Elemental mountains
“Bond Cliff’ (color woodblock print), on Mt.. Bond in the White Mountains, by Fremont, N.H.-based artist Rick Garber, at New Leaf Gallery, Lyme, N.H.
Above the timber line on Mt. Bond.
Main Street in Fremont, N.H., in 1909.
Still 'a great lake' to us
(Mt.) Mansfield from Lake Champlain, by Matt Brown, at Matt Brown Fine Art, Lyme, N.H. Champlain was briefly officially listed as one of the Great Lakes.
On the Lyme Green
Smarts Mountain looms over Reservoir Pond, in Lyme.
—Photo by Ken Gallager
Pfizer to conduct Lyme disease vaccine test in Maine
Deer ticks are the major spreaders of Lyme disease.
The Emerson Cemetery in Lyme. Wear long socks!
Edited from a report by The New England Council (newenglandcouncil.com)
“Pfizer has partnered with a Maine health care system to conduct the third phase of a Lyme disease clinical trial to test the efficacy of the company’s vaccine. Pfizer, a leading biomedical company, has chosen to work with Valneva, a French specialty vaccine company.
(Lyme disease gets its name from the coastal town in Connecticut where symptoms of the disease were documented and studied by Yale researchers in the 1970s. )
“The trial, held at Northern Light Health system in Brewer, will span over 13 months and require patients to take two shots two months apart. In March, the patients will need to receive a booster shot before the next summer’s tick season. Pfizer, and Valneva, choose to approach the Northern Light Health system during the clinical trial due to Maine having one of the highest rates of Lyme disease in the United States, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Kathrin U. Jansen, Ph.D., senior vice president and head of vaccine research & development at Pfizer, said, ‘{T}he medical need for vaccination against Lyme disease is steadily increasing as the geographic footprint of the disease widens. These positive pediatric data mark an important step forward in the ongoing development of VLA15, and we are excited to continue working with Valneva to potentially help protect both adults and children from Lyme disease.”’
Wilson Street, Brewer, Maine. Lyme disease has been relentlessly moving north with the warming climate. The city was once well known for brick-making, shipbuilding and paper-making.
— Photo by P199
And then back to a friend?
— Photo by Mstrsail
“What good is a friend if you can’t make an enemy of him?’’
— William Hooker Gillette (1853-1937) an innovative and once famous American actor-manager, playwright, and stage-manager, in the late best remembered for portraying Sherlock Holmes.
He is best known now for the bizarre and ingenious Gillette Castle in Lyme, Conn., part of Gillette Castle State Park, which straddles the towns of East Haddam and Lyme. The castle sits high above the Connecticut River. The castle was originally a private residence commissioned and designed by Gillette. It has many strange features and is well worth a visit.
'Tangled floor'
In the graveyard of Lyme, N.H.
—Photo by William Hall
A stand of trees
you know the kind,
a golden grove,
a farmer’s pride.
Are now but stumps
with greening sprouts
that struggle upward
to find some light.
Gone the careful line
along the lane
the cluster’s done
and so the shade.
I oftentimes came
to sense the souls
that rested there deep
below those pines.
More than trees
they seemed to me
a hiding place
for things I need.
I’ll not be dreaming
among those trees
with hands on bark
looking up.
There’s nothing left
but tangled floor
and nothing gained
but these metaphors.
“Epitaph,’’ by William Hall, a Rhode Island-Florida-Michigan-based painter and writer
The light is always changing
The common of Lyme, N.H.
— Photo by Magicpiano
“Downtown’’ Dublin, N.H., the highest town in New England and the headquarters of Yankee Inc., which owns Yankee Magazine.
“I have lived in New Hampshire nearly forty years, and I am still discovering places and moments of beauty that surprise me. Sometimes it may be seeing the same setting — a country road, a hillside, a meadow — in a different light or in a different season.’’
— Mel Allen, editor of Yankee Magazine