“Somehow A Past: The Autobiography of Marsden Hartley,” edited by Susan Elizabeth Ryan, 1997, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Mass., 246 pages, $25. Several years ago at a major art show of German Expressionism, I had an epiphany. I had not studied the Expressionists but… Read More
Editor’s Note: Each month, the children’s librarians at Bangor Public Library offer a selection of old classics and new favorites designed to encourage reading and provoke thought in young readers. The books may be purchased at local bookstores or found at your local library. For… Read More
With Penobscot Theatre’s production of “A Flea in Her Ear,” director Jay Skriletz puts theatergoers in a deliciously terrible position. You aren’t thinking the usual stuff, such as: Did I like this play, or did I have fun? If you like rollicking comedies, then you’ll unquestionably like this… Read More
If I could get just one favor out of that suave Italian opera composer Giacomo Puccini, it would be to end the beloved “La Boheme” at the completion of Act I. Everyone is happy, everyone is drinking wine, everyone is kissing somebody else, and everyone is, well, alive. Read More
Hanging with Dave Matthews and Tim Reynolds isn’t too different from hanging with any two guys who get together to play guitar. They jam. They tell jokes. They have a good time cutting themselves up and getting all sorts of silly. And, then again, hanging… Read More
To hear the Boys Choir of Harlem is to hear the sound of faith, hope and love. Strong words for a group of 40 boys who, if they weren’t singing with Dr. Walter Turnbull, might be out on the streets facing the degradation of inner- city kids in… Read More
When he died in 1912, Jules Massenet was one of the wealthiest composers who ever lived. He was a suave and urbane man, popular and respected. Although he remains an established name among opera companies, you’re not likely to hear his music performed regularly — unless you live… Read More
We got trouble. Ohhhhh yes, I mean trouble. Right here in River City. And it’s the best kind of trouble to have. Here’s the problem: If you have anything else planned for the weekend, you’ll be missing the Bangor Community Theater’s production of “The Music… Read More
In the compartmentalized world of the second-grader, a teacher only exists in school or on the school playground. Discovering Miss Davis in the Shaw’s produce aisle is enough to shake a 7-year-old’s world to its foundation. Even college students sometimes put people in boxes. googletag.cmd.push(function… Read More
If Hamlet were a young college student today, would he ask that most famous of questions: To be or not to be? Gardner Howes, the artistic director at the Belfast Maskers, doesn’t think so. No, the 1990s Hamlet is brazen enough to turn the question into a definitive… Read More
For women confounded by the notion of “having it all,” the life of 19th-century poet Emily Dickinson strikes an unsettling note. Now enshrined in the predominantly male pantheon of major American poets, Dickinson died in 1886 at the age of 55, having barely left her… Read More
Not that long ago, attending a musical at the Maine Center for the Arts could be an iffy evening of entertainment. But last night’s spunky and technically sophisticated production of “Kiss of the Spider Woman” put the Maine Center back in good stead. The lush lighting, the robust… Read More
If you were in the mood Sunday for some high-flying adventure, then the Bangor Symphony Orchestra concert at the Maine Center for the Arts was the place to be. There were old sounds and new sounds and things that really did go bump. There was some chick-a-boom and… Read More
“CLAIRVOYANT REMINISCENCES AND HERBAL RECIPES” by T.W. Pomroy, The Pembroke Historical Society, 1996, 88 pages, paperback, $9.95 ($6.95 for Pembroke residents). Originally printed in 1887, and now reproduced as a softcover, oversized volume, the title of this book tells it all. googletag.cmd.push(function () { //… Read More
“JOCK DUNHAM’S LIFE” by Jean Rugan, co-published by Gladys Rugan and Judith Gormely, June 1996, 283 pages, hardcover, $20. Imagine this: The year is 1927. At the tender age of 17 you’ve just finished writing a manuscript of more than 250 pages. You pack it… Read More
“THE HOLLOW-EYED ANGEL,” by Janwillem van de Wetering; Soho Press Inc., New York; 282 pages; $22 hardcover. “THE MERRY WIDOW FOX-TROT,” by Donald Mortland; North Country Press, Unity; 212 pages; $14.95 paperback. googletag.cmd.push(function () { // Define Slot var slot_sizes = [[300,250]]; var new_slot_sizes =… Read More
