Image Archive

THE QUODDY TIDES SUMMER GUIDE is now out and is included in the June 8 issue. The guide includes feature articles about the area and listings for events, indoor and outdoor activities, ferry schedules, a dining guide and much more. The photo on the cover shows a day at the

GIVING the Eastport windjammer Ada C. Lore a fresh coat of paint is owner Butch Harris, as it's beached at Martin's Dock, next to the ferry landing in Eastport. The schooner is now beginning its season of whale-watching and sunset tours. (Edward French photo)

GONE BY, a lone dandelion seed survives against the breeze. (Chessie Crowe Gartmayer photo)

RELEASING an immature male bald eagle at Split Rock, Pleasant Point, on May 11 is Rep. David Slagger of the Houlton Band of Maliseets as Passamaquoddy Chief Clayton Cleaves looks on. The three-year-old raptor, named Chipolkon Nitap in Passamaquoddy (My Friend, Eagle), was found two months ago at the Cutler

A SPRING RITUAL. Howard Calder cleans off the bottom of the Ocean Warrior, David Pottle's lobster boat, at the inner basin of the Eastport breakwater on a recent spring day. (Edward French photo)

WORKING ON THEIR FYKE NET on the Pennamaquan River in Pembroke are tribal members Natalie and Pos Bassett. The Passamaquoddy Tribe has issued 236 elver fishing licenses this year, and Downeast rivers are lined with nets to catch the glass eels, which are fetching $2,200 a pound. (Edward French