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Show Me the Magic

Where Has Where Recycling Recycling Has Always Been In Style Always Been In Style

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ortland’s skyline is a trick of scale. It delights the eye.

Our skyscrapers seem lofty, but they’re still not too tall for seagulls to land atop the Time & Temperature building.

If you leave the Forest City for an extended time for a visit to Hong Kong or Manhattan (sorry about the World Series, guys) and then return, the skyscrapers on the peninsula of Maine’s largest city seem much, much smaller. To a Misstra Know-It-All, barely there.

But stay here a while, and they start to grow. I’d say like in a Kafka story but that would be a reference. So maybe it’s more like in a Disney movie, or one of the warlock tricks Jack Lemmon does in Bell, Book & Candle.

It has to do with Portland’s singular personality. The Forest City guides us to our dream selves. Its gentle slopes treat us to surprise vistas. We can check the temperature and say hi to Joe through the trees from our ground-floor studio cresting Baxter Boulevard.

It isn’t just the diminutive skyscrapers that seem to grow. It’s the sense of friendship, humor, and irony. Stay with me a second. When I was in Deering High School, class of 1973, I asked the person sitting beside me during the graduation ceremony what his plans were. He said, “I’m never coming back here. The tallest building here is Maine Medical Center, where we’re all going to die.” Typical Portland joke. Even if I can’t remember who you are, I know you’re back with us.

December in Maine. Wicked (see our feature story “When We Was Fab”).

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The DiMillo family purchased the hunky relic in the 1990s and eventually installed it near their floating restaurant. The 6'x10' slab’s graffiti commemorates the end of an era in one country and stands as a warning for others.

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Local architects and the Rangeley Lakes Regional School collaborated to build Gnome Home Roan as part of an initiative to involve kids with nature. Now, 30 gnomes and gnome houses later, the project is a monstrous success!

Shine On! There’s no doubt that Maine sees the sun before any other place in the country, but where exactly does the sun first rise? For the summer months, West Quoddy Head receives the first sun, but at certain points in the year its sunset is blocked by hills in New Brunswick. For the remaining months, check out Mars Hill and the top of Cadillac Mountain.

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The centerpiece would have been a thousand-foot fountain of light that would have attracted visitors from as far away as—who knows? the Tobin Bridge in Boston? Or for that matter, outer space?

We’ve done the math. The curvature of the Earth would not have prevented travelers from Massachusetts from seeing it.

Sweet dreams and flying machines in pieces on the ground.

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Historian Herb Adams says, “later, there were hopes of a dirigible mooring mast” on the shores of Back Cove. One year in the 1930s, Maine hosted the National Governors’ Conference, and many of the governors were taken in a blimp from Portland around Mt. Katahdin and then back again.

The Stevens submission evolved to the idea of a Back Cove Recreation Park in 1935. Think conference center, a Made-in-Maine Pavilion (the fragrant beans and molasses smell from the nearby B&M plant would have set the tone!), yachting, outdoor theater. File it under hypnotic hypothetica, but never stop dreaming. n

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aybe you’ve seen the signs but didn’t register what they were.

They look a lot like the ones that inspired them, the signs that first appeared on telephone poles and community bulletin boards in the early 2000s: Cash For Your Home or Cash for Your Junk Car. “These people are predators,” Geoff Hargadon says, and he was inspired to shine a light on their depravity. Hargadon creates similar street lures offering money for valuable art. Cash for Your Warhol, they proclaim in evocative graphics that embed themselves into our world. A recent sighting was on parking signage outside Maine Hardware off St. John Street.

“It was an art project meant to be a comment on the financial crisis and the one percent,” Hargadon says. “There were signs offering cash for everything during the crash of 2008. I’m driving in my car, and I’m thinking even rich people are losing money. They’re gonna need to sell their art. I thought it was funny, but I didn’t know how big it would get. It caught on, and it’s still going.”

Fifteen years later, the signs and stickers have been seen in over twenty countries—from Britain to Japan to Brazil—and in nearly every state in the U.S. A graduate of Harvard University and a financial advisor for over fifty years, Hargadon sees his work as part parody, part commentary. “The comD E C E M B E R 2 02 4 29

moditization of art is offensive to me.

It’s become a competition. Collectors measure their worth by who owns the better Warhol or whatever. I’m calling them out on it.” He never intended for it to become a commodity of its own, but it has. “That wasn’t the goal at all. I just wanted my comment to be out there, and I didn’t care who liked it. I wanted to see what would happen.”

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hat happened was a lot. “I printed up a few signs, stapled them to phone poles, and I started getting calls right away. Some were just curious about what the signs meant.

But a few thought they had Warhols and wanted to unload them.

My projects relate to money, and that’s what resonates with people.”

Messages poured into the listed phone line and continue today. “I’ve archived them, and there are thou-

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sands at this point. Some people get that it’s a parody, but I have a lot of calls from drunk kids who just think it’s funny. Then there are the real responses. I’ve been offered so many legit Warhols at this point that I finally bought one a few years ago. Everyone thinks they’ve got a treasure, but they’re not all valued at a million bucks, you know.

