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Author Martha Tod Dudman to speak in Belfast: Sunrise and the Real World
BELFAST — Left Bank Books in downtown Belfast invites the public to a free talk and book signing by Maine author Martha Tod Dudman, whose most recent novel is Sunrise and the Real World, a thriller set in and around Ellsworth. Dudman has previously published four previous books, including Augusta, Gone, which was adapted as an award-winning Lifetime production.
Tech Center culinary students make life sweeter for Hospice volunteers
Waldo County Technical Center’s (WCTC) Culinary Arts program made life a little sweeter for Hospice volunteers last week when they baked over 300 different types of scones for the organization’s annual Spring Sports Day. Students baked eight different types of scones, including blueberry lemon, coconut lime, and pumpkin...
This Belfast Gardener’s Tulip-Filled Yard Is One of the Brightest Spots Around
In early May, when most Maine gardens are bedraggled beds of brown stems and leaves, Molly Ahrens’s yard dazzles with Monet-like dabs of color from more than 1,000 tulips: frilly burgundy flames, peachy lavender-flushed ruffs, and creamy-white cups congregate in mounded islands, along fences, and above the clay pots that line peastone paths. “I love bulbs,” Ahrens says. “I love the idea of burying something like a treasure and waiting for it to emerge.” She enjoys it so much, in fact, that she does it every fall with all-new bulbs so that, come spring, a landscape entirely different from the year before bursts into bloom around her contemporary farmhouse, in Belfast.
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