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
So near and not so far away. While Linda and I have visited a number of places in Maine featured in Lois Stailing’s book, Nearaway Places, I was surprised by how many we’d never seen. Time to get to those wonderful places! Lois focuses on scenic and historical places, both of which are plentiful in […]
Annals of Childhood is a wonderful look back to Corinth, Maine from the 1830s to 1900s, written by Abby Jones Goodwin in 1903. I love history, and this is a very special trip to this very special place in our state. Goodwin was 68 when she wrote this series of stories, which feature reflections from […]
Amazing species hundreds of millions of years old
