Living with, accepting, adjusting to those intense heat spells of summer isn’t all new. Old-time lake dwellers and Vacationland visitors alike had their ways, including tall trees, long docks, porches, shades, ice houses, detached kitchens, hammocks, breezeways, and more. More…

Belgrade has so much rich history that sometimes it flows beyond the town borders. The first Belgrade historical artifact I encountered beyond Belgrade was the guide boat, Trixie III, at the Maine Maritime Museum in Bath. More…

A lot of preparation goes into a nighttime loon banding session. We need at least six unbanded, adult parents along with their chicks confirmed in the territory earlier that day; light and variable winds; complete darkness with no full moon or if so, cloud cover; and availability of the Biodiversity Research Institute’s biologists and our own loon expert. More…

Although we’ve had daily scattered thundershowers this past week, we’ve had only 0.9″ of precipitation over the past ten days. I know! There’s no way we only got 0.9″ with what seemed like gully washers every other day but that’s what our two rain gauges “say!” More…

Pulitzer Prize Winner Paul Harding begins his historical novel This Other Eden by describing the great flood on an island in the Kennebec River. Malaga Island with its notorious history is named Apple Island in this story. Apple trees planted by hardworking residents grow and life goes on among the Penobscots, Irish, Blacks, and whites. More…

The third Saturday in July is the Maine Audubon Society’s annual loon count. This year’s count took place July 20 and was the 41^st annual count in this important ongoing citizen-science project dedicated to better understanding one of Maine’s most iconic birds. More…