Those pundits who think inside-the-beltway politics are intense clearly have not spent a great deal of time discussing issues in New England’s small towns, where all politics are local; nor are they likely to have visited many island communities where all politics are personal.
Read MoreThe older you get, the shorter the summers are. By the time the Fourth of July rolls round, someone is sure to remind you that the days are already getting shorter. Now that summer is finally here, we can count our blessings. Perhaps in no other communities are summer’s blessings more complicated and more circumscribed than on Maine’s islands.
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