To the editor: It’s interesting that you didn’t mention stripers in the St. Croix estuary [WWF Oct. 05]. The numbers don’t seem to be there anymore. Is it because the State of Maine in its infinite wisdom closed the river to spawning alewives? Frederick Gralenski Pembroke
“The Downside of Principle” Why did James Swan sit in jail for 22 years?
James Swan was a writer, Revolutionary War soldier, land speculator and wealthy businessman who created fortunes in America and France. After the Revolution, Swan purchased 25 islands in Penobscot Bay, including the island now named for him, and founded the first recorded settlement on Swan’s Island. He also spent the last 22 years of his
Tool Check
To the editor: I just read your article on the “Quoddy Project” of 1935 very interesting. I have a “tool check” (picture attached) that may be from that period as the acronym U.S.E.D. was the “U.S. (Army) Engineering Department” circa 1900 unless there was another project prior to 1935 and around 1900? What do you
“A General Amazement among All Sorts of Animals” Islesboro remembers its role in a 1780 solar eclipse
Tucked away on Islesboro is a modest historical marker. “First Eclipse of the Sun, 1780,” it states. The granite monument commemorates the first scientifically recorded solar eclipse on the North American continent. This testament to a little-known piece of history is located on the east side of Penobscot Bay at the Narrows, known in 1780
Keep to the Sea?
To the editor: Truly the real estate situation in coastal Maine is deplorable, pernicious. Whereas not too long ago millionaires were content to buy and sell each other’s waterfront mansions, today kitchen table yuppie entrepreneurs as well as huge investment corporations are buying every little cabin and saltbox, every little cove and point, and most
Making Dreams Come True
Dear Fellow Mainers, The time of year has returned when we start baking cookies and finding excuses to spend all day inside by the fire. It is a time for calling relatives and humming Christmas carols all day long. It is also a time to stop and think of those in the world whose dreams,
Not a Cranky Aversion
To the editor: The pronunciation of the compass point “north-east” as “nothe-east” – and not the abominable “nor’east” – by old time Yankees on the Maine coast and Cape Cod (many coastal Maine families emigrated from Cape Cod) is not a cranky aversion to the conventional placement of the letter “r,” as in “I left
Ho, Ho, Ho
Most American children know that Santa Claus arrives on Christmas Eve driving a reindeer-powered sleigh. What most of those children don’t know is that Santa also travels by helicopter doing 160 miles per hour. Flying Santa, as he has come to be known, visits lighthouses and Coast Guard stations along the East Coast from Jonesport,
Energy bill gives feds final say on LNG sites
Federal legislation giving the federal government exclusive jurisdiction in approving proposed Liquid Natural Gas (LNG) ports and refineries and could affect the status of three contested LNG site proposals on the Maine coast. Until recently, state and federal governments shared the decision-making process for proposed LNG sites, but states have often opposed LNG sites. With
Rewarding
To the editor: The November leading story in your excellent newspaper (For Sale: A Way of Life) describes what’s sadly happening in Maine, but the same thing is true in Nova Scotia – so far to a lesser degree. However, I’m pleased to report I have recently sold my old Bluenose Boatyard to a young