Volume 20 of Island Journal weaves together variations on the storytelling theme, with articles on Hollywood’s fanciful depictions of Maine island life, the “real” Sal and Jane who inspired Robert McCloskey’s beloved book characters, and Harriet Beecher Stowe’s little-known paintings and sketches of Casco Bay in the mid-1800s. The 2003 edition also contains stories from Swan’s Island, Vinalhaven, North Haven, Newfoundland’s Bell Island, and Tangier Island in Chesapeake Bay.
- Coast to Coast by Nathan Michaud
- Island Son by Bob Moore
- Herring Gut by Steve Cartwright
- The Working Waterfront Turns 10 by David D. Platt
- “Howdja Find New York?” by Lisa Shields
- The Center of the Universe by Edgar Allen Beem
- Island of the Bear Clan by Deborah DuBrule
- Hard Times for the Horse Mackerel by Ben Neal
- Make Way for McCloskeys! by Steve Cartwright
- “Approximately My Idea of Heaven” by Carl Little
- Death, Life and Rising Waters by Brendan Donegan
- Goin’ Down to the Water by Phil Crossman
- Writer as Painter by Randy Purinton
- “TECH” Goes to Chicago by David D. Platt
- The Little Fish That Couldn’t by Naomi Schalit
- The Sickle Bird by Susan Hand Shetterly
- Mines, Murals and Tourists by Nancy Griffin
- Time, Space, Oceans and Climate by David D. Platt and Philip Conkling
- A Serious Eater of Fish by Richard J. King