One guy had paid $75K at an auction, and he wanted to sell it for that. I offered him $25K. He was insulted. Just because you paid big bucks at an auction doesn’t mean it’s worth it.”

But the fervor didn’t stop there. Hargadon’s signs have now been included in over seventy-five art exhibits—group and solo shows in galleries and museums around the world. Stories about the signs have appeared in Vanity Fair, Boston Globe, Blouin Artinfo, among others.

The project, which initially mocked the art sales world, has become part of the establishment itself.

His signs sell for hundreds of dollars on eBay. When Christie’s Auction House held a Warhol event, Hargadon was asked

to participate. “It was about ten years ago when I was approached by someone who’d been collecting my signs and had a proposal for me. He said, ‘I’m the chairman of the Warhol Foundation, and we’re in the process of doing a project with Christie’s.’

They were selling a lot of Warhol’s work, and he wanted to give all the board members a gift, a special sign for them. The board included Cindy Sherman and members of the Warhol family. I did an edition of about 20.

The family loved them and told me that Andy would have found them very funny. There’s not much humor in art, but Andy Warhol appreciated a good joke.”

Not all artists are as easily humored. Christo, the artist known for wrapping landmarks such as L’Arc de Triomphe and the Aurelian Walls in Rome, was not so amused by Hargadon. He’d created The Gates in Central Park in 2005—an installation of 7,503 gates with free-hanging fabric. Hargadon found the project to be beautiful but also worthy of

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OUT THERE humor. His smaller work called The Somerville Gates was a photographic journey through thirteen miniature gates made from materials from Home Depot, winding through his Somerville loft and occasionally observed by his cat Edie, who towered over them.

This project was viewed by millions on the internet and brought a request from the organizers of a benefit for the Massachusetts College of Art, an event sponsored in part by the Christo Foundation.

“They wanted to auction off one of my miniature gates, but Christo had a delicate ego. He vetoed it, and the request was withdrawn. Later, at an event at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston he was asked by a reporter what he thought of The Somerville

Gates. He refused to answer.” Shortly after Christo’s gates were removed from Central Park, Hargadon took

three group shows this year. In 2014, Hargadon went brick-and-mortar with a Cash for Your Warhol store popping up in Cambridge, Massachusetts. It closed in 2016, but not before another was opened in Belfast, Maine where he summers.

“The store is designed as if it’s for people who have a Warhol to sell, but it’s really more of an installation. Some of the stuff in the store is real, and others are fake. I leave it up to the viewer to decide what’s what.”

Is there another project in the works? “I’m waiting for a good idea to hit me. When it happens, it’ll happen.”

For those who are looking to sell, buy, or just browse, the project’s website is cashforyourwarhol.com. n

Even rich people are losing money. They’re gonna need to sell their art. I thought it was funny, but I didn’t know how big it would get. his Gates website down as well. There were four million downloads of his installation, and he was facing a $20,000 bill from his internet provider.

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ince before the Civil War, the humble spud held fast as Maine’s top cash crop. However, a shift occurred in 2020 when medical cannabis usurped that high position over potatoes and blueberries. While Maine’s Potato industry revenue brought in around $238M in 2023, medical cannabis brought in a whopping $280M. Medical cannabis farmers like Brady Palmer are embracing healthier farming techniques. Palmer, who opened his farm in 2014, al-

ways loved gardening, but he made his living as the owner of a real estate office. After a surprise open heart surgery in 2009, he decided he needed a change, transitioning to farming full-time. Grumpy’s Organic Farm, in Manchester, Maine, was born.

“I had people saying, ‘Grow the cash crop,’ but at the time, my kids were all little, and I was like, ‘There is no way I can grow cannabis.’ I was closed off to it, but I started researching it, and I realized that it really is medicine.”

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Yet, now his plants are back in the soil, and he’s looking $300M to the future. He plans to expand the dispensary’s of$250M ferings by stocking it with other healing plants and $200M foods along with cannabis.

While cannabis isn’t $150M making moves to push nfortunately, potatoes and blueberries $100M the rapid inout of the focal point of dustry growth Maine’s cultural crops, $50M makes it more with four years as Maine’s MEDICAL CANNABIS BLUEBERRIES POTATOES difficult for reigning top crop, the Source: nass.usda.gov. farmers like Palmer to make continuously growing a living. “The prices have and its Delaware parent company, cannabis industry has earned come down, and there are just so High Street Capital (now Acreage a place to stay in Maine’s culture of many people involved now. Some Holdings), sued Maine and won, prominent produce. Farmers like big out-of-staters are coming in.” effectively enabling out-of-staters to Palmer are celebrating.

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Belfast Flying Shoes, Rockport Opera House, 6 Central St. Oh! Flying Shoes! Special Solstice Shine Dance, Dec. 20; Last Night Contra Dance, Dec. 31. 338-0979.

The Hill Arts, 76 Congress St. Magic 8 Ball Winter Solstice Concert, Dec. 22. 347-7177.

Kittery Art Association, 2 Walker St. KAA Holiday Show & Gift Bazaar, to Dec. 21. 451-9384.

