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Life & Culture
Arts, entertainment, food and books news from the Kennebec Journal and Morning Sentinel.
Garden provides much to be grateful for
Let’s offer thanks to many passed-down plants – and the people who supplied them.
Vegan Kitchen: Tribes growing heirloom seeds for heritage, health reasons
Wabanki diets were traditionally plant-based.
In new food pantry model, Root Cellar patrons help themselves
Making a small payment and boxing up the food that they and others bring home is meant to help maintain dignity and build resilience.
Maine Gardener: Put green thumbs to a different use – flipping the page
These new books cover topics from moss to compact crops.
Thanksgiving dinner – the best laid plans of mice and men often go awry
The day is, per at least this one hostess, a ‘day of obligatory Mrs. America smiles, occasional moments of tears cleverly disguised as possible joy, and the sincere, gut-wrenching recall of holidays long past in which one was a mere child and carefree.’
Susan Choi, Sarah M. Broom win National Book Awards
More than 1,700 books were submitted for consideration for prizes for fiction, non-fiction, poetry and YA literature.
‘Its A Wonderful Life’ to be staged in Monmouth
Theater at Monmouth will conclude season with holiday show.
J.P. Devine Movie Review: ‘The Irishman’
“The Irishman” is a menu of fabulous actors mostly, of course, hand picked by Scorsese to keep the blood line pure, J.P. Devine writes.
OFF RADAR: An eco-poet from Maine
Living as we do in a time when high art is expected far and wide to serve some explicit social-political-moral purpose, the poems in Jacqueline Moore’s new book, “Chasing the Grass,” fit the script perfectly.