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Sardine Manifesto 7, Karin Spitfire
Sardine Manifesto 7, Karin Spitfire
The Catch
Poem about fisheries decline, Atlantic herring, sardines, Atlantic salmon, Atlantic cod
Figurehead, Jerry George
Figurehead, Jerry George
The Catch
Poem about ship's figurehead viewed in museum in Calais, Maine.
The Case, Nancy Tancredi
Hope, Valerie Lawson
Hope, Valerie Lawson
The Catch
Poem about cod and herring fishing, sardine canning in Downeast Maine.
John Mitchell: Journeyman-Poet, Edward D. Ives
John Mitchell: Journeyman-Poet, Edward D. Ives
Maine History
In this article folklorist Edward D. Ives traces the life and work of journeyman-poet John Mitchell, who moved from job to job in northern Maine at the beginning of the twentieth century. Ives uses oral history and a few extant poems to give us a glimpse at the life of the common laborer on the raw northern Maine frontier. Mitchell was a wanderer, but he knew the world of the ordinary working man from the inside out, and his poems express the hopes, fears, humor and irony of daily life as he saw it. “Sandy” Ives is professor emeritus from …
Queen Catherine's Rose; By Elizabeth Akers Allen, Stephanie Philbrick
Queen Catherine's Rose; By Elizabeth Akers Allen, Stephanie Philbrick
Maine History
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