Awards

• "Winner of Editor's Prize from Switchback for ""Loon"" 2015 (United States)"
• Runner-up for Foreword Reviews Bronz Medal 2018 (United States)
• Winner of Editor's Prize from Switchback for Loon 2015 (United States)
• Winner of Editor's Prize from Switchback for ""Loon"" 2015 (United States)
• Winner of Maine Literary Award 2018 (United States)

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One Man's Maine: Essays on a Love Affair, a collection of essays by Jim Krosschell, nods to E.B. White in subject matter, title, and tone. Krosschell, who divides his time between Newton and Owls Head, Maine, examines a world in which change is speeding up and place is shrinking down, even in Maine. Krosschell is both grump (lamenting that his nephew is chatting on his cellphone about a bathroom renovation while at the top of picturesque Beech Hill) and sage, understanding that the world moves; times shift; and there's a balance to be sought between society, with all its screens and buzzes, and nature. He celebrates the slow pleasures to be found scraping moss off the roof and asks the big questions about what kind of world is being left behind to younger generations. Like Loren Eiseley, he is an open-hearted scientist, one wedded to facts and yet not afraid to use the word 'miracle' or 'mystery.' The 16 essays appear in pairs - the first in each couple looks at Maine's natural icons, berries, lupine, loon, lobster, and the second grapples with wider concerns. It is a view that will help even those who feel they know the state to see it anew. -- Boston Globe

One Man's Maine: Essays on a Love Affair, a collection of essays by Jim Krosschell, nods to E.B. White in subject matter, title, and tone. Krosschell, who divides his time between Newton and Owls Head, Maine, examines a world in which change is speeding up and place is shrinking down, even in Maine. Krosschell is both grump (lamenting that his nephew is chatting on his cellphone about a bathroom renovation while at the top of picturesque Beech Hill) and sage, understanding that the world moves; times shift; and there's a balance to be sought between society, with all its screens and buzzes, and nature. He celebrates the slow pleasures to be found scraping moss off the roof and asks the big questions about what kind of world is being left behind to younger generations. Like Loren Eiseley, he is an open-hearted scientist, one wedded to facts and yet not afraid to use the word 'miracle' or 'mystery.' The 16 essays appear in pairs - the first in each couple looks at Maine's natural icons, berries, lupine, loon, lobster, and the second grapples with wider concerns. It is a view that will help even those who feel they know the state to see it anew. -- Boston Globe Jim Krosschell's book, One Man's Maine, is both thoughtful and provocative. Published by Green Writers Press, a Vermont based publisher whose mission is to spread a message of hope and renewal, the book is all of that. -George Smith, Midwest Book Review Oct 2018

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Jim Krosschell has been supporting the Maine Turnpike for 30 years. After a career in science publishing in the Boston area, he began to spend more time in Maine and writing much more regularly. More than 50 journals and magazines have published his personal essays, most about Maine, and his book Owls Head Revisited was published in 2015 by North Country Press. He is also president of the Board of Directors, Coastal Mountains Land Trust, in Camden, Maine.

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