BELFAST – Midcoast Actors' Studio announces the cast and crew of its next…
Culture
BOOTHBAY — All of your favorite fairy tales will come to life when the Boothbay Playhouse performs the Tony Award winning musical Into the Woods.
The brainchild of…
Belfast Free Library’s new summer series allows Maine authors to discuss their individual approach to writing
BELFAST—Belfast Free Library’s summer series is bringing back its popular summer series “Maine Writers Talk About...” for the second year with authors who either live in Maine or write about it…
Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers will bring their North American tour show to the Cumberland County Civic Center Sunday, August 31 at 7:30 p.m. This concert is the most recently added date to the…
Updated...Searsport fireworks now July 12
THOMASTON — UPDATE: The fireworks for tonight in Thomaston have been canceled for tonight and Sunday. This is the first time in recent memory that have been canceled — an unusual weekend all…
‘If you can keep them down, you’ll get a free lunch out of it.’
Thomaston is bringing out the big guns this July Fourth, and no, we’re not talking about fireworks. The annual Thomaston celebration was looking to offer more fun things to do after the parade…
LINCOLNVILLE BEACH — Summer Stonington resident Jill Hoy’s artwork is on display at Lincolnville Fine Art Gallery. Hoy considers the quality of light to be an important…
BELFAST — The Maine Postmark Poetry Contest, a statewide competition, is happening again this year in conjunction with the 10TH Annual Belfast Poetry Festival, to be held Friday, Oct. 17 and…
Transformations - Poetry
When I was a child
I lived in a tree
and not just any tree
not an ordinary anyone can see tree
Mine was a tall tree
a very tall tree
and I lived so high near the top…
SEARSPORT —Camp and Create! Artist in Residence Angelika Paul will bed serving up Recipes for Disaster July 6 through July 12 at the Searsport Shores Ocean Campground.…
What are old books worth?
Have some old books tucked away, hoping they might be worth something someday? Come find out this Wednesday, July 2 at 7 p.m. at the Lincolnville Community Library. John Clute, an…
CAMDEN — Mac Economy’s art work is vibrant and bold and brings a new look to the walls of Camden National Bank. His paintings can usually be found adorning K2 Music, but on the walls of Camden…
From Fear to Success: A practical public-speaking guide
Dizzy head. Pounding heart. Shaking limbs. Sweating body. Shallow breathing. Queasy stomach. These symptoms hold people back from what they really want — SUCCESS. Public speakers of all levels…
Artist at work
Camden artist/illustrator Jonathan Carlson spent most of Monday, June 16, before an easel on Limerock Street in Camden. His focus: A modest old…
WALDOBORO -- The Bikes for Books program is underway at the Waldoboro Public Library, and new readers are welcome to join in.
For every five picture books or two chapter books read, the…
SOUTH THOMASTON — The Kelpie Gallery, a new art gallery opening on July 1, is located at 81 Elm Street in the heart of the ‘Keag village in South Thomaston. Owned and operated by painting…
CAMDEN — The Camden Opera House celebrates its 120th anniversary this year with a summer and fall list of events brimming with concerts and shows.
Opera House manager Kerry Hadley said…
Blue Water Fine Arts is pleased to present Barbara Ernst Prey: The Print Show featuring a series of 20 newly released prints from July 3 to July 20.
New print releases of Hydrangeas (…
From Fear to Success: A practical public-speaking guide
Dizzy head. Pounding heart. Shaking limbs. Sweating body. Shallow breathing. Queasy stomach. These symptoms hold people back from what they really want — SUCCESS. Public speakers of all levels…
inaugural Farm to Table Dinner Friday, June 27, at 6 p.m.
