Island Journal

Vinalhaven’s Investment

Vinalhaven’s Investment Town hired manager with scant experience, and has no regrets. Story by Tom Groening Photos by Scott Sell For an island community that’s a 75-minute ferry ride away from the mainland, Vinalhaven has been fortunate to have had two very successful long-term town managers, says Emily Lane, a… SEE MORE

Island Journal

A Tale to Tell

A Tale to Tell Phippsburg’s Eugene Atwood faced three near-death experiences on the water. Eugene Atwood with his “sandals” He’s known around the peninsula below Bath as Captain Bullhead. The stubborn will the nickname implies may have saved his life. Now 75, Eugene Atwood survived three serious threats to… SEE MORE

Profiles

man working on building bottom of wooden boat

Island Journal

The Highliner’s Choice

The Highliner’s Choice Peter Kass boats are the Rolls-Royces of the lobster fleet. By Laurie Schreiber Photos by Michael O’Neil For a fisherman—on the water daily, subject to the vagaries of weather—a boat is the thin membrane between life and death. Aesthetics in a fishing boat aren’t the most important… SEE MORE

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The Island Mechanic

The Island Mechanic The median age of Maine islanders is far above the national average. As for the median age of most Maine island cars, well . . . it’s a good thing the odometers on many of them stopped working long ago. Take Chebeague Island, for instance, home… SEE MORE

Profiles

Island Journal

The Art of Perpetual Motion

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… SEE MORE

Chellie Pingree talks with North Haven boatyard owner Foy Brown, 1996.

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What I Take With Me

What I Take With Me When I moved to North Haven, I thought I was moving away from politics. In 1971, I was just out of high school, a veteran of protest marches in a country divided by disputes over the war in Vietnam. That summer, I went to visit… SEE MORE