By Steve Fuller Special to The Ellsworth American BUCKSPORT — Hans Krichels grew up in western Massachusetts, in a family full of singers. Although he said the singing gene skipped him, he still wanted his voice to be heard. “I thought I would use my voice in a different way,” he said, sitting in his …
By Steve Fuller Special to The Ellsworth American STONINGTON — Chris Joyce recalls with a chuckle his first experience turning wood, decades ago. “I turned my first bowl, and it was horrible,” he said, reflecting on the experience more than 30 years later. “Today I would throw it in a burn pile in two seconds …
By Steve Fuller Special to The Ellsworth American ELLSWORTH — Author of more than 30 books. Editor of one newspaper, and author of a weekly column in another for more than 60 years. One of the Maine Press Association’s inaugural inductees to its Hall of Fame. Cited by Maine’s top bestselling author to date as …
By Steve Fuller Special to The Ellsworth American SURRY — Standing in just the right place in the woods near Patten Pond, someone scanning through the AM dial on a radio could easily feel that they had gone back in time. The listener might catch The Lone Ranger and Tonto fighting bad guys, or perhaps …
ELLSWORTH — Terri Cormier knew the staircase looked familiar. The recent past president of the Ellsworth Historical Society, Cormier was looking through a collection of glass plate negatives in the group’s collections. A unique staircase could be seen in one of the shots. Stored in paper envelopes, the negatives had been kept in a desk …
ORLAND — Trash and town buildings were two of the top topics at the annual Town Meeting June 12. Just over 50 voters came out and approved all of the two dozen articles on the warrant, though not without discussion and debate on several of the articles. On a written ballot vote, voters approved (42-10) …
BANGOR — When Brian Swartz first began writing about Maine and the Civil War almost a decade ago, he had what is likely a common misconception among Mainers. “I thought, ‘There can’t be too much material out there because it was Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain, the 20th Maine and Little Round Top — and that’s all …
DEER ISLE — It was freelance furniture photography that led Darwin Davidson to discover what has become one of his life’s greatest passions. The Deer Isle photographer graduated with a degree from Rochester Institute of Technology in 1958 and got a job as a photographer in a commercial studio in New York City, specializing in …
BUCKSPORT — Jane Donnell knows, from both professional and personal experience, the power that home movies can have in people’s lives. Overseeing theater, distribution and membership services at Northeast Historic Film in Bucksport, it’s central to her daily work. The nonprofit’s mission, in part, is to “collect and preserve the film and video record of …
ORLAND — A Bucksport motorcyclist was seriously injured in a crash on Route 1 in Orland on Saturday evening. The Hancock County Sheriff’s Office reported that 29-year-old Gregory Farmer of Bucksport was hit by a car pulling out onto Route 1 at the top of the hill where the H.O.M.E. Co-op is located. Farmer was flown …
ELLSWORTH — Mention the words “Maine” and “Civil War” in the same breath, and the name Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain is likely to come to mind. The Bowdoin-professor-turned-soldier-made-general has several statues in his likeness around Maine, was portrayed by Jeff Daniels in the 1993 Hollywood movie “Gettysburg” and is remembered in poetry and song such as …
DEER ISLE — Stepping into Don Carmichael’s workshop on the shore of Eggemoggin Reach is like embarking on a world tour of the wide-ranging kinds of wood that he works with. There’s purpleheart, a hard, dense wood from Central and South America, and bocote, a wood from Mexico with what one supplier described as “beautiful …
