Rockefeller Recounts Her Spirited Journey from Appalachia to Maine
Le Mans, West Virginia, Michigan all stops on a wild ride from barefoot to boardroom. Yarmouth, Maine (Oct. 11, 2022)—In a new memoir,...
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Piper
- Oct 12, 2022
- 4 min
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
- Jun 9, 2022
- 2 min
Marpheen Chann to Celebrate Release of Memoir in Portland
Marpheen Chann will celebrate the release of his memoir, Moon in Full, on June 15 at Rising Tide Brewing Company in Portland.
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Piper
- May 31, 2022
- 3 min
Strange Acadia
From Wild! Weird! Wonderful! Maine. by Earl Brechlin Acadia National Park sprawls across nearly fifty thousand acres on Mount Desert...
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Piper
- May 31, 2022
- 6 min
Start at the Low Point
An excerpt from Blue Summer by Jim Nichols Tampa, 1995 We’ll start at that low point: a trailer park in Tampa, Florida. It’s early in the...
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Piper
- May 12, 2022
- 2 min
Two Islandport Press Novels win IPPY Awards
Silence and Blue Summer, two Islandport Press novels set in Maine, have both won gold in their categories at the 2022 IPPY Awards.
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Piper
- May 4, 2022
- 2 min
A Modern Day Tale of Growing Up, Coming Out, and Fitting In
Marpheen Chann’s memoir Moon in Full, a contemporary coming-of-age story, is slated for release on June 21
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Piper
- Apr 25, 2022
- 4 min
Solitude at Camp
From Evergreens by John Holyoke For years, “camp” has existed as a strictly seasonal retreat, with all the attendant perks, anda few...
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hannah6290
- Dec 1, 2021
- 3 min
Satan in the Woods & the Deep Blue Sea
By Earl Brechlin Like much of Puritan New England, Maine has always held a fascination with the devil. There was no better way to ward...
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Dean Lunt
- Dec 1, 2021
- 5 min
Dueling Americas
By Phuc Tran America. Patriots. Refugees. Immigrants. Citizens. Love it. Leave it. Go back to your country. There is tension in my family...
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Dean Lunt
- Nov 30, 2021
- 6 min
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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Piper
- Sep 27, 2021
- 2 min
Fourth Moore Novel Reissued by Islandport
Ruth Moore’s 1962 gritty novel Second Growth is now back in print for the first time in nearly five decades.
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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 ..