The line stretched beyond the corner of the Chebeague Island Hall, weaving around parked cars and bicycles. Nearly100 people-some in line for more than an hour-eagerly awaited the 11th Annual Island Commons Yard Sale, set to begin at 10 a.m. Saturday. As the clocked ticked toward the hour and the crowd swelled, a thin piece
Stonington fellow helps small businesses, works in the footlights
When you earn a bachelor’s degree from Cornell University in Applied Economics and Management, the career opportunities can be mind-boggling. For Emma Miran, the Island Institute’s Planning and Development Fellow in Stonington, the lure of island life, a fishing-based economy, and a vibrant arts community proved irresistible. Emma has been working with Town Manager Kathleen
My currant situation
Thank goodness currants are so waterproof, unlike a raspberry, which never met a drop of moisture that didn’t turn it into mush. In a waterlogged season like this one the currants swell marvelously, turn red or dark purple, depending on the variety, and hang patiently, shiny and brilliant, for a couple of weeks until I
Maine Birding Trail
Bob Duschesne has traipsed into a lot of remote and remarkable areas across our state to assemble an attractive list of some 260 places to watch and hear birds, as well as to enjoy the view. About the only place he writes about that he hasn’t actually been to, he said, is Matinicus, Maine’s outermost
Notes on a Lost Flute: A Field Guide to the Wabanaki
Waiting for the Alchemist
Louisiana State University Press, Baton Rouge (2008) Paperback, 59 pages, $17.95 A map of life Mark Perlberg, a summer poet of Vinalhaven, died last year in June at the age of 79. He left behind a deeply moving self-portrait in the form of a slender collection of his last book of poems-his fourth-titled Waiting for
Sculptor inspired by islanders and the sea
The rusted prow of the Chebeague stone sloop Alletta L. Hamilton has sailed straight out of the history books and onto the clapboards of the Chebeague Island Historical Society this spring. The sloop cuts through the shimmering waves, burnished reds and blues gleaming from the depths of the stainless steel and has stayed it course
Venturing
On my wall I have a large-scale reproduction of a newspaper column written 15 years ago by the late Ed Myers, who was a regular contributor to Working Waterfront for more than a decade. Ed wrote about many things – the tricky business of aquaculture, the activities of a “wharfinger” (he was one), the connections
Celebrating Holbrook’s Wharf
In the midst of a recession, celebrating working waterfront preservation is a welcome sign. On July 19, over 100 people celebrated the new Holbrook’s Wharf in Cundy’s Harbor. The Holbrook Community Foundation rebuilt the wharf and the snack bar. The new pilings were adapted from recycled utility poles. There are also three new commercial fishing
New archives building dedicated on North Haven
On July 5, almost 100 gathered for the formal dedication of the North Haven Historical Society’s Archives Building. The sun that has proven so elusive of late shone brightly on the new building, which boasts a climate-controlled storage room and library, office, workspace and a meeting room. The product of years of fundraising efforts, the