About a dozen people stand around the long table in the reading room of the Alice Pendleton Library. There is the aroma of coffee in the air, and a fire crackles softly in the fireplace. A trimmed Christmas tree stands to one side. Our librarian is at the copier, which whirrs and grunts as it
Around Cape Horn
Around Cape Horn By Charles G. Davis Edited by Captain Neal Parker Camden, Maine: Down East Books, $15 Captain Annabel By Neal Evan Parker Illustrated by Emily Harris Camden, Maine: Down East Books, $16 The hard knocks school of seafaring If you ever get the kind of sea fever that makes you want to sign
Hunger and Thirst
St. Martin’s Press, $23.95 Messing Things Up, as Only Families Can With all the good books out there waiting to be read, why would somebody from Maine want to read a book about a Jewish family in 1950s Chicago? Because Daniela Kuper’s Hunger and Thirst is about a lot more than just the Trout family,
Forum Tackles Property Taxes
Flukes and Flames, Boiling Blubber – disassembling and reassembling a “squid hound”
Last May the carcass of a ten-foot-long, 500-pound white-beaked dolphin washed up on the shores of Vinalhaven. My neighbor Drew Noyes had told me about it, so Lucy McCarthy, Field Guide to Marine Mammals in hand, and I followed our noses down to the bay to take a look. There it was. I could see
Great Cranberry building changes address, purpose
On Nov. 16, Great Cranberry Island residents were treated to the sight of an island landmark driving down the road. The Mountain View Inn, which housed a restaurant from the island’s boardinghouse days in the 1920s, took about three hours to move a quarter-mile down the main road to its new home. The former inn was
Vinalhaven and partners restore a wetland, with one unexpected result
The Town of Vinalhaven recently partnered with the local land trust, a federal agency, a foundation, private landowners and the state to restore a large area of wetland where a causeway had restricted tidal flow to an upstream area. The causeway-bridge was constructed many years ago over Pleasant River Cove, using a series of old-style
Maine Islands Coalition Convenes
The Maine Islands Coalition, formed last March to advocate for Maine’s 15 year-round island communities, convened for the fourth time on Friday, Nov. 12 in Rockland. Island representatives from Cliff, Great Diamond, Little Diamond, Islesboro, North Haven, Vinalhaven, Town of Long Island, Cranberry Isles and Frenchboro attended the meeting, with others from Chebeague and Peaks
Teacher Exchange – Islesboro family leaves a Maine winter for an African summer
Thanks to the Fulbright Teacher Exchange Program, on Jan. 10 Islesboro Central School math teacher Tom Tutor and family will embark on a grand adventure, flying to South Africa where Tom will undertake a year-long assignment teaching mathematics to students whose customary teacher will be, meanwhile, teaching Tom’s Islesboro students. The Fulbright international educational exchange
From South Africa to Islesboro, in January
And what of the void Tom Tutor’s absence creates in the Islesboro Central School mathematics program? Another Fulbright teacher, Mr. Ngubo Ndaba, will be arriving on Islesboro in January, just as the Tutors embark for South Africa, coming from an African summer to a Maine winter to teach Tutor’s classes. Ndaba, who will be living