Willy Blackmore

New York

Writer and Editor at Freelance

editor-in-chief, Midcoast Villager (willy dot blackmore at gmail dot com)

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Articles

250 Calories Per Day: Midcoast Residents Join Hunger Strike for Gaza

4 days ago | midcoastvillager.com | Willy Blackmore

Every morning for the past two weeks, Joe, a builder who lives in small town in Waldo County, follows the same routine: He wakes up before dawn and makes himself a meal consisting of a single egg, a potato or a piece of bread, and some kale or spinach. He eats before the sun rises, and then on weekdays heads off to his job at a local building company. He won’t eat again until after the sun sets.
Trump Is Ignoring St Louis’s Devestating Tornado

4 days ago | wordinblack.com | Willy Blackmore

One of the most destructive tornadoes in recent years tore a 23-mile path across urban St Louis on May 16, causing an estimated $1.6 billion in damages and killing five people. While it was not quite as powerful as the 2011 tornado that leveled much of Joplin, Mo., the St Louis twister is drawing comparisons.
Trump Is Ignoring St Louis’s Devastating Tornado

4 days ago | wordinblack.com | Willy Blackmore

One of the most destructive tornadoes in recent years tore a 23-mile path across urban St Louis on May 16, causing an estimated $1.6 billion in damages and killing five people. While it was not quite as powerful as the 2011 tornado that leveled much of Joplin, Mo., the St Louis twister is drawing comparisons.
An Open House at Open House of History

5 days ago | midcoastvillager.com | Willy Blackmore

What makes a place into a community? It’s a whole that is in so many ways greater than the sum of its parts, but getting to community — especially in a very fractured moment in history — is not always easy, and it can feel at times that society is losing its touch at building and maintaining community.
In Cancer Alley, There’s No Pollution Monitoring While Black

6 days ago | dallasweekly.com | Willy Blackmore

Overview: Environmental groups in Louisiana are suing the state, arguing that a new law that makes it illegal to use low-cost air quality sensors in legal actions against pollution regulations violates residents' free-speech rights. The law requires data to be analyzed by a state-accredited lab, which imposes an upfront financial burden on local environmental organizations.
An Indication of the Forest Floor

1 week ago | midcoastvillager.com | Willy Blackmore

Brooklyn-based artist Jennifer Schmidt’s new show at Thomaston’s Interloc Projects, which opened last weekend, is a fitting one to bring from New York to Maine. Through a series of screenprints, shard-like bits of ceramics, and poems both displayed on the wall and printed in limited-edition chapbooks, she attempts to bring the woods indoors with the exhibition “I can hear fishing in the forest,” which will be on display through June 30.
In Cancer Alley, There’s No Pollution Monitoring While Black

1 week ago | wordinblack.com | Willy Blackmore

Over the past few years, some homes in the 90% Black census tract located uncomfortably close to the proposed Formosa Plastics plant in St. James Parish, Louisiana, have been outfitted with new air quality monitors. The proposed plant would be in the River Parishes — the 85-mile stretch between Baton Rouge and Louisiana, more infamously known as Cancer Alley.
35 Years on a Maine Farm

2 weeks ago | midcoastvillager.com | Willy Blackmore

Alison Rector has a familiar story about why she moved to Maine: she and her husband moved to Monroe in 1990, drawn to the Midcoast by the promise of the Good Life as popularized by the Nearings and generations of back-to-the-landers who followed them. In addition to learning to farm, Rector quickly began a tradition of making one silkscreen print inspired by the year after arriving in Monroe, giving out copies to family and friends around the holidays.
Hey Shipbuilder

2 weeks ago | midcoastvillager.com | Willy Blackmore

Years ago, I had the pleasure of having dinner at the Hichborn, the destination fine-dining restaurant in Stockton Springs opened by Kirk Linder and Charlie Zorich in 2018. The meal was great, but one of my most vivid memories of the evening was walking out of the 30-seat dining room to find the restroom, which involved leaving the restaurant portion of the building and entering into the historic mansion that it’s attached to, where Linder and Zorich lived.
'There's Only One Chicken Left, and That's What Convinced Me That It's American'

2 weeks ago | midcoastvillager.com | Willy Blackmore

Mark Sisco has been in the antiques trade since 1973, when his parents opened an antique store in Boothbay Harbor. While that business didn’t last for long, he’s stayed at it, and is currently both selling items online and running Sisco Antiques Appraisals, too, which will be holding a free appraisal event as a fundraiser for the St. George Historical Society on June 14.