Felted cover keep coffee hot December 28, 2017 by Letitia Baldwin on Arts & living, Lifestyle Coffee is what fuels many Maine households including Marcie Correa’s Trenton home. The recently retired, longtime Rooster Brother staffer, who has knit as a pastime since childhood, creates felted cozies to keep coffee hot in French press coffee makers. To make a cozy for an 8-cup French Press, Marcie uses 100 percent, double-strand, worsted weight …
“Bridgey Girls” recall Thanksgivings past over cards November 22, 2017 by Letitia Baldwin on Food, Lifestyle It’s early Thanksgiving morning in the 1941. Olivia Smith Moore is in her nightdress and headed out to fetch a live turkey kept overnight on the rickety fire escape three flights up behind Moore’s Drugs in Ellsworth. She and her husband, “Bill,” and their four children live in the apartment above the Moore family business. …
Nibbles: Cheese making, high tea and a nifty knife November 21, 2017 by Letitia Baldwin on Food, Lifestyle Say cheese! Tiller & Rye, the fine foods grocer at 20 South Main St. in Brewer, will host a cheese-making class from 1 to 4 p.m. on Sunday, Nov. 26. Frankfort’s Lally Broch Farm will conduct the class and provide goat’s milk for participants to make 30 ounces of feta cheese. The cost is $50 …
Downtown festivities coming up October 10, 2017 by Letitia Baldwin on Arts & living, Lifestyle ELLSWORTH — Whether it’s crafting beer or blown-glass pumpkins, downtown Ellsworth will be abuzz with artisans demonstrating and selling their creations and related activities Wednesday-Sunday, Oct. 11-15. In synch with the Maine Crafts Association’s Maine Craft Weekend, Heart of Ellsworth will host Art of Ellsworth: Maine Craft Weekend with dozens of artists, nonprofits and businesses …
Children’s book conveys moving message about monarchs October 5, 2017 by Letitia Baldwin on Arts & living, Lifestyle In early summer, monarch butterflies begin touching down on the large, gray-green leaves of milkweed in pastures, meadows, along roadsides and in other sunny patches in Maine. The monarchs are on a mission. They have journeyed 2,500 miles from the mountainous fir forests of central Mexico. There they spend winters carpeting the branches and trunks …
Life on Mark Island and lighthouse inspires memoir September 27, 2017 by Letitia Baldwin on Arts & living, Lifestyle WINTER HARBOR — Roaring Bull, a ledge awash in only 3 feet of water at mean low tide, lies in eastern Frenchman Bay. When it’s blowing hard from the northwest and a heavy sea is running from the south, the waves strike the shoals, sending the white foam up and billowing back like a bridal …
The Wheelhouse restaurant offers good food, good times September 14, 2017 by Letitia Baldwin on Food, Lifestyle MILBRIDGE — All hands on deck! That’s what it has taken for Mickey Dorr and Kayla Geel and their extended fishing families to launch a new restaurant called The Wheelhouse in honor of the family’s multi-generation heritage harvesting lobster in the Downeast region. Mickey, who until recently worked as a medical referral specialist at the …
Richard Dudman risked his life many times to tell the story August 3, 2017 by Letitia Baldwin on Breaking News, News ELLSWORTH — Richard B. Dudman, an American newsman known for his memoir “Forty Days with the Enemy,” about his 1970 capture and imprisonment by Viet Cong communist guerillas in Cambodia during the Vietnam War, died peacefully Thursday, Aug. 3, at Parker Ridge retirement community in Blue Hill. He was 99. His wife, Helen, daughters Iris …
“Lady Liberty” inspires hooked rug March 25, 2017 by Letitia Baldwin on Arts & living, Lifestyle As the winter storm Niko pounded Maine, and federal agents rounded up hundreds of undocumented immigrants across the country in mid-February, the image of the Statue of Liberty popped into author and rug hooker Judith Burger-Gossart’s mind. Kept at home by the driving snow, and troubled by the political turmoil around the nation, the Salisbury …
Black family saga inspires artisanal work January 27, 2017 by Letitia Baldwin on Arts & living, Lifestyle ELLSWORTH — Folks who enjoy walking, running and skiing the trails at Woodlawn have George Nixon Black Jr. to thank for giving his handsome brick house and pastoral grounds decades ago to the Hancock County Trustees of Public Reservations. In coming months, they can learn more about “Nixon” Black, as friends and family called him, …
