A Civil War Romance June 25 - JULY 12

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a Civil War Romance June 25 - JULY 12

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Performances at the Pickard Theater on the campus of Bowdoin College, 1 Bath Road, Brunswick, Maine Maine mystique Star Map of North Haven Island

By Deana Lorenzo

Top of page: Yankee Olympus–the cottage of the Weld family of Massachusetts. Bot- tom of page: The Mor- row/Lindbergh estate, Deacon Brown’s Point.

ho lives on North Haven Is- summer fixture here, too. His family mem-

hite(2) land? “Anne Morrow Lind bers still touch down on North Haven. “Ol w bergh’s summer home is locat- iver Platt [Indecent Proposal, Benny & Joon, tian s W ed at Deacon Brown’s Point at the northwest Lake Placid, and most recently with Scarlett tip of the island,” says Emily Greenlaw of Johansson and Dustin Hoffman,Chef (2014)] the North Haven Is- has a home on Dole Road,” land Historical So- Greenlaw says. “Elise & ciety. Which means, Pierre DuPont live on

tian White; Joe(3); Seba yes, Charles A. Lind Kents Hill overlooking the s bergh, famous for be- downtown village.” Seba ing the first solo pilot Pierre S. “Pete” DuPont to fly from New York IV (R-Delaware) served in from top: to Paris (in 1927) was a the U.S. House of Repre-

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Pingrees: Chellie hu T ill sentatives (1971-77) and as Delaware’s gov- and Hannah B ernor (1977-85). Companies owned by the , photo by

DuPont family (who arrived from France s in 1800 and quickly cornered America’s hopkin gunpowder manufacturing market–today c y eri they’re best known for DuPont Chemical) s employ between five and 10 percent of Del- aware’s population. Former IBM president “Thomas Wat- son (1874-1956) lived on Oak Hill on the hotography; Courte North Shore.” His family still logs in here P every summer. Artist F.W. Benson (1862-1951) found in- or Creative spiration on “Wooster Farm. [The house is] F currently owned by Peter Allen and is located

Charles and Anne y Center on Crabtree Point Road near Wooster Cove.” s How about some old Hollywood? Leading Morrow Lindbergh ourte man “Robert Montgomery (1904-1981) resid- c ed at Indian Point at the

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land.” Among his cred- c its: Rage in Heaven (1941), reitenba

with Ingrid Bergman; B h/ Here Comes Mr. Jor- c dan (1941), with Claude reitenba

Rains; and the noir classic B ef Lady in the Lake (1947), s which he directed. His om/; Jo daughter Elizabeth Montgomery (1933-1995) 3 c stayed here, too, in the same house. “My father, a realtor, sold him the property,” says andmedia. artist Eric Hopkins. “I used to see Robert ws all the time. Their place was an old fishing/ farming cape with white cedar shingles on it.” As for glimpses of his bewitching daughter, Hopkins, 63, says, “I didn’t watch a lot of TV back then.” ; http://independentfilmne ut he was watching the summer that s Jimmy Cagney came to visit Robert Robert Montgom- Three Points by Eric Hopkins BMontgomery. “Robert owned a Huckins [custom power yacht] named Cyg- ery, actor, director, 5’x8’ oil on canvas. net. Every two weeks or so, he’d take his wife and producer Elizabeth (not Bewitched’s mom) up to Northeast Harbor to get her hair done at her favorite [salon]. ki; huger foote; rottentomatoe ws Cagney tagged along for this junket “and was putting out the fenders when some peo- iety. c obert Witko

ple on shore starting jumping up and down R o s

and shouting, ‘Jimmy Cagney! Jimmy Cag- al c ney!’ Then they said, ‘You look much young- tori er than you do on film!’” s e from top left: s

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Actor Oliver Platt, in the filmChef and currently in the TV series Fargo.

Poet Elizabeth Bishop The actress Elizabeth Mont- (1911-1979) gomery memorably played Lizzie Borden, but she’s best remembered for her TV role as Samantha Ste- phens in Bewitched.

