By Eva Murray My flight instructor liked to talk. As I circled Belfast endless times with Alfred “Sandy” Reynolds, there was generally idle conversation in the airplane—sometimes, very idle. My lessons did not involve what you’d call a “sterile cockpit,” meaning strictly business, no needless chattering. Sandy wanted to make sure I could fly safely while a passenger was jabbering…

A good friend from the Middle East moved to the Maine coast, to a small island community. I asked him what that was like, how difficult it was to find…

Look out at Rockland Harbor and you may see a tanker heading up the bay to Searsport, a midwater trawler coming in with a load of herring, or the cement…

Tourists in the Known World: New and Selected Poems By Kristen Lindquist; Megunticook Press, Camden The ocean is unsayable, like a lot of the natural world. The night sky is…

It was an ordinary evening. Dinner was running a little late because my daughter Penrose and I had made chocolate chip cookies after her nap. As I grated zucchini from…

As if on cue, a LifeFlight of Maine helicopter circled the island school, then hovered a hundred feet or so above the ballfield. Some of the 50 or so Chebeague islanders,…

Some of us old baby boomers and a handful of those a little older are sharing a much-forwarded email item entitled “The Green Thing.” It’s a video which begins with…

COURTESY DOUGLAS CORNMAN/MAINE SEACOAST MISSION Burnt Coat Harbor Lighthouse on Swan's Island. Two small island communities working to preserve their lighthouses are learning about each other’s efforts through field trips.…

This month, we sought reader thoughts on affordable housing, asking on The Working Waterfront’s Facebook page: Has your town already been priced out of the starter house market? If prices…

I recently participated in the Island Institute’s summer lecture series in Rockland, in fine company with fellow columnists Sandra Oliver and Courtney Naliboff. We answered questions about what it was…