally believable in an action role. That’s hard to do. It started with Alias.

Working with Jennifer Garner, who is both a

woman and so well established as an action hero, was a platform for me. Those fight sequences were my first taste. And then I got lucky with a bunch of physical roles [GI Joe: The Rise of Cobra, Conan the Barbarian, and P2, where she’s abducted in a parking garage and ‘kicks ass’ to get away] after that. It will never impede me from doing anything else.

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Fight scenes are like a big, long dance—you learn them part by part by part before putting it all together. It’s funny–the first fight scene I ever had was on Alias and I had to fight this character Zoë was doubling for. I came up really early from a punch. Zoë hit me in the face. I think to this day I am the only actor she has ever hit. We get to rematch each other in Raze!

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For Criminal Minds, when you’re doing Season 6 and it is a well-established show with a big group of people, there isn’t a lot of pressure to perform. No one was expecting me to do anything. But then if you are the lead of a brand new show, the pressure is absolutely on. I happen to perform well under pressure, so I like pressure.

Continuum envisions 2077 as a cultural wasteland where

corporations are running our government. Totally fiction, right?

Sci-fi is brilliant because you can make a show that is very political without having to talk about it being political. The future on Continuum looks really bleak. Does it really worry me? No, but it’s something I think about, what it will actually look like.

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My friends loaded their cars with supplies and brought them to people [who’ve lost so much]. I want to help, but I don’t have a car [in Manhattan], and the thought of me pulling up in a black Lincoln Town Car seems wrong. I guess I could always take a cab. I’m trying to get people to focus on hurricane relief on Twitter.

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Being in NYC now, how did Hurricane Sandy impact you?

I’ve never seen a natural disaster anything like this–ever. I’m [near Columbus Circle] and never lost power at all–nothing. But friends of mine are devastated–some downtown are out of their homes for weeks, oth-

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Do you ever see yourself producing or acting in a project that films in Maine?

Not a lot of stuff shoots in Maine! Movies go where there are tax breaks. I did Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants II in Connecticut, but that’s as close as I ever got [to Maine]. If you cut taxes, they will come!

I now name everything. When I go to the Apple Store, I know I’ll be there longer than I should and will buy more than I need, so I try and find the cutest guy with the best name to help me, and name whatever I get after them. I don’t tell them, so unless they know who I am and follow me on Twitter, they probably have no idea I’ve secretly stolen their name. My iPad is “Curtis.” When I went in to get my iPhone, his name was Richard, and I thought, “Great! I can name it ‘Dick!” My computer was “Bud,” but he couldn’t handle his liquor, so after he got sloshed one night by red wine he got wiped clean, so now he’s the “Artist Formerly Known As Bud.”

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New York, but I’ve never missed a Christmas. That’s thirty-two Christmases in Maine, going on thirty-three.

I still sleep in the same bed that I slept in when I was growing up. Sleep is better there than anywhere else in the world. My bedroom is pretty much the same. I had rainbow wallpaper until I was thirteen, when we changed the color and the fabric.

You mean, no ‘N Sync posters on the wall?

No! Though it would have been New Kids on the Block... There is no Joey McIntyre staring at me from above my bed!

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hisper “Free Money,” and ears prick up. During a recent promotional blitz at their new Waterboro branch, Sanford Institute for Savings slipped in $50 bills instead of twenties as ATM cash for their new customers. For example, if you asked for $200 and you received nine twenties and a fifty, you didn’t have to turn yourself in. It can be exciting to be in the right place at the right time.

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Dollars&Sense This dramatic step, “ATM Gone Wild,” was a stunning Cinderella touch and a memorable way for SIS to reach out to its clients, with a little bit of Evita-style largesse tossed in for star quality.

Did you know that at Town and Country Federal Credit Union, all ATMs will give you just $1 if that’s all you desire? Talk about a direct strike on the Yankee psyche.

Sometimes we just need $1. It’s considerate to see a firm that allows us withdraw money at a speed we choose.

Then, there’s the magic of word of mouth.

During our research we overheard someone say in downtown Portland, “I’m loving my refi. Can you believe it? Just 3.27 percent at University Credit Union!”

There’s a head-turner.

We hope you enjoy reading “The Big Bank Theory 2013” as you compare Maine’s financial institutions bank to bank, credit union to credit union, advantage to advantage. You don’t have to be Sheldon in The Big Bang Theory to write an algorithm to discover what makes you happy. You’re looking for great deals, consideration, transparency. After all, it’s in your best interest.

Androscoggin Bank, androscogginbank.com Branches, 13; Minimum ATM withdraw, $20; Non-customer ATM charge, $2; Refund ATM surcharges, Yes, with BlueWave Basic Checking; Checking account fee, $5-$10, waived with requirements Highest savings account APY & terms: .20%, $100K min.

Credit card APRs for A, B, C credit scores: 9.99%-20.99% Best APR for 60-month auto loan: 6.091% Lowest 30-year fixed rate res. mortgage APR: 3.397% Lowest residential mortgage APR & terms: 2.915%, 15-year fixed Highest APY opportunity: 1.75%, 5-year CD, $500 min.

Highest CD APY & terms: 1.75%, 5-year CD, $500 min.

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Auburn Savings Bank, auburnsavings.com Branches, 2; Minimum ATM withdraw, $10; Non-customer ATM charge, $2; Refund ATM surcharges, No; Checking account fee, No Highest savings account APY & terms: .70%, Health Savings Account, $25 min.

Best APR for 60-month auto loan: 5.50% Lowest 30-year fixed rate res. mortgage APR: 4.01% Lowest residential mortgage APR & terms: 3.518%, 15-year fixed Highest APY opportunity: 1.35%, 5-year CD, $500 min.

Best APY for 12-month IRA: .40% Breakout advantage: “We’re banking as it should be–our customers [like] someone who knows them, listens, and addresses their banking needs from a commonsense approach.

Add to that our great rates and reasonable fees!”

–Allen Sterling, CEO & President Bangor Savings, bangor.com Branches, 56; Minimum ATM withdraw, $20; Noncustomer ATM charge, $3; Refund ATM surcharges, Yes, within three business days; Checking account fee, No, with Benefit and Benefit 62 Checking Highest savings account APY & terms: .25%, Benefit Savings, $25 min.

Credit card APRs for A, B, C credit scores: 9.99%-20.99% Best APR for 60-month auto loan: 3.88% Lowest 30-year fixed rate res. mortgage APR: 3.55% Lowest residential mortgage APR & terms: 3.375% (36 months) Highest APY opportunity: 1.10%, 60-month term CD, $500 min.

Best APY for 12-month IRA: .15%, $100K min.

Breakout advantage: “We’re 160 years old, with 56 branches statewide, 8 in greater Portland.”

–Parke A. Burmeister, Assistant VP, Marketing Manager Bank of America, bankofamerica.com Branches, 33; Minimum ATM withdraw, $20; Non-customer ATM charge, $2; Refund ATM surcharges, No; Checking account fee, $8.95-$25, waived with direct deposit or min. balance met Highest savings account APY & terms: .20%, Money Market Savings, $2.5M min.

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10.99%-22.99% Best APR for 60-month auto loan: 2.59% Lowest 30-year fixed rate res. mortgage APR: 3.5% for purchasing and 3.75% for refinancing Highest APY opportunity: .65%, fixed IRA Highest CD APY & terms: .30%, $10K min.

Best APY for 12-month IRA: .45% Breakout advantage: “More choice and convenience, including industry-leading fraud protection, access to thousands of banking centers and ATMs, and the best online and mobile banking, allowing customers to bank on their terms.”

