Tag Archives: Maine

The challenge of the Brothers at Baxter State Park

Posted on October 12, 2020 by Dianne Fallon

Back in April, as we weathered the COVID pandemic at home, I scored a Labor Day weekend  campsite at Baxter State Park in northern Maine.  I had visited Baxter several times before, always for the same reason: to climb Maine’s … Continue reading →

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New Wilderness Voices: November 7 reading at RiverRun Books

Posted on November 5, 2017 by Dianne Fallon

On that morning after the ice storm, I left my chilly powerless house to warm up in the forests of Mount Agamenticus.  My goal: to hunt down a tiny aphid-like insect, the woolly adelgid, that kills hemlock trees. I had … Continue reading →

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The town at the end of the world

Posted on July 27, 2012 by Dianne Fallon

My windows overlooking Passamaquoddy Bay are open on this early July morning, but when I first woke up, I thought they must be closed, so silent is the morning at 7 a.m. On a Maine lake, the silence would seem normal, … Continue reading →

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