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THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
September 16, 1990
MEMORANDUM
TO:
CHRISS WINSTON
RELEVANT SPEECHWRITERS
RELEVANT RESEARCHERS
FROM:
JENNIFER GROSSMAN
SUBJECT:PRE-ADVANCE
Boston, MA
WHEN:
October 4th, luncheon. POTUS arrives at 12:00 noon, brief (10-15
min) remarks at 12:30.
WHERE: The Westin Hotel, in Boston's Copley Place. The room is large and
modern, fairly nondescript. While the hotel is only 7 years old,
it is in the heart of historic Boston. Across the street is the
old Boston Public Library, across the river are some of our nation's
finest institutes of higher learning (M.I.T., Harvard, etc.) The
hotel is minutes from historic Beacon Hill, and down the street
from the upscale shopping on Newbury Street.
WHAT:
This will be a two-tiered event: first a closed-press reception
with photos (30 mins) then remarks at an open-press luncheon.
The proceeds will benefit MA GOP and Republican gubenatorial
candidate TBD pending this Tuesday's primary. Contenders in primary
are Steve Pierce VS. Bill Weld; Pierce's people were present to
provide campaign material. Someone will intro gub. candidate, who
will in turn intro POTUS. The room in which he will speak holds
830 people, but we don't have a figure yet on atendees.
OTHER:
1)
Teleprompter: YES
2)
Political Affairs contact: Bruce Stebbins x6510
3)
Bostonians are big baseball fans. To note: the Redsocks are 5 or
6 games ahead right now, and famous Fenway Park is not too far
from where POTUS will be speaking.
4)
Lighthearted jocular yet generous Dukakis jokes are feasible.
5)
Pierce VS. Weld polls are close.
6)
If Pierce is gub. candidate, Jordan St. John (at 617/720-1990)
has been suggested to call for anecdotal information. One of
the biggest issues in the campaign will be the economy. While
Dukakis was bragging about the Massachusetts Miracle, Pierce was
calling it a disaster. Pierce is the endorsed candidate for
governor. He's 40 years old, the Minority Leader of the House
of Representatives.
Stamford, CT
WHEN:
October 4th, reception and dinner. POTUS arrives at 6:00 p.m.
for reception, remarks at approximately 6:30.
WHERE: The Stamford Marriott in (you guessed it) Stamford. The room
in which remarks are to be delivered is nothing remarkable.
The hotel is near Long Island Sound (sailing, etc.) and Jai Alai.
WHAT:
This will be a two-tiered event: first a closed press reception
with photos for big donors, then an open press dinner. The
gubenatorial candidate, John Rowland, will intro POTUS. The
modest estimate of atendees: 600. A Rowland campaign video,
which has proved successful in the past, will possibly be adapted
for use prior to the President's remarks to generate excitement.
OTHER:
1)
Teleprompter: YES
2)
Political Affairs contact: Bruce Stebbins x6510
3)
***
POTUS will be operating out of Kennebunkport for entire series
of New England speechs. This circumstance can be used to stress
his ties to the region and perhaps provide "I was just in Kennebunk-
port" anecdotes.
4)
Connecticut is famous for nutmegs--bet you can get a lot of mileage
out of that one.
5)
Business attire
6)
Jack Goldberg handles press for Rowland, Mark Brennan is Deputy
Campaign Mgr., and John Mastropietro is Campaign Mgr. Their phone
number: (203) 753-1990.
7)
Rowland has been a congressman since '84, represented on the House
Armed Services Committee, the Veteran's Affairs Committee, the
Select Committee on Intelligence, and the House Republican Task
Force. Was awarded the Distinguished Service Award from the VFW,
the Taxpayer Protection Award from the Watchdogs of the Treasury,
Inc., and the "Clean Air Champion" from the National Sierra Club.
Rowland is a lifelong resident of Connecticut, and is married to
to Deborah Nabhan. Has three children: Kirsten, Robert John, and
Julianne.
8)
Rowland's big issues: Will veto a state income tax (the only
candidate to pledge this); will wage a real war on drugs by enacting
the death penalty for drug kingpins; will introduce a comprehensive
plan to reduce state spending; will fight to return traditional
family values to Connecticut.
TALKING POINTS:
1)
Campaign slogan: "Leading the Connecticut Comeback"
2)
CT has no state income tax. Rowland is only candidate to pledge to
veto any attempt to impose one.
3)
Rowland is the only conservative in the race. Lowell Weicker and
Bruce Morrison are liberals.
4)
Rowland is tough on crime, advocating the death penalty for drug
kingpins. (see campaign material).
5)
Rowland has been the most specific on issues, beginning on Jan. 4
and releasing issues positions periodically: WE KNOW WHERE HE STANDS
6)
Rowland is the only native of CT and is a 5th generation state
resident. His grandfather rooted out corruption in Waterbury in the
1930's and sent the mayor and other city officials to jail.
7)
Rowland has NEVER voted for a tax increase.
Burlington, VT
WHEN:
October 5th, reception & breakfast. POTUS arrives at 8:00 a.m. for
reception, remarks at approximately 8:30.
WHERE:
The Sheraton Burlington Hotel and Conference Center. The hotel
is new, the hall is large and plain.
WHAT:
First a closed reception for Peter Smith (campaigning for re-
election to Congress) ; 100 camera clicks. Then remarks at a
open press GOP fundraiser breakfast. Two speakers before POTUS,
the second introducing him. 1000 atendees expected. At the
close of remarks, the photo op to be created might incorporate
the dalmation the President gave to the local Willston Fire House
during a Points of Light presidential campaign event. The dog
might also provide the basis for anecdotal material; Jack Lindley,
the former Bush campaign manager in Burlington is a good source
on this, he can be reached at (802) 658-2034.
OTHER:
1)
Teleprompter: YES
2)
Political Affairs contact: Bruce Stebbins x6510
3) **
POTUS will be operating out of Kennebunkport for entire series of
New England speechs. This circumstance can be used to stress his
ties to the region and perhaps provide "I was just in Kennebunkport"
anecdotes.
4)
According to intelligence already gathered, there will be a lot of
demonstrators at the event
perhaps there are jokes that might laug
this off.
5)
Judy Schailor is Pete Smith's Campaign Mgr. (802) 878-9090. Brian
Cosgrove is the Executive Director of the Vermont Republican Party
to be reached at (802) 223-3411 at work and at (802) 223-6596 at hom
6)
Education is Smith's top priority, with the environment coming in
a close second. Regarding education, Schailor informed me that
Smith is a former educator. In fact, he has a M.A. and Ed. D.
from the Harvard U. Graduate School of Education, he was Director
of the Montepelier Education Facility, he founded the Community
College of Vermont and was a Director at Vermont State Colleges.
This reminded me of a quote by Theodore Roosevelt that might prove
appropriate:
"Our progress in educational efficiency must come
from two sources: from the great natural leader who
happens to be an educator, and from the ordinary
citizen who to common sense adds some power of vision
and who realizes the relation of the school to
society
"
--Theodore Roosevelt Cyclopedia
7)
Smith just came out of the primary where he beat 60-40 Tim Philbin
to the right. His contender in the general election is of a strange
and dying breed: he is a socialist. Bernie Sanders is a socialist
who has been gaining strength in the polls. He supports Fidel Castro
and has been to Cuba to visit him. Schaillor points out that while
we might joke about Sanders as an anachronism, if we come on too
strong it might sound like red-baiting that is sure to offend.
8)
Vermont has a reputation for "independent thinking."
9)
Vermont has one vote in Congress, it must make that vote count.
10)
Up until only a few years ago, there were more COWS than people
in Vermont. (Peter Smith has worked hard to protect the family farm)
11)
Regarding Smith, it's important to stress his effectiveness--he's a
freshman congressman who's shown outstanding leadership.
12) *
Rather than a head table, there will be a platform.
13)
Smith's wife's name is Sarah. They have 3 boys.
14)
See campaign material for more info on Smith.
Manchester, NH
WHEN:
October 5th, reception and luncheon. POTUS arrives at 12:00 noon
for VIP reception and photos, then at approximately 12:30 delivers
remarks at general luncheon.
WHERE:
Center of New Hampshire Holiday Inn, the room is large and plain,
the hotel is 6 years old. On walk-through it became apparent that
there was a big problem in terms of space, so be on standby as to
event location. George Mandis is the general mgr. of the hotel,
his number is (603) 625-1000. Bush was at this hotel during campaig
in '89, there are probably good anecdotes that came out of this.
WHAT:
This will be a two-tiered event: first a closed-press reception with
photos for VIPs, then remarks at an open press fundraiser luncheon.
A speaker will introduce Congressman Smith, who will in turn intro-
duce POTUS. 930 atendees expected. Photo op at close of remarks
might incorporate New Hampshire's "Old Man in the Mountain" (a
rock outcropping that resembles the profile of an old man, that has
been incorporated into N.H. folklore, and has become a N.H. symbol
of sorts). This symbol might also lend itself to metaphors for spee
OTHER:
1)
Teleprompter: YES
2)
Political Affairs contact: Bruce Stebbins x6510
3) **
POTUS will be operating out of Kennebunkport for entire series of
New England speechs. This circumstance can be used to stress his
ties to the region and perhaps provide "I was just in Kennebunkport"
anecdotes.
4)
Contact Jim Courtovich with Smith for U.S. Senate at (603) 626-4333
or Lisa Stockland, the congressman's press secretary.
5)
Logo of Smith for Senate campaign: 'New Hampshire's Trusted Friend.'
Apparently, Congressman Smith is very charismatic, people trust him.
6)
Local issue: Economic slowdown in the region. There are layoffs
everywhere, and unemployment is going up.
7)
The primary was just finished last Tuesday. Smith will be running
against former U.S. Senator John Durkin.
8)
Something to keep in mind: Smith supported Kemp in the presidential
primary.
9)
A major issue in the Smith campaign is taxes. Be aware, however,
that Smith publicly distanced himself from POTUS's verbal
concession on taxes.
Another big campaign issue: the environment. Smith supports the
Clean Air Bill and has had impact on this legislation through
Sununu.
10)
In thanking the crowd for the warm reception he's sure to receive,
POTUS might quote the words of another great president on a similar
occasion:
"I am sensibly impressed with your friendly welcome
to the metropolis of New Hampshire and have a
grateful heart for your kind and flattering
congratulations on my election to the presidency."
--George Washington
11)
An original copy of the Bill of Rights is coming to N.H. as part
of a national tour on Oct. 31, 1990.
12)
Wisdom from the pages of a N.H. tourism brochure: "The splash
of cool crystal water as you dive into the shimmering lake
the
stories and laughter around the family picnic table in the
flickering shade of tall trees
the endless, quiet panorama of
mountains, lakes and ponds from a trail high in the verdant hills
Kennebunkport, ME
WHEN:
October 5th, evening reception. POTUS arrives at 6:00 p.m. for
closed press reception and photos, brief (10-15 mins) remarks
at 6:30 at more general, open-press reception.
WHERE:
The Shawmut Inn in Kennebunkport. The closed-press reception will
take place in the Colonial Room, the 6:30 reception and remarks
will take place in the Terrace Room. Note: in the Colonial Room
hangs a picture of a proud-masted square-rigger which serves as
the insignia of the Shawmut Inn. The vessel is of a class which
brough world-wide fame to Kennebunkport. She is a Maine downeaster
a comfortable merchantman and passenger ship of a moderately good
speed, reputed to be among the most seaworthy ships of her day.
The great-grandfather of one of the Inn's former owners, had
been present at the launching of the vessel, the "Frank N. Thayer. "
The ship made her way down the Kennebunkport river, turning
downeast to catch the prevailing wind, and passed right by the
present location of the Shawmut Inn.
The Terrace Room, where POTUS will deliver his remarks, is of
relatively modest size, yet is has a stunning panoramic view
of the water which the President knows SO well.
WHERE (cont. ')
POTUS has spoken at the Inn before, in fact, he spoke there a year
ago, and I have included a copy of his remarks in the attached
material. Beth Cressy, the Shawmut Inn's Deputy Director of Sales,
handled the logistics of his visit there last summer, she can be
reached at (207) 967-3931. He was awarded "Outstanding Cit. of the Yr.'
The Shawmut Inn is a stately, turn of the century inn, which stands
as a tribute to the elegant days of the past. Since its inception in
the late nineteenth century, the Shawmut Inn has been a special part
of Maine tradition. The inn was recently purchased by Boston Real
Estate Developer and Restauranteur Ralph Bruno.
To note: the Bush home at Walker's Point is just down the road from
The Shawmut Inn.
WHAT:
This will be.a two-tiered event: first a closed-press reception
(30 mins) with 100 camera clicks for VIPs, then a more general
reception where remarks are to be delivered. The event is a
fundraiser for Governor Mckernan, who is running for re-election.
A speaker will introduce the governor, who will in turn introduce
POTUS. People will be standing; there are 300 expected attendees.
OTHER:
1)
Teleprompter: NO
2)
Political Affairs contact: Bruce Stebbins x6510
3)
Business Attire
4) **
POTUS will be operating out of Kennebunkport for entire series of
New England speechs. This circumstance can be used to stress his
ties to Maine and perhaps provide "I was just at Walker's Point"
anecdotes.
5)
In August, POTUS participated in a golf tournament to benefit McKernan.
6)
What makes Maine distictive:
-the long months of cold weather
-the abundance of lobster
-the enjoyment of fishing and boating (POTUS can speak with personal
experience)
-the way people love the land (tie in with environmental issue), the
lush green that goes on forever (probably to be turning into the
beautiful flaming hues of autumn by October)
7)
Contact Sandy Tuttle with McKernan for Governor at (207) 828-1990.
Perhaps Willis Lyford, who deals with press, will be more helpful
in providing anecdotal information. He can be reached at the same
number.
8)
The main issues in the McKernan campaign acording to Tuttle: environmer
job training, drugs, and education. Note: McKernan was elected to
one of the national boards of the Governors Association.
9)
John R. McKernan was born May 20, 1948 in Bangor ME. A lawyer who
had served in the State Legislature, he was elected to represent
Maine's 1st Congressional District in the U.S. House of Representative:
Re-elected to Congress by a wide margin in '84, he served on the
House Education and Labor Committee, the Merchant Marine and Fisheries
Committee, the Government Operations Committee, and the Select
Committee on Children, Youth and Families. As Congressman, he
received the "Watchdog of the Treasury" award and was endorsed by
the League of Conservation Voters.
McKernan was elected Governor of Maine in '86, the first Republican
Governor in more than two decades. He was active in both the '80
and '84 Reagan-Bush campaigns, and in the '88 Bush-Quayle campaign.
McKernan married Congresswoman Olympia J. Snowe of Maine in Feb. '89
and he has one son, Peter, from a previous marriage.
10)
The '90 gubenatorial race features a hotly contested race between
the incumbent McKernan and Democratic Congressman Joseph E. Brennan,
who served two terms as governor preceding McKernan. McKernan, who
formerly held the congressional seat now occupied by Brennan,
effectively 'switched jobs' with Brennan in '86, when the latter
was barred by law from seeking a third consecutive term as governor.
This aspect has led some political pundits to view the race as a
"championship bout. "
SOME RELEVANT EXCERPTS FROM POTUS's SPEECH AT SHAWMUT INN LAST YEAR:
1)
"Well, what a magnificent picture. I'm looking around at this crowd
and I see a few faces old enough to remember that boardwalk that
went along
all the way along Ocean Avenue there. "
2)
"
it's a wonderfully warm feeling that we get from all of you, our
neighbors in Kennebunkport and Kennebunk Beach, and, of course,
Kennebunk
"
3)
"
there are some hazards out there. Some of you have been on the
golf course when I play, and that (laughter) and other challenges
One of them now is, we have a fleet of plastic toys that Barbara
bought at some I hope it was a sale. There are many cars and
little scooters and all out there, and it's a hazard to get out of
the front door
"
4)
"And --Barbara put it pretty well that this is a place where we
really enjoy ourselves, but more than that kind of refurbish our
souls and get our batteries all charged up and enjoy life really to
the fullest. It's a point of view. You can feel it in the land
and water here."
5)
"Barbara has told you that I've been coming here every summer since
19 well, I was born in '24. And the only one I missed was the
summer of 1944 when, like many of you, I was in the service. That's
the only time that we missed being here. And there is a certain
magic about the place. Our kids live in five different states--
one in Cape Elizabeth, and the others in four different states--
and for them, this is an anchor to windward, because not far from
where this picture was painted (perhaps that of the Frank Thayer
in the Colonial Room, but doublecheck) my mother was born in a house
still standing right there not too far from St. Ann's Church
"
Sandy Tuttly Education is a bigthing
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(Hinchliffe/Grossman)
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October 2, 1990 10 a.m.
Banbara MAINE
PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: MAINE FUNDRAISER FOR MCKERNAN
Shawmut Inn, Kennebunkport
October 5, 1990
6:30 p.m.
Thanks, Jock -- it's great to be home. And thanks to all of
you, my neighbors and old friends, for that wonderful warm wel-
come -- or are you just excited to have the father of a best-
selling author in town? I had figured I was safe, since none of
1st
my children or grandchildren like to write -- who would have
saokay
guessed my own dog would have written a "lick and tell" book? III
I am glad to be here -- even though my good friend the Gov-
Russel,
ernor has broken with me on a policy issue of crucial importance.
the
Yes, Jock, I saw your press release on broccoli. And after I let
you win at your golf tournament last August. 11 I just don't get
didn't
cupsure
the same respect on the course President Eisenhower had. When he
-Sandy
THE
Tatrie
retired someone asked him if leaving the White House had affected
Pres
his golf game. Ike said: "Yes. A lot more people beat me now."
did bette
Well, Jock's never let my position interfere with his golf.
And we all know there's another "championship bout" he's going to
win, come November 6. After all, he's one of the most athletic
government leaders in the country. He could become the first
governor to get his picture on a Wheaties box. 11
Good to see Olympia here too -- you know, I've heard Jock's
come up with some interesting campaign strategy. In the second
district, he plans to ride Olympia's skirttails to victory. III
Look at that spectacular view out there. Just like ours
from Walker's Point, "down the road a piece." I love coming home.
2
It's my anchor to windward. There's a certain magic about this
place: the common-sense values -- the Down East fairness and
determination -- the joy of family. Puts things in perspective.
Barbara and I really enjoy being here -- we kind of refurbish our
souls; get our batteries all charged up. Sort of an 18th-century
gusto of living here -- you can feel it in the land and the air
and the water. Never found anything like it anywhere else.
And I've never found a Governor quite like Jock anywhere
else, either. Nor has this state. First Republican in more than
Samely
two decades -- and now he'll be the first in many years to win a
second term. And he'll be re-elected because of his vigorous,
visionary leadership. We've all noticed how he's taken Maine to
the national forefront in recycling. And how he's given the
state's youth hope with new job training.
Sand adults, espec. actraing, a lot on women
And how he hasn't sat back and watched the plague of drugs
destroy this state's future. You know, our national war against
drugs is one of my top priorities. Our anti-drug czar, Bill
Bennett, and I just issued an update on how the battle is going.
And we expressed cause for optimism. To have someone like Jock
translating that federal intiative to the state level -- well,
it's not just important, it's an inspiring example for other
leaders. He's even created the Bureau of Intergovernmental Drug
OR BIDE
Enforcement -- he's made drug trade bad business in this state.
And he's also been working with me in education. Just a
year ago, I convened the first Governors Summit on Education.
Jock's contributions then were important -- and his continuing
3
commitment has been even more so. In order to compete in the
21st century, we have to give our kids the key to the future --
the best education possible. But our competitors -- like Japan
and Germany -- keep their kids in school 200, 240 days a year.
MAINE
Jock's made it his issue to get American kids to spend more than
just 175 days -- less than half the year -- in our classrooms.
And, you know, Jock received the "Watchdog of the Treasury"
award when he was in Congress. But when it comes to Maine's
budget he's more than a watchdog -- he's a pit bull. His fiscal
prudence and balanced budgets have made Maine one of the few New
regional
England states to ride out the economic crises of the past years.
So he understands the national crisis I want to talk to you
about tonight. You're my friends. I can speak to you bluntly.
And my message is plain -- and of critical importance.
We've made a $500 billion bipartisan budget deal. That was
tough. It took a lot of negotiation, a lot of battle, a lot of
compromise. But it's done. And it's right. Now we have one
last step to go. We must get Congress to approve it.
We have to put aside partisanship and personal interests.
I'll give it to you straight. If this package goes down -- then
the American economy goes down. It's as simple as that. This is
our last -- and our best -- hope. III
Let me make a few points. First. This is our biggest defi-
cit package ever -- with our largest entitlement savings ever --
and the toughest, most iron-clad enforcement ever. II
Second. It is balanced and fair and, let me tell you, after
4
8 months of tortured negotiations -- we cannot do any better. We
have no more time. The secondhand is running on America's future.
Third. This agreement doesn't raise income tax rates -- and
it doesn't touch Social Security Colas, military or federal
retirement.
Fourth. It makes real cuts -- no mirages -- but it saves
the national defense from cuts for three years. III
The package is tough. So are these times. 11 The package
is fair. 11 So is the American spirit. The package is bipartisan.
So is the final vote. The package is real. So is our crisis. 11
I don't understate when I warn you that this agreement is
all that stands between us and a desperately ill economy. 11
Between growth and decline. Competition and surrender. III
You know, John Steinbeck once said: "I've never met such
ardent individuals as Maine Yankees. I would hate to try to
force them to do anything they didn't want to do." Believe me:
I'd never even try.
But I know that inside those strong, independent spirits are
hearts of reason, fairness and caring. That's why I know you'll
support Jock -- and support this budget package. Because his
vision -- and the budget's importance -- are as much legacies you
want to leave for your children's future as are the rugged Maine
woods, the spectacular Maine coast, the spirited Maine character.
Thanks for your friendship -- and God bless you, this
beautiful state, and our nation.
#
#
#
McKernan
Re-Elect Governor John McKernan
McKERNAN, JR.
nor of Maine
1948, in Bangor, Maine. He attended Bangor
lete. He received an A.B. degree from
ed for the All-Ivy League Tennis Team. After
ard, and in 1971 enrolled in the University of
BANGOR DAILY NEWS
udent, he won election to the Maine House of
n was re-elected to a second term in the Maine
im for the post of Assistant Republican Floor
assage of Maine's returnable container law, or
states in the country to have such legislation.
or, and after leaving the State Legislature in
veral years, McKernan decided to return to
represent Maine's First Congressional District in
1984, McKernan served on the House
ant Marine and Fisheries Committee, the
Select Committee on Children, Youth and
the "Watchdog of the Treasury" from the
and was endorsed by the League of
in 1986, the first Republican Governor in more
omplishments during his first term in office have
of the National Governors' Association Special
National Governors' Association Legal Affairs
Northeastern Governors (CONEG), and is a
ciation Executive Committee.
of the Education Commission of the States.
of the Bangor Community College, was
Mercy Hospital in Portland, and in 1982 was
Scholars. In 1976, he headed President Ford's
re-election campaign in Maine. He was active in both the 1980 and 1984 Reagan-Bush
campaigns, and in the 1988 Bush-Quayle campaign.
McKernan married Congresswoman Olympia J. Snowe of Maine in February, 1989. He has
one son, Peter, from a previous marriage. He is Protestant.
P.O. Box 7828 DTS, Portland, Maine 04112-7828
(207) 828-1990
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RE-ELECT
Governor McKernan
ANNOUNCEMENT REMARKS
OF
GOVERNOR JOHN R. McKERNAN, JR.
Monday, April 23, 1990
Some of you are probably wondering why I've called you here today. The
economy has slowed down. The boom of the '80s is over. Three other New England
Governors have decided they're not running this year.
I'm here to tell you that I'm running, and I relish the challenge.
I'm proud of my record.
And there is a lot more to do.
I am running for Governor for the same reasons I ran in 1986. I want every
person in Maine to have the best job possible. I want every child to get the best
education possible. And I want every Maine citizen to enjoy the way of life that
makes this state so special.
Being Governor is more than just showing up. It's more than just saying you
care. It's knowing where you want the state to go. It's delivering results.
Four years ago, Lester Tompkin was one of the hundreds in Aroostook County
looking for employment outside the traditional resource-based economy. He wanted
to stay in Aroostook because of the special quality of life, but for him, and people
like him, opportunity seemed to be limited to the southern half of the state. People
spoke of "two Maines," and state government didn't seem concerned about anything
north of the Kennebec.
Lester Tompkin is now the manager of ITI in Presque Isle, an information
processing business that was attracted to Aroostook by our Office of Business
Development. In 1990, unemployment in Aroostook is down by a point and a half,
and our agriculture sector is leading rather than trailing the rest of the economy.
We've proved that just because you're farther away from Augusta, it doesn't have to
mean that your voice won't get heard.
Three years ago, Tracy Karnes had a job at BMHI, a one and a half year-old
child, and a lot of trouble finding good, affordable child care. She was one of the
60 percent of Maine women with children under six who were working.
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She now takes her kids to "Small Steps," the new child care center we've
pioneered with and for state employees. She and other women across the state have
benefitted from our 13-fold increase in funding for child care.
Four years ago, James Hudson was one of the biggest cocaine dealers in
Central Maine.
Now he is serving 24 years in a maximum security prison, thanks to a drug
arrest coordinated by BIDE. BIDE arrests have doubled in the past year, and drug
dealers like James Hudson are finding that business is bad in Maine. In the early
'80s, before our Administration took office, Maine state government was AWOL in
the war on drugs. Now we are on the front lines. With programs like BIDE and
DARE, we are protecting our kids with more drug education, better enforcement,
more resources, and stiffer penalties for drug dealers than ever before.
Four years ago, Lisa Burnett was an excellent student in the eighth grade.
But when she looked ahead to college she wasn't quite sure where the money was
going to come from. This year Lisa is a junior in high school and she is still an
excellent student. But when it comes time to finance her higher education, she'll
know exactly where to look -- one stop shopping for financial aid.
Four years ago, there wasn't much hope for a salmon to spawn in the
Kennebec beyond Augusta. But we were serious about the environment, and the
Kennebec will flow uninterrupted once again. We've done more in the last four
years than was done in the prior eight to protect what is special about Maine.
We've instituted a growth management program, solid waste management and
recycling, river cleanup, a forest practices act, reductions in toxics, removal of
underground tanks, better handling of hazardous wastes, and an agreement to
breach Edwards Dam -- all of which will preserve our special way of life.
Three years ago, Flora Van Cour was one of the 1,000 workers laid off at
Health-Tex. Despite similar layoffs in the shoe industry in the early '80s, there
was no state program in place to deal with plant closings. This administration
formed the RETI team to retrain Flora Van Cour and the thousands like her. After a
two-year training program at Mid-State College, Flora Van Cour is a medical
assistant in Lisbon Center.
For each of these people there are thousands more who have benefited from
our innovative programs. But there are also thousands who have yet to benefit.
And it is for those people that I am running for another term as Governor.
Leading the state in the next decade will require aggressive leadership. The
boom times of the '80s are behind us. The New England economies are slowing, and
that has affected state budgets. Unlike other states, however, we prepared for the
downturn. Most states in the Northeast are solving their financial problems by
raising taxes. We tightened our belts. We have a balanced budget, and we did it
without raising taxes.
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April 23, 1990
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But being Governor is not just about numbers. It's about people and their
hopes and their dreams. Because dreams do come true. Thirty years ago, while a
student at the University of Maine, Representative John Marsh wrote a term paper
that said Edwards Dam should be breached. The professor said it was unrealistic
-- that the environment could never win out over business interests.
But we had vision. And that is why Edwards Dam is coming down in 1999.
Now is no time to abandon our bold plans for the future. I envision Maine
children being able to compete for jobs with any child in the world. And that is not
going to happen without accountability in our schools, higher standards for
education, and a longer school year. But it's not just the state and teachers and
schools. We've got to return to a way of life when every parent played a vital role
in their child's education.
And I envision a way of life that is not under constant assault from drugs --
where drugs are not available on every corner and where kids believe in themselves
enough to say no to easy escapes.
I envision a state with quality jobs and job training for all Maine people.
State government must be active as we make the transition to a peace time economy
and compete with other states and countries for precious jobs.
I envision our grandchildren enjoying forests and rivers that are clean and
safe and protected.
And I envision a state government that guarantees a decent quality of life
for the most vulnerable and opportunities for those who are willing to seize them
and shine.
These visions can and will come true. We need only raise our aspirations to
the point that we will accept nothing less than the best possible future.
We in Maine derive our strength from whom we are as people. As I've
travelled the state -- as a Legislator, as a Congressman, and now as Governor -- I
am constantly reminded that even the most diverse communities share the same
values. I've found an unwavering belief in the family. I've found a strong work
ethic. And I've met thousands of people who, if given the right opportunity, will
succeed and prosper.
Eighteen years ago, I announced my candidacy for the Maine State
Legislature. I ran because I thought I could make a difference. I wanted to bring
new opportunities to Maine people and help the state achieve its potential. I
believed in our state, our people, and our values. I still feel that way.
Today, I am asking the citizens of Maine for a chance to build on our
accomplishments. I am asking to be your Governor for four more years. With your
help and support, we can keep Maine moving forward. Thank you.
RE-ELECT
Governor McKernan
Race Synopsis
Maine's 1990 gubernatorial campaign features a hotly contested race between first term
incumbent Republican John R. McKernan, Jr., and Democratic Congressman Joseph E. Brennan,
who served two terms as governor preceding McKernan. McKernan, who formerly held the
congressional seat now occupied by Brennan, effectively "switched jobs" with Brennan in 1986,
when the latter was barred by law from seeking a third consecutive term as governor. This
unusual aspect has led some political observers to view the race as a "championship bout."
McKernan continues to enjoy a high approval rating among Maine voters, in spite of a
sagging Northeastern economy which has led three New England governors to call it quits rather
than seek re-election in difficult economic times. In fact, McKernan may well be the only New
England governor whose approval rating remains above 50 percent.
McKernan's strength lies in his management of this year's economic difficulties. He
protected vital programs for Maine's most needy citizens and balanced the budget without resorting
to new tax increases. Fiscal year-end budget figures have remained in the black, and Maine's
employment picture continues to show resilience, with an unemployment rate lower than
neighboring states.
These facts demonstrate that McKernan advanced the right fiscal leadership at a time when
the Northeast was caught off guard after a decade of exceptional economic growth. By ending
Maine's fiscal year in the black, McKernan defused an important economic issue which Brennan
and his fellow Democrats (who dominate the State Legislature) had hoped to fashion into a major
political liability.
Among the other issues expected to be featured in the campaign are: education; the
environment; job training and opportunities; drug enforcement; and economic development and the
business climate. In addition, stark contrasts are expected to be drawn on issues dominating the
agenda of organized labor, which has thrown massive support to Brennan and blasted McKernan
for a number of stances taken during his first term.
The most recent professional poll - conducted before the fiscal year closed with Maine as
one of the few New England states in the black - showed the race as a virtual dead heat, with
both McKernan and Brennan enjoying extremely high name recognition.
August 1990
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CONTENTS
DEPARTMENTS
FEATURES
3
16
A NOTE FROM THE EDITOR
NOT FOR THE LOVE OF MONEY
Anne Rugh
4
DEAR EDITOR
27
WE WILL HAVE THESE MOMENTS
6
Shirley Jacks
ENTERTAINMENT GUIDE
48
25
PROFILE: GRAND TRUNK FINALE
A TASTE OF
Dan Abramson
GREATER PORTLAND
58
35
EDUCATION FOR THE FUTURE
ON THE WATERFRONT
Lisa Derman
41
69
As TIME GOES BY
PADDLING AND GUNK-HOLING
42
ON CASCO BAY
WRITING ABOUT PORTLAND
A.J. Artman
45
PORTLAND PEOPLE
64
AROUND AND ABOUT TOWN
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A NOTE FROM
Portland
THE EDITOR
Shirley Jacks Editor/Publisher
Ceci Zerega Copy Editor
Chet Jordan Circulation Director
Richard Hobby Advertising Director
Jill Bock Design and Production
Leslie F. Brown Advertising Production
Regular Contributors:
Writers Lisa Derman, Chet Jordan,
Anne Rugh, Thomas A. Verde;
Photographers Dean Abramson,
Nance Trueworthy, Randy Ury
PUBLISHED BY THE CHAMBER OF
COMMERCE OF THE GREATER PORTLAND
REGION, serving Cape Elizabeth, Cumberland,
Falmouth, Freeport, Gorham, Gray, North Yarmouth,
Portland, Scarborough, South Portland, Westbrook,
Windham, and Yarmouth
JOSEPH MUIR
Chairman: John R. Hooper
Vice President/General Manager
Guy Gannett Publishing Co.
Vice Chairman: Richard B. Dalbeck
Executive Vice President
UNUM Life Insurance Co.
President
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hese are House Pins, and their sale, at outlets in Portland and
President: William M. Nugent
across the country, helps the homeless in whatever way the local
Chamber of Commerce of the Greater Portland Region
community finds most useful. For the story of their creation and
Treasurer: Robert Kruger
Managing Partner
a reminder that one caring person can make a difference, see "The House
Peat, Marwick Maine & Co.
Immediate Past Chairman: Hugh G. Farrington
Lucinda Built" in Portland People.
President & Chief Operating Officer
Hannaford Bros. Co.
We note with great sadness the death of a person who made a differ-
Chairman Editorial Advisory Committee:
ence: Earl Miller, Portland's municipal organist for the past year. Miller
Francis J. Guthrie, Jr.
President
was not only an accomplished musician, he was a delightful man. He gave
The Guthrie Group
DIRECTORS:
us friendship and music and a remarkable cheerfulness. Those are great
gifts to remember.
Weston L. Bonney
President, Peoples Heritage Bank
Clayton Churchill
Our deep apologies to Photographer Randy Ury. We used his well-
President, Northeast Management Development Group
Roxanne A. Cole
structured photo of night in the Old Port on our Summer cover, but failed
Broker, Ram Harnden, Inc.
Norman Conley
to give him credit for it. He was nice about it, but still
Manager, S.D. Warren Co.
John D. Delehanty
Dean Abramson is a train buff. From riding next to the engineer, to
Attorney, Pierce, Atwood, et al.
Brian Dudley
hanging off the end of the caboose, it is all pure pleasure for him. When he
Vice President, Fred S. James & Co.
Mary E. Finnegan
heard the Grand Trunk railroad was changing hands, and therefore
President, Finnegan Associates
Richard Hallworth
changing, he wanted to record the final days with his camera. So exciting
Senior Manager, Ernst & Whinney
Ronell F. Harris
did "Grand Trunk Finale" become for him that he asked to write the story,
President, Harris Oil Company
K.C. Hughes
too. It's a fascinating look at one of our taken-for-granteds.
President, Bayside Associates
William R. Johnson
President, Blue Cross/Blue Shield
And Tom Verde (On the Waterfront) likes ghosts. His book Maine
James H. Keil
General Sales Manager, Blue Rock Industries
Ghosts and Legends has just been published by Down East Books. We hope
Barry King
President, Sun Savings & Loan
he will continue to haunt the pages of Greater Portland.
Linda C. Lee
President, Linda Lee Advertising
Most people know what an editor does, but the job of publisher is often
Robert Lynch
D.C., Lynch Chiropractic
a gray area. I have been an editor several times before, but this is my first
Thomas D. McBrierty
Vice President, New England Telephone
stint as publisher, and I am learning that the publisher does all those things
Francis E. McFarland
Chief Financial Officer, The One Bancorp
no one else wants to do. For instance, for Writing About Portland, our
Carol Morris
President, Carol Morris Associates
designer, Jill Bock, wanted a photograph of a plate of old-fashioned sugar
Joseph V. O'Donnell
President, J.V. O'Donnell CPA
cookies - Pepperidge Farm just wouldn't do it, she said. I was elected to
Patricia R. Plante
President, University of Southern Maine
spend Sunday baking from Grandma's recipe. Another addition to
David Ray
Store Manager, Shop n Save
the job description.
Charles S. Rose
Vice President, S.D. Warren Co.
Wayne Ross
Director, Southern Maine Vocational-Technical Institute
Robert Ruotolo
Vice President, G.A.R. Properties
Sherley Jacks
George B. Terrien
Partner, Terrien Architects
Robert E. Vitalius
President, Fred S. James & Co.
Shirley Jacks
Roger B. Wold
Editor
Account Executive, A.G. Edwards
AUTUMN 1989
Greater Portland 3
DEAR EDITOR
Portland Stage Company
dents of southern Maine. We hope you
then we feasted on lasagne most Sunday
will include us in any future profiles of
mornings- Saturday-night leftovers.
Dear Editor,
Greater Portland.
She had the gall to go out garbage picking
and found a baby crib (needed for Dar-
On behalf of everyone at Portland Stage
James Donovan
ien). She discovered a part was missing
Company, I want to thank you for pub-
President
and went back the next day to ask for the
lishing Anne Rugh's extensive and skill-
Osteopathic Hospital of Maine
missing part.
fully reported backstage tour of our the-
She painted her shoes with dye to
atre (Spring '89). It isn't often that an or-
Ann Brahms Grown Up
match a dress to attend a fancy dinner at
ganization as complex and idiosyncratic
the Drake Hotel, and when the dye leaked
as Portland Stage is so completely under-
Dear Editor,
off as she stepped into a puddle outside
stood and so accurately portrayed. It is a
the hotel, she removed the shoes, buried
pleasure to work in a city that has such in-
Ann Brahms ("The Neighborhood,"
them in a potted palm in the lobby, and
telligent enthusiasm and support for the
Summer 1989) is a friend of mine. Our
went to dinner barefooted. On leaving,
arts.
husbands brought two doubtful women
she casually dug them up and took them
together (babes at the time) back in 1959 or
Richard Hamburger
home. In those days, money was tight.
so. Because the guys were should
Artistic Director
So when Greater Portland came today
be pals. It worked.
Portland Stage Company
- you can imagine my pride in her - so
We (all four of us) spent a great deal of
please put me on your subscriber list. I
time playing jacks or cards and eating
can't miss this - a zany lady who de-
Cost of Living
Sara Lee goodies 'n Pepsi, as we had ba-
serves a break is getting it!
bies and no sitter. Really didn't want any,
Is she getting paid for this? Maybe I'll
Dear Editor,
as I recall.
start calling her collect! Congratulations
Later this lady and family and dog
We at the Osteopathic Hospital of
on seeing her worth. Best of luck.
drove from Chicago to Peoria all during
Maine enjoyed Lisa Derman's recent ar-
her pregnancy with daughter Darien be-
Pat Wheeler
ticle on the high quality of life in Greater
cause this is where her GYN was. (She did
Peoria, IL
Portland ("Is the Cost of Living Really
not trust the GYNs of Chicago.) We were
Worth It?") in your Summer 1989 issue.
living in a very small house with no base-
While we were pleased to read on
The Neighborhood
ment. She had three children and one dog;
page 21 that Portland has "a teaching
I had two children, one dog, one cat, two
hospital," we assume the writer was refer-
Dear Editor,
gerbils and a raccoon. We fed our children
ring to the Maine Medical Center, and feel
proper diets and Ann drank her juice, but
I read the article titled "The Neighbor-
we must share the following information
hood" in your summer 1989 issue with so
for the benefit of your readers.
much pleasure that I had to write a note of
The Osteopathic Hospital of Maine is
appreciation.
also a fully-accredited acute care teaching
Ann Allen Brahms ability to recall the
hospital, providing internship and resi-
details about life in the early 40s allows
dency training programs for all osteo-
the reader to literally "see" Spruce Street
pathic medical college graduates, as well
and be there with her, reliving those times
as clinical rotations for the students of
ourselves. Throughout the article I caught
Maine's only medical school, the Univer-
myself smiling over scenes she described,
sity of New England College of Osteo-
acknowledging their authenticity by say-
pathic Medicine in Biddeford. For fifty
ing to myself, "Yes. That is just the way it
years, graduates of our intern and resi-
was." In conversations with friends who
dency programs have settled in Maine,
read the same issue they would chuckle in
particularly in the Greater Portland area,
agreement as they recalled similar experi-
and have become an integral part of the
ences themselves.
state's health care delivery system.
1936
Ienjoyed Ms. Brahms article and would
We are proud of our institution and
love to see more.
the strong reputation we have earned as a
family-oriented community hospital pro-
No
R. Young
viding quality health care for the resi-
Portland, ME
4 Greater Portland
1989 AUTUMN
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ENTERTAINMENT
GUIDE
Andrew Wyeth's "Breakfast at
Olsons" from the exhibition
Andrew Wyeth in Maine:
Selections from the Holly and
Arthur Magill Collection, on
view through September 24 at the
Portland Museum of Art
Carbur's. 123 Middle Street, Portland. Twenty-
Holiday Inn By the Bay. 88 Spring Street, Port-
page menu features sandwiches, hearty soups,
land. Full menu featuring seafood, steaks, and
and salads. Open daily for lunch and dinner.
salad bar. Liveentertainment. Monday through
772-7794.
Saturday. 775-2311.
Dock Fore. 336 Fore Street, Portland. Home-
Horsefeathers. 193 Middle Street, Portland. An
made specialties include burgers, steamers, and
appetite for excellence. Serving from 11:30 a.m.
mussels. Open daily for lunch and dinner. 772-
until a quarter to midnight. Fresh fish black-
8619.
board specials. 773-3501.
Garnishes. Maine Mall, South Portland. Up-
Horsefeathers. Just south of Freeport Village.
stairs at Jordan Marsh, serving lunch and early
Regional American cuisine. Serving from 11:30
dinner in a modern-art dining area. 774-5431.
a.m. until a quarter to midnight. Fresh fish
blackboard specials. 865-4005.
Illustrations by Berry Manter
Gorham Station. 29 Elm Street, Gorham. A
restored railroad station is now an elegant res-
Inn at Goose Rocks. Dyke Road and Route 9,
taurant. Serving steaks and seafood. Call for
Kennebunkport. Provides a country-style at-
DINING
hours. 839-3354.
mosphere with a superb selection of classic
entrees. Daily breakfast and dinner; Sunday
The Great Lost Bear. 540 Forest Avenue, Port-
brunch. Dinner reservations suggested. Carrie
MOSTLY AMERICAN
land. Featuring award-winning chili, home-
Colatrane at the piano in the lounge Friday and
made desserts and soups. Seasonal patio seat-
Saturday evenings. 967-5425.
ing in Bearadise Alley. Lunch, dinner, and
The Barnhouse Tavern. Route 302, North
Sunday champagne brunch. 772-0300.
Jameson Tavern. 115 Main Street, Freeport.
Windham. Steaks and seafood served in a re-
Great steaks and fresh seafood. Atmosphere
stored barn, just twelve miles from Portland.
Harbor House Restaurant. Mile Road, Wells.
emphasizes colonial roots. 865-4196.
Lunch and dinner daily. 892-2221.
Offers casual dining with a variety of entrees to
satisfy every taste. Lunch and dinner daily, 11
John Martin's Manor. 700 Main Street, South
Cadillac Jack's. 442 Fore Street, Portland. Bar &
to 11. Also, Misty's Lounge features nightly
Portland. Seafood, steaks, and American cui-
Grill. American fare: hamburgers, wings, fish
piano entertainment and wide-screen TV. 646-
sine. Banquet facilities also available. Open
sandwiches, famous barbecue pork sandwich.
9040.
daily for breakfast, lunch, and dinner. 775-
774-7466.
5642.
6 Greater Portland
1989 AUTUMN
Michel's at Exit 8. 202 Larrabee Road,
Westbrook. Seafood, steaks, and Italian spe-
cialties served daily for lunch and dinner. 854-
9496.
The Penny$aver Delivers
Moose Crossing Restaurant. 270 U.S. Route 1,
Serving
Falmouth (three miles north of Portland). Re-
laxed cabin atmosphere. Featuring fresh Maine
seafood, aged Iowa beef; mesquite grilling.
South
Teriyaki steak, grilled salmon, "house favor-
ites." Children's menu available. Visa, MC, and
PENNY$AVE
TOTAL MARKET COVERAGE!
That's what you get with the PennySaver,
Scarborough and So. Portland's community
American Express accepted. Reservations ac-
newspaper. Mail your message to over 16,000
cepted for parties of five or more. 781-4771.
families each week and get results fast!
The Muddy Rudder. Route 1, Yarmouth. A
selection of American favorites, served over-
Call 883-4149 Today.
looking tidal waters and waves of sea grass.
Serving lunch and dinner daily from 11 a.m. to
1 a.m. 846-3082.
Results
Narcissa Stone Restaurant. 10 Water Street,
Brunswick. Located in Captain Daniel Stone
Inn. Open daily for breakfast, lunch, and din-
ner. 725-9898.
Ocean's Edge Restaurant in the Shawmut Inn.
Kennebunkport. Spectacular dining experience
The best things in
overlooking the ocean. Breakfast, lunch, and
dinner daily; Sunday brunch. Extensive wine
luxury apartment life
list and fabulous dessert cart. Dinner reserva-
tions suggested. Nightly entertainment with
are three:
Jorge Garcia at the piano. 967-3931.
Raoul's Roadside Attraction. 865 Forest Ave-
nue, Portland. Serving hamburgers, soups, and
sandwiches. Open Monday through Saturday
Management Resources,
for lunch and dinner; Sunday, dinner only. 775-
2494.
Maine's premiere housing
specialist, has three great
Red Sands. Route 302, North Windham. Home-
cooked meals served in a home-like atmos-
ways to feel at home.
phere. Meals are complemented by homemade
bread and appetizers such as lobster stew. No
Tamarlane, minutes from Port-
credit cards accepted. 892-9872.
land, with two tennis courts and
Reidy's, F. Parker. 83 Exchange Street, Port-
a pool. Elegant townhouses
land. Specializing in steak and seafood combi-
nations. Lunch and dinner, Monday through
and capes. Private
Tamarlane.
Saturday; Sunday, dinner only. Late-night
showings avail-
menu. 733-4731.
able. On Canco
The Rib Room. 157 High Street, Portland. At
Rd., off Washing-
the Sonesta Hotel. Gourmet dining in an ele-
gant atmosphere. Selections include veal, prime
ton Ave. in Portland. Call 774-8664.
rib, and seafood specialties. Dinner served seven
days a week. Reservations and all major credit
Baywood, nestled in a pine forest in
cards accepted. 775-5411.
Yarmouth, offers one and two bedroom
Rozzi's Fire Barn. Route 302, North Windham.
luxury townhouses. Pri-
Steaks and burgers served in a renovated fire
barn. Lunch and dinner; banquet space avail-
vate showings available.
able. 892-8304.
Pleasant Street off Rt. 88.
Ruby's Choice. 116 Free Street, Portland.
Call 846-5171.
Gourmet hamburgers. Freshly baked buns,
Baywood.
fresh ground beef daily. Soup and salad bar,
At Back Cove Estates you
homemade desserts. Three separate dining
can shop downtown and
areas open 7 a.m. to 11 p.m. daily. Takeout. 773-
9099.
never miss a sail. Spectacular
Smith Farm. 226 Gray Road, West Falmouth.
views of the skyline and Back
Country-style cooking in barn-board atmos-
Cove. Unique and attractive
phere. Menu spotlights the Roast Turkey Feast
and other home-style meals. Open daily 11:30
interiors. Private showings
to 8:30 for lunch and dinner. 797-3034.
available. Enter from Ocean
Ave. in Portland. Call 774-8842.
South Portland Marketplace. 100 Maine Mall
Road, South Portland. Steaks and seafood
Back Cove Estates.
served around a giant salad bar. Serving lunch
and dinner, daily specials. 772-3754.
Squire Morgan's. 46 Market Street, Portland.
Management
Pizza and gourmet subs in an atmosphere of
Resources, Inc.
hunting trophies and other curious artifacts.
Lunch, Monday through Saturday; dinner,
seven nights a week. 774-5246.
428 Cumberland Ave., Portland, Maine 04101, 774-8830
AUTUMN 1989
Greater Portland 7
Tony Roma's A Place For Ribs. U.S. Route 1 at
Custom-made salads. Open daily for breakfast,
Exit 7 extension, South Portland. A restaurant
lunch, and dinner. 774-5611.
of casual decor, genuine cordiality, and reason-
able prices. Serving our world-famous ribs,
Zackery's. Holiday Inn West, Exit 8, Portland.
judged the number one rib in America at the
Featuring American favorites, light meals, and
1987 national rib cook-off. Other menu items
a cocktail lounge. Lunch and dinner daily. 774-
include fish, steak, barbecued shrimp-on-a-
5601.
skewer, and onion rings served in a loaf. Daily
luncheon specials and takeout available. Open
7 days a week, 11 to 11. MasterCard, Visa,
American Express. 761-4211.
Valle's Steak House. 1150 Brighton Avenue,
Our
Portland. Just off Exit 8 of the Maine Turnpike.
Specializing in steaks at reasonable prices. Also
serving seafood and American favorites in a
family atmosphere. Breakfast, lunch, and din-
Maine
ner daily. 774-4551.
Westcustogo Inn. Rt. 88 and Prince's Point
Road, Yarmouth. Southern barbecue cooking
- roasted meats over a wood fire. Also serving
Squeeze
more traditional fare. All-you-can-eat buffet
served Friday and Saturday, to9; lunch served
Tuesday through Saturday, 11:30 to 2:30; Sun-
day brunch served 11:30 to 4:00. 846-5797.
Winchester's. Maine Mall, South Portland.
ASIAN
Serving American food and light fare. Open
daily for lunch and dinner. 772-0861.
Afghan Restaurant. 629 Congress Street, Port-
The Wonderbar. 12 Washington Street, Bidde-
land. Afghani cooking served in a family set-
ford (1 mile east of Turnpike Exit 4). Fresh
ting. Bring your own beer or wine. Serving
native seafood, lobster, prime rib, and steaks.
dinner Monday through Saturday. 773-3431.
Daily luncheon and dinner specials. Banquet
facilities; reservations. 282-9926.
Hu Ke Lau. Maine Mall Road, South Portland.
Chinese and American cuisine, family dining,
Yankee Clipper. 1230 Congress Street, Port-
and banquet facilities. Located behind Sears at
land. At the Ramada Inn, featuring down-east
the Maine Mall. 775-6388.
dishes along with a variety of beef selections.
Milk from Maine. For
over 60 years, we've
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1989 AUTUMN
Hu Shang II. 11 Brown Street, Portland. Orien-
tal cuisine, including Szechuan, Hunan, Shang-
hai, and Mandarin selections. Open seven days
a week. 774-0800.
Hu Shang III. 29 Exchange Street, Portland. In
the center of the Old Port, Oriental cuisine in a
sophisticated atmosphere. 773-0300.
Pagoda. 5 Forest Avenue, Portland. Specializ-
ing in Szechuan and combination dinners. Open
daily for lunch and dinner. 773-5071.
Peking Gardens. 300 Main Street, South Port-
land. Specializing in Szechuan and Cantonese
cuisine. Open daily for lunch and dinner. 799-
8170.
Restaurant Sapporo. 24 Free Street, Portland.
Authentic Japanese cuisine in a pleasant at-
mosphere. Specialties include sushi, tempura,
and teriyaki. Call for hours. 772-1233.
Shiki Japanese Restaurant. 111 Middle Street,
Portland. Japanese cuisine in an intimate at-
mosphere. Japanese and domestic beer and
wine. Open for lunch and dinner; call for hours.
772-4254.
Taj Mahal Indian Restaurant. 43 Middle Street,
Portland. Authentic Indian food spiced to serve
a variety of preferences. Serving dinner Tues-
HARRASEEKET
day through Saturday. Major credit cards ac-
INN
The Harraseeket Inn
cepted. 773-4498.
FREEPORT.
MAINE
A luxury country inn.
Fine food
Spirits
Lodging
Two blocks north of L.L. Bean
162 Main Street - Freeport, Maine - 207-865-9377
Exit 20 off I-95
BISTROS, CAFES AND DELIS
Ben & Jerry's. 97 Exchange Street, Portland.
All-natural gourmet ice cream. Thirty-five fla-
vors. Ice cream cones, sodas, sundaes, desserts,
plus cappuccino and expresso in a fun-filled
atmosphere. 773-3222.
Cafe Cornerbrook. Cornerbrook Shopping
Plaza, opposite the Maine Mall, South Port-
land. An urban restaurant serving homemade
soups, pasta, and seafood salads. Open from 11
Meat so tender it practically
to 11. 772-3224.
falls off the bone.
Della's Catessen. 9 Deering Avenue, Portland.
Gourmet deli and specialty food items from
US 1 at Exit 7 South Portland
around the world. Homemade soups, pastas,
salads, and sandwiches. Open 11 to 7, Monday
Open every day 7AM to 11PM
through Saturday; closed Sunday. Delivery
Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner
service. 773-2624.
Takeout Available
Foodworks. 100 Commercial Street, Portland.
761-4211
Gourmet takeout and cafeteria. Homemade
breads, soups, desserts. Daily entree items and
salads. Delivery is available. Open 7 to 6,
Monday through Friday; Saturday, 8 to 5. 773-
9741.
TONY ROMA'S
Fore Street Deli. 342 Fore Street, Portland.
Featuring sandwiches, bagels, and light break-
A PLACE FOR RIBS
fasts. Open Monday through Saturday. 772-
4500.
®
AUTUMN 1989
Greater Portland 9
Full Belly Deli. 930 Brighton Avenue Plaza,
Portland. Featuring corned beef and hot pas-
trami, homemade potato salad, coleslaw, soups,
chopped liver. Eat in or take out. Open Monday
When it rains,
through Saturday, 7 a.m. to 9 p.m. 772-1227.
The Good Egg Cafe. 705 Congress Street, Port-
land. Serving breakfast until 11 a.m. daily.
it stains!
Hearty and inventive egg dishes, homemade
pastries, and fresh ground coffee in a Bohemian
cafe. 773-0801.
Green Mountain Coffee Roasters. 15 Temple
Street, Portland. Gourmet deli featuring ba-
gels, desserts, and a variety of coffees. No alco-
hol. 773-4475.
Hugo's Portland Bistro. 88 Middle Street,
Portland. Fine food, exceptional Irish coffee,
unusual furnishings. 774-8538.
Madd Apple Cafe. 23 Forest Avenue, Portland.
American bistro with a Southern accent, offer-
ing a changing menu with specialties including
crawfish and fettuccine, steak New Orleans,
boudin blanc, veal chop dijonnaise, red beans and
rice. Chef owned and operated. Serving lunch
and dinner. Beer and wine available. Reserva-
tions accepted. 774-9698.
Mr. Bagel Mall Plaza. 220 Maine Mall Road,
South Portland. New York-style deli, 12 varie-
ties of bagels, 7 varieties of cream cheese. Pizza
bagels, bagel dogs, fresh croissants, muffins,
cookies, cake, homemade soups. Home and
office catering. Monday through Friday, 6:30-
5:00; Saturday, 7-3; Sunday, 773-3238. FAX:
773-0070.
Portland Wine and Cheese. 8 Forest Avenue,
Portland. Pates, cheeses, and deli stuff avail-
able for takeout or to eat in. Exotic sandwiches
a specialty. Wine available for takeout only.
Serving lunch Monday through Saturday. 772-
4647.
Scooter's. 106 Exchange Street, Portland. Sand-
wiches, soups, and creative entrees. An out-
door patio opens for the milder months. Open
daily for breakfast, lunch, and dinner. 772-
7115.
24928
Acid rain can harm the finish of your car.
Having your car washed weekly is your best
insurance policy against acid rain and rusting.
CONTINENTAL/NEW AMERICAN
Alberta's. Two locations: 27 Forest Avenue,
"Fill-It-Up, Please"
and 21 Pleasant Street, Portland. Fresh seafood
and specialties prepared on a charcoal grill and
served with homemade soups, breads, and
1185 Forest Ave., Portland
The Right Touch
desserts, featuring "Death by Chocolate." Full
bar at Forest Avenue restaurant; beer and wine
Mall Plaza, So. Portland
are availableat Pleasant Street restaurant. Lunch
and dinner daily. 774-5408.
RR Overpass, Route One Biddeford
CAR WASH
Back Bay Grill. 65 Portland Street, Portland.
Tuesday through Thursday, 5:30 to 9:30; Sun-
day, 6 to 9; closed Monday. 772-8833.
10
Greater Portland
1989 AUTUMN
Steward-
sh
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At Great Northern Paper, we believe that we hold our forestlands
in trust for future generations. We take that mission very seriously.
So we conserve forest and water resources.
We practice responsible land management.
We use modern forestry techniques to improve yields and
wildlife habitat.
That's one of the advantages of being in the wood business.
When your product takes
half a century to create,
you learn to take the
Great Northern Paper
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a company of
Great Northern Nekoosa Corporation
The Baker's Table. 434 Fore Street, Portland.
European and American cooking styles. Din-
ners feature bouillabaisse, veal dishes, and fresh
Shirley M. Allen
fish. Lunches are unique - quick cafeteria
service, homemade soups, hearty stews and
INDEPENDENT TELEMARKETING
chowders. Always fresh desserts from the Port
Bakehouse. 775-0303.
The Blue Moon. 425 Fore Street, Portland. Open
7 days a week, 11:30 a.m. to 11 p.m. 871-0663.
Brattle Street Restaurant. 19 Brattle Street,
400 Main Street
Portland. Gourmet French food served. Lunch,
Gorham, Maine 04038
Monday through Friday; dinner, Tuesday
"
through Saturday. 772-4658.
207-839-6511
Cafe Always. 47 Middle Street, Portland.
Modern American cuisine prepared by owner-
chef Cheryl Lewis. Homemade bread, pasta,
ice cream, and pastries prepared daily on the
premises. Entrees reflect the cuisines of Thai-
land, France, Mexico, Northern Italy, and New
Orleans. Dinner nightly, 5 to 10; closed Mon-
day. Reservations suggested. 774-9399.
Every dealer
Camp Hammond Restaurant and Meeting
says:
Center. 74 Main Street, Yarmouth. Gourmet
menu changes weekly in this Victorian man-
"Computers will
sion. Specializing in private parties and confer-
ences. Open Tuesday through Saturday for
dinner; Tuesday through Friday for lunch.
better your
Reservations appreciated. 846-3895.
business"
The Olde House. Route 85, Raymond. North-
ern Italian, French, German, Russian, and other
European and American styles of cuisine are
represented on the menu. Specialties include
Only
beef Wellington, tournedos, and swordfish
almondine. Also serving homemade desserts,
including profiteroles, and an extensive selec-
Valcom guarantees it.
tion of wines. Serving dinner 5 to 10; lunch 11 to
2. 655-7841.
The West Side. 59 Pine Street, Portland: Inno-
vatively prepared meals. Homemade breads,
ValCom is the only Maine computer dealer that offers you a
pastries, and soups served in an intimate and
complete unconditional 90-day guarantee.
casually elegant atmosphere, or on the patio.
What exactly do we promise?
Vegetarian selections are available. Serving
lunch and dinner, also Saturday and Sunday
"We guarantee your complete satisfaction with
brunches. 773-8223.
all Valcom Supported products and services for
90 days from date of purchase. If not completely
satisfied we will: Take return and replace the
product; repeat the service; or refund your
purchase price, as you wish."
So let ValCom show you how computers can make your
business more productive, efficient and profitable. We
guarantee you'll like the results.
ValCom Business Center
470 Forest Avenue
Portland, Maine 04101
Call 775-5055;
GREEK
800-242-4336 statewide
Christopher's. 688 Forest Avenue, Portland. A
new restaurant featuring Greek cuisine in a
Business
contemporary setting. Specialties include baked
lamb and shish kebab. Serving lunch, Monday
through Friday; dinner, seven days a week.
Authorized
Products
CENTER
772-6877.
Advanced
Dealer
work
Trojan Horse Restaurant. 675 Congress Street,
ValCom is an autho-
BUSINESS Putting computerbusiness. for to
Portland. Gourmet and classic Greek cuisine,
fresh seafood and charbroiled steaks. Outdoor
rized business partner
dining available in season. Serving breakfast,
featuring the IBM® PS/2
lunch, and dinner until 9:30 p.m. Closed Tues-
family of personal computers.
days. 772-9530.
12
Greater Portland
1989 AUTUMN
Sterling Silver Wildflower
Bracelet $99
ITALIAN
MEXICAN
Earrings $26
Anjon's. 521 U.S. Route 1, Scarborough. Serv-
Amigo's. 9 Dana Street, Portland. A complete
ing Italian food, steaks, and seafood. Enjoy
Mexican feast in stucco surroundings. Located
complimentary side of their homemade Italian
in the Old Port. Lunch and dinner, Tuesday
stuffed breads. Fine wine selection. Open daily,
through Saturday; closed Sunday and Mon-
11 to 10. 883-9562.
day. 772-0772.
Bruno's. 35 India Street, Portland. Specializing
Dos Locos. 92 Exchange Street, Portland. Lo-
in Italian and American food. Open daily for
cated in Portland's Old Port, Dos Locos offers a
lunch and dinner. 773-3530.
varied Mexican menu complete with appetiz-
ers, full meals, and a full bar, all at reasonable
Esposito's. 1335 Congress Street, Portland. The
prices. Takeout available. Open 7 days a week.
only log cabin on Congress Street. Steak sand-
775-6267.
wiches and Italian cuisine are the specialties.
Credit cards not accepted. Serving lunch and
El Mirador. 50 Wharf Street, Portland. In the
dinner daily. 772-9167.
Old Port. The menu includes a variety of sea-
food, beef, chicken, and chorizo dishes pre-
Giobbi's. One Danforth Street, Portland. Ital-
pared in authentic Mexican style, including
ian dishes and seafood served in a family set-
mole poblano adobo and black bean soup. Open
ting. Lunch and dinner daily. 772-0873.
Monday through Wednesday, 11:30 to 10;
d. cole jewelers
Thursday through Saturday, 11:30 to 11; and
Luna D'Oro. 41 Middle Street, Portland. Re-
Sunday, 4 to 10. 871-0050.
10 Exchange St., Portland
gional Italian cuisine attentively prepared by
772-5119
chef-owner. Served by candlelight in a roman-
tic Old World atmosphere. Dinner only, Tues-
day through Saturday, 5:30 to 10. 774-2972.
