Missing Island

To the editor: I greatly enjoy WWF, but the “current” (pun intended) article by Nancy Griffin (Nov. 2003, page 1) reminds me of something I keep noticing: there is virtually no coverage of goings-on at Isle au Haut! Why? I know it’s remote, and the year-round population is tiny ( /- 42 last winter, I

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No Great Mischief

Norton: New York, 1999 ISBN 0-393-04970-1 $23.95 In No Great Mischief, Canadian short story writer Alistair MacLeod has written a great, sprawling novel of enduring connections and family loyalty. The 20th-century MacDonalds, still known in Cape Breton as clann Chalum Ruaidh, in Gaelic, (pronounced Kwown calum rooah), “the children (or the family) of the red

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Wired

To the editor: Many of your readers must be getting a chuckle out of the utility pole photographs accompanying Nancy Griffin’s article on the electricity problems on Maine’s islands. The pictures show great views of the telephone cables on the poles, but the electric wires are hardly visible way above, running from the tops of

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Island: The Complete Stories

The island of the title refers to Cape Breton, which is separated from the rest of Nova Scotia by the Strait of Canso. The author, born and raised there, wrote his 16 poignant stories of the Scots and Irish, mostly fishermen and coal miners, between 1968 and 1999. Each story is written with love and

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Waiting for Time

St. John’s, Newfoundland, Canada: Breakwater Publishing, 1994 Waiting for Time is the sequel to Bernice Morgan’s Random Passage, but it does not pick up where the first book left off. Instead, Morgan begins her next part of the story about the Cape Random people in modern Ottawa, a few generations later. Readers of the first

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Advisory Council: Selling Licenses a Bad Idea

Three members of the Legislature’s Marine Resources Committee attended the Lobster Advisory Council’s meeting in early November. Senator Dennis Damon (D-Trenton), Rep. Jeff Kaelin (R-Winterport) and Rep. Leila Percy (D-Phippsburg) wanted to hear what Council members thought about LD 276, which would permit the sale of lobster licenses. Senator Damon is Senate co-chair of the

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Giant Step

To the editor: The selectmen of Harpswell are negotiating a lease with Conoco Phillips and Trans Canada, to use the former fuel farm on Casco Bay to erect a facility and to store natural gas. This is a valuable fishing area, Zone F. A very large tanker will come in every four days to deposit

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3 Ocean Books Reviewed: No Good News and a Fair Amount of Bad

The Empty Ocean: Plundering the World’s Marine Life By Richard Ellis Washington, D.C.: Island Press/Shearwater Books www.islandpress.org In a Perfect Ocean: The State of Fisheries and Ecosystems in the North Atlantic Ocean By Daniel Pauly and Jay Maclean Washington, D.C.: Island Press/Shearwater Books www.islandpress.org Hierarchical Perspectives on Marine Complexities: Searching for Systems in the Gulf

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