We've been to over 25 Market Square Days in Portsmouth, NH since the festival started in the 1970s, so for a change of scenery we took the Disposable Camera Crew up to our second favorite port city - Portland, Maine. It's just an hour to the north. Like our town festival, it's all but impossible to walk through the crowds holding a paper plate of Chines food, but turn one block off the main drag and the streets are deserted.
Human behavior is strange, but consistent at least.
The tall buildings and cosmopolitan setting made this early June festival seem like four or five separate events. We share some of the street performers - a superb pan flute player, a dancing safety dinosaur. So we went looking for things a the Portland festival has that we ain't.