Reading and Roaming
ART: FIBER, BRONZE, PAINT On our recent trip to New York, we spent some time at the Met Breuer. As it happened, two featured exhibits were by female artists, one a retrospective of a living artist’s career and the other a focus on the fiber art and sculpture of an Indian artist. I was captivated by Phenomenal …
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JAUNTING TO WATERVILLE We know a few folks who’ve worked at or graduated from Colby College, but had never visited the campus. It’s located about ten minutes from downtown Waterville on Mayflower Hill—a pleasant spread of green dotted with red brick buildings and athletic fields. A guard at another museum (which will remain nameless) told us that …
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COASTAL MAINE BOTANICAL GARDENS Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens is ten years old, and it keeps getting better each year. We visit on our own and also bring all of our guests. Our granddaughters are especially fond of the play house where there are kitchen appliances, a cupboard, and a small table and chairs where you can …
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SUMMER READING How to Find Love in a Bookshop by Veronica Henry If you are a reader and a booklover, then this novel set in a small town in Cornwall should delight you. When her father Julius, bookshop owner extraordinaire, dies, his daughter Emilia inherits Nightingale Books. Emilia has lived in Hong Kong for some years and …
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