For more than 40 years, the tribes in Maine have had to play by different rules than other indigenous groups across the country.
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Rachel Slade is a Down East contributing editor. Her November 2020 feature about Westbrook clothing manufacturer American Roots inspired her latest book, Making It in America: The Almost Impossible Quest to Manufacture in the U.S.A. (And How It Got That Way). In 2019, she received a Maine Literary Award for her previous book, Into the Raging Sea.
Pulitzer-nominated author
Scott Weidensaul calls Maine
“a major bird factory.” His much-anticipated new book
explores the mysteries behind birds’ migration routes — and the human-caused disturbances
that threaten them.
How Westbrook's American Roots navigated calamity, risk, and renewal.
The cognitive scientist has written stacks of influential books, but his new one is in an unfamiliar genre: memoir.
“I hadn’t known any single women who built a house without a trust fund or outside help.”
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