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Review: Pontine explores Hawthorne's ancestral thriller

Spirit world
Perhaps nowhere in America is the past as tangible a presence as it is in New England.
By MEGAN GRUMBLING | May 04, 2011

Ordinary people

Pontine's latest Jewett adaptation
Born and raised in South Berwick, the writer Sarah Orne Jewett spent her life noticing the lives of ordinary Maine people. Her esteemed 1896 The Country of the Pointed Firs is a series of wise, gentle sketches of the aging folks of several small maritime villages.
By MEGAN GRUMBLING | February 03, 2010

Rich power

Pontine lushly retells Jewett's stories
The Maine writer Sarah Orne Jewett, born in South Berwick in 1849, memorably focused her work on the ordinary people of rural nineteenth-century Maine.
By MEGAN GRUMBLING | April 29, 2009

Candy is dandy

Honey-sweet goodness at Pontine
The poet Ogden Nash might be best known for his acute “Reflections on Icebreaking”: “Candy/is dandy/but liquor/is quicker.”
By MEGAN GRUMBLING | February 06, 2008

Honoring home

Pontine opens up another chapter of the past
Preacher-turned-photographer Wallace Nutting was enamored of “the earliest forms” of America.
By MEGAN GRUMBLING | May 02, 2007

Strolling back

A people’s history of Portsmouth
For an encounter with such daily details of 17th- and 18th-century New England life, idle awhile with Brewster’s Rambles About Portsmouth , the fine newest addition to the social-historical repertoire of Portsmouth's Pontine Theatre.
By MEGAN GRUMBLING | May 03, 2006