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May 19, 2013

Book Review: Orphan finds connection amid longing

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 […]
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May 19, 2013

Signings, etc.: Gail Anne Rowe

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 […]
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May 19, 2013

Book Review: The lively women who helped build the A-bomb

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 […]
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May 19, 2013

Westbrook gallery presents ‘A Beautiful Balancing act’

WESTBROOK — Saccarappa Art Collective Gallery, located at 861 Main St., is presenting work from Susan Wilder, Jim Flahaven and other member artists in an exhibition, “A Beautiful Balancing act,” which is scheduled to run through June 26. Wilder, a painter in water-based media and dean of admissions at Heartwood College of Art, is headlining […]
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May 19, 2013

Best-sellers

FICTION HARDCOVER 1. “The One-Way Bridge,” by Cathie Pelletier (Source Books) 2. “On Sal Mal Lane,” by Ru Freeman (Graywolf) 3. “White Dog Fell from the Sky,” by Eleanor Morse (Viking) 4. “Inferno,” by Dan Brown (Doubleday) 5. “The Flamethrowers,” by Rachel Kushner (Scribner) 6. A Delicate Truth,” by John le Carre (Viking) 7. “The […]

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May 19, 2013

Take Heart: A Conversation in Poetry

Edited and introduced by Wesley McNair, Maine poet laureate. Alice Persons is a poet from Westbrook and a founding editor of Moon Pie Press, which has just released its 71st volume of poetry. In her poem for this week, “Stealing Lilacs,” she suggests that some thefts can be forgiven. Stealing Lilacs By Alice Persons A […]
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May 12, 2013

Author Q&A: A woman walks into a bar and finds community and culture

Thousands of hours of research give columnist Rosie Schaap stories about being a woman who frequents bars.
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May 12, 2013

Admiring how glacier sculpted Maine

HINCKLEY – The L.C. Bates Museum will present its summer art exhibition, “Gift of the Glacier: The Maine Landscape,” a collection of work from 23 artists portraying Maine’s landscape and geology. The exhibit opens Wednesday and runs through Oct. 15 at the museum on Route 201 in Hinckley. The show celebrates the beauty of Maine. […]
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May 12, 2013

Bob Keyes: At the Maine College of Art, good things come in fives

Graphic designer Sarah Mohammadi earned her degree from Maine College of Art on Saturday, capping an educational experience that she hopes will yield travel abroad and the chance to work professionally overseas. She got some real-world experience by pitching in with MECA’s recent design process that resulted in a new logo for the Portland art […]
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May 12, 2013

Calendar: Your Arts and Entertainment Guide

Art Philip Barter, new oil paintings and constructions in wood, Gleason Fine Art, Portland. gleasonfineart.com. Through June 29. “Voices of Design — 25 Years of Architalx,” interactive exhibition that showcases the power of design, through May 19; “Blueberry Rakers,” photographs by David Brooks Stess, through May 19; “A Taste of Modernism — The William S. […]

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