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Martha E. Pinello, principal investigator with Monadnock Archaeological Consulting, LLC of Stoddard, N.H., (right), and Sue Clukey monitor an archaeological excavation at the Abyssinian Meeting House on Newbury Street Friday. (DAVID CARKHUFF PHOTO)

Boats bob in Casco Bay off the East End Beach Sunday during Tropical Storm Irene. (MATTHEW ARCO PHOTO)

Irene knocks out power to Mainers

In the wake of Tropical Storm Irene and under clear blue skies, utility crews were struggling to restore power to nearly 200,000 people across Maine and warned it could be several days before service is fully restored.

Central Maine Power reported 160,000 people without power Monday afternoon. The company, which serves 605,000 customers in central and southern Maine, said the outages are some of the

worst in recent history.At the same time, Bangor Hydro Electric Co. was

attempting to restore service to more than 18,660 of

its customers.Both companies reported power being knocked

out to about a quarter of their customers over the course of the storm.

Broken poles, downed trees and limbs affected almost 280,000 CMP customers and about 30,000 people serviced by Bangor Hydro Electric Co. The outages began Sunday morning and lasted into the night and early Monday morning.

"This is probably one of the largest storms we had in at least a decade," said John Carroll, a spokesman for CMP. "It will be really late (Monday night before)

Archaeological dig unearths artifacts at historic African meeting house

Excavations now under way around the Abyssinian Meeting House are part plumbing project, part historical rescue mission, part archaeological study.

The archaeological dig, launched last Wednesday, comes as a volunteer committee is seeking to redirect water that's entering the historic building from an underground spring.

"We're putting in a drainage system" to prevent the spring from degrad-ing the building's interior, explained Leonard Cummings, chair of the executive committee of the Commit-tee to Restore the Abyssinian Meeting House.

The word "Abyssinia" refers to a region of Africa in ancient times. Constructed between 1828 and 1831 to serve Portland’s African American community, the Abyssinian Meeting

Digging into Portland’s abolitionist past

200,000 without power Monday p.m.; outages could continue for days

BY MATTHEW ARCOTHE PORTLAND DAILY SUN

BY DAVID CARKHUFFTHE PORTLAND DAILY SUN

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Portland spared as weakened Tropical Storm Irene blows past

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Inland fl oods could be Irene’s biggest impactBRATTLEBORO, Vt. (NY Times) —

As 5.5 million homes and businesses remained without power across the East-ern Seaboard and blue skies and tem-perate breezes replaced what had been Hurricane Irene, a clearer picture of the storm’s devastation emerged Monday with inland communities in upstate New York and Vermont continuing to suffer the most acute consequences from river fl ooding.

While most eyes were warily watching the shore during Irene’s grinding ride up the East Coast, it was inland — some-times hundreds of miles inland — that the storm’s most serious devastation actually occurred. And it was the water, not the wind, that was the major culprit.

In New York, the town of Prattsville has been washed away. In other areas, houses were swept from their foundations and one woman drowned on Sunday when an overfl owing creek submerged the cottage where she was vacationing. Flash fl oods continued to be a concern into the after-noon on Monday.

In Vermont, people remained stranded with dwindling provisions of food and water after bridges collapsed and hun-dreds of roads remained under water. Swollen rivers continued to be a threat. And two dozen emergency shelters were “chock-full” of hundreds of people dis-placed from fl ooded homes, Gov. Peter

Shumlin said.“This is a really tough battle for us,” Mr.

Shumlin said after a helicopter ride from which he surveyed damage across the state. “What you see is farms destroyed, crops destroyed, businesses underwater, houses eroded or swept away and wide-spread devastation.”

He added, “This is a situation where we got dealt a very heavy blow, and we’re a small rural state that doesn’t get tropical storms, so this is a real challenge for us.”

At least two city workers who were tending a municipal water system in the central part of the state are missing and feared dead. As of Monday afternoon, Irene had caused at least 32 deaths in 10 states, according to The Associated Press.

“We prepared for the worst and hoped for the best and unfortunately got deliv-ered the worst,” Mr. Shumlin said.

By morning, waters appeared to be reced-ing in much of the state, though additional fl ooding was still a concern. In Montpelier, where the rising Winooski River had been expected to put much of the downtown underwater, the river crested overnight without signifi cant spillover.

In the Catskills, state and local offi cials had carried out 191 rescues across the state since the storm began, in many cases rescuing people from cars or homes as water levels rose. State offi cials confi rmed

that six people had died in connection to the storm: fi ve people drowned and one was electrocuted.

Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo viewed the dam-aged region from a helicopter on Monday. “Both New York City and Long Island, I think it’s fair to say, compared to the high expectation, did not reach that high expec-tation of damage,” he said later at a news conference. “The exact opposite is true in upstate New York. The rainfall set records, the fl ood levels have set records, and the amount of damage is devastating in some areas, and will get worse before it gets better.”

In Greene County, several bridges were wiped out and numerous roads were impassable, stranding residents in remote mountaintop areas, said Shaun Groden, a county administrator.

“You have the washouts, you have houses coming off foundations because of fl ash fl ooding,” Mr. Groden said from the county’s emergency operations center, in Cairo, on Monday, noting that the western part of Greene County, and the town of Prattsville in particular, was the hardest hit.

“It’s been devastated,” Mr. Groden said of Prattsville, adding that the towns of Wind-ham, Jewett and Lexington were also hard hit. “People last night were saying it looks like a war zone.”

Airlines resume service, but snarls remain likely for days

Astronauts may abandon space station in November

(NY TIMES) — Under clear skies, airlines that serve the New York City area and other Northeastern cities started to return their planes to service on Monday, but many warned that travelers whose plans were thrown into disarray by Hur-ricane Irene could still face scheduling problems and delays through the week.

The challenges in reinstating fl ights, after tens of thousands of them were canceled over the weekend, were evident at some airports on Monday, showing that at this early stage, at least, the airlines were struggling to siphon off the backlog of delayed or stranded passengers.

Frustrated travelers jammed Terminal 4 at John F. Ken-nedy International Airport on Monday. Several hundred people lined up to rebook on Caribbean airlines. People slept on fl oors, sat on their bags or on luggage carts to read, or watched movies on their computers. Among them were two young women from Ukraine, who spent the summer

working in the laundry room of a New York camp and found their fl ight home had been canceled on Saturday.

“We didn’t have any money on us,” said one, Olya Ponomarova, 21. “Now we’re stuck for three days already. We took showers in the bathroom sink. Last night we fought for a bed.” She said their airline, Swissair, provided a $10 food voucher.

Hundreds of others have also been stranded at the airport for days. In the same terminal, a woman who was trying to rebook to Granada said she was told there would be no fl ights out on Monday afternoon.

The spillover from canceled fl ights could still be seen in crowds across the country. At Los Angeles International Airport, Jonathan Strauss, 46, a lawyer, fi nished up a vacation with his wife and two children, and tried to head back to New York when their fl ight, originally booked for Saturday night, was canceled.

He is now hoping to get home by Thursday.

(NY TIMES) — Astronauts will abandon the International Space Station, probably in mid-November, if rocket engine problems that doomed a Russian cargo ship last week are not diagnosed and fi xed.

Even if unoccupied, the space station can be operated by controllers on the ground indefi nitely and would not be in any immediate danger of falling out of orbit.

Three Russian, two American and a Japanese astronaut are currently living on the space station.

“We’re going to do what’s the safest for the crew and for the space station, which is a very big investment of our govern-ments,” said Michael T. Suffredini, manager of the space sta-tion program for NASA, during a news conference on Monday. “Our job is, as stewards of the government, to protect that investment, and that’s exactly what we’re going to do.”

The $100 billion station has been continuously occupied for over than a decade.

Last Wednesday, an unmanned Russian cargo ship known as the Progress, which was carrying three tons of supplies to the space station, crashed in Siberia. Telemetry from the rocket indicated that a drop of fuel pressure led its computer to shut down the third-stage engine prematurely about fi ve and a half minutes into fl ight.

The Soyuz rocket that lifts the Progress is similar to the Soyuz rocket that takes astronauts to the station, and offi cials want to make sure they understand what failed on last week’s launching and are confi dent it will not occur again.

Two unmanned launchings of Soyuz rockets are likely to occur before the next set of three crew members head to the space station. That launching had been scheduled for Sept. 21.

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N.H. State Police Troop E commander Lt. Bill Magee tours the washed-out Sawyer River bridge in Hart’s Location, N.H., early Monday. (Photo courtesy of the Conway Daily Sun)

we will be able to begin to make esti-mates for how long this will take to repair, but right now we know it will certainly be several days."

Susan Faloon, a spokeswoman for Bangor Hydro Electric Co., described progress after the storm as a process of taking "two steps forward and three steps back — all night."

"They're plugging away and it's been quite busy," she said.

Tropical Storm Irene, which was downgraded from a hurricane by the time it made landfall in New York, traveled north through the Hudosn Valley in New York and continued along the Connecticut River Valley. The result for Maine was less fl ooding, but higher winds.

"We stayed on the east side of the storm so we saw a lot of the stronger winds," said Mike Kistner, a meteo-rologist with the National Weather Service in Gray. "We made out pretty good here, but as far as power outages, it's widespread across the state."

Kistner said sustained winds were reported between 30 mph to 35 mph, with gusts as high as 65 mph in parts

of Maine and 52 mph reported at Port-land's Jetport.

No deaths or serious injuries were reported in the state to the Maine Emergency Management Agency, though four shelters remained open Monday including one in Cumberland County at the Bridgton Community Center.

MEMA reported up to 16 shelters open around the state during the storm, with another 15 ready to go if needed.

The next step will be determining the cost of the cleanup and whether Maine will qualify for federal disaster funds, offi cials said.

"All of those cleanup efforts have costs attached to them," said Lynette Miller, a spokeswoman for MEMA. "We've asked all of our counties to request that their towns start rolling those fi gures up. I expect that we'll start getting some information in the next couple of days."

Miller said she couldn't put a fi gure on the estimated cost for repairs left in the wake of the storm and MEMA's director, Rob McAleer, said in a state-ment that an assessment is necessary "before we know the true extent of the

damage."The Maine Department of Trans-

portation reported the worst hit areas having been in northern Franklin and Oxford counties, where heavy rains washed out numerous roads and destroyed two bridges on either side of the Sugarloaf Access Road.

Gov. Paul LePage toured damage in Western Maine on Monday, including the Carrabasett Valley and Rumford areas.

