Visit Centralmaine.com/archive to view nearly 200 years’ worth of history at your fingertips.
Life & Culture
Arts, entertainment, food and books news from the Kennebec Journal and Morning Sentinel.
Posted inOn this date
May 6, 1987: Around 300 single-family and condominium units proposed off West River Road in Waterville, rabbi in Waterville to head interfaith council, and a 25 cent stamp?
Visit Centralmaine.com/archive to view nearly 200 years’ worth of history at your fingertips.
advertisement
Posted inLife & Culture, News
Photos: A Beethoven bicentennial performance at Colby College
The final rehearsal for Choral Masterwork, featuring the Colby Symphony Orchestra and Choirs, was held Friday at Colby College. The orchestra features about 70 musicians and the choir about 100 singers from Colby and the community. Performances drew capacity crowds Saturday and Sunday to the Gordon Center for Creative and Performing Arts at the Waterville campus. The free performances marked the 200th anniversary of Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9, Op. 125, “Choral.” The symphony, which was performed at the concert, premiered May 7, 1824.
All photos by staff photographer Rich Abrahamson.
Posted inLewiston-Auburn, Life & Culture
Food historian maps geography of what we eat
Writer and chef Sandy Garson of Bath has studied the origins of our favorite dishes.
Posted inFood & Dining, Maine Gardener
When posting pictures of your yard, beware of plant shamers
Non-native plants and patches of grass can have a place at your home, no matter what the internet trolls say.
Posted inArts & Entertainment, Books
Collection spans the life of Maine poet Jeri Theriault
‘Self-Portrait as Homestead’ captures the loss of parents, marriage and more.
Posted inRecipes
Home Plates: For this Shapleigh woman, a farm stand customer’s rhubarb cake recipe became a rite of spring
Rebecca Tuttle has loved rhubarb since she was a kid but was first introduced to it in cake form as a young adult.
Posted inOn this date
May 5, 1892: ‘Not much change’ with strike between Hallowell Granite Works and their employees, Camden citizen ‘known around the world’ dies, and Moosehead Lake is now free of ice
Visit Centralmaine.com/archive to view nearly 200 years’ worth of history at your fingertips.
Posted inFood & Dining
From birria to lobster, our tacos can teach us a lesson
The variety of tacos available in Greater Portland speaks to the evolution of the Mexican dish. One professor teaches a whole course on it.
Posted inOn this date
May 4, 1993: Canaan mom reunites with two daughters she thought were to have been murdered 30 years ago, Keyes Fibre Co. to cut 138 jobs in Waterville, and state wants attorney general to fine sheriffs in fundraising
Visit Centralmaine.com/archive to view nearly 200 years’ worth of history at your fingertips.