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National Novel Writing Month kicks off
Best resources for NaNoWriMo writers
Fri, 11/01/2019 - 8:15am

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 Month ( NaNoWriMo ) is to spur writers to draft a 50,000 word novel by 11:59 p.m. on November 30. Organize Your Ideas For first-time authors daunted by how to start, dive in by teaching yourself how to write a novel. This Writer’s Digest article outlines...
Part II of The hidden, neglected graves of Maine
The beyond-the-grave discovery of a 1900s triple murder/suicide
Tue, 10/29/2019 - 3:00pm

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, particularly around the Midcoast. “When you spend a lot of time in old cemeteries, you realize there is an energy there that cannot be explained,” he said. “I walk through them often and right now the beauty of the trees changing colors around the cemeteries is something to be seen.” Born and raised in...
In anticipation of nearly 1,200 Trick-or-Treaters on Oct. 31
Pearl Street’s Candy Drive delivers donated candy to homeowners
Fri, 10/25/2019 - 11:15am

CAMDEN—For the last 30 years, Janet Halsey has lived on Pearl Street in Camden and has been handing out candy for trick-o-treaters for Halloween. But more than a decade ago, residents of Pearl Street began to see a significant jump in the number of costumed revelers visiting their neighborhood. With its safe sidewalks and inviting, suburban neighborhood, Pearl Street—through word of mouth — became a hot spot, the place to seek candy for Halloween, prompting the Camden Police...
2019 Halloween Weekend Rundown: Coolest events for adults and family-friendly events
Fri, 10/25/2019 - 10:45am

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 going on to bring you a comprehensive rundown of Halloween-themed events. From parties to art, from poetry to theater, and to haunted houses, we've color-coded these events for Adults and Parents and Kids to make finding them easier. Don’t forget that there is also a Candy Drive for...
Paddling Penobscot River from Bangor to Brooklin
Maine comic artist explores ‘gallows humor’ and the poisoning of the natural world
Thu, 10/24/2019 - 2:00pm

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, Ten artists, two canoes and ten days down The Penobscot River, Schultz’s particular brand of artwork struck me. I thought I’d see photographs, poems, and sculptures at the artists’ reception (and I did, all good) but I didn’t expect to see hand-drawn comics with a biting tone. Here’s an older comic, titled...
The Maine Old Cemetery Association is dedicated to the preservation of Maine’s neglected cemeteries
The hidden, neglected graves of Maine
Thu, 10/24/2019 - 1:00pm

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. Everyone who is a member of the Maine Old Cemetery Association falls in the latter category. Founded in 1968 by Dr. Hilda M. Fife of Kittery, MOCA developed out of Fife’s sheer interest in preserving the monuments and stones in a long neglected cemetery near her house. Within the last 50 years, that...
A glaze is the perfect fall metaphor as autumn’s rich colors
Fall glazes found in everyday things
Tue, 10/22/2019 - 11:15am

Glaze: (v) overlay or cover (food, fabric, etc.) with a smooth, shiny coating or finish A glaze is the perfect fall metaphor as autumn’s rich browns, reds and yellows overlay some 90 percent forested Maine, so we got to thinking, what other kinds of fall glazes can we find in everyday things? Molasses Glaze Donut by Willow Bake Shoppe “The molasses donut is one of our cult favorites,” said co-owner and ‘Donut Technician’ David Joseph. “From what I understand...
We have a custodian who plays bass; another teacher plays piano
Waldo County Technical Center opens professional recording studio to public
Mon, 10/14/2019 - 10:00am

BELFAST—On any given day, students at the Waldo County Technical Center can be found practicing CPR on infant mannequins in an Emergency Medical Services class, or working on small engines, or perhaps practicing how to create logos in the Graphic Design program, along with a host of other practical real-life skills the Center offers. But jamming out in a professional recording studio? That’s new. Thanks to the vision of WCTC Director Kevin A. Michaud, musical mentor, Tim...
Fright at the Fort celebrates 20 years with ‘Greatest Hits’ of Fright
Thu, 10/10/2019 - 10:30pm

