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Stark reminder of need to support children
Some of the kids in our program don’t have a stable home life or the certainty of knowing where their next meal is coming from. SEE MORE
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Online from Peaks Island, it’s ‘Today in Tabs!’
From his Peaks Island home, Rusty Foster makes a living writing about other writers’ writing. And sometimes other writers write about him. SEE MORE
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On the record with… Left for Dead author Eric Jay Dolin
This has always puzzled me: for whatever reason, stories about the ocean are viewed by us as romantic. It was not romantic at all. SEE MORE
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Sea Meadow on firmer ground with funding
Sea Meadow is a 12-acre parcel along the tidal Cousins River, which flows into the Royal River and into Casco Bay. The property is located on a dirt road about a quarter mile from busy Route 1 and has been occupied by two boatbuilders for decades. SEE MORE
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Noblesse oblige, Maine style
About 15 years ago, I had a most pleasant conversation with Linda Bean. I was covering the Maine Fishermen’s Forum for the Bangor Daily News and found myself sitting next to her at a session which had participants gathered in a circle. A fellow journalist had recently told me something… SEE MORE
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Emily Muir and the seiners
In addition to being a painter, Muir was a self-taught architect and designer, as well as an author, lecturer, and conservationist. SEE MORE
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The Jacob Pike, a victim of January’s storms
In 2022, The Penobscot Marine Museum acquired a collection of several thousand Jim Moore’s maritime-related negatives SEE MORE
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Readers: Community building, ‘important work,’ and delightful travelogue
Important work To the Editor: I just read Kim Hamilton's “From the Sea Up” column in the April issue of The Working Waterfront, “The storm damage we cannot see.” It was excellent. As a psychiatrist, I’m so glad you’re noting the psychological impact of these terrible coastal storms and encouraging… SEE MORE
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The magic of music
I keep misjudging people. Last month an elderly woman, four years my junior, put in an appearance at the Vinalhaven Library to sing songs and tell stories. The event had been scheduled weeks before and announced repeatedly in our island newsletter, so as the day approached and it became increasingly… SEE MORE
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Indulging in doughnuts
The March 23 storm caused icing and power outages along the Maine coast and dumped two feet of snow in the western part of the state. In the Cranberry Isles we got about five inches of snow before the rain took it all away again. By Sunday the trees were… SEE MORE
