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recommendations. ** 

Holidays 

** Labor Day - September 6

(US and Canada) **

Event Calendar  

Music on the Green Summer Concert Series: Tony’s Martini Club

at Calais Triangle Park - Calais, ME August 31      6:30 pm - 8:00 pm Tony's Martini Club  Acoustic Folk and Blues   This is the last performance of the season for the 14th Annual Music on the Green Concert Series. Tony's Martini Club will be playing the finale on Tuesday night at 6:30 at Triangle Park in Calais. Keep an eye out for next year's lineup of this long-running, community-favorite series.

Collecting Ancient Photons - Deep Sky Astrophotography

at Grand Manan Museum – Grand Manan, NB August 31  7:00 pm - 9:00 pm   Learn about some of the equipment, software, steps, and processes involved in capturing & processing images of deep sky targets such as star clusters, nebulae, and galaxies, and see some spectacular night sky photography captured in Grand Manan. If weather permits, presenter Kyle Ingersoll will also be setting up and performing a live demonstration with some of his gear. We'll also get a tour of some of the more interesting objects in the night sky. Visit Fundy Archipelago Observatory to see more pictures.

Music on the Rocks Concert Series:
Duane Ingalls

at Sutherland Amphitheater - Eastport, ME   September 1  5:00 pm - 6:00 pm   Join us for a free outdoor concert featuring Duane Ingalls. Duane Ingalls of Machias is a multi-talented musician who has performed alongside a host of musicians in varying capacities - including in ensembles with rock bands, theater companies, and choirs, all around the country and locally. He specializes in Americana-flavored folk music.

Reversing Falls Night Sky Tour

at Reversing Falls State Park – Pembroke, ME September 1   7:30 pm - 9:30 pm   Come and see the stars of fall from our Reversing Falls Preserve in Pembroke Maine. Dress warm, bring a chair as well as a hot beverage and enjoy the Fall night sky presentation provided by the Downeast Amateur Astronomers. They will be pointing out constellations as well as providing on the spot imaging of deep sky objects that will be shown through a telescope. Register here.

An Interpretive Dance Performance with Ara Fitzgerald

at Grand Manan Museum – Grand Manan, NB September 2   7:30 pm - 9:30 pm   Back by popular demand, Ara Fitzgerald will perform a series of dance and theatre solos she both wrote and choreographed at the Grand Manan Museum on September 2. Tickets are $15 at the door. Ara Fitzgerald is a dance theatre artist, choreographer, improviser and educator who was a member of Daniel Nagrin’s The Workgroup and The Entourage Music and Theatre Ensemble where she first worked with composer Wall Matthews. Ara is “…a skilled comic actress-dancer…an unusually smooth blend of humor and choreographic deftness,” per Jennifer Dunning of the NY Times.

Poetry and Pie

at Eastport Arts Center (EAC) – Eastport, ME September 3   7:00 pm - 9:00 pm   EAC will host a Poetry & Pie night on Friday, September 3 at 7 pm. The event will feature delicious hand pies made that morning by the Pie Ladies of Pembroke and an open mic setting for sharing poetry with the gathering, whether your own original work or a favorite selection of another poet. A $7 ticket includes refreshments; limited space. Please email alison@eastportartscenter.org to reserve your spot.

Ragtime Band to Present Maine Songs Show

at Eastport Arts Center (EAC) – Eastport, ME September 4   7:00 pm - 9:00 pm   Roochie Toochie & the Ragtime Shepherd Kings, an outfit specializing in comical and obscure ‘tunes from the olden days’ will bring their unique sound to the Eastport Arts Center stage at 7 pm, Saturday, September 4. As part of their Maine Songs Tour, supported by a grant from the Maine Bicentennial Commission, the string band promises “a visually exciting, sonically breathtaking night of fun featuring old sheet music, Maine history and humor.” A video featuring clips from the 2017 show may be viewed at the EAC site, eastportartscenter.org; more information about the band may be found at roochietoochie.com.

