UPDATE regarding Cod End: Cod End has not been sold, but negotiations continue. Summer plans remain a guess. Once again I am reminded that truth is in the sources, and sources who are “pretty sure” are not sure enough. This time I am VERY sure because, though not a principal, relative or realtor, my latest source is hugely attuned to local nuance which, of course, I and others from away can never be. All the Deed Transfers, Court Happenings, and Obituaries in the Courier Gazette are just after-the-facts news. Good to know, but already old. Sigh.
Another tent event played out on the lawn of the East Wind Inn last weekend, this time a four-point (2 tents, 2 points each) party in the afternoon with no music that carried. EWI lawn parties are always good news because then people come within daylight sight of RB! Eleven cars in a row (11!) drove up Sea Street to Roseledge — I got all hopeful — and turned around in the driveway to park out of my sight and nearer the EWI at the Sea Street/Mechanic Street convergence. Apparently no one noticed the RB sign — with hours from 2-6 — on the tree at the corner. Check the webcam for EWI updates.
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But-– good news — boaters moored at the TH Boatyard (further up the Sea Street hill, behind the trees to the left on the webcam) did come and reminded me that I need a RB sign that grabs them on their way DOWN the hill. Maybe a giant hook that reaches out or a flashing neon rose. I thought about having BOOKS shingled into the lower roof, but the roof audience is the dozen or so moorings in front of RB — check webcam — which are now filled with lobster boats instead of visiting sailboats with readers. Cod End’s sale –if and when– may change that back to the moored sailboats of a few years ago. Boat people who read and are on vacation may be my favorite RB visitors. They have time off the water to walk by, then in, to browse thoroughly with questions, reactions, suggestions, and always to find something — sometimes about the North Atlantic or sailing, voyages, e.g.
Farley Mowat’s, Otherwise
Lawrence Bergreen’s. Over the Edge of the World (Magellan)
Robert Finch’s, Iambics of Newfoundland
Robert Whitaker’s, The Mapmaker’s Wife (South America)
James Acheson’s, Lobster Gangs of Maine
Arnold Skolnick’s and Carl Little’s Paintings of Maine.
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I love Peter Temple! His Jack Irish mystery, Bad Debt, was good and I’ll read the other three, but his Truth is terrific. The dialogue is worth the book, even if I’m not at home with the slang and nuance of Melbourne, Australia, but then there is Villanni acting head of Homicide, so much a man worth tagging along with for a time. I finished and liked Douglas Preston’s and Lincoln Child’s Fever Dreams and yes, Rockland, ME was mentioned and may be mentioned again in the two additional books that will continue the mystery, so now I will read the second, Cold Vengeance. Makes me look up Audubon.
This summer’s book for all reasons and seasons is the second edition of Michael Pollen’s Food Rules, as illustrated by Maira Kalman. I love Maira Kalman, and I know I keep saying that, but she simply makes anything she chooses to address better than it was without her. And Michael Pollen is really good, but now he’s really, really good. So far, I’ve given it with a foraging book to a newly married couple who don’t need pots and pans and to my nephew-in-law who, sometimes inventively, always cooks the perfect Thanksgiving turkey. I mean, who isn’t interested in food? and pictures?
Stiff breeze yesterday and today, but breezes keep it cooler and bug free-er. Hurricane Arthur is being mentioned. Thunderstorms possible tonight. If the lights go out, I have small batteries for at best one lift in my recliner. Fortunately my Verizon cellphone connection works to call the non-emergency paramedic number or Scott, so I will not be forever trapped. Latest good ideas from RB’ers: if you call long distance and refresh the RB webcam as you talk, you can almost smell the salt spray. And if that doesn’t work, check out the loafing puffins. Then hurry up and come. High summer is nigh.