Commentary
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How many islands are too many?
By Philip Conkling - Feb 16Andy Warhol famously predicted that in the future everyone would be famous for15 minutes, but now that the future has arrived, it is more like 15 ...
Haskell's Hot Stove
How good is your school's basketball starting lineup experience?
By Mark Haskell - Feb 09I have always been a huge fan of the hoopla that goes with the announcing of the starting lineups at high school varsity basketball games. For ...
The island wilderness myth
By Philip Conkling - Feb 02The first Maine island I ever visited was a dream come true. A lobsterman dropped me on a beautiful rugged island off the Washington County ...
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Shopping
By Paul Putnam - Jan 28I’ve mentioned before that local Downeast communities were pretty self-sufficient before World War II, but human nature being as it is, there were ...
Restore America's greatness
By Tom Putnam - Jan 27What do our politicians mean? Are we talking about our greatness following the Revolutionary or Civil Wars, or Martin Luther King? Or, are we ...
CWD: Mad Cow Disease in deer?
By Tom McCutchan - Jan 26If you’ve ever heard the word “prion,” it was probably in reports about Mad Cow Disease during the 1990s. Mad Cow Disease was caused by a type of ...
Bioterrorism: One flu over the New York Times
By Tom McCutchan - Jan 19I've suffered through many catastrophes in my life. Only a few of them actually happened. — Mark Twain There have been numerous reports in news ...
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'Skippy Dies'
By Tom DeMarco - Feb 09"Skippy Dies" By Paul Murray Faber & Faber, 2011 'Skippy Dies,' the new novel by Irish author Paul Murray is – for this reader at least – the ...
'How was work today, dear?'
By Eva Murray - Feb 03What am I doing in Stonington with a… minivan? I was off to visit the Isle au Haut school because that is the sort of thing I get to do for ...
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eBay as indicator of public interest in scientists
By Tom McCutchan - Feb 02I studied at Yale University for four years and during that time I met a number people who were to become famous, at least in the scientific ...
Please pass the salt
By Louisa Enright - Jan 28If you were to make me choose between sugar and salt, I’d choose salt every time. I’m almost always the first one at the table to say “please pass ...
Never say no to an island
By Philip Conkling - Jan 26Islanders, no matter how competitive they may be in their fishing territories on the water, love hearing stories from other islanders. No one but ...
The golden years
By Ron M. Horvath - Jan 22“Did you know that a month’s supply of ‘Depends’ costs $300?” The question came at me out of the dark of a winter’s walk at dawn last February ...
Keys to successful biotechnology: Good science isn’t enough
By Tom McCutchan - Jan 12The world-renowned Jackson Laboratories In Bar Harbor, should, by all rights, have failed within its first few years. Although it had the financial...
Features
Psssst…hey you! Those flowers are speaking to you
By Lynette Walther - Feb 18Roses are red and violets are blue… and with Valentine’s Day right around the corner, it’s a sure bet that a whole lot of roses, and perhaps some ...
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FREE WILL ASTROLOGY
By Copyright 2012 by Rob ... - Feb 16PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): A sign outside the Apostolic Bible Church in Bathurst, New Brunswick, invited worshipers to meditate on a conundrum: ...
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Smoking Chubs
By Rick Cronin - Feb 15A few years ago I visited the Sheepscot fish hatchery and they were kind enough to give me a fish poster. On the top was written, "Know What You ...
More lessons learned
By John Christie - Feb 09A couple of weeks ago, as I was ruminating on the valuable life and business lessons taught to me by my Camden paper route, my mind was flooded ...
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The anything but royal couple
By Erin Domareki - Feb 09London dislikes me. I do mean London, the city in England, not some toddler with a New Age name. Perhaps I’m being paranoid, but I suspect London ...
Weathering the weather
By Chris Wolf - Feb 09A spring-like day followed by two days of snow and freezing temperatures. Then magically it’s in the 40s again. What’s up with the weather? Ken ...
Vermicomposting: Winter project prepares for spring planting
By Jean English - Feb 04Tired of trekking out to the compost bin in winter? Consider vermicomposting. Vermicomposts, according to the Soil Ecology Laboratory at the Ohio ...
Tracking our summer birds south
By Kristen Lindquist - Feb 03Remember that unusual raft of 600-plus coots that hung out on Chickawaukie Lake into early January, dwindling down to two, then none, as the lake ...
