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The People & the idiots - author Talk and book signing

8/16/2019

August 28, 6:00pm
Topsham Public Library
25 Foreside Rd., Topsham

Daniel Hawes will be giving a brief author talk starting at 6:00 pm at the Topsham Public Library followed by a Q&A and book signing of his debut memoir, The People & The Idiots: Surviving a Cult Childhood.

In his harrowing memoir, Hawes recounts surviving his childhood trapped within the Synergias: the cult founded by the infamous John Polk Allen.

Copies of The People & The Idiots will be available for purchase at the event.

Separated from his mother, father and his two siblings, Hawes experienced torment and abuse at the hands of the synergists. The book details his life from the time his parents first joined the group, to when he was finally able to take control of his life as a young man.
Hawes’ tale is one of child abuse and neglect in a cult environment. The children were forced to work hour after hour, ordered and battered by adults. While names have been changed and faces blurred, the experiences themselves are very real. The recollections are sure to bring a chill to the spine of any reader.

“Nothing is more telling about an intentional community than how it treats and teaches children. Daniel Hawes describes in visceral detail his horrifying experience growing up among the Synergists led by Johnny Dolphin Allen. I first started tracking Allen’s cult in 1975. The People & the Idiots gave me deeper insight into how pathologically elitist and inhumane Allen’s teachings were.” - Joe Szimhart, Cult Study Expert

In 1994, between his time fighting fires in Montana and moving to Maine, Hawes and others who had grown up in the Synergias and left came forward to speak of their experiences for an article published in the Arizona Daily Star. Later, he was urged by the late Herb Rosedale, Esq. to write The People & the Idiots, to expose the truth of the Synergias on a wider scope than one article.

“Ultimately, Hawes’s narrative is one of triumph, as he manages to escape the cult, adjust to life in the larger world, and forge an independent identity. Hawes has a remarkable, often shocking story to tell, with wide resonance for the world today. In The People & the Idiots, he tells that story in precise and often heartbreaking detail. Readers will not soon forget this vivid memoir.” - Professor Shawn Rosenheim, Williams College.

Just Write Books LLC, an independent publishing company based in Topsham, Maine, publishes Maine books by Maine authors telling Maine stories. JWB uses its trademarked High Point Publishing System with state-of-the-art technology mixed with old-fashioned writing, editing, publishing, and marketing skills to help writers become authors and authors reach their publishing goals.

Let Tom Seymour help you get your big fish

7/31/2019

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In Getting Your Big Fish, Registered Maine Guide Tom Seymour teaches all you need to know about rods, reels, lines, bait, and more. He’ll reel you in with his tips and tricks backed up by many years’ worth of personal anecdotes and experience with landing fish. Keep it with your tackle. It’s a better fishing tool than any flashy lure.

“Tom is able to convey his knowledge and experience to his readers using an easy-going, informal writing style—heavy on the factual information; light on pretense and grandstanding." –Will Lund, Editor, The Maine Sportsman.

Despite routinely catching the largest fish of all, people who troll for trout, salmon and togue still represent a minority of Maine’s anglers. Trollers need never contend with the fly-fishing crowds, and their tackle permits them to send their bait down deep where the biggest fish await.

Many people still associate trolling as a sedentary sport using bulky gear and tackle, but heavy and unwieldy gear is a thing of the past. Seymour provides a thorough and comprehensive guide of the advancements made to trolling gear. Lines are new and improved, rods and reels are thinner, making gear lighter and stronger than ever before. “So if you ever entertained any notion of pursuing the art of trolling, there was never a better time to do so than now. And get set to hook on to some of the biggest trout you ever saw,” urges Seymour.

The age-old practice of lake trolling has now become the wave of the future. Getting Your Big Fish by Tom Seymour will help anglers to catch that wave

Seymour’s guide to trolling the lakes and rivers of Maine is packed full of the secret tips needed for an angler to finally catch fish that can be measured in pounds, not inches. At which depth are fish hiding in a cold-water lake? What lure is the most effective for brook trout? Which season will provide your best chance to catch a trophy fish? Getting Your Big Fish is ready to serve as your quick reference when you’re floundering.

The age-old practice of lake trolling has now become the wave of the future. Getting Your Big Fish by Tom Seymour will help anglers to catch that wave.

