Hawk Henries at Jesup Memorial Library
Native American flutist Hawk Henries performs on flutes, digeridoo and kora during a terrific concert at the Jesup Memorial Library in Bar Harbor.
Ellacappella at Jesup Memorial Library 2
Ellacappella gave a terrific concert at the Jesup Memorial Library in Bar Harbor on Sunday, March 30. Eleven voices...no instruments...all fabulous!
Biking the Carriage Roads in Acadia National Park Bar Harbor Maine
Jay and Monika bike in Acadia National Park in Bar Harbor Maine.
Gus LaCasse at the Jesup Memorial Library 3.15.15 (1)
Gus LaCasse performs at the Jesup Memorial Library as part of the Sundays at the Jesup Winter Concert Series.
Gus LaCasse performing Jerry Holland's Lonesome Eyes at the Jesup Memorial Library
Gus LaCasse performs Jerry Holland's lovely air Lonsesome Eyes during his recent concert at the Jesup Memorial Library.
Google Maps Street View Car in Bar Harbor, Maine
Our family finds the Google Maps Street View Car in Bar Harbor, Maine and we get up close and personal. The vacationing Daley's, Dan, Shannon, and Jordan are enjoying a moment with this Google Internet Icon. I love our Down East Maine Road Trips you just never know what you'll find.
Thanks for the tunes Rick -
Bar Harbor Maine 2013
Summer
Gus LaCasse at the Jesup 3 on 3.15.15
Gus LaCasse performs at the Jesup Memorial Library as part of the Sundays at the Jesup Winter Concert Series.
Bar Harbor Sun Rise - GoPro
We took a small vacation in Bar Harbor, Maine this summer. Found a nice spot on Central House 3rd floor staircase and woke up early to capture this beautiful Sun Rise.
Camera : GoPro Hero 3 Silver
Time : From ~4h40 am to ~5h50 am
SlaneyRose Jordan at the Jesup A Privilege to Pee
Bar Harbor native SlaneyRose Jordan returns to the Jesup Memorial Library for a terrific concert of showtunes and standards Jan. 11, 2015. Here she draws laughs from the crowd with A Privilege to Pee from Urinetown.
She'll Be Ridin' on a Donkey
The group performing this song is Fire in the Commons, including Kristina Swanson, Ali Fahrquahr, Hannah Miller, Chester Hardina-Blanchette, and Gray Cox. The performance was at Jesup Memorial Library, Bar Harbor, Maine, on 3/9/18. The lyrics are by Gray Cox, the melody is a variation on the traditional “She’ll be Comin’ Round the Mountain When She Comes”. To contact Fire in the Commons, write gray@coa.edu or call 207-460-1163.
Nicholas Meyer visits UI Main Library - May 20, 2016
The UI Libraries hosts Nicholas Meyer, who was a guest speaker in conjunction with the Main Library Gallery exhibition 50 Years of Star Trek.
Meyer, who is an alumnus of the University of Iowa, directed the movie Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (1982) and contributed to the shooting script for that film (uncredited). He wrote portions of the screenplay for Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home (1986) and went on to direct Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country (1991), for which he also co-wrote the screenplay.
A long-time Sherlockian, Meyer's writing prowess led to a best-selling novel, The Seven-Per-Cent Solution: Being a Reprint from the Reminiscences of John H. Watson, M.D. The novel, crafted by Meyer in a style faithful to the original series, follows Holmes through cocaine addiction and recovery. Meyer received an Oscar nomination for his screenplay of the novel.
Meyer delivers a brief talk, titled The Last Man To Understand Anything. The talk was followed by a Q&A.
Sophie's Wedding Highlights
Bar Harbor, Maine wedding Summer 2010.
Bar Harbor Inn Wedding
Coastal wedding at a historic Maine inn. Seaside ceremony is followed by reception in a grand ballroom. Also features couple pictures on Maine's famous rocky beaches.
Gus LaCasse at the Jesup 4 on 3.15.15
Gus LaCasse performs at the Jesup Memorial Library as part of the Sundays at the Jesup Winter Concert Series.
Sideshow Banner Art Show - low resolution
Sideshow Banner Art Show with paintings by Paul Szauter at the Jesup Memorial Library in Bar Harbor, Maine, April 1-30, 2009. Contact Paul Szauter through memoryelixir.com.