Eastport Salmon and Seafood Festival

at Eastport, ME September 4 - 5   Foodies rejoice as the Eastport Salmon and Seafood Festival returns for its 33rd year. Sponsored by the Eastport Area Chamber of Commerce, the two-day event has a host of activities and foods to enjoy, including crab rolls, a fishing derby, a salmon barbecue, and live music! See the schedule here.

All Levels 8-Week Pottery Course at the Cobscook Institute

at Cobscook Institute – Lubec, ME beginning September 6 Mondays at 6:00 pm   Join us for 8 weeks of pottery classes with instructor Michelle Cousineau. This course will begin on September 6 and continue on Mondays at 6 - 8pm through October 25. Wheel: Throwing with two pounds or more, making larger pieces and pieces composed of two or more sections, lids, handles, spouts, pieces in sets. Hand building: Making pieces with lids, spouts, handles, sculptural work, pieces in sets. Glazing with multiple glazes, surface decoration techniques with slips and stains. For more information, click here.

Canada and the US Civil War

at Grand Manan Museum – Grand Manan, NB September 7  7:30 pm - 9:00 pm   Civil War historians and part-time residents Ned and Diane Smith will look at the involvement of soldiers, blockade runners, the Chesapeake Affair, and more in this discussion. Diane and Ned have written six Civil War-related books between them. The most recent, Diane's fourth book, Washington Roebling's Civil War, was published in the summer of 2019. Ned is currently finishing his third book, a history of the last two Union regiments raised in Maine. Admission by donation. More information

Eastport Pirate Festival

at Eastport, ME September 10-12   After a year's absence, the celebrated Eastport Pirate Festival is back to help bring in some raucous cheer! The Eastport Pirate Festival is a weekend of fun for the whole family featuring pirates, cannons, treasure, games, costumes, vendors and more! Come and see the largest pirate festival in New England and the Maritimes and pay homage to Passamaquoddy Bay's long-detailed history of smuggling. It all begins with the invasion of Lubec on September 4. Be on either side of the bay (or take a boat ride across!) to get the full flavor of maritime merriment. The following weekend, September 10-12, sees the rest of the events kick off. See the full schedule of events here.

St. Andrews & Area Town-wide Yard Sale

at Various Venues in St. Andrews - St. Andrews, NB September 11  9:00 am - 1:00 pm   The St. Andrews community is holding a highly anticipated town-wide yard sale on September 11, and everyone is invited to participate! If you live in the area, you can register at the town hall to be added to the map (for a $10 fee). Maps will be available at Cummings, Honeybeans, and Cockburn's Drugs two days prior to the yard sale.

Maine Open Lighthouse Day

at West Quoddy Head Lighthouse – Lubec, ME September 11   West Quoddy will be open for tower tours provided by the U.S. Coast Guard. Fun and music all day long. West Quoddy Head, in Quoddy Head State Park, Lubec, Maine, is the easternmost point of the contiguous United States! Since 1808, there has been a lighthouse here to guide ships through the Quoddy Narrows. The current one, with distinctive red-and-white stripes, was built in 1858, and is an active aid to navigation. Time for tours will be announce by the USCG closer to the day of event. Check the West Quoddy Head Facebook page here to see what time the event will begin.

Discover Watercolour Painting with David Reeves

at Sunbury Shores Arts and Nature Centre - St. Andrews, NB September 11  9:30 am - 4:30 pm   This course is for those that have always wanted to try painting with watercolours. While watercolour can be unpredictable it is this property that makes it an exciting and fun medium to explore. It also lends itself to quick results, is generally non-toxic (depending on the pigments used) and is easy to clean up. Aimed at beginner to emerging watercolour painters, this course will present classic transparent watercolour techniques with an emphasis on the impact of paper, water and paint interaction on the painting process. You will learn how to choose materials and tools, the basics for applying water and paint to paper, creating texture, lighting and more. Paper will be available through the artist. Please contact David for further information and prices. 506 333 1503 and/or davidbrart@rogers.com. For more information and to register, click here.

