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JANUARY 2012VOL. 3 • NO. 1
DISTRIBUTIONALONG THE CREATIVE COAST OF MAINE:LINCOLN, KNOX,WALDO ANDHANCOCK COUNTIES
E AT • D R I N K • P L AY • W AT C H • L I S T E N • R E A D • M A K E A R E S O L U T I O N
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Artist’s Books from Single Sheets of Paper with Rebecca GoodaleSunday, January 29, 9:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.In this one- day workshop, participants will have the opportunity to develop books with imagery and con-tent. This workshop is open to all levels of experience. In the morning, participants will focus on a sculptural pop-up eight-page book, created from a single sheet of paper. In the afternoon, each student will create two more single sheet books that will be designed as a set with a common theme. This workshop is open to all levels of experience.Cost: $100 members, $130 nonmembers
Creating from the Inside Out with Erika ManningSaturdays, February 18 through March 24, 1 to 3:30 p.m.Join Erika Manning for a six- week class designed to help access creative energy and unleash artistic potential. Students of all abilities and backgrounds are encour-aged to immerse themselves in techniques designed to cultivate a “beginner mind,” surrender to the moment, and let go of the ego. Class discussions, exercises and fi eld trips will draw from diverse areas including Surreal-ism, meditation, movement, theater, traditional studio arts, and yogic philosophy. Students will be encouraged to continue to build on in-class energy with outside work, and to bring classroom ideas and techniques into everyday life.Cost: $135 members, $165 nonmembers
Drawing and Painting with Sam CadySaturdays, February 04, through April 21, 20129 a.m. - 12 p.m.In this ongoing twelve-week class, all ages are invited to explore drawing and painting. The class does not teach one technique or the “right way” to draw or paint, but is geared to the individual skill level and natural inclina-tion of each student. The aim is to encourage open discipline, freshness, and working outside clichéd ways of making art. Techniques and media can be explored as a wide-ranging survey or in a limited, concentrated way.For 25 years, Sam Cady taught in the MFA program at the School of Visual Arts in New York. He shows at the Caldbeck Gallery in Rockland, as well as in Boston and New York. Cost: $324 members, $396 nonmembers
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Lacy Simons
Lacy Simons is the new owner of hello hello, known
currently to all as Rock City Books in Rockland. She is a
reader, a maker, and a collector of fine-point pens and
terrible jokes. To find more picks and reads: facebook.com/
hellohellobooks Twitter: @hellohellobooks.
301 Park St. • P.O. Box 249
Rockland, ME 04841
207.594.4401 • 800.559.4401
and
23 Elm St. • Camden, ME 04843
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Contact us:[email protected]
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VP, Editor Lynda ClancyVP, Creative Director Marydale Abernathy
Sales DepartmentAmy DeMerchant, Candy Foster,Jody McKee, Randy McKee, Mary Jackson,Pamela Schultz , Nora Thompson
Production DepartmentChristine Dunkle, Manager
Designers
Heidi Belcher, David Dailey, Beverly Nelson,
Debbie Post, Kathleen Ryan and Michael Scarborough
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the
thescene
issueInthis Contributors
Kay Stephens, a Maine freelance writer, has covered both
mainstream and underground events, people and scenes. She
helps small Maine businesses in the creative fields get media
exposure through www.kaystephenscontent.com To get daily
A & E updates, follow through Facebook: facebook.com/
killerconvo and Twitter: http://twitter.com/thekillerconvo
Kay Stephens
Shannon Kinney of Dream Local has
more than 15 years of experience in
the development of successful Internet
products, sales and marketing strategy.
Shannon Kinney
Tiffany Howard and Jim Dandy co-own Opera House
Video, an independent video rental store in downtown
Belfast featuring an extensive collection of new releases,
foreign films, documentaries, classics and television series.
Each takes turns writing the movie review. Find them on
Facebook.
Tiffany Howard and Jim Dandy
Daniel DunkleDaniel Dunkle writes the weekly humor column,
“Stranger Than Fiction,” and “Down in Front” blogs and
movie reviews. He is Associate Editor for The VillageSoup
Gazette. His column appears in the editorial pages.
Follow him on twitter at twitter.com/#!/DanDunkle.
Holly Vanorse
Got an idea for monthly photos? Each month, I’ll be out
capturing a different theme for the monthly photo spread. Everything from the
great outdoors, stock car racing to the small town night life. Call or e-mail Holly Vanorse at [email protected] or 594-4401 with your idea.
Marc Ratner
After 30+ years in the record business in Los Angeles including
long stints at Warner Bros. & DreamWorks Records, Marc
consults and manages artists & has started an independent
music label that concentrates on singer - songwriters. It’s
called Mishara Music and is based here in Midcoast Maine.
Marc writes about the national and local music business.
Visit marc online at misharamusic.com & marcrescue.
wordpress.com Write him at [email protected] or here
Jim Bailey
Chef Jim Bailey is a Maine native who has more than 25 years
experience in the New England kitchen. Although proficient in
international cuisine, he’s an authority of Yankee Food History,
New England genealogy and the New England lifestyle since
the 17th Century. With two cookbooks just written,
Chef Jim looks forward to hearing from you via email
[email protected] or theyankeechef.com.
Ad Deadline for February is 1/16/12
Nathaniel Bernier, owner
of Wild Rufus Records,
previously retail and now
online, has
immersed
himself in
music for
35 years,
hosting
several
radio
shows, deejaying at clubs
and parties, writing music
reviews and interviewing
artists. He lives on the coast
of Maine and continues to
live through music. wildrufus.
com; wildrufus.blogspot.com
Nathaniel Bernier
JANUARY 2012VOL. 3 • NO. 1
DISTRIBUTIONALONG THE CREATIVE COAST OF MAINE:LINCOLN, KNOX,WALDO ANDHANCOCK COUNTIES
E AT • D R I N K • P L AY • W AT C H • L I S T E N • R E A D • M A K E A R E S O L U T I O N
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the FREE!
6 TOP DISH: Moody’s Diner
7 NEW YEAR
A New Year, a Notorious Year
8 THE STORY BEHIND
the Baking Sheets
9 CAMDEN WINTERFEST
Calling all Ice Carvers
11 MUSIC SCENE
Artists in Your House
12 TOP DISH: Red Jacket Restaurant
13 PIE SCENE
Friends Don’t Let Friends Drive After Pie
14 YANKEE CHEF
Having Some Fun
16 ART SCENE: Q&A
With Artist Louise Bourne
18 ETSY? YOU BETSY!
19 ARTISTS BREATHE LIFE INTO
‘EARTH MAIDEN’ PERFORMANCES
20 KILLER PIKS
21 GOING FOR BAROQUE
An elegant reincarnation of a
vintage instrument
22 MAKING THE BEST OF THE WINTER BLUES
25 SOCIAL MEDIA MAVEN
About Those Numbers
26 TOP DRINK: Foglifters
27 WRITE SCENE
Word, Man
28 CALENDAR OF EVENTS
Things to do in January
A graduate of Siebel Institute
for Brewing Studies in Chicago,
Ruggiero worked as a consultant
across the east
coast setting
up a micro-
brewery on
Long Island, N.Y.
called James
Bay Brewing
Company. In
1995 he relocated to Rockland,
Maine to build Rocky Bay
Brewery which closed in 2007.
He is now the brewmaster at
the new Shag Rock Brewing
Company in Rockland, located at
Amalfi’s Restaurant on the water.
Richard Ruggiero
Open by Louise Bourne,
oil on linen, 36 x 24”.
Louise Bourne’s paintings hang in
public and private collections in this
country and abroad. She teaches
college level courses at Maine
Maritime Academy and from her
studio. You may learn more about
Bourne’s work at
www.louisebourne.com. She wel-
comes studio visits. Gallery 61 in
New York City, and the following
Maine galleries also represent her
work: Ten High Street, Camden;
George Marshall Store Gallery,
York; and Elizabeth
Moss Gallery, Falmouth.
[email protected] • 207.326.4277
January
On the Cover
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Q: Here are two of your photographs: “Chicken Barn and Wires” and “Roof Elephant.” What kind of mood are you going for with shots like these?
A: These wild skies fill me with
a delightful excitement of the
Kundalini kind, although some
may see them as slightly spooky
or foreboding.
Q: What drives you as an artist? A: It took half a century, through hard, even desperate, times, but I never stopped
picturing myself living in an old house, filled with love, on the beautiful coast of
Maine and expressing myself through art. Of course, it didn’t hurt that I met the
love of my life, Larason Guthrie, a world-class organic architect, and that he has
loved and encouraged me for almost two decades. We share so many interests as
well as a deep, glowing love.
Q: Do you live by a quote or motto? A: My favorite quote is: “Courage is going from failure to failure without
losing enthusiasm.” — Winston Churchill
Q: Expound upon that for others going through a similar journey as yours... but who are on the brink of losing enthusiasm.
A: No matter how many disasters I have seen my way through since leaving
an abusive home at 14, after two lost husbands and associated houses, plus
a dramatic business crash, as well as career swings (going from a Who’s Who
executive to a cleaning lady in a year), I never lost faith in myself nor my
tenacious love of life, usually not longer than 24 hours, that is. My exuberant
character does seem to require much humbling and I have embraced it at
every turn.
Susan’s work can be found at:
VoxPhotographs.com
mainephotoalliance.org
Want a chance to win a shot at The White Hot Spotlight? Like The Killer Convo on
Facebook (www.facebook.com/killerconvo) and look for the monthly photo contest:
“How Well Do You Know Midcoast Maine?”
Susan Guthrie wins The White Hot Spotlight, which focuses on
one’s creative passions. Susan is a photographer who lives in
Belfast. Her work has been featured in a dozen juried shows
in Maine, including the Center for Maine Contemporary Art, and
elsewhere in New England. A bit of her work is in private collections,
including Kepware Technologies of Portland. She is represented by
VoxPhotographs.com, also of Portland.