The Burleigh, Kennebunkport Inn, 1 Dock Sq. Holiday Cocktail Class, Dec. 21. 204-9668.

Lyric Music Theater, 176 Sawyer St., South Portland. A Christmas Carol, The Musical, to Dec. 22. 799-1421.

Cadenza, 5 Depot St., Freeport. Pat Colwell & The Soul Sensations’ Motown Christmas, Dec. 21. 560-5300.

Maine Jewish Museum, 267 Congress St. Lowry’s Lodge Holiday Open Reading, Dec. 15. 773-2339.

Camden Opera House, 29 Elm St. Lúnasa: Irish Solstice Celebration, Dec. 20. 236-7963.

Mayo Street Arts, 10 Mayo St. St. Lucia’s Day Procession with Northbound, Dec. 15. 879-4629.

Chocolate Church Arts Center, 804 Washington St., Bath. Sing! It’s Christmas, Dec. 16. 442-8455.

Meetinghouse Arts, 40 Main St., Freeport. Sparkle, to Dec. 29. 865-0040.

City Theater, 205 Main St., Biddeford. Irving Berlin’s Holiday Inn, to Dec. 22. 282-0849.

Mystic Theater, 49 Franklin St., Rumford. THUNDERSTRUCK New Years Even with Monsta, Dec. 31.

369-0129.

Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens, 105 Botanical Gardens Dr., Boothbay. Gardens Aglow, to Dec. 31; Making a Festive Arrangement, Dec. 14. 633-8000.

Collins Center for the Arts, 2 Flagstaff Rd., Orono.

The Nutcracker, Dec. 21–22. 581-1755.

Earth at Hidden Pond, 354 Goose Rocks Rd., Kennebunkport. Casino Royale New Year’s Eve, Dec. 31.

967-6550.

The Ecology School, Riverbend Farm, 184 Simpson Rd., Saco. Winter Solstice Stroll, Dec. 19. 283-9951.

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Fete Market, Toad & Co., 31 Diamond St. B. Fete Holiday Market, Dec. 14. 303-9145.

Footlights Theatre, 190 US-1, Falmouth. Humbug!

A Spirited Christmas Carol Gone Wrong, to Dec. 22; A Christmas Carol, to Dec. 23. 747-5434.

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New England Craft Fairs, Augusta Armory, 179 Western Ave. 35th Annual Last Minute Arts & Craft Show, Dec. 14–15; 35th Annual Last Chance Arts & Craft Show, Dec. 21–22. 946-7079.

Now You’re Cooking, 49 Front St., Bath. Cookie Decorating Drop-In, Dec. 14. 443-1402.

One Longfellow Square, 181 State St. Rock My Soul, Dec. 15; Lúnasa, Dec. 16; Portland Jazz Orchestra Holiday Show, Dec. 19–20; Inanna, Sisters in Rhythm, Dec. 21; Low Lily’s Winter Solstice Celebration, Dec. 22; Lyle Divinsky & Friends, Dec. 29; A Havana New Year’s Eve Bash feat. Primo Cubano, Dec. 31. 761-1757.

St. STEM Saturdays: 3…2…1… Happy New Year!, Dec. 28. 594-4418.

Penobscot Theatre Company, Bangor Opera House, 131 Main St. A Christmas Carol, to Dec. 22; Holigays are Here Again, to Dec. 22; Santa’s Storytime & Singalong, to Dec. 22. 942-3333.

Portland Ballet, Merrill Auditorium, 20 Myrtle St. A Victorian Nutcracker, Dec. 17–22. 842-0800.

Portland Conservatory of Music, 28 Neal St. ChoralART Singalong, Dec. 19; Home for the Holidays, Dec. 26–28. 775-3356.

Portland House of Music, 25 Temple St. Griffin William Sherry’s New Year’s Eve(ish) Party, Dec. 27–28; Tim Sullivan’s Half Dead, Dec. 31. 805-0134.

Portland Symphony Orchestra, Merrill Auditorium, 20 Myrtle St. Magic of Christmas, to Dec. 22 (on demand Dec. 20–Jan. 10, 2025). 842-0800.

Portsmouth Historical Society, 10 Middle St., Portsmouth, NH. 34th Annual Gingerbread Contest, to Dec. 30. (603)436-8433.

Railway Village Museum, 586 Wiscasset Rd., Boothbay. North Pole Express, Dec. 14–15. 633-4727.

Richard Boyd Art Gallery, 15 Epps St., Peaks Island.

Holiday Offerings, to Dec. 31; Ringing in the New Year, Jan. 3–26, 2025. 712-1097.

State Theatre, 609 Congress St. The Fogcutters Superfantastic Christmas Extravaganza, Dec. 14; Santa Rave, Dec. 20. 956-6000.

Opera House at Boothbay Harbor, 86 Townsend Ave. Holiday Potluck & Carols, Dec. 18; Irish Christmas with John Doyle & Mick McAuley, Dec. 20. 633-5159.

