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Remember Blade Runner? “I’ve seen things you people wouldn’t believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion...”

Well, for me, taking a boat below Perkins Cove Bridge competes with those images, especially when the trees are igniting. So does star-gazing off Gooch’s Beach in a boat. Because the sun sets earlier in September, the constellations rise earlier, the perfect backdrop for meteor shower light shows. “There! There! Did you see that?”

Portland does a movie-star turn on Baxter Boulevard with its bracelets of light. Ditto for Whitehead Passage, in so many H. B. Brown paintings.

Kayak on Highland Lake (where Westbrook touches Falmouth and Windham) and you'll experience silent travel, interrupted only by the honking of geese as they fly south in V-formations.

One September, I took my 13-foot Boston Whaler out to lonely Boon Island, fragrant with seaweed and salty sea. Tied up among the shelving waves.

Snuck into the 133-foot tower and climbed the spiral to the top. On various landings, I had to step around creepy, dead songbirds. There’s a world too far out for graffiti—other than the gulls’ canvas of splattered guano. Were they trying to tell me something?

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Alex Katz (1927-, Lincolnville) Good Afternoon [Detail], 72" x 96", oil on linen. Sold: Sotheby’s New York, May 16, $2,368,000.

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O B S E S S ION S Milton Avery, his wife Sally, and their daughter March summered at Pemaquid Point in Bristol in 1948.

During this time, Milton painted over 30 mixed-media artworks in a bound sketchbook now owned by the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. Several of Milton’s paintings have sold in the past decade that were inspired by or painted during his time Midcoast.

Woman on the Rocks and Bridge and Float both sold at Christie’s for $100,000 and $125,000, respectively.

Sally Michel Avery (1902-2003, Pemaquid Point) Pam and Sumi, 17.75" x 24", oil on board. Sold: Bonhams Skinner Marlborough, June 24, $24,320.

Milton Avery (1885-1965, Pemaquid Point) Window on the Bay, 48" x 32", oil on canvas. Sold: Christie’s New York, April 17, $289,800.

George Bellows (1882-1925, Monhegan Island) Dempsey and Firpo, 18" x 22", lithograph on Basingwerk Parchment paper. Sold: Christie’s New York, April 16, $81,900.

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Rockwell Kent (1882-1971, Monhegan Island) Alaskan Inlet, 28" x 34", oil on canvas.

Sold: Christie’s New York, April 17, $201,600.

Rockwell Kent Oarsmen, 5.4" x 7", wood engraving.

Sold: Swann Auction Galleries, April 15, $6,500.

Frank W. Benson (1862-1951, North Haven) Monadnock, 20" x 16", oil on canvas.

Sold: Christie’s New York, January 23, $30,240.

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Modern and Contemporary

Women Artists at Auction

Sascha Braunig (1983-, Portland) Blue Loomer, 32.25" x 24", oil on canvas over panel. Sold: Phillips New York, February 28, $12,700.

Katherine Bradford Yellow Stacks, Night, 18" x 23.75", monotype with watercolor on woven paper. Sold: Bonhams New York, April 1, $640.

Connie Hayes (1952-, Rockland) Leaning Blue Boy, 20" x 20", oil on canvas. Sold: Barridoff Galleries, March 29, $1,800.

Katherine Bradford (1942-, Brunswick) Adult Swim, Superman, 64" x 56", acrylic on canvas. Sold: Christie’s New York, May 15, $126,000.

Lois Dodd (1927-, Cushing) Moon + Treetop, 10" x 20", oil on masonite.

Sold: Freeman’s Hindman Chicago, May 13, $2,200.

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Lynne Mapp Drexler (1928-1999, Monhegan Island) Herbert’s Garden, 63.5" x 85.375", oil on canvas, Sold: Sotheby’s New York, May 15, $1,453,000.

Berenice Abbott (18981991, Blanchard) New York at Night, 22" x 18", gelatin silver print. Sold: Bertolami Fine Arts, April 11, $17,840.

Dahlov Ipcar (19172017, Brunswick) Silver Nyika, 16" x 19", lithograph. Sold: Barridoff Galleries, March 29, $1,000.

Childe Hassam (1859-1935, Isles of Shoals) View of Venice, 12.75" x 16", oil on canvas. Sold: Christie’s New York, January 23, $352,800.

Frances Kornbluth (1920-2014, Monhegan Island) Island Path No. 2, 17" x 13.6", watercolor and collage on paper. Sold: Barridoff Galleries, March 29, $600.

Georgia O’Keeffe (1887-1986, York) Leaves of a Plant, 40" x 39", oil on canvas. Sold: Sotheby’s New York, May 13, $12,972,500.

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Louise Nevelson (1900-1988, Rockland) Hudson River Series IV, 21.875" x 24.625" x 5", black painted wood in artist’s frame. Sold: Phillips New York, May 14, $120,650.

O B S E S S ION S

Yvonne Jacquette (1934-2023, Searsmont) Route One, Maine, 43" x 66", oil on canvas. Sold: Grogan & Company, May 10, $8,000.

Nicole Wittenberg (1979-, Camden) Sweet William, 60" x 48", oil on canvas. Sold: Christie’s Hong Kong, March 29, $32,391.

Peggy Bacon (1895-1987, The Kennebunks) Moving to 8th Street, 6" x 7.75", etching on paper. Sold: Thomaston Place Auction Galleries, June 27, $1,200.

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Rackstraw Downes (1939-, Morrill) Portland Water District Wastewater Treatment Plant, 10.25" x 44", oil on canvas. Sold: Shannon’s, May 8, $37,500.

Hunt Slonem (1951-, Kittery) Lost & Found, 30" x 40", oil on canvas. Sold: Rago Arts & Auction Center, May 21, $27,940.

Kenneth Noland (1924-2010, Port Clyde) Purkinje Effect, 70" x 70", acrylic on canvas. Sold: Christie’s New York, May 15, $1,502,000.

Neil Welliver (1929-2005, Lincolnville) Study for From Hope to Megunticook, 26” x 26”, oil on canvas. Sold: Stair Galleries, May 15, $21,000.

Walt Kuhn (1877-1949, Ogunquit) The Grenadier, 30" x 25", oil on canvas.

Sold: Christie’s New York, April 17, $119,700.

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John Marin (1870-1953, Addison) Boat with Sun, Deer Isle, Maine, 17" x 13.5" watercolor and gouache on paper. Sold: Christie’s New York, April 17, $176,400.

David Clyde Driskell (19312020, Falmouth) Icarus, 4.5" x 4.5", collage and mixed media on wove paper. Sold: Swann Auction Galleries, April 3, $2,000.

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Alex Katz (1927-, Lincolnville) Nevis (Study for Round Hill), 11.9" x 9", oil on board. Sold: Christie’s New York, February 27, $81,900.

Phil Barter (1939-2024, Boothbay) Fall Birches, 24.125” x 30”, oil on canvas. Sold: Barridoff Galleries, March 29, $3,000.

John Whorf (1903-1959, Rumford Falls) Bringing in the Catch, 30" x 40", oil on canvas. Sold: Shannon’s, May 8, $16,250.

