Before last weekend, the last time I had spent any time on Maine’s Southern beaches was a field trip for a geology class in my first year of college (don’t ask the year). Professor Hussey used the trip to immerse us in the patterns of coastal geology. In early April we spent a couple of […]
One of the first blogs I did for Stirring the Pot was “Maine Roads Stink.” The blog confronted our ambivalence in Maine about how and by how much we fund transportation infrastructure. We complain about roads and bridges, particularly during mud season, but we want someone else to pay. In particular, we fail to ask […]
The idea of what makes a Mainer intrigues me. Years ago I wrote about authenticity in Maine literature in an essay about E.B. White and R.P.T. Coffin called Two Pigs from Maine. More recently, my colleagues and I in UMaine’s School of Economics wrote about survey research we did on environmental values of Maine citizens. […]
Maine spends millions of public and private dollars a year attracting tourists, providing them memorable experiences, and trying to lure them back for another visit. Most of that we do very well and tourism remains a keystone to our economic wellbeing. There is at least one thing we do poorly – toilets. The state motto […]
