New England Diary

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Maine country place

“When Daddy’s downcellah busy with his lathe, I go to the edge of the grass to get a look at the Beans. The Beans’ mobile home is one of them old ones, looks like a turquoise-blue submarine. It’s got blackberry bushes growin’ over the windows.’’


— From The Beans of Egypt, Maine (1985), by Carolyn Chute (born 1947)