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Walter Griffin (1861-1935, Portland) Pouldu-Finistre, 13"x 16", oil on board. Sold: Doyle New York, February 26, $4,160.

Abbott F. Graves (1859-1936, Kennebunkport) Resting on the Porch, 30" x 24", oil on canvas. Sold: Shannon’s, May 8, $12,500.

John Calvin Stevens (1855-1940, Portland) The Headland, 17" x 21.25", oil on canvas. Sold: Barridoff Galleries, March 29, $3,500.

Will Barnet (1911-2012, Midcoast) The Green Parrott, 26.25" x 20.25", oil on canvas. Sold: Bonhams Skinner Marlborough, June 24, $95,750.

Ben Shahn (1898-1969, Skowhegan) The Chateau, 26" x 20", tempera on board. Sold: Doyle New York, April 16, $8,320.

Leon Kroll (1884-1974, Monhegan Island) Untitled, 18" x 25", oil on canvas board. Sold: Swann Auction Galleries, January 30, $1,900.

Fairfield Porter (1907-1975, Great Spruce Head Island) South Meadow, Afternoon, 24" x 28", oil on masonite. Sold: Christie’s New York, April 17, $189,000.

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Henriette Wyeth Hurd (1907-1997, Port Clyde) Portrait of Madelyn S. Boudreau, 40" x 36", oil on canvas.

Sold: Heritage Auctions Dallas, April 4, $4,000.

Andrew Wyeth (1917-2009, Allen Island) Circus Day, 30" x 22", watercolor, gouache, and graphite on paper. Sold: Christie’s New York, May 15, $730,800.

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Harrison Bird Brown (1831-1915, Portland) Landscape with Stone Mill, 29" x 36", oil on canvas. Sold: Casco Bay Auctions, March 8, $543.

Charles H. Woodbury (1864-1940, Ogunquit) Our Group, 22.5" x 43.5", oil on canvas. Sold: Barridoff Galleries, March 29, $22,000.

Charlie Hewitt (1946-, Brunswick) Red Swing, 38" x 45", mixed media.

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William Zorach (1889-1966, Bath) Two Hands Clasping, 8" x 3.5", bronze sculpture.

Sold: Tom Hall Auctions, January 21, $70.

William Zorach Bay Point, Maine, 33" x 39", watercolor on paper. Sold: Stair Galleries, January 30, $4,750.

Harvey Peterson (c.1950-, Belfast) Penobscot Man, 40” x 12” x 7”, carved and painted wood. Sold: Thomaston Place Auction Galleries, August 28, 2022, $2,200.

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Jonathan Borofsky (1942-, Ogunquit) Man with a Briefcase (A), 91.75" x 37.5", woodcut in colors on handmade paper. Sold: Los Angeles Modern Auctions, May 13, $10,795.

Robert Indiana (1928-2018, Vinalhaven) LOVE (Red Faces Blue Sides), 36" x 36" x 18", polychrome aluminum. Sold: Christie’s New York, May 15, $529,200.

Alan Magee (1947-, Cushing) Still Life, 16" x 22", acrylic and oil on panel. Sold: Ahlers & Ogletree Auction Gallery, June 26, $6,000.

Rufus Porter (1792-1884, Bridgton) Untitled, 2.75" x 3", watercolor and gouache on paper. Sold: Bonhams Skinner Marlborough, February 1, $3,584.

Yasuo Kuniyoshi (18891953, Ogunquit) Lying Nude, 21.9" x 14", ink on paper.

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Richard Estes (1932-, Mount Desert Island) East River, 43" x 74", oil on canvas.

Sold: Christie’s New York, February 27, $693,000.

Winslow Homer (1836-1910, Prout’s Neck) Boy and Girl at a Well, 7.75" x 11.25", watercolor, gouache, and pencil on paper. Sold: Christie’s New York, January 23, $113,400.

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It’s our third day on the Pemaquid Peninsula. The tide is out, exposing banded folds of gneiss covered in bladderwrack. In and among these rock crevices, beneath the clinging seaweed, the destructive green crab thrives.

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In Portland, Mr. Tuna’s owner Jordan Rubin dares to dream. “We took four to five green crabs, smashed them up, and cooked them with aromatics until the stock was really strong. Then we added silken tofu in little squares. On top of that, we put some Maine scallops, folded in some lemon zest and sea salt, dusted the dish with seaweed powder, and sprinkled it with shiso leaves. It was super refreshing; you can really taste the crab.

“Green crabs might have meat, but it’s not worth the time or effort to get it out. Most of the flavor comes from the body. Their size forces you to use the whole crab, so you can really extract the taste.”

In Biddeford, Fish & Whistle owner Jason Eckerson says, “It all starts with a green crab stock. We caramelize the meat, add aromatics, wine, garlic. For the poutine, we use the stock to make a gravy, which goes over crab meat, cheese curds, and fries.”

In Bar Harbor, Peekytoe Provisions embraces the unusual: “Our dish is local, Hollander and DeKoning mussels sautéed in a green crab cream sauce. It’s delicious!”

For more green crab delights, scuttle directly to Solo Italiano, The Honey Paw, and Chaval in Portland; ZaoZe Cafe & Market, Brunswick; Albatross, Camden; Maine Tasting Center, Wiscasset; and Mother’s Kitchen, Bar Harbor.

O U T THE R E 1800s from northern Europe, likely brought over in the ballast of ships.

Highly prolific and adaptable, green crabs can now be found from South Carolina to Newfoundland, and in the Pacific from California up to Southern Alaska.

“They are known as one of the world’s worst invasive species,” says John Painter of Maine Green Crabs, a small commercial fishing outfit working the waters of the Weskeag River in Knox County. “They dig up the eelgrass...they are extremely effective at really decimating native soft shell clam populations, as well as mussel populations, and really any shellfish that’s at the right stage of development.”

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“The spoon! Pass me the spoon!” I call out as a big male scuttles back into a nook. We’ve discovered that a plastic utensil makes for a good extractor, and with a little pressure on top of the carapace, I coax the crab out from hiding and into my careful grasp.

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Back home with our catch, we expand our seafood horizons, preparing a green crab pozole with a side of fried green crab halves. For the pozole we make a stock with about two-dozen crabs of all sizes, celery, onion, and spices. Then we strain the liquid and add to it hominy, cabbage, radish and cilantro. The fried crabs require cutting silver-dollar-sized crabs in half, removing the carapace, apron, and gills, and battering and frying in oil. Both dishes turn out delicious,

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My hands are roughed up from the rocks, and the sink is full of crab shells.

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We specialize in locally sourced seafood and fresh Maine lobster. Closed for the season, we’ll reopen in March. Contact us at info@josephsbythesea.com or call 207934-5044 for more info.

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ARTtober Fall Sidewalk Art Festival, Harlow St., Downtown Bangor. Maine artists, live demos, performances, & family activities, Oct. 4. downtownbangor.com.

Camden Public Library, Harbor Park & Amphitheatre, 55 Main St. Harbor Fall Arts & Books Fair, Oct. 4–5.

236-3440.

Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens, 105 Botanical Gardens Dr., Boothbay. Fall Foliage in Blazing Color, Sept. 22; Pumpkins & Gourds in Graphite, Sept. 23; Pumpkins & Gourds in Color, Sept. 24; Dahlia Details in Graphite, Sept. 25; Dahlia Details in Color, Sept. 26; Finding Wonder: Nature Journaling & Field Sketching, Oct. 4; Architecture & Botanicals in the Fall Gardens, Oct. 6–8. 633-8000.

Fete Market, 1 Canal Plaza. Fall Fete Market, Oct. 18. fetemarket.com.

Freeport Fall Festival, L.L. Bean, 95 Main St. Over 225 of the best New England artists, makers, & local food producers, with live music, Oct. 3–5. freeportfallfestival.com.

Harvestfest & Kidsfest, Short Sands Beach, York Beach. Family friendly event including juried crafters & Old-Fashioned Market vendors from all over New England, local food vendors, kids activities, & live music, Oct. 18. 363-4422.

Island Arts Association, Main St., Southwest Harbor.

2025 Southwest Harbor Fall Craft Fair, Sept. 13–14. islandartsassociation.com/upcoming-fairs.

Maine Art Gallery, 15 Warren St., Wiscasset. Captur-

ing the Light: Layering Color Class, Oct. 6. 687-8143.

Kennedy, Sept. 20; Rock Hearts, Oct. 18. 564-8943.

Rockland Sunday Stroll, Main St. Come for performances, activities, and enjoy the expanded space of downtown as Main Street is closed to motorized traffic and open to pedestrians, vendors, artists, performers, and more, Sept. 21 & Oct. 19. rocklandrolls.org.

Chocolate Church Arts Center, 804 Washington St., Bath. Chris Smither, Sept. 12; The Ultimate Doors, Sept. 18; Myrtle Street Klezmer, Sept. 19; Donna the Buffalo, Sept.

27; Crystal Vision, Oct. 4; Martha Spencer & Wonderland, Oct. 9; An Evening with Elton, Oct. 11; Nora Brown, Oct. 17; Schooner Fare, Oct. 19. 442-8455.

York Art Association, Moulton Park, 394 York St., York Harbor. Art in the Park, Sept. 13. 363-4049.

Music

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

Livingston Taylor, Sept. 13; Steve Earle, Oct. 11. 2280829.

Aura, 121 Center St. Between the Buried and Me & Hail the Sun, Sept. 20; Buena Vista Orchestra, Sept. 27; Kashmir, Oct. 3; Marianas Trench, Oct. 4; Jukebox the Ghost, Oct. 9; Hairball, Oct. 12; King’s X, Oct. 18. 772-8274.

Blue, 650A Congress St. Karaoke Party, Sept. 18; High Tea, Joanne The Band, & Milk St., Oct. 4. Open Mic, every Tues.; Jazz Sesh, every Wed. 774-4111.

Cadenza, 5 Depot St., Freeport. Pat Colwell & The Soul Sensations, Sept. 13; Bailey’s Mistake, Sept. 14; You, Me, & Harry, Sept. 19; Peter Gallway & The Real Band, Sept. 20; Darlin’ Corey, Sept. 26; The Blueliners, Sept.

27; It Takes Two, Oct. 3; Southside Blues, Oct. 4; Sarah McQuaid, Oct. 5; The Potboilers, Oct. 9; Gordon Thomas Ward, Oct. 10. 560-5300.

Camden Opera House, 29 Elm St. Chris Ross, Sept.

17; James Montgomery, Sept. 27; Sweet Baby James, Oct. 3. 236-7963.

Center Theatre, 20 E. Main St., Dover-Foxcroft. Joan

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

Diderot String Quartet, Sept. 21; Nick Finzer Quartet, Oct. 2; Laurel Canyon, Oct. 11; Rend Collective, Oct. 18; Symphonic Band & Jazz Ensemble, Oct. 19. 581-1755.

Cross Insurance Arena, 1 Civic Center Sq. Lee Brice, Oct. 18. 791-2200.

Denmark Arts Center, 50 W. Main St. Davy Sturtevant, Sept. 12; Barry Me A Little, Sept. 19; The Radio Outlaws, Oct. 11. 452-2412.

Friends of the Kotzschmar Organ, Merrill Auditorium, 20 Myrtle St. Sound Waves, Sept. 20. 842-0800.

Hackmatack Playhouse, 538 School St., Berwick.

Soggy Po’ Boys, Sept. 14; Sundays at the Farm: Dan Blakeslee & the Calabash Club (Sept. 14) & Old Hat String Band (Sept. 21). 698-1807.

The Hill Arts, 76 Congress St. Denny Breau, Sept. 12; Mike Maurice, Sept. 13; The Kingston Trio, Sept. 27.

347-7177.

Jonathan’s Ogunquit, 92 Bourne Ln. Tristan McIntosh, Sept. 12; Tom Snow Quartet, Sept. 13; Patty Larkin & Lucy Kaplansky, Sept. 19; Kate Taylor, Sept. 20; Deep Blue C Orchestra, Sept. 21; Ellis Paul, Sept. 26; Ana Popovic, Sept. 27; Tom DiMenna, Sept. 28; Coco Montoya, Oct. 2; Judith Hill, Oct. 3; Johnny Cash Tribute Show, Oct. 10;

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Suede with Fred Boyle, Oct. 11. 646-4777.

Kittery Art Association, 2 Walker St. The Seasmoke Trio, Oct. 11. 451-9384.

Maine Savings Amphitheater, 1 Railroad St., Bangor. Papa Roach & Rise Against, Sept. 20; Twenty One Pilots, Oct. 1. 358-9327.

538 Congress St. Ganavya with Miriam Adefris, Sept. 28.

320-0257.

Portland Conservatory of Music, 28 Neal St. Scott Amendola, Trevor Dunn, & Phillip Greenlief, Sept.

19; Resinosa Ensemble, Sept. 27; Jeremy Denk, Oct. 3; Duo Mundi: George & Guli, Oct. 10; Jamie Saft, Oct. 11.

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Sept. 12; Improvement Movement, Sept. 13; Night Moves & Rachel Bobbitt, Sept. 16; Zinadelphia, Sept. 18; Mallrat, Sept. 22; Yaima, Sept. 27; The Casualties, Sept. 30; Ethan Regan, Oct. 3; Monophonics, Oct. 11; White Reaper, Oct. 14; End It. 805-0134.

Portland Symphony Orchestra, Merrill Auditorium, 20 Myrtle St. Tchaikovsky & Brahms with Randall Goosby, Oct. 15–17. 842-0800.

South Portland Auditorium, 637 Highland Ave. Classic Rock, Sept. 13. 842-0800.

Maine State Music Theater, Donald M. Gay Performing Arts Center, 77 Harris St., Auburn. Victor Trevino Jr., Sept. 20–21; Buddy Holly Rave On, Oct. 4–5.

725-8769.

State Theatre, 609 Congress St. Maddie & Tae, Sept.

13; Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Sept. 14; Big Wild, Sept. 15; The Wallflowers, Sept. 17; The Revivalist, Sept.

