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Shoutin' into the Fog: Growing up on Maine's Ragged Edge
Shoutin' Into the Fog is a gritty Depression-era memoir of life in Midcoast Maine. Author Thomas Hanna, a longtime resident of Bath, grew up in the village of Five Islands on Georgetown Island, in a small, crowded bungalow pieced together on the edge of a swamp with secondhand wood and cardboard. He was the eldest son and the second of eight children born to his young mother and his father, a World War I veteran big on dreams, but low on luck. Drawing on insight gleaned from his eighty years, Hanna's Shoutin' Into the Fog is a book written with sensitivity, humor, and subtle emotion about a hardscrabble way of life, old-time Maine, and the meaning of both family and forgiveness. His personal tale casts an honest light not only on his own family, but helps illuminate a way of life common to the coast in the 1920s and 1930s that is slowly fading from memory.
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Shoutin' into the Fog: Growing up on Maine's Ragged Edge
Shoutin' Into the Fog is a gritty Depression-era memoir of life in Midcoast Maine. Author Thomas Hanna, a longtime resident of Bath, grew up in the village of Five Islands on Georgetown Island, in a small, crowded bungalow pieced together on the edge of a swamp with secondhand wood and cardboard. He was the eldest son and the second of eight children born to his young mother and his father, a World War I veteran big on dreams, but low on luck. Drawing on insight gleaned from his eighty years, Hanna's Shoutin' Into the Fog is a book written with sensitivity, humor, and subtle emotion about a hardscrabble way of life, old-time Maine, and the meaning of both family and forgiveness. His personal tale casts an honest light not only on his own family, but helps illuminate a way of life common to the coast in the 1920s and 1930s that is slowly fading from memory.
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Shoutin' into the Fog: Growing up on Maine's Ragged Edge

Shoutin' into the Fog: Growing up on Maine's Ragged Edge

by Thomas Hanna
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Shoutin' into the Fog: Growing up on Maine's Ragged Edge

Shoutin' into the Fog: Growing up on Maine's Ragged Edge

by Thomas Hanna

Overview

Shoutin' Into the Fog is a gritty Depression-era memoir of life in Midcoast Maine. Author Thomas Hanna, a longtime resident of Bath, grew up in the village of Five Islands on Georgetown Island, in a small, crowded bungalow pieced together on the edge of a swamp with secondhand wood and cardboard. He was the eldest son and the second of eight children born to his young mother and his father, a World War I veteran big on dreams, but low on luck. Drawing on insight gleaned from his eighty years, Hanna's Shoutin' Into the Fog is a book written with sensitivity, humor, and subtle emotion about a hardscrabble way of life, old-time Maine, and the meaning of both family and forgiveness. His personal tale casts an honest light not only on his own family, but helps illuminate a way of life common to the coast in the 1920s and 1930s that is slowly fading from memory.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780976323181
Publisher: Islandport Press
Publication date: 08/01/2006
Edition description: New Edition
Pages: 305
Sales rank: 1,053,173
Product dimensions: 5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.69(d)

About the Author

Thomas L. Hanna was a longtime resident of Bath, Maine. Raised in the village of Five Islands on Georgetown Island in Midcoast Maine, he left home at seventeen to join the U.S. Navy during World War II, and eventually made the Navy his career. He retired as a senior chief operations specialist after twenty years of service, and began a second career as a value engineer at Bath Iron Works. He retired in 1988 after twenty-two years. Then, using writing skills he had honed in the Navy and at BIW, he began writing for publication. His articles have appeared in Down East, Reminisce, and Good Old Days. Hanna died in 2008 at age eighty-one.

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"On his last day on the job, Worth had apparently gathered every piece of paper left on his desk and tucked them into the envelope. Julie sorted them into categories, creating neat piles on the table, glancing at each item, but resisting the temptation to start working on them until she had established the kind of order that she required.
One of the newspaper clippings, though, was too enticing to ignore. It was a newspaper article from The Boston Post headlined THIEVES STEALING HISTORY AROUND NEW ENGLAND. A yellow Post-it gave the date - seven months ago - and Worth's comment: 'A big problem. Copies for trustees?'
'Thieves have targeted at least a dozen small-town historical societies across New England in recent months, in some cases walking off with artifacts and artwork worth hundreds of thousands of dollars.
Among the items is a $250,000 Civil War sword stolen from the history museum in Fitchburg, Mass; an 18th-century tavern sign valued at $100,000, taken from the Portsmouth, N.H., historical society; a collection of Civil War medals stolen from the Winooski, Vt., historical society; and four primitive paintings taken from Newburyport Center for History. Investigations into the thefts are ongoing. . . .
. . . "Some of these places have collections of considerable value, yet they must rely on volunteers for most, if not all of their operations," said Tina Meyers, a professor of Massachusetts history at Harvard University.
Sometimes the museums don't realize the value of their own collections. In Brattleboro, Vt., the historical society there was recently surprised to learn that a letter it holds from Revolutionary War hero Ethan Allen to a relative is worthupwards of $25,000.
'We knew it was valuable, of course,' said volunteer director Dolores Coombs, 'but it wasn't until my son suggested we have it appraised that we learned just how much it was worth. You can be sure we're taking special precautions with it now.'

Lucky them, Julie thought - they knew where their valuable letter was. She stopped reading and looked at Worth's note again: "A big problem." Did Worth even know about the Lincoln letter? Of course he did, Julie decided. Did he also know the Lincoln letter wasn't where it was supposed to be? Was that the big problem?"

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