History and culture of the Penobscot, a group of eastern woodland Indians that settled in the state of Maine, how they were affected by the arrival of Europeans, and their status today.
Feeling somewhat abandoned by her mother, twelve-year-old Sage is sent to spend the summer at the Maine home of her great-aunts, where she learns about and begins to identify with her family's history.
When twelve-year-old Lise spends the summer on an island in Maine with her self-reliant mother and bright--but oddly mute--younger brother, her formerly safe world is complicated by an aged Indian neighbor, her mother's childhood friend, and a hurricane.
Set in rural Maine in the first half of this century, it tells the story of Dr. Wilbur Larch--obstetrician and director of the orphanage in the town of St. Clouds. It is also the story of his favorite orphan, Homer, who is never adopted.
Novelist Mike Noonan, still grieving the death of his wife after four years, retreats to Sara Laughs, his isolated summer home, but the peace he is seeking slips even further from his grasp when he finds the community in the grip of a powerful millionaire, and his hideaway becomes the site of ghostly visitations.
Chronicles the life of American artist Sarah Orne Jewett, discussing her childhood, early works, personal relationships, feminist beliefs, and impact on the art world.
In Maine, retired French Canadian logger Jean du Bois and his grandson, Ti'Jean, rescue an orphaned moose calf who refuses to leave when it is grown. Meanwhile, Jean's work horse, Kate, grows too old to pull the plow.
When sixteen-year-old Thankful Curtis must leave Bright Island, Maine, for the first time in 1937, she has trouble adjusting to life on the mainland, new people, and "proper schooling," and yearns for her days of farming with her father and sailing.
