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The Way Life Community Should Be Close-up Holiday Season 8 Health & Wellness 6 Community Notices Deadlines USM Receives Award by Ameri- can Cancer Society's Annual Please make a note of our early content Great American Smokeout 01>- 10 Daily Grind servance Cell Phone Fadophile submission deadlines for our December issues. 9 Paw Print 11 Good News Our final issue of this year will be published on Holiday Training Tips The Estate of Artist William Thon Etc Adopt a Pet: Cody and The Portland Museum of Art Do- December 18, but it will be available for two weeks. nate Art Work to Area Schools 5 Special Advertising Our offices will also be closed at Noon on Wednes 18 Inside Scoop Opportunities day, December 24 and will reopen on Monday, What's For Dinner? 12 Talk Conversation with Karen McPhee 27 Contests January 5. Greenerside 19 MacBerserker's Photo & Essay Winners Navigating Food Submissions for our first issues of the year (January Love Versus Tolerance 28 Personals 26 Quality time 1 and 8) will be due by December 18. • Crossword • Funny Bone 29 Horoscope 30 Classifleds
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4 Casco Bay Weekly cascobayweeldy.com Casco Bay Week1y welcomes your community notices. Please keep your thoughts to less than 300 words find an affordable home for herself and her ing guilty. Give when you feel moved to do any senior, dropped off at the High School family. There are individual children avail ' .... Communit (longer submissions may be edited for space reasons), t • three children. so, not when you feel pressured or guilty. with Mr. Berkemeyer, Class Advisor, or able, as well as sibling groups, ranging in . J and incfude your address and daytime phone number. Governor Baldacci praised Caring Un Find out more about an organization than mailed to Freeport High School, Holbrook age from 5-14 years. The children who par Send to: Notices, Casco Bay Weekly, 11 Forest Ave., limited's efforts to improve affordable hous the information provided in a brochure. The Street, Freeport, ME 04032. ticipate in this program will all be recom Portland, ME 04101 ore-maiL· [email protected] no 1ces ing shortage, and noted the shortage's ef Better Business Bureau offers reports on mended by their orphanage directors as Maine State Ballet's Nutcracker will be competition is sponsored by the Maine State GREATER PORTLAND'S JOURNAL fect on domestic violence victims. "I am many charities. In addition, many charities This Christmas-Give those who have the best chance of adjust Coastal Humane Society Receives Grant performed on two weekends, November 29 Bar and presented by Maine Law & Civics OF NEWS , ARTS & HAPPENINGS working to expand access to quality afford that meet the 20 Better Business Bureau vol The Gift of Yourself ing to an American family. The deadline for and 30 and December 5, 6 and 7, for a total Education at the University of Maine School able housing for individuals and families in untary Alliance charity standards partici completed applications to be received by The CHS in Brunswick has been awarded a of seven performances at Merrill Audito of Law. Additional support is provided by the 207.775.6601 • 1.800.286.6601 Maine. Victims of domestic violence are es pate in the Wise Giving Alliance charity seal The simple act of changing the calendar MAPS International is April 15, 2003. If you program. To access reports and find out from November to December adds count would like more information about this pro grant from the American Humane Associa rium. Tickets are on sale through Porttix, Maine Bar Foundation. FX 207.775.1615 pecially in need of such housing when try ~ ing to transition to safer, healthier environ more information, log onto the BBB Wise less holiday activities to already frenzied gram, or if you would like an application J tion of Washington D.C. In acknowledge (207) 842-0800 or www.porttix.com. For The Mock Trial Competition, an aca EMAIL: [email protected] .I ment of its recent success in increasing the more information, call (207) 856-1662 or demic competition in which teams prepare ments for themselves and their families. I Giving Alliance at www.give.org. schedules. Expectations are high for the packet, please contact Stacey Dudley at number of animals adopted. Coastal Hu visit www.mainestateballet.org. and try a case under simulated courtroom CONTRIBUTORS applaud the important work being done by Keep records of your donations. Many perfect holiday. We want it all-elaborate (207) 775-4101 or [email protected]. '' ., mane Society will use the grant to purchase Maine State Ballet, established in 1986, conditions, educates students about the le WRITERS Caring Unlimited to ensure that such safe donations are tax deductible. Remember decorations, holiday parties, visiting with l equipment and supplies to enable it to ex has become the leading professional dance gal system, the judicial process, the attor Rob Brezsny • leigh·ann Smith • Tom Keene housing exists." that a tax exempt organization may not be family and friends, traditional holiday Maine Public Radio Presents Four pand its mobile and satellite adoption ef company in the State of Maine. Working to neys' roles, the rules of evidence, and Nancy Freedman· Smith • Animal Refuge League Caring Unlimited currently operates deductible come tax time. For more infor foods. For niany the hustle and bustle of Thanksgiving Holiday Specials ·1 M
6 Casco Bay Weekly cascobayweekly.com NOVEMBER 27, 2003 7 • companion dog training • problem solving • gentle positive methods • puppy through adult Is your dog driving'/ • in-home training • behavior modiftcation Jin ~h.in }1ftAtsu pr1nt '/ your family up a tree • • AKC Canine Good Citizen Testing Holiday Training Tips • clicker training • trick training A-ctAfrtSStAre • obedience • manners • second hand dogs by Nancy Freedman-Smith eating. I do not recommend teaching the dog to • training the whole family to train the dog down under the table because food-guarding is • ldds welcome! 'J ~1\.it'.-tSlA ~h.i 1GtAn~ I olidays are stressful times for people and sues may develop. ,,.. USM Receives Award at American Cancer Society's pets. The more time we take to prepare • Leave it If your dog is to be allowed to free CALL NOW!! ...., ~"'~ Hour dogs, the better it is for all con range, either put food up where you know he "Br Ann Foeter "it, 11.e(' ' J Annual Creat American Smokeout Obeservance cerned. This time of year shelters and rescues can't get it, teach a reliable leave it, or plan on •••• 773-9061 Member #064868 Peakalaland & Portland IJI
