There is no quick fix and it’s going to be hard, but the economy will come back stronger…

I struggled … while watching money flow out of poorly insulated lobster holding tanks…

I conducted interviews in three communities that were responding, from my vantage point, effectively...

Seventeen houses. I don’t feel our list of “needs” was unusual for first-time homebuyers. Yet, in March and April of last year, my husband and I trudged through the snow and mud in 17 dooryards to finally find the home that would become ours.

We have learned that if a community is unwelcoming it may not matter how much effort goes into solving other problems…

The good news: I see people being vulnerable and relying on others out of necessity. When you are faced with a complex problem or a series of related problems, it requires thinking from across many domains of expertise. Within days of acknowledging the local impacts of the pandemic, towns began meeting in new ways that cut across all services. School leaders, healthcare officials, town managers, and transportation providers are meeting weekly to trouble shoot new challenges.

On March 6, the Island Institute began reprioritizing work as the impacts of the pandemic grew locally.

Island and coastal communities, and the people who care about them near and far, must pull together right now.

People may capture their truth in abstract or realist watercolors…