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  January through April 2019 - from 8:45 am - 12:00 pm

Schoodic Institute announces its Winter Into Spring Tuesday Morning Birding Field Trips.  Join Bird Ecology Director Seth Benz for any or all of these 3 hour field trips that explore the nooks and crannies of Schoodic Peninsula in search of wintering birds. Open to all skill levels from beginner to advanced birder. Pick up ID tips, learn about the institute’s “Bird Schoodic” projects, gain insights into the latest buzz in conservation news, and automatically participate in the institute’s research and data collection efforts.  Each field trip will meet at and travel by van from Schooner Commons on the Institute campus.  Park in North Lot near the Schooner Commons dining hall.  Time: 8:45 AM to Noon. Complimentary hot beverage at 8:45 in Schooner Lounge. Cost: $10/field trip**.  **Pre-register for any 5 field trips and get a 6th one for free.  Please pre-register by calling  Michelle Pinkham at 288-1356.  Limited to 12 participants.   Tuesday dates:  January 15, 22, 29.  February 5, 12 & 26.  March 5, 12, & 26.  April 2, 9, & 23. Participants are reminded to dress for the weather and bring binoculars (we have a few loaners).We will provide a spotting scope and participants are certainly welcome to bring your own if you wish.  There are no inclement weather dates. If the weather prevents a field trip from going we will refund fee or credit for future field trip. Please realize that space is limited and kindly let us know if you can’t keep your reservation so we can offer your spot to someone else.

On the Coastal Eye Care screen
Tuesday, 7:30pm, Wednesday, 1:00pm (closed caption)
(2018. US 1 hr, 43 min. Directed by Peter Hedges. R.) 19 year-old Ben Burns (Lucas Hedges) unexpectedly returns home to his family's suburban home on Christmas Eve morning. Ben's mother, Holly (Julia Roberts), is relieved and welcoming but wary of her son staying clean. Over a turbulent 24 hours, new truths are revealed, and a mother's undying love for her son is tested as she does everything in her power to keep him safe. With Courtney B. Vance and Kathryn Newton.
$8 Adults, $7 Seniors/Students, $6 Grand Members General Admission

Want to refresh your diet and learn new tips and tricks for healthy eating? Join us at the Ellsworth Public Library for a fun, interactive workshop taught by a trained nutrition educator from Healthy Acadia. This FREE 4-week series offers strategies to improve your food choices, recipe demonstrations, and a cookbook full of delicious, healthy recipes for you to take home.  This program is presented in partnership with Healthy Acadia and the National Networks of Libraries of Medicine.  Contact Jada to sign up: jada@healthyacadia.org or 667-7171 (ext. 211).

