Ahmad Adeyemi Aloya has vacationed in Belgrade most summers over the last 30 years and continues to discover new information about his grandfather, John J. McAuley, writes Amy Calder.
Columns
News columns from staff writers and contributors to the Kennebec Journal and Morning Sentinel.
Posted inColumns, J.P. Devine, Local & State, News
Get those eclipse glasses ready
Amid myriad leaks emanating from the Oval Office of 45 involving consumption of the sun by snakes or dragons, J.P. Devine reveals sure-fire ways to handle the celestial event.
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Posted inColumns, Liz Soares
Lizzie Borden and the dog days of summer
There’s nothing like a cold case from 1892 to distract your brain from current events, writes Liz Soares.
Posted inColumns, J.P. Devine, Local & State, News
Goodnight, my someone
A memoir of a Broadway star, a cabaret singer, and the New York haunts of actors and dancers in halcyon days gone by, writes J.P. Devine.
Posted inColumns, Dana Wilde, Local & State, News
Spider camp at Eagle Hill
If spiders were to suddenly disappear from an ecosystem, you’d soon notice, writes Dana Wilde.
Posted inColumns, Emily Higginbotham, Local & State, News
2017 is still the year of women
Already the consequences of 2016 have fostered a wider female community, one that is standing up for itself, writes Emily Higginbotham.
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Welcome to Taylor’s world
Taylor Browne hosts a tea party to honor his grandmother who bequeathed him a green thumb to raise lush gardens around his house in the heart of Waterville, Amy Calder writes.
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Living dramatically has its price
From Spanish galleons to widow’s walks on the coast of Maine, there’s always something that makes you change course, J.P. Devine writes
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J.P. Devine Movie Review: ‘Dunkirk’
Movie is a reminder that behind us in centuries of history, there were defenders of freedom, real heroes, who walked this planet without magic shields or ray guns, and sometimes without hope, saved democracy, J.P. Devine writes.