ESPN shared a story about a basketball stuck behind a wood stove causing a tie game.

Reflections is a monthly column written by Island Fellows, recent college grads who do community service work on Maine islands and in remote coastal communities through the Island Institute, publisher of The Working Waterfront.

We crawled all over trying to find the source of this alarm that continued, undeterred, every 60 seconds.

Photographer Richard Howard has travelled all over the U.S. and the world photographing people and places for publications such as Smithsonian and National Geographic.

After taking public comment at three public hearings in recent weeks on Islesboro, Vinalhaven, and Swan’s Island, and accepting written submissions through March 2, the Maine State Ferry Service has not yet decided how or if it will institute a rate increase.

The difference between my kitchen table and an island is that mine is moveable, a kind of floating island.

And sure enough, it was—a friend from the summer community, instantly recognizable from his trademark hat and brindled dog.

The days of handshake deals … without public discussion are on their way out.

The larger tensions that drive Sparrow come from the tumult of the times in which the story is set. The Vietnam War, which loomed large over college students in 1967...