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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.

Tuesday, August 3, 2021

Old Orchard Beach

 

Tristan Spinski photo for The New York Times

Old Orchard Beach, Maine. Was always a vacation Mecca for Québec. Kinda honytonk. Kinda like Blackpool in the UK. There's even a pier. The Québec construction trades traditionally shut down for the last two weeks of July, and a significant portion of people still head for Old Orchard, la. It is also close by the mill town of Biddeford, Maine which was a big Franco town from 1860s-1960s when the textile mills were in full gear. There was a lot of French spoken on the beach at Old Orchard. And before it was Québéc-sur-la-mer, it was an Irish-American destination: Joe Kennedy met Rose Fitzgerald at Old Orchard, hostie. See our posts on Biddeford:

https://autoliterate.blogspot.com/2014/05/textile-town-biddeford-maine-part-1.html

https://autoliterate.blogspot.com/2014/05/textile-town-biddeford-part-2-houses.html

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