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May 15, 2011

Arts Planner

• Freeport Historical Society introduces its new Heritage Trail with a ceremony at 4:30 p.m. Tuesday at Old First Parish Meetinghouse and Burial Ground at Lower Main Street and Meetinghouse Road. The 17-sign, self-guided trail directs visitors to significant spots in Freeport history. State historian Earl Shettleworth will speak at Tuesday’s event. The trail reinforces […]
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May 15, 2011

Bob Keyes: Audiences riveted when ‘old soul’ climbs on stage

With due respect to the individuality of 15-year-olds everywhere, it’s safe to say that Dylan Chestnutt is not your typical 15-year-old — if there were such a thing. Chestnutt, a ninth-grader at Waynflete School in Portland, acts in plays. Not school plays. Not community theater. Professional plays. He’s on stage this week in Mad Horse […]
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May 15, 2011

In The Arts: Drawings with a pulse and digital works that fascinate

We are well into “Where to Draw the Line: The Maine Drawing Project,” a year-long series of exhibitions dedicated to drawing. A statewide project, it touches many places and times. I report on two that bear on my thoughts about current drawing in Maine. The Farnsworth — which has been holding project-related events since January […]
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May 15, 2011

Art Review: Shows in Freeport let our eyes decide

FREEPORT — Tom Crotty is the owner of the Frost Gully Gallery in Freeport. Founded in 1966, it’s the oldest commercial gallery in Maine and shows several artists of note, including 93-year-old Dahlov Ipcar. Crotty is also a talented landscape painter who had a solo exhibition at the Portland Museum of Art in 2003. On […]
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May 15, 2011

Book Review: Book’s hook: No news isn’t good news

Pete Hamill's new novel, 'Tabloid City,' is a lament for newspaper journalism.

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May 15, 2011

Society Notebook: They Mean Business

Wednesday was a night to celebrate Junior Achievement and its mission and the new inductees to the Maine Business Hall of Fame.
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May 15, 2011

Author Q &A: Fancy that

Catherynne Valente wins a coveted science fiction-fantasy award for her young adult novel 'The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland.'
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May 15, 2011

Signings, etc.

JEANNIE BRETT
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May 15, 2011

Book Review: Spencer-Fleming’s novel is a richly textured mystery

Julia Spencer-Fleming’s new novel, “One Was a Soldier,” is the best kind of mystery — because it’s not just a mystery. It’s a richly textured story about the lives of several key, interconnected characters. Some of the interconnections are quickly made obvious. But it is what’s beneath the surface — often in the troubled psyches […]
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May 15, 2011

Take Heart: A conversation in poetry

Few poets can match the image-making of Union’s Kate Barnes. Her gift with the image is on full display in this week’s poem. April and then May By Kate Barnes April and then May, violets up in the field, the ewes with their twin lambs; time has decided to turn into spring again after all. […]

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