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Retirees Share Maine Lore
Brunswick, Maine: Thornton Oaks Retirement Community, 2004. Paperback, 80 pp. $10. Some very good writing emerges from ordinary experience. When residents of the Thornton Oaks Retirement Community in Brunswick formed a writing group a few years ago, they seem to have decided to focus on personal experiences – observations of nature, local history, remembered places,
More Memories From Harbor View Pathway
Self-published, 2003 “Shipboard Romances,” “The Art of Opening Up,” “The Monkey,” “Island Rules and Regulations,” “It Takes an Island – to give a wedding.” The names of the essays tell you what kind of book you’re reading. More Memories could only have been written by someone who knows “her” island – in this case Matinicus
Cruising at Last: Sailing the East Coast
Lyons Press, 2003 Cruising at Last is an assemblage of shorter pieces written by Elliott Merrick, an accomplished writer and teacher who spent a number of his later years ranging the East Coast in small boats before he died in 1997 at the age of 91. After Merrick’s death, at the request of his daughter,
History, Technology and Consequences
Every day, it seems, technology’s role in our lives grows larger. In Maine the global positioning system (GPS) allows island students to map their neighborhoods and watersheds. Integrated into a geographic information system (GIS), this technology helps students create realistic electronic models that will enable their communities plan for the future. Websites and the Internet,
Classic Yawl Donated to Institute
MADRIGAL, a Concordia 41 yawl, has been donated to the Island Institute for sale through its boat gift program. The proceeds of the sale will provide long-term benefits to the Institute’s programs. The donor is MADRIGAL’s longtime owner, Robert P. Bass, Jr., a New Hampshire attorney who served for many years on the Island Institute’s
Island Votes Reflect Statewide Divisions
The Nov. 4 referendum proposal by two Maine Indian tribes to build a casino in Casino lost in all island communities by substantial margins. Peaks Island, which is part of Portland, defeated the Casino 526-317, while Cliff and Great Diamond Islands, also in Portland, voted against it 32-19 and 37-15, respectively. On Chebeague Island, part
Reflections on the Cranberry Report
Keepers of diaries are disciplined people, and their reward is a degree of immortality few of us obtain. Samuel Pepys, Thomas Jefferson and Theodore Roosevelt kept at their journals for most of their lives; a great deal of what we know about them today comes from their daily scribblings. So if you want posterity to
Another way to go to work on the water
Jim and Susan Moorhead’s retirement plan looks better than most. It includes a comfortable boat, a lot of fine scenery, ample travel, excellent communications and – potentially – the means to support this lifestyle into the future. A year ago the Moorheads boarded MEMORY MAKER, the 52-foot trawler-yacht they had previously bought in Maryland and
Speakers: future of fishing and farming is local
Traditional resource-based industries in Maine such as fishing are in trouble today because of global factors beyond their control, but also because technology has allowed them to deplete their resources. “We were too good,” Craig Pendleton of the Northwest Atlantic Marine Alliance told a Kennebunkport conference on sustainability on June 13, describing the depletion of
87 Boat Designs: A Catalog of Small Boat Plans from Mystic Seaport
87 Boat Designs: A Catalog of Small Boat Plans from Mystic Seaport By Benjamin A.G. Fuller 2002: Mystic Seaport Museum, Inc. Reviewed by David D. Platt In 1983, Ben Fuller and a crew from Mystic Seaport were invited to inspect and measure a collection of wooden boats sitting in a boathouse on McGee Island off