–T. J. Crawford, Media Relations Bank of Maine, thebankofmaine.com Branches , 33; Minimum ATM withdraw, $20; Non-customer ATM charge, $2; Refund ATM surcharges, Yes; Checking account fee, No Highest savings account APY & terms: .10% Credit card APRs for A, B, C credit scores:

9.99%-20.99% Lowest 30-year fixed rate res. mortgage APR: 3.56% Lowest residential mortgage APR & terms: 3.107%, 15-year fixed Highest APY opportunity: 1.56%, 5-year CD, $500 min.

Best APY for 12-month IRA: .50%, $20K min.

Breakout advantage: “We offer the Promise Rewards Account, a free checking account that pays you for everyday transactions along with additional benefits such as a $250 mortgage closing credit. For 178 years, we have been Maine’s bank.”

–Renée Smyth, Senior Vice President (SVP) Bar Harbor Bank & Trust, bhbt.com Branches, 15; Minimum ATM withdraw, $5 (depending on ATM); Non-customer ATM charge, $1; Refund ATM surcharges, Up to $25 a month, E-Choice Checking; Checking account fee, No, with Simple Choice Checking

Highest savings account APY & terms: .07%, Statement Savings, $25 min.

Credit card APRs for A, B, C credit scores: 9.99%-20.99% Lowest 30-year fixed rate res. mortgage APR: 4.559% Lowest residential mortgage APR & terms: 2.749%, 15-year fixed Highest APY opportunity: 2.01%, E-Choice Checking, $10K max.

Highest CD APY & terms: 1.40%, 60-month, $500 min.

Best APY for 12-month IRA: .30% Breakout advantage: “We were just named one of the Best Places to Work in Maine in 2012.

We’re very engaged in our community. Our customers really appreciate that about us.”

–Cathy Planchart, Corporate Communications and Community Relations Bath Savings Institution, bathsavings.com Branches, 9; Minimum ATM withdraw, $5; Non-customer ATM charge, $2; Refund ATM surcharges, No; Checking account fee, $0-$6.50 Highest savings account APY & terms: .12% Best APR for 60-month auto loan: 3.041% Lowest 30-year fixed rate res. mortgage APR: 3.794% Lowest residential mortgage APR & terms: 3.026%, 5-year adjustable Highest APY opportunity: .95%, 5.75-year CD, $500 min.

Best APY for 12-month IRA: .20% Breakout advantage: “We’re a Mainebased mutual organization, proud to be managed and controlled locally. Our Neighbor to Neighbor Programs connect individuals, businesses and non-profits, enriching the towns we call home. Since 1852, we’ve remained a source of investment in each hometown community we serve, providing strength and stability even in the stormiest financial times.”

–Barbara Gaul, VP of Marketing Biddeford Savings, biddefordsavings.com Branches, 6; Minimum ATM withdraw, $5; Non-customer ATM charge, $2.50; Refund ATM surcharges, Up to four refunds with Checking Plus; Checking account fee, No, with Basic Checking Highest savings account APY & terms: .65%, Savings Plus, $100K min.

Lowest 30-year fixed rate res. mortgage APR: 3.647% Lowest residential mortgage APR & terms: 2.914%, 15-year fixed Highest APY & terms: 1.41%, 5-year CD, $1,500 min.

Best APY for 12-month IRA: .40% Breakout advantage: “Our caring, capable staff.

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From Rome, With Love A Gap Year for GrownUps Or is it year(s)? An influential Portland couple with their daughter drop everything for a romantic change of venue.

Rome by night dazzles outside the Colosseum; Ken Kunin & Beth Stickney, both 55, and their daughter Simi, 11, are all smiles on the Amalfi coast.

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aking a gap year–a time to travel and explore options in life–is a rite of passage for many Brits. As many as 200,000 youths take time out each year; most notably, Prince William traveled to South America on a charity project before entering the University of St. Andrews (and meeting the future Duchess of Cambridge), while his brother went to Lesotho, Australia, and Argentina before beginning his military training at Sandhurst.

You don’t have to be English, or even wet behind the ears, to want to mine time abroad for life-changing experiences. Ken Kunin, (former principal of Deering High School) and his wife, Beth Stickney (founder of the Immigrant Legal Advocacy Project in Portland– ILAP), along with their daughter, Simi, 11, are sojourning in Italy. We caught up with them via Skype.

You’ve both worked with immigrants. What’s it been like to uproot your family from Maine to live what must be a very different life in Rome? Do you feel like immigrants?

Ken Kunin: We’ve been in Rome fourteen months– and Rome definitely isn’t Portland, Maine. It’s exciting: We live right in Rome; the American Overseas School where I work is one mile away. Italy’s very different in climate, atmosphere, really in every way.

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Beth Stickney: We’re not going to be here forever– not like many immigrants, some of whom are refugees and may not see their homelands again. But like them, we had to get a certificato di residenza–a permit for residence–and basically follow the immigration process.

Ken, this was one of 30 jobs you applied for in 17 countries. Why Italy?

KK: We originally wanted to go to South or Central America, but then I saw the opening in Rome and thought, why not? Italian is a Romance language. I thought there was no chance, but it turns out we’re a good match. I hope to be here four years. [Simi in the background: “Two!”] It takes a lot of time to learn the language and make an impact.

What touched off the wanderlust at this point in your life and made you decide to court the unfamiliar?

KK: Each school I’ve had the opportunity to serve has been completely different, so each change has been courting the unfamiliar. The biggest shift for me professionally was making the change from [Portland’s] Reiche Elementary School to Deering High, though much to my surprise I found I loved high school. When I began to think about a next step after Deering, Beth encouraged me to think about international schools as an opportunity to serve in a different type of school, which would also provide a great opportunity for our daughter to live and learn in another culture. Beth had lived December

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Clockwise from top: The Pantheon is a blockbuster tourist destination–and a functioning church; Albergo Cesari’s terrace offers a ringside seat to Rome’s rooftops; crowds mill outside the Pantheon as they have for 2,000 years; the selection at Gelateria della Palma is the family favorite .

and worked in El Salvador in the early 1990s and so had a sense of what a powerful experience this could be for our family and for our daughter. Though our mascot at AOSR is the Falcon and not the Deering Ram, when I walk into the gym on a Friday night for a basketball game, I can smell the popcorn and feel the same spirit I did in the Deering gym on Stevens Avenue, but when I walk out the school gate I am not on a quiet Maine street but on the Via Cassia, a narrow road providing one of the main routes north out of Rome for two thousand years.

Beth, have you been in touch with ILAP–are they emailing for advice and hoping for your return?

BS: There are inevitable questions here and there that come up. But I should clarify that while I am ILAP’s biggest fan, I’m not on sabbatical. Founding executive directors, in my opinion, need to remember to move on, and Ken’s job in Rome coincided nicely with the right time for me to do so…When I return, I expect to be, like many in Maine, a proud suppoter of ILAP, but I will not be rejoining the staff.

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Is your plan definitely to return to Portland?

KK: We definitely plan to return to Maine and to Portland…We treasure our time in Rome, but Portland and Maine is home.

Did either of you know Italian prior to arriving?

KK: No, so we’ve been studying. Beth has had it somewhat easier because she knows Spanish and French. But the people here are so gracious: If you try to speak Italian, they’ll help you in any way they can. Even though the instructional language at school is English, I do try to speak Italian there, and those at the school appreciate this.

BS: I can’t work and I don’t have a work visa; Ken has a temporary working visa, but the spouse of someone who has one can’t get one.

