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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
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Category: Arts
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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
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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
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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
