In days of inequities laid bare by the coronavirus pandemic, we are grateful for our community of helpers in the Boothbay region…
Gratitude
Each issue we express gratitude to those whose support makes Yarrow & Cleat possible.
Our launch of new content on Saturday, July 25, 2020, marks the 10th issue of Yarrow & Cleat. We have you—as reader, contributor, advisor, or supporter—to thank for getting us to this point.
Yarrow & Cleat has up to now been produced as a volunteer effort. We have spent countless hours researching, drafting, editing, and illustrating 60 articles so far…
Most of Yarrow & Cleat’s stories are produced in-house, but not Corner Table, for which we turn to invited guests. Without them, Yarrow & Cleat would be less varied…
It’s been a while since someone bought us a cup of coffee. We know Yarrow & Cleat matters to you—we would not have had over 12,000 page views in the 10 weeks of our existence were it not so. And though the website visits are gratifying,…
Robert Humphreville is exactly who this issue of Yarrow & Cleat needed. Rob is a freelance pianist, organist and composer. For the past 35 years, among many other things, he has accompanied silent movies on piano and organ all over…
“I’ve learned to open myself to receiving—receiving expressions of love and gratitude and sharing myself in the messiness of my tears.”
So wrote Peter Ilgenfritz on December 29, 2018, in a blog post…
Yarrow & Cleat could not possibly exist without its Advisory Team. A group of individuals with varied roots in the Boothbay Region, this all-volunteer team offers weekly input on the stories before they go live, comes up with leads and ideas for stories…
Fractured Atlas did not work out as was intended. Founded in 1998 as a performing arts producer, the organization set out to work “with a hand-picked roster of exciting young theater companies, choreographers, musicians, and performance artists.” With the events of September 11, 2001, the start-up non-profit based in downtown New York City nearly had […]
Coffee is cheap, but the meaning of “buying a cup” for Yarrow & Cleat is priceless. Yarrow & Cleat began as a side project and has, remarkably, turned into a full-time job. In order to keep it up, we need ways to pay our basic costs At the footer of our website and newsletter is […]
As a child, Eleanor Hall spent summers with her great aunt, Letitia Latrobe Howell, in Maine’s Southwest Harbor. “Aunt Tetty taught me to love gardening,” says Eleanor, who now nurses orchids in the garden of her Florida home.
Authentic messages of courage, inspiration, and beauty during the days of COVID-19. Our goal is to illuminate and celebrate the resilience, hope, and fellowship that defines who we are as a community.
yarrow: a symbol of healing; a flower given as a gift of health or wellbeing
cleat: a device to which a rope may be tied to provide strength or hold one steady