Firemen's BBQ, Dessert Auction, and Raffles

at Campobello Firefighting Station – Campobello, NB September 11  12:00 pm - 3:00 pm   Come and support the Campobello volunteer firefighting unit with a BBQ and dessert auction at the fire station. Everyone is welcome. Donations for the dessert auction will be accepted on the evening of September 10th and at the BBQ. If anyone would like to donate a basket or items for the raffle, contact Shelley Brine or Amanda Matthews on Facebook anytime to arrange drop off or pick up. Thank you for your support!

Exhibitions

Tides Institute & Museum of Art

 

Maine Bicentennial Book

As part of Maine’s Bicentennial, the Tides Institute & Museum of Art mounted an exhibition of works from its collections ranging in date from 1820 to the present. In addition, the Tides Institute will publish a Bicentennial book featuring 100 works from its collections and the stories behind the works and how they came into the Tides Institute’s collection. Each week, one of the selected works will be featured in CulturePass. 

This week’s piece is a gelatin silver photographic print, “Staircase, George Capen House, 16 Key Street, Eastport, Maine,” by photographer, Thaddeus Holownia, taken in 2015. The photograph was part of a large scale nine year effort by Holownia to photograph the architecture, landscape and community of Eastport, Maine from 2009 to 2017. Using large format cameras and film photography, Holownia took nearly 1,000 photographs of building exteriors and interiors, architectural details and wider streetscapes and landscapes of Eastport. Nearly 200 of the photographs were incorporated into the 218 page hardbound book, Eastport, with accompanying thematic essays by New Brunswick architect, John Leroux, co-published by Holownia’s Anchorage Press and the Tides Institute & Museum of Art (TIMA) in 2018. Holownia was born in England in 1949 and immigrated to Canada in 1954. For 41 years he taught photography at Mount Allison University in Sackville New Brunswick. Holownia’s exquisite large format photographs of the forests, rivers and architecture of Atlantic Canada and other selective part of the world have been exhibited and published extensively including a major retrospective exhibition of his work, The Nature of Nature, The Photographs of Thaddeus Holownia 1976–2016, at the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia. Holownia is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and he received the Lieutenant Governor’s Award for High Achievement in the Visual Arts from artsNB as well as the Order of New Brunswick. The Eastport photograph was a gift to TIMA by the photographer.

Photo caption: Gelatin silver photographic print, “Staircase, George Capen House, 16 Key Street, Eastport, Maine,” by photographer Thaddeus Holownia, taken in 2015.

Summer museum hours are Wednesday - Sunday 10:00 - 4:00 pm through September 11; afterwards by appointment. 
 

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Dark Harbor - The Early Lithographs of Stow Wengenroth

 

at Tides Institute & Museum of Art - Eastport, ME Wednesday - Sunday 10:00 - 4:00 pm through September 11 (by appointment through September 24)   The Tides Institute & Museum of Art presents its Summer Exhibition: "Dark Harbor - The Early Lithographs of Stow Wengenroth", on display now through September 24. Wengenroth was a master of lithography dedicated to the scenery and wildlife of New England in the early 20th century.

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Crystal Veil I: an installation by Julia Sinelnikova

 

at North Church - Eastport, ME through October 1   Crystal Veil I reveals the work of Julia Sinelnikova, an interdisciplinary artist who works with holograms, performance, and digital culture. Their light installations have been exhibited internationally, and they have performed widely as The Oracle of Vector Gallery. Sinelnikova is a StudioWorks alum. This exhibition will be ongoing with the following open hours over the next two weeks: Wednesday, August 25, 1:00-4:00 pm, and Saturday, September 4, 8:00-10:00 pm.

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Artist-in-Residence

The ninth year of the StudioWorks Artists-in-Residence Program continues with the arrival of new artist,  John DiMartino, Jr., of Nanuet, New York. Members of the public are invited to visit at StudioWorks, 48 Water Street, Eastport, during the term. All pandemic safety guidelines are in effect, and masks and physical distancing will be required.
 

Tides Institute Online

 

For online resources from the Tides Institute, click here. Included in these online resources are Tides Institute publications, exhibitions, videos and StudioWorks artists talks. Direct online access to many of the works in the Tides Institute’s collections can be found through this link.  Our museum store is online and can be found by clicking here.
   

