No Place for a Woman
Helen Hamlin?s classic memoir of life in the Maine wilderness is back in print.
By Andrew Vietze
There's an enchantment about the wilderness, especially to those who have lived in civilization." Author Helen Hamlin wrote those words while she was hunkered away in a game warden's cabin at Nine Mile Bridge on the Saint John River deep in the North Woods. Wilderness? Check. Even in the late thirties and early forties, when Hamlin did a teaching stint in the tiny lumbering community of Churchill and woods roads had already been cut all through the area, this vast area stretching north from Bangor to the Canadian border was still - and remains today - one of the largest undeveloped stretches of forestland in the country.
