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53 FINE LIVING “Weed Alley”

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13 FROM THE EDITOR “November Is the Coolest Month”

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orn in early November, I’m a Scorpio. Fellow arachnids include Whoopi Goldberg; Kris, Kendall, and Caitlyn Jenner; and Matthew McConaughey. According to Cosmopolitan, “Matthew’s Sun, Mercury, and Neptune are all in Scorpio.”

Whoa, McConaughey. Yeah, he’s got a sting.

So has Tilda Swinton. Then there’s Gordon Ramsay, Tonya Harding, and Charles Manson.

Gabrielle Union, Leon Trotsky, and Winona Ryder are Scorpios through and through, along with Pete Davidson and Sean Combs. “Rachel McAdams (Mean Girls) and Ryan Gosling are both Scorpios,” Cosmopolitan says. “No wonder The Notebook makes everyone cry so much.” May the sting be with you, Adam Driver. Intensity: is this the key to Björk?

If you’re still not running away now that you know how exultant our negativity is, how could Ryan Reynolds be a Scorpio? I figure there was a baby swap. (Scorpios are into conspiracy theories.) He’s way too considerate and easygoing. He’d probably give you his parking space. Of course, he was born on the cusp (October 23) of Libra and Scorpio. Some say the concept of being on the cusp is a myth—and a very recent one.

According to these astrologers, crossover traits can be explained by the position of other planets in your chart.

Maybe there’s such a thing as a pseudo-scorpion?

You’ve felt me sneaking up for a sting, and here it is: creatures called “pseudoscorpions” are in their element in Maine! Nature Blog Network describes the pseudoscorpion as “a tiny arachnid closely related to scorpions. These harmless creatures lack a tail with a venom-filled stinger and are found throughout Maine. They play a beneficial role by preying on unwanted insects in homes. Despite their small size, pseudoscorpions possess venom in their pincers to paralyze their prey.”

Their length is just 3 mm.

Even so, is there such a thing as a pseudo-Libra? I’m just saying. To a Scorpio, it’s all about bragging rights. You can get your own free, detailed natal horoscope online at Astro.cafeastrology.com. But of course, since I’m a Scorpio and therefore obsessively suspicious and secretive, I would never enter my personal information.

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INTRIGUING PEOPLE

Dirigo Diva Bangor born and bred soprano Ashley Emerson takes it from the top.

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What first drew you to opera? y chorus teacher at Bangor High School, George Redman, said to me, “I bet if you took a classical voice lesson, you’d really enjoy it.” Five or six lessons were enough for me to decide to study opera at USM. The summer after my first year, I sang in the chorus of Lucia di Lammermoor with Opera Maine, and that sealed the deal for me. I got accepted into the Lindemann Young Artist Development Program at the Metropolitan Opera a few years later.

What’s your favorite role to sing so far?

Despina in Così fan tutte—I’m a Mozart girl for sure! She’s really clever, really sassy—a great gal to play.

How do you prepare for a new role?

It’s not a 9 to 5 every day—it’s more like the workout regimen gearing up for a marathon. There’s a lot of overlap when you’re performing one role while preparing the next one. If someone asked me to do Lucia next month, I could probably learn all the notes, but to get a piece like that in your body and sing to the utmost of your capabilities would take a year.

How do you take care of your instrument when it’s your whole body?

Drinking more water than I ever thought I possibly could, sipping all day long to stay hydrated. We’re vocal athletes. It just happens to be these two tiny, delicate pieces of tissue that come together to produce the actual sound, so we have to take care of them.

Do you have any pre-game rituals?

I’ve got to move my body to get the

blood going to all my muscles, whether by hitting the elliptical or going for a brisk walk outside. I have a lot of dance parties in my dressing room. Could be to Megan Thee Stallion, a Mozart overture, or Jimi Hendrix. Depends on my mood.

Do you feel a kinship with Lillian Nordica, the turn-of-the20th-century “Yankee Diva” from Farmington?

I’m honored to be connected with such an illustrious singer! I’ve had Yankee Diva on my shelf for years, but I haven’t read it, I admit.

Can you envision an opera set in Maine?

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INTRIGUING PEOPLE I think there are a lot of Stephen King novels that could become operas. Maine’s majestic and also kind of—harsh isn’t the right word—hardy at the same time.

Gifford’s stand in Bangor, so I’m there more than I should be.

Where’s your favorite place to perform in Maine?

Merrill Auditorium is a fabulous space to sing in. I’d love to do chamber music concerts in an old renovated barn.

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What do you miss most about Maine when you’re on the road?

When I lived in Portland, there was a certain part of I-295 where I always put the car windows down to smell the ocean.

Growing up, my grandparents lived on a pond in Winthrop. I miss lake life and loon noises.

Are there any ways you bring a little bit of Maine with you?

I wish I could bring Gifford’s ice cream with me everywhere all the time! My aunt lives right around the corner from the

Do you ever suffer from costume envy?

At the same time we were putting up Marnie by Nico Muhly at the Met, the costume designer, Arianne Phillips [Madonna’s stylist], was doing the movie Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, so our outfits were to die for. Even though I loved both of my costumes—a Mad Men skirt suit and a pink-and-black gown for the party scene—I still had all kinds of costume envy!

What’s your favorite flavor?

Muddy Boots, hands down.

How do you know you’re still a Mainer at heart? s “lobster snob” a thing? I will only eat lobster in Maine. Go to the docks and buy it straight from the lobsterman. I got married [to tenor Dominic Armstrong] at Wolfe’s Neck Farm in Freeport, and we had a lobster bake for the meal.

What about wardrobe malfunctions?

When you’re playing a nun, you want to make sure you can still hear even with all that stuff over your head. When I play Papagena, there’s this bamboo birdcage I have to remove in time to the music while I’m on stage. Some women like singing with corsets—they feel it helps with their breath support—and some don’t. I do.

What’s the best/worst thing about being married to another opera singer?

The best is that we fully understand each other’s lifestyle, and we get to make music together sometimes! The worst is juggling our performance schedules. No matter where we’re working, we won’t go more than three weeks without seeing each other. In ten years, we’ve only broken that rule once.

What’s your most hair-raising “show must go on” moment?

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A set piece got stuck during The Magic Flute at the Met, and they had to drop down a scrim in front of it so Papageno and I could do our scene in front of that.

I was used to measuring my steps based on our regular location, and I was wearing a floor-length robe and mask disguise that I could only see out the bottom of, so I was basically walking blindly onto the stage of the Metropolitan Opera!

My scene partner guided me as best he could, and it’s a testament to the teamwork of my colleagues backstage that the set was back to normal by the end of our dialogue.

Are microphones for wimps?

Part of classical vocal training is to access certain resonance cavities in your skull and body so that your voice will carry over a full orchestra playing in the pit.

That’s what’s so exciting about experiencing opera live—there’s nothing between the human voice and the audience. It’s the aural equivalent of #nofilter. n

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ith her sparkling voice and stage presence, “the appealing and sassy” (New York Times) soprano Ashley Emerson has been described as a “vocal and dramatic delight” (St. Louis Post Dispatch). In the 2022-2023 season, Ms. Emerson reprised her acclaimed portrayal of Papagena in a new production of Die Zauberflöte at the Metropolitan Opera, where she has appeared in over 200 performances, including the role of Laura Fleet in the North American premiere of Nico Muhly’s Marnie, which was broadcast Live in HD to movie theaters worldwide, as well as Brigitta in Iolanta, Giannetta in L’elisir d’amore (Live in HD Broadcast), and Barbarina in Le nozze di Figaro.

Ms. Emerson made her professional European debut as Cunegonde in Candide with Opéra National de Bordeaux and the Théâtre du Capitole de Tou-

louse. She has also appeared in major roles with Washington National Opera, Opera Theatre of Saint Louis, Opera Philadelphia, Des Moines Metro Opera, Dallas Opera, Atlanta Opera, Central City Opera, Los Angeles Opera, Pittsburgh Opera, Palm Beach Opera, Opera Maine, Greensboro Opera, Cedar Rapids Opera, Opera Omaha, On Site Opera, and The Tanglewood Festival.

Ms. Emerson has been honored with awards from The Sullivan Foundation, The Gerda Lissner Competition, The Palm Beach Opera Competition, and is a graduate of the Lindemann Young Artist Development Program at The Metropolitan Opera. Ms. Emerson further trained at esteemed institutions including the Marlboro Music Festival, the Verbier Festival, and Opera Theatre of Saint Louis as a Gerdine Young Artist. Ms. Emerson is a University of Southern Maine School of Music graduate. n

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King before King Time capsule: a NEVER-published interview from out of the vault—a portrait of the artist as a young horrormeister.

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AUGUST 1, 1979

he student stands outside the classroom waiting for the professor to appear. She fusses with her hair and smooths out her dress. An English major and would-be novelist, she both anticipates and dreads her first one-on-one meeting with the professor, Stephen King.

She clutches a pile of books, on top of which just happen to be two of King’s earlier works, Salem’s Lot and Carrie.

She is here to fight for an extension on a

term paper. She will leave no advantage unconsidered.

The class is over and students stampede through the door. Behind them is King, who, at 6'2", towers over the masses. It is appropriate. Ten years ago, as a student here at the University of Maine at Orono, he towered over the masses in writing ability.

Today, he is engaged in heavy dialogue. “Milton is as important to literature for what he didn’t do as for what he did do,” King offers. It is a high-sounding phrase. He might not utter it were he not

on a college campus. But he is, having returned to teach at his alma mater for the 1978-79 school year. Stephen King has come home.

“I’m back for many reasons,” King says at the end of the school year. “You dig yourself a rut, you see, and you furnish it, wherever you are. We’d been living in Bridgton and Lovell for three and a half years, and I was writing and seeing the same people every day and going through the same monotonous routine.

You kind of lose a connection with the life you once had.”

