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.

Easily, diesel fuel consumption could be over 300,000 gallons per year…

“We have conditions drawing from the hot-water tap more than the cold-water tap.”

—Carla Guenther

Parents and students were often the last to know anything as school plans were adapted…

“The wholesale price for hemp products is about 10 or 15 percent of what it was last year.”
—Ben Edwards

As I quickly learned on Monhegan, two weeks in the summer is only a small part of the full picture of island life.

In the August issue, we ran a photo of the U.S. Coast Guard vessel Cowslip calling at Monhegan Island. Reader Dick de Grasse of Islesboro writes:

Obviously, returning to traditional life-ways doesn’t pay the way tourist industry jobs do…