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Just Write Books in the News
Just Write Books in the News
BRUNSWICK – Brunswick bookstore, Gulf of Maine Books’ current best seller, The House at Bunganuc Landing by Susan Drinker Moran will be featured at a book signing to be held at the Pejepscot Historical Society at 11 a.m. July 30. This year's annual Community Appreciation Day will include the book signing, a used book sale on the lawn and an Open House that offers free admission to the Pejepscot Museum at 159 Park Row and the Joshua L. Chamberlain, 226 Maine St. The Skolfield-Whittier House is undergoing repair and will not be open.
Poet David Ferry reviewed Moran’s book and wrote: “This is a heartbreakingly beautiful book, the story of an old house across from a cove of Casco Bay, a prominent house in the tiny vulnerable courageous community of Bunganuc Landing, with all its changes of fortune, trading, fishing, shipbuilding, lumbering, its history precariously lived-out over the centuries.… All this in a beautiful but not easy, ever-changing environment of bay, and woods, and brook, and flowering fields, and snow, and storms, wonderfully described. In this book Susan Drinker Moran brings together her gifts as an historian and as a gifted teller of stories."
The House at Bunganuc Landing, published by Just Write Books of Topsham, is not just a story about an old house. It is also about its people. Robert C. Hunt, professor emeritus of Anthropology at Brandies University, writes: “This book is a moving account of how a couple faced and met the challenges of the end of life for one of them and is combined with a story of an old house in which they accomplished this difficult task. “
A writer and former history teacher, Moran grew up in the Boston/Cambridge area. She was educated at Smith College and at Case Western Reserve University where she received a master’s degree in history. While raising her five children, she taught college history. Moran is an active volunteer at a local shelter for homeless families and teaches a correspondence course for prisoners.
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