ALFRED — An author of history books and a woodworker who applies history to his craft are the final two speakers in the 2016 Sid Emery Memorial Forum at Alfred Shaker Museum. The series of speakers is sponsored by the museum’s Friends organization and the Sanford-Springvale Historical Society.
Author Ron Romano, whose book “Early Gravestones in Southern Maine: The Genius of Bartlett Adams,” was published this past summer, will address his audience on Sunday. Woodworker Adam Nudd-Homeyer, who will display two reproductions of Shaker chairs, will describe his work on Oct. 23. Both events are free to the public, and will be held at 1:30 p.m. at the Shaker Museum in Alfred.
It is the second year of this speakers’ series, which is named in memory of the late Sid Emery, a former member of the two sponsoring organizations who lived many years in Springvale and long had close ties with Alfred. A third year of the series is planned for the 2017 season, for which the Friends organization already has obtained grant funding.
Art Guild of the Kennebunks announces winners
KENNEBUNKPORT— A number of artists won awards in September in the Art Guild of the Kennebunk’s Annual Award Exhibition.
Dawn Maron of Kennebunk won Best in Show with her oil painting “Low Tide”; Judith Kinsman of Saco received First Place Oil with her painting “Summer Retreat”; Sheila O’Neil Clough of Waterboro won First Place Acrylic with “Mid-Coast Reflection”; Ellen Pelletier of Kennebunk won First Place Pastel with “Late Day Shadows”; Sue Speers of Kennebunk won First Place Watercolor with “Maine Street, Port Clyde”; Priscilla Verrier of Saco won First Place Mixed Media, Photography, 3-Dimensional with “Mainely Seasons”; and Jeanne Griffin of Wells won the AGK Scholarship Raffle prize of Nadine Schoepfle’s oil painting donation, “Garden Party.”
Recycle and support club scholarship
BUXTON — The Buxton Garden Club is collecting inkjet cartridges and working or broken cell phones to fund a scholarship. Boxes are located at the Buxton Recycling Center, Buxton Town Hall, West Buxton Library, and Bar Mills Post Office. In Hollis, boxes are located at Salmon Falls Library, Hollis Town Hall and Hollis Center Library. There are also “Clynk” bags available for recycling returnables upon request by contacting Linda at 929-5531 or buxtongc@gmail.com.
Red Cross Blood Drive on Monday
BIDDEFORD —The Knights of Columbus will host a Red Cross Blood Drive from noon to 5 p.m. Monday at St. Joseph Church’s downstairs hall. Eligible donors can drop in or call the Red Cross at 1-800-RED CROSS (1-800-733-2767) to schedule an appointment. Donors may also search online for a sponsor code using the phrase “KOCBidd.”
St. Joseph Church is located at 27 St Joseph St., off Elm Street, in Biddeford.
Boy Scouts hosting Mitten Drive
SACO — The Boy Scouts of Troop 310 and Cub Scouts of Pack 311, in conjunction with Central Maine Power’s mitten drive, will be collecting donations of new mittens, gloves, hats and scarves, as well as gently used winter clothing items, at the Saco Fire Station on Saturday. Scouts will be also be conducting service projects at schools in Saco, Old Orchard Beach, and Dayton as a way of giving back to their communities
New exhibit at KFL
KENNEBUNK — “The Art of the Pencil,” featuring pencil drawings of John W. Forssen, will be on exhibit in November at the Kennebunk Free Library.
The public is invited to view the exhibit during regular library hours when the gallery is not in use for library programs. (Library hours are 9:30 a.m. to 8 p.m. Monday and Tuesday, 12:30- 8 p.m. Wednesday and Thursday, and 9:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. Friday and Saturday.)
Forssen has been a doodler most of his life. “I did my first actual drawing when I was 7, an iron ram’s head fitted atop an ornamental floor ashtray,” he said. “I can still remember the excitement I felt at having managed what seemed, at the time, like a mirror reflection of the ram. Off and on in my adult life, I continued to pursue art, working in pencil, pen and ink and oils, but always returning to the pencil. In the last two or three years, retired now from teaching English, I have begun to draw more regularly and with a greater passion, seeking tones and textures which breathe life into subjects as they appear on the page.”
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