Colorful vibes: Get your orange on
By Lynette Walther - Jan 28For many years it was the Rodney Dangerfield of colors — just didn’t get no respect. But it looks as if the tide has turned for this color, and ...
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Three dirty little words
By Erin Domareki - Jan 26The snow will soon blow into town with a vengeance. With it comes many unwelcome three-word combinations, like shovel the walk, scrape the ...
Joe Pye Weed: It’s for the birds (and bees, and butterflies)
By Jean English - Jan 21Looking to make a splash in the flower border or perennial garden? Consider planting a mass of the native perennial Joe Pye weed (Eupatorium ...
Meditations on gulls
By Kristen Lindquist - Jan 12In a high school writing class years ago, I wrote a compare-and-contrast essay on how to tell apart different species of Maine gulls. Even then, I ...
The Hardy Family
By Barbara F. Dyer - Feb 18We are all familiar with history telling us about James Richards, “Camden’s first settler”, who sailed into Camden harbor on May 8, 1769 with his ...
The Reverend Jason Mariner — a 'minister of force'
By Isabel Morse Maresh - Feb 16Jason Mariner was born Nov. 14, 1824 in Lincolnville. He was the next to the youngest son of Deacon Joseph and Abigail (Heal) Mariner. Jason had ...
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The movies
By Paul Putnam - Feb 09The 21st Century is well under way and dramatic change has become commonplace, but the overall change may never again be as significant as those ...
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FreeWill Astrology
By by Rob Brezsny - Feb 09Week beginning February 9 AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Maybe there is a soulmate for you in this world. Maybe there isn't. But you can count on ...
Long dormant, Lincolnville Center may have turned a corner
By Ethan Andrews - Feb 09In describing Lincolnville Center, locals often point to things that used to be, but now are gone: the empty lot where the post office used to be, ...
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Remembering an old growth cedar stand
By Ron Joseph - Feb 05“When you enter a grove peopled with ancient trees, higher than the ordinary, and shutting out the sky with their thickly inter-twined branches, ...
No bodies, just background
By Barbara F. Dyer - Feb 04People are saying that all things today are much worse than ever before, but good things have happened. You just have to look a little harder to ...
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I would live in my parent’s basement. If they did.
By Erin Domareki - Feb 02I slept in my parent’s bed until I left for college. I didn’t sleep there every night, and it’s not as though I wandered wearing extra-large ...
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Contradancing: A real social network
By Steve Cartwright - Jan 27When we come together to contradance in the rickety old wooden hall with its beast of woodstove and “two-holer” outhouse, we are an extended ...
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That special corner of the woods
By Jenna Lookner - Jan 26It’s winter again and while the mist lingering over the field behind my house and endless muddy paw prints beg to differ, the calendar insists ...
Wandering with Wolffie: Bright and motivated learning at URock
By Chris Wolf - Jan 19Things to do in 2012: Buy a new car, fix the roof, get a new lawn mower.... Oh my God, I forgot to graduate from college. Six hundred students ...
Dawn redwood: A tree for the new year
By Jean English - Jan 07The new year is a good time to think about planting an old tree – one so old that it was virtually unknown until fossils of it were found in 1941. ...
Analysis
A historic downtown building retrofit for the future
By Ethan Andrews - Feb 16When the members of the Improved Order of Odd Fellows moved their fraternal organization to a new building on Main Street in 1888, they probably ...
Prose & Poetry
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LiveCell
By Eric Green - Feb 16This is the fifth installment of the novel "LiveCell" by Belfast author Eric Green. You can find the previous installments on VillageSoup.com ...
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Home again
By Marion S. Hall - Feb 15Home again, oh happy day! We say, "no more we'll go astray" But, months will pass and suddenly, we'll get that urge New places to see So, off ...
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LiveCell, Chapter 3, Part 1
By Eric Green - Feb 16This is the sixth installment of the novel "LiveCell" by Belfast author Eric Green. Find the previous installments on VillageSoup.com (Soup Select ...
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LiveCell
By Eric Green - Jan 21This is the fourth installment of the thriller "LiveCell," written by Belfast author Eric Green. Find the previous installments on VillageSoup.com ...
Facts & Figures
Economic comments, week ending Feb. 17
By John W. Davidson - Feb 20Economic news was mostly positive for the week. In fact, ISI's Economist Nancy Lazar reported that this has been the 20th successive week of ...
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