Staff let go and theater closed as board contemplates extensive repairs and way to move forward Carrie Jones Jan 21, 2025 Share BAR HARBOR—Flow like a river: that’s what former Criterion Theatre Production Manager Chuck Colbert would tell the staff before big events and performance. Do your work. Take obstacles in stride. Do it all with love. Flow like a river. As of January 12, … Continue reading Criterion’s Future Is Uncertain
And they need your help Carrie Jones Jan 15, 2025 Share The Bar Harbor Story is generously sponsored by Side Street Cafe. BAR HARBOR AND LAMOINE—An interaction on the dating app Hinge has led to not just a relationship, but also a collaboration that involves Mount Desert Island, films, and the creation of story for two twenty-somethings with a connection to Hancock County. Carla Troconis and … Continue reading From Hinge to Film Shot on MDI, Two Gen Z Creators Focus on Raw and Human Storytelling
History and art combine at Northeast Harbor Library through December Shaun Farrar Dec 10, 2024 Share The Bar Harbor Story is generously sponsored by The Witham Family Hotels Charitable Fund. BAR HARBOR—“The wonderful thing about art as an activity is you can do it as you age, it’s not expensive like keeping a horse, it doesn’t depend on the weather, and you can do it almost … Continue reading The First Intergalactic Birch Bay Village Art Exhibition
ACT handles massive cast and massive fun in upcoming Best Christmas Pageant Ever production Carrie Jones Nov 07, 2024 Share The Bar Harbor Story is generously sponsored by Side Street Cafe. BAR HARBOR—When the actors head into rehearsal at the Mount Desert Island High School Saturday afternoon, they seem like more than friends; they seem like family members that love each other, that get along well, … Continue reading Unto MDI, A Great Community Production is Born!
And according to science, it’s bringing some emotion, too Carrie Jones Sep 21, 2024 BAR HARBOR—The posts started showing up on one social media account after another: an image of Mount Desert Island and in the middle? A guitar fretboard. “Music Harbor” was all it read. What exactly did the image mean? What was Music Harbor? And why was this image suddenly showing up everywhere? … Continue reading Music Harbor Brings Music, Joy, and A Lot More During Marathon Weekend
Out There Will Be Right Here: Filmmaker & Composer Screen Feature at Criterion This Wednesday The Bar Harbor Story is generously sponsored by Window Panes Home and Garden. BAR HARBOR—Brendan Hall’s story begins like this: He started making films when he was just twelve. He wanted to be a Hollywood filmmaker. He worked really hard developing his eye for image and cinematographic chops as well as … Continue reading The Parks Changed This Filmmaker’s Dreams
“The Bar Harbor Showplace” celebrates Carrie Jones Aug 24, 2024 Share BAR HARBOR—Imagine. It’s 1932, almost 100 years ago. It’s a Monday, not usually considered a big night on the town, even in a Bar Harbor summer season. It’s June 6. And the lavish, the wealthy, the movers and the shakers, the elected officials are all waiting for one big thing: The 1932 Criterion Theatre … Continue reading Bringing Back Main Character Energy
Documentarian pieces together story where the record can never be complete Carrie Jones Aug 17, 2024 Share MOUNT DESERT—Jeremy Lunt’s first project that he worked on was a true crime mob thriller. That might seem a far cry from his newest project about Mount Desert Island, but Lunt, who grew up here, is all about creating story while using multiple perspectives—perspectives that aren’t necessarily his … Continue reading Mount Desert Island: A Home Movie
CARRIE JONES AUG 03, 2024 Share The Bar Harbor Story is generously sponsored by The Witham Family Hotels Charitable Fund. BAR HARBOR—William Hathaway graduated from Mount Desert Island High School in 2000 and the island hasn’t let him go yet. He spends time here in the summer and every other year for Christmas. “For years I have wanted to have a Night Gallery exhibition in Maine,” Hathaway … Continue reading MDI Graduates Bring a Night Gallery to Portland While Art Takes Over Bar Harbor This Weekend
Bar Harbor Historical Society’s Hudson to Harbor’s second annual local art invitational draws Maine talent and gives opportunities for beginners to create, too CARRIE JONES JUL 27, 2024 Share BAR HARBOR—Way back on September 3, 1844, the painter, Thomas Cole, came across the state of Maine and ended up at Lynam’s farmhouse on Schooner Head in Bar Harbor. Bar Harbor wasn’t the first Maine stop … Continue reading Get Your Art On, MDI!
