ROCKPORT — The latest online lecture of a weekly alumni lecture series is scheduled to feature photographer David Hilliard from 4 to 5 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 27. He will discuss his four-decade-long project of photographing his father, ending during the pandemic, “My Father’s Life in Pictures: A Collaboration.” The lecture is hosted by Maine Media […]
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Maine Media lecture to feature multi-modal photographer
ROCKPORT — Maine Media Workshops + College’s weekly online Alumni Lecture Series continues from 5-6 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 19. Photographer Sal Taylor Kydd is scheduled to discuss her newest book of photographs, “Yesterday.” The lecture is hosted by Aline Smithson, visual artist, educator, editor and founder of the fine art photography periodical LENSCRATCH. “Sal Taylor […]
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Maine Media’s alumni lecture series continues with Louis Draper
ROCKPORT — The Maine Media Workshops + College weekly Alumni Lecture Series is scheduled to continue with its second virtual lecture, “Working Together: Louis Draper and the Kamoinge Workshop,” at 1 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 13. The event will profile photographer Draper and his work as a member of the workshop, a collective of Black photographers […]
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Mid-Coast Audubon to hold bird seed sale fundraiser
Mid-Coast Audubon plans to accept bird seed orders through Friday, Oct. 22, to raise funds to support bird conservation and education programming. Seed must be picked up between 10 a.m. and noon Saturday, Oct. 30 at either Plants Unlimited, 629 Commercial St., U.S. Route 1, in Rockport, or Lincoln County Publishing, 116 Mills Road, Newcastle. […]
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Maine Media launches weekly series with lecture by book artist
ROCKPORT — Maine Media Workshops + College plans to host a free weekly Alumni Lecture Series from Oct. 7 through Dec. 14, featuring conversations on a wide array of topics in photo, film, book arts and writing. The series kicks off from 1 to 2 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 7, with a lecture by book artist […]
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‘Troops at Camden’ living history encampment set for Oct. 9
The event also will include archeology and book signing.
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Rockport man pleads guilty to 4 murders, including his mother and grandparents
Orion Krause is sentenced to life in prison for the 2017 beating deaths of his mother and grandparents and his grandparents’ home health aide in Groton, Mass.
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Maine Media extends photo submission deadline to Aug. 11
ROCKPORT — Maine Media Workshops + College has extended the deadline to accept new submissions for the 2021 The Arnold Newman Prize for New Directions in Photographic Portraiture through 11:59 p.m. Wednesday, Aug. 11. The $20,000 prize is awarded annually to a photographer whose work demonstrates a compelling new vision in photographic portraiture. In addition […]
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Man’s body recovered from 112 feet of water in Rockport quarry
Police say it appears that Joshua D. Clapp accidentally drowned.
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On Rockport farm, blueberry grower, solar power developer seek common ground
A new solar array at a blueberry farm seeks to demonstrate how both can thrive, as the state convenes a study group seeking ways to accommodate renewable energy on agricultural land.