Chris Petersen is a faculty member at College of the Atlantic in Bar Harbor. Petersen also serves as the Vice-President of Frenchman Bay Partners, and he is a member of the Bar Harbor Marine ...
listen & learn moreCharlie Phippen has been the harbormaster in the town of Bar Harbor for the last 20 years. In this interview, he talks extensively about the town’s relationship with cruise ship visitations, from...
listen & learn moreIn this interview, Max St. Amand discusses his life as a young lobsterman in Stonington. St. Amand shares how he started fishing at a young age doing purse seining, lobstering, and clamming. Koch ...
listen & learn moreThis interview is with Adelmar “Tuddy” Urquhart, lifelong weir and stop seine fisher. Charlie Alley interviews Tuddy, or “Tudd”, as he calls him, as an old friend, there are many moments of...
listen & learn moreIn this interview, Willis Beal discusses boat building on Beals Island. He talks about building his shop in 1966 and the process of building boats in the winter and lobster fishing in the summer. ...
listen & learn moreThis interview is with Barna B. Norton, a native of Jonesport, Maine. Norton discusses his life's work, sharing stories of his fishing adventures with his father, as well as his experiences working...
listen & learn moreIn this interview by Galen Koch with Alice Spencer of Stonington, Spencer shares stories about a trip to the White House, close calls with death, mischief her children and herself got into, ...
listen & learn moreThis interview is a collection of stories of the memories of Alice Spencer’s time in Deer Isle and Isle au Haut. Her husband, Richard, and daughter also join the conversation at times sharing ...
listen & learn moreCharlie Alley and Bill Plaskon ask Ernest Kelley and Tuddy Urquhart about the process of getting permission to build a herring weir in the waters surrounding Jonesport, Maine, and about specifics ...
listen & learn moreGay Crowley, operator of a local bait shop on Beals Island, talks about the ins-and-outs of bait selling. Crowley discusses the process of packaging worms, how she got started in the business, and ...
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