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“VOICE of Central Maine” would suggest that we presume to speak for the people. This is not a good idea. Instead we propose to offer a means for the people to speak for themselves, directly and without the constraints inherent in commercial media and special interest entities. The difference is distinct […]

You won’t find Tilbury Town listed in any Triple-A travel books or Cook’s Tour Guides, but that doesn’t mean we don’t have a tourist season. We do. Last year, for instance, our Tourist arrived a little later than usual. Harriet Meekel’s […]

by Bob Demers, Gardiner
This past summer, Hubert Hellbender, postmaster and resident understudy at Theatre-on-the-Fritz here in Tilbury, bought his nephew, Horace, a sail plane for his birthday. The plane was hand-crafted by a snowshoe salesman up north in Eagle Lake to help fill in the time between snow seasons. If you set your mind to […]

by Bob Demers
This is a home made demonstration of what can be done with a collection of photos already on your hard disk, or stacked in a shoebox (if you have a scanner to make the .jpg files.)
These were taken around my house in Gardiner over a couple of winters . I used the Pinnacle […]

by Bob Demers, Gardiner
Milo Ferguson is our Community Intellectual. He was elected to the post by a slim margin at last Spring’s town meeting on the basis of having read both of Edwin Arlington Robinson’s great plays “Van Zorn” and “The Porcupine”. This immediately distinguished him from all other contenders who had merely CONSIDERED reading […]

by Bob Demers, Gardiner

Around the turn of the century a Pulitzer prize-winning Maine poet, Edwin Arlington Robinson, made occasional references in his poems to a place he called Tilbury Town. Here are a few examples:
“We’ve each a darkening hill to climb;
And this is why, from time to time
In Tilbury Town, we look beyond
Horizons for the […]

A radio play produced by the Open Book Players and directed by Bob Demers. “Morgan and the Pot O’ Brains” us one of a series of seven included in a production at Jewett Hall Auditorium, University of Maine at Augusta, in 2002. Others plays in the series will be posted here from time to […]

There is much that is special about Gardiner. Ask anyone who lives here. One of Gardiner’s best kept secrets is Readers Theatre. The Open Book Players introduced the genre in 1996 when it presented its first Readers Theatre performance at Johnson Hall. Eleven years and a hundred performances later, most Gardiner folks still […]

Learn about the sometime happy, sometime tragic life of the outstanding American poet who grew up in Gardiner. Become acquainted with his friends and neighbors and discover how they influenced EAR’s formative years. Many of the sites have changed little from the time Robinson walked the streets of his neighborhood. Guided tours […]