Tinker on the Marsh
Tinker on the Marsh is a weekly newsletter by Michele Christle informed by explorations of a tidal marsh in so-called Maine—physical explorations as well as explorations of historical archives, stories, geology, botany, ecology, migrations, place names, archaeology, ship building/sailing, cartography, and metal detecting.
Tinker on the Marsh* exists because I wanted a place to write about a piece of metal I found burrowed into the marsh and whether or not it is indeed a cannonball, a Lion’s Mane jellyfish that washed up out of season, a cormorant mandible, travel by water, rumors of buried treasures, horseradish growing on abandoned homesteads, diasporic communities, items found while metal detecting, old maps, a walrus toe bone, and what this all means.
Tinker on the Marsh is an ode to this land and waters and to all the human and more than human beings who have ever inhabited them and who will inhabit them in the future.
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*The name “Tinker on the Marsh” comes from a poem of the same name, published in the History of Frankfort, by Cecilia Reed.