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Untangling the Bounty tragedy
ROCKLAND — New details about the disastrous sinking of the HMS Bounty, and the heroic rescue of nearly all of its crew, emerged during a lecture by author Michael Tougias at the Maine Lighthouse Museum on July 6. His recent book, Rescue of the Bounty, co-authored with Douglas Campbell, recounts the loss of the 180-foot
Searsport high school charts hands-on education in new center
SEARSPORT — The high school’s four-year-old boatbuilding program is navigating through a sea of educational change, but fair winds seem to lie ahead. The program is moving downtown and other upgrades are in the works. Searsport District High School’s shellback dinghy course is now based at the old seine loft building where its long-time owner
America’s first ship is reimagined, recreated
BATH — Each day, volunteers recreating the pinnace Virginia walk in the shoes of the settlers, but they dream of the day they will sail in their wake. Along the Kennebec River, the 51-foot ship is taking shape, as 23 rib-like frames soar toward the roof of the boat shed. Volunteers look like Jonah inside
Maine Yankee musings, 15 years later
No waterfront works harder than the waterfront in front of a nuclear power plant. In the 15 years since I covered the Maine Yankee Nuclear Power Plant for the Courier Publications newspapers, I have become convinced of that. Each summer as I head off to the beach, I wonder about the state of that shoreline
Exhibit highlights Coast Guard history
BATH — Rare home movie footage and a chance to hear a massive fog bell toll will be a few of the highlights of a Coast Guard exhibit that launches June 8 at Maine Maritime Museum. The depth and breadth of the Coast Guard’s duties will be showcased in the summer exhibit, which runs through
Locals revise South Bristol bridge plans, DOT listens
SOUTH BRISTOL – State transportation officials have gone back to the drawing board as they design a new bridge for the waterway known as “The Gut,” the result of lobbying by a group of residents who didn’t like plans that called for bridge sections rising high above the road when open. The residents hired a