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Food, Friendship and Art on Monhegan

Marlene Loznicka from Midcoast Maine and Joyce Greenfield from Connecticut first met 18 years ago at an art workshop. They developed a friendship and, over the years, would paint together on Monhegan. They would invite various other friends to join them. About nine years ago, they invited a group that bonded so well that they

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The Matinicus red dahlia society

The Matinicus red dahlia was first brought to the island in 1906 by Marian Young to commemorate the birth of her baby daughter. Since then, the tubers have been wintered over in cellars, to be replanted the next year, and every garden on the island has flowers descending from the original. If someone has bad

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