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It is home.™ 30 Governors Way • Topsham, ME 04086 • (207) 725-2650 • www.HighlandsRC.com 2 | Experience December 2020 Where To Tune In Maine Public Radio 89.7 FM WMED Calais 90.1 FM WMEA Portland 90.5 FM WMEP Camden 90.9 FM WMEH Bangor 91.3 FM WMEW Waterville 106.1 FM WMEM Presque Isle 106.5 FM WMEF Fort Kent Maine Public Radio can be streamed from mainepublic.org or using Maine Public’s App. Maine Public Classical Current signals available on the FM dial: 91.5 FM Fryeburg/Bridgton 93.7 FM Milbridge/Downeast 96.7 FM Boothbay/Brunswick 99.7 FM Waterville Coming in January 102.3 FM Sanford/Kennebunkport 104.1 FM Portland All Creatures Great and Small 106.1 FM Bangor 89.7 HD2 WMED Calais James Herriot’s adventures as a veterinarian in 1930s 90.1 HD2 WMEA Portland 90.5 HD2 WMEP Camden Yorkshire get a glorious new adaptation in a seven-part series 90.9 HD2 WMEH Bangor based on his beloved stories. Newcomer Nicholas Ralph will 91.3 HD2 WMEW Waterville make his television debut as the iconic vet who became 106.1 HD2 WMEM Presque Isle 106.5 HD2 WMEF Fort Kent renowned for his inspiring humor, compassion and love of life. Maine Public Classical can be streamed from mainepublic.org The 1970s adaptation, which aired on public broadcasting, was or using Maine Public’s App. a favorite of millions of viewers. Chronicling the heartwarm- Maine Public Digital Television Stations ing and humorous adventures of a young country vet, the Over the Air (by antenna): books introduced readers to his unconventional mentor and PBS HD Create World Kids the cast of farmers and townsfolk who lived and worked in the WCBB Augusta 10.1 10.2 10.3 10.4 Yorkshire Dales. This new adaptation will preserve the rich WMEB Orono 12.1 12.2 12.3 12.4 WMED Calais 13.1 13.2 13.3 13.4 spirit, tone and values of Herriot’s iconic characters and his WMEM Presque Isle 10.1 10.2 10.3 10.4 stories of country life in the North of England. I WMEA Biddeford 26.1 26.2 26.3 26.4 On Cable: On the cover: Christmas with the Tabernacle Choir PBS Spectrum HD SD World Create Kids airs on Monday, December 14, at 9:00 p.m., and Sunday, York & Cumberland Counties 1221 10/170 1276 1278 1277 December 20, at 1:00 p.m. on Maine Public Television. Lewiston & Auburn 1221 10 1276 1278 1277 Augusta & Waterville 1221 10/180 1276 1278 1277 Bangor & Machias 1221 13/180 1276 1278 1277 Get Connected Today! Aroostook County 1221 3/180 1276 1278 1277 Eastern New Hampshire 1222 10 1276 1278 1277 Sign up for our Comcast DAILY NEWS HEADLINES newsletter and Bath, Brunswick, Freeport 503 11 164 na 174 THE TEN, our weekly newsletter, at mainepublic.org Pioneer Broadband Sherman 110 112 111 113 Visit us online at mainepublic.org Stacyville 110 112 111 113 Follow us on Houlton 110 112 111 113 Beeline FACEBOOK, LINKEDIN, INSTAGRAM, Farmington & Skowhegan 710 10 na na na TWITTER and YOUTUBE Millinocket 710 12 na na na Call us at 800-884-1717 or Bell Aliant (Canada) 408 8 na na na 49 12 na na na email us at [email protected] Rogers (Canada) On Satellite: Write to us at PBS 1450 Lisbon Street, Lewiston, Maine, 04240-3595 Dish Network HD SD World Create Kids Presque Isle DMA 10 10 na na na Bangor DMA 12 12 na na na Experience, Volume 14, Issue 6, is published monthly by the Maine Public Broadcasting Portland DMA 10 10 na na na Corporation, doing business as Maine Public, a non-profit corporation, founded by the University of Maine System and Colby, Bates and Bowdoin Colleges. It is published Direct TV at 63 Texas Avenue, Bangor, Maine 04401-4324. A membership in Maine Public is Presque Isle DMA na na na na na $35 or more annually, of which $6 is designated for subscription of 12 issues of Bangor DMA 12 12 na na na Experience. Printed by Alliance Press. Printed on Sappi Somerset Gloss, 70# Text, Portland DMA 10 10 na na na manufactured in Skowhegan, Maine, with soy oil based color inks. December 2020 Experience | 3 Join Our Inaugural Book Club! Welcome to our newest project, Maine Public’s All Books Considered Book Club. The book club will feature preeminent national and Maine authors engaging with readers across Maine to discuss their books – both fiction and