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INTRIGUING PEOPLE King says teaching helps professional writers “scrape off some of the rust.” He is teaching “Themes in Horror and the Supernatural,” “Poetry,” and “Creative Writing.” Student enrollment in his classes has been high. Large numbers attend even his 8 a.m. lectures, a rarity on a college campus that defies comparison with any recorded event in the civilized world.

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pictures. Inside the capitol, the halls are buzzing. Legislators race about. Bells ring.

Votes are cast on unknown bills. Thomas Jefferson might not be happy.

House Majority Leader Jim Tierney sits in his cramped office. He puts his feet up on his desk and cackles. “Steve King?

Oh, Jesus! Where do I start?” Tierney, a classmate of King’s at UMO, remembers a “forceful” anti-war address King delivered on the library steps. “After his speech, he was walking away and this little old lady grabs him by the elbow and says, ‘Why, you, dirty, rotten, bearded Commie freak!’ And Steve, very calmly, took her hand off him and said, ‘I beg our pardon, ma’am, but I am a dirty, rotten, bearded Republican freak.’ It cracked us up.”

Suddenly, Tierney is serious and talks about the Bicentennial celebration he and King attended in their home town, Durham. “It was just after Salem’s Lot had hit it big, and Steve was a little afraid to be back in his home town, especially signing autographs and being fussed over. But I’ll never forget the speech he made. He talked about his one-room schoolhouse and a teacher he still remembered, one who always told him never to give up. And he

ing’s year as writer-in-residence has provided an opportunity for many to reminisce about the 31-year-old’s life. Community reaction has been, says one Admissions Office staffer, “relaxed.” An example from the student newspaper: “Return of the Native King!” a Maine Campus headline screamed in the first September issue. Relaxed indeed. King’s year should give author Thomas Wolfe second thoughts about man’s ability to go home again.

“When I was here,” King recalls, “UMO was 5,000, maybe 6,000 students.

It was really a small town. Everybody knew everybody else’s gossip.” The school’s grown to about 11,000, double the number that experienced hallucinogenic drugs and “the The word ‘revolution’ in Amerianti-war thing” with King and friends. ca is ridiculous because everyHe plays down the turmoil of thing is always in a state of change, a decade ago and does not apologize for having become another a cycle. And eventually you end up member of the bourgeoisie. “The on the other side, with the hibachi word ‘revolution’ in America is ridiculous because everything is in the back yard, two-car garage, always in a state of change, a cycle. and there you are, listening to Dolly And eventually you end up on the other side, with the hibachi in the Parton on the radio. It happened to back yard, two-car garage, and Eldridge Cleaver, it happened to there you are, listening to Dolly Parton on the radio. It happened Tom Hayden, and, yes, it’s to Eldridge Cleaver, it happened to happened to me…

Tom Hayden, and, yes, it’s happened to me…”

It's a crisp weekday afternoon in May outside the statehouse in Augustalked about growing up in a small town, ta. Grass is green, but wet, cars splash with dirt roads, and what it does to a angry pedestrians, and an elderly couple person. He really choked me up.” Tierney strolls by with three youngsters, possibly isn’t surprised about his chum’s return to grandchildren. They stop and pose for UMO. “He doesn’t forget people…”

Lord Hall is a red, brick classroom building covered with vines. The campus newspaper and UMO journalism are housed here. The Maine Campus is in room 106. A battered multi-colored refrigerator stands in one corner. “REVOLT! (Against anything)” is scrawled across the front. The appliance has been there since King was a student and before.

Many students in his day appeared to follow the spirit of the graffiti. David Bright was editor when King began writing his weekly column, “King’s Garbage Truck.”

“Steve used to tell me I was his second publisher,” jokes Bright, the environmental writer for the Bangor Daily News.

King first was published in children’s magazines.

Bright thinks King’s books involve higher quality and slower production than “Garbage Truck.”

“He had a deadline every Tuesday at noon. He’d come in at 11:30 and crank out the column just to the length we’d allotted him—no mistakes. I don’t know if he was writing the stuff in his head before hand or what. But it was uncanny.”

Bright remembers a wild night in which King was arrested for allegedly picking up orange traffic cones off Main Street, Orono. “Maybe he was drunk,” Bright suggests, unsure whether he should be telling the story. The UMO newspaper had extensive coverage of the trial, which King won. “We had court stories, sidebars, a first-person story from Steve and courtroom sketches. He was N OV E M B E R 2 02 3 35

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ournalism professor Alan Miller relates King’s column being “well-read” and often controversial. King recalls writing about “everything and nothing, from politics to art. My wife says whenever I was stuck for a topic, I’d write a trivia column and give away an all-expense-paid trip to Veazie.”

He says the columns “frankly weren’t very good” and laments the current campus discussion of them. “I could write a hundred books, and on my gravestone, they’ll put: Stephen King, author of ‘King’s Garbage Truck.’”

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teach,” she says snidely. King has been good for morale in the English department.

King is at the front lectern now. Three minutes remain before class starts, and he fields the daily questions, the scene resembling a gubernatorial press conference. Some queries are legitimate; others appear obvious excuses to rub elbows with fame and fortune for 15 seconds. He tolerates all. He, too, asked many questions as a student 10 years ago.

Looking tall and sounding like a gentle preacher, King begins class. “I have a few announcements,” he says. “A Miss Wendy Eihorn will be giving a poetry reading this Thursday afternoon in the Walker Room of the union. Wine will be served,

KING’S GARBAGE TRUCK (Keep your City Clean)

March 15, 1969 There is a plot afoot. Just thought you might like to know that. This Plot is masterminded by the critics (hiss!), the professors, by the plain old garden variety instructors, by film-makers, record-producers, and almost everybody. It’s a plot —excuse me, a Plot—to do away with mediocrity. That’s right, friends, you heard me correctly. A Plot to do away with mediocrity! Startling, isn’t it?

Groggles your mind, doesn’t it?

Mediocrity lovers arise! Are you going to let them take away your copy of God’s Little Acre and give you The Hamlet?

Are you going to let Them woo away your Doc Perkins album and listen to Judy Collins? Of course you’re not! But

you’ll have to be careful. They’ve already given mediocrity a bad name. They’re sneaky. You have to watch them all the time. They started out by telling us that mediocrity means bad, although the dictionary tells us it just means sort of so-so. They make cracks about “second-class material,” but have you ever seen third-class material? Or fourth?

That stuff ’s not mediocre! It’s downright horrible! And let’s just remember that number two had a reputation for trying harder.

In view of this grave emergency, I am hereby taking it upon myself to declare National Mediocrity Week. I hope you will all do your part to help give mediocrity a good name…

It is a Tuesday morning in April. The classroom, in the new English-Math Building, resembles a movie theatre.

It is filling with students, unusual for a morning class. “We won’t have a chance like this next year probably,” mopes Anna Taylor, a sophomore from Colebrook, N.H. She says King’s professional success gives him “credibility” as a professor.

“Those who can, do; those who can’t,

the notice says here, presumably not Thunderbird or Ripple.”

The joke is old, but the class laughs.

The class always laughs. A look from King is all it takes. The Tonight Show never had such an effective applause sign.

King is dressed in worn jeans, black belt with white scrimshaw buckle, cranberry shirt and penny loafers. The pants are embarrassingly short. “High

waters” they would have been called in his student days. Indeed, the whole outfit could’ve been left in his dorm room closet for 10 years just waiting for him to return.

Today’s guest lecturer is Prof. Burt Hatlen, who read the student King’s firstdraft novels many typewriter ribbons ago.

“Steve has asked me to come here today to draw a comparison between Salem’s Lot and Dracula. He feels it would be presumptuous of him to do it.” Hatlen asks the class for personal beliefs about vampires, leading King to make the first of a series of interruptions. “Most of the fan mail I get is on Salem’s Lot,” King says.

“Ninety percent say they don’t believe in vampires. The other 10 percent say they do believe and that I helped convince them. They ask for gas station maps with Salem’s Lot, the town, marked on it.

They want to go there. It’s clear anyone with that desire should have his motives seriously examined.”

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tudents laugh and grin at each other. Aren’t we lucky to have Stephen King here, they seem to say. Hatlen seems irritated but is understanding.

He pledged 10 years ago not to tamper with young Stephen King. Other faculty weren’t so encouraging.

“I was their court jester,” King recalls. “‘Oh, that King,’ they’d say, ‘he’s got some strange ideas about writing…’”

Room 311 of the English-Math Building is near classrooms, faculty offices and the English department’s headquarters.

It is inconspicuous, sort of like flesh in a swarm of black flies. Room 311 is Steve King’s office. A crumpled copy of the New York Times best-seller list is on the door.

King’s new book Night Shift is ranked ninth.

“Isn’t this great?” King says, motioning all around the room. “My own office.

Now I call tell my wife: ‘Dear, I’m going to the office.’” The room is 12 feet by 12 feet. Drab university-provided paintings adorn two walls. A picture of good friend and former professor Ted Holmes decorates another, and a disorganized book shelf dominates the fourth. To the right of the books is a poster promoting the punk rock band Devo. “Are We Not Men? We Are Devo!” it screeches as if Stephen King cared. “Oh, that,” he says,

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beat-up Royal typewriter takes up the most desk space, and a teapot and Lipton bags cover the back counter. A can of sugar-free Sprite rests dangerously near the phone. (King has a slight pot belly).

Lying all over his desks are the reasons one year at UMO is enough. “Paperwork and forms,” he says sourly. “That’s one of the unpleasant things I’ve discovered about teaching.”

King gives the impression he might like to convert his literary success into political influence, in his own small way, of course. He is most enthusiastic when talking about anti-war speeches he was asked to make. “Because of the UMO column, I was well-known,” he notes proudly.

