This book is about a family, the sea, and the art of boatbuilding. Anyone who has spent time in or around a boatyard understands the marriage between family and boatbuilding. Just as wood breathes and expands over time, so does the boatyard. With its workers, its love of an art, generations of young and old, […]
The written word is powerful and made more so by time. And if that time was spent manning a lighthouse, and what you have written is eventually found by family, well, there’s no telling the impact it could have on a life lived then and lives being lived now. On Porphyry Island in the Thunder […]
‘”Otto,’ The letter began, in blue ink, ‘I’ve gone. I’ve never seen the water, so I’ve gone there. Don’t worry; I’ve left you the truck. I can walk. I will try to remember to come back. Yours (always), Etta.’” And with that stark opening, a journey begins not only for Etta and Otto, but also […]
I can now say that when I walk a trail here in Maine, or anyplace for that matter, I will hold a new appreciation for them, and see them differently since reading Robert Moor’s book, On Trails: An Exploration. This, Moor’s first book, is a wonderful history lesson on the spell binding nature of trails, […]
“There’s nothing I love as much as spending time on, under, or near the water with family and friends, and I hope to keep doing so well into my hundreds,” says Jerry Shine. In his new book, A Year Underwater, Shine takes the reader on a yearlong voyage in the oceans along the East Coast. […]
Imagine walking deep into the woods somewhere in Maine and living there for a day, maybe a week. Living at the same spot with no fire, no desire to communicate and no one around in case you run into trouble. Now, imagine this same situation multiplied by 27 years and you will have a true […]
Sometimes people are simply meant to find one another. Often it is in the romantic sense, but sometimes it is out of a need to survive in a difficult time and place in one’s life. In Alice Greenway’s award winning novel, “The Bird Skinner”, two people are brought together, neither realizing the impact they will […]
Ona Vitkus is 104 years old. She is about to go on a journey in search of her past, but does not know this until an odd 11 year old enters her life. The boy’s arrival to her home in pursuit of a merit badge opens a door of redemption and love that many times […]
“No day failed to contain the unexpected,” says it all about this book. Sometimes situations in real life never really resolve themselves; they just keep on going, with no end in sight. Or the unexpected happens and another situation intercedes and takes over without the first one seeing closure. Much can be said of life […]
Good art inspires questions; great art continues to inspire questions long after it has been viewed. It sticks to the soul. When it comes to the work of Andrew Wyeth, both the artist and his work stick to my soul with question after question. I found myself thinking this as I read Christina Baker Kline’s […]
