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White was born in suburban New York, but he was a Mainer by inclination. Although clarity was the chief virtue of his writing, he was always intentionally fuzzy on the subject of where he lived. After publication of Charlotte's Web in particular, he was bedeviled by tourists and busloads of schoolchildren arriving unannounced for a tour of the famous barn. In the New Yorker he published a series of essays under the dateline "Allen Cove," a designation that appears only on nautical maps. "That way," he said, "no one will be able to find [the farm] except by sailboat...
Though named for an island in Louisiana, Gardiner is definitely a native Mainer. The state has a dialect all its own. Gardiner describes people--such as her mother--who've moved to Maine from other parts of the country as "from away...
RAGGED BUT RIGHT: GREAT COUNTRY STRING BANDS OF THE 1930s (RCA). Before the rhinestones, country music sounded like this: all heart and no slickum. Gid Tanner and His Skillet Lickers; Wade Mainer . . . the sounds are as good as the names...
...class runners gravitate to shinier training sites, Benoit remains partial to Portland, Me., even in the icy winter. "People in Maine respect me for who I am, not for what I've accomplished," she says. "I have no hassles out on the roads. I'm just another Mainer." Norway's Grete Waitz, 30, whom Benoit has never beaten, is favored to take the gold medal. But Benoit arrives at the Games with a sense of having already won something nearly as fine...
...origins of chowder, while adding that the tomatoey Manhattan version of the soup is an apostasy to be denounced from every down East pulpit. A charitable explanation is that Maine chowder is made from "an elongated bivalve," while the New York pretender uses inferior quahogs, "and no State of Mainer in his right mind eats them." If he had to make a chowder out of quahogs, Yankee affirms, a Mainer would put tomatoes in it too, "and garlic and beach plums and chestnuts and about anything else he could think of to improve it." At any rate, the chowders served...