Reading and Roaming
GETTING TO MAINE Portland and the Maine coast are popular vacation destinations. Flights to Portland, generally on smaller planes, fill up fast and with summer thunderstorms often an issue, travel can be delayed. Getting to Maine took us two days after one cancelled flight, one seriously delayed flight, and then a nonstop flight to Boston. From Logan Airport, …
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FARNSWORTH AT 75 One of our favorite places to visit while in Maine is the Farnsworth Art Museum in Rockland. Aside from their extension collection of works by three generations of the Wyeth Family, they have wonderful special exhibitions. We hoped we’d see the Edward Hopper/Andrew Wyeth exhibit, but it was only up for a short time, and we …
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MEMORIES AND TRADITIONS After so many years (30+ for the Chief Penguin and me), Maine is a fixed point on our summer calendar and that of our son and family. This past week, T and J and the girls, E and F, were here for their annual visit. It’s a time to add to our collective memory …
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RECENT READING BOOKS SET IN MAINE Lily King is an award-winning novelist who happens to live in Portland, Maine. With that credential, she has written an engaging piece “Reading Your Way Through Maine” for the New York Times series focusing on literature from specific locales. Amongst her list of twenty titles, I was pleased to see familiar ones: …
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