Lydia Rolerson, who died on Christmas Day in 2006, served me the first food I ever ate cooked in an Islesboro island kitchen. Jamie and I visited the island in June 1980, my first visit, though Jamie had spent time here earlier, and knew Lydia’s son Darrell. So we visited with her that trip, happening
Major Inaccuracies
To the editor: Re:”Despite Questions, Pesticide Use Persists in Coastal Towns” [WWF Nov. 06] As a member of the Island Institute and a resident of the Town of Brunswick, I am writing to point out a series of major inaccuracies in the above mentioned article. On page 17, you state that the town of Brunswick
“Hands Clasped as if in Prayer”
Robert Peter Tristram Coffin was a Pulitzer-Prize-winning poet, an essayist, a Maine historian and chronicler — and in the fall of 1954 he was my Shakespeare professor at Bowdoin College. Sadly, the course lasted only a semester because he passed away in Portland during my sophomore midyear break in January 1955. I’ve always been grateful
Sustaining the Spirit; Assuaging the Appetite
Any time capsule created by Vinalhaveners to mark this first decade of the twenty-first century would have to include a copy of the new cookbook compiled by the island’s Friends of the Library as a fundraiser for the library’s new addition. The book is titled Vinalhaven Island Cooking. Reading through it, I wondered: as time
Master Stroke
To the editor: I read with interest your summary of the Brookings Institution’s report on the future of Maine [WWF Nov. 2006]. As a boater I have visited Maine for many years, and I lived in Camden for a time. My daughter was born in Maine. Maine should look to Rhode Island for a master
Friendship Cottage, Blue Hill Coastal region gets an adult day care facility to meet a growing need
A year and a half ago, Gerald Bryan, of Brooksville, began having trouble attending meetings. He and other members of Healthy Peninsula were working with Washington Hancock Community Agency (WHCA) and the Eastern Agency on Aging to create a support group for caregivers, but he couldn’t leave his wife, Jacqueline, who suffered from Alzheimer’s. He
Lines on the Water
Goose River Press, 2006 A Lively Test Drive and Other Tales There’s a lot to love about this book by occasional lobsterman, car mechanic, computer analyst, islander Harold van Doren. No average teller of tales, he grabs our attention from the start with his dry humor and love of all the characters he’s encountered on
Respect and True Professionalism
To the editor: I read of the passing of Mr. David Merriman Stainton, whom I had met in Williston, Vt. in the late 1970’s. He was on the Town Planning Board and I was with a development company seeking to build a large retail complex. The very extensive and protractile debate became very emotional and
Lobsters in Retirement
Amherst, Massachusetts is a fair way from the sea, but this fall a group of enthusiastic retirees is participating in a seminar on lobsters and lobstering in the State of Maine, led by my husband, Jim, and me. We live in Amherst but summer in Friendship, a serious lobstering harbor, and have for years been
The Power and Promise of Humane Education
New Society Publishers, 2004 Paperback, 172 pages, $15.95 A Book for a Better World Through the International Institute for Humane Education in Surry, Maine, Zoe Weil has helped train and certify hundreds of educators to teach humane education; humane education is a curriculum that helps students critically examine ecology and social justice issues and take