I live in Portland, Maine the best place on earth :D Have you ever been here?
I have been to Portland to see friends and for tourism.  It's a pretty misty place for sure!
Yes Portland as we know it started out as part of a bigger metropolis. Dubbed “Old Falmouth” by historians
European contact in the sixteenth century, people speaking an Eastern dialect of the Wabanaki language inhabited present-day Falmouth. Captain John Smith observed a semi-autonomous band known as the Aucocisco living in Casco Bay. English explorer Christopher Levett met with the Aucocisco Sagamore Skittery Gusset at his summer village at the Presumpscot Falls in 1623.
A combination of warfare and disease decimated Native peoples in the years before English colonization, creating a "shatter zone" of devastation and political instability in what would become southern Maine. The introduction of
bought me a no-strings-attached drink and I had at least two new best friends. All in all, Stag might be my new favorite place in Portland."
In 2015, "The Huffington Post" contributor Eddie Parsons wrote an article called "Portland in the Gay '90s vs PDX NOW". He said of his experience, in part, "I dropped into Stag and found the old Portland strippers have been replaced by Cirque de Soleil like acrobats but the vibe is good. The bar quickly