The summer sale at Thomaston Place Auction Galleries include 8 original works by N.C., Andrew and Jamie Wyeth from the late Linda Bean’s estate.
Life & Culture
Stories about life, culture, entertainment and arts from the Portland Press Herald.
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Bob Dylan and Willie Nelson headline Outlaw Music Festival in Bangor
The show on Friday also features Sheryl Crow, Waxahatchee and Madeline Edwards.
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Veggies to Table’s Dîner en Blanc raises substantial seed money
Mainers who can afford to get into a bidding war for a week in a French villa and Mainers struggling to afford food for their families might as well be living in different worlds entirely. Standing in the gap between those worlds is Newcastle resident Erica Berman, who traded in her life as a boutique […]
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Italian stonecutters in Hallowell carved a legacy of industry and labor from granite
‘Working Granite: Italian Stonecutters and their Union’ at the Maine Historical Society highlights one of Maine’s earliest labor unions, started by stone workers in 1877.
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Bestsellers: “How to Read a Book” and ‘Rope’ top local bestseller lists
Here are the week’s top-selling fiction and nonfiction books at Longfellow Books in Portland.
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Award-winning journalist crafts a propulsive climate change thriller in ‘We Can’t Save You’
Native Americans occupy a place of honor in Thomas E. Ricks’ second of a series set in Maine starring a grief-stricken FBI agent.
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He thought he found life on Mars — and sparked an alien craze
‘The Martians’ by David Baron explores how 19th-century businessman and amateur astronomer Percival Lowell fueled speculation that there were canals on Mars.
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Deep Water: ‘Wake Up Body,’ by Lonny Saleeby
Maine poems edited and introduced by Megan Grumbling.
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‘Law & Order’ producer donates $10M to Bar Harbor hospital
Mount Desert Island Hospital announced the donation from Dick Wolf on Wednesday, the largest individual gift in its history.
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A shooting at a Minneapolis Catholic school kills 2 children, injures 17 people
Governor Janet Mills has ordered that the United States and the State of Maine flags be lowered to half-staff until sunset on Aug. 31.