Maria's Ristorante. 337 Cumberland Avenue,
is the specialty of the house. Reservations are
MORONG
VW, Mazda, Porsche, Audi,
Portland. Italian dishes served with style. Veal
U.S. Route One, Falmouth
781-4020
suggested. 772-9232.
FAMOUTH
"Your Dealer For Life!!"
Raphael's. 36 Market Street, Portland. Serving
Sales, Service & Body Shop
Northern Italian food. Reservations preferred.
773-4500.
The Roma. 769 Congress Street, Portland. Clas-
sic Italian dining. A series of small dining rooms
creates an intimate, formal atmosphere. Serv-
Porsches Are Affordable
ing lunch and dinner. 773-9873.
Sportsman's Grill. 905 Congress Street, Port-
land. Italian-American cuisine, featuring spa-
ghetti. 772-9324.
Verrillo's. 155 Riverside Street, Portland. Just
off Exit 8 of the Maine Turnpike. Serving Ital-
ian-American cuisine and a variety of seafood
dishes. Family specials on Sunday. 775-6536.
Village Cafe. 112 Newbury Street, Portland.
Serving Italian-American dishes. Specialty of
the house is fried clams. Lunch and dinner,
Monday through Saturday. 772-5320.
Only
$462.10%month
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AUTUMN 1989
Greater Portland
13
Tortilla Flat. 1871 Forest Avenue, Portland.
Mexican food served in a family setting. Gringo
selections also available. Serving from 11:30 to
10, Monday through Thursday; 11:30 to 11,
Friday and Saturday; and 4 to 10, Sunday. 797-
8729.
When you want
state of the art equipment
without making the
capital investment.
MOSTLY SEAFOOD
NORTHEAST
EASING CO., INC.
Boone's. Custom House Wharf, Portland.
Specializing in seafood and American cuisine.
Lunch served until 4 daily; dinner nightly. 774-
5725.
P.O. Box 3877, 24 City Center, Portland, Maine 04104
In Maine, 1-800-433-9700, Local 773-5309, Out of State 1-207-773-5309
The Bridgeway. 71 Ocean Street, South Port-
Fax 207-773-7958
land. Seafood, steaks, and American cuisine.
Lunch, Monday through Saturday; dinner
nightly. 799-5418.
Member of
Subsidiary of
EAEL
/AEL
Cap'n Newick's Lobster House. 740 Broad-
Peoples Heritage Bank
way, South Portland. Seafood very reasonably
American Association of Equipment Lessors
MEMBER FDIC
priced. Also steaks and chicken. Informal fam-
ily-style atmosphere. Closed Mondays. 799-
3090.
Channel Crossing. 231 Front Street, South
Portland. Seafood, steaks, and cocktails with a
view of the Portland skyline. Open daily for
lunch and dinner. 799-5552.
DiMillo's Floating Restaurant. Long Wharf,
uality office space now
Portland. Serving seafood and steaks. Special-
izing in lobster. Open daily. 772-2216.
available in historic office
Down East Village Restaurant. Routè 1, Yar-
mouth. Maine seafood specialties. Open for
buildings in Portland's
breakfast, lunch, and dinner. 846-5161.
financial district. Our
The Galley. 215 Foreside Road, Falmouth. On
Route 88 at Handy Boat, The Galley offers
buildings offer spectacular
Casco Bay from a different angle. Serving fresh
seafood and American standards. Lunch and
views of Portland Harbor,
dinner daily. 781-4262.
Back Cove and the White
J's Oyster Bar. 5 Portland Pier, Portland. This
bar serves oysters, steamed clams, and other
just-off-the-boat seafood. Open seven days and
Mountains, 24-hour security
nights a week. 772-4828.
and an in house
Lobster Shack. 246 Two Lights Road, Cape
Elizabeth. Fresh seafood served picnic-style or
maintenance staff.
in the dining room overlooking the pounding
surf. 799-1677.
Contact Jim Van Valkenburgh
The Red Snapper Restaurant. 396 Fore Street,
Portland. Sea Grille and Oyster Bar. Fresh sea-
Certified Property Manager
food from the Gulf of Maine to the South Pa-
cific, flown in daily. 773-4363.
Monument Square Associates
Seamen's Club. 375 Fore Street, Portland. Serv-
477 Congress Street
ing steaks, seafood, and other American en-
trees. Also serving award-winning Bloody
MONUMENT SQUARE
Portland, Maine 04101
Marys. 772-7311.
The Silver Shell. 363 Maine Mall Road, South
207-772-0688
Portland. In the Sheraton Tara Hotel, The Silver
Shell features seafood and New England cui-
1989 AUTUMN
sine. Breakfast, lunch, and dinner daily. 775-
0555.
Snow Squall. 18 Ocean Avenue, South Port-
land. Seafood prepared in endless variations
and served amidst a forest of Boston fern. Lo-
cated on the South Portland waterfront. Ban-
quet facilities available. 799-2232.
Village
Portland's #1 Family Restaurant
Come in to see why the Village
Cafe was voted the number one
family restaurant for three years
in a row by a readers poll done
by the Portland Press Herald.
The Village Cafe has been pleas-
NIGHT LIFE
ing families for over 50 years
with its fine Italian dishes,
Choice Sirloins, and Fresh Sea-
Boothby Square Tavern. 330 Fore Street, Port-
foods. Quality for a reasonable
land. Folk, soft rock, duos and singles. Tues-
day, Friday, and Saturday, 9 to 1. 773-8900.
price.
Mon. - Thurs. 11 A.M. - 10:30 P.M.
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Fri. & Sat. 11 A.M. 11:30 P.M.
Theater, Dance, and Mime; Live Music;
Closed Sunday
112 Newbury Street
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Portland, ME
Places; Parks and Beaches; Special Events;
772-5320
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press
shown
6'
cott Vile grasps the handle of the
bread and butter. The other sixty to seventy per-
S
waist-high letterpress at his 20
cent, "I do what I want to do," he says. This year
Danforth Street shop and rolls
that has included a twenty-five-copy edition of
the copper cylinder, bringing
seven poems by Portland resident Johannah
paper and type into contact. The
Bomster entitled The Men in My Life: A Cenozoic
pristine sheet emerges bearing
Series, listing at $150, and viva sweet love, eleven
two rows of neat red print. He
poems by ee cummings in a ninety-copy edition
holds the paper at an angle to
ranging in price from $50 to $125, depending on
show me where the pressure of
cover and number of etchings.
black
lead type has raised the
George Benington, full-time commercial pho-
sky
that
a
see
the
edges
could
his
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paper's surface slightly
tographer, is publisher of the whimsically titled
of
was
drawn
toward
against
on the underside. Set-
light,
Coyote Love Press, and shares space with Vile.
les
and
chased
the
any
moon
stars,
that
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most
made
beliked
ting the type, inking it,
Jeffrey Haste, bookbinder, operates Muse Press
hone,
he
climbed
even
his
dark
to
reach
wings
rolling the press, "it's
farther up the block at 34 Danforth. More than a
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century ago, the long brick structure was full of
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it
on
says happily.
J.B. Brown's molasses. Now it serves artists the
For at least two
way Exchange Street and Fore Street buildings
moment
decades, Maine has
did in the 1970s.
drawn people who see it as a place to nourish a
Vile and Benington both spent summers here
dream. Especially if making money isn't the main
in their youth. It seemed a good place to pursue a
point. "In Maine people are all in mufti," says a
dream. "Portland, even Maine, has a pretty tight
friend. The area, and the city, has a high propor-
community of artists and writers," Benington says.
tion of independent spirits in the arts.
With nine small presses, Maine has more devoted
At Carlson & Turner's bookstore on Congress
to fine printing per capita than any other state.
Street, halfway up Munjoy Hill, or Allen Scott's
None of their publications is destined for
on Exchange Street, Cunningham's near the Roma,
Waldenbook's power aisle, that position in the
or O'Brien's at the bottom of High Street, biblio-
1200-chain bookstore which increases sales
philes congregate, drawn by the lure of antiquar-
twenty-five percent. They aren't even trying to
ian books - used, rare, out-of-print.
get in the door. These beauties go to collectors,
But books need not be old to be beautiful, and
libraries with special collections of fine-press
a raft of extraordinary mortals are proving it. At a
books, and yes, antiquarian bookstores. Nor do
time when multiple revolutions in print technol-
their printers expect to strike it rich, at least not in
ogy have rendered last year's print shops obso-
fine printing. "I haven't figured out a way to make
lete, a back-to-basic-bookmaking movement has
a living from it yet," grins Benington. All support
been burbling steadily in northern New England.
themselves with other, usually fine-art-related,
Since the early 1970s, printers, papermakers, bind-
enterprises. The publications of Portland's fine
ers, calligraphers, illustrators, writers - dream-
printers are labors of love.
ers all - have contributed to a renaissance of fine
Take Benington's Voice Prints, a collection of
printing and the Book Beautiful. Portland is one of
poetry by David Walker, with etchings by Tho-
its centers. Danforth Street is a place where they
mas Cornell. It was four years in the making, from
congregate.
conception to finish. It is set in Monotype Bembo,
"This is what I was I eant to do," says Vile, a
and printed in three different editions (24 on
graduate of the Rochester School of Technology
paper handmade in England; 75 on paper hand-
who gave up an eight-year career in print man-
made in France; 500 in an offset trade edition). The
agement to start his own press. The more educa-
99 best copies were handbound by Jeffrey Haste
tion he had, the more he groomed himself for a
in Niger goatskin with vellum corners and deco-
white-collar career he found he didn't want.
rated paper.
Ten to twelve hours a day, seven days a week,
"There's an incredible satisfaction to setting
Vile rolls back history, making books, broadsides,
type by hand, inking it by hand, and pulling a
announcements, and invitations at The Ascensius
good clean proof of it," Benington says. Although
Press the old-fashioned way - letter by letter,
he has a substantial portfolio, he estimates his
sheet by sheet. Thirty to forty percent of his time
annual output at about two publications.
TITLES IN BEMBO BY SCOTT VILE
he devotes to commercial printing to earn the
Benington is primarily self-taught. Describing
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Greater Portland
1989 AUTUMN
the process, he says of his first work, "Immedi-
manager, died in 1969. "Fred had a feel for things
ately upon finishing, you realize it's terrible. By
like nobody else," says Shagbark Press Co-owner
the second book, you know you know nothing."
Gwen Milliken, a former Anthoensen employee,
These bookmakers look at the printed page in a far
"and he was strong on ornamentation." An-
different way than I. Benington's first book looked
thoensen was a major link in New England to the
fine to me.
revival of fine printing which had begun with the
"The design of the typeface has a great deal to
1880s Arts and Crafts Movement in England.
do with the quality of a work," says David Wolfe.
Over on Danforth Street, the printers set let-
Wolfe runs the presses at Shagbark Press in South
ters by hand, one at a time. They're good at
Portland. Not ordinary presses. These, too, are
reading lines back-
beautiful cylinder and platen presses that became
wards and upside
obsolete when the letterpress was replaced by the
down, the way they are
offset process in the 1950s. Offset is a planogra-
placed in the press. At
phic (no raised surface) photo-lithography proc-
Shagbark it' done with
ess. It's far speedier. It does not make a three-
a Linotype. Harry Mil-
dimensional impression as lead type does.
liken, who went to
"The designers, when they designed these
work for Fred An-
typefaces, were fantastic," enthuses Wolfe, show-
thoensen in 1946 after
ing me some old typographers' catalogs. "With
the service, is the best
computers, until recently all you had was com-
Linotype operator in
puter people - not typographers - designing
the business.
computer typefaces. For instance, with comput-
A Linotype is a
ers you don't get ligatures.
complex, precise ma-
"A ligature," he explains, "is a special font of
chine that casts letters
letters like 'ffi,' where the i' is up underneath the
in a row of solid lead, a
overhang, and they eliminate the dot. Ligatures
line of type. A little
should always be used in texts. With the com-
"tick!" tells Milliken a
puter companies, you can maybe - if you're
letter has fetched up
lucky - special order those."
mid-route to the foun-
Shagbark Press is a small letterpress in South
dry and back. Hestands
Portland that publishes journals, papers and other
up, flicks the right spot,
items - Phillips Exeter bookplates, for example
and the machine is off
- for very discerning customers: The Biblio-
and running again.
graphic Society of America, The American Exo-
A print shop is a
nian, The New England Quarterly, The Boston
very physical thing.
RANDY URY
Atheneum. Their presses are automated, and they
You can hear it, you can smell it in the ink and the
do make money. "There is still plenty of demand
oiled machines. You can touch it. Even the spaces
for letterpress printing," says Wolfe, despite the
on a page are something you can pick up and
lower cost of offset.
move around. They clink pleasantly when they
The shop is a living history museum of letter-
come into contact with each other.
press printing, full of carefully crafted printers'
I am beginning to comprehend the printer's
tools, from massive machines with names like
passion. Whether partially automated like Shag-
Mergenthaler Linotype and Original Heidelberg,
bark or entirely a hand operation like those on
to tiny little lead letters in the kind of printers'
Danforth Street, the letterpress print shop is a
trays that flooded flea markets in the transition to
satisfying, very hands-on place, where every
offset in the 1950s. Letterpress printing is space
aspect of the work can be controlled at any stage
intensive, the antithesis of desk-top publishing.
in the process.
Lining one aisle are 150 magazines of typefaces,
Books have been around since the fifth cen-
ligatures and all.
tury in Europe, but they weren't printed until
They came from Anthoensen Press, New
Gutenberg's Bible, in 1455. "Printing has a rela-
England's premier letterpress until the company
tively finite history," observes George Benington.
stopped printing in 1987. Fred Anthoensen, the
"Makers of fine books still turn to the fifteenth
company's legendary compositor, designer and
century for their models."
AUTUMN 1989
Greater Portland
19
Some books have no print at all - they're
which opens up in a rhythm of two-dimensional
artists' books. They, too, draw on tradition for
figures attached to opposing folds, which com-
their formats. "The accordion book is really an
bine to create a three-dimensional form.
extension of the scroll," says Marnie Cobbs. A
"It's an act of creation, making a book, like
bookbinder and restorer who lives in New Hamp-
putting yourself in a package and saying, `Here I
shire, Cobbs and Rebecca Goodale, Portland tex-
am,' " observes Cobbs. "Children love to draw
tile designer (Fig Leaf Designs) and painter, col-
pictures and put them in a book. That's where it
laborated on a book in accordion format last spring.
began for me. I had written some poems, and I
The project was designed by Cobbs and Goodale
wanted to make something beautiful to hold them.
Something beautiful to hold what you, or
somebody else, has created is the work of the
bookbinder. Although Vile, Benington, and Goo-
dale all make bindings for their books, they turn'
to Jeffrey Haste for specialty work. I found Haste
laminating museum board to make oversized
document storage folders for Maine State Library
blueprints. He is a full-time binder. "In between
here somewhere I have a print shop," he says.
Always an artist (he was painting when he
was thirteen), Haste assumes he got into books
through his sketchbooks. He is a graduate of the
Rhode Island School of Design, and was printing
engravings about ten years ago when he decided
to teach himself binding. The Guild of Bookwork-
ers in New York put him onto a new program at
RANDY URY
the University of Alabama's Institute of Book Arts
which exposed him to the full range of bookmak-
as a vehicle to teach each other what they knew
ing arts - papermaking, papermarbling, book-
about binding, painting, and the page. Silkscreen
binding, printing, and typography. After earning
was the printing medium.
an M.F.A., Haste apprenticed himself to interna-
Each told the other a story. Goodale illustrated
tionally accomplished printers and binders.
Cobbs' story with drawings, and vice versa. Four
"I never really stop being an artist," he says. "I
copies of the drawings were silkscreened in black
find when I do a lot of binding, I really want to do
and white, and a print of one was bound to a print
some printing." He and Marnie Cobbs taught a
of the other in accordion format, so that each side
14-week course at the Portland School of Art on
of the book tells a different story. Cobbs then
bookmaking, taking the students through the
hand-colored the story she had told and Goodale
whole process from paper decoration to printing
had illustrated, and vice versa. When the book
to binding, so that the final result was a printed,
was finished, their feelings about whose story
bound book. "With fine small-press work, you
was whose were well intertwined.
want all those things to be integrated, ràther than
Goodale, a prolific artist who works in several
have different aspects happen in different places,
media, comes to the book as a medium for self-
which is the way the trade is."
expression more recently than the other artists.
Haste and Cobbs, whose specialty is restora-
Her first book "of any consequence," she says,
tion of rare books from university and museum
was a vibrantly colored single edition, a turn-the-
collections, agree that in terms of the history of
pages sort of book about her 1988 trip to Montser-
binding, every book is different.
rat in the British West Indies. Since then she has
When Cobbs and I met, she was slipping a
donea number of one-of-a-kind "precious" books
lifting knife under the front cover of a big Swedish
including a bouillabaisse series of underwater
children's book in preparation for inserting new
imagery, titling the three volumes Kettle Cove,
linen on the spine (the back of the book) before
Willard Beach, and Fort Williams, the latter a vege-
resewing the pages. She pointed out that the
tarian number, she says, "just kelp." She is cur-
finished product rarely shows the steps involved
rently exploring a type of Japanese flip book
to achieve it. Beneath the cover, bindings vary
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Greater Portland
1989 AUTUMN
enormously in style, materials, workmanship.
As a painter signs the finished painting, so the
"When I take a book apart, it takes me away
bookmaker adds his signature to the colophon.
from the twentieth century," Cobbs says thought-
The colophon is that part of a fine-press book
fully. "There are so many different periods of
which lists the book's specifications - typeface,
binding. You can tell a lot about the values of a
paper, press, binding - and usually carries the
period by the way they put their books together.
signatures of the author, designer, and whoever
The Colonials made bindings that were firm and
else collaborated in its making.
well sewn, but they didn't pay much attention to
Most of the bookmakers join forces in bringing
decoration. The Victorians, on the other hand,
their art to area students, as well. Goodale and
made their books very fancy but took shortcuts
Writer Dennis Gilbert
underneath the cover."
teach an interdiscipli-
Restoration work is backbreaking, hard on the
nary course at USM,
eyes, overwhelming with details, and often ex-
"The Illuminated Auto-
Monarch Butterfly
hausting. "It's hard to put in an eight-hour day. I
biography," combining
work with another restorer one or two days a
design and creative
week just to keep from going crazy."
writing. "The books the
Collaboration with artists in related fields is
students make are
are was s black the buttend like see the en a shad so by & edge
not just common but necessary among bookmak-
beautiful," exclaims
ers. Even in a self-contained shop like The Ascen-
Goodale. "There's great satisfaction in getting
sius Press, which has a small bindery and an
something out of yourself and putting it all in a
endpaper manufacturing nook, the Book Beauti-
book." Benington and Vile teach part-time at the
ful is usually a collaborative effort.
Portland School of Art, as do Cobbs and Haste.
"Take this paper, for instance," demonstrates
They all appreciate the support of the schools in
Vile. "It's made with day lilies by Georgeanne
bringing their work to the public.
Kuhl." The paper has lots of texture, though the
I know about coffeetable books. I have art
day lilies have been manufactured long past rec-
books. But I never really looked at a page the way
ognition. "She put blue jeans in this one." Sure
these people do. "A book is such a common ob-
enough, there are snowflake-size flecks of blue
ject," says Marnie Cobbs. Even as an artist, what
against a reddish background.
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Books have meaning. "Even people who don't
The bookmakers on Danforth Street acknowl-
read like books," she comments.
edge the struggle. "Artists always argue," says
Books can be both beautiful and readable,
Haste. "That's the nature of art. The issue is sur-
Benington says. That is where the small fine press
vival, and to try to coexist without being too
comes in, bridging the artist's book and the liter-
competitive. You want to be in love with what
ary message in a very special way.
you're doing and you want to appreciate every-
I worry about a small trade press such as
body else, too.
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"If we can just keep going, it will be something
sents an important role
really great." Haste thinks for a moment.
in the tradition of the
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Greater Portland
1989 AUTUMN
WE WILL
HAVE THESE
MOMENTS
T
he New Year's Eve we did the town/the day we tore the
goal post down/we will have these moments to remember..."
The music plays softly on a scratchy little tape player
Ed Langlois carries, along with his tapes, in his
improvised briefcase a crumpled brown paper
Shop 'n Save bag. He stows the bag under the table, arrays his
tapes and papers near the player.
"The quiet walks/the noisy fun/the ballroom prize we almost
won/we will have these moments to remember..."
It is late afternoon, the heavy hour between exhausting physi-
cal therapy and early dinner at the New England Rehabilita-
tion Hospital of Portland. Langlois' audience is a small group
of men and women who he describes as "one day older than I
am." They are in wheelchairs, recuperating from broken bones
or surgery or other assaults to the body.
"Though summer turns to winter/and the present disappears/the
laughter we were glad to share/will echo through the years..."
Langlois is trim and agile, his graying hair and beard carefully
groomed. He circles the room in dancing steps. He shakes hands
all around. In a voice that is a caress, he says a few words to Mary,
to Milton, to Susan, to Bill. They anticipate the hour's pleasure;
they've been here before.
"When other nights and other days/may find us gone our separate ways
/we will have these moments to remember."
"Higgins Beach," Milton says, waving his hand. "Yes, I remember
Higgins Beach." The smile on his face is a young man's smile. For this
moment he is at the beach and it is 1939.
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Langlois takes his audience on a trip with
son Eddy, Rudy Vallee. "Vallee's an impor-
snatches of music: Artie Shaw's band play-
tant one," Langlois says. "Some people
ing "In the Mood." And questions: Who
remember when he worked in a drugstore
was Jack Benny's wife? And who was the
in Westbrook. And Arthur Fiedler music
vocalist on the Jack Benny Show? And
brings back family memories: parades,
comments: Weren't those wonderful days?
Fourth of July, picnics."
He calls what he does "Reminiscing
He has tapes of military songs, Broad-
Therapy With Words and Music," a pro-
way shows, The Hit Parade, Academy
gram designed to help "one-day-olders"
Award songs, songs with the word "rose"
remember some less painful days of
in them. And he talks about events: the
their lives.
abdication of King Edward VIII, Will Ro-
Langlois is a nostalgist who believes
gers and Wiley Post and their airplane
that memories are essential to happiness
adventures, the kidnapping of the Lind-
and well-being. "But anyone who knows
bergh baby, and prices of the '30s and '40s
me knows I live in the future. I already have
when bread was a nickel, eggs twenty-nine
something planned for 1999." The some-
cents a dozen, and steak thirty cents a pound.
thing is a big party. He has invited hordes of
"And there was penny candy, too," says
friends and acquaintances to a New Year's
a voice from the audience.
Eve gathering to welcome in the new century in
Mary Fogg, who works with the patients,
the grand ballroom of the Sonesta Hotel where he
"One man told me,
describes them as "depressed, often anxious. They
plans to dance the night away.
'I'm a father and I'm a
have not been engaged in living for a while. Some
"One of the best things that has happened to
good man and I go to
church and I'm
have organic brain disorders, or their memory is
me in 1989 up to now," says Langlois, "is that I
unclear or they are easily confused. They are often
took dancing lessons. I have never been able to
awfully sentimental.
vulnerable because of multiple losses and insults:
feel comfortable on the dance floor. In the past
Sometimes I cry a lot
illness, the death of a loved one, loneliness. And
I've stayed away from places where someone
when I think of the
they've forgotten they have been competent
might ask me to dance. Now I've learned to foxtrot
nice wonderful things
in the past."
and waltz and jitterbug to the point where I'm a
that have happened to
"But," she adds, "even when they can't re-
big showoff."
me and my family. I've
member my name or what they had for break-
Another day finds Langlois at the Maine
never enjoyed a
fast, old memories remain. Ed Langlois helps
Medical Psychiatric Center with a group of six
speaker as much as I
them bring back those memories, helps them let
men and women, aged 60 to 85, with acute psychi-
did hearing you today
themselves feel. Vivid memories are triggered
atric problems. Just as physical wounds heal best
- and I'll probably cry
almost weekly."
from the inside out, so can emotional hurts re-
remembering this."
Today's group includes Martha, a woman who
spond to echoes deep within the
can't hear the music, but when
mind and heart.
the psychiatric nurse (who is
For Langlois, musicis the key.
always present) writes on a pad
"I turned on my radio when I
of paper the words to a song or
was nine years old," he says, "and
the question Langlois has posed,
I never turned it off." From his
Martha is first with the answer.
extensive music library he has
Vicki has joined the group
prepared more than 60 special
several times. She misses her late
programs on tape, with 20 or 30
husband. The music makes her
seconds of a song to trigger a
cry. She apologizes, but says the
series of carefully prepared ques-
crying makes her feel better.
tions designed to involve the
Jim is at the hospital for evalu-
audience in remembering. He
ation. He believes his memory is
has tapes that revolve around
gone, but he smiles when he is
the Big Bands, the Mills Broth-
able to finish Langlois' story
ers, Gene Autry, Shirley Temple,
about how Eddie Cantor became
Jeannette MacDonald and Nel-
involved with President Fran-
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Greater Portland
29
-
"I see therapy in
nostalgia and
memories. I watch for
patients who are keep-
ing time with their feet
or fingers. It tells me
that the music is get-
ting to them. Many
times they ask for a
special song. Once the
entire audience wanted
to hear Hoagy
Carmichael's "Star-
dust", so I brought in
four different versions
and we all sat around
and enjoyed listening
to all four. Once a
patient told me she
hadn't been hugged
since her husband
died, but that day I
had hugged her with
music. Oh what a feel-
ing it gives me!"
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klin D. Roosevelt in the March of Dimes.
car (a '63 pink Thunderbird). I never ever
The most important point of the hour,
get up in the morning without thinking,
says Langlois, is that the menand women
Wow! What a great day! And if it's raining
gathered share their thoughts with one
I think, Wow! I never saw such great rain."
another. "And when I leave I say, Maybe
A typical message on his answering
there'll be something you'll want to ask me
machine might be: We're not here right
about next week. It' very hard to say, I look
now. We're out dancing in the rain.
forward to seeing you next week, because
He fits his volunteer work into bits of
there's a real conflict about whether you
time left over from his full-time job as ex-
want them to still be in the hospital. But I
ecutive director of the Maine Innkeepers
guess the greatest compliment to me is when
Association, his vigorous social life, and his
a patient refuses to be discharged until
lessons in ballroom dancing. He is also in
they've seen me one more time," Langlois
charge of planning his class reunion - the
says. "That warms my heart."
50th anniversary of the South Portland High
For the past several years physicians
School class of 1939.
have explored the use of reminiscence and
Langlois likes reunions. Twelve years
life review as a treatment for the elderly. It
ago he wrote a 150-page book called How to
is believed to be helpful in emphasizing to
Plan a Reunion and Make 19,256,000 People
them their past involvement, purpose, and sense
Happy. Included in the manuscript is a popular
of worth, and engaging them in the present.
"You've changed my
history of the past seven decades with questions
Quite independently of this trend, Langlois
life," one woman said.
on music, sports, politics, and personalities. Coca-
developed his unique program out of his dual
"I am over 80 years
Cola kept the manuscript for nine months, ulti-
interest in music and in helping those having
old. I never could hug
mately returning it. "I tried Eastman Kodak, too-
difficulties coping with age. "And until I hear
anyone or tell my chil-
after all, Coca-Cola and cameras are synonymous
differently," he says, "I do claim mine is an origi-
dren I loved them until
with reunions," he says.
nal concept in geriatric and psychiatric therapy."
a year ago when I
Undaunted, he is now working on a book
For the past ten years, on a regular and volun-
heard your program
about his reminiscing therapy that will be filled
tary basis, he has taken his program to the Barron
and in some magic
with how-to's, happiness, and anecdotes.
Center and the Salvation Army senior citizens
moment I suddenly
"One afternoon," says Langlois, "a lady in the
program, as well as to the psychiatric ward at
knew I could do it.
audience told this story: `I lived in New York City
Maine Med and the Rehabilitation Hospital. Once
This last year has been
in an apartment house where Al Jolson lived. One
a week he sees at least two of his regular groups,
the happiest year of my
day he knocked on my door and asked me to come
and in addition, he gives short programs for sen-
life."
down to the basement garage to see what he had
ior citizens as requested.
just bought for his wife, Ruby Keeler. It was a
Langlois has spent
yellow roadster and I fell
forty-plus years working
in love with it, and I said
with ships and ports and
that someday I would
waterways of the world,
own a yellow roadster."
and although retirement
Langlois smiles, re-
is not in his future, he
membering: "Then some-
has a program he pres-
one in the audience call-
ents to groups of employ-
ed out: `Elsie, did you
ees entering retirement.
ever get that yellow road-
He calls it "Find Some
ster?' And she said: 'No,
Happiness Today."
not yet, but I'm still hop-
"I tell retirees about
ing for it.'
all the fun they are going
"Anticipation," says
to have," Langlois says.
Langlois, "is one of the
"I tell them what I do. I
best gifts we can give
get up in the morning. I
ourselves and others." «
talk to the birds. I pat my
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31
ON THE WATERFRONT
Thomas A. Verde
Photos by Tonee Harbert
" here's a new ship
in port this season and it's bound to make waves. The S/S Bermuda Star, a Pana-
manian-flagged vessel operated by the Bermuda Star Line Inc. out of Teaneck,
New Jersey, is a magnificent 617 foot pleasure cruiser that will be calling at
Portland's International Ferry Terminal through October on its way up and
down the coast to and from the Canadian ports of Quebec, Montreal, Charlot-
tetown, Prince Edward Island and Sydney and Halifax, Nova Scotia.
Literally a floating hotel, the ship features restaurants, bars, gift shops, a
beauty salon, a health center, a library, a swimming pool and even its own staff
of photographers who take pictures of passengers during the voyage.
Those passengers-up to 713 of them per voyage-come from all over
the country, according to chief purser, Rod Herring.
"We get a real wide variety of passengers," says Herring. "Most of them
are American, over forty, with average incomes. We also get a lot
of Canadians on the south-bound trips, as well as passengers from
Mexico and Europe."
Wherever they are from, they have come aboard the Bermuda Star to
have fun, to see the formidable northeast coast in its mild, summer moods, and
to call at its different ports such as Portland. Although the ship only stays in
town for a few hours, while on shore leave those fun-loving vacationers manage
to spend their vacation dollars and these kinds of sailors are always well
received by business people in town.
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During World War II, in an unsurpassed record of productivity, Bath
Iron Works built 21 destroyers per year-an average of 1 every 17 days.
Nearly one-fourth of all American
destroyers built during
this conflict were
Since 1909,
Bath-built® ships.
Not surpris-
Maine has launched
ing when you
realize that Bath
Iron Works was
more destroyers than
the birthplace of the
modern destroyer.
any other state
Before the end of this
century, Maine will launch the
in the Union.
next generation surface combatant:
the first of the Arleigh Burke class of AEGIS destroyers. The DDG 51 and
its follow ships will be the last 20th century class of destroyers-and the
pride of the 21st century navy.
See the model of the WWII Destroyer DeHaven
M
in the Bath Iron Works Exhibit
at the Maine Maritime Museum, Bath.
BIW
BATH, MAINE 04530
Matt Connolly, a third-
generation longshoreman,
secures a stern line while
the Bermuda Star docks.
1R
Joyce Mirabile, director of public rela-
passengers served as yet another handful
tions for the Bermuda Star Line, says that
of confetti that Portland tossed in the air
their passengers spend approximately $60
for the visitors.
per person at each port. This, says Mira-
"We had a very nice welcome and this
bile, can amount to "a half a million dol-
isa nice terminal," said Crew Purser Karen
lars in economic impact" for the city.
Littlewood. "(The passengers) were al-
"Portland has a good reputation," says
most knocking us down at the gangplank
Herring. "People know of it, and it has
to get off."
been well received."
Passenger Nancy Pedrick of Bridge-
If Portland has been well received, it
port, New Jersey, who last came to Port-
may perhaps be because Portland is good
land ten or fifteen years ago, said she was
at receiving its guests. On the Bermuda
"very impressed with the job" the city has
Star's first visit to Portland, back in mid-
done in revitalizing.
June, a red carpet greeted passengers as
Ron Dauzet of Detroit, thought Port-
they disembarked. Portland's former
land was "real pretty," and said he par-
mayor, Cheryl Leeman, was on hand to
ticularly enjoyed "walking up and down
welcome the ocean travélers. And signs in
the streets." This was his first visit.
shop windows of the Old Port offering
Charles Ward and his brother Walter
discounts and welcomes to Bermuda Star
from Glendale, California, were taken with
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the magnificent brick buildings in the Old
Port which they thought were "beauti-
ful," and also waxed rhapsodic over Ben
The area's finest establishments rely on Amico's for
all their flooring needs. Shouldn't you be on our list?
& Jerry's Ice Cream.
Carbur's . F. Parker Reidy's Horsefeathers Portland Cadillac Jack's
While these folks were off seeing the
Horsefeathers at the Crossing Mikie O's Kerryman's Verrillo's
sights and poking their noses into shops,
J's Oyster . Samoset Pizza Villa Squire Morgan's Freeport Farms
the 347 crew members back on board the
Samuel Roberts . Cumberland Lincoln-Mercury Harraseeket Inn
Bermuda Star stayed busy keeping things
Weathershield of Me. Old English Village . Pemco Portland Glass
Pat's Pizza, Yarmouth American Management Group, One Monument Way
gleaming white, freshly painted, and
generally stocked up.
AND YOU DIDN'T
Just as the passengers on board the
Bermuda Star come from all over, so do the
EVEN KNOW IT.
ship's crew. "We have (people of) 23 dif-
ferent nationalities working on the Ber-
muda Star," says Purser Mollie Shiell, an
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the gang plank.
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A crew member peers
through a porthole in the
hull of the ship.
Passengers aboard the
Bermuda Star.
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A crew member paints the
ship while in port.
number of people she met here who are
port. You would have to stay on board
animal rights activists. On the less politi-
until the ship got into Canadian waters or
cal side of things, Johnston, as well as
any other foreign port.
many of her fellow crew members, took
"We would get fined $2000," says
advantage of - believe it or not - the
Herring, if the Bermuda Star were to vio-
opportunity to buy fast food such as pizza.
late the Jones Act. He says that this U.S.
"The only food we get on board are
maritime law is one of the conditions of
things like filet mignon," she complained
licensing a foreign vessel to operate in
with a touch of embarrassment. "We want
United States' waters.
fast food, too, because we miss it."
The best time, anyway, for New Eng-
If you've had enough of a fast-food
landers to take a Bermuda Star cruise would
diet yourself and would like to be eating
probably be in the winter when the ship
the same old filet mignon every night for
gets underway out of San Diego, bound
a while, you cannot, unfortunately, get on
for the Mexican Riviera, calling at ports
board the Bermuda Star in Portland to do
such as Puerto Vallarta, Mazatlan, and
so. According to Rod Herring, something
Cabo San Lucas
«
called the Jones Act prevents anyone from
boarding a foreign-flagged ship in the
U.S. and disembarking at another U.S.
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Portland Press Herald EVENING EXPRESS Maine Sunday Telegram
AS TIME GOES BY
Clang!
Went the Trolley
Ding!
Went the Bell
There was a time when you could hop
on a trolley in Portland, and go most
anywhere you liked: up and down Con-
gress Street; out to South Portland, Saco,
South Windham; up Munjoy Hill and
down Morning Street; on a Saturday out-
ing to Riverton Park or Old Orchard; or
across Veranda Street, heading for Fal-
mouth and Yarmouth, and back to the end
of the track on Elm Street.
MAINE HISTORICAL SOCIETY
There were 10-and 14-bench open cars.
There were closed cars, converted horse
cars, and a combination U.S. Mail, bag-
gage and passenger car. There was even
an electric railway snowplow.
You didn't have such a long wait, ei-
ther. The trolleys on the Portland & Yar-
mouth Electric Railway - bright, eye-
catching yellow they were - left Monu-
ment Square beginning at 6:15 a.m. daily,
and every thirty minutes until 11:45 p.m.
On weekends you could stop at the popu-
lar Falmouth Foreside pleasure park,
Underwood Springs.
During the year 1901, the Portland
Railroad took over the Portland & Yar-
mouth line, but did not change the appeal-
ing color of the cars. In all, Portland Rail-
road, which went to Brunswick and Bath
and Augusta, had more than 100 miles of
MICHAEL DONAHUE
track, traversed daily by 200 passenger
cars - rolling stock it was called.
It wasn' tall charm and romance. In the
ously hurt when construction Car No. 69
A trolley on the Portland &
early years there were no block signals,
and a motor flat collided. The worse of it
Yarmouth Electric Railway makes
and it was very easy for a car off schedule
was No. 69 had just been rebuilt as a work
its way through the peaceful
to get involved in an accident. The rule
car and, fresh from the shop, was being
Falmouth countryside in 1898.
was: If two cars met on a single track, the
delivered to the Yarmouth barn.
one closest to the turnout had to back up.
On May 4, 1941, all trolley service
The same spot after progress set in.
And there were other woes. On Febru-
ended. The cars were stripped of their
ary 19, 1902, Car No. 23 of the Yarmouth
windows and all salvageable parts, and
Division jumped the rails at Mill Creek,
then set on fire. The metal that remained
and hurtled down a snowy embankment.
was sold as scrap. «
Several people were injured. The very
next year, May 1903, three men were seri-
AUTUMN 1989
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41
WRITING ABOUT PORTLAND
a wrinkled face peeked out the window at
us. I stuck my tongue out at her. She
SUGAR
scowled and turned her head.
The houses on the Prom were man-
sions. Many had over fifteen rooms. When
Mary Lou and I stepped through Prudy's
front door, a maid popped out of no-
where. She was wearing a gray uniform, a
COOKIES
white apron, and she had a small gray cap
plunked on her light brown hair. When
she took our coats she asked us ever so
politely to please remove our muddy
shoes. I didn't want to. My socks didn't
match and there were holes in the heels.
Ann Allen Brahms
talking such filth again I promise I'll shake
My cheeks felt too hot. Right at that
moment I understood what Mum meant
T
the living liver out of you."
he winter was bitter cold. Dad
I soon found out what Mum meant by
when every time I left the house she asked
was out of work. Food was scarce.
"nice places in this life." One cold day
me if I had decent socks
was tired of hamburger gravy
after school, Mary Lou and I saw a shiny,
and clean under-
and corn chowder, and I was cold. The
jet black, chauffeur-driven limousine glide
warmest spot was in the kitchen next to
past. An old lady with blue
the oil stove. Mum strung a clothesline
curly hair and
across the room so she could dry out laun-
dry. Had she not done this our things
wouldn't have thawed until spring. Mum
and I used a scrub board on everything
but the sheets. My hands hurt, and I got
myself and the floor soaking wet when I
wrung the water out. We never washed
blankets for fear they wouldn't dry by
night. Mum aired them out once in a while.
I was eight and I could iron clothes as
good as Mum. I'd set the wooden board
up next to the warmth of the kitchen stove,
and press away while singing my favorite
songs at the top of my lungs. One day I
was smoothing the wrinkles out of Dad's
one good white shirt - the one he wore to
church, and practicing a couple of new
tunes I'd overheard the big boys who
hung around out front of Malia's Drug
Store singing, when Mum got mad at me.
"Walking down Commercial Street," I
sang. "Knock on every door. I'd be a son of
a bitch if I could find a I didn't know
the lyrics were dirty, but Mum did. Yank-
ing one of my pigtails, she dragged me to
the kitchen sink and washed my mouth
out with Ivory Soap and water.
"Ann. How do you expect to be in-
vited to nice places in this life with such a
mouth? So help me. If I ever hear you
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MUIR
wear on. "You can't tell where you might
I could tell Mary Lou was impressed
to what we wanted to play with, but not
end up, Ann," she'd say.
with everything when she said, "Boy,
Prudy. She complained she was tired of
Prudy was happy to see us and took us
Prudy, you sure are rich."
her things. It wasn't long before she pulled
on a tour. Iliked the looks of all the couches
"I guess so."
on a gold rope cord. The same maid who'd
and chairs that didn't need old bedspreads
"Guess so," Mary Lou mimicked dis-
let us in the front door appeared. Prudy
draped over them to hide the stuffing and
gustedly as she looked at me and rolled
gave her orders to serve hot tea and bis-
metal springs popping up. Mary Lou said
her eyes toward the ceiling.
cuits in her room. Mary Lou and I just
she loved the glass room the most. We
"Gee, Prudy," l'added. "You sure are
looked at each other.
couldn't tell from inside that it was winter
lucky. I bet you don't have cockroaches
The maid was back after a bit, carrying
outside because there were flowers and
in this place, huh?"
a tea set and a plate full of sugar cookies on
plants everywhere. Some were in pots
"What's cockroaches?"
a silver tray. Prudy poured the hot brew
bigger than my baby brother David.
I explained what they were and went
into delicate white kid-size china teacups
When we left the glass room I caught a
on to say Donnie and I always caught
with matching saucers. She asked Mary
whiff of something that smelled yummy.
some before bedtime every night.
Lou and me if we wanted "one lump or
I told Prudy I was hungry, so she led us
"We pretend they're horses and race
two?" We were speechless. It was just like
into the kitchen. A chubby woman in a
them on the bathroom floor," I said.
in the movies.
white apron was taking a tray of hot cook-
"When we're finished we squash them
Later, on the short walk back to our
ies out of a huge oven. My mouth watered.
with our bare feet."
neighborhood, Mary Lou and I talked
Prudy introduced the woman called Katy
Katy had been listening. "That's quite
about growing up and getting rich. It was
and said she was the family cook. Katy
enough," she snapped. "Off with the likes
decided that when we grew old we'd ride
had rosy cheeks and spoke with an Irish
of you. We don't have such filthy bugs
about the Western Promenade in our very
brogue, just like Jimmy Donahue's folks.
in this house and we want no more talk of
own chauffeur-driven limousine, just like
Prudy ordered her to get us some milk
the same. I'll send you ragamuffins
the lady we had seen with the blue hair.
and cookies. The woman waited on the
home where you belong if you don't
I was a snobby brat after visiting the
three of us now seated at a wooden
watch your mouths. Go play."
Promenade. I dared ask my father, "How
counter with high stools. Prudy didn't
We hopped off our high stools and
come we aren't rich like Prudy's family?"
even have to say "please" as Mary Lou
made a hasty exit upstairs to Prudy's
"Rich people have problems too, Ann,"
and I had to at home.
bedroom. Mary Lou and I gasped at the
Dad answered, glaring at his pride and
same time when we saw she had almost as
joy with his inherited family scowl. "They
many toys, books, and dolls as the depart-
aren't any different than the rest of us
ment stores uptown. We
underneath it all. Don't put too much
helped ourselves
emphasis on money, Honey Bear. It doesn't
mean a hill of beans if you don't have your
health and happiness."
I wasn't so sure my father knew what
he was talking about but I didn't discuss
the matter further.
Every Sunday at noon, right after
church, my family dined formally like
folks did on the Promenade. That's when
Mum gave us a break from our steady diet
of corn chowder and hamburger gravy.
She'd fix us a juicy roast beef or pot roast
and homemade apple pie. No matter how
broke he was, Dad. managed to come up
with money for those meals.
The Sunday dinner table was always
set formally with Mum's best linen table-
cloth, her fragile French china, and her
sterling silverware bearing her maiden
initials "ATL." Topping off this elegance
were delicate blue crystal water goblets
with white frosted stems.
All this finery had been gifts to Mum
from Nana's well-to-do sister, Aunt Tom.
She had married a man with money, but
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43
they never had any children. She doted on
The next thing I knew I was blinded by a
Everyone helped clean up the debris
Mum, her only niece, when she was a girl.
gritty cloud of white dust. My father
in silence, no longer hungry, just de-
Aunt Tom saw to it she taught my mother
jumped to his feet and opened all the
pressed. Mum, was heartbroken. She sat
all the proper social graces. She knew at an
windows and doors to clear the air.
down at the table and cried and cried. But,
early age which fork was for what course,
Stunned and dusty, I looked at the
spunky as always, she quickly overcame
where to put her napkin, and never ever to
mess before me. The soot-covered ceiling
feeling sorry for herself, outwardly any-
put her elbows on the table. Aunt Tom
had finally tired out and let go full force
way. "Can't cry over spilt milk," she said.
was prim and proper, a no-nonsense
onto the dinner table. Most of Mum's frag-
From that Sunday on, I had no choice
teacher who was determined Mum would
ile dinner plates were in pieces. The rest
but to set the table with ordinary mix-and-
grow up ready to live in prominence.
were chipped. All of the precious blue
match plates. Plain grape jelly jars and an
I loved fussing with the Sunday table.
water goblets were smashed. The pot roast
assortment of colored plates replaced
Each week I'd spread the linen cloth over
was full of grit.
Mum's beautiful blue water goblets and
our beat-up maple table, and then very
the delicate china that I'd so admired. I
carefully I'd position each piece of sterling
decided I really didn't like such fragile
Iverware in exactly the spot where Mum
things that could break so easily and make
had showed me to put them. Fork on top
FFF
my mother cry.
of the napkin on the left, knives and spoons
After the ceiling episode, I visited my
on the right.
rich friend Prudy on the Promenade only
It was the Sunday after I'd gone to
one more time. I didn't want to be around
Prudy's house on the Promenade when
a rich kid because it made it too hard for
my family sat down to dinner, eager to
me to go home. I thought about her a lot,
feast on a pot roast with dark gravy and
especially when I felt hungry and the
roasted potatoes. I'd no sooner taken a
pantry shelves were bare. I'd dream about
mouthful when I heard a cracking noise
biting into a huge sugar cookie just like the
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1989 AUTUMN
PORTLAND PEOPLE
ceeds going to the Preble Street Resource
It keeps this important issue alive and in
THE
Center where the use of the funds is vastly
front of the public."
HOUSE
diversified.
Other retail outlets rapidly followed:
LUCINDA BUILT
"We serve as the entry point for infor-
Alberta's Restaurant, Amarylis, The Arti-
mation on resources available to the
sans, Communique, Levinsky's, The Place,
It doesn't take an Einstein to recognize
homeless," Darvin says, "and do a great
Raffles Cafe, The Victory Deli, and Ward
that the Portland area has produced its
deal of referral and counseling work. We
Brothers all report brisk sales.
share of stars: Judd Nelson, Linda Lavin,
are also the only center in Southern Maine
One wearer says, "The pins are a tan-
Andrea Martin, Henry Wadsworth Long-
to offer a breakfast program through which
gible expression of a belief. When you see
fellow, Lucinda Yates.
we feed about 120 people each day. Our
someone you don't even know wearing
Lucinda who?
goal is to let people know how, when, and
one, an instant bonding occurs. You know
Yates is the last name, but Lucinda is
where they can receive assistance for a
you are both working for the same result."
the name on the lips of thousands of people
variety of needs. The core of Lucinda's
The idea gained national attention after
across the country. Lucinda's star is light-
contribution is that it is ongoing. I think
Rebecca Knowles, Maine state president
ing the skies from California to Maryland.
we should be proud of the fact the project
of The Women's Council of Realtors, and
But this woman is a star of a different sort:
originated in Portland."
Maine's 1989 Realtor of the Year, wore her
Giving to the homeless is her source of
The first retail outlet for the pins was
House Pin to a national convention of her
light and sparkle.
Tavecchia's on Exchange Street, whose
group in Florida. Everyone wanted one.
Yates is a local jewelry designer and
owner Judy Parker recalls, "I had been
"I think we're on to something very
the creator of House Pins, a unisex piece of
selling Lucinda's crystal jewelry in my
big," Knowles told the startled designer.
jewelry sweeping the country under the
store for some time. When she brought in
Knowles championed the cause within
promotional slogan "Buy a home for the
the first House Pins and explained what
her organization, and soon Yates began
homeless." Proceeds from the sale of the
they were all about, my first reaction was
receiving calls and letters of inquiry about
pins in Portland alone have generated
that they are extremely attractive, appeal-
the pins from all over the country. Orders
well over $6000 for the Preble Street Re-
ing, and an art object fairly priced. To
began pouring in; a group from New York
source Center, the city's main source of
State wanted 4000.
assistance for the homeless.
The project, Knowles says, has pro-
The idea stemmed from Yates' desire
vided a way for women realtors to gain
to help the homeless of Portland in some
recognition in their own communities,
way. Initial phone calls to the center proved
while becoming instrumental in raising
frustrating. She didn't want to turn in an
the consciousness level of every citizen
hour a week helping in the kitchen. She
about the homeless.
wanted to contribute much more.
"Nationally," she says, "our council
She turned to her own resources the
has raised more than $13,000 and that, we
jewelry she designs and sells. She took a
feel, is only the beginning. The snowball
visual inventory of her private collection
effect is gaining momentum daily, and I
and, voila, there was a pin she had de-
believe the project will have a highly
signed in the shape of a house. House Pins
significant impact on the entire country in
was born.
the very near future."
"What better symbol for the home-
Yates will attend the National Asso-
less," says Yates, "than a house?"
ciation of Realtors' convention in Dallas in
Peter Darvin, president of the board of
November as a guest speaker. "That will
directors of the center, knew a good idea
give me the opportunity to meet many of
when he saw one, and gave Lucinda the
the women I've been working with across
green light to produce the pins. "Lucinda's
the country," Yates says. "It will also
artistic ingenuity, zealous energy, and
provide the opportunity to generate even
JOSEPH MUIR
indomitable determination launched the
combine these elements as a means of
more interest in the project."
project," he says, "and she is the one who
helping people is a brilliant idea."
Groups in each state give the proceeds
has kept it going."
"The pins," says Parker, "really per-
to whichever need is greatest for the
The pins, which are of different de-
sonalize one's contribution to the home-
homeless in their area. "It's hard for me to
signs, from ranch home to condo, sell for
less. You always have the symbol with
conceive of how far-reaching the project
$10, with forty percent of the local pro-
you, and it's visual, a constant reminder.
has become," Yates says. "In Maryland,
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for instance, proceeds have góne to send
homeless children to summer camps. In
New Mexico, I understand they sponsor a
house for abused homeless children, where
the children are able to live in safety and
security. My involvement has expanded
my awareness of the different aspects of
homelessness. It' not simply street people
- it encompasses a wide range of circum-
stances, people, families.
"The enormity of its success is some-
times overwhelming," Yates says. "I eat,
sleep and drink House Pins. It's become
more than a full-time job."
Although she sometimes becomes
frustrated about not having the time to
design her other jewelry pieces, Yates says,
"Realizing the extent of the project's im-
pact brings me back into focus. My other
jewelry will just have to wait."
What does she see as the ultimate re-
sult of her House Pins? "I hope the end
result will be that a lot of people will have
been positively affected by them," Yates
says, "as people were by POW bracelets.
Both subjects are national concerns, both
generate passion, and allow people to
participate in whatever way they can to
contribute to resolving the problem."
were made for only ten years in the early
And if she could fantasize the outmost
part of the century to provide transporta-
limits of the project?
tion for those who couldn't afford a horse
"I would like to see every man, woman
and didn't like to walk. They were used to
and child in America wearing a House
get to work, for messenger service, and by
Pin, and to see homelessness relegated to
doctors making house calls.
the history books."
"Once you' reon," says Knight, "you're
Brett W. Brett
an expert. They're not hard to become
accustomed to except that if you do need
to balance yourself, you can't put your
foot on the ground. You're up high and
HIGH WHEELING
you come down hard."
Getting on is said to be easy: Just step
In 1933 Ernie Knight bought himself a
up on the backbone, give a couple of
high-wheel bicycle, and he has been rid-
pushes, and throw yourself up. To get off:
ing it ever since. He shows it off in parades
Jump backwards and land on your feet.
for the Old Port Festival, the Yarmouth
But Knight admits it doesn't always
Clam Festival, Casco Day, and Waterford's
work perfectly. He has taken a header
Fourth of July.
more than once. "When you hit a rock or
Knight, now 83, rides for fun. "Every
sand or something, your legs are behind
year I try it out at the first parade in the
the handlebars so all you can land on is
spring. As long as I can still get on, I will
your head and your hands. That's apt to
ride. One of these days I suppose I will
be something of a disaster. Lately I've
find it has grown too tall for me," he says.
tried to turn the trick-riding over to the
fun," he says. "It was an all-day job, and
"He's a very graceful rider," says his
younger people."
then I had to walk down."
wife Louise.
Trick-riding was a snap for someone
It was the area's first television tower,
High-wheelers, not to be confused with
who, at age 55, climbed a 1619-foot televi-
and no one wanted to make the repairs to
unicycles, have a huge front wheel that
sion tower to make repairs in the dead of
covers fifteen feet with each revolution,
winter. He went up a narrow, exposed
Portland People
and a very small wheel in the back. They
ladder, carrying a load of tools. "I did it for
continues on page 74
AUTUMN 1989
Greater Portland
47
11111
PROFILE
Grand Trunk
Finale
A
train is not just a way
of getting there or getting goods
there, it is a symbol of pioneer spirit,
of man's inventiveness, of
frontiers to be explored.
Where there is a train, there
is an adventure about
to begin.
Story and photos by
Dean Abramson
0
t is a cold, damp, foggy 4:30 a.m. in East
why it is he has a key to Independent Cement's
Deering yard. Conductor Jack McGee
office. "They like the service we give them, so
unlocks his caboose andfires up the oil
they let us use their fax machine." With clearance
stove. While most of Portland sleeps,
to operate his train, he rejoins his crew.
McGee makes a pot of fresh coffee, then
As railroad yards go, East Deering yard is
sits at his desk to consider the list of cars that
low-key, a handful of tracks serving industries
must be switched around this morning. Out of
off Presumpscot Street. Look closely, though,
the darkness two other men emerge. As they
and ghosts of a more glorious past lurk in the fog.
briefly enjoy coffee in the now cozy caboose,
An impressive brick roundhouse building, mi-
McGee walks up the track, under the towers of
nus the tracks and turntable, is now home to an
Independent Cement Company, and lets himself
ambulance company; nearby, the old crew's
into the office. He calls Montreal to get his orders,
bunkhouse is an office. "This was once a very
and another day of railroading on the Grand
busy place," McGee explains. "I can remember
Trunk's Portland local begins.
when we and Portland Terminal (Maine Central's
It is May 16, 1989. In four more days, the
local switching service) used to handle 100 cars a
Grand Trunk, serving Portland since the 1850s,
day." Today his train, number 513, will handle
will cease to exist. Conductor McGee, with his
about a dozen cars. The routine is to do the
keen sense of history, has agreed to let me tag
needed local switching, then proceed up the line
along during this final week.
to Danville Junction, near Auburn, with the out-
"We have a great relationship with our cus-
bound cars.
tomers," McGee says proudly, as he explains
In Danville Junction, cars are turned over to
50
Greater Portland
1989 AUTUMN
DANGERS
Brakeman Maynard
Thibeau, switching at
B & M plant.
Engineer Maynard
Rivers in his locomotive
cab.
Coffee and donuts with
Conductor Jack McGee.
AUTUMN 1989
Greater Portland
51
cal sequence, but to move one tile, you often have
to scramble the sequence of all the others. McGee
must have been an ace at that game when he was
a kid.
Using the limited number of tracks available
to them, the crew of train 513 place cars at the sites
of the industries that depend on them. They move
cars around at a company to make loading or un-
loading possible, and remove unneeded cars from
the premises. Most companies want this finished
before their day shifts come to work.
Although McGee explains to me twice exactly
how he plans to accomplish today's movements,
I remain confused as the engine and cars squeal
back and forth, in and out of spur tracks, up and
down the yard. Independent Cement, the biggest
customer, gets switched first: full covered hopper
cars in, empties out. Burnham and Morrill is next:
carloads of beans in, empties out; and today, an
empty refrigerator car is spotted for loading to
California. Mostly, the businesses receive ship-
ments by rail but ship little out that way.
It's easy to get McGee talking about the old
days - the days of steam locomotives and kero-
20
sene lanterns. "During the Marshall Plan, we had
tons and tons of grain leaving here by ship for
Europe. Grain elevators stood where BIW is now.
We used to make up the passenger trains down
there; there was a depot next to the offices on India
Street. In winter, that was the coldest place on
Earth. It was something about the way the wind
used to whip in off the harbor and funnel down
between the elevator and the passenger cars."
McGee paints a picture of a robust waterfront
served by trains, but not all stories are romantic.
"Up there," he points, "was Portland Rendering.
We used to get boxcars full of dead horses, stink-
ing, knee-deep in maggots." He remembers a big
waterfront fire when they worked all night trying
to save as many cars as possible from the blaze.
Now the bridge across Back Cove's inlet is gone,
the Maine Central Railroad, or added to Grand
and the track on Commercial Street (which con-
Trunk train number 393, which runs to Montreal
nected to Maine Central) has been pulled up.
Local freight Number 513
with a few intermediate stops in places like Ber-
By 7 a.m. it is time for a coffee break, but first
at New Gloucester.
lin, New Hampshire, and Island Pond, Vermont.
the crew switches the Nissen Bakery warehouse.
Engineer Maynard Rivers brings his aging
Maynard Thibeau enters the building and returns
Preparing to couple up
with road engines at
engine to life in a cloud of diesel fumes, and as the
to the caboose with packages of donuts and muf-
Lewiston Junction.
first light of day promises to appear, Brakeman
fins. "Rudy DiPietro started that around 1975,"
Maynard Thibeau lines switches and releases the
McGee says. "He was a well-known boxer, and he
hand brakes on some of the freight cars. McGee
worked here unloading cars of flour. We had
directs by two-way radio; the morning silence is
ways of making his job easier, so he rewarded us
broken as the shuffling process gets underway.
with donuts. After a while it became a tradition."
Switching freight cars is sort of like playing
There are more donuts and muffins than we can
with the little dime-store game kids fiddle with
eat, and there are unopened packages from the
- tiny numbered tiles that slide around in a
day before. "We give those to the track gang,"
plastic frame. They are all interlocked in a fixed
McGee says. "They think they're fresh."
area in which there is one blank space to work
The talk over coffee centers around Emons
with. The object is to get all the tiles into numeri-
Holding Company, the Pennsylvania firm which
52
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1989 AUTUMN
AUTUMN 1989
Greater Portland 53
Thibeau switching at
Danville Junction.
A thrill-seeker beats the
train at the crossing.
54
Greater Portland
1989 AUTUMN
RMOUTH
bought the Grand Trunk, and will continue serv-
working Richardson Dana and Nappi Distribu-
ing Portland as the St. Lawrence & Atlantic Rail-
tors, the switching is done. Rivers backs his en-
road. Rivers and Thibeau have decided to take
gine on to the cut of cars, and the brake hoses are
Picking up a boxcar at
jobs with the new company; Brakeman Thibeau
connected. The locomotive, a classic first-genera-
Yarmouth on the Grand
hopes that Emons will re-train him as an engineer.
tion diesel model GP-9, was built in 1967 by the
Trunk's final day.
A man of few words, Thibeau says he could use"a
Electro-Motive Division (EMD) of General Mo-
change of menu."
tors. The letters CV on the engine stand for Cen-
After forty-four years of railroading, McGee
tral Vermont, another subsidiary of Canadian
has decided to call it quits; he may move to Florida
National, which owns Grand Trunk. Most of the
or take a job offered by Independent Cement. But
cars on today's trains carry the label CN although
his emotions are mixed: He thinks the beginning
the caboose reads GT.
of the St. Lawrence & Atlantic will be an exciting
Number 513 is ready to go. McGee phones the
time. The Grand Trunk men who stay on will start
agent at its Danville Junction destination and
off with substantial cash bonuses, but will earn
learns there has been a derailment; the local from
less with Emons than they are accustomed to.
Portland will not be able to enter the yard. The
As switching resumes, McGee points to some
crew knocks off, knowing the next day will be as
huge grooves next to the track. "We derailed a few
long as this one has been short.
cars here last week. The track spread and the cars
I catch up with McGee and his crew at Dan-
went on the ground. It's a dangerous job - when
ville Junction on another day. They are at it again:
you fall under one of these you only fall once. Go
They pick up cars from Maine Central's inter-
slow, go safe, and you go home." Finally, after
change track, some to go back to Portland, some to
AUTUMN 1989
Greater Portland
55
GT
75960
C
go out on the freight to Montreal. They arrange
says. "Down in Falmouth they cut it really close a
cars which were brought from various locations
lot, and I'm talking about station wagons full of
McGee makes his last run
by the Grand Trunk local out of South Paris. They
kids. And gasoline trucks."
back to Portland.
leave cars for the Maine Central. They make up
train Number 393 to Montreal, blocking like-des-
tined cars together for easy set-off en route, before
May 19, 1989. The last day of the Grand Trunk
traveling up-track to Lewiston Junction, to get the
is much like any other. Switching the yard, coffee
engine for Number 393.
and donuts, a 6:30 a.m. start for Danville Junction.
Until last fall, when management decided to
An empty boxcar is picked up at a lumber com-
terminate freight from Montreal at Danville Junc-
pany in Yarmouth. A dump truck towing a flatbed
tion, these big red Canadian National engines
trailer ignores the closed crossing gate on Main
came down the line as far as Portland. For a time,
Street, and is momentarily snagged on it while
the engines were left parked, idling all night at the
Rivers yanks on the engine's horn. An old off-
Junction, but the noise apparently maddened a
duty railroad buddy rides with McGee in the
local resident who started shooting out the engine
caboose. The crew is quieter than usual. A pho-
windows with a rifle. Since then the engines have
tographer chases the train by car. Returning to
been idling at the more remote Lewiston Junction.
