By Ernie Gurney
When I decided to return to Maine some years ago, I chose to move initially to Portland. I had lived in an urban area of California for over five years…
Common As Air by Lewis Hyde FSG 2010 306 pg, 252 pg text Building from the evolution of individual property from tribal times to our present-day discussions of the boundaries of intellectual…
It's a warm August morning and the day is getting a little sticky already. Finally, summer is here. The kitchen, though, is cool from the evening air. Rebecca Martin - lyricist, vocalist,…
So now, here I am. Standing in line at Rangeley’s Lakeside Theater to listen to a band play Acadian music and it’s not like I don’t know what I'm in for. The…
RANGELEY - Setting up of the broadcast studio of Rangeley's Community Radio station WRGY began in earnest last week when Dan Patterson, Ron Hoar, and David McMillan began retro-fitting a portion…
RANGELEY – Community radio for the Rangeley region has recently taken a huge step toward becoming reality. David McMillan, president of TRANET, a local educational non-profit, announced that the FCC has granted…
For the longest time, Luann Yetter thought that history was “just a lot of wars,” strung together from one conflict to the next. Then, when moving to Maine, she and her husband…
Decisions, decisions. It’s the evening of October 7th. I can watch the Presidential debates on TV or I can listen to Bob Dylan’s latest “Official Bootleg” on four chunks of newly pressed vinyl.…
It was Thursday night and I was driving up to Rangeley through a hellacious rain. My radio was tuned, of course, to Steve Bull on WKTJ, as he reported the local weather.…
“What am I doing here?” I frequently ask myself that. Usually it’s in the daily context of the big “meaning of life” stuff that rattles around in my brain as I try…