HAULING BY HAND THE LIFE AND TIMES OF A MAINE ISLAND BY DEAN LAWRENCE HUNT

Long Island sits eight miles off the Maine coast, one of the state's most remote island outposts and one of only fifteen Maine islands still supporting a year-round community. Only a century ago, there were some three hundred such communities. Frenchboro, the island's lone village, surrounds Lunt Harbor. In the 1820s the Lunt family and a small band of pioneers carved the island community from the spruce and granite shores. Today, Frenchboro has a population of nearly seventy people, a thirteen-pupil school, a post office, and one full-time business. There is neither a general store, nor tourist hotel, nor daily ferry service. Instead, there is a village, a soul, and a way of life. This is its story. 480 Pgs Paperback