Central A roostook County Cultural Directory

"Whatever the future may have in store, one thing is certain; unless communal life can be restored, the public cannot adequately solve its most urgent problems—to find and identify itself "

John Dewey, 1927 quoted by Lucy Lippard in The Lure of the Local senses o f place in a multicentered society, 1997

"Becoming conscious of the things we sense about places, the sights, sounds, and smells of a local spot, the everyday comings and goings, helps us get our bearings."

Kathleen Mundell in Sensing Place: A Guide to Commu­ nity Culture, Maine Arts Commission, 1995

Welcome. Woodcut by Paul Carlson Central Aroostook County Cultural Directory A Guide to the Artists, Arts, Historical Organizations, and Resources in Central Aroostook County, Maine 1998 Edited by Gail R. Scott Graphic Design by William Duncan Printed in Canada by Webcom

Please send all corrections to this directory in writing to : The Maine Arts Commission State House Station 25 Augusta, ME 04033

2 Central Aroostook County Cultural Directory Central Aroostook County Cultural Directory Table of Contents

Preface 4 Introduction 6

Individual Artists and Groups Crafts—Contemporary 10 Crafts—Traditional 12 Design, Photography, Videography & Media 14 Literature/Creative W riting 15 Music, Dance & Theater 16 Visual Arts 19

Organizations Agricultural 21 Community Organizations 22 Performing & Visual Arts Organizations & Venues 27 Percent for Art Sites 28

Cultural Resources M a in e 29 Regional & National 31

Index 32 Preface

This cultural inventory and its published direc­ dans and musical heritage, venues for the perform­ The Directory has been a community effort. It tory are part of a larger project being currently ing and visual arts, organizations, and all the myriad began in 1995 with a meeting attended by about fifty undertaken by the Maine Arts Commission to other cultural resources that help to define and people, including area schools, historical societies, support local community cultural assessments nourish the richness of life in a particular locale. In libraries, and arts organizations. From the start there throughout the State of Maine. People in identified some of these projects, a “community” is comprised was enthusiastic support for such a project to collect communities or regions work together to gather and of a city or twin cities, like Lewiston/Aubum; in and make available a document that lists the arts and disseminate information about the artists, crafts other cases, it is an entire county, like Hancock, or a cultural resources of the region. With a grant from people (both traditional and contemporary), musi- region, like Rangley, or as in our case, part of a the Maine Arts Commission, a steering group county. embarked on the work of developing and distribut­ Since Aroostook is such a large county and so ing a questionnaire that formed the basis for the culturally diverse, it was logical to divide it up for inventory. Acknowledgment and thanks extend to the purposes of a cultural assessment and inventory. the field researchers who did this work: Michele The rich Acadian culture in the St. John Valley Green contacted individual artists; David Putnam deserves (and is in the process of conducting) its went door-to-door talking with traditional artists; own inventory. Central Aroostook County, the focus Karen Sands collected entries on historical societies, of this Directory, incorporates communities in the libraries, and other organizations and set up the immediate Aroostook River valley. The region database to house and organize the information. roughly follows the course of the Aroostook River. Dena Winslow York joined the project in 1997, Ashland lies to the west, from where the river writing the introduction, contacting additional meanders through Washburn and Crouseville and individuals, and offering valuable insights. Nola then makes its distinctive double oxbow turns Belanger, Secretary at the University of Maine at through Presque Isle, Caribou, and Fort Fairfield Presque Isle, helped extensively with database and until it empties into the St. John River just across the wordprocessing tasks. Canadian border. At the Presque Isle riverbend, the The Directory cover depicts quilt blocks from the Aroostook is joined by two small tributaries, the Aroostook County Quilt #1, a project sponsored by Prestile and Presque Isle Streams, giving the town the Fabrique Shoppe in Presque Isle. Quilt squares its anglicized French name of “Peninsula.” featuring typical images of Aroostook County, Stockholm and New Sweden are the most northern including a fiddlehead fern, potato barn, chickadee, communities in the directory; Bridgewater and Mars loon, a woodsman “cruising,” a moose, a black bear, Hill the most southern. Other towns in the valley were designed by local quilters and are sold as include Mapleton, Mars Hill, Easton, and Lime­ Block of the Month kits for a Do-It-Yourself stone. With time and additional funding, we hope Aroostook quilt. Quilt #2 will feature historical that the communities in southern Aroostook will buildings of Aroostook County. We appreciate the undertake their own assessment project. Central Aroostook County

4 Central Aroostook County Cultural Directory cooperation of the Fabrique Shoppe in making these classroom activities; by businesses and civic groups worked on the original layout. Special appreication quilt blocks available to grace our cover. to create programs using local talent and expertise; goes to two people from University Relations at The Directory is meant to serve as a starting by Chambers of Commerce and town managers to UM-Presque Isle—Erin Benson, Director, for her point: a vehicle to celebrate, acknowledge, and revitalize festivals or envision new community enthusiasm and willingness to help, and William support the creativity, dedication, ingenuity, and projects in collaboration with the artists and organi­ Duncan, Director of Design and Photography, for his vision of those people and groups who enliven and zations listed. grace under pressure and his expertise in designing enrich this place called Aroostook. The process has The people of central Aroostook County wish to the book. been as inclusive as possible; there is no charge to thank the Maine Arts Commission for the grant be listed, and the Directory is free. Like any funding that made this project possible. Kathleen vehicle, this listing is not a static thing, nor is it Mundell, Community Arts Associate, gave technical Gail R. Scott meant to be exhaustive. It will grow and develop assistance and encouragement in the long process of Project Director and be revised. But most of all we hope it will be collecting the data and shaping the Directory. Mark August, 1998 well used: by schools and teachers to identify and Huff, former Commissioner from the central incorporate local cultural resources into their Aroostook region, lent support along the way and

Presque Isle, Me., Presque Isle Stream.

Presque Isle Stream, early postcard photograph View of central aroostook from the top of Quoggy Jo Mountain in Aroostook State Park. Photograph by Frank Appleby

Preface 5 Introduction

Dena Winslow York, County. The central area of all! About 400 million years deposits, and boulders. In stone tools of the magnificent Local Historian Aroostook County, which is ago (Silurian time period), addition, the lakes run in a chert (a fine grained flint) the focus of this directory, much of the sedimentary general Northwest to South­ found in the area of Aroostook County is the covers the eastern section of rock in central Aroostook east direction which was the Munsungun Lake. The chert second largest county in the the county ranging from was laid down. Many inver­ direction the glaciers moved. and tools made from it have United States, covering 6,453 Stockholm in the north, to tebrate animals were buried Although most of the rock in been found as far away as square miles. It contains two Portage Lake in the west, and and became fossilized in this the central Aroostook area is Pennsylvania, evidence that cities, fifty-six towns, one to Bridgewater in the south. environment. Toward the sedimentary, there are also it was either traded or carried hundred and nine unorga­ From a warm sea at the end of this time the Appala­ metals to be found. The that far and that it was highly nized territories, and eleven equator complete with coral chian Mountain Range as we Dudley Farm Manganese site prized. These early people, plantations. Incorporated on reefs, to turbulent volcanic know it today developed as in Castle Hill was the loca­ the first artisans in March 16, 1839, it was origi­ eruptions, to glaciers up to the ancient seas receded. tion of exploratory mining Aroostook, produced well- nally part of Washington two miles thick, central From about 345 million years activity in the 1940s and crafted stone tools which Aroostook County has seen it ago (Devonian time period) early 1950s. In 1977 a body were not only very func­ until about 13,000 years ago of ore which includes gold, tional, but incredibly beauti­ when the glaciers arrived, silver, copper, and zinc, was ful. little has changed in the land­ discovered at Bald Mountain The Aroostook and St. scape of Aroostook County. near Portage Lake and is cur­ John Rivers were major high­ During the Devonian time rently being looked at for ways in these early days. the first land plants arrived possible mining operations. Numerous artifacts along on the scene in Aroostook, Humans have lived in both waterways indicate the adding to the abundant ma­ what we know today as extensive use of these rivers rine fossil record in the area. Aroostook County for the and their tributaries by early One of these rare leafless past 12,700 years. At that people. According to plants called psilophyton was time the remains of the last DeRozier's map dated 1,699 selected as Maine's state fos­ glacier were still present. there were at that time eight sil, and can be seen at the Evidence uncovered at the Native American villages in Winslow Farm Vascular Land Munsungun-Chase Lake area what is now Aroostook Plant Site in Mapleton. just outside Aroostook County, When the remains of the County, indicates that Paleo In the early 1600s the first last glaciers disappeared Indians were living on the Europeans arrived. They from Aroostook County margins of the ice. Why were priests sent to the New about 11,500 years ago, they would they choose to live in World to Christianize the Na­ left their marks behind in the such an environment? They tive Americans. One of these form of glacial sand, gravel were here to mine and make priests, Father LeBrun, is

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said to have planted a cross southern Maine began arriv­ drew up a treaty placing and a flag on Mars Hill ing. Hostilities soon devel­ Aroostook's boundary where Mountain in 1607. Follow­ oped between the British it is today. This "bloodless" ing in the footsteps of the Loyalists cutting timber with war brought more good to priests came countless mes­ British permits and other Aroostook County than sengers and map makers, Maine citizens with permits harm. Many soldiers re­ hunters and fur traders. As to the same lands. turned to the area to take up early as 1756 the French had In 1820 Maine became a homesteads in the new terri­ established outposts along state and began taking an in­ tory and established families, the river routes at convenient terest in Aroostook. By the some of whose descendants places to serve travelers and 1830s it was obvious that remain in Aroostook today. Men posing on a log jam at the Aroostook River Bridge in the early the mails. In June of 1785, both Britain and the U.S. Roads built in preparation 1900s. Photograph courtesy Ashland Public Library. Joseph Daigle planted a cross claimed a large portion of for the war created easier ac­ on the south bank of the St. what is now Aroostook cess to the new land, and John River thus beginning County. A war seemed un­ towns such as Fort Fairfield enced the economy. smoke stack of the shingle the Acadian presence in avoidable and troops were and Fort Kent sprang up A typical example was mill which lay in a pasture northern Aroostook County. sent to the area by both sides where Aroostook War forts the Ashland Manufacturing for several years was so large As early as 1691 the value as preparations for the war had been built. Company in Sheridan built in a horse could walk into it. of the numerous huge were begun. In the midst of Although lumbering was the 1890s. This huge opera­ What remains of the dam and "Pumpkin Pine" was discov­ these preparations, Aroostook a major industry in tion included a mill store piers which were the destina­ ered. These trees, said to be became a separate county on Aroostook at the time it was where mill employees did tion of many log drives down "so tall they tore the clouds March 16, 1839. The name incorporated, and remains so their business, with pur­ the river can still be seen as they passed over," suc­ was taken from the today, a second major indus­ chases deducted from their today in Sheridan. cumbed to the lumberman's Aroostook River, a name the try also developed. Farming pay on pay day. The mill In this bustling commu­ axe. Timber cut in the area residents of Masardis had grew rapidly in importance company owned the boarding nity there was also a hotel, a was floated down the petitioned the state to be following the Aroostook War, house for their employees. dance hall, an opera house, a Aroostook River and into the given to their town. Instead, and continues to be a major In the dining hall of the restaurant, a boarding house, St. John and was then the name was given to the contributor to the economy building ninety people could a butcher shop, sporting shipped to ready markets newly created county and its of Aroostook today. By the be served at one time. The goods store, bowling alley, from New Brunswick. These first incorporated town was turn of the century, mill closed early in 1920 and millinery shop, jewelry store earliest lumberjacks were named "Masardis.” Aroostook was booming. was cut up and sold for scrap and wooden match making primarily British subjects The "Bloodless Aroostook Lumbering remained a major metal. The spruce mill once business. The Ashland Mill living in New Brunswick War" ended in 1842 with no factor in the economy. The had the capacity to cut larger Company sponsored baseball who thought they were on battles fought when Daniel many companion industries lumber than any other mill games in the summer and the British soil. In the early Webster and Lord Ashburton such as saw mills also influ­ east of the Mississippi. The town had a band. There were 1800's the first settlers from