PROSPECT —Fort Knox’s annual Halloween event ‘Fright at the Fort’ is listed as one of America’s Spookiest Halloween Attractions, and this year, Maine’s biggest haunted attraction is pulling out all of the stops for its 20th anniversary. Last year, Dean L. Martin, took over as the new executive director following the untimely passing of Leon Seymour the founder of ‘Fright.’ In our story, Fright At The Fort carries on without founder ‘Halloween King’ Leon...
A gallery of what the classrooms on three floors looks like
A peek inside the newly renovated classrooms of Watershed School
Tue, 10/08/2019 - 11:30am

CAMDEN—The Watershed School, an independent high school, held an open house on Thursday, October 3, at its newly renovated building at One Free Street in Camden. People expecting to see a typical high school found that the space, just like the school, is anything but typical. “The space is designed to support innovative and collaborative learning experiences that connect classroom with community,” said Will Galloway, Head of School. Classes are project-based, and students have the freedom to...
Award-winning corn maze has elaborate, artistic design
Cheap Dates: Wander a maze in the design of Blueberries For Sal
Wed, 10/02/2019 - 12:30pm

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 spectacular interactive maze. This family-owned farm in Levant, established by Gary and Patty Treworgy in 1983, was just a pond and a cornfield before they eventually transformed it into an apple orchard, farm, petting zoo and five-acre corn maze. It is considered the oldest corn maze in Maine. But it’s...
Q & A with the author on THE SHAPE OF NIGHT
Tess Gerritsen’s latest novel drops October 1 and it’s a ghost story
Tue, 10/01/2019 - 2:45pm

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 Night, which releases today. The novel, based loosely in Midcoast Maine, is Gerritsen’s first in the classic horror/paranormal genre of the haunted house. The story revolves around Ava, a woman trying to outrun her past in Boston. She settles in to a isolated seaside mansion on a Maine peninsula...
Catty Corner from The Lincolnville General Store
The Red Cottage is the newest business anchoring Lincolnville Center
Mon, 09/30/2019 - 1:15pm

LINCOLNVILLE CENTER—Open since August, The Red Cottage, a crimson farmhouse store on 258 Main Street, is the latest business to add to the vitality of tiny Lincolnville Center. Co-owned by Janis Kay and her husband, Tom Sadowski, the home style store is marked by pops of red color everywhere—from the siding of the 1800s farmhouse to the red scooter under a red umbrella out front, to the red swing under the tree and a red watering can next to bountiful fall flowers. What else is there...
Owner of Crush Distributors
She’s crushing it: Spotlight on wine entrepreneur Tabitha Perry
Mon, 09/30/2019 - 9:00am

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. She spoke Sept. 18 at the Midcoast Women’s Storyteller Series in Rockland. In Midcoast Women’s Storyteller Series, three Maine entrepreneurs (Tabitha Blake, owner of Perry-Crush Distributors, Heather Sanborn, owner of Rising Tide Brewery; and Ashley Seelig, owner of Fog Bar and Café) told their...
In business
Betty Forever: New art showroom and small bar/restaurant opens in Camden
Mon, 09/30/2019 - 8:00am

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 how it could be used. The new business, both small bar/restaurant and art showroom, is called Betty Forever, inspired by a collaborative exhibition they both had at The Steel House, Rockland in 2018. The name is an homage to the artist Betty Woodman. On Saturday, September 15, the garage doors rolled up...
Three leaf-peeping, apple-picking, brew-tasting road trips this fall
Thu, 09/26/2019 - 12:00pm

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 Fall Foliage Report , here’s a rundown on where to take a road trip in the coming weeks. “Typically, northern Maine (Zones 6 and 7) reaches peak conditions the last week of September into the first week of October. The rest of the states progression of color will start occurring from north...
An outdoor social experiment, an artistic community and canoe expedition all in one
Ten artists, two canoes and ten days down The Penobscot River
Wed, 09/25/2019 - 12:00pm

