I got thinking about changing landscapes after a night spent going over old photos. Kevin Johnson of the Penobscot Marine Museum of Searsport came out to share glass slides of Swan’s Island made in the period from the 1910s to the 1940s. The Eastern Illustrating and Publishing Company traveled through rural New England and New
Island entrepreneurs find mentors, confidence in ISLE program
One wants to grow his propane delivery business across the Casco Bay islands. Another wants to grow oysters on Islesboro. Still another aims to expand her social media marketing consulting, while yet another hopes her painting will bring in more income to the family. What these four have in common — and what another 11
Kinship with the Kennedys in Mexico, Maine
When We Were the Kennedys. A Memoir from Mexico, Maine, by Monica Wood “The bulk of this story,” novelist Monica Wood writes in her author’s note, “”¦results from my having been an observant child living in a vibrant place and time.” The place is Mexico, Maine, in the western mountains, and the time is 1963.
‘Coastal Light’ show now open at Rockland’s Archipelago Fine Arts Gallery
ROCKLAND — Archipelago Fine Arts Gallery, 386 Main Street, invites the public to two receptions for “In Pursuit of Coastal Light,” a spring show of work by Gary Hoyle of Swan’s Island and Andrea Peters of East Boothbay. The show will run through May 31, with the first reception scheduled for Friday, May 3 from 5
Earth Day: When serendipity met the zeitgeist
Back when Sen. Gaylord Nelson of Wisconsin first proposed that April 22 be designated annually as “Earth Day,” the Cayahoga River that runs through Cleveland, Ohio had recently caught fire. The burning river quickly became the symbol credited with sparking the birth of the environmental movement in America. But why that river at that time
Dr. Brian Beal: A clam’s best friend
GREAT WASS ISLAND — At the end of a sharp point of land jutting into Western Bay, the Down East Institute for Applied Marine Research is a small campus of outbuildings, docks and a wharf centered around a large, nondescript metal warehouse. Inside, the air is humid and laced with the briny smell of shellfish and
Penobscot Bay as region struggles with identity, narrowing economic base
Penobscot Bay is a distinctive estuary, easily recognized even in a photo taken from space. According to a recent study, it is “the largest, most ecologically diverse, island-filled bay in the Gulf of Maine.” Yet the people who live in the two-dozen towns that rim the bay do not see themselves as part of a
Lobstering links island’s past and present
Confession time: I grew up five hours from the nearest ocean. Apart from a wonderful semester with the Williams Mystic program studying intertidal organisms, Moby Dick and coastal property disputes, I didn’t know much about the sea. I certainly didn’t know I’d be moving to the middle of it. In my hometown, nobody thinks about
Can we still see ‘the shores for the stores’?
America’s shores have been colonized three times over. First there were the people from Asia, who arrived by migrating along our western shores. Then came the Europeans, who arrived by ship. Most recently, there has been the massive colonization from the interior, which has so completely transformed the shore as to threaten its nature and
Island romance in the days of party lines and record hops
As the days warm, the crocuses sprout, peepers peep and my lawn begins to fill with deer poop, it seems the season has finally changed. Earlier this week, the first tick of the year burrowed into my shin with cheerful tidings—don’t worry, Mom, it wasn’t on for 36 hours. Ah, spring—when “a young man’s fancy