Q: Where is your favorite place to shoot and why? A: I shoot mostly in Waldo County and never seem to run out of light,
inside or outside. What drives me in my work is the love of capturing light
and bringing it into a form that continues to spread that light. Especially
interesting to me is how humankind’s ordinary, practical creations can
become sudden scenes of great beauty when combined with a vigorous,
living sky.
GOUACHE ON BOARD - ‘Out for a Slide’ by Grandma Moses, signed, with original artists label verso giving title and date of 1945.Also in this sale: 18th & 19th c. American and European Fine Art, American Furniture, Nautical Items, Jewelry, Fine Porcelain, Gold, Silver and Coins
US Route 1 in Thomaston, Maine 207-354-8141www.thomastonauction.com
2012Winter Fine Art & Antiques
Feature Auctionwill be held at our Galleries
SATURDAY, JANUARY 28th, 2012 - 11:00 AMSUNDAY, JANUARY 29th, 2012 - 11:00 AM
Welcome To Maine’s Best Auction Experience.Comfortable seating and delicious catering await you at our auction hall. Please call ahead (1-207-354-8141) to ensure a reserved seat. If you are unable to attend, it would be our pleasure to take your bid by phone, absentee or internet.Please review our website atwww.thomastonauction.com for a complete virtual catalog. I invite you to call our courteous and knowledgeable staff if you have any questions or email Melissa at [email protected]
spotlightWWhhiittee HotHot
By Kay Stephens
PHOTOS COURTESY OF VOXPHOTOGRAPHS.COM
The winner of “How Well Do You Know Midcoast Maine”
gets The White Hot Spotlight on The Killer Convo
as a way to profile artists in the area.
Featuring photographer Susan Guthrie
PHOTO BY: SUSAN GUTHRIE
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Happy New Year!Winter Hours
starting in JanuaryTues.-Sun. 11-8
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Reservations 236-3232
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Turkey Club
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Winter Hours
Monday - Wednesday 5 a.m. to 9 p.m. • Thursday - Saturday 5 a.m. to 10 p.m.
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A new year, a notorious year Welcome, 2012. But, what do you portend?
The masses are curious, some anxious. We hear something about Mesoamerican
calendars and apocalyptic change.
According to information gleaned at Wikipedia, 2012 will be a leap year, and
the United Nations General Assembly declared 2012 as the International Year of
Cooperatives, highlighting the contribution of cooperatives to socio-economic
development, in particular recognizing their impact on poverty reduction,
employment generation and social integration. Not to mention It has also been
designated as the International Year of Sustainable Energy for All.
Calamity thinkers point to Dec. 21, 2012 as a big end-of-the-world day, or a day
we enter a black hole, or collide, even, with an asteroid; spiritualists say the date
indicates beginning of deep human transformation.
However and whatever the new year brings, we stand ready.
We have our own thoughts about Year 2012. Here are a few predictions,
hopes and anticipatory statements.
In Year 2012, some say:
The recession will continue.
Kim Kardashian with get back with Chris Hughes.
Iraq will be a bloody mess.
North Korea’s new leader will produce a dance video that will go viral.
Pot will be legalized.
A stem cell shake that delays aging process will be formulated.
Al Gore’s Internet will crash.
The entire World Wide Webaverse will crash.
We say: Love will prevail!
call for submissionsArtists, Writers, Poets, Musicians,
Foodies, Designers, Entrepreneurs,& Backwoods Geniuses...
is accepting submissions!
Send your portfolio & profi le ideas to:[email protected]
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8 theSCENE • January 2012
The Story Behind... the Baking Sheets
By Kay Stephens
Everyone has heard the expression, “It was right under my nose the whole time.”
For Anastasia Glassman, a Midcoast creative who describes her artwork as “the
collision of many interests,” the very tools and items she worked with every day in her
catering company, Swan’s Way, were in fact, the raw materials right under her nose destined
to be the art pieces in her ongoing December show at Pascal Hall.
Several years ago, Glassman pulled out one of her battered baking pans and discovered
there was a beauty in the patina of the scorched underside. So, she used them as the
background for a series of plant photographs.
With a pile of well-used baking pans sitting in her studio, Glassman eyed them in a new
way. She saw them as blank canvases for a series of collages she wanted to make, using a
collection of old tools and scraps of metal she had amassed over the years. Attached with
heavy-duty magnets on the underside of each sheet, the result is both raw and energetic.
And it’s not just the magnets that will be drawing a crowd for this show.
Here is the Story Behind The Baking Sheets and three of her pieces currently on display.
PHOTOS BY: ANASTASIA GLASSMAN
After I sold Swan’s Way (my restaurant) in
Camden, I bought land in Lincolnville and
built my house. On the property was an old
granite quarry. The bonus was there were
lots of remnants from its days as a working
quarry. Lots of cable and gears. The metal for
the piece on the wall is from the old forge.
It was the patina of the full-size sheet pans that compelled me, but then I went to a real grungy, used
restaurant equipment store and found several of these ‘contiguous’ bread pans in the back of the place. I
found the pans very graphic. I have used them both ways: by attaching the shapes on the outside bottom of
the pans, the shapes seem to be floating; attaching them on the inside frames the shapes and confines them.
I was experimenting with ways to not have
a traditional wooden frame. On some pieces
the wooden frame gives the piece a sense of
completion and stature. But here, the
T-squares keep the rustic, rough quality that
is more appropriate to the work. You don’t
want to confine it. Keep it volatile.
Glassman’s artwork kicked off with an opening on Dec. 18.
(See by appointment.Call Pascal Hall 236-4272).
For more information about the individual
pieces, email Anastasia at [email protected]
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Calling all ice carvers W
interfest returns to the Camden Amphitheater for the 10th annual
community celebration of winter on Saturday, Jan. 28, starting at noon.
The event is presented by the Camden Public Library and the Winterfest
Committee, along with local sponsors. The parks will be filled with food, music, and
art for children of all ages.
The Winterfest Committee invites community members to try their hand at ice
carving. This year, the committee hopes to attract both professional and aspiring
artists. Any group, individual, organization, or business that would like to create a
glowing, but ephemeral, ice carving, should contact Anita Brosius-Scott at 236-9878
The committee urges early sign-ups as ice is limited. The Winterfest Committee
provides ice-carving tools or take one’s own. There will be an ice-carving
demonstration and workshop with master carver Tim Pierce on Jan. 15. The cost for
a block of ice is $50. In addition to the one-day winter celebration, the Winterfest
committee has again collaborated with the Friends of the Amphitheatre Ice Rink to
present outdoor skating to Camden all winter long. The free public ice rink will be
constructed in the Camden Amphitheatre. If the weather cooperates, the rink will
be constructed before Christmas, and filled and frozen by New Year’s Day. Ice skate
rental will be available at Maine Sport in the Camden downtown.
With or without snow, families are encouraged to go and play, skate, and enjoy
Camden’s downtown public parks. Winter indoor crafts and face painting are offered
free of charge to the younger set in the Picker Room of the Camden Public Library.
The warm rotunda of the library hosts live music by All That Jazz, and there will be
live music outdoors organized by John Orlando of Grand Banks Entertainment. On
Atlantic Avenue, a merry band of culinary volunteers serve a variety of delicious hot
soups and light snacks donated by local restaurants.
For more information: winterfest.mycamdenmaine.com.
Working on a peace sign ice carving in 2011 for Ashwood Waldorf School are, from left, Ian McBride, Savannah Berryman-Mave, Emma Cloyd and Abigail Matlack. PHOTO BY: KIM LINCOLN
Hockey Molly Bhudda was carved in memory of Molly Fitch at the eighth annual Wintefest in 2010 at the Camden Ampitheatre PHOTO BY: LYNDA CLANCY
sceneIceCamden Winterfest set for Jan. 28
10 theSCENE • January 2012
sceneMusic
Artists in Your House!
Last month, I wrote about how, if
you don’t like what you hear on
the radio, you can change it by
hosting your own radio show on WRFR
in Rockland (wrfr.org).
So now let’s talk about what you can do if
you love live music but none of the local
venues book the acts you’d like to see.
It’s simple: If you love live music and
want to be involved with artists you can
host a House Concert.
As the economy has tightened up and
club gigs for so many acoustic musicians
have gone away the House Concert has
become a staple for traveling artists.
There are nationwide networks that
have developed to pair up artists and
hosts and it has become even a more
important booking than clubs for many
singer-songwriters.
I spoke to Jeff Robertson from
concertsinyourhome.com, one of the
networks that helps pair up artists
and hosts to learn more about this
wonderful idea.
At the simplest level, the now
established normal practice is to invite
an artist to play acoustically (no sound
system needed) for a group of friends
in your home. The host provides a
guest bedroom for an overnight stay,
usually dinner and breakfast the next
morning, a place to perform and an
invited audience, somewhere usually
in the range of 20 to 35 guests. The
artist will play two sets of music,
perhaps 45 minutes each with a
break between. Depending on the
schedule, the dinner can be before the
performance or after. It can even be
a potluck and a time where the artist
and the guests get to mingle.
The house concerts are invitation only,
not advertised; instead of ticket sales
the guests make a donation to the
artist. Depending on the artist and
the booking the donations can be as
little as $12 to sometimes $50 for more
established artists. The average for a
talented but up-and-coming artist is
perhaps $15.
All the donation money is given to the
artists. The hosts do not receive any
income. That way, there are no taxes,
fees or royalties (ASCAP or BMI, etc.) due
and that keeps the process simple and
easy for the hosts.
The Concerts In Your Home website
was started by a traveling musician,
Fran Snyder, more than four years ago
as a way to make the touring process
so much easier for artists and people
wanting to book their own house
concerts. Checking the website — they
have three hosts listed for the state of
Maine at the moment — I’m sure they
would love to have more.
