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Live from Northport — it’s Saturday Cove.

Saturday, June 6th, 2009

Kimber Lee Clark’s wonderful Saturday Cove has been missing for a while now. But it’s back!

Her parents definitely had a sense of humor and she continues the whimsey in her art work. Her great taste, and sense of style, have been a magnet for fans from all over the world. Stop by and say hello, she’d love to see you.

Saturday Cove, Route One, Atlantic Highway, Northport, ME 04849, 207-338-3654. Here’s the website. (You’ll find it five miles south of Belfast and 11 miles north of Camden.) Open – June –Wednesday-Saturday — 10-5, Sunday –12-4 / July and August — Daily — 10-5.

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Easter Bunny arrives in Maine.

Sunday, April 12th, 2009

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Signs and critters in Hancock.

Monday, April 6th, 2009

You never know what you’ll find wandering around on a gray day in Maine. But sooner or later, you’ll run into something that makes you smile.

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’1979 Sawed alphabet on pencil first time?’ With a chainsaw? –Wow! You won’t find anything like this on Linkedin.

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This must be Wilbur. Thank goodness he’s roped in.

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Hot and sweaty.

Friday, April 3rd, 2009

We get new flip flops and shorts, and Shipyard Summer Ale gets a new label! Seems only fair.

New Shipyard Brewing Label

Ken Hendrickson, and Shipyard Brewing, designed this quirky and charming new label to inspire a thirst for their popular brew. Seems to be working. Nice hint of ocean breeze.

Loaded with Maine cliches, it could have resulted in cornball. But they successfully walked that fine line.

Ken Hendrickson, a Maine boy who just never stopped painting, must have had fun working on this. If you like this one, you’ll like his series of quirky lobsters on the ME Lobster web site.

He also does the labels for Battleground Cigars, which uses images of The Civil War, a favorite subject of his. It takes talent to go from the horror of the Civil War to whimsical lobsters.

And also to make a fine beer. Thirsty yet?

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Andrew Wyeth dies.

Friday, January 16th, 2009

Christina's World by Andrew Wyeth

Andrew Wyeth died in his sleep at his home in Chadds Ford. He was 91.

Much beloved in Maine, Wyeth was the considered the outsider by his contemporaries in the art world who were swept up in the abstract modernism movement of the time.

He said: “I think the great weakness in most of my work is subject matter. There’s too much of it.”

In an era of ‘rebels’ it’s ironic that he turned out to be the true rebel, not following the mainstream of the time. Maine inspired much of his work and it seems odd that The New York Times didn’t mention the Farnsworth in their long obituary.

His most famous work is ‘Christina’s World’ which was painted in Cushing, Maine and is owned by the Museum of Modern Art in New York.

But be sure to visit The Wyeth Center at the Farnsworth Museum in Rockland to see his work. The Olson House in Cushing remains much as he painted it. You can almost see Christina.

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