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BUMP

Kids bounce up when the school bus heaves over a giant wrinkle in the road, and slam back into their plastic bench seats with a THUD and a jolt to their spines. I just got back from a trip to my home valley. Much there is the same, but whatever is different – has been […]

On Mount Desert Island, there’s a name for every place

  I hail from the Saint John Valley River region myself, but now I’m on Mount Desert Island, Maine’s biggest island. Prior to moving here, I’d visited a handful of times, and had somehow left with only the knowledge that Bar Harbor was a beautiful town, that Cadillac Mountain summit was the height of my […]