I recently read that as we grow older, we are only older on the outside; inside we are forever young. In reflection of that adage, I wholeheartedly agree. As I approach my 89th birthday on Aug. 25, it seems only yesterday that I was a barefoot boy with a mop of blonde curls and blue […]

It’s the winter of 1979 and I’m sitting in a booth in some godforsaken little diner outside of Windham, and he says it again — for the umpteenth time — by way of introducing the next thing he feels like talking about. “As a matter of little or no interest …,” he says, before going […]

What is a “Real Mainer”? My initial response to that question is that many of us have been and still are survivors and strivers. What else do you call a man who went into the woods with an ax and a rifle and made a living? How about the ones who went to sea, built […]