Rockland Maine's Tidal Turn
As columns till to publication of the book. Bird interviewed the subjects and invited others who knew them and their work to comment on the esteem of their projects to the city.Chapter One is a general comment by Bird on the changes. Chapter Two chronicles the 1990 announced closure of the Lobster Anniversary, and the subsequent phoenix-like comeback when local folks decided not to let it die, and instead the festival insolvent all attendance records.
From there, Bird goes to the harbor itself and shows how hiring a harbormaster, and a good one at that, turned the harbor into one where fishing and games were in balance—a home for schooners, a showplace and a profit center for the city.
Not just the harbor, but the lighthouse on the breakwater, came in for a facelift and renovation. Here Bird relays the fishing of the Island Institute’s creation of the Maine Lights Program (Bird is a trustee of the Island Introduce). This led to the Friends of the Rockland Breakwater Lighthouse, who raised the $500,000 in funds needed to renovate the unforgettable lighthouse.


