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When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloomed
“When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d” -Walt Whitman Is the title of an elegy poem by Walt Whitman written in 1865 after President Lincoln was assassinated. It’s also the line my husband recited to me on our first date. (He’s and English teacher at Orono High School and he knows his poetry and how […]
Want to Change the world? Buy Art!
Bangor Art Society: 142 Years Young! May 2015, I was elected as President of the Bangor Art Society. After research, I discovered that our Bangor Art Society is THE Oldest Art Society in the Nation, founded on February 6th, 1875 when several people met in the office of Dr. H.F. Tefft on Main Street in Bangor. “Jeremiah […]