Culture

Red’s Eats in Wiscasset is celebrating an anniversary this year.

Red’s may be a little food stand in a small…

Artist Linda Murray

In Maine, September is the gateway to autumn, with brilliant color changes, pumpkin patches ready for harvest, fairs and apple orchards.

The start of the academic year is at hand, as well.…

Stephen Vowles

Stable Gallery’s wrap-up art show of the 2017 season begins Friday, Sept. 8. The show, “Art Harvest,” celebrates the autumn season’s bountifulness.  Seven…

Museum fans should check out the Museum Day Live!…

Art Mayers photo Dani Tribesmen

Support the Y-Arts group! Tickets are on sale now for a September Sunset Cruise aboard Cap’n Fish’s Harbor Princess on Sunday, Sept. 17 from 6-9 p.m.

Dance to the groovin’ reggae…

Don Meserve’s “Toucan”

Boothbay Railway Village’s Executive Director Margaret Hoffman announced the winners of the Don Justin Meserve Sculpture Raffle: East Boothbay resident Sue Newbold won Meserve’s “Hook Form” in…

Green Lion Gallery
 Leonard Meiselman, Wiscasset ME

Wiscasset-based artist Leonard Meiselman has a new show opening at the Green Lion Gallery in Bath. “Portraits of Trees” opens on Friday, Sept. 15.

The show includes 23 of the artist’s…

The Lincoln Home will be kicking off National Assisted Living Week on Monday, Sept. 11, from 3 to 4 p.m. with the multi-talented Sean Fleming.  Sean will be playing an eclectic program of…

Joyce Eames Steel

Three landscape artists have won this month’s selection of People’s Choice vote at River Arts. …

Hannah Ineson

A  new exhibit to welcome fall opens Sept. 11 as part of the Art at The Damariscotta River Grill series. Virginia Forrest, Hannah Ineson and Kay Miller will exhibit works in a variety of mediums…

The Wiscasset Art Walk on Aug. 31 was all it usually is, and more.

Along with the shops that line the main street with open doors, and the shop owners with open arms welcoming visitors…

Carousel Music Theater cast 2017

The Carousel Music Theater in Boothbay Harbor has been a summer stock venue since its doors opened in 1982. The Carousel cabaret format of dinner and all-original, song-filled shows written over…

The Harbor Theatre

“An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power”  -   A decade after “An Inconvenient Truth” brought climate…

Conductor Linda Blanchard and pianist Sean Fleming, married musical duo, have been collaborating in creating choral music in the Midcoast of Maine for over 20 years, leading Sheepscot Valley…

Calypso, a Boothbay Harbor boutique that features contemporary clothing, jewelry and accessories, will host a trunk show Sept. 8, featuring ceramic beadwork and jewelry…

Maine State Music Theatre recently announced the titles that will be headlining a milestone season marking the company’s 60th year in Brunswick in 2018.

The first show of the season will…

Boothbay Harbor Memorial Library
Tony van Hasselt

Tony van Hasselt as an elected signature member of the American Watercolor Society, finds his inspiration on location, wherever that might be, and the watercolor medium lends itself well to the…

Film review

Former Vice President Al Gore presents “An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power,” his followup to the 2006 Oscar™ -winning documentary “An Inconvenient Truth.” The…

On Thursday, Sept. 14, the award-winning documentary film, “A Plastic Ocean,” will be screened at the Portland Museum of Art at 7 Congress Street, followed by a panel discussion with Rockport’s…

Maine Maritime Museum

Maine Maritime Museum and Red Cloak Haunted History Tours are again offering their popular “Lighthouse Legends and Lore” boat excursions, including a landing on Burnt Island…

Owls Head Transportation Museum

Antique aeroplane demonstrations are also planned - weather permitting

In keeping with a longstanding Owls Head Labor Day Weekend tradition, antique and vintage…

During World War II, 2,500 British soldiers were rescued by Canadian Combat Engineers using plywood boats powered by Evinrude outboard motors. The story began when British Field Marshall…

The Harbor Theatre

“The Hero”-  Lee Hayden (Sam Elliott) plays an aging Western icon with a golden voice, but his best performances are…

Gleason Fine Art in Boothbay Harbor opens two new shows on Aug. 31: Janice Anthony: ‘At One With Nature’ and Tom Curry: ‘New Work.’

