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Snowed in? Maybe You’ll Get Cabin Fever
Cabin Fever. Photo: Jonathan Liu Overview: Snowed in this week? Here’s a cute little game from Maine called Cabin Fever—it might not keep you warm but you can while away the hours pretending to dig...
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The Game Loft Needs Your Help
Teens playing tabletop RPGs at the Game Loft in Belfast, Maine, a teen center that uses D&D and other games to teach leadership, social skills and community service. (photo: Ethan Gilsdorf) A teen...
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Get Thee to a Book Sale
Image: Sarah Pinault I am utterly alarmed that our local Scholastic Book Fair warehouse was having it’s biggest sale of the year and I almost missed it. Never mind the fact that I need to build an...
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A Mainer’s Visit From Hurricane Irene
Image: Sarah Pinault In Maine we prepare for power outages in the winter, whether we get 12 inches of snow, or an ice storm that candy coats everything. We stock up on batteries, canned food and frozen...
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Banned Books Week: Censorship in Maine
Image: Maine State Library Years ago, when living under a political administration that I didn’t much care for I read, just by chance, It Can’t Happen Here by Sinclair Lewis. I was haunted by his...
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Maine-Made Zombie Movie
If you happen to be in Biddeford, Maine on October 22nd at 6 pm, and if you happen to be concerned about the coming Zombie Apocalypse, then I might suggest that you head to Bull Moose in Sanford to...
View ArticleTaking Mentos and Coke Zero up a Notch
Fritz Grobe and Stephen Voltz of Maine have done it again. After captivating the internet five years ago with colorful displays created from Diet Coke and Mentos, they have since kicked it up a notch....
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IPads in the Classroom: A Case Study in Auburn, Maine – Part One
Image: Amazon.com My son turned two this fall. By the time he starts kindergarten in three years’ time, I have no idea how he will be learning. The first computer I was exposed to in elementary school...
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Southern Maine Family Game Festival
Image: Sarah Pinault If you are in the Northeast next weekend and looking for some people to game with, look no further than the first annual Southern Maine Family Game Festival. The brainchild of...
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Geeky States of America: Maine’s Scale Model of Planet Earth
Image: Sarah Pinault In case you’ve missed the news recently, it has been a little cold in Maine recently. Once you have exhausted the Children’s Museum, the new play center at the mall, and the...
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Feels Like the First Time: Reliving My School Choir Days
English cover of the 1984 single “I Want to Know What Love” Is by Foreigner. You know that feeling you get, when something you always thought was pretty cool coincides with something you love, and...
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