http://www.workingwaterfront.com Sat, 17 May 2008 06:56:36 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.2 http://www.workingwaterfront.com/images/ww_banner_bg.png http://www.workingwaterfront.com http://www.workingwaterfront.com/columns/Midge-and-Rinktumdiddy/12357/ Returning home one afternoon, I came into the kitchen and noticed an unfamiliar enameled pan full of something that looked a little curdled and pinkish, with plastic wrap stretched over it, and a recipe card next to it in Midge Welldon's familiar hand. Midge liked giving me recipes, bless her, and this one for Rinktumdiddy together with servings for two, was merely the latest in a long line. ... info@workingwaterfront.org (by Sandy Oliver) Sun, 01 Jun 2008 04:00:00 +0100 http://www.workingwaterfront.com/columns/Midge-and-Rinktumdiddy/12357/ http://www.workingwaterfront.com/articles/After-the-fire-Matinicus-Island-gets-to-work-healing/12344/ By time this goes to press, most will have heard or read about the fire that on April 28 destroyed the newly renovated Matinicus Island post office, as well as a young man's home and all he owned, the long-awaited new store almost ready for its Grand Opening celebration, and some of the property of the nascent Matinicus Island Historical Society. As I write, roughly a week after the fire, many are still showing signs of exhaustion. ... info@workingwaterfront.org (by Eva Murray) Sun, 01 Jun 2008 04:00:00 +0100 http://www.workingwaterfront.com/articles/After-the-fire-Matinicus-Island-gets-to-work-healing/12344/ http://www.workingwaterfront.com/columns/Serious-Scientists/12341/ Scientists are a serious lot.. Sines and tangents, exponents and roots of radical equations, offer little in the way of humor, and scientific conclusions are rarely cheery. If you catch a fine fat mackerel,  "Don't eat it. It is loaded with mercury." "Lobster tamale is pure poison." " The average global temperature is rising at an exponential rate." However, once in a while, a scientist will crack a smile. ... info@workingwaterfront.org (by Roger F Duncan) Sun, 01 Jun 2008 04:00:00 +0100 http://www.workingwaterfront.com/columns/Serious-Scientists/12341/ http://www.workingwaterfront.com/articles/An-artist-invites-her-viewers-to-remember-and-rejoice/12345/ The verve of nature - no small thing - is alive in the paintings of Vinalhaven artist Elaine Crossman. Her landscapes reveal and also revel in the glory of the natural world. In another era, the majestic stained glass windows of Louis Comfort Tiffany that would have been similarly evocative. There's a luminous glow to their subjects, which manage to be, at the same time, both ordinary and extraordinary, imaginary and real, mythic and authentic. ... info@workingwaterfront.org (by Tina Cohen) Sun, 01 Jun 2008 04:00:00 +0100 http://www.workingwaterfront.com/articles/An-artist-invites-her-viewers-to-remember-and-rejoice/12345/ http://www.workingwaterfront.com/articles/Hard-times-revive-memories-of-the-Great-Depression/12379/ Skyrocketing oil prices and record numbers of foreclosures have many people living on the edge. Such difficult times revive memories, for some coastal residents, of the Great Depression years. Eighty-four year old Rockland resident Bettina Dobbs lived in Massachusetts during that era. She recalls that the prevailing attitude of the day was fear. ... info@workingwaterfront.org (by Wanda Curtis) Sun, 01 Jun 2008 04:00:00 +0100 http://www.workingwaterfront.com/articles/Hard-times-revive-memories-of-the-Great-Depression/12379/ http://www.workingwaterfront.com/articles/Tyler-to-direct-Institute-publications/12256/ The Island Institute has chosen David Tyler, co-founder and former co-publisher of the Island Times, as its new publications director. He will replace David Platt, who is retiring after 18 years of leading the organization’s print and online publication efforts. Tyler will oversee the Working Waterfront newspaper, the Island Journal magazine, and other Institute publications projects. ... info@workingwaterfront.org (by Staff Writer) Thu, 01 May 2008 04:00:00 +0100 http://www.workingwaterfront.com/articles/Tyler-to-direct-Institute-publications/12256/ http://www.workingwaterfront.com/columns/Parallel-44-Book-continues-a-long-tradition-ignoring-early-Maine/12290/ Nathaniel Philbrick’s Mayflower is well written, carefully researched, critically acclaimed and enormously popular, a New York Times bestseller that’s helped Americans understand the real story of the Pilgrims. But from where I sit, here on our rocky side of the Gulf of Maine, it’s hard not