East Deering yard, McGee swings down from his
I ride with McGee's crew to get the road en-
caboose for the last time. Without fanfare, an era
gines. On the way back to Danville Junction, an
of Portland railroading comes to an end. «
automobile ignores a crossing signal and beats the
train across the track. "That was nothing," McGee
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W
hen asked to predict the
elusive, we do know that education must
ices (DECS), "Today, the total sum of
future of education, Bob
change to meet the needs of a changing
knowledge is doubling so frequently that
Woodbury sighs. "We re-
society. And we can extrapolate from
schools can't transmit even a significant
ally don't know," says the chancellor of
today's trends to guess at the broad out-
fraction of it to their students."
the University of Maine system. "If in
lines of our society - and the educational
To accommodate the knowledge ex-
1960 you had asked what would happen
needs it will generate - a decade hence.
plosion, says Robert Shafto of the Maine
in higher education by 1975, no one would
One of the major changes is already
Center for Educational Services, a private,
have been able to predict the impact of the
familiar to us all: the knowledge explo-
nonprofit organization
civil rights revolution, the women's move-
sion. Whereas 100 years ago it was reason-
that stimulates
ment, the computer, the arrival of older
able to expect that a high-school graduate
and nontraditional students, and the Viet-
would be broadly educated, says Eve
nam War."
Bither, commissioner of Maine's Depart-
Although precise
ment of Educational and
prediction
Cultural Serv-
remains
["
COD
school improvement activities in Maine,
maintains Eve Bither. "We've seen dra-
Core of Learning is soliciting information
"schools will have to look a lot less like
matic changes in the elementary schools
and opinions about the knowledge, skills,
shoe factories and more like computer
in the last ten years, and in many middle
and values a high-school graduate should
software factories." In the past, he ex-
schools you'll see a different style of edu-
have in preparation for the 21st century.
plains, schools have been set up according
cation: teachers who work in teams, and
Once there is agreement on these common
to the "fill-em-up model," in which teach-
who recognize students' individual styles
principles, the DECS will follow up with
ers pour knowledge into students' heads.
of learning," she says. "That kind of change
strategies and activities to enable local
"I hope that will change radically," he
has to happen in the high schools as well."
districts to translate the recommendations
says. "Today you can't operate with a
Education specialists are hard at work
into actual curricula.
fixed body of knowledge. Change is the
to effect changes in the system. Maine is
Reaching the overall goal of providing
only constant in any given subject. No-
one of five states with a state-directed
a more personalized and individualized
body can learn it all." Instead, he says,
Restructuring Schools project. The project
educational program for every student
schools should not only impart informa-
is currently funding ten schools engaged
may mean reducing tracking, so that stu-
tion, but teach students how to acquire
in restructuring: developing site-based
dents of various abilities will be mixed
knowledge on their own, and how to be
management, increased autonomy for
together in classes.
active learners.
principals and teachers, and using teach-
It may also mean paying more atten-
"We're floating in a sea of information.
ers and administrators as researchers and
tion to what Dorothy Moore, dean of the
If you go to buy a car, you're overwhelmed
informed consumers of educational re-
College of Education at the University of
by the choices. The challenge will be to
search. They are also looking into chang-
Southern Maine, calls "the kids in the
educate people so they know how to
ing the traditional high-school schedule
middle" - the average learners who have
construct meaning from many disparate
of seven short class periods a day, creating
too often been ignored because they
sources of information."
in its place a schedule that's more open to
haven't demanded as much attention as
Accomplishing these changes will
flexibility and change.
slow learners, disabled children, those
require a different organization for schools,
The Commission on Maine's Common
with behavior problems, or the particu-
larly gifted. "We need to refocus, to en-
gage and motivate all learners," says
Moore. "They're capable of doing much
more" than they're currently being chal-
lenged to do.
A is for
Another area she finds lacking is pre-
school education. "Young children's
B is for
minds are much more capable than
we've ever believed," she says. "We can
do some education, maybe in an in-
C is for
formal setting, to arouse their curiosity,
increase their attention span, and begin
the formation of learning habits."
D is for
Students at all levels will be using
more technology such as computers, sat-
ellite transmission, and interactive video
E
disks. This fall, interactive television will
II
be used for the first time in selected Maine
secondary schools. With this technology,
a master teacher in one location can teach
a class to students in several scattered
locations. Students can watch the lesson
on TV, and ask or answer questions via a
special telephone line, then work through
the lesson with a teacher in their own
school system.
Although it's not the be-all and end-
all, says Dorothy Moore, interactive TV
"YOUNG CHILDREN'S MINDS ARE MUCH MORE
will be particularly useful in providing
CAPABLE THAN WE'VE EVER BELIEVED"
advanced upper-level courses to students
in small, remote towns whose school dis-
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grams in which active retired people can
teach classes. People who have experi-
ence in other fields, says Dorothy Moore,
"can teach a mean class."
In fact, USM's College of Education
now has two programs designed to help
people switch from other careers to teach-
ing. Applicants have included lawyers,
bankers, a chef, a munitions specialist,
businesspeople, chemists, biologists, and
an Air Force pilot. These people, says
Moore, "bring to the classroom the wis-
In the 21st Century:
Preschool education will
flourish.
Schools will resemble
computer software
Human
factories.
Anatomy
and
Physiology
The average learner will
gain the attention of
Don't just dream about your future
educators.
Take charge of it
High schools will
recognize individual
CATHERINE McAULEY HIGH SCHOOL
learning styles.
Kathleen Curran, student ambassador for McAuley, enjoyed his-
tory, basketball and "having fun with my friends." She was a
Community support
National Honor Society scholar, vice-president of S.A.D.D., a
will dwindle; business
member of the Key Club, played basketball and was the 1988
will fill the gap.
recipient of the Coach's Award. Kathleen has received a Certificate
of Honor for Algebra/Trig and an Academic Achievement Certifi-
cate from the University of Maine. Last spring she successfully
A new pool of teachers
fulfilled her Senior Service Week requirement by volunteering as a
will be created by career
teacher's aide at the Sweetser Children's Home. This fall Kathleen
switching.
begins her Business Administration major at Stonehill College.
There will be increased
Give yourself the McAuley Advantage
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1989 AUTUMN
dom and experience they've gained in
Moore predicts increased demand for
The business community is now join-
their careers." The graduates of these
classes by older learners who want to
ing forces with the DECS to help rectify
special programs may help to fill the pre-
switch careers or jobs, or who simply want
this situation. Key Bank has made a five-
dicted teacher shortages, particularly in
to take classes for their own edification
year commitment to help the state pro-
science, math, and special education at the
and enjoyment. Some of them will take
mote its GED (high-school equivalency)
secondary level.
courses at home, via television, while
and Adult Basic Education programs, and
Programs for people who are switch-
others will mix with traditional college
has offered space in a number of its
ing careers will become more and more
students in the classroom.
branches for classes. In the six months
common. Ninety percent of the people
The move toward lifelong learning will
since the promotions started, enrollment
who will be working in the year 2000 are
also attempt to encompass the many adults
has increased dramatically.
already in the work force today, yet 50% of
who either dropped out of high school or
In addition, at least twenty-five Maine
the jobs will change. Seventy percent of
who slipped by without acquiring solid
businesses are offering their employees
the new jobs will require more than a
basic skills. In Maine, 240,000 adults lack
GED and Adult Basic Education programs.
high-school education. As a result, most
high-school degrees or equivalents, and
Some, notably Hussey Seating in North
people will change jobs four or five times.
110,000 read below a
Berwick, even give their employees paid
Adults as well as schoolchildren will need
fifth-grade level.
time off for classes.
to develop and maintain active learning
With the world changing as fast as it is,
skills, and we will need an increased focus
there's an awful lot for all of us to learn.
on lifelong learning.
"It's ever more obvious that we're living
in a world where problems are global and
the economy is internationalized," says
Bob Woodbury. "That realization means
YES LISA?
major changes for our society, and itshould
have a major impact on how we think
about education. That means more than
MAY GET
just language study. It includes business
A DRINK OF
education and world history - a chance to
WATER?
learn about the majority of the world that's
nonwestern, poor, and nonwhite."
In addition, he says, "I think somehow
we're going to have to pay more attention
to issues of ethics, values, ideas, and
community. I don't mean teaching moral-
ity, but building a consciousness of values
and a sense of interdependence."
Maine's small size and tightly knit
communities will be assets in building
that sense - and in improving education
in general.
"For a while, we were seduced by the idea
that large educational units were better,"
says Woodbury. "But now we've found
that most education occurs in more per-
sonal ways."
Accomplishing Maine's ambitious
educational goals won't be easy, admits
Eve Bither. "It will require enormous
energy from everyone: teachers, adminis-
trators, school boards, students, parents,
and the community at large." However,
STUDENTS CAN WATCH THE LESSON
she says, "There's a very clear recognition
by all of us that all these changes will have
ON TV AND ASK OR ANSWER QUESTIONS
to come about within the next ten years if
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weare to survive." «
AUTUMN 1989
Greater Portland
63
AROUND & ABOUT TOWN
New Wave
Massachusetts, he came to
Leaf Peepers
Homework
Maine ten years ago. After
A
fter many happy
earning his degree in
zoology at the University of
S
ince man began to con-
A
third-grader named
years using a capital
coct stories to explain
Dusty from Mul-
"C" and its shadow as a
Maine, Orono, he decided
what was not fully under-
berry, Arkansas, took the
logo, the Chamber of
he was "more artist than sci-
stood, Jack Frost with paint-
easy way out and wrote to
Commerce of the Greater
entist," and began a second
brush has been given credit
the Visitor Information Cen-
Portland Region went in
time around - at the art
for the many-hued autumn
ter for help with his home-
search of modernity. The
school.
leaves that bring busloads
work. "I'm not trying to be
Chamber staged a competi-
He explains his design this
of leaf peepers to Maine. In
rude," he wrote, "but would
tion among graphic-design
way: Six small arrows move
a small volume published in
you send me a picture of the
students at the Portland
in a unified direction sym-
the late 1930s entitled Trees
Black Mansion and some
School of Art, specifying as
bolizing the six community
Every Child Should Know,
interesting information?"
criteria that the logo must
chambers and their common
realism took over.
That was Dusty's first
represent the regional and
efforts through the regional
The colors red, yellow,
question.
community chambers, and
chamber. The smaller ar-
purple, and whatever others
Two hours of research
be: simple; of contemporary
rows describe a larger shape
nature may desire, represent
later, in the Portland Room
design; designed to last into
with these multiple read-
the ripening of the leaf in
of the Portland Public Li-
the twenty-first century;
ings: 1) the overall logo is
the same way that fruit
brary, with the assistance of
easy to reproduce; designed
seen as a stylized "C"
ripens with increasing
dozens of books and a
to use on stationery, etc.;
standing for chamber; 2) the
brilliance of color. Accord-
knowledgeable librarian, GP
strong enough graphically
"C" is read as an arrow, a
ing to this little book, each
can give Dusty the answer
to be used alone; and
positive symbol of direction
leaf is nurse to a bud. A
to almost all of his ques-
effectively reproducible in
and movement; and 3) the
portion of all the food
tions:
black ink (in order to cut
arrow is read as a cube, a
nourishing the tree stops to
The Black Mansion in
printing costs). And the
six-sided volume which is
feed the bud in late sum-
Ellsworth was constructed
winner is:
both stable (in its geometric
mer, thus providing for the
over the course of three
future welfare of all buds. In
this chain, when the worn-
years of modified Georgian
out leaf has been drained of
brick brought by sea from
Philadelphia.
CHAMBER OF COMMERCE
all of its pulp, changing
color along the way, the tree
What caused the Aroostock
OF THE GREATER PORTLAND REGION
lets go of the leaf, creating a
War?
mess on the ground. So
The 1838 Aroostock War
much for Jack Frost.
was caused by a boundary
The designer, David
simplicity) and dynamic (in
dispute between Maine and
Puelle, 28, is a senior
its position on edge and
New Brunswick.
graphic-design major at
in spacè).
The only
PSA. A native of
Westfield,
consider what that evolu-
tion tells us about our-
selves. Here are some of
her findings:
"Fifteen years ago, we
couldn't have had advertis-
ing awards," says Body &
Co.'s Jan Heavey. "There
were only a couple of
agencies in town, and most
major accounts were
serviced by Boston
agencies."
Eleven years ago, the first
Broderson call for entries
barely scraped together the
needed 200 entries, many
by out-of-state agencies for
Maine clients. In 1989 there
were 855 entries, the
The Black Mansion
MAINE HISTORICAL SOCIETY
majority from local firms.
Ad budgets have grown,
casualty was a cow, killed
time at sea carving all the
Maine got into the union by
too. Best of Show winners
by the random shot of a
gingerbread decorations.
the skin of its teeth. In order
in the first four years were
nervous guard.
To what state did Maine
to admit Maine, Congress
all radio ads, relatively
had to agree that Missouri
cheap and easy to produce.
What was Maine's first
belong before it joined the
industry?
Union? What is Maine's
could have slavery.
TV ads won Best of Show
twice in the last three years;
Maine's first industry was
largest island? Who is your
In future, Dusty, get a
this year in addition to Best
fishing. Between 1820 and
governor? I would like to know
good librarian on your side.
of Show, they took five
1826, Maine produced one-
the population of your state.
firsts, four seconds, and 17
fifth of the total tonnage in
Maine belonged to Massa-
merit awards. Radio took
the entire country.
Does Life Reflect
chusetts before it joined the
union. Mount Desert is the
Advertising?
only one second and four
What is the legend of The Wed-
merit awards.
largest island, with 108
ding Cake House?
T
he annual Broderson
TV ads have wrought
square miles. John McKer-
It is said that The Wedding
awards presented an
other changes. They
Cake House near Ken-
nan is our governor. The
opportunity for Writer Lisa
compete in a national
nebunk was built as a
population (1980 census) is
Derman to examine the
marketplace for audience
1,123,560.
belated wedding cake for a
evolution of Maine's
attention, solocal ads have
bride whose sea-captain
In what way was Maine in-
advertising industry,
to be good enough to
husband had to sail with the
volved in the Missouri
and to
compete with the corporate
tide. The story, probably
Compromise?
giants, at a fraction of the
apocryphal, says the
budget. Constant exposure
husband spent
to national work has also
his spare
increased the
audience's
trastic Brown
sophistication. "People are
"an attempt to say, I know
a test market for new
bombarded with thousands
what your life is like, and
products.
of messages every day,"
it's not the glamorous life
The last year has seen
says George Hughes of
you see on TV," says Ken
advertising agencies
Holt, Hughes and Stamell.
Krauss.
changing names and
"Americans used to simply
"Fear is a great motiva-
ownership, several small
believe the ad message;
tor," says David Swardlick
new agencies cropping up,
now they are indoctrinated
of Londy Swardlick
and clients shifting agencies.
with distrust."
Mackey. "We're finished
In the words of Lee Baer,
Some ads try to capture
with the greed of the Me
founder of The New
attention by reflecting the
Decade, and now we're into
England Group, which is
current values of their target
fear." Unsettling, stressful
currently at USM's Small
audience. "In the '60s, social
ads such as AT & T's ads
Business Development
consciousness was impor-
and Londy Swardlick
Center, "There's a ferment
tant," says Melissa Mirarchi,
Mackey's current Blue
in the industry."
formerly of Body & Co.,
Cross/Blue Shield cam-
"The creative people in
now a freelance copywriter.
paign, says Swardlick,
agencies are embarrassed
GRITTY'S
"We saw a lot of dogs and
"echo a national feeling
that advertising has gotten a
water. Now, babies are used
of stress."
bad name," says Hughes.
to advertise everything from
The highest award in the
Except for an under-
"They don't want to be seen
lawn mowers to tires."
category (newspaper, b/w,
representation of minorities,
as snake-oil salesmen; they
Other ads, notably Body &
1/2 page or larger) was won
the Portland area is a
want to be truthful and
Co.'s award-winning Maine
by this ad created for Gritty
demographic microcosm of
moral." The new trend, he
State Lottery commercials,
McDuff's by Richard
the nation as a whole.
says, will be what he calls
use real people, not actors,
Tedford and Peter Stock,
Because of that fact, and
"advertising with a soul.
to reach out to the audience.
principals in Forum
because it's an "isolated
"The American public is
The real-people technique is
Advertising, Portland.
media market," Portland is
tired of hearing messages
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a Sense of Humor
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A Question of
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would be a mistake because
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seems to be selling some-
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Keil ends with a sales apti-
because of failure to meet
thing at one time or another:
should not expect to open
tude exam which includes
deadlines. Nevertheless, the
Adam, for instance, or
idea to rename it The
your curtains to a view of
such questions as:
Thomas Alva Edison, or
the city. All views of the city
What should you do when
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Marco Polo.
are now either apartments
a prospect loses conscious-
rejected.
Keil, who is general sales
or condominiums."
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1989 AUTUMN
Paddling and Gunk-Holing
on Casco Bay
A.J. Artman
Photos by Gary Guisinger
E
very Thursday evening about 5:30, Jeff Westock
arrives at East End Beach, just off the Eastern
Promenade, with two or three kayaks strapped
atop his little day-glo-orange car. He unloads his gear
and awaits his band of fellow paddlers.
AUTUMN 1989
Greater Portland
69
The group formed early in the sum-
eral different types of sea kayaks, some
draft, it allows the paddler access to al-
mer when Westock, department manager
with open cockpits, some enclosed with
most anywhere he wants to go. Enjoying
of watersports at Tommy's Hardware on
spray skirts. Our kayak, the press boat, is
the environment at such a low-impact
Munjoy Hill, sent out a letter announcing
the only two-person foldboat.
level is one of the greatest pleasures of the
the Thursday-night gathering to several
The paddlers are as varied as their
sport. Kayaking can also provide year-
folks who had expressed a keen interest in
transportation. Mark Fuller drives down
round entertainment. "The ice and snow
kayaking. He passed the word along to his
from Auburn most every Thursday. Deb
just add a new dimension," according to
Westock.
Casco Bay, with its myriad islands,
scenic splendor, and accessibility - espe-
cially in terms of proximity to the city of
Portland, is a favorite for kayakers. The
tides, at an average 8.6 feet, are favorable,
and the bay runs an average depth of
thirty to forty feet at low water. The traffic
in the main channel, however, can be
harrowing, with some 1000 vessels at
moorings, and another 1000 in marinas,
not counting the commercial boats, visit-
ing ships, and tour boats. The back bays
are quiet, though, and offer multitudes of
inviting coves. Besides the East End
launch, other favorite spots are Crescent
Beach, Ft. Williams Park, Kettle Cove,
and Spring Point.
This troop has its favorite jaunts. With
only a few hours until sunset, all trips are
necessarily short. They've explored Ft.
Gorges several times (a newcomer's fa-
vorite), completed excursions to Mack-
worth and House Islands. They investi-
gated an oil tanker anchored in the bay.
Cook of Portland has made several trips
"Looking up at one of those super-
with the group, just testing equipment.
tankers from a kayak," says Westock,
Bill Bailey is a seasoned paddler who re-
"really puts you in your place."
cently enjoyed a kayaking trip in New-
Tonight's journey is to be a trip around
foundland. Paul Downs is a regular Thurs-
Peaks Island-roughly seven to eight miles.
day-nighter from Freeport, who works in
Heading out for the channel between
Portland, and comes down after work
House Island and Little Diamond, we are
each week.
approached by the Portland Harbormas-
Kayaking is a rather new sport to Maine
ter who inquires as to our destination.
coastal waters, but is rapidly growing in
"All the way around Peaks Island?" he
popularity. It can be relatively inexpen-
asks incredulously, and is quickly assured
sive to get outfitted: Somewhere between
that we will all be back before dark. He
$1,000 and $1,500 can cover an entire basic
stands watch as we move through the
package; a top-end package might go as
channel, the scariest part of the trip, play-
high as $2,000.
ing with the big boats. A large charter
more enthusiastic paddling customers,
While the tiny watercraft appear frag-
boat, the Fish Hawk moves in front of us.
and placed a number of community an-
ile to conventional boaters, they can be
Suddenly, we have a splinter group of
nouncements in local papers. Hence:
surprisingly sturdy and extremely sea-
kayakers veering off to the right, seem-
Thursday night at East End became the
worthy. Some have even completed trans-
ingly off course. They are playing out one
night of the kayakers.
ocean voyages. Says Veteran Paddler Mark
of the Casco Bay kayaker's favorite rites-
Most of us are experienced paddlers,
Fuller, "Kayaking requires a different
riding the wake of the large boats.
joining the others for the camaraderie of
philosophy of boating." Most mariners
Regrouping, we move again towards
the sport. A few are beginners who come
tend to think in terms of speed and dis-
Peaks Island. The band moves together,
to get a feel for the ocean and try out some
tance; kayaking is more about physical
and conversation centers on equipment
equipment. Vessels vary in design, run-
endurance and the experience of solitude.
and technique. It becomes evident that
ning the gamut from river kayaks to sev-
Because the kayak has virtually no
there are some really enthusiastic hard
70
Greater Portland
1989 AUTUMN
-
We
don't just talk about
the future
we
shape it!
JOIN US.
CHAMBER OF COMMERCE
paddlers who are intent on circling Peaks.
It is equally obvious that there are some of
A MASTERPIECE IN MAINE
us who are not.
We fall back as the more adventurous
move out. We plan to meet at Pumpkin
Nob near the northern end of Peaks Is-
land, in one half hour. We are now at
leisure to enjoy another of kayaking's
greatest pleasures - gunk-holing around,
checking out every nook and cranny of
each tiny cove, drinking in the serenity of
our surroundings, and treasuring each
breath of salty air.
As we start up Diamond Island Pass,
the tide is moving out, the water very low.
Seaweed bends with the tide, waving dark
"Eider Duck" by J.J. Audubon from the Inn By The Sea Collection
green fingers in the shallow pools of wa-
Nestled above the sandy
room, and bay-view bal-
ter. The evening has become cloudy and
expanse of Crescent
cony or porch. And with
overcast, with no evident horizon. Sail-
Beach, yet minutes from
our private meeting rooms,
Portland's Jetport, the
extensive collection of
boats at their moorings seem suspended
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1989 AUTUMN
trying to grasp every whisper of air. All
ter completing our adjustments (and
around, sea gulls squawk, shrieking their
drying off), we move out, crossing under
pleasure, or displeasure, for all to hear.
the ferryboat landing. As we pass Fort
Time seems to stand still as two young
Gorges, it appears that we are going to be
girls pass in a large wooden rowboat,
grounded on Diamond Island Ledge, but
moving the oars in total disunison. Strains
again our clearance allows us passage with
of the "Beer Barrel Polka" and "Me and
only a warning scrape.
My Gal" drift across the still water from a
Crossing the channel again, we peer
house on Peaks Island. Suddenly we are
into the distance, hoping to catch a glimpse
shaken from our reverie as the tide un-
of our fellow paddlers. Nightfall is ap-
ceremoniously dumps us on a mussel-
proaching. It appears that the clouds have
encrusted ledge. Hurriedly, we push off
cheated us out of everybody's favorite
and forward, moving up the pass towards
finale - a spectacular sunset behind the
our destination.
Eastern Promenade.
After a time it becomes evident that
Approaching East End, we spot a lone
the half hour has passed and our light is
paddler winding among the moored boats
rapidly disappearing. The rest of our en-
around Pomroy Rock. Paula Greenlee of
tourage has missed the rendezvous. The
Auburn arrived late and missed the main
passage outside Peaks Island exposes them
expedition but, as a newcomer to the sport,
to open sea where they are likely enjoying
has been testing the equipment that
the swells. Deciding to head back, we slip
Westock left for her. With her sculling
along the outside edge of Little Diamond
background, she's a natural handling a
Jeff Westock, Sea Kayaker
Island. Beaching momentarily to adjust
kayak. She joins us to watch the rest of our
equipment, we are suddenly swamped by
group skim across the darkening waters,
what seems to be a tidal wave. In fact, it
and voices the opinion of all when she
turns out to be the wake of The Scotia
says, "I love it. I'll be back." «
Prince passing into Portland Harbor. Af-
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73
Portland People
the English canals.
of ginko trees to replace those that had
continued from page 47
"There are more than 1000 miles of
been vandalized several years ago. The
canals in England to explore," Knight says.
city has a program of planting trees along
a misplaced elevator cable. "Height is
"The people who rent the boats show you
the sidewalk for homeowners who pur-
something that if it bothers you, you have
how to start the engine, and then you're
chase them. Public attitudes toward trees
no business going up on anything," Knight
on your own."
and flowers within destruction range seem
says. "But if it doesn't bother you, it's just
"We've been halfway around the
more benign than they used to be up here
a matter of going ahead. Climbing a lad-
world, and it was lovely," Louise says.
on the not-quite Western Prom, and I
der is easy enough - you just go up one
"We wanted to go around the world, but
decided to risk new plantings.
rung after another."
they closed the Suez Canal."
A crew led by Charlie Shannon dug
His wife says, "It scared me, so I went
Knight's latest adventure is uncover-
deep wide holes for the bare-root saplings
to Portland."
ing tromp l'oeil painting from 1879 in the
that cool early morning, stabilized them
Knight, who lives on Panther Pond in
Raymond Congregational Church. "It is
with posts on either side, filled in the soil,
Raymond, has been retired from the engi-
significant work," he says, "and a lot of
and watered them well with a probe. Over
neering profession for twenty-two years,
hard decisions have to be made."
the fence I asked these guardians of urban
and devotes his time to doing what inter-
He does not worry about tomorrow.
green why most of my junipers and a few
ests him. This includes extensive travel.
"I've always gotten involved," he says,
other evergreens had turned orange and
Years back, he and his wife made three
"and everything's turned out all right."
died last winter. I had thought nothing
trips on freighters: a six-week and a twelve-
Shirley Jacks
could kill a juniper.
week trip to the Pacific, and a six-week
"Last winter was very dry," offered
trip to the Mediterranean. But when he
Shannon, who I learned has been working
turned seventy, freighters wouldn't take
TALKING
in Portland parks for fifteen years, start-
them anymore.
WITH PORTLAND'S
ing as a teenager with his father. His
"Freighters don't carry doctors," he
ARBORISTS
brother John plants Portland's bulbs.
says with a smile. "They figure old people
"There was no snow on the ground and no
need medical help."
Late spring a crew from Public Works
moisture falling on the needles. Trees take
So they turned to hiring boats to travel
arrived in front of my house with a couple
in water even when they're supposedly
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Greater Portland
1989 AUTUMN
dormant." He advised me to water all my
teenth-century America. Most of
trees right through December.
Portland's have fallen to Dutch elm dis-
AMERICAN
Jeff Tarling, city arborist, heads the
ease. Organized tree planting started
JAPANESE
six-man Forestry Division of Public Works.
around 1900, with silver maples, sugar
"Fluctuation is what really hurts," says
maples, and willows the predominant
ITALIAN
Tarling. "Plants don't like sudden changes
choices because they are fast growing.
in temperature. We were planting right
Now their size and age is often a problem.
FRENCH
up into December, it was so warm last
Tarling hands me a copy of the Arnold
AFRICAN
year. Then it turned very cold and windy.
Arboretum's Street Trees for Home and
The wind just pulled moisture right out of
Municipal Landscapes. It's one of his favor-
KOREAN
the rhododendrons and other evergreens.
ite guides in choosing today's hardy
CAJUN
Saucer magnolias were the hardest hit.
varieties that will grow in limited soil, be
"What I would do in the fall," he con-
drought resistant, salt and soot tolerant,
THAI
tinues, spray evergreens with wiltproof.
and have leaves "that are not too big."
NO
It's an anti-desiccant that gives a waxy
Strollers in the City Hall area will find
TEX
surface to the needles so the winds don't
eight new DeGroot lindens. Silver lin-
MEX
dry them out as much. After the first hard
dens, ginko, and any of the honey locust
FOOD
frost, I'd also mulch new shrubs with ei-
varieties are Tarling's other choices for a
ther pine needles or bark, just a one-inch
medium-sized tree. In the small-size cate-
covering, and I'd tie brittle-branched
gory there are five new European
shrubs- like azalea and mountain laurel
hornbeams in the Deering Oaks stock-
RULES
- with green jute to keep the snow from
yard. Winter king and Washington haw-
breaking the branches." Tarling doesn't
thorn, snowdrift crab apple, ornamental
think much of wrapping things in burlap
pear, accolade and Kwanzan cherries are
or using cones.
his favorites among the smaller ornamen-
CAFE ALWAYS
The phone rings continuously in his
tal trees. Summit ash (Marshall seedless
MODERN AMERICAN FOOD
Portland Street office. "We get a tremen-
variety) and red oak are the big-tree
dous number of calls. Portlanders really
choices, although the latter's large leaf
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have a tradition of caring for their trees.
gives too much shade.
Right now we have a backlog of 150 re-
Baxter's Woods, off Forest Avenue
quests for planting, pruning, stump re-
across from Amato's, earns high praise
moval-all on city property. Often people
from Tarling. "It's amazing how nice it
want to know the name of a tree they have
is." A Friends of the Parks Committee,
seen on a street so they can plant it in their
headed by City Councilor Pamela Plumb,
4
yard. We answer them all, but sometimes
exists to promote awareness and support
7
it takes awhile." An intern from SMVTI
of the city's parks. They are at the history
helps them out two days a week.
and inventory stage with a view to setting
Portland is one of six Maine communi-
BUSINESS
priorities. "Our main overall goal," says
ties to earn the designation Tree City,
Tarling, "is to make Portland a better place
USA, from the National Arbor Day Foun-
to live and work."
AFTER HOURS
dation. The Forestry Division is respon-
That is the promise of my two new
September 28:
sible for all the trees on 200 miles of Port-
ginkos. The ginko is a primordial tree, the
Harper Computers at
land streets and in the parks. They plant
only species in its genus, with a fan-shaped
319 Marginal Way
between 150 and 200 new trees each year.
leaf that turns brilliant yellow about now.
October 26:
"Maintenance is a weak spot," acknowl-
They extend my garden, yet their initial
Smith, Batchelder & Rugg,
edges Tarling. The reason is simple. "It's
slow growth and skinny shape will not
Morse Payson & Noyes Insurance,
hard to be everywhere."
block the sun. I watered them once a week
and Vision 2000 at 100 Middle Street
All members of the crew belong to the
during the summer. This year I'll take
November 30:
Maine Arborists Association, a 52-year-
Charlie's advice and continue occasion-
Key Bank of Southern Maine at
old trade association. "All the arborists
One Canal Plaza
ally into December. «
Anne Rugh
have to be licensed, just like plumbers and
September 21:
electricians," says Tarling, association vice-
Chamber of Commerce of the
president. "That's for both liability insur-
Greater Portland Region
ance and for meeting State of Maine stan-
Annual Meeting Holiday Inn by the Bay
dards." Liability insurance protects both
homeowner and arborist should a branch
5:00 7:00 p.m.
he's cutting fall on a house.
A networking event of the Chamber of Commerce
of the Greater Portland Region
Elms were the mainstay of mid-nine-
AUTUMN 1989
Greater Portland
75
Entertainment Guide
continued from page 15
MISTER
The Bounty. 200 Riverside Street, Portland.
Multi-level dance club. Top-40 DJ. High-tech
light show. Lunch, Monday through Friday,
11:30 to 2. American burgers and sandwiches.
BAGEL
Dancing nightly, 8 to 1. 772-8033.
TM.
Bridgeway Restaurant. 71 Ocean Street, South
Portland. Jazz on the weekends. Piano bar,
lounge. 799-5418.
Now Serving 5 Locations!
Clipper Club at the Yankee Clipper. 1230
599 Forest Avenue, Portland, Maine 775-0718
Congress Street, Portland. Dancing. DJ pro-
vides entertainment Friday and Saturday
100 Waterman Drive, So. Portland, Maine 767-4756
nights, 8:30 to 12. 774-5611.
220 Mall Plaza, So. Portland, Maine 773-3238
336 Center Street, Auburn, Maine 777-7007
Down East Village. Route 1, Yarmouth. Piano.
"We bake 'em best"
Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, 5 to 9. 846-5161.
128 Main Street, Freeport, Maine 865-3431
Geno's. 13 Brown Street, Portland. Live rock.
772-9521.
Horsefeathers. 193 Middle Street, Portland.
Live entertainment nightly till legal closing.
Jazz late Sunday afternoons. 773-3501.
Freshly Baked Bagels
Croissants
Full-Line
Hu Shang III. 29 Exchange Street, Portland.
Kosher-Style Deli
Cream Cheeses
Gourmet Cookies
DJs play top-40 dance music nightly, 9 to 1.773-
0300.
and Assorted Specialties
Pizza Bagels
Hot and Cold
John Martin's Manor. 700 Main Street, South
Sandwiches
Eat In Or Take Out
Catering
Portland. Piano bar, 5 to 9. Top-40 bands, 9 to
closing. Open Monday through Saturday. 775-
5642.
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76
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1989 AUTUMN
Street, Portland. Two floors. Various local bands
play rock, top 40, rhythm and blues. Thursday
through Saturday, 7:30 to 1. 774-5246.
Old Port Tavern. 11 Moulton Street, Portland.
YARMOUTH BLUFFS CONDOMINIUMS
Local bands play rock and top 40 nightly 7:30 to
1. 774-0444.
The Ultimate in Carefree Living
Rozzi's Fire Barn. Route 302, Windham. Dance
Extremely favorable bank
to rock, oldies, and jazz. Nightly, 5 to 1. 892-
8304.
financing
Select your design and
The Silver Shell. 363 Maine Mall Road, South
location with privacy,
Portland. The Rob Robbins show, Tuesday
through Saturday, 9 to 1. 775-0555.
convenience, solar spaces, and
more
Top of the East. 157 High Street, Portland. At
the Sonesta Hotel. Pianist Marlene Daley. Tues-
day through Saturday, 5:30 to 12:30. 775-5411.
Carol Power 797-7380
Dusty Miller 865-3676
Tree Cafe. 45 Danforth Street, Portland. Vari-
Mark Stimson Assoc. 781-4220
YARMOUTH BLUFFS
ous bands play everything from rock to reggae.
Wednesday through Sunday nights. 774-1441.
Verrillo's. 155 River Street, Portland. Bands,
dancing. Tuesday through Saturday, 9 to 1.
775-6536.
Zackery's. Holiday Inn West, Exit 8, Portland.
Top-40 bands, dancing. Nightly, 9 to 1. 774-
A Second Addition
5601.
Zootz. 31 Forest Avenue, Portland, at the Per-
to Portland's Heritage.
forming Arts Center. Changing weekly format,
from new wave to rock to African pop. Dancing
weeknights, 9 to 1; Friday and Saturday, 9 to 2.
140,000 square feet of prime office and retail space
Happy Hour from 4:30 to 7 with complimen-
spectacular views of the entire harbor and down-
tary hors d'oeuvres. 773-8187.
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Corporation at (207)871-7100.
Casco Bay Movers Dance Company. Sheila
Bellefleur, artistic director; Devorah Hanson,
managing director. For information on per-
formances and classes, call 871-1013.
Figures of Speech Theatre. RR 4, Box 4277,
Freeport 04032. Figures of Speech is a profes-
sional theatre which tours nationally and inter-
nationally, and is based in Freeport, Maine. For
information, call 865-6355.
Mad Horse Theatre Company. 50 Danforth
Street, Portland. Performances Thursdays
through Sundays. 775-5957.
Oxygen Debt Company. Performing Arts
Center, 25A Forest Avenue, Portland. 871-0586.
The Portland Ballet Repertory Company. 341
Cumberland Avenue, Portland. 772-9671.
One Portland Square, Portland, ME (207) 871-7100
Portland Dance Center. 25A Forest Avenue,
Portland. Home of Ram Island Dance Com-
pany. For ticket or subscription information,
AUTUMN 1989
Greater Portland
77
call 774-0465 (Performing Arts Center box of-
fice). For additional information, call 773-2562.
Portland Lyric Theater. 176 Sawyer Street,
South Portland. For tickets and times, call 799-
1421.
Eight experienced
The Portland Players. 420 Cottage Road, South
owner/brokers in a
Portland. Call 799-7337 for information.
unique partnership.
Portland School of Ballet. 341 Cumberland
Selected by Sotheby's
Avenue, Portland. For information call 772-
9671.
International Realty
as its representative
Portland Stage Company. Portland Perform-
ing Arts Center, 25A Forest Avenue, Portland.
in Greater Portland.
774-0465.
Russell Square Players. Russell Hall Audito-
rium, University of Southern Maine, Gorham.
Shows every Wednesday through Saturday
night. For ticket information and times of per-
formances, call 780-5483.
Jim Thorne, Pat Vilven, H. Bud Singer, Diane Shevenell,
Barney Burrall
Theater of Fantasy. 50 Danforth Street, Port-
Seated: Sue Lamb, Janice Drinan, Chris Jackson
land. Home of Celebration Theater Ensemble
and Tony Montanaro. For more information on
upcoming programs or for ticket reservations,
call 775-5957.
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The Choral Arts Society. P.O. Box 2367, South
Portland 04106. Dr. Robert Russell, music di-
Business Smarts
rector. Season tickets as well as individual
concert prices are available by calling 772-2173.
LARK Society for Chamber Music. All con-
Poor planning of business travel can cost your company plenty.
certs will be held at the Immanual Baptist
Your executives shouldn't spend hours arranging and verifying
Church, High Street, Portland. For season tick-
ets and other information, call 761-1522.
their travel details.
At Webber Travel, we specialize in making sure you and your
Municipal Organ Concerts. Portland City Hall
company can concentrate on the details of your business,
Auditorium, 7:45 p.m. 874-8300.
not the travel business.
Portland Concert Association. 262 Cumber-
As an American Express Representative, Webber Travel is able
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Portland Performing Arts Center. 25A Forest
24-Hour Emergency Reservations Hot-line
Avenue, Portland. For information, call 761-
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Special Corporate Rates
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La Fete Francaise: Philippe Bruneau Ensemble
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Call Webber's Corporate Travel Department and let us
show you how we can make your business travel smart business.
September 23, 8 p.m.
Bravo Combo
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Portland Symphony Orchestra. City Hall
Auditorium, Portland. Toshiyuki Shimada,
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Kyoko Takezawa, violin
October 10
Bella Davidovitch, piano
78
Greater Portland
1989 AUTUMN
October 21, 22 - Pops Concert
McLain Family Band
November 5 - Candlelight Concert
Gershwin & Friends: Norman Krieger, piano
November 18, 19 - Pops Concert
KEEP YOUR EYE
Music of Rodgers and Hammerstein
November 28
ON PORTLAND.
Glenn Dicterow, violin
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manager. All concerts start at 8 p.m. at the
Corthell Concert Hall in Gorham. For more
CROSSiNG
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information, call weekdays 780-5555.
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Afternoon Gallery. 49 Dartmouth Street at
1988 cturing Maine Diretory
MAINE MANUFACTURING
Forest Avenue, Portland. Works of artists rep-
DIRECTORY - All Maine Manufac-
resented by the gallery. Open weekdays from 1
to 5. 871-9235.
turers are listed in three, easy-to-use
TOWER
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The Art Gallery at Six Deering Street. 6 Deer-
ical, SIC - Lists officers, products,
ing Street, Portland. Gallery hours: 11 to 5,
size, mailing addresses and phone
Tuesday through Saturday the first two weeks
numbers. Soft cover - $35.00
of the month; the second two weeks by chance
or appointment. 772-9605.
MAINE REGISTER - The most comprehensive single-volume reference
Through September 23
source on Maine. Contains state-wide business, professional, industrial,
Cynthia Cooley, Pittsburgh's "Artist of the
municipal and legislative listings. Over 1300 fact-filled pages. Hard
Year," acrylics, watercolors
cover $95.00
September 29 October 28
New oil paintings by impressionist Gerald
MAINE BAR DIRECTORY - All Maine Lawyers listed alphabetically
Merfeld. Reception, 6 to 9, September 29; open
and geographically. Lists firms, mailing addresses and phone numbers,
house to visit with the artist, September 30
plus information on courts and municipal officials. Ring bound $35.00
November 3 November 22
Monhegan Island/NYC artist Leo Brooks,
expressionist watercolors of the Maine Coast.
ENTERPRISE - Greater Portland's Business Directory. Lists over 5500
Reception, 6 to 9, November 3; open house,
businesses with principal officers, mailing addresses, telephone
4
numbers, products and services. Soft cover - $35.00
Barridoff Galleries. 26 Free Street, Portland.
Gallery hours are 10 to 5 on weekdays; noon to
MAILING LISTS - Mailing lists of over 50,000 Maine businesses are
4, Saturdays; closed Sundays. 772-5011.
available on cheshire or pressure sensitive labels by geographical area or
classification. Lists are updated daily and are guaranteed 99% accurate.
September 8-September 30
Per thousand - $50.00
New work by William Manning. Opening re-
ception September 8, 5 to 7
Cafe Always. 47 Middle Street, Portland.
TO GET THE FACTS TODAY CALL:
Changing exhibitions. Open daily from 5 to 10.
774-9813
or
MAINE: 1-800-431-BOOK
774-9399.
Congress Square Gallery. The Hay Building,
Congress Square, Portland. Contemporary
TOWER
Maine art, limited editions, and Japanese
PUBLISHING
woodblock prints. Custom framing. Gallery
hours are 10 to 6, Monday through Saturday.
774-3369.
34 Diamond Street, P.O. Box 7220, Portland, Maine 04112
Maine's business to business connection
Fretz and Young Gallery. 4 City Center, Port-
land. Fine-art jewelry by gold and silversmiths.
AUTUMN 1989
Greater Portland
79
Regular exhibits of photographs and sculpture.
Michael Willis, Phil Barter, Howard Rackcliffe,
Nancy Margolis Gallery (formerly Maple Hill).
Gallery hours are Monday through Friday, 10
Katherine Bradford, Sharon Townsend, Na-
367 Fore Street, Portland. Monday through
to 5; Saturday, 12 to 5. 761-4550.
tasha Mayers, Ed Gamble, Ann Gresinger, and
Saturday, 10 to 6. Nancy Lee, director. 775-
Harold Garde. Open Monday through Satur-
3822.
Frost Gully Gallery. 25 Forest Avenue, Port-
day, 10 to 6; Thursday evenings until 9; and
land. Contemporary paintings and sculpture
Sunday, 12:30 to 5; or by appointment. 774-
Joan Whitney Payson Gallery of Art.
by Maine artists. Gallery hours are noon to 6,
8919.
Westbrook College, Portland. Closed on Mon-
weekdays. 773-2555.
days. For more information, call 797-9546.
Hobe Sound Galleries North. Maine Street,
Gallery 127. 127 Middle Street, Portland.
Brunswick. A Payson Art Enterprise, affiliated
The Pine Tree Shop and Bayview Gallery. 75
Monday through Saturday, 10 to 6; Thursday
with Hobe Sound Galleries in Hobe Sound,
Market Street, Portland. Fine art, sculptures,
until 8. 773-3317.
Florida, and Midtown Galleries in New York
limited-edition prints, posters, and custom
City. Gallery hours: 10:30 to 5:00, Tuesday
framing. 773-3007.
Greenhut Gallery (formerly Posters Plus). 146
through Saturday. 773-2755.
Middle Street, Portland. Gallery hours are 10:30
Portland Museum of Art. 7 Congress Square,
to 5:30, Monday through Saturday. 772-2693.
The Jones Museum of Glass and Ceramics.
Portland. For information on museum pro-
Sebago, Maine. 787-3370.
grams, call 775-6148.
Hitchcock Art Dealers. 602 Congress Street,
Suite 204, Portland. Contemporary Maine art
Maine Historical Society. 485 Congress Street,
Through September 10
featuring works by over 40 artists including
Portland. 774-1822.
Images of Lighthouses
Through September 24
Wyeths from the Magill Collection
TING
Through October 8
Perspectives: Celeste Roberge
September 2 November 26
Modern Japanese Prints
October 10 - December 10
Master Photographs
Portland Public Library. 5 Monument Square,
Portland. Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, 9
RETIREMENT HAS
to 6; Tuesday and Thursday, noon to 9; Satur-
day, 9 to 5. Exhibits are on level one. 773-4761.
ITS REWARDS.
September 5-29
Zerox-graphs: Black and white abstract paint-
ings by Janice May Scott
Portland School of Art. The Baxter Gallery, 619
"Pat always used to say, 'The way your feet
Congress Street, Portland. Hours: Monday
through Friday, 10 to 5; Thursday evening until
are planted on the ground, I'm surprised
7; Sunday, 11 to 4. Admission is free. 775-3052
or 761-1771.
you don't sprout roots!' I'd say, 'But Pat,
Stein Glass Gallery. 20 Milk Street, Portland.
someone's got to tether you down!' And
The gallery is open Monday through Saturday
from 10:30 to 6; Sunday, 12 to 5. 772-9072.
then we'd laugh at my Yankee ways."
Through September 15
Unlike many retirement
Elizabeth Pannell: Multi-layered vessel forms,
interesting graphics, and scenes featuring
communities, Huntington
human forms and country life
Common doesn't require its
University of Southern Maine Art Gallery.
residents to purchase their
Gorham campus. The museum is open Sunday
homes. Nor is there a large
through Thursday, 12 to 8. For more informa-
tion, call 780-5409.
entrance loan to pay. Instead,
all of the homes at Huntington
Common are rental only. So
residents have the flexibility
to control their financial assets, without tying up a large
sum of money.
Financial independence is only one of many offerings
Huntington Common provides. To find out more, call
(207) 985-3409 or mail in the coupon below. And
find out how to reap the rewards of
retirement, while keeping your feet
planted firmly on the ground.
Statement of
HUNTINGTON COMMON
LECTURES
11 Ross Road, Kennebunk, Maine 04043
Portland Museum of Art. 7 Congress Square,
A project of Rollins Management Group, Inc.
Portland. For information on museum lectures,
call 775-6148.
80
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1989 AUTUMN
World Affairs Council of Maine. University of
Southern Maine, 96 Falmouth Street, Portland.
Lectures open to the public. For information,
call 780-4551.
September 12
Hong Kong Todayand Tomorrow. Kerry McGlynn,
senior New York representative of the Hong
Kong Government. First Parish Church, Port-
land
POMEGRANATE
INN
Classic Accommodations
September 25, October 2, 16, 23, 30
Changing Face of Communism. 7 to 9 p.m. Cam-
pus Center, University of Southern Maine,
Bed & Breakfast
Portland
49 Neal Street
Portland
October 28
Maine 04102
Law Enforcement - Current Issues. William Ses-
207 772 1006
sions, director, FBI. 10:30-12 brunch, Wood-
800 356 0408
lands Club, Falmouth
YANKEE TOUR & TRAVEL
FILM
Cinema City. Westbrook Plaza, Brighton Ave-
nue (Route 25), Westbrook. First-run feature
films. 854-9116.
Maine Mall Cinema. Maine Mall Road, South
Portland. First-run films. 774-1022.
The Movies. 10 Exchange Street, Portland. New
and old American and foreign film classics.
772-9600.
Nickelodeon Cinema. Temple Street, Portland.
First-run hits, art films, and foreign features.
"YOUR PLEASURE IS OUR BUSINESS"
772-9751.
Travel Arrangements for Professionals
By Professionals
YANKEE
TOUR & TRAVEL
CHILDREN'S
GUIDE
475 Congress Street, Portland, Maine "at Monument Square"
Telephone 775-6763 in Maine 1 800-2YANKEE
The Children's Museum of Maine. 746 Ste-
vens Avenue, Portland. A hands-on children's
Contact our vacation travel specialist today.
museum geared for children from two to ten
years old. Thirteen rooms feature such perma-
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81
nent exhibits as the Fire Room with a make-
believe fire truck, the Kite Express Room with
a working model railroad system, the TV and
Radio Room with a working camera and micro-
phone, and Tom and Bill's Country Store with
groceries, shopping baskets, cash register, and
post office. The museum also offers art classes
and workshops for children, and "enrichment
Congenial Country Living
programs" for parents. Admission is free for
children under one, $2 for senior citizens, and
$2.50 for all others, half price Wednesday after-
noons. Museum hours are 9:30 to 4:30, seven
You've earned it, You deserve it!
days a week. For more information, call 797-
KITE.
classic New England
private patio
architecture
attached garage and ample
Opening September 23
For school-age children and interested adults:
spacious, sunny rooms
storage
Energy Exhibit sponsored by Maine Yankee,
choice of townhouse or cape
minutes from Val Halla
and Paper-Making Exhibit sponsored by Inter-
fully applianced kitchens
Golf Course
national Paper Foundation
master bedroom suite
located in Cumberland Center
Children's Resource Center. 741 Stevens
and it's ready for you
Avenue, Portland. A nonprofit organization
that collects clean, safe scrap materials or sec-
onds from industries to sell at low cost to indi-
CALL
viduals and groups for creative and educa-
DIRECTIONS:
Margie Wharton
tional use. The center is filled with recyclables
Rt. 9 to Cumberland
CUMBE RLAND
829-6333
in various sizes, shapes, colors, and textures.
Center: 1/4 mile
MEADOWS
Model home open
Paper, fabrics, buttons, wooden beads, metal
down Tuttle Rd.
daily 12 to 5. Monday
and plastic shapes, fancy shoe laces, yarn,
by appointment
sponges, and many other materials provide
Congenial Country Living
grist for the mill of the imagination. The center
also sponsors art classes for children and adults,
a book exchange for children, a crafts and early
education library for parents and educators,
and membership opportunities with benefits.
797-0525.
Maine Audubon Society. 118 U.S. Route One,
Falmouth. A number of opportunities for chil-
dren of all ages to learn about nature and the
environment, from the Buzzing Bees preschool
story hour at Gilsland Farm in Falmouth, to
canoe and walking tours at the Scarborough
Marsh Nature Center, from winter Ecology
Walks at Gilsland Farm, to the summer's Mast
Landing Nature Day Camp in Freeport. The
"Gulls at
Society also offers a speakers' program,
Children's Sunday Events, from January to
March in Portland. For more information about
Duck Harbor"
these and other Maine Audubon Society pro-
grams, call 781-2330.
by Helen Rundell
Portland Dance Center. 25A Forest Avenue,
Portland. Quality dance education for children
Full Color
ages 2 to 16. Classes include jazz, ballet, and
modern dance as well as Creative Movement
Offset Lithograph
and Parent/Baby Movement for the youngest
children. Also available are acting classes and a
Image Size:
once-a-month workshop on theater and per-
formance arts. Classes and workshops are of-
17" X 24"
fered from September to June. For more infor-
mation, call 773-2562.
$6500 ppd.
MasterCard & Visa
Portland Museum of Art. 7 Congress Square,
Portland. The museum offers a variety of pro-
accepted
grams for children, from one-day
5% Maine Sales Tax
workshops to weekly classes, as well as special
family events. Classes are generally held in the
spring and fall, workshops in December (on
wrapping-paper, ornament and card making),
in March or April (egg decorating), and in the
summer months. Workshops and classes for
THE PINE TREE SHOP
both elementary and junior high school chil-
dren often include tours of the museum. For
and
information, call 775-6148.
BAYVIEW GALLERY
Portland Public Library. 5 Monument Square,
Portland. Books, records, tapes, and magazines
Fine Art
Framing
Posters
Prints
for children and young adults, from preschool-
ers to middle-school-aged children. The library
33 Bayview Street
75 Market Street
also offers story hours, a children's art series,
and other special events. Regular events, all
Camden, Maine 04843
Portland, Maine 04101
starting at 10:30 a.m., include a preschool story
(207) 236-4534
(207) 773-3007
hour for children ages three to five on Mon-
days, Tales for Twos on Fridays, and films for
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1989 AUTUMN
all ages on Saturdays. The library is open
Other programs include youth soccer, fitness
Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, 9 to 6; Tues-
club (designed to introduce youths to regular
day and Thursday, noon to 9; and Saturday, 9 to
exercise, fitness, and nutritional information),
5. 773-4761.
TRUST THE PROS
basketball (introducing those ages 10 and under
to the fundamentals; league play for 5th and
at
Portland Recreation Department. 386 Congress
6th graders and nonvarsity junior and senior
Street, Portland. Offering community programs
high students), teen tennis clinics, and down-
for Greater Portland children in five commu-
hill and cross-country ski lessons.
BPS
nity centers around the city and on Peaks Is-
land.
For more information on Recreation Depart-
ment programs, call the business office be-
Cummings Community Center, 134 Congress
tween 8 and 5, Monday through Friday, at 775-
PHOTO
Street. Table and board games, arts and crafts,
5451, ext. 300.
and field trips for children ages 6 through 12.
Portland School of Art. 97 Spring Street, Port-
East End Community Center, PublicSafety Build-
land. Saturday School for high school and jun-
ing. Auditorium, gymnasium and classroom
ior high school students during the fall and
space available for rent.
spring semesters offers classes in all aspects of
art from drawing and design to sculpture and
Peaks Island Community Center, Peaks Island.
ceramics. Classes at beginning and more ad-
Teen dances and activities. Space available for
vanced levels are taught by PSA faculty and
Quality Film
rent.
seniors. During the summer, PSA offers a High
School Pre-College Program and Young
Reiche Community Center, 166 Brackett Street.
People's Workshop. For more information on
Developing
After School Program for children in grades 1
young people's programs, call 775-3052.
through 5, with an emphasis on fitness, drama,
arts and crafts, and storytelling. Teen Recrea-
Southworth Planetarium. University of South-
tion Program includes weight training, Red
ern Maine, 96 Falmouth Street, Portland.
At two convenient locations:
Cross babysitting courses, community service
Children's workshops, second Saturday of each
projects, and opportunities to socialize.
month, 9 to noon. Planetarium projectionists
71 U.S. Rt. 1
introduce participants to the planetarium and
its sky-dome theatre, identify constellations,
Scarborough, Me.
Riverton Community Center, 1600 Forest Ave-
nue. Arts and crafts, games, gym activities,
and assist each young person in constructing a
883-5126
team sports, and special events.
planetarium of his/her own to take home. There
is a $15 charge to cover the cost of materials.
30 City Center
Classes limited to 20 persons. Reservations are
Portland, Me.
Swimming lessons at the Riverton and Reiche
pools include tots' classes (ages 3 months to 3
required. 780-4249.
772-7296
years); novice classes (ages 4 and 5 years); Red
Cross lessons (6 years and up); water safety,
Young Men's Christian Association. 70 Forest
Hours:
lifesaving, and lifeguard courses; and scuba
Avenue, Portland. Programs in athletics in-
Mon.-Fri. 7:30-6:00
lessons.
clude the popular Aquatics Program for big
Sat. 9:00-1:00
Architects
Four
Professional Association
DESIGN ARCHITECTS LAND CHITECTURE FOUR.
99 Middle St, Manchester. NH 03101
(603) 627-3844
177 High St, Portland, ME
(207) 774 4441
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83
and very little dippers, Scuba Diving lessons,
the Youth Soccer League, Nautilus, Aerobic
Fitness, and Family Recreational Volleyball.
All programs are coeducational. In addition to
We're the one for you
athletics, the Y offers day-care services, the Hi-
Y program for teen leadership, the Otter Pond
New England.
Wilderness Day Camp in Standish, and many
other social and educational programs. For
information about these and other Y programs,
call 874-1111.
Young Women's Christian Association. 87
New England Telephone
Spring Street, Portland. The YWCA offers a
variety of programs for girls and boys. For the
youngest children and their parents, there are
A NYNEX Company
such programs as Infant and Toddler Gym and
Swim, and Kindercize. For children between
the ages of 3 and 8, the YWCA offers Kinder-
swim, Aquakids, Tumbletots, Pee Wee Soccer,
and Creative Dance. For older children there
are the Swim Clinic, Aquatic Games, Gymnas-
tics, and Beginner Karate. The YWCA also of-
fers programs for prenatal care, for day care,
and for teen parents. For more information
about these and other YWCA offerings, call
874-1130.
Sterling
Management
Support,
Inc.
PORTLAND
PLACES
Your off-site personnel department.
Greater Portland Landmarks. State Street,
Portland. For more information, call 774-5561.
Lightship Nantucket. SMVTI Dock, South
Portland. The world's largest and only remain-
ing operational lightship, open for public in-
spection (call to make sure ship is in port).
Personnel Handbooks
Guided tours through October: Wednesdays
through Sundays, 10 to 4; group tours available
Job Descriptions
(call for information). $3 for adults; $1.50 for
children, students, and senior citizens; family
maximum, $7. 775-1008.
Performance Evaluation Forms
The Portland Observatory. 138 Congress Street,
Short-term Personnel Management
Portland. Built in 1807 by Captain Lemuel
Moody, the Portland Observatory long served
as a signal tower for merchants and shipown-
ers of Portland. A system of signal flags told the
town of approaching craft, hours before they
docked. Radios made the tower obsolete, and it
was closed at the turn of the century, then
At Sterling Management Support, Inc. we update
reopened by the City of Portland in 1939 as an
historicsite. Thousands of visitors have climbed
your firm's policies and procedures manuals for
its 102 steps to enjoy spectacular views of the
city, the White Mountains, and Casco Bay. Open
the benefit of both the employer and employee.
Memorial Day through Labor Day. During the
fall and winter, the observatory is open by
appointment only. Call 774-5561 for further
information.
Victoria Mansion. 109 Danforth Street, between
State and High Streets, Portland. One of the
222 St. John St.
Portland, ME
871-7751
finest surviving examples of nineteenth-cen-
tury eclectic architecture in the country. De-
signed by Henry Austin (1804-91), the house is
built of brownstone in the Italian villa style and
features a tall square tower. The opulent Victo-
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1989 AUTUMN
rian interior includes colorful frescoes, richly
carved woodwork, and brilliant stained and
etched glass. The furniture, paintings, fabrics,
sculpture, and lighting devices owned by the
Ruggles Sylvester Morses provide an invalu-
able record of mid-nineteenth century taste.
Sometimes the
772-4841.
Through September 30
Often in Thought: Portland Remembered, 1900-
1920. Images of Portland combined with mate-
rial from the Victoria Mansion Oral History
real profit
Project.
isn't reflected by
the bottom line.
Being around year after
At Key Bank, we salute area
year. Being there when times
businesses. And we want to
are tough, or when your
help, both in doing well and
neighbors need a hand. And
in doing good in your com-
realizing they are your neigh-
munity. Because it's good
bors, not just your customers.
business for everyone.
PARKS & BEACHES
Success in business isn't
just about making money. It's
also about making contact.
Clark's Pond, off Western Avenue and Gorham
And making a difference
Road, South Portland, is a natural setting now
for the people around you,
being redesigned for passive public use.
enriching yourself and your
BANK
Crescent Beach State Park, off Route 77 in
neighborhood.
Cape Elizabeth, contains a long sandy beach, a
Member FDIC
Nextin...
Greater
Portland
Keeping Portland Safe From Harm
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Dogs and Other Devoted Friends
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Taste of Greater Portland
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MARGUERITE SANDS SHAFFER
Ann Allen Brahms
Writing About Portland and more
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rocky headland, tide pools, open fields, a fresh-
in the organization's innovative solar-powered
water marsh, a spruce and oak forest, and
building.
abundant wildlife and birdlife. Amenities in-
DiMiLLOs
clude picnic tables, charcoal grills, restrooms,
Mast Landing, Freeport, is operated and main-
ample parking space, and bus service to down-
tained by the Maine Audubon Society. Nature
town.
trails wind through 140 acres and pass a variety
of natural habitats. In the winter the nature
Deering Oaks Park, in Portland, was once the
walks make ideal cross-country ski trails.
scene of a battle between colonists and Indians.
Today this 51-acre Olmstead-designed park
Mill Creek Park, between Ocean Street and
has noteworthy flower gardens, tennis courts,
Cottage Road, South Portland, is a 10-acre park
a lighted baseball diamond, a softball diamond,
with a rose garden, a bandstand, and a large
historical monuments, a playground, and a
toy-boat-sailing and skating pond.
magnificent grove of oak trees.
Payson Park, off Baxter Boulevard, Portland.
The Fish and Wildlife Visitors Center, Fish
Forty-eight acres of softball and baseball fields,
Hatchery Road, Gray, provides a home for
tennis courts, a playground, and picnic and
injured wildlife from around the state. There
skating areas.
are bears, raccoons, foxes, a coyote, fisher, skunk,
porcupine, owl, and hawk. Open between 10
Pine Point, off Route 9, Scarborough. A con-
and 4 daily from May through the end of
tinuation of Old Orchard Beach, Pine Point has
November. For information call 657-4977.
one acre of land and a sandy beach.
Fore River Sanctuary, off Rand Road, Port-
The Promenades. On the east end of the Port-
land. Seventy-six acre sanctuary with two and
land peninsula, the 68-acre Eastern Promenade
one-half miles of trails. Salt water marshes,
offers a panorama of Portland Harbor and Casco
great bird watching, wildlife, deer. Boardwalks
Bay, plus tennis courts, a ball field, and histori-
lead to Portland's only waterfall. For more
cal markers. The Western Promenade over-
information call Maine Audubon land steward
looks countryside and, on a clear day, the White
at 781-2330.
Mountains. Spectacular sunset-watching spot.
Fort Williams Park, Shore Road, Cape Eliza-
Scarborough Beach State Park, off Route 207,
beth. Rocky cliffs, spectacular views of Casco
Scarborough, is a long sandy beach with rela-
Bay, the islands, Portland Harbor, and two-
tively warm water, lifeguards, and almost no
hundred-year-old Portland Head Light. Also:
undertow. Excellent body-surfing conditions
baseball diamond, tennis courts, and plenty of
after storms.
DON'T MISS THE BOAT!!
open space.
Scarborough Marsh Nature Center, Route 9,
The Pride of Portland's Waterfront
Gilsland Farm, off Route One, Falmouth. Home
Scarborough. Operated by the Maine Audubon
DiMillo's Floating Restaurant
of the Maine Audubon Society. Marked nature
Society. Nature center with marsh-life exhibits,
trails wander through woods, fields, and along
canoe rentals, and nature talks. For a complete
Long Wharf, Portland, Maine
a tidal inlet. A complete nature store is housed
schedule, call 883-5100.
REDUCING
COMMUNICATION
PROBLEMS
SOMETIMES REQUIRES
A SUPER EFFORT
or simply a call to Pine Tree Paging.
Pine Tree Paging recognizes the needs of the busy professional, sales
staff or service company when it comes to reliable communications.
Standing ready to provide a super effort to ensure that your concerns
and needs are met with the best product and price available. We feature
pagers from Motorola, toll free
numbers in our coverage area,
and 24 hour service: Call Pine
Tree Paging today for more
A division of Pine Tree
details and avoid having some
Telephone and Telegraph
guy in tights wrinkle your new
suit.
