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Secret ingredient Carrageenan from Rockland thrives in “natural” foods marketplace
The familiar fish plants have gone out of business and the Fisher snowplow factory has left the Rockland waterfront for cheaper industrial park land – but FMC Biopolymer and its trademark smokestack and steaming industrial buildings will stay put, according to plant officials. The plant has been a fixture on the city waterfront since 1936.
HIPPOCAMPUS could live again
There is one in every boatyard along the Maine Coast; a refugee from the past that has survived hundreds of storms and dangerous voyages, only to meet a lingering death, rotting slowly ashore. At Ducky’s, also known as Spruce Head Boat Yard, it is the mighty HIPPOCAMPUS, with its illustrious, almost 90-year history hidden by
“It’s a crazy business” 40 years in the schooner trade gives you a unique perspective
Even at age 80, Capt. George Allen just can’t get away from boats. The Brooklin native is now carving toy boats for children in his Creeping Thyme Gift Shop after spending decades in the Penobscot Bay windjammer trade. His career culminated with building the 52-foot pinky schooner SUMMERTIME with Capt. Bill Brown, virtually in his