Nine years ago, a man who had no background or any interest in creating art became an artist. Swimming along the bottom of Wiscasset harbor, 30 feet under water, bottle hunter Rick Carney was hit with an idea that would lead him down an unimagined path.

The first time Aaron Sprague and Karen Roper sat down in a yurt, owned by a friend in Maine, they experienced a deep sense of calm. "It was such a cool space and we thought...'"

This fall, the Frenchboro School studied island history and ecology. As the makeshift social studies and science teacher at the two-student school, I tried to design lessons that would put the kids into the wildness of their island's past.

Over 15,000 miles of often-treacherous coastline were charted with remarkable accuracy...

Islesboro and Isle au Haut have each postponed their annual town meetings.

"It's about the magic of this place, the courage of these fishermen, whom we all love and admire, the last frontiersmen who brave the sea..."

Picture in your mind a cargo ship and an aircraft carrier, one 900-feet and the other 1,200-feet-long and both 20 stories tall, traveling through the ocean only 100 yards away from each other.

I was left with the impression that if something needed to be done, people in the community step up and do it.

I am not a fan of this question. How am I supposed to answer that? If I answer one way, I'm insulting your island. If I answer the other way, I sound like a suck-up.