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October 29
Seven coastal towns land SHIP grants
Maine Coastal Program awards $155,050
The Maine Coastal Program has awarded $155,050 to support seven waterfront development projects. The funds are awarded through the Shore and Harbor Grant Program (SHIP). The grants provide coastal towns with funds for harbor management, dredging studies, and public access and waterfront planning through municipal and regional projects. Rockland, $30,000—Downtown waterfront site design and implementation roadmap: develop an integrated plan…
October 29
Island Institute deploys Island Fellows Downeast
FELLOWS WORKING ON PROJECTS IN HANCOCK, WASHINGTON COUNTIES
Over the past 20 years, the Island Institute’s Island Fellows program has invested in island and coastal communities from Casco Bay to Eastport. Though the program is well known on…
October 29
‘Creeping creepy’ stalks island in The Other Mrs.
SETTING RECALLS PEAKS ISLAND, PLUS SUBURBAN AMENITIES
The Other Mrs. by Mary Kubica Park Row Books, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, 2020 For centuries, there’s been nothing like an island on the remote coast of remote Maine to spark…
October 29
Family ties fray on a Maine island
THE GUEST BOOK PULLS BACK CURTAINS ON SUMMER HAVEN
The Guest Book By Sarah Blake; Flatiron Books, New York Review by Dana Wilde Toward the very end of Sarah Blake’s insightful novel, The Guest Book, one of the principal…
October 29
Paul Doiron’s game warden heads north
LATEST MIKE BOWDITCH MYSTERY IS ACTION-PACKED ENTERTAINMENT
One Last Lie By Paul Doiron, Minotaur Books The title “game warden” conjures images of men and women in forest-green fatigues with a mission to steward natural resources, which in…
October 29
The beauty and wonder of seaweed, artfully rendered
SCIENCE AND AESTHETICS COMBINE AS TOOLS TO UNDERSTAND THE SEA PLANTS
The Curious World of Seaweed By Josie Iselin (2019) Just being told something seems curious makes you curious to know more about that, yes? And so Josie Iselin’s newest book,…
October 29
Our status as a maritime nation
UNDERSTANDING THE SEA AS LIFEBLOOD OF IDEAS
Historian Howard Zinn (1922-2010) is the author of The People’s History of the United States, a contrarian view of American history that should be read by everyone regardless of political…
October 28
Discomfort food
IT'S NOT ALL PEACHES AND CREAM
Hard times like this pandemic leave us hankering for comfort food: meatloaf, mashed potatoes, mac and cheese, pasta, ice cream. Have you heard about Covid 15? That’s the weight we…
October 28
Maine, the drought, and yes, wildfires
NEW CLIMATE CONDITIONS BRING NEW RISKS TO OUR STATE
As the ash from California sequoias and Oregon redwoods created a haze on what should have been a sunny day, I began to wonder, could our forest burn? What is…
October 28
Moving through these mood-inspiring times
KEEPING SADNESS AND ANXIETY AT BAY IS A STRUGGLE
It’s Oct. 4 and we are about seven months (feels like 20) into this COVID pandemic. I don’t have much to write because there is not a whole heck of…
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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