Archive for July, 2009
Maine is not just lobsters: Cooking Classes for everything else
Apologies to the annual Lobster Festival soon to be underway at Rockland — but Maine also means incredible and different activities to enrich the mind and also the stomach! Last weekend, Santiago and I were invited to the Opening Party of Salt Water Farm, a lovely and unqiue escape in Lincolnville Beach where recreational cooking classes [...]
Hidden Valley Camp, ME: The new face of camping
Sleep-away camp has changed since I sent my sons off for four weeks of uninterrupted parental bliss. The guys got on the camp bus and, for a month, the only communication was a few postcards. (When I was a child, my camping experience consisted of an over-night in the back yard. Do I have some [...]
Maine Celtic Celebration in Belfast — July 17-19
The Maine Celtic Celebration is almost upon us and being new to this mid-coast area, I must admit I had no clue what the fuss was all about. So I did a little research which first involved checking out the information provided by the local Belfast Chamber of Commerce (of course to which we belong [...]
King Lear – Redux
I had the great good fortune of seeing a performance of King Lear twice in one week. (All right, some of you would say this happenstance is a misfortune - you need read no further!) One performance was staged in Washington DC at the Shakespeare Theatre with a professional troupe and Stacy Keach in the lead [...]
