Celebrating the Good Life

Ideas that were considered way out when the Common Ground Country Fair opened in the tempestuous seventies have become mainstream in Maine over the years.

Ideas that were considered way out when the Common Ground Country Fair opened in the tempestuous seventies have become mainstream in Maine over the years.
Image subjects: view of fair, tents, people eating at picnic table
fair-goer
spinning yarn at the Common Ground Fair
Man playing squeeze box at fair
young girl with a "go organic" sign
deep fried onion
man with work horse at fair

Location: Unity

By: Edgar Allen Beem
and John Brindle

Photography by: Michele Stapleton

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	Journey of the Sea Glass \| Full-color spreads with no words will inspire a child's imagination.
	Interventions \| Four individually bound stories presented in a lovely slipcase.
	Eric Hopkins \| From his earliest work with glass to the stunning aerial panoramas of Maine islands that have gained him far-reaching fame, Eric Hopkins has consistently explored boundaries—of medium, of space, of vision.
	Wild Fox \| This is Cherie Mason’s touching story of how she befriended a wild creature, knowing that his instincts would soon lead him away forever. Suffused with gentle wonder, Wild Fox speaks to the deep human longing to span the gulf between species.