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Henry Beston

Maine Memories and Spider Migrations

by Steve Hartshorne on September 17, 2009

Maine Memories (1971) by Elizabeth Coatsworth is a real treasure. Besides the great stories I mentioned before, there are personal recollections of her life in Nobleboro with her husband Henry Beston.
One afternoon while they were out canoeing on Damariscotta Pond, they saw what they thought, in glaring sunlight, was a turtle. It turned out to [...]

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For Real Comfort, There’s Northing Like a Shroud

by Steve Hartshorne on September 8, 2009

I saw a book I couldn’t pass up at the South Hadley flea market last week, Maine Memories by Elizabeth Coatsworth. It’s a series of stories about life on Damariscotta Pond, where she lived with her husband, naturalist Henry Beston.
This is a fantastic book. Coatsworth includes a lot of stories that she heard from the [...]

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