BLUE HILL — As Maine’s COVID surge continues, organizers for Word have decided that the annual literary arts festival will return to the online format introduced last year. The festival’s free events and paid workshops will be available via Zoom Oct. 21-24. Participants must pre-register for all events. Details and registration links are at www.wordfestival.org. …
ELLSWORTH — The Grand has canceled its production of “Nunsense,” a musical comedy about the Little Sisters of Hoboken’s fundraiser to bury their order’s food-poisoned nuns, Tuesday after being notified that a person directly involved in the production had tested positive for COVID-19. All ticket holders will be issued a full refund. Directed by Ashley …
BLUE HILL — A sprawling network of steel drum performers, collaborations and bands on the Blue Hill Peninsula brings live music to nearly all corners of Hancock County and beyond each summer. The style originated in Trinidad and is loud, joyous and participatory. Local steel drum bands Flash! in the Pans, Atlantic Clarion, Planet Pan …
STONINGTON — Cait Robinson became Opera House Arts’ new Artistic Director starting Sept. 19. Originally from Brooklin, the experienced theater director joins Executive Director Tony Adams and General Manager Pam Getto on the leadership team. Robinson’s hiring follows a national search. “She’s a great director with a deep knowledge of our local communities,” Adams says. …
ROCKLAND — The Farnsworth Art Museum last week announced Little Cranberry Island artist Ashley Bryan as the winner of its 2022 Maine in America Award. A painter, printmaker, illustrator, author, puppet maker, and storyteller, Bryan came to Maine in 1946 to attend the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture. That summer, the artist visited the …
GOULDSBORO — In her newly published book “More Than Meets the Eye,” Margie Patlak invites you to take time as she has over a lifetime to explore and experience Maine’s diverse natural environments. That can mean marveling at iridescent green mosses — even more intense after recent heavy rains —cushioning the Maine woods. Or …
ELLSWORTH — Painting watercolors and making Chinese-style dumplings both demand a deft hand. Loading your brush with too much paint and overfilling the delicate wrappers leads to leaden results. Creating pot stickers and watercolors each has its own series of steps to follow and light, skillful handling of the tools and material is gained …
BLUE HILL — Slow fashion, custom made for you and all your curves and angles. And, no, you don’t have to go to the city. A Castine native has opened Tangle Syx, a slow fashion enterprise offering custom made clothing made from plant fibers in Blue Hill. Alyssa Radcliff caters to female customers both local …
BLUE HILL — The Bagaduce Watershed Association and Blue Hill Heritage Trust have announced the winners of the First Annual Bagaduce Watershed Amateur Photography Contest. The grand prize winner was Niamh Dickens, 11, of Blue Hill. Runners-up were Jonathan Albrecht of Penobscot; Robert Knight of Brooksville; Candace Kornish of Deer Isle; Peter DeMoss Robbins of …
CASTINE — On Aug. 6 and 7, the Castine Arts Association will celebrate the works of Castine-connected writers through a series of programs and presentations highlighting the work of those writers created and/or published during 2019 to the present time. Held at Emerson Hall, 67 Court St., Castine, “The Things They Wrote. The Stories They …
Over 90 percent of the world’s monarch butterflies reside in North America, where they are divided into two migrating populations. The vast majority of them are in the eastern migration, which is made up of the butterflies that live east of the Rocky Mountains; they migrate each year in succeeding waves to and from the mountaintops of central Mexico. Maine is on the northern edge of the eastern migration.
“They get a lot of their color from feeding on poisonous creatures,” she explained, like jellyfish and anemones. “I found it a really beautiful analogy for what was going on.”
