Beach Glass by Frank Gotwals Islander by Cindy Lawson Coombs Frank Gotwals is a busy man. Lobsterman by day and folksinger by night, he writes his own songs about love and life and the sea both back when and now, and accompanies himself on guitar. An excellent musician, in his second CD, Beach Glass, he
The Crossing
Illustrated. 208 pp. Newark: New Jersey Historical Society We often forget that a group of fishermen and merchant mariners was important to America’s success in the Revolutionary War. Without them, George Washington and his troops surely would have perished after being defeated by the British at Brooklyn, N.Y. Without them, Washington and his retreating army
Sprawl
If you’ve driven from Waldoboro to Thomaston on Route 1 in recent years, you may remember the signs as you passed through the pastoral landscape of southern Warren. There you found yourself on “old” Route 1, a quiet two-lane road meandering through woods and hayfields, a 1930s-era highway where lots of trees and many homes
Deer Meat
There are too many deer. There is not enough deer meat. It used to be many of my neighbors headed into winter with a freezer decently filled with deer meat steaks, stewing pieces and deer burger, and in the pantry several jars of mincemeat made from the neck and spare parts. How some of my
Oceans 2020, Science, Trends, and the Challenge of Sustainability
By John G. Field, Gotthilf Hempel and Collin P. Summerhayes Washington, D.C.: Island Press Put together after a 1999 United Nations conference on the oceans, this is essentially a serial book, published after the once-a-decade or so UN conferences on ocean trends. This past decade brought the largest worldwide impacts of man upon the oceans,
How to murder a crustacean
I always envied Dick Van Dyke when I was younger. He actually got paid to kiss Mary Tyler Moore on television every week. (I’d have done it for free, but she didn’t know that.) She comes to mind each year when the weather turns warmer, and it all has to do with Maine’s favorite seafood
Green Crab Bisque, anyone?
A Prince Edward Island scientist thinks the green crab, a marauding pest that has hit the Maritimes hard, can also serve as edible food. And he’s been conducting experiments to make his point. “It has good flavor,” said Camille Gallant, a consultant with the Prince Edward Island Food Technology Centre. “I’ve cooked, cracked and eaten
Fed Exing to work
High-powered consultants and the self-employed bask and multiply on Peaks Island. First lured as summer visitors from that place we call “away,” they then purchased simple houses as second homes. Then, thanks to cell phone, fax, e-mail, laptops and a nearby airport, they made the grand decision to shed the frantic pace of their former
McCloskey sisters oppose Pen Bay salmon project
Sal and Jane McCloskey – of One Morning in Maine fame – want to save their Penobscot Bay island from commercial salmon farming, a business they assert will irreparably damage the beauty, health and economy of the Little Deer Isle area. An application to the Maine Department of Marine Resources to locate salmon pens near
Reverse!
Reverse gears have come a long way ahead in the last century. In 1925, a red-painted, single-cylinder Lathrop engine crouched in the cabin of our first sloop. Its cylinder was the size of a nail keg and its ignition system was a primitive make-and-break rig that ran on a battery controlled by a knife switch.