Carroll Tyson, the real James Bond’s uncle, was a noted artist, and his portfolio of 20 fine-arts prints of the birds of Mount Desert Island is still prized and highly collectible. A print of Tyson’s Great Grey Owl, for instance,
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The Free Library of Philadelphia has extensive archives donated by Mary Bond and (far more recently) by me. As a result of my extensive research into my book, I’ve come across several places where you can learn more about the
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I’m back from a whirlwind trip to Maine’s MDI, where I gave a couple of talks about The Real James Bond, donated some Bond-related books and ephemera to two the Friends of Acadia and the Mount Desert Island Historical Society
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Just in time for the opening of the new 007 movie “No Time to Die,” New Center Maine’s Beth McEvoy did a terrific interview with me about the real Bond, 007, Ian Fleming and the real Bond’s love for Maine
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When artists painted portraits of birds before the advent of color photography, they had to paint from life. Thus … When John James Audubon created his landmark “Birds of America,” he used stuffed birds as models. When Vincent Van Gogh
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