Seven items are headed for Philadelphia, where they will be buried near the Liberty Bell.
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Arts, entertainment, food and books news from the Kennebec Journal and Morning Sentinel.
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Take our bookstore tour of western Maine
Rural destination communities are a stronghold for independent bookstores.
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7 Maine events this week include Maine Pottery Tour, Ira Glass and CiderFeast
Also, the Maine State Music Theatre annual yard sale is this weekend.
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9 fun things to do at a Portland Sea Dogs game
Besides watching the games, fans can see fireworks, collect bobbleheads, sing and dance, climb on a fire engine or dress like Batman.
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Squeeze in these seasonal activities before the tourists get here | Column
In the month before Memorial Day, many of Maine’s summer destinations are ready and waiting.
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Meet the central Maine cooks trying to set a world record for making 1,200 pad thai orders
Crews from Asian eateries in Augusta and Winslow will be the only Maine restaurants participating in a Guinness World Records attempt at a Los Angeles festival.
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UMF to host 13th annual Maine Fiddlehead Festival May 2
The festival will be held rain or shine between the Olsen Student Center and Roberts Learning Center.
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Author Lily King a finalist for international Women’s Prize for Fiction
King is one of six authors up for the honor, for her book “Heart the Lover.”
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2 art exhibits in Woolwich, Portland illuminate in more ways than one
Both artists in new shows at Sarah Bouchard and Elizabeth Moss galleries are non-American voices.
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Maine author Elizabeth Strout’s new book is set away, for a change
‘The Things We Never Say’ comes out May 5 and is set in a coastal Massachusetts town. Strout won the Pulitzer Prize for ‘Olive Kitteridge,’ one of her Maine-set novels.