The ‘achingly moving’ linked stories are narrated by a character named Dee, variously a child, tween, teen and adult.
Life & Culture
Arts, entertainment, food and books news from the Kennebec Journal and Morning Sentinel.
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Pulitzer-winning cartoonist’s work moves from newspaper page to Ogunquit museum display
A retrospective of cartoons, as well as some oil paintings, from two-time Pulitzer Prize winner Jim Morin is on display at the Ogunquit Museum of American Art through Oct. 31.
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Maine Gardener: Tips for clematis care from an expert
Cindy Tibbetts, of Hummingbird Farm, has expanded the varieties of clematis vines she sells and propagates.
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Belly-flopping fish adorn downtown Augusta as sturgeon art project unveiled
Volunteers spent Friday afternoon installing fiberglass sturgeon along Water Street in Augusta, as part of an art project by the Augusta Downtown Alliance ahead of Saturday’s Sturgeon Stroll Art Walk.
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Green Plate Special: Seize the day! Eat your tomatoes every which way as they ripen
Sure, preserving them for later is good. But don’t neglect the pleasure of eating fresh local tomatoes every day while the season lasts.
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Maine Gardener’s garden update: The worries, the glories, the berries
Columnist Tom Atwell tells us how his garden grows.
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Best-Sellers: ‘The Hotel Nantucket,’ ‘An Immense World’
The current top-selling fiction and nonfiction books at Nonesuch Books & More in South Portland.
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Book review: Preconceptions – and memory – can cloud historic preservation
‘The Book of Errors’ examines three historic buildings, including Thomaston’s General Henry Knox Museum, and finds that reconstruction doesn’t always stick to the facts.
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Bedside table: Why do we think the way we do?
Book recommendations from readers
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Windsor to celebrate bicentennial Saturday with old-time games, demonstrations
Daylong variety of events at Windsor Fairgrounds to begin with a pancake breakfast from 7 a.m. to 9 a.m., and conclude with a baked bean supper, movie, street dance with a disc jockey and, at about 9:30 p.m., fireworks.