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Diana Young Solo Show

 

at Eastport Gallery – Eastport, ME through September 4   Eastport Gallery will host a solo show by beloved Eastport artist Diana Young from August 22 to September 4. Diana will be at the Eastport Gallery on Sunday, August 22 from 11:00am-5:00pm to answer questions about her art, her life and her love of Maine. For more information about Diana, click here. Also, please check out Diana in a video from gallery member Jude Kempe’s Artist to Artist series here.

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"Heritage and Traditions" Exhibit by Kateryna Kryvolap

 

at Grand Manan Art Gallery - Grand Manan Island, NB through September 5   Kateryna Kryvolap is an artist originally from Ukraine who makes her home in Canada. She was raised and educated in an artistic family where she found her passion for fine art. Traditional Ukrainian decorative painting arose out of a folk art which was believed to have the magical power to protect from sorrow. Depictions of certain elements such as birds and flowers represented prosperity, harmony, and happiness. Learn more about Kateryna and her art here or view her Instagram here. The Grand Manan Art Gallery will be concurrently featuring art by Adrienne Guptill through September 5.

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Artist Exhibit: Jeanne Backhaus

 

at Lubec Landmarks Mulholland Gallery – Lubec, ME through September 7   Jeanne Backhaus is the featured artist at the Mulholland Gallery in Lubec through September 7. Come in and visit a unique gallery! Part of the McCurdy Smokehouse complex is the former Mulholland Market. It was the first building restored by Lubec Landmarks and now serves as the organization's non-profit gallery (The Mulholland Gallery). Lubec Landmarks encourages and supports local artists and craftspeople with seasonal shows of their works at the gallery. Purchases made at the gallery and donations made at the museum go to the preservation of the McCurdy Smokehouse complex so that future generations may be educated of the history of the fishing industry in the region.

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Artist Exhibit: Lauren Luloff

 

at Lubec Landmarks Mulholland Gallery - Lubec September 9 - 28   Lauren Luloff will be the featured artist at the Mulholland Gallery in Lubec from September 9 - 28. Opening reception will be on September 11 from 5 - 7 pm. Luloff layers collaged fabric and paint onto bed sheets, creating delicate yet expressive paintings. For Luloff, the sheets reference “home, intimacy, dreams, and drama” and imbue her works with a host of formal qualities, “their crumpling acting as an impasto swoosh, or creating chiaroscuro,” she says. “Patterns from the sheets offer a harder edge line in contrast with my organic brush marks.” Her boldly expressive use of mixed-media harkens to Robert Rauschenberg’s “Combines”, while her color treatment has been compared to that of Abstract Expressionist Helen Frankenthaler. By infusing personal significance into each work, Luloff depicts moments of fleeting, hazily beautiful remembrance. See more of her work here.

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"The Little K Gallery", one of Maine's first free little art galleries

 

at Little Free Art Gallery - Eastport through September Dawn - Dusk   This is one of the first free little art galleries (FLAGs) in Maine, located at 76 High Street a few blocks from downtown. This little gallery was built by local artisans to house the works of local artists, hobbyists, craftspeople - we welcome small works of any form, in any medium. More information

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Walkabout Photography Exhibit

 

at Grand Manan Museum - Grand Manan, NB through September 30 Monday - Saturday 11:00 - 6:00 pm Sunday 1:00 - 5:00pm   The complete Walkabout Photography Exhibit by Museum Curator/Director MJ Edwards is on display all summer at the Grand Manan Museum with over 56 prints of island scenes and found objects and text commentary. More information

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"Overview" at the Lubec Memorial Library

 

at Lubec Memorial Library - Lubec, ME through August 31    Library Hours   The Lubec Memorial Library is proud to host Ann C. Rosebrooks' exhibit "Overview" for the month of July. "Overview" consists of acrylic paintings on canvas created over the past three years. It is a combination of landscapes, social scenes and political events. Click to visit the library Facebook page.

