Harpswell geoscientist consults on ‘Nova’ episode
An episode of this fall’s 50th season of the PBS science program “Nova” has a connection to Harpswell through its scientific script consultant, Bob Gastaldo.
Read Moreby Harpswell Anchor | Sep 24, 2023 | Art & Culture, History | 0
An episode of this fall’s 50th season of the PBS science program “Nova” has a connection to Harpswell through its scientific script consultant, Bob Gastaldo.
Read Moreby Sam Lemonick | Aug 2, 2023 | History | 0
New research is revealing the historical Skolfield family’s connections to slavery. As merchants, shipbuilders and sailors in the 1800s, the Skolfields profited from trading goods like cotton that were produced by enslaved people.
Read Moreby Doug Warren | Jul 31, 2023 | Business & Nonprofits, History | 0
Talk about getting a blast from the past! The folks gathered around the big rectangular table in the kitchen of Connie Johnson’s home on Bailey Island are ignoring the spectacular view of Pond and Ragged islands from the picture window.
Read Moreby Jay, Everett and Chandler Sinnett | Jul 7, 2023 | History | 0
This story follows up on the poem “Sinnett’s Store” by Virginia Johnson, published in the March edition. We hope to provide more context to the times and explain the importance of both the store and the nearby Steamboat Wharf to the Bailey Island community through the first half of the 20th century.
Read Moreby Joann Gardner | Jul 5, 2023 | History | 0
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.
Read Moreby Sam Lemonick | May 27, 2023 | Community, History | 0
Thirty years ago, Ann Baribeau fell through a crack. She was on her way from Brunswick to Jackman to visit her niece’s family on a Friday evening when she took a wrong turn.
Read Moreby J. Craig Anderson | May 27, 2023 | History | 0
It’s easy to think of technology as cold and impersonal, but it can be capable of deeply moving feats such as bringing closure to a decades-old tragedy and reviving the memory of a lost loved one.
Read Moreby Joann Gardner | Apr 2, 2023 | History | 0
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.
Read Moreby Nancy Orr Johnson Jensen | Mar 14, 2023 | History | 0
My mother, Virginia Johnson, lived in an 1850s home on Lowell’s Cove, Bailey Island, with my father, Linwood, from the 1930s to around 2000. There they raised five children from the 1930s to the 1950s.
Read Moreby Connie Sage Conner | Jan 4, 2023 | Community, History | 0
Renowned Arctic explorer Robert E. Peary Sr.’s home on Eagle Island will remain closed in summer 2023 for a third straight year for major renovations and eradication of mold.
Read Moreby Doug Warren | Jan 3, 2023 | Education, History | 0
Most days, the cemeteries of Harpswell are places of quiet beauty and solitary reflection where “the rude forefathers of the hamlet sleep,” to lift a line from “Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard,” penned by Thomas Gray in England back in 1750.
Read Moreby Sam Lemonick | Jan 3, 2023 | History | 0
Legendary mountaineer Ed Webster died suddenly on Nov. 22 of natural causes at his home on Harpswell Neck. He was 66.
Read Moreby David C. Garcelon | Dec 19, 2022 | History | 0
For those of us who live on the Neck, the word Merriconeag is part of our vocabulary. We see it when we pass the Merriconeag Grange in North Harpswell.
Read Moreby Scott Gile | Oct 20, 2022 | History | 0
My late father, a dedicated builder of wooden model ships, gifted me my favorite model, of the War of 1812 privateer Prince de Neufchatel.
Read Moreby Joann Gardner | Aug 5, 2022 | History | 0
Esther Sayles Root (right) with Marjorie Crocker in the author photo for “Over Periscope...
Read Moreby Doug Warren | Aug 3, 2022 | Community, History | 0
Chuck Cunningham smiles with the winner’s trophy after a stock car race in 1951. (CUNNINGHAM...
Read Moreby Joann Gardner | Jul 4, 2022 | History | 0
Michael Sinnett’s grave is in the cemetery behind the old meetinghouse in Harpswell Center....
Read Moreby Doug Warren | Jul 4, 2022 | History | 0
Jim and Gayle Hays, of Bailey Island, at the mortuary cannon for Jim Hays’...
Read Moreby Rebecca Norden-Bright | Jun 30, 2022 | Government & Politics, History | 0
A bronze plaque will soon mark the site of a historic cattle pound in Harpswell Center, after the...
Read Moreby Joann Gardner | Jun 9, 2022 | History | 0
A view of Will’s Gut from Orr’s Island, looking toward Bailey Island and Water Cove....
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