The September issue kept me clipping: “Sewing group celebrates 150th” to send to friends as an inspiration for their church groups; “Growing food on granite,” with the Dominique chicken, for a friend who raises chickens near San Francisco; the story about the beehive art collective in Machias for when I visit there again; and, finally
The Best of Bert and I: Celebrating 50 years of Stories from Down East
Islandport Press brings back popular humorists In the annals of Maine humor, no one can ever replace Marshall Dodge or his fellow-collaborator Robert Bryan. Although both native New Yorkers, starting in the early 1950’s, they personified both the coastal and inland “Mainer” with perfect balance of wit, timing, and accent. In the 1960’s, Bryan turned
Fisherman’s Bend
Greenlaw’s latest sea tale a little leaky Let’s face it. There are plenty of us who want to read anything Linda Greenlaw decides to write. A friend of this reviewer-an outdoorsy radical terrain ski guy, who’s read all Greenlaw’s books-confessed that he had even read her cookbook and he likely has zero interest in cooking.
A big year at the Port of Easport
The Port of Eastport is alive and well and on track to set a new export tonnage record, according to port director Chris Gardner. “We appear to be heading for a record year,” Gardner says. “We should break the 400,000 [metric] tons mark, and in fact I expect us to be on the healthy side
Chair made out of trap stock catches tourists, lobstermen
Lobsterman Tom Bernardi, like a lot of us, bought those cheap plastic chairs for sale at big box stores. Trouble was, the wind on Matinicus blew them right off the wharf where he lives. “You have to go down and fetch ’em in the weeds and rocks,” said Bernardi, 43, a Waldoboro native working as
Donors, foundations insure future of island fellowships
A named Island Fellows endowment is one that ensures, through the generous support of an individual donor or a foundation, the perpetuity of one of the Island Institute’s most visible and valued resources to island and working-waterfront communities. To date, the Institute has successfully completed four named Island Fellows endowments: The William Bingham Fellow for
Asticou’s Island Domain: Wabanaki Peoples at Mound Desert Island 1500-2000
A remarkable survey of Wabanaki history It is sad but true that reliable accounts of who was native to Maine’s coastal region, their way of life, and how they struggled to survive in the face of the invasion and eventual takeover of their homeland by Europeans are extremely hard to come by. Therefore, the appearance
Monhegan latest island to consider wind power
It’s Monhegan’s turn. Vinalhaven and North Haven approved a wind power project this summer. Swan’s Island and Frenchboro are in the second year of a study to figure out if wind power makes sense from them. Now the Monhegan Plantation Power District is exploring the possibility of using wind power for the island’s electric needs,
Portland City Council to vote on fate of proposed Diamond Cove inn
Island energy costs are a microcosm of Maine
In the event that it might have escaped your notice, the Public Utility Commission recently approved an emergency rate increase for the Monhegan Power Company to 70 cents per kilowatt-hour-up from 55 cents per kilowatt-hour. Since islanders use an estimated average of 15-17 kilowatt hours per day, this translates to an electric bill of between