• • • • • by Andy Keene (son) •••• :tt: by Tom Keene (father) by Kristen Levesque dependent style based on nature as op posed to the more avant-garde works of he opening scenes of Master and Com oming out of the theatre after watching mander.· The Far Side of the World re Master and Commander, I heard a woman he estate of well-known Maine artist Abstract Expressionists. Seeking a quiet, Tminded me of an otherwise dissimilar Csay, "I feel like I've been at sea!" And that William Thon, with the assistance of remote place to build a home and a studio, movie, Ridley Scott's Alien. The latter movie be is really the most impressive aspect of this in Tthe Portland Museum of Art, has do Thon moved with his wife Helen to Port gins with the camera exploring a dark, empty credible film . This is one of those movies that nated original works of art by Thon to 68 Clyde, Malne (Knox County) in 1940. Thon spaceship. The audience is Introduced to the you must see in a theatre to appreciate the at area schools throughout the state of Maine. earned wide recognition and numerous setting before meeting any of the human char tention to detail and astonishing effects that The art has been given to the largest ele awards, including an honorary doctorate acters. Alien goes on to slowly build momentum truly make you feel like you have been through until it becomes a grueling and painfully sus a harrowing voyage which included several mentary and high schools in each of the 16 from Bates College in 1957, and was given penseful monster movie. Master and Commander frightening battles at sea. Please do not wait for counties in Malne, and to all of Portland's the state of Maine award and Citation from goes in a more respectable direction, but it the DVD to be released next summer-this Is and Knox County's public schools. The Governor Kenneth Curtis in 1970. His starts out the same. Before entering the story, too wondrous lor even the biggest home the- Portland Museum of Art's Education De works are included in many public collec the movie allows the audi- atre screen. partment will distribute these works, in tions, including the Metropolitan Museum ence's eyes to focus on a The story is simple: the cluding oil paintings, watercolors, and of Art, Whitney Museum of American Art, world that has never been de British Empire is being threat picted on the big screen with ened by Emperor Napoleon, drawings, along with supporting educa Brooklyn Museum of Art, and the Hirsh this degree of realism. who is hoping to extend his tional materials. The distribution of the horn Museum and Sculpture Garden, the Even though director Pe reach into the Pacific Ocean works was on Friday, November 14, at a Farnsworth art Museum, and the Portland ter Weir (and his co-writer, by capturing a British outpost press conference at Hall Elementary School Museum of Art, among others. John Collee, adapting the in the Galapagos Islands. Sail in Portland. The following area schools that Thon believed strongly in community, books by Patrick O'Brian) Ing swiftly to the Islands is the have received Thon 's artwork: Cliff Island art, and education and supported institu kick-starts the story with a French ship Acheron, a new sudden and violent attack se and nearly unbeatable ship School, Deering High School, Fred P. Hall tions such as the Portland Museum of Art quence early on, the filmmak with twice the guns and dou Cell Phone Fadophile School, Harrison Lyseth Elementary and Malne Coast Artists (today the Center ers seem preoccupied ble the crew of the H. M.S. Sur School, Howard C. Reiche School, King Mid for Maine Contemporary Art). Following Marcy's Diner throughout the movie with prise, captained by "Lucky by Martin James ready to be picked up, the phone plays the in dle School, Longfellow School, Lyman Thon's death in 2000, the Portland Mu portraying the 19th century Jack" Aubrey, played joyfully troduction to The Incredible Flutist-by Walter Moore Middle School, Marada Adams seum of Art received a bequest of approx 47 Oak Street • Portland mariners' way of life with gen by Russell Crowe. This is a en my cell phone rings, it literally Piston. One of my favorites is Sara's tribute to School, Nathan Clifford School, Peaks Is imately $4 million, believed to be the ings. It is not set to vibrate, flash a erous attention to detail. The captain who leads by example her ex-husband, who divorced her in spite of all land School, Portland High School, Pre largest ever given by an artist to an Amer filmmakers-notably cine and dictate but who still en ght, make a squeal or a shriek-it just of Sara's impressive efforts to hold the marriage Open 6-2 Daily matographer Russell Boyd joys life to its fullest, even in rings like the Good Lord Intended a telephone to together. She still hopes lor reconciliation, and sumpscot School, and Riverton School. ican art museum. This gift established the apparently regard storytelling Russell Crowe plays lucky jack the face of ridiculous odds. sound. I think her choice of music to announce his in "William Thon was an esteemed mem William E. and Helen E. Thon Endowment Daily Breakfast & Lunch Specials as a secondary priority. Weir Aubrey in Master and Commander And he knows a good pun What is it with people needing dozens of dif creasingly Infrequent calls is touching: the open ber of the national art scene who never Fund to endow the Portland Museum of just seems to point his cam- when he hears one. Pay atten ferent rings for their cell phones? What ever ing bars of Schubert's magnificent Unfinished forgot the magic of viewing an original Art Biennial, the position of curator of PORTLAND's BEST MUFFINS era at whatever he thinks is interesting-the tion to a meal he shares with the officers and the happened to the good old-fashioned rlngy- 1 0 Casco Boy Weekly --~------~~~~~~~~~ A conversation with Karen McPhee From an