Herbs for Health   with Brighid Doherty, Solidago School of Herbalism Each class we will make and take an herbal remedy home $30/class (if you attend all 6 classes, the 6th class is free!) Space is limited to 10 for each class.  To sign up, please contact Jennifer May at sagemoonapothecarymaine@gmail.com.  Due to the limited size of classes, we ask that payment be made in advance to hold your space.  Payment may be sent by check to ​Sage Moon Apothecary PO Box 102 Seal Harbor, ME 04675 or through PayPal at sagemoonapothecarymaine@gmail.com. In the event that you need to cancel and give 24 hours notice, 50% of your payment will be returned to you. Refunds will not be given due to weather.  In the event of cancellation due to weather, classes will be bumped forward a week and you will be notified of any changes.   Herbs for the Cold & Flu Season Thursday 2/21 6-8PM What herbs are important to have on hand to prepare for the cold and flu season? How do you make remedies with them and at what dosages do you take them?  How do our immune systems work? Learn the answers to these questions and more! You will make and take an Elderberry oxymel, and sample many other herbs. Herbs for Energy and Vitality Thursday, 3/7 6-9PM What herbs can you incorporate into daily life that will sustain energy and feelings of vitality?  How do you prepare remedies with these herbs and at what dose do you take them? How can herbs help us sleep better? How do the energy systems of the body work?  You will make and take an herbal remedy specific to your needs, and sample many other herbs. Herbs for Stress and Anxiety Relief Thursday, 3/21 6-8PM What herbs can you use to handle stressful situations calmly and healthfully?  How can herbs help prevent and stop feelings of anxiousness and anxiety attacks?  How do we prepare them and how are dosages decided?  What does stress do to our bodies? You will make and take an herbal remedy specific to your needs and sample many other herbs. Herbs for Healing Chronic Conditions Thursday, 4/4 6-8PM What herbs help heal chronic conditions?  How can chronic pain, inflammation, and auto-immune diseases be changed with herbs?  How do you make the remedies and at what dosages do you take them?  You will make and take an herbal remedy specific to your needs, and sample many other herbs. Herbs for Liver and Skin Health Thursday, 4/25 6-8PM Should we detoxify our bodies?  What does this even mean? How does the liver work?  What herbs can we incorporate into daily life that will enhance our livers’ functioning?  What herbs can heal chronic skin irritations and how do we use them?  How do we make remedies with them and what dose do we use?  You will make and take an herbal remedy specific to your needs tincture and sample many other herbs Herbal Bitters and Digestive Health Thursday, 5/9 6-8PM What are herbal bitters and why are they healthy?  How can herbs improve our digestive health and eliminate common chronic digestive disorders?  What herbs are the best to use for different complaints?  How do we make remedies at home and decide on dosages?  You will make and take your own bitters and sample many other herbs. Brighid Doherty is an herbalist who finds inspiration in the Wise Woman Tradition of Healing.  She is a passionate herbal health educator and professional gardener.  She is the founder of The Solidago School of Herbalism and co-founder of the Dandelion Herbal Collective, both located on Deer Isle.  For the past two decades, Brighid has worked with medicinal plants in a variety of ways; as a student and a teacher, a gardener and a forager, a medicine maker and health consultant.  She received a BA focused in organic agriculture and herbal medicine from Evergreen State College.  She has had many wonderful herbalist mentors including Susun Weed, Rosemary Gladstar, Juliet Blankespoor, and KP Khalsa.  She leads and teaches a variety of workshops including medicinal plant walks, herbal spa , hands-on medicine making, materia medica for the body systems and herb themed retreats.  Brighid inspires self-reliant health care by teaching people how to bring herbal medicine into their lives by relating to the plants in their bodies, kitchens, gardens and in the wild.

A special Native American Genealogy weekend with well-known genetic genealogist and Native American researcher, Nancy Lecompte. Both programs are free and open to anyone looking to build their understanding of DNA testing and proving Native American Relationships.

• Friday April 26 at 6:30pm
  • Northeastern Native American Research.  This will cover the basics of connecting that elusive Native American branch to your family tree.
• Saturday April 27 at 10:00am
  • Nancy will present using DNA in Native American Research Projects.  She will present two case studies to demonstrate how to approach the use of DNA to supplement your traditional documentation. This will benefit people who have a basic interest in chromosome mapping

Both events will meet in the Riverview room at the Ellsworth Public Library. For more information, call the library at 667-6363.

Transport yourself to the colorful land of Brazil without a passport or a plane ticket – and without even leaving town. Internationally recognized guitarist/composer Peter Griggs will help you do just that in a concert titled “Cafe Brazil” at Schoodic Arts For All in Winter Harbor.  On Friday, April 26, 2019 at 7 PM, Mr. Griggs will perform a selection of Brazilian music, including boss-nova classics, samba and choro (a Brazilian style of music that sounds a bit like ragtime) by composers such as Antonio Carlos Jobim (“The Girl from Ipanema”) and Luiz Bona (“Black Orpheus”).. The wide-ranging program, including instrumental and vocal renditions of classical and popular Brazilian music and selections from Griggs’ CD recording “Children Of The Amazon,”  provides something for listeners with a taste for exotic sounds.

Critics in Germany, the United Kingdom and the USA have hailed Griggs as “a master of expressive sounds” known for his “sizzling guitar playing” and “sophisticated and highly enjoyable” programs.  Germany’s Bergische Morning Post put it this way:  “an almost unbelievable talent–Peter Griggs performs magic!”

