Tom Atwell

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Published
August 22, 2010

Maine Gardener: O’Donal’s has a line on day lilies

Barth daylilies have a new home at O’Donal’s Nursery in Gorham. The line was started by Joseph Barth, a Unitarian minister in Alna who hybridized daylilies at his home and sold them mostly during open garden days to benefit nonprofit groups in the area. On Joseph Barth’s death in 1988, his son Nicholas took over […]
Published
August 22, 2010

Author Q&A: War and peace of mind

J. Morris Lavallee’s self-published novel tells the story of a Vietnam vet and his struggle with post-traumatic stress disorder.
Published
August 19, 2010

What Ales You: Despite buzz, Pumpkinhead doesn’t fill bill

Shipyard’s Pumpkinhead Ale has hit the stores and pubs of the nation, and a lot of people are really happy — the drinkers as well as the brewers. Pumpkinhead is big business. When I toured Shipyard’s brewery in late June, brewmaster Alan Pugsley told me he was just beginning to shut down all other brewing […]
Published
August 15, 2010

Maine GardenerSummertime, and the picking is easy

It’s harvest time. True, most harvest celebrations are held in October and November, once the harvest is complete and, traditionally, you give thanks for having enough food to get through the winter. But farmers and home gardeners are picking a whole range of fruits and vegetables. Just walking through our garden plot, we have raspberries […]
Published
August 12, 2010

What Ales You: Gritty’s gives craft-brew fans an early taste of Halloween

Halloween is here. Not the holiday, but Gritty McDuff’s Halloween Ale, which is showing up on store shelves. The first batches for the company’s three brew pubs will be brewed Friday. “This is the 21st year of Halloween Ale, and we start on Friday the 13th,” Ed Stebbins, Gritty’s brew master, said last week. “We […]
Published
August 5, 2010

What Ales You:Sebago Brewing Co. will introduce Saddleback Ale at bluegrass fest

Sebago Brewing Co., with its brewery in Gorham and pubs in Portland, Gorham, Scarborough and Kennebunk, will be introducing its new Saddleback Ale Friday at the Saddleback Bluegrass Festival in Rangeley. But it is not really a new beer. “We have been brewing our Northern Light Ale for 11 or 12 years,” said Kai Adams, […]
Published
August 1, 2010

Maine Gardener: ‘It is my business card, my handshake to the world’

An apartment building designed by John Calvin Stevens at 244-246 Woodford St. in Portland just got a new garden that will make the building look more like it would have shortly after it was built in 1931. The owner, Neils Knudsen, got what he wanted. “I just wanted to get rid of the yews,” he […]
Published
July 29, 2010

What Ales You:For Dogfish Head brews, it’s ‘gnarly meets barley’

Portland has its share of off-centered people, and quite a number of them were gathered at Novare Res at 4 Canal Plaza last Sunday for what has become the annual visit of Sam Calagione, founder and president of Dogfish Head Craft Brewed Ales in Delaware. “From Grains to Glass: Gnarly Meets Barley” was a party […]
Published
July 25, 2010

Maine Gardener: Summer’s early start a blooming bonanza

The warm winter and early spring combined to be the dominant point of this year’s garden season. Everything — flowers, berries, vegetables and garden lust — has come early. Some of it has been better and some of it worse, but it all has been early. Southern Maine didn’t really have a winter, and the […]
Published
July 25, 2010

Author Q&A:Hanging judgment

Jerry Genesio’s new self-published book tells the fascinating tale of the first execution ordered under the U.S. Constitution — which took place in Portland.

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