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Susan Hand Shetterly
Joined12.26.18
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Susan Hand Shetterly is the author of nine books, including Settled in the Wild, which won the Maine Literary Award for Nonfiction in 2011. Her most recent title is Seaweed Chronicles: A World at the Water’s Edge.
rocky stream
Arts & Leisure

Wonderful Things

"In these days of such stillness, chaos, and grief, we’ve got time to figure out what needs to heal and how we might help that happen."
Maine coast
Arts & Leisure

The First Years

When I moved to Prospect Harbor with my family in the 1970s, I learned about its northern water, working harbor, and ...
Ode to an Apple Tree
Room With a View

Ode to an Apple Tree

Can you put a tree like this back together? Can you make a half tree out of a whole one?
Susan Hand Shetterly, Room with a View
Land, Water & Wildlife

A Sense of Time

"In this strange new heat come new species, and some of the life we know slips away."
Paddling Together
History

Paddling Together

Joe Polis believed in learning how to negotiate the ways of the dominant culture without losing one’s own.
Leaving the Land
Room With a View

Leaving the Land

"Each farm is a particular, complicated arrangement."
fire
Arts & Leisure

Interesting Times

In her latest Room With a View column, Susan Hand Shetterly writes about reconnecting, keeping busy, and tamping down fears during the pandemic.
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Land, Water & Wildlife

Memory and Desire

The great poem “The Waste Land,” by T.S. Eliot, begins with these lines: “April is the cruellest month, breeding / Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing / Memory and desire …”
Home on the Range
Land, Water & Wildlife

Home on the Range

"One of my favorite sights begins as a line of dark shapes in the woods moving towards the clearing."
Charlotte's Web, Susan Hand Shetterly
Room With a View

A Book Is a Sneeze

"In 1952, Charlotte’s Web came into the world, and it’s been with us ever since."
Susan Hand Shetterly, forest
Room With a View

The Surry Forest

"I remember the first time I visited the 2,200-acre woodlot for sale in my town. It was in 2014, and Pam Johnson and I drove in to take a look."
Room With a View

North Bend Road

If we give what’s wild half a chance, it will, as these fish teach us, do the hard part.
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