Announcement | Wicked Good Book Club
We are excited to announce that Islandport Press and Books-A-Million are collaborating on the Wicked Good Book Club, which aims to...
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Piper
Dec 24, 20238 min read
Christmas on Naskeag Point
In most of the country, about Thanksgiving Day, the first vagrant airs of approaching Christmas ..
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Piper
Oct 13, 20222 min read
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, 20224 min read
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 31, 20223 min read
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, 20226 min read
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
Sep 26, 20212 min read
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, 20219 min read
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, 20203 min read
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, 20206 min read
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
Nov 17, 20203 min read
The Gunning Grounds
You know how it is on the coast, my friend, when the weather is brittle cold, and the breaking dawn is painting the sky with colors of pink
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Piper
Nov 10, 20203 min read
At First Glance They Don't Have a Lot in Common
By Sam Brakeley This book combines two very different stories. One takes place between 1775 and 1776 in New York and Massachusetts, and...
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Piper
Nov 3, 20205 min read
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, 20204 min read
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 20, 20204 min read
Things that Go Bump (or Howl) in the Night
By Earl Brechlin With ninety percent of the land area covered in forest, Maine is the most heavily forested state in the country. With...
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Piper
Oct 13, 20204 min read
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, 20204 min read
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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Piper
Sep 29, 20206 min read
There Hain't No Deer
By Dean Bennett Every year the mill shut down for a reason that most have forgotten, or never knew. Of the few that have heard of it,...
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Piper
Sep 23, 20203 min read
Maine in September
By John N. Cole I am no longer sailing the same waters I did as a fisherman more than a decade ago, but much of the same exuberance I...
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