Come celebrate the river, the land and history at Kennebec Days at Historic New England’s newly opened 1762 Bowman House Aug. 21-22. The Colonial Maine Living History Association will be on hand to demonstrate aspects of colonial life along the river. Talk to the crew of a replica 18th century jolly boat complete with cannon. Watch as craftspeople demonstrate blacksmithing, rigging, rope making candle making, […]
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Met museum staffer named executive director of Museum L-A
Lewiston’s Museum L-A has selected Rachel Ferrante, a staff member of the Metropolitan Museum in New York for 10 years, to serve as the new executive director of Museum L-A. Ferrante will succeed Audrey Thomson on Sept. 7. Ferrante, 33, is an art and visual culture graduate of Bates College and recently moved to Maine […]
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Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens welcomes The Caterpillar Lab back for fourth season
For the fourth year running, Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens will host educator and nature photographer Samuel Jaffe and The Caterpillar Lab, Aug. 19-27 (with a break on Monday, Aug. 23). This exhibit will highlight the diversity and ingenuity of some of New England’s most unusual caterpillars. “We really love the work Sam Jaffe and The Lab do—it aligns with our mission, and […]
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Bath hosts downtown summer concert series
Due to high interest in earlier shows, the Grant Lot Summer Concert Series is being extended for another five shows, running through Sept. 3. Since June 18, Bath’s Burst & Bloom Records and Union & Co. have hosted a weekly music series in the lot behind the Grant Building on Centre Street. A diverse selection […]
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How to make a Red’s Eats lobster roll
Though there are just three ingredients in a Red’s Eats lobster roll, making the famous sandwich is no simple task.
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Chocolate Church Arts Center presents ‘Taproots’ gallery
The Chocolate Church Arts Center gallery will feature artists Rebecca Goodale and Christopher Patch in a show titled “Taproots,” with an opening event on Friday, Aug. 13. Goodale and Patch make artwork that takes many different directions (books, sculpture, collage, painting) but stems largely from a background in printmaking. For the past 20 years, Goodale […]
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MSMT presents a reimagined “Beauty and the Beast” for kids
Maine State Music Theater will host its first Theatre for Young Audiences show of the season, with Robin and Clark’s reimagined “Beauty and the Beast,” at The Pickard Theater at 10 a.m., 1, 4, and 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 12. In this Robin and Clark version of “Beauty and the Beast,” an acting troupe is […]
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Monochrome works featured at Brunswick art gallery
Brunswick’s Points of View Artists gallery features two exhibits, Monochrome Unbound and Intersections: Forms Observed, Forms Abstracted, at a reception from 5 to 7 p.m. Friday, Aug. 13, at 18 Pleasant St. Monochrome Unbound, by POV artist Judith Long and guest artist Burke Long, is in the ground-floor main gallery. Intersections, by artist Alan Mast, […]
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Brunswick Outdoor Arts Festival returns
The 15th Annual Brunswick Outdoor Arts Festival will transform Downtown Brunswick into an outdoor fine art show on Saturday, Aug. 21. Artisans will display and demonstrate their work for the public on the Town Mall. Art demonstrations will include blacksmithing, weaving and woodturning. Hands-on science activities along with take-away art kits from Arts are Elementary, […]
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Artists create in pop-up studio at Wiscasset Art Walk
The Hasenfus Gallery on Wiscasset’s Main Street will host Scrapwood Renaissance artist Eric Graffam and painter Jessica Chaples during Thursday’s Wiscasset Art Walk, 5-8 p.m. Graffam worked as a photographer and art director in the catalog industry, before experimenting with found object sculpture. “My sculptures are born out of what other people throw away, give […]