Maine’s Colby College Purchases Two Islands Where Artist Andrew Wyeth Once Lived

Colby College in Waterville, Maine, recently made a bit of an unusual purchase. This week, the liberal arts school announced it had acquired two islands in the Atlantic Ocean, about five miles off the coast of Maine, where 20th-century American realist painter Andrew Wyeth, who died in 2009, once lived and worked, according to a report by the New York Times.
The two islands, named Allen and Benner, were purchased from two Wyeth family–affiliated organizations, Up East and the Wyeth Fo