This holiday season my loved ones came through once again, gracing me with a delightful assortment of books with which to ring in the new year. I revel in unwrapping every telltale square gift, the only suspense being the sort of book I’ll find. Fiction or non? Mystery or history? Novels or short story collections?…
When you were a child, did you yearn to go blueberry picking with Sal? Were you thrilled when deep-water man Burt Dow, his seagull sidekick and his multi-colored boat the Tidley-Idley were swallowed by a whale? Have you made a pilgrimage to Boston to see the famous ducklings parading across the Public Garden? Whether Robert…
'Robert McCloskey: The Art of Wonder' opens Tuesday at Curtis Memorial Library and features work for 'Blueberries for Sal,' 'Make Way for Ducklings' and others.
ELLSWORTH — Generations of children have grown up reading Robert McCloskey’s “Burt Dow, Deep-Water Man,” and next weekend audiences of all ages will have a chance to see the story