Martha McFarland, 1969 UMO graduate teaching English at Scarborough High School, knew King well and remembers him as principled. “He was honest when others were doing more exotic things,” she says. “I’ve seen him several times over the years, and I don’t think he’s changed that much, which is extraordinary, considering his success.”

King gets a phone call from a Bar Harbor airline pilot who wants him to critique a book manuscript. “I’ll look at anything,” King mutters after hanging up.

He reminds himself he promised back in September to do this sort of thing. All for less than $9,000 per year.

“When I came up here, I decided I would be both the university’s representative and mine…which occasionally means people calling to tell you about a book or a haunted house, all while you’re trying to go to bed.”

He hopes he’s open-minded as a teacher. “I am pretty traditional, but I don’t think I’m stuffy.” A question from a recent test: “1) the author of Salem’s Lot is a) Herman Melville b) Bram Stoker c) Stephen King d) Billy Carter e) none of these.”

The answer, UMO has been reminded this year, is “c.”

Dan Warren is a senior Journalism major at the University of Maine at Orono. He spent the summer as a Pulliam Fellow working on the Indianapolis Star and Phoenix Gazette.

UMO’s literary publication, the Maine Review, is dedicated this year to King, who submitted a recent and previously unpublished poem, “I Am Not the Man.” The poem, says the Maine Review editor, “is representative of his unique perceptions of man and his fascination with suspense and fear.”

Final Thoughts: Stephen King can be a tough interview. He doesn’t always suffer fools

I AM NOT THE MAN I am not the man you saw on the stairs with the box of cigarettes or the man with the pipe.

I am not the man who came to fix your sink and left the wrench leaning against the toilet like a metal soldier of alien intent; I am not the man who asked you to sign for the package which your aunt in Nebraska sent UPS for your birthday the year New York seemed like black ice to you and every horn on 3rd Avenue touched your dreams and turned your heart to a harp of loneliness.

I am not the man you sleep with; he is fair and shorter than I; his belly seems flatter but he might only be sucking it in.

I am not the super or the man upstairs or the dead-faced old queer who cries in the middle of the night but I have heard him and thought for a moment that I was.

I am not the man in the booth or the fellow you know from your home town in Tennessee.

I am the man who is behind you with the knife I took from your kitchen rack.

Now close your eyes.

gladly. But get him to put his feet up on his metal desk, and nurse a hot mug of tea, and the comments pour out!…

Stephen King on Stephen King: Students today: “They certainly are a lot more concerned with getting a good job than I ever was, obviously.” King majored in English and held many part-time jobs after graduating, including one in a laundromat.

College faculty: “Professors lead sort of a Peter Pan existence. They’re dealing year in and year out with people whose ages never change. Students come and students go, but the faculty stay. That’s why professors are eternally young in their politics and outlook.”

Accomplishments of student protests in 1960s: “It all started, of course, to get everybody home from Vietnam, where we had no business being in the first place, but we expanded on that and got a lot done. The marches were also against the administration, to get student voice in decisions and so forth. We got coed dorms, the end of overnight sign-up for weekend guests, and a student representative on the (UMaine) board of Trustees,” which has since been revoked. In a column, King opposed the nomination of that student, Stephen Hughes, now a Democratic state legislator from Auburn.

Writing: “I think I’m competent. I’d like to get better. That’s always a possibility…In this country, there are great writers, good writers and poor writers…there are a lot of slobs at the bottom. Talent is as cheap as table salt. It’s how you use it. In horror, you’re either good or you shouldn’t bother.”

Philosophy: “I’m still writing, but it’s nothing very serious. I’ve been writing to please me, and of course you do that anyhow if you can. You want to be marketable, but you can’t think about that while you’re writing…Actually, I think Mickey Spillane and Jacqueline Susanne write to please themselves. That’s why they’ve been so successful.”

King’s favorite contemporary authors are Tom Williams, Shane Robertson and Peter Straub.

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And I have a novel I’ll write, a sort of magnum opus horror novel. It’s been simmering on the back burner for awhile.”

He expects to move back to southern Maine with his wife and three small children, Naomi, Joe and Owen. n

Editor’s Note: As the late Peter Cox (above), editor and co-founder of Maine Times, likely styled this piece and had it typeset, I’ve preserved its late 1970s fragrance by directing it to our readers with a spare hand. Its most unusual path to publication is best told by its author, Dan Warren, attorney and former Maine state legislator. I’d like to thank Stephen King and Jill Krementz for their help in bringing this to you.

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Summer 2023: “Here is the photo that was in my ‘UMO/ Maine Times’ box that I came across in MayJune (as part of ‘de-cluttering’ 450 boxes at my house, garage, attic, and office basement over last year).

“I have had the story in a frame for 45 years, and, like many from that vintage, it is ‘stuck’ and cannot be taken out of the frame without tearing it. Bummer.

“My recollection is that when Peter Cox assigned me the King story—to follow King around in his classes for a day—Peter did what he always did—assigned a Maine Times photographer to track down the subject and get a shot. I worked with two photographers at the Maine Times publication in the 1970s and early 80s. One was Tom Jones, a brilliant but cantankerous photographer; and Christopher Ayres, who I think was allowed to take photos and also did stories as a writer.

“My recollection is that when Peter told me he couldn’t publish the story because I had delayed writing it from May to September. I was busy in Arizona and Indiana working with Dan Quayle’s grandfather on his newspapers, and I came back and was too late for the ‘market/demand’ for a Stephen King story, that Peter offered me an olive branch, and may have given me a typeset version of the story,.”

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t was June 1, 2020. Protests over George Floyd’s murder were taking place all across the state; more than 1,000 people were in Monument Square alone.

So it wasn’t just an inciting incident; it was a national catastrophe. Where exactly were you standing when the idea came to you?

I was at Biddeford Pool.

You were living in Saco then?

Yes. I was in that park [Vines Landing, where a narrow channel connects the Atlantic Ocean to Biddeford Pool]. You know, where you look across the water to that other point of land?

I know it. It’s where the land is making a decision too.

From where we are to where we might be. Where do you live now?

Right in Portland. Bayside.

Your offices are in Portland too. Can you see where the Monument Square demonstrations were through your office window?

We’re at 411 Congress Street, so our office is close to there.

BOM is located between First Parish Church and City Hall—between Church and State. Is that significant to you?

Good question. Not necessarily. [Laughs.]

I guess if we think of the church as the people, then yeah, sure.

Portland’s most famous photo, other than a wrecking ball taking down Union Station, may be the one of Gerald Talbot marching down Congress Street toward Monument Square in the 1960s.

I know that photo!

Rose with Josiane Mutangana of Josiane Fashion House at Burundi Star Coffee. Both Josiane Fashion House and Burundi Star Coffee are BOM members.

Do you feel his presence or his inspiration in your enterprise?

Gerald Talbot is a trailblazer. His work, and his family’s work in general, have paved the way for folks—some for people who’ve lived here for quite some time and some just entering the state.

What are the two most recent businesses to become members at BOM? DJ Gerson and Mitshi Hair Care [by Benine].

How many members do you have right now?

450.

People often say there are two Maines, urban and rural. How many Maines do you think there are?

So many! White families who’ve been here; the Talbot family who’ve also been here for nine, ten generations; Native

Americans; Latinos, Congolese. First, second, and third generation—there are more than a million people here! But it’s not often you can find many different people in the same place together. Rural and urban are the beginning. But income, culture, and social factors make more Maines. Age, health, wealth.

What’s the oldest member of BOM? Benay Enterprises, bookkeeping. They go back to the 1980s. It was started by a father who sold his business to his daughter, Dawn.

What element of BOM is best understood?

Many understand that these businesses are creative and solve things needed by the community, providing everyday innovations, sometimes using generationally passeddown or ancestral skills.

Least understood?

These businesses aren’t just for Black people! Every business needs a bookkeeper. Everybody wants to dance to a DJ! Has anyone in Maine’s congressional delegation responded to you and hopefully worked with you: Susan Collins, Angus King, Jared Golden, Chellie Pingree?

No, not directly. We’ve worked with Speaker Rachel Talbot Ross on her Juneteenth event—put on a panel and put on a vendor fair.

The Bangor Daily News covered the creation of Maine’s first Black Chamber of Commerce this past summer. (Wouldn’t it be just like the reductive old Maine to pit you against them, as if there could only be one organization?) Are you working with them?

ROSE BARBOZA

We’re not working with them in particular. Many organizations are emerging. We’re all trying to say, “What do we do, and what do we do best?”

You and your husband, Young Francis, are partners in Oga Suya, a Nigerian barbecue moveable feast that does special events and catering. Is your prep space at 41 Fox Street?

We have pop-ups there.

Attendees of the most recent Naija Party thrown by Rose at The Portland Zoo.

You’re also open at Portland Zoo Backyard Bar on Tuesday and Thursday through Saturday.

Do you hope to open a brick-and-mortar business, or is that no longer the paradigm?

Our ultimate goal is to start an Afro lounge. We’ve been testing out some amazing parties, with food, music, and dancing. Our parties have been dubbed some of the most diverse in Maine.

How did you pull that off?

I live in Bayside. We wondered, how do we bring people from East Bayside here?

Did you get a good turnout for the recent Nigerian Independence Day party?

Two hundred people came!

We offered free food. There were kids, babies, dogs, grandmas, and aunties.

Not Aunties! How did you and your husband meet and fall in love?

We met online, just like in a typical millennial romance. The big meetup was in Wells. We’ve been married for two years now.

Where did you study, and what did you major in?

I w e nt t o U SM , a n d I m aj ore d i n Ma r k e t i n g a n d Int e r n at i on a l Business.

Your website says a business’s owners must be 50 percent of African diaspora descent to qualify. I was surprised to see a number at all.

Fifty percent Black-owned. If there are two owners, and one is black and one is not, that’s still half. I like 50 percent better than 51 percent.

