ROCKPORT Poets’ Corner and the Rockport Public Library announce four opportunities to celebrate National Poetry Month at the library. Every Thursday afternoon in April, from 4 to 5 p.m., the public is invited to attend readings by the library’s.
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Thursday, April 29, 2021 - 7:00pm to 8:00pm
Lois Anne reading her poems at Vermont College of Fine Arts, Montpelier, Vermont, in January of 2020, (Photo courtesy Good Tern Natural Foods Co-op)
April is National Poetry Month, and the Good Tern Co-op & Natural Foods Store is hosting a reading by local poets to celebrate. The poetry night will be held online on April 29, 2021, from 7 to 8 p.m. The event is part of the Good Tern’s Education and Outreach Committee’s continuing series of community classes and events.
Participating poets are Frances Vigeant, Eileen Hugo, Phelps Bristol, Lois Anne, Sarah Trapani, Colleen Gleason, Jeannie Harsha, Dana Wildes, Bill Eberle, and Paul McFarland.
Senior Newman Blanchard.
SPRUCE HEAD Senior Newman Blanchard, 87, of Spruce Head, Maine, passed away after a brief illness, on March 2, 2021, in his home, with his family nearby.
Senior was born in Boston, Massachusetts, to George Russell Blanchard and Barbara (Senior) on November 4, 1933. He grew up in Uxbridge, Massachusetts, where his family had long owned and operated the Blanchard Bros. Quarry. He graduated from Uxbridge High School and then attended Vermont Academy, graduating in 1952. He then joined the US Army, being discharged in 1956 with the rank of SP3. He then briefly attended both Dartmouth College, and Bridgeport University in Connecticut.
He lived and worked in Connecticut until he moved to Maine in 1968 and hand built his permanent home in Spruce Head. He worked as a special projects engineer for Tibbetts Industries in Camden and spent 40 happy years there until his retirement in 2008.