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TOURIST & TOWN
The Magazine
Maine’s South Coast | Summer 2021
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TOURIST & TOWN
The Magazine
Photograph by C.A. Smith Photography
2 SUMMER 2021
In This Issue...
Cover Photo
C.A. Smith Photography
Editor’s Note 4
Contributors 6
Fun & Games 10
Summer Fun at the
Seashore Trolley Museum 13
Bocce Anyone? 14
Ayuh, It’s a Fact 17
Food & Drink 18
Summer Wines 20
Sea Legs: Gary Ridlon, Lobsterman 28
Local Finds & Tasty Choices 30
Ice Cream Map 32
Events & Entertainment 34
Live Music Venues 36
Native Roots 42
The Kennebunk Depot 44
Classic Print Celebrates
Architectural Heritage 47
Local Finds 54
Signature Finishes 56
The Great Outdoors 70
Beekeeping 74
The Great Sea Glass Hunt 76
Art & Artists 80
Health & Wellness 84
Exercise for a Healthy
Immune System 86
Yoga, Your Way 87
It’s All About Boxing –
It’s All About Life 88
Mainely Maine 92
Maine Reads 92
It’s Like This 96
SUMMER 2021 3
Thank you.
Editor’s Note We thank our advertisers who make this magazine possible.
This magazine is our love note to south Please support these local businesses. And by all means,
let’s shop LOCAL, eat LOCAL, spend LOCAL and enjoy LOCAL.
coastal Maine – a heart-filled tribute to every-
Art & Artists Health & Wellness
thing that ignites the senses in this special Arundel Farm Gallery Healing by Willow
part of the planet. Dianna Anderson Fine Art Positive Pressure
Please enjoy each carefully curated Geraldine Aikman Quest Fitness
nugget, from the breathtaking photography Home & Away The Daily Sweat
Maine Art Hill The Hair Lounge by Erin
to our writers’ exquisitely researched stories, Robin Swennes Way to Be Yoga
to the wide array of colorful advertisements, Seaside Gallery & Gifts Local Finds
each of which tell an important, local story. The Wright Gallery Americana Workshop
Thank you for allowing us to share our Wade Zahares Antiques on Nine
Events Beach Grass
summer love letter. And be sure to hold
Arabella Estate Bo-Mar Antiques
onto it – the sentiment City Theater Calluna Fine Flowers & Gifts
is timeless. Hackmatack Playhouse Carla’s
Ogunquit Playhouse Fine Print Booksellers
The Dock Squares Cloth Interiors
Tom Clark, Comedian Coastal Jewelers
Kingsley Gallup
Vinegar Hill Music Theatre Dannah
Tourist & Town Food & Drink Dannah for Men
Arundel Wharf Farm + Table
Bandaloop Fleurant
Batson River Green Tangerine
Brewing & Distilling Hurlbutt Designs
Bee Good Jagger Spun
Boulangerie Junebug’s Beach House
Bradbury Brothers Life List Book
Cape Porpoise Kitchen Local Color
Coffee Roasters Mail-It Unlimited
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H.B. Provisions Port Hardware
Kitchen Chicks Scalawag’s
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Martel’s Signature Finishes
Old Vines Wine Bar St. David’s Budget Box
Port Lobster The Bike Cop Book Series
Talula’s Trillium
The Bitter End Professional Services
The Colony Hotel Best Friend Digital Media
The Nonantum Branch Brook Fuels
The Scoop Deck Kennebunk Savings
The Spirit Sandy Gnidziejko Photography
Three Sea’s
Real Estate Professionals
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Fun & Games Andrews Milligan
Intown Trolley Kennebunk Beach Realty
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Great Outdoors Maureen Adams, Portside
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Publisher & Editor
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Feature Writers
Faith Gillman Faith Gillman is a freelance Steve Hrehovcik, writer, editor
Steve Hrehovcik writer/editor by night and loan and artist, has been with Tourist
processor by day. When she’s not & Town (formerly Tourist News)
Dean Johnson working, Faith spends her time since 2006. He and his wife Carol
Valerie Marier with George and their Japanese have lived in Kennebunk for almost
Jo O’Connor Chins, Georgy and Rexy – and 50 years. Steve’s book Rebel Without
Dana Pearson maintains her reputation as the A Clue: A Way-Off Broadway
“Kennebunk Dance Lady.” Memoir can be found at
Guest Contributors faith@touristandtown.com kennebunkartstudio.com.
Leslie Cargill
Joshua Hrehovcik
Tiffany Lathrop
Gary Murfitt
Advertising
Karen Arel
Sandy Janes
Content Editors Dean Johnson grew up in a Valerie Marier is a freelance
local restaurant. His mother was journalist who has traveled the
Geraldine Aikman
the original Bessie of Bessie’s in world writing for magazines and
Jo O’Connor Ogunquit. Dean is the food critic newspapers. Val is a wife, mother
Social Media for Merrimack Valley Magazine. and grandmother who enjoys knit-
His work has been in everything ting and reading, golf and travel,
Meghan Candee
from Variety to Rolling Stone, and writes about them in her blog,
including both Boston dailies. He’s Wandering With Val.
Tourist & Town also been a talk host at WBZ-AM. wanderingwithval.com.
P.O. Box 647
Kennebunkport, ME 04043
207-204-0055
publisher@touristandtown.com
touristandtown.com
Find us at the depot!
