Volume 19 of Island Journal considers the impact of individual citizens on the relative strength or fragility of Maine’s remote coastal and island communities. The stories range from that of a mainland resident who ensures access by a young fisherman to her waterfront property after her death to the contributions of musicians to an island’s social fabric to a woman who “washed ashore” in Corea and spent the next two decades lobster fishing. The folio of photographs by Kosti Ruohomaa captures a weekend spent by radio producer Philips Lord in his Bartlett’s Island home in 1945.
Contents
- “It’s about the Music…” by Nathan Michaud
- The Spirit of the Grass by Katie Vaux
- Brothers on the Rock by Colin Woodard
- Folio: Bartlett’s Island, 1945 by Deanna Bonner-Ganter
- A Messy Mix by Joan Amory
- A Bowline in the Dark by Steve Cartwright
- Local Knowledge by Naomi Schalit
- The Lobster-catchers by Joe Goldman
- “It Hasteth Away” by Randolph Purinton
- The Long and Curious Career of the CORA F. CRESSEY by Steve Cartwright
- Washing Ashore by Muriel L. Hendrix
- Maps for the Future by Chris Brehme and Nathan Michaud
- Looking Beyond the Obvious by Carl Little
- Tied Up by Ben Neal
- Summer Ice with introduction by Philip Conkling
- The Quoddy Region by Janice Harvey
