The Glass Menagerie

Performed by Islesford Neighborhood House Directed by Sonja Moser Sharing the Stage When the lights came up, it took a second for everybody to reconfirm their bearings: Islesford Neighborhood House reappeared and Eric, Bruce, Richard and Cory were in the middle of the room as if at any community function. But today, they were in

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Coastal Haiku

To the editor: While visiting a friend on Little Cranberry I had the good fortune to read her copy of Working Waterfront. It contained a review of Kirsty Karkow’s book of haiku, Shoreline by Steve Cartwright [WWF Aug. 07]. As it happens, I have been spending the year writing 17-syllable haiku myself and had penned

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Sippewisset: Or, Life on a Salt Marsh

Chelsea Green, 2006 Home on the Marsh Tim Traver, a science writer, attempts the near-impossible with this first book. Consider the word “dumbstruck” and what it means: something hits us so hard that we are unable to find adequate words to describe it. Does this lead to an eventual effusion in an attempt at articulation?

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Taboo Topic

To the editor: I am responding to your June 2007 article, “Breaking the Silence” regarding child sexual abuse. Thank you for bringing attention to this serious and prevalent problem. Sexual assault is a crime of violence where perpetrators are motivated out of a need to feel powerful by controlling, dominating or humiliating the victim. Far

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Planning for the PenobscotAs a river flows cleaner, groups collaborate to map its future

Several related and parallel efforts are underway to address changes occurring in the Penobscot watershed. Most have come in the wake of the Penobscot River Restoration Project, which in 2003 announced plans to remove the Great Works and Veazie dams, create a natural bypass channel around the Howland Dam on the Piscataquis, and rebalance hydropower

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The Last Voyage of Columbus

Little, Brown and Company, 2005 267 pages, paperback, $14.95 The High Voyage Five hundred years after the death of Christopher Columbus, one would think little new material is available. Martin Dugard, however, has given us a fresh look at “the Admiral’s” fourth and most extensive voyage. In his notes at the end of The Last

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Not Relevant

To the editor: In the article. “Audubon study finds bird decline” [WWF Aug. 2007], Leslie Clapp, president of the Downeast chapter of the Maine Audubon Society, reported, based on observations by others, that “decks…would be full of 30 to 50 [evening grosbeaks]” and “They’ve always been so common and now they’re not around.” However, the

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A New Chairman for the Island Institute

John Bird, a nationally recognized educator and organizational consultant with strong Maine coastal ties, has agreed to serve as chair of the board of trustees of the Island Institute. Bird succeeds Horace A. “Hoddy” Hildreth, Jr., chairman of the board of Diversified Communications, whose 16-year term as board chair included such landmarks as the launch

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