And One to Grow On: Recollections of a Maine Boyhood
by John Gould
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When John Gould was young, a boy learned about the sea--and arithmetic and knots and geography and life--from the old deep-water men living out their lives in snug harbors. He grew up knowing the woods; the way a church supper smells; the way the Ladies Aid bargained together before a food sale. The friendly, close-knit community life and the deep family affection gave him a foundation of sound sense to last through the years ahead. This is a book to read and reread. You will be glad to know show more that once, in Maine, a boy could have this kind of childhood; and you might be envious because you did not. show lessTags
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Born and bred in Maine, John Gould (1908-2003) was well known for his acerbic Yankee wit. Over the course of his life he wrote dozens of books, and for an astounding sixty-two years he was a regular columnist for the Christian Science Monitor. Despite his literary fame, he steadfastly claimed that he was first, last, and always, a farmer.
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