DAMARISCOTTA — Works by Kim Hetherington of Bremen will be presented in a solo show of oil paintings at River Arts. Hetherington will install her show on Thursday, Aug. 27, and the work will be on view through Wednesday, Sept. 9. Hetherington has developed an intimate form of realism, choosing subject matter that is close […]
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Hot air balloons on display at Gritty’s
A group show is on display in the Gritty’s Art and Ale window in Auburn through mid-September. Curated by Wicked Illustrations Studio and Gallery, the show includes two artists from Wicked, Corrina Tancrede and Amanda Retus, as well as this photo, “Adventure Awaits,” from Tricia Barnhard. The theme is “Hot Air Balloons,” and their work […]
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Looking Back on Aug. 27
100 Years Ago: 1920 When you are in town, call at the Central Pool Room & Shoe Shining Parlors at the Corner of Park and Ash Streets and see and hear the new Violano Virtuoso Self-Player Plano. It’s big and great— come in today. 50 Years Ago: 1970 “The student policy dress code” at Edward […]
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Celebrated Nixon-era women’s rights leader to give talk
The Honorable Barbara Hackman Franklin, the 29th US Secretary of Commerce, will give an online presentation at 6 p.m. on Thursday, Sept. 3, hosted by the Camden Public Library. Franklin will be discussing the book, “A Matter of Simple Justice” by Les Strout, in a program hosted on Zoom. The book, originally released in 2012, […]
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RFA to host Community Art Project awards ceremony
An awards ceremony will be held at 5:30 p.m. on Saturday, Aug. 29, out of doors near the Community Art Project display in the alley between the RFA Lakeside Theater and Blue Flame. The rain date is set for 5:30 p.m. on Sunday, Aug. 30. Voting will close at noon on Friday, Aug. 28. The […]
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Art Walk L-A continues as virtual event – with some downtown elements as well
LEWISTON – The next “virtual” Art Walk L-A happens Friday, Aug. 28, on www.laarts.org/artwalk/, YouTube, Facebook, and Instagram and includes visual arts, music, prose poetry, and more. Featured elements include Local Writers Read genre spotlight: dark fantasy, featuring writers Josh Gauthier and Jessica Koch; “Art is Vulnerable – Let’s Talk,” Joan Crawford speed painting by […]
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Looking Back on Aug. 26
100 Years Ago: 1920 Another tribute to Maine’s scenic attractions is paid by the Boston Transcript, which had this to say with regard to the proposal of Mount Katahdin as a national park. The Transcript says: In these days of 75 cent butter one reads with envy In Thoreau’s journal of seventy-five years ago about […]
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Looking Back on Aug. 25
100 Years Ago: 1920 The largest baseball park in the world will be built in this city for the New York Americana, it was learned today. Col. Jacob Ruppert of the Yankees, who attended a special meeting of the American League in Philadelphia yesterday where the proposal was given official sanction, would not indicate where the […]
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Looking Back on Aug. 24
100 Years Ago: 1920 A derailed freight car at the corner of Dennison and Turner Streets, where repairs are being made on the track, hindered city traffic for a while Friday afternoon. 50 Years Ago: 1970 Three prominent Lewiston-Auburn businessmen are currently in the planning stages for a testimonial for Richard Dennis of Auburn, general […]