We’ve been “summering” at the East Wind Inn in Tenants Harbor for many years, spending a couple of days pretending to be wealthy summer visitors to Maine, luxuriating in the simple pleasures of the sea. Innkeeper Tim Watts keeps it simple.

Baseball season is here, and who doesn’t like exciting stories of homeruns and heroes?

Joseph A. Dane will give a reading and discuss his book, “Dogfish Memory: Sailing in Search of Old Maine,” at the Bailey Public Library in Winthrop on Tuesday, May 22 at 6:30 p.m., as part of the library’s Lakes Region Forum. Dogfish is a meditative, unconventional memoir, chronicling a lifetime of sailing the Maine coast.

Several years ago, a storm at sea forced author and sailor Darcy Scott to take refuge in the harbor at Matinicus — Maine’s most remote island and a place infamous both for its ongoing lobster wars and gun-toting, wild west-meets-beeper-generation lifestyle.

In late 1775, a few months after the first shots of the Revolution were fired, Benedict Arnold led more than one thousand troops into Quebec to attack the British