21; Stereolab, Sept. 27; The 502s, Sept. 28; Amy Grant, Oct. 3; The California Honeydrops, Oct. 4; Toad the Wet Sprocket, Oct. 6; Pink Martini, Oct. 7; Violent Femmes, Oct. 8; The Tallest Man on Earth, Oct. 10; Gary Numan, Oct. 12; My Morning Jacket, Oct. 14. 956-6000.

Merrill Auditorium, 20 Myrtle St. Dead Set, Sept. 14; David Byrne, Oct. 8; Air Supply, Oct. 17. 842-0800.

Mystic Theater, 49 Franklin St., Rumford. Hilary Hawke Trio, Sept. 25. 369-0129.

One Longfellow Square, 181 State St. James Montgomery, Sept. 12; Wheatus, Sept. 13; Portland Jazz Orchestra, Sept. 18 & Oct. 16; Alana MacDonald, Sept.

19; Luke Bulla & Michael Daves, Sept. 27; Open Mic Night, Oct. 1; The Cactus Blossoms, Oct. 3; John Gorka, Oct. 9; Joe K. Walsh & Friends, Oct. 10; Feng E, Oct. 11; Ariel Posen & Wendlo, Oct. 12. 761-1757.

Stone Mountain Arts Center, 695 Dugway Rd., Brownfield. Alejandro Escovedo, Sept. 12; Le Vent du Nord, Sept. 13; Judith Owen & The Callers, Sept. 20; Brothers Comatose, Sept. 21; Shemekia Copeland, Sept.

26; Kathy Mattea, Sept. 28; Suzy Bogguss, Oct. 3; Darrell Scott, Oct. 4; Tannahill Weavers, Oct. 10; Blues Band GA-20, Oct. 17; Ruthie Foster, Oct. 11; Shawn Mullins, Oct. 12. 935-7292.

​​ Opera House at Boothbay Harbor, 86 Townsend Ave. Novel Jazz Septet, Sept. 12; Crys Matthews, Sept.

20; Kathy Mattea, Sept. 27; Paul Sullivan, Oct. 10; Jay Nash, Oct. 18. 633-5159.

775-3356.

Stonington Opera House, 1 School St. Along For The Ride, Sept. 13. 367-2788.

Portland Chamber Music Festival, SPACE Gallery,

Portland House of Music, 25 Temple St. Emily King,

Strand Theatre, 345 Main St., Rockland. Ruthie Foster,

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Bob Marley, Oct. 4; Whose Live Anyway?, Oct. 6. 5811755.

Good Theater, Stevens Square Theater, 631 Stevens Ave. It Shoulda Been You, Oct. 2–19. 835-0895.

Oct. 12. 594-0070.

The Hill Arts, 76 Congress St. TJ (Tanael Joachim), Oct. 4. 347-7177.

Gracie Theatre, 1 College Cir., Bangor. Las Vegas: Sister Rolls the Dice, Sept. 27. 941-7888.

Merrill Auditorium, 20 Myrtle St. Kevin James, Sept.

26; Fortune Feimster, Oct. 10; Wanda Sykes, Oct. 11.

842-0800.

Grand Theater, 165 Main St., Ellsworth. Grease, Oct. 10–26. 667-9500.

Unitarian Universalist Church of Brunswick, 1 Middle St. Don Campbell Band, Sept. 20; Soggy Po Boys, Oct. 18. 729-8515.

University of Southern Maine, Crewe Center for the Arts, 111 Bedford St. Inaugural President’s Concert, Oct. 3; Ocean Breezes, Oct. 10; Laura Kargul & the Portland String Quartet, Oct. 17. 780-5555.

Vinegar Hill Music Theatre, 53 Old Post Rd., Arundel. Tom Rush, Sept. 12; YellowHouse Blues Band, Sept.

13; Jul’ia, Sept. 14; Rose Alley, Sept. 25; Live Bullet, Sept.

26–27; Imagine, Oct. 3; Sweet Baby James, Oct. 4; Coyote Island, Oct. 17; The Mammals, Oct. 18. 985-5552.

Waldo Theatre, 916 Main St., Waldoboro. The Kingston Trio, Sept. 26; Julian Lage, Oct. 19; Both Sides Now, Oct. 19. 975-6490.

Waterville Opera House, 1 Common St. Start Making Sense, Sept. 12; Shaun Cassidy, Sept. 17; Casey Abrams & Friends, Sept. 21; Shemekia Copeland, Sept.

27; Oteil & Friends, Oct. 1; The Robert Cray Band, Oct. 3; Voyage, Oct. 9. 873-7000.

WW&F Railway, 97 Cross Rd., Alna. Music on the Railway: Songwriters in the Round, Sept. 14. 882-4193.

Portland Media Center, 516 Congress St. Yes&Co. Improv Comedy with Talia Turner, Sept. 13. 842-0800.

State Theatre, 609 Congress St. Nurse Blake, Sept. 18; Chris Fleming, Oct. 9. 956-6000.

Stone Mountain Arts Center, 695 Dugway Rd., Brownfield. Bob Marley, Oct. 9. 935-7292.

Waterville Opera House, 1 Common St. Bob Marley, Oct. 11. 873-7000.

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

Lakewood Theater, 76 Theater Rd., Madison. Man or Mouse, Sept. 11–20. 474-7176.

Lyric Music Theater, 176 Sawyer St., South Portland.

Next to Normal, to Sept. 21. 799-1421.

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

Really, to Sept. 28; The Squirrels, Oct. 30–Nov. 23.

747-4148.

Maine Film Center, 93 Main St., Waterville. National Theatre Live: Inter Alia, Sept. 27. 873-7000.

Theater

Belfast Maskers, 17 Court St. One Blue Tarp, Oct. 3–12. 619-3256.

Carousel Music Theater, 196 Townsend Ave., Boothbay Harbor. Murder… It’s No Day at the Beach, to Sept.

20. 633-5297.

Celebration Barn Theater, 190 Stock Farm Rd., South Paris. Broken Clock, Sept. 12. 743-8452.

Collins Center for the Arts, 2 Flagstaff Rd., Orono. NT Live: A Streetcar Named Desire, Sept. 13. 581-1755.

Comedy

Hackmatack Playhouse, 538 School St., Berwick.

Once, to Sept. 20. 698-1807.

Denmark Arts Center, 50 W. Main St. Scintillating Shorts 2025, Oct. 4. 452-2412.

Ogunquit Playhouse, 10 Main St. When Elvis Met the Beatles, to Sept. 27; Titanic The Musical, Oct. 2–Nov. 2.

646-5511.

Penobscot Theatre Company, Bangor Opera House, 131 Main St. Steel Magnolias, to Sept. 28; The Turn of the Screw, Oct. 16–Nov. 2. 942-3333.

Portland Players Theater, 420 Cottage Rd., South Portland. Anything Goes, Sept. 12–28. 799-7337.

Portland Stage, 25A Forest Ave. Eleanor, Sept. 24– Oct. 19. 774-0465.