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St. Andrews 2021 Heritage Hunt

 

at Various Venues in St. Andrews - St. Andrews, NB through October 11   This year, due to pandemic restrictions, the annual Heritage Hunt Raffle has been launched as a new fund-raising effort. This is a fun activity to do with others that involves exploring St. Andrews's unique heritage features, so encourage your visitors, family and friends to participate. To do so, buy a $10 ticket from a local vendor (or at the Historic Archives), take a short walk round four blocks and enter for a chance at a daily door prize at the Historic Jail and one of the valuable prizes in the grand prize draw. Remember that once you have a ticket in hand you can participate at any time up to Thanksgiving weekend (through Monday, October 11). More information

Ongoing Classes/Events

Paint Eastport

at Eastport, ME through September 12   Calling artists near and far to Paint Eastport! For years community members have been celebrating the charm of Eastport through Paint Eastport Day. This year Eastport Gallery plans to expand the experience to 2 magical weeks. One week is for creating, and the following week is for sharing via 3 different auction formats. This year’s Paint Eastport is dedicated to David Orrell, past president of the Eastport Gallery and inspiration behind Paint Eastport. New this year, work does not need to be created on a single day, or even in Eastport, but we do encourage artists to go out and create en plein air around town on September 4, in the spirit of David Orrell. Art submissions will be accepted beginning August 27. For more information about the ways to participate in Paint Eastport 2021, click here.

Thursday Writers Group

Online Event – Robbinston, ME September 2   11:30 am - 1:30 pm   New and/or seasoned (salt/pepper) writers are welcome to join the Thursday Writers group. We gather on Zoom every other Thursday from 11:30am - 1:30pm. No fee, donations always appreciated. For more information and current dates, please contact Michael Brown at mrbrown64@msn.com.

Anchorage Wellness Walks

at Anchorage Provincial Park – Grand Manan, NB Fridays at 7:00 pm Saturdays at 4:00 pm   Join wellness coach Heather Brown for Anchorage Wellness Walks to help support the Anchorage Provincial Park trails upgrade project and promote personal wellness. Walks will be conducted regularly on Fridays at 7 pm and Saturdays at 4 pm. Tickets are $5 per adult, $3 per child, or $14 for a family. Contact Heather Brown for tickets at 506-662-4246 or visit the Anchorage office.

Yoga at Stockford Park with Ginny Beisel

at Stockford Park – Lubec, ME Sundays and Thursdays   Experience the healing of yoga in an outdoor atmosphere! You can catch Ginny teaching all levels of outdoor classes at Stockford Park in Lubec on Sundays from 10-11 am, and Thursdays from 5:30-6:30 pm. Outdoor classes run through the end of October. Ginny Beisel is a 200 hour registered yoga teacher living in Lubec Maine. She discovered yoga while healing from a running injury and fell in love with yoga’s simple but powerful practices. She believes in helping her students discover and explore yoga’s dynamic nature in their own unique way. By leading classes that are accessible and affordable, Ginny strives to bring equity to the yoga community. For more information, email Ginny at ginnybeisel@gmail.com.

Passamaquoddy-Maliseet Language Class with Newell Lewey

Online Event - Pembroke Tuesdays 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm   Learn Passamaquoddy and Maliseet words and culture with Newell Lewey on Zoom every Tuesday. Open to the public. Click here to register for an upcoming class, or here to see a recent lesson.

Water Color Painting Classes with Helen Messemer

at Lubec Community Outreach Center – Lubec, ME Wednesdays 1:00 pm - 4:00 pm & 4:00 pm – 7:00 pm   Instructor, Helen Messemer, is an award winning artist, from the Downeast area who has been showing across Maine for decades. She is a member of “Made in Maine Americas Best”. Classes are available in afternoon or evening sessions. Suitable for any level of artist, whether beginner, emerging or experienced. Choose the time and subject, or attend them all! More information

Monday Night Music Circle

Online Event – Trescott, ME Mondays 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm   We will be hosting virtual Monday Night Music Circles via Zoom. A cornerstone of Cobscook Institute events, bring an instrument, or your voice, or just come to listen. You’re sure to have a great time. Donations warmly accepted. Join the event on a computer or smartphone by clicking here, or by phone: +1 (646) 876-9923 with the Meeting ID: 885 9692 5274. Watch previous Monday Night Music Circles here.

