In Thornton Wilder’s 1938 play, “Our Town,” heliotrope flowers connect two sets of characters who gather to inhale their intoxicating scent in the moonlight. Heliotropes, then common, are, indeed, wonderfully fragranced. Yet somehow, they’ve fallen out of favor in American gardens. Many one-time garden staples from the Victorian era through the 1950s have been replaced […]

For the past five years, the Penobscot Paddle & Chowder Society (PPCS) has held the Skip Pendleton Memorial Trip on the St. George River each spring. Skip, who passed away in 2017, was an exceptional outdoorsman who twice crossed the United States on a bike and completed a transatlantic voyage in a sailboat. He was […]

In earlier columns, we’ve discussed some options for recycling books that are falling apart, too worn to read, or otherwise of no further value. The question for today is what to do with books that are still usable, but no longer of interest to our personal libraries. If the books have intrinsic monetary value, they […]

This year’s fundraising goal is $1 million.

I don’t have a giant property, so I strategize to get the most use of the garden I have, and that includes planting vegetables and herbs in raised beds and containers. I’ve been growing edibles in two 4-by-4-foot cedar boxes that my husband built about 10 years ago, and every few years, I invest in […]