Public Theatre, 31 Maple St., Lewiston. The Irish… And

Gertrude Abercrombie: The Whole World Is a Mystery Demolition Doors, 1964. Oil on Masonite.

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MAINE LIVE How They Got That Way, to Sept. 14. 782-3200.

tional Film Festival, Sept. 11–14. 236-7963.

Saco River Theatre, 29 Salmon Falls Rd., Buxton. The Originals present: The 39 Steps, Oct. 17–26. 929-6473.

Center Theatre, 20 E. Main St., Dover-Foxcroft.

Capote, Oct. 29. 564-8943.

Theater at Monmouth, Cumston Hall, 796 Main St. The Rewards of Being Frank, Sept. 18–28; Macbeth, Oct. 17–18. 933-9999.

The Hill Arts, 76 Congress St. Maine Jewish Film Festival: Sabbath Queen (Sept. 28) & Brother Versus Brother (Oct. 30). 347-7177.

University of Southern Maine, Crewe Center for the Arts, 111 Bedford St. Curtain Up!, Oct. 31–Nov. 2.

780-5555.

Maine Film Center, 93 Main St., Waterville. Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale, Sept. 12; Fireflies: Babe, Sept.

13–14. 873-7000.

Waterville Opera House, 1 Common St. Wabanaki Stories, Sept. 19; School Show: Wizard of Oz, Oct. 14; School Show: Macbeth, Oct. 14. 873-7000.

Merrill Auditorium, 20 Myrtle St. The Princess Bride: An Inconceivable Evening with Cary Elwes, Sept. 12.

842-0800.

Film

Portland Museum of Art, 7 Congress Sq. Summer of ‘75: Barry Lyndon (1975), Sept. 20; Sandblaster!: Tremors (1990), Sept. 23. 775-6148.

Camden Opera House, 29 Elm St. Camden Interna-

Stonington Opera House, 1 School St. Building

Hope: Ending Homelessness, Sept. 16; Manhattan Short Film Festival, Sept. 26; Sludge: A PFAS Uprising, Sept. 28. 367-2788.

Stone Mountain Arts Center, 695 Dugway Rd., Brownfield. Breaking Silence, Sept. 25. 935-7292.

Waldo Theatre, 916 Main St., Waldoboro. Maine Outdoor Film Festival Selects Tour, Sept. 19; Maine Artist Film Series: Thirteen Ways, Sept. 25. 975-6490.

Literary

Maine Irish Heritage Center, 34 Gray St. Maine Irish reads: A Thread of Violence by Mark O’Connell (Oct. 9).

780-0118.

Maine Jewish Museum, 267 Congress St. Lowry’s Lodge Reading Series with Marcia F. Brown, Sept. 14; MJM & Hadassah & Rimon Book Group, Sept. 28; Book Talk: My Holocaust Legacy: A Blessing Not a Burden, Oct. 19. 773-2339.

Print: A Bookstore, 273 Congress St. Jason Brown (Character Witness), Sept. 12; Beth Norcross (Discovering the Spiritual Wisdom of Trees), Sept. 15; Mariah Rigg (Extinction Capital of the World), Sept. 17; Samantha Browning Shea (Marrow), Sept. 18; Nina B. Lichtenstein

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Print: A Bookstore, Mechanics’ Hall, 519 Congress St. Lily King (Heart the Lover), Sept. 30. 536-4778.

Vinegar Hill Music Theatre, 53 Old Post Rd., Arundel. Adam Higginbotham, Oct. 9. 985-5552.

Dance

Belfast Flying Shoes, Arts in the Barn, 17 Hathorne Point Rd., Cushing. Barn Dance, Sept. 13. 338-0979.

Belfast Flying Shoes, First Church in Belfast UCC Fellowship Hall, 8 Court St., Belfast. First Friday Dance, Oct. 3. 338-0979.

Blue, 650A Congress St. Salsa Nite, Sept. 26 & Oct. 24. 774-4111.

Get away, unplug and relax

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

Grand Kyiv Ballet: Swan Lake, Oct. 15. 581-1755.

Denmark Arts Center, 50 W. Main St. Red Hot & Ladylike Burlesque, Oct. 18. 452-2412.

Hackmatack Playhouse, 538 School St., Berwick.

Sunday Contra Dance, Oct. 5. 698-1807.

The Hill Arts, 76 Congress St. Boston Dance Theater: Pinnacle Works, Sept. 19–20. 347-7177.

Maine State Ballet, Lopez Theater, 348 U.S. Route One, Falmouth. The Magic Toy Shop, Oct. 11–18. 781-3587.

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Waterville Opera House, 1 Common St. A Taste of Ireland, Sept. 15; iLumiate, Oct. 2. 873-7000.

Art

Barn Gallery, 3 Hartwig Ln., Ogunquit. Fall Exhibitions, Sept. 10–Oct. 13; Gala Reception for Fall Exhibitions, Sept. 13; Gallery Talk with Charles Cramer & Roland Salazar Rose, Sept. 18; Art Hope: Origami Cranes Workshop, Oct. 5. 646-8400.

Bates College Museum of Art, 75 Russell St., Lewiston. Ralph Steadman: And Another Thing, to Oct. 11.

786-6158.

Blue, 650A Congress St. Portland Drawing Group, Sept.

15 & Oct. 20. 774-4111.

Bowdoin College Museum of Art, 245 Maine St., Brunswick. Rudy Burckhardt: Three Maine Films, to Nov. 9; John McKee: As Maine Goes, to Nov. 9; Gordon Parks: Herklas Brown and Maine, 1944, to Nov. 9. 725-3275.

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Brick Store Museum, 117 Main St., Kennebunk. Art of BRICK: Lego Buildings Installation, to Nov. 9; Ocean World: Perspectives of the Sea, to Dec. 20; The Art of Brick: Lego Art by Colby Adolphsen, to Dec. 20. 9854802.

Caldbeck Gallery, 12 Elm St., Rockland. Wild Thing, to Oct. 18. 594-5935.

Castine Historical Society, 17 School St. A History of Castine in 40 Objects, to Oct. 13. 326-4118.

Center for Maine Contemporary Art, 21 Winter

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701-5005.

Sept. 20; Vanish, to Oct. 11; Wishful Thinking, to Oct. 18; Airplane Mode, to Oct. 18. 808-8911.

Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens, 105 Botanical Gardens Dr., Boothbay. Decoupaged Pumpkins, Oct. 18.

633-8000.

Denmark Arts Center, 50 W. Main St. Sip N’ Clay Workshop Series, Oct. 7, 14, 21, & 28. 452-2412.

Colby College Museum of Art, 5600 Mayflower Hill Dr., Waterville. Love Your Langlais: A Community Curates, to Oct. 20. 859-5600.

Cove Street Arts, 71 Cove St. Interdimensional, to

Farnsworth Art Museum, 16 Museum St., Rockland. Anne Buckwalter: Manors | Momentum 2025, to Sept. 21; Home Places: Andrew Wyeth in Chadds Ford, to Oct. 19; Finding Maine: The Wyeth Family of Artists, to Dec. 31. 596-6457.

