After a two year Island Institute fellowship on Vinalhaven, Michael Felton will be joining the Institute staff as the Education Outreach Director. Mike’s fellowship focused on education and community development. He taught middle school social studies, college aspirations, and an eighth grade service learning class. The service learning class evolved into an extensive effort, spearheaded
Phippsburg store is community institution
Mary Nickerson, who has run the West Point General Store in Phippsburg with her husband Emery for the past six years, says people who have heard it is up for sale come in and tell her, “Well, so you haven’t sold it yet. That’s good. I know you don’t like it, but that’s good.” Nobody
Duress
Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary defines “duress” as forcible restraint or restriction, compulsion by threat; specifically: unlawful constraint or coercion. I am a Hereditary Chief of the Mi’kmaq Grand Council. I am also a member of Esgenoopetitj community. Non-natives know us as Burnt Church First Nation. There was recently an agreement signed concerning lobster fishing, between the
Everything flows, nothing stays
And so, as it must to all men unwilling to climb one more shaky ladder to clean oak leaves out of a downspout, we moved from 43 degrees 56 minutes N. all the way to 44 degrees 015 N. to the local retirement massif five plus miles (Naut.) or so up the estuary. Quite a
Blue Frontier: Saving America’s Living Seas
This book chronicles a menu of threats to our nation’s seas and marine animals, from the overfishing of codfish in New England to groupers too small to spawn being caught in Texas, and from the ear infections of surfers in the sometimes contaminated waters of southern California to the seemingly endless appetite of factory trawl
The Basque History of the World
The Basques are one of the unique people-islands to be found on the face of the earth, completely different in every sense from the peoples around them, and their language, surrounded by Aryan languages, forms an island somehow comparable to those peaks which still surface above the water in a flood zone. This description, written
National Science Foundation supports Islesboro, Peaks, Vinalhaven mapping projects
Drive the roads of rural Maine today and you might notice street signs marking what were once unnamed dirt tracks. Most likely, these new signs are the result of Maine’s adoption of an enhanced emergency response system, known as E-911. In many towns, E-911 raised the ire of residents who were forced to change a
Using “free range” to sell seafood
Maggie Terry says her first reaction when a friend suggested she and Dick Conroy call their new business Free Range Fish was “You’re kidding; I don’t know if I could do that.” But after they had all stopped laughing, she reconsidered. “I thought, ‘Why not?’ ” she says. “There’s this thing about free range chicken,”
HIPPOCAMPUS could live again
There is one in every boatyard along the Maine Coast; a refugee from the past that has survived hundreds of storms and dangerous voyages, only to meet a lingering death, rotting slowly ashore. At Ducky’s, also known as Spruce Head Boat Yard, it is the mighty HIPPOCAMPUS, with its illustrious, almost 90-year history hidden by
Inshore herring study relies on fishermen’s reports
An ongoing study conducted by the Island Institute will seek to document herring spawning locations this fall along the coast. The study seeks to locate and map these spawning events in order to understand more accurately the reproductive nature and trends of herring. The project is a multi-year investigation that will match recent spawning observations