“Dominion” is the translation of the Hebrew word radah, whose literal meaning is to tread down, or dominate…

One afternoon, I was reclined and exposing more pale Vinalhaven epidermis to the Mediterranean sun…

Each meeting has a keynote topic for which knowledgeable panelists are invited from within and without island communities.

All those hotel rooms and restaurants beg the question: how many is too many?

You could rewrite these sentences remembering the 1960s and early ’70s. Will I contract a draft notice this week? Will my brother, uncle, or cousins?

Common sense tells us that the more time one spends experiencing a place, the better one would understand its character, but impressions can be distorted...

The good news: I see people being vulnerable and relying on others out of necessity. When you are faced with a complex problem or a series of related problems, it requires thinking from across many domains of expertise. Within days of acknowledging the local impacts of the pandemic, towns began meeting in new ways that cut across all services. School leaders, healthcare officials, town managers, and transportation providers are meeting weekly to trouble shoot new challenges.

Consider the extremes of how islands are portrayed in literature, film, and on TV. The island setting often is used to show how the very best of community values can thrive, or how the very worst of human nature can fester.

On March 6, the Island Institute began reprioritizing work as the impacts of the pandemic grew locally.