A few weeks ago, I wrote about sturgeon — those strange, prehistoric giant fish that leap out of the Androscoggin River in late spring. They are bigger than many people and weigh an impressive amount due to their heavily-scaled bodies. But, there’s a smaller, more numerous fish that makes a similar journey from fresh to […]
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From the Chamber: Five huge chamber events
There are literally hundreds of events that happen in our region over the next two months, and it will be hard, even for the most community-minded people, to hit all of them. The best we can do is plan for the ones we can’t miss and take the rest as they come. Here are five […]
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Seniors Not Acting Their Age: Careening down the Cascapédia River
Five of us awoke to sunny, cold weather on the second day of our Cascapédia River expedition on the Gaspe Peninsula in eastern Quebec. Powerful winds had blown out of the northwest the entire previous day and they hadn’t subsided. The gale provided a substantial benefit: A tailwind had pushed us so rapidly downriver, we […]
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Intertidal: Dissecting the bounty of the sea
One of my favorite fishy memories is not of eating fish or catching fish but dissecting fish. It was with a group of students in San Diego and the fish we were dissecting were mackerel — a particularly perfect species for learning about some of the incredible adaptations of fish. After a brief explanation of […]
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Stories from Maine: Nathaniel Hawthorne’s ‘mischief’ nearly got him booted from Bowdoin College
The Bowdoin College Class of 1825 is revered as the greatest in the school’s history for its many legendary graduates. Yet, despite his later distinction, one of those American legends was nearly expelled. Future novelist Nathaniel Hawthorne, perhaps best known for “The Scarlett Letter,” spent most of his youth traipsing around the family summer home […]
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