Jo O'Connor is a local writer Dana Pearson is a writer and musician
with deep roots in Kennebunk- who lives in Kennebunk with his wife,
port. She is a mother of twins Diane. His novels Viewers Like You,
and founder/lead singer of the Two Birds and The Muralist, humor
local band, The Dock Squares. collection No, But Seriously: 1994-
She teaches Zumba and aqua 2007 and short story collection Three
classes and is a marketing Boat Lengths can be found at www.
Follow us on Instagram communication professor. amazon.com/author/danapearson.
jfboconnor@gmail.com. dana@touristandtown.com
@touristandtown
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Thank you to the following local professionals
whose amazing photography graces these pages:
Geraldine Aikman, Bob Dennis, Karen Hall,
Joshua Hrehovcik, Sandy Gnidziejko, Ken Janes,
Heidi Kirn, Chris Smith and Eric Storm.
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www.kennebunkportandshorerealty.com SUMMER 2021 9fun & games 10 SUMMER 2021 Photographs on this and opposite page by Joshua Hrehovcik
Summertime is always the best
of what might be.
Charles Bowden
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Photograph by Joshua Hrehovcik12 SUMMER 2021
Summer Fun at the Seashore Trolley Museum
by guest contributor Joshua Hrehovcik
How would you like to visit a museum with the biggest collection of public transportation vehicles in
the whole world? Or maybe you’d love to check out the largest electric railway museum on the planet?
Well, good news! You can do both right here in Kennebunkport, Maine. And, even more good news –
they’re both located in the same place!
The Seashore Trolley Museum, located on Log Cabin Road in Kennebunkport, was founded in 1939.
There you can explore the grounds and view restored trolleys, streetcars and buses, plus buildings
like Tower C, with its verdigris-green copper siding, as well as transit artifacts. And, for a unique
experience, the museum offers rides on their vintage early 1900s trolleys every Wednesday through
Sunday, 10 AM-5 PM, throughout the summer. Days and hours change in the fall.
A visit to the Seashore will give you (and your dog!) one of the most enjoyable and unique experiences in
Maine. And with so much to see and do, you (and your dog!) will want to keep coming back again and again.
Yes, dogs are welcome at the museum (please read their dog policy at their website first), and the
Seashore even offers a Dog Appreciation Day for your furry friends in October.
Watch experts bringing these historic vehicles back to all their amazing glory in the Restoration Shop,
find unique gifts in the Museum Shop and, oh yeah, ride the trolleys!
Open rain or shine on Wednesday, Friday–Sunday, May through October. Some events you won’t want
to miss: Ice Cream Night on Wednesdays during July and August; Free Story Time weekday mornings
11-11:30 AM; Moxie Day on Sat., July 10; Connecticut Day featuring CT trolleys on Sat., July 24; Superhero
and Royalty Day on Sat., Aug. 7; Teacher Appreciation Weekend, Sat. and Sun., Aug. 21-22.
Go to trolleymuseum.org for ticket information and their events calendar, and get ready to get
rolling!
Joshua Hrehovcik is a photographer and not-bad-selling author of the Retro Roadtrip book series. His
latest book is Retro Roadtrip: Kennebunkport, Seashore Trolley Museum and is available at the Seashore Trolley
Museum, at retailers throughout New England and at RetroRoadtripper.com
Photographs on this and opposite page by Joshua Hrehovcik
SUMMER 2021 13Bocce
Anyone?
Photograph by Denyse Johnson
14 SUMMER 2021The Summer Pastime with Staying Power
by Dean Johnson
Not many people are still having fun with a high school graduation gift decades after
they wore the cap and gown. But my older brother is a pretty smart guy. He gave me a
professional bocce set.
What would ever possess anyone back in the early ‘70s to give an 18-year-old a set of
bocce balls?
Well, if you’d spent all of your summers on the beach in Ogunquit, you’d understand.
Every low tide, it was all but a sure thing. You’d see people gathered around a group of
balls… then take turns rolling them across the beach’s hard sand.
Ogunquit’s undisputed Baron of Bocce was an older gentleman who had braces on his
knees that caused him to tip to the right (or was it the left?) at a slightly odd angle. Gossip
had it he had been hit by lightning, but no one really knew.
He may or may not have been associated with a certain well-known Ogunquit clan that
still has roots in the Beautiful Place by the Sea, but the details are a little fuzzy these days.
Nevertheless, he was clearly more than a bocce beach bum. He told people who asked
that he had been banned from real bocce tournaments because… well… he was too good...
but also that he “took a little money from some rich guy.”
He supposedly had actually won several amateur national championships, but had lost his
crown when authorities learned he had been indiscreet enough “to take some rich sucker’s
money in a match who just wanted to throw it away, anyway.”
Hustled a rich gent over a little bocce money? Quelle horreur! That was just not done in
those days.
So, before he was banned, was he really any good? “The Nationals?” he once said to my
brother, Nipper. “Hells bells! I won the nationals five times!”
No one ever fact-checked him. Why bother? He was on the beach every day when the
tides were right. He had a set of pro bocce balls, he was happy to play with most anybody,
and he was good. Actually, he was better than good. He was cool, and smooth, and very
good. He was also happy to help ‘most anyone learn the game.
To this day, I still use and pass along two of his beach bocce tips. He was the one who
taught us to draw a circle in the sand to mark the spot where players should toss their balls.
