A survivor’s story survives the test of time Titus Tidewater, written and illustrated by Suzy Verrier, who owns North Creek Farm in Phippsburg with Kai Jacob, has been re-published by Maine’s Islandport Press. Verrier, now 63, wrote the children’s book when she was 27, living in an apartment on New York City’s upper West Side
Lights! Camera! Action!
Ellie Reidy gets interviewed by Forrest Murray during an open casting call for the independent film “Sternman” being filmed on Vinalhaven this month. The film was written by Vinalhaven summer resident Thomas Hildreth, directed by Ian McCrudden and co-produced by Hildreth, Murray and Melissa Davis.
The Long View – The Past is Prologue
Back in the dim recesses of history – in the early 1990s in this case – Portland undertook a citywide property revaluation that resulted in a secession fever that spread from Peaks to Long to Cliff and Chebeague islands and back to Great Diamond and even Cushings Island before it finally ran its course. When
Parallel 44 – How Waymouth helped doom the Popham Colony 400 years ago
In case you missed it, this month marks the 400th anniversary of the Waymouth expedition, an English reconnaissance mission to midcoast Maine that yielded the first sustained contact between English explorers and Maine’s native inhabitants. The official chronicle of the 1605 expedition, written by crewman James Rosier, remains one of the finest sources of information
Change the Policy
To the editor: To anyone affected by clam flat closures; we have to somehow convince the Dept. of Marine Resources (DMR) that closing flats because of rainfall/pollution run-off is bogus in most areas. It puts the clam diggers out of work and affects anybody they do business with (i.e. the Maine economy). Any bells going
LNG Returns
The surprise, divided vote by the Passamaquoddy Tribal Council in mid-May in favor of a liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminal on tribal land near Eastport is a development with deep implications for Maine’s coast and working waterfronts. Anyone who recalls the Pittston Company’s hard-fought battle to build an oil refinery 20 years ago in the
Author’s Thanks
To the editor: I just wanted to thank Linda Beyus for the kind review of my book, Off Season. She nailed the feelings and the premises I hoped to get across. It was a wonderful journey for me, and I’m glad some readers enjoyed it too. Thanks. Ken McAlpine Ventura, California
Crab fishermen vote to end strike
The Newfoundland/Labrador crab fishermen’s strike is over and as of May 20, boats were heading out to sea. In their vote, however, the fishermen made it clear that they will not accept the production quota system laid down by provincial Fisheries and Aquaculture Minister Trevor Taylor. Approximately 4,600 fishermen voted 73.6 percent to go fishing
Looks Like a Portsmouth Sub
To the editor: The photo [accompanying “Submarines in the Bay” (WWF May 05)] certainly looks like a Portsmouth design Guppy. It may be a Guppy 1A or 1B which, if memory serves me right, had a somewhat pointed bow. The sub in the photo looks like it may have that shape, but it is not
Canadian crab protests escalate to a “fishermen’s arrest”
Anger over changes in the crab industry, Newfoundland’s most lucrative fishery, escalated in recent weeks and resulted in occupation of a government building in St. John’s, a port blockade and a “fishermen’s arrest” of a Portuguese trawler cited by Canadian inspectors in the past for illegal fishing. The “arrest” came when the AVEIRENSE headed into