The opening reception for both shows is First Friday,…

Colorway

The Northampton, Mass band, Colorway, who will be closing out the live music showcase portion of the Boothbay Harbor Fest with a show at Mine Oyster on Saturday, Sept. 9. Colorway is a…

Barbara  Prey

Visit Barbara Prey Projects in Port Clyde to see the most recent work of internationally celebrated artist Barbara Ernst Prey extended through September 20 due to popular demand. Taking the viewer…

Louis Charlett yellow birch custom table

It’s a rare treat when fine craftsmanship, artistic sensibility, and history join together in a piece of functional furniture.  Currently showing at the Stable Gallery in Damariscotta, is a custom…

Ever wonder what it felt like to wear a bustle? 

Join  Peggy Konitzky, Wiscasset site manager and historic costume collector, for an entertaining and informative look at the wild ride of…

 Mary Bradish Titcomb

“Summerings with Mary Bradish Titcomb, 1892-1902:  Drawings of Coastal New England and the White Mountains” will be on view at James L. Kochan Fine Art & Antiques, 75 Main Street, Wiscasset,…

Ingram Art & Antiques co-owner Kirsten Ingram thought the Wiscasset Art Walk (WAW) needed some sizzle, so she’s invited a local jazz trio to provide the evening’s brassy sounds. There’s plenty…

The musical group Salty Dogs will be featured this Sunday, Sept. 3 at this year’s Bands for Books event to take from 5-7 p.m. at picturesque Seafield Farm in Wiscasset, owned by…

Nancy Coleman

Damariscotta Mills artist and printmaker, Nancy Coleman, will be making a personal appearance at BIRCH home furnishings and gifts during the Wiscasset Art Walk, Thursday, Aug. 31 from 5-8 p.m.…

Wiscasset Art Walk
Ingram Fine Art & Antiques, 106 Main Street, invites the public to come out to the Wiscasset Art Walk Thursday, Aug. 31 from…

On Thursday, Aug. 31, the historic schooner When and If will sail into Boothbay Harbor with owner-captain Seth Salzmann at the helm.

The 65-foot John Alden yacht is coming to the…

Sally Loughridge

South Bristol artist Sally Loughridge shares a new array of original paintings at the Archipelago Store throughout September. These land and seascapes are sparked by her emotional…

A consignment boutique for the discerning shopper, The Lady’s Room in Damariscotta, isn’t your typical second hand…

Lynne Olson

Chats with Champions will welcome New York Times bestselling author Lynne Olson on Thursday, Aug. 29 at 10 a.m. in the Porter Meeting Hall of Skidompha Public Library.  Olson will speak…

Midcoast Community Chorus (MCC) welcomes all singers, ages 13 and up, of all abilities – novice singer, new to the area, and former singers – to register for our upcoming semester in preparation…

Robert “Bob” McKay, Boothbay Harbor ME

The sight and sound of the water rushing beneath me as I struggled to balance on the tree limb that stretched across the small waterfall in the glen mesmerized and soothed me. As I watched the…

Did you sing in high school, college, church choir, but gave it up when family and career demands intervened? If so, now is a good time to think about putting your musical talents to work again.…

Heavily influenced by her coastal surroundings, artist Nikki Pilgrim immerses herself in the ‘ritual of painting’ using ornate color and pattern as she transfers her environment into her creative…

The Harbor Theatre

“Dunkirk” - In May 1940, Germany advanced into France, trapping Allied troops on the beaches of Dunkirk. Under air and…

Wiscasset Art Walk
Carolyn Gabbe

Carolyn Gabbe’s exhibit of nearly 30 paintings at Midcoast  Conservancy is part of the Wiscasset Art Walk on Thursday, Aug. 31 in the historic Haggett Building on Water Street in Wiscasset.  …

If you never made it to Joe Lane’s small food cart in Damariscotta for a lobster roll, or anything else lobster, it’s okay. Now you can go to his and his partner, Isabella Nelson’s, new restaurant…

Sam Betts

The Boothbay Railway Village Green was all abuzz during the morning hours of Aug. 21.

The stone sculptors participating in the Maine Coast Stone Symposium’s 10-day live sculpting event were…

Marcia Ball

Summer wraps up with Boothbay Harbor’s multi-day HarborFest featuring local chefs, tasting, art and music aplenty including three headline performances at the historic Opera House downtown. Marcia…

Over 600 music lovers and supporters of Midcoast Conservancy and Hidden Valley Nature Center attended the sixth annual Live Edge Music Festival in Jefferson on Sunday, Aug. 20.

The dry summer posed a challenge for Garden Club of Wiscasset members making floral…

The Maine Lighthouse Museum

Due to popular demand, The Maine Lighthouse Museum will host Tom and Lee Ann Szelog on August 30 at 7 p.m.  who will give their narrated photography presentation about the 14 years they lived at…