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Apr 11, 2021 Pretty damn good weekend for me!!! Started Friday as I headed up to Cape Porpoise Maine with the camera to shoot the sunset there. Cape Porpoise is a really nice little fishing harbor just north of Kennebunkport. Its quiet, and beautiful. It WAS a bit colder than I was prepared for though. Dont want to say I froze nuts off - But I froze my nuts off. Lucky I always have extra warm clothes with me when I go out shooting. The next morning- I was up early to shoot the sunrise. Peop...

Apr 11, 2021 Pretty damn good weekend for me!!! Started Friday as I headed up to Cape Porpoise Maine with the camera to shoot the sunset there. Cape Porpoise is a really nice little fishing harbor just north of Kennebunkport. Its quiet, and beautiful. It WAS a bit colder than I was prepared for though. Dont want to say I froze nuts off - But I froze my nuts off. Lucky I always have extra warm clothes with me when I go out shooting. The next morning- I was up early to shoot the sunrise. Peop...

Liberty, ME 04949 The Davistown Museum is a tool, art, and regional history museum with two physical locations in Maine and a website, rich with resources. Its main building is in Liberty, while its office and a sculpture garden are in Hulls Cove (Bar Harbor). The primary mission of the museum is the recovery, display, and interpretation of hand tools used in Maine and New Englands maritime culture. It serves as an important clearinghouse for information on the history of hand tools and the...

William Lederer Wed, 04/07/2021 - 3:00pm The Mallet Brothers kick off the CCAC’s outdoor concerts series at Maine Maritime Museum on May 8. Courtesy of William Lederer Story Location: Bath  Maine  04530United States The Chocolate Church Arts Center (CCAC) announces a lineup of in-person, outdoor concerts, to begin at 5:30 p.m. scheduled for May and June at the Maine Maritime Museum, 243 Washington St., in Bath.  The first concert, on Saturday, May 8, 5:30-7 p.m. will feature T...

SHARE Jerry Fraser bought the 37-foot Jonesport-style lobster boat Hard Times in 1981 and rerigged her for dragging. In the early 1980s, when I was fishing a dayboat dragger out of Ogunquit, Maine, a noise ordinance came before the town meeting under the terms of which, as we understood them, fishermen would not be able to start their engines before 7 a.m. On the bait wharf, we viewed the proposal as the child of well-heeled folks from away who liked the idea of water views and fishing boats b...

9 Hard To Pronounce Maine Place Names If you spend a lot of time talking to people who have never lived in Maine, you have probably realized there are a bunch of words they just cant seem to pronounce correctly.  Or, at least, they cant seem to pronounce them the way WE would. It seems like the most-difficult words for out-of-staters to pronounce are the ones based on Native American words and the words that feature our unique twist on French. Here are some of the words you brought to our atte...

Southern Maine towns participating in a solar collaborative Seek proposals from solar developers to help reduce energy costs Courtesy of the Southern Maine Planning and Development Commission SACO, Maine — Southern Maine Planning and Development Commission (SMPDC) is soliciting proposals from solar power developers for six towns that have banded together as the Southern Maine Solar Collaborative (SMSC). The effort will take advantage of Maine’s new energy billing program by purchasing from...

More films could be made in Maine under new proposal Promoters of a bill now before the Legislature say the state needs to offer more financial incentives aimed at attracting a steady stream of moderately priced movie and TV productions to compete with other states and create jobs. Share In the recent CBS All Access series based on Stephen King’s “The Stand,” which premiered in late 2020, locations in western Canada stood in for Ogunquit. Photo by Robert Falconer/CBS Every time a movie...

Wed Aug 06 2003 at 16:33:20 d e a t h ,   e n t r o p y   a n d   a n   a m e r i c a n   e p i c IM NOT SURE "EPIC" even covers it. At over 450,000 words¹, its half the length of the King James Bible. It kills off something like five billion people in its opening swipe. It reads like the intersection between Revelation and The Lord of the Rings. And it is horribly, unforgivably engaging. The Stand begins with an unlocked animal cage, or a weak seal, or a broken vial. The origin is not ex...

The claim: A series of images show Tanners Beach in Georgia  One user recently took to social media to share images of light blue ocean waters that purportedly depict "Tanners Beach" in Carrolton, Georgia.  "Tanner’s Beach, Carrollton, Georgia," the user captioned the images, which were shared to Facebook on March 31.  The post, which has over 600 shares and 200 reactions, includes three different photos of a lagoon with crystal clear water and ships near the shore.  Many users in th...