Fresh Blooms and the Smell of the Ocean
Submitted by Ari Meil on Tue, 04/13/2010 - 2:24pm.
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FRESH BLOOMS AND THE SMELL OF THE OCEAN
April 13, 2010
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Spring has come to Maine a little early this year. It's mid-April and already some of the trees are blooming, seemingly without fear of a late frost, and if you walk by the shore you can smell the ocean. Fittingly, April is National Poetry Month, because the great weather has, no doubt, put us all in a poetic state of mind.
Below is a poem from Edna St. Vincent Millay that is included in our book The Maine Poets, which is available for 20% off this month online at www.DownEast.com if you use promo code EM1004P when you check out.
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What Your Dollar is Worth in Maine
In a state as enormous as Maine, where you decide to buy will have a huge impact on how much your budget will get you. In Piscataquis County, for instance, where the median sales price dropped 21 percent last year, you might be able to afford a couple of hundred acres and a stunning farmhouse. Dream of moving to coastal Knox County, though, where prices dropped just 3 percent, and that same money will see you in a much more modest home.
Read the whole article here
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A Spring Case of Duffer Brain
As I write this, Charlie is in the den, lying on the couch, with his knee propped up, remote in hand, moaning. He's in pain, but keeps "forgetting" to take his ibuprofen, so I have to remind him every four hours. I'm trying to muster up a little sympathy, but it's hard, considering the circumstances.
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An Artist's View of Maine's Historic Waterfronts
"The aim of every artist," William Faulkner wrote, "is to arrest motion, which is life. A hundred years later, a stranger looks at it, and it moves again." Nationally recognized maritime artist Loretta Krupinski keeps that thought in mind as she researches and executes her beautiful canvases on nautical subjects. Her paintings show fascinating details of Maine's waterfront towns in their heyday, when fishing and quarrying and the cargo trade were the backbone of the coastal economy.
See sample images and watch the author on 207
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The True Encounter
"Wolf!" cried my cunning heart
At every sheep it spied,
And roused the countryside.
"Wolf! Wolf!"—and up would start
Good neighbors, bringing spade
And pitchfork to my aid
At length my cry was known:
Theirein lay my release.
I met the wolf alone
And was devoured in peace.
—Edna St. Vincent Millay
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