Vinalhaven's Joey Reidy wakes from 'nightmare' and tells the tale
VINALHAVEN — In September 2011, Joey Reidy was like many other 18-year-olds around the country—he had just left home for the first time and was starting college, ready to take on the world. However,...
View ArticleBig plans for Blue Hill peninsula's scenic gem
SEDGWICK — So, you’re toodling along the road through Blue Hill and into Sedgwick, along narrowing, uppy-downy byways that will eventually drop you in the Atlantic Ocean. Suddenly, one of the uppies...
View ArticleA life history: Robert Chute's 'Excuse for Being Here'
BOOK REVIEW First, an anecdote. Bear with me, there is a point to this about the book at hand. A reliable source close to my inner circles related to me the following. Recently, upon a time in a...
View ArticleBath, Belfast, Biddeford have buildings on 'endangered list'
A group dedicated to saving Maine's historic public structures has issued its annual list of threatened properties, which includes three coastal communities. Maine Preservation, a statewide, membership...
View ArticleBuilding it by hand: Memoir of a house a wide-ranging exploration
The House With Sixteen Handmade Doors: A Tale of Architectural Choice and Craftsmanship By Henry Petroski With photographs by Catherine Petroski New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2014 Hardcover, 297...
View ArticleIsland life seeps into Judy Weber's poems
MONHEGAN PLANTATION — It's a cliché fantasy we've all heard, maybe even indulged in ourselves—move to an island year-round, soak up the rhythm of the seasons, the quiet, the isolation, and write the...
View ArticleDowneast jam: Making music a way to bond in new community
Gathering places in rural communities have always fascinated me. I can recall a few when I was growing up in Virginia, one of which was the general store where my great uncle Rolie would gather...
View ArticleMonhegan in image and verse
Monhegan Come Again by Richard C. Moore, with foreword by Earle G. Shettleworth, Jr. Pawtuckaway Publishers, 2014. 96 pp. Softbound, $29.95 Island Voices II, Poetry of Monhegan Kennebunk: Stone Island...
View ArticleKing tide's reign portends watery future
The Gulf of Maine King Tides project seeks to help residents of Maine, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, New Brunswick and Nova Scotia understand what rising sea levels will do to shorefront communities....
View ArticleIsland Institute, by the numbers
A recent survey of our readers revealed that many of you wonder just what it is that the Island Institute does (besides publishing The Working Waterfront newspaper, that is). For all of us on staff...
View ArticleIsland Naturalist: The fascinating facts of nature on the Maine coast
Island Naturalist by Kathie Fiveash Penobscot Books, Stonington, Maine, 2014. 226 pages, paperback, $27.95. Kathie Fiveash's new book, Island Naturalist, collects together about 70 entries from her...
View ArticleLETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Unfortunate title To the editor: The excellent article "A sentinel of ocean health, humpback whale numbers grow (The Working Waterfront, Dec./Jan.)" was given an unfortunate title. That growth is more...
View ArticleNo need for selfies: Photographer captures islanders in 'We Are Swan's...
SWAN'S ISLAND — Whether it's a wedding, reunion or holiday celebration, photographers often struggle to get all the key family members in their shots. Imagine how hard it was for Miranda Battiste to...
View ArticleSmall-world routine documented for bigger world
Ian Watkins is an Island Fellow, a participant in a two-year service program operated by AmeriCorps and the Island Institute, doing community development work on islands and remote coastal communities....
View ArticleColor up the end of winter with funk at the Farnsworth
ROCKLAND — On Saturday, March 14, the Farnsworth Art Museum's membership group, known as [Collective], will host its 4th annual BASH. This year's BASH will feature the Brooklyn, N.Y.-based Baghra Funk...
View ArticleGot a story? 'Salted Tales' event seeks story tellers
Hey there, sailor! Got a story to tell? The Penobscot Marine Museum in Searsport and The Colonial Theatre in Belfast are teaming up to host "Salted Tales: stories from the sea told live" on Sunday...
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