www.kitterymuseum.com Moffatt-Ladd House & Gardens 154 Market St., Portsmouth, N.H., 603-436-8821, moffattladd.org Museum of Lighthouse History 2190 Post Road, Wells, Maine, 207-646-0245 Museums of Old York York, Maine, 207-363-4974, www.oldyork.org Nott House 8 Main St., Kennebunkport, Maine. Ogunquit Heritage Museum 86 Obeds Lane, Ogunquit, Maine, 207-646-0296, www.ogunquitheritagemus Ogunquit Museum of Modern Art 183 Shore Road, Ogunquit, Maine, 207-646-4909 Perkins Cove Lobster Tours Bourne Lane, Ogunquit, Maine, 207-646-7413 Prescott Park Marcy St., Porstmouth, NH, www.prescottpark.org Portsmouth Athenaeum 9 Market St., Portsmouth, NH, 603-431-2538, www.portsmouthathenaeum Portsmouth Harbour Trail www.pbhtrail.org, 603-431-2768 Portsmouth Historical Society www.portsmouthhistory.o Portsmouth Public Library 175 Parrott Ave., Portsmouth, NH, 603-427-1540, cityofportsmouth.com/li Rundlet-May House 364 Middle St., Portsmouth, NH, 603-430-7531 Saco Museum & the Dyer Library 371 Main St., Saco, Maine, 207-283-3861, www.dyerlibrarysacomuse Sayward-Wheeler House 79 Barrell Lane, York, Maine, 603-436-3205 Seacoast African American Cultural Center 135 Daniel St., Portsmouth, NH, 603-430-6027, saacc-nh.org Seacoast Trolley Museum 195 Log Cabin Road, Kennebunkport, Maine, 207-967- 2800, www.trolleymuseum.org Star Island Corp. 30 Middle St., Portsmouth, NH, 603-430-6372, www.starisland.org Strawbery Banke Museum 14 Hancock St., Portsmouth, NH, 603-433-1100, strawberybanke.org USS Albacore 600 Market St. Portsmouth, NH, 603-436-3680, ussalbacore.org Warner House 43 Middle Road, Portsmouth, NH, 603-436-5909, warnerhouse.org Wells Auto Museum Route 1, Wells, Maine, 207-646-9064 Wentworth-Coolidge Mansion State Historic Site 375 Little Harbor Rd., Portsmouth, NH 603-436-6607, nhstateparks.org Wentworth-Gardner/Tobia Lear Houses 50 Mechanic St., Portsmouth, NH 603-436-4406, www.wentworthgardnerand Woodman Institute Museum 182 Central St., Dover, NH 603-742-1038, woodmaninstitutemuseum. Events DINNER AT JEFFERDS TAVERN The Museums of Old York will be hosting a dinner on Fri., July 22, from 6 to 8 p.m. The dinner will consist of local seafood, beef, fresh vegetables, and desserts of local fresh fruits. Reservations are required and tickets are $25 per person. Call 207-363- 4974. ELIOT ANTIQUE TRACTOR & ENGINE SHOW from Sat., July 23, to Mon., July 25, at the Raitt Homestead Farm, Eliot, Maine, 207-748-3303. Events include breakfast, tractor parade, tractor tour, and more. STAGECOACH AND TAVERN DAY Sat., July 30, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the NH Farm Museum, Route 125 on White Mountain Hwy, Milton, 603-652-7840, www.farmmuseum.org. Experience the 1830s with living history tours featuring role players in period costume. Try your hand at tavern games, enjoy period music, visit the blacksmith and take a horse drawn wagon ride. Cost is $7 (children $4). Exhibits CITY OF THE OPEN DOOR: HARRY S. HARLOW The Discover Portsmouth Center will be hosting an exhibit of 52 panels featuring the doorways to signifi- cant Portsmouth properties. The exhibit is ongoing. Call 603-436-8420. COUNTING HOUSE MUSEUM in South Berwick, Maine, offers a perspec- tive on life along the seacoast. It is open July through September, Saturdays and Sundays 1 to 4 p.m. Admission is free. Call 207-384-0000. DOUBLE EXPOSURE: Historic and Contemporary Images of the Wentworth- Gardner House, is on display through July 31 at 50 Mechanic St., Portsmouth, NH, featuring the photography by Wallace Nutting, work from the MMA, and local photographers Geneve Hoffman and Philip Case Cohen. Admission is $5 per person, $2 per child. FIRE ON THE WATER: Portsmouths Kearsarge Sinks the Deadly Confederate Raider Alabama, is on