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TOP DISH: Graffam Brothers Seafood
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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.
BEHIND THE SCENE Visiting the ghost of Myrtle
10 TIME TO CELEBRATE Damariscotta Pumpkin Fest & Regatta 13 MUSIC SCENE How Important is Social Media to Musicians?
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.
15 Maine Fiberarts Festival Returns to Boothbay 16 TOP DISH: Prism Restaurant & Gallery 17 BREW REVIEW Halloween-themed beers 18 ART SCENE Prepare To Be Hypnozined
Richard Ruggiero A graduate of Siebel Institute for Brewing Studies in 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.
Jim Bailey
22 ART SCENE Portraits of Americans Who Tell the Truth
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.
24 POETRY SCENE Belfast Poetry Festival
Tiffany Howard and Jim Dandy
20 THE STORY BEHIND… the Halloween Masks 21 Apple Pie Contest in Ellsworth
27 WHAT’S SHAKIN’ Plenty of Shakin’ This Fall
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.
28 TV SCENE ‘Terra Nova’ Offers Best Pilot Since ‘Lost’
Marc Ratner
Holly Vanorse
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. Marc writes about the national and local music business. Visit marc online at misharamusic.com & marcrescue. wordpress.com Write him at marcrescue@gmail.com or here at thescene@villagesoup.com
Got an idea for monthly photos? Each month, I’ll be out capturing a different theme for the monthly photo spread. Everything from the great outdoors, stock car racing to the small town night life. Call or e-mail Holly Vanorse at hvanorse@villagesoup.com or 594-4401 with your idea.
25 SOCIAL MEDIA MAVEN How the New Facebook Features Affect You 26 KILLER PIKS
29 WHITE HOT SPOTLIGHT Featuring Hilary Rackliff 30 TRAIN SCENE Riding the Rails Downeast 32 TOP CHEF: Joshua Heikkinen, Fathom 34 TOP DRINK: RAYR - the wine shop 36 BEER REVIEW October Beers
Lacy Simons
37 YANKEE CHEF Seasonal Desserts
Lacy Simons is the new owner of hello hello, known currently to all as Rock City Books in Rockland. She is a reader, a maker, and a collector of fine-point pens and terrible jokes. To find more picks and reads: facebook.com/ hellohellobooks Twitter: @hellohellobooks.
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Lemon juice Mayonnaise Worcestershire sauce Black pepper to taste 8 oz. container crabmeat Bread crumbs
Mix all wet ingredients together, except crabmeat. Gently fold in diced bread. Set mixture aside for approx. 1/2 hour. When bread in mixture has softened, gently break up the mixture and add the crabmeat. Then add breadcrumbs by the handful until the desired consistency has been met. Remember to allow a few minutes between handfuls for the breadcrumbs to soften and absord moisture. Measure out mixture in approximately 1/4-lb. portions, roll into ball, form into a patty, and gently coat in bread crumbs. Makes 6-8. Pan fry over medium heat with cooking spray for 3-4 minutes per side, until golden brown. Serve on a bed of greens with a remoulade sauce.
Graffam Brothers Seafood 211 Union Street • P.O. Box 340 • Rockport, ME 04856 Phone: 1-800-535-5358 • 207-236-8391 Hours: Mon.-Sat. 8:30 a.m. - 6 p.m. Email: sales@lobsterstogo.com
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135 High Street • Belfast, ME 04915 Phone: 207-930-6325 A conversation with Gary and Kim Cashman, of BellaBooks What is the history of your bookstore?
Featured Book The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern
Kim and I started BellaBooks in Virginia in 2009. While on vacation, Kim, who is originally from Maine, and I fell in love with Belfast and decided to relocate our store here. Even at an early age, Kim always dreamed of owning a bookstore. For me, I just love anything that has to do with history: Renaissance fighter, Civil War reenactor, New England farmer... if it’s history, count me in!
Kim selected it as our debut book before it was released, and we both love it. This book is magical. The story revolves around Le Cirque des Reves, a circus that arrives without warning, and simply appears when yesterday it was not there. The characters, Celia and Marco, have been cast into a rivalry at The Night Circus. As the story unfolds, their lives become more intertwined in a dance of love, joy, deceit, heartbreak, and magic. It is an engaging and mesmerizing story, which will appeal to all readers! Watch our window for our next selection, Oct. 4!
Visit us online at www.smilingcow.com
How is BellaBooks unique or different from other bookstores? People love the way we mix books and antiques. We both love the design, craftsmanship, and quality of antiques, and love incorporating those elements into our store. We also offer a special family membership program. For only $10, customers can get a one-year membership, which gives them 15 percent off all books, including used books, and antiques, and 25 percent off of any new book or book order. You can also get 35 percent off of our “Book-of-the-Fortnight,” which is a book that we highlight in the store every two weeks. We know of no other bookstore offering all of that.
What parts of your business are you most proud of? We are proud of the selection of new and used books that we offer, as well as the compliments that we consistently receive from customers about what a fun store it is with great ambiance and an artful display of antiques.
What books do you like to read? Kim reads literary fiction and poetry, while I enjoy nonfiction and history.
What do you enjoy most about bookselling? We’ve always dreamed of having a bookstore with antiques, but it turns out that meeting and talking to interesting people, well, it’s a total blast.
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Visiting the Ghost of Myrtle
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he was striking, self-assured and strong when she was alive. Dead, she still wasn’t about to put up with any shenanigans either.
Her maiden name was Myrtle Sage, born sometime around 1900. “According to Myrtle’s neighbors, she had a reputation of being a showstopper when she walked in the room,” says Greg Latimer, Research Director for Mysterious Destinations, a destination travel company that allows participants to investigate local hauntings in Maine and abroad. She was likely still in her late teens when she met a successful real estate and insurance mogul in New York City named George Gascoigne and married him in 1919. She had three children and when the outbreak of polio threatened the neighborhoods of New York, the couple fled to Maine and set up house in Newcastle. Gascoigne put the house in Myrtle’s name, which was unusual at that time. When he died, that purchasing power allowed her to buy two more antique stores, one of which is now the Newcastle Publick House, the other a Thomaston gallery. She married again, some say happily this time, to her second husband, George Schroder.
Myrtle at 19, shortly after her first marriage. PHOTO BY: MYSTERIOUS DESTINATIONS
Latimer has learned many fascinating tidbits about Myrtle’s life and afterlife. According to him, manifestations of Myrtle’s ire have made themselves known in dramatic ways. Four years ago, the previous owners of the Tipsy Butler B&B were discussing redecorating the rooms when a hair brush flew from the dresser across the room at one of the owner’s head. Ducking, she managed to escape injury and held Myrtle responsible for the incident. Clearly, Myrtle didn’t like the woman’s choice of colors. Says Latimer: “Myrtle is also very specific about how the style of the inn is kept up and what kind of style is being maintained, so the owners have taken care to listen to whatever Myrtle seems to be reacting to and go out of their way to make it an environment that pleases her.” The current owners of the Tipsy Butler B&B have told Latimer of other incidents, most of which tend to revolve around Myrtle’s issues with alcohol. As the story goes, Myrtle was not only a “partier” in her day as a young woman raised in the early 1920s, but she was also on the receiving end of alcoholic domestic abuse. As the current owners maintain, there will be times when bottles of wine, spirits or individual drinks will mysteriously upend themselves and crash to the floor without anyone around. Newcastle Publick House PHOTO BY: GREG LATIMER
The staff at Newcastle Publick House also maintain that Myrtle regularly haunts their tavern, particularly their basement.
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“The manifestations there have been a bit more extreme,” says Latimer. “At one point, they believe she took an entire, heavy stainless steel shelf and knocked it over, crashing hundreds of dollars of expensive liquor to the floor. This freestanding, commercial restaurant shelf was solid, about five shelves high. I personally went over and tried to move it and it was too heavy,” he recounts. According to Latimer: “There are also a number or employees who refuse to go down into the basement because they feel a presence. Recently, an employee who came on board there hadn’t even known of Myrtle when she went downstairs. She came back up out of the basement visibly shaken and said she was never going back down there again. She didn’t want to talk about why.”
in these establishments on several Red Cloak Haunted History Tours, everyone is hoping to find more on these particularly charged nights. “We go through a very careful process with photographic evidence,” says Latimer, a former Los Angeles area police evidence reporter/photographer. “Because of my former line of work, I look over the photos very carefully. There’s some that I’ve been looking at for several months are of possible paranormal activity, yet, as I am still determining their veracity. We don’t claim to be paranormal experts or investigators, but we investigate and learn from manifestations that occur around here.”
Mysterious Destinations is an offshoot of Midcoast’s Red Cloak Haunted History Tours started five years ago by educator Sally Lobkowicz, who directs both businesses and hosts special haunted tours of Camden, Damariscotta, Wiscasset, Boothbay Harbor and Bath. Both tours focus on areas where the history and sightings of the paranormal are rich. Coming up on Saturday, Oct. 29 and Monday, Oct 31, participants of the “Visiting Mysterious orb captured in a photo in the Myrtle Tour” will dine at basement of the Newscastle Publick House Newcastle Publick House PHOTO BY: MARIA LUISA FELIX and conduct a paranormal exploration with investigative equipment of the basement area, then retire to the As for the woman whose forceful Tipsy Butler B&B where the owners will give presence might make itself known? a first-hand account of their experiences with Myrtle’s life, death and continued “This is speculation obviously, but based presence. After that, participants will on what I’ve learned about Myrtle, I feel be allowed an additional paranormal that it was very important to her that exploration of the entire house. Each things be just so, at her house and at participant will sleep in a room with an her antique stores,” says Latimer. “And electromagnetic field (EMF) detector. some part of Myrtle might be staying behind to make sure that her wishes are The paranormal detection equipment followed.” they’ll use includes electromagnetic field detectors (EMF devices), video For more photos and evidence and still cameras, electric voice on Myrtle, the Tipsy Butler B&B phenomenon (EVP) recorders, and and Newcastle Publick House visit temperature gauges. Since evidence of mysteriousdestinations.com or redcloak paranormal activities has been caught hauntedhistorytours.com.
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COURTESY OF: DAMARISCOTTA PUMPKINFEST AND REGATTA
Time to celebrate the pumpkin!
2011 Damariscotta Pumpkinfest and Regatta T
he 2011 Damariscotta Pumpkinfest and Regatta, the state’s biggest festival of the orange and yellow crop, runs Oct. 1 through Oct. 10, with the Pumpkinboat Regatta scheduled for Oct. 9. The festival is full of exciting events, with a sanctioned weigh-off on Sunday, Oct. 2 (did you know that last year’s heaviest pumpkin rolled in with an astounding 1,471 pounds around its girth?) Four giant pumpkins shattered the Maine record last year. Will it happen again?
SUNDAY, OCTOBER 2 GREAT PUMPKIN COMMONWEALTH OFFICIALLY SANCTIONED GPC WEIGH-OFF 7 a.m. drop-off for 10 a.m. event, Pinkham’s Plantation – 431 Biscay Road, Damariscotta OCTOBER 4 and 5 SEED COLLECTION/SORTING, Noon – 4 p.m., Pinkham’s Plantation, 431 Biscay Road, Damariscotta THURSDAY, OCTOBER 6 PUMPKINBOAT BUILDING, All Day Long, Pinkham’s Plantation, 431 Biscay Road, Damariscotta SEED COLLECTION/SORTING, 9 a.m. – noon, Pinkham’s Plantation, 431 Biscay Road, Damariscotta GIANT PUMPKIN DEPLOYMENT, After 4 p.m., Main Street, Damariscotta & Newcastle FRIDAY, OCTOBER 7 PUMPKINBOAT BUILDING, All Day Long, Pinkham’s Plantation, 431 Biscay Road, Damariscotta GIANT PUMPKIN CARVING/PAINTING, All Day Long, Main Street, Damariscotta & Newcastle PUMPKIN DERBY “PIT CREW”AXLE INSTALLATION, 1 – 4:30 p.m., The First Bancorp, 223 Main Street, Damariscotta THE DOWNEAST HARVEST REVIEW CASTLEBAY,
THE POLYWOGS, & VAN REID, 7 p.m ($12 adults,/$5 children, general admission), Lincoln Theater, 2 Theater Street, Damariscotta THE PETERSON PROJECT ACOUSTIC BLUES BAND, 9 p.m., Schooner Landing, Main Street by the Bridge, Damariscotta SATURDAY, OCTOBER 8 YMCA – FUN RUN/OBSTACLE COURSE, 8 a.m., YMCA, 525 Main Street, Damariscotta PUMPKINBOAT BUILDING, Pinkham’s Plantation, 431 Biscay Road, Damariscotta GIANT PUMPKIN CARVING/PAINTING, All Day Long, Main Street, Damariscotta & Newcastle PUMPKIN DERBY “PIT CREW” AXLE INSTALLATION, 1 – 4:30 p.m., The First Bancorp, 223 Main Street, Damariscotta PUMPKIN “SPLASH DOWN” (DISTANCE) – COMPETITIVE HURL-OFF 2009 WORLD CHAMPIONS v.s. NEW HAMPSHIRE CHALLENGERS, 9 a.m. – noon, Great Salt Bay, Nobleboro, (On Bayview Rd. between Belvedere & Borland Hill Rd.) CHILDREN’S STORY HOUR & CRAFTS, 10 – 11 a.m., Skidompha Library, 184 Main Street, Damariscotta CHILDREN’S GAMES & ACTIVITIES, 10 a.m. – 2 p.m., Water Street, Damariscotta PUMPKIN DESSERT CONTEST, 10:30 – 11:45 a.m., Drop Off Entrants for Judging, 1:30 pm Results Announced/Tastings Sold, Skidompha Library, 184
Main Street, Damariscotta UNDERWATER PUMPKIN CARVING, 11 a.m. – 12 p.m. (per tides), Damariscotta Harbor FISH LADDER RESTORATION CELEBRATION, FOURTH ANNUAL RUNNING OF THE ALEWIVES, 11 a.m. – 3:30 p.m., Damariscotta Mills Fish Ladder, Newcastle GIANT PUMPKIN PARADE, 2:15 p.m., Main Street, Damariscotta/Newcastle PUMPKIN PIE EATING CONTESTS, 4 p.m., Gallagher & Stein Lot, 181 Main Street, Damariscotta THE NEW RANGERS ECLECTIC COUNTRY BAND, 7 p.m. ($12 adults/$5children, general admission), Lincoln Theater, 2 Main Street Damariscotta BROADWAY IN BRISTOL: AN EVENING WITH NANCY DURGIN, JOHN MULCAHY & ANDREW FENNIMAN, 7:30 p.m. ($12), Reservations: 207-563-3763 or 207563-6843, Congregational Church of Bristol, Rte 130, Bristol Mills THE JOHNSON BOYS ALTERNATIVE, ROCK & ROOTS BAND, 9 p.m., Schooner Landing, Maine Street by the Bridge, Damariscotta SUNDAY, OCTOBER 9 PUMPKIN PANCAKE BREAKFAST, 7 - 11 a.m., American Legion Hall – Post 42, 527 Maine Street, Damariscotta FIRST ANNUAL “PUMPKIN DERBY”, PRELIMINARY RACES, 8 a.m. – 12:20 p.m., Elm Street PlazaWeatherbird Hill, Damariscotta
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Calling all chefs, bakers D to Pumpkinfest dessert contest
AMARISCOTTA — For 2011, Damariscotta Pumpkinfest and Regatta once again invites all chefs, bakers, and wannabe Food Network stars to enter the second annual Pumpkin Dessert Contest. This yummy event will be held on Saturday, Oct. 8 at Skidompha Library in the atrium area. Contestants are required to drop off two of their desserts — one for judging and one for tasting. All contestants must provide their own plates, platters, and decorations if desired, as well as serving utensils. Desserts must be dropped off at Skidompha between 10:30 a.m. and 11:45 a.m. on Oct. 8. Contestants and the public will then be asked to leave, and the doors will be closed at noon when the judging begins. The winners will be announced at 1:30 p.m. Prizes are as follows: First place - $150; second place - $100; third place - $50. Tickets to taste the dessert entries will be sold for $5 for three selections, with tasting beginning after the winners are announced. All types of pumpkin desserts — pies, cakes, cookies, muffins, shortbreads, puddings, crisps, clafoutis, cobblers, tarts, candies, mousse, souffles, ice creams, tortes, trifles, creme caramels, flans, semifreddos, crepes, strudels — are eligible but they must include fresh, frozen, or canned pumpkin. Pumpkin pie spice alone does not count. To register, contact Gail Berry at 563-1774 (of Nails By Gail at 24 Center St. in Nobleboro) or Jennifer York at jyork@tidewater.net.
