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Franklin Burroughs
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Franklin Burroughs is the author of the essay collections Billy Watson’s Croker Sack, The River Home, and Confluence: Merrymeeting Bay, which won the John Burroughs Medal for nature writing. He wrote Down East’s Room With a View column from 2016 through 2018.
Land, Water & Wildlife

An Unlikely Rescue in the Kennebec Gorge — And Its Aftermath

A close call on the Kennebec interrupted author Franklin Burroughs’s life. Two years later, he reflects on the accident and on the changes since — for him and for all of us.
The Bottom of the Page
Room With a View

The Bottom of the Page

"As you get older, those seasons accelerate, arriving and departing like houseguests — hardly time to clean up after one before the next one is on the doorstep."
River
Room With a View

Provincialisms

This November’s midterm elections pit us against each other in ways that seem to have precious little to do with realities grounded in our local and national geographies or their histories.
fern
Room With a View

A Serious Matter

Those rivers, those woods, those creatures, that country: The Way Life Is.
wild turkey
Room With a View

Good Having You Back

By 1900, the following animals were extinct or nearly extinct in Maine and everywhere else east of the Mississippi: 1) any wild canid larger than a fox, 2) wild turkeys, 3) beavers. Now they act like they own the place.
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Arts & Leisure

Growth Rings

Seems like yesterday: everything sharply detailed and in focus, more vivid now in memory than it was then in fact.
Maine Camp
History

What Mainers Talk About When They Talk About “Going Up To Camp”

On the anatomy of a phrase and the history baked into it.
Room With a View

Judgement Days

The legacies of my generation, individual and collective, will be various: much to boast about and much to be ashamed of.
osprey
Room With a View

Living Off the Grid

Early last April, a pair of ospreys — newlyweds, so to speak — built themselves a nest there. Every so often, we’d see one or the other of them...
Maine Birds
Room With a View

Ordinary Birds

"Rare birds, high-value birds, please us. But no more than the cliff swallows that once arrived in abundance every spring."
canoe tripping up north
Room With a View

Up North, Early May

Up North, in the true canoe country, early May is to canoe-tripping what Thanksgiving to Christmas is to retailing. The whole year quickens toward those two weeks.
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History

Great Elms

New England Elms, long cherished as ornaments, became symbols, providing more than simply shade.
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