Clara Louise Burnham: A star among us
Over the course of her career, Clara Louise Burnham wrote and published more than 26 novels. Reviews of her work appeared in such prominent publications as Dial and The Atlantic Monthly.
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.
Esther Root Adams: Lessons on living large
Esther Root was a child of the 1920s, coming of age in that decade when women were abandoning 19th-century values and embracing experience in often controversial ways.
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.
Writing family: Author of ‘Involuntary American’ explores life of Scottish prisoner
Maine author Carol Gardner’s "The Involuntary American: A Scottish Prisoner's Journey to the New World" follows the experiences of Thomas Doughty, a Scotsman brought to New England in 1650 as a prisoner of war.
Whatever happened to ‘The Pearl of Orr’s Island?’
In the summer of 1852, Harriet Beecher Stowe and her family relocated from Cincinnati, Ohio to Brunswick, Maine.