I’m volunteering at an agency in Rome that works with refugees, translating some of their material from Italian into English. It helps that I know the issues. My reading and writing have come along faster than my spoken Italian. I also volunteer at the school–something I couldn’t do in Portland, as I was working.

Have you explored Italy or other places in Europe?

KK: We felt at the end of the last school year that we really hadn’t traveled much–but then we looked back and we’ve seen a lot of central Italy, a bit of the north as well as the

Amalfi coast, Florence, the Hague, Athens, Paris, and the Adriatic coast… I was in Athens for meetings when they were experiencing turmoil. It was surreal to see the Acropolis, where so much history was made, and to know that at that moment, a different kind of history was unfolding. We also were here when [the former Italian Prime Minister] Silvio Berlusconi stepped down; outside the presidential palace, a choir sang [George Frideric Handel’s] “Hallelujah” chorus.

BS: I was an art history major, and it’s been unbelievable to be here. Sometimes I want to pinch myself. I’m going to a Vermeer show–the first exhibit of its kind in Italy– that’s not going to be seen anywhere else. I saw a fabulous exhibit of Georgia O’Keeffe’s works at the Fondazione Roma Museo that was wonderfully curated, the best I’ve seen outside Santa Fe. The collection at the Museo Nazionale d’Arte Orientale–the museum of Asian art and history in the Palazzo Brancaccio–is fantastic, and I expect it rivals that at the Metropolitan [Museum in New York].

KK: We’ve been to the Pantheon ten or twenty times. It’s been functioning as a [Roman Catholic] church since the seventh century. You can get married there.

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travelogue BS: …And nearby is Simi’s favorite place for gelato, the Gelateria della Palma. They have the biggest selection of flavors–a hundred– but I’ve learned about gelaterias: If they have blue gelato–called Puffo, the Italian word for Smurf–turn right around and leave. It’s just not worth it.

Have you become a connoisseur of gelato? After all, as a Stickney [Beth’s family were the former owners of Deering Ice Cream], you must really know ice cream.

BS: I’m making a study of pistachio. [She gives it the proper Italian pronunciation; the “ch” in the middle has a “k” sound, not a “sh” sound.]

Of course, we want to know about the food…

KK: You can’t go wrong, wherever you eat!

Even the school lunches have a primi (pasta), secondi (meat or fish), contorni (vegetables), salad, and fresh fruit.

BS: You buy local because that’s what everything is. We’ve been able to try different vegetables. Agretti is like a combination of spinach and grass–and there are so many different salad greens and mushrooms. The artichokes have no choke and they’re not spiny; sometimes you can get them so fresh you can eat them raw, with just a little olive oil and cheese…

Ken, you were once a professional juggler, performing in the Commedia dell’Arte style. Now that you’re in the birthplace of this style of performance, have you had a chance to see any?

KK: No, though we saw some great street performers in Paris. In Rome, you have “living statues” who don’t move…

BS: Like the human Statue of Liberty–and we’ve seen silver people dressed as cowboys. Very odd.

KK: They also have a gladiators’ union here.

The gladiators are at the Forum and the Colosseum, and have their pictures taken with tourists. Last April, they went on strike… something that happens a lot in Italy.

Have you been back to Maine? What was it like re-immersing yourselves in American culture?

BS: We [returned] when my dad died [last Christmas]. Simi and I came back this summer. It was so quiet. No traffic. No kamikaze motorcyclists.

How would you compare/contrast the economies of Portland/ Maine and Italy?

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KK: Maine and Italy have many points in common. Both need to create more good jobs to battle high unemployment and underemployment, both are looking to increase exports, and both are struggling with issues of sustainable development. Portland and Rome also share some of the same advantages and challenges, though on vastly different scales. As the center of their respective regions, both have attractions and amenities that make them wonderful destinations.

Rome offers a dizzying array of things to do, to see, and to try, and while Portland is clearly not Rome, it too offers lots to attract. Both are also service centers and so can show the face of the economic crisis in the increasing number of families who struggle but are attracted to build a better future for their children. As we both learn Italian (with Beth way ahead of me), we learn more about the complex economic and political challenges facing Rome and Italy. While the US monetary system is not likely to change soon, and I imagine no one in Portland is talking about replacing the dollar, it will be fascinating to watch developments in the next few years with the Euro as Italy and the Eurozone respond to the current economic crisis.

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What do and don’t you miss about Maine and Portland?

KK: While I miss my students, teachers, fellow administrators, and community in the Portland Public Schools, I do not miss school board meetings stretching late into the night.

What I do miss? Certainly family and friends are first, but I miss being part of a city and community where I know people wherever in the city I travel. Simi misses Susan’s Fish & Chips, and Beth and I miss walks and runs around Back Cove, running into friends every time. I miss being in a city and a state large enough to have tremendous variety, but small enough where everybody matters.

When you leave Italy, what will be the last experience you’ll want to have to carry with you? [The duo exchange a glance.]

BS: We just love wandering around the center of Rome and along the Tiber…popping into any of the many churches, having one’s breath taken away by incredible mosaics and paintings, and then by the views as we wander that mix the ancient and less-ancient with the Roman sky… n

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or nine mornings last July, Ric Gillespie woke up on a research boat bobbing in the waves off Nikumaroro, a coral-rimmed Pacific island 2,000 miles southwest of Hawaii. Under the scorching equatorial sun, and well into the humid, breezeless nights, he coached, cajoled, and pushed his team of 18 researchers and technicians to locate the underwater wreckage of Amelia Earhart’s plane using sonar and camera-equipped ROVs. Hampered by frequent equipment breakdowns and treacherous reefs, Gillespie’s boat sailed away from Nikumaroro without the conclusive proof he wanted. But he also came home with the motivation to return and search again.

Finding more questions than answers is a typical outcome during Gillespie’s 25-year quest to explain Earhart’s disappearance during her 1937 around-the-world flight. Unlike other searchers (see sidebar), Gillespie believes Earhart crash-landed on uninhabited Nikumaroro, where she and her navigator, Fred Noonan (whose father Joseph was born in Lincolnville, Maine), eventually perished as castaways. While rival groups and theories have ebbed and flowed, Gillespie’s organization, The International Group for History Aircraft Recovery (TIGHAR), has mounted 10 research expeditions to the central Pacific to uncover a web of clues that point to Nikumaroro as Earhart’s final resting place. Those clues, including fragments of a glass cosmetic jar they found on Nikumaroro in 2010 that resemble an anti-

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freckle ointment popular in the 1930s (Earhart was known to dislike her prominent freckles), as well as records of a sextant box and partial skeleton found on the island in 1940 and then lost during the Second World War, raise hopes that each new expedition might solve the mystery. And though Gillespie has occasionally claimed to prove his case, he now realizes the public requires a “smoking gun”–a DNA match or a piece of metal etched with a serial number–to erase all doubts. Where did Gillespie develop his unflagging persistence? Far from the Pacific’s tropical waters, while seeking another phantom plane in the boggy woods of Maine’s Washington County.

“We learned our skills the hard way, by spending eight years in the hills of Maine,” Gillespie says. “It was worth it. I treasure my memories of the Round Lake Hills, the time we spent up there…the people we met and the stories we heard.” Before taking on the Earhart mystery, Gillespie led 20 expeditions to Maine in the mid-1980s and early 1990s searching for L’Oiseau Blanc, or the White Bird, a French biplane that disappeared in May 1927 while attempting a record-breaking transatlantic December

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Discovered while cleaning out Bangor Hydro’s basement in 1988, this image was among the files of the company’s first president, Edward Graham. From left to right: Graham, Amelia Earhart, and H.L. Baldwin of the Boston and Maine Railroad.

flight. If you’ve never heard of the White Bird, there’s a reason why. Two weeks after it vanished, a young American airmail pilot named Charles Lindbergh took off from New York—and, after a 33-hour flight— landed in Paris, sweeping the White Bird into the footnotes of history.

