Robert Kelley, 77, born in Waterville, was found dead Monday in a hotel room in rural North Dakota and the county coroner there has been unable to find any family to claim his remains, Amy Calder writes.
Columns
News columns from staff writers and contributors to the Kennebec Journal and Morning Sentinel.
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‘Hemingway’ entertaining, splendid re-hash of great writer’s life, career
Ken Burns and Lynn Novick’s three-part, six-hour documentary series, “Hemingway,’ examines the visionary work and turbulent life of one of the greatest and most influential American writers – Ernest Hemingway. It does indeed, and as usual, Burns delivers a six-hour entertaining and splendid re-hash of the great writer’s life and career. Burns’ piece, narrated by […]
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Posted inColumns, J.P. Devine
On the Edge: Got the HORN?
Cautiously passing the time on a summer day, J.P. Devine observes others who are oblivious of the horrors of HORN.
Posted inAmy Calder, Local & State, Morning Sentinel
Reporting Aside: Mainers use terms that are wicked puzzling to others, and that’s just fine
Folks here have their own way of being in the world, which includes using seemingly odd turns of phrase, Amy Calder writes.
Posted inColumns, Liz Soares
Thinking Things Through: Cooling off as weather heats up
The proliferation of air-conditioning in Maine homes and the warming of the state’s summer days has been noticeable over the past several decades, Liz Soares writes.
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‘Get Low’ a tender-hearted, ancient ghostly love story
Equal parts folk tale, fable and real-life legend about the mysterious, 1930s Tennessee hermit who famously threw his own rollicking funeral party
Posted inColumns, J.P. Devine
On the Edge: The keeper of the flame
Many characters come in and out of J.P.’s stories, and some of them are potent reminders of a past that remembers.
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The dogs seem to be the only ones we can trust in “The Old Man,” J.P. Devine writes
Just as we had decided to move on to newer pastures, we find ourselves stuck in the quick sand of “The Old Man,” a superior CIA thriller, Episode Three. “The Old Man” AKA “Dan Chase” ( Jeff Bridges) is getting deeper, smokier, darker, more intense. It’s a like a rich dessert we take in after […]
Posted inColumns, Dana Wilde, Kennebec Journal
Backyard Naturalist: A rainbow in the eye of the beholder
The beauty of light rays refracted inside raindrops give us — or so it seems — a peculiar sense of grace being imposed on the world, Dana Wilde writes.