Editor’s Note: Each month, the children’s librarians at Bangor Public Library offer a selection of old classics and new favorites designed to encourage reading and provoke thought in young readers. The books can be purchased at local bookstores or found at your local library. First… Read More
No matter where she goes, the novelist and Allagash native Cathie Pelletier tells everyone she is from Maine. But she lives in Nashville, Tenn. And she loves country music. googletag.cmd.push(function () { // Define Slot var slot_sizes = [[300,250]]; var new_slot_sizes = []; var has_banner… Read More
Choral singers and Christmas go together like nutmeg and eggnog. They spice up the holiday by reminding you songfully about the Babe in the manger, the sparkles in the snow, and the holly in the halls. It’s the busiest time of year for ensemble singers, who take no… Read More
Editor’s Note: In a new column beginning today, the children’s librarians at Bangor Public Library will offer insights on books for the young. Each month, the librarians will offer a selection of old classics and new favorites designed to encourage reading and provoke thought. The books can be… Read More
“Of Kings and Fools: Stories of the French Tradition in North America” by Michael Parent and Julien Olivier, August House Publishers, Little Rock, Ark., 1996; 206 pages, paperback, $12.95 For those who grew up hearing stories about such characters as the loup-garou, Lutins and Ti-Jean,… Read More
“His Proper Post: A Biography of Gen. Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain” by Sis Deans, Belle Grove Publishing Co., Kearney, N.J., 1996; 154 pages, $17.95. If you have a teen-ager or a grandchild or even a neighborhood kid who you think might somehow be saved from the… Read More
They are the words we wait for every holiday season. They can make our hearts giddy and light. They can remind us that we are all fellow passengers in this life. It just wouldn’t be Christmas without them. So here it goes: Bah! Humbug! googletag.cmd.push(function… Read More
The residents of the most famous street on children’s TV made their way to Bangor’s Main Street Tuesday night, as “Sesame Street Live” opened at the Bangor Auditorium in the first of three shows. The cast of 15 brightly colored Muppets hammered home the evening’s… Read More
You’ve got to give it to University of Maine theater director Tom Mikotowicz. He’s not afraid to take risks. He’s not afraid to go over the top with programming. He’s not afraid to stretch an audience — or the students who make up the casts for Maine Masque… Read More
Small voices whispered and giggled as the lights went down and those first strains of music rose. Little girls held their arms in arcs above their heads, and the boys got big-eyed. It was magic qua magic. So it is each year when the Robinson… Read More
Sunday’s music show at the Maine Center for the Arts was called a Scottish Family Christmas. Indeed, it featured the Lowland concert band of the Scottish Division of the British army, the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders on pipes, the Dalriada Dance company, and Scottish baritone Peter Morrison. Read More
Years from now, “Rent” will be considered a turn-of-the-century musical remembered as much for the story behind it as for the story it tells. A lot of ink has been devoted to the late Jonathan Larson, the composer and writer for “Rent,” whose life has… Read More
A Thanksgiving meal is plentiful. It’s satisfying, filling and finger-licking good. But it’s not pretty — with turkey, stuffing, potatoes, peas and pie all smashed together in a mound that will take up every available spot in your stomach. The meal is even less pretty… Read More
B.B. King gave a state-of-the-blues address to a packed house Friday at the Bangor Civic Center, where he showed up for a concert of more than 90 minutes of steamy music. With one hand on his hip, the other snapping in the air and Lucille, his beloved guitar,… Read More
It’s hard to know what to think when a ballet company calls itself a nation’s “longest established professional dance company” after only 36 years of being in business. That’s not an overly impressive number of years for an organization. But The Queensland Ballet, which performed last night at… Read More
Reviewers have poker faces. They sit in theaters and stay straight-faced while every one else laughs and cries and has emotions. Reviewers say: Want to know what I think? Read it in the paper, but don’t look for it in my response here tonight. So… Read More
When Mark Russell appeared in the spotlight Saturday at the Maine Center for the Arts, he revealed a little-discussed fact about Orono. It is regularly featured in crossword puzzles as “Maine’s pretty town” — an across clue that often intersects (at four possible points) with the down clue… Read More
