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March 28
Rebecca Goodale, Arlene Morris ‘build’ a clam shack
Art book recreates historic building on Brunswick shore
Goodale and Morris invite the reader to assemble the panels “to create a specific place during this climate crisis.” The panels can be arranged, they note, “to suit [the reader’s] aesthetic preferences..."
March 28
Jeff Frank and the ‘Future of Fishing’
Name: Jeff Frank Title: Senior community development officer in Island Institute’s Center for Marine Economy Focus: I lead the business support work for the Future of Fishing program. This initiative…
March 28
Our social insurance has maritime origins
U.S. government cared for merchant seamen
Social welfare programs are subject to frequent criticism on the national and local levels and are usually associated with numerous 1930s policies enacted to respond to social hardships highlighted by…
March 28
The magic of municipal planning
It may be mysterious to some, but essential to community
I remind myself that I’m lucky to have a wealth of information available to me. I can find planning board minutes from 2017 on the town of St. George website. I can instantly generate a map of car accidents in town over the past 20 years...
March 28
How nature steps up when waves get rough
Nature-based solutions for Maine’s varied coast
There are thousands of examples from around the world, but what practitioners have found works best to show landowners the benefits of nature-based solutions is social proof—a project in your neighbor’s yard.
March 28
Those with eyes to see
Repaired eye invokes a sense of wonder
Imagine emerging from a modest cataract (left eye) removal procedure and discovering, for the first time in 81 years, that you could see, from that eye only, admittedly, but still—you…
March 28
A letter from an island in winter
Cold weather is starting to retreat—finally
Dear friend—How was your winter? It wasn’t too bad staying here on the island, but February was kind of rough. Days and days of temperatures below 20 degrees and a…
March 28
Seasonal eating as an extreme sport
Tasty local vegetables fill a table for a year
As an experiment one year, I vowed not to buy, cook, or eat any out-of-season vegetables. No eggplant in December. No asparagus in January. No broccoli in March. Sort of…
March 28
What sports should be
Reluctant basketball fan is converted
Over my two decades at North Haven Community School, I've developed a fondness for basketball. Not televised basketball (although I, too, was swept up in the women's NCAA excitement last…
March 27
Writing prompts personal revelations
Collection of Maine-based essays a pleasing read
The works in Alive To This: Essays on Living Fully by 20 Maine Writers are not analytical about our world, necessarily, but are, rather, personal explorations and reflections, and sometimes are revelatory in where they land.
Island Postcards
EPISODE 10: Keep the Light Shining
Two ambitious young women swam around the entire Island of Isle au Haut during the summer of 2019 to raise money for crucial renovations to the lighthouse.
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