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The Walking Waterfront
Many assume that the waterfront between the high and low tide line is common ground, accessible to all. Customary use over time, some waterfront owners believe, obligates them to tolerate those who enjoy the beach and who explore the area below the high tide line. Other shorefront property owners, however, become anxious when trespassers appear
Islesboro launches “heirloom” orchard project
The clearing of about an acre suggested that a small house was to be built in the thick woods that line the driveway to the Islesboro island school. Until Labor Day, when the stumps were hauled away, logs lay stacked at one end of the lot and a long pile of stumps and roots dominated
Make your own Saddle Island
Saddle Island, located about halfway between Camden and North Haven, is perched atop a foundation of formerly molten basalt that, as it cooled, fractured in a distinctive geometric pattern. The stones that line the shore are actually the tops of multi-sided basalt columns or shafts that probably descend deep below the floor of the bay.
Chalkboard artist leaves boatbuilding legacy
At the Boat School in Eastport the work of a former teacher hangs reverently on the wall in front of the marine drafting and design classroom: a large chalk drawing on a chocolate brown blackboard. The drawing was rendered by Ernie Brierley who joined the faculty when the school was operating in the former Coast