FARMINGTON — Author and award-winning newspaper columnist George Smith will give a book-signing and presentation at 7 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 27, at Devaney Doak & Garrett Booksellers Inc., 193 Broadway. Smith is the author of “A Life Lived Outdoors,” a collection of essays about home, camp, family, faith, travel, hunting, fishing and other outdoor activities. […]

NORWAY — Artists Peter Herley and Judy Schneider will team up with Gallery 448 for a group show about inhabiting space at 5:30 p.m. Friday, Nov. 4. “Water for Life/Of the Earth” will be displayed from that day until Nov. 18. The gallery is open from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Wednesdays, Thursdays and Fridays, […]

AUGUSTA — The Swingin’ Bears Square Dance Club of South Paris will host the Maine Federation of Square Dance Clubs’ annual Halloween costume dance from 7 to 9:30 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 29, at the Gilbert School, 1 Sunset Ave. Ray Hilton, the club caller, will call Mainstream and Plus. Carol Arsenault, Round Dance cuer, will […]

AUGUSTA — The University of Maine at Augusta’s Concerts at Jewett series will present Don Campbell: A Veterans Appreciation Concert at 2 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 6, in Jewett Hall Auditorium. The series is sponsored by UMA College of Arts and Sciences and UMA Senior College. Singer-songwriter Campbell, a Maine native, is inspired by sources as diverse […]

PORTLAND — Portland Stage Co. will hold a free public reading of the new stage adaptation of “It Can’t Happen Here” at 7 p.m. Monday, Oct. 24, in the Studio Theatre, 25A Forest Ave. The play is based on the 1935 novel written by Sinclair Lewis. In 1936, the novel was adapted into a play […]

FRYEBURG — Bradley Backstage will present the fourth Encounters in Sound concert with pianist Jed Wilson at 7:30 p.m. Friday, Oct. 28, at the Leura Hill Eastman Performing Arts Center, 18 Bradley St. Wilson is best known for his appearances on NPR’s “A Prairie Home Companion” and collaborations with singer/songwriter Heather Masse. He will be […]

100 years ago, 1916The Cushman-Hollis Shoe Company, Auburn, began work in the Roak Block, Main Street, Auburn, yesterday morning, and will continue the manufacture of shoes in this factory in connection with the factory on Court street. The factory was formerly utilized by the Moran-Holmes Shoe Co., which was recently consolidated with Lunn & Sweet […]

FARMINGTON — Dan Kennedy of Amherst, Massachusetts, will present a concert of contemporary music at 7 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 5, at Nordica Auditorium in Merrill Hall at the University of Maine at Farmington. Kennedy’s piano compositions are praised for their sophisticated sensibility and their variety — from rhythmic energy to humorous reflections on daily life […]

Friday night, Oct. 21, the classic rock band The Veggies, performs at Mixers Night Club,  136 Sabattus Road, Sabattus. There is no cover. Music begins at 8:30 p.m.

Denny Breau, whose rhythmically flawless and dazzlingly clear style allows him to do amazing and stunning things with a six-string guitar, performs at Pedro O’Hara’s from 8 to 11 p.m., Friday, Oct. 21. He first draws in an audience with a finely arranged melody and then slides effortlessly into scorching finger work that sets ears […]