The author performs in every nook and cranny of the state, so you can bet she knows how to speak and understand the local language. In this book, she shares that knowledge to help visitors, transplants, and natives alike make sense of the state's unique vernacular and pronunciations.
Pink Chimneys", set in nineteenth-century Maine, centred around a notorious Bangor brothel and told the story of the resilient Fanny, her daughter Elizabeth, and Maude, a midwife. This title updates the lives of that cast of characters and introduces a new leading lady, Elizabeth's daughter M, who is a headstrong, emotional woman.
Describes the complexities, absurdities, and pleasures of the everyday, from the author's nostalgic looks at her childhood on the Maine coast in the 1920s and 1930s, to her observations of life under the big sky and among the rolling potato fields of her beloved Aroostook County, where she has lived for nearly seven decades.
North Bath, Maine, is set on the peninsula surrounded by the Androscoggin and Kennebec Rivers with Merrymeeting Bay at the headland. This title introduces the beginnings of this town, from its 17th-century roots to its evolution as a thriving rural community with farms, shipyards, mills, tanneries, blacksmith shops, Yankee characters, and more.
Julie Williamson is embroiled yet again in another mystery set at the Ryland Historical Society in western Maine. This time, a well-known benefactor is murdered on the morning of the ceremony to celebrate construction of an important new building. Julie, the historical society's puzzle-loving director, can't help but want to solve the murder.
A mother gives her little boy a hand-made quilt, but it's more than just a quilt. It's a whole world where fantastical animals run, hide, swim, and frolic in a calico jungle. The boy enters this wild landscape and travels through it. As he nears the far side of the quilt, the animals he encounters are curled up asleep. The boy grows sleepy, too.
Master Maine Guide the author knows the lakes, streams, and woodlands around Grand Lake Stream, Maine, like few others. He puts you in the casting seat of his Grand Laker, introduces his many sports who come from miles away to decompress, brings you out on the trail during fall hunts, and takes you on many other adventures as only an insider can.
The iconic "Bert and I" stories were first created by Yale University students Marshall Dodge and Robert Bryan in the late 1950s and performed around campus. This title features their milestone album. It also includes three bonus stories taken from the private ten-incher that preceded the first commercial record.
Captures the magic of a Marshall Dodge performance. Originally recorded at the University of Maine in the fall of 1977, this CD includes stories "Set 'er Again" and "One Heckuva Draft".
Set in Maine, this title tells a story of class distinctions in a 1950s Down East coastal village during a time of cultural change. It deals with serious issues that remain relevant today, none more compelling than the erosion of one way of Maine life and the evolution of another.
A memoir of dairy farming. It describes the daily trials of haying, cow breeding, and milking against a backdrop of gentle and entertaining rural life. It offers a tribute to hard-working family farmers and to an important part of the nation's historical and cultural heritage.
Offers a romantic and tumultuous saga of a Maine family who makes its home Down East. Spanning six decades, starting in the late nineteenth century, this novel depicts their lives as they meet head on the joys and challenges of the changing and encroaching world and eventually, World War II.
A novel that is filled with details of the natural world, both at sea and on land of Maine. It captures the pervasive changes wrought by the Industrial Revolution as coastal people stood on the brink of a new world, slowly turning from the glorious era of sail to serving the incoming tide of wealthy summer vacationers.
Countering the myth of New York Yankee infallibility, Those Damned Yankees relates the trials and tribulations of baseball's most hated team and serves as the definitive guide for those who hate them. Author Clarke Canfield, a longtime New England journalist, relates every rich and juicy detail-the disastrous seasons, the blowout losses, the infantile behavior of players, the horrible trades, and all the crushing playoff and World Series defea...
