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December 12
A well-deserved poetic tribute
Women as lightkeepers inspired collection
Wedmore brings these women alive with vivid descriptions of their experiences and their emotional underpinning.
December 12
Blue Hill’s wastewater blues
Nine towns depend on plant’s sea level rise fix
A task force in Blue Hill is developing strategies to mitigate the impact of sea level rise on the town’s infrastructure and other resources. And it’s determined that the greatest…
December 12
Maine boatbuilding: Busy, but fraught
Diversified industry faces labor, supply shortages
According to the industry trade association Maine Built Boats, boatbuilding in the state generates annual industrywide sales of more than $650 million and some 5,000 jobs.
December 9
Home, again, to Matinicus
Buzz Scott tours his native island
Not surprisingly, traps and boats and fishing have been a big part of Scott’s life, though that life took him far from the Gulf of Maine.
December 9
The Deer Isle causeway’s curvy history
Water flow should be part of any repair
The excellent article on the vulnerability of the Deer Isle causeway (The Working Waterfront, November issue) prompts me to add some history, as well as some things to consider when…
December 8
Malcolm Morley’s Port Clyde collage
British-born painter built paintings from pieces
An artist with a checkered past—he served time in a U.K. reform school and prison before finding his way to art school and subsequent fame as a painter in New York City—Morley became a U.S. citizen in 1991 at age 60.
December 8
‘Bunglaries,’ island criminal misadventures
Planning didn’t help trio of thieves
At the motel, eager to make up their losses, they busted out an awning window that was much too small for any one of them to have squeezed through before trying the door and finding it open.
December 8
A future in boats and photos
Rockland boat yard image includes named shadows
After World War II, Bert Snow and Maurice McKusick partnered with Alfred Storer and Ralph Cowan to develop the Snow Marine Basin at the site of an old lime kiln...
December 8
A traditional winter fishery in decline
Smelting shacks disappearing with warming climate
A resident of Phippsburg, he set up his shack on the Sasanoa River between the towns of Woolwich and Arrowsic
December 8
Waterfront jobs: ‘Traditions and transitions’
New approaches needed to grow workforce
The theme of this year's conference was “traditions and transitions,” a way to both acknowledge the culture and history of working waterfronts as well as the many changes these areas are facing.
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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