After years of living in big cities and creating stories set in wilderness, the best-selling author of the ‘Wild Robot’ series moved to the Midcoast last year.
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Maine’s ‘haunted’ hospitality venues serve up plenty of spooky stories
Ghost lore abounds at some of the state’s older restaurants and bars.
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‘Making Maine’ gives a decidedly unsentimental picture of the nascent state
Scoundrels, smugglers and their ilk helped to make Maine, according to a new history of the War of 1812.
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Oct. 29, 1981: Voters in Jefferson to decide fate of construction at Village School, ‘Healthy Halloween Party’ wraps up in Richmond, and Arby’s makes a vegetable soup that’s ‘uncannily’ good
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Oct. 28, 1994: Oakland, Belgrade students meet each other for first time thanks to pen pal program, two more arrested in Skowhegan theft sweep, and the Morning Sentinel endorses Angus King to be the next governor of Maine
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Posted inBooks, Life & Culture, Maine Authors
BUSHNELL ON BOOKS: ‘Hunger Hill’ and ‘Hector Fox and the Daring Flight’
A fast-paced crime drama debut from Philip Baker, and Astrid Sheckels’s third children’s book about Hector and all his quirky woodland pals
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Oct. 27, 1982: Augusta City Council believes Capitol Theater is threat to public safety and wants it demolished, 12 imprisoned criminals will petition for pardons, commutations in court today, and two men were arrested for trapping illegal pelts out of season
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New ‘Frasier’ jokes flat, set boring, J.P. Devine writes
Yes. Frasier was among the most popular American television shows of the late 20th century. It was as fresh as an autumn apple, carved from marble by some of the great comedy writers of the 20th century. It was so popular that everyone who ran into Kelsey Grammer on the street, at the dry cleaners, […]
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Oct. 26, 1974: Traffic pattern around Castonguay Square in Waterville to be reversed says police chief & mayor, rescue crews from two communities search Sebasticook River in Pittsfield looking for victims of car plunge, and pulp truck drivers threatening to boycott mills with weight lists
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Oct. 25, 2000: Augusta native wants french text corrected on a plaque at a monument to workers who trekked up and down Sand Hill, and patients at Togus VA hospital will see a physical more quickly now after complaints of long wait times.
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