Estuaries have always been good places to live and have a farm, with rich meadow grass for cattle, floodplain soils, and access to water.

A passion for place is the overarching theme of this engaging book.

“The dad looks out to the harbor and turns back to his wife and hollers, ‘Honey, I think we found the real Maine!’” —Joe Young

Anyone around Little Cranberry Island would say my husband Bruce, a lobster fisherman, has a knack for getting involved in some very interesting media situations. (See “One lobsterman’s 15 minutes of fame” at workingwaterfrontarchives.org.)

Registration is now open for Maine’s Coastweek Coastal Cleanup which begins Saturday, Sept. 15 and runs through Saturday, Sept. 22.

Compared to other animals, salmon are second only to chicken in their efficiency of converting food to protein and calories.

A chance encounter with a Prince Edward Island lobsterman at the gathering led to a trip to the Canadian island province for two high school students...

Whether I was summer people or island people was never clear to me.

By Tom Walsh                                 

If you don’t know much—or even anything at all—about Rachel Carson, here’s your chance.