Editor’s note: Brooklin author/photographer Richard J. Leighton creates the popular “In the Right Place” posts online about life and nature in Maine. He shares a post the second Thursday of each month in The Ellsworth American. The Yellow Trail By Richard Leighton The late Mary Oliver was one of many poets and essayists who …
WINTER HARBOR — Visiting Ellsworth’s Birdsacre-Stanwood Wildlife Sanctuary, one of the first things you might notice is the large barred owl perched in an enclosure’s corner, and how it follows your movement with its large, black eyes. As you move around the aviary, the owl’s head swivels too. “That robotic way they turn their heads. …
The news of the Volkswagen Beetle’s looming demise stirred Waterville resident Edie McVay King’s memories. The 1963 George Stevens Academy graduate grew up in Surry. Learning experience By Edie McVay King My father has a VW Beetle, which I called a “Volks Bug,” in the early ’60s. He used it to travel to New …
By Ellen Booraem BROOKLIN — In Maine and beyond, ask children what they’d do with Mr. Magee and they’ll suggest “go to sea,” “a camping spree,” or “learn to ski.” (Yes, they all rhyme.) Brooklin students were no exception when Camden author/illustrator Chris Van Dusen, Mr. Magee’s creator, visited their school Jan. 17. The kindergarten-to-grade-2 …
BLUE HILL — And then there were five. Magnolia Vandiver of George Stevens Academy was one of five finalists chosen Tuesday at the national “Poetry Out Loud” competition’s Northern Maine Regional Finals held at Hampden Academy. She and the other four finalists will compete against the five Southern Maine finalists at the state competition on …
Island Readers & Writers, a nonprofit based in Southwest Harbor, strives to instill a love of reading and learning among children living in coastal Maine. The organization shared a few of the many books on its “Light Up Your Winter with Stories” list. To learn more, visit islandreadersandwriters.org. “Hello Hello,” by Brendan Wenzel (Preschool-Kindergarten) …
One lazy Sunday in 2009, the Maine Writers & Publishers Alliance’s Executive Director Joshua Bodwell tapped out a list of books that had resonated with him that year. He wrote some reflections about each book and emailed the list to friends and family. And so an annual tradition was born. Here are three of his …
Winter Harbor residents Dan and Jane Keegan acquired their 1969 VW Beetle a couple of years ago on a whim while visiting her nephew in North Carolina. Conversation piece By Dan Keegan Our Beetle represents a bit of nostalgia for my wife, as she had one as one of her first cars in college. …
CASTINE — Calvin is a North Atlantic right whale whose mother, Delilah, died from a ship strike in Canada’s Bay of Fundy in 1992. Researchers, who named the female calf after the spunky Calvin and Hobbes comic strip character, subsequently have followed the baby whale that not only survived on its own but bore several …
