1. Thursday, July 17, 2014 Section II, Page ONE
■ Maine Dish, Page 2
■ Calendar, Page 3
■ Classified, Pages 6-10
By Win Pusey
Special to
The Ellsworth American
BLUE HILL — Realizing
the original architecture of
Western music is a challenge,
but the ensemble Blue Hill
Bach does just that — re-cre-
ate the music of Bach and his
contemporaries as they them-
selves would have played it.
In an age of exploding
sound technology, the rare
experience of gut-stringed
violins, boxwood oboes and
the pluck of a harpsichord
seems to have special appeal.
Together with singers skilled
in the nuances of Baroque
performance, the musical
house of Bach takes on shape
and style.
Blue Hill Bach will offer
that experience in the form
of three concerts in three dif-
ferent venues from Thursday-
Saturday, July 24 to July 26.
The first concert, “Gloria
at St. Francis,” highlighting
works by Vivaldi, J. S. Bach
and Zelenka, starts at 7:30
p.m. on Thursday, July 24, at
St. Francis-by-the-Sea Episco-
pal Church in Blue Hill. The
church is known for its Karl
Wilhelm tracker organ.
Marcia Gronewold Sly,
Blue Hill Bach’s executive
director, foresees “a week of
exhilarating music-making, as
the amazing musicians in the
ensemble gather to rehearse
and perform together again
this summer.”
Michael and Julia
McVaugh, who recently
became summer residents of
Blue Hill, took in last year’s
By Madalyne Bird
ELLSWORTH — Have you picked up or
seen a bouquet of flowers at a random place
around town lately?
If you have, those mystery arrangements
are called “Lonely Bouquets.”
NewLand Florist, part of the NewLand
Nursery in Ellsworth, has been leaving these
bouquets in public places around the shire-
town with a tag that says, “Adopt me, please!”
The Lonely Bouquet is an international
cause — its purpose is to cheer up a perfect
stranger’s face.
The movement began in England and has
since swept different parts of the world. The
idea is simple: to put a smile on the face of its
recipient or someone they might know.
Marie Patterson, the floral manager at
NewLand, creates most of these flower
arrangements herself. If she doesn’t, the bou-
quet-making falls to “whoever
wants to be creative.”
The bouquets include
a mixture of seasonal
flowers. Carnations,
ELLSWORTH AMERICAN PHOTO BY MADALYNE BIRD
Marie Patterson, floral manager at New-
Land Florist, creates most of the Lonely
Bouquets.
Make Them
Smile
Mystery Bouquets Left to
Lift Spirits
want
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Arts & Leisure
Hear This!
ELLSWORTH AMERICAN PHOTOS BY MADALYNE BIRD
From left, Jude Ziliak, John Finney, Lorna Stephens and
Ellenore Tarr rehearse at the home of Niki Lawton in South
Blue Hill.
Coming Up
What: Blue Hill Bach, a Baroque music festival
When: Thursday-Saturday, July 24-26
“Gloria at St. Francis:” 7:30 p.m. Thursday, July 24,
St. Francis-by-the-Sea Episcopal Church
“Acis al Fresco:” 5 p.m. Friday, July 25. An outdoor
concert, featuring Handel’s opera “Acis and Galatea,” at
Kalmia Knoll cottage on Parker Point Road.
“Festival Finale,” 7:30 p.m. Saturday, July 26, at the First
Congregational Church of Blue Hill. Concert will feature
works by J.S. Bach and Vivaldi.
How much: Advance tickets for all three concerts cost $75.
Send checks to: Blue Hill Bach, P.O. Box 428, Blue Hill, ME
04614.
Contact: (540) 539-5880, www. Bluehillbach.org.
From left musicians Ellenore Tarr, Lorna Stephens and
Jude Ziliak take a break in the shade. Stephens and Tarr
will sing the duet, “Laudamus te” in the “Vivaldi Gloria”
concert on July 24 at St. Francis by-the-Sea Church Epis-
copal Church.
