News of Maine's Coast and Islands
News and views on the places we cover: Maine's island and remote coastal communities.
“It ended up becoming, for me, a rediscovery of Hancock County history.”
Tom Groening
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We were greeted by the cheers and waves of most of the rest of North Haven EMS…
Courtney Naliboff
Stevie Robbins … moved in big spaces, not only the windswept offshore realm where he worked, but also in the scope of his emotions and connections.
The ocean is the best therapy, the most powerful place for expression of the human spirit.
The birds are leaving, but many seasonal residents are not. I’m glad.
Barbara Fernald
“For a long time, she didn’t like me making eye contact with her. She’d turn away.”
Our responsibility is not to confront the rest of the world, but to confront ourselves.
Story and Photos by Jack Sullivan
When power boats supplanted sailboats, the argument could be made that mariners were free of the reliance on the vagaries of the wind.
Jack Sullivan
I learned that my childhood had been part of a grand experiment.