Five years ago John Hathaway came up with one of his many ideas. He had started a lobster shack in Kennebunkport — the building was only 600 square feet — to have all five of his children together in summer and in so doing discovered that people didn’t like, as he said, “the mess and
Raw lobster and how to cook it
The system of immersing food in water under pressure high enough to neutralize bacteria and pathogens originated in Spain about ten years ago when Nicolás Correa, a family of companies that specializes in grain milling machines, developed a high-pressure machine for food pasteurization much like the autoclaves doctors and dentists use to sterilize their instruments.
Marketing brings the big boats, along with a few concerns
Different ports for different passengers — in the competitive cruise ship business, Bar Harbor and Portland both enjoy increasing popularity these days, but each port is seeking different markets. Portland, with its Ocean Gateway terminal in the making, welcomes passengers with a “more the merrier,” mega-ship mentality. On the other hand, explains Brian Nutter, executive
Real estate slowdown affects Portland waterfront project
What Portland truly hopes to avoid at the city-owned Maine State Pier is a nasty real estate experience called, quite astutely, “the runaround.” Development projects go belly up when developers, in an effort to win favor, offer unrealistic deals. Then, when these overly enthusiastic developers actually prevail, the reality of financial investment inspires a more
Jordan’s project on hold
Plans to build a Westin hotel/condominium complex in Portland’s Eastern Waterfront have been put on hold, and the Procaccianti Group has decided to put its investment there up for sale. The initial project, slated for groundbreaking last summer, involved tearing down the long-closed Jordan’s Meats, replacing it with a $110 million development encompassing a 223-room
New Technology, Lost Bounty
Two photographs –one old, one new — in this issue of Working Waterfront tell different stories about Maine and its varied fisheries. On page 21 we have a huge halibut flanked by two Phippsburg fishermen. The fish is longer than either man is tall; the picture documents a time (the 1970s) when people who lived
“What do you suppose that tuna weighed?”
A photograph taken in 1979 in the Phippsburg village of West Point shows Dick Wallace and his son Gary standing on either side of a halibut that is a good foot taller than each of them. In another, taken in the 1930s in the Phippsburg village of Sebasco, Seth Wallace holds up a codfish that
Chasing the Sun
Orono, Maine: Puckerbrush Press $15.95 A Fictionalized Poet’s Trip Down Memory Lane Writer Christopher Fahy of Thomaston has fictionalized Rockland as the city of Limerock in his latest novel, Chasing the Sun, but it’s not the first time. Fahy, who writes novels, poetry and short stories, created Limerock in a book of short stories by
Summer Lines
Limerock Books, $12.00 Dealing with the Big Issues and the Commonplace Five poets who read some of their work every summer in Tenants Harbor, honored the 10th anniversary of the annual event with the publication of a book, “Summer Lines.” Subtitled “A Decade of Tenants Harbor Poetry Readings,” the volume contains poems previously published and
Suburban Safari: A Year on the Lawn
Bloomsbury 2005 Worlds Within Worlds Anyone who reads this book can’t look at their backyard the same ever again. Crows take on a new meaning, squirrels gain respect, earthworms (a European immigrant) fascinate, and slugs, well, they remain slugs. There are worlds within worlds around the tomato plants, the bird feeder and the lawn. In