Pittsfield prepares for Egg Festival

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Published
June 28, 2012

Pittsfield prepares for Egg Festival

PITTSFIELD -- The 40th Central Maine Egg Festival, Kiwanis Karnival and The Central Maine Everything that Flies Fly-In events are planned for Pittsfield this month.
Published
June 28, 2012

RiverFest events planned July 27-Aug. 5

SKOWHEGAN -- The sixth annual RiverFest will take place July 27-Aug. 5. The event offers family-friendly events throughout the 10 days, centered in and around downtown Skowhegan, with a focus on the Kennebec River.
Published
June 21, 2012

BUSHNELL ON BOOKS: “Venceremos” and “Eric Hopkins: Above and Beyond”

VENCEREMOS By Howard Waxman Maine Authors Publishing, 2011 312 pages, $17.95 ISBN 978-1-936447-60-2 The counter-culture movement of the 1960s and 70s spawned anti-war activism, free love, rampant drug use, revolutionary fervor, and “gave a lot of spoiled kids another chance to play at being rebels,” as is clearly revealed in Howard Waxman’s brilliant debut […]
Published
June 21, 2012

BEST SELLERS for the week of June 21

Publishers Weekly best sellers
Published
June 21, 2012

BOOKS: “Never Tell” is a winner

NYPD Detective Ellie Hatcher returns in a baffling case involving cyberstalking and a teenage suicide in Alafair Burke’s new suspense novel, “Never Tell.”

Published
June 21, 2012

BOOK SIGNING: “Birkebeiner”

Local author Jeff Foltz will be at the Owl and the Turtle Bookshop in Camden on Friday, June 29, from 1 – 3 p.m. to sign copies of his novel “Birkebeiner: A Story of Motherhood and War.”
Published
June 21, 2012

TRAVELIN’ MAINE(RS): Take an island break on PEAKS

As we plotted and planned our first travel columns, we were excited to receive an invitation from Fred Forsley -- owner of Shipyard Brewery and a sponsor of our website -- to be his guests at his Inn on Peaks Island. Our column about that experience -- our very first column -- appeared on Jan. 16, 2011, when we wrote, "We plan to return to the Inn on Peaks Island during the spring bird migration."
Published
June 21, 2012

BOOKS: ‘Gone Girl’ takes ordinary plot in surprise directions

I picked up "Gone Girl" because the novel is set along the Mississippi River in Missouri and the plot sounded intriguing. I put it down two days later, bleary-eyed and oh-so-satisfied after reading a story that left me surprised, disgusted, and riveted by its twists and turns.
Published
June 21, 2012

BOOKS: ‘The Skeleton Box’ is Gruley’s best work to date

The mythical village of Starvation Lake, Mich., is an authentic realm of piney woods, deadman's curves, working-class bars, lakefront cottages, friendly neighbors, town drunks, rampant gossip and small-town cops where almost everyone is obsessed with the fate of a junior hockey team called The River Rats.
Published
June 21, 2012

‘Seeking a Friend for the End of the World’ Chicken Little was right

The great writer, Terry Southern, once wrote, "You can't do the end of the world in a conventionally dramatic way or boy meets girl way." I guess writer Lorene Scafaria didn't get the tweet.