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June 22
We’re not that much like Baffin Island
Storytelling in an airport restaurant provides a little perspective
We were attending the safety seminar and enjoying the company at a small Midcoast fly-in a few months ago, largely because good cooking had been promised. Before the chili and such was served up, though, Jeremy, the Penobscot Island Air pilot with whom I flew to the event, approached me while I was making idle chatter with some bush pilot…
June 20
Islander teamwork rescues feathered family
Remnants of Vinalhaven’s industrial age almost doom ducks
As near as anyone has been able to tell so far, there were ever only two water-powered granite polishing mills in the world (one may have been in Springfield, Mass.),…
June 20
The myth and reality of widow’s walks
History suggests several uses of coastal architectural feature
By Leigh Donaldson You’ll see them as you drive along the coast, what appears, at first glance, to be rooftop patios. I marvel at what could be an ideal place…
June 19
Are the mussels really gone? Depends on where you look
Different conditions, different explanations for decline
By Susie Arnold, Ph. D. and Heather Deese, Ph. D. There has been a lot of curiosity about the reported decline of blue mussels along Maine’s coast. Over the last…
June 19
Children’s guide book offers fresh vision of Acadia
National park seen through eyes of child opens new vistas, insights
Ten Days in Acadia: A Kids’ Hiking Guide to Mount Desert Island By Hope Rowan/Art by Jada Fitch Published by Islandport Press, 2017 Twelve-year-old Hattie and her family take a…
June 19
Estuary Beat: Cleaning the Medomak, a beach conference, and fish passage in the Bagaduce
Beaches Conference to address access, erosion The 2017 Beaches Conference takes place July 14 at Wells High School. In addition to a new location, the biennial event has expanded to…
June 19
Harpswell facility critical to saving seal pups, other marine mammals
Marine Mammals of Maine has been missing link in state since 2016
Ever since she was a young girl, Lynda Doughty has wanted to work with stranded marine mammals. Today, Doughty is executive director of Marine Mammals of Maine, a federally authorized marine mammal…
June 19
Memoir is a rumination on doing good work
Willey recounts learning, working at Boothbay Harbor boatyard
A Winter Apprentice, by John Holt Willey; Polar Bear & Co., Solon, Maine, 2016; 280 pages, trade paperback, $14.95. In the summer of 1977 John Willey returned home to Maine…
June 19
North Haven school will try magnet program next year
Students would live on-island Monday through Thursday nights
North Haven Community School, Maine’s smallest K-12 public school with an average of 60 students, is seeking mainland students to participate in the pilot year of its new magnet program.…
June 19
Private air-traffic control could impact Penobscot Bay
Life-line Penobscot Island Air might be treated as low priority
By Kevin Waters In 1998, an ice storm swept through Maine, leaving some communities completely inaccessible. Without general aviation, many towns and island communities would have been cut off from resources…
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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