When I worked at a local Maine radio station, the news we read usually was from a wire service. The Associated Press, United Press International the two chocolate and vanilla choices. Pretty much it. And the smaller the Maine radio station, the more rip and read happened. But writers can ramble on in blogs, on [...]
Moonlighting, extra jobs to round out the process of promoting Maine, getting the word out about the Pine Tree State, Vacationland up here in the right hand corner of the country. For years MeInMaine author yours truely has been a member of the Active Rain blog network. And if you follow the MeInMaine blog posts, [...]
Take a dip in a Maine lake is one of the benefits from buying, owning Maine waterfront real estate. But the camp, cottage, home or just land on Maine waterfront is more than fun and games when the temperature is high. And everyone is eating watermelon, grilling and chilling. The loons singing or crying, the [...]
Hear the question from Maine real estate buyers… a lot when the caller, emailer, visitor to the Houlton Maine office wonder, worry about bad crime riddled areas or blighted towns like where they come from. They explain that where they live now in Massachusetts, New Jersey, Rhode Island or Connecticut there are some neighborhoods, towns [...]
Folks jammed in a small area with wall to wall people struggling with giant nose bleed high mortgages, stuck in bumper to bumper barely moving traffic….I’m talking somewhere other than Maine. When you get more people spaced in over lap fashion, clustered, stuffed in too small a confine, like labratory rats, they start to bite, [...]
In my job as a Maine real estate broker, many of our property buyers do not live local. Some use to and moved with their parents to say Connecticut years ago to work at Pratt and Whitney, General Dynamics, Electric Boat, even Royal typewriter many moons ago. But as the new town becomes crowded, over [...]
Early Summer Morning Walk To Maine Lake Dam, Drews Lake ME If someone landed a space ship from a galaxy far away in Maine, and had only ten minutes during refueling to learn about the place, words would just get in the way of the conversation. Images, lots of them one by one show the [...]
When you climb Mt Katahdin with your family, looking out from the summit in all four directions around Baxter State Park and from Maine’s highest mountain, all in the party go speechless. Something clicks, hits deeply and you suddenly start to figure out what is important. Where you need to be. It’s easier to be [...]
In Maine, our happiness, sense of contentment does not come from a mall, or ordering a lot of “stuff”, junk, items on line to try and impress. The joy we contain is not generated by plastic, being saddled with debt or wearing “handcuffs of gold”. I learn a lot of new expressions from the folks [...]
If you owned a Maine waterfront property, wouldn’t getting excited about the next three day weekend stretched in to four days to be on an open deck over looking a lake be therapeutic, healthy? To change up the scenery where you live now? Not to mention the advantages to owning a second home, a vacation [...]
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