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Fire

As in Island, not a conflagration with sympathies to those forced to deal with the red-hot kind. I visited a friend of many years’ standing on FI over the weekend. She’s been coming here since she was an infant, in … Continue reading

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How I Spent My Summer Vacation

In this, the grimmest summer I can recall, a kind friend invited me to visit her at the beach. Her particular Hamp is relatively close so we whizzed out in her little red car. It had been so long since … Continue reading

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By the Shores of Gitche Gumee

Wrote Henry Wadsworth Longfellow in his epic poem The Song of Hiawatha. Longfellow spent his early years in what today is called the Wadsworth- Longfellow House in Portland, ME. The house, now under the aegis of the Maine Historical Society, … Continue reading

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