non-fiction. We will take on six books over the course of 2021 – featuring one book every two months. Bookstores across Maine are offering a discount each month on each selected title including Sherman’s Maine Coast Book Shops, BookStacks in Bucksport, Print in Portland, and Left Bank Books in Belfast. Once we announce each selected book, we will give you over a month to read the title. Then we will feature the author of the title in a LIVE Zoom event where the author will talk about his/her career, the thinking/motivation behind the featured title, and then will read a section of the featured title. They will then answer questions from a Maine Public host, generated by the host, and culled from the audience via the “chat” function. Maine Public’s All Books Considered Book Club launches this December with the first book club event slated for the end of January/early February. The featured au- thor is Meredith Hall, and we will be reading her book Beneficence. Go to mainepublic.org to sign up for the book club – it’s free! – and we’ll see where 2021 takes us! (Photo credit: Nick Brown.) I ® Kitchen Queens: New Orleans Weeknights at 6:30 & 8:30 pm The spotlight is on women who are changing the culinary land- scape of New Orleans in Kitchen Queens. Dedicated to the late New Orleans chef Leah Chase and shot on location in the kitchens of restaurants across the Big Easy, the series profiles female chefs who reflect the city’s diverse culinary heritage, including Creole, Cajun, Latin American and Vietnamese. Pictured, Ericka Michelle Lassair, aka Chef Diva, is a New Orleans native and owner of Diva Dawg Food Truck. Some of December’s tasty delights include Crab Boil Dirty Rice, Apple Pie Bread Pudding, Pasta on the Bayou, Crabmeat Grill Cheesy, Cane Syrup Dark Chocolate Mousse, Artichoke Bacon Hand Pies, Watermelon Crab Martini, Drunk Shrimp with Summer Succotash, and Muscadine Wine Jell-O with Peaches and Cream! I Your Health: A Sacred Matter December 25, 8:00 pm; December 26, 9:00 am & 3:00 pm Compelling individual stories from doctors, patients, nurses, chaplains and caregivers speak to the benefits of incorporating a patient’s spirituality as part of a whole-patient/whole-person model of care. The medical profession is not only looking to the origins of medicine in order to move forward, by re-integrating religiously based tenets into the healing process, but also responding to con- temporary research findings that support earlier accepted wisdom. The film’s interviewees provide a representative sampling of the leading medical schools, teaching hospitals and research centers across the nation recognized for their work in this field. It also follows a variety of people in medicine who are learning to integrate the whole-person model of care. I 4 | Experience December 2020 Maine Public Primary HD Television Weekday Schedule Monday through Friday Hosted by Maine Public’s Jennifer Rooks 6:00 am BBC World News and Keith Shortall, our news call-in show, 6:30 am Maine Calling airs on Maine Public Radio Exercise Programs Mondays-Fridays at 11:00 a.m. and 7:00 p.m. 7:00 am Molly of Denali and Saturdays at 7:00 a.m. 7:30 am Wild Kratts 8:00 am Hero Elementary Mondays-Fridays, 11:00 am & During the on-going coronavirus crisis, 7:00 pm; Saturdays, 7:00 am Maine Calling will continue to bring you pro- 8:30 am Xavier Riddle grams that inform and engage. Please check the Maine Calling website, 9:00 am Curious George MaineCalling.org or Facebook page Facebook.com/MaineCalling for the latest 9:30 am Daniel Tiger’s Neighborhood information on upcoming programs. You can listen to Maine Calling anytime vis- iting the Maine Calling website, putting the Maine Public app on your smart 10:00 am Daniel Tiger’s Neighborhood phone, or subscribing to the podcast. You can also hear Maine Calling if you have 10:30 am Elinor Wonders Why an Alexa smart speaker. Join the conversation! Call us at 1-800-399-3566 or email 11:00 am Sesame Street the show at [email protected]. Maine Calling topics and guests are subject 11:30 am Pinkalicious to change. I 12 noon Dinosaur Train For Complete Radio Schedules: 12:30 pm Clifford Go to mainepublic.org/Radio drop-down menu.