THE ST. GEORGE DRAGON A bi-weekly publication of Dragon s Breath Communications, LLC FREE Business & Recreation News for the St. George Peninsula Thursday, Volume 4 Issue 6 Memorial Day: A true community event of which the school community is an essential part The tradition of having the school band perform at the Memorial Day ceremonies in St. George began more than 10 years ago. The community response then was very positive and now the school band s participation is something that s expected with anticipation. When this year s Memorial Day Parade arrives at the American Legion Hall in Tenants Harbor, a number of Girl Scouts and Boy Scouts will dash out of line and join their fellow St. George School middle-level band members who will already be in place ready to be part of the annual Memorial Day program. Concert dress is normally black and white, acknowledges Carolyn Kanicki, the school s band teacher, but a lot of these kids are involved with scouting or with the Little League game after the ceremony, so they come dressed for those roles but they still also fulfill their commitment to play in the band. It s a non-school day, but last year we had 100 percent participation. She says there were also some high school students who had previously been St. George School band members who joined in. The tradition of having the school band perform at the Memorial Day ceremonies in St. George began more than 10 years ago, when the Midcoast Community Band was unable to participate after many years of doing so. So Dana Smith came to me and asked if the school band could play, Kanicki recalls. The community response then was very positive and now the school band s participation is something that s expected with anticipation. It is something that parents are aware of, so they don t schedule something else, Kanicki says. I just love it. To me it s that true community event and the school community is a part of it. It s important for the kids to know this is part of Memorial Day. While a lot of people might love to have the St. George School middle-level band march in the Memorial Day parade, Kanicki shakes her head. We re a sitting band, not a marching band. There is a lot that goes into the marching, like having to get special per- Caleb Wight on tuba and Hunter Rakhonen on tenor sax PHOTO: Sonja Schmanska cussion instruments and special music holders. Marching is really more of a high school thing. Also, at this stage, I d hate to take time away from our students focus on the music. Practice is the key to achieving a good musical performance, Kanicki points out. The full middle-level band, consisting of 6th, 7th and 8th grade students, practices three times a week for 45 or 50 minutes each time (when the St. George School was part of RSU 13, the band could practice only two times a week). Then, the different sections of the band flutes, clarinets, saxophones, drums have half hour sessions once a week. Kanicki also offers free after-school lessons on a sign-up basis for any band student who would like extra help. Now that the St. George School again includes 8th grade students, Kanicki notes, there is the added benefit of having kids who are into their fourth year of playing an instrument be part of the Continued on page 2 TURKEY COVE AUTO REPAIR 372-8626
Memorial Day From page 1 mix. Having the 8th graders makes a big difference, she stresses. The younger kids kind of look up to them to understand what s involved. The 6th graders, especially, have a difficult transition to make from their first year of playing in 5th grade, when everyone plays in unison, to the more complicated music played by the middle-level band. When a 5th grade student decides to give band a try, Kanicki works with them to figure out which instrument feels right for them. This can lead to some imbalances in the various sections, but Kanicki has been pleased by a recent trend of students choosing instruments in the lower registers. Having a tuba is new this year, Kanicki says with clear enthusiasm. I think that instrument sat in a corner for as long as I ve been here, which is 25 years. But Caleb Wight spotted it and took it home and cleaned it up and started playing it. And we now also have two tenor saxophones and a bass clarinet, so getting that lower voice has been making a big difference in the sound. Kanicki handed out the playlist for the Memorial Day performance to the band Carolyn Kanicki PHOTO: Julie Wortman members at the beginning of April. During the ceremony the band will play the Star Spangled Banner, the Marches of the Armed Forces (when veterans will be invited to step forward), and Arrival at Normandy. After the ceremony the band will play a short concert that will include some marches and perhaps a rendition of Grand Old Flag and Along the Beaches of Normandy. JW (The Memorial Day Parade on Monday, May 30 begins at 9am.) GREEN BEAN TENANTS HARBOR, ME 207-691-2780 CATERING POND HOUSE GALLERY archival picture framing art * antiques * gifts ********************************************************* 41 Port Clyde Rd Tenants Harbor 372-6966 dscdmc1@gmail.com www.pondhousegallery.com SALE!! 50% off select Garden Boutique merchandise to make room for beautiful new creations just arrived for our 2016 season. Also selling many personal, household items. ONE DAY ONLY! Saturday, May 28 10:00-5:00 10:00-5:00 Wednesday-Saturday Page 2 The St. George DRAGON
