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  • art from Abbe museum
    May 13

    Ocean as ‘mother, nurturer’ celebrated in Native art

    Co-curators Norma Jean Saulis and Allan (Duck) Saulischose the work of nine indigenous artists living in New England and the Canadian Maritimes. Their work often delivers a compelling message.

    Carl Little

    Media

  • Fathoming header
    April 18

    Rising seas and the power of laughter

    The initial human response to a threat is to turn away from it…

    Kate Tagai

    Media

  • Museum from the air
    April 17

    Penobscot Marine Museum catalogues Maine collections

    The Penobscot Marine Museum has rehoused and cataloged four collections documenting quintessential 19th and 20th century Maine industries...

    Media

  • Agnes Bushell
    April 16

    The Maine coast’s best novelist you’ve never heard of

    Bushell was a founder of the Maine Writers and Publishers Alliance, and began teaching writing and literature at the Portland School of Art.

    Dana Wilde

    Media

  • Melissa Olson
    April 16

    Islesboro librarian tackles thorny question with Rose

    “There are so many questions. There are too many irregularities.”

    Tom Groening

    Media

  • Suhail Bisharat
    April 16

    Art in the Middle East: How a national gallery was built

    “Artists felt they were being recognized for the first time.”

    Tom Groening

    Media

  • An early watercolor of a Rockland scene
    February 5

    Wyeth's Rockland work jogs memories

    The late Andrew Wyeth, one of America’s most famous artists, is well-known for his Maine paintings of people and scenes from Port Clyde to Cushing. He is less known for Rockland paintings, but they exist and are on display through February at the Farnsworth Art Museum.

    Media

  • Tom Sexton
    January 28

    In Eastport, a poet of the edges

    Tom Sexton and his wife, Sharyn, drive from Alaska to Maine every other fall, spend the winter at their house in Eastport, then drive back to Alaska, where Tom worked more than 25 years as a poet and professor.

    Dana Wilde

    Media

  • Wayfarer, by James Rockefeller
    January 22

    Adventures on the sea, adventures of the heart

    Rockefeller soon gave himself over to a dream of sailing around the world. An early stop was Cumberland Island, the southernmost of Georgia’s Golden Isles...

    Tina Cohen

    Media

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