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

Dec

7

(VIDEO) WINTER WONDERLAND A do-it-yourself Video Project

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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 […]

 
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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 […]