FARMINGTON — SugarWood Gallery’s artist of the month, Anstiss Morrill, will be feted at a reception from 4 to 7 p.m. Friday, Sept. 1. The public is invited and refreshments will be served. Morrill’s notes on her paintings include: ??”My work varies from impressionistic landscapes to abstract evocative pieces. ?I feel that painting can be like […]
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Birds of a Wire in concert at the Brick Church
LOVELL — Back by popular demand, the trio Birds on a Wire will perform at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 7, at the Brick Church for the Performing Arts, 502 Christian Hill Road. The group’s selections include Celtic, folk and gospel. They have been playing together since 2008, soon after Jenny and Greg Huang-Dale landed in Fryeburg and […]
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Fall talk on amphibians, reptiles of Maine
FARMINGTON — Western Maine Audubon’s first talk of the Fall season is by Matthew Chatfield, who will speak on amphibians and reptiles native to Maine. The talk will be at 7 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 13, in the North Dining Hall at the University of Maine at Farmington. It is free and open to the public. […]
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Contemporary folk at North Church
The Farmington Historical Society’s North Church Concert Series will present Contemporary folk musicians Mark Mandeville and Raianne Richards will perform at 7 p.m., Saturday, Sept. 2, as part of the Farmington Historical Society’s North Church Concert Series. Show tickets are $15 for the general population, $10 for high school and college students and $5 for elementary […]
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Mollyockett Chorus at Sawyer Memorial
GREENE — The women’s barbershop group, The Mollyockett Chorus, will perform at 2 and 7 p.m. Friday, Sept. 8, at the Sawyer Memorial. The chorus sings barbershop style a capella harmony in four parts: tenor, lead, baritone, and bass. Beginning in Norway with a core group of eight to 10 enthusiastic women, the chorus was chartered in […]
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Open Book Players to present 'Reading Rumpus'
GARDINER — The Open Book Players will present “Reading Rumpus” at 2 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 10, at Johnson Hall, 280 Water St. The event features the works of several Maine children’s book authors and illustrators, their stories adapted and presented as theatrical works. They include: • “Bella’s Fall Coat” and two chapters of “Maxi’s Secrets” […]
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Indigenous rights attorney, activist to speak in Lovell
LOVELL – Sherri Mitchell, indigenous rights attorney, teacher and spiritual activist, will speak at the Charlotte Hobbs Memorial Library at 7 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 5. It is the last in the speaker series titled: The World in Your Library. Mitchell will talk about the need for developing unity with indigenous rights movements. She was born […]
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Hartill, Menes guests on 'Early Evening Show'
PARIS — The Celebration Barn Theater presents Mike Miclon’s The Early Evening Show at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 2. The show features stand-up comic Dawn Hartill, juggling sensation Michael Menes and Early Evening Show regulars Fritz Grobe, Tom Murphy and the Early Evening Show Orchestra. The Early Evening Show, a spoof of late-night talk shows, […]
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Looking Back on August 29
100 years ago, 1917Lewiston and Auburn will employ no child labor after September first when the new legislation regarding the employment of children comes into effect. Not very many children are employed now. “Last winter,” said the agent of one of the leading cotton factories, “I was talking with the Commissioner of Labor at Augusta, […]
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Looking Back on August 28
100 years ago, 1917Mayor Charles P. Lemaire, chief of police by virtue of the authority reposed in his office by the city charter, took active charge of the department at nine o’clock Tuesday morning. Benjamin Keegan, former captain of night police and acting chief of police at the mayor’s designation when the courts declared the […]