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Nine-year-old is Islesboro’s youngest lobsterperson
While most girls her age make money babysitting if at all, nine-year-old Lindsay Durkee of Islesboro has chosen another way to earn her spending money. During the island’s fishing season, she hauls a string of 150 lobster traps using her own boat, the LINDSAY D. Lindsay got her start lobstering two years ago while accompanying
The continuing adventures of the BONNIE LYNN
When last we saw Islesboro’s Bonnie and Earl MacKenzie, they were putting the finishing touches on their schooner BONNIE LYNN in preparation for her launching (WWF, June ’98). Their plan was to sail off into the sunset and live happily ever after aboard, working the New England/Caribbean charter trade. Now, five years later, I find
Islesboro group gets to work on an eldercare facility
For many island communities, caring for elderly citizens is difficult because of geographic isolation. The lack of facilities on-island means that elders find themselves separated from familiar surroundings and neighbors. Vinalhaven’s response was to build the Ivan Calderwood Homestead, an on-island adult family care home which opened in the fall of 2001 (WWF, Sept. 2002).
Community luncheons feed (and entertain) Islesboro seniors
On a recent Thursday, near lunch time, my grumbling stomach reminded me that I’d scheduled a little trip to Islesboro’s blink-and-you’ll-miss-it downtown to check out the Second Baptist Church’s version of a sort of senior citizens’ Moody’s Diner. Since January of 2003, the Missions Community Outreach Committee of the Second Baptist Church has been hosting
You can get here from there
Twenty years ago I couldn’t have told you much about the Pine Tree State, never having been here or known anyone who had. I’d love nothing better than to spin you a yarn about how my move to Islesboro was the realization of a lifelong dream to live on the rugged and beautiful coast of
Islesboro Easter Baskets
Islesboro Central School’s K-1 class, with a little help from parents and friends, made over 15 dozen cookies and Easter baskets to share with Islesboro’s senior citizen luncheon group, which meets monthly at the Second Baptist Church fellowship room. Students donned bunny masks and joined the group for their meal on April 19. Their teacher,
Tenth year of Islesboro Central School’s Creative Writing Contest
Islesboro Central School held an assembly on March 6 to honor winners of its tenth annual Creative Writing Contest. The contest’s goal has been to encourage students to value the art of writing through positive feedback and recognition from their teachers, peers and community members for excellence in writing. The contest gives the school, as
Islesboro brings Gettysburg chorus to perform
The Gettysburg College Choir and Camerata, under the direction of Dr. Robert Natter, performed a concert of sacred and secular music on Monday 10 at the Second Baptist Church in Islesboro, Maine. The group also performed the next day at the Islesboro Central School. Wendy Dow, a graduate of Islesboro Central School, is a member
At 91, Islesboro’s Pauline Byrd says and does “whatever I darn please”
When Islesboro resident Pauline Byrd turned 90, a circle of her island friends joined her for a birthday party, where she announced that, being 90 years old, she was now going to do and say “whatever I darn well please.” Puzzled looks came over the partygoers’ faces, since this represented no discernible change at all,
Wonder Dog Jenny
Islesboro Central School students were recently entertained by wonder dog “Jenny,” a seven-year-old black Lab who has been attention-trained to work as a “scent-discrimination” finder of objects and people. Jenny’s owner, professional dog trainer Frances Plessner, takes Jenny to nursing homes and schools where the exquisitely-behaved canine can show off her bag of tricks.