The weather at the end of June was glorious, followed by a run of foggy, rainy days in July that gave vacationing residents a chance to catch up on their reading, and working residents a chance to feel like they weren’t missing all the fun. Regardless of the weather, everyone is busy with the summer
Tommy Makem –
Tommy Makem has died and left a gaping hole in the universe of Irish music. This native of the north of Ireland who lived in Dover, New Hampshire, for many years, will be remembered for many things — his powerful vibrating voice, his humor, a magnetic stage presence, and the wonderful songs that will be
Learning to Listen Jon Wilson follows his dreams – to success
To see Jon Wilson at 61, it’s hard to believe he ever thought of himself as what he called, “A flailing and confused post-adolescent; one of the least directed people in my class.” But, after successfully founding, editing, and publishing WoodenBoat magazine and Professional Boatbuilder magazine and founding the WoodenBoat School, he went on to
The Green Gables-Japan Connection
It’s no secret that the Japanese have a love for Prince Edward Island and Anne of Green Gables. But a series of other “ingredients” brought the Japanese trade commissioner, a camera crew and a famous chef in to the east coast. A Japanese chef and restaurateur, Katsuhiro Oki, who has been cooking with Canadian ingredients
Overlapping territories
The dispute between Canadian and American lobster fishermen over what is known as the “Gray Zone” (or the “Grey Zone,” depending on who’s talking) is back in the news this summer. How hot the dispute will get also depends on who’s talking. “It’s likely to get ugly,” says Greg Peacock, director of federal-provincial relations for
Canadian Council: Time for Quotas
A report on Atlantic Canada’s lobster fishery issued in July by the Canadian Fisheries Resource Conservation Council (FRCC) says that a new management plan is needed to prevent the collapse of the fishery. Reaction among fishermen in the Maritimes has been that it’s all well and good for the FRCC to make recommendations, but who’s
Oh Canada!
A trip to Nova Scotia by coastal New Englanders may seem unnecessary; simply more of what we’re already used to here, only further north and east. That Atlantic province of Canada does have many interesting connections with us Yankees. But, as they say, vive la difference! Two of us decided to venture from the coast
Shucks wins two international seafood awards
“The judges told us there was no doubt in their minds,” said Shucks Maine Lobster President John Hathaway. “They were unanimous in their decision that our raw fresh shucked Maine lobster meat was the Best New Product.” Hathaway had traveled to Brussels on April 24th with Elafood, the Shucks’ European distributor, for the world’s largest
Swimming in Circles: Aquaculture and the End of Wild Oceans
Thunder’s Mouth Press, 2006 www.thundersmouth.com 344 pages, $15.95 An Unvarnished Look at Aquaculture This book is split between two seemingly very different areas — the foggy and rocky Maine coast and the parched and sandy Sonoran desert shoreline of northwestern Mexico, but writer Paul Molyneaux draws them together through their shared industrial history of aquaculture.
Through the Photographer’s Lens: Penobscot Bay and Beyond
“Through the Photographer’s Lens: Penobscot Bay and Beyond,” this summer’s special exhibition at the Penobscot Marine Museum in Searsport, opens with a tribute to Everett “Red” Boutilier (1918-2003). The journalist photographer covered the coast of Maine for nearly a half-century (from the 1960s to the `90s) for the Boston Globe, Maine Coast Fisherman and other