A delicate layer from the 1920s or 1930s. When we purchased our 1920 garrison in 2000, we (our budget) decided to update and focus the “organs” of our house. This included replacing the original coal furnace that had been converted to oil, then to natural gas. This cast iron mammoth was 5 feet tall, just …
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The Three Stages of Life
Growing up in a small rural town in Maine (Bucksport to be exact), it was a little simpler to see these three stages in action. It probably helped that you knew everyone in town and knew a little more about everyone than you should of. Of course, as in any theory, there are exceptions and …
Buttons
“My heart is small, like a love of buttons or black pepper.” ― S. Jane Sloat, In the Voice of a Minor Saint When I opened the drawer the dull hue of the brass buttons faded into the drawer as other more modern trinkets slithered around. To me, however, these buttons had an unmistakeable aura. There was …
A background in Down East Maine, streams, rivers, migrating warblers, bottle dumps, silent films, and teacher.
First blog….I don’t really want to be a writer, but something deep tells me I must…This allows me to escape the trappings of Facebook and Twitter and have something that people come here to read by choice. I do not need to amass several dozen “likes”, I want to share and I want feedback. These …
In Small Things Forgotten 