Ben McCanna

Dec 27, 2024 | pressherald.com | Ben McCanna |Derek Davis |Shawn Patrick Ouellette |Gregory Rec |Brianna Soukup

Photo by Derek DavisChildren play a piano at Pumpkin Valley Farm during the farm’s two-day sunflower festival. This was a very fun assignment. I hadn’t visited a sunflower farm before, so I was in awe when I arrived and began wandering through the maze in the fields. There were stands you could climb to get above the sunflowers and take images looking down, and there were people dressed in sunflower-themed outfits.

Nov 30, 2024 | pressherald.com | Ben McCanna |Gregory Rec |Derek Davis

Pandora LaCasse in her Portland studio, where she creates and maintains the winter light forms seen throughout Portland and other towns. This holiday season marks 25 years that LaCasse has been installing the lights in public places. Gregory Rec/Portland Press Herald Pandora LaCasse unhooks one of her lighting sculptures from the ceiling in the basement of Maine College of Art in downtown Portland, where they’re stored when not in use. These lights will be moved to Lincoln Park.

Nov 20, 2024 | pressherald.com | Ben McCanna

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Nov 1, 2024 | pressherald.com | Ben McCanna

Costumed children run past the setting sun while trick-or-treating on Peaks Island on Halloween. Children and their parents gather in front of houses on Central Avenue. A colorful Norah Bradenday, 1, walks across Central Avenue. Alex Meharg, 6, dressed as King Tut, leaves a home while trick-or-treating with parents Kristin and Rob Meharg. Constantine Vigil-Conley, 12, appears to be carried off by an alien while trick-or-treating on Island Avenue.

Oct 5, 2024 | pressherald.com | Ben McCanna

PEAKS ISLAND — Fifty-three years ago, having dropped out of college after an unsuccessful semester in Portland, Stanwood Newell was looking for work. He stumbled on an unusual ad in the paper. “Tree climbers wanted,” Newell recalled. “Will train.”Newell, who was 19 at the time, answered the call and joined about 25 other men in Portland’s Deering Oaks for a training program with a tree company. The heights were dizzying and off-putting for some.