Photographs by Becca Albee. Poems by Jan Bailey, Kate Cheney Chappell, Keller Cushing Freeman, Kristen Lindquist, Candice Stover and Elizabeth Tibbetts Cedar Mountain Books, Greenville, South Carolina 12 pp. $14.95 “Lost trees have righted themselves. Everyone is still alive.” The poet George Oppen, who sailed among the islands of Penobscot Bay, once wrote, “There is
The Colors of Lobstering
Camden, Maine: Down East Books, 2007 $15.00 Good pictures that cast no spell Greg Currier is a good photographer and the pictures in this book are nice. For your money you have a souvenir of Maine, or an addition to the coffee table, or a house present to leave with hosts. Besides those positives, it
Canadian sealers get stuck in the ice
The last seal-hunting vessel was freed from the ice a bit earlier than anticipated in the waters off Newfoundland after the end of a particularly unusual sealing season affected more by weather and a shortage of seals than by the many protests against the hunt. Around 120 longline vessels were trapped in April when a
Newfoundland processor’s sale is imminent
Newfoundland’s largest seafood processor is inching closer to having new owners. If the deals go through, the U.S. division in Danvers, Mass., may be sold to a longtime competitor, and its Canadian holdings will go to another Newfoundland seafood company. One monkey wrench in the works has been a stalemate between the federal and provincial
Journal of an Island Kitchen: Pot Lucks and Plates
When I was little girl my mom brought our family’s own plates and silverware to pot luck suppers. I recall that she would set our places on one of the big rectangular tables, two settings on one side and two opposite. When we children were done running around the church or community hall and it
Cod to Lobster, Market to Pound – A veteran fish dealer finds “magic” in lobsters
Three years ago Stonington, Connecticut fish market owner Michael Pugliese, then 49, bought a house on the water in Steuben, Maine, that came with a tidal lobster pound. At the time, he considered the property a summer place for his family. In the past three years, though, as he continued to see the waters of
The Man Behind Maine Compass Services
Navigating a boat in all sorts of unpredictable conditions means depending on the equipment you’ve installed onboard. Whether you’re operating an hourly, year-round ferry service or a family boat on summer weekends, your investment might include GPS, autopilot, radar, depth finders, speed indicators and plotting and computer systems. One item that will definitely be on
An Inside Look at the Workings of the Royal Navy
There are 18 novels in the Ramage series, featuring the exploits of Lord Nicholas Ramage, an intrepid British Sea captain during the Napoleonic Wars. The novels cover the years 1796-1806, when England was locked in a brutal struggle with Napoleon’s France. Our first meeting with Ramage is in the middle of a naval battle off
A Handmade Life: In Search of Simplicity
Chelsea Green Publishing, 2002 Crafting Our Lives with Our Own Hands Coperthwaite, a Maine native, has traveled the globe extensively over the years, but still calls Maine home, with his handsome hand-built 3-story yurt on Dickinson Reach in Machiasport. Yurts are what Coperthwaite is best known for, that circular shelter originally used like tents by
The Long View: Houston, We have a problem
The New England Fisheries Management Council is meeting in Portland this month to vote on whether to consider a different approach to managing cod and haddock fishing in the Gulf of Maine. The management of these species has been a disaster since at least 1991 when the first lawsuit was filed to halt overfishing. The