Down East Bookshelf
Four New England travel guides hardly do justice to the Maine experience.
Books reviewed include: "Railroads of the Pine Tree State: Volumn One" by Don Marson and Brian Jennison, "Natural Things: Collected Poems 1969 - 1998" by Constance Hunting, and "The Crow on the Spruce" by Chenoweth Hall.
The characters in Christopher Fahy's latest short stories are readily recognizable.
Books review: "Fairfield Porter: A Life in Art" by Justin Spring, "The Dead of Winter" by David Corssman, "Maine Winter Trails: The Best Cross-Country Ski & Snowshoe Trails" by Marty Basch, and "Inventing Acadia: Artists and Tourists at Mount Desert" by Pamela J. Belanger.
A New Hampshire publisher has quietly compiled a 100-volume pictorial history of Maine. Location: Westbrook Bangor
Kate Barnes takes her appointment seriously but doesn't expect to be paid.
Books reviewed include: "Portland & Vicinity Street Atlas" published by DeLorme, "The Maine Poems" by Leo Connellan, and "Russian Voices on the Kennebec: The Story of Maine's Unlikely Colony" by Robert S. Jaster.
The facts surrounding the November night the "Portland" went down fill a chilling new book.
Books reviewed here include: "Mind of the Raven: Investigations and Adventures with Wolf-Birds" by Bernd Heinrich; "You Auto See Maine: When Old Cars Were Young and For Sale in Maine" by Will Anderson; "Greatest Mountain: Katahdin's Wilderness" with photos by Connie Baxter Marlow and Elisabeth Ogilvie's
Books reviewed include: "Marine Life of the North Atlantic: Canada to New England" by Andrew J. Martinez, "Mollie Pier or The Underground Adventures of the Moosepath League" by Van Reid, "Moose: Giante of the Northern Forest" by Bill Silliker, Jr. and "Invisible Stranger: The Patten, Maine, Photographs
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