Features

Seth Richards, tuna buyer, is back where he got his start, at Holbrook's Wharf in Cundy's Harbor. More than three decades ago, as a teenager, he got a job buying sea urchins for Maguro America.

Morgan MacLeod was an eager sixth grader growing up on Orr's Island when he first witnessed the grandeur of the universe.

It's Sunday in Cundy's Harbor and a group is getting together to build. In a beautiful wood shop, many kids are working away, building a wooden boat. Some of them are measuring, some of them hammering, sanding or planing, and all of them are having fun!

Sparkling spring sunshine pours through the windows of the beautifully appointed Sue Fisher Moren Memorial Reading Room in the Orr's Island Library. Nearby, a box of donated books waits to be sorted.

Harpswell's dramatic rocky shores are a big part of what makes the town such an attractive place to live. They also make it a precarious place to call home. The great majority of the residences here depend on drilled wells for their water.

Before Walt Dunlap moved in 2011 to the shores of Maquoit Bay, just south of Brunswick, he did his homework. A licensed land surveyor, Dunlap knew the steep banks sloping down to the ocean were unstable and prone to erosion.

Harpswell native Evan Whidden has been hauling lobster traps since he was 5 or 6. He grew up around his family's lobster and fishing business on Harpswell Neck, spent summers lobstering in high school and college, and ran his own lobster boat for two years after he graduated from the University of Maine.

One local artist has made it his mission to show the true grit of Maine fishermen in a way that channels the beauty of their connection to our natural surroundings from the ground up.

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.

There's a Big Ten in sports. The Big Easy is the nickname for New Orleans. There's even the movie "Big." But you can be a "Big" right here in Harpswell.