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ROCKPORT

Sharing the Heart of Art

LINCOLNVILLE

Learning to Live Simply

FREEDOM

A Muse Lies in a Tree

ROCKLAND

Loyalty to Dogs

BOOTHBAY AND BAR HARBOR

Street Racing on Beds

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RAD HAPPENINGS Bed Races and Rock Coast Rollers Night

Contributors Kay Stephens

Nathaniel Bernier

Kay Stephens, a Maine freelance writer, has covered both mainstream and underground events, people and scenes. She helps small Maine businesses in the creative fields get media exposure through www.kaystephenscontent.com To get daily A & E updates, follow through Facebook: facebook.com/killerconvo and Twitter: http://twitter.com/thekillerconvo

Nathaniel Bernier, owner of Wild Rufus Records, previously retail and now online, has immersed himself in music for 35 years, hosting several radio shows, deejaying at clubs and parties, writing music reviews and interviewing artists. He lives on the coast of Maine and continues to live through music. wildrufus. com; wildrufus.blogspot.com

Shannon Kinney Shannon Kinney of Dream Local has more than 15 years of experience in the development of successful Internet products, sales and marketing strategy.

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Daniel Dunkle Daniel Dunkle writes the weekly humor column, “Stranger Than Fiction,” and “Down in Front” blogs and movie reviews. He is Associate Editor for The Herald Gazette. His column appears in the Friday editorial pages.

Follow him on twitter at twitter.com/#!/DanDunkle.

12 WOOD CHOP — The School of What’s Next 14 BOOK SCENE Reinventing Book Publishing

Richard Ruggiero A graduate of Siebel Institute for Brewing Studies in Chicago Chicago, Ruggiero worked as a consultant across the east coast setting up microbrewery on Long Island, N.Y. called James Bay Brewing Company. In 1995 he relocated to Rockland, Maine to build Rocky Bay Brewery which closed in 2007.

He is now the brewmaster at the new Shag Rock Brewing Company in Rockland, located at Amalfi’s Restaurant on the water.

16 TOP DISH: The Village Bakery and Caf Café 17 SOCIAL MEDIA MAVEN Update Facebook from Mobile Phones

Jim Bailey Ji Chef Jim Bailey is a Maine native who has more than 25 years experience in the New England kitchen. Although proficient in international cuisine, he’s an authority of Yankee Food History, New England genealogy and the New England lifestyle since the 17th Century. With two cookbooks just written, Chef Jim looks forward to hearing from you at via email theyankee@aol.com or theyankeechef.com.

18 ART SCENE Sharing the Heart of Art 20 ARTS & CRAFTS SCENE ArtFull Gifts Holiday Show in Northport 23 GET READY, GET SET…GO! Early Bird Festival in Boothbay Harbor

Tiffany Howard and Jim Dandy

24 THE STORY BEHIND… The Derby Girls

Tiffany Howard and Jim Dandy co-own Opera House Video, an independent video rental store in downtown Belfast featuring an extensive collection of new releases, foreign films, documentaries, classics and television series.

Each takes turns writing the movie review. Find them on Facebook.

25 ART SCENE The Man in the Woods 26 KILLER PIKS 27 ETSY? YOU BETSY! 28 FILM SCENE ‘The Thing’ Revisits 1982 29 WHITE HOT SPOTLIGHT Featuring Heidi Vanorse, Loyal Biscuit Dog Co. 30 MUSIC SCENE Transitioning from Amateur to Professional 32 TOP DRINK: Sarah’s Café 34 FARM SCENE Pleasantville Farm in Warren takes part in Cabot’s Open Farm Day

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After 30+ years in the record business in Los Angeles including long stints at Warner Bros. & DreamWorks Records, Marc consults and manages artists & has started an independent music label that concentrates on singer - songwriters. It’s called Mishara Music and is based here in Midcoast Maine.

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dish Portuguese Fish Soup Vegetables Onion Garlic Shallots Leeks Carrots Red Bell Pepper San Marzano Tomatoes Clam Juice Chorizo Authentico

Spices Suggested Fish* Saffron Halibut Turmeric Salmon Cumin Swordfish Fennel Seed Mussels Salt & Pepper Monkfish Coriander Scallops Crushed Red Pepper Maine Shrimp Smoked Paprika *3-4 choices works best Dried Thyme

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Sherry • Extra Virgin Olive Oil • Brandy Method Dice vegetables & chorizo to a medium dice.

Heat soup pot to medium high heat, add olive oil & diced vegetables & sweat for 5 minutes, add chorizo & spices and cook for 5 minutes.

Deglaze pot with sherry & brandy, allow alcohol to cook out.

Crush tomatoes and add along with their juices.

Add clam juice & bring to a boil, reduce heat & simmer for 15 minutes.

Sear fish to ½ doneness, set aside & pat dry with paper towel to remove excess oil.

Add cleaned mussels & fish to soup pot & cover. Cook until mussels open.

Ladle into soup bowl & serve with crusty bread.

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PHOTOS BY: KAY STEPHENS

2011 Pemaquid Oyster Festival

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Shuckin’ it up.

nce, in college, there was an adjective my roommates and I discussed over a pitcher of cheap beer, which we all hated. It was the word “moist.” Something about it, whether describing brownies or the obvious sexual connotations, just grated on our collective nerves. It needed to be banned from the English language altogether.

So, as I’m sitting at the 2011 Pemaquid Oyster Festival enjoying a Pemaquid Ale, the girl pouring beers is wearing this T-shirt that reads “Oysters make you moister” with a drawing of a cartoon oyster sticking its tongue out.

This year’s Poetry Contest winner was Johanna “Jo” Cameron, of Edgecomb.

And here was the winning entry.

Gahhhhhhhh!!!!!!

Moving on. This year’s Oyster Festival landed on a beautifully hot day on Sunday, Sept. 25 at the Schooner Landing Restaurant and Marina in Damariscotta. Tents were filled with people enjoying plastic glasses of hearty Pemaquid beers in one hand and cardboard trays of oysters in the other. When you go to events such as these, you want to trust where your oysters come from. The oysters provided for the festival by the Pemaquid Oyster Company are among the many harvested from nurseries kept in the Damariscotta River, and are the cleanest, most refreshingly tangy I’ve ever tasted.

Oscar, the roistering oyster, and Clancy, the clamorous clam, climbed out of their beds in the tide flats and clambered over the dam.

They picked up Mike the Mussel bound for a place to hang, when suddenly, out of nowhere, came the horrible lobster gang!

Seven shuckers with protective gloves and oyster knives cranked them out in rapid succession over a bed of crushed ice as patrons lined up with their trays. If you had them raw, choices included a mini bar of mignonettes, including my two favorite, sesame ginger and champagne tarragon. They were also offered up hot, Rockefeller style with a comfort bite of Parmesan and warm spinach.

This year broke a Pemaquid Oyster Festival record when they ran out of oysters at about 3:30 p.m., after shucking 14,960 of them! The Maine Champion Oyster Shucker was Carter Newell, of Damariscotta, with a time of 24 oysters in two minutes, 15 seconds.

Smokey McKeen and Chris Davis reciting a haiku for oysters.

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Oscar, filled up with liquor courage, bravely responded, “Shucks, that deal was never on paper, and we’re out to make a few bucks.”

The two mobs joined in battle, the lobs had the upper hand but full of craft and strategy were the guys in the Bivalve Band.

Mike attached to a reef rock while the clam did a nearby dive.

Oscar caught hold of a piling and swung them all three out alive.

Combining poetry with oysters this year, the Maine Coast Book Shop and Café sponsored the first-ever Pemaquid Oyster Poetry Contest. The contest was open to any style of poetry, as long as it included the word, “oyster” in it. There were no rules about the word “moist.”

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“Aha,” said their leader, Homarus, “It’s the bivalves from Salt Marsh Cove!

I thought we had an agreement, where you could, and could not, rove.”

They lurked in the shade of an old dock.

Their foes found them hard to find.

Then the three pals skipped over the river, left the lobster mob far behind.

When they got to Damariscotta they picked up a trio of girls, and joining the Oyster Festival, presented them each with pearls.

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Chef What inspired you to pursue the culinary art?

I always knew that I love food and cooking but never really thought of making it as profession. When comparing food with my other interests, it is food that get me consistently want to learn more, experience more, and create more. I can now say that my inspiration is from my passion of food.

Where did you get your start?

I started my restaurant job not knowing what I wanted. So I was both dishwasher and bus boy for a while until I realized that front of the house did not fit me well. My very first kitchen job was in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., and I was very happy for my full time position as kitchen prep at 17 years old.

What is the best part of running a restaurant?

I get to try cooking and eating many exciting ingredients than other people who are not in this business. And a lot of them are wholesale prices!

What is your favorite dish to create?

Definitely noodle! I grew up with all kinds of noodles and there were street vendors with noodle carts every block in town. I also feel like

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If you were marooned on a desert island, what meal would you want most to eat?

I’m generally not a meat person. But when I’m too exhausted from doing physical works I would crave for a big piece of steak or pork chop. And in this case I would want the same thing, for sure.

Why did you choose the coast of Maine on which to live and work?

I don’t mind driving hours to cities but I don’t really want to drive hours to be close to nature.

And when it comes to food, we don’t eat local food to be cool but it is seriously the best thing.

What is your favorite cooking tool?

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What makes a kitchen work well?

Team work, team work, and team work.

If you were not a chef, what might you be?

Park ranger at national park or state park somewhere. Baxter State Park would be great!

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Rad Happenings are the kind of events or scenes that are developing here that you will probably want to be hip to Nov. 12, Bar Harbor 4th Annual Bed Races Down Main Street Following an insane pajama sale from 6 to 9 a.m., Bar Harbor residents will turn out on Cottage Street to watch

the Fourth Annual Bed Races. Each team in the zany contest consists of five participants. One gets to ride the bed while four members of the team push it.

Teams are asked to decorate beds in a tasteful manner “appropriate for youth viewing.” (Well, there goes my idea....)

PHOTO BY: ROCK COAST ROLLERS

PHOTO BY: BAR HARBOR CHAMBER OF COMMERCE

Each team will run its bed individually until all beds have completed the course once. The top four times will run off until just two final beds remain in the running for which first place winners will receive $500 and second place winners will receive $200. Both placing teams will also score a trophy and uninhibited bragging rights. A prize will also be awarded in the category of “Best Decorated Bed.” Anyone over 14 is welcome to compete but at least one member of the team must be 18 or older. A $25 entry fee per team. For more information, call 207-288-5103 or lrupp@barharborinfo.com.

Nov. 19, Rockland Rock Coast Rollers Night at Waterworks Pub The Rock Coast Rollers, as profiled in this month’s The Story Behind... the Derby Girls, will be hosting a FUNdraiser/party at The Waterworks Pub, featuring the band When Particles Collide. The band is a rock ‘n roll duo from Bangor and plays a high-energy, captivating set of original songs about the things that keep people up at night.

There will be a raffle and drinks specials, plus lots of time to meet and chat it up with the women in the league. No skates within the bar. What are you, Tootie from Facts of Life?

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et’s cut to the chase. When and where was the first traditional Thanksgiving?

Was it with the pilgrims in 1621 at Massachusetts Bay? How about Texas in 1541 or 1598? Or was it Maine in 1607? Maybe it was in Virginia in 1610 or Florida where a small colony of French Huguenots living near present-day Jacksonville noted a special Thanksgiving prayer. That colony soon was wiped out by the Spanish.

Now here is Maine’s story.

‘Sunday, the 9th of August[1607], in the morning, the most part of our whole company of both our ships landed on this island,... where the cross standeth, and there we heard a sermon delivered by our preacher, giving God thanks for our happy meeting and safe arrival in the country.’

— George Weymouth English explorer George Weymouth had spent the summer of 1605 exploring the coast of Maine. Upon completing his mission, Weymouth returned to England where the news of his voyages excited many of his

countrymen, including several businessmen.

A new venture to Maine was planned and Weymouth again set sail to the New World with approximately 45 settlers. The group made landfall in 1607 at the mouth of the Kennebec River at what is now Popham Beach.

The settlement at Popham Beach lasted only 13 months, but historians document that the settlers, having safely arrived from England, built their shelters and prepared for the coming winter, held a celebration of Thanksgiving in the fall of 1607, a full 14 years before the Pilgrim’s first Thanksgiving.

What makes this especially difficult is the fact that “thanks” was given at every meal during Puritan New England, regardless if it was a pot of stewed beans or a lavish spread. Heck, who wouldn’t be thankful after a life-threatening three-month journey across the treacherous Atlantic, only to find a land with unseen aborigines peering at them from every tree and hill? To wonder into an unknown territory without the slightest notion if you were going to be able to survive must have taken a special breed of people who just were simply happy and thankful to have the opportunity to start life anew.

The reason that the settlement at Popham Beach was so short-lived is chronicled. In the winter of 1608, the storehouse burned.

That same winter, the settlement’s president, George Popham, died. Raleigh Gilbert, related to Sir Walter Raleigh, succeeded Popham.

The following spring, a ship bringing supplies relayed to Gilbert that his brother, John, had died in England leaving him a vast fortune.

Gilbert returned to England, takin with him the rest of the settlers.

Butternut Squash and Yukon Gold Gratin with Gruyere Cheese

With that in mind, let’s have some good ol’ Yankee food for the holidays. I will not tell you how to cook your turkey; everyone has their own little quirks, so here are some recipes to accentuate your family’s centerpiece.

What will you wish for?

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We normally put something sweet on our squash once or twice a year. And I do love squash prepared that way but when I added savory to an already sweet squash, I thoroughly enjoyed the difference.

