The production’s director, Ashley Terwilliger, requests those planning to audition to come prepared to sing 16 to 32 bars of a classic musical theater song. They should bring sheet music for the accompanist, with their chosen singing part clearly marked.
An upcoming steel-band street dance and the launch of Portland journalist and best-selling historian Colin Woodard’s paperback edition of his latest book, “Union: The Struggle to Forge the Story of United States Nationhood,” will raise funds for Word, Blue Hill’s annual October literary arts festival.
In 2016, the Leaches’ middle child, Brenda “Momo” Ledezma, started Momo’s Cheesecakes Bakery in Ellsworth, selling wedges and whole cakes of cherry, strawberry and other flavors out of her Outer Main Street garage on the honor system. Now she and her employees fill orders for 20 wholesale accounts, making between 80 and 100 cheesecakes daily.
“As Willa Cather is welded to her prairie towns, I am fused with the coast of Maine,” she once said.
BLUE HILL — In his lifetime (1906-2000), Blue Hill artisan Eliot Sweet’s hands were seldom idle. The late artist/craftsman’s many creations — ranging widely from violins to watercolor paintings — are on view through June in the Blue Hill Public Library’s Britton Gallery as well as the Howard Room glass cases. The latter works will …
MILBRIDGE — Whirligigs— the fun-to-say lawn ornaments which are equal parts whimsical and mechanical, are a bit of a rarity these days. But drive past 44 Main St. and you will find the colorful constructions planted in front of the striking Victorian home of Dave Schoolcraft. Dave started crafting the whirligigs a few years ago …
“The board unanimously thought he was the perfect choice,” board member Cynthia Thayer told The American.
What makes the Borealis Press greeting card line unique — at least before other companies began copying the idea — is that the readers are often asked to find their own meaning between the photo and text.
ELLSWORTH — It may now be a federal crime to open mail not addressed to you, but that wasn’t always the case, said Maine author Bill Kenny last week. “People would drop their mail off at the tavern and it would pile up on the table until they had enough mail to deliver.” It was …
GOULDSBORO — An absorbing tale of how the Atlantic seaboard was first properly mapped from a baseline stretch of Washington County’s blueberry barrens is the focus of a talk at 7 p.m. Monday, June 7, at the Prospect Harbor Women’s Club. Plans for charting the once unknown length of the coastline, as the crow flies, …
CASTINE — The Castine Historical Society has an exciting array of exhibits and programs scheduled for 2021. After being physically closed for a year because of COVID-19, the society will open June 11. The featured exhibit will be “Risky Business: Square-Rigged Ships and Salted Fish.” Back for a second and final year, the exhibit invites …
From Shakespeare to an outdoor play at Nervous Nellie’s Jams & Jellies, Opera House Arts will offer a full lineup of live, outdoor performances throughout this summer. T
