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Tables of Contents for Maine Speaks
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Preface
ix
 
Jeff Fischer
Introduction
xi
 
Eileen Landay
Identity
Whale!
3
6
Eleanor Sterling
Blueberry Boy
9
1
Leo Connellan
A White Heron
10
9
Sarah Orne Jewett
from Octavia's Hill
19
10
Margaret Dickson
John and Emma Carpenter
29
2
Glenna Johnson Smith
Scobie
31
10
Elisabeth Ogilvie
My Lost Youth
41
3
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The State Meet
44
11
Fred Bonnie
The Bad One
55
23
Gerard Robichaud
Renascence
78
6
Edna St. Vincent Millay
Past the Shallows
84
11
Betsy Graves
Silhouette
95
1
Abbie Huston Evans
The Ledge
96
14
Lawrence Sargent Hall
exercise
110
5
Lee Sharkey
Origins
A Poem About the Red Paint People
115
2
Samuel French Morse
Champlain Navigates the Penobscot
117
2
Samuel De Champlain
from An Account of Two Voyages to New England
119
4
John Josselyn
English and Indians Have It Out at Pemaquid
123
4
John Gyles
We are the Stars Which Sing
127
1
Passamaquoddy Legend
The Stars
128
1
Passamaquoddy Legend
January, 1724
129
1
Robert Chute
La Derniere Lune
130
1
Robert Chute
The Last Moon
131
1
Robert Chute
The Coming of Glooskap
132
3
Wabanaki Legend
Gluskap Fashions the Animals
135
2
Wabanaki Legend
Koluskap and Wind
137
1
Passamaquoddy Legend
Gluskap Goes to France
138
2
Wabanaki Legend
When Koluskap Left the Earth
140
3
Passamaquoddy Legend
The Witch of Harpswell
143
9
Anonymous
Jack Downing's Visit to Portland
152
3
Seba Smith
Turnip Pie
155
6
Rebecca Cummings
from The Clear Blue Lobster-Water Country
161
1
Leo Connellan
Germaine
162
4
Denis Ledoux
History
166
2
Roberta Chester
Succoth
168
2
Roberta Chester
Remembering the First Newcomers
170
2
Margery Wilson
Micmac
172
1
Samuel French Morse
Lost Graveyards
173
1
Elizabeth Coatsworth
Aye! No Monuments
174
5
Rita Joe
Work
The Logger's Boast
179
2
Traditional Song
from Nine Mile Bridge
181
6
Helen Hamlin
At the Grave of the Unknown River Driver
187
1
Paul Corrigan
from Sign of the Beaver
188
6
Elizabeth Speare
Uncle George's Axe
194
1
Robert Chute
Work
195
9
Lura Beam
Kennebec Crystals
204
7
Robert P. T. Coffin
from North of the C.P. Line
211
5
John Mcphee
Work Piece
216
2
Tom Fallon
from Picking Up
218
7
Lucy Honig
Grandfather
225
1
Gary Lawless
A Mess of Clams
226
1
Robert P.T. Coffin
Linn Goes Torching
227
7
Dorothy Simpson
The Night Charlie Tended Weir
234
5
Ruth Moore
Factory Days
239
3
Susan Hand Shetterly
In the Sardine Factory
242
1
Kathleen Lignell
Maine
243
4
Philip Booth
Nature
The Wreck of the Hesperus
247
3
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
A Stay at the Ocean
250
12
Robley Wilson, Jr.
The Day the Tide
262
2
Philip Booth
Lakes & Ponds: Some Blue Spots on the Maine Highway Map
264
1
Kate Barnes
The Passing of the Hay Barn
265
2
Abbie Huston Evans
Fire
267
2
William Carpenter
New England
269
1
Constance Hunting
Dry Summer
270
2
May Sarton
Weather Prophet
272
9
Edmund Ware Smith
This is a Night
281
1
Elizabeth Coatsworth
Winter Splendor
282
1
Elizabeth Coatsworth
Poem for St. Francis
283
1
Sylvester Pollet
Great Horned Owl
284
5
Susan Hand Shetterly
An Unseen Deer
289
1
John Tagliabue
How to See Deer
290
2
Philip Booth
from The Year of the Big Cat
292
4
Lew Dietz
First Deer
296
2
Paul Corrigan
As the Buck Lay Dead
298
1
Marsden Hartley
The Buck in the Snow
299
1
Edna St. Vincent Millay
The Day of the Hunter
300
2
Edward Holmes
Open Secrets of Bowdoinham
302
2
Stephen Petroff
Death of a Pig
304
8
E.B. White
The Passing of Mrs. Wiggs
312
1
Robert Chute
Talking to the Dog
313
1
Kate Barnes
from Letourneau's Used Auto Parts
314
1
Carolyn Chute
Dog
315
2
Mitchell Goodman
from The Outlaw Dogs
317
7
C. A. Stephens
Ox
324
1
Henry Braun
In the Pasture
325
1
Kate Barnes
from The Maine Woods
326
7
Henry David Thoreau
Climbing Katahdin
333
6
Daniel Hoffman
Communities
Maine Speech
339
3
E. B. White
The Black Fly Festival
342
2
Tim Sample
Three and One, Arrowmoosic
344
2
Constance Hunting
Black Sunday
346
4
Virginia Chase
The Rumor
350
6
Erskine Caldwell
from Sing Peace to Cedar River
356
3
William Clark
Cap't Bunker's Boy
359
1
Sturgis Haskins
Step-Over Toe-Hold
360
7
Sanford Phippen
Of Small Towns
367
2
Baron Wormser
from The Weir
369
11
Ruth Moore
The Reach
380
17
Stephen King
from The Walk Down Main Street
397
10
Ruth Moore
Mr. Flood's Party
407
2
Edwin Arlington Robinson
Not For Hire
409
5
Edward Holmes
Richard Cory
414
1
Edwin Arlington Robinson
Summer Person
415
2
Glenna Johnson Smith
Island Girl
417
4
Catharine Baker
The Glow of Copper
421
10
Christopher Fahy
Letter from Maine
431
5
Jack Aley
A Sharing of Silences
436
3
Richard Aldridge
Author Biographies
439
23
Acknowledgements
462
3
Index
465