The Moving Wall Comes to Knox Museum by Tobin Malone, Executive Director, Knox Museum Knox Museum in Thomaston has been selected to host the Vietnam Combat Veterans The Moving Wall for five days over Memorial Day weekend. The memorial wall, which is a half-scale replica of Maya Lin s original design located on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., will be exhibited on the grounds of Montpelier from May 26 to May 30. Visiting hours will be 24 hours per day, except during special ceremonies. As many as 13,000 people are expected to visit the memorial over the 5-day period. Admission is free. The Moving Wall has been touring the country for over 30 years, offering thousands the opportunity to witness this important American monument. This will be its first appearance in midcoast Maine. As an organization named after one of America s first soldiers and veterans, Henry Knox, we at the Knox Museum know the military are some of our main people and we want to do whatever we can to honor them. The Moving Wall stands 252 feet long and 6 feet tall, and displays the names of 58,228 Americans who lost their lives in Vietnam, including 13 from Knox County, 8 from Lincoln County, 6 from Waldo County, and 4 from Sagadahoc County. In total, there are 343 Maine names inscribed on the memorial. Their names will be read in sunset ceremonies each evening. PHOTO: Knox Museum Blind Albert, aka Vincent Gabriel, guitarist and U.S. Army infantryman, Vietnam, 1967 68 Bringing The Moving Wall to Montpelier has been a massive undertaking, requiring the regrading of Montpelier s property, construction of a 252 long platform on which to mount the wall, installation of two stages with special lighting and sound equipment, multiple tents, handicapped walkways and access, remote parking, shuttle service, 24-hour security, grief counselors, sanitary facilities, meals for volunteers, name-rubbing and other educational materials for schoolchildren and major publicity. Importantly, there will also be a series of 5pm workshops for vets on VA medical enrollment, Agent Orange, PTSD, and state benefits; and a mobile 38-foot motor coach Community Outreach Vehicle from the Department of Veterans Affairs Vet Center s outreach program will be parked at Montpelier around the clock all week, providing outreach, and information and counseling to veterans. An opening night ceremony on Thursday, May 26 at 6pm will feature brief remarks by visiting dignitaries along with a musical performance by the 35-member Medomak Valley High School Chorus. On Saturday, May 28, at the Museum s fifth annual Boots on the Ground event, Vincent Gabriel, well-known local Vietnam vet and front man for the band Blind Albert, will cover some of the betterknown anthems from what has been called the rock and roll war, as well as perform some of his own moving first-person original songs about Vietnam like Draft Card, 11 Bravo Vietnam, and Back to the World. Right alongside Vince Gabriel s rock band, conductor Janna Hymes and her 43-piece classical orchestra, Maine Pro Musica, will perform orchestral renditions of Jim Morrison and The Doors The Unknown Soldier and Light My Fire, as well as Samuel Barber s Adagio for Strings. All Vietnam combat veterans are invited to sit on stage for the Boots on the Ground ceremony and be recognized for their service. A special ceremony for Gold Star families will be hosted by Adria Horn, Director of Maine s Bureau of Veteran Services on Sunday, May 29, at 2 pm. Also in the mix is a planned exhibit at Montpelier featuring U.S. Army Captain Beth Parks photographs from her deployment serving as a nurse in Vietnam entitled Blood, Dust & Mud. Knox Museum Collections Manager and Operation Iraqi Freedom veteran, Matthew J. Hansbury, hopes to re-create a sense of Captain Parks hooch, or living quarters, in the exhibition space, with the Corea, Maine resident providing some of her belongings from that time. Finally, on Memorial Day proper Monday, May 30 a ceremony is planned for 5pm, which will open up the focus to veterans of all of America s wars, honoring everyone from Henry Knox in the American Revolution, to soldiers serving in Iraq and Afghanistan today. For more information visit Knox Museum s Facebook page, The Moving Wall comes to Mid-Coast Maine, call Knox Museum at 354-8062, or e-mail info@knoxmuseum.org. Peggy Crockett 542-3105 peggycrockett@gmail.com Specializing in properties on the St. George peninsula The St. George DRAGON Page 3
