Boats in a protected anchorage on Grand Manan

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Maritime Canada as Maine’s cousin

By Tom Groening One of my college professors, Louis Simpson, won the Pulitzer Prize for poetry in 1964. He was a wonderful teacher, and I sought out his work, even after graduating. One of his poems from the early 1980s has lingered in my memory. It’s from the perspective of… SEE MORE
A portrait of Nancy Hopkins-Davisson that was featured in the exhibit

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​Three love letters to North Haven

By Courtney Naliboff The sun is dipping down to the horizon earlier and earlier these days, and the air is suddenly cool. Summer, though over, was notably filled with three loving homages to the island, opportunities for us all to pause and marvel at the human ecosystem we occupy. The… SEE MORE
The author and her husband

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Year-round housing makes it or breaks it

By Courtney Naliboff More than a decade ago, my husband Bill and I were at a crossroads. We were renting a gorgeous home on North Haven, but there was a catch—it was a ten-month rental only. Summer residents kindly allowed us to live in it from September to June, but… SEE MORE
An early fall scene in Casco Bay.

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Drought and our estuaries

By Catherine Schmitt According to the U.S. Drought Monitor, about half of Maine is in abnormally dry conditions, with moderate to severe drought along the entire coastline, affecting approximately 1,089,000 people or about 82 percent of the state's population. This is consistent with the pattern of recent years, when drought emerged… SEE MORE