Fifty of John Marin's late works (1933-1953) are on display at the Portland Museum of Art. I've always liked his work but realized after seeing these that it was the earlier works that I'd liked.
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This was the second year we stopped for lunch en route from the Portland Jetport to Boothbay. The Royal River Grillhouse pleased us enough last year to go back; but there were big differences: the service which was awful last year, was most welcoming and apologetic about delays; the view remains great; the place was less packed and the food seemed less interesting.
I ordered vinegar and salted calamari that was most tasty, followed by "the best ever" mussels one of us had ever had; the lobster rolls (which we'd swooned over in 2010) were unexciting and the Cobb salad with lobster OK.
Our bill for 12 with one bottle of wine and three beers was $276.57 after the tip.
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For our traditional evening out, after a morning on the Eastwind Sailing trip on a real sailing ship with a two-hour running commentary by husband and wife team Herb and Doris Smith - really great - and an afternoon of photos with the charming Leisha J. MacDougall, the 12 of us went to the Lobster Dock in Boothbay Harbor which had the most incredible line on a Wednesday nite, we checked out the line at the Boothbay Lobster Wharf, from which we usually order our take-out, which is usually terrific and tonight was, as is usual, not over-crowded, but the ladies insisted we dine at the Lobster Dock.
So there we were, 12 of us - 4 to 76 years old - and the dumbest of us plunked ourselves down by the bay while the wiliest of us figured out how to avoid the 25 person line and order some booze, while our daughters dutifully ordered the stuff: clam crowder, lobsters, fried clam strips, mussels mariniere, a warm (hunh?) lobster roll, grilled cheese sanish, onion rings, hot dog (unliked by the 4-6 y.o. crowd), biscuits, corn on the cobs and other fluff.
Our bill was under $250 (my great kids who paid, revealed that much) with 1.5 liters of Chardonnay (it mustabeen from a box but was very very good) and two buckets of beer, 8 sodas and no bottled water or dessert (that was delivered later, courtesy of Colette, from Gifford's stand in town).
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