You won’t catch me jumping out of an airplane, rappelling down a cliff, or sleeping overnight in a hammock strung over a chasm. I do, however, regularly indulge myself in what some people seem to consider the culinary equivalent of bungee jumping: cooking for a big crowd. Most perfectly competent home cooks have qualms about
Shy island girl spends semester in Australia
Editor’s note: Kennedy Cooper, a high school student at North Haven Community School, received the first Geiger Scholarship through the Island Institute, which helped pay for her to study abroad. The Gieger Scholarship supports middle and high school students participating in enrichment programs, including travel abroad and summer experiences. By the end of my sophomore year
The year of the woman: a stern woman remembers
A few weeks ago, when I was about to unload the groceries from my car in Northeast Harbor, I got a call on my cell phone from my husband Bruce. “I’m on my way over to drop Paul [his sternman] in Northeast; are you anywhere near the dock? I’ll give you a ride back.” I
Hancock County through the Eastern eye
Kevin Johnson, photo archivist at the Penobscot Marine Museum in Searsport, presents these and many other images as part of his “road show,” this one featuring Hancock County scenes. The images come from the Eastern Illustrating & Publishing Collection, which contains thousands of photographs made in New England for postcards. The museum makes prints available
Island life promotes raising ‘free range kids’
The news was full of it this summer—articles, blog posts and opinion pieces about the importance of kids playing outside, and then more articles showing the consequences that could occur when parents let their kids do just that. Mothers arrested for allowing kids to walk to the park by themselves, or letting their kids play
Island Postcards: Tom Powell
Islesford and Great Cranberry Island pastor Tom Powell is the subject of our second Island Postcard.
LifeFlight of Maine raises over $110,000 in Lincolnville to Islesboro swim
Fifty-six swimmers and their 60 escort paddlers crossed upper Penobscot Bay from Lincolnville to Islesboro, along with volunteers serving on planning, organizing and assisting groups and several corporate donors raised more than $110,000, four times what was raised last year in the inaugural event, LifeFlight of Maine reported. “It really was a perfect illustration of
Downeast high school students survey green crabs
Forty-one students from six coastal and island high schools (Deer Isle-Stonington, George Stevens Academy, Vinalhaven, North Haven, Narraguagus and Mount Desert Island) gathered on Hurricane Island in Penobscot Bay Sept. 28-29 to kick-off the second year of the Eastern Maine Skippers Program (EMSP). The program is a collaborative, year-long project addressing the question, “How can
Aquaculture grows to include shellfish, seaweed
Growing shellfish and seaweed along the coast of Maine is becoming more popular. Dana Morse, a marine extension associate for Maine Sea Grant who focuses on shellfish aquaculture, believes the public has had a change of heart on what was a controversial activity. “The overall understanding and acceptance generally of aquaculture and farm-raised seafood has
Time to ask, ‘How was your summer?’
When September begins I am filled with converse emotions. I am relieved to have a break from being so very busy and I revel in the time alone, while at the same time I bump around my little island life feeling such poignance and thinking, “Now what do I do?” Every year, just before Labor