Autumn Comes to Grand Lake Stream
A great many roads surrounding Grand Lake Stream are best negotiated in first gear.
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Piper
- May 12, 2022
- 2 min
Classic A Countryman’s Journal Back in Print
A Countryman’s Journal, writer Roy Barrette’s observations of the quiet, simple life in small-town Maine, is being reissued.
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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 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 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 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 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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