And how do you measure the distance between balls when all the players are in bathing
suits? No problem. He’d walk off the distances using his feet...heel-to-toe, heel-to-toe. It
worked every time. Still does.
Bocce was hardly the kind of universal beach game it is today. You couldn’t order it on
Amazon or head down to your local department store and pick up a set at most every Target,
Walmart, etc. Back then, bocce was still such an odd and exotic activity that I have no idea
where my brother managed to find a set, never mind a professional one.
The “official” bocce history tells us the game has roots that go back to the ancient Greeks
and Romans, and the rules involve specific court dimensions and standards and surfaces.
But here is the beauty of beach bocce: few of those “real” rules really matter or help. Tire-
some things like knowledge and real skill will only take you so far, and may actually hurt you.
Bocce on the beach? To this day, I can light up most people like a Christmas tree just by
mentioning it. “Traditional” bocce on a regulation court? I’ve never touched the stuff.
“Official” bocce rules state there are three kinds of shots: pointee, portee, or tiree. The
first is a simple roll, as if you were bowling. The second is an underhanded arc shot with
just a touch of backspin that should make the ball drop dead on the ground. The last shot,
also called a tir, is basically an underhanded arc toss meant to scatter your opponent’s balls
out of scoring range.
It reads so well on paper. But all of that quickly gets shot to pieces when you play on a
beach. The simple roll goes bad when the ball hits a big hunk of dry seaweed. The underhanded
shot stops dead on soft sand, but try it on hard sand and you may get a very disagreeable
bounce. And bocce’s answer to croquet’s mashie? Whoops. It just hit an abandoned sand
castle and went skittering down the beach in the wrong direction.
That’s the glory of beach bocce. Technique counts only so much, and the strategy of the
initial toss of the jack… or target ball… can be everything.
It’s all about distance and terrain.
Soft sand, hard sand, or just plain old mud? Long ball or muscle ball (i.e., throw it just a
few feet away)? How well will the other team deal with tide pools? Look! Some kids dug a
big hole. Let’s throw the jack in there and see what happens.
There is an endless variety of playing options… SO much more interesting… and fun…
than competing on a boring regulation court.
So the next time you’re in Ogunquit and see people playing bocce on the beach… or maybe
you’re tossing a few balls yourself... just remember there is a lot of history behind the game...
with some real characters mixed in there, too.
SUMMER 2021 15Photograph
16 SUMMER by Joshua
2021 Hrehovcik“Ayuh, It’s a Fact” – Maine Tidbits
by Jo O'Connor
• Maine is home to the world’s largest telephone. Or at least
a sculpture of an old-fashioned candlestick phone. Standing
at 14 feet tall, it lives in Bryant Pond.
• You can see the world’s largest nonstick pan in Pittsfield.
• Standing at just 6 feet tall, the Echo Point Light is the world’s
smallest lighthouse, which stands on the edge of Great Dia-
mond Island.
• The town of Strong was once known as the Toothpick
Capitol of the World as the area had an abundance of white
birch trees. Strong Wood Products at one time produced 20
million toothpicks per day.
• National Geographic Society has placed a boulder in Perry
that marks the midway point between the Equator and the
North Pole.
• Did you know that Casco Bay’s Jewell Island is the reputed
site of Captain Kidd’s buried treasure?
• In the movie Forrest Gump, Gump makes it to Marshall It's miniature golf and so much more:
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• Bangor claims to be the birthplace of Paul Bunyan and is
home to a giant 31-foot statue celebrating the woodsman.
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Photograph by Joshua Hrehovcik
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Photograph by Sandy GnidziejkoSummer Wines from the Foot of the Mountain
by guest contributor Gary Murfitt
When you think of a wine for the summer, you may immediately think rosé with its beautiful salmon
pink color, or a delicious aromatic white with its refreshing zesty acidity. But for myself I have always tried
to resist the notion that the seasons dictate what is best to drink.
It is the food as much as the weather that inspires my choice and what would ultimately pair well with
the delicious smells from the grill – whether it is grilled chicken in a glazed BBQ sauce or a succulent rib eye
cooking over a campfire. These wonderful smells of sweet spice and burning fats are what encapsulates those
long summer nights and memories for me.
The summer wine that I have an affection for comes from the “foot of the mountain,” Piedmont in north-
ern Italy. This is one of Italy’s northernmost wine regions, separated from mainland Italy by mountains on
three sides, the Alps (north and west) separating it from France and Switzerland, and Apennines (south)
from Liguria region.
This remoteness has helped Piedmont retain and preserve many of its local traditions, regional cuisines,
and to be home to some of the greatest and most long-lived wines in the world. With its continental climate
(cold winter, hot summers) and the mild autumns it is beneficial to the late ripening “the king of wines,”
Nebbiolo grape.
Nebbiolo is responsible for these fine wines and is a thinking person’s grape, subtle yet bold, simple
yet complex. If you enjoy Sangiovese or a cool climate pinot noir then you should certainly consider trying
Nebbiolo. Nebbiolo produces powerful and full-bodied wines, but you may be misled with your first nose
in the glass, as the floral and light red fruit aromas would suggest a lighter-styled red wine.
But upon tasting you will experience a much more complex wine with soft grained gripping tannins and
high acidity. Despite the tannic structure, Nebbiolo has a beautiful fruity aroma of cherry, raspberry and
strawberry, along with floral aromas of rose and violets. Wines from a good vintage will show more com-
plex aromas of tar, licorice, camphor, tobacco, chocolate, spice and white truffles. But from a cool vintage,
Nebbiolo will show more herbaceous aromas of eucalyptus and/or mint and cranberry/sour cherry, rose
hip and leather.
