BELFAST—Tonight must be the night for bringing the community creatives out of the woodwork. While…
Culture
Spoken word performers and poetry slam Friday, Nov. 15, at 7 p.m.
Belfast Free Library rounds off literary series with writer Elizabeth Hand
BELFAST — Around here, authors are like groundhogs. You might see them once a year — or wait, was that their shadow? For the past year, the Belfast Free Library has been bringing authors out of…
‘Amped up’ folk featuring Toughcats with The Ghost of Paul Revere and Darlingside
ROCKLAND — If you’ve never heard of the term “holler band” you’re not alone. It’s a self-termed genre coined by The Ghost of Paul Revere, one of the three slated bands to appear at the…
On being a working artist...
"How do you come up with your ideas? Where do you find the time, the materials, the wherewithal, the courage, the utter unrealistic stupidity to do all this stuff Maggi?" I get that question (or…
Community Sing! is a new monthly opportunity for all Midcoast singers to gather with friends and neighbors for the sheer joy of singing together.
No preparation, practice or training is…
Fifth annual...
The fifth annual ArtFull Gifts Show at Point Lookout Resort in Northport will open with a Gala Party Friday, Nov. 22, from 5 to 8 p.m. The event will continue through the weekend Nov. 23-24, from…
ROCKPORT — Since 2000, professional photographer Marti Stone of Rockport has found herself hanging around backstage at Strom Auditorium, watching students and teachers, parents and volunteers…
Two practical workshops for parents offered
CAMDEN — Children's House Montessori School at 58 Elm St. in Camden recently offered two free parent-education workshops and of the approximately 20 parents that attended, many had never seen the…
It's tough being an ogre...
ROCKPORT — It’s tough being an ogre. Add a donkey who won’t shut up, half-pint prince, a fire breathing dragon and a princess who needs rescuing and you have all the ingredients for a first-…
Transformations: Poetry
DESTATUTE
That’s what the sign said
and the tattered blanket
and the worn camo jacket
and the broken teeth
visible though I was keeping my distance
crossing to…
Rockland Public Library encourages writers with its “Come Write In” group
ROCKLAND — Those who hear the NaNoWriMo (sounds like nanno rhyme-o) acronym for the first time might think it’s odd, but for aspiring and veteran writers alike, it’s the welcome sound of…
New vice-president and four members of the board announced
ROCKLAND — The Rockland Festival Corporation Friday announced elections of a new president and vice-president of the group that produces the annual Maine Lobster Festival.
Thomaston resident…
BELFAST—Talk about putting your cheese out in the wind. . .
Eat More Cheese, a specialty food shop that opened in Belfast last year, just moved to 94 Main Street from its previous location,…
Transformations
Losing All the Nouns
The panic in your face
when you realize
I'm leaving,
shakes me.
The way you call your companion
"…
First female editor in magazine’s 60-year history
ROCKPORT — Kathleen Fleury, the new editor-in-chief of Down East Magazine, the publication’s first female editor in its 60-year history. I talked with her about the job, her…
Artist group builds an interpretation of Dorothy’s house from The Wizard Of Oz
ROCKLAND—It’s what you call a “fixer upper.”
Those who attended last Saturday night’s third annual bash by The Collective were delighted and amazed to find a small-scale replica of Dorothy…
Transformations
The mirrored folding doors draw back
As softly as a stage curtain
To reveal the rhomboid space
No larger than a walk-in pantry
The overhead ballast flickers to life
With…
CAMDEN — On Thursday, Oct. 24, the 17th annual PopTech conference convenes in Camden, drawing more than 600 people to the Camden Opera House and filling streets, hotels, shops and restaurants with…
The Talbot Home
ROCKLAND — The Talbot Home’s annual Silver Tea is just around the corner, a tradition for more than 60 years, and this year’s tea fundraiser is being held to help with capital improvements to the…
Parties, bashes and dances for the 21-and-over crowd
I swear the clock has turned back to 1998 because I have not seen this much enthusiasm around Halloween parties in years. YEARS, I tells ya. Ever since The Collective bumped up the Halloween…
And the ‘Rocky Horror Picture Show,’ too
ROCKPORT — Where can you find the Chop House, Torture Chamber and the Electric Avenue Chamber? It’s all waiting for you at the Megunticook Haunted Campground at 620 Commercial St. (Route 1) in…
Transformations
it came in
on my boot
after a morning walk
into
the kaleidoscope
of fall's brilliance
it was
a colorless
brittle leaf
no bigger
than a silver…
Poetry
The magic, the exhilaration is in
the shock of the transition: one
moment all the elements of your
small universe are in proper
order, and then in the…
The Halloween party season starts this weekend!
ROCKLAND—“Unmask! Unmask!” cried Edgar Allen Poe’s narrator in Masque of the Red Death.
No, wait a minute. Change of plans. Keep them on.
Zany Rockland party planners Hot Pink…
This ‘die-hard’ volunteer comes to Fright at the Fort every year
PROSPECT — Jeremy Sawyer was a teenager when he began volunteering as a frightful-looking clown at The Friends of Fort Knox’s annual haunted tour, Fright at the Fort. Now 26, he’s just as excited…
Rockland
ROCKLAND — Rockland artist Joe Auciello was still making final adjustments to his sculpture installation at the newly completed Ferry Terminal Park, Oct. 10, when local merchants…
Where? It's a secret, it's a speakeasy...
