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Life & Culture
Arts, entertainment, food and books news from the Kennebec Journal and Morning Sentinel.
Posted inFood & Dining, Maine Gardener
The optimist sees the beautiful blooms. The pessimist sees climate change
Dazed and confused, or maybe just stressed, trees and shrubs that normally bloom in the spring are blooming this fall.
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Posted inFood & Dining, Vegan Kitchen
There’s nothing spooky about vegan chocolate
Maine’s best chocolatiers offer plenty of choices for vegan trick-or-treaters – and their parents.
Posted inArts & Entertainment, Books
Children’s author/illustrator Peter Brown brings his robot to the wilds of Maine
After years of living in big cities and creating stories set in wilderness, the best-selling author of the ‘Wild Robot’ series moved to the Midcoast last year.
Posted inFood & Dining
Maine’s ‘haunted’ hospitality venues serve up plenty of spooky stories
Ghost lore abounds at some of the state’s older restaurants and bars.
Posted inArts & Entertainment, Books
‘Making Maine’ gives a decidedly unsentimental picture of the nascent state
Scoundrels, smugglers and their ilk helped to make Maine, according to a new history of the War of 1812.
Posted inOn this date
Oct. 29, 1981: Voters in Jefferson to decide fate of construction at Village School, ‘Healthy Halloween Party’ wraps up in Richmond, and Arby’s makes a vegetable soup that’s ‘uncannily’ good
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Posted inOn this date
Oct. 28, 1994: Oakland, Belgrade students meet each other for first time thanks to pen pal program, two more arrested in Skowhegan theft sweep, and the Morning Sentinel endorses Angus King to be the next governor of Maine
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Posted inBooks, Life & Culture, Maine Authors
BUSHNELL ON BOOKS: ‘Hunger Hill’ and ‘Hector Fox and the Daring Flight’
A fast-paced crime drama debut from Philip Baker, and Astrid Sheckels’s third children’s book about Hector and all his quirky woodland pals
Posted inOn this date
Oct. 27, 1982: Augusta City Council believes Capitol Theater is threat to public safety and wants it demolished, 12 imprisoned criminals will petition for pardons, commutations in court today, and two men were arrested for trapping illegal pelts out of season
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