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MDI High School sailing team practice

Laurie Schreiber — Tue, 07 May 2013 20:47:34 +0000

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Linda Kelley: The art, the energy, and a sense of play

Laurie Schreiber — Tue, 02 Apr 2013 21:01:02 +0000

BAR HARBOR – Linda Rowell Kelley likes time by herself in her A-frame studio, a hundred yards down a brushy path from the home she shares with her husband Terry. She paints there for hours on evenings and weekends. When she retires from her day job, as director of administration for the Bar Harbor Housing [...]

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Steve Spurling: 92 and still building boats

Laurie Schreiber — Mon, 25 Mar 2013 21:02:23 +0000

SOUTHWEST HARBOR – At Jarvis Newman’s boat shop, on Main Street in Southwest Harbor, the walls are full of framed photos of old boats. Newman was one of the first fiberglass boatbuilders on the Maine coast, producing hulls for luxury yachts, commercial fishing boats, and Friendship sloops at the rate of one every two weeks [...]

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A Rich heritage: “All I wanted to do was build boats”

Laurie Schreiber — Mon, 25 Feb 2013 23:41:25 +0000

TREMONT – “I built boats from the time I could walk,” says Robert “Chummy” Rich. “Most of them wouldn’t float. If they did, they’d float upside down.” When Rich was a young kid, he liked nothing better than to hang out with his grandfather, locally renowned boatbuilder Clifton Rich. He borrowed scraps of lumber from [...]

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House concert impresario Steve Peer: “The coolest guy we know”

Laurie Schreiber — Wed, 02 Jan 2013 21:38:26 +0000

ELLSWORTH – There’s a hubbub of cheerful chatter, and it’s difficult to make out what Celtic/rock contemporary/fusion musicians Carmel Mikol, Rachel Davis, and Darren McMullen are saying. “We’re not even a band,” says Mikol, who adds, “We’re free radicals.” Or maybe it’s, “We’re three radicals.” The three are scheduled to perform shortly at the home [...]

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Masanobu and Tomoko Ikemiya: The ragtime, sparkle-divine Peace Farm state of mind

Laurie Schreiber — Wed, 14 Nov 2012 00:18:54 +0000

BAR HARBOR – Masanobu Ikemiya is a concert pianist, conductor, and recording artist, a foremost exponent of American ragtime, the founder of the summertime Arcady Music Festival in Maine and of the New York Ragtime Orchestra, and a Zen Buddhist disciple. His wife, Tomoko, is a former nurse-midwife, psychologist, and college instructor. She now manages [...]

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Richard Stanley and wooden boats: From legacy to beyond

Laurie Schreiber — Mon, 08 Oct 2012 13:44:50 +0000

SOUTHWEST HARBOR – Ever since he was a little boy, Richard Stanley has been immersed in a world of the finest craftsmanship at the hands of some of Mount Desert Island’s top wooden boatbuilders. Today, he has become something of a standard-bearer for the art and craft of wooden boatbuilding, through Great Harbor Boatworks, the [...]

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Kyle Stanley: From one who knows, a message to teens to be safe

Laurie Schreiber — Tue, 11 Sep 2012 22:35:59 +0000

On October 19, 2001, the lives of a Tremont family changed drastically when 18-year-old Kyle Stanley was in a car accident that nearly cost him his life. A senior at Mount Desert Island High School at the time, he had been drinking. Stanley was a passenger in a car that took a corner too fast [...]

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Young artists, new message: The euphoria of connection

Laurie Schreiber — Sat, 25 Aug 2012 13:00:26 +0000

BASS HARBOR – The projects of the Mohawk Arts Collective begin with the ideas of the two founders, Andrew Simon and Pavel Ezrohi, and evolve with the added energy of invited artists, who recently traveled from New York City to Bass Harbor for a week’s worth of rehearsal and performance. Youthful and vibrant, the collective [...]

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Sperm whale, dead two weeks, an aromatic necropsy

Laurie Schreiber — Tue, 21 Aug 2012 11:48:31 +0000

BAR HARBOR – A 50-foot male sperm whale, believed to be dead for about two weeks, was collected by Allied Whale in Bar Harbor and necropsied on a Hulls Cove beach on Aug. 20. The animal was estimated to weigh 50 tons, or 100,000 pounds. The head alone was estimated to weigh 30,000 pounds. Because [...]

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