Reprinted from 1988 original by Pea Soup Publishing, 2003. For a number of reasons, this book – lushly illustrated with both photographs and diagrams – could hold your attention. Visitors to Vinalhaven, which provided many of the examples in the book, will appreciate another tangible reminder that the fishing industry uses many different creative skills.
In The Wake of Madness: The Murderous Voyage of the Whaleship Sharon
Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill $24.95 In a way, I wish I hadn’t read this account of murder and mutiny on a whaleship. Although it’s wonderfully researched – and by this I mean no pertinent document, no matter how tangential, was left unread and recorded – the descriptions of the sadistic and indeed murderous treatment
Learning to Float: The Journey of a Woman, a Dog, and Just Enough Men
Broadway Books paperback, June 2003. In this book about several different kinds of journeys – introspective, retrospective, and cross-country, always with the destination “Happiness” – the most honest and homespun wisdom about getting “there” comes from snippets of the author’s conversations during visits to her grandparents’ summer place on North Haven. Grampy’s history is only
Journal of an Island Kitchen: A Moveable Party
A Moveable Party A neighbor just turned 60. At 8:00 on the morning of her birthday, her friends, all women of a certain age, clad in their p.j.s and bathrobes, drove down her driveway with their car horns blasting, to wish her a happy day. Car trunks were opened and out came four tables, tablecloths,
A pianist for all people
For the past four summers, Richard “Dick” Hankinson’s artistry at the piano has delighted the congregation at Popham Chapel 10:30 a.m. Sunday services. A few hum along as he performs preludes and postludes by composers like Chopin, Liszt and Rubenstein. Hankinson and his wife moved to Maine in 1985, after visiting with Phippsburg resident Ruth
The Long View: University of Turmoil
Scoresby Sound, Greenland – We are at anchor in a deep little bowl near a passing flotilla of icebergs in Scoresby Sound, East Greenland. The expedition vessel, TURMOIL, is on her sixth voyage into Arctic and sub-Arctic waters since being launched in 1996 by its owner, Island Institute member Gary Comer of Somes Sound, Mount
LobsterTales.org in the news …
News travels fast, and so do lobsters. LobsterTales.org, the Island Institute’s lobster tagging and pilot education program is making headlines with news of the destinations and dinner plates where Maine’s lobsters have landed. This first summer fishing season for the LobsterTales.org project has been noticed on national and local levels. The Portland Press Herald started
Pony Camp
If you’re a kid, summer is a time for camp. Day camp, baseball camp, Y camp, basketball camp, scout camp, 4-H camp – you name it, it’s out there. But if you’re an island kid summer camps are often less plentiful and more inaccessible than for those on the mainland. This summer, Vinalhaven kids had
Maine island post offices fight for survival
If the U.S. Postal Service tries to close island post offices in Maine, it better brace itself. “I’ll tell you, the people here are very vocal,” said Barbara Hoppin, the school principal on Peaks Island. “It’s important to our school, and important to our community.” If Peaks islanders had to take the ferry into Portland’s
Island Teachers’ Conference scheduled for October
The Island Teachers’ Conference is planned for Oct. 2-3 at the Hutchinson Center in Belfast. Over 80 island educators will be attending, along with 20 or more representatives of other schools, nonprofit organizations, education foundations and the state. The goal of the conference is to bring island teachers together to share their unique experiences and