HALLOWELL — My position requires that I see a lot of art exhibitions. It’s the part of the job that I enjoy more than any other. I love meeting artists in their studios and seeing where and how they work. But the point of their existence is to produce work, so viewing finished work in […]

Don Snyder tells the story of learning to be a professional caddie for his son and the journey they took while chasing a dream.

Author Gail Anne Rowe will talk about the challenges of growing up in rural Maine as one of 15 family members in a four-room home, as detailed in her book, “The Roots of a Family.” The work describes the character and fabric of hard-working people in Maine during the 1930s, ’40s and ’50s. Refreshments will […]

The director acknowledges the risk involved in taking the franchise in new – but always ‘fun’ – directions.

Now in their 80s and 90s, the girls of Atomic City are no longer in the dark about the jobs they took during the summer of 1943. But back then, as young employees of the Clinton Engineering Works, they knew only a few things for sure about the place they would call home for the […]

The chatter surrounding the project, at a time when gay rights are at the forefront of public debate, is unusually intense.

Americans are famously generous when it comes to helping those in need. One such chapter in our history was an effort to place thousands of homeless and orphaned children from New York into rural homes in the Midwest. From the mid-1800s through the 1920s, the Children’s Aid Society rounded up such kids, shuttled them to […]

Sweetser’s life-altering services for children and adults receive enthusiastic support.