2 T. butter or margarine 4 c. thinly sliced onions 1 1/4 lbs. butternut squash, peeled, seeded and cut into 1/4-inch slices 1 1/4 lbs Yukon gold potatoes, peeled and cut into 1/4-inch slices 1 c. half-and-half 1 t. salt

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1/2 t. black pepper 2 c. fresh breadcrumbs 2 c. packed grated gruyere cheese 1 1/2 T. chopped fresh sage Preheat oven to 350 ° F. Butter a 9x13inch baking dish. Melt butter in large skillet over med-high heat and add onions. Sauté until deeply caramelized, about 20-30 minutes. Lay alternating layers of squash and potatoes in pan.

Layer onions on top. Mix half-and-half, salt and pepper; pour over top. Cover tightly with foil and bake 90 minutes.

Increase oven temperature to 400 ° F. Mix breadcrumbs, sage and cheese in bowl. Sprinkle over Gratin. Bake uncovered until top is golden brown and crisp, an additional 30 minutes.

Spiced Pumpkin Latte Ever think of relaxing after dinner with a hot beverage? Here is the perfect one for you. Who knows? It may even take desserts place.

1/2 c. ground coffee 1 1/2 c. water 3 c. milk 3/4 c. canned pumpkin (NOT pumpkin pie filling) 1/3 c. brown sugar 1/2 t. cinnamon 1/4 t. ginger 1/8 t. nutmeg Whipped cream Ground nutmeg Place coffee in the filter of a drip coffee maker. Add water and brew the coffee.

While the coffee brews, combine in a large saucepan the milk, pumpkin, brown sugar, cinnamon, ginger and 1/8 tsp nutmeg. Cook and stir over medium heat until steaming. Remove from heat.

Divide the coffee into five mugs. Add the milk mixture and stir. Top with whipped cream and a light sprinkling of nutmeg (or cinnamon).

Traditional Indian Pudding with Cinnamon Cream I didn’t Yank this recipe too much. When you have something so inviting and unchanged for so long, I really didn’t want to frig with it.

5 c. milk 1 c. light cream or half-and-half One stick butter or margarine ½ c. finely ground cornmeal ¼ c. flour 1 t. salt ½ c. molasses 3 eggs, beaten 1/3 c. brown sugar, packed 1 t. cinnamon ½ t. nutmeg ½ t. ginger Cinnamon Cream to garnish, recipe follows* Preheat oven to 250° F. Bring the milk, cream, and butter to the scalding point in a large heavy-bottomed saucepan

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over medium heat. In a medium mixing bowl, combine cornmeal, flour, and salt.

Stir in molasses. Pour approximately 1 cup of the scalded milk in a thin stream into the cornmeal mixture, whisking constantly. When combined, pour the cornmeal mixture into the pot with the remaining scalded milk, stirring constantly. Cook over medium heat until thickened. Whisk the eggs with the sugar until incorporated. Slowly add about 1 cup of the hot cornmeal mixture in a thin stream into the beaten eggs, whisking constantly. Then add the egg mixture to the remaining cornmeal mixture, stirring. Add cinnamon, nutmeg, and ginger and stir to fully incorporate spices.

Grease a 2 qt. casserole dish and pour hot cornmeal custard mixture into dish. Bake at 250° F for approximately 2 hours, until the top is browned and the pudding jiggles only slightly when the dish is gently shaken. Let cool on a rack for about 1 hour. Serve the pudding warm, not hot, with Cinnamon Cream.

Refrigerate leftovers.

For Cinnamon Cream: Whip 1 cup heavy whipping cream with 2 heaping tablespoons confectioners’ sugar and ½ teaspoon ground cinnamon until it reaches soft peaks. Serve with Indian Pudding. *Feel free to toss in some raisins, chopped dates, or ~ my recommendation ~ Craisins, if you like.

This is also great with the cinnamon cream, above . . . or you can try it with a scoop of ice cream ~ I like French vanilla, butter pecan, or cinnamon. Or go the traditional route and pour some thick cream over the top right before serving.

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In a saucepan, combine apricots, brown sugar, raisins and water; bring to a boil. Reduce heat to simmer and stir while simmering for 5 minutes. Stir in cranberries, apple and lemon zest; simmer for 10 minutes more. Stir lemon juice, ginger and pepper flakes into the mixture before removing from heat.

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Wood Chop — the school of what’s next

By Shlomit Auciello

airplane strikes at the World Trade Center and the Pentagon — told Jessica it was time to move to Maine, where they had spent summers for many years.

The first thing they planted when they arrived at their new home, almost a year later, was mint.

“There was mint in our driveway in Brooklyn,” says Manbeck. “When we’d pull out onto the street, we would smell mint.” Today, she picks a handful of the herb and brings it into the kitchen to make a pot of tea.

“We had never farmed,” Silverton says. “I think that’s an important consideration in the genesis of this.”

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n a chilly fall morning, Seth Silverton sits by a fire ring outside his Lincolnville home, thinking about the coming of winter.

In the yard around him, a flock of 20 chickens peck at the ground.

The Wood Chop School’s founder and director, Seth Silverton, describes the system he uses to catch manure from his rabbits, to use in compost that nourishes his vegetable garden.

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“I’m kept going by the fact that there are things to put in the ground now that will come up in the spring,” he says, as he sets another chunk of split cordwood in the glowing coals.

Silverton and his wife, Jessica Manbeck, are relatively new to homesteading. At the end of that difficult day on Sept. 11, 2001, when Manbeck arrived at home in Brooklyn’s Park Slope neighborhood, Silverton — in response to that morning’s

Silverton is referring to the Wood Chop School, a program of courses to help participants get in touch with the essential tasks and rhythms of a sustainable lifestyle.

While the family kept a small flower and herb garden in Brooklyn, the land around their house in Maine shows a more serious commitment to agriculture. Jerusalem artichokes form a hedge next to the street, providing shelter for the chickens. The kitchen garden is abundant with mint and other herbs. This past summer, Silverton grew spinach, peas, several varieties of string beans, radishes, potatoes, carrots, two types of cabbage, celery, Swiss chard, many rows of tomatoes,

beets, fennel, lettuces, eggplant and more, much of which was sold to a restaurant in Camden.

Behind the house, a rabbit hutch sits over a wheelbarrow, part of a system Silverton says was inspired by the work of organic farmer and locavore hero Joel Salatin, whose invention of portable sheltering systems was highlighted in Michael Pollan’s book, “The Omnivore’s Dilemma.”

Silverton shows off his “rabbit tractor,” a chicken-wire traveling hutch that allows him to move the animals around his yard, leaving fertilizer in their wake.

Additional manure, produced overnight by the chickens and rabbits, is piled high each morning, nearby. By the end of the end of the day, the chickens, in their hunt for protein-filled grubs and worms, will have leveled that pile.

“They turn the compost, find bugs to eat — protein — and turn it into waste, which feeds the compost pile. Everything that we learn and everything that we do is about embracing a healthier existence and disconnecting from an unsustainable food delivery system.”

While the rabbits and hens will live a long life as fertilizer producers, roosters will be culled.

“Four of the boys will go into the pot because they fight,” says Silverton.

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“He said, ‘You should focus on resource scarcity.’ He was talking about water and oil,” Silverton remembers.

While some might have taken that as advice to invest in those scarce commodities, Silverton chose a different course, one that he says is being mapped today by those who are picketing on Wall Street and in other places of financial power.

Jessica Manbeck, a former marketing director, now embraces a life inn which she has direct contact with the natural systems that put food on her table.

After working for many years in investment banking in New York City, Silverton moved to Midcoast Maine with his family, worked as the commercial sales manager for a large oil company and started an energy consulting business, where he advocated for the use of alternative energies and the exploration of sustainable energy sources.

He credits the founding of the Wood Chop School to a conversation he had with peak oil advocate Matthew Simmons at the Farnsworth Art Museum’s opening of artist Jamie Wyeth’s 2007 series of paintings, The Seven Deadly Sins.

“Occupy Wall Street is the result of the public’s anger about the abdication of responsibility,” he says. “I was amazed that people would invest in things they knew nothing about. A lot of what Wood Chop School is about is philosophical issues. It’s a way for people who are interested in disconnecting from an unsustainable system [to embrace] a healthy, sustainable lifestyle.”

Wood Chop’s target market comprises those who are living in much the way that Silverton, Manbeck and their two children lived, before they moved to Maine.

He describes potential students as those who live in cities and shop in the large chain natural food stores, now common across the U.S. They want to know that what they eat has been grown and processed with care and compassion, he says. They want to know their farmers. “The reality is, that’s not your farmer,” he says. “You are your farmer.”

Silverton wants to give those who attend Wood Chop a hands-on, dirt-

under-the-fingernails understanding of the full story of their food.

“When I make my own soil and know which seeds I saved, I know what I’m putting into my body.” He says the only experience that is more satisfying than providing extremely nutritious and delicious food for oneself, is providing it for others.

The Wood Chop School’s mission is to share the path to that experience — what Silverton calls “value skills” — with those who have not yet had access to it.

“They have skills that are not related to sustaining themselves,” he says.

Silverton believes that most people in modern society judge themselves in terms of the objects that surround them and the material wealth and prestige they accrue. Wood Chop School is an attempt to change that perspective.

“We’re going to do that through experiential learning, simply explained and easily attainable classroom instruction, farm visit exercises and (Wood Chop Continued Page 15)

Eggs from Seth Silverton’s and Jessica Manbeck’s chickens are just one part of a quiche made with ingredients grown at the family’s Lincolnville homestead.

Silverton says the only experience that is more satisfying than providing extremely nutritious and delicious food for oneself, is providing it for others.

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By Tris Coburn and Jon Eaton

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s Churchill might have said, publishing is the worst business there is except for all the other ones.

Every new book is a new product launch. In the U.S. alone, an estimated 316,480 new titles were printed on traditional offset presses in 2010 – up 5 percent from 2009. That’s a lot of books, almost every one of them — except, say, a new novel from Stephen King or a new self-help from Dr. Oz — an expression of pie-eyed optimism on the part of its publisher, who stacked anywhere from 1,000 to 1,000,000 paperback or hardcover copies in a warehouse, convinced that readers would come.

Small wonder authors with “platforms” are so preferred by publishers.

In addition, a staggering 2.7 million books were released by nontraditional publishers in 2010, and almost all were printed digitally by what are, in effect, high-end photocopiers and marketed almost exclusively on the Internet. (That number was up 169 percent from 2009, the fifth year running of triple-digit increases, and the number in 2011 will be higher.)

This print-on-demand (POD) alternative still costs more per copy than offset printing, but not nearly as much as it used to. POD books, once of substantially inferior quality to offset-printed books, are now virtually indistinguishable from them if (a big if) the files are properly prepared. And whereas the minimum offset print quantity is 1,000 to 2,000 copies, the minimum quantity for POD is one — no expensive inventory to maintain, and if the book needs updating, you can do it immediately without having to eat obsolete inventory.

The old publishing rules of thumb no longer apply in the Digital Age, except when they do apply. Publishers are still gatekeepers — nothing like investing your retirement savings to sharpen your critical faculty. Publishers are facilitators; it’s our job to know that a PDF file uploaded to a POD printer needs to be X1:a compliant or it might print gray-scale. The old publisher’s definition of a book still applies — a million details, any one of which can screw you — and it’s a publisher’s job to get the million details right so that authors are free to write.

But so much is new. A book used to have to be thick enough to have a spine-printed title for spine-out bookstore display, but if its primary market will be on-line, that no longer matters. And why not let the digital edition precede the print edition? (Print books aren’t going away; witness the 5 percent increase in offset-printed books in 2010.) Why not bundle print and ebook copies for sale? The possible permutations are dizzying.

Cadent Publishing is an old-style publisher trying new ways.

We practice hand-crafted publishing for the Digital Age. We seek out good books, hound authors for rewrites, edit more closely than New York publishers have done for years, and sweat the details of text and cover designs. And we bear all production costs ourselves. Authors pay nothing. That’s oldstyle publishing.

There is some good news, however; in 2010, U.S. ebook sales increased 164 percent over 2009 to $440 million.

Despite Google, despite an app for everything, readers are still reading; overall, book sales are going up.

The average sale of all these new books in the U.S. is fewer than 1,000 copies. Remove the bestsellers from that mix and we’re left with an awful lot of books selling dozens or low hundreds.

Sobering.

There is some good news, however; in 2010, U.S. ebook sales increased 164 percent over 2009 to $440 million. Despite Google, despite an app for everything, readers are still reading; overall, book sales are going up.

For the vast majority of writers and publishers, this is not a getrich-quick scheme. The best reason to write, perhaps the only legitimate reason, is because there’s nothing you’d rather be doing. If you’re compelled to write, you’re a writer, maybe not a good one yet, but a writer.

And the best reason to publish is similar. If you read a good manuscript with mounting excitement, if you realize with delight that you can see ways to make this good book even better, if your synapses start firing ideas (editing, rewriting, packaging, titling, promotion) to help the book reach its audience, and if you’re ready to commit your last remaining cash to make it happen, you’re a publisher, maybe not a good one yet, but a publisher.

We don’t pay advances, but we share all ebook revenues 50/50 with our authors — newstyle — reverting to traditional royalties for sales of print copies — old-style. And we lie awake nights (so old-style) dreaming up new-style ways to promote our books and figuring out when to print offset, when to print digitally, and when to focus on ebooks. Flexible, nimble, new-style publishing combined with old-style handcrafted bookmaking—that’s what we’re aiming for. And who are we, and why do we think we can do this? Check us out at cadentpublishing.com.

Our first book, September Nights: Hunting the Beasts of the American League East, by Tampa Bay Rays All-Star Pitcher James Shields (as told to Bill Chastain of MLB.com), is available in a paperback edition, a basic ePub edition for Kindle, the Nook, and other e-readers, and as an enhanced ebook for the iPad and Kindle Fire. The enhanced edition has embedded video links to baseball highlights mentioned in the text – a model we will continue to explore for appropriate works.

