Painter Philip Frey chases after and vividly captures one moment in time September 26, 2018 by Letitia Baldwin on Arts & living, Lifestyle SULLIVAN — You are standing atop a mountain. A sweeping view of wooded islands unfolds below. A brisk breeze blows. Clouds race and billow up. Sailboats are trimmed close to the wind. The sea seems driven every which way. Spruce trees sway on the steep slope. That’s the scene Philip Frey conjures in his oil …
Persian cookbook author shares her home cooking September 18, 2018 by Letitia Baldwin on Food, Lifestyle DEER ISLE — Red lentil curry soup, garlicky eggplant and tomato spread, turmeric chicken with sumac and lime and rice with black eye peas and dill were among the Persian dishes flowing onto the dinner table early last month at a cooking class taught by Iranian chef Louisa Shafia at the newly renovated Eggemoggin Schoohouse …
Vocalists dominate fair competition September 4, 2018 by Letitia Baldwin on Entertainment, Lifestyle BLUE HILL — Gouldsboro’s Delaney Woodward sang her heart out, winning the first-place prize of $500 at The Grand and the Blue Hill Fair’s joint “Hancock County’s Got Talent!” show staged last Thursday night at the fair. Kiana and Seneca Maddocks-Wilbur of Ellsworth landed second and share a $250 prize while Trudi Clark of Ellsworth …
Hancock County Teacher of the Year named May 15, 2018 by Letitia Baldwin on Education, News HANCOCK — Warm applause Monday morning filled the Hancock Grammar School gym, where Sen. Brian Langley (R-Hancock County) presented the 2018 Hancock County Teacher of the Year Jennifer Farnham with a legislative sentiment recognizing officially her work and dedication spanning more than 20 years. The staff and students, numbering 224, Hancock and Lamoine School Superintendent …
Students sang, danced their hearts out at state vocal fest April 9, 2018 by Letitia Baldwin on Entertainment, Lifestyle MILLINOCKET — Joyous, funny, touching and thought-provoking characterized the nearly 30 middle and high school performances last weekend at the Maine Music Educators Association’s 2018 Maine State Vocal Jazz Festival held at Stearns Junior/Senior High School in Millinocket. Hosted by the Maine Music Educators Association, the festival’s Division 1 State Champion was the Mount Desert …
Book Review: “Open Season: True Stories of the Maine Warden Service” March 30, 2018 by Letitia Baldwin on Lifestyle “The net was nearly full when it came out of the water, a shimmering, writhing mass of finger-sized fish,” reads a passage in “Rolfe Brook Smelt Run,” one of 20 stories in New Hampshire writer Daren Worcester’s “Open Season: True Stories of the Maine Warden Service” (Down East Books, 2017, $16.95). “Nat waited. At the …
Artist, teacher, storyteller Mary Welsh loved people March 9, 2018 by Letitia Baldwin on Arts & living, Lifestyle EAST SULLIVAN — Mary Welsh was due last month to begin teaching an eight-week drawing class, but the 90-year-old Sullivan artist suffered a stroke and died on Feb. 6 at Maine Coast Memorial Hospital in Ellsworth. In the Feb. 10 class, the warm, free-spirited Mary would have put her students at ease and shown them …
Local teen chosen to represent Maine on national orchestra March 9, 2018 by Letitia Baldwin on Uncategorized BLUE HILL — Seventeen-year-old violinist Brandon Aponte last week was named as the sole musician to represent Maine on the nation’s 2018 National Youth Orchestra of the United States of America, which is bound for Asia this coming July. Under the auspices of Carnegie Hall’s Weill Music Institute, Aponte will join 105 other teen musicians …
Helen Dudman found joy in her career, family February 21, 2018 by Letitia Baldwin on News BLUE HILL — Driving a battered yellow Volkswagen convertible, Helen Sloane Dudman rolled into downtown Ellsworth nearly 40 years ago to start a new chapter in her life. The Washington Post’s former executive women’s editor, who died at age 93 on Monday, Feb. 19, at Parker Ridge retirement community in Blue Hill, was excited. But …
Surry merrymakers go with the floe January 31, 2018 by Letitia Baldwin on News SURRY — Mainers have been making the most of this winter’s abundant ice. The merrymakers include Southwest Harbor’s Thom Willey and Tony Davis and many friends who took advantage of a three-day deep freeze last weekend. It took Willey and Davis just under two hours to cut a 40-foot circular platform of ice on Toddy …