emotional and social standpoint it is something that people can become accomplished '' at and see their progress at some thing while enjoying it. by Leigh-ann Smith peutic in nature or adaptive. In the'' past we have offered a wide variety of activities includ Karen McPhee, Director of The Center for Thera ing camping experiences, cooking, horseback peutic Recreation, started the program in 1974. riding, teaching of sports, and arts and crafts. She, along with four full-time employees, four But over the last few years, due to funding, we port-time employees, os well as volunteers offer have been concentrating on aquatics because services for Therapeutic Recreation, mainly it has been the most requested activity. ln part aquatic activities for people with disabilities. also, wh.en Pineland closed its institution, a lot of the people who had lived there had been What Is therapeutic recreation? used to having aquatic programs. So for a lot of those people when they returned to commu Th.erapeutic recreation is a profession th.at uti nity living they needed to continue with some lizes recreation and leisure activities experi of those programs. So that is wh.y it continues ences to h.elp teach. people to use th.eir time to be one of the most requested services. constructively. And h.elp use th.at time in a way th.at migh.t lead to use in a h.obby. We h.ad par What 18 the benefit of aquatic therapy? ticipants h.ere who have actually then gone on to get jobs. It is therapeutic in the sense that it Well, for a lot of people it equalizes their abili teaches people pleasure. It h.elps in rehabilita ties. Water produces weightlessness and peo tion process. It helps to change ideas and atti ple do not have to work with gravity. So it tudes about different things and helps with makes it easier for them to move through the PHOTO LEIGH·ANN SMITH self-esteem issues for a lot of people. water. It makes it easier for them to enjoy ac tlvity, especially if they have been wheel chair Who needs your services? bound. It's a very natural activity and for some How long bas the center been open? How can people learn more about your serv people they learn to become quite good at it. Ices? People who participate are individuals who They make good progress and learn a lot of We opened in 1974. We were part of the City of have some kind of disability. The person does good skills that they can use outside of our Portland Recreation Department for ten years. Sometimes it is a simple referral. They might n't necessarily have to have been born with time. We have a lot of children under the age of In the mid-eighties we left and became a non see our name listed with. the City of Portland, the disability. They have had some short-term five and right across the lifespan. From an profit agency. Since then we are trying to stay since we have a service contract with the city. injury, like a h.ip replacement or orthopedic emotional and social standpoint it is some afloat. We also have our grass roots movement with surgery, so they might need to start a program thing that people can become accomplished at some of the social services agencies. that they can th.en take into their community. and see their progress at something while en Is there any cost for the services your center because, making things haRpen is For other people they are here a lot longer be joying it. provides? Is partlclpadon Umited to people who live In cause their needs are such that they can't par Portland? ticipate without help. We try to individualize a Locally, where do you go for your aquatic There are costs. We have registration fees. much more fun than watching things happen! program for them and we work with them, giv services? Some of the funding organizations help to pay No, we have people who come from Southern ing them some self-h.elp assistance. the hourly rate. Sometimes a grant will help Maine. We see a wide variety geographically, in We use the Reich.e School and the South Port cover the costs and we also have a sliding fee part because a lot of the things we do are a lit I What types of services do you provide? land Municipal Pool. But both facilities are ac scale, which makes it alfordable to people who tle more specialized perhaps then what is of cessible and have ample locker room space if might not be able to pay. We try not to turn any fered locally. And our goal is to teach skiUs Most of the activities we are currently provid people need h.elp. They both have certainly one away because of need. It's important that that they can take back to th.eir own commu ing are related to field of aquatics, eith.er thera- been accommodating to us. they know we will try to work with their budget. nity. The Hangman Nail Cafe by Monica Tran former owner of Nau Time Wallpapering & Nail Core For Ladies and Gentleman Painting Co. 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I have four sisters and one by Margaret Kuhn ington issued the first national Thanksgiving brother. Proclamation within days. -CH Grade 3 Peaks Island merlcans don't know it and children Washington knew the value of a thanksgiv aren't taught it, but George Washing ing day long before becoming our first presi I am thankful for my home and my food. on is responsible for our Thanksgiv dent. During the Revolutionary War, he would ing holiday. It was our first president who led order special thanksgiving services for his -HC Grade 3 Peaks Island the charge to make this day of thanks a truly troops alter successful battles, as well as pub national event-not the Pilgrims and not licly endorse efforts by the Continental Con I am thankful for my little sister because we can always play Abraham Lincoln. gress to proclaim days of thanks, usually In together when we get home from school. On October 3, 1789, George Washington is recognition of military victories and alliances. Ode tTo 'T'fie tTurkey -OM Grade 3 Peaks Island sued his Thanksgiving Proclamation, desig The concept of thanksgiving was not new to nating for "the People of the United States a the citizens of the new United States. Colonists, I am thankful for people who came to the school and helped From the staff of the Wells Reserve day of public thanks-giving" to be held on even before