They say to know something well, you need to sit with it for a while. Since being perched atop Seguin’s prospect, I see Maine’s coast and history a little differently than I did just three mo...

Just as I’d imagined prior to coming, time is not the same as on the mainland. The elaborate rock folds, much like marbled end papers in old books, record the earth’s history i...

Rock jumpers, berry pickers, bat watchers, football tossers, full-moon watchers, cart wheelers, tag chasers, cast wearers, snake catchers, bell knockers, satchel carriers, song singers, fear over...

Though less famous for painters than neighboring Monhegan, Seguin was still important in art circles. In the early 20thC New York artists led by gallerist and photographer Alfred Stieglitz be...

Instructions to the Keepers of Light Houses within the US   -1835 Stephen Pleasanton, 5th Auditor of the Treasury The first of 9 obligations: “You are to light the lamps every e...

When my children were small, my old father told me, “Kids like very small and very big things.” This has been a week of very big things. From the house porch I spied a minke whale loiterin...

We’ve had a lot of white weather this week. Visibility swings from nothing, to seeing the water, to nothing again. The billowing white damp gets old yet eliminating the scenery invites listenin...

“Smell that!” The Houston sailor stopped in her tracks amid the expanse of white and lavender clover covering the camping field. “That’s the smell of my childhood!” The sweetness of ...

While the east coast baked in oppressive heat, we remained cool on the top of the hill. Sweater weather continues for the most part punctuated with days of rain and relative cold. The trails have...

After a spate of fog, cold, and roiling water, good weather has returned. With the heat dome enveloping the east coast, we sit contentedly on Seguin.  Saturday the 21st was a day of firsts. ...