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

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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

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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

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Costs too much

To the editor: As a retired senior citizen on a fixed income, I like to supplement my dinner table, when I can, with fresh fish from the Gulf of Maine. When the weather is bad and I cannot take my little boat out I would like to be able to sit on my boat or

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Trap Door

Eastport’s amateur sleuth returns One of the difficulties of reviewing a murder mystery is that you’re tempted to quote or refer to some of the really good stuff. If you do, of course, there’s a good chance you’re going to give away good chunks of the plot. That said, I’m warning readers of Trap Door,

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Shouting into the Fog

Islandport Press, 2006 Soft cover, 305 pages, $15.95 Bringing the Depression to Life Thomas Hanna painstakingly pieces together the memories of his Depression-era childhood in a new book entitled Shoutin’ Into The Fog: Growing Up on Maine’s Ragged Edge. Set in the village of Five Islands in Georgetown, five miles downriver from Bath, Hanna writes

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The Long View: Ahead and Astern

The foreshortened days of late December and the slow turning toward the longer days that loom beyond the equinox are a good time to climb up our ramparts, or onto our widow’s walks, to survey the landscapes and seascapes of this unruly coastline. For Maine’s islands and working waterfront communities, the past year played out

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Two Children’s Classics Worth Revisiting

Are there children on your shopping list for presents during this December’s holiday season? Two classic books, both set in Penobscot Bay and written by summer residents who happened to be prolific and successful authors, are newly pertinent and deserving of your consideration. Both books were written during times of international strife and dissonance. They

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A Concert Review

Although the sun has long since set on the dawning of the Age of Aquarius and a bad moon is on the rise, occasionally the planets still align in the heavens. And so it was that on a trip from Portland to New York and back followed by an early morning breakfast meeting in Boston

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