Hometown Maine - Kennebunk's Brick Store Museum
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The Brick Store Museum: Personal Connections to History, Art and Culture
Did you know that a progressive single woman named Edith Barry founded one of the only museums to open during the Great Depression, right here in Maine? Barry opened the Brick Store Museum on Main Street in Kennebunk in 1936, to celebrate the local history, art and culture of the town and its surrounding areas.
Kennebunk, recognized nationally for its shipbuilding prowess in the 1800s, turned into a nationwide tourist and artist mecca by the early 20th Century. Though the town preserved its small-town charm, it consistently spearheaded trends on a national level. Barry inherited a brick general store building from her uncle, William Barry, and knew immediately that she would open a museum dedicated to the story of this area
Edith Barry was born in 1884 in Boston, and by the time she turned twenty years old, had already crossed the Atlantic twenty-four times. She and her family spent summers here in Kennebunk, and returned to their home in Montclair, New Jersey, so that her father could work in New York City in the import/export business. Her three siblings all married; but Edith had other plans.
She funded the Brick Store Museum with her own money and invested her time and hard work for the rest of her life. Only a handful of museums in our history – twenty-one, to be exact – were opened by single females in the United States, out of the 35,000 museums that exist today. She was truly a woman ahead of her time.
Edith trained as an Impressionist painter with Monet in France during the outbreak of World War I, where she narrated the sights with excitement. Returning home, she joined the military in 1915 as part of the Women’s Reserve. Her love of traveling the world, passion for photography and art, and desire to discover cultures other than her own, fueled her life for the next sixty years.
Because of her world travels, Edith recognized that public museums are the link between cultural education and global understanding, empathy, and citizenship, especially at the local level.
Since 1936, the Brick Store Museum has worked to become a leader in the small museum field. We are one of only eight museums in Maine to be accredited by the American Alliance of Museums; and the only privately funded museum in the entire state to be open full-time, year round.
For a relatively small museum, we put on over 60 educational programs and special events per year in our community. With each visit, the Museum leverages our shared history to empower women, men and children to build strong relationships with their neighbors and the world.
In the spirit of Edith Barry, the Brick Store Museum is pushing the envelope once again, to be a cultural leader in the state in the 21st Century. The changes that are coming will quite literally open doors, spaces, and minds. We hope that you will take this journey with us to deliver exceptional cultural access and education, a path forged by Edith Barry more than eighty years ago. Will you help us to continue her powerful legacy?
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Kennebunk is a town in York County, Maine, United States. The population was 10,798 at the 2010 census. Kennebunk is home to several beaches, the Rachel Carson National Wildlife Refuge, the 1799 Kennebunk Inn, many historic shipbuilders' homes, the Brick Store Museum and the Nature Conservancy Kennebunk Plains (known locally as the Blueberry Plains), with 1,500 acres (6 km²) of nature trails and blueberry fields.
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The Kennebunk Inn - Kennebunk Hotels, Maine
The Kennebunk Inn 3 Stars Hotel in Kennebunk, Maine Within US Travel Directory Featuring an on-site restaurant, The Kennebunk Inn is conveniently located in the heart of Kennebunk. Free Wi-Fi access is available at this eco-friendly inn.Air conditioning and cable TV are included in each guest room. Suites are equipped with a microwave and refrigerator.Guests at the Inn in Kennebunk can enjoy the on-site gardens and shared terrace. The property offers free parking.Academe is located on-site and serves dishes made with local ingredients for lunch and dinner. Additional dining options are within walking distance.The inn is 300 m from The Brick Store Museum and 2.2 km from Kennebunk Dog Park. Portland International Jetport Airport is 30 minutes’ drive.
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Abbott Fuller Graves (1859-1936) A collection of paintings 2K Ultra HD
Abbott Fuller Graves (1859–1936) was an American painter and illustrator who specialised in decorative open air garden paintings and floral still lifes. His use of thick brushstrokes, bright colors, and natural light shows the influence of European impressionism.
Graves was born in Weymouth, Massachusetts, on April 15, 1859, the son of James Griswold Graves and Eliza Nicholls (Fuller). Hoping to become an architect, Graves attended the Massachusetts Institute of Technology but did not graduate. Graves went to Paris and Italy in 1884 to refine his skills as a flower painter. In Europe, he roomed with Edmund C. Tarbell. After returning to Boston in 1885, Graves became a teacher at the Cowles Art School, where his friend Childe Hassam was also on the faculty. The two painters undoubtedly influenced one another. In 1887, Graves returned to Paris to study figure painting at the Academie Julien. There he was taught by Fernand Cormon, Jean-Paul Laurens and Paul Gervais
Graves returned to Boston in 1891, and lived in the coastal town of Kennebunkport, Maine, where he taught painting classes in oil and watercolor. He continued to visit there in later years, painting genre scenes featuring farmers, fishermen, firemen and old sea captains of Kennebunkport. Many of his portrayals of small-town life were reproduced on calendars and postcards.