"We are getting a sense of the extent of the damage and where to focus our recovery efforts," LaPage said in a statement. "The damage in some of these areas is devastating, and once we evaluate the fi nancial loss, we will see if Maine is eligible for federal disaster assistance."

CMP brought in at least 60 crews from Canada to assist in restoring power and said that they were work-ing to assess the company's 25,000 miles of roadside lines.

"We know people really value their electric power, and they are worried about food in their freezers and they are uncomfortable and it's an inconve-nience," Carroll said. "I think we were well prepared for it and we are work-

ing through a plan that has proven itself time and again to be effective, but it won't be instantaneous."

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CMP brought in at least 60 crews from Canada

Police arrested a Portland woman on Saturday for attempting to dupe a pharmacist into fi lling a prescription for 100 pills after a doctor called for only 10.

Kara Evans, 24, was charged with attempting to acquiring drugs by deception after police said she forged a prescription for an undisclosed

pharmaceutical drug, police reported Monday.

Offi cials said she was prescribed 10 pills by a doctor at Mercy Hospital but attempted to retrieve 100 pills from a Hannaford Pharmacy on Riverside Street.

The pharmacist refused to fi ll the prescription and called authorities. Evans left the store but was later located by police at Mercy Hospital.

Woman attempts to forge prescriptionBY MATTHEW ARCO

THE PORTLAND DAILY SUN

With the deadline to fi le papers to run for Portland mayor come and gone, it appears there will be no more than 16 candidates on the Nov. 8 ballot.

As of close of business Monday, the last day to fi le petitions with between 300 and 500 valid signatures, 16 people had submitted petitions to the city clerk’s offi ce. Of those, 13 had been validated.

Erick Bennett, Richard Dodge and Charles Bragdon were the fi nal can-didates to submit petitions. None of those candidates has been certifi ed for the ballot.

Candidates who have already been certifi ed are: Jodie Lapchick, Ralph Carmona, Markos Miller, Nick Mavo-dones, David Marshall, Jed Rathband, Jill Duson, John Eder, Christopher

Vail, Ethan Strimling, Hamza Haa-doow, Michael Brennan and Peter Bryant.

The November mayoral election will be the fi rst in 88 years. Voters last fall approved changes to the city charter that converted the one-year, largely ceremonial mayoral post into a four-year elected position with more authority, including veto power over the budget.

The position also includes a signifi -cant pay increase: The person who is elected mayor will earn about $66,000, up from about $7,200 now.

In other election news, longtime District 4 Councilor Cheryl Leeman is also running for re-election. Leeman, who has been a city councilor for almost three decades, has drawn a

challenger in Ezekiel Callanan.Callanan has turned in papers but

has not yet been certifi ed. Leeman has been certifi ed for the ballot.

District 5 Councilor John Coyne has also fi led paperwork to run for a second term. Coyne’s petition has been certifi ed by city staff.

At least 22 people declared them-selves candidates over the past several months, but fi ve candidates dropped out within the last two weeks. Steve Huston’s candidacy ended after city staff learned he did not live in Port-land.

— Casey Conley

Last count: 16 fi le nominating papers for mayor’s race


(Editor’s note: Bob Higgins, reg-ular contributor to The Portland Daily Sun, returns to the pages of the Sun after waging and then bowing out of a mayoral run. He issued a statement acknowledg-ing the “unlikely event of gather-ing the remaining signatures in the allotted time.” The Daily Sun suspended his column during his signature-gathering effort, based on a general policy that the news-paper will not pay someone who is running for offi ce.)

So, here we are again, the both of us. You, the regular reader of this paper, and me, the failed mayoral candidate back from an all too brief hiatus.

It is only the proper thing to give the race a decent burial, or at least my part in it.

After a grueling eight days of wandering around shaking down everyone who didn’t run fast enough to get away from me for a signature, I was still short, by a lot. You need 300 valid signa-tures to get on the ballot for the mayor’s race, and at late count on Saturday night, I had maxed out at 241, none of which were vali-dated by the clerks offi ce.

There was this hurricane on the way, and the last-minute hopes and prayers that the city clerk’s offi ce would be closed for busi-

Ruminations on a failed campaign

ness on Monday, thereby giving me an extra day were dashed by that blasted burning ball of hot hydrogen in the early morning Monday sky.

In a sense, at around midnight on Saturday, the die was cast. I was out of the race, and all that was left was the inevitable press statement. I passed one around, not knowing if it would be taken seriously, so the decision was made to have fun with it. “With a deadline looming of 4:30 p.m. Monday for turning in gathered signatures for the Portland May-oral Race ballot, coupled with the unlikely event of gathering the remaining signatures in the allotted time, I regretfully with-draw my name from the Portland Mayoral Race. To supporters of my campaign, I wish them well and thank them, and for those that did not support the effort to get on the ballot, I wish them the enjoyable experience of getting hit by a bus.”

There were a number of lessons

learned here, chiefl y among them the sheer number of people will-ing to sign my petition without knowing a lot about me. It was a chosen few who actually stopped, pen in hand before signing, to ask “what I was all about.”

There were the friendly folks who suggested I clean up a bit more, perhaps put on a suit, or barring that, at least a decent button down shirt, along with a tie. One wag even suggested a shave might be a good idea. I took all of it in stride, confi dent that voters were actually seeing what they were going to get. If elected and I changed a bit, much the better, but thought it best to show them the actual candidate, warts and all.

One person even suggested that I don the famed gorilla suit, and try getting signatures that way. August is far too hot for a gorilla suit.

We can all see now how that logic worked out. Apparently, voters like to be lied to about the simplest and most inconsequen-tial things. Who knew.

The variation of political per-suasion of those who signed was also quite interesting. Everybody from the far left to the far right signed on to help me get on the

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Offshore oil drilling doesn't add up for Maine and its environment

Editor,It was very distressing to read recently that the

Obama administration released plans to resume leasing for offshore oil drilling in the Gulf of Mexico. Offshore drilling is dangerous to both marine and human life, and this move would only increase our dependence on unsustainable and unclean energy.

This comes only a year after the worst acciden-tal oil spill in history, which dumped more than 200 million gallons into the ocean over 87 days. There has not been enough time to properly assess the impacts of this spill, much less to determine how to respond should a similar event take place. Our local economies and ecosystems cannot afford the risks.

I recently moved back to Portland from Boston, largely due to Maine’s incredible natural beauty and its local community and economy. I know that all of these would suffer if there were another oil spill, whether it takes place in the Gulf or right here.

The only way to prevent this is to end offshore drilling and invest in clean, renewable energy sources such as offshore wind, tidal, solar, and so many others. The Obama administration should be working to support and protect both our econo-mies and our ecosystems.

Sincerely,

Nick MacDonaldPortland

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LONDON — It will be two decades next year since the outbreak of the Bosnian war — and since the debate on interven-tionism began to rage, becoming one of the most acrimonious moral ques-tions of our times. Now Libya, a successful West-ern intervention, will be placed on the scales.

The issue has divided friends and united ene-mies. Democrats under the age of 30 were almost as eager to go to war in Iraq as Republicans over 65, according to a Pew Research Center poll of October 2002, a moment when liberal hawkish-ness and conservative American hubris coalesced with disastrous consequences.

It has been the focus of an age-old foreign policy debate between realism and idealism, prompted a

deluge of fi nger-pointing, and proved a catalyst to the U.N.-endorsed notion of a responsibility to pro-tect. At the heart of the polemics lie divergent views on the very nature of American power.

Like many of my gener-ation, I became an inter-ventionist in Bosnia. Sickened by carnage, and by the lies and igno-rance of Western politi-cians who prolonged the carnage, I understood that caution — or more

accurately hypocrisy masquer-ading as prudence — can be as criminal as recklessness.

A war with very specifi c rea-sons and equally specifi c crimes committed overwhelmingly by Serbian forces was dressed up as a millennial confl ict beset by Balkan fog and moral equiva-lency in order for craven Western

leaders to justify an inaction that killed.

So I sat in Sarajevo and fumed and tried to pierce the fog with words. I tried to say who was killing whom beneath the gaze of blue-helmeted United Nations “peacekeepers” and below the fatuous fl ights of NATO planes patrolling empty skies. Was Sara-jevo to be another Munich?

We had been morally numbed by the Cold War. It seemed as inevitable as the earth’s rotation. Mutual assured destruction was ugly; it was also comforting in its limitation of choice. Now, with the demise of the Soviet Union, an ascendant West was faced with barbarism on European soil and had the disquieting latitude to act. It prevaricated. People died.

NATO fi nally bombed Serbian positions in 1995. The war ended soon after. The alliance bombed again in Kosovo in 1999. Soon

Score one for interventionism

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“Advocates such as Maria Whelan insist that the vast majority of baby-sitters are above board and that the 14-year-old federal-state program is key to helping parents work their way out of poverty. About half of the subsi-dies are in Cook County, where they are administered by the nonprofi t Illinois Action for Children run by Whelan.

“’This is a program that is absolutely essential if we are going to, with a straight face, tell families that if they work and if they continue to develop themselves, we can help them make a difference for their families,’ she said.”

Chicago Tribune, Aug. 28, 2011

And this, ladies and gentlemen, is why our great country is struggling. You may be scratching your head at this point, saying what is he going off on this time? The above quote from the Chicago Tribune is from a story about a $750 million program that provides babysitting for low-income families in the state of Illinois who work and are trying to emerge from their impoverished circumstances.

The intent of the program is noble, supporting people who want to better themselves and are actively work-ing to do so. The administration of

Sex offenders as babysitters?

the program, however, leaves a lot to be desired. This program is allow-ing sex offenders to babysit the chil-dren of families who are using the program. This has been an issue for years, as the State Department of Human Services had been very lax in the screening of applicants. The poor screenings forced the passage of a law in 2009 that mandates better screen-ing of those who babysit the children. According to the Tribune, it took almost 18 months for the advanced screening program to get up and run-ning.

The story in the Tribune focused on the issue of sex offenders and other violent offenders being paid by the state to watch the children. It pointed out how vulnerable the children were in these circumstances and how fur-ther work must be done.

Think about it for a moment. You are the parent of a child who is receiv-

ing a state-sponsored babysitter. You qualify for this program because you are poor. Although not always the case, you are very likely un-educated or under-educated. You trust the state because you probably do not know to do otherwise. You then fi nd out that the state is paying a violent offender to babysit your child while you are off working, attempting to emerge from your impoverished circumstances. You love your child and you want a better life for them. In your mind, you are now asking a question. Do I continue to work and seek to improve myself and the prospects for my family, or do I stay at home and protect my child from God only knows what?

