Articles
Clearing Land: Legacies of the American Farm
New York: North Point Press, 2004 208 pages, $20.00 Grieving a Way of Life Loss. Transition. If they’re difficult experiences to write about, they’re also not easy reading. This book reflects on the author’s experience grieving a way of life once vital, now ended. Loved and lost. For Jane Brox, a writer living in Wiscasset,
The Photographer’s Guide to the Maine Coast
Woodstock VT: The Countryman Press, 2004 $17.95 Why I Stopped Worring About Looking Like a Tourist Deep in the dead of winter, it seems to me a prime requirement of an interesting book at this time of year is that it offers an escape from our frozen landscape, short days and long nights, and the
Recipes From A Very Small Island
A New Side of Linda Greenlaw My first reaction to the idea of this particular cookbook was somewhat cynical. Is Linda Greenlaw going Martha Stewart on us? Was someone thinking that Linda Greenlaw’s readership would expand exponentially if more readers of “traditional” female-oriented genres could identify with her? What has marked Greenlaw as “untraditional” is
Rocky Romance: In Love with the Coast of Maine
The Edge of Maine Washington, D.C: National Geographic Society, 2005 Wolff is a seasoned author of biographies, including a fascinating one of his con artist dad titled The Duke of Deception, and fiction. This travelogue comes in a series from the National Geographic Society, featuring some of the best contemporary writers including Francine Prose, Louise
“Maine Women: Living on the Land”
Of the Land, Sea and Sky Two exhibitions at Rockland’s Farnsworth Art Museum feature Maine residents showcased in the places they call home. Lauren Shaw has photographed and mapped ten subjects and their communities in her installation, “Maine Women: Living on the Land.” Jamie Wyeth’s paintings document scenes of ravens and gulls familiar to him
Painting Maine: The Borrowed Views of Connie Hayes
Borrowed View Press, Rockland, ME 2004 A Room of Her Own Connie Hayes paints scenes from the coast of Maine familiar to many of us; quilted-together backyards of fishing villages, working waterfronts with their spill of gear, weathered houses, islands positioned like sentinels in coves. A native of Maine, she has been painting here for
Getting to the Bottom of the Story
The book with buzz this summer on Vinalhaven is not the latest Tom Wolfe novel. It is, rather, Away Happens, a collection of humorous essays about life on a small Maine island (namely, Vinalhaven). Phil Crossman is the local author. The book has a catchy cover, with a photograph revealing a gentleman waving somewhat wistfully
The New Conquistadores
You can almost hear the gush as you read online descriptions about the Riviera Maya, a 130-kilometer strip of Mexico’s Caribbean coast between Cancun in the north and Tulum in the south, including Playa del Carmen and its access to the island of Cozumel. It is “Mexico’s hottest investment property,” seeing “explosive growth,” and is
The New England Clam Shack Cookbook
North Adams, Massachussets: Storey Publishing, 2003 A particular culture and cuisine, out of season Here’s a prescription for sufferers of Seasonal Affective Disorder, that problem during dark days of the year when depression creeps up on people. Read a book that seems steeped in sunlight, where every page makes you picture summer: long hot bright
Museum reflects an island’s quirky persona
You might think you’re entering an austere space as you approach the front door to the Vinalhaven Historical Society on High Street. After all, the building served as a church when it was built in 1838 in Rockland. The building was transported in 1875 to Vinalhaven, and islanders converted it to a multitude of secular