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Greenhut Galleries, 146 Middle St. Joel Babb, to Sept. 27; Kathi Smith, Oct. 2–Nov. 1. 772-2693.

Kittery Art Association, 2 Walker St. Au Naturel: Still Life & The Nude, Sept. 18–Oct. 19; More Than Words, Oct. 23–Nov. 16. 451-9384.

Maine Art Gallery, 15 Warren St., Wiscasset. Made in Maine: Annual Members Show, to Oct. 18. 687-8143.

Maine Historical Society, 489 Congress St. Notorious: Maine Crime in the Public Eye, 1690–1940, to Dec. 31; Lapsed Time: Portland in the 1980s, to Dec. 31;

Maine Maritime Museum, 243 Washington St., Bath.

The Art of Science: Illustrating Fishes with Karen Talbot, Sept. 20; Upta Camp, to Oct. 19. 443-1316.

University of New England Art Galleries, UNE Art Gallery, 716 Stevens Ave. Signs and Symbols, Sept.

25–Feb. 8, 2026. 602-3000.

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

University of New England Art Galleries, Jack S. Ketchum Library, 11 Hills Beach Rd., Biddeford. Piece of My Heart: A Laboratory, to Oct. 26. 602-3000.

Meetinghouse Arts, 40 Main St., Freeport. Perceptions: Abstraction, Sept. 12–Oct. 18; From Waste to Wonder: Reclaimed Art & Design, Oct. 24–Nov. 1.

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Ogunquit Museum of American Art, 543 Shore Rd. Henry Strater’s Ogunquit, to Nov. 16; Where the Real Lies, to Nov. 16; Gisela McDaniel, to Nov. 16. 646-4909.

Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum, 10 Polar Loop, Brunswick. Printed Textiles from Kinngait Studios, to Oct. 26; At Home In the North, to Jun. 1, 2026. 725-3416.

Portland Museum of Art, 7 Congress Sq. Grace Hartigan: The Gift of Attention, Oct. 10–Jan. 11, 2026.

775-6148.

Portsmouth Historical Society, 10 Middle St., Portsmouth, NH. Contemporary Currents, to Oct. 13; Cabot Lyford: Winds of Change, to Nov. 2. (603)436-8433.

Courtesy of Colby Adolphson/Brick Store Museum Stitches: Quilt Handwork, to Dec. 31. 774-1822.

Maine Jewish Museum, 267 Congress St. Jeane Cohen: Mesmer’s Garden, Sept. 11–Oct. 30; Katy Helman: Off Island, Sept. 11–Oct. 30; We Share the Same Sky: Friendship During War, Sept. 11–Oct. 30. 773-2339.

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

Explorations, to Sept. 29; Scenes of Maine, Oct. 1–31.

712-1097.

River Arts, 36 Elm St, Damariscotta. Abstract, to Sept.

27; Artist’s Choice, Oct. 4–Nov. 15. 563-6868.

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

Dark the Night and Bright the Stars, to Oct. 12. 873-7000.

Acadia’s Oktoberfest & Food Festival, 20 Main St., Southwest Harbor. Maine-based brewfest, locally sourced food, and crafts, Oct. 10–11. acadiaoktoberfest.com.

Belfast Flying Shoes, Searsmont Town Library, 37 Main St. Community Dance & Potluck, Sept. 27. 3380979.

Brick Store Museum, 117 Main St., Kennebunk. Evening at the Wedding Cake House, Sept. 21. 985-4802.

Denmark Arts Center, 50 W. Main St. FallFest Auction & Dinner, Sept. 27. 452-2412.

Maine Cheese Festival, Manson Park, Pittsfield. Great cheese, live music, food trucks, and the Annual Maine Cheese Awards, Sept. 14. 370-7176.

Maine Lakes Brew Fest, HAM Complex, 40 Brag Way, Bridgton. The area’s largest annual sampling event features Maine-made beers, micro-brews, & wine; with food, live music, & Artisans Craft Show, Sept. 27. gblrcc. org/brewfest.

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Pints on the Pier, Sept. 13. 443-1316.

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Indian Homestyle Cooking Journey, Sept. 18 & Oct. 2; Chinese Mooncakes with a Maine Twist, Sept. 21; From Grain to Plate: Mastering Handmade Pasta with Maine Ingredients, Sept. 21; Beyond the Buzz: Maine’s NA Beer Revolution, Sept. 24; Maine Needham Festival, Sept. 27; Dungeons & Drafts: A Second Round, Oct. 4; Sustainable Supper with Edible Insects, Oct. 11; Chinese Dumplings with a Maine Twist, Oct. 12; Deep Dive into Chinese Hot Pot, Oct. 12; All About Aronia Berries, Oct. 15. 558-5772.

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Common Ground Country Fair, 294 Crosby Brook Rd., Unity. Celebrate the organic and rural version of the good life and learn new things about farming. Agricultural demonstrations plus produce & crafts vendors, food, & music, Sept. 19–21. 568-4142.

Cumberland County Fair, Cumberland Fairgrounds, 197 Blanchard Rd. All-American Rodeo, exhibition halls, animal shows, midway, livestock, animal pulls, demolition derby, & harness racing, Sept. 21–27. 829-5531.

Damariscotta Pumpkinfest & Regatta, downtown Damariscotta. Pumpkin-boat regatta & derby, pumpkin catapulting, giant pumpkin art, pumpkin-pie eating, & parade, Oct. 10–13. 380-3160.

Eliot Festival Day, Hammond Park & Eliot Elementary School, 1298 State Rd. Community event featuring a 5K road race, Donut & Pie Eatin’ Contests, live music, food, parade, colonial reenactment, & more, Sept. 27. eliotfestival.com.

Farmington Fair, 292 High St. Large midway, exhibit halls, livestock exhibits, animal pulling events, and harness racing, Sept. 14–20. 778-6083.

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Fryeburg Fair, 1154 Main St. Features livestock, agriculture, & farming exhibits, live entertainment, skillet & anvil throw, Woodsmen’s Field day, midway, & food, Sept.

27–Oct. 5. 935-3268.

League of Maine Craft Show, Wells Junior High School, 1470 Post Rd. Featuring Maine & New England artists and craftsmen. With aisles filled with creativity including jewelry, pottery, soaps, clothing, woodcrafts, and much more, Oct. 11–12. 967-2251.

Serving Southern Maine & the Midcoast You turned my overgrown New England Craft Fairs, Augusta Armory, 179 for 43 years! perennial “wetland” Western Ave. 41st Annual Harvest Festival Arts & Craft

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New Portland Lions Fair, 280 School St. Demolition beautiful, serene yard that derby, truck & tractor pulls, cornhole, & on-site camping, I thoroughly enjoy. TheSept. 11–14. 628-3171.

OgunquitFest, downtown Ogunquit. Join us for stonework and beautifully signature events including the Classic Car Show, a huge placed gardens make my artisan craft fair with 60+ vendors, live music, Dogtoberfest costume parade, kids events, & more!, Oct. 24–26. yards look like a gorgeous ogunquit.org/ogunquitfest. little park. Thank you for Old Orchard Beach Car Show, 11 First St. One of New England’s largest car shows highlighting cars in everything, Jack! many different categories & classes. Friday Night Show— Cynthia Densmore case & live music, Sept. 12–13. 934-2500.

