Letters

Published
August 23, 2014

Letter to the editor: Forget about industry, let’s keep Maine quaint

Read as spoken by Thurston Howell III: Lovey! I say, Lovey! Did you hear?! The natives are agitating for decent employment again! They want to bring in big boats to export wood bits of some sort. Do they have no idea what this will do to the yachting? My god, the ambiance, the ambiance will […]
Published
August 23, 2014

Letter to the editor: Another national park will benefit generations

A few years ago, David Louv’s book “Last Child in the Woods” alerted us to the changing lives of Americans and our children, the increasingly plugged-in state of youth and the newly defined “nature deficit disorder.” His frightening study is being echoed in more and more mental health research, and by medical professionals bemoaning obesity […]
Published
August 23, 2014

Letter to the editor: Clear cuts, logging roads hurt Millinocket’s image

In “What will it take for Millinocket to rise?” (Press Herald, Aug. 18), author Whit Richardson describes “the region’s beautiful, untouched wilderness.” Really? Has he actually been there? If his definition of beautiful, untouched or wilderness includes clear cuts, logging roads, and vacation homes then I guess he hit his mark. But to most people, […]
Published
August 23, 2014

Letter to the editor: Woodard’s ‘Unsettled’ a triumph on all fronts

Thanks to Colin Woodard for his series “Unsettled: Triumph and tragedy in Maine’s Indian country.” He knew how to tell the story, pulling me from one chapter to another for 29 days. I appreciate the major research needed and learned a great deal. I also enjoyed the graphics, from the logo of a wall painting […]
Published
August 23, 2014

Letter to the editor: King, Cutler romance defies common sense

Watching Angus King and Eliot Cutler cavort on TV left me with just one thought: Here we go again. Both gentlemen displayed monstrous egos without an ounce of common sense. Their self-serving instructions about what is good for Maine was demeaning and insulting to Maine voters and can have only one significant result: the re-election […]

Published
August 22, 2014

Letter to the editor: Put old mills, abundant solar power to good use

I now spend half the year in Florida and the rest on Colcord Pond in the town of Porter, Maine. Porter and other small towns around it are all depressed economically, and so is the rest of the state of Maine, which spends millions educating its young people only to see them move elsewhere to work […]
Published
August 22, 2014

Letter to the editor: Leave the milkweed pods to feed monarch butterflies

I am sure the recipe for sauteed milkweed pods printed in the Aug. 10 paper is tasty, but since milkweed is the only food source for monarch butterfly caterpillars, I will not be trying it (“Sauteed milkweed pods: A recipe to delight the forager”). We have planted milkweed at the behest of Audubon because of […]
Published
August 22, 2014

Letter to the editor: May coverage of Robin Williams’ suicide help to end stigma of mental illness

When I heard the news of Robin Williams’ suicide, I felt very sad. I was ready for the media and society to blame him for his death. Instead, I hear themes such as he was a man who was killed by an illness. He gave so much to this world, so much happiness and humor, […]
Published
August 22, 2014

Letter to the editor: Bear baiting unfair, unsportsmanlike

Think about our own Maine woods. Here, it’s still legal to bait, hound, and trap our bears. We’re the only state to still allow all three. As The Lion King song describes, animals die so that others may live – a cycle of birth, death, and predation. This thinking about death makes it easier to […]
Published
August 22, 2014

Letter to the editor: Support Gov. Percival’s Baxter’s view that bear baiting is a ‘disgrace’

Here’s what Gov. Percival Baxter said in his farewell speech to the people of Maine on Jan. 7, 1925: “Bear baiting, live pigeon shooting and dog and cock fighting and similar exhibitions until comparatively recently were recognized as ‘gentlemanly sports.’ Today they have passed into well merited disgrace.” An early advocate for the humane treatment […]

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