Stonington Opera House, 1 School St. A Christmas Carol Community Reading, Dec. 15; A Very Merry Holiday Concert, Dec. 21. 367-2788.

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GET OUT mouth. Candlelight Stroll, Dec. 20–22. (603)433-1100.

Ticonic Gallery & Studios, 93 Main St., Waterville.

Holiday Bazaar, to Jan. 27, 2025. 873-7000.

Vivid Motion, The Hill Arts, 76 Congress St. Holly Jolly Follies, Dec. 19–21. 347-7177.

Waldo Theatre, 916 Main St., Waldoboro. Every Christmas Story Ever Told, Dec. 13–15; Heather Pierson Trio: Holiday Charlie Brown Christmas Concert, Dec. 22.

975-6490.

Waterville Opera House, 1 Common St. Tommy Dorsey Orchestra, Dec. 19; Christmas with the Celts, Dec. 23. 873-7000.

Wells Christmas Parade, Route 1. The 39th Annual Christmas Parade begins at Wells Plaza and ends at the Wells Junior High School, Dec. 15. wellschristmasparade.com.

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Cross Insurance Arena, 1 Civic Center Sq. Disney On Ice: Into The Magic, Dec. 19–22. 791-2200.

Mad Horse Theater, 24 Mosher St., South Portland. A Delicate Balance, Jan. 9, 2025–Feb. 7, 2025. 747-4148.

Mayo Street Arts, 10 Mayo St. Tanglewood Marionettes’ Sleeping Beauty, Dec. 21–22. 879-4629.

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Penobscot Theatre Company, Bangor Opera House, 131 Main St. By the Light of the Silvery Screen, Dec. 30–31. 942-3333.

Portland Players Theater, 420 Cottage Rd., South Portland. Into the Woods, to Dec. 22. 799-7337.

Portland Stage, 25A Forest Ave. The Snow Queen, to Dec. 24. 774-0465.

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Belfast Flying Shoes, Rockport Opera House, 6 Central St. First Friday Dance, Jan. 3, 2025. 338-0979.

Blue, 650A Congress St. Salsa Nite, Dec. 27. 774-4111.

Camden Opera House, 29 Elm St. Grit & Grace Repertoire Fundraiser Show, Dec. 14. 236-7963.

Merrill Auditorium, 20 Myrtle St. Dancing with the Stars, Live!, Jan. 14, 2025. 842-0800.

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Bay Chamber Concerts, Hammer Hall, 5 Mountain St., Camden. Chamber Music Recital, Dec. 19. 236-2823.

Blue, 650A Congress St. Open Mic Live, Dec. 17; Matt Meyer and The Gumption Junction & El Malo, Dec. 20; David Newsam with Maddie Adams & Gruppo Antudo, Dec. 21; Saguaro & Connor Ellis Group, Dec. 28; Jazz Sesh, every Wed. 774-4111.

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Katie Matzell & Friends will perform at One Longfellow Square on Dec. 28.

Cadenza, 5 Depot St., Freeport. Duane Edwards, Dec. 19. 560-5300.

Chocolate Church Arts Center, 804 Washington St., Bath. Hiroya Tsukamoto, Dec. 20. 442-8455.

Friends of the Kotzschmar Organ, Merrill Auditorium, 20 Myrtle St. Grand Opera Meets the Mighty Kotzschmar, on demand to Dec. 24; Christmas with Kennerley, Dec. 23 (on demand Dec. 30–Jan. 29). 842-0800.

The Hill Arts, 76 Congress St. Reed Foehl Band, Dec. 28.

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Jonathan’s Ogunquit, 92 Bourne Ln. Wishbone Ash, Dec. 14. 646-4777.

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GET OUT Encore: The Magic Flute (Mozart), Dec. 21. 873-7000.

One Longfellow Square, 181 State St. Katie Matzell & Friends, Dec. 28; Enter the Haggis, Jan. 2, 2025.

761-1757.

Opera House at Boothbay Harbor, 86 Townsend Ave. Ellis Paul, Dec. 28; The Boneheads, Jan. 11, 2025.

633-5159.

Portland Conservatory of Music, 28 Neal St. Mary Rosen & Diane Walsh, Dec. 15. 775-3356.

Portland House of Music, 25 Temple St. Joe Samba, Dec. 20; Enter the Haggis, Jan. 3, 2025. 805-0134.

State Theatre, 609 Congress St. Pink Talking Fish, Dec. 21; Start Making Sense, Dec. 28; Zakk Sabbath, Jan. 2, 2025. 956-6000.

Stone Mountain Arts Center, 695 Dugway Rd., Brownfield. Adam Ezra Group, Dec. 21; Dar Williams, Dec. 27; Soggy Po’ Boys, Dec. 31; Albert Lee, Jan. 10, 2025. 935-7292.

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Vinegar Hill Music Theatre, 53 Old Post Rd., Arundel. 12/OC & The Gang, Dec. 14. 985-5552.

Waldo Theatre, 916 Main St., Waldoboro. Adam Ezra Group, Dec. 20. 975-6490.