the Pilgrims, often established us with stuff. "Thursday the 26th day of November," 1789, Thank Days to mark certain occasions. These -SC Grade 3 Peaks Island marking the first national celebration of a hol one-time events could occur at any time of the With feathers of bronze and black and brown iday that has become commonplace in to year and were usually more solemn than the I am thankful for my friends and family because without them day's households. While subsequent presi Thanksgiving we observe today, emphasizing The turkey searches for acorns that fall to the gtound. I would be all alone and I am thankful that we don't have such dents failed to maintain this tradition, it was prayer and spiritual reflection. a hard time as the Indians and Pilgrims did. Washington's original Proclamation that Thanksgiving was not made a legal holi When walking through woods in the middle of the day, -VB Grade 3 Peaks Island guided Abraham Lincoln's 1863 Thanksgiving day until 1941 when Congress named the Proclamation. In fact, Lincoln issued his fourth Thursday in November as our national The turkey's gobbles and clucks give him away. I am thankful for my food and that I'm healthy and I have a proclamation on the same day, October 3, day of thanks In answer to public outcry over Though for such a large bird it might seem a strange sight, good family to play with and friends. I have a good home and and marked the same Thanksgiving Day, President Roosevelt's attempt to prolong the my family loves me. Thursday, November 26, as Washington, set Christmas shopping season by moving The turkey often roosts in pine trees at night. -LE Grade 3 Peaks Island ting Thanksgiving as the last Thursday of No Thanksgiving from the traditional last Thurs The tom turkey struts with a head of bright blue. vember after our first president's example. day to the third Thursday of November. I am thankful for my mom, my dad, my sister, my cat, my The proclamation was printed in newspa He has a long beard, and sharp spurs too. cousins and my uncles and aunts. I really liked having my pers, including the October 9, 1789 Issue of mice because they were my first pets. the Pennsylvania Packet and Daily Advertiser. All of this he uses to impress the young hen, George Washington first mentioned the -MP Grade 3 Peaks Island possibility of a national Thanksgiving Day in With one thing on his mind-like all other men! a confidential letter to James Madison in Au gust 1789 Oust months alter taking office), If Benjamin Franklin had had the last word, asking for his advice on approaching the Sen The turkey would hav:e been our national bird. ate for their opinion on "a day of thanksgiv ing." By the end of September 1789, a resolu So when you sit down to your Thanksgiving feast, tion had been introduced to the House of Representatives requesting that "a joint com Give thanks for the turkey-a most marvelous beast! mittee of both Houses be directed to wait upon the President of the United States, to request that he would recommend to the peo ple of the United States a day of public thanksgiving." The committee put the reso Thank You George! Thanksgiving History lution before the president and George Wash- ILLUSTRATION ART TODAY by Tom Keene Their voyage across the Atlantic had not prised settlers. Squanto stayed with them for etables, and has made the forests to abound been easy; upon arrival in Plymouth, food several months, teaching them how to culti with game and the sea with fish and clams, f the 1676 proclamation of the Charlestown, was scarce and shelter was crude. Were it not vate corn and other vegetables new to the and inasmuch as he has protected us from the Massachusetts governing council had re for a Native American named Squanto, they Pilgrims. He taught them which plants were ravages of the savages, has spared us from I mained in effect, Americans would cele most likely would not have survived. poisonous and which could be used formed pestilence and disease, has granted us freedom Safe Holiday Turkey The Ins & Outs of Stuffing brate Thanksgiving on June 29 each year. Of Squanto, a member of the Pokanokit icine and how to build the shelters used by to worship God according to the dictates of our Wampanoag nation, had traveled to England own conscience. course, the Charlestown council did not pro the Native Americans. Contributed by University of Maine ture of 165 degrees F. Contributed by The University of Maine about 3/4 cup of stuffing per pound of turkey, claim the first Thanksgiving, but theirs is the with English explorer John Weymouth in In the fall, the Pilgrims decided to continue Now f, your magistrate, do proclaim that all Cooperative Extension Roasting: Turkey is completely cooked Cooperative Extension just before you place the bird in the oven. oldest existing document setting aside one day 1605. Captured by a slave trader, Squanto was their religious feast of thanksgiving, held ye Pilgrims, with your wives and ye little ones, when the internal meat temperature 4. A stuffed turkey should be placed Im for the "solemn thanksgiving and praise to God sold to the Spanish and taken to the each November in England. Here in their new do gather at ye meeting house, on ye hill, be ever thaw the turkey on the counter reaches 180 degrees F. coking a stuffed turkey can be some mediately in an oven set no lower than 325 for ... his goodness and favor ... that the Lord Caribbean Islands. While there, he was be home, they invited the people who had con tween the hours of 9 and 12 in the day time, on at room temperature. Use one of Serving: Let cooked turkey stand for 20 what riskier than cooking one that is degrees F. Use a food thermometer to de may behold us as a people offering praise." friended by a Franciscan priest who helped tributed so much to their survival. Thursday, November 29th, of the year of our Nthese methods: minutes before carving; then serve imme Cnot stuffed. Bacteria can survive in termine when your turkey is done. Cook People have been praising the gods for him get back to England, where he was re Inviting Squanto, Samoset, and Massasoit, Lord one thousand six hundred and twenty bountiful harvests for as long as there have united with Weymouth. Together, they re the