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Paul Luise snapped this portrait of the 1974 Old Port Artists Wharf Show exhibitors. Standing left to right Norman Miller Thomas John Legere Jane Wray Robert Drinon Michael Willis Howard Clifford Jr. Robert E. Laveault Joseph Cousins Normand St. Pierre and Edy Bishop-Bubier. Seated left to right Ellsworth Greene Karen Osborne Lenny Hatch Karen Marchetti Jennifer Lord Gilman and Wende Legere. 74 P O R T L A N D MONTHLY MAGAZINE CLOCKWISEFROMTOPLEFTPAULLUISE2FILEPHOTOFILIPPKOTSISHEVSKIYC.C.CHURCHJACKIEMCCORMICKCONN Characters as vivid as those from the pages of J.M. Barrie challenge my millen- nials imagination the foundation of which has slowly begun to buckle under student loans rent prices and Twitter. F rom Stanley the Stripper who dressed in drag and hung around the Crows Nest to Hells Angel Jake Sawyer and Dave the Dog Man whose nine dogs followed wherever he went Ive re- played the stories over and over again in my mind and I still cant tell you if the mem- bers of this tribe were the first or very last of their kind. ONCE UPON A TIME It was 1972. Photographer Paul Luise was 21 and enrolled at PoGo USM when he went to see a show for artists Denis Bou- dreau and Howard Clifford at Joe Cousinss Longfellow Square Gallery. After the show he was invited back to Cousinss and Clif- fords studio on the corner of Fore and Ex- change streets. Were going down Exchange and there are no street lights no parking meters Paul laughs. So Im trying to followpeoplesvoic- es as were walking and Joe Cousins says to me If you trip over something dont worry. Itll either scamper or groan. You had to scale up three flights to get to the studio. We start going up the floors and the place is total chaos. It looks like its been bombed out. When we get through all of the grunge Paul says with Denis listening I mean the streets smelled like urine. He smiles the fragrance coming back to him. When we get up into the gallery its white walls hanging plants all this stuff. It was just so cool to see all of this beautiful cre- ativity within this chaos. He shapes the image with his hands still amazed by what he witnessed 40 years ago when Denis cuts in. Geodes. This isnt meI never wore pants like that says poet Martin Steingesser. The sticks themselves are beautiful and I like them to show below the bottom of the chaps which is what I wore. At the inaugural Old Port Festival in 1972 the original Shoestring Theatre was an outpost of Bread Puppet. Starting in 1981 Nancy Tyndall and Stein- gesser were leaders of the parade on stilts.