CAMDEN — Jazz in June will return to Camden, Thursday through Sunday, June 11 through 14. All Access Passes are now on sale via camdenoperahouse.com.
The volunteer-driven festival will…
Culture
The beauty of the trees and rock formations on the coast of Maine
WASHINGTON VILLAGE — The Gibbs Library is exhibiting the pastel paintings of artist and tile maker Barbara Vanderbilt, of Whitefield, from Tuesday, November 5, through Tuesday, January 7.
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The Belfast Maskers will hold open auditions for As You Like It on Saturday, December 7 at 10 a.m. and Monday, December 9 at 6 p.m. Shakespeare’s classic comedy will be performed in the…
BELFAST — Midcoast Actors’ Studio has announced the cast of Dead Man’s Cell Phone by Sarah Ruhl, which explores the need for connection in the technology-obsessed world.
The cast…
Marti Stone Photography
Normally high school plays aren’t on the Weekend Spotlight, but Mary Poppins…
Supporting the Library
SEARSPORT — Carver Memorial Library is holding a silent auction fundraiser that runs from November 15 through December 15. Those interested can bid during library hours on…
Maine Public Radio donates instruments to Friendship, Waldoboro, Warren, Washington, Union schools
The noise coming from the beginning band rehearsal on the stage at Prescott Memorial School in Washington might not be everyone’s cup of tea but to band instructor Megan Rogers, it’s a wonderful…
[ON]Now submissions accepted until November 15
ROCKLAND—In a move to give Maine artists more visibility and accessibility, Center for Maine Contemporary Art will unveil its first virtual exhibition in early December.
“This is a new…
How Ducktrap Fits the Description in the Sagas
“Where the mountains meet the sea” and the “Jewel of the Maine Coast” are common advertising tag lines which describe the Penobscot Bay region from Rockland north to Belfast. It is known best as a…
THORNDIKE — The Mount View High School choral concert taking place Tuesday, Nov. 5 in Thorndike has undergone a time change.
Instead of starting at 7 p.m., the event will now start at 7:…
Roles for children and adults
BELFAST — Midcoast Actors' Studio, in Belfast, announces auditions for it production of An Enemy of the People by Henrik Ibsen. The show will be directed by Bill Burford, a professional…
‘I hope that anyone who reads the book will get a laugh or two’
MONHEGAN — Matt Weber, a resident of Monhegan Island, is celebrating the publication of his debut book Making Tracks: How I Learned to Love Snowmobiling in Maine (Islandport Press). …
Flying by Foy spent two days installing equipment, training CHRHS actors and crew
CAMDEN—“Hitting your mark” as an actor is always a challenge on stage. Try doing it 15 feet in the air.
For Camden Hills Regional High School’s upcoming performances of Mary Poppins…
National Novel Writing Month kicks off
Every November, writers around the world watch the clock move from Halloween to the first of November with a combination of anticipation and unease. The whole objective of National Novel Writing…
ROCKLAND — Additions to Strand Theatre’s upcoming itinerary include two live shows, three high-definition broadcasts, and five films.
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John Steele Photography
The morning of March 16,1968 was an infamous one for United States international diplomacy and wartime conduct.
The TET Offensive was still in full swing after starting six weeks earlier…
ROCKLAND — If you’ve been to the Sail Power and Steam Museum on Mechanic Street in Rockland (on the site of the former Snow Shipyard), you’ll know that it is a place where you can lose yourself as…
Part II of The hidden, neglected graves of Maine
Walter Guptill, of South Thomaston, has always had a fascination with gravestones. A member of Maine Old Cemetery Association, Guptill volunteers to repair old gravestones that have been damaged,…
‘Witch. That’s a word some folks use, folks who don’t really understand’
ROCKPORT — This Halloween, Rockport resident Fran Hodgkins is celebrating the holiday with the release of the first book in a three-part series about a young girl who stumbles upon the family’s…
SEARSPORT — Author talk, mah-jongg, dedication ceremony, and tech time fill the November schedule at Carver Memorial Library, in Searsport.
Fireside Chats with Author…
Halloween falls on a Thursday this month, which sort of splits the difference between both weekends in terms of where the best Halloween party is happening. We have combed through every cool event…
Selected from a collection of dozens of custom-designed scarecrows spread around the City, the…
Paddling Penobscot River from Bangor to Brooklin
Gabby Schulz lives deep in the woods of Maine—it’s as far away from the city he can get.
As one of 10 participants on the floating artist residency in my story,…
The Maine Old Cemetery Association is dedicated to the preservation of Maine’s neglected cemeteries
This time of year, cemeteries in Maine seem to affect two kinds of people: Those who zip by them as fast as they can while holding their breath and those who are drawn to them like moths to flame…
ROCKLAND — Art Space Gallery will be hanging an array of new work by its members for the show, “Home and Family,” open in November and December.
