The Whitney family tree, Jonesboro, Maine
In The Country of the Pointed Firs, one of my all-time favorite books about Maine, or books by woman writers, or books that depict a lost nineteenth-century way of life, Sarah Orne Jewett devotes a couple of chapters to the annual Bowden family reunion when folks arrive on foot, by sail, or by horse…
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