LEWISTON — The annual meeting of the Friends of LPL will begin at 5:30 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 14, featuring Maine author Scott Douglas. Douglas will discuss his latest book, “Running Is My Therapy: Relieve Stress and Anxiety, Fight Depression, Ditch Bad Habits, and Live Happier.” The Friends business meeting will take place at 5:30 p.m. and […]
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Shiretown Bookers present talk by Kristen Case at UMF
FARMINGTON — Marginalia are the little notes we write to ourselves in the book we are reading. Beginning at 2:30 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 4, Kristen Case, poet, author, teacher and collector, will speak on “Transcendental Marginalia,” an overview her changing thought on Thoreau and other American poets as it is revealed in the mysterious notes found […]
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Woman to give talk at Beekeepers Club meeting
The Androscoggin Beekeepers Club will meet at 6:30 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 14, at the vestry of the West Auburn Congregational Church, 811 West Auburn Road in Auburn. Kalyn Bickerman-Martens will present “The Maine Bumble Bee Atlas: A Multi-Year Citizen Science Project to Survey Bumble Bee Species in Maine.” She is a Ph.D. candidate in ecology […]
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Human rights talk to be feature of UN Day celebration at Bates
LEWISTON — UNA-Maine, a chapter of the United Nations Association of the USA (UNA-USA), will celebrate United Nations Day with a presentation by renowned human rights educator Steve Wessler at Bates College at 7 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 24. The event is being co-sponsored by the Holocaust and Human Rights Center of Maine and Bates College. Wessler […]
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'Poverty in Maine' subject of UMF talk by former USDA official
FARMINGTON — Kevin Concannon, former undersecretary at the U.S. Department of Agriculture for Food, Nutrition and Consumer Affairs, will present a public lecture titled “Poverty in Maine: Missed Federal Opportunities to Address the Problem” at the University of Maine at Farmington. The free, public talk will take place at 11:45 a.m. Wednesday, Oct. 17, on […]
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Winthrop library to host Chris Myers Asch
WINTHROP — The Bailey Public Library in downtown Winthrop will host historian and author Chris Myers Asch oat 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 23. The event is part of the ongoing Winthrop Lakes Region Forum and is sponsored by the Winthrop Public Library Foundation. Asch will read from and discuss his new book “Chocolate City,” which […]
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Mark LaFlamme: Can I interest anyone in some crisp, delicious Funyuns?
Yule be shocked by this news Look, I hate coming in here every Sunday morning and spilling bad news all over your Eggos, or whatever it is that you people eat. But I have it on good authority – and I’m talking sources deep inside the system here – that Walmart already has its Christmas […]
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Bowdoin College Museum of Art hosts talk about artists and the Civil War
Makeda Best will give a talk,”Imagination Cannot Depict — Historical Consciousness and the Arts of Eyewitness in the Civil War,” at 4:30 p.m. Thursday at Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Kresge Auditorium. Best, the Richard L. Menschel curator of Photography, Harvard University Art Museums, will speak about artists’ engagement with the American Civil War. This […]
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Novelist and creator of new Marvel series to speak at Bates College
“Inspiring Radical Creativity: An Evening with Gabby Rivera,” will be held at 7 p.m. Monday, Oct. 8, at Bates College. Rivera is an outgoing, outspoken creator invested in fostering better dialogue, inspiring radical creativity and improving our most vulnerable communities. The author of the acclaimed coming-of-age novel “Juliet Takes a Breath,” she’s also the writer […]
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Mark LaFlamme: So, what're you wearing?
Shots fired! No. There were no shots fired. I’m sorry to scare you like that. Go change your underpants. It’s just that for reasons I can’t quite fathom, fireworks seem to be all the rage again in Lewiston. In all corners of the city people are firing off Big Jimmies, Little Louies, Poodle Rockets, Banana […]