“Maybe we can get out of here a few days, just the two of us. Drive up to that place we love in Kennebunkport. Eat some lobster rolls, drink too much sauvignon blanc.”
–Kyle Chandler to Diane Lane in Anniversary.

When Marie Antoinette (yes, that Marie Antoinette) was headed for the guillotine, a wild plan was hatched to rescue her and bring her here to a safe house in Wiscasset on the brig Sally, captained by Mainer Stephen Clough, until things cooled down. The merchant James Swan had it all worked out, and some of her possessions actually made it here and turn up occasionally at auctions, but she never did.

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