Speakers at a Blaine House tea said every Maine community could use a midwife like historical figure Martha Ballard.
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Posted inArts & Entertainment, Maine
Maine filmmakers explore 1970s disco backlash
Lisa Quijano Wolfinger and Rushmore DeNooyer, of Lone Wolf Media in South Portland, made the new documentary “The War on Disco,” airing Monday on PBS.
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Posted inArts & Entertainment, Books, Review
A stirring guide to the great Dutch painters
In ‘The Upside-Down World,’ Pulitzer Prize winner Benjamin Moser combines biography, art criticism and touches of memoir.
Posted inArts & Entertainment, Books
Bedside Table: ‘To The Uttermost Ends of the Earth’ by Phil Keith with Tom Clavin
Book recommendations from readers.
Posted inMaine Voices, Opinion
Maine Voices: Years of inhumanity to Palestinians have inhuman consequences
Hamas’ slaughter of Israeli civilians follows 75 years of the killing of Palestinian civilians and nearly two decades of an embargo that keeps Palestinians from getting food and medication.
Posted inOp-eds, Opinion
Commentary: Maine will be a valuable partner to an independent Greenland
The world’s largest island is in the process of seceding from Denmark. Some Mainers will have front-row seats to this instructive process.
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Darrell Hartman’s new book promises a sensational story, and it delivers
In ‘Battle of Ink and Ice,’ Arctic explorers Robert Peary and Frederick Cook face off again, accompanied by newspaper accounts that devote many juicy inches to their rivalry,
Posted inArts & Entertainment, Books
Bedside table: ‘Band of Brothers’ by Stephen E. Ambrose
Book recommendations from readers.
Posted inAmerican Journal
$100,000 donation readies Harris House for restoration
The funding from the Cornelia Warren Community Association allows work to begin to repairing the exterior of the future museum.
Posted inMaine Voices, Opinion
Maine Voices: Yearning for unity in my adopted country
As I get older, I find it frustrating to witness the gradual erosion of the trust Americans reserved for their government and their pride in their democracy and rule of law.