s u m m e r g u i d e 2 0 1 7 7 3 cLocKwise from toP: tHeremin worLd Pres ue isLe news mi courtes PHoto nasa:Ksc maine summer resident norman mailer rote about am hibious landings in d nd d. But even he didn t o n an am hibious vehicle himsel . this summer, you can. B grindle o winter ort is selling on craigslist or 50,000 a o . Larcs Lighter, am hibious resu ly, cargo ere used by the u. s. army rom 1952 2001. grindle urchased a air last year, ho ing to use them or his marine contracting business. no , it s your turn. As Maine goes, so goes the universe. Haunted by those unnerving old movies chilled by Le- on Theremin’s woooo wooow oooooo music, created by his instrument of the same last name? Twenty years after Portland Conservatory of Music dared to host the opening ceremonies for the first-ever International Theremin Festival in 1997 (attended by Dr. Bob Moog, of Moog Synthesizer fame), there are still good vibrations–the world over. Copycat celebrations in- clude St. Petersburgh, Russia (2011) and Lippstadt, Germany (2012). By the way, as CBS News reports, the theramin “just might be world’s strangest, spookiest musical instrument. You can see it…you can hear it…but you can’t touch a Theremin. “It’s like you’re finger painting in space,” says [NYC’s] Rob Schwimmer. “Playing Theremin is like having sex with ghosts.” t h e n a e d a n d t h e L i v i n g more than once, g L has suggested e re institute the or drug dealers . good time to revisit hy e no longer have one. the last ublic hanging in maine ent very, very rong. it took 17 minutes to hang d on november 20, 1885, in t . for the gory details, see our story “maine s Last e ecu tion,” uly august 1989. d nd indle o ghter, am charged ith e haustive ma ing o the red Planet or naSa’ C m , scientists S m o cali ornia and a y o Bruns ick have no resorted in a 1.5 kilometer sector to using touristy monickers rom the Pine tree state. no this “marginal way” is really rom a ay some nestkind e am les: ogun uit Beach, mars Kennebec, mars mt. Battie, mars. other ne martian attrac tions: frenchman Bay, s ring Point, ca e eli abeth, rock ort, isleboro, isle au Haut, frye island, Bar Harbor uad, Porcu ine dry Ledge, Bald rock Ledge, witch Hole Pond, south est Harbor, otter cli , cranberry island, inalhaven, north Haven, damariscotta Lake, mt. Katahdin, Boothbay Harbor, allagash, the desert o maine. The Martian Chronicles this is Maine, too. Weirdly, imagine an island haunted by the shade o a lighthouse kee er s i e ho as locked inside the to er, her screams unheard until she died. the ne o era o o , com osed by Kristin Kuster ith libretto by megan Levad, sounds un, but sadly, it s set in the “other” Pres ue isle an island on Lake Huron in northern michigan. okay, maybe our Pres ue isle doesn t have a light house because it isn t really an island . But, hey, e ve got lenty o ghosts, and lenty o other lighthouses. o o Death Spiral