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Adding up the elements of experience
In New England, the topic of hauntings is a familiar one, undoubtedly because we have 400+ years of colonial history and millennia of stories from the Wabanaki whose woods these were. Each sunset...
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The February Sound of Silence
One thing all this snow seems to do is magnify the senses. Sunlight is dazzling. The cold is bitter, especially when the wind comes in off the Atlantic. The woodsmoke curling from chimneys on the...
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Lifelong learning outside the book on the Midcoast
Somewhere beneath the snowbanks here on Grand Avenue the roots are starting to stir. We saw a chipmunk the other day, who must have been responding to the lengthening afternoons of spring (certainly...
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Aprils and Openers
TS Eliot called April “the cruelest month” and after the winter we’ve had there are many reasons to agree. Yet the French greet the month with “poisons d’Avril”– “the fish of April” – recognizing with...
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Return of the spring. You come, too.
There’s been a flurry of national attention to our south, recently, as New Hampshire Legislators decided to challenge an innocent fourth grade civics lesson. The kids sought to make the red-tailed...
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The concept of earned value
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Taking time to smell the flowers
The annual Daffodil Festival is underway on Nantucket; and given the winter they had – hurricane force winds, frozen waves and feet of snow, they certainly deserve a moment in the sun. But not to take...
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Carried in on the seabreeze
When the seabreeze kicked in the other afternoon, it was hard to believe the land had warmed up enough to start that flow of cooler air from the water. But the temperature in the Gulf of Maine is...
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The warm shawl of a Maine coast summer – Happy Mothers Day!
It seems that some of our fondest memories here at Spruce Point Inn involve children, one way or another. As we look towards Mothers’ Day on Sunday, we flip back through the pages of our mental album...
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On ships and stars and getting underway
All of us who love the ocean – and the ships who sail upon her – resonate with certain phrases. They’re the poems and stories we first heard as kids and now they are part of our “oceanside memories,...
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