There is a critical distinction between us on these islands, any small island for that matter, or between any isolated community and populations elsewhere. It’s a topic I’ve written about before but, because it is such a big deal, it bears re-visiting. The difference lies in our unavoidable interaction. We can’t get away from one
David Nyhan and the Meaning of Friendship
Our friend David Nyhan, a Chebeague summer resident and nationally known journalist, died Jan. 23, after shoveling snow at his winter home in Brookline, Massa-chusetts. He was 64. David wrote for the Boston Globe for 32 years before retiring in 2001. It’s funny how we develop close a personal friendship with one person, while barely
An Island of Readers
The inevitable question asked of islanders in the summertime is, “What do you do all winter?” For many folks in the Cranberry Isles, winter is the slow time we wait for all year. A number of people plan their travel for the winter months. Sue and Richard Hill are away for a few months to
Who’s “odd”?
To the editor: I have just finished reading the February issue of Working Waterfront and I write in response to the article about Penobscot Island Air and its owner Kevin Waters. Mr. Roland Lussier, who owns Maine Atlantic Aviation, was quoted as saying “…there’s a sense of entitlement to daily air service that exists with
Not state-owned
To the editor: I would like to correct a statement in your latest newspaper dated February 2005 about the Port of Eastport. We are not a state-owned port as stated in your report. We are a quasi-municipal organization. The port of Eastport is controlled by the Port Authority, which is made up of elected citizens and
Public Access and the Law
To the editor: I came across the letter you published on adverse possession [WWF Feb. 05], and decided to tell my own story. Last summer my son and I wanted to go striper fishing on the Kennebec River. I checked my gazetteer and found a public road leading to an old ferry terminal, to be a
Words, Recycled – Vinalhaven’s second hand bookstore does a booming business
Second Hand Prose (SHP) is a non-profit, all-volunteer-run bookstore that has grown out of the annual secondhand book sale held for many years in the vestry of Vinalhaven’s Union Church. June MacDonald and Ginny Fitts have been instrumental in organizing and running the store, though they would be the first to emphasize that the success
Nova Scotia haddock look strong; cod still need help
Milton d’Eon has been fishing out of West Pubnico, Nova Scotia, for “between 15 and 20 years,” and he says he’s never seen anything like it. “Fifteen, 20 years ago it used to be all cod and no haddock,” d’Eon says. “Now it’s got turned all around, less and less cod and more and more
Trap Limits, Ten Years Later – Big-gang lobstermen are gone, but we’ve got more traps than ever
Standing on his float overlooking Barters Island, Ted Christie pounds at the ice that has accumulated from the last storm. As he swings a heavy maul, large football-sized chunks break off and float away, drifting down the waters of the Sheepscot River. Tied up beside him and covered in six inches of new snow is
A Turkish import joins Maine’s boat scene
Sam Teel has a lot of energy. In addition to chairing the Marine Transportation department at Maine Maritime Academy (MMA) since 1992 he has been a visiting professor at the Turkish Maritime Academy and at a maritime component to one of the colleges within Dokuz Eylul University in Izmir, Turkey; and he has started two