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Barnes, who grew up near Minnesota’s Gull Lake, spent the final years of his life in his Brooklin, Maine home overlooking Bar Harbor...
That's not to say Norse artifacts haven't been discovered south of Newfoundland--but aside from a Norse penny, minted between 1065 and 1080 and found in 1957 at an Indian site near Brooklin, Maine, nearly all of them have turned out to be bogus. The Newport (R.I.) Tower, whose supposed Viking origin was central to Longfellow's epic poem The Skeleton in Armor, was built by an early Governor of Rhode Island. The Kensington Stone, a rune-covered slab unearthed on a Minnesota farm in 1898 that purportedly describes a voyage to Vinland in 1362, is today widely...
...leaves two sisters, Monique Ribaute and Arlette Jouasset of France; and three stepdaughters Alison T. and Helen R. Streider of Brooklin, and Merritt S. Atwood of Freeland, Wash...
...moved here in 1970. Call it what you will, some locals are uneasy about a diner that offers a wine list and tenderloin with bearnaise sauce but holds mashed potatoes and meat loaf in contempt. American reporters discuss stories that straddle two worlds: a log-sawing contest in Brooklin, Me., and drug-awareness week at nearby Bucksport High. These days lawyers and real estate agents seem to outnumber clergymen and clam diggers. Even the lilting Down East accent, once spoken as if it were passing over a dip on a backwoods road, is losing its curls...
...competence at The New Yorker eventually bored him. In 1938, he and Katharine moved to a 40-acre farm in North Brooklin, on the Maine seacoast. Ross was flabbergasted by the desertion of his most valuable player: "He just sails around in some God damn boat." Farming and rural life enchanted White, although he wrote Thurber in 1938, "I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens." He kept tending to both, writing a monthly column called "One Man's Meat" for Harper's magazine between 1938 and 1943. He continued to contribute to The New Yorker...