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Key Maine legislators tell committee: No windfarms in state waters – bad for fishermen. Monhegan discussed

March 13, 2010March 15, 2010 Peter

Thursday March 11th, the Legislature’s Utility and Energy Committee held its public hearing on LD 1810. Listen to the legislators and testimony to them by MDEP, DMR, Neptune Energy & other would-be wind industrialists, and opponents and supporters of the same. Lance Burton describes to legislators his life on Monhegan and in Castine and what […]

Spring Rain

March 12, 2010 Peter

Spring really is here?

March 11, 2010 Peter

This is What it’s all about

March 10, 2010March 9, 2010 Peter

Heading Ashore

March 8, 2010 Peter

Sensing Monhegan -Lucia Weinhardt

March 7, 2010March 7, 2010 Marjorie Mir

SENSING MONHEGAN With eyes closed I sense our approach seas churn beneath and the boat nears the hidden harbor ensconsed behind Manana’s looming cloak I sense her enormity on the right as we slip past, smutty nose off to portside the dock is near we come clumping up to the boards and hit home with […]

Fishermens Forum – Audio of Monhegan R&D floating windsite talk, other nearshore wind issues

March 7, 2010 Peter

“What does Ocean Energy and Wind Power mean for Maine’s Fishermen?” was title of a seminar at the Fishermen’s Forum in Rockport Maine on Saturday March 6, 2010. The discussion included a review of the UM R&D wind site off Monhegan by scientist Neal Pettigrew, a description of the new bill LD 1810 that would […]

Sunday on the Backside

March 6, 2010 Peter

Some Call it North

March 6, 2010March 5, 2010 Peter

Manana Sun Set

March 5, 2010 Peter

Spring Ice

March 4, 2010January 15, 2011 Peter

Childhood Memories in Black and White – R.A. Szostek

March 2, 2010March 7, 2010 Marjorie Mir

CHILDHOOD MEMORIES IN BLACK AND WHITE This old black and white photo has ignited my imagination, to thoughts racing, of island children, home grown, and temporarily transplanted, to Summer seasons long ago. There they sit, unaware they have taken root in the rich field of Time that will grow the most cherished memories of childhood. […]

March!

March 2, 2010January 15, 2011 Peter

The Root of The Matter

March 1, 2010February 28, 2010 Peter

Centurion II

February 27, 2010January 15, 2011 Peter

Rope Shed, and then some

February 27, 2010 Peter

Oh, this old soul is lamenting the loss of the Ropeshed. It was in the past a forum. Ideas, thoughts to be discussed and ruminated upon, then responded to. Sometimes feisty, of course, but nonetheless invigorating. You looked at the opening photo. That got your head in the proper space. Then you went to the […]

Geology 101

February 27, 2010February 27, 2010 Peter

February’s Sky

February 25, 2010February 25, 2010 Peter

Last cord for this season

February 24, 2010 Peter

The Heralding- Raymond Stineford

February 22, 2010March 7, 2010 Marjorie Mir

The Heralding The two of them came running in from somewhere off the sand And said together, a voice that spoke for both of them. “There’s a boat of glass tipped down there on the tide and No one is in sight, except the two of us; the sun is shining Through the stern, the […]