Aroostook County
Editor's Note
- By: Paul Doiron
Open a copy of the Maine Atlas and Gazetteer — that invaluable guide every motorist should keep in his or her car — and start paging through it. Sooner or later, as you work your way “north,” you’ll find yourself looking at maps of places with names like alphabet soup: R4 R14 WELS, T 10 SD, T36 MD BPP. You’ll stumble over strange municipal designations rarely found south of the Piscataqua: townships and plantations and gores. These are Maine’s Unorganized Territories, but most people call them the North Woods.
Friends of Portland Public Library Book Sale
Portland, ME 04103
Friends of Portland Public Library is back with an even larger selection of books, records, CDs, and DVDs!
friendsofppl.org/AboutUs/BookSale/tabid/73/Default.aspx
Harold Alfond College Challenge Casting Call
Presque Isle, ME 04769
The five hundred dollar Alfond Grant is available to all Maine babies when a NextGen College Investing Plan account is opened by their first birthday. At the casting calls, Maine babies under the age of one will receive a free professional photograph and may have their picture appear in future Harold Alfond College Challenge promotional materials.
Aroostook State Park Birding Festival
Starts: Jun 18 2011 - 5:00am
Ends: Jun 18 2011 - 1:00pm
Presque Isle, ME 04769
The third annual Aroostook State Park Birding Festival is Maine’s northern most birding event, in Presque Isle and is open to everyone who would like to learn more about birding. This birding festival offers guided bird walks, birding activities, which includes bird banding, calling, and carving demonstrations, live bird displays, a bird house building station, and boat rides.
Briefly Noted
Ashville native Glenna Johnson Smith shares a lifetime’s worth of poignant reflection in Old Maine Woman (Islandport Press, Yarmouth; paperback; 162 pages; $16.95). After graduating from the University of Maine in 1941, Smith moved to a potato farm in Easton, a small town in Aroostook County. These autobiographical essays provide a glimpse into rural Maine life, but their themes, from a son’s time in Vietnam to divorce, are universal.