Just a partial sampling of the scrumptious pumpkin desserts entered in last year’s contest.
To keep up to date on all events and happenings, be sure to visit the Pumpkinfest’s website, damariscottapumpkinfest.com.
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Music
scene By Marc Ratner
How Important is Social Media to Musicians?
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s I’ve written about in past columns, the challenge for musicians these days is not at all about being able to record their music. Once recording was an expensive proposition and affordable only by the major record companies and that kept a tight lid on record releases. Today technology and the home computer and digital revolutions have made it a pretty simple process to make high-fidelity, high-quality recordings by almost anyone with a bit of study, practice and a reasonable amount of computer knowledge.
from a booked show is 10 percent. So $100,000 might seem like a lot, until you realize the agent share for a year’s work, and it’s hard work, is only $10,000. So constant touring, once a staple of new artists, is dicey. But there are unconventional venues that are now booking music and independent artists are exploring that avenue more and more.
The challenge is what to do with the recordings after they’re finished.
One unconventional local venue, the Owls Head Transportation Museum, is doing special event concerts on occasion and one is coming up.
The major recording companies and big media companies are for the most part only interested in signing and playing music acts that already have a substantial following.
They’ve booked the award-winning Canadian folk-grass duo “The Laws” to perform at the Museum’s Second Annual Community Concert on Saturday, Oct. 15, at 7 p.m.
So without the expertise, funding and exposure that the “majors” can wield, how does an act gain exposure?
The concert celebrates the release of The Laws’ sixth CD “Try Love.” John and Michele Law have 10 years and one million miles on the road as a couple and the concert at the museum is a free event open to all.
Touring is difficult. Club owners have been hit as hard by the recession as everyone else, if not worse, and they only want to book acts that can guarantee a sizeable crowd of refreshmentbuying people. The club owners in many cases can’t afford even one night a week to give an unknown band a tryout.
To reserve seats, visit owlshead.org. To learn more about the Laws, visit thelaws.ca.
The first question we get asked by agents, the business people who actually book artists into clubs and on tours, legally the agent business and management/recording businesses need to be separate entities) that are considering signing an act to their roster is “How many tickets can they sell?”
But besides that different and unusual venue, what’s a band to do?
If there’s no demand, they can’t get any bookings. Not even opening slots for already successful bands, their agents and management companies require that opening bands in most cases can sell a certain amount of tickets, just to be safe. One medium size agency recently told a colleague of mine that it couldn’t afford to consider working with a new artist unless he or she can guarantee bookings of over $100,000 a year when they walk in the door. Why do they say that? The typical agent percentage
The Bill Monroe Centennial Celebration: A Classic Bluegrass Tribute
More about unconventional and unusual places for artists to play in a future column. Write me if you have suggestions for me about that topic.
Social media. You Tube, Facebook and Twitter are the big three these days. Here are some recent statistics on how big Facebook has become. Remember when MySpace was the place to be? Now it’s taken the path that it’s predecessor Friendster did, the long slide into oblivion as the next big thing, currently Facebook, has moved into the Number 1 social media slot.
Blitzen Trapper American Goldwing
Music picks this month From Sara Willis at “In Tune By Ten” on MPBN: “Blitzen Trapper’s new CD, “American Goldwing”. Sara says “It makes me feel like I’m 19 and driving in a car with the windows down & life is good.” Note: Sara does a concert calendar on her Sunday show on MPBN just past 11 a.m. and she’s interested in hearing about shows in unconventional venues. Write her at swillis@mpbn.net. Warning: She gets lots of listings and can only mention a few. Please give her a long lead time. From Denis Howard at WERU: “There have been many ‘tribute’ albums in the past few years but we’ve had amazing response to ‘The Bill Monroe Centennial Celebration: A Classic Bluegrass Tribute’ album. Denis says that as expected the album’s received a lot of play on the station’s bluegrass show but it surprised him when the DJs on their Roots, weekday morning Americana, and weekend folk shows also started playing it heavily.
How big is Facebook? How do you build enough of a fanbase to get noticed? Neilsen, the ratings people that measure how popular tv shows are, also research social media and they just released a study “State Of The Media: A Social Media Report.”
That’s the question of the day and everyone in the music business is trying to find that answer. My thoughts on the three most important ingredients?
Some of the conclusions from the study (according to Neilsen): • Social networks and blogs now account for almost one quarter of American’s time online. • Four of five Internet users spend time on social media sites and blogs. • Americans spend more time on Facebook than any other U.S. website. • Females are the heaviest users of social media and blogs and people between the ages of 18 to 34 have the highest concentration of social media users followed by Americans aged 35 to 49. • 60 percent of social media users produce review of products and services and those reviews are the preferred source for product information.
The Owls Head Transportation Museum is doing special event concerts on occasion, such as The Laws Oct. 15.
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So if you’re a musician and want to build your fanbase, social media is where you go these days. The biggest problem? The Internet and the social media sites are so diverse:
1. The music has to be exceptional. You might get 30 seconds of someone’s listening time if you get lucky enough to get noticed by them. If you’re an artist, will the first 30 seconds someone hears of your music inspire them to listen to more? 2. Creativity is the key to getting noticed? 3. Luck is the unknown factor, but think about this: I believe that getting lucky is often a combination of staying committed long enough to get noticed and being prepared when the opportunity knocks. If you can’t stay the course or aren’t prepared when the lucky break happens, all is for naught. If you examine the careers of almost any successful musician “overnight success” was not a part of the equation. Next month I’ll interview a Maine musician who’s been building his audience and making his way in the music world.
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Maine Fiberarts Festival returns to Boothbay H
ow on earth is cloth made? How do plants become a favorite T-shirt or sweater? The whole family will enjoy exploring the exciting connection between plants and cloth during the second annual Maine Fiberarts Festival at Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens in Boothbay on Saturday and Sunday, Oct. 1 and 2, from 10 a.m.to 4 p.m. each day. Entrance to this weekend-long event is included in Gardens admission. In addition, work selected by Maine Fiberarts will be on exhibit and for sale in the Visitor Center from Oct. 1-10 (9 a.m. to 5 p.m. daily). There will be a festive opening reception for this Maine Fiberarts Showcase on Friday, Sept. 30 from 57 p.m.; refreshments will be served, and the reception is free and open to the public. For these events, Maine Fiberarts, a statewide nonprofit dedicated to advancing fiber art, craft and farms from its Center/Gallery in Topsham, will gather together the plants, along with spinners, dyers, weavers, and other artists and craftspeople that bring the plant/cloth relationship to life. Work will be for sale at both the weekend Festival and ten-day Showcase.
The display of live silkworms and the types of goods made with the thread they spin was among the crowd favorites at the 2010 Maine Fiberarts Festival at Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens. PHOTO BY: BARBARA FREEMAN During the festival on Oct. 1 and 2, there will be many fascinating opportunities to learn from the experts about every aspect of fiber-related arts. Visitors can touch and feel fibers and cloth from different plants and animals, watch live demonstrations and try their hand at spinning and weaving. There will be a list of local plants and simple recipes for dyeing fiber and cloth and inspiration in the form of a broad array of exquisite household goods, garments, art, and craft items made from natural fibers by Maine’s fiber artists. The event sponsor is Maine Home+Design magazine. The 250-acre Gardens property boasts gardens in bloom with a fantastic variety of late-summer flowers and ornamental grasses, miles of waterfront and woodland trails, and much more. The Kitchen Garden Café and Gardens Gift Shop are open daily.
Visitors at last year’s Maine Fiberarts Festival learn about dyeing fiber using colors from natural materials.
For more information and a schedule for the Oct. 1 and 2 festival, call 633-4333, ext. 101; visit MaineGardens.org; or stop by Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens’ Visitor Center, off Barters Island Road in Boothbay.
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Wild Mushroom Risotto: Sauté shallots in butter until soft. Deglaze pan with white wine. Add Arborio rice and cook rice until soft yet toothy, adding ladles of hot stock as it is absorbed, stirring constantly. Add a sprinkle of parmesan cheese and the chopped re-hydrated or fresh mushroom medley. Salt and pepper to taste. Pan Seared Sea Scallops: In a smoking hot pan add melted butter, then the sea scallops. Cook until first side is brown and then turn over and immediately place in a 350 F degree oven for 2-4 minutes or until no longer translucent. In separate pan sauté spinach in butter with salt and pepper. Place wild mushroom risotto in center of plate, top with sautéed spinach. Place scallops on a ring of Fiore 18 year aged balsamic vinegar. Then top each scallop with a few drops of Fiore white truffle oil. Enjoy!
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Brew
Review By Kay Stephens
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or this month’s boo, uh, brew review, I thought it utterly appropriate to pair a few Halloween-themed beers with a corresponding classic horror movie. Since it’s always been my ritual to spend every single day in October watching classic horror movies, I bring you the following and apologize for all the dumb puns in advance.
Shipyard: Pumpkinhead Ale In this review, this is the only Maine beer featured and it is eagerly anticipated every September by those who love its pumpkin taste with promises of cardamom, nutmeg and clove. Lately, bartenders are trying to tinker with too much with it by including cinnamon or sugar on the rim. However, it pairs well with Pumpkinhead, the 1988 supernatural movie with a cult following that features a legendary monster who avenges anyone who was wronged. Try to stop Pumpkinhead and you become the next victim. Try to stop bartenders from putting cinnamon on the rim of your glass or your pint becomes the next victim.
Reaper Ale: Deathly Pale Ale The fact that I get to write about beer and Johnny Depp in one sentence makes me want to do cartwheels. This beer has a very pleasing dry
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hop taste, which pairs nicely with Tim Burton’s classic retelling of Sleepy Hollow. It’s the reaper’s job (in this case the Headless Horseman) to collect heads and the head on this pleasing beer with its complex blend of citric fruitiness and floral overtones disappears quite nicely.
Rogue: Dead Guy Ale A deep honey color and a rich hearty flavor pairs well with Shaun of The Dead’s apocalyptic uprising of zombies. In the movie, Shaun’s best deadbeat (ha!) friend is Ed, a couch-squatting tub who smokes pot, plays video games all day and drinks a lot of beer. In fact, much of the plot revolves around taking refuge in a pub. My kind of horror movie. You can just imagine Ed at the end of the movie (who is now a zombie) sitting on the couch playing video games as he takes a sip of this ale and groan, “GRAIIIIIIIIIIINNNS.”
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Prepare To Be Hypnozined
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ypnozine is a serialized illustrated novel co-created by West Coast writer, Jason Squamata and Andrew Mc Kenzie, a Maine-based graphic artist. Mc Kenzie was born in Rockport and received his B.A. from Emerson College in theater studies. While in Boston, he cultivated a relationship with a fraternal gang of nomadic artists, writers and designers, a relationship that continues to this day and remains the primary influence on his work. After college, he spent five years working in Asia, and has now settled back in his home town, working out of the West Street Heritage, his design studio. Hypnozine is not like any indie comic you’ve seen lately. Subversive with an unreliable narrator combining the surrealism of Zippy the Pinhead, the mock zeal of the Church of the SubGenius and black-and-white seizure-inducing illustrations, this isn’t an escapist comic — it’s dense reading. Like the first paragraph that sets off Hypnozine, you have to be in the right frame of mind to absorb the narrative. It’s as if the words themselves are swinging back and forth across your eyes, attempting to simulate the kind of drug-induced dysphoria that the characters in Hypnozine experience by ingesting a mind-altering 1960s drug. Here, as the illustrator, Mc Kenzie tells more of the story. The cover image shows the poppy, the logo for Hypnozine, first of one. PHOTO BY: HYPNOCOMIX
Rockport artist Andrew Mc Kenzie discusses his latest illustrated novel titled Hypnozine, which is described as: “A coming of age epic, vibrating with the hormonal fury of sin, redemption, mutation, and obsession.”
Q: You are the art side of this magazine. What was the concept behind the high-contrast black-white optical illustrations as it goes with the text? I first started working on Hypnozine about six years ago while living in Taiwan. I had the original concept for a comic that was filled with not just great story content, but all of these amazing icons and images. I wanted to add to and build off of what my other creative partners had started. I slapped those pages down on the drafting table and traced them out on vellum, then threw those tracings
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on the overhead projector and mixed them with transparencies of some of my favorite black and white photos and my technical drawings and blue prints. The style really comes from a compilation of my love of OP art from artists such as Bridgett Riley, my love of the “Mod” aesthetics and what I was being exposed to for Taiwanese inking. I wanted the art and design to really stand out, to have a distinctive feeling to it. In the story line, Hypnozine is a mind-altering psychedelic, but in reality it is this consuming hybrid piece of media that really does try to possess and overwhelm the reader.
Q: How do you and your writing and creative team work together in different states and how long has it taken to put these issues together? The entire story arc takes place over 32 issues, each issue consisting of 11 images/ text pieces. The first series is completely done and all the outlining for all the remaining issues has been completed. When Jason and I started working on Hypnozine, we knew we wanted to have something well plotted. The books move fast and when the first series concludes, we get into it quick.
Jason and I have spent hundreds of hours on speaker phone. In the final steps of creating the images, I use the computer. At this point, email takes over as we work back and forth on the text and final image; probably about four times before we are finished. When the page is done, we put it online and add mixed media elements to it. For example, Jason starts working on the audio track, narrates the series and mixes music into it. It really is an indepth process, I love it.
Q: You and your partners are also working on several other concurrent projects, all of which flow around the writtenillustrated graphic novels/ comix. As Jason says you are a “story-telling factory.” What is it about working with visionary artists and writers that is so fulfilling to you? Nothing is ever wasted, I love the line we float between art and media, conveniently using the rules of either to help achieve our goals. It is truly satisfying to be in a group of creators who are just hungry for each other’s work.
Yi-Ming is the alter ego character of Demetri Quinn; this piece is his soliloquy. PHOTO BY: HYPNOCOMIX
Q: Are you ever tempted to move away from Maine to be amongst more of these creative circles? What makes you stay and how do you still stay relevant? I went to school in Boston, worked in L.A., and lived overseas. This is the only place where things feel real. I want to be here, and there were some definite decisions made to stay and settle here. I much rather work on changing Maine, to try to get more media made here, than leave.
Q: Hypnozine’s illustrations also function as art installations, which you’ve shown in galleries independent of the writing. How do people respond to this on its own? Different crowds give different things back. People at comic book conventions are curious about the way the images relate to the narrative and want to get in to the story. People in a gallery setting want to know more about the process and how the posters are made. My favorite comparison I have heard so far that Hypnozine was Alice in Wonderland meets the 1960s British television series, The Prisoner.
Q: How can the public get their hands on this magazine? Is it going to be printed or electronically produced? We have done several small independent printings of the first and second books that have done well. We have the books in a couple bookstores on the West Coast, and I would like to get in some here in Maine. In addition to the paper comics, we have presented Hypnozine as a gallery poster show as well as PDF slide shows. The images have been hung along nature trails, used to decorate club spaces and even used as political illustrations. In addition, I have been approached to reproduce the images for music festivals and was asked recently to consider reformatting some of the patterning into textiles. We try and use every bit of what we have, but we are really looking for an outlet for a larger release. We have definitely gotten to a point where we have grown beyond an indie comic, and are really interested in taking that next step. For more information visit hypnokomix.com/projects/ hypnozine.
