Salt and Roses: The Coastal Maine Way of Life

by May Davidson

Overview

Salt and Roses is a collection of essays from May Davidson, co-inventor of the Maine Buoy Bell and author of Whatever it Takes, that offers an intimate look at her love affair with the State of Maine and her years working and living along the coast with her late husband Jim. Join Davidson as she reminisces about hunting for blueberries in the Maine woods behind her parents inn, spending the night on a rollicking fish carrier, facing off against a wild Jersey cow, and all the other merits of life on the Maine coast.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781952143175
Publisher:	Islandport Press
Publication date:	09/14/2021
Pages:	176
Product dimensions:	5.40(w) x 8.40(h) x 0.50(d)

About the Author

May Davidson was born in 1929 in Damariscotta, a charming fishing village located in midcoast Maine. In 1947, she graduated from Lincoln Academy, a private high school in the nearby town of Newcastle. She married her teenage sweetheart, James, a year later. Determined to stay in Maine, Davidson and her husband of sixty-eight years experimented with several entrepreneurial endeavors—from creating a lobster trap building facility to raising purebred sheep—before finding worldwide success with the design of the iconic Maine Buoy Bell. Today, she lives in Round Pond, Maine, and is known for her column in The Lincoln County News.

Table of Contents

Prologue 1

October, Summer's Sunset 5

Visit from the Forest King 7

Maine Wilderness Adventure 11

Shadows 15

Now Winter 17

Moonlight and Icicles 19

1950s Wild Trip to the North Country 21

Memory of a Perfect Winter Day 27

Christmas Miracle 29

Look Under the Bed 31

Sun Moods 35

Recollections of Winter 1971 37

Dad's Wooden Ice Skates 39

March and the Mud 41

Flight from the Bumblebee 43

Shakin' Down the Acorns 45

Magic in a Mangrove Jungle 49

Night on a Fish Carrier 53

Uncle Angus and Newfie 55

Moonlight and Cabbages 59

Spring Cleaning the Hard Way 63

Maine Spring 67

"Now Hear This!" 69

The Blueberry Expedition 73

Walking the Plank 77

Embarrassing Rescue 81

Mr. Poe and the Ravens 85

Climbing the Towers 89

The Cows are Drunk 93

Sing a Song, Catch a Cow 97

"See Mom, I Took my Shoes Off!" 101

Don't Tell Me You Are Going to do This Again! 105

How to get a Seat on a Crowded Subway 109

Felinity 113

Bringin' in the Hay 115

Green Swamp and Runaway Show Sheep 119

We Don't Know Nothin' 125

Early 20th Century Childhood in Maine 127

Ebenezer and the Steel Corset 131

You're Going to Drown, Harry 135

What You Don't Know Won't Hurt You 137

Crow Charm 141

Moose Escape Plan 143

Barnyard Society of Mallards and Emdens 147

Judgment Day for the Judge 151

Sailing Sideways 157

Ducks in the Desert 159

The Pied Piper of Pigs 163

Haul-Out Time 165

Reverie 167