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Since 1958 FREE www.touristnewsmaine.com June 21 - 27, 2018 Volume 60, Issue 8 . for the people who live here, visit here and love it here. TouriSt NewS Marshall and Bob by David Witbeck ART MUSIC FOOD SHOPS LIVING kittery | york | ogunquit | wells | kennebunk | kennebunkport | arundel | biddeford | saco | old orchard beach PAGE 2 TOURIST NEWS, JUNE 21 - 27, 2018 IN THIS ISSUE Each of us has a story to tell. The Beat: Garage Band . .PAGE 3 The garage band has a colorful The Cliff House . .. PAGES 4 & 5 one. The Cliff House has an From the historical one. The Bushes have The Bush Love Story. PAGES 6 & 7 Publisher's a love story. Our local hero has It's Like This . PAGE 8 Desk... an inspirational story. Each Mainely Authors . PAGE 9 business represented on these pages has its own World's Best French Toast unique tale to tell. Openings. PAGE 10 Specialty Omelettes • Belgian Waffles Staying connected to our story is what brings Real French Crepes Local Heroes . .PAGE 11 meaning to what we do. Hearing these stories is Sandwiches & Soups • Children's Menu The Local Tourist. PAGE 12 what's fascinating to the rest of us. Rte. 9, Kennebunk Lower Village • 967-5132 In the Art World . PAGE 14 We hope you enjoy this next collection of stories as much as we love telling them. Open 7 Days, 7 AM to 2 PM Calendar . PAGES 16 & 17 We tell them, of Five Points Shopping Plaza, Biddeford • 283-2928 Tastings . PAGE 18 course, for the sheer Open 7 Days, 7 AM to 2 PM From Frinklepod. .PAGE 19 and unadulterated love of Maine. Fishing Report . .PAGE 22 Our Cover Artist – David Witbeck Activities . PAGES 26 & 27 "In the first 18 years of my life, I Nightlife . .PAGE 30 probably spent no more than three or four weeks on family vacations Out & About . PAGE 31 Our mission is to be the indispensable guide to anywhere near salt water. And yet, for some reason, I always drew pictures of life in Southern Maine, setting the gold standard fishing boats, lighthouses and stormy for local business promotion, exceptional seascapes, and read every sea story journalism and overall goodwill in the school library," this according for locals and tourists alike. to Witbeck's artist bio. After moving from western New York State to Rhode Island, completing his Tourist News is delivered to over 450 sites Kingsley Gallup college education at Rhode Island School of Design, from Kittery to Portland. Owner and Publisher and working as a free-lance photographer for over 25 years, he found himself inspired by painter Leo Brooks, Graphics Editor whom he met in 1991. He was taken with his childlike Geraldine Aikman "There are a few essential drawings, bold colors and "complete disregard for elements you find objective reality," as Witbeck puts it, Witbeck begain Contributing Writers painting again, which he had not done since 1968. TouristFaith Gillman. News Dana Pearson, Staff in the spirit of a Mainer: "I'm no longer limited by what is in front of a camera. I can bend, twist, stretch, exaggerate and simplify the Valerie Marier, Kristin Kuehnle, Jo O'Connor, A humble appreciation of things I see. I can put things in and leave things out. Steve Hrehovcik, Greg Metcalf, Rob Coburn well crafted things, I can even completely make things up. I can paint how things make me feel instead of simply what they Distribution Bookkeeping wit dry enough you may not look like. I’m most pleased when my paintings evoke David Spofford Irene Seltzer know when the joke ends smiles. Humor is an element too often missing in art. Tourist News and when it begins, Having come back to painting relatively late in life I 7 Chase Hill Road now understand that Art need not be earth-shakingly and most importantly, profound. Putting together a collection of lines, shapes Kennebunk, Maine 04043 and colors that add some order, brightness and humor www.touristnewsmaine.com a love for the land and the sea." to a world too often crazy, dreary and grim is not an unworthy pursuit or insignificant achievement. Enjoy." [email protected] Anthony Bourdain 207-204-0055 To see his art, visit www.witbeck.com. Story Contributors This Issue Valerie Dana Jo Kristen Dean Flora Marier is Pearson is a O’Connor Kuehnle Johnson Brown a freelance writer, mu- is a lo- is an avid has writ- says she sician, and journalist cal writer reader, ten about and Noah inveterate who has with deep “turned” Maine's Wentworth movie-goer roots in colum- traveled southern have both the world who lives the Ken- nist, who coast for many years always been writing