Our second release is the thriller LiveCell, written by local award-winning columnist Eric Green. We read the manuscript with a sense of discovery similar to what Balboa must have felt as the Pacific came into view. Now LiveCellis available in paperback and as an ebook and will soon be serialized in The Herald Gazette. (Nothing new-style about that: Charles Dickens serialized Oliver Twist.) A kiss is still a kiss, and a great story is still a great story, no matter in what medium it’s told. Publishing is dead. Long live publishing.

Tris Coburn and Jon Eaton are co-publishers of Cadent Publishing.

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“LiveCell” tells the tale of a charismatic inventor from nowhere who introduces a radical new phone to the world — free, limitless, voiceless and intuitive — a phone animated by his own cultured stem cells. But what if this new phone began to change its users and usher in a better world order … and the old order’s powerbrokers were determined to stop it?

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Wood Chop Continued from Page 13 instruction,” That said, he adds: “It is important for people to realize that the actual farm is unimportant. It’s the process of doing, getting one’s hands dirty, that’s important.”

and recognize the ebb and flow that has always been part of life.

Returning to the fire circle, Manbeck pours out the sweet-smelling tea.

“We want to send people back to urban areas with the knowledge of what they can do with the space they have,” she says. Wood Chop School has an instructor, living in the Williamsburg neighborhood of Brooklyn, who will act as support for those who want to carry their lessons home to their city.

Like nutritionist and naturalist John Bagnulo and permaculture designer Jesse Labbe-Watson, the woman in Williamsburg is part of what Silverton calls the school’s “wisdom bank.” He says Midcoast Maine is rich in these human resources, and that makes the region a center for sustainable thought.

The area is abundant with natural resources, such as water, that can sustain human life on an ongoing basis, and “will give the state a competitive advantage in the future,” he says.

“We have to keep in mind that we’re not only talking about food,” says Manbeck. “We’re talking about fishermen and oyster growers.” She praises Port Clyde Fresh Catch, the nation’s first community supported fishery, where subscribers purchase shares in advance of a season’s harvest.

Seth Silverton, founder and director of The Wood Chop School, says a paradigm shift is underway, in which people must prepare to live well and happily with limited resources.

“Where else in the country is that type of effort taking off?” she asks.

Silverton says schools like Augusta’s Primitive Skills School and the work of the Maine Organic Farmers and Gardeners Association are part of an array of ways for people to approach a major paradigm shift.

According to founder and director Michael Douglas, the Primitive Skills School seeks to help people awaken latent instincts and senses, “that were genetically handed down through our ancestry.”

Douglas says getting one’s feet onto bare earth, listening to the language of birds and learning about edible and medicinal plants help people wake up

According to Silverton, the physical and social infrastructure that has been created out of our dependence on oil is “the greatest misallocation of resources in human history” and has built barriers that make it urgent for humanity to reconnect with our basic needs. Wood Chop School, according to one of its board members, is “a school of what’s next.”

“What we’re doing isn’t remarkable, in and of itself,” says Silverton. “It’s remarkable because we’re framing it in a context of urgency. If you face this paradigm shift and make healthy decisions, you can come out the other side of this in a healthy and happy way.”

Silverton says the combination of finite resources and unprecedented population growth makes change inevitable. He says the answer is not to come up with another way to make energy. Instead, he suggests people, “Buy an insurance policy that will change your life.”

Silverton and Manbeck say urban residents, who already seek local goods and services and study ways to live more in harmony with the earth, will benefit by learning how to make and grow the things they need, even if they can only practically produce a small fraction of what it takes to survive.

“Ultimately, those people who sit in that classroom, regardless of where they live, will have a skill set that will pay dividends for the rest of their lives,” says Silverton.

One of Wood Chop’s first lessons uses Jerusalem artichokes to teach about the life cycle of farming. Silverton says the border he planted shelters his chickens all summer long. They scratch the soil and eat insects, leaving fertilizer behind.

“The chickens provide protein and the Jerusalem artichokes will always be in the ground and always be plentiful,” he says.

Initially, Wood Chop students are expected to be those who already visit Maine on a regular basis, says Manbeck, a former marketing manager for a large Maine auction house. Both she and Silverton speak of bringing the financial wealth of urban dwellers to cashstrapped Maine, while sending the wealth of the Midcoast’s deep knowledge of the natural order back to the cities.

“It’s about creating leaders in the community,” he says.

Classes at The Wood Chop School will resume in May. For more information, contact Seth Silverton at 763-2775 or by email at seth@thewoodchopschool. com. The school’s website can be found at thewoodchopschool.com.

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he long-awaited ability to update Facebook Business Page from mobile phones is finally here. If you have downloaded the latest version of the Facebook app for your mobile phone, and are the admin of your business page, you are in luck.

Here’s how to do it: 1. Launch the latest version of the app on your smart phone 2. On the main screen, choose “Friends” 3. One of the options is “Pages”. Click that, and you’ll see all the business pages you administer. You can upload information right from there.

If you don’t have the Facebook app, you can still upload photos by emailing them from your phone to the specialized email address for your business page. You can find that by going to “Edit Page” on your page, then choose mobile. You’ll find that address there. Email the photo to that address; make the subject line the photo caption.

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Taste of the World BELFAST — The Taste of the World and Birdhouse Auction of beautifully decorated birdhouse will be held at the Hutchinson Center on Nov. 9, 5:30 to 8 p.m., to benefit Habitat for Humanity of Waldo County.

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What to bid on? Have you ever wanted to ride the tugboat out of Belfast Harbor? Want to have a message on the marquee at the Colonial Theater? The auction will be held Saturday, Nov. 26, at the Belfast Boathouse with an opening preview at 4 p.m. The auction begins at 5:30 p.m. and will continue until all items are gone. An entrance fee of $10 per person or $15 per couple will be charged; cash bar will available.

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Nigerian artist and Art Ambassador Ibiyinka Olufemi Alao filled his temporary home and gallery with his work.

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Sharing the heart of art

By Dagney C. Ernest

Nigerian artist returns to Midcoast

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“I listen to the world with the aid of a paint brush,” Ibi Alao said. His self-portrait capturing that sentiment is titled “Myself as an Individual.”

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biyinka Olufemi Alao is used to traveling all over the world, a requirement of his post as Art Ambassador of Nigeria. He returns to his home country in winter, as it doesn’t get below 60 degrees there, and between assignments, in order to recharge a bit. This summer, however, Alao found, somewhat to his surprise, that the pace and the creative energy of the Midcoast allowed him to recharge here, as well as work on his color-rich paintings.

The evening will open with a reception and opportunity to look at Alao’s art. He will do a presentation from 6:15 to 7:30 p.m., followed by an hour of mingling. His original artworks and prints will be available for purchase. There is no admission fee for “Eternity in our Hearts,” although donations will be welcomed in support of Alao’s work for peace around the world. As seating is limited, RSVPs by Friday, Nov. 4 are requested by calling 594-7004 or sending email to ibiyinka@papermyth.com

“This is just delightful to do and is turning out to be a good decision,” he said during his stay.

Thanks to a grant and the support of local artists such as photographer Joyce Tennesen, Alao spent the summer living, painting and showing his work in a home-turned-gallery on Route 90 in Rockport. He also shared his art and his positive vision for the future with young people. When he first arrived in the area, after a residency in Missouri, Alao spent time with the teen students of Rockland’s Watershed School and RSU 13’s Alternative Education program. Then he was interviewed and filmed by students at the Maine Media Workshops. He visited with elementary school age children of Belfast and Searsport and did presentations at Midcoast libraries and churches.

Alao returns to the Midcoast this month to present “Eternity in our Hearts,” an evening reception that will feature an exhibit of his original artworks, a taste of food from different parts of Africa, music, dance and drama. The exhibit will highlight his work with students around the area and is sponsored by the Nigerian Federal Ministry of Information and Culture, several Midcoast schools and the Rockport Opera House, where the event will take place Tuesday, Nov. 8 beginning at 5:30 p.m.

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Alao’s presentations mix long-time tradition and the 21st century: he wears the traditional garments of his Yoruba background and plays a djembe drum, but he shares his prolific body of work via a PowerPoint slide show.

His artwork employs the bright colors and traditional scenes of West Africa; his stories also reflect this cultural heritage but with an eye to the universal and a passion for peace. He believes in the power of art for both personal redemption and as a form of diplomacy.

“True Miracles,” a large acrylic and tempera painting that Alao uses as an object lesson in his work with young people, is a good example. The painting depicts the oyster’s ability to turn an irritant into a pearl, something Alao’s father told him and his elder sister about when the artist was 10 and the family traveled from their inland home to Lagos, on the coast.

“He picked up an oyster shell and told the story, about how the oyster deals with the irritation and uses it to do the loveliest thing. It is a story about patience,” he said.

Alao said when he asks younger students what their irritations are, they usually say their brothers or their sisters. He points out that they cannot escape their siblings anymore than the oyster can get rid of its irritant, so they must use patience to transform their situation. He laughed when he thought of the problem on a larger scale.

“A mighty god sees us when we do things wrong but he doesn’t destroy us; he is making pearls of us,” he said.

The metaphor also carries over to another key concept Alao tries to share, that of looking at one’s greatest weakness to become true strength. Art literally taught Alao this lesson. He described himself as a student who had trouble speaking before the class and expressing himself in public.

“My parents and teachers would tell me if I could not talk about something, I should draw or paint about it … Art has healed me; I know what that power has done in my life and I’m glad to share it with people,” he said.

Alao trained as an architect at the University Of Ile-Ife, a six-year course that led to his working in an architectural firm. But he was always painting, often surrounded in his father’s home by young children, some of whom were refugees. One day, in an effort to keep them focused so he could work, he told them about an international art contest publicized in the newspaper. They took the bait but also insisted he enter his own work in the adult division.

Alao’s entry was a painting titled “Girls and a Greener Environment,” which depicts the life and values of a girl from infancy to womanhood. It won the right to represent Nigeria in the United Nations International Art Competition, where it placed first among 61 countries.

This led to Alao’s appointment by the Nigerian Embassy to be the country’s Art Ambassador. Among other things, the job has him speaking English much of the time — the last of the 14 languages he has acquired and one that pulls him up short from time to time.

“True Miracles” is an acrylic and tempera painting Ibiyinka Olufemi Alao uses in his work with children.

“My English teacher told me what a vegetarian is. When I heard about humanitarians, I could not understand why people thought they were wonderful,” he said with a laugh.

Alao’s good humor and genuine enjoyment of meeting all kinds of people helps him make warm connections that enlighten both sides. He uses the mirror as a metaphor for this approach to life, one he thinks can make a real difference in the world.

When one looks in a mirror, he said, all one sees is oneself and what is behind him or her.

“It is more healthy to not look in the mirror all the time but to look out the window — look forward, with hope,” he said.

Alao said he defines an artist as a person with a hole in his heart, a hole that is the size of the universe, “and when I am painting, I am trying to fill this hole in my heart.” Other people may try to fill that hole by being a builder or some other profession. Discovering one’s weakness, he said, is an opportunity to feel that hole and decide how to fill it — a process that makes us who we are.

Alao share his stories in his effort to use art as a tool for diplomacy. Forgiveness and redemption are not just vital for individuals but powerful allies for peace in this world. It is hard for a sovereign nation or ruling group to embrace these qualities, he admits.

“To learn to forgive is not very popular, but it does save lives. More people would be alive in Rwanda if they could have forgiven,” he said.

In Yoruba culture, art is said to be frozen music.

Alao always encourages the young people with whom he creates art to also write about their works so they may be more easily understood.

“You have a life in your heart and when you paint and write, you put your heart across … I really find joy in being an agent to share this story and how to use art for healing,” he said.

For more information about Alao and his work, visit ibiyinka.com.

PHOTO BY: DAGNEY C. ERNEST

Ibiyinka Olufemi Alao visited the RSU 20 summer school program in Searsport. COURTESY OF: IBI ALAO

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ArtFull Gifts Holiday Show set for Point Lookout Features area artisan food vendors and fine Maine arts and crafts Hummingbird by Erwin Flewelling.

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The show opens with The Gala Collectors Evening Friday, Nov. 18, from 5 to 8 p.m. with live jazz by Chris Poulin’s Shades of Blue. Attendees can enjoy a cash bar with delicious foods from fine area restaurants, handmade appetizers from local artisan food businesses, while meeting the artists and selecting gifts made by these talented exhibitors. Admission for the Gala is $10, valid for the entire weekend of shopping. The show continues Saturday and Sunday, Nov. 19 and 20, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Admission is $3. Admission benefits Coastal Mountains Land Trust and United Mid-Coast Charities. Both events will be held at Point Lookout, 67 Atlantic Highway, Northport.

Exhibitors will be showing a variety of work including: artisan designed jewelry in all mediums, hand woven natural fiber clothing, stoneware and porcelain pottery, reed baskets, stone and bronze sculpture, wood bird carvings, artist designed holiday cards, hand blown glass, hand spun woolens, original photography, prints and paintings in all mediums, plus much more. Exhibitors hail from across Maine, Vermont and New Hampshire.

Gala Collectors Evening Friday, Nov. 18, from 5 to 8 p.m.

Show continues Saturday and Sunday, Nov. 19 and 20, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.

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”These accomplished object makers bring to ArtFull Gift made in USA handmade creative gifts or fine art or craft for the local community to purchase for unique holiday gift giving” said show director and exhibitor Randy Fein. “In the 21st Century it is important to buy local and keep these small artist-run businesses thriving.”

