Southern Maine beach house in 1914
“The first ‘hot’ day of the season has happened. I put ‘hot’ in quotation marks because in Maine the term is strictly relative. Most people can live in Maine for years without learning what hot really means; some of them may never learn unless they leave the state.’’
— John Cole (1923-2003), Maine journalist, author and environmentalist, in his book In Maine (1974)
