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With evocative prose, watercolours, and family photographs, Jerry Stelmok recalls a childhood spent on Maple Hill Farm, a 200-acre plot nestling in the wilderness of Maine. His essays recall the family farm presided over by a Lithuanian grandfather who clung to Ninteenth-century practises - including two draft horses as the farm's only source of power! It is a world of constant wonder - 40 cattle, all know by name, 3,000 tomatoe plants grown for market, firewood chopped from the woodlots - a sun-dappled farm who's true magic was not in the idylicc surroundings, but in the lovinghome that his parents created despite lives of seemingly endless work, a touching, poignant tribute to an idylic childhood and one that will remain with the reader long after the book is finished.

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"Jerry Stelmok is a native and lifelong resident of Maine. He successfully escaped life as a teacher in the early 1970s when he moved with his growing family to West Quoddy Head, the easternmost point in the United States, to learn wooden-boat building. The move led to the acquisition of The Island Falls Canoe Company and more than a quarter-century of crafting wood-and-canvas canoes based on the designs of early builder E. M. White. Stelmok has authored several books on wood-and-canvas canoes, including The Art of the Canoe with Joe Seliga"" (MBI, 2002) and ""Not Your Average Bear & Other Maine Stories"" (Tilbury House, 2007). He has a son and two daughters, now adults, and lives in Atkinson, Maine."

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