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38 Personalities 37 shape shifter

Impresario Andy Verzosa surprises in Ogunquit.

Interview by Sarah Moore

37 83 73 l’esprit de l’escalier “En Valeur”

By Rhea Côté Robbins

93 Fiction “The Thing Carol Saw”

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Maine liFe 15 Maine classics 23 experience 30 chowder

77 Fantastic Voyage Dr. Deb Walters finishes her epic kayak voyage–after spinal surgery.

Interview by Claire Z. Cramer

Hackmatack Theater sweetens summer.

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96 Flash

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PersPectiVes 10 From the editor 12 letters 38 Bridging the Kennebunks A tiny miracle brings two worlds together.

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59 artist at Work: taking Flight Christopher Patch’s flock soars above PMA’s Modern Menagerie.

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33 Portland after Dark: “literary nights” Writers, poets, and the rest of us raise a glass or two.

By Karen Hofreiter 44 What’s new?

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We’ve shown how the price of lobsters predicts the Dow Jones average better than hemlines. We know how the world is going crazy pre-ordering L.L. Bean boots, because we have something they want.

We know lobster-roll trucks are rolling over Manhattan and Brooklyn. In terms of marketing, Maine is going through a smooth patch.

The Maine craze has gone so deep into the world’s psychic geography, we’re all the way to creating a Maine outside of Maine.

Because we’re pitch perfect. Actress Anna Kendrick’s well deserved fame for her independent spirit, her sense of self, and her values from being a Portland native are one cultural marker. Not to mention her kindness. As one of a “flash mob” of celebrities who value education, she’s just sent funds to 31 DonorsChoose.org projects right here in her home state. International figures like Stephen King and Joan Benoit Samuelson, both of whom dare to be different but in different ways, are part of the here here.

Here’s a new example. Kennebunk artist John Gable knows this state like the pine tree at the end of his mind. His work is yare, nautical, Maine to the bone. To mention his name is to evoke fireworks over the Narragansett on Gooch’s Beach, racing yachts, all the “beauty overload” we have north of Boston.

So why is he in Washington, D.C.?

I was in Washington recently, eating oysters from Maine’s Damariscotta River at Clyde’s of Gallery Place, a clubby, paneled restaurant specializing in steak, seafood, and Edwardian self-indulgence. It was a fun coincidence to taste Maine inside a towering mixed-use shopping mall and cineplex on H Street.

Then I looked behind my table and saw a huge Gable oil, almost wall-sized, hailing me like an old friend. This fanciful artwork (a convergence of nostalgic “woody” station wagons at a picnic, complete with a Hogarthian coterie of picnickers) is brushed in Gable’s signature style, yet…it’s aimed beyond.

I was delighted to find Maine following me. By the time I left the restaurant, Maine was surrounding me, Bub, because Gable has multiple significant works in Clyde’s. Even Gable’s painting of the Capitol Building is somehow rendered and deepened with 50 shades of Maine.

When I catch up with him a few days later, he’s just returned to the Kennebunks after installing a major piece at the Willard Intercontinental Hotel on Pennsylvania Avenue in D.C., steps from The White House. As he puts it, “Glad you enjoyed seeing the work at Clyde’s, but the big deal this trip was the unveiling of new paintings at The Willard. Quite a moment with the Japanese delegation attending!”

The Maine mystique in Gable’s work is so universally in demand it’s pulling him, and us, to commissions in major urban centers who crave what we Mainers take for granted every day. Maine without borders. Maybe that’s why we have so many readers who crave the here here–even when they’re there.

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he Portland Press Herald says Maine has 97 percent of the native wild brook trout on the Eastern Seaboard. Frank Frost, a state fisheries biologist based in Aroostook County, takes us behind the statistic. “There are trout into the Carolinas and Georgia, but they’re hatchery fish. Maine has hatchery fish, too. But we stock very few waters up past Houlton.” Are native wild trout feistier? “There’s no real difference.” Is it the cold water the wild ones prefer? “You find wild trout where there’s no development. We’ve done studies on why people go to the north woods. Fishing is about the setting. It’s wild up north.” How about out West, where the Hemingway types fish? “Those trout aren’t native,” says Frost. “Rainbow trout are stocked from all over. Brown trout are from Europe.”

À la Cart The Eastern Prom’s newest bijou digs are on wheels, harkening to the clam shacks of the 1950s. The SaltBox Cafe serves decadent breakfast & lunch from a 90-square-foot kitchen. “I got tired of standing in line for brunch!” says creator/chef Matthew Glatz. Most tempting: his crab cake croissant, with a fried egg ($8.95). Find him 7 a.m.-2 p.m. Killer views included.

Duking It Out “Meet Cathy who’s lived most everywhere, from Zanzibar to Barclay Square.” So read the story in the Portland paper about Patty Duke’s demise. Hmmm. Was identical twin cousin Cathy (from Scotland) in fact a resident of suburban Barclay Square in Columbus, Ohio, rather than the illustrious Berkeley Square of historic Mayfair in London, as the show would have us believe? Just so you know, this wasn’t a local error. Likely the mistake started on a wire service. You could hear the worldwide corrections a day later, racing across the internet: “This story corrects to Berkeley Square from Barclay Square.”

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Rustic Charm With warmer months approaching, summer theaters get ready to welcome Vacationland visitors. Local favorite, Hackmatack Playhouse, takes us into the upcoming season.

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his June, Hackmatack Playhouse chael Guptill, Carlton’s son and successor. in Berwick will open its barn doors [Not so–there’s another in South Dakota.] to the public for its 44th consecuThis adds new meaning to the term hoofer. tive summer season since its founding in Summer 2016 will see Hackmatack 1972 by farmer and Berwick native, Carl(named for the native coniferous tree) stagton S. Guptill. The Guptill family, Ruthless closed out the 2015 season. Hackmatack is “not the who have farmed the land since the kind of place people to come and sip champagne in silence.”

1600s, welcome around 1,000 visitors a week to their rustic barn-conversion theater, situated on 30 acres of rolling fields, where roams the second Hackmatack attraction–the family’s herd of buffalo. It’s an unusual, yet effective combination.

“I think we are the only theater with a bison herd in Maine, maybe in the whole country,” says Mi-

ing four plays from June 16 through Labor Day weekend.

Theatrics commence with Noises Off, a raucous backstage farce. Next up is the vintage Leonard Bernstein Broadway hit On the Town, following three young sailors on shore leave in New York City. Then it’s Once Upon a Mattress, the comical and absurd musical retelling of Hans Christian Anderson’s fairy tale The Princess and the Pea. Summer season will close with a muchloved Maine original by John Cariani, deM AY 2016 17

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A Day In The Life : A Beatles Experience August 12 & 13

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It’s all about tradItIon his season is Crystal Lisbon’s second at the directorial helm, although she has worked on and off with the playhouse for around 15 years.

With a background in acting, dance, and choreography, Guptill describes the Lisbon as bringing “a youthful energy” to the theater; and as the first director never to have worked alongside Guptill Senior, her arrival marks a new era for the playhouse.

“The torch has really been passed to a new generation,” he says. For Guptill, a deep understanding of the nature of theater was as important as professional credentials in the search for the new director. “Someone who understood the feel of Hackmatack and what its about. We are a traditional summer stock theatre. It’s a really homemade atmosphere.”

Lisbon herself is certainly familiar with the unique appeal of the playhouse.“Words can never quite express the magic that is Hackmatack. It’s the people, the barn itself, the atmosphere, and the craziness of putting a major production up in two weeks. It ruins you for other theaters in a way”

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KeepIng It real For Guptill, who maintains a full-time, year-round job selling produce in Boston, the overall experience and sense of community is at the heart of the Hackmatack ethos.

He concedes that the theater itself doesn’t turn much profit, and it’s been more challenging in recent years by the acquisition of many local stores by chain corporations, who typically “don’t support local theater in the same way.” As a result, little has changed at the Berwick playhouse over the years, including few renovations to the original barn conversion, parking areas and walkways. In 2011, a donation effort was even launched to raise funds to support the ongoing maintenance work on the theater, with patrons encouraged to give donations toward a checklist of improvement projects, such as ‘installing hot water in the bathrooms.’

Despite these limited resources, a glance at ticket pricing reveals a reasonable $25 per adult for a weekday performance. Guptill actively encourages families to bring their own refreshments to enjoy before the show. Was

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Maine State Music Theatre and Portland Stage Company join forces to present The Irish…And How They Got That Way, an original play by Frank McCourt, with original musical arrangement by Rusty Magee.

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this a conscious effort to make theater more affordable, and thereby more accessible?

“Definitely,” says Guptill. “We want people to relax and feel at home here. It’s not the kind place people come to sip champagne in silence.” Instead, you are likely to see families picnicking outdoors in sight of the roaming bison herd, and indoors sampling Gayle Guptill’s homemade pies at intermission and laughing along to crowd-pleasing classic productions.

Guptill sees Hackmatack as a means of introducing new people to the world of theater, foregoing cutting-edge production or subject matter in favor of a more mainstream and lighthearted approach. “Artistically we are looking to be a ‘gateway’ experience into theater.”

Thankfully for the Guptill family, the nostalgic appeal of Hackmatack’s barn location works in their favor: few of his faithful patrons would accept changes of any kind to the farm’s rustic set-up. “If you went back 30 years, you would definitely recognize Hackmatack. People don’t want Hackmatack to change! It’s part of their summer tradition.”

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2016 Summer Season Heartwood Regional Theater Company, Lincoln Academy, Newcastle. Our Town, May 5-7; Summer Camp, Jun. 27-Jul. 17; The Tempest, Jul. 15-23. heartwoodtheater.org

Lakewood Theater, 75 Theater Rd., Madison.

Money Matters, May 26-Jun. 4; Last Round-up of the Guacamole Queens, Jun. 9-18; Always, Patsy Cline, Jun. 23-Jul. 2; Cheshire Cats, Jul. 7-16; The Full Monty, Jul. 21-Jul. 30; Baskerville!, Aug. 4-13; Hello Dolly, Aug. 18-27; Of Mice and Men, Sept.

1-10; Confessions of a Dirty Blonde, Sept. 15-24.