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When practicing medicine is also about (Maine) history A long-term project that is occupying a great deal of Martinsville resident Richard Kahn s time these days is the annotation of an unpublished manuscript titled Diseases of the District of Maine written by Jeremiah Barker. In 1797, in the first U.S. medical journal, Barker announced that he was working on the topic of the diseases of Maine for publication, says Kahn. Most of it was completed by 1820 and definitely it was all done by 1830. That Maine s early medical climate was recognized to have distinctive qualities, Kahn says, is borne out by a passage found in James Sullivan s History of the District of Maine published in 1795: The people of the District of Maine, may, in a tedious winter, long for the soft breezes of Virginia and the Richard Kahn PHOTO: Julie Wortman Carolinas; but they would be very unwilling to take the fever and ague, and the other disorders incident to those States with the gentle weather, in exchange for our northern snow banks. The Barker manuscript, which is owned by the Maine Historical Society, is two volumes long. Kahn s wife, Patty, helped him transcribe it into computer files. It tells what Barker saw, what he did, the outcome, the philosophy of what he was doing. And he cited over 100 patients, many of them by name, Kahn says. If I thought the names of diseases, the names of medicines, were not absolutely obvious to I love medicine, but the history of medicine also gets you into history, literature, art and other things. It makes medicine more interesting. everybody, I ve made endnotes to explain what they are so a lay person would be able to read it without a bunch of reference books to help them. The Maine Historical Society is interested in publishing the manuscript, complete with Kahn s annotations, the biographical information he has gathered about Barker and Kahn s estimation of the manuscript s place in the genre of books about state diseases. There are only a few books like this, Kahn notes, so assessing the manuscript s importance is a challenging task. Kahn, a physician who has practiced internal medicine in midcoast Maine for more than 40 years, is now semi-retired, though still serving as an attending physician for patients at Quarry Hill in Camden and Knox Center for Long Term Care in Rockland. But researching and writing about medical history is not a new retirement pursuit for him. His interest in the field, in fact, began in medical school at Tufts University School of Medicine in Boston (from which he graduated in 1966). Benjamin Spector, my professor of anatomy, introduced me to the history of medicine. He was active with the American Association of the History of Medicine, which I joined in 1972. And then in 1981 I joined the American Osler Society, which was founded to honor Sir William Osler and his interest in medicine and the humanities. Osler is often referred to as the Father of Modern Medicine. The Osler Society s emphasis on bringing the humanities into medical education particularly resonated with Kahn. Even as a high school student contemplating college, he knew that while he wanted to pursue a career in either teaching biology and physiology or in practicing medicine, he also wanted a liberal arts education. I Continued on back page SUMMER 2016 St. George Sailing For young people ages 9-18 Sessions: July 11-22, July 25-Aug 5, Aug 8-19 Monday through Friday 9 am - 12 pm beginners and younger sailors 1pm - 4pm advanced sailors adult instruction by appointment 207-372-8174 stgeorgesailing@gmail.com www.stgeorgesail.org P.O. Box 435, Tenants Harbor, ME 04860 Where the cultivated meets the wild Fresh, organically-raised vegetables from the Hedgerow gardens Delicious prepared food from Green Bean Catering in the refrigerator and freezer Specialty grocery items Merchandise for home and garden Bulk organic compost, well-aged mulch, and screened loam available 8 Ridge Road in Martinsville (at the corner of Ridge Road and Route 131) 207-372-0655 www.hedgerowdesign.com Our gallery is scheduled to open Saturday, May 28! Open Wednesday through Sunday, 9am-4pm The St. George DRAGON Page 5
Report from Herring Gut Did you know that seaweed can be as nutritious and delicious as other vegetables? Seaweed is so full of minerals and protein that many are calling it the new superfood. In fact, there is so much goodness in seaweed that farming and selling seaweed is becoming a new thriving business in the United States. As students at the Herring Gut Program, we believe seaweed is the new food of the sea. At Herring Gut we have been learning how to grow seaweed as a crop and are now exploring its many uses. What we have discovered is that seaweed has many healing properties and is already used in bath and cosmetics products and it is good for you. Many businesses and restaurants have begun to sell and use seaweed as an ingredient in meals, snacks and seasonings. We started growing seaweed in October 2015. First we extracted the spores from the seaweed and grew them on string in an aquarium. When they were big enough, these lines were wrapped around long rope lines that we designed, built and suspended