Baroque Music Celebrated at Blue Hill Fest
Ragtime Music
and Raffle
Under the tent at
R.F. Jordan & Sons
Water Street,
Ellsworth
All proceeds
benefit local Rotary
Scholarships and
Charities
Ellsworth R tary Club 52nd
Annual
Saturday, July 26, 7 a.m. to 10:30 a.m.
Sponsored by
$
500
/ $
300Children
under 12
ALL YOU CAN EAT!
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By Jacqueline Weaver
GOULDSBORO — Pho-
tographer Dean Kotula says
images he captured while in
India and Thailand for nearly
three months this winter will
both enchant and disturb.
He is exhibiting several of
his carefully selected photo-
graphs beginning Saturday,
July 26, at his Salty Dog Gal-
lery in the Gouldsboro village
of Prospect Harbor.
An opening reception will
be held July 26 from 3-5 p.m.
“Some of the images
are magical and some are
By Julia Bush
ELLSWORTH —
The first time Noel Paul
Stookey played at The
Grand Auditorium, he
was paid in theater seats
— 18 of them.
“It wasn’t premeditated,
but I did an event for The
Grand and asked them
what happened to the
seats they had taken out
of the first couple of rows,”
Stookey said. “They said,
‘You want them? You can
have them!’”
Now, about 40 years
later, the tall, bearded
singer and songwriter
known as “Paul” from the
famed folk music group
Peter, Paul and Mary is
headed back to downtown
Sing Out!
Folk Musician Strives to Stir
Minds and Hearts
Noel Paul Stookey, for-
merly of the 1960s trio
Peter, Paul and Mary,
returns to The Grand at
3 p.m. Sunday, July 20.
PHOTO BY DEAN KOTULA
Elephant handlers, called Mahouts, bathe their charges in
Jaipur, India.
Incredible Moments
Southeast Asia Focus of Photography Show
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STONINGTON — Sedgwick filmmaker
Richard Kane’s acclaimed documentary “Jon
Imber’s Left Hand,” profiling the late artist
Jon Imber and how he faced his condition of
Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), will be
shown at 6 and 8 p.m. on Tuesday, July 22, at
Stonington Opera House.
“There’s something breathless, and
Above left, husband and wife Jon
Imber and Jill Hoy are the focus of
Maine Masters’ “Jon Imber’s Left
Hand” screening Tuesday, July 22, at
Stonington Opera House. Left, Jon
Imber produced more than 100 oil portraits of friends and acquaintances after
being diagnosed with the degenerative Lou Gehrig’s disease.
The Art of Living
How Artist Jon Imber Defied
Disease in Battle to Create
MAINE MASTERS PHOTO BY RICHARD KANE
PHOTOS BY JEFF DWORKSI
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2. Thursday, July 17, 2014 Section II, Page FIVE
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Where: The Grand, 165
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When: 3 p.m., Sunday,
July 20
Cost: $50 for reserved
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concert and reception
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disturbing,” said Kotula, who
began his photographic jour-
ney Feb. 11 and returned
home May 1.
In Thailand, where Kotula
lived for two years as a child,
he visited the Friends of the
Asian Elephant hospital in
Lampang.
“This is a place where they
Ellsworth on July 20 to per-
form a benefit concert.
After the show, Stookey will
host a reception at The Cel-
lar bistro farther down Main
Street in downtown Ellsworth.
“I’ve always been so pleased
to know I’m in the presence of
listeners,” Stookey said.
The majority of the folk
singer’s lineup will include
new material, like “Familia
del Corazon,” a song he wrote
about immigration issues and
performed recently in Dallas.
A folk audience, he said, is
unique in that listeners expect
to hear music that comments
on present issues — they’re
not just looking for a nostal-
gia-fest celebrating the clas-
sics.
It wouldn’t be a Stookey
concert without a rendition of
“Blowin’ in the Wind,” though.
