For 14 years the Penobscot Marine Museum has held a daylong conference on different historical aspects of Penobscot Bay, its islands and the surrounding mainland. Library and Education Director John Arrison, who organizes the conferences and introduces the speakers, said he also enjoys storytelling, and for the last couple of years he has been trying
Eastport mystery writer Sarah Graves: “I’m just an ordinary person with an unusual job”
The S. L. Wadsworth & Son store in Eastport has a prominent display of books by local mystery writer Sarah Graves. The display, offering copies of all her novels, has resulted in the sale of 500 books since the display was set up last June, according to Wadsworth’s staffer Alan Foster. Now Wadsworth’s is many
Deer Isle volunteer helps hurricane evacuees
When social worker Roberta Johnson of Deer Isle responded to an e-mail from the National Association of Social Workers asking for Red Cross emergency volunteers, she had no idea what she was getting into. She remembered thinking that because she worked in a school with summers off she could help in the summertime if she
New Homeland Security
The Department of Homeland Security has added Eastport to the ports of entry that will utilize “biometric procedures” for certain visitors from Canada as part of the US-Visit program. US-Visit applies to “all visitors who apply for entry with a nonimmigrant visa, including those using a Border Crossing Card to travel beyond the border zone
Thanks
To the editor: I am an inspector for the MDOT and I will be onsite at the Ocean Gateway Project full time until the completion of the project. You did a wonderful article in your last issue and I’ve posted the article on the wall here in my office… The Design Team for Ocean Gateway
Rewarding
To the editor: The November leading story in your excellent newspaper (For Sale: A Way of Life) describes what’s sadly happening in Maine, but the same thing is true in Nova Scotia – so far to a lesser degree. However, I’m pleased to report I have recently sold my old Bluenose Boatyard to a young
Not a Cranky Aversion
To the editor: The pronunciation of the compass point “north-east” as “nothe-east” – and not the abominable “nor’east” – by old time Yankees on the Maine coast and Cape Cod (many coastal Maine families emigrated from Cape Cod) is not a cranky aversion to the conventional placement of the letter “r,” as in “I left
Keep to the Sea?
To the editor: Truly the real estate situation in coastal Maine is deplorable, pernicious. Whereas not too long ago millionaires were content to buy and sell each other’s waterfront mansions, today kitchen table yuppie entrepreneurs as well as huge investment corporations are buying every little cabin and saltbox, every little cove and point, and most
Tool Check
To the editor: I just read your article on the “Quoddy Project” of 1935 very interesting. I have a “tool check” (picture attached) that may be from that period as the acronym U.S.E.D. was the “U.S. (Army) Engineering Department” circa 1900 unless there was another project prior to 1935 and around 1900? What do you
Stripers in the St. Croix
To the editor: It’s interesting that you didn’t mention stripers in the St. Croix estuary [WWF Oct. 05]. The numbers don’t seem to be there anymore. Is it because the State of Maine in its infinite wisdom closed the river to spawning alewives? Frederick Gralenski Pembroke