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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

January 18, 2012 Amy

See more of Alison’s artwork on her website www.alisonhill.net

Winter Works

January 17, 2012 Amy

I wonder what good stuff we can look forward to seeing in Winter Works this summer?

The Schooner, Effort

January 16, 2012January 17, 2012 Amy

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 […]

Irene, 2011

January 15, 2012January 15, 2012 Amy

Cruising in Doogon

January 14, 2012January 15, 2012 Amy

Cards to Harry

January 13, 2012January 15, 2012 Amy

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 […]

The Monhegan Dock by Alison Hill

January 13, 2012January 15, 2012 Amy

View from the Harbor

January 12, 2012January 15, 2012 Amy

Propane

January 11, 2012January 15, 2012 Amy

Mnemonic by Marjorie Mir

January 10, 2012January 15, 2012 Marjorie Mir

MNEMONIC “Fall back,” we tell ourselves, beginning the trek toward early dark, and we do, still do, coming from cold streets into lamplight, cupping a mug in both hands; limits, the comfort of habit, these are not yet taken from us, nor a darkness whose face is familial, winter that closes us in. Marjorie […]

Jeff by Alison Hill

January 9, 2012January 15, 2012 Amy

December on Monhegan

January 8, 2012January 15, 2012 Amy

Through the Eye

January 7, 2012January 15, 2012 Amy

D.T. Sheridan

January 6, 2012January 7, 2012 Amy

The D.T. Sheridan was a two-stacked, seagoing diesel tug, towing two deeply loaded coal barges when she ran aground at Lobster Cove in 1948.

Captain William S. Humphrey

January 5, 2012January 15, 2012 Amy

Mail Service was first established as early as 1858, the postmaster was Moses Starling who made weekly trips to Port Clyde and delivered the mail from his kitchen table, James Trefethren succeeded him but the post office was apparently closed in the 1870’s and not reopened until 1883. Captain William S. Humphrey ran the mail […]

Dori by Alison Hill

January 5, 2012January 5, 2012 Amy

Love this painting because it features Dori, who is supplying the amazing new images of Monhegan on this site and it is painted by Alison Hill, this January’s featured artist. See more of Alison’s artwork on her website www.alisonhill.net

Monhegan Fish House by Alison Hill

Amazing Sky

January on Monhegan

WINTER ON ISLAND – BONNIE ENES