“Tom is able to convey his knowledge and experience to his readers using an easy-going, informal writing style—heavy on the factual information; light on pretense and grandstanding. Because of his vast knowledge of the flora and fauna of the natural world, Tom Seymour sets his fishing experiences in the proper environmental context —revealing why lakes turn over, how fish behave differently after ice-out, and the manner in which anglers and their quarry fit into the seasonal cycles of lakes, ponds, streams and brooks.
With Getting Your Big Fish: Trolling Maine Waters, Tom makes an invaluable contribution to the body of timeless literary works that will allow us all become more effective, efficient and productive anglers.” –Will Lund, Editor, The Maine Sportsman

An avid writer as well as a naturalist, Seymour writes four regular columns and a multitude of features including his popular “Maine Wildlife” for The Maine Sportsman Magazine. Seymour's credits include articles in other outdoor publications as well as published books including, Forager's Notebook, Wild Plants of Maine, Hidden World Revealed: Musings Of A Maine Naturalist, Getting Your Big Fish: Trolling Maine Waters and coming soon Wild Critters of Maine. All from Just Write Books. He lives in a small cabin in Waldo, Maine.

Just Write Books LLC, an independent publishing company based in Topsham, Maine, publishes Maine books by Maine authors telling Maine stories. JWB uses its trademarked High Point Publishing System with state-of-the-art technology mixed with old-fashioned writing, editing, publishing, and marketing skills to help writers become authors and authors reach their publishing goals.

Russian Historian tells His Story

5/24/2019

Robert Williams' autobiography could be the template for your own

Robert Williams describes the world that surrounds him and his family as he travels distance and time through his years. He has included photos of family and places. His story is flavored with interest and good humor.

In From Away: Maine Origins of a Russian Historian, Williams dives into his genealogy and reveals that many of his ancestors lived in or summered in Maine. He ties his and his wife’s blood to the land pointing to his family going to its summer camp on Kezar Lake in Lovell, Maine, generations on. Music is a recurring theme in Williams' life and he has sang with barbershop quartets in most of the communities where he landed. But more than anything else, Williams has always been a writer. His jobs required it and he enjoyed adding to the body of Russian history.

Robert (right) and his step-brother, John Vinton, stand atop Baldface with more mountains in the background. Williams's love of the mountains and hiking began early.

Since his youth, the camp on Kezar Lake has gone through many changes. Attempts from his father at getting electricity installed led to proper equipment being brought in until the lake house was properly wired. Williams learned cutthroat versions of bridge, hearts, and canasta from his grandmother between going hiking, boating, and fishing. Neighbors through the years made their summers different all the time. Some allowed Williams and his family to walk on their docks, sharing the lake. One neighbor in particular decided to shoot at people trying to walk on her dock, scaring off local fishermen.

Williams relocated from one place to another in his time as a professor, working in North Carolina, DC, Munich, and many other places, teaching Russian History. He went to that camp on the lake every year as an adult until he finally retired from his job as a professor. Then, Williams moved to Lovell, Maine, and subsequently to Topsham, Maine.

Kezar Lake, the view from the family summer camp and the location of many of Williams fond memories.

Williams's book, The Historian's Toolbox is being released in its fourth edition. His autobiography brings to fourteen the number of books he has penned.

Just Write Books LLC, an independent publishing company based in Topsham, Maine, publishes Maine books by Maine authors telling Maine stories. JWB uses its trademarked High Point Publishing System with state-of-the-art technology mixed with old-fashioned writing, editing, publishing, and marketing skills to help writers become authors and authors reach their publishing goals.

Bob Beringer's Guide to Living Unafraid

3/11/2019

Cover of the book Living Unafraid A the End of Life

Robert (Bob) and Peggy Beringer shared a 59-year marriage, including the final two years in which Peggy weakened and died. Bob then wrote the story of their life together and how they managed its concluding months.

“Living Unafraid at the End of Life” is utterly factual and explicit about what happened and how they felt about it. Somehow it does so in a very comforting and reassuring way.

It is a quietly inspiring little book.

About the Author: Robert (Bob) Beringer of Topsham, an unretired former Presbyterian minister who is volunteer chaplain at the Thorton Hall rehab/nursing facility and leader of Community Bible Studies at The Highlands, where he also co-chairs Vesper Services, and he is chair of the welcome committee at The Highlands.

Born in Basking Ridge, N.J., Bob holds a bachelor’s degree from Cornell and two master’s from Princeton Theological Seminary.