Art Space Gallery is located at 405 Main…
CAMDEN — Games, writing, performances, artist receptions, and lectures are among the many events scheduled for November at the Camden Public Library.
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puzzle club, mah-jongg, Chess
CAMDEN — International Games Week (November 3-9, 2019) is an initiative run by volunteers from around the world to reconnect communities through their libraries around the educational,…
ROCKLAND — A project to digitize Rockland’s newspapers marked an important milestone this week with the upload of nearly 40 years of issues from the Rockland Gazette and the Courier Gazette…
Rob Voudvihong, Jocelyn and Wind Tracy team up, pursue simplistic perfection
BELFAST — When the Gothic Building in Belfast became available for use it left a void downtown. The storied building, owned by Todd French, was once the home of now world-famous eatery The Lost…
help keep library’s resources and programs accessible
BELFAST — According to journalist Caitlin Moran, “A library in the middle of a community is a cross between an emergency exit, a life-raft and a festival.”
That description fits the…
The 58th annual Windjammer Days (WJD) Festival, June 21-27, is happening during Maine’s bicentennial, and the Friends of WJD are planning a festival full to the gunwales, starting with the return…
We have a custodian who plays bass; another teacher plays piano
BELFAST—On any given day, students at the Waldo County Technical Center can be found practicing CPR on infant mannequins in an Emergency…
the tragic beauty who yearns for the finer things in life; the besotted male desperately in love
ROCKLAND — The 2019 - 2020 Metropolitan Opera’s Live-in-HD season of broadcasts from Lincoln Center to the Strand Theatre continues on October 26, at 1 p.m., with a…
Damariscotta’s Deb Arter was all set to make an apple with a swimming noodle as a worm for her giant pumpkin creation this year. It would be less work than some things and she had family visiting…
pocket-size brochure Distributed at Camden Public Library, Penobscot Bay Regional Chamber of Commerce, Camden Town Office, hotels and inns, shops and restaurants
CAMDEN — A newly produced self-guided tour of Camden’s Historic Mills is one of the many projects the Historic Resources Committee helped facilitate in 2019. The tour is presented in a brochure…
PROSPECT —Fort Knox’s annual Halloween event ‘Fright at the Fort’ is listed as one of America’s Spookiest Halloween Attractions…
ROCKLAND — Three high definition broadcasts and two live performances have been added to the Strand Theatre’s list of upcoming entertainment.
…NORTH HAVEN — Waterman’s Community Center, located on the Midcoast Maine island of North Haven, is offering three 10-day residential retreats to developing female playwrights in late winter and…
Poem
For Saray, Vera, and all
The horses of war
having carried so many
through open fields
over trenches, through skulls
it hurts them more than us…
‘We hope to have an ongoing presence in the community’
CAMDEN — A new art society has launched in Knox County and is rapidly growing as an organization. Founded in March, the Knox County Art Society has grown to 40 members and is preparing for its…
four November concerts, 10 planned for spring
If you’ve never worked closely with a music group, you might not be able to imagine all of the discussions, decisions and considerations that have to be pondered when thinking about a series of…
Award-winning corn maze has elaborate, artistic design
LEVANT—Fall is road trip time and one of the coolest destinations we’ve seen in a long time is the Treworgy Family Orchard corn maze that changes its five-acre corn fields every year into a…
Q & A with the author on THE SHAPE OF NIGHT
CAMDEN — It’s fitting that the first day of October 2019 should be dreary and rainy for it’s the perfect backdrop to introduce best-selling author Tess Gerritsen’s latest novel, The Shape of…
BELFAST — Members of the Waldo County Education Association - Retired held their first meeting of the 2019-2020 year at The Ocean’s Edge restaurant, Thursday, September 12.
Legislative…
SEARSPORT — History dominates October at Carver Memorial Library with a historical look at Searsport architecture, a vintage book sale, and tips and tricks for genealogy. Also on tap are games and…
deadline Oct. 4
BELFAST — Waterfall Arts is looking for a variety of unique artwork and gifts handcrafted with a professional aesthetic for the 2019 Handmade Show, a curated collection of high-quality handmade…
Owner of Crush Distributors
ROCKLAND—When it comes to starting and running a business in Maine, Tabitha Blake Perry, owner of Crush Distributors, in Yarmouth, takes a look back on her humble beginnings and how far she’s come…
In business
CAMDEN—The little garage sitting next to The Smoothie Shack at 46 Elm Street became available recently when friends and business partners Ariela Kuh and Molly O’Rourke each saw her own vision of…
As we wind down from beautiful 70-degree days into cooler 60-degree days, hints of color are appearing on trees as Mother Nature whips out her paint-by-numbers. Checking the old…
real or imagined tales of spooky, supernatural or otherworldly
ROCKLAND — The Rockland Public Library will present Haunted: An Evening of Stories, Poetry & Music on Thursday, October 17, at 6:30 p.m.
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