It is a way, way gutsy thing Mark Torres has done. In fact, it is far gutsier than anything he has yet done at Penobscot Theatre. But with the all-out production of “Sweeney Todd, The Demon Barber of Fleet Street,” which opened Friday, Torres’ directorial daring has paid… Read More
LIFE IN A DAY, by Doris Grumbach; Beacon Press, Boston, 1996; 140 pages; $17; hardcover. Doris Grumbach, who is 78 and has been writing books for 17 years, doesn’t want to smile. It’s not really that she has anything against smiling, she tells a photographer… Read More
“The Lower Penobscot River Region,” compiled and edited by Richard R. Shaw, Arcadia Publishing Co., Dover, N.H., 128 pages, $16.99, paperback. “The Sebago Lake Area,” compiled and edited by Diane and Jack Barnes, Arcadia Publishing Co., Dover, N.H., 128 pages, $16.99, paperback. googletag.cmd.push(function () {… Read More
Big alert here for musical lovers. “Carousel,” the fall production playing through this weekend at the Grand, is not a story that’s going to make you feel any warm fuzzies. It’s about good-for-nothing men and wimpy women. It’s about men who leave and women who wait for them. Read More
The next time you hear people say there’s no culture in Bangor, kick them in the shin. Better yet, pose this question: What other city this size can boast of having a 90-piece symphony orchestra that is 100 years old? According to the folks at… Read More
With “101 Dalmations” set to open shortly, its only fitting that Bangor got a taste of live-action, Disney-style. Walt Disney’s “World on Ice” presented a live version of the Academy Award-nominated animated feature “Beauty and the Beast” Wednesday night, the first of eight shows to… Read More
“Passing Strange: True Tales of New England Hauntings and Horrors” by Joseph Citro, Chapters Publishing, 320 pages, $19.95 Whether you believe in specters and ghosts, Joseph Citro’s collection of the spooky is entertaining. He has gathered 40 stories of the unbelievable, some sure to raise… Read More
The Millennium Trio is a chamber music group for the 1990s. A threesome of two men and a woman — all of whom have a fierce interest in late 20th century music, this Montreal-based ensemble of 20-year-olds overtly presents incorrigible youth and programming diversity as its selling points. Read More
If productions by the Maine Masque are not on your theatergoing calendar, then you’re missing some of the most refreshing performances in town. A division of the School of Performing Arts at the University of Maine, this troupe often has the energy and risk-taking willingness to put up… Read More
George Winston is not a pianist people feel neutral about. They either find it soothing to listen to his rippling chords and impassioned repetitions. Or they think of it as a kind of musical Chinese water torture. Last night’s audience members, who filled about 700… Read More
ORONO — How do you give a show-stopping performance like Maria? Just ask Julie Lynne Price, because that’s exactly what she did Saturday night at the Maine Center for the Arts. Price, a native of Washington, D.C., is touring the country with the NETworks cast… Read More
ORONO — Still searching for the law of physics that explains how the voices of Peter, Paul and Mary merged to create the harmony that resonated through the Maine Center for the Arts on Friday evening? Give it up. Just say they were sublime. googletag.cmd.push(function… Read More
Though it’s unusual to find a group of classical musicians standing throughout a performance, the London Chamber Orchestra made it seem like a perfectly natural — if not necessary — part of last night’s concert at the Maine Center for the Arts. If anything, the high-octane craft of… Read More
PENOBSCOT THE FOREST, RIVER AND BAY, edited by David D. Platt, Island Institute, Rockland, Maine, 1996, 204 pages, $14.95. At first glance, Island Institute’s new book “Penobscot The Forest, River and Bay” looked like a textbook — a dry tome. The 204-page paperback volume lacks… Read More
AMERICA BY RIVERS, by Tim Palmer, Island Press, Washington, D.C., 272 pages, hardcover, $16.95. Tim Palmer knows his rivers. googletag.cmd.push(function () { // Define Slot var slot_sizes = [[300,250]]; var new_slot_sizes = []; var has_banner = false; for (var i = 0; i < slot_sizes.length;… Read More
THE BEAR WENT OVER THE MOUNTAIN, by William Kotzwinkle, Doubleday New York, 306 pages, $22.50. “The Bear Went Over the Mountain” is a modern beast fable about a bear that finds a manuscript in the Maine woods and takes it to New York City where… Read More