leader of the Wampanoags, the Pilgrims three and the third year since ye Pilgrims Refrigerator. Thaw in refrigerator 24 hours diately. Refrigerate leftovers as soon as stuffing which has not reached a safe tem until the internal temperature of the stuff been harvests. Long before there were formal turned to Squanto's home in Patuxet, in what included the immediate families of the Indi landed on ye Pilgrim Rock, there to listen to ye for each five pounds of frozen turkey. possible. No food should sit out for over perature of 165 degrees F, possibly result ing is 165 degrees F and the thickest part of religions to conduct and structure religious is now Massachusetts. ans in the invitation. Unfortunately, the Eng pastor and render thanksgiving to ye Almighty Cold water. Put the bird in a waterproof two hours unrefrigerated. ing in food-borne for you and your holiday turkey is 180 degrees F. celebrations, feasts and festivals were held by But instead of friends and family, he found lish had no idea how large Indian families God for all His blessings. bag. Cover bagged turkey with cold water. guests. It is safest to cook stuffing s~pa 5. Remove leftover stuffing from the bird ancient peoples to offer thanks for the annual a deserted village, the entire population hav could be, and were not prepared for the 90 Allow six hours for a 12-pound turkey; and rately. If you choose to stuff your turkey, and refrigerate it to prevent bacterial cycle of planting, growing and harvesting. ing died of an illness brought by English relatives the three men brought to the William Bradford 12 hours for a 20-pound turkey. Change the some basic rules should be followed. growth. Left-{)ver stuffing should be eaten In the fall of 1621, following a difficult first slavers. A year later, while hunting along the planned three-day feast. But Massasoit rec Ye Governor of Ye Colony water every 30 minutes. 1. Cook the stuffing just before it goes into within 1-2 days. year in the New World, the Pilgrims of Ply· beach near Patuxet, he was surprised to see ognized the problem, and immediately sent Microwave: Unwrap the turkey and thaw the turkey. If you are making stuffing with mouth Plantation enjoyed a bountiful harvest Englishmen in his village. Accompanied by a men back to their village for more food; they at defrost or lowest setting. Allow four to meat in it (i.e. sausage, pork, hamburger, of vegetables and fruits. They were also suc Native American of the Wabanake Tribe returned with five deer, a large number of Now if we wanted to be absolutely accurate seven minutes per pound. Turn the bird liver, giblets, venison) make sure the meat cessful in hunting and fishing: they had named Samoset who had also gone to Eng turkeys, fish and vegetables. historically about the first Thanksgiving in periodically if your microwave doesn't is cooked thoroughly before combining it enough food to carry them through the com land with an explorer, they were most likely Three years later, Governor Bradford is America, we would have to take into consid have a rotating turntable. Cook immedi with other stuffing ingredients. ing winter, relative peace existed between the among a very few Indians who spoke English. sued the following formal proclamation of a eration archaeological evidence that people ately after thawing. 2. Rinse out the two openings of the turkey colonists and the native people, and they So it was most provident that these two men day of thanksgiving: lived and planted, hunted and fished, and pre Stuffing: It is safer to cook the stuffing out thoroughly. Remove any turkey parts wanted thank God. discovered the Pilgrims at Plymouth. Inasmuch as the great Father has given us sumably gave thanks in the custom of side the bird. If you like to roast a stuffed (giblets, neck) that have been stored in In truth, they had much to be thankful for, After watching them for several days, they this year an abundant harvest of Indian corn, mankind, beginning at least 30,000 years ago. bird, stuff it just before cooking. Stuffing these openings. even beyond the security of food for winter. entered the village and welcomed the sur- wheat, peas, beans, squashes, and garden veg- But we'll leave that story for another time. should be cooked to an internal tempera- 3. The turkey should be stuffed loosely- IllUSTRATION ART TODAY 14 Casco Bay Weekly cascobayweeldy.com NOVEMBER. 27, 2003 15 • • Casco Bay Weekly MacBerserker·s ~side Scurrilous Computing Navigating Food by David Neufeld of Native American agriculture. A field was "cleared" by building fires around the trunks What•s For Dinner? ad the Mayflower navigated to its ex of trees. The leafless trees were left standing pected destination, Manhattan on the and the field beneath their dead branches Portlander Linda jenkins Answers Life's Most Terrifying Question HHudson River, Thanksgiving fare was planted in hills, five or six corn seeds per by Paula Kenney Jenkins' meals are a godsend for busy would be very different. I suspect that even in hill, surrounded by beans, with squash or moms (and dads) short on time, and also for the 1620s you could get nice venison salami pumpkins in the spaces between. The soil hree words that strike fear into the those who want to incorporate a healthier on rye at midnight on Thanksgiving Day. And was rich and yielded good crops for up to hearts of mothers- "What's For Din way of eating. it wouldn't cost you more than a few glass eight years. An equivalent parcel of timber Tner?"-inspired Linda Jenkins to start a "Many people have tunnel vision when beads. land today doesn't make one year worth of new career. they see the words 'healthy eating.' They im But the winds of fortune brought them up bathroom tissue for even the most frugal "Like most working women, I'd arrive mediately think bland and boring," she says. on the shores of America northeast of the Big household. home after a day at work, and those were the Judging by Jenkins' offerings, nothing Apple and in an abandoned Native American The planting of corn with beans was nu first words I'd hear," recalls the wife, mother could be further from the truth. While her certificate for encampment, pretty poor planting ground for tritionally sound. Amino acids of beans and of four and former paralegal. "If the question four-course meals (including dessert) aver European crops. The winds that blow in from corn compliment each other increasing total wasn't coming from my husband or one of age 700 calories, they are long on flavor and services at Pierre's the Atlantic carry no hint of the Gulf Stream. protein. Botanically sound because bean fam the kids, I'd be asking it of myself." creativity. November is cruel and that's the good news. ily roots grow nodules that fix nitrogen from Today, What's For Dinner?