I am not going to debate the merits or lack thereof about whether the state should be providing this ser-vice to start with because that is an entirely different argument.

I am asking, “How can this happen?” How can a state agency be so lax as to not properly screen who they send to take care of a child? Further, once it became so apparent that there was an issue that it forced legislation that mandates better screening, how could that not become priority number one for the program?

The answer lies in the quote this

column started with from Maria Whelan. Her big concern, if you read between the lines, is that this pro-gram continue because, again if you read between the lines, her agency is paid by the state to administer the program. She is far more worried about making sure her agency gets their government check for providing the service than she is as to whether this service, because of its lax stan-dards, are putting children at risk.

Once again, the point is proven, over and over and over again. Making sure that one gets a check from the government and that the check con-tinues coming is far more important than what the check goes to or how well the program is run.

We the people are growing wearier daily of this type of ineffi cient and ineffective government. At some point, we will say enough and the pendulum will swing back to smaller, limited, common sense government. I only hope I live to see it.

(Ray Richardson is a political activ-ist and the host of “The Ray and Ted Show,” weekdays from 6 a.m. to 9 a.m. on WLOB 95.5/1310; 6:30 a.m. to 7:30 a.m. on WPME TV. www.wlo-bradio.com)

ballot. Two great stories came out of this, one local politico signed the petition for me, but grudgingly admitting while they smiled, “You have no idea the amount of (expletive deleted) I’m going to get for signing this.” Their secret is safe with me, and the city clerks offi ce.

Another signed on, but passed word through another candidate that they regretted signing my petition, and wanted their name crossed off. Sorry, I don’t do that. Once a name is on the petition, I’m not going to screw around with it in any way, as that could be construed as a violation of the law. This person should know this, and that will color any

future petitions they decide to gather.Even though obviously short, I turned in all the

signatures to the clerks offi ce for a simple reason. Those bits of paper had the city seal on them, and were not my property. Sure, they would have made an interesting side-show tidbit and keepsake from the campaign, but I’ve always felt that people should turn them in anyway, for confi dential destruction by the clerks offi ce. If a candidate fails to get on the ballot, it’s none of anyone’s damned business who signed on in the effort.

There was the lesson of the attempted Brazilian Ass-Waxing I received from a certain Maine media columnist, who said “Higgins has written some entertaining pieces in his time at the paper, but his

manner of leaving calls into serious question his qualifi cations to return.” Hugs and kisses, Al. I’m back.

There were more lessons learned, but space being tight I’ll have to save them for another day. There is one more I want to pass along, though. One voter asked me what I thought the biggest problem Port-land faces is. I gave him my answer, but he dis-agreed. “Wrong. Portland’s biggest problem is this. People are afraid to try.”

Better to have tried and failed then never to have gotten into the race in the fi rst place.

(Bob Higgins is a regular contributor to The Port-land Daily Sun.)

HIGGINS from page 4

Apparently, voters like to be lied to about the most inconsequential things

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The Libyan people have been freed from a crazed tyrannyCOHEN rom page 4

Ray Richardson

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after, Slobodan Milosevic’s murderous dominion ended. Western intervention in a cruel war in Sierra Leone led to the end of that confl ict. Liberal inter-ventionist had become the proud badge of a genera-tion discovering the good war.

A new century began at this zenith of the post-Cold-War interventionist cycle. In his important book, “The Icarus Syndrome: A History of American Hubris,” Peter Beinart traces how such cycles come and go — and how personal experience can be as blinding as it is illuminating. He quotes the brilliant historian, Arthur Schlesinger Jr., warning that the 1991 Gulf War that quickly drove Saddam Hussein from Kuwait would likely cause “the gravest damage to the vital interests” of America, and quotes him again comparing arguments for a Bosnia interven-tion with those that led to the Vietnam disaster.

It was through the prism of Vietnam, the war he lived most passionately and painfully, that Schlesinger saw the choices posed by subsequent confl icts.

Beinart describes how even in his adulation for Schlesinger, he in time became sickened by the Vietnam analogy with its recurring prescription for inaction. Shaped by Bosnia, he backed the Iraq war. The pendulum had swung. Vietnam-induced excess of caution had given way to Bosnian-induced hubris.

I, too, fell under its infl uence. Mea culpa. What-ever the monstrosity of Saddam, and whatever the great benefi t to the world of his disappearance, the war as it was justifi ed and fought — under false pretenses, without many of America’s closest allies, in ignorance and incompetence — was a stain on America’s conscience.

Libya, in the wake of this damage, was a risk for President Obama. There were many reasons for not intervening — a third war in a Muslim country was not what America needed and the homegrown qual-ity of the Arab Spring has been central to its moral force. But to allow Muammar el-Qaddafi to commit a massacre foretold in Benghazi would have been unforgivable.

The intervention has been done right — with the legality of strong United Nations backing, full

support from America’s European allies, and quiet arming of the rebels. The Libyan people have been freed from a crazed tyranny. Unlike in Iraq, burdens were shared: America fl ew the intelligence missions and did the refueling while the French, British, Dutch and others did most of the bombing. Iraq was the wrong prism through which to look at Libya. I’m glad I resisted that temptation. Another cycle has begun.

In the end, I think interventionism is inextri-cable from the American idea. If the United States retreats into isolationism, it ceases to be itself — a nation dedicated, however much it falls short, to a universalist ideal of freedom.

There are no fi xed doctrinal answers — a success-ful Libyan intervention does not mean one in Syria is feasible — but the idea that the West must at times be prepared to fi ght for its values against bar-barism is the best hope for a 21st century less cruel than the 20th.

(You can follow Roger Cohen on Twitter at twitter.com/nytimescohen.)


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Tuesday, Aug. 30

American Idol Live! in Portland7 p.m. American Idols Live! reveals its touring agenda, bringing you this season’s top 11 fi nalists in a 40-plus city trek beginning the fi rst week of July. Tickets: $65 and $45 All Seats Reserved.

Ray Cornils with Kotzschmar Festival Brass7:30 p.m. The Kotzschmar Organ is the oldest working municipal pipe organ in the United States. Municipal Organ-ist Ray Cornils has served Portland and the Kotzschmar Organ since 1990. Cornils performs several times each year and hosts the popular Kotzschmar Konversation with visit-ing artists prior to their concerts. www.foko.org

Wednesday, Aug. 31

Heptunes Presents Richard Thompson7 p.m. Richard Thompson w/special guest: Robin Lane, The Westbrook Performing Arts Center, 471 Stroudwater St., Westbrook. Richard Thompson is a critically acclaimed, prolifi c songwriter (Ivor Novello Award), recipient of BBC’s Lifetime Achievement Award and was named one of Rolling Stone Magazine’s Top 20 Guitarists of All Time for his acous-tic and electric virtuosity. Robert Plant, REM, Elvis Costello, Los Lobos, David Byrne, Del McCoury, Bonnie Raitt, and many others have recorded his work. Thompson’sÂ live-tour CD Dream Attic received a 2011 Grammy nod. Online: www.HeptunesConcerts.com

Led Zeppelin vs. The Who9 p.m. The Clash, Main Event where cover bands compete on stage at Port City Music Hall. The Clash, Main Event sponsored by Geary’s Brewing Co.; Led Zeppelin vs. The Who. www.portcitymusichall.com

Friday, Sept. 2

One Longfellow’s First Friday Free Concert6 p.m. Celebrate summer with some live outdoor music at One Longfellow Square. Between 6 p.m. and 7:30 p.m., Tricky Britches will be playing in Longfellow Square. Tricky Britches is a high-energy string band hailing from Portland. http://www.onelongfellowsquare.com

Wednesday, Sept. 7

Secret Chiefs 3 at SPACE9 p.m. Secret Chiefs 3 return to SPACE Gallery for a another visionary evening of music. Led by composer and producer Trey Spruance, former guitarist of Mr. Bungle and Faith No More, the group is touring in support of their long-awaited new album, Book of Souls, out this fall. French drum & synth duo FAT32 bring their breakcore-freejazz-polka mad-ness to open the night. www.space538.org/events.php

Friday, Sept. 9

Artist Talk: What Cheer? Brigade7 p.m. SPACE Gallery. “Since their early days in Provi-dence circa 2005, What Cheer? Brigade has played with Dan Deacon, Man Man, Japanther, Dengue Fever, Okkervil River, Lightning Bolt, Ninjasonik, Mika Miko, Wolf Parade, Matt and Kim, Slavic Soul Party, Javelin, Sage Francis, and Chain and the Gang. They’ve appeared at Lollapalooza, Sziget (Hungary), and Guca (Serbia). They’ve played in just about every crazy place you can imagine. How do they make it all work and hold down day-jobs to boot? What’s it like making travel arrangements for 20-plus people? What’s the whole DIY marching band thing about? Come meet the musicians, hang out, hear funny stories and gain some insight into how these guys have sustained their artistic pursuits. Co-presented with Portland Music Foundation. Made possible in part through a grant from New England Foundation for the Arts.”

Ramblin’ Red at Mayo Street8 p.m. Ramblin’ Red at Mayo Street Arts. :”Inspired by the crashing of the ocean, the creak of the back porch, the crunch of homemade tacos, and the wonders of wine, Port-land Maine based quartet Ramblin’ Red takes you down original folk roads with old-time twists and bluegrass turns, in funky dance-off shoes. And they always bring you home satisfi ed. They’re fun-loving gals with serious soul and unrivaled harmonies.” Doors open 30 minutes prior to the show. Tickets $8 in advance/$10 door.

