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Don’t Bring Tomatoes. Do Bring Cheer.

World-Renowned Improvisers Set to Barnstorm Bar Harbor CARRIE JONES JUL 25, 2024 Share This article was generously sponsored by The Witham Family Hotels Charitable Fund. BAR HARBOR—In improv, there’s no script. There are no writers jotting down notes. There are no lines to remember. There is no stand-up routine memorized. There is absolutely no time to prepare. It’s just four men on the stage, thinking quick, … Continue reading Don’t Bring Tomatoes. Do Bring Cheer.

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Rockwell Remixed and Free to View

MDI High School’s Online Show Brings Passion and Resonance to Viewers CARRIE JONES JUN 29, 2024 Share BAR HARBOR—Local artists aren’t just displaying their art in galleries, on restaurant, bank, and hotel walls, and in private homes this summer. They are also sharing it online with the hopes of making it accessible to many people and also to showcase the talents of some teens from Mount Desert … Continue reading Rockwell Remixed and Free to View

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Kissing Cod, Walking 3 Miles, and Searching for the Naughty Sam Slick

At the Somesville Schoolhouse, History Gets Real CARRIE JONES MAY 05, 2024 Share SOMESVILLE—The third graders sat in hard pews, heads down, and focused. Their fingers clutched the chalk as they scraped it along the slate boards balanced on their laps. In front of them, stood a schoolmarm dressed in the garb of 1895. If you go to the mercantile, she asked them, and you … Continue reading Kissing Cod, Walking 3 Miles, and Searching for the Naughty Sam Slick

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Want to Understand What Community & Imagination Can Do? Head to the Theater

A Starry Cast and Devoted Crew bring ACT’s “Just So” to the Grand This Friday CARRIE JONES MAY 01, 2024 Share ELLSWORTH—Matt Cornish strides along the aisles of Ellsworth’s Grand Theater. He looks left. He looks right. He listens, leaning forward, as his cast crowds the stage, waiting for his instruction, his notes, his thoughts. “Theater is hard,” he tells his cast of over 40 … Continue reading Want to Understand What Community & Imagination Can Do? Head to the Theater

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Author Returns Home In Conners Emerson Visit

Diane Magras brings the power of dreams come true to fourth graders CARRIE JONES MAR 23, 2024 Share BAR HARBOR— Once, there was a very, very, very, small dragon named Large Marge. She lived in Italy in a pizza parlor. She wanted to prove herself to Joe’s Pizza, the place where she wanted to work for, not just live at. However, she didn’t know how … Continue reading Author Returns Home In Conners Emerson Visit

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Local Man’s Documentary a Homage to David Moses Bridges

“Rhythms of the Heart” available on Prime Video via Prime Video Direct CARRIE JONES MAR 16, 2024 SOUTHWEST HARBOR—Sometimes a film is more than a film. Sometimes, it’s an act of love. Rhythms of the Heart, a documentary by Southwest Harbor’s Thom Willey, is one of those films as it explores the art, life, and cancer diagnoses of David Moses Bridges, a nationally recognized, indigenous canoe … Continue reading Local Man’s Documentary a Homage to David Moses Bridges

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Bringing a Much Needed Laugh To Bar Harbor’s Winter Season

Three comedians set to play Ivy Manor Saturday CARRIE JONES FEB 29, 2024 Share BAR HARBOR—Everybody needs a few laughs, especially in the middle of a Maine winter. So this Saturday, March 2, the Ivy Manor Inn presents a triple-headliner in back-to-back shows. “We’re very excited about it,” said Brian Goff, Bar Manager for Henry Hotels. “Once the season ended at the end of October, … Continue reading Bringing a Much Needed Laugh To Bar Harbor’s Winter Season

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Local Man and his Crew Keep the Criterion Curtain Rising

Theater proves family, community, and story are the keys to continued survival CARRIE JONES AUG 18, 2023 Share On a show day, the Criterion Theatre’s Managing Director Taylor Valarik moves through the art deco theater with long strides, Hawaiian shirt flapping behind him as he fields eight questions at once, one after another they come. He answers them and maintains his focus. “Can you . … Continue reading Local Man and his Crew Keep the Criterion Curtain Rising

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On the Harbor, Artists Take Over Bar Harbor. Again.

Three events showcase local artists and crafters CARRIE JONES AUG 14, 2023 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 for the founder of the Hudson River school of painting. He’d been to Penobscot Bay, Beech … Continue reading On the Harbor, Artists Take Over Bar Harbor. Again.

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