to be upset by Philbrick’s egregious error of omission: the not inconsequential role that Maine, Mainers and Maine’s then-ruler, Ferdinando Gorges, played in the Pilgrims’ story. ... info@workingwaterfront.org (by Colin Woodard) Thu, 01 May 2008 04:00:00 +0100 http://www.workingwaterfront.com/columns/Parallel-44-Book-continues-a-long-tradition-ignoring-early-Maine/12290/ http://www.workingwaterfront.com/columns/The-Cranberry-Report-The-Joy-of-our-Lives/12291/ There is a lot of good energy around the islands these days. People are coming together more. From yoga classes to island sustainability meetings to weekly literary discussions to establishing a food buying club, several young adults have enthusiastically encouraged the rest of us to consider reducing our carbon footprints and to find more creative ways to spend our time. The response is positive. ... info@workingwaterfront.org (by Barbara Fernald) Thu, 01 May 2008 04:00:00 +0100 http://www.workingwaterfront.com/columns/The-Cranberry-Report-The-Joy-of-our-Lives/12291/ http://www.workingwaterfront.com/reviews/Writing-on-Stone-Scenes-from-a-Maine-Island-Life/12266/ In December 1991, Christina Marsden Gillis and her husband, John, suffered two parents’ greatest sorrow: the death of a child. Their son Ben, 26 years old, was killed in Kenya while flying eight European tourists from Mombassa to Little Governors Camp in the Masai Mara game preserve. A large bird flew through the windscreen of the small plane he was piloting; everyone died in the ensuing crash. ... info@workingwaterfront.org (by Carl Little) Thu, 01 May 2008 04:00:00 +0100 http://www.workingwaterfront.com/reviews/Writing-on-Stone-Scenes-from-a-Maine-Island-Life/12266/ http://www.workingwaterfront.com/articles/Small-World/12228/ John Higgins was enjoying breakfast at the Cocomar Restaurant in the Dominican Republic last February when he noticed something from home. It was a buoy hanging on the wall, and on the buoy was written the word “Vinalhaven.” Higgins, a member of the Island Institute board of trustees, took photos of the buoy and sent them to Island Institute president Philip Conkling.It turns out the buoy belongs to Vinalhaven lobsterman Leland Osgood. ... info@workingwaterfront.org (by Kris Osgood) Thu, 01 May 2008 04:00:00 +0100 http://www.workingwaterfront.com/articles/Small-World/12228/ http://www.workingwaterfront.com/articles/Fishery-management-council-candidate-tours-downeast-communities/12254/ Gary Libby, founding member of the Midcoast Fishermen’s Association from Port Clyde, met with fishermen from seven communities from Stonington to Eastport over the weekend of April 19th. The meetings were designed to allow Libby to listen to fishermen’s concerns and gain a deeper understanding of the issues affecting Downeast fisheries.Gary Libby is Gov. John Baldacci’s top choice for appointment to the state’s at-large seat on the New England Fisheries Management Council (NEFMC). ... info@workingwaterfront.org (by Jennifer Litteral) Thu, 01 May 2008 04:00:00 +0100 http://www.workingwaterfront.com/articles/Fishery-management-council-candidate-tours-downeast-communities/12254/ http://www.workingwaterfront.com/articles/Portland-firm-recycles-sails-things-green-and-supports-good-causes/12257/ What do you call a manufacturing business that has managed to thrive while keeping its entire production local and maintaining a “green” mentality and a true sense of community? In Maine, some would call it miraculous.Sea Bags produces a line of high quality tote bags made from recycled sails. Owners Hannah Kubiak and Beth Shissler are adamant about keeping production of their product in Maine, and in Portland in particular; some similar products are produced overseas. ... info@workingwaterfront.org (by Kris Osgood) Thu, 01 May 2008 04:00:00 +0100 http://www.workingwaterfront.com/articles/Portland-firm-recycles-sails-things-green-and-supports-good-causes/12257/ http://www.workingwaterfront.com/articles/Galleries-proliferate-on-Deer-Isle/12258/ “A handful of us on Deer Isle have been a little bit frustrated about getting our work out there,” said artist Maureen Farr, explaining the reasoning behind Deer Isle village’s new co-operative art gallery. The Red Dot Gallery, in the center of town, will have a daylong grand opening on Saturday, May 24, from 10 to 5. ... info@workingwaterfront.org (by Sandra Dinsmore) Thu, 01 May 2008 04:00:00 +0100 http://www.workingwaterfront.com/articles/Galleries-proliferate-on-Deer-Isle/12258/ http://www.workingwaterfront.com/mail/German-Battleship/12231/ To the