At a time when many museums are retrenching post-pandemic, the New Bedford Whaling Museum on the south shore of Massachusetts is expanding. In March, it was announced the museum would receive a $15 million tax-exempt bond from MassDevelopment, a quasi-public state development agency, to fund the creation of a new visitor center and expanded exhibition space. Construction began on the…

Reflections is written by Island Institute Fellows, recent grads of college and master’s programs who do community service work on Maine islands and in coastal communities through the Island Institute, publisher of The Working Waterfront.…

“I am particularly fond of the Impressionists,” painter Carol Sloane noted in an email exchange. “Their view of life resonates with me,” Sloane wrote, “how every time we look at…

Early in my position as photo archivist at PMM, I was asked to do a project with a group of students at Searsport High School. I decided to do a…

Boothbay Now and Then: New and Historic Images of the Boothbay Peninsula By Kevin Johnson (2026, Penobscot Marine Museum)   Photographer Kevin Johnson’s new book, Boothbay Now and Then, is…

New and Used Poems and Objects By Mike Silverton // Photographs by Kevin Johnson (2026, Sagging Meniscus Press)   It has now been 109 years since Marcel Duchamp’s urinal was…

AI isn’t going to peel your carrots for you. It’ll explain how and why to do it or not, or, most appealing to modern people, what’s the fastest way. In…

I rented 20-foot Bertram boats from Jeff Armstrong at Jeff’s Marine in Thomaston for many years. Jeff had five of those Bertram Bahia Mar models. Wonderfully built, amazingly seaworthy, and…

If you live on or near an island shoreline in the Casco Bay region, you may have already heard about a local group of volunteers who have been working hard…

This summer marks the 20th year of Islesford Boatworks, a community-based nonprofit on Little Cranberry Island that teaches traditional wooden boatbuilding to all ages. Throughout the summer, it will be…