MAINE A VIEW FROM ABOVE, by Charles Feil, Down East Books, Camden, Maine, 1996, 96 pages, $30. A new coffee table book gives us a distinctly different view of the Maine we think we know first hand and have seen in tourist magazines and brochures. Read More
AS A PRACTICAL MATTER: GALEN COLE A BIOGRAPHY, By Lowell G. Kjenstad, Furbush Roberts, 1996. As you peruse this slim biography, you realize that there isn’t anything of any importance that Galen Cole ever attempted that he couldn’t accomplish. But I have personal knowledge of… Read More
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It’s hard to know which element of the Tibetan Song and Dance Ensemble might have the most staying power among theatergoers. It could be the multicolored costumes that blatantly blend stripes with patterns. Or the tinny sounds of decorative cymbals. Or the beating of drums, the chanting of… Read More
Listening to the Bangor Symphony Orchestra’s concert Sunday at the Maine Center for the Arts was a little like having your favorite dessert and then being asked if you’d like seconds or even thirds. And the cherry on top was the vigor and freshness of… Read More
Julie Arnold Lisnet plays a minor role in “The Heiress,” which opened this weekend and runs through Oct. 20 at Penobscot Theatre. As Mrs. Montgomery, who appears solely to give a character reference for her brother, Lisnet’s total stage time must run about 10 minutes, and her lines… Read More
Chancing upon the drawings of MaJo Keleshian at the University of Maine Museum of Art is a sumptuous treat. The show, “The Edge of the Stream,” is a collection of Keleshian’s recent forays into form, which sometimes means formlessness, but in this case indicates images in an abstract… Read More
It was diamonds, black ties, high heels and glittering smiles for the 10th anniversary gala Saturday at the Maine Center for the Arts. Patrons schmoozed over cocktails and dinner early in the evening and then gathered with other concert-goers in the auditorium to hear performances by singer Nancy… Read More
AUGUSTA — Pearl Jam was determined to give a performance of astronomical proportions at the Augusta Civic Center on Thursday night and with a little help from sports superstar Dennis Rodman, the rock band did just that. “If we were outdoors, we’d be able to… Read More
You probably haven’t given it much thought, but the trombone is an outrageously pleasurable instrument. It’s not just the curvy twists and turns of its brass body. It’s also those sonorous glissandos and the rousing bum-bum-bum marching rhythms that easily evoke festive holidays, whiskey bars and the tapping… Read More
Here’s a quick association game. What’s the first name you think of when you hear the words “horror writer”? Right. googletag.cmd.push(function () { // Define Slot var slot_sizes = [[300,250]]; var new_slot_sizes = []; var has_banner = false; for (var i = 0; i… Read More
If Mark Twain were alive today, he might be a stand-up comic playing in clubs and concert halls in big cities. Maybe that would get him his own sitcom on prime-time TV. It could be called just “Mark.” Then, of course, there would be a clothing line (specializing… Read More
CAMDEN — Tess Gerritsen, an admitted “white-knuckle flier,” has high hopes for her new book, the medical thriller “Harvest.” “My biggest hope is somebody will forget they’re on an airplane while reading this book,” Gerritsen said of “Harvest,” a fast-paced tale about a black-market trade… Read More
LIFELINE, by Gerry Boyle, G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 275 pages, $22.95. A murder in a realistic rural Maine setting is served up in this third mystery by Maine journalist Gerry Boyle. googletag.cmd.push(function () { // Define Slot var slot_sizes = [[300,250]]; var new_slot_sizes = []; var… Read More
THE MOVIE QUEEN and other poems, by Farnham Blair, Puckerbrush Press, 1996, 58 pages, $8.95. Farnham Blair, a resident of Blue Hill who teaches English at Orono High School, tackles the inspiration behind the artistic process involved in the visual arts in a new collection… Read More
LUCK IN THE SHADOWS, by Lynn Flewelling, Bantam Books, New York, 479 pages, $5.99. When life gets a bit ordinary, have you ever wondered what it might feel like to look a centaur in the eye, escape pursuers through a secret passageway, or assume the… Read More
A.R. Gurney’s two-person play “Love Letters” shows up every year like a birthday card from an old friend. It’s an easy show to do with such a small cast, and it’s a cinch to perform because it’s written into the play that the actors have the scripts in… Read More
When singer-songwriter Patty Griffin was 16, she bought her first guitar for $50 and dreamed of someday striking the right notes with music lovers. After nearly two decades of a lot of hard work and some hard times, this early investment is beginning to pay… Read More
