Dreamers Rise

Amy Liptrot: I never saw myself as, and resist becoming, the wholesome ‘outdoors’ type. But the things I experience keep dragging me in. T...

Celia Thaxter: Boone Island is the forlornest place that can be imagined. The Isles of Shoals, barren as they are, seem like Gardens of Ed...

This double-view postcard of scenes from Orkney was issued by J. M. Stevenson, a longtime stationer in Kirkwall and Stromness. It also bears...

The story of the adventures of the Irish abbot St. Brendan or Brenainn was a popular one in the middle ages, with a substantial number of ma...

Let's get one thing straight: there was no Ariel. That was only the first of his countless lies. Here's another one: he had no magic...

(A synopsis of a story, perhaps a screenplay) The setting: Northern Europe; a small island community on the edge of the sea; sometime before...