Portland Press Herald: Sandwiched on a narrow sandbar between Yarmouths harbor and the open Gulf of Maine, the fishermen of Yarmouth Bar have long struggled to keep the sea at bay.
Nineteenth-century storms threatened to sweep the whole place away, leaving Yarmouth propers harbor more open to the elements, prompting the province to build a granite cribwork across the quarter-mile bar, behind which the hamlets fishing fleet docks. Global warming has brought rising seas, a two-story-high rock wall to fight them and...