The perfect time to explore theaters outside of Bangor is after the summer traffic dies down on Route 1 and before the winter storms ice it over. In other words, September is a good month to see the work of theater directors in nearby venues you might not… Read More
PORTLAND — Garth Brooks fever hit town on Tuesday night and the singer kept a Cumberland County Civic Center crowd fired up throughout his two-hour show. “Garth! Garth! Garth!” the audience shouted after the country music superstar raced around the stage singing his recent rock… Read More
Stephen King crossed the finish line earlier this week when “Coffey on the Mile,” the final segment of the six-part series “The Green Mile,” arrived on bookstore shelves. It’s a relief, really, to be done with this Dickensian experiment King evidently had to get out of his system. Read More
There’s a dead body in Somesville, and that means it’s Agatha Christie time again at the Acadia Repertory Theatre. This year’s installment for the annual Christie mystery is “Murder at the Vicarage,” which plays through Sept. 1. And it is murderous — in more ways than one. Read More
If you were to look at Frederic Chopin’s early life, you would see all the elements of a happy childhood. His parents loved him. He loved his parents. His parents loved each other. They gave him affection and supported his immense musical talent. It was a trouble-free, refined… Read More
UP RIVER: THE STORY OF A MAINE FISHING COMMUNITY, a photobook by Olive Pierce, with text by Carolyn Chute, University of New England Press, 1996, 119 pages, soft cover, $19.95. “Up River: The Story of a Maine Fishing Community” is a picture book that tells… Read More
THE DEVIL LET LOOSE IN MAINE, by Benjamin C. Bubar Sr., Noble Press, paperback, 1996, $9.95. As a child in the early 1960s, I used to play with a girl named Krista who lived in an apartment house down the street from my home. Every… Read More
THE GREAT STATE OF MAINE BEER BOOK, by Will Anderson, Anderson & Sons’ Publishing Co., Portland, 1996, paperback, 180 pages, $22.95. There are two groups of people who will enjoy offbeat Portland author Will Anderson’s latest offering — historians and people who enjoy Maine’s microbrewed… Read More
NOWLE’S PASSING, by Edith Forbes, Seal Press, 266 pages, $21.95. You don’t have to spend a lot of time in Vermont to see that although Edith Forbes grew up on a ranch in the dry West, in her six short years in the Green Mountains… Read More
BEYOND THE SHROUD by Rick Hautala, White Wolf Publishing, hardcover, 295 pgs., $21.99. Being dead is a frustrating business, at least for David Robinson, who cashes in his earthly chips in Chapter 1 of Rick Hautala’s new novel, “Beyond the Shroud.” As the title suggests,… Read More
Ken Stack has a gift for playing big roles. He has a voice that can boom, an uncanny skill for making himself seem bulkier than he really is, and a fondness for dramatic intonation. This panache makes him a robust candidate for playing Henry II in James Goldman’s… Read More
While Olympic runners are racking up the miles in Atlanta, marathon readers are putting their own champion in the front line of best-seller lists around the nation. Though hard work is hardly part of the routine, it does take some patience and perseverance, and the true faithfuls are… Read More
Opening-night jitters changed to opening-night horrors five minutes before actor Ted Cancila collapsed in the first act of “Angel Street” Tuesday at Acadia Repertory Theatre. The actors had started to go up on their lines, and the delivery got bumpy. Back in the office, director Ken Stack winced… Read More
When it comes to the drama of politics, you won’t find anything more grass roots than Mark St. Germain’s play “Camping With Henry & Tom,” which opened last weekend at the Belfast Maskers Railroad Theater. It imagines auto maker Henry Ford, inventor Thomas Edison, and 29th president of… Read More
A POCKET GUIDE TO HIKING ON MOUNT DESERT ISLAND, and A POCKET GUIDE TO PADDLING THE WATERS OF MOUNT DESERT ISLAND, by Earl D. Brechlin. A POCKET GUIDE TO BIKING ON MOUNT DESERT ISLAND, by Audrey Minutolo. Down East Books, Camden, 1996. Paperback, $7.95 each. Read More
“Why, you’re just a poor little Downeast herring choker who’s never even sipped a martini.” She laughed and shoved my shoulder. “Say whisk that stuff away to the Wertses before the ice melts! They probably need a few drinks before they watch each other get dressed for dinner.”… Read More
