Ann Rockefeller Roberts wrote the book — and has now revised it — telling the story of Acadia National Park’s carriage roads.

Portland artist Nicole Fazio will be at Longfellow Books to sign her book “Journey of the Sea Glass” and meet with folks. The book, with no words, explores how sea glass comes to be. The story focuses on a soda bottle dropped overboard from a ship, and how its fragments turn up on a beach […]

MaineStage Shakespeare doth celebrate a second successful season.

A child’s recollections celebrate human resilience – and break your heart.

The DaPonte String Quartet has an intriguing idea for its final concerts this summer, scheduled for Aug. 22, 26 and 29 at Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens. They’re calling it the “Scandalous Music Festival,” and it will consist of works that caused a furor in their own day as well as ours, from Ravel, Piazzola, Brahms […]

Art “Two Visions,” paintings by Lenora Leibowitz and photo- graphs by Rita Spinella Olsen, 3Fish Gallery, Portland. 3fish gallery.com. Through Aug. 25. “Illustrated Passages,” Maine Art Gallery, Wiscasset. maineartgallery.org. Artists chose a piece of text to accompany their art. Through Aug. 19. “The Draw of the Normandy Coast (1860–1960),” European and American paintings and works […]

Art galleries come in all shapes and sizes. But somewhere in the last century, we all sort of tacitly agreed that an art gallery was a clean, well-lighted space in which one could usually expect to find work that would relate to itself in some sort of series by a single artist. Damariscotta’s Stable Gallery […]

Gorham author Bill Wise has turned the inspirational life story of William Hoy, a deaf ballplayer whose quiet determination made him a success, into a children’s book.