Swimming Upstream, a chamber opera in four scenes, explores water, our emotional connection to water and rivers and streams. It is…
Year of the Salmon
On October 30, NOAA Fisheries Greater Atlantic Region launched the International Year of the Salmon on the East Coast at…
Alewives in lakes
The return of alewives, native migratory fish, to Maine rivers and streams is an annual spring event and the focus…
Goldeneye ducks on the Penobscot
April has turned to May, and the goldeneye ducks have left their winter home on the Penobscot River and headed…
Searching for Spelman’s Birds
In the 1880s, a group of Harvard students known as the Champlain Society spent their summers on Mount Desert Island…
Three Nations Anthology
The essay “One Letter Away” is included in the Three Nations Anthology from Resolute Bear Press, edited by Valerie Lawson.…
Why we love the ocean
The sand, smoothed by the tide, glitters with flecks of mica and quartz. The beach ends at an outcropping of…
Ice Age survivors: a tale of two land-locked fish
Maine lakes are home to two evolutionary wonders of the animal kingdom, Arctic char and landlocked salmon, related species of…
Foxes in the henhouse: we’ve been here before (sort of)
The President’s Salmon is an environmental history of the Atlantic salmon and the Penobscot River in Maine. But it also…
Poem for a blizzard
Portland Press Herald photo MAMMOTHS by Catherine Schmitt Snow plows thunder down the street like mammoths parading before the…
