This Week in Lincolnville: Christmas in the Trenches
..a century ago Mon, 12/21/2020 - 11:15am
A gallery of Shebang photos. What happened to all those wonderful handmade masks? Are they tucked away in barns and attics all over the midcoast?
Photos by Liz Hand
Take a minute and listen to John McCutcheons’s
song “Christmas in the Trenches”. Probably you’ve heard it before, but maybe not. It happened just over 100 years ago, when World War I was devastating France. The story of the Christmas truce held particular meaning for my husband, a connection of sorts for him to the father he never knew.
This Week in Lincolnville: Playing Games
.who, me competitive?? Mon, 12/14/2020 - 10:45am
Don’t try to pick out faces. This happy group didn’t live here. See below for who they are
Photo courtesy Jane Liedtke
A selection of Barbara Bentley and Julie Turkevich’s fabric cards. No two alike!
Photo by Julie Turkevich
I’m on a losing streak, one that never seems to end. That’s not a metaphor for my life’s trajectory. I’m
really not winning our game. Night after night I lose the first one, and then, predictably, the second. Rummikub. Ever heard of it?
We stand together in expressing serious concern with the Trump administration s vaccine distribution plan. While we are encouraged by recent reports regarding the vaccines efficacy, there is urgent work to be done to ensure vaccination efforts are both expeditious and fair.
Governors need federal funding in order to execute comprehensive distribution plans to guarantee that all communities have access to the vaccine. The Association of State and Territorial Health Officials estimates that a comprehensive vaccine distribution program would cost approximately $8 billion. To date, the Trump Administration has administered a mere $200 million to the states.
Without adequate funding, distribution will not be equitable. COVID-19 has laid bare chronic health disparities in our country that led communities of color to suffer disproportionately from this virus. Communities of color disproportionately suffer from pre-existing conditions, such as asthma, obesity and hyp