Peggy Beringer

Robert Beringer

He began his ministry as associate minister in Bound Brook, N.J., in 1959, then was minister at Hopewell (N.J.) Presbyterian Church for 20 years. Later, he served as minister at the Metuchen Presbyterian Church for 18 years, concurrently lecturing at Princeton and serving as visiting minister at six other churches.

During this time, he started his summer service at Culver Lake Christian Chapel in Bashville, N.J., and continued for 23 years. He returned to Basking Ridge as Associate Pastor, then Pastor. While there, he began his connection with the Presbyterian Nursing Homes of New Jersey, which includes 3,500 nursing homes.

He moved to Maine in 2013 to “retire” at The Highlands.

Bob is widowed from his beloved wife of 59 years. The couple raised four children and loved eight grandchildren.

Just Write Books, an independent publishing company based in Topsham, Maine, publishes Maine books by Maine authors telling Maine stories. JWB uses its trademarked High Point Publishing System with state-of-the-art technology mixed with old-fashioned writing, editing, publishing, and marketing skills to help writers become authors and authors reach their publishing goals.

The People & the Idiots

3/8/2019

Daniel Hawes's Dedication of The People & the Idiots
To all children
(young and old)
who were raised in abusive cults
and now seek freedom.

The People and the Idiots by Daniel Hawes is a true account of a man who grew up in a cult. His parents had joined a group of people who called themselves synergists, led by a man named John Polk Allen. Hawes had experienced torment and abuse at the hands of the synergists he grew up with, split from his mother, his father, and his two siblings. The book details his life from when he, at a very young age, remembered his parents joining this group to when he got his life going his way as a young man.

From being forced to work hour after hour and day after day, to mandatory drama practices, to being ordered around and battered by the adults, Hawes’s tale is one of child abuse and neglect in this cult environment. He made friends only with the other children, who were called people, and collectively hated the adults, called idiots in the Synergias they called home. While names have been changed and faces blurred, the experiences themselves are very real. The recollections are sure to bring a chill to the spine of any reader. “... Everyone had been abused in some way, some much worse than I.”

In 1994, between his time fighting fires in Montana and moving to Maine, he and others who had grown up in and left the Synergias came forward and spoke of their experiences for an article published in the Arizona Daily Star. Later on, he was urged by the late Herb Rosedale, Esq. to write The People and the Idiots, in order to expose the truth of the Synergias to the world in a wider scope than one article.

“Ultimately, Hawes’s narrative is one of triumph, as he manages to escape the cult, adjust to life in the larger world, and forge an independent identity, Hawes has a remarkable, often shocking story to tell, with wide resonance for the world today. In The People & the Idiots, he tells that story in precise and often heartbreaking detail. Readers will not soon forget this vivid memoir.” ~ Professor Shawn Rosenheim, Williams College.

“Nothing is more telling about an intentional community than how it treats and teaches children. Daniel Hawes describes in visceral detail his horrifying experience growing up among the Synergists led by Johnny Dolphin Allen. I first started tracking Allen’s cult in 1975. The People & the Idiots gave me deeper insight into how pathologically elitist and inhumane Allen’s teachings were.” ~ Joe Szimhart, Cult Study Expert

Just Write Books, an independent publishing company based in Topsham, Maine, publishes Maine books by Maine authors telling Maine stories. JWB uses its trademarked High Point Publishing System with state-of-the-art technology mixed with old-fashioned writing, editing, publishing, and marketing skills to help writers become authors and authors reach their publishing goals. This year, JWB added the High Point Books imprint to expand its reach beyond the borders of Maine.

Woodshed on the Moon: Chute Responds to Thoreau in Poetry

3/6/2019

Robert M. Chute lives in Poland, Maine

Robert M. Chute returns with the republication of his book filled with poetry centered on Henry David Thoreau, Woodshed on the Moon. He has read Thoreau’s work throughout his life, then wrote his first response poem to Thoreau’s first journal entry. The book itself is filled with his musings in relation to Thoreau, hence the dedication to the philosopher. Its introduction reveals the meaning of the title, in that it stems directly from a quote of Thoreau, in which he says, “The youth gets together his materials to build a bridge to the moon, or perchance, a palace or temple on the earth, and at length the middle-aged man concludes to build a woodshed with them.” Thus, the title, Woodshed on the Moon.

