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<\/a>To celebrate the beginning of our 29th<\/sup> year, we\u2019re proud to bring you \u201cThe Best of the Best.\u201d Along with our up-to-the minute restaurant reviews, events listings, and arts coverage in departments like Goings On, Chowder, and Maine Classics, here are some stories across the last four decades that still keep us up at night.<\/p>\nLike ghosts, these tales have forced their way onto our computer screens and demanded we re-imagine them with 21st<\/sup> century graphics. At the end of each story, look for an update that will offer extraordinary perspective\u2013from wow factor to the land of now.<\/p>\n It\u2019s dazzling, considering all these features at once, especially today, when the truism \u201cThey\u2019ll Believe When They See It In Print\u201d is becoming all the more true. There\u2019s a sensual magic to holding a freshly delivered magazine in your hands.<\/p>\n Few family businesses know that better than Cummings Printing. Not only have they printed Portland Magazine<\/em> for nearly two decades, they\u2019re celebrating their 100th<\/sup> anniversary right now.<\/p>\n When Portland Magazine<\/em> started, Prince and Madonna ruled the airwaves. Our first issue featured an interview with Judd Nelson, star of The Breakfast Club<\/em> and St. Elmo\u2019s Fire<\/em>.<\/p>\n But just think: When Cummings Printing started, The Great War was just beginning in Europe. F. Scott Fitzgerald was 11 years away from publishing The Great Gatsby<\/em>. Jay-Z was 99 years away from producing The Great Gatsby<\/em>.<\/p>\n To pull this off, Cummings Printing has had to endure long nights at the press through two world wars, the Great Depression, the Korean War, Sputnik, Camelot, all the way to now and beyond. Cummings owner Jack Cummings and four generations of his family have had to show incredible technological nimbleness and \u00e9lan to get to where they are today, topped by a century of heart and belief in the printed word. Congratulations to the entire staff and extended family of Cummings Printing. Here\u2019s to your next century. We\u2019re glad we\u2019ve hitched our wagon to a star.<\/p>\n February\/March 2014 To celebrate the beginning of our 29th year, we\u2019re proud to bring you \u201cThe Best of the Best.\u201d Along with our up-to-the minute restaurant reviews, events listings, and arts coverage in departments like Goings On, Chowder, and Maine Classics, here are some stories across the last four decades that still keep us up […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":247,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[80],"class_list":["post-9423","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-editor","tag-februarymarch-2014"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9423","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=9423"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9423\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14451,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9423\/revisions\/14451"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/247"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"