When you settle a Maine estate and have to go through the house hold items of a loved one passed away, the small things are the most valuable. The items you remember as a kid that in a garage sale would be pretty valueless. Passed over or not fetching much of a price. I remember [...]

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Day after day of sunshine, cobalt blue skies and summer weather that could not be improved on for recreation, for growing vegetables, fruit. But lack of water, a drink for the potato plants of Aroostook County means irrigation is part of the farming exercise this summer. A family farm I own in Houlton Maine has [...]

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Maine youth working in Aroostook County farm fields learn work ethic early on, watching their brothers and sisters and parents toil in the sun, a labor of love, survival.

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