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We own a 1975 GMC Sierra Grande 15 in Maine and a 1986 Chevrolet Custom Deluxe 10 in West Texas. Also a pair of 1997 Volvo 850 wagons. Average age in the fleet is 28 years--we're recycling. I've published 3 novels: THE LAW OF DREAMS (2006), THE O'BRIENS (2012), and CARRY ME (2016). Also 2 short story collections: NIGHT DRIVING(1987) and TRAVELLING LIGHT (2013). More of my literary life is at www.peterbehrens.org I was a Fellow at the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study for 2012-13. I'm an adjunct professor at Colorado College and in the MFA program at Queens University of Charlotte. In 2015-16 I was a Fellow at Harvard University's Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. The Autoliterate office is in Car Talk Plaza in Harvard Square, 2 floors above Dewey Cheatem & Howe. SUBSCRIBE TO THE AUTOLITERATE DAILY EMAIL by hitting the button to the right.

Friday, November 14, 2014

Maine Vernacular: Phippsburg Peninsula

Took a Sunday drive with BB & HBB,  exploringthe Phippsburg peninsula (and hiking Morse Mountain trail to Seawall Beach). 
Classic Maine saltwater farm: big house, summah kitchen, back house, barn
Not quite a standard issue Cape, with the door offset

1774 Inn
 Money from shipbuilding and the maritime trade built some grand houses in the 19th c.

City of Bath, Maine's shipbuilding (as opposed to boatbuilding) town.

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