Watching Stone Circus on stage is like witnessing an explosion of rock ‘n’ roll music take place right before your eyes. “We do the high-energy thing because it’s kind of what comes natural,” says Ian Barclay, lead singer of the Maine-based band. googletag.cmd.push(function () {… Read More
OVER THE HILLS: A MIDLIFE ESCAPE ACROSS AMERICA BY BICYCLE, by David Lamb, Times Books, 254 pages, $23. In 1994, international journalist David Lamb got the same unwelcome advice from his physician that has greeted many Americans at midlife: Start taking medication to reduce your… Read More
AROUND THE WORLD IN SEVENTY-NINE DAYS, by Cam Lewis and Michael Levitt, Dell Publishing, 1996, 316 pages, $12.95. Adventure books tend to run the predictable scenario. They came, they competed, they conquered. This book is different, very different. They sailed in an around-the-world race, they… Read More
ISLAND JOURNAL, The Annual Publication of the Island Institute, Vol. 13. Island Institute, Rockland. 96 pages. $14.95 Surrounded by water, often remote and windswept slips of land, islands have an allure for certain people. googletag.cmd.push(function () { // Define Slot var slot_sizes = [[300,250]]; var… Read More
A little bit of knowledge is a dangerous thing, but a whole lot of smarts can really screw you up. Just look at Frank, the English tutor in Willy Russell’s play “Educating Rita,” which opened over the weekend at Acadia Repertory Theatre in Somesville. Frank… Read More
Persons attempting to find a motive in the Belfast Maskers play “Twain by the Tale” will be prosecuted. Persons attempting to find a moral will be banned. And, if you’re really smart, you won’t go looking for a plot either, because then you’ll be shot. Read More
Concert-goers in the John Bapst Memorial High School auditorium Saturday night got a square deal. Devonsquare, often billed as one of the most original bands on the New England music scene, lived up to its reputation during an almost two-hour Bangor show. googletag.cmd.push(function () {… Read More
Stephen King’s serial thriller “The Green Mile” turns another gruesome corner when the fourth installation becomes available in bookstores today. “The Bad Death of Eduard Delacroix” picks up Paul Edgecombe’s memoir about death-row inmates at Cold Mountain Penitentiary and the strange happenings that occurred when… Read More
Luther “Guitar Junior” Johnson knows exactly what to do when the blues keep following him around. He takes to the guitar and gets it all out Chicago-style. It’s steamy, sticky, dripping music that puts a frenzy in your head and mojo in your feet. An… Read More
I FEEL A LITTLE JUMPY AROUND YOU: A Book of Her Poems and His Poems Collected in Pairs, edited by Naomi Shihab Nye and Paul B. Janeczko, Simon and Schuster, hardcover, 256 pages, $17. When I was growing up, I had a friend who had… Read More
As the popular bottle club band Flint Hill provides the spark, hundreds of country music lovers set the dance floor on fire at Happy Acres in Alton. “We figure if people want to just sit and listen to music they can do that at home. Read More
BEAMING SONNY HOME, By Cathie Pelletier, Crown Publishers Inc., 1996; 288 pages, $21. Once upon a time in Mattagash, Maine, there lived a young, impressionable girl named Mattie whose mother died at an early age, so that Mattie was forced to raise her younger siblings… Read More
MUCH MORE THAN SEXUALITY: Listening to 70 Gay People Talk About Their Lives, compiled and edited by Liz and John Sherblom, Audenreed Press, 324 pages, $13. A few weeks ago, a young man verbally attacked me for displaying a “Maine Won’t Discriminate” bumper sticker on… Read More
ALL FOR MAINE: The Story of Governor Percival P. Baxter, by Liz Soares, Windswept House Publishers, 101 pages, $8.95, ages 9-14. When students of the Buker Middle School in Augusta turned to librarian Liz Soares for help researching the former governor and philanthropist Percival P. Read More
THAT CAMDEN SUMMER, by LaVyrle Spencer, G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 368 pages, $23.95 After 18 years away, newly divorced Roberta Jewett returns to Camden, Maine, with her three daughters. The year is 1916, Camden has moved into the 20th century, automobiles roll along the roads. But… Read More
Underneath a rainbow of lights, country music star Martina McBride thrilled concert-goers with a wide spectrum of music at the Q106.5 Listener Appreciation Concert at the Bangor Auditorium Friday night. The 29-year-old songstress took the stage singing Linda Ronstadt’s “When Will I be Loved?” and… Read More
NORTHEAST HARBOR — When Jimmie Dale Gilmore sings songs of the border, Jerry Z. Coty is right there with him. Fort Fairfield native Coty was one of 200 devotees of the Texas songman-mystic who packed Neighborhood House on Saturday night to hear Gilmore give a… Read More