Articles
Decor Maine - October 2023
Radical Reuse
Students at The Hatchery in Rockport are re-imagining the life cycle of our material world.
At The Hatchery, worn-out skis transform into Adirondack chairs, grayed and rough pallets become sanded-smooth benches, and decks live a second life as raised beds in a community garden. More than just a makerspace for academic credit, The Hatchery, an emerging program at Camden Hills Regional High School in Rockport, changes mindsets. (read more)
Decor Maine - June 2023
A gallery in Searsport wants to get people talking about religion and climate change.
When it comes to things like climate change and religion, “everyone already knows what they think,” Dr. Rosen says over a cup of tea. “We need to have unbounded spaces where people discover things about their thoughts and feelings that they might not have known or admitted before.” (read more)
Decor Maine - May 2023
TimberHP wood fiber insulation by GO Labs in Madison, Maine is being lauded as a carbon-sequestering solution
When Matt O’Malia spoke of turning enormous piles of wood shavings into sustainable carbon-storing insulation products, I imagined a soft mountain, smelling of cedar, with kids climbing up and rolling down it like a giant natural playground. I think TimberHP’s plan is more serious than that. But I bet they had a lot of fun making videos for their website, aiming a blow torch at their products and seeing how much better they hold up compared with foam boards melting and charring to nothing. (read more)
Decor Maine - April 2023
Veggies to Table Nourishes the Body and Soul
Tomatillos, rainbow carrots, purple-topped turnips, fresh raspberries—“this is stuff you would sell at the organic farmers market,” Erica Berman says, but she and the farmers and volunteers at Veggies to Table are giving it all away. (read more)
WISE - Stonecoast - Feb 2020
Understanding Their Own Stories: Cody Mower and the Portland Veterans Book Group
Mower is trying to debunk the idea that all vets are supposed to be tough guys. (read more)
Maine Boats - Sept/Oct 2017
It turns out that a skin-on-frame canoe is an excellent starter project for a beginning boatbuilder, particularly the mathematically un-inclined such as myself. (read more)
The Working Waterfront - Jan 2017
This Shop Crafts Beautiful Boats and Beautiful Lives
You might also find them doing things like roofing the barn, baking a mac and cheese casserole, digging beets in the garden, discussing feminist literature, splitting wood, or mentoring kids at the local school. (read more)
Island Journal - 2012
I Know He’s Watching Me: Swan’s Islanders Live Their Faith
When Bernita Joyce was a young girl she remembers her father asking God to bless the waterfront every day to “keep the arguing down,” so the lobstermen could have “a peaceful existence with each other.”
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