The classic songs he spent 50
years performing with the trio
will be peppered among new
tunes.
The social justice issues
Peter, Paul and Mary wrote
about back in the day are old-
school, like the push for civil
rights in the ’60s or the fight
against the Vietnam War in
the ’70s. The trio famously
performed “If I Had a Ham-
mer” at the 1963 March on
Washington. But the dated
framework doesn’t make the
lyrics they crooned in perfect
harmony any less relevant
today, the folk singer said.
“The wars still continue,”
Stookey said. “The disrespect
between races continues.”
The guitarist is forging
ahead as an advocate for social
change. He brings his music to
philanthropic organizations
like Hugworks, a music ther-
apy program, and the Music
for Life Foundation, which
supports young musicians.
The singer and his wife,
Betty Stookey, who is an
ordained minister, host “One
Light, Many Candles” presen-
tations all over the country.
The two incorporate Noel
Paul Stookey’s music with
passages from holy books, like
the Torah, the Quran or the
Bible.
Between engagements, the
couple retreat to their home in
Blue Hill, where they moved
in 1970 to give their kids the
same “country experience”
they had while growing up.
“Betty and I came out to
Maine just following our
hearts,” Noel Paul Stookey
said.
Once they relocated, the
couple discovered all kinds of
hidden links to the area.
“We met all these people
who know our parents and all
these connections that were
not at the surface when we
moved to Blue Hill,” Stookey
said. “If you follow your heart,
after you’ve made the deci-
sion, you’ll discover there is a
reason you made the decision
that you didn’t know at the
time.”
He’s clearly adjusted well to
life in Maine. The singer has
a usual order at the Riverside
Café in downtown Ellsworth
(a turkey club on whole wheat
toast with a slice of raw onion
and a chocolate Pepsi). He
works in a henhouse-turned-
recording-studio, which was
the only spot that caught his
imagination on the search for
property up and down every
peninsula from Camden to
Eastport.
The guitarist is an avid
golfer between traveling and
performances. He doesn’t
have plans to quit working
anytime soon, though.
“I’ll stop when I run out
of things to say,” the guitarist
said.
His message?
“They had it right in the
’70s and they walked right by
it,” Noel Paul Stookey said. “It
really is all about love.”
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FYI
What: Exhibit of photo-
graphs taken in India
and Thailand
Who: Award-winning pho-
tographer Dean Kotula
When: Opening reception,
Saturday, July 26
Where: Salty Dog Gallery,
173 Main St., Prospect
Harbor
Incredible Moments
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Sing Out!
“Take Heart: A Conversation in Poetry” is an
initiative between Maine State Poet Laureate Wesley
McNair and the Writers & Publishers Alliance. Ques-
tions about submitting to “Take Heart” may be directed
to Special Consultant Gibson-Fay Le Blanc to the poet
laureate, at 228-8263 or mainepoetlaureate@gmail.
com.
Take Heart
A Conversation in Poetry
Editor’s Note: Poet Megan Grumbling writes that
today’s poem “retells one of the many stories told to me
by a beloved neighbor from my hometown in Wells, a
certain sly old Maine woodsman I knew as Booker.” In
this story about a hunting trip, Booker offers advice to
an unusual companion.
“Some Kind of Hunter”
By Megan Grumbling
He coaxed a pregnant woman right across the river,
and it weren’t no easy bridge.
A cousin of an in-law, broke as dirt,
she come up visiting from Vermont too poor
to buy a license. Booker paid it, set
a rifle in her hands, and took her up
to Perkinstown, the brook side, where they come
upon this bridge, just beams and cables, rough.
Full six months big, a borrowed gun; to her,
that span, it looked like one hell of a stunt
when Booker brought her up to it, said, Look,
you’ve gotta cross that river on them wires.
