HubPages story about "Haunted Maine Lighthouses"

Thanks to Gilbert Alevaro for writing about my book, "Haunted Maine Lighthouses" in this HubPages post: 

https://discover.hubpages.com/literature/Haunted-Maine-Lighthouses-A-Book-Review

Excerpt: 

"Taryn Plumb wrote a fun and informative background story about Maine Lighthouses. She informs readers about the lighthouses unique characteristics, variable sizes, and their specific hazardous conditions. Characters inhabitants also provides wonderful insight.

Plumb includes a valuable Appendix for travelers and researchers. She includes calendar date information about which lighthouses offer tours, accept tourists, and remain closed to the public. Boat tours provide lighthouse sight-seeing.

Plumb includes a source page listing additional reference material for continual research about New England Lighthouses. Maine includes sixty-five lighthouses along its coast. Click link for a detailed map view of them. The list doesn't organize them in alphabetical order or rank."

An excerpt on Prospect Harbor Light: 

"Taryn Plumb includes a story about eerie crying and shouts for help echoing from the water. Auditory witnesses believe phantom revolutionary army deserters make the noise. Winter Harbor citizens hatched a plan against plunderers they called "harbor boys." They turned off all their house lights, and set-up lanterns against treacherous rocks. Fooled oarsmen deserters navigated their boats towards disaster. Winter Harbor had been raided by French soldiers and native Indians during The Queen Anne's War."

Thought-provoking, unique, and widely divergent photography at the Griffin

I was excited to write a piece for the July/August Artscope Magazine on the 27th Juried Expedition at the Griffin Museum of Photography in Winchester, Mass.

Check out an excerpt below. The included images, culled from hundreds, are at turns beautiful, frightening, surreal, starkly realistic, social, sensuous.

View them here. 

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UNIQUE & WIDELY DIVERGENT: THE GRIFFIN BRINGS THOUGHT-PROVOKING WONDER BACK TO PHOTOGRAPHY

by Taryn Plumb

A woman in a torn gauze dress crouches at center, holding an axe.

Around her, the room is a clutter of objects: A flock of birds flying out of a hole in the floor and roosting on the limbs of a tree emerging from the colorful fleur de lis wallpaper; a tiny rocking horse; a rabbit; a birdcage; an overturned chair; a hornet’s nest; candles, tattered books with broken bindings, animal horns, clumps of dug-up roots.

Dorothy O’Connor’s photograph “Passage” is rich with details; the eye is drawn everywhere, almost all at once.

(To read more, pick up a copy of the latest issue!) 

Hello...Out There!

(Yes, I'm channeling William Saroyan...thank goodness for that liberal arts degree...)

Well, it's been far too long since I last posted here. Which is not to say that I haven't been up to anything—I'm just not very good at self promotion (indeed, essentially a death sentence in this age). 

But it's a new year, a new decade, (hopefully) a new era, so—for you two or three people out there reading this, that is—stand by for posts on recent work, upcoming work, and items "from the archives."