Ch-ch-ch-changes on the island
I have seen many changes over the year and a half I’ve been on Isle au Haut. Families have come and gone. Isle au Haut’s inn (The Keeper’s House) changed hands and reopened. The island’s store also saw a shakeup in management. Some people are spending more time escaping to Florida or Arizona for the
Today’s ‘logical’ house
In June, Lisa Dellwo and William Schlesinger will move into their new 1,400-squarefoot two-bedroom house in North Lubec. G-O Logic of Belfast designed the building to meet passive house standards, with the building oriented on the site for optimum solar gain, as well as with to scale. Tight and super-insulated throughout, the house will be
Maine flavor–local food, wild drinks
Fresh from Maine: Recipes and Stories from the State’s Best Chefs. Text by Michael S. Sanders and photographs by Russell French. Published by Table Arts Media, 2012. Author Michael Sanders attempts the nearly impossible, capturing 24 au courant Maine restaurants in a kind of freeze frame, knowing that “change comes to the business of cooking
COA gets grant to restore Mount Desert Rock
BAR HARBOR — There’s a lot of good conversation that can happen when you’re on a boat in the Antarctic. Sean Todd, chairman of the marine studies program at the College of the Atlantic, was in the Antarctic serving as a tour guide and scientist for a boat tour that doubled as a research expedition
Coastal, island students eager to study maritime world
DEER ISLE — Recently, a group of Deer Isle-Stonington High School students were at the Maine Maritime Academy pool, performing ocean survival maneuvers. “Take a breath of air, calm yourself down. The water’s cold,” instructed survival trainer John McMillan, demonstrating emergency techniques to support unconscious crewmates and deploy life rafts. The atmosphere was serious, emblematic
Building houses builds economy, but it’s not a simple formula
The housing sector of the Maine economy has been a blessing and a curse, depending on the times. In the late 1980s, a development boom rolled up the coast. Banks financed what were known as “spec” or speculation houses, built without ready buyers. So confident were builder and banker in a quick sale that they
‘Did that just happen?’ moment likely on island
I live on a part of Deer Isle called Sunset, with my house sitting next to Mill Pond. Although I can’t see the tidal pond from my window, it’s a stone’s throw away, and shortly after I moved here an old-time fiddle tune called “Ducks On The Mill Pond” quickly jumped to the top of
A trip that brought these veterans home
VINALHAVEN — It was a trip Leonard “Buddy” Skoog knew he was making for those who couldn’t. “Even though I was very flattered and felt very welcomed,” said the World War II naval aviator, “my thoughts were, ‘This was not just for you, Buddy. This was for all the boys that never had a welcome
Vinalhaven carpenter leaves his mark
VINALHAVEN — Just like many of his neighbors, Charlie Reidy sees evidence of his work when he takes a boat ride around the island. But it’s not lobster buoys he’s seeing. “I built that addition there,” he’ll think to himself, “I did that dormer. I redid the roof on that house…” It gives Reidy, 47,