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Category: Climate Change

A fishing boat hauls traps with Stonington in the background. FILE PHOTO: TOM GROENING

Working Waterfront

A curated coast—stories preserved and amplified

If you visit 44 North Coffee’s Stonington location through mid-October, you’ll notice something different about the beloved cafe. This year, 44 North is hosting an exhibit of photographs, audio stories, and a soundwalk by The First Coast, a collective of storytellers and documentarians that I helped curate. Founded in 2016… SEE MORE
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An aerial veiew of Scarborough Marsh from May 2021. PHOTO: JACK SULLIVAN

Working Waterfront

A delicate dance between sea and land

Behind the forested dunes of Popham Beach, where the Kennebec River finally meets the sea, is an extensive salt marsh. Great blue herons hunt for eels amid blooms of sea lavender and milkwort; saltmarsh sparrows search for spiders in the grass. As in all marshes, the grasses and rushes each… SEE MORE
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Gabe Pendleton of Pendleton Yacht Yard takes an Island Institute's Alex Kravitz for a spin around Rockland Harbor in a boat powered by a 40-horsepower electric outboard. PHOTO: JACK SULLIVAN

Working Waterfront

Electric outboards show their stuff

In an effort to “electrify the working waterfront” in Maine, staff from Island Institute (publisher of The Working Waterfront) along with Gabe Pendleton, owner of Pendleton Yacht Yard on Islesboro, put new electric outboards through their paces on Rockland Harbor on July 27. Pendleton Yacht Yard’s new fully electric boat,… SEE MORE
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From The Sea Up

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A history worth celebrating

When I joined Island Institute as president a little over three months ago, we were preparing for our 40th birthday as an organization serving Maine’s islands and coastal communities. We were founded in 1983—the year the English rock band, The Police, topped Billboard’s year-end “hot singles” with “Every Breath You… SEE MORE
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Passamaquoddy Tribe members gather at a ceremony. FILE PHOTO: LESLIE BOWMAN

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Let’s return to a native view of resources

The Wabanaki nations have an excellent history of sustainable resource management. Before colonizers dominated the resources of this area in the 1600s, the Wabanakis had lived here for 12,000 years, self-regulating their consumption and relationships to the land and one another. In a fraction of that time, the society that… SEE MORE
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A right whale that has recovered from wounds linked to fishing gear.

Working Waterfront

What is driving right whales to extinction?

When I was a child, I listened to Smoky Bear tell us, “Only YOU can prevent forest fires!” That was a clear and direct message but it was wrong. This summer, vast regions of North America were on fire and most of those fires started from lightning strikes, but the… SEE MORE
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Journal of an Island Kitchen

Working Waterfront

The weather and dinner next year

A friend observed this week, midst soggy, foggy, drizzle, and downpours, that, “I’m glad I don’t have to depend on the garden for food this year.” People have planted beans twice, perhaps at last seeing some showing above ground. Radishes and greens, which sprouted to flea beetles’ delight, were left… SEE MORE
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Sunset over a wild blueberry field in Washington County.

Working Waterfront

Downeast farms happily singing the blues

When Lisa Hanscom leads tours of Welch Farm, she showcases a working wild blueberry farm, and a slice of her family history, too. Hanscom’s grandparents purchased the Roque Bluffs farm in 1912, moved in after their wedding on Christmas Day, and over time, her grandfather converted the fields to wild… SEE MORE
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A foggy August day in Eastport.

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Yes, the rain hurt Maine tourism

During the rainy months of June and July, Aaron Lincoln, captain and owner of the schooner Olad and the cutter Owl out of Camden Harbor, would run into people he knew at the local grocery store. “People were giving me condolences like my dad had died,” he said. “I realized… SEE MORE
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Inventorying a Downeast home

More Than Meets the Eye: Exploring Nature and Loss on the Coast of Maine By Margie Patlak, Down East Books (2021) Wild and Wondrous: Nature’s Artistry on the Coast of Maine By Margie Patlak, Down East Books (2023) Dust off your copy of Margie Patlak’s book, More Than Meets the… SEE MORE
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