Page 1 Page 2 Page 3 Page 4 Page 5 Page 6 Page 7 Page 8 Page 9 Page 10 Page 11 Page 12 Page 13 Page 14 Page 15 Page 16 Page 17 Page 18 Page 19 Page 20 Page 21 Page 22 Page 23 Page 24 Page 25 Page 26 Page 27 Page 28 Page 29 Page 30 Page 31 Page 32 Page 33 Page 34 Page 35 Page 36 Page 37 Page 38 Page 39 Page 40 Page 41 Page 42 Page 43 Page 44 Page 45 Page 46 Page 47 Page 48 Page 49 Page 50 Page 51 Page 52 Page 53 Page 54 Page 55 Page 56 Page 57 Page 58 Page 59 Page 60 Page 61 Page 62 Page 63 Page 64 Page 65 Page 66 Page 67 Page 68 Page 69 Page 70 Page 71 Page 72 Page 73 Page 74 Page 75 Page 76 Page 77 Page 78 Page 79 Page 80 Page 81 Page 82 Page 83 Page 84 Page 85 Page 86 Page 87 Page 88 Page 89 Page 90 Page 91 Page 92 Page 93 Page 94 Page 95 Page 96 Page 97 Page 98 Page 99 Page 100 Page 101 Page 102 Page 103 Page 104 Page 105 Page 106 Page 107 Page 108O C T O B E R 2 0 1 6 2 7 A tasty blend of the fabulous, the eyebrow-raising, and the just plain wrong. This monument to the founder of Bucksport is more often visited by fans of the supernatural than by histo- rians.The legend goes that Colonel Jonathan Buck, a stoic Puritan, was cursed by a woman he’d condemned to execution for witchcraft. Soon after his death in 1795, an indelible stain shaped like an witch’s boot appeared on the monument beneath the Colonel’s name. In a paper on local folklore found in The Bucksport Library, Esther E. Wood writes, “Local tradition feeds upon lies and flies far and fast on the wings of nonsense.” Thereoughttobearoomforpeople likeyou.TheEscapeRoomat496 CongressStreetencouragesyoutoap- plyyoursecret-agentskillsinahigh- intensityescapechallenge–in60min- utes.“Theconcepthasbeen aroundforagesinEast- ernEuropeandRus- sia,”saysco-own- erDaveJopp.“We werethefirsttotry itinMaine.Wehave around1,000visitors amonth.It’stheinter- active,immersiveexpe- rienceyoujustdon’tget fromavideogame.” Except, perhaps, Poké- mon Go. escaperoomme.com Let Me Outta Here So I See You Brought Your Witches Director, producer, screenwriter, Emmy award-winner… J.J. Abrams wears many labels. One particular label recently caused a stir in Portland. Abrams, who owns a sum- mer home near Camden, was spotted at the National Gallery of Art in Washington D.C. this August sporting a T-shirt from Eventide, recently voted “one of the best restaurants in the world” by Conde Nast Traveller. “We’re all huge Star Wars nerds,” says co-owner and co-chef Mike Wiley. “It was a total surprise. Maybe he thinks the force is strong with us…” Two deputies in Parkman,Maine,sent Maine media outlets into a frenzy after they employed unusual tactics to apprehend an escaped cow. After many hours of chasing,the boisterous bovine was brought down by two shots from aTaser gun and returned to the farm.A post on the Piscataquis County Sheriff’s Office Facebook page reads,“The danger is that after reading this you will conclude that you have a bunch of Keystone Cops,or rednecks…but much of police work is community problem solving.” Maine Man B e e f, F r i e d You, too, can own slice of World War II history, and you may not even need to part with cash. Levant, Maine resident William Terra, 79, has spent the past 15 years perfect- inghis30-footreplicaoftheGermanbattleship,theAdmiral Graf Spee, complete with a 15-horsepower motor and room for two passengers (pictured above on Pushaw Lake, near Orono).Terra,amodelenthusiast,hadboughta6-footreplica ofthevesselwhichinspiredhimtocreatehisown1:20version of the battleship. According to the Craigslist post, Terra will acceptpaymentin“partialtradeoffirearms.” Baby Achtung, Clockwise from top left: William Terra(2); Oleg Sharonov; delcoghost.com; file images; national gallery of art instagram