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Joann Gardner

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Elroy Johnson: Man of the people

Almost everyone familiar with Bailey Island has, at one time or another, made their way to Land's End and seen the statue of a lobsterman looking out over Jaquish Island and the waters of Casco Bay.

Marjorie Johnson: Bailey Island’s favorite poet

For most of her 80-plus years, Marjorie Johnson lived in a modest house on Bailey Island, on the side of a hill overlooking Mackerel Cove. Her father was a fisherman; her mother, the proprietor of a summer boardinghouse and cottages known as The Willows.

Twice kidnapped, Michael Sinnett found his way home

He was born around 1730, in County Wexford, Ireland, to a once-prominent Anglo-Catholic family. He received basic English schooling and, at age 14, was apprenticed to a glove-maker, from whom he learned to cut, shape and stitch the gloves so much in fashion among the country's elite.

What’s in a name: The truth about ‘Black Will’ and Bailey Island

Rumor has it that a man called "Black Will" was the first nonnative to settle on Bailey Island. Those who have explored the matter further may have learned that a man called Black Will or Will Black moved to the island in the early 18th century; and that after Deacon Timothy Bailey purchased the island, Will Black relocated across the channel to Little Sebascodegan, now Orr's Island.

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