Peter Taylor, president of Harpswell-based Waterview Consulting, has written an inspiring account of the Penobscot River’s successful restoration begun in the late 1990s. You know that children’s song “Three Little Fishies” with its chorus, “And they swam swam swam right over the dam”? Were it that easy. In Peter Taylor’s “From the Mountains to the …
Pianist George Lopez, who plays a wide range of music from chamber music to jazz and ragtime, will perform in person at 7 p.m. Friday, April 2, at Hammond Hall. Presented by the Winter Harbor Music Festival, the concert also will be live-streamed.
Online programming has expanded BHHT’s reach on the Blue Hill Peninsula and beyond, including bringing in people from out of state who “have tuned in and just expressed how wonderful it is to stay in touch with their Maine communities.”
BLUE HILL — Maine’s highest mountain and the Katahdin Woods and Waters National Monument, encompassing 87,563 acres of mountains and forestland east of Baxter State Park, inspired Brooklin artist Alison C. Dibble and Sherman artist Candace McKellar to create 54 paintings that were on view through Feb. 27 at the Blue Hill Public Library. The …
Schoodic Arts for All’s longtime director Mary Laury late this summer will pass the baton and take up her own paint brush. The cultural and performing arts organization has launched a search for Laury’s successor.
BLUE HILL — Once again I am amazed and impressed at how local theaters are rising to the occasion of this pandemic. Professional, amateur and even local schools have been finding innovative ways to keep the shows going on. The New Surry Theatre is a prime example. Determined not to close the curtains on its …
“These vital plants, along with a sacred connection to place, promote wellness of the body, mind, and spirit and encourage humans to be mindful and loving stewards of the Earth.” — Deb Soule, founder and herbalist, Avena Botanicals
ELLSWORTH — Maine authors Susan Conley, Irene M. Drago, Kate Russo and W.S. Winslow are the Ellsworth Public Library’s featured writers in its online Maine Authors Series through March. The event is free to attend and will include a question-and-answer session Portland author Susan Conley speaks at 7 p.m. on Thursday, March 11. She is …
ELLSWORTH – Claire Ackroyd works as an independent organic farm inspector. For decades, the Orono horticulturalist has traveled this state seeing firsthand and verifying that Maine organic farmers meet national certification standards. Her work has taken her to northwestern Somerset County, where Franco-American culture runs deep. Where French is heard in some of the region’s …
Sullivan Chef Alicia Randolph-Lucchesi provides a holistic, inclusive and affordable way to eat and be healthy,
BLUE HILL — Maine’s highest mountain and the Katahdin Woods and Waters National Monument, encompassing 87,563 acres of mountains and forestland east of Baxter State Park, inspired Brooklin artist Alison C. Dibble and Sherman artist Candace McKellar to create 54 paintings on view through Feb. 27 at the Blue Hill Public Library. Observing COVID-19 protocol, …
ELLSWORTH — Anchored on High Street by the old Pine Street School and on Water Street by monument company H.W. Dunn & Son, Pine Street is much more than a throughway from downtown to uptown Ellsworth. A neighborhood in the traditional sense of the word, where you can borrow a cup of sugar and plow …
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