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Category: Arts

SaltWater Cure

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Building community by starting small

The music blasting from the preschool alternated between the Islands and Mamma Mia! soundtracks. The cast of Little Women, our fall show, sang along as they got into costume, makeup, and hair in the Waterman’s preschool, our de facto green room. There were 13 of them, plus a handful of… SEE MORE
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Babb’s The Iron Works (1977, oil on panel, 36 x 48 in. collection of Janet Starr).

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Joel Babb’s BIW

Over its nearly 130-year existence, Bath Iron Works has also attracted artists. SEE MORE
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Detail ofA Kosti Ruohomaa photograph made at Freeport’s L.L. Bean. PHOTO: COURTESY PENOBSCOT MARINE MUSEUM

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Ruohomaa featured in Freeport

Kosti Ruohomaa was a prominent mid-20th century photojournalist who grew up in Rockland. SEE MORE
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Calling island artists, writers, creative spirits

The Island Reader, a creative arts anthology published annually by the Island Outreach program of Maine Seacoast Mission, is accepting submissions for its 2023 edition. SEE MORE
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Mystery Tusk

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A mammoth in Maine

Hoyle takes us through the high and low points of the project, the bureaucratic hoops and funding barrels. His dedication to the project is perhaps exemplified by his volunteering for a dinosaur dig in Montana... SEE MORE
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A Fixed White Light

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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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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
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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
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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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Catch

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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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