Paranoid Social Club8 p.m. Paranoid Social Club at Port City Music Hall. “Para-noid Social Club is the bastard brainchild of Dave Gutter and Jon Roods of the Rustic Overtones. Hailing from Port-land, the band has received international accolades for

its high energy style. Equally inspired by punk, soul, psy-chedelic rock, and the human psyche; PSC is a musical movement like no other. Picture Jimi Hendrix smashing a keyboard or The Clash backing Bob Dylan at the Newport Folk Festival.” www.portcitymusichall.com/events

Lauren Rioux CD Release8 p.m. One Longfellow Square. Lauren Rioux fi ddles from the heart with soul and joy. This, in combination with her warm tone, elegant and expressive phrasing, and play-ful style, leads her to create music that artfully explores themes of both heartache and hope. With her debut album, All the Brighter, Rioux presents a beautiful collection of mel-odies that embrace and celebrate the richness of life. www.onelongfellowsquare.com

Tuesday, Sept. 13

The Moody Blues8 p.m. Steve Litman Presents, The Moody Blues in concert. Tickets $109.50, $77, $67 (includes service fee). “The Moody Blues are an English Rock band that have sold 70 million albums worldwide and have been awarded 14 platinum and gold discs. With hits such as ‘Nights in White Satin,’ ‘Just a Singer in a Rock n Roll Band,’ ‘Ride My See-Saw,’ and ‘Question of Balance,’ Moody Blues have been around since 1964!” Merrill Auditorium. https://tickets.porttix.com/public/show.asp

Thursday, Sept. 15

Gabriel Kahane at One Longfellow8 p.m. One Longfellow Square presents Gabriel Kahane. Hailed by the Los Angeles Times earlier this year for “an all around dazzling performance,” Gabriel Kahane is not part of a scene. He writes string quartets and musicals and pop songs, and his heart is fully in all of those endeavors. But what unites all of his musical efforts is the desire to com-municate honestly and without pretense.

JJ Grey and Mofro at Port City8 p.m. Port City Music Hall presents Adam Ezra Group and JJ Grey and Mofro. Adam Ezra Group is a dynamic acous-tic roots/rock band rising to the top of the Boston music scene. A mixture of old school rhythm & blues and down-home roots rock ‘n’ roll, has carried JJ Grey & Mofro from the backwoods of Florida to hundreds of concert stages across the U.S., Canada, Europe, Japan and Australia. www.portcitymusichall.com/events

Friday, Sept. 16

The Edith Jones Project8 p.m. One Longfellow Square presents the Edith Jones Project. Maine’s All Women Big Band (86 percent less tes-

tosterone ... 200 percent of the swing) plays modern big band jazz made famous by Dizzy Gillespie, Dave Brubeck, the Count Basie Orchestra and others. Members of the band include some of the most talented performing and teaching musicians in Maine. Band members include fac-ulty from Bates College, USM, UNH, and high schools, middle schools and elementary schools throughout south-ern Maine.

USM Spotlight Concert Series8 p.m. Broadway performer Mark Jacoby joins a collec-tion of USM faculty and visiting guest artists gathered by School of Music faculty member Betty Rines to perform two extraordinary instrumental/narrative works, Stravinsky’s L’histoire du soldat and Walton’s Façade, in the fi rst in the University of Southern Maine School of Music’s Fall 2011 Spotlight Concert Series. Join Betty Rines and Friends in Hannaford Hall, Abromson Community Education Center (Bedford Street), USM Portland. Spotlight Concert tickets cost $15 general public; $10 seniors/USM employees; $5 students/children. Tickets may be purchased at the door. For additional information, contact the USM Music Box Offi ce at 780-5555. Sponsored by the School of Music Advisory Board.

Saturday, Sept. 17

Catie Curtis at One Longfellow8 p.m. One Longfellow Square presents Catie Curtis. Curtis has recorded 10 critically acclaimed solo albums and has had songs featured in numerous TV shows including “Daw-son’s Creek,” “Felicity,” “Grey’s Anatomy” and “Alias,” as well as in fi lms such as “500 Miles to Graceland” and “A Slipping Down Life.”

Sunday, Sept. 18

Laura Darrell CD Release8 p.m. Laura Darrell at One Longfellow Square. Laura Dar-rell began singing professionally at age 9 in the classical genre before she transitioned into musical theatre and pop in her adolescence. She sang with the Portland Symphony Orchestra when she was 13 and was discovered by Pro-ducer Con Fullam who produced her Christmas Album which earned her a N.E. Emmy nomination after her concert debuted on PBS. www.onelongfellowsquare.com

Friday, Sept. 23

Dirty White Hats9 p.m. Portland hip hop act Dirty White Hats at Port City Music Hall. “We’re brewing up new songs for our next show; Dirty White Hats and Whitcomb @ PCMH,” the group reports.

On Wednesday, Sept. 28, blues artist Keb’ Mo’ will perform at the State Theatre. (COURTESY PHOTO)


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As the latest rivalry showdown gets set to com-mence tonight at Fenway Park, the Red Sox and Yankees have yet to show any type of relevant sepa-ration. They are right there, in each other’s faces, and likely to stay there until perhaps the very end of the regular season.

There is another kind of race for an individual award that mirrors the competition between the rivals.

Who will win the American League’s Most Valu-able Player?

Along those lines, one of the toughest dilemmas that the voting writers who decide that award have to fi gure out is this: Who is the MVP of the Boston Red Sox?

It is hard to remember a recent example of one team having three such legitimate candidates.

What usually happens on a championship-caliber team is that one player sort of steps his game up from the rest of his teammates. This is what Curtis Granderson has done for the 2011 Yankees.

But in Boston, the top three hitters in the batting order are just about on equal footing with 29 games left in the season.

To start from the top, Jacoby Ellsbury (.312, 95 runs, 23 homers, 36 stolen bases) has been a unique combination of speed, power and defense. The lead-off man has come of age, something never as evident as the fi rst week in August, when he had back-to-back walk-off hits — the latter a home run — to beat the Cleveland Indians.

Then there is the guy who hits right behind Ells-bury, Dustin Pedroia, who has already won an AL MVP Award. Quite frankly, the diminutive second baseman might be having a better season now (.308, 17 homers, 71 RBIs, 24 stolen bases) than he did in 2008 (.326, 17 homers, 83 RBIs, 20 stolen bases).

“I wouldn’t trade Pedey for any player in baseball,” Red Sox designated hitter David Ortiz said.

And what about the player the Red Sox traded for back in December? That would be Adrian Gonzalez, who has the gaudiest raw numbers of the trio, when you look at batting average (.345) and RBIs (103).

How is a voter supposed to differentiate between three players performing at such a high level?

“It would be really tough, because they’ve all kind of carried us at different points of the season,” Red Sox setup man Daniel Bard said. “I’d probably just vote for someone on a different team.”

Then again, if you voted for one of Boston’s top three hitters, it’s doubtful anyone would question that selection.

“To me, you can’t go wrong,” Bard said. “Jacoby has probably been the most consistent. Gonzo has a ridiculous amount of RBIs and so many clutch hits. And Pedey has clutch hits and Gold Glove defense. I’m glad they’re all on our team.”

The Red Sox and New York Yankees game starts at 7:10 p.m. The game will br broadcast on NESN.

After being shut down in opener, Yankees fi nd power in nightcap

BALTIMORE — Curtis Granderson has been at the forefront of this hurricane-interrupted series as the Yankees player representative charged with pre-senting the Yankees position on the rescheduling of lost games.

But Granderson has been relatively helpless in that capacity, failing in the Yankees quest to get the Orioles to play a doubleheader on Friday, and then not fi nding out the ultimate solution — that one of Saturday’s postponed games was rescheduled for Sept. 8 — until he was in the on-deck circle when it was announced during Friday’s loss.

But what Granderson failed to accomplish as the

Yankees’ union offi cial, he more than made up for by punishing their opponent.

After losing the opening game of their doubleheader, 2-0, the Yankees pounded the Orioles, 8-3, in the night-cap behind a power barrage led by the agitator. Grand-erson hit two home runs and knocked in four runs and the Yankees hit fi ve home runs in all to account for all their runs.

Granderson hit a three-run shot in the third inning that gave the Yankees a 3-2 lead, and added a solo shot in the seventh to stretch the Yankees’ lead to 8-3. The latter was his 38th homer of the season and pushed him past Jose Bautista of the Toronto Blue Jays for the major league lead, an unusually high number for a player who stubbornly insists he is not a home run hitter.

The Yankees hit three home runs in succession in the sixth inning as they broke the game open, provid-ing Ivan Nova (14-4) the cushion he needed to cruise to

a well-deserved victory.Robinson Cano hit a two-run

homer, his 23rd, Nick Swisher fol-lowed with his fi fth home run in his last six games, and Andruw Jones capped the outburst with his 11th homer of the season.

It was the fi rst time since May 20, 2009, that the Yankees had hit three homers in a row. On that day it was Swisher, Cano and Melky Cabrera, and it also came against the Orioles.

The power surge was a welcome return to form for the Yankees, who were shutout in the fi rst game to lose for the fourth time in fi ve games. They failed to get a runner to second base, and their inability to score meant an undeserved loss for Bartolo Colon, who pitched very well to counter the argument that he is fatigued from the increase in innings he has pitched this season.

Bartolo Colon of the Yankees struck out four and walked no one Sunday in the fi rst game of a doubleheader against the Baltimore Orioles. (Mitchell Layton/Getty Images/New York Times)

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The Abyssinian Meeting House on Portland’s Newbury Street is the site of an archaeological dig. (DAVID CARKHUFF PHOTO)

House is one of only three of its kind still standing in the United States.

In trying to control the fl ow of water, volunteers restoring the landmark found a chance to recover historic arti-facts.

Martha E. Pinello, principal investi-gator with Monadnock Archaeological Consulting, LLC of Stoddard, N.H., said the dig is turning up relics dating from 1828 to 1870.

"This site is a very signifi cant site to Portland and to Maine and to the nation," Pinello said Friday. "This is the third oldest African meeting house. When we're excavating here, we've been able to fi nd strata that directly relates to the period of the meeting house. We have found toys, slate pencils and marbles and an ink-well that relate directly to when it was a school. We have also found very small artifacts that are very signifi -cant."

The dig uncovered pieces of chipped glass, stemming from a tradition in parts of Africa where people chip glass into disks "and then it has spiritual value in the same way that Catholics might think of prayer beads," Pinello explained.

Also recovered were dishes and glass from the pertinent time period.

The dig also will lay out a timeline of changes to the historic building, which over time was converted into apartments before being saved from demolition by volunteers.

"The puzzle that we're working with now, many organizations are famil-iar with this, when a new generation takes over, what are the changes that they made to the meeting house,"

Pinello said. "After the Civil War, after the fi re (of 1866) and after the building of Federal Street, there are some pretty dramatic changes that occurred here."

As the drainage system is being installed, the team will research how the natural spring played into the his-tory of the site.

Records show the natural spring was leased to the city and later the Grand Trunk Railroad, the committee noted.

"A reservoir was four houses down, and we have found records and a map from Maine Historical Society that indicate that they were leasing their water to that reservoir. It may be as much as 5,000 gallons a day, so that's another part that we're exploring and researching," Pinello said.

This month, Cummings notifi ed vol-unteers that the Committee to Restore the Abyssinian Meeting House had received a matching grant of $25,000 from the 1772 Foundation to help with the water seepage in the base-ment and to help pay for the archaeo-

logical investigation. The committee is now raising its matching amount of $25,000.

