Portland Public Library Portland Public Library Digital Commons Nor' by East Periodicals 9-1971 Nor' by East, Fall 1971 - Winter 1972 Casco Bay Island Development Association Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.portlandlibrary.com/peaks_nbe Recommended Citation Casco Bay Island Development Association, "Nor' by East, Fall 1971 - Winter 1972" (1971). Nor' by East. 38. https://digitalcommons.portlandlibrary.com/peaks_nbe/38 This Book is brought to you for free and open access by the Periodicals at Portland Public Library Digital Commons. It has been accepted for inclusion in Nor' by East by an authorized administrator of Portland Public Library Digital Commons. For more information, please contact [email protected]. PRICE 20 Cents CASCO BAY - MAINE Beware of half-truths - most people will select the wrong half. Trash Picker Becomes International by Gretchen Hall Artist's Model By that time, the dozen people now in the Weekend small gallery had formed a semi- circle all looking at International Weekend on the Casco Bay the portrait. Islands is now just a memory. And for those of us "I wonder if he'I ever find what he's involved, a delightful memory. It is a memory which really looking for?" someone commented. lingers in our minds - one to ponder on a long, cold "At least he's still looking." winter night. A memory to savor as one savors the 'Tm still looking for something out of life memory of all things which are enchanting. even if I'm not really sure what it is." The Casco Bay Island Development "Tom thought Mr. Lerman had found Association has sponsored International Weekend for what he was looking for better then most of us. 8 years, and each year, it success grows. It grows You can see he painted a happy man, enjoying the because the people who live on the islands are real world he lives in." people. We are neither pretentious nor ostentatious - ''Interesting how he painted him in the nor can we pretend to be what we aren't. lower corner of the picture. Morris is a small man." And because this is so, the foreign guests "Tom said he painted him that way who have come into our homes and lives - whose because he is a loner. But you can see that he presence has been a rewarding and enriching sincerely likes people and wishes everybody well, experience - keep returning. And, hopefully, their even if talking with people would be a problem for lives too, are enriched by our small bit of him." "Then it wasn't done from • photograph?" Americanism. "A photograph catches only a moment of This year, families from the Diamonds, expression. Tom Nadeau picked up the living Peaks, Long, and Chebeague were hosts. The group of half a dozen people started personality from hours of watching the man The folJowing stories tell, in part, that along the right hand wall of the Peaks l&land Art dir,ctlv - _.,..-, po, t, alt pafrm?T'> ,m:t International Weekend has been, and will continue to before photography was invented." Gallery. a, visitors ffi the gallery almost invariably do. be, a tremendous success. In less than a minute they had taken in what they While the rest of the group continued the cared to of the pictures in the first section, only to round of the gallery, one of the men sat by the desk by Binkie Dennett stop short before the quietly compelling eyes of the to tell me that he had known Morris Lerman's father, portrait of "mister Lerman" that dominated the who had run a second-hand store in Portland when Actually, it was the United Nations Press second section. This was again what gallery visitors in the boys were growing up. "He made it into a Correspondents Group or representatives thereof, 1971 can be counted on to do. furniture ·store later," he said. " I remember how he who arrived at 6:30 P.M. on Thursday, August 12, "Isn't he the man who looks through the always wore a derby. Morris must be a good sixty by 1971, all 13 of them, strangers in a strange land, who trash around Monument Square?" now. He's been around the street just like he is now departed on the following Monday from the same "Name's Lerman, I think. Who painted the for a long time. His twin brother is all right." place, firm friends and strong advocates of the picture?" "Tom told me that Morris was just bright beauties and "way of life" of Casco Bay. "Tom Nedeau. He saw Lerman on the enough to get along the way he does. I think it's The group included correspondents from street a number of times, and then asked him into wonderful how his family never insisted on taking France, Jordan, Turkey, Uruguay, Venezula, and his studio to sit for the painting." over his life for him." Canada, giving fairly