In the last column, I sang the praises of eBird, the website maintained by the Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology and National Audubon Society. This site serves as the depository for bird sightings from birders and ornithologists throughout North America and beyond.
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MIKE TIPPING: Occupy movement could have political fallout in Maine
The Occupy Wall Street (and now “Occupy everywhere”) movement went from a protest of 1,000 people organized by anti-commercialism magazine Adbusters just over two months ago in the streets of New York, to the spark for occupations all over the country and for a national debate over inequality and corporate control of government and politics.
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Urban farming growing in popularity
Local food interest and economy pressures mean that cities are increasingly having to weigh in on what animals and garden activities they’ll permit.
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Should I list my home during the holidays?
The old thinking that you shouldn’t doesn’t apply anymore, thanks to the Internet and hectic lives.
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BUSHNELL ON BOOKS: WITH FIRE AND SWORD Author showcases ability to make history entertaining
In April 1775, at the outbreak of the American Revolution, the British Army arrogantly considered the colonial militiamen nothing more than “a rabble in arms,” timid farmers who would run away at the first sight of redcoat bayonets. The British even concluded their mauling at Lexington and Concord was a fluke, but two months later in Boston, the Battle of Bunker Hill proved them wrong — the Americans not only could fight, they could fight well.
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TRAVELIN’ MAINE(RS): Head to New Gloucester and have yourself a Merry Shaker Christmas
Q: What do people from Georgia, Rhode Island, Iowa, Colorado, Wisconsin, California, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania and New Jersey know that you don’t?
A: They know that Sabbathday Lake Shaker Village in New Gloucester is an amazing place. There were people at Shaker Village from each of those states, as well as England, on the October morning we visited.
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BOB HUMPHREY: Scents important too
In order to beat the whitetail deer you’ve got to have an edge. They’re out there, in the woods 24/7. They are intimately familiar with their surroundings and well equipped for survival with their keen eyes, ears and noses. And it’s that nose, more than anything, that will signal your presence more often than not. Fortunately, there are ways to counter that factor.
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KEN ALLEN: Black-powder shooting captures his soul
In the early 1980s, my mother and I bought my father a Thompson Center Hawken .50 caliber for Christmas, a percussion-cap muzzle-loader that looked like Robert Redford’s rifle in the 1972 movie, Jeremiah Johnson.
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OUTDOORS: A hunt like no other
ALBION — It was the opportunity every hunter wants. Late in the afternoon Nov. 12, a buck wandered onto an open field in Albion and paused below a nearby hunting blind.
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Construction begins on new Maine transmission line
Central Maine Power has begun construction on a new 39-mile, $33 million transmission line, which customers will partly pay for.