{"id":9768,"date":"2014-06-20T08:14:14","date_gmt":"2014-06-20T12:14:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/?p=9768"},"modified":"2020-03-30T14:27:58","modified_gmt":"2020-03-30T18:27:58","slug":"star-map-of-north-haven-island","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/star-map-of-north-haven-island\/","title":{"rendered":"Star Map of North Haven Island"},"content":{"rendered":"

Summerguide 2014 | view this story as a .pdf<\/a><\/p>\n

By Deana Lorenzo<\/p>\n

\"Star-Map-of-North-Haven\"<\/a>Who lives on North Haven Island? \u201cAnne Morrow Lindbergh<\/strong>\u2019s summer home is located at Deacon Brown\u2019s Point at the northwest tip of the island,\u201d says Emily Greenlaw of the North Haven Island Historical Society. Which means, yes, Charles A. Lindbergh<\/strong>, famous for being the first solo pilot\u00a0to fly from New York to Paris (in 1927) was a summer fixture here, too. His family members still touch down on North Haven. \u201cOliver Platt<\/strong> [Indecent Proposal, Benny & Joon, Lake Placid<\/em>, and most recently with Scarlett Johansson and Dustin Hoffman, Chef<\/em> (2014)] has a home on Dole Road,\u201d Greenlaw says. \u201cElise & Pierre DuPont<\/strong> live on Kents Hill overlooking the downtown village.\u201d<\/p>\n

Pierre S. \u201cPete\u201d DuPont IV (R-Delaware) served in the U.S. House of Representatives (1971-77) and as Delaware\u2019s governor (1977-85). Companies owned by the DuPont family (who arrived from France in 1800 and quickly cornered America\u2019s gunpowder manufacturing market\u2013today they\u2019re best known for DuPont Chemical) employ between five and 10 percent of Delaware\u2019s population.<\/p>\n

Former IBM president Thomas Watson (1874-1956) lived on Oak Hill on the North Shore. His family still logs in here every summer.<\/p>\n

Artist F.W. Benson (1862-1951) found inspiration on \u201cWooster Farm. [The house is] currently owned by Peter Allen and is located on Crabtree Point Road near Wooster Cove.\u201d<\/p>\n

How about some old Hollywood? Leading man \u201cRobert Montgomery (1904-1981) resided at Indian Point at the southeast end of the island.\u201d Among his credits: Rage in Heaven<\/em> (1941), with Ingrid Bergman; Here Comes Mr. Jordan<\/em> (1941), with Claude Rains; and the noir classic Lady in the Lake<\/em> (1947), which he directed. His daughter Elizabeth Montgomery (1933-1995) stayed here, too, in the same house. \u201cMy father, a realtor, sold him the property,\u201d says artist Eric Hopkins. \u201cI used to see Robert all the time. Their place was an old fishing\/farming cape with white cedar shingles on it.\u201d As for glimpses of his bewitching daughter, Hopkins, 63, says, \u201cI didn\u2019t watch a lot of TV back then.\u201d<\/p>\n

But he was watching the summer that Jimmy Cagney came to visit Robert Montgomery. \u201cRobert owned a Huckins [custom power yacht] named Cygnet<\/em>. Every two weeks or so, he\u2019d take his wife Elizabeth (not Bewitched<\/em>\u2019s mom) up to Northeast Harbor to get her hair done at her favorite [salon].”<\/p>\n

Cagney tagged along for this junket \u201cand was putting out the fenders when some people on shore starting jumping up and down and shouting, \u2018Jimmy Cagney! Jimmy Cagney!\u2019 Then they said, \u2018You look much younger than you do on film!\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

They were looking at Montgomery, who had a similar build.<\/p>\n

But wait, there\u2019s more. \u201cThe Bush family\u2026Jonathan and Jody\u2026have a home on Kent Cove,\u201d says Emily Greenlaw. \u00dcber designers \u201cToshiko Mori and James Carpenter have a home on South Shore Road.\u201d<\/p>\n

