Nathan Michaud has been appointed Programs Depart-ment Manager at the Island Institute. Michaud grew up in Turner, Maine, and joined the Institute staff in 2001 after completing an Island Institute Fellowship on Vinalhaven in Penobscot Bay. He studied at the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia, and had previously lived on Frenchboro and
Governor to Speak at Access Forum
Maine Gov. John Baldacci will give the keynote speech at a Dec. 17 forum at the Darling Marine Center in Walpole designed to explore solutions to the state’s shrinking access to its working waterfronts. “Working Waterfront Access: A Forum on Challenges and Solutions” will enable communities, fishermen, planners, citizens, water dependent industries and others to
“How Brilliant She Was!” Islesboro’s Ruth Draper had an Uncanny Ability to Impersonate People
Jamie MacMillan, caretaker of Islesboro’s Free Will Baptist Church, was putting the church to bed for the winter when he came across a forgotten box sitting on top of a high bookcase. There wasn’t much in it, but four dusty, 3″ x 4″ glass slides caught his attention. The slides, somewhat crudely hand-lettered with a
The Long View: An Open Letter to Governor Baldacci
Dear Governor, One of the good things about being Governor, especially of a small state like Maine, is all the valuable free advice you get, and I’d like to add to your trove. Several otherwise unconnected events of the past month need to be highlighted in the hope that you will see an important connection
Social Injustice
To the editor: … Amendment 13 to the Multi-species Fisheries Management Plan is a federal level proposal that is intended to end over-fishing and to rebuild several fish stocks to never before witnessed biomass levels. Sure sounds like well-intended outcomes, doesn’t it? But, the real question that remains unanswered is, at what cost? The four
Slow Monkeys and other stories
ISBN 0-88748-379-8 Carnegie Mellon University Press, 2002 $15.95 In 1991, Jim Nichols took a fiction-writing course through the Maine Writers and Publishers Alliance after having had a story published in Esquire magazine. No one in that class imagined it would take him 11 more years to get a book published. We all knew he’d be
The New Legal Sea Foods Cookbook
200 Fresh Simple, and Delicious Recipes from Appetizers to Desserts illustrated by Edward Koren New York, NY: Broadway Books The New Legal Sea Foods Cookbook brings to the table some of the restaurant specialties of the famous Cambridge-based, family-owned chain. The restaurant’s motto is “If it isn’t fresh, it isn’t Legal,” and this emphasis on
Nine-year-old is Islesboro’s youngest lobsterperson
While most girls her age make money babysitting if at all, nine-year-old Lindsay Durkee of Islesboro has chosen another way to earn her spending money. During the island’s fishing season, she hauls a string of 150 lobster traps using her own boat, the LINDSAY D. Lindsay got her start lobstering two years ago while accompanying
Island teachers connect at Belfast conference
A great beginning. Perhaps that’s the best way to describe the 2003 Island Teachers Conference held on Oct. 2-3 at the University of Maine Hutchinson Center in Belfast. Over 80 island educators attended from Chebeague, Cliff, Frenchboro, Isle au Haut, Islesboro, Islesford, Long, Matinicus, Monhegan, North Haven, Peaks, Deer Isle/Stonington and Vinalhaven. They brought with
Former German prisoners visit North Haven
Three Germans landed in North Haven on Sept. 18 to talk about their lives as German soldiers in World War II and then as prisoners of war held in Houlton, Maine. The former POWs, Rudi Richter, Dr. Hans Augustine and Gerhard Kleindt, spent day at the North Haven Community School (NHCS) talking with students and