Cold Spell
The View from the End of the Peninsula
Published on 15. October 2022
200 pages
978-1-68475-058-0 (ISBN)
Description
A Must-Read for any Mainer . . . or anyone who dreams of becoming a Mainer.
Giving up a life in Chicago, Todd R. Nelson moved with his family to the stark contrasts of Castine, Maine. What began as a leap of faith turned into a family epoch of wonderful activity, professional and personal development, an unlimited inspiration, hard work and struggle, friendship and enchantment. "What lucky fools,"Nelson writes in his introduction. Cold Spell is a collection of stories--warm, humorous, and at times cautionary--about living in Maine. Here are stories about the seasons, the critters, the neighbors, the land itself, and the community that Nelson calls home.
Giving up a life in Chicago, Todd R. Nelson moved with his family to the stark contrasts of Castine, Maine. What began as a leap of faith turned into a family epoch of wonderful activity, professional and personal development, an unlimited inspiration, hard work and struggle, friendship and enchantment. "What lucky fools,"Nelson writes in his introduction. Cold Spell is a collection of stories--warm, humorous, and at times cautionary--about living in Maine. Here are stories about the seasons, the critters, the neighbors, the land itself, and the community that Nelson calls home.
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Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Publishing group
Rowman & Littlefield
File size
1,62 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-68475-058-0 (9781684750580)
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Book
12/2022
Down East Books,U.S.
€22.40
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Person
Todd R. Nelson is a writer and educator whose 35-year career in teaching included six years as a school principal. He has been published in The Ellsworth American, Bangor Daily News, Portland Press Herald, CreativeMaineMag.com, Taproot, and the Philadelphia Inquirer, as well as on Maine Public Radio. He lives with his family in Castine, Maine.
Content
- Intro
- Contents
- A Note to the Reader
- Winter
- Cold Spell
- Having a Mind of Winter
- Embers
- The January Woodpile
- Predator, Prey
- Waiting for Ice
- Enough Is Enough
- Snow Day Owl
- Something There Is That Does Love a Wall
- The Annual Rings of Christmas
- A Line in Winter
- The Cape Racer and Other Heirloom Sounds
- The TwoTongued Sea
- Blinter
- Plowing by Woods on a Winter Evening
- Winter Nears Its Tipping Point
- Spring
- The Force That Through the Green Fuse Drives the Flower Drives Us
- March Hill
- Learning the Lore of My Land
- The Vizier of Native Brook Trout
- Who Cooks for You?
- My Thought-Fox
- A Burning Desire
- Thrush Hour
- My Next Bear
- We Will Have Our Syrup
- Springtide
- Summer
- Fishin' Blues
- The Sounds of Summer
- The Fruits of Our Labors
- Beachcombing
- Manual Boating Bliss
- Echoes of Our Family's Farms
- Inspiration Found on the Writing Road
- Sign of the Times
- We Come Home to the Forest
- Preserving a Way of Light
- Inspired by Goldsworthy
- Awaiting Bear Number Three
- Time, Tide, and Tuscany
- The Sea Will Hold You
- The Migration
- Autumn
- Season of Mists
- Emptying the Harbor
- Sailing Back in Time
- Photo Days
- Testing a String Theory
- The Memory of This Place
- Timorous Beasties and Woodpile Thermodynamics
- Afterword
- About the Author
