The remoteness of Seguinland, a collection of Maine villages, coves and islands, attracted influential artists a century ago.
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Book Review: ‘Doc’ engrossing portrait of pre-legendary Holliday
It seems we can’t get enough of Doc Holliday. A central figure in one of American history’s most retold events — the gunfight at the O.K. Corral — John Henry Holliday has been a key character in dozens of movies and television shows, along with scores of novels, since his death in 1887 of consumption […]
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Arts Planner
• Celebration Barn Theater in South Paris debuts “The Fabulous Problemas” beginning Friday and Saturday and continuing June 10-11. In this new comedy, a renegade trio schemes to make it rich with a life of crime, violence, song and dance. The show stars Amanda Huotari, Daniel Orrantia and Aaron Tucker. Davis Robinson directs. Showtime is […]
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Authors share plans for summer reading
Many want to revisit old favorites, with selections from ‘Moby Dick’ to the latest Bill Bryson.
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Audience Calendar
Art “Imagination Takes Shape: Canadian Inuit Art from the Robert and Judith Toll Collection,” Bowdoin College (Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum), Brunswick. 2 to 5 p.m. today; 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday. Runs through June 9. MFA Thesis Exhibition, Maine College of Art (Institute of Contemporary Art), Portland. www.meca.edu. 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. […]
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Event seeks to ingrain creativity in business
An event at the University of Southern Maine in Portland will answer the question: What happens when you put an art professor and a CEO in a room together? The event, From Imagination to Innovation, will run from 7:30 to 9:30 a.m. Thursday in the University Events Room of USM’s Glickman Family Library on Forest […]
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Society Notebook: Playing with Aire
Theater supporters turn out for a party celebrating Jim Sharkey’s film on AIRE’s 2010 production of ‘Juno and the Paycock.’
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Arts Dispatches
PORTLAND Society to honor designer of museum’s Payson Wing The Portland Society of Architects will present architect Harry Cobb with the 25 Year Building Award for the Payson Wing of the Portland Museum of Art in a ceremony at 6 p.m. June 16 in the museum auditorium. Cobb, who designed the wing, will speak after […]
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Take Heart: A Conversation in Poetry
In this poem for Memorial Day, Bruce Guernsey of Bethel relates the story of a haunted war veteran. Edited by Wesley McNair, Maine poet laureate Night Patrol By Bruce Guernsey My father never slept real well after the war and as my mother tells, he woke in fear so deep, so far away, he seemed […]