Bantam Books, 2008 Headed for Eastport, Packing Heat Sarah Graves’s latest murder mystery, The Book of Old Houses, has a number of corpses, as you might expect, and a host of twists and turns — including a point of view and a narrative of a character other than Eastport’s amateur sleuth Jacobia Tiptree — that
The Boatbuilder’s Apprentice: The Ins and Outs of Building Lapstrake, Carvel, Stitch-and-Glue, Strip-Planked, and Other Wooden Boats
Camden: International Marine/McGraw Hill, 2007 Hardcover, $39.95 “Logical Associations, Interesting Digressions” Greg Rossel is an engaging, talented and funny man who builds boats in Troy, Maine, and teaches at the WoodenBoat School. He also writes regularly about boatbuilding. This book’s origins lie in articles he wrote for WoodenBoat magazine and other publications, including at least
Not Easy
To the editor: As a recent transplant to Maine, and as a contributing writer to the Texas Observer, another small paper in Texas (where my wife and I just moved from), I’m picking up all the local newspapers I can. Yours is now my favorite, and we will probably subscribe for some friends who once
From the Deck: Fog Run
A log book was very useful to a coastwise cruiser before the invention of radar and GPS as a record of courses steered and distances run. Should fog shut down, he can retrace his steps on the chart and at least give a good guess as to his position. Capt. Hugh Williams in 24-foot Helen
Heart Stones
Harry N. Abrams, 2007 When a Heart Like a Stone is a Good Thing Just in time for all the sweethearts you want to wish a Happy Valentine’s Day, Heart Stones is hot off the press. Here, her images — created with a flatbed scanner and computer — portray a fascinating array of classically, and
To Arms!
The “powers that be” seem to ignore polluters and quite frankly, the raping of our waterways, to say nothing of the people who live and work in a working waterfront neighborhood. We are in a crisis situation in Mayport Village, Florida, a working waterfront area. Jaxport (Jacksonville Port Authority) has bought the lion’s share of
“Facts”
To the editor: …I read the story “Anchor to Windward” by Sally Noble with some passing interest as it is about my competitor. I felt it necessary to pass along several corrections to “facts” contained in the story. Brown Ship Chandlery was not started by anyone in the Poole family. It was started by Mr.
Water from Above How a roof can provide all of a house’s water
Laura Sewall of Phippsburg obtains all of her water from her roof. All of it. No well, no other supply pumped from a pond. Water for the dishwasher, toilets, sinks, showers, radiant floor heating systems, to irrigate her gardens and for drinking and cooking. So far, her catchment system has provided a plentiful supply for
Researchers study climate change’s effects on lobster fishery
Lobsters are more sensitive to the weather than the fishermen who catch them: fishermen are always on the water but the “bugs” aren’t always crawling. Because fishermen are such efficient samplers of the lobster population, they are an excellent source of information on the dynamics of Maine’s most valuable crustacean. Last year the Island Institute,
Veterinary Shortage On the Maine coast, large-animal doctors are few and far between
It’s tough starting a dairy farm in Washington County; it’s tougher without regular veterinary care. Carly Delsignore and her husband, Aaron Bell, have 100 cows at their four-year old organic Tide Mill farm near Route One in Edmunds. Starting a herd hasn’t always been easy. “We’ve lost probably about eight cows,” Delsignore said. Some of