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Speaking of the sea…
I’ve got one more maritime themed entry to share. All winter long we’ve been busy around building not one, not two, but three fantastic little sailing boats designed by the phenomenally talented Eric Blake with a big knot of friends,…

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It’s been too long! I just wanted to drop a line here on an article about Keats and Shelley meeting at Lake Geneva in the New York Times (See it here), as described in Encyclopedia of the Exquisite‘s entry on…

“The season of lists and callow hopefulness…”
The great editor and grande dame of New England gardening, Katharine S. White, gives her opinion on dahlias in Encyclopedia of the Exquisite, but she loved this time of year here in Maine almost as much as she did full-blooming…

Freeze, please.
It’s finally time to sharpen up my blades—I’ve been waiting for over eleven months now. The oldest known ice-skates, 4000 year-old strap-on horse bone blades, were dug up near a Finnish lake by archeologists in 2007. But while ice-skates have…
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