-Jenkins' For many clients, Jenkins' emphasis on Love Versus Tolerance Plymouth survived because of local knowl the air and make It available in the soil, and home-delivery dinner service--is providing healthy eating-low fat, low calorie and por costs just $25! reaching beyond the single device, and edge supplied by the Native Americans. Al agriculturally sound because the bean and a welcome answer to that question for tion control-is the main attraction. Monthly by Marc L. Rubinstein they're starting to build that into their appli though today's Thanksgiving food includes squash plants crowded out competitive women (and men) throughout Portland. menus include ingredients and nutritional in Good for any service. foods grown or harvested internationally, a weeds. By mid-summer the field was a tangle Monday through Thursday, Jenkins, from formation for every meal. Several times a his week I got a call from a friend. cations." her commercial kitchen in her home on Wol month, she designates "vegetarian meals." glance at food in America 400 years in the of planned growth. Among other things he said, "If you tell Someone quipped Windows offered some cott Street, is turning out four-course meals Menus read more like an upscale eatery Tanybody, I will vehemently deny it! " It's thing similar, "They're called viruses." Offer ends December 24th! past may be timely. Back then you might have When the dead trees lost limbs they were not only for her own family but also for oth than a diet cookbook. There's a definite bent been our joy to spar about Windows versus Apparently abandoning the idea of net eaten squash, potatoes, wild onions, chest burned for fuel. The whole trunk eventually ers as well. toward popular ethnic cuisine--with tastes All work done by supervised students nuts, turkey, venison, and salmon and been fell. More fuel. After eight years the family Mac. On this occasion, no sparring occurred. work~nabled or cross platform anything, Mi Jenkins likens her business to "Meals on ranging from Italian and French to Thai and He'd had it. When his current PC laptop died crosoft rolled out Longhorn, their next gen glad of it. Today it still sounds appetizing. "cleared" another field. The old field grew Wheels for working people." Chinese. Recent offerings have included: - a funeral he hoped to attend soon - he eration Windows operating system (due early Thanksgiving has its ironies though. up, first to berries and grasses, later to trees. Monthly menus are listed on her company's Pierre's School of Cosmetology wanted an iBook. 2006). It looks like Microsoft is going back to Many tribes burned the forest under website (www.whatsfordinnerinme.com) and • Mushroom and fennel dusted pork loin; It's a creative place, where he works. Many the idea of centralizing all on the desktop ma A: We recognize the contribution Native growth twice a year. These low-heat fires left sent to those on her mailing list. That's when sweet potato and apple gratin; sherry chine ... and making everything so Windows 319 MARGINAL WAY, PORTLAND, ME 04101 Americans made to the survival of early the largely hardwood forests with open park the fun begins for her customers, a group as braised roasted peppers; peanut butter use Macs. Except for maintenance visits, their colonists. like floors. Passage on the ground was easier varied as Jenkins' meals. chocolate chip brownie. Mac users are infrequently inconvenienced specific it's either switch back or die. B: The farming industry, which provides as was hunting. What has recently been re One, a single working woman, says she • Linguine with clam sauce; creamy Caesar or thwarted in getting work done. Indeed, Longhorn will offer better graphics, search Call Kathleen for more utform.a.ti.on! much of the bounty that we enjoy to discovered is that the burning cleared the simply looks at the calendar and determines salad with spicy croutons; broccoli with their efficiency seems to increase all the time. and security features (like in Mac's 2003 Pan day, is at war with organic growers, who way for grasses and berries to grow. Hunted which evenings she wants her meals deliv pepper dressing; zebra striped cheesecake. 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November 28 present a special concert, lecture and River, which featured Reid and Andersen's BottomzUP Bridgeway Restaurant Karaoke w/DJ Cougar Tmuseum open house on Sunday No rich blending of instrumentation and vocal 80's College Nite (8pm) Bobby Laine (Piano/6-!0pm) (9pm/21+) vember 30 featuring renowned guitarist and harmonies. The Bramhall Pub Camden Opera Houae (Cam Bridgeway Restaurant 41st Annual Rotary Chrisbnas Tree Sale 9am Mill Creek Park, South Portland. 767-4682. The Jerks of Grass den) folk musician Harvey Reid, fiddler and singer Barbara Barwise is a longtime resident of AI Doane Jazz Jam (7-IOpm) (bluegrass/9:30pm/21 +) Gintare (8pm) Bull Feeney's Michael Cooney performs at 7pm at the Atlantic Hall in Cape Porpoise. Cooney is a often called the "One songwriter Joyce Andersen and local histo Kennebunkport, and has studied local his Brian Boru Encore Plano Bar Open Mic (8pm) Man Folk Festival" for his fantastic repetoire. rian and storyteller Barbara Barwise. tory with passion and appreciation for the Stream (Reggae/9pm/21 •) Cabaret Vocalist w/Open Mic Center for Cultural Exchange Come to Chrisbnas on the Farm and meet your local artists. It is an annual event featuring 22 Maine This event will take place 4 p.m. at the human stories so abundant in local lore. She Bull Feeney's (5pm) Don Roy Fiddle Tune (7pm) Maine Songwriters Showcase Free Street Taverna Artists and Craftspeople in an "Old Fashioned Atmosphere." Open 9am-5pm through November 30. Town HaJJ Auditorium in Kennebunk, ME, and is fascinated with the story of the Isidore, and Central Maine Civic Center (7:30pm/21 +) Josh Eden & The Difference (Augusta) will include a talk about the history of the knows some descendants of sailors lost in Free Street Taverna (9:30pm/2!