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"Unlove's the heavenless hell and homeless home...lovers alone wear sunlight"
E.E.Cummings

“That was the place that you were home-sick for, even when you were there.”

Ruth Moore

Ruth Moore had a very detailed Maine-sixth-sense about life here and could write with a certain country- intelligent- style. She even made up words like nobody else could. ( Read more... )

“The human here is lost in survival isolation.”

Leo Connellan, describes a darker part of Maine in a poetic way that the tourist necessarily might not want to know.  The history of cold isolated sadness hidden in the never-ending long winter days or of the summer fog that last all month, in New England small towns. Not everything in life is ( Read more... )

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      Things got so bad and finally after only bad things kept happening. We decided to move again and cut all losses. We never would understand the Mainers and they would never even try to understand us. We were on the road again. The sound of the tires on the tar seemed hypnotizing. The highway bypasses were always the saddest I thought, because ( Read more... )

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