Lady's Slipper Gallery
Closed Maine Multimedia Art Gallery
Paula & Ernie Smith
Stained Glass - Photography - Woodcarver - Bagpipes

More About Us
We have closed our Gallery but -
The Adventure Continues ! ! !

Our Best To All
Paula & Ernie Smith

Our last real vacation away - The week before we purchased the shop
Celebrating 25th Anniversary - Bon Aire - 1996

And they said: "I bet, they'll never make it"

Now looking at 36 years together we have taken our vacations 1/2 day, a few hours, even a few minutes at a time here on this beautiful island. Sometimes it's been morning walks at sun-up, along the shore path, a quick run over to Seawall or Seal Harbor. Sometimes it's been steamers and beer at one of the pier restaurants or just a leisurely walk around town.

As our posting of business hours used to imply, we still claim a our well known "Maine Independence".
An example of our business hours was: Noon-ish to 9-ish  
Otherwise open when we are ready, closed when we have had enough.
We took a lot of weekends off and closed shop for those weekends.
When we put our "Out To Lunch" sign out it might read something like:
"Out To Lunch - back at 1:00 -ish - If not back by 5:00 - Out to dinner too"!

Introducing
Paula Smith !

Paula has been our very special PR person, coordinator of all our comings & goings
and with all else she does, was the backbone of our little business.

In her spare time Paula  has now completed a STAINED GLASS course.
Paula also owns the secret recipe for the best seafood "chowdah" on the island.

Introducing
Ernie Smith
Maine Woodcarver
Photographer
Bagpiper

Hand Carved / Gold Leaf Signs
Hand carved signs are very time consuming and take a lot of extra effort
so Ernie can only do them on a limited basis in the off season. 
However, smaller "Corner Boards"  (name signs) can be done in a more timely manner. 

What does Ernie do in his spare time you ask? 

He plays the Great Highland Bagpipes (Acadia Piper) and Former Pipe Sergeant of
The West Eden Highlanders Pipes & Drums of Bar Harbor!
Currently Piping with the Anah Highlanders of Bangor, Maine

For information about hiring a bagpiper
for your special occasion,
please visit Ernie's Piping website:
"Acadia Piper"

Another one of Ernie's Handcarved, Driftwood Sculptures

Rockport Opera House June 3rd 1999
Ernie, seen here with Poet Elizabeth Tibbetts, this years winner of the * Live Poets Society's Thanksgiving Award for Voice, has just presented his third annual Sculpture as part of the award. The sculpture is a Lady's Slipper carved from pieces of driftwood attached to a Deer Isle Granite base created by Ernie's nephew, Stone Cutter, * Joe Ranzoni of Bucksport, Maine.
Cassandra Payton (right), Ernie's great niece from Kansas, recently returning from studying in The Ukraine, presented the award speech for Patricia Ranzoni, founder of the award, who could not attend the ceremony. Appropriately, being that the theme for this evening was Russian Poetry, Cassandra presented the first part of the speech in fluent Russian, and then in English.

*More information on "Live Poets Society" and Maine Poetry, please visits Pat Ranzoni's website from our Links Page. 
*For more information on "Ranzoni Stone"  please visit the Ranzoni Stone website from our Links Page.

e-mail - lsg@acadia.net

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Acadia Piper, Ernie Smith, bagpiper, performer, e-mail - ( bagpiper@acadia.net )
Former Pipe Sergeant, West Eden Highlanders, of Bar Harbor, Maine
Currently piping with Anah Highlanders of Bangor, Maine
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