CAMDEN — SeaDog Brewing Co. in Camden celebrated their Grand Opening with a Community Bar-B-Q that included a buffet, live music, games and prizes. The buffet featured soup to dessert with…
Culture
Bay Chamber Concerts will present the first of four Music@Noon concerts on Wednesday, Oct. 19 in the library of the Farnsworth Art Museum in Rockland. Music@Noon offers an intimate concert…
35 vendors from Midcoast and beyond
THOMASTON — Great Midcoast food was no stranger to the Knox Museum in Thomaston October 8 at the popular Taste of Thomaston. For the first time, the event was held inside the museum. Held in 2013…
Five Things Not To Miss This Weekend
This is our last weekend of above-average summer-like temperatures until Hurricane Matthew decides to ruin our fun, so enjoy all the leaf peeping, festivals and food and beer-wine pairings for…
On Eating and Loving Food
Remember Crepes Suzette? I think back when I first heard the word “crepe” it was never mentioned without the last name, Suzette.
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Boothbay Region Art Foundation
Boothbay Region Art Foundation is excited to announce that Conley’s of Boothbay Harbor will sponsor a new award at the Foundation’s ARTinME 2016 juried fine art show. The $300 gift certificate…
Opera House at Boothbay Harbor
Colin Farrell of Lúnasa will join Irish guitarist John Doyle in concert on Saturday, Oct. 22 at the Opera House at Boothbay Harbor — rich and rousing Celtic music from some of the greats!
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Industrial Arts...
As the treasurer of the Association, I just paid the power bill for the Matinicus Island Library. That felt pretty good.
This past summer, residents and visitors to Matinicus Island have…
Wizard of Oz, To Kill A Mockingbird and Hunger Games are still on the list
ROCKPORT — Wait, The Wizard of Oz is a banned book?
For Banned Books Week, Rockport Public…
Transformations...
The summer has gone by now... It slid silently — or not so silently — over the edge of the western horizon. Labor Day weekend has come and gone, leaving me a little sad to think of the changes…
Five Things Not To Miss This Weekend
From Belfast to Waldoboro (and a Portland road trip), we’ve got an eclectic lineup of hot jazz, cold bourbon, Maine craft arts and brews, a fashion show and art-comedy-music fest in Portland.
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Maine photographer explores an island so close, but so far away
I traveled to Havana, Cuba, in April 2016 with the University of Maine in Augusta; it was shortly after President Obama's visit as things were starting to change.
The…
The Maine Craft Weekend October 1-2 features self-guided tours to places like this
MONTVILLE — As Maine Craft Weekend approaches, there’s one artist in Liberty who is living the artist’s dream. Mark Guido, like many people who live in Maine, had to get by on multiple jobs,…
The Opera House in Boothbay Harbor hosts two world-renowned guitarists this month with the arrival of Peppino D’Agostino on Saturday, Oct. 15, followed by a performance by John…
“Hands across the water, heads across the sky.”
Remember those words from Paul and Linda McCartney's song “Uncle Albert/Admiral Halsey?” I always thought it was “hands across the sky,” too.…
What is it and why do vendors, visitors keep coming back?
UNITY — The Common Ground Fair is one of the largest attractions held in Maine, drawing in over 60,000 participants annually. It is an opportunity to see citizens from all across Maine join…
LINCOLNVILLE—When we last checked in with Wesley Henderson of Lincolnville, the soon-to-be eighth grader had competed with his peers from Studio Red in a New England competition at Westbrook…
The Rockport Public Library recently received a donation in the amount of $16,000 from the Friends of Rockport Public Library.…
People and their Lobster (Rolls)
ROCKLAND — For the second year in a row, the Maine Lobster Industry celebrated National Lobster Day. Designated through a resolution by senators Angus King and Susan Collins, National Lobster Day…
WARREN - The first three-quarters of 2016 has found sculptor Jay Sawyer, of Warren, very focused on efforts to complete his fresh series of works inspired by the English alphabet, as well as…
Five Things Not To Miss This Weekend
As we ease on into the first official weekend of fall, the shift is being felt in the music, scenes and events in the Midcoast this weekend. This time of year in Maine it’s like walking around on…
BELFAST - The Belfast Cooperative will host the artwork of Lewis Cisle during the month of September as part of its monthly Maine Artist series. Come and see his vibrant work in the Café.
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Like a sauna...but with moving pictures on the walls
SEARSPORT — September’s Mini Maker Faire in Camden produced some wonderfully strange inventions, but perhaps most noticeable was a large, brown, square structure on…
CAMDEN — Robbie Trowbridge, a sixth-grader at Cape Elizabeth Middle School, came up to Camden with his mother, Nina, for the Mini Maker Faire, held at the Camden Public Library Amphitheatre on…
On Eating and Loving Food
Back in the mid ’70s I was a soda jerk at Mitchell's Drug Store on Townsend Ave. It was during my first winter in Boothbay Harbor after I came back from sailing to the Caribbean with my first…
7th annual ARTinME
LINCOLNVILLE — Author Sid McKeen will be the guest speaker at the Lincolnville Community Library's first Fall presentation for 2016.