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arly Birds will begin in the wee hours of Saturday, Nov. 19, dressed to shop, in the their pajamas! Boothbay Harbor begins its event-packed Early Bird Festival on Friday evening, Nov. 18, with entertainment by musician Dan Stevens at Mc Seagulls Restaurant.

The earlier the bird, the better the discounts. Most shops open at 6 a.m. Many participating businesses offer door prizes and refreshments, and the shopping continues throughout the day or until inventory runs out, whichever comes first. Shoppers can enjoy a break from the bargain frenzy over a hearty breakfast, a Bloody Mary and live entertainment by favorite local musician, Dave Gagne, at McSeagulls Restaurant, beginning at 7 a.m.

Every great festival needs a parade, so at 10 a.m. all pajama-clad shoppers will be invited to line up on the library lawn in the center of town and march in the Pajama Parade through downtown. Prizes will be awarded for Best Jammies, Best footwear, Best headwear, Best Children’s PJs under 12, and The Best Pajama Team of Shoppers.

Next up is Boothbay Harbors’ Signature Bed Race, where teams of five maneuver beds down Howard Street, two by two, as fast as they can. The final bed in the race will be awarded the prize and title for The Fastest Bed in The Harbor.

Many downtown businesses participate in a holiday window decorating contest. The winner will be chosen by people’s choice and all pajama shoppers will be encouraged to submit their vote in the beautifully wrapped box on the library lawn.

Festivities continue throughout the weekend with a Frozen Turkey Hunt at Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens, a fine selection of dining specials at local restaurants, live entertainment by the Tildan Katz Band at McSeagulls Restaurant on Saturday evening, Sunday Reggae Brunch at McSeagulls and a spectacular grand finale performance at the Boothbay Harbor Opera House by Nine Time Grammy Winning Kings of Texas Swing, Asleep at The Wheel.

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By Kay Stephens

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y the time this goes to print, Midcoast’s first skater-owned and skater-run, all-female flat track roller derby league, the Rock Coast Rollers, will have had their “coming out” debut in their first public competition with a Portland team — and you can bet instead of lace gloves and dance cards, it was a lot of hot pink tights and throwing hip checks.

Knox County Humane Society, as well as Lincoln Street Center for Arts and Education, their primary practice spot.

On Oct. 29, at Happy Wheels in Portland, they will have played against Maine Roller Derby’s Calamity Janes, a B-team, which is similar to a junior varsity team.

The league first began January 2011 when nearly 50 women gathered at Lincoln Street Center for Arts and Education to discuss the possibility of organizing a Midcoast flat track league. Ranging from 18-year-old girls to 40-something moms and artists, a crackling “hell, yeah!” energy filled the room. Most of the ladies had never been on skates or hadn’t been on skates for 20 years. But that wasn’t about to get in their way.

Why derby? When I was young I lived on a reservation in Oklahoma where the only two things to do were to hang out with the Medicine Man at the highway “ Indian” museum or roller derby in the garage. I did both and learned a great deal. Thank you, Grandfather, and thank you, roller derby goddess!

When I’m not down and derby... I am at home working in my studio, helping out at my daughter’s school, and raising two children.

Oh and I am married to a merchant Marine.

Too bad suckers!

Bucket List Sky diving • Own a great dane • Be on a national champ roller derby team!

Vegemighty Slamwitch Why derby? Because roller derby is trendy, hip, and cool, and so am I. When I’m not down and derby... I skate on the ice, too, with a stick and puck.

My other passion is food. I like cooking food, love growing food, but eating is really my favorite food-related activity.

Luckily, I get to grow food for a living.

Bucket List Go bowling on all seven continents • Try Vegemite • Get a bruise in the shape of the Virgin Mary and/or the Dalai Lama • Grow more of my own food • Raise chickens and/or ducks • Raise bees • Be a game show contestant • Make the world a better place

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“We’ve passed all of the tests,” says the president of Rock Coast Rollers’ nonprofit corporation’s board of directors Jen Munson, a.k.a. Sookie Stacked. “And we pride ourselves on playing clean.”

She elaborates why this national underground sport is so appealing to women: “It’s a unique sport. It’s skating; it’s full contact, like hockey. It’s all female and there’s a certain whimsy to it. We take ourselves seriously in that it takes great athleticism to play and sportswomanship is incredibly important to us, but there is also the humor of the uniforms and the derby names. Our uniforms are a mix of traditional athletic clothing and a little bit of crazy.”

The community they represent is one they also strongly support and the Rock Coast Rollers have volunteered in a number of charitable events with Big Brothers/Big Sisters, Youthlinks,

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In order to play roller derby, one has to pass a written test on rules, a skills test and an endurance test doing 25 laps in five minutes.

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Nearly eight months later, with formal bylaws and committees in place and with a grueling practice schedule of 2-3 times a week and 2-3 hours a night, the Rock Coast Rollers now have about 20 trained members who are ready to bout, or compete professionally with other teams.

Sk8 Plissken Why derby? I had already reached the pinnacle of the sport in all of my other athletic pursuits: Power Napping, Dog Wrangling, and Extreme Eating and decided it was time for a new challenge.

When I’m not down and derby... Nap, Wrangle, Eat Bucket List Be Bill Murray’s x-wife • Eat at the French • Laundry • Vacation in Algeria • Find out what happened to that girl in the Chock Full O’ Nuts.

“It’s our first bout and the Calamity Janes have had years of experience on us,” said Munson. “There’s a great deal of nervousness but also excitement. It’s sure to be an intense competition. Maine Roller Derby has acted as our sister league and we want to make them proud.”

Munson says their future plans include starting a junior roller derby league. “I’m a high school teacher and I know there are a lot of girls in the area interested in roller derby. It’s a sport that is to attractive girls who aren’t necessarily attracted to more traditional sports.”

To find out how their first bout went and to learn more details of when they will open the league to new girls, a.k.a “Fresh Meat” with try-outs on Nov. 5 and 6, visit rockcoastrollers.weebly.com.

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Standing in a wood shop and studio he shares with his father, artist Joe Ascrizzi, he is by a few of his latest projects, a bit twitchy at first in a white T-shirt with a hole in the shoulder, a bit of wood shaving in his curly black hair. He’s not used to being scrutinized on his technique or process, but as the conversation veers to what he’s working on at the moment, his manner invariably becomes more relaxed.

A rustic plate made of Bird’s eye maple anchored by two slats of tiger-striped Lacewood sits on the worktable. Laid upon

the wooden plate are a hand-sculpted fork and spoon, also crafted from Lacewood. The utensils are delicate, whimsically curved like a spinal column with scoliosis.

This is Ascrizzi’s prototype. He’s also working on a simple, modernist folding travel hanger out of maple that his artistgirlfriend, Lisa Dorr, can use in displaying her clothing designs.

The hanger eliminates the need for a hook at the end; the way it closes around a closet rod, the weight of the clothing serves as the balancing force.

He explains: “The reason I’m interested in making these household objects is not necessarily to create a huge production line out of them. I’m more interested in small, limited one-of-a-kind pieces so that they still feel real and interesting. Repetitive things don’t hold my interest for very long.”

He works primarily in wood, but has dabbled in drawing, writing, painting, metalwork and even filmmaking. If you’ve ever seen Space Mutants Must Die at the Maine International Film Festival and/or The Return of the Son of The Bride of Space Mutants Must Die Harder Again II: The Reckoning — Ascrizzi directed them.

His formal training has primarily come from apprenticing under his father. “Whether it was sweeping up or sanding something for my dad, you know Karate Kid style,” Ascrizzi says, he learned all the mechanics and functionalities of tools and the properties of wood, stone, bone and metals. While he works part time in high-end residential carpentry, he spends the rest of his time creating. “It’s hard enough to find the time to produce anything just in the process of living and working and making money. Finding the time to promote it is even harder.”

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He’s had some installations on display locally in Belfast and on a couple of the islands, but for now, Portland’s art scene seems to be beckoning him and Dorr more regularly. Currently they’re displaying a mixed media installation at chelliswilson through November called “studio” featuring a room made of Ascrizzi’s handmade furniture and objects and Dorr’s clothing and paintings.

Earlier this year, he had several pieces of work on display in the back room of Chase’s Daily in Belfast. One of the pieces was a giant 16-foot tree encased in a wooden slatted cage, which begs the question, “Who has the time to cut down a tree and make it into art?”

Untitled tree PHOTO BY: DAGNEY ERNEST

A closer examination of the split, hollowed out log revealed that he had stripped off all of the bark and in some places, nailed some rough-hewn, narrow boards onto it like the tree’s

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second skin. He then reapplied large patches of the original bark back onto the tree and over the stitched together boards in some kind of glossy, hard finish.

“I layered it with gesso,” he explains of the glossy bark. “It’s a mixture of naturally occurring mineral-like chalk, sort of a binder and a pigment. Once applied, it turns into a very hard, polished surface. I covered it in that because it would give me the burnished finish I wanted.” When asked why he stripped off the bark and didn’t just paint the original bark with gesso, he shrugged. “Because it wouldn’t have looked the same.

“I have ideas bubble up all the time, usually while I’m working on something else. With this log, I was working on something entirely different for a show involving a split tree — and I was out there in the woods on Vinalhaven, towards the end of winter whacking at this tree with a sledgehammer. I split it length wise, but part of it wasn’t letting go and held all this tension. At that moment, it came to me. I saw the whole finished piece. For whatever reason, I was compelled to make it.”

Ascrizzi didn’t think about where the split log would end up, he just had to get that piece out of his head and into finished form. In the end, Chase’s Daily took it and displayed it. It now sits outside at Waterfall Arts in Montville.

This tree, this fork and this clothes hanger represent an aesthetic that one can’t help but admire. Too many artists in the making create with notion that “if you build it, they will want it;” rather, Ascrizzi builds it because he has to. He doesn’t care who wants it. He wants it. That’s all that matters.

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Books, Movies, and Music reviews by those obsessed with books, movies and music.

Compiled by Kay Stephens

IS EVERYONE HANGING OUT WITHOUT ME?

by Mindy Kaling This spring brought us the release of Tina Fey’s Bossypants, which you may remember me being prettygoshdarn excited about. This fall brings us an equally joyous gift: Mindy Kaling’s sure-to-be-brilliant Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? Kaling plays the fantastically ridiculous Kelly Kapoor on The Office, and she’s also a coexecutive producer and writer of many of the show’s very best episodes, which means she’s pretty much extraterrestrially gifted. (She’s also funny as hell on Twitter, which is not that easy to pull off; do yourself a favor and follow her @mindykaling. No joke, people; she’s a good reason to start an account, if you don’t already have one. Witness: “He may have a fancy movie pedigree, but Ryan Gosling was born to be the guy in the remake of the music video for ‘Uptown Girl’.”)

Honestly, I have even higher hopes for this book than I did for Fey’s, and it may be because of Kaling’s seeming inherent approachability and supersmart-modern-feminist-positive vibe. There’s a tone in her work that makes me feel right at home, the way I do with my strongest female friends, and I think you’ll feel that way, too, so come get your own copy to hang around with.

HORRIBLE BOSSES reviewed by Tiffany Howard At times crude, ridiculous, and over-the-top, Horrible Bosses chronicles the misadventures of three friends who conspire to bump off each other’s troublesome bosses à la Hitchcock’s Strangers on a Train. Nick (Jason Bateman) is a long-suffering corporate underling chronically abused by his sadistically impossible-to-please boss Mr. Harkin (Kevin Spacey).

Spacey, reinventing the megalomaniacal boss he played in the 1994 movie, Swimming with Sharks (a superior dark comedy about taking revenge on an abusive boss), is almost as easy to hate as Colin Farrell’s spoiled, irresponsible party boy and Jennifer Aniston’s sexually predatory dentist. With the help of “murder consultant” Dean “MF“ Jones (Jamie Foxx), the trio of disgruntled employees embark on a crazy night of reconnaissance in preparation for their less-than-master plan when things begin to go awry. While it isn’t a perfect movie, it is an amusing one, particularly if you’ve ever had a boss from hell.

PRIMUS Green Naugahyde The first tune prepares you for a nice ride, getting you in the deep-bass mode that early Primus albums were known for. The first album since 1999’s Antipop, Green Naugahyde definitely pulls from much earlier sound and attitude like from 1990’s Frizzle Fry. “Hennepin Crawler,” the second track, is a killer tune returning to the careless ideals of Primus. Nothing poppy or commercialized, the usual bass-laden Primus, the track is stripped down with just guitar and drum accompaniment (and maybe some cowbell).

The lyrics on the entire work here are just as quirky, odd, goofy and downright incredibly enjoyable as I remember from 20-plus years ago. The third track is a funky jam pulling out some Bootsy Collins and Parliament chunkiness, urging one to stomp along and smile feverishly. My favorite tune, (this is disputable since I love No. 8 also), registers in at only Track 4 in the listing with tons more delicious music following.

A lyrical excerpt tells you just how serious Primus can be all the while having a great time: “Eternal Consumption Engine / Every time I get a little bit bored / Eternal Consumption Engine / Head to the Wally-Mart store / Eternal Consumption Engine / Livin’ high on the greasy hog / Eternal Consumption Engine / As long as they don’t deport my job / Eternal Consumption Engine / Cause everything’s made in China.” You get the point, and as I listen to this on repeat in multiple players in my household, I get fortified with my daily allowance of funk and fun.

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By Kay Stephens This feature highlights all the crafties in Maine who don’t necessarily have a physical shop or an online presence other than Etsy (etsy.com), which is like an online open craft fair that allows users to sell vintage items, handmade items that are modified, as well as unique (sometimes downright wacky) handcrafted art.

