painting and text by Jessica Ives View auction for “Up The Ramp, Monhegan“ On Monday I will take my last day trip to Monhegan for the season. My favorite walking path starts with the first step off the Hardy Boat and bee-lines to White Head via the graveyard, the lighthouse, and trail #7. The mates on the ferry […]

video by Shannon Thompson

photograph by Emily Qualey

photograph by Shannon Thompson

photographs via the coast is clear

photograph by Jim Dugan swim by Jessica Stammen and Shannon Thompson Two years ago Shannon proposed we swim from Lincolnville to Islesboro. With George in a sailboat setting our course, and Jim in a kayak for extra support we accomplished the swim on a miraculously calm morning on Penobscot Bay. In the photo above Shannon […]

text by Phillip Conkling originally posted by The Working Waterfront The ties that bind islanders together are reinforced on a day-to-day basis in hundreds of small ways. An island newspaper does not publish a lot of news in any ordinary sense of the word, since the front page is always given over to the innumerable […]