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<\/a><\/p>\nFig. 52.\u00a0 Shadow World of Tenants Harbor?<\/strong><\/p>\n Again I don\u2019t know the answer, but I figure their estimate (and my willingness to accept it) could only be as good as their (and my) understanding the shadow worlds of people who want to hide.\u00a0\u00a0 Again my lack of knowing is noteworthy.\u00a0 A good place to start learning about the \u201cunnoticed\u201d is to read any or all of the Jane Whitefield novels by Thomas Perry<\/strong>.\u00a0 His latest, Runners<\/strong>, is still in hardcover so Roseledge Books won\u2019t have it this summer, but I\u2019ve read and liked and will try to get Thomas Perry\u2019s<\/strong> earlier paperbacks, Vanishing Act<\/strong> or Shadow Woman<\/strong>.<\/p>\n Addendum: I heard someone on public radio say that the unemployment figure comes from a survey done by the US Census Bureau, so maybe I was wrong — again — about the derivation of the estimate, but not about the need for understanding the shadow worlds.\u00a0 Sigh.\u00a0 I can just see my epitaph: She never knew the answer, but she always had a good book to recommend.<\/p>\n I just finished Julia Spencer-Fleming\u2019s<\/strong> latest Russ Van Alstyne and Clare Fergusson mystery in paperback, I Shall Not Want<\/strong>, and a pertinent subplot was the plight of the unnoticed migrant workers.\u00a0 I like this series a lot, and not just because the author lives in Maine and mentioned the Rockland Public Library in her latest \u201cAcknowledgements,\u201d although those are pluses.\u00a0 The six mysteries (so far) may be replacing Lee Child\u2019s<\/strong> Jack Reacher mysteries as my favorite series, but I haven\u2019t read the latest Reacher paperback, Nothing to Lose<\/strong>, though I have it at hand.<\/p>\n Memorial Day is early this year, two weeks from next Monday.\u00a0 I know it\u2019s time to be in Tenants Harbor (yea!) when a public television show about the sea fauna of Mull (west coast of Scotland) is entrancing and I read every word of the latest W.R. Grace court ruling in a Montana asbestos case.\u00a0 (W. R. Grace married Lilius Gilchrist in the second house down the hill from Roseledge.\u00a0 Tenants Harbor has a new, better-than-ever Grace Institute house in her honor.)\u00a0 Charlie and I will be there in time for the parade, and Roseledge Books will be open, from 2-6 pm.\u00a0 I can hardly wait.<\/p>\n Fig. 53.\u00a0 Reminder to fix “wintered” Roseledge Books sign on the tree at the corner. <\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" \u201cAre illegal immigrants counted in unemployment statistics?\u00a0 And if you don\u2019t know, how would you find out?\u201d a friend emailed.\u00a0 Well, I don\u2019t know.\u00a0 I assume the unemployment number is a government figure derived from papers otherwise filed by employers … Continue reading <\/a><\/p>\n