With the 50th anniversary of the landing next week, it seems like the future is all in the past, writes Dana Wilde.
Columns
News columns from staff writers and contributors to the Kennebec Journal and Morning Sentinel.
J.P. Devine: Include me out of hotel stay
Travel is a nightmare, and hotels are the monsters in those bad dreams, J.P. Devine writes.
Liz Soares: Fourth of July meant for celebrating
But the holiday is also a good time to reflect on how fragile our freedoms are, writes Liz Soares.
Amy Calder: Reassessing our beliefs, as July 4 nears
Amy Calder asks those with hard-held views on immigration to consider from whence they came, as the U.S. is about to celebrate the anniversary of its independence from Britain.
J.P. Devine: The tie’s the thing that’s telling about a candidate
J.P. Devine takes a gander at the neckwear of the current crop of male presidential candidates, but as yet finds no bolo ties.
Dana Wilde: Cleanliness is next to spiderliness
A close look at how spiders defecate reveals how they go out of their way to keep their surroundings clean, Dana Wilde writes.
Amy Calder: Grateful for the farmer
Central Maine farmers work hard and have little or no time off, but they live in paradise.
J.P. Devine: Life is a drag
The recent confrontation in downtown Waterville over a drag queen story hour for children drew metaphorical spears and rattles, the latest in a fabulous tradition of performances, J.P. Devine writes.
Liz Soares: Down the rabbit hole with President Trump
I still yearn for a president who speaks and writes eloquently, but the president’s liabilities go far beyond his incoherence, writes Liz Soares.
Liz Soares: Down the rabbit hole with President Trump
I still yearn for a president who speaks and writes eloquently, but the president’s liabilities go far beyond his incoherence, writes Liz Soares.