for magazines in Kennebunk with his nebunks. She is the moved to Maine from passionate about grow- and for many publica- and newspapers. She wife Diane. Though he mother of twins, the Salem, Mass. She retired ing food; Noah has been tions, including both moved to Maine from loves where he is, he founder lead singer of from Salem State Uni- doing so on his family's the New York metro- enjoys leaving from time the local band The Dock versity in 2016 and now Boston dailies. He subsistence farm since his politan area thirty years to time, if only to relish Squares, and an artist serves on the SSU fac- grew up in his family's childhood, and Flora has ago. She considers the the sensation of com- who creates driftwood ulty as professor emerita. Ogunquit restaurant, worked with a number of Kennebunks home but ing home again. He can and sea glass art. With Since retiring, Kristen spent time on Drake's projects combining agri- loves every inch of the often be found garden- boundless energy, she opened a book store, Fine Island, and now is part culture with social justice Pine Tree State. Val is ing, skimming stones, also teaches Zumba and Print Booksellers, in Dock of the Cape Porpoise issues. In 2011, Frinkle- cultivating his beard, a happy wife, moth- aqua classes. Her career Square, Kennebunkport. community. When pod was born. Flora and and referring to himself er and grandmother has included marketing She is the mother of two he is not walking on Noah are intentional in in the third person. His and communications sons and a happy grand- who also enjoys knit- Goose Rocks Beach their choice to farm to- ting and reading, golf novels Two Birds and The positions for the Boston mother. Reading is a pas- gether as a family, and to he is often kayaking and travel, and writes Muralist, as well as No, Celtics, the Boston Gar- sion. One of her favorite raise their children with an or paddle boarding about them in her week- But Seriously: 1994-2007, den/FleetCenter, CBS expressions is “Open a appreciation of hard work, ly blog, Wandering a collection of humor Radio, Sonesta Hotels, Book and open a mind”. near it. He is a talk the natural world, and With Val (www.wan- columns, can be found and the Wang Center To reach Kristen: kristen@ host on WBZ-AM. simple living. Visit www. deringwithval.com). at www.amazon.com/ for the Performing Arts. fineprintbooksellers.com frinklepodfarm.com. author/danapearson. TOURIST NEWS, JUNE 21 - 27, 2018 PAGE 3 THE BEAT More than Just Rehearsal at this Local Garage by Dean Johnson ‘60s tunes. High energy? The weekly concerts own with that one. Most people think "ga- Not exactly. But the group are free, of course, and The easy camaraderie rage bands” earn that name usually stays in a sweet part of the fun in taking in and interplay among the because they practice in spot of easy, loping music a gig is the multi-sensory band members is another garages. perfect for a hot summer experience of the whole fun element. Some over- Those bands are wimps. night. They only play the thing. Guay was cleaning heard chatter included: A real garage band notes needed, and they a customer’s windshield, “I’ve had a lot of re- plays only in a garage, give the music plenty of for example, while the quests, but I’m gonna do a and you can see one every space to breathe. group took on a mellow song, anyway." Monday night this sum- That’s what real musi- version of Johnny Burnett’s “We all ended together. mer at Guay’s Sunoco on cians do. “Dreamin’.” How did that happen?” Port Road in Kennebunk’s Station owner Bill Guay Sometimes it’s difficult After a rousing version Lower Village. said the sessions started to decide where to look… of “I Saw Her Standing Since the year 2000, an when Jellison, then an in- at the band or out on the There," I heard, “All these unlikely assortment of mu- house mechanic, struck street. Cars whip by, and years I thought it was, ‘I sicians have been perform- up a conversation with a folks in passenger seats never danced with your ing each Monday during customer, Jerry Sanders. stare trout-mouthed at the mother…’” high season in one of the “Johnny wanted to jam action. A few cars actually And just in case you station’s service bays. Just with Jerry,” Guay ex- pull over while passengers think these garage ses- call the ensemble the ulti- plained, “so they sat in whip out cell phones to nab sions are just an excuse Monday nights, Guay's Sunoco: it's the place to be. mate garage band. the office and played a a quick video. for a batch of ama- The group has no offi- little.