AREA — The Paris Hill Historical Society will offer “African Print Textiles and Fashion,” a presentation by Dr. Alice Burmeister, on Thursday, June 13, at 7 p.m. at the First Baptist Church of Paris, 500 Paris Hill Road, Paris. Dr. Burmeister is an associate professor of art history at Winthrop University in South Carolina, where […]

NORWAY — The Oxford Hills Music and Performing Arts Association (OHMPAA) will present “Papermaker,” a play by Monica Wood, on June 20-23 and 27-28, at the Norway Grange, 15 Whitman St., Norway. Based on Wood’s novel, “Ernie’s Ark,” the play takes place during the third month of a bitter paper mill strike in a small […]

NORWAY — Art Moves Dance Studio is celebrating its 30th birthday by bringing back some old favorites to the Oxford Hills Comprehensive High School Auditorium at 7 p.m. June 14 in a co-show with sister studio Expansion Arts, owned by Sasha Richardson. Tobin Del Cuore was the first preacher during the ’90s, Charles Howes during […]

HARRISON — The 2019 season at Scribner’s Mill and its Homestead began Memorial Day, May 27, and will continue the first and third Saturdays of the month through September, including Labor Day, from 1 to 4 p.m.  The blacksmith will be in the shop working at the newly reconstructed wooden hearth, and shingle mill demonstrations […]

NORWAY — World War II veteran Roy Earle, of Norway, will talk about his experiences in the 4th Marine Division in the Pacific, on Thursday, May 30, from 6:30 to 8 p.m. at the Norway Memorial Library. The program is free and open to the public. Attendees also can view a glass case display of […]

NORWAY — The Mollyockett Chorus will present ” ’50s Memories and Music” on Friday, May 31, at 7:30 p.m. at the First Universalist Church of Norway, 479 Main Street. The Chorus performs a show each year as an in-kind fundraiser for the wonderful weekly rehearsal space the Church provides. Tickets are $10, for the benefit […]

HEBRON — Historian and author Peter Stowell, of West Gardener, recently spoke to the Hebron Historical Society on the history of spool mills in the state of Maine. Beginning with the Kashmir shawl, which was very expensive to produce, the Jacquard loom was invented in 1804 and thus made shawls cheaper to manufacture. The Paisley […]

BRIDGTON — The darnedest things can bring creative folks together. Like quirky vanity plates. Local artists Kim Dubay and Heather MacLeod recognized each other as kindred souls by the names on their cars. When the owners of the red RUG BUG and green ARTFROG first met, they became fast friends. Over the long, cold winter […]