What’s the Word on Maine Street? 5/2/26
From WERU 89.9 FM Blue Hill, Maine Local News and Public Affairs Archives by WERU 89.9 FM Blue Hill, Maine Local News and Public Affairs Archives
May 2, 2026 · 5 min
About this episode
The episode features local literary and visual arts events in Maine, hosted by Sarah Pebworth.
What’s the Word on Maine Street?, hosted by Sarah Pebworth, is a weekly short feature Saturdays at 9:30am looking at local literary and visual arts events and offerings! FMI: winterportopenstage.net mainepotterytour.org colloquydowneast.org operahousearts.org bhpl.net weru.org About the host: Sarah Pebworth leads the steering committee for Word—a Blue Hill Literary Arts Festival, founded in 2017 and held each October. She serves on the boards of the Cultural Alliance of Maine and Lawrence Family Fitness Center YMCA. Since February 2023 Sarah has written “Shared Seas and Common Grounds,” a column published in the Penobscot Bay Press’s Weekly Packet. She and her wife Julie Jo Fehrle live in Blue Hill. Theme music: Ross Gallagher is a bassist who grew up in East Blue Hill, ME, and currently lives between Bath, ME and Brooklyn, NY, where he works with a wide variety of musical artists. Infinite Blues is a cut from his recently released neon night, an excursion into an ambient/electronic musical world built around rhythmic bass ostinatos, clouds of processed looping electronic atmospheres, and melody. By turns both subtle and unapologetically noisy, the songs…
People in this episode
Host: Sarah Pebworth
Topics covered
- local arts
- literary events
- visual arts
- community
- Maine culture
Keywords
- Maine
- literary arts
- visual arts
- community events
- Blue Hill
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: Cultural Alliance of Maine, Lawrence Family Fitness Center YMCA, Penobscot Bay Press, winterportopenstage.net, mainepotterytour.org, colloquydowneast.org, operahousearts.org, bhpl.net, weru.org
Books & works: Shared Seas and Common Grounds, Infinite Blues
Places: Blue Hill, Maine
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