Introduction 7 flourishing business in on Main Street in Presque ety of cultural programs Aroostook County. Today, Isle sells beautiful examples throughout the year. There there are still numerous of the traditional Native are museums of several sorts sporting camps and guiding American crafts, including which include three science/ services available along with baskets. The Micmac office natural history museums: several talented taxidermists. also owns a traveling mu­ The Francis Malcolm Sci Ethnically the people of seum collection of traditional ence Center in Easton; the central Aroostook today are Native baskets and crafts. Northern Maine Museum of largely of European descent, Living History demon­ Science at UM-Presque Isle; Digging Potatoes, Pearl Turner Ashly postcard photgraph with many roots in Loyalist strations held periodically in and the Nylander Museum in stock from nearby New different locations throughout Caribou. Brunswick. There is a large the area give residents a Because of its location minstrel shows and movies, which improved potato har­ French Canadian and chance to demonstrate and and air currents, central and during the winter, skiing, vesting tremendously. The Acadian population just north view traditional arts. In­ Aroostook is also the loca­ skating, and sledding. Aroostook Herald described of central Aroostook and a cluded are such skills as tion of two famous transat­ Dances in Sheridan were a the machine in glowing terms large Swedish population in blacksmithing, canoe build­ lantic balloon launchings. major event and many people and said, "it will dig clean as the northern part of central ing, shingle and shake manu­ Memorials are located in from surrounding towns at­ fast as the team can walk and Aroostook with small groups facture, wooden railroad tie Presque Isle for the Double tended them. During prohi­ with it an acre of potatoes of Asian and Lebanese in the manufacture, wood carving, Eagle II in 1978; and in Cari­ bition, Sheridan was the can be dug as quickly as a Caribou area. Two Native sheep shearing, quilting, bou for the Rosie O'Grady place to go for homemade farmer can run his cultivator American bands are located spinning, dying, soap mak­ Balloon of Peace in 1984. whiskey, often made in the through it once" (Aroostook in Aroostook, the Aroostook ing, knitting, weaving, and a There are musical groups woods camps. Herald, November 20, 1884). Band of Micmacs with of­ host of other such traditional of every kind, such as the An off-shoot of farming, Today much of Aroostook fices in Presque Isle, and the arts and crafts. Sleepy Hollow Music Asso­ starch factories, were another County remains covered in Houlton Band of Maliseets The arts still flourish in ciation which performs coun­ important contributor to the woodlands. The central with offices in Houlton. Aroostook County. Two try music, and the Caribou economy of Aroostook at the Aroostook area borders on Many traditional arts still years ago an organization Choral Society. Dance turn of the century. The first the North Maine Woods to flourish in central Aroostook. was formed called "Made in groups perform everything of numerous starch factories the west. In addition to lum­ The residents are known for Aroostook" to support the from square and contra danc­ was built in 1875 in Presque bering and its off-shoots, by their strong work ethic and activities of artisans in the ing through modem dance Isle with the support of area the turn of the century a huge their incredible resourceful­ area, and the Aroostook Part­ and ballet. Aroostook boasts residents who promised to sporting industry had devel­ ness. Native American ners in the Arts support arts its own magazine, Echoes, raise potatoes for the factory. oped. Along with sporting crafts, especially basket mak­ in the schools. The Caribou and the only 4-H dog drill In 1884 Willis Dodge of camps and guiding services, ing, are still being practiced, Performing Arts Center and team in Maine. Aroostook Presque Isle invented a ma­ hotels, restaurants and other and the Micmac Images store University of Maine at has one television station, chine for digging potatoes businesses, taxidermists did a Presque Isle each host a vari­

8 Central Aroostook County Cultural Directory WAGM, the call letters of However, we do hope that shake is a little stronger, and which stand for "Wonderful this publication will increase the air is fresh and invigorat­ Aroostook Garden of awareness of arts in the cen­ ing, we have resourceful, ca­ Up where the hand clasp's a little stronger, Maine," and several radio tral Aroostook area, which pable people who continue to Up where the smile dwells a little longer, stations. contribute to the wonderful produce extraordinary art in That's where Aroostook begins. We know that in publish­ quality of life in Aroostook many forms. This directory is Up where the sun is a little brighter, ing this directory, it is incom­ County. Up here in northern a hint at the wonderful cre­ Where the snows that fall are a little whiter, plete and there are bound to Maine where the sun shine is ativity and talent in Central Where the bonds of home are a wee bit tighter be errors and omissions. a little brighter, the hand Aroostook County today. That's where Aroostook begins. Up where the skies are a trifle bluer, Up where friendship's a little truer, That's where Aroostook begins. Up where a fresher breeze is blowing, Where there's laughter in every streamlet flowing, Where there's lots of reaping and lots of sowing, That's where Aroostook begins. Up where the world is in the making, Where things are new - ideas are shaping - That's where Aroostook begins. Where there's more of singing and less of sighing, Where there's lots of giving and lots of buying, And a man makes friends without half trying - That's where Aroostook begins!

This poem, originally published in Sprague’s Journal of Maine History, was composed by an anonymous young lady in reply to a traveler making his first trip to Aroostook on the Bangor and Ar oostook Railroad in the 1800s. The traveler had inquired about how he would know when he crossed the Aroostook County line.

Micmac baskets. Photograph courtesy of Micmac Images, Presque Isle

Introduction 9 Individual Artists and Groups

Crafts—Contemporary

A -l Quilting Sheila Belyea downhome @ ainop. com species, ranging from tiny Brenda Hall PO Box 45 204 Bailey Road http://www.ainop.com/ hummingbirds to hawks, RR 2 Box 79 Bridgewater ME 04735 Caribou ME 04736 downhome/ geese, and waterfowl. Presque Isle ME 04769 429-9798 498-8682 Scented Jar Candles and 429-9457 Clowes Clowater, Proprietor quiltelf@ mfx. net accessories in over forty Russell Gagnon Stained-glass. Machine quilts from previ­ Quilt-making classes in home aromas. 457 Main Street ously constructed quilt tops studio for groups or individu­ Caribou ME 04736 Holmes Woodburning using strip quilting. Various als. Custom-order quilts. The Fabrique Shoppe 496-2341/fax 496-2341 RR #1 Box 1600 designs, such as leaves, School workshops. Dina Kelly, Proprietor Stained glass creation and 29 Currier Street waves, hearts, flowers. 375 Rear Main Street design: portraits, lamps, Fort Fairfield ME 04742 Crown of Maine Quilters Presque Isle, ME 04769 clocks, sun checkers, interior 473-7286 Dana Allison Presque Isle ME 04769 764-6191 and exterior lights, stepping Woodburning of endangered PO Box 459 Jennifer Johnson, President Supplies (100% cotton fabric, stone magic glass design. species and copies of paint­ Mapleton ME 04757 764-1452 notions, patterns) for quilters ings by Western artists. 768-8371 The Crown of Maine Quilters and crafters. Wide variety of Gray Dog Art Quilter who creates both is one of four chapters of the classes for beginners through RR #1 Box 120 Hon-e-B Dolls traditional patterned quilts Pine Tree Quilters Guild in advanced, as well as advice Stockholm ME 04783 Marie Ashby, Proprietor and contemporary designs, Aroostook County, comprised on quilting. Aroostook 896-3042 RR 1, Box 1435 including occasional picture of about 45 members who County Quilt #\ designed by David W. Morrison, Manag­ Fort Fairfield, ME 04742 quilts. Quilted clothing. meet monthly at alternating local quilters (see cover) and ing partner 476-6315 Porcelain painting. Presque Isle and Caribou sold at shop: 12 blocks [email protected] honeb @ apitwad. com locations. The group has depicting typical County web site under construction www.honeb Barker’s Puzzling honored requests for quilt images available as quil-ting Produce wearable art, fine art Instruction in sculpting, Box 276, Route 1 donations in the past and kits, complete with fabric, prints, and greeting cards painting and reproducing Bridgewater ME 04735 holds occasional quilt shows. directions, stories relating to through a grant from the antique French and German 429-9546 the image, and a photograph. Indian Rights Association. dolls. Dolls made to order. [email protected] Down Home Candle Products and enclosed Classes both local and Hand-sawed and designed Company Leo Flewelling educational material focus on elsewhere in Maine. puzzles made of 1/4-inch RR 2 Box 279 PO Box 368 developing cultural respect Baltic Birch plywood. Presque Isle ME 04769 Crouseville ME 04738 and appreciation of Native Unique shaped puzzles and Karen St. Peter, Owner 455-8110 American tradition, myths photograph puzzles. 764-3206; fax 764-3206 R™ealistic native bird and stories. carvings of northern Maine

10 Central Aroostook County Cultural Directory Susan Hook Lovewell Calligraphy North Star Lumber RR 1, Box 160B, Pratt Road Design 16A Dyer Street Caribou, ME 04736 Terri Lovewell, Artisan Presque Isle ME 04769 498-8222; fax 493-4664 RR1 Box 17 Ernest C. Drost II, Manager [email protected] Ashland ME 04732 764-0301; fax 764-5138 www. mainerec. com/ 435-6449 nrthstrlbr@ainop. com suehome.html Calligraphy designs. Original http://www. ainop. com/ One-of-a-kind doll artist. and popular verses of northstar Medieval time period, adult friendship, life, and family Supplies specialty woods to figures in mixed media, wax, treasures penned in calligra­ furniture artists polymer clays. Master doll phy, featuring pressed artist with the Professional wildflowers, handtied flies, or Nathaniel's Lot Stained Doll Makers Guild. Also oil, hand-painted floral designs, Glass acrylic, and mixed media matted & framed. 10 Harding Avenue painting. Fort Fairfield ME 04742 Lisa Meyers Katherine J. Barnes, Artisan Jeanette (Jay) Kilpatrick 140 Main Street 476-6261 P.O. Box 1318 St. Agatha ME 04772 barnes61 @ aol.com Presque Isle, ME 04769 543-6150 Stained Glass. Many types of 764-7126 Stained glass designs. See items. Traditional quilter. Quilts Spare Moments, under Visual made to order with 100% Arts for gallery information. Native Maine Driftwood cotton, in any traditional Santas design and color, hand or Felix Michonski PO Box 187 Sheridan Road machine quilted. RR1 Box 80A Ashland ME 04732 Ashland ME 04732 Sandra M. Caton, Owner/ Kuntry Kuties Woodcrafts 435-6876 Artisan PO Box 433 Pewterware, custom and 435-6082 Crouseville ME 04738 original. Spinner candlesticks Native Maine Driftwood Richard and Lucille Larsen and candy dishes. Church formed from select driftwood 455-4709/ 1-888-458-6879 goblets. shaped by nature and brought www. mainerec. com/ to life by the artist's imagina­ kuties.html Mickey's Crafts tion. Each piece hand- www. craftsantiques. com/ 66 Oak Street painted, numbered, dated, and vendors/ll-kkw. htm Presque Isle ME 04769 signed by the artist. Wooden plaques, dolls, santas Medrick Philbrook, Artisan and wreaths. 764-5821 Woodcrafts and picture placement on wooden objects.