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Bates College Museum of Art, 75 Russell St., Lewiston. Across Common Grounds, to Mar. 15, 2025; Array: Recent Acquisition Series, to Mar. 15, 2025. 786-6158.

Bowdoin College Museum of Art, 245 Maine St., Brunswick. Re|Framing the Collection: New Considerations in European and American Art, 1475-1875, to Dec. 31; Etruscan Gifts: Artifacts from Early Italy in the Bowdoin Collection, to Feb. 9; 2025; Currents: Art Since 1875, to Mar. 2, 2025; Hello, Stranger: Artist as Subject in Photographic Portraits since 1900, to Mar. 23, 2025.

725-3275.

Caldbeck Gallery, 12 Elm St., Rockland. Winter Exhibition, to Jan. 31, 2025. 594-5935.

Carol L. Douglas Studio and Gallery, 394 Commercial St., Rockport. Landscape and marine paintings, workshops, and instruction. Watch-me-paint.com. (585) 201-1558.

Center for Maine Contemporary Art, 21 Winter St., Rockland. Letha Wilson: Cut, Bend, Burn, to Jan. 12, 2025; Lauren Luloff: Paint the Air, to Jan. 12, 2025; Katrina Weslien: i forgot to remember, to May 4, 2025. 701-5005.

Colby College Museum of Art, 5600 Mayflower Hill Dr., Waterville. Surface Tension, to Jan. 12, 2025; Square + Triangle, to Apr. 21, 2025; Into the Wind: American Weathervanes, to Jun. 8, 2025. 859-5600.

Cove Street Arts, 71 Cove St. Lateral Passage, to Jan. 11, 2025. 808-8911.

David Lussier Gallery, 66 Wallingford Sq., Kittery.

Gallery with works by artists including Benjamin Lussier, David Lussier, Pamela Lussier, & Jennifer Simpson, to Dec. 24. (860) 336-9051.

De’Bramble Art Gallery, 16 Middle St., Freeport. Art by Marilyn J. Welch and Friends. (510) 717-8427.

Farnsworth Art Museum, 16 Museum St., Rockland.

The Wyeths: Impressions of Coastal Maine, to Dec. 31; Magwintegwak: A Legacy of Penobscot Basketry, to Jan. 5, 2025; Lynne Drexler: Color Notes, to Jan. 12, 2025; Sue De Beer: The White Wolf, to Jan. 26, 2025. 596-6457.

First Friday Art Walks, Creative Portland, 84 Free St. Jan. 3, 2025. 370-4784.

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Maine Film Center, 93 Main St., Waterville. Frederick Ndabaramiye, to Dec. 31. 873-7000.

Maine Historical Society, 489 Congress St. Music in Maine, to Dec. 31; Rearranging History: Wayn-

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Maine Jewish Museum, 267 Congress St. The Teaching of Isaac Luria to Reflections on Melville & Other Paintings, to Jan. 3, 2025; A Paler Shade, to Jan. 3, 2025; Echoes of the Other, to Jan. 3, 2025; Season 2, Episode 1: Rick Graff, Jan. 9, 2025–Feb. 28, 2025; Ancient Text Renewed: Marlene D’Orazio Adler, Jan. 9, 2025–Feb. 28, 2025. 773-2339.

Maine Maritime Museum, 243 Washington St., Bath.

Sustaining Maine’s Waters, to Dec. 31; Hashi: Connecting Maine and Japan Through Student Art, to Jan. 5, 2025; Upta Camp, to Nov. 28, 2025. 443-1316.

Maine Sculpture Trail, Schoodic International Sculpture Symposium. An outdoor exhibit of 34 sculptures over 200 miles Downeast. schoodicsculpture.org.

Moss Galleries, 100 Fore St. Gail Spaien & Lynne Drexler: Light in Every Room, to Jan. 4, 2025. 804-0459.

Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum, 9500 College Station, Brunswick. Northern Nightmares: Monsters in Inuit Art, to May 4, 2025; Collections and Recollections: Objects and the Stories They Tell & At Home In the North, to Jun. 1, 2025. 725-3416.

Portland Museum of Art, 7 Congress Sq. Peggy Bacon: Biting, never Bitter, to Feb. 2, 2025; As We Are, to Apr. 27, 2025. 775-6148.

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River Arts, 36 Elm St, Damariscotta. Celebration, to Dec. 30. 563-6868.

University of New England Art Galleries, UNE Art Gallery, 716 Stevens Ave. Spark of Live: Abstraction, Microscopy, and Discovery, to Feb. 16, 2025. 602-3000 University of New England Art Galleries, Jack S. Ketchum Library, 11 Hills Beach Rd., Biddeford. Studio Ecosystems: UNE Visual Art Faculty Show 2024, to Feb. 9, 2025. 602-3000.

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Maine Film Center, 93 Main St., Waterville. The Iron Giant, Dec. 29; When Harry Met Sally, Dec. 31. 8737000.

Strand Theatre, 345 Main St., Rockland. The Muppet Movie (1979), Dec. 19. 594-0070.

