Maine Memories (1971) by Elizabeth Coatsworth is a real treasure. Besides the great stories I mentioned before, there are personal recollections of her life in Nobleboro with her husband Henry Beston. One afternoon while they were out canoeing on Damariscotta Pond, they saw what they thought, in glaring sunlight, was […]
Sarah Jane Dickson Hartshorne – Sally, as she was known – died peacefully September 6 at the Center for Extended Care in Amherst, Massachusetts. She was born October 27, 1928, in Montclair, New Jersey, to Charles Keith Dickson and Anne Brown Dickson. She grew up in New Canaan, Connecticut, and […]
I saw a book I couldn’t pass up at the South Hadley flea market last week, Maine Memories by Elizabeth Coatsworth. It’s a series of stories about life on Damariscotta Pond, where she lived with her husband, naturalist Henry Beston. This is a fantastic book. Coatsworth includes a lot of […]
“I got up on my feet and went over to the bowl in the corner and threw cold water on my face. After a little while I felt a little better, but very little. I needed a drink, I needed a lot of life insurance, I needed a vacation, I […]
The most seasoned traveler I know spends at least a week and usually a good deal more on the Coast of Maine, and if you’ve been there, you know why. If you haven’t, I can only say you should go and see the Gulf of Maine. However you might feel […]
My mom has actually regained consciousness, sort of, which is a big surprise to my brothers and me, because we thought that Alzheimer’s had shut down her brain and we were accustomed to the inexorable, non-reversible nature of the disease. She has had a very fast-acting version which took away […]
It looks like my mom, who made me bookish, is not going to regain consciousness. She was living in an assisted living facility for alzheimers patients with a yellow cockatoo that dances when you whistle, and we thought she’d be there for years. She had lost all recollection, but she […]
You don’t have to be a Trekkie to like Star Trek Memories by William Shatner with Chris Kreski. I know, I know, books that have a ‘with’ are usually stupid junk, but I think here Shatner was just acknowledging his collaborator who clearly did a lot of leg work collecting […]
I take back everything I ever said about transcendentalism being boring. I’m not taking back anything I ever said about Bronson Alcott or Ralph Waldo Emerson — those guys are boring, boring, boring. It doesn’t necessarily mean they had the wrong idea. Far less boring, I find, is the transcendentalist, […]
. One of the coolest things about working for GoNOMAD is editing stories by people from all walks of life all over the world, including our bright and lively college interns. You get to see people develop as writers. GoNOMAD has been a springboard for many writers whose work you […]