Islanders : real life on the Maine islands / Virginia L. Thorndike.
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TextPublisher: Camden, Me. : Down East Books, c2005Description: 336 p. : ill. ; 23 cmISBN: 0892726245 (trade pbk. : alk. paper)Subject(s): Islands -- Maine | Maine -- Social life and customs | Atlantic Coast (Me.) -- Social life and customs | Maine -- Biography | Atlantic Coast (Me.) -- Biography | Maine -- Description and travel | Atlantic Coast (Me.) -- Description and travelDDC classification: 917.41 LOC classification: F27.A19 | T48 2005Online resources: Table of contents Summary: Virginia Thorndike, Maine's own version of Studs Terkel, traveled to all the Maine coast islands that still maintain a year-round population and persuaded the islanders to talk openly about their lives. The result is a compulsively readable, unvarnished, and appealing portrait, much of it in the islanders? own words. The 15 islands not accessible by bridge that still have year-round populations are: Isle au Haut, Islesboro, the Cranberry Isles (near Mt. Desert Island), Eagle Island, Long Island (Frenchboro), Long Island (Casco Bay), Matinicus, Monhegan, North Haven, Swans Island, Vinalhaven, Peaks, Chebeague, Great Diamond, and Cliff.
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Includes index.
Virginia Thorndike, Maine's own version of Studs Terkel, traveled to all the Maine coast islands that still maintain a year-round population and persuaded the islanders to talk openly about their lives. The result is a compulsively readable, unvarnished, and appealing portrait, much of it in the islanders? own words. The 15 islands not accessible by bridge that still have year-round populations are: Isle au Haut, Islesboro, the Cranberry Isles (near Mt. Desert Island), Eagle Island, Long Island (Frenchboro), Long Island (Casco Bay), Matinicus, Monhegan, North Haven, Swans Island, Vinalhaven, Peaks, Chebeague, Great Diamond, and Cliff.
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