Thank you, Alison for being our first featured artist! For more of Alison’s artwork please visit her website at http://www.alisonhill.net/
Month: January 2012
February’s Featured Artist is ?!?
Can you guess who February’s featured artist is ?!?
The May Archer
The mailboat inevitably became the passenger ferry as well and in 1907, Captain Isaac E. Archibald used his 80 foot steamer, The May Archer to transport building supplies for the Island Inn, a new wharf was built by the next year and freight, mail and passenger service from Thomaston to Monhegan to Boothbay and back […]
The Rope Shed is OPEN!
Visit the Rope Shed to share in discussions concerning Monhegan Island, ME.
WINTER ON ISLAND – BONNIE ENES
WINTER ON ISLAND Wicked cold day. An afternoon walk with the dogs down to the dock where buffleheads, like bath toys, teeter on waves. Distant islands are in mirage. If only I could sense summer– whiff of salt, touch of hand to warm rock or to stand in the middle of a cloudless aquamarine summer […]
Monhegan Harbor by Alison Hill
See more of Alison’s artwork on her website www.alisonhill.net
Winter Works
I wonder what good stuff we can look forward to seeing in Winter Works this summer?
The Schooner, Effort
Captain Humphrey delivered the mail first from Port Clyde 2x per week , then in 1884 from Boothbay. First from his sloop, the Goldsmith Maid and then from 1888 from his schooner, Effort. Captain George F. Brackett took over the Effort in the 1890s. In the book, An Eye for the Coast the story is […]

Cards to Harry
HARRY T. BONE A very unhappy piece of news about Harry Bone came our way a month or so ago, He has been diagnosed with a brain tumor. Following surgery has been living in a nursing home in his home town. Although his short-term memory is poor, he has excellent long-term memory and loves to […]