Franklin Delano Roosevelt was happiest on Campobello Island, which straddles the border between Maine and Canada. The 50th anniversary of Roosevelt-Campobello International Park, the centerpiece of which is the former first family’s 34-room, red-shingled summer “cottage,” was in 2014.
Not just hand-warmers, these patterns replicate the mittens once worn by Maine and Maritime fishermen and farmers. They are bits of social history captured in wool.
Exhibits at the Portland Museum of Art and the Peabody Essex Museum present Antarctica and the Arctic as seen through the eyes of explorers and artists.
