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The ABC’s of a Cranberry Winter
At the height of the busy summer season, there are hundreds of daily visitors to the Cranberry Isles, along with hundreds more who own or rent houses to stay for their favorite vacation of the year. We are inundated with faces we don’t know, and frazzled by trying to catch up with all of the
Cranberry Report: Parallel Christmases
At the beginning of December, there is still room for eager anticipation of the winter holidays. There is time to finish that knitting project, shop for gifts, and get excited by glossy new recipes in cooking magazines. We can think back on what we so liked about this time of year when we were children.
Cranberry Report: Fall foraging
By the middle of October, most of the summer residents have made their last visit to Little Cranberry Island, returning to their active lives in bigger towns and cities. They are not the only ones moving on. Groups of flickers provide flashes of white, red, taupe and black as they travel south, stopping on the
Cranberry Report: Never stop learning
On Little Cranberry Island, service at the Islesford Dock Restaurant ends just before Labor Day, due to the fact that most of the employees need to head back to high school and college. For some of us who are left behind, September instills a yearning to start something new or go back to school ourselves,
Cranberry Report: Never stop learning
On Little Cranberry Island, service at the Islesford Dock Restaurant ends just before Labor Day, due to the fact that most of the employees need to head back to high school and college. For some of us who are left behind, September instills a yearning to start something new or go back to school ourselves,
Cranberry Report
On August 18, at the Islesford Neighborhood House, people will gather to hear their friends read poems and essays in an event known as the annual Literary Evening. Sarah Corson started this tradition 31 years ago to provide Harry Spurling with a venue for his epic recitations, when the Rockbound Grange ceased its weekly meetings.
Cranberry Report
Welcome to the summer semester at the College of the Cranberry Isles featuring an East Campus on Islesford and a West Campus on Great Cranberry Island. Like a college, the islands are a crossroads for people from all over the country. Summer classes begin in July and extend through August. New arrivals have the nervous
Cranberry Report
This time of year brings back so many good memories. The last weeks of June and the first week of July is when my parents, my brother and I had our turn to use the family summer house on Little Cranberry Island. For the rest of the summer it was either occupied by my grandparents,
Cranberry Report
Dan and Cynthia Lief have owned and operated the Islesford Dock Restaurant for the last 16 years. As they prepare for their 17th summer, they are also preparing for a new business venture; the Islesford Dock Gallery. The gallery on the dock will feature artists from Maine, South Africa, and a few places in between.
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Searching for spring It is April 15 and I am wracking my brain to write this month’s “Cranberry Report.” I’ve had some great suggestions from wonderful friends but all I can think about is how much I dislike the month of April on Little Cranberry Island. Early spring in Maine is politely referred to as