DLLT Summer Book Club

at Grand Lake Stream Ballfield - Grand Lake Stream, ME Next talk: September 6    10:30 - 11:30 am   Join Downeast Lakes Land Trust as we host a Summer Book Club. Each month is a lively discussion about a different book that highlights cultural or natural history. Grab a book, and join the fun this summer! The next book we'll be discussing is "The Overstory" by Richard Powers, a sweeping, impassioned work of activism and resistance that is also a stunning evocation of―and paean to―the natural world.

Art Lab: Wabanaki Virtual Creators Circle

Online Event  - Wabanaki Confederacy Adult Night (ages 17+) Thursdays   7:00 - 8:00 pm   Join us for our virtual Wabanaki Art Labs. Bring your beads, your ash, and your paint and sign in with other Wabanaki creators once a week to vibe and create. We’re hosting spaces for Wabanaki artists of different ages to socialize, create, and build community together. Please note, our art labs are not instructional classes but are opportunities to create together. More information

 

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Charlotte County Adult Learning, Inc. 

St. George, NB Charlotte County Adult Learning is a non–profit organization providing FREE learning opportunities to adults throughout Charlotte County. Come to finish your year 12 requirements at any age, or enroll in one of our digital literacy courses.    More information     Sunrise Senior College  Machias, ME Being over 50 has never looked so good! Sunrise Senior College at University of Maine, Machias  began in June 2002, and in its first year 80 people were registered members. SSC was established as a part of the Maine Senior College Network and in partnership with the University of Maine at Machias.   For more information or to join in, click here.    Yoga, Fitness, and Tai Chi Classes Online Local mindful movement instructors are offering online versions of their popular local classes: Katie Melancon is offering yoga online, please email anchorandbalanceyoga@gmail.com or click here! Find Get Fit with Tina on Facebook for a current class schedule and Zoom offerings. Healthy Acadia is now offering online Tai Chi for Health classes through September. Samantha Williams is offering Tai Chi and yoga online. Please email boldcoastyoga@gmail.com for times and links.  May 12 @10AM she will host Infant/Toddler Yoga via an interactive Zoom!  Lilli Danaea will be hosting an in-person, outdoor Yoga class this summer at the Sutherland Ampitheater on Wednesdays at 9am. For more info, contact lillireally@gmail.com or click here!   MiMoxi out of St. Andrews NB.  Check out their growing list of livestream and on-demand yoga, cardio, strength and barre classes.      Farmers Markets   Calais Farmers Market: Tuesdays 11 - 1, starting June 22nd Dennys River Farmers Market: Wednesdays 3 - 5:30, starting June 22nd Eastport Farmers Market: Saturdays 11 - 1, starting June 26 Grand Manan Farmers Market: Saturdays 10 - 12:30, starting June 26.  Lubec Market: Saturdays 10 - 12,  June - October  Machias Valley Farmers Market: Fridays 9 - 2,  Late May Pennfield Summer Country Market: Saturdays 9 - 2, starting May 8th  St. Andrews Farmers Market: Thursdays 8:30 - 1, starting May 21 St. George Farmers Market: Saturdays 9 - 1, starting June 26 St. Stephen Farmers Market: Fridays 9 - 2  starting May 7

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Outside the Region  

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Fall Craft Fair & Book Sale

at Porter Memorial Library, Machias – Machias, ME September 11  9:00 am - 5:00 pm   The Friends of Porter Memorial Library will host a Fall Craft Fair & Book Sale fundraiser, and are currently seeking artists and crafters to join in the fun! The event will be held across the scenic greenspace on the library's back lawn and in the field behind the Holy Name Catholic Church. The day will also include music, food, and raffles. Will be held rain or shine. Call or text Sissy at 207-263-7034 or Marcia at 207-907-9293 with any questions.