Sep 3, 2009 | BOOKPATHS
The Country of Pointed Firs , by Sarah Orne Jewett A visitor to the fictional Dunnett Landing is introduced to the people and landscape of "the country of pointed firs." Readers, too, are pulled into the quiet lives and beauty along the Maine coast, inspired, Sarah Orne Jewett wrote to a friend, by the "shore between the regions of Tenants Harbor ...
Survived mountainous ten-day foot patrols when each soldier carried a 140-pound backpack plus his weapons.