Monthly Archives: October 2015
I saw three ships on Portland Harbor this morning
For the second time this year, Portland hosted three different cruise ships at the same time today. The last time it happened was on Sept. 26. This season, Portland is expected to handle almost a hundred cruise ship visits. Next year’s schedule is already filling up, too. Today’s ships were the 2,038-passenger Summit, the 684-passenger Regatta […]
The Red Sox are gone till next year but Don Orsillo is gone for good
VIDEO: Why ‘humor is the opiate of the melancholy’ to this Mainer
Kendall Morse, 81, closed his eyes and leaned back into the comfy chair in his Scarborough living room a couple weeks ago. He was trying to remember where he did his first professional gig as a storyteller and folksinger. It was 1971, he recalled, at a college — up north — probably in Houlton. He […]