Since 1958 FREE April 26 - May 9, 2018 . for the people who live here, visit here and love it here. TouriSt NewS Regatta Over Butch’s Shop by Jill Hoy ART MUSIC FOOD SHOPS LIVING kittery | york | ogunquit | wells | kennebunk | kennebunkport | arundel | biddeford | saco | old orchard beach PAGE 2 TOURIST NEWS, APRIL 26 – MAY 9, 2018 IN THIS ISSUE "When I come to my store in the morning, I love walk- Subscriptions Available Remembering Mrs. Bush . PAGE 3 ing to my door, thinking about growing up here as Stay plugged in whether Springtime . .PAGES 4 & 5 a kid, riding my bike to the Colonial to buy my mother near or far. From the In the Art World . PAGE 6 “medium ash brown” Clairol Keep Publisher's hair dye, for instance. There Desk. Southern Local Heroes . PAGE 7 used to be a nice bin of LPs towards the front, you know, vinyl records. Coastal Day Tripper . PAGE 8 Bought my first Joni Mitchell album there with Maine at your my babysitting money, and proceeded to memo- fingertips. Mainely Authors . PAGE 9 rize every Joni Mitchel song she ever wrote and listen to not much else for the next ten years. I [email protected] Calendar . PAGES 12 & 13 am a townie. Proud of it." - Kate Nelligan, local business owner and "townie." Activities . PAGES 16 & 17 What is is about small towns that seems to engender this sort of sentiment? What is it Cover Artist Jill Hoy Nightlife . PAGE 22 about Maine? Working with the partic- I say we don't even try to figure it out. I say ular qualities of Maine light has long been a primary Remember This? . .PAGE 23 we just savor the sentiment. It's warm. It's focus of Jill Hoy’s plein air wonderful. And it's sweetly nostagic – in an in- oil paintings. Each of her paintings has a story and describable kind of way. It's that feeling of home. a distinct reason for being So here's to the townies, wherever you call chosen as a painting site. home. Here's to celebrating what was. And Jill has run the Jill Hoy Gallery in Stonington, for here's to bringing that same sentimental, small 30 years. She exhibits with town spirt into whatever will be. Portland Art Gallery, C.O.P., Kingsley Gallup Thos. Moser, Freeport, Sam Shaw, Gallery in NorthWast Harbor, Gallery Owner and Publisher at South West Harbor, Schomburg Gallery in Tourist News is delivered to over Santa Monica, Chase Gallery, Boston, as well Graphics Editor as many shows nationally and internationally. Geraldine Aikman 450 sites from Kittery to Portland. She has paintings in the collections of the This number is growing all the time. Portland Museum of Art, Harvard Business Contributing Writers School, Boston Public Library, Fidelity, John DanaTourist Pearson, Valerie News Marier, JoStaff O'Connor, Let us know if you would like to Hancock, and Art in the Embassies collections, among 700 plus other private, public, and cor- Kristin Kuehnle, Rob Coburn become a delivery site. porate collections. Her paintings are included Distribution Bookkeeping in David Little’s, and Edgar Allen Beem’s books on Maine art. She has been featured in David Spofford Irene Seltzer Our mission is to be the indispensable Maine Home and Design, Yankee Magazine and also featured in Down East with her husband, Tourist News guide to life in Southern Maine, painter, Jon Imber. 7 Chase Hill Road Jon Imber’s Left Hand setting the gold standard for local business , a Maine Masters film Kennebunk, Maine 04043 made in 2014, provides a window on their life promotion, exceptional journalism and together as two painters. Jon died of ALS in www.touristnewsmaine.com 2014. They have a son, 21, Gabe Imber who [email protected] overall goodwill for locals and tourists alike. goes to Bates College. www.jillhoy.com. 207-204-0055 Contributors This Issue Mort Dana Jo O’Connor Valerie Kristen Mather’s Pearson is a is a local Marier is Kuehnle is an first career writer, mu- writer who a freelance avid reader, as a theat- sician, and has deep journal- “turned” col- rical stage inveterate family roots ist who umnist, who manager movie-goer in the Ken- traveled moved to brought him who lives in nebunks. the world Maine from to Maine and the Ogunquit Kennebunk She is the mother of twins, writing the Salem, Mass. She retired Playhouse in 1967. In 1969 with his wife Diane. Though the founder lead singer of for magazines and newspa- from Salem State University he bought a farm in Wells fully aware that he lives the local band The Dock pers. She moved to Maine in 2016 and now serves on and he and his wife, Bar- in one of the world’s top- Squares, and an artist who from the New York met- the SSU faculty as professor bara, moved onto the farm rated tourist destinations, creates