2011
Basketmakers nurture tradition of innovation
In the early 1990s the Maine Indian Basketmakers Alliance was formed with 55 founding members, comprised of elders from the Maliseet, Micmac, Passamaquoddy and Penobscot tribes.
Arts & Culture
2009
Passamaquoddys perform in capital
Homegrown: The Music of America Presented by the Library of Congress" hosted two members of the Passamaquoddy Tribe on Wednesday, September 15. Blanche Sockabasin and Wayne Newell are the first Native Americans from east of the Mississippi to perform in this series, which began in 2002.
2009
Arts Alive shines a light on Lubec history and people
Alive with Art was the theme in Lubec during the week of August 17 through 22. Billed as a Downeast community art event and envisioned by Lubec art teacher Shanna Wheelock with the help of Maine artist Natasha Mayers, the event unleashed a virtual explosion of creativity in this small community.
2008
Maine filmmaker targets Eastport for murder mystery
Eastport will once again be the site of a film production, and area residents will have an opportunity to be actors in a low-cost film scheduled to be shot during late April and May.
2007
Alexander artist's work graces Christmas tree at White House
Artist John Foley can boast that his work hangs in the White House. True, it's only there for the holiday season, it hangs from a Christmas tree, and the painter's canvas is a six inch plastic ball...
2007
Dark tales cast shadow on home
An old house on Leighton Point Road in Pembroke, at the corner of the middle crossroad, is dark and brooding. Perhaps that's so because of the "witch's hat" dormers, common enough in eastern Maine but which to eyes from away seem vaguely sinister.