J I L L H O Y G A L L E R Y C o n t e m p o r a r y l a n d s c a p e s o f c o a s ta l m a i n e Open 11-5 daily though please call or email to con rm your day y appointment in autumn through o em er Gallery (207) 367-2777 | Home (207) 367-2368 illHoy com | ahoy1 gmail com 80 Maine Street, Stonington, Maine Family portrait of l ira,Waldo,Michael,and Mellen the twins were born ctober rd, . l ira’s grandfather also built he angham, a tony econd mpire high rise at 5 Central ParkWest.Costing 2M to build,it hit the light fantastic with modern amenities including real ice,’ according toWikipedia.Notables including Mia Farrow, obert yan,and Carly imon have lived there. he building has cinematic appearances in o e at irst ite,and anna and er isters. he site reports that when the building was listed for sale in 2 , estimates of the price went as high as M. 60 p o r t l a n d monthly maga ine the arts door n Mber iii ingen e oFFiCer vy was dumped for 22-year- old Alzira Handforth Boehm, granddaughter of Vienna-born August Abraham Boehm, the high-flying developer who built an 11-story skyscrap- er in the Manhattan Diamond District that was one of the first in the world. Known as 14 Maiden Lane or “The Diamond Ex- change,” it’s still there. Little Miss Skyscraper’s grandfather also worked with Maine native Sir Hiram Max- im to bring gasoline combustion engines to Europe. As in, automobile engines. Dark and sexy, Alzira studied at the Art Students League in Manhattan and later studied in Paris. As a sideline, “her poetry was published in The New Yorker,” according to Wikipedia. “She taught art,” too, the site says. Among her students: “Gahan Wilson.” She and Waldo “met at a Matisse show in New York,” Gallagher writes. “Preg- nant before Waldo married her, Alzira spent some time in Key West and visit- ed with Hemingway. In 1930, Waldo took Alzira back to Paris where she delivered twin boys in the American Hospital, the very hospital where Waldo often delivered the Verdun wounded.” They had two sons, Michael and Mel- len, and one daughter, Anna. [Mellen Chamberlain Peirce is an active poet and