{"product_id":"from-away-maine","title":"From Away: Local Secrets, Honest Stories \u0026 the Real Maine","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eYou can be born in Maine, and if your parents came from away, you're from away. There's no appeal.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eI came up from the Boston suburbs four years ago with my wife, into a small midcoast town and a house with a barn that leans. Wendell, who was born in the house next door in the 1940s, has called me Massachusetts every day since. This is the book I wish someone had handed me the day the moving truck left. It is not a guidebook. It is four years of notes from someone who got most of it wrong first, checked by the one person who never lets me get away with anything.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWhat's in it\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe year they took the Green Bridge down, and what a man who drove over it his whole life said when it was gone. Wendell's Rules, all of them, from one finger off the wheel to why you never ask a man how many traps he fishes. How to talk without faking it: dinner, supper, dooryard, upta camp, and the pause that means more than the words. Mud season, black fly time, the six weeks of summer, and the September exhale when the state belongs to the people who live in it again.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0942\/8218\/7134\/files\/from-away-maine-spread.jpg?v=1790102239\" alt=\"Two-page spread from Chapter Three, Wendell's Rules\" style=\"width:100%;height:auto;border-radius:4px;\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe October back roads. When Route 1 locks up from Wiscasset to Camden there are three roads I use instead, and I've written them down properly, turn by turn.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe food arguments, settled or at least fought fairly. Hot with butter or cold with mayo. Red's or Sprague's. What a real Italian is and why there is no mayo on it. Moxie, Allen's, bean suppers, red snappers, and the year Dover-Foxcroft's whoopie pie festival got beaten by a tamale.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe water, honestly. Where it's warm enough to swim, where the rip will take you, and why you never turn your back on the ledges. The tides Downeast that come in twenty feet. Islands you can do in a day and what the ferry costs now.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAcadia without losing your mind: the Cadillac reservation windows, the bus that nobody's using, the quiet side of the park, and what four million visitors a year is doing to it. Portland, Downeast, the County, the North Woods, and a pond at dawn with a bull moose in it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align:center;margin:28px 0;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"\/cart\/58076440002942:1\" style=\"display:inline-block;background:#1B2920;color:#F1D9B3;padding:16px 34px;border-radius:4px;text-decoration:none;font-weight:600;letter-spacing:1px;\"\u003eGET FROM AWAY, INSTANT DOWNLOAD\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe chapters I didn't want to write\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe wharf, with the real numbers: what a pound of lobster pays now against what bait and diesel cost, and what a two hundred pound day actually leaves a captain. The housing chapter, with the median price, the income you need, the income people here have, and my own part in the problem, which I don't get to skip. The drought year: the dry wells, the brooks you can walk across, the fires. If you're thinking of moving here, this is the chapter to read twice. Area by area, what it really costs, and who is coming.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0942\/8218\/7134\/files\/from-away-maine-inside.jpg?v=1790102238\" alt=\"What's inside From Away, the Maine ebook\" style=\"width:100%;height:auto;border-radius:4px;\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe cove\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt took Wendell three years to take me to the place he swam as a boy. He said I could put it in the book as long as I told it straight and told people how to behave. It's in the last chapter, with the exact turns from Route 1, the trail to take, the tide rule that decides whether you get a beach or a rock, and the hour to go so you have it to yourself.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eHow it works\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eInstant download after checkout. Reads on your phone, tablet, laptop or e-reader. Around ninety pages, twenty eight chapters, plus Wendell's Rules on one page, a Maine glossary, the year at a glance, the October roads, the lobster roll list and a safety card. And free updates for life: when a price changes, a ferry fare goes up or a bridge comes down, you get the new edition for nothing.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt's called From Away because that's what I am. I've decided that's alright.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eTim Morris\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align:center;margin:28px 0;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"\/cart\/58076440002942:1\" style=\"display:inline-block;background:#924030;color:#F1D9B3;padding:16px 34px;border-radius:4px;text-decoration:none;font-weight:600;letter-spacing:1px;\"\u003eDOWNLOAD FROM AWAY NOW\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Roots \u0026 Routes","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":58076440002942,"sku":null,"price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0942\/8218\/7134\/files\/from-away-maine-cover.jpg?v=1790102239","url":"https:\/\/rootsand-routes.com\/products\/from-away-maine","provider":"Roots \u0026 Routes","version":"1.0","type":"link"}