The witty and colorful Linda Greenlaw was the featured attraction that night, but a pall hung over the Maine Maritime Academy campus on the evening of Wednesday, Oct. 21.

My love of John Denver's music began before I can even remember. When I was very young, my father would retire to the living room after supper and play John Denver records while he worked in his chair.

When I said I was going to write about apples Kaitlyn’s eyes lit up. “I love picking apples on the island. It’s one of my most favorite things to do! Getting outside in the fall sun, picking with a view of the water, it’s the best.

Old island apple trees, along with their counterparts on the mainland, have outdone themselves this year.

After our set, DJ Katnip resumed her position, now dressed in an incredible leotard, and we danced ’til the wee-ish hour of 11 p.m.

Sen Angus King predicted that in the next 5-10 years, and "maybe even sooner," dramatic climate changes would come. "People just can't deny it anymore," he said, and so bold moves away from carbon-based energy would have to follow.

Fall foliage and boats don't seem to go in hand in hand, but in Portland, the best way to see the season's colors is to cruise around Casco Bay's islands.

Phil Crossman has a new book out called Observations: A Maine Island, a Century of Newsletters and the Stories Found Between the Lines.

It was just a camp built by boys, because that is what we were back in 1959—boys in search of adventure where Brandy Brook empties its copper colored water into Carver’s Pond, an estuary of Vinalhaven’s main harbor.