To the editor: In the July edition of Working Waterfront, author Ben Neal suggested that area management advocates look to California and Mexico for fisheries management ideas to implement in New England. However, before we look elsewhere, I would like to re-examine the Area Management Coalition’s rationale for proposing area-based management for consideration in Amendment
Varying Shades of Green: Avoiding a Burlap Sack Future
Doom, gloom, doom, gloom, doom, gloom, doom. Sounds like the start of a morbid Dr. Seuss book or another environmental group’s report on global warming. Earnest reports on our heating planet seem to come out every week, and while they’re all absolutely true, they’re also completely depressing. Each one is chock full of dire predictions
Generation Loss
Northampton, MA: Small Beer Press, 2007 Second Chance Elizabeth Hand’s new novel is described as a “psychological thriller” and a combination of “Patricia Highsmith and Patti Smith.” Hand has lived on the coast of Maine since 1988, the same year her first work was published. Since then, she’s written many novels and short stories, and
A Sleepless Holiday
It was noon on July 4th and Frances and I no longer wanted to celebrate. We had decided earlier to go to the parade because we hadn’t seen one in years and had leftover images of music, clowns and marching bands. Neither of us was prepared for the sonic onslaught of Shriners and their miniature
“Island Visions”
Five photographers will open a group show called “Island Visions” on North Haven on July 29 with a three-gallery exhibition intended to support the construction of the island’s new school. Louis W. Cabot, Eric Hopkins, George Moss, Jay Panetta and Peter Ralston will exhibit approximately 50 prints through Aug. 13 at Waterman’s Community Center, the
A passion for “mats”
“Everywhere I look I see a rug,” says Carol Petillo of Vinalhaven, “I am obsessed.” Her obsession is evident in her small house that has been overrun by piles of wool fabric in every corner, waiting to be cut and hooked. Petillo began hooking rugs five years ago after retiring from a 25-year teaching career
Boothbay physician launches his second career
Andre Benoit’s patients admire him not just for providing care, but also for painting pictures that are giving the physician a second career. But Dr. Benoit isn’t quitting his day job. The Boothbay Harbor doctor this spring mounted his first major show at Bowdoin College, and he sold several paintings right away at an opening
Bartlett show opens at Archipelago on June 30
Archipelago Fine Arts, the gallery at the Island Institute, will exhibit sketches, studies and oils by James William “Bo” Bartlett III, a Georgia-born artist who paints on Matinicus. The 17 sketches and paintings in the show will be offered for sale. “How did this son of the South find his way to the outer edge
Museum offers meditations on death, the landscape and a rugged individual
Walk into the Wyeth Center of the Farnsworth Art Museum in Rockland between now and August 26, and you’re in for a bit of a surprise. You won’t think you’re in artist Andy Warhol’s famed “Factory” in New York City per se, but you might forget you’re in small town coastal Maine. A visiting show
Boothbay Boat Builders
Sat. July 28: East Boothbay, Boothbay Boat Builders & Seafood Festival, 10 a.m to 4 p.m. Tour East Boothbay’s famous shipyards, marina, sail loft. Meet small boat builders and their boats. Attend lectures about boats and other nautical topics by regional experts, including author ColinWoodard. Board the sleek 80-foot motor yacht, Lion’s Whelp, built in