Before winter arrives with a white vengeance, outdoor folks of all skill levels and ages enjoy December hiking and tracking. With a light cover of fresh snow for a canvas, veteran and amateur trackers alike can easily spot and read critter signs.
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BUSHNELL ON BOOKS: “The Christmas Star” and “The Wicked Good Book”
With an obvious nod to Ebenezer Scrooge and “A Christmas Carol,” Maine author and poet Christopher Fahy tells the warm, charming story of a man whose sudden misfortune reveals an opportunity he never knew existed.
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BOOKS: Picks for the season
Louise Erdrich is more than this year’s winner of the National Book Award for fiction. She’s a bookstore owner and has some ideas for what customers might pick up as holiday gifts.
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ALLEN AFIELD: Tough odds in muzzleloader season
Maine’s muzzle-loading season in the bottom two-thirds of the state runs through this coming week and closes a half-hour after sunset on Saturday, Dec. 8. For details, check mefishwildlife.com or pages 21 and 22 in the “Maine Hunting and Trapping” booklet.
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TRAVELIN’ MAINE(RS): SUNDAY MORNING at SEA DOG — Burgers and brews give way to a brunch buffet
The Sea Dog Brewing Company, perched alongside the Androscoggin River in Topsham, is a favorite stop for us (and maybe you, too) for burgers and brews. But if you haven’t tried their Sunday brunch, you will be astonished!
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BOOKS: Film stories light up ‘Big Screen’
A treat for the film fan who already knows his Murnau from his Eisenstein, David Thomson’s reflections on movies and their impact is a tart challenge to people who think the cinema began with their first box of popcorn.
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OUTDOORS: This might be the winter of the grosbeaks
Perhaps this winter will be the winter of the grosbeaks. In the last column, I wrote about the irruption of evening grosbeaks into central and southern Maine. Sightings continue throughout the state. Many people are seeing evening grosbeaks at their feeders for the first time in a decade or more.