BANGOR DAILY NEWS • June 29, 2022
Like a chance sighting of a rare bird, the circumstances under which the exhibit of paintings by Maine biologist and artist Walter H. Rich came to be on display at the Zillman Art Museum in Bangor were a matter of things happening in the right place at the right time. Kendra Raymond, a Hermon resident, for years has had in her possession a number of gouache and watercolor paintings of wild birds of New England by Rich, who was a family friend and longtime colleague of her great-grandfather, William C. Kendall, in the early 1900s in the U.S. Bureau of Fisheries office in Portland.