Monhegan has become the latest island to explore wind power. At the Monhegan Plantation Annual Meeting, held April 9, voters approved a feasibility study, taking the first step in the pursuit of wind power. On the evening of April 9, 33 registered voters packed into the Monhegan Plantation schoolhouse for the Annual Town Meeting. Along
It’s not unusual to find Eliza Greenman up a tree on Islesford
Eliza Greenman came to the Cranberry Isles as part of the Island Institute’s Island Fellows Program after an adventurous year abroad. With a bachelor’s degree in forestry from The University of the South in Sewanee, Tenn., and supported by a Congressional Scholarship for Young Professional Exchange, she spent a year in Germany, one semester in
Bill would help keep lobster licenses on islands
Islanders fish. It’s one of the only career choices for those who live on isolated unbridged islands miles off the mainland. Oh, one or two might learn plumbing or electrical wiring, most learn how to do carpentry, some house building, and a few build boats in winter, but just about all rely on fishing lobster
Woman Who Speaks Tree: Confessions of a Tree Hugger
About Time Press 2009 Paperback, 132 pages, $14.95 Do rocks like becoming stone walls? If you listen carefully enough, trees speak (or sometimes whisper) or even just stand there looking at plenty of human folly around them, according to Linda Tatelbaum. As a back-to-the-land homesteader, and later a professor at Colby, she and her husband
Maine Street: Faces and Stories From a Small Town
Down East Books, 2009 Hardcover, 112 pages ($24.95) Hidden lives are everywhere “Some subjects come to me as gifts,” said Patrisha McLean. Moving to Camden 18 years ago, after always living in big cities, she began a newspaper column “Patrisha’s People,” brief bios and photo portraits “to celebrate the extraordinary people I feel privileged to
Isle au Haut Town Meeting supports increase in boat company funding
The Isle au Haut Boat Company received a significant increase in funding at the Annual Town Meeting. Town Meeting members overwhelmingly supported a $10,000 increase in funding for the boat company, by a vote of 23 to 2. It was one of 92 warrant articles addressed at the March 30 meeting. About 40 people were
Port of Eastport set to handle shipment of wind turbine blades
The Port of Eastport was scheduled to handle the import of a shipment of wind turbine blades from Santos, Brazil in late April. The good news comes in the wake of the March announcement by the Domtar Corporation of the May 5 “indefinite closing” of its mill in Baileyville. The mill has provided the port
Venturing
The Ditch The deadline for this column being April 15 it’s hard not to associate it with taxes, particularly the federal kind that are much in the news these days as the Obama administration does its best to spend its way out of our current recession/depression. A newspaper headline in Morehead City, N.C., announced that
Essay
I forgot to buy eggs. And bread. And milk. Our very first guests were sleeping upstairs, and I wandered around the kitchen wondering how I would fix this dilemma. After a month of painting and cleaning and moving furniture and placing the vases of lilac branches just so in guest rooms anticipating our first customers,
Surry author promotes ethical living
Shortly after Zoe Weil moved to Surry and opened the Institute for Humane Education (then called the Center for Compassionate Living) in 1996, a neighbor tentatively asked her about her line of work. “She had heard that we were a cult,” Weil recalled with a laugh. In fact, the institute co-founded by Weil, an award-wining