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Wed, 13 November 2002 12:22
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Thanks, Curtis R for setting this forum up.
An island of your own is wonderful, difficult, time-consuming, and often expensive. It is an awesome responsibility. My family has owned islands for 100 years; my grandfather, who helped his parents build an island camp as a teenager, inherited a tradition of stewardship and conservation, and passed it on...
In recent years, the challenges facing island owners have changed. While we still have transportation hassles, finicky gaslights, erosion, and thieves, we find much less garbage washed up, and visible water pollution is gone. New concerns arise from the increased number of casual (and even commercial!) visitors, the well meaning restrictions imposed by governments, and the financial difficulty of minimizing development, even as taxes are assessed on the "best and highest use"
I guess it's natural that islanders are a bit isolated from each other; perhaps a forum such as this will help in working through some of our common concerns.
Curtis Betts
aka Sal's Dad (see "One Morning in Maine")
Marr's Island, in the Kennebec River
Sals_Dad@Betts-ORourke.net
"Out on the islands that poke their rocky shores above the waters of [the] Bay, you can watch the time of the world go by, from minute to minute, hour to hour, from day to day, season to season."
...Time of Wonder, by Robert McCloskey
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