To the editor: My compliments to Melissa Hayes on her tribute to Elizabeth Ogilvie [WWF Oct. 06]. She was my pen pal author when I attended Winthrop Junior High in 7th grade in 1967! Charlie Ault Damariscotta
A Maine Artist’s Garden Journal
Quintessential Maine, Through its Gardens and Landscapes As the gift-giving holiday season draws nearer, two coffee table books are worth a look. Although both feature the beauty of nature in artistic renditions, they have their differences. One volume offers a visual feast of Maine landscapes seen through the lens of the camera, captured on film
“What do you suppose that tuna weighed?”
A photograph taken in 1979 in the Phippsburg village of West Point shows Dick Wallace and his son Gary standing on either side of a halibut that is a good foot taller than each of them. In another, taken in the 1930s in the Phippsburg village of Sebasco, Seth Wallace holds up a codfish that
Island Isolation
To the editor, The solution to Campobello Island’s isolation from the rest of Canada [WWF Oct. 06] would be the sale or ceding of the island to the U.S. The only negative implication would be the loss of socialized medicine to the Island population since the population would have to be assimilated into the State
Maine’s Visible Black History: The First Chronicle of Its People
Tilbury House Publishers, 2006 Paperback, 448 pages, $35 The Large Contributions of One Percent This new account of more than three centuries of black history in Maine not only begs the question, Why hasn’t this been done before? but answers it — generously, unforgettably, and often poignantly. Indeed, the authors’ accomplishment is remarkable considering that,
New Technology, Lost Bounty
Two photographs –one old, one new — in this issue of Working Waterfront tell different stories about Maine and its varied fisheries. On page 21 we have a huge halibut flanked by two Phippsburg fishermen. The fish is longer than either man is tall; the picture documents a time (the 1970s) when people who lived
Off the Grid
To the editor: In the headline for The Long View “Summah People — Some Ahrn’t” [WWF Sept. 06] did one of those summah people sneak that “r” into “Ahn’t?” The article was pleasingly positive about summer people, without offending us natives. The possibility of no ferry service to Digby, presented in “Efforts are underway to
Simple Virtues – “If you want money to spend, why not go and earn it?”
Cyrus Curtis grew up in a poor family in Portland and went on to found the Curtis Publishing Company, headquartered in Philadelphia. He became wealthy by publishing the two most iconic monthly magazines of the first half of the twentieth century, Ladies Home Journal and Saturday Evening Post, and a string of newspapers. He bought
Jordan’s project on hold
Plans to build a Westin hotel/condominium complex in Portland’s Eastern Waterfront have been put on hold, and the Procaccianti Group has decided to put its investment there up for sale. The initial project, slated for groundbreaking last summer, involved tearing down the long-closed Jordan’s Meats, replacing it with a $110 million development encompassing a 223-room
Nature Conservancy Receives Large Tract of Land in Phippsburg
In October, an anonymous donor gave 1,910 acres of land in Phippsburg to The Nature Conservancy. The new tract, to be called “The Basin Preserve,” is one of the largest unfragmented forest blocks in the midcoast region, a wondrous mixture of steep hemlock gorges and pitch pine forest and four miles of shoreline frontage along