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Lobster Dip 2025, in front of The Brunswick Hotel, 39 West Grand Ave., Old Orchard Beach. Fun event to raise funds for Special Olympics Maine, Jan. 1, 2025. somaine.org/get-involved/lobster-dip.

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Maine Maritime Museum, 243 Washington St., Bath. STEAMbox Family Workshop: Wonderful World of Whales, Jan. 11, 2025. 443-1316.

Polar Bear Dip & Dash, Southern Maine Community College, 2 Fort Rd., South Portland. Gather your friends, start a team, or fundraise on your own to support NRCM’s climate change work for this 17th annual event, Dec. 31. nrcm.org/events/polar-bear-dip-dash.

Print: A Bookstore, 273 Congress St. Abbie Kiefer presents Certain Shelter with Gibson Fay-Leblanc, Jan. 15, 2025. 536-4778.

Stonington Opera House, 1 School St. Trivia Night, Dec. 19. 367-2788.

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Entertaining with Maine Ingredients: Mocktail Mixology, Jan. 9, 2025. 558-5772.

Now You’re Cooking, 49 Front St., Bath. Soup Basics, Jan. 5, 2025; Tapas Cooking Class, Jan. 8, 2025; Pasta: Spaghetti & Fettuccine 101, Jan. 15, 2025.

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est Indies shipping merchant Jonathan Hartwell Fletcher was born in Westford, Massachusetts in 1821. After dabbling in blacksmithery, he moved to Portland and took a position as a clerk in his sister’s husband’s family business, Smith & Hersey.

Wresting control of the firm, he renamed it Fletcher & Co. and began operations as an import/ export firm.

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flag darted back and forth to the Caribbean Islands as our city bloomed, and he built a home whose interior rivals the Victoria Mansion’s, with soaring archways, 13-foot ceilings, Cuban mahogany woodwork, pocket doors, three fireplaces with majolica

tiles, fantastical built-ins, a dumb waiter, and a cistern collecting water from the roof.

It was built in 1869, three years after the Great Portland Fire.

Over the years, generations of Fletchers lived here until selling the .35-acre property at 366 Spring Street to the Voss family back when few buyers had an interest in Victorian behemoths from a bygone era that required astronomical amounts of fuel heat.

“My parents bought the house in 1971 when I was one year old,” says Matthew Voss. By then, DECEMBER 2024 69

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Our family wasn’t made of money, so we saved up and fixed one room at a time.

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it had hit rock bottom. When they bought this house, the windows were boarded up. Homeless people and kids made fires here” in the grand entertaining rooms to keep warm.

“It was sort of left deteriorated. The arched front doors pains had wheelcut glass. We found them shattered.

We still have a fragment to show what was there.

“Our family wasn’t made of money, so we saved up and fixed one room at a time.”

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he result is a trip back through time to a perfectly curated world that must have been as insulated from the last 40 years as the house that Chance, the gardener, called home in the movie Being There.

So you actually grew up in this house.

Remarkable. Where was the best place to hide?

He leads me to the cavernous rustic attic — as big as a small theater — with 20 foot beamed ceilings, a cedar room, and corners to twist and duck behind. “Here’s an old train set from the 1950s,” he says, picking a car up from a box beside an ancient cardboard container emblazoned with Black Label beer. “My brother and I

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SIDNEY $335,000 Ranch home with 3 bedrooms 1 ba on a 4 acre lot. Rural feel but minutes to Augusta and Waterville from this delightful home in desirable Sidney. True one level living with not one but two fabulous garages. Use all four acres for your self and your family compound. Or…It is easy to add another home and possibly a third with town approval. Land is all surveyed.

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FARMINGTON Enchanting home nestled in the heart of Farmington. Built in 1890, 5 bedrooms and 2 full baths on 1 acre of land and just a short walk on the sidewalk to Main Street Farmington and the University of Maine. This Georgian Revival from a bygone era has been the family home for the Mills family for over 109 years. The sturdy, well-built home has over 2,493 square feet of living space and an additional space you could use as it has a third floor and a two story barn. Spacious kitchen, first floor living ,vintage parlor, and dining. Many possibilities and could have additional buildings added with shared drive. Multi family and business possibilites. Many updates: shingles, furnace and electrical. Remodel the inside to your wishes! Take the Materport tour online or come see!

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AUGUSTA! $331,750 Augusta! This inviting three-bedroom 1 ½ ba home is ideally located in a friendly neighborhood, near the Marketplace at Augusta, Togas VA and Maine General. Empty nesters or only just begun. You are in a cul-de-sac with sidewalks.

