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From plate to page: Erin French tells her story in ‘Finding Freedom’
“Life’s a journey, not a destination.” It’s a sentiment that we’ve all heard a million times before, this idea that where we wind up is less important than how we got there. And it’s a true one, albeit a bit of a cliché at this point.
Sometimes, though, we have no idea what someone’s journey actually entails until that person shares their story.
Erin French is known for her celebrated restaurant The Lost Kitchen, based in a renovated grist mill in the tiny Maine town of Freedom. She has received accolades from all over the culinary universe, with big names and big outlets all clamoring to shower her with praise for the amazing dining experience that she has built in her tiny corner of the world.
What you might not now is just how much she went through to get here.
“Finding Freedom: A Cook’s Story; Remaking a Life from Scratch” (Celadon Books, $28) is the story of French’s journey in her own words. It is a story of one woman’s voyage of self-discovery and the many dizzying highs and shattering lows that came along the way. It’s a work of reflection and at-times brutal honesty, dotted with revelations and confessions. There are tears aplenty, but also more than a few laughs as well; it’s a portrait of a sometimes fractured and always full life.
Through it all, the indomitable spirit of Erin French shines through. Even in those moments where she seems to be at her lowest, when her world is crumbling around her, that fortitude is obvious. This is a woman who took every shot that life could throw at her and simply refused to stay down. That resilience is on full display throughout this book, and it is only that resilience that allowed her to become the person that she is today.
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PortFringe’s Pop-Up ‘Inferno’ a hell of a good time
PORTLAND – Maine’s premier fringe festival weirdoes are at it again, offering up a uniquely collaborative take on a literary classic.
The PortFringe Festival has once again unleashed its annual Pop-Up experience on the world with its latest iteration, an adaptation of Dante’s “Inferno.” This filmed collaboration involving a dozen different groups and individual artists is available for streaming at the PortFringe website (www.portfringe.com/inferno) through April 15. Tickets are pay-what-you-can, though it’s worth mentioning that this is PortFringe’s primary fundraiser, so be generous if you can.
Previous installments have included three Shakespeare plays – “Hamlet,” “Macbeth” and “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” – and two other classics in “The Odyssey” and “Alice in Wonderland.”
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PortFringe rises from COVID’s long performing arts shadow with Pop-Up ‘Inferno’
PORTLAND — PortFringe, Maine’s Fringe Festival, will produce its sixth annual fundraising event, POP-UP Dante’s Inferno, on April 3at 7 p.m. via a live watch party online. To buy tickets or for more information about streaming-on-demand after the event, please head to http://portfringe.com/inferno/.
The pandemic has cast a long shadow over Portland’s usually vibrant performing arts community. Artists, companies, and venues have shuttered or are struggling to stay afloat. With shows cancelled for most of 2020 and into this year, performers of all stripes have been forced to go dormant or reinvent how they create. The unique energy of POP-UP has brought a new level of connection and invention to PortFringe. These fearless artists have stretched their skills and responded to the call to create art in a digital medium, some of them for the first time. PortFringe is back with the fierce injection of creativity that we’ve all needed.
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Dog genius brings her brilliance to the book world
BANGOR – Another literary genius has sprung from the fertile creative soil of our region, with a debut author preparing to take the world of letters by storm. But she is not just any author – this writer is a respected competitive chess player and a groundbreaking app developer. She decided that her next conquest would be the written word.
She is also a dog.
Longtime readers might remember stories from years past when we covered this pooch’s bevy of canine accomplishments – her surprise aptitude for chess, her elegant and effective coding ability – but this latest installment in her adventures presents an opportunity not just to promote her excellence, but to issue a confession.
This dog is my dog. She has always been my dog.
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Lawsuit looms in Bigfoot docuseries scandal
ST. POMME DE TERRE – For a small town nestled away in amidst the forests and potato fields of northwestern Aroostook County, the hamlet of St. Pomme de Terre sure does see some big drama, usually driven by the massive hairiness and sharp business savvy of its most famous resident, Bigfoot.
The former selectman and current footwear entrepreneur has found himself in the spotlight once again, albeit reluctantly.
Bigfoot has retained counsel and filed suit against beloved indie production icons the Duplass Brothers, claiming that their upcoming docuseries – “Sasquatch,” a three-part series scheduled to drop on April 20 – is defamatory to him and his cryptid brethren. According to his lawyer, Bigfoot is seeking a cease and desist on the airing of the program, as well as punitive damages in the area of $100 million.
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