Piedmont encircles the hilly region of Langhe which has a mainly clay-based soil, and contains enough
alkaline to tame the fiercely high acidity of Nebbiolo. Within Langhe lies the smaller regions of Barolo and
Barbaresco, where Nebbiolo finds its natural home. It is here in Barolo in a good vintage that Nebbiolo pro-
duces one of the greatest red wines in the world. Both Barolo and Barbaresco
wines have bold fruit characteristics and grippy tannins, and Barbaresco,
with its more loose knit, approachable style is very aromatic when young. Nebbiolo-based
In the northern part of Piedmont, heading towards the Alps, you will find wine recommendations:
more approachable styles of Nebbiolo in the regions of Ghemme, Gattinara
and Colline Novaresi. Here the wines are much lighter in style and more Giovanni Rosso, Langhe Nebbiolo,
likened to Burgundy’s pinot noirs; the wine from these regions has a more Piedmont, Italy 2018
floral approach with delicate tart red fruits and high acidity. A very juicy and succulent wine
When pairing these wines, you will need to match the delicate aromas showing black cherry and rose
and bold tannins with a dish that contains enough fat to absorb the tannins aromas with a vibrant palate of
(such as a rib eye), and a higher acidity food (like a vinaigrette-based sauce) cherry and raspberry fruit, and
to match the high acidity. My personal recommendations would be a Bold soft, juicy tannins. $30 Talula’s,
American Cheeseburger or Fusilli Pasta with Tomato Ragù. Lower Village Kennebunk, Maine
Enjoy and have a wonderful summer. Cheers!
Gary Murfitt CSW, Sommelier Produttorui del Barbaresco,
IG: garymurfittlesomm Barbaressco, Piedemont, Italy 2016
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tannins. $50 Boulangerie, Kenne-
bunk, Maine
Enzo Bogliette “Fossati,” Barolo,
Piedmont, Italy 2018
A succulent wine with an intense
bouquet of red and dark fruits,
sweet spices and aromatic herbs
and fine tannins. $75 Boulangerie,
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SUMMER 2021 25Mom’s Gazpacho - with a Downeast Twist
from Valerie Marier
Fifty-eight years ago this summer, Mom, sister Robin and I
walked down the gangplank of the U.S.S. Constitution. We had Gazpacho with a Twist
just docked at the Spanish port of Algeciras after a week-long Place 3-4 minced garlic cloves and 1/4
Atlantic crossing from New York, and were starting a two-week cup lemon juice in a large glass bowl.
jaunt through southern Spain before joining my father and two
brothers in Greece. Add: 3 cups chopped tomatoes, 2 cups
After loading the luggage in his black Renault, Mateo, our chopped cucumbers, 1/2 cup chopped
mustachioed driver asked, “Are you hungry, Senoras? I know onions, 1/2 cup diced green pepper
a bueno spot for lunch.”
Once seated at an umbrella-topped table at a sidewalk cantina, Stir in 2 tablespoons chopped chives, 2
we gazed at menus written entirely in Spanish. I asked Mateo, teaspoons salt, 1 teaspoon Tabasco sauce,
“What should we order?” 1/3 cup olive oil and a large bottle of
“Gazpacho!” he said. “It’s a cold soup and perfect for a hot tomato juice.
afternoon like today.” Within minutes, we were ladling our
spoons into a tangy red tomato broth topped with diced cucum- Extras for added flavor: red wine vinegar,
bers and yellow peppers. Every day thereafter, as we wound 2 cups of V-8 or Clamato juice, a heaping
our way from the southern tip of Spain to Granada, then Seville, of horseradish, chopped cilantro, sliced
and finally Madrid, I ordered gazpacho for lunch and dinner. shallots
It was always different and never looked the same. Sometimes
a red broth, other times green broth, occasionally white broth. I But here in Maine, I have a special addi-
adored them all. And when we returned to the States later that tion for local flavor: One hearty dollop of
summer, Mom and I searched for a signature recipe which I use picked lobster meat atop each individual
to this day. bowl. It’s a keeper!
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SUMMER 2021 27Sea Legs
Like his grandfather, great-uncles and father, Gary Ridlon has been
by Valerie Marier a lobsterman all his working life
“Gary Ridlon is the toughest SOB alive,” Cape Porpoise lobsterman Cody Nunan states with admiration. “He goes out
regularly, even in harsh conditions.” He also goes out alone, without a sternman, and has for decades.
That’s potent praise from a fellow lobstermen, unquestionably the most monosyllabic Mainers in the Pine Tree State.
Ridlon, who is 87 years old and lives in Kennebunkport, shrugged it off, saying, “I’m just doin’ what I wanted to. Never
considered anything else.”
“Rid” hauled his first wooden trap before he turned 10. “After school, my buddies and I would row over to Goose
Rocks and set some traps, but we didn’t know what we were doin’ and often had to be towed back,” he said with a laugh.
In his teens, he cruised out of Cape Porpoise harbor aboard his father’s and great-uncles’ boats. He had three siblings but
was the only one who chose to become a lobsterman. “My grandfather was a lobsterman. But he drowned in 1934 when
he was still young. I knew what I was gettin’ into.”
Growing up in the quiet village of Cape Porpoise, Gary remembers sledding down Crow Hill on icy February mornings.