Spacious eat in kitchen sunny living room, and hardwood floors. Lower level with a large family room, a large office laundry are and a workshop fit for the handyperson Putter all you want in this neat downstairs with a 1/2 bath. The finished basement offers a fantastic bonus space—perfect for a cozy family room, home office, or play area. Large back deck, and two car garage. With its perfect blend of comfort, convenience, and charm, this home is ready for you to make it your own. Don’t miss out on this fantastic opportunity in Augusta! Schedule your showing today! This has been a family home since 1980 with the same family It has been lovingly cared for. This home has 1511 square feet but feels larger with all the room. Take the Materport tour online or come see! MLS 1604491 $331,750

MANCHESTER $875,000 4.4 ACRES | $750,000 2.4 ACRES Stunning 1834 Colonial with ten bedrooms and six bathrooms with 6400 SF at 60 Readfield Road. The main house has a cook’s kitchen, 22 ft formal Dining, 44 foot double parlors with two fireplaces, a bath and a living room. The second floor has the primary bedroom and private bath. Three other bedrooms with a guest bath. Third floor 2 more bedrooms. The other section of the home with separate entrance has four bedrooms and two baths. This home is bathed in natural light and has been extensively updated and is a “gem to behold”.

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FARMINGTON $340,000 Imagine you are a professional building contractor. You come across the perfect 100 acre parcel of prime hunting land.

You have the skill, knowledge, and equipment to build your dream camp. You put an 18 by 32 camp on a full foundation and install a septic system with a dug well nearby. You wire the camp and have a generator for electricity. You install propane tanks for your cook stove, refrigerator, and run propane lights. Your cottage has an open concept kitchen-dining -living room bathed in natural light and finished in pine. A sliding door leads to an 18 by 8.5 foot deck and a full bath completes this level. You have two loft areas for sleeping in the tranquil wilderness. The lower level is warmed by a wood stove and has plenty of room for you to putter around in this open space complete with overhead door for your ATV to come inside. Enjoy the solitude and privacy on your 100 acres. Just minutes to to Bingham, Wyman Lake, the Kennebec River, and The Forks. Sugarloaf and Greenville are an easy ride. The center of a recreational paradise. When the conditions are right you can snowmobile and ATV from here.

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ur footsteps echo as he guides the way down to the main bedroom on the second floor, “where I’m sleeping right now.

I’m the last one living here during the sale,” invited by necessity to revisit his childhood. A gracious fireplace serves as the focal point. There is an en suite bathroom.

We head down the hallway to the bedroom he remembers best, facing

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used to shoot mini Frisbees at each other up here.”

He shows me another box full of arrows—over two dozen of them. I’d considered calling this story “Fletcher’s Arrow,” since a fletcher is one who makes arrows. But what were the odds of actually finding arrows up here? He hands me a souvenir.

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When I went to Waynflete—I was a couple of years ahead of Liv Tyler—I used to stand right here when it was snowing, watch each flake come down, crank up the radio, and pray that school was going to be canceled that day!” Without a beat, he does a dead-on impression of a local radio announcer listing the school closures.

We descend the grand staircase and pass through an archway to a grand salon where the only remaining furnishing there is a large oriental rug. “There used to be a buzzer below this carpet where, if you stepped on it, you could call servants. But that was from before. We didn’t have any servants!

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ther is a forensic psychiatrist who was at Maine Medical and still practices in Falmouth.” A Brown graduate, Matthew “ran the market risk team for Goldman Sacks for two years, 2010 to 2012” as chief technology officer.

Afterward, he was VP of research and development at Truefort. He’s founded Quicbit (an information systems organization) and Netus, LLC (a technological social enterprise).

“Some of the ceilings were painted [with Victorian decorative patterns] when we moved here.” But, of course, they were peeling. Even birds might have been flying through the house when it was at its least cared for. A space left uncovered on a first-floor ceiling shows what the earlier work looked like. The rest is covered with removable paint, awaiting a third family to take the helm.

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very one of these rooms has a fabulous place for a Christmas tree. Across the decades, “there were visits from the Portland Symphony or Portland String Quartet, and my Waynflete classmates came each year for a holiday party and dance.”

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AUGUST 8, 1969 ey, today’s the grand opening for the Maine Mall. Wanna check it out?” Tommy Casasa was an icebreaker, a risk-taker, full of fun. He loved to go and do.

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“Why?” I asked. “It’s all the way in South Portland.”

“It’s just around the corner! Come on! Years from now, you’ll be able to say you were there on the first day!”

I was years away from reading On the Road, but on that day, Tommy was my Neal Cassady. We pulled on

our bicycles and glided from Capisic Street to Stevens Avenue, then down the hill into Stroudwater past the Tate House. Leaving the Northeast Yellowbird jets of the Portland Airport to our left, we pedaled through the ghostly remains of a collapsed pig farm until we reached a wide pavilion

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of new tar. In the center rose the brick façade of Jordan Marsh (now Macy’s), with its signature doorway. Vintage Tommy: “Jeesum. That copper roof must have cost a fortune!”

Taking in the wonders, we stalked through the retail universe, dazzled by the coral-colored, fantastically luxe (to a teenager’s eyes) marble floors. (And we’d thought Pine Tree Shopping Center on Brighton Avenue was the ne plus ultra.)

Re-entering the atmosphere, we saw a smaller structure with a peaked roof barely starting to rise across the empty parking spaces—the world’s first glimpse of Hu Ke Lau? Nah. Chan Sun “Sonny” Ng opened that landmark in 1972.

