Camden ME: Down East Books, 2006. Salads for Four Seasons It’s fall, and about now your garden may have pooped out for the year, producing its last oversized zucchini, gaggle of arugula or bunch of basil. But the recipes in this book speak to all seasons, emphasizing the preference for local provenance whenever possible. As
Suburban Safari: A Year on the Lawn
Bloomsbury 2005 Worlds Within Worlds Anyone who reads this book can’t look at their backyard the same ever again. Crows take on a new meaning, squirrels gain respect, earthworms (a European immigrant) fascinate, and slugs, well, they remain slugs. There are worlds within worlds around the tomato plants, the bird feeder and the lawn. In
Rockport Film School Up for Sale
The International Film and Photographic Workshops (WWF Sept. 06) and Rockport College are up for sale. Workshops founder and owner David Lyman announced the sale on the school’s website this past month. Since its inception 33 years ago in the basement of Rockport’s Union Hall, the organization has grown to include more than 300 annual
Northumberland Strait Lobster: Prices Down, Costs Up
The lobster fishery in the Strait of Northumberland, between Prince Edward Island and New Brunswick, continues to be in trouble. That’s been the case for some time. Now there’s an added negative factor: low prices and high costs. Ed Frenette, executive director of the Prince Edward Island Fishermen’s Association (PEIFA), says that catches this season
Journal of an Island Kitchen: Putting Food By
The best place in our house to keep our squashes and pumpkins happens to be under the bed in our guest room, a fact that some people find very amusing. There are a couple of reasons for storing them there. One is that hard shelled squashes need to be kept cool and dry and that
Summer Lines
Limerock Books, $12.00 Dealing with the Big Issues and the Commonplace Five poets who read some of their work every summer in Tenants Harbor, honored the 10th anniversary of the annual event with the publication of a book, “Summer Lines.” Subtitled “A Decade of Tenants Harbor Poetry Readings,” the volume contains poems previously published and
Tales of TABOR How would this year’s taxpayer-rights referendum affect islands?
Voters on Election Day are being asked to decide a referendum question known as the Taxpayers Bill of Rights, also known by its acronym, TABOR. At first glance, Question 1 seems simple enough: “Do you want to limit increases in state and local government spending to the rate of inflation plus population growth and to
Province stalls Newfoundland fish plant deal
Newfoundland’s largest seafood processor, Fishery Products International, Inc. planned to resume union talks following an impasse during which the company tried to sell one of its contentious plants but was thwarted by the province. FPI was deadlocked for months over wages in talks with the Fish, Food and Allied Workers union that represents the workers.
Unnecessary Action
To the editor: As a 30-year resident of Maine and a regular summer vacationer on Monhegan, I am compelled to share my thoughts on an issue with which [The Maine Land Use Regulation Commission] has somehow gotten involved. As you are aware, the “Fish House” on the island has been the home of fishing and
Chasing the Sun
Orono, Maine: Puckerbrush Press $15.95 A Fictionalized Poet’s Trip Down Memory Lane Writer Christopher Fahy of Thomaston has fictionalized Rockland as the city of Limerock in his latest novel, Chasing the Sun, but it’s not the first time. Fahy, who writes novels, poetry and short stories, created Limerock in a book of short stories by