+) Staind w/Sevendust & Chevelle Isidore, a bark-rigged vessel built in Kenne~ the wreck. Turkey Surprise (9:30pm/21 +) Geoo's (7pm) Saturday. November 29 unk. The Isidore set sail on her maiden voy For over 70 years, The Brick Store Museum Gritty's McDutrs The Points w/Satan's Free Street Taverna CobyCarluccl (21 +) Teardrops, The Quasimen age on November 30, 1842 from Kenne~ has housed collections of local and regional DJ Spun Reggae w/Geofferson Headliners w/The Monkey Butlers (reggae/9:30pm/21 +) 41st Annual Rotary Chrisbnas Tree Sale 9am Mill Creek Park, South Portland. 767-4682. unkport with a crew of 15 local men, only to history. Its mission to preserve and educate DJ Baby J (9pm/21+) (9pm/21+) Immanuel Baptist Churcb 42nd Annual Down East Ski Club Sale 8am-4pm, USM Gym, Portland. 800-582-8257. New and used meet her end the following morning at Bald includes changing exhibitions and a history McGUllcuddy's (Brunswick) Headllnen Joyous Sounds for a Festive downhill and cross-country skis, boots, poles and snowboards. General public is welcome to enter their Head Cliffs in Cape Neddick in a terrible archive, which includes indexes, photo Ken Grimsley and Dave Dodge DJ Baby J (9pm/21 +) Season Concert (7:30pm) storm with the loss of all on board. Several graphs, and other manuscript material relat (acoustic) Mr. Goodbar (008) TheMercnry items in the sale on Friday, November 28th from 1-6pm. Old Port Tavern Broken (9:30pm/21+) sailors had vivid premonitions and dreams ing to Kennebunk ships and shipbuilding. For The Lesson wf Moshe/DJ Mota/ Walking Tour of All Things Irish in Portland I lam, sponsored by the Irish Heritage Center. Cummings Karaoke w/ OJ Mike C Old Port Tavern Kid Ray (!Opm/21+) of the disaster. The amazing circumstances of more information visit www.brickstoremu (9:30pm/21+) Sly Chi (9pm/21+) Old Port Tavern Center, Munjoy Hill, Portland. the shipwreck and the enduring reports of a seum.org. Port West Verrillos Convenlion RI-Ra Karaoke w/ DJ Sid Hurdy-Gurdy Variety Show Special Event, I lam at the St. Lawrence Arts & Community Center, 76 Con ghost ship made this the most widely told Center Jim Champi & The Manhattan (9:30/21+) joy<:e Andersen (left) and Harvey Reid will David Bullard (6pm) 9(10pm/2l +) .....,.,rill'EliSS-:>t .. Portland. 775-2004. This show will feature guest singers, dancers, performers and puppeteers. tale in Maine 100 years ago. This is the 161st R1Ra commemorate The Wreck of the Isidore. Sierra's Restaurant (Gorham) Saco River Grange Hall (Bar Pub Quiz (8pm/21•) show only! anniversary of the wreck. Karaoke (9pm) Mills) Somewhere Else From 1 p.m. to 4 p.m., the Brick Store Mu Somewhere Else The Old Time Radio Gang Karaoke w/DJ Larry (9pm) seum will open its doors to the public with a Karaoke w/DJ Larry (9pm) (7:30pm) Una Sunday. November 30 small display of artifacts of and materials The Stalion Somewhere Else DJ Marcus Cain DJ Cougar/Karaoke Dance w/DJ Kneel (9pm) about the wreck, and selected pieces of art (9:30pm/21 +) Space Gallery Coastal Humane Society Silent Auction 1-5pm. Merry Meeting Room of the Harraseeket Inn, 162 Maine work inspired by the Isidore. Visitors will be Aspera w/1 am the World Trade Wednesday 3 Street, Freeport. The auction items will include gift certificates, golf memberships, travel vouchers and able to hear a recorded account of the Isidore Center /Cex (8:30pm/2 I+) Acoustic Coffee a raffle for dog and cat items. The jazz group Just Friends will perform contemporary and classic jazz as told by the late Hartley Lord, resident of Friday 28 The Underground Club Diesel w/DJ Dan (21 +) Portland Community Singing standards. 725-5051. Kennebunk. Anyone wishing to visit the grave Acouslic Coffee Yosaku Circle Hosted by Tom Acoustl of Captain Leander Foss may meet at the Brick Poetry Night (7:30pm) The Marc Chillemi Quartet (7pm) Auditions: Uttle Shop of Horrors at the City Theater, 205 Main Street, Biddeford. Be sure to prepare a Store Museum at 1 p.m. to proceed together Alantlc Hall (Cape Porpoise) (Jazz/8:30pm) Barbara's Kitchen Broadway Song. Auditions will be held on Sunday from 1-4pm and Monday from 7-IOpm. Michael Cooney (7pm) Marc Chillemi and SoPo Trio to the cemetery in Kennebunkport. A short The Alehouae (Jazz/8pm) memorial tribute, written by Harvey Reid, will King Memphis (9pm/21+) Sunday 30 The Big Easy Monday. December 1 be read. Asylum Zion Train (reggae/!Opm/21+) Advance tickets for the concert are $10 for Cyberia w/dehuman8 & DJ Acoustic CoHee BottomzUp Stranger (Down/9pm/21+) Sweet Dream Recording Artists Karaoke w/DJ Cougar World AIDS Day Commemoration & Rapid HIV Testing Event to be held in Cumberland at First adults ($12 at the door) and $8 for students Bottoou: UP (l0am-2pm) (9pm/21+) and children. Tickets are available at The Brick Live Music (9pm) Chess Club (llam-3pm) Corthell Hall (USM Gorham Parish Unitarian/Universalist Church, 425 Congress St, Portland from 12-4:30pm. Store Museum offices, 117 Main Street, New Bramhall Pub Big Easy Campus) World AIDS Day Honored at Center for Maine Contemporary Art. The Coastal Aids Network will Morning Natural Foods, York St. (Rt. I) both in Open Mic w/Jeremy Lester Jet wfVacationland (9pm/21+) Vocal Jazz Ensemble (7:30pm) Old Port Tavern honor World AIDS day ay the Center for Maine Contemporary Art from 6-8pm. The display will feature Kennebunk, the Kennebunk Book Port, Dock (JOpm/21•) Brian Born Bridgeway Restaurant Irish session music (3-7pm) Karaoke w/ DJ Mike C. a display of art books created by Camden Hills Regional School. Square, Kennebunkport, and at the Old York Bobby Laine (Piano/6pm) Bull Feeney's (9:30/21+) Historical Society Gift Shop, York, ME. Tickets Brian Born Rachel Griffin (7:30pm/21+) RIRa are also available online at: tickets@wood Pneuma (9pm) David's Restaurant Mike O'Brien (lrish/6pm) Tuesday. December 2 pecker.com. The Bronswlck (008) Jenny Woodman Acoustic Duo Top of East David Angel & The