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Comment on HEALING READS by Mary Ellen

Mary Ellen — Wed, 01 May 2013 17:49:28 +0000

Hello Colleen,
I’m sorry to hear about your problems, but glad you’re determined to get back in shape and out to Maine. I hope to see you there this summer and talk about books and all. We won’t be staying at the EWI ever again, but there are places to rent around there and it might just be what we need come hot July. A niece of mine is moving to Boothbay Harbor late this month to take a job, so there is another reason to continue our visits to Maine.

Thank you for introducing me to Bernd Heinrich’s The Snoring Bird, which is to me a gripping story. I wonder what Bernd’s life would have been like had he not spent his young years in the woods in that cabin before coming to the states. Oh, it’s filled with wonderful stories, I think I’ll read it again.

Take care of yourself. I just looked up and noticed snow falling. Happy May Day!

Comment on HEALING READS by Madeline

Madeline — Tue, 30 Apr 2013 16:06:24 +0000

Sending healing thoughts your way, Colleen. The North Carolina contingent will see you 2nd full week of August. Will bring goodies!
To Maine!

Comment on FACT-CHECKING by Mary Ellen

Mary Ellen — Fri, 19 Oct 2012 10:42:07 +0000

I think your dad had a healthy imagination. Perhaps he was reading about sheep while sitting in the turret window and the image was forever real for him. I loved reading about Coghlan Castle, but the story abruptly ends because page 14 of the document is missing. Oh well, it’s a fascinating story and if I ever get to lay eyes on the place I will see your dad sitting in the turret window. I’ll probably see sheep too.

Comment on REMEMBERING TIM WATTS by Taylor

Taylor — Wed, 10 Oct 2012 03:32:56 +0000

Hi Colleen,
I’m one of Tim’s nieces that live in the area. I was looking for an article of the history of the Inn which I found a few years back with old pictures of Tim and my great grandfather. However, I came across your blog and am very thankful to hear your words. As you said, he sure was one of the crabbiest people. But that’s one of the reasons we loved him so much- his brutal honesty and opinionated advice. There aren’t many like him. My father, Todd Watts, told me that he also did a lot for the community, although he never liked to be recognized for it. Although he is no longer there, and the Inn is no longer his, I have no doubt that all who enter will be graced with his presence. Thank you for writing this, it made me smile to hear your stories.

Best wishes,
Taylor Watts

Comment on REMEMBERING TIM WATTS by Mary Ellen

Mary Ellen — Mon, 08 Oct 2012 16:02:13 +0000

Oh Colleen, this is a beautiful profile of Tim. I don’t know why exactly, but this poem by John Haines seems right at this time of mourning our friend.

If the Owl Calls Again

at dusk
from the island in the river,
and it’s not too cold,

I’ll wait for the moon
to rise,
then take wing and glide
to meet him.

We will not speak,
but hooded against the frost
soar above
the alder flats, searching
with tawny eyes.

And then we’ll sit
in the shadowy spruce
and pick the bones
of careless mice,

while the long moon drifts
toward Asia
and the river mutters
in its icy bed.

And when the morning climbs
the limbs
we’ll part without a sound,

fulfilled, floating
homeward as
the cold world awakens.

Comment on MORE RB’S SOMETIMES-ASKED-QUESTIONS by Barb Minor

Barb Minor — Fri, 10 Aug 2012 13:53:14 +0000

Our book club at work just finished The Spice Necklace: My Adventures in Caribbean Cooking, Eating, and Island Life by Ann Vanderhoof, in which she eats her way around the cuisines of the Caribbean. Recipes after every chapter enticed us to plan a outing to Marla’s for such food next week. This book is a follow-up to An Embarrassment of Mangoes: A Caribbean Interlude, about her life aboard a 47-foot boat. A far piece from Tenant’s Harbor, but fun nonetheless. Oh how I wish I WAS coming up the walk to bask on your porch. It has been four years already since my friend and I stopped in.

Comment on ROSELEDGE BOOKS REGULARS by Capt Natty

Capt Natty — Sat, 04 Aug 2012 16:07:53 +0000

Thank you Colleen for the always enlightening and entertaining visit to Roseledge….something we look forward to every summer as we wend our way Downeast and home again! Great to find the special Roseledge shirts this year and to introduce you to my good friend David! As always, we found some erudite and unusual reading (as you mention) and sailed away all the better for our time in your special home/store-front! Looking forward to next year! All the best!

Comment on ROSELEDGE BOOKS REGULARS by David Zucker

David Zucker — Thu, 26 Jul 2012 21:38:19 +0000

Hi Colleen. I assume the T-Short wearers you mentioned were Natty and I. Thanks for the mention. Dropping my check in the mail tomorrow morning. Just got back from the sail on Natty’s boat. Great to meet you. Still reading Slocum’s autobiography so I will wait to pick up the Wolff bio of Slocum.

warm regards,
David

Comment on SPRING COMES. by Steve

Steve — Wed, 07 Mar 2012 23:35:39 +0000

Last night saw Marshall Point LH in a Red Lobster ad which also featured a Spruce Head lobster woman !

I’m a celebrity, given the mention of the Kissinger book. Wow! Ellen really enjoying Th Marriage Contract, Jeffrey Euginides. I haven’t gotten my hands on it yet.

Off to Dubai Sunday 3/11 for a week. We were supposed to go to TH that week, but shifting customer schedules crossed me up. Aiming for Memorial day. Talk soon!

Comment on ROSELEDGE BOOKS’ GOOD SUMMER by Barb Minor

Barb Minor — Thu, 22 Sep 2011 14:04:54 +0000

I would like to proffer “The Medusa Amulet” by Robert Masello. It is a bon bon read in the vein of “The Da Vinci Code” and its progeny, but it has a number of the plot points you mention: time warp from the Renaissance to the present; European settings; art, specifically Benvenuto Cellini; and sibling devotion.

I also enjoyed “The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks” by Rebecca Sloot, which came out almost two years ago but is now in paperback. This is nonfiction, but what a remarkable story!