Reading and Roaming
Portland on Casco Bay is small, as cities go, and you are always within the sound of seagull’s honk, even in the center of town. Portland is also Maine’s largest city and one that has gotten a lot of attention in recent years for its food and restaurant scene. In the Old Port and …
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VIEWING Dr. Thorne. This adaptation of Trollope’s novel on Amazon Prime was written and produced by Julian Fellowes of Downton Abbey fame. It’s a short series, only 4 episodes, but each one is introduced and closed by Mr. Fellowes. Formally dressed sitting in a chair in what appears to be a library, his remarks are …
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SUMMER READING I generally ignore the Parade magazine that comes with our local Sunday paper. Last week, though, the “Summer Reading Issue” note in the top corner piqued my curiosity. Parade asked Ann Patchett to come up with a list of the 75 best books of the past 75 years in celebration of the magazine’s …
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SUMMER RED June in upstate New York means fresh locally grown strawberries. We lived in a city, a small one that is still the county seat, but it was really more of a small town—surrounded by farm land. My mother never let me forget that when I returned home one time, perhaps from college, I …
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