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s the son of a decorated World War II bomber pilot, Ric Gillespie grew up with kerosene in his blood. He earned his first pilot’s license at age 17 and flew helicopters in the Army. In 1980 he was working as an aviation insurance agent and accident investigator in New England when his younger brother sent him a magazine clipping about the White Bird mystery. The article claimed that a Maine hunter named Anson Berry heard an airplane with a sputtering engine pass overhead his canoe on Round Lake on May 9, 1927. A short while later Berry heard sounds of a distant crash. Based on the place, date, and time of the incident, and the rarity of planes in that era, the author surmised that Berry witnessed the final moments of White Bird’s flight. The article even included a map showing where the plane likely crashed. Fascinated by both aviation and history, Gillespie felt the urge to go to Maine and find the plane. But with a hectic job, a wife, and two kids, Gillespie knew he couldn’t do it. So he stuck the clipping in a desk drawer and went back to work.

“Every time I opened that drawer to get out a pen,” Gillespie said, “there was that article sitting there looking at me.”

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Gillespie’s life had changed. He’d left his job. His marriage was over. He had plenty of free time. And the magazine clipping was still there. “I called my brother and I said, ‘Bob, we’re going to find the White Bird.’”

On April 1, 1984 the Gillespie brothers flew to Bangor, rented a truck, and drove to the town of Machias and started scouring local archives and asking residents about Anson Berry’s story. They found few details, and after a week scouring the still snowy hills, they departed without a single clue. Far from discouraged, Gillespie was hooked.

He returned to Machias in the fall with more family members. Later, when his fam-

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ily begged off, he invited friends, including his future wife, Pat Thrasher. These expeditions gave Gillespie an idea. “I realized that people seemed to enjoy field research and historical investigation as long as it was done responsibly,” he said. “I wondered if I could start a nonprofit organization to do this fulltime.” After securing a no-interest loan from a former business associate and renting a small office at a Delaware airport, Gillespie launched TIGHAR in January 1985 with “Project Midnight Ghost,” the search for the White Bird, as its first mystery to solve.

Gillespie and his TIGHAR teams returned to Washington County 19 more times over the next seven years. The Machias diner owned

by Amy and Sherman Graham became their unofficial headquarters as they spent six weeks each spring and fall searching the hills north of town. “We like to say we learned our trade in Washington County,” says Gillespie.

“We learned that witness accounts are the starting place for real discoveries and real evidence, but they are not evidence themselves.”

That lesson came after dozens of Maine hunt-

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he roster of people attempting to solve the mystery of Amelia Earhart isn’t long. One of its most prominent members—former U.S. Navy submariner, undersea explorer, and author David Jourdan—has called Cape Porpoise home for 10 years. “Coming to Maine was a total change for me,” he explains. “It was so busy in Baltimore, and there were so many people, and so much traffic. We don’t deal with that in Cape Porpoise, especially in the winter.”

Relocating to the Maine coast also allowed Jourdan, 58, the former head of a deep ocean exploration company, to concentrate on a passion that was often overtaken by more lucrative commercial work—the search for Amelia Earhart’s final resting place.

Unlike TIGHAR’s Ric Gillespie, Jourdan believes that Earhart’s plane ran out of gas and ditched in the central Pacific after failing to locate her landing field on Howland Island.

Known as “crashed and sank,” this theory claims her plane quickly filled with water before plunging more than 17,000 feet to the ocean floor. Even if Earhart and her navigator, Fred Noonan, survived the impact, they would have eventually drowned, as most researchers don’t believe the plane carried a life raft.

Jourdan and his Nauticos organization led

expeditions to this remote spot in the Pacific Ocean in 2002 and 2006, employing the same technology—side-scanning sonar—used to discover shipwrecks like the Titanic. Except, unlike the Titanic’s relatively small 100-square-mile search box, the area Jourdan and others calculated to contain Earhart’s plane covers more than 1,800 square nautical miles of rugged underwater terrain. “She [Earhart] gave us a lot of info about what she was doing in her final hours,” Jourdan explains, referring to the increasingly frantic radio messages the aviator sent to the coast guard cutter trying to guide her in. “But this is still like trying to spot a school bus from three miles up in an area the size of Rhode Island that’s filled with huge mountains and deep can-

legends ers told him about airplane engines they’d seen rusting in the woods–engines they could never locate. “Ultimately, we decided that there’s nothing in those hills except stories. Great stories, but stories,” explained Gillespie. He now believes the White Bird crashed near Newfoundland’s Avalon Peninsula–where local archives contain numerous reports of a plane passing overhead–and he is currently raising funds to lead an expedition there.

In 1988, just as Project Midnight Ghost was winding down, Gillespie took on the Earhart mystery when two retired military pilots

approached him with a theory that she had crash-landed on Nikumaroro. “Until then, I’d considered the search for Amelia Earhart a media circus,” Gillespie says.

“But when they spread out their maps on the kitchen table and explained all the evidence pointing to Nikumaroro, it began to make sense.” The initial search for Earhart

by U.S. Navy warships and airplanes was based on the assumption that the plane was on the ground somewhere, not ditched in the ocean, Gillespie says. That’s because Pan American Airways radio listening stations on other Pacific islands were intercepting distress calls reportedly from Earhart during the days after she vanished. Triangulation lines of the four strongest radio signals run right through Ni­ku­ maroro, according to Gil­lespie. “Either

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yons.” So far Jourdan and others have combed 1,550 sq. nm. of terrain, leaving approximately 250 sq. nm. near Howland Island left to search. Jourdan is currently raising money from investors to mount a new expedition in late summer 2013. “Whether you’re looking for your lost car keys or a famous airplane, searching only 85 percent doesn’t say anything about what’s in the last 15 percent,” Jourdan says. “The real key to success is persistence and finishing the job.”

Jourdan moved to Maine because he fell in love with its coastline, especially the rocky shore near York Beach where he lived during the winter of 1980 when his ballistic missile submarine refitted at the Portsmouth Naval Yard. “After coming home from the shipyard late every night, I would always stand on the beach and listen to the hollow sounds of the surf moving the rocks back and forth in the sand,” he recalled. To make sure he never forgot those sounds after he left the navy and moved to Maryland, Jourdan and his family rented a vacation house near Goose Rocks Beach for a week every summer for the next 20 years. It was during one of those vacations that Jourdan and his wife Lynn were driving through Cape Porpoise when they

spotted a house for sale and decided to check it out. Jourdan was just about to launch his first expedition to search for Amelia Earhart, so he was pleasantly surprised to find a large poster of Earhart wearing goggles and a flying cap hanging on the wall in one of the rooms. Jourdan took it as an omen, and two years later, after selling his company in Maryland, he moved his family into the house in Maine.

Amelia Earhart actually has a stronger connection to Maine than just the poster in the home Jourdan bought. Although she departed on both of her transatlantic flights in 1927 and 1933 from Newfoundland, she traveled through Maine to reach the airfields. In addition, she was one of the three original officers— and a valuable investor and promoter—in the launch of Boston-Maine Airways. On August 11, 1933, Earhart flew as a passenger on the airline’s inaugural flight between Boston, Portland, and Bangor, which cost $23 for a round trip. She also got her stepson, David, a job as a dispatcher in the airline’s Augusta office. The new airline routes proved lucrative, and in 1940, Boston-Maine changed its name to Northeast Airlines, which later merged with Delta Airlines in 1972, where the routes remain in operation today.

