BLUE HILL — “Haul, boys haul. Haul, boys haul. Heave away the capstan, lads, and let’s get up the trawl. When the winds a blowin’, the ship’s a gently rollin’…” So goes “Haul, Boy, Haul,” an old sea shanty, sung while sailors heaved at a ship’s capstan to weigh anchor. That sailor’s hauling chant is …
ELLSWORTH — Have a hankering for a milkshake and hamburger? Head on over then next Thursday, May 16, to Ellsworth High School, where freshly painted murals hark back to the ’50s and carefree days of slurping root beer floats at soda fountains. From 5 to 7 p.m., the community is invited to stop by for …
GOULDSBORO — “Missing Link,” a stop-motion animated film about a lonely, lovable Sasquatch resembling a giant, apelike pine cone, who enlists a pompous British explorer to guide and help him find his missing relatives in Shangri La, opens this weekend April 12-14 in cinemas across the nation and world. Prospect Harbor’s Adam Fisher, who …
WINTER HARBOR — When the Schoodic community gathered to pay tribute to and celebrate the life of “Farmer Bill” Thayer last Saturday, they likely saw the oil portrait of the Maine organic farming pioneer as well as one of his wife, Cynthia, hanging in Hammond Hall in Winter Harbor. Fortuitously, Sullivan artist Hugo Diaz’s paintings …
FAIRFIELD — The Mount Desert Island High School Show Choir’s evocative, exquisitely performed production “Requiem,” featuring a finely conducted pit band, captured first place and a gold medal, Saturday in Division I of Maine’s 2019 Maine All State Vocal Jazz & Show Choir Competition held March 29-30 at Lawrence High School. Organized by the state’s …
WINTER HARBOR — When the Darthia Farm Porch Band All Stars takes the stage at 7 p.m. Friday, March 29, at Hammond Hall, Lynette Woods will sit in for the group’s white-bearded drummer. Still, the audience can expect a lively concert from the musicians, who will play ’50s bop tunes with special verve to send …
ELLSWORTH — In Ellsworth High School’s award-winning production adapted from French aviator and author Antoine de Saint-Exupéry’s fable “The Little Prince,” Emma Henry plays the part of an artist who illustrates The Little Prince and the Aviator’s tales as they recount them on stage. In her senior year, Henry is an actor who has performed …
ELLSWORTH — Greg Winston may be best known locally as the friendly fellow scooping a cone of Nutty Bovine, Udderly Divine or some other ice cream flavor at Mortons Moo. The ice cream emporium’s co-owner, though, has another life as an English professor at Husson University in Bangor. The full scope of what the Ellsworth …
For those of us who call coastal Maine home, we easily negotiate coves, bays, inlets, reaches and other words for saltwater bodies. In “Return to Moose River,” Bar Harbor author Earl Brechlin takes us out of our element and on an adventure into unfamiliar terrain — Maine’s North Woods — in good company with the …
STEUBEN — In a photograph shot last week, Japanese sculptor Kazumi Hoshino can be seen working on her mammoth, yet delicate granite sculpture called “Bio Spheres.” The 23,000-pound piece was scheduled to be installed Thursday, Nov. 29, at the University of Maine Cooperative Extension’s new Plant, Animal and Insect Laboratory on the Orono campus. The …
ELLSWORTH — “Going to ‘the Turtle?’” You hear that line among locals looking to grab a bite to eat and a beer or drink with co-workers, neighbors or friends at the Tan Turtle Tavern in Northeast Harbor. That repeated phrase might just catch on in the Hancock County seat, where year-round residents late last week …
BLUE HILL — Got a busted chair, bicycle, earring, sewing machine, food processor, pair of eyeglasses or other utilitarian items that you don’t want to throw out? The Blue Hill Public Library’s Assistant Director Hannah Cyrus has enlisted eight community members possessing practical skills from woodworking to electrical engineering to help people repair and attempt …