Woodstove. Ink drawing by Evelyn Kok

Individual Artists and Groups, Crafts—Contemporary 11 Sherman Oxbow Wreaths Alden Jr. Swanson James O. Taubin Windy Hill Wood Art Elizabeth Wyman Steve and Judy Sherman, RR1 Box 3100 60 James Road Studio PO Box 1187 Proprietors Mapleton ME 04757 Presque Isle ME 04769 PO Box 275 Caribou ME 04736 HC 64, Box 9 764-3009 764-6530 Easton ME 04740 493-7880 Oxbow Plantation, ME 04764 Custom designed architectural Designer mailboxes and other Elizabeth D. Kretschmer, Custom-made quilts, multi- 435-6171; fax 435-7048 millwork for residential traditional crafts. Artisan media artwork, fabric designs, In-state: 1-800-840-6171; architecture. Furniture and 488-5201 and other traditional crafts. out-of-state: 1-800-639-9588 cabinet design and construc­ Tomi's Ceramics Plus Wood-burned original designs Quality Christmas wreaths tion. 13 York Street, PO Box 384 of wildlife. New England since 1988. Also Christmas Mars Hill ME 04758 Scenes on hardwood and trees (Balsam Fir). Shipped Kathy Swanson Tomi Henderson, Artisan some softwood. anywhere. Shop open RR 1 Box 3100 429-9126 November 1 through Decem­ Mapleton ME 04757 A small ceramics shop Wilma Winslow ber 15 every day until 764-3009 offering greenware, bisque, POBox 168 Christmas. Brochure avail­ Custom design and fabrica­ and finished products. Presque Isle ME 04769 able by mail. tion of educational bulletin Specials done to your 764-1729 boards and displays. specifications, classes by Traditional knitting and appointment. crochet created with original designs. Instruction avail­ able. Crafts-Traditional

Wallace Allen Sarah Archer Axe handles, peavey handles, Kathleen Leggett Traditional log cabin con­ 21 Myrtle Street Presque Isle ME 04769 hammer handles, adze, PO Box 473 struction; bark spud peeled Caribou ME 04736 764-1232 shovel, crooked knives, Washburn ME 04786 spruce logs. Also, Sporting 493-3213 Traditional Native American drawshaves. 455-8284 Camp Cooking by Ellen Makes Eskimo type ivory (Micmac) beadwork, clothing, Pysanka (Ukraman Egg Libby. carvings. Collection of jewelry, and crafts. Edith Greiner Decoration), using the basic Eskimo carvings and artifacts. 57 Johnson Road wax-resist method. Folktales Micmac Images Fran DeMaio Presque Isle ME 04769 and symbols will also be 572 Main Street Christopher Arato 1090 Young Lake Road 762-5161 included in 90-120 minute Presque Isle ME 04769 RR 1, Box 1490 Westfield ME 04787 Hand-woven textiles for workshop. Fee: $60 + travel Russell Dennis, Economic Fort Fairfield ME 04742 425-6223 home and wear. Specializes and workshop materials. Developer 472-4030 Pottery, hand-thrown, in exotic fibers. 764-4001; fax 764-3243 Custom furniture maker, functional. Libby Camps econdev @ ainop. com specializing in period antique Armand Lacombe Box V A Native American gift shop reproductions of museum Albert "Gib" Gagnon Box 78 Ashland ME 04732 specializing in baskets and quality. Box 295 Mapleton ME 04757 Matt and Ellen Libby, basketry by Micmac people. Portage ME 04768 764-1714 Proprietors Other items available include 435-6346 Basket-weaving using 435-8274 original designs. 12 Central Aroostook County Cultural Directory jewelry, greeting cards, and John Robertson David Sanipass Dena Winslow York carvings. The store is open PO Box 40, 12 Main Street 22 Haines Street 1005 Mapleton Road Monday-Friday 8 am - 4 pm. Portage Lake ME 04768 Presque Isle ME 04750 Mapleton ME 04757 A traveling exhibit of baskets 435-6211 764-6808 764-4264 called "Our Lives in Our Canoe work. Repair and Native American (Micmac) Dena. York @ voyager, Hands," is available for restoration of wooden ribbed crafts; toolmaker, bladesmith, umeres. maine. edu display upon request. canoes, ribs, gunnells, and toolsmith, woodcarver, bead Lye soap, leather possibles deck replacement and maker, storyteller, snowshoes, bags, beadwork, finger-woven Lena Monhan fiberglassing. long bows, arrows, Micmac sashes, stained-glass candles, Fort Fairfield ME 04742 flutes. Traditional Micmac as historically correct as 473-7882 Donald and Maryann musician. possible. Living history Native American dream Sanipass demonstrations. Participates catchers. RFD 1 Box 3320 Wolford "Wolf" Sanipass in historical reenactments. Mapleton ME 04757 Presque Isle ME 04769 Local historian and author. Yvonne Nabeau 764-3433 769-2275 Presque Isle ME 04769 Traditional Native American Woodcarver. Produces Jane Zumbrunnen 768-3285 (Micmac) brown ash baskets. replicas of traditional logging 15 Haines Street Jane Zumbrunnen Traditional Native American Pack, shopping, sewing, tools (i.e., adze, peavey, Caribou ME 04736 Micmac fancy basketmaking (Micmac) basket and jewelry potato baskets and creels. broadax etc.) 492-1379 1997 Traditional Artists Apprenticeship Award from maker. Porcupine quill work. Three varieties: square, round Native American (Micmac) Maine Arts Commission Basketmaker, specializing in and hamper. Demonstrations Daniel Stewart Photograph courtesy Maine Arts and workshops. Presque Isle ME 04769 traditional and fancy brown Commission 764-4223 ash and sweetgrass baskets. Barrel maker. 1997 receipent of the Tradi­ tional Artists Apprenticeship Dana York Award from the Maine Arts Box 479, Shorey Road Commission for her achieve­ Westfield ME 04787 ment as a Master Micmac 429-8254 basketmaker. Maker of Adirondack style stick furniture, such as tables, bookcases, love seats, chairs, trellises, footstools, and beds.

Micmac baskets. Photograph courtesy of Micmac Images, Presque Isle

Individual Artists and Groups, Crafts—Traditional 13 Design, Photography, Videography & Media

Jim Brown Steven Hatch [email protected] Robb Miller modeling and rendering. Web PO Box 1813 PO Box 6930 www. mainerec. com/ 840 W Presque Isle Road page design, production, and Presque Isle ME 04769 Caribou ME 04736 hookhome.html Caribou ME 04736-4250 imaging. 764-4168 498-8483 Graphic designers for 30 498-3046 brown @ polaris. umpi. maine. edu Photographer, specializing in years. Logos, illustrations, [email protected] Star Design and Marketing Coordinator of TV and Media wildlife and nature. Photo­ brochures, catalogs, trade Film and video. Computer HCR61 Box 501A Service for UM-Presque Isle. graphs landscapes for artists show displays, business cards, graphics and web design. Madawaska Lake Also does art work in to create paintings and letterheads, labels, packaging. Black & white photography. Stockholm ME 04783 realistic style concentrating drawings from. Constance Tucker, Owner on people and the human Denis Madore Aaron Putnam 492-1230; fax 492-1268 form. Hook Design 13 Munson Street PO Box 455 stardesign @ mfx. net Susan or Bob Hook, Propri­ Presque isle 04769 Mapleton ME 04757 Produces industrial videos, Ron Clark etors 764-5484 762-6078 works in infrared black & 78 Chapman Street RR 1, Box 160B, Pratt Road Black & white photography; Computer graphics. 3-D white, hand-colored photogra­ Presque Isle ME 04769 Caribou, ME 04736 videography. phy. Will do workshops. 764-4529 498-8222; fax 493-4664 Studio Photography. Senior Wildshot Nature portraits, weddings, athletics, Photography commercial photography. PO Box 588 Custom black & white and Presque Isle ME 04769 color print development from Troy Cunningham, Artisan wallet to 20"x24." Formats 764-4398 range from 35mm to 4"x5." Nature photography. Work­ shops and tours in northern William Duncan Maine, Atlantic Canada, HC 61, Box 547 Florida and Mexico. Private Stockholm ME 04783 instruction. 896-3461 duncan @polaris. umpi. maine. edu WUPI, 92.1 FM Radio Visual Communications. University of Maine at Graphic design, photography, Presque Isle and illustration. 181 Main Street 768-9711 Allternative music and public service radio programming by students and staff at UM- Presque Isle.

Road to Quoggy Jo Mountainlnk drawing by Evelyn Kok 14 Central Aroostook County Cultural Directory Literature/Creative Writing

Alice Bolstridge works of fiction. Author of writing together. Helps 503 Reach Road narrative descriptions of students write nonfiction as Presque Isle ME 04769 cultural resources, influences well as poetry and fiction. pansy 768-5827(h)/325-3303 (w) and history for Portage Lake bolstridgea @ mssm. org Tourist Information Booklet. Leonard Hutchins Published writer of fiction, Oxbow ME 04764 p lants poetry, and creative nonfic­ Helen Deane 435-8212 tion in a variety of literary 12 Church Street Children’s book author, Maine magazines and anthologies: Fort Fairfield ME 04742 storyteller- "Umcolcus Charlie". p ostpaid An Intricate Weave (Iris 473-7000 We make a specialty of sending pansy Editions), Cimmarron Review, Poet, photographer, columnist Karen McCosker plants by mail and guarantee every or- Oer W» reach its limimiticin in good Con­ Passager (1995 Passager Poet for Fort Fairfield Review, RRI Box 59 dition. We send out only good, strong, healthy plants that will give almost im­ Award), Slant, Sleeping with community literary resource. Westfield ME 04787 mediate bloom. Dionysus (Crossing Press), 768- 9468; fax 768-9464 Mediphors, Licking River Echoes mccosker@ polaris. umpi. maine. ed TWO NEW ONES . . . Review (Best of Issue, Poetry PO Box 626 Poet and editor. Prize), Cincinnati Poetry Caribou ME 04736 “Aroostook Snow Queen,” snow while. Review, Mockingbird, Magic 498-8564 Glenna Johnson Smith We have grown nearly every variety of pansy, both old ami new, but have never seen one Mint could compare with tills In size and beauty. 1 doz. 2M.; 2 doz. 45e. Realism, Midland Review, Kathryn Olmstead, Editor PO Box 16 Northern Line, Echoes, Art Quarterly journal of rural Presque Isle ME 04769 “Our New Midnight "coaiM**. Times, and others. culture containing features, 769- 8901 There are many pansies catalogued and described as being “black,” but this is th e first really M ack one we have ever seen, all so-called black pansies being cither essays, life stories, poems, Poet, playwright, storyteller; dark blue or brown. This one h black, a deep black, and of good substance. If Sandra Chapman photos, art and columns, educator; columnist and editor yon want a most honutiful and odd pansy, try it. 1 doz. 2.r»c.; 2 doz. 45c. 26 Roosevelt celebrating life lived simply for Echoes magazine. 91'KCKAIj OFFISH.—'The above two new pansies together give a most beautiful effect be­ Fort Fairfield, ME 04742 with deep respect for nature. cause of the contrast. We will send one dozen of each for 40c., or two dozen of each for 75c. Wo have over fifty varieties of the handsomest sorts grown. Can you afford to buy seed and 473-7434; fax 473-7434 Philip Turner tako the risk and trouble of stnrting the plants when you can get them almost ready to bloom at Writer of fiction, poetry, Chapman Hood Frazier PO Box 202 the prices named? In otflering please state whether you want a mixture or our special varieties, and date yon essays. Music performance. 58 Third Street Caribou ME 04736 Want them sent. Remit by postal note or two-ccnt stamps. Theater and play production. Presque Isle ME 04769 496-6461 GEO. A. HUCKINS, Author, local historian. Univer­ 764-4577 —■- - ■= ------Seedsman and Florist,======Cherry Danker frazierh @ polaris. umpi. maine. edu sity of Massachusetts Master’s PRESQUE ISLE, MAINE. P O Box 102 Poet and language arts Degree; Ph.D. from Michigan Portage, ME 04768 educator. State University. Books (MENTIOX THIS PAPEH.) 435-6864 include, among others, I Am Contributor to Echoes of Elaine Hendrickson General Eaton! (1997); memoirs, essays and feature 66 Lombard Street Rooster: The Story o f Aroostook articles; and to The Northern Presque Isle ME 04769 County (1988); First John: Line (University of Maine at 764-0252 King o f the Mountain (1991). Fort Kent), essays and short Teacher who ties art and

