PiperOct 13, 20204 minTell Me the LandscapeBy Glenna Johnson Smith For nearly seven decades the geography of Aroostook County has become a part of me. Now, after reading Dakota: A...
PiperOct 6, 20204 minThe Wilderness of Our ChildhoodBy John Holyoke The stream was narrow. It was shallow. Several times a summer, after we had climbed every tree we could climb, were...
PiperOct 1, 20204 minPeek into The Door to JanuaryThe house was a sad thing in the daylight. It sat on a hilltop, a sagging pile of weathered clapboards and crumbling brick...
PiperSep 29, 20206 minThere Hain't No DeerBy 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,...
PiperSep 23, 20203 minMaine in SeptemberBy 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...
PiperSep 1, 20207 minAnd Then We Said GoodbyeAn 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...
Dean LuntJun 9, 20203 minWriting Maine History: Every Day of the YearWhat a perfect use, I thought, for the menagerie of random information about Maine that had been milling around in my brain