The Island Store has served Isle au Haut for more than fifty years. It sits in a flood plain, and the water is rising.
Welcome
The Friends of the Island Store is a non-profit, tax-exempt organization created to support the Island Store.
The Store is the year-round center of life on Isle au Haut. It sells groceries and essential goods, provides kerosene for heating homes and gasoline for island vehicles, carries produce, eggs and baked goods from island vendors, and hosts the gatherings that bring the community together through every season.
It is also vulnerable. The building sits on the Thorofare in a flood plain, and sea level is projected to rise up to one foot in five years, two feet in twenty-five, and six feet in seventy-five. The Friends exists to help the Store prepare for that future — and to help it through the lean winter months in the meantime.
How the Friends supports the Store
Resilience for the long term
Funding the engineering work, and eventually the construction, needed to secure the building and fuel system against storm surge and rising water — including the matching funds that State of Maine infrastructure grants require.
Steadiness through the winter
Interim support so the Store can pay its bills in the months when revenues are low. Last winter a sharp rise in kerosene prices required immediate payment for an extra delivery; community giving carried the Store through it.
From the latest newsletter
Our Summer 2026 newsletter covers the year in review at the Store, the engineering study on sea level rise, the Board’s new credit policy, and what is happening on the island this season — Tuesday Hang-outs, the Fourth of July barbecue, and The Lunch Pail.
Read the newsletterStore hours
Summer, through the end of August:
- Monday–Saturday, 10:30 AM–6 PM
- Sunday, 11 AM–2 PM
For special orders or deliveries, call the Store at 207-335-5211.
Help keep the Store standing
Every gift goes toward securing the Island Store for the island community — this winter and for the generations after.