Now, Booker’s gone these routes, matters of course,
for quite a while, and spares no care or feat —
hauls moose out of the woods in split canoes,
checks hoofprints in the gravel pit’s pale sand
most every morning, seeing where they cross.
A deer makes no more noise than shadow does,
he told his novice kin, and knows the sound
by going over into silence, deep, and back,
more than a couple times. So when he led
this woman, large with child, up to the bridge,
and she replied, Oh no – I can’t do that,
he tried to make her see the other side.
You gotta, Booker said, or else what kind
of hunter are you? Well, that settled things.
Their bridge stretched lean but held, across the way.
She took hold of the cables, hand to steel,
and cradling that gun close, she went across.
take care of sick elephants
that have had their legs blown
off in landmines in northern
Thailand,” Kotula said. “The
hospital makes prosthetic legs
for them.”
In India, he traveled from
Rajasthan to Calcutta, where
he met a young boy he has
been sponsoring through
Children International.
After spending time with
the youngster and his fam-
ily, Kotula traveled to coastal
Kerala in southern India,
where he said he spent the
bulk of his time.
Although his photogra-
phy covered a range of sub-
jects, Kotula said his primary
emphasis continues to be
commercial fishing.
Kotula said he had not
been to Thailand since 1990
and found its cities have
changed dramatically with
more retail stores, traffic and
pollution.
It was his third visit to
India.
“I left wondering if I had
changed more than India
had,” he said. “You see change
in the major cities. All we
hear about is their high-tech
industry, but throughout the
country it is still very low-
tech, more like the 1930s.”
Kotula said he took thou-
sands of digital images dur-
ing his trip and shot 36 rolls
of film.
“It’s been hard to edit
because it’s hard for me to
get away from the experience
while still looking for the
artistic elements,” he said.
Kotula said he is offering
a 10 percent discount on the
framed and unframed images
he is selling the opening day
of the exhibit.
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breathtaking, about the dex-
terity and daring of Imber’s
brushwork; it recalls 18th
century Japanese Zen paint-
ing, which abandoned control
for capturing the spirit of the
moment,” wrote Boston Globe
writer Cate McQuaid about
“Jon Imber’s Left Hand.”
Imber was diagnosed with
the degenerative disease,
also known as Lou Gehrig’s
disease, in 2012. He died on
April 17 at his winter home in
Somerville, Mass.
The Art of Living
Imber had come to Maine
on “painting vacations” for
years. Born on Long Island,
N.Y., he earned a bachelor’s
degree from Cornell Univer-
sity. A year after receiving an
MFA from Boston University
in 1977, he was given his first
big show at Brandeis Univer-
sity’s Rose Art Museum. He
went on to exhibit at Nielsen
Gallery,oneofBoston’stopgal-
leries, and taught at the Rhode
Island School of Design, the
School of Visual Arts in New
York City, Mass Art and Har-
vard (for 27 years).
After being diagnosed with
ALS, Imber set out on a quest
to paint as much as he could
while he could. Last year, he
lost the use of first his right
hand, then the left. Rather
than give up, he used a spe-
cially adapted brush, holding
it in one hand and steadying
it with the other then guid-
ing the brush with thrusts that
begin at his feet and move up
through his whole body.
Imber, in an interview with
Maine arts writer Carl Little,
said last summer that he had
never felt better about himself
as an artist.
“Make sure the curator at
the Louvre Museum reads this
story,” he said, only partly in
jest.
“Jon Imber’s Left Hand”
is just as much about Imber’s
wife and fellow artist Jill Hoy.
The film focuses closely on
Imber and Hoy’s summer of
2013 when Imber painted
more than 100 portraits of
friends and acquaintances
who stopped by his studio
daily.
The film is the newest in
the Maine Masters series pro-
duced by the Union of Maine
Visual Artists. There will be
a talk-back after the 8 p.m.
screening.
Tickets cost $8 per person
and are available at the door
and in advance at www.opera-
housearts.org.
For more info, call 367-
2788.
