Anica Mrose Rissi is an accidental writer. Growing up on Deer Isle, she moved to the bigger world while attending Yale University, then landed a job—by accident—as an editor at Scholastic, Inc., the publisher of children’s books.

The title of the book alerts the reader to a central thesis here: while an island may have a granite foundation, it is always in flux, the tides, for one, bringing about constant change.

Strout exposes the dark side of adult experience: marital deceptions, voyeurism, status and wealth substituting for emotional capital, and trauma…

The Star Party on Cadillac Mountain in Acadia National Park begins at 8 p.m. on Saturday, Sept. 23, and continues through 11 p.m. A free “Shuttle to the Stars” departing from Mount Desert Island High School will be offered to carry people to the summit.

The ocean is unsayable, like a lot of the natural world. The night sky is unsayable. The energy in a seed. The sacrality of a maple leaf. The full moon. The mind of snow.

Tides ranges from the local to the oceanic, from the personal to the universal, from deep history to contemporary engineering…

The landscape suddenly shifted from jagged edges to pillowy slopes of granite.

The light spills out into the hall and exhibit space neighboring the new exhibit and marches across a 180-degree screen curving along the back wall of the exhibit space. A projector mounted from the top of the lantern frame beams a panoramic time-lapsed film...

Morrison's aim is not to plumb profound abstract philosophy, but to entertain people…