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Farmington couple’s art, writing look at caregiving and aging
TUG Arts Collective based in Farmington released its latest book project exclusively at Devaney Doak & Garrett Booksellers on Friday.
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FARMINGTON Who will care for the dead? It’s a question that Gustavo and Gaelyn Aguilar, who together make up the TUG Arts Collective, have long been contemplating while living in Maine, the nation’s state with the oldest population.
As the couple often drove past faded gravestones in Franklin County’s numerous 18th and 19th century cemeteries, this question persisted.
“So we started wondering, well what happens when these people pass away? Who is going to take care of these ancestors, especially if there’s no newcomers coming in and being incorporated into these townships,” Gustavo said in a Zoom interview. “So we really started thinking from that perspective of the idea of care and how do we care for each other?”
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Contest is open to all residents of Franklin and Somerset Counties, Livermore, and Livermore Falls
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REGION The Annual Literacy Volunteers Poetry Contest is free, for all-ages and open from February 14-March 31 to all residents of Franklin and Somerset Counties, and the towns of Livermore, and Livermore Falls. First, second, and third place winners will be selected in each of 5 categories: (Age 0-10, 11-17, 18-25, 26 and older, and students of Literacy Volunteers).
Winners receive gift certificates to area bookstores: $20 value for first place at Devaney Doak & Garrett Booksellers, $15 value for second place at Twice Sold Tales, and $5 value for third place at the Phillips Library store. All winners will be announced on April 12 and invited to a virtual celebration on April 30, open to the public. All winning poems will be published. For more information go to westernmainelitaracy.org.