2012
Posted inOpinion

FIVE MYTHSMisunderstandings about the American Dream

by Michael F. Ford

Few ideas are as central to American self-identity as the “American dream.” Politicians invoke it, immigrants pursue it, and despite unremittingly negative economic news, citizens embrace it. But what is the American dream? We began regular study of how people define and perceive the dream three years ago, and have discovered many misunderstandings worth a second look.

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Fly Fishing Gets Cold

by Deirdre Fleming

KENNEBUNK — Dan Dykstra couldn’t wait to wade into the cold water of the Mousam River. So he asked fellow fisherman Kevin McKay to pull over for a taste of the brown trout fishery after they drove down from Bangor earlier this month. And didn’t the Old Town fisherman get into a mess of brown trout?

Posted inOpinion

COMMENTARY: A case for writing letters, especially by hand

by Mel B. Yoken

Over the past few years, I’ve pored over, discussed and even reviewed volumes of letters of such diverse luminaries as Harry Truman, H.L. Mencken, E.B. White, Bertolt Brecht, S.J. Perelman, Toulouse-Lautrec, Ernest Hemingway, Dorothy Parker, Robert Frost, Voltaire, George Bernard Shaw, Virginia Woolf, Edith Wharton, Henry James, Theodore Roosevelt and the veritable, indefatigable master of the genre, Madame de Sevigne.

Posted inNews

BRIEFS

by Morning Sentinel Staff

SAN FRANCISCO — At least 11 people were arrested at an anti-Wall Street protest in downtown San Francisco for blocking an entrance to the Wells Fargo building Friday.

Posted inNews

POLICE

by Morning Sentinel Staff

IN ANSON, Thursday at 9:06 a.m., police responded to a civil complaint on Randall Street.

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