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Claiming Territory for a Localized Makers Community
If the local makers do not represent themselves, no one will! I am taking a longer break between posts because I am working on a sample video for a series based on a book I self-published and then unpublished. I thought it needed editing. Ten years ago, I didn’t have the where with all to do…
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Strategicly Planning the Smoke and the Mirrors
Promoting an agenda as serving the people that primarilt benefit investors and developers is a historical tradition in Maine backed up by years of narrative craftsmanship The other day I signed up for a networking meeting on Allignable and learned about hour long sessions of one on one 7 minute meetings with other profesionals. Today…
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We Can Have Interesting Places and Spaces for Working Class Residents if We Make it Happen!
The Reality vs the Narrative Photo by wang binghua on Unsplash The other day, I was trying to locate the 2018 article in the Boothbay Register wherein Erin Cooperrider outlines the plan that targets the low-income housing credit to be applied to the 80% to 120% AMI demographic and to change the language from “low income” to…
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Peeling Back the Wrapper on the Narrative
Water, Housing, Education- What is really going on and whose Interests are being served? Photo by Karen Cann on Unsplash A letter titled Admiring the finery, ignoring the supply written by Andy Cozzi, a retired geologist, raised the issue of unusually low water levels of Knickerbocker Lake Finery is easily interpreted as the newly installed cultivated landscape at the Boothbay Center, bought…
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Expanding the Affordable Housing Options
A Letter to the Editor of The Boothbay Register Photo by Roger Starnes Sr on Unsplash Letter to the Editor of Boothbay Register Dear Editor, Recently, there have been two widely publicized housing developments in the region funded with affordable housing funds and celebrated as a great step forward in righting the “underproduction of housing”. Such is…