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June 17-18; 22-25; 29-July 2 Matinees June 23 & 30 July 6-9; 13-16; 20-23 Matinees July 7, 14 and 21 July 27-30; aug 3-6; 10-13 Matinees July 28 & aug 4, 11 aug 17-20; 24-27; 31-sept 3 Matinees aug 18, 25, & sept 1

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Maine State Ballet Theater, 348 U.S. Rte. 1, Falmouth. Spring Recital, May 20-21; Can-Can Parisien, Aug. 11-20. 781-7672 mainestateballet.org Maine State Music Theatre, Pickard Theater, 1 Bath Rd., Brunswick. Ghost, the Musical, June 8-25; A Grand Night For Singing, Jun. 20; Evita, Jun. 29-Jul. 16; Fiddler on the Roof, Jul. 20-Aug. 6; Mamma Mia!, Aug. 10-27; Footlight Follies, Aug. 15; The Irish and How They Got That Way, Aug. 16-Sept. 4. 725-8769 msmt.org Merrill Auditorium, 20 Myrtle St., Portland.

Jerry Seinfeld, May 6; Jeff Foxworthy and Larry the Cable Guy, May 7; The Lightning Thief, May 21; PORTopera presents: Carmen by Georges Bizet, Jul. 27-29. 842-0800 porttix.com Ogunquit Playhouse, Let It Be, May 18-Jun. 11; Anything Goes, Jun. 15-Jul. 9; The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Jul. 13-Aug. 6; Priscilla, Queen of the Desert, Aug. 10-Sept. 3; Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, Sept. 7-Oct. 1; Million Dollar Quartet, Oct. 5-Nov. 6. 656-5511 ogunquitplayhouse.org Penobscot Theatre Company, Bangor Opera House, 131 Main St. Duck Hunter Shoots Angel,through May 15; Calendar Girls, Sept.

8-25; Murder for Two, Oct. 2-Nov. 6. 942-3333 penobscottheatre.org

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Gaslight Theater, Winthrop St., Hallowell. Are You Being Served?, Jun. 17-26; Agatha Christie’s Black Coffee, Aug. 19-28. 626-3698 gaslighttheater.org

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Portland Ballet, at John Ford Theater at Portland High School. The Armed Man, May 20-21.

772-9671 portlandballet.org Portland Stage, 25 Forest Ave. Little Festival of the Unexpected, May 11-14; They Don’t Pay? We Won’t Pay! Apr. 26- May 21; The Irish and How They Got That Way, Aug. 16-Sept. 4..

774-0645 portlandstage.org Public Theatre, 31 Maple St., Lewiston.

Crossing Delancey, May 6-15; African Adventure Tales, May 22. 782-3200 thepublictheatre.org Schoolhouse Arts Center, 16 Richville Rd., Standish. James and the Giant Peach Jr., May 20-22; Three Short Plays, Jun. 3-5; Beauty & The Beast, Jul. 14-31; 101 Dalmatians - Kids, Aug. 19-21; Clue, the Musical, Sept. 16-Oct. 2. 6423743 schoolhousearts.org

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Portland Science Center’s summer exhibit, Titanic: The Artifact Exhibition, featuring full-scale replicas, genuine artifacts, and archival photos, opens June 18. portlandsciencecenter.com

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Bolotin: The Book of Only Enoch, Jun. 10-Oct. 8. 7866158 bates.edu/museum

Bates College Museum of Art, Olin Arts Center, 75 Russell St., Lewiston. Jay

Bowdoin College Museum of Art, 1 Bath Rd., Brunswick. To Count Art an Intimate Friend: Highlights from the Bowdoin Collections 1794 to Present, through Jun. 5; Luke DuBois-Now, through Sept.

Art Gallery at UNE, 716 Stevens Ave. The Art of Mildred G. Burrage, Mar. 26-Jun. 26 221-4499 une.edu/artgallery

4; Beautiful Monstrosities, Elegant Distortions: The Artifice of Sixteenth-Century Mannerism, through June 5; Renaissance Rivalries: Painting and its Sister Arts, opens Apr. 26; Barbara Cooney: Drawing Biography. May 19-Aug. 21. 725-3275 bowdoin.edu/art-museum

Colby College Museum of Art, 5600 Mayflower Hill Dr., Waterville. Alex Katz: A Singular Vision, through May; Alec Sloth: Summer Nights at the Dollar

Tree, through Jun. 5; A Usable Past: American Folk Art at the Colby College Museum of Art, opens July 11. 859-5600 colby.edu

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May 12. mainejewishmuseum.org PhoPa Gallery, 132 Washington Ave., Portland. Daniel Anselmi & James Marshall: Paper Works, Apr. 13-May 28. phopagallery.com Portland Museum of Art, 7 Congress Sq., Portland. Masterworks on Paper: Highlights from the Portland Museum of Art, thru Jun. 5; Duncan Hewitt: Turning Strange, through Sep. 4; Edward Curtis, through May 29; Georges Braque: Surface and Space, Jun. 21-Sep. 11; O’Keeffe, Stettheimer, Torr, Zorach, Jun. 23-Sep. 18.

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Continuum for Creativity, 863 Main St., Westbrook.Mary Brooking, Judy Schneider and Caren-Marie Michel: Sky | Woods | Sea, May 20-Jul. 9252-9897 marybrooking.com Farnsworth Art Museum, 16 Museum St., Rockland. About Buildings, through 2017; N.C Wyeth: Painter, May 21-Dec. 31. 596-6457 farnsworthmuseum.org

Blue, 650 Congress St., Portland. Acoustic Jam, Every Tues.; Irish Music Night, Every Wed.; Titus Abbot, Forbes/Wilson CD Launch, May 14; Sarah Ford, Vintage Vocal Quarter, Colleen Clark: May 21; Steve Grover, Steve Kirby; May 27. 774-4111. portcityblue.com Cross Insurance Arena, 1 Center St., Portland.

Phish, Jul. 6. 775-3458 crossarenaportland.com Cross Insurance Center, 515 Main St., Bangor.

Ringo Starr & His All Starr Band, Jun. 6. 5618300 crossinsurancecenter.com

Maine Historical Society, 489 Congress St., Portland. 400 Years of New Mainers, through May 30; see website for upcoming exhibitions. 774-1822 mainehistory.org

Dogfish Bar & Grille, 128 Free St., Portland.

Trivia Night, every Tues.; Acoustic Open Mic, every Wed.; Jazz Happy Hour with Travis James Humphrey & guests, every Fri.; Live music Wed.-Sat. every week. . 772-5483 thedogfishcompany.com

With your feet on the ground you’re a bird in flight: the annual Bug Light Kite Festival on May 19 in South Portland.

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Asylum, 121 Center St., Portland. Rap and Karaoke, every Wed.; Retro Night, every Thur.; Plague, every F.;Sping Collection, May 21. 7728274 portlandasylum.com

First Friday Art Walk, downtown Portland.

Visit local galleries, studios, and museums, May 6; June 3. firstfridayartwalk.com

Maine Jewish Museum, 267 Congress St., Portland. Henry Isaacs, through May 8; Jamie Johnston & Sandra Bogdonoff, opens

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The Lightning Thief at Merrill Auditorium, May 21. porttix.com

Launch–A Maritime Festival land. The Couch open mic, comedy and game nights, every Sun.; Clash of the Titans, every Wed.; Perkulat0r, May 5; Tribute 2 Elton John, May 13; Dub Apocalypse, May 14; Mya, May 27; Tribute 2 Foo Fighters, Jun. 10. 7475063 portlandempire.com Jonathan’s, 92 Bournes Ln., Ogunquit. Ronnie Earl & The Broadcasters, May 13; Slaid Cleaves, May 15; Karla Bonoff, May 18; Ellis Paul, Jun. 12; Rita Coolidge, Jun. 19; Stephen Kellogg, Jun. 30; Arlo Guthrie, Jul. 7. 646-4526 jonathansogunquit.com Merrill Auditorium, 20 Myrtle St., Portland.

Beethoven’s Fifth, May 1, 3; Beethoven Loves Nature, May 15; Brian Wilson Presents Pet Sounds, Jun. 15; Peer Gynt, Jun. 21. 8420800 porttix.com One Longfellow Square, 181 State St., Portland. M.E.S.H. Presents: The Virgins Cabaret, May 1; Decompression Chamber Music, May 2; Eleanor Friedberger, May 5; Brooks Wheelan, May 6; The Mike + Ruthy Band, May 7; Julian Lage, May 8; David Power and Willie Kelly, May 13; Ronda Dale, May 14; Erin McKeown with Jen Zimberg, May 15; The Portland Jazz Orchestra, May 19; The Suitcase Junket, May 20; The Appleseed Collective, May 22; Tricky Britches with Putnam Smith, May 27Ana Popovic with Shun Ng, Jun. 10; Amy Black, Jun. 11; Joan Shelley with Sam Moss, Jun. 12; Robert Ellis with Tom Brosseau, Jun. 17. 761-1757 onelongfellowsquare.com Port City Music Hall, 504 Congress St., Portland. Pink Talking Fish, May 5; M. Ward, May 6; Peter Wolf, May 11; Yeasayer, May 12; Beartooth, May 18; The Barr Brothers, May 19; Scissorfight Murcielago, May 20; All That Remains, May 23; Memphis May Fire, May 24; Trevor Hall, May 27; The Dustbowl Revival, Jun. 10; Start Making Sense–Talking Heads

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At various locations in the Kennebunks and Arundel, June 17-19, join historic walking tours or an art walk, take a Goat Island boat tour, taste the Captains’ Cook-off and Clam Jam, and party at the Rock the Boat Party and Pirates Ball. Full schedule at gokennebunks.com Tribute, Jun. 11; Aesop Rock with Rob Sonic & DJ Zone, Jun. 15; moe., Jun. 16; B.o.B, Jun. 19; Boy & Bear, Jun. 20. 956-6000 portcitymusichall.com Portland House of Music and Entertainment, 57 Temple St., Portland. TRVP Nite, every Sun.; Funky Mondays, every Mon; Wednesday Happy Hour with The Working Dead, Afro Beat Music Night, every Weds. The Fogcutters, May 8; The Mallet Brothers Band, May 14; The Peacheaters May 21; CULLU, May 28. 805-0134 portlandhouseofmusic.com State Theatre, 609 Congress St., Portland.

