“Good fences make good neighbors,” wrote Robert Frost many years ago — a line of poetry that became accepted wisdom for many years. But now there is the situation down along the Mexican border, with the current administration set on constructing an ultimate border wall in hopes of promoting America’s general good neighborliness. That attempt […]
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Greg Boardman kicks off new 'Oasis of Music' season
LEWISTON — Fiddler Greg Boardman will kick off the new “Oasis of Music” season with a performance this coming Wednesday, Sept. 5, at Trinity Church, 247 Bates St., beginning at 12:30 p.m. Boardman will play a set of tunes he learned from the concerts and recorded performances of Dave Swarbrick (1940-2015), the English fiddler who […]
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Greg Boardman and Friends to perform at the Basilica
LEWISTON — Musician Greg Boardman will perform at 12:15 p.m. Tuesday, July 31, at the Basilica of Saints Peter and Paul. He will be accompanied by “friends” Jessie Boardman and Linda and Madeleine Vaillancourt. They will perform as a string quartet and play pieces by Purcell and Richter. A familiar face in local music circles, […]
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Oasis of Music to feature music for rebec
LEWISTON — Music for the rebec is scheduled for this week’s Oasis of Music, at Trinity Church, 247 Bates Street, on Wednesday April 18 for a half-hour program beginning at 12:30. The rebec, to be played by Greg Boardman, is a three-stringed ancestor of the ever-popular violin. This instrument, possibly inspired by the rebab as […]
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Poet David Moreau to read at Oasis of Music
LEWISTON — The poetic storytelling of David Moreau complimented by incidental cello music supplied by Greg Boardman will make up this week’s program at the Oasis of Music. This performance will take place from 12:30 to 1 p.m.Wednesday, Jan. 24, at Trinity Church, 247 Bates St. Moreau worked in Lewiston for 27 years with people with […]
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Greg Boardman: Music is 'natural way' to express faith
LEWISTON — Greg Boardman has a way of getting “caught up” in music ministry. Recently, between classes at his day job teaching orchestra in Lewiston, Boardman listed a number of church organizations where he’s been involved musically. For the past two years at Trinity Episcopal Church, he’s performed during Sunday services while curating its weekly […]
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Ben Chin an effective leader
The fair city of Lewiston is a unique community, connected to the entire world — a world in the throes of great change, conflict and promise. Lewiston needs leadership that can take all of that in and form good responses to the city’s immediate needs while looking to the future. That requires the courage to […]
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An evening’s delight
Once more, the arts are alive and well in Lewiston-Auburn, and I have been enjoying the benefits of living in this area of Maine. There are so many creative choices that one can participate in to feast on throughout the week to weekends. Without the support of the National Endowment of the Arts, something that […]
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Universal health care
“?The only way to have universal care, if you stop to think about it, is to force people to buy it under penalty of law,” said White House Budget Director Mick Mulvaney in an interview before GOP health care legislation was pulled.? Do we not agree that universal health care is desirable? Are we not […]
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Reining in wasteful practices
What a strange and beautiful alliance of Native Americans and veterans, meeting on the plains of North Dakota to bring a halt to the construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline project. I have to agree with the “water protectors” that everything about the harvesting, transport and usage of crude oil is a lose-lose proposition for […]