"Because the streams fl ow year-round without freezing, the moisture in the basement eventually rotted out the fl oors and framing of the meeting house," Cummings wrote. "Local engi-neers at Casco Bay Engineering and the City of Portland have devised a plan to capture and divert the water around the outside of the Abyssin-ian Meeting House. The excavation required for drainage improvements is also an opportunity to conduct additional archaeological explora-tion at the site. With the diversion of the basement stream, the Abyssinian Meeting House will have a fi nished basement space for year-round educa-tional programs and events."

Anyone interested in helping with the restoration and the $25,000 fund drive can write to the Committee to Restore the Abyssinian Meeting House, P.O. Box 11064, Portland, ME 04104, or visit www.abyme.org.

Leonard Cummings, executive director for the Committee to Restore the Abyssinian Meet-ing House, discusses the site’s unique history during an open house. For details on the meeting house, visit www.abyme.org. (DAVID CARKHUFF FILE PHOTO)

“After the Civil War, after the fi re (of 1866) and after the building of Federal Street, there are some pretty dramatic changes that occurred here.” — Martha E. Pinello, principal investigator with Monadnock Archaeological

Consulting, LLC

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Group raises money for third oldest African meeting house


Portland spared as weakened Irene blows pastTropical Storm Irene toppled trees

and downed power lines across Cen-tral and Western Maine but left Port-land more or less unscathed after tracking further west than forecasters predicted.

Irene struck Southern Maine early Sunday with sustained winds of about 30 to 35 m.p.h. and gusts up to 52 m.p.h. About two inches of rain fell before the storm passed Sunday eve-ning. Forecasters had been predicting upwards of eight inches of rain and winds of 60 m.p.h. or more.

Roughly two dozen trees and heavy limbs fell across Portland during the 12-hour storm, knocking out power to about 500 customers, compared to about 200,000 statewide. As of 4 p.m. yesterday, about 320 customers in Portland were still without power.

“Irene was pretty gentle on us,” said Lynne Richard, a Peaks Island resi-dent who stayed on the island during the storm.

“We’re in pretty good shape,” Rich-ard added. “The wind blew like crazy overnight. It sounded like a freight train coming over the island, and it did bring some trees down … but it was nothing like past storms.”

She said Peaks residents passed the time Sunday watching the ocean.

“The waves were pretty fun to watch. Most of the time people on the island got around to the back shore ... to see the drama; it’s pretty exciting,” she said.

The city responded to the impend-ing storm by mobilizing its emer-gency team, opening a storm shelter and preparing public services crews for a quick response. When the storm fi nally moved out late Sunday, city crews found less damage than many had expected.

“We didn’t experience the most severe part of the storm as the other parts of the state, but (the response) was well coordinated, information was fl owing back and forth, and the other thing was that ... people heeded the warnings and stayed indoors and made it easier to get work done,” said city spokesperson Nicole Clegg.

She said 41 people stayed at the emergency shelter at the Portland Expo during the three nights it was open. Of those who stayed, Clegg said it was a “combination” of homeless and non-homeless.

Final storm-related costs are still

being tabulated, but Clegg said it was unlikely to reach into the hundreds of thousands of dollars. Municipal costs for the storm were mostly related to overtime for city workers over the weekend and clean-up costs. There were no indications of damage to city buildings.

Most residential and commercial property owners also escaped serious damage, although there were reports of trees falling on homes on Peaks Island that could not be confi rmed.

Across the city, scattered reports of downed trees seemed to spare prop-erty in most cases. However, David Ridlon, who lives on Commonwealth Avenue in North Deering, suffered what looked like a near-miss Sunday as a 40-year-old tree uprooted in the wind but remained suspended by power lines. The tree caused several large sparks and knocked out power for the entire block.

“I watched it,” he said Monday, out-side the home he’s lived in since the 1960s. “Every time a gust came, little by little, it uprooted, but the power lines are holding it up.”

As of midday Monday, he was still waiting for crews to remove the tree. “(Central Maine Power) said that we were next on their list but they never showed,” he said, adding, “I am very concerned about it falling on my house.”

A few moments later, a visibly frus-trated neighbor walked over and said CMP dispatchers had just her there

were no crews available in Portland to remove the tree.

A CMP spokesman said it was unlikely that there was ever a point where no crews were working in Port-land.

Meanwhile, city crews spent the morning removing sticks and twigs from public parks and other munici-pal property. Robert Fogg, who was part of a four-man team working in Lincoln Park, said the damage there was confi ned mostly to sticks and a few heavy limbs.

In Deering Oaks, crews fi lled the

back of a fl at-bed with small sticks that were mostly an inch or two in diameter or smaller.

Much was the case on Peaks Island, where damage from the Patriots Day storm of 2007 is still visible in some spots. Richard, the Peaks resident, said she noticed “a lot of leaf damage.”

“There are leaves everywhere,” she said. “We have a ton of Norway maples, and the storm just stripped the leaves off these maples. We have leaf litter.”

In the aftermath of the storm, the city offi cials said the response was on par with the threat, even though the storm tracked up the Connecticut River Valley about 60 miles west of the track forecasters projected Friday.

“Whenever you have a hurricane going up along the Eastern Seaboard, you need to take it seriously, we did that,” said Clegg “We adjusted our plans as weather forecasts became more precise.”

“Hurricanes are serious business,” she added, “We train for this and we take it seriously, and fortunately the public did, too.”

BY CASEY CONLEYTHE PORTLAND DAILY SUN

A crew cleans up downed limbs in Lincoln Park after Tropical Storm Irene blew through. (CASEY CONLEY PHOTO)

“The waves were pretty fun to watch. Most of the time people on the island got around to the back

shore ... to see the drama; it’s pretty exciting.” — Lynne Richard, Peaks

Island resident

Police say a 20-year-old man was punched in the face and stabbed in the leg after he refused to hand over his wallet and cell phone during a rob-bery.

The Portland Police Department is searching for a man who they say approached the victim as he was walking on the Bayside Trail along Marginal Way Sunday night. After the man refused to give up his belong-ings, police say the suspect struck the victim in the face, pulled off the vic-tim’s sweatshirt and fl ed.

The suspect made off with the vic-tim’s cell phone, which was in the sweatshirt’s pocket.

Lt. Gary Rogers, a police spokes-man, described the suspect as an Hispanic male about 6 feet tall and weighing 190 lbs.

The victim was treated and released from the hospital for his injuries.

Rogers said he doesn’t think that the knife was displayed during the robbery, but said the victim described seeing the man “holding a small knife” as they wrestled with one another.

The robbery occurred shortly after 10:30 p.m.

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6 WCSHIt’s Worth What? A married couple vie for the prize. (N) Å

America’s Got Talent Twelve acts perform for the judges. (N) (In Stereo Live) Å

News Tonight Show With Jay Leno

7 WPFOGlee “Prom Queen” Glee club schedules a prom performance.

Raising Hope “Cheaters”

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News 13 on FOX (N) Frasier “Wheels of Fortune”

According to Jim “Pi-lot” Å

8 WMTWWipeout “All Stars” For-mer contestants return to compete. Å

Take the Money and Run A firefighter and her father compete. (N)

Combat Hospital “Tri-age” Rebecca takes control of triage.

News 8 WMTW at 11PM (N)

Nightline (N) Å

10 MPBNNOVA New branch of math called fractals. (In Stereo) Å (DVS)

History Detectives Camera; Civil War doll; map. (N) Å

Frontline (In Stereo) Å Charlie Rose (N) (In Stereo) Å

11 WENHAre You Being Served?

Keeping Up Appear-ances

As Time Goes By “Why?”

Outnum-bered Å

Reggie Perrin

The Red Green Show

Globe Trekker Treasure hunting and competition. Å (DVS)

12 WPXT90210 Naomi and Max’s relationship is tested. (In Stereo) Å

Shedding for the Wed-ding The couples receive visitors. Å

Entourage (In Stereo) Å

TMZ (N) (In Stereo) Å

Extra (N) (In Stereo) Å

Punk’d (In Stereo) Å

13 WGMENCIS “Baltimore” Tony revisits his time in Balti-more. Å (DVS)

NCIS: Los Angeles “Lit-tle Angels” A girl is buried alive. (In Stereo)

NCIS “Ships in the Night” A Marine is murdered on a dinner boat.

WGME News 13 at 11:00

Late Show With David Letterman

17 WPME Smarter Smarter Lyrics! Lyrics! Curb Local Star Trek: Next

24 DISC Auction Auction Auction Auction D. Money D. Money Auction Auction

25 FAM Pretty Little Liars (N) The Lying Game Pretty Little Liars Å The 700 Club (N) Å

26 USA Law & Order: SVU Law & Order: SVU Law & Order: SVU Necessary Roughness

27 NESN MLB Baseball: Yankees at Red Sox Innings Red Sox Daily Telethon

28 CSNE Golfing Stick Cape Cod Baseball Sports SportsNet Sports SportsNet

30 ESPN World, Poker World, Poker Baseball Tonight (N) SportsCenter (N) Å

31 ESPN2 2011 U.S. Open Tennis First Round. (N) (Live) World, Poker

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35 TOON Looney Gumball King of Hill King of Hill Amer. Dad Amer. Dad Fam. Guy Fam. Guy

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37 MSNBC The Last Word Rachel Maddow Show The Ed Show (N) The Last Word

38 CNN Anderson Cooper 360 Piers Morgan Tonight Anderson Cooper 360 John King, USA

40 CNBC Nightmare in 60 Minutes on CNBC CNBC Titans Mad Money

41 FNC The O’Reilly Factor (N) Hannity (N) Greta Van Susteren The O’Reilly Factor

43 TNT Rizzoli & Isles Å Law & Order Law & Order “Doped” CSI: NY Å

44 LIFE Picker Sisters Å Picker Sisters Å Picker Picker How I Met How I Met

46 TLC What Not to Wear What Not to Wear (N) Big Sexy (N) Å What Not to Wear

47 AMC Movie: ››› “Top Gun” (1986, Adventure) Tom Cruise. Å Movie: ››› “Top Gun” (1986) Å

48 HGTV First Place First Place Million Dollar Rooms House Hunters Property Property

49 TRAV Bizarre Foods No Reservation No Reservation Hamburger Paradise

50 A&E Billy Billy Billy Billy Billy Billy Billy Billy

52 BRAVO Most Eligible Dallas Flipping Out (N) Å Flipping Out Å Housewives/NJ

55 HALL Little House Frasier Frasier Frasier Frasier Frasier Frasier

56 SYFY WWE Super SmackDown! (N) Å Movie: ››› “Troy” (2004) Brad Pitt. Å

57 ANIM Wild Amazon Å Yellowstone: Battle For Life (In Stereo) Å Yellowstone

58 HIST Cocaine: History Between the Lines (N) Å Top Shot (N) Å Top Shot Å

60 BET Movie: ››› “Love & Basketball” (2000) Å Born to Dance Born to Dance

61 COM Tosh.0 Tosh.0 Tosh.0 Tosh.0 Tosh.0 Work. Daily Show Colbert

62 FX Movie: ››› “Superbad” (2007) Jonah Hill, Michael Cera. Movie: ››› “Superbad” (2007)

67 TVLND M*A*S*H M*A*S*H Raymond Raymond Raymond Raymond Cleveland Cleveland

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76 SPIKE Auction Auction Auction Auction Auction Auction Repo Repo

78 OXY The Bad Girls Club Movie: ››› “What’s Love Got to Do With It” (1993) Å Phat Girlz

146 TCM Movie: “Three Guys Named Mike” Movie: “Seven Brides for Seven Brothers” Kiss-Kate

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Today is Tuesday, Aug. 30, the 242nd day of 2011. There are 123 days left in the year.