Lamb of God, May 9; X Ambassadors, May 10; The Milk Carton Kids, May 18; Kathleen Madigan, Jun. 17; Gregory Alan Isakov with Maine Youth Rock Orchestra, Jun. 21; Rodrigo y Gabriela, Jun. 22; Sleep, Jun. 24; Tommy Emmanuel, Jun. 25; Emblem3, Jun. 28; The Tallest Man On Earth, Jul. 5. 956-6000 statetheatreportland.com Stone Mountain Arts Center, 695 Dug Way Rd., Brownfield. Quebe Sisters Band, May 5; Alasdair Fraser and Natalie Haas, May 6; Marc Cohn. May 7; Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, May 13; Ghost of Paul Revere, May 14; Keb Mo and Band, May 16; John Jorgenson Quintet, May 20; Lonely Heartstring Band, May 21; Jonathan Edwards, May 16; Stone Mountain Twilight Music Tour, May 19, Jun. 16; John Jorgeson Quintet, May 20l Lonely Heartstring Band, May 21; Jonathan Edwards, May 27; Le Vent do Nord, May 29; Carolyn Martin Trio, Jun. 4; Ellis Paul, Jun. 10; Dar Williams, Jun. 17; An evening with Mary Chapin Carpenter, Jun. 18-19. 935-7292 stonemountainartscenter.com

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Thompson’s Point, Portland. Lake Street Dive, May 29; Brandi Carlile, Jun. 4; Michael Franti & Spearhead, Jun. 15; Ray LaMontagne, Jun. 16; moe., Jun. 17-18; The Avett Brothers, Jul. 4; Bob Dylan with Mavis Staples, Jul. 16. statetheatreportland.com/thompsons-point

TasTy EvEnTs

Bangor Waterfront, 330 Harlow St., Bangor.

Tap Into Summer Beer Festival – 20 Maine breweries come together to celebrate Maine beer. Enjoy tastings, local food and live music, Jun. 18. visitbangormaine.com Browne Trading Company, 262 Commercial St., Portland. Wine tastings, one or more Sat. every month, 1-5 pm. 775-7560 brownetrading.com

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meet maine poet Megan Grumbling and hear her read from Booker’s Point (University of north texas Press, $12.95 paper). her new collection of poems about a wry, wise maine codger earned her the Vassar miller Prize in Poetry. Poet Betsy Sholl calls grumbling “hopkins and Frost and completely herself.”

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Flanagan Farm, 668 narragansett trail (Rt. 202), Buxton. Benefit dinners prepared by local chefs to benefit maine Farmland trust. 2016 is “Word Play: the Color Series.” green: Rob evans of Duckfat and masa miyake of miyake and Pai men miyake, Jun. 26. flanaganstable.com local Sprouts, 649 Congress St., Portland. music Brunch with Sean mencher and friends, every Sun. localsproutscooperative.com lolita Vinoteca + asador, 90 Congress St., Portland. tapas mondays, every mon.

3-11 p.m.; wines & small plates pairings. 7755652 lolita-portland.com Maine Whoopie pie Festival, Dover-Foxcroft.

Celebrate maine’s favorite dessert with $.25 samples from maine bakers. “earn your Whoopie Pie” with children’s and adult road races organized by the Piscataquis Regional ymCa. music, contests and rummage sales as well as other fun family activities keep the fun going well beyond the sugar high, Jun. 25. mainewhoopiepiefestival.com old port Wine Merchants, 223 Commercial St., Portland. Wine tastings every third Wed. 772-9463 oldportwine.com

Camden Classics Cup a regatta and celebration of classic sail and power boats, Camden Classics Cup–produced by the town of Camden, the Camden yacht Club, and lyman-morse at Wayfarer marine–features events and activities including a talk by veteran yacht racer gary Jobson; Junior 420 and opti racing, a visit by the schooner America, and a classic car show. July 28-30, camdenclassicscup.com

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Wine tasting every first Tues. 761-9650 othersidedeli.com Sweetgrass Farm Old Port Tasting Room, 324 Fore St., Portland. Maine-made wine, bitters, and spirit tastings all the time. 7618446 sweetgrasswinery.com

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The Atlantic Cup, Fort Allen Park, Portland.

Jun. 6-11.708-1677.atlanticcup.org Bug Light Kite Festival, 55 Bug Light Park, South Portland. Members of the Noreasters Kite Club and Kites Over New England lend a hand with workshops, demonstrations, bol racing and a candy drop for the kids, May 21. southportland.org Cross Insurance Center, 515 Main St., Bangor.

Cirque du Soleil: OVO, Jun. 2-5. 561-8300 How about a little “dream pop and future soul” with King at Space Gallery, June 9?

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crossinsurancecenter.com Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens, 132 Botanical Gardens Dr., Boothbay. Maine Daysfree admission for Maine residents, May 28-30. mainegardens.org French Language Immersion weekend, Craignair Inn, Spruce Head, Maine. A weekend of French culture, conversation and fine food at a seaside inn. Jun. 3-5. craignair.com/current-events Kennebunk Festival, Kennebunk,Maine.

Various events and attractions around the Kennebunks. Jun. 6-11. kennebunkportfestival.com Maine Canoe Symposium, Winona Camps, Bridgton. Paddle, share ideas, camp and cook, learn from experts, and perfect your strokes at this 30th annual event, Jun. 10-12. 7780853 mainecanoesymposium.org

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Old Port Festival, Portland. This annual summer kickoff combines local food, beverages, arts and music on the streets of the historic Old Port. Jun. 12. portlandmaine.com Parkside Prelude, Old Town Hall at The Hilton Garden Inn, Freeport, Maine. New England alcohol purveyors will be offering samples of their favorite wine, brews and spirits. Plus enjoy local food and lawn games. June 10. freeportusa.com Pineland Farms, New Gloucester. Salmon Trail Running Festival – two days of high-speed competition, craft beer, barbecue and outdoor family fun, May 28-29. pinelandtrails.com

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portland Science Center 68 Commercial Street, maine Wharf, Portland. titanic: the artifact exhibition. opens Jun.18. portlandsciencecenter.com rappel for rippleffect, one City Center, Portland. local fundraising champs rappel down the exterior of 13-story one City Center.

Donations benefit Rippleffect, a local organization supporting youth through experiential education and outdoor adventure, may 16. rappelforripple.net rice pudding poetry Series, 8 Wentworth Street & 2 Walker Street Kittery, maine. may 26. 439-1553. rice.lib.me.us Blue, 50 Congress St., Portland. Poetry reading. May 31. 774-4111. portcityblue.com

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Sugarloaf, 5092 access Rd., Carrabasset Valley. 34th annual Sugarloaf marathon & 15K, may 15; see website for more entertainment listings. sugarloaf.com tahntay parade and Celebration, eastern Promenade, Portland. Community picnic, family fun, music and a free-spirited parade, may 15. tahntay.com Windjammer days, Boothbay harbor . 54th annual Windjammer Days festival, featuring a fleet of tall ships, local food and family activities. Jun. 26-Jul. 2. 504-0242 windjammerdays.org –Compiled by Jeanee Dudley

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Snoozing during Batman v. Superman? At least there’s a touch of Maine in the set design. Seconds before the Daily Planet explodes, we see Gordon Grant’s 1927 painting Old Ironsides about to tumble. Grant has a real Kennebunkport connection. A friend of Kenneth Roberts and Booth Tarkington, whose novels he illustrated, Grant also painted the mural featuring the brig Lima in the K-port post office.

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The USDA reports Maine’s honey production is up by 25 percent–sweet news to The Honey Exchange on Stevens Avenue, with sales swarming. Maine’s licensed beekeepers have tripled in the last decade, reversing an apian decline. Burt’s Bees (sold by Maine’s Roxanne Quimby to Clorox for $970 million in 2007), has helped with the buzz, highlighting the bees’ plight with “#BringBackTheBees.” For every tweet posted missing the letter “B,” 1,000 wildflower seeds will be planted for our striped friends. @burtsbees

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Diane Lane’s turn as Martha Kent in Batman v. Superman conjures actresses who’ve played Supermom before.

In 1978, Portlander Phyllis Thaxter starred with Christopher Reeve. In 2006’s Superman Returns, mom was Oscar-winner Eva Marie Saint, a favorite at Ogunquit Playhouse. In our interview “My 15 Minutes of Maine,” [Summerguide 2010] she shares a Maine memory: “I ate an entire lobster! [My husband] Jeffrey says he’s never seen me devour anything like that, with melted butter…Even now, just thinking about it, oh, God! I could die.”

Robotic Bugs?

Why is a raven like a writing desk? Why is a scorpion like a stopwatch?

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Head to Henry’s ‘Hood Settle in at hip-yet-bookish LFK, the pub overlooking the Longfellow statue in the eponymous square, with a craft beer and incredible burger while enjoying lively poetry and prose read by local and regional authors at Word Portland (188A State Street, Portland, wordportland.weebly.com; May 2, 9 p.m.). This month’s reading includes poetry by Kevin McLellan and Megan Grumbling and fiction by Tanya Whiton.

Looking for a thrilling beach read that will have you glued to your chaise longue for hours? The bestselling suspense novels by internationally acclaimed author and Camden resident Tess Gerritsen will do just that. Get to know Gerritsen at MaineVoices Live (One Longfellow Square, corner of Congress and State streets, onelongfellowsquare.com; May 3, 7 p.m.). Portland Press Herald writer Ray Routhier will lead the conversation with the MD-turned-novM AY 2 0 1 6 3 3

ticipate in a Q&A afterward. On May 31, columnist Bill Nemitz interviews former Senate majority leader George Mitchell.

A recent Think & Drink event at Space Gallery on Congress Street hosted Kyle Patnaude and Melinda Plastas discussing citizenship and dissent.

