Waterville’s David O. Solmitz has written a new memoir that mines previously unexplored family history in the context of world calamity.

Sandi Amorello noticed there seemed to be a lot of fellow ‘Girl Scout Dropouts’ out there — and a new social outlet was born.

Tom Perrotta’s new novel explores a world that has been turned upside down.

KENNEBUNK ‘Trust in Art’ auction marks fifth year on Saturday Heartwood College of Art and the Kennebunkport Conservation Trust will partner for the fifth annual “Trust in Art” auction Saturday at Atlantic Hall, Cape Porpoise. Forty southern Maine painters have been invited to paint the Goat Island Lighthouse in celebration of the recent renovations that […]

PORTLAND — The Portland Symphony Orchestra opens its 83rd season with two performances featuring the music of Michael Torke, Beethoven and Brahms, and a guest appearance by pianist Awadagin Pratt. The season opens at 2:30 p.m. Oct. 2 with a concert at Merrill Auditorium under the direction of Robert Moody. The symphony repeats the program […]

If you like the Maine landscape, there isn’t anything better than seeing the real landscape in person. And while it might seem obvious that galleries would thrive in the places visitors go to experience the Maine landscape, having artists lead the way is an often overlooked benefit. That Homer, Hopper, Hartley, the Wyeths and so […]

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