Today’s Highlight in History: On Aug. 30, 1861, Union Gen. John C. Fremont insti-tuted martial law in Missouri and declared slaves there to be free. (However, Fremont’s emancipation order was countermanded by President Abraham Lincoln).

On this date: In 1797, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, cre-

ator of “Frankenstein,” was born in London.In 1862, Union forces were defeated by

the Confederates at the Second Battle of Bull Run in Manassas, Va.

In 1905, Ty Cobb made his major-league debut as a player for the Detroit Tigers, hit-ting a double in his fi rst at-bat in a game against the New York Highlanders. (The Tigers won, 5-3.)

In 1963, the “Hot Line” communications link between Washington and Moscow went into operation.

In 1967, the Senate confi rmed the appoint-ment of Thurgood Marshall as the fi rst black justice on the U.S. Supreme Court.

In 1983, Guion S. Bluford Jr. became the fi rst black American astronaut to travel in space as he blasted off aboard the Chal-lenger.

In 1986, Soviet authorities arrested Nicholas Daniloff, a correspondent for U.S. News and World Report, as a spy a week after American offi cials arrested Gennadiy Zakharov, a Soviet employee of the United Nations, on espionage charges in New York. (Both men were later released.)

In 1997, Americans received word of the car crash in Paris that claimed the lives of Princess Diana, Dodi Fayed and their driver, Henri Paul. (Because of the time difference, it was Aug. 31 where the crash occurred.)

One year ago: An enormous drill began preliminary work on carving a half-mile chimney through solid rock to free 33 men trapped in a Chilean mine.

Today’s Birthdays: Country singer Kitty Wells is 92. Opera singer Regina Resnik is 89. Actor Bill Daily is 84. Actress Elizabeth Ashley is 72. Actor Ben Jones is 70. Car-toonist R. Crumb is 68. Olympic gold medal skier Jean-Claude Killy is 68. Actress Peggy Lipton is 64. Comedian Lewis Black is 63. Actor Timothy Bottoms is 60. Actor David Paymer is 57. Jazz musician Gerald Albright is 54. Actor Michael Chiklis is 48. Music pro-ducer Robert Clivilles is 47. Actress Michael Michele is 45. Country musician Geoff Fire-baugh is 43. Country singer Sherrie Austin is 40. Rock singer-musician Lars Frederiksen (Rancid) is 40. Actress Cameron Diaz is 39. Rock musician Leon Caffrey (Space) is 38. TV personality Lisa Ling is 38. Rock singer-musician Aaron Barrett (Reel Big Fish) is 37. Actor Michael Gladis is 34. Rock musician Matt Taul (Tantric; Days of the New) is 33. Tennis player Andy Roddick is 29.

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author 19 Exuberance 20 All there 21 Besides that 22 Tuscany city 24 Quaker pronoun 26 __ we a pair? 28 Fluky 31 Attempted to

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today 39 Ardent 40 Offends 42 Sketch 43 Energetic type 44 Della of “Touched

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Grande 49 Ouija board

answer 50 Hold things up? 52 Three squared 54 Lucy’s landlady 56 “Blackboard

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planes 66 Reindeer tender,

maybe 67 “The Tempest”

sprite 68 Wrinkles or

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Rainy, as she was affectionately known by her family and friends, was born in Portland, Maine on Dec. 21,1924, the daughter of Arthur T. and Mary Carney Hatcher. She was a graduate of Deering High School and Westbrook Junior College.

On Oct. 8, 1949, she married Alan Raymond McKee. Together, they lived and raised their family in Marblehead, Mass.

Rainy worked at the Little Harbor Boatyard for more than ten years. She and her husband, Alan, shared a passion for sailing and boating. Once retired, they began wintering in Florida and spending the rest of the calendar year in Maine. In the early '90s, they moved to Falmouth Foreside and made their home there.

Rainy was a longtime commu-nicant of Holy Martyrs Catho-lic Church in Falmouth, a member of the Women’s Literary Union, a former employee of Filene’s, a volunteer at the Miles Memorial Hospital in Dam-ariscotta and a volunteer at the Good Cause Thrift Shop in Portland.

Both she and Alan loved buying, renovating and decorating homes, going antiquing up the coast and traveling both in and out of the country. Rainy enjoyed a good game of bridge with her girlfriends and meeting with her neighborhood book club. Her greatest passion, however, was entertaining family and friends at her home, which was nicknamed Hotel McKee. She was indeed the Hostess with the Mostess.

Rainy was predeceased by her husband, the love of her life, on Jan. 12, 1996, a son, Scott A. McKee, in 1989, three sisters, Dorothy Francis, Eileen Stamos and Jeanne Hatcher and three brothers, Alfred, Everett and Earl Hatcher. She is survived by her son, Paul A. McKee, and his wife, Janet Ross of South Portland, two grandchildren, Jessica McKee and Anthony McKee both of California, one great granddaughter, Alexa Duncan of California, a sister-in-law, Lucille Hatcher of Portland, a niece, Beverly Hatcher Cooper, nephews, Arthur Hatcher, Danforth Francis, Forest Hatcher and John Hatcher.

A Mass of Christian Burial will be celebrated on Thursday, Sept. 1, at 10 a.m. at Holy Martyrs Catholic Church, 266 Foreside Road, Falmouth. Burial will follow in Calvary Cemetery, 1461 Broad-way, South Portland. Arrangements are under the direction of the Conroy-Tully Crawford Funeral Home, 172 State St., Portland. Online condolences may be expressed at www.ctcrawford.com. Those who wish may make donations in Rainy’s memory to the Good Cause Thrift Shop 16 Forest Ave. Port-land, ME 04101.

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Coalition plans ‘Call to Action’ to combat domestic violence Wednesday

The Maine Coalition to End Domestic Violence and domestic violence resource centers across the state announce ringing of church and other com-munity buildings bells for two minutes at noon on Wednesday, Aug. 31 as “A Call to Remember, A Call to Action,” the coalition reported.

“We remember and honor the lives of Mainers lost this summer and over the years due to domestic vio-lence,” said Julia Colpitts, executive director, “and we are issuing a call to action to the general commu-nity. Prompted by the recent tragedies in Winslow, Dexter and New Gloucester, people are again asking how to make it clear that Maine will not tolerate a climate of family violence.”

There are trained advocates ready to answer the call across Maine at 1-866-834-HELP, the coalition stated.

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Tuesday, Aug. 30

Maine Reapportionment Commission9 a.m. Originally scheduled meeting for Monday was rescheduled to Tuesday due to anticipated inclement weather of Hurricane Irene. Legislative Council Chambers, Maine State House, Augusta.

Wednesday, Aug. 31

Free Seminar, Annuities and Your Retirement10 a.m. and 2 p.m. Free seminar hosted by Seth Cheikin, AAMS, Financial Advisor. “You’ll learn about the different types of annuities and how the right one can help alleviate the impact of some retirement-related uncertainties. Join us at Edward Jones, 251 U.S. Rte. 1, Falmouth Shopping Center, second fl oor, Falmouth,” Aug. 31 at 10 a.m. and 2 p.m., Sept. 1 at 10 a.m., and Sept. 6 at 10 a.m. To reserve your place, call Carole Vreeland at 781-5057.

A Call to Remember, A Call to Actionnoon. The Maine Coalition to End Domestic Violence, Family Crisis Services and other local domestic violence programs across the state are coming together at noon Wednesday, Aug. 31, to honor the memory of Maine’s recent domes-tic violence homicide victims. A Call to Remember, A Call to Action is a statewide effort by domestic violence projects to mourn the continued loss of lives and to raise awareness that together we can stop domestic violence. Throughout the state, people will gather at noon for an observance comprising tolling bells, interfaith prayers, a moment of silence and remarks from community leaders speaking about the actions we all can take to end domes-tic violence. Family Crisis Services, the local domestic violence project, will be holding its main event at noon Aug. 31 in Brunswick at the gazebo on the town green. Family Crisis Services has asked many faith-based com-munities and community buildings in the area to join in ringing their bells, including the First Parish Church in Brunswick, The Brunswick Area Interfaith Counsel and Bowdoin College. Churches in the Lakes Region are par-ticipating, including the First Congregational Church and St Peter’s Catholic Church in Bridgton, and Fryeburg’s First Congregational Church. In greater Portland, the Irish Heritage Center, Cape Elizabeth United Methodist Church and others are coming together to help support this event. Call 1-866-834-4357 or visit the Family Crisis Services website at www.familycrisis.org.

Cumberland County Regional Communications Board5 p.m. Cumberland County Regional Communications Board of Directors meeting on Long island. Agenda includes: Welcome aboard to the Town of Bridgton; ATV/Snowmobile call type addition; Cell Phone/Electronic Device Policy; CCRCC 2012 Budget

‘Remembering Union Station’5:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. The 50th anniversary of the demoli-tion of the clock tower at Union Station will be remembered. Greater Portland Landmarks will host a “Remembering Union Station” event at 93 High St. “Portland’s historic Union Station Clock Tower was demolished on August 31, 1961 to make way for a strip shopping center. This dra-matic loss was a turning point in inspiring Portland’s his-toric preservation movement and the founding of Greater Portland Landmarks, which was incorporated in 1964. The clock face from the tower was saved, and is now located in Congress Square,” reports PreserveNet (www.preservenet.cornell.edu/eventdetail.cfm?EVENTID=352).

