Originally published: New York : Harper & Row, 1982, ©1944. Reprinted in 1997 in paperback with a new foreword wriiten by Roger Angell, the author's stepson in April 1997.

First published in 1942, this collection of essays on Maine life has been in print almost without interruption. The author began this collection as a series of pieces for Harper's Magazine when he left New York City and moved to a saltwater farm in Brooklin, Maine. His observations on town meetings, poultry, the weather, songbirds, compost, taxes, war, winter, and much more will resonate just as strongly today, to anyone attuned to Maine life, as they did half a century ago.