Broken Window is about an unidentified man coming to kill a subversive writer. PHOTO BY: HYPNOCOMIX
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The Upside and Downside Freak-N-Monster Creature Reacher The upside: So detailed, it’s likely to win contests. The downside: The mask is a little top heavy; wear a bike helmet underneath.
Hell Hound Wolf The upside: It’ll scare the crap out of anyone in your path. The downside: Not exactly a chick-magnet costume.
hristine and George Scott are the co-owners of the Costume Shop, next to Floral Creations & Gifts, which they also own, in Belfast. This is the place to shop locally to get anything you need for a Halloween costume from wigs to accessories to full body costumes. They say their bestsellers for men are pirate costumes and bestsellers for women are sexy police officer costumes. (Seriously ladies? Does everything have to be tramped up for Halloween?) For little kids, the undead “Little Rascals” mask sells the best; for boys the Ninja costume is the winner; and for girls, the witch costume is the most popular. When the season for their flower shop mostly winds down in September, they keep business going year round with the Costume Shop. Cancer patients often come in to buy something from their extensive wig collection; Mystery Dinner participants come in for specific attire; theater folks stop in for props and little girls who want fairy wings and costumes for birthdays can find whatever they need here.
Orangutan The upside: Allows you to get away with stupid behavior at parties. The downside: Expect people to pretend to pick bugs off you all night.
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Apple pie contest at Woodlawn Farmers’ Market A s part of the Downeast Heirloom Apple Week, the Woodlawn Farmers’ Market in Ellsworth will host a apple pie contest on Sunday, Oct. 9. Contest registration will begin at noon and judging will take place starting at 1 p.m.
State Sen. Brian Langley, Woodlawn Executive Director Joshua C. Torrance, and College of the Atlantic Professor Todd Little-Siebold will judge pies in the following categories: best overall apple pie, best crust, and best presentation. Special awards will be given to the contest winners. There is no charge to enter the contest. The apple pie contest is part of the Downeast Heirloom Apple Week, Oct. 1-9, a week-long celebration aimed at educating people about Maine’s rich apple history. Apple Week includes activities at the Perry Harvest Fair on Oct. 1, a keynote speech by Peter Hatch, the director of Gardens and Grounds at Monticello and author of “The Fruit and Fruit Trees of Monticello” on Oct. 7 as well as a apple festival on Saturday. Oct. 8. A full schedule for the week can be found at woodlawnmuseum. org. The week is being organized by the Downeast Food Heritage Collaborative, a partnership between the College of the Atlantic, Woodlawn, and Healthy Acadia, and is supported by grants from the Hancock County Fund at the Maine Community Foundation and by Maine Coast Heritage Trust. Woodlawn is an educational, cultural, and recreational treasure for the people of Downeast Maine. The main house is open for tours through Oct. 31. The public park is open year round, sunrise to sunset. Route 172 (Surry Road), Ellsworth. For more information on the Downeast Heirloom Apple Week please visit woodlawnmuseum.org or call 667-8671.
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Portraits of Americans Who Tell the Truth By Marydale Abernathy
An interview with artist and activist Robert Shetterly
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ith this collection of portraits, Robert Shetterly intends to remind people of the dignity, courage and importance of some of America’s truth tellers, our own obligations as citizens, and that the struggle for equality and freedom is ongoing. The portraits are meant as role models for all of us as we confront contemporary issues. Whether or not you agree with a particular subject’s point of view, each is an attempt to create dialog that will help us figure out which truths we value most as citizens in a democracy.
The American’s Who Tell the Truth project has really grown since the book was published in 2005. Did you expect this project to drive so much of your artistic life? My original goal was to paint 50 portraits. I just finished portrait number 170, and I have a huge backlog to get to, and I get suggestions all the time. There is an amazing population of hard working people who care, it’s inspiring. When I started this project I realized the works couldn’t be for sale,
The right to criticize; the right to hold unpopular beliefs; the right to protest; the right of independent thought. The exercise of these rights should not cost one single American citizen his reputation or his right to a livelihood…Otherwise none of us could call our souls our own. — Margaret Chase Smith
or the commercial aspect might influence who was chosen. I would have never predicted that I would be surviving and supporting my family from being on the speaking circuit. It’s difficult to get people to support political art. How do you use artistic collaboration to enhance your process? The process of collaboration is important on many levels. First, any art becomes art because of the collaboration with that viewer, reader, listener. Just because it’s there on the wall, or there on the page, or in the auditorium, in one sense, doesn’t make it art. It is art because someone is connecting with it, using their own experience and imagination to literally invigorate it... to make it their own, so that in some way almost a third product is created from the experience that the viewer and the artist share. There is this new thing created with the audience.
Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hope of its children…this is not a way of life at all, in any true sense. Under the cloud of threatening war, it is humanity hanging from a cross of iron. — Dwight Eisenhower
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My work depends on a whole series of collaborations. I collaborate with each person I paint. I try to honor them, use their words, spread information about them, use them as a role model. My collaboration with them helps spread their message, courage and ideas.
You travel all over the country presenting your portraits to educate citizens and students. What sorts of impacts do you see? As a small example, a woman in Lewisville, Ky., Michelle Hemingway, saw some note cards of American’s Who Tell the Truth and she started using them in her class to teach history. This was just after the book came out. She wrote to me, to tell me she was doing this. I wrote back how this is great that she had a curriculum going! I get asked a lot if there is one, as most teachers don’t have time to develop one themselves. So I contacted the publishers of the book to see if they could come up with some money to help her write this curriculum. She has been expanding on it for six years now. That began the collaboration with Michelle, whom I had never met. She invited me down there, and I started to get involved with the students in her school. So she was inspired by my project, initially from all she knew, it was just some note cards. But she used the portraits in a way that actually began to change the lives of her students. She works with the most difficult students. These are fifth graders. They are not dumb, they are just angry, and it’s a poor
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When one comes to think of it, there are no such things as divine, immutable or inalienable rights. Rights are things we get when we are strong enough to make good our claim on them. — Helen Keller
The gross national product measures neither our wit nor our courage, neither our wisdom nor our learning, neither our compassion nor devotion to country. It measures everything, in short, except that which makes life worthwhile, and it can tell us everything about America — except whether we are proud to be Americans. — Robert F. Kennedy
school community. Michelle used the portraits and the stories of the people to inspire her kids to tell their own stories, to get them excited about who they are. She got them to go into the community and look for things they could change and then do reports on their ideas.
You are currently involved in a collaboration between poets and artists for the Belfast Poetry Festival this month. You are paired with Judy Taylor, the artist who painted the now famous Labor Murals. For this project, you are the poet, not the painter?
The reports covered problems like rape, no local green spaces, no places to play, the quality of the housing, etc. The kids documented these things, they wrote reports and drew pictures to show what they wanted the community to look like. Then they got up one by one and presented their ideas to the mayor. This is the kind of collaboration that is so inspiring because instead of patting them on the head saying, that’s nice... instead, she took the reports back to the mayor’s office, and said, “We are actually going to do these things. We are so impressed with this program, we want to take it to the whole city.”
Yes, I have been practicing automatic writing for years, and it translates well to poetry.
These kids that were once the worst in the schools, are now the stars. They found a vehicle around which they want to learn. Collaboration can happen at all levels, all these things take people along the line to make positive change. It’s thrilling.
I write to find out everything that is going on inside me, and I love the totally unexpected. I’m sure everyone is expecting me to write about the murals, but I’m not going to do that. When I got this opportunity to work with Judy, I decided to do something not directly political. I was very involved with the murals and now I will collaborate with Judy in another way. I will just choose a painting that moves me. Even though I have totally redirected my life to be committed to this ethical, political work, when we engage in social justice work, it is just a piece of who we are. We have to constantly nourish the whole spectrum of things that make us human. Being a full human being includes enjoying great music, art, stories, humor, sillynesss, and going to the depths of grief, friendship, everything that makes us (Shetterly Continued Page 24)
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One bright sunny morning in the shadow of the steeple By the Relief Office I saw my people — As they stood hungry, I stood there wondering if This land was made for you and me. — Woody Guthrie
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Shetterly Continued from Page 23 full people. When we get so involved in social justice work, we have to keep in mind, we always have to find joy in our lives if we can.
What is happening with the Labor Mural controversy now? Has it invigorated or politicised artists in Maine?
This is often lost in education. This learning by wrote, to fit in a status quo in terms of jobs and economy, is extremely unhealthy. The system kids are being taught to fit into is the same system that has made the earth unlivable, and it’s wrong. It’s not teaching kids how to be fully alive. You leave out music, art, storytelling, you are not teaching them to be human beings.
There was a huge outpouring of interest. It was incredible! The rallies brought people together, with singing, speeches, great audience participation. It did galvanize the Maine art world and it invigorated the Union of Maine Visual Artists. We have been demanding to put the murals back; two of us are named in the lawsuit. Now Judge Woodcock has to decide if the case will go forward. The governor wanted the case dismissed. We still haven’t heard where it stands. Any advice for developing collaborative projects? Just do it! A lot of what needs to be done artisically, has to be done alone. There has to be a singular vision in hand. I don’t invite some one to paint with me. The ways we can be collaborative are the ways we can build community. One of the most important things we can do is build collaborative communities. I encourage people to seek out ways to do collaborative projects with town governments. We need more dialog about how we can solve our problems. Do you have favorite collaborative projects?
The battle we have fought, and are still fighting for the forests is part of the eternal conflict between right and wrong, and we cannot expect to see the end of it…So we must count on watching and striving for these trees, and should always be glad to find anything so surely good and noble to strive for. — John Muir
One of the things that has impressed me the most are things being done around food in this country. The people in the food movement and all the
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Schedule & Details
2011 Participating Addresses Downtown Belfast, Maine
1 | Åarhus Gallery, 50 Main St., 207.338.0001 2 | Belfast Free Library, 106 High St., 207.338.3884 3 | Waterfall Arts Center, 256 High St., 207.338.2222
One of the only community-based, non-academic poetry festivals in the country, the event features established, professionally recognized poets and artists from throughout Maine along with emerging poets to create a lively mix.
First Friday October 7, 5–8pm: Poetry and Art Gallery Openings Friday, Oct 14, 7pm: Gammons Room of the Belfast Free Library An Evening with Maine Poet Laureate Wes McNair. Also — Winner of the Maine Postmark Poetry Contest and Belfast Poet Laureate, Jacob Fricke with saxophonist Alan Crichton.
Saturday, Oct 15: Art & Poetry Gallery Walk 10am – 12pm: Belfast Free Library
collaboration that is going on in that area, from the bread bakers, to the farmers, the transporters, the promoters, the whole spectrum of how that is all working together is beginning to take hold. We all need better food, and the idea that we have given our nutritional needs and the management of that for ourselves and our children, over to corporations whose desire is not our wellbeing is obscene, and taking that back is paramount.
Find out more: AmericansWhoTellTheTruth.org Robert Shetterly spoke at the opening keynote at the Unity College Grass Roots Media Conference, co-produced with WERU.org, Community Radio. Read excerpts online: http://bit.ly/p8741b
The 7th Annual Belfast Poetry Festival Features Collaborations Between Artists and Poets ight poets & eight visual artists participate in the 7th Annual Belfast Poetry Festival October 14 and 15, 2011 in downtown Belfast, Maine.
Our government is the potent, the omnipresent teacher… Crime is contagious. If the government becomes a law-breaker, it breeds contempt for the law; it invites every man to become a law unto himself; it invites anarchy. — Justice Louis Brandeis
A unique feature of the Festival all six years has been the Gallery Walk, in which the audience moves among four downtown galleries to view the collaborative exhibits by artist/poet teams and hear the accompanying poetry.
2:15–4pm: Belfast Free Library Poet Carey Salerno with Artist Sally Faulkner Poet Christian Barter with Artist Russell Kahn Poet Carolyn Locke with Artist Kathy Pollard Poet Robert Shetterly with Artist Judy Taylor
4:30–7pm: Waterfall Arts Poet Elisabeth Benjamin with Artist Anna Strickland Poet Molly McDonald with Artist Maryjean Viano Crowe Poet Ira Sadoff with Artist Barbara Andrus
5:30–6:30: Reception
Writing Workshop with Arielle Greenberg
1–2:15pm: Gallery Walk Begins at Aarhus Poet Richard Miles with Artist Ingrid Ellison Megan Grumbling with Dan Beckman
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6:30–7pm: Closing “Call & Response” Reading (open to all) The Belfast Poetry Festival is co-sponsored by the Maine Writers and Publishers Alliance.
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How the New Facebook Features Affect You
By Shannon Kinney
HOURS 6:30 a.m. to 5:15 p.m.
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PDATE: At presstime, Facebook is about to release radical changes to personal profiles and pages. Watch the Dream Local stories on Village Soup or find us on Facebook for the latest answers to your questions!
Facebook has been busy rolling out several improvements designed to allow content to be viewed more broadly on Facebook and throughout the Web, as well as to help you have more control over what you see in your news feed. Here are just a few.
Introducing the Subscribe Button Designed to allow you hear directly from people that you are interested in but don’t know personally, such as journalists, artists, or political figures, the Facebook Subscribe button makes it easy for you to choose what people you hear from in your news feed, and receive content from people outside of your circle of friends. You will also see suggestions appearing of people you may be interested in subscribing to, based on your behavior and established likes. Have a famous person or someone else you are interested in that you want to follow? No problem. The subscribe button makes it possible. You are automatically subscribed to each of your friends, but the subscribe button can also be used to control what content you see from them. When you hit the subscribe button on each of their pages, you’ll be given the option to choose whether you want to see all of their updates, most updates, or important updates only. You can also choose what types of content, such as photos, you’d like to see by person. Sound complicated? Not really. If you don’t touch any of these features, you can hit the ignore button and nothing will change in your experience. But, if used, these tools give you significantly more control over what you see, and also what you show on Facebook and ultimately to the Web. And lastly, you can use this button to get your own subscribers. This is entirely optional. If you would like to allow people to subscribe to your feed, visit facebook.com/about/ subscribe and click allow subscribers. Once you’ve chosen that, with each post you do and each photo you add you will have the ability to choose whether the content is presented to the public, your friends only, or a custom setting, such as only family or another list you have created. It’s a powerful tool to build your brand, but use it wisely – it defaults to public. You will also see a subscribers tab on your profile to see who is subscribing to your content – a great way to manage your own personal brand. What’s next to come from Facebook? Smart lists and more tools to control your newsfeed. We are already seeing early releases today. My Facebook is showing geographic and other natural lists for me to choose where posts go. There is much more to come here. We’ll bring you the latest in next month’s issue, or follow us on Facebook and VillageSoup for more info. Question of the month: “How can I get the word out and take advantage of the viral nature of social media to promote our upcoming Juice Conference?” – Skip Bates Great question, Skip. It’s true, social media can be a powerful tool for spreading the news about an event, and two excellent tools to use are tagging and sharing. Below is a step by step example:
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1. Visit the Juice Conference page, find the link you would like people to see, and hit share. 2. You can share on your own wall to your own friends, which is good, and should also tag people such as @shannon kinney is also going, then it would show up on my page, too. This kind of tagging can be effective. You can also chose to show it to people on your Business page. 3. Write an endorsement headline and voila! See if you can get a bunch of your board / early adopters helping to spread the word and get it out there. Also, you could be posting on other businesses walls as the Juice Conference using Facebook’s outbound marketing tools. Have a question for Shannon or suggestion of what you’d like to see in the next issue? Send it to shannon@dreamlocal.com Follow me on LinkedIn, Foursquare, Facebook or Twitter facebook.com/dreamlocal www.twitter.com/shannonkin
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BLACK SWAN GREEN October is my favorite month — no doubt lots of you are with me on that — and not just because it’s the month I always re-read my favorite novel, but that certainly adds a lot of gold stars. The favorite novel in question: David Mitchell’s Black Swan Green. Simple summary from the cover: the book tracks a single year in what is, for 13-year-old Jason Taylor, the sleepiest village in muddiest Worcestershire in a dying Cold War England, 1982. My summary would go on for three or four or nine pages, so I’m going to keep it simple and repeat one of my favorites of Jason’s thoughts: “The world never stops unmaking what the world never stops making. But who says the world has to make sense?” This is no average coming-of-age novel; it is a masterwork of reflection on the ever-shifting human interior world. HANNA A safe European vacation, this film is not. Essentially Snow White on acid, this high-caliber coming-of-age story stars Saoirse Ronan as a teenage Femme Nikita on a mission to kill her wicked stepmother (Cate Blanchett) and meet the man who raised her (Eric Bana). But surprise surprise, Mommy Dearest wants to kill her first! Hanna relies on the kindness of strangers, but with evil henchmen on her heels. Every step of the way, no one is safe. Techno-fueled by a Chemical Brothers soundtrack, Hanna takes us on a multi-cultural road trip filled with kooky characters and surreal situations. Who is really who and what is what won’t be revealed until well into this grim action thriller. Beautiful landscapes and neck-breaking action all come together for an enjoyable and original adventure that ends with a bang! Expect the unexpected. JOHN HIATT: DIRTY JEANS & MUDSLIDE HYMNS The first tune pulled me in at the first chord — an angry tune. Fed up, on edge, ready to snap... the way we’ve all felt, John Hiatt captures it perfectly. “All the Way Under” is a jumping cut that has a zippy Zydeco feel at times, accompanied by snappy steel-strung guitars and growling vocals. The musicianship on all of the tracks is amazingly strong (especially Russ Pahl on pedal steel) and really helps to make this record a model of pure enjoyment. Hiatt’s songwriting capability keeps on improving and even with tunes like “When New York had her Heart Broke” (which pays homage to 9/11, 10 years later) they seem heartfelt and never kitschy. The production quality on this record is supreme, conducted by Kevin Shirley, who has worked with such powerhouses as Aerosmith and the Black Crowes. This record is a great trip through America and as I listen and drive, I can feel the warmth it had intended to create.
