MACLEOD'S RESTAURANT TO DELIVER RICKSHAW LUNCHES TO DOWNTOWN CUSTOMERS
"Rickshaw Regulars" program inaugurates restaurant's new lunch service

MacLeod's Restaurant on Main Street in Bucksport is partnering with the fledgling Broadway Rickshaw company in that town to provide a unique lunch delivery service. Two days a week, Thursday and Friday, downtown customers are invited to call their lunch orders in to the restaurant by 11:30 am. Andy Tyne and his pedicab will pick their orders up and deliver them to the customer's home or work place.

Broadway Rickshaw offers pedal-powered tours and delivery service via pedicab in downtown Bucksport and Verona Island.
"Broadway Rickshaw is excited about our new partnership with MacLeod's" says owner
Andy Tyne. "Now, instead of just watching the pedicab pass their windows each day, Broadway Rickshaw can serve local businesses directly. And, serving the Bucksport community (tourists, locals, and businesses) is what Broadway Rickshaw is all about."

In 2002, after more than two decades of award-winning lunch service, MacLeod's went to a dinner operation only, but owner George MacLeod says the customers continued to come, even after the doors closed. "For six years I've watched too many customers tug at our locked doors at noon-time. The first question I often get from people I run into is 'when are you going to open for lunch?' The answer came today when after a six year hiatus MacLeod announced the restaurant will be serving lunch Tuesdays - Saturdays, 11:30 - 2:00. MacLeod's will continue to offer dinner service every night from 5 pm.

MacLeod says he knows he's fighting bad news about the economy, but he says after nearly 30 years at the corner of Main and Central, that's nothing new. He plans to build his business on a $4.99 lunch. "We'll offer many of the menu items that put us on the map, but keeping the price down is critical right now. We can do that without sacrificing the quality we're known for".

For more information, please contact George MacLeod 207-944-8771 or Andy and Jen Tyne 207-469-7932

Spend $10 at BookStacks, and present your receipt at MacLeod's to get 10% off lunch! And it goes both ways-- spend ten bucks at MacLeod's and get 10% off your next purchase at BookStacks. Expires July 31, 2008

FILM SYMPOSIUM: Please REGISTER NOW
2008 Ninth Annual Summer Film Symposium: City & Country at Northeast Historic Film, Main Street, Bucksport, Maine

Program below and at http://oldfilm.org/symp_2008

Images and archetypes of the city and the country as seemingly distinct locations and ways of life have remained a potent force in the cultural imagination since the mid 19th century. Even though the transformations of industrial culture and mobility have changed rural and urban landscapes and lifestyles, the ideas and images associated with the City and the Country continues to thrive as traditional poles of modern experience. They are where we anchor the dreams and fears of technology and tradition, and where we are animated by hopes of progress and the comforts of nostalgia. As Raymond Williams noted of this powerful duality, “the contrast of country and city is one of the major forms in which we become conscious of a central part of our experience and of the crises of our society.”

Friday, July 25
Maine and the Rural Imagination in Early Amateur Films, Mark Neumann & Janna Jones, Northern Arizona University
Screening with a focus on gender and amateur filmmaking from Northeast Historic Film collections, Gemma Perretta, Northeast Historic Film
Urbs in Horto: Public Parks, Leisure and Race in Chicago South Side Home Movies, Jacqueline Stewart, Northwestern University
Cinematic Visions of Place: Chicago, Brendan Kredell, Northwestern University
Many Chicagos: Utopian Promises and Urban Ruin in Post War Chicago, Michelle Puetz & Andy Urich, Chicago Film Archives
Screening of 9.5, Keith Wilson, University of Texas
Screenings of City and Country, including film shot in Bucksport in the 1930s, Jay Schwartz, Secret Cinema founder

Saturday, July 26
Cinema’s Speedy Dissemination to the Hinterlands, Paul Spehr, independent scholar
The Vitagraphers Come to Cooperstown, Kathy Fuller-Seely, Georgia State University
Rural Images of Australian Girlhood, Catherine Driscoll, University of Sydney
Screening of amateur films from the University of Georgia Media Archives, courtesy of Margie Compton
Screening, Migration, Displacement and Identity, Andrew Jawitz, University of Southern Maine; Alyce Ornella, Spindleworks; Tim Findlen, Maine documentary filmmaker
Lobster dinner