Pine Tree Paging
775-9922 or toll free 1-800-445-7080
86
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1989 AUTUMN
Spring Point Shoreway, a scenic mile-plus
parkway extending from Fisherman's Point to
the Spring Point Marina along Casco Bay in
South Portland. Encompasses Willard Beach (a
sandy swimming beach), an arboretum, picnic
Lakeside Conference Centers
areas, and Fort Preble.
Two Lights State Park, off Route 77 in Cape
A Natural Environment Just Minutes Away
Elizabeth. Offers ocean views and surf-pounded
rocks. Adjacent Lobster Shack serves takeout
seafood meals that can be eaten on the rocks.
Enjoy your next productive business meeting or a relaxed retreat in the serenity
of our lakeside pines. Given the tranquility of a pine forest and walks in the
Wolfe's Neck State Park, Freeport. Numerous
woods, your group will feel uncrowded and able to think more clearly. And we're
trails winding through lush woods and fields
just 25 miles from Portland.
alongside the Harraseeket River and Casco Bay.
For as little as $50 per person per day, we offer: Overnight lodging, wholesome
meals, conference space and waterfront activities. (Rates vary with size of group.)
Float tank and personal services such as massage, facials, hair and scalp treat-
ments are available at additional charge.
At Northern Pines on Crescent Lake:
At Kingsley Pines on Panther Pond:
Hold your seminar or retreat
Summer or early fall company
between September 15 and January
business meetings, conferences,
P
31, 1990, or March 1 and May 20,
weddings or picnics are invited
1990.
between May 1 and June 15, or
Exercise room, hot tub and sauna.
August 15 and October 15, 1989.
Overnight lodging up to 40 people
Overnight lodging up to 150
2NG
(20 during winter months).
persons.
Day conferences up to 50 people at
Day conferences or outings up to
special group rates.
300 people at special group rates.
Call us for details.
SPECIAL EVENTS
Northern Pines
Conference
Centers
Kingsley Pines
Conference Center
Conference Center
Rt. 85, RR 1, Box 279C
RR 1, Plains Rd., Box 448C
9th Annual Maine Antiquarian Book Fair,
Raymond, Maine 04071
Raymond, Maine 04071
sponsored by the Maine Historical Society.
(207) 655-7624
(207) 655-7181
October 8, 9:30 to 4:00, Holiday Inn By the Bay,
Portland. Proceeds benefit the Maine Histori-
cal Society.
The Victoria Society Fashion Show. October
17 at the Sonesta Hotel. For information, call
773-7062 or 773-2799.
NF-HOI
PLACES TO STAY
The Coast Guard's Reserve Unit Captain
DOWNTOWN
of the Port in Portland, ME has immediate openings
for people with various backgrounds including
Holiday Inn By the Bay. 88 Spring Street, Port-
law enforcement, firefighting and administration.
land. 239 rooms. (207)775-2311, 1(800)MEET-
ING.
If you are looking for a challenge give us a call today.
780-3346 or Toll Free 1-800-622-8606
Inn at Park Spring. 135 Spring Street, Portland.
Seven rooms.
(207)774-1059.
Inn on Carleton. 46 Carleton Street, Portland.
62 Forest Avenue
Bed and breakfast with seven rooms. (207)775-
Thomas Moser Building
1910.
Portland, Maine 04101
Pomegranate Inn. 49 Neal Street, Portland. Bed
and breakfast. Six rooms, all with private bath
AUTUMN 1989
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87
or shower, and telephone. Isabel and Alan
Smiles. (207)772-1006.
Portland Regency Inn. Milk Street, Portland.
95 rooms. (207)774-4200, 1(800)543-7803.
Sonesta Hotel. 157 High Street, Portland. 184
rooms. (207)775-5411, 1(800)341-0414,
1(800)343-7170.
EXIT 5/INTERSTATE 295
Ramada Inn. 1230 Congress Street, Portland.
150 rooms. (207)774-5611, 1(800)228-2828.
EXIT 7/MAINE TURNPIKE
Quality Suites Hotel. 1050 Westbrook Street,
Portland. Portland's only all-suites hotel, open-
ing Fall 1989. 119 suites. (207)775-2200.
Sheraton Inn. 363 Maine Mall Road, South
Portland. 220 rooms. (207)775-6161, 1(800)325-
3535.
EXIT 8/MAINE TURNPIKE
Days Inn of Portland. 1150 Brighton Avenue,
Portland. (207)775-3711, 1(800)325-2525.
Holiday Inn West. 81 Riverside Street, Port-
land. 206 rooms. (207)774-5601, 1(800)MEET-
ING.
Enduring Quality,
Howard Johnson's Motor Lodge. 155 River-
Timelessly Contemporary.
side Street, Portland. (207)774-5861, 1(800)645-
2000.
FREEPORT
Harraseeket Inn. 162 Main Street, Freeport. 54
rooms, many with fireplace, Jacuzzi. Dining
room, lounge. (207)865-9377.
SOUTH OF PORTLAND
Black Point Inn. 510 Black Point Road, Prouts
Neck. 20 rooms. (207)883-4126.
Day's Inn/John Martin's Manor. 700 Main
Street, South Portland. 152 rooms. (207)774-
6151.
Howard Johnson Hotel. 675 Main Street, South
Portland. 123 rooms. (207)775-5343.
Inn By the Sea. Route 77, Cape Elizabeth. 43
rooms. (207)799-3134.
Portland Marriott Hotel. 200 Sable Oaks Drive,
South Portland. 227 rooms. (207)871-8000.
morin Lachance
BRICK COMPANY
BRICK COMPANY
RESORTS
Manufacturers and distributors of
waterstruck and wirecut face brick.
Sebasco Lodge. Box G, Sebasco Estates, Maine
04565. Entertainment for all ages. On the ocean,
with saltwater swimming pool, boating, hik-
MORIN BRICK P.O. BOX 36 DANVILLE, ME 04223 (207) 784-9375
ing, 9-hole golf course, tennis courts. Modified
LACHANCE BRICK . SO. WINDHAM RD., GORHAM, ME 04038 (207) 839-3301
American plan. (207)389-1161.
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Greater Portland
1989 AUTUMN
Another Way To Look At Portland's Future.
ENT WAY
Somma
LASSIC
YEWEAB
T
he nearly completed Monument Way
from Monument Square to the revitalized
Project represents all that is positive
Free Street area.
about a continued investment in Port-
land's future. An important landmark
Fortunately, Portland has attracted ex-
building has been completely renovated
ceptional professional and trades people
by Keeley Construction Company, Inc.
who make this kind of quality develop-
incorporating pivotal retail and commercial space. Of
ment possible. They have raised our sights and expecta-
note, the design now provides an essential pedestrian link
tions, and we wouldn't have it any other way.
keeley
The Team That's Building Portland's Future
Keeley Construction Company, Inc., P.O. Box 1074
Portland, Maine 04104
Telephone (207) 773-8499
The reasons to call
our leasing team
could fill this room.
If you own commercial property, there are
some excellent reasons to call Gendron's leasing
team now. For one thing, we're not just brokers;
we're full-time leasing professionals. That gives
us the time it takes to understand the market and
the needs of prospective tenants.
For another thing, we maintain a computer-
ized inventory of all space available in Portland.
We know what's hot, and where, so we have a
sound foundation on which to negotiate rents.
But most importantly, we know that to maxi-
mize the value of your commercial property, you
have to maximize the income it generates. And
we're specialists at that.
So whatever property you have to lease -- industrial, office or retail space --
call us at (207) 775-1811 and let us fill you in.
Gendron &Co.
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SPRING 1990
CONTENTS
DEPARTMENTS
FEATURES
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3
A NOTE FROM THE EDITOR
15
4
CITY GARDENS
DEAR EDITOR
Anne Rugh
5
24
ENTERTAINMENT GUIDE
TOUGH CHOICES IN HEALTH CARE
20
Lisa Derman
PORTLAND PEOPLE
31
29
DANCING INTO THE '90s
Shirley Jacks
A TASTE OF
GREATER PORTLAND
36
42
PROFILE: NURSE
ON THE WATERFRONT
Shirley Jacks
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48
AROUND AND ABOUT TOWN
50
WRITING ABOUT PORTLAND
64
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of the Greater Portland Region.
Cover photo and photo above by Nance
Trueworthy: Eli Martins garden off Thomas
Street, Portland.
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A Growing Tradition Since 1914
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A NOTE FROM
Portland
THE EDITOR
Shirley Jacks Editor/Publisher
Jill Bock Design and Production
Ceci Zerega Copy Editor
Chet Jordan Circulation Director
Leslie F. Brown Advertising Sales and Production
Anne Dudley Advertising Sales
Grant Jacks Advertising Sales
Jane Michaud Marketing Intern
Regular Contributors:
Writers: Lisa Derman, Chet Jordan,
Jim Keil, Anne Rugh, Thomas A. Verde;
Photographers: Dean Abramson,
Tonee Harbert, Nancé Trueworthy, Randy Ury
PUBLISHED BY THE CHAMBER OF
COMMERCE OF THE GREATER PORTLAND
REGION, serving Cape Elizabeth, Cumberland,
Falmouth, Freeport, Gorham, Gray, North Yarmouth,
Portland, Scarborough, South Portland, Westbrook,
Windham, and Yarmouth
Chairman: John R. Hooper
RANDY URY
Vice President/General Manager
Guy Gannett Publishing Co.
Vice Chairman: Richard B. Dalbeck
Executive Vice President
UNUM Life Insurance Co.
m happy to introduce a writer new to Greater Portland, but well
President: William M. Nugent
President
I
known in the business community. Beginning with this issue,
Chamber of Commerce of the Greater Portland Region
Jim Keil, sales manager for Blue Rock Industries and author of
Treasurer: Robert Kruger
Managing Partner
Real Salesmen Drive Company Cars, will give his opinion on
Peat, Marwick Maine & Co.
matters that affect the course of business, and the lives of all of us, in
Immediate Past Chairman: Hugh G. Farrington
President & Chief Operating Officer
Hannaford Bros. Co.
a back-of-the-book feature, GP Commentary. Read, enjoy, then
Chairman Editorial Advisory Committee:
write to tell us what you think.
Francis J. Guthrie, Jr.
President
I'm often asked where ideas for our stories begin. They begin by
The Guthrie Group
paying attention to what ordinary people are doing, and then
DIRECTORS:
Weston L. Bonney
figuring out why. For instance, this time last year we had a wedding
Chairman and CEO, Peoples Heritage Bank
Clayton Churchill
in our family, to be followed by a black-tie dinner-dance reception at
Chief Operating Officer, Purdy Bornstein Hamel, Burrell
Roxane A. Cole
the Cincinnati Country Club. My husband and I have danced
Broker, Ram Harnden, Inc.
Norman Conley
together for years, a little step that we created long ago, but woe to
Manager, S.D. Warren Co.
John D. Delehanty
either of us if we are called upon to dance with someône else. And
Attorney, Pierce, Atwood, et al.
Brian Dudley
so - to dancing class.
Vice President, Sedgewick James & Co. of No. N.E.
Mary E. Finnegan
Lo and behold, two of our sons, one with his fiance, the other with
President, Finnegan Associates
Richard Hallworth
his wife- also ducked into dancing schools for a quick brush up. (The
Senior Manager, Ernst & Whinney
Ronell F. Harris
third son- the perfect one- - had been dancing through Tampa for a
President, Harris Oil Company
K.C. Hughes
President, Bayside Associates
number of years. He had it all together, plus an enviable tan.)
William R. Johnson
President, Blue Cross/Blue Shield
At the Centre of Movement in Gorham, we were put through our
James H. Keil
General Sales Manager, Blue Rock Industries
paces, to the strains of "Sunrise Sunset," and we made it through the
Barry King
President, Sun Savings & Loan
wedding festivities without undue embarrassment. (Our finest
Linda C. Lee
President, Linda Lee Advertising
moment came when the band played "Sunrise Sunset.")
Robert Lynch
D.C., Lynch Chiropractic
In the course of this exercise, I learned that dance classes all over
Thomas D. McBrierty
Vice President, New England Telephone
Portland are full to overflowing with people of all ages, each with his
Francis E. McFarland
Chief Financial Officer, The One Bancorp
or her private reasons for wanting to learn to dance or brush up on
Carol Morris
President, Carol Morris Associates
a neglected skill. So popular has the sport become that a brand-new
Joseph V. O'Donnell
President, J.V. O'Donnell CPA
studio has opened on Congress Street in the past year. Why the
Patricia R. Plante
President, University of Southern Maine
revival of ballroom dancing? See "Dancing into the '90s."
David Ray
Store Manager, Shop 'n Save
Charles S. Rose
Vice President, S.D. Warren Co.
Wayne Ross
Director, Southern Maine Technical College System
Robert Ruotolo
Vice President, Robert A. Ruotolo
George B. Terrien
Shirley Jacks
Partner, Terrien Architects
Robert E. Vitalius
Shirley Jacks
President, Sedgewick James & Co. of No. N.E.
Editor
Roger B. Wold
Account Executive, A.G. Edwards & Sons
SPRING 1990
Greater Portland 3
DEAR EDITOR
Dear Editor,
Dear Editor,
I am a Portlander who has been living
It is always a bright spot in the mailbox
in Austria for the last 3 years. For a treat I
when the latest issue of Greater Portland
subscribe to Harper's magazine for writ-
arrives.
ers. It cures some of my homesickness. As
Although it has been some time since
I was reading your Greater Portland maga-
I have been able to visit the area, your
zine, I forgot that I wasn't reading Harper's.
magazine dangles the bait to lure me back.
You and your staff do a wonderful job. I
I go through it page by page and find it a
thank you. Greater Portland magazine
visual treat.
doesn't cure my homesickness, it makes it
In the winter issues, I found the pro-
worse! But I'll live with that, and continue
files of the three Casco Bay islands and
to look forward to each issue I receive.
their residents very interesting. As a dog-
By the way, after reading "Sugar
lover and cat-tolerator, the "Dogs and
Cookies" by my mother, Ann S. Brahms, I
(VIT.1
Cats" piece brought chuckles and many
got out my Fanny Farmer Cookbook and
nods of agreement. And Joshua Groupp
baked 3 batches. I was 9 months pregnant
certainly found his "magicmoments" with
and ate almost all of them myself.
the lovely aerial photographs.
Can I blame Mrs. Brahms, you, and
Keep on doing what you're doing!
your photographer for the 5 pounds?
(Mrs. T.E.) Jean A. Huston
Cathy Ann Wenzl
Yellow Springs, Ohio
Steinberg Ligist Austria
DIENER
We've got
all the
latest
dirt.
"Fill-It-Up, Please"
Mall Plaza, So. Portland
The Right Touch
1185 Forest Ave., Portland
WASH
RR Overpass, Route One, Biddeford
4 Greater Portland
1990 SPRING
ENTERTAINMENT
GUIDE
COLLECTION OF OKLAHOMA ART CENTER
Alpspitze, lithograph by Marsden Hartley,
from the exhibition "Marsden Hartley in Bavaria" at the
Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick, through April 14.
Dock Fore. 336 Fore Street, Portland. Home-
Horsefeathers. Just south of Freeport Village.
made specialties include burgers, steamers, and
Regional American cuisine. Serving from 11:30
mussels. Open daily for lunch and dinner. 772-
a.m. until a quarter to midnight. Fresh fish
8619.
blackboard specials. 865-4005.
Garnishes. Maine Mall, South Portland. Up-
Inn at Goose Rocks. Dyke Road and Route 9,
stairs at Jordan Marsh, serving lunch and early
Kennebunkport. Provides a country-style at-
dinner in a modern-art dining area. 774-5431.
mosphere with a superb selection of classic
entrees. Daily breakfast and dinner; Sunday
Gorham Station. 29 Elm Street, Gorham. A
brunch. Dinner reservations suggested. Carrie
restored railroad station is now an elegant res-
Colatrane at the piano in the lounge Friday and
taurant. Serving steaks and seafood. Call for
Saturday evenings. 967-5425.
hours. 839-3354.
Jameson Tavern. 115 Main Street, Freeport.
Illustrations by Berry Manter
The Great Lost Bear. 540 Forest Avenue, Port-
Great steaks and fresh seafood. Atmosphere
land. Featuring award-winning chili, home-
emphasizes colonial roots. 865-4196.
made desserts and soups. Seasonal patio seat-
DINING
ing in Bearadise Alley. Lunch, dinner, and
Manor Inn. 700 Main Street, South Portland.
Sunday champagne brunch. 772-0300.
Seafood, steaks, and American cuisine. Ban-
quet facilities also available. Open daily for
MOSTLY AMERICAN
Harbor House Restaurant. Mile Road, Wells.
breakfast, lunch, and dinner. 775-5642.
Offers casual dining with a variety of entrees to
satisfy every taste. Lunch and dinner daily, 11
Michel's at Exit 8. 202 Larrabee Road,
The Barnhouse Tavern. Route 302, North
to 11. Also, Misty's Lounge features nightly
Westbrook. Seafood, steaks, and Italian spe-
Windham. Steaks and seafood served in a re-
piano entertainment and wide-screen TV. 646-
cialties served daily for lunch and dinner. 854-
stored barn, just twelve miles from Portland.
9040.
9496.
Lunch and dinner daily. 892-2221.
Holiday Inn By the Bay. 88 Spring Street, Port-
Moose Crossing Restaurant. 270 U.S. Route 1,
Cadillac Jack's. 442 Fore Street, Portland. Bar
land. Full menu featuring seafood, steaks, and
Falmouth (three miles north of Portland). Re-
and grill features American fare: hamburgers,
salad bar. Live entertainment. Monday through
laxed cabin atmosphere. Featuring fresh Maine
wings, fish sandwiches, famous barbecue pork
Saturday. 775-2311.
seafood, aged Iowa beef; mesquite grilling.
sandwich. 774-7466.
Teriyaki steak, grilled salmon, "house favor-
Horsefeathers. 193 Middle Street, Portland. An
ites. Children's menu available. Visa, MC, and
Carbur's. 123 Middle Street, Portland. Twenty-
appetite for excellence. Serving from 11:30 a.m.
American Express accepted. Reservations ac-
page menu features sandwiches, hearty soups,
until a quarter to midnight. Fresh fish black-
cepted for parties of five or more. 781-4771.
and salads. Open daily for lunch and dinner.
board specials. 773-3501.
772-7794.
SPRING 1990
Greater Portland 5
The Muddy Rudder. Route 1, Yarmouth. A
selection of American favorites, served over-
HELLO
looking tidal waters and waves of sea grass.
Serving lunch and dinner daily from 11 a.m. to
1 a.m. 846-3082.
Narcissa Stone Restaurant. 10 Water Street,
Brunswick. Located in Captain Daniel Stone
Inn. Open daily for breakfast, lunch, and din-
AGENDA
ner. 725-9898.
Ocean's Edge Restaurant in thé Shawmut Inn.
Kennebunkport Spectacular dining experience
overlooking the ocean. Breakfast, lunch, and
dinner daily; Sunday brunch. Extensive wine
list and fabulous dessert cart. Dinner reserva-
tions suggested. Nightly entertainment with
Jorge Garcia at the piano. 967-3931.
Raoul's Roadside Attraction. 865 Forest Ave-
sing
nue, Portland. Serving hamburgers, soups, and
sandwiches. Open Monday through Saturday
for lunch and dinner; Sunday, dinner only. 775-
2494.
Red Sands. Route 302, North Windham. Home-
cooked meals served in a home-like atmos-
phere. Meals are complemented by homemade
bread and appetizers such as lobster stew. No
credit cards accepted. 892-9872.
You've got to stop meeting like this.
Reidy's, F. Parker. 83 Exchange Street, Port-
If your meetings and events aren meeting your expectations, enroll
land. Specializing in steak and seafood combi-
nations. Lunch and dinner, Monday through
USM's help today. We have an expert staff of professional meeting
Saturday; Sunday, dinner only. Late-night
planners ready to help you with every last detail-
from site selection to A/V to menus. At a surpris-
University
menu. 733-4731.
ingly low cost. So to improve your next meeting,
of Southern
The Rib Room. 157 High Street, Portland. At
take a very easy course. Call USM Department of
Conferences at 874-6506.
Maine
the Sonesta Hotel. Gourmet dining in an ele-
gant atmosphere. Selections include veal, prime
rib, and seafood specialties. Dinner served seven
days a week. Reservations and all major credit
cards accepted. 775-5411.
Ruby's Choice. 116 Free Street, Portland:
Gourmet hamburgers. Freshly baked buns,
fresh ground beef daily. Soup and salad bar,
homemade desserts. Three separate dining
areas open 7 a.m. to 11 p.m. daily. Takeout. 773-
9099.
Smith Farm. 226 Gray Road, West Falmouth.
Country-style cooking in barn-board atmos-
phere. Menu spotlights the Roast Turkey Feast
and other home-style meals. Open daily 11:30
to 8:30 for lunch and dinner. 797-3034:
South Portland Marketplace. 100 Maine Mall
Road, South Portland. Steaks and seafood
served around a giant salad bar. Serving lunch
and dinner, daily specials. 772-3754.
Meat so tender it practically
Squire Morgan's. 46 Market Street, Portland.
Pizza and gourmet subs in an atmosphere of
falls off the bone.
hunting trophies and other curious artifacts.
Lunch, Monday through Saturday; dinner,
seven nights a week. 774-5246.
US 1 at Exit 7 South Portland
Tony Roma's A Place For Ribs. 671 Main Street
Open every day 7AM to 11PM
(U.S. Route 1 at Exit 7 extension), South Port-
land. A restaurant of casual decor, genuine
Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner
cordiality; and reasonable prices, serving its
Takeout Available
famous Baby Back Ribs, judged the Best Ribs in
America at a national cook-off. Other menu
761-4211
items include chicken, fish, steak, barbecued
shrimp-on-a-skewer, and onion rings served
uniquely in a loaf. Daily luncheon specials.
TONYROMA'S
Special takeout menu. Open 7 days a week, 7
a.m. to 10 p.m., on Fridays and Saturdays to 11
p.m. Serving breakfast, lunch, and dinner.
Reservations accepted. MC, Visa, Amex. 761-
4211.
A PLACE FOR RIBS
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Valle's Steak House. 1150 Brighton Avenue,
Portland. Just off Exit 8 of the Maine Turnpike.
Specializing in steaks at reasonable prices. Also
6 Greater Portland
1990 SPRING
serving seafood and American favorites in a
family atmosphere. Breakfast, lunch, and din-
ner daily. 774-4551.
Westcustogo Inn. Rt. 88 and Prince's Point
Road, Yarmouth. Southern barbecue cooking
- roasted meats over a wood fire. Also serving
more traditional fare. All-you-can-eat buffet
served Friday and Saturday, 5 to 9; lunch served
Tuesday through Saturday, 11:30 to 2:30; Sun-
day brunch served 11:30 to 4:00. 846-5797.
Winchester's. Maine Mall, South Portland.
Serving American food and light fare. Open
daily for lunch and dinner. 772-0861.
The Wonderbar. 12 Washington Street, Bidde-
ford (1 mile east of Turnpike Exit 4). Fresh
native seafood, lobster, prime rib, and steaks.
Daily luncheon and dinner specials. Banquet
facilities; reservations. 282-9926.
Yankee Clipper. 1230 Congress Street, Port-
land. At the Ramada Inn, featuring down-east
dishes along with a variety of beef selections.
Custom-made salads. Open daily for breakfast,
lunch, and dinner. 774-5611.
Zackery's. Holiday Inn West, Exit 8, Portland.
Featuring American favorites, light meals, and
a cocktail lounge. Lunch and dinner daily. 774-
5601.
Shape,
Form,
Presence.
ASIAN
Afghan Restaurant. 629 Congress Street, Port-
Brick
land. Afghani cooking served in a family set-
ting. Bring your own beer or wine. Serving
dinner Monday through Saturday. 773-3431.
Four-Five-Six. 608 Congress Street, Portland.
The former Hu Shang I under new manage-
ment. Serving Chinese and Polynesian foods.
Sunday buffet. No credit cards accepted. 774-
0135.
Hu Ke Lau. Maine Mall Road, South Portland.
Chinese and American cuisine, family dining,
and banquet facilities. Located behind Sears at
the Maine Mall. 775-6388.
Hu Shang II. 11 Brown Street, Portland. Orien-
morin Lachance
tal cuisine, including Szechuan, Hunan, Shang-
hai, and Mandarin selections. Open seven days
BRICK COMPANY
BRICK COMPANY
a week. 774-0800.
Hu Shang III. 29 Exchange Street, Portland. In
the center of the Old Port, Oriental cuisine in a
sophisticated atmosphere. 773-0300.
brooks
Pagoda. 5 Forest Avenue, Portland. Specializ-
BRICK COMPANY
ing in Szechuan and combination dinners. Open
daily for lunch and dinner. 773-5071.
Manufacturers and distributors of
waterstruck and wirecut face brick.
Panda House. 436 Fore Street, Portland. Orien-
tal cuisine, specializing in Hunan and Szechuan
Morin Brick
P.O. Box 36
entrees. Full bar. Serving lunch and dinner
Danville, ME 04223
(207) 784-9375
Tuesday through Thursday, 11:30 to 10; Friday
Lachance Brick
So. Windham Rd.
Gorham, ME 04038
(207) 839-3301
Brooks Brick
Maple Street Extension
Brewer, ME 04412
(207) 989-3318
and Saturday, 11:30 to 11; Sunday, noon to 10;
closed Monday. Reservations accepted. Visa,
MC, Amex. 772-6024.
Extended screen.
Peking Gardens. 300 Main Street, South Port-
The Apple® Macintosh® IICX and
land. Specializing in Szechuan and Cantonese
a full page portrait monitor is an
cuisine. Open daily for lunch and dinner. 799-
8170.
Macintosh IICX
excellent business solution,
offering flexibility and expandibility
Restaurant Sapporo. 24 Free Street, Portland.
as well as exciting power and
Authentic Japanese cuisine in a pleasant at-
versatility.
mosphere. Specialties include sushi, tempura,
and teriyaki. Call for hours. 772-1233.
Taj Mahal Indian Restaurant. 43 Middle Street,
0
Extended coverage.
Portland. Authentic Indian food spiced to serve
Now, Apple® is extending their
a variety of preferences. Serving dinner Tues-
day through Saturday. Major credit cards ac-
warranty up to one year,
cepted. 773-4498.
absolutely free. So you have
Macintosh Ilex
no excuse for not coming in
for further explanation.
Harper
Connecting Point
COMPUTER CENTER
319 Marginal Way, Portland 772-1156 1-800-443-6070
BISTROS, CAFES AND DELIS
Apple, the Apple logo, Macintosh and LaserWriter are registered trademarks
ofApple Computer, Inc. This ad was produced on a Macintosh IICX
and printed on a LaserWriter IINT.
Authorized Dealer
Ben & Jerry's. 97 Exchange Street, Portland.
All-natural gourmet ice cream. Thirty-five fla-
vors. Ice cream cones, sodas, sundaes, desserts,
plus cappuccino and expresso in a fun-filled
atmosphere. 773-3222.
Bon Vivant. 416 Fore Street, Portland. "The
Village
healthy alternative" cafe and takeout, featur-
ing fresh baked breads, fresh cooked turkey,
soups and sandwiches, vegetarian selections,
nonfat yogurts. Serving breakfast (muffins,
bagels, and "eggwiches"), lunch, and light
suppers. Ask about takeout delivery within the
Old Port. Open daily from 7 a.m. to 9 p.m., on
Sundays until 6 p.m. 774-4342.
Cafe Cornerbrook. Cornerbrook Shopping
Portland's #1 Family Restaurant
Plaza, opposite the Maine Mall, South Port-
land. An urban restaurant serving homemade
soups, pasta, and seafood salads. Open from 11
Come in to see why the Village
to 11. 772-3224.
Cafe was voted the number one
Della's Catessen. 9 Deering Avenue, Portland.
family restaurant for three years
Gourmet deli and specialty food items from
in a row by a readers poll done
around the world. Homemade soups, pastas,
salads, and sandwiches. Open 11 to 7, Monday
by the Portland Press Herald.
through Saturday; closed Sunday. Delivery
service. 773-2624.
The Village Cafe has been pleas-
ing families for over 50 years
Foodworks. 47 India Street, Portland. Gourmet
takeout and cafeteria. Homemade breads,
with its fine Italian dishes,
soups, desserts. Daily entree items and salads.
Choice Sirloins, and Fresh Sea-
Delivery is available. Open 7 to 6, Monday
foods. Quality for a reasonable
through Friday; Saturday, 8 to 5. 773-9741.
price.
Fore Street Deli. 342 Fore Street, Portland.
Featuring sandwiches, bagels, and light break-
Mon. Thurs. 11 A.M. - 10:30 P.M.
fasts. Open Monday through Saturday. 772-
4500.
Fri. & Sat. 11 A.M. - 11:30 P.M.
Closed Sunday
112 Newbury Street
The Fresh Market. 58 Market Street, Portland.
Portland, ME
Cafe and takeout market, featuring fresh pasta
772-5320
and sauces, soups, and salads, takeout wine.
Serving lunch and early dinner; daily specials
include two types of pasta, and two hot sauces.
Call for hours. 773-7146.
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1990 SPRING
Full Belly Deli. 930 Brighton Avenue Plaza,
Portland. Featuring corned beef and hot pas-
trami, homemade potato salad, coleslaw, soups,
chopped liver. Eat in or take out. Open Monday
through Saturday, 7 a.m. to 9 p.m. 772-1227.
The Good Egg Cafe. 705 Congress Street, Port-
land. Serving breakfast until 11 a.m. daily.
Hearty and inventive egg dishes, homemade
pastries, and fresh ground coffee in a Bohemian
cafe. 773-0801.
Green Mountain Coffee Roasters. 15 Temple
Street, Portland. Gourmet deli featuring ba-
gels, desserts, and a variety of coffees. No alco-
hol. 773-4475.
Hugo's Portland Bistro. 88 Middle Street,
Portland. Fine food, exceptional Irish coffee,
unusual furnishings. 774-8538.
Little Willie's. Downstairs at Raphael's, 36
Market Street, Portland. Serving Crostini, a
Mediterranean munchie. Livemusic/entertain-
ment Tuesday through Saturday, 8:30 p.m.
Open Monday through Thursday, 11:30 a.m. to
midnight; Friday, 11:30 a.m. to 1 a.m.; Satur-
day, 5:30 p.m. to 1 a.m.; and Sunday, 5:30 p.m.
to midnight. 773-4500.
Madd Apple Cafe. 23 Forest Avenue, Portland.
HARRASEEKET
American bistro with a Southern accent, offer-
INN
The Harraseeket Inn
ing a changing menu with specialties including
crawfish and fettuccine, steak New Orleans,
A luxury country inn.
boudin blanc, veal chop dijonnaise, red beans and
rice. Chef owned and operated. Serving lunch
FREEPORT.
Fine food
Spirits
Lodging
and dinner. Beer and wine available. Reserva-
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Two blocks north of L.L. Bean
tions accepted. 774-9698.
162 Main Street - Freeport, Maine - 207-865-9377
Mr. Bagel. Three locations listed below. New
Exit 20 off I-95
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in the off season. Our convenient location is at the mouth
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We represent: Hydra-Sport, high performance fishing
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PORTLAND YACHT SERVICES, INC.
Relaunched May 14th "Prowess" reconfigured 1948 Eldredge Mcln-
58 Fore Street
Portland, Maine 04101
207 774-1067
nis cutter. (Doug Jones photo)
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Greater Portland 9
ties of cream cheese. Pizza bagels, bagel dogs,
Scooter's. 106 Exchange Street, Portland. Sand-
fresh croissants, muffins, cookies, cake, home-
wiches, soups, and creative entrees. An out-
made soups. Home and office catering.
door patio opens for the milder months. Open
daily for breakfast, lunch, and dinner. 772-
220 Maine Mall Road, South Portland. Open
7115.
Monday through Friday, 6:30-5; Saturday, 7-3;
Sunday, 7-1. 773-3238/FAX: 773-0070.
599 Forest Avenue, Portland. Open Monday
through Friday, 6-3; Saturday, 6-2; Sunday, 7-
12 noon. 775-0718.
100 Waterman Drive, South Portland. Open
Monday through Saturday, 6-2; Sunday, 6-12
noon. 767-4756.
Pepperclub. 78 Middle Street, Portland. Neigh-
borhood eatery featuring seafood, organic beef,
and vegetarian entrees as well as homemade
Hood-
soups and desserts - all at very reasonable
prices. Wine and beer available. No credit cards
accepted. Open daily for dinner, 5:30-10:30.
772-0531.
Portland Wine and Cheese. 8 Forest Avenue,
CONTINENTAL/NEW AMERICAN
Portland. Pates, cheeses, and deli stuff avail-
able for takeout or to eat in. Exotic sandwiches
a specialty. Wine available for takeout only.
Alberta's. Two locations: 27 Forest Avenue,
It's the
Serving lunch Monday through Saturday. 772-
and 21 Pleasant Street, Portland. Fresh seafood
4647.
and specialties prepared on a charcoal grill and
served with homemade soups, breads, and
local ingredient
Raffles Cafe and Bookstore. 555 Congress
desserts, featuring "Death by Chocolate." Full
Street, Portland. Offering a healthy eclectic
bar at Forest Avenue restaurant; beer and wine
that makes
menu including vegetarian dishes, homemade
are available at Pleasant Street restaurant. Lunch
soups, sandwiches on whole-grain breads, a
and dinner daily. 774-5408.
Hood milk
variety of salads, fine coffees and teas. Serving
Continental breakfast, lunch, and light dinner:
Back Bay Grill. 65 Portland Street, Portland.
Monday through Friday, 8 to 6; Thursday until
Tuesday through Thursday, 5:30 to 9:30; Friday
so special.
8; Saturday, 9:30 to 5. 761-3930.
and Saturday, 5:30 to 10:30; Sunday, 6 to 9;
closed Monday. 772-8833.
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FINE FURNITURE FOR THE KITCHEN
10
Greater Portland
1990 SPRING
The Baker's Table. 434 Fore Street, Portland.
European and American cooking styles. Din-
ners feature bouillabaisse, veal dishes, and fresh
fish. Lunches are unique - quick cafeteria
service, homemade soups, hearty stews and
chowders. Always fresh desserts from the Port
Bakehouse. 775-0303.
Putt Around
The Blue Moon. 425 Fore Street, Portland. Open
7 days a week, 11:30 a.m. to 11 p.m. 871-0663.
Brattle Street Restaurant. 19 Brattle Street,
Portland, Gourmet French food served. Lunch,
Monday through Friday; dinner, Tuesday
The Islands.
through Saturday. 772-4658.
Cafe Always. 47 Middle Street, Portland.
Modern American cuisine prepared by owner-
Bring your golf game along on one of Royal
chef Cheryl Lewis. Homemade bread, pasta,
Caribbean's 7,8,10, or 14 day cruises. Their PGA
ice cream, and pastries prepared daily on the
premises. Entrees reflect the cuisines of Thai-
program includes onboard activities as well as
land, France, Mexico, Northern Italy, and New
Orleans. Dinner nightly, 5 to 10; closed Mon-
twenty interesting courses.
day. Reservations suggested. 774-9399.
Come see us for the details.
GolfAhoy
Camp Hammond Restaurant and Meeting
The Official Cruise Line of the PGA
Royal EE Caribbean
Center. 74 Main Street, Yarmouth. Gourmet
menu changes weekly in this Victorian man-
sion. Specializing in private parties and confer-
ences. Open Tuesday through Saturday for
dinner; Tuesday through Friday for lunch.
HEWINS TRAVEL
Reservations appreciated. 846-3895.
CONSULTANTS INC
The Olde House. Route 85, Raymond. North-
ern Italian, French, German, Russian, and other
European and American styles of cuisine are
PORTLAND
SOUTH PORTLAND
represented on the menu. Specialties include
100 Commercial St.
400 Southborough
beef Wellington, tournedos, and swordfish
772-7252
774-3911
almondine. Also serving homemade desserts,
800-626-8600
800-392-5150
including profiteroles, and an extensive selec-
tion of wines. Serving dinner 5 to 10; lunch 11 to
Ships of Norwegian Registry
2. 655-7841.
The West Side. 59 Pine Street, Portland. Inno-
vatively. prepared meals. Homemade breads,
pastries, and soups served in an intimate and
casually elegant atmosphere, or on the patio.
Vegetarian selections are available. Serving
lunch and dinner, also Saturday and Sunday
We're Everything a Great
brunches. 773-8223.
Hotel Should Be
Accommodations. 95 tastefully
appointed guest rooms and suites.
Armory Restaurant. Enjoy breakfast,
lunch, or dinner. Elegant dining in the
city's finest seafood restaurant.
Regency Health Club. One of Maine's
finest full service fitness centers.
Banquet and Meeting Facilities.
GREEK
Christopher's. 688 Forest Avenue, Portland. A
Portland NRegency
new restaurant featuring Greek cuisine in a
contemporary setting. Specialties include baked
In the Old Port
lamb and shish kebab. Serving lunch, Monday
through Friday; dinner, seven days a week.
20 Milk Street, Portland
772-6877.
Maine 04101
Trojan Horse Restaurant. 675 Congress Street,
For information and
Portland. Gourmet and classic Greek cuisine,
reservations call (207) 774-4200
fresh seafood and charbroiled steaks. Outdoor
dining available in season. Serving breakfast,
Outside Maine: 1-800-727-3436
lunch, and dinner until 9:30 p.m. Closed Tues-
days. 772-9530.
SPRING 1990
Greater Portland
11
only log cabin on Congress Street. Steak sand-
wiches and Italian cuisine are the specialties.
Credit cards not accepted. Serving lunch and
dinner daily. 772-9167.
Giobbi's. One Danforth Street, Portland. Ital-
ian dishes and seafood served in a family set-
ting. Lunch and dinner daily. 772-0873.
Luna D'Oro. 41 Middle Street, Portland. Re-
gional Italian cuisine attentively prepared by
chef-owner. Served by candlelight in a roman-
tic Old World atmosphere. Dinner only, Tues-
day through Saturday, 5:30 to 10. 774-2972.
Maria's Ristorante. 337 Cumberland Avenue,
Portland. Italian dishes served with style. Veal
is the specialty of the house. Reservations are
ITALIAN
suggested. 772-9232.
MEXICAN
Raphael's. 36 Market Street, Portland. Serving
Anjon's. 521 U.S. Route 1, Scarborough. Serv-
Northern Italian food. Reservations preferred.
773-4500.
Amigo's. 9 Dana Street, Portland. A complete
ing Italian food, steaks, and seafood. Enjoy
Mexican feast in stucco surroundings. Located
complimentary side of their homemade Italian
in the Old Port. Lunch and dinner, Tuesday
stuffed breads. Fine wine selection. Open daily,
The Roma. 769 Congress Street, Portland. Clas-
through Saturday; closed Sunday and Mon-
11 to 10. 883-9562.
sic Italian dining. A series of small dining rooms
day. 772-0772.
creates an intimate, formal atmosphere. Serv-
Bruno's. 35 India Street, Portland. Specializing
ing lunch and dinner. 773-9873.
Dos Locos. 92 Exchange Street, Portland. Lo-
in Italian and American food. Open daily for
cated in Portland's Old Port, Dos Locos offers a
lunch and dinner. 773-3530.
Sportsman's Grill. 905 Congress Street, Port-
land. Italian-American cuisine, featuring spa-
varied Mexican menu complete with appetiz-
ers, full meals, and a full bar, all at reasonable
Esposito's. 1335 Congress Street, Portland. The
ghetti. 772-9324.
prices. Takeout available. Open 7 days a week.
775-6267.
Verrillo's. 155 Riverside Street, Portland. Just
Volunteer.
off Exit 8 of the Maine Turnpike. Serving Ital-
ian-American cuisine and a variety of seafood
Margaritaville. 242 St. John Street (adjacent to
dishes. Family specials on Sunday. 775-6536.
Union Station Plaza), Portland. Complete
Mexican menu in casual, family atmosphere.
American Heart
Village Cafe. 112 Newbury Street, Portland.
Restaurant open daily for dinner: Sunday
Serving Italian-American dishes. Specialty of
through Thursday, 4 to 10; Friday and Satur-
Association
the house is fried clams. Lunch and dinner,
day, 4 to 10:30; lounge open daily 4 to 12:30.
874-6444.
Monday through Saturday. 772-5320.
Tortilla Flat. 1871 Forest Avenue, Portland.
Mexican food served in a family setting. Gringo
selections also available. Serving from 11:30 to
10, Monday through Thursday; 11:30 to 11,
Friday and Saturday; and 4 to 10, Sunday. 797-
8729.
Complete Auto Body Repair & Paint
Foreign. Domestic &
Industrial Vehicles
Restoration & Frame Work
Free Estimates
767-2148
MOSTLY SEAFOOD
The Armory. Portland Regency Inn, 20 Milk
Street, Portland. One of Portland's fine seafood
restaurants. Serving breakfast, lunch, and din-
ner. 774-4200.
Boone's. Custom House Wharf, Portland.
Specializing in seafood and American cuisine.
Lunch served until 4 daily; dinner nightly. 774-
5725.
The Bridgeway. 71 Ocean Street, South Port-
ACME BODY SHOP, INC.
land. Seafood, steaks, and American cuisine.
Lunch, Monday through Saturday; dinner
nightly. 799-5418.
"Customer Satisfaction Is Our First Concern"
Cap'n Newick's Lobster House. 740 Broad-
270 Lincoln Street
South Portland, ME
04106
way, South Portland. Seafood very reasonably
priced. Also steaks and chicken. Informal fam-
12
Greater Portland
1990 SPRING
ily-style atmosphere. Closed Mondays. 799-
Bridgeway Restaurant. 71 Ocean Street, South
DJs play top-40 dance music nightly, 9 to 1.773-
3090.
Portland. Jazz on the weekends. Piano bar,
0300.
lounge. 799-5418.
Channel Crossing. 231 Front Street, South
Little Willie's. Downstairs at Raphael's, 36
Portland. Seafood, steaks, and cocktails with a
Clipper Club at the Yankee Clipper. 1230
Market Street, Portland. Shows begin at 8:30
view of the Portland skyline. Open daily for
Congress Street, Portland. Dancing. DJ pro-
p.m.: Tuesday, comedy; Wednesday and Thurs-
lunch and dinner. 799-5552.
vides entertainment Friday and Saturday
day, featured performers; Friday and Satur-
nights, 8:30 to 12. 774-5611.
day, jazz. Serving Crostini, a Mediterranean
DiMillo's Floating Restaurant. Long Wharf,
munchie. Open Monday through Thursday,
Portland. Serving seafood and steaks. Special-
Down East Village. Route 1, Yarmouth. Piano.
11:30 a.m. to midnight; Friday, 11:30 a.m. to 1
izing in lobster. Open daily. 772-2216.
Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, 5 to 9. 846-5161.
a.m.; Saturday, 5:30 p.m. to 1 a.m.; and Sunday,
5:30 p.m. to midnight. 773-4500.
Down East Village Restaurant. Route 1, Yar-
Geno's. 13 Brown Street, Portland. Live rock.
mouth. Maine seafood specialties. Open for
772-9521.
Manor Inn. 700 Main Street, South Portland.
breakfast, lunch, and dinner. 846-5161.
Piano bar, 5 to 9. Top-40 bands, 9 to closing.
Horsefeathers. 193 Middle Street, Portland.
Open Monday through Saturday. 775-5642.
The Galley. 215 Foreside Road, Falmouth. On
Live entertainment nightly till legal closing.
Route 88 at Handy Boat, The Galley offers
Jazz late Sunday afternoons. 773-3501.
Casco Bay from a different angle. Serving fresh
Entertainment Guide
seafood and American standards. Lunch and
Hu Shang III. 29 Exchange Street, Portland.
Listings continue on page 54
dinner daily. 781-4262.
J's Oyster Bar. 5 Portland Pier, Portland. This
bar serves oysters, steamed clams, and other
just-off-the-boat seafood. Open seven days and
nights a week. 772-4828.
Shearson Lehman Hutton is proud to be
Lobster Shack. 246 Two Lights Road, Cape
the local sponsor for
Elizabeth. Fresh seafood served picnic-style or
in the dining room overlooking the pounding
surf. Closed during winter months. 799-1677.
Flora Portrayed:
Seamen's Club. 375 Fore Street, Portland. Serv-
Classics of Botanical Art from the
ing steaks, seafood, and other American en-
trees. Also serving award-winning Bloody
Hunt Institute Collection
Marys. 772-7311.
Portland Museum of Art 3 March-13 May 1990
The Silver Shell. 363 Maine Mall Road, South
Portland. In the Sheraton Tara Hotel, The Silver
Shell features seafood and New England cui-
sine. Breakfast, lunch, and dinner daily. 775-
0555.
Snow Squall. 18 Ocean Avenue, South Port-
land. Seafood prepared in endless variations
and served amidst a forest of Boston fern. Lo-
cated on the South Portland waterfront. Ban-
quet facilities available. 799-2232.
Street & Co. 33 Wharf Street, Portland. Featur-
ing seafood grilled, sauteed, baked, poached,
broiled, in a casual "old New England" atmos-
phere. Pasta sans seafood available. Bar serves
beer and wine. Open for dinner from 5 to 9:30
daily, Friday and Saturday until 10. 775-0887.
Pierre-Joseph Redouté (1759-1840)
Bouquet of Mixed Flowers, 1839
An exhibition of over 80 dazzlingly beautiful
botanical prints and
original watercolors and drawings
dating from
NIGHT LIFE
1610 through the 1970s.
Made possible by the Hunt Foundations and
Boothby Square Tavern. 330 Fore Street, Port-
land. Folk, soft rock, duos and singles. Tues-
Shearson Lehman Hutton Inc.
day, Friday, and Saturday, 9 to 1. 773-8900.
The Bounty. 200 Riverside Street, Portland.
Multi-level dance club. Top-40 DJ. High-tech
light show. Lunch, Monday through Friday,
PORTLAND MUSEUM OF ART
11:30 to 2. American burgers and sandwiches.
Dancing nightly, 8 to 1. 772-8033.
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Greater Portland
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CITYGARDENS
A
lady on Bowdoin Street has tulips by now.
Hers are always first. The yellow daffodils in
front of the blue house on West Street are in full
thrust. Yet it's still crocus time in my patch. Portland once
again is in various stages of bursting out all over. But more so.
I don't know the people on Bowdoin and West streets, but
I know their work, just as people I've never met know mine.
Bulb gardens, vegetable and flower gardens, gin and tonic
gardens (so named because they inspire contemplative sip-
ping), wild gardens to attract the birds - in the last ten years,
unique compositions have popped up on the Portland penin-
sula everywhere you cast an eye. Some have the polish of
professional landscape designers; most were planted by resi-
dents with an insatiable urge, many of whom claim to know
nothing formal about gardening at all.
"Oh, I'm not really a gardener," says Eli Martins, whose
thirty-foot porch bordering his apartment off Thomas Street
explodes with vibrant blossoms, vines, vegetables, and herbs
every summer. "I don't know the names of anything."
Limited to the porch and the narrow strip below it border-
ing the parking lot, Martins pots and plants and discreetly
composts every square inch. Gardening since he was a child,
he acknowledges this space has been a challenge.
One City Garden is what Greg Parker and Becky Goodale
call the remarkable layout of paths, terraces, and growing
things snuggled next to their three-family house on lower
Brackett Street. Parker is a member of a non-club gardening
group that assembles when the mood is right to share what
they know and what they have. His seven-year-old garden is
in the "refinement stage"; he's culling out the common stuff
and spending more time and money "looking for just the right
hemerocallis."
Down the hill toward the Million Dollar Bridge is Polly
Peters' fantasia. Motorists consider themselves lucky when
bridge traffic is backed up far enough so they can idle next to
it. Peters' garden, and mine on Pine Street, are wide open to the
public eye. We each have countless stories about people who
let us know our efforts have touched their lives.
"It's reinforcing," Peters says with a laugh, "after all that
work - to have people like it." And work it is. Peters' garden
looks relaxed and carefree, as if an Atlantic breeze just blew it
in and set it there. Behind the shimmering blossoms and sitting
spaces is an artful structure of stone wall, terraces, and eleven
years of nurture.
Anne Rugh
On Munjoy Hill, Nini McManamy decorates her front yard
with ornamental vegetables. In the rear, she's building a
Photographs by Nance Trueworthy
garden you can sit around in after work, though I doubt there
really is such a thing. Good shoes, white pants and all, I tend
to get up after five minutes to move a clump of something to
SPRING 1990
Greater Portland
15
a better spot. In January, McManamy started seedlings, keep-
ing track of them with a chart. About now she's pruning fruit
trees. Next she'll get a load of manure. McManamy's a plan-
ner. "You have to be. A city garden has so little room."
T
These are just a few of Portland's outdoor garden galleries
he land comes first.
ready to begin a new exhibition cycle. Most works of art, when
The older I get, the less
they're finished, stay that way. Gardens, which call forth all
that's creative in a person, change not only from week to week,
I care about house beautiful."
but year to year. Last year will go down as the year everybody
lost something because of the dry winter. "About now I get a
little stressed worrying about what might not have survived,"
admits Polly Peters. "My husband says I'm out there in the
spring nagging the plants."
Producing a perfect dahlia isn't what gardening is all
about, points out Greg Parker. When he moved to the hillside
overlooking the bridge, the garden structure - terracing, big
privet, lilacs and fruit trees - was already there. "Obviously,
years ago someone was into gardening. I find rings and toys in
Harvest time at
the soil. It's like an archaeological dig."
Nini
Parker built on the previous gardener's foundation, tak-
McNanamy's
ing advantage of different grades to create a larger space,
almost always a challenge in city gardens. It's the "weirdness
of the juxtapositions" that excite him - Parker's an artist -
A quiet place to
sit in Polly
rather than the individual perfections, though he seems to
achieve those as well.
Peters' famous
garden
"Getting itchy" is how he describes himself in January.
"Whenever it thaws I look around to see what is there. I'm
always surprised by changes I made at the
end of summer. I usually disrupt things in
the fall, rebuild areas." Parker says he puts
much of his gardening budget into mainte-
nance of the space, which includes manure
and mulch. After seven years, "it's time to
fine-tune it, make it a little more special."
Gardening is not just a matter of dig-
ging a hole and throwing in a seed, though
that's the right place to start since getting
started is the point. For Eli Martins it was
nasturtiums. "If you grow something once
successfully, you're hooked," he comments.
Where to put the hole, what kind of seed,
how will it look with its neighbors, its foli-
age design, color and time of bloom, how
will it look in the winter - these are the
questions that create a garden. One of the
delights of garden-peeping is that
everybody's answer is unique.
"I
buy garden books and
Though most of us wish it weren't so, there is also the
technology of it. Just as the painter has to know something of
don't even read them, just
the chemistry of his materials, so the gardener will fare better
with some knowledge of soil composition and habitat prefer-
look at the pictures."
ences. "That's when I call the university," says Martins. But
you don't need to know much to get started. In that respect,
gardening, like photography, is a very accessible art form.
A desire to learn from each other without the hassles of
presidents and monthly meetings was the impetus for the
"garden club for people who hate garden clubs." The Munjoy
Hill resident who started it left for an indefinite trip to China
16 Greater Portland
1990 SPRING
The author's
garden is a
P
etunias are a pain in the
showplace on
Pine Street
neck." (Because you have to
pick off the spent blossoms.)"
Gin and tonic
garden on
Munjoy Hill
after the first meeting, Greg Parker told me soberly, but he has
a sheet with names on it. The meeting I went to last July in
Parker's garden was well attended. We had cake with some-
thing wonderful and fruity.
Benita Russo was there. Her garden in South Portland,
started in 1985, is on a larger piece of property than most of the
peninsula gardens. Russo says her garden is still in "the devel-
opment stage." From the time the trees start to bud in early
March, she's out there hustling it. "I just can't wait for things
to start popping!" She also changes her garden around as often
as some people move furniture. This year she looks forward to
extending the high period of bloom into July with more shrubs
and lilies that bloom later.
Russo aggressively seeks information. Between meetings
of the club, she attends lectures, and visits gardens all over
New England, noting, "The garden gave me a mind-set about
the outdoors, and sparked my interest in other aspects - birds
SPRING 1990
Greater Portland
17
and marshland, for example."
W
"Portland changed a lot in the eighties," observes Eli
inter gardening
Martins. He bikes around the city inspecting his favorite gar-
in a yard works, on a
dens, big and tiny. We first met as he checked on mine, an exu-
berant indulgence hacked out of a parking lot. Martins claims
porch it doesn't."
its visibility had something to do with the current plethora of
blooming spaces. I am amazed by the strangers who know of
it, but more plausible is that eight years ago I was on the edge
of a trend. The gardening industry has sky-
rocketed nationwide in the meantime, and
Portland is doing its part in the boom.
Long-established nurseries such
as Skillin's and O'Donal's now have a much
wider selection of varieties; there has been
a proliferation of small specialty nurseries
along the coast, and landscape design has
become a popular and survivable profes-
sion with more than a dozen designers ac-
tive in the Greater Portland area. Southern
Maine Technical College (SMTC) offers a
variety of horticulturally oriented programs
for the landscape professional as well.
Rebecca Watson, Portland land-
scape designer, is one of several garden
professionals who participated in the sec-
The entrance to
ond Maine Horticultural Show held in Scar-
the back door is
borough in March. Sponsored by the Junior
part of One City
League of Portland and the Maine
Garden
Nurseryman's Association, theshow, which
was very successful last year, anticipates it
will grow much larger this year. An exten-
Greg Parker calls
sive schedule of lectures is a particularly
it One City
popular resource for gardeners.
Garden
Watson observes Portland year-
round from the point of view of line and form. "The plants are
really a detail," she says. "Early morning and late afternoon,
when the sun is low, is a good time to see the possibilities of a
place."
David Emery's map of Portland is defined by where the
Merrill magnolias, the Kousa dogwoods, and countless other
varieties he tracks are located. The occasional Cornus floride
(flowering dogwood), a native tree for which much of the Port-
land climate is too severe, is one of Emery's spring delights.
There is a fine one at St. Luke's on State Street, and another on
the corner of Vaughan and Bowdoin streets.
Emery became well known among garden lovers as the
developer of a landscape garden full of perennials, roses and
clematis, as well as a large heather garden, at the summer
home of Mrs. Lawrence Smith on Wolfe's Neck Farm. Now a
N
landscape gardener working from South Freeport to Cape
ew gardeners are so
Elizabeth, Emery confirms there is a tremendous rise in both
garden interest and sophistication. Four gardens currently are
nervous about doing
being developed within a quarter mile of each other just in the
the wrong thing."
Western Prom area, he notes.
Artists have a choice about whether to exhibit their work or
not. Gardeners usually don't. Their displays are dictated by
soil and sun. "Can't you tell a lot about a person when you see
their yard?" asks Martins. Gardening in full view of a dozen
18
Greater Portland
1990 SPRING
apartment houses is not a private thing. How can one keep up
old garden, created out of "the most desolate grounds you
appearances, maintain a cool, in-charge image when the squash
ever saw," inspires people to express their gratitude. One man
and tomatoes are spilling all over the petunias? When the fruit
who passes it every night on his way home from work stopped
trees are full of suckers, and the campanula has stopped
to say he has a better evening because of it. A mother from the
producing because the old flower heads are still on the stalk?
public housing project brings her daughter there so "she can
"No matter," says Polly Peters. "Don't you think we're
see something beautiful every day."
always too critical of our own gardens?"
Nini McManamy thinks gardening in the city is such a
Answering to the community is something I didn't think
terrific way to get in touch with the environment, she wishes
about when I started. The space along the sidewalk was
the city would develop community gardens. "What a wonder-
simply where the sun was. One sympathizer suggested, when
ful way that would be to celebrate Earth Day!" she exclaims.
I was feeling preoccupied and private, that I wear camouflage
McManamy also senses it's about time to convene the club,
headgear as in jungle warfare - with branches and leaves
maybe get a joint seed order going. If I go, I'm going to
sticking up. Another plan was to clap on a big headset,
nominate her to be non-president.
whether I was listening to anything or not.
"I still miss living in the country; everybody's so conscious
On balance, I have to acknowledge the over-the-fence
of cleaning up in the city." Eli Martins and I were sitting on his
exchanges have greatly enriched my life, and enhance my
back porch. The tomatoes hung frostbitten on their supports.
connection to the city. This year I'm waiting to see how long it
Leaves. dangled lifeless from vines. The pots and window
takes before a passerby remarks on the foreign mulch of mag-
boxes he had filled with Pro-mix in early spring revealed their
nolia leaves and sweet-gum balls which I bagged and brought
form again for the first time since June. "I like to see it go
up from a back yard in Virginia. Yes, gardeners get weird.
naturally, on its own."
Sometimes the garden stops traffic. One spring day a van
Go it did, and now it's already time to start again. So
screeched to a halt at the intersection, the driver rolled down
Portland, let the exhibition begin! For you strollers and bikers,
his window and hollered, "I've always admired your efforts,"
there are no tickets, no route, no music, but a guarantee there's
and drove on.
a garden of some sort in most every block. P.S. Don't forget to
"Plants bring out the gentle side of people," said the late
look up. Window boxes, balconies and roof-tops hold their
Elizabeth Cornelia Hall, renowned head librarian at the New
share of surprises. «
York Botanical Garden. Polly Peters agrees. Her eleven-year-
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PORTLAND PEOPLE
VISTA AT 25
"The reports of my death are greatly exag-
gerated," said Mark Twain. If the VISTA
program could talk, it would probably
echo his words. Contrary to the assump-
tions of many people, VISTA, which was
chartered by Congress in 1964 as part of
the War on Poverty, survived the federal
budget cuts of the 1980s. As it celebrates
its 25th anniversary, it's as active, vital,
and relevant as it was when it was founded.
Why, then, do so many people think
VISTA died along with love beads and
bell-bottoms? "Although VISTA volun-
teers have directly affected the lives of
thousands of Maine people," explains Tom
Endres, director of VISTA for Maine,
"VISTA remains hidden because the vol-
unteers work through local community
agencies. People tend to associate the
volunteer with the agency and forget about
VISTA's role.
VISTA (Volunteers In Service To
America) works with nonprofit organiza-
tions to define project goals and objec-
tives, recruits and assigns volunteers, and
pays them a basic subsistence allowance
during their year of service.
While the communities gain valuable
help in addressing the issues of poverty,
the volunteers gain rich and intense expe-
rience. Young volunteers are placed in
positions of greater responsibility than
they would find in the job market, while
older people find an opportunity to share
the skills they've gained, and to give
something back to the community.
"When you take a year of your life and
dedicate it to a purpose, you develop an
intensity and a deep commitment and
motivation," says Endres. "Giving of
RANDY URY
oneself makes one feel one's life has mean-
ing and purpose."
VISTA). In 1980, he set up and became
Portland West Neighborhood Planning
He should know. Endres served as a
director of ACTION's Maine office.
Council, Hand to Hand, and Mainely
Peace Corps volunteer in Colombia from
Today there are 41 VISTA volunteers
Families, Inc.
1966 to 1968, then trained other Peace
working in community programs across
The local community organization, not
Corps volunteers. In 1969 he joined VISTA,
Maine. The number is limited only by the
VISTA, decides what the volunteer will
and in 1971 moved to the newly formed
federal funds available. They work in pro-
do. As communities recognize and re-
ACTION (the umbrella agency for na-
grams as varied as Literacy Volunteers,
spond to changing times, so does VISTA.
tional volunteer organizations, including
Displaced Homemakers of Maine, the
Rather than imposing their own vision on
20 Greater Portland
1990 SPRING
a community, VISTA volunteers help com-
photography, events organization. An
ect, Janet Raffel, director of the Maine
munities solve their own problems, work-
unusual mixture that didn't seem to fit
Housing Enterprise, called to ask her to
ing closely and directly with the people
into standard job qualifications.
organize some special events.
involved.
Krolick then asked herself what, of all
"It always happens," Krolick reflects.
When VISTA was first founded, the
the things she had done, she had most
"Organizations need someone who can
volunteers were recruited from college
enjoyed. The answer: her volunteer work
do lots of different things. People pass my
campuses and assigned to programs across
in events planning. But was there any way
name on."
the country. Although that still occurs,
to make a career of it?
While she was working with Maine
today the vast majority of VISTA volun-
After doing some more thinking,
Housing Enterprise, Krolick realized that
teers come from the communities they
Krolick decided against applying for a
she had more than a few isolated projects.
serve. And not all of them are young.
job. "Going to corporations with such a
She had a business - one that she needed
Today's volunteers include as many re-
mixture of skills bewilders them," she
to market. She had a brochure printed and
tired people as recent college graduates,
says. "Besides, I wanted to be my own
mailed, joined the Chamber of Commerce,
and include the full age span in between.
boss, set my own hours, and do the work
the Convention and Visitors Bureau, and
Although VISTA is a national program,
the way I wanted."
Meeting Planners International, and
Endres believes it fits particularly well in
She took an internship in the public
started going to Business After Hours.
Maine. "The characteristics of Maine
relations department at Blue Cross/Blue
"It's hard to market yourself and do
people - rugged individualism, inde-
Shield, and observed the effort involved
business at the same time," she says, but
pendent spirit, love of life, sense of hu-
in organizing the annual walk-a-thon.
apparently she was,successful. During her
mor, neighborliness - are the character-
"The staff was overloaded with work,"
first year, she's had a steady stream of
istics the VISTA program embodies," he
she recalls. "I realized that there was a
projects, including store and business
says. "There's been a warm and wonder-
need for someone like me to do this kind
grand openings, a Christmas party, a fash-
ful connection between the VISTA pro-
of work on a consultant basis."
ion show, and the dedication and opening
gram and Maine."
