This club was originally intended as a home for the over-worked toiler, but it has now come to be a retreat for good fellows … with its picturesque scenery, its solemn stillness and its remoteness from the habitation of man it is the ideal spot to rest …… Read More
FLY ROD CROSBY: THE WOMAN WHO MARKETED MAINE, by Julia A. Hunter and Earle G. Shettleworth Jr., Tilbury House Publishers, Gardiner; and Maine State Museum, Augusta; 2000, 209 pages, softcover, $25. Born in Phillips in 1845, Cornelia Thurza Crosby had to be an exceptional woman,… Read More
With new Christmas skates to try out, children and young adults are flocking to the Alfond Arena in Orono, to Sawyer Arena in Bangor, or to the H.O. Bouchard Complex in Brewer, all quality ice rinks. But there was skating in Maine long before those arenas dedicated to… Read More
BANGOR – Eckehart Stoeve and Barbara Fink came to the Bangor Theological Seminary in August to learn ecumenism. They wanted to see firsthand how a school of theology functions with students and teachers who practice many different religions. The husband and wife are theology professors… Read More
The Allens mark the passage of time in eras – parts of their lives consumed by one project. There was the boat-building era, the gardening era, the boat-rebuilding era and the storytelling era. Now, as George and Georgene Allen approach 80 and their daughter Kathy hits her mid-40s,… Read More
BANGOR – The sounds of Christmas fill the airwaves now. Nearly every singer from Bing Crosby to Dolly Parton to Elvis to rappers Run DMC has recorded a carol or two. For many, the pop sounds that flood stores and radio stations during December are… Read More
“When they saw the star, they rejoiced with exceeding great joy. And when they were come into the house, they saw the young child with Mary his mother, and fell down, and worshipped him: and when they had opened their treasures, they presented unto him gifts; gold, and… Read More
My wife and I are not allowed to go cut down the Christmas tree anymore. Our kids won’t let us. Our efforts have embarrassed them one too many times. googletag.cmd.push(function () { // Define Slot var slot_sizes = [[300,250]]; var new_slot_sizes = []; var has_banner… Read More
Not long ago on a cold, rainy, blustering night, after 12 o’clock, a patrolman found a girl on Main Street, thinly clad, and shivering. Upon questioning her the officer learned that she was a stranger in the city in search of work, and that she had been wandering… Read More
WINTERPORT – As the clock on the Union Meetinghouse chimes at 7 tonight, angels will appear in a burst of bright light and Joseph and Mary will approach the inn, a Christmas tradition in this riverside community since 1967. Beth McGeechan Thieme, who has directed… Read More
More than 200 fledgling pipers can thank the Irish folk group The Chieftains for the ease with which they’re learning to play the Uilleann bagpipe. It was a Chieftains concert near Detroit some 30 years ago that first exposed inventor Ed Damm to the Seussian… Read More
ADVENTURE GUIDE TO MAINE, by Earl Brechlin, Hunter Travel Guides, Newmarket, Ontario; 2000; 530 pages; $16.95. Many Mainers love Tim Sample’s self-effacing humor. We can laugh as he mocks our black-fly festivals and trailer parks, because he indisputably is one of us – born in… Read More
LIGHTHOUSE DOG TO THE RESCUE, written by Angeli Perrow, illustrated by Emily Harris, Down East Books, 2000, 32 pages, hardcover, $15.95. Angeli Perrow’s fans have a wish come true just in time for the holidays. Her second children’s book, “Lighthouse Dog to the Rescue,” lives… Read More
ACADIA REVEALED: MOUNT DESERT & ACADIA NATIONAL PARK: THE COMPLETE GUIDE, By Jay Kaiser, Papyrus Travel Guides, Northeast Harbor, 212 pages, $18.95. “Acadia Revealed: The Complete Guide” is a product of Jay Kaiser’s personal knowledge of Mount Desert Island and Acadia National Park. Kaiser not… Read More
THE OLD SOMERSET RAILROAD by Walter M. Macdougall, Down East Books, 192 pages, $19.95. Whether you’re an old-time Mainer or a newcomer, you’ll enjoy the nostalgic narrative of “The Old Somerset Railroad” by Walter M. Macdougall. googletag.cmd.push(function () { // Define Slot var slot_sizes =… Read More
BREWER – Calvary Baptist Church has taken over a former Agway building, where it is creating a gymnasium and center for city youth and will open a day care center early next year. Calvary Baptist Church has been in Brewer since 1895 at State and… Read More