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Table of Contents – 1999 Island Journal – Volume 16
Dedication — page 4
Log of RAVEN — page 5
A Beneficent Magic
Drama, the Fox Islands and John Wulp
By Philip W Conkling
Photographs by Bridget Besaw Gorman — page 6
The Mr. Wulp Effect
By Karen Roberts Jackson — page 12
“Something Different To Look At”
Street theater comes to Vinalhaven
By Mike Gorman — page 14
The Dream Keeper
Ashley Bryan of Little Cranberry Island
By Susan Hand Shetterly
Photographs by Bridget Besaw Gorman — page 19
FOLIO
A Siren Call
For John Fowles, islands are the most powerful metaphor of all
Excerpts by John Fowles
Photographs by Peter Ralston — page 24
Boats and Hoops
Why do the fastest lobster boats and the finest basketball players come from the same island?
By Sandra Dinsmore — page 32
Running Together
Aquaculture transforms an island community
By K.J Vaux
Photographs by Heather D. Hay — page 36
Hard Times, Good Times and the Seat of the Pants
Nine Decades on Chebeague
By Donna Miller Damon — page 42
Evicted
How the State of Maine destroyed a “different” island community
By Deborah DuBrule — page 48
The Land Called Nunavut
A Journey Across Baffin Island
By Dylan, Tristan and Hope Jackson — page 54
The Defense that Failed
Had Ann Brown’s murderer been tried 30 years later, the verdict might have been different.
By Randy Purinton
Illustration by Siri Beckman — page 60
A Fitting Destruction
The Whaling Station at Hawke Harbour, Labrador
By John Bockstoce
Photographs fry Nicholas Whitman — page 65
The Great Lobster Collaboration
Layer by Layer, Penobscot Bay reveals itself
By Philip W Conkling — page 68
A Certain Obscurity
Swan’s Island informs the poetry
of Donald Junkins — page 76
Removing Time and Distance
As Maine’s year-round islands launch themselves into cyberspace, there’s much to gain and lose – and plenty of uncertainty.
By Brian Willson
Illustration by Robert Shetterly — page 80
Frenchboro at War, 1941-1945
By Dean Lunt — page 84
Salt Water Windows
The stained glass creations of Janet Redfield — page 88
Reviews — page 94
Acadia: Visions and Verse
The Publications of the Islesford Historical Society
By Carl Little
