Shellfish Warden Jon Hentz demonstrates the "claminator," a device that uses suction to pick up clams under the sand. The Kennebec Estuary Land Trust takes people out to Reid State Park once a year to teach them how to clam.
Capt. Dan McNichol waves his hat to the captain of the other Vinalhaven ferry as they pass each other on Aug. 14, 2024. Each trip, the captains wave at each other.
James Cook, a trumpet player for the Huddled Masses Orchestra, sings along with protesters at the Hands Off! protest in Augusta on Saturday, April 5. More than 3,000 Mainers showed up to protest Donald Trump and his administration.
Tim Shay, the nephew of the namesake of the new Matinicus ferry, Charles Norman Shay, speaks at the commissioning ceremony for the ferry on Sept. 12, 2024 in Rockland, Maine.
ROCKLAND, MAINE, Aug. 2, 2023 -- Vern Mossman, 64, poses for a portrait at the world's largest lobster cooker while holding his gloves up to his ears. Mossman, the cooker director for the Maine Lobster Festival, has been cooking lobster for the festival since 1967.
Becky Hallowell (right) looks at a dead spider egg on a tree with two Wiscasset Elementary School students at Hidden Valley Nature Center in Jefferson on Tuesday, Jan. 21, 2025. The fourth-graders go to the nature center once a month to learn outdoors.
Sally Levi serves ice cream to a customer at her ice cream shack, Newty's, in Rockland on Aug. 13, 2024.
(From left to right) Tom Kurtz, Meg Domhnaill, Adam, Terry Tardiff and Mary Tardiff pose for a portrait on the flooded streets of Whippoorwill Mobile Home Park in Wiscasset, Maine on March 10, 2024. They are part of a group of residents in the mobile home park and nearby Maplewood Hill Mobile Home Park that are fighting for their rights as tenants after the owners have neglected their calls for water quality, cleanup of property and not raising their rent.
ROCKLAND, MAINE, Sept. 16, 2023 -- Jesse Labbe-Watson poses with his neighbor's car that was crushed Saturday morning by a fallen tree. The tree came down due to winds from Hurricane Lee.
A passenger of the Queen Mary 2 sits by a window as a sailboat passes on Sept. 24, 2024 in Rockland harbor. The city is allowing more cruise ships like the Queen Mary 2 to visit while Bar Harbor continues to restrict the number of visiting cruises.
Meghan Blitchington hugs a new member of Delta Phi Epsilon at University of Georgia Bid Day on Aug. 22, 2021 in Athens, Georgia. The new member received her bid for Delta Phi Epsilon at Stegeman Coliseum, then took a bus with the other new members to the sorority house. Upon arriving, the new member was immediately embraced by Blitchington. (Photo/Julia Walkup)
Wesley Gratham scoops bees from a swarm on his birdbath into a box to start cultivating on his farm in Winterville, Georgia on April 8, 2022. He uses the clear container to collect the bees, then empties them into the white box to start creating a hive. Once the queen is in the box, the rest of the bees will follow. Gratham takes care of several hives and harvests honey to sell as THC-infused raw honey. (Photo/Julia Walkup)
Former president of UGA’s chapter of the NAACP, Alex English, poses for a picture outside the Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication, which is named after Henry Grady, a white supremacist. English is fighting to get the name of the college changed so Grady's name is no longer honored on it. (Photo/Julia Walkup)
Georgia junior Soraya Hawthorne performs her beam routine at the gymnastics meet between Georgia and Florida on Jan. 21, 2022 in Athens, Georgia. Hawthorne scored a 9.300 on the beam. (Photo/Julia Walkup)
Georgia Bulldogs football player Stetson Bennett touches fans' hands after returning home to Athens, Georgia on Jan. 11, 2022. The Bulldogs had just won the College Football National Championship against Alabama, the first time they had won a National Championship since 1980. (Photo/Julia Walkup)
University of Georgia sophomore Sarah Ashlee Barker passes the ball during the Georgia vs. Florida basketball game in Athens, Georgia on Feb. 6, 2022. The game remained close in score until the last second, when Florida won with a basket bringing the final score to 51-54. (Photo/Julia Walkup)
University of Georgia student Sophie McLeod paints her legs with the words "PRO CHOICE" at the rally to defend abortion rights in Athens, Georgia on May 5, 2022. The rally followed the leaked U.S. Supreme Court opinion draft that would overturn Roe v. Wade. (Photo/Julia Walkup)
Jason Cantarella, a professor in the mathematics department at the University of Georgia, protests the university's COVID-19 policies in Athens, Georgia on Aug. 27, 2021. The United Campus Workers of Georgia held a protest where they dressed in black for a "funeral" for common sense to display their dissatisfaction with UGA's lack of a mask and vaccine mandate. (Photo/Julia Walkup)
Georgia senior Rachel Baumann poses during her floor routine as her teammates cheer her on at the gymnastics meet between Georgia and Florida on Jan. 21, 2022 in Athens, Georgia. Baumann scored a perfect 10 on her floor event. (Photo/Julia Walkup)
A member of a University of Georgia fraternity holds a chicken while another member pets it at UGA Bid Day 2021 on Aug. 22, 2021 in Athens, Georgia. Thoughout the night, that chicken was taken to several parties. (Photo/Julia Walkup)
University of Georgia sophomore Sarah Ashlee Barker performs a handshake with one of her teammates before the Georgia vs. Florida basketball game in Athens, Georgia on Feb. 6, 2022. No. 14 Georgia faced off against no. 52 Florida in Stegeman Coliseum. (Photo/Julia Walkup)
Georgia Bulldogs football player Nakobe Dean signs autographs after returning home to Athens, Georgia on Jan. 11, 2022. The Bulldogs had just won the College Football National Championship against Alabama, the first time they had won a National Championship since 1980. (Photo/Julia Walkup)
Ben Hill, a falconer from Arnoldsville, Georgia, poses with his red-tailed hawk, Belle on April 20, 2022 in Arnoldsville, Georgia. Hill has been falconing for about seven years, and he hunts with Belle as a sport and an art. (Photo/Julia Walkup)
Oglethorpe County High School soccer player Miguel Rios (33) and Bacon County High School soccer player Nakosi Batton (19) watch as the soccer ball is kicked toward them during the game on April 15, 2022 in Lexington, Georgia. BCHS won against OCHS 4-1. (Photo/Julia Walkup)
Oglethorpe County Middle School students Cole Fraust (right) and Aidan Dellinger (left) fix the fish-feeding device above the aquaponics system that the students at the middle school maintain on Jan. 28, 2022 in Crawford, Georgia. The eighth-grade students clean filters and maintain the aquaponics system as part of an agriculture program to learn about urban farming. (Photo/Julia Walkup)
