Wrack Lines Online Magazine

Spring/Summer 2006

Contents of Volume 6 Number 1

"driven by the sea"

Letter from the Editor

Features in This Issue:

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Wading in Quinnipiac Mud Guides Career Path for Beth Owen
     by Tristan Kading
How a former Yale/Sea Grant Coastal Intern found happiness (and work) in Maine

Clam Heaven: What Summer Brings to the Connecticut Shore
    by Tessa Getchis

Grab your bucket and rake, and your permit and head for the beach!

The Venture Adventure
     by Nancy Steenburg and Elizabeth Kading

The life and times of an 18th century West African slave and freeman in Stonington Connecticut are a story of the triumph of the human spirit.

"My Freedom is a Privilege..."
    by Peg Van Patten
a high school teacher's new curriculum could inspire everyone
    

Adriaen Block: the Discovery of Long Island Sound and the New Netherlands Colony: what drove the course of history?   
     by Johan C. Varekamp and Daphne S. Varekamp

Why did the early explorers cross the ocean to pursue a small furry mammal?

One Size Doesn't Fit All for New England Fisheries Management    
      by Robert S. Pomeroy
New options and ideas for fisheries management show promise in the Northeast

City Kids Meet Sea Life    
     by Peg Van Patten

Some lucky youngsters in shelters in southeastern Connecticut got to meet sea creatures up close and personal, and do fun crafts activities too.

Black Hands, Blue Seas Exhibit Makes a Splash at Mystic Seaport Museum of America and the Sea

 

Wrack Lines

Editor
Peg Van Patten

Design/Production
Peg Van Patten

Editorial Board

Nancy C. Balcom
Hans G. Dam
Sylvain DeGuise, ex officio

Edward C. Monahan
Peg Van Patten, ex officio

Wrack Lines is published twice a year, or as resources allow, as both hard copy and electronic copy, by the Connecticut Sea Grant College Program at the University of Connecticut. Any opinions reflected herein are solely those of the authors.

Correspondence can be sent to Wrack Lines, Connecticut Sea Grant, University of Connecticut, 1080 Shennecossett Road, Groton CT 06340-6048; or e-mail peg.vanpatten@uconn.edu

 

Peg Van Patten, Editor
 

 

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