Individual Artists and Groups, Literature/Creative Writing 75 Music, Dance & Theater

Bernard Ayotte Caribou Choral Society Presque Isle, ME 04769 Heart and Soul Eva Ireland Box 1010 99 Fleetwood Street Stefanie and Jennifer Berube Laurie Brown, RDLD 116 Egypt Road Mapleton ME 04757 Caribou ME 04736 764-5770 Executive Director Easton ME 04740 764-0823 Daniel Ladner, Conductor Members of the Bangor Youth 71 State Park Road 488-3431 Guitarist. Country music and 764-1482 Orchestra Ensemble. Annu­ Presque Isle ME 04769 Vocalist and pianist. bluegrass. Rehearsals are held on ally attend ASTA Summer 764-0393; fax 764-3982 scheduled Tuesday nights in String Conference at the [email protected] Juicy Melon Linda Berube the recreation room of the University of Southern Maine Core group consists of Ken 61 Lower Main Street 23 Barton Street Mormon Church in Caribou. in Gorham. Perform in annual Gilman and Laurie Brown. Fort Fairfield ME 04742 Presque Isle ME 04769 The group sings advanced Harp Festival in Bar Harbor, Traditional and contemporary Amanda Armstrong, Band 764-5770 four-part music and holds American String Teachers folk music (in French and Member Teaching and dancing in spring and Christmas concerts Association events, weddings, English) with multi-faceted 473-7380 classical ballet, pointe, jazz, for the public. dinners, and community acousitc instrumentation amanda @ vidmon. com and tap. Experience includes events. including mandolin, violin, http://www. neca. com/ Director, UMFK Dance Caribou Hoofers guitar, keyboard, and percus­ ~gsayers/ Program; Director, California Long Lake Denise Green sion. Play for private dinner Local band, plays small to Ballet School and Company; Madawaska ME 04756 PO Box 1935 parties and service groups. mid-size gigs. Repertoire teacher and dancer at both the Norma & Tony Stephan, Presque Isle ME 04769 Excellent for corporate consists of alternative, classic La Jolla Dance School the Leaders 764-6515 wellness, stress management, rock, ska, and a variety of American Jazz Dance 895-6928 Gymnastic Instruction, inspired coping, or team other music. Company. The Caribou Hoofers square beginner to advanced; building programs. and round dance twice per preschool to young adult. Robert King Joel Brahim month at the Recreation Pageant preparation, choreog­ Susanne Herold 36 Leighton Avenue 26 Roosevelt Avenue Center in Caribou. raphy, private lessons, 36 Fisher Street Limestone ME 04750 Fort Fairfield ME 04742 tumbling for cheerleaders, Fort Fairfield ME 04742 325-4971 473-7434; fax 473-7434 Denise Doughty demonstrations, performance. 473-7698 music @ LimestoneMaine. com Pianist, trombonist. Types of Egypt Road Professional member of the Private studio for strings and Music Teacher. Bands, music: religious, jazz, Easton ME 04740 USGF. piano. Solo violin, string orchestras, and computer popular. 488-2141 quartet, or small chamber music education and compo­ Vocalist. Gospel, old Kyle Green group for weddings and other sition. standards, and some classical. PO Box 133 events. Music from classical, Work with choirs and ladies Westfield ME 04787 easy listening, to fddling. trios. Instruments include 429-9058; fax 425-7123 Also, contact for the Northern tenor sax and clarinet. krgreen @ hotmail. com Maine Chamber Orchestra Jazz pianist, performing solo, Society. The Golden Harp and Cello or with McLaughlin's Big 23 Barton Street Band. Also designs high- quality professional websites.

16 Central Aroostook County Cultural Directory Jan and Evelyn Kok McLaughlin's Big Band at the Caribou Performing Presque Isle Community 51 Cedar Street RFD#2, Box 2040 Arts Center, sometimes Players Presque Isle ME 04769 Fort Fairfield, ME 04742 featuring guest performers. 106 Hardy Street 764-1549 Vaughn McLaughlin, Band Presque Isle ME 04769 Jan is Professor Emeritus, Leader Denise Nelson Cissy Libby, President UM-Presque Isle. Composer 473-7828 41 W. Hardison Avenue 764-3370 and performer. Plays a variety [email protected] Caribou ME 04736 A non-profit community of instruments including Seventeen-piece big band 496-3731 theater group, specializing in recorder and piano. Song playing music from the Private piano teacher. dinner theater—both musical programs of Evelyn's compo­ 1940s, '50s, and '60s, every­ reviews and plays. sitions. Songwriting and thing from Duke Ellington Northern Maine Chamber performances, with singing, and Woody Herman, to Count Orchestra guitar, recorders, vocals, local Basie and Glen Miller. Also a 36 Fisher Street "County" songs. Also five-piece combo playing a Fort Fairfield, ME 04742 rosemaling painting by variety of jazz music. Suzanne Herold, Central Evelyn. Aroostook Contact Beth Ann Miller 473-7698 Koinonia Quartet PO Box 50 Performs classical repertoire 19 Third Street RR #1 featuring Aroostook area Presque Isle ME 04769 Mapleton, ME 04757 musicians, all as volunteers. Jed Desmond, Contact [email protected] Conductor and Southern 769-6911 Music educator. Integrated Aroostook contact: Harrison Southern gospel quartet music curriculum workshops Roper, 35 High Street, performing locally in Canada for teachers. Houlton, ME 04730, 532- and New England. 3797. Moon Dance Studios Roger Lilly POBox 1817 Laurence Park 41 Riverside Avenue Presque Isle ME 04769 32 Echo Lake Road Fort Fairfield ME 04742 Kim Lauritsen, Owner Presque Isle ME 04769 473-7134 764-1385 764-0582 Nashville recording artist, The main studio is located in Guitar, banjo, spoons. Old country music, guitar and Mapleton with occasional time country music, swing vocals. outreach programs in sur­ guitar, contra dance, and folk rounding towns. Classes in music. Elbridge "Eb" Lovely jazz, lyrical, ballet, floor Box 214 gymnastics and modem dance Mapleton ME 04757 for ages three through adult. 764-4335 Vocal instruction, pageant Country music guitar and coaching and choreography vocals. also available. Performances

Individual Artists and Groups, Music, Dance & Theater 17 Presque Isle Spud Shufflers Daniel Schneider Sleepy Hollow Country Joe White Andrew Yaeger 51 Elm Street 157 Parkhurst Siding Road Music Association Mapleton ME 04757 321 Shorey Road Presque Isle ME 04769 Presque Isle, ME 04769 Box 1010 Mapleton Road 764-6471 Westfield ME 04787 Marie Burlock, President 764-6730 (h); 764-0121 (w) Mapleton ME 04757 Guitar, country and traditional 425-2202 The Spud Shufflers square fax: 764-7720 Bernard Ayotte, Contact music. Trombonist. Plays regularly and round dance twice per [email protected] 764-0823 with McLaughlin's Big Band. month (September through Music Coordinator/High A group of people who get Phil Winslow May) at the Opportunity School Band Director, together informally and play Carvell Road Carol Yaeger Training Center in Presque M.S.A.D. #1. Instrumental country music. Public Mapleton ME 04757 321 Shorey Road Isle. music instructor 6-12, performances. Musician and songwriter. Westfield ME 04787 Concert Band & Jazz En­ Writes and performs songs 425-2202 David and JoAnne Putnam sembles, Director. Private Bruce Wilkins about Aroostook County. Piano teacher. PO Box 455 Instructor, percussion. 27 Cedar Street Mapleton ME 04757 Drummer with Blind Dog Presque Isle, ME 04769 762-6078 Blues Band. 764-4728 Traditional "Old Time" fiddle Jazz and acoustic guitar. Jazz and guitar, country dance Kate Scheidler standards and popular songs calling, square, round, contra, Stockholm ME 04783 of the 1930s-1950s. Folk. and line dances. 896-5275 Traditional Scottish and Irish John Reeves songs. Guitar and Vocals. PO Box 463 Presque Isle, ME 04769 764-0121 (w); 764-1811 (h) fax: 764-7720 [email protected] .k.12.me. us Trumpet performer, band director, instrumental directing

Donald Saucier Box 262 Presque Isle ME 04769 764-3652 Plays fiddle, accordion, guitar, mouth organ, and sings. Also a woodcarver, creating miniature furniture. Collects Aroostook War artifacts and collects and Potatoes and Potato Basket. Ink drawing by Evelyn Kok restores old gasoline engines.

18 Central Aroostook County Cultural Directory Visual Arts

Julie Ann Armstrong Oil, watercolor, and acrylic Perham ME 04766 Landscapes and still lifes in 764-1840 Donworth Street, PO Box 91 painting. Also maker of 455-8359 watercolor. Watercolor Studies art (studio) and music Stockholm ME 04783 porcelain dolls. Doll repair. Drawings and acrylic paint­ renditions of homes. Illustra­ and willing to share his experi­ 896-7960 ings, specializing in landscape tion in colored pencil. ences and studies for co­ Impressionist landscapes in Clifton Boudman views of northern Maine. educational purposes. oil or pen and ink, of northern Rum Rapids Work on view at Woods Edge Alana Giberson Maine, New England off­ Crouseville ME 04738 Gallery, see entry under 840 W Presque Isle Road John Hafford shore, and New Mexico. 455-8096; fax 455-8096 organizations. Caribou ME 04736 112 Sweden Street Caribou native, studied art at [email protected] or 498-3046 Caribou ME 04736 the University of Maryland mainerec. com/rmrapids Juliet Daly [email protected] 493-4430 and privately in Santa Fe, Works in different media, RR #1 Box 430 Ceramic sculpture. High-fire, Drawing: pen and ink, graphite, New Mexico. Work can be including drawing, photogra­ Fort Fairfield ME 04742 functional ceramics and raku. marker. Painting: acrylics, viewed at The Parsonage, phy, printmaking, sculpture, 764-3639 watercolor, gouache. Trinity Lutheran Church, film and video. Paintings in oil and acrylic. H. Anderson Giles Stockholm. Portraits and landscapes. 49 Blake Street Charles Huston Paul Carlson Presque Isle ME 04769 RFD 1 Box 287 Carol Ayoob 77 Church Street Ernest C. Drost II 768-9402 Caribou ME 04736 PO Box 55 Presque Isle ME 04769 9 Park Street, Apt. 2 giles @ po laris, umpi. maine. edu 492-7786 Mapleton ME 04757 764-3023 Presque Isle ME 04769 Painter, exhibiting nationally. Landscape painting (oil), 768-5903 Aroostook landscapes. 764-0301; fax 764-5138 Photographer and woodcrafts, author. Sculptor. Arts educator, Assemblage, cast pewter nrthstrlbr@ ainop. com videographer. President of the especially in the healing arts jewelry, weaving, drawings, Painting, sculpture. Tinian Documentary Video Sabine Jones for special needs populations and watercolor painting. Company, specializing in RFD #\ Box 311 (women and children). Four Corners Custom WWII in the Pacific, including Ashland ME 04732 Jeffrey Chapman Framing speaking locally and nationally. 764-6345 Stuart L. Beattie 173 S. Main Street PO Box 299 (mailing/billing) Soldered stained glass. PO Box 1782 Caribou ME 04736 145 Main Street (shop) Michele Green Presque Isle ME 04769 496-5261 Caribou ME 04736 POBox 133 Amy Leary 764-6942 Media: black ink, pencil, Karen Reynolds & Sogna Westfield ME 04787 3-D Packard Road Ceramics, high-fire cone 10, colored pencil. Drawings of Sjoberg, Co-Owners 429-9058; fax 425-7123 Bridgewater ME 04735 raku, and pit-firings. Paint­ military, art from Vietnam 498-3430 fish @ bangornews. infi. net 429-9236 ing, writing, photography. era, famous combat units' sjoberg @ bangornews. infi. net Painting: acrylic, watercolor- Oils, acrylics, and pastels that Playwriting, film and video. battles, historical events, and Custom Framing and Matting. environmental studies. Black & promote the environment and memorial drawings. Also Open 9-6 Monday-Friday white photography. Batik. the empowerment of women and Phyllis Belanger woodcarvings. Intaglio. Monoprints. children. 19 Mac Arthur Avenue Martin Gallant Caribou ME 04736 Richard Clark PO Box 1476 Raphael Gribetz 492-6771 265 High Meadow Road, PO Caribou ME 04736 6 Cook Street beldolls@ aol.com Box 77 498-2044 Presque Isle, Me 04769

