Dean Read stands on the back of a flatbed truck, bullhorn in hand. “Penny and I are going to do this for maybe two more years. Hopefully, we’ll get a replacement.” Dean and Penny Read are the lead organizers for the Cadillac Challenge Century Bicycle Ride, an annual October one-day event that sends cyclists either 100 miles or 68 miles, which is a metric century. … Continue reading Cadillac Challenge Century Bike Ride
Cancer survivors. Octogenarians. Children with shovels. Mothers with drills. Some of the people assembling playground parts had to shuffle across the wood chips, backs bent. “This is going to hurt tomorrow,” joked one Rotarian on a September Saturday back in 2017. But that little bit of pain transformed a playground where children never played, reviving it into a community gathering place. Like a lot of … Continue reading The Park Street Playground Where Community Happens Every Day
It rises about 347 feet, but you mostly don’t notice that until the beginning or the end. Schooner Head Path is a 5.6 mile lightly trafficked out and back trail located near Bar Harbor, Maine that features beautiful wild flowers and is good for all skill levels. The trail offers a number of activity options and is accessible year-round. Dogs are also able to use … Continue reading The Schooner Head Trail
Good art, good community, is all about connections and insight, creating and glimpsing into things a little bit more deeply than might make us normally comfortable. It’s about stained-glass nippers, felted rocks, stack upon stack of unfinished projects, the smell of turpentine and glue, the feel of a chalk pastel against the skin. There is something vulnerable about creating, but there’s also something so joyous … Continue reading ArtWaves Building Community and Connection
He’s a pretty hip-looking server and he leads us to our outside table, but despite all his confidence and charisma, he trips a bit. His red Converse scuff against each other. “Are you okay?” I reach out my arm to steady him even though he’s in front of me and obviously completely fine. “I am having such a hard time picking up my … Continue reading Connections at the Upper Deck
