Category: Arts

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
Tom Moore

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Tom Moore and the Midcoast school of wheelbarrow poetry

By Dana Wilde Every Tuesday morning, Belfast’s poet laureate makes his way to the Belfast Free Library, where he holds “office hours.” He doesn’t like the phrase “office hours.” Sounds suspiciously like lectures might be involved. He’s stuck with it, though.  Anyway, a group of poets, of all shapes, sizes,… SEE MORE