Die Kunst des feinen Porzellans: I am back from my two-week vacation in Bavaria, Germany, where I had a great time. One of the interesting arts-related things I did – besides just taking in some of the beautiful architecture, such as Wahnfried Haus in Bayreuth, the preserved former home of the late German composer Richard Wagner – was check out Seltmann Weiden, the world-famous manufacturer of fine porcelain in the small city of Weiden in der Oberpfalz, where my son and his family live.
SEE YOU AT TOWN MEETING
Here it is: our annual call to every voting-age resident of Lincoln County to go to town meeting.
How to Avoid Battery Fires
I want to thank Linda Shaffer for her recent “Talkin’ Trash” column in The Lincoln County News, “Avoiding household battery fires.” I admit that I was unaware of this fire danger.
Thrifty Good Food Browsing Old Cookbooks
February is a month that always seems longer than its 28 days. It has not helped that this year we have had bright, sunny, and warm days that lull us into believing that spring is just around the corner, only to be awakened by another Sunday snowstorm. It is a good time to browse old cookbooks for recipes less familiar and sometimes overlooked or forgotten.
Jefferson Column
Are you dreaming about having a summer garden? If not, you probably don’t garden. These last few weeks of reprieve from the bitter cold winter were a blessing. When the temperature reaches into the 40s and 50s, I start thinking about the soil and what I’m going to plant – come spring.
Round Pond Column
For two to three years, I have tried to get a picture of Pippo, Kathy and Russ Mack’s dog, as he guards Round Pond from his lofty perch on their front yard. Finally, while walking by a couple of weeks ago, I was able to snatch a quick picture before he hopped down. I do believe that Pippo determines who is allowed into the village and who is not.
BE NICE
The tactics from one side of the debate about the Maine Department of Transportation’s plans for downtown Wiscasset seem to sink lower every week.
Waste Watch
Here comes March and I’m ready for some warmer weather. I know March is a winter month, but I’m trying to be optimistic. I’m predicting an early spring!
Westport Island Column
Dear friends and neighbors,
I don’t know about you, but for me this last episode of snow and rain with the ensuing mud is getting a bit old. I did manage to do some nice skiing at a groomed area last weekend. However, trying to hike a 2000’ mountain with a south facing exposure turned out to be challenging due to steep, ice covered trails.
Skidompha Skoop
It was a dark and stormy night…
This opening line has been a literary “facepalm” since it first appeared in a overwrought Victorian novel by Sir Edward George Earle Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton. It has become synonymous with the Victorian melodramatic style, and the annual Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest, begun in 1982 as an homage to this most famous of opening lines, requires contestants “to compose the opening sentence to the worst of all possible novels.”
A GOOD START?
Gov. Paul LePage was praising Democrats at the county caucus Saturday.
WINNING AND LOSING
As the high school basketball playoffs begin, we encourage our readers to go out and support our local teams. You can find a schedule on page 15 in our print edition.
Lincoln County Artsbeat
Art of the square: “I can’t believe it’s been a whole year since we first met at my art display at the Bristol Area Library,” Walpole artist Susan Bartlett Rice told me in a recent email. Indeed, a year has gone by since Rice’s last Bristol exhibit, and now she has a new exhibit at the same library, which runs through the end of February.
Westport Island Column
Dear friends and neighbors,
Change of venue: Nita Greenleaf’s community supper will be held this Saturday, Feb. 17 from 4:30-6 p.m. in the Old Town Hall. Ten dollars for adults and eight dollars for kids under age eight will get one a tantalizing meal of roast pork and stuffing, mashed potatoes and gravy, string beans and applesauce, and coffee and tea and dessert. Shake off the winter doldrums and join folks for some food and conversation this weekend.
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