BELFAST— Swanville filmmaker and artist Chris Battaglia had a bit of a “Field of Dreams” epiphany in 2017. Working as a documentary filmmaker aboard two-month canoe expedition down the Mississippi River, he got to thinking. Why not form his own community on a canoe expedition and film it? And what better, than a pack of artists doing a canoe expedition in Maine? It took several years for his “If you build it, they will come” vision to gel, and, after a series of grant applications, he finally...
Area libraries, schools elevate student potential with international #DotDay
How to make your mark in this world with ‘Dot Day’
Wed, 09/18/2019 - 2:00pm

CAMDEN—If you’re seeing spots this week, it’s no coincidence. International Dot Day kicked off September 15 and spans the entire week. Now in its 10th anniversary, Dot Day marks “a global celebration of creativity, courage and collaboration, that began when Iowa teacher Terry Shay introduced his classroom to Peter H. Reynolds’ book The Dot on September 15, 2009,” according to the website. What’s so special about a dot? It’s a symbol and a metaphor for...
‘A drinking town with a fishing problem’
Time travel back to artist Eric Green’s miniature train town
Fri, 09/13/2019 - 12:00pm

BELFAST—Penobscot Falls is not a real town in Maine, but it is very much a real place in the latest 3-D artwork of artist Eric Green. It’s a train set town set in 1/48th scale surrounded by buildings, tiny people, rural settings and of course, electric trains. It was constructed in a converted-attic room on the third floor of Green’s house in Belfast. Measuring nearly 14 feet across and taking up half the room, the mill town meets the ocean. “The town motto is ‘A drinking town with a fishing...
Free and low-cost bite-sized films to catch at CIFF this year
Thu, 09/12/2019 - 11:30pm

Click on the following to see each block’s line up of shorts. Strength: These shorts represent strength, determination, courage, and power. Friday, September 13 - Free Camden Opera House (10 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.) The Devil: These are about borders and attachments, and invite us to transcend the restrictions and thought patterns that keep us constrained. Friday, September 13 - Free Farnsworth Art Museum (...
Rain Date: Now Sunday, September 8
Three humorous Maine films to catch on the Camden stop of Maine Outdoor Film Fest
Sun, 09/08/2019 - 9:00am

Note: Due to the rain, this event has now been moved to Sunday night, September 8, 2019 CAMDEN—The line up of the annual Maine Outdoor Film Festival (MOFF) has always centered around outdoor life and conservation, but when MOFF hits the Camden Snow Bowl on Saturday, September 7, a few notable and funny films will be part of the mix. Now in its 8th year, Each MOFF screening is uniquely curated for the geographic location. According to MOFF director Nick Callanan, a couple of stand out films...
You gotta get up pretty early in the morning to outdo Jim Dugan’s sunrises
Fri, 09/06/2019 - 10:00am

ROCKLAND—Photographer Jim Dugan, surprisingly, is not a “morning person.” You wouldn’t know it from his almost surreal sunrise photos of the Penobscot Bay which pop with blues, purples, coral reds. “I sweeten the color a bit, but try not to go overboard with it,” said Dugan. “My routine is to get up and look out the window,” he said. “If there’s nothing going on outside I go back to bed. “But, if I see vibrant color, I’m compelled to get up to capture it. I’ve never been an early riser, but I...
And the famous family lobster shack is back for a time!
Waterman’s Beach Brewery is Midcoast’s latest oceanfront brewery to open
Tue, 09/03/2019 - 11:30am

SOUTH THOMASTON—It may be the end of the summer season for tourists to Maine, but Waterman’s Beach Brewing is just getting started. General Manager Heath Curtis just opened the oceanfront brewery for Labor Day weekend to an enthusiastic crowd of locals, visitors and fans of Waterman’s Beach Lobster. But first, a little back story, so it all makes sense. Three years ago, Waterman’s Beach Lobster, a family-owned lobster pound, announced it was closing for good after 30 years in the business...
And other diminutive structures by custom furniture maker Tom Dahlke
A boathouse that opens up to a bar
Mon, 09/02/2019 - 1:30pm

