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...

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...

By Earl Brechlin With ninety percent of the land area covered in forest, Maine is the most heavily forested state in the country. With...

By Glenna Johnson Smith For nearly seven decades the geography of Aroostook County has become a part of me. Now, after reading Dakota: A...

By John Holyoke The stream was narrow. It was shallow. Several times a summer, after we had climbed every tree we could climb, were...

The house was a sad thing in the daylight. It sat on a hilltop, a sagging pile of weathered clapboards and crumbling brick...