BOWDOINHAM — The Merrymeeting Arts Center announces its fall 2013 show, “Lincoln and the Gettysburg Address,” featuring Lincoln portraits by the late Carlo Pittore to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the Battle of Gettysburg and the address. The show will open on Nov. 4 at the center adjacent to the river on Main Street. Area […]

BRUNSWICK — The Bowdoin International Music Festival will celebrate the Independence Day holiday today with an all-American program featuring Sen. Angus King as narrator on Aaron Copland’s A Lincoln Portrait. The works of Charles Ives, George Gershwin and Samuel Barber will also be presented. Festival Director Lewis Kaplan on violin, and pianist Peter Basquin will […]

GEORGETOWN — Artist, author, and this year’s Georgetown Citizen of the Year, Dahlov Ipcar, will be signing her “Dahlov Ipcar Full Circle” 2014 calendar at the Georgetown Historical Society at 20 Bay Point Road on Saturday, July 6, from 10 a.m. to noon. Having created hundreds of paintings and other works of art and written […]

BATH — Patten Free Library will host a presentation by Anna Jaeger, a Bath resident and a junior at Hamilton College, on the natural history of Madagascar. The presentation is free, open to the public, and will begin at 4:30 p.m. Tuesday, July 16, in the library’s second floor Community Room. Madagascar is an island […]

WISCASSET — “Roads and Paths,” offering realistic and not so realistic interpretations of the journey by Maine artists, continues at Maine Art Gallery, 15 Warren St. This exhibit runs through July 21. The gallery is open Tuesday through Saturday, 10 to 4 p.m., and Sunday from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. For more information, call […]

BATH — Hyde School is offering two sessions of its Summer Songwriting Workshop, July 8 to 12 and 15-19, from 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. daily. The program for aspiring teen songwriters — grades 9 and older — mirrors a yearlong music course offered by Hyde music teacher and local musician Matt Newberg. What began […]

BRUNSWICK — The 28th annual Summer Organ Concert Series kicks off July 9 for a series of 40-minute noontime concerts on Tuesdays. The series of organ concerts by outstanding organists is played on a 1883 Hutchings Plaisted organ, restored in 2003. Mathias Schmelmer, organist, kicks off the series July 9, followed on subsequent Tuesdays by […]

PHIPPSBURG — Sidwell Art Gallery is having an opening event combined with a performance by Pat Colwell, 1 to 4 p.m. Sunday, July 14. Felicity Sidwell will exhibit painting and the Colwell brothers will provide music.

BATH — At its July 10 meeting, the “By Popular Demand” book group will discuss Geraldine Brooks’ 2006 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, “March.” Brian Stanton, English teacher at Morse High School, will be the guest facilitator. From Louisa May Alcott’s beloved classic “Little Women,” Geraldine Brooks has animated the character of the absent father, “March,” and […]

HARPSWELL — Ocean Waves Quilters will present its 19th annual Quilt Show July 12-14 at the Orr’s Island Schoolhouse. Show hours are Friday and Saturday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Sunday from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Admission is free, but donations are graciously accepted. Ocean Waves Quilters will give a donation to […]