With a gentle voice, Chute talks about simple goings-on among philosophical pieces, as with the poems In the Maine Woods and Sugaring Off. Other poems have both real-world wanderings and philosophical wonderings, direct addresses to Thoreau, musings alongside his spirit, and so much more. Each poem is beautifully crafted, sparking a little bit of the feeling Chute must have felt as he was writing and refining them. Each one elevates Thoreau with reverence.

The cover of the book Woodshed on the Moon

A drawing of Walden's Cabin

Succession
My years have seen the overgrowth
of stony pasture and the brush-bordered
trout-tumble of Clark’s Brook. We accept
casual acceptance of grass, goldenrod,
thistle, gray birch and pine. But suddenly
surveyor’s flags appear. Scarlet bunting
marks pinned corners and blazed line.
chainsaw, tractor, builder, and the people
follow: crabs creeping from borrowed
shell to borrowed shell. Long ago
in Concord Thoreau knew, in dreams
saw the Devil hold the rod. Henry sighted,
signaled, and a line was drawn.

Just Write Books, an independent publishing company based in Topsham, Maine, publishes Maine books by Maine authors telling Maine stories. JWB uses its trademarked High Point Publishing System with state-of-the-art technology mixed with old-fashioned writing, editing, publishing, and marketing skills to help writers become authors and authors reach their publishing goals. This year, JWB added the High Point Books imprint to expand its reach beyond the borders of Maine.

Maine Guide Shares Allagash stories in New Book

2/15/2019

The cover of the book

“Through experiences of my own, I have discovered how to camp comfortably using old techniques mixed with a small collection of modern equipment. People who know me wonder how I stay alive, and why so many odd things occur around me. I don’t have a logical answer to these questions, but I do claim to enjoy the outdoors more than most, and I’m willing to try almost anything in the seclusion of my second home, the forests of Maine,” so says Jeffrey Howatt, Master Maine Guide.

With a witty voice and an upbeat attitude, Jeffrey Howatt relates many adventures on the Allagash Waterway, St. Croix, and Sandy Rivers spent among leading groups to enjoy the outdoors, taking people out camping, and handling his math students. Among the stories are tips and tricks that can aid anyone going camping in the Maine wilderness, especially, as Howatt relates that help can be a day or two away.

“Maine’s abundance of nature offers thousands of ecosystems, each performing in their own private theater, which captures our interests and provides enjoyment free to those who seek it,” Howatt enthused.

Photo of the Author, Jeffrey Howatt

A moose swimming through the river

The tales are told in short form, with a new story every couple of pages, making this a good read on tired nights on the riverbanks. From telling about landing a trophy bass (or perhaps the bass landed itself) to reminiscing about a wallet lost down an outhouse hole, to near-death experiences and beautiful sunrises, Howatt brings the realities and beauties of Maine’s most remote locations to life. Each story is captivating, so it may be a good idea to set a timer to keep yourself from reading well after bedtime and missing the fiery sunrises the rivers of Maine have to offer.

There are frightful experiences, both real and imagined. A man thought there were venomous snakes, no species of which lives in Maine, on a Maine riverbank. Another nearly got lost in the woods at night. A young lady had an asthma attack going up a mountain. Howatt himself ended up with a fishing lure in his nose. These stories and more remind us to be careful of what we try and know as much of the possible hazards of an area where we plan to travel.

Group canoes chilling on the shoreline

Jeff Howatt with a big fish he caught

As far as humor, many of Howatt’s stories are chock-full of it. The lure story has a happy ending, and two men are sure to be laughing about their experiences now. There is also one about a coyote skull getting cleaned and a visitor wanting some of the “beef stew” cooking. One young man thought that deer and moose were the same species, even asking at what age does a deer turns into a moose. Yet another tells of a rather unfortunate bicycle incident, but details won’t be given here, as it would spoil the fun.

Howatt says, “I have met many challenges and observed great beauty traveling these areas. These lift my spirit: watching the mist come off a beaver bog on a cool summer morning only to be disturbed by a native brook trout leaping at a flying insect for breakfast, hiking to the top of a mountain in the moonlight to watch the sunrise and being visited by a peregrine falcon.”
A ninth generation Mainer, Jeffrey Howatt teaches math in the same school district that he attended and where his grandmother taught. Like his grandmother before him he was graduated from University of Maine in Farmington. Howatt has paddled most of Central and Northern Maine rivers and hiked most of Maine’s mountains including the Maine section of the Appalachian Trail from inside the New Hampshire border to Mt. Katahdin.