Earhart’s plane was on the ground and able to run one engine to power the radio, or there was a hoaxer able to simulate her voice, who knew she didn’t arrive at her destination, and who was broadcasting from somewhere near the island.”

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illespie’s July 2012 expedition was TIGHAR’s seventh visit to the island and the first to involve a serious underwater search for her plane. Previous expeditions focused on archeological excavations of a castaway camp on the island. Those searches, staffed by volunteers like the Midnight Ghost missions, have yielded shards of aluminum and Plexiglas, buttons, remnants of a leather shoe, zippers, and a make-up kit– all of it tantalizing, yet also inconclusive. “I have a whole room of things that could have belonged to Amelia Earhart. I’m used to it,” says Gillespie. “It’s how I stay emotionally involved like this for 25 years.” But TIGHAR does more than just collect the evidence they find on Nikumaroro. The organization’s website contains hundreds of research reports– from a chemical analysis of aluminum fragments to a history of 1930s buttons–that show how Gillespie has translated his background as an aviation accident investigator into a scientific pursuit of the Earhart mystery.

“This isn’t like TV where the great discoveries are made out in the field. This isn’t like Dirk Pitt in some globe-trotting adventure novel,” he says. “This is about careful and slow detective work and investigation. The great moments happen here in my office, when I get a lab report back, or get an email with a new approach. That’s when the dots connect and we make progress.”

Having involved himself in these aviation mysteries for so long, Gillespie sees many similarities between the White Bird and Amelia Earhart. Both start with a great story, he says. “And the story isn’t the evidence.

The story is what points you to the research sources that will let you find out whether that story is true, or how much of that story is true.” Gillespie wants to be able to write the last chapter for both of these enduring mysteries. Whether he can or not depends on what he and his searchers can find in Newfoundland, and on a tiny island in the Pacific Ocean. n

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Sometimes it’s nice to see ourselves as others see us.

Our man in London takes us through the looking glass.

An American in Wembley

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t’s already dark and drizzly at ten to five as I wait in the queue leading into Wembley Stadium’s L-Block. The gate is more tightly controlled than the safeguards around Boston’s Federal Reserve Bank.

Brushed stainless steel, electronically controlled security doors allow me to pass through a metal detector and what seems like watertight doors on a ship. Getting into Wembley entails more scrutiny than board4 6 p o r t l a n d m o n t h ly m a g a z i n e

ing the Boeing to Heathrow.

Ravenous, I decide to get beer and nosh (Carlsberg lager and fish ’n’ chips) after finding my seat, which I finally do after walking what seems the length of the entire circumference of Fenway Park but which is quite clearly only a quarter of the Wembley circle.

Climbing up a few stone steps, I feel the night open above me with a gasp, and very nearly gain a fear of heights.

Wembley is the most vertical stadium I’ve ever been in, and this does two things.

First of all, it turns the nosebleed seats into great seats–your perspective is so high up, the players don’t block a view of each other.

The downside is, it does make you feel you’ll quite clearly roll and die horribly if you pitch forward, which doesn’t seem to be a problem for any of the other attendees. Who are these English football fans, on holiday from their

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A crowd of 84,000 thronged London’s Wembley Stadium October 28 for a bracing night of classic American football.

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beloved soccer, as though risen like ghosts from the ground?

An assortment of quickly handed out jersey “colours” among the fans from what looks like every team in the NFL greets me.

Although the St. Louis Rams have been assigned as the “home team” away from home and flags passed out, this decision is so apparently of the moment that most of the people around me seem ready to shift their colors to “whomever” wins.

“Shouldn’t they be called the New England Traitors?” a young fellow next to me asks his pal in a Green Bay Packer’s jersey and a Chicago Bears cap.

Another new fan whacks himself on the side of his head. “Cheerleaders!” he laughs. “We have to ask ourselves why we didn’t think of that. Goes to show, not everything Yank is bad.

We should get them in real football.”

Wembley’s seating capacity eclipses even the largest NFL stadium. The only one that even approaches the confirmed talley of 84,004 here is Cowboys Stadium in Arlington, Texas, hosting 80,000 plus 20,000 standingroom-only.

Regular visits at Wembley could bring in a zillion pounds sterling for the NFL; rumor is, the success of its games in London might lead to the relocation of a struggling NFL team to the UK. London Jaguars does have a nice ring to it.

The product hasn’t been changed at all to suit British tastes, aside from audience reactions. Shouts of “Well played!” greet narrowly completed Tom Brady passes, caught on the run. During the fourth quarter, when the Rams are down by over 35 points, their attempts to advance the ball meet ironic, cruel cheers of “Wheeeee”–a deadly jeer for struggling teams in European sports, but something I’d never hear at a gridiron game back home in New England, let alone Maine.

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Fork in the Road: The White Barn Inn & Grissini Under new ownership, the two popular eateries quietly part company.

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rand Chef Jonathan Cartwright remembers Laurence “Laurie” Bongiorno, the late owner of the White Barn Inn, as an indomitable competitor. So Cartwright believed his boss when Bongiorno revealed his cancer diagnosis and said, “I am going off to fight this with everything I have. I am going to beat it and come back.”

“President Bush Senior–or ‘41’ as we call him around here–was a family friend and helped Laurie get the best doctors,” recalls Cartwright. “But when 41 shook my hand and

While Mike Shea of Cape Arundel Inn & said,‘I am worried about your boy,’ my heart sank, and I finally realized Laurie Port Watch grabs might not make it.”

Bongiorno passed away on March 7, 2007.

Grissini, White Barn He was 53 years old.

Bongiorno bought the White Barn Inn in the Inn joins an ultra 1980s and turned it into a crown jewel of Maine dining. It is one of only 21 restaurants in America hotel portfolio that earning a five-diamond rating from AAA. And includes Greek only three have maintained that honor longer than the Kennebunk restaurant’s 19 years: Honolulu’s La island resorts.

Mer (1990), The French Room in Dallas (1989), and The Inn at Little Washington in Virginia (1988).

While the original farm was built in 1820, the fascinating history of the White Barn Inn and its grounds first truly blossomed when summer visitors began seeking out the old Boothby Boarding House during the Civil War era. In 1973, the barn was completely restored and converted into a restaurant, taking on the name it still bears today.

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The main dining room has a comfortably rustic flair–it is an actual barn, after all. The space soars 30 feet to the ancient wood ceiling and is offset by a 20-foothigh picture window centered at the back of the 1820s barn. Still, most of the seating is intimately set under two lofts on which are perched artifacts and quirky objects that date back to the earliest days of the property. Among the meticulously restored ancient gray beams, the tables are set with silver, fine china, and Schott Zwiesel crystal. Dining is flexible and varied but geared toward prix fixe ($106 for four courses–each with about eight choices) and seasonal local offerings.

While the preparations tend toward European haute cuisine, the inspirations for the courses range across the world and in any given week might feature French, Thai, Chinese, Italian, or regionally inspired dishes.

With an eye to perfecting every detail, Bongiorno succeeded in making an unexpectedly relaxed and unique place with a creative menu, a spectacular wine list, exemplary service, and, of course, extraordinary food.

The White Barn Inn’s success, however, was not always accompanied by halcyon days.

