Archive for May, 2009
Rain, rain, rain! Week of May 24
My younger son, Taylor, just finished his second year of college — glory hallelujah. He brought his girlfriend, Lauren, up to Belfast for a week of hiking and outdoor activity –however, the weather deities conspired to upset this plan. Most of the time was spent playing Scrabble (did you know the English word “bot”? I [...]
Hysterical Society? Week of May 17
For years, I have chuckled when someone mentioned the “Hysterical” Society, usually in reference to blocking some modern development. I never paid much attention. That has changed and for the good! On Monday, May 18, the Belfast Historical Society sponsored a lecture at the local library on Charles A. Townsend. Maybe not a figure of [...]
Wines and Weeds: An Unlikely Duo
Week of May 10 When we offered a contract on The White House Inn last summer, the gardens were a riot of blooming glory. I thought, incorrectly, that these flowers would re-appear with scant effort on my part. Coming from Washington DC with our postage-size yard filled with about seven evergreens, spring prep involved [...]
Can’t Beat That: Movies and Plays in Belfast. Week of May 3
It’s Wednesday and that means half price night at the Colonial Movie Theatre in downtown Belfast. Aha, you may think, movies showing in the mid-coast of Maine are surely something available on Netflix. Not so! Belfast is the polar opposite of New York, Washington, Los Angeles in many things but when it comes to opening [...]
