To the editor: I read with great interest the story, “The Newfoundland-New England fisheries connection is strong and growing” by Nancy Griffin in the December/January Working Waterfront. Thank you for including the connections between Memorial University and the Northeast Consortium in the article, but there are a few corrections worth noting. The correct spelling of
Tool
Bantam Books 274 pp, $22.00 ($30.00 Canadian) Eastport’s Tiptree is on the case again It’s some measure of Sarah Graves’s pace that only a few pages into Tool & Die, along with Eastport sleuth Jacobia Tiptree, we find ourselves in Lubec confronting a dead man. And we quickly learn that his death was caused by
Islesboro project seeks administrator
The Beacon Project of Islesboro is looking for an energetic and organized person to fill the challenging position of administrator of Boardman Cottage. As construction of the building moves along toward a spring completion goal, we estimate that the administrator will have to begin work in March 2005 in order to have our operating license
Will of the People
To the editor: [Re: vote totals, WWF Dec-Jan 04-5] For the record … Bush beat Kerry on Swan’s Island 149 – 113. Dexter Lee Swan’s Island Seth Joy of Swan’s Island called as well, noting the same error. We transposed two vote totals appearing in the Bangor Daily News. – ed
Sea Struck
Gardiner, Maine: Tilbury House, Publishers, 2004 384 pages, plus photos $30 Three scions go to sea and write about it Sometimes, browsing through the past, you make a breathtaking connection with the present. In my case, it’s a vivid historical parallel with the tsunami that wracked the people and places of the Indian Ocean, Dec.
Journalism Matters
Gardiner: Tilbury House, Publishers 376 pp., $20.00 Summing Up A memoir is a summing-up, an opportunity to get those things off your chest that you’ve always wanted to say, to set the record straight and, finally, to tell your own story. When Peter Cox retired from Maine Times in 1986, he told everyone he wanted
Working Waterfront Task force Meets with Govenor Baldacci
Maine’s working waterfront task force met recently with Gov. John Baldacci (center). The task force is exploring ways to protect the state’s limited number of working waterfronts, which are threatened by development, competing uses, fishery decline, high taxes and other factors.
Adverse Possession?
To the editor: Having accessed the beautiful Martinsville Beach [WWF Dec.-Jan. 04-05] each summer when I vacationed in Tenants Harbor, I was very surprised three years ago when I attempted to drive to the Beach with my guests to show them how lovely it was. The electric fence described in your article was in place
Little Urchins and Sea Stars
Little Urchins and Sea Stars in North Haven’s Laugh & Learn program at Waterman’s Community Center pose in front of their Christmas tree with their teacher, Wendy Cooper. (Keely Felton photo)
Off-Season: Discovering America on Winter’s Shore
Three Rivers Press, 2004 When people tend to their daily lives The term is all wrong, the author says. Off-season is when what makes a community is most visible. When those who inhabit the Atlantic coast, either lured by the sea or there as a birthright, go on making a living, attending church, raising families,