It’s well-known that as the Titanic was sinking, the popular hymn “Nearer my God to Thee” was being sung and played by those still aboard. I’ll post below from the movie “Titanic” the scene that illustrates this. No voices, only a string quartet, but it’s nicely done. If you like stringed music, and want to [...]
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RMS Titanic, 100 years later
Posted in History, Maritime, Music, Religion on April 15, 2012 | 1 Comment »
The day after…
Posted in History, Maritime, Political on December 8, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
The New York Times, December 8, 1941: Click once or twice to enlarge.
“The day…”
Posted in History, Maritime, Political on December 7, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
The president’s address, 70 years ago today:
Anticipating winter
Posted in Local, Maritime on December 1, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
I suppose every blog needs a “here is a picture of my cat” page. This is Little Sal, thinking I stacked the cellar woodpile just for her. Now that it’s December and cooled down (?!) into the 40s Fahrenheit, I finally got around to putting on the storm door. Usually it goes up about Halloween, and even then [...]
Here’s to a safe Thanksgiving
Posted in Local, Maritime, Religion, Visual art on November 23, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
We’re having a major pre-Thanksgiving snowstorm here in Maine. Rain here on the outer islands, but heavy snow on the mainland and people can’t get here from there. Daughter #2 called from Portland this morning, halfway here from Massachusetts. She and her entourage-filled Honda got off the road and rented a hotel room until the highways clear. [...]
Annual (?) hurricane edition
Posted in Local, Maritime, Music, Uncategorized on August 27, 2011 | 2 Comments »
Last year it was Hurricane Earl. This year it’s Irene (so far) but it’s still a gorgeous day on the coast of Maine, the calm before the storm. Light fog this morning from the tropical moisture starting to show up, but sunny overhead and no wind yet. Tomorrow not so gorgeous. Irene is expected to pass inland [...]
Too busy to blog
Posted in Local, Maritime on July 21, 2011 | 2 Comments »
I feel better now. Barb hasn’t posted for more than two weeks, and she had been a “post-a-day” blogger with WordPress. Me, I’m nearly three weeks without a post. But it’s busy on the island these days and hard to keep up with anything. Jeri and I did manage to get to the Blues Festival in [...]
RMS Titanic, 99 years later
Posted in History, Maritime, Music on April 15, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Probably the symbolic end of 19th Century Europe, and an omen of the World War that came two years later, changing it all forever. To the tune of Pachelbel’s Canon in D Major: .
From offshore to the blogosphere: one year on
Posted in Literature, Maritime, Poetry, Religion on April 11, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
It’s been one year today. One hundred thirty-one posts, no death threats (but no job offers either), not too much spam, an encouraging number of hits (6300, with the daily average climbing) and just enough positive feedback to fool me into thinking I’m not wasting my time. So far so good. My first blogpost, Dylan Thomas’s poem [...]
Weather report: normal for the time of year
Posted in Humor, Maritime, Music on April 8, 2011 | 2 Comments »
With spring finally here, I’m getting out on the water more often, tending offshore lobster gear and about to set a few traps inshore. And paying more attention to the various weather charts and forecasts on the internet. This weather report showed up unexpectedly and, although it’s obsolete as last year’s tide chart and for the British [...]
Town Meeting
Posted in Bill of Rights, Local, Maritime, Political, Visual art on March 15, 2011 | 2 Comments »
I love it and I hate it, and it’s over with for another year. Yesterday we may have set a record: Nine o’clock in the forenoon to six-fifteen in the evening (not counting the boat ride). The concept of town meeting was designed for the Town of Cranberry Isles. I think it works better here than [...]
A four-year tea party in Maine
Posted in Bill of Rights, Cartoons, Humor, Local, Maritime, Political on March 8, 2011 | 3 Comments »
We don’t have a lot to do here in Maine in the wintertime, so our brand-new Republican governor, Paul LePage, has helped get us through our cabin fever with a monthly chuckle. He’s becoming Archie Bunker in the Blaine House. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world (quoting Thomas Jefferson, and [...]
Honorable Mention
Posted in Local, Maritime on February 9, 2011 | 2 Comments »
I entered a contest in the MLA Newspaper (Maine Lobstermen’s Association) a few months ago, and the results are in! Here is Daughter Number Two and a pretty-good-sized male lobster. We made “Honorable Mention”. They titled it “Christina and the Big One” (although he’s not really that big) and the category is Lobster/Bait. So, if the [...]
Seen around the island: more snow
Posted in Local, Maritime on February 5, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Seen around the island: Snow
Posted in Local, Maritime on February 3, 2011 | 2 Comments »
These photos are not from Wednesday’s snowstorm, The Storm that Swallowed What’s East of the Rockies, but from about three storms (and less than two weeks) ago. More snow photos to follow after this one blows over. If it doesn’t turn to rain, there are some wild drifting patterns out there.