Bongiorno’s death was the center of a time of turbulence. Arnold Katz, Bongiorno’s financial partner and father-in-law, had passed away in 2005. Next, before his cancer diagnosis, Bongiorno sold half of the company to US Hotels of George Logothetis’s international Libra Group, with a five-year plan to transfer the rest. And then the severe economic storm arrived in 2008.

Bongiorno created the bistro Grissini in 1996 on the site of Christopher Riley’s popular Café Topher in Kennebunk as an everyday sibling to the dressier White Barn Inn. Grissini’s dining room is a large, open space flooded with light and defined by a huge river-stone fireplace at one end. The relaxed bistro atmosphere is reinforced by comfortable wicker armchairs, white tablecloths, copious decorative bottles, and art nouveau-flavored prints on the walls.

The all-Italian wine list is impressive, and the Italian fare–ranging from classics such as wood-fired pizza to extraordinarily ambitious dishes–is served on broad, white plates. The kitchen has a wood-fired grill and oven and produces some of the best-

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known and most-loved breads in the state.

US Hotels sold Grissini this past May. It would be easy to see this as the dismantling of the heart of Bongiorno’s culinary kingdom, but it is actually the expansion of one success story into many.

“George [Logothetis] told me to run the White Barn Inn as if Laurie were still alive.

He sent [US Hotels CEO] Paul Healy up here to run the business and keep an eye on me,” notes Cartwright. “Even at the worst of the financial crisis, we chose not to back off from the menu or drop our prices, and we never had to lay off anyone. We might have had fewer customers, but we kept the cream of the crop. They bought bigger wines. And we kept moving up.”

When Grissini was sold this past May, Cartwright was not only the executive chef of the White Barn Inn but also the group chef de cuisine for many of US Hotels’ holdings – from Stripers Seafood Restaurant at Kennebunkport’s Breakwater Inn to the Windham Hill Restaurant in Vermont, and all of the Libra Group’s Grace resort hotels, throughout the world whose locations include the Greek island of Mykonos, Argentina, Panama, and Beijing.

The new Muse by Jonathan Cartwright restaurant at the Vanderbilt Grace hotel in Newport, Rhode Island, has received accolades and international buzz. Cartwright now has a global audience.

The White Barn Inn’s blend of worldliness with local color had always been part of Bongiorno’s vision. Cartwright is from Sheffield, England, but he was working in Switzerland when he was offered the position at the White Barn Inn. “Laurie called me out of the blue and told me he wanted me to come to Maine. A couple of days later, he picked me up in Boston. The waiter–Christopher– who served me, still works here. I thought the people were great, and needless to say I was impressed. I fell in love with Maine the moment I arrived.”

Cartwright himself illustrates the unique combination of stability and international professionalism of his staff. He is a trained European professional who has been at the restaurant for almost 20 years. As a Relais & Chateau, the White Barn Inn has a relationship with the top schools in Europe–where, unlike here, professional studies include service as well as culinary arts.

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sini, Cartwright was pleased when it went to an owner with a community-based vision.

General manager Lee Fopeano, who’s been with Grissini from its start in 1996, also liked the sale: “Laurie always wanted us to be part of the community. Now we’re back in a local environment with local ownership. Michael [Shea] saw we were successful and asked us to keep doing what we were doing.”

Shea also owns the Cape Arundel Inn, Kennebunkport Marina, and the ambitious new Port Watch, scheduled to open in spring 2013. “Because I was a Grissini fan and my interests are anchored here in Kennebunkport,” Shea says, “it dovetailed perfectly–so I leapt at the chance to acquire Grissini.”

Healy says, “A free-standing restaurant was not part of our business plan–the name of the company, after all, is US Hotels. We had larger offers, but we would only sell Grissini to someone who would operate it as Grissini and keep the employees. Just as when Laurie sold it the first time–caring about the staff–we did the same thing.”

The culture of mentorship and guidance imparted by Bongiorno appears to be his thriving legacy and a reason for the enduring success of his restaurants. Grissini chef Romann Dumorne was mentored by Cartwright and Bongiorno. Dumorne recalls, “[Bongiorno] had the highest possible standards, and he taught us all how to achieve them.”

Healy explains Cartwright’s role as group chef de cuisine for a growing family of restaurants: “His job is maintaining and spreading our culture by inspiration and guidance throughout the culinary side of our company.

That means the highest standards and seeing the world through the customers’ eyes. We are in the experience business, so he is our chief cultural officer as much as the chief culinary officer. But [Cartwright] is also our senior officer here in Kennebunkport with our operations management team.”

In other words, this is the story of a restaurant that has expanded from Kennebunk to the global stage. The White Barn Inn is now one of the top-rated restaurants in the world. And since Bongiorno brought him on as a sous chef in 1995, grand chef Cartwright has become an international star.

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Boda is a “Very Thai” kitchen & lounge. Delicious selections of Thai home-style entrees, street-vendor inspired grilled skewers, tapas, & a full bar. Vegetarian options available.

Come experience an eating culture of Thailand! No reservations & parking available. Late-night menu served until 1am. Open Tu-Su from 5pm-1am. 671 Congress St., Portland, 347-7557 Brea Lu Cafe has been serving up breakfast & lunch for 23 years! Favorite menu choices include 12 specialty omelets, build-your-own breakfast burritos, Belgian waffles w/ fruit, eggs Benedict & homemade corned beef hash. Lunch features homemade chili, fresh made-to-order sandwiches, burgers & wraps. Open daily, 7am-2pm. 428 Forest Ave., Portland, 772-9202 Bull Feeney’s Authentic Irish pub & restaurant, serving delicious scratch-made sandwiches, steaks, seafood & hearty Irish fare, pouring local craft & premium imported brews, as well as Maine’s most extensive selection of single malt Scotch & Irish whiskies. Live music five nights. Open 7 days 11:30am-1am. Kitchen closes at 10pm. 375 Fore St., Old Port, 773-7210, bullfeeneys.com DiMillo’s On the Water serves the freshest lobster, seafood, Black Angus cuts of beef, Italian fare & more.

DiMillo’s offers fabulous views of the water in Portland Harbor from every table, Famous Lobster Rolls, clam chowder, haddock chowder, lobster stew & delicious salads. Serving from 11am. Commercial St., Old Port, 772-2216, dimillos.com Eve’s at the Garden takes a fresh and local approach to food. We use ingredients from Maine’s coastal waters and farms: jumbo scallops, naturally raised pork and beef, sustainably raised fish and shellfish, and Maine lobster.

Outdoor dining in our serene garden all summer long. Free valet parking with dinner. Lunch 11:30-2, dinner 5-9:30. 468 Fore St., Portland, 775-9090, Evesatthegarden.com

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Come get hooked! Lunch & dinner M-F; dinner only Sa; closed Sunday. 333-3663, fishbonesmaine.com * The Great Impasta, a long-standing restaurant located on Maine St., serves Mediterranean-inspired food w/ a concentration on Italian dishes. This restaurant is a favorite of both locals & those from away. Incredible, fragrant aromas from the open kitchen hit you the moment you walk through the door. Vegan & glutenfree menus available. 2 Maine St., historic Brunswick, 729-5858, thegreatimpasta.com Great Lost Bear A full bar w/70 beer taps of Maine & American Craft breweries & a large Belgian selection. Menu features salads, burgers, a large vegetarian selection & the best nachos & buffalo wings in town. Discover where the natives go when they’re restless! Every day 11:30am-11:30pm. 540 Forest Ave., in the Woodfords area of Portland, 772-0300, greatlostbear.com Hurricane Restaurant’s lunch and dinner menus feature the finest seafood on Maine’s coast seven days a week.

