Feeling the Fall

Feeling the Fall
September 15, 2011

Good eats, flea markets, fine art...though the temperature is cooling and the trees beginning to change, things in Maine are continuing to buzz. So get out and enjoy what is arguably the best time of year in Maine.
 
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Taqueria Madness Hits Portland

The hallmark of Mexican street food - the taqueria - has taken Greater Portland by storm.
 
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One Woman's Trash

I can't imagine what the clerk at the Topsham Irving station thinks as I dash in at 5:50 on this Sunday morning to purchase a bottle of hand sanitizer. But there's no time to wait for a reaction. We are en route from Portland to the Montsweag Flea Market in Woolwich - not as shoppers, but as sellers - and we've been instructed to arrive early. Ridiculously early.
 
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Crafted with Care

The Haystack Mountain School of Crafts not only produces incredible artisans and artists, it is an ever-evolving, artistic creation itself.
 
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Down East Book Events for September

Sat Sept 17th, 11AM-1PM, Governor's Travels, author Former Governor Angus King will sign books at the Bath Book Shop, 96 Front St., Bath.

Sun Sept 18th, 11AM-2PM, Notes from a Maine Kitchen, author Kathy Gunst will speak and sign books at Arrow's restaurant as part of the East Meets West Grand Tasting Fair. 41 Berwick Rd., Ogunquit.

Friday Sept 22rd, 1-2PM Eric Hopkins: Above and Beyond, artist Eric Hopkins will speak and sign books at the Farnsworth Art Museum, 86 Museum St., Rockland, ME.
 
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Above and Beyond Book Launch

Friday, September 16, 2011 from 5:30 - 8:30 p.m. at the Portland Museum of Art, meet artist Eric Hopkins and have him sign your copy of his new book Eric Hopkins: Above and Beyond. From his earliest work with glass to the stunning aerial panoramas of Maine islands that have gained him far-reaching fame, Eric Hopkins has consistently explored boundaries—of medium, of space, of vision.
 
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