Susan Stavropoulos looked on with interest as her neighbors Linda Ewing and Tom Adams slid the first of two new storm windows into place in her living room. While her old house on Chebeague Island has many places where heat can escape, she’s testing these new windows here in the den first, to see how
Islesboro youngsters create food pantry
Christian Education director Sharon Dawbin, of Islesboro’s Second Baptist Church, said, “It was their idea.” Other years, the Sunday school students assembled food items to take to a mainland food pantry, but this year one 11-year-old came to Mrs. Dawbin and said she had heard her parents talking about how winter might be hard for
Long Islanders celebrate community garden at harvest dinner
In warmly-lit room filled with the smell of chicken pot pies, over 100 people sat around circular tables. At a little past five o’clock, a feast that would rival Thanksgiving was unveiled. It was Long Islands’ third annual Harvest Fest Dinner, a free meal for any islander to celebrate a successful year of gardening. The
Islesboro students add island history to Maine memory network
A few more than a dozen Islesboro high school students filled the third floor workroom of the Islesboro Historical Society supervised by their teacher David Thibodeau, I. H. S. Archivist Rowland Logan, and island coordinator for the Maine Community Heritage Project Melissa Olson. They turned on computers and donned white cotton gloves to begin photographing
Peaks Island Winter Concert is diverse, eclectic
On Sunday, December 14, the Peaks Island Winter Concert will mark its 22nd year of celebrating not only the holiday season, but the spirit of diversity that thrives on this Casco Bay Island. According to Nancy 3. Hoffman, the concert’s director (whose middle name, “3.” is correctly noted), “multi-denominational” performances promise the audience a little
Islesford artist receives lifetime achievement award
They say a picture is worth a thousand words, but sometimes a picture doesn’t tell the whole story. Photos from the 2008 New York Public Library Lions Benefit show Islesford author and illustrator Ashley Bryan, one of the night’s honorees, standing alongside literary heavyweights Salman Rushdie, Edward Albee and Nora Ephron, all with gold medals
PEI fishermen manage tuna fishery to a successful season
Careful management of the Prince Edward Island tuna fishery by the fishermen themselves has resulted in a successful 2008 season. And planning for the season, which ended on October 6th, began with meetings by fishermen all across the island during last winter. “By our standards it was a very good season,” said Ed Frenette, executive
It could have been any of us: The search for missing Matinicus lobstermen
This is not an easy story to tell. Sometime on Monday, October 27, 2008 a young lobsterman went missing in the waters near Matinicus Island. Christopher Whitaker, 24, of Matinicus was last seen hauling from his open boat that day to the northeast of the island. Later the same day, floating objects such as a
Cranberry Report
The beauty of November After the pretty days of September and October, November has a different kind of beauty. The angle of the sun is noticeably lower, infusing afternoon light with the glow of brushed pewter. It is the kind of sky that gives bare trees a crisp outline and predicts approaching snow and colder
Essay
Birds of a Feather I’m not a bird watcher but I did notice, last week, an eastern phoebe light on a weather stick outside my window. The stick was tiny and delicate but the phoebe was even more so and the stick’s trajectory, thrusting upward, (high pressure, clear day ahead) didn’t change when the half-ounce