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The Islandport Blog

Oct 27, 20204 min read

The Northwest Wind

By John N. Cole Of all the winds that blow, I like the northwest best. It is rare as a summer wind along this upper corner of the...

Oct 20, 20204 min read

Things that Go Bump (or Howl) in the Night

By Earl Brechlin With ninety percent of the land area covered in forest, Maine is the most heavily forested state in the country. With...

Oct 13, 20204 min read

Tell Me the Landscape

By Glenna Johnson Smith For nearly seven decades the geography of Aroostook County has become a part of me. Now, after reading Dakota: A...

Oct 6, 20204 min read

The Wilderness of Our Childhood

By John Holyoke The stream was narrow. It was shallow. Several times a summer, after we had climbed every tree we could climb, were...

Oct 1, 20204 min read

Peek into The Door to January

The house was a sad thing in the daylight. It sat on a hilltop, a sagging pile of weathered clapboards and crumbling brick...

Sep 29, 20206 min read

There Hain't No Deer

By Dean Bennett Every year the mill shut down for a reason that most have forgotten, or never knew. Of the few that have heard of it,...

Sep 23, 20203 min read

Maine in September

By John N. Cole I am no longer sailing the same waters I did as a fisherman more than a decade ago, but much of the same exuberance I...

Aug 31, 20207 min read

And Then We Said Goodbye

An Excerpt from Hauling by Hand: The Life and Times of a Maine Island by Dean L. Lunt I don't know when my grandmother forgot who I...

Jun 9, 20203 min read

Writing Maine History: Every Day of the Year

What a perfect use, I thought, for the menagerie of random information about Maine that had been milling around in my brain