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think the Big thoughts Intellectual curiosities (and a few libations) will have a salubrious effect on your brain at Think & Drink Portland’s cerebral happy hour (Space Gallery, 538 Congress Street, Portland, mainehumanities.org; May 18, 6:30 p.m.). A discussion on the topic “Citizenship and the Climate” explores the 14th Amendment (which deals with citizenship and citizen rights) in terms of “activism, art, gender, sex, and more.” (Yes, ‘more.’)

Be part of the creative process at the annual Little Festival of the Unexpected at Portland Stage Company (25 Forest Avenue, portlandstage.org; May 11 to 14), where playwrights read from their

scripts-in-progress, after which audience members are encouraged to share their impressions and offer input. Featured playwrights are Brenda Withers (String Around my Finger), David Butler (Dying to Know, A Tale of Life and Death in Two Acts), and Callie Kimball (Sofonisba). into the old port legance and literary flair characterize Maine Historical Society’s annual Mr. Longfellow’s Cocktail Party at the U.S. Custom House (312 Fore Street, Portland; May 20, 5:30 p.m., mainehistory. org). The celebration of the Maine poet and author of the poem “Drinking Song” includes champagne cocktails, tasty nibbles, and a silent auction. This year’s location is a special treat for history buffs, architecture fans, and the curious, as the doors to the 1868 Renaissance-revival style U.S. Custom House are usually closed to the public.

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andy Verzosa, a familiar face of the local art scene, on returning to Maine for a new challenge. I n t e r V I e w b y s a r a h M o o r e

he Ogunquit Museum of American Art recently appointed First Friday art walk founder and former owner of Aucocisco Gallery, Andres Azucena Verzosa, as Interim Executive Director and Curator. We catch up with the Portland native to discuss his new role, upcoming projects, and what he misses most about living in Maine.

Congratulations on your new position. Easy choice?

Yes. I’ve served on the board for the OMAA for a number of years, as well as various collaborations; from coordinating the acquisition of Bernard Langlais sculptures for the museum garden, to guest curating last year’s photography exhibitions.

I’m also back and forth between Maine and Connecticut regularly, so it was a very natural step for me to accept the position.

across all levels. Specifically, maintaining continuity between Ron Crusan and the new director, who I’ll also be helping to prepare to take over.

What’s grabbing you this very second?

I’m already excited to oversee the installation of a permanent collection of works by artists from the Ogunquit arts colony between 1896-1946. The fact that we have such a strong body of work that we’re able to establish a permanent collection is testament to how much of an inspiration Ogunquit was for so many artists. It’s such a dynamic place, and the historic aspect of the project is exciting for me.

What painting here whispers to you?

Walt Kuhn’s, Sleeping Girl (1922). The enigmatic subject and use of tilted picture plane and cubist space create a modernist master work.

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You’re now based out of Connecticut. What do you miss about living in Portland?

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What does the interim role entail?

My aim is to ensure the smoothing running of the museum and its collections

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Bridging Ever give a thought to that cute little bridge that connects Kennebunk’s Lower Village to Kennebunkport’s Dock Square?

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he swinging bridge that connects Kennebunk Lower Village to Dock Square in Kennebunkport is scheduled to be replaced by the Maine Department of Transportation next year. In a resort as colorful as the Kennebunks, where this 1933 landmark on 1896 granite serves as the link between the gin-martini side of the Kennebunk River (Kennebunk) and the vodkamartini side (the Port), that’s the story of a century. Two centuries, actually.

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beginnings A toll drawbridge bridge was first built here by subscription in 1810 to accommodate growing Kennebunk River shipping and shipbuilding industries. The drawbridge was made free in 1831 when the dirt path that extended from either side of it was designated a County Road. Since then, damaging storms have occasionally necessitated repairs, but most of the major bridge rebuilding projects there have enjoyed the benefit of advance warning.

During one freshet on March 1, 1896, the old wooden drawbridge unexpectedly collapsed with a reverberating crash when huge chunks of ice rushing downriver on a violent ebb tide cut through one of its supporting pilings.

An impromptu bridge committee was assembled to ensure transit between the Lower Village train depot and Kennebunkport hotels was in place before the arrival of money-spending summer folk. Yearround residents of both villages, who

shared a post office, a milkman, and a family culture, suffered immediate hardship with the unexpected loss of their intertown connection.

A temporary bridge was hastily constructed between the coal shed in Lower Village and the wharf where David’s KPT restaurant now stands. The bridge met the urgent need, but its stationary design meant it had to be dismantled every time a coal schooner made a delivery to Titcomb’s Coal Shed on Perkins Wharf.

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Falling down Within a couple of months it became painfully clear the permanent bridge wouldn’t be ready in time for tourist season. Support pilings were added to the temporary bridge, and efforts were made to make its approaches more presentable for the “summer visitors of a certain class.”

The dark and dirty coal shed at the Lower Village approach quickly earned the derogatory nickname “The Subway” for attracting what the press called “the unwashed and thirsty,” “highwaymen,” and “noble deserters of toil.” Drunks, pickpockets, and the unemployed lurking under cover there were equally offensive to ladies of refinement, who wouldn’t willingly cross the bridge even at midday. In fact, the ladies were so affected it became necessary to pull Constable Dolliff from his regular uptown beat to patrol the Subway.

Construction of the permanent bridge was delayed by one problem after another, not the least of which was project cost-sharing between Kennebunk and Kennebunk-

port in light of the juxtaposition of each town to the actual channel. At the beginning of July 1896, it was noted in The Wave, “Today the bridge is but little nearer completion than it was the morning after the storm.” Kennebunkport selectmen ultimately agreed to pay the lion’s share of the bridge replacement costs, and the project crawled forward. troubled waters swing span design was approved and the lowest of eleven bids to build the span off-site was accepted.

Preliminary coffer-dam work for laying the supporting stone abutments commenced but was halted after a week of fruitless pumping. The following comment on the cofferdam pumping apparatus, which cost $80 per day to use, appeared in the Biddeford Journal on July 10, 1896: “Work on the new bridge was again postponed Thursday.

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the replacement of the mathew lanigan bridge (named in 2013 for a well-known local businessman following his untimely death) is scheduled by the maine Department of transportation between January and may 2017. it’s a 1933 bridge set on 1896 granite abutments, and the bridge is now deteriorated to the point of structural deficiency though the abutments are deemed sound. it’s estimated the bridge will be completely closed for 30 to 45 days. “a 30- to 45-day road closure is actually very short,” says engineer leanne timberlake of the maine Dot. easy for her to say. She lives in livermore. “i’ve been a project manager on many maine bridges, several with significant public interest like this one, where we engaged a local bridge advisory committee. getting feedback on various options and ideas throughout the development of the project has been exceedingly helpful.” timberlake is nothing if not reassuring. “When we get closer to construction, we’ll engage in a broad community outreach program to communicate upcoming activities, including single-lane closures and full road closures.”

What will we love about the new bridge? “the existing bridge has two five-foot-wide sidewalks. the bridge will have six-foot-wide sidewalks. We’re working with the two towns on including interpretive signage and the old navigational light fixtures into the design.” and bigger boxes for the geraniums?

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What's It happens every year– you look up and discover Portland is full of exciting new shops and restaurants.

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verybody has a different way of saying it, but the sentiment remains the same–Portland is restless and constantly shifting. So take a deep breath and let’s see what’s new in this old city.

Start downtown Tucked into the former home of Soakology at 30 City Center, Hero is a high-class sandwich shop built on big flavors. A collaboration between Congress Street stalwarts Otto and Empire, this is the new power lunch. “You have all these people who have to eat within a very small window of time, and we’re at their doorstep,” says general manager Max Brody.

The interior is a study in contrasts. A white tile floor is offset by dark bricks and teal paint. A window counter looks out on the banking bustle and panhandling hustle of Monument Square.

Vines drape from a suspended ledge above the open kitchen. Hardwood booths with gleaming steel frames complete the motif of paired opposites.

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New? Brody describes the fare as “refined comfort food”–hearty dishes based around chicken, sirloin, and porchetta cooked in a rotisserie oven. The shop’s bread and butter are its sandwiches. The Chicken-and-Chip features rotisserie chicken with salt and vinegar chips, pickled red onion, pickles, buttermilk ranch dressing, and shaved iceberg lettuce. “We make the chips ourselves, and the bread is made for us at Tiqa’s bakery,” Brody says.

Meatless options include an acorn squash or cauliflower sandwich with grilled rabe, portobello, fresh tomato, and mozzarella. Glancing at the cooks hunkered over their prep work, Brody says, “You can get a sandwich at a lot of different places, but it’s elevated to another level here.” Hero has

Big doings on Maine Wharf: The 15,000-squarefoot Portland Science (and Art) Center will follow its Robot Zoo and Space shows with the summer blockbuster Titanic exhibit, including salvaged artifacts and underwater photos of the wreckage. The center shares the wharf with Scales, Portland’s latest supernova restaurant.

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An 8,000-square-foot, 145-seat, overnight seafood sensation, Scales is the latest home run by Dana Street, Sam Hayward, and chef Michael Smith, and it comes with a view. There’s a lively bar scene and delicious seafood, such as the mussels and scallops below, served in cast-iron vessels.

take-home dinner options, including whole and half chickens. The shop will roll out a delivery service soon, and “when the weather warms up a little bit we’ll have outdoor seating and be doing pop-up dinners.” round the corner underneath Arabica Coffee is one of Jason Loring’s new projects, Rhum.. The only tiki joint in town, Rhum will make you feel like a tourist as you search for its elusive entrance. General manager Rebecca Ambrosi advises new visitors to “just

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Ambrosi says she and her husband and fellow manager, Frank Anderson, were going for the “tiki escapism feel,” which they’ve achieved in an unusual setting. The space is dark–nearly black, with the light coming from multi-colored lanterns and shaded fixtures up high. A bar of blonde wood bisects the space. Abstract paintings with black and blood-red color palettes decorate the perimeter, leaving no doubt that Rhum eschews the Jimmy Buffet vibe entirely in favor of Hawaiian film noir.

There are tiki cocktails like Mai Tais and the Pain Killer–a combo of white rum, pineapple, and coconut. According to Ambrosi, the drink menu “is evolving all the time but will always keep the classics.” She describes the food as “elevated

bar snacks,” but with beef tartare, celeriac apple salad, and a kimchi croque madame, these “snacks” offer flavor and sustenance in equal measure. “We do these giant towSausage with peppers, onions, mustard, and fresh mozzarella make a tasty sandwich special at Hero.

