“Them devil carts are injurious and run over hens and raise up ructions generally.”

—Abiel O. Curtis, 1906

The “Quiet Side” of Mount Desert Island engenders devotion by the people who live there. That’s the case of four Southwest Harbor businessmen who are seeking to enhance the community’s well-being and provide economic stimulus...

Kevin Schneider came in as Acadia’s new superintendent in January, at the start of the park’s centennial year.

If young Bernd was sometimes a reluctant recruit on his father’s collecting expeditions, he came to love the study of nature.

Please send your letters—comments, compliments or complaints—to tgroening@islandinstitute.org with the subject line “LTE,” and try to keep them to no more than 300 words.

Charles Coffin, the hermit, was born in 1894 and died Nov. 15, 1941 at the age of 47.

I’m pretty certain that it was the first Purim parade on North Haven.

Great Cranberry Island’s 40 or so year-round residents know that if roads need to be plowed, trees cut, fields mowed, firewood split, land cleared, wells drilled or anything hauled, they can call Blair Colby.

A few years ago I went to Florida on vacation. I’d never seen a woman in a thong before.