Sam and Doreen Cabot with their goats and sheep

Island Journal

Making Salt Hay While the Sun Shines

Making Salt Hay While the Sun Shines North Haven lamb, once prized on the Boston market, could be again. Story and photos by Scott Sell After nearly a year, Maya, Issie, and Velma still refuse to be sheep. They have acted like goats since their first days on the farm,… SEE MORE
Gary Allen

Island Journal

The Art of Perpetual Motion

He sets off at a lope, elbows carving wide circles, with a gait that hints at decades of making room in crowded fields of runners. His shoulders are rippled with lean muscle, brown. Over the first few yards, he loosens, straightening, getting imperceptibly faster. Passing the graveyard, he points out… SEE MORE
Kathie Iannicelli in her greenhouse on Monhegan

Island Journal

My Garden in Your Backyard

Monhegan in late January is the antithesis of the island’s summertime buzz of endless work, activities and hordes of day-trippers. The days are short and bitter: the wind surges off the harbor and shakes the spruce and pushes against the house clapboards violently. And at night, with the stars frozen… SEE MORE
Nathaniel Lane

Island Journal

In It For The Long Haul

To many residents and visitors alike, summer on a Maine island means one thing above all others: that most wonderful of culinary and sensory experiences—a Maine lobster dinner—succulent white meat dripping with drawn butter, served near the ocean. While finding the perfect spot to enjoy a lobster, visitors may stroll… SEE MORE