In 1994, Moss Inc. moved its home from the Millville section of Camden to the former Journal Press building on Route 1 in Belfast, thereby becoming a landmark along that stretch of coastal Maine highway. As explained by Moss Inc.’s president Marilyn Moss in the Dec. 17-18, 1994, edition of the Bangor Daily News, the
Winter survival lessons from birds
This is the time of year island residents are asked about most: “What do you in the winter?” I think the question really is, “What do you do to survive the small town quiet when you can’t just jump in your car (or boat) and go to the high school basketball game, movie, bowling or
What causes ‘sea smoke’?
Maine is back in the deep freeze this week, with temperatures at dawn a few degrees either side of zero. Along the coast, we’re seeing a phenomenon over the waters of Penobscot Bay that often coincides with that frigid air, known locally as sea smoke. “It’s actually called Arctic sea smoke,” explained meteorologist Ken McKinley
JFK, piracy and DMR: readers weigh in
JFK’s relevance To the editor: Really? A Kennedy assassination conspiracy story in The Working Waterfront? (December/January issue story, “Friendship legislator tracks JFK’s killers”). There is nothing new in Mr. Evangelos’ findings as you describe them that hasn’t been presented since the first “Who Killed Kennedy?” lectures. What will he do when we have a truth and reconciliation
Library evolves with, and for, next generation
Back in June, I was having a conversation with an old family friend who grew up in Tenants Harbor. She began reminiscing about walking through the snow to get to the library and how eager she would be to check out the maximum number of books, week after week. She described the smell of the
Our past architectural grandeur in good hands
A couple of months ago Elaine and I scheduled a visit to New York City to see the Robert Indiana retrospective exhibit at the Whitney Museum of American Art. We’d lived in his shadow; well not his shadow exactly but certainly the shadow of his home, the Star of Hope Lodge, for the last 40
The dark secrets in the snow and sea
I did not expect my heart would ever break this way. December’s snowfall created a winter wonderland for my 5-year-old and 9-year-old, and nothing gives me more pleasure this time of year than to be out playing in the snow with them. While rolling around in a few feet of fresh powder I picked up
Moving home as friends hit the road
I am the last one left on this island. Not really, not literally, but for the first time it sort of feels that way. For the past three and a half years, I was the one leaving. Coming home every once and awhile for the weekend and during school breaks, but then I’d leave again.
Vintage Washington County
These images, part of the Eastern Illustrating & Publishing Co. collection at the Penobscot Marine Museum in Searsport—and graciously shared with The Working Waterfront by the museum—reveal a bustling Washington County at the turn of the 20th century. The region clearly relied on its working waterfronts. Notice the clarity of the images, a product of
For Long Island’s Melanie Floyd, Casco Bay offers opportunity, not limits
LONG ISLAND — Locals say there are 250 year-round residents on this Casco Bay island. “I think they’re being very optimistic,” says Melanie Floyd, an island native whose parents and grandparents have ties to the island. “It’s more like 200,” she says. The sun is bright, but an unrelenting wind makes the air feel much