Comfort is an old barn Stories from the heart of Maine
Large print - 2024
"Amy Calder is an award-winning newspaper reporter and columnist, covering city government and everything from murders and car crashes to fires and drug busts. Her 34-year career started at the Waterville Sentinel bureau in Skowhegan, where she served as bureau chief for several years and chased stories from Jackman to Fairfield and Farmington to Newport. Since 2009, Calder has written a weekly human-interest column, "Reporting Aside," which appears in both the Sentinel and the Kennebec Journal. Comfort Is an Old Barn is a curated collection of those columns, which include sketches of the colorful characters, quirky animals she has encountered, and special moments, as well as personal stories that make living in Maine special...."--
- Subjects
- Genres
- Autobiographies
Anecdotes
Large print books - Published
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Thorndike, Maine :
Center Point Large Print
2024.
- Language
- English
- Main Author
- Edition
- Center Point Large Print edition
- Item Description
- Regular print version previously published by Islandport Press.
- Physical Description
- 264 pages (large print) : illustrations ; 23 cm
- ISBN
- 9798891643505
- Author's Note
- Growing Up
- Comfort Is an Old Barn
- Skowhegan in the 1960s
- Christmas Memories
- Finding Our Christmas Tree
- An Everlasting Gift
- The Joy of Sledding
- Valentine's Day with a Broken Heart
- Salt and Vinegar Fries
- May Baskets
- World Series Offers a Reminder
- Summertime at the Swimmin' Hole
- Penny for Your Thoughts
- Fourth of July by the Ocean
- The Skowhegan State Fair
- My Camelot
- Education on the School Bus
- I Love Apples
- Mom and Apple Pie
- The Old Tricks and Treats
- Black Casket, Three Miles Away!
- A Youth on Horseback
- Goodbye, Mom
- On the Beat
- Return of the Native
- The Empire Grill
- Smokin' Joe Comes to Town
- Beards and Blaze Orange
- Technology Comes to the Newsroom
- The Swinger of Birches
- Time Stood Still
- Change Is the Spice of Life
- Do I Want My Change? Really?
- All Signs Point to Autumn
- Lake George Regional Park
- The Original Social Media
- My Niece and the Skowhegan Fair
- Watch for Deer
- Paying Back an Old Kindness
- Studded Snow Tires
- How High Is Your Snow?
- Remember Encyclopedias?
- The Joy of Maine Stores
- Sugary Treats and Journalism
- People Who Snap Gum! Arggh!
- Company's Coming!
- Return to Baby Showers
- It's Later Than You Think
- Closing up Camp
- Maine's Odd, Quirky Road Names
- Where Does the Stamp Go?
- Wicked Puzzling Maine Terms
- The "New Normal"
- Cats Are Perfect Pandemic Partners
- Discovering What Really Matters
- The People I Meet
- Waving Goodbye to a Friend
- The "Cross Man"
- Peter Joseph and the Waterville Mills
- Along the Passagassawakeag
- A Four-Legged Friend
- Waterville's Top Bird
- At Home in Waterville
- Farewell to Peter Michaud
- "Parting Is Such Sweet Sorrow"
- Bucket List
- Peg
- Homeless in Waterville
- The Skowhegan Class of 1947
- A Little Spot of Heaven
- Never a Bad Day on the Kennebec River
- Epilogue
- Dear Dad
- Acknowledgments
- About the Author