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What’s
Shakin’ By Shannon Kinney
Plenty shakin’ this fall T hink that because the summer is over the fun is, too?
No way! We find plenty of shakin’ to do year round in beautiful Midcoast Maine. Here are two favorites for this month.
Darby’s has been a staple of the Belfast community for many years. Bartender Nicky Chase has been there for 11 years, and says it’s the great people that keep her coming back. We enjoyed a delicious dinner and a Blue Lagoon Martini there, made from vodka, blue curacao and lemonade that was tasty. Darby’s is famous for its XYZ Margarita, made from freshly-squeezed lime juice. The bar is a beauty with tin ceiling and old fashioned woodwork, the atmosphere is welcoming, and the food Darby’s, in the heart of Belfast 155 High Street Open daily, 11:30-3:30 and 5-9 p.m. 207-338-2339 darbysrestaurant.com
is delicious. The menu has a wide variety of unique, freshly made items at affordable prices. We tried Pad Thai and a pecan encrusted haddock with mojito sauce; both were incredible. A great place to stop before or after a movie at the theater next door, or any time you’re in the area. The Myrtle Street Tavern, in Rockland, welcomes the fall with a great lineup of live bands every Saturday night, with “The Eric Green Party” rockin’ the house with great jazzy blues for the “7th Annual Halloween Bash on Saturday the 29th.”
A Blue Lagoon martini at Darby’s. PHOTO BY: SHANNON KINNEY
Fall drink specials abound with the flavors of Sailor Jerry Spiced Rum mixed with Myrtle’s freshly-made hot mulled cider and garnished with sugar and cinnamon, yummy!
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Regulars at the bar at Darby’s. PHOTO BY: SHANNON KINNEY
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y son and I found ourselves completely mesmerized Monday night by the opening of the new Fox show “Terra Nova.”
By Daniel Dunkle
The show opened with an image of the surface of the moon and the American flag there and then as we look upward, we realize that must be Earth in the background. Instead of the familiar, beautiful blue-and-green sphere, we see a blighted yellow-brown orb. We get closer and are welcomed to the hellscape of 2149 where people cannot breathe the outside air without “rebreathers” on their faces. The story centers on the Shannon family headed by the dad, Jim, played by Jason O’Mara of ‘Life on Mars’ and and mom, Elizabeth, played by Shelley Conn. After the government finds them to be in violation of having too many children (overpopulation is apparently fueling the environmental crisis), Jim goes to jail for a while. Elizabeth, a highly qualified doctor, figures out a way to break him out of prison and get the entire family into the Terra Nova project. Through Terra Nova, people make “pilgrimages” from the destroyed future
85 million years into a dinosaur-populated past where they are building a new civilization. This new world’s leader is the charismatic Nathaniel Taylor (played by Stephen Lang of ‘Avatar’). Lang brings the exact right mix of military man, father figure and adventurous explorer to the role.
“time stream” from our own. This frees them from concerns about the dreaded “butterfly effect.” Anything you do that far in the past could have massive ripples on the future. Feel free to argue amongst yourselves for half an hour about time travel rules, paradoxes and what not.
As the two-hour premiere progressed, we learned that all is not as it seems in this past paradise. For one thing, although this is the past, it may not be our past. A probe sent back through the time rip never had its signal received in the future, leading the scientific community to believe Terra Nova is on a different
Meat-munching monster-saurs, we learn, are not the only things to fear in this world. A rebel faction of humans called Sixers has already formed. They came through on the sixth pilgrimage, come heavily armed and have mysterious motives. Finally, there’s Taylor’s long-lost son who has been drawing cryptic equations or signs on the rocks out by the waterfalls, which the leader of the Sixers tells us has something to do with the secret “real reason” for Terra Nova. I thoroughly enjoyed this. Was it perfect? No, but for a science fiction television show it was about as good as it gets. It was fast-paced escapist fun. The only thing hindering my enjoyment is the fear that Fox, which is notorious for canceling good shows (R.I.P. “Firefly”), will drop this before it has a chance to find its audience. I predict that the time-stream thing is going
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Terra Nova: A+ to become an issue in the future and that the assumptions about it being a separate time line may be challenged. I think the Sixers are not necessarily bad guys, but may have a reason for their point of view. The long lost son is some kind of crazy genius wandering the dinosaur outback, like Danielle on “Lost.” He’s going to show up now and then spouting conspiracy theories about why this is wrong, all wrong, and the space time continuum is in danger, etc. My only complaint is that the show could use a bit more Lang and a bit less of the Shannon’s annoying teenage son, but there’s a large ensemble cast and the show has plenty of room to explore other characters. Please watch it so it will get good ratings and stay on the air.
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his month’s winner of the “How Well Do You Know Midcoast Maine” is Hilary Rackliff, born and raised in Midcoast Maine. Her background is as diverse as the rocky coast: psychology, education, Reiki, digital media, and lobstering. She recently joined GaussMedia, which combines creativity with her passion for building community. The company is about to launch a new social media app called PassThePraise which Rackcliff says encompasses the concept of gratitude. Find her at hilary@gaussmedia.org or at www.facebook.com/passthepraise.
Q: Let’s start with your first passion. As a Reiki Master, tell us more about the principle of gratitude and how it fits into our everyday interactions. A: Gratitude is one of five Reiki principles that — if practiced regularly — brings healing, peace, and happiness. It’s about truly being in the moment, every moment, and appreciating people and relationships. It’s easy to find something to complain about, to get discouraged and critical, but it’s also possible to make gratitude a practice, to seek good and acknowledge it. I’ve learned that by practicing gratitude I have more to be grateful for. It’s true that you get back what you give.
Q: What is GaussMedia and what is the most creative part of your job there? A: GaussMedia is team of designers, developers and strategists. We work with businesses to improve their search engine results, develop social media strategies, and enhance their web presence. We also offer customized seminars to businesses and schools on topics like Facebook, Twitter, blogging and social strategy. The foundation beneath all that we do is a commitment to local economy and strong communities. By providing small and local businesses with the tools they need to succeed we are helping communities thrive. I love that I have the opportunity to unite my passion for local community with my creativity — developing marketing strategy, creating logos and branding, visioning and building innovative apps — it’s fun and inspiring.
Q: Tell us a little bit more about your latest app, PassthePraise. When will it be live? A: PassthePraise brings both my worlds together: Reiki and social media. It will inspire and strengthen communities across the globe by publishing the positive things people do for each other and by allowing this praise to be passed to friends and family. It’s a network of gratitude. Because gratitude is contagious, it will inspire civic change and strengthen community ties. The person giving the praise will receive as much as the person being praised. As a society we fixate on negativity, on challenging events and circumstances. PassthePraise will shift that focus one good deed at a time. Our goal is to launch in November, yes, because of Thanksgiving! And we also have a plan in place to include schools, civic organizations and businesses.
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Q: You’re right. A lot of times with Internet communication, we can get way too much toxicity. How do you think something like this will change the online conversations and bring back a little more civility? A: Yes, we’re exposed to a lot of negativity, particularly in the news — violence, natural disasters, accidents. It’s a challenge to find a way to absorb it all, particularly when the negativity turns toxic and viral with every tweet, post and video. PassthePraise will spread positive messages throughout social media platforms like Facebook, providing an alternative opportunity for positive public exchange. As more people pass the praise, civility and gratitude will become habit. To be eligible for The White Hot Spotlight, “like” The Killer Convo on Facebook (facebook.com/killerconvo) and watch for the monthly “How Well Do You Know Midcoast Maine” contest.
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Riding the rails Downeast Success built on volunteers By Karen Cadbury
Downeast Scenic Railroad. PHOTOS BY: KAREN CADBURY
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everett Fernald says when he was growing up in Pittsfield, he was always fascinated by trains, but it was as an adult — when he took his first trip on a steam engine — that he knew he was hooked.
“I went up to Brownville Junction, and an old Canadian Pacific Railroad train was there — the one that used to make the trip from Brownsville to Halifax,” says Fernald. “I chatted with the engineers and pretty soon they offered me a ride in the cab, and, I guess, that was it. When I got in that train I knew being on and around trains was something I wanted to do for the rest of my life.” Fernald has been putting in an extraordinary number of volunteer hours, working as an engineer, mechanic and general all around helper on Downeast Scenic Railroad, a recently-restored excursion train in Ellsworth. He and 75 other volunteers are members of the Downeast Heritage Rail Preservation Trust, a nonprofit in Ellsworth that is dedicated to reviving part of the old Maine Central Railroad line. The group repairs old locomotives and vintage rail cars, and provides educational and recreational programs on weekend train excursions from Ellsworth north toward Brewer and northeast to Washington Junction, a journey that includes forests, wetlands, osprey nesting areas, a beaver dam and marshes.
After five years of hard work, Downeast Scenic Railroad was launched July 2010 and, starting May 2011, it began its first full season of operation. The railroad includes six miles of restored track, two diesel engines, two passenger cars, a caboose and flatbed car. Since the train opened for business last summer, thousands of residents and tourists have been enjoying the trips. Fernald works full time as an equipmentrepair machinist for Cianbro, a heavy
Downeast Scenic Railroad’s team of 75 volunteers has included about 25 “regulars” who volunteer time every week. “Most of our volunteers found out about us through articles in the newspapers or through somebody, who knew somebody, who knew somebody,” says Fernald. “Volunteers come and when they see how hard the work is, some have stayed and some haven’t, but most have. Everybody who does stay gives 110 percent.”
“Eddie Rideout has lettered our name on all the rail cars, painted the whistle posts, and the track signs before the crossings,” says Fernald. Jim Young, who in his usual job works as a heavy equipment operator for the Town of Ellsworth, is Downeast Scenic Railroad’s mechanic, operating the excavator or the front-end loader when they are needed for laying tracks or moving heavy equipment. Shawn Melvin, the train’s “qualified brakeman,” repairs rails and rail beds. Charlie Freeman, the train’s volunteer “road master,” also does the landscaping, which the volunteers call “ditch work.” Freeman, who owns Bonded Auto Parts in Ellsworth, has helped clear and landscape the train corridors, so riders have scenic, panoramic views. When they evaluated the condition of the tracks, the volunteers concluded that they
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“Jobs working on railroads are hard to come by these days,” says Fernald, “and this project is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for me to work on and around trains.” When Fernald found out that Tom Testa, who
Volunteers
Fernald says the volunteers have brought a wide range of skills and talents to the project.
Travelers can relax and view local bogs, beaver dams, Osprey nests and wooded areas from Downeast Scenic Railroad’s open-air, flatbed car.
industrial and civil construction firm in Pittsfield. For almost six years he has traveled 120 miles to and from Ellsworth, often several times each week, to work on the rail restoration project in his spare time.
would need to replace a minimum of 2,000 rail ties before the train could operate. Working flat out, changing the ties by hand, without any mechanization, they found they could replace only 50 ties a day. In order to accomplish a larger scope of work in a reasonable amount of time, the volunteers finally hired a contractor to help. “We just weren’t going to live long enough to get it done, so we hired Maine Eastern Railroad to lay the ties,” says Fernald. “They had two machines — a tie inserter and a tamper. Though we had a lot of work to do before the contractor could come in and lay the ties, having a contractor help us made our job much easier. We could mark the ties that needed to be replaced, distribute new ties up and down the line with a dump truck, a couple of push cars and a hy-rail truck, and Maine Eastern would lay them — the first batch took us six weeks.” Volunteers also had to locate trains that could be purchased or donated to the project. “If you’re in the train business, you know how to find trains on the Internet,” says Fernald. “But we had to think carefully, because when you’re handling big equipment, like diesel engines, everything has to be done just right.” He explained that while some of the rail cars were donated, the cost of transporting them to Ellsworth from other parts of the country was expensive. “The regular charge was $20,000 a car,” says Fernald, “and, though we got a discount because of being a nonprofit, it was still very pricey at $10,000 a car.”
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is the current president of Downeast Scenic Railroad, was going to lead the organization, he decided he wanted to be part of the project. “Tom understands this region of Maine because his family has owned and operated businesses on Mt. Desert Island and in Downeast Maine for more than 80 years,” says Fernald. “He knew that Ellsworth gets a lot of tourists and traffic, but that visitors very rarely get a chance to see the wooded and wild regions that are visible from a train on the old rail line.” When the state of Maine bought the Maine Central Railroad line in 1987, Testa and many of his friends made inquiries about what was going to happen to the old line. He discovered that the Maine Department of Transportation would consider a request to rent part of the line to an organization that wanted to build an excursion train. Feeling encouraged about the possibility, he and his friends started talking with people around the country who knew about restoring trains and who had successful excursion rail projects. “We found that the key to the success of the excursion trains we saw around the country was the markets in which they were located and, we knew that Ellsworth and Maine offered great potential markets,” says Testa. Several good friends joined Testa to help set up a nonprofit and recruit volunteers. Bill Alexander, a retired teacher from Albion, Gary Briggs from Brewer, Joel Ackerman, a dentist from Ellsworth, and Bronson Platner, an attorney from Ellsworth, along with other friends, began building an organization that they thought could accomplish the task. “We were all business people so we wanted a third party to confirm our financial estimates,” says Testa. They hired Stone Consulting, a transportation firm from Warren, Penn., with a tough reputation for “telling it like it is,” to determine if they were anticipating the correct long-term capital costs. “We wanted to be sure the project was doable,” says Testa. “We wanted to test our thinking. We wanted to be challenged.” Stone Consulting’s final report endorsed the project and validated the group’s early cost estimates.
“This train had to operate in a selfsustaining manner,” says Testa. “We wanted to set up a not-for-profit project and we wanted to be sure it would operate in a predictable and stable financial manner.”
