On May 31st Bruce Gagnon host of the program “This Issue” on Brunswick’s Cable TV Channel 3 interviewed me about the book. The 30 minute back and forth can be viewed over the next month at a dozen mid-coast community access channels or by clicking the following link <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sEhlxW9ihL0&feature=youtu.be> Bruce’s questions focused on why and whether Maine’s intertidal land law should be reexamined. My responses pointed out that the 1986 and 1989 Bell cases (following a 1647 Massachusetts Colonial Ordinance) erroneously ceded title to all of Maine’s intertidal land to adjacent upland owners; I noted that the full range of court errors…
READ FULL ARTICLEOn May 30th I initiated a Change.org petition to the Maine Legislature titled “Maine’s Beaches Are Public Property”. The petition is linked to this website. I now want to link this website to the Change.org petition. The link to the petition is: https://chn.ge/2L3WS23 In the few days the petition has been up, close to 300 people have signed on as supporters; I’m hopeful this number will continue to grow as more books are distributed/sold and as the idea of reexamining the Bell cases takes hold in the public’s mind. To that end I have begun writing early supporters asking each of them…
READ FULL ARTICLEPortland Community Television, Channel 5, the Derry Rundlett show interviewed Professor Delogu about the book; the 30 minute program is informative and will appear multiple times through the end of May and into mid-June. Go to http://frontdoor.ctn5.org/CablecastPublicSite/show/12827?channel=1 to view the show directly.
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