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‘When We Were Trees’ on display at Hopkinton Center for the Arts Community Content HOPKINTON — The exhibit “When We Were Trees” is now on display to the public through Aug. 27 in The Lotvin Family Gallery at the Hopkinton Center for the Arts, 98 Hayden Rowe St., Hopkinton.   In “When We Were Trees,” Linda Hoffman and her daughter Ariel Matisse demonstrate, through the mutuality and interconnectedness of their art, how women empower each other when they connect with nature, ...

Longtime Alaska poet Tom Sexton returns to his mill town roots in a new collection By Tom Sexton. Loom Press, 2020. 143 pages. $20 “Cummiskey Alley: New and Selected Lowell Poems” by Tom Sexton Tom Sexton, a longtime University of Alaska Anchorage professor who retired in 1994 and served as Alaska’s poet laureate from 1995-2000, has returned to his beginnings in Lowell, Massachusetts, in his latest collection, “Cummiskey Alley.” And what a return it is. Sexton, known primarily fo...