Krolick arranged informational inter-
of a new temple - each handled with
Endres has seen tremendous growth
views with a number of organizations,
characteristic flair. At a Maine Housing
in volunteerism in the last few years be-
then began handling communications for
Enterprise dinner, for example, she cre-
cause, he says, "people understand the
the Cumberland County Heart Associa-
ated centerpieces out of building tools.
transformative aspect of getting outside
tion. Soon, the informational interviews
While working to build up her busi-
oneself and making a difference in others'
began to pay off. Calls began coming in.
ness, Krolick also dreams of a project that
lives." As we enter the 1990s, he expects
The Refugee Resettlement Center needed
would unleash even more of her creativ-
more volunteerism, either in programs
displays set up for the International Mul-
ity. "I'd like to create my own event, and
like VISTA or in the form of a national
ticultural Festival. Would she be inter-
then find a sponsor for it," she says. "I
service corps.
ested in the job?
think Portland is ready for some really
"I firmly believe that providing people
While she was working on that proj-
unusual events." «
the opportunity to take a year out of their
Lisa Derman
lives and give something back to the
community is the highest tribute anyone
can make to how this country works and
what makes it great," Endres says. «
Lisa Derman
IN ANY EVENT
Like many another young mother, Susan
Krolick chose not to work full-time while
her children were small. But she didn't
give up her outside-the-house activities.
She went back to school in communica-
tions, taught dance part-time, and did
volunteer work for a number of organiza-
tions, including fund-raising and events
organizing.
When she was ready to work full-time
again, Krolick did what she figured any-
one in her situation would do. She took
inventory of her experience and her skills:
writing, media relations, public speaking,
SPRING 1990
Greater Portland
21
ford, and raised in Springvale, in a family
WRITING
of artists. His earliest interest was in draw-
ON THE WALL
ing, and after a stint in the Navy he stud-
ied at the San Francisco Institute of Arts,
It has come to be standard practice in
earning his bachelor's and master's de-
museums, in order to help the viewer
grees in lithography. After working as a
understand what he or she is looking at, to
silk-screen printer in New York for sev-
tell the story of the exhibition in big letters
eral years, Wilson returned to Maine to
on the wall. Because they are so important
paint. His recent paintings, shown at Barri-
to the overall look of the exhibition, these
doff Galleries in Portland, explore objects
signs must be works of art in themselves.
in space. These intricate paintings might
Often they are the magic work of painter
be called Amphora with Aerobic Dancers.
Richard Wilson, who silk-screens the let-
Like many painters, Wilson found that
ters directly onto the vertical surface.
a variety of skills was needed to pay the
Two recent local exhibitions, The Port-
rent. Over the years he has produced
land Museum of Art's 100 Years of Comics,
prints in his Danforth Street studio in
and Bowdoin College's Marsden Hartley in
collaboration with other artists such as
Bavaria, come to mind. "It's one shot,"
Katerina Weslien, Italo Scanga, Eric
says Wilson, "directly on the wall or, for a
Hopkins, and George Burk. "Since I fin-
traveling show, on a panel that can be
ished school I haven't done any prints of
attached to the wall. The type is all set, and
my own, I've painted instead," he says,
then I slowly go across, a bit at a time."
"but when I work with someone else I'm
He makes it sound easy, but Wilson
the director, and a little bit of me goes into
brings the heart of an artist plus more than
every one."
twenty years' experience to the task. After
Museum work has evolved as his real
all, it has to be done right the first time. A
bread-and-butter work. Wilson spends
native Mainer, Wilson was born in San-
one week a month in New York as an
exhibition preparator, with labeling his
specialty. Although Tom Black Studios, of
which he is a member, is a very small
studio, it does many of the exhibitions for
the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the
Whitney Museum of American Art, as
well as all of the work for the Brooklyn
uality office space now
Museum and the Cooper Hewitt Museum.
available in historic office
Within the past few months, Wilson pre-
pared the legends for the twin Thomas
buildings in Portland's
Hart Benton shows at the Whitney Mu-
financial district. Our
seum Uptown and Downtown, and for a
quilt show organized by Williams Col-
buildings offer spectacular
lege, Williamstown, Massachusetts. That
views of Portland Harbor,
exhibition, after an initial stop at the
Oakland (California) Museum of Art, will
Back Cove and the White
travel to museums across the country.
Mountains, 24-hour security
For the Comic show, Wilson also silk-
screened illustrations onto the walls of the
and an in house
museum's Great Hall, working with Brad
maintenance staff.
Woodworth, who designed the show.
"Exhibition design is a whole other as-
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O
nce upon a time, health in-
health, alcoholism and drug dependency,
groups, particularly small businesses, may
surance in America oper-
or home health care).
be unable to afford. In Maine, which has a
ated in a reasonable fac-
These mandated benefits generate
high proportion of small businesses, ris-
simile of the classic free-market system.
tremendous controversy because, almost
ing premiums may well be forcing em-
Employers purchased the policies they
without exception, they increase health-
ployers to share more of the cost with their
wanted from insurers who competed to
care costs. When a benefit is mandated,
employees, to drop coverage for depend-
offer the most desirable benefits and serv-
patients flock to use services that now cost
ents, or even to stop offering health insur-
ices at the lowest prices. Soon, health-care
them nothing (or only a limited amount)
ance altogether. Added to the other fac-
costs began to rise dramatically- fueled in
out-of-pocket.
tors driving up health-care costs, a man-
large part by the existence of health insur-
There's tremendous disagreement
date may provide a desirable benefit for
ance (which removed price considerations
about how large or small a portion of
some people while helping to put health
from most doctor and patient decisions),
overall health-care cost increases can be
insurance beyond the reach of others.
as well as by other factors such as ad-
attributed to mandated benefits, and how
When are the benefits from a specific
vances in medical technology. With such
much to other factors. These factors in-
mandate worth the costs involved? It
high health-care costs, health insurance,
clude: the Medicare shortfalls (hospitals
would be wonderful if an all-knowing,
once seen as a luxury, began to be per-
subsidize the difference between what
impartial source could tell us that. Unfor-
ceived as a necessity.
Medicare pays for a service and the actual
tunately, even determining the statewide
Health insurance, then as now, did not
cost of the care, then recoup their losses
costs and benefits of any individual man-
cover everything. Many services that
through higher charges for services to
date is extremely complicated. Estimates
people felt they needed, such as mental
insured patients); advances in medical
vary widely, depending on the source of
health and substance abuse services, were
technology; an aging population; rising
data and the research methodology used.
not covered at all. Other insurance provi-
malpractice insurance costs and the asso-
Decisions to pass or reject mandates
sions seemed to discriminate unfairly
ciated costs of practicing "defensive
are made through our less-than-perfect
among consumers or among providers.
medicine"; and AIDS.
legislative process. As with any legisla-
By the late 1960s and early 1970s,
All cost increases, whatever their
tive decision, various groups lobby in their
advocates for numerous groups were
source, are passed on to consumers in the
own interests. Generally, non-physician
lobbying state legislatures to pass laws re-
form of higher premiums - which some
providers lobby for coverage of their serv-
quiring insurance companies
ices, consumer groups lobby
to provide (or, in some cases,
for coverage of additional
to offer) coverage for specific
specific services, and both
services. These mandated
TOUGH CHOICES
business and the health in-
benefits, as the laws are
surance industry lobby
called, generally fall into
against mandates.
three broad categories: (1)
No one is arguing for
elimination of discrimination
the elimination of included
(such as requiring that ma-
IN
coverage or more realisti-
ternity benefits provided for
cally for what may be
married women also be pro-
HEALTH CARE
termed a really important
vided to unmarried women);
service replacing another
(2) extending coverage to
deemed to be less valuable.
non-physicians (for example,
The debate seems exclu-
requiring that chiropractors'
sively to be about what cov-
services be covered to the
erage should be added. The
extent that the same services would be
Lisa Derman
debate typically occurs in a political envi-
covered if performed by a physician); and
ronment in which either the providers or
(3) requiring coverage for specific treat-
Illustration by Peter Gorski
the consumers convince either lawmak-
ments or areas of care (such as mental
ers or regulators that an additional cover-
24
Greater Portland
1990 SPRING
R
age should be provided at the expense of
someone else - the insurance company
Good health has
"We don't dispute the fact that a par-
ticular mandate may meet a social or health
and, often ultimately in whole or part, the
intrinsic value and is
need," says Katherine Alexander, vice
employer.
president of corporate affairs at Blue Cross
That debate about what service is re-
worth paying for.
and Blue Shield of Maine. "But we have to
ally important never seems to be about
come back to the fact that our customers
whether it is more or less important than
are telling us that they're having trouble
another service which might be replaced
employer's option as to whether or not to
affording the premiums now in effect. We
in the list of covered services.
include coverage for any proposed man-
feel our obligation to our customers is to
But, because there is no one generally
date," says Jadine Raynes O'Brien, direc-
provide options and oppose mandates."
accepted assessment of the costs and
tor of government relations for Blue Cross
"The Chamber believes that the issue
benefits of a mandate, these groups cite
and Blue Shield of Maine.
is not whether or not each new mandated
conflicting evidence derived from dispa-
Others argue that the free-market
benefit has merit," agrees Jack Dexter,
rate sources. Somehow the legislature is
approach doesn't work perfectly in health
president of the Maine Chamber of Com-
supposed to wade through this massive
insurance. "There's a certain degree of
merce and Industry. "The issue is whether
body of confusing evidence and come up
market failure when benefits that people
a decreasing number of employees will
with the solution that's in the best interest
need and want can't be provided," says
have Cadillac care while an increasing
of the people of the state.
Andrew F. Coburn, director of the Hu-
number will have none, due to ever-in-
Both Blue Cross and Blue Shield of
man Services Development Institute, and
creasing costs."
Maine and the Maine State Chamber of
assistant professor of public policy and
The Chamber of Commerce of the
Commerce and Industry oppose the im-
management at the University of South-
Greater Portland Region opposes the
position of any new mandates, at least
ern Maine. "The problem is, who is the
state's mandating any new coverage
until the problem of affordable health
consumer? The business purchases the
(without eliminating an old coverage) if
insurance has been solved. Both advocate
health insurance, but the ultimate con-
that addition will further increase the cost
leaving the choice of benefits up to the
sumer is the employee. The business in-
of health insurance. According to Cham-
employer purchasing the insurance.
terest may be different from the employee
ber President Bill Nugent, "increases in
"We believe that it should be left to the
interest in which benefits are selected."
health-care costs that place Maine busi-
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nesses at a competitive disad vantage with
Mandated benefits
didn't refer women over age 50 for screen-
similar businesses in other states will only
ing mammograms, over 40 percent of the
undermine the ability and likelihood of
generate tremendous
respondents pointed to inadequate insur-
businesses providing health insurance at
ance coverage, and 37 percent cited the
all. The choice of what additional cover-
controversy.
high price of mammograms.
ages to provide should be decided in the
Clearly, mandated coverage would
context of company-by-company em-
increase the number of women who re-
ployer-employee relations."
die of it. Mammography can detect breast
ceived screening mammograms, and
How does the state choose between
cancer early, when it is much more likely
would save lives. There would be a cost
providing an important health benefit and
to be treated successfully. Studies show
involved, however. As usual in the case of
keeping the cost of health insurance af-
that regular mammograms for women
a mandated benefit, there's wide disagree-
fordable? In 1987, the state legislature
who are age 50 and over reduce breast
ment about what that cost would be.
created the Mandated Benefits Advisory
cancer mortality by 30 to 50 percent. Regu-
Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Maine
Commission to provide comprehensive
lar mammography of women over 50
calculates that providing screening mam-
assessment of the financial, medical, and
years old could save roughly 60 to 100
mography to its female members over age
social impact of mandated benefits.
lives per year.
50 would cost over $2 million per year,
The new mandates the commission
In Maine, however, only 45 percent of
assuming 50 percent compliance. This
has considered include smoking cessa-
women ages 55 to 64 have ever had a
estimate does not take into account any
tion, Pap smears, and screening mam-
mammogram, much less regular annual
long-term savings from terminal-cancer
mography. The mammography mandate
mammograms. According to a U.S. News
cases avoided by early treatment - sav-
provides a good example of the complex-
& World Report survey, the major reasons
ings that would not be apparent until
ity of the issues involved in deciding
why women said they hadn't had a
some 10 to 20 years later. The Health In-
whether a benefit should be mandated.
mammogram in the past two years were
surance Association of America estimates
About one in ten women will develop
cost (25%) and the fact that their doctor
that giving women one baseline screening
breast cancer some time during her life.
hadn't recommended it (60%). When the
before age 40, a mammography every other
Each year, 600 new cases of breast cancer
Maine Breast Cancer Control Project asked
year between 40 and 50, and annual
are diagnosed in Maine, and 200 women
Maine primary-care physicians why they
mammograms over age 50 would result in
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an average additional premium cost of
$20 per individual female or family per
The question of
ice except through a mandate?"
Mammography, Coburn says, "meets
year. (Both the Blue Cross and Blue Shield
mandated benefits
the criteria marvelously. I suspect that a
figure and the HIAA figure were obtained
number of current mandates wouldn't
using an average cost of $100 per mam-
points to the need to
meet the criteria."
mogram. Others who testified before the
In fact, the Mandated Benefits Advi-
commission recommended capping the
restructure the way we
sory Commission is charged with review-
cost of a mammogram at about $60.)
finance our health
ing how well existing mandates meet the
Even taking into account a capped cost
same strict set of criteria that they are
and long-term avoidance of terminal-
insurance system.
using to evaluate proposed new mandates.
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Although the commission is purely advi-
that mandating coverage of screening
sory in nature, it may recommend a proce-
mammography will cost money. As Lou-
premiums in an era when many Maine
dure for reviewing existing mandates in
ise B. Russell argues in Is Prevention Better
businesses are already having difficulty
the legislature. Whether the legislature
Than Cure? "Clearly, good health does
affording rapidly rising health insurance
acts on the recommendation and whether
have intrinsic value and is worth paying
premiums. "Mandating benefits has had a
it eventually decides to repeal one or more
for. And it does cost money. Choosing
very negative effect, at least on health
existing mandates is another matter. Be-
investments in prevention is thus an eco-
insurance costs and the ability of people to
cause mandates are generally supported
nomic choice like any other. Prevention
afford coverage," he said.
by powerful interest groups, repealing
offers good things at some additional cost.
In a separate interview, Dexter pointed
mandated benefits has long been viewed
The gains must be balanced against the
out that mandating coverage for screen-
as politically impossible.
costs to decide whether a particular pre-
ing mammography misses a large chunk
Choosing a limited number of man-
ventive measure is a good investment."
of the population at risk. Mandates don't
dates by stringent criteria would be a big
"We recognize the problem of cost
affect Medicare or Medicaid coverage, nor
step forward in building a health insur-
incurred by mandated benefits," Donald
do they apply to companies that self-in-
ance system that meets the needs of the
Magioncalda, M.D., president of the Maine
sure. "If you're in a good job, you can
public without breaking employers' backs.
Division of the American Cancer Society,
probably afford to pay for a mammo-
It's not an ideal solution, however. It
testified before the Mammography/Pap
gram," he says. "Low-income women are
doesn't deal with the uninsured or the
Test Subcommittee of the Mandated Bene-
likely to work for a company that doesn't
self-insured, and it doesn't cope with the
fits Advisory Commission. "But in an era
provide health insurance (in which case
many other factors driving up health-care
where we find our health-care costs grow-
the mandate doesn't apply), or to work for
(and health insurance) costs.
ing beyond our control, it is important we
a company that's forced to pass on pre-
The question of mandated benefits,
concentrate on health maintenance- that
mium increases to its employees." Cost
says Coburn, "ultimately points to the
means, for cancer, prevention and early
increases due to mandates, he argues,
need to restructure the way we finance
detection. And for breast most
might force the people who most need the
our health insurance system. We need
common cancer in women - that means
mandated service to give up their health
some kind of national health program,
mammography."
insurance.
either using the current employer-based
In addition to testifying about the in-
"Mandated benefits are pretty blunt
private system along with government
creased costs of screening mammograms
instruments to achieve what you want to
subsidy and participation so that it covers
(cited above) Jadine O'Brien noted that
achieve," concedes Andrew Coburn.
everyone, or a government-financed na-
Blue Cross and Blue Shield covers "diag-
"That's largely because in this country we
tional health insurance plan that's inde-
nostic mammograms for certain high-risk
have a public/private system of insur-
pendent of business. Once the system is
cases in which breast cancer has been
ance that doesn't work very well and is
established, we as a nation have to deter-
detected in the immediate family" as well
working less well as time goes on."
mine the resources we want to devote to
as when "there is evidence or indication of
Jack Dexter suggests that one way of
health care and how to spend them: which
disease present." In response, Magion-
coping with the issue would be to allow
benefits are most important to provide,
calda says, "At a risk of one in ten, all
employers to choose a specified number
which are not important, and which are
women are really high risk. So, for ex-
of the total mandated benefits. (Currently,
important but simply not affordable."
ample, Blue Cross coverage for mammo-
Maine has 14 on the books.)
Although people in the health-care and
grams in women with a family history is
Coburn has an alternative suggestion:
health-finance professions generally agree
illogical."
"I wouldn't disagree with setting limits
that some form of national health pro-
Jack Dexter began his testimony by
on the number of mandates the private
gram is inevitable, no one knows when it
conceding: "It obviously is very difficult
sector can support," he says. "But don't
will come. In the meantime, it's necessary
for anyone to appear before you and ar-
politics decide. Do it by setting criteria
to work within the current system, mak-
gue against mammography as a proce-
and adhering to them- criteria such as: Is
ing difficult decisions about how to pro-
dure that women, or at least those over 50,
the service medically efficacious? How
vide truly important benefits without
should have." Instead, he cited the fact
many people will be affected? Are there
making health insurance unaffordable. «
that mandated benefits increase insurance
people who don't have access to the serv-
28
Greater Portland
1990 SPRING
A TASTE OF
GREATER PORTLAND
Chet Jordan
Dock Fore
Reslie Brown
D
ock Fore. For many who fre-
longevity of the restaurant/pub.
more seafood on the menu. "We bring in
quent the "Restaurant Row"
"The place has always had a friendly,
fresh fish daily," he says. The menu boasts
that is Portland's Old Port, the
casual atmosphere. We have a steady, loyal
such delights as lobster stew made to order,
name rings with pleasant familiarity. The
following that changes and grows," he
steamed and stuffed clams, mussels mari-
neighborhood pub, an easy place to go for
notes with pride. "We see people in here
narà, steamed mussels, and fish chowder
a bite to eat.
three times a week. It's fun to see new
- all at reasonable prices. In fact, the most
There is something warm about a trip
people come in, and within a few months
expensive dish on the menu is a "loaded"
to a neighborhood pub. You can drop in
they become fixtures in the place."
pizza at $6.95.
when you're really hungry or when you're
The menu at Dock Fore offers a wide
Restaurant competition being what it
in need of a snack before the movies, af-
array of simple, fulfilling food. You can
is in Portland, McCarthy's philosophy is
ter the opening, in the middle of shop-
start on anything from warm baby Brie to
simple: "You have to cater to the public
ping, or just because you feel like drop-
mussels to nachos. Dock Fore has also
and listen to what your customers say."
ping in.
garnered a little fame for its pan-black-
The steak sandwich is excellent. A
Everybody's welcome at the Dock Fore
ened chicken, and Philly steak sandwich.
perfect companion to my favorite brand
(even if they don't know your name). In
As I wipe the foam from my lip,
of local beer, the fresh French roll and
one corner a bearded man in a red sweat
McCarthy sets a Philly steak sandwich in
shaved meat were smothered with copious
shirt goads an acquaintance with a joke so
front of me with obvious pride. "I learned
amounts of peppers, onions, and cheese.
old it brings groans all around. A couple
how to make this sandwich while I lived
Another favorite from the sandwich
of stools away, a man in blue blazer and
in Philadelphia," he explains. "A customer
menu is the crabmeat Havarti. Served
red tie greets a woman friend with a hug
gave me a hard time one day and said that
warm on crisp toasted bread, the lightly
and a smile. A lone young man who missed
it wasn't a real Philly sandwich. He said in
spiced and blended crabmeat melts in
the ferry to Peaks Island settles in to enjoy
order for it to be a real Philly sandwich,
your mouth complementing the smooth,
the wait. Dock Fore is a neighborhood
you can't clean the grill for two years."
light Havarti cheese.
pub, and it's a BIG neighborhood.
McCarthy, however, is meticulous about
For your enjoyment, Shaun McCarthy
Dock Fore has been there near
his food preparation.
shares these recipes. However, if you want
Amadeus Music as long as anyone re-
Since he took over the restaurant sev-
the camaraderie of friends as you belly up
members. As owner Shaun McCarthy pulls
eral months ago, he has added some en-
to a bar filled with congeniality, we'll see
me a mug of frothy malt, he explains the
ticements for his customers, including
you at the Dock Fore.<<
SPRING 1990
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29
SOUTH PHILLY CHEESESTEAK
GRILLED CRABMEAT AND HAVARTI
(serves one)
(serves one)
-
8 0Z thinly sliced top sirloin
4 oz crabmeat
1-1/4 0Z sliced mushrooms
1/2 tbsp mayo
1-1/4 0Z sliced onion
1/2 tbsp scallions
1-1/4 0Z sliced green pepper
celery salt to taste
2 slices American cheese
black pepper to taste
1-1/2 slices provolone cheese
2 slices Havarti cheese
1 Nappi's hoagie roll
2 slices molasses oatmeal bread
Saute vegetables together until they begin to soften
In mixing bowl combine crabmeat, mayo, scallions,
and simmer. Grill the steak in a lightly buttered frying
celery salt, and pepper. Then place on slice of bread with
pan for about 3 minutes. Add vegetables, mixing all to-
slice of cheese, and grill on griddle or in frying pan until
gether. Cover with two slices of American cheese and
cheese has begun to melt. Place second slice of cheese
let stand, off heat, until the cheese has melted into the
and bread on sandwich, and slide under broiler until
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Greater Portland
1990 SPRING
DANCING'90S
Reggie Osborne and Nina Hovermel
T
here was a time when teenage
girls (and their mothers) could
lose themselves in the rush of
romance inspired by Fred Astaire in top
hat and tails, and Ginger Rogers in rip-
pling chiffon. These were movies that
needed no plot, and certainly carried no
message, but in the glow of the silver
screen, imagination catapulted the movie-
goer into the skin of Ginger, gracefully
propelled across the floor by Fred.
M
Well, times changed. Women wanted
equality. They wanted to be leaders, not
followers. And, maybe not consciously,
this thought carried onto the dance floor.
Touching was out. Following was out.
Partners on the dance floor didn't need to
do the same steps. It was every man - and
woman — for him/herself.
—
Shirley Jacks
Photographs by Randy Ury
SPRING 1990
Greater Portland
31
Over the past several years, touch
exercise. It's what made aerobic exercise
dancing with a partner - ballroom danc-
interesting." And the movie Dirty Danc-
ing, if you will-subtly has crept back into
ing certainly didn't hurt.
favor. Mandy Hamilton, who opened
Several years ago Hamilton was a
Maine Ballroom Dance last year, says her
geologist living in Baltimore, and looking
classes, fifteen or more per week, fill up
for a new profession that would accom-
rapidly.
modate the fact that she had two small
"Everyone offering ballroom dance is
children and needed a job with flexible
busy," says Solange Kellerman, coordina-
hours. She answered an ad that promised
tor of Alternative Programs for Portland
to train her as a ballroom-dance instruc-
Public Schools, offering six evening classes
tor. She took to it immediately, and was
each week. "We could offer ten classes,
one of only three to complete the course.
and they would all fill up. In the past three
There was a time when franchises of
years we've only had to cancel one class,"
national dance studios flourished in cities
she says. "People never drop out. Some-
across the country. But the hard-sell as-
how they muddle through for the full five
pect, in which unsuspecting applicants
weeks."
frequently found themselves signed to
Hang part of the revival of ballroom
lifetime memberships they couldn't af-
dancing on nostalgia, Hamilton says:
ford, brought many to an early demise.
"Young people today can remember their
Hamilton didn't want that kind of a
parents dancing together, and now they
studio. She wanted her own happy place
want to do it, too."
where men and women of all ages, chil-
The continuing desire for fitness, via
dren too, could come to learn and enjoy
aerobic exercise, has had a big impact,
dancing. She rented the highly visible first
says Kellerman. "Ballroom dancing is
floor at 614 Congress Street, installed a
ABOVE: Getting
instructor at the Jack
students off to a good
Elementary School
start: Donald
program with Donald
Axelson, (center)
and Kristal Bouwens.
32
Greater Portland
1990 SPRING
dancers' hardwood floor and a wall of
mirrors, and she was on her way. Three
nights a week she offers one-hour classes
for beginners that run for six consecutive
weeks. For this and all of her courses she
charges each person a modest fee of $5 per
hour of group instruction.
"Come in comfortable clothing," she
advises. "Singles are welcome. Shoes
should fit well and have non-sticky soles.
Ladies will dance better in heels."
The beginning class is designed for.
people who have never been in a ball-
room-dance class before. In six weeks they
can expect to learn the waltz, fox trot, and
swing (known to a slightly older genera-
tion as jitterbug). The beginners are easy
TOP: Mandy
ABOVE: For fun and
Hamilton gives some
good exercise Joe
special pointers to
Nicoletti and Lucy
Craig Johnson.
Ellis step out.
SPRING 1990
Greater Portland
33
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Hamilton also offers a lunchtime
beginners' class for good measure. It is
designed to break the day, provide exer-
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1990 SPRING
and feel better while dancing.
dance aficionados a place to dance, where
The courses offered by Portland Pub-
they are not called upon to mix it up with
lic Schools are a real buy - $35 per couple
drinking or the like.
for five weeks. The surroundings are a bit
Mandy Hamilton is particularly aware
plainer than Mandy Hamilton's studio.
of this need. Every Saturday night, for a
The classes take place in the gymnasium
fee of $5 per person, anyone can come to
and cafeteria of the Jack Elementary School
dance from 9 to midnight in a smoke-free
on the Eastern Promenade, but that can be
atmosphere where no alcoholic beverages
very comforting for anyone whose only
are served. Sometimes there are special
dancing experience is a vaguely remem-
dance exhibitions by championship danc-
bered junior prom.
ers - often dancé instructors from studios
"Most of the men are coerced,". says
Kellerman.
In addition to standard dances, there
are flirtations with the hokey-pokey, Greek
dances, and line dances. There's a two-
week waltz workshop, and a course called
Latin Fever, designed to prepare the stu-
dent for a nice long vacation aboard a
cruise ship.
Once they've started taking dance
lessons, many of the couples get hooked
and keep coming back year after year.
Ostensibly this is to improve their tech-
nique, but the fact is, these classès give
in neighboring towns or states - who
welcome the opportunity to practice for
the Boston championships, and to dance
with people who really like to dance.
One couple sums it up well. Although
they have lived together for ten years,
they are both SO, busy in their work that
they gravitated to a once-a-week class at
Maine Ballroom Dance "because it's the
only time during the week we can count
on to be together."<<
education dancing
Flynn and Alice
CENTER: The experts
for Saturday. night
have fun learning
class at Jack
Clapp, left, show the
take over: Laurie
dancers.
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Elementary School.
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Anderson and
BOTTOM: Pan King
Ballroom Dance.
Instructors David
Michael Re perform
and Lori Beaulieu
SPRING 1990
Greater Portland
35
PROFILE
Shirley Jacks
Photographs by Randy Ury
NURSE
G
ayl McNally was
"DRGs really fouled things
visiting an older
Gayl McNally,
up," McNally says. "If the
friend in the hospital when she
insurance company says, More
had a chilling thought: One day
worried about the nursing shortage,
than four days for a gall
I'm going to be in that bed, and
bladder, we don't pay - then
there will be no one to take care
set out to recruit nurses.
we're constantly sending
of me. The intense focus of the
Instead, she recruited herself.
people home half sick. In the
media on the nursing shortage
hospital we're having only very
had not escaped McNally. More
severely sick people so the
than thirty years out of school,
nurses like me, who are all
Museum of Art as a docent and
demand on nurses is greater.
she hadn't practiced nursing
registered but not working.
as a member of the museum's
"There was a need to cut
since the early '60s, and had no
We are the people who have to
board of trustees. She took to
costs, but people are being
intention of returning to it, but
fill this gap."
the road with art education and
shoved out, and that means
she knew someone had to.
McNally is a small woman
outreach programs for school
they may not be able to go
Already immersed in
with curly gray hair and a smile
children throughout the state.
home. They may have to go to
volunteer work, McNally
that says, Everything's going to
Then the nursing shortage
another level of care - a nurs-
wondered if she could coax
be all right here. She takes her
became a recurring theme in the
ing home perhaps, and so we
former nurses back into the
work very seriously, but herself
media. The news was bad: 18
need more and more nurses in
work force. A talk with Judy
not at all.
percent of all hospitals were
other levels."
Stone, associate director of
"Don't think you're going to
taking the most drastic step
There are other reasons for
Maine Medical Center, led her
be Florence Nightingale,"
possible: reducing the number
the shortage: In earlier times
to a six-week nurses' update
McNally says. "It's not all this
of beds so that they would not
nursing was one of the few
course at Mercy Hospital:
wonderful giving, giving,
be caught short of nurses to
careers open to women. With
As she began thinking about
giving. It's realistic that it works
care for patients. Studies
the dramatic changes in
candidates for recruitment, she
both ways. What you get is a
sounded an ominous note for
women's lives over the past
heard her own voice saying: I
new and exciting challenge in
the future: With nursing school
three decades, many young
know who you've got to re-
your life. You don't have to be
enrollments declining, the
women now opt for business or
cruit, dummy; you've got to
Florence Nightingale. It's a job.
demand for nurses in the year
engineering. Many women
recruit yourself. Last fall, at age
Being a priest or a rabbi is a job,
2000 is expected to exceed the
whose interests lie in medicine
54-1/2, McNally signed on as a
too. The people who do these
supply by 1.2 million.
now choose to be doctors, an
nurse in pediatrics at Maine
things best are the ones who
Part of the increased demand
option not readily available just
Medical Center.
know these are jobs."
for nurses can be laid at the
a few years ago. At the same
"This is a terrific time in my
In the years between
door of the Diagnostically
time, many young people -
life," McNally says. "It gets
graduation from nursing school
Related Groups (DRG) pro-
both men and women - have
down to how you look at
and today, McNally married,
gram, introduced in 1983 by the
changed their goals from the
things. Is life a series of crises or
raised five children, and, here
federal government for
once-common desire to help
is it a series of changes? Crisis is
and there, did some pediatric
Medicare patients. It was
others, to a personal desire to
a negative- change is
and private-duty nursing.
designed to reduce health care
earn more money.
something new and different.
When the family settled into a
costs by limiting patient stays,
"The pay was lousy,"
"People my age are really
comfortable Victorian house in
without regard for the fact that
McNally says. Nurses today
smart. We have so much to
Yarmouth more than fifteen
although the name of the illness
earn respectable starting
give, so many skills from the
years ago, McNally became a
is the same, one patient might
salaries averaging $14-16 per
other lives we've lived. There
dedicated volunteer, giving
require more or less hospital
hour, with differentials for
are other 'old' people out there,
most of her time to the Portland
time than another.
nights and weekends. "From
36
Greater Portland
1990 SPRING
ABOVE: Gayl McNally
on the double at
Maine Med's
pediatrics ward.
LEFT: The technology
has changed, but it's
all learnable.
SPRING 1990
Greater Portland
37
the stories I hear, nurses were
often treated with disrespect,
although this was something I
never experienced."
McNally's early experiences
were good ones. She graduated
in 1956 from Children's
Hospital in Boston, which
maintained a joint program
with Simmons College. "Nurses
had much more autonomy than
they do now," McNally says.
"We were the staff of the
hospital. Between us and the
residents and the medical
students, we did our share. We
pind
attended classes and we
worked so that we only had to
TPRON
PROPERT
HOW
pay $500 a year for our
MAINE
education, and for that we lived
in a dormitory, got all of our
meals and our uniforms. When
we were second-year students,
we were in charge. That would
never happen now. There are
three or four students on a
division, and always an
instructor with them."
It was an extensive educa-
tion, with basic sciences at Sim-
mons College, sophisticated (for
the time) pediatrics at
Children's, obstetrics at Lying
In, adult medicine at Peter Bent
Brigham, and psychiatric
nursing at MacClain, a division
of Massachusetts General.
Following graduation,
stupid, to hire someone to take
McNally worked with the first
care of my children while I took
open-heart surgery patients
care of other people's children."
at Children's Hospital. After
That, she thought, was the end
six months, she went to Hawaii
of her nursing career - - except,
to marry Dick McNally, her
why not take the courses to
college beau, who was
keep her registration current?
stationed there with the
There followed courses - -
Marine Corps. "It seemed like a
one, two or three a year: Health
nice vacation for a couple of
Care Systems, Issues of
years," she says. She worked in
Grieving Parents, Nursing As-
the children's hospital there
sessment and Management of
until her first child, Kimberley
the Cardiac Patient, Sports
(who holds a master's degree
Injuries, Alcohol Awareness,
in nursing with a business
Care of the Psychiatric Patient,
administration minor)
Alzheimers, Children with
was born.
Cancer and Aids/Caregiver's
ABOVE: McNally
Maine Med dress in
Over the next few years
Perspective, and, in the spring
listens to the
casual sports clothes,
McNally worked off and on in
of 1982, a balanced pair of
heartbeat of Robbie
rather than starched
special nursing. There came a
courses: Depression, and
Boulier: Nurses at
caps and uniforms.
time when it seemed "totally
Becoming a, Travel Agent.
38
Greater Portland
1990 SPRING
LEFT: Respiratory
Boulier's bronchitis.
BELOW: The heart of
Jon; foster grand-
therapist Kathy
Robbie's mother,
the pediatrics ward- -
mother Millie
Szatko and McNally
Crystal, helps by
the playroom.
competes with Mickey
use aeration to help
holding.
McNally engages the
Mouse for Sam
relieve Robbie
attention of Annie
Tracy's interest.
Garrity, with her dad,
EXII
LEFT: McNally stops
ABOVE: It's blood
fathers of other
to talk to Joey Dollof
pressure check time
pediatric patients,
and his mother, Heidi
for Dana Duchaine.
sleeps in the room
Walton.
His mother, Marlene,
with him during his
like the mothers or
hospital stay.
SPRING 1990
Greater Portland
39
With visions of the
outside world in the
background, Bernice
Wilder comforts her
son Caleb.
age is pretty good.
"But always it's in my mind:
I can't make a mistake because
you can kill these little kids
really fast," McNally says.
"That's what keeps people out
of nursing, but if you come
along on the process I have, you
won't do any damage. If you
have enough sense to ask the
question, there is always
someone to answer."
McNally is convinced that
the solution to the nursing
shortage over the next few
years is to tap the market of
older RNs, offering them job
partnerships, with two nurses
sharing one job. "You'd never
call in sick," McNally says,
"claiming you're dying when
you're not because you
wouldn't do that to a friend.
Hospitals would not be caught
short, and people would be
willing to work. And if you
wanted to take two weeks off,
you'd work it out with your
partner. This will make the
difference in recruiting nurses.
"I had a downer one day
With her return to a hospital
changed, too. "We've recog-
is always teaching somebody
when I couldn't do something,"
floor, McNally learned quickly
nized how important it is to
something. It's very secure to
McNally says. "I hadn't done it
that nursing has changed.
have a wonderful playroom for
have so many people around, to
in thirty-five years, and I said,
Today, hospital stays are short;
the kids," McNally says. "Toys,
have someone to ask the things
'I'm too old for this.' I had
anyone who is hospitalized is
books, music, television are all a
you don't know. You used to
never said 'I'm too old' for
severely sick, putting extreme
part of treatment. And now
be the maid, the secretary, and
anything before in my life. That
pressure on the nursing staff.
everything is done by com-
the nurse."
didn't last long. I recognized
And the treatment of illness
puter. You want something
The biggest challenge for the
that the day I think I know
relies on such sophisticated
from the pharmacy, you punch
returning nurse is to learn the
everything is the day to go. As
technology, methods unheard
it in; you need someone to take
technology, McNally says. "But
long as you keep that edge,
of thirty years ago, that there
blood someplace, you punch it
it can be learned. You scare
think through everything -
is a great deal to learn. But
in. You have a unit manager
yourself, thinking you've got to
your equipment, how you're
the approach to medicine
who figures out the compli-
learn everything that's hap-
going to do it, what's going to
has become more holistic.
cated things that are not
pened in the past thirty years.
happen - then you're okay.
The doctor and nurse no long-
medically oriented. There are
But you don't. You only have to
When it becomes automatic,
er make all the rules. Today,
social workers on the floor, two
learn what you need to know
then go.
the patient (or the parent of
secretaries on every shift, and
right now. You already have so
"I think I've got a few good
the patient) takes a large meas-
cleaning people. There are
many things on your side. A
years ahead of me," McNally
ure of responsibility for his/
medical students, interns,
parent or a kiddo asks you a
says. "I'm 55 this month. I
her health.
residents, and student nurses
question, and the stuff that
guess I'm selling my age.
Pediatric departments have
from other places, so somebody
comes out of your mouth at my
It's a terrific age."<
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DRY DOCK2
G
uiding an 800-foot ship into a dry
dock for repairs is not exactly like
parking your Lincoln in a tight garage.
Jeff Neale knows that better than just about
anyone in Portland. He is the dockmaster at
Bath Iron Works' floating dry dock No. 2.
"What would happen if a ship I was docking
ever tipped over?" He lifts an eyebrow and
heaves a heavy pause. "I'd never work in
this business again."
42 Greater Portland
1990 SPRING
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20
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2
2
It's never happened in his memory at
2/
the BIW facility, but it is not surprising
26
25,
that Neale takes his work so very seri-
23
ously. He's dealing with very big stuff.
First of all there is sheer size: BIW's
floating dry dock No. 2 (there is a No. 1,
which is smaller) is 744 feet long, but with
the addition of 50-foot aprons at either
end, it has accommodated up to 887 feet of
ship. Its deck is actually made up of nine
separate pontoons, each 256 feet long, 80
feet wide, and 28 feet deep, which are
linked together. These pontoons are
equipped with 55-foot wing walls that
rise from their surface (they are always in
the up position at the shipyard) into a U-
shaped structure. When raised, the wing
walls create a berthing space 134 feet wide.
Next is weight: Dry dock No. 2 is cur-
rently Navy certified to handle 67,000 tons
of boat, but dockmaster Neale says that it
was designed to handle approximately
10,000 tons per section. The reason for the
44
Greater Portland
1990 SPRING
GETTYSBURG
ABOVE: The Aegis
RIGHT: Dockmaster
Cruiser U.S.S.
Jeff Neale surveys
Gettysburg in dry
empty Dry Dock #2
dock for repair.
at Bath Iron Works,
Portland.
Greater Portland
45
SPRING 1990
discrepancy, he says, is that there are no
Navy ships which weigh the 90,000 tons
the dry. dock can handle.
Each wing wall weighs .400 tons and
requires two 500-ton jacks to lift into posi-
tion. Dry dock No. 2 draws 65 feet of
water; the harbor had to be dredged to
accommodate it. Weight and displacement
are key physical elements at work on a
floating dry dock.
"If I take in a ship that weighs 20,000
tons, I must displace 20,000 tons of water
in the dry dock," says Neale, who is a
dockmaster and highly skilled engineer.
Each pontoon has flood valves which
are opened when a ship is to be docked.
This allows the entire dock to sink to a
depth so that the ship can be brought in
by tugs and line handlers. After the ship is
in place, the water in the pontoons is
pumped out so that the dry dock gradu-
ally begins to float, raising the ship with it.
It is a complex operation which takes
about six hours, says Neale. Since differ-
ent sections of the ship have different
weights, each pontoon must be able to ac-
commodate those weights, and the amount
of water displaced in each pontoon can
vary, sometimes by as much as thousands
of tons. A multiplex computer system and
a wall-size panel of instruments (which
like this one in the country, and learning
"During World War II, there weren't
measure the intake of water in the pon-
how to work it isn't something you can go
many safe ports for repair," says Neale.
toons) are all under the control and watch-
to school for."
"Lots of ships were scuttled because of
ful eye of Jeff Neale and five assistants in
It is actually one of four such docks
this. The idea behind the AFDB was that it
a control room which sits at the top of one
still in use in the U.S., the others being in
was a self-contained repair facility that
of the wing walls.
Scotland, Texas, and the Philippines. These
was mobile. It could be set up in a front-
As the dry dock rises from the surface
dry docks were all built during World
line area."
of the water, like some sea monster in a
War II for the purpose of servicing Navy
Back then, the AFDB-3 was operated
Japanese horror movie, the ship comes to
ships damaged in battle. BIW's floating
by a crew of some 800 men who worked
rest on blocks which have been put into
dry dock No. 2 was commissioned and
and lived right on the facility itself. Twenty
place. Divers check the blocks to make
built in California in 1943, and was classi-
40-mm guns were mounted to the wing
sure the ship is resting properly. This is
fied as ABSD-3 which stood for Advance
walls which were armor plated to guard
the critical point in the operation at which
Base Section Drydock. It was later renamed
against shelling and kamikaze dive bomb-
Neale cringes to think of something going
Auxiliary Floating Drydock Big (AFDB),
ers; a submarine net surrounding the dry
wrong. But he is confident in his ability to
the "Big" meaning that it could handle
dock provided extra security.
handle the job, one that he learned from
large vessels such as Iowa-class battlewag-
During the conflict in the Pacific, the
his predecessor, Stan French.
ons, and aircraft carriers. It was stationed
AFDB-3 serviced hundreds of ships. It
"This is specialized work," says Neale.
in a harbor in Guam from March of 1945
was decommissioned in November of 1945
"There aren't many floating dry docks
until the end of the war.
and mothballed because "after the war,
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1990 SPRING
this type of dock wasn't needed," says
Neale. But during the former administra-
tion, Navy buildups were on the increase,
and BIW realized it needed more space
and more docking facilities. Through
complex governmental wheeling and
dealing, the AFDB-3 was sold by the
General Services Administration to the
State of Maine for $800,000 in 1981. The
state then leased dry dock No. 2.
"The facility had to be totally con-
verted and fitted with new systems," says
Neale. "With its 1940's technology, each
section used to require 16 men to operate.
With the computer system, I can operate
the facility with a total of five men."
Neale says that dry docks are the most
versatile kind of shipbuilding facility. They
are attractive to shipyards, he says, be-
cause they are mobile and they have good
resale value. But he points out that ship-
building in general has been on the de-
cline in recent years.
Still, with the Aegis cruiser and the
Aegis destroyer programs in full swing,
and BIW under contract to build five more
cruisers and five destroyers, the old war
veteran AFDB-3 should continue to see
service in the '90s and perhaps beyond.
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AROUND & ABOUT TOWN
House Pin Update
Shop 'N Save Plaza store,
state officials contacted the
eleven Mail Boxes Etc.
I
n the fall issue of Greater
Portland we featured
throughout the state, asking
Lucinda Yates, creator of
them to be a plastic peanut
House Pins to benefit
depot. The ecology-minded
programs for the homeless.
proprietors all agreed.
To date, Yates has distrib-
The peanuts will be
uted more than 23,000
reused, Yohann says:
House Pins all over the
"Basically what will happen
United States. Purchasing
is that they will be sent out
organizations select a local
of state to become some-
body else's problem." If
JOE MUIR
you have large quantities of
the peanuts, Mail Boxes Etc.
Be a Tourist
will even pick them up.
T
hree years ago Rich Hallworth, a senior manager
with Ernst and Young, wondered how many
people living in Portland had never visited the area's
Outdoor Trip
most popular tourist attractions. Why not, thought
Hotline Expanded
Hallworth, create a Residents' Tourist Day when anyone
who lives in Portland can visit Victoria Mansion,
group
Longfellow House, and Portland Museum of Art; go to
K
eith Citrine, president
which
of the Casco Bay
helps the
the top of the Observatory; and cruise the bay on a Long-
Bicycle Club, has done it
homeless to
fellow Lines ship - all for free? It was an idea whose time
again. You can now hear not
benefit from
had come, and it worked even better than had been
only about the latest
the sale
expected: About 5000 residents, became tourists for a day.
bicycling, but also hiking,
of the pins.
There was no diminished interest the second year, so
kayaking, cross-country
Within the state of
on Sunday, May 20, the Third Annual Residents' Tourist
skiing, and other outdoor
Maine, more than $20,000
Day rolls around. Come, and bring the family.
trips sponsored by the
has been raised to help the
Casco Bay Bicycle Club and
Preble Street Breakfast
the Maine Outdoor Adven-
Pass the Peanuts
mountain of plastic peanuts;
Program in Portland, the
instead, take them to
ture Club - just by picking
Tedford Shelter in Brun-
W
hat's to be done
Mail Boxes Etc. USA for
up your telephone and
swick, the York County
with that big box of
recycling.
dialing 774-1118, The
Shelter, and Acadia's
plastic peanuts that safely
According to Moshe
Outdoor Trip Hotline.
Habitat for Humanity
brought the crystal goblets
Yohann, proprietor of the
program, proving once
through the mail? Don't
again that one person with a
contribute to making a
good heart and a good
idea can make a
difference.
Leave the Dog
How Do You Say
the University of Southern
Go Fly a Kite
"Lobster Stew"
Maine for translation into
at Home
in Russian?
Russian. "What a look
S
pring will come,
on their faces when they
happily followed by
summer, which means sun,
T
op executives of major
corporations were
L
ast October 28th, when
opened the menu,"
Senator George Mitchell
Soley said.
boats, and kites. And in
asked recently to list the
was in Portland, hosting a
When it was announced
Portland, no matter what
most unusual things that
delegation of Soviet leaders,
that President Bush had
kind of a kite you are
had ever happened while
he took his guests to dinner
invited Mr. and Mrs.
looking for you, will find it
they were interviewing a job
at Joe Soley's Seamen's
Gorbachev to visit him at
at Ye Old Port Kite Shoppe,
applicant. According to the
Club. Alerted well in
the Bush home on Walker's
tucked into the row of shops
survey, conducted by
advance of the event,
Point, Soley was right
and restaurants down
Robert Half International,
Soley sent his menu off to
behind him with his own
cobblestoned Wharf Street.
Inc., job hunters often don't
invitation, translated into
The shop marks its first an-
show good sense. The
Russian, which reads:
niversary July 1, and so far,
most peculiar of the un-
business has been very
usual things that people
good, says Owner Bob Ray.
have done during job
Dear Premier Mikhail Sergeyevich &
He's taking no chances
interviews?
though - he also works
Dozed off and started
evenings as a waiter at
The Maximovna Seamen's Titorenko Club Restaurant, Gorbachev: Raisa
snoring;
neighboring Street & Co.
Stretched out on the
Seafood Restaurant.
Ray's shop is stocked
floor to fill out the job
with literally hundreds of
application;
our President understand 45 honored We, invitation members at Maine's Bush's and that of to proud the you kind principal Supreme to are invitationsidering a invitationsideristhing host city a Soviet distinguished and of last port, the October USSR. delegation We 28th, in Maine. of was of
kites and windsocks, of
Brought her large dog to
every possible variety. He
the interview;
sells box, diamond, designer
Wore a Walkman, saying
overlooking here and enjoy our you famous and President Maine and Mrs. joyfully Bush, extend to dine
diamond, and delta kites.
she could listen to me and
convenience. Portland's harbor - at Traditional your pleasure fare and -
There are stunt kites,
the music at the same time;
parafoils, flow forms, sleds,
Sincerely submitted,
Announced she hadn't
and Indian fighter kites.
had lunch, and proceeded
Joseph Leader Soley, Owner
And the Chinese kites,
almost too beautiful to fly,
to eat a hamburger and
come in the form of insects,
French fries;
birds, and animals. Prices
Interrupted to phone his
range from $2 for the 10-
therapist for advice on
Шейка паровая
inch One Sky One World
answering specific inter-
филе курицы, H фаршированно-
plastic kite, to $500 for a
view questions;
260-square-foot flow form.
Balding candidate
РИС по-флорентински
The store is a feast for the
abruptly excused himself,
жареные овощи
eyes. Coming in the spring:
returning to office a few
kite-making classes in
minutes later wearing a
schools; and in summer,
No matter what you
hairpiece.
kite festivals to
call it in Russian, Mr. Gor-
benefit
bachev, you'll never taste
charities.
a better turkey sandwich.
Raslie f Brown
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F
THE
11
/
STATE
a -
BY
WRITING ABOUT PORTLAND
MAY STREET
Ann Allen Brahms
I
t was on a Tuesday afternoon in
Out back we climbed up three rickety
April 1945, one week after Presi-
steps to unlock a door painted green. Mum
dent Roosevelt died, when I came
unsuccessfully twisted an old rusty skele-
in the door from school and Mum said she
ton key in the lock. She sighed, stomped
had the key to the new house and she
her left foot and said, "Oh damn it all to
wanted to take me to see it. Nana said
hell." She kicked the door a good one,
she'd watch David, and Donnie, too, when
leaving a swatch of mud from her shoe on
he got home. Walking hand-in-hand along
the bottom.
the red brick sidewalks with Mum, I
"How come you kicked the door,
wondered what the place would look like.
Mum?"
I pictured lots of sunny windows, and a
"Shush, Ann. You'l see," she snapped.
big yard with green grass and flowers.
And I did. She turned the key in the
Maybe there'd be a white lilac tree like
lock with her right hand and pushed
the Donahues had.
against the door with her left shoulder
Mum had told me our new place was
until it popped open. We stepped inside a
part of a three-section row house, the
dark room. When I could focus, I knew we
only one like it on the block, but she
were in the kitchen. A strong sour odor
hadn't told me that May Street was so
flew up my nose. "What's that awful smell,
short. The houses were built so close
Mum?"
they were jammed together. There
"Oh, that's just some wet wood under-
weren't any elm trees like we had on
neath the slate sink. The cold-water pipe
Spruce Street. Mum stopped in front
leaks: Dad will fix it later on."
of Number 24. My eyes grew wide. I
I wondered how come she thought
had never dreamed the place would
he'd do that when she hadn't been able to
be so ugly. Drab gray paint was
get him to fix anything on Spruce Street. I
peeling everywhere. One stair was
peeked inside the sink to discover a bunch
rotted, and two of the downstairs
of brown bugs racing round and round.
windows were broken. I pouted.
"Jeepers, Mum! Look at all those bugs." I
Suddenly, homesickness for
didn't know what they were.
Spruce Street swooped over me.
Mum came running, took a look, and
Mum took my hand and led
gasped. "My God! I think they're cock-
me down a narrow dark path-
roaches. Jesus, Mary, and Joseph, Ann!
way that separated our place
Only dirty people have them. Don't you
from the house next door.
ever tell a living soul what you just saw.
"Mum," I whined, "how come
Come on. Let's get out of here and go
there's just dirt and scraggly
upstairs. I'll show you where your bed-
weeds? Won't grass and flow-
room is going to be."
ers grow in our yard?"
On the way we passed through the
"It's only April. Don't worry,
living room and dining room. All the walls
Ann. We can plant some things
were covered with flowered, torn, water-
later on when it's time."
stained wallpaper. Cream-painted wood-
SPRING 1990
Greater Portland
51
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work was chipped and
I didn't think anything
smudged with dirt. Soot-
overhead. Globs of fuzzy
cobwebs dangled and waved
MAINE HISTORICAL SOCIETY
would make it look better,
covered ceilings loomed
but I didn't tell Mum so,
knowing how hard she had
searched for a place. Still,
in the breeze from the slight-
after a few minutes I couldn't
est poof of air.
keep myself from asking,
Upstairs Mum led me into
"Mum, can't we find a rent
a small room which she said
on Spruce Street?"
was going to be mine. I ran
THE
MORRIS
PLAN
"No, Ann. You know I
inside to discover the flowers
looked and couldn't find any.
on the torn wallpaper were
May Street will do until we
orange and an ugly shade of
can find something else, and
purple. The ceiling was soot
it is cheap. Dad will only have
covered, the woodwork was
to pay $25 a month. Don't
dirty and painted the same
fret so. Sonny and Jimmy will
cream color as downstairs.
come play with you. I bet
There was no closet, and only
Kenny and Bubba will too.
one bare light bulb hung
Besides, you can wander up
overhead from a frayed black
to Spruce Street anytime you
cord. There was a window
want to visit."
that matched up perfectly to
"But, Mum, I don't like our
one in the house next door.
new place. Ihate bugs. Please,
Still, it was to be my very own
Mum, can't we stay with
room, the first I'd ever had.
Nana and Ellie? Please?" She
Mum took me into Don-
didn't answer me. Two woe-
nie and David's room which
begone souls walked back to
was next to mine. It came with
Horton Place in silence.
a closet and three sunny
The next day Mum went to
windows. The bathroom was
It was 1945, and a time to celebrate. Spring brought the end
war on 24 May Street. Armed
between my room and Mum
of the war in Europe and a festive parade down Congress Street. Meanwhile,
with a bar of Bon-Ami to clean
and Dad's. The air smelled
the Allen family made a less-than-happy move to May Street.
the windows, three boxes of
worse than David's dirty
Spicand Span, a broom, mop,
diapers. Mum said pee had seeped into
from a three-story house with porches on
and a bag full of clean rags, she began in
the wooden boards around the toilet with
the back of each floor. I'd seen enough. I
the kitchen and washed her way to the
the overhead pull-chain. A rust-stained
pleaded, "Mum, can't we go now? Let's
upstairs. At first I helped, but my arms
sink stood beside the toilet. The cold-water
go back to Nana's house. Please, Mum,
soon tired from scrubbing so hard. Nana
faucet dripped. I turned on the hot water.
let's leave now."
lent Mum a brush, and my father bought
Nothing happened. A tub stood on claw
"Okay, Ann. We'll go. I'll come back
her a gallon of cream paint for the wood-
feet against one wall. It was so small I
later with Dad to clean the place up a bit."
work. She had just enough to cover the
wasn't sure the baby would be able to fitin
As soon as Mum gave the word to
downstairs. Dad said he'd buy more
it. The inside was peppered with spider
leave, I raced through empty rooms and
when he could afford it, but Mum said we
webs, cracks, and cockroaches. They gave
down the front staircase to the outside. I
might as well forget about it because he
me the shivers as they raced round and
couldn't seem to get enough fresh air:
never did what he said he was going to do.
round and round, obviously startled by
Mum came out, and we headed for Nana's
Once we moved in and our belongings
our presence.
house. She usually walked so fast across
were put in place, things seemed more
Mum and Dad's bedroom was located
the red brick sidewalks that I couldn't
homelike.
at the rear of the house over the kitchen. It
keep up with her. That time, though, she
We'd no sooner settled when the war
was small and, like mine, hadn't a closet,
walked slowly, and she was quiet. Her /
ended. Upon hearing the news over the
but there was a staircase that led to the
eyes looked wet, and she kept putting a
radio, my family raced downtown to join
dining room. Scuffed edges of wide pine
hankie across her nose like she did when
Portland folks who'd gathered in Monu-
boards painted yellowy-orange clashed
she had a cold. Her voice sounded funny
ment Square. Hundreds of people danced
with the cracked blue floral linoleum in
when she cleared it and said, "Never you
in the street. Sailors hugged and kissed
the middle of the floor. There was one
mind, Ann. You won't recognize that old
all the women, and me, too. Most were
small window built so low that even I had
place after scrub it with elbow grease and
drunk. One picked me up and tossed me
to scooch to see out. I gazed upon the top
doll it up with pretty paint. You wait.
to his pal. He yelled, "The war is over.
of a criss-crossed rope clothesline and a
Your room's going to be beautiful after
We're going home." I wanted to marry a
gray fence that separated our property
I'm through with it."
sailor when I grew up.
SPRING 1990
Greater Portland
53
There was no longer a need for ships,
Still, it was hard not to tell Jimmy
so Dad lost his job at the shipyard. He
about the fun Donnie and I had every
Entertainment Guide
couldn't find steady work. Short-term
night catching two of the critters to race
Continued from page 13
carpentry work and an occasional stint as
across the bathroom floor. We'd squashed
Moose Alley at Squire Morgan's. 46 Market
a longshoreman unloading foreign and
the winner under our bare feet; the loser
Street, Portland. Two floors. Various local bands
play rock, top 40, rhythm and blues. Thursday
American ships was about it. He worried
would follow. I'd always say, "Crunch.
through Saturday, 7:30 to 1. 774-5246.
about money, but instead of searching for
Some more gone."
Old Port Tavern. 11 Moulton Street, Portland.
jobs, he sat in his favorite rocking chair or
I even kept my word when Donnie,
Local bands play rock and top 40 nightly 7:30 to
he paced the floor.
Jimmy, and I saw Dad sprinkle a pretty
1. 774-0444.
robin's egg-blue powder in the corners of
The Silver Shell. 363 Maine Mall Road, South
every room, under the kitchen and bath-
Portland. The Rob Robbins show, Tuesday
through Saturday, 9 to 1. 775-0555.
"Won't grass and flowers
room sinks, behind the stove, refrigerator,
grow in our yard?"
underneath the tub, behind the toilet. He
Top of the East. 157 High Street, Portland. At
the Sonesta Hotel. Pianist Marlene Daley. Tues-
told us kids to be careful because the stuff
day through Saturday, 5:30 to 12:30. 775-5411.
was poison. I knew he was telling the
Tree Cafe. 45 Danforth Street, Portland. Vari-
truth because there was a skull and cross-
ous bands play everything from rock to reggae.
He did more of this the day it got dark
bones on the box. Dad said that if we got
Wednesday through Sunday nights. 774-1441.
and the lamps wouldn't turn on. When I
so much as a tiny drop on our hands, to
Verrillo's. 155 River Street, Portland. Bands,
asked what was wrong, Mum said they
wash them right away or we'd die: If
dancing. Tuesday through Saturday, 9 to 1.
775-6536.
were broken, that it would take a few days
someone in the house got sick I blamed it
to get them fixed, and that it would be fun
on the pretty blue powder. Every morn-
Zackery's. Holiday Inn West, Exit 8, Portland.
Top-40 bands, dancing. Nightly, 9 to 1. 774-
to eat our bowl of crackers and milk by
ing, when my family woke up, I'd say a
5601.
candlelight, but it wasn't. Donnie told me
silent prayer of thanks that nobody had
Zootz. 31 Forest Avenue, Portland, at the Per-
the truth. He said he overheard Dad say to
died during the night. «
forming Arts Center. Changing weekly format,
Mum that he didn't have enough money
from new wave to rock to African pop. Dancing
weeknights; 9 to 1; Friday and Saturday, 9 to 2.
to pay the bills until he borrowed some
Happy Hour from 4:30. to 7 with complimen-
from Nana.
tary hors d'oeuvres. 773-8187.
No sooner did the lights work, than
the gas stove wouldn't turn on. Mum
cooked supper on a two-burner electric
There's only
hot plate borrowed from a friend.
At least three times a week, Donnie
one way to
and I would walk halfway to the Court-
come out ahead
yard to meet Nana at the head of Clark
Street. She'd hand over a bag containing
of the pack.
one quart of milk, three potatoes, and a
can of corn. From this, Mum made corn
chowder. She must' added a lot of water
because we always had seconds.
Nana told me to be a good girl and not
complain about food because my mother
THEATER, DANCE
had enough to worry about. Mum didn't
QU
AND MIME
fuss about her problems. Nana said she
was far too busy trying to survive to dwell
on much else. Her housework took hours.
Casco Bay Movers Dance Company. Sheila
Bellefleur, artistic director; Frank Kimball,
She didn't have a vacuum cleaner or a
managing director. Offering jazz and tap classes
for children and adults. For information on
wringer washing machine, so the floors
classes and performances, call 871-1013.
were swept or dry mopped, and the laun-
Children's Theatre of Maine. P.O. Box 1009,
dry had to be done in the kitchen sink.
Westbrook 04092. Offering entertainment and
Jimmy Donahue followed us from
education for children every Saturday through
May 5 at 10 a.m. in Luther Bonney Auditorium,
Spruce Street, but his brother Sonny didn't.
Portland campus of University of Southern
Jimmy never said a word about the shabby
Maine. Réggie Osborn, artistic director. For
condition of our new house, and he didn't
information on both local and travelling plays,
call 774-2718 or 854-0389.
mention the cockroaches, although he
American Heart
April 7 through May 5
couldn't avoid seeing them. Donnie and I
Association
Alice in Wonderland
obeyed Mum's wish that we never tell a
Figures of Speech Theatre. RR 4, Box 4277,
living soul about the bugs. By that time I,
Freeport 04032. Figures of Speech is a profes-
too, was ashamed of them.
sional theatre which tours nationally and inter-
54. Greater Portland
1990 SPRING
nationally, and is based in Freeport, Maine. For
LARK Society for Chamber Music. All con-
information, call 865-6355.
certs will be held at the Immanual Baptist
Church, High Street, Portland. For season tick-
Mad Horse Theatre Company. 955 Forest
ets and other information, call 761-1522.
Avenue, Portland. Performances Thursdays
through Sundays. 797-3338.
Municipal Organ Concerts. Portland City Hall
Auditorium. 874-8683.
Seed
The Portland Ballet Company. 341 Cumber-
land Avenue, Portland. 772-9671.
Portland Concert Association. 262 Cumber-
land Avenue, Portland. All performances at
Portland Dance Center. 25A Forest Avenue,
Portland City Hall Auditorium unless noted.
Portland. Home of Ram Island Dance Com-
772-8630.
pany. For ticket or subscription information,
VS
call 774-0465 (Performing Arts Center box of-
Portland Performing Arts Center. 25A Forest
fice). For additional information, call 773-2562.
Avenue, Portland. For information, call 761-
0591.
Portland Lyric Theater. 176 Sawyer Street,
South Portland. For tickets and times, call 799-
Portland Symphony Orchestra. 30 Myrtle
1421.
Street, Portland. Toshiyuki Shimada, music
Sod
director and conductor. Performances held in
The Portland Players. 420 Cottage Road, South
Portland City Hall Auditorium unless noted.
Portland. Call 799-7337 for information.
For information, call 773-8191.