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But wait, there’s more. “The Bush family…Jonathan and Jody…have a home on Margot Lar Designs Kent Cove,” says Emily Greenlaw. Über de- signers “Toshiko Mori and James Carpenter www.MargotLar.com | [email protected] have a home on South Shore Road.” Speaking of architects, when he’s not in New York, I. M. Pei & Partners founding ar- chitect Henry N. Cobb heads to North Ha- ven, where he has homes “downtown and on Indian Point.” If you’ve ever wandered through the Payson Wing of the Portland Museum of Art, you’ve already been inside one of his many world-famous designs. or Boston Brahmins, how about the Cabots, one of the “first families” of FBoston who can trace their lineage back to John Cabot (b. 1680). If the Cabots get lonely, they can swap stories with the Saltonstalls out here. We didn’t know S.S. Old Pierce delivered this far north. Speaking of the Saltonstalls, let’s not for- get the Welds of Massachusetts and their POrt ties to the island. In 1885, summer rusticator William Weld commissioned John Alden to design SPecialty him a fast sailing yacht tender. The result O was the North Haven dinghy, and soon ev- tile c eryone in the summer colony had to have one. The graceful, plumb-stemmed, 14-foot gaffers are still raced off North Haven today. iety

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9 2 p o r t l a n d monthly magazine Preparations are underway for Charles & Anne Morrow Lindbergh’s departure from North Haven in a single-engine plane. Their flight across Canada and Alaska to Japan and China became the subject of Anne’s 1935 book North to the Orient.

Moldings, ﬂoors, and stairs from Fat Andy’s can turn an average and resolute Harvard-man, served as Re- room into publican governor of Massachusetts from a signature 1991 to 1997. Actor Oliver Platt’s father is Nicholas statement with Platt, a career U.S. diplomat with high-lev- your individual el service in China, Hong Kong, Japan, and Canada (where Oliver was born in 1960), imprint. and served as ambassador in Pakistan, Zambia, and the Philippines. Oliver’s broth- er Adam Platt is New York Magazine’s restaurant critic. RECLAIMED CUSTOM Novelist Susan Minot lives on Main PLANKING: Street. Among her spectacular accomplish- TORRIFIED RED OAK, ments: writing the screenplay for Stealing POPLAR & ASH Beauty with Bernardo Bertolucci. Her first novel, Monkeys, put her on the map. (Al- FSC-CERTIFIED HARDWOODS though it didn’t hurt to have palled around with ambassador to Japan Caroline Kenne- CUSTOM dy at Concord Academy). Minot’s new nov- WOOD FLOORING el, Thirty Girls, enraptured the critics at the MOLDINGS New York Times Book Review this spring. Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award- STAIR PARTS winning poet Elizabeth Bishop visited here summer after summer to see friends, so CUSTOM DOORS much that she’s a part of the place. Want to Reasonably priced. read a good poem? Read Bishop’s “The Fish.” Just sayin’. Think we’re done? We’re just getting start- ed. Beyond Eric Hopkins, a North Haven boy through and through, there’s design maven 800.962.5529 Angela Adams. Did you know that U.S. Rep. 207.829.3386 and College of the Atlantic alumna (1979) www.fatandys.com Chellie Pingree first came to the island as a SHOWROOM: back-to-the-land farmer? Her daughter, for- 373 Walnut Hill Road, mer speaker of the Maine House of Represen- North Yarmouth, ME tatives Hannah Pingree, continues the tradi- tion. Hannah runs Nebo Lodge, the island’s

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chic, locavore inn and restaurant. The inn is decorated with Angela Adams rugs and homewares; the restaurant serves produce from Chellie’s nearby organic Turner Farm. Still with me? Chellie’s other daughter Cecily received an individual artist fellowship in documentary filmmaking from Maine Arts Commission. Cecily also has a casual restaurant opening this summer in the island’s Calderwood Hall, the product of a new restoration. Remember Elton John? He doesn’t live here. But when he toured singing “Don’t Go Breaking my Heart,” North Haven’s Cindy Bullens sang the Kiki Dee part of the duet with him on three major tours. The talented singer-songwriter, who came out as Cidny Bullens in 2012, was also the driving force behind the 2001 Broadway debut for the musical Islands, which put North Haven into the stratosphere, as a sort of seaswept Our Town. To see Bullens being interviewed by Dick Clark, visit you- tube.com/watch?v=PVxTUIB9HTU. Who lives on North Haven Island? Who doesn’t? n

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