This is a piece about a book, called “Still They Remember Me: Penobscot Transformer Tales (Volume I)”, and the stories both within and around it. It is the first and only book fully written in the Penobscot language, a language spoken for millenia by the Penobscot people, an indigenous tribe in Maine. The language was lost due to cultural erasure but through projects like this book the language is slowly becoming revitalized.

The Island Soundscape Project documents the sounds of the Maine coast, from the everyday to the highly unusual. They record birdcalls and babbling brooks, but also underwater animal calls and the weird moaning of suspension bridges. Their work draws on the traditions of soundscape studies, a field based on understanding the way people relate to their environment and their communities by studying sound. Its part scientific and part artistic, but it is all about the importance of learning to listen closely.

Questions of perception and identity arise in the small world of local Maine wrestling.

Join me in my journey trying acupuncture and cold plunges in an attempt to treat chronic pain.

My story is about violence, murder, and missing persons.

The clues of Maine’s ceramic past are hiding in plain sight. Molly Saunders and Professor Bonnie Newsom have taken the time to uncover its history and leave a record for future potters.

From working at the local theater to owning Maine's last video rental store, Denis is a true ‘movie person’.

Dianna and the She Shed is about a woman and her relationship with independence. In a visit to her titular “She Shed,” Miki learns about Dianna’s life, love, and her unique rituals of expression.

The Valentine’s Day Bandit has been a tradition in Portland for almost 50 years. What happens when a mythic-level local secret is revealed?

Once, there were twenty-three Shaker villages. Today, Sabbathday Lake is the only active village. At their height, there were between 2,000 and 4,000 Shakers. Now, there are two: Sister June and Brother Arnold. But, if you go to the Shakers’ public Sunday meeting, you will meet a group of people who worship with the Shakers, but are not Shakers.