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12/20/07 I have four books for sale that you can learn about on this Books page. One is a collection of 320 original Elizabethian Sonnets from a great new voice. Two are reprints of Bakewell Pears Glass Catalogues and the last is a reprint of the 1924 and 1928 Camp Kawanhee Catalogues along with 55 pages of camper memories.

I have loved taking pictures of birds for years. CLICK HERE to see that birds of March.

Click HERE to see what I am catching at our new house. Nothing special: Jay, Robin, Titmouse, Chichadee, Junco, House Finch but you never know!

This is a poor man's Blog. When I read about a topic and want to share what I learned, it sometimes ends up as an entry here. The topics are from newest to oldest and form Mushrooms to Basketball.

Here is an exciting audience participation activity! You get to help transcribe a hand written book of 1890s Meeting Mintues! Just follow the LIA link on the left navigator. Please send me any suggestions for how I can improve this group actiivty. One area I think I need help with is advising people how to view the scans they are trying to transcribe. The posted pictures actually have good resolution, I think. How can one ZOOM in using a browser? Of course more technical people can just rightclick download the jpg image to their local machine and use any local viewer. But is there any way you can think of to guide non-technical people, who don't download easily, how they can better see the pages we are asking them to transcribe?

I have been a member of a couples book club for several years. Here is a start on a list of the books we have read.

Back in the fall of 2007, I had the chance to visit some friends who recently returned to live outside Princeton, N.J. Here are some pictures of the visit and their wonderful home.

In 2005, with the help of over 20 authors, I was able to publish a Memory Book for the 85th reunion of Camp Kawanhee. You can find much of the original material posted at the Kawanhee link on the left navigator. Kawanhee is a boys camp in Weld, Maine. Even more interesting than the stories, if you didn't go to Kawanhee, is that I was able to use the web site to encourage the authors and allow them to read other's contributions almost in real time. We were able to put a book together in under two months with NO face to face meetings! I hope I can use this web-enabled model to quickly publish more books using authors who can't meet regularly.

I'm the President of the Historical Society for a Maine summer community, Squirrel Island. I recently was shown a set of old prints from the island and the area around Boothbay Harbor. I have posted the images here so people can look at them. You can look at the ones I bought by clicking on the Pics I Bought link to the left. The Pics Not Owned link will show you, SURPRISE, pictures I did not buy and some of which we are trying to identify

Here is a wonderful letter from a young lady working as a waitress at the Squirrel Inn in 1933

Here is an Ad from an 1893 Squirrel Island Boey newspaper for a Souvenir Spoon