Palaver Strings presents Metamorphosis at 8 p.m. on Thursday, April 29, on Facebook hosted by the State Theatre. The livestream is free to watch, with donations encouraged. Metamorphosis explores the beauty of pain and transformation through the lens of two monumental works for string orchestra. Strauss’s Metamorphosen looks back on what once was, bearing witness to the trauma and […]
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Lovell’s Meet The Author series welcomes novelist Jim Nichols
Celebrated Maine author Jim Nichols will give an online presentation from 7-8 p.m. on Thursday, April 29, hosted by the Charlotte Hobbs Memorial Library in Lovell. To join this free Zoom event, visit the library website at www.hobbslibrary.org and click on the Zoom link by 7 p.m. on Thursday, April 29. Nichols is the 2014 […]
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Oasis of Music features pianist
Pianist Thad Gunther will perform at the Oasis of Music from 12:30-1 p.m. on Wednesday, April 28, at the Basilica of Saints Peter and Paul in Lewiston. Gunther is a senior at Bates College. Originally from Farmington, Gunther studied classical piano with Bruce McInnes with a focus on Schubert, Chopin, and Brahms. He also studied […]
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Annual Arts Night and Symposium celebrates original undergraduate research and creative projects
University of Maine at Farmington
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Looking Back on May 8
100 Years Ago: 1921 The Girls’ Club of the Androscoggin Electric Co. gave a dance in the employees hall last evening with a fair number present. The hall was decorated for the occasion and was most successful in every way. 50 Years Ago: 1971 Mrs. Warwick D. Ward will be mistress of ceremonies at the […]
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Looking Back on May 7
100 Years Ago: 1921 Oil for the Auburn streets has been ordered and the first delivery is expected to arrive on Wednesday. This year’s supply was of a lower figure than that of last year and it is understood that there is plenty available. 50 Years Ago: 1971 The Pledge of Allegiance and the Girl […]
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Looking Back on May 6
100 Years Ago: 1921 The sale of the land and buildings now occupied by the Lewiston Trust Co., at 55-63 Lisbon street to Eugene L. Dunton was reported yesterday. The price named in the report was $65,000, of which $30,000 was for the land. In about two weeks the Trust Co. will move to its […]
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Looking Back on May 4
100 Years Ago: 1921 W. L. Morse, an Auburn truckman is having the building which he occupies as his office and general headquarters for his trucking business, moved from 129 Turner Street, to a lot on Hampshire Street, opposite the Auburn Wood Heel Co. Building. 50 Years Ago: 1971 The ice cover at Lake Auburn […]
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Looking Back on May 3
100 Years Ago: 1921 The W.L.U. will hold a meeting of the executive board and directors this afternoon at the home of the president, Mrs. Charles D. Hasty, at 101 Main Street, Auburn, at 2:30 o’clock. 50 Years Ago: 1971 Members of Cadette Girl Scout Troop 773 were busy beavers as they traveled up and […]