Come see clips from our documentary-in-progress, the Elversphere, at the Belfast Library on Oct 16, 6:30 p.m.
There will be a Q&A. Attendees are welcome to share their own #eel stories.
This event is co-sponsored by Belfast Bay Watershed Coalition and Shannaghe Artist Residency.
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Congrats to all the Camden International Film Festival Artist Program Fellows! Wicked excited and grateful to be part of the LEF/CIFF cohort with Eli Kao and The Elversphere film.
Audio Documentary Weekend Intensive Aug 1-3, 2025
Led by Isaac Kestenbaum, Director of the Salt Institute for Documentary Studies, hosted and supported by Torchlight Media. Learn more/register at torchlightmaine.com. Sliding scale.
Join us for the launch of WHERE’s 2025 season of walks for historical and ecological recovery, tonight from 6-7 p.m., online. www.walkwhere.org/events/where...
The points of Maine have become my collaborators. Plus, Shirley Collins' voice as antidote to low blood sugar. Read the latest <<hells bells>>, my mostly monthly newsletter.
Passamaquoddy guide Joe Mell asleep under a blanket in his rib and plank canoe on the shore of a lake, photo by William Lyman Atwood, circa 1895
Is there a support group for writers who often turn in drafts to their editors that are over word count? Asking for a friend who consistently got in trouble in elementary school for not being able to summarize and who would like to include the story of this pic but sadly cannot. #StillGotIt #Details
My uncle has written another book and you can preorder a copy signed by her at the link below, from Charis books! Very nice uncle, very nice book.
Normally I only write one of these a month but yesterday’s reporting trip was too good to pass up writing about while it was fresh.
There’s a reason they don’t have writers pen their headlines. Alas, I penned this headline and everything inside it. Thanks for reading, bots!
Withholding millions of dollars in funding to Maine over two kids playing sports. www.bangordailynews.com/2025/03/11/m...
The USDA has halted funding for UMaine programs: www.pressherald.com/2025/03/11/u...
A letter from NOAA said Maine’s program is “no longer relevant to the focus of the Administration’s priorities and program objectives.”
You can sign up for this newsletter for free. You can unsubscribe. You can do whatever you want! I'm sick and writing against discombobulation with no footnote function, so it's a wild world. Like you didn't know. Come join me.
Femme with long brown hair, black winter jacket, and beanie hat, laying in snow, rolling eyes back to show the whites.
An AI eye contact technology has been created to make it look like we are making eye contact via Zoom, etc., rather than staring at our own reflections/distractions.
It's a beautiful day, *technically* so you shouldn't have any time to read this. Maybe later, though? michelechristle.substack.com/p/something-...
Photo of slide with blue shape with lines that look like typographical map or lydar mapping.
Who knows what this is? Don’t guess—it’s an otolith from an #AmericanEel What a sight to behold! Such mystery contained within. I’m not saying that staring at otoliths will stop fascism but it’s a great palate cleanser.
The "federal funding roller coaster" has led to uncertainty regarding the project I'd planned to work on for the next few months. Silver lining: my availability to write for you in the meantime. Get in touch for all projects big, small, and everything in between. michelechristle.com/services
Offer accepted! Looking forward to stitching for you, JF. ❤️
This belated December missive also contains an offer: because I enjoyed embroidering a shirt for my sister (@heatherchristle.bsky.social) I am offering to embroider a shirt for the next person who becomes a paid subscriber or gives a gift subscription.
It's time to talk about my "t" key and why technically, I no longer have a laptop. michelechristle.substack.com/p/yeah-righ
Wrote a thing for StoryCorps' blog about vacillating between skepticism and hope as I facilitated One Small Step conversations for WERU 89.9 FM over the past few years. Thanks for reading.
This month's newsletter is an ode to convenience stores I've visited at night in the past week. Subscribe for free or for $. michelechristle.substack.com/p/i-was-driv...
The story I wrote about a Passamaquoddy eel conservation initiative got a shout-out in Sam Sifton's NYT Cooking newsletter yesterday. I'm chuffed + pumped that this story—which is just as much about Wabanaki sovereignty as it is about eels—is making it to an even bigger audience.
