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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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Oct 13, 20222 min read
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Autumn Comes to Grand Lake Stream
A great many roads surrounding Grand Lake Stream are best negotiated in first gear.
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Oct 12, 20224 min read
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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.
Piper
Jun 9, 20222 min read
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Strange Acadia
From Wild! Weird! Wonderful! Maine. by Earl Brechlin Acadia National Park sprawls across nearly fifty thousand acres on Mount Desert...
Piper
May 31, 20223 min read
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Classic A Countryman’s Journal Back in Print
A Countryman’s Journal, writer Roy Barrette’s observations of the quiet, simple life in small-town Maine, is being reissued.
Piper
May 12, 20222 min read
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A Long, Cold Winter
Trudging the last half-mile of steep uphill while pulling the sled and groceries was less fun.
Piper
Jan 12, 20219 min read
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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
Piper
Dec 22, 20203 min read
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Launching a Holiday Tradition
It was my idea to put a lighted tree on top of our seventy-foot Harvestore silo.
Piper
Dec 15, 20206 min read
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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...
Piper
Nov 10, 20203 min read
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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...
Piper
Oct 13, 20204 min read
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The Wilderness of Our Childhood
By John Holyoke The stream was narrow. It was shallow. Several times a summer, after we had climbed every tree we could climb, were...
Piper
Oct 6, 20204 min read
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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,...
Piper
Sep 29, 20206 min read
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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...
Piper
Sep 23, 20203 min read
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