Barnaby Bright (a husband and wife
duo on my Mishara Music label,
barnabybright.com, whose latest CD
has been chosen by Amazon.com as
one of their “Amazon Picks: the 100 Best
Albums of 2011”) have been working
with the network for a while (in 2010
they were voted second most popular
artist on the site) and Nathan says: “We
love doing house concerts. For one, at
this level it’s all acoustic. We use two
guitars, a banjo, a harmonium, baritone
ukulele, tenor ukulele, clarinet, and an
assortment of rhythm instruments.
“In an intimate acoustic setting we
don’t have to worry about hooking
everything up to a sound system that
often doesn’t work correctly. The direct
contact with the audience makes for a
great listening situation.
“The house concert also makes touring
viable for artists. You can actually make
more money and avoid tacky hotel
rooms and noisy clubs and make deep
personal connections with people, the
best way to build a fan base. It’s also
By Marc Ratner
Sara Willis’ Album Picks from ‘In Tune By Ten’ on MBPN
Sara really loves Kathleen Edwards new
album “Voyageur”. She says the
album has spectacular songwriting and
working with producer Justin Vernon
(aka Bon Iver) has given this album a deeper
richer sound to match Kathleen’s songs and
singing. She also said it was impossible to
choose an album of the year but suggested,
under protest, that these five albums spent
more time in her personal player this year
than many others:
1. Dolorean, The Unfazed
2. Blitzen Trapper, American Goldwing
3. Beirut, The Rip Tide
4. Tedeschi Trucks Band, Revelator
5. Raphael Saadiq, Stone Rollin’
Denis Howard’s Album Picks from WERU
Denis mentioned that there’s been a resurgence
around the WERU shows for airplay on “Boogie
4 Stu - A Tribute To Ian Stewart” by Ben Waters.
When it first was released earlier this year it
was overshadowed by so many other releases
but now has been rediscovered by the staff. If
you don’t know, Ian Stewart was the longtime
keyboard player for the Rolling Stones who was
asked by their first management and record company to step down from being an
actual member of the band because they felt a piano player didn’t fit the look and
marketing for the band in those British Invasion days. But he worked with the band
for the rest of his life and if you ever saw them in concert and there was a piano
player on stage... that was Ian.
Denis said the first record that came to mind
as album of the year at WERU was the Gillian
Welch release “The Harrow And The Harvest”. It’s
a record that’s made the best of lists all over the
country for 2011, and deservedly so.
Music picks this month:
Marc Ratner Continued Page 11
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our audience. We reach people who
don’t ever go to clubs, would never
go to clubs, but love our music. Artists
sacrifice a lot to play music – often no
kids, no fancy houses, no safe careers
– it’s a way to enjoy how the other half
lives and share some special moments
together. We’ve made lifelong friends
this way.”
I also spoke to an artist agent (as their
popularity grows artists are represented
by booking agents to arrange their
touring dates), Amanda Case at AIC
Entertainment, who has been booking
artists for 25 years. She loves house
concerts and often books them for the
acts she represents.
She says most agents work with the
more established house concert hosts,
some who have been doing it for 15
years or more and have moved beyond
the starter website networks and deal
with agents and more established
artists directly.
The artists, “concerts-in-your-home”
people and agents are all looking
for the committed music people
who want to book house concerts
on a regular basis. The key is that
they love music, love meeting the
artists, are willing to share their home
for performances in an intimate
environment and have a network of
friends that will support the shows by
attending.
Some even grow from presenting in
their the living rooms to presenting
at various public venues. The
“Concertsinyourhome” website can
connect you to other websites that can
help you make that move.
And don’t just think houses.
Bob Tassi, skipper of the schooner
Timberwind (schoonertimberwind.com),
which sails out of Rockport Harbor, had
two boat concerts last summer. One
was for three days and the other a four-
day cruise, during which there were a
number of performances over the sailing
trip and the guests had time to bond
with the artist. Bob worked for years
in the music business in Nashville and
says that this is a way for him to help
support artists and also distinguish the
Timberwind from the other wonderful
vessels that sail the Midcoast. He plans
on doing three more music performance
sailing trips this coming summer.
There are no rigid rules for doing a
house concert. If you love live music
and want to get involved there’s a way
to do it.
Check out the websites I’ve listed
or email me. I’d be glad to help you
further the availability of live music on
the Midcoast.
I wish you all a musical new year!
Marc
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In today’s poem Elizabeth Tibbetts of Hope proves that warmth and love are possible even in a cold Maine winter.
Coming HomeBy Elizabeth Tibbetts
Oh, God, the full-faced moon is smiling at mein his pink sky, and I’m alive, alive(!)and driving home to you and our new refrigerator.A skin of snow shines on the mountain beyond Burger Kingand this garden of wires and poles and lighted signs.Oh, I want to be new, I want to be the girl I saw����������������� ���������� �������������������as they traveled down to pick at her hem.She was younger than I’ve ever been, with hair cropped,ragged clothes, and face as clear as a child’s.She read as though she were in bed, eyes half closed,teeth glistening, her shimmering body writtenbeneath her dress. She held every man in the audiencetaut, and I thought of you. Now I’m coming homedressed in my sensible coat and shoes, my purseand a bundle of groceries beside me. When I arrivewe’ll open the door of our Frigidarie�������������������������������������������little box, set eggs in their hollows, slip meatsand greens into separate drawers, and pausein the newness of the refrigerator’s lightwhile beside us, through the window,������������������������������ �����������
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event. Move aside Mom’s apple pie, Rockland’s
inns and restaurants will serve up everything
from Shepherds Pie and a number of gourmet
pizza pies to sweet and savory Italian Galettes,
seafood pies, Whoopie Pies and the signature
Key LimeRock Pie at the LimeRock Inn.
For those who still love the age-old favorites;
look for apple, raspberry and blueberry pie
along with savory egg pies at the Berry Manor
Inn and a newly developed cranberry apple pie
and a delicious crab quiche at the Granite Inn.
Captain Lindsey House will serve its signature
Cornish meat pasties, too. Rockland businesses
have added healthy pies to the list. Last year,
Fiore Oil served up a beautiful pie with healthy
olive oil and in the past Rheal Day Spa served
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Now that the holidays are over and
the New Year is beginning, let’s see
what we can do with that leftover
rum, vodka, tequila and beer, shall we?
But before we do, many of us made New
Year’s resolutions. While some may abstain
from smoking and others diet, many more
of us will want to renew hope, vigor and
compromise with our other half.
Before we can do that, however, we need
to better understand our significant other.
The Yankee Chef can help. Here are a few
things we need to know about each other.
Men, we need to know that when women
say “yes,” it really means “no.”
“No” means “yes.”
“Maybe” means “no” and “I’m sorry” means
“you’ll be sorry.”
When they say “We need,” that means “I
want” and when they ask “Was that the
baby?” it means, “Why don’t you get out
of bed and walk him until he goes back to
sleep?”
Women, when us men say, “Can we help
with dinner?” it really means “Why isn’t it
already on the table?”
If we say “it would take too long to explain”
it means “I have no idea how it works.”
When a man says “take a break, honey, you
are working too hard” We mean, “I can’t
hear the game over the vacuum cleaner.”
And lastly, when we say “What did I do this
time?” it really means “what did you catch
me doing this time?”
Let’s cook!
Beer Brats 2 lbs. bratwurst
2 pints stout beer
10 buns
Sauerkraut
Dijon mustard
In large heavy-bottomed pot, combine
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medium-high heat. Reduce heat and
simmer for 30 minutes. Remove brats
from pot and saute for 10 to 15 minutes,
turning every five minutes, in a large
nonstick skillet over medium heat,
covered. Place one brat in each bun. Top
with desired amount of sauerkraut and
mustard and serve immediately.
Penne with Vodka Sauce 1 quart tomato sauce
1 c. vodka
1/2 c. heavy cream, at room temperature
1/2 c. grated Parmesan
1 lb. penne
Simmer the tomato sauce and vodka
in a heavy, large skillet over low heat
until the mixture reduces by one
quarter. Stir often, about 20 minutes.
Stir the cream into the tomato and
vodka sauce. Simmer over low heat
until the sauce is heated through. Stir
in the Parmesan cheese until melted
and well-blended.
Meanwhile, cook the pasta in a large
pot of boiling salted water until al
dente, tender but still firm to the
bite, stirring occasionally, about eight
minutes. Drain the pasta and transfer it
to the pan with the sauce, and toss to coat.
Skillet Steaks with Whiskey Pan Sauce 2 steaks, about 1 ½ to 2 inches thick
Vegetable oil
Salt and pepper
2 T. butter or margarine
1 T. Worcestershire sauce
1/2 c. bourbon whiskey
Heat a large skillet over high heat until
very hot, about 10 minutes. Generously
rub steaks with oil and sprinkle with salt
and pepper. Cook steaks one at a time.
Sear steak on one side, about five minutes.
Flip and cook an additional five minutes
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Remove the steak from the skillet and
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Repeat with the second steak and keep
warm. Melt the butter in the skillet, stir
in the Worcestershire sauce and whiskey.
Bring to a boil and cook about two
minutes. Slice steaks, if desired. Pour sauce
over steaks and serve immediately.
Tequila-Lime Wings 2 lbs. precut chicken wings
1/2 c. tequila
1/4 c. frozen orange juice concentrate
Grated zest of 1 lime
Juice of 2 limes
2 cloves garlic, minced
1/2 t. ground cumin
1 t. black pepper
1 t. salt
1 T. dried cilantro or 2 T. freshly chopped
cilantro
Wash the wings, pat dry and place in a
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bag. In a small bowl, combine the tequila,
orange juice concentrate, lime zest, lime
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cilantro. Pour the marinade over the wings
in the bag. Seal the bag and refrigerate
several hours or overnight.
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Artist Louise Bourne Captures the Light Did you grow up in Maine and study art here? What brought you to Blue Hill / the Maine Coast?
My mother’s mother’s family was from Castine for
many generations. My mom became a summer person,
and we spent as much time each summer in Castine
as we could. The light bouncing off the water and
reverberating everywhere, the sound of lobsterboats
in the early morning, all forms of rock and water, the
brogue of the voices, and the color of damp moss
are probably my deepest memories. These things are
all woven into family love and being compelled to
create. But I am not a native Mainer. The rest of the
year, my family lived near New York City and later in
Washington, D.C., where I regularly went to museums.
