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Table of Contents – 2001 Island Journal – Volume 18
From the Helm
Re-inventing ourselves — page 4
Island Fellows join the lives of eight communities — page 6
Keeping track of the wondrous machine
To know what’s out there in the Gulf of Maine, we’ve got to measure it (literally)
By Benjamin Neal — page 12
Ten ticks to the hogshead
As inshore herring schools decline, a fishing technology from neolithic times faces extinction too
By Naomi Schalit — page 20
In the lair of the ice king
Open water in the high Arctic carries a message for the rest of the world
By Philip Conkling — page 26
High flight, common sense
In 1925, Maine explorer Donald MacMillan provided a critical platform for pioneering experiments in aviation and radio
By David D. Platt — page 34
Under the line
For both Patriots and Tories in the Penobscot region, the American Revolution meant great suffering
By Randy Purinton — page 43
Folio:
Mirrors of inner lives
Islands have inspired, challenged and instructed two generations of Wyeths
Introduction by Philip Conkling — page 48
Free Willy-eat or be eaten?
In Iceland, cultures clash over whales
By Colin Woodard — page 62
In the pink
A researcher learns just what (and how much) herring gulls eat
By Wing Goodale — page 70
From deep time
What do Machias Bay’s rock carvings tell us?
By Bonnie L. Mowery-Oldham — page 76
Story in stitches
A remarkable quilt recalls a method of fishing now gone by
By Muriel L. Hendrix — page 83
Fox Islanders go rowing
Students and their teachers build boats, community and character
By Bruce Halibisky — page 88
Sacred space
Long removed, one family leaves its mark
By Tina Cohen