editor:I always enjoy your paper. This time my hat is off to Bill Terra — builder of the 30-foot model of the German battleship Graf Spee (WWF April 2008). Too bad the Rockland boat show didn’t let him display it. Heck, I’d have paid money to see it!Frank FergusonBrookline, MA info@workingwaterfront.org (Frank Ferguson) Thu, 01 May 2008 04:00:00 +0100 http://www.workingwaterfront.com/mail/German-Battleship/12231/ http://www.workingwaterfront.com/online-exclusives/An-artist-invites-her-viewers-to-remember-and-rejoice/12294/ The verve of nature — no small thing — is alive in the paintings of Vinalhaven artist Elaine Crossman. Her landscapes reveal and also revel in the glory of the natural world. In another era, the majestic stained glass windows of Louis Comfort Tiffany that would have been similarly evocative. There’s a luminous glow to their subjects, which manage to be, at the same time, both ordinary and extraordinary, imaginary and real, mythic and authentic. ... info@workingwaterfront.org (by Tina Cohen) Wed, 30 Apr 2008 04:00:00 +0100 http://www.workingwaterfront.com/online-exclusives/An-artist-invites-her-viewers-to-remember-and-rejoice/12294/ http://www.workingwaterfront.com/online-exclusives/Things-Look-Different-There/12117/ Our toddler finally made us go west.  Record snowfall and a two-year old who didn’t like to wear clothes gave us cabin fever this past winter, so we accepted an invitation from my sister-in-law in Portland, Oregon for a month-long visit. I irrationally resisted visiting for years. I blamed my reluctance on a leftover prejudice that the West Coast was filled with loonies with healing crystals. ... info@workingwaterfront.org (by Craig Idlebrook) Mon, 28 Apr 2008 04:00:00 +0100 http://www.workingwaterfront.com/online-exclusives/Things-Look-Different-There/12117/ http://www.workingwaterfront.com/articles/Swans-Island-as-in-other-communities-the-definition-of-sustainability-is-evolving/12136/ Katie Chapman, Swan’s Island Alternative Energy Fellow, describes her position as "thrilling all the way around." Catalyzed by some of the highest electricity prices in the nation and a cost of raw power that has doubled since 1998, Swan’s Island Electric Co-op is measuring the island’s wind resources and using the collected data to begin analyzing the potential economic benefit of erecting a wind turbine. ... info@workingwaterfront.org (by Cyrus Moulton) Thu, 27 Mar 2008 04:00:00 +0100 http://www.workingwaterfront.com/articles/Swans-Island-as-in-other-communities-the-definition-of-sustainability-is-evolving/12136/ http://www.workingwaterfront.com/articles/A-former-Maine-commissioner-rises-to-the-top-of-a-federal-agency/12146/ "Fisheries Management isn’t about managing fish, it’s about managing people," said William J. Brennan, Ph. D., Maine’s former DMR [Department of Marine Resources] Commissioner. Asked in a 1995 interview if he thought his background in fisheries science and marine biology had adequately prepared him for the job, he remembers replying that he would have been far better prepared had he studied psychology and sociology. ... info@workingwaterfront.org (by Sandra Dinsmore) Thu, 27 Mar 2008 04:00:00 +0100 http://www.workingwaterfront.com/articles/A-former-Maine-commissioner-rises-to-the-top-of-a-federal-agency/12146/ http://www.workingwaterfront.com/articles/For-fishermen-Midcoast-Marine-is-a-snug-fit/12149/ In Waldoboro, Midcoast Marine operates in a former auto parts store near Moody’s Diner, and store manager Jeremy Young knows most customers by name. He jokes with them, allows them buy on credit and sometimes he delivers their purchases if it’s not too far out of his way."I take stuff up to the house. A customer will say, ‘just throw it in my garage.’ He feels like you’re looking out for him. ... info@workingwaterfront.org (by Steve Cartwright) Thu, 27 Mar 2008 04:00:00 +0100 http://www.workingwaterfront.com/articles/For-fishermen-Midcoast-Marine-is-a-snug-fit/12149/ http://www.workingwaterfront.com/articles/New-device-helps-haul-moorings/12150/ arbormaster Steve Pixley has been hauling mooring chain in Camden harbor for the past seven years, one short section at a time, to see if it needs replacing. There’s got to be a better system, he remembers thinking. "I was tired of hauling chain the old way."So he invented The Harbor Master Tool, a device to haul boat and buoy moorings faster and with less effort. ... info@workingwaterfront.org (by Steve Cartwright) Thu, 27 Mar 2008 04:00:00 +0100 http://www.workingwaterfront.com/articles/New-device-helps-haul-moorings/12150/