The class of 2002 spent more than a year raising over $17,000 for this trip through a variety of fundraising events including a dance, an auction and several dinners and bottle drives. Class advisor Vicki Conover was impressed with how hard each member of the class — which consisted, after all, of only four students
The particular topography of a Portland wharf
Without sentimentality, David Wade’s clear eye takes in the fishing community that works on Widgery Wharf. His photographs could easily do otherwise: Widgery Wharf with its rough, weatherbeaten planks seems a quaint anachronism in the middle of Portland’s busy waterfront. The fishermen who own the wharf and their tenants look the part of old salts
The art of boat building
Fifty years ago, most of the boats built on the Maine Coast were built of wood in the traditional way with plank on frame construction. There was a certain mystery about the art of building a boat and most boat builders liked to keep it that way. However, at that time there were a lot
Greenland salmon harvest may endanger Maine’s wild runs
U.S. delegates agreed with the quota, even though it will place pressure on the already endangered wild runs of salmon returning to Maine rivers. Worse, two environmental groups contend, the salmon will probably be sold primarily as an ingredient in dog food. “This decision to risk extinction of the few remaining wild salmon in Maine
What gives us the right to ‘delete’ the deer?
Cliff Island … what an amazing place I have found it to be in my five years here. Wild and free, the furthest island out that Casco Bay Lines services. Not white-washed by civilization quite so much as many other parts of the world. It is in this spirit that I bring the issue of
Power of images; community to the rescue; DOT vs. DMR; How the news works
The power of pictures In an image-driven age, the work of a documentary photographer can seem particularly powerful. David Wade’s photographs of Widgery Wharf in Portland, exhibited in June and reproduced here this month, tell the all-important story of the city’s working waterfront. Wade’s story centers on Maine’s largest port, but it resonates up and
Salt: A World History
The history and understanding of the uses and properties of the many salts of this world is a subject with tentacles reaching out in every direction. This is not a book to take to the beach. Rather, it is an utterly absorbing, in-depth look at a common, everyday substance. Salt is necessary to human life
Helping to make marine research happen
The coast of Maine is blessed with a wealth of marine science institutions that help track the annual movements and mysteries of Maine’s marine resources. Scientists at the University of Maine’s Darling Center, at the Bigelow Laboratory and at Maine’s Department of Marine resources all support significant marine research programs. By sharing their information and
To Save a River
Camden, Maine, and New York: Coastal Mountains Land Trust and Aperture, 2002 Hardcover, $50.00 This is a spectacular book. Large in format, eloquent in artwork and design, high in price, quietly well-spoken in its text, “To Save A River” is, in effect, a lesson plan for protecting a significant natural area. The river in question
Two coons
Coons don’t help much trying to make ends meet, let me tell you! Let them visit you and you’ll wish you hadn’t. It wasn’t long before we realized we needed to be coonproof. A case of shutting the restaurant door after the coons have been there, but better that than never shutting the door at