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A Concert Review
Although the sun has long since set on the dawning of the Age of Aquarius and a bad moon is on the rise, occasionally the planets still align in the heavens. And so it was that on a trip from Portland to New York and back followed by an early morning breakfast meeting in Boston
The Long View: Our Maine Brand – Burnished or Tarnished?
There is nothing like startlingly fresh information and thoughtful analysis, such as recently presented in a new Brookings Institution report, “Charting Maine’s Future,” to help us answer whether Maine’s economic and government policies are on the right or wrong track. And then to think about what these new findings mean for the coast and islands
Simple Virtues – “If you want money to spend, why not go and earn it?”
Cyrus Curtis grew up in a poor family in Portland and went on to found the Curtis Publishing Company, headquartered in Philadelphia. He became wealthy by publishing the two most iconic monthly magazines of the first half of the twentieth century, Ladies Home Journal and Saturday Evening Post, and a string of newspapers. He bought
Gary Comer – A Rememberance
Gary Comer, who died Oct. 4, 2006 after a long battle with cancer, will be remembered mostly for his phenomenal entrepreneurial success in founding and building Lands’ End into a worldwide brand. But from his boyhood days in Chicago, Comer harbored a passion for the sea and for remote places, especially islands and the frozen
The Long View: Back to School: Why Small Works
Several weeks ago, a group of 17 National Science Foundation (NSF) advisors and investigators boarded the Laura B. mail boat for the voyage out to Monhegan for a day and a half of meetings. We were all part of the CREST team (Community for Rural Education Stewardship and Technology), funded by a three year NSF
“We do hurricanes”
The Great Deluge — Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans and the Gulf Coast By Douglas Brinkley New York: William Morrow/Harper Collins, 2006 716 pp., $29.95. Breach of Faith — Hurricane Katrina and the Near Death of a Great American City By Jed Horne New York: Random House, 2006 412 pp. $25.95. The Storm — What Went
The Long View: Summah People – Some Ahrn’t
There are probably more jokes about summer people circulating through Maine island and working waterfront communities than blonde jokes or light bulb jokes or even redneck jokes. We all love to tell stories on summer people (“Oh, look at how all the fishermen in the harbor parked their boats facing in the same direction”…) The
The Long View: Global Warming – Fact or Hoax?
As this year’s Maine island summer continues to unfold its timeless magic, we all interpret the pulse of daily life depending on our nature and habits. Some of us pray for the return of fish or lobsters, while others run experiments with their gear to determine what the season augurs. The torrents of rain that
Beach Stones
Photographs by Josie Iselin Harry Abrams, New York, N.Y. 2006 144 pp. $16.95 Icons in Stone There are two kinds of beachcombers in the world: those who prowl the arcuate linear expanses of sandy beaches looking for shells and egg cases and those who two-step on shaky ankles along rocky beaches, while waves roll and
An Inconvenient Truth
Rodale, Erasmus, PA. 2006. 327 pp. $21.95 An Inconvenient Truth – starring Al Gore. This has to be a first: if you can think of another book and movie that have appeared simultaneously from a major American political figure just before the long presidential selection process starts in earnest, you have a better memory than