Schoodic Arts For All is located at 427 Main Street in Winter Harbor ME. For more information, call 207-963-2569. 

On the Coastal Eye Care screen

(1989. US 1 hr. 46 min. Directed by Pjil Alden Robinson. PG.) The Grand continues its 80th birthday year of monthly screenings of beloved eighties movies with a movie that will make you fall in love with baseball all over again- "Field of Dreams." "If you build it, he will come." That's the ethereal message that inspires Iowa farmer Ray Kinsella (Kevin Costner) to construct a baseball diamond in the middle of his cornfield. At first, "he" seems to be the ghost of disgraced ballplayer Shoeless Joe Jackson (Ray Liotta), who materializes on the ballfield and plays a few games with the awestruck Ray. But as the weeks go by, Ray receives several other messages from a disembodied voice, one of which is "Ease his pain." He realizes that his ballfield has been divinely ordained to give a second chance to people who have sacrificed certain valuable aspects of their lives. One of these folks is Salingeresque writer Terence Mann (James Earl Jones), whom Ray kidnaps and takes to a ball game and then to his farm. Another is Doc Graham (Burt Lancaster), a beloved general practitioner who gave up a burgeoning baseball career in favor of medicine. Will Ray find out the secret of the voice and the ballfield? Find out for only 80 cents a ticket! With Timothy Busfield, Kelly Bishop and Wayne Knight.
.80 Cents General Admission

At the Boston Opera House Bus departs at 6:00am (includes round-trip motorcoach, dinner & show) Cameron Mackintosh presents the new production of Alain Boublil and Claude-Michel Schönberg’s Tony Award®-winning musical phenomenon, Les Misérables, direct from an acclaimed two-and-a-half-year return to Broadway. With its glorious new staging and dazzlingly reimagined scenery inspired by the paintings of Victor Hugo, this breathtaking new production has left both audiences and critics awestruck, cheering “Les Miz is born again!” (NY1). $350/person

A special Native American Genealogy weekend with well-known genetic genealogist and Native American researcher, Nancy Lecompte. Both programs are free and open to anyone looking to build their understanding of DNA testing and proving Native American Relationships.

• Friday April 26 at 6:30pm
  • Northeastern Native American Research.  This will cover the basics of connecting that elusive Native American branch to your family tree.
• Saturday April 27 at 10:00am
  • Nancy will present using DNA in Native American Research Projects.  She will present two case studies to demonstrate how to approach the use of DNA to supplement your traditional documentation. This will benefit people who have a basic interest in chromosome mapping

Both events will meet in the Riverview room at the Ellsworth Public Library. For more information, call the library at 667-6363.

The First Congregational Church of Ellsworth is hosting a Roast pork dinner on Saturday, April 27th  from 5:00 to 6:30 PM. The menu is roast pork and gravy, with mashed potatoes, glazed carrots, green beans, Caesar salad, roll, tea, coffee or lemonade, and homemade pies all for $9.00 a person or $25.00 a family and children under 5 eat free. The church is located at 2 Church Street, Ellsworth behind City Hall. The church has accommodations for the handicapped. For more information please call Lois at 669-2028.

On the Coastal Eye Care screen 7:30pm (2019. UK 1 hr, 37 min. Directed by Jon S. Baird. PG.) Laurel & Hardy, one of the world's great comedy teams, set out on a variety hall tour of Britain in 1953. Diminished by age and with their golden era as the kings of Hollywood comedy now behind them, they face an uncertain future. As the charm and beauty of their performances shines through, they re-connect with their adoring fans. The tour becomes a hit, but Stan & Ollie can't quite shake the specter of Laurel and Hardy's past; the long-buried ghosts, coupled with Oliver's failing health, start to threaten their precious partnership. A portrait of the most tender and poignant of creative marriages, they are aware that they may be approaching their swan song, trying to rediscover just how much they mean to each other. With John C. Reilly, Steve Coogan and Danny Huston. $8 Adults, $7 Seniors/Students, $6 Grand Members General Admission