Word: mainer
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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...
Leon Leonwood, always well-protected from the elements in his Bean gear, ran the operation himself until he died at the age of 94, in 1967. "He was strictly a 19th-century character," Bean public affairs director Kilt Andrews insists. But the stout-hearted State of Mainer, who hailed from the Bethel area, possessed at least a little savvy when it came to business. His chamois shirts, his touring canoes and campstoves, and most of all his Maine hunting boots supported a $4.75-million mini-empire when he expired...