display at the Ports- mouth Athenaeum in Portsmouth through Sat., Sept. 17. Call 603-431-2538 or go to www.portsmouthathenaeum FITZ JOHN PORTER: Civil War Hero or Coward?, an exhibit about the Civil War soldier born in Portsmouth, is on display through Mon., Oct. 31, at the Strawbery Banke Museum in the Rolland Gallery. The exhibit includes a music and lecture series, a daily walking tour and more. GOVERNOR JOHN LANGDON HOUSE in Portsmouth, NH, is a national historic landmark featuring a Georgian mansion where John Langdon resided. Open Friday through Sunday 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Admission is $6. Call 603-436-3205. HAMILTON HOUSE in South Ber- wick, Maine, is a national historic landmark overlooking the Salmon Falls River. Open Wednesday through Sunday 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Admission is $8. Call 207-384-2454. IMPRESSIONS OF A WORLD TRAVELER The Brick Store Museum in Kennebunk is hosting an exhibit of work by Edith C. Barry. The exhibition will include photographs, souvenirs, costumes, and written word. Call 207-985-4802 or go to www.brickstoremuseum.or JACK LEVINE exhibit at Ogunquit Museum of American Art will be held from Aug. 4 to Oct. 31. Call 207-646-4909. JACKSON HOUSE in Portsmouth, NH, is the oldest surviving wood frame house in NH and Maine. Open June through October on the first Saturday of the month. Tours 11 a.m. through 4 p.m. Admission $5. Call 603-436-3205. JOHN PAUL JONES HOUSE in Portsmouth, NH, features artifacts from the Portsmouth Peace Treaty of 1905 and from John Paul Jones, an American naval hero. Open 7 days a week 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Admission $6. Call 603-436-8420. KENNEBUNKPORT HISTORY CEN- TER in Kennebunkport, Maine, comprises five buildings featuring artifacts, memorabilia and presentations of the events that shaped the town. Open Tuesday through Friday 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Call 207-967-2751. KITTERY HISTORICAL AND NAVAL MUSEUM in Kittery, Maine, features ship models, guns, shipyard and submarine memorabilia, and lighthouse artifacts. Open June to October 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Call 207-439-3080. LEARNING IS AN ORNAMENT Harborfest in Wells The Wells Chamber of Commerce and the Wells Rotary Club will hold the 12th Annual HarborFest on Satur- day, July 30, at Wells Harbor Park in Wells, Maine. The day will include a silent auction from 3 to 6 p.m., a chick- en barbecue from 4 to 6 p.m. and a free concert with Straight Lace at 6:30 p.m. Proceeds support Wells Rotary Club community ser- vice projects and the Wells Chamber of Commerce scholarship fund. For tickets and more information, see www.wellsrotary.org or www. wellschamber.org. EXHIBIT through Sept. 6 at the Brick Store Museum, 117 Main St. in Ken- nebunk, explores the development of Ken- nebunks schools from the earliest one- room facilities to the robust district they comprise today. THE LINEAGE OF EXPRESSION- ISM The Ogunquit Museum of American Art will be having the Aronson to Aron- son: The Lineage of Expressionism exhib- it from Aug. 27 to Oct. 31. The exhibit fea- tures art from David Aronson and his son. Call 207-646-4909. MARITIME PORTSMOUTH The Discover Portsmouth Center will be host- ing an exhibition through Aug. 31. The exhibit will feature a collection of 200 paintings and artifacts. Call 603-436-8420. MODEL SHIP EXHIBITION through Aug. 28 at the Custom House Maritime Museum will feature clipper and merchant ship models. Call 978-462-8681 or go to www.customhousemaritime MOFFATT-LADD HOUSE & GAR- DENS in Portsmouth, NH, is a national historic landmark. The house is furnished as it was in 1763. Tours go for an hour and are held Mon through Sat. 