Art Fair!

In spite of forecasts, today started off pouring down rain, but the art fair folks got going anyway, and the weather stayed mostly nice, albeit windy. Local author Lynn Plourde spent several hours signing books, mostly her two new ones, Dino Pets and A Mountain of Mittens. The art show is still going on as I write this, and there's some great stuff...my personal pick, if I didn't have more art than I know what to do with, is a print called, I think, "Reclining Chakras", a clever and striking version of the quabalistic tree of life by Jeri Holt. Neat!
--Eric

Silence of the Songbirds

After providing books for sale at a Kennebec Land Trust author event recently, we have a few signed copies left of Bridget Stutchbury's book, Silence of the Songbirds. These would make a great gift for the birder in your family (doesn't every family have one?), or for yourself, of course! The author, a professor of biology in Toronto, explores the many facets of the steady decline in migrating songbirds. Prepare yourself to be convinced--it's happening, and it's important. Allow me to expand the topic to the Land Trust, quietly doing a great deal of land preservation for almost twenty years now. If you love this area, as we do, and value the wild character of the still-undeveloped places, then your bequest, donation, or volunteer time could not go to a better organization. To see a map of the lands they have purchased for preservation, see the map. --Eric