An online journal which chronicles the steady decline in quality of life wrought by unchecked tourism on Mount Desert Island, Maine. The QSJ is written in the traditions of Pamphleteers in the late 18th Century and Muckrakers in the early 20th Century.
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How Bezos-owned WashPo, others play into Susan Collins's formidable image machine
MOUNT DESERT, Aug. 2, 2026 - Back when I was in the newsroom eons ago, we called it “man in the street” reporting.
On a slow day in the local bureau, we would venture out on Main Street and interview folks walking by on various particular...
Town Hill village board says no to development of cemetery land, seeks to reshape representation
TOWN HILL, July 31, 2026 - The board of the West End Village Improvement Society has withdrawn the listing for commercial development of a parcel of land in the Mountain View Cemetery owned by the VIS, in hopes of diffusing a confrontation...
Can Troy Jackson survive the drip, drip, drip of media questioning
Troy Jackson, left, and Susan Collins. (Contributed and Press Herald file photos)
MOUNT DESERT, July 29, 2026 - Remember the Hillary Clinton email scandal - how the New York Times went full throttle which helped destroy her candidacy?
It...
Barrage of unanswered questions as Town Hill grapples with cemetery, village society takeover
TOWN HILL, July 27, 2026 - long before the word “community” became hackneyed and over-used by penny politicians, hamlets in the late 19th and early 20th century created village improvement societies - in Bar Harbor (1881), Northeast Harbor...
Video of small aircraft landing on Long Pond
MOUNT DESERT, June 26, 2026 - The Quietside Journal has gone fishing. Meanwhile, enjoy this video of aircraft landing on Long Pond this morning.
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