Goin' Up The Country
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- Item #: ISBN 0-9755548-1-6
Most people from "away" know the Land of Vacations for its scenic coastline, and they forget about that big, empty-looking area sitting at the top of the map of Maine--if they ever noticed it at all...."
"Up until that point, everything had always been mapped out for me ahead of time; always there had been clear expectations: parents, school. I couldn't wait to graduate from college and live what I was sure would be a life of freedom and wild abandon...."
"Want to know what it was like to go back-to-the-land as naive, inexperienced, idealistic romantics in the '70s? This book has the inside scoop--and then some."
-Sanford Phippen
Author of Kitchen Boy and The Police Know Everything
Editor of The Best Maine Stories
Host of MAINE PBS' A Good Read
"A realistic, unflinching, but ultimately good-hearted portrayal of a forgotten land and its people, and the ones who journey there in search of a simpler way of life. A charming, poignant, heartfelt read."
- Jaimee Wriston Colbert
Author of Climbing the God Tree
Assistant Professor of Creative Writing
Binghamton University
"Up until that point, everything had always been mapped out for me ahead of time; always there had been clear expectations: parents, school. I couldn't wait to graduate from college and live what I was sure would be a life of freedom and wild abandon...."
"Want to know what it was like to go back-to-the-land as naive, inexperienced, idealistic romantics in the '70s? This book has the inside scoop--and then some."
-Sanford Phippen
Author of Kitchen Boy and The Police Know Everything
Editor of The Best Maine Stories
Host of MAINE PBS' A Good Read
"A realistic, unflinching, but ultimately good-hearted portrayal of a forgotten land and its people, and the ones who journey there in search of a simpler way of life. A charming, poignant, heartfelt read."
- Jaimee Wriston Colbert
Author of Climbing the God Tree
Assistant Professor of Creative Writing
Binghamton University
