An Art Heist Stuns Maine, and a Hawk Baffles Birders

JUL 28, 202525 MIN
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An Art Heist Stuns Maine, and a Hawk Baffles Birders

JUL 28, 202525 MIN

Description

There is no shortage of beauty in Maine – from the mountains and shore, to historic buildings and lighthouses, to all the many vibrant and ever-evolving types of art that are made here. Reflecting on how to think about the value of this kind of richness, and who has access to it and how, can lead to profound and important questions. We’ll think about these huge ideas in the context of two very unusual and extremely unexpected stories. The first is a monster art heist that occurred in downtown Portland, and the second is a tale of a bird from the Amazon than inexplicably took up a perch in Maine one November.