Sample, 73, is retiring from performing live after 50 years so he can spend more time on his art, a passion he's pursued all his life. His last Maine show is scheduled for June in Boothbay Harbor.
In the dead of winter, 1776, the patriot pamphleteer Tom Paine issued a ringing support for his fellow revolutionaries. The first shots of the Revolution had been fired at Lexington and Concord in the ...