Vintage cars Downeast owns two diesel engines, a General Electric “70 tonner” and an Alco model S4. The 70-tonner was built for the Berlin Mills Railroad in 1948 and used until 1986, when it was sold to the Belfast and Moosehead Lake Railroad, where it operated until 2008. The Alco, which was built in 1950 for the Portland Terminal Company, was owned formerly by the Maine Central Railroad and the Boston & Maine Railroad. In 1981, it was sold to Conway Scenic Railroad where it was used until the 1990s. Both engines run on diesel fuel, which powers the main generator and provides electricity. The 70-tonner has a 64-volt engine that provides power for operating the headlights, control circuits and other accessories, and a 600-horsepower engine that is required to drive the train. The 70-tonner’s gas tank holds 700 gallons and cost $3,000 dollars to fill. The Lackawanna Coach, which was built in 1917 for the Lackawanna and Western Railroad, was used until 1980 for commuter service throughout New Jersey and Southern Pennsylvania. The “Lackawanna” was discovered by the volunteers in a rail yard in Michigan. They hired a logistical transport company to take the car off the tracks in Michigan, put it on a flatbed and move it by rail and truck to Northern Maine Junction, a rail stop on the old Maine, Montreal & Atlantic Railroad. The contractor then transported the coach on another trailer truck from the Junction to Ellsworth. The Open Air Passenger car was originally a bulkhead flatcar used for hauling pulp wood in four-foot lengths, loaded crossway, stacked to the height of the bulkhead. The car was purchased by Belfast and Moosehead Lake Railroad in 1992 and was in regular operation until it was acquired by Downeast Scenic Railroad in 2008. Downeast volunteers installed a new wooden deck and a public address system which are used to present rail history programs and information about the train during the trips.
Downeast Scenic Railroad’s volunteer conductors George Thomas and Gary Briggs greet passengers and present programs on Maine’s railroad history.
In 2008, a classic red caboose was acquired by Downeast Scenic Railroad. When it is not being used for regular trips, it is used as a private charter car and can carry up to 20 people for parties and special events. The red caboose was originally built in 1926 for the Reading Railroad where it was used until 1963, when it was sold to the Belfast and Moosehead Lake Railroad. Last year, a second passenger coach was acquired to provide more seating. The car, built in 1910 for the Maine Central Railroad, had been a passenger car until the 1950s when it was converted into a “work car” for tool storage. In the 1970s Conway Scenic Railroad acquired the coach, reconverted it back into a passenger car and used it for scenic travel until the 1990s. Two years ago, Conway donated the coach to Downeast Scenic Railroad. Volunteers completed the repair and restoration work and restored the coach to service this past spring. “After starting the Downeast Scenic Railroad service last year, we were all thrilled to see this dream come to life,” says Fernald, “and to know that we have been able to follow and succeed with the plan we originally mapped out.” A trip through the past “The rail trip starts by traveling through some backyards in Ellsworth,” says Fernald, “and, I like to say that they are scenic backyards, and that the journey also includes traveling into areas that people don’t normally get to see, parts of the woods and bogs north of Ellsworth.”
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“Railroads have been an important part of the history of this area,” says Fernald. “From 1884 until the 1980s, rail service in Maine was the backbone of the economy. In the winter in the 1850s to the 1870s, when roads were often impassable and the harbors frozen in, the railroads kept people and commodities moving in and out of Northern Maine—Downeast fishermen in could ship sardines to Chicago and a family living in Ellsworth could get a bolt of linen from New York.”
About the train Downeast Scenic Railroad will operate on Saturday and Sundays at 10:30 a.m. and 1:30 p.m. until Oct. 16. The boarding platform is located at Cadillac Mountain Sports in Ellsworth. For more information, visit downeastscenicrailroad.org or for ticket information or reservations, call 1-866-449-RAIL (7245). Testa notes that at the beginning of the 20th Century, the Bar Harbor Express operated seven trains a day to Maine from Philadelphia, Boston and New York, in and out of the Ellsworth region. After reaching Hancock Point on Frenchman Bay by rail, many tourists would embark on ferry boats that took them directly to Bar Harbor. “In the 1920s and 1930s, thousands of “Rusticators” and vacationers with their extended families came to the area on trains in the summer,” says Testa. “These visitors stayed in the cottages and hotels on Mt. Desert and throughout the area, and all these passengers had to be fed and taken care of, which had a huge economic impact on the area. “With Downeast Scenic Railroad, we are able to give riders an idea of what train travel was like 80 or 100 years ago,” says Testa. “We want people to enjoy a bit of nostalgia, ride the rails and have fun learning about Maine’s rail history.” He notes that, in future years, Downeast Scenic Railroad is planning to extend the track 10 miles more to reach Green Lake, and to offer new programs and activities for families and children as well as an expanded food service. “Ellsworth and Downeast Maine have a 29-mile unused rail corridor and all the most current transportation research shows that trains use much less fuel than trucks,” explains Testa. “In the future, train travel may be the most economical and environmentally-friendly way to travel. Those of us who love trains can see that rail travel is making a comeback, and we would like to think that we are contributing to its success.”
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Where did you get your start? In high school I worked at Hilltop Commons at UMO as a dishwasher and was quickly bumped into a prep cook position, but my real dive into restaurant work was the Fish House Grill in Bar Harbor where my career was expedited from dishwasher to kitchen manager in one season.
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‘Doorbell’ rings in Camden
Pierce’s path to being a stage performer, and to her work’s subject matter, was somewhat roundabout, but that she is a storyteller was a given. The youngest of seven expressive children, she grew up in the Etna, N.H., inn she now runs with her husband. She said she is actually “middleof-the-pack funny” in her family. Part of Pierce’s appeal is that her stories avoid the male-bashing that sometimes shades other female-centric theatricals. As a sporty gal running with a pack of brothers growing up, Pierce claims to have enjoyed “dual citizenship” in the land of males and females. She sympathizes with both men and women when it comes to figuring out how to accept and embrace human sexuality in all its realistic, confusing and rewarding aspects. Innkeeper, mother and comedian Cindy Pierce brings her down-to-earth humor to the Camden Opera House this month.
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indy Pierce, who has been described as a cross between Dr. Ruth and Lily Tomlin, will present her one-woman show “Finding the Doorbell” Saturday, Oct. 29 at 7 p.m. at the Camden Opera House, Elm Street/Route 1, as a benefit for Peopleplace Cooperative Preschool’s programming and scholarship needs. Pierce has twice before brought “Finding the Doorbell” to Camden, performing to packed houses. That a show that humorously, but quite frankly and graphically, focuses on female anatomy and a positive approach to sexuality would pack the place is no surprise to Pierce, sister-in-law of Peopleplace director Lee Lingelbach. “You know, people in L.A. and New York City aren’t having any better sex than in Camden, Maine, and I’ve been to all three,” Pierce, an avid Alpine skier, quipped the last time she was in town.
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“My basic message is, guys, you have to ask for directions and, gals, you have to provide the road map — nobody’s psychic about this stuff,” she said. Because of the kind of person she is, Pierce’s show is both outrageous and nonthreatening. “I cling to my imperfections. I’m a woman in a regular female body, and I’m pro-sex and pro-male,” she said. “Ringing the Doorbell” is not for everyone, Pierce said, but she has gotten enthusiastic reactions from both women and men of all ages. This is reflected in the audiences she performs for, which have included sororities and fraternities (she is an active alumna of Dartmouth), largescale theatrical venues, reunions and private parties. Pierce majored in theater at Dartmouth College, but said she didn’t really put a lot of energy into drama. She was playing two sports — soccer and skiing — so didn’t really have the time, she said. Pierce and her husband met when both were working as ski coaches; she also has put in time as a first-grade teacher. When her parents retired from inn-keeping, she and her husband took over the 28-bed business. Their three young children are growing up as she did, at the inn and skiing right in the back yard. Always a storyteller, although she claims she cannot tell a joke to save her life, Pierce was regaling a bunch of women on a ski trip with her tales of discovery and a friend told her, “you have got to get a show on
TV.” With that encouragement, and some from a couple more friends Pierce credits for inspiration and sanity maintenance, she offered what she had thought would be a set of stories for a small after-hours gathering at the inn. “I sent out an e-mail and threw up all these barriers, so I thought most would be weeded out. But 70 people showed and they loved it,” she recalled. That small start led to “Doorbell,” which Pierce continues to tweak. And Pierce did indeed get on TV; she was the subject of a feature-length documentary, titled “The Last Laugh,” which aired on New England Cable News. In 2008, she and a friend turned her show into a light-hearted volume of information. The book, “Finding the Doorbell: Sexual Satisfaction for the Long Haul,” was inspired by a visit with her nephew’s fraternity. “My nephew got through three years at Dartmouth then my mother, of all people, said to his friends, do you know what his aunt does? So they invited me to his fraternity,” Pierce said. What was supposed to be a one-hour presentation turned into three hours of discussion. Pierce said she was stunned to find out that “all these 22-yearold guys had the same questions and misinformation as my 44-year-old guy friends.” She talked about it to her friend Edy Thys Morgan during one of their twice-weekly runs. “She said, I think there’s got to be a book,” Pierce said, and the two women got to work. “Finding the Doorbell,” co-written by Morgan, was released by Nomad Press. Pierce said she thinks the reason her show and book are so well received is because she looks at life through a comic lens. But there may be another reason why people are not intimidated. “A friend told me: Cindy, you really set the bar low,” Pierce laughed. Advance tickets are $20, $30 with the post-show meet/greet at Zaddik’s; general admission tickets will be $25 at the door the night of the show. Advance tickets are available at Peopleplace in Camden, peopleplacecoop.org and camdenoperahouse.com. For more information about Pierce, visit findingthedoorbell.com.
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Why Wait? For those of you who know me, you know that I can’t even remember my kids’ birthdays let alone certain recipes that I have waited all year to give you. So before they get lost either in the melee or my empty-headedness (hey I’m a guy!) let’s start this holiday season with some recipes you should clip and save.
Holiday Pumpkin Squares This Thanksgiving, offer two favorite flavors, pumpkin and mincemeat, in a new way: dessert squares instead of pies. 1 1/4 c. flour 1/3 c. sugar 1/3 c. packed brown sugar 3/4 c. butter or bargarine 1 (15-oz.) can pumpkin 1 (14-oz.) can sweetened condensed milk(not evaporated) 2 eggs, beaten 1 t. cinnamon 1/2 t. allspice 1/4 teaspoon salt 1 (27-oz.) jar ready-to-use Mincemeat 1 c. chopped walnuts 1 T. flour Preheat oven to 375°F. In medium bowl, combine 1 1/4 cups flour and sugars. Cut in butter until crumbly. Reserve 1 cup mixture. Pat remaining mixture on bottom of ungreased 13x9-inch baking pan. Bake 15 minutes.
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Meanwhile, in large bowl, combine pumpkin, sweetened condensed milk, eggs, cinnamon, allspice and salt. Evenly spread mincemeat over partially baked crust. Spoon pumpkin mixture over. Bake 15 minutes. Remove from oven. Stir nuts and 1 T. flour into reserved crumb mixture. Sprinkle over pumpkin mixture. Bake 15 to 20 minutes longer or until set. Cool slightly. Cut into squares. Serve warm. Store leftovers, covered, in refrigerator.
cup nut-sugar mixture on bottom of pie shell. Combine pumpkin, evaporated milk, granulated sugar, eggs, pumpkin pie spice and salt in medium bowl; mix well. Pour into pie shell. Bake 15 minutes. Reduce temperature to 350° F.; bake 40 to 50 minutes or until knife inserted near center comes out clean. Cool on wire rack. Combine butter and remaining nut-sugar mixture; stir until moistened. Sprinkle over cooled pie. Broil about 5 inches from heat 2 to 3 minutes or until bubbly. Cool before serving.
Walnut Crunch Pumpkin Pie
My Favorite Pumpkin Roll
1 9-inch deep-dish pie shell, unbaked 1 1/4 c. coarsely chopped walnuts 3/4 c. packed brown sugar 1 (9-inch) deep-dish pie shell, unbaked 1 (15-oz.) can pumpkin 1 (12-oz.) can evaporated milk 3/4 c. sugar 2 eggs, lightly beaten 1 1/2 t. pumpkin pie spice 1/4 t. salt 3 T. butter or margarine, melted Preheat oven to 425° F. Combine walnuts and brown sugar in small bowl. Place 3/4
Cake 1/4 c. powdered sugar (to sprinkle on towel) 3/4 c. flour 1/2 t. baking powder 1/2 t. baking soda 1/2 t. cinnamon 1/2 t. ground cloves 1/4 t. salt 3 eggs 1 c. sugar 2/3 c. pure pumpkin 1 c. walnuts, chopped (optional)
color, the off-white head laces bountifully to glass causing nice lacing that lasts till the end. The complex nose or toasted sweet caramel notes comes to play, with a slight aroma of English hops. As the ale passes over the palette the complex flavor of the toasted malts finishes out with the pleasant rich sweetness of Carmel malts. English Kent Golding’s Hops are used in this brew which add to the complex depth and balance out well in the finish of sweet malt. Well balanced ale that is not to overbearing and very drinkable, I especially love the slight undertones of chocolate malts in the finish.
The next beer is also a Scottish ale; hey I’m on a roll!
Filling 1 pk. (8 ounces) cream cheese, at room temperature 1 c. powdered sugar, sifted 6 T. butter or margarine, softened 1 t. vanilla Powdered sugar (optional for decoration) For Cake: Preheat oven to 375° F. Grease 15 x 10-inch jelly-roll pan; line with wax paper. Grease and flour paper. Sprinkle a thin, cotton kitchen towel with powdered sugar. Combine flour, baking powder, baking soda, cinnamon, cloves and salt in small bowl. Beat eggs and granulated sugar in large mixer bowl until thick. Beat in pumpkin. Stir in flour mixture. Spread evenly into prepared pan. Sprinkle with nuts. Bake for 13 to 15 minutes or until top of cake springs back when touched. (If using a darkcolored pan, begin checking for doneness at 11 minutes. Immediately loosen and turn cake onto prepared towel. Carefully peel off paper. Roll up cake and towel together, starting with narrow end. Cool on wire rack. Filling: - Beat cream cheese, 1 c. powdered sugar, butter and vanilla in small mixer bowl until smooth. Carefully unroll cake. Spread cream cheese mixture over cake. Reroll cake. Wrap in plastic wrap and refrigerate at least one hour. Sprinkle with powdered sugar before serving, if desired.
Beer Review Continued f rom Page 35 Let’s sample some beer. The first fall beer in our lineup is ale brewed by Penobscot Bay Brewing Co., which is actually housed in the Winterport winery building, a must stop if you’re looking to go on a scenic drive or are in the Winterport area. Handcrafted beer and fine wines made right in the same building — how can you go wrong? Penobscot Bay Brewing Co. Old Factory Whistle Scottish Ale, is the company’s signature brew, and is, I also believe, the first style to be brewed at the brewery. Scottish ales are becoming more and more popular in America and vary in strength body and color. Europe has 10, 20 or even 80 and 120 shilling ales... the more you spend the stronger the ale! Old Factory Whistle Scottish Ale comes in at about an 80 shilling style. This ale pours into the glass with almost a red hue rich
Any one attending the Celtic dance of the dead this Hallows eve , would be very pleased to consume this beer! Old Factory Whistle Scottish Ale is full bodied ale that would please any pallet. As it say’s on the label, “three toots and your done!”
I recently had the pleasure of sampling a Scottish ale brewed by Atlantic Brewing Co.on the Knox Road in Bar Harbor. Macfoochie’s Scottish Ale, bravely named after the owner, and served in 22 ounce bottles. Atlantic Brewing Co. had started brewing unique beers in the hay day of the micro brewery renaissance, and has grown in demand quite successfully over the years. This beer pours strong into the glass with a rich dark mahogany brown, with highlights of ruby red. The aroma of black currants followed by the nose of peat smoked roasted malts, with some dark earthy fruity aromas. This ale is full bodied with a smoky sweet taste of roasted Carmel malts, and a great warming of alcohol, with a slight bitter finish of heather. The mouth feel is quite
smooth and right where it needs to be for this style. Who says you have to go to Europe to get a good European style beer. This beer is very unique, smooth and quite different from main stream beers. A must try in your search for unique brews, and readily available at most good retail outlets. If you notice the label, the sheep look a little nervous by the Scottish sheppard standing in the center of the herd. Make sure you try both of these fine ales this fall they are readily available in most retail outlets; your taste buds won’t be disappointed. Also make sure you attend one of the many Maine beer festivals going on in the area this fall, there will be many styles of great Maine brewed ales and lagers. We truly live in a great state! Hoppy Halloween Rich
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Betsy! By Kay Stephens
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his 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. Meet Portland resident Casie, owner of the Etsy store, vintageimagemadness, and who has a passion for vintage images, including postcards, labels, advertisements, trade cards and old photos. “I have a confession to make,” she says. “I love paper. Seriously love paper, especially vintage ephemera! There’s just something about the feel of old paper and the sense that each piece could tell a story all on its own. I also have this feeling that cutting up an old postcard to use in collage work is cringe-worthy; hence: Vintage Image Madness was born. “I found myself collecting old postcards, labels, tickets and pictures for collage work or trades that I wanted to participate in and then found I couldn’t bear to cut them up and use them, never to be seen again. I started scanning everything so I could use the images again and again and found I wasn’t the only one with this deepseated need to preserve them.”
