Dr. Rick Donahue, Vinalhaven’s only doctor, will be leaving Islands Community Medical Services (ICMS) on May 15. His post will be filled by another physician yet to be named, as Dr. Donahue plans a year of travel with his family. Dr. Donahue first came to Vinalhaven on a temporary posting providing relief for the physician
Laughed Out Loud
To the editor: Wonderful read!! Having never been able to convince my husband to live on an island, I live vicariously through the publications of the Island Institute. When I read the adventures of Rusty Warren, I try to imagine how I would handle such and such. Today I read Mid-Life, Mid-Winter, Mid-Ocean [WWF March
Vinalhaven Students Will Present Research at State Summit
What started out as a hands-on, all-engaging science research project for Vinalhaven students has ended up attracting the attention of the Maine Department of Environmental Protection (DEP). As a result of their December presentation on “The State of Vinalhaven’s Watershed,” freshman and sophomore science students from the island’s high school have been invited to share
Wonderful Memories
To the editor: …Enjoy the Working Waterfront very much as the Maine news of the seafaring trade brings back many wonderful memories. Philip Conkling’s writing is inspiring and delightful… Marguerite S. Buckley Danbury, Connecticut
Cruising at Last: Sailing the East Coast
Lyons Press, 2003 Cruising at Last is an assemblage of shorter pieces written by Elliott Merrick, an accomplished writer and teacher who spent a number of his later years ranging the East Coast in small boats before he died in 1997 at the age of 91. After Merrick’s death, at the request of his daughter,
I Have Mail
I Live, That I May Serve A Madame Umynmee Ofabozo, describing herself as the wife of the deposed leader of Equatorial Guinea, has contacted me personally asking if I would help facilitate the removal of $760,000,000 from her Swiss bank account to the United States. She has asked, with disquieting humility, if she might use
A Reviewer who reads the books
To the editor: Just a note to thank Working Waterfront for an excellent review of my novel [Sapphire Sea, March 2004]. After being reviewed in a couple of national newspapers and all around the state, I really appreciate a book reviewer who reads the books. Kudos to Nancy Griffin! John B. Robinson Portland
More Memories From Harbor View Pathway
Self-published, 2003 “Shipboard Romances,” “The Art of Opening Up,” “The Monkey,” “Island Rules and Regulations,” “It Takes an Island – to give a wedding.” The names of the essays tell you what kind of book you’re reading. More Memories could only have been written by someone who knows “her” island – in this case Matinicus
The Long View: Triumph of the Commons
Two new books about Maine lobsters about to be released by major New York publishers (and reviewed elsewhere in this issue), remind us of a number of important things about ourselves. First, the Maine lobster is a national icon – right up there with L.L. Bean – and unfortunately way ahead of the Maine potato.
Not Government Funded
To the editor: I am writing in response to Sally Noble’s article entitled “Runway dispute affects North Haven air service” which appears on page 15 of your March issue. In mentioning emergency air service, Noble refers to LifeFlight as “this government-funded program.” That reference is completely false; LifeFlight of Maine is a private non-profit organization.