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Sunday 1 to 5 p.m. House and garden tours cost $6. Call 603-436-8221 or go to www.moffattladd.org. MUSEUM OF LIGHTHOUSE HIS- TORY in Rockland, Maine, is the larg- est lighthouse museum in the U.S. The museum is open 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday and 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Satur- day through Sunday. Admission is $5. Call 207-594-3301 or go to www.lighthouse- foundation.org. THE NOTT HOUSE in Kennebunkport, Maine, is open for tours Thursday through Friday 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., Saturday 10 a.m. to 1 p.m., and Sunday 1 to 4 p.m. Admis- sion is free. Call 207-967-2751 THE QUESTION OF DRAWING exhibit will be at the Ogunquit Museum of American Art through Aug. 21. The exhibit features artists who push the parameters of what is acceptable as a drawing. Call 207- 646-4909. RUNDLET-MAY HOUSE in Ports- mouth, NH, is open for tours on the first and third Saturdays through Oct. 15. The tours run from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. and admis- sion is $6. Call 603-436-3205. SAYWARD-WHEELER HOUSE in York Harbor, Maine, is a historic house full of 18th-century relics. Visiting hours are the second and fourth Saturdays through Oct. 15 from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Admission is $5. Call 207-384-2454. STAR ISLAND CORP. Star Island is the second-largest of the nine islands that make up the Isles of Shoals. Star Island Corp. provides individual and family retreats through September. Conferences are pre- sented throughout the summer on subjects ranging from yoga to natural history. Call 603-430-6272 or go to starisland.org. USS ALBACORE in Portsmouth, NH, is a historical vessel worth visiting. The park is open from 9:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. every day from Memorial Day to Columbus Day. Admission is $5. Call 603-436-3680 or go to ussalbacore.org. WARNER HOUSE Located in Ports- mouth, the Warner House is the earliest extant brick urban mansion in New Eng- land. The museum hours are Wednesday through Monday from noon to 4 p.m. and the admissions price is $5. Call 603-436- 5909 or go to www.warnerhouse.org. WELLS AUTO MUSEUM in Wells, Maine, is a collection of more than 80 antique and classic cars. The museum is open 7 days a week from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. and admissions is $7 a person. Call 207-646-9064 or go to www.wellsautomuseum.com WENTWORTH-COOLIDGE MAN- SION in Portsmouth, NH, includes an art gallery, historical interpretations, picnics, guided tours and scenic views. The man- sion is open through Sept. 1 and the Arts Gallery is open through Sept. 28. Call 603- 436-6607. WENTWORTH-GARDNER AND TOBIA LEAR HOUSES in Portsmouths historic South End are historical monu- ments full of architecture and art and are open through Oct. 16, Wednesday through Sunday from noon to 4 p.m. Admission is $5. Call 603-436-4406 or go to www.wen- tworthgardnerandlear.or WOODMAN INSTITUTE MUSEUM in Dover, NH, features natural, local, and art history, including a 10-ft. polar bear and dinosaur bones. The museum is open Wednesday to Sunday 12:30 to 4:30 p.m., April to November. Admission is $6. Call 603-742-1038 or go to www.woodmanin- stiutuemuseum.org. Tours GHOST HUNT WITH THE NEW ENGLAND GHOST PROJECT Ron Kolek and others from the project will do an investigation of a Portsmouth, NH, lighthouse on Saturdays, Aug. 13, and Sept. 10. See portsmouthharborlightho YANKEE HOMECOMING WALK- THROUGH The Cushing House Muse- um and Garden in Newburyport, Mass., will offer a walk-through of the museum grounds with silhouettes with Carol Labeoux on Mon., Aug. 1, and Tues., Aug. 2, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Silhouettes $33 with reservation. Call 978-462-2681 or go to www.newburyhist.com CIVIL WAR PORTSMOUTH WALK- ING TOUR with Dick Adams and Richard Candee on Sat., Aug. 6. Call 603-431-2538 ext. 2. SHIPBUILDING ODYSSEY The Brick Store Museum, 117 Main St., Kennebunk, Maine, will host a three-hour tour along the Kennebunk River on Sun., Aug. 14, from 12:30 to 5 p.m. The tour will start at the museum and then will be a narrated trolley excursion of the local shipbuilding sites. Afterward there will be refreshments. Reg- istration is $30 per person. Call 207-985- 4802 or go to www.brickstoremuseum.or GHOSTLY WALK During Ogunquitfest on Oct. 22, the Ogunquit Heritage Museum in Ogunquit, Maine, will hold a ghost walk led by costumed hosts and featuring stories about the ghosts of Ogunquit and surround- ing area. The tour takes about an hour. Call 207-646-2939. DOVER WALKING TOUR Take a guided stroll down Central Avenue with an experienced guide. Learn about the rise and fall of the textile industry in Dover and the origin of some of the citys buildings and landmarks. $5 per person or $10 for families of three or more every Saturday 070900 SILENT FILM DOUBLE FEATURE Backwoods drama at its best! (1921) Beautifully crafted...the finale is a rip-roaring piece of movie story-telling. Leonard Maltin and (1918) The Western That Started It All! ...perhaps the finest movie Western made before John Fords 1939 Stagecoach ...as emotionally powerful as any American film of the teens. 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5 Dog day People arent the only ones excited about summertime. We look at places to take your pet for a day at the beach or the park in southern Maine. Above, a photo of the Biddeford Dog Park, cour- tesy the Animal Welfare Society. Also on the cover: Looking for farmers markets? See our listing of
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THIS WEEK ONGOING Events TO CHECK OUT JuLY 21 - 27, 2011, AND BEYOND Sunday, July 24 The Music Hall in Portsmouth, N.H., presents Comedy on Stage at The Music Hall Loft in the form of Miss Richfield 1981: 30 Years on the Throne!, a one-man drag show today at 7 p.m. The Music Hall Loft is a new 125-s
Take Spot to the beach Parks, beaches and even shops that welcome pets By Karen Plumley seacoasthippopress.com Youre not the only one who can spend some time outdoors this summer. Whether you are taking the family for a hike in woods or a day at the beach, there are plen- ty of places where pets are
This is the summer for Shakespeare ARTS Kennebunk opens first professional company with Mainestage Shakespeare By Craig Robert Brown cbrownhippopress.com This summer the plays of the famous Bard, William Shakespeare, find a new venue in Kennebunk, Maine. The Mainestage Shakespeare Company is working
www.indigoartstudio.com Kennedy Art Gallery 41 Market St, Portsmouth, N.H., 603-436-7007 Kittery Art Association Gallery 8 Coleman Ave., Kittery Point, Maine, 207-451-9384, www.kitteryartassociati L.A. Frechette Gallery 29 Western Ave., Kennebunk, Maine, 207-967-2422. Lamont Gallery Phillips Exe
inside/outside Activities for children and families, workshops, volunteer opportunities, events to keep you healthy and more Saved from the wrecking ball The many mysteries of Wallingford Farm By Karen Plumley seacoasthippopress.com Charles Godfrey took his passion for restoring historic buildings t
www.kitterymuseum.com Moffatt-Ladd House & Gardens 154 Market St., Portsmouth, N.H., 603-436-8821, moffattladd.org Museum of Lighthouse History 2190 Post Road, Wells, Maine, 207-646-0245 Museums of Old York York, Maine, 207-363-4974, www.oldyork.org Nott House 8 Main St., Kennebunkport, Maine.
