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Dirty laundry on Swan’s Island

Time to talk about Swan’s Island’s dirty laundry! This isn’t knitting group gossip; I mean that literally. As a member of a generation with notoriously poor housekeeping skills (or is it just me?), I’m pretty proud when I get my laundry attached to the line securely enough to keep the sea breeze from lifting it

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Changing times, changing landscapes

I got thinking about changing landscapes after a night spent going over old photos. Kevin Johnson of the Penobscot Marine Museum of Searsport came out to share glass slides of Swan’s Island made in the period from the 1910s to the 1940s. The Eastern Illustrating and Publishing Company traveled through rural New England and New

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