Maravene (J131934@aol.com)
-- Sarasota, FL
10/17/01 -- 02:20:55 PM
Hello Fred Brewer.I also came
from LaGrange, Maine... Check out "info@mainegoodies.com".
Humpty Dumpty chips on left side. This site is ready for
all of us MIE's.
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Wayne St. Clair (wane9779@hotmail.com)
-- Roanoke, VA
10/17/01 -- 12:15:49 PM
ps. to Carolyn @lake wales fla.
I am not sure who you mean...I don't watch too much TV
as it burns holes in the brain so I don't know about any
pretty young dark haired lady advertizing libiary passes
though at least she sounds intriguing.
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Wayne St. Clair (wane9779@hotmail.com)
-- Roanoke, VA
10/17/01 -- 11:58:13 AM
To Ralph from Frankfort
Germany. I fully agree with your sentiments. I was born
here in Roanoke Va.& spent the first 18 years of
life here & the next 18 in Maine. While I am not a
native it is as surely my home as is this place, indeed
more so as my heart is there. Not a day passes when I do
not think of Maine &/or recall my life there &
miss it terribly especially this time of year. AND, that
is after being back here 10 years now. I go up there
when I can, 4 years ago being the last time & I
fully intend to spend next September up there. In fact
it is fully known among friends & family down here
that when my parents pass away (long may they live) I
intend to return permenatly even if it is just to die.
Congradulations in finding your place in this world. Not
all are so lucky. They say your place is where you are
standing but some speak so clearly to the heart that
seperation is exile & return a pilgrimage.
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KIKI (kiki08053@yahoo.com)
-- Marlton, NJ
10/16/01 -- 10:25:57 AM
To Maureen Bayer,
I echo Wayne St. Clair's recommendation for
Lobster.WWW.lobsterdirect.com is the best!! I have tried
many places to get Maine lobster shipped and this by far
is the best! Unless you want to make the trip yourself.
However, your on your own with the syrup.
Happy eats! Peace
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Ralph (transat@t-online.de)
Frankfurt, GERMANY
10/16/01 -- 08:02:02 AM
After reading this entire board about 2 months ago I
came back frequently just to feel people share my
thoughts. I don't know whether I qualify for a
"Mainer in Exile" but for myself it is a
question of feeling, not of birthplace. so let me tell
you my story briefly:
I went to Maine for the first time seven years ago (43
old then) and travelling the state for 3 weeks I was
amazed at how much it felt like "HOME". I
spent lots of time in places all over the world, not
only for business but also for vacation and never before
had I felt this. I love people in Maine, have found some
real good friends. I appreciate that way of thinking
before they talk or thinking before they DON'T talk. I
love the fog and the rain and the ice storms and power
outages, driving in the snow, the WATER everywhere,
SITTING THERE AND LOOKING is really all I need. I can't
get enough of it. So it happened that I came back 6
months later and then again and again.
Five years ago I started thinking about ways to make
Maine my family's home and what can I say ... I'm in the
middle of getting my work permit and visa and will
settle in Lincoln county as early as next spring. So IT
IS POSSIBLE if you try hard enough!
So I'm soon going to be promoted from the "from
away" status to "year round summer
person".
There's HOPE!
Ralph (from away)
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Fred Brewer (fbrew39@hotmail.com)
-- Hanford, CA
10/15/01 -- 08:45:39 PM
I grew up in Bridgewater and
LaGrange, Maine. I came to California with the Navy 11
years ago and now work for the California Department of
Corrections as an MTA (Medical Technical Assistant) a
combination nurse and peace officer. I miss my family
and Humpty Dumpty BBQ potato chips. If anyone knows how
I can have them shipped out here please let me know.
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Nicholas Petersen (petersennj1@gcc.edu)
-- Grove City, PA
10/14/01 -- 06:12:05
Hey everyone!
I'm a college student at Grove City
College, and just wanted to say hi to anyone else who
might be out there in the area. I miss home terribly,
but I look forward to going back whenever I can. If
you're out there, give me an e-mail!
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Carolyn -- Lake Wales, FL
10/12/01 -- 04:09:52 PM
Wayne, Thank you for painting lovely pictures of home
with your words. Have you seen a pretty dark haired
young lady on your local TV advertising the library
passes? She is a Mainer in exile!!!
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Wayne St. Clair (wane9779@hotmail.com)
-- Roanoke, VA
10/12/01 -- 11:00:27 AM
Thanks Maravene you have the gift for words yourself.
