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Now that the Beatles Channel is on Sirius 18 as we travel across the universe, I feel closer to spring. Did you know John Lennon and Yoko Ono went house hunting along the coast of Maine once, to try on what we feel?<\/span><\/p>\n The Dakota, Central Park, is gorgeous but comparatively claustrophobic. What must it have been like for them to come up here undercover, feeling so much release as the shores of Maine spooled out to infinity in front of them? Yoko was visiting Portland in 2005 when I caught up with her.<\/span><\/p>\n How many times have you been to Maine before<\/em><\/span>?<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n Yoko Ono: <\/strong>\u201cI believe a couple of times, but just once with John. We were driving the coast, so to speak, I think maybe in a station wagon. He fell in love with wherever we went, and now he\u2019d fallen in love with Maine. We talked excitedly in the car. We were looking for a house on the water.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n If John and Yoko had bought a house in Prouts Neck in Scarborough, they\u2019d have had a lot to prove to the locals. Because as I\u2019ve been told recently, the clan out there in Prouts Neck is comprised of \u201cvery private people.\u201d Even Google Street View doesn\u2019t dare to go out there because it\u2019s so exclusive with its private roads!<\/span><\/p>\n Ever since Yoko told me about this search, I keep hunting for a perfect place for them in my mind. During our interview, Yoko spoke of \u201ctime as a great hotel room,\u201d whether it was the Queen Elizabeth Hotel in Montreal, where they spent their \u2018second bed-in,\u2019 or the Portland Regency, where she was speaking to me at exactly that second, or any other hotels before or since. So it seems appropriate. Because she and John will always be together, what kind of house would they have picked in Maine?<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cWe talked excitedly in the car. We were looking for a house on the water\u2026 <\/em>We did examine the place! We kept driving north along the water until I don\u2019t really remember the name of the town.* We went quite a ways up, actually, because it was so beautiful.\u201d To Lennon, each place was more beautiful than the last. Ditto for Yoko.<\/span><\/p>\n Join Yoko and John. Feel what they felt. Start your search. Ninety-seven percent of our readers say they\u2019re looking for a new or second home right now up here. Did you know a Maine summer resident, the Pulitzer prizewinner Edward Bok of Camden\/Rockport, coined the term \u201cliving room?\u201dTurn the pages of this March issue of Portland Monthly<\/em> to sense incredible homes traveling through time, style, memory, and personality. Happy hunting!<\/span><\/p>\n *See Portland Monthly\u2019s<\/em> short story \u201cLamoine,\u201d by Rick Moody [Summerguide 2006]<\/a>, where he writes of doing the same thing.<\/span><\/p>\n![\"Colin](\"http:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Colin-Signature-300x142.jpg\")
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