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The Carina Residency
The remarkable light (artists are always talking about light) continues to inspire generation after generation of American artists, but it has become increasingly difficult for artists to find affordable housing for extended visits on Monhegan. The Carina Residency offers Maine artists use of a cottage and studio every summer. For the past years, this program,
The Art of Monhegan Island
Down East Books $40.00 Accessible Look at Monhegan’s Art Art books often intimidate people who have not already committed years to roaming the world’s finest art museums, absorbing hour upon hour of docent lectures. They can feel like unwanted homework, leaving you feeling like an uncomfortable guest caught in the crossfire of pretentious cocktail-party conversation.
Island air service gets a new lease on life
As of mid January, there’s a brand-new airline out at Knox County Airport flying the mail to the islands. With a six-month, emergency contract with U.S. Postal Service in one hand, the business of Federal Express in the other and fingers crossed for a pending application to UPS, Kevin Waters now operates a fledgling airline
North Haven’s Little Problem
A year ago, when Telford Air was actively looking to sell Maine Atlantic Aviation to an interested buyer, one of the problems in negotiations was the North Haven business — or lack of it. No one had figured out a way to lengthen the privately owned Witherspoon airstrip by 200 feet so planes could land
Chebeague pair craft environmentally friendly candles
Late at night, after reading bedtime stories and tucking in their three little sons (Ethan, Aaron and Cameron, ages four, three and almost-two, respectively), Jen Belesca and Vicki Todd slip baby monitors in their coats and head for Jen’s barn. This just-insulated building on Chebeague is now headquarters for Island Essentials, their new soy-wax-candle company.
Pizza to Porta-Potties – Island freight service responds to residents’ needs
The stuff that flows through the freight office of Casco Bay Lines is as diverse as the needs of the islanders the company serves. Cartons of milk from Oakhurst Dairy head for the grocery store on Long Island, propane tanks earmarked for home heating ship out to Chebeague – and then there’s the random, 14-inch,
So You Want to Rent Your Island House? Many factors affect the summer market, and trends are seldom clear
Summer tourists, of course, have been renting a week’s vacation in Maine since forever – since before the lobster bake was invented, even. “Back in the Teens and the Twenties, my grandmother rented cottages for a dollar a week,” muses Ralph Ashmore, long-time real estate broker on Peaks Island. “Told them all they needed to
Seven Tips from the Experts
Real estate experts who have been at this for years know very well how to manage visitor expectations so as to deliver on the vacation promised. The experts offer tips: 1. Clean up the personal clutter and make your home tourist-friendly. “All your toys and fuzzy stuff would get in the way of someone having
Spruced-up Chebeague Inn opens for business
The porch sagged, rain dripped through the kitchen ceiling and the laundry room was in unsanitary proximity to the dish room. Spring water would flow through the basement bar, and the restaurant occasionally ran out of toast for breakfast. Furthermore, the whole place needed a whole lot of paint. Nevertheless, Martha Dumont, of Cumberland saw
Only the Freshest, Please!
In embracing everything Maine, Fisher has decided to use only locally grown or organic produce for his restaurant. Last January he sat down with Martha Putnam, of Farm Fresh Connection, to discuss his menu plan, asking her, for example, which Maine potatoes might make the best homemade chips? Fisher, the kind of individualist who grew