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Heading east into the beating heart of the Old Port’s retail section, you’ll find the first U.S. site of U.K.-based clothing franchise Fat Face. At 34 Exchange, among a slew of other boutiques, Fat Face claims a “price point that’s lower than other stores in

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Once you’re looking sleek in your new casual wear, you may want to to pop into Cara’s Matchmaking at 53 Exchange. Yes, it’s a brickand-mortar matchmaking service for those who’ve been scorned, bored, or otherwise unimpressed with the world of online dating.

Owner Noreen Tierney has years of experience playing Cupid from her successful Biddeford office, and now she’s here in Portland with a full quiver of love-arrows and a dossier of glossy head shots, one of which may be the mug of your future soulmate.

A short walk seaward to Commercial Street you’ll find Scales, the new seafood venture owned by partners Dana Street and Victor Leon of Street & Company, and Sam Hayward of Fore Street. With high win-

dows, plenty of light, and a wide-open layout, it’s no wonder crowds flock here.

“It’s a fun space to be in–it gets rocking and very social.Often, guests know each other and mingle like they’re at home,” says general manager Michael Burke.

Burke describes the menu at Scales as “classic New England seafood with a land section capturing meats and produce.” The restaurant gets almost all of its seafood from

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“We source everything we can locally,” says Burke. This is a kitchen that “makes everything in-house except the Heinz ketchup.”

East BaysidE p the hill from the wharfs, Drifter’s Wife Wine Bar gleams in a well-scrubbed brick-and-glass building on Washington Avenue. “What initially drew us to Washington Ave. was just that it felt more cosmopolitan,” says owner Peter Hale, who, with wife Orenda, opened their wine shop Maine & Loire last year and subsequently added the wine bar. Peter calls it “a neighborhood quietly doing its own thing.”

Inside, you’ll find smooth, spotless brick floors and high ceilings with gleaming duct work. Benches made of slatted wood and small, circular tables fill out the dining room. An array of deep green, broadleafed plants add warmth to a space that is prettily lit by sunshine sifting in through the glass storefront. It’s uncluttered and artfully curated.

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Chef Ben Jackson “does everything every day, from buying the produce to cooking the food, to serving it,” Peter says. “The food he puts out is nuanced–it’s full of soul and really clean and subtle at the same time.” For $10 you might find kale served with creamy garlic vinaigrette, gruyère, and shallots, or an

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Drifter’s Wife doesn’t have happy hours.

Instead they pull “rare bottles that ordinarily wouldn’t be poured by the glass,” letting customers try unique vintages at a value.

Nearby on Congress, tucked between Otto’s pizza and Suzukiya’s ramen, is the new Sip of Europe. Yulia Stolkner moved to Maine from St. Petersburg, Russia; formerly, she ran a coffee cart in Old Orchard

Beach. She loves her new-found community. “Here in Portland, as soon as I opened, there were lots of people coming in and saying welcome to the neighborhood.”

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n may 29, lake Street Dive will open the summer season at thompson’s Point with music from their latest record, Side Pony. guitarist michael “mcDuck” olson describes the band’s sixth studio album as a blend of the familiar jazzy pop with neo-soul influences that audiences know and love, with “some ’70s rock ’n’ roll and touches of disco here and there.” the foursome, who met as students at the new england Conservatory in Boston, are maine favorites, having played in Portland several times in the past few years, and it seems the feeling may be mutual. “our maine crowds hold a special place in our hearts. State theatre in Portland was the very last show on our 2014 Bad Self-Portraits tour, and it was the largest headlining show we’d ever booked. We were nervous that we wouldn’t be able to fill it up with our sound–or with fans.” they needn’t have worried. the show completely sold out. “We went on stage and could immediately feel the love from the crowd. it was a highly memorable show and the perfect way to end that momentous tour.” and it’s not just the crowds that draw lake Street Dive to Portland. the band members seem to have fallen under the city’s spell. “We love Portland so much that several of us individually have gone there between tours just to vacation! there’s the Speckled ax coffee shop, the great record shops, vintage clothing stores, and knockout seafood. it all adds up to make Portland a magical place for lake Street Dive.” statetheatre.com/thompsons-point

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accompany their coffee, in particular Yulia’s crepes, which include a ham & cheese and a honey & walnut variety–“European-style crepes,” she says.

There are decadent offerings like affoga–espresso poured over ice cream. There’s to–espresso drip coffee made from Seacoast Coffee Company’s beans and a European brew made from the Italian Lavazza beans that are ubiquitous in Europe. “It’s different from anything [in Maine before].” the new Frontier Northwest of the West End and parallel to I-295, a nubbin of land juts into the Fore River. Named after a 19th-century slaughterhouse, Thompson’s Point was a prominent rail yard before being converted to a munitions factory during World War II. These days, partners Chris Thompson and Jed Troubh are developing a multi-use space. Thompson says the project is “about adding a neighborhood to Portland that can feel seamless” with the rest of the city. At the moment, visitors will find two brick warehouses undergoing renOn Point: Brandi Carlile, right and Walk the Moon, pictured.

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Above, the Point’s Fore River setting is both in-town and a getaway.

ovation and a whole lot of heavy machinery.

Construction began in April of 2014, and the current wave of work should be finished by the end of May. At the end of the point, a massive steel gazebo (which is actually a restored piece of the old Union Station) presides over the water. This past winter, it housed The Rink, an ice-skating venue complete with Zamboni and warming stations. few businesses are already up and running. Last October, Circus Maine moved into the Brick North building, across the hall from Color Me Mine, the paint-your-own pottery and instructional studio. Circus Maine is a warehouse-style space with wallto-wall gymnastic mats, trapeze swings hanging from the rafters, and gigantic Chinese balancing poles propped against the

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back wall. General manager Blain Tully says they train kids and adults at all levels, from rank amateurs to “students looking to perform nationally and internationally.

“Enrollment in our classes is ramping up, and attendance at cabarets has been great.”

Circus Maine is a performance center as well. “We can transform this room into a theater that houses 400 people. We do performances on a regular basis, both in-house and outside of the space.”

As Tully speaks, a man in a black shirt and wind pants does effortless double backflips on a trampoline that Tully and recreBissell Brothers Brewing Company, Cellardoor Winery, and Stroudwater Distilling all bring local spirits to Thompson’s Point.

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Did you know Thompson’s Point was man-made? According to historian William David Barry, “It was a round lagoon called the Roundabout–an amazing area that was a transfer table for train.”

From top: Thompson’s Point in need of work in 2013; Circus Maine’s airy training and performance space; and Brick North’s exterior. Inset, left: Color Me Mine pottery cafe.

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son’s Point for years.” He anticipates extending the museum’s hours to as late as 10 p.m. to coincide with the schedules of the surrounding food purveyors.

A longtime fan of architecture as well as the supernatural, Coleman says the new building’s design “has that sleek kind of prairie style” he appreciates. The new layout will allow the museum to unveil previously unseen exhibits such as taxidermic heads. “We’re gonna go up as well as lengthwise in a way that we never really could do before,” Coleman says, explaining his plans to suspend replicas of a pterodactyl and giant squid from the rafters.

Coleman is also looking forward to

showcasing some rare and “absolutely priceless” pieces. The museum’s most iconic items, like the life-sized replica of Bigfoot, “will be up on a mezzanine. It’s become the photo-op everybody loves.”

For Coleman, moving to Thompson’s Point is more than business–it’s a chance to showcase his life’s work in a new and innovative space. Sitting at a small table, amid a collection of cryptozoological artifacts 56 years in the gathering, Coleman muses, “I know I’m gonna die, everybody does. And this is going to become my legacy–the only cryptozoology museum in the world, right here in little Portland, Maine.” n

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Speaking of yetis, Big J’s will also share space with the International Cryptozoology Museum, which is relocating from Avon Street. Owner Loren Coleman thinks the museum’s new location, with its proximity to Big J’s and Bissell Brothers, “will be a nice kind of partnership–we’ll help each other.”

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In fact, my first recognition of Patch was through his work, so he has a point. At Portland Museum of Art recently while photographing an event, I met an engaging cou-

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ple who asked if I’d seen their son’s birds on the fourth floor. I had not, but went up to have a look.

Am I glad I did. Migration, the title of the installation, consists of 37 intricate, lively, imaginative bird sculptures magically in flight over the stairs from the third to the fourth floor of the museum.

“The birds are from my ‘life list,’” says Patch, who has documented his avian sightings since 2005. “It all started when I was living in New York, working in museums and doing installations. My friend working in the Brooklyn Museum was from Minnesota. I’m from Maine. We’d go birding on Staten Island and all around the five boroughs. There’s a lot to see in New York, as it’s right on a migratory pathway. There are tons and tons of birds in Central Park in a concentrated area. It’s funny.

Much of my work was inspired by birds in an urban area.”

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Atlantic Center for the Arts, where he studied with Mark Dion and others whose work has been enchanted by the natural world. “Dion and I would go to Cape Canaveral, where there are lots of birds to be seen right around the launch pad, including storks, flamingos, cranes, blue bills.”

Migration was created originally for an installation at Mayo Street Arts (MSA) in Portland. Then it took off.

“I was in a show there called “Knock Knock,” based on Norse mythology, and the director, Blainor McGough, asked me if I’d do a solo exhibit subsequent to that.”

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was first attracted to the “maritime motif of his work, his aesthetic and color,” McGough said. “When he first told me about his plans for Migration, he caught me by surprise. I didn’t know he did sculpture. I thought we’d be hanging more prints, paintings. I loved the idea because I love puppets and papier-mâché and I always wanted to do something with that space, the high ceilings.” People had floated the idea

of addressing the vertical dimension before, “but it’s never happened. I knew he’d put a lot of thought into the project, so I said, “Well, let’s do it.’”

At Mayo Street–which Patch describes as “an old church with stained-glass windows, a funky space with walls that have their own limitations”–his plan was to “occupy the central space that hadn’t been utilized with the vaulted ceilings.” The choir loft was under renovation, so there was a cut-out where he “envisioned a piece that would circumnavigate and weave through the space and the cut-out.”

