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  • Sitting on the dock of the thorofare
    May 30

    Fresh recruits take on first-responder charge

    Ten is an enormous number for anything on North Haven.

    Courtney Naliboff

    Media

  • Grytviken, population 18.
    May 30

    Islands of the South Atlantic tell stories of people, nature

    Strung between Antarctica and the Equator, a thin chain of islands in the South Atlantic Ocean lies almost abandoned by commerce. Once valued for whaling or as stopping points on the way to the capes at the tip of Africa and South America, these islands exist mostly in the minds of history buffs

    Media

  • Kitchen matches ain't what they used to be.
    May 30

    Matches, the half-life of cake, and other kitchen observations

    There is so little fuel on them that the gas burner, emitting a little puff of gas, can extinguish one before the gas ignites…

    Sandy Oliver

    Media

  • Graph showing shad landings.
    May 26

    Signs of spring in our rivers and bays

    The populations of river-run fish started decreasing dramatically in Maine as long ago as the early 1800s.

    Media

  • In the Great Green Room book jacket
    May 26

    Moons, little islands, big names and tragedy

    Margaret Wise Brown herself is an iconic figure. Beginning in the 1930s she brought an entirely new perspective—that of the young reader or listener—to the writing and publishing of books for children. Good Night Moon—just one example among many...

    David Platt

    Media

  • Son of a Gun, Vinalhaven
    May 26

    Confronting a simple truth, a word at a time

    When it was revealed to me that one of the three old men I’d passed was, in fact, Scottie…

    Phil Crossman

    Media

  • A house at Hancock Point.
    May 23

    Nothing simple about four walls and a roof

    Those who own houses they don’t occupy and then rent by the week or month make a lot of money…

    Staff Writer

    Media

  • Eastport's business district.
    May 23

    Directing community theater in Eastport invigorates

    I didn’t expect to be working on two plays simultaneously, but working with such dedicated actors and crew has been invigorating.

    Naphtali Fields

    Media

  • Natives greet settlers.
    May 23

    The tragic mistake made by Maine’s first European colony

    Native protocol would have required the colony's leader, Sir George Popham, to visit Bashaba at his headquarters…

    Media

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