ELLSWORTH — “Lawrence Ferlinghetti wrote about how the poet has to obey the words before he can make something beautiful from them, and being a blacksmith is the same,” said Adriaan Gerber. “You have to obey the steel and the fire. You have to be very humble; you can’t do this when you’re arrogant or …
Cindy Alley had been mulling over the idea for a book club for a few years.
By Richard Leighton November in rural Maine has become a month for avoiding turkeys as much as for hunting and eating them. The wild ones roam freely in foraging flocks called “rafts.” It’s not unusual to see a raft of 20 or more turkeys working a field. They’re fun to see, but the ones that …
FRANKLIN — In 1944, the year Allied forces liberated Paris after four years of Nazi occupation in the final phase of World War II, thousands of Americans were serving overseas, and thousands more were waiting to ship out. In communities across the United States, times were tough. Milk, gasoline and nylons were strictly rationed. Saturday …
ELLSWORTH — Jada Butler of Blue Hill shot a moose while hunting in the far reaches of Penobscot County. Nightfall was coming on and she couldn’t find the animal to tag with her name, license number and other required info deep in Seboeis Plantation. “I shot it at probably 4:30 or 5 o’clock,” Butler recently …
BLUE HILL — Got a busted chair, bicycle, earring, sewing machine, food processor, pair of eyeglasses or other utilitarian items that you don’t want to throw out? The Blue Hill Public Library’s Assistant Director Hannah Cyrus has enlisted eight community members possessing practical skills from woodworking to electrical engineering to help people repair and attempt …
ELLSWORTH — As home DNA test kits have become increasingly accessible, so too have surprises in the family tree: previously unknown half-siblings, children born with donor sperm, fathers who turn out not to be biologically related to their children. In exchange for $99 and a vial of spit, many of the genealogically curious, such as …
ELLSWORTH — Author and caregiver Lisa Steele-Maley will speak about her book, “Without a Map,” a memoir about helping her father navigate the details of a life interrupted by dementia, at 6 p.m. on Thursday, Nov. 8, at the Ellsworth Public Library. Admission is free. Steele-Maley makes her home in coastal Maine, where she lives …
BAR HARBOR — The National Park Service invites accomplished professional artists, writers and others to apply for one of eight opportunities with the 2019 Artist-in-Residence Program. The last day to apply online is Monday, Dec. 31. “We want people to experience Acadia through the perspectives of artists,” said Superintendent Kevin Schneider. “Early national parks owe …
BLUE HILL — There’s a saying amongst the nomadic Rahanweyn people of Somalia that goes: “There are only two noteworthy days in one’s life. The day one is born and the day one dies. Everything in between is herding.” For anyone living a complicated life in the 21st century there may be something enticing about …