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Maine St., Brunswick. 9th Annual Guild Fine Craft Show: Brunswick, Oct. 25–26. 205-0791.

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Aura, 121 Center St. WeTouchGrass: Anime Rave, Oct. 31. 772-8274.

Brick Store Museum, 117 Main St., Kennebunk. All Souls’ Walk, Oct. 25. 985-4802.

Castine Historical Society, 17 School St. Explore the Castine Town Cemetery, Oct. 18–19. 326-4118.

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Center Theatre, 20 E. Main St., Dover-Foxcroft. Magic Wes Wonder, Oct. 4. 564-8943.

A traditional agricultural fair with dairy, beef, sheep, poultry exhibits, horse & ox pulling, harness racing, & a great exhibition hall with fancy work & grange exhibits. A midway with a variety of rides & games.

Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens, 105 Botanical Gardens Dr., Boothbay. Forest Therapy Walk & Tea: Late Summer, Sept. 20; Invasive Plants: Identification, Issues, & Ecology, Sept. 23; Plant Migration in a Changing Climate Conference, Oct. 3–4; Visible Mending: The Value of Repair, Oct. 5; Dahlias: Digging, Dividing, Storing, & Propagating, Oct. 11. 633-8000.

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Cross Insurance Arena, 1 Civic Center Sq. Portland Bulls N’ Broncos, Sept. 20. 791-2200.

Denmark Arts Center, 50 W. Main St. Family Fun Days: Halloween, Oct. 31. 452-2412.

GAHS Golden Paw Awards, Royal Oak Room, 1 Bates St., Lewiston. Join us for awards, a silent auction, dinner, drinks, and more in this fun event benefiting the Greater Androscoggin Humane Society, Sept. 18. gahumane.org/goldenpawawards.

The Hill Arts, 76 Congress St. Smokus Pocus: A 420 Magic Show, Oct. 10–11. 347-7177.

Maine Audubon, Gilsland Farm, 20 Gilsland Farm Rd., Falmouth. Autumn Equinox at Maine Audubon 2025, Sept. 25; Bird Walk, every Thurs. 781-2330.

Maine Audubon, Hamilton Audubon Sanctuary, 681 Fosters Point Rd., West Bath. Maine Audubon Bumble Bee Blitz, Sept. 21. 781-2330.

Maine Audubon, Scarborough Marsh, 92 Pine Point Rd. Wednesday Bird Walks, Sept. 17 & 24. 781-2330.

Maine Maritime Museum, 243 Washington St., Bath. Full Moon Gathering with Maya Rook, Oct. 7; Boatshop Workshop: Building a Fireside Stool, Oct. 15–16. 443-1316.

Owls Head Transportation Museum, 117 Museum St. STEM Saturdays, Sept. 13, 27, & Oct. 11; Foreign Auto Rendezvous, Sept. 20–21. 594-4418.

Railway Village Museum, 586 Wiscasset Rd., Boothbay. Family Harvest Day, Sept. 27; Cars & Coffee, Sept. 28; Fall Foliage Festival, Oct. 11–12. 633-4727.

Spirits Alive, Eastern Cemetery, 224 Congress St. 2025 Walking Tours of Eastern Cemetery, to Oct. 16. spiritsalive.org.

Stonington Opera House, 1 School St. Trivia Night, Sept. 18. 367-2788.

Strawbery Banke Museum, 14 Hancock St., Portsmouth. Rumblings of Revolution Homeschool Day, Oct. 14. (603)433-1100.

Waterville Opera House, 1 Common St. Matt Fraser, Sept. 26; Magic Rocks!, Oct. 4; The Vampire Circus, Oct. 10. 873-7000.

WW&F Railway, 97 Cross Rd., Alna. Tintypes by the Trains, Sept. 13 & Oct. 13; A-No.1 Hobo Experience, Sept. 14 & Oct. 19; Pumpkin Pickin’ Train to SeaLyon Farm, Oct. 4, 13, 18, & 25. 882-4193.

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Portland’s Fire on Fore is awash in merch that manager Patrick Small says “is not what you’d call ‘heady;’ it doesn’t scream, ‘I smoke weed.’” The dispensary sells a variety of clothes and accessories designed with local talent. See Brass and Briar tattoo artist Olivia Clay’s lettering on the Fire on Fore: Portland, Maine, card deck. Bruski the bulldog is the Fire on Fore mascot. Small says, “Sometimes people come into the store just to see him. People loved our ‘Grass Pro Shop’ merch line—a play on the popular Bass Pro Shop hats, featuring Bruski. They sold out quick.”

According to their website, “Happy Trails & Joe’s Smoke Shop is a family-run head/smoke/gift shop fusion.” Joe’s Smoke Shop is the oldest in the state; they’ve inhabited their corner on Waterville’s Main Street since 1922. Naturally, as employee Alanna Hitchcock says, “The Joe’s Smoke Shop t-shirts have a classic look… They’re more popular with the guys.” Or you can rock some hippie swag from Happy Trail’s gift shop, the company that purchased Joe’s in 2006. “We import most of

our merchandise from India. Our tie-dye shirts are made by artists from all around: Maine, New York, even Europe,” Hitchcock says.

Dana Alexandra, the in-house designer and photographer at Beach Boys Cannabis Company, is thrilled to share a few words on her brainchild—the dispensary’s very own clothing and apparel company. Alexandra says, “Inspired by the counterculture of the cannabis industry, our collections feature art that celebrates feeling good and living life to the fullest.” In the works is a new location.

Stayed tuned: “We have lots of new hats, towels, and bags with branded patches and floating key chains for our grand opening,” Alexandra says.

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A CLOSER LOOK AT THE COLLECTION Victor Thall commands the far wall.

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Listed at $1.975M. There’s a walk-in pantry. But that’s not why we’re here.

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DAN CREWE OPENS THE DOOR. t ninety, he has the calm presence of a man who’s watched the world perform, break, and start over—repeatedly. He co-founded Gateway Studios, helped propel the voices of an era —Patti LaBelle, Frankie Valli. But now he lives here, on this quiet bluff in Maine, surrounded not by music, but by paintings. And not just any paintings.

I look around and see worldclass art hung everywhere in the house. “What’s it like living in an art gallery?”

He smiles. “Let’s see.”

We walk through the front hall, turn right—and then it happens.

The house opens up. The ceiling lifts, the light shifts. We’re standing inside a two-story atrium so vast it seems to inhale you. It’s like the hush that precedes a concert’s first note.

A baby grand piano, nestled in the corner, appears suddenly miniature, just waiting to be deployed.

“Was this always one room?”

“There was a second-floor balcony,” Dan says. “We removed it to give the art more air.”

Dan nods to a square of glowing blue and green. “Victor Thall called this piece “Sorrento.”

Also jumping into view–daring work by Eric Hopkins of North Haven Island, several pushing the edge of what a viewer would expect.

