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February 3, 2013

Book Review: Novelist takes new tack with sailing memoir

After reading the cover hype about novelist Stuart Woods’ nonfiction “Blue Water, Green Skipper: A Memoir of Sailing Alone Across the Atlantic,” I almost took a pass on reviewing it. Consider this flap boast: The author “had never owned more than a ten foot plywood dinghy, when he decided to take on one of the […]
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February 3, 2013

Typewriters making a return

It’s an Apple/HP world out there, and yet ... among a small but growing number of key players, names like Olivetti and Underwood are PC once again. Word.
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February 3, 2013

Signings, etc.

BILL ROORBACH
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February 3, 2013

Society Notebook: Slam dunk

Scores turn out when the Red Claws host Business After Hours.
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February 3, 2013

Calendar

Art “Between Past and Present: The Homer Studio Photographic Project,” contemporary photography made with historic processes, through Feb. 17; Lois Dodd: “Catching the Light,” career retrospective — 1955-2012 — for the Maine painter, through April 7; and “Voices of Design” — 25 Years of Architalx, interactive exhibition that showcases the power of design, through May […]

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February 3, 2013

Farnsworth to unveil ‘American Treasures’

ROCKLAND – The Farnsworth Art Museum’s upcoming exhibition season will include a complete re-installation of almost every gallery for the presentation of “American Treasures: The Best of the Farnsworth Collection.” The 2013 season will also include a major N.C. Wyeth exhibition, as well as smaller shows featuring works by Andrew Wyeth and Jonathan Fisher. On […]
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February 3, 2013

Take Heart: A Conversation in Poetry

Poet Mekeel McBride, from Kittery, writes: “I told a friend that my goldfish had died. He scoffed, said, ‘I’m a journalist. I deal with things that really matter.’ I felt ashamed for even mentioning it but later, this poem taught me what really does matter and why.”
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February 3, 2013

Author Q & A: Good Dog

Eleanor Morse went to Botswana with her then-husband, a resident of the country, in the 1970s, shortly after graduating from Swarthmore. She worked there for several years. After living in Botswana, she moved to Maine – first the midcoast, then Portland, then Peaks Island, where she now lives. She worked at various jobs but she […]
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January 27, 2013

Book review: A single photo sparks remarkable tale of rural life

What stories do we tell ourselves that define who we are — to ourselves and others? As is the case in many families, the unbroken chain of life that reaches down through the generations presents significant challenges to our knowing or discovering “where we come from,” even when family roots run deep in one place. […]
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January 27, 2013

Bob Keyes: Nice touch: Architalx celebrates 25 years

Please, feel free to touch the tower. On Saturday, the Portland Museum of Art opens an exhibition that celebrates 25 years of the Portland architecture and design lecture series, Architalx. The centerpiece of the third-floor installation is a sculptural piece that stands 17 feet tall and mirrors, in its shape, the skylight at the top […]

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