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The Best of Bert and I: Celebrating 50 years of Stories from Down East
Islandport Press brings back popular humorists In the annals of Maine humor, no one can ever replace Marshall Dodge or his fellow-collaborator Robert Bryan. Although both native New Yorkers, starting in the early 1950’s, they personified both the coastal and inland “Mainer” with perfect balance of wit, timing, and accent. In the 1960’s, Bryan turned
New Orleans Notebook:In the Midst of the Memories, the False Teeth
The first thing you notice when you enter New Orleans, Orleans Parish and cross over the Industrial Canal bridge into the Ninth Ward is utter devastation … still, even four months after Hurricane Katrina! The Category-4 storm struck New Orleans with a glancing blow on Aug. 29. But, when several of the levees collapsed later
Bait Review: Brownies in the traps?
Along with the shortages of fresh bait for lobstermen in recent years have come some new alternatives. One can currently purchase leather bait that needs a week to start “putrefying” and lasts about 6 weeks. The smell is pretty bad, but the leather bait seems to work well. Now, from Coastal Creations of Oxford, Maine,