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Eight chapters illustrating the core elements of island life are scarcely enough to capture the concept of "islandness" that has so intrigued and inspired visitors to Maine's islands for centuries. Compiled under the direction of Peter Ralston, the Institute's Executive Vice-President, its pages brim full of the people, places, wildlife and culture that comprise the ineffable beauty found only in and along the Gulf of Maine.
Stories include:
Matinicus by Philip Booth Preface by Horace A. Hildreth Jr. Introduction by Philip Conkling
Chapter One: IslandnessIntroduction by David D. Platt The More Things Change by George Putz The Island by Milton Achorn Islandness by David Weale Crazy on the Rock by Karen Roberts Jackson The Wood After Rain by Hortense Flexner Solitude by Philip Conkling Siren Call by John Fowles Witness to the Deep by David Conover
Chapter Two: IslandersIntroduction by David D. Platt On Islanders by George Putz The Legacy of Cyrus Rackliff by Amy Payson Islanders by Philip Booth "It's the Ancestors" by Todd Cheney AVELINDA - The Legacy of a Yankee Yachtsman by Tom Cabot When You Live on an Island by Dean Lunt "A Writer of Song and Nonsense" by James Rockefeller A Farewell by May Sarton Brothers on the Rock by Colin Woodard
Chapter Three: CommunitiesIntroduction by David D. Platt Community Design as if People Mattered by George Putz Penobscot by George Oppen A Place Slowly Earned by Chellie Pingree The Little Island That Got Away by Al Diamon Living There by Cynthia Bourgeault An "Unpretentious Exercise" by David D. Platt A Beneficent Magic by Philip Conkling The Mr. Wulp Effect by Karen Roberts Jackson From The Country of the Pointed Firs by Sarah Orne Jewett Island Fellows by Keith Eaton, James Essex, Mike Felton, Emily Graham, Dana Leath, Kathleen Reardon
Chapter Four: Fish, Fishermen & AquacultureIntroduction by David D. Platt Fishermen's Sons by Mike Brown It Was Good and It Was Enough by Joe Upton Less is More by Cynthia Bourgeault Dragging by Philip Booth Horatio Crie and the Double Gauge Law by James M. Acheson The Great Machias Bay Cod Run by Ted Ames Needing Each Other by James M. Acheson Running Together by K. J. Vaux
Chapter Five: Working WaterfrontsIntroduction by David D. PlattA Singular Community by George PutzMonhegan Night Watch by Jeanne RollinsBoats and Hoops by Sandra DinsmoreOh Hell, Skip by Jan AdkinsToy Boats by George PutzThe Soul of a Work Boat by Mike BrownGiving Away the Lights by Steve CartwrightWater by Robert LowellWorking Waterfront Turns 10 by David D. Platt
Chapter Six: Art of the IslandsIntroduction by David D. PlattThe Art of Island Maine by Edgar Allen BeemMonhegan's Mold Cast Kent by Elliot StanleySouther Island - Father and Son by Christopher CrosmanWriting with Light by Philip BoothNorth Haven by Elizabeth Bishop
Chapter Seven: Birds & BeastsIntroduction by David D. PlattA Stirring of Ravens by Susan Hand ShetterlyRaven's Gore by Philip ConklingPlaying God - Man and Medric by William H. DruryThe Life and Tides of Fundy by Harry ThurstonIslands as Biological Communities by David QuammenKeeping Track of the Wondrous Machine by Ben NealFree Willy - Eat or Be Eaten? by Colin Woodard
Chapter Eight: Islands Far and GoneIntroduction by David D. PlattA Black Hole on the Map of Hope by Cabot MartinLost Generation by Nancy GriffinI, Milton Achorn by Milton Achorn"Up for Sale" by Maggie FyffeNunavut - A Journey Across Baffin Island by Hope, Dylan and Tristan JacksonGlimpes of Lost Worlds by Philip ConklingSpirit of the Grass by K. J. VauxSummer Ice by Philip Conkling
AfterwordAuthors and ContributorsAcknowledgmentsSources
All the stories may be read below. More are still to come.