The George Floyd murder was one of so many lows in recent years. What’s been an uplifting turning point since you’ve started? Something that gives you hope?

I think the fact that that woke people up, myself included. We’re seeing people come together, you know?

We’re seeing communities integrate; we’re seeing people seeing similarities over the differences. We’re rallying around issues that will help everybody instead of a certain few.

What’s the most satisfying thing you’ve ever heard about BOM, even offhanded or in passing? Sometimes, the accidental compliments are the most sincere.

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ou’ve heard of father/son sporting events.

Lucky for Maine, we’re so much more intriguing than that: Kelly Flagg, Cooper Flagg, and Ace Flagg of Newport—all

three former Nokomis Regional High School hoop stars—are a mother/son trio for the ages.

Mom first: Kelly [Bowman] Flagg racked up a record 1,257 points while she was rocking the crowds in the Nokomis

gym. In college, playing for the Maine Black Bears’ winningest coach, Joanne Palombo-McCallie, 5' 10" Kelly was captain of the team that whipped Stanford in the 1999 NCAAs. That alone makes her a legend among Maine’s tall pines—a giant-killer among giant-killers. But then...

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Kelly’s twin sons, Cooper and Ace Flagg, are 6' 9" and 6' 7", respectively. In August, Sports Illustrated gushed that Cooper is “the nation’s top-ranked high school boys basketball prospect” for the 2024 NBA draft.

Playing as freshmen, Cooper and Ace led Nokomis High to its first-ever Maine state championship. The world came calling. Now, both twins are playing for Montverde Academy, northwest of Orlando, Florida, an internationally recognized hotbed for future NBA stars, NOVEMBER 2023 47

and they’re lighting up the scoreboards down there.

HEY, WAIT A MINUTE!

Dad Ralph B. Flagg, 6' 9" himself, is an

uber hoop star, too. He rewrote the record book at Eastern Maine Community College. Did everybody say dynasty?

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Online, the speculation is flying. “Are Cooper and Ace identical?” One answer: “They may be twin brothers, but when it comes to personality, Cooper and Ace are far from identical. ‘You can definitely

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INTRIGUING PEOPLE hear him—if he dunks on someone, he’ll talk to him,’” Ace told Fox22 Bangor about Cooper.

But it isn’t just double trouble. As a senior, their older brother Hunter Flagg was a 6' 3" star at Nokomis in 2022, when the twins were freshmen.

Today, he studies at Central Maine Community College.

RECENT DEVELOPMENTS

It is fairly emotional but we are selling our home [an eight-room New Englander on 42 Shaw Street in Newport] ...the only house my boys have lived in. (Cooper claims he will want it back someday.)”

On their social media accounts, the twins sincerely expressed their love for Nokomis High and Maine when they announced their shift to Montverde.

Maine will always be home.

Mom used to teach at Nokomis Middle School. When we called the office to HOOP STREAMING speak to her, we were told, “She doesn’t As for Mom’s role in guiding her work here anymore.” dynasty in Gator country, Sportskeeda “Oh, is she teaching at the high reports, “We got a glimpse into what school?”Portland Mag - Summer Guide kind of lessons she must be teaching “No, she moved.” her son when she took to Twitter... to “To Florida?”

1/2 pg. Experience Section air a piece of advice for him. A high“Yup.” light video had shown Flagg powerfully Eight7.3125” weeks ago,WKelly said on dunking on the head of an opposing x 4.875” H Facebook, “The day has finally arrived. player during Montverde’s 101-28 win DUE 4/1

to open the season.

“Flagg’s mother clearly wasn’t approving of his intense look after the dunk, and she tweeted: “‘Mom’s thoughts—I don’t love the staredown. Let your game do the talking. I know they all do it, but I don’t like it. I appreciate that the kid at least made the attempt to stop it.’”

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The Montverde team starring Cooper and Ace has made a most unusual booking for a Florida high school. Montverde is coming all the way up to the land of the tall pines for two games in Portland.

WMTW 8 reports they’ll play at 7:30 p.m. on January 5, 2024, at Cross Insurance Arena and on January 6 at the Portland Expo, tip-off time forthcoming.

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Of Mice &Maine Nadia Rosenthal soars at Jackson Labs but is grounded by Cranberry Isles.

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Many people have heard of Jackson Lab, but for some, what you do there is cloaked in mystery. What are some key points of your job as scientific director? he Jackson Laboratory was founded almost 100 years ago as a research center dedicated to the study of genetics and cancer in laboratory mice. Since that time, JAX scientists have expanded their fields of interest, applying genetic principles to a host of different topics of relevance to human health, including fertility, developmental defects, immune disorders, heart problems, aging and Alzheimer’s, and, most recently, infectious diseases.

As a scientific director, I’m responsible

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for the academic leadership of the JAX Mammalian Genetics campus here in Bar Harbor and the strategic planning necessary to advance our mission. I’m an active scientist working in regenerative medicine. Still, I also manage faculty recruitments, performance evaluations, and promotions, and the essential part of my role is mentoring our researchers to ensure their academic careers are booming and satisfying.

You were a professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School before taking your current position. Do you have any advice for women in STEM? As Gloria Steinem said, anyone who thinks that today’s society is comfortable

with women in power needs glasses. I remind every young postdoctoral fellow leaving my laboratory: “Male or female, you won’t get what you do not ask for in this world.”

How long have you been in Maine?

I first came to Maine when I was two. My parents had rented a summer house on one of the Cranberry Isles, which they subsequently bought. I still have that house where I now live eight months of the year (it’s unheated). It’s paradise, and I’m so lucky to be able to live and work in a place that I’ve loved since childhood.

What was spending time in your childhood on the Cranberry Isles like?

We’d drive up from New York every spring and take the Beal and Bunker mail boat or one of their smaller boats out to the island, wheel our luggage and groceries up the path through the pine forests from the town dock, enter the big wooden house with its wide staircase and familiar smell of old books, and make fires in the huge fireplaces. My sister and I would dash around to rediscover all our favorite things. [We’d] head out into the woods and fields on the lookout for mushrooms and early summer plants like bunchberries, Indian pipes, and doll’s eyes. We’d visit neighbors and pick wild raspberries for special pancake breakfasts.

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[My parents] rented a small cabin on Sutton Island one summer and fell in love with the place. Sutton has no roads, cars, or commercial activities, only paths through the woods. Everything is hauled by wheelbarrow. There are two dozen houses, some built in the 1700s as year-round farmhouses, now only occupied in the summer months. We all know each other.

My parents made friends with a couple who owned one of the grander 1800s “summer cottages” facing the open ocean and the mountains of Acadia National Park. It was being restored after sitting empty for many years, and my parents rented it from their friends and eventually bought it for $13,500 and another 10 acres of shorefront property for an extra $1,000. Those were the days. They were penniless musicians and had to borrow from friends and family, but it’s remained a treasured family legacy.

What’s something you can find in that home that you can’t find anywhere else?

Where do I begin? The house is crammed with treasures. When you buy a house

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INTRIGUING PEOPLE on this island, it usually comes with all the furnishings, carpets, books, linens, antique kitchen utensils, beautiful collections of porcelain painted teacups from a long-gone century, crockery and cutlery in the drawers, all too difficult to remove. Our house came with two grand pianos, placed back to back in the… living room, from the original family who liked to play duets. We learned about that family from the guestbook dating back to 1889 when the house was built, and their… elegant portraits [were] given to us by their great-grandchildren many decades later. An extraordinary book collection included children’s fairy tales with wonderful illustrations. The attic was huge and full of surprises. It’s all still here.

Who who signed the guestbook?

Harold Warren was a relative of the Burnham family who built the house. He was one of the Three Islesford Painters and a frequent visitor... he pasted an original pencil drawing of a Cranberry Isle view [in the guestbook]. Rachel Field, the famous author (and subject of a new book by my neighbor Robin Wood entitled The Field House), did a charming cutout silhouette and signed the book along with her family. Other musicians and artists signed the guestbook throughout the decades. We have a postcard written and signed by Erik Satie belonging to my father.

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How did it feel to return to that home to live when you started working at Jackson Lab? How is it similar to or different from childhood summers on the island?

I’ve always been quite adventurous. [I’ve] lived and worked in countries around the world, but this island has been a constant in my life, and the house is an essential part of my personal history. It’s a privilege to be able to return, live, and work here as a scientist… It’s a less carefree existence, but I still have the same sense of place as in my childhood, and seeing the moon rise out of the sea every night after traveling back from work by boat transcends age and time. n NOVEMBER 2023 53

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But you have other options. “This block [where Fore meets Exchange] is the most competitive market in the whole state.”

Look across Fore Street, you see Silver Therapeutics. Head down Market Street, you find Meowy Jane, a “welcoming and inviting space” run by “unhinged cat people,” manager Chelse Fullmer says.

Jar Co. is squeezed in between clothing shops on Exchange Street.

“We’ve planted our company’s flag right in the middle of Maine’s premier city and tourist market,” co-founder Joel Pepin says.

How do they all stay above water?

“It’s competitive but collaborative,” Pepin says.

“It’s a partnership. We send customers to each other,” Fullmer says. “We have our own niche customers and try to have a unique menu.”

Not one of these stores is more than five years old, but each has a cosmic connection to Portland’s history. Fire on Fore abuts the old Bull Feeney’s, the nickname for filmmaker and favorite son John Ford, who directed Tobacco Road (1941). It doesn’t end there: the movie’s based on the 1932 Erskine Caldwell novel written while he was running a bookstore in Longfellow Square.

The Forest City’s evolving— we’ve morphed from Tobacco Road to “Weed Alley.”

As Fullmer says, “You’re not gonna find a cat-themed dispensary in every city.” Meow. n

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agnus on Water is where the future meets the Saco River. At

first glance, it’s as elusive as a speakeasy, but once we find our way in, we get it: magnificent mills, bright lights, and romantic Mechanics Park sparkle outside our window. Cozy and warm, we’re where Water Street hits the water. Illumined by up lights in lush flower beds, a multi-level granite dining patio outside brings to mind a sculpture garden. Right away, we realize this bistro is an alluring addition to the new Biddeford.

