http://www.workingwaterfront.com Fri, 25 Jul 2008 04:20:06 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.2 http://www.workingwaterfront.com/images/ww_banner_bg.png http://www.workingwaterfront.com http://www.workingwaterfront.com/articles/Jack-Elliot-remembering-a-Swift-Boater-from-Thomaston-Maine/12531/ Arthur "Jack" Elliot was killed 40 years ago on Dec. 29, 1968, at the age of 35. A fifth generation native of Thomaston, Lieutenant Commander Elliot was leading a PBR (Patrol Boat River) squadron when he was hit by a B-40 rocket, which killed him instantly. ... info@workingwaterfront.org (by Harry Gratwick) Fri, 01 Aug 2008 04:00:00 +0100 http://www.workingwaterfront.com/articles/Jack-Elliot-remembering-a-Swift-Boater-from-Thomaston-Maine/12531/ http://www.workingwaterfront.com/articles/The-Sloop-from-Bucks-County-PA/12533/ Forty-five years ago Peter Sellers was a young mathematics professor with a dream. Specifically, he wanted to build a boat with the lines of a Friendship sloop. The project would combine two of Peter's favorite activities. As a youth, he loved the small boat sailing he had done during summers spent on the New Jersey shore. As a child he had also developed a love of woodworking, a skill nurtured by his father. ... info@workingwaterfront.org (by Harry Gratwick) Fri, 01 Aug 2008 04:00:00 +0100 http://www.workingwaterfront.com/articles/The-Sloop-from-Bucks-County-PA/12533/ http://www.workingwaterfront.com/articles/Ice-cream-and-groceries-return-to-Matinicus/12534/ Going for an ice cream on Matinicus Island is no longer just a bit of wishful thinking. On July 9 at 11 a.m. a line had already formed outside the door of the new Matinicus Island Store located, as it says on the signs, "at Aunt Belle's. ... info@workingwaterfront.org (by Eva Murray) Fri, 01 Aug 2008 04:00:00 +0100 http://www.workingwaterfront.com/articles/Ice-cream-and-groceries-return-to-Matinicus/12534/ http://www.workingwaterfront.com/articles/Islanders-by-Association/12542/ #1.  I'd begin with some disclaimer, some heartfelt admission by me that it is always dicey to write about something as if one boasts some insight, because any perspective is, no matter how well informed, limited by being highly individual.  And I would confess that, as someone "from away," it is an honor but no small challenge for me to write about Vinalhaven. ... info@workingwaterfront.org (by Tina Cohen) Fri, 01 Aug 2008 04:00:00 +0100 http://www.workingwaterfront.com/articles/Islanders-by-Association/12542/ http://www.workingwaterfront.com/reviews/Adam-the-King/12543/ How to describe this novel, third in Lewis's "Meritocracy Trilogy"? One way a book gets characterized is through Library of Congress subject headings; in this case, "fiction" about "Jewish men," "weddings," "middle age," "rich people," "life change events" and "summer resorts." Well, yes, the book includes all of that. ... info@workingwaterfront.org (by Tina Cohen) Fri, 01 Aug 2008 04:00:00 +0100 http://www.workingwaterfront.com/reviews/Adam-the-King/12543/ http://www.workingwaterfront.com/reviews/Olive-Kitteridge/12544/ What does insight offer us, given the ability to observe oneself or others?  Psychologists might answer it supports change and develops empathy and compassion. Yet, even for ourselves, understanding who we are and why is no small achievement. How can we hope, then, to have that understanding of others? And surely, there are some people we're plain put off by. ... info@workingwaterfront.org (by Tina Cohen) Fri, 01 Aug 2008 04:00:00 +0100 http://www.workingwaterfront.com/reviews/Olive-Kitteridge/12544/ http://www.workingwaterfront.com/mail/Delightful/12550/ To the editor:Please pass my compliments to Sandra Dinsmore for the delightful article "Duffy and Duffy" in the 2008 March issue of Working Waterfront. It broadcast the spirit of Richard and Riley. Importantly, it highlighted the problem solving skills that engineers call, reverently, "The Knack"  -  where you carefully avoid producing "art" and just try to do your best (if you're lucky, the result is art).Thank you. ... info@workingwaterfront.org (Bruce de Graaf) Fri, 01 Aug 2008 04:00:00 +0100 http://www.workingwaterfront.com/mail/Delightful/12550/ http://www.workingwaterfront.com/articles/Family-Business/12552/ Being in the same business can make for an unusual level of understanding between husband and wife, but when they and the sons of each have opposite goals, the potential for trouble can skyrocket. When Corea Lobster Cooperative manager Dwight Rodgers courted seafood buyer Ruth Goodwin, mother and business partner of one of his customers, Christopher Byers, of Winter Harbor's DC Air (WWF Feb. 1008), neither thought it would present much of a problem. ... info@workingwaterfront.org (by Sandra Dinsmore) Fri, 01 Aug 2008 04:00:00 +0100 http://www.workingwaterfront.com/articles/Family-Business/12552/ http://www.workingwaterfront.com/articles/Living-By-the-Boat/12555/ Orders for lobster boats are down at Holland's Boat Shop, Inc. in Belfast, due to the downturn in the lobster industry and the economy. But Glenn Holland still has orders for recreational boats so he's not too worried - yet."It's kinda like being in a sinking boat, but for now, the pumps are keeping up with it," said Holland, who started the business in late 1972 by finishing off a pre-manufactured 30-foot Repco fiberglass hull. ... info@workingwaterfront.org (by Nancy Griffin) Fri, 01 Aug 2008 04:00:00 +0100 http://www.workingwaterfront.com/articles/Living-By-the-Boat/12555/ http://www.workingwaterfront.com/reviews/Lynne-Drexler-Painter-at-the-Monhegan-Museum/12556/ The painter Lynne Drexler (1928-1999) was a southerner by birth (Newport News, Virginia) and upbringing, but by the end of her life she belonged, as it were, to Monhegan Island. In the early 1960s she began to spend part of her summers there. She became a year-round islander in 1983. ... info@workingwaterfront.org (by Carl Little) Fri, 01 Aug 2008 04:00:00 +0100 http://www.workingwaterfront.com/reviews/Lynne-Drexler-Painter-at-the-Monhegan-Museum/12556/ http://www.workingwaterfront.com/reviews/Monhegan-A-Guide-to-Maines-Fabled-Island/12557/ A Wild Place, Full of WonderWritten and photographed by Mark WarnerDown East Books, 200853 pp, $14.95In his foreword to Carl Little's The Art of Monhegan Island, Jamie Wyeth writes: "I have a problem with Monhegan Island ... everyone remembers their first lover, don't they? Perhaps passionately, occasionally longingly, sometimes angrily, but always. I am peculiar ... my first lover was not a person - it was an island. ... info@workingwaterfront.org (by Hannah Merker) Fri, 01 Aug 2008 04:00:00 +0100 http://www.workingwaterfront.com/reviews/Monhegan-A-Guide-to-Maines-Fabled-Island/12557/ http://www.workingwaterfront.com/articles/Finding-the-place-that-holds-your-loyalty-and-affection/12562/ #1.  I'd begin with some disclaimer, some heartfelt admission by me that it is always dicey to write about something as if one boasts some insight, because any perspective is, no matter how well informed, limited by being highly individual.  And I would confess that, as someone "from away," it is an honor but no small challenge for me to write about Vinalhaven. ... info@workingwaterfront.org (by Tina Cohen) Fri, 01 Aug 2008 04:00:00 +0100 http://www.workingwaterfront.com/articles/Finding-the-place-that-holds-your-loyalty-and-affection/12562/ http://www.workingwaterfront.com/mail/Deer-Isle-Boys-were-skilled-professional-mariners/12564/ To the editor:   I enjoyed the article "Technology, travel put Deer Isle students in touch with their ancestors," (Working Waterfront, June 2008) on the Deer Isle students and their impressive research into all the Deer Isle crews that defended the America's Cup in the 1890s. These kids deserve every bit of praise they get. I must take issue with Sandra Dinsmore's depiction of the crew members as fishermen. ... info@workingwaterfront.org (William A. Haviland) Fri, 01 Aug 2008 04:00:00 +0100 http://www.workingwaterfront.com/mail/Deer-Isle-Boys-were-skilled-professional-mariners/12564/ http://www.workingwaterfront.com/articles/When-fishings-like-breathing/12530/ "We've got all day; we're petty relaxed," says captain Julie Brown Eaton as we steam away from her Stonington harbor mooring aboard her 33-year-old 30-foot Repco. An understatement if ever there was