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Issue 102 - Winter 2009



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Table of Contents

FEATURES

150 Years of Oar and Paddle Making
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Craft and craftsmanship at the venerable Orono firm of Shaw & Tenney.

BY LETITIA BALDWIN

The Art of Interior Maine
The connection between art and the environment is not confined to the coast. A host of first-rate artists has been exploring the interior of our Pine Tree State.
BY CARL LITTLE

The Perkins House: History as a Story Well Told
Part historical, part aprocryphal, part product of wishful thinking, York’s Elizabeth Perkins House says as much about its former owner as it does about the era it champions.
BY JANET MENDELSOHN

Two Creative Conservationists
How Robin Alden and Ted Ames are sustaining community by reinventing fisheries management.
BY DONNIE MULLEN

On Spectacle Island
How does one explain the magic of small craft to a child?
BY JOE UPTON

Waldoboro: Once-Famous Schooner Town
There’s little today to suggest that Waldoboro was once one of the centers of shipbuilding in Maine, but it was.
BY STEVE CARTWRIGHT

The Little Yacht Club That Could—And Still Can
The Orrs-Bailey Yacht Club is successful because it is small, and it’s small because that’s the way the families that make up its membership want it to be.
BY SUSAN VIETS, PHOTOGRAPHS BY JOHN SNYDER

DEPARTMENTS

PUBLISHER'S LETTER

BOATYARD DOG®
Our World Champion Boatyard Dog Needs a Home!

LETTERS
We welcome your comments, and we print them too!

VIEW FROM THE PORCH
On life as an ovo-lacto-bovo-porco-pesco vegetarian and a question: must CSAs include beets?
BY PETER BASS

FROM WHENCE WE CAME
W.P. Stephens, Henry Scheel, and Hervey Gerrett Smith
BY PETER H. SPECTRE

BOOK REVIEW
A Place Called Maine: 24 authors on the Maine experience
Wesley McNair, Editor

REVIEW BY JANET MENDELSOHN

MAINELY GOURMET
The Village Inn, Belgrade Lakes
BY PETER H. SPECTRE

GUNKHOLING WITH GIZMO
The “M” Bays
BY BEN ELLISON

MY BOAT, MY HARBOR
Coming of Age with the Mary Perkins
BY AVERY BROTT

A POSTCARD IN TIME
A Welcome Unwelcoming Town
BY PETER H. SPECTRE

SALTWATER FOODWAYS
Talking Turkey
BY SANDRA L. OLIVER

A LETTER FROM MATINICUS
Island Wheels
BY EVA MURRAY

OFF THE DRAWING BOARD
Albert E. Condon: 1887-1963
BY MAYNARD BRAY

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Volume 21 | Number 4
On the cover: Taylor & Snediker-built tenders for a trio of Buzzards Bay 30s that were renovated by French & Webb. Photographed by Jeff Scher at the 2008 Maine Boats, Homes & Harbors Show.


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