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May 16
Francis Hamabe’s boat yard
Artist found similarities to Sweden and Japan in Maine
In a 1965 article in the Newark (NJ) Sunday News, Francis Hamabe explained his attraction to his adopted home to the north and east. “Maine is like I thought Sweden would be,” Hamabe told the reporter, while the Penobscot Bay area was “very much like where my father lived in Japan, outside the town of Kobe on the Inland Sea.”…
May 16
Keeping houses lit through winter
One island community’s step towards solving a housing crisis
The last time I set foot on Chebeague Island it was June 14, 2003. My enduring memory of the day is watching my brother speed across the bay aboard his…
May 16
Dinner disrupted—the rise of ‘can’t eat’ foods
Commercial, processed food limits our options
Daring to gather indoors around a dinner table with three or four good friends is one gift of vaccinations. Invitations fluctuate with the ebb and flow of COVID infectiousness but…
May 16
Cows and contentment
Small island herd of Red Devons adds personality
Every morning on my way to work I get a little serotonin boost about a half mile from my house. There, in a long, narrow field edged with woods, moseys…
May 16
Kate Stookey named MCHT president
Statewide land trust chooses Blue Hill native
Maine Coast Heritage Trust (MCHT), a statewide land conservation organization, has named Kate Stookey as its president and CEO. MCHT president Tim Glidden retired at the end of 2021. Stookey,…
May 16
Celebrate Ashley Bryan by making art
Being a neighbor provided a glimpse into process
No matter how you feel about Facebook, one thing the social networking site does well is to connect scattered friends in times of celebration and grief. On Feb. 5, less…
May 16
An island town looks in the mirror
Long Island in Casco Bay plans for future
Reflections is written by Island Fellows, recent college grads who do community service work on Maine islands and in coastal communities through the Island Institute, publisher of The Working Waterfront.…
May 16
How anti-government sentiment was harnessed
Half a century of political manipulation explored in book
At War with Government: How Conservatives Weaponized Distrust from Goldwater to Trump By Amy Fried and Douglas B. Harris; Columbia University Press University of Maine political science professor Amy Fried’s…
May 16
Photographic proof of Portland’s hip rebirth
Documentary images captured a ‘moment of moments’
Take It Easy: Portland in the 1970s by John Duncan; Islandport Press Review by Dana Wilde Summers in the ’60s my father trundled from Cape Elizabeth to Portland to go…
Island Postcards
EPISODE 10: Keep the Light Shining
Two ambitious young women swam around the entire Island of Isle au Haut during the summer of 2019 to raise money for crucial renovations to the lighthouse.
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