Rockland — Shhhhhh, it’s a secret. It’s a speakeasy and it is in Rockland.
Although speakeasies were popular during Prohibition, they were also called Blind Pigs and Blind Tigers. It was a…
Habitat for Humanity of Waldo County fundraiser...
BELFAST — The mission of Habitat for Humanity is basic, in that it seems to create a world where everyone has a decent place to live. Families served by Habitat are integral to the fundraising and…
Bebop is his passion
Rockland — WRFR radio is 93.5 in Rockland and 99.3 in Camden. The low-power station is an eclectic mix of radio broadcast that is personality- and sponsor-driven. Ronald Van Heeswijk, a Camden…
Open through the holidays; first time in restaurant’s 35 years
Camden — Dave Robichaud owner and operating manager of Cappy’s, said the restaurant’s bakery will be open all year, the first time in Cappy’s history that the bakery has kept winter hours.…
Pilot Distractions
Imagine trying to get yourself a cafe latte in New York City’s ‘sNice Cafe in the West Village, when all of the sudden, the girl in the corner whose laptop just got coffee spilled on it goes…
October is official ‘Wizard of Oz’ month in the Midcoast
ROCKLAND — The Wizard of Oz is coming to Rockland in a way you’ve never seen before.
The exhibition,The Wonderful World of Oz: Selections from the Willard Carroll/Tom Wilhite Collection…
Rock Harbor is latest Midcoast brewpub added to the Maine Beer Trail map
ROCKLAND — It’s been two years since Rock Harbor, a restaurant and pub on Main Street that replaced The Black Bull, sprung up. But working pretty much seven days a week to get the new…
Elephants, royalty, dragons and a storybook end
BELFAST - Chinese-style dragons, knights, princesses, a giant sausage and a pair of elephants rolled into downtown Belfast behind a light rain, Saturday as part of the annual Church Street…
Josia Elliott talks about the comedy circuit and her latest animated cartoon
CAMDEN — This is the story about a girl who made up her mind to be a comedian some day and then went out and did it. A former Midcoast resident, she flew in this week from Los…
Video documents local artist, examines geometric symbolism
BELFAST – Over the past year, I’ve had the enormous pleasure of working with the Penobscot Bay Pilot, releasing several artist/musician video profiles in the style of mini documentaries. It’s…
The Gothic brings us ‘Death In The Afternoon’ to kick off October
BELFAST — I can’t think of a more fitting cocktail to start the first day of October — one of the most spectacular months in Maine, which culminates with the Halloween finale…
Transformations
Puck, the tabby cat, lies in the sun. Stretching his wide paw out as if to grab at the ray of sunshine in the dusty air. He smiles and stretches his legs. His heavy belly — filled out by fur,…
Q & A with director Riley Hooper on her short film, ‘Flo’
CIFF Shorts are free and open to the public thanks to support from The First. We captured some quick clips and Q & As with the filmmakers after the screening of their films as the audience…
Q & A with director Eric Gulliver on his film ‘Constraints’
CIFF Shorts are free and open to the public thanks to support from The First. We captured some quick clips and Q & As with the filmmakers after the screening of their films as the audience…
Cutie and the Boxer features a Japanese married couple who have worked on art together for 40 years
CAMDEN — It’s always interesting to see what Camden International Film Fest’s (CIFF) opening night film will be, as it sets the tone for the weekend, along with the bumper (the short intro before…
Q & A with Belfast filmmaker Wes Sterrs on his short film ‘Breakfast’ featuring artist Eric Leppanen
CIFF Shorts are free and open to the public thanks to support from The First. We captured some quick clips and Q & As with the filmmakers after the screening of their films as the audience…
Hint: It’s nothing like ‘Little House On The Prairie’
ROCKLAND — I sat down last week with local author and essayist Eva Murray, (Well Out To Sea: Year-Round on Matinicus Island, 2010), whose latest book, Island Schoolhouse: One…
Sandor Katz draws a crowd on the way to the Common Ground Fair
BELFAST - After the publication of his book Wild Fermentation in 2003, Sandor Katz loaded his car with sauerkraut and set out to spread the word on the…
Pecha Kucha presenter Elisa Wike Hurley prowls the woods in search of new choices
Welcome to our new feature Behind The Slides, where we meet up with an artist who just presented in Pecha Kucha and find out the deeper story beneath the images they chose to portray…
Pemaquid Oyster Festival
The Pemaquid Oyster Festival is seeking volunteer photographers to help cover the event on Sunday, Sept. 29.
“We’ve got a lot happening in a short period of…
Transformations: A story
I want a dog. Not our dog, not his dog—my dog. My dog died Mother's Day weekend. A 15-year-old English setter. Soft coat, expressive eyes, you know the ones, sad, droopy, pink rimmed, but they…
Real places in Maine that inspire literary fiction
WARREN — For Lobsterpalooza this week, Sept. 9-14 across the Penobscot Bay Region, we are featuring local resident Jim Nichols, author of Hull Creek, the story of a lobsterman’s…
Our Town Belfast auction Sept. 13
BELFAST — Both visitors and residents of Belfast have been treated to the artwork and comfort featured in this year’s public art installation, “Please, Be Seated!” The chairs and benches were…
