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Love Story of the Trout, Volume 2: More Award Winning Fly Fishing Stories
The Cranberry: Hard Work and Holiday Sauce
This diminutive fruit has had its economic and personal effect on those who have pursued it for a livelihood. What captures the reader’s imagination is the hundreds of old photos depicting the lives of the field workers, the gradual change to industrial agricultural and the inventive marketing endeavors that brought a fortune to companies such
Well Out to Sea: Year-Round on Matinicus Island
The world stands still where we are. And that small piece of planet is ours alone. However cluttered in crowds of colleagues, comrades, friends, or family, we each receive the messages of earth and respond to them, from our separate stance. Eva Murray’s stance on the small island of Matinicus, twenty-two miles out to sea,
A medley of Maine children’s books for the holidays
What has happened to enchantment? I refer to enchantment of the old kind-finding books in a library or being gloriously elated by the recipient of a gift of a book. Is there room for that fairy-tale-like enthrallment any more-opening pages, receding in one’s dream-like mind together with a wonderfully illustrated small tale? A recent Wall
Where the Mountains Meet the Sea: A History of the Camden Area, 1900-2000
Rarely, if ever, have the lives and intimate connections of a town with its contiguous populations been captured in such biographical charm as in this stunning book. Accentuated with a wealth of photographs from multiple private and public archives, the pages are alive with historical reference. With its intermittent, mini-bios of the movers and shakers
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
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
Seacoast Maine: Photographs by George Tice
Timeless photos “I think all of my books of place,” George Tice tells me, “all have the atmosphere of that place…it’s one thing you can do with photography-capturing the atmosphere.” In this latest of his books about place, from the fogs of Lubec to the lobster boats off Monhegan, from the grain elevators of Portland
Notes on a Lost Flute: A Field Guide to the Wabanaki
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