NORTHPORT — It’s not commonly known that athenahealth owns Point Lookout Resort and Conference Center in Northport, but it makes sense that CEO Jonathan Bush had a strong interest in…
CAMDEN — Wednesday in the Park concert series kicks off July 9 with…
Gardens
ROCKLAND — The annual Georges River Land Trust Gardens in the Watershed self-guided tour will take place Sunday, July 13, from…
Talk at Camden Public Library
CAMDEN — Michael Weymouth and Elizabeth Garber have teamed up to produce a new book about Penobscot Bay, Maine (Island Time). Weymouth painted the watercolors for the book and Garber’s…
Transformations
The Ferris wheel circled around and around in the night sky. Canned, monotonous music competed with the cackling laugh from the House of Horrors where a jiggling fat lady tried to lure passerbys…
PORTLAND — The Maine Humanities Council, the state’s partner with the national Letters About Literature competition, announced the 2014 winners today. Katie Larson of Edgecomb won the…
CAMDEN — of Events, June 26 through July 10 for Camden Public Library
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Winner of the 2014 Maine Literary Awards for Memoir
ROCKPORT — This past month, the Maine Writers & Publishers Alliance announced the winners of the 2014 Maine Literary Awards. Of all the winners, a local author representing the Midcoast, Peter…
Midsummer at the Museum’s second annual summer party promises to be a great time for all
Ah... summer. As much as I love a good bonfire and fireworks, music and pig roasts, what I really want to see is some guy carrying his gal over his shoulder like a Hefty Bag full of meat across a…
Opera House at Boothbay Harbor
Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences is hosting a special series of Café Scientifique conversations to mark 40 years of discovery at the laboratory. The first of…
UNION — Singer/songwriter Jonathan Edwards kicks off the Savage Oakes Vineyard and Winery summer concert series Sunday, June 29 . The concert, which begins at 2 p.m., will take place rain or…
ROCKLAND — The Coastal Children's Museum is calling for proposals for programming of all kinds. Organizations and groups are encouraged to present an idea for a workshop, a series of workshops, a…
All for books
Rockland artist Joe Auciello installed, June 17, a six-foot tall sculpture of a book that will act as a sign at the corner of the …
From Fear to Success: A practical public-speaking guide
Dizzy head. Pounding heart. Shaking limbs. Sweating body. Shallow breathing. Queasy stomach. These symptoms hold people back from what they really want — SUCCESS. Public speakers of all levels…
BELFAST — More than 200 people visited Colonial Theatre Friday, June 13, to watch friends, family, and sometimes themselves, dance in Belfast's ode to the popular Pharrell Williams' song, …
Thomas Dowd honored in New York for book
NEW YORK — Camden resident Thomas Dowd's book, Displacement Day: When My Job was Looking for a Job, was announced as receiving honorable mention at New York Book Festival in the business…
Informational event produces no firm plans, but offers some clarity
BELFAST - A group of 25 people met at the former Crosby School on Wednesday under the general premise of discussing the future of the building. The event was organized by representatives of the…
Author Len Yannielli on his book, ‘Moon Shadow of War’
BELFAST—Len Yannielli will talk about his memoir Moon Shadow of War Tuesday, June 24, at the Belfast Free Library at 6:30 pm.
Len shares his experiences of his teaching during the…
Transformations
In December of 2011, my daughter, Emily, came home from her first semester of college, bringing with her a collection of poems she had written for a class. As she read them to me, I could hear the…
The Maine lobster roll has made the final round of Congressional Quarterly Roll Call’s Taste of America contest, and the polls are currently open for Americans to…
From Fear to Success: A practical public-speaking guide
Dizzy head. Pounding heart. Shaking limbs. Sweating body. Shallow breathing. Queasy stomach. These symptoms hold people back from what they really want — SUCCESS. Public speakers of all levels…
The Graphic Novel Creation Series for kids 11-15 is currently being held at Rockland Public Library
ROCKLAND — Every tween and teen has a story to tell. Sometimes they’re ordinary, sometimes they’re epic. But, to fire up their imaginations and get them to find their voice, some visuals need to…
Two months and 60 hours of film turned into a 4:14 song that features the best of Belfast
BELFAST — A month ago we told you that Belfast was joining the viral craze of making a…
Live Music
Blistered Fingers Bluegrass Festival is one of the largest family musical events in New England. The festival takes place twice a year, bringing thousands of music lovers from all over the world…
Maine Artists
The Colby College Museum of Art will present “Lois Dodd: Cultivating Vision,” an exhibition that brings together nearly 50 drawings, watercolors and prints, spanning four decades, given by the…
Boothbay Harbor Memorial Library
The pilot of the C-130 said one gust of wind blew the aircraft 400 feet upward, and when that gust passed it plummeted 300 feet. The co-pilot was the first to spot the Bounty in the…
‘Addiction on Trial’ enlightens readers on the stereotypes of addiction
LINCOLNVILLE — Author Dr. Steven Kassels, a resident of both Massachusetts and Down East Maine, will be sharing his experience and excerpts from his debut novel at Beyond the Sea…
Love Whip, Pop Up Art & Music and a Mad Tea Party
Rad Happenings are the kind of events or scenes that are developing here that you will probably want to be hip to. This weekend, we’ve got a triple shot in Rockland and if you choose to hit all…
From Fear to Success: A practical public-speaking guide
Dizzy head. Pounding heart. Shaking limbs. Sweating body. Shallow breathing. Queasy stomach. These symptoms hold people back from what they really want — SUCCESS. Public speakers of all levels…
BELFAST — Community and artists came together to enjoy a night of art in Belfast Friday, May 30, for the first monthly Art Walk of the season. Approximately 20…
