The Beer + Wine = Water event helps Maine engineers make sure people in Ghana have a clean source to drink from.

Juried exhibitions such as the 2012 Biennial at the Center for Maine Contemporary Art in Rockport tend toward one or the other end of a spectrum featuring inclusively comprehensive chaos at one pole and rarified refinement at the other. It takes initial restraint for jurors to exclude entries — but this has the ironical effect […]

Those who enjoyed Ingrid Grenon’s previous volume, “Lost Maine Coastal Schooners: From Glory Days to Ghost Ships” will be generally pleased by her latest entry, “Down East Schooners and Shipmasters,” which is propelled by the same nostalgic passions and interests. The new adventure finds the Maine-born Grenon aboard the Maine-built schooner Lewis R. French, now […]

Two years before they got married, Julie Richard and her husband, Ed Buonvecchio, came to Maine for vacation. Their travels brought them to Camden, where the couple purchased a set of Maine-made wedding rings. They put those rings to good use when they wed in 1994. Ever since, the couple has appreciated Maine’s creative community. […]

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Art “Weatherbeaten: Winslow Homer and Maine,” 35 major oils and watercolors, Portland Museum of Art. portlandmuseum.org. Through Dec. 30. “Wearable Art,” jewelry, clothing and accessories by a wide array of Maine artists, Markings Gallery, Bath. 443-1499. Through Oct. 31. “Rocks Pebbles Stones,” recent paintings by Susan Myer Riley, plus work by Travis Roy, North Yarmouth […]

USM professor Robert Atkinson continues to help people reach for their potential with a new book about getting to know our deepest selves.