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The Original Maine Shrimp Cookbook

Island Institute, 2009 74 pages, $16.95 Just peel and eat Aside from the couple of times I journeyed (by car) or voyaged (by sailboat) to Maine in June for weddings, I ventured northward from New York to Maine in the winter. My city friends could not understand such insanity-even when I described the incomparable culinary

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Live Yankees: The Sewalls and Their Ships

In the foreword to William Bunting’s adventure-filled beguilement, Sea Struck, Llewellyn Howland III, writes: “As well as being wide-ranging and authoritative, Bunting’s text is witty and beautifully written. It is the work of a sailor-scholar for whom the sea is a source of perpetual wonder and historical research a perpetual delight.” These words could be

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Backyard Maine: Local Essays by Edgar Allen Beem

Tilbury House (2009) Paperback, 224 pages, $15 Local matters In an opinion column that Edgar Allen Beem writes for the Forecaster newspaper called “The Universal Notebook” (which is the reporter’s spiral-bound notebook that fits into most pockets), Beem writes: “The combination of a recession in the economy and a revolution in information technology is conspiring

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