After spending a lifetime watching Charles Dickens, I settled long ago on Clive Donner’s 1984 version with the best Ebenezer Scrooge of all, George C. Scott. First of all, it was the best television production we’ve ever seen. Scott has all the requisite physical gnarls and attitudes to convey the loathing the public has for […]
Columns
News columns from staff writers and contributors to the Kennebec Journal and Morning Sentinel.
Posted inColumns, Liz Soares
Thinking Things Through: This little light of mine
Liz Soares reflects on holiday light displays of yesteryear and her own attempts at bringing light to the season.
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Posted inColumns, J.P. Devine
On the Edge: For Yaffa Adar on Hanukkah
The recent terrors inflicted on Jewish people has J.P. Devine pondering survival and freedom during this holy season.
Posted inAmy Calder, Columns, Local & State, Morning Sentinel
Reporting Aside: The gift of books
Having gone through the publishing process makes one appreciate even more what a gift it is to hold a book in one’s hands and travel its pages, Amy Calder writes.
Posted inJ.P. Devine, Life & Culture, Movie Review J.P. Devine
Netflix to divorce ‘Love Actually’ on Christmas, J.P. Devine says
Did you know that “ Love Actually,” the movie love story of eight different couples in Britain trying to figure how to get through Christmas 2003, will be dumped by Netflix on Dec. 25? 2003! That makes this the 20th anniversary of this big, wonderful Christmas story of eight everyday London couples. In Hollywood, there […]
Posted inColumns, Dana Wilde
Backyard Naturalist: All about Christmas
Reflecting on his grandson’s love of Christmas and family, Dana Wilde ponders how unity is the root experience of all religious feeling.
Posted inColumns, J.P. Devine
On the Edge: The pie and my angel
A boy needs something to wear when it’s cold and late and the pie needs baking and the tree needs trimming, J.P. Devine writes.
Posted inAmy Calder, Columns, Local & State, Morning Sentinel
Reporting Aside: Beware the square holiday cards
Who knew that mailing square Christmas cards poses a problem for the U.S. Post Office? Amy Calder writes.