by AbbyGordon | Jul 22, 2015
Although Boothbay is such a small town, Boothbay’s Opera House manages to entice world-renowned performing artists to play in its coffeehouse-like setting through the year. This February, I saw the Irish group, Altan, for just a fraction of the cost of a ticket...
by AbbyGordon | Jun 9, 2015
The 4th Annual Claw Down will take place at the Ocean Point Marina on Thursday evening, September 17th, 2015. Over a dozen local chefs will compete for the Judges’ Choice and People’s Choice awards for the best lobster “bites”. That is, who makes the...
by AbbyGordon | May 12, 2015
Last month, I attended an open house at the Dandelion Spring Farm, co-sponsored by its neighbor, the Watershed Center for the Ceramic Arts. The farm and it surroundings are beautiful and a definite change from the often-bustling Boothbay Harbor. I learned about the...
by AbbyGordon | Aug 21, 2014
This year, for the very first time, I managed to visit Boothbay during the annual Windjammer Days festival. Boothbay has historically been and remains to this day, a community very tied to the sea–to fishing and lobstering, to boatbuilding and nowadays also to...
by AbbyGordon | Dec 13, 2013
Last weekend, I was in Boothbay Harbor for the 28th annual Harbor Lights Festival. The weekend included a number of crafts fairs, cookie swaps and other festivities at local churches, the Festival of Trees and crafts fair at the Opera House, a Christmas carol...
