Photographer Joe McGurn appreciates old photos, negatives and slides of any vintage, and as a hobby, he collects them. Recently at an estate sale, he happened upon a treasure trove of old slides…
Culture
Rosey Gerry serves on the Lincolnville Board of Selectmen, has a successful band – The Rt. 17 Ramblers – and loves old cars and country western music. Perfect for The Chris Wolf Show.
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Marcus King Band
Surprising as it seems, Marcus King is what I like to refer to as a deja vu artist. If you don’t end his latest disc upon…
On Eating and Loving Food
I know I’ve written about burgers and fries before, but some things never get old. That combination is the most popular lunch in America, plus I had one of the best burgers I’ve ever had last…
BELFAST — Maine artists, age 50 and older, are invited to exhibit their work at the 15th annual Festival of Art, to be held in Belfast June 1-4.
An entry form and information sheet may be…
UNION — Vose Library, in Union, recently announced it is the recipient of a work of art from Joseph Fiore's Rock Paintings collection. The artwork was a gift from Maine Farmland Trust, in…
Camden Hills Regional High School Senior Anna Christie has been named the Visual and Performing Arts Student of the Month for March 2017. Anna is a four-year member of the CHRHS Concert and Jazz…
Takeaway from author Virginia Tuttle “Puttin’ on the Ritz: The Gilded Age Restaurants of New York.”
ROCKLAND – Want to know what the rich used to order to eat? Oysters and caviar for appetizers, turtle soup, beef or English sole, followed by a delicacy people rarely got in the winter, fresh…
Where to go in the Midcoast to celebrate...
St. Patrick's Day on a Friday this year? Holy Leprechauns! Well, finally someone got that right, instead of it falling on a Wednesday or a Monday. You know you should never order an Irish Car Bomb…
Hail To The Rad Kids
BELFAST—Last Friday, March 4, dozens of kids as young as four up to teenagers were milling through the hallways of Waterfall Arts’ second annual “Young Artists’ Gallery Takeover” – an opportunity…
WALDOBORO — The Waldoboro Public Library Board of Trustees is in the planning stages of an exciting fundraising event on July 8 at the VFW Hall on Mill Street in Waldoboro. This event will combine…
ROCKLAND — The Friends of the Rockland Public Library will be holding a Bag of Books and Bake Sale on Saturday, March 18 in the Community Room on the lower level of the library. The Bag Sale…
BRUNSWICK —- On Feb. 28, the Camden Hills Regional High School Jazz Band, under the direction of Nancy Rowe, earned an “I,” or "superior rating," at the…
BELFAST — Penobscot Marine Museum's historic photography exhibits, Acadia National Park: A Postcard View and The History of Postcards, will be at the University of Maine…
March 15
BodyTraffic, a young company that appear throughout North America, including Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival, American Dance Festival and WorldMusic/CRASHarts in Boston, will be in Camden…
Rockland Heart & Soul and the Center for Maine Contemporary Art (CMCA) are joining forces to find out what kids love about Rockland.
On Saturday, March 17, from 2 to 4 p.m., children…
Inside the tiny world of Studebaker Miniatures in Rockland
The metal harmonica in Bill Studebaker’s palm is no bigger than five millimeters, its comb and cover plates are barely visible to the human eye once set against the scale of an Indian Head penny…
Bay Chamber Concerts and Music School...
ROCKPORT — Bay Chamber Concerts' Young Stars of Maine Prize Program deadline is March 17.
Young Maine musicians between the ages of 12 and 25 are encouraged to apply for a Young Stars of…
Open to all Maine high school seniors...
LIBERTY — Liberty Graphics, environmentally conscious T-shirt printers, is currently accepting art submissions to its 20th annual $1,000 art scholarship contest. All high school seniors residing…
Rockland Public Library...
ROCKLAND — Rockland Public Library and Poetry Month Rockland announce the opening of the annual Poetry Month Contest — Away From Home.
It's a big world; it's a small world. Where…
ROCKLAND — Every year around this time, the Farnsworth Art Museum and their merry band of artists and entrepreneurs, known as The Collective, put their heads together to come up with events that…
Feb 22, 2017 marked the famed Maine poet's 125th birthday with weekend celebrations
ROCKLAND—Next time you’re walking by Broadway in Rockland, take a look at the the modest yellow double house at 198-200, particularly at the single pane window on the upper right side. That’s the…
Artist Katharine Cobey’s ‘Danger Dress’ has traveled the U.S. more than most people have
CUSHING — Eighteen years ago, Cushing artist Katharine Cobey created a one-of-a-kind sculptural dress out of black garbage bag plastic, cut into strips, and knitted together with a skirt made of…
In the upcoming weeks, over 2,000 students from 75 high schools will be preparing for the 86th annual Maine Drama Festival. The Regionals will be held Friday and Saturday, March 10 and 11 and the…
The Maine Download Library, a service providing Maine library patrons with online access to over 10,000 e-books and e-audiobooks, has launched a new digital content management platform called…
TENANTS HARBOR — The Jackson Memorial Library in Tenants Harbor will feature the works of Tenants Harbor artist Darlene Cocke and Spruce Head artist Laurie Webber from through March 31. The…
BELFAST — The 13th annual Belfast Poetry Festival seeks teams of poets, performers and artists for the annual juried presentation of original collaborative works featuring poetry combined with…
Reveals plans for what he'll do next with a cool half million
SEARSMONT—“History’s” Alone season three winner, Maine’s Zachary Fowler, was in his natural habitat Saturday night, surrounded by friends and family at Threshers Brewing Co. in Searsmont…
Knox Museum in Thomaston...
