100 Years Ago: 1924

A Main St. trolley car bound for the fair grounds, ran into a car on the Ware Street siding at 5:35 o’clock Thursday night. The stopped car was at the rear of the siding and hadn’t quite cleared the main track. The motorman, Joe Brown, put his brakes on, but the car slid down the slippery rails. No one was reported hurt. Several windows in each car were smashed.

50 Years Ago: 1974

Local artist Solange Lambert of Lewiston will be exhibiting some 25 of her original artworks throughout the month of March as part of the Rotating Art Gallery at Central Maine General Hospital, Lewiston.

Mrs. Lambert, who has studied under Sister St. Paul, Prof Lajos Matatolcsy and Prof. Donald Lent who teaches at St. Dominic Regional High School, and also holds classes for children and adults at her home on Webster St in Lewiston. A member of the Western Maine Art Group and the Androscoggin Valley Art Association, she has displays in a number of art showings, including several one-man shows.

For her exhibit at CMG, Mrs. Lambert has chosen works done in a variety of styles and materials. A prizewinner many times, one of her scratchboard pieces  —  “old Violin”  — which won a third prize at the 1973 Western Maine Art Group Show.

25 Years Ago: 1999

The Red Faust,” a new two-act Hungarian play based on the life of the fiercely anti-communist Josef Cardinal Mindszenty, will premiere in English at Bates College March 5, 6 12 13 and 14 in Schaeffer Theatre. The play by Zsolt Pozsgal, a two-time award winner of best new Hungarian play, will be directed by Martin Andrucki, professor at Bates. The production stars Australian actor and Budapest resident Peter Linka, who translated the production into English and who serves on the staff of the Hungarian National Academy of Drama and film.

The material used in Looking Back is produced exactly as it originally appeared although misspellings and errors may be corrected.

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