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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...

Piper
Oct 27, 20204 min read
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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...

Piper
Oct 20, 20204 min read
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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...

Piper
Oct 13, 20204 min read
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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...

Piper
Oct 6, 20204 min read
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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...

Piper
Oct 1, 20204 min read
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There Hain't No Deer
By Dean Bennett Every year the mill shut down for a reason that most have forgotten, or never knew. Of the few that have heard of it,...

Piper
Sep 29, 20206 min read
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Maine in September
By John N. Cole I am no longer sailing the same waters I did as a fisherman more than a decade ago, but much of the same exuberance I...

Piper
Sep 23, 20203 min read
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And Then We Said Goodbye
An Excerpt from Hauling by Hand: The Life and Times of a Maine Island by Dean L. Lunt I don't know when my grandmother forgot who I...

Piper
Sep 1, 20207 min read
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Writing Maine History: Every Day of the Year
What a perfect use, I thought, for the menagerie of random information about Maine that had been milling around in my brain

Dean Lunt
Jun 9, 20203 min read
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