It’s Friday and I just updated The Lady Alone Traveler blog over at the Sun Journal’s website. Click on the gorgeous lighting fixture to be transported to Presque Isle, Maine.
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Thank you for your postcards from the Valley. I drove up to Fort Fairfield and immediately recognized the Carnegie Library, which fits in nicely with a number of graceful brick buildings on that little main street. Now that Presque Isle is only a skip up the road, your guides will come in handy.
I will need to discipline myself to write these updates more frequently then! I do think PI is a creative hub of sorts. The frame shop trades in art supplies and some original works. Throw in the beagle and a cup of coffee and what’s not to love?
Hi Julie-Ann,
I enjoyed reading this story and the one about the Fort Fairfield Carnegie library. I would get books at the FF library in the summers of my youth when I visited my Grandmother. She at 6 Presque Isle Street. You drove by the house on your way into FF. My grandfather was on the board of directors of that bank back in the day. He opened a passbook savings account for me there shortly after I was born. And when I made and sold garlic powder as a small business a few years back, Canterbury Royal in FF was one of my customers.
I’ve stayed at the Northeastland Hotel. Surprisingly nice place. I only wish I had known to stop by the library in Presque Isle to see the art! Never know about it until I read this article.
You’re doing a great job with the travel writing!
Hello, Herrick!
I got your snail mail note. Would it be possible that there is a still a mailbox with “Kimball” on it in FF? Because seeing that name somewhere in Aroostook County reminded me of you and the stories of your grandparents and thus, when I saw “Echoes” magazine I knew this was for you. Ironically, the editor Kathryn Olmstead taught a class I took at the University of Maine at Orono (Newspaper Design) and it’s interesting that she’s made The County her home and promotes it so beautifully in this publication.
Maine is a small world…thank you for sharing your connections to it. Next week, I’m hoping to write about Caribou and the Saint John Valley. 🙂