Month: November 2017

Rice’s Ruminations Teaching Virtue

     As I write this, our country deals with another tragic incident, this time the mass killings of worshippers in a church in Sutherland Springs, Texas.  This follows the Las Vegas shooting on Oct. 1, a shooting in a church in...

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A Visitor From Outside Our Solar System

On Oct. 19, 2017, a new object was discovered passing through the inner solar system. The discovery of new objects passing through the inner solar system is not all that unusual.  What is unusual is where this object may come...

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Wonderful, Scary Painting Night

    Thursday night, Oct. 26, the business club brought a fantastic painting night to UMPI. Paula Siddiqui, who is a local artist from Caribou, Maine, instructed its paint night. The fun activity was in hopes of raising funds for...

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Maine Woods’ Quiet Autumn Joys

    It’s a particularly warm October day.  The sun is shining through the tops of the trees, through the red and yellow leaves still left.  As you approach a clearing, two red dragonflies fly through the air, dancing in the...

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Taking Back the Night

  On the night of Oct. 12,  the UMPI campus was brighter than usual as a large group of people made their way from Gentile to South halls, each holding a lit candle. This was the beginning of Take Back the Night, a night of...

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