Random Ideas will be featured at the Johnson Hall Free Waterfront Concert at 6 p.m. Friday, June 24, on Depot Square. The band is made up of Meagan Johnson on drums, Lexi Johnson on bass and vocals, and Kinsey Johnson on guitar and backing vocals. The triplet sisters all had an instinctual desire to be musicians […]
Life & Culture
Arts and entertainment news and advice columns from the Sun Journal.
Posted inDear Abby
Long distance relationship jolted amid talks of future
DEAR ABBY: Two years ago, at a national conference, I bumped into a woman I had dated decades ago. We started dating again, even though she lives in Phoenix and I live in the Midwest. The geographical distance between us is challenging, but we made it work through phone calls and traveling to see each […]
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Posted inHoroscope
Gemini: Weigh the pros and cons and suggestions others make before you jump into something new. With a plan and timeline in place,
CELEBRITIES BORN ON THIS DAY: Macklemore, 39; Zoe Saldana, 44; Jean Dujardin, 50; Paula Abdul, 60. Happy Birthday: Press forward with enthusiasm. Be resourceful, connect with like-minded people and put together a plan that allows you to use your skills uniquely. Raise the bar by including attributes and talents that you enjoy using, and you’ll […]
Posted in175th anniversary, News
Reprint from the Sun Journal in 1989: Americans have a real love affair with the phone
It’s official. The government says we’re spending too much time on the phone.
Posted in175th anniversary, Androscoggin County, Lewiston-Auburn, Maine
When trolleys came to town . . . they were pulled by horses
Lewiston and Auburn residents were happy to ride rather than walk on muddy, manure-filled streets.
Posted in175th anniversary, News
Reprint from the Sun Journal in 1983: ‘Information please…’ The operators know all
While constantly plugging new connections into the switchboard in front of them and timing long-distance calls, the two operators at the Bryant Pond Telephone Co. must also be authorities on all kinds of local information.
Posted in175th anniversary, bPlus
From ‘bone-shakers’ to ‘penney-farthings’ and beyond: How bicycles rolled out in Lewiston in the 1800s
‘Bicycle fever’ reached Lewiston in 1879, according to the Lewiston Evening Journal, and would go on to shake, rattle and roll into everyday life.
Posted in175th anniversary, News
Western Maine town the last to use hand-crank phones in the U.S.
‘The lure of high-tech, touch-tone and total privacy won out in a two-year battle with nostalgia and the human element,’ announced the Sunday Sun Journal. ‘The crank phone is dead. Long live call forwarding.’
Posted in175th anniversary, News
Telephone service spread fast in Lewiston and Maine after Bell’s breakthrough
Lewiston installed its first phone line just a year after Alexander Graham Bell received his patent for the telephone in 1876.
Posted in175th anniversary, News
Maine Turnpike put Lewiston-Auburn, state in the fast lane for commerce, tourism
The turnpike is celebrating its 75th anniversary this year as the nation’s second “superhighway” and world’s first asphalt highway, helping make Maine a true ‘vacationland.’