To the editor: Just finished your Dec/Jan issue. Well done as always. Just wanted to make Sally Noble, author of “Anchor to Windward,” aware that her info on the MAINE RESPONDER being the only oil spill recovery vessel in the port of Portland is wrong. I work for National Response Corp. and the company has
Stone Book Hurricane Quarry Recipes
Vinalhaven Historical Society, 2007 Cooking Amidst the Quarries The name “Hurricane Island” conjures up granite, outdoor education and an abandoned community. I dare say not many think of Date Bars, Sponge Cake, or Four Minute Fudge. In fact, when Dorothy Simpson wrote in her Maine Islands in Story and Legend, “Hurricane’s story is simply granite
Send: The Essential Guide to Email for Office and Home
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2007 Hardcover, $19.95 Don’t press that button! Reading this little book prompted some personal recollecting, stretching back to pre-email times in the news business. Several scenes come to mind: the moment I went to work at a newsroom computer screen for the first time, probably in the late 1970s; the
On the Wind: The Marine Photographs of Norman Fortier
Introductions and captions by Calvin Siegal and Llewellyn Howland III David R. Godine, Publishers, 2007 128 pp., $40 A Quiet Love Affair with a Disappearing Culture Several hundred years B.C. the Greek poet Homer, gazing a-sea at leaning old craft, sails puffed, skimming his local horizon, wrote in The Odyssey: “…their ships are swift as
Google group brings island teachers together
Teaching is an extremely difficult job no matter where one lives, but the role is far more demanding when combined with life in an isolated community where one is sometimes the only teacher in the school. During the 2007 Island Teachers Conference in Belfast, one request came up in conversations over and over: “We just
Great Cranberry community development coordinators hired
Alyson Mayo and Lauren Simmons have been hired by the Island Institute to assist in a collaboration to revitalize Great Cranberry Island, working with other island, municipal and regional organizations. The collaboration involves the Island Institute, Great Cranberry citizens and community organizations, and will focus on sustainability questions including transportation, broadband connectivity, employment and the
Island women join fishermen’s fight against herring trawlers
A women’s organization has taken a major role in the battle by Prince Edward Island fishermen to keep two large herring trawlers out of the island’s inshore waters. The New Brunswick trawlers were allowed into the southern Gulf of St. Lawrence by federal Fisheries and Oceans Minister Loyola Hearn. Sara Roach-Lewis, founder of Women for
Coalition discusses legislation, upcoming initiatives
The Maine Islands Coalition met Nov. 16 to discuss several initiatives connected to the affordability of coastal Maine. Chris Wolff, the Island Institute’s community development director, reported on affordable housing initiatives through the Coalition for Coastal Workforce Housing (CCWH) and her role as administrator of affordable coast affordable housing grants. Upcoming efforts include expanding the
Deer Isle’s CREST class visits New York Yacht Club
In Deer Isle in 1895 and 1899 two America’s Cup boats, COLUMBIA and DEFENDER, were crewed completely by the “Deer Isle boys.” Members of most of the families that crewed the boats are still in residence on Deer Isle today. So when the opportunity came to participate in the CREST (Community for Rural Education Stewardship
Rain fails to dampen CREST career fair
On Nov. 16, nearly 90 students and teachers gathered at the University of Maine, Orono, for a career fair focusing upon educational and career opportunities in Maine that use Information Technology (IT) and science, engineering, technology and mathematics skills. This is the second career fair organized as part of CREST, a National Science Foundation-funded program