Individual Artists and Groups, Visual Arts 19 Lister Art Gallery Bertha Michonski Adele Richardson Judy Sherman Carolyn Wadman PO Box 509 Sweden Road RR 1 Box 80A PO Box 1507 HC 64, Box 9 21 Church Street Caribou ME 04736 Ashland ME 04732 Presque Isle ME 04769 Oxbow Plantation, ME 04764 Limestone ME 04750 Wayne G. Lister, Owner 435-6876 764-1318 435-6171; fax 435-7048 325-4082 498-3544 Portraits, wildlife, or favorite Ceramics, hand-built pottery Acrylic, oil and watercolor BFA from Massachusetts 498-3544 doll in oils. and sculpture. Painting: oil, paintings, especially wildlife, College of Art in painting and The gallery includes the acrylic & watercolor. Paper, landscapes, gardens, and illustration. Also does works of Wayne G. Lister, a David W. Morrison collage, prints, printmaking, buildings. sculpture, printmaking, wildlife artist who paints RR #1 Box 120 woodblock, linoleum. portraiture and jewelry. Art landscapes, florals, and Stockholm ME 04783 Wilma Tompkins educator; does workshops. wildlife in oils and acrylics. 896-3042 Roger Sprague PO Box 122 [email protected] 16 Fisher Street Presque Isle ME 04769 Gloria Wilcox Made in Aroostook Coop Gallery: http://www.mfx.net/ Fort Fairfield ME 04742 768-6801 PO Box 52 PO Box 187 ~native 472-5741 Pen and Ink, landscapes, Washburn ME 04786 Ashland ME 04732 Acrylic paint on wood Paintings in oil, watercolor, wildlife. Specializes in birds. 455-8111 Sandra Caton paneled canvas. Wood and egg tempra, acrylics. Portraits. Oils, acrylics, Acrylic paintings, landscapes, 435-6082 metal sculpture. Nature watercolor. still life, wildlife, architecture, A co-op of artists working photography and digital art. lighthouses. together to market each Managing partner, Gray Dog other's products at a national Art. level, offering support Field and Trees, Winter, Pencil drawing by Richard Clark networking and sharing of Remillie Norsworthy services. Juried membership, Gunsmoke at White Rock geared toward assisting Manor Aroostook artisans to succeed 1631 Chapman Road and grow in business. The Chapman ME 04757 group offers seminars in such 764-0162 topics as photography and Specializing in pet and new business development. structural portraits, wildlife and custom art works in oil, Brian Massey acrylic, and other media. 30 Collins Street # 4 Caribou ME 04736 Renee O’Neill 493-4594 RR 1, Box 1030 Abstract paintings based on Fort Fairfield, ME 04742 history and religion using Fine art in realist style. pastel and drawings. Some Portraits, still lifes, animal/ work with graphic design. wildlife, landscape, seascape in acrylic.

20 Central Aroostook County Cultural Directory Organizations Agricultural

4-H Dog Drill Team Aroostook Valley Baby Beef Mike’s Maine Pickles 243 Caribou Road 4-H Mike Henderson, Proprietor Presque Isle ME 04769 RR 1 Box 2000 P.O. Box 284 Roberta Barnes, Leader Mapleton ME 04757 Easton, ME 04740 764-4755 Jack & Mary Anne Buck, 488-6881 Activities center on a dog Leaders Pickles made from 100 + year drill team. Performs the 764-0635 old Aroostook Family Northern Maine Fair Dog receipes. Ten varieties, such Show, the first ever in the 150 Aroostook Valley Dairy 4-H as pickled fiddleheads, old year history of the Northern RR 1 Box 2020 fashioned sour mustard, and Maine Fair. Mapleton ME 04757 sweet and hot pepper jam. Vaughn & Laura Chase, All products freshly made, Aroostook State Park Leaders with uo preservatives or 87 State Park Road 764-3993 additives. Mail orders Presque Isle ME 04769 include give packages and 768-8341 Happy Go Lucky 4-H Picle of the Month Club. Located at the base of PO Box 727 Quoggy Jo Mountain on the Presque Isle ME 04769 Ultra Clover 4-H shore of Echo Lake. Camp­ Hanna Bragg, Leader RR 2 Box 230 ground, picnic sites, hiking 764-3361 Fort Fairfield ME 04742 trails, cross-country ski trails, Margie Spence and Virginia canoe and paddle boat rentals, Knot-II-Bragg-F arm Shaw, Leaders fishing. Open year round. RFD 1 Box 150 473-4077 Admission fee. Wade ME 04786 Natalia Bragg, Proprietor Wooley Bandits 4-H 455-8386 RR 1 Box 665 Traditional farm skills; cow Fort Fairfield ME 04742 milking, butter and cheese Yvonne Ramos, Leader making; beef jerky. Herbal 473-7787 dyes, twig furniture, applewood pencils. Herb garden tours, cedar swamp nature walk, fish ponds. Winter Potato House, 1968. Photograph by Voscar

Organizations, Agricultural 21 Community Organizations

ASHLAND The museum building The Memorial is open for www.caribou- old pipe organ and stained contains local artifacts and half-days in the summer, from public. lib. me. us/index. htm glass windows, and is open Ashland Community includes a blacksmith's shop. Tuesday through Saturday. It The library is an Andrew for tours by contacting the Library/William Dalton There are also two machine contains antiques and artifacts Carnegie building constructed church office. Historical Society sheds with artifacts and from early Caribou homes, in 1911 with a large addition 57 Exchange Street exhibits. The museum is historical papers, photo built in the 1960s. The McElwain House Ashland ME 04732 open from Memorial Day to albums, post cards, newspa­ library collection includes Northern Maine Development Gladys Craig, Contact Labor Day. pers, Civil and Spanish War issues of the Aroostook Commission 435-6532 memorabilia, home furnish­ Republican dating back to 302 Main Street [email protected]. us ings dating to the late 1800s, 1887, George Whitneck's Caribou ME 04736 The collection includes BRIDGEWATER home and farm tools, and new Index to the Aroostook 498-8736 photographs, old clothes, and out-of-print books. Republican from 1887 to nmdc @ nmdc. org memorabilia (dating to the Bridgewater Town Hall & 1948, Echoes Magazine The building is the original late 1800s), newspapers, Jail City of Caribou - dating from 1988 to the 1916 house of John yearbooks, town reports, and Town Hall Route 1 Recreation Department present, vertical files on McElwain, a wealthy potato vital statistics. The collection Bridgewater ME 04735 59 Bennett Drive Aroostook County and farmer. The house features may be seen by appointment. 429-9856 Caribou ME 04736 Caribou, an Aroostook leaded stained glass windows The Bridgewater Historical Kathy Mazzuchelli, Program Collection of 85 books, 143 and tiffany glass in the dining Ashland Community Society is currently restoring Director cassette tapes in the room cabinets. The building Library the town hall & jail, which 493-4224 Aroostook Oral History is on the National Register of PO Box S are listed on the National Arts and crafts programs for Collection, issues of The Historic Places (#82000739). 57 Exchange Street Register of Historic Places children ages 6 through 12 County from 1979 to 1982, Tours by appointment. Ashland ME 04732 (#89002339). during an 8-week summer and an Aroostook County Gladys Craig, Librarian program. Occasional winter postcard collection. The Nylander Museum 435-6532 programming is provided as 393 Main Street Gcraig@ashland. lib. me. us CARIBOU well. Gray Memorial United Caribou ME 04736 The Library contains docu­ Methodist Church Jerry Leary, Director ments and tapes relating to Caribou Historical Society / Caribou Public Library 8 Prospect Street 493-4209 local history. Caribou Historical Center / 30 High Street Caribou ME 04736 The permanent collection Whittier Memorial Caribou ME 04736 498-2103 includes mammals of north­ Ashland Logging Museum U.S. Route 1 (3 miles south of Diane DuBois, Library The Methodist Church, which ern Maine, geology, marine Garfield Road Caribou) Director was constructed in 1913, is life, butterflies and moths, Ashland ME 04732 PO Box 1058 493-4214; fax 493-4654 listed on the National Register mounted birds, early man Bob Vigue, Contact Caribou ME 04736 ddubois @ caribou- of Historic Places artifacts, and a medicinal herb 764-4279 Roy Doak, President public.lim.me.us (#95000725). It contains an 498-3095

