“I met a weirdly high number of couples who said their first date was Blue Hill Mountain,” she noted. “If you go up the Hayes Trail, even just at the top of the field you get this amazing view.
STONINGTON — Opera House Arts’ “Island Women Speak,” the popular women’s storytelling event at the Stonington Opera House, is coming back for a new iteration on Friday, Jan. 28, at 7 p.m. The event features six women from six generations of Deer Isle residents with six personal stories — told live from the stage. The …
Starting Feb. 2, the exhibit can be viewed during library hours in the Howard Room. A portion of the artwork’s sales will go to benefit the library.
WINTER HARBOR — The Winter Harbor Music Festival’s artistic director and founder, Deirdre McArdle, and Executive Director Deiran Manning invite the public for an evening of music for flute, piano and voice at 7 p.m. Friday, Feb. 4, at Hammond Hall. The concert also will be livestreamed for people who prefer to stay at home. …
“When I heard the announcement,” Lantratova said, “a warm feeling of contentment and pride flushed into my face.”
Special to The Ellsworth American In the 19th century, chicken usually contained just chicken meat or chicken parts sauced with gravy and baked in pie pastry. I found a more interesting vintage recipe that brings to mind two remarkable Rhode Island women who shattered expectations for women of their time. One, Elleanor Eldridge, was the …
Ellen Wieske has been appointed interim executive director and will assume that role at the beginning of May.
All fired up As part of Schoodic Institute’s Acadia Winter Festival Feb. 4-6, Schoodic Arts for All is offering a free “Raku Make and Take” from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 5, outdoors on the institute’s campus in Winter Harbor. Schoodic Arts’ Program Development and Education Coordinator Anna Woolf and Neale LaSalle will …
WINTER HARBOR — One recent morning, a black-capped chickadee’s high-pitched “chicka-dee-dee-dee” and a downy woodpecker’s descending whinny are heard amid the roar of surf crashing against granite boulders in Arey Cove. A bufflehead and eiders ride the breakers rolling in from the Gulf of Maine and striking the western shore of Acadia National Park’s Schoodic …
Brianne Beck stars in Penobscot Theatre’s continuing one-woman musical “Tell Me on a Sunday,” first staged by Andrew Lloyd Webber in 1979. The in-person show, which runs through Sunday, Jan. 23, tells the story of a girl from Muswell Hill, England, who travels to the United States looking for romance. From New York City to …
This year’s “Island Women Speak” is centered around the theme “Advice to my younger self.”
YARMOUTH — Three Islandport Press children’s books, featuring subjects ranging from a clam chowder competition to adventure-seeking woodland creatures to allegorical tales of the sea, have been recognized for excellence by the 2021 Northern Lights Book Awards. Based in Jamesville, N.Y., Northern Light Book Awards honors “Children’s Literature of Exceptional Merit” including traditionally published and …
