The Brick Store Museum holds more than 30,000 pieces of archival material written by historic Kennebunkers. A Voice from the Past shares from the collection. Cynthia Walker, executive director This week’s entry is from historic Town Clerk Andrew Walker, who kept a detailed diary for decades about his observations of people in town. The original […]
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Guest Column – I, Robot. You, Human. Let’s be friends.
My wife and I recently purchased one of those robot vacuum cleaners. The kind that scuttles around the floor like a mechanical crab. We named it Klara, for the “artificial friend” in Kazuo Ishiguro’s thought-provoking, poignant and disturbing new novel “Klara and the Sun.” Artificial friends are companion robots for lonely, alienated children of the […]
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From Augusta – Fifty years of Title IX and the pursuit of equal play
As many of you know, I’ve been coaching football at Kennebunk High School for a long time now. In fact, 1978 was my first year coaching, just six years after Title IX took effect. I have had the privilege of working with hundreds of student-athletes and seen many of them grow over the years, even […]
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Brick Store Museum introduces inaugural artist-in-residence
KENNEBUNK – The Brick Store Museum announced the appointment of its inaugural artist-in-residence, Beth Crowe. The Artist-in-Residence Program has been funded by a grant from the Bauman Family Foundation, inviting artists to create new works with the museum to deliver new perspectives and develop discussions based on local history and art. In a July 12 […]
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Guest Column – Refugee golf
If there’s anything a golf ball, just out of the shiny new factory package, longs and lusts for, it’s to be sitting on the highly manicured and tickly surface of a golf green, waiting for a gentle nudge or bump, to send it skimming over the roller-coaster surface toward the hole, and jump in, just […]
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A Voice from the Past – Hattie’s diary entry from Hong Kong
The Brick Store Museum holds over 30,000 pieces of archival material written by historic Kennebunkers. A Voice from the Past shares from the museum’s collection. This week’s column is from a local woman named Hattie, who traveled with her husband, a ship captain, around the world in 1884. In this diary, she is writing from […]
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Summer tradition: Ice cream nights at Seashore Trolley Museum
Seashore Trolley Museum announced that it will host Ice Cream Night every Wednesday in July and August from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. Guests are treated to an evening trolley ride on the museum’s heritage railway through its 350-acre campus and an ice cream sundae with all the fixin’s. Tickets are $10/each (children two and younger […]
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Kennebunk voters endorse federal legislation to curb climate change
By a two-to-one margin on June 14, nearly 1,500 Kennebunk voters passed a resolution to urge elected federal policymakers to enact comprehensive climate protection legislation. “Cashback Carbon Pricing,” the policy underlying the federal legislation, was endorsed in a referendum warrant article in the town’s annual election (Article 19: Referendum Question Q) and supports the distribution […]
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Community News – Maine Women in the Arts summer show is back
Maine Women in the Arts is launching its 2022 show season with the Summer Fine Art and Crafts Show. The show features fine art pieces of paintings, sculptures, pottery, and photographs from area artists. In addition to the varied fine art items, a number of artists will have fine art crafts available. The show […]
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Pet Show plans are in place at Kennebunk Free Library
Kennebunk Free Library will hold its 30th annual Pet Show on July 18 at 6 p.m. In the past, the library has been visited by a variety of animals from cows to hermit crabs – and everything in between. The library invites participants to share a pet and receive a certificate. Kennebunk Veterinary Hospital will […]