Author : Lynn Plourde
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 13,96 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781934031063
The author lyrically celebrates the inspirational beauty of her home state of Maine from Baxter State Park to the Atlantic Ocean.
Author : Wesley McNair
Publisher : Down East Books
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 40,91 MB
Release : 2008-06-02
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 1461741432
What is it like to live and write in Maine? Wesley McNair, Maine's premier anthologist, asked authors who are new to Maine as well as natives to answer this question. They wax lyrical on everything from encounters with neighbors and wildlife to embracing Maine's rich natural landscape, and they take a philosophical look at the state of being in Maine. Among the authors included are Carolyn Chute, Richard Ford, Bill Roorbach, Richard Russo, and Monica Wood.
Author : J. Courtney Sullivan
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 530 pages
File Size : 17,89 MB
Release : 2012-05-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0307742210
This breakout New York Times bestseller from the celebrated author of Commencement and The Engagements, introduces four unforgettable women and the abiding, often irrational love that keeps them coming back, every summer, to Maine and to each other. For the Kellehers, Maine is a place where children run in packs, showers are taken outdoors, and old Irish songs are sung around a piano. As three generations of Kelleher women arrive at the family's beach house, each brings her own hopes and fears. Maggie is thirty-two and pregnant, waiting for the perfect moment to tell her imperfect boyfriend the news; Ann Marie, a Kelleher by marriage, is channeling her domestic frustration into a dollhouse obsession and an ill-advised crush; Kathleen, the black sheep, never wanted to set foot in the cottage again; and Alice, the matriarch at the center of it all, would trade every floorboard for a chance to undo the events of one night, long ago.
Author : Michelle Y. Souliere
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 115 pages
File Size : 27,20 MB
Release : 2012-05-22
Category : History
ISBN : 1614231710
Maine is well known as a land of fresh air and clean water, as the home of L.L. Bean and as one of the most popular camping and outdoor recreation destinations in the country. But what lies behind this idyllic facade? Unmapped roads. Whispering rocks. Deadening fog. Ghost pirates. Lonely islands. THINGS in the woods. This is the great state of Maine, home of Stephen King, land of the Great Northern Woods and all the mystery that lies within their dark footprint. What better setting than this for tales of strange creatures, murderers, madmen and eccentric hermits? From the "Headless Halloween of 1940" to the mystery of who lies in the grave of V.P. Coolidge; from Bigfoot sightings to the "witch's grave" in a Portland cemetery, writer and illustrator Michelle Souliere brings to life these strange-but-true tales from the Pine Tree State.
Author : M.M. Drymon PhD
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 398 pages
File Size : 22,79 MB
Release : 2015-10-25
Category : History
ISBN : 1387421506
A place called Crockett's Corner began as a seventeenth century colonial settlement that grew into a stable and sustainable nineteenth century American agrarian landscape. During thetwentieth century, in a rapid but staged process, the landscape was changed into an edge city. These changes were the direct result, especially after 1938, of prevailing public policies which acted to constrain some land uses while supporting others.Landscape change has had unintended consequences, including local social network destruction,historic building demolition, and unmitigated air and non-point source water pollution. Raising awareness of the deep history of this place may help empower advocates for historic preservation, open space, environmental protection and more sustainable land use practices in the future.
Author : J. Courtney Sullivan
Publisher : Knopf
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 19,15 MB
Release : 2011
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0307595129
Three generations of women converge on the family beach house in this wickedly funny, emotionally resonant story of love and dysfunction.
Author : Jason Paige Smith
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 31,71 MB
Release : 2019-05-24
Category :
ISBN : 9780368848711
Demographically speaking, Maine is the oldest state in the nation. In his book, The Oldest State: Portraits of a Maine Generation, photographer Jason Paige Smith has created compelling, storytelling images of people from around the state who are still out doing incredible things, despite their age. His book not only tells the stories of these inspiring individuals, but also gives great insight into the lives they've lived.
Author : Matthew P. Mayo
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 117 pages
File Size : 30,39 MB
Release : 2011-05-03
Category : History
ISBN : 0762768967
Maine is many things to many people—a haven in a world of headaches, a fir-stippled paradise where summer comes slow and easy, a place that is heartbreaking to leave and a relief to return to. It is the way life should be. More specifically, Maine is 3,500 miles of enchanting coastline, the 5,267-foot elevation of Mount Katahdin, and of course her hardy, friendly folks. Maine Icons illustrates the quintessential symbols that make Maine so fascinating and unique. Profiled here are fifty classic symbols of this extraordinary state, revealing little-known facts, longtime secrets, and historical legends. From bean hole beans to L.L.Bean, here’s the inside story about the very things that give this state its character. Did you know that the annual Maine Lobster Festival includes a parade, a lobster-crate race, and more than 20,000 pounds of lobster cooked in the world’s biggest lobster boiler? That it was a woman, Cornelia Thurza “Fly Rod” Crosby, who became the first licensed, registered Maine Guide in 1897? Or that the earmuff was patented in the 1870s by young Chester Greenwood, who went on to be named one of America’s top fifteen outstanding inventors? For Mainers and newcomers alike, Maine Icons will be a treasured keepsake of this charming state.
Author : Peter P. Blanchard
Publisher : UPNE
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 17,60 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1584658606
A couple set out on a bold and vigorous quest for independence and a more essential way of life on a Maine island
Author : Kerri Arsenault
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 35,51 MB
Release : 2020-09-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1250155959
Winner of the 2021 Rachel Carson Environmental Book Award Winner of the 2021 Maine Literary Award for Nonfiction Finalist for the 2020 National Book Critics John Leonard Prize for Best First Book Finalist for the 2021 New England Society Book Award Finalist for the 2021 New England Independent Booksellers Association Award A New York Times Editors’ Choice and Chicago Tribune top book for 2020 “Mill Town is the book of a lifetime; a deep-drilling, quick-moving, heartbreaking story. Scathing and tender, it lifts often into poetry, but comes down hard when it must. Through it all runs the river: sluggish, ancient, dangerous, freighted with America’s sins.” —Robert Macfarlane, author of Underland Kerri Arsenault grew up in the small, rural town of Mexico, Maine, where for over 100 years the community orbited around a paper mill that provided jobs for nearly everyone in town, including three generations of her family. Kerri had a happy childhood, but years after she moved away, she realized the price she paid for that childhood. The price everyone paid. The mill, while providing the social and economic cohesion for the community, also contributed to its demise. Mill Town is a book of narrative nonfiction, investigative memoir, and cultural criticism that illuminates the rise and collapse of the working-class, the hazards of loving and leaving home, and the ambiguous nature of toxics and disease with the central question; Who or what are we willing to sacrifice for our own survival?
