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  • Bruce Fernald's Barbara Ann unloads.
    August 22

    When chefs and lobstermen meet, live

    Anyone around Little Cranberry Island would say my husband Bruce, a lobster fisherman, has a knack for getting involved in some very interesting media situations. (See “One lobsterman’s 15 minutes of fame” at workingwaterfrontarchives.org.)

    Barbara Fernald

    Media

  • Smokestacks
    August 22

    Put a price on what’s poisoning our atmosphere

    It would raise the rewards for energy-saving innovations, such as improvements in solar and wind power and electric cars…

    Media

  • Millinocket
    August 15

    Islands in the woods, islands in the water

    The natural resource-based economies of the past are adapting to new populations…

    Media

  • Hispanic children learn about fishing
    August 15

    How Trump administration’s immigration policies are hurting Maine

    The administration is radically reducing legal immigration in many ways, including drastic cuts in refugee resettlement and the travel ban. Maine only resettled 21 refugees during the six-month period between October and March, compared to 229 in the same period one year ago

    Media

  • Dock jumping is a favorite summer activity on Long Island.
    July 24

    Why Long Island seceded from Portland

    Setting up a new town was not cheap...

    Media

  • House, tree and shadows
    July 24

    One more from the road

    I got the van warmed up and all the temperature and fan controls just the way I wanted them.

    Phil Crossman

    Media

  • The Home Stretch by Michael Campagnoli
    July 24

    Campagnoli’s Home Stretch is Midcoast lyric gothic

    This is a book you can read and re-read and never reach bottom.

    Dana Wilde

    Media

  • Bailey Island scenic
    July 18

    Mythic summers on Bailey Island

    Whether I was summer people or island people was never clear to me.

    Dana Wilde

    Media

  • Rachel Carson: Silent Spring and other writings
    July 18

    Reading the ‘priestess of nature’ who took on the ‘elixirs of death’

    By Tom Walsh                                 

    If you don’t know much—or even anything at all—about Rachel Carson, here’s your chance.

    Media

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