Chebacco Chats welcomes Jeri Bowers, David Evans, Ph.D., and Dr. Hermann Haller of MDI Biological Laboratory to talk about the organization in its 125-year history, from its beginnings, impact over the years, and on to its current work.

Chebacco Chats welcomes back Tim Garrity to talk about one of the worst cases of mutiny and mass murder in American maritime history, on board the Berwind, captained by Edwin Rumill of Pretty Marsh. This fascinating story from history includes Rumill’s background on MDI, conditions on board the Berwind, what happened on that fateful day, and the course of events after the “mutineers” were captured.

In honor of National Poetry Month, host (and poet) Jenna Jandreau invites special guest (and poet) Carl Little to curate a selection of place-based poetry of MDI from a variety of poets.

Little’s poetry has appeared in a wide range of literary journals, including the Paris Review, Off the Coast, Hudson Review and Words & Images. He is the author of Ocean Drinker: New & Selected Poems (Deerbrook Editions). His poetry has appeared in several anthologies edited by Wesley McNair. A native New Yorker, Little holds degrees from Dartmouth (BA in English), Middlebury (MA in French) and Columbia (MFA in writing).

Host Jenna Jandreau welcomes back Julia Gray to talk about her article “Risk and Reward: Cranberry Isles in the Age of Sail” from the forthcoming edition of Chebacco: The Maritime Edition.

Life on the Cranberry Isles has always revolved around the sea. Julia’s fascinating article covers everything from coasting and transatlantic voyages, to fishing, shipbuilding, and more. The Chat covers these general themes, along with some of the interesting history that didn’t quite fit in the article.

Host Jenna Jandreau welcomes Patrick Callaway to Chebacco Chats to talk about some of his latest research, which focuses on the economic connections between the United States and British North America in the 1700s and 1800s. Patrick describes the conditions that made Nova Scotia more appealing to settlers than the MDI region before 1762.

Bill Horner returns to Chebacco Chats to talk about the history of youth sailing on MDI.

Jenna Jandreau offers a history of the establishment of the Coast Guard, first on Little Cranberry Island, then on MDI. Jenna highlights some of the historic items, photographs, and oral histories that informed her research.

Host Jenna Jandreau welcomes Joshua Smith to talk about President Thomas Jefferson's embargo in Frenchman Bay, 1807-1809, and how it impacted people in the MDI region that relied heavily on foreign maritime trade.

Host Jenna Jandreau welcomes Bill Horner to talk about Downeast cruising and club racing, focusing on beautiful yachts designed by gifted navel architects from the mid-1800s to the early 1900s: vessels such as the "America," "Gloriana," "Bat," "Kipper," and more.

Tim Garrity chats about the geological history of the fertile farm region, the acreage’s history of ownership and stewardship, who built the Stone Barn, and more. Renee Duncan of Maine Coast Heritage Trust provides updates on the Stone Barn Farm since they acquired it in 2019, and shares some of their plans for the future.

Executive Director Raney Bench chats with Natalie Springuel about wild Atlantic salmon, why people can no longer fish for them, and the development of aquaculture, such as net-pen salmon farming, in Maine.

This Chebacco Chats episode with guests Karen Sieber and Sam Younger delves into the story of Harlem real estate investor John E. Nail’s venture to establish a Black resort in Sorrento in the 1920s.

This Chebacco Chats episode featuring Thomas Urquhart dives into the history of Governor Francis Bernard’s failed plans for a settlement in Southwest Harbor in the mid-1700s.

This Chebacco Chats episode with Patrick Callaway, PhD, explores two key turning points in the late 1700s and early 1800s where the fate of the MDI region could have easily resulted in it becoming a province of British North America.

Raney Bench and Jenna Jandreau chat about the canneries of MDI’s Quietside, including cannery culture, factories, the cannery industry in Maine, and how a herring from the sea becomes a sardine in a can.

Host Jenna Jandreau chats with artist Jennifer Steen Booher about her article in the upcoming edition of Chebacco - "We Change with Them," a series of six images that explores shifting ecosystem dynamics resulting from climate change in the Gulf of Maine.

Host Raney Bench chats with Roberto Rodriguez about the Boston Automobile Company, a short-lived enterprise that manufactured steam automobiles in Bar Harbor. What caused its demise? Location? Type of vehicle? The auto wars?

Jenna Jandreau presents an apocalyptic prophecy written by Arthur Train, published in the Bar Harbor Record in 1907, and reprinted in full in the upcoming edition of Chebacco. Train predicts that, after residents vote to allow automobiles onto the island, MDI's cottagers move away, Bass Harbor becomes the island's hub, automobile billboards pock local mountains, and much more.

In this special episode of Chebacco Chats, MDI Historical Society partners up with Southwest Harbor Public Library to commemorate Ralph Stanley, citizen historian and lifelong learner, who passed away in December 2021.

Moderator Jenna Jandreau and guests from both organizations chat about Ralph Stanley’s contributions to Digital Archives, his oral histories, writing, research and other ways he explored how to be an active and engaged citizen historian.