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November 4
The essential kitchen arts
Shopping, stocking, and organizing ingredients
Art, according to one Merriam-Webster definition, is a skill acquired by experience, study, or observation. Let’s tweak that to “and/or” observation. If that definition works for you, then, because it’s a joy to practice an art, let’s apply it to the part of daily life that starts in the kitchen. THE ART OF AN ISLAND PANTRY Most islands don’t have…
November 4
Don’t mow the milkweed
A small, but effective step to save a species
Not too far from my house, on one of my usual walking routes, is a huge field. A house sits on the field far back from the road, so that…
November 4
The ‘ocean’ above us under assault
The night sky and the sea as victims of exploitation
One of the great ocean experiences is the panoply of the night sky. A vast darkness, shaped by intimations of residual clouds, the crescent moon, complicated by distant planets and…
November 4
The nuances of defining drought
Wettest July not necessarily a fix for Maine
In June, which turned out to be one of the hottest and driest on record, we paddled to a beaver dam on the St. George River just north of Round…
November 3
It’s time to build leadership skills
Island Institute creates leadership framework
Discussions about leadership are everywhere—in books, in the media, in our daily conversations. But what does leadership mean? How do you define an effective leader? At the Island Institute, publisher…
November 3
Spider haven and the mystery of Islesboro's up-island arachnid
Species abundant, and invasives have arrived
On Islesboro, there are some really big spiders. So startlingly big, that a legend has grown up in recent decades about an “up-island spider" living on the upper end of…
November 3
North Haven to China, a flight that ‘staggered the world’
Historic journey relied on Anne Morrow Lindbergh flying skills
This story first appeared on the website Maine Island Living and is reprinted here by permission. “An hour and a half before they took off, you could have walked across…
October 22
Art writer Carl Little honored
Dorothea and Leo Rabkin Foundation name him lifetime achievement winner
The Dorothea and Leo Rabkin Foundation, dedicated to recognizing and rewarding writers who make art accessible to general audiences, have awarded a $50,000 lifetime achievement award to poet and art…
October 22
Island Institute names new president
Dr. Anthony ‘Tony’ Chatwin has sustainability, climate background
The Island Institute, a community development nonprofit serving Maine’s island and coastal communities, has hired Anthony (Tony) Chatwin as its new president. Emily Lane, chairwoman of the Institute’s board of…
October 22
Animals are well protected in research
Laws and institutions in place to prevent cruelty
I read with growing dismay the guest columnist featured in the September 2021 issue of The Working Waterfront (“Animal welfare a victim in research”). It was, in almost every respect,…
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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