Maine

organization dedicated to the empowerment of artists. The Festival has a mission to cultivate originality, independence, and innovation in the American musical performance arena. During the event, hundreds of emerging artists gather in Waterville, Maine to celebrate the work of musical masters. AMF Institute offers programs for composers, conductors, instrumentalists, and singers. Those admitted to the AMF Institute receive lessons, coachings, master classes, and have opportunities to perform…

Robert Wilson was born on April 10th in 1898, which was the year that America went to war against the Kingdom of Spain over the explosion of the USS Maine. Ten days after Robert's birth, his father was drafted to fight the Spanish in Cuba. Sadly, he died during the Battle of San Juan Hill. His mother became a widow and got help from her (and her husband's) family members. Robert was the youngest child in the family of five and his mother took extra care of him. Every single child got the best…

Nowhere by Maria Padian, a group of Somali refugees seeking a better life travel to a small town in Maine. Tom Bouchard, the main character has to face the challenges of new faces coming into town and the hardships that come along with befriending these refugees. As the novel progresses Tom’s outlook on the world and the way people think changes. He begins to see that everything the people in Maine believe and think about Somali people is not accurate. Maria Padian addressed concepts that have…

One in six Americans live in poverty. The United States currently ranks 17th of 19 developed nations for highest rate of income disparity behind only Mexico and Turkey. Per the OCED (Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development), America has the highest rate of poverty among developed nations. These truly staggering statistics reveal a nation known for prosperity facing an unprecedented amount of struggle and penury. Merriam-Webster defines poverty as “the state of one who lacks a…

What meanings do permanent residents and second homeowners construct and ascribe to Rangeley? Both groups of actors rely on similar narratives of the rural idyll to construct Rangeley’s place distinction—they imagine it to be safe, isolated, and removed from the problems associated with the rest of the world. This narrative itself is not unique to rural places; in fact, this narrative has been one of the most enduring narratives of rurality (Williams 1974; Woods 2011). However, what is unique is…

Fear is an innate emotion and primal instinct that is embedded within every individual human. In the times of the cavemen and neanderthals, natural selection eliminated those who did not learn to fear their predators. These ancestors of common day humans who did fear their predators survived and, therefore, passed on this trait of fright; this quality is what helped to perpetual and evolve the human race that we have developed into today. Nathaniel Rich, in his dystopian novel Odds Against…

Hello Mr. Phillips & Ms. Curry, I hope Mr. Craft and or Mrs. Howard have communicated with you about Bruke being bullied by some of his classmates. We have had extensive talks with Bruke over the past few days and he has explained that there are three specific students that do the bullying towards him. He also noted that these are the same three students responsible for being mean and aggressive among all of the 6th graders. He told me that he is not the only one trying to defend himself…

The article above describes a group of elderly men and women who undergo a process of resocialization after having lost their loved ones. Based in the Waterville area, Maine, and founded over 10 years ago by a United Church of Christ minister, George Fowler, this social group offers a new beginning for the widows and widowers. Clearly, these souls are dealing with uneasy changes and are facing new challenges in life once they're on their own again. One of the difficulties they become familiar…

In a city in Holland English women and men come to live their for only one reason, because they wanted the freedom to practice their religion without the government or anyone else bothering them because in Holland no one would force them to attend to one certain church and to dishonor their beliefs. The Englishmen did not like one particular thing about living in Holland because their children started to act more like Dutchmen than Englishmen. The Saints decided to move somewhere else and so…

During the summer between my sophomore and junior year at Broadneck, I traveled to Maine on a weeklong pilgrimage with church. Although I would not consider myself religious by any standard, I have regularly attended this church since I was little. So naturally, as part of the youth formation, I attended the pilgrimage. During the trip, I felt enormous growth both mentally and spiritually. We stayed on a small island, partially owned by one of the members of the church’s congregation. It…