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Issue 102 Table of Contents

Issue 102 - Winter 2009

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Table of Contents

FEATURES

150 Years of Oar and Paddle Making Click here to view the article online. 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

Maine Boats, Homes & Harbors, Issue 102 Issue 102 | Winter Issue 2009
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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