Mystery photo for July 23, 2017. If you can identify where this photo was taken, contact us at [email protected] or call 207-689-2896 and leave a voice mail with your answer, your name, town and phone number. Correct entries will be eligible for a drawing for a $20 Hannaford Supermarkets gift card. Find the Mystery Photo […]
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Married, but their organizational styles clash
Opposites attract, or so they say, and in many ways this phenomenon can work out well for a couple — they complement each other’s interests, styles and habits. But one area in which a couple’s differences can make living together less than harmonious is home organization. I’ve worked with many clients for whom organization is […]
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The welcoming baptismal font
Celebrating the Basilica of Saints Peter and Paul Father Robert D. Lariviere, pastor of Immaculate Heart of Mary Parish in Auburn, served at Saints Peter and Paul Church from 1999 through 2008. He was involved in the restoration project and remembers the restoration committee was of one mind about how visitors and parishioners would experience […]
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Eats: Grand Graze-ing at Pineland Farms
The partnership between Pineland Farms and The Black Tie Company began in June 2013 when the two hosted their first Graze dinner. Called “Strawberry Fields Forever,” the event featured all manner of delicious dishes paired with the summer’s first berries. Now in their fifth year, “Graze at Pineland Farms” kicked off the 2017 farm-to-table dinner […]
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Book World: Why are we so celebrity crazy?
“The Stars in Our Eyes: The Famous, the Infamous, and Why We Care Way Too Much About Them” By Julie Klam Riverhead. 222 pp. $26 Almost famous? Nah. When it comes to celebrities, we like them really, really famous. We don’t want to scratch our heads wondering why we recognize someone. We prefer to run into […]
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Tizz Crowley: Having a ball (gown)!
Auburn woman finds her passion for Civil War fashion. On a chilly, damp afternoon in mid-December, Tizz Crowley was led to a spot in a gloomy vacant lot in Fredericksburg, Virginia. There, 154 years ago almost to the day, her great-grandfather Michael Crowley had fought with the Grattan Guards of the 2nd Maine at the […]
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Mystery Photo for July 16, 2017
Mystery Photo for July 16, 2017 If you can identify where this photo was taken, contact us at [email protected] or call 207-689-2896 and leave a voice mail with your answer, your name, town and phone number. Correct entries will be eligible for a drawing for a $20 Hannaford Supermarkets gift card. Find the Mystery Photo […]
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What was lost when libraries threw out card catalog
The Card Catalog: Books, Cards, and Literary Treasures By Library of Congress Chronicle. 224 pp. $35 This book about card catalogs, written and published in cooperation with the Library of Congress, is beautifully produced, intelligently written and lavishly illustrated. It also sent me into a week-long depression. If you are a book lover of a […]
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Hitch-hiking trip tests degrees of separation
Just how separated are we? Two cross-country hitchhikers use social media to prove it’s just four degrees The great American road trip is woven deep into the country’s cultural fabric. Just think of Jack Kerouac’s “On the Road,” John Steinbeck’s “Travels with Charley,” and Tom Wolfe’s “The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test.” Now, two millennials are […]
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In verse: Maine places and people
Produced by Maine Poetry Central and Dennis Camire This week’s poem is by Ruth Bookey of Hallowell. Her most recent book is “I Still Feel the Swirl,” published by Moon Pie Press. My Sister Looks at Nature By Ruth Bookey We’re here on a holiday Full of enthusiasm. I am there to greet […]