I decided when I was ready to transfer to a four-year university that the Gilmore Girls were reasonable, realistic representatives of New England, all of New England, and that I would like very much to live among them. We would speak really fast together, making obscure pop-culture references and forcing lesser Kennedy heirs fall in love with us all the while."Maine is in New England," I thought, "so it will be populated with the jaded, moneyed intellectuals whose company I so pine for." But, I thought, because it is quirky and a bit off the grid, Maine will have more to offer, much more! Maine will have moose! And lobstah! And lumberjacks! It will be the perfect combination! I will never want to leave! These are the thoughts that brought a Southern-California lifer with poor circulation and a low body-fat percentage to the Great White North. The Old Port Candy Company is what keeps me here.
_Diana Conway
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- Exploring deep within
Hannah Holmes, the Maine-born, Portland-dwelling science writer, naturalist, and friend to all animals has turned her lens deeply inward in her latest book, The Well-Dressed Ape: A Natural History of Myself .
- Olive Café
Solid tastes at Olive Café
- Letters to the Portland editor: May 1, 2009
Is Rick Wormwood an inbred Maineiac as some would speculate?
- German birthday cake
Tuesday's gift from Portland's Choral Art Society to German composer Felix Mendelssohn, on the occasion of what would be his 200th birthday, will be one of his greatest works (Elijah), and one of their biggest undertakings.
- A mighty wind
This past Earth Day, President Barack Obama, speaking at an Iowa wind-turbine factory, delivered a gusty peroration. "The nation that leads the world in creating new energy sources will be the nation that leads the 21st-century global economy," he said. "America can be that nation. America must be that nation."
- Photos: Stetson Wind in Maine
Photos of Stetson Wind in Washington County, Maine
- Classic retro
Opened 20 years ago on an odd bayside corner, the Back Bay Grill looks seasoned rather than old.
- Teach a woman to fish...she'll never want to leave
The cluster of small shacks that comprise Jim's Smelt Camp in Bowdoinham look like a tiny shantytown; were that it was so — I would move right in.
- As the Pro Jo turns
A full-page advertisement that ran on page A7 of Monday's ProJo featured an illustration depicting a workshop of flinty Amish craftsmen busily building what the headline called an "Amish mantle and miracle invention" that helps "home heat bills hit rock bottom."
- Light that failed
How has Maine's term-limit law, restricting legislators to eight consecutive years in office, been working since it was approved by voters in 1993?
- The rain in Maine
If you're planning a trip to Vacationland this summer, be sure to bring your galoshes — the "gay storm" that's been satirized all over the Internet rolled into Maine last week.
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