Reading and Roaming
JAUNT TO BIDDEFORD Earlier this week, we headed south of Portland to visit friends on the outskirts of Biddeford. This is a part of Maine we had not seen before, and we were struck by its quiet beauty. Their house sits above Hills Beach bordered by rock with a view toward Basket Island. There are homes there …
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COASTAL MAINE BOTANICAL GARDENS Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens is ten years old, and it keeps getting better each year. We visit on our own and also bring all of our guests. Our granddaughters are especially fond of the play house where there are kitchen appliances, a cupboard, and a small table and chairs where you can …
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SUMMER READING How to Find Love in a Bookshop by Veronica Henry If you are a reader and a booklover, then this novel set in a small town in Cornwall should delight you. When her father Julius, bookshop owner extraordinaire, dies, his daughter Emilia inherits Nightingale Books. Emilia has lived in Hong Kong for some years and …
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SUMMER READING The Lighthouse Keeper’s Daughter by Hazel Gaynor This is the kind of historical novel that sweeps you up immediately and keeps you absorbed all the way through. Set in 1838 on the Irish coast and in1938 off Newport, Rhode Island, two young women become attached to, devoted, some might say, to their respective lighthouses. Grace Darling, …
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