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Mailing Maine shrimp

I empathize with the letter writer of “Made in Maine?” (Working Waterfront, February-March 2009) although I can get Maine lobster out here. It tastes a bit different, though, because no one pronounces it lobstah. My problem was getting Maine shrimp and I had given up, after hearing that they were too delicate for successful shipping

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Gooseberry column evokes childhood memories

The September issue kept me clipping: “Sewing group celebrates 150th” to send to friends as an inspiration for their church groups; “Growing food on granite,” with the Dominique chicken, for a friend who raises chickens near San Francisco; the story about the beehive art collective in Machias for when I visit there again; and, finally

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Still More on Pilots

To the editor: Please add sour grapes to those crackers, from a reader who grew up in northern Maine and lived in Bangor, without ever hearing of Crown Pilot crackers till the April issue of WWF arrived. The two letters in the May issue and one in June moved me to write this one. The

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Going “Green” and Local Knowledge

To the editor: Reading about the “greening” of the town of Cranberry Isles (WWF April 2008) and the area supermarkets was exciting. “Little Things,” the title of the editorial, obviously add up to something much bigger. I would add a credit to Hannaford Brothers:  the reusable green bag I bought in the Bangor store last

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Off the Grid

To the editor: In the headline for The Long View “Summah People — Some Ahrn’t” [WWF Sept. 06] did one of those summah people sneak that “r” into “Ahn’t?” The article was pleasingly positive about summer people, without offending us natives. The possibility of no ferry service to Digby, presented in “Efforts are underway to

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Quite a Splash

To the editor: Perhaps lobsters in recent news could fit under “The Year Everything Changed,” in your June Editorial. If not, at least lobsters made quite a splash in two months. Four stories in your June issue, including one beginning on the front page, and a mention in a column plus a story in the

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Safe Shrimp

To the editor: Thank you for serving up a savory shrimp course in the March issue, “Great American Shrimp.”  I gobbled it up, as I realized how “malnourished” I was in knowledge. For me, growing up in Aroostook County, shrimp came from a can  to be offered in salad, or, combined with green peas in

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Reassuring

To the editor: In “Sustainability” (WWF June 05), Bob Moore responded heroically to the challenge of defining the word by writing the clearest description I have read. In a world where impermanence and disregard for both past history and the future are common, “the notion of longevity or resilience through time” and “an explicit awareness

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