Some of you may know of our sometimes obsession with bird names. We’ve written before on topics that fit that bill, including the question about…
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A Bird's Tale
Terns eat fish. We all know that (don’t we?). Many’s the time we have watched these graceful, long-winged birds hovering over the ocean surface before…
This Week in Lincolnville
Yesterday we celebrated the Fourth of July, and the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence. The birthday of the United States.
For the eighth…
A Bird's Tale
We are fortunate to have a very leafy green neighborhood. Maples, ash, ornamental crabapples, the occasion red oak, a few black locust—the sightline…
This Week in Lincolnville
It was around 25 years ago that we built the sauna.
Backyard saunas are an odd feature of Midcoast Maine, surprisingly common due to a long ago influx of Scandinavian…
A Bird's Tale
Oystercatcher. It’s an evocative name. Even if you didn’t know that it refers to a bird, you would probably imagine some living thing that catches…
This Week in Lincolnville
This home where I grew up and continue to live is old. Not by any stretch among the oldest in this little town, and far from the finest, the most opulent. Just an old farmhouse and barn,…
A Bird's Tale
A few nights ago, we took our little black dog Loki, out for a last chance to answer “nature’s calling” before we retired for the evening. We had been…
This Week in Lincolnville
What a beautiful week we have had in this little town on the coast of Maine. Bright sun, a bit of rain, fog rolling in off the bay in the morning, everything green and growing. Our summer…
A Bird's Tale
There’s no doubt that we birders find a thrill in seeing rare birds—birds from somewhere else that make their way to wherever we are (in our case,…
It was quite a week in the household at Sleepy Hollow. Our daughter’s graduation from Camden Hills Regional High School was a multiple day affair, starting with the baccalaureate on Monday,…
A Bird's Tale
We wish we had been able to get a photograph of it to show you.
The first crop of baby American robins were out of the nest…
Our Great Grandmother’s Bread by Diane O’Brien
It catches me off guard every year. The rapidity in which the barren landscape of Maine in Spring explodes, seemingly overnight, into an absolute riot of green, of flowers, and well, of…
A Bird's Tale
Birds that are great at soaring often seem to do so into, what is for them, uncharted territory, especially in spring when they can ride warm,…
The best thing about being self employed is that you get to make your own hours. You decide when you work, no need to ask permission to take time off, to wait for approval. The part no one…
A Bird's Tale
Over the last month as we’ve walked our little black dog around the neighborhood each morning, we’ve rarely been out of earshot of the trilling songs of either dark-…
The Asparagus Bed, by Diane O’Brien
Around noon Friday, during that brief reprieve I have built into my work day, when I go for a quick walk or otherwise get out of the office, I received a text from my daughter, who was up at…
20 years old and going strong
Maine’s sailing tradition, of course, goes back to the beginning of European settlement, being the only way to get here. Those early explorers and colonizers, making their way up our rocky…
Rick McLaughlin carries on his family’s recipes
Friday evening found us with a very quiet house. All three kids were off on an overnight trip with the Camden Hills High School band. What is a middle aged, temporarily childless couple to…
It has been an unusually chilly spring, even for Midcoast Maine. Snow in April, well it happens, but twice in one week? Sitting in my office on Camden Harbor, sun flooding through my windows…
Way back in that far away time of early Spring 2020, the Lincolnville Historical Society had planned a special event: Dollfest, a gathering of historical dolls, many owned by folks active in…
The post-winter cleaning of the chicken house
There are certain things that need to be done in their time. Late summer/autumn brings wood stacking. The morning when the pile of wood — thankfully pre-split these days, not tree length as…
School Board Faces a Tough Budget
Growing up, we had a full set of World Book Encyclopedias on the bookshelf in the front hall. I was the kind of kid who, from time to time, would pull down a volume and spend a good chunk of…
Where It's At
What do Oguquit Playhouse, Eartha, Damariscotta’s Norumbeg Oysters, Tucker Auto Musuem, Wild Blueberry Land, the Madawaska Festival, Nubble Point Lighthouse, Ellsworth Candlepin Bowling, Penobscot…
There is a bookshelf in my kitchen, full to bursting with cookbooks. Old standards — Fanny Farmer, The Joy of Cooking, The Silver Palate, The Betty Crocker…
Super Bowl Sunday, the great American secular holiday. A chance to gather with friends and family and watch what is typically a pretty mediocre football game. For many of us, the game isn’t…
It is a balmy 8 degrees as I sit down to write this. The first of February in Lincolnville, Maine, the ground blanketed with a nice thick cover of snow. It seems like there have been too…
'new people means new food and new parties!'
I like to cook. There is something amazing about putting food in front of people you love — a warm soup on a cold evening, a plate of greens harvested from a summer garden, a custard full of…
That special time of year. The period in the middle of January where the temperature is suddenly above freezing for several days. Puddles appear on frozen driveways, the birds swarm the…
opinion: Phil Crossman: Out to Sea
In the late 1950s and early 1960s, Vinalhaven was jumpin’. Served by one wooden ferry that only carried one big car or two small ones, it could hardly be otherwise.
…Has the town changed in the last 51 years? Of course and absolutely not
Happy New Year, Lincolnville!
One of my favorite topics to return to in this little column is what it means to live in Lincolnville. I am obviously…