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Desert Islander and Ellsworth
American and former state
senator. 244-5036.
STONINGTON
Kneisel Hall Concert, 7 p.m.,
Burnt Cove Church. 367-2788,
www.operahousearts.org.
Theater
Acadia Repertory Theatre,
“The School for Wives,”July
15-27, Masonic Hall, Somesville.
Tuesdays through Sundays
8:15 p.m.; final performance of
each show is a 2 p.m. Sunday
matinee. $25; $20 seniors/
students/military; $12 children.
Children’s Performance,“Puss
in Boots,”Wednesdays and Sat-
urdays through Aug. 30, 10:30
a.m.Adults $9; children $6. 244-
7260, www.acadiarep.com.
New Surry Theatre, Rogers
& Hammerstein’s “Carousel,”
July 17-19, 24-26 & 31; Aug.
1-2, 7 p.m.; July 27, 3 p.m., Blue
Hill Town Hall Theater. $22;
students $18; seniors $15. 200-
4720, www.newsurrytheatre.org.
“Romeo & Juliet,”, July
17 & 19, 7 p.m.; July 12, 2 p.m.
Stonington Opera House.
Reserved seating $35; general
$25. 367-2788, www.opera-
housearts.org.
“Romeo & Juliet & Zombies,”
July 18, 7 p.m.; July 20, 2 p.m.
Contact information & Prices
listed above.
Alison Chase Performance,
dance theater production com-
pany, July 23, 7 p.m., Stonington
Opera House. $5. 567-2788,
www.operahousearts.org.
Teen Summer Camp Produc-
tion,“Little Shop of Horrors,”
(musical), July 24 & 25, 7 p.m.;
July 26, 2 & 7 p.m. $12 adults;
$9 youth 12 & under).
Ten Bucks Theatre,“Julius Cae-
sar,”July 17,18,19,24,25&26, 6
p.m.; July 20 & 27, 4 p.m., Indian
Trail Park, Brewer. $10. Bring
blankets, folding chairs and a
picnic. 884-1030, www.tenbuck-
stheatre.org.
Penobscot Theatre Co. Youth
Production,“Hairspray,”July 18-
19 7 p.m.; July 20, 2 p.m., Bangor
Opera House. Adults $12;
children $8. 942-3333, www.
penobscottheatre.org.
Films
Reel Pizza Cinerama, Bar Har-
bor, 288-3811, www.reelpizza.
net for schedule.
“Belle,” July 17, 6 & 8:30 p.m.
“Dawn of the Planet of the
Apes,” July 17, 6 & 8:30 p.m.
“22 Jump Street,” July 18-24, 6
& 8:30 p.m.
Alamo Theatre, Bucksport,
469-0924, www.oldfilm.org.
“Side by Side,” July 24, 7:30
p.m.
Knowlton Park, Ellsworth.
Outdoor Movies,
“Cloudy with a Chance of
Meatballs 2,” July 17.
“Frozen,” July 24. Movies begin
at sunset. Bring lawn chairs/
blanket, flashlight, insect repel-
lent. Weather permitting.
Maine Coast Cinemas, Ells-
worth, 667-3251 for schedule
and times of movies.
The Grand, Ellsworth, 667-
9500, www.grandonline.org.
“The White Rose,” filmmaker
Peter Logue, followed by ques-
tion and answer session.
Village Green, Northeast Har-
bor.
“Night at the Museum,” July
17. “Charlotte’s Web,” July
24. Films are at sunset. Bring
chairs/blanket. Inclement
weather movie will be shown in
the Mellon Room, Public Library.
Stonington Opera House, 367-
2788, www.operahousearts.org.
“The Search for the White
Rose,” featuring filmmaker
Peter Logue screening and
discussing his new film. July 17,
7 p.m.
“Jon Imber’s Left Hand,” the
latest film in the Maine Masters
series, July 22, 6 & 8 p.m.
Advance tickets recommended.
Calendar
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