The book's main narrative turns on daily life in the shop, which comes through vividly in descriptions of the boatyard…

Finkel concludes that Knight experienced regular, prolonged surges of adrenaline, a hormone meant to last short periods…

Ten Days in Acadia: A Kids’ Hiking Guide to Mount Desert Island

By Hope Rowan/Art by Jada Fitch

Published by Islandport Press, 2017

McBrine has a dozen carvings in process in his East Machias home shop, all featuring exquisite detail, in his basement workshop. That includes birds and fish—cod, alewives, brown trout, brook trout, bluegill...

Margaret Wise Brown herself is an iconic figure. Beginning in the 1930s she brought an entirely new perspective—that of the young reader or listener—to the writing and publishing of books for children. Good Night Moon—just one example among many...

I didn’t expect to be working on two plays simultaneously, but working with such dedicated actors and crew has been invigorating.

As a black man on a largely white coast, and as an artist, not a fisherman, he became a central part of his island community…

In Maine, April is a flirt, flashing a warm, beckoning smile one day, and spitting snow the next.

Megan Grumbling’s Booker’s Point is a remarkable homage in verse to one Bernard A. Booker, 1922-2008, the “unofficial mayor of Ell Pond, Maine, and finder of gold in quartz.”