McKeen, of Belfast, writes Wry & Ginger, one…
Five Things Not To Miss This Weekend
I wrote a number on the back of a cocktail napkin last night that I’m looking at right now, and which says “Let’s get you out of those wet clothes and into a dry martini.” Perfect sentiment for…
‘The White Belt Society’ depicts the day Aldermere Farm’s Belties got loose
ROCKPORT—Three years ago this September, folks may remember the …
Gardener Denise DeSpirito leads a demonstration on the end-of-season herb harvest at Merryspring Nature Center on Tuesday, September 20 at noon.
The seasons are shifting and the transition…
Think having breakfast in a Mexican restaurant is weird?
Think again.
A new little restaurant in…
There are special plans for the pumpkin come October
ROCKLAND — David Troup of the Farnsworth Art Museum in Rockland has tried his hand at growing a giant pumpkin. The Farnsworth has partnered with three other Midcoast organizations, Boothbay…
TENANTS HARBOR - The Jackson Memorial Library invites full- and part-time residents of Maine who create fine art to apply for exhibition of their works in the library. Preference is given to two-…
Camden Conference Community Events Series...
CAMDEN - Refugees and migrants fleeing Myanmar by sea died at a rate three times higher than those in the Mediterranean last year, according to the U.N.'s refugee agency. Most were Rohingya…
Abstract art by Mac Economy will add vibrant color to the walls of Camden National Bank in the Camden Square branch in Camden. Paintings on display include many…
Camden Public Library...
Veteran Maine journalist and columnist Douglas Rooks will discuss his book and read from his biography, Statesman: George Mitchell and the Art of the Possible, published this fall, on…
Sept. 17
Poet Dave Morrison will perform his music/poetry hybrid Poetry Rocks at the Camden Opera House, on the third floor, in the Gentlemen's Club, Friday, September 30 at 7 p.m. All are welcome,…
Transformations...
I grew up under the serene, blue-grey eyes of Lydia Kirk Donaldson, my father's mother who'd died when he was 16. Her portrait, strategically hung over her mahogany desk across from the fireplace…
Maine Craft Weekend (MCW), a statewide tour of Maine craft studios, breweries, businesses and events, is an opportunity for the public to explore the life and work of craft artists and craft…
On Eating and Loving Food
“For decades we've been trucking our super fresh, delicious scallops to out of state processing centers where they're mixed in with the stuff from the Federal fishery…
Charley Lind says ‘Do try this at home’
CAMDEN—In preparation for the fourth annual Mini Maker Faire, Charley Lind has been like a kid again, constructing handcrafted slingshots out of wood with his three…
BELFAST—A female rock climber falls 250 feet to the ground, broken, but alive. A BASE jumper has to overcome his deepest fear before every single jump. A woman comes to terms after being stranded…
Seafood and German fare, with a side of East German personal history
TENANT’S HARBOR — Greg and Corinna Howland have owned and operated the Happy Clam Pub and Eatery at 13 River Road in Tenant’s Harbor since 2009. There’s all the seafood you would want of course,…
Boothbay Region Art Foundation
Liam Sullivan, director of Outreach and Enrollment at Maine College of Art, will be the judge for this year’s ARTinME! fine art show. Sullivan has an MFA in printmaking from UMass Dartmouth, has…
Camden Windjammer Festival...Labor Day weekend
CAMDEN — As regular as the Camden Windjammer Festival, the Camden Rotary Club has cooked and served breakfast on the public landing Saturday morning for the last 23 years.
Blueberry…
Music all weekend and a Tasting Passport
In light of several area bar/music venues that are being forced to shut down live music due to ASCAP licensing fees, this weekend’s post is all about the music and the musicians in Maine just…
Mitch Littlefield recalls The Chicken Capital of the World in his book ‘Memories of Shucking Peas’
BELFAST — Life for a Maine farm boy was a lot of work growing up in the 1950s and 1960s—but it wasn’t something you complained about. “Those were hard days,” said Belfast native Mitch Littlefield…
On Eating and Loving Food
OK, so as I said last week this column has been dragging on for half a year now. I just counted 25 food columns! Yikes! Time flies.
I’…
A glimpse through the lenses of the teen photographers from the Bronx
ROCKLAND — In his New York City neighborhood, Brunswick native Michael Kamber stands out for the color of his skin. He is Caucasian within a darker, more diverse neighborhood of the South Bronx. …
Rockland First Friday Art Walk...
ROCKLAND - The Maine Coastal Islands Visitor Center will be open during Rockland’s First Friday Art Walk on Sept. 2 from 5 to 8 p.m.
Come see the art gallery with three artists exhibiting:…
