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  • Swan's Island students on the deck of the State of Maine with their boat, Black Rock.
    June 19

    Swan’s Island students drift from Maine to Europe

    Educational Passages provides schools, for a cost, with 5-foot-long plexiglass boats that are equipped with GPS tracking devices. The boats are launched along the East Coast and most of the time, they are carried by the Gulf Stream and North Atlantic Drift currents to Europe.

    Tom Groening

    Media

  • Hope Rowan in Acadia National Park
    June 19

    Children’s guide book offers fresh vision of Acadia

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

    By Hope Rowan/Art by Jada Fitch

    Published by Islandport Press, 2017

    Laurie Schreiber

    Media

  • A Winter Apprentic
    June 19

    Memoir is a rumination on doing good work

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

    Dana Wilde

    Media

  • The needle and the damage done.
    June 19

    Thoughts at my son’s gravesite

    Did you give the slightest thought to the possibility that what you were doing could lead to bringing down a hell on earth of pain and suffering on yourself and those who loved you?

    Staff Writer

    Media

  • Anna Miller aboard the Ladona.
    June 16

    Below decks with a schooner chef

    While she is serving breakfast, she gets lunch started and when she’s serving lunch, she has mid-afternoon snacks and dinner underway.

    Stephanie Bouchard

    Media

  • The panel discussed the challenges facing Maine's tourism industry.
    June 16

    Coastal tourism businesses brace for worker shortage

    As summer arrives, there’s worry in the tourism industry—not about seeing enough customers, but about having enough staff.

    Tom Groening

    Media

  • Joe McBrine with his carving work.
    June 16

    Joe McBrine, the wood-carving warden

    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...

    Laurie Schreiber

    Media

  • Ryan Woolsey, left and Kealii Mano in Stonington.
    May 30

    Hawaiians find work and new life in Stonington

    When Ryan Woolsey and Kealii Mano moved from the year-round tropical warmth of Hawaii to Stonington, where they’d experience their first cold winter and snow, they had no regrets. They did have to shop for heavier clothes.

    Laurie Schreiber

    Media

  • Sitting on the dock of the thorofare
    May 30

    Fresh recruits take on first-responder charge

    Ten is an enormous number for anything on North Haven.

    Courtney Naliboff

    Media

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