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Laughed Out Loud

To the editor: Wonderful read!! Having never been able to convince my husband to live on an island, I live vicariously through the publications of the Island Institute. When I read the adventures of Rusty Warren, I try to imagine how I would handle such and such. Today I read Mid-Life, Mid-Winter, Mid-Ocean [WWF March

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Yum — Good!

To the editor: I just finished reading Randy Purinton’s article on razor clams [WWF March 2004]. Twenty-five years ago, living on Cape Cod where I did much shellfishing, I dug into a mess of razor clams. Folks said they were okay to eat but no one ever did. I took home about a dozen with

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Timely Topics

To the editor: Your publications are excellent! The writing is very good, and your topics very timely. Our granddaughter has given us Island Journal as a gift from their island home on Monhegan – Tralice Peck, wife of Robert Bracey, a lobsterman. They work to preserve the culture, beauty and riches of this place. Edward

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Horrified

[addressed to Rusty Warren] Dear Rusty: I have always enjoyed reading your articles in Working Waterfront. I was horrified to read about what happened to your dear cat and what didn’t happen to the perps. You are entirely justified in wanting to know is “Something Wrong here?” The answer is – obviously yes! I was

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Alive and Well

To the editor: In yesterday’s mail we received The Working Waterfront and in reading through the Reviews on page 23, discovered something that really should be corrected. The review of The Island’s True Child, review written by Robin de Campi, states and I quote: “The Island’s True Child is taken from Dorothy Simpson’s unpublished journals

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CEI’s Role

To the editor: Great article on the York Land Trust Sewall Dock deal…I wanted to make a correction: CEI financed a portion of the land trust’s purchase, not Mark and Jeff. They obtained financing through Farm Credit of Maine. Elizabeth Sheehan Coastal Enterprises, Inc. Portland

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Right Skirt, Wrong Movie

To the editor: Although Vinalhaven’s Phil Crossman is possibly your best columnist, and certainly the most amusing, you should put a fact checker to work on his stuff. In his “Santa Claus Is Coming to Town” (Dec.-Jan.) he refers to a figure whose skirt “blew up a little like Marilyn Monroe’s in ‘Some Like it

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Tight Fit

To the editor: Re: Sally Noble’s article in the December 2003/January 2004 issue of Working Waterfront/Island News – I would certainly hope that the landing strip on Matinicus is 1,700 feet long and not 1,700 -square-feet as stated in the article. A helicopter could land on that area but I question what kind of pilot

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No Gas

To the editor: I am a member of a group called “Fairplay for Harpswell.” We are in the midst of fighting a multi-billion-dollar energy company who proposes to build an LNG/natural gas port here. I want to commend you on your article “The Long View: Open Letter to Governor Baldacci” (WWF Dec-Jan 2003-04.) I think

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Passing the Torch

To the editor: Regrets and congratulations! Deep and shared regrets in the loss of Ted Spurling Sr.’s voice in your paper. Ted is a co-founder of the Islesford Historical Society who, with wife Cara, contributes mightily to its many publications. I viewed with pleasure your illustration showing Ted’s unique hand-written copy. I have a thick

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