“When the harbor froze over in the late ‘40s, you could walk all the way from the pier to the mouth. They used dynamite to
break it up.” He recalled playing baseball on warm July afternoons in the “town square,” the sprawling intersection of Route
9 and Pier Road. “There was hardly any traffic so we placed home plate right in front of the Wayfarer.” Come September,
he joined “eight kids in my class at the old Cape Porpoise school.”
Other memories reveal and delineate the changes in lobstering since Ridlon hauled his first trap. “In the late 1950s, lobster
was 35 cents a pound and bait cost $2.75 a barrel,” he said. “But we made a good living. Sure, we didn’t have fathometers
to tell us how deep the water was. Didn’t have GPS either, but we always knew where we were by certain marks or places
along the shoreline.”
“Weather forecasts weren’t so good back then either,” Ridlon said. “My dad used a barometer every morning and he
was right about 75% of the time. We’d just go out, and if the weather was bad we’d turn around and come right back in.
Wind was the worst.”
Gary admitted being scared only one time. “I was hauling gill nets with some guys 10 miles out. The boat was riding a
big wave when the stern suddenly went under water. After we straightened out, the boat was half full of water. We started
bailin’ like crazy. That would’ve been a long swim.” He added, with a smile, “And I don’t know how to swim.”
When he first started lobstering, Ridlon hauled wooden traps. “They usually lasted less than a year so we were always
rebuilding and repairing them during the winter. Today traps are vinyl and last forever but the ocean is probably full of
those non-disintegrating traps. Our lines were made of real rope. Now they’re synthetic and never break down. Plus my
first buoys were wood. Now they’re styrofoam.”
“One other thing,” Ridlon added. “Years ago,most lobstermen never had sternmen. You were your own man on your
own boat. We liked it that way.”
The Margy M was Ridlon’s first lobster boat. “Paid $5000 for it in the early ‘70s and named it after my wife Margy. Second
boat I called Teroma – the first two initials of my daughters names, Terry and Robin, and my wife. When I got my third boat,
I just reversed Teroma and called it Amoret.”
“Almost any day the weather’s good.” Ridlon steers the 25-foot white-
with-red-trim Amoret towards Biddeford Pool. Clad in classic Grunden
overalls and rubber boots, he typically hauls 80 traps, then opens a can
of King Oscar sardines for lunch – “Skinless and boneless. Love ‘em.”
Back home, the widower cooks dinner in a crockpot. “You can make
anything taste good in those things.”
For decades, Gary Ridlon has risen before sun-up, then spent back-
breaking hours on the Atlantic zigzagging between his signature buoys
(black with white dots and a red tail stick) to haul
traps ideally filled with legal size “keepers.”
But these long years on the sea are beginning
to take a toll.
“I used to have 300 traps out there. Today,
I’ve only got 175. And last fall I needed a hip
replacement. I’m doing half decent now. The
docs keep tellin’ me to drink a lot of water. I wish
they’d say wine.”
“Gary has a personality second-to-none and
can make anyone laugh,” lobsterman Cody
Nunan said. In the tightly knit Cape Porpoise
lobstering community, he is admired for that wit
but especially his grit. “That’s no big deal,” he
said. “I’m just a guy who never thought of doin’
Photograph above left by Bob Dennis; above right, by Val Marier anything other than being a Maine lobsterman.”
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SUMMER 2021 29Local Finds & Tasty Choices
Dean Johnson has been a food writer/critic for nearly twenty years. We never know when he will
share some of his local finds. Here are some current favorites:
• Chocolate chip ice cream at Goose Rocks Dairy is rich and creamy and crammed with
flavor, so good it just about ruined me for chocolate chip anywhere else.
• French fries at Salvage BBQ in Portland. As you approach this eatery near Hadlock
Field, you’ll think it looks as if it’s about to be auctioned. Don’t be fooled. That’s atmosphere.
BFF has a very specific meaning in the online world. But at Salvage BBQ it means “Beef Fat
Fries.” The taste and texture don’t punch you in the face – it’s a subtle thing. But we were
very sad after we ate the last one.
• Fruit tarts at Talulah’s in Kennebunk. They’re doing some interesting things in the
kitchen there. It’s just far enough out of Lower Village to discourage “walk by” traffic, but
it just may be worth a stop when you are in the area. We recently picked up some small
fruit tarts to impress friends. They were impressed enough, sadly, to know... that we didn’t
make them.
• Frisbee’s Wharf at Pepperell Cove, Kittery. Don’t go for the food and/or beverages,
though they’re goodh. Go for the overall experience. Sit at an outdoor table or the bar on
a great day and you can see at least two lighthouses and one colonial fort in a near-idyllic
harbor setting. A Sunshine State vibe? Nope. Now a lot of Florida spots have a Kittery vibe…
but with less impressive views.
• Dark chocolate caramallows at the Harbor Candy Shop, Ogunquit. Everyone should visit
this store at least once, and once you make that initial visit, you’ll be back. My favorites are
the dark chocolate caramallows. I call them “chocolate bombs” because it’s all but impossible
to have one and not succumb to an immediate chocolate/sugar swoon. Boom! All your basic
food groups – dark chocolate, marshmallow and caramel – are included. All house-made.
