VOICES OF CENTRAL MAINE
A citizen access resource for residents of central Maine.

Aug

6

“VOICES” of Central Maine? Why “Voices” rather than “Voice”?

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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 […]

Mar

8

The TILBURY CHRONICLES #4 - Tourism in Tilbury

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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 […]

Feb

25

The TILBURY CHRONICLES #3 - Sailplaning

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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 […]

Feb

8

EATING OUT- Doughnuts of Central Maine

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by The Eating Out Guy
America may run on Dunkin’ Donuts but in many localities the claim is based more on availability than choice. Last summer, Spouse and I drove from Gardiner to Eastport. We decided to forgo breakfast on the Gardiner end of the trip and planned to stop an hour or so down the […]

Dec

7

The TILBURY CHRONICLES #2 - Community Intellectuals

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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 […]

Dec

7

The TILBURY CHRONICLES #1 - Tilbury Defined

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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 […]