Thursday, Sept. 1

USM Welcome Husky Fest 201111 a.m. to 3 p.m. Lawn between Payson Smith and Luther Bonney Halls, Portland campus, University of Southern Maine. “Follow the paws to Husky Fest! USM’s largest event ... the 11th annual welcome kick-off party! FREE BBQ for all students! Live Music and activities! Campus departments, student organizations, and com-munity vendors will all be present to help you get con-nected to the USM community! Rain location: Sullivan Gym, Portland Campus.” 228-8200

Ocean Avenue Elementary School holds grand opening ceremony4:30 p.m. A ribbon-cutting ceremony to celebrate the opening of the Ocean Avenue Elementary School will take place at the school, located at 150 Ocean Ave., Port-land. The ceremony will include brief remarks by Mayor Nick Mavodones, Portland Superintendent James C. Morse, Sr., Portland School Board Chair Kate Snyder and Portland City Councilor Cheryl Leeman. Students, families, staff and community members are invited to

attend. For more information, please call 874-8180. Students from the former Clifford Elementary School moved into Ocean Avenue Elementary School last February. Beginning in September, the school will fully open to students from the Back Cove neighborhood. www2.portlandschools.org

Friday, Sept. 2

Library of Congress traveling exhibitionnoon to 8 p.m. A special Library of Congress traveling exhi-bition — mounted in a customized 18-wheel truck — will visit Portland. “Gateway to Knowledge” will be in Portland on Friday, Sept. 2, and Saturday, Sept. 3, and will be parked at Monument Square. The exhibit is free and open to the public from noon to 8 p.m. both days. For further informa-tion about the exhibit, visit www.loc.gov/gateway/.

‘Curtain Up!’ in Congress Square.4:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. “Curtain Up!” showcases Portland’s theater community. Part of Sept. 2 Art Walk. The vitality and diversity of Portland’s theater community will be on display at “Curtain Up!,” an exciting preview of what Port-land’s many theater companies will be offering during the 2011-12 theater season. The event will take place in Con-gress Square (at the corner of Congress and High Streets) on Friday, September 2, from 4:30om to 7:30pm p.m. as part of the First Friday Art Walk. Theaters will perform brief excerpts from their shows to introduce themselves to Artwalk-ers, who will receive a Theater Sampler card including informa-tion about each company and ticket discounts. Curtain Up!” is being sponsored by the Portland Arts and Cultural Alliance (PACA) and produced by Acorn Productions, AIRE (American Irish Repertory Ensemble) and Lucid Stage. “This is a great opportunity for people attending Art Walk to sample the terrifi c work that Portland theaters are doing,” said Michael Levine, Producing Director of Acorn Productions and lead producer of the event. “And it gives us, as a community, a chance to present a unifi ed presence as a vital part of the arts scene in Portland.” Susan Reilly, Managing Director of AIRE, added, “We hope to reach out to different kinds of people interested in the arts who may not be regular theatergoers. And the Theater Sampler will be a handy take-away that prospective audience members can hold on to and use throughout the season. If all goes well this year, we hope to make this an annual event.” Participating theaters include Acorn, AIRE, Children’s Museum and Theater of Maine, Fenix Theater Company, Good Theater, Lucid Stage, New Edge Produc-tions, Portland Playback Theater, Portland Stage Company, Snowlion Repertory Company and more!

First Friday Art Walk5 p.m. to 8 p.m. Join PACA for a free self-guided tour of local art galleries, art studios, museums, and alternative art

venues on the First Friday of every month from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. Portland Arts & Cultural Alliance (PACA) is a nonprofi t organization with a mission of “Strengthening Portland by strengthening the Arts.” www.fi rstfridayartwalk.com

Oliver at Maine Charitable Mechanic Association5 p.m. For First Friday Art Walk, the Maine Charitable Mechanic Association library will be hosting local artist Jef-fery Oliver, with drawings and underwater photography. The MCMA library is starting a book club that will meet on the fi rst Tuesday of each month at noon; bring a sandwich, des-sert coffee and tea provided. Bring a list of what books you would like to read and discuss. First Book Club meeting is Tuesday, Oct. 4 in the library. Maine Charitable Mechanic Association, started in 1815 with 65 members, in 1859 built a landmark building on Congress Street where the mem-bership library still exists today and is open to many public events.Library is open Tues., Wed. and Thurs, 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., phone 773-8396

Mariah K. Brinton at the St. Lawrence5 p.m. First Friday Art Walk opening at the St. Lawrence Arts Center. The St. Lawrence Arts Center is owned and operated by the nonprofi t corporation Friends of the St. Law-rence. Parish Hall Theater, see the newest installation; Photo-graphs by Mariah K. Brinton. Complimentary snacks and wine on hand. “Photographic exhibits range from San Francisco in 2004-2005, with her fi rst solo show in December 2004, to the Netherlands, New York and Brooklyn. With a style formed by the time she spent as a teenager exploring the NYC streets with a 35mm Pentax in hand and her love of fashion, the com-bination is an aesthetic reminiscent of William Klein’s New York street work.” www.stlawrencearts.org

First Friday Exhibit at Mayo Street5 p.m. to 8 p.m. First Friday Exhibit at Mayo Street Arts. Portraits, group show curated by MSA artist in residence Heidi Powell. Jim McGinley, Daniel Meiklejohn, Hillary White, Sonia Cook Broen, Baxter Long, Heidi Powell, Zoe Ryan-Humphrey, Jessica Beebe and Russell Ouellett. The opening is immediately followed by LIT. More info on all events at www.mayostreetarts.org.

Susan Elliot’s ‘Trees: In a Different Light’5 p.m. to 8 p.m. Artists’ Social for First Friday Art Walk at The Gallery at Harmon’s & Barton’s. Exhibition through September. Gallery hours: Mon thru Fri, 8 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. and Sat 8 a.m. to 3 p.m., 584 Congress St. 774 5948. “With a background in Natural Resources, a wellspring of humor, and rampant, joyous imagination, Maine tree artist Susan Elliot’s subjects are always the embodiment of one or more of these qualities. Narrowing her focus in 2008 to simply drawing trees, Elliot discovered that choosing a subject matter close to her heart immeasurably widened the range of her creativity.”

On Sunday, Sept. 11 from 2 p.m. to 5 p.m., the public is invited to a lecture by geneaologist Matt Barker about the Portland Irish’s contribu-tions during the Civil War. The event will take place at the Maine Irish Heritage Center. (DAVID CARKHUFF FILE PHOTO)


Prison Inmates Art Exhibit5 p.m. to 8 p.m. Meg Perry, 644 Congress St., Portland. A First Friday Art Walk exhibit at Meg Perry Center will feature both visual and musical art produced by inmates from within correctional facilities throughout the state of Maine. “There will be visual arts items submit-ted by both adult prisoners from Maine Cor-rectional Center, Two Bridges Regional Jail, and Maine State Prison, as well as from juve-niles housed at Long Creek Youth Develop-ment Center. Items will range from sketches and paintings to wood crafts and quilts. Also on hand will be Guitar Doors — Instruments of Change, a local nonprofi t dedicated to bring-ing music and music programming to those incarcerated. There will be CDs available and playing that are the original compositions and recordings from inmates at the same facilities and more.”

First Friday Art Walk at SPACE Gallery5 p.m. to 8 p.m. Zone by Maya Hayuk and Pulled by Mike Perry. “Come celebrate the re-opening of our main space and the opening of Maya Hayuk’s installation, Zone. Take in the large scale mulit-colored bullseye, the fl oor to ceiling drippy woven wall textile, the paper peice that trails onto the wall and the glow-in-the-blacklight neon mural on our newly constructed wall. In the annex, soak up the beautiful variance of techniques and styles in the screen-printing exhibition, Pulled, by Mike Perry.” www.space538.org/events.php

Two Fabulous Fashion Exhibits5 p.m. to 8 p.m. New show: “Having in Paris a Great Success”: French Fashion, 1928-1936, Maine Historical Society. “Join us during Portland’s First Friday Art Walks (9/2, 10/7, 11/4, 12/2) to see two fabulous fashion-themed shows, “Having in Paris a Great Suc-cess”: French Fashion, 1928-1936 on display in the Earle G. Shettleworth, Jr. Lecture Hall and Dressing Up, Standing Out, Fitting In: Adornment & Identity in Maine, on display in the museum. Mingle with friends, enjoy refreshments and music, and discover Maine history.” www.mainehistory.org/programs_events.shtml#event_233

Indian Trail in the Peaks Island Land Preserve5:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. Indian Trail in the Peaks Island Land Preserve. “Join Ellen Mahoney, Island Institute Community Leadership Fellow, for a hike along the Indian Trail which weaves its way through the Parker Preserve on Peaks Island. Catch the 5:35 p.m. Ferry at Casco Bay Lines Ferry Terminal, the tour starts right when you get to the dock at Peaks Island.” http://www.trails.org/events.html

Forgotten Wars at Sanctuary Tattoo6 p.m. First Friday Art Walk opening, at Sanctuary Tattoo. “The collected crypto-historical works of Graham Meyer, Sarah Tarling Matzke and Christian Matzke chronicling the parallel antiquities of Forgotten Wars... The 1905 Invasion of Mars, and the 1913 Lantern Annexation of the Industrial Empire of the East. Featuring portraiture, artifacts and illus-tration curated in a museum-style exhibit. History is crafted; Speculation is an Art.” 31 Forest Ave.

Southworth Planetarium full dome shows7 p.m. The Southworth Planetarium is offering full dome video planetarium shows starting on Sept. 2. “On Friday nights in September, we will have a Full Dome Double Fea-ture at 7 p.m. and at 8:30 p.m. ‘Two Small Pieces of Glass’ is a program about the history and science of telescopes. How have telescopes enabled astronomers discover the outer Universe? From Galileo’s little scope to the Hubble Space Telescope, we’ve used optical equipment to study the cosmos and its myriad wonders. ‘IBEX’ is a new show about the probe which surveys the solar system’s outer edge. Where does the solar system end? What exotic objects lurk around its periphery? Join us as we explore the nether edge of our own planetary system. A full dome show is an total immersion experience. Both shows encom-pass the entire dome. As opposed to traditional programs in which both static and moving images appear at various locations, the Full Dome show is entirely digital video that covers all 360 degrees above the audience.” www.usm.maine.edu/planet

Portland Playback Theatre in the workplace7:30 p.m. CTN5, 516 Congress St., right next to MECA, $5 at the door. Theme: What happened at work. “The work-place is an epicenter of everything from ego-ridden chains of command to secret, perilous offi ce romances. It can be a playground of imagination and purpose, or a wasteland of meaningless drudgery. And after work, we let loose and tell stories - of what happened at work. Tell us a story from your workplace life and watch our team of improvisors immedi-ately play it back! Or just come to watch! Now in its sixth year, Portland Playback Theatre puts fi ve talented actors at your disposal to replay the stories of your life. Learn more at www.portlandplayback.com.”

