Boothbay Harbor Shipyard is presently the largest company in the U.S. that specializes in traditional plank-on-frame wooden boats. The firm recently observed its second anniversary since new ownership and management took over in 2004. On December 11, the yard launched the 50-foot ship replica Discovery, pictured here. The yard is already halfway through a major
Buhers line up for Newfoundland seafood processor
Renting Upstairs: On Portland’s piers, non-marine tenants help pay the bills
Professionals who choose to rent space on Portland’s waterfront find their workplace unique — a place to be savored not only for its view, but its gritty reality. No Starbucks downstairs. Dead fish, yes; gourmet coffee, no. Last Aug. 1, when Peter Leopold, Ph.D., owner of BioAnalyte, a high-tech software company specializing in biomarker discovery
Sustaining the Spirit; Assuaging the Appetite
Any time capsule created by Vinalhaveners to mark this first decade of the twenty-first century would have to include a copy of the new cookbook compiled by the island’s Friends of the Library as a fundraiser for the library’s new addition. The book is titled Vinalhaven Island Cooking. Reading through it, I wondered: as time
Online Exclusive: Getting the job done
What do you do when you need a job done around the house? Or if you need to have something else done, like cutting down a tree, or your chimney cleaned? On the mainland, it’s simple: you call someone. On an island, it’s much more complicated. Sometimes you can do it yourself. And there are
Online Exclusive: Going Green at the Supermarket
Sainsbury’s, the large U.K. supermarket chain, recently adopted a red/yellow/green approach to sourcing fish supplies. If it judges a particular fish stock to be in “red” condition, or overfished and at risk, Sainsbury’s will not purchase that species from that source. This places Sainsbury’s one step ahead of the international certification group, the Marine Stewardship
Online Exclusive: Nobu’s Good News
Soho, an artsy area in Manhattan named for its location south of Houston Street, inspired its spin-offs. In Massachusetts for example, hip Northampton gets referred to as Noho. And now, on Vinalhaven, we’re getting Nobu. That would be for “north of Boongie’s.” I got tipped off to this designation at Thanksgiving. It’s only recently been
Cookbooks
Ocean Friendly Cuisine: Sustainable Seafood Recipes from the World’s Finest Chefs By James O. Fraioli, with a foreword Jean-Michel Cousteau Willow Creek Books, in association with the Monterey Bay Aquarium, 2005 Hardcover, 231 pages, $35.00 North Atlantic Seafood: A Comprehensive Guide with Recipes By Alan Davidson Ten Speed Press, 2003 Paperback, 512 pages We Are
Small Misty Mountain
Pushcart Press, 2006 Hardcover, 280 pages, $22.00 Vulnerable to the Holy Sacred places are not always human-made (such as a cathedral, for instance)–they are “often at the meeting of land and sky,” writes author Rob McCall, and visited for renewal and inspiration. A passionate nature observer of his own locale, McCall affirms that Blue Hill’s
A Concert Review
Although the sun has long since set on the dawning of the Age of Aquarius and a bad moon is on the rise, occasionally the planets still align in the heavens. And so it was that on a trip from Portland to New York and back followed by an early morning breakfast meeting in Boston