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eet St. Albans resident Rain Harbison of the Esty shop remainewicked, who responded to an Esty “Mustache Challenge” (yes, a real challenge to come up with as many products as possible with mustaches on them) by creating these Mustache Matryoshka Dolls made from men’s suits, ties and Hawaiian shirts.

These sweet new friends have securely attached appliqued faces, hair, mustaches and bellies. The ties, on all except the smallest doll, are securely attached at the top, making for added flapping fun. Give the whole set, keep the whole set, or divide the set amongst your favorite people, big or small. They can also double as a voodoo doll :) Adds Rain, “The Mustache Challenge was proposed by a fellow Etsy Maine teamer. She thought since mustaches were so popular that we should see what we could come up with, Maine style. She was hoping to get at least 12 different entries, so she could make a treasury. After the deadline, she made a treasury and then started taking votes for everyone’s favorite. These Mustached Matryoshkas won! I do not know how many people voted or what the final results were, but they won — nonetheless.

The reason I made the Matryoshkas, besides the challenge, is I’d like to see more eco-friendly toys, especially for boys. These dolls are made from 100 percent upcycled clothing and fabrics. Their main features are wool sweater mustaches and actual men’s suit ties. They are also stuffed with fabric scraps, which helps my business be virtually waste free!”

To see what else made it into the Maine “Mustache Challenge” visit etsymaineteam.blogspot.com/2011/10/mustache-maine-ia.html To see more of remainewicked’s work on Etsy visit etsy.com/people/ remainewicked

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t was a treat last Friday to discover that there was a movie called “The Thing” based somewhat on the classic 1982 science fiction horror film by John Carpenter.

The new movie tells us the story of what happened at that other outpost, but it’s really just the same old story retold with computer special effects. The new movie also takes place in 1982.

A movie about a space monster menacing scientists at an Antarctic research station was just the way to unwind after a long work week, even if the execution of the new movie pales in comparison to the previous installment.

The result is a mixed bag. I’m mostly bothered by the fact that this could have been so much better. The story could have been advanced in a strong writer’s hands to give us something new. While the effects were pretty good, it failed to have any truly classic moments.

The newest version of “The Thing” actually attempts to appeal both to new audiences and fans of the original by straddling the line between “remake” and continuation of the series. The film is technically a prequel to John Carpenter’s 1982 outing.

The new movie stars Mary Elizabeth Winstead (“Scott Pilgrim vs. The World”) as a scientist there to study the creature.

As you will recall, the 1980s version, starring Kurt Russell and a pre-oatmeal Wilford Brimley, started out with a couple of foreign scientists hunting down a dog with a rifle. The dog, once brought into the American’s outpost, turned out to be an alien shape-shifter of the nastiest possible variety. The thing would first transform itself either into a person or a dog, mimicking them perfectly, and then, when exposed it would sprout hairy spider legs and fangs and kill without mercy.

It worked on two levels. First, there was the paranoid, enemy among us vibe similar to “Invasion of the Body Snatchers” and then there was “we’re trapped in a hostile environment with a monster we can’t kill” claustrophobia, influenced by 1979’s scifi masterpiece “Alien.”

In any case, in the earlier movie the characters discovered that the thing had already killed everyone at another foreign outpost.

The new movie stars Mary Elizabeth Winstead (“Scott Pilgrim vs. The World”) as a scientist there to study the creature. Joel Edgerton of “Warrior” plays a pilot and Eric Christian Olsen of “Not Another Teen Movie” plays some random dude. None of the characters are developed at all. To even call them characters is a stretch. They all seem to be thrown together in this desperate situation, and there’s no real chemistry or relationships among them to give us a clue who these people are, other than future alien victims. No one in the cast has the screen presence Russell did.

I should also point out that the 1982 movie isn’t the “original.”

That movie was a remake of 1951’s “The Thing from Another World” starring James Arness as The Thing. I rented that movie this week simply to inform this review. It follows a similar plot to the other two with a group of military people and scientists discovering a flying saucer in the arctic and bringing an alien back to their outpost. There were a few instances in the 2011 movie that borrowed from the original rather than the 1982 version.

This movie featured that great old 1950s science fiction music complete with a Theremin. It was also one of those Cold War era movies dealing with our deep fear of atomic annihilation and Russians. Christine and I started laughing when they introduced the scientist character because he clearly had mad scientist hair.

I noticed it also featured a guy using a Geiger counter to locate the radioactive alien. The scene was too similar to the crew of

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They will also likely remember the terrific scene where Russell tried to figure out who was an alien and who was human by testing each person’s blood. When the blood jumped out of the dish, everyone jumped in their seats. I wanted so much to have a moment like that in this new picture, but it just didn’t happen.

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the Nostromo using a device to track the creature in “Alien.” So it’s clear that “The Thing” helped inspire “Alien,” which in turn helped inspire the second version of “The Thing.”

So as you can tell, I’ve been totally geeking out here, but the question remains: do you want to see this movie?

Despite all of my criticisms, I still had fun watching this new version of “The Thing.”

At the end of the day, you have to ask yourself, “What’s the point of watching cheesy science fiction monster movies anyway?” If you’re a fan of the genre, you’ll like it. If you’re not, you probably stopped reading already.

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eidi Vanorse won the “How Well Do You Know Midcoast Maine” photo contest and is our Spotlight winner this month. Born and raised in Rockland, she is a graduate of Rockland District High School and Thomas College in Waterville. She spent 15 years in banking prior to purchasing the Loyal Biscuit Company. She and her husband, Joel, live in Rockland with their four dogs, Buffy, Izzy, Fenway and Chuck.

be doing. One night in December 2009, my husband and I were having a totally random conversation and I said, ‘I bet it would be fun to own the Loyal Biscuit.’

He encouraged me to talk to the former owner and unbeknownst to us, the store was actually for sale! Talk about being in the right place at the right time. Less than a month later, we were the owners of the Loyal Biscuit and have been going dog-crazy ever since!

Q: What inspired you to open a cat and dog boutique in Maine and what is the magic sauce that makes it hip?

Q: What is the most rewarding part of your business?

A: We actually purchased the Loyal Biscuit Co. in January 2010, and since then have turned it into this amazing store. Actually, it is now two stores with our new location in Belfast. I think the magic sauce that makes us hip is the atmosphere our store provides. Since purchasing The Biscuit, we have added a more fun, communitybased atmosphere, something the store was severely lacking when we took over. Between the store dogs, Chuck and Fenway, and all of our customers’ dogs, you are bound to run into a dog or two when you visit. Add to that the personalities and awesome customer service that Mel, April and I provide, coming to the Biscuit is always a fun and friendly experience.

Q: What were your former jobs before this and is this the dream store you always imagined opening?

A: I never ever really imagined myself owning a business, let alone a pet supply boutique. I started in banking the day after I graduated from college and really thought that was what I would always

A: Well, playing with puppies is always fun, but I would have to say the most rewarding part of the business is when you help improve someone’s life, either for dog or owner. We have had many success stories of dogs who’ve had major itches, ear infections, hot spots, or are fussy eaters, etc. and by finding the right diet, their lives have greatly improved. There is nothing better than an owner coming in and thanking you for helping their dog or cat lead a better life. The other aspect I find truly rewarding are the relationships I have formed with our customers. I always get hugs from my customers when I haven’t seen them in a while - where else would customers and the store owner hug? Our customers really are like family!

Q: You offer a “Self Serve Dog Wash” which is kinda funny anyway, but then you’ve enacted an “Important Skunk Policy” to go with it. Did you have to enforce this policy after learning the hard way?

A: Thank goodness, no! We have been skunked before at our house and it is

not fun. We researched many other self-serve dog wash operations in the country before opening ours and that seemed to be something that was pretty consistent with all of them.

Skunk odor is just so strong and nasty and frankly, a water bath just doesn’t do anything to remove the oils that the spray contains. The hydrogen peroxide recipe that is on our website works really well, as does the Nature’s Miracle Skunk Remover we sell. I always keep a bottle of that at home, because it never fails. They get sprayed at night and the last thing you want to do is have to run to the grocery store to get supplies!

Q: On top of expanding your business to Belfast, you’ve invented an entire treat line for dogs (all gluten free, ha!).

Tell us what goes into these treats and where you locally source your ingredients.

A: April Thibodeau and I created the Loyal Biscuit Treat Company this summer. Currently we have original, which contains anise seed, and we just released Peanut Butter this week.

We hope to add to the line with other holiday and seasonal flavors, like gingerbread, blueberry and pumpkin.

Our treats are 100 percent organic and we try and source as many ingredients as possible from Maine, such as NonGMO organic cold-pressed canola oil

from Maine Natural Oils in Presque Isle and organic oat and brown rice flours from Fiddler’s Green Farm in Belfast. Our treats are wheat, corn and soy free and come in a fantastic tin that can be reused for refills. And since our refills come in a biodegradable and compostable bag, we are excited to see so many customers coming back to refill their tins with not only a Maine made product, but one that is so environmentally friendly.

Q: To inspire others, why is Midcoast Maine a great place to open a small business in your opinion?

A: For me, I love owning a business in Midcoast Maine. The close-knit community and support our customers provide is amazing. There isn’t any other place besides Maine where I would like to own a business. One of the things we love to do is support the local animal community in any way that we can and our customers have always participated in all of our events, from our nail-clipping clinics and giving tree at Christmas to our Pints for Paws event, which we are hosted again with Trackside on Oct. 24. The people of Midcoast Maine are the most caring and giving people I know!

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How does an artist make the transition from amateur to professional?

By Marc Ratner

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o you know someone who seems to be really talented as a singer / guitarist / drummer / pianist or trombone player? (Trombone player? I have a great story about a trombone player at the end of the column). If you do know someone that you consider to be very talented.....how would they make the transition from amateur to professional in today’s music business?

The answer that you hear most often these days is “Make a video for YouTube and have it become viral and make you a star”. That’s a perfect answer.....that presents only one small problem. You’ve got better odds winning the Maine lottery than you do having a video on YouTube go viral. Here are some stats about video on YouTube: From Hypebot.com:

Hmmm, that’s a lot of videos.

How do you get your video viewed?

I know - promote it on Facebook and Twitter.

Oops.

From Mashable.com:

Sorta hard to get noticed.

In spite of the stats social media is of course very important.

But the real answer on how to make the transition from amateur to professional is to make a commitment and understand that being a music pro is a full time job that requires as much learning and skill as it does to become any other working professional in life.

Even with tremendous skill and talent it takes persistence and determination. There really are no overnight successes discovered sitting at home in their bedrooms.

Connor Garvey is a Portland based singer-songwriter that just released his third solo album: (Disclaimer here - Connor’s new album “Where Ocean Meets Land” is on my Maine Midcoast based label - Mishara Music).

Connor’s story is unique as is every artist’s - there is no one path to take - but what he has in common is the determination to be a musician.

He’s always played music.

He was in a high school band and they made a cd.

After college - where he majored in biology at Lewis & Clark at the other Portland in Oregon - he returned to Maine, where he grew up and started working at a regular “safe” job.

The company he worked at provided access to a life coach.

They met and the coach agreed that Connor had to take the road less traveled - he needed to pursue music.

But how to do it?

Connor came up with a unique approach.

In order to see if he could make it work and hack the life of a traveling musician he quit his job and booked a nationwide trip on Amtrak and called clubs and artists in every market the trains stopped in and talked one or the

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other into booking him on their show the night he was in town.

All the way across the country to the Northwest then down the coast through California, across the Southwest and up to Denver.

It worked.

He traveled, he performed, loved the life and built a fanbase. That was in 2008.

He’s made two new albums since then - 2009’s “Constancy Of Stars” and the new “Where Ocean Meets Land”.

He’s not home very often but is building his career.

Do the talented people you know have that kind of fearlessness? That kind of drive?

That’s what it takes.

You can hear Connor’s new album on the “Where Ocean Meets Land” YouTube channel: http://www.youtube.com/user/WhereOceanMeetsLand And get a free song from the album at: http:// misharamusic.com/free/connorgarvey/ And - this month Dave Curtis is back from www. directcurrentmusic.com - my favorite site to check out what music is coming in the next few months. Dave concentrates on the “real” artists - songwriters and musicians.

He’s very excited about an Australian artist by the name of Grace Woodroofe. She was “discovered” down under by the late Keith Ledger and just made a big impression at the annual CMJ (College Media Journal) music convention in New York. Her latest album “Always Want” - already out in Australia - will release in the US on January 24th.

He is also eagerly anticipating the return of a band that’s been silent for over ten years - The Cranberries. Their new album “Roses” will be out on Valentine’s Day next year and you can download a free track from the album now at: http:// www.cranberries.com/#downloads Next month: If you don’t like the music you hear on the radio and think you can do better - well then you can get your chance to prove it.

Lastly.

A trombone player = rock star?

You never know.

There’s been one. Exactly one.

Jimmy Pankow of Chicago.

I had the opportunity to speak to him a number of times over the years while working with the band when I was doing promotion at Warner Bros / Reprise Records.

He was always really friendly and very appreciative of how lucky he’d been in music.

He knows there have not been a lot of rock trombone players.

Like I said - really only one.

The last time we spoke was right after the Reprise label released a “Chicago’s Greatest Hit’s” album which combined the hits from both their Columbia and Warner Bros / Reprise albums. Before I saw him I’d glanced at the songwriting credits on the album.

I was surprised and I mentioned it to him.

He was soft spoken and gracious about my comments.

Because I told him until I saw those credits I didn’t realize how many of Chicago’s hit songs he wrote.

You never know how it’s going to work out if you take the path less traveled in music.

But talent, determination and guts can make all the difference.

Jimmy Pankow wrote - among other songs: “Make Me Smile”, Colour My World”, Just You ‘N’ Me, “(I’ve Been) Searchin’ So Long”, “Old Days”, “Alive Again” and (with Peter Cetera) “Feelin’ Stronger Every Day”.

