Woodstock VT: The Countryman Press, 2004 $17.95 Why I Stopped Worring About Looking Like a Tourist Deep in the dead of winter, it seems to me a prime requirement of an interesting book at this time of year is that it offers an escape from our frozen landscape, short days and long nights, and the
Small Business Fourm Planned
On Wednesday, Feb. 8, the Island Institute will host an Island Small Business Forum at the Island institute office in Rockland. This event will bring island small business owners together with small business assistance professionals. Participants can learn how to access training and technical assistance services on-site. Speakers will present strategies for bringing more customers
Forum addresses coastal access Downeast
What do fishermen, kayakers, land trusts and real estate agents all have in common? That question brought over 100 people representing diverse coastal access users to the Downeast Forum on Coastal Access in Machias on Jan. 19. According to Natalie Springuel with Maine Sea Grant, the idea for this forum came out of a similar
Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy
Clarion Books, 2004 Hardback, $15; paperback $6.50 224 pages Tragedy and Light Humiliation, shame and friendlessness mark Turner Buckminster III’s first day in the coastal Maine town of Phippsburg in 1911. And then life gets worse for this 13-year-old boy whose father has uprooted the family from Boston to become the First Congregational Church’s new
Atlantic Herring: At the Center of the Food and Fishery Web
Due to another setback the New England Fishery Management Council (NEFMC) was not able to make their recommendation for Amendment 1 to the Atlantic Herring Management Plan to the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) earlier this month. Following the November 2005 meeting the council came up with a draft of Amendment 1 to the Herring
Workshops on marine conflicts scheduled
“Saving Seas: Resolving Conflict and Finding Solutions in the Marine Realm” will be given at the Cape Cod Museum of Natural History in Brewster on Tuesday evenings from 6-9 p.m., Jan. 17 and 31, Feb. 14 and 28, March 14 and 28, April 11 and 25, and May 9 and 23, with one six-hour special
Institute revises Island Lodging Program
The Island Institute has been obliged to cut back its popular Island Lodging Program because the sole funder is unable to continue support. However, the current level of support for medical emergencies will be extended through Dec. 31, 2006. Other requests for lodging support through this program, the Institute told island residents in a recent
Nelson’s Trafalgar
Hardback, Viking Adult, 2005 392 pages, $27.95 The Battle of Trafalgar was fought two hundred years ago, on October 21, 1805, and has long been considered one of the pivotal naval battles in world history. This puts it in the select company of the Battle of Salamis (594 BC), the defeat of the Spanish Armada
Aliens Invade! “Invasive” species threaten coastal ecosystem
While Homeland Security officials monitor the Maine coast for unwanted terrorists, another threat is also under surveillance — the intrusion of aquatic invasive species. The National Sea Grant Office reports that aquatic invasive species (AIS) are “the largest single threat to our coastal ecosystem, our coastal economy, and human health in the coastal region.” They
Phippsburg gets a nasty Thanksgiving surprise
The thunderclap at about 1 p.m. on Thanksgiving Day was so loud, Marita Doyle, who was looking for something in a closet next to furnace room in her home in West Point, Phippsburg, thought the oil burner had blown up. Up the road, Diana Stevens, who also missed seeing the huge bolt of lightning that