When the mailboat between Isle au Haut and Stonington docks on the mainland, it’s common to see passengers carting away some not-so-precious cargo. A recent island family reunion ended on the mainland with hugs, kisses, and a load of recyclables put into someone’s trunk. It’s the old island rule of physics: anything that goes onto
Museum offers meditations on death, the landscape and a rugged individual
Walk into the Wyeth Center of the Farnsworth Art Museum in Rockland between now and August 26, and you’re in for a bit of a surprise. You won’t think you’re in artist Andy Warhol’s famed “Factory” in New York City per se, but you might forget you’re in small town coastal Maine. A visiting show
Nuts and BoltsChebeague residents build a new town, almost from scratch
Ten town officials need to be elected, 31 town officials hired and approved and over 110 warrant articles voted on-and that’s just to get things started. On July 1 Chebeague Island becomes Maine’s newest town. No one on this island with a year-round population of 350 is moving anywhere, and yet their political future will
World-class garden proposed for Brunswick
Swords into ploughshares: the Brunswick Park and Gardens Project proposes to convert an undeveloped section of the soon-to-be decommissioned Brunswick Naval Air Station into a 500 acre world-class garden. The garden, according to the group’s estimates, would create more than 200 year-round jobs, attract more than a million visitors every year and pump some $30
Bartlett show opens at Archipelago on June 30
Archipelago Fine Arts, the gallery at the Island Institute, will exhibit sketches, studies and oils by James William “Bo” Bartlett III, a Georgia-born artist who paints on Matinicus. The 17 sketches and paintings in the show will be offered for sale. “How did this son of the South find his way to the outer edge
New England is cool to area-based fisheries management
As New England groundfish managers grind slowly into the process of developing a 16th amendment to an already altered and not very successful groundfish management plan, there have been calls to look at very different alternative methods for rebuilding this most iconic and beleaguered of fisheries. The current system relies on limits on “Days at
In the Middle
In the middle of its life, our fish house landed in the middle of the woods. Forty acres of woods. In a big mess of spruce blowdowns, crisscrossed over each other, littered with boulders right to our doorstep. Quite a change from our last front yard on the shore. Well, I guess we’ve got plenty
Boothbay physician launches his second career
Andre Benoit’s patients admire him not just for providing care, but also for painting pictures that are giving the physician a second career. But Dr. Benoit isn’t quitting his day job. The Boothbay Harbor doctor this spring mounted his first major show at Bowdoin College, and he sold several paintings right away at an opening
Biodiesel: The Basics
WHAT IS BIODIESEL? Biodiesel is an alternative to petroleum diesel or “petrodiesel.” It is a renewable fuel made from vegetable oil that can be blended with petrodiesel and used to heat homes or to operate any diesel-powered engine. Biodiesel manufacturers adhere to quality standards, and many engine manufacturers will warranty use of biodiesel up to
Improper
To the editor, This letter is a strong protest against your article fronting the June issue of Working Waterfront (the Island Institute) on the subject of “child abuse.” This article is an exaggeration citing individual incidents with the implication that they are nearly the norm. It is in line with the “media feeding frenzy” on