Philip Conkling

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Trap Day on Monhegan | Maine Lobstering Tradition

No one goes till everyone goes. That’s the way it’s always been on Trap Day on Monhegan, when the island’s lobstermen first set their traps off the darkened shoreline of one of Maine’s most storied offshore communities. On September’s last day, islanders begin re-enacting old rituals as Monhegan’s fleet of rusted, un-muffled pickup trucks lumber down […]

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Yankee Magazine

Trap Day on Monhegan

SLIDE SHOW: Trap Day on Monhegan No one goes till everyone goes. That’s the way it’s always been on Trap Day on Monhegan, when the island’s lobstermen first set their traps off the darkened shoreline of one of Maine’s most storied offshore communities. Over the years, Monhegan has maintained very different lobstering traditions from anywhere […]