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We start with a mini cocktail: a Gabbi ($7), a brown butter daiquiri both tart and mellow. As we sit at our little table, looking at the simple daily menu, we hear from a table beside us: “Did you know we’re the youngest town in Maine?”

Biddeford’s median age is “35,” ac-

cording to the Portland Press Herald. “It’s just 29 in the city’s downtown area.” Breathless Travel + Leisure writes: “Here’s how to plan the perfect escape to Biddeford.”

More eavesdropping: “I can’t wait until my new generator arrives.”

Très magnifique! I can see Carrie tapping her laptop keyboard during an episode of Sex and the City: “Is Biddeford now...bougie?”

Whatever it is, it’s a boom town redux, especially here along the river near Rumery’s Boat Yard.

SENSATIONAL PRESENTATION Our first course floats in: Shishito Peppers ($6), crispy and tangy, with just the right amount of heat and bite in the middle of the experience; and Lettuces ($14) with Caesar dressing and delicately shaved parmesan, the crunchy smoked mini croutons almost sparkling with sound. Time to order the wine! I opt for

a glass of 2015 Terres Rouges Tête à Tête ($16) from California, silky and dry the way I love it. We can never resist swordfish, so we pair our desire for it with the bright taste of Lubanzi ‘Orange Is’ 2023 Chenin Blanc-Viognier from Swartland, South Africa.

The Delicata Squash ($16) is cored squash rings with enticing grill marks, nestled on whipped tofu, pickled peppers, sunflower seeds, and basil. The melt-in-your-mouth Swordfish ($34) is perfectly cooked and worth any drive. It has that little bit of seared edge, complemented by jammy cherry tomatoes and crème fraîche. The Carrots ($15) are jazzed up with bits of pistachio, sumac, and cilantro. For dessert, we share the sweet, moist Almond Cake ($13) with whipped cream, blueberries, and curried almonds. It pairs surprisingly well with chamomile tea ($5), strangely satisfying.

We’ll be back, hoping for a window table to take in even more of the dining room’s views—and hot coffee on the menu! n NOVEMBER 2023 59

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SELECT AREA RESTAURANTS Anthony’s Italian Kitchen 30 years of Old World recipes. Best meatballs in town. Milehigh lasagnas, fresh-filled cannoli pastries, 54 sandwiches, pizza. A timeless great family spot. Beer and wine. Free parking. 151 Middle St., Portland, AnthonysItalianKitchen. com, 774-8668.

Bandaloop has moved into a restored 1700s barn on Route 1 in Arundel. Since 2004 we have offered locally sourced, globally inspired, organic cuisine. Our new home has plenty of space, parking, outdoor seating, takeout, and an event space in the loft. We continue to offer something for every palate—from vegans to carnivores and everything in between. bandalooprestaurant.com

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The Corner Room features bright, wideopen space with towering ceilings complemented by handcrafted woodwork. Patrons can expect a warm, comfortable atmosphere, marked by the rich aromas of housemade pastas, pizzas, antipasti and artisanal breads. Come and enjoy the taste of Venice in the heart of Portland, ME! 879-4747, 110 Exchange Street. Visit thecornerroomkitchenandbar.com for more information.

Hurricane Restuarant New England cuisine with an international twist. Lobster & blueberry pie! Local produce and seafood, full bar, award-winning wine list, in-house dessert chef. Sunday brunch. Live music Wednesday nights. Lunch and dinner seven days a week. Bar menu always available.

Good restaurants come and go. Great restaurants get better and better. Reservations suggested. 29 Dock Square, Kennebunkport. 967-9111, hurricanrestaurant.com Boone’s A Portland landmark since 1898.

Original home of Alexander Boone’s world-famous Baked Stuffed Lobster. Two waterfront decks, two full bars, two cozy dining rooms, fireside tables. Perfect setting to enjoy the finest seafood from Maine and the world. Steaks, chowder, lobster rolls, grilled dishes, daily features. Visit Boone’s for a romantic date, business luncheon, family gathering or large banquet.

BoonesFishHouse.com Bruno’s Voted Portland’s Best Italian Restaurant by Market Surveys of America, Bruno’s offers a delicious variety of classic Italian, American, and seafood dishes–and they make all of their pasta in-house. Great sandwiches, pizza, calzones, soups, chowders, and salads. Enjoy lunch or dinner in the dining room or the tavern. Casual dining at its best. 33 Allen Ave., 878-9511, https:// www.restaurantji.com/me/portland/brunosrestaurant-and-tavern-/ Maria’s Ristorante Portland’s original classic Italian restaurant. Greg & Tony Napolitano prepare classics: Zuppa di Pesce, Eggplant Parmigiana, Grilled Veal Sausages, Veal Chop Milanese, homemade ca-

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Flatbread Company Portland Tucked between two wharves with picturesque waterfront views. Family-friendly restaurant w/ signature pizzas, weekly carne & veggie specials. Made w/ local ingredients, baked in wood-fired, clay ovens. Everything’s homemade, organic, and nitrate-free. 24 local drafts & cocktails showcase all-local breweries & distilleries. 72 Commercial St., 772-8777, flatbreadcompany.com.

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Portland Conservatory of Music, 28 Neal St. Cardinaux/McEvoy/Goldman Trio, Nov. 11; Middle Eastern String Trio, Nov. 16; Neil & Ed Pearlman, Dec. 7; Conifer, Dec. 15. 775-3356.

Portland House of Music, 25 Temple St. Halowell does The Last Waltz, Nov. 18; Echoes, Nov. 22; Zach Nugent & Dead Set, Nov. 24; Rigometrics with Midnight Breakfast, Nov. 25; Amanda Tubbs & Friends, Dec. 1; Masterstroke Queen Experience, Dec. 2; Karina Rykman, Dec. 3; Oliver Hazard, Dec. 5; King Buffalo with Handsome Jack, Dec. 6; Darlingside, Dec. 7; Allison Russell, Dec. 8. 805-0134.

Portland Ovations, Merrill Auditorium, 20 Myrtle St. Stomp, Nov. 18. 842-0800.

Portland Symphony Orchestra, Merrill Auditorium, 20 Myrtle St. Symphonic Season, Nov. 12. 842-0800.

Beatles Night with Spencer and the Walrus prese, Nov. 24–26 at the State Theatre

Theater

Belfast Maskers, 17 Court St. The Storm in the Barn, Dec. 1–10. 619-3256.

Good Theater, The Hill Arts, 76 Congress St. Broadway at Good Theater: The Twin Piano Edition, through Nov. 19.

835-0895.

Mad Horse Theater, 24 Mosher St., South Portland.

White, Nov. 16–Dec. 10. 747-4148.

Mayo Street Arts, 10 Mayo St. Tricyckle, Nov. 18–19; Tanglewood Marionettes’ Hansel & Gretel, Dec. 9–10.

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Portland Players Theater, 420 Cottage Rd., South Portland. Beauty and the Beast, Dec. 1–17. 799-7337.

Portland Stage, 25A Forest Ave. Saint Dad, through Nov. 19. 774-0465.

USM Department of Theatre, Russell Hall, Gorham Campus. Too Much Light Makes the Baby Go Blind, Nov. 17–19. 780-5151.

Music

1932 Criterion Theatre, 35 Cottage St., Bar Harbor.

Mat Kearney, Nov. 16; Queen Flash, Nov. 18. 288-0829.

Aura, 121 Center St. Molly Tuttle, Nov. 16; Model Airplane, Nov. 25; Hunter Hayes, Dec. 2; The Mountain Goats, Dec. 3; Tab Benoit with The Dirty Dozen Brass Band, Dec. 7. 772-8274.

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Blue, 650A Congress St. Songwriters in the Round, Nov. 21 & Dec. 19; Alive in the Root, Cliff Cameron, and The Mighty Calm, Dec. 9; Savoire Faire and Forest City Swing, Dec. 16; Jazz sesh, every Wed. 774-4111.

Cadenza, 5 Depot St., Freeport. Duane Edwards, Nov. 18; Katie Daggertt & Ed DesJardins, Nov. 24; Blues on Sunday, Nov. 25 & Dec. 17; Dan Pelletier & Lara Herscovitch, Dec. 2; Michael Arnowitt, Dec. 8; Half Moon Jug

Band, Dec. 9. 560-5300.

Camden Opera House, 29 Elm St. Joan Ellison, Nov. 18; Oshima Brothers, Nov. 24. 236-7963.

Chocolate Church Arts Center, 804 Washington St., Bath. Peter Yarrow, Nov. 10; Primo Cubano, Nov. 17; The Slambovian Circus of Dreams, Dec. 8. 442-8455.

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

Melissa Aldana Trio, Nov. 16–17; Masterworks II: Star Crossed: Romeo & Juliette, Nov. 19; The Met Live in HD: Florencia en el Amazonas, Dec. 10. 581-1755.

Friends of the Kotzschmar Organ, Merrill Auditorium, 20 Myrtle St. Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde, on demand through Nov. 30. 553-4363.

The Hill Arts, 76 Congress St. Pine Tree Pickers, Nov. 12; Unfinished Blues Band, Nov. 24; Rod Picott and Sara Cox, Nov. 30; The Hyperion Trumpet Ensemble, Dec. 10.

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Jonathan’s Ogunquit, 92 Bourne Ln. Moondance, Nov. 10; Runnin’ Down a Dream, Nov. 17; Cheryl Wheeler & Kenny White, Nov. 25. 646-4777.

Lincoln Theater, 2 Theater St., Damariscotta. Old Hat Stringband, Nov. 12; The Met Live in HD: X: The Life and Times of Malcom X, Nov. 18; The Met Live in HD: Florencia en el Amazonas, Dec. 9. 563-3424.