The whole world of making images and sculptures
felt familiar, exciting and reassuring to me from a
young age. I loved the beautifully illustrated children’s
books my author mother was able to borrow from
the bookstores where she worked. I spent my senior
year of high school at the Chewonki Foundation in
Wiscasset, and tried liberal arts college, but transferred
to the Portland School of Art, now Maine College of
Art. I came to the Blue Hill Peninsula to work at Horse
Power Farm, and was lucky enough to become the
kindergarten teacher at the Bay School. This area has
been my home base, throughout travels and getting an
MFA from University of Michigan, ever since.
Who are your mentors?
My teachers at PSA were incredible. Margot Trout, Ed
Douglas, Johnnie Ross, Joe Guertin, Veronica Benning.
They were so dedicated to this language they were
teaching us: the language of drawing, color, design,
and working the three-way process of the observed
motif, the easel and one’s eyes and heart. It was much
more demanding than college. I learned how to work
in art school. Other mentors are the artists I’ve seen in
museums and books. I remember the absolute magic,
as a little girl, of seeing a Monet garden path painting.
From across the hall, it was a clearly represented image;
close up it was paint. I loved the paint. I love and look
most at: Italian early Renaissance painting, Rembrandt
— who can only be appreciated in real life — Vermeer,
Chardin, Morandi, Bonnard, the California painters:
Elmer Bischoff and Richard Diebenkorn (my teacher Ed
Douglas’ teacher) and Joan Mitchell. I’m sure Robert
McCloskey’s iconic “Time of Wonder” influenced me,
and I’m sure I’m leaving a lot out.
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Ten years ago you were creating ceramic tile installations, how did that work develop and inform your current painting process?
I did the tile murals and some hand-
built ceramic pieces because I loved the
architectural qualities — the way the
imagery bonds to the structure, sort of
like fresco does. I saw the murals as a
way to do large, narrative work with a
kind of imagery that didn’t interest me
to do in regular painting. During that
time, there were a lot of “One Percent
for Art” projects, so I could make money
doing them. I liked working with the
school communities that commissioned
the murals. It was really good at the
time, but I grew tired of the technical
challenges and wanted to get back to
painting from observation with oils.
At the same time, I stopped getting
the commissions, so it all worked out.
I’m very grateful to the Maine Arts
Commission for that program, as it
gave me great opportunities and
supported me. To tell you the truth, I
don’t know how those projects affect
my current work.
You are showing pastel drawings now, are these studies for paintings?
The fall of 2010, I was invited to a one-
week artists retreat on Islesboro, and was
accepted to do a two-week residency
at the Heliker Lahotan Foundation on
Great Cranberry Island. I wanted to take
a different media with me so I’d get
away from the norm. So, I brought the
oil pastels. I’m used to mixing the color
I want on my palette. With pastels, I had
to find the stick closest to what I want,
and then do the mixing on the paper.
That was a huge difference to me, and
took awhile to get used to, and was
frustrating and fun all at the same time.
I like how it’s easier to make and retain
drawing-like marks with the pastels than
with paint, while still dealing entirely
with color relationships.
I had a large one-person show at the
Newton Free Library Gallery in Newton,
Mass., last June. I worked with a curator
who suggested showing the works on
paper along with canvases, so I framed
the pastels. And now I show them.
Though the pastels certainly feed
canvas paintings, I don’t see them,
nor the watercolors I do, as studies for
other works. I feel like once something
has been resolved, no matter what the
medium or size, then why replicate
it? I see all the work as a continuum.
One thing leads to something else. For
me, painting is about getting the right
color in the right place. It’s a response
to situations of color light and all the
intricacies of color interaction. I get
my stimulus from direct observation,
though I may work in the studio
from memory and from drawings,
watercolors, and other paintings. It
sounds like such a dry definition of
painting, but through this language,
so much emotion, sensuality, narrative
— so much of the human experience
— resonates. If I think about trying
to convey those things — emotions
— it doesn’t work; if I think of what
color where; the experience and the
end product are better. It’s endlessly
fascinating. I mean, you can have no
idea what to paint one day, but put
a yellow pear in a yellow bowl, or a
red apple on a blue striped cloth, and
whammo! There’s a whole series of
intriguing relationships to deal with
and a series of paintings emerges that
leads to something else.
Can you tell us about the painting on the cover, “Open?”
“Open” is part of what I call, for lack of
a better word, the Gray Series. While
at the Heliker Lahotan Foundation
on Great Cranberry, the drama of the
October ocean/sky got me interested
in less color and more grays and
blacks. Later in the month, I saw a
show of early 1900s photographs
at the Philips Collection, in D.C.,
particularly those of Alvin Coburn.
I fell in love with the creamy paper
and the cooler gray of the ink printed
on top. Back in my studio, I started
making paintings using my memory of
this palette. I made the first painting
directly from a large charcoal drawing
done on Great Cranberry. The others
are from small sketches I did while
sitting outside in the snow. I’d always
mixed my own blacks, but had fun
experimenting with different pre-
mixed blacks. Straight blacks are so
yummy and greasy, and they vary
so much when you add white: some
are warm; some cool. Then I can
further tweak with other colors. I love
using the drama of the black and the
subtleties of warm and cool grays.
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Volly, oil on panel, 12x12
Thrumbcap, oil pastel on paper, 9x12”
I have to be sure to take time each summer to lie on rocks that are so hot from the sun my skin can barely stand it,
then go swimming in the bay, then lie on the rocks again. It’s like taking Nature in through the skin to the bone.
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presence other than Etsy (etsy.com),
which is like an online open craft fair
that allows users to sell vintage items,
handmade items that are modified, as
well as unique (sometimes downright
wacky) handcrafted art.
Meet Bar Harbor artist Jennifer Steen
Booher, of the Etsy Shop Quercus
Design. A self-described hoarder of
quirky objects, Jennifer said: “I’m part
magpie, part squirrel, part scientist,
and part historian. I find things, hoard
them, take them apart, and research
them. Sometimes I reassemble them,
and sometimes I make new things from
the bits.”
Jennifer’s original fine art photograph
might strike a chord. If you were a
child in the 1970s, you will instantly
remember these vintage Fisher Price
Little People.
Said Jennifer: “These are my very own
Fisher Price people, with the marks
of my milk teeth where I gnawed the
mom’s ponytail. I’ve been an artist as
long as I can remember, although I’ve
danced between media over the years.
For a long time I made assemblages,
and hoarded all sorts of odd bits and
pieces to use in them. I’ve also been
beach-combing since I moved to
Mount Desert Island in 1997, and, being
a curious sort, have gradually been
learning more about the marine life and
the flotsam that I find.
“Back in early 2010, I had to photograph
my overflowing collection of sea glass
in order to sell off some of it. I quickly
became fascinated with arranging the
pieces, then obsessed with improving
my photography skills to capture all the
detail and texture that I find so intriguing.
I was trying to achieve a scientific level of
clarity and documentation. By the end of
the year I had begun to develop a very
modern style of still life around my beach-
combing finds.
“I’ve begun to apply the techniques
to my other collections to document
things that intrigue me: It is a very
personal obsession, and there may not
be any overarching meaning to it. On
the other hand, these photographs
appeal to a lot of other people, and
I suspect that my formal, organized
and clinically-lit objects are triggering
memories for all of us. There’s often
a physical start of recognition when
people see them. Almost everyone
who has been to a beach has gathered
a handful of odds and ends that gave
them pleasure. Most people have a
small stash of their childhood toys for
the same reason. Oddly enough, in
spite of my attempts to develop a quasi-
scientific documentation, I think these
photos end up being as much about
nostalgia for the viewer as they are
about my own curiosity.”
To learn where to get this photograph,
visit Jennifer’s Etsy shop at
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‘Rainbow People’ PHOTO BY: JENNIFER BOOHER
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By Daniel Dunkle
“It’s about awakening reverence
for the Earth,” said Camden
artist and playwright Kathryn
Oliver, founder and codirector
of Terra Diddle Collective.
Oliver, an artist who has worked
in several mediums ranging from
painting to theater, said she draws
inspiration from the universal images,
stories and elements of myth. She
noted that her stories, like those of
myth, are about the eternal struggle
between light and darkness.
She and the other collaborators in
the Terra Diddle Collective have
recently brought these ideas to
performances of “The Earth Maiden,”
a story told through a combination
of music, dance and stunning visual
elements including large puppets.
Recent performances have
included 30 children and 14 adults
at the Rockport Opera House.
Oliver said the story of “The Earth
Maiden” mirrors the dark times we
are in and the state of the planet. She
said the story reminds us that life is
sustained through the health of the
Earth by evoking a being, “The Earth
Maiden,” which is filled with love.
Oliver said people have strong
responses to this kind of material
and some even told her they
wept during the performance.
The puppets employed in the
performances are made with silk
and fabric and are manipulated by
the players with bamboo sticks.
Oliver noted that silk naturally
Artists Breathe Life into ‘Earth Maiden’ Performances
moves in a way that brings the puppet to life.
Set pieces and puppets have also been designed
using material the collective received from Moss, Inc.
Oliver likes bringing puppets into the
performances because watching them is,
for many, an uncommon experience.
“It’s so delightful to have giant, imaginative
images come forward,” she said.
Kristi Williamson, a theater teacher, singer/
songwriter and choreographer, has worked with
Oliver in these creations. Williamson studied
musical theater at Syracuse University, according
to the Terra Diddle Collective website.
Oliver explains that the name of the collective
is taken from an English phrase meaning
that what you see is not all there is.
“In art we lift the veil,” she said.
The artist momentarily takes the viewer out
of the hard-edged limitations of the fact-
based world and shows them the vastness of
the imaginative landscape, she explains.
