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March 29
Childhood by neighborhoods and houses
Growing family meant moving around the island
On Nov. 14, 1948, Mom, Dad—the man she’d married in Massachusetts four years earlier and who’d just been discharged from the army after a grueling couple of years in Germany—four-year-old me, and my two-year-old brother, moved back to her island home on Vinalhaven. We moved into a second story downtown apartment just above the street level Sim’s Pool Hall. My…
March 21
Art, the early years
Dickerson’s novel speculates on origins of art
Telling Stone Maine Authors Publishing (2022) Who were the first artists and why did they make art? Those are the central questions that prompted Scott Dickerson to write Telling Stone.…
March 21
Listening to the landscape
Essays encompass memoir, natural history, tributes
Notes on the Landscape of Home By Susan Hand Shetterly, Down East Books Notes on the Landscape of Home confirms Susan Hand Shetterly’s status as one of Maine’s and this…
March 21
Greenland’s lessons for the climate crisis
Resilience and self-reliance characterize nation
I was in Greenland last year and travelled north to south along the western coast from Baffin Strait to the Atlantic Ocean, visiting the four major coastal towns of Illulisat,…
March 16
Tasty memories from Kirstie's kitchen
One of Islesboro's newer 'dames' entertained royally
In all likelihood, Kirstie Alley was the only hostess in Dark Harbor who had a container in her kitchen of silicone worms, spiders, centipedes, and creepy crawlers with which she…
March 16
Holding history: Archiving Islesboro past
Island’s stories come to life in cataloging work
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.…
March 15
Institute implements resiliency program
Gouldsboro, Swan’s Island, Cranberry Isles served
The Island Institute, publisher of The Working Waterfront, will be working with Gouldsboro, Swan’s Island, and the Cranberry Isles to oversee implementation of the state’s Community Resilience Partnership (CRP). The…
March 15
Stormy times on the island home front
Illness, power outage, and fire mar holiday
Two weeks before Christmas I came home from a weekend spent in Cape Elizabeth with two of our grandchildren. The next day, Bruce started to have a bad sore throat…
March 14
North Haven’s Calderwood Hall evolves
Brewery takes over first-floor restaurant space
It started with an email with the subject line, “This is a crazy idea.” Fortunately, Liz Lovell, the 38-year-old manager of the North Haven Brewing Company, likes crazy. Lovell and…
March 14
Remembering Capt. David Allen
Long-time Sunbeam captain honored by successor
Starting in 1971, Capt. David Allen made thousands of trips visiting islands along the Maine coast, first aboard the Maine Seacoast Mission’s Sunbeam IV and later the Sunbeam V. David…
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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