on buoys in the Herring Gut Pound. We have named our business Long Line Kelp Growers. The kelp is growing slowly but it has come a long way from microscopic cells to long three foot blades. Recently we have started to design a system to dry the seaweed when it is ready to harvest. We still have to decide how we will use it. We are in the middle of deciding how to market our kelp. We are also fixing the pound wall to keep rockweed and trash from coming in. The rockweed floating on the surface keeps sunlight from reaching our kelp so we have to get it out of the pound. PHOTO: Leslie Ferguson Dustin Dean, Jaden Petersdorf, Christopher Mathieson, and Maisie Mathiau were on the pound clean-up crew. We take it out and we are using it as fertilizer on the Herring Gut gardens. While we wait for the kelp to grow, we are helping to raise lobsters. Herring Gut is the home of two female lobsters. One is blue and the other is brownish red colored. The babies from the blue lobster are blue and white. The babies from the brownish red lobster are brownish color. After hatching, the lobsters are put in beakers where they grow until they reach superman stage. This stage is call superman because the lobsters look like superman flying with his hands stretched out. We have to feed them brine shrimp to eat. Then the lobsters are put in trays in separate compartments so they don t eat one another. So far there are over 100 babies. Herring Gut is a fun place to be and learn. This report was prepared by St. George School/Herring Gut students Sadie Davis, Zach Daniello, Maisie Mathiau, Dustin Dean, Chris Mathieson and Jaden Petersdorf. Where in St. George...? Zach Daniello feeds brine shrimp to superman lobsters. PHOTO: Leslie Ferguson CHAMBERS JEWELERS OF THOMASTON Full service jeweler Watch repairs Estate jewelry 166 Main Street Thomaston, Maine 04861 TheVillageJewelerme.com WATCH AND JEWELRY REPAIR 207.354.8500 Wed-Fri 10am-5pm Saturday 10am-2pm Do you know where this is? Email your answer to betsy@ stgeorgedragon.com. The first correct answer wins a free business card-sized ad in The Dragon. Marvon Hupper was the first to identify the location of the egg cooler on Rt. 131. PHOTO: Julie Wortman Page 6 The St. George DRAGON
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Medicine From page 5 love medicine, but the history of medicine also gets you into history, literature, art and other things. It makes medicine more interesting. Kahn managed to maintain an active pursuit of research into the history of medicine throughout his full time career as a clinician. I was always working on one or two papers at the same time. I used to do it at night. I would get home late and then would work until 2am or 3am. As with the Barker manuscript and the many presentations and papers he has prepared based on it over the years Kahn is particularly, though not exclusively, interested in the history of medicine as it pertains to Maine. In 2006, for example, he presented a paper to the American Osler Society titled, The Widow s Island Yellow Fever Quarantine Hospital in Penobscot Bay Maine, 1885-1904: A medical, political and social history. He has also made presentations on such topics as 18th and 19th century medical education in Maine, Medicine in Longfellow s Portland, and a history of hospitals in Rockland. In 1990 he organized a two-day symposium on the History of the Ambulance and the First 20 Years of EMS in conjunction with the Owls Head Transportation Museum. But what especially delights Kahn is uncovering unexpected connections between Maine and seemingly unrelated topics. One such example is his discovery of how a literary society in early 20th century Bangor has a surprising connection to the 1345 manuscript known as The Philobiblon which is about the love of books and how to collect and care for them. Kahn is fond of saying that his pursuit of the history of medicine all these years has been an enthusiasm he can indulge without guilt. Every physician, he explains, has a massive amount of reading to do to keep up with their ever evolving profession. There is just so much to know in medicine, but when I m researching the history of medicine I don t feel guilty because I m still doing medicine. And, more importantly, Kahn believes his work as a clinician has benefitted from looking at medicine from a humanities perspective. The history of medicine has been an important part of my medical life. It brings humility, and humility in medicine is frequently wanting. Those physicians like Barker were doing the best they could with the information they had at the time. And that is what we re doing today. But that doesn t mean that everything we re doing today is going to be right. We have islands of knowledge in a great sea of unknown. JW Stationery, Brochures, Newsletters, Posters, Rack Cards, Post Cards, Print Consulting...To name a few www.camdenprinting.com (207) 236.4112 george@camdenprinting.com COME CHECK OUT OUR NEW LOCATION! 12 MORAN DRIVE, ROCKLAND, ME Page 8 The St. George DRAGON