• The roast beef sandwich at the Bistro at R&R Chocolates in Wells. Be warned. This
sandwich will be as addictive to a meat lover as TikTok is to teens. Terrific sliced rare roast
beef with tomato, provolone, romaine, and a rosemary garlic slather you’ll want to slather
all over you… all on a ciabatta roll. You may also want to indulge in one of their house-made
custom cannolis before you leave.
• Watermelon cosmos at the Tides Beach Club in Kennebunkport. This in-house specialty
cocktail is one of those martini-style drinks that we all crave in warm weather. Sampling one,
especially on the front yard or porch, is a very welcome sip of summer. Few good things came
out of the pandemic, but this is one of them: you can still get a batch of them to go. Really.
• The burnt ends at Smokey B’s Gin Mill in Ogunquit. Don’t be confused by the name.
It’s a BBQ joint, though there are a few gin drinks on the menu. It’s a long story and involves
family. Here’s what you need to know: Money magazine called it the best BBQ eatery in
Maine. The burnt ends, “smokey, crispy brisket points” on the menu, are the finest kind.
The T-shirts rock, and the menu is packed with drool-inducing selections.
• The baked beans at The Steakhouse in Wells. A visit to the Steakhouse is like entering
a time tunnel. Walk through the door and suddenly you’re back in the 1970s, and in this
case that’s a very good thing. Steaks are the big draw, of course, but the baked beans slay
me. I tortured servers for years before one finally caved in and told me the dirty little secret:
a little scrambled beef in the mix.
• The BLT rollup at the Beach Basket, Ogunquit. Believe it or not, it’s hard to find a place
in Oqunquit Center where you can get a quick lunch sandwich or salad. This small spot just
off Shore Road has a snappy summery menu. I’m a sucker for the BLT rollup. There’s nothing
special in it, but it’s a prime example of how good some-
thing can be when basic ingredients are made to order.
• The burgers at Lee Frank’s in South Berwick. Chef
Frank grew up in Los Angeles and learned to love the
regional In-and-Out Burger chain. His burger joint is
an homage to his old haunts. So, are his burgers really
In-and-Out clones? Oh, don’t be silly. Of course not. But
they are plenty good and worth the visit. Just make sure
to order them “dirty,” which includes house sauce and
grilled onions.
Great BBQ and cool T-shirts at Smokey B’s Gin Mill.
What’s not to like? Photo credit: Johnson & Johnson
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SUMMER 2021 33events & entertainment Photograph by Sparrow Photography Design by Azalea2021 34 SUMMER Events @ Vinegar Hill Music Theatre
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The choice is yours.
SUMMER 2021 35
Photograph of Old Vines Wine Bar by Joshua HrehovcikLive Music Venues
Alisson’s Restaurant, Kennebunkport
alissons.com | 467.4841
Back Street Sanford, Sanford
backstreetsanford.com | 850.1228
Bentley’s Saloon, Arundel
bentleyssaloon.com | 985.8966
Bitter End, Wells
bitterend.me | 360.0904
The Brunswick, Old Orchard Beach
thebrunswick.com 934.2171
Clay Hill Farm, Cape Neddick
clayhillfarm.com | 361.2272
The Cliff House, Ogunquit
cliffhousemaine.com | 361.1000
The Colony Hotel, Kennebunkport
thecolonyhotel.com | 967.3331
Féile Restaurant & Pub, Wells
feilerestaurantandpub.com | 251.4065
Funky Bow Brewery & Beer Company, Lyman
funkybowbeercompany.com | 409.6814
Inn on the Blues, York
innontheblues.com | 351.3221
Lobster in the Rough, York
theroughyorkmaine.com | 363.1285
Nikanos, Ogunquit
nikanos.com | 646.1112
The Nonantum Resort, Kennebunkport
nonantumresort.com | 967.4050
Old Vines Wine Bar, Lower Village, Kennebunk
oldvineswinebar.com | 967.2310
Outlook Tavern at the Links, South Berwick
outlooktavern.com | 384.4653
Pedro’s Mexican Restaurant, Kennebunk
pedrosmaine.com | 967.5544
The Pilot House, Lower Village, Kennebunk
967.5507
The Pirate’s Patio, Old Orchard Beach
piratespatioandgalley.com | 934.0031
River Winds Farm, Saco
riverwindsfarmandestate.com | 415.2110
Run of the Mill Restaurant, Saco
therunofthemill.net | 571.9648
Ryan’s Corner House, Lower Village, Kennebunk
967.3564
Sea Salt Lobster Restaurant, Saco
seasaltlobsterrestaurant.com | 494.1178
Sunset Bar & Grill, Old Orchard Beach
934.0000
York Harbor Inn , York Harbor
yorkharborinn.com | 363.5119
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SUMMER 2021 37FRI & SAT, JULY 2 & 3 WED, JULY 7
Acclaimed Pianist The Classic Original
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THURSAT, JULY 810 MON, JULY 12 WED, JULY 14 TH & FRI, JULY 15 & 16 SAT, JULY 17
Junk Rock Masters French Cabaret Jazz Bill & Ted Must Save the Broadway Star and The Classic Tale with Emma