LIT at Mayo Street Arts8 p.m. A literary happening curated by Portland poet and theater reviewer Megan Grumbling. This month’s theme for LIT is an exploration of the works of Brecht, and dovetails with Lorem Ipsum’s upcoming production of The Three Penny Opera at Apohadion Theater later in the month. $5-10 suggested donation. www.mayostreetarts.org.

Comedian Bob Marley at the Landing at Pine Point8 p.m. “Our Labor day Weekend kickoff show is here again with the fabulous comic antics of Bob Marley. The Land-ing at Pine Point is recognized as kicking off the Labor Day weekend with a bang and what better way to do it than with the hilarious work of Mr. Marley.” The Landing at Pine Point, 353 Pine Point Road, Scarborough.

Saturday, Sept. 3

Ride in memory of 9/119 a.m. to 10 a.m. Two Wisconsin men on a motorcycle ride to honor military personnel and those affected by 9/11. “Despite a recent diagnosis of a brain aneuresym, Woody West of Wisconsin has organized a 17-state, 15-day ride

to honor rescue workers and those who lost their lives in the 9/11 attacks. During the ride, organized and joined by Terry Werdewitz, they will be stopping at the Pentagon, Ground Zero and Shanksville, Pennsylvania, as well as visiting 19 local fi re stations along the route as a part of the Remember Rally patch exchange. Woody is a Viet Nam Vet. They are inviting anyone along the way to join them in their Ride To Remember, whether for one mile or a hun-dred.” The ride will stop at the Portland Fire Department at 380 Congress St. in Port-land. www.rememberrally.com

Open House at the New Gloucester History Barn9 a.m. to noon. The September Open House at the New Gloucester History Barn, Route 231 (behind the Town Hall), New Gloucester, will be held from 9 a.m. to noon. The special exhibit this month will be photos and artifacts related to New Gloucester schools. The exhibit of historic vehicles remains on display. Admission is free.

Unity hosts dog show9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Unity of Greater Portland, 54 River Road in Windham, will host the Second Annual Scoop Robbins Dog Show with Craft and Book Sale. If last year’s event was any example, there should be fun for the whole family and plenty of prizes for the family dog. Lots of ribbons will be awarded for such unusual catego-ries as “Dog with the Longest Ears” and “Saddest Eyes.” Maggie the Beagle has already announced her intention to attend and defend last year’s title for “Waggingest Tail.” Entry fee $5 per dog, humans free. You do not need a dog to participate. For more info go to the dog show webpage at www.adevadesigns.com/dogshow/dogshow.htm or visit the church website, www.unitygreaterportland.org.

Irish genealogy/history roundtable10 a.m. Irish genealogy/history roundtable at the Maine Irish Heritage Center. “Bring your lunch, genealogy, old photos, ques-tions, etc. This is the center’s third monthly meeting of its kind. The MIHC will host a roundtable the fi rst Saturday of every month.”

Portland Brew Festivalnoon to 8:30 p.m. Portland Brew Festival at the Portland Company Complex. “2011

is the inaugural year for the Portland Brew Festival, what promises to become one of the jewels of summer in Maine. With three buildings for exhibitors, over 75 varieties of regional craft brews, home-brewing supplies and dem-onstrations, the best in food, local music how could it really get better? But we realize after 3 1/2 hours of tast-ing-sized samples and a whole head-load of beer edu-cation, you’ll likely want to get out and get friendly with a full-sized pint or two and see how some of your new favorites stand up to your favorite dishes. So we’re put-ting this whole craft beer-stravaganza right on the edges of Munjoy Hill and the Old Port where you can meander into town after the fact and get feel for these beers in a real-world context.” Organizers are partnering with Sail Maine, a local nonprofi t supporting sailing in Maine at the grass-roots, community level. A portion of the proceeds of the event go to benefi t community boating through Sail Maine. Also Sunday. www.portlandbrewfestival.com

‘Up Up, Down Down’ screening7 p.m. A part of the St. Lawrence Arts Center’s Local Monthly Film Series. $5. “Don’t miss the premier screen-ing of Portland fi lmmaker Allen Baldwin’s much anticipated premier of ‘Up Up, Down Down’. This will be Portland’s only screening and DVD release of the fi nal theatrical ver-sion so we hope that you come on down. In the works since 2009, ‘Up Up, Down Down’ is Baldwin’s most recent fea-ture length fi lm; a coming of age story that tells the tale of a young couple of underachievers eating cereal, play-ing video games and facing the trials and tribulations of an unforeseen pregnancy. Featuring lead performances by Erik Moody and Kristina Balbo. Written by Jeremy Stover and Allen Baldwin. Shot by Luke Pola.” Following the screening on September 3rd will be a open table Q&A session with the director and actors involved in the feature. Tix and informa-tion: www.stlawrencearts.org

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This new Shettleworth Lecture Hall show at Maine Historical Society features line sheets from Paris fashion houses collected by Maine artist Mildred Burrage. (COURTESY PHOTO)


Sunday, Sept. 4

Lions Club breakfast on Peaks8 a.m. to 11 a.m. Lions Club breakfast at Greenwood Gar-dens, Peaks Island. Pancakes, eggs, sausage, coffee, milk, orange juice. Adult: $6 Child: $4. http://www.peaksisland.info/calendar_2011.htm#September

Paws in the Park at Payson Park10 a.m. The Animal Refuge League of Greater Portland’s annual fundraiser, Paws in the Park, is scheduled in a brand new location, Portland’s Payson Park. Registration begins at 10 a.m. and the dog walk at 11 a.m. Each registrant will receive a gift for participating. There will be lots of fun festivities beginning at 10 am. There will be agility demon-strations, pet items for sale, raffl es, rescue groups, adopt-able dogs, animal communicators Sara Moore and Jailene Fontaine, Reiki demonstrations, micro-chipping and a host of other activities. Erin Ovalle from WMTW 8 is honorary MC and WGAN’s Dynamic Duo Ken and Mike will serve as judges for the Cool Canine Contest held after the walk. Prizes will be awarded to the team, child and adult with the highest dollar value in pledges. The proceeds will help pro-vide food, shelter, emergency, and preventative veterinary care, as well as provide new beginnings for the more than 4,000 animals who come through the shelter’s doors each

year. To celebrate the ARL’s 100th Anniversary, this year there will also be a 5K run which will precede the dog walk. The Furry Friends 5K will begin at 9 a.m. (registration at 7 a.m.) and also be in Payson Park. To register and collect pledges for Paws in the Park or The Furry Friends 5K visit the ARL website at www.arlgp.org. To sponsor, become a vendor or ask a question contact the ARL Community Relations Director at [email protected] or call 854-9771, ext. 115.

New Gloucester Community Market11 a.m. Filled with a diverse selection of local products, the New Gloucester Community Market will be premier-ing on Sunday, Sept. 4. Music, a barbecue and raffl e will add to the festivities on opening day. The Market will set up shop at Thompson’s Orchard, 276 Gloucester Hill Road, New Gloucester. There you will fi nd products such as veg-etables, bread, jams and preserves, eggs and dairy, meat, plants, berries, herbs, soaps, alpaca yarn and wears, and more. The Market will be held Sundays from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. and Thursdays from 2 to 6 p.m. and is slated to run through the end of October. For more information, contact Noah Fralich, 232-1304, or [email protected].

Portland Brew Festival, day twonoon to 3:30 p.m. Portland Brew Festival at the Portland Company Complex. “2011 is the inaugural year for the Portland Brew Festival, what promises to become one of the jewels of summer in Maine. With three buildings for exhibitors, over 75 varieties of regional craft brews, home-brewing supplies and demonstrations, the best in food,

local music how could it really get better? But we realize after 3 1/2 hours of tasting-sized samples and a whole head-load of beer education, you’ll likely want to get out and get friendly with a full-sized pint or two and see how some of your new favorites stand up to your favorite dishes. So we’re putting this whole craft beer-stravaganza right on the edges of Munjoy Hill and the Old Port where you can meander into town after the fact and get feel for these beers in a real-world context.” Organizers are partnering with Sail Maine, a local nonprofi t supporting sailing in Maine at the grass-roots, community level. A portion of the proceeds of the event go to benefi t community boating through Sail Maine. www.portlandbrewfestival.com

Handmade Puppet Dreams Volume I7 p.m. Film screening with intro/talk by fi lmmaker Tim LaGasse $7, Mayo Street Arts. “Tim LaGasse is a renowned puppeteer and fi lmmaker and we are thrilled to have him join us for the fi rst screening in the four-volume HMPD series produced by Heather Henson’s Ibex Puppetry.” www.mayostreetarts.org

Monday, Sept. 5

Toys-for-Tots Car Show10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Labor Day will be the third annual Toys-for-Tots Car Show at Portland Motor Club. It is a joint effort between all the car clubs in Maine (as opposed to being hosted by one group) and usually attracts a couple hundred classic and sports cars and hundreds more spectators. The show is a “cruise-in” car show format so that there is no preregistration or entry categories. Cars line up and attend-ees walk around and enjoy the cars, the people and the activities as well as get a peak inside Portland Motor Club. The event starts at 10 a.m. and will wrap up at 2 p.m. with a parade of cars heading out to an area ice cream shop. Cars are welcomed after 9 a.m. at Portland Motor Club which is located at 275 Presumpscot Street in Portland. This is a rain or shine event.

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Fred Forsley, president of Shipyard Brewing Co., stands outside the Newbury Street brewery. The 2011 Portland Brew Festival — which includes Shipyard Brewing and many others — will take place on Labor Day weekend, Saturday from noon to 3:30 p.m. and Saturday evening from 5 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.; and Sunday afternoon from noon to 3:30 p.m. in the Portland Company Complex, 58 Fore St. (DAVID CARKHUFF FILE PHOTO)

The Portland Daily Sun, Tuesday, August 30, 2011

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