The modern gallery spaces feature a slew of notable American artists like Edward Hopper, Rockwell Kent, Andrew Wyeth and Winslow Homer (a Mainer).

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Though he left New England when he was only seven, Chouinard still retains the unimpressed, dismissive mien of a flinty Mainer.

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Alexandra Crabb, a Boston PR consultant and and native Mainer says if there was a disaster that crippled electronic devices, Power Felt is what we would want to have in that bag.

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