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Lawrence should have a Haystack

October 10, 2025 – 9:46 pm

One afternoon in the summer of 2014, while visiting modernist architect Carol A. Wilson’s home studio in Falmouth, Maine, I mentioned that my wife and I were planning to take a trip up to Acadia National Park the next day. Knowing that I had an interest in modern architecture, Carol said, “You should go check […]

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A simple plan

August 27, 2012 – 11:36 pm

My grandfather Paul and his next-door neighbor Pearly built this hunter’s cabin deep in the Maine woods in 1962, and there are few things in our family that are more treasured. Over the years the cabin has provided for all manner of escape—weekend getaways, visits to the lake, skiing and hunting trips, post-breakup sojourns, and writer’s […]

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