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Festival Pairs With Boat Races & Shindig Print

Written by Tom Allen | 15 June 2010

Wow, what a weekend! July 24 and 25 is sure to be a highlight of summer in Harpswell.
Kicking it off on Saturday, the Harpswell Festival opens the gates at Mitchell Field for its seventh annual event. Along with its usual food, fun, and fireworks, the Festival will be hosting disco performance band Motor Booty Affair.
Then, before you can catch your breath from all that dancing, Mitchell Field will open again the next morning for the Harpswell "Shindig." With food vendors, crafters, and other attractions, the Shindig provides the perfect onshore viewing locale for the Harpswell Lobster Boat Races, which are moving from Pott's Harbor to Middle Bay.
The pairing was made possible by the Festival's decision to change from Sunday to Saturday, says Festival executive director Tom Allen.
"For years, we'd talked about partnering with the boat races but they were always on the same day of the week. We just didn't see any way to have a boat race and a festival with live music at the same time," says Allen. "But now that we're on different days, we saw the possibility of running them consecutively."

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Don't Touch That Dial Print

Written by Amber Skinner | 15 June 2010


When you turn to channel 14, you're likely to see someone you know. That's because Harpswell Community Television (HCTV) is just that: Community television, where you're apt to find a telecast of the latest Board of Selectman meeting or a list of local goings-on with your neighbor's most recent recording playing in the background.
HCTV went on the air in 1985, with an outpouring of funds, effort, "hot lunches" from the community, and equipment provided by the cable company "to create our own programming," according to HCTV founder and current volunteer Dave Chipman.
It is the "first and only non-profit public, educational and governmental station broadcast over the air in the United States," Chipman explained.
Program Manager Donna Frisoli has worked at the station for the past 10 years, starting as a volunteer in 2000 and hired on the following year. She is now one of two part-time employees, "although it's really a full-time job," she said.

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You might be a Harpswellite if.. Print

Written by Nelson Barter | 15 June 2010

With special thanks to Charlotte and Dave, mail clerks of the Harpswell Militia
You've ever seen your picture on www.peopleofwalmart.com.
Your grill tools include a paint scraper but no spatula
You measure power outages in days, not hours.
You paid 15¢ to see an Abbot and Costello movie and a serial at the Pasttime Theater.
You've ever used cigarette filters as earplugs when grinding off the barnacles.