To the editor: I had the opportunity to read a recent piece in your paper regarding the working waterfront, which contained information about my competitor, Brown Ship Chandlery. I wanted you to know that there is a second ship chandlery in Portland, which is our company, A.L. Griffin, Inc. We have just celebrated our 50th
Wire Bridge
To the editor: I enjoyed the article on the new bridge as I’m sure many did but I have a comment. Ms. Dinsmore said that the type of construction being used is a cradle system. I’m not positive but I think that the wire bridge in New Portland Maine and spanning the Carrabasset is the
Scene from Childhood
To the editor: I happened to be sitting at the table one morning and my fiancé was looking through the WW. He asked if I recognized the people in your Dec. 2005/Jan. 2006 edition on page 22. I glanced at the picture and saw a scene from my childhood flash before my eyes. There stood
Shining Example?
To the editor: Great article on the bridge across the Penobscot [WWF Dec.-Jan. 05-06]. As for Dyers v. Maine I couldn’t believe the payment of $225,000 to the owners. Reprehensible indeed! Is this another shining example of the state of Maine’s commitment to small business? As for a name for “the bridge,” my vote would
Dangers of LNG
To the editor: I’m writing regarding the story, “Energy bill gives feds final say on LNG sites,” by Craig Idlebrook…. The article states, “In order to ship natural gas efficiently, it is cooled and condensed to 1/600 of its original volume. At such pressure, it can be highly explosive.” In fact, the process that changes
Number One Responder
To the editor: I enjoyed Steve Cartwright’s article “Helicopters serve islanders in distress” in the Dec. 10, 2005 issue of Working Waterfront. Life Flight does a wonderful job moving critically ill or injured persons to health care facilities, performing two dozen missions in a year’s time, as Mr. Cartwright notes. However, I wish that Mr.
More on James Swan
To the editor: Among all the interesting articles in the last issue (Dec.05/ Jan.06) of the always interesting Working Waterfront, David Tyler’s piece on James Swan, and the Robert Manns play, “The Swan that Slept,” caught my immediate attention because James Swan happens to be the subject of one of my own projects… What we
Homeowner’s Insurance: An Islander’s Nightmare
Imagine this scenario: you are in the process of purchasing a small home on an island, far from the mainland, to be used as a summer place. You are not a movie star or a corporate heir…you are a schoolteacher from Pennsylvania. As your career obligations will not allow you to be within 500 miles
Think About It!
Maine once had a governor who campaigned on the slogan “Think About It.” A lot of us wondered, given how Jim Longley’s administration turned out, how much thinking actually went on in the governor’s office during that era, but the slogan itself wasn’t bad. In some places on the Maine coast, community residents are stopping
Journal of an Island Kitchen: The Mission is Lunch
Every Thursday morning around 9:30 or so, someone walks into the Fellowship Hall at the island’s Second Baptist Church, flips on the lights and starts cooking for a group of 45 to 60 people, varying seasonally, who begin to show up two hours later. This has been happening for three years now, with only a