Water and Power
Eva Murray lives on Matinicus Island.
Recent Posts by Eva Murray
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Edna and Florence
By Eva Murray - Mar 01Feb. 22 was the birthday of renowned local poet Edna St. Vincent Millay. We call her Edna. She didn’t call herself Edna, she called herself ...
'How was work today, dear?'
By Eva Murray - Feb 03What am I doing in Stonington with a… minivan? I was off to visit the Isle au Haut school because that is the sort of thing I get to do for ...
There is no boat
By Eva Murray - Jan 06Someone you know needs this. Send it to them, please. I know who I’ve got in mind. It won’t do any good, most likely, because it’s very hard to ...
Whether silence or gale, a merry island Christmas
By Eva Murray - Dec 22This winter, the population of our particular island, to which I came as the schoolteacher thinking it just a year’s posting in 1987, and for ...
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Ho ho ho… Happy shopping! (really)
By Eva Murray - Dec 08More than likely I am preaching to the choir with this one. The issue is, or will be: Can we make it stick? Can we engage in holiday shopping ...
Many blessings
By Eva Murray - Nov 24Given the details of my summer I believe I am entitled to get a bit mushy over the subject of gratitude. OK, Eric and Ben, we don’t have to call ...
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Stranger things have happened
By Eva Murray - Nov 17Some odd news items have been coming across my desk. Isle au Haut is welcoming new people. They want responsible, hard-working, live people who ...
Growing up in the real world
By Eva Murray - Oct 30Our first-born has just turned 21. Sometimes people around that age start to think about their entry into the “real world.” When our son Eric ...
Student from all of Maine’s one-room schools gather on Matinicus Island
By Eva Murray - Oct 09The people of Matinicus Island hosted students and teachers from every one-room school in the state to our good food, starry skies, sandy beaches, ...
How we are
By Eva Murray - Oct 09After the microburst, the strange wind, an eerie loud bang, and people running, and the awful realization with crushed metal and no pulse, and ...
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The Common Ground Fair: My September tradition
By Eva Murray - Sep 22I have been to the Common Ground Country Fair every year for something like 25 years, except for 1989, when Paul and I were in Canada on our ...
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No question about it: Take a CPR class
By Eva Murray - Sep 12“Help! Somebody do something!” If a person of any age is unresponsive (meaning you cannot wake them up or make them react at all) and is not ...
Gourmet rehab
By Eva Murray - Aug 27When we arrived home after a week on the mainland, there was chowder waiting. That meant a lot. OK, enough being serious. I am certainly ...
This is also part of living on an island
By Eva Murray - Aug 13My experience on July 17 of this year being equivalent to the 900-pound gorilla in the living room, as it were, any attempt on my part to discuss ...
Ralph Waldo Emerson, marching season, and the guys who slash the tires
By Eva Murray - Aug 06Here’s what Ralph Waldo Emerson said: “These things look thus to me; to you, otherwise.” Our friend Ralphie Emerson, so we hear, by way of ...
Red truck, white truck, blueberry pie
By Eva Murray - Jul 09The 4th of July parade on Matinicus is already becoming a tradition worth cultivating in honor of art, hilarity, second-hand firefighting apparatus...
'That's well!'
By Eva Murray - Jul 04Earlier this month I was fortunate to be invited along for an extraordinary boat ride. On a warm sunny day in mid-June the two oldest working ...
Music of the islands: A steel band in the fog
By Eva Murray - Jun 18Do you remember that foggy spell of a couple of weeks ago, the misty mornings that turned into stretches of days that turned into week after week ...
The Rural Education Achievement Program
By Eva Murray - May 28Most of us have seen that bumper sticker that says something like, “It will be a fine day when our schools have all the money they need and we ...
A visit from an 'Old School' island teacher
By Eva Murray - May 16Back in March I was on the telephone with a friend of mine, a Matinicus native who lives and works in the Brunswick area now but who went through ...
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A few things my mother taught me
By Eva Murray - May 08Editor's Note: This column first appeared in print in the Village Soup Times in 2007. Mother's Day is Sunday, May 8, we are reprinting Eva's ...
Old friends, new friends, and cake…
By Eva Murray - Apr 30Old friends, new friends, and cake…all good reasons to hang around a little longer than might really be necessary. Today’s notes aren’t really ...
Four islands in three days
By Eva Murray - Apr 23I am working on a book about Maine's one-room and island elementary schools, and last week I had the happy privilege of visiting four Casco Bay ...
How to burn a bridge
By Eva Murray - Apr 02Boy, fellas, you’re not making my job any easier. You know who you are. You are the reporters, eager but ill-informed freelance writers, ...
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Island air service a necessity, not a luxury
By Eva Murray - Mar 24Penobscot Island Air flew 10,200 passengers in 2010, and made 128 med-evac flights off the islands, but a lot of people who matter and a few ...
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Trucks on boats
By Eva Murray - Mar 06The sun-sparkles play on the surface of the harbor, our own Owls Head lighthouse appears almost close enough to touch but stands quiet, no need of ...
Advanced telecommunications and paper hearts
By Eva Murray - Feb 20Thursday, Feb. 10 was the 100th day of school for the students at Matinicus Elementary. This business of celebrating the 100th day has become ...
What was he thinking?
By Eva Murray - Feb 04How are the Gaza Strip, the Department of Marine Resources, the “Distance Learning Law” (with a wink toward Murphy) and the recollections of a ...
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'Any helping hand was valuable'
By Eva Murray - Jan 22“Any helping hand was valuable.” That’s what NBC news reporter Lee Cowan told the world on Saturday, Jan. 15, as he told the story of how Tucson ...
'People from away'
Jan 01We’re guilty of a mighty double standard. Mainers take enormous pride in the literal place of their birth, and don’t hesitate to point out the ...
