{"id":17130,"date":"2019-11-27T16:04:46","date_gmt":"2019-11-27T21:04:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/?p=17130"},"modified":"2019-11-27T16:26:42","modified_gmt":"2019-11-27T21:26:42","slug":"harbor-lights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/harbor-lights\/","title":{"rendered":"Harbor Lights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: none; width: 100%; height: 450px;\" src=\"\/\/e.issuu.com\/embed.html?backgroundColor=%23d2d2d2&amp;backgroundColorFullscreen=%23d2d2d2&amp;d=dec19_flipbook_for_web&amp;hideIssuuLogo=true&amp;pageNumber=18&amp;u=portlandmagazine\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h1 class=\"p1\">Celebrate the holidays with Portland\u2019s fleet.<\/h1>\n<p class=\"p1\">December 2019<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><em>By Sofia Voltin<\/em><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_17162\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-17162\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-17162\" src=\"http:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/DEC19-Up-Lights-300x210.jpg\" alt=\"A Casco Bay Lines ferry all decked out for the holidays.\" width=\"300\" height=\"210\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/DEC19-Up-Lights-300x210.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/DEC19-Up-Lights.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/DEC19-Up-Lights-200x140.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-17162\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A Casco Bay Lines ferry all decked out for the holidays.<\/p><\/div>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">A<\/span><span class=\"s1\">merica\u2019s oldest maritime Christmas parade was founded in 1907 in California by an Italian gondolier. Our celebration was launched in 2001.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cWe often take part in the <strong>Portland Harbor Parade of Lights<\/strong>,\u201d says Matthew Moretti, CEO of Bangs Island Mussels on Commercial Street. \u201cLast time, we used our workboat <em>La Cozze<\/em>. On the night of December 14, we\u2019ll bring our bigger boat, <em>Perseverance<\/em>. I\u2019m of Italian descent (as if you couldn\u2019t tell), specifically southern Tuscany. My family just lost my grandfather, Fred Jr. Moretti, and we\u2019re all feeling a renewed interest in our heritage.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s1\">The Italian heritage community\u2019s love for our working waterfront stretches back to the 1880s. \u201cFamilies began coming up here either directly from Italy by boat or working their way north from New York or Boston. They gravitated to the area around Congress, Middle, Fore, Temple, Federal, and India Streets. Thus, <strong>Little Italy<\/strong> was created.\u201d [See our story \u201cPortland\u2019s Little Italy,\u201d by Paul Luise.]<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cBy operating our business on the working waterfront, we bring some of the most nutritious and sustainable food to our community and beyond,\u201d Moretti says. And fresh seafood is a must for a traditional Italian Christmas. \u201cOur family has at least one seafood dish at Christmas. I don\u2019t recall ever doing the entire <strong>Feast of the Seven Fishes<\/strong>, but we always get partway there.\u201d [See <a href=\"http:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/2018\/11\/the-ultimate-frutti-di-mare\/\">\u201cThe Ultimate <i>Frutti di Mare<\/i>,\u201d<\/a> December 2018]<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p5\"><span class=\"s1\">D<\/span><span class=\"s1\">iMillo\u2019s on the Water isn\u2019t about to miss out on the dazzling celebration of twinkling lights right off their own decks. \u201cWe participate with our family lobster boat,\u201d Steve DiMillo says. \u201c<em>Lobstar<\/em> is a 38-foot Holland boat built in Belfast in 1989. It\u2019s a classic style. We get together with staff from the marina and have a great time decorating it.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cOur parade is filled with recreational boats, fishing boats, tugboats, and sometimes the Coast Guard,\u201d says Chris Keane, founder of Portland Harbor Parade. \u201cHundreds of people watch from <strong>Maine State Pier<\/strong>. Last year we had a stellar turnout with 38 boats participating. You\u2019ll see a lot of Santas out on the water. One year, a captain on one of the ferries decorated himself in Christmas lights, blared music, and danced at the top of his craft.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p7\"><em><strong><span class=\"s1\">The Portland Harbor Parade of Lights will be on December 14.<\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Local legends sparkle in the Parade of Lights.<br \/>\nBy Sofia Voltin<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17161,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[602,601,600,605,603,604,606,599,126,598],"class_list":["post-17130","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","tag-bangs-island-mussels","tag-boat-parade","tag-christmas-parade","tag-dimillos","tag-feast-of-the-seven-fishes","tag-little-italy","tag-maine-state-pier","tag-parade-of-lights","tag-portland","tag-portland-harbor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17130","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17130"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17130\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17224,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17130\/revisions\/17224"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17161"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}