MONHEGAN ISLAND, Maine — Eleven miles off central Maine, ... Like summer people everywhere, these visitors hike, read, eat outside, huddle over jigsaw puzzles and dawdle by the water.

MONHEGAN ISLAND, Maine - Eleven miles off central Maine, a duck bobs in shallow water near a rocky island shore. A 19th-century lighthouse rises nearby. Three painters drag their easels onto the ...

MONHEGAN ISLAND, Maine — Eleven miles off central Maine, a duck bobs in shallow water near a rocky island shore. A 19th century lighthouse rises nearby. Three painters drag their easels onto the ...

A case can be made that Monhegan Island is the most romantic spot on the rocky coast of Maine. Shaped like a whale, this tidy little island of granite and evergreens lies 12 miles off the coast.

It’s my birthday, and just like last year and the years before that, I’m on an 80-year-old ferry making my way to a remote island 10 miles off the coast of Maine called Monhegan. It’s July ...