Open House at Darthia Farm

I will be in my kitchen at Darthia Farm in Gouldsboro, ready to chat, answer questions, talk about the farm’s history, sign and sell copies of my memoir for your Christmas giving, and serve some cookies. The wood stove will be on, warming some holiday punch. Please drop by and say hello. --- Cynthia Thayer

2024 Maine Literary Awards Finalist

At first, the words didn’t connect: Bill’s in the middle of the road. I think he’s alive. But when they did, Cynthia Thayer found her entire world cut adrift from its familiar moorings. Her husband Bill had been in an accident while driving their team of horses; he could not speak, so what had happened remained a mystery. With the emergency helicopter grounded by fog, Bill and Cynthia endured a long ambulance ride to Bangor, Maine, where doctors were waiting to treat him.

Bill and Cynthia had been through a…