Karen E. Smith is the new executive director of the Penobscot Marine Museum in Searsport.

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New director at Penobscot Marine Museum hails from Iowa

The Penobscot Marine Museum, a history and arts museum with nationally-recognized collections, has named Karen E. Smith, as executive director, effective April 19. Smith joins the museum from the Cedar Falls Historical Society, where she served as executive director for six years. “After a thorough and deliberate national search process,… SEE MORE
Joel Clement speaks in Falmouth.

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Maine native battles Trump on climate resilience

When you are young and you’ve done something that has you pumped, it’s often your parents’ reaction that sobers you up. This is true, scientist Joel Clement found out, even when you’re middle-aged. Clement, the former director of the U.S. Interior Department’s Office of Policy Analysis, took on the Trump… SEE MORE
The Murphy house at its current location.

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Saving a fisherman’s humble home

Ninety-three years ago, fisherman John Murphy and his wife, Pearl, moved into their new 12-foot by 15-foot house in the village of Sebasco in Phippsburg near present-day Anna’s Water’s Edge Restaurant. This year, after 16 years of fundraising and restoration, the town of Phippsburg hopes the Murphy home gets a… SEE MORE