Sebago Lake

His school, it is to be supposed, was the common day school of New England, the primary factor in that extraordinarily pervasive system of instruction in the plainer branches of learning which forms one of the principal ornaments of American life.

In 1818, when he was fourteen years old, he was taken by his mother to live in the house of an uncle, her brother, who was established in the town of Raymond, near Lake Sebago in the state of Maine.

The immense state of Maine in the year 1818 must have had an even more magnificently natural character than it possesses at the present day, and the uncle's dwelling, in consequence of being in a little smarter style than the primitive structures that surrounded it, was known by the villagers as Manning's Folly.

Mr. Lathrop pronounces this region to be of a, quote, weird and woodsy character, and Hawthorne later in life spoke of it to a friend as the place where, quote, I first got my cursed habits of solitude.

Hey, good morning, corner man.

Eddie from Sebago Lake, Maine.

Hi,

Eddie.

His school, it is to be supposed, was the common day school of New England, the primary factor in that extraordinarily pervasive system of instruction in the plainer branches of learning, which forms one of the principal ornaments of American life.

In 1818, when he was 14 years old, he was taken by his mother to live in the house of an uncle, her brother, who was established in the town of Raymond, near Lake Sebago in the state of Maine.

The immense state of Maine in the year 1818 must have had an even more magnificently natural character than it possesses at the present day, and the uncle's dwelling, in consequence of being in a little smarter style than the primitive structures that surrounded it, was known by the villagers as Manning's Folly.

Mr. Lathrop pronounces this region to be of a, quote, "weird and woodsy character," and Hawthorne later in life spoke of it to a friend as the place where, quote, "I first got my cursed habits of solitude." The outlook indeed for an embryonic novelist would not seem to have been cheerful.

Right.

We were lucky enough that, um, my husband's company put us in a lake house and I would just sit and listen to the waves come in and out on Sebago Lake and, just write, just journal my feelings.

That was when my friend, Molly, my dear, dear friend, she works at Penn State.

And she said, Megan, if you write a book, I will use it in my class.

His school, it is to be supposed, was the common day school of New England, the primary factor in that extraordinarily pervasive system of instruction in the plainer branches of learning, which forms one of the principal ornaments of American life.

In 1818, when he was 14 years old, he was taken by his mother to live in the house of an uncle, her brother, who was established in the town of Raymond, near Lake Sebago in the state of Maine.

The immense state of Maine in the year 1818 must have had an even more magnificently natural character than it possesses at the present day, and the uncle's dwelling, in consequence of being in a little smarter style than the primitive structures that surrounded it, was known by the villagers as Manning's Folly.

Mr. Lathrop pronounces this region to be of a, quote, "weird and woodsy character," and Hawthorne later in life spoke of it to a friend as the place where, quote, "I first got my cursed habits of solitude." The outlook indeed for an embryonic novelist would not seem to have been cheerful.