Category: Arts

Kevin Johnson

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Every picture tells a story… when it’s digitized

By Tom Groening In a corner of a windowless brick building on the Penobscot Marine Museum’s Searsport campus, centuries are colliding. It’s where Kevin Johnson, the museum’s photo archivist, works to ensure that images made in the early 20th century right up through the 1980s are turned into digital files, catalogued,… SEE MORE
Henry Buck of Searsport

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Penobscot Marine Museum opens new exhibits

The Penobscot Marine Museum will host a free opening reception and preview of its “Where in the World?” and “Weather or Knot?” exhibits on Friday, May 24, 5-7 p.m. at its gallery at 40 East Main Street in Searsport. The museum opens for the 2019 season the following day. “Where… SEE MORE
Nicholas Paul’s paintings depict how whales are killed.

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Ocean as ‘mother, nurturer’ celebrated in Native art

By Carl Little “The ocean: She is our mother, our nurturer.” So Nancy Oakley, an artist of Mi’kmaq and Wampanoag descent, begins the statement for her piece Hidden Truthin the exhibition “wolankeyutomon: Take Care of Everything” at the Abbe Museum in Bar Harbor (through November). “Will we allow our arrogance to… SEE MORE
The Penobscot Marine Museum campus along Route 1 in Searsport

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Penobscot Marine Museum catalogues Maine collections

Thanks to a grant of $3,886 from the Maine Historical Records Advisory Board, the Penobscot Marine Museum has rehoused and cataloged four collections documenting quintessential 19th and 20th century Maine industries. The collections document the shipping of Maine’s natural resources, the use of Maine built ships in the global trading… SEE MORE

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

By Dana Wilde Agnes Bushell feels lucky to live on the coast of Maine. The natural beauty of the ocean. “That sense of not being closed in,” she says. And the unhurried life in Portland “that enables me to just write.” Bushell could be the most accomplished Maine novelist you’ve… SEE MORE
An early watercolor of a Rockland scene

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Wyeth’s Rockland work jogs memories

By Nancy Griffin 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. A… SEE MORE
Tom Sexton

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In Eastport, a poet of the edges

By Dana Wilde Long ago, when I was a kid growing up in Southern Maine, we made road trips to Massachusetts to visit my father’s family. This was the late 1950s and early ’60s. Route 1 from about New Hampshire turned into a reeling commotion of cars and trucks, diesel… SEE MORE