The very format of the performances helps in this
effort. Instead of merely engaging sight with a piece
of visual art or hearing with a musical performance,
these shows of dance, music and bright color offer a
full-sensory experience, she explained. In addition, in
using both children and adults in the performances,
they become multi-generational pieces.
The collective will be performing at the Camden
Opera House on Martin Luther King Jr. Day
weekend, first at 6 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 14, and then
for a matinee at 2 p.m. Jan. 16. Tickets are available
at HAV II in Camden or by contacting Oliver at
[email protected] or 593-2677.
Terra Diddle Collective partners with fiscal sponsor
Waldo Arts Mission, a 501(C)3, to help make
workshops/performances affordable and cover
production costs; and is underwritten by business
sponsor Camden Real Estate. For more information,
call 593-2677; send email to kathryn@kathrynoliver.
com; or visit terradiddlecollective.com.
For information on how to help support this effort,
visit kickstarter.com/projects/kathrynandkristi/terra-
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PHOTO BY: AMY WILTON
PHOTO BY: AMY WILTON
PHOTO BY: AMY WILTON
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WINTER: FIVE WINDOWS ON THE SEASON
January is all about Adam Gopnik’s “Winter: Five
Windows on the Season.” I started reading this as we
shifted out of that final, unexpected burst of warm
weather in December, and so far it’s been a good way
to prepare my mind for the oncoming season.
Gopnik, a “New Yorker” regular, tells the story of
winter in five parts: Romantic Winter, Radical Winter,
Recuperative Winter, Recreational Winter, and
Remembering Winter. Just a little way into Romantic
Winter, I was already looking at the season with a little
more of a long view: how recently in human history,
for example, it is that we’ve been able to look out at winter, create reliable
barriers of warmth to escape the harsh season? And did you know there
was a mini-ice age from about 1500-1800? The cold we think of as cold now
is nothing compared to what it was just a few hundred years ago, and that
makes me extra grateful for monitor heaters and wood stoves and heating
pads. Oh, and whiskey.
Beginners reviewed by Tiffany Howard
From Mike Mills, the director of the enjoyably offbeat
film Thumbsucker (2005) comes Beginners , a heartfelt
dramedy about life and death, love and sex, family
and humanity. Ewan McGregor plays 38-year-old artist
Oliver Fields who, in the wake of his father’s death,
embarks on a relationship with French actress Anna
(Melanie Laurent). This love story unfolds as Oliver
remembers his father, Hal (Christopher Plummer), who,
following the death of his wife of 44 years, reveals to
his son that he is gay and, in his last years, has lived a vibrant and happy
life. Hal’s transformation inspires Oliver to examine his own hopes and fears
when it comes to love. Based on the director’s actual experience with his
father, the film is crafted with an earnest tenderness often missing from
mainstream movies and is further elevated by the strong performances of
its lead players, particularly Plummer. If nothing else melts your heart in this
moving film, surely Arthur will, the lovable Jack Russell terrier Hal leaves
Oliver; he is both adorable and wise beyond his species!
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Going for Baroque: An elegant reincarnation of a vintage instrument
The Northeast Harbor Library’s
French double-manual
harpsichord is one of the finest
examples of its kind, according to
Northeast Harbor resident Edith
Dunham, who is one of the area’s most
knowledgeable people on the subject.
“If you wanted to go out and buy one
of the best harpsichords around, this is
definitely one of the best. The library is
very lucky,” said Dunham.
Dunham has a master’s degree in early
music from the Longy School of Music
in Cambridge, Mass.
Dunham grew up with a harpsichord
in her childhood home and, she said,
she has always loved Baroque music.
With two small children, she said,
she has not had a chance to practice
or perform much, except that she
recently began to air out the Northeast
Harbor Library’s harpsichord during
the library’s monthly, off-season First
Friday Coffeehouse.
“The thing I like about the harpsichord
is the Baroque music,” she said. “I don’t
like classical or Romantic music. You
can’t play Beethoven on harpsichord.”
Donated to the library about 10
years ago by a resident, David
Hibbs Donnan, the instrument was
built in 1990 by the Boston, Mass.,
manufacturer Hubbard and Broekman.
The partnership broke up, said
Dunham, and Hubbard remains as one
of the main harpsichord builders in
America.
“Harpsichords are still built all the
time,” she said. “This one is modeled
after an 18th century French
harpsichord. ‘Double-manual’ means
it has two keyboards. That was very
common.”
The instrument’s sound is made when
the player depresses a key. The key lifts
a “jack,” which used to be a long strip
of wood but is now generally made of
plastic. The jack plucks a long string,
whose vibrations are enriched by a
soundboard.
Dunham demonstrated the workings
of the jacks, which are associated
with how individual strings are
struck by the keys on the twin
keyboards. Each jack, about 2 inches
long and slender as a reed, was
outfitted with tiny quills, which pluck
the string; and felt, which dampen
the vibration when the key reaches
its resting position. The strings can
be struck individually or in “choirs,”
and their tonal qualities and volume
can be affected depending on
whether one or both keyboards are
used.
“The keyboards have different sounds,”
she said. “You have options.”
Three strings are associated with each
note — two 8-foot-long strings and
one 4-foot-long string. The 4-foot
string is an octave higher than the 8-
foot string.
“So you could play them all at once
to have a loud sound, or you could
pull out the top keyboard so the top
keyboard is only playing the front
eight and the bottom keyboard is
playing the back eight, and that’s a
slightly different sound,” she said. “You
move a little lever to bring the four
into action. Usually you play the four
with both of the eights. The two eights
would be coupled, and then you add
the four. Adding the four adds volume
and richness to the sound. It’s for
lively, usually fast, triumphant pieces.”
Each keyboard might have a different
feel or mood, she said.
“I choose the front eight on that
harpsichord because the action is
better and it’s easier to do trills,” she
said.
Donnan had the instrument built
for his wife, Libby. Its decoration is
distinguished by a large painting of
their home on the underside of the
lid. Also eye-catching is the gold
nameplate of the manufacturer,
embedded in the soundboard and
surrounded by a wreath of flowers.
“Lots of new harpsichords are being
made all the time,” Dunham said.
“There’s an early music festival in
Boston every other year and they
have a whole floor of a hotel with
new harpsichords. There’s definitely
a strong early-music niche. Boston
is really good for early music. San
Francisco is really good for early
music.”
The library’s harpsichord is maintained
by Bill Dowling of Great Cranberry
Island, who once built harpsichords.
Dunham said that, so far, she is
probably the only musician to use it
regularly.
“To me, with Romantic music, it seems
like the emotion is being forced on
you,” she said. “It‘s not like you’re in
the woods and you’re looking at a
beautiful tree and thinking, ‘Wow,
look at the wood and the moss and all
those details.’ Instead, Romantic music
is like being in kind of a schmaltzy
garden. It’s too forced. With Baroque
music, it seems like it allows you to
have your own feelings about music.
And also, in Baroque music, there’s
more freedom in how you want to
play it. There are no indications on
the music about how to play it. If you
look at a classical piece by Beethoven,
it will tell you the tempo exactly. It
will say ‘soft’ here then swell and get
loud there — really specific ways of
playing.”
Edith Dunham says the French double-manual harpsichord at the Northeast Harbor Library is one of the finest of its kind. It features a painting of the house of the original owner, David Hibbs Donnan, who donated the instrument to the library. PHOTO BY: LAURIE SCHREIBER
Embedded in the soundboard, the gleaming nameplate of the harpsichord manufacturer Hubbard and Broekman is surrounded by paintings of flowers, seagulls, dragonflies and other details. PHOTO BY: LAURIE SCHREIBER
Tuning pins are embedded in a frieze of flowers. PHOTO BY: LAURIE SCHREIBER
By Laurie Schreiber
22 theSCENE • January 2012
Making the best of the winter blues
Workin’ up a sweat at the
Midcoast’s many summer
music festivals is a dim
memory come mid-winter, but the
annual Dam Jam helps revive the vibe
just when it’s needed most. This year’s
blues jam, a spin-off of the Dam Blues
Fest, is set for Saturday, Jan. 7 from 3
to 8 p.m. at the Wells Hussey American
Legion Post 42, Main Street/Business
Route 1.
“Every year it grows bigger and better,”
said organizer Paul Sidelinger about
both the winter jam and the summer
fest.
The Dam Blues Fest and Pub Crawl is
held on the first Saturday of August
and brings national and regional blues
musicians to Damariscotta for a full
day of music followed by an evening
of club shows. The need to keep the
blues alive year-round is addressed
not only by the Dam Jam, but also
by third-Sunday-of-the-month blues
shows at the downtown Damariscotta
River Grille, beginning its third year
this month.
While the Midcoast has quite a
contingent of adult blues fans, the
Dam Jam is aimed at encouraging the
genre’s next generation of followers.
Net proceeds from the Dam Jam are
earmarked for a local student who
plans to continue his or her musical
education. Sidelinger admits he tends
to lean towards blues players, but that
he knows he needs to stretch that a
bit.
This year’s recipient is Lincoln
Academy senior Nick Phinney, who
started playing the tuba in fifth grade
and the bass guitar in seventh. A first-
and second-chair veteran of the All
State and District III competitions,
Phinney toured Western Europe last
summer with the John Philip Sousa
International Honors Band. He also
performed the blues with last year’s
Dam Jam break-out act, the Ben Chute
Blues Band.
The Dam Jam funds can be used
for college application fees and/
or music lessons. Last year’s
winner was teen Ben Chute, an
aspiring guitarist from Nobleboro;
his eponymous band made its
first ever public performance at
the 2011 Dam Jam. Kevin Kimball,
co-founder of the Maine Blues
Festival, was in the audience
and invited the young combo
to perform at that June’s Maine
Blues Festival in Naples. It was
their first paying gig but not their
last. The band also played the
Dam Blues Fest, as well as some
weddings and private parties.
The Ben Chute Blues Band
will open this year’s Dam Jam,
followed by Jacks and Aces,
whose rhythm section is held
down by Zack Pomerleau.