Memories (6pm) Dave Briggs Jazz Duo (7pm/21 +) This second annual concert commemo Encore Plano Bar (Roxy) Free Street Taverna The Underground Italy In September: A World Tour View 7-8:30pm. Maine Audubon, Gisland Farm Rd ., Falmouth. rating the Isidore will feature the story of the Live Piano Music w/Open Mic Open Mic w/ Tyler o[ Sly Chi Karaoke w/l.arry (21+) (5pm) (9:30pm/2l +) Ushuala (Orono) shipwreck, told by Kennebunkport historian Maine Chamber Singers will again fill the night with joy and warmth, when they perform their Barbara Barwise, intertwined with music of Free Street Taverna Old Port Tavern Slaves on Dope/6 Gig/Melee '--e~~:e~~ Lovewhip (9:30pm/21 +) Karaoke w/ DJ Mike C. (Spm/18+) popular Joyous Sounds for a Festive Season at the Immanuel Baptist Church, 156 High St., Portland. the day and other songs of seafaring and Geno's (9:30pm/21 +) coastal life. The performers in the program The Drossells w/Joe Mazzari R1-Ra 780-5256. are local, national and international person Band & American Pulverizer Live Jazz Brunch (!lam) Staind with special guests Sevendust and Cheville will perform at 7pm at the Central Maine Civic Cen alities. (9pm/21+) Somewhere Else ter, 190 Birch St, Lewiston. Gritty's McDufrs DJ Beulla (4-!0pm) Joyce Andersen has made her living for a Zion Train (21 •) The Stalion decade singing and playing violin, from the Headliners DJ Cougar/Karaoke (9:30pm) bluegrass and country bands of her native DJ Seanne (9pm/21+) Three Dollar Deweys New England to the jazz clubs of New York, as The Mercury Paddy Mills (4pm/21+) 121nch Zombles-Laree The Underground well as in Nashville. Her recent second CD Love/Moshe/ Karaoke w/Dan (21+) has received rave reviews and national air Nicotine wf Richard Sin your music play. (9pm/21+) (including date, Harvey Reid is a familiar name to folk mu Mr. Goodbar (008) Monday 1 performer, sic fans and guitar aficionados nationwide Flesh & Bones (9:30pm/21 +) Old Port Tavern AleHouae Md time, to List and in Europe. His 17 recordings on Wood Kaining Amy wfCaraher Funka The Doug Emery Quartet Om:o Bay Weekly, pecker Records showcase his colorful, per tronic (9pm/21 +) (Jazz/9pm) sonal and distinctive style. His talents include JU.Ra The Big Easy Ave., Portland, Ryan McCalmon (JOpm/21+) impressive virtuosity on many instruments, Sly-Chi (!Opm/21+) fax: 775-1615, Somewhere Else Free Street Taverna including guitar, banjo, &-string banjo, auto Dance w/DJ Kate (9pm) Hip Hop Open Mic w/ BoonDox harp, mandocello, and in many styles of Una (9:30pm) roots-based music-folk, blues, bluegrass, DJ Mike Said (9pm/21 +) Old Port Tavern Karaoke wf DJ Sid Celtic, ragtime, country and more. The Underground Top 40 Remix w/DJ Silverspice (9:30pm/21+) Reid, an international touring artist, multi (21+) Sierra's Restaurant (Gorham) instrumentalist, award-winning re-cording Open Mtc Night (8pm) artist and the founder of the Seacoast Guitar The Undergronnd Gothic Industrial (21+) Society, came upon the dramatic story of the 22 Casco Bay Weekly Casco Bay Weekly listings are a fun and free service to our readers. To have a listing considered for publicatiOn send complete information (including dates, times, costs, 1 Casco Bay Weekly listings are a fun and free service to our complete address, a contact telephone number) by noon Thursday two weeks prior to readers. To have a listing considered for publication, send publicah·on. 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Love I'm 5'8", 140 lbs, black/blue, clean-shaven, put to ities, for get-togethers and mutual growth. 1r85012 called Dr. Tatiana's Sex Advice to All Creation, by evo money, and love that you now depend on may be gone 50s, N/S, stable work and home, mental and physical Women to massage them, looking for mutual mastur e health, SOH , strong interests and inquiring mind, for people, nature. Desperately seeking big beautiful gether very well. Looking for companionship, friend lutionary biologist Olivia Judson. Your mind may be in IS years? What can you do to begin cultivating re bation sessions. My fantasy is to masturbate in front SINGLE Bl-{:URIOUS WM, 25, 5'10", 190 lbs, seeking LTR. Portland area. '~~'85168 Women who show true colors and honesty. For dining ship and who knows where it could lead. I'm a good blown wide open as you learn how experimentaJ some placements? Visualize the life you'd like to be living in of another Woman. Not Married, Single, good-looking, older Gentleman for intimate encounters. Discreet and out, long drives, quiet times at home. Race open, 170 listener, a good lover and good nurturer. tr85063 animals are in their approach to sex. You'll read, for ex 2018, and start planting seeds you'll harvest then. 6', 1951bs, brown/green . .,85053 healthy a must. "85060 CREATIVE, ATTRACTIVE, ACCOMPUSHED Woman, 52, lbs•. 1785144 ample, about dolphins that try to copulate with turtles with artistic sensibilities, intellectual curiosity, seeks 52-YEAR-OLD GWM, 5'10", 195 lbs, brown/brown, in 50-YEAR-OLD MARRIED BIWM, 5'9", 200 lbs, clean and SM INTO NUDISM, looking for people to get together and seals, orangutans that masturbate with sex toys CAPRICORN (De<:. 22-Jan. 19): "The abyss has its own ATTRACTIVE MAN, 54, artistic, energetic, adventure terested in friendship, dating, possibly more. You be: strong, healthy Male who appreciates femininity, sim discreet, LfD, N/Drugs. 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Love the arts, cross-country skiing, nature, way. 1785039 that impregnate their male partners. I'm hoping that by Capricorn? To prepare you for your adventure in the Let's connect. 1r850QI hiking, kayaking, NYC. "85046 ATTRACTIVE, EASYGOING SM, Widower, 46, good expanding your definition of what's "natural," you'll coming weeks, I suggest you brainstorm about them 50S LADY, 5'4", 135 lbs, blonde/blue, attractive, sen DANCE WITH ME! DWF, 5'3", solid build, brown hair, sense of humor, open-minded, outgoing, zest and pas BISEXUAL WHITE MALE, 38, 5'6", ISO lbs, good-looking, lose any shame you might still have about your own now. While you won't be descending all the way to the sual, seeks tall, H/W/P Man lor casual fun, dancing, sion for life. Looking for Lady with same. 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