A Maine Island Christmas
By Dean L. Lunt In the 1970s, Frenchboro remained a relatively poor island fishing village eight miles at sea that, given the smaller...
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hannah6290
- Nov 19, 2021
- 4 min
Christmas in Good Old Aroostook
By Eva M. Furbush, 1915 “Our beautiful Christmas tree is lighted with electric bulbs,” said Mrs. Evans to her little daughter, Elsie....
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hannah6290
- Nov 18, 2021
- 3 min
Play in a Winter Wonderland
Thanks to Jennifer Hazard and her book, The Maine Play Book: A Four-Season Guide to Family Fun and Adventure, there is no shortage of...
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Dean Lunt
- Nov 12, 2021
- 6 min
My Dad: "The Biggest Drunk in Portland."
By Edward Crocket The first line of his obituary in the Portland Press Herald proclaimed my father, Walter Crockett, “the biggest drunk...
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Dean Lunt
- Nov 4, 2021
- 8 min
John Duncan's Portland
By Dean L. Lunt I have worked as a journalist, writer, and editor for more than three decades. On any given day hundreds, perhaps...
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Dean Lunt
- Sep 6, 2021
- 4 min
Bringin’ in the Hay
By May Davidson When haying season arrives, I think back to the days when my husband, Jim, and I were sheep farming. Harvesting hay is an...
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Piper
- Jan 12, 2021
- 9 min
A Long, Cold Winter
Trudging the last half-mile of steep uphill while pulling the sled and groceries was less fun.
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Piper
- Dec 22, 2020
- 3 min
Finding Christmas
The week of December 5 was hectic. The Christmas rush was beginning to crowd a busy work week with too few hours spent chasing too many task
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Piper
- Dec 15, 2020
- 6 min
Launching a Holiday Tradition
It was my idea to put a lighted tree on top of our seventy-foot Harvestore silo.
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Piper
- Dec 8, 2020
- 8 min
Christmas on Naskeag Point
In most of the country, about Thanksgiving Day, the first vagrant airs of approaching Christmas ..
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Piper
- Nov 27, 2020
- 5 min
A Holiday History
By Shannon Butler Maine has become the picture-perfect, snow-globe setting for a host of Christmas imagery. From idyllic, pastoral scenes...
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Piper
- Nov 24, 2020
- 2 min
A Gratitude List
I keep a gratitude journal all year, just like Oprah. Every day I write down at least five things I’m grateful for.
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Piper
- Nov 17, 2020
- 3 min
The Gunning Grounds
You know how it is on the coast, my friend, when the weather is brittle cold, and the breaking dawn is painting the sky with colors of pink
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Piper
- Nov 10, 2020
- 3 min
At First Glance They Don't Have a Lot in Common
By Sam Brakeley This book combines two very different stories. One takes place between 1775 and 1776 in New York and Massachusetts, and...
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Piper
- Nov 3, 2020
- 5 min
Hi there! My name’s Ida, and I’m a Home Shopping Networkaholic
By Susan Pouiln When did I meet Ida? 1996. I was competing in the first (and, as far as I know, only) Yankee Yarns Contest in Keene, New...
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Piper
- Oct 27, 2020
- 4 min
The Northwest Wind
By John N. Cole Of all the winds that blow, I like the northwest best. It is rare as a summer wind along this upper corner of the...
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Piper
- Oct 20, 2020
- 4 min
Things that Go Bump (or Howl) in the Night
By Earl Brechlin With ninety percent of the land area covered in forest, Maine is the most heavily forested state in the country. With...
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Piper
- Oct 13, 2020
- 4 min
Tell Me the Landscape
By Glenna Johnson Smith For nearly seven decades the geography of Aroostook County has become a part of me. Now, after reading Dakota: A...
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Piper
- Oct 6, 2020
- 4 min
The Wilderness of Our Childhood
By John Holyoke The stream was narrow. It was shallow. Several times a summer, after we had climbed every tree we could climb, were...
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Piper
- Oct 1, 2020
- 4 min
Peek into The Door to January
The house was a sad thing in the daylight. It sat on a hilltop, a sagging pile of weathered clapboards and crumbling brick...
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