Articles
Monhegan in image and verse
Monhegan Come Again by Richard C. Moore, with foreword by Earle G. Shettleworth, Jr. Pawtuckaway Publishers, 2014. 96 pp. Softbound, $29.95 Island Voices II, Poetry of Monhegan Kennebunk: Stone Island Press, 2014. 52 pp. Softbound, $14.95 This year, the quadricentennial of Captain John Smith’s first visit to Monhegan is being marked and memorialized in many
Natural history: ‘Take nobody’s word for it’
Deep Things Out of Darkness: A History of Natural History By John Anderson University of California Press, 2013. In the preface to this altogether remarkable book, John Anderson, the William H. Drury Professor of Ecology and Natural History at College of the Atlantic, relates how, as the sole undergraduate in a mammalogy course at Berkeley
‘Shells, fish, shellfish’ inspire art
Let’s get the punning out of the way, pronto: Eric Hopkins is a shellfish artist. To be more precise, he is a renderer, in many mediums, of shells and fish and shellfish, as the title of his show at the Penobscot Marine Museum in Searsport, “Eric Hopkins: Shells—Fish—Shellfish,” puts it. And this fact may well
‘Visit with Ashley Bryan’ opens at Islesford center
ISLESFORD — Established in 2013, the Ashley Bryan Center is dedicated to preserving, celebrating and sharing the work of the world-renowned island artist and author and “his joy of discovery, invention, learning, cultural understanding and community.” As part of its outreach, this summer the center is offering “A Visit with Ashley Bryan” at the Islesford
George Daniell: ‘The Ramps of Monhegan, Maine’
Born in Yonkers, New York in 1911, George Daniell began making black-and-white photographs using a folding Kodak camera he received on his 12th birthday (on a trip to Europe in 1933 he switched to a more versatile Leica). In his teens he attended the Grand Central Art School in New York City where he drew
Bill Moss: Fabric Artist & Designer
In 1994, Moss Inc. moved its home from the Millville section of Camden to the former Journal Press building on Route 1 in Belfast, thereby becoming a landmark along that stretch of coastal Maine highway. As explained by Moss Inc.’s president Marilyn Moss in the Dec. 17-18, 1994, edition of the Bangor Daily News, the
Nature Wars: The Incredible Story of How Wildlife Comebacks Turned Backyards into Battlegrounds.
What happens when beavers, turkeys, white-tailed deer, bear and Canada geese settle in your neighborhood in increasing numbers, damming ponds, damaging farms, spreading Lyme disease, raiding garbage cans and defecating on the 18th green? Award-winning journalist Jim Sterba turns to military terms to describe the ensuing conflicts, the wars taking place and battlegrounds being established
Bees do it, artists do it–let’s do it, let’s pollinate
With the news filled with stories of bees struggling to survive, “Pollination: Evolving Miracles” at the Atrium Art Gallery in Lewiston could not be timelier. Here is an opportunity to connect with the creatures that keep the flowers blooming, the fruit trees bearing and summer days humming and buzzing. And it’s not just bees: moths,
Black and white raker blues
The Raker’s Progress: Photographs by David Brooks Stess The lives of Mainers have inspired some of the finest documentary photographers America has produced. A short list would include Berenice Abbott, Kosti Ruohomaa, Madeleine de Sinéty and Susan Meiselas. The work of these and other photographers has been marked by an earned authenticity: they lived among
Kinship with the Kennedys in Mexico, Maine
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.