one: unlike those fishermen who insist on being on the water by dawn, she left the dock on this perfect June day at a leisurely 7 a.m. ... info@workingwaterfront.org (by Sandra Dinsmore) Fri, 01 Aug 2008 04:00:00 +0100 http://www.workingwaterfront.com/articles/When-fishings-like-breathing/12530/ http://www.workingwaterfront.com/columns/Cranberry-Report/12452/ On June 11, the Islesford community met at the Neighborhood House for a pot luck dinner and a celebration of Ben Stevens' graduation from the Islesford School. Ben's mom, Sally Rowan, had gathered slides of Ben to show after the supper. Ben's dad, Skip Stevens, gathered his wife and musical friends, Bill McGuinness, Hugh Smallwood, and Kate Chaplin to join him in singing his own lyrics for Ben to the tune of a familiar Bob Dylan song. ... info@workingwaterfront.org (by Barbara Fernald) Tue, 01 Jul 2008 04:00:00 +0100 http://www.workingwaterfront.com/columns/Cranberry-Report/12452/ http://www.workingwaterfront.com/articles/Golfing-and-Fishing/12467/ During June, the Stone Wharf on Chebeague Island bustles with activity as barges drop off cars and trucks, passengers come and go on the Chebeague Transportation Company's ferry, Islander, and lobstermen rig traps and load them onto their boats. At this time of year, lobsterman Stephen Johnson can be found in the midst of all of this activity fathoming out his rope and making sure his knots are secure. ... info@workingwaterfront.org (by Donna Miller Damon) Tue, 01 Jul 2008 04:00:00 +0100 http://www.workingwaterfront.com/articles/Golfing-and-Fishing/12467/ http://www.workingwaterfront.com/articles/Can-coastal-granges-survive/12444/ Pete Pedersen believes he has no choice but to answer the call for help with the ongoing grounds renovation at the Vinalhaven Grange.  A summertime Grange member, Pedersen knows if he refuses to help, fellow member Lois Webster will do it. And if Webster, who is in her late eighties and a survivor of cancer, a heart attack and a stroke, is willing to do some hard physical labor, Pedersen thinks he'd better be willing, too. ... info@workingwaterfront.org (by Craig Idlebrook) Tue, 01 Jul 2008 04:00:00 +0100 http://www.workingwaterfront.com/articles/Can-coastal-granges-survive/12444/ http://www.workingwaterfront.com/mail/Its-Your-Paper-Now/12487/ Time to go. Been at this job for 16 years, more or less, since we started The Working Waterfront in the early 1990s. All that time I’ve been the editor, but now we’ve got a new one so I get to say goodbye by writing him a letter. We started small — the first issue was 12 pages and the type was pretty large to conceal the fact that we didn’t have sufficient stories or ads to fill the space. ... info@workingwaterfront.org (David Platt) Tue, 01 Jul 2008 04:00:00 +0100 http://www.workingwaterfront.com/mail/Its-Your-Paper-Now/12487/ http://www.workingwaterfront.com/editorials/Islanders-Are-Hearty-Folk-Not/12474/ With this issue of The Working Waterfront, we bid farewell to our founding editor, David Platt, who is not exactly sailing off into the sunset, but has retired from his fulltime duties as editor of the newspaper, Island Journal and publications director for the Island Institute. During the past 15 years that he manned the helm of this newspaper, David left his most enduring editorial legacy. ... info@workingwaterfront.org (by Philip W. Conkling) Tue, 01 Jul 2008 04:00:00 +0100 http://www.workingwaterfront.com/editorials/Islanders-Are-Hearty-Folk-Not/12474/ http://www.workingwaterfront.com/articles/Boys-with-Toys%A6-and-Vision/12454/ One of the great things about living in an island community is the length and breadth a group of friends will go to for a little diversion. Boat launchings, ice boating adventures, timber frame raisings, wind and tidal power generation, cutting and moving monolithic blocks of stone - lofty ideas hatched out around kitchen tables and trips back and forth across the bay - and ones that bring out the ingenuity and Tom Sawyer enthusiasm among island neighbors. ... info@workingwaterfront.org (by Karen Roberts Jackson) Tue, 01 Jul 2008 04:00:00 +0100 http://www.workingwaterfront.com/articles/Boys-with-Toys%A6-and-Vision/12454/