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Charlotte's Web, Susan Hand Shetterly
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A Book Is a Sneeze

"In 1952, Charlotte’s Web came into the world, and it’s been with us ever since."
Paddling Together
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Paddling Together

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

"Each farm is a particular, complicated arrangement."
turkey vulture
Room With a View

To Catch the Morning Sun

"Like the turkey vultures, I had come to Maine to make myself a good life."
Room With a View

A Gift of Birds

Audubon taught me about the splendors of this continent’s wildness and about the human savagery often pitted against it.
seaweed
Room With a View

A Winter Garden

Sea vegetables are something Maine is beginning to be known for.
cassoulet recipe by Annemarie Ahearn
Food & Drink

Franco and Beans

A familiar dish with a French accent.
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.
Room With a View

The Beautiful Bones

Perhaps animals gave us our first lesson in aesthetics, and that’s why we scrawled their images onto cave walls.
Spring Rain
Room With a View

Spring Rain

We know the dangers amphibians face: the diseases that sicken them, the destruction of habitat, the roads.
Rogier van Bakel
My Maine

Portraits of Courage

After a brush with tragedy, photographer Rogier van Bakel honored local heroes the best way he knew how.
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