A music lover’s guide to Portland, Maine

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Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter.

Portland is an old town with good bones. It’s a place of four true seasons, with hot summers and freezing winters. The cold filters people out of Maine: if you can’t handle it, you leave. The town has become much more cosmopolitan in recent decades – they say it has the most restaurants per capita in the US – but it still has the attitude of a working port. I…