My youngest daughter is currently taking a printmaking class at Bowdoin College, in the course of which she attended Printmaking ABC: In Memorium David P. Becker, an exhibition of prints selected from among the 1,500 prints David Becker bequeathed to the Bowdoin College Museum of Art in 2010 when he died at the age of […]
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Denatured Animals at Brown
The Simen Johan exhibition, “Until the Kingdom Comes,” at the David Winton Bell Gallery at Brown University in Providence escaped my notice until now. The exhibition of Johan’s large-format color photographs of strangely disturbing animals has been up since November and will come down February 17. Simen Johan was born in Norway and came […]
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Maine Labor History Mural Restored
On Monday, January 14, the Maine State Museum and Maine Department of Labor held a surprise news conference at 8:30 a.m. to announce that the now famous Maine Labor History Mural that Gov. Paul LePage ordered removed from the labor department waiting room in March of 2011 would hang in the atrium of the state […]
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Lois Dodd, Maine Woman Pioneer
Lois Dodd, one of America’s finest painters, is having her first museum career retrospective at 85. A case could be made that she has been the victim of discrimination in the sexist art world, but Dodd would never make that argument. She has been content to go her own way for the better part of […]
Jud’s New England Journal For January 2013 Welcome to the January 2013 edition of Jud’s New England Journal, the rather curious monthly musings of Judson Hale, the Editor-in-Chief of Yankee Magazine, published since 1935 in Dublin, N.H. Thoughts On Up and Downs and Overs and Outs From southern Maine, you must go “up” to Bangor […]
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An Old Friend for the Holidays
Before there was a young, hip Portland art scene, there was an older, darker Portland scene. Mr. Rossolowsky belongs to that dim past. I think of Mr. Rossolowsky often and of the debt I owe him. I started thinking of him most recently in the wake of the horrible events in Newtown, Connecticut. I thought of him because Mr. Rossolowsky […]
For the past dozen or so years, I’ve sung in the choir of our local church. Each Sunday, we lead the congregation in hymns and sing an anthem, something by Brahms or Rutter. With a clock tower, a weathervane, and Ionic columns, the Dublin Community Church is a classic 19th-century New England house of worship, […]
He wonders: How wide do his shoulders need to be? How open his heart? How deep his soul? Can he ever really understand what it’s like to lose a child, even as he looks parents in the eye and lets them fold their grief into his arms? He has been telling me about a time […]
Olympic gold medalist Barbara Ann Cochran, an instructor at Cochran’s Ski Area in Vermont, offers advice on how to teach your kid to ski.
Here are Richard F. Wright’s picks for the best used bookshops in New England. Let us know your favorite in the comments at the bottom of the page. BEST USED BOOKSTORES IN NEW ENGLAND The Montague Bookmill This shop fulfills the true definition of “destination” bookstore. After 25 years, visitors still commit to traveling to […]
For more than a century, Johnson Woolen Mills has kept New Englanders warm with its signature red-checked shirts and heavy-duty green trousers.
On the map, the Craftsbury Outdoor Center’s “Grand Tour” looks like a generous oval scrawled by a 3-year-old. The Outdoor Center, a four-season resort tucked beside Great Hosmer Pond, has a network of cross-country ski trails that unspool from its campus and travel dozens of kilometers beyond it. My favorite, the Grand Tour, appears as […]