In her final Room with a View column, Susan Hand Shetterly dreams of Cashes Ledge and what it can teach us.
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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 Best Nonfiction from the Maine Writers & Publishers Alliance in 2011. Her most recent title is Seaweed Chronicles: A World at the Water’s Edge.
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