If there were any doubt about the role schools play in island life, they were set to rest by the ceremony marking the reopening of the Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Elementary School on Great Cranberry Island. About 200 people from Great Cranberry and neighboring Islesford (Little Cranberry Island) showed up...
As editor and publisher Edward French chats with me about the paper’s history and role at its office on the Eastport waterfront, he glances out the window, from which we can see the city’s fishing pier, Canada’s Campobello Island and—at this moment—a whale breaching.
For students at Harpswell Coastal Academy, it’s all digital, all the time. From filming interviews with fishermen and their families, to editing and recording soundtracks, students...
The bronze plaque attached to a large granite boulder lists the names of 56 men, women and children who were connected to Chebeague and lost their lives in marine related events dating back to 1805.
The Eastern Illustrating collection is now housed at Penobscot Marine Museum, where photo archivist Kevin Johnson oversees the preservation and digitization of that collection, along with several other photographic collections.
Obadiah Buell grew up on an abandoned industrial granite quarry dating back to the 1800s.
Surrounded by massive stone blocks and the clear waters of granite pools, Buell has had a passion for granite—both for its utilitarian nature and sculptural qualities—since he was a child.