Islanders

Virginia Thorndike Maine's own version of Studs Terkel traveled to all the Maine coast islands that still maintain a year-round population and persuaded the islanders to talk openly about their lives. The result is a compulsively readable unvarnished and appealing portrait much of it in the islanders? own words. The 15 islands not accessible by bridge that still have year-round populations are: Isle au Haut Islesboro the Cranberry Isles (near Mt. Desert Island) Eagle Island Long Island (Frenchboro) Long Island (Casco Bay) Matinicus Monhegan North Haven Swans Island Vinalhaven Peaks Chebeague Great Diamond and Cliff.