The first woman to graduate from the Naval Test Pilot School, Captain Colleen Nevius, finally catches up on her reading in her new home on the shores of Little Sebago Lake.

BY COLIN W. SARGENT

What can you see from your screened porch?

It’s a breezy day on the lake. The American flag and the Maine flag are waving on my island.

What’s your island called?

My kids called it Ghost Island. We first saw it when my kids went with us to Aimhi Lodge from 2001 to 2005. But it’s really Moon Island. From the sky it must once have been crescent-shaped.

You have that extra dimension—only a pilot would say that. 

We think it was a man-made island when the lodge property was being created originally. All the extra dirt and rocks were put there. I’ve got a little footbridge that connects us to the island.

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