22 Central Aroostook County Cultural Directory garden. Monthly exhibits are Caribou. It was originally the 776 Houlton Road Frontier Heritage The railroad museum is also provided. Call the Union Meeting House, and Easton ME 04740 Dan Ayoob, President located at the old Bangor & museum for hours of opera­ was used by the Baptists and 488-5451 472- 3651 Aroostook rail yard on Depot tion. Tours by appointment. Methodists. Tours by The Center is a private Mailing address: K. Hensler Street and is comprised of a appointment. facility providing free 11 Presque Isle Street display of locomotive and Rosie O'Grady Balloon of programming for schools and Fort Fairfield, ME 04742 cars. It includes a newly Peace Monument groups. Planetarium and Frontier Heritage is a commu­ refurbished combination In field, behind Keaton CASTLE HILL nature programs are available nity cultural organization sleeping-dining car used for Locksmith, Route 164 to scout and church groups which manages the Block­ elegant gourmet dinners and Caribou ME 04736 Castle Hill Grange Hall for a small fee. Workshops house and Railroad Museums other events. A public Caribou Chamber of Com­ Preservation Society and public programming are and the Friends Church. Tours pancake breakfast is featured merce, Contact 1931 State Road also scheduled throughout the of all three during the Maine Potato 498-6156 Castle Hill ME 04757-5105 year. The Center follows the museum units are available by Blossom Festival the 3rd The monument marks the 764-4826 school calendar and is open appointment. Open during weekend in July. Rides on location of the 1984 launch of The Castle Hill Grange Hall September through June. Call the Maine Potato Blossom motor cars are available. Rosie O'Grady's solo balloon is unique because of its large the Center to schedule group Festival and at other commu­ launch across the Atlantic. size and two stages. The hall, programs. nity-wide functions. Friends Church which was originally built in Maple Grove Route 1A Thomas Heritage House / 1905, is currently being Blockhouse Museum Fort Fairfield, ME 04742 Green Meadow restored and can only be FORT FAIRFIELD Main Street 476-8904 Development viewed from the exterior. Bill Findlen, Contact Julie Tronquist, Contact 152 Main Street PO Box 446 Fort Fairfield Public 476-5221 Earliest church still standing Caribou ME 04736 Library The museum is a 1976 replica in Fort Fairfield, built in 1859 Fred A. Thomas Corp. Clerk, EASTON 275 Main Street of the original structure -1860 by a group of Quaker Family Historian Fort Fairfield ME 04742 located on the banks of the Friends, who according to 496-3011; fax 493-3188 Easton Historical Society Janice Fletcher, Librarian Aroostook River which oral history, were part of the The Thomas Heritage House Town Hall 472-3880 served to prevent transport of Underground Railroad before is a restored New England Easton ME 04740 The library houses county lumber into Canada during and during the Civil War. The house constructed in the mid- Kevin Marquis, Contact maps and atlases, photo­ the “Bloodless Aroostook church was later used as a 1800s. The house is open to 488-6846 graphs, newspapers, local War” of 1839. The block­ neighborhood community the public by appointment in This historical society's histories, genealogies, and house is filled with artifacts church and is in the process of the summer. collection is housed at the local audio, video, and film. from early Fort Fairfield being restored by Frontier town hall, and contains The library building is an history including agricultural Heritage. Unitarian Universalist artifacts of local historical Andrew Carnegie building items, antiques, photographs Church interest. originally constructed in 1913 and documents. Philo H. Reed House 430 Main Street and is listed on the National 38 Lower Main Street Caribou ME 04736 Francis Malcolm Science Register of Historic Places Railroad Museum Fort Fairfield ME 04742 Church or Waldo, Hardison Center (#88003021). A brochure Bruce Nett, Contact Dolly Reed, Owner Contact POBox 186 describing the building is 473- 4045 496-5683 available at the library. Built in 1894, the church is the oldest church building in

Organizations, Community Organizations 23 472-2691 including small farm imple­ of tools. The restored school The library is also in the The Larsson-Ostlund House A 20 room Queen Anne ments, displays from the house includes desks and process of acquiring some is the only known two-story mansion built by Aroostook 100th and 125th town blackboards. Tours by videos of the area. log house in Maine. The entrepreneur Philo H. Reed in anniversary celebrations, and appointment. house is open for tours on 1907-1909 and designed by items from Loring Air Force weekends by appointment Coombs and Gibbs, a noted Base. The museum is open Winslow Farm Vascular NEW SWEDEN Maine architectural firm of Sunday from 1:00 to 3:00 Land Plant Site Maine's Swedish Colony, the period. Featured are p.m. from late June to Labor Creasey Ridge Road The Covenant Church Inc. / Larsson-Noak Historic stained glass windows, Italian Day or by appointment. Mapleton ME 04757 Westmanland Road District tiles, exotic woodwork and Group tours are welcome. Dena Winslow York, Contact New Sweden ME 04762 PO Box 50 antique furniture. Occasion­ 764-4264 Timothy Stohlberg, Pastor New Sweden ME 04762 ally open by appointment or Robert A. Frost Memorial The Site consists of Devo­ 896-5297 Rena Hultgren, Contact invitation. The house is listed Library nian-period fossils of the The Church was originally 896-3199 on the National Register of 238 Main Street earliest land plants known to known as the Free Mission The Historic District is listed Historic Places (#86000673). Limestone ME 04750 exist on earth. The protected Covenant Church and was on the National Register of Linda Page, Librarian site can be accessed by constructed in 1891. Tours by Historic Places (#89000847) 325-4706 arrangement with the contact appointment. and includes a blacksmith LIMESTONE The library collection person listed above. Research shop and the capital school. includes old photographs and on the site has been published Gustaf Adoph Lutheran The Lars Noak Blacksmith Church of the Advent, histories of the area. by geologist Bill Forbes of Church Shop has recently been Episcopal Diocese of Maine Washburn. Route 161 restored and is open week­ Church Street, (1 block south New Sweden ME 04762 ends until Midsummer, and of the junction with route MAPLETON John Matern, Pastor then every day except 229) MARS HILL 896-3071 Monday (during the summer). Limestone ME 04750 The Capital School was Haystack Historical The Lutheran Church is a 492-4211 WTA Hansen Memorial originally a one-room school Society's Museum & School vintage 1880s church that is The Church of the Advent is Library and is now used as a giftshop. House currently being considered for listed on the National Register PO Box 1008 PO Box 213 inclusion on the National of Historic Places New Sweden Historical Mapleton ME 04757 Mars Hill ME 04758 Register of Historic Places. (#91000767). Nancy Brown, Librarian Society / New Sweden Winfield Sawyer, Contact The church features stained 429-9625 Museum in the Kapitoleum 764-4717 glass windows and is often Limestone-Caswell nbrown @ hansen. lib. me. us RR #1, Box 8 The museum and school open to the public by appoint­ Historical Society Museum The library collection New Sweden ME 04762 house are open during ment. Foster Avenue includes old newspapers, Gary Dickinson, President Mapleton Days, Memorial Limestone ME 04750 audio tapes of oral histories, a 896-5843 or 896-5844; fax: Day, occasionally, and by Maine's Swedish Colony, Oscar Poitras, Contact Maine collection, an archive 896-3021 appointment. The museum Inc. / Larsson-Ostlund 325-4836 room with yearbooks and The museum contains 19th contains old photographs, old House The museum contains town reports, reel-to-reel grange tools, yearbooks, town PO Box 50 historical town items, reports, donated books, a tapes of Mars Hill (1867-67), New Sweden ME 04762 old Maine Registers, scrap spinning wheel, and a variety Rena Hultgren, Contact books with photographs, and 896-3199 minutes from WTC meetings.

24 Central Aroostook County Cultural Directory century furnishings, artifacts, pictures, and farming and lumbering equipment. Lindsten-Stuga, a shingle- covered log house containing household items is located behind the museum as well as a monument listing the original Swedish colonists. The museum and log house are open May 24-October 19, Tuesday-Friday from noon to 4 p.m. and Saturday and Sunday from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m.. Other times and dates by appointment.

Nicholas P. Clase House Capitol Hill Road New Sweden ME 04762 Mrs. Kenneth Jepson, Great- granddaughter of N. P. Clase 896-5527 As one of the first houses James School Sweden and is unique because A monument located at the roe @ polaris. umpi. maine. edu constructed in New Sweden, 74 Spragueville Road it is a salt box. It is listed on launch site of the Double http://www. umpi. maine. edu/ the Clase House is listed on Presque Isle, ME 04769 the National Register of Eagle II, which, in 1978, info the National Register of 764-4562 Historic Places (73000102) successfully completed a The Aroostook Collection Historic Places (#89001699). Leslie Cronin, Contact and is open for tours by transatlantic flight ending in contains books and other The house is uninhabited and One room schoolhouse built appointment. France. The Site is listed on publications and materials is not available for tours. relating to the historical, in 1917 and in use until 1948. the National Register of In 1985, under the direction Historic Places (#80004738). cultural, social, and educa­ Timmerhuset tional heritage of Aroostook of Judge Julian Turner, the Route 161 Jemtland Road PRESQUE ISLE local community worked to Friends of the Aroostook County and the surrounding New Sweden ME 04762 region of the St. John River restore the building using David G. Anderson, Owner Double Eagle II Launch Site County Historical Center original materials wherever University of Maine at Valley. Included are books, 896-3370 Spragueville Road (1.5 miles possible. Available as an Presque Isle, Library county newspapers, census The house is one of the off U.S. Route 1) educational resource or rental Presque Isle ME 04769 181 Main Street records, maps, oral history earliest log homes in New tapes, periodicals, photo­ for special occasions. Open Keith Hayward, Contact Presque Isle ME 04769 to school and civic groups, 764-2545 Nancy Roe, Special Collec­ graphs, postcards, memora­ bilia, and vertical files of families, and others by tions Librarian appointment. 768-9599 clippings and pamphlets.

Organizations, Community Organizations 25 Northern Maine Museum of Presque Isle National Bank and by appointment for constructed of 40-foot hand- The Homestead, which is Science 422 Main Street research. It contains all the hewn logs. Occasional tours listed on the National Register University of Maine at Presque Isle ME 04769 late 19th century/early 20th by appointment. of Historic Places Presque Isle Jack Holder, Building owner century belongings of Vera (#87000946), includes mid- to Folsom Hall, 181 Main Street 764-4433 Estey. Vera Estey was a Stockholm Historical late-1800s furnishings and Presque Isle ME 04769 The Presque Isle National single, self-supporting woman Society /Tri-Cultural household wares. Assorted Dr. Kevin McCartney, Bank building is listed on the and prominent member of the Museum odds and ends are housed in Director National Register of Historic Presque Isle community. Main Street the garage and a photogallery 768-9482; fax 768-9608 Places. It was constructed in Stockholm ME 04783 is housed upstairs. The [email protected] 1887 and currently houses the U.S. Post Office Albertine Dufour, President Agricultural Museum Displays at the Museum focus Maine Farmers Exchange. 23 Second Street 896-5759 includes horse- and tractor- on science education, with Tours are not typically given. Presque Isle ME 04769 The Museum building, which drawn implements, forestry natural history materials, Presque Isle Historical Clint Watson, Postmaster was the first store in implements, wood-working models, and interactive Society 768-3911; fax 768-3912 Stockholm, contains pictures, equipment, metal and displays targeted primarily for The Post Office building was a kitchen, a library, new stoneware, and a blacksmith's students in grades 3 through Turner Memorial Library constructed in 1932-33 and is veterans room, and bam with shop. The Homestead and college. Hosts a large 39 Second Street listed on the National Register farm machinery. Open Museum are open from the collection of donated and Presque Isle ME 04769 of Historic Places Wednesday through Sunday 4th of July through Labor loaned science materials, Marilyn Clark, Librarian (#86001034). A book is afternoons from June through Day on Wednesday and including a scale model of the University of Maine at available at the post office September. Tours by appoint­ Sunday afternoons, 1-4 pm, solar system, a "Powers of Presque Isle containing original pictures of ment. and tours by appointment. 10" math display, and a wide 764-2571; fax 768-5756 the building. Tours of focus variety of fossils. Open to the mgclark@presqueisle. lib. me. us on the mail process rather Washburn Memorial public every day; guided tours In addition to some 50,000 than on the historic nature of WASHBURN Library by appointment. books, library collections the building. 2 Main Street PO Box 571 include microfilmed copies of Salmon Brook Historical Washburn ME 04786 Presque Isle - Recreation local newspapers, local Society Museums Barbara Porter, Librarian Department history files, and scrapbooks. STOCKHOLM Aroostook Agricultural 455-4814 270 Main Street Museum and Benjamin C. The Library displays paint­ Presque Isle ME 04769 The Vera T. Estey House Anders and Johanna Olsson Wilder 1852 Homestead ings by local artists. Materi­ Dick Gardiner, Program 16 Third Street Farm Main Street (opposite the als available include town Director Presque Isle ME 04769 114 West Road RFD #114 Baptist Church) records, census reports, a 764-2545 Jim Page, Contact Stockholm ME 04783 PO Box 71 stamp collection, the Arts and crafts programs for 764-1579 Ray & Carolyn Hildebrand, Washburn ME 04786 Aroostook Oral History children ages 6 through 15 page@polaris. umpi. maine. edu Owners Dennis Harris collection and genealogical during an 8-week summer The Estey House is open 896-3052 455-4339 resources. program. during regular summer hours The house and barn are smnbrkhs @ mfx. net among the earliest built in www. agate. net/~smnbrkhs New Sweden (1871), and are listed on the National Register of Historic Places (#96000245). The bam is

