Tom Huntington’s book, Maine Roads To Gettysburg, puts you right into the worst battles of the Civil War. I thought I knew a lot about the Civil War until I read Tom’s book. Tom profiles many Maine soldiers and even includes quotes from them, and his detailed descriptions of the bloody battles are amazing. He […]
A friend recently gave me a July 1991 copy of the Maine Sportsman, featuring a photo of me on the cover with a huge bluefish. Do you remember catching bluefish back in the day? Reading through the magazine took me all the way back to the year I started working for the Sportsman’s Alliance of […]
Today I’m taking a look back at my first hunting experiences with my Dad who I hunted with for 53 years. A portion of this column was published in the Maine Times on December 21, 1990. And a short version was published in this newspaper on Father’s Day, 2005. The crisp autumn afternoon, the stiff […]
I almost didn’t read Sean Poage’s book, The Retreat To Avalon. It’s 450 pages long and a fictional account that takes us back 1500 years. Little did I know how fascinating this could be. Now I am very excited that this turns out to be the first of three historical fiction books exploring the origins […]
Lost Maine Coast Schooners by Ingrid Grenon gives us a fascinating look at those old huge wooden-hulled schooners, many of which were sunk, with crews drowned. The book is subtitled “From Glory Days to Ghost Ships.” Yes, danger lurked all along coastlines, and then there were the German U-boats. One of those sunk 6 schooners […]
Russell Dole’s book, In Search of Honor – Rockland to Round Top – is a work of fiction, but it seems so real that I had to check with the publisher, North Country Press, and ask if the recollections of Benjamin Dean, the narrator, were real. Boy, the story seemed very real to me. But […]
Captain Hank Bracker’s book, Suppressed I Rise, puts you right there in Nazi Germany, experiencing horrible and very scary situations. And these are true stories! The stories come from the manuscripts of Adeline Perry, a South African who married a German who insisted they move to Germany so he could serve in Hitler’s army. While […]
In his very interesting book, Down East, Lincoln Paine takes us back two centuries when that term described the entire coast of Maine. Paine’s book was originally published in 2000, but he recently revised and updated it. The new book was published by Tilbury House Pulishers in Thomaston. I found the early chapters to be […]
The lovely love story of George and Barbara Bush is inspiring. I must thank their granddaughter Ellie LeBlond Sosa and Kelly Anne Chase for writing this wonderful story. Their book, titled George and Barbara Bush, published by Down East Books, chronicles the Bush’s 77-year love affair that thrived despite their separation in World War II, […]
A profound look into Nazis Germany
