ROCKLAND — Archipelago Fine Arts Gallery, 386 Main Street, invites the public to two receptions for "In Pursuit of Coastal Light," a spring show of work by Gary Hoyle of Swan's Island and Andrea Peters of East Boothbay. The show will run through May 31, with the first reception scheduled for Friday, May 3 from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. during the season's first Arts in Rockland (AIR) First Friday Artwalk. The second reception will be on Friday, May 24, also 5-8 p.m. ...
When We Were the Kennedys. A Memoir from Mexico, Maine, by Monica Wood
"The bulk of this story," novelist Monica Wood writes in her author's note, "…results from my having been an observant child living in a vibrant place and time."
The place is Mexico, Maine, in the western mountains, and the time is 1963. ...
ROCKLAND — Archipelago Fine Arts Gallery, 386 Main Street, invites the public to two receptions for "In Pursuit of Coastal Light," a spring show of work by Gary Hoyle of Swan's Island and Andrea Peters of East Boothbay. The show will run through May 31, with the first reception scheduled for Friday, May 3 from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. during the season's first Arts in Rockland (AIR) First Friday Artwalk. The second reception will be on Friday, May 24, also 5-8 p.m. ...
ROCKLAND — Archipelago Fine Arts Gallery, 386 Main Street, invites the public to two receptions for "In Pursuit of Coastal Light," a spring show of work by Gary Hoyle of Swan's Island and Andrea Peters of East Boothbay. The show will run through May 31, with the first reception scheduled for Friday, May 3 from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. during the season's first Arts in Rockland (AIR) First Friday Artwalk. The second reception will be on Friday, May 24, also 5-8 p.m. ...
Penobscot Bay is a distinctive estuary, easily recognized even in a photo taken from space. According to a recent study, it is "the largest, most ecologically diverse, island-filled bay in the Gulf of Maine."
Yet the people who live in the two-dozen towns that rim the bay do not see themselves as part of a single region, nor is there any unifying government or leadership group. And that lack of cohesion and identity will hinder efforts to combat some sobering demographic trends. ...
Confession time: I grew up five hours from the nearest ocean. Apart from a wonderful semester with the Williams Mystic program studying intertidal organisms, Moby Dick and coastal property disputes, I didn't know much about the sea. I certainly didn't know I'd be moving to the middle of it.
In my hometown, nobody thinks about the tide. One of the biggest dangers you face in Cazenovia Lake is scraping against a zebra mussel (to be fair, I still have a scar). ...
America’s shores have been colonized three times over. First there were the people from Asia, who arrived by migrating along our western shores. Then came the Europeans, who arrived by ship. Most recently, there has been the massive colonization from the interior, which has so completely transformed the shore as to threaten its nature and obliterate its history.
We now have in New England what John Cheever called "a second coast... of gift and antique shops... ...
America’s shores have been colonized three times over. First there were the people from Asia, who arrived by migrating along our western shores. Then came the Europeans, who arrived by ship. Most recently, there has been the massive colonization from the interior, which has so completely transformed the shore as to threaten its nature and obliterate its history.
We now have in New England what John Cheever called "a second coast... of gift and antique shops... ...
PORTLAND – In sports, the team that comes so close to winning it all can rightly say, "Wait 'til next year!" In politics — at least at the national level — it's more of "once and done."
But Eliot Cutler, an entrepreneur who has worked at the corporate level of the economy after an early career working for the Carter administration, has been a presumptive front-runner since his close second place showing in the gubernatorial race in 2010. ...
If you grew up on an island anywhere in America, or along any remote rural coastline, you can relate to one of Jenny’s Cirone's pithy observations.
Jenny was a crusty, independent Maine woman from Cape Split, South Addison, an out-of-the-way Downeast fishing harbor roughly half way between Pigeon Hill Bay and Mossabec Reach—in other words, if you have to ask, you can’t get there. ...