Phoebe Durand at the Jesup Harp Concerto in B flat allegro by G F Handel 3
Bar Harbor native Phoebe Durand performs the Harp Concerto in B flat (Allegro) by G.F. Handle. A terrific concert on Sunday, Feb. 9, 2014.
Joseph McCarthy | Wikipedia audio article
This is an audio version of the Wikipedia Article:
Joseph McCarthy
00:03:28 1 Early life and career
00:06:07 1.1 Military service
00:09:22 1.2 Senate campaign
00:11:16 2 United States Senate
00:13:05 2.1 Enemies within
00:15:27 2.2 The Tydings Committee
00:19:13 2.3 Fame, notoriety, and personal life
00:25:22 2.4 McCarthy and the Truman administration
00:27:41 2.5 Support from Roman Catholics and the Kennedy Family
00:30:26 2.6 McCarthy and Eisenhower
00:34:24 2.7 Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations
00:39:02 2.8 Investigating the Army
00:40:58 2.9 Army–McCarthy hearings
00:45:49 2.10 Edward R. Murrow, iSee It Now/i
00:49:53 2.11 The Joe Must Go recall attempt
00:51:42 2.12 Public opinion
00:51:51 2.13 Censure and the Watkins Committee
00:56:47 3 Final years
01:00:16 3.1 Death
01:02:07 4 Legacy
01:02:58 4.1 Arguments for vindication
01:05:22 4.2 HUAC and SACB
01:07:09 4.3 In popular culture
01:10:59 5 See also
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Joseph Raymond McCarthy (November 14, 1908 – May 2, 1957) was an American politician who served as a Republican U.S. Senator from the state of Wisconsin from 1947 until his death in 1957. Beginning in 1950, McCarthy became the most visible public face of a period in the United States in which Cold War tensions fueled fears of widespread Communist subversion. He is known for alleging that numerous Communists and Soviet spies and sympathizers had infiltrated the United States federal government, universities, film industry, and elsewhere. Ultimately, the smear tactics that he used led him to be censured by the U.S. Senate. The term McCarthyism, coined in 1950 in reference to McCarthy's practices, was soon applied to similar anti-communist activities. Today, the term is used in reference to what are considered demagogic, reckless, and unsubstantiated accusations, as well as public attacks on the character or patriotism of political opponents.Born in Grand Chute, Wisconsin, McCarthy commissioned in to the Marine Corps in 1942, where he served as an intelligence briefing officer for a dive bomber squadron. Following the end of World War II, he attained the rank of major. He volunteered to fly twelve combat missions as a gunner-observer, acquiring the nickname Tail-Gunner Joe. Some of his claims of heroism were later shown to be exaggerated or falsified, leading many of his critics to use Tail-Gunner Joe as a term of mockery.
McCarthy successfully ran for the U.S. Senate in 1946, defeating Robert M. La Follette Jr. After three largely undistinguished years in the Senate, McCarthy rose suddenly to national fame in February 1950 when he asserted in a speech that he had a list of members of the Communist Party and members of a spy ring who were employed in the State Department. In succeeding years after his 1950 speech, McCarthy made additional accusations of Communist infiltration into the State Department, the administration of President Harry S. Truman, the Voice of America, and the U.S. Army. He also used various charges of communism, communist sympathies, disloyalty, or sex crimes to attack a number of politicians and other individuals inside and outside of government. This included a concurrent Lavender Scare against suspected homosexuals (as homosexuality was prohibited by law at the time, it was also perceived to increase a person's risk for blackmail). Former U.S. Senator Alan K. Simpson has written, The so-called 'Red Scare' has been the main focus of most historians of that period of time.
With the highly publicized Army–McCarthy hearings of 1954, and following the suicide of Wyoming Senator Lester C. Hunt that same year, McCarthy's support and popularity faded. On December 2, 1954, the Senate voted to censure Senator McCarthy by a vote of 67–22, making him one of the few senators ever to be disciplined in this fashion. He continued to speak against communism and socialism until his death at the age of 48 at Bethesda Naval Hospital in Bethesda, Maryland on May 2, 1957. His death c ...
A Critique of Star Wars: The Force Awakens - Introduction
This is Part 1 of 6 of a series of videos all about Star Wars: The Force Awakens. We open with a discussion on video essays as a genre and end on the ideas of objectivity and subjectivity.
And in between? well, plenty of Star Wars.
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SFOA Song
Will Kline wrote and sings his SFOA Song, Summer Festival of the Arts, Mount Desert Island, Maine, July 22, 2011. Written in this year's songwriting class.