Some people in Maine have been doing this for a long time. Right across East Penobscot Bay in Harborside, Barbara Damrosche and Elliott Coleman have been doing it for years and teaching everyone else how. Finally, this year, out in the new garden past the barn, we, too, have a moveable, unheated green house. A
Becoming Teddy Roosevelt: How a Maine Guide Inspired America’s 26th President
Vietze pays homage to Sewall, who took the young Roosevelt under his wing and taught him the ways of the woods. His account begins with the bespectacled Harvard student, a budding naturalist and avid hunter, standing on the older man’s Island Falls farmhouse door stoop, on the evening of September 7, 1878, exhausted from the
Rigidity is bad for the knees
I don’t know what it is about politics, but it is the single subject area that stirs the most intense passions among us. Although similar in most every other respect–background, education, business orientation, family values (all still married and happy), we are evenly divided politically across the right-left spectrum. Three of us listen to talk
Vinalhaven Historical Society gets its own John Hancock
Last October the Vinalhaven Historical Society received one of its most historically significant artifacts to date. Island natives Jack and Angie Olson donated an original document signed by John Hancock in 1785. The document appoints William Vinall as Justice of the Peace of the Fox Islands back when what is now Maine was still a
Financially-strapped Calais LNG withdraws applications
The withdrawal decision was made just days before a Board of Environmental Protection (BEP) scheduled hearing on December 16. That hearing date was set after five extensions requested by Calais LNG beginning last summer. The letter from Calais LNG attorney David Van Slyke withdrew a Natural Resources Protection Act application, a Site Location of Development
Oral Histories: Capturing stories from the past
A moving portrait of Doug MacVane standing at the ocean’s edge graces the cover of Fran Houston’s book, For the Love of Peaks. The book’s subtitle, Island Portraits & Stories: A Collection, reveals exactly what you will find inside the cover. Houston introduces you to some Peaks Islanders with stories she collected through oral history
Alice in Wonderland
In Alice in Wonderland, the mix of music, acting, images, stagecraft and lighting left room only to enjoy the challenges before the protagonist and commiserate with her about them. The obstacles laid at Alice’s feet were artfully slung with words from daunting creatures reveling in how well they could trip up the unfortunate young lady.
Islands grapple with eldercare
So when Ivan died he left his Vinalhaven house and land to the community as an eldercare facility. A decade after opening its doors, the Ivan Calderwood Homestead’s eight beds are full and there’s a waiting list. But lack of space is only one problem. The Calderwood Home faces increasing government regulation and soaring expenses
Leading from behind
Lets put aside the problem of conflating human behavior with far less thoughtful decapods. Leaders come into existence without being pulled down in the process. Leadership exists; it just looks different than social climbing. The numbers of leaders on islands are legion. Nothing shows this more clearly than the mandatory “volunteer” positions filled annually to
Eastport to sell Boat School
During the past five years, as the Boat School was on the verge of closing due in part to declining enrollment, Marlow had been eyeing the property and trying to get his foot in the door. According to Eastport city manager, Jon Southern, it was not until he took over as city manager in April