THE DOWNEAST DILETTANTE

A beautiful Greek Revival house,"Riverside" was built c.1840  on ancestral land, for the Glidden family of Newcastle, Maine, owne...

My morning distraction was set in motion by an 18th century engraving of the Cabinet de Treillage at the Petite Trianon at Versailles. ...

On a quick  outing with an observant friend to the near Down East (Winter Harbor and Gouldsboro), I particularly captivated by the textures ...

In the year since I last posted, there has been a veritable landslide of demand for my return (at least 3 people and a dog at last count), s...

Several people have sent kind emails lately, asking why I've been blogging so little---the short answer is that I have several small pro...

THIS DAY IN HISTORY Fifty years ago today, the estimable Margaret Chase Smith, the Republican Senator from Maine, who helped bring down...