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Not just Monhegan

Peter

I agree that there’s a serious possibility that alternative energy will impact the quality of natural beauty, not only on Monhegan, but many, many places that alternative energy is introduced. Living in Vermont, I accept that. We will have to sacrifice some vistas, mountaintops. But for me, cell towers and telephone lines already pollute the […]

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Same data – different spin

Peter

One way of thinking about “a commons” is that it is a resource shared by a group of individuals.  The key word here is “sharing”.  One can only share that which is his.  In a strange sort way, the proof of having (owning, if you will) is in the giving of it to another.  And […]

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What We Knew- Amanda Blair

Marjorie Mir

WHAT WE KNEW Yesterday we were smeared with ocean salt and blueberry skins, kelp juice and seaweed slime We lingered languidly withe snails waiting and watching for their frightened little bodies to slither out of their shells in an attempt to be on their way- a journey we loved to hinder by quickly plucking them […]

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Editors Wanted

Peter

Wanted! Editors Setting Early September – faculty meeting at Fordham University, Philosophy Department – purpose, teaching assignments.  Envelopes are passed out… opened …. and an audible gasp from a new Jesuit instructor, “Quantum Theory!  I don’t know anything about that…. hell, I’ve never even taught it!” Quest Do you have an interest or passion that […]

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The “thirty pieces of silver” bill.

Peter

Some here have wondered about what sort of economic benefits Monhegan might gain from becoming  “host community” to the University of Maine’s wind turbine research operations. What wergild, if any, would be acceptable? Today at the Maine Legislature,  there was a work session of the Utilities and Energy Committee on LD 1504, which has been […]

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DID MOTHERS KNOW? – DAPHNE STERN

Marjorie Mir

DID MOTHERS KNOW? Did mothers know about the schemes of children about the secret places, about smoking cigarettes, about climbing slippery high rocks on a foggy day, about cooking periwinkles in rusty cans, prying them out with rusty nails, and savoring them with our unborn palates? Did mothers know about stories shared, about tears shed […]

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