May 25, 26, 27, June 1, 2, 3, 8, 9, 10, 15, and 16
University of Southern Maine. Department of
Sweeney Todd: An exciting and unusual musical
Music, Gorham campus. Mary Snell, concert
based on a Victorian melodrama reworked with
manager. All concerts are held at the Corthell
pointed social comment by British Playwright
Concert Hall. For more information, call week-
Christopher Bond.
days 780-5256; for tickets, call 780-5555.
Portland School of Ballet. 341 Cumberland
Avenue, Portland. For information call 772-
9671.
Portland Stage Company. Portland Perform-
ing Arts Center, 25A Forest Avenue, Portland.
C
774-0465.
SOD
Russell Square Players. Russell Hall Audito-
HYDROSEED
rium, University of Southern Maine, Gorham.
Shows every Wednesday through Saturday
night. For ticket information and times of per-
formances, call 780-5483.
If you hydroseed your
lawn, it could take up to a
Southworth Planetarium. University of South-
ern Maine, 96 Falmouth Street, Portland. Pro-
year to be as attractive as a
fessor Roy A. Gallant, director. A variety of
sod lawn can look in a matter
shows are open to the public on Friday, Satur-
day, and Sunday evenings: Astronomy Shows
GALLERIES
of days. Because sod is thick
at 7 p.m.; Laser Light/Music Shows at 8:30 p.m.
and strong from the beginning,
Doors open at 6:30: Please arrive 15 minutes
before show time; shows will not be inter-
weeds have trouble getting
rupted for latecomers. Children under 5 not
Abacus Gallery. 44 Exchange Street, Portland.
Changing exhibitions of American crafts and
started. So finish the job with
admitted to evening shows. Call for schedule of
show subjects/music, special children's shows,
fine jewelry. Open Monday through Saturday,
quality sod - call Skillins
and other information: 780-4249.
10 to 6; Sunday, noon to 5. 772-4880.
today.
MAINE
Theater of Fantasy. 50 Danforth Street, Port-
Afternoon Gallery. 49 Dartmouth Street at
TURF
land. Home of Celebration Theater Ensemble
Forest Avenue, Portland. Works of artists rep-
COMPANY
and Tony Montanaro. For more information on
resented by the gallery. Open weekdays from 1
to 5. 871-9235.
upcoming programs or for ticket reservations,
call 775-5957.
Area Gallery. University of Southern Maine,
Bedford Street, Portland. Gallery hours are
Monday through Saturday, 10-9; Sunday, 12-5.
Sponsored by Student Activities Department.
The Art Gallery at Six Deering Street. 6 Deer-
ing Street, Portland. Gallery hours: 11 to 5,
Tuesday through Saturday the first two weeks
of the month; the second two weeks by chance
or appointment. 772-9605.
Barridoff Galleries. 26 Free Street, Portland.
Gallery hours are 10 to 5 on weekdays; noon to
4, Saturdays; closed Sundays. 772-5011.
Cafe Always. 47 Middle Street, Portland.
Changing exhibitions. Permanent installation:
mural by Toni Wolf. Open daily from 5 to 10.
LIVE MUSIC
774-9399.
Congress Square Gallery. The Hay Building,
Congress Square, Portland. Contemporary
The Choral Arts Society. P.O. Box 2367, South
Maine art, limited editions, and Japanese
Skillins
Portland 04106. Dr. Robert Russell, music di-
woodblock prints. Custom framing. Gallery
Greenhouses
rector. Season tickets as well as individual
hours are 10 to 6, Monday through Saturday.
concert prices are available by calling 772-2173.
774-3369.
Bath Road, Brunswick 442-8111
Foreside Road, Falmouth 781-3860
Open Sundays
Dean Valentgas Gallery. 60 Hampshire Street,
Portland. Open Saturday, Sunday, and Thurs-
day evenings, and by appointment. 772-2042.
Elements Gallery. 56 Main Street, Brunswick
04011. 729-1108.
Affordably
Through May 4
Elegant
Metal Messages
Dining
May 5-July 6
Garden Show
quall
Fretz and Young Gallery. 4 City Center, Port-
land. Fine-art jewelry by gold and silversmiths.
Regular exhibits of photographs and sculpture.
Gallery hours are Monday through Friday, 10
Restaurant
Ample Parking
to 5; Saturday, 12 to 5. 761-4550.
& Lounge
Reservations Welcomed
18 Ocean St. South Portland 799 2232
Frost Gully Gallery. 25 Forest Avenue, Port-
land. Contemporary paintings and sculpture
by Maine artists. Gallery hours are noon to 6,
weekdays. 773-2555.
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Gallery 127. 127 Middle Street, Portland. Tues-
day through Friday, noon to 5; Saturday, noon
to 4; or by appointment. 773-3317.
Greenhut Galleries. 146 Middle Street, Port-
land 04101. Unique artwork by local and re-
gional artists: Tom Nelson, Baychar, Bill Irvine,
Alison Goodwin, Robert MacDaniel, and more.
Gallery hours are 10:30 to 5:30, Monday through
Saturday. 772-2693.
May 18-June 15
Glenn Renell: One-person show of oils and
pastels
Hitchcock Art Dealers. 602 Congress Street,
Suite 204, Portland. Contemporary Maine art
featuring works by over 40 artists including
Michael Willis, Phil Barter, Howard Rackcliffe,
Katherine Bradford, Sharon Townsend, Na-
tasha Mayers, Ed Gamble, Ann Gresinger, and
Harold Garde. Open Monday through Satur-
day, 10 to 6; Thursday evenings until 9; and
Sunday, 12:30 to 5; or by appointment. 774-
8919.
Hobe Sound Galleries North. 58 Maine Street,
Brunswick. A Payson Art Enterprise, affiliated
with Hobe Sound Galleries in Hobe Sound,
Florida, and Midtown Galleries in New York
"YOUR PLEASURE IS OUR BUSINESS"
City. Gallery hours: 10:30 to5, Monday through
Saturday. 725-4191.
The Joan Whitney Payson Gallery of Art.
Travel Arrangements for Professionals
Westbrook College, Portland. The gallery's
By Professionals
permanent collection- which has been dubbed
"the little jewel box" - features work by De-
gas, Renoir, Klee, Whistler, and Prendergast.
Gallery hours are Tuesday through Friday, 10
to 4, Thursday until 9; Saturday and Sunday, 1
to 5. Closed Mondays, holidays, and between
exhibitions. For more information, call 797-
9546.
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The Jones Museum of Glass and Ceramics.
Sebago, Maine. 787-3370.
TOUR & TRAVEL
Maine Historical Society. 485 Congress Street,
Portland. 774-1822.
Nancy Margolis Gallery. 367 Fore Street, Port-
land. Ongoing exhibition includes regular gal-
lery artists who work in ceramics, jewelry, glass,
wood, and metal. Open Monday through Sat-
urday, 10 to 6; call for special December holiday
475 Congress Street, Portland, Maine "at Monument Square"
hours. Nancy Lee, director. 775-3822.
Telephone 775-6763 in Maine 1 800-2YANKEE
The Pine Tree Shop and Bayview Gallery. 75
Market Street, Portland. Fine art, sculptures,
Contact our vacation travel specialist today.
limited-edition prints, posters, and custom
framing. 773-3007.
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1990 SPRING
Portland Museum of Art. 7 Congress Square,
Portland. Open Tuesday through Saturday, 10-
5, Thursday until 9; Sunday, noon to 5. For
information on museum programs, call 775-
6148.
Through April 16
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Portland Public Library. 5 Monument Square,
Bed & Breakfast
Portland. Open Monday, Wednesday, and Fri-
49 Neal Street
day, 9 to 6; Tuesday and Thursday, noon to 9;
Portland
Saturday, 9 to 5. Exhibits are in the Lewis
Maine 04102
Gallery on level one; admission is free. 871-
207 772 1006
1700.
800 356 0408
Portland School of Art. The Baxter Gallery, 619
Congress Street, Portland. Open Monday
through Thursday, 8 a.m. to 9:30 p.m.; Friday,
8 to 5; and Sunday, 11 to 4. Admission is free.
775-3052 or 761-1771.
Stein Glass Gallery. 20 Milk Street, Portland.
The gallery is open Monday through Saturday
from 10:30 to 6; Sunday, 12 to 5. 772-9072.
A Market Leader
Through April 15
Neal Drobnis: Blown and sandcasted vessels
and organic forms
April 16 through May 31
For 68 Years.
John Burchetta: "Symbiosis Series" of joined
multi-blown vessels
University of Southern Maine Art Gallery.
Gorham campus. The museum is open Sunday
through Thursday, 12 to 8. For more informa-
tion, call 780-5409.
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Portland Museum of Art. 7 Congress Square,
Portland. For information on museum lectures,
call 775-6148.
"We Discount Prices,
Southworth Planetarium. University of South-
The Old
But Not Service."
ern Maine, 96 Falmouth Street, Portland. Pro-
Yankee
fessor Roy A. Gallant, director. A variety of
Trader
shows are open to the public on Friday, Satur-
day, and Sunday evenings: Astronomy Shows
at7 p.m.; Laser Light/Music Shows at 8:30 p.m.
Doors open at 6:30: Please arrive 15 minutes
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before show time; shows will not be inter-
rupted for latecomers. Children under 5 not
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show subjects/music, special children's shows,
DOWNTOWN
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Wednesday after-school programs, and other
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information: 780-4249.
772-1111
LOCAL DELIVERY
883-4151
World Affairs Council of Maine. University of
FAX 883-8307
Southern Maine, 96 Falmouth Street, Portland.
Lectures open to the public. For information,
ALSO LOCATIONS IN AUBURN, WATERVILLE, AND BANGOR
call 780-4551.
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57
brary for parents and educators, and member-
ship opportunities with benefits. Open Mon-
day through Saturday, 9:30-4:30. 797-0525.
Children's Theatre of Maine. P.O. Box 1009,
Westbrook 04092. Offering entertainment and
education for children every Saturday through
May 5 at 10 a.m. in Luther Bonney Auditorium,
Portland campus of University of Southern
Maine. Reggie Osborn, artistic director. For
information on both local and travelling plays,
call 774-2718 or 854-0389.
April 7 through May 5
Alice in Wonderland
FILM
Maine Audubon Society. 118 U.S. Route One,
CHILDREN'S
Falmouth. A number of opportunities for chil-
dren of all ages to learn about nature and the
GUIDE
environment, from the Buzzing Bees preschool
story hour at Gilsland Farm in Falmouth, to
Cinema City. Westbrook Plaza, Brighton Ave-
canoe and walking tours at the Scarborough
nue (Route 25), Westbrook. First-run feature
Marsh Nature Center, from winter Ecology
films. 854-9116.
The Children's Museum of Maine. 746 Ste-
Walks at Gilsland Farm, to the summer's Mast
vens Avenue, Portland. A hands-on children's
Landing Nature Day Camp in Freeport. The
Maine Mall Cinema. Maine Mall Road, South
museum geared for children from two to ten
Society also offers a speakers' program,
Portland. First-run films. 774-1022.
years old. Thirteen rooms feature such perma-
Children's Sunday Events, from January to
nent exhibits as the Fire Room with a make-
March in Portland. For more information about
The Movies. 10 Exchange Street, Portland. New
believe fire truck, the Kite Express Room with
these and other Maine Audubon Society pro-
and old American and foreign film classics.
a working model railroad system, the TV and
grams, call 781-2330.
772-9600.
Radio Room with a working camera and micro-
phone, and Tom and Bill's Country Store with
Portland Dance Center. 25A Forest Avenue,
Nickelodeon Cinema. Temple Street, Portland.
groceries, shopping baskets, cash register, and
Portland. Quality dance education for children
First-run hits, art films, and foreign features.
post office. The museum also offers art classes
ages 2 to 16. Classes include jazz, ballet, and
772-9751.
and workshops for children, and "enrichment
modern dance as well as Creative Movement
programs" for parents. Admission is free for
and Parent/Baby Movement for the youngest
children under one, $2 for senior citizens, and
children. Also available are acting classes and a
$2.50 for all others, half price Wednesday after-
once-a-month workshop on theater and per-
noons. Museum hours are 9:30 to 4:30, seven
formance arts. Classes and workshops are of-
days a week. For more information, call 797-
fered from September to June. For more infor-
KITE.
mation, call 773-2562.
Children's Resource Center. Thompsons Point,
Portland Museum of Art. 7 Congress Square,
Portland. A nonprofit organization that col-
Portland. The museum offers a variety of pro-
lects clean, safe scrap materials or seconds from
grams for children, from one-day
industries to sell at low cost to individuals and
workshops to weekly classes, as well as special
groups for creative and educational use. The
family events. Classes are generally held in the
®
center is filled with recyclables in various sizes,
spring and fall, workshops in December (on
shapes, colors, and textures. Paper, fabrics,
wrapping-paper, ornament and card making),
buttons, wooden beads, metal and plastic
in March or April (egg decorating), and in the
United Way
shapes, fancy shoe laces, yarn, sponges, and
summer months. Workshops and classes for
many other materials provide grist for the mill
both elementary and junior high school chil-
of the imagination. The center also sponsors art
dren often include tours of the museum. For
classes for children and adults, a book exchange
information, call 775-6148.
for children, a crafts and early education li-
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1990 SPRING
Portland Public Library. 5 Monument Square,
Portland. Books, records, tapes, and magazines
for children and young adults, from preschool-
ers to middle-school-aged children. The library
also offers story hours, a children's art series,
For All Your Residential
and other special events. Regular events, all
starting at 10:30 a.m., include a preschool story
and Commercial Flooring Needs
hour for children ages three to five on Mon-
days, Tales for Twos on Fridays, and films for
all ages on Saturdays. The library is open
Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, 9 to 6; Tues-
day and Thursday, noon to 9; and Saturday, 9 to
Call Paul G. White
5. 773-4761.
Tile. Our quality
Portland Recreation Department. 389 Congress
products, profession-
Street; Portland. Offering community programs
al sales staff and
for Greater Portland children in five commu-
nity centers around the city and on Peaks Is-
personal service have
land. For more information, call weekdays:
made us a leader in
874-8793.
the New England
Cummings Community Center, 134 Congress
flooring industry.
Street. Table and board games, arts and crafts,
and field, trips for children ages 6 through 12.
Open gym for teens: Mondays and Wednes-
days, 6 to 8 p.m. (50-cent fee).
East End Community Center, Public Safety Build-
Ceramic
Imported and
ing. Auditorium, gymnasium and classroom
Vinyl Flooring
Domestic Granite
space available for rent. Open gym for teens:
and
and Marble.
Fridays, 6 to 8 p.m. (50-cent fee).
Carpeting
Countertops
Peaks Island Community Center, Peaks Island.
Teen dances and activities. Space available for
rent. Open gym for teens: Tuesdays and Thurs-
days, 6 to 8 p.m. (50-cent fee).
Reiche Community Center, 166 Brackett Street.
Paul G. White
After School Program for children in grades 1
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through 5, with an emphasis on fitness, drama,
arts and crafts, and storytelling. Teen Recrea-
Mon.-Fri.: 8-5:30; Sat.: 9-2:00
tion Program includes weight training, Red
50 Allen Ave., Portland, Me. 797-4657
Cross babysitting courses, community service
projects, and opportunities to socialize. Open
gym for teens: Mondays and Wednesdays, 7:30
to9 p.m.; Tuesdays and Thursdays, 6:15 to 7:30
p.m. (50-cent fee).
Experience Counts
Riverton Community Center, 1600 Forest Ave-
nue. Arts and crafts, games, gym activities,
team sports, and special events: Open gym for
teens: Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays, 6
to 9 p.m. (50-cent fee).
Open gym for teens also held at Jack School on
the Eastern Promenade, and King School on
Deering Avenue, both Tuesday and Thursday
from 6 to 8 p.m. (50-cent fee).
Swimming lessons at the Riverton and Reiche
pools include tots' classes (ages 3 months to 3
years); novice classes (ages 4 and 5 years); Red
Cross lessons (6 years and up); water safety,
Impeccable Attention.
Susan Lamb, Philippa Morton, Diane Shevenell, Chris Jackson,
H. Bud Singer, Barney Burrall, Jim Thorne, Pat Vilven
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lifesaving, and lifeguard courses; and scuba
School Pre-College Program and Young
students of all ages, every Wednesday at 3:30.
lessons.
People's Workshop. For more information on
Call for information on programs for groups:
young people's programs, call 775-3052.
780-4249.
Other programs include youth soccer, fitness
club (designed to introduce youths to regular
Portland Symphony Orchestra. 30 Myrtle
Young Men's Christian Association. 70 Forest
exercise, fitness, and nutritional information),
Street, Portland. Toshiyuki Shimada, music
Avenue, Portland. Programs in athletics in-
basketball (introducing those ages 10 and under
director and conductor. Kinderkonzerts are
clude the popular Aquatics Program for big
to the fundamentals; league play for 5th and
short concerts performed by PSO ensembles
and very little dippers, Scuba Diving lessons,
6th graders and nonvarsity junior and senior
for children ages three to seven. Each concert
the Youth Soccer League, Nautilus, Aerobic
high students), teen tennis clinics, and down-
introduces one of the four families of orchestral
Fitness, and Family Recreational Volleyball.
hill and cross-country ski lessons for all ability
instruments. Performances are given in several
All programs are coeducational. In addition to
levels, second-graders to adults.
Maine and New Hampshire communities.
athletics, the Y offers day-care services, the Hi-
Youth Concerts are performed by the PSO in
Y program for teen leadership, the Otter Pond
Portland School of Art. 97 Spring Street, Port-
the Portland City Hall Auditorium, for chil-
Wilderness Day Camp in Standish, and many
land. Saturday School for high school and jun-
dren in third through sixth grade. For informa-
other social and educational programs. For
ior high school students during the fall and
tion, call 773-8191.
information about these and other Y programs,
spring semesters offers classes in all aspects of
call 874-1111.
art from drawing and design to sculpture and
Southworth Planetarium. University of South-
ceramics. Classes at beginning and more ad-
ern Maine, 96 Falmouth Street, Portland. Spe-
Young Women's Christian Association. 87
vanced levels are taught by PSA faculty and
cial one-hour after-school show (astronomy,
Spring Street, Portland. The YWCA offers a
seniors. During the summer, PSA offers a High
laser light, or video of NASA space probes) for
variety of programs for girls and boys. For the
youngest children and their parents, there are
such programs as Infant and Toddler Gym and
Swim, and Kindercize. For children between
the ages of 3 and 8, the YWCA offers Kinder-
swim, Aquakids, Tumbletots, Pee Wee Soccer,
and Creative Dance. For older children there
A Second Addition
are the Swim Clinic, Aquatic Games, Gymnas-
tics, and Beginner Karate. The YWCA also of-
to Portland's Heritage.
fers programs for prenatal care, for day care,
and for teen parents. For more information
about these and other YWCA offerings, call
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First there was One Portland Square, a successful
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Greater Portland Landmarks. State Street,
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For more information call Northland Investment
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The Portland Observatory. 138 Congress Street,
Portland. Built in 1807 by Captain Lemuel
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as a signal tower for merchants and shipown-
ers of Portland. A system of signal flags told the
town of approaching craft, hours before they
docked. Radios made the tower obsolete, and it
was closed at the turn of the century, then
reopened by the City of Portland in 1939 as an
historicsite. Thousands of visitors have climbed
its 102 steps to enjoy spectacular views of the
city, the White Mountains, and Casco Bay. Open
Memorial Day through Labor Day. During the
fall and winter, the observatory is open by
appointment only. Call 774-5561 for further
information.
Seashore Trolley Museum. Log Cabin Road
(3.2 miles north of Dock Square), Kennebunk-
port. World's largest and oldest collection of
over 200 trolleys and other mass-transit ve-
hicles from all over the world. Rides given daily
Northland
from April 28 through October 14; full daily
schedule 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., June 2 through
One Portland Square, Portland, ME (207) 871-7100
September 9. Tours, museum store with his-
toric books and souvenirs. For directions and
more information, call 967-2712.
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1990 SPRING
Victoria Mansion. 109 Danforth Street, between
Mast Landing, Freeport, is operated and main-
The Promenades. On the east end of the Port-
State and High Streets, Portland. One of the
tained by the Maine Audubon Society. Nature
land peninsula, the 68-acre Eastern Promenade
finest surviving examples of nineteenth-cen-
trails wind through 140 acres and pass a variety
offers a panorama of Portland Harbor and Casco
tury eclectic architecture in the country. De-
of natural habitats. In the winter the nature
Bay, plus tennis courts, a ball field, and histori-
signed by Henry Austin (1804-91), the house is
walks make ideal cross-country ski trails.
cal markers. The Western Promenade over-
built of brownstone in the Italian villa style and
looks countryside and, on a clear day, the White
features a tall square tower. The opulent Victo-
Mill Creek Park, between Ocean Street and
Mountains. Spectacular sunset-watching spot.
rian interior includes colorful frescoes, richly
Cottage Road, South Portland, is a 10-acre park
carved woodwork, and brilliant stained and
with a rose garden, a bandstand, and a large
Scarborough Beach State Park, off Route 207,
etched glass. The furniture, paintings, fabrics;
toy-boat-sailing and skating pond.
Scarborough, is a long sandy beach with rela-
sculpture, and lighting devices owned by the
tively warm water, lifeguards, and almost no
Ruggles Sylvester Morses provide an invalu-
Payson Park, off Baxter Boulevard, Portland.
undertow. Excellent body-surfing conditions
able record of mid-nineteenth century taste.
Forty-eight acres of softball and baseball fields,
after storms.
Call for hours, and information on group tours:
tennis courts, a playground, and picnic and
772-4841.
skating areas.
Scarborough Marsh Nature Center, Route 9,
Scarborough. Operated by the Maine Audubon
Pine Point, off Route 9, Scarborough. A con-
Society. Nature center with marsh-life exhibits,
tinuation of Old Orchard Beach, Pine Point has
canoe rentals, and nature talks. For a complete
one acre of land and a sandy beach.
schedule, call 883-5100.
Sterling
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Clark's Pond, off Western Avenue and Gorham
Road, South Portland, is a natural setting now
being redesigned for passive public use.
Crescent Beach State Park, off Route 77 in
Support,
Cape Elizabeth, contains a long sandy beach, a
rocky headland, tide pools, open fields, a fresh-
water marsh, a spruce and oak forest, and
abundant wildlife and birdlife. Amenities in-
clude picnic tables, charcoal grills, restrooms,
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town.
Your off-site personnel department.
Deering Oaks Park, in Portland, was once the
scene of a battle between colonists and Indians.
Today this 51-acre Olmstead-designed park
has noteworthy flower gardens, tennis courts,
a lighted baseball diamond, a softball diamond,
historical monuments, a playground, and a
magnificent grove of oak trees.
The Fish and Wildlife Visitors Center, Fish
Personnel Handbooks
Hatchery Road, Gray, provides a home for
injured wildlife from around the state. There
Job Descriptions
are bears, raccoons, foxes, a coyote, fisher, skunk,
porcupine, owl, and hawk. Open between 10
and 4 daily from May through the end of
Performance Evaluation Forms
November. For information call 657-4977.
Short-term Personnel Management
Fore River Sanctuary, off Rand Road, Port-
land. Seventy-six acre sanctuary with two and
one-half miles of trails. Salt water marshes,
great bird watching, wildlife, deer. Boardwalks
lead to Portland's only waterfall. For more
information call Maine Audubon land steward
at 781-2330.
At Sterling Management Support, Inc. we update
Fort Williams Park, Shore Road, Cape Eliza-
your firm's policies and procedures manuals for
beth. Rocky cliffs, spectacular views of Casco
Bay, the islands, Portland Harbor, and two-
the benefit of both the employer and employee.
hundred-year-old Portland Head Light. Also:
baseball diamond, tennis courts, and plenty of
open space.
Gilsland Farm, off Route One, Falmouth. Home
of the Maine Audubon Society. Marked nature
trails wander through woods, fields, and along
222 St. John St.
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a tidal inlet. A complete nature store is housed
in the organization's innovative solar-powered
building.
SPRING 1990
Greater Portland
61
Spring Point Shoreway, a scenic mile-plus
parkway extending from Fisherman's Point to
Shirley M. Allen
the Spring Point Marina along Casco Bay in
South Portland. Encompasses Willard Beach (a
sandy swimming beach), an arboretum, picnic
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Two Lights State Park, off Route 77 in Cape
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1990 SPRING
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rooms. (207)775-5411, 1(800)341-0414,
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Sheraton Inn. 363 Maine Mall Road, South
Portland. 220 rooms. (207)775-6161, 1(800)325-
3535.
EXIT 8/MAINE TURNPIKE
Days Inn of Portland. 1150 Brighton Avenue,
Portland. (207)775-3711, 1(800)325-2525.
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Harraseeket Inn. 162 Main Street, Freeport. 54
ical, SIC - Lists officers, products,
rooms, many with fireplace, Jacuzzi. Dining
size, mailing addresses and phone
room, lounge. (207)865-9377.
numbers. Soft cover - $35.00
SOUTH OF PORTLAND
MAINE REGISTER - The most comprehensive single-volume reference
source on Maine. Contains state-wide business, professional, industrial,
municipal and legislative listings. Over 1300 fact-filled pages. Hard
Black Point Inn. 510 Black Point Road, Prouts
cover - $95.00
Neck. 80 rooms. (207)883-4126.
Days Inn. 738 Main Street, South Portland. 110
guest rooms and suites. Restaurant and lounge;
MAINE BAR DIRECTORY All Maine Lawyers listed alphabetically
swimming pool. (207)774-5891.
and geographically. Lists firms, mailing addresses and phone numbers,
plus information on courts and municipal officials. Ring bound - $35.00
Howard Johnson Hotel. 675 Main Street, South
Portland. 123 rooms. (207)775-5343.
ENTERPRISE- Greater Portland's Business Directory. Lists over 5500
Inn By the Sea. Route 77, Cape Elizabeth. 43
businesses with principal officers, mailing addresses, telephone
rooms. (207)799-3134.
numbers, products and services. Soft cover - $35.00
Manor Inn and Restaurant/A Best Western
Hotel. 700 Main Street, South Portland. 152
MAILING LISTS Mailing lists of over 50,000 Maine businesses are
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Portland Marriott Hotel. 200 Sable Oaks Drive,
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with saltwater swimming pool, boating, hik-
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SPRING 1990
Greater Portland
63
COMMENTARY
GP
Jim Keil
W
hat is the real story on the local
laid off now were really only hired for conven-
economy today? This question is
ience during the boom. That's not to say they
provoking a lot of very interest-
didn't work hard at their new jobs, only that the
ing discussion, some of it entertaining, if not
business was not able to support them. They
entirely factual.
were hired to capitalize on the expanding mar-
It is true that there are some prominent busi-
ket, which just happened not to expand.
nesses in the area that are in serious financial dif-
Remember, too, that Maine has a total
ficulty, and that some of our leading banks are
population of only 1.3 million, statewide, and be
among them.
realistic about that. There are places in New
It is true that some of these problem busi-
York City that have more people on one side of
nesses will gather momentum during the roll down the hill,
the street. What does that mean for Greater Portland's econ-
and it is true that other businesses will be steamrollered in the
omy? It means that a lot of businesses that are great ideas, and
process. In the end, it matters not whether the bullet that takes
superbly successful in other parts of the country, may fail in
you out was aimed at you, or was a stray.
Greater Portland, not because the idea isn't sound, not because
But, one might ask, isn't that the way it always is? Isn't that
the owners didn't work, but because the population base isn't
what it means to be an entrepreneur? Developing real estate
substantial enough to carry them.
has always involved risk. Operating a bank has always in-
It also means that even a slight over-build, if it is coupled
volved risk. Building homes or condominiums has always
with bad times in neighboring states, can be a big burden on an
involved risk. Some businesses are riskier than others. Risky
economy that has so few people to shoulder the load.
businesses are still risky.
Unemployment is relatively low, yet people turn out in
The last few years in Greater Portland have seen many
record numbers to apply for jobs. The numbers are hard to
business ventures succeed in spite of the people who were
read in Greater Portland.
running them. Some of the products and services offered up
One reason is that people travel in Maine. They drive 100
were built on what turned out to be fickle frills of the buying
miles or more to get to the Maine Mall. The Maine Mall is also
public, not long-lasting demand. As the saying goes, "a rising
one of the only places of refuge for vacationing families with
tide lifts all ships." It does, at least for a while.
small children on rainy summer days.
Part of our problem is that we are spoiled. Not to in any
Panic is three or four elementary-school-aged children in a
way diminish the importance of a change in the economy that
tent on a rainy summer day in Maine. They head for the mall
has cost jobs; still, we must realize that many of us are simply
out of desperation, and spend a great deal of money there.
victims of the psychology of slowdown.
Many outfit the kids with school clothes to save time when
A lot of us played musical chairs as kids, and we operate
they get home.
our businesses the same way: There is no way that we are
They bring with them an imported Buying Power Index,
going to be caught without a chair when the music stops.
one that may reflect higher earning power of other cities. Does
We hear that things are tough in New Hampshire, worse in
that slant the figures for the mall, for the area? It might.
Massachusetts, and it's all moving this way. This is not the
Another reason is that much of Maine's work force is
year to buy that new office furniture. The new computer can
seasonally employed. Taken in total, the point is that as diffi-
wait, so can the bigger building and better parking lot. We
cult as it is to accurately forecast what is happening to our local
can live without the boat. Pull in the credit cards.
economy, we will survive the adjustment.
There is no question that these issues are real, and they
The federal savings and loan crisis has already hit the
must be dealt with. Anybody knows that if you spend more
brakes hard, forcing a change in our national home equity-
than you take in, the business will fail. There are no untapped
financed Yuppie craze, none of which would have been pos-
tax revenues in the private sector.
sible without cooperative representation in Washington.
What we must not lose sight of is the fact that many of us
Once we started to wrap the car and the boat in with financ-
are controlling expenses now because we didn't do such a
ing for the new kitchen and back porch, we were headed for
good job of it during the boom, when business wasn't just
trouble, and I believe most of us in Greater Portland knew it.
good, it was great.
Patience and a return of common sense will bring back the
As hard a pill as it is to swallow, some of the people being
good times to Greater Portland.
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VOLUME 33 / NUMBER 4
WINTER 1989/1990
CONTENTS
DEPARTMENTS
FEATURES
3
16
A NOTE FROM THE EDITOR
A SPECIAL BEAUTY
Thomas A. Verde
4
DEAR EDITOR
22
ON THE BEAT
6
Chet Jordan
ENTERTAINMENT GUIDE
44
31
PROFILE: DOGS & CATS CATS & DOGS
PORTLAND PEOPLE
Shirley Jacks
35
60
ON THE WATERFRONT
MAINE'S ATTIC
Anne Dudley
41
A TASTE OF
66
GREATER PORTLAND
WHAT To Do WHEN SOMETHING
54
GOES WRONG
WRITING ABOUT PORTLAND
Lisa Derman
58
AROUND AND ABOUT TOWN
GREATER PORTLAND (ISSN :019-1728)
is published quarterly by the Chamber of
Commerce of the Greater Portland Re-
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04101. Telephone (207)772-2811. All rights
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interesting people, places, institutions, and
ongoing events in Greater Portland. Please
send SASE with all submissions. Copy-
right 1989 by The Chamber of Commerce
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RANDY URY
Sgt. Hosea Carpenter, Officer Dominic Rozzi,
Officer Joanne Sysun. Photo by Randy Ury.
Cover photo by Randy Ury: Officer Joanne Sysun
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A NOTE FROM
Portland
THE EDITOR
Shirley Jacks Editor/Publisher
Eeci Zerega Copy Editor
Chet Jordan Circulation Director
Richard Hobby Advertising Director
Jill Bock Design and Production
Leslie F. Brown Advertising Production
Regular Contributors:
Writers Lisa Derman, Chet Jordan,
Anne Rugh, Thomas A. Verde;
Photographers Dean Abramson,
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PUBLISHED BY THE CHAMBER OF
COMMERCE OF THE GREATER PORTLAND
REGION, serving Cape Elizabeth, Cumberland,
Falmouth, Freeport, Gorham, Gray, North Yarmouth,
Portland, Scarborough, South Portland, Westbrook,
Windham, and Yarmouth
Chairman: John R. Hooper
Vice President/General Manager
Guy Gannett Publishing Co.
Vice Chairman: Richard B. Dalbeck
Executive Vice President
UNUM Life Insurance Co.
President: William M. Nugent
President
Chamber of Commerce of the Greater Portland Region
Treasurer: Robert Kruger
Managing Partner
Peat, Marwick Maine & Co.
I
t was this photo by Terry DeRoche in a student show at the
Immediate Past Chairman: Hugh G. Farrington
Portland School of Art that inspired our profile "Dogs and
President & Chief Operating Officer
Hannaford Bros. Co.
Cats, Cats and Dogs." Not only was I caught by the nobility
Chairman Editorial Advisory Committee:
of this watch dog and its baleful look, but by the economic opportu-
Francis J. Guthrie, Jr.
President
nities that photograph represents. Here is a dog commanding a
The Guthrie Group
fair-size piece of real estate- he has his own house, his own fence, his
DIRECTORS:
own sign.
Weston L. Bonney
Chairman and CEO, Peoples Heritage Bank
That dog, I said to myself, has a leash and a license, eats, needs
Clayton Churchill
Management Consultant, Purdy Bornstein Hamel, Burrell
Roxanne A. Cole
shots, may get sick, may get lost, probably owns a raincoat, maybe
Broker, Ram Harnden, Inc.
Norman Conley
even a winter coat...etc. Besides protecting its family and bringing
Manager, S.D. Warren Co.
John D. Delehanty
them great happiness, I said, this dog is a boon to Portland's
Attorney, Pierce, Atwood, et al.
Brian Dudley
economy.
Vice President, Fred S. James & Co.
Mary E. Finnegan
During the course of my research, I was able to estimate that it
President, Finnegan Associates
Richard Hallworth
takes no less than $500 per year to support a cat, more nearly $750 to
Senior Manager, Ernst & Whinney
K.C. Hughes
support a dog.
President, Bayside Associates
William R. Johnson
Currently we support four cats - Charlie, Logan, Strauss (son of
President, Blue Cross/Blue Shield
James H. Keil
General Sales Manager, Blue Rock Industries
Levi), and Daisy Estelle. They account for twenty-eight years of cat
Barry King
President, Sun Savings & Loan
life. We also support a fourteen-year-old dog named Bear. Within
Linda C. Lee
President, Linda Lee Advertising
the past two years, a thirteen-year-old dog (Chesco), and a nine-year-
Robert Lynch
D.C., Lynch Chiropractic
old cat (Sox) have gone to the big kennel in the sky. That makes
Thomas D. McBrierty
Vice President, New England Telephone
thirty-seven years of cats ($18,500), and twenty-seven years of dogs
Francis E. McFarland
Chief Financial Officer, The One Bancorp
($20,250).
Carol Morris
President, Carol Morris Associates
This is just the current crop. We have loved, fed, bathed and
Joseph V. O'Donnell
President, J.V. O'Donnell CPA
buried Susie, Oliver, Max, Baby, Barneys I and II, Toby, Pippi,
Patricia R. Plante
President, University of Southern Maine
George, Peabody, et al.
David Ray
Store Manager, Shop 'n Save
This may explain why I drive a '76 Maverick.
Charles S. Rose
Vice President, S.D. Warren Co.
Wayne Ross
Director, Southern Maine Technical College System
Robert Ruotolo
Vice President, G.A.R. Properties
George B. Terrien
Partner, Terrien Architects
Robert E. Vitalius
Sherley Jacks
President, Fred S. James & Co.
Roger B. Wold
Shirley Jacks
Account Executive, A.G. Edwards
Editor
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Greater Portland 3
DEAR EDITOR
Ed Langlois' Moments
tals" and the way it was worded sounds
Ann's Fan
like we have a psychiatric ward here, which
Dear Editor,
we do not. We are a physical rehabilitation
To the Editor:
hospital. Other than that, the article was
I returned to Maine over the week-
Iread "The Neighborhood" (Summer
wonderful. We will continue to have Ed
end to attend the 10th annual reunion of
1989) and just finished "Sugar Cóokies"
Langlois here for more "Music and remi-
the South Portland Shipyard Association.
(Autumn 1989), and I'm fast becoming an
niscing therapy."
I was a kid of eighteen from Kennebunk
Ann Allen Brahms fan!
who took a new ship out of there to
Wanda Grillo
Ms. Brahms communicates a special
Murmansk in 1944.
New England Rehabilitation
warmth, wit and wisdom as she writes
While in Maine I obtained a copy of
Hospital of Portland
about her family and community. Her
Greater Portland. I've read it cover to cover.
stories are refreshing and perceptive, and
In case anyone missed it, or over-
she touches my heart as well as my head.
Welcome to Portland
looked it, they should read the article re
Having been born and raised in the
Ed Langlois in the Autumn issue.
Portland she describes, as well as having
Dear Editor,
In this day and age when everyone is
had the good fortune to grow up on the
"Me Me Me..." it is heartwarming to
I am a Greater Portland subscriber and a
"Prom," her articles remind me that there
find someone who devotes so much time
big fan of your publication! Our plan is to
were many, many worlds in our small city.
to "they."
move to Portland within the year. Your
What I especially enjoy is getting to know
Read the article carefully to see how
magazine is proving to be a wonderful
her family even better. The lessons she
much time Ed Langlois gives to others.
source of information!
remembers being taught by her mother,
When he leaves this earth, and I hope
My mother and her husband visited
father and grandmother are timeless for
it's not for another 50 years, God has a
Portland at our insistence and now they
all of us, regardless of our street address!
special place for people like him.
too are planning to move to this lovely
I hope I read more of her work in
city.
future.
Robert H. Mitchell
Pleasantville, N.J.
Irene Diamond
Rollin Ives
Columbus, Ohio.
Falmouth
Dear Editor,
Portland's Progress
I just wanted to take a moment to
commend you on the article "We Will
Dear Editor,
Have These Moments in your Autumn
1989 issue. It was very well written; your
I was a resident of Portland from 1922
use of adjectives made it easy for me to
to about 1950, and still try to go back twice
picture Ed Langlois standing in the middle
a year to visit. In fact I would be living
of the room with the patients circled
there now if it wasn't that I have family
around him eagerly waiting for the next
and ties here. I attended Deering High
song to be played. Speaking of pictures,
School and Maine School of Commerce,
the photographs came out very nice. They
worked at Farrar-Brown Company for
were clear, crisp and told a story all of
eleven years, was married at the Fort Wil-
their own.
liams Chapel. Lived on Dartmouth Street
I did have one concern. On page 31,
and at Forest Park.
the fourth paragraph down: "For the past
The progress in Portland just amazes
ten years on a regular and voluntary ba-
me - such as on the waterfront, the high-
sis, he has taken his program to the Barron
ways, the rotaries, the malls.
Center and the Salvation Army senior
It was through a friend in Portland
citizens programs, as well as the psychiat-
that I saw my first copy of your magazine.
ric ward at Maine Med and the Rehabili-
Please enter my subscription to Greater
tation Hospital." We would have pre-
Portland for a year.
ferred to have our name spelled out as
Doris W. McCann
Portland has a few "rehabilitation hospi-
Kingston, NY
4 Greater Portland
1989/1990 WINTER
Steward-
ship
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in trust for future generations. We take that mission very seriously.
So we conserve forest and water resources.
We practice responsible land management.
We use modern forestry techniques to improve yields and
wildlife habitat.
That's one of the advantages of being in the wood business.
When your product takes
half a century to create,
you learn to take the
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ENTERTAINMENT
GUIDE
Silverpoint photo by Jane Gilbert, "Dixon, N.M." from the exhibition "The Southwest: Three Views,"
at the AREA Gallery, University of Southern Maine, Portland, December 17-February 2.
Paintings by Pat Hardy and Gena Werfel are included.
Dock Fore. 336 Fore Street, Portland. Home-
Horsefeathers. Just south of Freeport Village.
made specialties include burgers, steamers, and
Regional American cuisine. Serving from 11:30
mussels. Open daily for lunch and dinner. 772-
a.m. until a quarter to midnight. Fresh fish
8619.
blackboard specials. 865-4005.
Garnishes. Maine Mall, South Portland. Up-
Inn at Goose Rocks. Dyke Road and Route 9,
stairs at Jordan Marsh, serving lunch and early
Kennebunkport. Provides a country-style at-
dinner in a modern-art dining area. 774-5431.
mosphere with a superb selection of classic
entrees. Daily breakfast and dinner; Sunday
Gorham Station. 29 Elm Street, Gorham. A
brunch. Dinner reservations suggested. Carrie
restored railroad station is now an elegant res-
Colatrane at the piano in the lounge Friday and
taurant. Serving steaks and seafood. Call for
Saturday evenings. 967-5425.
hours. 839-3354.
Jameson Tavern. 115 Main Street, Freeport.
The Great Lost Bear. 540 Forest Avenue, Port-
Great steaks and fresh seafood. Atmosphere
Illustrations by Berry Manter
land. Featuring award-winning chili, home-
emphasizes colonial roots. 865-4196.
made desserts and soups. Seasonal patio seat-
ing in Bearadise Alley. Lunch, dinner, and
John Martin's Manor. 700 Main Street, South
DINING
Sunday champagne brunch. 772-0300.
Portland. Seafood, steaks, and American cui-
sine. Banquet facilities also available. Open
Harbor House Restaurant. Mile Road, Wells.
daily for breakfast, lunch, and dinner. 775-
MOSTLY AMERICAN
Offers casual dining with a variety of entrees to
5642.
satisfy every taste. Lunch and dinner daily, 11
Michel's at Exit 8. 202 Larrabee Road,
to 11. Also, Misty's Lounge features nightly
Westbrook. Seafood, steaks, and Italian spe-
The Barnhouse Tavern. Route 302, North
piano entertainment and wide-screen TV. 646-
cialties served daily for lunch and dinner. 854-
Windham. Steaks and seafood served in a re-
9040.
9496.
stored barn, just twelve miles from Portland.
Lunch and dinner daily. 892-2221.
Holiday Inn By the Bay. 88 Spring Street, Port-
Moose Crossing Restaurant. 270 U.S. Route 1,
land. Full menu featuring seafood, steaks, and
Falmouth (three miles north of Portland). Re-
Cádillac Jack's. 442 Fore Street, Portland. Bar &
salad bar. Live entertainment. Monday through
laxed cabin atmosphere. Featuring fresh Maine
Grill. American fare: hamburgers, wings, fish
Saturday. 775-2311.
seafood, aged Iowa beef; mesquite grilling.
sand wiches, famous barbecue pork sandwich.
Teriyaki steak, grilled salmon, "house fávor-
774-7466.
Horsefeathers. 193 Middle Street, Portland. An
ites." Children's menu available. Visa, MC, and
appetite for excellence. Serving from 11:30 a.m.
American Express accepted. Reservations ac-
Carbur's. 123 Middle Street, Portland. Twenty-
until a quarter to midnight. Fresh fish black-
cepted for parties of five or more. 781-4771.
page menu features sandwiches, hearty soups,
board specials. 773-3501.
and salads. Open daily for lunch and dinner.
The Muddy Rudder. Route 1, Yarmouth. A
selection of American favorites, served over-
772-7794.
6 Greater Portland
1989/1990 WINTER
looking tidal waters and waves of sea grass.
Serving lunch and dinner daily from 11 a.m. to
1 a.m. 846-3082.
Narcissa Stone Restaurant. 10 Water Street,
Brunswick. Located in Captain Daniel Stone
Inn. Open daily for breakfast, lunch, and din-
Lakeside Conference Centers
ner. 725-9898.
Ocean's Edge Restaurant in the Shawmut Inn.
A Natural Environment Just Minutes Away
Kennebunkport. Spectacular dining experience
overlooking the ocean. Breakfast, lunch, and
Enjoy your next productive business meeting or a relaxed retreat in the serenity
dinner daily; Sunday brunch. Extensive wine
of our lakeside pines. Given the tranquility of a pine forest and walks in the
list and fabulous dessert cart. Dinner reserva-
woods, your group will feel uncrowded and able to think more clearly. And we're
tions suggested. Nightly entertainment with
just 25 miles from Portland.
Jorge Garcia at the piano. 967-3931.
For as little as $50 per person per day, we offer: Overnight lodging, wholesome
Raoul's Roadside Attraction. 865 Forest Ave-
meals, conference space and waterfront activities. (Rates vary with size of group.)
nue, Portland. Serving hamburgers, soups, and
Float tank and personal services such as massage, facials, hair and scalp treat-
sandwiches. Open Monday through Saturday
ments are available at additional charge.
for lunch and dinner; Sunday, dinner only. 775-
2494.
At Northern Pines on Crescent Lake:
At Kingsley Pines on Panther Pond:
Hold your seminar or retreat
Summer or early fall company
Red Sands. Route 302, North Windham. Home-
between September 15 and January
business meetings, conferences,
cooked meals served in a home-like atmos-
31, 1990, or March 1 and May 20,
weddings or picnics are invited
phere. Meals are complemented by homemade
1990.
between May 1 and June 15, or
bread and appetizers such as lobster stew. No
Exercise room, hot tub and sauna.
August 15 and October 15, 1989.
credit cards accepted. 892-9872.
Overnight lodging up to 40 people
Overnight lodging up to 150
Reidy's, F. Parker. 83 Exchange Street, Port-
(20 during winter months).
persons.
land. Specializing in steak and seafood combi-
Day conferences up to 50 people at
Day conferences or outings up to
nations. Lunch and dinner, Monday through
special group rates.
300 people at special group rates.
Saturday; Sunday, dinner only. Late-night
menu. 733-4731.
Call us for details.
The Rib Room. 157 High Street, Portland. At
the Sonesta Hotel. Gourmet dining in an ele-
Northern Pines
Conference
Centers
Kingsley Pines
gant atmosphere. Selections include veal, prime
Conference Center
Conference Center
rib, and seafood specialties. Dinner served seven
Rt. 85, RR 1, Box 279C
RR 1, Plains Rd., Box 448C
days a week. Reservations and all major credit
Raymond, Maine 04071
Raymond, Maine 04071
cards accepted. 775-5411.
(207) 655-7624
(207) 655-7181
Ruby's Choice. 116 Free Street, Portland.
Gourmet hamburgers. Freshly baked buns,
fresh ground beef daily. Soup and salad bar,
homemade desserts. Three separate dining
areas open 7 a.m. to 11 p.m. daily. Takeout. 773-
9099.
Smith Farm. 226 Gray Road, West Falmouth.
Country-style cooking in barn-board atmos-
phere. Menu spotlights the Roast Turkey Feast
and other home-style meals. Open daily 11:30
to 8:30 for lunch and dinner. 797-3034.
South Portland Marketplace. 100 Maine Mall
Road, South Portland. Steaks and seafood
served around a giant salad bar. Serving lunch
and dinner, daily specials. 772-3754.
Squire Morgan's. 46 Market Street, Portland.
RIBS
Pizza and gourmet subs in an atmosphere of
hunting trophies and other curious artifacts.
Lunch, Monday through Saturday; dinner,
seven nights a week. 774-5246.
Tony Roma's A Place For Ribs. U.S. Route 1 at
Meat so tender it practically
Exit 7 extension, South Portland. A restaurant
falls off the bone.
of casual decor, genuine cordiality, and reason-
able prices. Serving our world-famous ribs,
judged the number one rib in America at the
US 1 at Exit 7 South Portland
1987 national rib cook-off. Other menu items
include fish, steak, barbecued shrimp-on-a-
Open every day 7AM to 11PM
skewer, and onion rings served in a loaf. Daily
luncheon specials and takeout available. Open
Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner
7 days a week, 11 to 11. MasterCard, Visa,
Takeout Available
American Express. 761-4211.
761-4211
Valle's Steak House. 1150 Brighton Avenue,
Portland. Just off Exit 8 of the Maine Turnpike.
Specializing in steaks at reasonable prices. Also
serving seafood and American favorites in a
TONY ROMA'S
family atmosphere. Breakfast, lunch, and din-
ner daily. 774-4551.
A PLACE FOR RIBS
Westcustogo Inn. Rt. 88 and Prince's Point
Road, Yarmouth. Southern barbecue cooking
®
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Greater Portland 7
- roasted meats over a wood fire. Also serving
more traditional fare. All-you-can-eat buffet
served Friday and Saturday, 5to9; lunch served
Tuesday through Saturday, 11:30 to 2:30; Sun-
day brunch served 11:30 to 4:00. 846-5797.
Winchester's. Maine Mall, South Portland.
POMEGRANATE
INN
Serving American food and light fare. Open
daily for lunch and dinner. 772-0861.
Classic Accommodations
The Wonderbar. 12 Washington Street, Bidde-
ford (1 mile east of Turnpike Exit 4). Fresh
Bed & Breakfast
native seafood, lobster, prime rib, and steaks.
49 Neal Street
Daily luncheon and dinner specials. Banquet
Portland
facilities; reservations. 282-9926.
Maine 04102
207 772 1006
Yankee Clipper. 1230 Congress Street, Port-
800 356 0408
land. At the Ramada Inn, featuring down-east
dishes along with a variety of beef selections.
Custom-made salads. Open daily for breakfast,
lunch, and dinner. 774-5611.
Zackery's. Holiday Inn West, Exit 8, Portland.
Featuring American favorites, light meals, and
YANKEE TOUR & TRAVEL
a cocktail lounge. Lunch and dinner daily. 774-
5601.
ASIAN
Afghan Restaurant. 629 Congress Street, Port-
land. Afghani cooking served in a family set-
ting. Bring your own beer or wine. Serving
dinner Monday through Saturday. 773-3431.
Hu Ke Lau. Maine Mall Road, South Portland.
"YOUR PLEASURE IS OUR BUSINESS"
Chinese and American cuisine, family dining,
and banquet facilities. Located behind Sears at
the Maine Mall. 775-6388.
Travel Arrangements for Professionals
Hu Shang II. 11 Brown Street, Portland. Orien-
By Professionals
tal cuisine, including Szechuan, Hunan, Shang-
hai, and Mandarin selections. Open seven days
a week. 774-0800.
Hu Shang III. 29 Exchange Street, Portland. In
the center of the Old Port, Oriental cuisine in a
sophisticated atmosphere. 773-0300.
Pagoda. 5 Forest Avenue, Portland. Specializ-
YANKEE
ing in Szechuan and combination dinners. Open
daily for lunch and dinner. 773-5071.
TOUR & TRAVEL
Peking Gardens. 300 Main Street, South Port-
land. Specializing in Szechuan and Cantonese
cuisine. Open daily for lunch and dinner. 799-
8170.
Restaurant Sapporo. 24 Free Street, Portland.
Authentic Japanese cuisine in a pleasant at-
475 Congress Street, Portland, Maine "at Monument Square"
mosphere. Specialties include sushi, tempura,
and teriyaki. Call for hours. 772-1233.
Telephone 775-6763 in Maine 1 800-2YANKEE
Taj Mahal Indian Restaurant. 43 Middle Street,
Contact our vacation travel specialist today.
Portland. Authentic Indian food spiced to serve
a variety of preferences. Serving dinner Tues-
day through Saturday. Major credit cards ac-
cepted. 773-4498.
8 Greater Portland
1989/1990 WINTER
BISTROS, CAFES AND DELIS
Ben & Jerry's. 97 Exchange Street, Portland.
All-natural gourmet ice cream. Thirty-five fla-
NE~H
vors. Ice cream cones, sodas, sundaes, desserts,
plus cappuccino and expresso in a fun-filled
atmosphere. 773-3222.
The Coast Guard's Reserve Unit Captain
Cafe Cornerbrook. Cornerbrook Shopping
of the Port in Portland, ME has immediate openings
Plaza, opposite the Maine Mall, South Port-
for people with various backgrounds including
land. An urban restaurant serving homemade
soups, pasta, and seafood salads. Open from 11
law enforcement, firefighting and administration.
to 11. 772-3224.
If you are looking for a challenge give us a call today.
Della's Catessen. 9 Deering Avenue, Portland.
780-3346 or Toll Free 1-800-622-8606
Gourmet deli and specialty food items from
around the world. Homemade soups, pastas,
salads, and sandwiches. Open 11 to 7, Monday
through Saturday; closed Sunday. Delivery
62 Forest Avenue
service. 773-2624.
Thomas Moser Building
Foodworks. 100 Commercial Street, Portland.
Portland, Maine 04101
Gourmet takeout and cafeteria. Homemade
breads, soups, desserts. Daily entree items and
salads. Delivery is available. Open 7 to 6,
Monday through Friday; Saturday, 8 to 5. 773-
9741.
Fore Street Deli. 342 Fore Street, Portland.
Featuring sandwiches, bagels, and light break-
fasts. Open Monday through Saturday. 772-
4500.
Full Belly Deli. 930 Brighton Avenue Plaza,
Portland. Featuring corned beef and hot pas-
trami, homemade potato salad, coleslaw, soups,
Congenial Country Living
chopped liver. Eat in or take out. Open Monday
through Saturday, 7 a.m. to 9 p.m. 772-1227.
The Good Egg Cafe. 705 Congress Street, Port-
You've earned it, You deserve it!
land. Serving breakfast until 11 a.m. daily.
Hearty and inventive egg dishes, homemade
classic New England
private patio
pastries, and fresh ground coffee in a Bohemian
architecture
attached garage and ample
cafe. 773-0801.
spacious, sunny rooms
storage
choice of townhouse or cape
minutes from Val Halla
Green Mountain Coffee Roasters. 15 Temple
Street, Portland. Gourmet deli featuring ba-
fully applianced kitchens
Golf Course
gels, desserts, and a variety of coffees. No alco-
master bedroom suite
located in Cumberland Center
hol. 773-4475.
Hugo's Portland Bistro. 88 Middle Street,
and it's ready for you
Portland. Fine food, exceptional Irish coffee,
CALL
unusual furnishings. 774-8538.
DIRECTIONS:
Margie Wharton
Rt. 9 to Cumberland
CUMBERLAND
829-6333
Little Willie's. Downstairs at Raphael's, 36
Center: 1/4 mile
MEADOWS
Model home open
Market Street, Portland. Serving Crostini, a
down Tuttle Rd.
daily 12 to 5. Monday
Mediterranean munchie. Live music/entertain-
by appointment
ment Tuesday through Saturday, 8:30 p.m.
Congenial Country Living
Open Monday through Thursday, 11:30 a.m. to
midnight; Friday, 11:30 a.m. to 1 a.m.; Satur-
day, 5:30 p.m. to 1 a.m.; and Sunday, 5:30 p.m.
to midnight. 773-4500.
Madd Apple Cafe. 23 Forest Avenue, Portland.
American bistro with a Southern accent, offer-
ing a changing menu with specialties including
crawfish and fettuccine, steak New Orleans,
boudin blanc, veal chop dijonnaise, red beans and
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rice. Chef owned and operated. Serving lunch
and dinner. Beer and wine available. Reserva-
tions accepted. 774-9698.
Mr. Bagel. Three locations listed below. New
York-style deli, 12 varieties of bagels, 7 varie-
Eight experienced
ties of cream cheese. Pizza bagels, bagel dogs,
owner/brokers in a
fresh croissants, muffins, cookies, cake, home-
made soups. Home and office catering.
unique partnership.
Selected by Sotheby's
220 Maine Mall Road, South Portland. Open
Monday through Friday, 6:30-5; Saturday, 7-3;
International Realty
Sunday, 7-1. 773-3238/FAX: 773-0070.
as its representative
599 Forest Avenue, Portland. Open Monday
in Greater Portland.
through Friday, 6-3; Saturday, 6-2; Sunday, 7-
12 noon. 775-0718.
100 Waterman Drive, South Portland. Open
Monday through Saturday, 6-2; Sunday, 6-12
noon. 767-4756.
Portland Wine and Cheese. 8 Forest Avenue,
Jim Thorne, Pat Vilven, H. Bud Singer, Diane Shevenell,
Portland. Pates, cheeses, and deli stuff avail-
Barney Burrall
Seated: Sue Lamb, Janice Drinan, Chris Jackson
able for takeout or to eat in. Exotic sandwiches
a specialty. Wine available for takeout only.
Serving lunch Monday through Saturday. 772-
4647.
Scooter's. 106 Exchange Street, Portland. Sand-
A Tradition of Excellence
town & shore
wiches, soups, and creative entrees. An out-
in Real Estate Brokerage
door patio opens for the milder months. Open
for More Than 30 Years.
daily for breakfast, lunch, and dinner. 772-
associates
7115.
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1989 / 1990 WINTER
Stop.
Dreaming.
CONTINENTAL/NEW AMERICAN
At BankEast Mortgage we can help
financial situation. We'll give you a
make your dream of owning a home
wide range of mortgage options to
come true, Because our rates on mort-
choose from. Plus your mortgage
Alberta's. Two locations: 27 Forest Avenue,
gages are some of the best around. But
application will be handled by people
and 21 Pleasant Street, Portland. Fresh seafood
that's not all. You'll also find a free
who are committed to helping you
and specialties prepared on a charcoal grill and
pre-qualifying service that helps you
decide which mortgage is right for you.
served with homemade soups, breads, and
desserts, featuring "Death by Chocolate." Full
determine what you can afford to pay
So call or come into BankEast
bar at Forest Avenue restaurant; beer and wine
for your new home, based on your
Mortgage today. And stop dreaming.
are available at Pleasant Street restaurant. Lunch
and dinner daily. 774-5408.
BankEast Mortgage Corporation
A Subsidiary of BankEast Corporation
Back Bay Grill. 65 Portland Street, Portland.
Tuesday through Thursday, 5:30 to 9:30; Sun-
Engine House
day, 6 to 9; closed Monday. 772-8833.
360 US Route One
158 Court Street
The Baker's Table. 434 Fore Street, Portland.
Falmouth, Maine 04105
Auburn, Maine 04210
207-781-4920
207-786-4255
European and American cooking styles. Din-
1-800-345-4920
1-800-544-4255
ners feature bouillabaisse, veal dishes, and fresh
fish. Lunches are unique. - quick cafeteria
service, homemade soups, hearty stews and
chowders. Always fresh desserts from the Port
BankEast
Bakehouse. 775-0303.
The right direction for you.
The Blue Moon. 425 Fore Street, Portland. Open
7 days a week, 11:30 a.m. to 11 p.m. 871-0663.
Brattle Street Restaurant. 19 Brattle Street,
Portland. Gourmet French food served. Lunch,
Monday through Friday; dinner, Tuesday
through Saturday. 772-4658.
Cafe Always. 47 Middle Street, Portland.
Modern American cuisine prepared by owner-
chef Cheryl Lewis. Homemade bread, pasta,
MISTER
ice cream, and pastries prepared daily on the
premises. Entrees reflect the cuisines of Thai-
land, France, Mexico, Northern Italy, and New
Orleans. Dinner nightly, 5 to 10; closed Mon-
BAGEL
TM.
day. Reservations suggested. 774-9399.
Camp Hammond Restaurant and Meeting
Center. 74 Main Street, Yarmouth. Gourmet
Now Serving 5 Locations!
menu changes weekly in this Victorian man-
sion. Specializing in private parties and confer-
599 Forest Avenue, Portland, Maine 775-0718
ences. Open Tuesday through Saturday for
100 Waterman Drive, So. Portland, Maine 767-4756
dinner; Tuesday through Friday for lunch.
220 Mall Plaza, So. Portland, Maine 773-3238
Reservations appreciated. 846-3895.
336 Center Street, Auburn, Maine 777-7007
The Olde House. Route 85, Raymond. North-
"We bake 'em best"
128 Main Street, Freeport, Maine 865-3431
ern Italian, French, German, Russian, and other
European and American styles of cuisine are
represented on the menu. Specialties include
beef Wellington, tournedos, and swordfish
almondine. Also serving homemade desserts,
including profiteroles, and an extensive selec-
tion of wines. Serving dinner 5 to 10; lunch 11 to
2. 655-7841.
Freshly Baked Bagels
Croissants
Full-Line
The West Side. 59 Pine Street, Portland. Inno-
Kosher-Style Deli
Cream Cheeses
Gourmet Cookies
vatively prepared meals. Homemade breads,
pastries, and soups served in an intimate and
and Assorted Specialties
Pizza Bagels
Hot and Cold
casually elegant atmosphere, or on the patio.
Vegetarian selections are available. Serving
Sandwiches
Eat In Or Take Out
Catering
lunch and dinner, also Saturday and Sunday
brunches. 773-8223.
Franchise Stores Available
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11
KEEP YOUR EYE
ON PORTLAND.
Simply this: The greatest view of Portland
CHANNEL
and the best food anywhere!
CROSSiNG
"On the waterfront"
RESTAURANT
231 Front Street, South Portland 799-5552
GREEK
Featuring
Seafood, Steaks and Cocktails. Banquet Facility.
Christopher's. 688 Forest Avenue, Portland. A
new restaurant featuring Greek cuisine in a
contemporary setting. Specialties include baked
lamb and shish kebab. Serving lunch, Monday
through Friday; dinner, seven days a week.
772-6877.
Trojan Horse Restaurant. 675 Congress Street,
Portland. Gourmet and classic Greek cuisine,
A Second Addition
fresh seafood and charbroiled steaks. Outdoor
dining available in season. Serving breakfast,
lunch, and dinner until 9:30 p.m. Closed Tues-
to Portland's Heritage.
days. 772-9530.
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Bruno's. 35 India Street, Portland. Specializing
in Italian and American food. Open daily for
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Esposito's. 1335 Congress Street, Portland. The
only log cabin on Congress Street. Steak sand-
wiches and Italian cuisine are the specialties.
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Giobbi's. One Danforth Street, Portland. Ital-
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Maria's Ristorante. 337 Cumberland Avenue,
Portland. Italian dishes served with style. Veal
is the specialty of the house. Réservations are
suggested. 772-9232.
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Raphael's. 36 Market Street, Portland. Serving
Northern Italian food. Reservations preferred.
773-4500.
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1989/1990 WINTER
A Special
Beauty
The traffic is rush hour
without the highways,
the weather climbs right
into the cockpit,
and overhead is the world's
biggest strobe light.
