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 will share a post the second Thursday of each month in The Ellsworth American. Have you noticed that many of those huge nests on man-made platforms and in the tops of large …
Speaking from his Boston home, Melendez talked about his literary career and latest book, “Chef’s Kiss” .
Each of the 39 poems has its own corresponding, and colorful illustration by Guin, who met White while working as a substitute teacher
ELLSWORTH — Deer Isle artist Jeffery Becton, whose photo montages explore the lines between dream and reality, is inspired by the tidal reaches and atmospheric weather and classic houses that stand out starkly in the coastal Maine landscape. His work is the focus of “Jeffery Becton: Meditations on Ambivalence” on view through Oct. 15 at …
ELLSWORTH — There will be an organ concert at the First Congregational Church of Ellsworth, UCC on Sunday, Sept. 11, at 2:30 p.m. Local organists Gerald Wheeler, Peter Haynes, Debbie Riley and Lynn Hall will showcase the majesty of the church’s Hall pipe organ. The church is commemorating this gift from the Black Family of …
The production’s 46-member cast is directed by Ashley Terwilliger. Music director is David Sheehy.
Almost 40 years ago, Honda was on its third-generation Civic small car. Sensing American taste for all things larger, with more people and parcel space, brand managers created a five-door wagon version of the diminutive sedan/coupe. In 1985, they added a button on the dash to activate a part-time 4WD system — Real Time 4WD …
ELLSWORTH — “I love exploring all kinds of art and kind of just going for it,” says 23-year-old Grace Young. The young artist with her grandfather, Ken Minier, designed and built the sculpture “From the Sea” installed earlier this summer at Ellsworth Harbor Park and Marina. The colorful, towering structure — like a marine totem …
As a space saving measure on our tiny plots of gardens sculpted into the granite boulders, we grow many of our crops vertically. Up rather than out. Shell peas, sugar snap peas, fragrant sweet peas, cucumbers, Scarlett Runner Beans, tomatoes, peppers and four varieties of pole beans. Anything that can be trellised is “trained” to …
By Merry Post Special to The Ellsworth American In 1829, women from Hallowell, Maine, signed a letter petitioning Congress to vote against the Indian Removal Act. This was the first time a group of American women organized to lobby the federal government on a policy issue. President Andrew Jackson fully supported the removal of Indian …
Chocolate binds together the “Death by Chocolate” series’ five volumes to date. The series succeeds Graves’ long-running “Home Repair Is Homicide”
EASTPORT — The 34th Annual Eastport Salmon and Seafood Festival will be held Sept. 3 and 4 in the historic downtown district. Seafood Saturday’s fare will feature crab rolls and clam chowder under the tent in the Fisherman Statue parking lot. There will be live music and craft vendors. The Border Historical Society will hold …