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“I used to be married to [composer and singer] Cidny Bullens,” Dan says, “so we both know Eric from our time on North Haven.”

Also on the walls, the singular shapes of Brett Bisby.

JERSEY BOYS Bob Crewe (1930-2014)—Dan’s late brother—was a writer and producer behind some of pop’s most immortal hooks: “Can’t Take My Eyes Off You,” “Walk Like a Man,” “Big Girls Don’t Cry.” How about

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ccording to his biography in The Annex Gallery, Victor Thall (1902-1983) was a New York native. By eleven he’d already brushed up with mentors John Sloan, George Bellows, Arthur B. Davies, and George Luks. By his early twenties, he’d crossed the Atlantic for the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris, and later, the Academie Julien. He shared drinks and doubts with de Kooning and Gorky. He painted under the WPA New Deal Art Project. He taught at the Art Students League. He walked away from Abstract Expressionism just as it was becoming a passport to fame.

Instead, he left New York in pursuit of something harder to define—a personal vernacular. He sought it in Mexico, the West Indies, Spain. In Torrevieja, in Palma de Mallorca. His brush danced with the spirits of folk art and ritual, casting long shadows through his canvases. He stopped painting in the late 1970s, turning instead to a novel that shadowed his life but never saw print. He died in 1983 in Riverside, California. Forgotten by the market, not by the Crewes.

TA L K I N G W A L L S Patti LaBelle’s “Lady Marmalade” and “Devil With A Blue Dress On”

by Mitch Ryder and the Detroit Wheels? That’s Bob Crewe, too. As a lifelong visual artist (even beyond his musical career), Bob knew and was influenced by Andy Warhol and painted across the decades with critically acclaimed shows from coast to coast. Bold, kinetic canvases.

Dan gestures to a set of four paintings set high up on the back wall. It’s a coherent grouping, edgy, nonrepresentational, adventurous in texture, and structurally musical.

“My brother did these. It’s funny.

Unlike most people—many of us gesticulate—he would sing as a way of describing things. His natural understanding of the world was to blend the visual and the oral.

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TA L K I N G W A L L S defiance. The Crewes and artists like Thall weren’t interested in playing the game the easy way. They built things—songs, movements, homes—and then walked away when the world wanted more.

“What’s it like to wake up in a house like this?”

Dan, like his brother, grew up in Belleville, New Jersey, near Newark.

Dan graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy in 1957, served as an Air Force officer, then joined Bob in the music business that guided the culture for decades.

THE CREWES’ GIFTS TO MAINE his house is also a monument to the future of Portland’s cultural landscape, because planning for the University of Southern Maine’s Crewe Center for the Arts, a philanthropic effort of Dan and Bob Crewe, was launched here.

The ribbon-cutting for the glassy, modernist Crewe Center of the Arts is in “October, 2025, with a few events scheduled ahead of it in September,” Dan says.

Bob and Dan have also made staggering donations to Portland Museum of Art and the Maine College of Art and Design.

“What’s it like to wake up here?”

He looks around. “You remember things differently. The art watches you back.”

And just like that, I hear it again.

That haunting refrain from The Deer Hunter. The one that chases memory, time, and what we choose to leave behind.

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t was before six in the morning. I was asleep in the room I shared with my brother.

“Your boat’s gone,” Dad said, getting his face right up into mine.

He shook my body under the thin cotton sheet. I propped my forearm over my eyes, crusty with sleep.

“Wake up! Your boat’s gone.” He searched my face for coherence. Only one day with the boat and it’s gone?

My boat. A fourteen-foot runabout with an ancient Evinrude outboard.

Hours spent waxing the deck’s faded aqua blue fiberglass back to its original brightness. The dirt and mold scrubbed from the white vinyl bench seat—where I hoped Erin Streeter would agree to sit next to me and cruise up the bay. In 1981, eighth grade involved working three hours after school and eight hours on Saturday to save up enough money. I still don’t know how my mother agreed to it. Perhaps the same way I convinced my wife to let our daughter buy an aluminum skiff.

“How?” I asked.

“Probably untied from the bow

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cleat. Told you to practice your knots more.”

It could have been anything: stolen, set free by a jealous middle-schooler, or Dad pulling one over on me.

“You’re joking.”

“Hurry up. Let’s go look for it. I told you to check your knots.”

The sun was still making its way up over Islesboro and the bay was, as my daughter likes to say, FAC, flat-ass calm. We rowed out to Dad’s boat, a 1960s-era wood hull Lyman with a Chrysler inboard and lever steering. It was prone to sinking, which is why Dad’s only rule for me buying a boat was that it had to be made of fiberglass.

I pretended to be unconcerned but could feel my despair tightening around my face. Dad seemed confident, but maybe he just looked forward to pointing out the result of my shitty knots. He choked the engine and pumped the throttle—not rushing but also not stopping to light up a cigarette.

“Which way do we go?” I asked.

I could tell he’d already thought this through. “Winds were light and

variable overnight, and the tide is just starting to come back in. We should start south, toward Lincolnville,” he said as if repeating the automated VHF weather voice he listened to all the time.

I pictured the boat floating past Matinicus Island on its way to Europe.

“Besides, if it went north, it would just wash up in Belfast or Searsport.”

It was still too early in the morning for the southerly chop, and we glided past Kelly’s Cove, then Temple Heights, and Ram Island off to port.

Just before we reached Lincolnville, I sat slumped in my seat, not caring that I hadn’t brushed my teeth. Dad pushed the throttle a little more, tempting the engine to backfire.

“There,” he said, not pointing, keeping one hand on the throttle, the other on the steering.

Stopped by a row of mussel nets, the boat sat calmly, as if she had no intention of going any further.

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to get his propeller tangled in the nets, and killed his engine.

The painter’s bowline knot—my bowline knot—was still tied around the loop of the pendant line, which was still attached to the heavy mooring.

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ad dug through his wooden tackle box. He pulled out a rusty fillet knife, climbed onto the bow of my boat, and began sawing away at the line. It took me a few seconds to understand what Dad got right away, that the mooring chain wasn’t long enough for the tide. My boat’s first night on the mooring was spent lifting the mushroom anchor right off the bottom and floating south.

When the knife cut through, the line went quickly under, and the bow jumped out of the water, almost sending Dad into the bay.

Still straddling the bow, Dad tapped out a cigarette from a pack of Benson & Hedges.

He lit up, inhaled, and blew a column of smoke toward my knot.

“Had nothing to do with your knot.

That bowline was absolutely perfect.”

I looked at the white line around the cleat, no longer under the heavy tension of the mooring.

He took another drag, exhaled into a smile, “But the harbormaster sure needs a lesson on chain length and tides.

Each time I tell this story to my daughter, she’s kind enough to pretend it’s her first time hearing it, as if she’s already wise to my need to retell it. I wish I could remember Dad’s face, sitting on the bow of my boat, smoking that cigarette, offering his halfway apology. But the image that sticks in my heart is that of his mischievous and adventurous, unshaven and tan face, leaning over my bed, waking me out of an unknown dream, smelling like black coffee, somehow sweet, not bitter—it’s a memory, after all. n