Word: mainers
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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...