Shauna Holland provides writing, editing and social media assistance to Just Write Books. She lives in Durham, Maine (the youngest of three children). A published author-in-training, she sews role-playing costumes for a hobby and enjoys unpacking various strands of societal systems.

Thirteen Moons Hits the Shelves Again

1/11/2019

Passamaquoddy, French, and English open the door to this story of Father Rales living with the Abenaki in the early 1700s.

Thirteen Moons
Every other year this way of counting months
as moons produces one moon too many
so this mid-summer, this thirteenth moon is termed
Abonamicikizoos – that is
“let this moon pass by.”
In this way we count the first of seventy-two
years of Sebastian Rale, Jesuit, a Priest of
Norridgewock, the province of Maine.
We celebrate the scholar come to spend
half the lifetime and his life: Priest of Hunger,
Ice and Snow, Sickness, War, Dark Woods
and brotherhood.

Thirteen Moons, in its tri-lingual publication, is being reprinted in soft cover. The book, written by Robert Chute, uses poetry to tell the story of Sebastian Rale, a man who lived with the Abenaki Indians for thirty years and compiled an Abenaki-French dictionary. It follows his life with them, as English settlers attack the Abenaki at Norridgewock, fearing Rale and thinking he was a French spy and “instigator of French rebellion.”

Sebastian Rale was a Jesuit missionary from France, who came to spread Catholicism to Native Americans. He was stationed with the Abenaki who lived near the Norridgewock settlement. He lived among them for thirty-five years as a part of their society, until finally being killed in the final attack that destroyed the Native Americans’ village along with up to a hundred villagers.

This book, as Rale did in his life, honors the Abenaki by providing the story in their language, Passamaquoddy.

Robert M. Chute wrote the first version of Thirteen Moons in the late 1970s. He submitted the work to Penumbra Press after his self-printed copies became popular among the people he handed them to and hoped for translations into French and a Native language. While the French translation was added to the book, the Native translation didn’t come through. Years later, WWII veteran David Francis asked to translate it into Passamaquoddy, his native language. This edition is a reprinted version of the three-language version, with a new cover made to look like white birch bark.

Nancy E. Randolph operates Just Write Books, publishing Maine books by Maine authors telling Maine stories. Randolph quickly developed a reputation as a publisher of quality Maine books. An active community member along with two others she founded and serves as a member of the board of Save Our Swinging Bridge.Org to ensure the maintenance of the historic Roebling-designed and -built bridge connecting Topsham and Brunswick.

Tom Seymour is busy writing a new Book About Trolling

8/15/2018

Getting Your Big Fish: Trolling Tactics and Techniques for Trout, Salmon and Togue will be published by Just Write Books early 2019. Seymour details how to catch fish that are measured in pounds, not inches

People who troll for trout, salmon and togue represent a small minority of Maine’s anglers. And yet, these select few routinely catch the largest fish of all.

Fly fishing, a hugely popular sport, does not necessarily target large fish. In fact, most fly-fishers content themselves with catching and releasing mostly stocked trout. And for that, people congregate in huge numbers around places where freshly stocked trout are available.

Trollers, however, never need to contend with crowds. Rather than carrying the small nets used for stream fishing, trollers always have a huge, long-handled net available for that 4-, 5- and even 10-pound salmonid.

Even those who cast spinning lures for salmonids mostly fish to smaller trout, usually recently stocked ones. The reason most fly and spin-fishers rarely take big fish is because their tackle does not permit them to put their offerings down deep where the biggest fish await. Trolling solves that problem.

Fully versed trollers use a combination of techniques both old and new. Tackle, though, falls in the category of new and improved, at least when compared to the trolling gear of yesteryear. Lines, rods and reels are thinner, lighter and stronger than ever before. Whereas most people associate trolling as a sedentary sport using heavy and often unwieldy tackle, today’s trollers are constantly working the water in ways our ancestors could not have imagined.

Fish locators help to not only locate fish, but also give an idea of what the bottom looks like, a big help any time. And downriggers, devices that allow anglers to use light tackle while trolling deep for the biggest fish, have turned the trolling world upside down.

