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Best Art Galleries in Maine

Here are 12 of our picks for the best art galleries in Maine. They’re sure to please any art enthusiast! In 30 years of writing about art in Maine and New England (with an occasional foray into New York), I’ve naturally become attached to some of the art galleries I’ve visited repeatedly. Were I to […]

Homes

House For Sale: Bath, Maine

It wasn’t hard to find Sharon Drake’s real estate office on Front Street in downtown Bath. Everyone in the convenience store where we stopped to ask directions knew her — customers as well as those behind the counter. Not surprising when you consider that she’s been selling homes in the area for more than 30 […]

History

Yankee Sentimentality

ASKED SOME YEARS AGO by a Boston Globe reporter for his description of the “ideal wife,” Captain Eliot Winslow, a well-known tourist boat operator out of Boothbay Harbor, Maine, replied, “She ought to be able to dig clams. She ought to be able to split wood. And she ought to be able to row my […]