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Barry worked for years as a research librarian at the Maine Historical Society, wrote and contributed to books about Maine history, and penned hundreds of book reviews in the Maine Sunday Telegram.
Ceausescu and his wife wrecked the lives of their countrymen - and their own family. For a spell, their daughter-in-law and grandson laid low in Old Orchard Beach.
Earle Shettleworth, Jr.'s 'A Century of Portland Artists, 1820-1920' introduces the city and its cultural landscape in the first 100 years of Maine statehood.
'Celia Planted a Garden' introduces children to Celia Thaxter, a well-known poet and gardener in her time, who all her life cherished flowers, birds and the Isles of Shoals.
Lots of fascinating material in 'Diggio, Haybis Korpus & E Plewrisy Unicorn!' if you can get past the fact that the imaginary Ethan Spike was a 'reprehensible bigot.'