Bastille Celebration World with Their Music Multi-Genre Singer Watson and Dan Stevens
RECYCLED
PERCUSSION ANNIE ROYER BILL AND TED LINDA EDER BEAUTY AND
FACE THE MUSIC THE BEAST
SUN, JULY 18 TUES, JULY 20 WED, JULY 21 THUR, JULY 22 FRI, JULY 23
Singer-Songwriter- Jefferson Airplane Founder Singing, Dancing and Rex Fowler, Dodie Pettit Comedian, Actress
Guitarist and Acclaimed Guitarist Romancing at Rydell High and Friends
CAROLINE RHEA
MARTIN SEXTON JORMA KAUKONEN GREASE AZTEC TWO-STEP
2.0
SAT, JULY 24 WED, JULY 28 THUR, JULY 29 FRI, JULY 30 SAT, JULY 31
Soulful Singer- Romance and Rhythm The Classic Musical Jam Band Portland’s Own
Songwriter in the Catskills Road Comedy Favorites
SPENCER ALBEE &
JOAN OSBORNE DIRTY DANCING THE MUPPET NEIGHBOR LOVE BY NUMBERS
MOVIE
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38 SUMMER 2021WED, AUGUST 4 THUR, AUGUST 5 FRI, AUGUST 6 SAT, AUGUST 7 WED, AUGUST 11
Teen Angst Weird is Relative He Plays the Violin Singer-Songwriter Raunchy Camp Comedy
During Detention Solo Show by Set in the 70s
THE ADDAMS Well-Strung’s First Violinist
DAR WILLIAMS
THE BREAKFAST FAMILY WET HOT
CLUB EDMUND BAGNELL AMERICAN SUMMER
THUR, AUGUST 12 FRI, AUGUST 13 WED, AUGUST 18 THUR, AUGUST 19 FRI, AUGUST 20
“Kate’s Soul Food” Soul and Funk The Fickle Romances Roots Rock, Americana,
A Musical Journey of Holly Golightly
DEEP BLUE C Blues and More
RUSTIC OVERTONES STUDIO ORCHESTRA JASON SPOONER
ALLAN HARRIS BREAKFAST AT
BAND TIFFANY'S BAND
SAT, AUGUST 21 WED, AUGUST 25 THUR, AUGUST 26 FRI, AUGUST 27 SAT, AUGUST 28
Magician and Illusionist Country Legend Great Rock Anthems Misfits Search for
NATIONAL of the 70s & 80s Buried Pirate Treasure
MIKE SUPER LAMPOON'S LARRY GATLIN
CLASSIC ROCK GOONIES
VACATION ORCHESTRA
DRIVE-UP CONCERTS & MOVIES ON THE KENNEBUNK SAVINGS BANK STAGE
For a true summer outdoor event experience, we’ve added a 16’ x 20’ stage off our parking lot for rain
or shine Drive-Up Concerts and Movies. Pre-order concessions and Car Hop service available!
LIMITED CAPACITY SPECIAL PERFORMANCES IN THE BARN
The show will go on and, as in past years, incredible talent will grace our stage. We’ve removed
a number of seats for these shows, enhancing the intimacy of the room and experience.
KIDS TAKE OVER THE BARN MOVIE NIGHTS
Bring the kiddos to a night at the movies, where we’ll be featuring kids’ favorites on the big screen! With an
earlier 7pm showtime and concessions available upon check-in, this will be a big hit with the littles!.
Visit www.vinhillmusic.com for tickets!
SUMMER 2021 39A Summer Folly
Wednesday, August 25, 2021 • 6 PM
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Over 1000 Imported & Domestic Wine Labels
Open Monday-Saturday 9 AM - 8 PM
Sunday 10 AM - 5 PM
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Old Vines Wine Bar, 173 Port Rd., Kennebunk www.TullysBeerandWine.com
Nosh — Drink — Dance — Frolic
Music by: Night Shift
Saturday, July 17
Proceeds to fund the newly envisioned Sandy Pines, 3-5 p.m.
Kennebunk Skatepark Saturday, July 24
Hurricane Restaurant, 3-6 p.m.
Event Details and Ticketing: aboveboardgala.com Friday, July 30
Special thank you to our generous sponsors The Colony, 5-7 p.m.
Wednesday, August 4
Lafayette Park in KBK, 6:30-8 p.m.
Friday, August 6
“Of course we all come to the theatre with baggage. The Colony, 5-7 p.m.
The baggage of our daily lives, the baggage of our Sunday, August 8
problems, the baggage of our tragedies, The Pilot House, 1-4 p.m.
the baggage of being tired. It doesn’t matter what Friday August 20
age you are. But if our hearts get opened and The Pilot House, 6-9 p.m.
released -- well that is what theatre can do, THE DOCK SQUARES Saturday, August 21
Hurricane Restaurant, 3-6 p.m.
and does sometimes, and everyone is thankful Guitars, Saxophone,
Saturday, August 28
when that happens.” ~ Vanessa Redgrave Percussion, Vocals Sandy Pines, 3-5 p.m.
comedy night
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and yellow (signature Boston & Maine Railroad colors). Note the flat-top spoke-wheel luggage carts.
What can be more palpably absurd than the prospect held
42 SUMMER 2021 The Quarterly Reviewout of locomotives traveling twice as fast as stagecoaches? (England), March 1825 SUMMER 2021 43
The Kennebunk Depot:
149 Years Young and Still Going Strong
by Valerie Marier
Nearly 150 years have passed since the first Boston and Maine passenger train chugged into the new-
ly-built Kennebunk depot, confirming the onset of tourism in southern Maine. Or, as travel journalist Samuel
Adams Drake defined that era, when he wrote in 1875: the beginning of “when silk jostled homespun.”
