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Tag: history

Poem for a blizzard

Portland Press Herald photo   MAMMOTHS by Catherine Schmitt Snow plows thunder down the street like mammoths parading before the … More

climate change, history, Maine, winter

Art Meets Science on Mount Desert Island

As part of the Mount Desert Island Biological Laboratory’s Art Meets Science Cafe series, I presented a history of artists … More

Acadia, history, history of science, Maine, Mount Desert Island
handwritten notebooks

The Champlain Society Transcriptions

In the Spring 2015 issue of Friends of Acadia Journal, Maureen Fournier, a seasonal ranger for Acadia, and I describe … More

Acadia, conservation, Harvard, history, Maine, Mount Desert Island

Influenced by Nature

In May 1871, Charles William Eliot had been president of Harvard College barely two years, and a widower just as … More

Acadia, conservation, Harvard, history, history of science, Maine, Mount Desert Island

Sturgeon Moon Rising

In June 2006 I was in the boat with University of Maine researchers when they caught the second and third … More

dam removal, fish, history, Maine, Penobscot River, seafood, sturgeon
image of Narraguagus River

The Can Do Crew

In December 2011 Atlantic Salmon Journal asked me to report on activities of the Downeast Salmon Federation in eastern Maine, … More

Atlantic Salmon Journal, conservation, dam removal, Downeast Salmon Federation, fish, history, Maine, restoration, rivers, salmon

Spring Tradition: Anglers Vied to Catch Penobscot’s Presidental Salmon

This article appeared in the Bangor Daily News on March 30, 2012.One hundred years ago, a local fly-fisherman decided to … More

conservation, dam removal, fish, history, Maine, Penobscot River, restoration, rivers, salmon, seafood

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