To Maureen Bayer I highly recommend WWW.LOBSTERDIRECT.COM
they will ship you everything you need at fairly decent
prices. I use them when I need a lobster fix bad &
refuse to pay to 10.99 lb. price tag down here. The last
time I was in Maine 4 years ago I brought back 6
lobsters to share with a lover as a thank you for
watching my pets while I was gone. I paid 2.99 lb. When
I got home my cats were so happy to see me then they
smelled the lobster & they true to form said to hell
with you whats in the box? Well I pulled one out &
set it on the floor in front of them & it started
walking around.They freaked & we didn't see them for
ther rest of the night. Lobsterdirect has clambake
material as well as syrup & all sorts of good Yankee
stuff. I baked an apple pie using Macintosh apples the
other day & placed a layer of Cabots extra sharp
cheddar cheese underneath the crust before baking.
Everybody thought I was nuts (usually do) until they
tasted it & I had to fight the wait staff off to
have some myself. Well off to make some pumpkin
cheesecakes.
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Paula (PDesrochers@uahc.org)
-- New York, NY
10/11/01 -- 05:22:57 PM
I saw Maureen's request for lobster... A MIE
living 3 miles from "Ground 0" I was
home in Scarborough over the weekend and Shaws had
lobster on sale for $3.99 lb AND they would cook them!!!
Bayley's is not that inexpensive but they do ship and
they have the BEST lobster rools around! Their
website is: http://www.bayleys.com/
Happy Eating!!!! As for the syrup - that is not my
department LOL!
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Maravene (J131934@aol.com)
-- Sarasota, FL
10/11/01 -- 10:43:38 AM
WAYNE ST.CLAIR you have done it again.You help fill
my mind and soul with remberences.You are truly a poet.
Thank You.
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Maureen (maureenbayer@hotmail.com)
-- Oakland, CA
10/10/01 -- 11:51:28 AM
M.I.E. (West Paris, ME) living in California - HELP!
Must get some wicked good Maine Lobstah and Grade A
light amber pure maple syrup! I gotta getta boatload of
lobstah ova heah by Novembah for the holidays. Anyone
know where I can get lobster and syrup shipped out here?
Please e-mail me!
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Wayne St. Clair (wane9779@hotmail.com)
-- Roanoke, VA
10/10/01 -- 11:03:24 AM
10 years ago this past Sept. 22nd I hopped on my
bicycle & migrated to Va. Now each year this time I
find myself recalling my life in Maine & that long
trip.
The day I left was stunning & very warm
for that time of year...in the mid 70's & I made it
from Portland to Rochester N.H. where I stayed the
night. The next day I made it to Concord N.H. &
stayed at the Salavation Army there & watched the
full moon rise over some fields laced with fog. That is
so New England. The next day I made it to Keene & on
the way passed many upland marshes full in their autumn
colors. That too is New England to the tee.
Each year round this time I would head up
the coast first to Mast Landing outside Freeport then on
to Wolf Neck State Park. If I could only take a visitor
to just 2 places in Maine just for a feel for the place
those would be high on my list. Not so grand as
Mt.Desert or Isle De Haut but stunningly beautiful none
the less. Just a couple dozen feet off the shore of
Wolf's Neck is Googin's island...a small pocket of a
place where Osprey nest...I saw one fly just 20 feet in
front of me once at eye level at the hunter's blind out
a Gilsland Farm. Such impressive birds...I wouldn't want
to tangle with one.
One first day of autumn I left Madison Hut high in
the northern Presidents. The tops of the mountains were
white with early snow but oddly just a dusting at the
huts. The night before I'd watched the full moon racing
with the clouds yet by morning there was the snow. I
followed the A.T. Straight down the headwall of Great
Gulf into that fantastic wild bowl blazing with orange,
red & gold off set by pine green.
For several years running I would catch a
bus down to Hyannisport & walk Cape Cod up to
Provincetown...The Cape is at its best in the fall...I
remember gorging on fresh baked bread & oysters
washed down with good red wine in old artists shacks
watching the steel gray surf pounding at the dunes.
Rolling down the back country roads with
fire colored leaves flying in the crisp autumn breeze...Ahh
yes so very fine...the finest kind. Standing on the
rocks at Portland head light wind & surf in my hair
biting cold yet fresh. I really have nothing to say
today but God the fall is lovely.
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Pam Schaffner (pgschaff@fuse.net)
-- Mason, OH
10/9/01 -- 12:37:59 PM
Graduated SPHS 1973. Left when married to Air Force
JAG, now divorced, living in exile outside Cincinnati,
OH. Miss Italian sandwiches, fried clams, red
hotdogs, and pine trees. Go back once a year but
that's not enuf. Would love to meet other exiles
pretending to be Buckeyes.
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Janet (jmmmail@talk21.com)
-- Chadwell St. Mary, ESSEX, ENGLAND
10/8/01 -- 05:44:14 am
I was raised in Kittery. I married an
Englishman and have lived here for 30 years. As
much as I love it here, I still consider Maine to be
home, and my children have grown to love it on their
visits.
