The best place in our house to keep our squashes and pumpkins happens to be under the bed in our guest room, a fact that some people find very amusing. There are a couple of reasons for storing them there. One is that hard shelled squashes need to be kept cool and dry and that
Fresh Maine Salads: Innovative Recipes from Appetizers to Desserts
Camden ME: Down East Books, 2006. Salads for Four Seasons It’s fall, and about now your garden may have pooped out for the year, producing its last oversized zucchini, gaggle of arugula or bunch of basil. But the recipes in this book speak to all seasons, emphasizing the preference for local provenance whenever possible. As
Trawler: A Journey Through the North Atlantic
First Vintage Departures Edition, January 2006 339 pages, $14.95 Quotes that can’t be reported in a family newspaper Scientist and author Redmond O’Hanlon is not new to adventure — he has written books about challenging the wilds of Borneo, Amazonia and the Congo — but he’s new to the sea. His most recent book, Trawler;
Winsor Music ensemble to perfrom on Swan’s Island
On Friday, Nov. 3 from 1:30 to 2:30 p.m. at Swan’s Island School, three members of Winsor Music, one of the Northeast’s premier chamber music ensembles, will present a free, interactive children’s music program. Students and teachers from the Frenchboro and Islesford schools will also participate, and any other interested island teachers and their students
Peninsula potters to hold Columbus Day weekend tour
It’s not often that pottery aficionados get to gorge on what they love most: attending kiln openings and throwing demonstrations, seeing new works, touring studios, and meeting and buying directly from the potter. But all 18 members of the Maine Peninsula Potters, will hold a studio tour and sale from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Peaks Island inspires an expatriate’s first novel
The second time Ali Alavi visited Peaks Island, he came in the fall, in the off-season. As he walked around the island, he didn’t see many people, and he began thinking of Peaks as the setting for his first novel, The Tombland’s Tale. “It struck me as a place that is peaceful and would be
Downeast parents want school for autistic children
Like many mothers, Alice French of Ellsworth recently sent her 12-year-old son, Jack, back to school. Because Jack is severely autistic and needs round-the-clock care, however, for the past three years he has attended a Massachusetts school for autistic children 340 miles away. He comes home to her less than a dozen times a year.
The Long View: Back to School: Why Small Works
Several weeks ago, a group of 17 National Science Foundation (NSF) advisors and investigators boarded the Laura B. mail boat for the voyage out to Monhegan for a day and a half of meetings. We were all part of the CREST team (Community for Rural Education Stewardship and Technology), funded by a three year NSF
HOTCAKES: Island women bare up well for church-benefit calendar
On Matinicus, even summer sea breezes can be cool. But one day last summer 12 island women not only took off their clothes, they let a photographer record their images for a 2007 calendar, now selling like, well, hotcakes. The full-color, 12-month calendar reveals no more than you’d see on a trip to a public
Cranberry Report: “My Last First Day”
Tuesday, Sept. 5, was the first day of school on Islesford. As parents, students, teachers and community members gathered in the school yard for the annual photographs, Denise McCormick told me, “This is my last first day of island school.” Her daughter, Melissa McCormick, is one of the three eighth grade students. Hannah Folsom and