Mayo Street Arts, 10 Mayo St. La Nona Kanta with Trio Sefardi, Nov. 11; Cat & Mouse feat. Nicole Rampersaud and Brian Shankar Adler, Dec. 2; Casco Bay Tummlers with Jamie Saft, Dec. 15. 879-4629.

Meetinghouse Arts, 40 Main St., Freeport. Erica Brown & The Bluegrass Connection, Nov. 12. 865-0040.

One Longfellow Square, 181 State St. Beth Nielson Chapman, Nov. 19; Duke Robillard Band, Nov. 25; USM Student Jazz Combo Night, Nov. 29; Melissa Ferrick, Nov. 30; Tom Rush with Matt Nakoa, Dec. 1; Breaking Strings, Dec. 2; Lúnasa: An Irish Solstice Celebration, Dec.

Saco River Theatre, 29 Salmon Falls Rd., Buxton.

Durham County Poets, Nov. 11; Derek Gripper, Nov. 18; Erica Brown and the Bluegrass Connection, Nov. 25; Novel Jazz Septet, Dec. 9. 929-6473.

State Theatre, 609 Congress St. Jeremy Zucker, Nov. 11; From Ashes to New, Nov. 21; Spencer and the Walrus, Nov. 24–26; DakhaBrakha, Nov. 28; Dylan Scott, Nov. 30; Gimme Gimme Disco, Dec. 1; The Mallett Brothers, Dec. 2; Pink Talking Fish, Dec. 9. 956-6000.

Stone Mountain Arts Center, 695 Dugway Rd., Brownfield. Ward Hayden & the Outliers, Nov. 10; Della Mae, Nov. 16; Marc Cohn, Nov. 17; Marty Stuart & His Fabulous Superlatives, Nov. 18; Martin Sexton, Dec. 9.

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Stonington Opera House, 1 School St. Open Mic Night, Dec. 7. 367-2788.

Strand Theatre, 345 Main St., Rockland. Voice Power!, Dec. 2; Met Opera: Daniel Catán’s Florencia en el Amazonas, Dec. 9 & 19. 594-0070.

Sun Tiki Studios, 375 Forest Ave. Reid Genauer & Assembly of Duet, Nov. 11. 808-8080.

Unitarian Universalist Church of Brunswick, 1 Middle St. James Keelaghan, Nov. 18. 729-8515.

Vinegar Hill Music Theatre, 53 Old Post Rd., Jim Messina, Nov. 16; Roosevelt Collier, Nov. 17; GoldenOak, Nov. 18; The Bad Plus, Dec. 7. 985-5552.

Waldo Theatre, 916 Main St., Waldoboro. Mat Kearney, Nov. 15; Pokey LaFarge with Louisa Stancioff, Dec. 10; The Adam Ezra Group, Dec. 16. 975-6490.

Comedy

Aura, 121 Center St. Depths of Wikipedia Live with Annie Rauwerda, Dec. 1. 772-8274.

Chocolate Church Arts Center, 804 Washington St., Bath. Jon Rudnitsky, Dec. 2. 442-8455.

The Hill Arts, 76 Congress St. Hey Party People! with Miley Cyrus, Nov. 20. 347-7177.

Jonathan’s Ogunquit, 92 Bourne Ln. Bob Marley, Nov. 12; Steve Sweeney Comedy, Nov. 24. 646-4777.

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Stone Mountain Arts Center, 695 Dugway Rd., Brownfield. Comedian Bob Marley, Dec. 13. 935-7292.

Waldo Theatre, 916 Main St., Waldoboro. Making It Up As You Go: The Art of Improvisation Workshop, Nov. 11 & Dec. 9. 975-6490.

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Bowdoin College Museum of Art, 245 Maine St., Brunswick. Metamorphosis and Malice: Pontormo’s Three Monochrome Paintings from Renaissance Florence and Related Works, through Dec. 17; Re|Framing the Collection: New Considerations in European and American Art, 1475–1875, through Dec. 31; Figures from the Fire: J. Pierpont Morgan’s Ancient Bronzes at the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, through Jan. 7, 2024; Face Forward: Recent Acquisitions, Nov. 30–Mar. 10, 2024; Jim Dine: Last Year’s Forgotten Harvest, Dec. 7–Jun. 2, 2024; Nick van Woert: History, Material, Environment, through Jun. 9, 2024. 725-3275.

Brick Store Museum, 117 Main St., Kennebunk. Pastel Society of Maine International Show, through Dec. 17.

985-4802.

Caldbeck Gallery, 12 Elm St., Rockland. Winter at Caldbeck, Nov. 11–Jan. 13, 2024. 594-5935.

Carol L. Douglas Studio and Gallery, 394 Commercial St., Rockport. Landscape and marine paintings, workshops and instruction. Watch-me-paint.com. 585201-1558.

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Center for Maine Contemporary Art, 21 Winter St., Rockland. Shinique Smith: Continuous Poem, through Jan. 7, 2024; Jeane Cohen: This Watching Land, through Jan. 7, 2024; Alison Hildreth: Darkness Visible, through Jan. 7, 2024; Gamaliel Rodriguez: (In)hospitable, through Jan. 7, 2024. 701-5005.

Colby College Museum of Art, 5600 Mayflower Hill Dr., Waterville. Come Closer: Selections from the Collection, 1978-1994, through Nov. 26; Constellations: Forming the Collection, 1973-2023, through Nov. 26; 2023 Faculty Biennial, Nov. 9–Dec. 10; Bill Morrison: Cycles and Loops, through Dec. 31; A Lot More Inside: Esopus Magazine, through May 12, 2024; Painted: Our Bodies, Hearts, and Village, through Jul. 28, 2024. 859-5600.

Cove Street Arts, 71 Cove St. Attention to Detail, through Nov. 11; Out & About II, through Nov. 18; In The Moment, through Dec. 2; John Walker: Selected Prints, through Jan. 31, 2024. 808-8911.

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Greenhut Galleries, 146 Middle St. Taking Shape: Featuring Matt Demers, Keri Kimura, & Thomas Stenquist, through Nov. 25. 772-2693.

Kittery Art Association, 2 Walker St. David Lussier: Mixing A Chromatic Color Palette Workshop, Nov. 18–19; Natural Wonders: All Member Show, through Nov. 26. 451-9384.

Lincoln Theater, 2 Theater St., Damariscotta. Exhibition On Screen: Klimt & The Kiss, Nov. 16–17; Great Art on Screen: Borromini and Bernini: The Challenge for Perfection, Dec. 28–29. 563-3424.

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RED: Climate, Justice & Natural History Collections, through Dec. 30; Photojournalism & the 1936 Flood, through Dec. 30; Building the International Appalachian Trail, through Jun. 1, 2024. 774-1822.

Maine Maritime Museum, 243 Washington St., Bath.

Eric Darling: Drift Ropw Project, through Dec. 10; Women Behind the Lens: The Photography of Emma D. Sewall, Josephine Ginn Banks, and Abbie F. Minott, through Jan. 21, 2024; SeaChange: Darkness and Light in the Gulf of Maine, through Feb. 4, 2024; A Sailor’s Treasure: Sea Chests & Curiosities, through Mar. 3, 2024; Sustaining Maine’s Waters: Understanding the Changing Gulf of Maine, through Dec. 31, 2024. 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. How Do I Look: Group Show, through Nov. 24. 804-0459.

Moss Galleries, 251 US-1, Falmouth. Group Show, through Dec. 9. 781-2620.

Ogunquit Museum of American Art, 543 Shore Rd. Joe Wardwell Mural Commission, through Nov. 12; Networks of Modernism: 1898–1968, through Nov. 12; The Architect of a Museum, through Nov. 12; Spontaneous Generation: The Work of Liam Lee, through Nov. 12; Ever Bladwin: Down the Line, through Nov. 12; Meg Webster: Site-Specific Work, through Nov. 12. 646-4909.

Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum, 9500 College Station, Brunswick. Iñuit Qiñiġaaŋi: Contemporary Inuuit Photography, Collections and Recollections: Objects and the Stories They Tell, & At Home In the North, through May 26, 2024. 725-3416.

Portland Museum of Art, 7 Congress Sq. Fragments of Epic Memory, through Jan. 7, 2024; Alex Katz, Wedding Dress, through Jun. 2, 2024. 775-6148.

Portsmouth Historical Society, 10 Middle St., Portsmouth, NH. It’s Pastel!, through Nov. 18; Lost Neighborhoods, Nov. 24–Dec. 30. (603)436-8433.

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Serenity: An Annual Exhibition of Paintings, through Nov. 26. 712-1097.

River Arts, 36 Elm St, Damariscotta. Artist’s Choice, through Nov. 18; Celebration, Nov. 25–Dec. 30. 5636868.

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University of New England Art Galleries, Jack S. Ketchum Library, 11 Hills Beach Rd., Biddeford. Seeking Light: Plants from Shoreline to Canopy in the Arts & Sciences, through Jan. 7, 2024. 602-3000.

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ventures of Robin Hood (1938), Dec. 7–8. 563-3424.

Maine Film Center, 93 Main St., Waterville. Kattumaram, Nov. 15; Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind, Dec. 4; Princess Mononoke, Dec. 5; Spirited Away, Dec. 6; Howl’s Moving Castle, Dec. 7. 873-7000.

Maine Jewish Film Festival, Portland Museum of Art, 7 Congress Sq. Celebrate 25 years of bringing people together through the power of great films, through Nov. 11.

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State Theatre, 609 Congress St. Warren Miller’s All Time, Nov. 10; Maine Outdoor Film Festival’s Snow Day Dreams, Dec. 14. 956-6000.

