Clams Casino George Anderson, Swan’s Island Recipe courtesy of the Swan’s Island Cooks The most important part of this recipe is to buy your clams fresh. On most islands this shouldn’t be a problem. Here on Swan’s Island you can buy from George Anderson or Kevin Staples (Appy’s Place). How much you ask? Restaurants usually
One Great Pot of Beans
I used my dark brown and tan earthenware pot. It’s full of rich dark brown Marifax beans, bubbling gently. The top of the beans glisten lightly with fat freed from the salt pork and the pork itself, pulled to the surface, is browned here and there. The beans smell savory when I spoon them out,
Carpenter’s Boat Shop seeking new skipper
Robert “Bobby” Ives, 64, minister and former island school teacher, announced he will retire in June 2012, after 33 years of shepherding the shop and it’s family of students through good times and hard times, watching people of various ages learn to know and respect themselves in a supportive community setting. The nonprofit Carpenter’s Boat
Nature Conservancy causes stir in Phippsburg
Some people are aggravated by rules that tread on many years of traditional, unsupervised use. They’re not ready for restrictions like: don’t take your dog here or your horse there, no ATVs allowed on this or that trail, stop target practice at this area, don’t nail any deer stands to trees, no more partying at
Shrimping in Thailand
But the bulk of the shrimp sold elsewhere in the U.S. and even in New England, is not the tiny, northern wild-caught Pandalus borealis, but bigger shrimp, similar to those harvested by southern shrimpers in the Gulf of Mexico. However, most of the shrimp sold nationwide–more than 80 percent–are not wild-caught at all, but farmed
Island Institute(s)?: Part 2 of 3
This is the second of a series of columns that will discuss an inflection point in our organization’s history: what is the proper scale of the/an Island Institute? There used to be a joke among the staff of the Island Institute about dreading the moment when you might be pulled aside at a community meeting
Report hones in on Midcoast for offshore wind development
The University of Maine has narrowed in on the Midcoast as the most likely area for future offshore wind development in a 567-page report released on February 23. The report, which compiles economic, policy, electrical grid integration, wind and wave, bathymetric, soil, fisheries, and environmental research, has been in the works for six months and includes
Spring Bulb Tour to benefit MDI Community Sailing Center
Imagine, then, knowing you will be planting thousands of bulbs. That’s what the six-person crew of Northeast Harbor’s W.P. Stewart Estate–also known as WatersEdge–faces each fall when they plant the bulb garden for the estate’s annual Spring Bulb Tour. “I think that going into it (planting the bulbs in the fall) is really difficult,” says
Lifeboat Ethics
People who move to island communities from elsewhere often imagine their new lives will be simpler and more peaceful than in those places–usually an urban or suburban community–they have left behind. But nothing could be further from the truth. To be a hermit, you need your own island; the last place you should go to
Community fish ladder restoration brings new life to alewife run
Often called river herring, alewives are anadromous fish that travel from the ocean to fresh water to spawn. Signs of their astonishing migratory run up the Damariscotta River to spawn in Damariscotta Lake are subtle at first: a few osprey scouting the Great Salt Bay for signs of food, an eagle or two, seals appearing