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Leslie Bridgers is a columnist for the Portland Press Herald, writing about Maine culture, customs and the things we notice and wonder about in our everyday lives. Originally from Connecticut, Leslie came to Maine by way of Bowdoin College and never left. She joined the Portland Press Herald in 2011 as a reporter and spent seven years as the paper’s features editor, overseeing coverage of arts, entertainment and food.

Vegan Kitchen

Author who catapulted vegetarianism to speak at Common Ground Fair

by Avery Yale Kamila September 18, 2022September 17, 2022

Frances Moore Lappé’s ‘Diet for a Small Planet’ was published in 1971, the same year the fair started.

Maine Gardener: Falmouth gardens that feed the hungry are growing

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Tidewater Farm is expanding its gardens and building structures, where it plans to hold classes.

Arts & Entertainment

Art review: One show celebrates Surrealism, another mud. Both are terrific

by Jorge S. Arango September 18, 2022September 16, 2022

At the Portland Museum of Art and Ogunquit Museum of American Art, respectively, see ‘obstreperous’ Surrealists, who proposed upending all art, and John Walker, who finds beauty, and meaning, in mud.