Not just hand-warmers, these patterns replicate the mittens once worn by Maine and Maritime fishermen and farmers. They are bits of social history captured in wool.
Exhibits at the Portland Museum of Art and the Peabody Essex Museum present Antarctica and the Arctic as seen through the eyes of explorers and artists.
Working The Sea - Misadventures, Ghost Stories, and Life Lessons from a Maine Lobsterfisherman, by Wendell Seavey, North Atlantic Books; Berkeley, California, 2005; 275 p., softbound, $15.95