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Downtown Augusta, Maine 8/22/12 Photo by www.mwvid.com

October 03, 2012

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Photo by James Stiles www.mwvid.com

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Secret Augusta Art Treasure

The art served two purposes, Mayers said: It helped patients "to communicate with each other and have fun, and to make the tunnels feel safer." Also, she said, "People were scared to go into the tunnels, and to be able to go there and look at art made it less scary." The tunnels protected patients and staff from Maine's sometimes-hostile weather as they went between the psychiatric hospital's dormitories and support buildings. They also were used for coal, laundry and food service deliveries and are still in use as conduits for utility lines. Desks and boxes are piled up in some portions, and peeling paint dangles from ceilings in older sections. Intersections within the dimly lighted catacombs remain marked by traffic signs pointing to the barber shop, kitchen, canteen, sewing room and other destinations. One mural playfully shows a man with a flowing mop of brown, shaggy hair entering the barber shop, then leaving with his mane neatly buzzed. With the form

Kirschner Meats factory (closed):

The former home of Kirschner Meats' Augusta factory (known locally to many as the "old hot dog plant"). Kirschner made hot dogs and "Honey of a Ham" hams here until the mid-2000s when its then owner closed the plant and moved production of Kirschner products to New York state. The factory has been vacant ever since and is still vacant as of 2009.

Katie Daggett in Concert.

Slates Monday Night Concert Series. Katie Daggett, Roger Sampson (guitars) Bob Colwell (accordion, mandolin, keyboard & guitar),Erik Glockler (bass & backing vocals) & Ginger Cote (drums & backing vocals) We will be playing the songs from Lucinda William's "Car Wheels on a Gravel Road"album...It's gonna be a Fun night!!

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