New releases came out this year from Maine authors and illustrators Chris Van Dusen, Peter Brown, X. Fang, Phuc Tran, Elisa Boxer and Daniel Minter, among others.
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Historical photos show Maine’s Thanksgiving generosity
Mainers have been helping each other with food donations in tough times for decades.
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7 Maine events this week include a Taylor Swift tribute and a craft fair for geeks
Also, see the Soweto Gospel Choir in Portland.
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An afternoon at the Boys & Girls Club in Auburn
The clubhouse was a flurry of activity Thursday. Staff photos by Russ Dillingham.
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Gardens Aglow, a bright spot in Maine winter, returns with new displays and tech
Now in its 11th year, the Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens’ signature holiday light show has a new emphasis on education — alongside its usual beauty.
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Meet the Maine cinematographer behind ‘Wicked: For Good,’ opening this week
Alice Brooks, who lives in Portland with her family, spent more than a year in England working on both ‘Wicked’ films.
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‘Heart the Lover’ delivers a compelling, sensitive story about first love and its after effects
Lily King’s newest novel revisits key characters from an earlier work.
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Meet a Peaks Island artist and his ‘Wicked’ work
Douglas Smith illustrated the original ‘Wicked’ novel in 1995 and has done new art for a special edition timed to the release of the movie ‘Wicked: For Good.’
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Bears in Lewiston, whodunits in Monmouth | Get out!
Here are highlights of things to do in the area in the next week.
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Reader seeks hall rental for family gathering | Sun Spots
DEAR SUN SPOTS: Our family is getting too large to hold our yearly holiday get-together celebration in our home. We are spread out from South Portland to Rumford. The Lewiston-Auburn area is the best location for us to hold this event on a weekend afternoon between the hours of 1 to 5 p.m. We are looking […]