Maine Authors Publishing will be hosting an introduction class, Welcome to Cooperative Publishing with Maine Authors Publishing, on Friday, Feb. 1, from 3 to 4:30 p.m. at their office in Thomaston…
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When the weather’s not too frigid, winter is a good time to get outdoors … or at least to your car! But, instead of being bound for one of your usual haunts – the grocery, laundromat, Rite Aid,…
Dropping off their latest reads into Wiscasset Public Library's book return Sunday morning, Hannah Cheney, 7, of Alna and brother Sawyer, 6, shared their picks. Hannah said she read "Happy Go…
Monday, Jan. 7 - Thursday, Jan. 31
Read a family friendly book while you hike! January through March there will be a new winter themed story posted along the trails at…
Lincoln Theater’s Stories to Screen Program – in which free film screenings take place after free copies of the books on which the movies are based are passed out to the community - is thrilled to…
The Theater Project
The Theater Project in Brunswick is excited to kick off the holiday season with “The Best Christmas Pageant Ever” adapted from the book by Barbara Robinson Audiences will delight in welcoming back…
Goose River Press of Waldoboro is pleased to announce the publication of the 16th annual Goose River Anthology, 2018 featuring over 75 talented writers from all parts of the…
Snowlion Repertory Company
Snowlion Rep, a nonprofit professional theater company in Portland, will host its first ever fundraiser on Friday, Dec. 7 at the Portland Ballet Studio Theater. …
HARBOR THEATER
185 Townsend Ave., Boothbay Harbor ~ 633-0438 ~ www.boothbaycinema.org
“Free Solo” - The National Geographic…
Studio 53 Fine Art
During the annual four-day Gifts For Giving Holiday Show & Sale at Studio 53 in Boothbay Harbor there will be many items to choose from for those on your shopping list. The event begins…
Some people challenge themselves to climb a mountain or run a marathon. The challenge for writers is to complete a novel. For them, there is a NaNoWriMo.
That’s the acronym for the National…
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…
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.
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Author Christopher White will be at Topside Inn in Boothbay Harbor June 27 for a reading and book-signing of his new…
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…
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
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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,”…