Thus begins the
magic moment.
Thomas A. Verde
Photos by Joshua Groupp
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17
M
ost people in Portland com-
single-engine plane, however, the word takes on
mute, in one form or another,
a whole other meaning.
to and from work every day.
"When you do aerial work, you have to be in
Some do it in cars, dealing with the seemingly
(radio) contact with the ground a lot, and you
endless construction along 295; some do it on
have to watch out for the traffic around you," says
ferries, taking their leisurely time to read the
Groupp. While watching his ethereal road and
paper and sip coffee while chugging across Casco
listening closely to the static-y chatter in his head-
Bay; still others opt for the healthy route - and
phones, he also has to keep his eyes peeled for
walk or ride bicycles when the weather allows.
good camera shots. All this isn't quite so easy,
Professional photographer Joshua Groupp has
especially in the winter, when he must keep the
to commute only about 1800 feet to get to work
small window of the single-engine airplane open
every day. The catch is, it's 1800 feet straight up.
while shooting - the inside of the cockpit turns
Groupp is an aerial photographer who does a
into an airborne icebox. Gloves, sweaters, and
lot of work in the Greater Portland area. While
occasional timeouts to thaw frozen condensation
most of us don't have to worry much about making
in the camera punctuate a mid-winter aerial shoot
sure the bus or the ferry or whatever vehicle we
for Groupp.
use to get to the office is in good shape, for him it's
Groupp moved to Portland from New York
a morning ritual.
more than a year ago. He agrees with many other
"You have to make sure everything (on the
happy transplants from big cities to Maine that
plane) is okay," says Groupp. "If one thing isn't,
despite lower wages, all the open space is worth it.
you cancel the trip."
For someone in his business, open space can be
Canceling the trip means a loss of income for
hard to come by in a place like Manhattan.
Groupp, but it's something he knows is simply an
"You need three people to do a shoot in New
occupational hazard. Another such hazard in his
York," says the photographer. "First, you need a
business - one he shares with many other com-
pilot to fly the plane. Next, you need a copilot to
muters - is traffic. At 1800 feet in the cockpit of a
watch out for other aircraft. Then, you have the
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1989 / 1990 WINTER
photographer."
they are the size of volleyballs. We can see how
Groupp says that the air traffic in and around
much wood is in a woodpile, read the insulators
the jampacked island of Manhattan can be pretty
on the tops of telephone poles, things like that."
brutal.
Foss, who refers to the oblique photographs
"There are so many other aerial photogra-
taken in advertising or creative work as "pretty
phers up there, helicopters, tourist planes, sea-
pictures," says that an operation like Sewall,
planes, that a control tower could never keep
despite its high-powered abilities, stays out of
track of everybody, so you're on your own," he
people's back yards with its cameras, and mostly
recalls. "It's a little bit like rush-hour traffic with-
takes pictures of planning projects for transporta-
out the highways."
tion departments, and towns for tax mapping.
Another major difference, says Groupp, be-
According to Groupp, whether you are shoot-
tween being in the aerial photography business in
ing pretty pictures or not, Maine is a great place to
the Big Apple as opposed to the Pine Tree State, is
the cost.
"Depending on what the client's demands are,"
he says, "(an aerial shoot) in Maine can cost $650
a day plus expenses. In New York, a shoot can cost
$600 an hour."
Who are the people who shell out this kind of
money to get aerial photographs? For Jean and
Frederick Crowley of Aerial Photography of
Maine, a Scarborough-based company, individu-
als who want portraits of their homes, and busi-
nesses looking for lofty shots of their operations
are the clients who keep Aerial Photography in
the air. Stock photographs of the Maine coastline
and landscapes for magazines are another outlet
for the Scarborough couple who also sell their
work at art shows. Probably the biggest custom-
ers for aerial photographs, however, are large
companies.
be an aerial photographer.
"Anyone dealing with large areas," says
"It's the shape of the land here," he says, that
Groupp. "Real estate, lumbering, pipelines, gas
makes it so. "The visibility is also good, and that
lines, oil lines. A plane can cover space and dis-
is important. The way the light plays on things,
tance that you can't get on the ground."
you can't create it on the ground. It's like the
An example of the role aerial photography can
world's biggest strobe light."
play in these industries is how the bird's-eye view
Despite Maine's sometimes intolerant winters,
of changes in vegetation around a pipeline can tip
Groupp says that doing aerial shoots in the cold-
engineers off to a possible oil leak. These types of
est season of the year is often preferable to doing
shots are often taken from directly overhead, and
them in the warmest. The reason for this, he
are called vertical as opposed to oblique shots,
explains, has something to do with the way Alka
which might be used in advertising or real estate
Seltzer works.
where more creativity is required.
"In the summer," he says, "you have thermals,
Customers for vertical aerial shots are often
which are pockets of heated air, like the bubbles in
mappers, surveyors, and engineers. This type of
Alka Seltzer, that rise from the ground. In the
work is called photogrammetry, which is the sci-
winter, the air is usually smoother."
ence of making maps and surveys from aerial
These thermals can rock a small single-engine
photographs. These photographers fly in big twin-
plane such as the kind Groupp works in like a toy
turbo-charged planes to heights of 25,000 feet.
boat in a bathtub. One place where the ride some-
With special German Zeiss camera equipment
times isn't smooth, no matter what the season, is
costing up to $25,000, and rolls of film 500 feet
in downtown Portland, as Groupp learned when
long, a photogrammetrist can read what it says on
he was assigned to shoot the Old Port Festival.
your front doormat from 1500 feet or higher.
The winds which whipped up from the harbor
"Lenses in these cameras used to be the size of
and through the buildings that day were enough
golf balls," says Bob Foss of the James W. Sewall
to make it a turbulent trip, and he came away with
Co., a photogrammetry outfit in Old Town. "Now
very few usable shots. Groupp says that this is just
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another occupational hazard of his business - in
land like the afternoon sunlight creeping across a
aerial photography "everything is bouncing"
great green living-room carpet, one understands
around.
the special relationship the aerial photographer
When things do go right, however - when the
has with his subject, the earth. It is also a moment
sun and the light and the wind and the weather all
when people like Groupp must smile to them-
cooperate to make what Groupp refers to as a
selves and think that despite the expenses and
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21
VISION
ON THE BEAT
L
ike everyone else, I usually lock my house or car.
Chet Jordan
The click of the lock triggers a small sense of
security. After all, Greater Portland seems to be a safe
Photos by Tonee Harbert
place. You see a few arrests in the daily beat column of
a newspaper. You see a bank robbery every now and
then. There seems to be a visible increase in violent
crime - rapes, murders and assaults - but they always
happen somewhere else, to somebody else.
As the black & white cruiser pulls up, I experience a
slight excitement. I am bringing all my vicarious
experiences from all the cop shows and movies along
for the ride.
I step out of the steady drizzle into the front seat of
the police car I am greeted by Patrol Officer Ed
Ledbetter. He apologizes for keeping me waiting; he
had been answering an assault call that had come in
just as he came on duty.
I am not sure what to expect as I embark on an
evening of riding with Officer Ledbetter as he patrols
his beat. I wonder if the assault call is any indication
of things to come
Ledbetter prepares me for what to expect. "It could
be crazy tonight or you might not get a call for an
hour those are very rare nights though. Where it's
raining there will probably be an accident.'
Most of us see a police officer while we are driving, and
become immediately self-conscious about our speed. If
we are unlucky, we might get to know some officers a
little better as they write us tickets for slight traffic
oversights. Most people perceive the flashing blue lights
of a police car on the side of the road as an officer issuing
a summons, but this is a small part of a city police force's
duties
Constantly on the move, we cruise through residential
and commercial districts as the rain steadily increases.
In a typical night, a patrol officer puts as many as fifty
miles on a police car to cover only a couple of square
miles in territory. At 6:30 p.m. Ledbetter has already
dealt with an assault, two neighborhood arguments,
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1989/1990 WINTER
and a car exiting the wrong way out of a one-way
street.
The radio crackles to life with a call for car 401.
Ledbetter translates the jargon into terms I can under-
stand: "It sounds like it's a 'domestic' [violence call]
taking place SO we want to get there quickly just in
case.
It is interesting where your mind can take you after
hearing a call come over the radio. "You temper the
call with what you've experienced in the past, but at
the same time you are thinking about the worst-case
scenario you never know, right?" Ledbetter says.
With lights blazing we respond to this domestic
call the caller said someone was throwing things out
of a window. As it turns out, the people are trying to
make moving out of their third-floor apartment a little
easier by taking advantage of gravity. My imagination
had put together an ugly scenario. I half expected to
see a marital spat end in a marital splat.
For the officer there has to be a false-alarm syn-
drome: racing to a scene with adrenalin pumping only
to find some trivial problem. In answer to my concerns
about the danger of speeding through city traffic to a
call, Ledbetter explains, "As you approach the inter-
section [with blues flashing and sirens wailing], you
slow down to the point where if you have to stop, you
can stop without problem.
"Probably myself. I easily had a dozen times where
if I had not stopped at an intersection I would have
been cleaned out. It's a practice [to use caution] that's
pretty much throughout the department."
Domestic violence. A nice clean phrase to describe the
tangled mess human relationships can become. Typical
scenarios include an estranged husband/wife or a live-
in boyfriend/girlfriend relationship turned sour. When
the situation escalates to abusive, the patrol officeris the
one to walk into this powder keg of emotion.
It is 7:30 p.m. The rain is torrential as Ledbetter
searches out the right street number with a spotlight.
He is responding to another domestic from a caller in
a highly emotional state. As we arrive, so does a
backup unit. The officer from the other cruiser talks to
a large man sitting on the front steps in the rain as
Ledbetter enters the building. From my perspective,
the situation seems benign.
Ledbetter exits the building to speak with the other
officer. In a flash, the large, burly man is in handcuffs
and is being escorted to a cruiser.
"This may take a while," Ledbetter warns as he
sifts through his portfolio for the right report forms.
"Usually this type of call takes an hour or two." He
goes back into the building.
An hour later he returns. "This young woman was
punched a couple of times, had her hair pulled, and
was thrown around right in front of two young kids,"
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perwork in the glare of the car's dome light.
All of a sudden I react to the past few hours with a
sinking feeling in my stomach. The constant static on
the radio, the prevalence of protective metal screen-
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solemn atmosphere in the car.
"If we can see that there has been some type of
assault violence as quick and as best we can, we
find out what has happened and whoever is the ag-
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the person, say the wife, but we know that she has been
pushed around, or that the potential is there that she
is scared or terrified that something has happened or
is going to happen, we can lock the aggressor up with
no [visual] proof,' Ledbetter explains. The new do-
mestic violence laws enable him to diffuse what could
otherwise be a dangerous situation.
"He called her from the jail as I was sitting there
taking the report, Ledbetter says later, as he starts
searching his pockets. For a moment, the slightly pan-
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lost his car keys comes over his face. This is followed
by a look of relief as he holds up a small bottle of liquid
white-out This is a valuable tool of the job, he notes
as he starts to eliminate a mistake in the report.
"Sometimes, when I've forgotten the white-out, I rush
back to my locker like I've left my gun behind."
We head west through the center of the city.
Ledbetter possesses a hearty laugh, and is quick to
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Veteran Sergeant Dick Olsen has a straight-from-
the-hip style It's an issue that should have been
addressed a long time ago. The runaway issue and the
juvenile system is one thing that's really changed since
I came here
PORTLAND
Sgt. Olsen is a shift commander. In his nineteen
years with the City of Portland, he has dealt with a lot of
juveniles. He has seen dramatic changes in the way the
MAINE
system deals with juvenile problems, and the role that
police officers play in that system.
The whole philosophy of the court, the attorney, the
police agencies and everybody else [used to be to sit
down and say, Hey - what' best for this kid? Does he
need to go to the boy's training center? Should we put
him on probation and see what this kid's attitude is?
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The last call finished, Ledbetter heads back to my
answered this call one too many times
his face has a slightly worn look. Maybe he has
for the requisite paperwork. For the first time tonight
gingerly place him in the back seat. Ledbetter returns
to another cruiser. The subject protests as officers
A man in handcuffs is led past the car, and escorted
and departs to explore the situation
Officer Ledbetter wheels over to the front of the house
where this impromptu conference is taking place.
tally, it happens to be right across the street from
A call comes in for another domestic. Coinciden-
possible burglary suspects.
stop in a store parking lot to talk with them about the
not far from the potential burglary-in-process. We
are talking to three young people they have stopped
and two female juveniles. Officers from another cruiser
around looking for the suspects, probably one male
the rain as he gets into the car. We are off to cruise
the weather is like this." Officer Ledbetter shakes off
"It always seems you get these kinds of calls when
their cars.
trudge empty-handed through the downpour back to
ries in the area. After a sweep of the block, four officers
dow behind a house. There have been recent burgla-
complaint: three young suspects peering into a win-
light, looking for potential burglary suspects. The
backlight. He is probing the darkness with his flash-
silhouette of an officer's hat is visible against a bright
In the dark rain-soaked alley between two houses, the
needs help."
"They are a person accused of a crime, nota juvenile who
case beyond a reasonable doubt. Olsen points out,
it's: Get your attorney and go to court and prove your
at this juvenile and says: How do we help this kid? Now
an attorney and go to court. The system no longer looks
their rights. They want their rights. They re going to get
of them thirteen to fourteen years old now they know
you arrest them, it has an impact [on them]. Others, a lot
a deterrent anymore. Some kids you can tell [that] when
The fear of being caught for a crime is not much of
lack of respect for the law on the part of the juvenile.
lack of real consequences or follow-up often lead to a
In problem cases, familiarity with the system plus a
D. interview and dispensed.
guidelines or consequences result. "It's usually an 1&
police as many as ten to twenty times before any
Olsen laments about kids who get in trouble with the
crime.'
juvenile problems anymore until they actually commit a
rights, but it's at the point now where you can't treat
understand that side of the coin, too; certainly they have
where juveniles have rights like anyone else. I can
Olsen continues, 'The system evolved to the point
system when I first came here
What's causing this kid to act like this? That was the
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neighborhood to drop me off. It has been an eventful
and enlightening evening. This was a slow night,
Ledbetter says. I can only imagine what a busy night
would be like.
Later, as I lie awake in my bed, I hear a distant siren
echoing through the streets of Portland, and try to
imagine what awaits the officer behind the wheel of
that car.
One of the frustrations of being a police officer is seeing
a problem recur over and over. Whether it's an ongoing
domestic dispute, a repeat juvenile runaway, or a recur-
rent criminal act, when the separate parts of the system
don't work together, frustration is the result. This is at
the core of an ongoing dispute over the Youth Center.
"What's frustrating for me is when you have a kid
POLICE
who has escaped 1-2-3-4 times over again," Sgt. Olsen
explains. "Usually we catch people involved in a crime.
What does it take to have one secure facility and let the
kids look and know that, hey, if they escape again [from
the Youth Center], they're going over there [to the
secure facility]. I think it would be better not to have them
all [first and repeat offenders] lumped together
"What's happening here is, the police departments
are doing a pretty fair job of catching criminals. The
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That reaches to the heart of another controversial
topic: new jails. Prior bond issues have met with an
unresponsive public. Money for jails has never been a
popular referendum choice, especially when imbedded
in a ballot full of other requests for expenditures.
As Olsen points out, money isn't particularly plentiful
to hire qualified police professionals. "They have to pay
more money if they want decent applicants. They want
you to be anything from a magician to a lawyer to a
medical expert. You don't get that kind of people for that
kind of money. It's the same for the jail people."
Cumberland County gets the lion's share of the
state's crime statistics. Statewide there is a violent crime
every 4 hours and 42 minutes, a property crime every 12
minutes and 37 seconds, and a burglary every 53
minutes and 18 seconds.
For police officers, however, the change they antici-
pate may not be in the numbers of crimes, but the types.
If Portland conforms to the national trend, the city will
see more drug-related crime, and more crimes involving
firearms. As Patrol Officer Ed Ledbetter puts it, "What I
would project at this time is that things are going to be
much more like Boston. Unless things turn around
dramatically, the drug environment is going to be very
prevalent. Drugs will be much more of a factor in this
city. I think we are going to see the violent-type calls go
up dramatically. Guns will be more prevalent, mainly as
an outgrowth of the drugs."
Law enforcement and politics have always gone
hand in hand. In the Greater Portland area, personalities
and the intrinsic stresses on the particular departments
administering criminal justice will force many problems
into the light. Overcrowded jails, the Youth Center,
inadequate judicial facilities, tension between the dis-
trict attorney's office and the police department, gun
control, and inadequate pay for law enforcement offi-
cials are all issues that have cropped up in local news
media. This, in itself, might be a positive sign.
"One of the biggest differences is that the politicians
[used to tell everybody that everything was all right. We
got this under control, they said. We [the police officers]
were looking at it from ground level and saying, No, you
don't have it under control. To me, a big part of commu-
Great
nity relations is to explain to people why we are not doing
our jobs or why the system is not working.
"The philosophy of [a few years ago] was [that the]
city government is providing X amount of dollars for law
enforcement, and it's working. Well, it wasn't. We knew
it at ground level. So politicians can no longer stand up
and say, It's working <<
The author gratefully acknowledges the cooperation of
the Portland Police Department, and especially thanks
Capt. Ed Googins, Sgt. Dick Olsen, and Patrolman Ed.
Ledbetter for their openness and willingness to share
their thoughts and experiences. C.J.
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GO HOME AGAIN
But moving away didn't mean break-
transfer to Maine. After three years with
ing ties to home. For the next six years, she
G. Fox & Co., she studied the marketplace
Donna Stetson Leith has proved Tho-
worked part-time in the insurance indus-
and decided that off-price retailing was
mas Wolfe wrong: She did go home again.
try, nearly full-time as a volunteer for the
the wave of the future. In 1983, she joined
After 21 years, she has returned to her
Westbrook College Alumni Association.
Hoffman's in West Hartford, a store that
native Maine - - as manager of the new
In 1974, Donna took a temporary posi-
closed a few months later.
Filene's Basement at the Maine Mall.
tion with JC Penney and stayed with the
While the Hoffman's store was clos-
Born in Waterville, Donna Stetson at-
company for five years. After working her
ing, engineers from Filene's Basement
tended school in Cape Elizabeth and South
way up from sales auditing to merchan-
inspected the site in order to open a store
Portland, where she was a member of
dising manager, she experienced the burn-
there. Donna gave them her card to pass
South Portland High's Class of 1966.
out common among retailers, and took a
on to the personnel department.
During her junior and senior years, she
job for a year with a teachers' credit union.
She joined Filene's Basement with the
served on Owen Moore's Teen Fashion
"During that year, I realized that retail-
aspiration of someday opening a store in
Advisory Board. While a student in
ing was my first love," she says. "Oddly
the Portland area. "All along, I've been an
Westbrook College's two-year liberal arts
enough, I missed working nights and
outspoken advocate of the company's
program, she served as an adviser for that
weekends. I missed the fast pace and the
ability to do business here. I told them that
board as well as a model and fashion
excitement of the holiday season."
they would find a customer base here who
coordinator for Owen Moore. "I did it just
She also missed Maine. "I had a han-
would be willing to pay off-price for
for fun," Donna comments. "I thought I
kering to come back. I really missed being
quality merchandise."
wanted to be a French teacher; I didn't
able to spend Christmas, birthdays, or
Six years and six stores later, she made
consider the possibility of a career in fash-
holidays with my family. I didn't live all
it. Donna and her husband, Richard Leith,
ion or retailing."
that far away, but even a few hours' drive
arrived here in June; the store opened
Soon after college graduation, she
becomes an obstacle when you work till
August 7. During that time, Donna Leith
married and moved to Hartford, CT, where
11:00 at night and have to be back for
had to hire and train over 100 new people.
her then-husband had been transferred
opening at 6:30 the next morning. I felt I
"I was immediately struck by the qual-
by Pratt & Whitney. Donna didn't object.
needed a better balance between my per-
ity of the applicant pool," she reports.
"Like any recent college graduate in those
sonal life and my professional life."
"The people we've hired have exhibited a
terrific work ethic. They're disciplined,
energetic, and hard working, with a real
commitment to the company's success.
They're a lot less tense than people I've
worked with out of state, yet they're more
thoughtful and more productive."
Returning to Portland really does feel
like coming home again, Donna says. "Sure
it's changed a lot, but there's an undercur-
FILENE'S BASEMENT
rent of familiarity. An awful lot of high
school and college friends and even dis-
The Store That Invented The Bargain
tant relatives have dropped into the store
EMPLOYMENT
to say hello, or have sent me congratula-
tory cards."
CENTER
When the initial uproar of opening is
over and the store settles into a normal
routine, Donna Leith plans to devote time
We will be
to helping Westbrook College in some
interviewing from
capacity. She and her husband Richard
also intend to explore the restaurants and
shops in the Old Port.
Lisa Derman
WINTER 1989/1990
Greater Portland
31
restaurants. After opening restaurants in
Massachusetts lured him back to the East
FROM
Manchester, New Hampshire, and Salem,
Coast. Before that project was completed,
LOBSTER ROLLS TO
Massachusetts, Reidy decided Portland
he had spotted the potential for a restau-
CHILD CARE:
would be their next locale for expansion.
rant in Portland's Northport Business Park,
F. PARKER REIDY
History, as they say, is history.
which he developed into Parker's Restau-
Reidy's business philosophy of bring-
rant.
If you'd never seen local legend F. Parker
ing employees up through the ranks has
Now Reidy has gone far beyond the
Reidy before spotting him across the bar
spawned a number of successful restau-
restaurant business with his latest project
in his Exchange Street restaurant, you'd
rant owners in Portland, including James
- The Cumberland Child Care and Learn-
probably ask, Are they having a John
LaDue, owner of Alberta's Restaurant and
ing Center, due to open in mid-1990.
Wayne contest here tonight?
Cafe, and The Good Egg; and Mark Heath
"Day-care centers, as normally per-
Reidy's self-created, larger-than-life
and Joe Tacka, owners of The Victory Deli.
ceived," Reidy says, "are babysitting serv-
image is topped by his trademark twelve-
By 1982, with the smooth operation of
ices. I believe the children and their par-
inch-high Indian-style cowboy hat. It's
the Exchange Street restaurant accom-
ents deserve more. Our goal is to provide
black and out of place in downtown Port-
plished, Reidy's ever-roving eyes spotted
development of the child through learn-
land, and it achieves its purpose: It cap-
the potential in the then nonoperational
ing programs. Our format will provide
tures attention.
Smith Farm Restaurant in Falmouth. He
preschoolers with confidence, social inter-
Throw into the blender of life unequal
bought and reopened it, and Reidy's
actionary and other development skills
parts of charm, style, compassion, intelli-
golden touch worked once again. Singing
which will give them a substantial back-
gence, unerring instincts, an unfaltering
waitpersons glided through the dining
ground when they enter other school sys-
belief in one's fellow man, and a keen
room, providing a unique experience for
tems."
sense of humor, and you come up with a
local diners.
Reidy's advice to would-be entrepre-
man whose march to a different drummer
Retirement kept popping up in Reidy's
neurs? "Taking risks encompasses the
has led him through an inordinate num-
mind. He sold his interest in F. Parker's to
possibility of failure. The secret is learning
ber of accomplishments.
three of his employees, and when faced
from one's mistakes. As long as you can do
At 17, when college entrance exams
with an offer he couldn't refuse for the
that, your achievements are limitless."
rolled around, Reidy was being rolled
Falmouth business, he sold that as well.
Brett W. Brett
into an operating room in his native
A lifelong dream
Newton, Massachusetts, with a boiling
of touring the U.S.
appendix. He missed the exam, but not his
became a reality. His
chance for admittance to Harvard solely
interest in the Old
on the recommendation of his high-school
West landed him in
principal.
remote Red Lodge,
World War brought an end to Reidy's
Montana, popula-
college days. Although a medical prob-
tion 2000. He bought
lem kept him out of the service, he became
a log house and
a mechanic for a civilian-owned, federally
settled into the easy
operated airline which assisted in the war
life.
effort.
But when a piece
He began his career of learning busi-
of Old West real
nesses from the inside out as an account-
estate went on the
ant with the Seth Thomas Co., and later
market, Reidy's
joined his brothers in the family-owned
imagination took
Boston architectural firm. But after seven-
flight. He decided it
teen years of keeping his mind and nose to
was time for the
that grindstone, Reidy decided to test his
locals to be exposed
accumulated knowledge. He and a con-
to down-east sea-
tractor brother-in-law formed their own
food. He created a
corporation, specializing in designing and
typical New Eng-
building hotels and restaurants.
land fishing-village
"In order to do a good design job for a
restaurant at the
restaurant," Reidy explains, "you have to
base of the Beartooth
learn the entire operation of the facility. So
Mountains in the
I got into the restaurant business by the
wilds of Montana.
back door."
Done! Next?
This new interest led him to team up,
Reidy was back on
as designer, with two brothers from New
the fast track. A
York who were developing a series of
consulting job in
32 Greater Portland
1989/1990 WINTER
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like plums, but some are landscapes,
THE MARVELOUS MYSTERY
smooth rock outcroppings, sensuous
OF THE PLUM
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08
In his studio adjoining his place of
The shape of the fruit, the depth of
work and worship- the Cathedral of the
color, the way it refracts light, and its
Immaculate Conception, Father Paul
sensuousness make the plum an artist's
Plante laments the end of the plum sea-
treasure. Plante has written: "I am specifi-
son. Eight dark plums, four of them no
cally interested in the universal symbols
longer fresh and plump, occupy a table
that can be abstracted from the colors,
top in front of the window overlooking
shapes, and patterns found in nature. For
The ocean's inner space is
Congress Street on Munjoy Hill.
me, they point towards the immensity of
our primal element. It now
"These are the last, and some of them
the cosmos as well as the mystery of the
belongs to fish and scuba
don't speak to me anymore," Plante says.
smallest microscopic organism. I detect in
divers. Fish function without
"There will be no more plums until some-
these colors and patterns the splendor of
time; scuba divers' lives
time in January." He smiles. "Actually,
an other-worldly landscape, the tender-
depend on it. That's why so
it's a good time to be without them; De-
ness of mercy, the compulsion of passion,
many wear the world's best
cember is a very busy time here."
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underwater wristwatch, the
For the past two years, since his gradu-
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ation from the Portland School of Art,
Ordained a Roman Catholic priest in
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Plante has explored the aesthetic poten-
1971, Plante began four years of study at
impregnable and pressure-
tial of the purple plum. He has created
PSA in 1983, at the age of forty, while he
proof down to 660 feet below
some 2000 versions, each unique, each a
was a member of the pastoral team at
sea level.
distinct expression.
Holy Cross Church in Lewiston. Having
"It is a simple, humble, little fruit,"
drawn and painted since childhood, he
Plante says. "It has been painted by Braque,
decided it was time for serious study of
Fantin Tour, Barnett Rubenstein, among
art, "a human extension of the creative
others, and each one sees something dif-
powers of God." He came to the cathedral
ferent in it. That is the fascination: to see
as parochial vicar in 1985, and became
Springer's
the subject in my own way."
rector two years later, the same year he
The walls are filled with plums, 118
earned his B.F.A. in painting.
created in September, 75 in October. Of
Plante paraphrases the statement of a
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C
s Portland settles in for the winter
and prepares itself for the long months
of short days, a unique suburb of the
city returns to what might be called its
most natur al state.
T
he islands of Peaks, Long, and Cliff in Casco Bay,
the summer because of all the summer people and
home to some 1400 year-round residents, having
the tourists. In the winter you see them again, and
heaved a collective sigh as the final ferryboats of
get this real sense of community. This is the very
Labor Day pulled away from the their docks, now
first place I've ever lived where I know all my
settle into a routine that is more familiar and
neighbors."
perhaps more desirable to their inhabitants. Al-
Paulsen's neighbors, some 1200 of them,
though anchored to the mainland by Casco Bay
emerge from the approximate 6000 people who
Lines, these three islands retain individual charm
live on Peaks during the warmer months of the
and character that bloom as fully in the winter as
year. One of the largest islands in the bay, and
the flowers do in their summer gardens.
closer to the mainland than either Long or Cliff,
Peaks has become a true suburb of Portland in
PEAKS
that many of its year-round residents commute to
As the traffic slows down to a trickle along Island
work in the city. Although it can be an inconven-
Avenue - this so-called commuter island's main
ience to be ruled by the ferries, residents such as
drag, the best side of the place begins to show
Ellen Zimmerman, a psychotherapist at Maine
itself, according to those who live here.
Medical Center, say that the risk of sometimes
"This is my favorite time of year out here,"
missing that last boat is worth it.
says Monte Paulsen, year-round resident and
"I like the island better in the winter," she
editor of Portland's Casco Bay Weekly. "When the
says. "You have a more direct exposure to the
summer people go away, we become a commu-
elements, and are a lot closer to the natural forces.
nity. It is almost like you lose your neighbors in
Even when you commute by foot from your house
to the boat, you have to be dressed for the ele-
ments and think about the weather. It's not like
leaving your house and getting into your car on
the mainland and going to work. The winter
community is drawn together by the weather;
they are battling the elements together, and this
certainly adds to the glue that holds the commu-
nity together."
A good place to tap into some of that glue is at
the little Dockside restaurant (formerly the Cock-
eyed Gull) on Island Avenue. Here one can en-
counter the Portland businessperson breaking
bread and dunking doughnuts with the construc-
tion worker. As Zimmerman points out, the
weather is what often draws people on this island
together, and the Dockside is a place where many
residents retreat in the cold winter mornings while
Ellen Zimmerman
Peaks Island
CLIFF ISLAND
Eleanor Cushing
Cliff Island
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Greater Portland
1989 / 1990 WINTER
waiting for the ferry to arrive. Of course, while
Despite this lack of business (which Ivers says
they are waiting, they can do little else but rub
is made up for in the busy summer months), the
elbows and engage in a sport that is indigenous to
island's grocer, who grew up on Peaks, says he
virtually every coastal New England island, if not
feels a responsibility to the community to keep the
every island in the world - gossip.
store operating at full tilt.
There's a lot of it flying around in there," says
"There are a lot of retired people living here,"
Rick Ivers, whose wife Patricia runs the Dockside.
he explains, "and I do a lot of home deliveries.
"It's a real gathering spot. If you're looking for
I get to know a lot of people out here that way."
someone on the island, you either go there or the
store, and leave a message, and it gets to the right
CLIFF
person."
Eleanor Cushing has been postmaster out on
The store is the Bayview Market, which is
Cliff Island for the past twenty-seven years. She
owned by Ivers. Open seven days a week - and
spent the preceding thirty-six years of her life
closed only on Christmas Day, the Bayview pro-
growing up on Cliff, getting to know its inhabi-
vides Peaks Island residents with just about eve-
tants, summer and winter, and watching the is-
rything they need from light bulbs to lettuce.
land change.
"I do try and.carry a little bit of everything in
"It used to be more populated," says Cushing.
the winter," says Ivers, although he points out
"Over the past twenty years the numbers have
that "from the end of January through the end of
gone down."
March, it gets real tough, and business drops off
The current numbers, according to Cushing,
dramatically."
are roughly 80 year-round residents as opposed
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WINTER 1989/1990
Greater Portland
37
to. 350 in the summer.
residents, and passed down like family legends.
"It used to be a lot of lobstermen. Now there
"Children grow up here and bring their chil-
are quite a few people who commute to Portland
dren out here," she says. Rieth herself grew up in
(to work)," says Cushing. Greater in distance
Buffalo, New York, owned a place on Cliff, and
from Portland Harbor than Long or Peaks, Cliff
spent winters in Florida before she decided to
enjoys a rugged solitude and natural beauty
make a full-time move to the island.
unknown on other commuter islands in Casco
"I was so tickled to see the snow again," Rieth
Bay. For a lifelong resident such as Cushing, the
says of her return from Florida. "It's so nice and
winters on Cliff "don't bother" her. For others, the
white and you see the little animal tracks. I'm
winter is a time when the island reveals its great-
more aware of nature out here. I don't mind
est beauty.
winters at all."
"People from Long or Peaks who have never
For matriarch Johanna von Tiling, who has
been here are flabbergasted at how lovely it is,"
lived year-round on Cliff for the past forty of her
claims Suzanne Rieth, who runs the Fisherman's
eighty-one years, as well as many summers be-
Cove store on Cliff. "It's different from the other
fore that, "every winter (on the island) seems to be
islands. It's small and compact, but you don't get
different.
the feeling of being overcrowded."
"Twenty years ago," she says, "there seemed
One reason for this might be that there are
to be more snow. It is pretty darn cold out here,
relatively fewer rental properties on Cliff than on
and it's a damp cold because of the wind that
an island such as Peaks. Cliff is also an island
comes across the water."
where properties are cherished by generations of
Despite the weather, von Tiling, who used to
Johanna von Tilling
Cliff Island
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teach in Cliff's one-room schoolhouse, says that it
characteristic of Long. Its summer population of
isn't the bone-penetrating cold that keeps people
1000 drops to 100 in winter, and is made up
in nowadays on Cliff - it's the introduction of
primarily of fishermen and retired people.
television and telephones.
"The changes in the ferry schedule, and the
"People don't go out and visit as much as they
changes in the store hours," says Johnson, "change
used to," she claims. "When television came in the
a lot of things."
early '50s, and the telephone in '63, it made a vast
Bob Jordan, adjunct professor of economics at
difference out here."
the University of Southern Maine, was looking for
Community gatherings, says von Tiling, are
just those kinds of changes when he and his
limited to occasional suppers at the Seventh Day
family moved out to Long in 1976.
Adventist church, where a handful of members
"We chose to move to Long primarily because
worship, and special events like the Christmas
of the character of the island," he says. Appar-
party - a popular festivity on the island. When
ently, Jordan and his wife Nancy perceived that
the summer people come, it's like "a big family
character as rustic. The couple built their own
reunion," but winters on Cliff are a time for tough-
energy-efficient house, grow fifty percent of their
ening up.
own food and, up until recently, used kerosene
"Winter is not easy," she says. "It's like pio-
lamps for light and a wood stove for heat and
neer living. You worry about water freezing. You
cooking. They "moved on into the 20th century"
have to learn to cope with things yourself."
last year, and got electricity, Bob explains, out of
One modern change that von Tiling applauds
deference to the comforts of their two children,
is the increased ferry service which has enabled
Seth and Zeke.
the upper-school children to get in full days at
mainland high schools.
"Before," says von Tiling, "high-school stu-
dents on Cliff used to miss the first two periods of
school."
LONG
Paula Johnson, who teaches several of the
sixteen students at Long Island's school, says that
an island education is generally a good one to
have.
"The students get a lot of individual atten-
tion," she says. "The kids help each other as well,
and learn to be independent thinkers. From what
we hear from teachers in Portland, they know
how to work on their own."
Independence - as with most islands - is a
Bob Jordan
Long Island
Paula Johnson
Long Island
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Greater Portland
39
Jordan commutes into town on the
Massachusetts, before he took the job at
ferry, and says that the number of people
USM. He was lucky enough to be given
who do so on Long has increased "dra-
his piece of land on Long as a wedd-
matically" over the past thirteen years.
ing gift.
"There are fewer fishermen out here
"I always wanted to move back to
than there used to be," he claims. For
Maine," he says. When opportunity
island commuters, the winter season on
knocked at his door, he said he "had the
Long can require stamina.
choice of going to Washington and maxi-
"Sometimes the boat ride is difficult,"
mizing" his Ph.D. or "disappointing (his)
says Jordan. "While you're waiting, the
academic advisors" by moving back to
blowing snow on the dock is cold. The
Maine and living on an island year-round.
wind blows enough sometimes to cause
Says Jordan: "I'm glad I did." «
the waves to break on the dock, and ice
forms. The northwest wind in winter is
certainly exhilarating - to say the least."
On the upside of that commute, how-
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A TASTE OF
GREATER PORTLAND
Chet Jordan
-
The Olde House
II
owering tall pines greet us as we stroll
of old-world charm with a varied menu, and
up the curving brick walkway to the
pleasant service. As my companion and I take in
entrance. Their discarded needles
the surroundings, we are presented with over-
crunch underfoot.
sized golden-brown popovers. In the background,
Opening the sturdy door, we are greeted by
the soft sounds of a flute complement the fresh-
Jini Fitzgibbons, and engulfed in the charm and
baked aroma and delicious taste of the popovers.
warmth of The Olde House. As we are to find out,
After this little treat, and pleasant conversa-
restauranteurs Bob and Jini Fitzgibbons have
tion accompanied by the clinking of crystal, our
matched the wonderful character of their old inn
next course arrives. Being artichoke aficionados,
with an equally elegant menu.
we are anxious to try the stuffed artichokes. They
From the crackling fire in the converted 18th-
prove to be exquisite. Served in a light cream
century carriage house, now serving as a function
sauce with a very delicate crabmeat-mushroom
room and lounge, to the dark paneling and an-
stuffing, this dish possesses a nice balance of
tique rugs of the main dining rooms, this old
flavors.
house has been a welcome respite from the chill-
My dinner companion is particularly fond of
ing elements since 1790.
the French onion soup. She finds it light and tasty,
The interesting brief history of this house, one
with a touch of sweetness.
of the oldest in the Township of Raymond, is
Moving on to our salad course, we are sur-
presented on the menu. Set back as it is off Route
prised to find a whole loaf of warm, freshly baked
85, a short distance from Route 302, this house in
bread before us. Fitzgibbons assures us that just
days gone by was at a busy crossroads where
about everything on the menu is made fresh on
weary stagecoach travelers happened by. Close
the premises.
your eyes and you can imagine.
The crisp salads serve to cleanse the palate and
In present days, The Olde House offers up a bit
prepare us for the main course.
The
House
ideslie Brown
After prodding my companion, I am
recipe of Jini Fitzgibbons, is aptly named.
Congenial Jini Fitzgibbons makes it a point
allowed to try her Oriental tenderloin tips.
From crust to topping, the pie dissolves in
to chat with everyone.
The meat is incredibly tender. Crisp broc-
the mouth, the soft sensation of silk being
In many old houses, stories and ru-
coli, a hint of ginger, and sweet red pep-
a perfect description of the texture. The
mors of ghosts and spirits abound; The
pers combine to make a simple and fla-
crust, a crystallized sugar-like concoction,
Olde House possesses its own pesky vari-
vorful dish.
is filled with creamy chocolate mousse,
ety, rumored to be the spirit of the 18th-
The veal shitaki is pure pleasure. Ten-
topped with a meringue-like mixture with
century builder of the house. Although
der veal, prepared with a cream-reduc-
shaved chocolate throughout. Even the
no glassware mysteriously toppled or
tion sauce that possesses a slightly smokey,
persistence of my stubborn companion
other manifestations were apparent to us,
winey flavor is further accentuated by the
cannot pry this prized recipe from Fitzgib-
we did feel a sense of warmth and wel-
prominent shitaki mushrooms.
bons.
coming hospitality are you listening olde
For my editor, and for the benefit of
The strawberry Romanov is another
John Davis?
the reader, this self-sacrificing writer
sinful concoction. Strawberries, vanilla ice
The following recipes are courteously
charges forward into the dessert course.
cream, and a hint of Grand Marnier
offered by the Fitzgibbons and Chef Frank
We decide on strawberry Romanov and
another great ending to our meal.
Merced as elegant supplements to your
French silk pie.
A drive to The Olde House is certain to
own repertoire.
The French silk pie, a secret family
provide a pleasant dining experience.
cream thickens to a nice consistency. Arrange
Scoop ice cream and strawberries (briefly strain
VEAL SHITAKI
the veal on the plate and ladle the sauce over.
if you are using frozen strawberries) into a
(serves one)
This one can be fun to garnish. Lemon twists
bowl. Chop them together with a large spoon or
(or other citrus), parsley and whatnot set off
knife. Toss lightly. Spoon the mixture into a
the dish splendidly, bring a few oohs and ahs
tall glass. Top with whipped cream, and drizzle
4 0Z veal
and make the chef look like a real pro.
a jigger of Grand Marnier over the top.
flour for dusting
Now a couple of words to those (like me)
who cheat a little bit when they cook. Canned
egg wash (egg and milk mixture)
beef stock, consomme or even bouillon can be
substituted for the beef stock. Of course,
STUFFED ARTICHOKE HEARTS
1 oz shitaki mushrooms
nothing is quite like the real thing that is
(serves two)
2 oz beef-stock reduction
slowly reduced from your own beef scraps and
seasoned with a few celery tops. But who has
8 artichoke hearts, halved
2 oz heavy cream
the time for all of that? Those concerned about
the cream and butter can modify this recipe
2 oz Maine crabmeat
2 oz shallots
with a little extra effort. Instead of the cream,
add nonfat milk to the shallots and shitaki
2 oz minced mushrooms, sauteed in butter
splash of cognac
mushrooms. When the milk becomes quite
4 oz white-wine sauce
warm, slowly stir in a prepared roux until the
(for ease and speed you may substitute
Dredge the veal in a deep plate of flour. Dip in
consistency is right.
Knorr Swiss White Sauce Mix)
a light egg wash, and place in a preheated saute
Chopped parsley for garnish
pan with melted butter. Saute on medium
until done to a golden brown. Remove veal to
a plate.
STRAWBERRIES ROMANOV
Preheat oven to 400 degrees. Arrange arti-
Add to the pan the chopped shallots, and
chokes halves, flat side up, in a baking dish or
shitaki mushrooms. Toss and flame with the.
casserole. Using a teaspoon, place minced
vanilla ice cream
cognac. If you don't get that picture-perfect
mushrooms over each artichoke half. Flake the
burst of flame from the cognac, don't worry.
strawberries (fresh or frozen)
crabmeat and place over mushroom mixture.
The cognac serves to deglaze the pan and
Ladle the white sauce over the stuffed arti-
recovers all that wonderful veal flavor.
whipped cream
chokes. Bake 15 minutes or until the top starts
When the shallots are translucent, add the
to brown. Garnish with parsley.
Grand Marnier liquor
beef stock and heavy cream. Simmer until the
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PROFILE
Kilspindie Olympic
Gold, known as
Golden
RANDY URY
often the only stable thing in that person's life."
DOGS&CATS
Conservatively, our pets keep more than
thirty-six million dollars in motion annually in
the city of Portland, estimating $500 a year to
support a cat, $750 to support a dog (canines eat
I
Shirley Jacks
more and often wear clothes). A bag of litter here,
magine a world without cats and dogs:
a bit of kibble there, and pretty soon you're into
quiet, clean, lonely and full of mice.
real money and worth every penny of it, too.
"Animals are good for people," says Dr.
Nationally, DiFalco says, 39 percent of house-
Bernie Wall of Stoneledge Animal Hospital. "I
holds have cats (one or more), and there are
know people whose only friend is a dog or cat."
approximately 75,500 households in Greater Port-
"Cats are very, very important in today's
land - round that off to 30,000 cats. Nationally
society," says Dr. Debra DiFalco, The Cat Doctor.
there are 54.6 million cats and 52.4 million dogs.
"Look at a fairly typical 35-year- old with a
That gives us 28,800 dogs in Greater Portland.
cat moved a lot, changed jobs often, been in and
Admittedly, there are fewer than 900 licensed
out of relationships, been divorced. The cat is
dogs in the City of Portland. know this is a small
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Nonesuch Baxter, the
Maine Coon Cat that
went to Augusta
AP PHOTO
portion of the actual dog population," City Clerk
Sue Macy says sheepishly. "I believe the only
licensed dogs are those who have been caught."
CATS&DOGS
Whatever the numbers, the effect of dogs and
cats on our society is profound.
Some enter our lives all of a sudden. You're
"In thirty years I've never known a snappy
driving along a lonely road, and there is a dog,
one," says Spalding. In 1960 she brought a pair
limping, one paw in the air. From your car you can
back from England, where her family has had
seeit's not wearing a collar. You stop, open the car
them since 1936, and began breeding and show-
door, and you have a lifetime passenger.
ing them. At that time there were 38 such dogs in
Some enter life pedigreed. Elizabeth Spald-
the United States; today she has just registered her
ing of Kilspindie, in Falmouth breeds the Cavalier
eleven thousandth pedigree.
King Charles Spaniel, a delightful little dog well
The Cavalier is not an AKC (American Ken-
known to art lovers — it appears in paintings of
nel Club) registered dog. The 1700 owners nation-
royalty by Van Dyke, Watteau, Velasquez, Verm-
wide vote consistently not to apply, so that they
eer, among others.
can make their own rule book based on their own
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RANDY URY
code of ethics. "Those nightmare puppy mills that
such Scarborough ("Maine Coon Cats Without
supply pet shops won't touch a dog without AKC
Equal"), are breeder members of the Maine Coon
registration. So, funnily enough, this is another
Breeders and Fanciers Association, and founders
advantage of not being AKC," says Spalding.
of the Maine Society of Maine Coon Cat Breeders.
Elizabeth Spalding
"We publish quarterly statistics which give every
In pursuing the state-cat designation, Baxter
with (counterclock-
single litter bred and whelped in this country,
went to Augusta with Mark Sangster and, tucked
wise): Quinerin
every transfer, every deceased dog. Everyone can
under his owner's arm, went from legislator to
Flashback (Flashy),
tell just how often you breed from a bitch - so you
legislator, meowing for support.
Homerbrent Lace Cap
can't use her like a sausage machine. We run a
Some animals go to work. Luke, a handsome
of Kilspindie (Tracy),
very, very tight ship."
eight-year-old Yellow Lab guiding-eye dog ("the
Kilspindie Palestrina,
While some animals go to shows, some go
Paul Newman of the dog world"), works for
Kilspindie Montiquin
politicking. Nonesuch Baxter, a stunning Maine
Gretchen Lazette. "Luke is my independence. He
(Trudy), and
Coon Cat owned by breeders Hilary and Mark
means I can go where I want to go when I want to
Kilspindie Olympic
Sangster, was the driving force behind the suc-
go. He works his heart out," Lazette says. "He
Gold (Golden)
cessful 1985 campaign to have the Coon declared
works for praise. That's all he wants. And that's
Maine's official state cat. The Sangsters, of None-
why he gets half my bed at night."
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RANDY URY
Lazette works part-time at the Maine Medi-
owner, although there is no fee to the student.
cal Center, and as a dedicated volunteer she coor-
Most pay a token $150, but no one is refused a dog.
dinates the placement of puppies that come to
Lazette has had four dogs during the past
Portland from the Guiding Eyes for the Blind
twenty-two years; when Luke retires (as Guiding
Breeding Center in Patterson, New York. In eleven
Eye dogs usually do at about nine years of age), he
years she has placed more than 300 eight-week-
will continue to live in her home, but the work will
old puppies in Portland homes where they will be
fall on younger shoulders.
socialized and "learn what manners are." When
No matter what they are called upon to do,
the dogs are about one year old they are returned
animals have to be fed. New England Pet Supply
to the Yorktown Heights Training School in New
is the leading distributor of pet supplies in the
York for three months with a professional trainer.
Portland area, including premium foods such as
Then the dog spends one month with the
Science Diet and Iams Eukanuba.
student. Lazette says, "First you train the dog,
New England Pet Supply distributes all over
then you have to train the student."
the state under the slogan "Special food for spe-
Gretchen Lazette and
It costs the Guiding Eyes organization $15,000
cial pets at special stores." And these special pets
Luke
to producea "unit," - a dog working well with an
eat hearty. According to Joseph Pio, president,
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47
RANDY URY
more than 12,000 tons of pet food were distributed
children ten years ago. They wanted a Golden
by his company this year. Dogs and cats do not
Retriever."
take kindly to-going to bed hungry.
But would a Golden Retriever wear a Rambo
Some pets even have clothes. Ching Ling, a
outfit, a Santa suit, a jogging suit, a fleece-lined
Lhasa-Apso belonging to Judy and Mark Good-
denim jacket? For that matter would Judy and
win of Portland, has a larger wardrobe than many
Mark Goodwin combine forces to sew a Japanese
people. Ching Ling dresses and undresses with
kimono (pure silk, which Mark purchased on a
alacrity and patience, to show off for friends and
business trip to Japan) for a Golden Retriever?
photographers, bribed by the promise and re-
Pets have to be bathed, groomed, boarded,
peated delivery of M & M's.
and that is a job for Jolene Varney who owns the
"This is the outfit he wore to Monhegan
Kennel Club on Brighton Road, a friendly, secure
Island to meet the artists," says Judy Goodwin of
"home away from home." When a dog comes to
Ching's shorts, Hawaiian shirt, and sunglasses.
board for the first time, owners are asked to bring
Jolene Varney bathes
"Some of his outfits come from the Maine
a blanket or toy from home because, says Varney's
Samantha
Mall, some from Macy's," she says. "He's actually
assistant Sherrie Burnell, "the first time in a ken-
very spoiled. He was a Christmas present to the
nel can be a traumatic experience, and something
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CHING LING
C
RANDY URY
familiar can ease the adjustment."
diem, a claustrophobic cat can have a splendid
"I wanted to be a veterinarian," says Varney,
high and wide space to itself. The best testimonial
"but the schooling was too long and expensive. I
to the care they receive at the Kennel Club is the
took a job with the telephone company and I
way repeat customers bounce through the door
hated it, so I started to work for a dog- grooming
looking for a friendly face to lick.
parlor. Five years later, I opened my own shop."
Some animals prefer to be cared for in their
Varney estimates that eight to ten thousand
own homes, and that's where Nancy Hubley, The
pets pass through the portals of the Kennel Club
Pet Nanny, comes in. A painter with a degree in
annually for some kind of service. She and Burnell
fine arts from the University of Southern Maine,
bathe, de-flea, groom and board dogs and pro-
Hubley started her business in 1986 after watch-
vide appropriate services for cats. (Cats, as you
ing a TV show about a pet nanny in New York.
may know, believe little is appropriate that they
"I believe I'm the first one," Hubley says. "I
didn't think up themselves.) Geriatric dogs are
walk dogs, feed cats, change cat boxes, do some
separated from the young so that they don't get
grooming, give medications, and I comfort the
Ching Ling and his
pestered by puppies. Cats can be lodged together
animals. They become very neurotic when the
magnificent wardrobe
in a regulation cage or, for a slightly higher per
family is away. I get along well with animals — -
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FRANK DIFALCO
even wild animals seem to like me."
DiFalco left a general small-animal practice
Hubley has some steady customers - dogs
when she found "you can't be all things to all
she walks for families where everyone is at work
people." She chose cats because she believes they
all day. One morning, rushing to her assignments,
are an ideal pet for most people. "They are inde-
she was stopped by a policeman for ten miles over
pendent, provide emotional support, and I find
the speed limit.
that people who own cats are interesting people.
"I told him I was late, and I was thinking
"Among the animals we share our lives with,
about the dogs that had to go out," Hubley says.
if you pay attention to cats and cat personalities,
"He let me go with just a warning. I think he was
you will find they are more like people than any
in sympathy with all those dogs that had their legs
other," DiFalco says. "Some are belligerent, some
crossed, waiting for me."
are friendly, some are curious, some are shy.
Sometimes animals get sick. Then they can go
Certain coat colors go with certain personalities
Dr. Debra DiFalco,
to a variety of doctors, among them Debra DiFalco,
and, of course, males and females have distinct
The Cat Doctor, and
who sees only cats, Bernie Wall, who will try to fix
personalities, traits, and worries."
patient
almost any species, or Dr. Edward Sullivan, who
DiFalco has a dog named Bristle who lives in
sees animals only in their own homes.
her home and comes to work with her every day,
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and two cats, Hannah and Merlin, who live at the
to neuter — as they can. The vets all give them a
office. Her husband, photographer Frank DiFalco,
big discount. It does upset me when someone
is allergic to cats. Hannah naps on the appoint-
drives up in a Mercedes to take advantage of the
ment calendar while Merlin wanders about, con-
Cleo fund neutering program. They seem to think
tent to have a home. He was brought in more than
tax money is involved and that this is their privi-
a year ago with a broken leg, but his owners left no
lege. Well, it's not. They're taking advantage of
address or phone number and never returned.
some very hard-working Cleo ladies."
The abuse and abandonment of animals
Wall also acts as a foster home, keeping five
upsets Wall as well. While he has a full schedule
or six cats or dogs at a time- often that number
of patients, he makes time to care for Cleo Fund
expands to as many as fourteen. He keeps the
animals at little or no cost.
animals until proper homes are found. That, he
"Cleo is the most effective humane group
says, can take as long as eight months.
I've ever worked with," Wall says. "Every nickel
And Wall has one very difficult function: to
Nancy Hubley, The
Mary Scott and the Cleo ladies take in goes for the
decide when euthanasia is the kinder route. "Mary
Pet Nanny, with Pogo
animals. They try to spay and neuter as many.
(Scott) and the girls want to save everything. I told
and Tristam
animals- strays and animals people can't afford
Mary we cannot. She has to let me be the objective
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one, and my guiding principle is: I wouldn't give
food away to see if she would bite. She wouldn't.
you anything I wouldn't take home myself. We
She was just protecting her home. Then one Satur-
have that understanding and that's the hard part
day morning heard the voice of an elderly woman
of my job."
in the reception room saying, `I need a watch dog.
But he really enjoys putting animals and
I live alone in a trailer, with a fenced-in yard and
people together. An abandoned Norwegian Elk-
I'd love to hear a dog barking out there.' I left my
hound with crippled hind legs had him worried.
patient and raced into that reception room as fast
"I'm thinking, this is going to be really hard,"
as I could. The terrier was a success. Two potential
Wall says, "but one day in walks a man with a
problems solved at once."
little terrier. The dog is SO over-protective he bites
Wall sees a lot of older people with old ani-
people as they come through the front door. He
mals who are reluctant to get another pet because
said, `I need a dog that looks ferocious, but
they are afraid the dog or cat will outlive its
Dr. Bernie Wall, and
wouldn't hurt a flea.' I told him, Boy, have I got
master. He makes it easy for them: Designate in
Stoneledge resident cat
a deal for you.'
their will that the animal will come to Wall, who
Liliputian
"So we traded dogs. But now I've gota terrier
will care for the pet until a suitable home is found.
that bites. I tried to provoke her, even taking her
Edward Sullivan has adopted a different
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RANDY URY
mission as a veterinarian - - he makes house calls
A peaceful place, it has flowers, little headstones,
only. The son of a vet, Sullivan remembers that his
and perpetual care. The cost ranges from $95 for a
father's practice became a burden as he aged.
cat to $350 for the largest dog. There are variations
Sullivan decided that as he grew older he would
in cost for a plain casket or a luxury casket.
continue to practice, but not run a hospital.
In Pet Haven, there is one headstone that says
"There are elderly people who cannot drive
it all:
to the vet," he says. "There are large dogs with
severe arthritis who have difficulty getting into
the car. Many cats and dogs get very nervous and
RANDY URY
fearful: A visit to the vet is like taking a child to the
OUR BELOVED BIJOU
dentist. And I have found it often easier to come
OCT 3, 1960 I NOV 2. 1976
to the home if the family decides the animal
HE:LOVED:US LOVED HIM
cannot continue to live happily."
IRENE, JOE BOUVIER
Ripley, a young Akita,
And when that time comes, there is also a
with his master, Mike
final resting place, Pet Haven in Saco, four and
Reynolds
one-half acres of memorial park, founded in 1955,
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53
WRITING ABOUT PORTLAND
Ann Allen Brahms
CHANGES
C
Christmas was coming. Eve-
fit our budgets of a couple of dollars apiece.
Donnie and I hung ornaments on
rywhere on Spruce Street
"Donnie, what did you buy Nana
every bough while baby David watched
there were lush green wreaths
and Ellie?" I asked him.
from his maple highchair. Dad strung sets
with pine cones and handsome red velvet
"Calox Tooth Powder and some
of tiny blue, red, and green blinking lights.
bows hanging on front doors.
Hinds' Hand Cream. What did you buy,
Mum twined yards of silver garlands that
Mum baked cookies by the dozens.
Ann?"
shimmered from the slightest puff of air.
The aroma coming from the oven was
"Some Old Spice aftershave and
When finished, Dad sat down in his rock-
tantalizing. My mouth watered as armies
some handkerchiefs for Dad. What shall
ing chair and Mum went to the kitchen to
of cooling gingerbread men were stacked
we get Mum?"
make cocoa and to fix a plate of her home-
across the kitchen table. Mum and frosted
"How about a ten-cent blue bottle
made plain doughnuts. Donnie turned off
them in fancy uniforms, and used raisins
of that Evening in Paris perfume stuff
the lamps. David fell asleep in his chair. I
for their eyes.
girls use?"
sat on the floor and looked at the tree that
Neighbors were busy mixing up
"C'mon, Donnie. We bought Mum
cast a colorful glow out the bay window
batches of fruitcakes laced with real rum.
the same thing last year."
onto Spruce Street for all our neighbors to
Goodies were wrapped in, wax paper so
Anyway, we bought her Evening in
enjoy.
they wouldn't go stale. Some were done
Paris again, knowing she loved the blue
Christmas morning we kids were up
up in brown paper, tied with string, and
bottle it came in.
before dawn, anxious to see what Santa
addressed to loved ones off in the war.
Sonny picked out brown gloves for
had put in our socks. I found a yellow
Fathers like mine were kept busy walking
his mother. Jimmy got their father some
comb, one apple, an orange, a pack of
in the bitter cold to the post office, making
Bright Star flashlight batteries. He wanted
gum, three chocolate ornaments, and a set
certain the gifts were posted in time.
to buy him a black-and-red striped tie, but
of Scottie dog magnets - one black, one
Others, like Mr. Donahue, took on extra
he didn't have enough money. Kenny and
white.
jobs, earning money for Santa's toys.
Bubba bought their mother some red nail
After Mum and Dad woke up, we
In spite of the war, everybody was in
polish. Their father would be getting a
kids were allowed to go into the living
a festive mood. The butcher over at the
black-and-yellow plaid scarf.
room to see what Santa had left for us
Pine Street Market gathered his list of
One frosty night, Dad, Donnie, and I
under the tree. I found a new sled, and a
neighbors who wanted fresh turkeys.
walked downtown to the Christmas-tree
baby doll dressed in white. Her blue eyes
Koegler's Bakery worked overtime try-
stand set up during the holiday season in
looked real because they blinked when I
ing to keep up with orders for mince
Longfellow Square. That Christmas of 1944
tipped her head. I called her Nancy be-
and pumpkin pies. Downtown Port-
it was easy finding the prettiest, tallest,
cause Mr. Donahue loved that name.
land looked like a winter wonderland.
and best tree in the bunch. Dad paid the
Donnie found a brown army truck
Lampposts were twined with green
man one dollar, and we headed home.
big enough for him to ride. David got a
garlands and silver bells. Shop windows
Donnie and dragged the tree across snow-
teddy bear, a fire truck, and wooden blocks
were decorated with lots of toys and
covered sidewalks, creating a wide swept
with numbers, rabbits, and lambs painted
teddy bears. Monument Square was lit
path along the way.
on them. Mum acted surprised over her
up at night by a handsomely decorated
Mum complimented us on our choice,
perfume, same as she did the year before.
giant spruce tree selected because of its
and then she went down cellar to get the
She sprinkled a few drops on herself and
perfect shape.
dented tin breadbox stuffed full of pre-
on me, too. Dad said he liked his Old Spice
Sonny and Jimmy, Kenny and Bubba,
cious ornaments she'd collected over the
and the white hankies.
and Donnie and I would start out early
years. Dad began to fuss because he
Later, after Nana and Ellie, Sonny
Saturday mornings to make a dent in our
couldn't position the tree to stand straight
and Jimmy, Red and Kenny and Bubba
shopping. We'd select presents that would
in the bay window.
had visited, the family sat down to a huge
54 Greater Portland
1989/1990 WINTER
turkey dinner. We ate until we hurt. In
spite of the war, it was a wonderful day.
Little did anyone realize it was the last
Christmas we all would spend together
on Spruce Street.
A few days later, right after supper,
Mum blurted the most horrible news: "We
have to move. The house has been sold
and the new owners want to move in just
as soon as we can find a place. Red and
Kenny and Bubba have to move too."
All I could do was sit at the kitchen
table with my mouth wide open. My bot-
tom lip quivered. I tried not to cry. Tears
streaked my cheeks. The very idea of
moving from Spruce Street filled me with
a bad feeling I'd never experienced be-
fore. What would Sonny and Jimmy,
Kenny and Bubba do without us, or we
awesome giants.
without them? I hurt too much to think
Web-like shadows
about it.
of long naked limbs
Mum and Dad went to court twice
loomed against the
trying to prevent the move, but the judge
darkening sky. How they
was unsympathetic. Rents were scarce
frightened me as their branches
because of the war. Each time we got a
swayed back and forth, moaning
lead on a place, it was taken before we had
in the frigid winter wind. When at last
a chance to look at it. Dad said if we had
I spied my evening star, I shut my eyes
the money, we could buy our own house
and made a wish that my family could
for $250 down and $40 a month. Mum
stay forever on Spruce Street.
tried to borrow the down payment from
Kenny and Bubba's father found a
her wealthy aunt, but at the last minute
rent close by, but nothing turned up for us
the stingy old woman decided not to help.
Allens in time. We had no choice but to
One of our last nights on Spruce Street,
move in with Nana and my half-sister
I went to the living room and sat before the
Ellie. Uncle Bill was still away in the Navy
bay window and waited for the first eve-
so his room was available, making the
ning star to appear. Huge elm trees tow-
small quarters seem less cramped. Ihelped
ered overhead. In summer, they had
Mum pack our belongings in cardboard
fanned cool breezes through the open
boxes and wooden barrels. Dad borrowed
windows, giving relief from the swelter-
a truck, and he and Donnie carted our
ing heat. That winter, barren of leaves,
things to store in my aunt's garage.
they were eerie to watch. I scraped icy
When my father shut the door at 59
frost off the windowpanes to peek at those
Spruce Street for the last time, I cried.
WINTER 1989/1990
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55
piles of patchwork quilts tossed over me.