After 1891, the majority of Graves's works depict gardens and floral landscapes, some including female figures. Some portray exotic gardens of Spain and South America. In 1891, he opened his own art school in Boston. The school later moved to Kennebunk, Maine. From 1902 to 1905, Graves was employed as a commercial illustrator for magazines in Paris. He also studied at the Académie Vitti in Paris. After 1922, Graves spent his winters in New York City, where he belonged to such organizations as the National Academy of Design, the National Arts Club, the Salmagundi Club and Allied Artists of America.
Graves died in Kennebunkport on 15 July 1936. At the time of his death, he had achieved wide acclaim as a specialist in garden painting.
Examples of Graves’s work can be found in public and private collections across the country, including the Mead Art Museum at Amherst College, the Arnot Art Museum, Elmira, New York; the Brick Store Museum, Kennebunk, Maine; Ball State University Museum of Art, Muncie, Indiana; the Hermitage Foundation Museum, Norfolk, Virginia; and the Princeton
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Hometown Maine - Alna
In this weekend's Hometown Maine, News 8's Norm Karkos takes us to Alna where one museum connects Maine's railroad past to our future. Subscribe to WMTW on YouTube now for more:
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Edmund Muskie | Wikipedia audio article
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Edmund Muskie
00:03:43 1 Early life and education
00:07:15 1.1 Marriage and children
00:08:42 2 U.S. Navy Reserve, 1942–1945
00:11:01 3 Maine House of Representatives
00:14:29 4 Governor of Maine, 1955–1959
00:14:41 4.1 Gubernatorial campaign
00:17:24 4.2 First term
00:19:23 4.3 Second term
00:22:39 5 United States Senate, 1959–1980
00:22:51 5.1 Elections and campaigns
00:24:00 5.1.1 Election eve speech
00:27:11 5.2 First and second term
00:32:13 5.3 Third and fourth term
00:36:35 6 Campaigns for the White House
00:36:45 6.1 1968 presidential election
00:36:56 6.1.1 Campaign
00:38:37 6.2 1972 presidential election
00:38:48 6.2.1 Background and primaries
00:40:37 6.2.2 Canuck letter
00:42:39 6.3 1976 presidential election
00:43:09 7 U.S. Secretary of State, 1980-81
00:43:53 7.1 Draft Muskie movement
00:45:12 7.2 Afghanistan
00:45:58 7.3 Soviet Union
00:47:04 7.4 Iran hostage crisis
00:48:37 8 Return to law and the commission
00:49:03 8.1 Tower Commission
00:50:17 9 Death and funeral
00:52:21 10 Legacy
00:52:30 10.1 Historical evaluations
00:57:38 10.2 Public and political image
01:00:10 10.3 Honors and memorials
01:04:18 11 See also
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Edmund Sixtus Muskie (March 28, 1914 – March 26, 1996) was an American statesman and political leader who served as the 58th United States Secretary of State under President Jimmy Carter, a United States Senator from Maine from 1959 to 1980, the 64th Governor of Maine from 1955 to 1959, a member of the Maine House of Representatives from 1946 to 1951, and the Democratic Party's candidate for Vice President of the United States in the 1968 election.
Born in Rumford, Maine to Polish parents, Muskie graduated from Bates College in Lewiston, and Cornell University in Ithaca. He worked as a lawyer for two years before serving in the United States Naval Reserve from 1942 to 1945 during World War II. Upon his return, Muskie served in the Maine State Legislature from 1946 to 1951 against heavy Republican opposition. Despite an unsuccessful bid for the mayoralty of Waterville, he was elected the 64th Governor of Maine in an upset victory as its first Roman Catholic in 1954. Although elected as a reform Governor, Muskie split from his mandate; he amended its constitution multiple times to consolidate power, suspended the as Maine goes, so goes the nation doctrine, pressed aggressive economic expansionism and instated environmental provisions. Muskie's actions severed a nearly 100-year Republican stronghold, led to the political insurgency of the Maine Democrats, and pushed Maine into the Golden Age of Capitalism. He used his increased public presence to gain a seat in the United States Senate representing his home state.
His legislative accomplishments during his career as a Senator facilitated a vast expansion of modern liberalism in the United States. He fathered the 1960s environmental movement which culminated in the passage of the Clean Air Act of 1970 and Clean Water Act of 1972—hallmarks of international environmental policy. A supporter of the civil rights movement, Muskie rallied support for the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the creation of Martin Luther King Jr. Day and tapered Richard Nixon's Imperial Presidency by advancing New Federalism. Muskie ran alongside Hubert Humphrey against Nixon in the 1968 presidential election, only to lose by 0.7 percentage points (42.72% vs. 43.42%), one of the narrowest margins in the history of the United States. He would go on to run in the 1972 presidential election where he secured 1.84 million votes in the primaries coming in fourth out of 15 contesters. The release of the controversial Canuck letter derailed his campaign.
After the election, he returned to the Senate where he gave the 1976 State of the Union Response. Muskie served as first chairman of the new Senate Budget Committee from 1975 to 1980 where he established the United States budget process. Upon his retirement from the Senat ...