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The Maine Coast Craft School
photo by Jonathan Ives The Maine Coast Craft School Philosophy: A useful, every-day item, such as a spoon, bowl or chair, made by the hands of the person using it or by someone they love, will bring...
View ArticleSpruce Trees And The Sea
written and performed by Sassafras Stomp produced by Jamie Oshima at Tiny Room Studio Sassafras Stomp is a high-energy folk music duo with one foot in Maine and one foot in western Montana. Weaving...
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Schooner Time
photography by Jim Dugan Jim sails on the schooner Mary Day every year. Here are a few pictures from this summer.
View ArticleThe Ballad Of The Purple Clam
animation by Adam Fisher A Maine clammer takes to the mudflats in search of the “Great Purple Clam” that bit off his finger.
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The One That Got Away
photograph and text by Jonathan Ives The parking lot below the Azicohos Dam was empty as we pulled in and turned off the truck’s engine. After three hours of driving in the darkness the sun was finally...
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Magalloway
painting by Jessica Ives Fall fishing at its finest. +++ 207 Paintings post everyish Tuesday around 5:30am EST on both The Maine and jessicaleeives.com. Save thirty percent on a 4×4 inch oil on panel...
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Casting Bread and Cookee
from Maine Lingo: Boiled Owls, Billdads, & Wazzats by John Gould CASTING BREAD: This refers to making yeast bread at seas or in the woods, as distinguished from making hot biscuits, muffins,...
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Breakwater Evening
photography by Jim Dugan Jim tries to walk the Rockland Breakwater whenever possible, especially as the sun goes down.
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Hunting
text by Jonathan Ives I smiled, quietly closing the front door behind me with the excitement and nervousness of a young teenager sneaking out of the house after curfew. The cold of the early morning...
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Cathedral Trail
painting by Jessica Ives The Cathedral Trail is the shortest way to reach the top of Mount Katahdin from Chimney Pond. Hikers follow blue blazes up granite boulders as big as cars. Scrambling up the...
View ArticleWoodbox and Clearn
from Maine Lingo: Boiled Owls, Billdads, & Wazzats by John Gould WOODBOX: The kitchen box for firewood which has additional duties in transferred usage. To be “sick a-bed in the woodbox” is to be...
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Northern Currency
text by Jonathan Ives photo by Lazy Acres Farm “I can’t believe I’m taking layers off,” I said out loud as I pulled my sweatshirt overhead, throwing it to the grass underneath the staging. “Yeah, it...
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