Forest Lodge, former home of Louise Dickinson Rich in Upton, Maine. It consists of seven buildings, four of which are residential. The complex was owned and occupied by the family on a year-round basis between 1933 and 1944, and as Rich's summer residence until 1955. The property, as well as the surrounding country and its small number of year-round residents and seasonal visitors, were recurring themes in her writing. The property was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2008.
“We don't have plays and music and contact with sophisticated minds, and a round of social engagements. All we have are sun and wind and rain, and space in which to move and breathe. All we have are the forests, and the calm expanses of the lakes, and time to call our own. All we have are the hunting and fishing and the swimming, and each other.”
—Louise Dickinson Rich (1903-1991), in We Took to the Woods (1942) and many other books, mostly about Maine. We Took to the Woods (1942) is set in the Rangeley Lake area of northwest Maine. It has elements of Thoreau. She played down the darker stuff.
In Rangeley Lake State Park
