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Friday, June 2, 2017
Volume 13 • Issue No. 22
Mark Your Calendar for the Kennebunkport Festival 2017 KENNEBUNKPORT The Kennebunkport Food and Wine Festival celebrates “the excellence of Maine’s chefs, artists, musicians, wine purveyors, and beer makers� in a picturesque, coastal setting. While the Festival is a celebration of all things Maine, it is also a wonderful fundraiser. The proceeds from the nearly weeklong event benefit Full Plates Full Potential, an organization working towards ending child
hunger in Maine. Festival 2017 will be a sixday affair from June 5 to June 10, known as one of New England’s premier destination food and wine events, ushering in the official kick-off of summer. Enjoy dinners in exquisite homes, amazing galas and surprises around every corner. This is an opportunity to become immersed in a world of top chefs, fine wines, beautiful homes, acclaimed artists and the quint-
essential oceanfront charm of Kennebunkport. The event is known as one of the best foodie events of the season, boasting 38 events over 6 days. One event to attend, is the Grand Tasting Party - drawing a crowd of hundreds of people for a fun celebration that allows local chefs to demonstrate their specialties under a big white tent by the water. Guests in attenSee FEST page 12...
WWII Era Gift Showcased at June 4 Berwick Car Show BERWICK This is the story of a man you’ve never met but wish you had. The story of a hero, a father and a veteran who gave his life in the service of our great country. This is the story of Technical Sergeant Carl Raymond Chapman. Carl was born on a cold January day in 1918, in Rochester, New Hampshire. He graduated from Spaulding High School and at the ripe old
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age of 18, bought his first and only car, a brand spanking new 1936 2-door Deluxe Ford for the list price of $590. Five years later, young Carl joined the U.S. Army and was stationed in South Carolina. In May of 1943, he married his one true love, Florence. Carl enjoyed his last furlough in November of that year, and not long after, he and his fellow infantrymen were sent overseas to join the fight. Meanwhile, Florence Chapman anxiously awaited news from Carl’s letters home, while
looking forward to the birth of their first child. (One of the letters Carl sent from France had shrapnel holes, a portent of things to come). The summer of 1944 was bittersweet for the Chapman family, as Florence gave birth to a bouncing baby boy, named after his dad, just days before receiving news that her husband was killed in action in Normandy, France. Patriotism runs deep in this family. Fast forward to See CARS page 2...
Stories of the Portsmouth Naval Prison KITTERY The Naval prison has been a fixture on a bluff overlooking the Piscataqua River adjacent to the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard in Kittery for 109 years. Filmmaker/Producer Neil Novello will present a video anthology called “The Castle: Stories of the Portsmouth Naval Prison�, hosted by The Kittery Historical & Naval Museum on June 13 at 7 p.m. Novello’s presentation, held at Kittery Lions Club, 117 State Rd, Kittery, will be a combination of historic photos along with video clips from his documentary video that chronicles the 66-year history of the Navy’s only maximum security prison in the world where as many as 50,000 sailors and Marines spent time.
The video clips cover three time periods starting with the end of World War 1; highlights the controversial commander of the prison who brought scandal, prison reform, and a movie crew. There’s 90-year-old footage of the prison from a silent Hollywood
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An amazing gift from WWII Technical Sergeant Carl Raymond Chapman.
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movie where naval prisoners were used as extras. From the World War II era, Novello will show a video clip featuring New Hampshire resident who was stationed at the prison talking about the time when in May 1945 captured
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German U-Boat crews were escorted to the Naval prison. Since 1985, Neil Novello's award-winning career has covered nearly every type of video production: documentaries, television news, family biographies, educational and web videos for non-profits and businesses. His well-received documentaries about the Portsmouth Naval Prison in Kittery has been featured at the New Hampshire and Portland Maine Film Festivals and is available on DVD. There are video clip interviews with Navy and Marine personnel stationed at the prison during the Vietnam War era along with footage of the prison produced in 1971 by the Navy. FMI: www.novellospeaks.com.
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