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Weird New EnglandYour Travel Guide to New England’s Local Legends and Best Kept Secrets
New York: Sterling Publishing, 2005 Hardcover $19.95, 272 pages Finding the Funky Has cabin fever set in right about now? The images and anecdotes in Weird New England offer an enthralling distraction from the woes of winter as it winds down. A disclaimer cautions the book is “intended as entertainment to present a historical record
Lisey’s Story
The End of the Line: How Overfishing is Changing the World and What We Eat
New York: The New Press, 2006 Stolen Birthright Charles Clover writes about environmental issues for the Daily Telegraph in London. He brings a detail-rich writing and thorough research to this book, and he also brings a passion. Think Al Gore and An Inconvenient Truth: Gore may reiterate the most important points a number of times
Sustaining the Spirit; Assuaging the Appetite
Any time capsule created by Vinalhaveners to mark this first decade of the twenty-first century would have to include a copy of the new cookbook compiled by the island’s Friends of the Library as a fundraiser for the library’s new addition. The book is titled Vinalhaven Island Cooking. Reading through it, I wondered: as time
Online Exclusive: Nobu’s Good News
Soho, an artsy area in Manhattan named for its location south of Houston Street, inspired its spin-offs. In Massachusetts for example, hip Northampton gets referred to as Noho. And now, on Vinalhaven, we’re getting Nobu. That would be for “north of Boongie’s.” I got tipped off to this designation at Thanksgiving. It’s only recently been
Two Children’s Classics Worth Revisiting
Are there children on your shopping list for presents during this December’s holiday season? Two classic books, both set in Penobscot Bay and written by summer residents who happened to be prolific and successful authors, are newly pertinent and deserving of your consideration. Both books were written during times of international strife and dissonance. They
Online Exclusive: Big Rocks, Small Signs
A recent New York Times article reported an unusual urban occurrence: “It’s not every day that a great big rock shows up on your block.” The Oct. 28, 2006 story went on to describe what was excavated while a sewer line was being dug beneath a street in Brooklyn, New York: a rock seven feet
A Maine Artist’s Garden Journal
Quintessential Maine, Through its Gardens and Landscapes As the gift-giving holiday season draws nearer, two coffee table books are worth a look. Although both feature the beauty of nature in artistic renditions, they have their differences. One volume offers a visual feast of Maine landscapes seen through the lens of the camera, captured on film
When Big Boys Camp
A kid dreams of what life could hold, in a world full of possibility, and what’s that kid say? Well, a kid of the male gender might speculate, “When I’m a big boy, I’ll…” And that way of imagining and fantasizing possibility is what the group who have dubbed themselves the Big Boys seem to
Fresh Maine Salads: Innovative Recipes from Appetizers to Desserts
Camden ME: Down East Books, 2006. Salads for Four Seasons It’s fall, and about now your garden may have pooped out for the year, producing its last oversized zucchini, gaggle of arugula or bunch of basil. But the recipes in this book speak to all seasons, emphasizing the preference for local provenance whenever possible. As