Enjoy $10 off every bottle of wine on Wednesdays. Sunday Brunch ‘til 3:30 p.m. and Buck-a-Shuck oysters every Sunday night. Discover our award-winning wine list, house-made pastries, signature cocktails, and extraordinary five-star New England Cuisine. Dock Square, Kennebunkport, 967-9111, hurricanerestaurant.com Jameson Tavern, one of the oldest historic taverns in Maine, is said to be the site of the signing of the papers separating Maine from Massachusetts. The Tavern has a bar, dining room and serves Maine lobster, steaks, pasta, and award-winning clam chowder. Our lobster stew was featured on FoodNation with Bobby Flay. 115 Main St., Freeport, 865-4196, jamesontavern.com * LFK features New American cuisine, beer, wine & full spirits in the heart of Longfellow Square with a literary theme.

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book. 188A State St., Portland, lfkportland.com The Lobster Dock treats you to the pleasures of casual dining with a panoramic view of Boothbay Harbor’s eastside waterfront. Our seafood is fresh and the atmosphere’s friendly. “The only thing better than the view is the food.”

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Daily, 11:29 to 8:31pm. 633-7120, thelobsterdock.com Lotus Chinese and Japanese Restaurant We feature full-service bar and lounge area, sushi bar, Chinese traditional food not available outside of Boston, friendly atmosphere and courteous service. 251 U.S. Rte. 1, Falmouth (Falmouth Shopping Plaza), 781-3453 Maria’s Restaurant and Catering Neapolitan Italian cooking at its finest. Maine Sunday Telegram four-star restaurant. Homemade Cavitelli Pasta, Zuppa Di Pesce Fra Diavolo, New England’s best Eggplant Parmigiana, Pistachio Gelato, Italian-Style cakes, Neapolitan five-star wines. Come see Tony and Gregorio; they’ll take excellent care of you. Entrées start at $10. Open Tu–Sa. 337 Cumberland Ave, Portland, 772-9232, 233-9232, mariasrestaurant.com One Dock Creative, contemporary New England Cuisine & traditional Maine favorites in a relaxed setting overlooking the Kennebunk River. The menu offers “small plates,” such as Duck Confit Empanada, Grilled Flatbread, Pan-Seared Sea Scallop & Mac and Cheese with Andouille Sausage, proving to be fan favorites.

W-Sa 5:30-9pm. Kennebunkport Inn, Kennebunkport, 967-2621, onedock.com Pedro’s focuses on simple yet full-flavored Mexican and Latino food. Offering tacos, burritos and an impressive array of margaritas, sangria, beer and wine. Especiales de la semana (specials of the week) keep the menu varied and fresh and showcase different Latino cultures. Seasonal outdoor dining available. Open daily, 12-10. 181 Port Rd., Kennebunk, 967-5544, pedrosmaine.com The Pepperclub/Good Egg Café Two favorites, same location! Pepperclub’s (see Frommer’s Guide to N.E.) world cuisine blackboard menu lists five vegetarian, three fish & three meat entrées, including an organic beef burger. Relaxed, affordable dining on the edge of the Old Port. Free parking. Pepperclub, daily from 5pm; Good Egg Café, Tu-F 7-11am, Sa-Su 8am-1pm. 78 Middle St., 772-0531, pepperclubrestaurant.com Pier 77 & The Ramp Bar & Grill are owned & managed by Kate & Chef Peter Morency. Pier 77 has a formal dining room w/stunning views of Cape Porpoise Harbor & live music each weekend, while the Ramp is more casual, w/its own bar menu at hard-to-beat prices.

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The Salt Exchange features Contemporary American cuisine in moderate portions using local, sustainable, and heirloom ingredients. Fresh local fish & produce daily. Full bar, Happy Hour, Sidewalk Seating. Open for Lunch M-Sa 11:30am & Dinner 5:30pm. Free parking in the evening. 245 Commercial St., Portland, 207.347.5687, thesaltexchange.net Silly’s & Silly’s with a Twist, chosen “Best Bargain”

by Yankee Magazine now features something for everyone, including weekend brunch along with vegan & gluten-free options. Silly’s staff, voted “Best Service” by Phoenix readers, presents all-scratch kitchen food in a whimsical setting either inside or in the garden patio. Open Tu-F, 11am, and Sa-Su, 9am.

40 Washington Ave., 772-0360, sillys.com Walter’s Chef Owner Jeff Buerhaus is inspired by global influences. Seasonal menus are accented by creative daily specials. Bar Manager Steven Lovenguths’ extensive wine list and inventive cocktail creations complement menu offerings. Lunch M-F 11:30am-2:30pm. Dinner M-Sa, 5pm-CL. Bar menu M-F 2:30pm-CL, Sa 5pm-CL. Two Portland Square on Union St., 871-9258, waltersportland.com *reservations recommended

Best Wurst in town! Schulte & Herr’s classic German küche warms the heart.

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e met in my hometown of Paderborn [250 miles west of Berlin] while Brian was backpacking in Europe,” says Schulte & Herr co-owner Steffi Davin. “We married and worked in restaurants in Berlin for nearly a decade before crossing the Atlantic to Northampton, Massachusetts, where we worked at Green Street Cafe near Smith College.” A romantic resolution in a trendy town. “Then we discovered Portland. You have the ocean!”

They launched their dream, Schulte & Herr, in August 2011, featuring dishes straight out of Steffi’s childhood: for example, her Rheini­scher Sauerbraten (marinated beef roast, $18) and potato pancakes with applesauce and sour cream ($5) convey her memories directly to diners. No wonder reservations are a must in this intimate space seating just 24.

We tip Saturday night on end with sips of the Gerwurtztraminer we couldn’t resist bringing (for now, it is BYOB here, with a full bar under consideration). The wine’s light citrus flavors complement our appetizers: Zwiebelkuchen–a caramelized onion and gruyère tart ($5), and smoked trout ($7). More like a quiche in texture, with an amazing custard-like filling, the tart is a knockout. The trout’s flavors

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hit a perfect harmony with accompanying arugula, tiny slivers of radish, crisp pickled beets, and potato slices, flavorfully dressed.

My ever-carnivorous partner has no trouble deciding on Wurstplatte, featuring handmade bratwurst, kielbasa, and smoked ham ($17.50). All prepared at the Sausage Kitchen in Lisbon Falls, the meats deeply satisfy–and they’re gluten-free with no preservatives or fillers. The sauerkraut, sourced locally as well, from Morse’s in Waldoboro, is braised here with bacon, juniper, and caraway. Almost buttery, there is none of the expected acidity. Also on the plate is an understated German potato salad, served, surprisingly (to me) slightly chilled. The Belgian-style ale we’ve brought stands up well to these robust flavors.

Settling on the Schweineschnitzel, a thinly pounded pork loin entree ($16), I am not disappointed. Each thin slice of golden breaded, fried loin tastes better than the last. Mushroom gravy is available for an extra dollar; I recommend requesting it served on the side so as to keep the crumb coating on the meat crisp. Fresh lemon is the alternative. Tantalizing sides beckon; we share a bowl of delicious roasted red and golden beets ($4).

