Pownal
“UN/Stable Landscape”: a combination of horse and human synergy
Editor’s note: The Bates Dance Festival will present two performances of “UN/Stable Landscape,” featuring interactions between dancers, riders and horses, on Aug. 6-7 at Chance Encounter Farm in Pownal. Freelancer Jim Glenn Thatcher recently watched a rehearsal of the evolving collaboration between JoAnna Mendl Shaw’s Equus Projects and Carl Fink’s Black Label Movement. Here are […]
Art rising from nature: At Hawk Ridge Farm you’ll find a steel horse, wolf, fox and porcupine in the woods, a bronze dragonfly in a lupine field and other sculptures subtly placed ‘in a wider beauty framing their own’
Editor’s note: The “Between Earth and Sky” exhibit, showing at Hawk Ridge Farm in Pownal through July 27, is open by appointment only. Call 688-4468 or email [email protected]. POWNAL — Minot Road is a half-mile, tree-canopied dirt lane off Route 9 next to Bradbury Mountain State Park. Turn onto it, follow its gentle grade upward […]
Maine’s first mapmaker to be historical society topic
NORTH YARMOUTH — Holly Hurd, education outreach coordinator at the Osher Map Library, will speak about Moses Greenleaf, Maine’s first mapmaker, at the North Yarmouth Historical Society meeting at 6:30 p.m. Monday, May 23, at the Old Town House, Route 9. The program is co-sponsored by the Pownal Scenic & Historical Society. The presentation will […]
Freeport-Pownal-Durham School Board backs adding $115K to RSU 5 budget
FREEPORT — The Regional School Unit 5 Board of Directors supports adding $115,000 to the proposed 2012 school budget for professional development and literacy support. In a straw vote taken during a meeting on May 11, six of nine members said they favor adding the money to the budget. Board members Brenda Kielty of Freeport and […]
Hawk watch: Spring lures raptors back to Maine
POWNAL — Five days into the fifth annual hawk watch at Bradbury Mountain State Park, naturalist Andy Northrup held binoculars to his eyes looking for hawks, falcons, vultures and eagles migrating to Maine. Gazing southward on Saturday morning during a stubborn snowstorm, he stood on an island of rock overlooking a sea of trees as […]
Hiking Tryon: New trail connects Pineland, Bradbury, but some want more
POWNAL — The newly frozen mud crunches under our feet and we try not to slip on a slick bed of oak leaves that line the trail up Tryon Mountain on Sunday morning. Feldspar and quartz-flecked rocks catch the light as we hike up the sometimes steep, sometimes gradual trails along the new connector between […]
Public hearing planned for Bradbury Mountain-Pineland connector
The Maine Bureau of Parks and Lands is now accepting public comment on a plan to connect Bradbury Mountain State Park in Pownal with Pineland public lands in the Gray-New Gloucester area. The draft plan calls for a single 7-mile corridor that links the two properties in North Yarmouth. Proponents like the single trail plan […]