And yet, the traditional lead-core line has its place too. New, ultra-thin lines make catching even medium-sized fish a joy, especially when coupled with light and powerful modern rods and reels.

Lure manufacturers cater to those who troll and like auto manufacturers, these companies strive to introduce hot, new offerings each year. These often brilliantly-colored lures lie side-by-side with old tried-and-true fish slayers in angler’s tackle boxes.

Given all this, the age-old practice of lake trolling has now become the wave of the future. Getting Your Big Fish by Tom Seymour will help anglers to catch that wave.

10 things to know about foraging according to tom seymour

7/25/2018

Foraging is a popular pastime among rural residents of Maine, including Tom Seymour, author of Wild Plants of Maine. We talked with Tom recently and asked for some pointers about foraging in Maine. According to Seymour, a law was introduced to Maine’s local government which would ban foraging altogether, due to issues caused by malicious or unlearned individuals. Thankfully, that law was overruled, which means foraging is still allowed

Here are ten things to know so you don’t hurt the environment or make anyone angry.

1. Prepare to harvest by knowing the right time. Each plant has a perfect time of availability, the “window of opportunity.” Since plants come ripe in a regular succession, knowing when to expect your favorite wild edible puts you in the driver’s seat.
2. Collect and transport your harvest in baskets (my favorite method), brown paper bags or canvas bags. Never collect in plastic because it causes the harvest to sweat and wilt. They lose flavor and can mold in the wet plastic bag.
3. Be aware of plants that cause irritation to the skin when foraging. Poison ivy, virgin’s bower (wild clematis, a vining plant of edges and woodland trails), often mistakenly called “poison oak” and several other plants can cause mild to severe reactions in people. Know how to identify these plants. There are many great photos on the internet so as to allow you to identify these the first time. Watch out, since some people are affected just by being in the same vicinity. They don't even have to touch the plant to have an extreme allergic reaction.

4. Become familiar with botanical names in addition to the common names to prevent mix-ups in communications. Scientific names for plants are called “binominal nomenclature.” The first name is the genus, or general family and the second name tells something specific about the plant. Don’t be afraid to use these names and don’t worry about proper pronunciation. Others will know what you mean. The danger in only using common names is that some plants often share the same common name. For instance, “pigweed” is the common name for several totally different plants.
5. Cook or prepare the plant according to suggestions from a trustworthy source. Wild Plants of Maine offers dozens of recipes in the back of the book. Within the section for each plant, I offer suggested preparations for each edible. You might find a few other recipes in other cookbooks. I particularly like fiddleheads with butter and salt and pepper.
6. When a wild edible plant is harvested, harvest extra then freeze, dry or can according to suggestions in Wild Plants of Maine. One example: I love goosetongue, or seaside plantain, Plantago juncoides. When home-canned, these have the same flavor and a similar texture as when fresh. Nothing says “summer in winter” like a jar of seaside plantain.

7. Here in Maine, plants have a short growing season. This means they change size and appearance in a short time. Get to know your favorite wild edible plants in all seasons. That way, you can locate groups of colonies of great, edible plants in the off-season and harvest them later, when they are ready for picking.I
8. When learning a new plant, note carefully every detail of the plant’s description in the book. If a plant matches everything else except for one detail, it is not the plant in the book. Each plant must match every, single thing in the plant description section. Take no chances, since there are some toxic wild plants out there. Don’t let this keep you from trying wild edible plants, though. Instead, know that you are safe when the plant in hand perfectly matches every item in the description.
9. When harvesting wild plants, never pull a plant up by the roots. Most wild plants are perennial, some are biennial and only a few are annual. Uprooting a plant kills it and takes it out of production. On the other hand, don’t worry about taking a good haul by snipping with clippers or cutting with a knife, since these plants come back year after year.

Dame's Rocket

Queen Anne's Lace

10. Have fun foraging and eating your wilds.

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Nancy E. Randolph operates Just Write Books. With the tagline Maine books, Maine authors, Maine stories, Randolph quickly developed a reputation as a publisher of quality Maine books.

An active community member she cochaired the rehabilitation effort of the Androscoggin Swinging Bridge and guided the planning and creation of two riverside parks at each end. Along with two others she founded and serves as a member of the board of Save Our Swinging Bridge.Org to ensure the maintenance of the historic Roebling designed and built bridge connecting Topsham and Brunswick.

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