Word: lobstermen
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Killina Blow. Cliff Island could not afford to lose Seymour, or Ben O'Reilly Jr., who plows the heavy winter snows, or Bunk MacVane, Bub Anderson and Bruce Dyer, lobstermen all. Four hundred winter people lived on the island 70 years ago, but residents have been moving to the mainland and its more varied jobs for years. An exodus of the remaining young families would be the killing blow. The post office, the general store, the snow plow and even the daily ferry would stop. The island, still populated by descendants of its 17th century settlers, would become...
With a year's grace granted by the Portland school committee, the tenacious lobstermen decided to try catching new children on the mainland for their school. O'Reilly's father-in-law found a family with six children willing to make the move. Trouble was, O'Reilly's father-in-law is head of the Portland welfare office, and the family he wanted to import was among his clients. In Maine, a lot of people still believe a man should always earn his own way. The islanders talked and debated and finally made a choice...
...jobs. But the biggest problem of all -one that has already caused 13 townships around Penobscot Bay to oppose the project-is the danger to the local fishing and tourist industries. Scientists testified that oil was "an environmental poison" with long aftereffects. Ossie Beal, president of the Maine Lobstermen's Association, contends that tankers and barges would sweep away most of the 186,000 lobster pots in the bay. "If there was an oil spill," he says, "well, we'd be out of business down here...