After the shuttle Challenger exploded 73 seconds into flight on January 28, 1986, Christa McAuliffe’s mother, Grace Corrigan, vowed to keep her mission alive.
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Diary of a Ski Patrolman: Week 7
Monday As of last Friday I’ve acquired yet another honorable nickname. At least, I think it’s honorable. It’s called the “Herb” award. Well, it’s a yellow name tag that I must wear proudly on my vest, just above the old one that says my actual name. Actually, I don’t know what my actual name is […]
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Women of Pop Art
The Pop Artists of the 1960s used the materials and imagery of popular culture (advertising, comic books, consumer products, etc) in the service of a fine art that at once reflected and commented upon 20th century materialism. Most of the famous Pop Artists were men – Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein, Claes Oldenburg, Robert Indiana, James […]
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Diary of a Ski Patrolman: Week 6
Monday Skiing a patient down in a toboggan is no easy task. It often times involves some pleasant, fiery burning in my legs and reduces my biceps to wet noodles. But it’s all worth it, to make sure my patient is safe. So, since it’s just not hard enough, let’s throw in some moguls! Yep, […]
The folks at Yankee have asked me to blog about photo contests. They asked me to do this because of the great amount of tact I use when critiquing images posted on the New England Photography–Yankee Magazine Facebook site. In the spirit of tactful, supportive feedback, let me offer some constructive suggestions for entering photo […]
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Diary of a Ski Patrolman Week 5
Monday This week I’m going to write about something a bit different. I enjoy writing about my days and what occurs on them, but while riding the lift this morning, I had a sudden realization that a ski mountain is full of perceptions hidden just beneath the surface. Well, hidden beneath that surface, and beneath […]
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Maine Art New
Though only a handful of readers may have noticed, Just Looking is now being posted every two weeks instead of once a week. In part this is because I will be spending much of my time in 2011 writing and editing Maine Art New, a sequel to my 1990 book Maine Art Now. Maine Art […]
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Yankee Magazine Cover | June 2005
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Yankee Magazine Cover | April 1961
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Yankee Magazine Cover | April 1993
“Hopkinton Green, 1988” by Carolyn Anderson.
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Yankee Magazine Cover | June 2006
June 2006 | “August,” by Oren Sherman.
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