Taboo Topic

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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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,

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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

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