The Theater Project continues its 47th season with William Shakespeare’s romantic caper “As You Like It,” directed by Al Miller.
Audiences will delight in this enchanting tale highlighting…
Literature
Southport Memorial Library
The Southport Memorial Library will have a new exhibition for the months of November and December: the photography of Zoe Theberge of Harpswell and Bruce Burnham of Boothbay.
Zoe Theberge…
John Whittaker was downstairs in Wiscasset Public Library Oct. 13 shopping for books to buy his mother Alice Whittaker and his daughter Olivia, 8.
Saturday was the second of Friends of the…
Irene M. Drago of Bath will discuss Bath’s maritime history and how it inspired her debut novel, in a presentation at Wiscasset Public Library on Wednesday, Oct. 24 at 5 p.m.
“Daughters of…
Chocolate Church Arts Center
The Chocolate Church Art Center announces the second annual Celebrity Poetry Slam. On Saturday, Oct. 27, this year’s event features local celebrities presenting their favorite Beatles’ lyrics at 7…
On Friday and Saturday, Oct. 12 and 13, the Friends of Wiscasset Library will hold a “clear the shelves” sale at the Used Book Room at Wiscasset Public Library, offering Used Book Room books and…
Midcoast audiences have the extraordinary opportunity to experience John Farrell, a principal in Maine’s groundbreaking Figures of Speech Theatre, reciting T.S. Eliot’s suite of poems, “Four…
Author, filmmaker and geriatric social worker Phyllis Chinlund will talk at Wiscasset Public Library at 5 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 26 about her long marriage to photographer Ray Witlin, and the…
Skidompha Library’s Chats with Champions program welcomes Elizabeth Garber and Baron Wormser, both noted poets and authors Tuesday, Sept. 18 at 10 a.m. Please allow time for parking.…
The state of Maine and the Ku Klux Klan. Improbable as it sounds, the KKK took root in Maine in the 1920s, reaching such heights that it helped elect Governor Ralph Owen Brewster, the mayors of…
Author and Registered Maine Guide Earl Brechlin will be signing copies of his new collection of evocative and heartfelt essays about Maine’s iconic landscapes, the power of family and the search…
Lincoln Theater launches its fourth season of “Stories to Screen” with a free book give-away on Saturday, Sept. 8 at 10 a.m.
In “Stories to Screen,” the theater…
Boothbay Harbor Memorial Library (4 Oak St., Boothbay Harbor) will feature paintings by the late Jim Taliana in the upstairs Community Room at 4 Oak Street. The show will run from Sept. 4 through…
On Saturday, Sept. 8, the Lincoln Arts Festival will offer its poetry workshop for the 21st year, led by the Rev. J. Barrie Shepherd.
The daylong event at St. Columba’s Episcopal Church in…
Lea Wait, USA TODAY best-selling author of three mystery series for adults and seven books (six historicals set in Maine, one set in Scotland, and one contemporary mystery for ages eight sand up)…
Author Julie Maloney will be hosting an Author Chat and Book Signing to celebrate the premier of her debut novel “A Matter of Choice” at Sherman’s Bookstore, 5 Commercial St., in Boothbay Harbor…
“The Secret Garden” opens at Heartwood this weekend. A fantastic cast delivers this well loved piece of theater, with grace and style. Lush vocals, beautiful stage images and movement,…
Maine’s Summer Book Fair: Books in Boothbay was held July 14 and readers were on the scene eager to speak with their favorite authors – and buy a few new, autographed books.
