1941 Ford Super Deluxe & the Dance Hall at Antelope Lake

from Alex Emond, our man in south Saskatchewan:
"The Ford was out at Antelope Lake [Saskatchewan], looking good by the old Dance Hall. The wheels are a little out of character, but I love the lines. The Dance Hall is a gorgeous structure, built 1916. The interior has never had any paint, varnish, wax, lemon oil ... nada, nothing and 98 years later it looks amazing . The glow! 
             "Incidentally, I saw these Antelope  within a half mile of the lake. Truth in advertising. And the Tarzan Swing (below) is a 5-second sprint from the front door of the dance hall." -AE

Summah in Maine--Basha Burwell photograph

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Basha's Eye on the Eggemoggin Reach Regatta

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1928 Ford Model A at the Brooklin Boatyard (Maine)

 

Two schooners on Eggemoggin Reach

One of the best things about sailing Penobscot Bay and the Reach is spotting the schooner fleet. One afternoon last week I caught Lewis R. French and Heritage on the Reach, following the breeze toward Jericho Bay.

American Houses: the original Cape Cod cottage. Sedgwick, Maine

This is about as close to an original Cape as you'll see. It's in Sedgwick, Maine. These were for a long time the standard house in rural and coastal Maine. Usually they were the 'starter' house that was added onto as years went by and families expanded. The classic configuration in Maine is Big house-little house-backhouse-barn, as in this example, just up the road. It's usually a 'summer kitchen' that connects the house to the barn.

But this Cape has none of that: perhaps there was a barn attached at one time, but it's gone now. Not even a shed dormer popped into the roof. Each time I pass it the house strikes me with its simple and organized beauty. It has something of the Shaker aesthetic. In Maine in the first half of the nineteenth century there would have been thousands of examples; in fact there still are, though rarely without the add-ons.

1939 Plymouth. Summer Cars, "Karin", Karl May & Llano Estacado:

I'm fond of these. There's one in my just-finished novel--

 --about two refugees from Nazi Germany, and Karl May's llano estacado. The novel (Karin) will be out next year.