At last, the perfect venue. He’d dreamed of making as many sculptures as possible from his list, but with only six weeks to show time, McGough came up with an idea for a more profound experience. She invit-

“I dreamt of taking a simple walk in the woods. I missed the ocean, my family, and friends.”

ed Patch to engage in a Mayo Street Community Arts Residency, where he’d work in an after-school program with children from East Bayside and other parts of Maine.

“I’d never collaborated before,” Patch says, “and couldn’t figure out how that would work.” But it did.

“He really dug in and took time to work with the kids, teaching them his style and the way he was painting the papier-mâché,

“I have 150-plus birds on my list and there are only 37 in the flock at PMA. I’d do another installation…” and exploring with them ideas about birds and natural history,” McGough says.

“My mom pitched in, too,” Patch says. “It was nice, because everyone had his or her own bird story. The kids learned about the birds as we went along.” More secretly, “ I was learning from them and the way they looked at the birds.”

“In hindsight,” McGough says, “we should have put it off for a year and applied for grants, but we didn’t. With herculean effort this great thing happened. It brought the space to life.”

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atch’s birds, on exhibit at MSA from June through September 2015, were offered for sale, from $250 to $1,200 per sculpture. Among the interested collectors was the Portland Museum of Art. Mayo Street’s Larry Hayden, a board member, was thrilled with PMA’s purchase of 37 Migration birds. “My first response when I saw the installation was that it should go into a public collection, like Alison Hildreth’s sculptural piece at the Portland Public Library–it just animates the space.”

McGough adds, “While I loved the birds at MSA, I am pleased they migrated.”

Migration is now in the PMA’s perma-

Patch works out of a studio in Portland’s State Theatre building.

nent collection. It will remain as part of the fourth-floor “Modern Menagerie” exhibit, further animated with work by Dahlov Ipcar and Bernard Langlais, for five years.

Sculpted, papier-mâchéd, and collaged, the birds wear Patch’s signature style in their windless motion swooping with serendipity. Their distinctive colors and markings were created with discarded pieces from his studio of woodblock prints, gravestone rubbings, and hand-painted papers.

Patch’s earliest roots started with drawings under the guidance of his grandfa-

ther, James Guy, a WPA artist and social surrealist. His grandmother, Clara Skinner, created woodblock prints and illustrations for the New Yorker and later turned to Op Art, showing at MoMA in the acclaimed 1965 exhibit, The Responsive Eye. Going to Guy’s shows in New York as a child was an electric inspiration for Patch, now 41. While still in middle school, he began his studies at Portland School of Art. He went on to complete his BFA in 1997 M AY 2 0 1 6 6 1

A rt ist At w o rk at MECA and his MFA at the Art Institute of Chicago in 2000. In 2002, he won a Northern Arts Residency at Atlin Centre for the Arts in British Columbia, Canada. He was awarded a Skowhegan School Residency (as recipient of the William Zorach grant) in 2004, with further residencies at Hewnoaks Artist Colony in Lovell, Maine, in 2013 and 2014.

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hese years reflect the somewhat migratory nature in Patch himself. Following the studies at the Art Institute of Chicago, he spent two years in the Second City finding inspiration from artists like Jim Nutt, who was “part of the collaborative called ‘Hairy Who,’ a group that works with images from popular culture like comics.” Patch was also inspired during this time by Nutt’s renowned collection of folk art: “His house was full of it, fascinating.”

Another influence at the Art Institute was Arturo Herrera, an advisor in grad school. “At the time,” Patch says, “I was focusing more on painting and drawing, but Herrera’s work in collage started seep-

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It was also in Chicago that he started making landscape paintings, the beginnings of a yearning for more rural inspiration. “I found living in an urban place without a car meant I couldn’t get away from people. I dreamt of taking a simple walk in the woods. I missed the ocean, my family and friends.

I wanted to return to the East Coast.” In the end, “the Midwest just didn’t cut it for me.”

Returning to Maine for two years, Patch landed his coveted Skowhegan School residency. There he met some New York-based artists who lured him to big shows and crowds for the next 10 years. And again the homing instinct loomed: “There was a lot of excitement and stimulation, but to be truly inspired I need a less urban environment. A natural setting informs my work.

“In New York City, even if you have a car, you have to sit in it for at least an hour before

you come near anything like a natural setting. Birding was a way of getting at that, but when you find you know every single lamp post in Central Park by heart, you know it’s time to leave.”

Making Maine once again his perch, working as an instructor and exhibitions coordinator at Maine College of Art, Patch is grateful for his studio in the State Theatre building (homing back to his studio of 14 years prior), although “I have to work full time in order to pay for it.”

Right now, “I have a lot of things going on,” including recent shows at Lewis Gallery in Portland Public Library and the Center for Maine Contemporary Art; at Evans Contemporary in Ontario, Canada; The Parlour Gallery in Brooklyn; the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York; the Chicago Cultural Center and Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago; and more.

This very second, Patch is working with fellow artists Hillary Irons, Stephen Benenson,

and Michael Hickey on developing an artist-run gallery, “Able Baker Contemporary,” opening soon in the former A Fine Thing: Edward T. Pollack Fine Arts gallery space on Forest Avenue next to Portland Stage.

And he’s considering an expansion on Migration: “I have 150-plus birds on my list, and there are only 37 in the flock at PMA. I’d do another installation, separate from that one.” Patch is pleased with the museum’s acquiring the first flock, as he wanted the piece to “remain intact.”

He also enjoys the way it’s exhibited. The best part? “You can’t see it all at once. You see it gradually and have to physically move through it to see it in its entirety.” The spatial play “reminds me of an installation at the Guggenheim in the 1990s by Ellsworth Kelly, another artist to whom I respond strongly–his patterns, colors, collage studies, and color combinations. It was a great installation of paintings really activating the space in a way–less about the physicality of it all.”

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Neil Spillane, who, with business partner Eric Holstein, has purchased a hulking, empty brick warehouse at 72 Parris Street, leads the way into the brick-walled gloom.

“This place started as Hirning’s Bakery. There was the wholesale Alma Florist business for a while. Then it went through

a phase as a boxing gym.” In its unrenovated state, illuminated by a few bare bulbs, the brick-walled warehouse does have a certain Fight Club aura.

The Vision Thing “This is going to be the face of Fork Food Lab,” Spillane says. Fork Food Lab is a selfdescribed “collaborative commercial food kitchen serving new and existing businesses.” Spillane and Holstein are now standing in the square, cinder-block former garage

Fork’s tasting room–before and after–and lunch from Fork member Fishin’ Ships food truck.

attached to the left side of the 1910 brick building. A few days before renovations begin, the future face of Fork Food Lab doesn’t look like much. But this garage will become a tasting room and shop welcoming retail customers.

An embedded video on the forkfoodlab. com website shows the bleak garage transformed into an airy space with table seating indoors and out, the cinder blocks vanished behind attractive siding. The work is being done by Landmarc Construction of Portland, who also built the clean, handsome interiors of Roustabout, Sur Lie, Central Provisions, and Portland Hunt + Alpine Club.

“People will be able to come right into the tasting room and eat, shop, and see what we’re up to,” says Spillane.

And what they’ll be up to is collaborating with food producers of all sorts who need licensed commercial kitchen space to prepare food for sale and use elsewhere.

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eric holstein and neil Spillane credit Union Kitchen in Washington, D.C., as the model for Fork.

Union Kitchen began in 2012 when Jonas Singer & Cullen gilchrist opened the Blind Dog Café in D.C. Blind Dog’s chocolate chip cookies Isa Back Bay Grill became so popular they needed an off-site facility to bake them, which led Deering Oaks Park eet to the purchase of Japchae potato noodles with veggies from nd Str Portla the Gogi on the Block food truck, a member a 7,500-square-foot Bayside Bubbas’s of Stock Pot Malden.

American warehouse, which led Café to so much kitchen space they started and safety.” Members– Spillane says. As winners of a Maine food signing up other food who pay two months’ innovation challenge, part of their prize was producers to share it. rent (starting at $500 six hours of legal services. “We used some of this led to becoming per month) up front to it for the real-estate transaction, but we still a full-fledged “food get started–arrive with have some hours left.” incubator” with their own legitimate, You also need some smarts and experimultiple locations, a insured business and ence. Neil Spillane, 29, a Brunswick native, distribution network, their ingredients and attended “UMaine at Orono. Then I did an and a grocery story featuring Union get cooking.

MBA at Quinnipiac University.” Eric HolKitchen members’ foods. last year, it stein, also 29, is from Westchester, New came full circle. Blind Dog closed and How it Happened York, and he attended Colby–“which is turned into a “permanent pop-up” “We did it with a combination of investors, when he fell in love with Maine,” says Spillspace for Union Kitchen’s members. loans from Bangor Savings and from Coastane–and majored in hotel finance.

Commonwealth Kitchen in Boston, al Enterprises, and some grant money,” Spillane comes to Fork from the trenchanother inspiration for holstein and Spillane, calls itself “a collaborative community working to strengthen the Fork member Gelato Fiasco’s “innovation lab” will local economy, particularly for people test new flavors and offer classes. who have been impacted by racial, social, and economic inequality. We offer shared kitchens with integrated business assistance, creating and growing dynamic food-based businesses and careers.” they have 45 wholesalers, food trucks, and caterers on board and two commercial facilities. also in Boston, Stock pot Malden, a “culinary incubator,” provides guidance in planning, permitting and regulations, finances and bookkeeping, marketing support, recipe deChaiaDC, a “farm-to-taco” en. velopment, and event Kitch n Unio of ber mem opportunities. Current members include food trucks, bakers, an omega cooking oil producer, and Boston Chai Party teas.

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es of other small Maine businesses that persevered and got bigger. “I was CFO at Urban Farm Fermentory [which shared its kitchen space on a smaller scale], then moved my way up to CEO,” says Spillane. “I had a parttime job with Portland Fruit & Nut Company. I worked summers during college at Pine State Trading, Maine’s largest food and beverage distributor.” olstein was a food and beverage manager for “the Mandarin Oriental Hotel in New York and Boston, and I worked for LRA Worldwide, a subsidiary of Deloitte. I focused specifically on food and beverage consulting. I worked on projects around the world through them– New York, California, Dubai, Singapore.”

