The rain in Maine falls plainly on … … its own schedule. AM: Yesterday, our guide for today’s peat bog adventure was along on our history tour trek [in training]. I think it’s his first ever guiding experience, and he was full of enthusiasm about today’s trip, announcing the forecast of clear skies – great […]
If it’s not one thing, then it’s another. If it weren’t enough that the moon snails are multipying in Lubec and feasting on the clams in the mud flats, then there’s always the "Red Tide," a plankton that produces a paralytic toxin that doesn’t hurt the shellfish but does it’s damage to their upper level […]
While the Horror Hill Lane’s origin remains an unconfirmed story, the story of Monica is apparently well known to the locals. Stanley came to Lubec from Lima Peru to work at the Peacock Cannery [to learn the business?], leaving his wife, Monica, behind. While here, he had a stroke, so Monica came to take care […]
Lubec from the water is as pretty as it is on the shore. Note the dramatic [and welcomed] change in the weather. So guess what we spent the morning doing? Minke Whales eaglet in nest It’s a little hard to imagine a better place to beat the Georgia midsummer heat than the Maine Coast. […]
Having documented the scourge of the moon snails, I thought I’d mention some things about the place. Lubec is at the top of the US Atlantic Coast and as far east as you can go. It’s a peninsula that is an entrance to the Bay of Fundy. Because of it’s location and configuration, it has […]
Given a rainy day in Lubec Maine and a yard with a few 1" snails, mostly without shells [slugs?], it was only a matter of time before this aspiring Gastropod Naturalist would give in to the temptation to enter "lubec maine snails" into Google. And there it was, the hottest topic in this part of […]
Yesterday, after we arrived in Lubec, a fog bank rolled in that still covers the peninsula. No whale watching today, but the Internet is in the air. So what would BashÅ do? the rock climbing up, then the rock climbing back down. a snail takes a trip. Later: Originally, the snail was climbing up and […]
I guess we should’ve known that it was coming, but it’s sure hard to listen to. The whine from the right is an unending barrage of talking points – Rush, Fox, Glenn, Boehner, Michelle, Sarah. And it’s being countered by the progressive whine that Obama isn’t progressive enough – more creative that the one from […]
Institute’s Director Assures Senator of His ‘Aggressive Stance’ on Research Conflicts The Chronicle of Higher Education By Charles Huckabee July 7, 2010 Thomas R. Insel, director of the National Institute of Mental Health, responded on Wednesday to questions raised by a U.S. senator about his involvement with Charles B. Nemeroff, a researcher who was found […]
League of Nations At the Treaty of Versailles the League of Nations came into being – a dream of American President Woodrow Wilson; however, yet he could not convince the US to join. Despite Wilson’s efforts to establish and promote the League, for which he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in October 1919, the […]