Monthly Archives: September 2015

VIDEO: New Maine film depicts sex, drugs amid Downeast blueberry harvest

"Sex, Drugs and Blueberries," a new film by Maine writer and filmmaker Crash Barry, opens at the Camden Opera House on Sept. 26. The film is set during the first week of the 2004 blueberry harvest in Washington County.

Maine writer and filmmaker Crash Barry says drugs like Oxycontin were not hard to come by in 2004, the summer he spent raking blueberries Down East. They were everywhere. “As soon as you’re in the fields, like, drugs are readily available,” he said in an interview on Monday in Portland as he talked about his […]