No debate when it comes to dessert–there is only one choice! Tonight’s ginger molasses cake with maple pumpkin compote and a dollop of velvety whipped cream makes a perfect finish to a feast–and an experience to remember and repeat. n

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On a brisk December evening, Merry Madness takes over Downtown Portland & the Old Port…

Season of Love The Nutcracker

from top: Bossov Ballet/Ronald Schultz; abbe museum; katie j. johnson (2)

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Portland Ballet Dec. 8-9 Merrill Auditorium portlandballet.org 842-0800 $24-$54

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Beaded & Granite Passamaquoddy Necklace Abbe Museum abbemuseum.org, 288-3519 $45

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Tony Bryant Handcrafted Wooden Pens & Wine stoppers Tony Bryant, 831-3617 bryantbuilt@yahoo.com Maine Gold and Silver, 772-2211 $59-79

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Wilde Chapel at evergreen cemetery, Springer’s Jewelry springersjewelers.com 772-5404, $30

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Magic of Christmas

Bells from Everest Cylinder Filigree Ornaments bellsfromeverest.com, 725-9484, $15

Portland Symphony Orchestra Dec. 14-16, 21-23 Merrill Auditorium portlandsymphony.org 842-0800 $31-61

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Harvest Trio Collection Limited edition Sea Bags & Woolrich totes seabags.com 888-210-4244 $300

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L.L. Bean Winter Collection L.L. Bean Henley, $49; Plaid Skirt, $175; Plaid Wool Bean Boots, $159 Freeport, 877-755-2326 llbean.com

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ICE BAR, Jan. 24-26Portland Harbor Hotel portlandharborhotel.com, 775-9090

clockwise from topleft: Jeff Clapp; Portland symphony orchestra; wicked whoopies; sea bags; betsy barnes (3); portland harbor hotel; ll bean

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The Blue Hydrangea brings a Parisian Christmas to Portland’sWest End Country French Décor and More… to Enhance the Home and Garden

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YOUR WARDROBE • YOUR IMAGE

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THURSDAY, DECEMBER 13 For more information on additional downtown holiday events, visit portlandmaine.com

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Robert Moody strikes up the biggest band in town for Maine’s finest holiday extravaganza. Celebrate the traditions, story and spirit of the season — experience the Magic for yourself!

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Highest CD APY & terms: 1.1%, 60-month Best APY for 12-month IRA: .35% Breakout advantage: “While we offer innovative products, such as the Makes Cents checking account that pays our customers to use their debit cards, our real strength is the knowledge and responsiveness of our employees.”

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Best APY for 12-month IRA: .4% Breakout advantage: “We are a full-service, onestop shop financial institution for consumer and business deposit and loan needs, including mortgages. We even offer insurance and retirement services.”–Steve Van Rensselaer, VP Marketing Bangor Federal Credit Union, bangorfederal.com Branches, 3; Minimum ATM withdraw, $20; Non-customer ATM charge, $3; Refund ATM surcharges, No, when outside CU24 SurF network; Checking account fee, No Highest savings account APY & terms: .1%, $25 min.

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Imagine Saeverund’s haunting music (he’s the conductor and founder of the Passamaquoddy Bay Symphony Orchestra) mingling with the ghosts of “conversations in Passamaquoddy, as natives slept on the sweeping front and rear porches [here] while traveling to Calais to trade,” according to a story about the house by Sharon Kiley Mack in the Bangor Daily News.

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he director grabs fist-sized, foil-wrapped presents out of an L.L. Bean bag and pitches them at ducking, sweaty workers compliantly wearing Santa Claus hats in the 90-degree August heat. She throws the empty bag at her assistant and strides toward me. Behind her, candycolored lights blur the set: a warmly decorated dining room in a 40-foot-square, topless plywood box where a flame-scorched, motor-oiled roast turkey is the centerpiece of a family table spread with gorgeous inedible food. Perry Como’s moaning version of “Home for The Holidays” echoes off the metal roof and riveted walls–the latest selection from the geezer hit parade of ironic musical cheer she’s chosen personally for the soon-to-be-released soundtrack album that she blasts between shots to keep us in a giving mood.

I slump in a folding chair at the back of the airplane hangar. If dreams came true I’d be walking down the tarmac of the Rockland Airport, paid in

full and fading out. Her heels click louder and sharper on the concrete floor. I can now see from the Botox-resistant lightning strikes above her nose that she is out of her mind. She suffers from ricocheting moods that tactically keep everyone around her cringing, no matter if her face smiles or clenches. Either way you can get fired. In her defense, she frames a sweet shot, works 20-hour days, and wears leather pants that arouse mortal fear. She is death defiance on the hoof: a former Vogue model with a studio-certified special feel for kid movies zooming toward me on fleshless legs jammed into vertigo-inducing Jimmy Choo boots.

“He needs redemption,” she says. “The father.

One more beat in the last scene. How could you put my name on this crap?”

Beating a dead Hollywood joke means she’s still sane, but her eyeballs twitch. Clock ticking.

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She kicks a metal chair closer and sits next to me staring at the set, expecting me to launch script solutions like skeet.

I say, “Finds out the wife is pregnant, he melts.”

She says, “No. Takes the focus off the kid.”

I say, “He gives his Camaro to the shelter.”

She says, “The audience imagines the homeless guy driving around honking at chicks. Someone call Eddie Murphy.”

I say, “He finds a box of old photos, falls in love all over again with the wife.”

She says, “TV. Not cable. Three times on three network channels last night.”

I say, “The homeless guy gets sick from pollution. The father dedicates his life to saving the planet.”

She says, “You’re drowning. You’re the last polar bear.”

I say, “He renews his faith.”

She says, “Faith in what–Macy’s? WalMart? I have two rules in life. No sportswear.

No sermons.”

I say, “He helps someone less fortunate.”

She says, “Like I did hiring you? You’re getting vague. Can you feel your limbs?”

I say, “He goes into rehab, gets sober, and makes amends.”

She says, “Another AA movie. Those alkies should pay product placement.”

I say, “He stumbles into a donut shop, eats a glazed, realizes little pleasures make life worth living.”

She says, “Or he’s a selfish pig eating a donut.”

I say, “Turns out the father and the homeless guy were separated at birth and are really brothers.”

She says, “I’m in a mood here. Be careful.”

I say, “The father floats into the air and out the window. Magical realism for kids.”

She says, “That’s my next movie, One Hundred Years of Idiots. This doesn’t go into wide release; your final check floats out the window.”

I say, “Screw the press, cancel all previews, you make this one for the people.

The father thought he had a genetic disease.

He was worried about the kid having it. He blamed himself. But it’s not genetic. It’s whatever you want it to be. There are plenty of diseases to choose from. You donate part of your salary to the non-profit people.

The father asks for forgiveness before he dies. He weeps in their arms.”

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I say, “You’re scaring the children. Sit down.”

“Don’t tell me to sit down, you little shit.”

She sits.

I say, “You’re under budget and on time. You made the kid look cute. People will laugh and cry a little. Your next film will be bigger. Maybe you’ll get final cut.

You did good.”

She says, “It’s crap. I’m going Meta. I’ll pull back and show the crew filming. I’ll have the actors and their real life families embrace. I’ll make it genuine.”

I say, “They’ll shoot new scenes at the studio and cut them in. Put up a fight and they’ll leave your ending at the bottom of the credits and call it bloopers. You won’t work for a while, if ever. You want to bring it up a notch? I’ll write a voice-over for the kid saying his father took him fishing every weekend after that and you punch the music. But I’m not the director; what do I know?”

She says, “I’ll never work with you again.”

I say, “Who hires the same screenwriter twice? It looks weak and worse, you might have to share writing credits.”

She says, “I will badmouth you until you bleed from your ears.”

I say, “That’s a shame, Sis. It turns out we were abandoned at birth. The beatings at the orphanage only made us stronger.”

She squints hard to remind me that she is the cobra and I am the mouse. She shoots the last scene in less than fifty minutes. The crew applauds.

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