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Friendship Homes

Rockland: Custom Museum Publishing, 2007. A Whole Town, In Print On July 28 of this year Friendship celebrated its bicentennial, an occasion for which this book was created. It has neither author nor editor listed on its cover, stating simply that it was “A collaborative community effort in Friendship, Maine.” Marguerite Sylvester, over 90 and

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Lobsters in Retirement

Amherst, Massachusetts is a fair way from the sea, but this fall a group of enthusiastic retirees is participating in a seminar on lobsters and lobstering in the State of Maine, led by my husband, Jim, and me. We live in Amherst but summer in Friendship, a serious lobstering harbor, and have for years been

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More Sandy Oliver!

To the editor: I write to tell you how much I enjoy the Working Waterfront/Inter Island News. My husband and I are members of the Island Institute, so we get your publication all year long. As we are long-time summer people in Friendship, and care deeply about the lobster industry, your newspaper keeps us in

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