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Wood Gaylor and American Modernism HUNTINGTON, New York Subject Line Please provide verification code Email is invalid GAYLOR, (Samuel) Wood (American, 1883-1957) Arts Ball, 1918, 1918 Oil on canvas 27 x 45 in. (68.6 x 114.3) Private Collection Heckscher Museum On View January 23 to May 23, 2021, at The Hecksher Museum of Art Scenes of festive revelers, clowns and performers -- and his fellow artists -- are the signature subject matter of Wood Gaylor’s raucous paintings. Wood Gaylor and ...

Not looking for romance? Check in here These places will treat you right even if you’re not half of a kissy-face couple. By Diane Bair and Pamela Wright Globe Correspondent,Updated January 20, 2021, 12:00 p.m. Email to a Friend The view at the Cliff House in Cape Neddick, Maine.Diane Bair In one of those funny/sad moments, I (Diane) stepped into my hotel room and someone had filled up the tub with bubbles and sprinkled rose petals all around. On the tub’s edge were two flutes and a ...

Ogunquit Museum of American Art announces new Executive Committee Portsmouth Herald OGUNQUIT — The board of directors of the Ogunquit Museum of American Art (OMAA) has named a new executive committee comprised of board members who provide oversight and governance of the museum. The committee is: President David J. Mallen, Ogunquit, Maine; Vice President: Carol Leary, PhD, Ogunquit, Maine; Secretary: Allyson M. Cavaretta, York, Maine; Treasurer: Alan Shephard, Esq., Kenne...

Inside an Eclectic East Side Home Modeled After a Maine Library The Freeman Plat house was decorated by its owner, the legendary Norma Winkler. January 14, 2021 Treasure Trove Traci Maceroni remembers wanting a mother like Donna Reed. Instead, she got something more like Honey West. “She was every bit the unaverage housewife,” says Maceroni. “She was a hot ticket; she used to wear a bandeau and sunbathe in the yard. She was glamorous.” Maceroni and her sister, Heidi Loomis, grew up on...

Sanford and Wells-Ogunquit schools go fully remote as COVID continues SANFORD, Maine – A school district whose team colors are red and white turned all red this week, with students staying home and learning remotely as COVID-19 continues to spread throughout the region. Sanford Superintendent of Schools Matthew Nelson on Wednesday announced in a text and automated phone call to families that the entire system would move from its hybrid, or “yellow,” model to its full distance-learning, or...

This Ogunquit, Maine Beach Was Decorated With a Massive Mandala You may think that when temperatures start sliding below freezing, people from Maine make it their priority to stay away from the beach. In truth, thats not the case at all, particularly if that Mainer is from Ogunquit, a beach town between Portland and Portsmouth, New Hampshire. Many people view winter beach walks as serene, a chance to enjoy the Maine coastline with the absence of the tourism hustle and bustle. And in that hust...

Seacoast arts: Survival stories of 2020s mighty struggle By Jeanné McCartin This was an unrivaled year in the arts; exhausting, bewildering, and more painful than a horrific production of "Hamlet" starring a relative - no way out. Keeping it local and to topic, the pandemic has been devastating on all art and culture concerns. Hundreds of artists, instructors and support staff are affected. Many are unemployed and others have limited opportunities.  The venues, galleries, companies hang by ...

New faces, fresh perspectives leading Maine museums In a year of upheaval, women and people of color take over the helm of many of the states major art institutions. Share When asked what it means to have fresh leadership in Maine museums, Jacqueline Terrassa, the new director at the Colby College Museum of Art, answered by looking inward to the heart of her own museum in Waterville and its mission of collecting, displaying and interpreting American art. “It goes to the question of what is A...

Copy to Clipboard Spoilers for The Stand Episode 2 Pocket Savior CBS All Access’ Stephen King adaptation, ‘The Stand’, set the stage for the horror author’s apocalyptic vision in the first episode. The show depicts a world decimated by plague and embroiled in an elemental struggle between good and evil. Episode 1 saw a weaponized strain of influenza (dubbed “Captain Trips”) kill almost the entire world population, leaving a handful of survivors — it has a supp...

Several injured in carbon monoxide incident in York Staff reports YORK - Fire and police responded to a business on Witchtrot Road just before noon on Thursday, Dec. 24, for a report of high carbon monoxide levels in the building. The building at 23 Witchtrot Road, York, is the location of Maine Coast Builders. Upon arrival, first responders found several workers collapsed and in need of medical attention. Several people were transported to York Hospital, Wentworth-Douglass Hospital in Dover, ...