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Rockland's Strand Theater is seventy-five years old, as of February 21, 1998.

The annual maine Seafood Festival, in Rockland, is the world's largest lobster feed.

The world's largest lobster pot is located in Rockland, under a huge tent at the public landing.

The cast and crew of the Twentieth Century-Fox film Deep Waters stayed at the Hotel Rockland on the corner of Rockland's Main and Park Streets during the making of the movie in 1947.

Composer Walter Piston was born in Rockland in 1894.

The William A. Farnsworth Art Museum is in Rockland.

Rockland-born poet Edna Saint Vincent Millay was the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for poetry in 1923.

Artist and sculptor Louise Nevelson, whose 1958 exhibit at the Museum of Modern Art was termed "extraordinary," was once captain of the Rockland girls basketball team.

Rockland-native actress Maxine Elliott (nee Jessica Dermott) was known as "the Queen of the Stage" in the 1890's.

Rockland-born Edna Saint Vincent Millay was named the state poet laureate in 1933.

Poet Leo Connellan, a three-time Pulitzer nominee, was born in Portland and he grew up in Rockland.

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