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The serendipity of island life brings joy
I couldn’t have predicted that I’d soon be gripping the gunwale of a lobster boat, cheering and shouting alongside a lobstering family… SEE MORE
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Category: Opinion
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Lobster fishery uncertainty—stay engaged
With chaos at the federal level these days, it is more important than ever to pay attention and stay engaged on topics we care about and support. For many of us on the Maine coast, that includes the lobster fishery. There is a lot happening—climate change, a new stock assessment,… SEE MORE
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Remembering a friend and island helper
Bill was unusually gendered, and as a child and young adult on the island he struggled with the predictable torment—predictable at the time, but now, thankfully, fading. While his was a very difficult identity for us to quantify or for him to acknowledge and deal with when he was an… SEE MORE
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Food advice: It’s always something
Remember when we thought eggs were bad for us, high in cholesterol, eat one a week, think of them as a food equivalent of a hand grenade? Remember Egg Beaters? Eggs are now OK again. Remember the Fear of Fat era, when a package of watercress I bought had the… SEE MORE
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School of rock
The band mounted the stage, confidently striding up the ramp to find their places behind the microphones and amplifiers. Earlier that afternoon they had loaded everything out of their practice space, working together as a team to make sure nothing was left behind. Their sound check was efficient, and they… SEE MORE
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‘Confessing’ a love for place
Confessional poets are not usually confessing anything, but more accurately, using their own private emotions, events, and relationships… SEE MORE
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Indigenous stories hit hard
This story collection comes with the author’s “trigger warning,” advising readers that they may be disturbed by issues including “racism, missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls, pregnancy loss, murder, physical abuse and drug abuse.” SEE MORE
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Reader observations, thoughts
At the top center of the photo is the Burnham Tavern, peeking out between a tree and the larger dark building (now gone). Directly in front of the Burnham Tavern is a building (Crane's Garage then) which, when I was growing up, was a beauty parlor, then a dwelling place, and later a gift shop called The Sow's Ear. SEE MORE
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A travel writer’s hippie roots
Steves has been described as the Mr. Rogers of travel programs, and if that’s accurate, On the Hippie Trail creates some clashing images. Steves did indeed have longish hair and a beard in the book jacket photo, taken when he wrote this book in 1978. But then... SEE MORE
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At home with harbors and oysters
Their oyster farm on New Meadows River inspired a series of lively watercolor-and-ink studies which were shown at the Maine Oyster Company’s raw bar in Portland in 2019. Herrigel captures the action—harvesting, sorting, shucking—via color washes and dashing outlines. SEE MORE
