Around New England

Dead Poets Society Founder Commissions Antiquarian Gravestone, Dies

Matthew McDonald

Walter Skold, 57, a former Maine resident, died unexpectedly of a heart attack, about a month after he commissioned Michael Updike of Newbury, Massachusetts, the son of novelist John Updike (1932-2009), to carve a colonial-looking gravestone for him with a dancing skeleton and a quill. Skold advocated a Dead Poets Remembrance Day holiday on the Sunday closest to October 7, the date Edgar Allan Poe died.

Around New England

Maine Building Code Altered To Accommodate Tiny Homes

Matthew McDonald

So-called tiny homes, which are defined as dwellings of less than 400 feet, are now allowed by Maine's building code. Individual towns can allow them or ban them through local building codes.

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