Michele Christle
is a writer, collaborator,
and freelance communications professional
Selected Publications
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"The Nest: Early Cape Verdean Families in Maine"
Atlantic Black Box / Interco(a)stal
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"Fiddler on the Point: St. Domingo-Born Musician Major John “Jack” Douglass in 19th-Century Maine"
Atlantic Black Box / Interco(a)stal
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"Like White Ghosts Swimming"
The Rumpus
Tinker on the Marsh
Tinker on the Marsh is a weekly newsletter informed by explorations of a tidal marsh in so-called Maine—
Physical explorations as well as explorations of historical archives, stories, geology, ecology, migrations, place names, archaeology, ship building/sailing, and cartography.
Tinker on the Marsh is an ode to this land and waters (especially kʷikʷimə́ssəwihtəkʷ) and to all the human and more than human beings who have ever inhabited them and who will inhabit them in the future.
The Elversphere
The Elversphere is an invitation, a story, a documentary film-in-progress, and a longform writing project.
Every year, when elver season begins, I enter what I call “The Elversphere”—an intoxicating world where observing the migrating elvers (baby eels) who make their way to so-called “Maine” after a long journey from their spawning grounds in the Sargasso Sea connects me to rivers, harbors, nocturnal escapades, fishermen, elver buyers and backers, conservationists, citizen science, policy, enforcement, artists, researchers, scientists, water, mud, and possibility.