You can probably win some bets with that tidbit in your back pocket.

Have a great Thanksgiving.

Marc

Music picks this month: Sara Willis from “In Tune By Ten” on MPBN writes this month: I love the new cd from Megafaun.. they are a REAL band, playing with and off each other. With a little bit of a West Coast flavor but funneled through the garage, if you know what I mean, Big Star. Great grooves on this cd and it gets addictive!

Also for those of you who love traditional American music Laura Veirs has a beautiful new cd called Tumble Bee. It’s also got the added attraction of being songs for children, just in case you have some around the house! Great listening for everyone!

Denis Howard mentions this new cd as the WERU Pick Of The Month: Long Time Courting’s new album Alternate Routes — this album features traditional and original folk music from Ireland and is being played all over our schedule! Celtic and folk programs are playing it but also many others!

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leasantville Farm, in Warren, a Cabot Farm Family, took part in Cabot’s Open Farm Day on Oct. 16. It’s the second time Cabot’s Farm Families have opened their gates to families.

Pleasantville Farm is owned by Scott and Martha Monroe. The Monroes bought the farm in 1999, starting with small beef herd and chickens, along with other farm animals. They kept a couple of milking cows, and over the years have been steadily growing the farm. Today, the farm has 22 milking cows and most of their milk goes to Hood.

The Monroes children, Rachel and Michael, lend a hand with various aspects of the farming, too. Rachel helps during hay time and lends a hand to her mother at Martha’s daycare. Michael helps to maintain equipment.

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This year the historic inns are once again joining with the Friends of the Rockland Public Library and historic private homes nearby to jump start the spirit of the season. Participate in the tour and view historic inns and homes decked in all their holiday finery, while supporting Rockland’s Public Library, and then attend a table Christmas tree silent auction.

The weekend is filled with the renowned Lobster Trap Tree featured on America’s Extreme Trees, Santa, holiday parades, tastings, samplings and demonstrations and so much more. Stay in Rockland for the Festival of Lights weekend taking advantage of the Historic Inns of Rockland’s affordable lodging package.

Plan to stay at one of the four Historic Inns of Rockland: Captain Lindsey House, LimeRock Inn, Berry Manor Inn, or Granite Inn. The Historic Inns of Rockland have wrapped it all up into one neat holiday getaway. Their Festival of Lights package includes:

· One night’s accommodations one’s choice of four Historic Inns of Rockland · A sumptuous and hardy breakfast for everyone in the travel party · Canned food to vote for a favorite float at the Festival of Lights Parade. · Two tickets to the Historic Holiday House Tour on Saturday, Nov. 26 from 1 to 4 p.m. and to the Silent Auction of Christmas Trees immediately following at the Rockland Public Library. · Two tickets (if required) to the “Eat, Drink and Be Merry” event on Main Street. · A Historic Inns of Rockland reusable shopping bag to help hold all the loot from shopping and filled with wrapping paper, tape, ribbon and a package of gift tags.

Plan to kick off the holidays with the Festival of Lights Celebration, Nov. 2527. Santa will arrive by lobsterboat, stores extend hours and a good old fashioned holiday parade, plus an Eat, Drink and Be Merry Saturday street celebration, along with the Historic Inns of Rockland’s Holiday House Tour are highlights of the weekend.

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he holiday season is quickly approaching with Thanksgiving Day, a holiday primarily celebrated in the U.S. and Canada each year and respectively on the second Monday in October in Canada and on the fourth Thursday of November in this country.

our barley crop before the first frost to reap the beloved grist to brew are needed spring Bock.”

Ah, the power of beer plays to history once again.

In 1620, a dainty ship called the Mayflower left Plymouth, England, carrying 102 passengers seeking a new home where they could be free to practice their faith with the promise of prosperity, land ownership and without the high taxation incurred in England with the brewing of beer!

After a treacherous crossing that lasted more than 66 days, they dropped anchor near the tip of Cape Cod, much farther north of their intended destination. There was good reason they decided to drop anchor and make land earlier than anticipated: The ship’s log said, “Our journey has taken longer than anticipated, we have decided to make land short of our destination, we are tired, starved, many crew have fallen ill, and most of all we need to plant

By Richard Ruggiero

Do you think they had beer at the first Thanksgiving? In 1621, the Plymouth colonists and Wampanoag Indians shared an autumn harvest festival that is claimed to be the very first Thanksgiving celebration in the colonies. Later, in 1863, Abraham Lincoln proclaimed Thanksgiving Day a national holiday during the midst of the Civil War. You bet they feasted on beer. Pilgrims and Indians alike!

aroma of sweet malt is a wonderfully aromatic. This beer imparts a wonderful roastiness of malt up front followed by a smooth crisp finish.

It is balanced with a clean, velvety fruitiness, which transitions nicely between the less full-bodied beers of summer to the darker, heavier, fullerbodied beers of fall and winter. At 5.4 percent alcohol, this beer fairs well with the season. This is a fine wonderfully brewed lager. Pick up a bottle or maybe a case to celebrate the change of season. Prost!

I rarely review two beers brewed by the same brewing company in one article, but why not? I am sitting here enjoying this next beer that is so unique, I just had to include it. Back to regular scheduling in the next issue!

Well let’s feast.

Weyerbacher Brewing Company, phonetically that’s “wy-er-bock-er” or “why-er-bock-er,” as founded in 1995

by Dan and Sue Weirback, in Easton Pennsylvania. Their autumn Fest German Lager has its own unique twist on the German Oktoberfest style. This lager pours in the glass to a copper, almost amber, color. The

Blithering Idiot Barley-style Ale is brewed to the British tradition of balanced hearty style ales. This big beer pours into the glass with copper and intense malty notes of fruit, figs and dates. Although none of these are used in the brewing process, high alcohol beers tend to produce these esters fruity notes due to the reaction

....we are tired, starved, many crew have fallen ill, and most of all we need to plant our barley crop before the first frost to reap the beloved grist to brew are needed spring Bock. from the yeast strain used during fermentation.

This beer pours over the palate, a pleasing sweet malt flavor take to taste, which transoms to a warm fruity finish and your palette begs for another sip. This is a big beer at 11.1 percent alcohol and is a sipping beer... well, to some. This is a fine ale that will age well for years, and fair well with full flavored meats, cheeses or just as an after dinner drink. The best-buy date on the bottle dates out to five years past the bottling date. This brew is a must-try on your bucket list of beers.

Unique, and flavorful, and to season.

Give both these fine beers a try.

Happy Holidays.

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• 10 a.m. Sudden Fiction, You’re a writer! Experience level is irrelevant. Don’t wait for divine intervention; throw writer’s block out the window; break the cycle. Pieces from this class have become short stories and several have launched novels. You will find your voice and prove to yourself that you can write without an over active imagination or a lightening bolt of inspiration.

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• 6 p.m. Nature Photography Slideshow, Mellon Room, Northeast Harbor Library, 1 Joy Road, Northeast Harbor.

John R. Rivers will be presenting a photography slideshow featuring recent Mount Desert Island nature and wildlife photographs. There will be light refreshments at 5:30 p.m.

John will be handing out some of his prints as door prizes. The lecture is free and everyone is welcome. FMI: call the library at 276-3333.

• 6:30 p.m. PopTech Exhibit Open Reception and Art Talk, Opening reception and art talk

at the Camden Public Library, for the exhibit of PopTech artwork by Peter Durand. For seven years Durand has been translating into art what the PopTech speakers say on stage.

The exhibit has been selected from over 250 on-site paintings. Program Manager Ollie Wilder will offer a brief update on PopTech’s expanded, yearround activities and a description of how Peter Durand creates his impressive work.

• 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. Revitalizing the Body Class, Revitalizing the Body - part of a free class series with Paul Weiss at Camden Whole Health, Elm Street, Camden. FMI: 288-4128.

• 7 p.m. “King Corn” screening, Merryspring Nature Center,, Conway Road, Camden presents a free screening of the film “King Corn,” a feature documentary about two friends, one acre of corn and the subsidized crop that drives the fastfood nation.

To learn more about this screening visit the website at merryspring.org or call 236-2239.

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• 5:15 to 7:30 p.m. Maine Women’s Network, Members, guests and the general public are invited to enjoy dinner meeting and talk by guest speaker and author Kate Braestrup at The Haven Event Center, Route 90, Rockport.

Cost: $30; $22 members, includes full buffet and dessert. Online pre-registration required by Oct. 28 at mainewomensnetwork.com.

• 6 to 8 p.m. Green Homes Lecture Series, Evergreen Home Performance, 15 Tillson Ave, Rockland, hosts series presented by the Maine Chapter of the U.S. Green Building Council. Free, but pre-registration necessary at 594-2244, info@evergreen.com. Includes sessions on understanding your house as a system, designing green renovations and landscapes and financing your energy project.

• 6:30 to 8 p.m. The WERU Story Forum: Belfast, WERU microphones will record local stories at Belfast Free Library, 106 High St. Free/donations.

FMI, email: amy@weru.org or call 469-6600. Hosted by Dennis Howard.

Craft Fairs Nov. 4:

10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Holiday Craft Fair, Tenth annual fair at Pioneer Grange, corner of Payson and Buzzell Hill roads (Route 235 North, just off Route 17), East Union. Also Friday and Saturday 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.; Sunday 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Collectibles, soaps, jewelry, bookmarks, decorations, décor, sweaters, mittens, socks, scarves, hats, wooden signs and ornaments, jams and jellies, pie fillings, toys, quilts, tables runners, tree skirts, balsam pillows, lavender sachets, baskets, needlework, candles, sweets, photography and cards.

Nov. 5:

8 a.m. to 1 p.m. Christmas Fair, St. Bernard’s Catholic Church, 150 Broadway, Rockland, offers tables of Christmas decorations, clothing, White Elephant items, toys, arts and crafts, jewelry and books. Baked goods and other sweets will be offered in the Tea Room and there will be sandwiches for lunch.

9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Craft Fair, People’s United Methodist Church craft fair, silent auction and luncheon at 13 Chapel St. in South Thomaston.

Lunch is available for $6 and includes soup, rolls, beverage and dessert. FMI: Kathy Tyler, 5420433.

9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Medomak Middle School Craft Fair, Medomak Middle School on 318 Manktown Road in Waldoboro will be the site for the 4th annual Craft Fair . Come and shop local for the unique Christmas gift. There will be over 45 vendor with excellent Maine made crafts and homemade items ranging from jams, chocolates ,jewelry, paintings, prints, stoneware, knit items, clothing, ornaments, baskets, aprons. wood items ,card, balsam, wreaths, etc. Lots to

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see. Some exhibitors are coming from all over the state as well our local crafters. Free admission, door prizes, free parking, raffles, great food.

Benefits MMS students. FMI: Loretta Hooper, 354-6849.

Nov. 18:

5 to 8 p.m. Art-Full Gifts Holiday Show Gala Collectors Evening, Third Annual Art-Full Gifts Holiday Show at Point Lookout Resort in Northport. Gala Collectors Evening with live jazz, appetizers and a cash bar. Admission $10 is valid for the entire weekend of shopping. The show continues Nov. 19-20, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., admission $3. Benefits Coastal Mountains Land Trust and United Mid -Coast Charities. FMI: Randy Fein, 763-3433.

Nov. 18-20

Yuletide Faire and Holiday Marketplace at Ashwood Waldorf School. A 2-day holiday festival and shopping event featuring high-quality vendors with jewelry, books, natural handmade toys, clothing, fiber arts, yarn, handmade soaps, Turkish goods, and more. Begins on Friday with an evening event for adults only from 6 – 9 pm, featuring a Silent Auction, hors d’oeuvres, drinks, desserts, and music. $10 admission. Saturday, Nov. 19th from 10 am - 3 pm: Children’s crafts and activities will be offered in addition to music from local musicians, a raffle, and more vendor shopping. Food will be available throughout the day. Free admission. FMI: (207) 236-8021 or info@ashwoodwaldorf.org.

Nov. 19:

9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Annual Craft Fair, Rockland Emblem Club Annual craft Fair at the Elk’s Lodge, Rankin Street, Rockland. Many crafters, as well as the traditional seafood chowder lunch and straw raffle.

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Thursday

• 6:30 to 8 p.m. Rusty Hinges, Local string band and more performs at Rockland Public Library, 80 Union St. Free. Handicap accommodations with 48 hours notice; call 594-0310.

• 7 to 9 p.m. Film: ‘Smoke Signals’, Abbe Museum, 26 Mt. Desert St., Bar Harbor.

The museum’s third annual film series will continue with “Smoke Signals,” a humorous yet serious story about Victor, a young man who director Chris Eyre describes as “trying to forgive his father.” The 2011 film series is made possible through the generosity of Reel Pizza, allowing the series to be free and open to the general public.

• 7 to 9 p.m. Library Coffeehouse Series, Wildage featuring Will Brown, George Fowler and David Lewis performs at downtown Camden Public Library. All welcome. Cost: $7; $5 senior citizens, students. FMI: Ken Gross, 236-3440.

• 7 to 8:30 p.m. Rockport Library’s Seafaring Series, This year’s Seafaring Series of talks sponsored by the Rockport Library at the Rockport Opera House, 6 Central St., features an unusually eclectic and particularly erudite selection of five speakers all with stimulating material to share with the local Maine boating and outdoor enthusiast communities. Donations requested. Oct. 20, What’s In Your First Aid Kit? by Galen Todd; Oct. 27, A Day in the Life of the Rockport Harbormaster by Abbie Leonard; Nov. 3, Weather for Mariners by Ken McKinley; Nov. 10, Gunkholing with Gizmo by Ben Ellison.