Pomerleau “won” the 2010 Dam
Jam; shortly thereafter, he and
his band won the Maine Blues
Society’s annual Road to Memphis
contest and went on to represent
Maine at the International Blues
Challenge in Memphis, Tenn.
Headlining this year’s Dam
Jam as he did last year is
Boston’s Racky Thomas, who is
becoming a perennial favorite in
Damariscotta. He will be backed
by some of Maine’s well-known
bluesmen including Stevo Bailey
(from Black Cat Road) on guitar,
Don Whitcomb on stand-up bass,
Bub Lynch on drums and Dave
Wells on sax. Vince Gabriel of
Blind Albert Sound and Recording
will provide the sound and mixing
engineering.
Thomas, a former Boston Blues
Society winner, will rock the
icicles with his Chicago/swing
jump style of blues. The Berklee
grad has performed in Asia,
Europe and all over the United
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Boston bluesman Racky Thomas heads back to Damariscotta this month for the fourth annual Dam Jam.
States and has opened and
played with some of the best.
The Racky Thomas Band has
been a torchbearer for the
blues since its formation in
1995. The crowd-pleasing
band is known for its
authentic and energetic
interpretations of traditional
blues and the down-home feel
of its original compositions.
Thomas also has been
pursuing a solo acoustic career
highlighting his Delta country
blues influences … one of the
things that keeps drawing
him back to Damariscotta,
however, is a pursuit of a
different sort.
“He’s a great guy, and
Damariscotta is one of his
favorite stops. The secret to
getting these performers
to come here? I take ‘em
all lobstering, and we hit a
swimming hole where they
can swing from a rope,” said
Sidelinger.
One regular Dam Blues
performer, JP Soars, whose
band, along with Thomas’,
played the 2011 fest, even
tried his hand at emptying a
lobster trap last summer, but
a close call with a master claw
put an end to that.
“He decided, as a guitar player,
maybe he should keep his
fingers away from lobsters,”
said Sidelinger.
Admission to the fourth
annual Dam Jam is $10 for
adults, $5 for students, at
the door. Damariscotta River
Grille, King Eider’s Pub,
Newcastle Publick House, the
Narrows Tavern and Annie
O’Rourke’s will supply their
delicious wares; and Geary’s
Brewing of Portland will bring
some great tasting brews to
town. There will be CDs, T-
shirts and other merchandise
for sale, as well as door prizes,
a 50/50 raffle, meet-and-
greets and more. Sidelinger
said the American Legion
Hall is a great facility for this
event.
“It’ll be a blast. All you need
is a blues attitude and some
dancing shoes,” he said.
For more information
about the Dam Jam and the
upcoming fifth annual Dam
Blues Fest, visit dambluesfest.
com.
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You teach painting privately and at Maine Maritime Academy, where you received a faculty grant to travel to Rome this year. How has this trip influenced you?
Yes, I teach a drawing class at Maine
Maritime Academy, and college-like
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people.
Yes, and MMA paid for me to go to Rome
for a week in October. Incredible. So
much beauty and so many astonishing
structures and surfaces, spanning all
the ages of human history. What is
there not to love of Michelangelo? The
trip also raised interest in Raphael and
his predecessors. I’ve never been a big
Caravaggio fan, but a St. Matthew cycle
of three paintings blew me away for
the color light, empty spaces and facial
expressions. The older stuff that I knew
I’d love — the transition from Medieval to
Renaissance in some of the churches —
most got my heart. But I was not prepared
for The Belvedere torso — the most
phenomenal sculpture I’ve ever seen. It’s
got the impact of the David though it’s
only a torso. I feel trite writing about this,
because it’s such a sensual experience. I
certainly have some painting ideas from
the trip, but since I’m not doing them yet,
I hesitate to talk about them. I’m not sure
what influence Rome will have except that
I want to return!
How do you stay energized and inspired as a full-time artist/teacher and mother?
EEks, be careful about this question —
would you ask it of a man? Well, OK, I’m
not a man! But they should be asked it
also! Being a mother and being a painter
are similar in that there’s always this other
thing you care about, obsess about and
want to be doing things for. It’s not really
a job you can leave. Always fascinating,
always changing.
I get a lot of energy and influence from
the work itself, and by seeing what
other people make, by life itself — being
outside, watching people — and the
astonishing beauty of Nature.
I have to be sure to take time each
summer to lie on rocks that are so hot
from the sun my skin can barely stand it,
then go swimming in the bay, then lie on
the rocks again. It’s like taking Nature in
through the skin to the bone. For a few
days each summer, I get away from the
phone, computer, demands of a house
and to an island. All the better if the food
is good, and I don’t have to make it.
And, to put it crudely, this is my profession.
I haven’t found another way to make a
living. The sculptor Clark Fitzgerald was
a neighbor and family friend in Castine.
A sign on his studio wall read, “When my
work stops, so does my income.”
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Sometimes a story will literally cross my path when
least expected. That’s exactly what happened one
recent evening sitting at Rock City Café when a
young guy in his mid-20s with a flop of curly hair and
a nerved-up expression motioned to one of the Rock
City employees: “Is it okay? Now?”
I could tell he was about to make an announcement
to the patrons of the café, which I thought had been
preplanned — as if he were the hired entertainment.
But it soon became clear that something was about
to happen. With soft-spoken reticence, he announced
over the bustle of quiet conversation and spoons
clanking on cups that he was about to do a spoken-
word poem in the alley if anyone cared to see it.
Maybe three people got up to follow him. I shrugged.
“I’m in.”
Right time, right place.
Spoken word is a form of poetry, kind of like a stage
performance, usually around some kind of social
commentary. It’s the kind of impromptu street
performance you see regularly in the cities or at slam
poetry events, but it’s rarely done on the sidewalks of
small towns.
In a sweatshirt and jeans,
the poet, Matthew Wellman,
stood under a spotlight in the
dark alley while a friend stood
apart, holding a flip cam to
film him. “This is my first public
performance of this poem,”
Wellman explained rapidly, still
nervous.
“Okay,” he cleared his throat.
“Here goes.”
Suddenly, the shrinking violet
dropped into fourth gear. The
words that exploded out of
his mouth were not vile, nor
obscene. They were compelling and topical; yet, the
frustration in his delivery, the way his eyes screwed
tight as he dropped a boatload of verse might have
appeared to unwitting passersby as though they’d
stumbled across a ranting raving lunatic in the alley. It
was the way his whole demeanor changed that blew
people’s doors in. Gesticulating as he rhymed, his fist
pumping, then carving downward like a hip-hop artist,
he was here to tell us something. And you can bet your
boo-tocks we were listening.
Information concentrate! It gives the means to replicate!
All the emotions we used to need past the points of what
the mind can see. Because a tactical advantage is often
in need when the human mind can’t keep pace it would
seem. So! We created systems to streamline the flow; it’s
to ease the burdensome evolution of binary codes. Digital
IDs are the foundation for civil integrity a combination of
information and facial recognition technology.
The origins of this poem developed out of a class
assignment. A student at The University of Maine in
Rockland, Wellman had been taking a future studies
class that required him to write an paper about any
issue involving the future. Wellman, who’d grown
up in Maine singing with Boy Singers of Maine and
performing in several high school and college bands,
decided he’d let the words jump off the paper if his
professor would allow it. He wanted to write more
than an essay; he wanted to discuss an issue that was
very personal to him and he wanted the outcome of
his efforts to be felt by an audience, not just read by a
single professor. Information Concentration was born.
“Between my future studies class and my American
government course, all the information just smashed
together in my head and the poem just came right out,”
he said. “I found in writing it, I was able to
express myself in the same way as I’d always
done writing music.”
The poem took about a month to write.
“I’ve never felt more alive than when I put everything
into it,” he said.
When not in performance mode, Wellman is back to his
soft-spoken self, polite and humble.
“It was very intense for me,” he said. “I began to get
excited about performing it in front of my class at
‘Expressions Night,’ sort of a Talent Night for the
university. I had to get out of my head to do it but after,
the reaction from the audience was a lot of smiles.
Wide eyes. A couple people said to me: ‘You need to
perform this in a bigger venue.’ ”
Evident from the first stanza, the poem tackles
a relevant theme: how absorbed are we by our
technological gadgets? And likewise, have they
absorbed our humanity?
“I wanted to express a frustration with what seems to
be an endless technological progression,” Wellman
said. “It’s supposed to make us more inter-connected,
more social, more human. But it’s almost as if we’re
disappearing into something that connects us as
much as it isolates and diminishes us. From the point
you’re born, you don’t have a choice to abstain from
technology. Everybody wants to feel together and
connected and yet, one of the hardest things to do
is to completely cut yourself off from it. It’s not a
legitimate option for the average person. I only know
of a few people who refuse to engage in any sort
of technological connection and for them it’s like a
religious calling. I feel like by artificially creating the
world the world we live in socially, that we’re leaving
behind something that is a fundamental part of being
human.”
While he notes the irony of ultimately promoting this
piece relies on the very technology that spurred it,
Wellman’s plea, particularly to his own generation, is
to be more aware, and less apathetic about how much
one allows technology to be all-consuming.
“After this, I plan to do a series of four spoken pieces
starting with Information Concentra te and really
memorize it and do this out on the street,” he said.
And, with a knowing shrug, “it will probably end up on
YouTube.”
To see Wellman do the spoken word poem, Information
Concentration live, check out his video on The Killer
Convo facebook.com/killerconvo.
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By Kay Stephens
Word, Man
“Between my future studies class and my American government course, all the
information just smashed togetherin my head and the poem just came
right out. I found in writing it, I was able to express myself in the same
way as I’d always done writing music.”— Matthew Wellman
guests. Door prizes, 50/50 raffle, T-shirts and dancing space.
• Trekkapalooza 2012, 7 to 10 p.m. Seventh annual battle of the Maine-based bands at the Strand Theatre, 345 Main St., Rockland. Cost: $12 advance; $15 at door. Sponsored by Trekkers, a nonprofit youth-serving organization. Advance tickets at Trekkers office, Buttermilk Lane in Thomaston (594-5095), and Oceanside High School, East and West.
