Word: penobscot
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Ford also visited another Penobscot Bay community, and made two television appearances, as part of what he called "bringing the debate to the village square...
Ford was invited to Searsport by "Safe Power for Maine," a local citizens' group which hopes to publicize the nuclear power issue throughout the state, and to resist plans by Central Maine Power Co. to build a plant on Sear's island in Penobscot...
There are some genuine Robinson Crusoes, like Robert McCloskey, an author-illustrator of delightful children's books on his island in Maine's Penobscot Bay, who are addicted to the sweet air, the silence, the succulent lobsters and the congenial natives...
...Penobscot Indian Nation...
...pincers of population and industry. More than 75% of the region's 11,847,186 inhabitants live in cities, and most of those cities and their industries are situated along the coast. Their effluents are fouling the water. Untreated sewage and industrial wastes discharged into portions of the Penobscot River in Maine have created sludge beds in the river and bay, and the oxygen levels of the water have been drastically reduced. This, in turn, is believed to be responsible for decreasing shellfish harvests in the Penobscot region...