To the editor: I am responding to your June 2007 article, “Breaking the Silence” regarding child sexual abuse. Thank you for bringing attention to this serious and prevalent problem. Sexual assault is a crime of violence where perpetrators are motivated out of a need to feel powerful by controlling, dominating or humiliating the victim. Far
Coastal Haiku
To the editor: While visiting a friend on Little Cranberry I had the good fortune to read her copy of Working Waterfront. It contained a review of Kirsty Karkow’s book of haiku, Shoreline by Steve Cartwright [WWF Aug. 07]. As it happens, I have been spending the year writing 17-syllable haiku myself and had penned
Local Knowledge
To the editor: I read Dan Hinckley’s letter [WWF Aug. 07], and I wanted to back up Philip Conkling in his pronunciation of Isle au Haut. When questioning the pronunciation of the name of a place, I have always thought one should take one’s cue from those who live there. Linda Greenlaw, who lives on
Fighting over Territory
“The playing field is not level,” stated Harlan Billings, of Stonington, referring to an off-island lobster buyer who has parked his truck on the town’s Commercial Fish Pier and has been buying lobster from fishermen since July 4, paying 50 cents per lb. more than the co-op. “He sits there all day monopolizing a shaded
The JOHN W. BROWN
The John W. Brown, built in Baltimore, named for a labor leader in Bath and now berthed in Baltimore, paid a visit to the Maine State Pier recently, where she was open to visitors. The Brown is one of two original “Liberty Ships” still afloat, the other being the Maine-built Jeremiah O’Brien now based on
Lobstermen tie up, with mixed results
“Although the process is far more complicated, simply put: we were too high for the buyers and too low for the fishermen,” said Corea Co-op manager Dwight Rodgers, explaining why lobstermen who sell to the co-op went on strike at the end of August. He said one of his most reliable fishermen told him that
The Lobster Tie-Up
Late August brought news of a lobster “tie-up” spreading west from harbors in eastern Maine. The fishermen’s complaint, simply put, is a boat price so low (around $3 per lb.) that they can’t justify using the fuel and bait they need to haul their traps. The prices being charged for wholesale and retail lobster on
Right whale protection measure runs afoul of White House
A proposed rule that would impose ship speed limits in North Atlantic right whale habitat is being challenged by the shipping industry and blocked by the White House. The rule would restrict ship speeds to 10 knots for most ships 20 meters or longer during key whale migration periods. The speed limit would have no
Shorelines haiku, haibun, and tanka
Black Cat Press $15.95 Poems to sip like blackberry wine Kirsty Karkow of Waldoboro has done it again. This sailor-paddler-poet has turned out a second slim volume of Japanese-influenced poetry, using the traditional haiku, haibun and tanka forms. The first book was Water Poems; now we have Shorelines to dip into for a special treat,
Variations
To the editor: Mr. Conkling instructs us, in the July issue (p. 35), that the proper way to pronounce the name of the island is “I’ll -a hoe” (perhaps because someone on Chebeague “she bigue, she-BIG, ch-beeg” told him so). I often heard from my grandfather and father (Bangor, Southwest Harbor) that the name of