8 Sunday• Bath Antiques Show, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., 50 dealers display a wide variety of antiques. Admission: $4. Bath Middle School, 6 Old Brunswick Road, Bath.
• Illustrated Lecture, 1 to 3 p.m. Farnsworth Director of Education Roger Dell delivers an illustrated lecture on the beginnings of American mass culture and its pervasive transatlantic influence in conjunction with the upcoming Camden Conference at the Strand Theatre, 345 Main St., Rockland. Cost: $8; $5 co-sponsor Farnsworth Art Museum members. FMI: camdenconference.org.
• International Folk Dancing, 4 to 6 p.m. Dancers of all levels invited to
Lions Lane, Camden. Potluck dinner at 6:30 p.m., followed by meeting at 7 p.m.
6 Friday• Cena Comune Potluck Supper, 5:30 to 8:30 p.m. Penobscot School, 28 Gay St., Rockland, hosts Italian students and speakers and friends of Italian culture for a fun evening of language practice and good company. Bring favorite Italian food or drink to share. FMI: 594-1084.
7 Saturday• Monthly Flea Market, 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. Thompson Community Center, 51 South Union Road in Union, holds monthly flea market with more than 80 tables to shop. TCC Thrift Shop too, and snack bar is open for breakfast and lunch. FMI: 975-0352.
• Dam Jam, 3 to 8 p.m. Fourth annual blues music jam hosted by the Dam Blues Fest at the Wells Hussey American Legion Post 42, Main Street/Business Route 1, Damariscotta. Cost: $10; $5 students. Net proceeds go to local music student Nicholas Phinney. Lineup includes Jacks and Aces, the Ben Chute Blues Band and returning Boston bluesman Racky Thomas and
• Maine Women’s Network, 5:15 to 7:30 p.m. Mimi Bornstein, artistic director of Midcoast Community Chorus, will speak at monthly MWN meeting at The Haven Event Center, Route 90, Rockport. Cost: $30; $22 members, includes full buffet and dessert, time for networking and the presentation. Guests and non-members always welcome; online pre-registration required by Dec. 28 at mainewomensnetwork.com.
5 Thursday• Songbirds Demo Class, 10:30 to 11:15 a.m. Trish Jonason, board-certified music therapist and owner of Coastal Music Therapy, leads parent-child music group for infants and children to age 5 at The Playroom, Route 90, Warren. Free. FMI: 691-7900.
• Author Talk, 6:30 to 8 p.m. Teacher and writer Robert Klose, author of “The Three-Legged Woman & Other Excursions in Teaching,” will talk about teaching at what he describes as the poorest college in America in the Friends Community Room of Rockland Public Library, 80 Union St. Free. Handicap accommodation with 48-hours notice; call 594-0310.
• Goose River Snowmobile Club, 6:30 to 8 p.m. Meeting held the first Thursday of the month at Lion’s Den,
first Monday of every month at 7:30 p.m. in the Emergency Management Agency offices which are located in the basement of the Sheriff’s office at 45 Congress St. in Belfast. The ARES/RACES group meets prior to the regular meeting at 6 p.m. the same night. Any amateur radio operators as well as interested members of the public are invited to attend. Contact the club secretary, Carol Inman at [email protected] or by phone at 525-3017 with any questions.
3 Tuesday• Children’s Art Time, 4 p.m. Art instruction with Catinka Knoth. Children’s Room, Rockland Public Library.
4 Wednesday• Songbirds Demo Class, 10:30 to 11:15 a.m. Trish Jonason, board-certified music therapist and owner of Coastal Music Therapy, leads parent-child music group for infants and children to age 5 in Room 22 of Lincoln Street Center for Arts and Education, 24 Lincoln St., Rockland. Free. FMI: 691-7900.
1 Sunday• Here Comes the Sun Party, 12 to 2 p.m. Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens on Barters Island Road in Boothbay will celebrate the lengthening days at a free event that’s a popular longstanding tradition. Warm up by the fireplace in Kerr Hall; roast marshmallows on the terrace; and enjoy free s’mores, hot dogs, and hot and cold beverages. Support the Boothbay Region Food Pantry by bringing donations of food or a monetary gift. To kick off a year devoted to birds, bring suet or an orange for The Birds’ Tree. Donald Duncan may be on hand to play the bagpipes. This event will be canceled if it’s raining or snowing or temperatures are below zero. FMI: Bob Boyd, 592-7347.
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Concerts Thurs 5 7:30 to 9 p.m. Alexis P. Suter Band — Unity. Blues powerhouse and her white-hot band perform at Unity College Centre for the Performing Arts, 42 Depot St. Cost: $15. FMI: 948-7469.
Sat 72 to 6 p.m., Boar’s Head and Yule Log Festival – 2 shows. Rockland Congregational Church, 180 Limerock St., presents seventh annual re-enactment of ancient celebrations to mark the end of the 12 days of Christmas including singing, dancing, pageantry and live animals at 2 and 4:30 p.m. Cost: $15 reserved; general admission $10, $5 children younger than 12. Tickets can be purchased weekdays between 8:30 a.m. and 3:30 p.m. by calling the church office at 594-8656 or stopping in. Two shows also on Jan. 8.
Mon 95 p.m. Transition Cafe. Casual discussion about how folks in and around Belfast will transition from oil dependence to local resilience. Belfast Co-op, 123 High St., Belfast.
Fri 137:30 to 9:30 p.m. Ana Egge. Alt-folk troubadour performs at Unity College Centre for the Performing Arts, 42 Depot St. Cost: $15. FMI: 948-7469.
Sun 154 to 6 p.m., Simple Gifts Concert. Midcoast Community Chorus and MC3! (Midcoast Community Children’s Chorus) perform a variety of songs at the Strom Auditorium of Camden Hills Regional High School, Route 90, Rockport. Cost: $20, $25 reserved; $15 general admission. FMI: mccsings.org. General admission tickets at HAV II, Camden; Grasshopper Shop, Rockland; and the Green Store. For credit card sales and reserved seating, call 975-0582.
Fri 207 to 9 p.m. ‘Musike for the Nywe Yeare’ — Belfast, Whitefield and Camden. Vocal ensemble VoXX: Voice of Twenty presents Palestrina and Friends, its seventh annual concert to celebrate the turning of the year, at Belfast United Methodist Church, 23 Mill Lane. Cost: $10 at door. FMI: 236-9413. Snow date Jan. 27. Also 7 p.m. Jan. 21 at Whitefield’s St. Denis Catholic Church (snow date Jan. 28); and 3 p.m. Jan. 22 at Camden’s High Mountain Hall (snow date Jan. 29).
Musike for the Nywe Yeare Midcoast vocal ensemble VoXX: Voice of Twenty will present its seventh annual Musike for the Nywe
Yeare concerts in January to celebrate the turning of the year. Titled Palestrina and Friends, the group’s 2012 program will feature a core of works by the great Renaissance composer Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, complemented by a set of moving anthems in remembrance; a variety of pieces by some of England’s master composers (including Byrd, Purcell and Tavener); and a carefully chosen selection of lesser-performed holiday carols.
As is usual for VoXX, the repertoire will be widely varied, sung by various combinations of voices and will range from early to contemporary.
Three performances will be given: Friday, Jan 20 at 7 p.m. at Belfast United Methodist Church, 23 Mill Lane (snow date Jan. 27); Saturday, Jan. 21 at 7 p.m. at St. Denis Catholic Church, 298 Grand Army Road, Whitefield, with reception to follow (snow date Jan. 28); and Sunday, Jan. 22 at 3 p.m. at Camden’s High Mountain Hall, 5 Mountain St./Route 52, with reception to follow at Peter Ott’s (snow date Jan. 29).
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learn and share line and circle dances from around the world on the second floor of Watts Hall, 170 Main St./Route 1. Free/donations. FMI: 542-2283. Second and fourth Sundays through May.
• Full Moon Hike, 4:30 to 6:30 p.m. Full Moon Hike at Hidden Valley Nature Center, 131 Egypt Road, Jefferson. Please meet promptly at the gate, wearing appropriate footwear (Bean boots, hiking boots, or snowshoes) and dress warmly. Be sure to include a headlamp or flashlight in case the moon is not fully visible. Bring your favorite drink for an after-hike gathering at the Welcoming Center. Reservations are highly recommended. Snowshoes are available for rent. Cost: $5 donation. FMI: 586-6752.
9 Monday• Free Mama & Baby Group — Belfast, 9:30 to 11 a.m. Open to babies who are not yet walking and their caregivers. Toys provided. Every second and fourth Monday of the month, 9:30-11 a.m., Morningstar Midwifery, 111 High St., Belfast. FMI, call 338-0708.
• Traditional shape note singing, 7 to 9 p.m. Four-part unaccompanied singing using “Sacred Harp” and “Northern Harmony” tune books in First Church Fellowship Hall, between Church and Court streets with the entrance on Spring Street, Belfast. FMI: 338-1265 or 594-5743. Second Monday each month.
10 Tuesday• Collapse of the Soviet Union Talk, 7 p.m. Penobscot School, 28 Gay St., Rockland, presents Louis Sell in Collaboration with the Camden Conference. Sell will present ‘The Collapse of the Soviet Union and its Implications for the US’, a community outreach event in conjunction with the Camden Conference. Free of charge, donations graciously accepted.
• Cribbage Night, 7 p.m. Cribbage Night held at the Appleton library second Tuesday of the month. All skill
levels and ages welcome to join the fun. No charge. FMI: 785-2210.
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“Freud’s Last Session”, 7 to 8:30 p.m. Reading of Mark St. Germain’s play about C.S. Lewis and Sigmund Freud at Skidompha Library, Elm Street entrance, downtown Damariscotta. Cost: $5-$8 suggested donation. Part of Thursday Nights series of informal theater readings, lectures and discussion.