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Betty Monson Hammond (hamham@isp101.com)
-- Bandon, OR
10/7/01 -- 07:03:33 PM
I posted a message shortly after reading some of the messages on this site. Then I continued to read further. I'm interested in that it is so hard to find red hot dogs & whoopie pies. Those are among some of the best foods there are. Not to mention of course the other foods that Maine has to offer, but I've not seen where anyone has mentioned the creme horns, or the pickled herring. The pickled herring you find here is either in a cream or wine sauce. No old-fashioned pickled herring, with vinegar and pickling spices. And when you ask for herring at the market, even the fish markets, they think that you are talking about bait.
I remember growing up on my grandparents farm, going
out in late summer and early fall, before potato harvest
time, and digging up new potatoes, and sometimes, just
wiping them off right there in the field and eating
them. And picking the wild strawberries, that were so
tiny but yet so full of flavor. Saturdays grandma use to
make a big pot of baked beans, and several of loaves of
freshly baked bread. I also remember her making potato
doughnuts and in the winter she would fill a pickling
crock full and put them on the back porch, where
naturally they froze. Us cousins would thaw them out on
the cook stove, then sprinkle them with sugar. It was
great.
Till next time. A Mainiac trasplanted in Oregon.
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Betty Monson Hammond (hamham@isp101.com)
-- Bandon, OR
10/7/01 -- 05:43:45 PM
I was born in Caribou, Maine. Went to Woodland Consolidate School. Lived with my parents and grandparents on a potato farm in Woodland. Went to Caribou High with several of my cousins. I use to spend some of my weekends with my grandparents in Allagash, where my grandmother was born, and where my great-aunt lived. I met my husband, while he was stationed at Loring, and upon his discharge moved to his home state of Oregon. Oregon is a very beautiful state, and in some ways much like Maine, but we don't have the beautiful fall colors. We live in a very small peaceful coastal town. That is becoming more and more popular.
I do miss most of my family who live in Maine and
most of the New England states. However, one of my
cousins has moved not far away. I think the things that
I miss most other than family, & beautiful fall
colors is the snow for the holidays. To me it just
doesn't seem like the holidays without the snow. I have
not been back to Maine since 1976, but think of it !
often.
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Myrtle McBreairty Williams (richardwilliams01@earthlink.net)
-- New Milford, CT
10/4/01 -- 06:44:00 PM
I was born in Allagash, ME. Moved to CT in 1968
to find work - met who is now my husband and been here
ever since. Certainly miss the peacefullness and
beauty of what I will always call home and go back every
year to visit. Hope to retire back there somewhere
someday.
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Chris (Glab101@aol.com)
-- Charlotte, NC
10/4/01 -- 12:43:35 PM
I had never been to Maine until this past
summer. I LOVED IT THERE! I wish I could
live there myself. My best friend is from Maine
and we went with her to visit her family. I
believe that if there is anywhere in the US I would love
to live it would have to be MAINE! Also, I am
trying to locate a whoopie pie recipe, anyone
help? PLEASE!
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Lisa B. (Lisabu@cs.com)
-- Hope Mills, NC
10/3/01 -- 05:38:11 PM
I did it! I swallowed my fear and got on the plane so that I could go backhome for a few days. I'm so very glad I did. Thisis the best season of all. The air was fresh and crisp and the foliage was beautiful. I didn't want to leave but I'm so happy I didn't let my fears from September 11t overtake me. I even had time to sit by the Lake at Lake Auburn on Lakeshore Drive just past Taber's... and enjoy the silence.
Yes, I've come to the realization that Maine will
always be my home. There is really no other place
where you can still go to the same corner store that you
went to as a child, or find your childhood neighbors
still living in your old neighborhood. What they
say is true, "You dont realize what you have until
its gone." Auburn will always be home .. and
Maine is still the most beautiful place on the east
coast.
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Wayne St. Clair (wane9779@hotmail.com)
-- Roanoke, VA
10/2/01 -- 11:18:11 AM
It is good to be alive in the autumn, at the turning
of the year. Not so quiet & sutle as
springtime, its soulmate, rather instead a brash
& showy display. The air even down here
is crystaline blue with faux marble clouds streaking
white against the sky. Its cool in the
morning & there's frost on my pumpkin (I rub my
belly happily). I watch the Monarch
butterflies winging south & Orian rising in the sky.
To quote the poet Rilke..."It is simply
breathtaking just to be here." I watch my puppy
play & a young mother nurse. An elderly
couple walk past hand in hand after so many years. it is
good to be alive...what on earth
were those men thinking?
To Kathy Britt...A friend of mine just moved to Portland
from down here. In the course
of a single weekend he landed a job & an apartment
on the western prom no less.
There are difficulties but yes it can be done.
To Marvene...thank you.
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