Arts & Entertainment

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May 19, 2013

Society Notebook: Care in action

Sweetser's life-altering services for children and adults receive enthusiastic support.
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May 19, 2013

Author Q&A: Father and son explore new links

Don Snyder tells the story of learning to be a professional caddie for his son and the journey they took while chasing a dream.
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May 19, 2013

In Boothbay Harbor, good opera-house keeping

Thanks to a coterie of adoring supporters, the restored and revitalized Opera House at Boothbay Harbor has risen to prominence on the national scene.
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May 19, 2013

HBO Liberace film goes ‘Behind the Candelabra’

The chatter surrounding the project, at a time when gay rights are at the forefront of public debate, is unusually intense.
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May 19, 2013

Bob Keyes: Job well done? Jury still out

HALLOWELL — My position requires that I see a lot of art exhibitions. It’s the part of the job that I enjoy more than any other. I love meeting artists in their studios and seeing where and how they work. But the point of their existence is to produce work, so viewing finished work in […]

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May 19, 2013

MECA show portends good things for MEart

The unsung – but very real – depth of Maine’s art education communities has a somewhat strange effect on Maine College of Art. As the apparent crown jewel, MECA’s reputation enjoys a certain sparkle. The flip side is that this raises expectations. You might think a Master of Fine Arts show comes after all the […]
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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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