The Working Waterfront

07/11/2025

07/09/2025

07/02/2025

06/19/2025

COAST OF NEW BRUNSWICK, ETCHING, 1882! Large etching in our collections that is titled "Coast of New Brunswick." It's the work of American artist, Stephen Parrish (1846-1938) and dates to 1882. Parrish and another American artists Charles Platt, did a series of etchings of coastal scenes along the Bay of Fundy in New Brunswick and Nova Scotia in the 1880s. We have a number of these etchings in our collections.

06/11/2025

Down East Magazine did grow in both reach and quality during Allen Fernald's tenure.

CAMDEN — H. Allen Fernald passed away peacefully on June 2, 2025, at the Sussman House, surrounded by his loving family.

06/05/2025

WATERCOLOR OF EASTPORT, C.1930! Watercolor of Eastport, Maine that recently came into our collections. It's the work of Chicago based artist, Josephine Reichmann, and dates to about 1930. We located the work in upstate New York and our supporters helped us secure it. We have one other work by Reichmann in our collections (https://www.tidesinstitute.org/the-tides-institutes-online-collections/entry/33465900-689b-11eb-be59-ff3df8cd6f70/), a large oil painting, also of Eastport.

05/28/2025

05/27/2025

WATERCOLOR, LUBEC, C.1930! Watercolor titled “Lubec, Maine” that recently came into our collections. It’s the work of American artist, Gladys Atwood Ennis (1891-1953), and dates to about 1930. Gladys Atwood was born in Natick, Massachusetts and later studied under noted watercolor artist, George Pearse Ennis. She married him in 1928. She played an active role in running the Eastport Summer School of Art that her husband had founded and served as director. He was killed in a car accident in upstate New York in 1936. She was with him and survived, but the school ended as a result of his death. We located this watercolor in Cincinnati and with the help of supporters were able to acquire it.

05/23/2025

Sandy does some sleuthing on who does the actual handling of our food.

Sometime close to Christmas 2024, Estela Rodriguez packed a dozen truly wonderful pears in a carefully padded box which were ordered as a Christmas gift sent

05/22/2025

Worth a trip to Brunswick, or, better yet, to Monhegan.

The exhibition delves into the island's evolving ecology, history, and artistic representation through various thematic lenses. The exhibition spans 12,000 years, highlighting the significance of Monhegan to the Wabanaki's fishing culture and showcasing the ancient Cathedral Woods that have inspired...

05/21/2025

Civil War veterans once gathered here to remember and heal. Today, it's a museum that honors their service and tells their story. Very much worth a visit.

The artifacts are varied and evocative. There is a piece of hardtack, a food staple for soldiers; relics from the battle at Gettysburg; hand-colored “lantern slides,” which were projected onto screens; and shackles that had been used on a slave.