100 Years Ago: 1920 Holman F. Day, Maine’s famous novelist and poet was here last week on route to St. Beaupre, Canada, where he was to attend a Catholic carnival which took place there Monday, says Skowhegan correspondent. The trip was being made to enable him to get scenes for a book which he is […]
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Looking Back on August 1
100 Years Ago: 1920 Plans are under way for the final phase of the late President Chase’s house on Frye street by the Bates College trustees. This will be used primarily as a girls’ dormitory and small section as a recuperating room for minor illnesses or fatigue and will be under the direction of the […]
Looking Back on July 31
100 Years Ago: 1920 The recent closing of the certain mills of the American Woolen Co. and many other woolen mills In various parts of New England, as well as the appearance of curtailment in cotton in Fall River, has caused some anxiety as to local conditions. The mills here are still running steadily and […]
Maine author releases dog-friendly children’s book with launch party
Josephine Cameron’s novel, ‘A Dog-Friendly Town,’ offers a fun romp
Library hosts StoryWalk through downtown Freeport
FREEPORT — The Freeport Community Library has created a StoryWalk through downtown Freeport. “Borrowing Bunnies: A Surprising True Tale of Fostering Rabbits” by Maine author Cynthia Lord will be displayed for two weeks — through Sunday, Aug. 12 — in business windows starting at Ben and Jerry’s. Vistors can read along as they walk and […]
Looking Back on July 30
100 Years Ago: 1920 Elaborate arrangements are being made for the joint outing of the Auburn-Lewiston Chambers of Commerce, which is to be held Wednesday at the Y.M.C.A. camp at Winthrop. Some who will be unable to go out in the morning, and have no other means of transportation,are planning to take the 12:05 train […]
Travel series continues with ‘An insider’s Guide to Southern Midcoast Maine’ at Camden library
Cory King will give an online presentation called “An Insider’s Guide to Southern Midcoast Maine” at 6 p.m. on Thursday, Aug. 13, at the Camden Public Library. This is the second program in the library’s Maine travel talk series which explores destinations within a couple hours drive of Camden. The program will be hosted on […]
LA Arts presents virtual Art Walk L-A
LEWISTON – The next “virtual” Art Walk L-A happens Friday, July 31, 2020 on www.laarts.org/artwalk/, YouTube, Facebook, and Instagram and includes visual arts, music, prose poetry, and more. Featured works include “Celestial Checkpoint,” new music by Portland-based composer Zak Taillon; “Fly Me to the Moon,” a new digital rendering by Lewiston-based artist J Anthony Fiori; […]