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<\/a><\/p>\n\u201cThe past is a foreign country; <\/em> <\/p>\n \u201cThose who believe in telekinetics,<\/em> <\/p>\n To celebrate the silver anniversary of Portland Magazine<\/em>\u2019s April 1986 debut\u2013for which I\u2019m so deeply grateful to our readers, writers, photographers, artists, advertisers, and staff members past and present\u2013we\u2019re now prepared to offer guided tours into this \u2018foreign country\u2019 as a result of the completion of a year-long archive project.<\/p>\n The past and the future eloquently inform the present. Feel welcome to visit us at our 165 State Street headquarters\u2013one of the oldest buildings in Portland and a true landmark\u2013to test-drive our new electronic vault.<\/p>\n Now, along with our glossy print version, online readers will have a chance to travel more deeply into our quirky, extraordinary perspectives across the years and ever forward\u2013thanks to our new \u201cClassic Maine Stories\u201d section at portlandmagazine.com.<\/p>\n \u2022 Through this portal, we can experience anew how astonishing it was that the brilliant W. E. B. DuBois, founder of the NAACP, disappeared many summers for rest and relaxation with a coterie of intellectuals on the shore of Lake Cobbosseecontee at the Cambridge Gun & Rod Club.<\/p>\n \u2022 We\u2019re still getting requests for \u201cShudder Island,\u201d the heart-wrenching story featured in our October 2004 issue on the residents of Malaga Island.<\/p>\n \u2022 Was Barbara DiNinno pushed from the stern of a ship after she left Maine Maritime Academy? Come with us to see what happens when you dare to make waves.<\/p>\n \u2022 Or time-travel to the ending of the Cold War. Lonely crew members aboard Soviet fishing trawlers off the coast of Maine had spent decades looking across the darkness from the six-mile limit for a glimpse of the lights dancing along U.S. Route 1, but as Perestroika unfolded, the crews grew bolder and friendlier, sending zodiacs in the dark of night to Rockland to order\u2026pizza! The story so bewitched Nobel laureate Czeslaw Milosz that he called to say I love you. \u201cPizza Diplomacy\u201d is available, fresh from the oven, at \u201cClassic Maine Stories\u201d on portlandmagazine.com. Try a slice.<\/p>\n
\nthey do things differently there.\u201d*<\/em><\/p>\n
\n raise my hand.\u201d**<\/em><\/p>\n