Word: brookline
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...much pleasure out of fussing around with his boat as he did from actually rowing it. So do Lloyd and Pat Kennedy. That is why the retired Air Force colonel and his wife have driven from their home in Harrison, Ark., to the tiny (pop. 550) coastal community of Brooklin, Me. And that is why a sunny summer morning finds them bent together over a building frame, beveling the planks on what will, in another day or two, be an 8-ft.-long dinghy, capable of carrying them for a sail on the waters of nearby Eggemoggin Reach or, later...
During the Depression, he bought a 40-acre farm in North Brooklin on the Maine sea-coast (where he lives to this day), and beat the first of several retreats from the tender trap of The New Yorker. A mystified Ross was heard to complain: "He just sails around in some God damn boat." During his sabbaticals White also compiled (with Katharine) the enormously successful A Subtreasury of American Humor; he revised and updated the yellowing strictures of one of his Cornell English professors into The Elements of Style, a tiny textbook that has sold in the millions; he wrote...