An artist invites her viewers to remember and rejoice

The verve of nature — no small thing — is alive in the paintings of Vinalhaven artist Elaine Crossman.

Things Look Different There

Our toddler finally made us go west. Record snowfall and a two-year old who didn’t like to wear clothes gave us cabin fever this past winter, so we accepted an invitation from my sister-in-law in Portland, Oregon for a month-long visit.

Writing on Stone: Scenes from a Maine Island Life

Christina Marsden Gillis

Small World

How a Vinalhaven fisherman’s buoy might have ended up in the Caribbean

John Higgins was enjoying breakfast at the Cocomar Restaurant in the Dominican Republic last February when he noticed something from home. It was a buoy hanging on the wall, and on the buoy was written the word “Vinalhaven.”

Tyler to direct Institute publications

Parallel 44: Book continues a long tradition: ignoring early Maine

Nathaniel Philbrick’s Mayflower is well written, carefully researched, critically acclaimed and enormously popular, a New York Times bestseller that’s helped Americans understand the real story of the Pilgrims.

The Cranberry Report: The Joy of our Lives

Fishery management council candidate tours downeast communities

Portland firm recycles sails, things “green” and supports good causes

Galleries proliferate on Deer Isle

German Battleship

Swan’s Island as in other communities, the definition of “sustainability” is evolving

A former Maine commissioner rises to the top of a federal agency

For fishermen, Midcoast Marine is a snug fit

New device helps haul moorings