D E C e m b e r 2 0 1 8 1 5 Portland artist Nate Deyesso’s work has landed downtown. His sculpture in front of the AC Hotel pays homage to Port- land’s working waterfront, but the work is nameless. “There’s no need to put a label on something so abstract that came from so many origins of inspira- tion,” Deyesso says. “[It] can be whatever it chooses to be for any viewer. It’s free and moving, strong and lasting.” The Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife says some of Maine’s great blue herons prefer wintering in Haiti. Through the Heron Tracking Project, they’ve just discovered that one female, Nokomis, is back in Haiti for the third year in a row. Gone South By Land or Sea Smoke on the Water Before he was a World Series Champion, Marcus “Mookie” Betts was one of us. In 2014, the Red Sox right fielder played 54 games with the Portland Sea Dogs with a .355 batting aver- age. While in the Forest City, Betts lived with Matthew Rogers–Senior Vice President of Rog- ers Norton Wealth Management Group–along with his wife and two children. They’ve been hosting players for 11 years. “He was a home- body, not a partier,” Rogers says. “His girl- friend is his high school sweetheart, so he isn’t looking to go out and find girls. He liked ice cream, so we’d go to different places after din- ner. He did like Cold Stone ice cream. Most- ly he would come home with Deven Marrero and Derrik Gibson, teammates who also lived with us, and we’d hang out. We had some heated games of H-O-R-S-E in the gym.” The Sanford Seacoast Regional Airport (KSFM), originally one of four Naval Auxiliary Airfields built in Maine during World War II, is home to the PBY Catalina, one of the most common Navy seaplanes used in World War II. “It was resuscitated by Buffalo Airways, an outfit that was featured in the TV show Ice Pilots. We’ve been working on the aircraft on and off since 2007,” owner Jim Knowles says. “It does not cur- rently fly. We will be offering rides when we get to that point, but that is years away.” Clockwise from top left: jeremiah trimble, Meaghan Maurice, 365DigitalPhotography.com, rsteup/flickr Mookie on the Home Team