26 Central Aroostook County Cultural Directory Performing & Visual Arts Organizations & Venues

Aroostook Partners in the The Forum Spare Moments Reed Art Gallery, Campus events are open to the public Arts PO Box 784 140 Main Street Center and are publicized in local POBox 1370 84 Mechanic Street St. Agatha ME 04772 Exhibitions of painting, print and/or broadcast media. Presque Isle ME 04769 Presque Isle ME 04769 543-6150 sculpture, drawings, photog­ Events are free to all UM- Gail Scott, President James Kaiser, Director Lisa Meyer, Artisan/Owner raphy, and mixed media are Presque Isle students; 768-9611; fax 768-9608 764-0491; fax 764-2525 spa remoments @ ncil. net scheduled throughout the admission prices for the gscott@ polaris. umpi. maine. edu theforum @ theforumsdi. agate, ne Gallery showing contempo­ year, including the summer, general public vary by event. A community-based, non­ http://www. maine rec. com/ rary glass (stained glass, and consist of work by Types of events include profit organization with forum. fused, slumped, and blown selected local, Maine, theater, musical concerts 501(C)(3) status. The The Forum hosts craft fairs, glass); wood; jewelry; pottery, Canadian and national artists, (folk, traditional, classical, organization works coopera­ flea markets, concerts, trade as well as glassmaking traveling exhibitions, and popular), lectures, symposia, tively with local schools in shows, circuses, animal supplies (glass, pattern books, specially organized shows. and mixed media. central Aroostook County to shows, stand-up comedy, grinders, solder, fluxes, Open to the public Monday - develop, support, and sponsor dances, ice shows, hockey stencils, engraving tools, Friday 10-5 and Saturday 1-5, Woods Edge Gallery significant performing and games, automobile shows, etc.). Custom lamps, win­ except holidays and college 265 High Meadow Road, PO visual arts experiences for motor-sports shows, dows, and glass giftware. vacations. Box 77 school children and young conventions, banquets, etc. Perham, ME 04766 people in the area. Art Galleries Cultural Programs Richard Clark, Owner The Northland Studio University of Maine at University of Maine at 455-8359 Caribou Performing Arts 112 Sweden Street Presque Isle Presque Isle Exhibitions of paintings and Center Caribou ME 04736 181 Main Street 181 Main Street photographs of Aroostook 410 Sweden Street John Hafford, Jessica Masse, Presque Isle ME 04769 Presque Isle ME 04769 County, with an emphasis on Caribou ME 04736 Owners H. Anderson Giles, Director Gail Scott, Director of Arts forests. Open for tours by Dan Ladner, Director 493-4430; 493-4610 768-9402; fax 768-9611 Administration appointment and regularly 493-4278; fax 493-4244 The studio exhibits the works giles @ polaris. umpi. maine. edu 768-9611; fax 768-9608 Tuesdays - Saturdays 1-5 pm. Presents nearly 75 events of local artists, including Marguerite Pullen Gallery gscott@polaris. umpi.maine. edu each year, including all forms contemporary, representa­ Exhibitions consist primarily Cultural programs at UMPI of live entertainment, tional art, and sculpture. Also of UM-Presque Isle students consist of lectures, films and a especially theatrical, dance, includes an illustrating and and selected local artists. The performing arts series during country, folk, gospel, and screen-printing business. gallery, which is located in the college academic year ethnic group events. C-PAC Tours of the studio are Pullen Hall on the third floor, (September-May). Most is located at Caribou High welcome, by appointment. is open to the public although School and hosts many hours are not set. assemblies for Caribou students, Pre- K-12

Organizations, Performing & Visual Arts Organizations & Venues 27 Percent for Art Sites

Fort Fairfield Elementary Northern Maine Technical University of Maine at Washburn Elementary Woodland Community School/MSAD #20 College Presque Isle School/MSAD #45 School Union #122 Main Street 33 Edgemont Drive 181 Main Street Main Street Woodland Center Road Fort Fairfield ME 04742 Presque Isle ME 04769 Presque Isle ME 04769 Washburn ME 04786 Caribou ME 04736 Rodney Doody, Superinten­ Durward Huffman, President Michael Easton, President David Lyon, Superintendent Peter Edgecomb dent 768-2700 768-9611 445-8301 498-8436 473-4455 Percent for Art Sites: Percent for Art Sites Percent for Art Site Hobie Percent for Art Site Hobie Percent for Art Sites: Hobie Entry #217: Hobie Entry #214 outside the Entry #84 includes: Progres­ Entry #241 includes: Tree of Hobie Entry #122: 8 Waves by Rob Hoover. Campus Center. sions by Fred Lynch, Color Light by Elizabeth Busch. Reflective Fountain and Fort Environmental earthwork by Dance by Elizabeth Busch, Fairfield Charioteer by Roger Hobie Entry #207 in the John Robert Hoover and Out of Darkness by Majorwicz and water foun­ L. Martin Building: Dahlov Ipcar. tains and a brick mural by Focus by Ron Cross . Hobie Entry #27 Weiden George Mason. Hall.lobby: Hobie Entry #34 in the A ceramic wall sculpture by Fort Street Elementary gallery: Mark Huff a painting by Joel School A ceramic mural by Paul Levasseur, and a painting by Fort Street Heroux, ceramic vessels by Shari Ireland. Mars Hill ME 04758 Lynn Duryea, stained glass by 425-3771 Nancy O'Neill, and two prints Percent for Art Site, Hobie by Dianne Ballon. Entry #65: Flora by Ron Cross, photo­ Hobie Entry Number #8 graphs by Michael Melo, an includes: Back Flipper and aerial view of Mars Hill by Pistons by Walter Easton. Peyton Higgison, and Solar Disc by Ron Vellucci.

Haystack Historical Society Building, Mapleton Elementary School Town History Mural, 1998

28 Central Aroostook County Cultural Directory Cultural Resources, Maine

Maine Alliance for Arts Maine Art Education and state) to encourage and regional, and state arts Education Association founded in 1983 and dedi­ stimulate public interest and organizations even more PO Box 872 cated to advancing interes in PO Box 10463 participation in the cultural comprehensive than this one. Augusta, ME 04332 Portland ME 04104 heritage and programs of and appreciation of fine Partners in Arts & Learning 338-1225 637-2806 Maine, to expand arts contemporary and traditional (PALS) offers support for arts crafts in Maine. Provides a maae @ acadia. net MAEA is the statewide resources, to assist freedom of education plans and activities Supports arts education (all network and communication professional association for artistic expression, and to to all school systems in Maine the arts—writing, visual, and between artists, galleries, visual arts educators in meet needs and aspirations of on a three year rotating basis. performing) through local, Maine. The purpose of persons in all parts of Maine. shops, museums and the regional, and statewide MAEA includes the profes­ The Commission offers grants public. Holds exhibitions, Maine Arts Sponsors offers educational programs, professional development sional development of its and support for arts advance­ Association conferences, workshops, and members, the promotion of ment to organization and and maintains a resource PO Box 211 center with a members’ slide inservice for both specialist art education at all levels, the groups through four grant Dixfield, ME 04224 and generalist teachers. Acts encouragement of innovation registry, and annually programs: Leadership 562-9030; 1-877-562-9030 as resource liaison for local and research in art education, Initiatives, Technical Assis­ publishes the Maine Cultural masa@ gwi.net Guide. arts groups, schools, and providing a forum for the tance, Community Cultural MASA is a nonprofit mem­ teachers to provide informa­ exchange of ideas through a Development, Arts in bership organization serving Maine Historic Preservation tion and contact with artists regular news exchange, the Education. Individual artists the performing arts commu­ and performers who can Commission sponsorship of statewide may receive grants from nity in Maine, Canada and deliver arts programming to conferences, professional Individual Artist Fellowships 55 Capitol Street, State House New England. MASA strives Station 65 schools and communities. workshops, institutes and and the Traditional Arts to enhance the arts experience Works cooperatively with the programs, and collaborative Apprenticeship programs. Augusta ME 04333-0065 in Maine by providing 287-2132 Maine Arts Commission in its efforts with other arts The Commission maintains opportunity for professional Arts In Education Program. agencies in the state to further The Maine Artist Roster and Established through legisla­ development, communication, tive act in 1971, the Maine Also does arts advocacy at the growth of art education in Resources Guide of artists and cooperation to arts Maine. Historic Preservation Com­ state and local levels; available for performances, presenters and performers. members receive 3 newslet­ workshops, and/or lecture mission is a state agency with ters a year; discounts on Maine Arts Commission the responsibility for identifi­ demonstrations in schools, Maine Crafts Association conference fees and work­ Station #25 communities or businesses. cation, evaluation, and 15 Walton Street protection of the State’s shops. Operates from offices Augusta, ME 04333 The Artist Registry provides Portland, ME 04103 in the mid-coast and Bangor 287-2790 information about visual significant cultural resources 780-1807 regions with occasional www. mainearts. com artists whose work is avail­ gaelmckibben @ onf. com projects in other regions. The state arts council is able through commissions or The Maine Crafts Association supported by public monies direct sales, as well as a is a nonprofit organization (federal—from the NEA— compendium of national,

Cultural Resources, Maine as directed by the National understanding of human The professional association ers in Maine. Publishes a Portland ME 04101 Historic Preservation Act of experience—of ourselves and for music educators in Maine. newsletter, offers workshops 761-3861 1966. The Commission others, fostering widsom in an and readings, and provides a [email protected] oversees the statewide survey age if information, providing Maine Writers and communication network for Creates innovative and program, nominates proper­ context in a time of change. Publishers Alliance writers, both amature and inclusive arts opportunities ties to the National Register With federal funds (from the 12 Pleasant Street professional. Has a huge by, with, and for people with of Historic Places, reviews NEH) and other sources, Brunswick ME 04011 selection of Maine books for disabilities and at risk of development activities for MHC provides grants to 729-6333 sale at the Maine Writers failure. Provides professional their effect on cultural nonprofit organizations for The mission of MWPA is to Center at the above address. development for teachers and resources, coordinates supporting public projects promote the value of literature communities involved with rehibilitation projects under that explore themes in history, and the art of writing by Very Special Arts/Maine special needs populations and the Preservation Tax Incen­ literature, philosophy, building a community of PO Box 4002 programming. Provides tives Program, assists local archaeology, the history and writers, readers and publish­ 142 High Street, Suite #428 access assistance and consul­ governments in survey work criticism of the arts and tation to arts organizations and the design of preservation related fields. Major Grants and venues. guidelines, and is involved in support projects with budgets a variety of public education over $1,200; Outreach Grants activities. are for projects under $1,200; and Start-up Grants are for Maine Humanities Council projects under $500. 371 Cumberland Avenue P.O. Box 7202 Maine Music Education Portland, ME 04112 Association [email protected] Arnold Poland, president The mission of the MHC is to 156 South St engage the people of Maine in Dover-Foxcroft, ME 04426 the power and pleasure of home: 564-8494 wk 564- ideas. The Council supports 2760 (Foxcroft Academy) programs around the state in cultural heritage, contempo­ rary issues, reading and literacy, and teacher enrich­ ment. Programs are designed to encourage a deeper

Mapleton Elementary School History Mural Project. Students with Natasha Mayers, artist-in-residence, 1998

Central Aroostook County Cultural Directory Cultural Resources - Regional & National