good world coverage. The internationally minded hosts were: Alice and Elizabeth Brackett, Augusta. Breed, Gordon and Magaret Trower, Elizabeth Weiss, and Lou & Binkie Dennett. And the entertainment: lobstering early OUR GOOD NEIGHBOR morning on Friday, a sail around the bay with the Layngs (and the weather cooperated!) and dinner TO THE SOUTH - "out" at other Chebeaguers' homes on Friday night. Saturday was happily occupied with getting the PORTLANP HEADLIGHT Monhegan Race off to a good start, courtesy of the Portland Power Squadron, and a picnic rendezvous of IN ITS LATEST WINTER the entire group in Casco Bay on Little Chebeague. A lovely cocktail hour at the Ballards Boathouse hosted DRESS. PHOTO BY DISTIN­ by Betty Healy and the Stavropoulos's proved a delightful get-together, and that night, hosts and GUISHED PHOTOGRAPHER guests either attended the Annual Meeting of the Chebeague Island Council or relaxed at home. Sunday CAL HUTCHINSON OF LEW­ all foregathered for a clambake sponsored by John and Fran Calder (see elsewhere) and the food and the ISTON AND BOSTON. (Full company were superior. And so we come to the departure Monday page, full color was morning which, except for running over the suitcase of one of the guests, was outstanding for mutual l1shed 1n the Boston Her­ appreciation and enjoyment, many cordial invitations to "come and see us and the United Nations in New ald on January 9./72) York", and a feeling, generally shared, that of such ~ood and heart-warming encounters can come better international understanding and world peace. Continued on Page 6 Nor' by East - p. 2. Fall '71 - Winter '72 PUC Slaps Bay Lines CONSUMERS AND With NeW Regulations THE PUC BY: FRANK SLEEPER The Public Utilities Commission lightly It warned CBL that it should discontinue any rapped the knuckles of Casco Bay Lines in a 12 page practices of using weather conditions as an excuse for A vacancy exists on the Public ruling based on a nine month investigation of CBL cancellations, if, in fact, hazardous weather Utilities Commission due to the death of service and facilities. conditions don't exist. David K. Marshall last June. The Governor The PUC told Casco Bay Lines that it should It ordered CB L to have enough personell on will no doubt have named his choice to fill maintain a log of its scheduled operations, something standby to resume operations on two hours notice. this vacancy by the time this paper is it doesn't do now. The log, at the end of each month, The PUC said CBL must make more effort to ! published. It will need confirmation by the should be forwarded to the PUC's director of announce short notice changes in its schedules with Executive Council. transportation. courteous verbal notices of schedule information and The Casco Bay Island Development It should show specifically scheduled and with up-to-date information on bulletin boards in Association is on record with the Governor by actual arrival and departure times at all points CBL waiting areas. ' letter in support of his stated position that serves. If the actual arrival or departure time is not The regulatory agency ruled that CBL does the vacancy should be filled by a member within 10 minutes of the scheduled arrival or not need more navigational aids, especially radar, whose primary obligation is toward the departure, reasons must be given for being off installed aboard its vessels. Weather cancellations consumer. A consumer protection group schedule and should be noted in the log, the PUC account for less than one per cent of CB L scheduled called COMBAT has been urging a consumer ordered. trips. Better navigational aids, thus, wouldn't be appointment for the past several months. The PUC said it couldn't find an accurate worth the added expense. Only with more consumer record by CBL of off schedule trips in its Cost of installing radar might actually bring a representation on the PUC can the various investigation. issu es concerning the public be more The PUC ordered CBL to "make every rate increase, the PUC pointed out. "If so, we satisfactorily dealt. with. This includes the reasonable effort to maintain its published schedule question whether we would be doing that which all matter of transportation in the Casco Bay on time." the Casco Bay Lines patrons favor by ordering radar area. This investigation resulted from several installation", the PUC declared. Past efforts to exert PUC pressure written complaints from Casco Bay Islands' residents The PUC found that CBL sanitary facilities toward certain improvements which the boat and a request by the Portland City Council. "do not always meet a standard of adequacy".