Cliff Island:::LobsterTales.org

Lobsterman
Bios

Credits

Thank you to Lesley MacVane
for her wonderful black and white photographs
of the Cliff Island students.

Andrew Annis '04, Cliff Island School

"Lobsters are good to eat boiled,
or fried is good too,
for me and you."

Jessica Griffin, Cliff Island School

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This website provides a window into an island world colored by the imagination of chidren who attend the Cliff Island school in Casco Bay. The school is an important nexus for community life and has educated generations of families living on Cliff. Island living on Cliff largely revolves around lobstering and life connected to the sea. The school's connection to its lobstering heritage created the inspiration for this site.

The project also represents a collaboration between the Cliff Island School, the Island Institute and Bowdoin College during the spring of 2004. Throughout the project, the diligent work of the Cliff Students together with their teacher Judy MacVane provided content for the site. Members of the "Anthropology of Islands" class taught at Bowdoin College provided technical assistance in the web site construction as part of a service learning project connected the class. Dana Leath, senior fellow at the Island Institute, provided important connections between this site and LobsterTales.org.

Please send an e-mail to the Cliff Island School for permission
before using any of the pictures or written content from this site.