The year 2000 arrived with a whimper. I celebrated the New Year with my daughter and her partner in Machiasport, Maine.
Machiasport is a remote town about as far Down East as you can go. It is in the middle of nowhere. I bought a house there in 1993 with Len because it was beautiful, wild, and affordable. I had hoped it would give Len and me some pleasure after his stroke and be a place to heal our lives.
Rachel was staying at the house in 2000, finishing college classes for her BS at the University of Maine at Machias. The weathered Cape-style house sat on sixteen acres of wild blueberry fields rambling down to Holmes Bay. It was a feast of sky, fields, and salt water. Eagles often flew overhead with fish in their talons. Fox, bear, and moose roamed about and outnumbered people. The population was 1,100. It wasn’t a popular vacation area even though it sat close to the water and was full of wild areas to explore. I liked that it wasn’t a tourist destination.
Machiasport is a remote town about as far Down East as you can go. It is in the middle of nowhere. I bought a house there in 1993 with Len because it was beautiful, wild, and affordable. I had hoped it would give Len and me some pleasure after his stroke and be a place to heal our lives.
Rachel was staying at the house in 2000, finishing college classes for her BS at the University of Maine at Machias. The weathered Cape-style house sat on sixteen acres of wild blueberry fields rambling down to Holmes Bay. It was a feast of sky, fields, and salt water. Eagles often flew overhead with fish in their talons. Fox, bear, and moose roamed about and outnumbered people. The population was 1,100. It wasn’t a popular vacation area even though it sat close to the water and was full of wild areas to explore. I liked that it wasn’t a tourist destination.