INSIDE/OUTSIDE Be the creature Get to know the ocean at Seacoast Science Center By Bridgette Springer seacoasthippopress.com The New Hampshire seacoast hugs the shores of the Atlantic Ocean for 18 miles and is loved for its pristine water and sandy pos- sibilities. Many visitors enjoy taking in the
Family events for this weekend Fresh local produce & fun The Gateway Farmers Market (at York Chamber of Commerce, 1 Stonewall Lane, York) is a place where families will find a huge selection of local fresh produce and much more. Sponsored by Stonewall Kitchen, the market boasts arts and crafts, hom
BOOKS POP CULTURE: Its officially summer and time for the beach read or one of its many variants, depending on where you like to hang out. Heres one for reading in grandmas old house while you eat her cookies and milk. If the front of the book didnt say so, youd never know that Horton Halfpott, or,
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A Maine bread company gets saucy FOOD When Pigs Fly opens wood-fired pizzeria in Kittery By Craig Robert Brown cbrownhippopress.com From college students to young children and adults looking for a night out, just about anyone loves a good pizza. The bread enthusiasts at When Pigs Fly, a local, all-n
FOOD Carla Snow, owner of A Grape Affair, on board the MV Heritage in Portsmouth. Courtesy Photo. The Newburyport cruise takes guests close to the shore and through downtown Newbury- port but does not offer the lighthouse views that are part of the Portsmouth cruise. Both the Whaleback and Fort Poin
Honest Food at an Honest Price! DRINK Wine across generations How we approach wine By Paulette Eschrich foodhippopress.com LUNCH! at Common Man Portsmouth MondaySaturday at 11:30 a.m. Sunday w/brunch specials at 11 a.m. Join us for... Bacon Wrapped Shrimp, Rock Crab Cakes, Lobster Salad Sliders, Fre
DRINK Red, white and green A lot of wine, a little cash Given the heat of the last week, dry whites seemed like a good idea and both Rieslings and Gewurztra- miners seemed like good candidates. These German and French Alsace-region wines are known for being sweet but they actually can fall anywhere
NITE Bars, clubs, bands and other after-dark amusements Cool tunes for hot nights Concert series keeps music in Maine By Craig Robert Brown cbrownhippopress.com The Hot Summer Nights Concert Series has started a new sea- son in South Berwick, bringing the area some of the best music the seacoast has
nite get turned on by it and we get turned on see- ing them react. King says that rush always provides the sat- isfaction he craves. For me, instead of drugs, its music, and its been that way all my life. Music & Nightlife Blue Ocean Music Hall 4 Oceanfront North, Salisbury Beach, Mass., 978-462-58
MUSIC THIS WEEK & Restaurant Listings Barley Pub 328 Central Ave.,603-742-4226 Central Wave 368 Central Ave., 603-742-9283 Dos Amigos 286 Dove Point Road, 603-834-6494 Dover Elks Lodge 282 Durham Road Dover Bowl 887 Central Ave., 603-742- 9632 Dover Brick House Barrington, NH 2 Orchard St., 603-749-
The Riverside Café 260 Merrimac St., 978-225-6999, www.towleriversidecafe. Seaglass 4 Oceanfront North, 978-462-5800, www.seaglassoceanside.c Starboard Gallery Restaurant 55 Water St., 978-462-1326, www.starboardgallery.ne Sushi Yen 19 Pleasant St., 978-463-0686, www.szechuantaste.com Thirsty Whale
FILM REVIEWS BY AMY DI Winnie the Pooh Winnie the Pooh (G) Christopher Robin and all his animal friends in the Hundred Acre Wood return in Winnie the Pooh, a charming little throwback cartoon that is sweet as hunny. FILM LISTINGS Cinemagic in Saco 779 Portland Road, Saco, Maine, 207-282-6234 Cinem
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