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Birchbark canoes making a comeback

The full-sized, birchbark canoe on display at the Peabody Museum in Cambridge, Mass. is both rare and old. Purchased from Penobscot Indian Francis Sebattis in 1912, it was most likely used to guide sportsmen along Maine’s waterways. These canoes once were ubiquitous in Maine, and they were an integral part… SEE MORE

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Maine Boats, Homes & Harbors show this weekend in Rockland

In addition to nearly 50 new exhibitors, the Maine Boats, Homes & Harbors Show has assembled a varied flotilla of new events and displays for the 13th annual event, which runs Aug. 14-16 on the waterfront in Rockland. While regular attendees have come to count on displays of fine boats in… SEE MORE

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Writer, filmmaker Peter Davis reads from first novel in Castine Aug. 6

CASTINE — Maine Maritime Academy’s Department of Arts and Sciences will host writer, filmmaker and Castine resident Peter Davis reading from his new novel Girl of My Dreams at 7 p.m. on Thursday, Aug. 6 at BIW Auditorium on the college campus. The novel follows the adventures and misadventures of a young screenwriter who comes of age… SEE MORE

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‘Luminous Maine’: The photographs of Louis Cabot

Photographer Louis W. Cabot is exhibiting canvas prints of his photographs of the Maine coast at Archipelago Fine Arts Gallery from Aug. 15 through Sept. 7, with an opening reception with the photographer on Aug. 15, 5-7 p.m. Archipelago and the Island Institute invite the public to join them for an evening of great food, wine… SEE MORE

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Oil, water and poorly considered science mix in Destiny

Reviewed by Tina Cohen The cover of Carl Howe Hansen's first novel presents some powerful allusions. The photograph by Peter Ralston features what we can assume is the book’s Pine Island, a typical Maine island of granite and spruce with raw exposure to the elements, a resistance to being tamed.… SEE MORE

Archipelago's assistant manager Frances Holdgate shows off Richard Robertson's ceramic work.

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Store serving island artists marks 15th anniversary

The challenges of living on an island are many, but for an island artist, there is one more: getting your work recognized off-island. But a shop and gallery on the mainland has made it its mission to help island artists—and Maine’s mainland artists, too—earn a living from their art. Archipelago,… SEE MORE

A photo of Bishop that appeared in a 1994 New York Times review of One Art: Letters

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‘Master’ poet Elizabeth Bishop had North Haven connection

By Carl Little —To have no personal moods at all, to have only the same moods that the weather has here on North Haven Island—that would be the (perfect) temperament, for the rest of life the rest of life…. When the poet Elizabeth Bishop’s letters were published in 1994,… SEE MORE

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Pretty wood, pretty tones— Peter Gallant builds violins with unusual woods

WOOLWICH – Peter Gallant didn’t grow up in a musical household in Lawrence, Mass., but the electrical designer remembers going into music stores and staring at the stringed instruments. There was a variety in how guitars looked, he noticed, but the violins all looked the same. Today, Gallant, 57, is… SEE MORE

This untitled photograph by Kosti Ruohomaa shows Andrew Wyeth and Alvaro Olson at a hayrack.

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Andy and Kosti meet again

By Carl Little The Andy in the title of the exhibition "Andy and Kosti" at the Farnsworth Art Museum (through Nov. 1) is Andrew Wyeth (1917-2009), one of America's foremost realist painters who found his muse along Maine's Midcoast. Kosti is Kosti Ruohomaa (1913-1961), the photojournalist who gained renown… SEE MORE

A barber trims hair aboard a vessel out of Thomaston

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Statewide photo album includes Swan’s Island, Monhegan

By Laurie Schreiber On Swan's Island, Mary L. (Mamie) Torrey was an inquisitive and determined soul. Born in 1876, her mother died when she was 9. Unable to attend more than three years of school, she was homeschooled by her father, a mariner who lost a leg in an accident… SEE MORE