Every morning and evening, Mum
and Dad would scan the Portland news-
papers, looking for a home. Choices were
more difficult because Mum refused to
Mum and I walked hand
stray far from the neighborhood. After-
in hand over to Nana's house
noons, when Donnie and I were in school
in Horton Place. We sniffled all
and David napped, she'd leave Nana to
the way. Dad and Donnie felt
babysit, and with the newspaper rent ads
bad too, but boys would be called
in hand, she'd go forth on foot in search of
sissies if they cried. Little David was
a rent.
the only one who smiled that's because
Up and down the streets she'd walk,
he was too little to understand.
without any luck. She'd return at supper
Nana and Ellie were patient and
time in a bad mood. Nana said Mum
understanding about being invaded by
existed on a diet of coffee and the Lucky
the rest of the tribe. Ellie was sixteen, in
Strikes she puffed on. I overheard her tell
high school, and she had a job, so she was
Dad the reason she was cranky was be-
gone a lot. Mum said she thought Nana
cause her nerves were shot. Then, three
was in her glory, being able to cuddle and
weeks after we moved in with Nana, I was
rock baby David all the time.
told we were moving out. I wasn't pleased.
Because of my grandmother, I felt
I'd begun to hope Mum wouldn't find a
much better over leaving Spruce Street.
place. I wanted to stay with Nana. Mum
She allowed me the privilege of sleeping
was overjoyed. She'd found a rent not five
with her in her comfortable brass bed with
minutes away. As far as she was con-
the feather mattress, so high off the floor I
cerned, the search had ended happily.
had to step on a footstool to reach. I'd flop
There wasn't any way for her to foresee
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AROUND & ABOUT TOWN
mas is here and visitors
because it sure is."
can step back 100 years to
Located on Rand Road
a simpler time.
behind Forest City
Of course, there is
Chevrolet, the center
nothing simple about the
accepts glass bottles and
magificent Italianate Villa,
jars, plastics bottles,
and the decorations are
corrugated cardboard and
lavish: a large tree with
newspapers, and is open
orginal Victorian orna-
daily from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m.
ments, a table set with
Questions will be an-
fanciful desserts, caroling,
swered at 774-0735.
and eight major period
Many business offices are
rooms filled with greens
joining in to recycle the
and fresh flowers. A call to
mountains of paper they
772-4841 will tell you what
generate. Large offices,
days and times you are
such as UNUM Life
welcome.
Insurance Company,
which last year generated
approximately 550 tons of
Waste Not, Want Not
waste paper; and small
offices, such as The
I
t is about time. Portland
Chamber of Commerce of
is setting foot into the
the Greater Portland
world of recycling with
Region, have joined in the
the first privately spon-
effort. UNUM has
sored program aimed at
discovered that instead of
the general public. People
paying $86 per ton for
are responding, according
waste disposal, they can
to Henry Brown, general
receive $5-$110 per ton,
Merry Christmas
manager of Maine
depending on the quality
Christmas concerts by the
Beverage Container
of paper being recycled.
Portland Symphony
Services which instituted
Many knowledgeable
F
or every Mainer who
Orchestra are a joyful
is tempted to say
the program, but "they
people are convinced that
community celebration of
the importance of both
should respond more."
the universe will survive
"Bahr humbug, Christmas
Brown adds, "Don't let
the threat of the nuclear
is too commercial," there
Christmas and music in
are at least two annual
everyone's life. And when'
anyone tell you recycling
bomb with greater ease
events so filled with the
is not cost effective,
than it will avert being
the Victoria Mansion
buried under its own
spirit of Christmas that
throws open its amply
debris. For the
only the dourest of us
decorated doors, Christ-
individual
could resist. The
Magic of
citizen who becomes
anybody," says Gartel.
dedicated to recycling the
"It's how you use it that
most astounding and
makes the art."
exciting revelation is how
It is an impressive
much of what we care-
performance, asking that
lessly toss need not be
the viewer relearn the
wasted and increase our
lesson of photography
planet's problems, but can
(now celebrating its 150th
live one useful life after
anniversary), that it is not
another.
the tool, but the person
who controls the tool who
determines if the result is
Thinking Big
art. Nuvo Japonica runs
through December 17.
A
rtist Laurence Gartel
was in town,
wandering among the
No Baby
French Impressionist
Penquins, Alas
paintings in the Joan
Whitney Payson Gallery
W
e had hoped to
and demonstrating the
carry a photo of
origin of his computer-
a baby Magellanic penguin
assisted Nuvo Japonica
in this space. Last June,
works on display down-
one of two females on
stairs. Gartel believes that
exhibit at the Maine
the computer offers those
Aquarium, Saco, laid two
with vision a tool to
eggs, raising all our hopes
revitalize the world.
that we would see the first
"If we are to succeed as
higher quality of life."
stimulate an area of color,
penguins to call Maine
immortal beings," says
Gallery Director Judith
to intensify the bounda-
their birthplace.
Gartel, we must create a
Sobol has been looking for
ries, to enhance the
With great care, the
new renaissance. Com-
just such an exhibition for
message."
Aquarium's curator
puter graphics is a tool for
several years, but found
Gartel uses a digitizing
monitored the mother's
that renaissance. It enables
most computer-generated
camera to transfer imagery
diet to see she did not
a person to go beyond his/
art to be more technology
into his computer then,
overeat of the nutrient-rich
her imagination and
than art. "Laurence is an
using software that lets
herring offered to her.
achieve results that this
artist," she says. "He uses
him alter size, scale, color,
Aquarium staff were
world has not seen in
the pixel - the computer's
position, he creates a new
ready to prepare penguin
many millenia. Computer
mark on the screen - the
work on the computer
milkshakes if both mother
graphics forces people out
way an expressionist
screen.
and father did not feed the
of their barbaric nature
painter uses the brush-
"This stuff is available to
babies properly. Alas, the
and into an invincible
stroke: to lead your eye, to
eggs were not fertile.
state. The result will be a
"It's normal," an
civilization
aquarium spokesperson
operating on a
said with a sigh. "We'll try
again next year."
Maskie error
TaxBill
Elizabeth Maule opens a tin box of 19th-century busi-
ness papers, a recent donation from J.B. Brown
Company, Portland. White cotton gloves are worn to
protect historic manuscripts from oils and dust.
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Greater Portland
1989/1990 WINTER
"
here is something exciting and mysteri-
provide a recess from the hubbub of Portland's
ous about "the new." About things small
main living space. There is a feeling of intimacy
that grow, inevitably plotting some
inside the tall black cast-iron fence. The 19th-cen-
course that will change the world around us. We
tury Longfellow House museum and its 1907
watch their development: A relationship, a child,
companion library draw the intellectual and the
a business, a building, and then one day. "it"
common, the businessperson, the young, the re-
stands before us, and we try to remember what
tired. With pencils, note pads, and driven curiosi-
our world was like before "it" existed. We squint
ties, these visitors come armed with hundreds of
in hopes of seeing into the future, and we probe
questions, hoping to find answers that will pro-
the past, hoping our inquiries will shed light on
vide insights on the present state of affairs.
how we, as individuals, fit into the worlds that
They come to trace their family genealogies.
surround us. This story is about a trip into the
They come in search of past architectural draw-
past, an adventure into Maine's attic, commonly
ings and the blueprints of train engines. They
known as the Maine Historical Society.
come to find town maps, old wills, land deeds,
Located on Congress
and letters.
Street, the Maine Histori-
They come to discover
cal Society stands
pictures of their great
dwarfed within the
grandparents, listings of
quickly developing sky-
mills those relatives
line of downtown Port-
might have worked in,
land. Like an attic, the
logs of ships that brought
Longfellow House,
them to this country, the
Nichols Hall, the library
houses and businesses
building and quiet gar-
they built, a graduation
dens that surround them,
record, ledger entry,
MAINE'S
ATTIC
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Anne Dudley
Photos by Randy Ury
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61
diary description, weather report - all of the,
center, the materials stored here are meant to
many tangible things that might give a hint of the
be used."
joys, hardships, values, and patterns that defined
Though the library functions as the main focal
another time.
point for thousands of researchers yearly, in this
Most of the inquiries the society receives are
story it symbolizes the end of the long and often
tedious process of collecting, organizing, catalog-
ing, and preserving material that has been given
to or bought by the society. This story centers
around a brown tin box, no larger than a small
footlocker. The box, holding mostly business rec-
ords, land deeds, family mementos, and personal
papers from the mid-1800s, was saved from the
offices of the Honorable John Bundy (J.B.) Brown.
As Elizabeth Maule, curator of the society's
manuscripts and special collections, opens the
box lid, there is a sense of excitement. J.B. Brown
Jim MacFarlane labels and
lists photos taken by the
Portland Company in the
1800s and 1900s.
The main reading room,
housing busts and portraits
of Maine's political,
religious, and business
leaders, provides space for
quiet research as well as a
meeting place for historians
seeking camaraderie.
Elizabeth Maule holds a
answered within the walls of the large main read-
diploma from Bowdoin
ing room, located inside the library building. Here,
College. It belonged to J.B.
members of the society and visitors have access to
Brown's son James Alcot
the largest collection of Maine historical-related
Brown, and was found
material found in the state. Nicholas Noyes, the
among the papers in the
library collection's curator and librarian, com-
J.B. Brown box.
ments that while the collection is relatively small
- numbered at 65,000 volumes of varying ages,
was Portland's most successful 19th-century
the depth of the collection is significant because of
businessman, and Maule believes the box will
its subject detail.
provide extensive information on both Brown's
Noyes reacts to questions and inquiries with
and Portland's 19th-century business communi-
astonishing speed, moving through the card cata-
ties, and transportation developments. The mate-
logs and stacks as an accomplished chef would
rial found inside is dated from 1848 to 1888, and
access his or her kitchen. He points out, "Many of
Maule, having accessed the box earlier, recaps its
the books found at the Maine Historical Society
contents.
would be stored in rare book collections in any
"There are some personal papers, including
other library setting, but because this is a research
journals, compositions, and poems by Brown's
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1989/1990 WINTER
son James, and guardianship papers where J.B.
up and filed into other bundles. The original order
Brown acted as guardian for other children in
may give some insight into what J.B. Brown and
town. Most of the papers, however, are business
other businessmen of his time felt was important.
related - accounts and bills, including tax bills.
The timetable for a project this large may
"There is information on the construction of
extend to a year or more. If it is taken on singularly
Brown's Falmouth Hotel, including Portland
Company specifications for iron work, which is
interesting because it ties back into the society's
material on the Portland Company. We may be
able to find the drawings for this particular iron
work in that collection.
"There are deeds and mortgages for various
pieces of property in the Portland area. There is
material on vessels, roads, and mills. Some of the
names and connections that stood out when I
made my preliminary inventory were those of his
son James Alcot Brown, papers of Bowdoin Col-
lege and his three sons' connections there. [There
are] papers on the Portland Hotel and Brown's
Hotel, the Haines Cotton Mills, Saccarappa Mills,
the Forest City Sugar Refining Company (founded
by Brown), the Portland Company, the iron foun-
dry, and various businesses called Tinkham and
Ross, Smith and Brown, Sylvanus Poor (who was
very much involved in getting the railroads started
in Portland), the Grand Trunk Railroad, and
William J. Emmit."
Most of the paper in the box is folded into
Inner sanctum of the Maine
threes, earmarked or labeled, and tied into bundles
Historical Society.
with red tape or ribbon (this is where the term
"red tape" originated). This was the filing system
Though some of the
of the 19th century. Some of the paper is scorched
society's precious books are
and blackened on the edges, evidence of a narrow
stored behind wire gates,
escape from the Great Fire of 1866 which de-
many of the manuscripts
stroyed much of Portland's business and indus-
may be viewed by the
trial districts.
public on request.
At this point the box is numbered and given a
storage location in the society. From here the
papers will have to be arranged and described in
HOLLINGS
detail. Maule holds up a bundle of yellowed
papers. The red tape has faded to pink. She reads
the long thin penned letters: "J.B. Brown, sundry
by a society staff member or volunteer, it may take
papers taken from safe July 5, 1866.
only a month or two. The society encourages the
"This bundle was removed from the company's
involvement of volunteers, and Maule says there
safe on the day after the Great Fire. It is unusual to
is a wide range of projects to be worked on. Many
find papers that survived that blaze. Now we will
volunteers discover their talents and knowledge
carefully take apart this bundle and humidify it,
extend far beyond what they believed could be
expose it to a damp atmosphere for just a couple
useful.
of days, until they become limp. When they are
People like Jim McFarlane, a retired Central
limp, we can unfold them and put each one be-
Maine Railroad worker, identify and label mate-
tween sheets of clean, white, acid-free rag paper.
rials that relate to their former jobs. McFarlane
We will weight these down and let them dry flat;
first volunteered at the society with interest in
once they are flat we can begin to look at them and
sorting and organizing the Richard F. Dole collec-
organize them."
tion: one man's lifelong collection of material
Whoever takes on the project of organizing the
relating to Maine's railroad. Dole, a friend of
J.B. Brown collection will keep careful track of
McFarlane's, also volunteered at the society until
how the papers were originally arranged, deter-
his death.
mining if they should remain as a unit or be split
McFarlane sits back for a moment. "It's a never-
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63
ending process," he says. "You never get caught
There are collections that provide information
up in a place like this. Somebody else will come
on Maine's 1820 Declaration of Statehood. There
along and dump some more stuff. Some of it is
are notes and diaries recreating the Civil War, and
"Many
good and some of it is indifferent, but at least you
map collections showing the development of
of the books
have to get it sorted because if it just sits around in
Maine towns, names that have changed, and towns
a box unidentified, then it's not doing anybody
that no longer exist. Maine's first newspaper can
found at the Maine
any good."
be viewed on microfilm, and one can find signa-
Historical Society
Like the pictures McFarlane labels, items in
tures of the Declaration of Independence signers
would be stored in
J.B. Brown's box will have to be labeled and
in the Fogg collection.
described. A short listing of the collection's con-
The society also has a museum collection with
rare book collec-
tents will appear on a catalog card referring the
costumes dating back to the mid-1800s. In a large
tions in any other
researcher to a file folder for more information.
cellar room a few blocks away, the society stores
From there the researcher will be able to obtain a
library setting
thousands of historical pieces that are not on
more detailed description of what was found in
display. The shelves are packed with boxes la-
the materials
the box, and finally work with original material.
beled: flags, children's toys and games, costumes,
stored here are
Obituaries, state histories, and old letters tell
miniatures, etc. On the floor lies a dismantled
meant to be used
that John Bundy Brown employed more than 1000
loom.
Portland citizens. He owned large areas of real
Finally, the society owns and cares for the
Nicholas Noyes
estate, and advised more than a dozen businesses
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow House, given to
and banks in the area. He attended the High Street
the society by Henry's sister Anne Longfellow
Church, and was known to be a kind father and
Pierce, at the turn of the century. This house
husband. And his name snowballs into the histo-
stands solidly among the taller buildings of Con-
ries of local railroads, the birth of a local sugar
gress Street, providing the most visible outreach
refinery, the world of the 1800s.
the society has. Members, locals, and tourists
It is easy to get lost in this library, to forget the
enjoy the house in the summer months and again
large oak tables and other researchers. Clues carry
at the Christmas holiday, when the house is open
the curious forward and backward in time, traips-
for "Christmas at Henry's."
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coasts. The trip may carry them through several of
one is overwhelmed with exhaustion. So much
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has been taken in, but there is an increased feeling
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crisis can occur in any business or organiza-
The first rule, says Dan Davidson, vice presi-
tion, at any time. With proper handling,
dent of the public relations division at Roger
though, the damage can be limited,
Williams Advertising, is: Don't clam up. "The
and the organization can survive with its
media are so ubiquitous that you can't get away
credibility intact.
with anything, so why try?" If you don't tell them
The first priority, of course, is to address the
what happened, someone else will - and you'll
crisis itself. If Tylenol doesn't pull its product off
look like you've got something to hide. Reporters
the shelf or Exxon doesn't clean up the oil spill,
will try to dig up more information, and the story
nothing anybody says will make the situation any
will stay in the news longer. "If it's going to be on
better. Given prompt and effective action, how-
the front page, get it on the front page and then
ever, good crisis communication
get it off again," he says.
can make a difference.
When a crisis does occur, it's critical to inform
the media immediately. Be honest and accurate;
don't hedge, distort, or give partial information. If
INFORM
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Greater Portland
you don't know all the facts yet, say so, and
Although immediate communication is im-
promise to inform the reporters when you do
portant, it's also important to decide whom to
learn more. Then keep your promise.
communicate to, and when to stop communicat-
"If the crisis is your organization's fault, admit
ing. Is the story of national or local importance?
it and apologize," counsels Beryl Valverde, public
How much does the public need to know?
relations director for Burgess, Brewer, Stanyon &
"If you ask the question 'Who cares?' every-
Payne. "Be up front and assume as much respon-
thing else flows from there," says Tony Payne of
sibility as you can without assuming responsibil-
Maine Media. He offers the example of an inci-
ity for someone else."
dent when chemicals manufactured by LCP
It may not be easy to communicate calmly and
Chemicals in Orrington, leaked from a tank car
accurately when you're in the midst of a crisis.
(leased from a transportation company) in the
Just when you're most upset and anxious to deal
South Portland rail yard. "The fire and public
with the problem in private, you're surrounded
safety officials were called into action; until they
by reporters. Says public relations consultant
determined the magnitude of the spill, they evacu-
Ron Palmquist, "All of a sudden, you're up to
ated the immediate surrounding neighborhood.
your armpits in alligators."
The company got the proper information to the
That's why it's crucial to prepare for a crisis.
fire department and the Department of Environ-
"Bring together the best thinkers in your organi-
mental Protection. It was determined that the spill
zation and come up with a list of the worst things
was not an actual threat to the community, but
that could possibly happen to the organization,"
that muriatic acid had penetrated the ground and
advises Dan Davidson. "For each of these poten-
needed to be contained and removed for safe dis-
tial crises, write out a list: who to go to to get the
posal."
facts, who will be responsible for approving the
In this case, Payne continues, "it was easy to
press release, the proper media to call. You can
ascertain the constituencies: local officials, state
even write a press release with blanks in it. Then
officials, people who had been evacuated, the
put all the information in a folder, and pray that
transportation company, and environmental
that folder collects dust.
groups." The company continued to communi-
"When I was in the Navy," he
cate with local and state officials through the
CHOOSE
recalls, "I had to communicate
clean-up process and the investigation into why
when there was a plane crash.
the tank car leaked, but "we determined with the
Everyone always thought that
fire chief and city councilors that the news media
POKES-
was a difficult and it was,
had already handled communication to the gen-
ERSON
from the aspect of human trag-
eral public. They had been informed about the
edy. But from the procedural
leak, and told that they were safe, and that steps
aspect, nothing could have
were being taken to make sure that it wouldn't
be easier. I just pulled out
happen again. They didn't need any additional
the folder and went down the list."
information."
When a crisis does occur, the organization has
When communicating to the outside world,
to choose a spokesperson usually the chief
it's also important to remember to communicate
executive officer or other top management. "It's
with the people inside the company or organiza-
important that the same person speaks all the
tion, adds Marcia Feller of Feller & Co. "In a crisis,
time, so that the organization speaks with one
employees often feel self-conscious and insecure.
voice," notes public relations consultant Sandi
It's important to let them know what's going on,
Palmquist.
and also to let them know what to say and who the
For example, back in 1986, when a sliver of
spokesperson is. That way, they can handle in-
glass was found in one jar of Joanie's Jam for Sam,
quiries comfortably and graciously. They may
Joan Benoit Samuelson and her husband Scott
say, for example, 'I'm glad you called. don't have
Samuelson took great pains to speak to the media.
all the information, but Mary Johnson at exten-
They immediately decided to recall and fluoro-
sion 216 does. I'll try to reach her for you."
scope all 60,000 jars of jam and, though naturally
Generally, "if the public understands that
quite upset, informed the media and made them-
you're a good company, operating in the public
selves available for interviews. As a result, news
interest, you can weather a crisis," says Dan
reports conveyed not only the incident, but the
Davidson. In some cases, that may mean taking
Samuelsons' tremendous concern and respon-
positive steps to let the public know exactly what
sible action.
your company does.
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That's what public relations consultant Alan
Rosenberg calls "preventive crisis management."
As an example, he points to one of his clients:
Maine Drilling & Blasting. "Most people - in-
cluding most reporters - don't understand what
a scientific and highly technical business this is. So
we invite them to a blast site, invite them to take
pictures, and present them with a packet of infor-
mation about the technical nature of blasting and
how strictly monitored the process is."
When there is a mishap during a blast - say,
a rock breaks a car window- reporters receive a
file of clippings on the company as well as infor-
mation about the incident. This background in-
formation allows them to put the incident in
context, rather than simply reporting the damage.
However, if a company does not operate well
in general, or neglects to act promptly to repair
any damage to the extent possible, no amount of
public relations will save it. "The shortest defini-
tion of public relations is: 'Good performance,
publicly appreciated," says Dan Davidson.
"Performance comes first."
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day through Saturday, 5:30 to 12:30. 775-5411.
Tree Cafe. 45 Danforth Street, Portland. Vari-
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Casco Bay Movers Dance Company. Sheila
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managing director. Offering jazz and tap classes
for children and adults. For information on
classes and performances, call 871-1013.
Figures of Speech Theatre. RR 4, Box 4277,
Freeport 04032. Figures of Speech is a profes-
sional theatre which tours nationally and inter-
nationally, and is based in Freeport, Maine. For
information, call 865-6355.
Mad Horse Theatre Company. 955 Forest
Avenue, Portland. Performances Thursdays
through Sundays. 797-3338.
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South Portland. For tickets and times, call 799-
December 19
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January 23
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January 19-21, 26-28, February 2-4, 9, 10
Dreamgirls. Fully staged production of Michael
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MONDAY - FRIDAY 7:30 - 9:00
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January 28
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The Melisande Trio: flute, harp, and viola, at
9671.
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Portland Stage Company. Portland Perform-
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titles, 8 p.m.
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TEL (207) 773-3177
Shows every Wednesday through Saturday
February 22
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Beaux Arts Trio: violin, cello, and piano. Pro-
FAX (207) 773-6892
formances, call 780-5483.
gram of Haydn, Ravel, and Beethoven per-
formed by one of the world's most acclaimed
Southworth Planetarium. University of South-
chamber ensembles, 7:30 p.m.
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fessor Roy A. Gallant, director. A variety of
kinko's
March 1
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Peking Acrobats, 4 and 8 p.m.
day, and Sunday evenings: Astronomy Shows
at p.m.; Laser Light/Music Shows at 8:30 p.m.
March 3
Doors open at 6:30: Please arrive 15 minutes
Manuel Barrueco, classical guitar, at USM's
the copy center
before show time; shows will not be inter-
Corthell Hall in Gorham, 8 p.m.
rupted for latecomers. Children under 5 not
admitted to evening shows. Call for schedule of
show subjects/music, special children's shows,
and other information: 780-4249.
Theater of Fantasy. 50 Danforth Street, Port-
It's as blessed to receive
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Jean-Pierre Rampal, flute, 8 p.m.
Portland Performing Arts Center. 25A Forest
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December 8-10, 14-17
Magic of Christmas with John Walker
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January 9
Schubert's "Rosamunde" Overture, and
city's finest seafood restaurant.
Mahler's Symphony No. 7
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January 30
Tomasi's Trumpet Concerto, featuring PSO
principal trumpet John Schnell; also, Rossini's
"Il Signor Bruschino Overture," Mennin's
Portland Regency
Concertato (Moby Dick), and Beethoven's
Sumphony No. 6 ("Pastorale")
In the Old Port
February 10, 11
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Pops concert: Pianist Bolcom and Vocalist
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For information and
February 27
reservations call (207) 774-4200
Thomas Murray, organ: Mendelssohn's Mid-
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summer Night's Dream: Four Pieces, Poulenc's
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graphs, and recent finger paintings by Nancy
Jacobs
781-4020
FAMOUTH
"Your Dealer For Life!!"
December 18-February 6
New works on wood by Carol Foster
Sales, Service & Body Shop
Congress Square Gallery. The Hay Building,
Congress Square, Portland. Contemporary
Maine art, limited editions, and Japanese
woodblock prints. Custom framing. Gallery
Porsches Are Affordable
hours are 10 to 6, Monday through Saturday.
774-3369.
Fretz and Young Gallery. 4 City Center, Port-
land. Fine-art jewelry by gold and silversmiths.
Regular exhibitsof photographs and sculpture.
Gallery hours are Monday through Friday, 10
to 5; Saturday, 12 to 5. 761-4550.
Frost Gully Gallery. 25 Forest Avenue, Port-
land. Contemporary paintings and sculpture
by Maine artists. Gallery hours are noon to 6,
weekdays. 773-2555.
Gallery 127. 127 Middle Street, Portland. Tues-
day through Friday, noon to 5; Saturday, noon
Only
to 4; or by appointment. 773-3317:
$462.10%onth
Through December
Examples of Alex Gnidziejko's portrait work
in oil and egg tempera; gift certificates for
portrait commissions available.
Greenhut Gallery. 146 Middle Street, Port-
land. Gallery hours are 10:30 to 5:30, Monday
through Saturday. 772-2693.
66 Month Closed-end Lease - 10% down. Tax, Title, 1st Payment and Security
Hitchcock Art Dealers. 602 Congress Street,
Extra. 82,500 miles Max. Total of Payments - $30,498.60. Due at Inception - $6133.10.
Suite 204, Portland. Contemporary Maine art
featuring works by over 40 artists including
Michael Willis, Phil Barter, Howard Rackcliffe,
Katherine Bradford, Sharon Townsend, Na-
tasha Mayers, Ed Gamble, Ann Gresinger, and
Harold Garde. Open Monday through Satur-
day, 10 to 6; Thursday evenings until 9; and
Sunday, 12:30 to 5; or by appointment. 774-
8919.
uality office space now
Hobe Sound Galleries North. 58 Maine Street,
Brunswick. A Payson Art Enterprise, affiliated
with Hobe Sound Galleries in Hobe Sound,
available in historic office
Florida, and Midtown Galleries in New York
City. Gallery hours: 10:30 to 5, Monday through
buildings in Portland's
Saturday. 725-4191.
financial district. Our
The Joan Whitney Payson Gallery of Art.
Westbrook College, Portland. The gallery's
buildings offer spectacular
permanent collection- which has been dubbed
the little jewel box" features work by De-
gas, Renoir, Klee, Whistler; and Prendergast.
views of Portland Harbor,
Gallery hours are Tuesday through Friday, 10
to 4, Thursday until 9; Saturday and Sunday, 1
Back Cove and the White
to 5. Closed Mondays, holidays, and between
exhibitions. For more information, call 797-
Mountains, 24-hour security
9546.
Through December 17
and an in house
Laurence Gartel's Nuvo Japonica: a combination
of drawing, computer imagery, and photo-
maintenance staff.
graphs based on traditional Japanese print
imagery and calligraphy; and selections from
Contact Jim VanValkenburgh
the permanent collection
Certified Property Manager
December 27-February 11
Selections from the Westbrook College photog-
raphy collection (including work by Jacobi,
Monument Square Associates
Hines, Webb, Abbott, Rothstein, and Modell);
and selections from the permanent collection
477 Congress Street
MONUMENT SQUARE
February 17-April 1
ASSOCIATESING
Portland, Maine 04101
Alice Schille watercolors: Views of North Africa;
and selections from the permanent collection
207-772-0688
The Jones Museum of Glass and Ceramics.
Sebago, Maine. 787-3370.
78
Greater Portland
1989/1990 WINTER
Maine Historical Society. 485 Congress Street,
February 2-27
The gallery is open Monday through Saturday
Portland. 774-1822.
Solitary Bridge: paintings by Bernie Beckman
from 10:30 to 6; Sunday, 12 to 5. 772-9072.
Nancy Margolis Gallery. 367 Fore Street, Port-
Portland School of Art. The Baxter Gallery, 619
November 27 through February 28
land. Ongoing exhibition includes regular gal-
Congress Street, Portland. Hours: Monday
Glass sculptures of Robert Willson
lery artists who work in ceramics, jewelry, glass,
through Friday, 10 to 5; Thursday evening until
wood, and metal. Open Monday through Sat-
7; Sunday, 11 to 4. Admission is free. 775-3052
University of Southern Maine Art Gallery.
urday, 10 to 6; call for special December holiday
or 761-1771.
Gorham campus. The museum is open Sunday
hours. Nancy Lee, director. 775-3822.
through Thursday, 12 to 8. For more informa-
Stein Glass Gallery. 20 Milk Street, Portland.
tion, call 780-5409.
Through January 7
Holiday Exhibit: Francine Patti's handmade
textiles, coats, and jackets; Tory Hughes' mixed
media jewelry; Suzanne Bucher's paper jew-
elry; Daniel Hale's whimsical furniture, neck-
pieces, and pins; Charles Schwarz's brass and
marble candleholders
The Pine Tree Shop and Bayview Gallery. 75
Market Street, Portland. Fine art, sculptures,
limited-edition prints, posters, and custom
framing. 773-3007.
Portland Museum of Art. 7 Congress Square,
Portland. Open Tuesday through Saturday, 10-
5, Thursday until 9; Sunday, noon to 5. For
information on museum programs, call 775-
6148.
Through December 10
Master Photographs. From the International
Center of Photography: 167 black and white,
and 42 dye-transfer prints by 139 artists, in-
cluding Ansel Adams, Robert and Cornell Capa,
Ernst Haas, Dorothea Lange, and others
December 30-February 18
The Great American Comic Strip. Organized by
Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition
Services: more than 100 drawings, tearsheets,
and artifacts trace the history of this uniquely
American art form
HARRASEEKE
INN
S
The Harraseeket Inn
Portland Public Library. 5 Monument Square,
Portland. Open Monday, Wednesday, and Fri-
day, 9 to 6; Tuesday and Thursday, noon to 9;
A luxury country inn.
Saturday, 9 to 5. Exhibits are in the Lewis
Gallery on level one. 871-1700.
FREEPORT.
MAINE
Fine food
Spirits
Lodging
Two blocks north of L.L. Bean
December 8-January 30
Awards '89: Excellence in Maine Architecture.
162 Main Street - Freeport, Maine - 207-865-9377
Biennial juried exhibition of the Maine Ameri-
Exit 20 off I-95
can Institute of Architects
Pond Cove Millwork Company
ARCHITECTURAL WOODWORK
Some of our recent projects:
Norstar Bank, One City Center
Casco Northern Bank,
Carroll Reed Executive Offices
Brunswick
and Stores
Maine Savings Bank,
Hannaford Brothers Interiors
Falmouth
The developer's first choice for all millwork needs.
Installation available for all of our millwork.
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an
Since 1963
MEMBER
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Village
Portland's #1 Family Restaurant
LECTURES
Come in to see why the Village
Cafe was voted the number one
family restaurant for three years
Portland Museum of Art. 7 Congress Square,
in a row by a readers poll done
Portland. For information on museum lectures,
call 775-6148.
by the Portland Press Herald.
Southworth Planetarium. University of South-
The Village Cafe has been pleas-
ern Maine, 96 Falmouth Street, Portland. Pro-
ing families for over 50 years
fessor Roy A. Gallant, director. A variety of
with its fine Italian dishes,
shows are open to the public on Friday, Satur-
day, and Sunday evenings: Astronomy Shows
Choice Sirloins, and Fresh Sea-
at7 p.m.; Laser Light/ Music Shows at 8:30 p.m.
foods. Quality for a reasonable
Doors open at 6:30: Please arrive 15 minutes
before show time; shows will not be inter-
price.
rupted for latecomers. Children under 5 not
admitted to evening shows. Call for schedule of
Mon. Thurs. 11 A.M. - 10:30 P.M.
show subjects/music, special children's shows,
Fri. & Sat. 11 A.M. - 11:30 P.M.
Wednesday after-school programs, and other
Closed Sunday
information: 780-4249.
112 Newbury Street
Portland, ME
World Affairs Council of Maine. University of
772-5320
Southern Maine, 96 Falmouth Street, Portland.
Lectures open to the public. For information,
call 780-4551.
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your classic Yacht, power or sail; to save your
father's 1938 Old Town Canoe; new garboards to pass a
Coast Guard sub section "T" inspection or storage to
keep your hearts desire inside where you can putter on it
in the off season. Our convenient location is at the mouth
of Portland Harbor a few steps from the Old Port.
Indoor and Outdoor Storage, Moorings, New Construc-
tion, Restoration, Reconfigurations, Wooden & Fiber-
glass Repairs, Rewiring, Refits, Paint, Varnish
We represent: Hydra-Sport, high performance fishing
boats; Pointer Marine, a selection of solid Maine out-
board boats; Musling, Norwegian designed Water Ballast-
ed Deep "V" runabout, Boston, recreational rowing
shell, Suzuki outboard engines.
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Relaunched May 14th "Prowess" reconfigured 1948 Eldredge Mcln-
58 Fore Street
Portland, Maine 04101
207 774-1067
nis cutter. (Doug Jones photo)
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Greater Portland
1989/1990 WINTER
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FILM
Results
Cinema City. Westbrook Plaza, Brighton Ave-
nue (Route 25), Westbrook. First-run feature
films. 854-9116.
Maine Mall Cinema. Maine Mall Road, South
Portland. First-run films. 774-1022.
The Movies. 10 Exchange Street, Portland. New
SKI
Peak!
and old American and foreign film classics.
772-9600.
Nickelodeon Cinema. TempleStreet, Portland.
First-run hits, art films, and foreign features.
Shawnee
772-9751.
Day or Night
Big Mountain
Night Skiing
just got
bigger & better
CHILDREN'S
GUIDE
The Children's Museum of Maine. 746 Ste-
vens Avenue, Portland. A hands-on children's
museum geared for children from two to ten
years old. Thirteen rooms feature such perma-
nent exhibits as the Fire Room with a make-
believe fire truck, the Kite Express Room with
a working model railroad system, the TV and
Radio Room with a working camera and micro-
phone, and Tom and Bill's Country Store with
groceries, shopping baskets, cash register, and
post office. The museum also offers art classes
>
and workshops for children, and "enrichment
Northern New England's largest night skiing
programs" for parents. Admission is free for
facility with top to bottom night skiing.
children under one, $2 for senior citizens, and
SHAWNEE PEAK
Enjoy expanded snowmaking - Now 98%
$2.50 for all others, half price Wednesday after-
at PLEASANT MOUNTAIN
coverage
noons. Museum hours are 9:30 to 4:30, seven
We're beginner friendly - lift, lesson, and
days a week. For more information, call 797-
Bridgton, Maine
rental package only $30.00
KITE.
(207) 647-8444
L
Children's Resource Center. 741 Stevens
>
Avenue, Portland. A nonprofit organization
Only 45 miles from Portland,
that collects clean, safe scrap materials or sec-
onds from industries to sell at low cost to indi-
140 miles from Boston & just
viduals and groups for creative and educa-
18 miles from North Conway, NH
tional use. The center is filled with recyclables
>
in various sizes, shapes, colors, and textures.
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81
Paper, fabrics, buttons, wooden beads, metal
ornament and card making), in March or April
and plastic shapes, fancy shoe laces, yarn,
(egg decorating), and in the summer months.
sponges, and many other materials provide
Workshops and classes for both elementary
grist for the mill of the imagination. The center
and junior high school children often include
also sponsors art classes for children and adults,
tours of the museum. For information, call 775-
a book exchange for children, a crafts and early
6148.
education library for parents and educators,
and membership opportunities with benefits.
Portland Public Library. 5 Monument Square,
797-0525.
Portland. Books, records, tapes, and magazines
for children and young adults, from preschool-
Maine Audubon Society. 118 U.S. Route One,
ers to middle-school-aged children. The library
Falmouth. A number of opportunities for chil-
also offers story hours, a children's art series,
dren of all ages to learn about nature and the
and other special events. Regular events, all
Our
environment, from the Buzzing Bees preschool
starting at 10:30 a.m., include a preschool story
story hour at Gilsland Farm in Falmouth, to
hour for children ages three to five on Mon-
canoe and walking tours at the Scarborough
days, Tales for Twos on Fridays, and films for
Marsh Nature Center, from winter Ecology
all ages on Saturdays. The library is open
Walks at Gilsland Farm, to the summer's Mast
Maine
Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, 9 to 6; Tues-
Landing Nature Day Camp in Freeport. The
day and Thursday, noon to 9; and Saturday, 9 to
Society also offers a speakers' program,
5. 773-4761.
Children's Sunday Events, from January to
March in Portland. For more information about
Portland Recreation Department. 389 Congress
Squeeze
these and other Maine Audubon Society pro-
Street, Portland. Offering community programs
grams, call 781-2330.
for Greater Portland children in five commu-
nity centers around the city and on Peaks Is-
Portland Dance Center. 25A Forest Avenue,
land. For more information, call weekdays:
Portland. Quality dance education for children
874-8793.
ages 2 to 16. Classes include jazz, ballet, and
modern dance as well as Creative Movement
Cummings Community Center, 134 Congress
and Parent/Baby Movement for the youngest
Street. Table and board games, arts and crafts,
children. Also available are acting classes and a
and field trips for children ages 6 through 12.
once-a-month workshop on theater and per-
Open gym for teens: Mondays and Wednes-
formance arts. Classes and workshops are of-
days, 6 to 8 p.m. (50-cent fee).
fered from September to June. For more infor-
mation, call 773-2562.
East End Community Center, Public Safety Build-
ing. Auditorium, gymnasium and classroom
Portland Museum of Art. 7 Congress Square,
space available for rent. Open gym for teens:
Portland. The museum offers a variety of pro-
Fridays, 6 to 8 p.m. (50-cent fee).
grams for children, from one-day workshops to
weekly classes, as well as special family events.
Peaks Island Community Center, Peaks Island.
Classes are generally held in the spring and fall,
Teen dances and activities. Space available for
workshops in December (on wrapping-paper,
rent. Open gym for teens: Tuesdays and Thurs-
days, 6 to 8 p.m. (50-cent fee).
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82
Greater Portland
1989 / 1990 WINTER
Reiche Community Center, 166 Brackett Street.
After School Program for children in grades 1
through 5, with an emphasis on fitness, drama,
arts and crafts, and storytelling. Teen Recrea-
tion Program includes weight training, Red
Cross babysitting courses, community service
projects, and opportunities to socialize. Open
gym for teens: Mondays and Wednesdays, 7:30
to 9 p.m.; Tuesdays and Thursdays, 6:15 to 7:30
YOU'VE
p.m. (50-cent fee).
Riverton Community Center, 1600 Forest Ave-
nue. Arts and crafts, games, gym activities,
BEEN WALKING
team sports, and special events. Open gym for
teens: Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays, 6
to 9 p.m. (50-cent fee).
ALL OVER US
Open gym for teens also held at Jack School on
the Eastern Promenade, and King School on
The area's finest establishments rely on Amico's for
Deering Avenue, both Tuesday and Thursday
from 6 to 8 p.m. (50-cent fee).
all their flooring needs. Shouldn't you be on our list?
Carbur's - F. Parker Reidy's - Horsefeathers Portland - Cadillac Jack's
Swimming lessons at the Riverton and Reiche
Horsefeathers at the Crossing - Mikie O's Kerryman's Verrillo's
pools include tots' classes (ages 3 months to 3
J's Oyster Samoset Pizza Villa. Squire Morgan's Freeport Farms
years); novice classes (ages 4 and 5 years); Red
Cross lessons (6 years and up); water safety,
Samuel Roberts - Cumberland Lincoln-Mercury Harraseeket Inn
lifesaving, and lifeguard courses; and scuba
Weathershield of Me. Old English Village Pemco - Portland Glass
lessons.
Pat's Pizza, Yarmouth. American Management Group, One Monument Way
Other programs include youth soccer, fitness
club (designed to introduce youths to regular
AND YOU DIDN'T
exercise, fitness, and nutritional information),
basketball (introducing those ages 10 and under
to the fundamentals; league play for 5th and
6th graders and nonvarsity junior and senior
EVEN KNOW IT.
high students), teen tennis clinics, and down-
hill and cross-country ski lessons for all ability
AfC
levels, second-graders to adults.
Amico's
Tumpike West Business Park
Portland School of Art. 97 Spring Street, Port-
Flooring Center
190 Riverside St, Portland, ME 04103
land. Saturday School for high school and jun-
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774-3300
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83
ior high school students during the fall and
spring semesters offers classes in all aspects of
art from drawing and design to sculpture and
ceramics. Classes at beginning and more ad-
vanced levels are taught by PSA faculty and
seniors. During the summer, PSA offers a High
Don't smoke while you are
School Pre-College Program and Young
pregnant. It can stunt your
People's Workshop. For more information on
young people's programs, call 775-3052.
baby's growth. And
get early and
Portland Symphony Orchestra. 30 Myrtle
Street, Portland. Toshiyuki Shimada, music
regular prenatal
March of
director and conductor. Kinderkonzerts are
care.
Dimes
short concerts performed by PSO ensembles
for children ages three to seven. Each concert
introduces one of the four families of orchestral
instruments. Performances are given in several
Maine and New Hampshire communities.
Youth Concerts are performed by the PSO in
the Portland City Hall Auditorium, for chil-
dren in third through sixth grade. For informa-
tion, call 773-8191.
Southworth Planetarium. University of South-
HOWARD
AAA
ern Maine, 96 Falmouth Street, Portland. Spe-
cial one-hour after-school show (astronomy,
JOHNSON
laser light, or video of NASA space probes) for
students of all ages, every Wednesday at 3:30.
Call for- information on programs for groups:
HOTEL - SOUTH PORTLAND
780-4249.
Young Men's Christian Association. 70 For-
est Avenue, Portland, Programs in athletics in-
clude the popular Aquatics Program for big
and very little dippers, Scuba Diving lessons,
the Youth Soccer League, Nautilus, Aerobic
Fitness, and Family Recreational Volleyball.
All programs are coeducational. In addition to
athletics, the Y offers day-care services, the Hi-
Y program for teen leadership, the Otter Pond
Wilderness Day Camp in Standish, and many
675 Main Street South Portland, Maine 207-775-5343
other social and educational programs. For
information about these and other Y programs,
call 874-1111.
Young Women's Christian Association. 87
indisco
Spring Street, Portland. The YWCA offers a
variety of programs for girls and boys. For the
youngest children and their parents, there are
such programs as Infant and Toddler Gym and
Independent Distributing Company
Swim, and Kindercize: For children between
the ages of.3 and 8, the YWCA offers Kinder-
197 US Route 1, P.O. Box 386, Scarborough, Maine 04074, (207) 883-5562
swim, Aquakids, Tumbletots, Pee Wee Soccer,
and Creative Dance. For older children there
are the Swim Clinic, Aquatic Games, Gymnas-
tics, and Beginner Karate. The YWCA also of-
fers programs for prenatal care, for day care,
and for teen parents. For more information
about these and other YWCA offerings, call
874-1130.
PORTLAND
PLACES
SCHEIRIEH
THE ONLY NAME YOU
FINE FURNITURE FOR THE KITCHEN
NEED TO KNOW IN CABINETS.
Greater Portland Landmarks. State Street,
Portland. For more information, call 774-5561.
84 Greater Portland
1989/1990 WINTER
The Portland Observatory. 138 Congress Street,
300'; 7 runs; 3 lifts; snowmaking on 60 percent;
Portland. Built in 1807 by Captain Lemuel
night skiing; nordic skiing nearby.
Moody, the Portland Observatory long served
as a signal tower for merchants and shipown-
Lost Valley, P.O. Box 260, Perkins Ridge Road,
ers of Portland. A system of signal flags told the
Auburn 04210-0260; 784-1561. Vertical drop:
town of approaching craft, hours before they
240'; 15 runs; 3 lifts; snowmaking on 100 per-
docked. Radios made the tower obsolete, and it
cent; night skiing.
was closed at the turn of the century, then
reopened by the City of Portland in 1939 as an
Mt. Abram Ski Slopes, Route 26, Box 189,
historic site. Thousands of visitors have climbed
Locke Mills04255;875-2601. Vertical drop: 1030';
its 102 steps to enjoy spectacular views of the
26 runs; 5 lifts; snowmaking on 80 percent;
city, the White Mountains, and Casco Bay. Open
nordic skiing at area.
HARDENBROOK
Memorial Day through Labor Day. During the
fall and winter, the observatory is open by
Shawnee Peak at Pleasant Mountain, P.O. Box
Painted Furniture
appointment only. Call 774-5561 for further
734, Route 302, Bridgton 04009; 647-8444. Ver-
information.
tical drop: 1300'; 31 runs; 5 lifts; snowmaking
And Accessories For The
on 98 percent; night skiing; nordicskiing nearby.
Victoria Mansion. 109 Danforth Street, between
Home And Garden.
State and High Streets, Portland. One of the
Saddleback Ski and Summer Lake Preserve,
finest surviving examples of nineteenth-cen-
P.O. Box 490, Rangeley 04970; 864-5671 (info),
tury eclectic architecture in the country. De-
864-3380 (snow phone), 864-5364 (reservations).
signed by Henry Austin (1804-91), the house is
Vertical drop: 1830'; 40 runs; 5 lifts; snowmak-
built of brownstone in the Italian villa style and
ing top to bottom; nordic skiing at area.
The Mural Room
features a tall square tower. The opulent Victo-
rian interior includes colorful frescoes, richly
Sugarloaf/USA, Carrabassett Valley 04947;
Has Become An
carved woodwork, and brilliant stained and
2000. Vertical drop: 2637'; 70 runs; 14 lifts;
etched glass. The furniture, paintings, fabrics,
snowmaking on 80 percent; nordic skiing
Adirondack's Log Cabin.
sculpture, and lighting devices owned by the
nearby.
Ruggles Sylvester Morses provide an invalu-
Come Visit.
able record of mid-nineteenth century taste.
Sunday River Ski Resort, P.O. Box 450, Bethel
Call for hours, and information on group tours:
04217; 824-3000 (info), 824-6400 (ski conditions),
772-4841.
1(800)543-2SKI (reservations). Vertical drop:
1854'; 60 runs; 11 lifts; snowmaking on 89 per-
cent; nordic skiing nearby.
Titcomb Mountain, Morrison Hill Road, Farm-
ington 04938; 778-9031. Vertical drop: 500'; 10
The Corner of Milk & Silver Streets
runs; 2 lifts; snowmaking on 30 percent; night
skiing; nordic skiing at area.
Portland, Maine 04104
207-773-4409
AUTHORIZED JEWELRY JUDGE
APPRAISAL CENTRE
SKI AREAS
JEWELRY APPRAISALS
while you wait
Portland Recreation Department. 389 Congress
Street, Portland. Offering a variety of downhill
and cross-country ski programs (lessons, day
trips, overnights) for all ability levels, second-
Never be without your
graders to teens to adults. Also offering snow-
jewelry
board lessons, and freestyle (ballet/moguls)
ski lessons. For more information, call week-
days: 874-8793.
A Computerized Appraisal
Service
Ski Maine Association. P.O. Box 991, Portland
04104. For daily ski conditions, call 1(800)533-
State of the Art
9595 (from out of state), or 773-SNOW (in
Maine). For information on ski areas and facili-
Gemological Laboratory
ties, call 761-3774.
THE
Big Squaw Mountain Resort, P.O. Box D,
Complimentary Jewelry
Greenville 04441; 695-2272. Vertical drop: 1750';
Inspection
18 runs; 4 lifts; snowmaking on 30 percent;
nordic skiing at area.
Complimentary Jewelry
JUDGE
Black Mountain of Maine, Glover Road,
Cleaning
Rumford 04276; 364-8977. Vertical drop: 470'; 9
runs; 2 lifts; night skiing; nordic skiing at area.
Competitive
Camden Snow Bowl, P.O. Box 1207, Hosmer
Pricing
Pond Road, Camden 04843; 236-3438. Vertical
drop: 950'; 9 runs; 3 lifts; snowmaking on 40
Graduate
Open Mon. thru
percent; night skiing; nordic skiing nearby.
600 Roundwood, off the Payne Rd:
Gemologist
Fri. 9 to 6, Sat. 'til 5,
1 mile South of the Maine Mall
on duty
and Thurs. 'til 8 p.m.
Hermon Mountain, RFD 1, Box 1347, Hewburg
Scarborough 883-0196
A Division of GM Pollack & Sons
Road, Searsport 04974; 548-5192. Vertical drop:
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85
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PARKS & BEACHES
Clark's Pond, off Western Avenue and Gorham
Road, South Portland, is a natural setting now
being redesigned for passive public use.
Crescent Beach State Park, off Route 77 in
Cape Elizabeth, contains a long sandy beach, a
Come join the more than 19,000
rocky headland, tide pools, open fields, a fresh-
water marsh, a spruce and oak forest, and
abundant wildlife and birdlife. Amenities in-
people who discovered our
clude picnic tables, charcoal grills, restrooms,
ample parking space, and bus service to down-
Information Center last year.
town.
Deering Oaks Park, in Portland, was once the
scene of a battle between colonists and Indians.
Consider a visit to the Maine Yankee Energy
Today this 51-acre Olmstead-designed park
has noteworthy flower gardens, tennis courts,
Information Center. Just stop in anytime 12
a lighted baseball diamond, a softball diamond,
historical monuments, a playground, and a
noon to 4 pm, 7 days a week. You'll discover
magnificent grove of oak trees.
The Fish and Wildlife Visitors Center, Fish
interesting and educational exhibits - a film,
Hatchery Road, Gray, provides a home for
injured wildlife from around the state. There
computerized video quizzes and equipment
are bears, raccoons, foxes, a coyote, fisher, skunk,
porcupine, owl, and hawk. Open between 10
showing how Maine Yankee produces electricity.
and 4 daily from May through the end of
November. For information call 657-4977.
There's also a view of our full scale, control
Fore River Sanctuary, off Rand Road, Port-
land. Seventy-six acre sanctuary with two and
room simulator - used to train and regularly
one-half miles of trails. Salt water marshes,
great bird watching, wildlife, deer. Boardwalks
test Maine Yankee operators. People of all
lead to Portland's only waterfall. For more
information call Maine Audubon land steward
ages will enjoy learning about one of our
at 781-2330.
Fort Williams Park, Shore Road, Cape Eliza-
State's important resources, Maine Yankee.
beth. Rocky cliffs, spectacular views of Casco
Bay, the islands, Portland Harbor, and two-
For more information, call our toll free number:
hundred-year-old Portland Head Light. Also:
baseball diamond, tennis courts, and plenty of
1-800-458-0066.
open space.
Gilsland Farm, off Route One, Falmouth. Home
Rt. 27 Augusta
Wiscasset
of the Maine Audubon Society. Marked nature
Wiscasset
Rt. 144 turn
trails wander through woods, fields, and along
Fire Dept.
Rockland
off miles
south of
a tidal inlet. A complete nature store is housed
Wiscasset
in the organization's innovative solar-powered
144
building.
Rt. 144
miles to
Mast Landing, Freeport, is operated and main-
Bath miles
tained by the Maine Audubon Society. Nature
trails wind through 140 acres and pass a variety
Maine
of natural habitats. In the winter the nature
Yankee
walks make ideal cross-country ski trails.
Maine Yankee
Mill Creek Park, between Ocean Street and
Cottage Road, South Portland, is a 10-acre park
RELIABLE ELECTRICITY FOR MAINE SINCE 1972
with a rose garden, a bandstand, and a large
toy-boat-sailing and skating pond.
Hours: Monday through Sunday, 12 noon to 4 pm
Payson Park, off Baxter Boulevard, Portland.
Forty-eight acres of softball and baseball fields,
86
Greater Portland
1989/1990 WINTER
tennis courts, a playground, and picnic and
skating areas.
Pine Point, off Route 9, Scarborough. A con-
tinuation of Old Orchard Beach, Pine Point has
Everything
one acre of land and a sandy beach.
The Promenades. On the east end of the Port-
A Great Restaurant
land peninsula, the 68-acre Eastern Promenade
offers a panorama of Portland Harbor and Casco
Bay, plus tennis courts, a ball field, and histori-
Should Be
cal markers. The Western Promenade over-
looks countryside and, on a clear day, the White
Mountains. Spectacular sunset-watching spot.
GORHAM
Dinner Meetings & Banquets
Scarborough Beach State Park, off Route 207,
Reward your employees!
Scarborough, is a long sandy beach with rela-
with Gift Certificates
tively warm water, lifeguards, and almost no
undertow. Excellent body-surfing conditions
STATION
after storms.
29 Elm St., Gorham
839-3354
Scarborough Marsh Nature Center, Route 9,
Scarborough. Operated by the Maine Audubon
Society. Nature center with marsh-life exhibits,
canoe rentals, and nature talks. For a complete
schedule, call 883-5100.
The best things in
Spring Point Shoreway, a scenic mile-plus
parkway extending from Fisherman's Point to
luxury apartment life
the Spring Point Marina along Casco Bay in
South Portland. Encompasses Willard Beach (a
are three:
sandy swimming beach), an arboretum, picnic
areas, and Fort Preble.
Two Lights State Park, off Route 77 in Cape
Elizabeth. Offers ocean views and surf-pounded
Management Resources,
rocks. Adjacent Lobster Shack serves takeout
seafood meals that can be eaten on the rocks.
Maine's premiere housing
specialist, has three great
Wolfe's Neck State Park, Freeport. Numerous
trails winding through lush woods and fields
ways to feel at home.
alongside the Harraseeket River and Casco Bay.
Tamarlane, minutes from Port-
land, with two tennis courts and
a pool. Elegant townhouses
and capes. Private
Tamarlane.
showings avail-
able. On Canco
Rd., off Washing-
ton Ave. in Portland. Call 774-8664.
Baywood, nestled in a pine forest in
Yarmouth, offers one and two bedroom
luxury townhouses. Pri-
vate showings available.
PLACES TO STAY
Pleasant Street off Rt. 88.
Call 846-5171.
DOWNTOWN
Baywood.
At Back Cove Estates you
can shop downtown and
Holiday Inn By the Bay. 88 Spring Street, Port-
land. 239 rooms. (207)775-2311, 1(800)MEET-
never miss a sail. Spectacular
ING.
views of the skyline and Back
Inn at Park Spring. 135 Spring Street, Portland.
Cove. Unique and attractive
Seven rooms.
interiors. Private showings
(207)774-1059.
available. Enter from Ocean
Inn on Carleton. 46 Carleton Street, Portland.
Ave. in Portland. Call 774-8842.
Bed and breakfast with seven rooms. (207)775-
1910.
Back Cove Estates.
Pomegranate Inn. 49 Neal Street, Portland. Bed
and breakfast. Six rooms, all with private bath
or shower, and telephone. Isabel and Alan
Management
Smiles. (207)772-1006.
Resources, Inc.
Portland Regency Inn. Milk Street, Portland.
428 Cumberland Ave., Portland, Maine 04101, 774-8830
95 rooms. (207)774-4200, 1(800)543-7803.
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Greater Portland
87
Sonesta Hotel. 157 High Street, Portland. 184
rooms. (207)775-5411, 1(800)341-0414,
1(800)343-7170.
THE GENTLE TOUCH
EXIT 5/INTERSTATE 295
Ramada Inn. 1230 Congress Street, Portland.
150 rooms. (207)774-5611, 1(800)228-2828.
EXIT MAINE TURNPIKE
Quality Suites Hotel. 1050 Westbrook Street,
SUPER SOFT
Portland. Portland's only all-suites hotel, open-
ing Fall 1989. 119 suites. (207)775-2200.
Sheraton Inn. 363 Maine Mall Road, South
CHAMOIS CLOTH
Portland. 220 rooms. (207)775-6161, 1(800)325-
3535.
EXIT 8/MAINE TURNPIKE
CAR
Days Inn of Portland. 1150 Brighton Avenue,
Portland. (207)775-3711, 1(800)325-2525.
WASHING
Holiday Inn West. 81 Riverside Street, Port-
land. 206 rooms. (207)774-5601, 1(800)MEET-
ING.
IS
Howard Johnson's Motor Lodge. 155 River-
side Street, Portland. (207)774-5861, 1(800)645-
2000.
HERE.
FREEPORT
Harraseeket Inn. 162 Main Street, Freeport. 54
rooms, many with fireplace, Jacuzzi. Dining
room, lounge. (207)865-9377.
SOUTH OF PORTLAND
Black Point Inn. 510 Black Point Road, Prouts
Neck. 20 rooms. (207)883-4126.
Day's Inn/John Martin's Manor. 700 Main
Street, South Portland. 152 rooms. (207)774-
6151.
Howard Johnson Hotel. 675 Main Street, South
Portland. 123 rooms. (207)775-5343.
Inn By the Sea. Route 77, Cape Elizabeth. 43
rooms. (207)799-3134.
"Fill-It-Up, Please"
Portland Marriott Hotel. 200 Sable Oaks Drive,
South Portland. 227 rooms. (207)871-8000.
Travelodge. 738 Main Street, South Portland.
98 rooms. Restaurant and lounge; swimming
pool. (207)774-5891.
The Right Touch
RESORTS
CAR WASH
Sebasco Lodge. Box G, Sebasco Estates, Maine
04565. Entertainment for all ages. On the ocean,
with saltwater swimming pool, boating, hik-
Mall Plaza, So. Portland
ing, 9-hole golf course, tennis courts. Modified
American plan. (207)389-1161.
1185 Forest Ave., Portland
RR Overpass, Route One, Biddeford
88 Greater Portland
1989/1990 WINTER
Another Way To Look At Portland's Future.
ENT WAY
LASSIC
TEWEAR
T
he nearly completed Monument Way
from Monument Square to the revitalized
Project represents all that is positive
Free Street area.
about a continued investment in Port-
land's future. An important landmark
Fortunately, Portland has attracted ex-
building has been completely renovated
ceptional professional and trades people
by Keeley Construction Company, Inc.
who make this kind of quality develop-
incorporating pivotal retail and commercial space. Of
ment possible. They have raised our sights and expecta-
note, the design now provides an essential pedestrian link
tions, and we wouldn't have it any other way.
keeley
The Team That's Building Portland's Future
Keeley Construction Company, Inc., P.O. Box 1074
Portland, Maine 04104
Telephone (207) 773-8499
Keeley on
Gendron.
"
I've relied on alot of Gendron's capabilities.
They're a very sophisticated company. In our
Monument Way project, they worked with the banks
before we bought the building to find out what was
financially feasible. Another broker might not have
made that effort. That kind of in-depth analysis --
knowing what the banks will accept
and the market will support -- is
essential in the development business.
Gendron's market knowledge also
allowed them to focus on the right
tenants and fill the space quickly.
They're major league players: they
get into the game and
"
make things happen.
Jim Keeley
President
Keeley Development Group
Gendron &Co.
Commercial/Industrial Real Estate
keeky
IDAHO
1
Portland's leading commercial brokerage firm.
10 Moulton Street, Portland, Maine 04101
RON
RE-ELECT
Governor McKernan
JOHN R. McKERNAN, JR.
Governor of Maine
John R. McKernan, Jr., was born May 20, 1948, in Bangor, Maine. He attended Bangor
public schools, where he was a standout athlete. He received an A.B. degree from
Dartmouth College in 1970, and was selected for the All-Ivy League Tennis Team. After
graduation he joined the Army National Guard, and in 1971 enrolled in the University of
Maine School of Law. While still a law student, he won election to the Maine House of
Representatives.
Awarded his law degree in 1974, McKernan was re-elected to a second term in the Maine
Legislature, where his colleagues selected him for the post of Assistant Republican Floor
Leader. During his second term, he won passage of Maine's returnable container law, or
"bottle bill," making Maine one of the first states in the country to have such legislation.
McKernan began his legal practice in Bangor, and after leaving the State Legislature in
1976, joined a Portland law firm. After several years, McKernan decided to return to
public service, and in 1982 was elected to represent Maine's First Congressional District in
the U.S. House of Representatives.
Re-elected to Congress by a wide margin in 1984, McKernan served on the House
Education and Labor Committee, the Merchant Marine and Fisheries Committee, the
Government Operations Committee, and the Select Committee on Children, Youth and
Families. As a Congressman, he received the "Watchdog of the Treasury" from the
National Federation of Independent Business, and was endorsed by the League of
Conservation Voters.
McKernan was elected Governor of Maine in 1986, the first Republican Governor in more
than two decades His Administration's accomplishments during his first term in office have
helped prepare Maine for this new decade.
McKernan currently serves as Co-Chairman of the National Governors' Association Special
Subcommittee on Health, is Chairman of the National Governors' Association Legal Affairs
Committee, is Chairman of the Coalition of Northeastern Governors (CONEG), and is a
member of the Republican Governors' Association Executive Committee.
McKernan was recently elected Vice Chair of the Education Commission of the States.
He has served on the Advisory Committee of the Bangor Community College, was
coordinator of a major fundraising drive for Mercy Hospital in Portland, and in 1982 was
appointed to the Commission on Presidential Scholars. In 1976, he headed President Ford's
re-election campaign in Maine. He was active in both the 1980 and 1984 Reagan-Bush
campaigns, and in the 1988 Bush-Quayle campaign.
McKernan married Congresswoman Olympia J. Snowe of Maine in February, 1989 He has
one son, Peter, from a previous marriage. He is Protestant.
P.O. Box 7828 DTS, Portland, Maine 04112-7828
(207) 828-1990
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Re-Elect Governor John McKerna
JEANIE MILLS
Promises Kept
Four years ago, John McKernan offered Maine a vision
for our future and a promise to do more for Maine.
He has offered strong, steady leadership
in good times
and in tough times.
To achieve his vision of greater opportunity for all Maine
people, he delivered on his promises:
providing quality education, day care and access to higher
education for our children.
expanding training and employment opportunities for
our working men and women.
declaring war on drugs and backing it with the resources
to double drug arrests.
doing more to protect our most vulnerable citizens.
implementing innovative environmental initiatives on
growth management, solid waste, recycling and protection
of our natural resources.
reducing spending growth to balance the budget
in tough economic times for the Northeast - without
raising the income or sales tax.
working to attract new jobs to Maine and helping
Maine's businesses expand.
In these times, Maine needs a problem solver.
An energetic leader with vision.
Re-Elect Governor John McKernan.
Keep Maine Moving
Forward
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