And then there’s location, location, location. Fork Food Lab is on Portland’s epicurean peninsula, literally down the street from Back Bay Grill, Bayside American Cafe, and Isa bistro on Portland Street. It’s a short walk from Deering Oaks or Monument Square, as well as right off 295 at the Forest Avenue exit.

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Strategic planning Spillane and Holstein did a lot of homework before deciding to start Maine’s first innovative, collaborative food incubator/commercial kitchen. The tasting room, however, was their own idea.

“Our model was Union Kitchen in Washington, D.C., and places like Commonwealth Kitchen and Stock Pot Malden in Boston,” says Holstein. These are all bigger operations with multiple locations. “New

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York has them, too, and the city encourages them with grant money.”

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It’s worth noting that Holstein and Spillane have so far put Fork together without any crowd-funding campaigns.

“We’re going to have one Kickstarter effort, though, for the retail tasting room.

We’ll be announcing it soon,” says Holstein.

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So who are these members, other than Gelato Fiasco, and what will they be creating?

“We’re not quite ready to name names, but some of the foods include specialty popcorn, smoked nuts, craft soda, maple syrup, and kale chips,” says Holstein.

Kale chips are still a thing? Spillane laughs. “We try to steer away from calling trends. We’ve also got bakers, caterers, and diet-specific food-ready-to-go.” This last is

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ry itself, with distribution to stores in most of the 50 states. “This won’t be their main production facility. They’ll be testing flavors and teaching gelato-making classes here.”

“Other things on the first floor will include tables, members’ lockers, a meeting room, offices, ovens, a dishwashing station, dry storage, and walk-in cooler/freezer. The tasting room itself will offer Fork Food Lab members’ products and be staffed by Fork employees.”

The shared commercial kitchen/lab is going on the second floor. The renderings indicate a long room with ovens, stoves, and cold-storage units lining the walls.

prepared meals or prepared ingredients for specific diets such as gluten-free or Paleo.

“Bakers are great for the shared-kitchen concept. They put bread in the oven at 3 a.m., so they’re gone when others come in. We’ve got 32 letters of intent from various businesses already. We’ll cap membership at 50 to start.”

“At this point it looks like about half our members will be specialty-food producers,” says Spillane. “About a one quarter will be food trucks. And the other quarter will be caterers and restaurants– existing businesses that just need another space.” There will be food truck charging stations outside and some overnight parking for food trucks. Sam Gorelick and Arvid Brown of Fishin’ Ships food truck fame are signed up.

This means Fork Food Lab is likely to operate around the clock.

“We’ll have Fork employees running the tasting room and constantly monitoring food safety standards.” says Holstein. “Food safety is absolutely paramount. By law, every new business needs an inspection to start operating. We expect to be inspected all the time.” n

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his month, may I present what I feel are three terrific wines offering some of the best buzz for the buck.

All of them are available here in Maine for under $20.

First, one of the best sparkling wines produced in the U.S. is from New Mexico (yes, you read that correctly). The NV Gruet Brut ($17.99) is a non-vintage (NV) sparkling wine made from a blend of 75-percent Chardonnay and 25-percent Pinot Noir. It’s the perfect wine for an aperitif, with wonderful aromas of green apple and citrus.

Next up is the 2014 Frico Bianco ($9.99) from Scarpetta wine company, which is owned by master sommelier and my good friend, Bobby Stuckey. This delicious Italian white hails from the Friuli-Venezia Giulia region of northeast Italy. A blend of Chardonnay and the local varietal called Friulano, this wine is medium-bodied and crisp, as it sees no time in oak. Perfect for May with aromas of fresh-cut white flowers and crisp apples, it’s an excellent wine for salad courses or paired with grilled white fish served with a parsnip purée.

Last, but not least, is the tasty 2013 Chateau Cadenette ($10.99) from the most southerly appellation of the RhÔne wine region called Costières de Nîmes. A blend of 80-percent Syrah and 20-percent Grenache, this spicy and robust red wine is perfect with grilled red meats as well as a piece of aged cheddar cheese. n

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Voices in my head stream words like mettre en valeur on a frequency like a personal radio, and it is not easy to tune the sounds off or out. Once set in motion, the memory of the words spoken is something quite like private poetry playing a melody with harmony as accompaniment–myself and the speaker in communication.

As a child, I made up my own lexicon of definitions by the atmosphere or temperament in which the words were uttered.

Bearing daily witness to conversations between native mother-tongue speakers, I arrived at the essences of meanings rather than their actual intent. Bilingual speakers’ inside jokes or unbelievable seriousness in discussions about the common causes of events presented ideas to me in my youth that live on in my adult head. Deadly delights of verbiage, taken in as a child with a child’s version of the meanings of the words via the imagination.

For me, the sense of the words mettre en valeur embolden me to become the Lancelot or Guinevere of circumstance.

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Lake Pride This new attraction near Highland Lake is a sign of the times.

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rriving at Lenny’s, we see the longdark Hawkes Plaza 13-foot sign suddenly stunning the night with fresh neon, featuring the same legendary TV repairman–toting a lunchbox in place of his tool kit–that has graced this stretch of Route 302 in Westbrook for more than 50 years. The more things stay the same, the more they change.

“I bought a historic sign–the building came with it,” says Bill Umbel of Portland’s former Empire Dine and Dance fame, who bought the property from music legend Al Hawkes.

Local guitar hero Lenny Breau recorded on Hawkes’s Event Records label at this very site.

Breau went on to fame in 1960s and 1970s as a genrecrossing guitar stylist and protégé of Chet Atkins. Breau’s mysterious murder in Los Angeles in 1984 at age 43 remains unsolved.

Lenny’s boasts a generous 30-foot bar, dining space for 75, and a performance stage. Brews include Rising Tide, Allagash, Baxter, Geary’s, and Foundation ($3-$6.50).

We begin with our newest fave, the hoppy Baxter Stowaway IPA draft ($5).

Starters range from Devilish Eggs ($7) to Classic Wings ($10) to Artichoke & Spinach Dip–with artichoke hearts, spinach, garlic, parmesan and asiago cheese, warm with crostini ($10). The Tortilla Chips and Gua-

camole are $8.

We begin with “The Wedge” ($7), fresh iceberg lettuce triangulated and sprinkled with very fine bacon crumbles, blue cheese, delightful pickled red onions, good quality cherry tomatoes, and toasted pine nuts. I order a side of luscious blue cheese dressing.

The kitchen’s out of the Smokey Bacon Corn Chowder, but the replacement Roasted Cauliflower ($5) is delicious. The Lenny’s Burger ($10) is just right–medium rare, eight ounces of sweet, tender beef with lettuce, onion, cheese, and tomato on a gloriously grilled challah bun. Sides are a choice of french fries, potato salad, coleslaw, or house pickles and onions.

It doesn’t get much better than my exquisite grilled salmon ($17) with lemon, tarragon, and mustard sauce. A harmony of sweet and savory, its flavors are nicely balanced with garlic mashed potatoes and succulent sautéed fresh spinach leaves.

Full of music memorabilia, Lenny’s is like its namesake, blending the best and doing something new, lively, and not easily categorized. It calls to summer traffic, just like the sign. Tonight, Al Hawkes himself (now 84) is here in his big red cowboy hat. Happy trails. n Lennys, 1274 R. 302, Westbrook. Wed.-Sat., 3:30-10 p.m. liveatlennys.com 591-08117 M AY 2016 75

Back to Strong One man’s journey to better health

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He was a mason and very strong.”

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Reggie recovers.

Fixing Reggie’s Heart: CMHVI, Oct. 27th Minimally invasive valve surgery – transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR).

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Determination, a big heart–and one little yellow kayak–carry Dr. Deborah Walters 2,500 miles to complete her fund-raising goal for Safe Passage in Guatemala City.

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n July of 2014, Dr. Deb Walters–scientist, grandmother, and social activist–set out via kayak from Maine on a personal quest to raise funds for Safe Passage, an organization dedicated to providing education and health services for the children of the sprawling Guatemala City dump neighborhood.

A few months into her voyage, she was stricken with a herniated disk in her neck and was forced to suspend the trip. Spinal surgery in South Carolina and rehab ensued. Undeterred, she got back in her kayak and completed her 2,500-mile trip this past January.

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little nerve damage. It wasn’t related to the kayaking expedition, but I think from about 20 years ago when I accidentally dropped a kayak on my head and went around for over a week with my neck at an angle.

It was January of 2015 in Georgetown,

“I built my wooden kayak 16 years ago, but Joey Schott of Turning Point Kayaks remodeled it for me just for this expedition.

He made it fit my body perfectly. It has four watertight compartments. So, just like the Titanic, it’s unsinkable.“

South Carolina, that I finally got the right diagnosis. I’d been having some trouble for years, but thought it would go away when I was in better shape. Instead it just got worse.

I stopped four times during the expedition for medical diagnosis and advice. Folks gave

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Vultures oversee the sorting process at the Guatemala City garbage dump, where many parents of Safe Passage students work.

me painkillers, exercises, and even a brace.

Some warned me about possible nerve damage, but a Maine physician thought it was just tendon problems and told me, “Put on your big-girl pants, and get back out there and kayak.” So I did. I kept paddling south along the South Carolina coast.

In Georgetown, I was staying with a nurse. She realized right away I was really hurting. After I went to bed, she and her husband decided they had to come up with a plan to get me to listen to her about this.

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What did you decide?

I thought about it, but I couldn’t even get an exploratory appointment for six weeks.

I was back on my feet in one day, but I couldn’t paddle again until after great physical therapy back in Maine with Joshua Hunt in Waterville.

You don’t discourage easily.

Right after the surgery, I considered halting the expedition. But that wouldn’t properly honor the grit and determination of the Safe Passage children and families. So I got my husband to bring down the car, and we carried on with my prearranged speaking engagements down the coast.

When I got to Fort Lauderdale, the SV Polaris was waiting to sail me to Central America. The original plan was to drop me and my kayak off in Belize, but since I couldn’t paddle he took me all the way to Guatemala.

