Ride the Trolley! The Best Way to See Bar Harbor and Acadia National Park! 207 - 288 - 9899 for tickets and information log onto OlisTrolley.com 1 West Street Bar Harbor Marine Room, Ocean Terrace and The Porch Live Music thursday, friday & saturday 5-7pm Dining noon - 9:30 pm 207-967-3331 thecolonyhotel.com 140 Ocean Ave, Kennebunkport, ME Oceanfront Lodging, Dining & Gatherings s e p t e m B e r 2 0 1 8 1 0 5 l l tage Corridor, a project I participated in (track 13 on the audio tour). I have fresh- ly returned from Route 201, or “The Cana- da Road,” a heritage trail that leads to and from French-speaking Quebec, Canada. Along the route, there are panels with bilin- gual translations provided by Sylvie Char- ron, Ph.D. They tell the story of the famous throughway, which Benedict Arnold, first a hero and later a traitor, followed in his deadly, ill-starred wilderness trek through Maine to mount an attack on the British- controlled city of Quebec. r ecent gentrification of the Canada Road now makes it an English-lan- guage event. But the French con- nection, direct to Quebec, has the deeper roots. This “road” tells the story of the bi- lingual traverse of the French heritage peo- ple between Quebec and Maine. Jacquette’s artworks depict many indus- trial sites located throughout the state of Maine. I recently participated in the Port- land Museum of Art and Maine Writers and Publishers’ inaugural event ARTWORD: Ekphrasis at the PMA, “a night of high-energy language as the worlds of poet- ry and visual art intersect.” The event showcased poets reading their verse alongside the artwork that in- spired them. I paid tribute with one I wrote for Jacquette’s Dragon Cement Co., Thom- aston, Maine II. Jacquette’s work began to thrill after she took a flight cross-country in 1969. She was inspired by the view below from the win- dow. In turn, it allows viewers to contem- plate the world at a distance to gain per- spective on the lives lived below. Yvonne Jacquette, for me, was a last- name identification find of a French heri- tage woman artist, and she is in the pan- theon of women I am collecting as a proof of the contributions of the French heritage femmes. ■ RheaCôtéRobbinsistheauthorof do nthePlains,’and editorof eliotro e ren h erita e o en reate. y onne ac uette, empire state Building ii, 2009. oil on can as, 64 1 8 47 7 16 inches. courtesy dc moore gallery, ne york.