ニューヨーク・タイムズさんのインスタグラム写真 - (ニューヨーク・タイムズInstagram)「Since 1905, 4 generations of the Quinn family have delivered the mail by boat to a series of small islands in Maine’s Penobscot Bay. Because of Covid-19, this year is likely to be the last. Each summer, the mail boat that serves the small islands of northern Penobscot Bay would usually be weighed down with letters and packages, and a number of paying passengers. But this year tourism fell because of the pandemic, cutting into revenue and disrupting service. Maine has the sixth-most tourism-dependent economy in the U.S., with nearly $6.5 billion in revenue from vacationers. But unlike other states relying on hospitality, like Florida and Nevada, nearly everyone comes between June and September. Seasonal residents of the islands would be stranded without the mail boat — a lifeline that delivers essentials like prescriptions, groceries and, this year, ballots. The Quinns — originally farmers — have long been caretakers of the community of Eagle Island, replacing empty propane tanks, recovering runaway rowboats and setting upright outhouses knocked over by winter storms. At one point, the family ran a summer hotel with a 6-hole golf course, a tennis court and a dance hall. It now serves as a spacious office for the Sunset Bay Company, owned by Treena Quinn — the first woman in her family to run the mail boat. “I’m terrified,” she said. The mail route, during its service of 115 years, had survived hurricanes, a fire, gales, winters in which the bay iced over, the loss of three vessels. “Covid is probably going to kill it.” Tap the link in our bio to read more. Photos @tspinski」9月5日 10時04分