Working Waterfront is seeking an experienced salesperson to secure new advertising accounts in the Portland area. We are currently one of Maine’s largest newspapers with a distribution of 50,000 – 60,000 papers monthly from Kittery to Calais. Likewise, Working Waterfront is published online monthly. This opportunity is a yearly-contracted, commission-based independent sales position involving advertiser
The End of the Line: How Overfishing is Changing the World and What We Eat
New York: The New Press, 2006 Stolen Birthright Charles Clover writes about environmental issues for the Daily Telegraph in London. He brings a detail-rich writing and thorough research to this book, and he also brings a passion. Think Al Gore and An Inconvenient Truth: Gore may reiterate the most important points a number of times
Underwater to Get Out of the Rain: A Love Affair with the Sea
De Capo Press, 2006 Hardcover, 400 pages, $25.00 Diving for Inspiration What would draw a reader to this memoir by British marine biologist Trevor Norton? One of the back cover blurbs states: “The marine biologist known as Bill Bryson Underwater.” Lured by the prospect of humor in the outdoors, in this case at the sea’s
The Camera’s Coast: Historic Images of Ship and Shore in New England
Introduction by John R. Stilgoe Historic New England (distributed by Tilbury House, Publishers) 2006 Deluxe paperback with flaps. 144 pp. $29.95 A Fine Piece of Historical Scrapbooking An indefatigable historian of the Northeast, W. H. Bunting of Whitefield, Maine, has contributed considerably to our knowledge and appreciation of seacoast subjects through such books as Steamers,
Lisey’s Story
Cranberry Report: The Need for Speed
As I sit at my computer in our wood-warmed Islesford home, I stop to look out the window at tree branches lined with a thin layer of ice. It was 12 degrees this morning, one of the coldest days so far in a very mild winter with very little snow. January is one of my
NAACP to host Malaga forum
The forced eviction of the mixed-race residents of Malaga Island in 1912 and its aftermath will be the subject of a Feb. 12 forum in Portland, sponsored by the Portland Branch of the NAACP. Malaga, today a densely wooded oasis in the New Meadows River off Phippsburg’s shore, is now owned by the Maine Coast
Resource at Risk: Can Downeast Maine save its dark skies?
Seventy-seven-year old David Westphal of Somesville remembers the first time as a child when he saw a sky milky with stars. “It was just awe and wonder,” he recalled. Growing up in rural Minnesota, Westphal didn’t know dark skies were rare; he only realized their value years later after traveling. Such experience helps him appreciate
Grand Design goes musical: Newcastle theater to present a gritty saga
A 1700s shipwreck in the Bay of Fundy has family connections to Lincoln County, where a few hardy survivors settled after finally being rescued. The Heartwood Regional Theater Company of Damariscotta will present the gritty saga of the Irish ship Martha & Eliza this spring, in musical form. It’s the story of affluent Scots-Irish Presbyterians
“Hands Clasped as if in Prayer”
Robert Peter Tristram Coffin was a Pulitzer-Prize-winning poet, an essayist, a Maine historian and chronicler — and in the fall of 1954 he was my Shakespeare professor at Bowdoin College. Sadly, the course lasted only a semester because he passed away in Portland during my sophomore midyear break in January 1955. I’ve always been grateful