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...long, open stretches before Yarmouth, the moon is out, and clouds skid across its face. It's a good Maine road--frost heaves, of course--and it could be almost any place in the Pine Tree State. It could run just out of sight of the ocean up past Damariscotta and Pemaquid. It could run through potato country in Arostook. It could be bordered by blueberry stands, like the roads near Bar Harbor. Pretend there are some mountains, and it could be near Rangeley and the lakes area, or even in the shadow of mighty Katahdin...
...violence of his revulsion against the war, especially the bombing of cities, crucial to his conscientious objection: Raise us, Mother, we fell down Here hugger mugger in the jellied fire: Our sacred earth in our day was a curse. Many of his antiwar poems were written at Damariscotta Mills, Me., where he and his wife had gone as soon as he was released from jail. Collected in Lord Weary's Castle, his second volume, they won him, at 29, the Pulitzer Prize...
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...winter meeting of the Maine Historical Society, which is to be held December 23, Professor F. W. Putnam of the Peabody Museum is to present a paper on the Damariscotta shell heaps, which have attracted the notice of antiquarians...
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