This piece, called Risque Undergarments — Slips & Hats Vintage Postcards, is meant to be a downloadable full-page collage sheet. Here’s what they’re used for, in Casie’s words: “I love putting together collage sheets with specific themes and especially love those old postcards from abroad, like France. Those postcards seem to shed more inhibitions and are playful and risque. You have to remember that back in the early 1900s ladies did not show their undergarments to just anyone and certainly never to have their picture taken in them.
“This sheet is fun, coquettish and playful just shy of being nude - and it gives it that risque sense, as if you are seeing something forbidden. It was forbidden back then; in fact, these postcards like this were illegal and yet, countries like France produced millions of them. Not at all what is considered acceptable today!”
For more of Casie’s work, visit etsy.com/people/ vintageimagemadness
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• 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. Estate Sale, Household furnishings donated from the estate of a local Washington resident will be on sale, flea market style. Evening Star Grange, Old Union Road, Washington. Proceeds benefit Grange programs. • 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. Monthly Flea Market, Thompson Community Center, 51 South Union Road. TCC Thrift Shop too, and snack bar is open for breakfast and lunch. FMI 975-0352. • 8:30 a.m. Ninth annual MDI Rotary Adventure Golf Challenge, Pirate’s Cove, 368 State Highway 3, Bar Harbor. Bring a fearsome foursome of goodhearted swashbucklers to Pirate’s Cove and participate in a tournament to benefit local cancer causes. Registration starts at 8:30 a.m. The fee for a foursome is $50. Individuals can play for $15 and will be assigned to a team. To pre-register, contact Lisa Horsch Clark at 669-2152 or lisahorschclark@gmail.com. • 9 a.m. Craft Fair, Flea Market, at the St. George Grange, located at Wiley’s Corner. Lunch available. Public supper at 5 p.m. Cost: $8 adults, $5 children. Call 372-6768 to rent a table ($5). • 9 a.m. to 12 p.m. Hike for Mike 2011, Acadia Family Center, 1 Fernald Point Road, Southwest Harbor. New registrations accepted, pre-registered hikers can pick up hiker goodie bags and T-shirts. Registration: $20 adults, $10 students, children under 10 free. RSVP: Not required. FMI: visit acadiahIkeformike.org or call 2444012. • 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Lincolnville 8th Grade Fall Car Wash, Drop by
Keybank, Hannaford’s Plaza in Camden and let us pamper your car. Help the 8th grade with their fundraising for their trip to Quebec • 9 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. Lincolnville Fall Festival, Lincolnville Fall Festival at the Beach. 10:30 a.m. Parade rain or shine, with Shriners’ units, floats, decorated bikes, etc. Family fun; inflatables- bounce castle and bull riding; hot dogs and food booths; beach treasure hunt; farmers market; Jazz band; Gospel music; country western; cake walk; Info., call chairman Bob Plausse, 789-5811. • 9 a.m. to 12 p.m. Rummage Sale at Rockland Congregational Church, Rockland Congregational Church, 180 Limerock St., will hold its annual Fall Rummage Sale with — something for everyone. To donate call 594-8656. • 10 a.m. to 12 p.m. Fright at the Fort orientation, Friends of Fort Knox, Route 174, Prospect, seek volunteer zombies, ghosts, ghouls and general spookified folk for the upcoming Fright at the Fort. FMI: 4696553 or FOFK1@aol.com. • 10 a.m. to 12 p.m. Book Signing, Dorie McCullough Lawson signs her first children’s book, “Tex: a book for little dreamers,” at Owl & Turtle Bookshop, 32 Washington St., Camden. FMI: 236-4769. • 10 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Paddle at Sheepscot Bog in Palermo, Paddle with Sheepscot Wellspring Land Alliance at the at Sheepscot Bog in Palermo. This event is free and open to the public, and participants must bring their own kayak or canoe. FMI, contact Buck O’Herin at buckoherin@fairpoint.net or 589-3230.
This weekend in Boothbay
• 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Blue Hill Public Library monthly book sale, Blue Hill Public Library, 5 Parker Point Road. FMI: or to do-
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This weekend in Camden
Sat. and Sun. • 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Maine Fiberarts Festival, All ages can explore the connection between plants and cloth when Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens and Maine Fiberarts present demos, displays, and sales of a wide variety of fiber-based items. Festival and Showcase are free with Gardens admission. Sponsored by Maine Home + Design magazine. FMI: 633-4333, ext. 101; MaineGardens.org; or stop by the Visitor Center, off Barters Island Road in Boothbay.
Sat. and Sun. • 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Juried Arts & Crafts Show, Carol Sebold HarborArts Juried Arts & Crafts Show runs all weekend in Camden Amphitheatre, Harbor Park and along Atlantic Avenue. Free.
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Sunday • 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Book Sale, The Camden Public Library’s Fall Book Sale will be held over three days, under the tents, rain or shine. from Sept. 30 through Oct. 2. The sale is from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. each day.
nate books that are in good condition, call 374-5515. • 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Belfast Maskers moving sale, Props, costumes, furniture, tools, gadgets, set pieces, memorabilia and more on sale behind Waterfront Theater, 43 Front St., Belfast. FMI: 505-0199. • 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Church Street Festival, Games, food, demos and huge Pink Elephant Sale along Church Street, Belfast, features MythWeaver Parade at 11 a.m. — theme is HOLY COW! — Living in the Land of Milk and Honey. Also poetry (sonnets and limericks) contest. FMI: 338-5777 or mary. playhouse@myfairpoint.net. • 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Book Sale, The Camden Public Library’s Fall Book Sale will be held over three days, under the tents, rain or shine. from Sept. 30 through Oct. 2. The sale is from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. each day. • 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Haitian art show/sale, A collection of 60 recently-acquired paintings, plus Haitian ironwork decorations, scarves and other crafts, will be on display and sale Saturday, Oct. 1 from 10 a.m.-4 p.m. at St. Margaret’s Episcopal Church, 90 Court St., Belfast. Contributions welcome. FMI, call John Arrison at 338-4605. • 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. Inaugural Soupstock Festival, The Greensward, Route 102A, 566 Seawall Road, Southwest Harbor. A day of music, food, art and fun to benefit community programs. All-day admission $5. FMI: call or email Larry Stettner at 266-2733 or commongoodsoup@gmail.com. • 10:30 a.m. Children’s Story Time, Children’s Room, Rockland Public Library. Also on Wednesdays. • 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Fall Harvest Celebration, VinFest 2011 day includes food, wine, live music and a variety of activities at Cellardoor Winery and Vineyard, 367 Youngtown Road, Lincolnville. Cost: $10. FMI: mainewine.com or 763-4478. • 12 p.m. East Coast Ghost Trackers tours of Fort Knox, Route 174, Prospect. Cost: $10. Groups limited to 20; ticket should be bought in advance by calling at 469-6553 or at the fort gift shop. • 1 p.m. Second annual Day of Service in Unity, Unity Barn Raisers will hold its second annual Day of Service event. To register to participate call Tess at 9489005 or visit: unitybarnraisers. org. A community pig roast (with vegetarian option available) will be held immediately following the service projects at 4:30 p.m.
All volunteers will get a free pass to the meal. Meal tickets are also available for a suggested donation of $10 at the door. • 6 to 8:45 p.m. John Waller Concert, Christian music Lighthouse Event rescheduled, thanks to Tropical Storm Irene, at the Camden Opera House, Elm Street/Route 1. Cost: $10. FMI: 236-0900, office@clfcne.com or clfcnew.com. • 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 to 9 p.m. The Velvet Lounge, Rock City Cafe, 318 Main St., Rockland, presents Old Town Road in coffeebar/cafe setting. Free/tips for musicians. • 7:30 to 9:30 p.m. “Noises Off”, British farce staged at the Waldo Theatre, Main Street/Route 220, Waldoboro. Cost: $15; $12 students, senior citizens. Tickets at Waltz Pharmacy or reserved at 832-6060 or info@thewaldo.org. Fridays and Saturdays 7:30 p.m. through Oct. 8 plus 2 p.m. Oct. 9. • 7:30 p.m. Contra Dance, College of the Atlantic’s Gates Center, 105 Eden St., Bar Harbor. With Big Moose contra dance band. Lessons at 7:30 p.m., dance begins at 8 p.m. Adults $6, children free. FMI: visit coa.edu or call 288-5015. • 7:30 to 9 p.m. ‘Sister Robert Anne’s Cabaret Class’, Onewoman “Nunsense” musical comedy show at Northport Music Theater, Route 1. Cost: $25; $20 matinees; $14 day of show (call 9 a.m. to 2 p.m.) as available. FMI: 338-8383. Fridays and Saturdays, 7:30 p.m.; Sundays, 3:30 p.m. through Oct. 2. • 7:30 to 9 p.m. ‘Wit’, Marsh River Theater presents Margaret Edson’s Pulitzer Prize-winning play at the downtown venue, 24 Monroe Highway/Route 139, Brooks. Cost: $10; $8 older than 61/younger than 13. Benefits Belfast and Bangor cancer centers. FMI: 722-4110.
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• 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. Pancake Breakfast & Chairlift Rides, Camden Snow Bowl, 20 Barnestown Road, serves breakfast from 8 to 10 a.m. and offers fall foliage chairlift rides from 9 a.m. to 3 a.m. Sundays through Oct. 23. Cost for breakfast: $7; $5 younger than 1; $20 family of four. Cost for chairlifts: $5; $15 unlimited rides for mountain bikers. FMI: 236-3438, info@camdensnowbowl.com. • 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Free airplane rides in Belfast, The Belfast EAA Chapter 1434 will be sponsoring
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free airplane rides for kids ages 8-17 at the Belfast Airport. FMI, call 6911255 or 323-0616. • 12 to 4 p.m. British, European Sports Car Show, For the fifth year the Mid Coast Maine Sports Car Club is sponsoring a British and European Sports car show on Chestnut Street, Camden. Free to spectators, $10 for exhibitors. FMI: 5423025. • 12 to 6 p.m. JamFest Musical Benefit, Doors open at noon and music starts at 1 p.m. at the Round Top Barn, Business Route 1, Damariscotta. Cost: $10; benefits musician Paul Mellyn, who needs elbow surgery. FMI: 632-4878. Features Ben Shute Band, Holy Mackerels, The Old Grey Goose, Stevie Jones of The Boneheads with Jack Tukey and Mike Nelson, Katahdin Valley Boys, Firewater Creek Band, Kevin Kimball from Blue Steel Express and Denny Breau. Great food, cash bar; no coolers allowed. • 1 to 3 p.m. Scarecrow Sunday, Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens will provide materials and assistance for families to make small or large scarecrows and press apple cider during this festive event on the Event Lawn. $5 per scarecrow. Call ahead to 633-4333, ext. 101, and arrive early to ensure a scarecrow and plentiful materials. The Gardens is on Barters Island Road, Boothbay. • 2 p.m. Bar Harbor Historical Society 65th anniversary celebration, Bar Harbor Historical Society, 33 Ledgelawn Ave, Bar Harbor. The guest speaker will be Steven Raab of the Raab Collection, which is in its third decade as a nationally recognized name in historical autographs. • 7:30 to 9 p.m. ‘Sister Robert Anne’s Cabaret Class’, Onewoman “Nunsense” musical comedy show at Northport Music Theater, Route 1. Cost: $25; $20 matinees; $14 day of show (call 9 a.m. to 2 p.m.) as available. FMI: 338-8383. Fridays and Saturdays, 7:30 p.m.; Sundays, 3:30 p.m. through Oct. 2.
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• 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Hike and painting “en plein air”, Little Long Pond Parking Area, Peabody Drive, Seal Harbor,. Join Acadia Family Center’s executive director, and artist, Ed Oechslie and art therapy intern Dawn Nuding on a 4-mile hike around Little Long Pond and en plein air painting overlooking the pond and Bracy Cove. Pack lunch and art supplies. Cost is free, no reservations required. FMI: visit acadiahikeformike.org or call 244-4012.
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• 11 a.m. to 12 p.m. Free Art and Drawing Class, Catinka Knoth explores scenes of fall in Friends Community Room of Rockland Public Library, 80 Union St. Free, materials supplied. FMI: 596-0069. Mondays in October (no class on Columbus Day), different subject each week. Hosted by Friends of Rockland Public Library. • 6:30 to 8 p.m. Poetry and art talk in Belfast, Poet and art writer Carl Little combines his passions in a reading and slide presentation titled Poetry and Art: An Ekphrastic Reading at the Belfast Free Library, 106 High St. Free. FMI: 338-3884, ext. 10. Talk anticipates 2011 Belfast Poetry Festival. • 7 to 10 p.m. Monday Night Blues, Mr. Nick & the Dirty Tricks perform in the upstairs music room of Time Out Pub, 275 Main St., Rockland. Cost: $10. FMI: 593-9336. • 7:30 to 9:30 p.m. Cathie Ryan, A leading singer of the contemporary Scottish folk scene performs at Unity College Centre for the Performing Arts, 42 Depot St. Cost: $15. FMI: 948-7469. • 7:30 to 9:30 p.m. Emily Smith, A leading singer of the contemporary Scottish folk scene performs at Unity College Centre for the Performing Arts, 42 Depot St. Cost: $15. FMI: 948-7469.
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• 10 a.m. Children’s Story Hour, Children’s Story Hour. Reading, arts and crafts. Free. Gibbs Library, 40 Old Union Rd., Washington. • 12 p.m. Tending the Perennial Garden, Wendy Andresen will present the fifth talk in a series on Tending the Perennial Garden at Merryspring Nature Center. Cost: $5 or free for members. FMI: 236-2239. • 4 p.m. Children’s Art Time, Art instruction with Catinka Knoth. Children’s Room, Rockland Public Library. • 6:30 p.m. Wild Mushroom Talk, Rockland Public Library presents a mushroom talk with Greg Marley titled, The Sumptuous Seven: The Best Tasting, Easily Identified Wild Edible Mushrooms in Maine. • 7 to 8:30 p.m. “Dirt! The Movie”, Merryspring Nature Park, 30 Conway Road, Camden, screens 2009 documentary. Free/donations. Popcorn and drinks provided; come early, seating is limited. • 7 to 8 p.m. Artist Slide Talk, Friends of the Waldoboro Public Library host illustrated talk by Loretta Krupinski at the library, 958 Main St./Route 220. Free, open to the public. FMI: 832-4484. • 7 p.m. Warren Historical Society Talk on Local Agriculture, The Warren Historical Society located at 225 Main St. in Warren will host its monthly meeting with a program on Warren Agriculture-Past & Present. The public is invited to attend and enjoy some apple and pumpkin desserts. FMI: 273-2825 or whs@midcoast.com. • 7:30 to 9 p.m. Dancing 4 Fun,
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• 1 to 2:30 p.m. Book Signing, Prizewinning historian George C. Daughan signs “1812: The Navy’s War” and “If By Sea: The Forging of the American Navy” at Owl & Turtle Bookshop, 32 Washington St., Camden. FMI: 236-4769. • 4 to 5 p.m. Yoga in the Park, Little Long Pond Parking Area, Peabody Road (Route 3), Seal Harbor, ME. Join registered yoga teacher Emily Wright, LMT, RYT, surrounded by the naturally heart-opening beauty of Acadia National Park for a Hatha style class at sunset. Some mats available; or bring your own. All levels welcome. Free. RSVP required. Space is limited. Contact Emily Wright at 288-9910. • 6:30 p.m. Book discussion group: The Mirror of Maine, Roland Howard Room, Blue Hill Public Library , 5 Parker Point Road, Blue Hill. A free reading and discussion group with copies of the books available through the library. The series is called “The Mirror of Maine: The Maine Community in Myth and Reality,” and will be offered every two weeks on Wednesdays at 6:30 p.m. at the library, starting Oct. 5 through Nov. 30. Registration is required and will be limited to 15 participants. Admission is free. FMI or to register: visit bhpl.net or call 374-5515. • 7:30 to 9:30 p.m. Joy Kills Sorrow, Boston-based acoustic string band performs at Unity College Centre for the Performing Arts, 42 Depot St. Cost: $15. FMI: 948-7469. • 7:30 p.m. Union Historical Society, David Sulin of Rockport will give a costumed presentation in the persona of Civil War soldier Hezekiah Long at the Union Historical Society’s Old Town House on Town House Road. Free. FMI: 785-5444 or midcoast.com/comespring.