Waldo Theatre, 916 Main St., Waldoboro. 2023 Sundance Film Festival Short Film Tour, Nov. 12; The Big Lebowski, Nov. 17; Gremlins & Gremlins 2, Dec. 2; Pennies from Heaven, Dec. 9. 975-6490.

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10th Annual Veterans Day 5K Road Race, Wells Elk Lodge, 356 Bald Hill Rd. Race starts and ends at the Wells Elk Lodge, Nov. 11. 646-2451.

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Merrill Auditorium, 20 Myrtle St. Wait, Wait… Don’t Tell Me!, Nov. 16–17. 842-0800.

Print: A Bookstore, 273 Congress St. Aliza Eliazarov (The Best Dog), Nov. 11; Nina MacLaughlin (Winter Solstice) with Meghan Gilliss (Lungfish), Nov. 17. 536-4778.

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Snowflake Trail, Downtown Limington, Limerick, and Newfield. Annual open house for small businesses.

“Follow the trail and enjoy local, craft-brewed beer, handmade artisan French style chocolates, Maine maple syrup, local foods, and much more, Nov. 10–12. thesnowflaketrail.com.

Strawbery Banke Museum, 14 Hancock St., Portsmouth, NH. Opening Day of Labrie Family Skate, Nov. 24. (603)433-1100.

Stonington Opera House, 1 School St. Trivia Night, Dec. 21. 367-2788.

Waterville Opera House, Children’s Discovery Museum, 7 Eustis Pkwy. Jason Tardy Juggling, Nov. 18; Princess Winter Ball, Dec. 1. 873-7000.

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Now You’re Cooking, 49 Front St., Bath. Harvest Dinner Sous Vide with Henning Vagtborg, Nov. 12; Thanksgiving Wine Tasting with Union Sacré, Nov. 16; Ramen Cooking Class with Chris Toy, Dec. 6; Mexican with Señora Tarpley, Dec. 13. 443-1402.

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Portsmouth Historical Society, see website for locations. Portsmouth on Tap: Earth Eagle, Nov. 16; Portsmouth on Tap: The Portsmouth Brewery, Dec. 14.

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State Theatre, 609 Congress St. Big Heart Little Stove: A Conversation with Erin French, Nov. 16. 956-6000.

Stone Mountain Arts Center, 695 Dugway Rd., Brownfield. Thanksgiving Eve in the Queen Post Café, Nov. 22. 935-7292.

Via Sophia by the Sea, 27 Western Ave., Kennebunk.

Italian Cocktail Classes, Nov. 10–19. 967-6530.

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Bay Chamber Concerts, Rockport Opera House, 6 Central St. A Musical Holiday Celebration, Dec. 14.

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Blue, 650A Congress St. A Songwriter’s Christmas, Dec. 8. 774-4111.

Cadenza, 5 Depot St., Freeport. Pat Colwell & The Soul Sensations Motown Christmas, Dec. 16 Camden Opera House, 29 Elm St. Paul Sullivan: Christmas in Maine, Dec. 16. 236-7963.

Chocolate Church Arts Center, 804 Washington St., Bath. Pat Colwell & The Soul Sensations Motown Chrristmas, Nov. 25; Holiday Hot Chocolate Jubilee with the Volunteers Jazz Band, Dec. 16; Sing! It’s Christmas, Dec. 18. 442-8455.

City Theater, 205 Main St., Biddeford. Elf The Musical, Dec. 1–17. 282-0849.

Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens, 105 Botanical Gardens Dr., Boothbay. Gardens Aglow, Nov. 18–Dec. 31; Making a Winter Wreath, Dec. 1–2. 633-8000.

Collins Center for the Arts, 2 Flagstaff Rd., Orono. A Celtic Family Christmas, Nov. 29; Texas Tenors, Dec. 1; Paul Sullivan & Friends Holiday, Dec. 9; Nutcracker, Dec. 16–17. 581-1755.

Cross Insurance Arena, 1 Civic Center Sq. WWE Live Holiday Tour, Dec. 3; Mannheim Steamroller Christmas, Dec. 5. 791-2200.

Denmark Arts Center, 50 W. Main St. Jolly Holiday Handmade Bazaar, Nov. 11. 452-2412.

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Gracie Theatre, 1 College Cir., Bangor. Sister’s Christmas Catechism, Dec. 2; COIG: Celtic Christmas Tour, Dec. 7. 941-7888.

Greenhut Galleries, 146 Middle St. 2023 Holiday Show, Nov. 30–Jan. 27, 2024. 772-2693.

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Jonathan’s Ogunquit, 92 Bourne Ln. Jim Brickman Hits Live with A Little Bit of Christmas, Nov. 18; Chris Collins & Boulder Canyon: A John Denver Christmas, Dec. 8; Funky Divas of Gospel, Dec. 9; Deep Blue C Studio Orchestra, Dec. 10. 646-4777.

Kittery Art Association, 2 Walker St. KAA Annual Holiday Show and Bazaar, Nov. 30–Dec. 17. 451-9384.

Lincoln Theater, 2 Theater St., Damariscotta. The Boston Camerata: A Medieval Christmas, Dec. 7. 563-3424.

Lyric Music Theater, 176 Sawyer St., South Portland. A Christmas Story, the Musical, Dec. 1–17. 799-1421.

Maine Film Center, 93 Main St., Waterville. The Grinch, Dec. 2; Fiddler on the Roof, Dec. 24. 873-7000.

Maine State Ballet, Merrill Auditorium, 20 Myrtle St. The Nutcracker, Nov. 24–Dec. 3. 842-0800.

Mayo Street Arts, 10 Mayo St. Elf Control: Miracle on Mayo Street: A Corporate Christmas Carol, Dec. 16–17.

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Meetinghouse Arts, 40 Main St., Freeport. Sparkle: Holiday Show, Nov. 17–Dec. 30. 865-0040.

Mystic Theater, 49 Franklin St., Rumford. COIG Christmas Concert, Dec. 6. 369-0129.

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Now You’re Cooking, 49 Front St., Bath. Asian Holiday Appetizers with Chris Toy, Nov. 29; Cookie Decorating Drop-In!, Dec. 2. 443-1402.

Ogunquit Playhouse, 10 Main St. The Sound of Music: Holiday Show, Nov. 29–Dec. 17. 646-5511.

One Longfellow Square, 181 State St. Heather Pierson Trio: A Charlie Brown Christmas, Dec. 3; Mr Sun: Nutcracker Suite, Dec. 8; Rock My Soul, Dec. 17.

761-1757. ​​ Opera House at Boothbay Harbor, 86 Townsend Ave. The Great Gingerbread House Building Class, Nov. 15; Coig, Dec. 2; Gingerbread Spectacular!, Dec. 15–17; Kevin Kiley & Friends, Dec. 20. 633-5159.

Penobscot Theatre Company, Bangor Opera House, 131 Main St. A Christmas Carol, Nov. 30–Dec. 24.

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Portland Ballet, Westbrook Performing Arts Center, 471 Stroudwater St. A Victorian Nutcracker, Dec. 16–23; A Victorian Nutcracker: Land of the Sweets Experience, Dec. 16–17. 857-3860.

Portland Museum of Art, 7 Congress Sq. Copper Beech Tree Lighting, Dec. 1. 775-6148.

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inety-nine Main Street got its name “Lexington Elms” from a row of wineglass elms planted at

even intervals across the front lawn.

Just one house away from the Brick Store Museum complex, this Federal mansion was designed and built in 1799 for merchant Nathaniel Frost by architect Thomas Eaton. According to Kathy Ostrander Roberts, writing for The Kennebunk Village, Eaton was also the talent behind “Wallingford Hall on Route One and the Taylor-Barry House on Summer Street. In Kennebunkport, he is known to have built the Captain Lord Mansion.”

New Englanders likely didn’t use buzz words like “curb appeal” and “wow factor” back then. But this quartet of houses has it all. A card sharp might call them the four aces of the Kennebunks.

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Though its namesake trees are long gone, this $1.995M stunner of a home still stands proudly front and center on Kennebunk’s Main Street.

fruit. Banks of wildflowers and more lush plantings guide the eye to a vanishing point so far away it extends to the grounds of Park Street School Apartments. I had no idea this space was here.

After Dutch elm disease swept the towering trees away, the house’s name sadly fell out of use.

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We pull into the driveway that leads to the back of the house, drawn to a charming arch. Stepping through, we see it’s not just a back garden but a verdant park. Suddenly we’ve gone from town to country. Gnarled apple trees bow with N O V E M B E R 2 0 2 3 101

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A green hummingbird whirs beside me and whispers in my ear, “You’ve entered the hidden land. You’ve lived here for decades, bicycling this neighborhood since childhood, without realizing how rich this secret garden is.” Oh, and this is the home Tom and Kate Chappell, founders of Tom’s of Maine, raised their family in, and were careful stewards of, for the last 40 years.

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“These palladian windows are original to the house,” says listing agent Elaine Prendergast. “Listen,” she says after closing the doors. “You can’t hear the street.”

The gallery stairway is positively musical. The entertaining areas glow with original woodwork in mind’s-eye-perfect shades of the Federal period.

What’s this place most like on the inside? Without too much exaggeration, Mt. Vernon comes to mind—except the art may be better here.

Prendergast catches me eyeing the portrait over the fireplace. “That was painted by Robert Fulton Logan in 1917, just before the U.S. entered the war. The sitter is Kate Chappell’s great-aunt. Kate has described her to me as ‘Caroline Parker Smith Chubb, in a magnificent hat and a black lace shawl.’ By the way, this, like all of the fireplaces in this house, is working, and the Chappells use them!”

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Original stencils painted by the artisan Moses Eaton Jr. transform the main rooms on the first floor, and Kate Chappell, a listed artist herself, has added some new stencils on the second floor to keep the motif vivid and alive. Kate also plant-

ed the apple trees in the backyard, and, strikingly, in the driveway turnaround out back. They are ancient and modern hybrids at once, a living experiment that, with each tree, is as charming as a set of matching bookplates.

