If you grew up in New England, chances are high that an invisible woman worked in your family kitchen. She traveled in a well-worn book that was never far from your mother’s side. And her name was a familiar one — Fannie Farmer, creator of the “Boston Cooking School Cook Book,” first published in 1896. […]

Supporters of One Longfellow Square celebrate the new directions the Portland music venue can take as a nonprofit organization.

Jerry Genesio, a Bridgton resident who’s published three books in the last 14 years, ventures into historical fiction in his most recent work. Based on documents and his own careful research, “Stoking the Embers of War” describes a tragic miscarriage of justice that happened in Portland 221 years ago. It’s the story of the trial […]

The photographs of Ruth Sylmor in a joint show at Addison Woolley Gallery in Portland have the smooth texture of a Paris I remember — or think I remember. They bolster my regard for the city and contribute to the nostalgia I feel for what, in my eyes, it once was. Paris is entitled to […]

Abstraction is hardly the mainstay of Down East painting. Yet, most abstract painting has a fundamental foot in a space it shares with the historic best of Maine painting: a deeply Romantic respect for personal vision and experience. Optical painting — by which I mean Op-Art and its cousins — just happens to be more […]

More than a half-century ago, Jimmy Driftwood wrote a song about a man and his horse, “Tennessee Stud,” that told the story of a man’s lost love, travels and adventures with the horse, and eventual happy ending with his sweetheart. Inspired by the song, Thomas Fox Averill, a professor at Washburn University in Topeka, Kan., […]