The Bowdoin College Museum of Art is holding Family Saturday from 10 to 11 a.m. tomorrow. Museum of Art student education assistants lead a weekend program for all ages, including a discussion of works on view and a related hands-on activity. This event is free and open to the public. The museum is at 9400 […]
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Trumpeter Jack Burt to perform Monday evening at the Basilica
LEWISTON — Trumpeter Jack Burt, accompanied on organ by Scott Vaillancourt, will present a concert at 7:30 p.m. Monday, Aug. 6, at the Basilica of Saints Peter and Paul. Dr. Burt is professor of trumpet at the University of Maine’s School of Performing Arts. A graduate of the Baldwin-Wallace College Conservatory of Music, the University […]
Music festival continues at Deertrees Theater
HARRISON — The Sebago-Long Lake Music Festival’s 46th season continues at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Aug. 7, at the Deertrees Theatre, 156 Deertrees Road. Widely known as the summer’s highlight for many residents and visitors, the festival’s concerts have garnered a reputation for presenting five extraordinary concerts performed by 26 internationally acclaimed artists in a woodland setting with powerful […]
Seminars on invasive plants scheduled
BATH — It takes little time for Cheri Brunault to find invasive plants in Sewell Woods, a conservation property in North Bath owned by the Kennebec Estuary Land Trust. Just a few steps from the entrance to the woods off Whiskeag Road is a healthy patch of multiflora rose, the clusters of petite white flowers […]
Waterford Library to host lecture series
WATERFORD — The Waterford Library, 663 Waterford Road, routes 35 and 37, will hold a free program, “The Inward Garden” or What’s the Big Idea? at 7 p.m. Thursday, July 26, as part of the Sheena Fraser Garden annual lecture series. Focusing on design ideas in Julie Messervey’s best selling book, “The Inward Garden,” Robert Spencer, […]
Youth Lifetime License Program established
GREENE — The Brandon S. Bubier Memorial Foundation of Greene has announced a new memorial Youth Lifetime License Program. Family members have created this program to commemorate Brandon S. Bubier, who was killed in an automobile accident at the young age of 21. Bubier was an avid hunter and fisherman and he loved to ride anything […]
Instrumental Ensembles at UMF to present program
FARMINGTON — The UMF Instrumental Ensembles, under the direction of conductor Eric Thomas, will present a program featuring performances by four quartets at 7:30 p.m., Wednesday, April 18, in Nordica Auditorium in Merrill Hall on the University of Maine at Farmington campus The program will begin with a string quartet performing the music of Joseph Haydn (1732-1809). Haydn, […]
NAMI Maine to offer confidential mental illness educational program for families
RUMFORD — The National Alliance on Mental Illness will offer Family-to-Family starting on Tuesday, April 24, at 6 p.m. This is a free, confidential program. Family-to-Family is an evidence-based, educational program for family members and friends of people living with mental illness taught by teachers who have also lived with this experience. Participants will learn […]
Western Mountain Senior College to offer program on coping with stress
BETHEL — To Your Health of Western Mountains Senior College (WMSC) will present a program, “Distressed about Stress,” from 4:30 to 6 p.m. Thursday, April 12, at the Bethel Congregational Church Chapel, 32 Church St. Presenters will include Ellen Crocker, retired psychotherapist; Wendy Youmans, LCSW and 500-hour level Kripalu Yoga teacher; and Jewel Clark, professional […]
Society hosting program on Littlefield murders
AUBURN — Androscoggin Historical Society will sponsor a program on “The Littlefield Mysteries” at 7 p.m. Tuesday, March 27, at the society’s Davis-Wagg Museum on the third floor of the County Building. Percy Turner, retired Maine State Trooper, will tell the details of the event. The town of Paris made national news in 1937 when […]