A week before the Maine Forensics Association-sanctioned State Speech Tournament at Brunswick, the Mount Desert Island High School speech team was hard at work, practicing its ensemble piece.
Linnea Erickson, Marisa Prestinari, Caitlin Denegre, Jane Pappas and Malcolm Clough stood in a line, holding scripts adapted from the book “Bikeman,” an epic poem written by New York City journalist Thomas Flynn. The poem …
