I didn’t think it could happen, but I found solace in the midst of a pandemic, writes Liz Soares.
Columns
News columns from staff writers and contributors to the Kennebec Journal and Morning Sentinel.
J.P. Devine: We gotta get outta here
Thinking of all the places he’s been, and how badly he wanted to leave, J.P. Devine muses on the only other destination available right now.
Amy Calder: A serendipitous gravestone matter
A gravestone conservator from New York just happened to be working in a cemetery in Sidney when he learned about efforts to fix a neglected Civil War veteran’s stone in Waterville.
J.P. Devine Movie Review: ‘Greyhound’
Actor Tom Hanks writes, stars in Naval war film full of stormy waters, packs of German Uboats.
Dana Wilde: Spiders in the day lilies
Little did we know in June that a veritable summer colony of nursery web spider families was setting up in the garden, writes Dana Wilde.
J.P. Devine: The music of summer
Sports, especially baseball, is the music of the season; love songs from the bleachers, J.P. Devine writes.
Amy Calder: Preserving a Medal of Honor veteran’s memorial
A Capitol Police officer and an American Legion chaplain team up to help raise funds to fix a Civil War veteran’s gravestone at Pine Grove Cemetery in Waterville, Amy Calder writes.
J.P. Devine Movie Review: ‘Fisherman’s Friends’
Trust me, you’ll be calmed in these furnace days with the seas and skies of Cornwall, (gorgeously photographed by Simon Tindall) the actors and original music. If ever we needed something to lift our spirits, it’s movies like this, writes Devine.