Looking back five decades, I conflate the Moon Landing (July 21, 1969) and the opening of the first anchor store at the Maine Mall into the same interstellar event. Both happened in 1969. Both turned the world upside down, possibly nudged into being by the first quake (The White Album by the Beatles, November 22, 1968). But you’ll forgive my 14-year-old self, because I do run on, since back then we were Fab. In Lincoln Middle School, we practiced the art of cursive writing (universal then but now only required in 24 states), always easier for a right-hander. Many of us were dispatched to Dorothy Mason School of Dance to gain some grace (for me and my sulking partners, a frightening two months of ballroom dancing—“I don’t wanna do that, they don’t wanna do that”). During the holidays, so many of the fabulous crushed into the department

store nicknamed “Porteous,” which lit up downtown like, well, like this picture, which still vibrates in my head. I’ll bet you an Angelone’s pizza that many other

Portland natives carry this vivid memory with them.

WEIRD, WICKED CITY… In the 1960s, the accordion was considered a credible instrument in a Portland garage band. Gripped by the strangeness of it, I dial up Michael J. Tabone, who most successfully played the accordion in his band The Mustangs. You know Michael Tabone. He’s the cool older brother of my friend, the late Vincent “Jimmy” Tabone.

When did you and The Mustangs start?

“1964,” Michael says.

Holy Lee Iacocca. You mean you guys named your band for the hot new car?

“Yes.” “I remember seeing you perform on our black-and-white RCA TV during Beatlemania. I can’t remember if it was on Dave Astor or Youth Cavalcade.”

“Both! I won one season of Youth Cavalcade.”

Fabulous. The Dave Astor TV show

was our version of Hairspray. Give us a quick master class to help us understand why an accordion could be part of a rock band. I mean, it’s so Portland, almost too Portland.

“The reason was, during that time, bands like the Beatles, the Rolling Stones, the Animals—all those British bands had a member playing the keyboard standing up.”

And this is what we had.

ANY PORT IN A STORM “I did finally transition to the organ,” Michael says.

“Years later, I ended up with a Hammond B3, playing in night clubs and rock bands throughout Massachusetts and Maine in the Seventies and Eighties. My last hurrah was about six years ago when I played the organ in Waterville at Mainely Brews. A heavy rock band had been playing there, but they were a little too loud for the customers, so I was brought in to sort of quiet things down. I taught them some of the old songs.”

I still keep my own 1960s Scandalli accordion asleep in its gray suitcase with the red plush interior.

Who knows when I’ll get the call? If you were lucky, you missed my debut recital (so many Portlanders had one) at Starbird School of Music.

BUT FAB WASN’T FAB FOR ALL Just because we were Fab didn’t mean we were always fabulous. The story goes, in 1971, word got around that the Elks Club was touting its cool new climate-control technology. How exciting, how fresh, how crisp. At the same time, the Deering High School graduating class was voting D E C E M A B E R 2 0 2 4 87

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PRINCIPLE VS. CREATURE COMFORT here was a national Elks policy restricting memberships. Una Richardson, now Una George, speaks to me by phone from her home in Marietta, Georgia, with the same warm and familiar Maine accent I remember from Deering High School. “It was a [nearly] all-white school when I went there. In our class, only one other girl and I were Black. I am not a natural public speaker,” she says. “I was so nervous.” But she got up alone on stage and implored her classmates not to vote for the Lodge. Her classmates voted 176-64 against her wish to hold the dance at the Eastland Hotel. “I picketed outside the Lodge, supported by friends, members of the NAACP, and the Deering High art teacher, Antoinette Michael.

Why should I want to go to a prom in a place where Black and Jewish men could not join; women were not allowed to join at all?”

Years later, this incident figured in the landmark Deering High School yearbook, 1971.

U.S. Supreme Court Decision to support individual states’ rights to revoke the liquor license of businesses that practiced racial discrimination.

If you could speak to those classmates right now, what would you say?

“First of all, I would thank them for

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assembling to hear me back then. As for right now, 53 years later, I’d say I know how I feel today. How do you feel about what happened? In 2013, the Portland Press Herald interviewed me about the incident. After the story came out, a number of classmates contacted me and apologized. They said, ‘I didn’t understand back then.’”

That’s a step up from what she heard the first time around: You’re allowed to attend the dance; what’s the problem?

THANK YOU FOR YOUR SERVICE. Una served in the U.S. Air Force as a medical sergeant during the Vietnam War years, then attended San Antonio College with help from the G.I. Bill. Returning here, she worked for over two decades at City Hall in Portland, not far from the Porteous building.

A NEW ERA The traditional retail giant Porteous, Mitchell & Braun is now Maine School of Art and Design.

The National Elks Club revamped its bylaws in the 1970s, and Maine Lodge 188 is most welcoming to all. Women hold leadership positions in lodges all over the state. Jordan Marsh long ago morphed into Macy’s.

Now, you can easily find a convenient parking spot at the Maine Mall.

Philip T. (Tommy) Casasa, who biked with me to the Maine Mall, died of cancer on July 1, 2011.

The humor, the effervescence, was there to the end. His many friends still share the ache of losing him so young. So, am I alone in boasting I was one of the first at Jordan Marsh?

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