driftwood and sea ropolitan area thirty years emerita. Since retiring, Kris- in 1972. In the 45 years he has Mr. Pearson enjoys leaving glass art. With boundless ago. She considers the Ken- ten opened a book store, Fine lived in Maine he founded from time to time, if only to energy, she also teaches nebunks home but loves Print Booksellers, in Dock two nonprofits, Laudholm relish the sensation of coming Zumba and aqua classes. Jo every inch of the Pine Tree Square, Kennebunkport. She Trust and the Ogunquit Play- home again. He can often be is also a professor at Sim- State. Val is a happy wife, is the mother of two sons house Foundation, wrote found gardening, skimming mons College. Her career mother and grandmother and happy grandmother. “The Garden Spot” for the stones, cultivating his beard, has included marketing and who also enjoys knitting Reading is a passion, and York County Coast Star for and referring to himself in communications positions and reading, golf and trav- one of her favorite expres- 20 years and articles in sev- the third person. His novels for the Boston Celtics, the el, and writes about them sions is “Open a Book and eral national publications. Two Birds and The Muralist, Boston Garden/FleetCenter, in her weekly blog, Wan- open a mind”. She writes He was a president of the as well as No, But Seriously: CBS Radio, Sonesta Hotels, dering With Val (www. the Tourist News column, Maine Organic Farmers and 1994-2007, a collection of hu- the Wang Center for the Per- wanderingwithval.com). Mainely Authors. To reach Gardeners Association and mor columns, can be found at forming Arts and working Kristen, email kristen@fine- Executive Director of Friends www.amazon.com/author/ for an advertising agency. printbooksellers.com of Intelligent Land-use. danapearson. TOURIST NEWS, APRIL 26 – MAY 9, 2018 PAGE 3 The Kennebunks Remember a Woman of Unmistakable Grace "Barbara Bush was an effortlessly amazing lady to the world. She will live forever in our hearts." Bonnie Clement "She was a role model for all generations of women. She loved her family. She loved her country. She lived what she believed." Lisa Mills “At the end of your life, you will never regret not having passed one more test, not winning one more verdict or not closing one more deal. You will regret time not spent with a husband, a friend, a child, or a parent.” Barbara Bush Photos of Mrs. Bush by Bob Dennis PAGE 4 TOURIST NEWS, APRIL 26 – MAY 9, 2018 Springtime: Because of the Wait, It's All the More Sweet; by Mort Mather Editor’s note: Mort Orvie’s Stories, is available tools and make clumps that of that summer and were sible, there were bills for also enjoy hanging out in Mather planted his first gar- at bookstores throughout retain their clumpy nature amazed when we returned things like electricity, in- lettuce, and that a slug in den at his home on Bald Hill Maine, at Joshua’s and at when dry. Holding the ball in September to find our surance and property taxes salad is off-putting. The Road in Wells in 1970. It was mortmather.com. of soil between thumb and tomatoes were doing well, - though I did manage to worst was when a cus- “the size of a tabletop,” as Three feet of snow fell finger I squeezed, and the as they had been kept off keep income below the tomer of a sandwich shop he describes it. Over time, it in one week in early March ball didn’t break apart with the ground by weeds. We poverty level, thus avoid- I was selling lettuce to... would become much larger, as but I still cheerfully told slight pressure. When it did even got some potatoes. ing income taxes. That Yeah, I don’t need to finish it was the source of his liveli- people, “I’ll start planting break, it broke into three Two years later, on June was a little tricky when that sentence. hood. Today it is an acre and within a month.” When it large pieces rather than 1, 1972, we moved onto the Barbara became pregnant, For years I have been a quarter. Mort is known to stayed cold and the snow crumbling. I knew it wasn’t farm permanently, arriv- but we found a doctor who using six to eight inches many not only as the garden- didn’t melt, I got a little ready to work, but it sure ing early morning with a would deliver our baby of grass clipping, hay and ing expert that he is – but nervous about my predic- felt good to get my hands second-hand pickup truck in exchange for a cord straw mulch on every gar- also because he founded the tion, but I’ve been planting in it, and the message I got loaded with our posses- of wood – I certainly got den, but it is not a perma- Laudholm Trust in 1980 in a garden here in western back was: “SOON.” Then sions.