Salts and Water Podcast Series Grand sea captain’s houses, intriguing gravestones, and the Penobscot Marine Museum… feel the spirit of maritime history in Searsport.
In 1916 Maine Governor Oakley C. Curtis proclaimed April 19 “Post Card Day” and issued a proclamation requesting all Maine citizens send a postcard of Maine to friends and family outside the state with the message “come to Maine.” Something tells us Governor Oakley...
Photos and Text by Gabor Degre of The Bangor Daily News Did you ever wonder how cameras work? With the marvel of digital equipment, it seems almost like magic. You push a button and the image appears instantly. Photo archivists with the Penobscot Marine MuseumKevin...
Story By Kathleen Pierce in the Bangor Daily News Besides the line at Red’s and mounting traffic on Route 1, there is another Maine mainstay in overdrive this summer — art shows. It’s tough to wade through the onslaught of openings between trips to the beach, but here...
Story by Carl Little in The Working Waterfront Let’s get the punning out of the way, pronto: Eric Hopkins is a shellfish artist. To be more precise, he is a renderer, in many mediums, of shells and fish and shellfish, as the title of his show at the Penobscot...
Story by Britta Konau in The Free Press The story of Gee’s Bend quilts is a complicated, sad and happy one. Gee’s Bend, a remote, historically African-American village on a peninsula formed by the Alabama River, originated in the early 1800s from slave...