BELFAST—From the outside, custom furniture maker Tom Dahlke’s miniature houses and barns resemble child’s dollhouses. But inside each custom structure, there are adult prizes to discover. Dahlke, who lives in Brunswick, was one of the artists on hand at the Maine Crafts Guild show at United Farmers Market Event Center, August 16-18. When the boathouse opens, one expects to see a miniaturized floor plan, perhaps some Lilliputian boats, but instead, lo and behold, there’s a bottle of Jameson and...
Like a food bank, The Ripple Initiative’s furniture bank provides furnishings for those in need
Mon, 08/19/2019 - 4:30pm

ROCKLAND—For people trying to scrape together a bit of furniture when moving into a new place, The Ripple Initiative has them covered. Open since May, The Ripple Initiative’s new furniture bank occupies the building space adjacent to Salty Waves hair salon in Rockland—a place that is dedicated to assisting the community in times of need. When The Ripple Initiative first launched in 2016 (see our related story), the nonprofit was a retail shop to benefit the community. After 18 months, The...
MOFGA’s first Bread & Brew Fest celebrates the almighty Maine grain
Mon, 08/19/2019 - 4:00pm

UNITY— Walking through meadows of apple trees, and by clusters of wildflowers and sculptures, I entered the grounds of the Maine Organic Farmers and Gardeners Association in Unity on Saturday, August 17 intent on one thing: drinking beer and eating bread. MOFGA’s first Bread and Brews Festival did not disappoint, drawing nearly 200 people from all over the state. I’ve been to many brew fests around the state, but this one felt small and intimate with 11 breweries in the main area of the Common...
‘Animal Alchemy’ by Linda Shepard currently hangs until Aug. 30
Kaleidoscope colors swim through fabric artist’s quilted wall hangings
Mon, 08/19/2019 - 11:30am

UNION—Linda Shepard doesn’t consider herself an artist, yet there is no denying the beauty and craftsmanship in her quilted fabric tapestries hanging at the The Art Gallery at the Maine Coastal Islands National Wildlife Refuge until the end of August. A traditional quilter, Shepard never considered her sewing skills to be an art form until she took a class by fabric artist Susan Carlson. It all started with a piece of muslin and an outline of a turtle. “We glued hundreds of little pieces of...
Goes from August 16 to 18
Handmade fine crafts from Maine Crafts Guild at Belfast’s United Farmers Market
Sun, 08/18/2019 - 8:30am

BELFAST —Maine Crafts Guild artisans show their handmade fine craft in wood, metal, fiber, clay and mixed media at the United Farmers Market Event Center, August 16-18, 2019. For more information visit: Maine Crafts Guild Check out our gallery of artists, their booths and a close up of some of their fine crafts.
‘Must be Nice’ owner hauls, cooks, shucks lobster, and runs her own business
Sadie Samuels’ new lobster shack opens in Belfast
Mon, 08/12/2019 - 9:30am

BELFAST— She works hard for the money, that’s for sure. Captain Sadie Samuels catches lobster all week on her own boat, FV Must Be Nice . The afternoon I’d stopped by her new lobster shack, located right on the Harbor Walk in Belfast, she’d already been up at 4 a.m. to go haul. “The bait guys were late this morning, like 5 a.m., so I got a late start,” she admitted. Yet, by 10 a.m., when most of America is only an hour into their work day, Sadie got off the boat, and headed for her...
Waldo Community Action Partners offers Waldo families a free school supply giveway
Back to school: free backpacks are brimming with new school supplies for every kid
Sat, 08/10/2019 - 10:00am

BELFAST—Every table in the conference room at Waldo Community Action Partners is filled with brand new folders, pens, pencils, notebooks, backpacks and lunch packs—just waiting to be taken home. One hundred and sixty Waldo county children in need are coming in on a Saturday morning, August 10, to collect their free school supplies. Each child gets to wander the rows of tables and take one item to stuff into his or her new backpack. The WCAP School Supply Giveaway is in its third year, thanks to...
Book Swap Day invited students, the community and other librarians to ‘check it out’
Camden Hills school library spurs students to crack some books open this summer
Wed, 08/07/2019 - 11:15am

