June/July 2006

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Coming Out Party

Lifestyle: Sightings

Bangor Metro photo of the Bangor Garden Show
Bangor Beautiful's annual Bangor Garden Show preview night is proof positive that spring has sprung.
“I can’t believe all the people that I know here,” says a woman between bites of a delicious-looking hors d’oeuvre. “It’s like Bangor’s coming out party.” That’s Preview Night all right. For 16 years, Bangor Beautiful has put on the much-anticipated Bangor Garden Show, and Preview Night is its chance to raise some extra money while giving spring-hungry attendees a glimpse of the garden show before the big crowds arrive.

Once again, Bangor Auditorium looked mighty fine, gussied up with all that color. This year, talented area landscape professionals created a little Appalachia, a scene with a waterfall and Indian teepee, suburban lawnscapes, bonsai landscapes, even a small kingdom governed by gnomes and nymphs. The place smelled mighty fine, too, with tempting culinary delights, prepared on-site by some of the area’s best chefs and caterers. It even sounded fine, with piano/trumpet duo Brian Catell and Brian Nadeau jamming in one corner, and singer/guitarist John Tercyak serenading in another
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Over 600 people enjoyed first dibs on the merchandise of area vendors, including large landscape equipment, garden-oriented clothing and jewelry, locally grown and preserved food, and, of course, landscaping pros, ready and able to cure the many attendees with spring fever.

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