Gentlemen wearing frock coats and wing-collar shirts accompanied by ladies in black silk bustled dresses
and high-button shoes stepped onto the railroad station platform. After their round-top “Saratoga” trunks
were unloaded, they boarded yellow stagecoaches drawn by four-horse hitches and were driven to hotels,
inns and cottages hugging the Kennebunk beaches, four and a half miles away.
As tourism flourished, a spur of the railroad was added that extended the track to Kennebunk’s lower
village. Starting in 1883, this branch line delivered visitors to stations at Parsons Beach, Kennebunk Beach
on Sea Road, the Grove Station on the Boothby Road and ending at the Kennebunkport Station, adjacent
to the site of the Pilot House Restaurant.
Today, nearly 40 million vacationers arrive annually in the Pine Tree State for the same reason as those
first tourists: to escape the stifling heat and clamorous congestion of their urban homes for refreshing breezes
along the Maine coast. They come in Ford Explorers and Winnebagos, some even on Honda motorcycles,
but not by train. The last passenger train rolled into Kennebunk in January, 1965, when the Boston and
Maine Railroad ceased operations at the depot.
This hip-roofed Stick-style building still stands along the tracks on appropriately-named Depot Street
in Kennebunk. Over the decades it has served multiple purposes, including briefly, during the early 1940s,
a tea room known as “The Teachers.” In the mid-60s, Meadow Glen Inc. purchased the building. Later, in
the 1970s, locals recall seeing shops inside the depot selling macrame beads and bicycles. By the end of that
decade the building was transformed into corporate offices for Tom’s of Maine.
River Tree Center for the Arts took possession during the 1990s and, in 2004, Tim and Kathy Dietz bought
the depot as home base for his marketing and design firm, Dietz Associates Inc. A devoted history buff,
Dietz immediately began restoring and refurbishing the building “as closely as possible to its original state.”
Photograph courtesy of Brick Store Museum. Built in 1872, the hip-roofed building still stands on Depot Street
in Kennebunk and is the new headquarters for Tourist & Town.
44 SUMMER 2021Today the depot has a new owner. In June, 2021, River Tree moved to new headquarters on Route 9 in the
Kingsley Gallup, editor and publisher of Tourist & Town, lower village, they donated the sign to the Brick Store
bought the depot as headquarters for her bi-monthly Museum. After Tim Dietz bought the depot, he had a
newspaper and quarterly magazine. “Owning this replica of the sign made and placed it on the building.
building is a dream come true,” she said. “It percolates The depot holds special memories for many area
with history, and because it has been impeccably main- residents, including Jonathan Bush, brother of President
tained and restored, I can almost sense what it was like George Herbert Walker Bush. He recalled that “during
to be a passenger arriving here by train in the 1870s.” the 1950s, as children we’d go to the depot to welcome
Construction of the depot began in June, 1872. As not- our dad (Senator Prescott S. Bush) when he arrived by
ed in the diary of Andrew Walker (a former Kennebunk train for the weekend. I also remember putting pennies
town clerk who on the track.”
kept a near-dai- After Am-
ly chronicle for trak began
46 years of local “Downeaster”
events), “The service be-
contractors for tween Boston
the Boston and and Portland in
Maine Railroad 2001, residents
building are began express-
now hiring all ing interest
the stout labor- in adding the
ers they can at $2 Kennebunk de-
a day. Nearly all pot as a stop.
the diggers are This was not
Irishmen. There an unforeseen
are but a few possibility be-
Kennebunk men cause the 1965
employed. As a deed of sale
matter of course, had stipulated
there are many that any new
strange faces in owner of “the
our village this presently ex-
summer.” isting railroad
The architec- station” must
tural style was agree to pro-
typical of Bos- vide and main-
ton and Maine tain a “suitable
stations in the late waiting room of
1800s. Sitting on a three-quarter acre lot, the hip-roofed at least 100-square-feet, a suitable ticket office and
wood frame structure was painted brown and yellow toilet facilities,” all with heat, light and janitor service
(the railroad’s signature colors) and featured oversized to accommodate a minimum of 10 cars of the Boston &
windows and clapboard siding. Red gravel walks and Maine Railroad.
flower beds surrounded the building. Arriving passen- Ultimately, and after much discussion, the Kenne-
gers spotted “KENNEBUNK” spelled out in small white bunk Board of Selectmen cancelled the station project
stones on a slope adjacent to the track. in 2018 over concerns about the suitability of the site.
One of the early stationmasters was a man known Today, the historic depot is part of Kennebunk’s
as Farnum, affectionately dubbed “Old Man Farnum” Museum in the Streets heritage discovery trail. This free
in Walker’s diary. Records indicate that the “Old Man” walk features 25 panels offering nuggets of fact and lore,
kept the station so immaculate it won prizes from Bos- rare photographs and records of local history. Should
ton and Maine for being the “most attractive station on you follow the trail, stop at #15, which spotlights the
the line.” Farnum even added a large cement pool in a depot. Let your imagination take you back 150 years to
circle just beyond the station, complete with a fountain. when this charming building was a bustling railroad
Around 1900, an enamel “KENNEBUNK” sign made station. (You can even pick up a copy of the latest Tourist
in England was nailed to the side of the building. It dis- & Town.)
appeared years later but, fortuitously and eventually,
was discovered in an antique shop and returned to the
building during the River Tree Arts occupation. When
Tourism in southern Maine has been flourishing since the first Boston and Maine passenger train rolled into
the Kennebunk depot.
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