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• 9 a.m. to 12 p.m. Toy Library, St. Peters Episcopal Church, White Street, Rockland, provides non-sectarian community program for preschool children, toddlers and infants. FMI: info@midcoasttoylibrary. org. Toy Library follows the RSU 13 vacation calendar and cancellations. • 12 p.m. Fun Hat Indoor Picnic, Atlantic Oceanside Hotel , 119 Eden St., Bar Harbor, ME. Island Connections Fun Hat Indoor Picnic will be held at the Atlantic Oceanside Hotel. $7 all-inclusive menu, “Made in Maine Cookout.” Good food and fun. Music by guitarist Ivey Menzietti. Limited seating. RSVP by Sept. 28. FMI and to make reservations: 288-4457. • 2 to 9 p.m. “The Kitchen” — 2 Shows, High definition live satellite broadcast from London’s National Theatre of Arnold Wesker’s black com- edy, set in the 1950s, 2 p.m./rescreened
7 p.m. at Strand Theatre, 345 Main St., Rockland. Cost: $23; $18 younger than 18. FMI: 594-0070. General admission; school group rates available. Second encore 3 p.m. Oct. 23. • 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. • 6:30 p.m. One-Woman Play, The Rockland Public Library presents a theater performance of the play, “Etty.”“Etty” is a touring onewoman theatrical play based on the diaries and letters of Etty Hillesum, a young woman in Amsterdam during the German Occupation in the early 1940s. • 6 to 8 p.m. Benefit book signing, Nicholas von Hoffman signs “Radical,” his book about labor and Civil Rights agitator Saul Alinsky, at All About Games, 78 Main St., Belfast. FMI: 338-6447. Benefits The Game Loft. Refreshments. • 7 p.m. Larry Ahlborn in concert, Larry Ahlborn will be performing at the Belfast Church of the Nazarene, 95 Swan Lake Ave. Admission is free. • 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. Library Coffeehouse Series, Boston’s Scott Alarik with Gordon Bok will perform at downtown Camden Public Library. All welcome. Cost: $10 at door. FMI: Ken Gross, 236-3440. • 7:30 p.m. Eaglesmith Concert, Fred Eaglesmith, the Canadian singer-songwriter famous for soul-stirring ballads and his gritty urbanbluesy vocals, live at The Grand, 165 Main St., Ellsworth, for a one-night engagement. Tickets: $27. FMI or to reserve tickets, 667-9500, grandonline.org.
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• 10 a.m. to 12 p.m. Weeds: Facing Your Fears, Horticulturist Justin Nichols will presents all about weeds and how to recognize and control them. Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens. $16 members, $22 non-members. For reservations, call 633-4333, ext. 101; visit MaineGardens.org, or stop by the Visitor Center, Barters Island Road, Boothbay. • 4:30 p.m. Trio Cleonice to perform at Blue Hill Public Library, Howard Room, Blue Hill Public Library , 5 Parker Point Road, Blue Hill, ME. Blue Hill Public Library has a special concert planned. The selected piece, “Songs from the Bat Poet” was inspired by the children’s book “The Bat Poet” by Randall Jarrell. Admission is free. 374-5515 • 5 p.m. Thomas Jefferson expert to give talk, Woodlawn Museum, Gardens, and Park, Route 172, Ellsworth, ME . Peter Hatch, Director of Grounds and Gardens at Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello, will present a lecture titled The Fruits and Fruit Trees of Monticello, Thomas Jefferson and the Origins of American Horticulture at Woodlawn. A 4 p.m. reception and book signing will precede the
Weekly Music Jams & Open Mics. 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 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. • 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: 593-7445. Free refreshments. First Sunday of the month. • 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. Tuesdays • 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. Wednesday 5 • 7 to 9 p.m. Jazz Jam, Open jazz jams are held first and third Wednesdays of every month at Fallout Shelter of Waterfall Arts, 256 High St., Belfast. Donations. FMI: 338-2222. Come to play or listen. • 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. Wednesdays • 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.
5 p.m. lecture, FMI:667-8671 or director@woodlawnmuseum.org. • 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 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 to 10 p.m. Friday Night Blues, Anthony Gomes performs in the upstairs music room of Time Out Pub, 275 Main St., Rockland. Cost: $15. FMI: 593-9336. • 7:30 to 9:30 p.m. “Dirty Work at the Crossroads”, Camden Civic Theatre presents old-fashioned melodrama with marvelous interludes at Watts Hall, Main Street/ Route 1, Thomaston. Cost: $14; $12 students, senior citizens; $10 younger than 12. Friday and Saturdays 7:30 p.m.; Sundays 2 p.m. through Oct. 16. Tickets at door or camdencivictheatre.com. • 7:30 to 9:30 p.m. “Noises Off”, British farce staged at the Waldo Theatre, Main Street/Route 220, Waldoboro. Cost: $15; $12 students, senior citizens. Tickets at Waltz Pharmacy or reserved at 832-6060 or info@thewaldo.org. Fridays and Saturdays 7:30 p.m. through Oct. 8 plus 2 p.m. Oct. 9.
• 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. • 8 to 10 p.m. Crooked Still, Popular alternative bluegrass and string band performs at the Strand Theatre, 345 Main St., Rockland. Cost: $20 advance; $23 at door, general admission. FMI: 594-0070 or rocklandstrand.com.
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• 8:30 to 11 a.m. Baby fair in Belfast, An indoor sale of new and used baby and children’s items up to age 12 at Troy Howard Middle School gym, 173 Lincolnville Ave., Belfast. Free child car seat inspection. Admission is $1 for adults, children are free. For more information, call 338-2500, ext. 4154, or email ldutch@wcgh.org. • 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Apple Pressing, A free community apple pressing will be held at the Waldoboro Public Library. The outdoor event will feature at least one cider press, so bring apples and jugs. All ages welcome. FMI: 832-5584. • 10 a.m. Woodlawn Apple Festival, Woodlawn Museum, Gardens, and Park, Route 172, Ellsworth, ME . As part of the Downeast Heirloom Apple Week, Woodlawn will host a daylong Apple Festival. Guests can learn about the history of Downeast Apples orchard tours, talks, a hard cider making workshop, cider pressing, and children’s activities. Guests
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are also encouraged to bring apples from their own trees for identification. The event is free and open to the public with the exception of the hard cider-making workshop for which there is a $20 fee. FMI: 6678671 or visit woodlawnmuseum.org. • 10:30 a.m. Children’s Story Time, Children’s Room, Rockland Public Library. Also on Wednesdays. • 11:30 a.m. to 6 p.m. Acadia and Mt. Desert Island 16th Annual Oktoberfest, Smugglers Den Campground, Rt. 102, Southwest Harbor, ME . Come enjoy a fun, fall, festival with family and friends Columbus Day Weekend, Oct. 7 and 8 at Smugglers Den Campground, Rt. 102 in Southwest Harbor on the quiet side of Mt. Desert Island and Acadia National Park. On Saturday, 11:30 a.m. – 6 p.m., sample beer from more than 20 Maine brewers. The event features a variety of foods and live music. FMI: Jay Emlen 2449264 or visit acadiaoktoberfest.com. • 12 p.m. Chicken barbecue, A public chicken barbecue will be held at the American Legion Hall, Windermere Lane, Unity, from noon until when the chicken is gone. $7 a plate. • 12 p.m. East Coast Ghost Trackers tours of Fort Knox, East Coast Ghost Trackers tours of Fort Knox, Route 174, Prospect. Cost: $10. Groups limited to 20; ticket should be bought in advance by calling at 469-6553 or at the fort gift shop. • 12:30 to 3:30 p.m. The Belfast Coop is hosting a trip to visit Mainely Apples, a family-owned orchard and retail farm stand in Dixmont. Transportation, provided by Waldo CAP, will depart from the Coop at 12:30 p.m. and return by 3:30 p.m. Preregistration is required; Includes a guided tour of the orchard and cider facility, and opportunities to pick apples and purchase cider and other products. Pre-register at the Co-op for this trip by calling 338-2532. The cost is $8 for adults and $4 for children 12 and under, which covers the cost of transportation. FMI, email the Coop’s Education Coordinator, Kate Harris, at: kate@belfast.coop or call the Co-op at 338-2532. For further information about Maine-ly Apples, visit their website at: mainelyapples. com. • 1 to 2 p.m. Children’s Folk Concert, Local folk musician Bob Stuart performs at Sail Power Steam Museum, located above the Coastal Children’s Museum, 75 Mechanic St., Rockland. Cost: CCM admission, free for members. FMI and tickets: 596-0300, info@coastalchildrensm useum.org. • 2 p.m. Fall Craft Event for Children, The Children’s Room of the Rockland Public Library will be filled with music and busy with craft projects for library children to make and take to decorate their homes. Among the crafts offered will be: leaf printmaking, leaf collages, scarecrow cupcakes, miniature scarecrows. Healthy snacks will keep active crafters supplied with creative energy. FMI: Jean Young, children’s librarian at 594-0310. All materials provided by the Friends of
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the Rockland Public Library. • 4:30 to 6 p.m. Spaghetti supper in Northport, The Ladies Auxiliary to Northport VFW Post 6131 will be holding a spaghetti supper as a fundraiser to benefit veterans and family support at the Northport Memorial Post, Route 1 in Northport. Adults: $7, children under 12: $3.
aged. FMI: 763-4565. • 8 p.m. The Prodigals Concert, The Prodigals, will bring their brand of vibrant Irish rock to the Opera House in Boothbay Harbor, 86 Townsend Avenue. Doors for seating opens at 7:30 p.m., historic upstairs bar opens at 7 p.m. Tickets: $15 in advance, $20 day of. To purchase, 633-5159 or boothbayoperahouse.com.
• 4:30 to 6:30 p.m. Washington Fire Department Public Supper, will include turkey, roast beef, baked beans, casseroles, pies and more. Cost: $8 for adults and $4 for children. Sponsored by the WFD Auxiliary.
• 1 to 4 p.m. Heritage Day Open House, Brooks Historical Society will hold its annual Heritage Day Open House at the Pilley House. Featured speaker Peter Dalton of Northport will give a presentation that will include slides and Civil War artifacts. Artisans from past years will be again demonstrating their skills at spinning, rug braiding, rug hooking, quilting, and timber framing. Admission is free, but free-will donations are greatly appreciated.
• 5 p.m. Octoberfest supper, The Brooks Congregational Church is having an Octoberfest supper at the Varney Memorial Building on Route 7, in the center of Brooks Village. It is a turkey dinner with all the fixings. Adults: $8, children ages 814: $5, and children under 8: free. Reservations required. Call 7223247 or 322-3392 and leave your name and the number attending. • 5 p.m. Searsmont United Methodist Church’s public supper season. Cost is $8 for adults and $3 for children; children ages 5 and under are admitted free. All the suppers are held downstairs in the church and are handicapped accessible. Dates for remaining suppers are: Oct. 8 and Nov 12. • 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. • 7:30 to 9:30 p.m. “Dirty Work at the Crossroads”, Camden Civic Theatre presents old-fashioned melodrama with marvelous interludes at Watts Hall, Main Street/ Route 1, Thomaston. Cost: $14; $12 students, senior citizens; $10 younger than 12. Friday and Saturdays 7:30 p.m.; Sundays 2 p.m. through Oct. 16. Tickets at door or camdencivictheatre.com. • 7:30 to 9:30 p.m. “Noises Off”, British farce staged at the Waldo Theatre, Main Street/Route 220, Waldoboro. Cost: $15; $12 students, senior citizens. Tickets at Waltz Pharmacy or reserved at 832-6060 or info@thewaldo.org. Fridays and Saturdays 7:30 p.m. through Oct. 8 plus 2 p.m. Oct. 9. • 7:30 p.m. Night Hike at Merryspring, Environmental educator Sarah Lambson will lead a night hike for families at Merryspring Nature Center. Participants will experience the wonders of the night with their eyes and ears as they venture into the woods of Merryspring for a sensory night hike. Free. FMI: 2362239. • 8 p.m. to 12 a.m. Creatures of Habit Dance, Popular local band plays classic rock at Thompson Community Center, 51 South Union Road/Route 131, Union. Cost: $10. FMI: 975-0352. BYOB, snack bar. • 8 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 encour-
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• 2 p.m. Autumn Glory Concert Series, St. Saviour’s Church, 41 Mt. Desert St., Bar Harbor, ME . TEMPO, the Eastern Maine Pops Orchestra for Young Musicians. An encore performance will follow at Hammond Hall in Winter Harbor on Oct. 22 at 7 p.m. Suggested Donation $10/person, $25/family. FMI: TEMPO4ym. com or call Rebecca evenings at 244-7193. • 2 to 4 p.m. “Dirty Work at the Crossroads”, Camden Civic Theatre presents old-fashioned melodrama with marvelous interludes at Watts Hall, Main Street/Route 1, Thomaston. Cost: $14; $12 students, senior citizens; $10 younger than 12. Friday and Saturdays 7:30 p.m.; Sundays 2 p.m. through Oct. 16. Tickets at door or camdencivictheatre.com. • 2 to 4 p.m. “Noises Off”, British farce staged at the Waldo Theatre, Main Street/Route 220, Waldoboro. Cost: $15; $12 students, senior citizens. Tickets at Waltz Pharmacy or reserved at 832-6060 or info@thewaldo.org. Fridays and Saturdays 7:30 p.m. through Oct. 8 plus 2 p.m. Oct. 9. • 3 p.m. DaPonte String Quartet Leaf Peepers Concert, The final concert of the seasons in the Bosarge Family Education Center at Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens, Barters Island Road, Boothbay. Cost: $25, under age 21 free. Reserve at MaineGardens. org or 633-4333, ext. 101. • 7 to 9:30 p.m. Banff’s Radical Reels Screening, Banff Mountain Film Festival’s extreme sport films shown at Camden’s Bayview Street Cinema. Cost: $15; $10 students. Advance tickets at host Maine Sport in Rockport and Camden; 236-7120. Not recommended for young children.
