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Homage to Milbridge
Homage to Milbridge Last week, Jerry and I spent two whole days in Milbridge, Maine, bookended by travel days of which (the return trip) the less said the better. About the state of Maine, I smile when, looking down, I … Continue reading →
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Tagged "The Consolations of Philosophy: Hobbes's Secret; Spinoza's Way" by Henry M. Rosenthal; ed. Abigail L. Rosenthal, "You Can't Go Home Again", Abigail's Adages, Alentejo Coast, babes in the woods, Bangor Airport, barrel racing, canoeing, cantering, city slickers, coming home, damaging stories, death of parents, defamation, defamation disbelieved, divorce, Downeast, Ellsworth Maine, familiar landscapes, first marriage, fishing village, fun days, half acre, homecoming, imaginary feeling, job fight, landscapes, last illness, local ghosts, local sage, Maine, Maine Coast Memorial Hospital, Milbridge Day, Milbridge Maine, more fish in the sea, Narraguagus Bay, New York apartment, orphaned, outdoor games, parental presence, philosophic manuscript, picnics, Portugal, posthumous manuscript, posthumous publication, precognition, proofs of ownership, real feeling, reviews, right-of-way, rodeo, rural adventures, rural property, sailing, saleable property, selling the house, sense of direction, shore strip, slander, southern mansion, state fair, telling the whole town, town events, travel days, trials of life, triumphs of life, unsaleable property, unseen presences, victorious fights
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“Two Views”
“Two Views” This is the aerial view of Narraguagus Bay and the same bay, painted as I saw it from the attic of our old barn. We are back there this week, visiting old friends in Washington County, Downeast Maine. … Continue reading →
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Tagged Downeast Maine, home, Maine, Narraguagus Bay, Washington County
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“You CAN Go Home Again”
“You Can Go Home Again” This week we drove the two hours from Bangor, Maine to the little town on the Narraguagus Bay that I shall call – to shelter its hiddenness – the Town of Downeast. The reason I … Continue reading →
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