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But from your point of view, this was not the end?

Folks said I’d accomplished my mission.

I’d gotten myself one way or another from Maine to Guatemala and raised [awareness] and money for Safe Passage. But again, I couldn’t give up, since the children and parents don’t give up under much more adverse conditions! Also, I’d pledged to kayak 2,500 miles for the expedition. So, once recovered, I carried on.

You got back in the kayak?

I returned to Georgetown, South Carolina, in September [2015] and started paddling south.

Once I got to Fort Lauderdale, I was again tempted to quit. I could look at the “Where’s Deb?” website and see my kayak tracks had reached my sailing track. Despite being really tired and ready to quit– for the third time–I had to just sigh and carry on.

I passed the 2,500-mile mark three miles from Key West and happily ended the expedition when I kayaked into Key West on January 30th, after 2,503 miles!

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You increased the funds you raised for Safe Passage from $175,000 at the time your surgery became necessary to $425,000 upon completing the Carolina-to-Key-West leg by kayak. That’s a lot of money!

I had a zillion speaking engagements, and that contributed to much of the money raised. But Rotarians along the way who worked to raise money for a Rotary Foundation Global Grant for teacher education and curriculum development really helped.

As did a grant from Citibank. And then a few individuals made large anonymous donations. It all added up.

Did the Rotarians set up the big celebration hoopla when you slid into Key West?

That happened organically. A local radio station interviewed me the day before and all day kept reminding folks to come and meet me at the beach. As I kayaked along, folks on bikes or walking caught my attention and said they were coming to see me!

It was great!

Any scares on the final stretch to Key West?

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On this trip, my most frightening encounter was with that scariest of marine mammals, the manatee. I was almost flipped over when I got too close to a sleeping manatee who awoke with a start and went into overdrive with his huge tail as he sped away.

Were you mostly all alone when you were out there?

Yep, most days I paddled alone. On a few days the expedition had a kind of Forrest Gump quality to it, with folks just showing up to kayak with me.

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Red sparks scattered everywhere in the wind. The house was a torch “lighting up the whole cove. It was high tide, so water covered the causeway. No one could do a thing.”

For many Wonder Bread kids in the early 1970s, it was their childhood going up in smoke, too. Where once a two-storey house reigned in wrack and ruin–a windswept Andrew Wyeth backdrop–today warm water ebbs over seaweed and stone.

This year, David Smith is 73. His family has summered here for three generations. His father, Gordon Smith, was the

founder of the Kennebunk Beach Improvement Association. With its wraparound porch and eyes across time, this summer cottage is Ground Zero for the tiny beach community that once included novelist Kenneth Roberts in its ranks.

“He kept a place here until the success of his novel Arundel allowed him to build ‘Rocky Pasture’ in Kennebunkport.”

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the actual sunset view. There is no better place on earth to have a ritual lobster bake, hear the sounds of generations of children’s voices, and over and over, sweep the same grains of sand on and off the porch.

Built “hard on the heels of 1890,” the Smith House used to have “diamondshaped windows, Victorian style.” Though pristine wood clapboards and modern composite decking have updated the jewel box with weathered shingles the Smiths purchased in 1936, the cottage is in perfect harmony with both past and present.

Even the staging charms. mith gives us a tour of the simple space with a lovely bay window and central brick fireplace. He steps around a dinghy that has displaced the wicker couch, ready to row into the kitchen. When he sees us staring, he laughs. “Yes, your basic Maine boat in the living room.”

To which we duck and cover: “So with your family here, this cottage survived the Hurricane of 1938?”

“Obviously,” Smith says. He opens the screen door to the deck, walks to the edge, and points to the right.

“During World War II, my father saw lights flashing code from the top of Great Hill. The lights were being answered by flashes offshore.” A U-boat? “Everyone went rushing out there to look. Army Coastal De-

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Mrs. Miniver, Maine-style. Today, it takes $995,000 to make a landing on this .12 acres.

Off the vintage kitchen, there’s a bedroom and a full bath. Floor two features cathedral ceilings; a balcony room large enough for a king bed and dressing space; two more bedrooms; and a second bath. Original beadboard partitions stand in for walls. Smith winks: “You can hear someone change his mind.” Taxes are $15,041. n

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fter lunching at Applebee’s, Carol and her small, aging mother visited a gift shop in the mall in search of a little ceramic shepherd boy to go with the little shepherd girl on the shelf in her mother’s living room. As it turned out, the shop carried a little shepherd girl but no boy. Carol’s mother asked the overweight shop lady why they would carry a little shepherd girl but no little shepherd boy–did that make sense?

The shop lady explained that the little shepherd girl was in fact Bo Peep and that there wasn’t any mention of a shepherd boy in the rhyme, was there? And she even began to recite: “Little Bo Peep has lost her sheep–” “Stop that,” Carol’s mother told her, and pointed up at the woman’s big round face: “Do you know what you are?”

“Mom.” “You’re an obnoxious, overweight cow,” she informed the woman, then turned around and hobbled straight out of the shop.

“Let’s go, Carol. Come on.”

Carol apologized to the shop lady.

“Sometimes she just…she tends to get…”

The shop lady touched Carol’s arm, nodding sympathetically: “I understand, dear.”

Carol wished to be held in the shop lady’s lap, and rocked, and told nursery rhymes.

“Carol, are you coming?”

All the way home in the car her mother complained bitterly. She began with the insulting shop lady, moved on to Carol’s failure to remain married, then turned to her own life since Carol’s father died two years ago. “On the moon” was the way she felt, that was how desolate, as if she were wandering around on the moon. So, she con-

cluded, even if they had found a little shepherd boy, that wouldn’t have made any real difference, she would still wish that she were dead.

“Mother…”

“I know, I know.”

Approaching her mother’s driveway Carol slowed and was about to pull in but saw something furry shimmying up the drain pipe at the side of the house.

“What are you doing?” her mother asked as Carol continued past the driveway.

“I just…I thought…I heard a funny noise.”

“Funny noise, what’re you talking about?”

“In the engine. I want to drive around, see if I can hear it better.”

“I don’t hear any funny–” “Shh.” Was it a raccoon?

“Carol, did you just shush me?”

A baby gorilla?

“Don’t ever shush me. Do you understand?”

A midget in a fur coat?

“I said, do you understand?”

“I do, Mother, yes.”

Whatever it was, if her mother saw it she would never go in the house again. She would move in with Carol. So Carol continued driving around, giving the thing plenty of time to climb back down and go away.

“I have to use the toilet, Carol.”

“You can use mine.”

“No. Take me home. You can listen to your funny noise after you drop me off.”

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Carol turned around and headed back. Whatever it was, it was probably gone by now.

“By the way,” her mother said after a few moments, “not to be critical, but you’ve been looking awfully bedraggled lately, Carol.”

Unless, oh Lord, it got through a window and was now in the house.

“At least try and do something with your hair.”

Or, what was far more likely, she hadn’t actually seen anything. It was the two glasses of wine she’d had with her salad on top of the tranquilizers.

“Get yourself a nice perm, why don’t you.”

She was just hallucinating, that was all.

Merely losing her mind.

“You go around looking like some kind of I-don’t-know-what.”

When they got back to her mother’s, sure enough, the thing was gone. Carol pulled into the driveway. “All right, Mom. Well…”

“Aren’t you coming in?”

“I have to get back.”

“What for?”

“Well…to bring the car in, see about that noise.”

“I think you’re hearing things.”

“Probably. Hearing things, seeing things…”

“Seeing what things?”

“Just saying.”

Her mother set to work getting out of the car. “Call me.”

Carol promised.

“Not between seven and eight,” her mother reminded her.

“I know.” That was her Matlock-rerun hour. She had a crush on wise old whitehaired Andy Griffith. Carol wasn’t sure if she knew he was dead, and often felt like telling her.

After getting out, her mother spoke through the inch of open window. “We should try that shop over on Forest Avenue.

We might have better luck.”

Carol nodded. “I guess we could do that.”

“You guess?”

“I’m saying, we could do that.”

Her mother gave a parting sigh and hobbled off towards the front door.

Carol considered yelling Stop, don’t go in, but sat there watching as she got her key from her purse and used it, entered the house, and closed herself in with the Thing.

Carol backed out quickly and drove away.

Over and over she told herself there wasn’t any Thing in her mother’s house. “Get a grip,”

she said aloud, shoving in the cigarette lighter.

And anyway, she reasoned, if there really was some Thing–which of course there wasn’t, which of course was ridiculous–it would kill her quickly, it would be over in a moment and her mother would have her fondest wish. She took a cigarette from the pack on the dashboard, lit up, and felt better.

But then she suddenly cursed and made a U-turn, front wheel going over the curb, and sped back to her mother’s driveway. She got out, ran to the door, used her key, and went in. “Mom?” “I’m in the bathroom,” her mother sang out. “What is it? I thought you left.”

“Everything all right?”

“I’m a little blocked up. I shouldn’t have ordered that cheese thing. It wasn’t even very good.”

While her mother went on about the cheese thing, pretty much repeating what she had told the waitress, Carol went around checking every room, including closets.

“I’m sorry, but Kraft American is not real cheese,” her mother declared from the bathroom. “It blocks you up like real cheese, I’ll grant you that.”

Carol heard something moving around in the kitchen.

“Not to be critical,” her mother added, “but I wish you would take me someplace a little upscale for a change.”

Carol tiptoed towards the kitchen.

“If I’m going to be blocked up, at least let it be with actual cheese.”

The Thing was much taller than she had thought, about her own height and badly in need of a perm. It was standing by the kitchen table, eating a banana from the fruit bowl, unpeeled.

“Are you going to kill my mother?”

“If she ever gets out of there.”

The toilet flushed.

The Thing gave Carol a little smile, moving its unplucked eyebrows up and down.

A minute later, still going on about the cheese thing, her mother entered the kitchen. Then she stopped and stood there, gaping.

“Carol? What are you doing? For God sakes, peel it first.” n John Manderino’s latest fiction collection is But You Scared Me The Most (Chicago Review Press, June 2016, $14.99). He lives in Scarborough and can be found at johnmanderino.com.

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