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Dec 24, 20238 min read

Christmas on Naskeag Point

In most of the country, about Thanksgiving Day, the first vagrant airs of approaching Christmas ..

Dec 22, 20238 min read

The Glory of Maine at Yuletide

by John N. Cole (1980) Three hundred and seventy-three Decembers have been swallowed by time since the first English Christmas in Maine....

Dec 19, 20236 min read

Christmas in A One-Room School

The following story is featured in All Is Calm: A Maine Christmas Reader. All Is Calm, edited by Islandport's own Shannon Butler, is an...

Dec 19, 20236 min read

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 era's...

Dec 12, 20235 min read

A Holiday History

by Shannon Butler This essay by Shannon Butler serves as the introduction to her book, All Is Calm, a look at the lives of Mainers during...

Dec 7, 20235 min read

Q&A | Susan Daignault

A Massachusetts native, Susan "Sue" Daignault spent her childhood summers surfcasting for striped bass with her parents and three...