The boards of 15 local nonprofit organizations that participated in a study of local historical archives are considering if they will form a governing body to oversee the next phase of the History Trust project. The History Trust will work to catalog, protect and digitize the region’s archives and engage the community, especially students, in …
MOUNT DESERT — “The Vintage Classroom: A Day in the Sound Schoolhouse, 1895” will be performed by the Mount Desert Island Historical Society and the Barn Arts Collective on Thursday, May 10, from 12:30-3 p.m. This interactive event will introduce participants to the history of Mount Desert Island at the turn of the 20th century. …
TREMONT — The Seal Cove Auto Museum is one of the stops on the 2018 Hemmings Motor News Great Race route, which will take racers more than 2,000 miles through 17 cities in 10 days. Racers will stop at the museum for lunch on June 28. The public is invited to visit the auto museum …
TREMONT — According to the judges at the Eastern Maine Sportsmen’s Show, John Fernandez has nice legs. They mean the legs of the great blue heron he carved, which won him first place as well as the people’s choice award at the competition in mid-March. “I would rather get people’s choice, knowing that I’ve captured …
BAR HARBOR — Author and journalist Douglas Rooks will talk about his book “Rise, Decline and Renewal: The Democratic Party in Maine” at the Jesup Memorial Library on Thursday, April 26, at 7 p.m. With the election of Gov. Edmund Muskie in 1954, the Democratic Party reached new heights in Maine and went on to …
BAR HARBOR — David Manski and Shira Singer will talk about how they retraced Manski’s family’s flight from Poland in 1939 at the Jesup Memorial Library on Friday, April 27, at 7 p.m. After leaving Poland, the family, including Manski’s father, Saul, who was 11 at the time, found refuge with family members in Lithuania. …
BAR HARBOR — Several College of the Atlantic students who took part in COA’s annual 14-week program in Spanish language and culture in Mérida, Yucatán, this winter will talk about their experiences and share academic work from the program at the COA Human Ecology Forum in McCormick Lecture Hall on Tuesday, April 17, at 4:10 …
TREMONT — Nat and Sugar Fenton will present a slide show of their trip exploring the glacier-covered mountains of New Zealand’s Southern Alps in a Cessna at the Bass Harbor Memorial Library on Thursday, April 19, at 5:30 p.m. Approximately 48 hours after the 2011 Christchurch earthquake, Nat and Sugar Fenton were landing in the …
BAR HARBOR — “Cézanne, Portraits of a Life,” part of the art documentary master series Exhibition on Screen, will be shown at The Criterion Theatre on Sunday, April 15, at 7 p.m. The screening is sponsored by ArtWaves community art center. Featuring interviews with curators and experts from the National Portrait Gallery London, MoMA New …
MILLINOCKET — Mount Desert Island High School’s Mixed Choir and the combined Conners Emerson and Mount Desert Elementary School Show Stoppers brought home overall first-place trophies in their divisions at the Maine State Vocal Jazz Festival Finals at Stearns High School over the weekend in Millinocket. This is the seventh straight year the MDI Mixed …
