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Constance Claire Bowen Trask, a tribune
Constance Claire Bowen Trask, 1942-2011, a tribute
Constance Claire Bowen Trask, a great and beautiful lady of Beaufort SC, Stonington ME, Atlanta, Miami and St. Louis, passed away early Sunday morning, August 21, at her home, Tabby Manse, overlooking Beaufort bay. [ read article ... ]
MECA begins summer 2011 Pace House programs in Stonington
Stephen Pace, source: The Portland Press Herald
MECA begins summer 2011 Pace House programs in Stonington
In 2007 the artist Stephen Pace and his wife Palmina donated their Stonington home to Maine College of Art to use as an educational facility for the arts. Each summer, the college programs the space as an artist residency and as a gallery. [ read article ... ]
Chuck Bosley, 84, passes away
Chuck Bosley, 84, passes away
Charles Edward Bosley, 84, lately of Stonington, Maine, died peacefully on March 19, 2011. Charles, known to his friends as Chuck, lived in Shepherdstown, West Virginia, from 1970 to 1995 and served as mayor of Shepherdstown for two terms (1972-1976), working hard for equity in the quality of living for all residents. [ read article ... ]
Couple with local ties produces popular iPhone app
William and Tracey Weil, founders of popular iPhone app for parents to entertain children: Tales2Go
Couple with local ties produces popular iPhone app
How many times have you wished you had a good response to the age-old family car trip question, “are we there yet?” William and Tracey Weil, the son and daughter-in-law of Stonington summer residents, Denie and Frank Weil, decided to come up with one. [ read article ... ]
Op Ed by Frank Weil: A two track global economy
Op Ed by Frank Weil
Terms like single scoop and double dip are normally only heard in ice cream shops. But, at the moment the economic and financial pages of news organizations the world over are using these types of terms to try to predict and explain what is going on “out there”. Indeed what is going on is unusual and defies categorization in conventional ways. [ read article ... ]
Fast lobster boat in cool downeast Maine
Fast lobster boat in cool downeast Maine
Andy Gove's working lobster boat at rest, perennial winner of Stonington lobster boat races at 55 mph.
Cruising in cool downeast Maine
Cruising in cool downeast Maine
Tall ships in cool downeast Maine
Tall ships in cool downeast Maine
Nine of these boats sailed along the Deer Isle Thorofare on Monday afternoon, July 5, 2010, headed for Northeast Harbor.
Sandbar in cool downeast Maine
Sandbar in cool downeast Maine
Pat Branning’s Carolina Cooking: Red, White and Blueberry
Pat Branning’s Carolina Cooking
Blueberries by Lowcountry artist Joe Bowler, courtesy of the Morris-Whiteside Gallery on Hilton Head Island
June 6, 1944: Today is D-Day anniversary
June 6, 1944
Summertime 2010, coming soon
Summertime 2010 Coming soon!
Robert H. Moore: America today – Who are we?
Robert H. Moore
America today – Who are we?
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Acclaimed documentary film about Bangor troop greeters ready for Veterans’ Day
Acclaimed documentary film about Bangor troop greeters ready for Veterans’ Day
In memoriam: Sandra Armentrout
In memoriam: Sandra Armentrout
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Ron Eaton’s new lobster boat
Ron Eaton’s new lobster boat
Bald eagle visits Greenhead Cove in Stonington
Bald eagle visits Greenhead Cove
Julia Usher releases her Cookie Swap book
Stonington summer resident writes scrumptious cookie recipe book
July 19: Fishermen’s Wives Day
Summertime 2009
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More July 4 photos
Click here to see the photos Tom Stevenson sent to The Deer Isle Chronicle that he took of folks at the July 4 parade.
July 4 weekend: And, for the finale, they got lobstah
July 4 weekend: Breakfast at Harbor View Cafe
Another time-honored tradition is breakfast at Harbor View Cafe on Main Street in downtown Stonington followed by the children skipping small rocks over the water from the nearby shore. [ read article ... ]
July 4 weekend: Families and friends picnic
Gatherings of families and friends for a picnic after the July 4 parade is a time-honored tradition on Deer Isle. [ read article ... ]
July 4 weekend: Showing off grandbaby
A family friend holds the latest grandchild of a Stonington summer family
July 4 weekend: Family gatherings
Families with young children gathered all over Deer Isle during the July 4 weekend for reunions. [ read article ... ]
July 4 weekend: Hit of the parade, the Baldwin sisters
The Baldwin sisters won first prize in the Deer Isle-Stonington July 4 parade on Saturday with their rendition of “Papa’s Recipe”. [ read article ... ]
July 4 weekend: Stonington Farmers Market
The Stonington Farmers Market is a staple of the summer scene on Deer Isle [ read article ... ]
Philadelphian publishes book about Stonington
Sara W. Forster recently published a beautiful book of her cut paper collages about Stonington.
When Sara’s not busy summers on her Stonington porch sketching, cutting, and pasteing, she and her husband Dieter enjoy the other fine arts in Stonington including shows at the Stonington Opera House next door. Sara and Dieter live in Philadelphia during the winter. [ read article ... ]
Island prepares for annual 4th of July celebration
July 4th arrives Saturday
Residents of Deer Isle and Stonington are busy preparing costumes and floats for the traditional joint Independence Day parade down Main Street in Deer Isle village on the morning of July 4, 2009. [ read article ... ]
The Deer Isle Chronicle goes live with first article
Hello, world
The Deer Isle Chronicle is pleased to publish this, our first article, just in time for the traditional three weekends of real summer here: Independence Day on Saturday, July 4, 2009; the lobster boat races on Sunday, July 12; and Fisherman’s Day sponsored by the Fisherman Wives Association on Sunday, July 19. [ read article ... ]