Objects in the mirror

By Philip Conkling

Additional Column Posts (1 - 11 of 11)

• Fish on Friday

  By Philip Conkling - Mar 01
  Once a year for the past 36 years, in case you missed it, the Samoset Resort in Rockport has hosted the Maine Fishermen’s Forum, a three-day event ...
  

• How many islands are too many?

  By Philip Conkling - Feb 16
  Andy Warhol famously predicted that in the future everyone would be famous for15 minutes, but now that the future has arrived, it is more like 15 ...
  
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  Never say no to an island

  By Philip Conkling - Jan 26
  Islanders, no matter how competitive they may be in their fishing territories on the water, love hearing stories from other islanders. No one but ...
  
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  The meaning of life

  By Philp Conkling - Jan 05
  As many of you may have heard or read – or even experienced – it is now possible to ask your iPhone, which has voice recognition software called ...
  
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  A Tale of two towers

  By Philip Conkling - Dec 15
  For the last eight years, a group of students at Camden Hills Regional High School has been raising funds to install a major alternative energy ...
  
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  Island gossip

  By Philip Conkling - Dec 02
  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 ...
  

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  The view from down under

  By Philip Conkling - Feb 23
  If one of the best means of gaining perspective on American life is from an island offshore, then one of the best views of the Maine coast is from ...
  
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  The island wilderness myth

  By Philip Conkling - Feb 02
  The first Maine island I ever visited was a dream come true. A lobsterman dropped me on a beautiful rugged island off the Washington County ...
  
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  Energy: Timber, coal, oil and wind

  By Philp Conkling - Jan 12
  Governor Paul LePage has pointed out, quite correctly, that Maine is the most oil-dependent state in the country for winter heat. Hawaii is ...
  
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  A Light in the dark

  By Philp Conkling - Dec 29
  In the wake of this month’s great Christmas festivals, you may have missed the recent religious news from Urfa in eastern Turkey. For the past ...
  
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  What is island culture?

  By Philip Conkling - Dec 08
  Massachusetts can and does boast of the “Cape and Islands” region with its three year-round island communities of Nantucket, Martha’s Vineyard and ...