Morgan Gallery News Today

As Maine’s iconic lobster industry faces challenges to its very survival, folks in the state’s oldest town are trying to help.

Families in the 19th century wanted to keep the memory of a loved one close to them, and so miniatures grew in popularity among prosperous early Americans.

An exhibit in York features the work of mothers of children with special needs, while a Kittery Gallery is showing photo portraits of Black and brown Mainers.

A weekly roundup of events happening around the Seacoast this week.

Dame Nellie Melba, who appears on our $100 note, was born Helen Porter Mitchell in the Melbourne suburb of Richmond on May 19, 1861. An operatic soprano with a voice described as sparklingly clear, her career would take her across the world, from Russia to America, but she always returned home. This extraordinary Australian was arguably our first celebrity. While her singing is famed, she was a complex woman who shaped her own career, far more interesting than her culinary namesakes — Melba ...