from Maine Lingo: Boiled Owls, Billdads, & Wazzats by John Gould MAIN, THE: The mainland. Early European fishermen found the offshore islands of Maine, and beyond them the main, which explains the state’s name. James Rosier, official scribe for the George Weymouth expedition of 1605, says as much: “Our captaine discovered up a great river trending alongst into the […]

video by Jim Dugan

photographs and text by Brian Willson Scrambled around this morning to make sure to get to the boat on time. Made it! And within the hour, daughter and I were setting foot on Monhegan Island. A more magical place I’m not sure I’ve ever been to. The usual fall-migration birding hasn’t really taken off yet, […]

painting by Jessica Ives This weekend the Hardy Boat will start running ferry service from New Harbor to Monhegan for the 2015 season. I’ll be one of the first on board, making the trip to drop off paintings at the island’s Lupine Gallery. My husband will be a captain on the boat again this summer. As a freshman in high […]

text by Jonathan Ives My mind races as I sit silently with my hands folded in my lap. All around me in a circle twenty others bow their heads reverently. A violent wind shakes the building, causing me to look out the window. A winter storm hit our area over the weekend and forced me and my […]

 photographs by Jim Dugan Jim Dugan’s Maine Kaleidoscopes are now hanging at Archipelago in Rockland. An artists’ reception is planned for Rockland’s First Friday Art Walk on December 5th. Full information at Archipelago’s website. In a recent issue, Maine Boats, Homes & Harbors writes about Jim’s Kaleidoscopes and his process: “He takes recognizable Maine scenes, then through computer ‘copy-and-paste’ creates […]

Island hopping friends and enjoying the last days of summer: (Photo credit: Anna Wind)

text and haiku by Kristen Lindquist Driving Route One south from Belfast this afternoon, enjoyed the brief, wan sunlight shining on the gray winter waters of the bay and the familiar line-up of islands that I’ve recognized since childhood. Same islands in the bay that as a child I named from my grandmother’s porch.