THOMASTON — Knox Museum unrolled its new website, knoxmuseum.org, on Facebook and by e-mail to its…
Sue Ellen Mink-Roberts owns and operates Deer Foot Farm Market and Café in Appleton with her husband, Gary. But, the story doesn’t stop there. The farm is 104 years old and is filled with stories…
Featured in recent New York Times article, hello hello offers a #Resist Display
ROCKLAND—Rockland’s independent bookstore, hello hello and its owner Lacy Simons, received a mention in a New York Times article on Feb. 15, 2017 titled:…
APPLETON – Deer Foot Farm has occupied the same address of 1221 Appleton Road for the last 104 years. Sue Ellen Mink-Roberts is the current owner and operates the Deer Foot Farm Market and Café…
VINALHAVEN – Tune in to HGTV’s series Island Life Sundays, Feb. 19 and March 5 at 10 p.m., to glimpse a few familiar sights and people. The March 5 episode features…
UNION – The Trustees of the Union Fair–Maine Wild Blueberry Festival are again launching a contest to choose a design suitable for use in publicizing the 2017 Union Fair, Aug. 19-26.
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The anti-Valentine’s Day love notes
CAMDEN — When Willow Henry-Elwell, manager of Rockport Blueprint, Camden’s art supply store, went to tidy up the pen area of the store where people tend to try out a color on random bits of scrap…
Spicy homemade curry and vegetables served at Camden Public Library on Feb. 14
CAMDEN—Some like it hot. And some like it spicy. Camden resident Arif Shaikh plans to give Valentine’s Day it’s own unique flavor when he presents “Farms & Food: Kolkata to Camden” along with…
Nautical and dog-themed films a hit this year
ROCKPORT—In the last few years it seems as though one had to slog through sleet and snow just to make it to the Banff Mountain Film Festival, held annually at the Strom Auditorium at Camden Hills…
Part of 2017 Winterfest...
CAMDEN — Due to the winter storm warning of extremely poor weather conditions for Thursday, Feb. 9, the CJ Chenier and the Red Hot Louisiana Band concert has been rescheduled to Friday, March 3,…
Burlesque dancing, like many other fringe art forms, enjoys a mysterious, titillating reputation, because most people only have a vague idea of what it’s all about. Burlesque embodied a particular…
Kick off Toboggan Nationals in Northport
NORTHPORT — The action will be sky high this Friday, Feb. 9, at Point Lookout’s Pavilion in Northport, where the annual Fire and Ice celebration helps kick off Toboggan Nationals weekend.
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Behind the Slides, our ongoing feature, is where we meet up with an artist who presented at a PechaKucha event and find out the deeper story beneath the images they chose to portray. Dave Morrison…
Transformations...
Why did I do it? I'd heard about the Islesboro Crossing for LifeFlight, knew it was a big fundraiser and admired people who'd done it, but swim the three miles myself? Nope. A Facebook tag changed…
We’re down to the home stretch, with Appleton resident Zachary Fowler making it to the last episode on the HISTORY survivalist show, Alone. After nine episodes and 74 days surviving alone…
Program still happening tonight!
LINCOLNVILLE - Veterinarian Hayden Sears will share stories from his "Thirty Touching Years" of caring for animals this Wednesday, Feb. 1 at 7 p.m. at the Lincolnville Community Library.
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“We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every…
The Points North Institute/Camden International Film Festival has received a Special Event Grant of $50,000 from the Maine Office of Tourism. The festival has set goals to achieve 25 percent…
The Flower Goddess in Rockland will soon be selling the hats
ELLSWORTH— Rachael Beal and her soon-to-be daughter in law, Rebecca Blackington, from Ellsworth, were unable to attend the Maine marches the day after the Inauguration, but the activism of women…
Lifelong guitar player Rob Dmitrieff left his boat building career behind not long after he began making his first guitar. And when you think about it, who better to…
Peace and Justice Group of Waldo County honor Black History Month...
BELFAST - In honor of Black History Month, the monthly forum of the Peace and Justice Group of Waldo County will celebrate two incomparable artists, poet Audre Lorde and musician Nina Simone.…
PORT CLYDE—After 40-plus years in the fishing industry, you’d think you’d run out of things to say about it, but not commercial fisherman and owner of Port Clyde Fresh Catch, Glen Libby.
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