If it’s an August weekend in coastal Maine, chances are there’s a music festival near you. Throughout the last decade, a handful of new music festivals have sprung up along the coast, bringing diverse bands and carnival atmospheres to coastal towns. Some of the new festivals were created by accident, like the BelTek festival Aug.
A Novel Approach to Shore Access
A Midcoast group hopes to buy Merchant’s Landing on Spruce Head Island in S. Thomaston. A small marina since 1973, Merchant’s Landing came up for sale last year (WWF July 2007), threatening the shore access of island owners and others who have used the place for years. Sharon McHold, a member of the Dix Island
Family Business
Being in the same business can make for an unusual level of understanding between husband and wife, but when they and the sons of each have opposite goals, the potential for trouble can skyrocket. When Corea Lobster Cooperative manager Dwight Rodgers courted seafood buyer Ruth Goodwin, mother and business partner of one of his customers,
Fire destroys Midcoast shipyard
Two partially completed tugboats and a pile of scrap metal were all that remained after a fierce fire destroyed the Washburn & Doughty shipyard in E. Boothbay on July 11. The company, which employed approximately 100 workers before the fire, laid off 65 of them and kept 35 working on a third tug that had
Out of Crackers
To the editor: Read the Crown Pilot Escapade (WWF April 2008) with interest as I am down to my last three crackers and looking for more for myself and my sister in Florida. Even Vermont Country Store is out of them…. It’s my favorite hot summer meal (milk & crackers or peanut butter & crackers)….
Olive Kitteridge
What does insight offer us, given the ability to observe oneself or others? Psychologists might answer it supports change and develops empathy and compassion. Yet, even for ourselves, understanding who we are and why is no small achievement. How can we hope, then, to have that understanding of others? And surely, there are some people
Delightful
To the editor: Please pass my compliments to Sandra Dinsmore for the delightful article “Duffy and Duffy” in the 2008 March issue of Working Waterfront. It broadcast the spirit of Richard and Riley. Importantly, it highlighted the problem solving skills that engineers call, reverently, “The Knack” – where you carefully avoid producing “art” and just
On large and small islands, fighting fires is challenging
On an island everyone fights a fire. It’s a fact. It’s like that with all emergencies on islands. Community residents respond during a time of crisis, and a fire on an unbridged island is definitely a crisis. Response time to a fire call on most islands is generally very good, but on some of the
Journal of an Island Kitchen
Wild strawberries abound a few feet beyond the pig pen and in a few spots in the front yard. Some of them are smaller than the wild blueberries that grow not far away. The miracle about them is that 25 years ago, the spot they now thrive in was bare, clayey soil scraped clean of
Adam the King
How to describe this novel, third in Lewis’s “Meritocracy Trilogy”? One way a book gets characterized is through Library of Congress subject headings; in this case, “fiction” about “Jewish men,” “weddings,” “middle age,” “rich people,” “life change events” and “summer resorts.” Well, yes, the book includes all of that. But more importantly, for our purposes