ELLSWORTH — Portland photographer Heath Paley, whose large–scale and high-definition photographs of 18 Maine downtowns were highlighted in a traveling exhibition at the Maine State House in Augusta and other venues in 2016-2017, turned his lens on Ellsworth as part of the series. Those images are the focus of a show opening Wednesday, April 24, …
BAR HARBOR — During the months her ex-husband was dying of cancer in her living room, Emily Bracale would often illustrate the events of each day — doctor visits, conversations with friends, signing paperwork — in a journal. “That was my grieving process,” said the artist/author at home in her Bar Harbor studio. “It led …
BAR HARBOR — Jeremiah Hacker was a 19th-century Maine newspaperman, activist and preacher. His life and writings are absent from all but the most specialized histories of newspapers and social movements of the day, but a new book by Mount Desert Islander reporter Becky Pritchard aims to change that. Hacker was the editor and publisher …
GOULDSBORO — “Missing Link,” a stop-motion animated film about a lonely, lovable Sasquatch resembling a giant, apelike pine cone, who enlists a pompous British explorer to guide and help him find his missing relatives in Shangri La, opens this weekend April 12-14 in cinemas across the nation and world. Prospect Harbor’s Adam Fisher, who …
DEER ISLE — It was freelance furniture photography that led Darwin Davidson to discover what has become one of his life’s greatest passions. The Deer Isle photographer graduated with a degree from Rochester Institute of Technology in 1958 and got a job as a photographer in a commercial studio in New York City, specializing in …
April is when there are mysterious happenings that are “vernal,” meaning “of the spring.”
ORONO — The Bangor Symphony Orchestra’s fifth Masterworks concert for the 2018-19 season on Sunday was a celebration of American composers. The program’s first half comprised three works featuring featured popular tunes. William Grant Still’s “Can’t You Line ’Em” is a brief orchestral treatment of a chant sung by railroad workers. Still, who has been …
WINTER HARBOR — When the Schoodic community gathered to pay tribute to and celebrate the life of “Farmer Bill” Thayer last Saturday, they likely saw the oil portrait of the Maine organic farming pioneer as well as one of his wife, Cynthia, hanging in Hammond Hall in Winter Harbor. Fortuitously, Sullivan artist Hugo Diaz’s paintings …
SULLIVAN — To get anywhere around Downeast Maine, you’ve got to drive, and that gives you plenty of time to think. “There’s lot’s of driving up here. To see anyone, there’s that commitment to driving somewhere,” Sullivan filmmaker and podcaster Kyle Lamont observes. “And that means plenty of time alone, and there’s some inspiration in …
ELLSWORTH — Pot holders, the colorful and decorative squares used for whisking hot pots off the stovetop and out of the oven, were the inspiration for award-winning Bath quilter Wendy Caton Reed’s creation “No Bake Applique,” which will be on view through May 1 at the Ellsworth Public Library. Quilting since she was 9 years …
