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Deep in the woodsy heart of Maine, summer brings to the old mill town of Lewiston an ecstatic burst of...contemporary dance! Indeed, it was Bates College and its cultural offerings--the dance festival foremost among them--that lured elementary school counselor Susan Weiss and her physician husband to move to Lewiston from Boston 16 years ago. "The enthusiasm and spirit of the dancers really enriches our community," says Weiss. The annual festival, which this year runs from July 21 to Aug. 19, offers professional training programs for dancers and a program for local schoolchildren as well as a public...
After spending the morning addressing a high school history class in Lewiston, Maine, Gore's speech at the Long Wharf in Boston stuck with education as its main theme...
...average King chiller. The narrator, Alan Parker, looks back at the phone call he received while a student at the University of Maine, telling him his mother had been hospitalized with a stroke. Since his car is on the fritz, Alan must hitchhike the 120 miles from Orono to Lewiston to see her, and some awfully spooky things happen to him along the way, including getting a lift from a dead man. (Incidentally, this is King's first work since he was struck by a car while walking near his Maine home last June...
RECOVERING. STEPHEN KING, 51, horror novelist; from injuries sustained after he was hit by a van near his Lovell, Me., summer home; at a hospital in Lewiston. King underwent surgeries for leg and hip fractures and a collapsed lung...
...Yvette Audet, 66, a Maine widow who writes detailed accounts of her childhood: of rising before dawn on cold mornings to pick potatoes on neighboring farms, of kneeling nightly with her family and reciting the Rosary. Before Audet, a mother of six, began taking Ledoux's workshop in Lewiston, she taught herself to type and even went back to school to get a general equivalency diploma. Audet's education was ended after eighth grade so she could care for younger siblings while their parents worked in a mill. She still uses the Smith-Corona she bought in 1990 and keeps...