Produced by Dennis Camire This week’s poem is by Jim Thatcher of Yarmouth. His most recent book is “Lesser Eternities,” published by Deerbrook Editions. Horse Tale By Jim Thatcher On that summer afternoon when he was six years old and they told him that those high many-plumed grasses out on the frontier between the […]
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Mystery Photo for September 17, 2017
Mystery Photo for September 17, 2017 If you can identify where this photo was taken, contact us at bmail@sunjournal.com or call 207-689-2896 and leave a voice mail with your answer, your name, town and phone number. Correct entries will be eligible for a drawing for a $20 Hannaford Supermarkets gift card. Find the Mystery Photo […]
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Chris Mc Dowell, theater prof, collector, shoe aficionado
As an associate professor of theater, costume and scenic design at Bates College, Chris Mc Dowell knows what looks fabulous on stage. As a collector of period clothes and shoes, she knows what’s fabulous in real life. And if Mc Dowell sometimes gets to wear some of those pieces — like wooden platform shoes from […]
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Great Falls Comic Expo: 'We're all a bunch of geeks at heart'
Characters. Comics. Costumes. Camaraderie. Upcoming Lewiston Comic Expo promises something for everyone. For a moment, the guy dressed as Mario drew all eyes in the room. Then Han Solo walked in with Dr. Who at his heels and attention shifted. It would shift again for a man dressed as a shark and then once more […]
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Inside the Basilica of Saints Peter and Paul 'nerve center'
Head Sacristan Mark Labonte looks through one of the holy books used at Masses that are kept in the sacristy at the Basilica of Saints Peter and Paul in Lewiston. Before each Mass, Labonte opens the books to the appropriate passages that will be read. Celebrating the Basilica of Saints Peter and Paul If you […]
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Magical earth: Nature still providing late-season bounty
The leaves on our old maples are beginning to turn their bright shades of red and gold, the lawn is no longer growing enough to require mowing, and a definite chill has been in the evening air. It’s almost the end of the gardening season. This hasn’t been the best year on record, but then, […]
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Hippos, birdies, T. rexes, pigs: How Sandra Boynton won your child's heart
And made her businesspartners very wealthy Sandra Boynton lives on a farm in rural Connecticut. She works out of a converted barn, surrounded by pigs in overalls, frogs wearing cowboy hats, a clutch of bemused chickens and a few skeptical sock puppets. Standing there, you get the feeling that at any moment they might all […]
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For a lighter, brighter room, let paint take the ?oor
Years ago, my husband and I bought our first house in Upstate New York: a 1930s cottage with small rooms, low ceilings and mediocre wood floors. I knew that the best way to lighten up the rooms and make the whole house look bigger was to paint the floors white. Our contractor expressed nervous doubt. […]
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From diamonds to diapers
MONMOUTH — In a building filled with gently used $3 toys, 75-cent T-shirts and bags of books for $2.50 each, Shanda Velazquez gravitated to the 25-cent section. She worked at a campground and needed tiny decorations for a camp-wide fairy house project. “You can always find something at Vestry,” said Velazquez, who used to volunteer […]
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Science leading the way to solving addiction puzzle
Today’s war on drugs isn’t fought by first ladies or celebrity advocates. Armed with MRI machines, electromagnetic pulses and experimental drugs, scientists are on the battle’s front lines. In the cover story of September’s National Geographic, Fran Smith explores the different fronts of a war being fought in laboratories and universities all over the world. […]