This is Gibbons’s second poetry collection focusing on the town that is his home, and also home to Palace Playland, a famous pier, pizza, fries and a sandy 7-mile beach that unfolds, arc-like ...

“Old Orchard’s Palace” is available through local bookstores and online from Littoral Books. Off Radar takes note of poetry and books with Maine connections the first Friday of each month.

Youngsters enjoy one off the rides at Palace Playland, an amusement park in Old Orchard Beach, Maine, Tuesday, July 22, 2025.

Keith Willett, the lifeguard captain at Old Orchard Beach, said this year his lifeguard team is almost at full staff. If it fills up, he said, it would be the first time in five years they have ...