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• 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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• 7:15 to 8:45 a.m. Yoga at the Gardens, Ingrid Tosteson will teach gentle yoga classes suitable for all levels of expertise in the Bosarge Family Education Center at Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens, Barters Island Road, Boothbay. Tuesdays and Thursdays through Dec. 20. Cost: $10 members, $12 non-members. Pre-register at 633-4333, ext. 101 or in the visitor center. • 10 a.m. Children’s Story Hour, Children’s Story Hour. Reading, arts and crafts. Free. Gibbs Library, 40 Old Union Rd., Washington. • 10 a.m. to 12 p.m. ‘Anne of Green Gables’ read-through, Belfast Maskers host reading of stage adaptation as preview for upcoming auditions at venue to be announced. Free. • 12 p.m. Waldoboro Woman’s Club Orientation Meeting, The Waldoboro Woman’s Club will hold an Orientation Meeting at the VFW Hall on Mill Street. • 4 p.m. Children’s Art Time, Art instruction with Catinka Knoth. Children’s Room, Rockland Public Library. • 6:30 p.m. Homebirth Documentary, The Camden Public Library will host a screening of “At Home in Waldo, Maine,” a documentary film about the choice to have a homebirth in Maine and receive midwifery care. It was created by Belfast-based documentary filmmaker Nicolle Littrell. • 7 p.m. Thomaston Historical Society Program, Thomaston Historical Society’s October program will feature awardwinning journalist and author Kevin C. Mills who will offer an entertaining presentation on the creation of his historical novel, “Sons and Daughters of the Ocean.” Refreshments at 7 p.m.; program begins at 7:30 p.m. at the Knox Farmhouse & Museum, 80 Knox St. in Thomaston. Meeting is free and open to all. • 7 p.m. Waldoboro Program Features Botanical Garden, The Waldoboro Community Garden Club will present a virtual tour of Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens at the Waldoboro Public Library on Main Street. Free. • 7:30 to 9:30 p.m. Hot Club of Cowtown, Austin-based Western swing trio performs at Unity College Centre for the Performing Arts, 42 Depot St. Cost: $15. FMI: 948-7469. • 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 secondfloor Studio Red dance studio in Odd Fellows building, 16 School St., downtown Rockland. Free/donations. FMI: 354-0931; dancing4fun. org.
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• 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. • 6 p.m. Church Supper, At the Second Congregational Church of War-
ren, 260 Main St., Warren Village. Baked beans, casseroles, salads and pies. Punch, coffee, and tea included. Handicapped entrance, all welcome. • 6:30 p.m. Slide-Talk by Herbalist, Herbalist and Avena Botanicals founder Deb Soule will give a slidetalk on Planting Medicinal Herbs and Flowers for Pollinators at the Rockland Public Library. FMI: 5940310. • 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. 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. Stanley & Grimm, Celtic duo performs at Unity College Centre for the Performing Arts, 42 Depot St. Cost: $15. FMI: 948-7469.
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• 5 to 7 p.m. Toki Oshima Art Show Reception, Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens will celebrate artist Toki Oshima and the Oct. 11-Nov. 14 exhibit of her paintings with a reception. This event in the Visitor Center is free and open to the public. Wine and hors d’oeuvres will be served. FMI: 633-4333, ext. 101, or visit MaineGardens.org. • 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: 5631393. Second Friday of each month. • 7 p.m. Concert: Emily Young, Hammond Hall, 427 Main St. Winter Harbor. 12-year-old vocalist Emily Young will perform, accompanied by local musicians Kip Young and Ralph Goodenough. FMI: call 9632569 or visit schoodicartsforall.org. • 7 to 9 p.m. Belfast Poetry Festival, Seventh annual event opens with readings by Maine Poet Laureate Wesley McNair, Belfast Poet Laureate Jacob Fricke and TBA winner of the Maine Postmark Poetry Contest in the Gammons Room of Belfast Free Library, 106 High St. Free. Continues Oct. 15 with Arielle Greenberg morning poetry workshop (limited space; ariellecg@yahoo. com) and afternoon gallery walk beginning 1 p.m. at Åarhus Gallery. For complete schedule, visit belfastpoetry.org. • 7 to 9 p.m. Annual Community Concert, Owls Head Transportation Museum, Route 73 a mile south of Rockland, hosts free concert by Canadian folk-grass duo The Laws. FMI: 594-4418. • 7:30 to 9 p.m. ‘A Night of Glee’, Marsh River Theater presents evening of amusement at the downtown venue, 24 Monroe Highway/
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Route 139, Brooks. Cost: $10; $8 older than 61/younger than 13. FMI: 722-4110. Fridays and Saturdays through Oct. 22. • 7:30 to 9:30 p.m. Benefit bluegrass and gospel, Greater Purpose and Backyard Bluegrass perform at Unity College Centre for the Performing Arts, 42 Depot St. Donations of monies and non-perishable food benefit local Arts for Hunger efforts for Waldo County hunger relief. • 7:30 to 9:30 p.m. “Dirty Work at the Crossroads”, Camden Civic Theatre presents old-fashioned melodrama with marvelous interludes at Watts Hall, Main Street/Route 1, Thomaston. Cost: $14; $12 students, senior citizens; $10 younger than 12. Friday and Saturdays 7:30 p.m.; Sundays 2 p.m. through Oct. 16. Tickets at door or camdencivictheatre.com.
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• 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Holy Redeemer’s 4th Annual Rummage Sale, Holy Redeemer Church, 21 Ledgelawn Ave., Bar Harbor, ME . Holy Redeemer Church is looking for items to sell. Anyone willing to donate items may contact Eileen Doreika at 288-5038. Items will be accepted until Friday, Oct. 14. • 8 a.m. to 11:30 p.m. Backwoods Bash, Full day of live music (starts 9 a.m.), comedy, bike run and food at Mic Mac Campground, Route 17, Union. Cost: $30, $45 couple, includes one meal ticket (breakfast, pig roast or BBQ). Benefits Valarie Hale, who has Alpha-1 Antitrypsin Deficiency; donations welcomed. Tickets at gate only; to reserve campsites (limited), call 691-6017. ID required, 21 and older. • 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. • 12 p.m. East Ghost Ghost Trackers tours of Fort Knox, Route 174, Prospect. Cost: $10. Groups limited to 20; ticket should be bought in advance by calling at 469-6553 or at the fort gift shop. • 12:45 to 4 p.m. The Met: Live in HD, Strand Theatre, 345 Main St., Rockland, screens Donizetti’s “Anna Bolena” live via satellite broadcast. Cost: $27; season tickets available. FMI: 594-0070 or rocklandstrand. com. Encore 1 p.m. Oct. 25, $23. • 7 to 11 p.m. Country Dance, True Country plays the Union Masonic Lodge No. 31, 149 Sennebec Road. Cost: $10. FMI: 712-1314. Door prizes, raffle and snack bar. • 5 to 7 p.m. Masons public supper, Public supper to be held at Masonic hall on New England Road in Searsmont. • 5:30 p.m. ‘Final Cut’ murder mystery dinner theater, B-Movie director Eddie Cheek seeks backers for his new zombie movie and it’s a killer proposition! Doors open 5:30 p.m., dinner show starts 6 p.m. at the Waldo County YMCA, Route 52, Belfast. Cost: $20, benefits Bluefish Swim Team. Tickets at door and the Y; reserve tables for eight. FMI: 3384598. Show stars Bluefish coaches
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and parents; diners encouraged to come in character. For child care by Girl Scout Troop 521, reserve by Oct. 1. • 7:30 to 9 p.m. ‘A Night of Glee’, Marsh River Theater presents evening of amusement 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 Oct. 22. • 7:30 to 9:30 p.m. The Toughcats, Three-piece indie folk band performs at Unity College Centre for the Performing Arts, 42 Depot St. Cost: $15. FMI: 948-7469. Proceeds benefit hunger relief efforts in Waldo County, Maine as part of the fifth annual Arts for Hunger sponsored by the Unity Area Rotary Club. • 7:30 to 9:30 p.m. “Dirty Work at the Crossroads”, Camden Civic Theatre presents old-fashioned melodrama with marvelous interludes at Watts Hall, Main Street/Route 1, Thomaston. Cost: $14; $12 students, senior citizens; $10 younger than 12. Friday and Saturdays 7:30 p.m.; Sundays 2 p.m. through Oct. 16. Tickets at door or camdencivictheatre.com.
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• 1 p.m. Fall Family Hike at the Gardens, Meet in the Visitor Center by 1 p.m. for this 1.5-hour easy family hike along the wild trails of Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens with staff educators Melissa Cullina and Emily Ellingson. $20 per family for members, $30 per non-member family. For reservations, call 633-4333, ext. 101, visit MaineGardens.org, or stop by the Visitor Center at the Gardens, Barters Island Road, Boothbay. • 2:30 to 4:30 p.m. Open Art Studio, Harbor House, 329 Main St., Southwest Harbor. Students in sixththrough 12-grade 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. Program runs through November and meets Mondays and Thursdays, 2:30 to 4:30 p.m. FMI: call 244-4012. • 4 to 6:30 p.m. Performing Arts Series, Bay Chamber Concerts presents Chamber Music All Stars at the Rockport Opera House, 6 Central St. Cost: $40 and $30, $8 younger than 19; season and Flex Pass discounts. FMI: 236-2823/888-707-2770 or baychamberconcerts.org.
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Tuesday
• 7:15 to 8:45 a.m. Yoga at the Gardens, Ingrid Tosteson will teach gentle yoga classes suitable for all levels of expertise in the Bosarge Family Education Center at Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens, Barters Island Road, Boothbay. Tuesdays and Thursdays through Dec. 20. Cost: $10 members, $12 non-members. Preregister at 633-4333, ext. 101 or in the visitor center. • 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.
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Wednesday
• 7:30 to 9:30 p.m. Scott Macmillan and Brian Doyle, Guitar wizards perform at Unity College Centre for the Performing Arts, 42 Depot St. Cost: $15. FMI: 948-7469.
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Thursday
• 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. • 7:15 p.m. to 8:45 a.m. Yoga at the Gardens, Ingrid Tosteson will teach gentle yoga classes suitable for all levels of expertise in the Bosarge Family Education Center at Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens, Barters Island Road, Boothbay. Tuesdays and Thursdays through Dec. 20. Cost: $10 members, $12 non-members. Preregister at 633-4333, ext. 101 or in the visitor center.
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Friday
• 5:30 to 9 p.m. Fright at the Fort, Annual spookfest tours of Fort Knox, Route 174, Prospect. Cost: $5; $7 express ticket. FMI: 469-6553. • 7 p.m. “Mulan Jr.”, Waldo Youth Theater presents Disney youth musical at the Waldo Theatre, Main Street/Route 220, Waldoboro. Cost: $10; for group rates, write to melissa@thewaldo.org. FMI: 832-6060 or thewaldo.org. Also 7 p.m. Oct. 22 and 29; and 2 p.m. Oct. 23 and 30. • 7:30 to 9 p.m. ‘A Night of Glee’, Marsh River Theater presents evening of amusement 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 Oct. 22. • 7:30 to 9:30 p.m. “Evening of Christopher Durang”, River Company presents five of the award-winning playwright’s best loved one-act plays at Skidompha Library, Elm Street entrance, Damariscotta. Cost: $15; $13 RC members. FMI: 5638116. Fridays and Saturdays 7:30 p.m.; Sundays 3 p.m. through Oct. 30.
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• 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. • 1 to 4 p.m. Jesup Memorial Library scarecrow contest, Jesup Memorial Library, 34 Mt. Desert Street, Bar Harbor, ME. Any group, organization, individual, or business may enter Jesup Library’s first ever scarecrow contest. Build a scarecrow based on a famous or infamous person to be displayed on the lawn at the YWCA and Jesup Memorial Library. Send entries to mae.corrion@gmail.com. Deadline for entry is Wednesday, Oct. 19. Winner selected Saturday, Oct. 22. Refreshments and activites. • 5:30 to 9 p.m. Fright at the Fort, Annual spookfest tours of Fort Knox, Route 174, Prospect. Cost: $5; $7 express ticket. FMI: 469-6553. • 7 to 10 p.m. Fall Swing and Dance Fundraiser, Fundraiser for the children’s dance scholarship fund. Les-
son at 7 p.m. Music for all styles of swing. Suggested donation: $7. Belfast Dance Studio, 109 High St., Belfast. FMI: (203) 915-9371, joyfuldancing.com. • 7 to 11 p.m. Country Dance, Bob Elston plays the Union Masonic Lodge No. 31, 149 Sennebec Road. Cost: $10. FMI: 712-1314. Door prizes, raffle and snack bar. • 7:30 to 9:30 p.m. High Hopes Jam, Benefit concert for Waterville’s High Hopes Clubhouse features Tim Sullivan and the Funk Punks, the Gabriel Zacchai Trio and Frank Hopkins and Line of Force at Unity College Centre for the Performing Arts, 42 Depot St. Cost: $15. FMI: 948-7469. • 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.
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• 3 to 5:30 p.m. National Theatre’s “The Kitchen”, Rescreening of Oct. 6 high definition satellite broadcast from London of Arnold Wesker’s black comedy, set in the 1950s, at Strand Theatre, 345 Main St., Rockland. Cost: $23; $18 younger than 18. FMI: 594-0070. General admission; school group rates available.
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Tuesday
• 1 to 4 p.m. The Met: Live in HD Encore, Strand Theatre, 345 Main St., Rockland, screens Oct. 14 performance of Donizetti’s“Anna Bolena.”Cost: $23. FMI: 594-0070 or rocklandstrand.com. • 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: 3540931; dancing4fun.org.
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Wednesday
• 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.
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Thursday
• 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. 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. Lewis MacKinnon, Canadian purveyor of traditional Celtic music performs at Unity College Centre for the Performing Arts, 42 Depot St. Cost: $15. FMI: 948-7469.
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Friday
• 5:30 to 9 p.m. Fright at the Fort, Annual spookfest tours of Fort Knox, Route 174, Prospect. Cost: $5; $7 express ticket. FMI: 469-6553. • 8 to 10 p.m. Martin Sexton, Folk/ rock/soul singer and master guitarist performs at the Strand Theatre, 345 Main St., Rockland. Cost: $25, general admission. FMI: 594-0070 or rocklandstrand.com.
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•9 a.m. to noon. Day of Wellness. Oceanside High School, Broadway, Rockland. Day of learning, day of making connections. Free adult flu shots, fitness classes and demos, reflexology, spinal analysis, healthy eating, massage, diabetes, home healthcare, Medicare information and much more. Free. • 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Fall Craft Fair at Waldoboro UMC, The Waldoboro United Methodist Church will sponsor a Fall Craft Fair at the Church Vestry, 95 Friendship St. FMI: 832-7434 or 832-5556. • 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Washington Grange Farmers’ Market, Every Saturday. Old Union Road, across from the Gibbs Library in Washington. FMI: 8452140. • 12:45 to 4 p.m. The Met: Live in HD, Strand Theatre, 345 Main St., Rockland, screens Mozart’s “Don Giovanni” live via satellite broadcast. Cost: $27; season tickets available. FMI: 594-0070 or rocklandstrand. com. Encore 1 p.m. Nov. 8, $23. • 4 to 7 p.m. Family Fright Night at the Gardens, Families will enjoy spooky fun, frightfully delicious treats, a costume parade with prizes, live characters in costume, Haunted Fairy Village, craft activities, and more at this popular Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens event. $10 for members, $15 for non-members. For reservations, call 633-4333, ext. 101, visit MaineGardens.org, or stop by the Visitor Center at the Gardens, off Barters Island Road in Boothbay. • 7 to 8:30 p.m. “Finding the Doorbell”, Storyteller Cindy Pierce returns to the Camden Opera House, Elm Street/Route 1. Cost: $20 advance, $30 with post-show meet/greet at Zaddik’s; $25 at door. Advance tickets at Peopleplace in Camden, peopleplacecoop.org and camdenoperahouse.com. Comedy show contains explicit sexual language and graphic descriptions. • 7 to 11 p.m. Country Dance, Frye Mountain Band plays the Union Masonic Lodge No. 31, 149 Sennebec Road. Cost: $10. FMI: 712-1314. Door prizes, raffle and snack bar. • 10 p.m. to 12 a.m. “Damnationland”, Six short horror films by Maine independent filmmakers premiere at Strand Theatre, 345 Main St., Rockland. Cost: $8.50; $7.50 senior citizens, matinee (3 p.m. Oct. 30). • 11 p.m. to 12:30 a.m. ‘Rocky Horror Picture Show’, Marsh River Theater screens the camp classic at the downtown venue, 24 Monroe Highway/ Route 139, Brooks. FMI: 722-4110.
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• 3 to 6 p.m. “Damnationland”, Six short horror films by Maine independent filmmakers premiere at Strand Theatre, 345 Main St., Rockland. Cost: $8.50; $7.50 senior citizens, matinee (3 p.m. Oct. 30). • 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.
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