The grants are financed by the marine economy and jobs bond approved by voters in 2014.

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

The press coverage of the event did not capture the sense of diplomacy I experienced.

The south winds, raging as high as 60 mph, that swept over the state on Oct. 30, left more Mainers without electricity than ever before, according to both Central Maine Power and Emera Maine, the utility transmission companies that deliver power to much of the state.

Two new cookbooks from Midcoast chefs—Full Moon Suppers at Salt Water Farm in Lincolnville by Annemarie Ahearn and The Lost Kitchen: Recipes and a Good Life Found in Freedom, Maine by Erin French—suggest that our rugged, salt-hued terroir

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.