H.3806, filed by state Rep. Bruce Ayers of Quincy, would bar the state from leasing out Outer Brewster Island, now home to a long abandoned gun battery and lots of nesting birds and seals. In 2005, an energy company proposed building a $500-million LNG terminal on the island.

Via Friends of the Blue Hills.

Sadly, I've never been to the Boston Harbor Islands in the 20 something years I've lived on the North Shore.

This summer, our Shakespeare teen group did Romeo and Juliet all around the north shore. I'm already planning on next summer... and the Harbor Islands as a destination to bring the show to seemed intriguing.

I believe we're doing Hamlet in August, and Twelfth Night in July. The island destination for Twelfth Night would be pretty awesome...

But I don't know anything ABOUT the islands.

If you've been there, like it, hate it, think it'd be awesome to have an outdoor Shakespeare show there ... send me your feedback. It may spur me on or steer me clear. But I would love to know what your impressions of the islands are.