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Life & Culture
Arts, entertainment, food and books news from the Kennebec Journal and Morning Sentinel.
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Nov. 25, 1995: Bingham church buries time capsule to be opened in 2095, police say Sidney teen drove drunk, and state’s largest turkey farm in New Sharon getting ready for busy season
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Posted inFood & Dining, Nation & World
Your Thanksgiving leftovers are good in the fridge up to 4 days; don’t let it go to waste
Don’t automatically assume a date label on food has to do with safety. (Also: Don’t forget to freeze your leftover stuffing and pie.)
Posted inBooks, Life & Culture, Maine Authors
BUSHNELL ON BOOKS: ‘The Narrow Seas’ and ‘When the Island Had Fish’
The 11th volume in Harpswell author James Nelson’s magnificent “Norsemen Saga,” and author and essayist Janna Malamud Smith’s fascinating study of Vinalhaven
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Nov. 24, 2002: Friends, family help pay the bills for a Richmond woman’s new kidney, Maine native Joyce Chiittick hits Broadway in NYC, and it’s all about cheeseburgers for J.P. Devine
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Posted inJ.P. Devine, Life & Culture, Movie Review J.P. Devine
‘Miracle on 34th Street’ is a Thanksgiving 1947 gift
George Seaton’s “Miracle on 34th Street” is a miracle on its own, and we’re talking about it today because this is Thanksgiving Day’s special review, as there will be no newspaper on Thanksgiving. Here, at the end of November, when hundreds of Christmas movies are opening or streaming on our living room screens as turkey […]
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Nov. 23, 1988: Fairfield man may be tried for ‘de-lobstering’ plates, panel endorses $12.4 million in additional income-tax cuts, and a church in Waterville is offering Thanksgiving 5 days a week
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Nov. 22, 1975: Fate of Nash School in Augusta still yet to be determined, window-smashing assault on local businesses in Augusta spreads to east side, and an Augusta man is sentenced to 364 days in jail for assaulting a five-year old boy
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Posted inLife & Culture, On Music Lucky Clark, Op-Eds
Schooner Fare to return to one of its favorite venues Dec. 1
Maine folk act kicked off career in 1975 in Brunswick.
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Nov. 21, 1995: Norridgewock town manager quits, calling town a ‘haven of hate’, six-day government shutdown comes to an end in Maine, and Waterville students, parents agree on ‘internet etiquette’
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