FEATURES

28 The Foodie’s Guide to Planet Maine
Your four-season directory to over 95 gourmet festivals, soirees, wine tastings, deaths by chocolate, exhibitions, world’s largest human lobster, and celebrity battles of the chefs: Get out your Blackberry-this year’s going to be incredible.
By Judith Gaines

35 Where the Fur Flies
Across Maine, PETA takes its animal advocacy to the streets.
By Donna Stuart

37 Inside: Designer Dreaming
An architect re-imagines a classic home interior for the 21st century.
By Brad Favreau

41 Outside: Garden Party…
Tour stunning Fredrick Law Olmsted landscape designs.
By Brad Favreau

47 A Woman in Full
Her magnetic husband, Adm. Robert Peary, may have ‘discovered’ the North Pole, but Portland’s Josephine Peary held the couple’s moral compass, ran the mothership on Eagle Island and penned a bestseller.
By Patricia Erikson

49 Gentlemen’s Agreement
There’s a big, dirty secret why Portland doesn’t have an elected mayor, and it goes back to the Ku Klux Klan. Will a new charter commission finally put this behind us?
By Donna Stuart

64 Maine Squeeze
The original Maine Squeeze takes us on a tour of his Harpswell home.
By Colin Sargent

IN EVERY ISSUE

12 Letters
We hear from Impressionist
painter Paul Black, readers who dream of crashing waves, and the unencompassable world of Brook DeLorme.

14 Goings On

25 Chowder
A tasty blend of the fabulous, noteworthy, and absurd.

60 Restaurant Review
Sensory Feast at Star East
By Diane Hudson

61 Dining Guide

101 House of the Month
“Georgian on My Mind”
The mid-18th century Waldo Mansion in Stroudwater jolts the market at just $394,000.
By Colin Sargent

102 New England Homes & Living

111 Fiction
“Thawing Out”
By Kelly Marshall

112 Flash

DEPARTMENTS

8 From the Editor
“The Secret Forest”
By Colin Sargent

51 Cuiscene
“Baking the Mold”
Crown your kitchen with a conversation piece whose function is the form.
By Judith Gaines

54 Performance
The supporting players of Death Vessel may change, but Joel Thibodeau is a star to navigate by.
By Todd M. Richard

57 Personal Shopper
New-wave home furnishings with old-world craftsmanship.
By Amy Louise Reynolds

58 Market Watch
“Smooth Sledding”
By Sarah Cumming Cecil

68 2009 Guide to Wellness