Speaking of architects, when he\u2019s not in New York, I. M. Pei & Partners founding architect Henry N. Cobb heads to North Haven, where he has homes \u201cdowntown and on Indian Point.\u201d If you\u2019ve ever wandered through the Payson Wing of the Portland Museum of Art, you\u2019ve already been inside one of his many world-famous designs.<\/p>\n

For Boston Brahmins, how about the Cabots, one of the \u201cfirst families\u201d of Boston who can trace their lineage back to John Cabot (b. 1680). If the Cabots get lonely, they can swap stories with the Saltonstalls out here. We didn\u2019t know S.S. Pierce delivered this far north.<\/p>\n

Speaking of the Saltonstalls, let\u2019s not forget the Welds of Massachusetts and their ties to the island.<\/p>\n

In 1885, summer rusticator William Weld commissioned John Alden to design him a fast sailing yacht tender. The result was the North Haven dinghy, and soon everyone in the summer colony had to have one. The graceful, plumb-stemmed, 14-foot gaffers are still raced off North Haven today.<\/p>\n

In 1960, Philip Saltonstall Weld, at age 65, won the London Observer<\/em>-sponsored, singlehanded transatlantic sailboat race (OSTAR) from Plymouth, England, to Newport, Rhode Island, beating scores of younger competitors in his 50-foot trimaran Moxie<\/em>. William Floyd Weld, bow-tied lawyer and resolute Harvard-man, served as Republican governor of Massachusetts from 1991 to 1997.<\/p>\n

Actor Oliver Platt\u2019s father is Nicholas Platt, a career U.S. diplomat with high-level service in China, Hong Kong, Japan, and Canada (where Oliver was born in 1960), and served as ambassador in Pakistan, Zambia, and the Philippines. Oliver\u2019s brother Adam Platt is New York Magazine<\/em>\u2019s restaurant critic.<\/p>\n

Novelist Susan Minot lives on Main Street. Among her spectacular accomplishments: writing the screenplay for Stealing Beauty<\/em> with Bernardo Bertolucci. Her first novel, Monkeys,<\/em> put her on the map. (Although it didn\u2019t hurt to have palled around with ambassador to Japan Caroline Kennedy at Concord Academy). Minot\u2019s new novel, Thirty Girls<\/em>, enraptured the critics at the New York Times Book Review<\/em> this spring.<\/p>\n

Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award-winning poet Elizabeth Bishop visited here summer after summer to see friends, so much that she\u2019s a part of the place. Want to read a good poem? Read Bishop\u2019s \u201cThe Fish.\u201d Just sayin\u2019.<\/p>\n

Think we\u2019re done? We\u2019re just getting started. Beyond Eric Hopkins, a North Haven boy through and through, there\u2019s design maven Angela Adams. Did you know that U.S. Rep. and College of the Atlantic alumna (1979) Chellie Pingree first came to the island as a back-to-the-land farmer? Her daughter, former speaker of the Maine House of Representatives Hannah Pingree, continues the tradition. Hannah runs Nebo Lodge, the island\u2019s chic, locavore inn and restaurant.<\/p>\n

The inn is decorated with Angela Adams rugs and homewares; the restaurant serves produce from Chellie\u2019s nearby organic Turner Farm. Still with me? Chellie\u2019s other daughter Cecily received an individual artist fellowship in documentary filmmaking from Maine Arts Commission. Cecily also has a casual restaurant opening this summer in the island\u2019s Calderwood Hall, the product of a new restoration.<\/p>\n

Remember Elton John? He doesn\u2019t live here. But when he toured singing \u201cDon\u2019t Go Breaking my Heart,\u201d North Haven\u2019s Cindy Bullens sang the Kiki Dee part of the duet with him on three major tours. The talented singer-songwriter, who came out as Cidny Bullens in 2012, was also the driving force behind the 2001 Broadway debut for the musical Islands<\/em>, which put North Haven into the stratosphere, as a sort of seaswept Our Town<\/em>. To see Bullens being interviewed by Dick Clark, visit youtube.com\/watch?v=PVxTUIB9HTU<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Who lives on North Haven Island? Who doesn\u2019t?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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