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SUMMARY:The Last One Out of Town Turn Out the Lights
DESCRIPTION:David Albee will highlight high school basketball at tourney
  time at the Cross Center and mark the 50th anniversary of Foxcroft Acad
 emy’s amazing run at winning the only state basketball championship in
  the school's history.\n\nThis story began with a fifth-grade student in
  Monson dreaming of someday leading his high school team to a state cham
 pionship who grew to be 6-foot-8 and instead led another town’s high s
 chool to a state title. There are funny and sad stories along the way we
 aved with a nostalgic look at high school basketball in rural Maine incl
 uding the impact it has on the community that in this case inspired one 
 jovial man to create a large plywood sign that became the title for this
  book.\n\nDavid will show photographs during the event.\n\nAbout the Boo
 k\, "The Last One Out of Town Turn Out the Lights"\nOne small town’s p
 ain is another small town’s gain as a soul-crushing school consolidati
 on connects a tall\, star player from Southeast Monson to a young\, driv
 en coach that leads to Foxcroft Academy’s first and only Maine state b
 asketball championship in 1975 in the school’s 200-year history. The d
 ubious path to a coveted Gold Ball dribbles through a turbulent time in 
 the 60s and 70s and a series of gut-wrenching decisions that ultimately 
 create team chemistry and a plywood sign that capsulate a rural communit
 y starved for a winner.\n\nAbout the Author\nDave Albee\, a 1972 graduat
 e of Foxcroft Academy voted “Most School Spirited” as a senior in th
 e school yearbook\, was an award-winning sportswriter and sports columni
 st for 35 years at five newspapers in four states from Maine to Californ
 ia.\n\nDespite covering some of the world’s biggest sporting events\, 
 teams\, and players during the past five decades\, it is Foxcroft’s fi
 rst and only state basketball championship season that Dave covered for 
 his hometown Observer in 1974-75 that served as the inspiration for his 
 book — “The Last One Out Of Town Turn Out The Lights.” That one se
 ason is deeply personal to Dave compared to all the college and professi
 onal sports seasons he has experienced. Dave was born and raised in Dove
 r-Foxcroft and competed in football\, basketball\, and baseball at Foxcr
 oft Academy. The bit of serendipity at the local grocery store provided 
 the opportunity to witness and now write about the 1975 state championsh
 ip season on its 50th anniversary.
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LOCATION:Bangor Public Library
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