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SEPTEMBER 11 The Isolation blues; reflections during covid-19 This week-end national news organizations, media outlets and remembrance events commemorate the 20th anniversary of 911. The attack on the World Trade Center was one of those events where you remember where you were…

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BLACK BEAR REVISITED The Isolation Blues; reflections during covid-19 So here’s another bear story…interestingly enough, this story occurred only a couple of weeks after the first so it could very well be the same bear. (As I remember it) I was…

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BLACK BEAR The Isolation Blues; reflections during covid-19 photo of artwork at The Black Bear Brewery in Bangor, Maine When people visit the State of Maine on summer vacation they are often on the lookout for lobster, lighthouses, moose or…

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VACATIONLAND The Isolation blues; reflections during covid-19 Vacationland two deer crossing the river  in summer no concern for the matters of man One summer day my Dad and I were in his machine shop and I remember asking him this…

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FATHER’S DAY The Isolation Blues; reflections during covid-19 This is a Father’s Day installment of Backwoods Blog and you’ll have to excuse me as I reminisce about years gone past. I think it’s always a difficult (if impossible) task to reconstruct what our childhood…

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BOB DYLAN TURNS 80 The Isolation Blues; reflections during covid-19 “Some people feel the rain. Others just get wet.”– Bob Dylan Excerpt from an interview with Douglas Brinkley that appeared in The New York Times June 12th, 2020 coinciding with the release of…

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SPRING PLANTING The Isolation Blues; reflections during covid-19 As long as I can remember I have heard about population migration away from northern Maine due to lack of economic opportunities. It became readily apparent during the 1970s as many of…

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MOTHER’S DAY The Isolation Blues; reflections during covid-19 Since Mother’s Day is this week I thought I’d say a few things about my mother. Vera Stitham Hutchinson was born on December 10, 1934 to Ralph and Laura Stitham the third of four…

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BIRTH CERTIFICATE The Isolation Blues; reflections during covid-19 My Father George Hutchinson was born on December 13, 1909 at the family homestead located on the Nichols Road in Monticello. As the story goes, by the time the medical doctor from…

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LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI The Isolation Blues; reflections during covid-19 “Am I the consciousness of a generation or just some old fool sounding off and trying to escape the dominant materialist avaricious consciousness of America?”  From a line in Lawrence Ferlinghetti’s book…

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