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Northern Light Maine Coast Hospital announces a generous matching challenge gift to finish the Building on a Promise campaign. Longtime Maine Coast Hospital supporter and local philanthropist Edith Dixon has offered to match every dollar given to...

ELLSWORTH — Northern Light Maine Coast Hospital has announced a matching challenge gift to finish the Building on a Promise campaign. Longtime Maine Coast Hospital supporter and local philanthropist Edith

The land where the Hulitar Sculpture Garden now sits would have been a supermarket, but some fast-moving Four Arts activists saved the land.

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“Someday, hopefully in the not too distant future, in the next couple of decades … the babies that are going to be born here in the next couple of years

Every gift and pledge made to the Building on a Promise campaign will stay in Ellsworth to support Maine Coast’s modernization.

ELLSWORTH — Northern Light Maine Coast Hospital has received a $25,000 gift to support the Building on a Promise campaign from Machias Savings Bank. This gift, combined with the support of the community, completes the $1 million Dixon Challenge that...

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Farnsworth announces historic bequest of 27 major Wyeth works from Betsy Wyeth James Wyeth, (American, b. 1946), Shorty, 1963. Oil on canvas, 18 x 22 inches. ROCKLAND, ME .-The Farnsworth Art Museum in Rockland, Maine, announced the receipt of major gifts of art from the bequest of Betsy James Wyeth. All twenty-seven new acquisitions by the three generations of Wyeth painters, N.C., Andrew, and Jamie Wyeth, will be on view, beginning Saturday, May 15, as part of a landmark new exhibition entit...

The Farnsworth Art Museum is pleased to announce the opening, on Saturday, April 17, of an exhibition celebrating thirteen Women of Vision whose contributions to art and culture earned them recognition as Farnsworth Maine in America honorees. The Maine in America award is presented annually to an individual or group who has made an outstanding contribution to the arts and culture of Maine. The thirteen women—photographer Berenice Abbott; businesswoman Linda Bean; painter Katherine Bradford; ...