We Were an Island The Maine Life of Art and Nan Kellam

Name: We Were an Island The Maine Life of Art and Nan Kellam
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ISBN: 9781584658603

ISBN-10: 1584658606

ISBN-13: 9781584658603

Edition: 2010

Authors: Peter P. Blanchard, David Graham

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Anyone visiting the innumerable islands that hug the coast of Maine has wondered what it would be like to live year round on a "rock" bounded by the sea, essentially cut off from the world, with life's priorities whittled down to the most basic necessities. In 1949 Art and Nan Kellam set off to find their own isolated piece of paradise and eventually settled on a 550-acre island known as Placentia off the northeastern coast of Maine, near Mount Desert Island. They would live there year round for nearly forty years. In this beautifully illustrated volume--based on Nan's personal journal, the "Big Book," which both Art and Nan contributed to, private correspondence, and archival…

Book details

List price: $29.95
Copyright year: 2010
Publisher: University Press of New England
Publication date: 5/11/2010
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 212
Size: 8.00" wide x 8.00" long x 0.90" tall
Weight: 1.738
Language: English



Preface


Acknowledgments


Introduction: A Long Journey Home


The Search for an Independent and Simpler Life


Motivations: The Enigma of a Chosen Lifestyle


Attaining the Kingdom: The Arrival and First Two Days (June 8-9, 1949)


Finding Home and Stepping Free: Homewood and the Footprints in Time


Island Explorations: Circumnavigations, Traverses, and Sight Lines


Placentia's History: Discovering Past and Precedent for Island Habitation


Dory Crossings: The Long Row and the Lifeline


Dynamics of a Relationship: Romance for the Islanders


Dynamics of a Relationship: Troubles in Paradise


Mainers and the Odd Couple


Art and Nan: The "Not-so-Hermits" in Isolation and in Company


Insular Perspectives on the World at Large


Wilderness and the Garden: The Islanders' Relationship with the Natural World


Rhythm of the Seasons: Autumn


Rhythm of the Seasons: Winter


Rhythm of the Seasons: Spring


Rhythm of the Seasons: Summer


Caring for the Kingdom: Island Stewardship and a Vision for the Future


Loss


Beyond the Time of Sharing: Nan's Perspectives Following the Loss of Her Husband


Nan's Memorial Service: A Last Island Reunion


Footprints in the Stillness of Time: Homewood Abandoned


Postscript: The Kellams and the Nearings


A Glossary of Special Terms from the Kingdom of the Bears


Notes


Bibliography