Mystery Photo for April 30, 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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4 nuns form a band and call it Force of Habit
WASHINGTON – One Saturday afternoon this month a band gathered to jam at the Dominican House of Studies, not far from the Catholic University of America. The drummer, a Dominican friar, counted them down. Brother Brad Elliott, dressed in a habit behind his drum kit, was joined by Sister Miriam Holzman on the piano. Sister […]
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Saint Mary: Welcoming worshippers
This statue of Mary stands above the front entrance on the Ash Street side of the Basilica of Saints Peter and Paul. Celebrating the Basilica of Saints Peter and Paul On Tuesday, Nov. 26, 1935, the Lewiston Evening Journal featured a front-page photograph of the Basilica of Saints Peter and Paul, still under scaffolding, with […]
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Cooking videos: How hard can it be?
Everything was just peachy until it was time to roll the bacon. I hadn’t sliced the potatoes thin enough, you see, so it was like trying to roll a strip of bacon around a pair of cargo pants. The roll gets too fat, you worry about ripping the meat and your whole day is shot. […]
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Students dream up sweet, ‘smart’ take on chips and dip
Creating a recipe “from scratch” can be hard to do — or a piece of cake, as a team of six students at Washington Irving Middle School in Springfield, Virginia, found out recently. They had to come up with an original after-school or breakfast “smart snack” that was healthful yet tasty enough that their friends […]
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In verse: Maine places and people
Produced by Maine Poetry Central and Dennis Camire This week’s poem by Siiri Cressey beautifully personifies and describes a mountain through the seasons. Mount Mollyockett By Siiri Cressey In summer she’s a young old woman; her gnarled granite bones wrapped in shreds of alkaline dirt, embroidered with wide patches of hardy green needles. […]
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Strout leaves characters silent, readers speechless
Anything Is Possible By Elizabeth Strout Random House. 272 pp. $27 While writing her 2016 novel “My Name Is Lucy Barton,” Elizabeth Strout found herself “drawn to the constellation of characters surrounding Lucy’s childhood in Amgash, Illinois.” And so she began writing what became this new collection of gently linked stories. “Anything Is Possible”can easily […]
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Stop and ponder: That pork on your fork had a personality
For our dinner last night, my husband cooked a Moroccan-style chicken dish, the meat tender and gleaming with spices, and topped with thin slices of lemon and green olives. He served me a leg and wing. I love this dish, and normally I would dig right in. But I’d been reading Barbara J. King’s new […]
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Beauty queen with heath condition doesn’t hide scars
Sipping a red sport drink from a straw, smartwatch on her wrist, and curled, shoulder-length hair framing her face, Victoria Graham looks every bit the beauty queen. But ask her, and she’ll tell you that each accessory has a purpose. Graham wears the watch to help monitor her heart rate; if it dips too low, […]
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Mystery Photo for April 23, 2017
Mystery Photo for April 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 […]