• 7 to 9 p.m. Velvet Lounge Jazz, The Bill Barnes Jazz Trio Jazz performs every other Thursday at Rock City Cafe, 318 Main St., Rockland, in coffeebar/cafe setting. Free/tips for musicians.

• 7:30 to 9:30 p.m. Alan Reid and Rob van Sante,, Battlefield Band alumni perform at Unity College Centre for the Performing Arts, 42 Depot St. Cost: $15.

FMI: 948-7469.

• 7:30 to 9:30 p.m. “Once Upon a Mattress”, Fall musical at Medomak Valley High School, 320 Manktown Road, Waldoboro. Cost: $8; $6 students (general admission only).

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• 4 to 5 p.m. Sam Bartlett’s Stuntology, Cartoonist and author shares absurd pranks and pointless techniques to amuse and amaze at Belfast Free Library, 106 High St. Free.

FMI: 338-3884, ext. 24.

• 5:30 to 8 p.m. BelfastArts First Friday art walk, BelfastArts First Friday art walk, 5:30 to 8 p.m., downtown Belfast galleries. First Friday of the month through December.

• 6:30 to 11 p.m. Belfast Flying Shoes contra dance, First Friday dance event begins with Community Dance for all ages led by caller Chrissy Fowler with music by The All-Comer’s Band, followed by 7:30 p.m. Tasty Treat Potluck of savory or sweet finger snacks and 8 p.m. contra dance with Notorious Trio, Fowler calling, at American Legion Hall Post #43, 143 Church St., Belfast. Cost: $2 adults, $1 children community dance; $8 adults, $6 teens/those who attended Community Dance. FMI: 338-0979 or belfastflyingshoes.org.

• 7:30 to 9 p.m. ‘Something’s A Foot’ Foot’, Marsh River Theater presents murder mystery musical at the downtown venue, 24 Monroe Highway/ Route 139, Brooks. Cost: $10; $8 older than 61/younger than 13. FMI: 722-4110. Fridays and Saturdays through Nov. 12.

• 7:30 to 9:30 p.m. “Once Upon a Mattress” Mattress”, Fall musical at Medomak Valley High School, 320 Manktown Road, Waldoboro. Cost: $10 reserved; $8, $6 students, general admission. FMI: 832-5389. Also 7:30 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays through Nov. 12 plus 2 p.m. matinee Nov. 12.

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• 4 to 10 a.m. Hunter’s breakfast in Thorndike, A hunter’s breakfast featuring eggs, pancakes, bacon, sausage, coffee, juice and yummy home-baked goods will be held at the Thorndike Congregational Church, Gordon Hill Road, Thorndike (next to the Thorndike Fire Station).

Cost is $5 per person, and proceeds will benefit the Thorndike Volunteer Fire Company.

• 5 to 9 a.m. Hunter’s breakfast in Prospect, The Prospect Community Club will be sponsoring a hunter’s breakfast in the Community Club dining room at the corner of Route 1A and

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Route 174 (beside Maddie’s Place). On the menu will be eggs, ham, toast, home fries, donuts, orange juice and plain or blueberry pancakes cooked on the spot and plenty of coffee, all for $6 (adults) and $2 for children under 12. Serving starts at 5 a.m. and goes until 9 a.m. 50/50 tickets will be available at the door, $1 each or 10 for $5. 5673267, bgemini@fairpoint.net • 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. Monthly Flea Market, Thompson Community Center, 51 South Union Road/ Route in Union, holds monthly flea market with more than 80 tables to shop. TCC Thrift Shop too, and snack bar is open for breakfast and lunch. FMI 9750352.

• 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Waste Collection, Kiwanis of Rockland is teaming up with eWaste Recycling Solutions on Saturday, Nov. 5 at the J.C. Penney Parking lot, located on Maverick Street in Rockland to collect eWaste. No charge to drop off household electronics. Kiwanis also collecting donations for AIO food pantry. FMI: John Batty, 596-6989.

• 10 to 11:30 a.m. Book Launch Party, Rockport Public Library hosts award-winning local illustrator and author Melissa Sweet introducing her newest book, “Balloons over Broadway: The True Story of the Puppeteer of Macy’s Parade,” at the Rockport Opera House. 6 Central St. Free.

Short drawing workshop, book signing, Mainely Balloons’ animals and skit, activity kits and refreshments. FMI: Liza Walsh at 236-3642 or lwalsh@rockport. lib.me.us.

• 12:45 to 4:30 p.m. The Met: Live in HD, Strand Theatre, 345 Main St., Rockland, screens Wagner’s “Siegfried” live via satellite broadcast. Cost: $27; season tickets available. FMI: 594-0070 or rocklandstrand.com. Encore 1 p.m. Nov. 15, $23.

• 1 to 4:30 p.m. ‘Learn to Curl’ at Belfast Curling Club, ‘Learn to Curl’ at Belfast Curling Club, Route 3, Belfast, will once again be held the first weekend in November. Scheduled classes are Saturday, Nov. 5 from 1-2:30 p.m., and 3-4:30 p.m. There will also be one session on Sunday, Nov. 6 at 1 pm. The cost is $10 per person. Limited space is available, so sign up early by logging onto belfastcurlingclub.org and click on “Contact Us,” or call Steve McLaughlin at 215-2559. Everyone is welcome, even if just to observe. FMI, call Janet Weaver at 322-5606.

• 4:30 to 7 p.m. Haddock Chowder Supper, St. George Town Hall, Main Street in Tenants Harbor. Cost: $8 adults, $5 kids (under 12). Includes chowder, crackers, biscuit, beverage, and dessert.

Benefits St. George Days 2012 fireworks.

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• 6 p.m. Celebration of the Arts,, Youth Arts Benefit Auction and Celebration of the Arts at High Mountain Hall in Camden.

Tickets are $40 for an individual, or $65 a couple, and can be purchased by contacting Teresa Curtis at tpcurtis@roadrunner. com, or 975-2298. Your donations will enrich the lives of our children through art. FMI: youthartsmaine.org.

• 7 to 11 p.m. Country Dance, Silver Eagle Band plays the Union Masonic Lodge No. 31, 149 Sennebec Road. Cost: $10.

FMI: 712-1314. Door prizes, raffle and snack bar.

• 8 p.m. to 12 a.m. Sea Train Dance, New Midcoast dance band plays classic R&B, rock and funk at Thompson Community Center, 51 South Union Road/Route 131, Union. Cost: $10. FMI: tccunion.com. Snack bar; BYOB.

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• 8:45 a.m. Fire Department Poker Run, The Waldoboro Fire Department is sponsoring a poker run that will stop at five fire stations. Leave from Friendship Fire Station at 9 a.m.

Register by 8:45 a.m. Register that morning for $30, or register in advance for $25 by calling Assistant Chief William Maxwell at 631-7208, the town office at 832-5369, or Fire Chief Paul Smeltzer at 832-2161.

• 1:30 to 3:30 p.m. “The Mahabharata”, Resonance Arts and Camden Public Library screen Peter Brook’s adaptation of India’s epic tale at the downtown library. Free. Discussion follows, led by Bill Halpin and Saskia Huising of Meetingbrook.

Oct. 30, Part 1 “The Game of Dice”; Nov. 6, Part 2 “Exile in the Forest”; and Nov. 13, Part 3 “The War.” • 3 to 5:30 p.m. Monthly Jazz Jam, Midcoast and visiting musicians gather at the Waldo Theatre Annex, 47 Glidden St., Waldoboro. Cost: $5; free for playing musicians. FMI: 5937445. Free refreshments. First Sunday of the month.

• 7 to 9 p.m. Bob Marley, Popular Maine comedian performs at the Camden Opera House, Elm Street/Route 1. Cost: $25.

Tickets at HAV II, Camden; 866452-8447 (4-LAUGHS); bmarley. com; box office starting 5 p.m.

• 7 to 9 p.m. David Dodson Fall Show, Local singer/songwriter and Show musical friends perform 23rd annual concert in the fellowship hall of First Congregational Church, 55 Elm St./ Route 1, Camden. Cost: $12 advance, $14 at door; $6 younger than 13. FMI: 236-2794. Advance tickets at HAV II, Camden; Rock City Café, Rockland; and Parent Gallery, Belfast.

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Tuesday

• 1 to 4 p.m. The Met: Live in HD Encore, Strand Theatre, 345 Main St., Rockland, screens Oct. 29 performance of Mozart’s “Don Giovanni.” Cost: $23. FMI: 594-0070 or rocklandstrand. com.

Ongoing events MONDAYS: 7 to 10 p.m. Monday Night Blues, upstairs music room of Time Out Pub, 275 Main St., Rockland. FMI: 593-9336.

their parents or other caregivers. The Toy Library follows the RSU 13 vacation calendar as well as storm cancellations. Also 9 a.m. to noon Fridays, FMI: info@midcoasttoylibrary.org.

TUESDAYS: 10 a.m. Children’s Story Hour, Children’s Story Hour. Reading, arts and crafts. Free. Gibbs Library, 40 Old Union Rd., Washington.

4 p.m. Children’s Art Time, Art instruction with Catinka Knoth. Children’s Room, Rockland Public Library.

5 to 9 p.m. Midcoast Chess Club, Meets every Thursday at Tim Horton’s, Camden Street, Rockland. FMI: call Frank, 975-2433 or fcollemer@myfairpoint.net.

7:30 to 9 p.m. Dancing 4 Fun, Weekly night of freestyle, any style, no partner needed, all kinds of music dancing takes place in second-floor Studio Red dance studio in Odd Fellows building, 16 School St., downtown Rockland. Free/ donations. FMI: 354-0931; dancing4fun.org.

7:30 to 10:30 p.m. Open Mic, Good music, good company and fun every Tuesday night at Cuzzy’s, 21 Bay View St., Camden.

WEDNESDAYS: 10:30 a.m. Children’s Story Time, Children’s Room, Rockland Public Library. Also on Saturdays.

5:30 to 6 p.m. Making Change, A support group for young people from ages 13-29 who are considering or committed to recovery from substance abuse and other addictions. This group meets every Wednesday from 5:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. at the Waldo County General Hospital Education Center, 118 Northport Avenue, Belfast. Free food. FMI call Tim at 567-3813, Marian at 338-4594 or Jeffrey at 322-9490.

5:30 to 7:30 p.m. Open clay studio, Every Wednesday from 5:30-7:30 p.m. Work on your own projects using our wheels, slab roller and kiln. Non-instructional but a studio monitor is present for technical questions and advice. $15 per person, per session. More clay can be purchased as needed. Waterfall Arts, 256 High St., Belfast. FMI, call 338-2222 or visit waterfallarts.org.

7:30 to 10:30 p.m. Open Mic Night, Weekly performance night at Gator Lounge of The Navigator Motor Inn, 520 Main St., Rockland.

THURSDAYS: 9 a.m. to 12 p.m. Toy Library, Toy Library at St. Peters Episcopal Church, White Street, Rockland, provides a non-sectarian community program for preschool children, toddlers and infants, fostering creative play in a safe, nurturing environment and promoting cooperation and goodwill among participating children, • 5:30 to 8:30 p.m. Eternity in our Hearts, An evening with Arts Ambassador for Nigeria Ibiyinka Olufemi Alao will take place at the Rockport Opera House, 6 Central St. Free, but seating is limited: RSVP by Nov. 4 to 594-7004 or ibiyinka@papermyth.com. Business attire or national dress.

Original artworks and prints will be available for purchase.

• 6:30 to 8 p.m. Author Talk, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Barbara Walsh will present the story behind her book “In August Gale: A Father and Daughter’s Journey into the Storm” at the downtown Camden Public Library.

• 7 p.m. Cribbage Night, Cribbage Night held at the Appleton library second Tuesday of the month. All skill levels and ages welcome to join the fun. No charge. FMI: 785-2210.

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7 to 10 p.m. Live Music, Simon and McFarland play jazz and blues Thursday evenings at Billy’s Tavern, 1 Starr St. behind the business block, Thomaston. No cover charge. FMI: 354-1177.

FRIDAYS: 1 p.m. Bridge Group, Refresh your bridge game. Play every Friday in Room 4 at the Thompson Community Center, Route 131, Union. FMI: 785-4602.

6:30 to 8:30 p.m. Friday Night Film Series, Friends of the Thomaston Public Library. Room 28 of Thomaston Academy Building, 60 Main St./Route 1. Free/donations. FMI: 354-2453.

Doors open 6 p.m.

7:30 to 9:30 p.m. Free ballroom dancing, Weekly evening of practicing all the favorite dances on a newly refinished large hardwood floor with an excellent sound system at East Belfast Elementary School, Swan Lake Avenue.

Free. FMI: 505-5521. Bring clean dancing shoes.

SATURDAYS: 9:30 a.m. to 12 p.m. Life drawing in Belfast, Every Saturday through Dec. 17 from 9:30 a.m. to noon. Non-instructional, bring your own materials. Experienced models take one or two long poses. Lively group. Drop in rate — $15 per session. Waterfall Arts, 256 High St., Belfast.

FMI, call 338-2222 or visit waterfallarts.org.

10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Washington Grange Farmers’ Market, Every Saturday. Old Union Road, across from the Gibbs Library in Washington.

FMI: 845-2140.

SUNDAYS: 2 to 4 p.m. Music Jam at the Museum, Musicians, bring instruments and voices and make music together informally at Sail, Power and Steam Museum at Sharp’s Point South, 75 Mechanic St., Rockland. Coffee and cookies provided. Every Sunday.

3 to 6 p.m. Traditional Bluegrass Jam, Billy’s Tavern, 1 Starr St., Thomaston, hosts traditional bluegrass jam every Sunday. Musicians encouraged to bring their instruments and join in; listeners welcome too. FMI: 354-1177.

