Last April, before heading up for the summer, Rutherford “Ruthie” Lodge, age 99, of Chestnut Hill, Mass., settled down to reflect on the passing of Hannibal McDougal who had died during the winter at age 101, and on the long history the two shared. It had been thus, these parallel lives, ever since Rutherford commissioned the building of the “cottage”…

How did we get to September already? July felt like August and August felt like a gust of wind. Surely, after the time warp that was summer 2021, I could…

The Maine Business School at the University of Maine will launch a graduate education and collaborative research initiative to support Maine’s marine economy with the help of a $50,000 award…

My favorite sushi restaurant is in Rockland—Suzuki Sushi, where Keiko Suzuki Steinberger presides over a delectable panorama of sushi, sashimi, nigiri, and other mostly seafood delights of Japanese cuisine. I…

Art, according to one Merriam-Webster definition, is a skill acquired by experience, study, or observation. Let’s tweak that to “and/or” observation. If that definition works for you, then, because it’s…

Not too far from my house, on one of my usual walking routes, is a huge field. A house sits on the field far back from the road, so that…

One of the great ocean experiences is the panoply of the night sky. A vast darkness, shaped by intimations of residual clouds, the crescent moon, complicated by distant planets and…

In June, which turned out to be one of the hottest and driest on record, we paddled to a beaver dam on the St. George River just north of Round…

Discussions about leadership are everywhere—in books, in the media, in our daily conversations. But what does leadership mean? How do you define an effective leader? At the Island Institute, publisher…

On Islesboro, there are some really big spiders. So startlingly big, that a legend has grown up in recent decades about an “up-island spider" living on the upper end of…