ROCKPORT—On an overly warm July afternoon, the hallways of the Camden Hills Regional High School were strangely quiet. Inside the cavernous library, stacks of new books and popsicles were on hand for any current or incoming high school students to check out—part of an initiative to get summer readers to return their borrowed books and hit their last month of school vacation with some fresh, new titles. From 3 to 6 p.m., Iris Eichenlaub, CHRHS librarian, opened the library doors to students and...
In business
‘The Only Doughnut’ you’ll ever need now exists in Belfast
Mon, 08/05/2019 - 8:30am

BELFAST—Was it a coincidence that the day I decided to check out The Only Doughnut, a new shop in Belfast, there was only one doughnut left? Well, to be accurate, one kind of doughnut—a coconut glazed—was left. The entire racks of doughnuts had been sold, cleared out by 11 a.m. on Sunday. Owner Sally Jaskold was kind of surprised herself. Jaskold, who co-runs the business with Matt Wheeler, began making doughnuts from a commercial kitchen in Belfast and sold them at the United Belfast Farmer’s...
How to cut drastically down on unwanted mail in your mailbox
Enough with the junk mail!
Wed, 07/31/2019 - 10:15am

It is so easy to get caught up in the minutia of everyday life that I hadn’t really noticed, but, I was finding myself irritated every time I went to my mailbox. Every single day I was pulling out flyers, fundraising appeals, credit card offers, catalogues, phone books. In one week alone, I received probably two dozen pieces of junk mail. It was time to do something about it. According to the most recent Small Business Trends 2017 study, more than 150 million pieces of direct mail promotions...
Hail to the Rad Kids
The undulating flow of jewelry by teen designer Ilianna Kahn
Wed, 07/31/2019 - 10:15am

CAMDEN — Math, metalsmithing and art all meld in one rippling form when it comes to the work of apprenticing jeweler, Ilianna Kahn, soon-to-be-a-senior at Camden Hills Regional High School. Ilianna has been making jewelry for three years since her freshman year, when she took a Jewelry One class for one semester and found she enjoyed it so much, she continued to come into the art room after school and continue making jewelry on her own. Her first design was a pair of copper wire earrings and...
Fairwinds Florist in Blue Hill is the place for an ‘Art Box Party’
Killer Road Trip: A vintage cigarette dispenser that doles out tiny art
Tue, 07/30/2019 - 8:45am

BLUE HILL—If you’re looking for a fun little road trip this summer no farther than an hour from the Midcoast, Fairwinds Florist, a shop in Blue Hill, is an artistic destination with a whimsical attraction. On the left side of the shop stands a vintage cigar machine. Instead of cigarettes, however, the glass partition for each knob reveals a tiny piece of art made by a local artist. For $15 you get a token to feed to the machine; the choice of artist is yours. There’s a childlike feeling to...
Painter Susan Tobey White captures a ‘day in the life’ of female lobstermen
Sun, 07/28/2019 - 9:45pm

First, it’s important to get it straight. She’s not called a ‘lobsterwoman’ if the person lobster fishing is female; the correct term, no matter what the gender is lobsterman. Susan Tobey White’s latest series, “Lobstering Women of Maine” is all about the women who haul traps, bait bags, stern and lobster fish off their own boats. The exhibit is currently hanging at Penobscot Marine Museum until October 2019. At least 300 people showed for her artist’s reception on July 14 and among those in...
20 percent of the profits went to Refugee and Immigrant Center for Education and Legal Services.
Owners of Belfast Mexican food stand donate proceeds to RAICES
Wed, 07/24/2019 - 3:00pm

BELFAST—Matthew Norwood, owner of Baby Burrito in City Park, decided with his partner, Maggie Goscinski, to sell tacos for a cause on Tuesday, July 23. On a Facebook post the day before, Norwood announced: “I t’s hard to serve Mexican cuisine without thinking about the current adversity facing immigrants and refugees at our border. Families belong together, and seeking asylum isn’t illegal. Instead of doing our usual Taco Tuesday giveaway, we’ll be donating 20% of our profits to ...
This family-owned business has been in operation for 28 years
Outdoor Sportsman in Northport reopens with 30,000 square feet retail space
Tue, 07/23/2019 - 11:45am