Wednesday

• 2:30 to 4:30 p.m. Open Art Studio, Harbor House, 329 Main St., Southwest Harbor.

Students in sixth- through 12grade can participate in an open studio style art group facilitated

by Acadia Family Center’s art therapy intern Dawn Nuding.

Students do not have to be “artists” or have previous art experience to participate.

• 6 p.m. Veterans Day supper and patriotic program, South Liberty Baptist Church will be having a Veterans Day supper and patriotic program for veterans and their families and friends. The church is located at 2895 Burkettville Road, near the intersection of Route 105 and Route 220 in South Liberty. FMI, call 845-6013.

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Thursday

• 6:30 p.m. Glacier Talk, Rockland Public Library presents a natural history slide-talk

by geologist and Appleton resident Sid Quarrier. Quarrier will give an illustrated slide-talk on the role of Glaciation in Earth History. Rockland Public Library.

• 7 to 10 p.m. Live Music, Simon and McFarland play jazz and blues Thursday evenings at Billy’s Tavern, 1 Starr St. behind the business block, Thomaston.

No cover charge.

FMI: 354-1177.

• 7 to 9 p.m. Olive Oil, Balsamic Tasting, Penobscot School, a non-profit center for language learning and international exchange and FIORE Artisan Olive Oils & Vinegars are co-sponsoring an evening with Extra Virgin Olive Oil and Balsamic tasting, fine wine, appetizers and music at FIORE, 503 Main St., Rockland. Share the excitement as Penobscot School draws its “Week in Tuscany” raffle winner.

Open to all community residents at $25 per person.

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• 7 to 9 p.m. Velvet Lounge Jazz, The Bill Barnes Jazz Trio performs every other Thursday at Rock City Cafe, 318 Main St., Rockland, in coffeebar/cafe setting. Free/tips for musicians.

• 7:30 to 9:30 p.m. Matt and Shannon Heaton, Celtic music duo perform at Unity College Centre for the Performing Arts, 42 Depot St. Cost: $15. FMI: 948-7469.

• 7:30 to 9:30 p.m. “The Phantom of the Opera”, Camden Hills Regional High School presents Midcoast premiere of Andrew Lloyd Webber musical in the school’s Strom Auditorium, Route 90, Rockport. Cost: $12 reserved; $10, $6 students, general admission. To reserve, call 2367800, ext. 282 or visit stromtickets. com. Thursdays through Saturdays 7 p.m. through Nov. 19 plus 2 p.m. Nov. 13. Also 6 p.m. Nov. 16 family show ($5).

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Friday

• 2 to 4 p.m. Veterans Day Poetry Reading, Rockland Poet Laureate Kendall Merriam Laureate hosts a variety of readers and live music at the David Scriven Crowley Gallery, 409 Main St., Rockland. Free, refreshments.

• 6:30 to 9:30 p.m. Round Top Coffee House, Doors open 6:30 p.m. for musicians, poets and other performers to sign up for 6:45 to 8:15 p.m. open mic; featured performers play 8:30 to 9:30 p.m. at Damariscotta River Association’s Round Top Farm, Business Route 1, Damariscotta. Cost: $6; $3 senior citizens; free for children.

FMI: 563-1393. Second Friday of each month.

• 7 to 9 p.m. “Starmites”, Oceanside High School presents its premiere musical in the Oceanside East Performing Arts Center, 400 Broadway. Cost: $8; $6 students, senior citizens. Fridays and Saturdays 7 p.m. through Nov. 19 plus 2 p.m. matinee Nov. 20.

• 7:30 to 9:30 p.m. Miss Tess and the Bon Ton Parade, Roots/jazz/ folk road warriors perform at Unity College Centre for the Performing Arts, 42 Depot St. Cost: $15. FMI: 948-7469.

• 7:30 to 9:30 p.m. “Rabbit Hole”, Lincoln County Community Theater presents David LindsayAbaire’s Pulitzer Prize-winning play at Lincoln Theater, Theater and Elm streets, Damariscotta. Cost: $12; $5 children. Tickets at Maine Coast Book Store or 563-3424. Fridays and Saturdays 7:30 p.m.; Sundays 2 p.m. through Nov. 20.

• 8 to 10 p.m. Dave Alvin & The Guilty Men, Early roots rocker and current band perform at the Strand Theatre, 345 Main St., Rockland. Cost: $22, general admission. FMI: 594-0070 or rocklandstrand.com.

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• 1 to 4 p.m. Pie Crusts and Harvest Baking from Scratch, Barbara Cary, chef/manager of the Kitchen Garden Café at

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Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens, will coach participants as they make delectable homemade pie crusts from scratch using her tips and techniques. Then she’ll show how to make a classic pumpkin pie straight from the pumpkin and will demonstrate making a homemade apple-cranberry stuffing that will knock even grandma’s socks off! Cost: $30 for members, $37 for non-members, and reservations are required.

Call 633-3433, ext. 101, visit MaineGardens.org, or stop by the Visitor Center, off Barters Island Road in Boothbay.

• 2 to 4 p.m. “Once Upon a Mattress”, Fall musical at Medomak Valley High School, 320 Manktown Road, Waldoboro. Cost: $10 reserved; $8, $6 students, general admission. FMI: 8325389. Also 7:30 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays through Nov. 12 plus 2 p.m. matinee Nov. 12.

• 4:30 to 6 p.m. Hunter’s supper in Jackson, Jackson Community Center (handicap accessible), Village Road, Jackson. Menu includes beef stew, corn chowder and other homemade soups, biscuits, cornbread and strawberry shortcake. Donations will be accepted at the door, and all proceeds will go towards the Jackson Corner Congregational Church’s Thanksgiving Basket project.

• 5 p.m. Public supper, This is the first supper of the year for the Searsmont United Methodist Church’s public supper season.

As in the past, suppers are planned for the second Saturday of each month through November.

Cost is $8 for adults and $3 for children; children ages 5 and under are admitted free. This first supper will feature ham, casseroles, salads, beverages, and homemade pies and rolls. All the suppers are held downstairs in the church (located next to the Fraternity Village Store on Route 131/Main Street) and are handicapped accessible. Dates for remaining suppers are: May 14, June 11, July 9, August 13, Sept. 10, Oct. 8 and Nov 12.

• 7 to 11 p.m. Country Dance, Side Kick plays the Union Masonic Lodge No. 31, 149 Sennebec Road. Cost: $10. FMI: 712-1314.

Door prizes, raffle and snack bar.

• 7:30 to 9 p.m. CD Release/benefit Concert, Folk duo Emma’s Revolution celebrates “Revolutions Per Minute” CD at the Blue Goose Dance Center, 1184 Atlantic Highway/Route 1, Northport.

Cost: $15 advance; $18 at door.

Benefits Dragon Farm. Advance tickets at emmasrevolution.com.

• 7 to 9:30 p.m. ‘Guys and Dolls’, Belfast Area High School, 98 Waldo Ave., presents classic musical fable of Broadway in the gymnasium. Cost: $8; $5 students, senior citizens. Tickets at door. Fridays and Saturdays 7 p.m. and Sundays 3 p.m. through Nov. 20.

• 7:30 to 9:30 p.m. Sultans of String, Canada’s ambassadors of musical diversity perform at Unity College Centre for the Performing Arts, 42 Depot St. Cost:

$15. FMI: 948-7469.

Sun 138 p.m. King’s Jazz, The second Saturday of every month, the Hatchet Mountain Publick House in Hope will host King’s Jazz for live jazz music. $5 cover. Reservations for dinner encouraged. FMI: 763-4565.

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Sunday

• 1:30 to 3:30 p.m. “The Mahabharata”, Resonance Arts and Camden Public Library screen Peter Brook’s adaptation of India’s epic tale at the downtown library.

Free. Discussion follows, led by Bill Halpin and Saskia Huising of Meetingbrook. Oct. 30, Part 1 “The Game of Dice”; Nov. 6, Part 2 “Exile in the Forest”; and Nov. 13, Part 3 “The War.” • 2:30 to 4:30 p.m. Performing Arts Series, Bay Chamber Concerts presents pianist Michael Brown at the Rockport Opera House, 6 Central St. Cost: $40 and $30, $8 younger than 19; season and Flex Pass discounts. FMI: 2362823/888-707-2770 or baychamberconcerts.org.

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Monday

• 7 to 9 p.m. Traditional shape note singing, Four-part unaccompanied singing using “Sacred Harp” and “Northern Harmony” tune books in First Church Fellowship Hall, between Church and Court Streets with the entrance on Spring Street, Belfast. FMI: 338-1265 or 594-5743.

Second Monday each month.

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Tuesday

• 10:30 to 11:15 a.m. PSO KinderKonzert, PSO Woodwind Quintet presents Prokofiev’s beloved “Peter and the Wolf” at the Waldo Theatre, Main Street/Route 220, Waldoboro.

Cost: $4. For tickets, call 7736128, ext. 308 or send email to education@portlandsymphony. org. Geared for age 4–7; 9:30 a.m. show is sold out.

• 1 to 4:30 p.m. The Met: Live in HD Encore, Strand Theatre, 345 Main St., Rockland, screens Nov. 5 performance of Wagner’s “Siegfried.” Cost: $23. FMI: 594-0070 or rocklandstrand.com.

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Thursday

• 7 to 9 p.m. ‘Almost, Maine’, Searsport District High School drama students present John Cariani’s play in the Cafetorium of Searsport District High School/ Middle School, 24 Mortland Road. Cost: $7; $5 students, senior citizens; $3 younger than 11.

Nightly through Nov. 19.

• 7:30 to 9:30 p.m. Troy MacGillivray, Roots-centered fiddler and vray, pianist performs at Unity College Centre for the Performing Arts, 42 Depot St. Cost: $15. FMI: 9487469.

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• 7 to 9 p.m. “The Glass Menagerie”, North Haven Arts & Enrichment/Community School presents Tennessee Williams drama at Waterman’s Community Center, Main Street, North Haven. Cost: $7; $5 students.

Nightly through Nov. 19 plus noon Nov. 20.

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• 7:30 to 9:30 p.m. “God of Carnage”, Everyman Repertory Theatre presents Yasmina Reza’s Tony Award-winning comedy at the Camden Opera House, Elm Street/Route 1. Cost: $20; $10 students, children. FMI: everymanrep.org. Also 7:30 p.m. Nov. 19, 25 and 26; and 2 p.m. Nov. 20 and 27.

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Sunday

• 2 to 4 p.m. Music Jam at the Museum, Musicians, bring instruments and voices and make music together informally at Sail, Power and Steam Museum at Sharp’s Point South, 75 Mechanic St., Rockland. Coffee and cookies provided. Every Sunday.

• 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Not-So-Early-Bird-Sale, Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens’ version of the town’s Early Bird Sale is its Not-So-EarlyBird Sale in the Gardens Gift Shop. Discounts on the wide array of items for all ages are 20 percent for everyone and 30 percent for members (consignment items are not included). FMI: 633-4333, ext. 101, visit MaineGardens.org, or stop by the Visitor Center, off Barters Island Road in Boothbay.

• 3 to 5 p.m. Monthly jazz jam, Rhythm section is in attendance; musicians, vocalists and listeners welcome at Waterfall Arts, 256 High St., Belfast. Donation for listeners. FMI: 338-2222.

Refreshments. Third Sunday of every month.

• 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Frozen Turkey Hunt, In this great – and free – Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens tradition, visitors will search for hidden apples to win prizes including frozen turkeys for 100 lucky families, plus the grand prize of 150 gallons of fuel oil. Cookie decorating, free hot dogs and apple cider, and games on the Great Lawn, too. FMI: Call 207-633-4333, ext. 101; visit MaineGardens.org, or stop by the Visitor Center, Barters Island Road, Boothbay.

• 8 to 11 p.m. Monthly Contra Dance, Live music and calling at Simonton Corner Hall, corner of Park and Main streets, Rockport.

Cost: $8. FMI: 832-5584. All dances taught, beginners welcome. Usually fourth Saturday of the month.

• 12:45 to 4:30 p.m. The Met: Live in HD, Strand Theatre, 345 Main St., Rockland, screens Glass’ “Satyagraha” live via satellite broadcast. Cost: $27; season tickets available.

FMI: 594-0070 or rocklandstrand.com. Encore 1 p.m.

Nov. 29, $23.

• 7 to 9 p.m. Country Dance, Country Aces plays the Union Masonic Lodge No. 31, 149 Sennebec Road. Cost: $10.

FMI: 712-1314. Door prizes, raffle and snack bar.

• 7 to 9 p.m. Gintaré, International singer/songwriter performs at John Street Methodist Church, 98 John St., Camden. Cost: $10 at the door.

FMI: www.Gintare.com.

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• 7 to 11 p.m. Country Dance, Country Aces plays the Union Masonic Lodge No. 31, 149 Sennebec Road. Cost: $10. FMI: 712-1314. Door prizes, raffle and snack bar.

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Sunday

• 12:30 p.m. Hike in Montville, Join Sheepscot Wellspring Land Alliance for a 3.7-mile hike that passes through a variety of forest types and traverses some open fields that offer expansive views to the east.

Meet at Goose Ridge Trailhead on Freedom Pond Road, 50 yards east of the junction with Goosepecker Ridge Road. A shuttle will return hikers to their vehicles. The hike is an easy-tomoderate level of difficulty. Hike leader is SWLA board member Buck O’Herin. FMI, contact Buck at 589-3230.

• 12:30 p.m. Hike the Goose Ridge Trail, Hike the Goose Ridge Trail with Sheepscot Wellspring Land Alliance’s Buck O’Herin. This is a moderate to strenuous hike that promises good views, weather permitting. FMI, contact Buck at 5894311.

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