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A well-deserved poetic tribute

Wedmore brings these women alive with vivid descriptions of their experiences and their emotional underpinning. SEE MORE

Port Clyde, 1993, by Malcolm Morley (oil on canvas, 38 by 52 inches Private collection, Maine). Copyright the estate of Malcolm Morley.

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Malcolm Morley’s Port Clyde collage

An artist with a checkered past—he served time in a U.K. reform school and prison before finding his way to art school and subsequent fame as a painter in New York City—Morley became a U.S. citizen in 1991 at age 60. SEE MORE

The shadows of two boys whose futures lay in the marine industry are visible in this photo, circa 1948, along with a lobster boat being dragged to its winter home at Snow Marine Basin. PHOTO: PENOBSCOT MAINE MUSEUM COLLECTION

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A future in boats and photos

After World War II, Bert Snow and Maurice McKusick partnered with Alfred Storer and Ralph Cowan to develop the Snow Marine Basin at the site of an old lime kiln... SEE MORE

Bernard Henderson poses with his smelting shack on the Sasanoa River in 1962. PHOTO: MAINE MARITIME MUSEUM

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A traditional winter fishery in decline

A resident of Phippsburg, he set up his shack on the Sasanoa River between the towns of Woolwich and Arrowsic SEE MORE

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Mouth-watering recipes for a cause

Whole meals can be constructed, appetizers to dessert, with mixed drinks thrown in. SEE MORE

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Lucy at sea in pandemic times

Lucy is back in New York City after several trips with William, her ex- and the father of their two grown daughters. It is March of 2020. SEE MORE

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Girl from the hill country makes good

Though Rockefeller’s life had ranged from West Virginia to Connecticut, where he mother had remarried, and then to Michigan, a twist brought her to Maine. SEE MORE

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The full Nelson

Nelson’s riff on the Cape Racer sled is equally memorable. The sound of it sliding prompts him to consider “a hidden extinction,” namely, “the lost sounds familiar in former times.” SEE MORE

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Meanwhile, down on the gentleman’s farm…

Barrette’s knowledge of garden vegetables, fruits, and flowers is not that of recently retired hobbyist. Though born in the U.S. in 1897, he was raised in England, and much of his understanding of farm life seems to have come from that upbringing. SEE MORE

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A radio reporter’s bad static

Where Gillian Burnes got the name “Coralie Threlfell” for the narrator of her novel, Soft Features, I don’t know. But it rings exactly true for a public radio reporter. SEE MORE