NORTHPORT—It’s been 10 years in the making for Carl Kosmo to fully realize his dream of being a fully stocked hunting, fishing, archery and camping outfitter, and on Saturday, July 20, Outdoor Sportsman hosted a grand re-opening to show off its new retail space. With complimentary hot dogs, jambalaya and soda offered outside, customers walked into the 30,000 square foot space feeling like it was an entirely new store, and that’s because it was. The building next door that previously housed the...
Sidecountry Sports offering free demos on ebikes 12 to 5 p.m. Saturday, July 20
Riding an ebike makes you feel like a superhero
Sat, 07/20/2019 - 11:45am

CAMDEN—To the untrained eye, an electric bike —or ebike— looks just like any other mountain bike, except with a bulkier frame. A compact electric motor and battery mounted in the center of the bike (within the down tube) allows the rider to pedal as normal, but with pedal-assist technology, power is stored within the motor as the rider pedals, which in turn, boosts the bike’s ability to maintain certain speeds. Sidecountry Sports is at the Camden Snow Bowl on Saturday, July 20, giving the...
Meet Dallas, the Midcoast’s newest police K9 (and his human, Trooper Hunter Belanger)
Mon, 07/15/2019 - 3:30pm

MIDCOAST—Meet, Dallas a Belgian Malanois , a breed known for their intelligence and loyalty. He is one of six new law enforcement teams of police and their canine partners that graduated from the State Police Canine School in late June. After 14 weeks of training with his handler, Trooper Hunter Belanger, Dallas was ready to go home, and start his new job as a police K9. Responsible for the Midcoast area of Maine (Sagadahoc, Lincoln, Waldo, Knox counties, the southern half of Kennebec County...
Margaret Broucek’s first novel is ‘hilarious art out of disaster’
Absurdist comedy novel ‘The Futility Experts’ wins 2019 Maine Literary Award for fiction
Thu, 07/11/2019 - 11:45am

People always want to know where authors get their ideas. Ask Margaret Broucek, author of the 2018 novel, The Futility Experts — and recent winner of the of the 2019 Maine Literary Awards in fiction — how she came up with her characters and plot and she'll tell you it all derived from a one interesting news article. "I read this article about this middle-aged guy who was just living this boring life,” said Broucek. “He had a wife and a kid and never really did anything with his life,...
Powerhouse band blends krautrock, prog rock, electronica, free jazz and funk with Sudanese pop
Points North Institute brings Brooklyn sensation ‘Sinkane’ to Rockland July 6
Mon, 07/01/2019 - 11:30am

ROCKLAND— On Saturday, July 6, the Points North Institute will host the annual CIFF Summer Preview Party at the Bicknell Building in Rockland, featuring a band worth coming out for. Sinkane is the featured band for the After Dark party that evening, up from Brooklyn, and along with some fiery, danceable music, their music taps deeply into today’s social and political climate. Sinkane is a Sudanese-American, five-piece band who blend krautrock, prog rock, electronica, free jazz and funk with...
Four bucket list festivals and events to hit all over the state in July
Sun, 06/30/2019 - 12:30pm

Now that it is feeling like the start of real summer, June is almost over! And we all know well the festivals and big events that come to the Midcoast, but with 24 agricultural fairs, art and music festivals, and no shortage of food and craft beer happenings all over the state, here are four festivals and events to make sure you hit this July to squeeze the most out of summer. Photo courtesy Greg A. Hartford, AcadiaMagic.com Bar Harbor’s 4th of July Festival July 4 —...
Made a pit stop in Hope on his U.S. tour to teach a workshop
Hear a little ditty from world-renowned ukulele instrumentalist Remco Houtman-Janssen
Thu, 06/27/2019 - 2:00pm

