Island Journal

Making It Here: The Island Artist

Making It Here: The Island Artist Islesford potter Kaitlyn Duggan embraces both business and creativity. By TINA COHEN Kaitlyn Duggan sees her life on Little Cranberry Island, also known as Islesford, as a seamless proposition. In exchange for the challenges of living and running a business on an island, she… SEE MORE

waterfalls and pointy mountain in Iceland

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Fire & Ice

Fire & Ice Iceland’s Stark Beauty Found Outside Reykjavík on Ring Road PHOTOS AND STORY BY JLYNN FRAZIER Maine’s connections to the North Atlantic island nation of Iceland are stronger than you might think. Eimskip—Iceland’s oldest shipping company, which operates around the globe—is based in Reykjavík. Portland is Eimskip’s only… SEE MORE

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Folio: Katie Johnson

Folio: Katie Johnson Picturing Home These images, all shot on Long Island in Casco Bay, are without a doubt my favorite collection of work, and closest to my heart. It is important to me to provide a visual explanation of, and connection to, the place where I grew up. I… SEE MORE

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Folio: David Vickery

Folio: David Vickery The Poetry of Place The painter David Vickery explores space: outdoor, indoor, around, above, across, beyond. He is equally expert at representing the parlor and the panorama, the intimate and the out there. Vickery also loves light. There is a remarkable array on display here, from the… SEE MORE

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The Alluring and Enduring Maine Coast

The Alluring and Enduring Maine Coast Historic images from the Penobscot Marine Museum By Lisa Mossel Vietze The Penobscot Marine Museum’s photographic collection is vast — overwhelmingly vast . . . . . . Lucky for me, I had the privilege of working with Kevin Johnson, the museum’s photo archivist,… SEE MORE

story sky and sea as seen from a fishing boat

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Joel Woods: Fisherman & Photographer

Joel Woods Fisherman // Photographer My goal is not to make photography a career. Very simply put, I am a fisherman, a working man who has learned to use a camera to capture the world as he sees it. I have spent most of my life bobbing around the North… SEE MORE

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Islesford’s Creative Economy

The Cranberry Isles consist of five islands that, in the words of the historian Ted Spurling, “fit into the Great Harbor of Mount Desert Island, nestling nicely under its shorter arm.” They are, from largest to smallest, Great Cranberry, Little Cranberry (also called Islesford), Sutton, Baker and Bear. The islands… SEE MORE