New England Foundation Alliance for Arts Education National Endowment for for the Arts John F. Kennedy Center for the Humanities 330 Congress Street, 6th the Performing Arts 1100 Pennsylvania Avenue, Floor Washington DC 20566 N.W. Boston MA 02210-1216 202/416-8800 Washington, DC 20506 617/951-0010 Gives grants for the operation 202/606-8400 nefa@ ix.netcom. com and support of state arts http: //www. neh.fed. us Using federal monies (from alliances (in Maine, the Gives grants to state humani­ the NEA), state monies, and Maine Alliance for Arts ties councils (in Maine, the private sources NEFA gives Education) and Very Special Maine Humanities Council); grants to the New England Arts (for people with disabili­ and to any eligible group states of Maine, New Hamp­ ties and special needs; in grants in 4 main categories: shire, Vermont, Connecticut, Maine, Very Special Arts). Preservaton and Access; Massachusetts, and Rhode Public Programs; Research Island for projects and National Endowment for and Education; Challenge performances by New the Arts Grants. The NEA supports England writers, musicians, 1100 Pennsylvania Avenue, art, arts organizations, and performers, and visual artists. N.W. artists in literature (creative Maine presenters may apply Washington, DC 20506-0001 poetry and fiction), the visual for funding support of 202/682-5400 arts (painting, printmaking, performances or residencies http.//www, nea.fed. us sculpture, crafts, etc.) and tire by artists from New England Gives grants to state arts performing arts (dance, states other than Maine agencies (in Maine, the Maine music, theater, etc.). The through NEFA’s New Arts Commission); to NEH supports research, England States Touring regional arts agencies (in New education, and public (NEST) Program. England, the New England programs in the humanities Foundation for the Arts) and (modern and classical to any eligible group grants in language, linguistics, litera­ 4 other categories: Heritage & ture, history, jurisprudence, Preservation; Education & philosophy, archaeology, Access; Creation & Presenta­ comparative religion, ethics, tion; and Planning & Stabili­ the history, criticism, and zation. theory of the arts, and The Bailey Bam, Presque Isle, 1995. Photograph by Voscar interdisciplinary fields).

Cultural Resources - Regional & National 31 Index

4-H Dog Drill Team, 21 Cunningham, Troy, 14 Heart and Soul,16 Maine’s Swedish Colony, Inc., Putnam, Aaron, 14 Caribou, 23 A -l Quilting, 10 Daly, Juliet, 19 Hendrickson, Elaine, 15 New Sweden, 24 Putnam, David, 4 ,1 8 U.S. Post Office, Presque Isle, 26 Allen, Wallace, 12 Danker, Cherry, 15 Herold, Susanne, 16,17 Masse, Jessica, 27 Putnam, JoAnne, 18 Very Special Arts/Maine, 30 Alliance for Arts Education, Kennedy Deane, Helen, 15 Holmes Woodbuming, 10 Massey, Brian, 20 Railroad Museum, Fort Fairfield, 23 Voscar, The Photographer of Maine, 21, Center, 31 DeMaio, Fran, 12 Hon-E-B Dolls, 10 McCosker, Karen, 15 Reed Art Gallery, UM-Presque Isle, 27 31 Allison, Dana, 10 Desmond, Jed, 17 Hook Design, 14 McLaughlin's Big Band, 17 Reeves, John, 18 Vera T. Estey House, Presque Isle, 26 Anders & Johanna Olsson Farm, Double Eagle II Launch Site, 25 Hook, Susan, 11,14 McElwain House, Caribou, 22 Richardson, Adele, 20 Wadman, Carolyn, 20 Stockholm, 26 Doughty, Denise, 16 Huston, Charles, 19 Meyers, Lisa, 11,27 Robert A. Frost Memorial Library, Washburn Elementary School, Percent Arato, Christopher, 12 Down Home Candle Company, 10 Hutchins, Leonard, 15 Michonski, Bertha, 20 Limestone, 24 for Art, 28 Archer, Sarah, 12 Drost II, Ernest C„ 11,19 Ireland, Eva, 16 Michonski, Felix, 11 Robertson, John, 13 Washbum Memorial Library, 26 Armstrong, Julie Ann, 19 Duncan, William, 5,14 James School, Presque Isle, 25 M ickey’s Crafts, 11 Roper, Harrison, 17 White, Joe, 18 Aroostook Agricultural Museum, Easton Historical Society, 23 Jones, Sabine, 19 Micmac Images, Presque Isle, 12 Rosie O’Grady Balloon of Peace Wilcox, Gloria, 20 Washburn, 26 Echoes, 15 Johnson, Jennifer, 10 Mike’s Maine Pickles, 21 Monument, 23 Wildshot Nature Photography, 14 Aroostook Partners in the Arts, 27 Fabrique Shoppe, 10 Juicy Melon, 16 Miller, Beth Ann, 17 Salmon Brook Historical Society, Wilkins, Brace, 18 Aroostook State Park, 21 Rewelling, Leo, 10 Kilpatrick, Jeanette, 11 Miller, Robb, 14 Washburn, 26 William Dalton Historical Society, Aroostook Valley Baby Beef 4-H, 21 Fort Fairfield Elementary School, King, Robert, 16 M onhan, Lena, 13 Sanipass, David, 13 Ashland, 22 Aroostook Valley Dairy 4-H, 21 Percent for Art, 28 Knot-II-Bragg Farm, 21 Moon Dance Studios, 17 Sanipass, Donald and Maryann, 13 Windy Hill Wood Art Studio, 12 Ashland Community Library, 22 Fort Fairfield Public Library, 23 Koinonia Quartet, 17 Morrison, David, 10,20 Sanipass, Wolford “W olf’, 13 Winslow Farm Vascular Land Plant Ashland Logging Museum, 22 Fort Street Elementary School, Mars Kok, Evelyn, 11,14,17,18,25 Nabeau, Yvonne, 13 Saucier, Donald, 18 Site, 24 Ayoob, Carol, 19 Hill, 28 Kok, Jan, 17 National Endowment for the Arts, 31 Scheidler, Kate, 18 Winslow, Phil, 18 Ayotte, Bernard, 16 Forum, The, Presque Isle, 27 Kuntry Kuties Woodcrafts, 11 National Endowment for the Schneider, Daniel, 18 Winslow, Wilma, 12 Barker’s Puzzling, 10 Four Comers Custom Framing, 19 Lacombe, Armand, 12 Humanities, 31 Scott, Gail, 4-5,27 Woodland Community School, Beattie, Stuart L., 19 Francis Malcolm Science Center, Ladner, Daniel, 16,27 Nathaniel’s Lot Stained Glass, 11 Sherman, Judy, 12,20 Percent for Art, 28 Belanger, Phyllis, 19 Easton, 23 Larsson-Noak Historic District, Native Maine Driftwood Santas, 11 Sherman Oxbow Wreaths, 12 Woods Edge Gallery, 27 Belyea, Sheila, 10 Frazier, Chapman Hood, 15 New Sweden, 24 Nelson, Denise, 17 Sleepy Hollow Country Music Wooley Bandits 4-H, 21 Benjamin C. Wilder Homestead, Friends of the Aroostook County Larsson-Ostlund House, New England Foundation for Association, 18 WTA Hansen Memorial Library, Washburn, 26 Historical Center, UM-Presque New Sweden, 24 the Arts, 31 Smith, Glenna Johnson, 15 Mars Hill, 24 Berube, Linda, 16 Isle, 25 Lauritsen, Kim, 17 New Sweden Historical Society, 24 Spare Moments, 27 WUPI, 14 Berube, Stefanie and Jennifer, 16 Friends Church, Fort Fairfield, 23 Leary, Amy, 19 New Sweden Museum in the Sprague, Roger, 20 Wyman, Elizabeth, 12 Blockhouse Museum, Frontier Heritage, Fort Fairfield. 23 Leggett, Kathleen, 12 Kapitoleum, 24 Star Design and Marketing, 14 Yaeger, Andrew, 18 Fort Fairfield, 23 Gagnon, Albert “Gib”, 12 Libby Camps, 12 Nicholas P. Clase House, Stewart, Daniel, 13 Yaeger, Carol, 18 Bolstridge, Alice, 15 Gagnon, Russell, 10 Libby, Sissy, 17 New Sweden, 25 Stockholm Historical Society/ York, Dana, 13 Boudman, Clifton, 19 Gallant, Martin, 19 Lilly, Roger, 17 Norsworthy, Remillie, 20 Tri-Cultural Museum, 26 York, Dena Winslow, 4 ,6 -9 ,1 3 Brahim, Joel, 16 Giberson, Alana, 19 Limestone-Caswell Historical Northern Maine Chamber Swanson, Kathy, 12 Zumbrunnen, Jane, 13 Bridgewater Town Hall & Jail, 22 Giles, H. Anderson, 19,27 Society Museum, 24 Orchestra, 17 Swanson, Alden, Jr„ 12 Brown, Jim, 14 Gilman, Ken, 16 Lister Art Gallery, 20 Northern Maine Museum of Taubin, James O., 12 Brown, Laurie, 16 Golden Harp and Cello, 16 Lovely, Elbridge “Eb”, 17 Science, 26 Thomas Heritage House, Caribou, 23 Caribou Choral Society, 16 Gray Dog Art, 10 Lovewell Calligraphy Designs, 11 Northern Maine Technical College, Timmerhuset, New Sweden, 25 Caribou Historical Society & Center/ Gray Memorial United Methodist Made in Aroostook Coop, 20 Percent for Art, 28 Tomi’s Ceramics Plus, 12 Whittier Memorial, 22 Church, Caribou, 22 Madore, Denis, 14 North Star Lumber, 11 Tompkins, Wilma, 20 Caribou Hoofers, 16 Green, Denise, 16 Marguerite Pullen Art Gallery, Northland Studio, 27 Tucker, Constance, 14 Caribou Performing Arts Center, 27 Green, Kyle, 16 UM-Presque Isle, 27 Nylander Museum, Caribou, 22 Turner Memorial Library, Caribou Public Library, 22 Green, Michele, 4,19 Maine Alliance for Arts Education, 29 Olmstead, Kathryn, 15 Presque Isle, 26 Caribou Recreation Department, 22 Greiner, Edith, 12 Maine Art Education Association, 29 O’Neill, Renee, 20 Turner, Philip, 15 Carlson, Paul, 1,19 Gribetz, Raphael, 19 Maine Arts Commission, 29 Park, Laurence, 17 Ultra Clover 4-H, 21 Castle Hill Grange Hall, 23 Gustaf Adoph Lutheran Church, New Maine Arts Sponsors Association, 29 Philo H. Reed House, UM-Presque Isle-Cultural Chapman, Jeffrey, 19 Sweden, 24 Maine Crafts Association, 29 Fort Fairfield, 23 Programs, 27 Chapman, Sandra, 15 Hafford, John, 19,27 Maine Historic Preservation Presque Isle Community Players, 17 UM-Presque Isle-Marguerite Pullen Church of the Advent, Limestone, 24 Hall, Brenda, 10 Commission, 29 Presque Isle Historical Society, 26 Gallery, 27 Clark, Richard, 19,20,27 Happy Go Lucky 4-H, 21 Maine Humanities Council, 30 Presque Isle National Bank, 26 UM-Presque Isle-Percent for Art, 28 Clark, Ron, 14 Hatch, Steven, 14 Maine Music Association, 30 Presque Isle Recreation UM-Presque Isle - Reed Art Covenant Church, New Sweden, 24 Haystack Historical Society, Museum Maine Writers & Publishers Department, 26 Gallery, 27 Crown of Maine Quilters, 10 & School House, Mapleton, 24 Alliance, 30 Presque Isle Spud Shufflers, 18 Unitarian Universalist Church,

32 Central Aroostook County Cultural Directory

Cover: Aroostook County Quilt Fabrique Shoppe, Presque Isle

The Directory was made possible by a grant from the Maine Arts Commission which is funded in part by the National Endowment for the Arts