We are inexorably drawn to water. We embrace a quiet swim in a remote pond on a hot summer afternoon, revel in a dive into a pool. A soak in a hot tub or even a hot shower on a chilly morning can be sublime, and a winter’s walk on a sandy ocean beach or sitting beside a roaring steam…

If you’ve had the opportunity to fly in a four-seater Cessna from Owls Head to the island of Matinicus on Penobscot Island Air, like I did last month, you’ll know…

Living on one of Maine’s 15 unbridged islands brings challenges which inspired Isle au Haut to create its own try-before-you-buy affordable housing program in the 1990s, and it’s still paying…

It was April 2017. I had been a parent for almost three years, and I was treating myself to a solo birthday trip to New York City. I slept, luxuriously,…

A sea wall’s mobility is easier to visualize in areas where there is no road to impede it, such as West Pond on the west side of Schoodic Point, or between Ship Harbor and Wonderland on MDI, where waves during the January 2024 storms carried rocks...

The plan by a California land developer to convert the former shipyard at Cushing’s Point where Liberty ships were built during World War II into a 30-acre “mixed-use neighborhood” including…

Speaking at the state’s top lobster-landing port, Charlie Colgan had a harsh prognosis for the fishery. But he also offered hope for a future for the community in which it…

As a painter of light, Dewey explains, watercolor is a natural medium. “It is all about light through the transparent layering of color pigments on white paper,” he writes.

Name: Phoebe Walsh Title: Community development officer in the Institute’s Center for Marine Economy Focus: I contribute to Island Institute's efforts to reduce emissions in our marine industries, with a…

Scattered across the coast of Maine are the remnants of a network of federal buildings that were once the center for documenting maritime commerce. The activities of custom houses included…