The Island’s True Child

The last present under our Christmas tree was the late Dorothy Simpson’s book The Island’s True Child sent by a friend from the island where we summer and where, from about 1907 to 1944, Dot Simpson had grown up. When our house was quiet again, I began to read her memoirs of a childhood on

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Through Mapping, Students Explore Their Island

On Dec. 1, Peaks Island Elementary School celebrated the end of a semester-long mapping unit with an evening exhibition of student work. Teachers Wendy Litchfield and Roberta Deane designed a creative mapping unit for their third, fourth, and fifth grade students last fall. The goal was to increase students’ knowledge of Peaks Island’s natural environment

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Students Share Groundwater Research Results with Vinalhaven Community

Communities around the world, as well as small island communities, share one universal need and growing concern – the health and future availability of their water resources. With burgeoning population growth, land development, changing weather patterns and increased possibilities of contamination in one form or another, communities are waking up to the fact that their

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