• Nat Hussey Concert/Talk, 7 to 8:30 p.m. Recently-moved-from-Matinicus singer/songwriter performs and talks about harvesting lobsters by hand at Waterman’s Community Center, Main Street, North Haven. Cost: $10.
13 Friday• Round Top Coffee House, 6:30 to 9:30 p.m. Doors open 6:30 p.m. for musicians, poets and other performers to sign up for 6:45 to 8:15 p.m. open mic; featured performers play 8:30 to 9:30 p.m. at Damariscotta River Association’s Round Top Farm, Business Route 1, Damariscotta. Cost: $6; $3 senior citizens; free for children. FMI: 563-1393. Second Friday of each month.
18 Wednesday• Tour the Grades Classroom Tour, 8:15 to 10:30 a.m. Ashwood Waldorf School, 180 Park St. See Ashwood classes in action during this tour of four grades. This event for adults includes an overview of the Waldorf curriculum and a question and answer session with the school director. Space is limited, please call the office at 236-8021 or email [email protected] to register or for more information.
21 Saturday• Penobscot School Open House, 5 to 7 p.m. Join the language school as it kicks off its spring semester. Raffle, trivia games, meet the faculty, and more. Penobscot School, 28 Gay St., Rockland.
• Musike for the Nywe Yeare, 7 to 9 p.m. Vocal ensemble VoXX: Voice of Twenty presents Palestrina and Friends, its seventh annual concert to celebrate the turning of the year, at St. Denis Catholic Church, 298 Grand Army Road/Route 126, North Whitefield. Cost: $10 at door. FMI: 236-9413. Snow date Jan. 28. Also 3 p.m. Jan. 22 at Camden’s High Mountain Hall.
22 Sunday• International Folk Dancing, 4 to 6 p.m. Dancers of all levels invited to learn and share line and circle dances from around the world on the second floor of Watts Hall, 170 Main St./Route 1. Free/donations. FMI: 542-2283. Second and fourth Sundays through May.
27 Friday• Tea and Puppets Playgroup, 9:30 to 11 a.m. Ashwood Waldorf School, 180 Park St. Free playgroup with tea party and puppet show for children 18 months through 3 years old and their parent. Offered as an opportunity to experience the Parent/Child program at Ashwood. Space is limited; register at 236-8021 or [email protected].
Monday anytime between 3-5 p.m. we host a two-hour facilitated playtime for infants, birth to 22 months and their parent or caregiver. Peopleplace also offers an After Care Program for Preschool & Kindergarten age older siblings to enjoy at the same time. The group is going on now and space is available! Cost: $10 each Monday. FMI: 236-4225, [email protected], peopleplacecoop.org.
Corner Hall, corner of Park and Main streets, Rockport. Cost: $8; free for children. FMI: 832-5584. All dances taught, beginners welcome. Usually fourth Saturday of the month.
30 Monday• Peopleplace Infant/Toddler & Parent Playgroup, 3 to 5 p.m. Join Peopleplace’s playgroup! Every
28 Saturday• Take a Peek at My Sicily, 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Join Penobscot School, 28 Gay St., Rockland, for a three-hour tour of Sicily, including a video presentation and a mini language lesson in Italian. Lunch is included. $20.
• Monthly Contra Dance, 8 to 11 p.m. Live music and calling at Simonton
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Ongoing events
Monday 4:30 to 9 p.m. American Legion Bingo, 335 Limerock St., Rockland, hosts bingo every Monday night. Doors open 4:30 p.m., games start at 6:30 p.m. Full kitchen and free coffee. FMI: 594-2901.
Live Music, 6 to 8 p.m. Fresh Restaurant, 1 Bayview Landing, Camden, hosts local singer/songwriter Paddy Mills every Monday and Thursday. FMI: 236-7005, [email protected].
7 to 10 p.m. Monday Night Blues, upstairs music room of Time Out Pub, 275 Main St., Rockland. FMI: 593-9336.
Tuesday10 a.m. Children’s Story Hour, Children’s Story Hour. Reading, arts and crafts. Free. Gibbs Library, 40 Old Union Rd., Washington.
4 p.m. Children’s Art Time, Art instruction with Catinka Knoth. Children’s Room, Rockland Public Library.
7:30 to 9 p.m. Dancing 4 Fun, Weekly night of freestyle, any style, no partner needed, all kinds of music dancing takes place in second-floor Studio Red dance studio in Odd Fellows building, 16 School St., downtown Rockland. Free/donations. FMI: 354-0931; dancing4fun.org.
7:30 to 10:30 p.m. Open Mic, Good music, good company and fun every Tuesday night at Cuzzy’s, 21 Bay View St., Camden.
Wednesday10:30 a.m. Children’s Story Time, Children’s Room, Rockland Public Library. Also on Saturdays.
5:30 to 6 p.m. Making Change, A support group for young people from ages 13-29 who are considering or committed to recovery from substance abuse and other addictions. This group meets every Wednesday from 5:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. at the Waldo County General Hospital Education Center, 118 Northport Avenue, Belfast. Free food. FMI call Tim at 567-3813, Marian at 338-4594 or Jeffrey at 322-9490.
5:30 to 7:30 p.m. Open clay studio, Every Wednesday from 5:30-7:30 p.m. Work on your own projects using our wheels, slab roller and kiln. Non-instructional but a studio monitor is present for technical questions and advice. $15 per person, per session. More clay can be purchased as needed. Waterfall Arts, 256 High St., Belfast. FMI, call 338-2222 or visit waterfallarts.org.
6 to 7 p.m. Meeting: Mount Desert Island Toastmasters, MDI YMCA, 21 Park St., Bar Harbor. Public is invited. Toastmasters is more than a club to improve business and public speaking skills - it’s a source of fellowship with like-minded individuals who not only want to improve themselves, but learn about interesting topics through others, while supporting each another’s growth. Visitors are welcome to check out this supportive group. FMI: contact Kim Harty at 288-3511 or email [email protected].
7 to 9 p.m. Quiz Night. Quiz Master Rick Nardone, who ran the quiz night for seven years at The Rhumb Line in Gloucester, Mass., hosts weekly evening of fun competition at Billy’s Tavern, 1 Starr St., Thomaston (behind the business block). Play as a single or bring a team; fun and prizes
7:30 to 10:30 p.m. Open Mic Night, Weekly performance night at Gator Lounge of The Navigator Motor Inn, 520 Main St., Rockland.
Thursday9 a.m. to 12 p.m. Toy Library, Toy Library at St. Peters Episcopal Church, White Street, Rockland, provides a non-sectarian community program for preschool children, toddlers and infants, fostering creative play in a safe, nurturing environment and promoting cooperation and goodwill among participating children, their parents or other caregivers. The Toy Library follows the RSU 13 vacation calendar as well as storm cancellations. Also 9 a.m. to noon Fridays, FMI: [email protected]. 5 to 9 p.m. Midcoast Chess Club, Meets every Thursday at Tim Horton’s, Camden Street, Rockland. FMI: call Frank, 975-2433 or [email protected]. 7 to 10 p.m. Live Music, Simon and McFarland play jazz and blues Thursday evenings at Billy’s Tavern, 1 Starr St. behind the business block, Thomaston. No cover charge. FMI: 354-1177.
Friday1 p.m. Bridge Group, Refresh your bridge game. Play every Friday in Room 4 at the Thompson Community Center, Route 131, Union. FMI: 785-4602. 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. Friday Night Film Series, Friends of the Thomaston Public Library. Room 28 of Thomaston Academy Building, 60 Main St./Route 1. Free/donations. FMI: 354-2453. Doors open 6 p.m. 7:30 to 9:30 p.m. Free ballroom dancing, Weekly evening of practicing all the favorite dances on a newly refinished large hardwood floor with an excellent sound system at East Belfast Elementary School, Swan Lake Avenue. Free. FMI: 505-5521. Bring clean dancing shoes.
Saturday8:30 to 11 a.m. Free Bird Walk. The Natural History Center, 6 Firefly Lane, Bar Harbor. Join local ornithologist Rich MacDonald on a weekly bird walk. Open to people of all ages, physical abilities and skill levels. A limited number of loaner binoculars are available. Call to sign-up at 801-2617 or 266-9461.
10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Washington Grange Farmers’ Market, Every Saturday. FMI: 845-2140.
Sunday8 a.m. Winter Bird Walk, Penobscot Watershed Eco Center, 160 Main St., Bar Harbor. Acadia Birding Festival director Michael Good will lead free birding walks every Sunday. Walks will focus on specific areas around Bar Harbor, looking for winter birds and migrants. If the snow is good, a trip to Cadillac Mountain is planned and will be announced during the month of December depending on snow quality. Dress appropriately for cold weather and bring binoculars. FMI: call 288-8128 or 479-4256 or visit downeastnaturetours.com.
2 to 4 p.m. Music Jam at the Museum, Musicians, bring instruments and voices and make music together informally at Sail, Power and Steam Museum at Sharp’s Point South, 75 Mechanic St., Rockland. Coffee and cookies provided. Every Sunday.
3 to 6 p.m. Traditional Bluegrass Jam, Billy’s Tavern, 1 Starr St., Thomaston, hosts traditional bluegrass jam every Sunday. Musicians encouraged to bring their instruments and join in; listeners welcome too. FMI: 354-1177.
Eat Well Cooking Series For Parents and Kids
Five classes will be held on Tuesday evenings, once per month, at the Picker Family Resource Center at Pen Bay from 5:30-7 p.m. Classes are free and you may register for one or more session. The dates are: January 17, February 21, March 20, April 17, and May 22
Topics covered include: how to stretch food dollars; new ideas and recipes for healthy meals; how to prepare healthy snacks; how to make favorite recipes healthier; tips for a fit lifestyle; and more. A healthy meal will be shared at each session. Come join us to have fun and to learn more about eating well for life.
For more information, or to register, call Donna Ames RN, Zing! program coordinator at: 593-5639.
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