Showing posts with label Maine. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Maine. Show all posts

Saturday, March 13, 2010

Maine

Lobsters ands lighthouses.  Oh, and the author Stephen King, one of my faves.  These are the things that spring to mind at the mention of the state of Maine.

A couple interesting facts about Maine:

     1.  It is the only state to have a name which is one syllable long.
     2.  The population of Maine is over 98% white.
     3.  The state drink is Moxie, one of the first mass produced soft drinks in the US.

Having never visited Maine, I have to go on the description of Edna St. Vincent Millay for how it must look, from her poem "Renascence":

     "All I could see from where I stood
      was three long mountains and a wood
      I turned and looked the other way
      and saw three islands in a bay"

Another postcard from Maine can be found here.

Tuesday, August 4, 2009

Peaks Island, Maine















A side benefit to this postcard blog - I'm getting a lot more postcards!

This is from my friend, Courtney, who is on Peaks Island, Maine for much of the summer. It sounds really nice.