THE DOWNEAST DILETTANTE

Mt. Desert Island from Hancock Point (photograph, Ivy Main via Wikimedia Commons) I'm afraid I've been a bit boring lately.  As...

Today class, we're going to consider the importance of thinking small, but in a big way. Edmund Beaman Gilchrist (1885-1953), wa...

I am at last about to make the Big Announcement.  And after that I even have a few new posts---the sort that keep some of you coming back--...

There are two Windswepts.  One is a best selling 1953 novel by Mary Ellen Chase, about a several generations of a family living in a remote...