Prendergast says, “Kate’s painting studio is upstairs in the ell,” which is outfitted with a kitchenette because the house is zoned multi-unit. It’s an artist’s dream, with high ceilings and exposed beams, flooded with light.

“This is Tom’s office,” Prendergast says of a first-floor library. Shelves line the walls, housing a book collection befitting a graduate of Harvard Divinity School.

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A sweet, tragic merchant shipping family lived here in the mid-19th century: William Symonds, a former Civil War naval officer; his wife, Susan; their daughter, Susie; and Susan’s parents. The younger two generations set sail together, rejoicing in life. With both his beloved Susan and Susie aboard, William was commanding the vessel Kingsbridge in the English Channel on an October night N O V E M B E R 2 0 2 3 10 5

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Sometimes, “Talking Walls” echoes softly with profiles in courage. When I learned of this, I thought about the family of three for days. I’m nobody’s paranormal medium; who knows what made me connect Susie with the hummingbird?

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2 Sandy Beaches with 550' Frontage and Fantastic Views Across the Hookups w/Power & Water.

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Offering Open Floor Plan, 2BR Plus Master Suite, Covered Porch Overlooking Lake/Mt/Sunset Views, Garage. $899,000 Overlooking Lake/Mt/Sunset Lake/Mt/Sunset Views, Views, 22 2 Bay Bay Garage.

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Alpine Acres - Water access & protected boat slip on Rangeley Lake!

SPRING LAKE – Escape to–nature andLAKE a wonderful 1322 Main Street – BEAVER parkwaterfront likePine, setting, RANGELEY LAKE VIEWS 100MTN. Proctor Rd –- AShadow a property on a great remote body of water.

Off grid w/generator, extremely private location, 3 beds, 2.5 baths, 596 feet of one of a kind property with 48.32 acres, Saddleback Mtn Views, year roundLake building, detached garage, fish, enjoyaddition all Rangeley Views, 6 beds,detached 6 baths,Ice5+ carhunt, garages, waterfront, attached garage, garage, potential 40 acres available for purchase! $1,495,000. seasons! $495,000. guest cottage. $775,000.

631 Bald Mtn. Road –Located MOOSELOOK LAKE – A commercial rare offering, PINE GROVE LANE the village with expansive RANGELEY LAKE – –2582 Mainclose St - to Wonderful 4southwest bed, 4.5on bath contemporary lakefront home detached views ofStreet Rangeley Lake, beds, 3.5w/beach, baths,Marina/ very close business Main w/ 105' on4 Rangeley Lake, garage AND private island w/2 bedroom cottage, to Saddleback Ski Area, andguest ATV from your 3.56 doorstep, Convenience Store, 25+snowmobile Slips, Gas, Shop, Downtown Commercial Zoning, High Traffic Location, $965,000.

Acres! $1,899,000. heated garage! $639,000.

This is a wonderful location with a town maintained gravel road, south facing exposure and water access within walking distance! Work from home with Fidium fiber optic high speed internet. Large deck overlooking Rangeley Lake with power awning a little- shade RANGELEY LAKE –Spring Lakeside Marina &AConvenience Wonderful 20 Vista Lane LAKE rarefor offering, the Buena SPRINGon LAKE –– 6RANGELEY Lake Rd full -–Escape to nature andhas a those sunny days!

This year round home business opportuinty in downtown commercial zoning, convenience Vista Estate on 567 feet of deep water frontage,53 private acres wonderful a agreat remote body of water. lotswaterfront of squareproperty footage on and great layout.

On the main store, 25level boatthere slips, gas, boat rental business, great waterfront Off grid w/generator, year round building, detached garage, w/south facing exposure, total privacy, development potential. is a primary bedroom and bath as well Ice fish, hunt, enjoyguest all seasons! $495,000. location! $965,000. $2,650,000. as two bedrooms, large living area with heater rated propane fireplace, wide open kitchen/dining area, laundry and large sunroom. The lower level offers a workshop, fully finished living area with built in bar and refrigerator, bedroom, half bath and walkout door. Great attached 2 car garage, added stone around foundation, large 10x16 shed and on demand full house generator to back up those power outages!

Property has been impeccably maintained by owner and the 600 feet of gated water access and BOAT SLIP are a wonderful addition. Enjoy all 4 seasons from this 277 Stephens Road –3MOOSELOOK LAKE-Springs, –4West facing PROCTOR ROAD –only Gorgeous overlooking Rangeley Lake RANGELEY LAKE VIEWS – 21VIEWS Pine Grove Beds, Baths, location, minutes to Mingo 53.5 minutes Sandy Beach frontage, 4 bed, 3 bath home w/attached 3 car and Ski Area, wonderful estate property located just FullySaddleback Furnished, SW facing views w/LOTS of sun, Snowmobile to downtown Rangeley and 15 minutes to Saddleback heated andSnowmobiling detached 3Detached car garage w/large bonus room!w/ outside the Rangeley village, 48.32 Acres,4 bed,4.5 bath home and ATVgarage from your doorstep, 32x32 garage Ski Area. from your doorstep isfully an heated, a mustbonus. see! $639,000. added Call Today! $849,000. $850,000. guest quarters. $1,495,000.

Rare opportunity to own at Goose Rocks, with water access and only a short stroll to the soft sands of Goose Rocks Beach.

Entering the home, you are greeted by a cozy family room featuring a propane stove, beam ceilings, and access to the private Kennebunkport, ME 04046 • 5 Beds, 3 Baths • MLS #1499123 backyard oasis. The first floor presents a formal living room with a propane fireplace, a small bedroom, and a dining area adjacent to the kitchen. Illuminated with natural light, the kitchen is equipped with a large granite eat-in island and sliding doors to the expansive back deck. Upstairs offers a quaint sitting nook, perfect for a home office or additional small bedroom, open to the primary bedroom with a bathroom. The attached 2-car garage includes a workshop area and second story, offering usable space for possible expansion and storage. Radiating with well-manicured perennial gardens, this property is surrounded by peaceful, private yard spaces perfect for entertaining after a long day at the beach. Relax and unwind on those chilly fall evenings by the fire pit, overlooking the tranquil creek accessed directly from the property. Enjoy kayaking and paddleboarding from your own home! Located in the highly desirable Goose Rocks Beach community, this residence boasts endless charm and character, within walking distance to one of the most beautiful, soughtafter beaches in Maine. Come take a look at all this property has to offer! MLS# 1573687 | $1,825,000

Little River Way | $1,950,000

New to the market in Kennebunkport, just under 2 miles to Goose Rocks Beach! Relax and unwind at this picture-perfect oasis.

Located at the end of a private road sits this modern farmhouse with beautiful tidal views of marshlands and open ocean. Features a 'post and beam' style, this exquisite property offers an open floor plan, ideal for family gatherings and endless entertaining.

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The Height of the Land

BY W R E N P E A R S O N

H

e thought his kindness could save me from myself, and it mostly did for ten years. Even when the Board of Nursing revoked my license for stealing medications, he kept on being kind as if nothing had happened. But when he couldn’t understand why I didn’t want his rifle in the house, I was done. It’s only my reenactment gun, he reasoned.

Surely it couldn’t be problematic.

We met in the army. I’d starved myself to make the weight limit, with two pounds to spare, after graduating from Freeport High School. No one in basic training discovered the bulimia. I felt powerful.

Three years later, I was working

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on Arabic translation at the Defense Language Institute; he was years older, finishing his hitch too. When he got a job offer in St. Louis, I went into nursing at Barnes, where everything finally went wrong. Now here I was, leaving during his monthly Civil War weekend. The hospital hadn’t pressed charges—just a stint in a treatment program. I walked it, then walked out.

There was little to pack: T-shirt from the 10k Race to Hell. Arabic tapes. Lip balm. Gumballs, candy, Diet Coke, and NoDoz. I kept talk radio on and candy on constant repeat, sucking all the sugar out until the flavor was gone, spitting the remains into a bag and grabbing the next Gobstopper, FireBall, or Hubba Bubba.

When I needed gas or the toilet, I’d deftly empty my stomach of any extraneous contents. I was used to traveling light, and the country peeled away behind me until I finally crossed the Piscataqua River Bridge.

Stars peppered the sky as I drove through Portland, cruising Valley Street where, before the army, I’d slept with a knife under my pillow and the door barricaded while nightly the handle turned and the deadbolt strained against the frame. I didn’t stop in Durham, where I’d grown up, where my sister died of cancer when we were young and my mother fled soon after, leaving the rest of us with my broken father. His new wife often locked me in my room, not letting me out until I’d picked up every grain of dirt from the carpet with tweezers shoved under the door. She would check my work with a magnifying glass.

I drove on through Auburn to Livermore; left turn to Peru; and across the Androscoggin to Mexico, where I found gas and food. Then up into the night until I came to the lookout at Height of Land.

Mooselookmeguntic Lake was dark, with only a slice of moon hanging above.

I fished out a bag of Humpty Dumpty chips and a bottle of Moxie and climbed onto the roof. Chip by chip, I ate the whole bag with sips of pop. The dark scent of pine and balsam urged me to breathe deep. I slept for 1,300 miles.

My eyes opened to boots and sunshine. I was face down, head dangling out the open car door from the back seat. Humpty grinned up at me through drying vomit.

“You need help?” the boots asked.

I found myself in mirrored sunglasses above. I’d looked worse. Sitting up, I saw five motorcycles in front of the car and people milling around.

“I’m good.”

He handed me a thermos cup of coffee, no milk. “You safe to drive?”

The coffee was strong and good.

“I drove non-stop from St. Louis yesterday. I just needed some sleep.” I handed back the thermos, smiling at my reflection in the sunglasses. “I’ll be OK.” I’m home now. n

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