Reading and Roaming
ENDLESS SUMMER This is so far a strange November. We’ve changed the clocks and it gets dark early, but the sun is still hot during the day and the mercury scrapes 90. Overnight it doesn’t get really cool (still low 70’s) and the days are sticky humid. Usually by now, the local paper has had at least one …
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MOON DAY If you’re of a certain age, you probably remember exactly where you were fifty years ago today on July 20, 1969. I had a summer job at Cornell University and was living in a rooming house near the campus. My fiancé, now the Chief Penguin, was doing Air Force training in northern Maine at …
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PORTLAND—FOOD AND MORE Like Julius Caesar’s army, the Chief Penguin and I travel on our stomachs. Despite what it may seem, we did do more in Portland than eat. But, knowing the restaurants mid-coast are not as varied or inventive, we took advantage of Portland’s wonderful foodie scene. DINING Hugo’s The food at Hugo’s is sophisticated and …
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CONCERT NOTE Kudos to the Ladies Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel was a talented and precocious composer and pianist. But, she was female, and as sister to her talented brother Felix, she was relegated to the back of the room. Their father declared that Felix would have the musical career and she would not. In her day, some of her …
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