To the editor: Read the Crown Pilot Escapade (WWF April 2008) with interest as I am down to my last three crackers and looking for more for myself and my sister in Florida. Even Vermont Country Store is out of them…. It’s my favorite hot summer meal (milk & crackers or peanut butter & crackers)….
Family Business
Being in the same business can make for an unusual level of understanding between husband and wife, but when they and the sons of each have opposite goals, the potential for trouble can skyrocket. When Corea Lobster Cooperative manager Dwight Rodgers courted seafood buyer Ruth Goodwin, mother and business partner of one of his customers,
Terchno to Bluegrass
If it’s an August weekend in coastal Maine, chances are there’s a music festival near you. Throughout the last decade, a handful of new music festivals have sprung up along the coast, bringing diverse bands and carnival atmospheres to coastal towns. Some of the new festivals were created by accident, like the BelTek festival Aug.
Venturing
Readers of the New York Times will be aware of this summer’s non-news event: the construction of a Whiffleball field in Greenwich, Connecticut, by a group of teenage boys who cleared brush, braved poison ivy, scrounged a few building materials and bought some paint so they could build their field of dreams on some town-owned
Living By the Boat
Orders for lobster boats are down at Holland’s Boat Shop, Inc. in Belfast, due to the downturn in the lobster industry and the economy. But Glenn Holland still has orders for recreational boats so he’s not too worried – yet. “It’s kinda like being in a sinking boat, but for now, the pumps are keeping
“Lynne Drexler: Painter” at the Monhegan Museum
The painter Lynne Drexler (1928-1999) was a southerner by birth (Newport News, Virginia) and upbringing, but by the end of her life she belonged, as it were, to Monhegan Island. In the early 1960s she began to spend part of her summers there. She became a year-round islander in 1983. This exhibition, organized by Tralice
Monhegan: A Guide to Maine’s Fabled Island
A Wild Place, Full of Wonder Written and photographed by Mark WarnerDown East Books, 200853 pp, $14.95 In his foreword to Carl Little’s The Art of Monhegan Island, Jamie Wyeth writes: “I have a problem with Monhegan Island … everyone remembers their first lover, don’t they? Perhaps passionately, occasionally longingly, sometimes angrily, but always. I
Harpoon: Into the Heart of Whaling
Heart of Darkness Philadelphia: Da Capo Press, 2008300 pp, $25.00 Fin, Right, Blue, Sperm, Minke, Humpback: one by one, chapter by chapter in this remarkable book, each species of whale reaches commercial or outright extinction, all the while “managed” by governments and the International Whaling Commission. Over the years there has been no lack of
Eastport Pilot: Lots of Planning, a Few Close Calls
At 11 a.m. on July 6, approximately a mile and half northeast of East Quoddy Head Light in the Bay of Fundy, Captain Robert Peacock stepped from the deck of the U.S.S. Hawes (FFG-53) onto the frigate’s pilot’s ladder. That step officially marked the end of Eastport’s Old Home Week/Fourth of July celebration – and
Plover numbers plummet; 19 pairs remain
When it comes to their continued survival in Maine, piping plovers have two things going for them. First, they have cute offspring; their chicks are often described as balls of fluff with legs. Waterfront landowners like to keep the birds around. Second, they have a handful of dedicated wildlife officials working for their survival. Unfortunately,