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We are excited to announce that Islandport Press and Books-A-Million are collaborating on the Wicked Good Book Club, which aims to...
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Piper
Dec 24, 20238 min read
Christmas on Naskeag Point
In most of the country, about Thanksgiving Day, the first vagrant airs of approaching Christmas ..
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Dean Lunt
Dec 19, 20236 min read
A Maine Island Christmas
By Dean L. Lunt In the 1970s, Frenchboro remained a relatively poor island fishing village eight miles at sea that, given the era's...
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Piper
Oct 13, 20222 min read
Rockefeller Recounts Her Spirited Journey from Appalachia to Maine
Le Mans, West Virginia, Michigan all stops on a wild ride from barefoot to boardroom. Yarmouth, Maine (Oct. 11, 2022)—In a new memoir,...
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Piper
Oct 12, 20224 min read
Autumn Comes to Grand Lake Stream
A great many roads surrounding Grand Lake Stream are best negotiated in first gear.
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Piper
Jun 9, 20222 min read
Marpheen Chann to Celebrate Release of Memoir in Portland
Marpheen Chann will celebrate the release of his memoir, Moon in Full, on June 15 at Rising Tide Brewing Company in Portland.
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Piper
May 31, 20223 min read
Strange Acadia
From Wild! Weird! Wonderful! Maine. by Earl Brechlin Acadia National Park sprawls across nearly fifty thousand acres on Mount Desert...
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Piper
May 31, 20226 min read
Start at the Low Point
An excerpt from Blue Summer by Jim Nichols Tampa, 1995 We’ll start at that low point: a trailer park in Tampa, Florida. It’s early in the...
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Piper
May 11, 20222 min read
Two Islandport Press Novels win IPPY Awards
Silence and Blue Summer, two Islandport Press novels set in Maine, have both won gold in their categories at the 2022 IPPY Awards.
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Piper
May 3, 20222 min read
A Modern Day Tale of Growing Up, Coming Out, and Fitting In
Marpheen Chann’s memoir Moon in Full, a contemporary coming-of-age story, is slated for release on June 21
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Piper
Apr 25, 20224 min read
Solitude at Camp
From Evergreens by John Holyoke For years, “camp” has existed as a strictly seasonal retreat, with all the attendant perks, anda few...
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hannah6290
Dec 1, 20213 min read
Satan in the Woods & the Deep Blue Sea
By Earl Brechlin Like much of Puritan New England, Maine has always held a fascination with the devil. There was no better way to ward...
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Dean Lunt
Dec 1, 20215 min read
Dueling Americas
By Phuc Tran America. Patriots. Refugees. Immigrants. Citizens. Love it. Leave it. Go back to your country. There is tension in my family...
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Piper
Sep 26, 20212 min read
Fourth Moore Novel Reissued by Islandport
Ruth Moore’s 1962 gritty novel Second Growth is now back in print for the first time in nearly five decades.
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Piper
Jan 12, 20219 min read
A Long, Cold Winter
Trudging the last half-mile of steep uphill while pulling the sled and groceries was less fun.
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Piper
Dec 22, 20203 min read
Finding Christmas
The week of December 5 was hectic. The Christmas rush was beginning to crowd a busy work week with too few hours spent chasing too many task
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Piper
Dec 15, 20206 min read
Launching a Holiday Tradition
It was my idea to put a lighted tree on top of our seventy-foot Harvestore silo.
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Piper
Nov 24, 20202 min read
A Gratitude List
I keep a gratitude journal all year, just like Oprah. Every day I write down at least five things I’m grateful for.
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Piper
Nov 17, 20203 min read
The Gunning Grounds
You know how it is on the coast, my friend, when the weather is brittle cold, and the breaking dawn is painting the sky with colors of pink
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