Beach Glass, Islander

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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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.

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