Bangor Metro Autumn 2024

Doing the work

ARTICLE BY EMILY MORRISON When teaching my students the difference between passive and active voice, I often put the same sentence on the board every year. It’s one that I, as a mom, and they, as 17-year-old kids, can easily relate to, I suppose. “The laundry…

Magnificent murals – take a tour of the amazing murals popping up all over Bangor and beyond

ARTICLE BY JULIA BAYLY When it comes to accessible public art, few things beat a mural. As an art form it’s stood the test of time going back tens of thousands of years to the earliest known cave wall paintings in France. Those primitive works are…

Falling for festival season – don’t miss these fun autumn events!

ARTICLE BY EMILY BAER Summer is often the golden child of road trips and adventure, but there’s no shortage of fun to be had in Maine as the seasons change. Whether you’re interested in sticking close to home or exploring the state’s farther reaches, fall fairs…

Crisp and cute fall date ideas

ARTICLE BY MARISSA DONOVAN Some of the best romantic movies show us how lovely autumn can be. “When Harry Met Sally” makes every viewer romanticize falling in love in New York once the leaves change color. Maine can also be a dreamy setting for our own…

Transform your at-home office: easy, affordable ways to spruce up your space

ARTICLE BY AISLINN SARNACKI More and more, people are working from home. This trend, spurred by the COVID-19 pandemic and advances in technology, has positives and negatives.For more than a decade, I worked in an office building alongside dozens of coworkers. Now, working from home, I…

Maine literary adventures for the food lover

ARTICLE BY SARAH WALKER CARON Maine is home to so many authors and a vacation destination for so many more. With its picturesque coastlines, working waterfronts, quaint towns, and deep-rooted lore, it should be no surprise that so many writers are inspired by and reference Maine…

Spooky adventures in the Maine Wilderness: embrace Halloween season with these mysterious outdoor destinations

STORIES AND PHOTOS BY AISLINN SARNACKI Branches sway and clack together as a cool wind sweeps through the forest. Tree trunks cast long, dark shadows. A group of crows chatter back and forth. “Caw. Caw. Caw.” Is this place haunted? Or is it just the Halloween…

Obsessions – What we can’t get enough of this month

Eat Sawyer’s Hawaiian Shave Ice in Bangor Before we get into sweater weather, I’m hoping to get my last fix of Sawyer’s Hawaiian Shave Ice! This new food truck on Broadway has been a fun addition to the Bangor food scene this past summer. They offer…

Making a shift: the impossible is possible in “shift”

ARTICLE BY ROBIN CLIFFORD WOOD When you dip into the first few pages of Penny Guisinger’s new memoir “Shift: A Memoir of Identity and Other Illusions,” it is clear you are about to delve into much more than a simple story. And yet, in another way,…

The art of felting – Hampden artist needles her way into children’s book

ARTICLE AND PHOTO BY JODI HERSEY “Everything I saw, there was nothing like the artwork I was making,” Hillary Dow said. Dow, a fiber artist and self-published children’s book author from Hampden, uses her felted artwork for all of her illustrations. “Unfortunately, felting simply isn’t as…