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Transient Summers
- By: Ellen Goodman
Originally ran as “Markers amid life’s transience.” August 8, 2008, in the Boston Globe
These are the summer days when the island is overrun with gifts. The raspberries are still ripe, and the first of the blackberries have arrived bearing their sweet intimations of fall.
Food is there for the picking. To pass up this generosity would be a supreme act of ingratitude. So I head out this morning with my small bucket.
How to Pet a Shark
In Boothbay Harbor, children and adults alike get in touch with one of man’s greatest fears.
Wyeth's Ghosts
Why was the late Andrew Wyeth so revered by the general public and yet so reviled by major art critics? To assess the legacy of America’s most popular painter you must start with his self-imposed exile.
Nature's Refuge
With fifty islands now under its care, the Maine Coastal Islands National Wildlife Refuge stretches along the state’s entire coast, and yet few Mainers know that this important sanctuary for endangered seabirds even exists.