The event, co-…
Heartwood Theater has assembled an exceptional cast and crew, to present the Broadway musical, “The Secret Garden,” running July 20-28 in the Poe Theater at Lincoln Academy. Based on the novel…
Boothbay Harbor Memorial Library
See the original paintings for Susan Schadler’s book, “Come Walk in the Flynbos With Me,” by Lynne and John M.T. Seitzer, on display in the upstairs Community Room at Boothbay Harbor Memorial…
Maine Authors Publishing will be hosting an introduction class, Welcome to Independent Publishing with Maine Authors Publishing, on Friday, July 6, from 3 to 4:30 p.m. at their office in Thomaston…
Southport Memorial Library
The Southport Memorial Library is pleased to announce its summer show, “The Sense of Wonder: Lee Boynton and Rachel Carson.” In this show quotes from Rachel Carson’s book “The Sense of Wonder” are…
Boothbay Harbor Memorial Library (BHML) celebrates the work of the late Lee Winslow Court with a show on display throughout June in the upstairs community room during regular library hours.…
People United Against Racism invites the public to a community book discussion on second and fourth Mondays in June, July, and August, starting June 11. The group will meet at the Second…
Author Christopher White will be at Topside Inn in Boothbay Harbor June 27 for a reading and book-signing of his new…
Heartwood presents “Bloomsday” by Steven Dietz, in a fully staged reading Friday, May 11 and Saturday, May 12 at the Poe…
Southport Memorial Library
Southport Memorial Library welcomes two Artists for the Month for May, June Virginia Forrest with Judy Nixon.
Wiscasset-based artist Virginia Forrest works in watercolor,…
Marcia Sewall, an award winning illustrator, will explain the process of creating children’s books in a talk at the Maine Art Gallery Wiscasset at 3 p.m. on Saturday, May 12. The event…
Chocolate Church Arts Center
Ginger Grace unmistakably embodies Emily Dickinson in William Luce’s “The Belle of Amherst,” a powerful, one woman show, at the Chocolate…
Is there a place that makes you feel happy? Where you feel safe and relaxed? A place that makes your heart swell a little, where you know you belong? A place you call home?
A couple of…
The Poet’s Corner
Shots ring out
gunshots
bullets richocet, smash
kids lined up
back of the room —
In the halls and
under desks
they text
…
The Skidompha Chats with Champions Committee has invited writers who participated in the “From Memory to Memoir” workshops held in 2017 by Barbara Burt on April 19 at 10 a.m. in the…
Wiscasset Public Library
Jefferson author Kay Hardy Campbell will discuss changing conditions for women in Saudi Arabia at the Wiscasset Public Library March 28, at 5 p.m. The talk, “Saudi Women: Change and Challenge,”…
March is National Reading Month, and at the Lincoln County Historical Association, we are taking a look at one of the book lovers who lived at the Pownalborough Court House, one of the three…
Live! At the Opera House in Boothbay Harbor Friday, March 9, it’s ... YOU!
Or it could be.
If you’re ready to take your singing act out of the shower or the car and into the public…
Goose River Press seeks selections of fine poetry, essays, and short stories (3,000 words or less—double-spaced) for its 16th annual anthology book, which is beautifully…
Sandra Neily said an early reader of her novel, “Deadly Trespass,” said he was certain she’d be angry at his comments. “It reads like non-fiction,” he said.
Far from being insulted, Neily…
If you want to take a trip, read a book. This was the advice given me and my cousin by her father back when we were in our mid-teens. I already knew what he said was true; it was one of the…
Harbor Theater
New York Times critic Manohla Dargis has “A Quiet Passion” on her list of Top 10 films for 2017. Cynthia Nixon delivers a triumphant performance as Emily Dickinson as she personifies the wit,…
The Winter Open Mic series at the Opera House at Boothbay Harbor kicks off on Friday, Jan. 19.
Doors open for sign-ups and early arrivals at 6:30 p.m. entertainment…
Back in the day, when we were all buying albums, before and during the 8-track phenomenon, it wasn’t just for the music; the album covers were works of art. Janis’ “Cheap Thrills” artwork by R.…
Photographs by Betsy Bass and Pamela Logan will be on display throughout December in the upstairs Community Room during normal library hours. A reception will be held on Wednesday, Dec. 6 from 4.…
Chats with Champions
Television situation comedies--sitcoms--have been a staple of TV culture since its beginning. On Thursday, Dec. 7 at 10 a.m. in the Porter Meeting Hall of Skidompha Library, Chats with…
Westport Island resident Sandra Neily will discuss her debut novel “Deadly Trespass – A Mystery in Maine” at the…
