One joy of the kitchen garden is growing funny-looking vegetables. The vegetables displayed at the grocery store meet a kind of regular perfection belied in the home garden where the gardener sees first hand what whimsical, unedited nature provides. Or where the gardener can grow the new and different vegetables bred by seedsmen seemingly weary
A Window Through Time
Freeport’s “Study House” Photographer John G. Kelley’s collection of 27 black and white images in A Window Through Time is more than an art book. In this still-life study of the historic saltwater farm house on Freeport’s Harraseeket River where Millie Pettengill lived until 1975, the work, life and imaginations of Pettengill Farm’s 165 years
At a special Stonington town meeting, developers fail to get firehouse land
For weeks this summer, Stonington townspeople talked about little else than the fate of a small parcel of town-owned land situated between two larger properties on the waterfront recently purchased by Harper’s Development. One of the two larger properties had housed Bartlett’s Market; the other, Atlantic Avenue Hardware. Between them lies the land that houses
Thank you for ‘Trust Us’
To the editor: Your editorial [WWF Sept. 05] almost made this grown woman cry! For joy! Finally someone is willing to speak up with some common sense about aspects of LNG that no one is willing to listen to when they are dazzled by the dollars offered. Been researching for almost a year on the
Pay for the paper?
To the editor: I am writing to offer my opinion regarding real estate advertising in The Working Waterfront/Inter-Island News. I have been a member of the Institute for years and have enjoyed, tremendously, your publications. However, it is distressing to me to see you write about the diminishing facilities and abilities of Maine’s fishing endeavor
A Compromise
To the editor: If a compromise is needed for financial reasons, then restrict ads to existing development (i.e., residential or commercial structures) thereby protecting raw land and undeveloped frontage. This wouldn’t solve the problems identified by Willson and Singer [WWF Sept. 05] but it would be a very modest step in that direction, affecting just
Missing Public Policy Balance
To the editor: As a follow-up to Robert Moore’s excellent article on resource sustainability [WWF June 05], I offer a public policy explanation with three historical references from my home state of Connecticut. Being rather small and lacking direct ocean access, its ports were not able to sustain the colonial “slash and burn” agricultural economies,
Great Sadness
To the editor: It was with great sadness I read the latest Working Waterfront newspaper. Although I have never lived in Vinalhaven, I was raised being told what a great place it is, from my father and grandmother, who did live there until 1927. I lived my childhood through them, feeling it was my home
Looking for Laths
To the editor: Question: Who would be a good contact to find old oak laths? I saw on a program on television these unique looking sticks that farmers raise oysters on. I would like to find a farmer who may discard the old sticks. I just read your article (web edition) on different farmers and
One-man delivery service serves Swan’s Island
When Swan’s Island’s only general store burned in July (WWF Aug. 05), islanders banded together to make sure that everyone would have food. Several business owners expanded their hours and inventory. According to the owner of Claire’s Kitchen, it was Southwest Harbor resident L.J. (Lewis Jr.) Hopkins who helped to make their increased services possible.