At Home in Maine
There is an interesting article in this months Smithsonian Magazine by the Pulitzer Prize and PEN/Faulkner award winning author Richard Ford who lives in East Boothbay. He talks about the essence of home and touches on his life here in mid coast Maine.
We seem to be attracting authors and other creative people to live here in the mid coast and particularly along the banks of the Damariscotta River. Tracy Kidder summers in South Bristol and on the other side of the Pemaquid peninsula the town of Bremen was the model for the fictional Crabapple Cove in the novel and subsequent movie; M*A*S*H
Besides our small friendly towns and beautiful scenery maybe they move here because we have such a great bookstore and library.
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