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"have been scanned in their entirety, and total 9,626 images."
Selections from the Fairfield Porter Papersin the Smithsonian Archives of American Art.
Selections from the collection including a photographs of
Porter and his siblings on the dock at Great Spruce Head Island,
Fairfield Porter in Maine,
the interior of the Big House on Great Spruce Head Island,
Porter with his dog Bruno on the dock at Great Spruce Head Island,
Porter on Great Spruce Head Island, painting The Path Around the Head, and
Photograph of Porter in his studio painting House with Three Chimneys (1972).
Paul Cummings interviewed Porter in Southampton on June 6, 1968. The full-text of the transcript is online, provided by the Smithsonian Archives of American Art in their extensive collection of Oral History Interviews.
Books about the artist include:
Material Witness: The Selected Letters of Fairfield Porter (2005 edited by Ted Leigh (University of Michigan Press);
Fairfield Porter: A Life in Art (1999) by Justin Spring (Yale University Press);
Fairfield Porter: Catalogue Raisonne of the Oil Paintings, Watercolor, and Pastels (2001) by Joan Ludman (Hudson Hills Press)
- See A Prints Project That Took an Entire State to Mount by Deborarh Weisgall, New York Times, September 24, 2006, Becker Book Celebrates Two Centuries of Maine Printmaking, Bowdoin News, September 25, 2006 and The Imprint of Place: Maine Printmaking 1800-2005 by David Becker, Down East Books, 2006.
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- By Ted Williams. Audubon, July/August, 2006. Plum Creek Timber Company of Seattle has announced a plan to develop 10,000 acres on Big Moose Lake with 1,725 dwelling units. "If the plan for Maine’s biggest development ever goes through, it could spell disaster for millions of acres of forestland across the northeast."
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- This is a valuable resource, frequently updated. The State and Federal Issues page provides extensive resources to various issues. See, for example, the section on Eminent Domain legislation and Kelo v. New London. "NCSL is summarizing and posting 2006 bills as they pass the legislatures. The summaries include a link to the legislation or to the legislature's bill tracking system." You'll find information on court decisions, legislation, presentations and podcasts, publications and staff contacts. Maine-specific information includes
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with examples of bindings from some of the 1,200 volumes relating to the fine arts, travel, and French and English history and literature and includes a catalog of the collection and glossary of binding terms. The department also houses the Kate Furbish collection. Furbish was a botanical artist who spent most of her life "collecting, classifying, and drawing the flora of Maine."
- State-side online catalog
Literature
- Audio literary journal, founded by Maine poet Matt O'Donnell, showcases emerging poets "reading their own poems, as well as answering questions about poetry and the writing process." There is a list of poets and poems. Bowdoin College and From the Fishouse jointly host a series of poetry readings. The session on May 4th, 2006 featured poet Christian Barter, a graduate of Bates College, and a trail crew supervisor at Acadia National Park in Bar Harbor. Listen to his The Singers I Prefer. Another reader in the series (November 19, 2005) was Brian Turner, a former Army sergeant from Fresno, California and the author of a book of poems about the year he spent in Iraq - Here, Bullet. Listen to his Gilgamesh, In Fossil Relief. Turner was interviewed by Steve Inskeep on Morning Edition (National Public Radio), January 6, 2006 (Iraq Soldier Describes War in Poetry.)
O'Donnell also happens to be an editor of the Bowdoin Magazine. In a small story in that magazine (At the Fish House, p. 15 Fall 2003) he gives a bit of history on the origin of the name. "In early summer, we received an interesting call from College arborist Tim Vail. While working on Orr's Island, he [Vail] stumbled across the writing cabin of Lawrence Sargent Hall '36, the well-known Bowdoin professor who died in 1993. The amazing aspect of Vail's discovery is that the writing cabin sits unchanged from Hall's inhabitance a decade ago...According to Lawrence Hall, Jr., all or at least parts of any of his father's significant works, including the O'Henry Award-winning short story, "The Ledge," were written in "the fish house," as Hall called it (the shed was originally used by local fisherman to dry cod fish)." With Hall's permission, O'Donnell had the writing cabin moved to his property. (See About the Fishouse and the Brunswick Times Record May 25, 2006 story by Elizabeth Brogan - From the Fishouse.)
