A letter recently landed on my desk from a reader of The Working Waterfront.

A reexamination leads one to conclude that title to Maine’s intertidal lands is held by the state in trust for the public…

After a little nap during the ferry ride, we drove off on the island side, drove around behaving badly…

By design, Caught, with text by by Glen Libby and photos by Antonia Small, is a book you can keep on your coffee table both for casual browsing and for burnishing your progressive cool. But you might want to look in deeper.

He was obliged to scour ship chandleries up and down the coast for scarce fittings…

I thought about what it must have felt like when electricity first became available on the islands.

I wrote some letters and notes by hand and put actual stamps on them; very pleasant.

As I’m writing this column, the sky is monochromatic and flat.