Nostalgia has its price and comes in different forms, up to and including maintaining a car registration from the 1930s.
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Posted inOp-eds, Opinion
Maine Observer: Memories of a darned good yesterday
There was nothing more noteworthy than chitchatting with family, but it was all well worth remembering.
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Gina Barreca: Let’s cross the ancestral DNA divide to celebrate the world as a family tree
Testing to see if we’re 38 percent Irish can be fun, but a strong, united future isn’t about our past.
Posted inEditorials, Opinion
Maine Observer: Haven doesn’t have to imagine a place where it’s always safe and warm
The gift of new sight through 8-year-old eyes is enough to turn a heart-shaped rock into a completely full heart.
Posted inEditorials, Opinion
Our View: Victims of domestic abuse can get help in Maine
The state’s toll-free hotline has counselors to point them toward the right resources.
Posted inMaine Voices, Op-eds, Opinion
Maine Voices: When an abuser kills, don’t seek ‘trigger’
To understand domestic violence homicides, look at a killer’s patterns of behavior and beliefs of entitlement.
Posted inOp-eds, Opinion
Maine Observer: Lack of cellphone coverage a blessing
When forced to be present in our daily lives, a summer evening Down East can become a truly wonderful experience.
Posted inOp-eds, Opinion
Maine Observer: A family finds joy on a Maine shoreline
At first not sure if there even was a lake back there, one family ended up buying up land on the edge of Balch Pond.
Posted inOp-eds, Opinion
Maine Observer: Memories of Grammy and Shirley Mills
I’m told Grammy’s old house, which used to have a ‘two-holer’ and hand pump for water, is fixed up with bathrooms now.
Posted inOp-eds, Opinion
Leonard Pitts: After last of a dozen aunts and uncles dies, a nephew reflects on his roots
Their superstitions, sayings and wisdom aren’t totally gone, because they reside within the next generation.