HOPE — First, listen to the sweet and haunting ukulele rendition of “Where The Rainbow Ends” in the embedded video. Next, you’ll be asking yourself: “Who is that ?” Remco Houtman-Janssen, who goes by the stage name Ukulelezaza, is one of the premier ukulele instrumentalists in the world. Hailing from his home in Ghent, Belgium, Houtman-Janssen made a special stop in Hope on Tuesday, June 25 on his American tour this summer. A sought-after workshop teacher at international ukulele...
‘Beer shares’ are the latest trend in breweries carving out unique niche
Home-brewing hobby turns into a CSA-style brewery in Belfast
Wed, 06/26/2019 - 1:30pm

BELFAST—A new brewery has quietly opened in Belfast, but unlike most hyper-local rural breweries, Frosty Bottom Brewing is choosing to operate not as a public tasting room, but as a “brew share,” similar to the Community Supported Agriculture model of farm shares and fish shares that currently enjoy a popular following in the Midcoast. Roy Curtis is the owner of Frosty Bottom Brewing, with friends and shareholders Zafra Whitcomb and Jon...
Snow in July in 1816 made for a hungry, uncomfortable time in the Midcoast
The year without a summer
Sat, 06/22/2019 - 11:45am

A lot can be learned from digging up people’s trash, said local archeologist Harbour Mitchell, who did a six-month dig at Merryspring Nature Center in 2018. Merryspring, in Camden at the end of Conway Road, was once the site of the Asa Hosmer farm, with a large, two-story, Federal-style farmhouse built circa 1800 by an unknown person or people, before Hosmer bought it. But in less than 20 years, all of the farmhouse occupants would be gone, the home abandoned. Based on all of his findings and...
Kids Can Grow at Erickson Fields
A few seeds, a little soil and tiny hands grow big things
Tue, 06/18/2019 - 1:00pm

ROCKPORT— It’s June and it’s “Grow Time.” Heidi Baker and her two young daughters, Isabelle, 9 and Zoe, 7, have a 3’ x 5’ raised bed at Erickson Fields on Route 90 for 12 weeks they get to call their own. Beginning in early May, Maine Coast Heritage Trust, in collaboration with the University of Maine Cooperative Extension, started its six-month session of Kids Can Grow, a program to introduce children and parents to growing vegetables and healthy eating. Twelve families with children between...
Penobscot Marine Museum’s new photography collection finally digitized
Collection of 24,000 vintage Maine ‘National Fisherman’ photographs available to the public
Fri, 06/14/2019 - 11:30am

SEARSPORT — It’s taken the staff of Penobscot Marine Museum nearly five years to painstakingly comb through thousands of photographs from the magazine National Fisherman , but now that project has come to an end and The National Fisherman Collection— an online database of some 24,000 images — is available to view on their website. “It was a huge collection,” said Photo Archivist Matthew Wheeler. “When we took possession of it, it filled four tall filing cabinets–mostly print...
Free and low-cost events all weekend for music-loving locals and visitors
Camden’s first Jazz in June Festival set to take over town June 14-16
Wed, 06/12/2019 - 12:00pm

CAMDEN — Rockland has always had the North Atlantic Blues Festival and Belfast has its All Roads Music Festival; it’s about time Camden got into the action. This weekend, a number of local organizers are putting on Camden’s first-ever Jazz in June Festival at multiple venues all weekend (June 14-16). “There was a strong desire from various Midcoast folks to have an exciting event in June, as a way to kick off the season,” said Dave Morrison, Manager of the Camden Opera House, which is hosting...
Meet Kaylee Ames of North Haven
She built a clam rocker in shop class and knows how to use it
Mon, 06/10/2019 - 12:30pm

NORTH HAVEN — What we used to call ‘shop class’ in my day (and yes, I took shop, not Home Ec) is now called Diversified Trades, and Kaylee Ames, 17, a junior at North Haven Community School, took to it like a clam to water this trimester when she recreated a clam rocker out of pine with power tools. Kaylee is one of five students in NHCS’s Diversified Trades class, which is a program of Mid Coast School of Technology, in Owls Head. According to Kaylee’s Diversified Trades instructor, Joel...

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