Hard Tellin'...: Pictures of Maine

Hard Tellin’… is less an attempt to define Maine, or Maine in the movies, than an opportunity to celebrate four great films that accomplish something most art should aspire to: they capture the ineffable in a place and its people at a particular moment in time. They get at something unique and a bit hard to define about us. They feel, for lack of a better word, honest.

Boston Globe: For 93-year-old painter and sculptor Jo Sandman, living the life of an artist ‘my destiny’

Artist Jo Sandman, 93, right, works with curator Katherine French to archive and place decades' worth of her art in museum collections. Suzanne Kreiter/Globe Staff

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